at a time when the rest of russia isn't plus the rise of means stops with there's plenty of money to be made and almost none of it is about the corporates. counting the cost. the a. 0 . hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. president pledges to work with america's allies to solve the world's greatest challenges america is back the transatlantic alliance is back. the u.s. and other western nations promised billions of dollars to the un's vaccine scheme

to ensure the world's poorest get their share and in may and mali and he could movement mourns the loss of a young protester who died after being injured by live ammunition i'm german ash with sports medvedev moves inside of a fast grandson tight so the father sits a pass it sets up an australian open final with world number one novak djokovic. hello welcome to the news hour all top story u.s. president joe biden says america is back and ready to rejoin the international community stepping away from his predecessor as america 1st policy in his presidential debut on the global stage biden said his commitment to nato is unshakable say saying that an attack on one member is an attack on all the

president also used his speech at the munich security conference to push back against what he described as russia's attacks on democratic countries. 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 the leadership achieving is these goals is going to depend on a course to change the 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. there is chris and slimmy is live for us in washington and joins us now describe the overall ton of comments. erema we saw here is joe biden attempting to draw a line between his presidency and the prior person in office from donald trump's

america 1st policy to america's back statement by the president a president committed to working with traditional allies and multilateral institutions and to proving that democracy can deliver in his words and to underscore that point he emphasized certain areas where international cooperation are needed in efforts that the united states would make on those fronts from fighting the coronavirus the u.s. announcing that it would be putting $4000000000.00 towards an international fund to help poor countries get the vaccine to climate change and rejoining the paris climate agreement and stressing that the united states was committed to meeting the targets in that agreement to dealing with iran and iran's nuclear program and reengaging with iran to bring them back to the nuclear deal all of this these

issues and iran in particular had put the united states under president trump at odds with its european allies so this speech really seemed like an attempt to mend fences to move on and also to reassert united states leadership on the global stage iran is pressing issue and certainly as science of indicated that they want to return to the deal but it's just not clear how that can happen and we had a statement of intent from joe biden but you only mentioned iran briefly in his remarks. he did in the united states and iran have been at this stalemate while both countries claim support for the nuclear deal and the desire to return to it in some form the united states has insisted that iran come back into compliance before returning to the deal iran wants the united states to lift sanctions 1st and so what we are seeing from joe biden could be seen as

a small gesture to be willing to engage in talks with iran at the invitation of the europeans that he has expressed a willingness to do that without any sort of preconditions we also saw the president's team at the united nations returning to preach from policies and how they deal with iran in terms of international sanctions and the treatment of diplomats in new york. we also have been hearing since the president delivered that speech he's made some comments to u.s. media elaborating on his attentions there he says that he is open to having a diplomatic conversation with iran he expressed that pulling out of the nuclear deal was a problem because the united states didn't have any visibility on the situation on the ground and he thought it was important to reengage in that but he also said to american press that he didn't foresee any further steps on the part of the united

states prior to perhaps these talks happening so not a big movement from the united states there but what could be seen as a small gesture thank you chris incidentally in washington. well the u.s. special envoy for climate has the governments to do more than the bare minimum on climate change also speaking at that munich security conference john kerry said environmental degradation threatens lives livelihoods and global security is warning comes after the u.s. officially rejoined the paris crime agreement on friday 3 months off for its formal withdrawal by the trump of ministration went into effect former secretary of state said if efforts to reduce carbon emissions are not stepped up the whole world will suffer the consequences well the paris agreement was signed by $196.00 parties in 2015 coming into force around a year later the us was the only country to withdraw it wants to cap the global

temperature rise to less than 2 degrees celsius compared to pre-industrial levels but a un report on thursday said temperatures on our planet are on track to rise by 3 and a half degrees celsius that's on top of a 1.9 degree rise that's already been recorded and far higher than the limit that was set by the paris accord 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 highs somewhere it 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 extremely learned predictable they become increasingly desperate many according to some studies hundreds of millions of people will be forced from their homes forced from their habitat for the place they've lived a life. or wealthier nations are pledging to pour money into the u.s.

