oh. this is 0. you know that i missed all the attained this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes. protesters marching myanmar as the military appointed foreign minister flies to thailand for crisis talks. ghana becomes the 1st nation to receive coronavirus vaccines as part of a global scheme to ensure that less wealthy countries are being left behind. fears of an ecological disaster a large oil spill spews tons of tar crossed israel's coastline and spreads to southern lebanon. and accused of failing to hold abusers to account sri lanka's

government defends its human rights record during the civil war with the tamil tigers. i'm joined again just go with the sports 15 time major gold champion tiger woods is awake and responsive up to surgery on a broken leg or in his car crash. myanmar's military appointed foreign minister is in thailand for talks after this month's coup and so part of regional efforts to try to resolve the crisis which began when the army seized power on the festa february protesters are continuing to demand the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and rallies across the country scott heil has more now from bangkok. anti coupe protesters gathered in front of the indonesian embassy in years gone only for regional involvement as tensions grow across myanmar. this is the military appointed foreign minister visited bangkok for

crisis talks meeting his tie indonesian counterparts as well as thailand's prime minister prime general job that's all part of stepped up efforts by the regional group of nations called on to find a way out of the crisis following the february 1st coup and i cannot. as a mirror master just like to urge countries not to recognize the cue government if they do recognize it the dignity of will be eroded and is reported to be planning to send officials to monitor a new being more election promised by the generals but the protesters are urging asio to recognise the november polling the put their deposed leaders including on santucci in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling it also want to get more involved we. to choose decide between the military wonder wish oppressed people right now decide out of people which is

trying to protest as they can to lead to one though that we will be and the rule of the military against this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after a 2001000 a lecture in political rivals called it badly flawed. so while the protesters are maintaining their pace of protests and strikes they are also stepping up pressure on regional players to engage with the crisis al-jazeera bangkok well western countries have moved quickly to speak out against an even sanction myanmar's military but its closer neighbors have been a little more circumspect but take a look neighboring thailand provides jobs to more than

a 1000000 migrants strengthening and previously fractious relationship china is myanmar's most consistent backa offering debt relief development grants and soft loans it says any international action against the military should promote reconciliation like china india shares a border with man. and india has also grown closer to its neighbor over the past 2 decades and 2019 it became the animals top on dealer providing some $100000000.00 of military hardware india's government has called for democracy to be protected but has avoided outright mention of the crew and indonesia has been trying to corral ousia nations to help steer a path out of the crisis the rim call that me animal was under military rule when it joined that 10 member regional bloc back in 1907 well aaron connelly is a reception fellow with the international institute for strategic studies he says the ask in block is useful but limited in the role it can play in this crisis. i don't think they can actually play

a very helpful role in pressuring the military government to give up power the military and the n l the at least the are actually still quite far apart and the protesters in the street have even more in vicious demands on the lp have the courts leaders were arrested of it or at 1st that constructive thing that i can do now is to earth the military to act with restraint to stop firing at unarmed demonstrators as they join the civil disobedience disobedience movement and to release all the political prisoners so that perhaps mediation can take place in a more days about if you're down the road of thailand actually it is playing an interesting game here and although on january 1st on the day of the coup it said that this was an internal matter for me and maher and of course that government in place in thailand right now 1st came to power in a military coup itself in 2014 they did not have an interest in political instability in myanmar with which they share a very long border and they don't want to see refugees streaming over that were

particularly during this pandemic and so although it said this was an internal matter of that you were a person it also joined a statement by on that same day or supported a statement by outing on that same day the call for with us you know it is very often the language of return to normalcy so a return to that was a democratic structure that existed prior to the coup perhaps they can play a useful now moving on but staying in the region malaysia is the latest country in southeast asia to start its kind of 19 vaccination drive the prime minister was a fast to get to chad and get not more than 100000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine of arrive ahead of its plan drawn out next month jessica washington takes a look at the end of creation campaigns around the region. at a health clinic in the city of which are giant delays as prime minister kicks off his country's corona virus vaccine campaign the southeast asian nation plans to

