for a 1000000 man march in that time i've covered wars revolutions elections i'm going to treat poorest. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around also i would job just to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. pushing for peace in yemen the u.s. calls on who the rebels to suspend their offensive on the city of myra and return to negotiations. hello there i missed on the attire this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up . the president's counterpart is on the white house says president joe biden will deal directly with king sound as the u.s. seeks to reset relations with saudi arabia. and protest as

a bloc railway lines and as the military says its takeover of power was legal. last resignations and apologies and crude following revelations that senior ministers secretly received coronavirus vaccinations. the u.s. has called on yemen's who to halt their advance on the northern city of marriage the special envoy for yemen acknowledged using back channels to talk to the who these to get them to return to international negotiations to try to end the 6 year war this comes on the day that the group was officially removed from the u.s. terror list reversing one of donald trump's final decisions in office and another dramatic change to u.s. middle east policy the white house now says it's recalibrating its relationship

with saudi arabia joe biden will now speak to king solomon been up to as he's directly instead of crown prince mohammed bin sama. we've made clear from the beginning that we're going to recalibrate our relationship with. saudi arabia and that you know president biden one of the questions there was also just to go back to the context of it whether he would be speaking with m.p.'s and part of that is going back to engagement counterpart to counterpart the president counterpart is king someone an expected inappropriate time he would have a conversation with him mike hanna is live for us from washington d.c. mike that's really quite the statement there from the white house can you talk us through the implications of that. indeed it is you heard the phrase counterpart to come to power meaning that it's going to go back the way it was before the trumpet ministration and that is president speak to president biden

when he deems the time is right will speak directly to the saudi king not to use the crown prince as the fund to it which the trumpet ministration did particularly through president son in law jared cushion or this will now and perhaps in the future other levels of cabinet may speak directly to the crown prince but this is signaling a major recalibration as the white house puts it in terms of the saudi relationship another very interesting thing to note is that in recent weeks or since it's come to power the trunk that ministration the biden administration that is has referred to saudi arabia as a strategic partner it does not use the word lie which then president trump would use so certainly these are significant shifts in terms of the nuance in the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia mike it does seem that we're seeing a broader foreign policy shift in the region here from the biden administration and they also been moving very quickly and decisively on

a number of fronts when it comes to yemen. well there's a number of layers and this is a very very complicated process now with regard to yemen for example and obviously saudi arabia a massive player in the biden administration has recent the terrorists appellation that the trump administration put on for example at the same time the department of state issues a very strong statement telling the who choose not to carry the bombs on the government filled city and to return to negotiations under the aegis of the united nations this is a balancing act that the biden administration on the one hand has suspended all aid to saudi arabia in terms of its ongoing conflict in yemen but at the same time it's sending very strong singles signals to the duties that it will not accept any aggression on their part it's a very fine balancing act and it just goes to show how important the relationship

with saudi arabia is despite this recalibration not only with regard to events in yemen for example but also in terms of the long term as the bite at the ministration reformulate of policy with regard to iran with saudi arabia is going to be a very important if not critical partner indeed mike hanna there for us in washington d.c. thanks so much mike well let's dig into this now with nobel her he's a former u.s. diplomat and also the former deputy chief of mission in yemen he's currently a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's the center for the middle east he joins us now also from washington d.c. and plenty to unpack here i want to start with the nifty of the terror designation seeing as it's only officially happened in the last 24 hours and it's been billed as being primarily about aid access but do you think it broadens the space here for negotiations. well all receive the humanitarian

it was the have forced the story the other have theirs opening the door to direct negotiations with the who are these in recognition last number as a major force on the ground and that you cannot have these unless the sollie and the who is to where it ends a big fortune of the war if they do so there is a positive sign of the market not by then and then assertion i'm afraid the other or the flip side of that is the continuing war in maribel and the warming by the state department this is the wrong war for the wrong time by the who these by then has always said that yemen would be one of his priorities and i think his special envoy timothy lenda king who is now talking about these back tanel negotiations he was already in riyadh last week that with his what 2nd week on the job do you get the sense that this renewed focus potentially gives the various parties in the conflict an opening here to try to move towards

a resolution despite what we're seeing in marriage. very much so then lender to coordinate the with your an envoy martin grip was almost immediately upon assuming the job then martin no went over to to her own to bring the iranians in on her the diplomatic push for peace and then the 2 of them went to. the regional aspect of that war is immediately being built to win by the by the administration the more difficult part of course is going to be inside yemen and. i don't see them lead the king at this point approaching the hutus directly but. he probably should whether by phone or by ear that mediation of someone. he needs to impress upon the hokie is not to be shortsighted i understand the

