it's context these are the feelings in storytelling around the biggest issues but had to do usually do it again. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. yarning out of time please be temperature rise to 1.530 celsius and build resilience to the impacts the. planets and our very existence is in real danger the united nations climate report urges the world to act before it's too late. that i said nations warns yemen's put the rebels that their quest for

territorial gains threatens any hope of peace. a double health alert in africa a coronavirus variant could reduce the impact of vaccines there a new abode outbreak threatened several countries. and the u.s. government on bale's a new immigration policy with an 8 year path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. and in sports arena williams says the latest efforts won a record equalling 24th grand slam title is over i am your 2nd beating williams to reach the final of the australian. the u.n. secretary general has appealed to world leaders to make a renewed commitment to flight fight climate change speaking a short while ago and called for urgent global action. we need to make these

correlation truly global interns formative if adopted by every country city financial institution and company and on the world's a global coalition for governor by 25 he can still prevent the worse the impacts of climate change but we cannot delay we are running out of time to leave the temperature rise to $1.00 the cells use and build resilience to the impacts that come and they also need equal urgency and then bishan to address all we produce all foods and manage our water land and the oceans we could serve as was promoting a newly published un reports which says that climate change biodiversity loss and pollution add up to 3 self-inflicted planetary crises but threaten future generations more than a 1000000 of an estimated 8000000 plant and animal species are facing serious increased risk of extinction the un report again highlights the poor nations are bearing the brunt of this crisis extraction of natural resources has left more than

$1000000000.00 people in poverty around $9000000.00 are dying prematurely every year due to pollution al-jazeera is burnt out smith has more now on what's at stake . for a decade the lakes of kenya's rift valley have been rising swallowing up land and villages destroying communities deforestation is to blame soil once held in place by trees is washed down from the mountains by the rain silting up the lakes below stopping them from draining. in a report called making peace with nature the u.n. environment program says we need on bishop's global coordination to make the use of land and oceans sustainable there are vested interests stop in action there we have subsidies for agriculture and for energy for fossil fuels a perverse way it carries the use of fossil fuels that encourage the use of bad agricultural practices so there were many people around the world trying to repeat

governments pointed sensible actions together the report says that none of the global goals for the protection of life on earth have been met deforestation and overfishing continues a 1000000 species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction and there is much to be done to reduce and water pollution but if we can get the business community so work with governments around the world i'm optimistic we can start to move in the right direction and i think most governments do realize that climate change it is actually i 1st we are facing through security forces security shroom and health poverty alleviation without action the world is on track to warm 3 degrees above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100 so missing the paris agreement target of well below 2 degrees and like the people of the rift valley the u.n. says it's the world's poorest in developing countries but suffer the worst

consequences of climate change bernard smith al-jazeera. let's get the view from the u.s. now on how the new administration is settling the issue here is al jazeera rachet habra tansey in washington. joe biden pledged to make fighting climate change central to his administration within hours of his inauguration he signed an executive order returning the u.s. to the paris climber's accord he says that every government department will have to consider its greenhouse gas emissions as it makes policy and there is a great deal to do the pentagon alone creates more greenhouse gas than some $140.00 countries president biden intends to convene a global climate summit in april but environmentalists warn that if the goal is to control other world leaders to take bold action he will have to prove that he's doing the same and that might mean taking strong executive action not waiting for

some bipartisan congressional deal on emissions the world can't wait environmentalist say especially not for some bipartisan compromise the un's special envoy for yemen has called on who the rebels to stop their offensive on the northern city of addressing a virtual meeting of the un security council griffiths said the group's quest for territorial gain threatens prospects for peace mechanisms can be agreed upon what is needed is simply an fundamentally the political world and this . we need a decision and agreement on leave this year's would offer yemenis a break from the lips of cycles of violence it would facilitate movements of people and goods it could create a conducive environment for the parties and to move to the real issue at hand and talks to end the war on the basis of those aspirations the political process starts

would need to resume ok let's go live now to the u.n. our diplomatic editor james pais is there for us james what water mr griffiths have to say. well this is a meeting that happens every single month looking at the situation in yemen and the special envoy has been in the job for 3 years now he said the tension on the ground is the worst it's been at any point he said that offensive in marab risks millions of lives particularly if the fighting gets to places where there are people living you've already been displaced from other parts of yemen and the news of the security council meeting got even grimmer than that we heard from of the humanitarian situation in yemen from mark lo cock who is the undersecretary general of the u.n. in charge of coordinating the humanitarian response around the world and he said there was the risk now of the worst famine anywhere in the world in decades and he

