because of a minister of keenest. and european judge tasked with imposing a new order and the trial testing the nose of a newly formed nation. highway on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a damn this is the news hour live from the hour coming up in the next 60 minutes african nation step up coronavirus banks in rollouts the raf is the south african variant could derail efforts to control the pandemic. their fates are now in the rescue operations underway in nigeria to free hundreds of kidnapped

students. facebook blocks a stray news feed says it goes to war with the government which wants to take giant to pay for content. i. want to anger on the streets of main mar against the matrix spined fears of a violent crackdown. and on time hummus with all the sporting cubing. serino williams's bed for a record equalling 24th a grand slam title has ended the american was knocked out of the australian open by world number 3 now we also. now let's begin with the corona virus pandemic and growing alarm about the impact across africa the world health organization is increasingly concerned about a 2nd wave driven by the south african variant that as several countries begin their. first vaccine rollouts zimbabwe is the latest using the sin of jab that

china has distributed to several african countries the south african strain is now thought to be dominant there were also concerns about the chinese vaccines efficacies after a study found it produced a weaker immune response against the mutation and earlier this month of course south africa discontinued that astra zeneca jab saying it provided inadequate for texan with its now begun administering the johnson and johnson vaccine on how to metacity joins us now live from zimbabwe's capital harare so this phase haro is voluntary how are people taking to it. well the minister of health constantino chewing go was a vaccinated for this process the 1st phase of the one for about 10 days throughout the country health workers are also going to be vaccinated most of them work in

public hospitals where he complained for years of a lack of t.p.s. for example not enough gloves and masks and some of them are saying that they hope being vaccinated will protect them against covert 19 later you see the police soldiers immigration staff coming to get vaccinated then the elderly people with underlying conditions and in the rest of the population the government says it's bought an additional $600000.00 vaccines from china those are states in the country early march they also speaking to countries such as russia and india to pursue more vaccines it trying to also get vaccines from the kovacs ability that's being coordinated by the world health organization and the global vaccine alliance the aim is to vaccinate at least $10000000.00 people by the end of the year that 60 percent of the population are the government told zimbabweans on tuesday that this variant that was 1st identified in south africa is now in zimbabwe so people are now asking how effective it is sexy in from china ran

a farm going to be against this new variant some people asking questions such as they feel that the chinese vaccine as a vaccine to the market would just produce too quickly they want to know what exactly is in these vaccines and are there any side of things and in fact people are buying into the conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines for example some are saying that they believe these vaccines of course interest in fertility some are saying that they're seeing things brought to africa for city goes on to be given free to people on the continent are maybe going to be used to wipe out black people in africa so all those things are playing out as a foreign government has paid this like scene from china find a farm to say it's safe to say will soon be approved for emergency use in zimbabwe and they stress that this process is a voluntary norm to be forced to get vaccinated. thanks so much harm with us. now a rescue operation is underway in nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped students possibly

several 100 of them it's been confirmed that one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run schools and tangata adamant entries joins us live from abu just so where does the rescue operation stand at this hour. well it's still strut shrouded in secrecy sammy the government yesterday announced a plan or an order by president mohamed behati to all the military chiefs and the police to immediately set to rescue these children and we understand that that operation started since yesterday but they were concerned since yesterday stymie about possible casualties on the side of the students if the military ends up strolling the camp where the children are being found we only only understood that the security services of people into the location where these bandage while holding the students but the few is if the military goes ahead to launch an attack on that

camp it probably could lead to the deaths of innocent people innocent students who are victims of this unfortunate incident meanwhile in calgary itself attention is now focusing on those who have escaped they could never attempt being up operations there including our services as well as the security security of lives and property within town. at the hospital and got up doc to send nurses st when distance and teaches and at the get a science college concerned parents gather for news. elsley in town security is stepped up just as the state government ordered the closure of schools in those areas prone to attacks schools saying creasing be targeted as they offer an opportunity to take many students hostage in nigeria this totally absent absence