significance of matter of form them but trying to achieve or. city egypt advantage at this point is short sighted they will we gain a few kilometers they may even getting this that the but the lose the peace and eventually they will only prolong the war if the person is unable hurry that former u.s. diplomat and also there at the atlantic council now thanks so much for being with us again out of there and he always great to get your insights. now moving on and man laws military has denied carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces said they had no choice but to seize power as also now filed a 2nd criminal charge against the country's civilian leader aung san suu chain which could allow her to be detained indefinitely scot heiler reports.

continuing their civil disobedience movement at a coup protesters in your don't block train services out of ensign railway station one of the city's largest. and east on the other end of the line and protesters there also did the same in its 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions saying it was not a coup and that the protestors are inciting violence but i do go to movies in it yeah soon and you know you need money. the party had a chance to solve problems like election fraud peacefully according to the constitutional law but they didn't take action that's why we have no choice but to take power and this is not a code we found out that the protesters are inciting the violence in the legally pressuring civil servants the protesters have become violent rather than peaceful. elsewhere in yangon protesters laid down to look like they were resting illustrating the point that tense nights are robbing them of sleep this overconcerned of nighttime patrols in

a rests more than 400 people have been detained according to a monitoring group as a protest has ramped up pressure by strikes and rallies something else it might prompt a strong reaction from the military the government is also. trying to demonstrate. testily that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protests try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walk us from coming to watch actions a day after police crackdown on protesters in the 2nd largest city injuring many they came back out in mandalay amid a low key security presence thousands marched on the streets. in yangon buddhist monks joined the protest chanting against the coup and calling for the release of detained leaders some see their participation as bringing moral authority to the movement scott toddler al-jazeera.

overnight curfew in the netherlands to stop the spread of craven 1000 remains in place despite a court striking it down earlier on tuesday the judge ruled that the restrictions had breached people's right to privacy and free movement but another court has now decided that the curfew should remain in force until a government appeal is heard on friday and to lock down protesters rioted for several days after those restrictions were imposed in january you know. that feeling that the aim is to control the coronavirus as much as possible so that soon we will have all our freedom back but in a safe way that is why we introduced the curfew and that is not changed today that is why i urge everyone said the appeal not result in a suspension of the ruling of the district court judge we hope so but we cannot be sure that it will almost 2000000 more people in the u.k.

are being told to shield themselves from craven 19 a new days a tool has identified those who are at high risk of severe disease or death it's based on age and health factors but also where people live in levels of deprivation as a result 1700000 additional people in england will be sent letters asking them to stay at home and to get the vaccination john hall is in london and explains more about just how people may end up on that list. what's new about this is that the criteria is being used to decide whether a person is vulnerable that we should be shooting on not just the sort of binary factors of age and underlying health conditions like disease and so on they're not taking into account other risk factors like in a city like postcode where you live in other words to try and get a picture of levels of deprivation that we know has played so heavily into the negative statistics. over the course of the last year so it's a new approach it's approached it's based on multiple risk factors it takes into

account crucially of social economic factors as well which means that it's able to include in the net far more people who are not perfect or protected or even recognize the need of protection before including the likes of recreation and minority ethnic groups many of whom he or essential workers many of them live in multigenerational households and many of whom have we know been disproportionately affected by the endemic up to now well still ahead here on al-jazeera iran denies any ties with iraq a group that's claimed responsibility in front attack on u.s. led forces in the capital. or more are soon going to start. the bad rap 1st spanish musician has eric's on on tours a civil war over spain with a lot on him absolutely to land him in jail. or a. right

the worst snow in seattle that's for 50 years 70 percent of the land mass of the us is covered in snow it's not surprised to see it in iowa but even here is pretty cold as you can see so the farmers are working hard in the cattle enjoying their hay how often do you see snow down in mississippi that there it is all the say and not everyone is used to it and the cold will stay in this more snow on its way not right down to the south coast but even here houston only about 5 degrees but that junction between the feet of gulf air temporarily where things do warm up and the cold still exist for the north will be the production of big thunderstorms and again tornadoes are possible snow in the northern flank freezing rain in between yet again and we've got freezing rain warnings at the moment that's the stuff that produces glaze eyes and cause yet more power cuts and yes there are and the temperatures most places they do not rise the code is still with us south of all this and in the immediate future the thunderstorms that you will have seen on

tuesday in western cuba yucatan they're pushed out of the way this quiet weather the exception maybe of panama where it's been raining now for about 2 days scientists and the biggest showers are like to be in the middle brazil and in peru with paraguay rather dry. it's america's worst kept secrets cracked open the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality. white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part 2 on the jazeera.

