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warnings and continue demonstrating for a return to democracy. accused of terrorism a longtime critic of rwanda's president credited for saving hundreds of lives during the genocide is on trial. south africa kicks off its delayed vaccination program the president is among the 1st to get the johnson and johnson vaccine which is yet to be approved. and i'm found with all the sporting killing. and major upset at the australian open at world number one and home favorite party questions out in the quarterfinals. we begin this news with nigeria where a rescue operation is underway to find school boys and staff it kidnapped those wounded when gunmen attacked the school and could go night just 8 were taken to hospital now. as president has condemned the mass abduction no group has claimed

responsibility for the attack as yet let's go straightaway to ahmed address who joins us now from abood you and ahmed to some discrepancy about the numbers of the ducted what are you hearing. absolutely officials most officials are side stepping the issue of numbers you hearing of 27 to 50 to more than 50 but one of one official told us that as of this morning when a census was conducted at the government science college can get out at least 280 people have been unaccounted for among them 3 member itself stoffel of that carnage as well as. 66 children and their mother or a family or family to one of the stop who is believed to have been abducted what is not such an a demo meant is these 280 we keep hearing about since the early hours of today

whether these people are still being held by the bandits who started the school or the students who there are among them who have escaped and not seeking shelter somewhere some students may have gone back to their families according to one official but the roll call this morning was that more than 280 s. still on weston unaccounted for said wednesday morning so that's the figure that we're walking with right now but officious some officials are talking about 27 people abducted by the bandits nic it is not the 1st time that this sort of thing has happened and there is an ongoing saga of violence in nigeria that they both heard is just find it so hard to get a handle on. exactly nic even within that axis on monday a bus load of passengers was kidnapped or were taken by the bandits 18 people in on

that bus were taken although we hear this morning that 8 of them have again that freedom 10 are still being held and when they want to come to that but it cam videos of which is of course trending on social media there were other people who are big keep on by the bandits and that being held for ransom the governor of niger steps that he's not going to pay a ransom for anybody to be released and we hear that the nigerian president that's ordered the military to take action to rescue those victims who have been kidnapped from this couldn't get out and also any other person who is being held by this man it's like he said this is not the 1st time in nigeria the kidnapping for ransom has been continuing in the northwest of the country zamfara so quick to cut another home state of the president talks of what kind of state can do not almost all states in the northwest of nigeria have been being affected by this violence and this criminality now it's spreading down to the north central parts of nigeria the

northeastern part of nigeria where we keep hearing about villages being stormed on people abducted from their homes or roads highways being attacked by these bandits and passengers have been kidnapped on the way so it's a big problem now for than i didn't security forces and it's becoming more like a big enterprise the the the the kidnap us of the. the the possum just on the road were taken on monday what demanding more than $1000000.00 in ransom money that virtue and the families cannot afford to pay. thanks for that update from abuse yamit interest reporting. now the detention of good leader is set to end a wednesday but there is no is still in the dying sun suchi will be freed for just as are increasing pressure on the military to release some gathered in central young go in and cause traffic jams to try and get the message across scott hardly has this report. in

a creative move by antic who protesters in young gone many pretend that their cars have broken down in the city center parking in the middle of streets and on bridges an act of civil disobedience to vent their anger at the military for overthrowing the government but also to make it difficult for security forces to move around the city as protesters gather for another day of rallies calls for the broken down car campaign came soon after the internet blackout was lifted at 9 am local time the 3rd straight nighttime blackout the campaign called off late morning to make way for this thousands of people gathering in the suv late but go to area of yangon right next to city hall. the protest was announced late tuesday after the joint a spokesman said that the military did not stage a coup when it overthrew the civilian government led by on song suchi adding to that news that a 2nd charge has been filed against suchi on the night i'm going to terry told the public that he would appear in court on february 17th but they change it to get media attention we have assumed that the military has done to stop us so they can

fire one more shot against her to sister recently out on the street again. and those on the streets on tuesday in the southern township of faced rubber bullets and tear gas fired by security forces the protesters gathered to call for the release of a detained school principal who had been taking part in the civil disobedience movement since the coup on february 1st hundreds of people have been arrested. back in yangon the punk rock band rebel riot does more than just play music it also fronts the organization food not bombs delivering hundreds of food boxes each week to those in need they've been busy since the coup d'etat. the economy is descending into darkness people cannot sleep at night can't even eat and there are people across generations. who have no fed that is why we have to pay the gentile. and more and more people are showing up to show that growing