of look at government administration which has become very difficult for the locals to have anyone to run to another train yet as that there is also. the border surrounding most parts of that area if you look at what is happening internationally and like in places like chart in kind our own especially in sovereign cameroon this countries have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long this is the 2nd mages could keep happening in us many months . in december last year gunmen stormed a school and abducted hundreds of students in president behind his home state of cuts and it. was 6 years before that in 2014 in a case that made headlines around the world more than 270 goes last snatched from a schoolteacher book at least 100 are still unaccounted for the armed group claimed

responsibility. and 4 years after that in neighboring state the group took more than 100 students from a school in dept kidnapping for ransom is no big business in nigeria from the north down to the country south hundreds of nigerians are kidnapped every week for ransom and despite military offensives against what officials the accord bandits the problem continues to grow on monday 18 passengers were seized while traveling in a bus. not far from where the latest kidnapping took place 8 have since managed to secure their freedom although there are no official statistics it's estimated $20000000.00 was paid in ransom money 2020 to kidnappers and this in a country africa's largest economy while properties on the increase. now the question is whether or not the government is holding negotiations with the

bandits who have kidnapped these students that are concerns actually about the possible negotiations any other nic any negotiations with these bandits and many nigerians feel that these negotiations are helping to embolden these band is to carry out more attacks remember brooke was around there were reports that the government paid run some for the release of people goes and some other victims of peace victims who have been kidnapped by boko haram that she was another story and even can get out that happened 2 months ago in december last year they want to ports that he shows me how fayed run some money to these bundy's that have that they have used again to arm themselves and to prepare for more attacks on such vulnerable institutions like schools where young students are being kept in boarding schools so that our concerns and many i didn't actually have been watching helplessly as the incidents or happenings in northwest nigeria why the bunny treat is widespread and kidnappings have been on for

a long time they watched helplessly as these incidents continue to move all spread to other parts of nigeria so a lot of people are worried and concerned that if the government doesn't take drastic action and quickly so this things could get out of and very very quickly sami thank you so much did raise that. now plenty more still ahead on the news hour including an arctic blast hits the u.s. millions of people are without power and water and it could be days before the storm passes it. will be a mom it's been a dramatic rise in the number of ships abandoned and running with crews poor. in no way teams out to win gold the world ski championships here the story. now in may in march thousands of demonstrators are bank on the streets today after

some of the biggest rallies yet they're protesting for a 13th straight day calling for the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi. has issued arrest warrants for 6 celebrities from the protests close to 500 people have been detained the united nations is warning of a possible violent crackdown after reports of soldiers being moved into young gone . scott joins us live from the thai capital bangkok now and scott how worried are protesters about those reports of a possible violent crackdown ahead. well semi if they're concerned about it they're not showing it because they are still coming out to the streets in the thousands and yes in union gone the largest city in myanmar we've been seeing them flow out like we did over the last several days but also the nature of the capital and mandalay the 2nd largest city in myanmar but also what's interesting is it's in other areas as well you know those are the kind

of the areas the cities i should say we focus on because that's where most of the people come out that's were kind of the high profile venues are out in front of embassies in yangon and then in front of the seat of government in april but it's interesting we've also been hearing and seeing pictures and images from protesters gathering in the south by an area that is known for that has a lot of international interests when it comes to gas pipelines so people have gone down there and protested outside of the complexes for these companies these international companies because what the protest movement is also folding into their initiative that is to go after companies that have vested interest investments and interests with the military government in myanmar so they've gone to these complexes and protested out front trying to encourage these companies to not do business with the new military government semi so yes they're not afraid of these new warnings in these new concerns are still coming out in many different

ways the still coming out and the still the civil disobedience campaign is that a toll beginning to bite and shut down the country. it is when you look at yangon it's interesting what they've done over the last 2 days wednesday and today and thursday they had this broken car campaign where people drove into the center part of yangon main arteries and just pretended their car was broken and just parked in the middle of the street that it worked yesterday and then there they had a big protest after that and then they did that again today but it sounds as though police and officials are making them start their cars and what they did after that is they just drove very very slowly so they're still disrupting the flow of traffic but it's not just that they are still protesting in front of government buildings in front of businesses calling for strikes and employee and worker groups are hearing that call and are not go and they are preventing you know the work to go normally in businesses and in government entities one area that they've been

