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regulators say johnson and johnson's single dose to obama's vaccine is safe and effective. and how much with all the supporters manchester city continue their on beat and run. back to a nail in the champions league to clinch that 19th consecutive win in all competitions. welcome to the news hour we begin with warnings of an attempted coup in armenia the prime minister nicola passion yan has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation he says that call amounted to a coup attempt urging his supporters to gather in the capital you're yvonne he's been facing protests and calls to step down robin for syria walker is joining us now from tbilisi robin what more can you tell us about the situation in armenia.

well nick is hoping that he's going to be able to pull out large numbers of armenians to republic square in the center of yerevan which is where all demonstrations in the past were if close in support of him when he came to power a few years ago in the so-called velvet revolution now he's in a political struggle of his of his life having said that the statements issued by the armed forces the general staff of the armed forces of the republican army a calling for his and his government's resignation amounted to a military coup so. when he when he went on air a short time ago addressing the armenian public on his facebook page in a facebook life he actually on air dismissed the heads of the armed forces

and now he's waiting for more people to arrive on republic square where he will make a public address at 4 o'clock local time yet robin and i believe are looking at the latest pictures from your of our people seem to be converging on the square sort of be interesting to see how many people come out and what will happen next. yes some of them we've been hearing chance in support of mea culpas union saying nicole is the prime minister he is the elected prime minister he came to power with a landslide victory in elections a couple of years ago and his tenure was all about reforming our media making our media more democratic getting rid of the old system the old politicians who were seen as corrupt and all thora tarion but of course the war in karabakh last year

was a devastating. defeat for media he signed. a humiliating peace treaty with azerbaijan brokered by russia armenia last all the territories surrounding the enclave of nagorno-karabakh in azerbaijan and now they are of russian peacekeepers on the ground and a huge humanitarian crisis is a result and armenian forces lost more than 3 and a half 1000 servicemen which is a huge number for such a small nation there are still prisoners of war that have yet to be returned and they have been antigovernment protests in armenia as a result of this humiliating defeat calling for an eco pass union to stand down but it's got to be said that the opposition that have been coming out in recent weeks calling for mr passion yon's resignation may or may not have the kind of support

needed to be if you like the legitimate new face of the media because it's based on polls and based on public opinion that i see mr may not be as popular as he was he may have lost a lot of support but he may be the best the country considers there is too to offer when it comes to the armenian political situation and he has so far resisted calls for snap elections but that may be what's necessary for him in order to confront his accusers and to finally show who in media has the authority to lead this country after that appalling defeats in the in the going to care about conflict last year yeah ok robin thank you so much for that update from tbilisi well just to pick up on what robin was saying armenia has experienced political

turbulence in recent years the opposition leader nichol passion yan was. elected prime minister by parliament in may 28 after leading weeks of mass protests against the ruling party in december 28th he called a snap election to remove the republican party majority in parliament his my step alliance won an overwhelming majority the republicans won no seats and promised to maintain armenia strategic alliance with russia but he faced calls for his resignation in december 2020 after agreeing to a moscow brokered ceasefire with azerbaijan that's awesome to richard gere who's the director of the regional studies center that's an independent think tank in year of an armenian he's joining us from there thanks for your time with us on the news hour and just to pick up on on russia because we are getting some news lines this is according to the reuters news agency where the kremlin is saying that the events in armenia are exclusively a domestic issue there but russia will no doubt be looking at the situation in

armenia with some interests richards can you hear me yeah welcome to the news hour what do you think russia next step may be or reaction right now the reuters news agency is reporting that the kremlin is saying events in armenia are a domestic issue but the russians will be looking at the situation closely as it unfolds. clearly i think russia is now measuring its risk on the one hand russia is in a precarious position because what we see as robin is outlined is an unprecedented rift nashville a ship that actually. within the country in terms of the risk of a military coup that is on president. in terms of the russian military and its

close support for the guardian armed forces this is one driver of moscow's response but in contradiction to that russia has long ago decided to keep it so ort investing in the army and government and prime minister. what this means going forward however is the real risk of escalation is rooted in the prime minister of armenia is overreaction in terms of hauling supporters into the street is not necessarily a wise move or an institutional democracy and i think russia is correct yes this is riven by domestic determinant and drivers but the real test will be on the streets of armenia itself and i'm greatly worried because over 3 dozen senior officers