opposition but the judge appears to be ignoring that instead further justifying its takeover and arresting more people who are organizing or even just taking part in the movement to counter its coup scott heiler al-jazeera. the man whose story influenced the hollywood film hotel rwanda is going on trial in the country's capital of could gali as a beginner is appearing in courts all 9 charges including murder robbery belonging to a terrorist organization he was praised for its role in saving the lives of more than 1000 people during the rwandan genocide but later fell outs with the government's let's cross over to catherine sawyer joining us from nairobi covering tell us more about the charges against him and what to expect in this trial. well the court has just john and this aspect did not take opinion this is because most of the day the focus was on submissions by the defense and the prosecution about the nationality

of the poor it has become as well as the competence of the high court in rwanda to try his case he says that he is not around a national he says that he is belgian and he wants his case trans fat to belgian courts he also says that he was abducted by government operatives in belgium and brought to wonder where he says he's been held hostage and he does not believe that the court is going to give him a fair hearing now the prosecution on the other side said that he is a dual citizen both his parents are run citizens and that he has never officially revoked he's won the nationality through the o.c. sure goal channels now as you mentioned he has been charged with 9 counts including murder and belonging to a terrorist organization he was in court with 20 others and all this. charges and this trial really centers on the national liberation front which is the armed wing

of his opposition party the movement for democratic change the government accuses members of this armed wing of a touching villages and towns in the southwest killing dozens of brandon's and destroying their property in fact in court today there are 84 victims who are claiming reparations were destroyed property and homes as well so. and the others did not and on friday next week the judge said he is going to make a ruling on that issue of his nationality and competence the jurisdiction of the high court in rwanda to try his case it is a dramatic turnaround is not the beginning story became the basis of that movie. absolutely. is known by many people from their hotel in london this critically acclaimed. film that is based on his true story during the

genocide he ran. into golly that opened its doors to more than a 1000 to his were being hunted down by hutu militia and for that he gained a lot of international recognition awards accolades and so on but the government has downplayed his role during that period saying that it has been highly exaggerated now he's also a fierce critic of president coca government and his leadership and you know this a constance's around arrest in august are very dramatic he was in dubai and both dead a flight a private plane apparently he thought he was going to boogie but he ended up in florida where we saw him on television screens. called he says that he was abducted he was kidnapped but government officials who have you know accused him of being a terrorist of a founding and finding

a terrorist organization and for that this government official say he masked the house 2 accounts. in nairobi. but you also had a muse are including i'm elizabeth brandon and ian himalaya via mentalists a large scale infrastructure project threatening ecologically fragile region. sports come up to an unforgettable night in barcelona for this world cup winning a strike of the latest football coming up a little bit later in the program. another in south africa's president has been vaccinated as the country began its covert 19 inoculation program or wednesday after some delays so rather pose receive the johnson and johnson which has not yet been approved for emergency use a single day's vaccine will be given to health care workers as part of

a research study this month the government suspended the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine let's join from a to miller from a vaccination center in johannesburg from johnson and johnson charlotte's one shot vaccine is now. it is a one shot vaccine and that certainly suits the south african government at this point in that the original rollout was delayed and added been astra zeneca which was the vaccine at the time there would have been a a 2 shot process over a couple of weeks in this particular case now with johnson and johnson they're allowed to perhaps speed up that process given that it's already been delayed that this vaccine center in soweto just outside of johannesburg at least 28 people health workers have been vaccinated today one of the 1st groups in this province of how to put area we did see the initial vaccination some of the 1st in the country

take place in cape town and that is when the president. and a couple of ministers were vaccinated they say this is very much around a living fears given that. there are many south africans who are skeptical about this vaccine process one it was delayed their kids to be a lot of misinformation a lot of fake news affecting how people view the vaccine and whether or not they'll register south africa saying at this point it's a voluntary registration as is the case with the health workers we saw here earlier but the president would want to assure south africans that the vaccine there's nothing wrong with it or that it's here in south africa to save lives and this is what he had to say just after he received one of the 1st jabs. powers from the.