coronavirus vaccination program which i aim is to inoculate poorer countries as richer governments snap up supplies the e.u. says it will double its contribution to kovacs promising a total of $1200000000.00 and us president joe biden is vowing $4000000000.00 half of which will be sent immediately meanwhile france are saying it'll hand over up to 5 percent of its doses but hasn't said why and the u.k. also says it will donate any surplus vaccines without giving any details either kovacs hopes to deploy $336000000.00 doses by the end of the month of june and around 2000000000 by the end of the year al-jazeera jonah hill has our report now under pressure from the united nations and the world health organization g 7 leaders promise to step up their efforts to make vaccines available worldwide make sure everybody gets a vaccine that they only. hold onto this game only the city police have

already announced that i believe the case strongly strongly supported ahead of the virtual meeting chaired by britain's prime minister the un said just 10 countries accounted for 3 quarters of the entire global vaccine rollout $130.00 countries have not received a single dose the w.h.o. has warned of a catastrophic moral failure that will be paid for with lives and livelihoods among the world's poorest rocks iniquities not just the right thing to do it's also this morning thing to do. 37 pledges of funding in future vaccine donations have been welcomed but countries like india and south africa want to share their access to vaccine patents what we're calling for artery forms in the how patents are in the rooms in this case we because this should be in people's votes is in many countries as possible we have the capacity to be able to produce. for them so this is

this we carried starting with africa has to wait for lift overs from the rich countries is not going to end the epidemic only france and germany have considered making some of their own vaccine stocks available to developing countries now the french president has suggested donating up to 5 percent of existing supply he has support from the german chancellor says among them to come from different immuno workers i stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not beaten and to all people in the world have been vaccinated i'll mention of the vivid infant the g 7 pledges of progress so campaigners but not enough job to hold 0. all the g 7 nations eager to counter the influence of russia and china which in their thanks for finally to deliver doses of their own jobs to pour a country's russia sputnik vaccine for example has already been authorized in 26

countries with another 300000000 doses being delivered to the african union i may china meanwhile is supplying vaccines to several countries in middle east asia and latin america the french president emanuel macron told g 7 leaders that africa requires 13000000 doses as soon as possible he says unless the west steps up african countries will turn to less democratic nations like russia and china for help. now in all the stories we're following the dutch senate has approved new legislation that would ensure a controversial coronavirus curfew will stay in place a judge ordered the measure scrapped earlier this week saying the government misuse their emergency powers well the dutch appeals court will now rule on the case next week that will widespread protests held in january when those restrictions were fust imposed step voss and brings us more on this now from the hague. after a week long political and legal battle about

a controversial curfew here in the netherlands the government will have its say the 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 fire was denying us 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 argued that the pandemic is still a serious threat and there's still a chance of a 3rd waif will happen looking at all the very instead of going around the court country but this curfew has been a major headache from to start for the government because immediately after this 1st your curfew since world war 2 was imposed riots started in several cities around the country and it led to the worst violence in 40 years and this whole political and legal battle is taking place just a few weeks before the elections. still ahead for you on this news hour from london

. gunfire on the streets of somalia's capital as a power struggle frightens to tear the country upon its. a nervous way to the mexican border where hundreds of asylum seekers hoping president joe biden will let them come into the u.s. and in support of bron james hits another big korea landmark general be here with that story and i think. a new abode outbreak in africa is alarming global health officials 2 new cases have been confirmed now in the democratic republic of congo including one that was far from the center of the outbreak 6 infections have been confirmed overall and 2 deaths the world health organization says a country has more than 8000 vaccines available a vaccination campaign for people deemed high risk started earlier this week.

meanwhile the world health organization is also preparing to send 11000 about vaccines to gamey in the far west of the continent 8600 roll will be shipped from the u.s. and people could start receiving shots as soon as monday guinea has now officially declared an epidemic with 3 confirmed cases and 5 deaths recorded so far guinea sierra leone and liberia wall at the center of the world's worst of all outright between 200-2016 which 11000 people were killed nicholas hike has our report now. in guineas for is to region the epicenter of the new bull outbreak at the regional health center you and health workers dispatched from conakry to treat the patients in isolation among them is nurse lucy hubbard's 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. lucy who was treating her grandmother who had a fever and was bleeding from her nose and everywhere we tried to get blocks clothing medicine from the main town eventually the grandmother died and nursed constructs of the old missis. 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 and 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 u.n. says that new vaccines are on their way we are shipped in. $11000.00 of ebola vaccine 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 all break with pollution vaccine alone will not stop a virus harbored in nature by bats and primates the resurgence of a bola 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 dr lori cater is a technical officer at the wild health organizations office for africa and says there is a high risk now with a full plan outbreak. we are going to fax you needn't contact and contact off

