date with what's happening on the ground in the wood and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. everything. a worrying trend in nigeria 10 days after school boys were abducted gunmen kidnapped more than 300 girls. either in combat al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. launches air strikes on a rainy and back hoops in syria in response to attacks on american personnel in iraq. a top u.k. court rules against a woman who was stripped of her british citizenship after running away and joining

i saw. a large crowd marches outside the national assembly and armenia's capital calling for the prime minister to resign. we begin in northwest nigeria where more than 300 schoolgirls have been kidnapped it happened in the state has a gunman arrived at night shooting sporadically at the school complex and then took the girls into the bush amended your says more for a minute in central nigeria. residents say the gunman invaded shortly after midnight and operated for more than hour before heard in the goes into the bushes now police and other security services say they've deployed in large numbers trying to truck keep track of the situation and see how they can rescue the abducted goals 300 more than 300 girls and they've come from then this is even larger than she

broke that happened when. fighters invaded a school in northeastern nigeria and kidnapped more than 270 school goes in a boarding school now in nigeria a lot of people are questioning the rationale behind negotiating with bandits in fact this attack the latest attack happened i was after a negotiated settlement with a group of bandits who submitted their arms and munitions to nigerian authorities in zamfara state and a few hours later we've seen that we received we saw these attacks happening in a lot of nigerians are questioning the russian old behind negotiating with the bandits saying that this emboldens some of them encourages more to join in the trade because right now kidnapping for ransom has become the most thriving criminal enterprise in this country so nigerians are wondering whether it's right to continue negotiating with criminals and suffer the consequences kidnapping is an

increasingly common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs across nigeria just over a week ago gunmen abducted 42 people including 27 students from a secondary school in ninety's days in december more than 300 pupils were taken during a raid at a school in katsina state. claimed responsibility 110 girls were taken in the states and 201-8270 girls were abducted from neighboring borno state and 2014 this incident or international attention to nigeria's kidnapping crisis. is nigeria research of the human rights watch she says the government must find a different approach to dealing with abductions. these negotiations have person not to be a holistic solution to the consistent problems of kidnapping and your point you really need to react reevaluate your approach what we find is that just so

soon after one attack another happens in this space of 3 months it's really worry and it shows that. there is a trend and that is nina encouraged by many of these. key terms and the response from your story which is you know good station in many of huge sums of money runs even though your dorothy's consistently denied him and the cracks of many other sources have come out really providing information that's out there why. he doubted states military has launched air strikes in syria targeting facilities used by iranian backed militias the main targets was the in mali military base near al book amal that's close to syria's border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was a response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq. hard to believe.

that. hezbollah. 2 of the targeted militias part of what known as the popular mobilization forces that's an umbrella of shia groups formed in 2014 to fight i saw in iraq with u.s. support. for hezbollah brigades was set up more than 10 years earlier in 2003 during the iraq war the fighters attacked u.s. and coalition forces and. harder was found in 2013 like hezbollah brigades it conducts operations in both syria and iraq as crossed out to our white house correspondent kelly health committee have we heard anything from the white house following these strikes. no and the silence is certainly notable we have not

received a statement from the white house we are still watching very carefully to see if joe biden the u.s. president will say anything as he departs the white house and heads for texas something he is expected to do shortly about given the fact that the u.s. president is commander in chief of the u.s. military and we know from the pentagon that he authorized these strikes after consulting with u.s. allies it is unusual that we have still not heard from the u.s. president now the argument is that this was done to d. ask layton in response to attacks on american and coalition personnel inside syria but it also is sort of perplexing for many here in the united states who are scratching their heads wondering how this will deescalate a situation with respect to iran given the fact that the united states is currently trust seeking to try and revive diplomatic discussions in order to get in back in place the 25th agreement to limit iran's nuclear program so there is some concern

about the tactics and the strategy there's also some concern some criticism that is percolating here in washington around the united states about whether or not there is a double standard taking place given the fact that the white house press secretary gentz sofie following a similar action by donald trump back in 2017 tweeted that she believed that there was no legal authority for donald trump taking similar measures to what joe biden has done now given the fact that syria is a sovereign country and joe biden himself also said in a tweet that is not aged well that he was concerned about donald trump's actions given the fact that he had not prior to any sort of strike sought congressional approval or even the consent of the american public so these are some of the important questions that many are hoping to try and ask them. president or the white house press secretary but again we should note that the president is

