0. hello there i'm just on the attack and this is the news out live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes outrage and condemnation after malaysia deports more than a 1000. despite a court order against. thousands in georgia a protest against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician deepening a crisis that began with last year's disputed election. the u.s.

congress has to hear testimony from former top capitol police officials for the 1st time since donald trump supporters stormed the building in january. and nearly a 3rd of south africa's workforce is out of a job as figures show how the pandemic has further damaged an economy that was already in recession. and joining us roscoe with sports as the l.a. lakers lose again it's now 4 defeats in 5 for le bron james in the teens but he's dismissed concerns about his work but. now malaysian authorities have defied a court order and deported more than a 1000 migrants to me and ma that's despite safety concerns for there is being sent back weeks after the military coup that in myanmar itself protesters continue to demonstrate against the military as international condemnation. meanwhile the way

his news agency is reporting that indonesia's foreign minister will fly to me and on thursday and the fascinating trip by a foreign envoy since the coup reports. malaysian immigration trucks transporting more than a 1000 asylum seekers to the coast and ships waiting to deport them despite a last minute court order delaying the repatriation the immigration authorities defied the courts killing 3 myanmar navy ships waiting on the docks the decision overrides concerns that some of those sent back will be under threat from myanmar's new military government in myanmar itself mourners paid their last respects in front of the comp in the night when. the 37 year old company was one of 2 people killed on saturday when security services opened fire on protesters in the city of mandalay. i feel so sad losing him we lost the guardian of our

family and now i need to move on with the remaining family members. me i'm a senior general minong lai however made no mention of recent deaths when he appeared on state t.v. late on monday nor did he make any concessions to the huge numbers of protesters who've taken to the streets instead the general threatened to withdraw the license of media companies that continue to refer to the military takeover as a coup. but international condemnation reaction is mounting fast. a statement from g 7 foreign ministers said the use of blind ammunition against unarmed people is on the acceptable and e.u. foreign ministers announced targeted sanctions today we have decided to set of targeted measures with ministers in response to these events. when we did the political agreement to apply sanctions targeting didn't really to be responsible for the cool on day comic interest. and still the street protests continue

demonstrators in yangon acting out the roles of doctors and civil servants operating under military rule. the protesters are hoping their movement is gaining momentum at this stage is no sign the generals listen. tony ching algis or. well katrina jury and the executive director of amnesty international malaysia she says it's unacceptable that migrant detentions and deportations have been happening there under a shroud of secrecy. it is absolutely cruel to do so before any scrutiny of the decision human rights groups are international community the u.n. has been calling for over a week for access to the people on the list so that they can determine if they are anyone who will be at risk. and so you know this is absolutely devastating so the question of who is on this list are has been exactly what we have been

demanding so the authorities have said that no one is at risk of it how have they me that i'm an asian when they have not of the u.n. to access the individuals on that list are they denied you would need to access for one and a half years to detention centers and so we have information that there are people on the list with you when documents there are children who are maybe separated from their families and they're also asylum seekers and so i mean the authorities are insisting that those who are deported agreed to return voluntarily but let's put this into context the options for people and their families will between either indefinite detention or region into an extremely volatile situation amid a military coup and so this is you know essentially of forcing people to make this decision in the midst of grave human rights by missions essentially is essentially constructively for more on living on now and protests have taken place in georgia's capital against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician camillia prime minister george icaria stood down

last week because of a disagreement with his team about nearly as planned detention because it was worried that arresting him would lead to more instability our military is now facing charges of inciting violence during protests back in 2019 he had been freed on bail that the amount he had to pay was then increased and he refused to pay it we cannot speak russian for us to walk he joins me live from tbilisi robin those protests today really looked like they were drawing some pretty impressive crowds i know you were talking to some of the demonstrators what do they have to say. well the opposition are extremely frustrated by this move to rest. of the floor as you were talking about these criminal charges that he brought against him and they've also been getting support from the international community namely georgia's western partners the united states the european union member states

within the e.u. all being quite. robust being critical of the government by saying that you know this decision to arrest him i think it really plunges the country further into a political crisis and does nothing to help resolve that standoff between the opposition and the government because you're looking at the parliament building behind me which at the moment is only occupied by the governing toilet seat not of your position parties have accepted the results of elections held back you know they say that those results were fraud you know the tables and so the problem and that means that this country basically is is it one party state and another sort of into things a very moralistic. this is this looks like this doesn't look like a democracy when you have a senior political figure in fact the chairman of the largest opposition party in

