0. hello there i'm a star and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes armenia's prime minister takes to the streets and warns his supporters of an attempted military coup against her. facebook bans man was military over its use of deadly force against protesters as a gentle supporters fight with demonstrators. india and pakistan pledged to halt

cross border firing in the disputed region of kashmir. and the global scramble for semiconductor chips why president biden has issued an executive order as industries ranging from cars to phones struggle for supplies. and school double olympic champion comes to somalia isn't giving up on her fight to compete at this year's time she. is taking her legal case against world outlet 6 of the european court of human rights. but we begin with a deepening political crisis in armenia prime minister nicola passion yet has fired his military chief after senior army officials call for his resignation he says that call amounts to a coup attempt and has been addressing thousands of his supporters in the capital yerevan he's told them his political future should be decided by the people and not the military but in smith begins our coverage. in the center of yerevan on thursday

armenia's prime minister was defiant in the face of calls from the military for him to stand down made by maggie some people want to drag the army into unconstitutional processes this is an attempted coup but the people will not allow a military coup in armenia an estimated $20000.00 people came out onto the streets of the capital after nicol pushing in called for a show of support that beat the back. part in political processes it must obey the people and the elected authorities the she has been under pressure to resign after his country lost last year's war with azerbaijan over the region of nagorno-karabakh i'm not as much of supporter of passion you know but i don't honda corrupt a dream come more than 3 and a half 1000 armenians soldiers were killed in the 6 week conflict a significant number for a country with a population of under 3000000 passion yan was forced to cede large swathes of

territory around nagorno-karabakh that armenia had controlled for almost 30 years since the end of the last war with azerbaijan. that prompted weeks of protests led by the opposition are not equal re your passion ian came to power in 2018 and what was called the velvet revolution after an attempt by the previous leader to stay in control beyond his term limit we are in effect. crises and i hope to see either institutions there for 66 percent chance next now security agents and police just penned by their army and to demand to leave our prime minister without any power. opposition representatives say they'll spend the night in yerevan central freedom square the prime minister and as government have diminished what people are already but the alternative the discredited political

opposition has much less of or no in general there is little alternative who partially own or his government what this is unprecedented in terms of a military record what's not clear is whether the army is willing to use force to back its call for the prime minister to step down question you know and says he'll announce a replacement for the head of the army in the coming days the crisis he says will be resolved constitutionally but it smith al jazeera well for more now let's speak to chalons and lois in southeast england rory covered the nagorno-karabakh conflict extensively for us here at al-jazeera rory we did see opposition build against passing on after that cease fire can you talk us through his relationship with the military now. well i think its relationship with the military is hugely compromised hugely affected by what happened in that

war when nicole passionately essentially capitulated and signed up to a humiliating russian brokered cease fire i think you want to get insta wishes of lots of his generals and says bernard was saying in his report that he basically gave over huge swathes of territory that had been controlled by on armenia for for the better part of you know 2 decades plus so that drove a huge rift between the civilian government and the armed forces and that has been playing out over the last few months with various spouts of blaming essentially on bond both sides for what happened in the conflict what seems to be exacerbated this escalation of the crisis is the aftermath of an interview that nickel precious fish passion young gave way he said that the russian

made missiles that were used by the armenian military in that conflict. essentially useless that was basically ridiculed by some of the generals and that was what what triggered this this this this latest this latest step unless escalation in the course of the political crisis of armenia where it goes next of course we don't know i want to ask you more about that rory because we had from our producer. he was on the streets with demonstrators and they were telling him they are planning to be out on the streets overnight do you think this unrest that we're seeing represents a real threat to passion and leadership going forward. i yes i think it does and we will have to see whether the 2 different sets of protest as one of those 4 passion eon and those against him how much stamina they have for the long haul whether they really are going to stay