contact who will be identified by your images so we're not going to action it all to people it's not a it must question if. we are confident that we feel it is strong investigation we would be able to identify i want to contact them to vaccinate them well respected receive $11000.00 this sunday and it will stop no money vaccinating them on monday we have a jewelry conducted it up to this assist member for this event so. a lot of this been a normal. very high to come to live in and do it you know an event and that will be about event because as you much know we have one confirmed case going to be. traveling from more

or recorded to going to you know or was it a crew is a. 1000 kilometer from what. we consider the risk is very hard to come to. turning now to developments in somalia security forces up have opened fire on hundreds of protesters on the streets of the capital mogadishu violence broke out during a protest against delayed elections catherine so reports on a power struggle that's threatening to split the country even further. was. barely heard a protest march started near the airport when this happened. an intense firefight between government forces and proposition fighters the demonstration had been called by opposition presidential candidates and was being led by some of them they included somalia's former prime minister has said heidi

and opposition leader of the last month. they are angry about delays in holding a presidential election and the continued state of mohammad up to life are mind you in the top post after his stomach speired 2 weeks ago the opposition claims government forces for provoking the fight. to do security forces opened fire against the lead up peace rally in mogadishu this happened as the event was being widely watched in the media and the world as a result of this some have died and others were wounded but prime minister mohammed says opposition fighters fired the 1st shot every citizen has the right to demonstrate peacefully and for the security services to be the ones to guard the demonstrators and ensure their safety but we will not accept demonstrations guarded by forces outside the state apparatus this is unacceptable the constitution does not accept and we won't accept any shape or form. several people were injured in

buildings around the airport destroyed by a rocket propelled grenade launched by an identified man. 3 other presidential candidates were also caught up in an exchange of gunfire between security forces and unknown gunmen at a hotel in the city on friday q the president of ordering the attack saying it was an attempt to assassinate them mogadishu's now calm but tense many people say they want an end to the insecurity and uncertainty but they also know the longer their political leaders feel to agree on how an election will be run and who will be in charge of the country in the meantime there was the situation can get catherine soy al-jazeera. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die after being injured in. protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital naperville thousands of people have joined demonstrations

now for a 14th straight day calling for the release of deposed leader. scott haidar ports. a site the antic who protest movement never wanted to see the death of a protester. me kind had just turned 20 when she was shot in the head as police dispersed a crowd of protesters in the capital naked or 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 protests 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 don't look at why we don't want to go back to a time when our boys suppress again 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 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 that 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. 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. now the majority of people have died from that 1000 and last had disabilities. and charities are now paying for them to be given priority for vaccines the office for national statistics says nearly 51000 coronavirus deaths were recorded in england between january and november last year more than 30000 of them that's around 60 percent were people with a disability health officials this week moved an extra 820000 people up the vaccine priority list the campaign is a saying that doesn't include people with mild or moderate learning disabilities data from the o. s. suggest that women with disabilities have died at 4 times the rate of non-disabled women for men the rate is 3 and a half times higher. is the c.e.o. of mencap an ngo that works to support people with learning disabilities here in

the u.k. she joins me now by skype from stonehaven in scotland tell us more about how people with learning disabilities have been treated during this pandemic good evening yes we have found sadly that co-create has just shown a huge bright light on many of the inequalities that people with a learning disability have faced for many many years even before any of us had heard the word coronavirus people with a learning disability were experiencing huge health inequality and discrimination and unfortunately the pandemic has is has exposed some of those inequalities in our society and for many people with a learning disability this is really the last blow for them not to be included digit priority as the facts nation in rolled out across the. just to be

