algis there. when every single. hour. of the. al-jazeera. hello 'd i'm adrian forget this is live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes . i'm sending a clear message to the world america is back u.s. president joe biden announces a return to multilateralism that his 1st appearance at a global summit. but his says he's willing to rejoin the iran nuclear talks with

european partners for his criticized what he called to iran's destabilizing activities across the middle east. and we stand together on many issues with. leaders from the world's richest countries gathered virtually to discuss a united strategy on covert 19. we'll have an exclusive report from the epicenter of a new abode outbreak in guinea as the world health organization calls for drastic action . sports. news inside of a grandson tai so as to follow suit so fast to set up an australian open finals with well number one joke that. america is back president joe biden has told u.s. allies across the atlantic but washington is done going it alone and will return to multilateral solutions to solve problems it was his presidential debut on the world

stage the u.s. president addressed g 7 leaders and the munich security conference in the past few hours by pledged $44000000000.00 to the kovacs vaccination program to ensure that low income countries can receive the vaccine for covert 90. i know the past few years of strain and tested our transatlantic relationship but the united states is determined determined to reengage with europe to consult with you earn back our position of trust and leadership achieving his these goals is going to depend on a course to 2 g. proposition and that is the united states must renew america's enduring advantages so that we can meet today's challenges from a position of strength by can pledge to work with europe to bring iran back to the negotiation table over its nuclear program although iran says that it's waiting on

the u.s. to make the 1st move by to push back against what he calls china's economic abuses of russia's hacking of computer networks and attacks on democracy germany's chancellor angela merkel praised president biden's actions so far as president. this year the prospects for multi-lateralism are a lot better than what they used to be and that has a lot to do with joe biden being the new president of the united states in his speech he announced that his administration has taken steps and we have seen that this is not just empty words but that they are taking action they return to the paris climate agreement the world health organization the human right councils and the readiness to reinvigorate the iran nuclear deal these are important steps towards more multilateral cooperation i can only support him in what he said it's up to the democratic countries to do this not just to talk about freedom and values but to deliver results of france's president about whom across says that europe is

stepping up its role in nato to rebalance the transatlantic relationship it's time for us to take much more of the burden of our own protection you know hope 0 opinion its key members. have to be part of the solution of their own security when we speak about this architecture of thirst and security when we discus with russia or china about ballastic me size on the size involving our countries we should be part of the negotiation when we speak about security at our borders it is normal and sometimes us could decide to be less involved if we are too much dependent in the us with a need to we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected at our borders and we experience this situation in 2030. from our diplomatic editor james spaces live for us at the united nations

chaves such a lot has happened over the last few hours 1st there was that the g 7 a virtual meeting but it was behind the closed doors we don't have much idea of what was discussed and then of course we had this munich security conference so to wrap it all up for us. well certainly key elements were coded 19 in climate and the u.s. committed with its g 7 partners to try and fight coded 19 in the u.s. now joining up with the rest of the world are on climate after 4 years of a president trump but i think the big news really is the new president president biden and his role on the global stage and after 4 years of president trump the shock factor never knowing what he was going to say or tweet this was very predictable i might even say boring but it's that predictability that i think is really going to encourage european leaders they will but see here that the message

that the u.s. is back america is back with the 1st words that president biden spoke at the man munich security conference and it's how it ended speech as well i think they'll be looking also at how the u.s. is going to deal with its major challenges in the world interesting that president biden singled out china and russia as you'd expect saying on china yes they expect a strategic. competition with china he said he was clear eyed about that competition though and he said it was something that he welcomed very different when it came to russia he said russia attacks our democracy democracy is and it weaponize is corruption and he said putin he didn't even say president putin seeks to weaken the transatlantic alliance but even there the new u.s. president making it clear that he still wants

a multilateralism to exist even with china and russia he says on issues like 19 and climate they can work together yeah this on the day that the u.s. returned to the de paris accord of course something that is pretty dead as well as leaving the that that the paris agreement was. say that he was going to take the u.s. out of the world health organization president biden now saying that he intends to to strengthen the world health organization. yes i mean the world health organization clearly at a time of a pandemic even if you take the view that many world leaders do that it needs reform and is flawed is the only global body you have to coordinate things and so the ministration has followed the lead of every other major country in the world in working with the world health organization very much following the overall theme of the biden have been astray showing which is

