a team of pilots get this man's dream off the ground relieved it's over bob alone on al-jazeera. the. storytelling of the biggest issues. to do with. italy is the bastard at the democratic republic of congo is killed during an attack on a u.n. convoy in the east. hello there i'm just on to tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we're city going to what i hope and believe is a one way to freedom british prime minister virus johnson announces easing of coronavirus restrictions that entered reopening schools and allowing outdoor

activities. joe biden's nominee for u.s. attorney general merrick garland faces his confirmation hearing he was denied the opportunity to join the supreme court by republicans in 2016. and thousands join a nationwide strike across neon maad despite a chilling message from the military confrontation that cost more lives. italy's president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack on the italian ambassador to democratic republic of congo who was killed after traveling in a u.n. convoy. died along with a bodyguard and a driver following an ambush in national park in the east no group has yet came responsibility but dozens of armed groups operate in that area and paulk ranges have repeatedly been targeted while i do not. i was traveling in

a wild food program convoy when they were ambushed in a statement the world food program expressed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the family colleagues of the 3 and friends of the 3 people killed in an attack on that delegation traveling on a field visit in the east of the day yassine the attack which occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts well at least foreign minister luigi demaio has promised to find those responsible for this attack or pin the appraisal the for our closeness and our thoughts go 1st of all to the families i am returning to italy i am leaving the council of foreign affairs to meet with the prime minister and to get down to work we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth as soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants on the stage of ours have suffered and lost their lives at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible well catherine so is following the story for us from

nairobi she says that the regional governor told al-jazeera security forces were not told about the italian investors visit. this is event happened around $815.00 g.m.t. and the convoy was heading to a place called chu. to visit a school feeding program italy is one of the biggest funders of the w.s.p. and it's not uncommon to see individuals and country representatives of visit some of the areas where they support the mission there now we have spoken to the governor of north who says that their talk happened not far away from goma which is the provisional capital of north kivu he says that the war caught up the convoy was caught up in the crossfire between the room wouldn't. wardens and the gunmen during that bush but he also says that the team was not

accompanied by escort from the un peacekeeping mission. from the national army or police as well he says that the police were not even aware that the ambassador a was in town or that there was a mission. because it's a constance's like this involving such high profile dignitaries where the police to once informed is that they provide their own special protection units to accompany the dignitaries on their deployment this did not happen by the w.s.p. they're saying that they had been cleared to use that road without police without security. now british prime minister barak johnson has laid out a cautious and irreversible plan to lift pandemic restrictions schools are due to reopen and 2 people from separate households will be allowed to meet outside starting from march 8th restaurants sports venues and cinemas will gradually reopen

in the months after but any easing could be delayed if infection rates rise or if vaccinations are delayed become a persistent death with restriction debilitate our economy our physical and mental well being of the life chances of our children and that is why it is so crucial that this road map should be cautious but do so in reversible with city going to what i hope and believe is a one way road to freedom and this journey is made possible by the pace of the vaccination program. joins us now from westminster outside the houses of parliament retrovirus johnson has just been speaking as we've been saying that johnson has been using these words cautiously but era vasily ouster of locked down does that mean that we're unlikely then to see nationwide restrictions for china even if the gun does pick up again. well that's the message will the

government is hoping to have to avoid definitely trying to avoid is any kind of on and off for a restriction of the kind that have being seen here in the country over the past few months they've led to a huge amount of uncertainty and a massive amount of of disruption especially when it comes to children as to whether or not they can be in school or not be at school if you remember back at the start of january children were actually back in school for one day before they were then told to go back home because they were growing concerns about the south african strain of the virus so that's why the government is doing this incredibly incredibly slowly cautiously and incrementally the 1st restrictions will be easy as you mentioned there on march the 8th we hope that by june the 21st by made some of the summer so states. that most of the restrictions will have been lifted we will be back to some degree of normality there were some glaring omissions in what boris johnson had to say that no talk about overseas travel there is though he said

