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well it's been 4 weeks since a military coup in myanmar overthrew its democratically elected leaders triggering the most widespread process the country has seen in years and for the 1st time the u.n. general assembly has met on the quay and the crack time when a shot to fire this man maurice ambassador to the united nations has made an emotional appeal to use any means necessary against the generals who have seized a pair near ma military has become the existential threat for myanmar as the polity and civilized society now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by myanmar military the international community must ensure that who has no place in the modern world as bound by the u.n. secretary general in that regard we the comedy representing john who.

are the united nations the united nations security council an international community that aspire to build peaceful and civilized global society to use any means necessary to take action against them human military and to prove by thursday and security for the people. so what prompted that information that intervention well it's scenes like this friday morning in myanmar as large a city and gong police there used stun grenades to disperse protesters so far there's been no reports of injuries but several people have been detained the process have continued across the country despite the military's attempts to suppress them at least 3 people have been killed since the protests began shortly after the february 1st coup well let's get more now from our diplomats gets there

james bays he joins us now live from the united nations james we just heard that strong ensor vention from the myanmar ambassador to the u.n. but i mean that was just the latest in a series of damning assessments that were aired at that general assembly a general assembly meeting that i think will certainly reverberate from now because it's very very rare that you have a u.n. ambassador speaking out so publicly against what's going on in their own country the last time the most observers can recall was with regard to libya when the ambassador and the deputy ambassador defected at the time of the uprising against gadhafi there are some concerns about what would now happen to the boss of the from me on my will he get sacked from his job will there be reprisals against his family

in myanmar short time ago the spokesperson of the secretary general was giving a briefing i asked him about that and he said no one should be harmed no one should be thrown in jail for expressing their opinion and that goes for their families too certainly other ambassadors in the general assembly hall said it was a courageous speech among them the u.s. ambassador. the united states has and will continue to take actions in close coordination with allies and partners we will show the military that their actions have consequences violence against those exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms is unacceptable it is time for the military to immediately relinquish power refrain from further violence release all of those unjustly detain and restore myanmar's democratically elected government well that is the newest cabinet member of the biden cabinet the new u.s.

ambassador to the united nations actually in her 1st full day in the job and the fact she came to speak at the general assembly i suspect shows that this is an issue that biden and strikes they're taking very seriously. we've also been hearing from china's sitter to the u.n. what did he have to say about the events in myanmar. well china clearly is very very important is regional role in the fact that it potentially has more influence on the military in myanmar than any other country and after what we've seen today in the security in the general assembly what the general assembly normally does is amplify a message and potentially then forces the security council to say it is going to take action but of course china has a vote in the security council as a permanent member so it could veto other things that china is very very important

and we did as you say hear from john john who is the chinese ambassador to the united nations i have to say the chinese position does not seem to be particularly swayed by what we heard that dramatic speech by the myanmar ambassador he said what happened in myanmar is in essence me on mars internal and then the rest of the speech a lot of comment about how us needs to play the lead role an active role and do things in an assay and a way i think that's code for do it very quietly behind the scenes and not make too much of a farce i think the message coming from the general assembly for most of the delegations is that international diplomacy needs to ramp up a stage after now a month of what's been going on in myanmar since the coup. ok james base there bring us the very latest live from the united nations james thank you. let's take

to the pentagon where we are expecting a briefing we're getting a briefing rather on the u.s. air strikes in syria let's listen in part to throughput but where a lot. of the of the of multiple boxes that. it's going to hold much of the detail we're confident that these were legitimate targets. that were utilized by groups associated with these recent attacks. structures housing capabilities that they that they utilized. to help perpetrate attacks on our troops and on our coalition partners in iraq we're confident in that i'm not going to get into the specific intel of that and as for the again you know your question about were there weapons hit again our battle damage assessments ongoing i'm just not going to get ahead of that and to the

degree we are able to provide more context in time when we know more i certainly will. syrian observatory for human rights 17 were killed in this operation i know you still do in the desert. where you are of them or from what you know right now it also did you communicate at all with the russians did you did you flirt with them before this operation on the. casualties i've seen those press reports tom as i said in my opening statement we received preliminary indications of casualties on site but i don't have more detail right now in terms of numbers that we have preliminary indications of casualties on site i'm not going to go any further than that the russians were contacted just prior to the strait using the d. confliction mechanism that is in place. damn point become