this country having is party offices raided and taken into custody this way rather than i think you mentioned the political crisis that's been going as you say since october in terms of the detentions that we've been seeing of opposition politicians and and also supports is that the opposition is it all now coming to a hard. well i think we have to expect that there will be more of these in the coming days. and weeks there are a number of factors that. manus is result. for instance. demick 'd. restrictions here include knowing the clock which is due to come into effect in a in a couple of hours time makes people very nervous about being out on the streets when they can face heavy fines for protesting it's also extremely cold. and i think that

we're also going to see how georgia which is basically had one of the worst performing economy in the region. a couple of music particular since the pandemic is going to bite and. the public may come out increasingly in frustration at the way the economy is being handled the way the pandemic has been handled here and now this added concerns about the way in which this government appears to be going after its political opponents politically motivated. its opponents rather than as it's claiming holding them low because when you have those western partners coming in and criticizing these moves it doesn't look good in terms of actual just standing in the west and its of and its hopes and aspirations for being one day i'm part of the european union robin if

i still have that for us on the ground in the georgian capital thanks senator. now hong kong's government has announced plans to require all elected officials to swear an oath of allegiance to beijing or lose their jobs on monday china's top official in hong kong outlined plans to ensure only what he called patriot's from the territory the new rules extend to opposition district councils you won by landslide in 29000 election those who violate the loyalty pledge will be bought for 5 years and all comes government has passed behavior will also be taken into account we would not introduce and the so-called rich respective effect through this. exercise but we are in that there may be a possibility that. when we have to decide on someone's behavior whether it's. upholding the basic law or bearing allegiance to the so. we

may have to take into account. some of his past. well let's not take a closer look at what this actually means for hong kong's opposition the government says at least 4 directly elected opposition district councils could use this seats and be bad from running against the 2 electoral cycles as soon as legal proceedings are brought against a politician for breaching that loyalty pledge they will be suspended immediately critics are saying it's a violation of the presumption of innocence and even though the proposed law is not retroactive as i was saying earlier past behavior may be considered when officials determine if an oath has been violated well sir dave is an associate professor at the school of law at city university of hong kong he says china is redefining the one country 2 systems principle. and the basic object you know well well the government is to ensure that there is hardly any dissenting voice in the elections in hong kong down the labor there and short the legislative council the government

recently acquired the civil servants are big deal and now they're asking those districts concerts are big deal going forward i think that he only if you're going to hear it it's that demeaning of who is affected is is a very subjective and there is no legal requirement it's a political requirement and this is defined you know bay is subjective and but absent an arbitrary matter to be adult anyone who will speak against the communist party or who will criticize the chinese government i think i would suggest that we are now creating a new one country 2 system i mean we had an idea of one country a sort of system which i knocked it from 1st of july 1907 onwards but after that initial security law came into force last year i think at chinese government working call it a close look at the hong kong government the outer player saying that old order is not understanding got one going to a system with a new one to standing on one computer system so it will not be identical to the

mainland chinese system but it is going to move in clear mentally very close to the system in china and i think increasingly media civil society get me out member so public i think everyone would be increasingly expect it will they come and coming from beijing. now a judge in india has granted bail to climate activists saying evidence that she committed sedition is scanty and sketchy the 22 year old was arrested earlier this month accused of developing a toolkit supporting the monthlong farmers protests there police say it encouraged violence during a rally in january critics see her case as part of a government crackdown on dissent thousands of farmers have been demonstrating against it was reforming india's agricultural sector. while there is plenty more ahead for you this news hour including. hearings taking place on capitol hill for the interior secretary nominee we'll explore the significance of confirming

a native american to that job for the very 1st time. on blocked why facebook has agreed to revise its news ban on a stray insights. and a double for another left his team to victory and puts christiane at the top of the score sheets and if you the season that's all coming up with church in sports. the u.s. death toll from cove in 1000 has passed half a 1000000. bells tolled $500.00 times at the national cathedral in washington in memory of the victims now while the u.s. death toll is the world's highest in absolute terms several other countries have lost more people as a proportion of their populations christensen he reports now from washington d.c. . president joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house knowledge in

the half 1000000 lost to cope with 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary. generation born in america immigrated to america. but just like that so many of them took their final breath and moaned in america. as a nation can accept such a cool for a while before i knew this pandemic for so long we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow after addressing the nation the president headed outside for a moment of silence 500 candles lit 450-0000 dead and we're still not out of it a half a 1000000 deaths it's just it's terrible it is historic we haven't seen anything even close to this the grim milestone comes after winter storm stalled vaccination