focusing on the protesters in yangon is the central bank and they've really been able to close that down at least yesterday wednesday today they're probably going to try to go back out and do it again but yes they have been successful in that when you look at the capital that might be a little bit more difficult because of the way it's laid out but yes when you look at yang on the commercial capital with the embassies and with a lot of the government entities having offices there yes they've been to able to really disrupt. daily life there thank you so much scott hyla. cambodia's government has unveiled plans to set up an online file wall similar to one used by china to control the monitor internet traffic officials say they want to maintain social order and protect national security critics say democratic freedoms will be violated by minister hun sen's government has stepped up a crackdown on this and in recent years it's banned the main opposition party and

arrested dozens of members. facebook has stopped users in australia from viewing or sharing news on its platform the blackout is in response to a proposed law that would make tech giants facebook and google pay for a publishing and sharing news content show about us reports this trailer wants to regulate facebook in return it's got a news blackout facebook scrubbed its news feed wiping information from health pages government agencies welfare networks and with the warnings the government wants to bring in a law that forces facebook and google to pay media outlets when they re publish their content google has conceded signing deals with several media outlets but facebook has not facebook was wrong facebook. sections were unnecessary fareway heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia

facebook announced the move on its blog saying astray misunderstands the relationship between itself and publishes it says publishers willingly choose to post news on facebook to sell more subscriptions grow their audiences and increase advertising revenue it is to make generated more than $5000000000.00 free referrals to a straight line publishes with an estimated 315000000 dollars last year the government and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg talked again on thursday the principle is very clear way going on facebook are important parts of the digital eco system in australia they're important part of the economy we've made it clear that we want them to continue operating here but we've also made it clear that if you do business in australia you need to comply with the law of the industry many in the media agree arguing tech giants must pay for the journalism they re publish because news organizations use whatever platform i can to share their content problem is that what this is

meant is google and facebook now tiger woods share of advertising revenue which makes it very difficult for media companies boy the journalists our members need to hold any news human rights watch also condemn the move saying facebook has cut off more than the media they were all strains of the ones caught in the middle here because last this floor is saying that years companies there are a whole range of community organizations have been affected astray or has given google and facebook 2 options strike deals with media companies or have fees sit for them but facebook has decided on a 3rd take away its news feed altogether shallop bellus al-jazeera. now for more on this we're joined by mark and that edge in melbourne he's a professor who specializes in digital media at monash university good to have you with us given how much people particularly the youth rely on platforms like

facebook for their news how disruptive will this be. and it's been quite disruptive already and it's worth pointing out that facebook has to find news very expensively and it's shut down so you know the bargaining code that australia has is considering passing focuses on large news outlets whereas we've had all outlets that can spot simply be construed as sharing some kind of news related information shutdown for example monash university's facebook page has been stripped of content this is a public institution that has a facebook page to communicate you know with its students and constituents this wouldn't be considered the type of news that would be seeking monetization through facebook and yet it's been shut down and that's happens to all kinds of public service organizations so the bureau of metering meteorology that provides the weather reports has been shut down these are not organisations that have been

making the push to get to share their revenues and yet they're feeling the brunt of the shutdown so that's to me like it's designed to be a particular shooter to measure is part of facebook's bargaining strategy or and so if this is facebook playing hardball who's going to blink 1st do you think. it's hard to predict i think the government is bolstered the australian government is bolstered by the fact that your google has already agreed to do some negotiating and to pay to some major news outlets so it looks like you know they've they've had a coup there and that might strengthen their resolve they're also you know. have a strong alliance when they publishers in australia who are pushing for these revenues now google's probably the lion's share of the revenues so you know facebook is a little bit smaller in terms of the amount of revenues that we might be talking about but it looks like the government is pretty strong in its resolve and might be

willing to stare down facebook for 'd a while i don't think there's strong public support for facebook around this you know recent years have changed the way that we see platform media and particular facebook when we think about the forms of surveillance they engage in when we look at the forms of misinformation that they spread when we look at the role that they have played in. if we think of you know the spread of it misinformation around breck's it the use of ad targeting around it in the us political campaign but you know i'm not sure facebook has the type of public image where people are going to rally around it having said that people do use it you know it is it is a useful utility for them to share information and to find out information and that will take a toll or i wonder where the truth lies do platforms like facebook get free revenue income tend all do they provide more revenue to new sites by referrals.