vaccinate 80 percent of its population of 32000000 by next year. in neighboring indonesia at one of the world's largest mosques thousands of religious leaders are being vaccinated this week in jakarta using the vaccine developed by chinese pharmaceuticals manufacturer a sign of ike. the dr is part of the push to encourage more engine asians to accept the vaccine. have a target of 17000000 public workers a religious leaders and 21000000 elderly people hopefully the 2nd phase will be finished by the end of june indonesia is the worst affected country in southeast asia with more than 35000 confirmed deaths thailand will start vaccinating priority groups including health workers this week using the same sign of backpacks seen the country has received 200000 doses more will arrive next month the day. i thank china percent ing us the 1st batch of bank scenes this month the vaccines

will keep arriving as planned the philippines is yet to start its vaccine rollout and its labor department has sparked anger suggesting it was open to allowing more nurses to work in foreign countries in exchange for vaccines from europe when we 1st. read and heard about it but we are saddened in the we were heard of the brain as if we are like an object. we did see in vietnam has been praised as one of the world's best performers in handling the virus and now it's received its 1st shipment of vaccines it will be hoping that it will continue when it starts rolling them out next month jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta and now gone a has become the 1st country to receive coronavirus vaccine through the international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca jobs arrived in the capital accra on wednesday as the latest. un vaccine to ensure that people from less wealthy

countries are protected against david 19 is being hailed as a historic moment. the rival of $600000.00 from india marks the beginning of a massive campaign that will see more than $2000000000.00 doses delivered to several developing countries across different continents this quarter. program is about equity and certainly darity if you follow the vaccination going on around the planet so far it's only citizens from the let the say the better off countries that have benefited from this and from today we're bringing equity gone the plants inoculate around 20 percent of its population in the 1st phase of its campaign but is still not enough and the government says it's working on securing more doses. almost $2500000.00 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far rich countries have been able to buy far more vaccines and poorer ones and while kovacs has managed to raise $6000000000.00 in needs at least another 2000000000 to meet

its targets the 2021 this is only financed now so we can reach in 1002 countries the most vulnerable population the all the citizens the health workers people with school mortgages you know but we need much more taxes and financing so we can vaccinate everybody just like if you walk in the rich world countries to receive the lifesaving vaccines next we'll include some of the poorest countries in the world including haiti democratic republic of congo and afghanistan where the kovacs program will cover 20 percent of its $38000000.00 population the global race for doses has met the high income countries can more easily do deals with vaccine manufacturers than low income ones so the world health organization and unit urging those companies to prioritise contracts with kovacs and ensure fair distribution worldwide so far 200 term 1000000 doses of vaccine have been are still globally but however of those are just 2 countries. 80

percent are in just 10 countries more than $200.00 countries are you 2 are still a single dose. alter a year of disruptions due to the pandemic there's hope this is the beginning of the pol to recovery for those most affected and those that's the most vulnerable sort of. all there's plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including a landmark ruling a german court sentences a form a syrian secret police officer to prison. anti-government activists go on trial in lebanon accused of terrorism during last month's protests. and india's cricket is take control of the test against england all the action coming up in sport with joe .

biden is expected to speak with saudi arabia's king saul months before the publication of a u.s. government report on the murder of journalist. it would be biden's 1st conversation as president with the saudi leader now the classified intelligence report is widely believed to implicate the king's son crown prince mohammed bin sound in killing the trumpet ministration refused to release it well that's now speak to our white house correspondent candy how good she is in washington d.c. i can believe the cool if it happens as should you will also be with the king rather than the crown prince took us through the agenda here. well the call itself has not yet been confirmed by the white house through the national security council or even the press office here but it is being widely reported that it will take place and the press office has for weeks been asking when that call would take place all the white house will confirm is that in fact it would be a phone call between president biden and the king but we expect that it could be an

uncomfortable call given the subject matter well we know there will be a range of issues discussed including the strategic interests in the region for both parties it will also we expect to discuss the fact that there is no imminent report that is set to be released that will be particularly damning with reference to the king's son the crown prince mohammed bin salomon who as you pointed out has been implicated in the killing leased by intelligence officials in the united states for the murder of the washington post journalist. and kimberly you just want to be know about this report on the killing it's been a long time coming from this fair sensitive issue how damning could the report being. well those who have been briefed by the top intelligence official the cia director gene housefull. know that this is a particularly damning report we can only go in the words of some of those that

have been briefed in the u.s. senate and at the time the comments were particularly strong former senator bob corker saying things like there's no question that had been solomon murdered you know question in my mind that he directed the murder and that this is really sort of cause for concern in fact it prompted the u.s. congress to take action to block arms sales 2 to saudi arabia to really requestion the whole relationship but all of those actions by congress were halted because of the cozy relationship the the trauma administration to have with the kingdom but now we've had an election that we've had a change of administration is very clear that this is ministration wishes to recalibrate as they put it this relationship well there will be shared interests joe biden was clear on the campaign trail that he wanted to hold the kingdom accountable for human rights abuses alleged human race rights abuses and also