efforts in parts of the nation so far just over 80 percent of the doses that are available have been administered health officials say they should be back on track this week that's a meeting at a rate of $1800000.00 shots per day while hospitalizations and pay tallaght is remain high the most of any country in the world they've begun to decline dramatically coping $19.00 in the united states has been declining for 5 weeks with the 7 day average dropping 74 percent since the 7 day average 'd on january the president has promised to vaccinate 100000000 americans in his 1st 100 days in office and white house officials expect to meet that goal but that may be small comfort to those who've lost a loved one nevertheless the president offered the grieving a message of hope you could be ok and to heal he said we must remember

kristen salumi al-jazeera washington. well u.s. senate is beginning an investigation into security failures during the capitol hill riots on january 6th they'll question the former chief of the capitol police and the former heads of security for the house and the senate all 3 of them resigned immediately after the riot supporters broke through security and were inside congress premises of his several hours 5 people died for more now let's cross to patty who's following that hearing for us at capitol hill how do you this is just the beginning of a series of bipartisan hearings there obviously some very big questions to be on said can you talk us through what to expect as we start hearing testimony today. well keep in mind we haven't heard from the people who were in charge of security in this building since that happened on january 6th at the time and in the weeks that have followed i think the question is just only amplified of how could that happen what sort of security did they have in place now i was here that day there

were a lot of uniformed police officers but then if you start to look at the events and we know more thanks to the impeachment we'll hopefully know more after hearing from the people who actually planned the security you have to ask why were there by school racks and just a handful of police officers trying to keep the crowd at the edges of the capitol why were they so outnumbered why was the decision made not to use lethal force we know it was one protester was shot and killed and she was just steps away from getting access to about 70 members of congress so the questions are what sort of intelligence did they have what sort of plan did they put in place why did it take so long to respond to the rioters the mob that was ransacked in the capital. basically this is just you mentioned just the beginning there are lots of questions why did backup take so long i was here that day the f.b.i. hostage rescue team pulled up in their armored vehicle with their long guns and

then sat there for at least an hour before actually entering the building so there are so many different questions that need to be answered and this is the 1st time we're going to hear from the people who actually were in charge of making sure what happened didn't actually happen how do you there's also been talk of a $911.00 style commission to investigate just what happened and that would be a separate process but that in itself is also paving divisive. well it is because democrats are sort of putting it out there that they want to have more of the their members on the commission unlike 911 when it was 505050 republicans and democrats i think democrats will argue look this was 147 house republicans and some republicans in the senate even after the riot after they delayed the vote into the early morning hours they still voted to certify the election results so i think there's a lot of hard feelings between democrats and republicans and there's a lot of questions too we've heard democratic lawmakers come out and say they saw

republican lawmakers giving tours which are actually supposed to be happening right now because of coded in the days before the riot so there's a lot of question about complicity potential complicity of the democrats have brought up so they're sort of trying to figure out how the commission's going to be made up in the meantime there's even more questions about how secure this building is nancy pelosi the speaker of the house has said she needs to do another supplemental because they just simply need to pay more for security here keep in mind this is all happening with thousands of national guard troops still here there's still a very fortified perimeter around the capitol it goes for blocks from the compound there's armored vehicles there's soldiers a lot of heavy police presence so all of this is happening just weeks after the riot i think there's still a lot of really hard feelings and as i mentioned a lot of big questions were totally we'll get some answers to today. that hearing for us on capitol hill thanks so much. staying on capitol hill and joe biden's nominee for secretary of interior dept hollande is currently facing

a senate confirmation hearing now if confirmed she'll be the 1st nation of american cabinet secretary howland's role will oversee national parks and natural resources as well as native american reservations she's promised to strike a balance between energy needs and conservation but republicans say have views on the environment quote extreme well it's not speech our white house correspondent kimberly halkett it can be biden was making a real statement with this choice and she is seen as a potentially very divisive figure is she likely to get confirmed. well that's what the big question is right now the biden white house is watching this process in the we'll be watching the confirmation hearing very carefully given the fact that joe biden as president promised to make his cabinet look like america and that is why this is so important and why so many people are watching the nomination of hell and the fact that not only is she being heralded as sort of the future of the

