relax enjoy the break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know. welcome to our home. another mass abduction at a school in nigeria dozens are injured and unknown number of people are missing and feared kidnapped. given al this is al jazeera law over from dot com also coming up if the virus is allowed to spread like wildfire in the global sol sabata didn't. write again and again. the u.n. secretary general calls for a global vaccination plan and urges g.

20 nations to lead the effort. using their cars to drive their message protest is in me and mark ignore military 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 goes on trial. the rescue operation is underway in nigeria to find school boys and staff fed kidnapped those wounded when gunmen attacked the school in qatar and now i just state were taken to hospital and jarius president has condemned the mass abduction no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yes that address is following this from a butcher. it's difficult because there are so many numbers going round 1st

the government in niger state says 27 people have been kidnapped and that again a few hours later that number went up to 42 now when algy's or spoke to an official earlier today he said in this school with 1000 student population. a census was conducted this morning and that 280 students who are missing what is not clear was whether these students were taken all of them were taken by the abductors or some of them might have run away from the school and actually sitting at home and not coming back to school so the situation is a bit confusing right now but what people believe is that the number of the state government is giving is far much lower than what actually happened that these operations the operations conducted by the bandits as the efficiency of call them happened since last night and it went well into the early hours of today we spoke

to an official earlier today who said that yes the location of the abductors had been identified and what is the problem the dilemma now is how to approach this situation because they believe that with the high number of captives in there under their control it's difficult to conduct a successful operation without resulting in casualties on the part of the student so that's what they're waiting now but in fact the nigerian government is saying that they have directed all security chiefs to ensure that these students have been rescued. nato defense ministers are holding their 1st meeting since u.s. president joe biden took office they're expected to focus on those missions in iraq and afghanistan says the biden administration reviews the peace deal that donald trump made with the taliban that includes withdrawing troops by may the 1st time is live with me from paris natasha this is the 1st as we're saying nato defense ministers meeting since president biden became president biden what impact will the

new u.s. administration have on the alliance. well what the alliance is looking for says the nato secretary general is a reset of relations between the alliance and the united states because the former u.s. president donald trump those relations became particularly strained donald trump was quite a critic of nato even threatened to pull the us out of the alliance and that certainly we can and the standing and the image of the alliance so stoltenberg a certain welcoming the biden administration and from what we understand the u.s. defense secretary has made it very clear that the u.s. is looking to fully reengage and uphold its nato commitments will which will be surely welcomed by stoltenberg now one of the main issues on the agenda for this 2 day meeting is afghanistan and the situation of international troops in

afghanistan stoltenberg says there are over $9000.00 international forces in the country nearly a 3rd of them are a u.s. forces now and the taliban has put a certain amount of pressure on the u.s. recently to our hold what it says is its commitment to withdraw international troops by the end of april from the country however what we understand is that the nato secretary general says that this is arm likely he says that international forces are needed in afghanistan because otherwise he says it could turn into what he calls a haven for international terrorists we also heard from the german defense minister echoing the sentiments of u.n. stoltenberg that it is simply too early to talk about a withdrawal of international forces. an attachment thank you for that update from paris.

the u.n. secretary general has called on wealthy nations to lead a global the acts of nature an effort that's what i said as warms the pandemic will last longer if corona virus is allowed to spread like wildfire in poor countries yet progress on vex you nations has been widely an event and phares just famine countries ever mean is that it's 75 percent of all covered in $1000.00 vaccines meanwhile more than 130 countries have not received a single goal. and those affected by conflict and insecurity are at particular risk of being left behind the secretary general was speaking at a special meeting of the un security council diplomatic editor james bass has more . i think there is broad agreement that there is potentially a problem going forward that the rich countries are vaccinating people but many other parts of the world are not and you're never going to get rid of covert 19 if you have it spreading in some parts of the world and potentially mutating and

potentially in the future making vaccines not work this meeting was called by the u.k. that's the current president of the security council they are proposing now a resolution to try and call for cease fires in conflict zones around the world to get people in those conflict zones vaccinated the striking statistic came from the secretary general from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies speaking of the security council meeting less than one percent of covert 1000 votes in so far globally have been administered in the 32 countries currently facing the most severe humanitarian crises the un secretary general is proposing now be an emergency task force set up to come up with a global vaccination plan he's going to give the un's full support to that he thinks because finance is needed the best body to do this is the g 20 and he's hoping that the g 7 meeting the 7 most important countries in the g 20 in terms of

their economic power can start leading efforts to that end they have a meeting on friday a man whose story influenced the hollywood film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in the country's capital kigali paul rusesabagina bared in court all 9 charges including murder armed robbery and 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 found out what the government his family and lawyers say he was abducted overseas had brought back to rwanda illegally the trial has been turned to february 26th catherine so i have been monitoring the trial for us from nairobi. the court has just adjourned the suspect did not take a plea and this is because most of the day the focus was on submissions by the defense and the prosecution about the nationality of our poor has to be gonna as well as the competence of the high court in rwanda to try he scaife he says that he