this is really a battle between major industries so you know they do both in a sense they do make money off of the content facebook and google and other platforms are primarily not content providers they make their money off of other people's content. but they provide a valuable service the curate that content they organize it forest it would be very hard to navigate without that so they do provide a valuable service but they do are also rely on content provided by others i think it highlights a kind of fundamental contradiction around the commercialisation of the internet which was structured from its inception as a publicly supported means of communication and information sharing the rise of the platform economy has attempted to commercialize that and what we see now is the contradiction around the notion that in from the internet as a place for kind of free sharing of information that these companies used to make money there i go ok free sharing of information will do that information and will

make money off of that and now the other media organizations who find the commercial ones in particular find their business model undermined they want to claw back a piece so it's really a power struggle i would add i think that the model of the internet actually lends itself much more to public service model of media then to a commercial model if you think about the a.b.c. in australia for example our public service broadcaster you know the public pays for that content to be produced and once it's distributed that's just more benefit for the public it's getting wider circulation so everything that facebook does actually benefits the public service model commercial organizations see all the additional exposure that facebook might get off of their content as potentially lost rights because that's. all right thank you so much and that i have a huge pleasure to talk to our rupert murdoch's news corp has struck a 3 a partnership with google to develop

a shed platform to provide what it calls trusted journalism news corp said it would be sharing it stories in exchange for significant payments murdoch has long called on google and other internet platforms to pay media companies for their output. jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy liars again been denied bail has been accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's national security law ly is the most high profile person among more than 100 people arrested under the new legislation the 73 year old will remain in custody until his trial is heard adrian brown has more from hong kong. but judge hearing jimmy lies bail application decided not to lift reporting restrictions saying that to do so might affect the integrity of the trial now jimmy lie as we know is the most high profile of the

pro-democracy figures here in hong kong to have been charged under the national security law in total $96.00 people have so far been charged under that law since it was opposed on this city last year following months of anti government protests now lie was arrested and charged in early december now he made an application for bail after that arrest and bail was granted but then following a withering attack by state controlled media including the people's daily newspaper which is the mouthpiece of the communist party a week later jimmy lai was back in court and the prosecution was able to successfully challenge that early decision to grant him bail then in february hong kong's quarter final appeal up held a government challenge to that earlier court decision to grant him bail so it seems that for now the the the attempt by jimmy lie to get bail in this case is over his

trial is jus to happen sometime in april the date hasn't being confirmed yet and of course you know jimmy lie in china zeiss is very much you know public enemy number one he he's from the mainland so for them you know this is this is personal he is able to see family and friends at the maximum security prison where he's been held for the past 7 weeks. at least 30 people have died is freezing winter weather sweeps across the united states the historic storm has left millions without electricity and covered nearly a 3rd of the country in snow the arctic blast is slowing down the delivery of covert $900.00 vaccine supply is also forced inoculation centers to close and gallacher has more. snow and ice are wreaking havoc from ohio to the rio grande much of the u.s. now gripped by severe winter storms 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 the worst we're better. you know i'm going to do some planning after all this is over and make sure there's an alternative source of energy 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 seniors to a struggling as care homes run short on medical essential zlata oxygen for those already concerned about their parents amid the coburg 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 are calling for alternative sources of power others say that's a conversation for another time this week we have to get more i mean people are losing homes they're losing food they're i mean we've 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. protests have turned violent in barcelona after thousands of people demanded the release of rap artist. is being jailed following a 2018 conviction for insulting the monarchy and praising the arms separatist group

atta but he was convicted under a controversial law people say prevents freedom of speech or about manly reports. protests he took for a 2nd night across paslode. police stations banks and several stores the damage during demonstrations. thousands took to the streets to demand the release of popular herself from jail. for most of the stuff. for the rappers lyrics and tweets got him in hot water with the authorities after he insulted spanish royalty supported till now defunct extremist group and criticize the police . work it's a musical i'm a musician and it affects me the fact that in spain artists musicians rappers everyone is arrested i find it quite brutal that people are arrested for the lyrics of a song new cells and people more common sense tells me that i have to be here because