have joined the call demanding the resignation of the prime minister this is a real challenge and asked of leaders to do tional democracy yeah here's the thing i were looking at the live pictures right now coming out of the streets of here of i'm not sure if you can see them or not but that is the prime minister and he is leading the protesters who are marching behind him he of course had made that call for his supporters to come out onto the streets how much supports do you think press and yon has right now is a possible it's a kind of against his support in the country. well i think your correspondent robin was very correct the prime minister and of government have diminished popularity but the alternative to the discredited political opposition has much less support though in general there is little all current to do partially on or his government but this is unprecedented in terms of a military read to the government much greater and more grave than anything the

discredited and on block to their political opposition good month what do you mean by that what are you basing that assessment on. well in terms of the political opposition being overly dominated by the old government by the corrupt or a ruling government which is widely discredited and it is very difficult for them because they were unable as an opposition to offer or propose any alternative. and again it's politics by personality rather than policy and with speed i think step full nonviolent revolution in armenia in 2800 watts union and his government are still able to count on. a core base of support so what happens next there was the the and the prospects raised by passing on himself actually.

early elections to be held this year i mean is that the way forward i think it's the only way forward we need a fresh mandate an early election to begin to resolve and diffuse a preexisting political deadlock in crisis legally and constitutionally this is the only way forward in effect reflecting the new postwar reality. all right so we will leave it there thank you so much for speaking to us from year of and we appreciate your time thank you thank you. now facebook says it's ban me and mars military from using its platforms the social media giant says it's a necessary spawn's to the military coup and the violent crackdown on protesters there's a heavy police presence and. have been arrested at these 3 protesters have been killed in weeks of rallies denouncing the coup and demanding the release of the

elected leader. is joining us from right across the border in the thai capital bangkok so what pressure will facebook actions actually have on the military's got . that is what we know that the military has used the platforms social media platforms facebook in particular to kind of a weaponize in a way where they have used it to incite violence to glorify violence and to get out their messaging their propaganda if you will particularly in this time since the coup so this is a move that will take away that voice at least that platform for them so that is a good thing and that will put pressure on them one thing that's going to be interesting and we've spoken to some experts about what happens next and you know what kind of impact will this have moving forward and one thing that's interesting that's coming out is that this is a good move obviously facebook should be allowed for this but what comes next also is very very important and that is that facebook tracks to make sure that no other other pages pop up that can be used for the same purposes but also what has been

used by the military by on facebook platforms be documented that can be used against them down the line for human rights violations for criminal activity so that's something that's interesting so you've got this body of material data material that needs to be retained by facebook people are saying experts are saying so it can possibly be used against the tatmadaw the me and my military down the line if there are court hearings to come and how much momentum did the protests continue to have on the streets of me and mark. well there still out there and something that into the there was interesting we had not seen in these 3 weeks plus of protesting and that is a pro-military group march early in yangon kind of earlier than we've seen the anti coupe protesters kind of come out in central yangon they came out about a 1000 of them there were some protesters on the fringes there was really no that much violence when that march was going on but later on there's still images came

out that showed some of the pro military supporters out on the streets with weapons and we know that there were some scuffles there was some violence it wasn't widespread but we do know that there were clashes now it's something we haven't seen really to this degree during this protest may protest movement that's mainly because we haven't seen a large group of pro military supporters come out in the streets like we did today so the biggest thing to see if this is something that unfolds and it continues and as you mentioned there was a fairly heavy police presence there were still protesters coming out by the university there was a doctor's white coat protest as they call it bay came out as well and yangon so that movement is continuing but again we saw a little bit of tension a little bit of scuffles on the streets of yangon today right scott i thank you so much for that update from bangkok and to more head on the al-jazeera news hour including a lifesaving delivery we talk to doctors in senegal about the challenges of getting thrown about as vaccines to its most remote villages. and ecological disaster on

