some here feel is though the lack of transparency around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of crime or the c.p. group taking a stake in a company that produces side impact 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 in fear. hello i'm a clock of this is out 0 life and also coming up. using their cars to drive home their message and to keep protesters in mid march nor military warnings continue demonstrating for a return to democracy. q terrorism

a longtime critic of rwanda's president credited for saving hundreds of lives during the genocide goes on trial and. i'm elizabeth brannon and. i meant to say large scale infrastructure projects threatening the ecologically fragile region. so now a rescue operation is underway in nigeria to find school boys and staff feared kidnapped those wounded when gunmen attacked the school and could go in niger state was taken to hospital nigeria's president has condemned the mass abduction no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack let's hear now from i'm going to dress joins us from the buddha and there's some discrepancy over the numbers involved here. exactly nic the government

a night just a just talking about 27 people and then up the same time confirming 2 people have been kidnapped in the school talking about a family of 6 or 7 well taken along with the students but we have known how officious play down numbers like that we've seen them it's a regular part and we've seen that in chibok when the abduction of the school coast happened in 2014 and most recently in kind of when we were told initially that only $35.00 students were taken from that both school in can cut out and eventually it turned out to be hundreds of students who were kidnapped in that school officials told us this morning that. some 280 students and staff have not been accounted for when a census was conducted this morning but what is not clear is how these people with the captives or most of them have escaped and reunited with their families that is

what we don't know at the moment but the believe that the numbers fall out strip the numbers of issues and i just it out talking about i mean they're far much higher than what the officials in niger state are talking about we probably could be looking at more than $280.00 people taken from that school what is not such an at the moment is whether or not all of them i would have kept us but we believe that the number is much higher however many are involved certainly not the 1st time as you say that this is happened tell us more about how the government responded. in one district in particular this is not the 1st time this week earlier this week on monday to be precise a bus load of passengers was attacked and 18 passengers have been taken 8 of them have we've been told have regained the freedom and when they were taken to that bend it camp they met

a lot of other victims who were kidnapped and ransom is being demanded for their release so in what you state we've seen an uptick in such activities over the last one and have years most likely because of the operations of the nigerian military in the northwest of nigeria where we've seen several attacks being launched on bended camps in some for a state in sokoto state in cuts in a state the home state of the president in couldn't a state of course still in military activities still go in on that ground and add troops have been bombarding the high dose of these elements in the forest of some for a couple cuts in half and so quite a state maybe a lot of people are thinking that maybe some of these pundits have relocated or got to be relocating to central parts of nigeria but right now in northern nigeria as a whole north west north central and northeastern parts of nigeria budgetary and kidnapping is becoming a very very big business for the passengers i was talking about that were taken on

monday the bundeswehr asking for more than a $1000000.00 up front some to ease their victims so it's a problem that keeps growing be government says it's responding as best as it could but this problem is really really growing or getting out of hand and is spreading to me to to the north part of the northern part of nigeria it's also moved to the south and parts of nigeria why we hear recently that some state governors asking hurts men who they accuse of being behind such kidnappings as well as the types on finding communities to leave that area and that set off a national debate about who is a nigerian why shouldn't i didn't leave why would he stay what are the limits of his protection is that in areas when he travels out. are the slices on the situation in nigeria going to trust thanks very much the detention of mammals ousted leader is set to end a wednesday but there is no sign that dying sunset she will be freed protesters are increasing pressure on the military to release her some gathered in central young

gun and cause traffic jams to try and get their message across scotland as 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 suit 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 assume that the military has done to stop us so they can fire one more shot to conspire to sister reason we have on the street again. and those on the streets on tuesday in the southern township of me 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 all of the. people are in trouble the economy is descending into darkness people cannot sleep at night can't even eat and get intestines but there are people across generations. you have no

fed now that is why we have to pay the gentle. 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 un secretary general has called on wealthy nations to lead a global vaccination effort intended to terrorise warned that the pandemic will last longer if the virus is allowed to spread like wildfire in poor countries yet progress on vaccinations has been widely and even and fans just can't come to these evan minister did 75 percent of all covered in 1000 vaccines meanwhile more than 170 countries and not received

a single dose and those affected by conflict ending security aren't particularly risk of being left behind. well the u.k. is launching the world's 1st human challenge trial in which healthy volunteers will be given coronavirus and $1000.00 volunteers between the ages of $18.30 will be exposed to the disease and then observed in a controlled environment the aim is to help scientists better understand the effects of covert 19 let's try and better understand the effects of the strong let's bring in dr john ashton he's the author of the book blinded by corona how the pandemic ruined britain's health and wealth joins us from sober in the u.k. so this trial how does it work and how much risk is there for the volunteers 1st of all. well i think it's an indication of how fully investigate it is being about this that they've been working on the proposal now for 7 months. and you know these

