we illustrated are we telling a good story will people get what we're trying to clean here in their living outside and make it sound this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we're willing to get in take me into a place that you might not visit otherwise and absolutely feel as if you were there . this is al jazeera. hello i mean this is the al-jazeera news live from london coming up. gunmen attack another school in northern nigeria abducting students stuff and their families more than 200 are missing. the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda goes on trial and could gali accused of terrorism and murder will talk to his daughter.

protesters in myanmar stager broken down car protests in their latest active civil disobedience against the military. and after a year away from the classroom children finally head back to school in argentina. in sport rafael nadal's bits when a 21st grand slam title is over and the dow beats him in 5 sets the australian open lost on the sits a pass for it's. as many as 280 peoples and stuff are thought to be missing after an armed man attacked a school in nigeria and kidnapped a number of people a rescue operation is now underway after the state run school and garro was overrun early on wednesday at least one student was killed and several more wounded in the attack were taken to hospital for treatment president has condemned the mass

abduction while the state's governor ordered the immediate closure of boarding schools so far no group has claimed responsibility but interest has more from the. it's difficult because there are so many numbers going round 1st the government in 1000 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 one 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 these operations the operations conducted by the bandits as the efficiency of call them happen 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 the 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 the students have been rescued. kidnapping is a common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs in nigeria just last month gunmen abducted 8 children and 2 adults from an orphanage in nigeria's capital

abuja they were all freed a week later in december more than $300.00 boys were kidnapped from a secondary school in kind of car in the north although they were released after 6 days baka said it was responsible the group also abducted more than $100.00 girls from a boarding school in the northeastern town of dop sheehan 20185 of the girls died a most of the others were released after a week but it was the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the town of chip balkan 2014 that threw a spotlight on nigeria's security problems it sparked international outrage and a major campaign to bring the girls home but around $100.00 of them are still missing so i'm on holiday is a security analysts and journalists in nigeria he explains why these abductions could be becoming more frequent and nigeria is totally absent absence off look at government administration which has become very difficult for the locals to have and want to run to and not obtain yet as that. day's also

porous border that surrounding most parts of that area if you look at what is happening internationally it like in places like shot in cairo and especially in sabah and cameroon this countries have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long to help push back the bandits and that because of the on man border positions we have seen in niger and lot of people have actually come into the country and they guy sort of head and of course that now the new name for then are bandits. the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in a with terrorism a murder among 9 charges he faces full recess up again a critic of president obama is accused of supporting the armed wing of the wonder movement for democratic change it told the court it can try him as he's no longer

a rwandan citizen but prosecutors say he never renounced his citizenship or sits up again or is credited with saving more than a 1000 lives during the rwandan genocide after hiding people in his home. no good no moon who it is i am here illegally because i was kidnapped when drew on open a case in belgium are renounced my rwandan nationality and i have to be dots elsewhere or curran can him as paul rusesabagina as daughter she joins us now live from brussels over skype thanks for joining us firstly during the dark days of the rwandan genocide your father was very much hailed as a hero now he's in rwanda in handcuffs how do you explain this. yes so after the release of hotel rwanda in 2004 at 1st the president of rwanda talk again made craze the movie he loved the movie and actually offered my father a position within his government and asad a ship minister ships anything that he wanted and that my father has always stood

up for his principles has always been about human rights and about peace refuse those those those positions and instead use his newly gained international platform to continue to advocate for human rights for peace for justice for her reconciliation in advocating for human rights in peace he also had to call out the human rights violations being committed until today by the rwandan government and talk again himself and again we did not like this he's a currently addicted or in rwanda and anybody who speaks up against a dictatorship is it either jailed killed or kidnapped and things are very very serious charges against your father we're talking about murder all armed robbery being a member of a terrorist organization what you expect will be the likely consequence of all of this. so those charges are in fact ludicrous there are that's not who my father is and as a matter of fact they're one in government has tried multiple times to bring about crazy charges against him this started off by by calling him

