this stream on out is they are. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world is another matter when you cool hand luke leading news and current affairs that matter to you. the united states will work closely with our european union partners and the capitals across the continent from rome to review to meet the range of shared challenges we face u.s. president joe biden says america is back as he reaffirms washington's relationship with europe which saw tension as other donald trump. but i wonder and jordan this is out as iran live from doha also coming up

al-jazeera has an exit of a confidential u.n. report which is accuses trump ally erik prince of violating the libya arms embargo . leaders of the world's top economists promised to work harder to make that seems more accessible to developing countries. brazil's president wants to relax gun laws saying it'll bring crime down but safety advocates strongly disagree. a more worldly view on foreign affairs has been declared by the new u.s. president joe biden is firmly changing the focus from predecessor donald trump's america 1st policies at the munich security conference his 1st big international speech since taking office a month ago biden vowed his country is back can really help get reports from washington d.c. . it's not about pushing reset on the past 4 years u.s.

president joe biden addressed to global conferences with world leaders on friday but delivered one clear message forget the america 1st policies of his predecessor america is back the transatlantic alliance is back i know i know the past few years of strain and tested our transatlantic relationship but the united states is determined determined to reengage with europe. biden made clear he believes solutions to global threats must be collaborative during the virtual gathering of the g. 7 and later the munich security conference leaders conferred about share threats posed by china iran and russia. on the future it is very important that we develop a common transatlantic russia genda which on the one hand makes corporative offers but on the other hand clearly identifies differences and i can only agree with the

american president on the question of one makes a strong strong european union unfortunately russia is not working on this at the moment. on the issue of climate change biden underscored he believes the planet faces an axis tensional threat even as the united states has officially rejoined the paris climate accord envoy john kerry apologized for precious time last pledge the united states will do all it can to meet a mission reduction targets he urged others to do the same what we do or don't do in the coming months and years will make all the difference as biden repudiated the nationalist approach of his predecessor donald trump he had knowledge the challenges to preserve democracy remain both inside and outside the united states democracy doesn't happen by accident we have to defend fight for strength

renewing we have to prove that our model is in a relic of history. it's the single best way to revitalize the promise of our future the global conferences were an opportunity for president biden to lay out his foreign policy agenda and chart a new course with european leaders while reassuring them that the era of trump style diplomacy has ended can't really help at al-jazeera washington al-jazeera has seen parts of a confidential report by the u.n. which finds the former head of a u.s. security contracting firm violated an arms embargo in libya it centers around the dealings of erik prince the former head of blackwater and prominent ally of donald trump the report explains how he allegedly sent weapons to a militia commander who was trying to overthrow the internationally recognized government in tripoli breaching the arms embargo exposes mr prince to possible un sanctions princes the brother of trump's former education secretary see divorce

where jason pack is the founder of libya analysis he joins us via skype from the tension in new jersey and jason good to have you with us how significant is this u.n. report and if it's true how serious are the findings for erik prince well it's certainly true because previous you would sanction reports have already made this clear. i just want to point out that there was an attempt by half charred to get helicopters and he paid for mercenaries but they didn't really do any fighting in the helicopters never arrived so this was more of a keystone kops kind of situation and it's up for us to decide are we going to have global governance that cracks down on these kind of mercenaries whether they're a fact of or not you know it's for the u.n. and the major powers to decide yeah i mean erik prince has connections right up the line doesn't need to form a president donald trump how do you think the biden administration is likely to

deal with this case and because this is one distraction that joe biden could do without isn't it. that's an interesting way of putting it. i would look at eric prince's policy as the shadow foreign policy of not trump but particularly jerod question or because it's the nexus between jared cushier the emma roddy's particularly m.b. said and erik prince who made policy outside of the formal channels of the state department of defense department and that characterized trump policy towards many different conflicts biden is going to be keen just to revert to consensus policy done within our formal institutions the defense department in the state department and he's not going to want to prosecute all of the illegal actions that happened under his predecessor because there are many both in foreign and domestic policy and breaching this u.n. arms embargo does however expose erik prince to possible u.s. u.n.