a commitment to multilateral diplomacy. thanks indeed jim space there live at the u.n. in new york where president biden also spoke about iran at the munich conference he said he's willing to reengage with a caveat that iran must stop what he called destabilizing activities earlier the byte that ministration accepted an invitation from the e.u. to sit down with iran and the other signatories to try to save the agreement the trumpet ministration withdrew from it in 2018 that imposed sanctions re-imposed rather sanctions triggering escalating tension between washington and tehran iran retaliated by ramping up its nuclear program in violation of what was agreed to the country's supreme leader says there's a deal can only be struck if the u.s. removes the sanctions it's imposed let's go by not attack iran of zeros dorsetshire barrios therefore a store so what will to iran be making of what the president said. well i think

there was a lot more expectations from the speech than what we actually heard from president biden 2 sentences in total about iran and the current situation which is quite serious with this fast approaching deadline the iranians have said on february 23rd where they will withdraw from the additional protocols of the nonproliferation treaty where they will no longer allow inspectors to visit freely all the nuclear sites this is something they said that is reversible but because the united states has failed to uphold its end of the deal and return to the nuclear agreement by lifting all the sanctions they've imposed iran is now forced to take these measures it is a law that was passed in parliament in december and they have already taken the 1st step by creasing enriching levels 20 percent and this is the 2nd step they will take to uphold the law that is limiting access to doctors in the country there

was some hope that with this speech there will be some kind of an announcement but the rainy and foreign minister tweeting over the past 24 hours saying that they want to see commitment action and the need to that's the sequence of events they hope would have unfolded but it appears that that is not the case we still have the director general of the international atomic energy agency rafael grossi come to tehran on saturday we hope to hear more about his meetings that will takes place between the various officials here there is a sense of urgency and there is a lot of concern in the international community that this step could be very very detrimental in terms of the future of this nuclear agreement because it's a very serious but whole point of that 2050 nuclear deal was not only to limit iran's advancement of its nuclear program but also to have more transparency between iran and the international community about its nuclear activities and this that they are going to take will certainly be a step backwards in that direction dust. they're lying for us in tehran though so

many thanks indeed joel rubin is the executive director of the american jewish congress and a former obama biden administration deputy assistant secretary of state he joins us now live from chevy chase maryland maryland rather via skype good to have you with us again joe what do you make of what president biden said as far as iran is concerned to start with a at least america is willing to sit down once again with the other signatories of the deal and get things moving again. it's great to be with you and president biden's speech was very clear that the united states is back the united states wants to engage europe in a multilateral framework for many of the issues that confront the world not just the united states and iran and nuclear diplomacy is clearly part of that and the context for the speech today was interesting because just yesterday a senior state department officials in the in the by administration talked about

getting back to the table working through and with the europeans to do that and also the biden team pulled back on snapback sanctions at the united nations that the trump administration had imposed in september that were widely rejected so they're making moves and i think now in many ways it's a test to see this iran and iran going to accept the european invitation as well to get back to develop a process so that both sides can get what they say they want which is repeal of sanctions and of compliance with the nuclear agreement that's what has to happen if we're going to see anything move forward to what extent was the president's speech to the media conference good look at his administration's woad view if you the bull will shape its foreign policy during its top. while i was thinking about the way that described this and quite frankly it felt like of make democracy great again where joe biden really was making the argument that democracies and the rule of law

are critical to our survival our future defeating climate change defeating kovac having a higher quality of life and a better economy for all that democracy is at the root of that and clearly here in the united states we understand how precious it is and how close we came to losing it with the insurrection at the capitol several weeks ago so it was a powerful speech in that way in stating america wants to engage police in democracies multilateral but it also did many traditional ideas as well which is according nation in collaboration and just. a reset of sorts for america on the world stage what about his criticism of of russia and putin as he called him it didn't even refer to him as president putin he said russia attacks all democracies russia seeks a weak european alliance the us stands up for the territorial integrity of ukraine he said yeah this is definitely stronger tone than lattimer putin is used to

you don't get any tone like that from donald trump and joe biden and democrats in particular are very focused on the fact that russia has meddled nards mockers he has been trying to divide americans through online and gage made over the years and there is a tie in and many leaders now in the administration have seen that time between this information coming out of russia and misinformation here at home and united states in the rosen of our democracy so i think joe biden didn't mince words and he let the europeans know that he has their back he's not going to undermine nato he's not going to undermine the european union and he's going to talk tough the vladimir putin and he's focusing on putin it's not russia that's the problem it's prudent that's the problem i was going to talk to joe many thanks indeed for being with us again joel rubin i think in chevy chase maryland. britain's prime minister boris johnson hosting a virtual summit of the g. 7 meeting on something u.k. france germany italy canada and japan and the u.s.