treated his words as the pariah that it is so we expect this report will not be something that will be flattering to the kingdom or to the saudi crown prince once it is released by house correspondent can be how could that with all the latest thanks so much committee. a german court has convicted a former member of syria's secret police and a landmark case over the torture of protest is ironed out how it was found guilty of being an accomplice to crimes against humanity and jailed for 4 and a half years the charges involved the arrest and torture of at least 30 people in damascus after a rally in 2011 arrived in germany and $2800.00 seeking asylum another man on war rahsaan is directly facing some of the charges and his trial is continuing. it's for us it's a great you know it's a historic. decision in fact under strict a for not for for. us assyrians it's historic days

they fought for justice in whole short. decision today. clearly fight that many people not just commit crimes against humanity who could facilitate who support that will not give him an excuse to have impunity mccain has been following proceedings for us from berlin. this is the 1st time that somebody directly linked to torture and other offenses crimes against humanity carried out in syria has been found and then prosecuted and now punished by a court outside syria particularly in the western world this is the 1st time that that has happened and then secondly it's the way that the or thorazine is here have been able to prosecute this individual because it's be clear about this the defendant is not german the victims of the defendant on not and the offenses that

the person convicted has been convicted of did not take place in germany but the authorities here said that they were able to employ apply rather the universal jurisdiction that applies everywhere the german government said relating to crimes against humanity and that makes this a landmark ruling as i say on 2 parts that's why this particular case is so interesting but as i say it is worth bearing in mind that the other defendant in this case is accused of considerably more offenses than the defendant convicted this morning that other trial that other case is continuing and it involves many more serious atrocities which the person concerned is accused of which of course the person concerned denies well security has been stepped up outside a military court in beirut where $32.00 anti-government activists are standing trial accused of terrorism and the 1st time the charges been leveled against

a protester and at the defense that could carry a death sentence then a quarter reports now from beirut. it's been nearly a month since an alley saw her son she waits for news outside the military tribunals were early is among dozens of men facing trial on terrorism charges by her 3rd birthday alert those charges can carry the death penalty and are seen as an escalation in the ongoing conflict between the state and the people. in need i mean it should be a bit heavy yet there accusing are some. of being terrorists they are the terrorists they stole the people's money they are responsible for the explosion in that they report our children are nationalists not them the defendants are alleged to have thrown molotov cocktails at security forces and burned down in a supposedly building during protests in the northern city of tripoli last month the demonstrations were held to demand the government compensation during a strict coronavirus lockdown that worsened living conditions for the poor. one

protester was shot in the back during the unrest his family and activists want to know why no charges have been brought against those responsible for killing him the facilities are marked by a really special not a table who was monitored was killed by these men they know who fired the shot and they're not telling us lawyers have criticised the use of a military court to try the defendants and say they have been obstructed from seeing them they also say the young men were interrogated without lawyers being present and described the charges as unlawful arbitrary and a form of oppression this escalation has 3 reasons for us 1st is to put the stigma on the protestors mainly in 3 put it that they are terrorists 2nd is to put the fear factor of the protesters not to hit the streets again as good as like to put the pressure on the investigation judge not 3 of the detainees human rights groups say terrorism charges should be used for serious political crimes and not acts of

public disorder. repression is increased in the 11 on some said nationwide protest movement began more than a year ago security forces have been accused of using excessive and unlawful force against the demonstrators. lengthy pretrial the tensions prosecutions with limited rights to appeal interrogations without the presence of a lawyer and beatings have all been documented warnings that free speech and assembly are at risk are not new for many the dwindling numbers of those who continue to speak out is a testament of that reality set of. beirut. now a greek oil tanker company is denying accusations that it's responsible for a major oil spill that's spewed tons of tar cross israel's coast as well as southern lebanon managers of the minerva helen say the vessel is now in spain and part without deficiencies this comes after israel's public broadcaster reported