we have less and less freedom in spain. on monday police stormed he ate a university where has cell had barricaded himself in with other activists to avoid a jail sentence has said was taken away by police but remains defiant and i will try out they will never make us give in despite the repression was what. has south cases inspired support across the country $200.00 prominent artists actors and musicians signed a petition for his release they say the so-called gag order prevents free speech spain's left wing government has moved to change the law but that's come too late for hersel the. protesters here say they'll continue to raise their voices against the silencing of the outspoken i grew up as a man the al-jazeera. still ahead of al-jazeera georgia and the political crisis as

the prime minister steps down with the arrest of an opposition leader will be live in tbilisi. where you take a look at why the u.s. congress is intervening in the ongoing battle between amateur investors a wall street professionals and this fall manchester city are taking a step closer to another english premier league title action is coming up later in the shadow. there's been a sudden warming in most of europe going from frosty by day i'm by night to above freezing both but the edge and we're going into turkey here is still getting the snow it's more or less stopped now and it's certainly gone from greece but that was the picture in turkey is this area here is the bit it's got warm now unfortunately

is a bit of blocking code from the baltic states dancer ukraine down towards the black sea which is not being pushed either way very much but the most it's surprisingly high temperature wise borders at 20 burley and 10 also right on the average anchor represents turkey's thinking about it not quite got the border 020 degrees is 8 above normal and stays there until sunday when the wind changes a little bit and this is the picture for saturday mostly sunny picture wind and rain for parts of portugal and the british isles but these temperatures otherwise and there's that edge still in the frost but not seeing very much been in bug area maybe warsaw slowly see the temperature creep about freezing for the next 3 days and istanbul does the same but it's a slow creep and it's frosty overnight so some snow for turkey but still plenty of shows including of snow in the levant.

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a just eat up. welcome back you're watching our decision time to recap those headlines now in myanmar demonstrators are back on the streets a day after some of the biggest rallies yet calling for deposed leader aung san suu kyi to be freed close to 500 people have been detained over 2 weeks. a rescue operation is underway in central government have kidnapped students possibly several 100 it's been confirmed one was shot and killed in the attack on the state run schools. and zimbabwe is the latest african country to begin coronavirus

vaccinations the world health organization is increasingly concerned about the spread of the ass south african variant across the continent. well for more on this we're joined by helen reece in johannesburg she's a professor at this university and also a member of the w.h.o. strategic advisory group of experts on the covert 19 vaccine good to have you with us so why are we seeing cases rise is it all down to the new south african variant. well it's the many of the countries where we've seen this very steep rise in the 2nd wave. that so far from the data that we've met it all together are being now affected by the variant that originated in africa many neighboring countries. had a very accelerated 2nd wave the good news is that in most of these countries now

the numbers are coming down but while this was happening it puts enormous on a strain on health systems because many of these countries have got very mannerable health systems and hospital systems now south africa or africa rather as a continent was ahead of the curve when it comes to infections and mortality rates comparatively speaking with other parts of the world isn't going to be able to roll out the vaccines quick enough to stay in that position. well there's been an enormous amount of work in preparation for the vaccine grown. by like the world health organization and garvey behind the scenes what we've done is develop tools for the countries to be able to evaluate their readiness and it's not just have i got some i just thought that since that is can my program do it have i got financing what is the community perspective so it's

a very comprehensive evaluation set of questions that's countries have asked themselves and to share it with the world health and so the senate and all of the countries have already passed that test if you are going to come to a standard where they feel confident they're ready since that's preparing. the good news is that we're starting to see the vaccines being rolled out to code that kind of backs the city yesterday and it can banksy fison vaccine there are discussions around a number of the other vaccines as well you know the backs actually being one of those under discussion so we are beginning to see large volumes of vaccine starting to be made available through kovacs how wonderfully it is in countries that have really prepared for the back in syndrome so i'm certainly optimistic that the health systems are ready to be able to distribute vaccines or what's the