the israeli coast but an oil tanker company is denying responsibility. and sports news critics found that pakistan away again changing announcement details coming up a little later in the. but 1st trials of johnson and johnson's one shot over $1000.00 vaccine have shown it's highly effective against severe cases the product is also proving effective against newer variants and unlike the pfizer bio intact and more there are no vaccines that need to be stored or very low temperatures this one can be kept in a standard fridge it's yet to be approved for use of these wilder smith who's a professor of emerging infectious diseases the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine and she's joining us from switzerland thanks for your time with us on al jazeera so do you think that there's johnson and johnson vaccine will get

the approval this week i'm very confident that they will receive emergency use of the resignation either by the end of this week or early next week and what have we learnt about it that's new that we didn't know before. it is it is a vaccine that uses a similar path for messy asses in a chaotic scene that uses an i do you know virus vector. what is new about this is that see that is that they are proposing it as a single dose the vaccine. the efficacy so the effectiveness against protecting against the disease is about 69 percent and again severe disease about 85 percent so it is it is really good news and we have another tool at hand to fight it yeah and on that single dose vaccine issue is that how much of a game changer is that because we have right now in the market as of course the pfizer madero which are 2 of those vaccines. so low sex scenes against

kobe but also going to get me out of pathogens are actually $2.00 or something as even 3 doses of vaccine. just such a nose of the jensen or johnson and johnson is also investigating a $2.00 bet i'm and so that's another trial going with the $2.00 benjamin the results of which we will know in a few months time and then we will know whether to dose is better than one dose but i think it's reassuring that we can go out when that one dose and then we can still look later whether the 2nd dose is needed as a booster to ensure a longer duration of protection but most importantly is to have an immediate and almost every day protection after a single dose and that's what we now need to be need to go out and get the vaccines in as many arms as possible let's talk about the timelines let's just say for argument's sake the f.d.a. approval emergency use approval does come this week and then what happens how long

do you think it will take a to have the distribution going across the globe. so i am ready aware that in the u.s. they planned to drop out only 3000000 doses next week. john and john's already being used in south africa and and the european medicine agency will look at those that seen and most likely also approved by around mid march and old world and also at issue policy recommendations on how best to use suspects in the good news is also that the sexy i will be rolled out for callbacks so that also lower and middle income countries will have access to this vaccine what would you say to those who are concerns that the vaccines don't seem to so and understandably so any long term safety data.

so we need to know that safety issues are usually in issue within the 1st 4 weeks of fixie nation and late onset safety issues i'm very rare and so from what we've already learned from all the good vaccines the job based on the yes the putting the spike. that that that they are quite yet to generate that means people may have been buried before and they may feel unwell in the day at the days or one day or 2 days after the vaccination they may have a fever but otherwise they are not really as you know that this is just a change a problem if you have that little bit if you go one day but really serious adverse events are very rare so it's very reassuring and the advocates you know just like c. is far better than we ever anticipated even 6 months ago ok thank you so much and elise walter smith for speaking to us on circle and thank you. now biotech for

moderne us as u.s. regulators are testing its new covert $1000.00 vaccine against a variant prevalence in south africa the strain is considered one of the more contagious because it evades some of the blocking action of antibodies that means it's reduce the efficacy of the current lineup of vaccines but are not is considering using it as a booster or combining it with its original shots bulgaria is offering covert 1000 vaccines to people of all ages after a low uptake by priority groups fewer than a 3rd of those 1st in line have been vaccinated since december hospitals started giving astra zeneca shots to people as young as 20 on friday well gary a has europe's lowest vaccination rate mainly due to concerns about side effects and distrust in its government. he's going to do a little early tonight we've been pleading for people to come and get vaccinated

the situation is totally different now i wouldn't say we're overwhelmed because everything is under control but it seems a busy to the maximum and we're not turning anyone away not a single person so far. senegal says it does not have the capacity to store all types of covered 1000 vaccines a lot of cold storage facilities guaranteeing the low temperatures needed to store certain vaccines is a major stumbling block to immunization efforts in many developing countries reports from senegal's. i don't know it's common sense shout street comedian son of go everyone should get vaccinated your mother your cows the chickens even your ugly neighbor he says this is more than a comedy show for son of co he developed a disability from polio because he never got the polio vaccine as a child a source of mockery he turned into humor to remind the public the small pain that comes with a vaccine injection can save them