came up with a most staggering figure of $400000.00 children under the age of 5 who may well only have weeks or months to live and could starve to death he did though make the point that there was a way out of this crisis there is any government agency right now to help towards us in. preventing. essentially to allow an opportunity to have a chance of being realized and is our. first into violence and start again i iterate our current parties a dangerous escalation in marriage i have staged armies of korans efforts to mediate a nationwide siege not just in our country and throughout europe but it. and there's another thing that the u.n.

is calling on countries around the world to do they're going to have a pledging conference in the coming weeks and they want countries around the world to give money to try and help the humanitarian situation on the ground in yemen. diplomatic at a james bay is reporting live there from the u.n. in new york james many thanks now to the coronavirus pandemic and growing alarm about the spread of contagious strains and infectious variant continues to spread across africa limited access to vaccines there means that many countries are only just beginning their rollouts but some of those vaccines mail far less protection than initially hoped early trials of almost all the major vaccines have shown that they reduce efficiency against efficacy rather against the dominant strain in much of africa deaths across the continent of the reached $100000.00 there are concerns that that figure could grow that's as the region also deals with the threat of a rising outbreak underwear press cross is

a professor of microbiology at johns hopkins university joins us now live from baltimore maryland via skype should africa be worried about the efficacy of the vaccines that are available or should people take it regardless. well the 2 studies that were published yesterday. show that there is some immunity of the vaccine to these new variants that are circulating in south africa so i think the simple message is yes get your vaccine when you're come up for it you will get some protection it may not be as high a protection as to the original viruses that are circulating but it's steps which should still be enough to protect from severe disease and to limit the spread of the virus in your community and that's really the goal of the vaccination campaign they say limit the spread of the corona virus vaccine but so few vaccines at the moment of being shipped to africa how long before communities build up that

protection. yeah we did there are 2 goals for the vaccination campaign 1st it's try to protect those most vulnerable in the population so those the elderly and in particular health care workers who come in contact with copd 1000 patients so frequently that goal of could be done with a limited number of vaccines if you target those populations very effectively it's a much longer term goal to get to somewhere around 70 percent of the population to be immunized before you can expect to see a major change in the amount of the virus that's circulating the population so to goals the short term goal of protecting those at high risk but that not longer goal that requires a lot more vaccine to jet to reduce the amount of spread in the general population ok companies are working on tweaks to vaccines out there that could cope with these with these new variants and how long before i lose get to countries in

africa where perhaps you could ask if they needed most. absolutely i think what this variance are showing us is that wherever there is really large amounts of uncontrolled virus replication you simply increase the chances of the virus to mutate to make it either more transfers of all or able to evade some immune responses so certainly we need to have these things rolled out as soon as possible the important thing to note about the south african variant is that it's only mutated in one spot sort only eliminates a small portion of the vaccine induced immunity it should be relatively easy particularly for companies like moderna and pfizer to generate a new version of the vaccine that covers these new variants i know the companies are already working on that so it's simply a matter of making sure that the prioritization of that becomes clear in the next couple of months so that the manufacturing capabilities can be switched over to

generate these new very in fact scenes as we said area africa facing a double health at the moment not only do we have the spread of these these coronavirus variance but some countries facing another ebola outbreak can that be contained while the rest of the world is dealing with the pandemic. absolutely the bola there are tried and true methods which contain a bowl of virus outbreaks certainly the situation right now is a bit more strained with respect to. resources that are becoming available as well as capabilities using coping 1000 restrictions and working within koeppen 1000 restrictions i think this is going to take a global effort support from the w.h.o. as well as other not from countries to really get this under control early we've seen in many of these of all outbreaks the earlier you act the better the chances of avoiding a major outbreak and so now is the time to really devote resources to stem that

outbreak professor it's been really good still to you many thanks indeed for being with us. thank you very much for having me this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program nato to expand its mission in iraq with no final decision on withdrawing troops from afghanistan. and he could protest as in myanmar face off with the police despite fears of a violent crackdown. and its course the head of the english premier league has his say on fans returning to stadiums this season and he here with that at all the rest of the sport a little of his. nato secretary general has to smiths the possibility of an early withdrawal from afghanistan to fence ministers were gathering for their 1st summit since u.s.