box. is. this. so that all of this. now the rollout we've seen at centers like this one there are about 16 across the country it's part of a rollout of about 80000 johnson and johnson vaccines and it's important to point out that the government has explained that it is part of an implementation study the government wants to understand better how this particular vaccine will work in south africa a country that new variant has been identified a variant that is far more contagious and certainly has had scientists worried and this is why because of that implementation study the health products of clarity in this country has approved it for use here in south africa now that's after the

south african government said that they wouldn't be using astra zeneca in its initial rollout and that's after they were local studies that showed. but the efficacy of that particular vaccine had dropped to about 23 percent and of course the concern was that this isn't good enough for the spirit in south africa and this is why we've seen the government take the route of johnson and johnson again for me to thank for that for me in johannesburg let's go speak to me to go who's the code lead investigator of the vaccine program at the south african medical research council joins us now i'm pleased to say from johannesburg as well i mean this is a big turnaround in south africa the switch from astra zeneca to the johnson and johnson vaccine are there any concerns using a vaccine that hadn't been approved for emergency use. i think that really in i'm president sometimes at the moment and we've been in such times since last year with the onset of the covert thank you. we're looking for

a solution that we're looking for a vaccine that has stick and the face there the past is any good back scene. and in the seems have been tested in south africa the j.n.j. vaccine was just. a market about $76000.00 even in south africa it has been shown to be saying banks are not just in south africa that oppress the world they have no safety concerns and a particular agency is that in south africa it has been shown to protect against moderate disease against the new variant it has been shown to protect against disease in particular and it has been shown to protect against it and so i think given the days that have become available they were faced 3 trial dates innocently will not face one of these 2 dates out with phase 3 trial dinks not we are comfortable at this stage to say this is that they bagged victor and as a result of that we're awaiting already just ration or emergency authorization

we're offering this to help workers as early access program which is a pastry need open a 2nd yeah we're hearing that 'd you would you have a 1000000 doses of ashes and occur in the country there is talk now isn't there of another study to take place to read asked the efficacy of the astra zeneca of acting. yes that is correct yes and we are in contact with the principal investigators of the astra zeneca study we're all on the same page and we're all icing against the same chorus we're all wanting to find a solution to prevent more disease and deaths from 19 and so yes the principal investigators are continuing. for not all what we have is the change which has been tested and which is shown to be effective and safe and so that is what we are able to offer as part of this early access base 3 new open labels technique

say the jane jane vaccine not as effective it seems is madonna and the pfizer vaccine but it does only need one jab how much more helpful is that. i mean also saying it's very helpful. because one jab so it's not just advantageous because it needs one jab it needs one jab and it's also does not require a substance in storage conditions and so in a situation where we struggle with maintenance a coach ain't. one jab and a vaccine that can be stored act $2.00 to $8.00 degrees is very useful we can roll it out such a vaccine to remote areas of the country or to areas that are areas that are less resourced and much more easier much easier than one of the other back that needs. much though is to reach temperature so at this point in time it is the option available either when the others become available as well as they will consider it

i think the other thing to say is that it is the only vaccine as. a full clinical against the barium to the you will want to variant the other 2 back scenes had interested but they have been of origin based. on current data and time. all right well i mean as we appreciate that thanks very much indeed for giving us the latest on that to very much prefer to hear it out there i mean to go to there from the south african medical research council thank you. thank now japan has started its mass vaccination campaign against cavan 90 is planning to inoculate 4000000 people by the end of march it's a critical time with less than 6 months before taking those juta who see olympic games which were of course delayed by a year because of the virus from a bride has this report. trailing other developed nations and many of its asian neighbors by many weeks finally japan is rolling out its vaccines the 1st people to

get the pfizer jab are thousands of health workers often criticised for failing to use the latest technology in controlling the outbreak japan is now using a popular online messaging service to centralize the vaccination booking system but a lack of specialized syringes means millions of doses could be wasted safe to sure since the vaccines are very valuable the government is working to procure more special for engines that can extract 6 doses from. contributing to the delayed rollout has been the requirement for extensive testing of the vaccine in a country that historically has a mistrust of mass vaccination campaigns. the vaccine was developed so quickly so it scares me to think about it side effects and its effectiveness. i have a concerns but i'll get through it becomes available japan has imposed strict border