a genocide denier and an indication that did not fit because he just made a movie about the genocide afterwards they try to say that he was funding rebel groups in the congo there was in 2010 that did not work because the fast by receipts and said that he was in the us when actually and on the dates that they received those western union receipts he was in ireland so that did not get either so it's been for many years that they want to government tries to bring charges against him to smear his names and to make him lose credibility and so what we expect from this there is no perry trial there is no justice if he was kidnapped or a wonder so we do not expect anything from don't want government other than a sham trial and peter like we thought today oh and since your father was arrested twice to actually in dubai and taken on a flight to rwanda. could you give us a sense of what you and the rest of the family were able to glean specifically about that rest and also where he is now have you been able to talk to him for instance. yeah he wasn't arrested in dubai he was kidnapped in dubai and taken to

rwanda ports the elite where he was then held in and tied in unknown location pertwee days where he was his hands were tied his legs were tight and he was blindfolded and mind you can see 70 almost 70 year old men and and so that sense to actually the international definition of torture he still he was tortured for those 3 days taken to the hospital afterwards at 3 different instances in the run the government refuses to give us the details of those hospital visits last time we spoke with him with meet with them every friday for only 5 minutes during those 5 minutes he sounds like that there are authorities behind him around him keeping him from saying anything that is meaningful or for us to say anything that's meaningful and when we do start sharing valuable information somehow the phone cuts off so they are trying to prevent him from the only having a defense and defending himself but also communicating from his for his family you know what you know what we're actually looking at pictures of your father receiving

an award from george w. bush he clearly has very strong friends in various different places in the world what are you hearing from those who have praised him for his human rights work for instance. exactly so he's done so much work and he's been awarded by various and various organizations and he burst all the year at the u.s. congress and just yesterday released a letter that they sent to cock again me asking him to release him immediately and unconditionally calling to question the u.s. and rwandan relations this talent to endure on the government or on the president that he is that the us the rwandan relations are at risk if they do not release my father cull out the reputation of rwanda that is at risk if they continue to stand trial in addition to that if the european union the parliament of europe collectively condemned talk again last week for the kidnapping of my father for him keeping him incommunicado and torturing him for various days and so we are hoping for more and more international pressure and essentially sanctions it will be the

next step the economic sanctions and much more and much more if it gets to this from a public park again into release and this isn't a violation kidnapping my father without extradition without legal procedures is a violation of international law and violation of the treaties were want to signed internationally. careen condemned daughter of porousness up again i thank you very much for that and just to we've also heard from the united states that are urging the rwandan author of to. release. to ensure that he is held that any kind of trial that takes place happens in a fair and transparent way that in the last half an hour say. coming up on this news hour from london. orderings of unimaginable consequences if the fighters continue to advance on an area of yemen that was

a sanctuary for people escaping the war. a huge winter storm sweeping across the southern united states kills more than 20 and leaves millions without power in texas. and in sport we'll hear from the 2 time olympic champion who says japan will need luck on its side if the games are to take place. protesters in myanmar are keeping up the pressure on the military to release their ousted civilian leader the people in the country's largest city young created traffic chaos to get their message across reports. god 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 super 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 not to military 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 dishonored us so they can file one more shot against her to sister reason we 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 1st of all who have 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 and all by well i mean people are in trouble the economy is descending into darkness people cannot sleep at night can't even eat and are getting threatened but there are people across generations. you have no fear now that is why we have to oppose 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. al-jazeera. only 10 countries have administered to 75 percent of all coronavirus vaccinations and hundreds of millions of people are being left behind that's according to the head of the un who has called on wealthy nations to help kick start a global vaccination plan a 10 year caetera says cove at 19 will keep mutating if it's allowed to spread in poor countries and conflict conflict zones al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bays reports. refugees being vaccinated for coded 19 in the tree camp in jordan but this the u.n. secretary general told a meeting of the security council is the exception rather than the norm progress on vaccination as has been widely and even and fans just can't countries emmet

minister did 75 percent of all 19 vaccines meanwhile more than 170 countries and not received a single goal. and those affected by conflict and insecurity are at particular risk of being left behind the current president of the council the u.k. is proposing a new resolution calling for cease fires in conflicts around the world so that vaccines can be administered and by calling for vaccination seized by calling 1000 act nation plans to include all high risk populations including refugees in this resolution and this council really has an opportunity to. help get back into distributed to the most vulnerable communities across the both the state councilor of china and the u.s. secretary of state took part in the meeting both stressed the need for global solidarity even though there's still real tension between the 2 nations this

