in the year. be the hero the world needs. washing. this is al jazeera. hello i may have barker this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up near the point of no return a major u.n. environment report calls for ambitious global action to face the triple threat of climate change biodiversity loss and pollution. the united nations warned yemen's hooty rebels that their quest for territorial gains threatens any hope of peace.

some barbie and health workers are 1st in line to receive vaccines from china but there is real concern over the spread of the contagious south african variant. of. patience pays off the nasa rover perseverance lands on the red planet 7 months after 1st setting off from. an in sports arena williams is the latest effort so when a record equalling 24 grand slam title is over now i'm competing williams to reach the final of the australian on. the nations of the world are failing to meet their own climate change targets putting humanity's future at risk a new report from the united nations outlines a triple threat that's hitting the poorest people the hardest 1st the world is set

to warm by at least 3 degree celsius by the end of this century shooting past the 2 degree target from the paris accords and twice the one and a half degree ceiling that would prevent the worst impacts 2nd no biodiversity targets are being met leaving more than a 1000000 of the world's estimated 8000000 plant and animal species at a seriously increased risk of extinction. $9000000.00 people die prematurely every year from diseases caused by pollution with much left to be done to clean up and water that's a toll that disproportionately hits developing nations but a smith has more 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 that a stop 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 thought and said civil actions to get 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 shades exactly i firstly are facing through security or to 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. manuever pollo is in the mexican capital where pollution levels are so bad the small can be seen traps above the city. it's hard to think of the mexican capital and not imagine the city's massive urban sprawl the metropolitan area it's home to 24000000 people and it's constantly growing. the impact of all this traffic construction and industry has

wreaked havoc on the region's natural environment. and all of it amounts to one of the most significant carbon footprints in all of latin america one of the most visible signs of this is the city's poor air quality there are times of the year where air pollution is so bad people are urged not to go outside due to heighten the health risks it's estimated that air pollution is responsible for the deaths of some $33000.00 mexicans every year and it's a problem that doesn't seem to be improving. according to a recent report by the united nations environment program progress on reducing air pollution is mixed with air quality improving in high income countries but continuing to degrade in low income countries environmental experts add that the impact from air pollution from megacities like the mexican capital extend far beyond urban areas and have effects on local regional and global scales. well in south africa the economies rely on mining has created severe environmental and

health issues many people in poor communities who live near the abandoned mines say decades of exploitation is now taking a toll on their health for me to miller explains from so. south of johannesburg decades of gold mining has created the largest gold and uranium mining basin in the world today more than 5900 mines across south africa are abandoned many of them flooded with acid mine water and what's left behind in these mine residue deposits is a toxic disaster containing radioactive uranium people living close to the dumps say the dust from the mines is affecting their health when the wind is at its strongest up to 42 tons of tailings dust per day enters the environment leaving people here most of them poor exposed to the health hazard the federation for sustainable environment says close to 2000000 people in janice burg live near on

top of mine residue deposits mining has altered the natural landscape and it's produced a lot of waste that has polluted the environment the negative impact is often long lasting and across the road holmes and people are waged in between the mind ups some mining companies say will clean up the dumps some of them are being reprocessed to recover the residual gold and the footprint is used for industrial development but other companies have simply liquidated and so the mines are abandoned with little done to rehabilitate the area environmentalists say the legacy of gold and uranium mining in the verge artist run to gold fields is a toxic and radioactive waste land leaving communities at risk the executive director of the un environment program says money and investment will be key now the good news is that already $126.00 countries have signed up for into what we

call the net 0 club that they will be net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 we need to see more countries doing that and we need to see financing for the poor countries too we need. them to make these shifts at the same time but biodiversity we need to invest in smart agriculture that doesn't destroy the act biodiversity and we need to invest in nature not not have and buy products that we need to buy products and deforestation korean and pollution of course we need to use those chemicals of course and the other products but use and use them wisely and all of this means essentially let's not take out of the environment materials put them into the economy and when we're done with them we throw them back and refuse and waste. now in the last few minutes the most advanced rover nasa has ever sent to mars touched down safely on the red planet. at that and.