a lifetime of suffering living in the best room with it's going to be of course it's a medicine for the soul but for other ailments like deadly viruses and diseases better get fiction aid in there are plenty available well at least most of the time. but getting vaccines to senegal's most remote villages is no picnic in the park explains nurse it's more about reaching people quickly in his cooler or lifesaving vaccines that need to be kept at freezing temperatures in a hot and tropical region. if they're not well preserved at the right temperature in the vaccines turn into poison we will destroy these precious doses that are meant to protect our children against diseases and kobolds health center mothers with their babies have been waiting for a nurse jones arrival since dawn the vaccines are to immunize the children against tuberculosis an infectious disease that kills a staggering 1400000 people every year. through campaigns like this that

senegal has successfully immunized most of the children in the country people want to get vaccinated the challenge is to get those vaccines in remote health centers like this one. frequent power shortages make storing doses in health centers challenging in the capital deckard new cold storage facilities are being built for the new coated 1000 vaccines some of them will need to be kept at minus 70 degree celsius. that's for new david brooks and given our inability to stop vaccines at the quantity that we have we will have to prioritize who gets it that means that not everyone senegal can get vaccinated some rich countries ordered 3 even 4 times the covert 90 vaccine they need senegal like many other west african countries will receive barely enough doses to protect its health workers for comedians on a go this is no laughing matter but a source of shame with

a lack of cold storage facilities many in remote areas who need to be inoculated may not receive any vaccines at all nicholas hawk al jazeera chess senegal. at least 6 people have died and several are missing after parts of an illegal gold mine collapsed on indonesia and local say about 20 people were mining one makeshift wooden structure is broken parts rescue operations are being hampered by steep terrain and unstable ground small scale gold mining is banned in indonesia but remains widespread in rural areas. israel has stopped the sale of local fish after an oil spill along its coast and that of southern lebanon a greek company denies one of its oil tankers the minerva hellen is responsible managers say the vessel is now in spain and has no deficiencies israel's nature and

park so authority has described this spill as one of the worst ecological disasters on record is joining us from west jerusalem for more on this incident terry how serious is the contamination to marine life. well so far as really authorities say they're not entirely sure and that is why they have by banned the sale and consumption of all seafood from the eastern mediterranean here in israel that is something that they want to test they want to make sure that potentially soluble materials haven't drifted through into the food chain and could therefore cause harm to human health as well we've seen these extraordinary pictures of just the sheer amount of tar that has washed up along this vast stretch of coastline is really swimmers and surfers and beachgoers have been told to stay away while this cleanup continues a lot of the beaches are now looking cleaner but there is quite a lot of this material still intermingled with the sand and more difficult it's

it's to get the oil and tar out from the rock era areas of the reefs along the shoreline to there also being shown pictures of contaminated oil covered turtles there was a whale that washed up on the beach near the port city of ashdod exactly a week ago which is when these concerns 1st were raised and there are worries about what happens when there is a migration of bird life from africa in the south heading up towards europe in just a few weeks time that the contamination could spill over into those birds as well so this is a major ecological disaster and one that could last for some time there as the great company of course has denied that it was behind the incident but are you learning any more about the investigation and how this actually happened. no the israeli government is being extremely close with its information about this

investigation indeed there was a gag order that was imposed in terms of local media on sunday some slight easing of those restrictions but that could be because of what the israelis already know about who might be responsible and potential diplomatic political sensitivities around that we don't yet have any further information from the investigation itself as you say the company that owns the minerva helen is very clear in saying that despite what is publicly available knowledge in terms of marine tracking that yes this vessel did come through the suez canal and was in the area off the coast of israel at around the same time as people believe the spill took place they say that it was not filled with the cargo that there were no deficiencies in terms of the vessel at that time and it's now off the port of kut to hanura in spain so you know we're waiting for thought further information about

exactly what the israeli authorities have discovered they are looking at satellite information they are trying to discover the the cause of this because obviously they want it not to be repeated there are also some criticisms and concerns about how closely this oil spill was able to be tracked and israel's coastline defended ahead of it hitting the coastline and causing such devastation ok harry foster thank you for that update from western someone. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we're live in islamabad as india and pakistan agree to stop cross border firing in kashmir we'll tell you why. police in ecuador release dramatic video from inside prisons where they are struggling to bring gang riots under control. and these world champion footballers get their hands on some more silverware all the details coming up a little later. how