clear who was behind that rocket attack here bill. and how long would it kill you to sort of decide on the target the cure of the operation and also with the other rocket attacks into the bow of their business and the green zone afterward with those also linked to those same groups well we refer to. when we refer to the justification for the strikes we talked about recent attacks so i leave it at that that that certainly you can take away from that that destruction was hit because we know it was utilized by groups that were responsible for for. these recent attacks not just. or below. and as for the tick tock that you're asking i don't have that level of specificity except to say that and you heard secretary talk about this last week that the iraqi

partners were conducting an investigation and he said last night that some of the information they glean what they learned from that certainly was a significant assistance and our ability to develop this targets. so that process evolved over the last couple of weeks since the attack in erbil when their investigative than intelligence efforts began so it sort of was evolving over the last couple of weeks i don't know i can't give you a date certain dan when you know when all of a sudden you know the light bulb went on and we do you know this is this was the these were the groups and this is what we were going to what we were going to do but i can tell you that the president himself authorized this yesterday morning. we go to the phones. louis martinez a.b.c. . john. last night on the plane secretary austin talked about the importance of

having the iraqis conduct the investigation he talked about encouraging them to conduct this investigation. can you talk can you address that and also the level of involvement of the u.s. had and nailing down the linkage between these militia groups and these attacks and how much was relying on the iraqis and how much was going on in this. it was very much a team effort louie. the secretary was very sincere when he praised the iraqi partners for their investigative and intelligence work that they did. i watched peak for them that wouldn't be appropriate. but there were some very good work done on the on the intelligence side that helped lead to this these successful strakes. and as it is it i think he said we offered support and

assistance we were able to provide some information to their investigative process that that helped i won't get into the details of that but it was i think it's safe to say. we've just been listening there to see a pentagon spokesman john kirby who was in that briefing addressing the united states. air strikes on syria those air strikes targeted facilities used by iranian backed militias the main target was the military base near. that school see syria's border with iraq and the pentagon saying there that the operation was in response to recent attacks against american interests and now but not a lot of detail that the spokesman is willing to go and see let's even get more now former white house correspondents kember the whole kit she joins us from outside the white house kimberly bird starting to get some reaction now from the united

states to those air strikes what have we learned. well i we've learned from the pentagon that in fact they believe that this was defensive in nature and well they are not going into the intelligence i can confirm that the white house press secretary was giving a briefing aboard air force one simultaneously to the pentagon where she says that the president was cautious before he decided to execute these attacks and that it was based on an intelligence assessment we know that that intelligence was based on a chord nation with not only partners in the region but also in consultation with allies now it's important to notice also that the white house continues as well as the pentagon to say that this was defensive in nature but it isn't interesting that

joe biden the u.s. president is facing criticism from within members of his own democratic party on capitol hill in fact many are arguing that the president did not seek the legal justification necessary he did not consult with congress in advance of these strikes so we're hearing from both the white house and also from the. pentagon that in fact the argument that they're making is that these were defensive in nature these strikes under article 2 of the u.s. constitution to protect american personnel and as commander in chief the u.s. president has a right to do that and also under the u.n. article $51.00 again to see. so these are some of the justifications being given ok kimberly hold previously to from the white house kimberly thank you very much andy . in northwest nigeria police a gunman have kidnapped 317 schoolgirls it happens in

a town of john gave me in some far a states the police say the toxic girls have been moved to a nearby forest. says in the nigerian capital of puja with the latest. a must of operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the train is under way in and around jenga bay and the port of surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before sunset they at least rescue these students 317 of them or pinpoint the exact location before the abductors move farther away from the community also today shortly after the abduction government officials attempted to go to join get to assess the situation civilian officials actually and they were typed in among them of course in the convoy wired journalists who went to cover the story and eventually some of them were. injured in the attack you know these calls to

question the latest abduction calls to question these them for a state government. program or project to negotiate with bandits to convince them to submit their arms or surrender their arms only yesterday just hours before the kidnapping a group of these so-called banded submitted or surrender their weapons arms and ammunition to the police and government officials in goose i was in for a state and then this abduction happened we this is coming just 9 days after a number of students were also taken from another boarding school boarding school in neighboring niger state 9 days after that is no word as to when that will be who so this is becoming more and more complex as security forces struggle to deal with the situation it looks like a quote when you ask many nigerians they will tell you that it looks like this quarter forces are not able to deal with the situation and there is fear spreading in the land as this criminal activity has spread farther inland from the northwest