a review under way to look into the possibility of covert certification so we may well see a situation later down the line providing it doesn't in any way affect people's privacy that people may well have to carry paper work enabling them to do certain things for instance be able to spend a lot of time in places of work if those jobs are in public places or indeed be allowed to travel abroad a robot but indeed a very positive step forward but it credibly tentative one as it stands and needs as we were saying earlier you and i the headline here really in schools we opening in the next couple of weeks despite not all stuff being vaccinated the parents and kids to go back to school but how do the schools and teachers. well i think everybody is hoping for normality to return but there are huge huge questions about how of this is going to work in practice firstly when it comes to

the mental health of children and of parents who have had to deal with homeschooling yes there will be a tremendous amount of relief having them back in the classroom but being told by the professionals but are they safe and the wider community around the schools and further afield safe as well given as you mentioned there many teachers when have been vaccinated against cove in 19 by the time these children will be going back we know that many schools have been able to continue teaching the children of essential workers by carrying out regular weekly lateral flow tests on the students and the staff we actually visited one school where all of that testing is taking place in the school by members of staff what they'll have to do is scale up all of that testing to enable the wider population of those particular schools to be able to return in a satisfactory way in this one particular school. visited though there are a 1000 pupils with only one main entrance to the school can you imagine the kind of

logistics the planning that will need to be in place to make sure that things run smoothly and safely for all concerned and watching that very closely as it happens on march 8th any baka there for us outside the house in the parliament in london thanks so much neal. well u.s. president joe biden's attorney general nominee has vowed to prosecute those who attacked capitol hill last month merrick garland made that pledge during his 2 day confirmation hearing before the senate judiciary committee which began just a short while ago galland also promised to double the justice department's efforts to provide equal justice for all to prioritize civil rights and to combat domestic terrorism well let's now go to she had pretend he's joining us from capitol hill she had that the choice of a jobs attorney general as unusual and after being blocked by the republicans for the supreme court back in 26 saying what our goal and chances of getting confirmed to this place. right it took 5 years to get a hearing of the senate judiciary committee having how the republicans block his

nomination barack obama's nomination of him as a supreme court justice it's a shoo in he's going to get it he has by motors and support outside so all about it in some ways he's such an uncontroversial on controversial figure and he was he was involved with such control that he went broke obama didn't go to him as a supreme court justice and failed what we're seeing basically is a lot of box ticking here where the republicans and democrats all just bringing up areas of concern that they have merit garland is saying yes well when i become attorney general if and when i become i will look into them so for the democrats it's investigating the journey of the 6 here on capitol hill we're expecting questions on the investigations into donald trump's scope ability into donald trump's associates culpability how independent those will be what sort of investigations we can expect in the meantime we're also seeing republicans talk about investigations into joe budden son home to biden there are investigations underway into onto biden who's long been accused of profiting from his relationship

with his father son relationship with joe biden especially with the chinese businesses and indeed there are allegations of tax evasion and money laundering so just assurances that those investigations will go along without any political interference from the white house there is that sense that of the d.o.j. . under the old trump donald trump was quite clear that he felt the attorney general had personal loyalty to the president to not so much to the nation so we're going to lot of discussion about the independence of the judiciary the independence of the d.o.j. of the public justice as it looks into various various allegations and investigations as you have as you are saying the government has promised to prioritize talking to mystic extremism and you say he is regarded as a unifying figure but there are potentially some divisive cases that could lie ahead. i think it's interesting the domestic extremism i think what's so fascinating watching watching a congressional hearing on justice in america today is how much of a difference the black lives massive protests of last year have had you know some