democratic party particularly refract of of the concerns of its further left progressive wing but native americans are watching this knowing that the symbolism of this nomination is significant because the agency that should be overseeing has historically trampled on the rights of native american so to have a native american potentially leading this department would be a historical achievement but it also would sort of help to heal some of the wounds that have been inflicted over the decades so this is something that the democrats in the senate are really excited about but you're right she's a polarizing figure in a divided senate where we know that come a harris would break a tie vote at least one democrat is siding with republicans over concerns about her past activism particularly the fact that she is vehemently opposed to on federal land the process of natural gas extraction known as fracking and this is

a big driver of jobs in the united states particularly we have a depressed economy there are real concerns that she is really seeking to ban the oil and gas exploration on federal lands and so that's why there is this polarizing sort of view of her candidacy and at this point it's really unclear how this is going to play out and whether or not she will be confirmed by the house correspondent candy how could they force and washington d.c. thanks so much company. well why is it so significant to have a native american leading the department of the interior or the vast agency oversees 200000000 hectares of public land and more than 300 native american reservations now in the past the department repeatedly reduced the size of those reservations broke treaties and forced native americans into dependency many hope that holland's position managing natural resources will give native americans a stronger voice in government a nomination has been praised by the dakotas osier who led the 2016 protests

against a planned gas pipeline through their land well that's now speak to mock trial he's the editor of indian country today and he joins us now from phoenix in arizona mark i believe you yourself from the shiny bonnet tribe can i start by asking you what collins nomination means to you personally as a native american well obviously nervous pride the idea that representation really means something and you can have native american serving at all levels of government i think is really extraordinary. mark howland as we were saying there with kimberly she's been very vocal in her opposition to drilling on various lands and i mean she was also an original co-sponsor of the green new deal now if she is confirmed this would be really quite the turnaround from trump's interior secretary dave bernhard who i believe was actually a lobbyist on behalf of a number of energy companies what do you expect to see if she is in cabinet well i think there's going to be moderation on all sides but really the past 4 years it's all been about energy independence that it came up already in the air today whereas

in the biden ministration the focus is going to be on climate change and the middle is going to move a little bit more in that direction pretty much on all of these issues and use that as kind of a metric for our you go forward kimberly was just saying that mark that she could lose potentially the support of a democrat as a divisive figure could she potentially win support from some republican moderates perhaps. i think she might one of the thing that's just so significant is the date of american vote has become more and more important particularly in western states and you could see for example in alaska representing senator lisa murkowski with the alaska native community strongly behind represent her poll and being supportive . and i believe also is from she's from new mexico $35.00 generations on she says and their oil and gas production on public lands makes up something like a course of the state's budget how is she regarded in her home state well she won

by a pretty resounding. election last time around so i think she's still pretty highly regarded and i think what she's saying is that there are other kinds of energy that needs to be explored to that maybe we're creating jobs in other sectors to make up for some of these ones that. require more innovation mark i know that when she's spoken previously about have background she describes as having lived has health paycheck to paycheck i think she put a south korean vest on loans and food stamps now beyond her environmental activism and have perspectives on energy want other perspectives could she be bringing to have happen that role well i mean the idea that we have a cabinet officer who's actually paying off student loans i think is pretty extraordinary and that puts her in company with a lot of people in this country she was a military child so she moved around a lot and she saw what it meant to have a family that had her mother's worked for the federal government she knows what it's like to be

a civil servant i think she brings just real perspective from far beyond those of wealth and status finally i do want to ask you just as you've watched politics passing you know watching that how and in her confirmation hearing now how do you feel about how america has changed over this time. you know it's not going story and you get these moments where you think well what's possible extra i think the 1st time i interviewed representative paula was in alaska and she was running for lieutenant governor of new mexico and i was just about 6 years ago and i'm thinking wow how far things have come in just that period of time or not really is extraordinary. the editor of indian country today speaking to us from phoenix arizona thanks so much for joining us here on out is there and i have to do it while still ahead here here on al-jazeera the taliban accuses the afghan government of not living up to its part in efforts to end their 19 year conflict. a concrete

decision that's causing an uproar why environmentalist say plans for a cement factory in indonesia is threatening from those livelihoods. and in sport the ice hockey player who claims to be the victim of intimidation tactics from the russian government. however we've got more when she weather in the mix for the middle east over the next couple of days not too bad at the moment although we did see a few spots of rain here in doha this morning some wetter weather there around central parts of saudi arabia up towards the north of saudi arabia pushing into iraq notice some snow just around the caucasus. georgia as some wintry weather certainly on the cards over the next day or so in the chain of shallows wintry