as you can see emotions were high of michigan control where the team celebrated the end of the 7 month journey perseverance traveled 300000000 miles in its bid to search for traces of life on mars the rover is carrying a range of instruments it will use to analyze rocks the mission which costs nearly $3000000000.00 marks the 9th craft to successfully land on mars. still to come on this news hour. all alone in the lone star state where hundreds of thousands of people are still without heating or electricity. and protesters bring young gong to a halt again as myanmar's military rulers continue their arrest campaign. and in sports the head of the english premier league at houses say are fans returning to save the season andy is here with that story.

the u.n. is warning that yemen is speeding towards the worst family in the world has seen in decades it comes as fears grow that a hooty assault on a government stronghold could make it far worse our diplomatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. the news from yemen is about as grim as it gets these scriptures from the aid agency save the children of 7 month old amir the u.n. says he's one among a staggering 400000 children under 5 years of age who are seriously malnourished and at risk of dying from starvation famines are very unusual well there has only been one in the last 20 years of a significant scale when a quarter 1000000 somalis lost their lives in 2011 what could happen in yemen over the next weeks and months is something the world hasn't seen

for 40 years something literally i thought was unimaginable but it will happen unless different action is taken. the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths told the security council the situation on the ground in yemen is now the most tense he's seen since he took up the job 3 years ago. i am certain. i think the word is probably more than that to report that over the past month the conflict in yemen has taken a sharp escalatory turn with the answer out of the most recent offensive it moderate government i have done this many times since early last year when this offensive operations started and i repeat my call now it tired america must stop there's been a

a new diplomatic focus on yemen from the biden administration to mr griffiths himself has been to tehran and riyadh in recent weeks the u.n. is hoping the dark humanitarian situation will be helped by a pledging conference on the 1st of march they want countries to give money for yemen james bays al-jazeera at the united nations. more nato troops are sent to head to rock with the possibility of an american pullout from afghanistan still looming the alliances secretary general said defense ministers had made no decision in a 2 day summit on how the mission will end there nato already has nearly $10000.00 soldiers in support roles in afghanistan u.s. president joe biden has until may to choose whether to stick to a deal donald trump made with the taliban to pull out ministers did agree to multiply the training mission in iraq from 500 to around 4000 person now nato

scroll is to ensure that afghanistan never again the closest safe haven for terrorists that would attack our 'd whole nance so our eyes will continue to assess together the conditions on the ground as we do the protection of troops remain spam and we will take all necessary measures to keep them safe. zimbabwe has joined just a handful of african nations in launching a covert 19 vaccination drive 200000 doses of the sinai farm job were donated by china but as her mythos reports from harare the presence of the south african strain is causing concern. public health care workers in zimbabwe have repeatedly held strikes in protest against a lack of personal protective equipment masks and gloves now being vaccinated

against one team will protect them it is given me that when he didn't actually go in the front line and manage the 1000 patients it was a not. vaccinated and protected zimbabwe has rolled out it's called the 1000 fascination program nationwide easing and initial 200000 doses donated by china earlier this week i mean. i think. we. might have learned. something this. is the exhibit their governments in this. the country aims to vaccinate at

least $10000000.00 people by the end of this year that's about 60 percent of the population the government says it's looking at bringing in more vaccines from china russia as well as through the kovacs facility and the global that seen alliance not everyone is keen on getting vaccinated some want to know what's in the jabs and whether there will be any side effects including those who fear they could cause infertility. health officials say the variant 1st detected in south africa is now the dominant strain in zimbabwe human rights lawyers are concerned the government could be collecting data from those getting vaccinated for medical research purposes without them knowing you could not. have. you know individuals you know being subjected to experiments sent a few experiments without the are informed consent so we were worried that the 1st