possibility the south african strain that seems to me quite wiring for at least some of the vaccines might actually have spread further than we think in the african continent simply because not every country has the ability to measure and detective as a separate strain. i think it's very possible i think most people who are looking at the spread believe that it's very possible and i think all around the world 'd including in the u.k. that these variants one of the characteristics of the u.k. richard barrett of the south african region it is very there were transmissible so they spread what usually so i think that worldwide we are going to see over the next few months that the variance probably in many places will not the same very many that replaces the original strain that we saw but having said that you know there's a lot of work behind the scenes in effect yes in the case of the variance and

a lot of thinking a lot of lab work clinical work as well and alonso or. what we call falling out of the engine work is going to be pretty place so that we will monitor the effectiveness of the vaccines as we roll it out including in the context of countries which have got significant numbers of cases caused by the variance alright alright thanks so much for that helen reese. now reports found the pfizer's code with 19 banks seem can protect people against the new coronavirus variants including one that submerged in south africa researchers at pfizer and the university of texas medical branch found that while less antibodies were created they were enough to neutralize the virus a team that madonna and the us national institute of health has published a study with some of the findings for its vaccine nato secretary-general is dismissing an early withdrawal from afghanistan as defense ministers gather for

their 1st summit since u.s. president joe biden took office. jens stoltenberg says forces will only leave when security conditions allow the trumpet ministration brokered a deal with the taliban for a final withdrawal on may the 1st on nato has nearly 10000 soldiers in afghanistan they include 2500 americans training and assisting local forces rory chalons joins us now live from london so rory 1st of all does it look like nato ministers will actually be able to make any decision on withdrawals while of course we do have a rather still new u.s. administration reviewing policy on afghanistan. yeah well the the new biden immiseration said the trump administration's agreements peace deal really with the taliban which was signed in february of last year were needed to be looked at properly and that there were certain parts of it that were classified and that

they thought were perhaps problematic and they wanted to make sure that the taliban is at hearing to their commitments it made in that peace agreements to basically reduce reduce foreign violence and sever its ties with what they call international terrorist organizations namely al qaida and the the mood music coming out of the united states in the last few days and weeks is that in the last in that period there's actually been an escalation of violence and they think they're suggesting that they think that the taliban is behind this now that would suggest that this. pull out date at the beginning of the may is not going to be stuck to we don't know that for sure yet and it's unclear whether that decision will be made in this nato

meeting but there are certainly signs you just heard them from stoltenberg the french have also been making similar comments and comments have been coming out of the united states military that the taliban is not a hearing to that agreement and therefore the beginning of may pullout date should be shifted back somewhat right thanks so much rory chants of belorussian court has reportedly sentenced 2 journalists from the poland based t.v. news channel to 2 years in prison they were detained in november and accused of filming and the government protests international human rights organizations have condemned their detention. to georgia now where the prime minister is announced he's resigning georgie courier's decision follows a disagreement with his cabinet over the arrest of opposition leader nico melia.

has criticised the arrest saying it will only further fuel political tensions he was in office 3 year let's cross over now to robin for us to walk he joins us live from tbilisi so robin what happens now to the government. well it's a pretty surprising move for for a senior politician like the prime minister to resign over the fate of one of his let's say competitors one of his opponents but now that guy hurriya has resigned it seems that there may be more even more hardline people in the georgian government who want to see this issue resolved and who want to see this opposition leader newcomen arrested so we're expecting other members of the cabinet to now get together and form a new cabinets and appoint a new prime minister and now everyone will be waiting to see whether or not this government is prepared to go ahead with its plan to see. arrested and

that's a big concern i think for everybody who's been watching this because this country is already in a political crisis and it has been since elections in october that the opposition said were fraudulent they then decided to boycott parliament. i was among them and he was facing charges for having tried to. rush parliament back in 2019 when there were big anti-government demonstrations he's had its parliamentary immunity stripped and last week a court said that he could now be arrested unless he paid his bail the money that he had to pay to before his trial. but this is being looked upon as a very dangerous escalation for georgian politics no opposition in parliament what looks like a one party state the opposition accusing the government of backsliding on democracy and the idea that the police might go in and take