perhaps an indication that it won't further stall global efforts on covert 19 the un secretary general is now calling for a global vaccination plan he believes the g 20 is the best body to finance this and he's calling on the cheese 7 leaders who meet on friday to kick start this process james bays al-jazeera at the united nations or south africa has become the 1st country in the world to roll out tens of thousands of covert magazine vaccines from johnson and johnson as part of a study to establish how well the jab works even the president has taken part getting vaccinated live on television for me to miller has more from johannesburg. hours after the arrival of 80000 doses of the johnson and johnson covert 1000 vaccine some africa's president still ram a porsche was one of the 1st to get the job the government says it wants to allay

fears. is that he represents a real growth for us and south africans are finally the road scenes here and there are a menace. or the problem is that you are far. ahead of this consignment is one of 4 expected in the coming weeks the government says it plans to administer up to half a 1000000 of the single dose vaccines as part of a study mainly targeting health care workers for south africa's board 7000000 more doses for use later in the year at this vaccine sentence a waiter 28 health care workers have registered for their shots and if any care workers in the covert 1000 ward at the chris hani barak or another hospital in the whole world has been troubled by this disease and i see the disease and then the little village is literally so this is just those that are in there i don't know action the johnson and johnson job has shown it's almost 60 percent effective

against moderate to severe illness caused by a new more contagious variant identified in south africa while it's not yet been approved elsewhere south africa's health products regulator authority has allowed its use for research but many people including in the health service remain skeptical the reality is that there's very different levels of understanding is obviously a lot of fear associated with the vaccine because of the confusion with the initial one being approved and then moving on to another bechstein so staff have been very confused inferi south africa suspended its planned rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine a local study had shown it didn't provide enough for to. action against the new variant once health and essential workers and of honorable vaccinated the rollout is expected to be extended to the general public and getting everyone on board is where the government may face its greatest challenge it hopes to vaccinate 2 thirds

of the population with about 40000000 doses of vaccine to achieve the so-called herd immunity but it may be many months before south africa manages to reach their target for me al-jazeera. japan has kicked off its covert 19 vaccination drive just a few months before it's supposed to host the tokyo olympics around 40000 medical workers are being vaccinated in the 1st phase followed by senior citizens japan has recorded more than $7000.00 deaths from coronavirus so far far lower than most other major economies but the fate of the olympics and the billions of dollars at stake has made its vaccination campaign even more crucial around 80 percent of people in surveys have said that they don't want the games to be held this year. the 1st vaccines have arrived in garza after israel approved the shipment 2000 doses of the russian made sputnik v. jabs we're jew to be delivered on cheese day but were delayed by the israeli

authorities israel has been heavily criticized for excluding gaza and the occupied territories from its rapid vaccine rollout there have been almost 170000 infections and 2000 deaths in the palestinian territories howry 4 cities in west jerusalem and says the shipment is welcome but won't make much of a difference yet israelis have said that it was a technical issue they didn't specify exactly what the hold up 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 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 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 so far israel is pledged $5000.00 vaccines rushers donated $10000.00 the international kovacs scheme of donor countries giving vaccines to vulnerable and pull 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 territories. and israel is totally out of bounds as room has more than $4000000.00 of its population and the palestinians have only got a few 1000 vaccine so far a group of british volunteers will be the 1st to be deliberately exposed to the

corona virus as part of a scientific trial 90 people between the ages of $18.30 will be paid more than $6000.00 to be given a few drops of the virus and then knows they'll then be observed in a controlled environment for more than 2 weeks the study will start next month it's hoped the findings will help scientists better understand the effects of covert 19 which on the whole is outside the london hospital where the trials will take place he explains how the study will develop understanding of the virus. this is the setting for human challenge trials on code 19 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 though 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 when they've 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 of tomorrow this is a program that will help the world to live with covert 19. after a year away from the classroom because of the pandemic children in argentina are finally returning to school classes have restarted for thousands of students in other provinces new strict hygiene rules are now in place the reopening will be gradual of 1st initially around a 3rd of people who were returned to in person learning. describes the excited scenes as some students returned to the classroom in the capital. the school year starts in march and runs through december here in argentina so really the school year started as the pandemic hit this country last year so a whole school year was missed we haven't seen those children being walked to school with their parents they were little kind of white coats like doctors or dentists so it's quite a sight seeing the children walking along the streets holding their parents hands the excitement and seeing it this morning for the 1st time in