clear is that evidence to show that many people with a learning disability who have died of covert 19 i mean that they are i mean they're more susceptible they're more likely to to succumb to the virus. absolutely and that's one of the reasons why men have another disability organizations families and people with a learning disability themselves really don't understand why they're not in one of the priority groups over here in the in the u.k. so the most compelling evidence is a public health england report that was published at the tail end of last year that shows that if you have a learning disability you're up to 6 times more likely to die if you contract the virus than your non-disabled peers and really shockingly and worryingly if you're in the 834 year age group so a young person with a learning disability you're up to 30 times more likely to die and at the moment

people who have down syndrome are in group 4 in the priority list and people who are described as having a severe or profound learning disability are in group 6 and we're saying that the data suggests there's evidence to suggest that all people with a learning disability however you might define their learning disability should absolutely be prioritized for the vaccine why do you thing they are not being any prioritized of vaccination and have you had much an indication or a response from the government how are you trying to pressure them to change that question. well this campaign has been running ever since the joint committee for vaccination and immunization publicize their priority list and we couldn't even at that early stage understand why people with a learning disability were being put in a high priority group so since the campaign started i personally and others many

others who wanted to spoke to recognize ations have spoken directly with government ministers including the vaccination minister we've presented the data to representatives from the a.j.c. vi we've spoken to senior people at the department of health and social care and we're really struggling as to why they fail so reluctant to change this arbitrary definition of severe and profound learning disability the good news is however that despite all the 4 nations of the united kingdom following the j.c. vi guidelines what we are saying as a result of the campaign and quite rightly said oh is that sound clinical commissioning groups some g.p.'s and some local n.h.s. trusts are using their discretion and they are offering the vaccination to everybody in that community with a learning disability but sadly it's not the majority of people and so we need to keep chatting about this and asking those who make the decision to change their

mind about the odd tree definitions disease a paper lining his ability or dying of covert it 6 times right the wider population it is a very important campaign and thank you for thank you for joining us tell us more about it in a harris from madcap thank you. you know the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about a young indian crime activist is sent back to jail in a case that involves. agricultural reforms thousands of protesting fine this. is a landmark case in britain supremes court which could drive major changes in the game economy and the 1st at a time when the australian open for this pairing of the details could jam.

how well it does from right on the cool side across northeastern parts of europe because much smaller of spinning in a from the west and that's lifting the temperatures up for quite nicely so we'll see temperatures getting up into double figures for london and for paris negative double figures the for moscow's you go on through the next couple of days that mild air which does encroach away into central parts of you upset to continue but it's not exactly t. shirts and shorts weather because we've got quite a cane wind is a southerly wind hence the warmth we're going to lot of cloud and rain also making its way in some 14 celsius there in london more into double figures in glasgow a 17 in paris near frayed 3 record high temperatures for some of these western parts of europe more of the same as we go on through sunday but notice some rather wet weather some snow coming in across the pyrenees to northern parts of spain wetter weather also sliding across a good part of portugal central areas to standard generally stay dry not bad in

vienna light winds 11 celsius will feel quite pleasant but it's still very wintry there it's that western side of russia come further south into africa a cool breeze across the northeast of africa generally dry for the most part but as we go on through sunday it will turn increasingly wet for a good part of morocco with the threat of flooding. 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 leave you have to ask for help and inspired 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 al-jazeera. the latest news the decision here means that donald trump will not be excluded for

running for political office in the future he could run again for the presidency in 2024 with details coverage this is now the only question that a functioning and if strictly it will be open to allowing european workers to work in farms hearing about exchange from around the world a detail study by soul city has shown just how much life has been transformed. welcome back a recap of the top stories now u.s. president joe biden has announced a return to multilateralism at the munich security conference and his presidential

debut on the global stage biden said his commitment to nato is unshakable. meanwhile g 7 leaders of page more money for the un's coronavirus vaccination program which i aim is to inoculate poor countries e.u. set has promised $1200000000.00 in united states $4000000000.00. in the dutch senate has approved new legislation that would ensure a controversial coronavirus curfew will stay in place a judge ordered the measure scrapped earlier this week saying the government misuse that emergency powers the dutch appeals court ruled on the case next week. now court in india has ordered a climate activist to be kept in jail while she's investigated for sedition and he said rested to share ravi fish sharing an online document that told people how to support thousands of protesting farm as anger at agricultural reforms as erupted into the biggest challenge prime minister narendra modi's rule in years elizabeth