high that i think it's safe to say that spring has well and truly sprung across much of europe even in c. those eastern areas which have been bitterly cold recently we have now got moderate encroaching so looking good over the next few days and with high pressure in charge it's going to be fine and dry perhaps some persistent fog it's passive a silly over towards the hungry remaining aware center the high winds very light here well so weather windy weather trying to push in from the west will gradually fizzle out as it does take up with that moderate you can see oranges 20 celsius in berlin not too far off that in warsaw and a good deal mot of in of late from moscow to celsius does represent something of a warming restructures get to minus 16 just a few days ago so that's looking at 5 celsius say with some snow moving through as

we go on through friday how we can weather front will bump into our area of high pressure then there ia a cloud in the rain there into central possible southern parts of poland so there is a chimney and down towards the house where we could see a little dusting of snow by the time we come to sas day but for much of it with the high pressure in charge it does that lousy fine and dry funny try to force the good parts of north africa because so much about the coming into morocco with a few showers for the gulf of guinea. the politics of division pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i am afraid to be closer to my neck your. brain where do these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives how much people try to send it. to school happy family or the going to join me on this now see you on the final part of my journey when i do become

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accused his armed forces of an attempted coup they call passion has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation he's taken to the streets of the capital where he called on his supporters to join him. facebook says it's banned manned mars military from using its platforms to social media giant says it's a necessary response 7 months to this month's coup and the violent crackdown on protestors . trials of johnson and johnson's one shot covered $1000.00 vaccine has shown it's highly effective against severe cases the product designs are proving effective against newer variants it's yet to be approved for use. india and pakistan have agreed to halt fighting along their disputed border in kashmir there have been several exchanges of gunfire in recent months the 2 sides also agree to more diplomacy to avoid further violence tension has been high since india revoked the

autonomy of indian administered kashmir in august 29th seen both countries claim the entire region but control it in parts the more hi there is joining us from islamabad come on tell us more about how this will be enforced after a violations of the past. while indeed i did going to be there to keep however it should be under indeed an important development given the fact that 2000000. jobs were nations have not gone over the hard line for months and they've been tension along the line of control just get on reported what feed. violation and rich. people were created $250.00 acutely wounded but they're gone rotation between director general military all but agent critic going to. be an exchange of fire along the line of

control board their director general military operation saying that they should take beneficiaries and dana berlin ordered to do the violations a long day. at the same time to get on a military. friendship to a neighbor but that it should not be construed as a weakness of the budget on a military spokesman but if the cards say. we didn't do what running high. on range for the director general military operation hard line communication yes will come out does this then signal a saw in relations between both sides. it's too early to say that because we have to look at what the prime minister of pakistan recently said in syria longa he said they wanted normalization of relations within the region but said that the kashmir issue was

a main sticking point the indians of course on that front have not. given in to their demands of the pakistanis to bring that to the table that is of course also some expectation that the biden administration richard just taken over may be able to play a role but it should not be forgotten that president drum pulser tried to mediate between india and pakistan that said no go area as far as india is concerned because they are considered there is a bilateral dispute never once a 3rd party intervention show to a lead to say what really happened but indeed a significant contact between the 2 military all right come on hi thank you for that update from islamabad. trying as president has declared complete victory in his government's campaign to stamp out poverty she jumping letters ceremony and raising marking the country's accomplishments but many have questioned the authenticity of government figures and whether the initiative is sustainable

katrina you has more from. at a ceremony in beijing she did thing on it those who played key roles in china's fight to end extreme poverty nationwide the president says 770000000 people have been lifted out of poverty over the past 40 years and for the 2nd time since december hailed the achievement as a victory for the communist party. 832 counties and 812-8000 villages have been removed from the poverty list the audio stuff of eradicating extreme poverty has been fulfilled and we have created a novel miracle that i will go down in history ending extreme poverty has been a key goal of xi jinping his government since he came to power in 20123000000 communist party officials to give him targets for improving living standards in rural communities they were tasked with going door to door to document incomes in poor households beijing then poured billions of dollars into the building of new