a rest is going to be resisted by the opposition and so the potential for violence and the international community has been calling for both sides to step back from the brink and try to reach some kind of agreement around the negotiation table and see how happen thanks for now 1st start walking. living in a ship with no basic needs at a kenyan port is what some seafarers of endured for over a year they've been reduced to relying on well wishers for food clothes water and drugs more cargo ship was on route from russia when it made their stop. ports. has been in the channel ever since waiting for instructions from its lebanese owners malcolm where visited the ship and spoke to the crew on board. it's most is moonies job to look after the crews of abandoned ships he took us to one. it's more of kenya's coast one and a half years ago it on loaded

a cargo of construction materials here at the port of mombasa and it's been in this channel ever since waiting for instructions from its lebanese owners that the syrian crew has never came the only way to meet them is by climbing on board. since they can't leave the ship. or the. this is us in the lives of the russians as. many as i was. the ship's crew haven't been paid since months before it was abandoned the port city of mombassa is just there it's only about a kilometer away so close but yet so far for the sailors stuck on board restrictions in immigration rules when they can't go on the land plus if they abandon the ship they risk losing the wages that they're owed in some cases up to 3 years and so they're confined within the decks of the ship which they say have come

to feel like a prison. farris a whiny the ship's cook sailed with it to turkey romania and russia before getting stranded here he has a young child back home in syria. nobody feels but i feel i'm stuck here i wish the owner could feel what we feel if his children were here he would know what we feel i have been away from my family for 3 years. they've been confined in these cabins and they wait for a resolution and they're not alone around 6000 seafarers face the same problem on hundreds of ships abandoned by their owners the crew here has depended on food and water from a charity called mission to seafarers regularly by moses he says ship's owners try to push abandon cruise to their limit they wanted to cause a crisis to the city they want to get tired and leave this year so that they don't

pay us some of the crew their wives left to them because let's ask to continue i would like to modern celebrity abandon cargoes can be a problem too. it was an abandoned ship cargo that caused the devastating explosion of lebanon's capital beirut last year. the crew of mpg on hope their ordeal will soon be over a court in mombasa has ordered the ship to be sold at auction took place last week used for nothing just no good. no sound like. some like. their friends are good to get money we say our goodbyes and leave the crew waiting and hoping that whoever won the auction will pay up and if that happens they'll soon be leaving too and finally flying home. to thousands more like them around the world still going nowhere malcolm webb al-jazeera mombasa kenya.

the united states congress wants to know why online investors have been limited from purchasing game stop and other stocks during a market politicians of called in experts to testify on thursday an unexpected rally on wall street challenge many assumptions about how the markets work kristen salumi explains. you have to ask some type of faith if you're in the stock market i don't think all of it is just skill i think some of it is also maybe it's his daily ritual of lighting say but lately pablo batista has been lucky he made $11000.00 selling game stop stop since losing his job as a clerk working from his bronx apartment as a day trader was really paying off we are programmed boys we are programmed but then the platform he was using started putting limits on trades i saw it like these

guys are trying to stop me when i'm at my peak leading up to game stop i had already been making money making a lot of money. since 2019 the volume of trading by small time investors like him has grown from 10 to roughly 25 percent of the market they're credited with boosting game stop from under $20.00 to above 3 $100.00 a share outsmarting hedge funds who bet against the struggling retailer. without ever setting foot on wall street pablo and other so-called retail investors have been collecting their financial muscle with the help of technology and social media hitting institutional investors right where it hurts their bottom line. but even before game stop sounded the alarm the market was at record highs a trend experts say is unsustainable i don't think people really understand that especially the younger generation that big you know the stocks in the market is

supposed to go up you know that's what they're supposed to do but no we're supposed to have. consolidation we haven't seen any of that brought pierce is a former actor who's made millions investing and believes it's the hedge funds not individual investors who need to be restricted what we're seeing is the democratization of the financial system a line is being drawn which side of the fence you stand on are you with the people or are you with a small group of institutions that are profiting from killing companies oh yes rip and lets go boys as for pablo he knows investing comes with risks i think i'm kind of where i'm at right now because i took that risk risks he believes he and other individuals are entitled to take new highs 8 every week every christian salumi al-jazeera new york. japan's former olympic cycle has she moto has been named as the new head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee with less than 6

months until the games the decision was announced in tokyo a short time ago as she has completed has competed rather in 7 of them picked games as a cyclist and speed skater she resigned from her ministerial post to take up the new role she replaces yoshiro mori who resigned last week after making sexist comments now after 7 months and 470000000 kilometers nasser's perseverance rover is set to touch down on mars the car sized rover is expected to land in the vast jazzer a crater that was once a lake bed they tore collect samples in a search for signs of microbial organisms that may have lived 3000000000 years ago if successfully brought back to earth they'll be the 1st ever retrieved from another planet. still ahead on i'll just 0 in spalls

a massive match to mock the return of fans at least raby an open all the details in just about.

