enjoy the break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know. welcome to our home. italy is a bastard as the democratic republic of congo is killed in an attack on a u.n. convoy in the east. of there i missed the attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we're sitting down to what i hope and believe is a one way to freedom. versus prime minister abbas johnson announces the easing of coronavirus restrictions that include reopening schools and allowing outdoor

activities. thousands join a nationwide strike across me on march despite a chilling message from the military the confrontation could cost you your life. and joe biden's nominee for u.s. attorney general merrick garland faces his confirmation hearing he was denied the opportunity for a supremes court seat by republicans back in 2016. if lee's president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack on the italian ambassador to democratic republic of congo who was killed while traveling in a u.n. convoy look at an austere died along with a bodyguard and driver after an ambush. in the east no group has claimed responsibility but dozens of armed groups operate in that area and park rangers have. peaceably been targeted as an aussie was travelling in

a wild food program convoy when they were ambushed in a statement the w.f. expressed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the family colleagues and friends of the 3 people killed today in an attack on a delegation travelling on a field visit in the east of the day aussie the attack which occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts if he is foreign minister luigi dimaio has promised to find those responsible for this attack or pin the appraisal the full 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 and at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible and suitable well catherine soy is following the story

for us from the kenyan capital nairobi she says the regional governor told al jazeera that security forces were not informed about the italian vastness visit. this is event happened around $815.00 g.m.t. and the convoy was heading to a place called. for 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 they were caught up the convoy was caught up in the crossfire between the room wouldn't. wouldn't 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 to choose because it's a constance's like this involving such high profile dignitaries what the police do 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 now be allowed to meet outside starting from march 8th restaurants sports venues and cinemas will all open

gradually in the months following but any easing could be delayed if infection rates rise or if vaccinations a delay. we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that 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 also irreversible we're setting out 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 new foka has more now from london. what the government is hoping to have to avoid definitely try and avoid is any kind of on and off restrictions of the kind that have been seen here in the country over the past few months they have led to a huge amount of uncertainty and a massive amount of of disruption especially when it comes to the children as to

whether or not they can be at 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 slowly cautiously and incrementally the 1st restrictions will be eased on march the 8th we hope that by june the 21st by mid some of the summer so states. that most of the restrictions will have been lifted and we will be back to some degree of normality there were some glaring omissions in what boris johnson had to say though 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 paperwork 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 for britain it credibly tentative one as it stands. people have now died in the u.s. i've covered 19 both wild was and vietnam combined and now just less than a 1000 short of half a 1000000 deaths a staggering loss and just one year back scenes are being rolled out but in some states they are in short supply more than 28000000 people in the u.s. have now tested positive for the virus. it's just it's terrible it is historic we haven't seen anything even close to this for well over 100 years since the 1918 pandemic of influenza it's something that is stunning when you look at the numbers almost unbelievable but it's true if this is a devastating pandemic and it's a story people will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now

when the 1st doses of the covert $1000.00 vaccine have now been administered in gaza and marks the start of its vaccination program rolling out to health care workers and people with long term illnesses 20000 doses arrived from the united arab emirates on sunday israel has been heavily criticized for excluding gaza and the occupied territory from its rapid vaccine rollers now tanzania's president has admitted that corona virus is a problem in his country john legere fairly made those comments following the funeral of a senior politician who had the virus the president declared tanzania coronavirus free last may and said that covert 1000 could be defeated by prayer or thirty's have blamed pneumonia for a recent rise in deaths but now a number of tanzanians traveling overseas have tested positive nothing webb is following developments for us from nairobi in neighboring kenya. the government hasn't published any data since april last year in terms of coded cases but there

has been a report reports from residents of increase in hospitalizations and deaths from what is described as pneumonia now president john mcafee last year said that the pandemic it's been defeated using the power of prayer so there weren't any official government measures to try and prevent the spread of the disease this came in the much criticism from the world health organization from the times and is catholic church as well as political opposition and now it looks like president john mcafee really has finally he did these calls he's announced on sunday that sundanese should take precautions and that they should even wear mosques although he said that they should only wear tanzanian made mosques as he said foreign mosques may not be safe and this also follows skepticism coming from president negatively about vaccines tanzania hasn't ordered any covert vaccines which would be available to because government into the country on international health care again today on

health minister said it was considering suspending flights from tanzania after nearly one in 5 travelers from tanzania tested positive to cope with 19 and also in thailand helpful so it is there just announced their 1st case of the new highly contagious south african a variant native doc case was found in a thai man who had traveled from tanzania as well so it seems that the tanzania outbreak of the pandemic is being picked up in other countries even if it's not being acknowledged fully acknowledged and picked up. on moving on now and around the supreme leader has warned it could boost uranium enrichment up to 60 percent if needed and says tehran will never yield to american pressure over its nuclear development ayatollah ali khamenei made those comments in the wake of a new agreement with the un's nuclear watchdog that they allow. as inspectors to continue monitoring terror on the nuclear facilities for up to 3 months there will

be less access and no more snap inspections the i.a.e.a. chief traveled to iran this last weekend where he met foreign minister zarif for talks iran has been gradually breaching the terms of the 2015 you can deal have a sense the us withdrew and we imposed sanctions and 2018 as a bag has more now on the reaction from tehran parliamentarians today were 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 specific be president hassan rouhani to the judiciary baby 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 those of saying that the number of inspectors i.a.e.a. inspectors and inspections remains the same now what 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 a tougher 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. well our white house correspondent candy how has the view from washington. 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 'd 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 well e.u. foreign ministers have now approved sanctions against russia after the jailing of alexina it's the 1st time that the block is using a new tool to impose sanctions on individuals and governments for human rights abuses john mccain has more now from berlin. we know that the e.u. foreign affairs council that's the council of 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 vonnie and of cold on the russian authorities to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happens 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 well still ahead here on al-jazeera bowing cause for the grounding of some of its claims after an engine catches fire in the u.s. . and losing the thread in libya we need one of the last we visited tripoli as old city trying to preserve a dying tradition. but . how i once again we have got some rain in the forecast for parts of the middle east not too much to speak of you see this little area cloud just coming out of saudi arabia pushing over towards iran actually write a possibility into. all the parts of saudi arabia just linking back towards the