controls which it believes has helped in keeping the outbreak under control so many here are worried about the prospect of hosting the upcoming summer olympics so opening up the borders and green people from all over the world where there are various different strains of the virus does not seem like an inspired idea here to a lot of public health officials and the public at large but the government is determined they will go ahead at the end of july although big questions remain over what form they will take last year the government was also determined right up until they pulled the plug so i think you know sometime later in march we'll have a better idea they are going to proceed. but you know really ill lympics lurched. to another scandal the latest scandal has been the resignation of former olympic

committee president issue a row mori over sexist remarks he made earlier this month the government is hoping a successful vaccination campaign can help turn around the fortunes of its ill fated games mcbride al-jazeera makes care plans to raise its concerns about a vaccine distribution at the united nations president under those men were lopez obrador says the process favors richer countries and leaves poorer ones behind he's accused pfizer plants in the u.s. of only producing vaccines for americans forcing mexico to negotiate with the e.u. to secure jobs the united kingdom is launching the world's 1st human challenge trial in which healthy volunteers will be given coronavirus 90 volunteers between the years of 18 and 30 will be exposed to the disease and subserve to a controlled environment the aim is to help scientists better understand the

effects of covert 19 let's cross over to general who joins us live from london jen in fact you're outside the role of free hospital in london where the trial would take place right. in about a month's time we're told yes this is the setting for human challenge trials on covert $9000.00 the u.k. will become the 1st country in the world to do that essentially taking samples lab grown samples of the covert 1000 virus and injecting them into live healthy young volunteers and being able then to watch in real time how the virus interacts with the body with the immune system and in time introducing candidate vaccines candidate therapeutics and watching how the virus interacts with those enabling the much more efficient much speedier production and development of new treatments in the future that that's then the initial aim of the trial will be rather more specific that when it gets underway in a month's time and that is to come up with

a minimum dose of the virus required to produce an infection in a young healthy individual as you say they put out a call for volunteers they're looking for a trial size of around 90 people aged between 18 and 30 they'll then be very carefully screened to ensure that they're not the sort of health profile of a person likely to suffer the worst effects of covert 19 and when they got their group they will start injecting very tiny doses of the virus into their volunteers increasing those doses doses ever so slightly until most of them have incurred an infection and scientists will then have their minimum dose required that i want to be giving out any more than is required for obvious reasons and that will provide the basis the basic platform to then go on to be able to trial as i said future vaccines future drugs as as it's become more and more apparent that this is a virus that mutates that will continue to mutate the vaccines and drugs of today

may not be the vaccines and drugs off tomorrow this is a program that will help the world to live with covert 19 in the future over the long term. fascinating stuff reporting from the winter storms killed at least 21 people in the central and southern united states record low temperatures have left more than 3000000 people without power mostly in the state of texas and it's business from. blanketed with snow and glazed with ice homes in texas are burning this part of the united states isn't used to freezing the winter storm has created chaos electricity grids have failed leaving millions of people without power in dangerously cold temperatures we lost power yesterday morning and the houses are getting a real call like around 2 o'clock and then you got all the blankets out we try to all sleep together to keep us warm calm to the cars to keep our phones charge and

and then today when we got up there was no water. a family of 4 died in a house fire near houston while using their fireplace to keep warm hospitals have been overwhelmed by hundreds of people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and hundreds of thousands have been advised to boil water after treatment plants went down and it's not just texas that's affected. emergencies have been declared in several states across the central and southern u.s. . the storm brought under snow and tornadoes including one in north carolina that killed several people president joe biden is promising additional emergency resources the extreme weather can be traced to a massive arctic air that's normally near the north pole occasionally the system is disrupted sending freezing temperatures south but it's reported to be happening more often and scientists are looking into whether climate change is to blame

events like this highlight the country's vulnerabilities. in the middle east. going to be. investing in resilience measures which you know amazing expensive no. money no longer. the governor of texas has called for an investigation into why services failed. and for the state's power grid to be improved in the meantime millions will endure another night without power and the cold isn't expected to ease up until the weekend alexandra byers al-jazeera. well it's get more weather news now has rob. it's staying cold throughout the u.s. and canada for almost every state this is just an example of the result of the cold and every night again the truck just comes through the snow is 3 week spell for very many decades in chicago that was the picture of the night and then the