down to the center of the country and down south. ok we're going to bring you some breaking the united states has declassified other poor. it's on the killing of journalists. the declassified us report says the city crane prince mohammed and some man approved the assassination of. u.s. officials believe that saudi crown prince approved an operation to capture or kill the journalists and that is according to the newly released documents let's see if we can cross back to our white house correspondents kimberly hawk it's kimberly this reports has dropped literally in the last few minutes what have we learned from a quick 1st glance at what this report says. well i've only had an opportunity to

read the 1st sentence of the executive summary so let's read it together what it is saying is that. and we expected that this would be the finding of the report from the director of national intelligence says that saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon approved an operation in istanbul turkey to capture or kill saudi journalist jim out of course the washington post journalist it goes on to say we based this is testament on the crown prince's control of decision making in the kingdom the direct involvement of a key advisor and members of mohamed bin solomon's protective detail in the operation and the crown prince of support for using violent measures to silence dissidents abroad including. since 2017 the crown prince's had absolute control of the kingdom security and intelligence organizations making it highly unlikely that the saudi officials would have carried out an operation of this nature without the

crown prince's an authorization and this is certainly this executive summary conclusion and it goes on in some detail is consistent with what we heard from members of congress who were briefed on this by gina housefull the cia director when this was 1st made available to members of congress they said there was no doubt in their mind that this was the saudi crown prince who had ordered the order of the killing of. now we should point out that the kingdom has maintained that this was nothing more than a botched rendition operation but this is clearly going so much further that in that in this report to point the finger squarely at the saudi defense minister now we should point out that in advance of the release of this report that the white house press secretary jen psaki was speaking aboard air force one asking what actions the united states might take with respect to this report once it is made available will they continue to conduct business. the saudi kingdom they say that

they will still continue to have the president speaking with the king counterpart to counterpart but they also said there will be additional actions that they are weighing additional actions without saying what those might be following the release of the report so we are watching very carefully to see what those might be we know there are a range of actions that are being considered there could be for haps a freezing of assets of the crown prince is inside the united states there could be a travel ban but we also know that there are other measures that are already underway in terms of what the white house calls a recalibration of the u.s. saudi relationship pas in the sending of weapons to the saudi conflict saudi led conflict in yemen and there are also concerns about human rights which we should point out that the white house is once again reiterated joe biden brought up

in his phone call with the saudi king less than 24 hours ago so these are the initial findings that are now being made public it is a campaign promise now delivered by joe biden under a lot of pressure particularly from members of his own party to have a tougher stance on saudi arabia and that tougher stance does seem to be in direct contrast to the previous administration in the united states because donald trump was was rather cool swith the. leadership. just on the face of it given the executive summary that you've read kimberly it isn't barras sing to saudi arabia certainly there was the form call with king psalm on the previous day but what do you think this indicates in terms of where the society u.s. relationship is likely to head from here on em.

well this it has been a white house that honestly has found itself in a bit of a contradictory messaging in the last 48 hours it has repeatedly called out saudi arabia the u.s. president on the campaign trail said that saudi arabia must be treated as the pariah that it is that means isolation not being included and yet we've also now heard from this administration they believe there is a valuable strategic relationship a defense relationship that the united states will support in terms of saudi arabia's own security as well as u.s. interests in the broader region so 2 this is a bit of a contradictory message again as i stated one that needs to be fine tuned and worked out we do know that this is ministration when it says recalibrate is still working out those details in terms of how things will move forward but historically the united states has had a long relationship with saudi arabia going back to the late 1940 s. in terms of this strategic relationship it's one the biden administration says it

will continue even as it says as recently as just a few moments ago from the white house press secretary it will continue to call out human rights abuses and certainly when it comes to the murder of shit off the show she we now know from this report released from the director of national intelligence the d.n.i. that in fact the united states squarely blames the crown prince mohammed bin solomon for ordering the murder of jamal has shows you the washington post journalist and kimberly you mentioned this was a campaign promise by joe biden and his administration to release this reports how is this likely to play in the the u.s. domestically because of course the country so very much focused on the the national the natural disasters in the south of the country the coronavirus so making the headlines there and of course politically the country still very much defined is