harms schools factories and roads it's a textbook case on how to get people out of poverty and i think getting people out of poverty is perhaps the more single important thing that any state can do to advance its social economic progress the united nations has been trying to reduce extreme poverty around the world and china says it's achievement covers more than 70 percent of the un's goal but it's a benchmark for poverty a daily income of $2.30 it's below the world bank standard for high income countries critics of the initiative say it's unsustainable with many villages relying on government support to prop up newly founded industries and some people have. been unable to adapt to. what others have complained of forced relocations this is a much needed win for the chinese government and it comes at a crucial time they jane is pushing to revive the economy following the pandemic and in july is marking 100 years since the founding of the communist party xi

jinping is hoping this milestone will strengthen the loyalty to the party as well as its own legitimacy as its link between al jazeera and to china has criticized the united states for sailing a warship through the taiwan strait saying it undermines peace and stability in the region the u.s.s. curtis wilbur passed through on wednesday in what the u.s. navy described as a routine taiwan strait transits china says it strongly opposes the move. the un human rights council is unwilling to be held to account over its international crimes and rights violations a highly critical report says tom and muslim minorities are being increasingly marginalized striker's governments accuses the council of meddling in its domestic affairs bernard smith reports. only 12 years after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still roll but those who sons daughters and husbands disappeared. this

was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice but aren't getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the space for since friday and that and the media which have grown significantly is now rapidly shrinking they independence already the story the human rights commission of. the national police commission another key warning as the indignity eroded by the recently adopted prentiss constitutional amendment president got a bye rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including murder and torture. and now the u.n.

says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long list of complaints including trying to get education the tamil language and oppressive police surveillance of muslim lanka's government rejects all the allegations made in the report including claims he uses divisive rhetoric. cause constitution guarantees as i mentioned before fundamental rights of all he decides and anyone can canvass under the fundamental right an order for 3 long. in the last few years as well as today we have all our programs economic social law and the many official programs all. equally enjoyed and implemented from the not to the scout.

leader not the raja's son was taken away by the military at the end of the war she's no idea what happened to him but he's convinced he's still alive and the story is the same for thousands of other families and the boulevard that the blood in the when they get up what we see now is that they're trying to make is fed up and stop the protest so we can trust them we will have to go to the international community to get our children back as we have realised that there is no point going to the government here the un's high commissioner for human rights has urged member states to consider prosecuting alleged crimes in sri lanka to try and get answers for the thousands of people like leila bernard smith al-jazeera. al-jazeera has spoken to a woman who was abducted from a bus in nigeria she was released along with 52 others last week after being taken in states she says the armed group beat them up and force them to walk barefoot for assisting kilometers analysts say nigeria is facing a kidnapping crisis with threats from both armed groups and criminal gangs of my

degrees is a state with more details from the victim. she said there was little clean water for them to drink and there was no shelter virtually there was sleeping under trees open to the elements and she said in their conversation the exchanges with the bandits they showed they felt the bandits felt disappointed abandoned and even betrayed by government across nigeria this had during the electioneering campaigns they were promises to look after them to actually provide them with the basic necessities of life and yet the government religion that and that's making them sole so angry and in fact they also blame security forces of attacking their communities killing innocent people who had nothing to do with banditry and that's why some of them have taken arms against the state so it's a warning development for these victims and they recounted the experiences in fact how doing experiences in the hands of the bandits they said these people were and

and they promised to execute them every single day there they said unless the government pays up they will execute to. kidnap victims every day and when the government decides to pay up we're not sucked in whether the government paid up to get them released or not but the government insisted that it's not paying ransom money just not paid ransom nigerians are wondering how then could the bandits who have taken up i guess the state will relieve their victims so easily. a funeral is underway in rome for the italian ambassador killed in an attack in the democratic republic of congo on tuesday look at sonisphere and his bodyguard were traveling in a united nations convoy when a group of men opened fire the driver was also killed the government graeme's hutu rebels for the attack the f.b.i. alarm group denies the allegation. the united nations has new worries about a long abandoned fuel tanker off the coast of yemen that risks