of course the main priority of the meeting was to come up with a united strategy to tackle the covert 19 pandemic let's hear what he had to say. our plan is is to ensure that the building back better the. technology that will be used to tackle climate change dilutes the hundreds of thousands if not millions of new green collar jobs that we knew it could but use a job growth is what we're going to meet after this pandemic and i think that the other bill that that operation offers the right way forward this is the news hour from al jazeera still to come on the program the 1st protester to be killed in myanmar becomes a symbol of resistance as demonstrations against the better free continue to grow. chaos in the capital of somalia shots fired during

a protest demanding of the president step down. and support the prong james had set out a big career landmark general will be here with that and the rest of the day's action a little later. the world health organization has shipped more than 11000 doses of vaccines to guinea to try to stop the spread of ebola it's asked 6 countries to be on high alert for possible infections and this is where new cases are emerging in get is south as are serious nicholas hawk expect that explains. great in guinea's for a street in the epicenter of the new ball outbreak at the regional health center un health workers dispatch from conakry to treat the patients in isolation among them is nurse lucy hobbs husband it is in this home where nurse lucy suffered from

a fever vomiting and diarrhea a week later she died in hospital health workers were unaware that she had constructed a bulla during her funeral relatives and friends hugged her body contracting the virus but not her uncle dr louis who kept his distance he says he alerted authorities because he sensed her death was more than simply a personal tragedy. to see who was treating her grandmother who had a fever and was reading from my nose and everywhere tried to get blood clotting medicine from the main town eventually the grandmother died and nursed the. security forces stop and search vehicles in an attempt to trace close contacts and check for temperatures isolating those that appear ill guinea is on high alert people are scared haunted by the previous epidemic in 2015 over 11000 people died

in 22000 were infected across guinea sirrah leone in liberia a bull that was contained thanks to the development of a new vaccine. but the 350000 doses distributed then expired last december the un says that new vaccines are on their way. to the $11000.00 is. seen and this is the achievement at least for the 1st time in guinea we are having a vaccine not the beginning of outbreak to control this our break within the population vaccine alone will not stop a virus harbored in nature by bats and primates the resurgence of a bull and brings more questions than answers with scientists still trying to understand why a forest region is again the center of the outbreak nicholas hawk al-jazeera

there's been heavy gunfire on the streets of somalia's capital mogadishu it happened during a rally calling for the president step down and for delayed elections to go ahead. the shots were fired as a presidential candidate was holding a march against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire roads have been sealed off and there's a heavy security presence the u.n. has called for calm both sides to come together to reduce tension a presidential candidate and former prime minister. has addressed the media accused security forces of killing protesters. today security forces opened fire against us as we led the peace rally in mogadishu this happened as the event was being watched around the world some have died and others wounded i'm sending well wishes to those who did so what's this all about war somalia's federal government in the 5 federal states that deadlocked over how to carry out election reforms an

agreement was reached in september to hold the 1st in direct elections since the 1960 s. but that deal on ravelled and the party's missed december's deadline to hold parliamentary elections the mandate for president mohamad abdalla him homage also known as expired nearly a week nearly 2 weeks ago his opponents no longer recognize him as president under demanding that he hand power to a transitional government how does he risk catherine soyuz following developments for us from neighboring kenya. about this incident at the airport we have spoken to people in or around the airport who have told us that operations in the airport have been suspended and it follows this dramatic since we've been seeing that played out this morning we saw an exchange of gunfire intense an exchange of gunfire between government forces and propositioned forces those also a huge explosion i have

a little more detail on that we have spoken to some opposition leaders who are saying that it was a rocket propelled grenade that was launched and inside the airport and the building was destroyed we've also spoken to the government spokesman who has confirmed there was an incident but wouldn't give us more details so this all happened at the start of this protest march that was being led by several opposition presidential candidates including a former prime minister have some kind of they were trying to get to an area where they had plans to address this massive rally to call out the government and everything that has been going on in the country politically it's very difficult to see how that is going to happen now adays police checkpoints military checkpoints all along the way huge military deployment those also another incident yesterday involving 3 other presidential candidates this still holed up at a hotel called might very close to the venue where this political rally or this