how much impact will the release of this report have in the united states itself or is this likely just suit to pass virtually on remarks. it's not going to pass and remarked in certain circles certainly the foreign policy circle the washington circle the congressional circles which represents a large number of americans who know that there is a need to to call out the actions of the saudi government and the feeling that previous administrations not just the trumpet ministration have turned a blind eye to some of the concerns about freedom of expression the treatment of women and other human rights concerns the jailing of dissidents without charge so there's no question that there's going to be pressure on this administration to walk the walk of the talk that they have been talking for so long as a critic of the previous one the problem comes in is that. weapons sales to the

kingdom are certainly an economic driver and this is in the united states with a very depressed economy there are jobs that are at stake and so that is another factor in all of this so to your question about how the ordinary american might be affected that's one area and so that's where it would come into play there are also a great number of americans who are not comfortable with the bombs mark made in america being dropped on civilians in yemen so this is something that more and more americans are becoming cognizant about so in terms of it registering on the radar there will be a great number of americans even the midst of a pandemic an economic suffering who are going to want to see this administration hold the kingdom to account for the grisly murder of jim hush oshie which we now know this report has concluded now that it has finally been made public after being declassified put squarely at the ordering for that killing by mohammed bin some of the saudi crown prince ok kimberly whole white house correspondent will leave it

for now but thank you very much indeed for talking us through let's see if we can get more now from c.n.n. . cacio she joins us now live from istanbul and seen him does this reports in any way come as a surprise to. people in turkey where of course. was killed. well actually hello this is not a surprise for turkey. and the other surprise for the turkish government or people who have been following the edge of our ship is murder since the beginning of this crisis multilateral crisis because of the report the is being dickless fired right now are active it has actually been prepared. based on the information that

turkish intelligence and turkish prosecutors have provided for the american authorities because since the killing happened in turkey the fire all those works have been stopped all those. details have been studied in turkey by istanbul prosecutor's office by the turkish intelligence by the turkish police so basically this is not a surprise but since the lines are coming out recently just very these lines are very fresh we haven't heard any. tweeting or saying something about the set but as i said this is not a surprise because what the report say is actually matches with what the turkish government turkish authorities have been saying since the beginning in since the beginning of the time and since the killing happened because in every speech of. that we heard him saying that this killing must have been ordered from

a very top place he never named the crown prince mohammed bin son mom but everybody knew that he was pointing out to mohamed bin cellmark and i have to say that turkish presence aired on never to mohamed moment in some manner as a as a counterpart to discuss and indeed it is probable that's why he never actually recited his name but he made all his talks with king someone so basically this is totally matching with all the reports that we saw in turkey. since 2018 and this is another shock for turkey but of course this is very important that the united states also declassified such a report because in the previous government when mr trump was the president. the reactions were a bit weak and hesitant to criticize mohamed and sat around but now turkey is not alone turkey sees

a united states in its nato ally standing at the same position. with regard to the journalist. and said i'm the turkish government may be feeling somewhat vindicated by this report just give our viewers a quick background to this case because the killing of. 2 police in turkey and the country most of course a strong attachment to seeing the this investigation carried their version of events. well yes the. the case is still ongoing actually the next week there is a trial on march for there's a trial but of course no one expects a verdict. the trial will probably continue and this killing is also one of the

incidents that dettori to turkey saudi by later in the relationships the relationship between 2 countries. didn't go worse because just because. the anything didn't started with jamal khashoggi killing actually it started earlier but jamal which of just killing it was a milestone for this. relationship between 2 countries and if i take us through this merger jim our ship she. was actually in engaged to a turkish woman misses her teacher and the reason why he went to the saudi consulate in istanbul because he was trying to get his proper paperwork before his wedding that's why he went there and before getting inside at 1st he went there he got an appointment for next week and again he went there and before entering the consulate he just warned his fiance saying that if i don't get out call these people he actually gave gave some names and his close friends in turkey who are

also engaged with the turkish government and after a couple of hours since. it didn't get out of the consulate building his fiance had teacher who was just waiting for the last days to finish all this paperwork for the marriage for this sudden love story she called those people dr yasser knox i want to as a former party. m.p.'s who was then president's adviser that's how everything happened and this is there was an ngo who was dealing with turkish media members so that's how we all heard about this incident and then of course the police then the prosecutor's. office intervened and they tried to search the consulate building which they didn't allow at 1st and then they tried to search the residence building and all those the it is all the c.c.t.v. pictures all those intelligence gathering by the police and