that the tanker was the suspected source of the country's nature impacts author as he says this is one of the west ecological disasters on record 55 tons of tar have been cleaned up so far well that's now speak to jonathan i can ban he is the israel director for greenpeace and he joins us now from west to respond jonathan this is a huge following regardless of the source that is tore across what more than 150 kilometers of course find all the way to southern lebanon just how bad is it hello there is no word to describe the hope but is it. i must say must begin with kind words for the dozens of volunteers loud doing daily if it's to remove most of the star but the dar is a very sticky front of all you used. in the sense in every stone. and so is the political disaster in that region the ladies for deejays and the truth take all sort of recovery. so we just received

a situation john and there's also been quite a lot of secrecy around what's actually happened i say of course has even issued a gag order here shortly that's a little unusual what do you make of that. well as an environmental engineer actually in israel as the other undercurrent of n.g.o.s we are requesting from the government so many years to be ready to such events we knew that such events would be only a question of time no does secrecy iran's around the bend over and describe them until the crime and the lack of transparency are very concerning. we still don't the last why the reason for that and we seem to it does not justify it simply is an environment of disaster exposing the. really oh and to proud to govern the west to face this kind of of disaster there we're some solutions and while we all isn't one months of the elections. how difficult do you

think it will be to actually pinpoint the source of the spell and could that potentially help with the accountability then for the canine i seem to come to it with b.s. the beast very soon i mean the company can maybe try to gain some times but doubt so many technology co. is to do dots by ourself who are also trying to see where this came from and it's really just seems a fisa you know and once we have new elements who also release them so. there is no dust that's all the true on this case and all the responses that you would be asked of least so i really don't understand why does vest so is trying to gain time it's simply time trace and use this thing you mentioned that it could take a really long time to clean up all the toth or 55 tons of talking up there how long do you think it could take to potentially get arrested and does israel actually have the expertise and the resources to get on with us john. israel has has the

resources but not the current brownnose to deal with such an event so basically it's the n.g.o.s who to believe them that broke still reasons of volunteers to deal with the cleanup some parts of the cleanup already had mensing fast and so i'm sure those will be probably reopened to the public quite soon maybe in a few weeks but for other parts most iraqi parts and it's very special and sensitive areas some natural result of some not to reserves it was very special ecosystems to clean up we take months to get to something quite normal and the recovery will have to follow for years to see where the station is i don't have the mail from here about oil spills when they happen right but given that that's one of his traffic had some way offshore they have been a lag with the tar pairing on the beaches so how common is something like this because this suggests that they may be more fellow though even dumping happening in other parts of the wild socialists decimating wildlife that people actually know

well it's excellent excellent question because there are there have been. hundreds and thousands of events like that on sea in the last years most of them quite small and most of them happened in the open sea so nobody sees them here we have quite a big amount of of that was released and just on the route old out to the shore of israel and source in lebanon so it was really clearly and huge and recent huge impact but it's it isn't for sizing whole took 2nd thought it might take our force of fuels and huge infrastructure and to make it down and see its hundreds of junkers that are making their way all along especially the east marathon and sea and it's also many oh and gas drilling is that there are already existing. developments so what we saw here is you know just to kind of throw off what's is going to be destroyed ation into

a cement down in beseen. elice which old governments didn't do it is really addictions. jonathan i can bomb there the israel director at greenpeace thanks so much for being with us jonathan and we wish you all the best of luck with the cane up over there thank you now a chinese divorce court has ordered a man to compensate his wife for the housework that she did during their 5 year marriage the landmark ruling came off to china introduced a new civil code between us in beijing and she says this case has triggered widespread discussion over the value of domestic work. this ruling has sparked a flurry of debate online here in china over the role of housewives' in chinese society according to this case a beijing court has ruled that a woman named wang would receive 7700 dollars in compensation folding her divorce from her husband in addition to half the couple's assets and custody of their only child now this is the 1st case of its kind since china's marriage will was amended

earlier this year to say that any carers of parents or children should be entitled to compensation now this story has been viewed hundreds of millions of times on chinese social media there are some comments with some people saying that the man has been dealt an unfair deal that he has already been caught introducing to the family but the vast majority of comments we've read have been in support of the woman one and in fact many believe that 7000 $700.00 is simply not enough compensation for 5 years of being a housewife there are other more humorous comments with some people saying that this is going to discourage divorces which have been on the uptick in or in china but also that this is a cautionary tale to women against to being housewives because they will not be legally compensated enough to justify sacrificing their career or being dependent on a husband and others are saying that husbands should simply contribute more to the housework and that they should maybe document the efforts in case they should be