out and you know occupy the streets. popularity is not what it used to be 2 years ago he rode the crest of a huge outpouring of anger with the the previous. you know at least the elites political elites of armenia and support for himself as well a lot of that has has gone away because of the outcome of the conflict so it remains to be seen i think how many people he can mobilize day after day after day if it comes to that but also that's a problem that the opposition has as well the opposition is tainted in many ways by being seen as you know essentially a remnant of the old regime and they're not particularly popular so it's it's it's an interesting situation to watch play out certainly. who

was seen previously as you know this kind of figurehead for a new future for armenia more democratic more equitable he is not the man he used to be and his fate hangs in the balance roy talons there affecting on nichol passion and his past thanks so much. well moving on and in nan ma supporters of the military coup that marched in the largest city yangon and faced off against opponents of that power grab violence broke out in some parts of the city and these tensions are coming as facebook has banned manaus military from its platforms it's called hype it reports. early on thursday about a 1000 marchers took to the streets of yangon voicing their support for the june to end its takeover of myanmar as democratically elected leadership they were flying the flag of the tatmadaw the official name here for the military they were met by some protesting against the coup but later photos appear to show military

supporters with knives and other weapons witnesses said they threaten journalist then came reports of scuffles and attack by supporters of me and mars john against anti kook protesters was caught on c.c.t.v. the video shows a man being assaulted by an armed group. despite this antic who protesters gathered at the university of young gun said they will continue with their peaceful civil disobedience movement initially police attempted to block them from leaving the campus. but they made their way out to join other protesters. a few days after the coup facebook limited content from myanmar is military on its platforms but now it's ban them all together. for years beyond mars military has waged a very sophisticated communications campaign weaponize and very social media

platforms and using them to incite and glorify violence some feel this move by facebook needs to be part of an ongoing process as these accounts have been blocked and removed as much as we might lauded their removal we also need to ensure that they are preserved and that facebook makes them accountable for future criminal or human rights investigation. while the military has used social media platforms as a tool for its agenda it also recognizes how vulnerable it would be if they were taken away scot harder al-jazeera now the indian coast guard has a location a group of a hinge or refugees that have now been addressed in the andaman sea 2 weeks the boat departed from bangladesh on feb 11th carrying 90 people on board at least 8 people have since died as there was no food or water on the vessel when it broke down just 4 days later. when we learned of this boat in distress the musically

dispersed to coast guard ships to provide food water and medical assistance to the occupants 7 of them were able to at least 3rd be fluid we understand that at around 47 old occupants of the boat in position of id cards issued to them by the u.n. in bangladesh steve think that they are displaced myanmar nationals and punt both sense of concern but just by the government that is just good by unity. we are in discussions with the government of bangladesh to ensure the safe and security partnership on guinea has launched a number of vaccination campaign the country is desperate to halt the spread of the virus that reemerge there just a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time since 2016 at least 5 people have now died in this latest outbreak victoria gate and he reports. health workers back then 8 people against ebola in the town of a in southeast guinea and you outbreak was discovered near here almost 2 weeks ago

this uterus year. i am very proud to be vaccinated and it's a joy to me to see the population get vaccinated specially those on the frontline all my stuff it allows us to be safe protected from this disease because ebola is not a good thing 11000 vaccine doses and 200 health experts arrived in guinea's capital conakry on monday the government in the world health organization hope the vaccination campaign can stop the virus spreading by april. workers to help the fund against ebola we interrupt the train of transmission by targeting the 1st contacts of ebola patients and also the health workers on the front line who are exposed including those who apply the vaccines ebola causes severe fever and in the worst cases unstoppable bleeding in 2015 more than 11000 people died after the virus spread from getting forest region to neighboring liberia and sierra leone the

outbreak was contained after an experimental vaccine was distributed but not before health workers were attacked by people who did not believe in the virus the vaccine is an extremely useful. break but it is not. under essential aspects. to happen as well and it always comes back to community. the w.h.o. has wound 6 african countries to be on high alert for ebola including sierra leone and liberia the hope is this campaign will stop the virus from spreading any further and potentially save thousands of lives victoria gate and be there are. plenty more ahead this news hour including india announces new rules to regulate social media phallus weeks after a dispute with twitter over content related to protesting farmlands. china's