following day says they will see more snow out of the mississippi valley and beyond that the appalachians there is rain to the east that is still relatively warm in florida the junction between snow and rain those where you get the freezing rain which produces our east on contact brings down trees brings our power lines and anyway we have power cuts in many places notably in texas where it remains subzero by the even on the south coast and that is just too much for the power supply that picturing thursday does see things move up to the eastern seaboard and snow in the sales snow in new york i'm behind it all tempers remain low those lows they were maybe in used to be a trend it is but i'm here to saturday it's almost back to normal in texas or least represented by houston but in new york well also you could even call it normal it's a brief nor'easter northwesterly so the forecast for new york state about about freezing snow on friday sunshine by sunday. still ahead here on al-jazeera cashing

in but refusing to pay out why the world's largest supermarket chain is closed to have it stored in long beach california. goes for 2 just the man for a crisis that will stall the stepped up with his teammate. and be a action coming up later in the program just. jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we don't want to feed the hungry and be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new and be part of today's discussion this dream on out is they're. examining the impact of

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school in niger state several students who were wounded and taken to hospital. the detention of mia miles ousted leader is set to end on wednesday but there's no sign that an sense of she will be freed protesters are increasing pressure on the military by gathering in central young gone and bringing traffic to a standstill. the man credited with saving hundreds of lives during the rwandan genocide is on trial in kigali pull a recess up again it is accused of several charges including murder and belonging to a terrorist organization to nice the charges. gaza has received its 1st 2000 corona virus vaccine doses after its relit proved a shipment delivery of the russian made sputnik doses swelled tonight by israeli authorities on choose day israel has been heavily criticized from its grading for excluding gaza and the occupied territories from its a rapid a vaccine rollouts let's speak to a full sit across one of the joints life from west jerusalem to harry say how did

this finally come about and who will be 1st on the lists or received facts here. well yes the israelis have said it was a technical issue they didn't specify exactly what the holdup was merely saying that the political. senior israeli officials or israeli fish were saying that the political echelon hadn't yet made a decision to allow the transfer to take place when it was 1st sent back at an israeli checkpoint that decision obviously subsequently taken and it has been allowed through i think it would be very difficult for the israelis to continue the line of not allowing this transfer to happen as you say there's been some pressure on israel already over its decision not to supply vaccines in large numbers at least to the palestinian authority its pledge some 5000 so far of which about 2000 have been handed over but preventing palestinians from exchanging vaccines within

the 2 separated territories would have been subject to even greater international pressure and so this 1st transfer has taken place enough for a 1000 people and initially we were told that it was going to be for medical workers people on the front line dealing with coded cases but how much health ministry official on accepting the vaccines also talked about them being given to the most vulnerable people people who've had organ transplants and are most susceptible to the vaccine but we're talking about just a 1000 people in a population of 2000000 when it comes to gaza where there's already been a very substantial outbreak it in the numbers there are going down but that it is a territory with an extremely overstretched fragile health system and so a wider vaccine role that is what is required both in gaza and in the occupied west bank so far as well as pledged 5000 vaccines rushers donated 10000 the international kovacs scheme of donor countries giving vaccines to vulnerable and

poor developed countries that's going to account for about 20 percent of the need in the long. run but certainly in terms of the comparison between what's happening in the palestinian territory and israel it's totally out of balance israel has accepted more than 4000000 of its population the palestinians only got a few 1000 vaccine so far from our house thanks for that harry force at reporting from west jerusalem now long beach in southern california is one of the places worst hit by covert 9000 in the united states the city was one of the 1st to propose it hero pay that extra wages for essential workers like supermarket stuff but what happened next has sparked outrage reynolds has this. in january the long beach city council passed an ordinance requiring a 4 month 4 dollar an hour pay boost for employees of large grocery store chains they called it hero pay for essential workers often overlooked during the pandemic

we look at it was very clear a group of your workers we're interacting with more. protection i'm going to be probably worse they deserve or they weren't expecting the backlash the state's grocery association filed suit to block the extra pay and kroger $1.00 of the us is biggest supermarket chains abruptly announced it would close to long beach stores leaving 200 employees jobs in doubt eric cortez has worked for kroger for 14 years he showed us a letter sent to employees is the advice you of our company's decision to close and permed we terminate the entirety of the operations of business and economic reasons include the economic cost mandated by the long beach ordinance what shocked employees and politicians is that grocery chains made enormous profits last year