a future divorced while still ahead here on al-jazeera long delays and the late mail how donald trump era cuts of eroded trust in the us postal service. i'm so glad to be home our home baby new york sports fans return to madison square garden for the 1st time in almost a year joe will have all the details for you bill. but . how do i once again it's looking like a dry course it could cost of the middle east although we do still have some rain sleet and snow in the full cost chiefly that is going to be into iran a little area of cloud here but to sing some rather wintry weather city over the mountains push up into afghanistan and again we will see some snow heading towards

kabul where temperatures will touch 13 degrees celsius but you can see clear skies coming in for many it brightens up nicely in iraq over towards the levant saudi arabia should be generally fight and dry and not too bad here in qatar as well though harbored around 22 degrees let 40 back to around 21 on friday when speaking up a blowing watch out for some little dust in the sand as a result of that but to the south that didn't reach dry and that dry weather stretching down across the horn of africa generally dry into that eastern side of somalia will see some present sunshine coming through shows once again just around lake victoria southern parts of uganda seeing some heavy showers all the way into the guinea basin will see somewhat of weather coming in here over the next day shallow as run down across. some heavy showers there into botswana eastern parts of south africa will see some heavy rain over the next couple of days with the possibility of localized flooding.

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the. hello again. that's remind you the top stories here this hour myanmar's military appointed foreign minister is in thailand for crisis talks after this month's crewe he's meeting the prime minister and indonesia's foreign minister as part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis protesters gathered at the indonesian embassy ahead of that visit. gonna has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international cardiac scheme the 600000 vials were flown in from india kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and to share them fairly

amongst all nations. and of course in germany has convicted of form a syrian security agency officer and a landmark case related to the torture of protesters i had al gore it was found guilty of helping to facilitate crimes against humanity and jailed for 4 and a half years. now congress is trying once again to help the struggling u.s. postal service recover from years of financial losses its managers are currently before the house oversight committee as it considers new legislation the government funded agency has long been a beloved malan possible service for americans but recent delivery delays have led to plummeting public trust there is how does your caster has the story. when lori cash of new york took a job with the u.s. postal service 22 years ago it was for the security of a government job and a chance to work closely with the public to be able to service the public and do something that i know is helping people every day has just always been apparent to

me but lately she's been hearing more complaints from customers dealing with delayed mail or have met someone mail apparently been one city and it takes 3 or $45.00 days to get to the next city over only 38 percent of 1st class mail was delivered on time in late december according to postal service court filings that means everything from medications to bill payments are arriving late and it's a problem that persists people have got their bills delayed and they've sent them to companies or utilities companies utilities are then charging late fees. small businesses that once depended on the u.s. postal service to ship products are also suffering marilyn boutique owner fares on jagger says many of the gift orders she received before christmas weren't delivered in time even pathway past the holidays we were getting e-mails where is buying gift that it received the big get delivered to the recipient and she now uses private

shipping carriers though they're more expensive the u.s. postal service lost more than 9000000000 dollars in business in 2020 build the delivery delays that drove away some customers will likely improve after the agency's long running money troubles will be harder to tackle because its costs routinely exceed its revenues the man tasked with finding a solution is postmaster general lewis to joy a trump mega donor who implemented cuts to the postal service at the height of the pandemic and in the lead up to last november's mail in voting the joys latest plans for the agency reportedly include reducing services for local mail and raising postage rates by nearly 10 percent we can do so much more her our communities than what we do now so if he's not willing to look outside of what we currently do if he just wants to cut what we have and turn it into

a business then he does not belong in the postal service because you can't run the service with that closed minded attitude everyone agrees the u.s. postal service cannot continue on its current footing but the visions for how to help the can see defer even as most believe the service is worth saving heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. now sri lanka is expected to face strong criticism at the un human rights council that's a meeting that's currently underway and that's due in part for its failure to bring accountability to those involved and its 25 year long civil war how last year the government announced it was withdrawing from the un resolution signed by the previous administration that promised to promote reconciliation accountability and human rights but rights groups have accused president rajapaksa of waging a campaign of fear and intimidation against rights activists journalists lawyers and political challenges in the last month the un human rights chief michel bashfully said she was alarmed by the deteriorating conditions in sri lanka and