president declares a victory in eradicating poverty although its criteria for the. claim is being questioned. and in sport and message from the home of golf to tiger woods as he continues his recovery from a car crash. now the european union is holding a leaders summit focusing on the rocks coronavirus that same rollout representatives from 7 major drug makers including pfizer astra zeneca and madonna are all joining that full conference they're discussing how to improve the as a back scene capacity and delivery the block has faced criticism for a slower than expected rollout of an occupations they appear in parliament president david society says vaccines will prove central to the blocks long term recovery with no one left out it will get more probably data connell james we've supported a number of weaknesses and we need to make sure that we deal with those contracts

need to be respected and we need transparency when it comes to the vaccines that's how you instill trust in your population but we need to make sure that industries in all of our countries are in a position to supply all of the vaccine it's an urgent matter it's not a matter of money but will well dominic kane as across all of this for us from berlin dominic as we've been saying this really feels like the vaccine rollout across the european continent has been going rather slowly what's behind that. was certainly there is a perception of slowness relative to other countries specifically the u.k. because people are able to see the relatively few percentage of the population who've been vaccinated in germany in other countries and then they see that very many more percent of british citizens have been vaccinated or of at least have

received a 1st dose of the vaccination in the u.k. and that has fueled the senses envy as it were a resentment perhaps of the way that the vaccinations of b. have been launched in the e.u. you have certainly from the e.u. officials perspective they say no the point is that they are following the guidelines that the manufacturers gave when 1st the. the vaccinations were given out i.e. that there would be $3.00 to $4.00 weeks between the administration of the 1st and the 2nd and of course the united kingdom government effectively threw out that rule and decided to prioritize 1st doses for as many people as possible that's why you have that discrepancy between the percentages in the u.k. and in the e.u. at least that's what the governments here say there's also an element of rail policy which is that the vaccinations and selves well some of them weren't authorized the use of distribution in the e.u. is quickly as they were in the united kingdom so lots of factors they're playing

into that sense of envy that some have what's interesting is that in brussels you have 2 things taking place at the same time you have this leaders' sons where the leaders the heads of government heads of state are debasing the next steps from an e.u. perspective these are the vaccination but also lockdowns in the strategy that the continent as a bloc should adopt as you also have a committee of the european parliament interviewing the heads and other senior officials of several different vaccine manufacturers and have included quite hostile questioning certainly to the head of astra zeneca pascoe's or you who's been asked repeatedly by different members of the european parliament how it can be that institutions of his company in the e.u. are able to ship vaccine to the united kingdom but it can happen in reverse as it were lots of difficult questions for him and his answer as is answers have not been

as forthcoming as perhaps the emmy piece would have wanted dominic within the context of all of these challenges that we have seen daily have a sense yet of how they all plans to deal with the pandemic going forward from here . well one thing that's just be pointed out straightaway is the e.u. commission of any any rate has said that it is acquiring hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine not just from one particular supplier but from across the board all the different suppliers and they say that that is going to help considerably to reduce backlogs and that sort of thing they're also going through the motions talking about different not blocked and strategies and you have several different member states talking to each other about border closures and tougher border controls to try to prevent the spread of the the variants that are the most of the virus specifically the virus the variant that was 1st identified in the united kingdom not something that's really been spiking spreading across germany at any

rate and the other thing to point out here is that you have a sense scuse me you have a sense that the different countries are agreeing in one sense that they believe that the amount of doses that they've acquired the promises they've made about the hundreds of millions of doses that are going to be available they believe that by the end of the summer certainly in germany but it's been said by other member states to that the vast majority of their citizens will have received an offer for a vaccination if not already have had the vaccination that's their view that herd immunity may be reached by the end of the summer but of course the hard yards are still ahead because they still have to vaccinate during that period the vast majority of their citizens dominic came there following that meeting for us from bell and thank you so much dominick well speaking of vaccinations chill a is leading latin america with its campaign and was the 1st country in the region