is not a run the national he says that he 1001 chief case transfer that to belgium cause he also says that he was abducted by government operated in belgium and brought to wonder where he says he is being 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 that he is a dual both retired are one citizens and that he has never officially revoked he's won the nationalities to the official legal channels he's has been charged with 9 counts including martha and belonging to a terrorist organization he was in court with 20 others and all these child 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 attacking the leaders and pounding the southwest killing dozens of rundowns and destroying their property. the detention of me miles after the leader said to end on wednesday but there's no simon unfound suchi will be freed protestors are increasing pressure on the military to release are gathered eventually and gone because traffic jams to try and get their message across so hard to report. in a creative move by a take 2 protesters in yemen down many pretend that their cars have broken down in the city center talking in the middle of streets in our 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 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. so they can fire one more shot. to sister recently out 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 and so had. people. economies descending into darkness people cannot sleep at night can't even eat getting threatened but there are people across generations. who have no if then that is why we have to pay. 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 eat. just taking part in the movement to counter it to scotland al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera 10 years without the band's mark the anniversary of the revolution that toppled the longtime leader and ended in his death. and the struggle to reach hundreds of bodies believed to be trapped in

a boat that capsized the democratic republic of congo. but. it's all change again in what has been quite well this rather rabia already this stormy weather in the eastern med has produced snow in greece and in turkey this is wednesday's forecast the strong winds rain in northern egypt rain in the levant snow in lebanese mountains jerusalem axis 6 heavy snow in turkey ahead of it is a line east current just see here where you've got suddenly winds coming up to 31 and the northwest is behind which will change the temperature dramatically now as that line goes south it's a cold front you get sundays to me you tend to get to a bit of sand ahead and possibly a sandstorm behind as wind changes secure weights 20 might be accompanied by a bit dust but given the amount of rain probably not then this is nice sunny area

but still not warm and even 8 degrees in jerusalem and then into a for example then the change comes down through bahrain and qatar which is 22 is the max when change to a northwesterly sunder storms and possibly send with it afterwards more active weather in mozambique not where you want it but they are is quite possibly the receiver of strong winds and rain during wednesday maputo dry air and that of the over mortar circulation starts again which will probably talk back into session sutton mozambique. join africa's largest trade and investment fair and rwanda enter african trade give me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and buyers and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals worth $40000000000.00 u.s. dollars as business and government come together to explore business and networking

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trump made with the taliban that includes withdrawing troops by may the 1st. the u.n. secretary general has called on wealthy nations to lead a global vaccination effort and there are good status warned the pandemic will last longer of coronaviruses allowed to spread like wildfire and poor countries. gaza has received its 1st 2000 coronavirus vaccine doses after israel approved the shipment delivery of the russian made spot that doses were delayed by israeli authorities on tuesday israel has been heavily criticized for excluding gaza and the occupied palestinian territories from its rapid vaccine rolled out. to peru now where the doctor leading a covert 19 vaccine trial has said the former president requested and received an early vaccination out of turn every $500.00 people including martin viscount his wife and senior government officials have been secretly inoculated ahead of health care workers but i am a scientist has more from. the former president of the discoveries among

a group of politicians who secretly got a coronavirus job before anyone else in it's been revealed the vaccine was part of a supply of around 3000 sent by chinese pharmaceutical scene a farm these were in addition to the 12000 used in a trial. i was never told that there were more vaccines than the 12000 of this trial or that people in my government were participating i sincerely apologize. dr hillman malaga who led the trials and discover the shot testified in congress on tuesday the former president knew what vaccine he was getting and so conversely i told him we had like seems better active. began its texan nation campaign last week but at least 487 people were quietly in the queue laid it between september and february the outgoing foreign minister said she couldn't afford getting sick the former health minister said she was afraid of the virus. i reiterate our anger and

disappointment for learning that many public officials took advantage of their position for being immunized with vaccines that arrive separately to those used in the clinical trials. the list of beneficiaries included officials and doctors who weren't part of the trial many brought along their wives husbands in-laws friends consultants or in vitesse. these are photos of more than 300 doctors who lost their lives fighting the pandemic in addition there are nurses paramedics hospital workers a long list of people who've been fighting on the front line again. a coronavirus who have died without a chance to get a vaccine. the scandal known as vaccine gate has caused outrage. whose family is suffering from covert 19 has been queuing up for days to fill his tank with oxygen. it's awful cause those vaccines are meant to be for those in intensive care and people in hospitals are waiting for those doses reduce running