traveling to texas and there will be no white house briefing just a small gaggle of a handful of reporters on board air force one just quickly kimberly i want to pick up on something you said there by the noice is going to approach iran differently to the way donald trump now obviously some people must be drawing some parallels and you know what can we read into this 1st action coming from the biden administration these strikes in syria. well there certainly is some confusion over why this is happening the timing of this there are some questions about whether or not this might be to distract from the fact that many were expecting today or even yesterday would be the day we would be talking about something entirely different unclassified intelligence report that would point the finger at the saudi crown prince for the murder of the washington post journalist about the shoji there are also questions about whether or not in fact this is consistent with some of the pledges that joe biden made on the campaign trail specifically that he

was going to focus on domestic issues and had been highly critical of the foreign policy of donald trump which many argue doesn't look that much different under joe biden at this point of his presidency ok thank you for that kimberly how could the white house correspondents. to a biden has spoken with saudi arabia's king saul mom by phone ahead of the release of a u.s. intelligence report on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the 5 report which can be mentioned is widely expected to implicate saudi crown prince mohammed bin sol mom that is also discussed security in the region and if it's to end the war in yemen president biden highlighted the united states' commitment to helping defend saudi arabia against iranian backed rebels. the u.k. supreme court has ruled that a woman who ran away as a teenager to join eisel should not be allowed to return to britain to fight for citizenship should mean the bag left london with 2 school friends at the age of 15

and married an i saw 5 she was stripped of her british british citizenship on national security grounds after being discovered in a refugee camp in $29.00 teams u.k. government has argued that begum is bangladeshi by descent so she can live there. mayor for is in london and she is the co executive director of the legal charity reprieve she says foreign families detained in syria should be repatriated well it is disappointing to judgment in that it doesn't challenge that position that we're currently am here in britain on the condition of the women not the syria including jemima bank them and the other small group of british families with the thames that what the coltons of that the that this is really a decision government and what we. want up mazin. said is that the most that he didn't do with these families the current attendant

not to syria is we have to pay them and after them we will get to some that will need to be prosecutions and our justice system in britain is perfectly well equipped to deal with those prosecutions and then the others including women have to do it detained they will need support rehabilitation reintegration a memoir of the victims that people who may be of trafficking not yet in britain knowledge are cults that need to be protected as well so those. happen but it's on the government now to take those sensible. what the government and what the political opinion is that's very interesting because it's. not so baron strong security minded. for example the chair the. chair that defense committee. who all run to the government this week saying that's what. we need.

which is families and. remember. the prosecution where. for investigations the sense is that those magnets. in syria police have used stun grenades to disperse protesters in manama as demonstrations against a favor a military coup show no signs of slowing down thank. people fled from lines of riot police and man gone so far they've been no reports of injuries that several protesters were detained demanding the release of elected leader aung san suu kyi and the return to democracy and global pressure on the military is also mounting the world bank has announced its stop all payments requested by the government after the coup. scott there is monitoring developments from bangkok he says the confrontation happened at one of the main intersections. that's where the protesters usually have started their gatherings you know the last 3 weeks plus that we've seen them come out that's where

a lot of those images that we were just showing came from where the lines of riot police and the use of stun grenades the groups has to be said are a little bit smaller today than we've seen in previous days but obviously that didn't stop the police from trying to break them up trying to prevent them from the even really forming into larger groups you know stun grenades were used now this came after a night of late night and one neighborhood of yangon that also saw a kind of police dispersal like this kind of a heavy hand by the police that is because in a neighborhood the residents were upset because the military appointed a local councillor for that neighborhood so that kind of flared things up so that might have been part of the reason why we saw a little bit more of a stronger stance by the police today on the streets of yangon also we have found out that there. japanese journalist was detained by the police he was able to contact one of his colleagues as he was being detained around midday myanmar time

he said he said it was ok but that's the 1st german foreign journalist we know has been detained by police it's the 2nd foreigner to be detained since the coup on february 1st and australian man was detained weeks ago who was an advisor to on song suchi. still ahead on al-jazeera hong kong rolls out its covered 19 inoculation campaign with several options on offer for the publics to choose china's next. find out what activists are doing about waves of plastic washing up on a beach in rio de janeiro. how the weather looks like the fight in try for japan over the next couple of days so we have got some wet weather not too far away a big area of stormy weather now in the process of pushing out into the open waters this area of low pressure here saying some showers into the far south of japan but

much of japan will be fine dry and settle in northerly brace the temperatures picked back to around 90 degrees celsius in tokyo we're getting up into the mid teens for seoul 13 celsius there for beijing it comes and next weather system that will make its way through as we go through sunday holding the temperature down to around 4 degrees with a fair bit of snow actually stretching its way across that northeastern corner of china rain returning into eastern areas as well just pushing across the yellow sea as i said for japan it looks fine and dry temperatures in tokyo bouncing back to around 12 degrees celsius staying fine a dry across much of south asia largely clear skies here we've got some wintry weather just around the far north of pakistan warnings in for example warnings in force here along with the far north of india and again little mix of rain sleet and snow here it's mainly rain showers over towards nepal over towards bhutan these showers will ease a little further east was one or 2 showers there for lanka. for