to start immunizing its people and now has the 5th highest vaccination rate in the wild more than $3000000.00 have been given the job so far this month latin america at least in human explains just 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 seems 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 this quantity the legal framework is complicated and especially when there's competition worldwide to acquire them so tulli 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 most. meanwhile the senegal is saying it doesn't have the capacity to store all types of private 19 back scenes a lack of cold storage facilities guaranteeing those low temperatures needed to store certain vaccines is a major stumbling block to immunization efforts in many developing countries

reports now from senegal region. i don't know it's common sense shouts 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. the best is going to be of course it's a medicine for the soul but for other ailments like deadly viruses and diseases better get section 8 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 john 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 so 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. and through campaigns like this that senegal has successfully in the eyes of most of the children in the country people want. get vaccinated the turnaround is to get those vaccines in remove health centers like this one. power shortages make storing doses in health centers challenging in the capital deckard you called storage facilities are being

built for the new covert 900 vaccines some of them will need to be kept at minus 70 degree celsius. that's for new t.v. but given your inability to stop vaccines at the quantity that we have we will have to prioritize who gets it that means that not everyone cynical can get vaccinated some rich countries ordered 3 even 4 times the covert 90 vaccine the 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. well now china's regulator has approved 2 more private $1000.00 vaccines for public use there the nearly a pre of jobs are both produced by chinese manufacturers and that brings the total

of domestic a prevent seems to 4 along with the son of ak and signer found jobs so far the country has not approved any covered 1000 vaccines developed by western drug makers and moving on and india and pakistan have agreed to halt fighting along their disputed border in kashmir they have been several exchanges of gunfire that in recent months the 2 sides also agreed to more diplomacy in order to avoid future violence tension has been highest since india revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir back in august 29th teen and both countries claimed the entire region but controlled parts of it. india does as normal new believes relations with pakistan we have always maintained that we are committed to addressing issues if any in a peaceful and bartle manner on key issues of our position remains unchanged kemal high has more now from the. they stayed indeed an important development given the

fact that the 2 military director general military operations have not gone over the hard line for months and there's been tension along the line of control just last year budgets on reported what feet taller than 5 are legion and richard says graney 6 people located 260 seriously wounded but the conversation between the director general of military albany general come to a critical time when there has been an exchange of fire along the line of guard drawing board the director general of military operations saying the day should take steps were just beneficial and pledged a neighborly in order to reduce the violations along a line of current troll at the same time the pakistani military chief had already said that father son wants to extend a hand of friendship to its neighbors but there should not be construed as a weakness also the pakistani military spokesman bobert after card saying that

tensions were with india were running high deadwood's just on race day before the director general of military operation hard line communication well india's government has now announced tough a new rules covering social media streaming services and digital news outlets to stop what it's calling and t. national propaganda platforms of such as facebook what facts and twitter must now to raise content which the government considers unlawful or that determines it affects india's sovereignty and integrity critics say this is the latest in a crackdown on free speech online there's already been a dispute with twitter which refused to remove some posts that link to the farm this protest which the government had demanded. very empowering the ordinary users of social media and other intermediaries you must have a robust grievance redressal mechanism. is shooting the complaint within 24 hours but within 15 days you must have

a chief compliance officer for significant social media you must know in order to conduct person you must carry the resident grievance officer all residing in india and you must give a monthly compliance report well ali i spoke to sanjay head day he's a senior lawyer at the supreme court of india and he says the government has increasingly clamped down on critical voices over recent years. since 2014 there has been a slow clamping down and in on dissent. even those for dissent have been shacked one by one and on lange's face has been stopped to be regulated. in business in these norms also will make it much more difficult for people to remain anonymous is this requires. platforms to tell the government food who uploaded the 1st read you are going to things the

devil is in the details and as they work out what we're doing is probably building . china's version of a wired internet where you've got an internet twitter especially and facebook have been more than willing to cooperate for the indian government. it's only the events in the united states which they set up by different standards insofar as trump is concerned which also possibly set alarm bells ringing in the indian establishment that. speech of a right of a nationalist kind of an overtly next in the sky could come within the within the norms of censorship by the platforms themselves i think the government says that government if india wants to say that anything in dealing with censorship. of online content the government wants to say and act and the platform strip listen to what the government what. well still ahead here on al-jazeera sashing for their