group of people to be vaccinated may go through. you know an experiment without being informed that they're undergoing that. experiment as new and more contagious variants of covert 1000 separate across africa affordable vaccines are needed urgently especially in countries with fragile public health care systems that are struggling to cope. there. well the world health organization is calling on wealthier countries to help strike a balance by participating in its global kovacs scheme to help distribute vaccines evenly among middle and low income countries officials say this would reduce the risk of new variants emerging. our big message is that we should get on with vaccination as quickly as possible and at the same time do everything possible to reduce transmission because the more these viruses transmit the more likely they

are to have additional mutations occur and more likely to have issues that could emerge that relate to reduced impact of the vaccines. the global vaccine rollout is exaggerating 20 more african nations are expecting the astra zeneca vaccine next week the african centers for disease control and prevention says a 1000000 doses will arrive but didn't specify which countries would receive them pakistan's inoculation program will get a boost next month when it receives nearly $3000000.00 astra zeneca doses so far it's only taken delivery of half a 1000000 chinese shots new data from israel suggests that once someone is vaccinated they have only a one in a 1000 shots of contracts in coronavirus of more than 600000 people are not collated with the pfizer job just 600 people then course it. all in or nearly 32000000 people around the world have received all the doses they need to be fully

vaccinated. the dutch prime minister is trying to rush through emergency legislation to maintain the country's controversial nighttime curfew their aim is for the bill to pass parliament by friday when the restriction could be lifted if government lawyers lose an appeal a judge ordered the curfew to be lifted on choose day ruling emergency powers have been wrongly used to enforce it some of the country's worst riots in decades were seen after the 9 pm to 4 30 am restriction was brought in last month so vasant has more for amsterdam on how this has become a damaging political issue. well many expect that here to happen but lawmakers have some very strong words about the government's big mistake as they call a day also call it a big mass where the country is landed in because the government has used this wrong legal basis for this curfew and as we know the curfew from the ferry start

has been leading to political legal and also security dramas here in the netherlands it has led to the largest riots in 40 years when the curfew was actually impose its 1st curfew since the 2nd world war sort of was a lot of resentment already so many took to the streets in the 1st few nights so as looting there was a lot of destruction fighting with the police and then this week the government got a real big blow because the court in the hague decided that the curfew wasn't legal at all so now they very quickly came up with this emergency law at the moment this is very quickly now being discussed in parliament there's a lot of criticism from lawmakers of course especially. the far right is really profiting from this mistake but at the end many here expect at the end of the day also tomorrow when the 1st chamber the senate will look at it that there will be

approved but there's still also an appeal hearing on friday about this curfew law so at the end maybe we still have a curfew but you can imagine this has led to a lot of confusion here in the netherlands do we have a curfew or don't we have a curfew and also it's seen as an example of the very inconsistent policy the government has had since the beginning of the pandemic. canada the united kingdom are the latest nations to announce sanctions against me on miles ruling generals as international pressure builds 2 and a half weeks after their military coup but the nation's military government is showing no signs of backing down in the face of mass demonstrations thousands have protested for the 13th straight day with security forces firing water cannon and the capitol and i put on the united nations estimates 3 quarters of myanmar civil servants are now on strike. has more on the protests.

rickshaws and trucks joined 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. once we stop the operations a revolution will be successful this civil disobedience will have been just a way we can defeat the military to into that's the way forward we are creating the traffic because we want to stop the government workers who are getting 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 gambro 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 suchi is n o

d party took place. as a joke to continues its campaign of arrest people in the capital neighborhood 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 jail 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 they've 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 to al-jazeera. there's been a surge in killings at a syrian camp housing families of ice will fight is in the past month more than 20 people have been killed at the al whole camp syrian kurdish forces say it's isis way of intimidating people and attacking perceived enemies more than 62000 people live in the camp the majority of women and children the repatriation of foreigners

in syria has been dramatically delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped students and staff or 30 say 42 people have been abducted but school officials have told al-jazeera several 100 missing has been confirmed one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run school in garra amid it dresses more from a boot on fears that an action could lead to more attacks. 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 negotiations with these bandits and many nigerians feel that these negotiations are helping to embolden these vendors to carry out more attacks remember boko haram there were reports that the government pay ransom for the release of triple goes and some other victims of. victims who have been kidnapped by boko haram duck she