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you're watching all just there a reminder of our top stories this hour more than 300 school girls have been kidnapped in northwest nigeria it happened in the state of some fatah gunmen arrived at night shooting sporadically at the school complex and then took the girls into the bush. united states military launched air strikes in syria targeting facilities used by iranian backed militias the pentagon says the operation was a response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq. u.k. prime minister abbas johnson praised the supreme court's ruling that a woman should not be allowed to return to britain in the fight to get her citizenship back in the bag and ran away to syria as a teenager and married and i still fighter. the united states has joined russia in calling for restraint in our media as its prime minister faces pressure to resign opponents of nicole the protesting of the capital yerevan demanding he step down

he's rejected calls to question 5 his military chief accusing the army of attempted coup she has faced protests since losing the war with neighboring azerbaijan last year over the disputed region of no going all kind of uk let's cross now to robin for us that walk in the van robin where is pressure on today and what is he trying to do to shore up his leadership. today has been keeping a relatively low profile in fact. we haven't seen anything like yesterday where he had a massive rally on the republic square off the posting a message live on facebook. just. today he made a few words about how he and his government have actually been increasing the salaries so you know our media minute tree and i think that's

a way of he wanted to remind me that actually he's on this. because it's the army that the senior generals that might make that statement calling on him to resign that created this sense of impending do with the idea that it might have been a military coup and you don't think that it hasn't materialized because there is always that distinct possibility now given that they have thrown their weight behind the opposition in a sense because they want him to resign and the opposition well they're behind me no there's a crowd of them. several 1000 people difficult to say with numbers but this is the street the main streets that they have closed down to my right eye current show you it's but it's the top of the building we've got a police presence out there and over behind me we have the president's administration so very much a symbolic place for the opposition to be holding rallies having a tent city established they've been meeting the president in fact today because he

is the man that many people think will ultimately be able to mediate between these political factions he is the one that has to make a decision whether to foil the army general the prime minister has demanded that the general. the president it's up to the president not to sign the letter. that dismissal and if he does. so the problem is that what this is all about basically we simplify it is that this is a growing charlie to nickel question the elected prime minister about me it's all storage units ability with. the assault if you like all is or birdsey is what we're going to see play out in the coming hours and days ok thank you for that update there robin feist a walk in the. thousands

of people have received the call that 19 vaccine in hong kong on the 1st day of its mass rollout they are given a choice of 3 different jabs the chinese developed sign of acas facing extra scrutiny after it was authorized before clinical trial results were published from hong kong sarah comparables. day one the vaccination rollout and community clinics are booked down 70000 people have signed up to receive the jab over the next 2 weeks the elderly disabled and essential workers are 1st in line and all serve up i've been very cooperative well and i feel safe after taking the vaccine because i can protect myself and protect my family as well we have been expecting the best thing for long time. and i am very happy to have the. the government has purchased 22 and a half 1000000 doses of covert 19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies pfizer side of back and astra zeneca people can choose which vaccine they receive so far

only the chinese manufactured side of back has been made available to the public in the 1st step of this inoculation campaign across the territory it will not be the only answer to the problem and also it will take some time before the. unity will be reached so like 70 percent of the population it will be the 1st step to basically having normal economic activity and also relief of the infection control measures but the chinese developed vaccine has faced extra scrutiny in hong kong its manufacturer was exempted from having to release the 3rd phase clinical trial results despite that the government fast tracked its introduction study it met the safety requirements specified under an emergency response their film is your concern most important about africa's. because in all the

applicants. from the facilities only up all. the many people have deposit that this mass vaccination program will be rolled out over the next 6 months the pfizer version of the job to arrive on saturday but the real test will be the uptake of the chinese developed vaccine which critics suggest will be a big. promises of anti milan sentiment in a semi autonomous city which remains politically divided sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. brazil is blaming a coronavirus variant it describes as 3 times more contagious for certain factions new wave is overwhelming hospitals as the vaccination campaign steps up one again arc of reports from rio de janeiro. here is hope in this prison indigenous village 40 when members of the small to keep what i need tribe have received the 2nd dose of the couvade 19 vaccines. we have seen so many

