pushing for peace in yemen the u.s. calls on the rebels to suspend their offensive on the city of merit and to return to negotiations. that are there on the sunday attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the president's counterpart is going some on the white house says president joe biden will now deal directly with king as the u.s. takes to reset relations with saudi arabia. and to keep protesters block railway

lines in manama as the military says its takeover of power was legal. resignations and apologies in peru following revelations senior ministers secretly received coronavirus vaccinations. now the u.s. has called on yemen to halt their advance on the northern city of marriage they were special envoy for yemen and acknowledged using back to channels to talk to the her to get them to return to international negotiations to try his end of the 6 year war this all comes on the day the group was officially removed from the u.s. terror list. reports. kuti advances on 2 fronts north of the city of marjah the. battles like this one have

intensified since the start of the month. of the wrestling to take the last saudi backed government stronghold in northern yemen for over a year. the violence has resulted in dozens of deaths and in a tweet u.n. humanitarian chief mark malkoff warned the assaults would put 2000000 lives at risk and could cause other marginal humanitarian consequences the u.s. is calling for the peace to halt their advance you know our hope is that a combined effort bringing in certain partners at certain times backed with a strong very strong american position will will essentially shake up the architecture and put us in a much better place to push for that. settlement which i think we all agree is the only one. forward on tuesday the u.s. lifted the previous administration's designation of the who these as a terrorist organization and to the further departure of president biden ended u.s.

support for the saudi led military offensive. for their part who these accuse the yemeni government of being the aggressor i don't see them leveraging at this point approaching the who is directly but he probably showed i understand the significance of matter for them they will gain a few kilometers they may even gain the city but they lose. and eventually there will only prolong the 'd war. some analysts say who these are using the fighting as leverage in any future negotiations. but it bondsman's have been slow with saudi arabia intensifying as strikes. rights groups say $650.00 families appeared displaced and many more could follow but the u.s. administration hopes it can prevent further bloodshed and help bring the 6 year war

to an end. about a man the al-jazeera. and the biden administration also says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia marking a tanning point from the trump presidency president biden will now speak directly to king south london rather than the crown prince mohammed bin sound the white house has also signaled it's focusing on human rights issues in regard to its relations with saudi arabia mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. city great honor to have the crown prince with us but trump white house was willing to do business with the saudi crown prince this despite his alleged involvement in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi which then president donald trump brushed away now the new administration says president biden will conduct any conversation with saudi arabia on what it calls a come to pot to come to pot basis the president's counterpart is king some on an

expected inappropriate time he would have a conversation with him i don't have a prediction of the timeline on that that system $13000000000.00 to buy the administration is conducting a review of the arms sales of the previous administration signed with saudi arabia . and as a ready made clear it will no longer any facking but solid lead operations against the who tease in neighboring yemen recalibration is a very good word on the one hand there are still overlapping interest obviously the united states shares the saudi concerned about iran and and the united states continues to support a process that the saudi arabia has quietly supported in terms of normalization of relations between the region and israel president biden has also signaled that his administration will place a far greater focus on human rights than did the previous one and in this it's significant that the director of national intelligence admiral haynes has indicated

that she would be prepared to share the cia report on the murder of jamal khashoggi with congress those 2. it was something the previous administration blocked from happening despite bipartisan dumond's since coming to power the biden administration has repeatedly used the term security partner with regard to saudi arabia proving the word ally that was preferred by then president trump but despite this recalibration the buy didn't ministration has also made clear that it sees a good relationship with saudi arabia as in the us national interest particularly as a stormy waters of formulating a new relationship with iran. might have. washington one hour joe biden has arrived in milwaukee and wisconsin for his 1st official trip as u.s. president you remember it's one of the states that was key to his presidential victory