was another story and even can get out that happened 2 months ago in december last year there were reports that officiers may have paid run some money to these bandits that have that they have used again to arm themselves and to prepare for more attacks on such brunner bone institutions like schools where young students are being kept in boarding schools so there are concerns and many nigerians 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 hand very very quickly. the chicago police department was woefully unprepared for the violence that broke out in the city after the death of george floyd in police custody in minneapolis

last year an independent report into their response to the black lives matter protests has heavily criticized chicago's force and some said officers took steps to cover up their actions let's go live now to al-jazeera is john hendren in chicago chong they slugs at the surface like an extremely damning report what more do we know. this was indeed a scathing report that targeted the city's leadership including the police supervisors as in julian said that the police failed in every possible level they failed to prepare to get the intelligence a head of time to know that protesters would be in the streets here in chicago even after they were in the streets in minneapolis and all over the country and they failed to have a plan in place the police department had not done training for mass arrests in

years and this is a city that has routinely experience that over the past few decades it found that when the police were deployed they were often given little supervision that left the police feeling that they were sort of left there to hang and in fact when they encountered people it was often according to this report with extreme brutality the head of the civilian police oversight board was himself or herself. and so were many other people but when it came to accountability there was little of that and that's because few records were held about where police were which supervisors made. and some police put black tape over 'd their badges so when they were allegedly committing acts of brutality there was no way to say who did what and so this happened in the space of days it took police days to get

a hold of this city and afterwards there was very little accountability and this comes in a city where you've got buildings on the west side of chicago that are still holds of their former selves since 1968 since the protest of the democratic national convention and after the death of martin luther king this is a big black mark in the city of chicago a city that should have been much better prepared for this. charge still of course we've seen a change in the u.s. administration but they clearly haven't gone away overnight how do you think the community will react to this. well it's already reacting quite badly to that the mayor lori lightfoot has sent out a defensive note saying that there were agitators from outside of town but she was also criticized she came in for heavy criticism in this report in part for the fact that she stopped the trains and buses coming to the downtown area and she lifted

the bridges so what that ended up meeting was in a lot of areas some of them very poor largely black neighborhoods the protesters were sort of left there and that was another criticism of the police that they would pen people in so they couldn't get out and then pepper spray them here's a statement from the american civil liberties union that came out just after this report once again this city in chicago police department failed to plan in any meaningful way to ensure that officers on the ground would respect the 1st amendment rights that is free speech rights and safety of those marching for justice and ended up saying that without those that guidance police retreated to their usual discriminatory practices you have african-american groups who have criticized the governor also when african-american purse or herself i mean the mayor that is lori lightfoot. this is a report that is not really surprising anybody in chicago here

a city that for decades has had particularly bad relations between the african-american community and between this city itself to 100 in chicago thank you . this is the news hour from london still ahead. the trading bubble created by the little guy but did the big players really win key figures in the game stop rallying face questions in congress. on facebook friends no more but after logging australia new sites all of the social network risk a backlash. and in support we'll hear from the former olympian who's now in charge of taking the tokyo games in a new direction. and

there's been a sudden warming in most of europe gone from frosty by day on 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 that'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 for most it's surprisingly high temperature wise borders at 20 burley and 10 but also right on the average and anchor reference to turkey's thinking about it not quite got there borzou 20 degrees 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 snow but in bulk area maybe warsaw slowly she's attempt to keep 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. this stage is set and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on asking the questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only cavities so let's leave simplicity to the headlines join me as i take on the lives dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front right here on al-jazeera. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dies and it just becomes a statistic but some have broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to

move you have to ask for help and inspire others to turn their lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on i'll just be around. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un is warning that millions of people as well as animal and plant species are at great risk of climate change report identifies 3 main threats warming climate to creasing biodiversity and