sanctions as you were saying but but this is a man who's very well connected so is he likely then to be personally held accountable and punished do you think. he's not going to be punished but he's not he's not not going to be punished because of his connections so turkey. and the emirates and russia have violated the sanctions by bringing in arm amends by deploying their own armies as well as mercenaries and they face no sanction so it would be quite hypocritical if erik prince was sanctioned for doing exactly the same behavior that major nation states do you might say is a lower hanging target because he's not a sovereign state but then again as you pointed out prosecuting him would be a distraction and would cause rancor among the trump base because erik prince and betsy device and his allies are so well connected and really what's fascinating is that the report that al-jazeera has private access to as well as the new york times doesn't mention jarrett questioner and this is really

a policy where prince was not acting on his own he was acting at the behest of jericho there who wanted to see an amber roddy ally emerge victorious and the muslim brotherhood suffered defeat just let me get a final thought from you i mean this u.n. report apparently contains pages of code names cover stories offshore bank accounts secret weapons transfers and how much does this case do you think provide a glimpse into the murky world of mercenaries operating in libya. well none of that is new i mean i think the only interesting thing to point out to your viewers is that this entire mercenary operation was a failure it may have conned hafter into paying $80000000.00 but he never got the helicopters and the mercenaries left benghazi within 2 weeks of having arrived and it tipped the scales of the fighting so what's relevant is that this points out how incompetent people like erik prince are and they're not able to project power into

even 3rd world backwards to tip the scale of fighting that's done by drone powers like turkey who have competent general steps and are able to actually teach jason pak great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera. letter now wealthy nations have pledged to pour more money into the un's coronavirus vaccination program kovacs which ends to people in poor countries the e.u. is promised $1200000000.00 the us says it will put in 4000000000 general reports 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 the vaccines that they only. come through this together. already announced. a strong 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 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 vaccine equity's not just the right thing to do it's also this morning thing to do. 37 pledges of funding and future vaccine donations have been welcomed but countries like india and south africa want to share access to vaccine patients what we're calling for ari forms in the how patents are in this case we because this should be in people's votes in is in many countries as possible we have the capacity to be able to produce. for themselves this week carry it 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. is among them to come from japan immuno of august i stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not beaten and till all people in the world have been vaccinated i'll mention after a bit infant the g 7 pledges of progress so campaigners but not enough joe to hold al-jazeera dutch politicians have successfully rushed through a night time coronavirus curfew new laws were quickly drawn up after a court last week sided with the antic of your campaign as ruling the restrictions had no legal basis and must be scrapped the government was seeking to overturn the decision but a senate vote on private means the appeal court case is now redundant there are large protests against the curfew across the country. so the flooding is forcing

people from their homes in the nation's capital after 180 centimeters of rain has been recorded in parts of jakarta the number of people affected is still unclear major flooding has become increasingly common in indonesia. lots more so to come here not just here including desperate for clean drinking water the big problem for millions of people in the u.s. state of texas after a wintry blast. after a picture perfect landing nasa's perseverance rober start sending back kind of photos from mars more that stay with us. well i'm pleased to say that we have got size of moderate now pushing back into the deep south of the u.s. we're still struggling to get to 3 celsius there through friday but this temperatures will gradually pick up as we go on through the next couple of days

dallas at around 8 degrees celsius by the time we come to sunday could be getting up to around 40 degrees celsius is something of a rapid thought coming through but at least the temperatures are going in the right direction after what was what 10 days of temperatures falling below freezing across northern parts of texas the west the weather the more active weather that's going to be have it's was east disable clearing out of the way as we go on through saturday still a few wintry flurries over towards lake erie that eastern side of the lakes but much of the u.s. will be dry and fine as is the case too into canada some wintry flurries around d.c. coming in across the pacific northwest through the mountain states across the rockies sliding a little further east was into the plains as we go on through sunday but not too much weather action going on a little further south you might catch your shower there into arkansas maybe into louisiana as well east of that is generally dry if on the cool side south of that it is generally dry and on the warm side lots of tropical sunshine across much of the caribbean but it's also what it was.

but. hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish it shifts the focus covering the way the news this covered the listening posts on a. pool. welcome

back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour u.s. president joe biden has declared his country is back sweeping away his predecessor's america 1st policies biden addressed the new nick security conference seeking to reassure allies sidelined during the trump years. al-jazeera has seen parts of a u.n. report which accuses an ally of donald trump erik prince of violating a libya arms embargo confidential report alleges that prince sent weapons to a militia commander who is trying to overthrow the internationally recognized government. and wealthy nations have pledged to pour more money into the un's coronavirus vaccination program kovacs which aims to inoculate poorer countries the e.u. has promised $1200000000.00 while the u.s. says it will put in 4000000000. millions of people in the u.s. state of texas don't have clean drinking water after a rare winter storm power lines were caught in the cold snap affecting water treatment plants john hendren reports from chicago. frigid texas is trading power

problems for water woes this past week has been an enormous challenge maybe unlike any challenge that you've ever dealt with before has been far too burdensome for the lives of all those affected. we're working around the clock and we will continue to work around the clock to address to meet your needs and challenges after days of rare freezing temperatures blanketed the 2nd largest state in the u.s. power stations are all back on line that after unusually high demand led to rolling blackouts transmission lines taken down by ice still have left nearly 200000 without power but now texans face a new crisis 7000000 people a quarter of the state or being asked to boil their water if they have it at all because the cold weather has left broken pipes and taken water treatment plants

offline san antonio faces fire and ice as frozen fire hydrants forced firefighters to truckee and water flowing crews battling flames at an apartment complex haven't been able to get a workout we call out and. now everything that we have in there it's got grocery store shelves are largely bare leaving residents lined up in their cars for food and water president joe biden says he's declaring the entire state the disaster zone i talked with the federal emergency management agency fema the administrator of the saff community we're going to ask him to accelerate our response and request for quote it's a different declaration a major disaster declaration the president says he hopes to visit the lone star state next week here in chicago where the northern end of the weather system that struck texas about 1500 kilometers north of dallas but your god is used to weather like this it's water and power transmission systems are hardened for the routine

cold weather that strikes every winter texas hasn't seen a storm system like this in 35 years and it's clear its system simply weren't up to the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. one a former u.s. president donald trump's most restrictive immigration policy is a started to be dismantled thousands of asylum seekers have to wait in mexico for their cases to be heard in the u.s. now under the biden administration up to 25 people a day will be allowed to enter the u.s. immigration courts consider the future of iraq in the reports from mexico city on whether the policy change when affect the number of arrivals at the border this is very much on the radar of immigration officials both in the united states as well as here in mexico and we should note that throughout the course of 2020 the lock down from the pandemic saw an overall decline in migration from central america

specifically but then something interesting happens in december and we see a spike in the number of migrants coming up toward the united states we're seeing numbers that are higher than even before the pandemic began and we have heard those speculations that this could be in part due to the more relaxed policies by the by did ministration and that very well could be the case but we also have to remember that a lot of the conditions that were leading to people or driving people out of their countries in central america extreme poverty widespread violence political instability these are things that have improved you could argue that they've actually been exacerbated by the coded 1000 pandemic now you couple that with 2 back to back hurricanes that slammed into the region late last year in november in honduras alone this resulted in more than a 1000000 people being displaced you put all of these factors together and you start to get a better picture of what's really driving this increase in migrant numbers over the course of the last few months. and government has released dozens of pro-democracy activists from jail as the country prepares to mark the 2nd out of the story of

a popular uprising. the prominent journalist harlan deryni was among 33 people freed and a presidential pardon algeria's president i've been watching to boone announced the mood to appease the iraq protest movement which forced former leader abdul aziz beautifully from power in 2019 organizers are now calling for mass protests on monday demanding a complete overhaul of algeria's rubin system hundreds of displaced syrians have been protesting in the rebel held city of idlib they're demanding that president bashar assad allow them to return to their homes elsewhere in syria which they say had been seized by the government they also charted against the upcoming presidential election saying it will be ready for. our 1st demand is the rate of return because the land is ours and it does not belong to assad and his regime as for the elections we do not want to elect decide we want him to be tried and executed. we demand the right of return to our homes safely there is no legitimacy

for assad nor the election is only represents us we are a free people and we want to return to our own. nigerian officials say they're negotiating with an armed gang that kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken on wednesday is unknown but hundreds still missing after an address reports now from a bhutto. caleb lose his fortune or to be back or. 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 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 reminded of going attacks on boarding schools kidnapping surrounds them 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 risk it my son he will continue with the education 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 i'm left wondering if students will ever be safe officials say contact was made