loved ones will have more on the human cost of a gold mine collapse in intonation. and oil spill and ecological disaster on the israeli coast but a great company is denying responsibility. and sport capacity crowds could soon be back at cricket stadiums in pakistan and he will be here with that story. hello once again we've got a little bit of unsettled weather into parts of the middle east but for the most part it is looking fine and dry with some pleasant sunshine got a brisk wind blowing through the gulf it lifted just the sand possibility of a lot shower actually just around that eastern side of saudi arabia maybe

a spot so it's a bit of light rain once again into kata seen a few spots of rain some wintry weather there through iran over the high ground particularly just stretching up towards afghanistan that saw on the move us all making its way further east was the brightest guys coming back in behind for the levites fine and dry and temperatures now getting up into the high teens that dry weather stretches down across the red sea into horn of africa. some shop shelves just around the rift valley as per usual just easing down towards zambia and zimbabwe but we will see some very heavy rain over the next day or 2 now to some lesser weather to into northern parts of mozambique southern areas of tanzania possibility of localized flooding as is the case to the northern parts of madagascar a little disturbance just a rolling across the waters here not just by saturday there's heavy showers there in zimbabwe we'll see some wet weather just sliding a little further northwards making its way through zambia.

for. this thing to say that it's time for a different approach so let's leave them listening to the headlines to join me as i take on the dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions mark lamont hill and it's time to get up for a. march on al-jazeera. 10 years on from the tsunami that struck japan i'll just revisits the people most affected by the disaster. rebels eric cantona presents a new series about iconic planets this influence has been as great off the page as on it so. pope francis makes history with the 1st papal visit to iraq his 1st trip outside to sleep since the coronavirus pandemic upfront. cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom hope for the future of the ivory coast to coast to the polls for its palm entry elections. march on.

value what you know let's remind you about top stories this hour media's prime minister has accused his armed forces of an attempted coup nichol passion yet has fired his military chief so the army called for his resignation and told his supporters that his political future should be decided by the people and not the military the opposition held a counter rally of their own. supporters and opponents of the military coup in myanmar have held rival protests in the main city violence broke out in some areas

in 3 weeks now off to the power grab a facebook says it's banned me on miles military from using its platforms. the european union is holding a summit focusing on the blocs coronavirus vaccine rode out there discussing how to improve the ease vaccine capacity and delivery the block has been facing criticism for a slower than expected rollout of inoculations. u.s. president joe biden has signed an executive order to address a computer chip shortage in his country global coronavirus lock downs have led to a surge in demand for electronics putting strain on semiconductor supplies and that's had a knock on effect for hundreds of industries that rely on those chips even shutting down automobile factories the executive order will recommend policy to try to strengthen supply chains so what is the big deal about semiconductors the global chip market is worth 5 trillion dollars according to forbes that's 5 times larger

than what it was and 2016 the chips are used in a huge range of industries electronics medicine even refrigerators you can't drive an electric car without them just one vehicle uses roughly 3000 of them and the 3 main players the 3 global player is able to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors there t s m c of taiwan samson of south korea and intel of the united states where we can now speak to kani guglielmo she's the editor in chief of c.n.n. and she joins us now from san francisco connie i want to start right at the very beginning because i don't think he was necessarily fully grasp just how much these chips are so ingrained in our modern lives so what is a semiconductor well a semiconductor or a chip is basically the brains of a device although there are some chips that you specialize task but if you think about them as the brains of your electronics smartphones tablets televisions you mention refrigerators cars all of them used this component to basically drive and