president joe biden took office in stoking book says forces will only leave when security conditions allow the trumpet ministration had brokered a deal with the taliban for a final withdrawal on may 1st nato has nearly 10000 soldiers in afghanistan including 2 and a half 1000 americans who are training and assisting local forces nato's goal is to assure that of never again because it's a safe haven for terrorists that would attack our whole 'd months so our eyes will continue to search together the conditions on the ground as we do. the protection of troops remain sperm and we will take all necessary measures to keep them safe peter galbraith is a former u.s. diplomat and assistant secretary general of the united nations in afghanistan he joins us now live via skype from fort myers in florida good to have you with us again sir what do you make of what the secretary general mr sutton book said does

nato actually have a policy on afghanistan right now. well it depends on the united states even though as you pointed out 3 quarters of the 10000 nato troops in afghanistan are not american there are nato allies the 2500 that are there or provide essential logistics to the other troops so if the u.s. continues with the with drawl then it would be practically impossible for the other data countries to stay there but this decision is being reviewed by president biden and his team but how far up the the list of foreign policy. tosca the what level of importance is it for the bite the ministration afghanistan well 1st it's important this is after all a war that this year will mark 20 years of u.s.

military engagement now and stand america's longest war by a significant margin it's also a decision that the president has to make will the u.s. withdraw its troops by may 1st so yes he's inherited an enormous foreign policy agenda but he can't and i quite sure will not duck this important issue right so. a diplomat what do you think the president is thinking about right now what sort of exit strategy is he looking at. well he has a problem which is the that donald trump was intent on getting out of afghanistan and the document that the trump administration signed a year ago was essentially a surrender document it was that the u.s. with withdraw and the the taleban in return promised

a very little essentially promised break ties with al qaida didn't promise to reach a deal with the afghan government it didn't promise to stop attacks and in recent months the attacks on afghan forces have have greatly increased raising questions about whether the government of afghanistan can survive if there is a complete nato withdraw. and of the other point is that i think american policymakers are haunted by what happened 50. 45 years ago in vietnam where the final withdrawal in 1975 then led to the collapse of the south vietnamese government i think president biden certainly will not want to see. american diplomats leaving colville on the roof of the american embassy and i'm sure he won't see that so where do you see the afghan peace process

going now. well. the deal that the trumpet ministration negotiated provided 0 incentive for the taleban to negotiate because they were already promised the american withdraw all so i think if the nato makes a decision to stay and i think that is actually the most likely decision. perhaps that will provide an incentive for the peace process but then this process needs to look at afghanistan broadly there are parts of afghanistan. that taliban now control and are going to control. and indefinitely but there are other parts of the of afghanistan notably the big cities particularly kabul the huzzaing region these are shiites who are subject to the genocidal attacks by the taleban when it was in power and the touchy carious that are going to. won't accept the taleban

control so there needs to be some formula and i think inevitably it's going to involve a very significant constitutional reorganization in afghanistan in which you have a great deal of federalism could still chase that many thanks indeed for being with us peter galbraith theft in fort myers florida. protesters and refusing to back down despite fears of a violent crackdown by the military thousands of people have joined demonstrations for a 13th straight day calling for the release of the pows data on al-jazeera scott hyatt reports. rickshaws in trucks join the 2nd day of a civil disobedience campaign with protesters blocking roads by pretending their vehicles have broken down this to stoke further disruption ahead of another day of rallies protests in yangon parked in the middle of streets again and then drove off a road off very slowly here. once we stopped the operations

a revolution will be successful this civil disobedience will have been just a way we can defeat the military to that's the way forward we are creating the traffic because we want to stop the government work is. tax money from getting to the office i want everyone to join us. in southern myanmar protesters gathered out front of complexes run by foreign companies involved with international gas pipelines in the gan area. they appealed to the companies to stop doing business with the new military government. and in mandalay they gathered in front of a court house where hearings for 2 officials connected to unsung suit the party took place. as a judge to continues its campaign of harass people in the capital ne put or called for the release of suchi and students who were detained here earlier in the week. we rode to the subways in front of every day for information about children but we