sinai peninsula israel palestinian territories could seal it with that weather over the next couple of days and when she whether they're just around the caucasus pushing up towards turkmenistan the chance of one or 2 showers wintry in nature across northern parts of afghanistan and then these may become a little more widespread as we go on through wednesday northern iran seeing some of that wintry weather as well still a few showers into central and northern parts of saudi arabia and down towards the southern end of the red sea you might catch a shower or 2 to that western side of yemen as shots of water to showers to into central areas of ethiopia maturity of the showers that are going to be along the rift valley that eastern side of africa heavier rain just making its way back into northern parts of madagascar as we go through choose day and wednesday possibility some localized flooding as a result of that heavy showers too went to botswana namibia seeing some showers that eastern side of south africa still a little unsettled but some pleasant warmth between.

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hello again i'm a star that's remind you about top stories this hour italy's ambassador to democratic republic of congo has died after a u.n. convoy he was traveling in was ambushed last year was killed along with a bodyguard and a driver if you as president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack. british prime minister barak's johnson has laid out his 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. more people have died in the us of covert 19 than in both world wars and vietnam combined it's less than a 1000 short about half a 1000000 a staggering loss and just one year. international pressure is growing on me in the wake of the military coup that the u.k. has summoned at some bastardized to condemn the lethal response to protests within myanmar the huge crowds of protesters have again defied the risk of violence to

munchen towns and cities despite a recent crackdown that's what to protest his shot dead thousands still answer that call for a nationwide strike tony chain reports. from the air men must southern city of daraa way appears completely jammed thousands of protesters blocking streets in the city center they marched despite a warning from the military that lives will be lost if the protests continue and you know see this 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 teenage as it was 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 was you know the 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 of dozens of the hinge refugees who are 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 that buyers and they've run out of supplies several have already died the last known location was just northeast of the andaman islands and a few 100 kilometers off the man mark earnest time to chatter is following the story for us from the bangladeshi capital dhaka well the latest we know this is coming from rowing our 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 an appeal to raise by other in growing our camp is the 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 that heavy active area for traffickers from me on mar 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 way out of this the keep an eye but the government has a very very strong attitude of maybe taking back any more running us now u.s. president joe biden's attorney general nominee has promised 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 he also promised to

double the justice department's efforts to provide equal justice for all prioritize civil rights and to combat domestic terrorism she have attendees following that hearing for us on capitol hill. it took 5 years merrick garland 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 bipartisan support that's what so all about it in some ways he's such an uncontroversial on controversial figure and he was he was involved with such controversy when broke obama did nominate 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 are just bringing up areas of concern that they have and merrick garland is i guess what will it become attorney general if it will become i will look into them so for the democrats it's investigating the journey of the 6 right here on capitol hill we're expecting questions on the investigations into donald trump's scope ability into doldrums 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 biden's son hunter biden there are investigations underway into onto biden who has 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 well now the u.s. supreme court has allowed to the release of donald trump's tax records to prosecutors the ruling is a blow for the former president for 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 allege that trump paid $130000.00 to keep an extramarital affair private. well boeing now says it's grounded all triple 7 planes physick with the type of engine that

caught fire during a flight in the u.s. on saturday america's aviation regulator has issued an emergency directive to get those planes inspected the engine failed soon after taking off from denver in colorado littering suburbs with falling debris and an engine also caught fire on a boeing fight in the netherlands on sunday with debris injuring 2 people in the amount strict john hendren has more from chicago where boeing's headquarters there are cases. 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 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 were those 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. now 53 kidnapping

victims in nigeria have been released after the group was abducted from a bus the people and treating 28 women and 9 children were taken by an armed group a night just stays that's as the government me as a deal for the release of dozens of school children who were also abducted last week in a separate incident that interest has more now from the big he says this criticism of the way the government is handling this riots and 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 passage to criminals who kidnapped innocent 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 us at least once

secondly. 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 to lose these are some of the concerns nigerians are having with a current situation in the country where the kidnapping is on the rice iraq's military says at least 2 rockets have hit baghdad's green zone on monday that's the fortified district that hosts foreign embassies and government buildings no casualties have been reported that area is regularly targeted by groups that the u.s. says a backed by iran protesters in algeria have gathered in the capital to mark the feck and anniversary of the anti-government movement there the protests forced formally to uprisings push a figure from power after almost 20 is on sunday president to boone called for a cabinet reshuffle. now we've ng has been celebrated for generations in libya but

there are fears that the traditional craft is now dying a bus had to go is one of the last wavers and japanese old city and says he wants to pass on his tradition of south korea has given me my name is up to the bus it's a 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 for 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 try to open a school for decades under gadhafi is government but nothing happens. 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 in 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 this. kind of that is the sound is there and these are the headlines it's nice ambassadors of democratic republic of congo has died after a u.n. convoy he was traveling in was ambushed and crowds in austria was killed along with a bodyguard and a driver if he is president has denounced what he calls a cowardly attack catherine sawyer has more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya we've also had from the governor of north kivu.