a protest rally was supposed to be held it has been surrounded by military pass and now one of the presidential candidates of former president shaikh serif has blamed accused presidents for marjoe of ordering an attack on them to stifle their freedom of expression and to stop them from going to that rally nigerian officials say that negotiations are under way with an armed kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those strikes by the clippers and weapons stays on loan but hundreds of still missing person. 24 hours off the mass abduction reports emerged that another village was attacked are serious unaddressed reports from. caleb knows he's fortunate to be back home. he injured his leg escaping from a group of kidnappers who attacked his boarding school in nigeria's got a district his brother didn't survive he was shot dead by the gunman a seat on the way. but i was sleeping when i heard the kidnappers come into our

dormitories they started shooting guns when i saw them i jumped over the fence other students also started running everywhere. nearby yet another family is devastated they're waiting for updates hoping that kidnap son would be found alive . the government should help us find our families our only hope lies but the government. hundreds of students who are sleeping when they are sailing stormed in now empty beds and deserted classrooms are reminded of growing attacks on boarding schools kidnapping so ransom by armed groups that come on across many northern nigeria estates. in december more than 350 students were abducted and eventually rescued by niger security forces some parents education is under attack yeah. i haven't been able to sleep since this happened i'm asking the government to

please risky my son he will continue with the cash and despite these types of threats once he's risk youth i assure you he will get back to school. the pressure is mounting on the government to end these types of attacks and parents across nigeria i'm left wondering if students will ever b.c. officials say contact was made with the group holding the students and that they would be released soon although officiousness says that money was not part of the negotiation there were reports that ransom was paid for hundreds of students taken from a boarding school in can get out in december 2020 the while also reports that money and prisoners are exchanged for some students taken from a girl's 2nd school in chibok in 2014 many of the paying ransom to criminal groups is involved in in them given the resources to buy arms and the confidence to strike again may decrease al jazeera the 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die after being injured in manaus anti coupe protests she was shot in the head last

week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital naypyidaw thousands of people have joined nationwide demonstrations for a 14th straight day demanding the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi and a return to civilian rule scott heide reports a sight the antic who protest movement never wanted to see the death of a protester. kind had just turned 20 when she was shot in the head as police dispersed a crowd of protesters in the capital navy doctors say it was a live bullet she had been on life support since she was taken to hospital on february 9th. i want to encourage all the citizens to join the protest until we can get rid of the system. in central yangon security forces extended an area blocked off by barricades. protesters have gathered in the district around too late to go to nearly every day since the rally started more than 2 weeks ago it's the site of

some of the largest gathering. elsewhere in yangon a group from the l.g.b. t.q. movement marched against the coup their concern progress for their community could be erased. we don't want to go back to a time when. we don't want to go back to the previous age where the military companies so we have gathered here to protest today and. more members of the joint are to face sanctions from britain 3 from the defense and interior ministries will be added to the 16 already sanctioned for human rights violations before the coup assets will be frozen and travel restricted canada will also impose sanctions this is unacceptable behavior. must. be resisted that we must find our way back to democracy and those who perpetrate violations of human rights abuses as we've seen in manama must be held to account. in the ancient city of began protesters tap what

they believe is the supernatural to counter the military john they performed a ceremony to put a curse on the coup leader general. 7 the temple has been associated with national leaders for centuries the general had visited it just last year to seek divine blessing it's got harder al-jazeera. a major overhaul of hong kong's public broadcaster could be could be coming raising. and signs about press freedom a government review of radio television hong kong was initiated last year following its coverage of anti-government protests in 2019 the review found editorial management deficiencies at a lack of transparency hong kong officials say that they're making sure the broadcaster complies with its charter on are from adrian brown is outside the broadcasters headquarters in hong kong. well r t h k's been around since 1928 but this is undoubtedly one of its darkest days what's happening here at r t