the all the only. right sports fan so that's how we know that means thank you very much sammy while defending champion novak djokovic has just booked a spot in the men's australian open final by beating asked land that. well before that the all male sack eliminated serena williams to advance to the women's final so how malik. has more on the action from the women's semi's.

serena williams taking on naomi osaka for a place in the australian open final a massive much to mark the return of found that the tournament following melbourne's 5 day lockdown. the 2 players have been in scintillating form at the event both losing just one set on route to the last full. game. and while it was serene of that started off better by breaking osaka serve in the opening game the japanese would come back strongly to take the 1st set $63.00. osaka won the pairs last meeting at the grand slam the now infamous 2018 us open final. she won the 2nd set 64 that day and did the same on this occasion another win for the 23 year old over last resort rival who she now holds a 3 in one record over. just really like nervous and scared i think in the

beginning and then i sort of ease my way into it and for me i think the biggest thing is just oh i'm just having fun and it's the 1st time in your crowd in a while. osaka will be up against the u.s. aids jennifer brady in the final. a rematch from the last 4 of the 2020 u.s. open. brady came up short that day but has been impressive in melbourne beating kerry in a mock over in 3 sets to book her spot in the finals she now has the chance to win her 1st ever grand slam title so well malik al-jazeera. while you ventris is champions league title hopes were dented on a wednesday asport to stun them and the 1st leg of their last 16 tie goals from met a timely and that most lead the portuguese side to their 1st ever victory over uva

italians did manage however to get a crucial away goal a full frederico hisself final score 21. when you're one goal down after one minute that it's normal for the players confidence is a bit shaky we prepared this match in a different way we knew it would have been a tough match and they have a really good defense so when you hand them their ideal match on a civil quite then everything becomes more difficult. and then the other magic brucia dortmund beat severe $32.00 in spain abroad to holland continued his stunning scoring run in the competition even 20 year old netted twice in this match he now has 10 champions league goals in just 7 games for the german side. and she says city have extended their lead to temple and sat at the top of the english premier league they beat everton 31 away on wednesday phil foden no open the scoring full pep guardiola side. the pay my has and

bernardo silva also got on the scoresheet city have now won a remarkable $17.00 straight games in all competitions they have also become the 1st top flight clubs in england to win the 1st 10 games in the calendar a air. norway have won their 1st ever mix team title at the all in the world ski championships the event he chose full scale is it 2 men and 2 women with no way beaten sweden in the finals and wilkins itself and winning the decisive race at the event in its city individual races masoom on thursday with the women's giant slalom. and the 4 and to back the semi and so i sat out and that's it from me for this news out but the good news is kim is back in just a couple of minutes with another full show. to stay with us here on al-jazeera of

course there's all wife so i think i'll just 0 dot com off the various news. frank assessments the world is on the brink. the model say we have is that a fair assessment you see at catastrophic and it's. why you see. valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story.

the protests started chiefly in front of the x. museum in amsterdam hundreds of protesters gathered to demand the government use lockdown with strict chanson lift a curfew the 1st in the country since world war 2 the threat is that we use our freedoms to protesters who are not following social distancing rules are repeatedly ordered to disperse by police but police are trying very hard to close friend to scenario that happened last week and thousands were rioting in cities across the nap. after some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks police on horseback moved in to clear the area. hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young and old feel lost in japan on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. every. african nation step up coronavirus vaccine rollouts their affairs the south african variant could derail efforts to control the pandemic across the continent. to the bell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. their fates on know a rescue operation is underway in nigeria to free hundreds of kidnapped students.