brought to reports now from you daddy. i think. the. new 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 when their livelihoods was done to. her west has led to protests in the cities of ben deludedly delhi and mumbai and criticism from some of india's leading lawyers and environmentalists and here we are looking at a 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 period human rights lawyer called and can solve this is the accusations are unfounded said vision requires in addition that there be actions taken aimed at overthrowing the state has done nothing of this so the said charge is bizarre. free speech is not so addition police began investigating the document off to swedish climate activist gretta thornburg shared it on twitter the document tells people in india and abroad how they can peacefully and democratically support the farmers protests but police say it aims to wage an economic social cultural and regional war against the country also 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 on the citizenship protests when. it is a misnomer good it isn't separatism left-wing borderless was raised in that context and used to disrupt the protests and thought of them during this ever since these protests started all over the way i do it. thousands of families continue to protest against the government's recent agricultural laws on the outskirts of delhi supporters of the chevy say her arrest is awarded to those who stand up for the elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera you daily. alibi in an administration has started to unraveling a key immigration policy of former president donald trump the 1st asylum seekers

have been allowed to enter the united states ending their long wait in mexico before a pairing and of course the u.s. is expected to release 25 people a day into the country who were in rolled in trunks remain in mexico program the department of homeland security has started a virtual registration process for thousands of people carney waiting south of the u.s. border until that court hearings can take place on iraq but i joins me live now from mexico city tell us about the response in mexico and latin america. so friday marks the official reversal of the so-called migrant protection protocols put in place by the trumpet ministration in early 2019 as you can imagine this is a this has been very well received by authorities specifically here in mexico mexico has really sort of taken the brunt of the responsibility for these policies policies that led to the quote unquote remain in mexico program but it's also been a welcome we've seen a welcome response from international human rights organizations who have been

saying repeatedly for the last couple of years that denying asylum applicants the ability to have their asylum claims processed while in the united states betrays the obligations and commitments that the united states has to international human rights law so right now we're talking about somewhere around $25000.00 individuals $25000.00 migrants from an original $65000.00 who are currently going to see their asylum cases finally start to be processed after months if not years of waiting on the mexican side of the border oftentimes under under questionable conditions many times we know that the migrant camps that asylum seekers are staying at here in mexico are less than sanitary and more importantly often can be very dangerous migrants who are fleeing countries like honduras guatemala el salvador are often fleeing situations of violence only to find themselves in similar situations while waiting for their asylum claims to be processed and being

forced to do so here in mexico but again we're talking about $25000.00 people even though the by the did ministration has started on friday reply reprocessing these claims it's not going to happen overnight it's going to be a very slow process it's interesting because we saw in pasta american administrations ready pressuring countries in latin america to try and block emigre immigration before it gets to the u.s. border tell us more about why we're seeing an uptick in the number of people making that journey to the u.s. now. sure and effectively just to add to that mexico did most immigration analysts would agree that mexico effectively acted as the wall for the trumpet ministrations of immigration policies but but you're right in that observation that there has been an uptick in the number of migrants coming up from the north and central america again these countries like hunters guatemala and el salvador over the last few months what we saw in 2020 was

a general decline in overall migration from the region but then something changed in december and we saw a spike that is higher than even in prepared demick levels many people have speculated that it might have a little bit to do with the more relaxed policies by the biden administration and that very well could be true but we have to remember that many of the conditions that were leading people to flee their countries before the pandemic haven't haven't improved situations like extreme poverty widespread violence political instability arguably these are all factors that have been exacerbated by the pandemic you couple that with 2 back to back hurricanes that slammed into central america late last year displacing in honduras alone displacing more than a 1000000 people that gives you a little bit of a better idea a better picture of what is is causing this massive increase in migrant numbers thank you very much money rapidly in mexico city thanks manny i want to turn to