showers they push their way across into afghanistan is back to stand seeing some snow as well as we go on into worth stay still see that wintry weather there over towards the foothills of the himalayas and little more the way of rain sleet and snow into iran at this stage temperatures stay out of touch here in doha but it will be fine and dry temperatures at around $22.00 degrees celsius fine and dry across the u.a.e. pushing across into yemen and fight and try to get parts of somalia because the showers just around the rift valley running right database inside of southern africa will see some wetter weather for a time into that eastern side of south africa botswana also seeing some sharp showers along the spells of right west the weather coming up into angola and heavy showers now pushing across the aussie. and and one man's dream to transport hans happenings from europe and fly them over

his beloved country. in a nation reeling from decades of violence. about 500 meters away from the restraint can an international team of pilots get this man's dream off the ground it means every babylon on al-jazeera the u.s. is always of interest the people all around the world if you've been going on for a number of hours with tear gas being used. the place. to report stories through an international perspective to try to when you're looking for the why you can pull it how did it impact the life at the height of the game the one who would do it hi we didn't buy a this is an important part of the world people picking people because you know david is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. the in.

the world. and again i'm starting a tender now that's remind you of our top stories here the salah human rights groups have condemned malaysia's government for deporting more than 1000 people to me on law and moved to fired an earlier court order granting not create a temporary stay. inside myanmar the military is coming under increasing international pressure the g 7 a group of the world's wealthiest nations have condemned the gentile for its violence towards protesters 3 demonstrators have since been killed from a fast. and protests have taken place in georgia's capital against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician. he's demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary polls. on our facebook has announced it will restore news

content to its use as an australia that decision comes after the government agreed to amend that just legislation that would make tech giants pay for stray news content the target and he has. the compromise agreed between the australian government and facebook has been welcomed by uses and is a victory in the short term at least for australia's news outlets who have their facebook pages restored or facebook has read for ended a strike. and a stray in news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content facebook has agreed to invest tens of millions of dollars into australia is struggling new sector in return it'll avoid mandatory payments that could have cost

it vastly more and created what it sees as an alarming global president at the end of the diary facebook's accepted the premise that there needs to be an accommodation between their their market dominance in advertising and the public interest having journalism and news content in australia. the social media giant sparked outrage last week by blocking news content for its australian uses in protest against legislation that would have forced it to pay media companies when it republished that content google face the same threat that took the opposite approach striking a deal with rupert murdoch's news call i think facebook one in my view a lot of misjudged this one and. i think the market's going to respond pretty strongly with competing places to get news. by if you're an active. facebook user you just have to get into the habit of electing a new system alternative that. there's been years of escalating tension between

governments and big tech many saw facebook's blocking of australia media as an attack on free speech and even a threat to democracy and that could alter the road to regulation putting companies like facebook under more pressure than ever before similar laws are already being discussed in the e.u. and canada the news ecology has been radically disrupted in the last little while and i think there is a global appetite for regulation and it was for facebook and google and others to pay something for the news that is linked to from that what was not is is just one step in that process. google and facebook have 2 months to reach further deals with australian news outlets and avoid being forced to pay it to a gate and be out there. now the jobless rate in south africa has jumped to 32.5 percent that's the highest since records began in 2008 now between october and december last year affair that $700000.00 people lost their jobs meaning

a total of $7200000.00 unemployed that means a 3rd of the working age population is out of a job south africa has the continent's highest rate of corinna virus infections and its economy was already in recession before this pandemic hit well that's now speak to l. the moment she is the head of macro economic and currency research at standard bank in south africa she joins us now from johannesburg ella these are some pretty alarming figures but they're not a surprise economists have been warning of this for some time even aside from the impact of the pandemic has had right. absolutely so i think if we just focus a little bit it's entirely expected but after this is via lock down we have the 2nd quarter of last year there will be a gradual recovery in the economy opened up again but you actually look you right in terms of we had an unemployment crisis even before co and so all of this is doing is it's just exceeded and to grab and zone you know it's even it's going to

take even longer to make any positive impact on the very high unemployment growth of the gross ela my understanding is that the labor force has been expanding very rapidly relative to job growth in south africa why is that. yes i think part of the problem is just that job growth has been quite sluggish. and i think that links back to economic growth that has been very british you know the last number of years and there are a number of reasons for that one is policy and certainty and the other is structural constraints of the economy so for example we've had significant gloating over the last couple of years and over the last at least 2 years and that diary of to reduce the economic growth by one percent and that's just the diary even back then you have to say you can't really have any new expansion in the press is the building if you're not sure about the availability of electricity as i think it is