a year it was it was quite a sight it was like a little return to normality and you could almost sense the excitement the trepidation all those things you get on the 1st day back at school after the long summer break but exaggerated because they've been away for a year with as you mentioned all the hygiene protocols in place disinfected mats that people walk into before they get into the into the school building temperatures being taken everybody wearing masks as much distance as can be maintained between the teachers and the students say yes back to school but not quite everybody is going to be a slow process as we wait and see how this pans out over the next few days and weeks there's lots more still to come this hour. i'm elizabeth branham in the indian himalayans when veyron mentalists a large scale infrastructure projects a threatening the ecologically fragile region. days after the lympics chief is forced to quit over sexist remarks japan's ruling party invites more women to its

meetings but only if they don't talk. and in sports the way teams are to win gold at the world ski championships and he's here with that story. here's some known wintry weather for you result of the winds come across the atlantic whipped up the foam hit the south coast of ireland size just seafoam it is not snow we've been we've been so used to in fact that's just part of the system 3 of melbourne running in through western europe and lift me temperatures quite substantially now bring wind and rains more to come during thursday the not substantially so it's just more like standard weather now but as a blockage of how far this warm sun is warmth really can go it's sort of held up against poland to the east a pony or the cold remains that stubborn and as it's come down over the black sea

it's produced a lot of snow for greece and turkey recently add also it's carried on going through the ages and through the measured into was that coast of libya this is called green mountain this probably a mountain there for there hasn't snowed here for 15 years so this is just the last bit of fun and it stopped snowing now in fact it's largely stopped raining that's true for no major the breeze is lighting on $38.00 still on shore breeze full passed in territories right up to probably lebanon and the showers will keep going they might even be enhanced on friday so you've got snow more likely in lebanese manton's further south to go down hearts and even across into parts of syria. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be about ideas they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the collings for the bloated defense budget to be trying to

possum line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world on al-jazeera it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought.

the mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least $280.00 peoples and staff are thought to be missing after a man kidnapped people from a school in nigeria at least one student was killed and several more were wounded in the attack. the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in kigali charged with terrorism and murder paul rusesabagina who's a critic of president told the court to try him as he's no longer a rwandan citizen. testers angry about the coup in myanmar have kept up the pressure on the military causing traffic chaos in young gone by pretending that cars are broken down elsewhere security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters. let's bring you more on our top story now allen is an activist to work on the bring back our girls campaign and is also directly

affected by that incident a large section of his family niecy is another relatives were among the girls kidnapped from chibok in 2014 he joins me now by skype from could do an estate in nigeria thank you for joining us firstly as somebody who's been so clearly directly impacted by abductions what do you make of this latest attack. one is lee it is so disturbing for you 5 in the next one month and a few weeks to go it will be $78.00 and well we are still waiting. for your risk you obviously remain in 100. 12 jubal guess. what happened when $300.00 trees could end and now. i may just get we stood in and suddenly we lost one already. in the 1st place after so many years of

close to 7 years of that your company every necessary steps will cost to have been put in place for she. never to have been again but right now it's so unfortunate that. it's happening again and again which means the nigerian city is allowed to no reason to define force. force intrude into begin to choose between going to school and staying alive which is very unfortunate a point like these. 2 systems. in 2014 of course there was a huge amount of international outrage about that abduction and pressure is still mounting on the nigerian off to bring those guilty of the abduction to justice and to release those that are still being held but why is this still happening despite

all of the international attention surrounding that case. it's still happening because d.d. needed stands the needed actions in the name she has did supposed to be taking us there to book has not been put in place because. the decision has not been brought to closure does that cause the abduction her not to be identified and book to book due cause if you or you wanted or is not going to spend it because we still have doubts when i look at. camino in india not central and in a not not western part of the country and the fact that i didn't know. the only b. and it was his own idea when you've been here before. around some bit before the leasehold the abducted then the i get an important to do to do more so what is

inspected all of this that and yesterday especially we did a loud. voices commune from the global community on what countries where in the us is 90 days in a stamping out terrorism you know supposed to have. taken advantage of that i'm sure that every every forest every hand in place for terrorists in this country is comment. on each one of the reports and then they got the government to have suggested this as an amnesty for those carrying out the kidnappings presumably to hand over their weapons and leave these groups responsible for the kidnappings do you think that that sort of approach would work. it to load the war because you see if we do bow out on when to mutiny created disinfo you don't how many of them surrender how many of them believe how billeted intercepted but do you or are you still on the up not tear down the only point source if communities are still good you know we are still having new entrants into the id becomes even concede that