she's called for sanctions well let's get the view from the sri lankan government earlier we spoke to the foreign minister dinesh going to why danna who was appointed by president carter by rajapaksa he defended his government's record on human rights. the government has pledged to the un as well as the human rights commission the programs that really are coming to door and we have begun some of the programs are complete or do you buy new lands back to the people . and train when so many hard going to the carnage is like a train over 12000 and they're all back in their own area after one of the training they have appointed a supreme court judge to head the commission of inquiry which was played at the last human rights sessions by me it is all in the implementation the obvious for the missing person is in operation and we have pledged i located the funds is

that even for these here but one cannot understand how these commission officers comes to these conclusions we don't know in the ground see to wave and just to make allegations it is true we defeated the entity one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in the world but we have all come back to normal maybe out of parliamentary democracy in addition to all that we have appointed this commission if anyone wants to come and conducted said of before the commission any evidence to be brought and a new evidence to be man sri lanka has opened the gates now the commission is ready to hear who will say is they have let them bring information in or

just keep on saying sri lanka guys are violating zealand guys are violating sol one cannot agree to a one sided very biased which is not properly sub scented the reports are that high commissioners report well let's dig into this a little more we spend money from 2nd she's a senior such at the center the policy all kind of has and she joins us now from the sri lankan capital colombo but danny i know you were listening in there let me start by asking you what you make of what the foreign minister had to say there. the government and the foreign minister mean the unknowns many years. doesn't come as a surprise be in denial more and if that seems to off it is and they have rejected the findings that the hague conventions report so none of this comes as a surprise to me new york folks who are to be working on morning train the situation on the ground treat lanka does feel like the sentiment there about

justice for what happened in the war a split really along ethnic lines and the sri lanka of 2021 is not the sri lanka of 2015 when they actually committed to investigations and justice process in your mind what's changed in that time. so the war and nearly 12 years ago and since then we've had several government changes 2050 that they in government committed to keep. areas of accountability to reparations and non recurrence and since 2019 there's been a steady roll back of the meat appropriate. in the u.n. human rights council but the high commissioners report reaches for a centered made public and he's going to be in a few minutes time in geneva at the council i think is a good capture of the ground realities and the fact that really there has been no

genuine progress despite 12 years after the end of the war so it's very imagine even more moment really returning with the past but realize that things in sri lanka haven't progressed so it's really an opportunity i would say an opportunity for the government of sri lanka to work with the national community to explore what can be done well we're talking about tens of thousands of people here who disappeared who were disappeared during the war and are presumed dead president got about rajapaksa he was defense chief during that period do you think that families are really likely to get any answers to have any confidence in the. well that's the that's the concern we have is no we haven't seen only means you know we have been meaning sri lanka and team so use appearances as well those are the word lucian's that really lost all 30000 can happen in sri lanka and the problem is there is have been really new commissions and committees but in terms of just to see in terms of

getting actual accountability in sri lanka it looks very much very nice appointing and here's why expansive socially so pretty good and to look at what nukes can be done but i think it's a very important point is eats to support sri lanka. a great scene that accountability reconciliation and you know isn't it great to see that in but to work with the sri lankan government and to support tree longer so i really don't understand why the government itself. when they see them invincible and that's being offered. any one second of their senior research at the center for policy alternatives in colombo thanks for being with us great to get your thoughts here on out of there bonnie thank you on that last correspondent alpha and as she joins us also from colombo but i'm sure that this this meeting of the human rights

council is going to be watched very very closely over there and given the level of division and polarization do you get the sense that people abroad a supporter of a movement towards more accountability here. how basically it depends on which people you're talking to there is basically this sort of poor rise asian along political lines the majority sort of single as community has very much thrown its weight behind the rajapaksa regime and even today when you talk about sort of the armed forces sort of you know the whole nationalist kind of for they are very much entrenched in the sort of rajapaksa legend if you like they are still very much the name of the family that brought an end to 26 years of bloody conflict and that isn't forgotten so whereas when you go to the north the north and east before me from the conflict areas it is obviously many many families almost every single house you visit has a story has

a tale to tell of someone missing someone essential he who was taken away never to be here and of again so it's a case of you know the whole the expectation sensually that 1st block i was talking about the supporters of the government sort of go. into sort of buying into this argument that sri lanka is being unfairly treated that the government has done everything they've protected the country the citizens of sovereignity and the sort of brave sort of war hero has helped you know safeguard the nation obviously different people from this country in different groups expecting different things but at the heart of it is very human stories essential e of people missing of people disappeared and families of mothers of wives