run these devices so they are crucial to the factoring capacity that we have in this country and to our use of these devices i want to take a look at how we got here to this shortage we've seen the manufacture of these chips move from the u.s. towards taiwan and china how much did former president trump's trade war affect things here. it definitely had a fact but it was also something that has been happening here in the united states for it now 30 years back in 1990 about 37 percent of all the world's chips remanufactured in the united states today that number is about 12.5 percent a lot of companies here in the u.s. outsource their manufacturing in their supply chain to china to taiwan to some of the other countries that you mentioned and therefore that has left us vulnerable for the manufacture of this key component the discussions that the trumpet ministration had with china about what companies could and could not supply devices

to the u.s. while way for instance led some manufacturers to put a pos on chip production and then of course the pandemic and that changed the dynamics of the entire industry of course and the pandemic impact with everyone working from home and and this huge the dependent on consumer electronics i was looking at the numbers on global chip sales jumped from 5 percent growth from 29000 to 2020 to 8.4 percent last year is this just a case of demand outstripping supply. absolutely i mean the coronavirus not only increased demand all of us wanted to now suddenly be looking at big screens at home and we were more tender than ever to our mobile devices but it also led to a decline in production remember a lot of factories were shut down because people had to stay home under quarantine so when you can't produce chips and then the demand goes up because we're all at home and we want access to more devices you have a problem of course i was looking at the different chips and i understand the chips

that you put in cars versus other electronic goods at a very different so how much has the chip shortage really ruffled supply chains in the us. i mean it's throttled it for sure in the consumer electronics space and for cars large capacity batteries drive a lot of electronic electric vehicles that people are now wanting to bind invest in those are manufactured offshore for the most part tesla aside and so we've had had a huge. you know impact on manufacturing and it speaks to the fact that so much of the supply chain and this manufacturing is done outside the united states and therefore if the demand here is large then these suppliers or manufacturers here in the u.s. are at the mercy of these other supply chains you're also seeing an issue with some of the components that go into the chips these are called rare earth minerals in the u.s. we have one you know mining operation basically that mines those rare earth minerals

a lot of those minerals and with the letters i us i'm sorry i can't even pronounce some of the but they are critical components and we don't have a processing facility for those here in the united states and even the one mind that mines those materials here in california those minerals are sent to china to be processed so we just speaks to basically a 30 year shift in the mindset of where the supply chain and where these components should be manufactured in the u.s. offshore and now biden president biden wanting to rethink that and possibly look at incentivizing companies to move some of those supply chain components back to the u.s. i want to ask you more about that coming here i'm wondering how do you actually ramp up production when manufacture is already at capacity as many already in china and taiwan as i understand it. you build new factories is what you do and now the thinking is that hopefully that there might be some incentives for those factories in manufacturing plants we've built here in the united states this is part of an

ongoing effort by us ministrations the biden mr h. and j. the trumpet mr asian before it obama administration for that to bring back more manufacturing and manufacturing jobs to the u.s. they need incentives to do that they need you know investments by the companies who see the demand certainly the demand is there even if you know suddenly we're all able to go around our daily lives and don't have to be in quarantine anymore our dependency on devices has increased and that is not going to go away even post pandemic so it's a matter of really shifting a 30 year cycle at least for the u.s. and reconsidering how we do manufacturing here in this country but it is about boosting capacity and you're seeing some companies recognize that apple has now created its own chips they used to reliant intel for their chips and now they have become a chip manufacturer for their very very popular devices lots of development in this failed up ahead of us carnegie am sorry connie go via way that the editor in chief

of say that thanks so much for your time and for being with us all out of their accounting happy to do it thanks. now copies of donald trump's tax records have now been handed over to a new york prosecutor for the supreme court rejected the former president's efforts to try to keep assailed the manhattan district attorney's office has been pushing to use the documents in a criminal investigation into trump's business dealings prosecutors are undertaking a wide ranging investigation into whether the former president lied about the value of his assets to in order to gain favorable tax benefit. now moving on al-jazeera has spoken to a woman who was abducted from a bus in nigeria she was released along with 52 others this week after being taken and 9 just stays she says the armed group beat them up and force them to walk barefoot for 50 kilometers analysts say nigeria is facing a kidnapping crisis with threats from both groups and criminal gangs