$27000000.00 people it's estimated took part in racial justice protests last year and just the casualness with which they discussed white supremacy and domestic extremism and marigot and agreeing with the f.b.i. directors assessment of the biggest threat to the u.s. is why to extremism white supremacy it is fast and you see how that that discourse has changed so much since last year but one of the reasons why one of the reasons why i think is emphasizing civil rights is because he is in fact the him and baldwin of a broken promise by joe biden joe biden short civil rights leaders in early january that he will nominate an attorney general a long history of a long record of fighting for civil rights or experience of civil rights merrick garland does not have a long record of civil rights in this is a broken promise so that's why we see a lot of emphasis now on how important it go and does feel white supremacy isn't and civil rights and justice for all because he is basically not the person that joe biden promised probably just civil rights groups off to the unprecedented on

president protests of last year very interesting chapter tansey there following that confirmation hearing for us on capitol hill thanks so much. still ahead for you here on al-jazeera boeing calls for the grounding of some of its planes after an engine catches 5 in the u.s. . losing the thread in libya we need one of the last we visited tripoli's old 15 trying to present a dying tradition. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways how they would have some lovely spring like weather across japan recently friday that says it's going to see a return to winter for northern parts of the country some snow coming into the the northwest of honshu northern areas will see further snow flurries and temperatures

40 back in tokyo to around 16 degrees celsius fives there across the korean peninsula pushing up into northern parts of china beijing at 5 degrees this would go on into why to stay with those temperatures will edge up a little little colder there in tokyo you notice still a chance of some wintry flurries coming in so the passage of time fine enjoy some parts of china largely fine into a lot of the central areas there will be some wet weather coming through and notice some snow on the northern flank winter hasn't quite done with us just yet but some snow to moving across the far north of pakistan the north of india over the next couple of days just mixing things up here more fog and smog across the northern plains but temperatures getting up to 30 celsius in new delhi much of a india will be fine and dry you might just catch a cold rogue shower down towards carola but nothing too much to speak of choice of one of 2 showers as well just making their way into sri lanka as we go on through the next couple days southern parts could see some wet weather but to the north of

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a star that's remind you about top stories here this hour italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo has been killed following an attack on a u.n. convoy newcastle last year died along with a bodyguard and a driver after an ambush that he's president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack. british prime minister barak johnson has laid out his plan to lift pandemic restrictions schools are due to reopen to people from separate households will now be allowed to meet outside starting from objects. u.s. president joe biden's attorney general nominee has vowed to prosecute those who attacked capitol hill last month merrick garland made the pledge during his 2 day confirmation hearing before the senate judiciary committee. huge crowds of protesters have defied the risk of violence to munchen towns and cities across me and they are denouncing the military coup despite a recent crackdown that sought to protest as shot dead thousands still answered the call for

a nationwide strike tony chang reports. from the air men miles southern city of daraa way appears completely jammed thousands of protesters blocking streets in the city center they march despite a warning from the military that lives will be lost if the protests continue and you know see the thinly veiled threat came in a statement read out on state t.v. on sunday night he blamed the weekend's violence on an emotional teenager's. but on the ground there is no mistaking the demonstrators message they won't accept the military coup and calls for the release of the country's democratic leader aung san suu kyi who has been held by the military in isolation since the beginning of the month. cross the country tensions remain high. we were holding a sit in protests and the police crackdown on last using force there were many and day arrests many protesters a general strike is being widely observed shutting banks and businesses and

bringing transport systems to a halt. and despite the short term impact many feel that's the most effective way to make the military back down i was you know it's good that today is the day for countrywide protest we do not want to stay under the control of a military dictatorship so we came here to join the protest regardless of the salaries we make nothing will happen my salary is cut but if we stay under the control of a military dictatorship we will become less like. even in the capital naypyidaw a city whose white boulevards were designed for the military to maintain control civil servants took to the streets. but the protesters have no illusions about the dangers they face this candlelit vigil held to commemorate those who've already died in the protests with the military and protesters both standing their ground real concern as more violence to come tony chang al jazeera. now the un has called