get nothing we aren't even allowed to get close to the gate and the authorities keep denying that the detained children. the joint has also issued arrest warrants for several celebrities who've encouraged the strikes hundreds of people have been detained since the coup not only those politically connected to aung sang suu kyi it's got hardware al-jazeera. georgia's opposition is calling for snap elections in the wake of the prime minister's resignation korea says that he made the decision following a disagreement on this campus over the arrest of opposition leader melia korea has been critical of the arrest saying that it will only fuel political tension further is accused of organizing mass violence and anti-government protests in 2019 his supporters abroad outside his party said courses. absolutely. my absolute unshakable position is that it's unacceptable to enforce a measure even a lawful one against one particular person if that person poses

a risk to the health and lives of our citizens or creates the possibility of a political escalation in the country especially today when there is political tension and polarization in our country it creates a risk for the development of the state security and future i unfortunately could not come to a common opinion with my team on this issue i made a decision to resign if only. the fact that the prime minister has stepped down from his post the fact that he has practically and made it today bloodshed and violence was planned against the free will of people who are gathered at the office of the national movement and he did not support that is to be respected but this will not help matters the only thing that can defuse the situation is a quick action that should be carried out we demand a meeting of united opposition with the participation of our partners and representatives of the government about only one issue snap elections one hour from now syria's robin for us to walk into places. 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 carrier has resigned it seems that there may be more even more hardline 3 people in the georgian government who want to see this issue resolved and who want to see this opposition leader nicam area arrested so we're expecting other members of of the cabinets and now get together and form a new cabinet and appoint a new prime minister and now will everyone will be waiting to see whether a law this government is prepared to go ahead with its plan to see nick a melia 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. and nick america was

among them and he was facing charges for having tried to rush parliament back in 2019 when they were big anti-government demonstrations he's had a 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 pay for a head of 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 an arrest melia 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 to negotiation table. a rescue

operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken by the armed gang is unknown but hundreds of missing it's been confirmed that one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state one school in karbala on address reports now from a puja. at the hospital in got up doc to some nurses street wounded students and teachers and at the going to a science college concerned parents gather for news elsley in town security 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 of that area if you look at what is happening internationally and like in places like chart in kind our own especially in cameroon there's countries have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long this is the 2nd majors 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 cats 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 for years after that enable a new 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's 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 personages were seized while traveling in a bus killa 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 dollars was paid in ransom money and 2020 to kidnappers and this is in a country africa's largest economy while poverty is on the increase ahmed idrees al jazeera a project. the weather next hear all that is out there and we'll hear from the author of the u.n. environment the course of what these to be done to save the planet. an arctic blast hits the u.s. millions of people without power and water could be days before the storm passes that in sports we'll hear from the former olympian in charge of taking the tokyo games in a new direction. but

. it has snowed quite a bit this winter but it snowed yesterday in jerusalem clearly quite easily it's node in the golan heights across the border in syria and quite a long way north up into lebanon as well we're not seeing the end of it either but this is reporting the worst in about 15 years quite destructive travel travel wise and surprisingly and the big system is on the wire and so you can see it looks like this and this is a cold front that goes down through the gulf which means ahead of it is quite windy behind it wind direction changes to a northerly and on it will be thunderstorms the focus has been iraq now it's going to be iran snow of course the mountains here and the following showers are still coming in. to anywhere from north up to lebanon wants war jerusalem at max 6 degrees so that still potential for snow showers again up in the golan heights and

here's a change that goes through so probably says in our early friday sun a storm or 2 to change of wind direction quite possibly was dusty it or even sand in it and that can result as a sham all west tensions slowly rise in jerusalem quickly look at mozambique this is now a named storm circulating in the water so the western edge is throwing rain heavy rain towards mozambique but i think it will be no worse not in the immediate future . but. hidden away in the room a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world one on one east investigates why so many young and old feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. acid attacks in india. leave many scars. most of which cannot be

seen. they also create a bond. born of a sarod ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face. 'd black roses and red dresses parts of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. al jazeera.