and it's also been hit hard by this pandemic he's expected to make the case for congress to pass his proposed $1.00 trillion dollars coronavirus relief package well john hendren joins us now from milwaukee where he's following this trip john can you talk us through president biden's agenda for today i see he's got a a few stops planned. that's right joe biden is in milwaukee and we could call these the 1st stop of the president joe biden covert 1000 relief road tour he is here essentially selling his 1.9 trillion dollar economic relief program it's a wide ranging ambitious big government bill it offers money to individuals it offers money to businesses big and small and it offers money to local and state governments for covert relief and vats of program for most republicans so he's trying to persuade all of the democrats in the senate in most of those in the house

to go along with this program in the way he's doing that is to get americans who support his program to pressure members of congress to do this this is reminiscent of president obama's plan on obamacare in the beginning of his administration that is the affordable care act he did a road tour persuading americans an ultimate leave that narrowly won him that program in congress with a few votes in the senate all of them democrats joe biden has learned from that and he's doing it here in milwaukee because wisconsin is a very important state for democrats hillary clinton learned that at her peril when she failed to campaign in this democratic leaning swing state and she lost it by a narrow margin joe biden learned his lesson from that he campaigned here 3 times and he won it by a similarly narrow margin in now he's out there pitching his plan mixing politics with pandemic relief as i was saying earlier it also seems that this is happening

as the fight for the future of the republican policies heating up at blistering the personal attack on mitch mcconnell from former president. that's right president true former president trump launched a broadside on half of the republican party he said that the republican party will never be respected or strong as long as it has leaders in quotations like mitch mcconnell at the helm mcconnell being the senate republican leader he went on to say that mcconnell is a dour unsmiling political hack and he said that when appropriate he is going to back political rivals in the primaries for the republican party essentially declaring a kind of civil war within that party between the trumpet wing of the party which he seems to very much want to lead and the mainstream wing of the republican party

the moderates and we saw in the senate vote over impeachment that that's a pretty small remnant of the republican party only 7 members of the republican party ended up voting to convict donald trump in that impeachment trial so he thinks that he is going to be the new leader of the republican party needs essentially declaring war on mitch mcconnell in the moderates policy how that plays out john hendren there for us following biden's trip in wisconsin today thanks so much john now moving on a neon was minutes he has denied carrying out a coup and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power and it's also filed a 2nd criminal charge now against the country's deposed civilian need a young son suchi which could allow him to be detained indefinitely reports. continuing their civil disobedience movement who protest in years gone block train

services out of ensign ruiz station one of the city's largest. and east on the other end of the line in mala 9 protesters there also did the same in his 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions saying it was not a coup and that the protesters are inciting violence. in it yeah soon you know you need money. he had a chance to so problems like an election for peacefully according to the constitutional law 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 and the legally pressuring civil servants the protesters have become violent rather than peaceful elsewhere in yangon protesters laid down to look like they were arresting illustrating the point that tense nights are robbing them of sleep this overconcerned of nighttime patrols and arrests more than 400 people have been

detained according to a monitoring group as a protest is ramp 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.

now an overnight curfew in the netherlands to stop the spread of craven $1000.00 remains in place despite a court striking it down earlier on tuesday a judge ruled that the restrictions and breached people's right to privacy and free movement but then another court has now decided the cuff you should remain in force until a government appeal is heard on friday and to lock down protesters rises to several days after those restrictions were imposed back in january and now almost 2000000 more people in the u.k. are being told to shield themselves from credit 19 a new day said tool has identified those who are at higher 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 a vaccination well still ahead here on al-jazeera remembering the cost of freedom

10 years after the start of the revolution that toppled libya's longtime leader. and a fierce winter storm in southern parts of the u.s. leaves dozens dead and millions without power. for the. winter sponsored point qatar airways there is much more snow to come the worse it possibly hawk-eye day because it will see frequent jazz although down through home some parts of south korea will also go to china getting the cold for 12 while not normally a breeze will see the sunshine and that tends towards things up with the slowly light breeze by the time we get to thursday the same can be said of all of japan as you can see if you take the full cost of shanghai to rise in temperature but not in that cold breeze to 21 saturday moistly ward for winter. a development taking place