a monumental oil spill it said it's facing new delays to its plans to deploy a mission there because if additional requests from hold the rebels are diplomatic editor james bays has more. the u.n. is increasingly concerned about the state of the tanker which it's estimated has $1100000.00 barrels of oil on board they were told in november they could carry out an assessment mission but since then there's been delay after delay the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general says it's as though the goalposts constantly shifting we've been talking about this right the 2 years now by the grace of god there has not been a major leak the more 'd we wait the. the chances of a major leak or increasing you know the time is not on anyone's side and it's not about us it's about the death devastating environmental impact that it would have

on the region meanwhile al-jazeera has obtained the draft for a new u.n. security council resolution renewing the sanctions related to yemen g to be voted on at the end of this week and again there's criticism of the 2 theories this time for that ongoing offensive on the city of matter. australia has passed a new laws requiring tech firms like facebook and google to pay for news the decision is likely to have global implications as canada is considering drafting a similar law the legislation had been fiercely opposed by the tech giants last week facebook blocked users in australia from viewing or sharing news content it reversed that after talks with the government's. and facebook says it plans to invest that least a $1000000000.00 to support journalism over the next 3 years the company says it recognizes quality journalism at that is at the heart of functional open societies and crucial to holding the powerful to accounts its head of global affairs says the

spite its handling of australia's new laws it's still willing to partner with news publishers in california the former executives of a power company are being taken to court by a group of wildfire victims they're being accused of neglecting to ensure their equipment would kill people in 201728 seen more than 100 people died in 25000 homes destroyed in the fires which were sparked by equipment owned by pacific gas and electric the group says the bosses profits before safety and they should be held responsible saying in the us and the governor of texas has promised to fix the state's electric grid after it collapsed in this month's unusual snowstorms gov greg abbott said residents had a right to be angry rolling blackouts left millions of texans without power and heat during freezing conditions dozens of people died more than a 1000000 people still don't have reliable access to water several cities in the

brazilian states of akron dealing with severe flooding heavy rains caused the river to overflow according to officials more than 100000 residents have been forced to leave their homes and a state of emergency has been declared. leading latin america with its vaccination campaign it was the 1st country in the region to start immunizing its people and now has the 5th highest vaccination rate in the world more than 3000000 have been given the job so far this month or latin america editor of assume and explains how chile rolled out its campaign so quickly. the combination actually of 3 factors one very very strong political will a very aggressive energy put into acquiring these vaccines on the part of the president who was a billionaire businessman before he was a politician so he knows how to negotiate especially in the international market

also economic solvency chile has been able to pay for these facts up front and 3rd the use of some very very savvy lawyers because as we have discovered it's not so easy to purchase millions of vaccines in these quantities the legal framework is complicated and especially when there's competition worldwide to acquire them so tilly apparently was able to come up with these very almost airtight contracts with pharmaceutical companies 3 or 4 of them at least even before the vaccines were approved and they have been arriving by the millions and so so far i've had my job most of the people i know have and by the middle of the end of june if things keep going as they are now the whole country should have been inoculated one of the things that changed was the health minister he wasn't all that popular although he was recognized for having done a very good job in bringing ventilators to chile but there was a there's a new health minister but probably the biggest criticism was more along the lines

of what the government did not do as efficiently in terms of economic aid to the people who needed it most police in ecuador say riots have again broken out between gangs in a prison in the city of quiet this week has seen the worst prison violence in the country's history with at least $79.00 people killed police have released video showing special units entering some of the prisons during the riots laura burdon manley reports. the. group confronted by improvements only. ecuadorian special forces stormed a maximum security prison in the country south. prefer. they shout at the inmates to get on the ground. and fired tear gas in

a bid to bring the riot under control. for very bad people in makes a scene covering themselves from the choking fumes all those arrested oh there's a chase a some of the prisoners attempt a jailbreak. this dramatic video was released the day after riots broke out in 3 presence within these walls rival gangs of turned with each other in the battle for power in the district. some fought with handmade weapons other news reports leap ahead that. dozens of people have been killed over the brow of the bridge the police and military remain stationed outside why a kill at a cougar and cuenca there are frequent riots and violence in acquittals prison system but this is so far beneath deadliest inacceptable i want my son out because he could get killed he also she's what the hand to my of

a dead no my son is aust me to get him out because they want to kill him. thanks i don't know anything about my son i was sent a message yesterday on the phone he always uses to communicate and it said only we are all locked up that's it i sent another message but i didn't receive a response many worried that their loved ones remain in danger with dan disputes regularly spilling into by the inside the prison. nor about the money to syria. still ahead on the news our sports news on this american sends out a warning to his wife also ahead of the olympics details coming up.