a turkish intelligence and some voice recordings actually that have been that have been actually declassified in a way or let's say that that has leaked to the press highlight that the situation and everything showed that the order came from a very top place in the royal kingdom. even though as i said the name wasn't recited everybody knew that it was the crown prince mohammed bin someone who organized the killing who actually said yes to this killing ok. joining us live from istanbul cinema thank you very much indeed let's head back to the united states where we can join our white house correspondent once again. standing by for us on the white house lawn kimberly we're hearing more about this reports that has just dropped what more can you tell us at this stage. well i can tell you that there is so much interest in this report that the link is

now down i can't even pull it up so that's just how highly anticipated the says you can imagine that every sort of major policy maker that deals with saudi arabia as well as business leader and members of congress are all trying to read this simultaneously and you know it's unclear i don't believe that we have any reason to believe that this was taken down by the government but that the service may be overwhelmed but. whether you read the entire unclassified report or just the executive summary does not change the facts and the conclusions of the report and the executive summary in and of itself very damning very unflattering to the saudi crown prince also the defense minister we should point out though haven't been summoned of saudi arabia it is very clear that it is an assessment of the u.s. intelligence communities that saudi arabia's crown prince approved an operation in

istanbul turkey to capture or kill saudi journalists. now they're basing this on 2 different criterion and we know that there was a lot of interest in the telephone calls in the days leading up to this attack on the washington post journalist that there were communications with not only a member of the so-called kill team but also a member an aide to the saudi crown prince himself the summary says we based this assessment on the crown prince's control of decision making in other words that during those phone calls potentially it was the decision making that was passed on that indeed implicates him in this further the executive summary goes on to say the direct involvement of a key adviser and members of mohamed bin solomon's protective detail in the operation and the crown prince of support for using violent measures to silence dissidents abroad including has showed now which. should point out that when it comes to dissidents there are others that are still alive and claiming that they

were at risk for a similar fate there is a lawsuit currently in the u.s. district court here in the united states a senior member of the saudi intelligence now an exile in canada who is claiming the he himself was also facing a hunting down that there was allegedly a kill team in the united states trying to track him down as well so now this case is not mentioned in this report that i can see so far again i've only got the executive summary in front of me at the moment but it does seem to indicate the serious nature and that these are not isolated claims that they have been made by other saudi dissidents this executive summary going on to say since 2017 the crown prince has had absolute control of the kingdom security and intelligence organizations making it highly unlikely that saudi officials would have carried out an operation of this nature without the crown prince's authorize ation now the

question becomes as this white house continues to say that it is going to recalibrate its relationship with the kingdom what actions will it take with respect to the conclusions of this report will there be actions such as high level sanctions will be assets of the saudi crown prince be seen will there be a travel ban put in place these are all questions the white house has repeatedly been asked it has repeatedly said it will not get ahead of the report but the report is now out and certainly the momentum is building for further action particularly from members within the president's own party who have said that there needs to be an accountability and a really a setting of relations in fact chris murphy one of the prominent members in the u.s. senate saying that he believes that the saudi crown prince has been intimately involved in the pursuit of saudi dissidents not just. as. that there needs to be congressional action to tell you which we should point out did occur under the

trumpet ministration but the trumpet ministration particularly donald trump used his veto power to protect the kingdom but we have a different president now and many are looking to see what action joe biden will take and we will look at that very closely indeed from. the white house thank you campbell. let's take you back to our top story now marse ambassador to the u.n. has called on world leaders city everything they can see protect his people from the country's army process against the coun february force continue to spread nation wide well let's get you more now we can speak with way nin she's the campaign's officer burma campaign u.k. her father who is also an activist in his student days was jailed by the military just after that coup she joins us now live from london by sky good to have you with

us on the news. i imagine you were watching the the special assembly at the u.n. very closely today can i just are asking what you maids of those interventions because there were some very powerful speeches made not just by your ambassador to the u.n. but also by the u.s. ambassador in the special envoy who. what what do you make of this and how do you think this is going to affect protesters who are still in myanmar facing for a change. it's very encouraging is very encouraging for us and their statements and their statements of consarned and condemnation by kim and all people who are protesting inside the country but what we need is more than that we have been asking for you know continue in diplomatic pressure and also we have

been asking for sanctions on military companies those are the affected acts actions that e.u. and the international community can take but of course you know this is one coverage ng moment for people inside the country to know that the world is watching the world is done thing with them but it's been 20 fixed days now and this situation in the country is getting worse and was we now have more than $700.00 people in detention some of them we have no idea where they are being to pay all the acquisitions and people are being killed and the children you know their young people being shot for peacefully protesting so you know although we appreciate their means of concern and condemnation over we use them as the vice maybes and encouragement we need more than that for the people inside the country