have you said the last still being. displaced again that means do or you stand on so issue or create a seal or do you mean i missed it the any terrorist does not what to expect it is to indians fire the media while. d. d. d. d. d. non candidate is being put in place that going to war but. looking at that issue or around songs issue of compensation to food issue or honesty right now does not arise because we still lost thousands of people are still displaced many not if not millions i think because i feel full we nigerians what we have is spent in east those sort and or doesn't understand they don't need to be kept on deal when do what is on to when it is satisfied that he is going to be decisive for people to resettle then the issue of the habitation i miss you can be consider what right now

it's about any of it for now about misty is forgetting one community to kill on sight again soon and yes it came on. my jury and activists with all the information of the latest abduction took place there in nigeria thank you very much for your insight. libyans have been marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled the country's longtime leader moammar gadhafi crowds gathered in martyrs' square in tripoli and also in the country 2nd largest city benghazi the revolution sparked fighting between gadhafi forces and rebels who eventually captured and killed him earlier this month the rival factions who've spent the last decade fighting each other agree to form an interim unity government the u.n. says an offensive by yemen's hooty rebels to take the northern city of mari threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of people there who teams are being urged to return to international negotiations amid concerns the world's worst

humanitarian crisis could grow victoria gate and the reports. aid workers comp put tents up quickly enough at this newly created camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of. fear is this oil rich area was a refuge for people escaping the fighting in other parts of yemen but the heat these are now trying to seize the city the internationally recognized government's last stronghold in the north there are $125.00 i.d.p. camps around in recent days 4 have come under attack. i was displaced and. camp 5 years ago it was very basic there and suddenly there was a hoodie attack and real left everything behind and came here. we were displaced from on the run we were in hours or come for 4 years but due to the fighting in various attacks we moved to a camp in merit. the u.n.

says an assault on the city would force hundreds of thousands of people to leave aid workers who are already struggling to cope say they aren't prepared for a large influx of new arrivals. over the past 2 days we've received many displaced people who were forced to leave camps including else who are hundreds have arrived here some stayed others were moved to different camps they are staying in the open air under the open sky and as you can see they lack basic essentials. the united states has called on the these to stop their advances. and washington special envoy to yemen says he is easing back channels to get the to return to international negotiations. these have accused the yemeni government of being the aggressors if diplomacy fails the u.n. is warning of unimaginable humanitarian consequences victoria gates and be al jazeera. a winter storm has hit middle eastern countries along the mediterranean

disrupting traffic and halting covert 19 vaccinations heavy snowfall has blanketed the syrian capital and several neighboring provinces roads are blocked and the university is the of damascus has postponed examinations lebanon and israel have also been hits while jordan has had to suspend its covert 19 vaccination drive an arctic blast continues to cripple parts of the southern united states at least $21.00 people have died in the once in a generation storm which has left millions without power and 3 quarters of the country blanketed in snow texas is among the hardest hit states with warnings of worse to come and they've got to get reports. snow and ice a wreaking havoc from ohio to the rio grande with much of the u.s. now gripped by severe winter storms the states of louisiana missouri kentucky and texas of all reported deaths amid historic freezing temperatures in north carolina

and georgia storms brought tornadoes across the rest of the nation millions are without power as rolling blackouts continue this is this is the sense that if there's a worst we're better and i'm going to do some planning after all this is over and make sure there's an alternative source of energy in texas is bearing the brunt of the arctic chill with power outages forcing people to use warming centers families desperate to keep warm have taken to lighting fires in sugarland texas authorities believe that's what killed a grandmother and her 3 grandchildren just incredibly tragic young woman 41 years old. family children it just doesn't get worse the seniors to a struggling as care homes run short on medical essential slog oxygen for those already concerned about their parents amid the code crisis it's a worrying time if we weren't here i can't imagine. because there's really not

a lot of information flow the rolling blackouts in texas have led to criticisms over the state of existing power grids many residents of calling for alternative sources of power others say that's a conversation for another time this week we have to get warned i mean people are losing homes they're losing food they're i mean seen absurd people have died so it's like we should concentrate on that 1st and maybe figure out the solution next week so it doesn't happen again the severe weather is hampering efforts to get people vaccinated for covert 19 forecasters say another extreme cold front will affect south and central parts of the u.s. in the days ahead and a gallica al-jazeera. the. head of nato says the military alliance will only leave afghanistan when security conditions improve warning that the taliban must reduce violence 1st the afghan conflict is top of the agenda at the 2 day summit between nato defense ministers their 1st meeting since joe biden became u.s. president he has until the 1st of may to decide whether american troops will stay