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following in time for the sports is what's. there a woman just the city are now one step closer to a spot in the champions league quarter finals. motion glad to nail and the 1st leg of their round of 16 tie goals from their not a silver. made 19 consecutive wins for city in all competitions the game was played in hungary rather than germany 2 took over the travel restrictions on top of their european campaign pep guardiola side also lead the english premier league by 10 points we have a lot of money to buy a lot incredible players. there is a reason. we win for them all the time we have for the money. so without good quality of players we can do it and the humanity of this group the players are

fantastic they have an incredible relation. and play every game to sink in just as one win this game. 13 time champions league winners real madrid had to work hard in the 1st 'd leg of their last 16 match against 10 men atalanta despite missing their key players due to injury for alignment he scored the stunning late winner force energy and the downside to take a one nil advantage but to do a match like this is not going to happen again as i said earlier answering your questions we didn't play a good match it's true we couldn't find the spaces and we were not comfortable in attack even if we tried our best but in the end i think it's a good result we scored an away goal close with a clean sheet that said i have to remind you that there is a 2nd leg of the qualification is still undecided the united states that women's football team are celebrating their latest bit of silverware the world champions

have won the she believes cup an invitational tournament played in the usa megan rapinoe starred in the final she scored twice as they hammered argentina 6 nil to 2 extends for a phenomenal run for the team they're now undefeated in $37.00 games in a row. pakistan's cricket authorities are currently discussing whether to stage the play off stage of the pakistan super league it with capacity crowds the competition was given the go ahead to do so on wednesday by the country's top covert 19 decision making body and national command of ration center p.s.l. has also been allowed to increase attendance to 50 percent from 20 percent ahead of the playoffs pakistan still however reporting more than $1000.00 cases per day. or we've been speaking to the sports editor of pakistani newspaper dawn mahmood who says capacity crowds are the p.s.l.

would be a disaster. i personally think that. it's a bad idea because you know there's no way you can you know you can you can build the people who can cause them to maintain social distancing and use the energizes all the time of course very modest can be ensured if you get a full capacity out audience and crowd and c.o.s.c. has not been allowed so i mean i think that that can be quite disastrous i mean it's not that great money is really absolutely better for surviving and spoken to some of the franchises also over the past 3 years and they said you know the gate money is i mean nobody wants to ship money your money and endorsements that. and those people who are backing the team they can pay a lot more and they can stabilize the situation before the p.s.l.

south african cricket team were focused on and it was quite a successful tour and both the test matches and the twenty's were played without the crowds but they were hugely popular games they were shown across the world by the broadcasters and a bunch them to get bored did manage to open some goods on subs for that. the other lakers has suffered their worst defeat of the season and they were thrashed by 25 points by the western conference leading utah just like this have been on a review pool run and have lost their last 4 games. american hurdler grant holloway has sent a warning to his rivals ahead of the tokyo olympics the world champion has broken the indoor 60 minutes over hurdles a world record by one hundreds of a 2nd clocking a time of 7.29 seconds at a meeting in madrid that beats the previous record set by britain's call in jackson which stood for 27 years that's it for me that i thank you so much sun and thanks

for watching the news hour on al-jazeera nic clarke is with you in just a moment we'll have much more of the day's news but. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a cash a strong the moral failure is that a fair assessment you see at catastrophic and it's. why you see banks saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth

analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story on how just 0. jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we don't want to feed that we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in each week be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there at. the protest started cheerfully in front of the x. museum in amsterdam hundreds of protesters scattered to demand the government lock down restrictions and lift a curfew the 1st in the country since world war 2 the threat is that we lose our freedoms to protesters who are not funneling social distancing rules who will be to be ordered to disperse by police but police are trying very hard to close friend to

scenario that happened last week and thousands were rioting in cities across the nat'l. after some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks police on horseback moved in to clear the area. oh the. army's prime minister rallies his supporters i'm accuses the military return to full swing from. it on a blog this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up facebook brown's myanmar's military of roots use of deadly force against protesters as the gentle supporters fights with demonstrators. a step.