that structural constraint to the economy that's been means that there is very little scope or even women grows out of who's now with the crosses the line none of the restrictions we see in any additional impact on us so you say this isn't entirely down to the pandemic but that's obviously had a huge impact as you say and that impact has been a very inequitable one i see some real deviations here in terms of wealth disparity is when it comes to race and gender amongst its members to. yes and we track quite carefully as we can use all of the bank climbed to get business into the granular detail and the we can definitely see that the dark glasses are really concentrated them on the lower income groups whereas the higher income groups are still relatively sure that from the crisis is a lot as a if it's their jobs and income and so the government has implemented the number of social relief package is unfortunately alongside this unemployment crisis we also

have a fiscal problem and so the scope to do more direct for school relief is really limited so we've had a lot of that over the past here but most of that is now being phased out so we need a real program that we can be looking for etc next here is a presidential employment program so then once when i get into last year the idea is sizable spending so about 13000000 over the last half of last year and then i think that between 602800000 people and so it's really the few with rangers it's sure to ration jobs but the hope is that if you can appoint someone as a teaching assistant for example to 3 months. at least get some exposure on the job training and the hope is being that that will ultimately help to reduce the significant unemployment problem and the we've been talking about from numbers an economic policies here but they're also really some real world knock on effects from these numbers in the past and our lack of jobs in south africa has been

a real reason for rising levels of that if i be a friend sense is there a concern that such high unemployment rates could potentially lead to unrest or other social issues. yes we are concerned about that we not receive any signs of that at this stage of the game could be influenced by the fact that people's movement was still somewhat restricted during the locked up but it is definitely a concern but the feeling now that the social really the hands of the very have the significance of additional social grants so it is the party of concern and attend one of the positives that's coming out of this crisis is everybody is realizing just how potent this problem and so outside the smaller corporation between the leg of business and government to try and address those that need to be so the one positive is everybody knows the risk that you for me and all of the full time to have to give to improve the situation l.

the more than there the head of macroeconomic in cancer research at standard bank south africa joining us from johannesburg thanks for being with us. now moving on and the bodies of the italian ambassador and his bodyguard who were killed in an attack in the mechanical public of congo and they are being transported to the capital kinshasa vehicles carrying the coffins arrived at goma airport on asio and his guard were killed after their u.n. convoy was ambushed and pop on monday the congolese government claims a rebel group known as the f.t.l. author carrying out that attack on the taliban is accusing the afghan government of not living up to its end of last year's peace agreement the group says it's still waiting for the release of more of its fighters from prisons as it was promised during the doha talks it's also concerned that the united states has not changed the group's designation or negotiators in the afghan talks say the taliban has been disingenuous at accusation that the group denies some of and debate has this update

from here in doha. the taliban have been accused of perpetrating the violence that we've been seeing in the last few weeks in afghanistan you've heard from the you know i'm a director they're accusing groups of carrying those attacks out and the government of the of going to the sun has actually leveled the blame at the taliban that a senior official taliban official told us that the taliban has not committed any attacks against civilians it says it remains committed to peace and for the 1st time they've laid out in detail on how free in phases one government and their u.s. allies were supposed to abide by the agreement and they say they haven't they haven't released the prisoners this is the bombardment drone attacks night raids all of them are continue in areas the taliban insists that there have been no attacks on western targets they say that there are no intelligence reports of any foreigner attacking any or planning to attack any other country using of dance well

so they say that they're holding their end of the bargain and nato ministers as well as the united states says that it is continuing its intelligence gathering on the ground and a decision is imminent about what is going to be the future course of action with regard to not just a troop withdrawal but a permanent cease fire and peace in afghanistan. now the wife of jailed mexican drug boss working el chapo guzman has been arrested in the u.s. on drug trafficking charges and the car now is perot was detained it washington d.c. is international airport she is accused of helping her husband run his multibillion dollar cartel and also plotting has escaped from a mexican prison and 2015 because a man is currently serving a life sentence and a u.s. federal prison planner apollo is following the story for us from mexico city model i believe she is expected to appear in a washington court on tuesday afternoon this isn't really quite the multinational saga tell us how we got here. it really