diseases caused by pollution. the un special envoy for yemen is calling for a whole to hooty attacks on the city of daraa dozens of people have been killed in the intensified efforts to seize the government stronghold. and in the past hour nasa is perseverance crafters touchdown on mars is the most advanced rover ever sent. hundreds of thousands of homes in the u.s. state of texas are facing a 4th day without heating in the middle of a freezing winter storm it's not much of the state's electrical supply leaving more than 300000 homes without power down from a peak of 2700000 on wednesday more than 20 people are confirmed dead as a result of the cold with authorities expecting that figure to rise. is in new york which is also struggling with the cold. there are growing calls for the national

guard to be deployed to texas to help with the growing crisis there's a shortage of water and food in many places in texas in supermarkets and also a shortage of gasoline as well so the problems are far and wide in texas and there's a lot of questions being answered on how was this allowed to happen there. because of this storm clearly the state was not prepared there are a lecture called grid system is independent from the a rest of the united states the power grid they have their own power grid system only for the state of texas by their choice so when it fails like it has now there's nowhere else to work to try to get power from a lot of questions being asked nancy pelosi the speaker the house of representatives has already said she plans to open potentially congressional investigations into how this was allowed to happen in texas but the situation there

is downright critical. the key players in the game stop shaz bubble have been testifying in front of the u.s. house of representatives a virtual committee shares in the video games retail a sold bikes 1600 percent in january before crashing the chairman of the online trading platform robin hood was one of those questioned it follows accusations they restricted trading by smaller shareholders to benefit the big wall street play is on january 28th you represent it to the media that there was no look pretty good isn't it true that being concerned about. to meet him as a requirement isn't that. good you just answer yes or no. or want waters i appreciate the opportunity to address that she answered. we always felt comfortable with our liquidity and the distro people really answer yes or no we

always got more matter with it i don't have to yes or no at i stick i'm glad my statement the additional capital we raised wasn't to meet capital requirements or deposit. it simply and reclaim matter. or joining us now via skype is stock market commentator and author glen goodman glenn thanks for joining us now you've had a bit of a taste of it because congress hearings like this can often be extremely painful affairs because the people doing the questioning don't often know as much as the people appearing as a witness is but can you give us a sense of why this story created waves not only in the financial world but also beyond. well one interesting thing that came out just before the hearing actually yesterday the chairman of interactive brokers which is one of the biggest

stockbroking firms international stockbroking firms in the world was talking about this and he said that actually most people don't realize that the global financial system or at least that part of it was almost destroyed by this whole affair and that was actually news to me as well i knew that this was serious but here's a guy right on the inside saying basically the problem was so serious there in fact the whole thing could have just fallen to pieces it's quite technical and hard to explain but i'm going to give it a give it a bash in simple terms basically what you had is a bunch of hedge funds who were taking bets that game stop shares would go down and this happens all the time you probably heard of shorting short selling that's what it was they were busy making bets that the prices of game stock shares would go down the problem is that due to a technicality in the way that it all works they can actually short sell infinite

amounts of game stock stock in theory so actually what happened was these hedge funds had taken such enormous bets that game stock shares would go down though when all these amateur traders in the reddit forum started buying up game stop shares and started sending the price higher and higher what that meant was that the short sellers the hedge funds then needed to quickly close their short bets or they would lose a lot of money but the problem is that they had more shares then actually existed that's quite a hard concept to be the get their heads around but that was the case there was more shorting than there were sure that they could buy to close their bets and luckily the situation resolved it so. elf to everybody's kind of satisfaction just in time but like the chairman of that brokerage said it could have ended in total

disaster in the entire system just going we do not compute and falling to pieces can you give us a sense of how resistant wall street how resistant these big hedge fund companies are to to so-called regular guy. making waves like this. they're pretty resistant though they're all the time saying things like the hedge funds have been saying oh we will cooperate with any regulatory changes that are made but they're not exactly over the moon about the idea but there what's been suggested robin hood c.e.o. you you know robin hood the brokerage where a lot of these amateur traders bought their game stock shares he was giving testimony today and he suggested financial transactions tax wouldn't be such a bad idea because if you put a little tax on every single transaction it would prevent the wall street high speed traders from having an advantage over those little amateur retail trade as you know the ordinary guys and and women and so he felt that would be one good 1st