for the immediate rescue have dozens of the hinge of refugees stranded at sea they reportedly set sail from cox's bizarre refugee camp in bangladesh around 11 days ago now the range of human rights initiative says at least 90 people are on board that fires and they've run out of supplies several of them have diets their last known location was just northeast of the andaman islands that's a few 100 kilometers off the coast town the chattering is following the story for us from the bangladeshi capital dhaka well the latest we know this is coming from the rowing a human rights group in new delhi which is confirmed by our al-jazeera bureau in delhi now they have been in touch with some of the rowing in the boat they say the indian navy has come across and they are giving them a relief or an emergency material they have not been rescued per se but they are providing them with all the provisional help we also spoke to one of the refugee

whose brother is in the boat he has turned out on a pill through his brother in going i can't his name is mr shiloh was stranded in the middle of the sea and on the money he said please tell the international community that we need to be rescued and given shelter somewhere we've been a drip little over 10 days now and things are really bad the heavy active area for traffickers from me and mary as well as bangladesh who takes lots of money from these people to take them in those countries but never usually succeed now bangladesh navy and cause god is i wear of this the keep an eye but the government has a very very strong attitude of taking back any more rowing us. now boeing says it's grounded all the triple 7 planes fitted with the type of engine that caught fire during a flight in the u.s. on saturday america's aviation regulation has issued an emergency directive to get those planes inspected the engines soon failed as you can see off to taking off from denver and colorado littering suburbs with falling debris and an engine also

caught fire on a boeing flies in the netherlands on sunday with debris they injuring 2 people in the mass strikes john hendren has more now from chicago where boeing's headquarters location. according to u.s. aviation authorities what happened was that the blades the rotors the inside of the engine are hollow and they they just were too old but and needed to be inspected more frequently that's one of the conclusions the initial conclusions that aviation authorities have come to and that that meant that bits fell apart in the engine blew off part of the cover and another part and those reused huge metal pieces that fell down into the ground and in the us anyway there were no reported injuries for that but certainly gave yet another black eye to boeing which had just been recovering from its $737.00 max grounding which lasted almost 2 years so all of those planes those $770.00 seven's with the pratt and whitney engine are now grounded in the u.s.

that's a total of about $59.00 on the ground and about $69.00 that are in storage somewhere there are only 3 countries that fly these planes and korea south korea and the united states the company's stock has been hammered time and time again earlier this morning the stock was down about 2 percent last i checked before going on air it was closer to one and a half percent but that stock keeps getting hammered every time boeing sees bad news like this and this is likely once again to postpone some earnings the company had been hoping for putting the $7077.00 on the ground for an unknown period of time this is the last news that boeing was looking for right now. while the u.s. supreme court has now allowed the release of donald trump's tax records to prosecute that the ruling is a blow for the former president he's fought to keep those documents from a new york district attorney's office trump is being investigated for hush money payments and other financial transactions his former attorney michael cohen alleged

to try to paint $100.00 fashion $1000.00 to keep an extramarital affair private. well iran has called an agreement with the un's nuclear watchdog a significant achievement the deal allows inspectors to continue monitoring terror on its nuclear facilities for up to 3 months but there will be less access and no more snap and speck sions the i.a.e.a. chief travel to iran this weekend where he met foreign minister zarif for talks iran has been gradually breaching the terms of the 2015 u.k. data and since the u.s. withdrew and re imposed sanctions and 2018 as a bag has more now on the reaction in tehran polman terence today we're discussing the budget but they stopped that to vote on this latest deal between iran and the i.a.e.a. that many of them believe that that's in breach of the legislation that the parliament passed last year and they referred the matter specifically president hassan rouhani to the judiciary debut that he's acted illegally that this deal is against the

legislation many of them have said that this deal between. iran has violated the rights of the iranian people others have said that it's against the spirit of the legislation also there's of saying that the number of inspectors are you inspections remains the same now at this demonstrates is that the difficulty that president hassan rouhani faces domestically this is a parliament that was voted in last year many of those people in the parliament are opposed to the 2015 nuclear deal and want to talk for a stance against the united states and the i.a.e.a. on the other hand president hassan rouhani is trying not to completely shut the door in terms of discussions and negotiations with the united states and the european 3 france germany and the u.k. . our white house correspondent can be how that has that here from washington d.c. . what we've been hearing from the by an administration is that while they are very concerned about the actions of iran they believe that the path forward is through