do you think that any of this international pressure this international condemnation is having any kinds of moderating effect on the military in me and maher because. it looks as if they're firing some good age defying stunt grenades and real grenades do you think there is at least some form of of motor racing effect being has. well as much as i like to think that way but i can't because it's been like i said nearly a month now that the situation is getting water was and of course the world is what changed and monitoring the situation in fact the country but may online and his army is doing everything they can to instill fear and also using violence against the peaceful protests this so you know we we have seen nicely raided oprah ready

going on and also you know they are using life runs of bullets against the peaceful protesters and the mankind is using other tactics like you know releasing into the street of young guys aren't they a crack people practice this is they're using every tactic when tools that they can have to crack down on people processes so it's definitely an evidence from the military side that they don't care about statements they don't care about concerned toll and of course that's why we had say we need the international community need to take action the action might not be giving results straight away but it will shows that the military will have to take things national community seriously because they don't care about statements they just read it and they just move on and continue doing the human rights violations on the ground were given that are protesters and unindigent i mean are you hopeful are told the protesters will

prevail because it's a special session at the u.n. certainly the chinese ambassador doesn't seem to have been particularly swayed to and was very much urging the cautious slowly slowly to pull mostly tactics a favorite in the past like you say it's very easy for people to make grand statements but not necessarily to take action do you feel that the protesters will eventually prevail. i'm a protest is in fact the country i risking their lives you know they're going to bed not knowing whether they will be get arrested or they're going out on the straight not knowing whether they will get attacked by mobs all their pleas all the armies that they risk risking their lives gainful human rights and democracy at the same time they are asking for international help so seeing statements like today

and seeing the statements coming from that a u.n. rebel governor is an encouragement people are a bit more bike life by the whole thing and they can continue going on pricing for freedom and democracy but they at the same time asking for international help and international community to take action so it is the job for the a un and the international community to do more than issuing more and more statements and finally just just quickly your father was taken by the military have you heard any news have you heard about his well being or what happens and i know he was arrested on 1st with february and truth and we have no idea where he's being held or his condition and at the same time you know there are so many people arrested on the same day as and the latest in that we have no idea how they're being held where they are or you know their condition there and they have most of

them they haven't been charged they have begun to pay a legally by the military for protesting or speaking out against the military so we are very worried about this situation as well as understandable when and we wish you all the best thank you so much for sharing your story and your family's story and talking to us here at al-jazeera thank you. so other news now an american pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson is trying to get approval for emergency use of its covert 19 vaccine the u.s. food and drug administration is holding a virtual public meeting to decide if the request should be granted the f.d.a. could authorize the vaccine as early as saturday pending on a fools by its vaccine advisory panel if it's approved distribution could begin

within days. thousands of people have received the covert 1000 vaccine in hong kong on the 1st day of its mass rule it's they've been given a choice of 3 different jobs but the chinese developed sign of ak is facing extra scrutiny after it was authorized before clinical trial was soltz were published sarah clarke reports from hong kong. day one the vaccination rollout and community clinics are booked down 70000 people have signed up to receive the job over the next 2 weeks the elderly disabled and essential workers are 1st in line and also of up i've been very cooperative go and obvious safe after taking the vaccine because i can protect myself and protect my family as well we have been expecting the 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 be 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 dr sirius only about 50 of us and then this is surely many people have deposit now about 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. ramos out of anti mainland sentiment in a semi autonomous city which remains politically divided sarah clarke al jazeera hong kong. the u.k. has carried out almost $20000000.00 covert vaccinations but there is a worry that some minority communities are still at risk because they don't want to take the job the issue is being tackled with national campaigns and opinion appears to be shifting as joined a whole reports now from oldham. a lot of door to door community outreach under lockdown in oldham greater manchester where you are right. part of there is was

actually very healthy there were various on the doorstep some bring up their worries about vaccines i think using proven slowly but it was the 1st initial for that while and because it was so much attention i was like the bank really must go and get a double that while being targeted to go get it done like what's going on there and because the previous history what's happened with factories as well all it all adds up vaccine hesitancy is prevalent among black asian and minority ethnic groups in a recent poll almost 50 percent expressed reluctance blaming misinformation general mistrust and a history of discrimination in the health service the vaccine does not change or damage our d.n.a. there's also no evidence to suggest that sea affects fertility ethnic minorities stars have appeared in a t.v. ad to counter negative views and an information drive has begun among faith leaders