with the group holding the students and that they will be released soon although officials insist 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 december 2020 the while also reports that money and prisoners were exchanged for some students taken from a 2nd school in chibok in 2014. many here feel that paying ransom to criminal groups is involved in them given the resources to buy arms and the confidence to strike again ready agrees al-jazeera gun ownership is being relaxed in brazil and a controversial move by the president jabil tomorrow opponents say it could increase violence but supporters argue they need greater protection i want to tell you not to have reports now from rio de janeiro's. inspired in broad daylight and in the middle of the night bullets flying over slums every day

violence in rio de janeiro that's by people on the spot and shared by thousands on if we're is the shoot out the app was created by physics teacher myself and 3 friends. i missed how people avoid being on the wrong place at the wrong time by informing them what parts of the city dangerous. the president should be able somehow to says the best way of reducing crime in brazil is to far more people. he's just taken measures to make weapons and ammunition more widely available in a country that has one of the world's largest number of homicides. it's a promise he made to his voters but one that has sparked outrage among gun control campaigners they say brazil has weak done control policies and dismantling them will make violence worse but it's not only that is that also president bush for now

though is in a sense. a lot of the rhetoric of former president trying when it comes to incite is more loyal supporters but in the caves in brazil are also this category is that these degrees benefit their gun owners collectors sure's there's to actually be only inside in case for example there is an election fraud in brazil in 2022 also not a has been and still is loyal to trump who has not condemned the attack by the former u.s. president supporters on capitol hill january and many here fear the same could happen in brazil in 2 years if both is not reelected. that is the recall also matters words at a cabinet meeting last april. there's a potential mess up in a. brazilian should be armed in order not to be enslaved he used

a political narrative to tell people they should rebel if a man or governor decides it should be a lockdown to control the spreading of the coronavirus. owns a shooting. and imports weapons is winnable so now to supporters who say human rights groups are exaggerating or form a biased large margin a series of abattoirs is brazil the country with the highest number of homicides probably but how many of these crimes were committed with legally registered firearms do we have a record number of police killings maybe but we also have a record number of dead policeman if many are killed and many are dead well that means it's a war. nearly says both so narrow is only defending people's right to bear arms and protect their property and families since both are not as election 2 years ago the number of registered weapons has increased by 91 percent.

massively but sheesh there is a teacher in the poor neighborhoods of rio de janeiro he's been a victim of violence and has seen children and banned in school to take up arms and follow the local drug lord. the only solution is to invest in education and equal opportunities while there is in the quality there is no way out except dodging stray bullets brazil appears increasingly divided with no common ground between those who believe guns will reduce violence and those who fear it will put democracy at risk meineke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. now a high tech study has revealed more about an egyptian pharaoh who ruled more than 3000 years ago including how he died on the battlefield 2nd right ta the 2nd rain of a southern egypt c.t. scan show he may have been taken prisoner during a battle with the west asian dynasty was then tied up and executed. it's only

been on the red planet for a day but not says past everyone's rather that is already sending back details of photons it's on a mission to collect samples from the surface which nasa hopes will one day be analyzed on earth is rebels. this is the 1st ever color picture from a world more than 54000000 kilometers beyond ours it's one of several sent from perseverance is a raid of cameras this one shows the rover being lowered down by cables to its martian landing spot from the delivery space vehicle. nasa scientists say the rover came through its action packed landing thursday in fine form and happy to say that the river is doing great and healthy on the surface of mars and continues to be highly highly functional and then just an exhilarating this shot shows one of the rovers heavy duty wheels that it will use to explore the red dust of just 0

crater for signs of extinct ancient life but perseverance won't be making tracks right away 1st engineers will perform system checks update its software and test some of its instruments like a robotic arm and a microphone in a month or so ingenuity the drone attached to the rover will take its 1st flight this rover is an epic effort it represents. 8 years of hundreds of engineers at the laboratory thousands around the world a total of over 4 founders and human years of investment. and already a detail in this picture has caught scientists attention that rock on the left the one that looks like a hunk of swiss cheese and there are a number of different geological processes that can make holes in iraq like that

and so the science team is now thinking about what this might mean and one of the questions we'll ask 1st is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin and both of those would be equally exciting to the team ultimately perseverance may dig up evidence that life existed on mars at some point in the ancient past that could be a sign that life is widespread in our solar system our galaxy and the far flung reaches of the universe and that we are not alone robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. to protect the headlines say on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden has declared his country is back sweeping away.