i get is could have you with us adrian for to get here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines a new u.n. report is warning that millions of people and animals and plants species are at grave risk from climate change the u.n. secretary general has appealed to world leaders to make a commitment to fighting environmental damage. the u.n. special envoy for yemen has called on hootie rebels to stop their offensive all but all the city of autographs of the group's quest for territorial gain threatens any hope of peace and nato has to supposed any suggestion of an early withdrawal from troops from afghanistan that secretary general installed book says that soldiers will only leave when security conditions allow. returning now to our top story on the un environment report anger anderson is the author of that report she says that the un's environment program but she is rather the un's environment program executive director told me earlier that while the situation is dire things can

still be turned around if there's the political will. what we do is 1st of all we live up to the commitments that we made across the years including the paris agreement course and starting with climate we begin to invest in transforming our economies like we said we would now the good news is that already 126 countries have signed up for into what we call the net 0 club that they will go be net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 we need to see more countries doing that and we still need to see financing for the poor countries to enable them to make nice shifts at the same time of biodiversity we need to invest in smart agriculture that doesn't destroy biodiversity and we need to invest in nature not not have and buy products that we need to buy products at a different station pre and on plushie of course we need to use those chemicals of

course and the other products well use them use them wisely and all of this means essentially let's not take out of the environment materials put them into economy and when we're done with them we throw them back a stress hughes and waste into the environment no we keep materials secular in a circular economy that's what we need to do but we can do it but it kind of escaped your notice that we're in the middle of a pandemic right now global pandemic to what to what extent is that delaying that this this this urgent fight that you talk about since beginning of this pandemic we've put unprecedented moneys into the economy from from taxpayers right lisa loans for the from that that we're taking from the next generation this is not money that we're lying around treasuries we would borrowed it so obviously 1st to health 2nd to into people's pockets we're suffering but there are these kind of monies that are going into job creation that are going to companies we have to have smart investments for small not vibrant tomorrow at tomorrow that invests in green

opportunities green building in cities and in. structure that will create jobs but will also drive. a much healthier society for all and so we cannot use these monies back into bad old toxic trail infrastructure and there is a real opportunity here now i also do think that with a pandemic people have understood that part of that in or likelihood is indeed because we have pushed nature into a corner and so understanding that a vibrant nature when we do not trade illegal alien species and what we ensure that we haven't defragment are destroyed nature all of that matters so of nature climate and pollution these are the 3 things that we need to get at and we can with this blueprint that we are now presenting i'm sorry to sound a lot of skepticism here it all sounds very positive that these close these these emergencies that you talk of can be solved but it requires action doesn't it toward

extent this is is this whole talk it requires action the most serious accident of cries politicized political leadership which is of course what what what we are calling for here that is why the secretary general is calling for all the secretary general of the united nations is calling for countries to submit into cop $26.00 in glasgow and vicious plans that are implementable at the national level and and that is why we are looking at a number of countries already beginning to make these steps technological as an example then invest over $2000000000.00 into solar energy right they began doing that 10 years ago led leapfrog in creating good jobs good economy economic growth as well as clean energy let's take kenya as an example they've invested again 1015 years ago into geothermal energy and now in wind so it is not a rich and poor countries but we can measure mention rich rich region the e.u.

with a green deal so it's already happening in a number of countries what we need to do and see is global solidarity to enable monies being available but also the political will to make these forward and and and so don't want to be naive but it is entirely possible. and anderson the white house is unveiled sweeping new measures to overhaul the nation's immigration system it wants to offer permanent protected status to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children and millions more who have worked in frontline roles during the pandemic but just lation would also provide an path to citizenship for 11000000 people who are already in the u.s. the white house as overturn the trumpet ministrations remain in mexico policy which required asylum seekers to stay in mexico while their applications are processed that a puppet of homeland security is missing 25000 applicants who are waiting at the border if you have as we'll speak to his in mexico city but 1st let's go to our

white house correspondent kimberly how in washington tell us more carefully about these proposals. well it's a top priority for the biden administration joe biden campaigned on this and this is something that congress has tried repeatedly for 20 years to do unsuccessfully but there is a feeling that this can be accomplished this time around because the white house is controlled by democrats the both branches or rather both chambers of the u.s. congress are controlled by democrats but still they need to get some republicans on board to be precise they need 10 in order for this to pass so there are some challenges but at least what they're feeling is this is the beginning of the negotiations to do something that has been such a challenge for so long and here's why there is this feeling that if they create 2 pathways for immigrants in the united states who are currently here undocumented

they will be able to push these through bring these people out of the shadows allow them to pay for taxes and other things that the times when the united states really needs it what they'll do is those that are working here as farm workers for example those with temporary protected status or even those who came as children are now adults only know the united states as their home country known as dreamers they would be given an automatic green card as it's called or permanent residency and the chance to kind of fast track for citizenship everybody else would then be given background checks would be given work permits and would also be able to request deportation relief now what's really important about all of this is that you have to have been here in the united states before january 1st 2021 so this is not going to apply to people that are coming for example who are hearing this news thinking they'd like to cross the border and in fact the white house press secretary gentz saki talking about this and be very firm saying that the united states is not ready