hello again. let's remind you of our top stories here this hour the u.s. has called on yemen security fighters to halt their advance on the city of the government's last more than stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back tunnels to get the great back to international negotiations. by the administration says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia breaking with the policies of the former president donald trump joe biden will now speak to king salmon directly rather than the crown prince. military says its power takeover was not a coup and has again pledged to hold elections and its 1st press conference and seizing power the military has filed

a 2nd criminal charge against opposed leader aung san suu kyi. democracy activists in hong kong have pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal assembly in $2197.00 others denied the charges including media tycoon jim eli and martin lee who is known as hong kong's father of democracy the trials are related to a demonstration back in august 29000 against beijing's influence which drew nearly 2000000 people. really a problem or america. will never go corporal from. the rule of law while. student protesters in india's capital new delhi are demanding the release of climate activists. you can see they gathered outside police headquarters saying she's done nothing

illegal the 22 year old is accused of tradition police say she created an action plan that was used to encourage violence during a farmers rally last month thousands have been protesting against changes to agricultural laws that they say will harm their livelihoods. protests also took place in ravi's hometown of bengaluru where where she was arrested on sunday has supporters accuse the police of using her as a scapegoat for the violent protests during india's republic day last month when protesting farmers tore down barricades and raised a religious flag at the red fort in new delhi yet our biggest concern has held those delhi pulis did not find the actual culprits business but the national monument on 26 and even for them if i add up to people treaties and all of a sudden find just. a little and comes all that even believe the artist one student related to the pretty 6 that i had. u.s. secretary of state and blinken says he's outraged by

a series of rocket attacks targeting a base hosting foreign troops in northern iraq he's pledged american support to find those behind the attack which killed a foreign contractor and wounded several others including a u.s. service member the u.n. has warned of escalating tensions in iraq and has called for restraint on all sides a little known shia group has claimed responsibility for the french president has ruled out in the media to reduction of french troops fighting groups linked to al qaeda and i saw in africa the whole region and then your background told regional leaders that a sudden drawdown would be a mistake but he has warned that cuts are likely to follow reports now from lagos in nigeria. it was a summit many fear it will end with a significant reduction in french troops but president announced that france will keep its troops in the south for now the end also meant was greeted with relief. under. the pressure. especially with the chaldean battalion

starting from the coming days and weeks to lead concrete operations in gain control he says continued presence however will depend on how committed countries are in the region to taking back control of their territories nearly 8 years after a centrists troops to confront. france is looking for a way out its oppressions in the sale of cost billions of $1.55 of his soldiers have been killed there are increasing signs that the violence is getting worse and spreading to west africa's cost of living. it's now up to the so-called g 5 group of countries to step up their military commitment to govern to the continued participation of the french. chad or the most battle hardened force of all says it's sending an additional $1200.00 soldiers its leaders say the fight against extremism in the area cannot be won by military might alone.

as we all know the success of the fight against terrorism is strongly linked to development actions mystery and precariousness the breeding ground for terrorism and violent radicalism. others like mali. may at hundreds of soldiers to the fight but they lack the experience of the child learns from germany is already taking part in training regional forces was says it won't take on combat missions our vital boost troop numbers along with spain we have. a moment nish at the moment we don't intend to engage in other missions beyond that but rather focus on what we are doing already the summit came on the heels of what leaders call successful operations and weaken the armed groups operating in this hell. but 2020 was also a particularly violent year for both coalition troops and civilians in the region recent al jazeera lagos. at least 75 people are now known to have died after an

overcrowded boat capsized in west and western democratic republic of congo the vessel sank in the congo river near my province on sunday night it was heading to a province after departing from the capital kinshasa the country's humanitarian affairs minister says the main cause of the sinking was too many passengers and cargo on board hundreds of people are still missing well our county is by that voters in the labor village. we are right now in the village accident happened it did not started here but the police explain to us that when the trouble of the started with the board in the river they did their best to bring the boat around to do a reverse order to they can help the people according to their capacity but as you can see the boat is just behind me and we still have bodies inside there but we are unable to see exactly how many people still inside that boat but right now we found out there are. other bodies in disability the government in talking is talking in