step another good 1st step that or 2nd step the people have been talking about is trying to cut down on that shorting that i just talked about and the way that you do that is by limiting the amount of leverage basically limiting the amount of money that these hedge funds can borrow in order to make more and more bets that the shares are going to go down to 4 limits it of course and all of this kind of actually solves the problem all of this of course begs the question very briefly is whether or not the financial world needs to be more democratic. yes the financial world does in general need to be more democratic those 2 measures i just mentioned would go some way to helping it become more democratic but ultimately everybody know that this was a game that was set up for wall street's gain it wasn't really set up with the interests of ordinary traders in mind because obviously all the law being that goes on is by big wall street firms it's not by ordinary people on reddit forums so

there is a real power imbalance there and it needs to be resolved here is some 1st that there were outlined in the in the hearing today and hopefully they'll be more of that financial expert glenn goodman thank you very much facebook risks stirring an international backlash after it blocked news feeds in australia over a row over regulation government and charity pages were also wiped but after google back down it could give governments around the world resolved to get tough on tech giants charlotte bellus reports strayer 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 weather warnings the government wants to bring in a law that forces facebook and google to pay media outlets when they re publish the continent google has conceded signing deals with several media outlets but facebook

has not facebook was wrong facebook. sections were unnecessary fairway 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 with not a 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 a lot of the in the strategy of 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 why did share advertising revenue which makes it very difficult for media companies to boil the journalists our members need to use 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 whilst this floor is aimed at 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 will have fees sit for them but facebook has decided on the 3rd take away its news feed altogether

shallop bellus al-jazeera. well let's go back to the news we brought you earlier this hour that nasa has perseverance rover has made a successful landing on the surface of mars is on a mission to hunt for signs of life and this journey is just the start along with tools to try making oxygen on the red planet and an experimental helicopter the rover aims to collect 30 rock and soil samples from the crater a future mission aiming to launch no later than 2026 will aim to send a 2nd row for to within centimeters of those samples and fire them into mars orbit then a 3rd mission which isn't planned to depart for at least a decade will grab them and fly them back to earth for analysis all of the information it gathers will go towards nasa is a big goal sending people on the 200000000 kilometer journey to mars something that says it might be possible in the 2030s will turn your heresy in as director of science strategy a planet lab she joins us from washington d.c.

thank you so much for for joining us now obviously this is a momentous moment for science but can you put this into context for us what is the world just witnessed here nasa just landed there next flagship rover on the surface of mars it's carrying a ton of new technology including even an entry descent and landing system that we use to land on mars in the 1st place so we today was just the opening day of a whole new era of mars exploration and how does this differ from previous missions particularly in terms of how well they can operate on mars. so this mission is the 1st dedicated astrobiology mission it is specifically designed to look for signs of agent life and collect samples that it was sent back to earth like you were just mentioning before and that's not something we've ever done from mars we've never been able to send something back so with perseverance we can actually collect the

samples but also characterize the context from which we got the samples so that tells us a lot more information about what the sample is telling us in terms of what that rock might have formed in temperature pressure of the water chemical conditions of the water and if it would have been conducive for life but when the samples come back to earth then we can actually look in them for signs of d.n.a. which will be the definitive answer as to whether or not there ever was life in those samples but of course this could be extremely extremely costly if things go wrong i believe the 470000000 kilometer journey cost $2700000000.00 probably isn't going to ideal question for. but is it really worth it i mean i did it turns out how you're looking at it there's the big picture of we want to answer the existential question of whether or not we're alone in the universe but if you look at it from more practical sense these missions of deploy thousands of people over the course of the 10 years it takes to develop them plus