has and unfortunately while this is a very interesting development there is limited information that we know about the capture of the wife of what was mine and i guess that unfortunately it actually raises more questions than than than what we have answers for for starters what was she doing in washington d.c. what was the purpose of this trip this is a question that was posed directly to mrs guzman's attorney here in mexico unfortunately she did not answer that question what we do know is that is that emma couldn't and 31 years old she was arrested on monday at dulles international airport this is the main airport just outside of washington d.c. on the charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana methamphetamines cocaine and other drugs for importation into the united states now according to u.s. authorities mrs guzman has played an active role in the city of lower drug cartel here in mexico since before the arrest of her husband chop it was money and ever

since there's also according to investigators in the united states reason to believe that she participated in that conspiracy to break him out of jail in 2015 which really shine the spotlight on chapal on this in the lower cartel and the guzman family in general mexico's president of this model is a bit of that he was asked about the arrest during his morning press conference on tuesday unfortunately he said that this is ultimately a matter that corresponds to u.s. authorities now mrs guzman is due in court for an arraignment at some point at some point on tuesday unfortunately we do not yet know the details of the time or place but we are keeping a close watch for any new developments that have how they're following that story for us from mexico city thanks so much. judge in malta has given a 15 year prison sentence to a man who murdered a high profile investigative journalist who exposed corruption in the government vincent muskrats plead pled guilty to the 2017 car bomb killing of death in

a car want to kill its year muskrat's 2 brothers are also on trial the prime minister resigned last year after an investigation revealed that many of his supporters were implicated in that. pakistan's prime minister has arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit since taking office imran khan was welcomed by a prime minister mahinda rajapaksa but leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and us has more now from colombia. the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's policy of force cremations of corbett 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels a centrally what they have said is their religion sort of bans the cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they

have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essentially scientific evidence which basically says that cremations and burials are both acceptable they have gone on a process of appointing different committees and they've kind of been stalling on this issue so on imran khan is a huge sort of a burden of expectation by the muslims of sri lanka that he will use his good offices whatever goodwill that he has with the government of sri lanka obviously the 2 countries go back a long way pakistan has stood by sri lanka particularly the rajapaksa know that because they stood by them during the last stages of the war in this country giving them sort of needed munitions and things like that so the muslims are hoping that he would bring that kind of goodwill to use. in indonesia central

java struggling with flooding let's destroy nearly $2000000.00 worth of crops they most are it is for damaging the land and making it less fast just a washington reports now from. it might look like a river but this is actually a paddy field in the village of some pang in patty regency this community of families in central java is trying to salvage their crops days of severe flooding have destroyed most of their hard work and most of the rice is russian. but i thought some of the little bit that someone look all around everything is ruined there is no harvest. this community is used to heavy rains but farmers told al-jazeera past floods didn't reach the petit fields they say land degradation is to blame for the worsening flooding. but number one because i never said that there are many mining activities going on up hill mining for the cement factories forest

destruction plantations when it rains the water flows straight to the jawan a river that overflows. the disaster agency says $7000.00 hectares of land is flooded and in some areas the water rose more than a metre and a half. the mine how far along aside from the la nina effect we cannot deny this flood is caused by environmental destruction especially in the forest. environmental groups are campaigning for a moratorium on mining permits they blame the worsening floods on upstream mining for the cement factory but local authorities in how to maintain the floods are caused by heavy rains. these floods are because the joiner river overflowed it happens annually when the rainfall is high. this week severe flooding affected thousands of households in jakarta and nearby cities and local authorities also blamed heavy rain flooding in java causes millions of dollars of damage every year

in jakarta and in smaller cities and authorities are often reluctant to make the connection between environmental damage and the worsening floods. in 30 the local government says it will give seeds to the affected farmers but the farmers are still concerned. if it continues like this all is lost the complex again the seeds they say will not be enough if the bigger issues aren't addressed as well just go washington al-jazeera jakarta. well still ahead here on al-jazeera why all the roles players are being asked to donate their brains after the death of one of their greats that's coming up with triton score.

but it's now time to score in history the stasi a thank you le bron james has dismissed concerns about his work at a lake his team suffer the loss in 5 n.b.a. games despite having a brawl in the defending champions is struggling without the injured anthony davis this time they were beaten in overtime by the washington wizards bradley b. . the standout player with $33.00 points as the wizards secured their 1st win over the lake his at the staple center since march 27th team have now won 5 in a row which is the longest winning streak in 3 years this is a fast turnaround from last season and we wish we could have more rest you know i'm here to work in america to watch my clock in and be available to my teammates and if i am. or am not feeling well then we can look at them this

whole narrative of know the brownies more wrestle i should take more rest wash take time here. has become a bigger than what it actually really is the new york rangers n.h.l. team say their play ought to write is being targeted by smear tactics because of his support of russian opposition figure alexina volley and iran is taking a leave of absence after a former coach alleged he assaulted a woman in that fia 10 years ago which he denies the russian player has spoken out against president vladimir putin in the past and recently posted support for the volley earlier this month was jailed for nearly 3 years range is said to me very mentally and unequivocal denies any and all allegations in this fabricated story this is clearly an intimidation tactic being used against him for being outspoken on recent political events the range is fully support to me and work with him to identify the source of these unfounded allegations. carol you say too much but.