experiments these challenge experiments will be conducted in the highly controlled environment clinically so this if any of the volunteers to get the facts they can be treated very promptly and of course the treatment options now have improved a lot since this pandemic 1st turned up a year ago that this use of challenge approach over actually subjecting volunteers to a lot of virus has a long history it goes right back to when that when with janet with cowpox with a small boy in the countryside outside bristol 200 years ago and it's being used with a range of other diseases including malaria and slowpokes and typhoid so there's

a long pedigree to this yeah sure and you know it's very important as part of the station's retesting to do this kind of thing to understand better the into the relationship between the virus and people who are exposed to it and adverse effects is precisely what they're looking for is net and how the patients with ben react to therapeutic for example. as i understand the protocol they're going to use difference. of the virus you know that's one of the outstanding questions is how much virus do you need to be exposed to to develop the clinical illness so that. their loss difference. i mean you've got someone of the old doctor. docs there use different routes out of the virus to see how much of the virus it's necessary to be exposed to to actually did develop the illness that's

the key thing because this. is so all. we really don't know how much of it you need to get before you get ill so that's one aspect and then named we'll use a range of the vaccine types and expose people to the virus again to see which vaccines work most effectively against particulate those issues of the virus yeah one other question i'm curious about and there are various variants of the virus flying around how do they decide which one to use which one to inject the volunteers with. well i could go on you know i know surviving relatives that they will want to test each of these at some point and you know this is an evolving situation. and it's going to be an important thing. to understand how that interaction between the different virus strains works with the

different vaccines because we've got quite a large number of vaccines coming on stream i think the fact that they've chosen to test these on healthy 18 to 30 year olds is reassuring and you know it tells us that this is a group that they feel confident they can use as guinea pigs if you will help us all as we persevere in getting through this kind. of fascinating talking to you dr john nash and ben and let you go and feed that dog of yours i do appreciate your time very much thanks very much. now south africa's president has been vaccinated as a country began its covert $900.00 not collation program on wednesday after some delays so around opposer received the johnson and johnson job which has not been approved for most use single days fact he will be given to health care workers as part of a research study earlier this month the government suspended the rollout of astra

zeneca garza has received its 1st 2000 kroner virus vaccine doses that's after israel approved a shipment of delivery of the russian made sputnik doses were delayed by israeli authorities on tuesday and israel has been heavily criticized from excluding for excluding gaza and the occupied territories from its rapid vaccine rollout very force it at the latest now from west jerusalem. israelis have said that 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 was 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 it's pledge some $5000.00 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 an 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 have 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 at the numbers there are going down but it is

a territory with an extremely overstretched fragile health system. still ahead here in algeria 10 years without gadhafi libyans marked the end of us remember the mission of a longtime leader and it is that. another blast of snow which will last i think probably through a half of thursday at least a cow there still coming out of the constant as you can see and it's going to affect all this western side of honshu and hawk harder but less so boxes day in the korean peninsula and then the wind sort of falls out altogether or changes direction and suddenly we lift him she is quite significantly for an awful lot of china the korean peninsula and even japan but let's see how far they go so all should be on average about 5 degrees right tanana on friday and we keep going up to

14 by the time you get to sunday well above average and the major change will be a soul going on i think in some positive path as well. the active weather for the south where we cause we never talk about snow but we took this circulation forming a tropical cyclone in the making quite possibly and quite likely that's where most of the action is there a few showers elsewhere sumatra on the west coast and jobbers full of them and there are showers building now in the middle of india not everywhere and it's only february but they're building all the same a bit of the biggest in the monsoon wind might prompt a few big shots and it's a curse a towel not a but nothing much is happening in that it is too quiet and cold here and it's for the most the time. to. jump into the stream there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware 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've been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new in each week be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. move. the oh oh oh. we're going to watch out 0 mind of our top stories this hour and an unknown number of people are feared kidnapped or missing in nigeria after an armed group attacked a school in one day several students who were wounded were taken to hospital. the detention of mere miles outside leader is set to end on wednesday but there is no

sign the same suchi will be freed protesters are increasing pressure on the military by gathering in central yangon causing traffic jam. garza has received its 1st batch of corona virus vaccine doses after israel approved a shipment of russian made sputnik jabs were delayed by israeli authorities on tuesday israel has been criticized for excluding the occupied territories from its rapid vaccine trial. the man whose story influenced the hollywood film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in the country's capital of kigali full recess a beginner is appearing in court to 9 charges including murder belonging to a terrorist organization he was praised for his role in saving the lives of more than 1000 people during the rwandan genocide but later it fell out with the government catherine sawyer has been monitoring the trial for us from nairobi. the suspects have not taken a p.x.