just about the philippine sea could turn into something rather more than just a gentle circulation not entirely show yet but that's wednesday's position and that's one to watch by we've got shouted out in india as well not widespread but not poor east towards just south of calcutta and north as far as normandy in plain but not reaching delhi there's not much in the flow of the northeast monsoon wanted to show us as for like not very much but they are dotting around you can see not so in delhi not so environ assy necessarily because the fog is there for a couple of days until things clear up maybe on saturday it's all change in the levant a storm systems on its way and it will work all way across iraq to head towards bahrain. sponsored poll qatar airways water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as

a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad to impose water privatization on anybody if they only killed. those people who see everything as something to invest the profit of they want all up to the last drop on al-jazeera. hello there i'm a star and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour the u.s. has called on yemen's who are the fighters to halt their advance on the city of merit that's the government's last northern stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back to channels to get the very back to

international negotiations. the biden administration says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia breaking with the policies of former president donald trump joe biden will now speak to king solomon directly rather than the crown prince. and on his 1st official trip since becoming u.s. president joe biden is now in wisconsin a key state in his presidential victory is expected to make the case for congress to pass his proposed $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package. now to form a militia leaders from central african republic have pleaded not guilty to a series of crimes including rape murder and torture they're going on trial at the international criminal court accused of senior roles in the mainly christian militia which persecuted muslims sébastien reports now from the hague. but these. listened quietly when the long list of charges was read out murder rape

recruitment of child soldiers they both unite and the involvement should have been . mr president i repeat i don't recognize myself in the accusations against me i am not guilty. but prosecutors say they have overwhelming evidence that you got a nice sauna have let the anti baloch out movement in a campaign meant to remove the muslim population from the country almost known as commando ramble and i saw not a right hand man a former president francois as the organizer. as the evidence will show and i saw his participation in this strategy was integral and he contributed to it fully aware that the group he was helping to structure our finance instruct and organise was known by september 2013 as the. would inevitably target the most in civilian population in the western city the violence started in 2013

after muslim rebels from the seleka group forced former president both caesar out of power in revenge and balata groups killed thousands of muslims and forced more than 1000000 from their homes. when i'm 1400 pickton's are expected to take part in this trial a trial that will be closely watched in central african republic the message from the i.c.c. is clear no more impunity for those involved in these crimes but the question is how this message will be received by doe still involved in the fighting rebel groups have again taken control over parts of central african republic after the presidential election last december the government has accused tutsis of being behind the violence and he's now being investigated for rebellion when we are still looking for how do. we react. with care or i.c.c. therefore improved behaviors limited. against the population of

conventionally we are in dark the only way for them to remain safe is still continued criminal activity the defense is yet to make the opening statements the leader of the seleka militias also in custody of the i.c.c. showing that the court is serious in holding both sides accountable step for us and al jazeera they hate. on wednesday libyans will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of the revolution that eventually toppled leader moammar gadhafi there were celebrations in tripoli is not a square on the eve of the event. the outgoing head of libya's internationally recognized government was among those paying tribute the revolution sparked fierce fighting between cut off his forces and libyan rebels thousands of people were killed or injured during the struggle. brings us this report now from the former rebel stronghold of misrata. misrata is libya's 3rd largest city it's also one of the main sources of military power in western libya rebels from misrata played an

important role in the revolution that toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011. according to administrators at this memorial museum more than $5000.00 men were killed during the 8 month revolution more than 30 percent of them came from misrata. we may just museum to remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom family members of those who were killed come to see pictures of their relatives and remember them as heroes the valley has an job or a memorial museum is named after an al-jazeera cameraman who was killed in eastern libya while covering the revolution in 2011 it tells a story of victory and triumph these statues were brought back from good death is compound after rebel forces capture tripoli. people here in the city of misrata will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary to the revolution they say that their