had $19.00 restrictions on restaurants meant more people bought food to cook at home big grocery chains kroger in particular are rolling in money kroger is a real standout so kroger in the 1st 3 quarters of 2020 when you look at their net earnings their total profits they have doubled their profit compared to 2019 so they earned an additional $1300000000.00 in profits that's an astonishing growth and if you figured kroger would share some of that bonanza with its workers guess again by and large the companies have not passed these windfall profits and to their workers who it is important to note that grocery and retail workers typically earn very low wages cortez and his coworkers are. pointed and angry well i just think they're being greedy the california grocers association says its members have had to buy protective equipment or p. p. e. they have not considered all of the expenses that we have paid if the long beach

mayor robert garcia says it's simply a matter of fairness they deserve few extra bucks just for a few months. but workers may get the last word more and more california cities have approved or are in the process of approving hero pay including los angeles oakland irvine and san jose rob reynolds al jazeera long beach california. now the nato defense ministers are holding their 1st meeting since u.s. president joe biden took office that expected to focus on nato as missions in iraq and in afghanistan and that says that by the minister ation reviews the peace deal that donald trump made with the taliban that includes withdrawing troops by may the fest's is cross have a touch of butler who's joining us from paris and following this isn't natasha this is the 1st native defense minister's meeting since biden became the new us president and this as i said what impact will the new administration have to think

on the airlines. well for the secretary general of nato yes stoltenberg he is certainly hoping for a reset of relations between the alliance and the u.s. yes of course a member of the alliance but over the past few years in the past few years under donald trump's administration it is clear that relations between the u.s. and nato became a rather for donald trump often criticized the nato alliance he said that the u.s. was but he felt funding it far more than other countries particularly european partners donald trump even threatening to pull the u.s. out of nato one point so really the relationship between the u.s. and nato at an all time low you might say under the trumpet ministration what we understand is the biden in mr administration wants a far more traditional you might say our relationship with nato we've already heard

from the u.s. u.s. defense secretary saying that the biden administration wants to work using diplomacy and teamwork so i think those will be welcome messages for young stoltenberg the nato secretary general to think about the talk about their own parents let's speak not to call q. jean who's the executive director of the european student joins us live by skype from brussels screeching welcome to the program should nato. mission in afghanistan is on change does that mean that the 10000 troops from nato allies will stay put. i think what this actually general of nato has said is that nay of the troops withdrawal. is not contingent of. levels of violence coming down and building on what your correspondent just said it's very significant that the u.s.

lloyd austin the defense secretary has said he is listening very carefully and consulting with nato before deciding what u.s. will do your right may chose mandate to be in afghanistan last until. it's clearly is critical to foreign troops at some point leave the timing is of the essence of what would your concerns be if if troops pulled up to a. well right now if there is great fear and trepidation among afghans that despite the opening of historic talks between the taliban and the negotiating team sent by the republik in september last year and just might be u.s. taliban do you know last february. things are looking really bad the taliban preparing a spring offensive. targeted assassinations rights workers judge is.

civil society activists in kabul and around the. and there is this sense that things are getting much much worse and this is a terrible irony because everybody wants peace during the brief ceasefire last year i think the taliban leadership was rather shocked by the degree to which ordinary people in areas under back control and even their own foot soldiers were enjoying a few days of nonviolence civil society and everybody you know the young people who want to run during the war want peace the neighbors want peace no one wants afghanistan to be an exporter of insecurity and yet getting at political deal among afghans is proving incredibly difficult and really the draw down of all the u.s. troops and nato has posture ideally needs to be done in a way that incentivizes a real political agreement. as we had more across one of the previous u.s. president threaten to pull out of nato how damaging 1st of all was that and

secondly how important is it now that the u.s. has reasserted its commitment to nato. well it's incredibly important and i think in the context of afghanistan i'm not i'm not to connect mate or mine my focus is on afghanistan and indeed nato zeroed in afghanistan i think it's deeply significant that nato is biggest operation. namely afghanistan the us is associating itself with a broad approach by nato it is not going unilateral. kind of what one might have expected or not be surprised by under the former us administration this also has the advantage of course of giving the americans a little bit more time to review their own posture in afghanistan because one of the things they do not want to do is to adjust the jordaan of u.s.