h k in many ways reflects the more profound changes that are happening elsewhere in hong kong right now on friday the government released the findings of a damning report into the. essentially accusing it of bias in its coverage of the recent anti-government protests the minister responsible for overseeing broadcasting said that r t h k had failed to promote hong kong as unique one country 2 systems form of government on the same day it was announced that the boss of r t h k was leaving his post after more than 5 years he's being replaced by a civil servant with apparently no broadcasting experience and of course just a few days ago there was more controversy when r.t. h.k. dropped the b.b.c. world service that came after the broadcaster was blocked on the mainland one of the complaints the government had against r.t. h.k. is that one of its reporters recently interviewed a representative of the world health organization and the representative was asked

whether taiwan should be considered for membership well of course taiwan is regarded by china as a breakaway province to be taken back by force if necessary it's one of china's red lines it all raises questions of course about the future of this broadcast don't really commentators in hong kong those still prepared to speak out so the what the government wants is a broadcaster that. much more in the image of china's state controlled broadcaster namely one that doesn't stand up to the government or hold its officials to account the weather next here on out 0 then a mission to the red planet after a 7 month journey nasa is rover gets to work looking for signs of ancient life on mars. a victory for drivers the u.k. supreme court rules to give them workers' rights dismissing an appeal by the white hating giant. out of 1st ever title would have destroyed it open for this pairing

but the cells coming out in supporters. but. the weather still a little cold a little wintry across parts of the middle east a fair amount of cloud now making its way across iraq pushing into iran you can see we have got some rain some snow towards the coaxes eastern parts of turkey seeing some a rather wintry weather little bit some places a shabby rain to just into central areas of saudi arabia and the winds have gone round to ignore the direction here in costs now just to be killed or that has been recently as of around $21.00 or $22.00 degrees over the next couple of days with the possibility of a few spots of rain south of that it does stay dry and find plenty of sunshine coming through the sunshine stretching down across the horn of africa although we

might see one or 2 showers just making their way into were ethiopia will be some shabby rain to just around southern parts of uganda pushing across into the eastern side of the democratic republic of congo some very wet weather there in play across the eastern side of angola but the really wet weather well that is from our tropical cycle making its way towards the fossils east of mozambique some very heavy rainfall coming through. as we go through saturday starting to ease as we go one monday as it pulls away further southwards at least what. you say is a set and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think. and asking the questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only counted the politically simplicity into the headlines join me as i take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and me the contradiction

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hello again this is the news are from al jazeera adrian figure with you here in doha the headlines u.s. president joe biden has announced a return to multilateralism he spoke out of the g. 7 summit his 1st appearance at an international conference he promised a unified approach to the pandemic and to climate change biden went on to speak about iran and said that he's willing to rejoin talks for a return to the 2050 nuclear deal parts he criticized her run for what he called destabilizing actions of the u.k.'s prime minister has urged the g 7 leaders to work together to ensure a fair distribution of vaccines to developing countries is hosted a virtual conference to find the best way forward for a global covert recovery strategy. let's get more now on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic u.n. secretary general antonio addressed of unix security conference and said that the

pandemic has created an opportunity for a global reset our global tests and challenges are getting bigger and more complex yet our responses remain fragmented and insufficient it's obvious 1000 is x. rayed the world exposing deep fissures and. those vulnerabilities go well beyond pandemics and public else climate catastrophes looming inequality and discrimination are reaping the social fabric or options destroying trusts the struggle for women's rights faces a push back sustainable development off track. wild west behavior in cyberspace is creating new vectored. and even the not pretty it's not mcgreevy she means you don't thing despite the welcome recent decision of united states and the russian federation to extend the new start treaty now 2021 must be the year to get back on track and pandemic recovery is our chance the head of the world health

organization has welcomed the billions of dollars in additional funding for the kovacs initiative but said that there is a race against time to vaccinate the entire global population the longer it takes to suppress the virus everywhere the more opportunity it has to change in ways that could make vaccines less effective and opportunity to mutate we could end up back at square one more vaccines are being developed approved and produced there will be you know for everyone but for now vaccines are a limited resource we must use them as effectively as we can the united states special envoy for climate has backed president joe biden's calls for governments to do more than the bare minimum on climate change speaking at the munich security conference john kerry said that environmental environmental degradation threatens