wanting to know the truth of what happened there was one mother from one of the sort of mothers front up in the north who were saying look all we're asking is to be told what happened we shot we you know we've. and to difficult to trust anymore if they can tell us officially we have asked that they just let us know what happened many of them have had problems with closure as a result and 12 years down the line even though many observers find it hard to believe that there might be any of these missing who are still alive for most of those mothers those wives those families they the can't give up hope they keep saying they're going to come back they're being hidden in a camp somewhere so i think that is at the heart of this issue and for all those concerned for the government very concerned about sort of protecting its image sovereignity also they want to knowledge him and that they brought him into a 26 year civil war and i think there is a sort of an anger that that acknowledgment has never come but on the other side

you know all these families wanting closure wanting truth wanting justice and wanting to know what exactly happened here in sri lanka the elephant in the capital colombo should be watching reaction for us to that meeting today thanks so much miguel. thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in nepal's capital katmandu to celebrate the reinstatement of the country's parliament there demanding the prime minister k.p. earlies resign over the bodies dissolution now in december only dismissed parliament over a dispute within his ruling communist party and then on tuesday nepal supreme court ruled that move unconstitutional and ordered the reinstatement of parliament within 13 days. now opposition leader mohamad it was money claims he's narrowly won as presidential elections a day after official results said he lost by more than 11 percentage points his money says voter fraud has been widespread across news as regions on tuesday

officials declared mohamed presume the winner which led to losing in the capital the provisional vote count must still be convened by the constitutional corps. and there are few ready to assume this function that the people decided to give to me i would take it on with patriotism loyalty and integrity i would be a president for all musicians without any exception i would like to salute the leaders of the parties that gave me the precious support who facilitated me to keep well our correspondent on that address is and mina in neighboring nigeria he explains what's led to this post-election violence. the post-election violence in his year was expected going by the body language of the main challenger to brother mohamed that's moment its money immediately after casting his ballot on sunday he said that this time around the would accept any manipulation of the election results and that they will watch out and insist that these votes counted immediately after that his campaign manager when the results started trickling in

a cold on supporters of moments meant to go onto the streets and protest the outcome of the election saying that the election is rigged however the election election in asia this year last year and this year what was underlined by issues of racism there have been so many a much slinging during the campaign of course targeting the president elect mohamed by whom some questioning his nationality and then even the violence that broke out after the announcement of the results what actually targeted minority and toric businesses and millions we hear that millions of dollars were lost in these attacks now would be over 40 is they're struggling to contain the situation one of them takes office officially he will have to contend not only with the economic situation in asia the violence that struck in the country from attacks by boko haram to those by armed groups in the bordering countries of mali and broken up fossil unemployment illiteracy and high rates of poverty he also has to deal with

the new 40 lines that is developing within the nigerian society the division between the indigenous black population and the torek and out of population on the other hand these are some of the critical issues facing both the mom and when he takes over power after mohammad yousuf term has ended. now one of his trail is biggest mining companies has apologized to clearing land on a sacred aboriginal size for test q metals republic dies for ignoring a government condition to have representatives of when to worry groom a community present when they damage the site as straightly as mining giants have come under scrutiny since last may when another family rio tinto destroyed sacred ancient caves that were formed more than 40000 years ago made into a c.e.o. and 2 other senior executives had to resign over that issue. still ahead here on out of there will have all the latest on tiger woods condition after his car crash

in los angeles that's coming up with charlie.

welcome back it's now time for sports and has tiger doing well he is awake and responsiveness after a crash that saw him suffer a serious injury to his like play say he is lucky to be alive but there are now doubts i visibility to return to golf david stokes reports. a close up look at target woods's car reveals the severity of the accident which left him with severe

injuries to both legs his lower right limb took the brunt of the impact and needed lengthy surgery with doctors using pins and rods to stabilize the damage which was travelling at speed on a touristy dangerous stretch of road in los angeles he hits a curb then a tree before rolling several times police say the 45 year old was conscious when they arrived and showed no signs of being impaired he needed to be pried from the vehicle with an axe he didn't seem concerned about his injuries at the time which is not uncommon in traffic collision is many times people tend to be in shock i will say that it's very fortunate that mr woods was able to come out of this alive the tiger they do for me so i would have been on his way to give private golf lessons to celebrities for the 2nd day running this was him alongside basketball legend wayne wade the day before the accident. he not quite himself since december when he appeared with his son charlie in a father son tournament the latest in a long line of back surgeries has kept him out since then but just