low on oxygen hospitals are overwhelmed more than $43000.00 are did exist death rate is more than 120000 vaccine gate is now being investigated by the attorney general prosecutors and legislators but many say it's already clear the group put their own lives ahead of others may be innocent just. the u.s. department of justice has charged 3 north korean computer programs for a wide range of global cyber attacks they accuse the hackers of trying to steal more than $1300000000.00 of funds and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies and a canadian american has pleaded guilty to multiple money laundering schemes looks links rather to the north korean hackers. libyans are marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the revolution that toppled leader muammar gaddafi crowds have been

celebrating in benghazi in tripoli the revolution sparked fighting between gadhafi forces and libyan rebels but only of a small drive all factions agreed to an interim unity government until elections in december has this report from the former rebel strongholds of misrata. 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 warmer 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 hasn't 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 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 good deafness forces but despite his injuries he's now open

this helps or and works as a personal trainer. 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 misrata. long beach california is one of the places worst hit back over 19 in the u.s. the city was one of the 1st to propose heroin that's extra wages for essential workers like supermarket stuff what happened next has sparked outrage for brands faults. 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 to greet your workers iraqi with more. pressure i'm going to be probably were 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 have our company's decision to close and perm 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 is important to note that grocery and retail workers typically earn very low wages cortez and his coworkers are. pointed and in very well i just

think they're being read 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 may be long beach mayor robert garcia says it's simply a matter of fairness they deserve a few extra bucks just for a few months to help them 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. japan's ruling policy says it wants female members to attend k. meetings but only if they don't talk the liberal democratic policies chief says they should act as observers and submit their opinions after the meeting earlier this month ahead of tokyo where the vix resigned following outrage over his remarks that women are annoying for talking too much in meetings but most are human then

today it's important for the female lawmakers to fully understand what kind of discussions are happening not only in each political case but also in the party directors meeting and the general council so letting them take a look it's what it's all about and as you and i see it in different i think the united i think people in japan are finally aware of the problems that women can participate in society at the same level as men but by letting women attend the meeting as a service without the right to speak would make it look like women are participating with the same rights as men i feel like this is cheating to manipulate people's feelings and i not there but. i think this is unacceptable because it's been 20 or 30 years since the idea of gender equal society was brought up but women are still in such a position are participating in politics only as observers. a former professional baseball player who was once the largest black american mcdonald's franchise operator in the u.s.

is suing the company for racial discrimination herbert washington claims the company is more likely to allow caucasian own is to buy franchises and wealthier communities and african-americans washington says those practices at the world's largest restaurant chain have led to massive sales gaps between black owned franchises and those run by white americans donald's denies the allegations how it works is there are. way in many cases why don't our operators the polaroid restaurants. are they are given opportunities higher more in restaurants which puts them in a position to be more successful they're asked to run in those restaurants the light cheap is the example here a restaurant i have to here security. my car i will have a restaurant or on the other side of town does not have to have security. rescue

teams in the democratic republic of congo say they're struggling to reach the bodies of those who died when an overcrowded boat capsized the 75 people and not have drowned when the vessel sank in the congo river on sunday night and hundreds of others are missing as lexi o'brien reports. the wreckage of the boats the limit lies close to shore on the congo river on the surface it's all broken wood and discarded the longings it's what lies beneath that rescue and recovery work is a focusing on our desire to be the majority of bodies are still in the boat because most of the passengers were killed as there was sleeping on different levels we need to break the boat apart but we don't have the capacity to do more we need help . the vessel went down on sunday province it had left the capital kinshasa and was headed from been dhaka about 700 kilometers up river double up on their lives at the mouth of everything happened so fast as the boat broke up deep in the river

the passengers all panicked inside the boat making the situation worse and the owner couldn't do anything to control the situation the boat was overloaded with passengers and merchandise. it's thought about $700.00 people were on board the boat about half were able to make it ashore the congolese minister for humanitarian affairs stephen byock he says the boat was travelling at night which is against the law he's called for all those responsible to be held accountable but those at the scene say they have more pressing needs. we haven't received any help from authorities to deal with the situation we have bodies under this boat in the river but there's no way to remove them even the local rescue team are asking for money before getting the water to remove the bodies where we get the money from. ship wrecks are frequent here with boats often dilemma dated and overloaded and many passengers unable to swim after 142 people were killed in

a sinking and 29 team president félix just a kid he announced that all on board should wear life jackets but that is routinely ignored. brian al jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories an unknown number of people are feared kidnapped or missing in nigeria after an armed group attacked a school in ny just 8 several wounded students were taken to hospital. defense ministers are holding their 1st meeting since u.s. president joe biden took office are expected to focus on asia as missions in iraq and afghanistan the biden administration is reviewing the peace deal that donald trump made with the taliban that includes with.