lives livelihoods and global security a former secretary of state said that if efforts to reduce carbon emissions aren't stepped up the whole world will suffer the consequences. what we do or don't do in the coming months and years will make all the difference it's a threat multiplier when tensions are already high somewhere and resources are increasingly scarce the embers of conflict just burn brighter and when farmers can no longer make a living because the weather is so extreme and unpredictable they become increasingly desperate many according to some studies hundreds of millions of people will be forced from their homes forced from their habitat from the place they've lived a life died. a course in india has ordered a climate activist to be kept in jail while she's investigated for sedition police accuse the other environmentalists of waging

a social media war after they shared an online document telling people how to support the farmer's protests al-jazeera as elizabeth brought a report from new delhi. at the. delhi court hoping to be released from jail after 5 days in police custody but the judge denies have request. ravi was arrested as part of an investigation into her and 2 other environmentalists in connection with an online document that supported farmers protesting against new agricultural laws they say favor corporations and were ruined their livelihoods. her arrest has led to protests in the cities of new delhi and mumbai and criticism from some of india's leading lawyers and environmentalists and here we are looking at the document a google document that almost becomes like a like

a nuclear cord of sorts that's the way the government is actually looking at it it's a google document that tells people what hashtags to use and what is the problem that indian farmers are actually facing people did well during the human rights lawyer and can solve it says the accusations are unfounded said rick was in addition to the actions taken aimed at overthrowing the state has done nothing of this so the charge is bizarre. free speech is not sedition police began investigating the document off to swedish climate activist greg. on twitter the document tells people in india and abroad how they can peacefully and democratically support the pharmacy protests the police say it aims to wage an economic social cultural and regional war against the country say the sharing of the document on social media indicates there was a conspiracy behind the events on the public day in january when the largely

peaceful protests erupted into violence involving the police. the police accuse 6 separatists of helping create the document many of the protesting farmers belong to the sick faith political analysts say the government is trying to discredit the protests by linking them to separatists despite a lack of evidence when we've seen similar methods being used in previous purpose in the citizenship protests when. it is a misnomer terrorism separatism leftwing borderless was raised in that context and used to disrupt the protests and taught them during this ever since these protests started all over that every hard work of. thousands of families continue to protest against the government's recent agriculture on the outskirts of delhi supporters of vavi say her arrest is a warning to those who stand up for them elisabeth pradhan al jazeera you delhi. the worst of the extreme weather system that's gripped much of the u.s.

central and southern regions appears to be. millions of people in texas still without power to bone chilling temperatures cool it was a pipes to bust more than 20 people have died across the areas affected by the storm full cost to say that lingering snow showers will continue in the northeast let's go live now to chicago. john 100 is a what looks like a crisp cold day with will sunshine. it is indeed and it's very cold out here but chicago is prepared for weather like this texas hasn't seen subzero temperatures that blanketed the entire state for 35 years and that's why this is all happening right now williams of texans are now trading a lack of power for a lack of water what happened initially is that those systems are not really designed for the cold and texas has been deregulated and that means there is an all

of the redundancy and it's a unique state because it has its own power system they've got plenty of oil and natural gas there they didn't need to tie up with other states but this is what happens when exceptional cold hits the states what's happening now is that all of the power plants are back into action after several days of cold that's according to governor greg abbott there but now 7000000 people are without water or being asked to boil their water that is because of the pipes have now frozen those water treatment plants around the state have been knocked offline due to those cold temperatures but even though the power stations are back up that doesn't mean everyone is getting power there are a couple 100000 people still without power and that is because the transmission lines those over ground wires have been weighed down by ice and been taken down then you've got underground transmission is well that has been hit so this is a state that. his going to have to redo its power system they have done their own

thing for decades and this is when they found out that all of those redundancies that were eliminated by the deregulation that happened in texas turns out those are necessary and the governor says they're going to have to redo the entire power grid this series of storms has now killed 59 people. live for us in chicago so many thanks dude. the u.k. supreme court has ruled that goober drivers should be classed as workers and not self-employed the chance is agreed with an earlier tribal decision that found the 2 drivers were workers under british law that gives them the rights to a minimum wage and paid holidays are deemed barba reports from london. this was in fact a 3rd attempt it overturning the initial employment tribunal ruling by that ruling came back in 2016 and it said that drivers for their around 65000 of them in the