or what is interesting is that has said our setup like in a hostage to his lawyers that he is not our one then a citizen he says x. he's a belgian national and this is significant because it's worth the time in how the court is going to handle his case he also says that the high horse division of course would have crimes in rwanda is not competent to handle his case he wants his case moved to belgium cause he also says that he was abducted from belgium of from the belgium and brought to wonder where he says he's off stage now the prosecution has responded to that as well saying that i was that's a big united is dual citizen they say that both his parents are one does and doesn't and because he got these are doesn't citizenship in 2000 it doesn't explain how he's not a random national to say that and he wanted to his folks to look he's the one the

nationality who then should have followed the proper channels family have been speaking about him as well in that they're worried and not confident that he's going to get a fair hearing in iran that they say that he's health is not that he's not doing well in terms of his wealth as a very interesting case to watch and then people are very close to me watching this case libyans a monkey me 10000 of us are at the start of the revolution that toppled leader muammar gadhafi far as i was rajdeep you head of libya's internationally recognized government was among those paying tribute in tripoli's moussa square revolution sparked fighting between gadhafi forces and libyan rebels rebels. trying to has this report now from the former rebel stronghold of misrata. it's not as 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 walmart 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 that he 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 to deaf 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 i brought my kids here to show them the picture of my nephew and to teach them that freedom comes at a cost maliki 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 pull out a not. be donated 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 ballot trainer al jazeera. donald trump has launched a blistering attack on top senate republican mitch mcconnell days after he blamed the former president for last month's assault on the capitol building in a statement released by his political action committee trump said the republican party can never again be respected or strong with political leaders like senator mitch mcconnell at its helm he went on to say mitch is a sullen and unsmiling political hack and if republican senators are going to stay with him they will not win again well our comments are political analyst in washington d.c. and he explains what motivated trump's statement. well the reason is because we saw that blistering critique of the president by the senate minority leader just after

he was acquitted where mitch mcconnell actually blamed the president not only for the insurrection that took place at the u.s. capitol but suggested that there might be other formal criminal charges coming for the president and so i think what you're seeing now is a former president who is on the attack not only against the minority leader but also those who voted both to convict the president as well as to impeach him and the house the president knows that democrats have been against him for quite some time they have been locked in a battle since he came down that gilded staircase back in 2015 and now the see the some slippage among those in the party what you're seeing now is a president who is exerting his control his authority and his influence to let the republican party know that he is still very much in command now that we see this internal battle has broke open publicly i think now you're going to see a lot of cost a nation within the republican party about how to thread the needle keep in

president trump's base at home but at the same time trying to grow the base because what we recognize is this is a party that needs to actually extend the tent not narrow it nato defense ministers are holding the 1st meetings and u.s. president joe biden took office are expected to focus on nato as missions in iraq and in afghanistan but his war no repairs. 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 it was 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. 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 fight 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 flooding disaster caused by a glass or a collapse in northern india concerns about the impact of large infrastructure projects in the mountains at least 58 people were killed withdrawn and reports now from reconstruct. the himalayas is the highest mountain range in 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 awful place here on india's 2nd highest peak the number they gave the mountain. dozens of bodies have been recovered in an estimated 150 people are still missing. environmental activists say the force against the building of hydroelectric power plants of the number they've been national park for decades it's not sensitive we're being told that our troops 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 hindu 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 has the breaking up of the mountain is leading to more than slides which is threatening lives and entire villages in many places where the slope is reconned there. are cracks in the sections of villages that. really live in that any time their houses in them. the government says it needs electricity and new roads. in the world hindus want to go to the 4 holy

sites is the faith and belief we have to ensure not to harm the environment by carrying on the development we also shared a border with china and some say it all 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 expected to melt by the end of the century because of climate change people here say they are already paying the highest price elizabeth al-jazeera. and. this is 0 these are the top stories and unknown number of people are feared kidnapped or missing in nigeria after an armed group attacked a school in niger state several students who were wounded were taken to hospital already dressed as more now from a bigger unofficial.