in the country is pretty decisive donald trump made a deal with the taliban to pull out soldiers but there are questions over whether the taliban is sticking to its promises. we will only leave and the time is right and the focus now is how can we support the peace efforts the peace talks and the re and the joyous. relaunch new strength and new momentum in the peace talks because that's the only pol for peace i think the main main issue is that coliban has to do so violence taliban has to negotiate in good faith and all of one has to break all ties has to. stop supporting international terrorist groups like al qaeda 3 north korean computer programmers have been charged with trying to steal more than $1300000000.00 in the united states the u.s. department of justice accuses them of targeting banks to hollywood movie studios in

revenge for a film depicting kim jung un successor nation investigators believe the hacking attempts took place while the 3 were working for north korean military intelligence . lawmakers in the u.s. state of south carolina have overwhelmingly passed a bill that bans nearly all abortions the governor has vowed to sign it so after another procedural vote in the states house of representatives on thursday but groups that oppose the bill will likely sue keeping it from going into effect under the proposal doctors will have to check for a heartbeat in the fetus if one is detected an abortion will only a bill be allowed if the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest or if the mother's life is in danger about a dozen other states have passed similar bans which could take effect if the u.s. supreme court overturns a landmark 973 decision that supports abortion rights. a bank executive who tried to run for president of balor russa's gone on trial on what 'd he says are

politically motivated charges vick to. faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty of corruption he was seen as a major challengers of president alexander look at shane cowen last august election until his arrest in june which blocked him from running look at enco went on to secure a 6 term in power result which has led to months of mass protests flooding disaster in northern india is raising new concerns about the impact of large infrastructure projects in the himalayan mountains at least 58 people were killed and almost 150 s. still missing after part of a glassy a collapse and as elizabeth purana reports from our current state human activity could make it happen again. the himalayas the highest mountain range in the world renowned for its majestic cliffs and breathtaking beauty but it's now under threat as 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 and an estimated 150 people a still missing. environmental activists say they've fought 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 the ramadi 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 weakened. how those. cracks in the sections of villages that big. and those really live in that any time the houses in the bill. 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 while

carrying on with development we also share a border with china and some see it all shouldn't be built the more it will happen . but environmentalist say the balance is tipping too heavily in favor of development one 3rd of the himalayas glitzy is 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 europe's most active volcano has blanketed a sicilian village in a coat of wound at merck has spewed lover ashes and stones on the italian island residents were left to sweep up the rocks covering their homes and streets witnesses say the aftermath from these latest eruptions is unlike anything they've experienced before yet even legally the little. yesterday at around 5 pm we were in the kitchen we heard a noise that sounded like rain instead look at the result it was raining starnes

something i've never seen in my entire life fear of appearing with you and unfortunately hampered we are experiencing an extraordinary situation then for an emergency the suffering sever destruction is due to yesterday's eruption the entire tired put our and all the streets are covered in volcanic ash is and stones hundreds of people have protested in spain for a 2nd night calling for police to release cattle are. demonstrators marched in barcelona and madrid some starting fires in the streets or so was arrested on choose day when police stormed the university building he barricaded himself in he was trying to avoid a 9 month jail sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy in his songs his supporters say his jailing is an attack on free speech. japan's ruling party says it wants more women to attend key meetings so they usually dominated by men but only if they don't talk this days after the head of the olympics resigned

for saying women talk too much in meetings. the liberal democratic party which has been in power for most of the time since 955 has proposed allowing 5 female lawmakers to join its board meetings as observers only 2 of the board's 12 members are women but the observers won't be allowed to speak during the meetings and can only submit their opinions later. and that hasn't gone down well with women in japan and as you and i say different i think the united i think people in japan are finally aware of the problem 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 in i.e. not there are a must that 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 still have this news.