terms of 60 people killed and also we find another 16 people buried in this village and some of them were sent. so all the victims are around here they explain for us the atrocities of the experience during the accident in the boards and all saw what caused exactly the accident the men feel the overloaded and the numbers of the passenger in the abort that was the main cause because when the boat lifts can shuster they were loading people along side the club wing on the river this exactly what caused the accident here in the river. cruz former president has apologized revealed that he and his wife were secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers an investigation has been launched to find out why nearly 500 people including senior government officials got the job on sunday

the foreign minister resigned after she had also been given a secret ariana sanchez now with more details on that scandal. the way it worked is that peru got 12000. vaccines and the. last year for the trial and all and there was $3200.00 vaccines that were active. now the director of the trial is telling. congress and so those are the vaccines that have been secretly distributed among many people from the health ministry the foreign ministry friends there we are learning that there is a businessman there is a restaurant owners there's. doctors who have brought not only their their wives or their or their husbands their siblings or their their in-laws etc it's

a huge is a huge scandal here and also we need to know what happened to the rest of those axioms because they're we're talking about 3200 of them the chinese embassy has taken we learned about 800 and we have to know what happened to those to those sex scenes are they giving have have they given them out to friends are they keeping them there what is going on and also there's about between $5714.00 so we don't know what is what has happened to those 2 those 2 those vaccines were they sold that somebody make a profit out of those but what is the worst part perhaps of this scandal is that those active vaccines were not offered to the more than $300.00 doctors that have died during the pandemic not only doctors and the paramedics and nurses and

policemen and thousands of people who have been on the front lines on are on the front lines of this pandemic in peru and they were not offered that vaccine they were taken by people who had nothing to do with the fight against a pandemic. well hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in barcelona calling for the release of a rap artist hostle was sentenced to 9 months in jail for insulting the monarchy and glorifying so-called terrorism has a once the law that was used to convict him scrapped it may call same reports. this is the moment police stormed the catalan university of laid to rest pablo hustle the rap artist had barricaded himself into a white west after being sentenced to 9 months in prison proper criticizing spain's royal family in songs and tweets. as he was led away even named the farm i don't know the they will never make us give in despite the repression was the right.

justice cases inspired support across the country last week dozens of demonstrators rallied in madrid demanding his for the. first of all i think it's all right. well for us your opinion either rappin either seeing it in either dance you need or doing whatever you want one child support with history taught for in spain's former king kwan carlos in raising her son's image the more. it can be that an artist is jailed for expressing his ideas i believe that something that is profoundly unfair more than $200.00 artists actors and fund that actors have also signed a petition against his jailing. causeless case has left the government to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent the glorification of terrorism. these verbal excesses that some may have and which are

part of a framework of cultural expressions must according to this government be kept away from any legal sanction. amnesty international says. 70 people were convicted under the law in 2002 times 19. the artist says he uses rap as a tool for transformation and want to be sons until the law is scrapped and we. are just seeing. now a tornado has struck the u.s. state of north carolina killing at least 3 people it touched down in brunswick county in the state south just after midnight dozens of properties have been destroyed and thousands are without power rescue teams are searching for people who've been reported missing meanwhile texas has recorded some of its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years a family of 4 died in

a house fire near houston while using their fireplace to try to keep or demand for electricity in the states has led to widespread blackouts leaving millions without power now some of the most iconic sites in greece have been left covered in snow the possum and other temples of the acropolis were blanketed after a rest no storm hit athens and the country's most intense snowfall and more than a decade and so normally sandy beaches covered coronavirus vaccinations also had to be halted with or thirty's warning people in the city to stay inside or bitcoin has continued its streak of record breaking rises reaching a new high of $50000.00 per unit the cryptocurrency has seen a 70 percent boost so far this year thanks in part due to backing from major companies like tesla and master card that follows a meteoric 300 percent rise in 2020 cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital medium it's based and it's encrypted and based on block

chain technology. i think anyone who would say that there is an anxiety around the price of something like big corn or any of the any of the old coins would be kidding themselves or just all just lying the this is an instrument of the potential to make mush of news to the upside and equally must have moved to the downside so i think it's always going to be a sense of anxiety around the price of something because ultimately housing a 5 volume. colorado says al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. has called on yemen's who think fighters to hold their advance on the city of merit the government's lost more than stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they are very aggressively using fact channels to get their hoodies back to international negotiations and then another dramatic change to u.s. middle east policy either by the administration says it's recalibrating its.