a manager says and mina in niger state with more details from her. 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 there 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 soul 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 will counter the experiences effect how doing experience in the hands of the bandits they said these people what and and they promise to execute them every single day they try 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. hungry says it all toughen roles to combat sexual abuse and to better protect linus' following a wave of scandals that some lodged in both the culture and sport sector is one of them involves the former head of the greek national theatre who appeared in court on wednesday on allegations that he raped 2 miles the prime minister told parliament the new measures will include stricter penalties for sex crimes and creating a registry for professionals who work with children. well china's president has declared a complete victory and his government's campaign to stamp out poverty she is in

being lead a ceremony in beijing marking the country's accomplishments but many have questioned the authenticity of the government's figures and whether the initiative is actually sustainable katrine e.u. has more now from the chinese capital. at a ceremony in beijing she didn't think 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 is 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 harmes schools factories and roads it's a textbook. 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 benchmark for poverty a daily income of $2.30 is below the world bank standard the high income countries critics of the initiative say it's unsustainable with many villages relying on government support to prop up newly founded in. histories and some people have been unable to adapt to their side jobs while others have complained of forced

relocations this is a much needed winds of the chinese government and it comes at a crucial time they jane is pushing to revive the economy following the pandemic and july is marking 100 years since the founding of the communist party xi jinping is hoping this small stock will strengthen loyalty to the party as well as its own with just a mistake as its link between e.u. al-jazeera. now at least 6 people have died and several are still messing at an illegal gold mine on indonesia's soon away sea island locals say about 20 people were mining about site when makeshift wooden structures then collapsed just a washington reports from jakarta. on sulawesi island in the district of pretty hemo talk of a familiar scene in the aftermath of another illegal mining disaster in indonesia authorities believe there were 22 people here when the mine collapsed but survivors told local media they could have been mall military police and the local disaster

agency are working together to assist the community make shift wooden frames built on unstable soil broke down during the night 1st responders faced the challenge of searching for survivors in the dark but that. we are doing certainly back ration by emptying the stagnant water and it's quite difficult because that darkness. fatalities and unauthorized mines are common in mineral rich into the asia attracting thousands of unskilled laborers with no training or proper safety equipment experts estimate there are close to 9000 on my sons to mines around a quarter of them gold. in 2019 at least 16 people were killed when a mine collapsed also on the island of so noisy does home is an advocacy network for safer and more sustainable mining it has long pushed for comprehensive investigations into really. operations you need. many people in local governments

and law enforcement involved in that they conduct raids close the mines down in just a few months later operations back on local environmental groups say it is up to the government to help these communities find more sustainable and less risky work . but. the situation for cocoa farmers in central sulawesi is not good they are in a bad economic condition so they have to risk their lives in these mining pits it's dangerous and often low paid work but those who keep returning to these mines say they have no choice just a washington al-jazeera to counter. now israel has stopped the sale of local fish after an oil spill along its coast and that of southern lebanon a great company denies that one of its oil tankers the minerva hellen is responsible managers say that vessel is now in spain and has no deficiencies israel's nature and parks with already has described the spill as one of the worst ecological disasters on record 55 tons of tar have so far been cleaned up the high

force that is in west jerusalem he says israeli authorities want to do some extra testing to make sure that the fish is safe to eat. 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 or oil and tar out from the rock era areas and the reefs along the shoreline too and then they're 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 birdlife 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. well still ahead here on al-jazeera in sports caster semenya takes the next step in her legal fight to be allowed to compete at this year's touch olympics.