i think he's in good hands the rangers do unbelievable job. you know having a good support system for players for you know i mean anything we need and obviously this is probably a little bit unique for everybody but he's in good hands and you know he's such a good person and we talked this morning about the situation and the fact that it's sympathetic and as much as our attorneys our thoughts. are that we're going to be here for me you know we've got a job to do and you know these guys were a great practice that was really good practice and. you know what i've said that is the single you know whether to elaborate on the group or of just sticking to the state. the french rugby federation say they have been no new cases of covert 19 among its 6 nations squad so far 10 players in the head coach who tested positive which put sunday's match against scotland in paris in doubt tournament organizers say decision will be made on wednesday if it can't take place the game will be

rescheduled for the earliest possible date front the top of the 6 nations table after winning both of their games so far. a coroner in australia is calling on all the rules players to donate their brains to research into concussion related disease c.t.e. the current or maybe a pill off to giving her findings in the death of former also evils great danny frawley he took his own life in 2019 frawley who paid sick killed in the eighty's ninety's was found to have c.t.e. after his death the disease is caused by repeated concussions and has been linked to mental health issues. christiane of an elder has become the top scorer in its early this season over taking into months from eleanor cocker with his latest performance the portuguese star scored 2 headers as you bend to speak bottom club for tony 3 mill on monday that takes one elbows tally to 18 goals this season it also moves eventis with an 8 points of lead as into milan reigniting that challenge

. for the title. fellow italians lat 0 hour in champions league action they host the holders by in munich in the last 16 later but by and also battling fatigue and poor form since clinching their 6th title in 12 months with victory at the fifa club world cup in qatar the european champions have been struggling domestically they're now just 2 points ahead of rb like sake in the bundesliga by an also without several of their 1st team players including thomas miller and benjamin provide falling positive covert tests in mind. it's been a heavy workload and we've missed some of our top players but this can always happen during a season and 2 other teams as well so i'm looking forward with optimism that these champions league games are special for us so i expect the team will be motivated spain's top scorer suarez will be looking to take a bite out of chelsea's champions league hopes as he leads atletico madrid into the last 16 but the current virus pandemic has forced the much to be moved to remain

here that's because of travel restrictions preventing visitors from the u.k. entering spain chelsea's boss feels that could play into his team's hands. disadvantage for the court to lose their home ground we don't have to talk around the obvious. so. i feel clearly yes it's very easy to answer i love what i see on a daily basis the world's best pound for pound boxer canelo alvarez is preparing for his latest fight this saturday the mexican and his turkish opponent. had coded 19 tests before their face off in florida they will fight for the world super middleweight title at the miami dolphins n.f.l. stadium canelo has lost only one of his $54.00 fights to floyd mayweather jr. to cycling now and chris froome believes he is still capable of winning

a record equalling face tour de france later this year but the 35 year old has work to do as he continues his recovery from a serious accident back in 2019 if initial way behind on stage 3 of the talk racing for his new team israel startup nation meanwhile up ahead of the current tour de france champion today. on stage to increase his overall lead slovenia writers now 43 seconds clear of adams yates who finished 2nd on tuesday. the new formula one season is just over 2 weeks away and the red bull team are the latest to unveil their car the 2021 although it is a bit hard to make it out in this new d.v.d. oh the team released on their social media red bull ams to carry momentum from last season where they finished 2nd to miss avies they'll fight for this year's title with the stop and new teammate sergio perez at the helm and there it is all right that is all you sport for now we'll have more for you later in the stasi and that

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outside easily since the coronavirus pandemic. fronts mark lamont hill cut through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom hope for the future the ivory coast goes to the polls for its column entry elections. march on al-jazeera. outrage and condemnation off the malaysia deports more than a 1000. despite a court order against it. this is out of their life and also coming up thousands in georgia protest against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician deepening a crisis that began with last year's disappears of election. the u.s. congress has testimony from.