diplomacy that's what we heard over the weekend from the biden administration the number one goal is to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and diplomacy the administration believes is the best way to do that so getting to the table to talk to the iranians where they can insist on strict constraints on iran's nuclear program remains the number one priority there will also be a demand by the united states for release of american hostages being held now what the administration is hoping is this will sort of be seen as a bit of an all of french that it will be seen as a goodwill gesture but at the same time what the united states's is noting is this should in no way be seen as any sort of concession that their initial demands remain that they want to see strict compliance under the nuclear program these talks are simply a way of making sure that that happens no e.u.

foreign ministers have approved sanctions against russia after the jailing of alexina valmy and the 1st time the block is using a new tool to impose sanctions on individuals and governments for human rights abuses john mccain has more now from bella. we know that the e.u. foreign affairs council that's the council the foreign ministers plus mr boyle the high representative have been contemplating what sort of sanctions they might be prepared to institute and who they would be targeting now one of the suggestions that's coming from brussels is that perhaps the people who are in charge of the justice situation the justice system in russia might potentially be targeted people in charge of the directorate of prisons and that sort of thing might find themselves the target of targeted sanctions from the e.u. remember that this is something that many different e.u. states individually but collectively also through the e.u. have been suggesting might come because the e.u. as a bloc has condemned what happens to mr ranney and of called on the russian authorities

to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happened to him remember he was poisoned with novacek and it was only through the intervention of 1st doctors in russia and then here in berlin that he was able to recover so that's pretty much what they've been discussing what they've been talking about how they intend to proceed these are the the never only case and the russian government now 53 kidnapping victims in nigeria have been released after the group present ducted from a bus last week the people including 20 women and 9 children were taken by an armed group and i just state that's as the government nears a deal for the release of dozens of school children who are also abducted last week in a separate incident that address has more now from the he says this criticism over the way that the government has handling this rise in kidnappings. another concern for many nigerians have been following developments up north while kidnapping is

becoming more like big business is the process of securing the release of victims it's either the government is paying ransom or has negotiated safe passage for the perpetrators of the crime whichever way nigerians are concerned that granting access or freedom of posse to criminals who kidnapped you know some nigerians or innocent people will encourage others to come into the trade again probably thinking that they could be good they could they could be lucky ones secondly paying ransom could also encourage more people into the crime and embolden them to attack or even we are to carry out more dangerous missions in the future so these this are some of the concerns nigerians having with the current situation in the country why the kidnapping is on the rice. now waving has been celebrated for generations in libya but there are now fears that the traditional craft is dying. to gori is one of the last wave isn't tripoli's old city and says he wants to pass

on his tradition. and my name is up to the buses judy i work as a weaver making traditional products with cotton on the saloon. i have the shop in the old city in an area called the floor call and i work along this loom is one of the older ones in the late 1940 s. and fifty's newer models came on the market using silk and other materials but this one uses cotton. continuing this craft my grandfather taught my father and he taught me but as for the new generation if you have learnt uncle bill it was a weaver but after he passed away his shop closed and it's still empty because he didn't teach anyone we should teach this craft so it's passed on from generation to generation and won't die out but it's a dying tradition it's been the collected i tried to open a school for decades under gadhafi is government but nothing happened. this government has promised me it will help me open a school for traditional crafts like weaving it's allocated

a space for us we can move into it and march as for me i hope our country becomes a better and this craft doesn't die i welcome anyone who wants to learn and i hope to teach at the school so the generations to come can enjoy making traditional crafts through weaving. however says al jazeera and these are the headlines italy is ambassador as a democratic republic of congo has died after a u.n. convoy he was traveling in was ambushed newcastle last year was killed along with a bodyguard and a driver if he is president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack catherine so he has more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya we've also had from the governor of north kivu province who said that this attack happened at a place not too.