troops in a way that alienates taliban from peace talks so by association themselves the nato position not only strengthens nato but it gives the u.s. a little bit more space for maneuver michael kazin just great to get your expertise and analysis thanks very much indeed for that's michael keaton from the european institute of peace. but a flooding disaster in northern india is raising new concerns about the impact of large infrastructure projects in the himalayan mountains earlier this month the glass collapsed sending floods of water and debris down a mountain valley at least 58 people were killed and run 150 are still missing elizabeth purana reports her constant. the himalayas the highest mountain range of the world renowned for its majestic cliffs and breathtaking beauty but it's now under threat more than ever before from warming temperatures and development projects scientists say february's flash flood

was caused by an ice sheet for an offer placed here on india's 2nd highest peak the number they ve mounted. dozens of bodies have been recovered in an estimated 150 people are still missing. environmental activists said the force against the building of hydroelectric power plants of the number of a v. national park for decades if not sensitive we're being told that our trips to the area will hurt its flora and fauna but those rules don't apply when they use explosives which shake the entire valley today we're witnessing the results of their projects which have led to hundreds of deaths. and it's not just dams and power plants which environmentalist say opposing the threat to the region and 2016 promised in the day that i'm already began a road expansion project in the truck and to make it easier for pilgrims to visit some of pendle isms holiest sites and 900 kilometer void through the mountains is being widened without

a proper assessment of the environmental impact maybe $700.00 hectares of forest land have been lost to the project more than $47000.00 trees have been felled and the natural drainage of streams and springs blocked by the dumping of muck. scientists ravi chopra's says the breaking up of the mountain is leading to more than slides which is threatening lives and. tired villages in many places where the slope is weak and their houses have developed cracks in fact there are sections of villages that become. and those people really live in fear that any time their houses and their village when. the government says it needs electricity and new votes. in the world hindus want to go to the 4 holy sites it's the faith and belief we have to ensure not to harm the environment while carrying on with development we also share

a border with china and some say it shouldn't be built then what will happen. but environmentalists say the balance is to think too heavily in favor of development one 3rd of the himalayas expect to melt by the end of the century because of climate change people here say they are already paying the highest price elizabeth . and. let's speak now today partly who's a vice president for innovation at the university of sheffield in the united kingdom joins us now. climate change the overall impact of climate change is going to have and ongoing effect in places like the himalayas meaning that collapses and so forth and landslides you going to become more and more oppressive why is that what actually happens physically to make these sort of events occur. you know there are there are 2 to keep processes we need to think about here only one is is the warming is intensified significantly at high elevations farm so the tragic events

that we saw sort of 10 days ago are the consequence of summer warming in high elevations where the masses are essentially held together with ice that ice is degrading and it's releasing landslides that then turn into these kustra goby flows as has happened in term only under 2nd effect is is that the warming of the climbers is leading to more intense rainfall not necessarily more rainfall but rainfall that is heavier and under landscape is very very sensitive to the most intense rainfall events and this is driving landslides and floods and the effects of collapses like this one exacerbated by hydro projects and which are built in the valleys below so yeah that's exactly right and it's very interesting that this is being described as a classic collapse when actually really it was a it was a landslide it was a very very big landslide that happened at

a high altitude you know sort of 1600 metres or so above the valley floor and this block fend off if it hit the valley floor and fragmented and turned into an avalanche of rock and ice that then picked up water on the way in terms of this enormous flood these events are natural they do happen anyway but but they're occurring more and more because of climate change and the reason that they're becoming so pressing poor us is that we're increasingly putting in press trucks are in the way so you know the river in this case itself didn't cause the landslide but this event wouldn't have caused a huge amount of damage if the infrastructure hadn't been his path right and so moving forward what are the implications for people who live in valleys downstream of major glasses like this one. well i think your or your earlier report has it exactly right so there's a there's a whole series of different processes happening at the same time so we part of this is about the way we can do it changing the climate 100 percent and flights are

becoming more more common as a consequence about and things like that the altera systems are broken down there's also a really big human factor in here and and bootleggers as mentioned by your correspondent is a is a critical issue here so as we build roads in these mountain environments very often they're not located in the right places they're not designed properly and then engineered properly and they're not maintained properly and these landslides are a demonstrate these roads that are generating a demonstrable increase in the number of landslides an effect on pushing that's affecting you know corridor or either side of the road so really very very many people are being being affected by this kind of double effect of climate change and human disturbance i really appreciate your expertise that they partly from the university of sheffield thanks very much for the. thank you. coming up how it all went hardly wrong for the world number one is trading night and deception coming up in just a bit. the