all the people that will be employed moving forward operating the missions doing the science from the data on the missions and these missions actually to inspire people to enter stem fields and pursue things like engineering even if they don't end up working on mars missions it might be something that fires them to want to build airplanes or work in space medicine or something that you can directly taken apply back here on earth has been getting pretty busy of late with the u.s. and china will sending missions to the red planet and i believe a joint russian european mission is planned next year are we in the grips of a of a new space race here is or is this timing just coincidental. i don't think it's a space race because this time we're all doing it collaboratively the u.a.e. worked with a lot of international partners including a bunch of folks at nasa for their mission russia and china were working together on their mission the nasa perseverance rover has a lot of international collaborators from canada and europe so instead of being

a race for different countries to get to mars we're all working together to get there this time and i think that's a much better way for us to approach the sexploitation and we're just looking at some images of the rover making its perilous descent the parachute unfurling can you give us a sense of all of those final moments must have been like for those who have spent so long working all making all of this comes together as a house done. a huge sense of anxiety right before landing and then a huge sense of relief once it's actually landed on the surface like i said people will spend 10 years of their life working on these rovers the 4 they lands and you're left in what nasa calls the 7 minutes of terror from when it hits the top of the atmosphere to when it hopefully successfully lands on the surface so when you get that message back tango delta or touchdown then you know everything you've been working on is worth it and now you actually get to start doing what the rover was

designed to do well let's see what the rover has to say about our origins and whether or not indeed they all have been at least signs of life on mars speaking to us from washington d.c. dr tanya harrison thank you very much thanks. democrats in the u.s. congress have introduced president biden's plans to reform immigration policies including the possibility of citizenship for $11000000.00 undocumented migrants all white house correspondent kimberly how explains what the plan hopes to achieve. 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 at 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 of 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 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. still to come on al-jazeera and sport the world number one is back in the final of the australian open the latest action from melbourne is on the way.

welcome back let's join and you know the sport. thank you so much naval serina williams has made it safe elex it from the australian open williams had been targeting a record equalling 24th a grand slam title but lost out in her semifinal against. so 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. game. 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. i stock a one the pairs last meeting at the 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 real struggle 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. having fun and it's the 1st time in your crowd in a while because major many mistakes there are no easy mistakes not like there i was on the return and it is easy. i don't know it's very different ever say farewell wouldn't tell anyone so. let's. move on to in. 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 final. despite complaining of an

abdominal injury throughout the tournament novak djokovic is now just one win away from a night melbourne title the serbian star who has not been training between matches because of his lead the shoes made short work in his semi of the tournament the prize package. djokovic beating the unseated russian 636462 this is vs felt in the territory meant to mean fell great the world number one can expect a much tougher test in the final where he'll face either danielle medvedev or divine lost at the path so will malik al-jazeera now the new president of the tokyo olympics has promised to take the games in a new direction a seiko replaces share mori who was forced to resign after making sexist comments. competed at 7 lympics as a cyclist and speed skater former olympics minister says she's aiming to deliver a safe and secure games and reform the organizing committee of predecessor mori

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 odd 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 english premier league chief executive richard masters says that fans could return to stadiums this season up to 2000 spectators started being allowed in at some grounds last december but so far goings on are being played behind closed doors again due to the pandemic. we haven't 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 opens up quickly and that we can work with government again and with the rest with everybody in and and and get

fans back in the stadiums in real numbers and get back to the real premier league now stuff because chris morris has become the most expensive cricketer ever signed up at the indian premier league auction of the all rounder has been taken on by the roger stone rolls for just over $2200000.00 morris has enjoyed success with the royals before he played for them in the 2015 season was their joint leading what gets a kick. and 6 time olympic champion mccullough schifrin is just missed out on a 7th world title so it's looms large group or army winning the women's john stalin here in italy edged down the american by just soon hundredths of a 2nd it is the smallest margin of victory in this discipline in world championship history. ok that is i suppose looking for now let's get back to me in london. thank you and the world this is the end of the news hour but i'll be back with more news

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