we know that as muslims there we should always stand up against that it is false the mums here receiving the vaccine awareness training to pass on to their congregants i'm not saying that this is a magic wand bought this is a starting point that we are delivering these kind of training so people would be able to understand exactly what it is and what it entails as well as you know if they don't take it what would be deeply. disadvantages if they take it they will have their life. the clear concern in all of this is that it is very communities where social inequality has led to higher death rates from cope with 19 good life saving vaccines are most likely to be refused and that's a contradiction with dire potential consequences to look at a pandemic the disproportional impact has. been on that deprived populations the elderly population that they might not use those we call it it's and if we do not

get over this hurdle but back in his seat these are the people who are the most wrecks in and we're going to widen this is that we've already seen within me so we can have more more places within these populations and the unvaccinated could also provide a window of opportunity for the virus to spread to mutate and at worst to become vaccine resistant jonah how al-jazeera oldham. so to come here and i'll just say it will have the sport for you in the whole silk the next proper world cup face a huge challenge in their opening match of the tournament and these here with more after this break.

because for the here's andy thank you so much valuable former u.s. olympic gymnastics coach get it has died by suicide just hours after being charged with crimes against young gymnasts the charges included sexual assault and human trafficking get a lead the u.s. women's teams will go. old at the 2012 olympics he had close links with disgraced team doctor larry nasser who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing athletes 3 years ago or get it was suspended by usa gymnastics in january 28th seen after being accused of abuse was get at seeing physician for approximately 2 decades and he was found sue have lied about nots hearing any complaints about nasa and us it just being charged with $24.00 crimes focused on quote multiple acts of verbal physical

and sexual abuse perpetrated by the defendants against multiple young women well we've been speaking to sportswriter casper b. and he fears the kind of abuse that gets was charged with is widespread in gymnastics. it got the gold in him to gold and that's the biggest honor you can get so in in old janessa exports he was well well respected man also known as harsh but that was normal in many guidance of regions in the sport also utils known as as as a father and i femi man a good man for everybody well the things that were not in the big chair were us what happened behind the closed doors of course because there are such big things happen in usa but very soon and all the other counties gymnast's recognised what happened and they could have a forty's almost every country in europe people and eunice are making their cases

against the federation or against the coaches federations it cannot quiet everything's already have to do their starting has a geisha is a region where i am work of working in and in belgium there's an independent investigation and all months of my own country the war it started an investigation into 2 misconduct of coaches and also what's going to bet and will benefit in the culture because it's also what's most wrong in the values of the sport and it's very widespread it's it's it's everywhere now and there are almost no exceptions now liverpool management you can call finance the atmosphere at the club not at its best right now the premier league champions face being without their caps in jordan henderson for up to 10 weeks and the sin was injured during the last against everton last saturday joints verge of undock joe metz hit judge garzon 15 only injured list the club a 6th in the league 19 points adrift of leaders manchester city. it's not the best

that was who ever had but it's not nothing in between are so that's all that's all fine we all agree on the things we have to do but we have good moments as well it's a very challenging time for this world you can imagine for different reasons and but that's how it is in these in these times where the draw for the last 16 of the europa league produced a stand outside former european champions manchester united and i see milan picked out play each other for me united strikers lathan abraham of each set returns old trafford with milan united's norwich manager with this take on the swedish forward success. it is not very scandinavian in the approach because these we sometimes we were a bit more wired. noncontroversial slaughterhouse show what believe and conference can do to you

running champions casaca friends who have made a winning start to the new je season cow psyche beating the harmer of marine us to know as they yang to win this title for the 4th time in 5 seasons trans top flight will feature 20 teams for the 1st time after the league decided to suspend relegation last year that was to avoid further destabilize and clubs already struggling amid the pandemic. on the schedule for the 2023 rugby world cup has been announced hosts france will take on 3 time champions new zealand in the opening match the teams have twice met in world cup finals for the all blacks winning on both of those occasions in 19072011 reigning champion south africa will play scotland in their 1st match scotland were meant to be playing front cyma 6 nations on sunday that fixture has been called off due to a corona virus outbreak within the french squad. i came of miller lights from about as a sports looking for now thank you very much indeed and they were all set firm that

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