for a wave of people to come as a result of this legislation the infrastructure is not there the policy is not there what they're saying is that for those who have been here for. or years and have been living in the shadows they will finally be able to if this is passed be able to be an important part of an integrated american society is the support that the political support the democrats can get this through the senate or is that going to be a political fight. the bigger political fight because in its current form there are some things that republicans are concerned about namely the numbers in terms of the people this could apply to the number you keep hearing is about 11000000 but market research research shows it could be 3 times that number in terms of the number of people that are living in the united states illegally and that's could have an impact monetary relief so those numbers need to be worked out the other big thing is border security and this applies in terms of democrats and republicans

they are concerned about making sure that border is secure so this is something everybody is going to get a little bit of something in these negotiations and it may in turn finally pass if they can achieve that a white house correspondent kimberly how could that live in washington let's bring in manuel ruppel of the news in mexico city not a well how's this going down there in mexico and in why the latin america. there are several reversals in immigration policy from the united states are being very well received both here in mexico and in the other countries of the region in central america specifically the northern triangle those countries and compass by 100 watt of mali and all solved or where a majority of migrants from central america are originating from not least of which is the quote unquote migrant protection protocols as his policies that forced asylum seekers from not only from central america but from all parts of latin america and from other parts of the world that transit through mexico on the way to

request asylum in the united states that would force asylum seekers to remain in mexico while there are silent processes were taking place in the united states these are policies that lead to countries like honduras guatemala and el salvador becoming quote unquote safe 3rd countries but what's on the radar now for immigration officials both here in mexico and in the united states is this recent uptick in immigration from the region specifically from central america what happened during the lockdown during the in 2020 from the cove in 1000 pandemic is that we did see a fairly dramatic slowdown in overall migration from the region but that changed in december when we saw not only is a spike in migration from the region but some of the highest numbers that we've seen since before the covert 1900 pandemic and there are those who have speculated that it's the news of these more relaxed policies by the by the administration that are at least in part responsible for this uptick but we have to consider also that

a lot of the same conditions that were leading to migration even before the pandemic have not improved there hasn't been an improvement to extreme poverty to widespread violence to political instability in that region of central america and we also should note that late last year in november there were 2 back to back hurricanes that slammed into central america in honduras alone it resulted in more than 1000000 people displaced so when we look at all of these factors together it does help to build a little bit of a better picture of why we're seeing this uptick in immigration from the region over the course of the last few months. mexico city many well many thanks did. at least 30 people have died as freezing winter weather sweeps across the united states the storm is left millions without electricity and covered many a 3rd of the country in snow the arctic blast is slowing down the delivery of covert 19 banks and supplies and is forced an occupation census to close out its is

our intrepid and chilled to the bone gabriel elizondo who's in new york still snowing then gape. yeah it's still snowing and it's still cold as you can probably see us and it might be a little bit of fun and games here in new york when the snow falls people get out and enjoy it when they can as long as it's not too cold but it's no fun and games for a lot of the country of the united states particularly this state of texas this is day 4 of this. cold storm that is sweeping through this southern and central part of the united states and nobody has felt it worse than the state of texas and the 29000000 people that live in that huge state as of right now there are about half a 1000000 people in texas that are without power have been without power for several days and there is many as 12000000 people in texas at this hour they have had some sort of disruptions in their water supply because of frozen pipes the situation in

texas is grave it's reached an emergency state more than 30 people have died already from this storm and it has left many of the stores without basic supplies such as water groceries and even gasoline is in short supply in texas as well as people just try to stay warm and stay alive that's essentially what it's come down to in texas there's a lot of scrutiny on the power grid in that state with nancy pelosi calling for an investigation. to see how it is allowed to get to this with such power outages throughout the state but bottom line is things appear to be getting worse not better in some parts of texas as this storm continues to recapping on the middle part of the united states and now as you can see now coming up to the east