it's now time for sport and here's andy thank you so much stars you will double olympic champion cast to someone your isn't giving up on her fights competes in this year's tokyo games so many years taking her legal case against well the law takes to the european court of human rights in $28.00 c. truckin fields governing body introduced new rules focused on famous. like so many who have high levels of naturally occurring to stuff to run the 30 year old has failed in c. previous legal efforts to overturn the ruling at present so many is banned from competing at a preferred distance of $800.00 metres unless she takes medication to lower her testosterone levels or world athletics say the ruling is designed to ensure fair competition and there's the results of long term scientific research rieslings hightest austrian levels to better performances that only applies to running events between 400 metres in the 1500 metres and suppose so many commits in the 81500

affected athletes who want to participate must take medication for at least 6 months the alternatives include running longer distance or shorter distance of events or against men or writing on social media this is what so many had to say this fight is not just about me it's about taking a stand and fighting for the dignity equality and human rights of women in sports all we ask is to be able to run free as the strong and fearless women we are thank you it's all of those who have stood behind me earlier on we spoke to nance isn't a sports lawyer at the london law firm sheridan's on a micro level we have to remember that we are dealing with the rights of a world champion or. to compete for coming and then it gains and there was no doubt that she was going to pursue every avenue to ensure that she was able to compete because really badly relatively short. ban can have

a disproportionate effect on your ability to be so i had no doubt when word let the decision was made and indeed when the court of arbitration for sport made it. and also the spirit supreme court made it. this isn't a power the previous decision she would feel yet again as to the broader issue of fairness and for you only need to take to a social networking site to speak the disparity of opinions and the feeling the intense feeling that this provides. and there is a broader in some ways the many of the fairness and integrity issues we've dealt with for it traverses discrimination john and fluidity and a lot of other issues and frankly i think it's a good thing that is being taken already in order for definitive ruling to be made

france's 6 nations match against scotland in paris on sunday has been to spying into coronavirus are right within the french saying 11 positive results have been recorded among the players the whole squad is now in isolation from soft top of the 6 nations table after winning both the very games so far. india have beaten england by 10 wickets to take it say one late in their test series the match on the bad lasted less than 2 days with india wrapping up the quickest test win in more than 80 s. england bowled out for just 81 in the 2nd innings leaving the home team with a victory target of only 49 the 4th and final test starts next thursday. now capacity crowds could return for upcoming playoff matches in the pakistan super league the competition was given the go ahead to do so on wednesday by the country's top covered 19 decision making body what's been a very fair now is the match in caracas he will go ahead with 50 percent prostate and games in lahore with 20 percent pakistan is still reporting more than

a 1000 new covered cases every day while we've been talking to the sports rights that richard mahmood who's against the idea of allowing big crowds. 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 you can cause them to maintain social distancing and use the energizes all the time of course very fast can be ensured if you get a full capacity our audience and crowd and c.o.s.c. is now apparently allowed so i mean i think that can be quite disastrous i mean it's not that great money is they're really absolutely better for surviving i've spoken to some of the judges also over the past 3 years and they said you know the gate money is i mean nobody wants to tip money your money and indorsements 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. and south african big game we're focused on and that was why the successful tour and the both the test matches and the event these were without the crowds but they were hugely popular games they were shown across the world by the broadcasters and at the bottom to get bored did manage to rope in some good. and take a look at this message for tiger woods as he continues his recovery from a car crash at his sister lloyd ogle there and he drew the tribute in the sand next to the so-called home of golf the cylinders golf course in scotland would suffered major injuries to his right leg i had a couple operations after crushing in los angeles on choose day lisa said though he won't be facing any criminal charges as a consequence of incidents. ok that is how you sports is looking for now styles

thanks so much handy that it's made for this new value but a $100.00 and up to. jump into the story there is a lot going on in this one julia not global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want to feed the hungry and 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 who would love to hear from you in each

who could be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there. more than a year after the cobie 19 had to make began its origins remain a mystery one o one ace meets the scientists trying to trace the virus from the animal kingdom to humans on al-jazeera. i met no moved out of his parents' house after he got me he says he found more space living in biscayne after a run of eating it last year it's now his home along with his wife daughter and all but the israeli government said that he was reconstructed to be theft and permits and issued as a militia in order last month our interview with cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to get home it took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get. when freedom

of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish shift the focus covering the way the news this covered the listening posts on a. prime minister calls his supporters out onto the streets and accuses the military of an attempted coup after it said he should resign. and our intended this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. clashes in me in.