people die with this disease i do not want that for my people they were 1st in line to be inoculated together with the elderly considered to be more at risk but they are the lucky few who get it was doubt there was about war brazil could have vaccinated 15 percent of the population by now and stead of nearly 4 percent we haven't because president shared basile narrow still downplays the pandemic sets a bad example by scorning social distancing and delays the acquisition of vaccines the situation today is worse than a year ago when we recorded the 1st covert 1000 case we're now facing a peak of deaths and hospitalizations in one year more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians have lost their lives to the pandemic and hospitals in several states are on the verge of collapse forcing governors and mayors to impose new

restrictions some have taken extreme measures by shutting down all comers the city of our acquirer in the state of so bold looks like a ghost town. here we are dish an aero be inoculated campaign was temporarily suspended because there weren't enough vaccines but the fact that infections are on the rise does not keep people from ignoring basic safety will. all brazil boast the 2nd largest couvade 19 death toll in the world football fans still celebrate their team's victory out in the streets and without masks meineke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro and political tensions are rising in georgia where people are demanding the opposition leader be freed police raided nick emilia's offices on tuesday and arrested him on charges of inciting violence and 2019 the deepening crisis prompted georgie to resign as prime minister last week he had

warned against media rest saying it would only make the crisis worse a new prime minister. was chosen by parliament late on monday kremlin critic alexina valmy has been moved to a christian outside of moscow the prison service wouldn't confirm exactly where and his lawyer described it as an undisclosed location of l. they were sentenced to 2 and a half years for a parole violation it was found to have breached prover walls while recovering in germany from be poisoned the kremlin denies any involvement in the attempted assassination of european leaders have been holding a virtual meeting on security you council president shelves michelle says cooperation with nato and the united states will be vital to europe's strategic challenges. we want to arcs more strategically to defend our interests and to promote those values and we need to increase our ability to act tender mostly and

strengthen our took aeration with our partners we are committed to cooperate in closely with the nato a stronger europe makes a stronger nato which change views with secretary-general stoughton back about working together to improve our collective security and the challenges that we also look forward to could be witty with the new u.s. administration on this tour and to its atlantic agenda including to close dialogue on security and defense. meanwhile in new commission president of on the alliance said that european nations needed to work together more closely on defense. europe needs to develop its own capabilities that stop the fragmentation we have at the moment being if we look at our military capabilities and to develop into our problem systems in the european union that is why we have set up the 1st

building blocks of the european defense union it is the pescado the permanent structure to corp pescado is supported by the new 8000000000 euros european defense fund and it will help us to develop military capabilities as europeans together. waves away still washing up on the shores of rio de janeiro leaving beaches choked with plastic bottles bags and toys it's also having a devastating impact on brazil's marine life laura baron manning reports. rio de janeiro's iconic copacabana beach is well known for its white and pristine tropical coastline. but these images certainly would be on holiday postcards just 20 kilometers along the coast in south can write 0 beach 3 biologists recorder gomez describes waves of rubbish lapping the beaches as

a tsunami of trash if you include in your own pinafore this is a crime it's not just a crime against the city of rio de janeiro it's a crime against the population of rio de janeiro this evil that we do to the ocean is a global crime some of it is easy to recognise most of it go most points out is single use plastic the effect on marine life is evident that young people fail to do good if there are 8000000 tons of plastic that reach the ocean each year suffocating marine life and threatening the existence of man on the planet. a similar way. trash hit brazil's beaches in january the environmental group institute tomorrow barlow says 80 percent of this was caused by heavy rain pushing rubbish into the city's drainage system and then out directly to sea it's estimated around 325000 tons of plastic is thrown into the atlantic ocean from brazil every year

this is affecting marine life and beaches in about 100 the rio de janeiro state with president jay both scenarios poor record of environmental protection activists such as goma take it on themselves to spread awareness and call for individuals to drop plus a consumption. al-jazeera. result is there and these other top stories more than 300 schoolgirls have been kidnapped and some forestation northwest nigeria it's the 2nd abduction in just over a week gunmen arrived at night shooting sporadically at the school complex and then took the girls into the bush head address as more from mina and central nigeria a very poor from locals we've spoken to this more.