coast and the northeast right now the governor of texas coming out of fire for the way in which the status as handle this also coming up to 5 is senator ted cruz of texas who scarpered. yeah that's right while his state is in crisis and people are freezing trying to stay warm in this historic storm ted cruz flew to the mexican resort town of kank moon yesterday on an unannounced trip with his family as soon as word got out that he was on his way to can't coon of course there was outrage he is apparently on his way back to texas now his spokesperson has issued a statement saying that he was simply a company in his daughters to mexico but bottom line is can coon is a resort town warm temperatures and as so many people are suffering in his home

state he has a lot of answering to do. i'm feeling cold just looking at you go go go go seek warm many thanks indeed cable is on the in new york. the crew of a cargo ship abandoned in the kenyan port of mombasa now been trapped on board for 18 months they've been paid for even longer and they rely on handouts for food clothing and medicine al-jazeera web has been to visit them. it's most is millie's job to look after the crews of abandoned ships he took us to one the m.v.t. non 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 says never came the only way to meet them is by climbing on board.

since they can't leave the ship so. this is us in this. situation 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 text of the ship which they say have come to feel like a prison. 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 and. the mother has nobody feels what i feel i'm

stuck here 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'd be. 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 ships owners try to push abandon crews to their limit they wanted to cause a crisis to the city they want to get tired and leave the ship so that they don't pay us some of the crew their wives left to them because let us to continue i would like to tell me more than celebrity abandon cargoes can be a problem too. it was an abandoned ship cargo that caused

a devastating explosion at lebanon's capital beirut last year the crew of m.v. jean 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 and used a for nothing just no good. good morning. we say our goodbyes and leave the crew waiting and hoping that whoever won the auction will pay up and if that happens soon be leaving too and finally flying . thousands more like them around the world. know where. kenya. back in the final of history the flights from melbourne coming right up.

i don't try this for example thank you ager nasri no williams has made a tear fell exit from the australian open williams had been targeting a record equalling 24th grand slam title the last ounce in her semifinal against. so how mark reports. 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. day. and while it was serena 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 a grand slam the now infamous 2018 us open final. she won the 2nd set 6 for 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 having fun and it's the 1st day having the crowd in

a while has made to many mistakes there and easy mistakes not like there i was on the run and just uses an incident i don't know is very different for say farewell i wouldn't tell anyone so. i moved on to him. 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 moko in 3 sets to book her spot in the final. despite complaining of an abdominal injury throughout the tournament novak djokovic has now just one win away from a night melbourne title the serbian star who has not been training between matches because of his fitness the shoes made short work in his semi of the tournament surprise package. djokovic beating the unseated russian

636462 this is best as i felt in the tire tournament time in felt great the world number one can expect a much tougher test in the final where he'll face either danielle medvedev or stefan last it's the path so he'll malick al-jazeera. now the new president of the tokyo olympics has promised to take the games in a new direction at say the hashemites are replaces his share of mari who was forced to resign after making sexist comments of how she might so competed at 7 olympics herself as a cyclist and a speed skater the former lympics minister saying she's aiming to deliver a safe and secure games and also to reform the organizing committee for a precise that mari quit last week after being quoted as saying that women talk too much thank you now. i think we need to take action fast to rebuild public confidence in tokyo 2020 i would like to show a new direction to the international olympic committee by the end of this month

this includes increasing the ratio of female executives to 40 percent and we will launch a task force to encourage diversity of english premier league chief executive richard masters says fans could return to stadiums this season up to 2000 spectators started being allowed in at some grounds in december but top flight games are now being played behind closed doors again due to the pandemic. we have lost hope that we might see a few back even this season depending on what happens the direction of the numbers and government decisions etc but certainly next season i hope you don't. quickly and that we can work with government again and with the rest with everybody in and and get fans back in the stadiums and real numbers and get back to the real premier league. from armitage manchester city have extended their league said any points at the top of the league so far as i was winning the scoring in a 31 win against everton were not so red mars and when i serve on the scoresheet

the city. coriolis team have now won 17 consecutive games in all competitions. so now south africa's chris morris has become the most expensive cricketer ever signed up for the indian premier league auction the all rounder has been taken on by the raja royals for just over 2200000 dollars morris has enjoyed success with the royals before he played for the minutes 115 season was their joint leading what it's a. and since i'm a liberal champion mccalla shifrin has just missed out on a 7th world title switzerland's laura good for army winning the women's john stalin here in italy. she edged out the american by just 2 hundreds of a 2nd it is the smallest margin of victory in this discipline and world championship history. ok more from in a couple of hours for that is how your sports is looking for now everybody thinks

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