u.k. most of them in london should be considered classed as workers and not as self employed contractors that is crucial and that's what's been up held by the supreme court in the last few hours that court focused on several different aspects of the nature of the relationship between drivers and the company but one of them that's crucial is that the company sets the fare so the drivers don't have control over how much they can earn her job in fact the company had argued that they that the drivers should only really be classed as working when they're driving for a fare but many drivers wait around for hours although they're only out although they are logged on if you like and become the court also ruled that the company restricts their right to decline work so this is very important it's

a big blow for you but they have said that they respect the supreme court decision but they're saying it only focused on a small group of drivers using the app back in 2016. massless latest moss rover has touched on successfully on the red planet a spacecraft possibly runts has traveled 470000000 kilometers to find out if that was have a life on boss will bring us reports. space scientists erupted in cheers when perseverance landed safely on mars it was the culmination of an action packed nailbiting 7 minute landing sequence. first the spacecraft entered mars orbit then its intreat capsule raced into the martian atmosphere at 19000 kilometers per hour. the craft then deployed a large parachute to slow its approach to the target zone. slowing down the

craft fired thrusters to hover just above the surface then deployed a crane to lower the rover gently downwards i can confirm jack actually. began picking up the end of. the complex and delicate operation went off without a hitch moments later perseverance beamed back images a barren landscape studded with boulders congratulations our savior pain and our own team that's not years well excellent it's the most ambitious and far reaching mission to the red planet baby and you know by the end of the made by the make the end of the point thirty's you can start pushing out of the earth moon system in lancaster about somebody. the rover is primary goal to search for signs that microbial life may have existed on mars billions of years ago we can go somewhere

in our solar system you know in our backyard and see signs of life in them and it will be on another planet that could tell us the life is incredibly common and gives us a great shot at and finding my. complex or even intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. perseverance is landing spot is disease crater which was once likely a large water filled lake a prime spot for traces of long ago life imagine you know an ancient microbial net microbial that was growing along the shoreline of lake cemented in iraq and leave behind those kind of biological exteriors if we see things like that associated with organics that would be an absolutely fantastic ride that would be probably the best they were look for on mars perseverance will also take samples of martian soil and rock those samples will be stored securely inside the rover and we're going to like them for future mission to come grab it back to earth. finally perseverance

brought along a helicopter drone called ingenuity which scientists hope will be able to fly a short distances proving that flight is possible in the extremely thin martian atmosphere with its dramatic landing done perseverance is mission will last one martian year or $687.00 earth days the knowledge it acquires for humanity will last forever rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles a dutch appeals court will rule next week in a case against the government's controversial nighttime curfew a lawyer for the government has just appeals judges in the hague to have its on the panel because if you the bill was approved by the lower house of parliament on thursday the senate will debate the legislation and vote on it next week. sébastien is in the hague and has an update for us. after a week long political and legal battle about a controversial curfew here in the netherlands the government will happen it's

a judge here decided that for at least another week this nighttime curfew starting at 9 pm every evening will still be in place this is a setback for a group of fires deniers who surprisingly wanted case against the state earlier in the week saying that this law this curfew restricts people freedom here in the netherlands too much and it's out of proportion but the status argue that the pandemic is still a serious threat and there's still a chance a 3rd way for will happen looking at all the very instead of going around the court country but this curfew has been a major headache from the start for the government because immediately after this 1st curfew since world war 2 was imposed riot started in several cities around the country and it led to the worst violence in 40 years in this whole political and legal battle is taking place just a few weeks before the elections the new u.s. defense secretary has just held his 1st press conference former general lloyd

austin spoke about a number of foreign policy issues including afghanistan china and russia he said the u.s. must now work hard to strengthen alliances. castro was at that press conference she joins us now live from washington what more to have to say heidi. wager in afghanistan was top of mind here of course this is the secretary of defense lloyd austin coming off of his 1st meeting with the nato ministerial meeting in which he spoke with allies about the recommitment of us to these alliances afghanistan of course was a major source of concern coming from those allies given former president trumps unilateral move to draw down u.s. troops in afghanistan to 2500 now of course we have this looming deadline under the peace deal negotiated between the afghan. government and the taliban for

may 1st being the date for the remainder of u.s. troops to leave and it's still unclear whether or not the u.s. will keep to that deadline secretary austin said that he would not divulge where the thinking is on this but it's something that certainly he tried to appease the allies during his meeting go to syria as hard as you castro live in washington but he thanks heidi. just ahead here on the news hour in sports the slip across this french skeer of gold medal of the world championships.