a few days ago he spoke about his recovery and hopes of competing at the masters in april still in the gym still doing. the monday stuff that you have to do for rehab you know the little thanks and before and so gravitating towards something before. tiger is one of the most famous sports stars in history and well wishes have come in from the world of entertainment politics and of course from fellow golfers. many of who grew up watching him compete in his prime and i'm sick to my stomach manager so these are. just kids you know through the struggle woods was famously involved in another road accident back in 2009 outside his home in florida and incident which ended up exposing his extramarital affairs and brought an end to his golden boy image in 2017 he was arrested on a dui offense after being found asleep at the wheel with several painkillers in his system as he struggled to cope with chronic injuries. for me still he managed to

overcome these challenges and in 2019 at the age of 43 he won the masters is widely considered one of the greatest comebacks in sports but given the severity of his latest injuries this doubt he will ever reach the same heights or even play again. 45 years old he's going to remember surgeries. but i think the 1st thought you come to on this. is is the end of a career coming in is faster than we realize time will tell what impact this accident will have a nice golfing future for now he said to be awake responsive and recovering in hospital david stakes al-jazeera. to cricket now in india have already taken control of the 3rd test against england in one the toss and tossed about 1st but they've slumps to $112.00 all out so only 4 players reach double figures once again struggling against the spin bowlers the series is tied at $11.00 but already india looking good in this match $47.00 to $2.00 his response is

a day night match being played at the world's largest cricket venue from a tete a stadium in a mad about it can only hold it can hold up to hundreds in 10000 but only 55000 this much because of cope with 19 restrictions. for the 1st time in almost a year new york's iconic madison square garden has reopened to sports fans as new york state's eases coronavirus frustrations the home of the knicks basketball team allowed 2000 fans back in on tuesday to watch them play at the golden state warriors all stuff and spectators had to have negative covert tests taken within the last 72 hours they also had to spread out among the stands where mosques fans were ecstatic to be back. i'm so excited my fly under this mask is just huge i'm so glad to be home we're home maybe it has been so tough watching them from home we get to be back in our home away from home we miss the garden you know we feed off their energy baby doll artists we're glad to be here it's very exciting it's

a little. you don't know what to expect never been to a game and. really with 2000 people spun out we're going to find out what it's like tonight. fortunately the knicks couldn't give their fans a fairytale ending to that return to the garden or a steph curry sign a small crowd as he strode 37 points to lead his team 28114268 tree. a 6 nations game between france and scotland will go ahead as planned that's despite a code 19 outbreak in the french squad 10 players and the head coach tested positive but tournament organizers have decided to proceed with sunday's match in paris france the top of the 6 nations table after winning both their games so far. ashe parties well number one tennis ranking is under threat after a shock defeat the australian was the defending champion at the adelaide international lost her 1st match against danielle collins in straight sets it follows a quarter final defeat at the australian open the 1st time she's lost consecutive matches in 13 months misako is closing in on her number one spot after winning the

last 2 grand slams english premier league leaders will hope man says he will hope to extend their 18 match winning streak later as they take on but to see a mention club back in the last 16 of the champions league this match will take place in hungary not germany because the current a virus travel restrictions says he winning streak is in all competitions and it's in contrast to mention glad back we've only won one of the last 5 matches the other game real madrid to take on atlanta. scottish champions celtic a looking for a new manager neil lennon has resigned with the team a distant 2nd in the title race to glasgow rate rivals ranges they trailed by 18 points then and was in his 2nd stint in charge since rejoining in 2019. to france champion tom de has retained his lead on the u.a.e. tour the slovenian wearing the leader's red jersey finish safely in the pack on stage 4 which was all about the sprinters after 204 kilometers irish riders sam

bennett was the 1st rider across the finish line face 50th korea victory just still 43 seconds clear with 3 stages remaining for no one sergio perez has got his 1st taste of his new red bull car the mixed into the team's new all the 16 big car out for a spin at the silverstone circuit he can't wait to join up with his teammate max to step in when the season gets underway in bahrain in march. it's been an amazing day my 1st. with rebel racing you know. to look at my name on the car it's something very special so. it's definitely a dream come true you know. all right gemma will have more later thanks so much well that is it for this news out of a don't go away i'll be back in just a moment with much more of the day's news and then you can always catch more on out there at dot com.

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