in the the old. ladies get on to the sports understanding well thank you very much and they quote we start with tennis and there's been a huge upset at the australian open in the last hour or so rafael nadal has been dumped out of the time and i agree sister found us to chip us in the quarterfinals that wasn't the only star to be stunned on a wednesday so her magic has the action of from the rest of the matches. women's world number one australia's ashley barty is probably are asking herself how things

went so horribly wrong in melbourne having won the 1st set against 25th seed carolina over 61 she looked on course for the semifinals. but things went steadily downhill she lost the 2nd 63 with her opponent taking a medical time out during the sit. barty looked a shadow over the player that dominated early on she finished with $37.00 on full steroids losing the decide to 16 to crash out of her home grand slam it's heartbreaking of course but will it deter me and will it ruin the fact that we've had a really successful start to our season absolutely not you know we the sun will come up tomorrow where we go about our work again you're either winning or learning and i think today is a massive learning curves for may 22nd seed jennifer brady is into the last 4 off to beating fellow american jessica in 3 sets. she now goes on to face

barty's conquer over with the much set to be played with bands as melbourne's coronavirus lockdown is set to be over by then oh yeah. it will be great to play in front of people you know especially the semifinals you know in new york it was it was an empty stadium so will be a new atmosphere here for me playing you know the semifinals of a grand slam in front of her fans so i'm really looking forward to it. medvedev booked his spot in the men's with a straight sets victory over russian compadre live. medvedev has never won a major before but he's looking an ominous for. the 25 year old who's only been taken beyond 3 so wants this year's tournament so he'll malick algy. kim baptists are told by saitama as they stand barcelona for one the 1st leg of

their champions league round of 16 tie the french will cup but when a scored a hat trick in what was his 1st match at the nou camp he becomes only the 3rd player in the tournament history to score hat trick against parsa his efforts taking p.s.g. a step closer to a 1st ever champions league title. kilian was confident to during yesterday's training he asked me how many times did you at camp lose and i told him that only once with espanyol and then he told me tonight you will be in for the 2nd time and just now after the match when we met he told me i told you that you will be in for decisions time here oh is a great night for liverpool they beat rb leipsic to nail in the 1st leg of the last 16 mohamed salah capitalized on a defensive error to put them one nil up and then another mistake of allowed aside your money to seal the when for the reds this match it took place in budapest

because liverpool were able to travel to germany to took over the troublous frictions the boys did played a really good game a really good game they last to prepare which is a lot about that it's a tricky thing but we did well played a good game deserved to win i think and forced them to make mistakes with a good formation with a good attitude. any other places we played good football so. i'm happy but it's better performance. south africa's batsmen the 50 pieces has a retired from test cricket 36 year old says he wants to focus his attention on t 20 s. his decision also comes after some poor displays in the 5 day game 2 places failed to even a record of 15 south africa's recent test series it defeated pakistan he retires

however with 10 test centuries averaging over 40 in the n.b.a. the brooklyn nets have made the stunning comeback to beat the phoenix suns 128224 the nets were playing without 2 of their main stars kevin johnson and carr r ving both out with injury after trailing a by 24 points it was james harden to the rescue harden scored 38 points to beat the nets to the 4th straight where. is the true. religion finally. this is the. person which is in the middle of the game. and that's so useful for me we'll have more for you later on including ways this

champions league games but for now it's back in a sort of thanks very much leave this news with a. frank assessment the world is on the brink of a catastrophic model samia is that a fair assessment you can be catastrophic. to weiss. informed opinions should we be buying it course ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day headlines inside story. there was a lot of there in this community and this will be live to the league when they want to look 14 yet on the commission want to win this is our own man she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing their community most of the problem

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around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of c.p. group taking a stake in a company that produces side of back like some of its neighbors thailand is ordering vaccines from other companies as well. another mass abduction at a school in nigeria dozens are injured an unknown number of people are missing and feared could. follow on the clock and this is a life and also coming up. using their cars to drive home the message to keep protesters in miramar nor military.