nigeria now officials there are saying that it goes with an gang that kidnapped a group of students is on the way one child was shot and killed in the attack on a state run school in qatar on wednesday representatives from the school have told al jazeera that hundreds of children are still missing ahmed address has the story from. kill it moves his fortune or to buy coal. 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 i see it 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 kidnaps son or 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 still in stormed in now empty beds and deserted classrooms are reminded of going attacks on boarding schools kidnapping so runs them by armed groups that come on across many northern nigeria states. in december more than 350 students were abducted and eventually rescued by niger security forces some parents education is under attack. and i haven't been able to sleep since this happened i'm asking the government to please risk it my son he will continue with the patient despite these types of threats once he's risk youth i assure you he will get back to school. pressure is mounting on the government to end these types of attacks and parents across nigeria are left wondering if students will ever be see officials say contact was made with the group holding the students and that they would be released soon although

officials insist that money was not part of the negotiation there were reports that runs more speed for hundreds of students taken from a boarding school in december 2020 the were also reports that money and prisoners were exchanged for some students taken from a girls' 2nd school in chibok in 2014. many of the paying ransom to criminal groups is in bolding them given the resources to buy arms and the confidence to strike again amid the increased al-jazeera. the operator of a nuclear power plant in japan has confirmed water is leaked in its reactor buildings off turn of quake on saturday in fukushima daiichi nuclear plant was already crippled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011 new damage could complicate the parts decommissioning process which is expected to take decades to tokyo electric power us initially said that saturday's 7.3 magnitude tremor did not cause any

abnormalities more than 180 people suffered mostly minor injuries in the quake which also triggered landslides damaged homes and cop power. allan major overhaul of hong kong's public broadcaster could soon be on the cards raising even more concerns about press freedom in the territory a government review of radio television hong kong was initiated last year following its coverage of anti-government protests in 2019 there he found editorial management deficiencies and a lack of transparency on con officials say they are making sure the broadcaster complied with its charter adrian brown reports from the past his headquarters in hong kong. well r.t. age has 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 of the boss of r.t. 8 kerry 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 learned many commentators in hong kong those still prepared to speak out so the what the government wants is a broadcaster that's 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 . now the u.k. sue from court has ruled that drivers should be classed as workers and not self employed judges said that the right hailing joint control their work allocated to customers and dictated the fare as the decision to casa fire drivers as workers on the british law is in the right to paid holidays and a minimum wage has $65000.00 active drivers here in the u.k. ruling could also have wider consequences for all the independent contractors working in the so-called economy or gabriel is an academic at the london

school of economics focusing on the digital economy joins me now via skype from london how serious a blow is this ruling for. it really is difficult to overstate how much of an indictment of this model this this. this this ruling is because not only is there a car for cation that drivers cannot be considered self-employed which is absolute integrity is the business model it enables them to keep their labor costs down they save up to 30 percent of their labor costs through this misclassification of work it it also enables them to more easily fire and discipline workers because they're not subject to employment regulations to things like that missile processes but also the ruling when you when you look into the detail of it it kind of it critiques so much more about the model so for example the fact that. you but

doesn't consider the amount of time that drivers are plugged into the app to be considered as part of their working time even though that is essential to this model which is to have lots of drivers plugged into the app even if they're not taking passengers directly from a to b. and it also says that it does not get to decide if employment law applies to their workers so this is a big blow and it's very it's going to be very interesting to see how the pumps negotiate this because similar rulings have been passed down by lower court today in the u.k. and also within higher courts in other parts of europe so it really will be a big test to see if and how to but will try and negotiate their way out of this because something that is very central to their ability to operate has not been undermined and as you say a key part of the judgement is the bit where he speaks about his level of control over those that that the people that work for them now now classified as

workers. apart from the possibility of an expensive compensation payout how could it affect the company and its business model well it renders the business model as it currently exists unsustainable uber is a very unprofitable business the model is very improbable it consistently makes losses where it is able to continuously secure venture capital it's true it promises being a sort of moonshot company that can expand its levels of data collection for the infinity in to infinity and this model which will limit the number of drivers that can be on the road any time you don't have to situation where. there's no cap the number of drivers that could be plugged into the app at any one time this will create a big blow to that because they can't keep up this model of ever expanding data