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elegant type of sport has gemma. thanks adrian rushes down on medvedev what i call the world number one novak djokovic in the final of the australian i think maybe it's a final since a pass to me from inside of his 1st grand slam title so how magic has the action. russia's done even medvedev is heading to the australian open final taking on the man the not cower rafael nadal stiff honest it's the past so medvedev put in one of his most impressive displays in melbourne so far was. after taking the 1st $64.00 against it to pass he was even more dominant in the 2nd overpowering just 5th the to take it $62.00. and. the 3rd set was much closer since the past battle hard to stay in the much but that only prompted medvedev to produce one of the shots of the tournament. it was

a moment that he enjoyed to the max shortly before putting his greek opponent out of his misery. medvedev taking the final 75 to set up a showdown in the final against world number one novak djokovic was 1st thought like that i don't have a lot of pressure because he never lost. in 8 signs at us here in the final so it's you who has all the pressure in. getting to roger rafa in the grand slam so was i just hope that i'm going to get out there show my best tennis as we as we see i can win some big names if i play good sunday can't come quick enough for medvedev seville malik al-jazeera. one title has already been won in melbourne at least merton's and the rain as a blanket securing their maiden doubles title at the event this is the 2nd grand

slam winner about isabella russian they won the u.s. open as well in 2096 i think from you this was the differing that there was kind of . didn't care about a result. you can you know what it works really well. thank you from my so so forward so it's. always good. right madrid head coach is it is it and has his eyes on another g o he's been talking about the abilities of 2 of europe's best young strikers both paris such a man forward kilian and back bay and brazil doctrines earning holland's start in the last round of champions league games the pair have long been seen as possible transfer targets around. us from our source they're both very good players like leo messi christian or an elbow and neymar obviously they're younger but everything they're doing proves to me that they are the present and the future. you had said

and mentioned messi there but where will he be playing his football next season is barcelona contract expires in the summer and has been linked with a move to manchester city for the club so they haven't made him an offer yet city they're doing just fine without him 7 points clear at the top of the premier league but pep guardiola isn't getting carried away of course we're so proud to have done so for both going in february in the middle of february the springtime is in the team and you win the titles in the summertime so that's why i still have. a lot of games in a lot of tough moments to fight in a good moment and you. and i like a star lebron james has made more basketball history he's become just the 3rd player that's a possible 35000 points in the n.b.a. 24 time n.b.a. champion pasta milestone by scoring 32 points in his teens i want to 9 it's a 98 defeat against the proclaim that his points tally now stands at 35017

common lane and then weeks old time leading scorer kareem abdul-jabbar the other players to achieve the feat. support was doing what i want to do next but again the basque wants you to aspire to you and me to be linked with some aggressor play his game is always an honor and i just i always want to go out there and you know put a game the right way. you know inspire my teammates and inspire but i watch me and just try to be as good as i can be every single night you know and not really put a ceiling on my ability to produce something or what i can do it or this game. has some pretty good moments and very thankful. we've been speaking to n.b.a. board cost brandon robinson he believes that brown could end his career as the knicks highest ever score a yes a chance to i mean he's chasing kareem abdul-jabbar was considered tom brady of the n.b.a. . definitely left his imprint on the n.b.a.

from scoring perspective the social justice perspective when you look at le bron james now remember the lakers. chase goal we had now and you know the $35000.00 mark after the loss to the nets earlier a few hours ago but then when you look at just what he's done on a basketball court yet he has a chance to do it and i think what's really impressive for he's done with social justice and more so i think when you you know as his whole body of work ran as a great player readies a living legend in these continuing to head on the rebounding in things of that sort are definitely in his territories so great job i wanted james for sure. and france's match affair has won his 2nd gold medal at the world ski championships he was the unexpected winner in the men's giant slalom his compadre it's alexiev hands really have been the favorite to win this slip on his final run when he finished outside of the medals that soil sport for now i'll be back with more

a little bit later. betty thanks indeed mary mozzie here to update you with the day's top stories just a few moments i'll see you again thanks for watching by for that. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very good that change is water privatization on anybody they really feel. those people who see every 2 years

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be the hero the world needs right now. the u.s. president heralds a return to multilateralism pledging to work with america's allies to solve the world's greatest challenges america is back the transatlantic alliance is back. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program u.s. and other western nations pledged billions of dollars.