and sport of the day of upsets of the australian open as the home favorites a world cup a warm soft as a shock defeat plus. but again for this casino he used to own what's now a pile of rubble. welcome

back as promised his and they with all the sport. thank you so much navel rafael nadal's bits when it's 21st grand slam title is over and i was been knocked out of

the australian open by stephanus it's a pass of grace and it wasn't the only upset in melbourne a cellmark reports. it's been a day of shocks at the australian open rafael nadal looked to be on course for the semifinals taking the 1st 2 sets as he faced 5th seed stefana stood to pass the greek however with stage one of the fight banks of the tournament gets a pass pulled one set back via tie break before winning the 4th 64 to level things that 2 sets all. and then after more than 4 hours on court to the 22 year old pulled off the unthinkable winning the decider $75.00 to book a showdown with danny medvedev in the last 4. city i'm speechless have no words to describe where it just happened on board. my tennis because of herself . danielle medvedev booked his spot in the men's semi's with

a straight sets victory over russian compadre it on live. medvedev has never won a major before but he's looking an ominous form the 25 year old who's only been taken beyond 3 sets once this year's tournament. women's world number one australia's ashley barty is probably asking herself how things went so horribly wrong in melbourne having won the 1st set against 25th seed carolyn 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 timeout to during the sit. party looked a shadow over the player that dominated early on she finished with $37.00 unforced errors losing the decide to $62.00 to crash out of her home grand slam the sun will

come out tomorrow where we go back to work again you're either winning or you're learning and i think today is a massive learning curve for may 22nd seed jennifer brady is into the last 4 after 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 fans as melbourne's coronavirus lockdown is set to be over by then so will malik al-jazeera. now and bigger organizers say the roll outs of the coveted 19 vaccine in japan is another positive sign. and the games will take place later this year much of the japanese public remain skeptical about hosting the event 80 percent of those polled in a recent survey were in favor of cancellation or another perspire mintz the international olympic committee still hoping many athletes will have been vaccinated by the time the game starts in july we have asked the national limpy committees to look at the situation in their countries to approach there are

relevant or 3 season while obviously respecting fully the order of priority that are established by the governments but to ensure that there is an information whether the delegations could be part of vaccination prior to the games or not or 2 time olympic triathlon champion alister brown is hoping to get one last shot at winning a medal at the games the 32 year old briton i says organizers will need some fortunes to go their way if these olympics are to go ahead as planned i don't think it be right to call it off now you know i think. we're not in operatives in tokyo doing absolutely right they may have to well when eyes like it's on and keep going keep going in yet hopefully you know hopefully they've got they're going to have a bit of a look but i guess what i'm saying is unfortunately there is a little bit look at meriton that they need the head coach of the england cricket same as apologize to all around

a moan ali after his departure from the tour of india is to miss the final success of the series and in interviews given on cheese they suggested he chosen to leave england they were giving many of their players spells at home to give them a break from the bio secure bubbles that have been brought in from minimise the risk of coronavirus that series now level out want one. it was a unique situation with one fact that it's been so long in isolation not a tour of it or trying to and i had just broken back into that same. question was posed you know and so we would try and work as close as we can. c measure their best experiences as well as looking after them. so it was asked but ultimately we thought it was a robinson principle. south african batsman 50 pussy is retired from test cricket the 36 year old former captain says he wants to focus his attention on t 20 s. with the world cup coming up lights are up this year. i know i have won my 1st ever mixed same title at the alpine world ski championships this event features. 2 men

and say women with no white beating sweden in the final. will consult on winning the decisive rice at the events in italy individual races will resume on thursday with the women's giant slalom. ok that is i suppose looking for now let's get back to nave in london thank you very much and do you know something interesting to leave you with because another part of the trouble empire has come crashing down although this time it's not political. days after the former president's 2nd impeachment trial one of his derelict casinos has been demolished the real estate magnate opened the olympic city resort in 1804 and it's a day movie stars athletes of rock stars used to party there but he lost control of the trump plaza casino 3 bankruptcy in 2009 and closed in 2046 from

a back shortly. with a nice ancient forests some of europe's most pristine they are crucial for suicide . a crucial fall battle against a climate crisis but illegal logging by a ruthless to the mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives being in the main areas are what are. violence killing was a rolls amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals people

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al-jazeera. and. write. downs. gunman attack another school in the war the nigeria abducting students staff and their families all the 200 are missing. this is out to syria live from london also coming up the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda goes on trial in kigali accused of terrorism and murder we'll talk to his daughter.