networks that's that's it that's the fascinating thing about companies like you but people are aware that actually they're not profitable and by squeezing their drive the salaries they're not making a profit they're just sort of slowing the the rate of that loss one of the one of the wider implications for the gig economy for other companies like this. so you didn't invent the kick a comedy the gig economy has always existed and this kind of informal work what companies like to have done in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has basically expanded and formalized this kind of work and made it far more mainstream and that has been enabled by the fact that austerity means that there are fewer good public sector jobs and also that a lot of these fundamental services like child care in the transportation are being outsourced to private companies so what i mean by that is essentially that this is not just an issue with one company this is a business model that has been infiltrated into so many of our core and services as

i said so you know the platform economy the gig economy the digital good economy in most specific is has transformed you know the care sector the domestic sector the korea sector and they all use similar techniques one of which is this misclassification of workers algorithmic management so essentially this is going to do 2 things it sets a legal precedent that can then be used by workers in other sectors to contest that status but i think it's also done is. essentially has been able to get away for this the so long because it has thought of its workforce as an easy target it's a largely migrant black and ethnic minority workforce. you know people who are seen to have have seen to have the social and political power to to take on such a massive company like. what this is really shown is that that was

a severe underestimation of that workforce you know this struggle was started 6 years ago by 2 the drivers who has built work a power and have essentially never had more in the in the course it took it took 6 years but they finally they finally got that rolling thank you so much i'm sure be chatting about this story before long really appreciate it dalia gabriel from the london school of economics. so i had all the news out and have all the sport with gemma and this slip that cost french skier a gold medal at a while championships. gemma

has always bangs mariam rushes that m.f. a devil take on a wild number one novak djokovic in the final of the australian open he base to final 6 a pass to me within sight 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 kalra feel nidal stefana since the past saw medvedev put in one of his most impressive displays in melbourne so far. off the taking of the 1st $64.00 against it's about he was even more dominant in the 2nd overpowering the 5th the to take it 6 to stay 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 the 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 1st thought like that i don't have a lot of pressure because he never lost. in a time to cheer us here in the final so it's you who has all the pressure is no getting to roger roger find a grand slam so. i 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 size that has already been won in melbourne at least merton's that arenas securing their maiden doubles title at the event this is the 2nd grand slam win for

the belgian about the russian press because they won the u.s. open as well in 2009 see. real madrid had coaches in indians and has his eyes on another 2 a saddam has been talking up the abilities of 2 of europe's best young strikers but he's a parasite on forward killing a back way and bristol dortmund earning holland's start in the last round of champions league games the bad loans being seen as possible transfer targets for 0 remorse due to a former source they're both very good players like leo messi cristiana rinaldo and many more obviously the younger but everything they're doing proves to me that they are the present and the future you had saddam mention messi there but where will he be playing his football next season is barcelona contract expires in the summer and he's been linked with a move to manchester city but the club say they haven't made him an offer yet at a lake a star le bron james has made more basketball history he's become just the 3rd

prior to possibly 35000 points in the n.b.a. the 4 time n.b.a. champion passed the milestone by scoring 32 points in his team's 109298 defeats against the brooklyn nets is points tally now stands at 35017 karl malone and the league's all time leading scorer kareem abdul-jabbar and the other players to achieve the feats we've been speaking to n.b.a. broadcaster brandon robinson and he believes the brawn could end his career as the leeks highest ever score. yes a chance to me jason kareem abdul-jabbar was considered tom brady of the n.b.a. for free and definitely left his imprint on the n.b.a. from scoring perspective a social justice perspective when you look at le bron james now remember the lakers . chase goal we had announced you know the 35000 mark after the loss to the mets 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 was really impressive for he's done with social justice and more so i think when you analyze his whole body of work ron is a great player and readies a living legend in these continuing to add on rebounding and things of that sort are definitely in his territories so great job i want things for sure. and francis match if ever has won his 2nd gold medal at the world skate championships in italy he was the unexpected winner in the men's giant slalom his compatriots alexy panzer i have been the favorite to win this lift on his final run then he finished outside of the medals 29 year old fabro also won gold in the men's power that events that is all of us for the saving marianne it's lovely thank you so much jana. that pretty much wraps up the news hour but i will be back in a while with much more of the day's news and bring you all the latest on al top stories president joe biden speaking at the munich security conference really

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