fight in 2011 was for freedom and democracy but they also know all too well the cost of war here those who died while fighting gadhafi is forces are remembered their pictures fill the walls. 10 years on people bring their kids here to teach them about the conflict. february 17th means a lot to us libyans especially here in the misrata it means freedom and democracy abroad my kids here to show them the picture of my nephew and to teach them that freedom comes at a cost medical is an engineer he lost a leg in 2011 fighting get deaf ears forces but despite his injuries he's now open this helps or and works as a personal trainer but i'm not speculate after we left in 2011 libyans express themselves and rose up against a dictator we want a democratic state the situation now isn't how we hoped it would be but it will take time after 42 years under gadhafi it is normal that we are where we are we

hope things will get better 10 years after the revolution and this month's political settlement among libya's warring sides there are hopes the fighting may end and libya could be on track to becoming a democratic state now that trainer al jazeera misratah peru's former president has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife was 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 mario sanchez has a name and out 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 that 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. with the fight against a pandemic. now some of the most iconic sites in greece have been left covered in snow or have a look the parthenon and other temples of the acropolis were blanketed after a rest no storm hit athens this is the country's most intense and fall in more than a decade and also tsunami sandy beaches covered coronavirus vaccinations had to be

halted with with artie's warning people in the city to stay inside meanwhile the u.s. state of 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 warm demand for electricity in the states has led to widespread blackouts leaving millions also without power more than 150000000 americans on now facing winter storm warnings we lost power for the morning. houses are getting real cold like around 2 o'clock in the blankets we try to all sleep together to keep us warm to cars to keep our phones charged. and then today when we got up there was no water no wife no nothing no internet but everybody need to eat we had our camping stove out. and try to be a see if it's possible well let's not bring in will nichols he's the head of climate change and environment research at the global risk analysis company various

he joins us now from new york well i know there's been plenty of discussion about what's been behind all of this on seasonal weather whether it's just about wind or climate change i know some people think of climate change as global warming so milder winters but it can also be responsible for other extremes like we're seeing . that's exactly right yes i mean what we can expect climate change in general to make when to small to. just a company. suggesting that it's actually going to have some impact on the severity when storms are going to be impacting the polar vortex here in north america and other systems. you know given that most of what was trying to go to missions we still have about of climate change already coming baked in governments of businesses across the globe really enough to stop these increasing physical threats and as we've been hearing that the situation in texas has wrecked havoc on the power grid so if it's hard to predict what's coming how do you try to engineer the

infrastructure you need to actually handle it yes that's exactly and you know in telling problems that unpredictable weather is just tied it's unpredictable chinese extremely difficult to prepare for and you know while all of data will suggest that countries in central america or in sub-saharan africa are probably most threatened by it who promise i think events like this in in greece kind of go to show that you have been sitting in europe in america in the middle east going to come away unscathed and going to be significant costs tens of damages unless we start investing in resilience measures which you know amazing expensive no will likely save money in the longer run and you know given that they'll be a lot of investments in assets that will be around 405060 is few thinking or svatos if you think in trying to structure power problems you know those kind of investment climate change is really going to need to need to be factored into the economy vestments today so what you're saying well these wild swings in weather

that we're seeing the extent of the severity of this called for instance this is some indication of what we are likely to be seeing going forward. yeah absolutely i mean you know probably who will get us so far that kind of extremes as you mentioned very difficult to economy produce and i'm prepared for you know that we go see spikes not just in also increasing waves droughts you know rising sea levels over the longer term as well so there's a whole host of threats that stations are really going to need to get their heads around and really start thinking about stress testing. business operation stress test business plans because he's going to future scenarios they've got some kind of baseline to make the necessary investments against and my running out of time will nichols the head of climate change in environment research at various maple kraft great to get your thoughts turn on to their thanks for being with us well thank you

how bitcoin has continued its streak of record breaking rises reaching a new high of $50000.00 per year as the cryptocurrency seen a 70 percent boost so far this year thanks in part due to backing from major companies like testing our master card that follows a meteoric 300 percent rise in 2020. 5 that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. has called on yemen's who thief isis to halt their advance on the city of merab that's the governments of last northern stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back channels to try to get the haiti's back to international negotiations mike hanna has more from washington one of the 1st actions abided administration did was insist it would no longer assist the saudi led coalition in attack.