get in genocide on al-jazeera. a lot of the stories that we cover all highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as al-jazeera correspondents guys will be strong to do. a u.s. intelligence report says saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond approve the operation to capture or kill john list jamal khashoggi. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program anger in nigeria zamfara state after gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls in a nighttime raid. me and my own ambassador

to the united nations urges the world to act as police dispersed anti coup protest as any and gone. use only reads. against the. google earth and. called the people numerous. u.s. intelligence officials believe the saudi crown prince approve the operation to capture or kill journalist mark ashaji in 2018 that's according to a long awaited report just declassified by the biden administration it says mohammed bin salman was in absolute control of the kingdom's intelligence and security services meaning such an operation would not have been carried out without his authorization it notes that the crown prince or as a threat and broadly back to violence if it was needed to silence him the report

also lists 21 individuals u.s. intelligence has high confidence were complicit in g.'s death in the saudi consulate in istanbul they include 7 members of the crown prince's elite personal protective detail who were among a team of 15 that flew into istanbul before the murder the saudi foreign ministry says it rejects the report's findings the united states meanwhile has announced a ban on 76 saudi nationals a visa restriction policy on individuals it says are involved in counter dissident activities on behalf of a foreign government. we also want to make sure and this is what the president said from the outset that the relationship better reflects our interests and our values and so what we've done by the actions that we've taken. is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate out of fissures following this in washington so and lincoln really emphasizing that just the release of the report itself alan is

in itself a major departure from the relationship that we've seen between riyadh and washington on the president trump but beyond that probably not much better actually be taken. and it is a big step change and antony blinken making the point that this is shining light on the murder of jamal khashoggi here is the 4 page report that you can see there parts of it already redacted what we don't get in the report is how the intelligence was gathered that was always on likely but we know that intelligence assets and the tux were very much involved because they had recordings inside the consulate in istanbul remember october the 2nd 2018 jamal khashoggi who walked into the consulate with the intent of just picking up some paperwork to speed up his impending marriage he was never seen alive again there was a team there from saudi arabia waiting for him with the intention either to capture or kill him instructions given by mohammed bin some and someone that the cia say

with a great degree of certainty authorized the events in istanbul certainly the u.s. government has said that they are going to recalibrate the relationship with saudi arabia we have already seen that joe biden not speaking to mohammed bin someone he was always the conduit really for the trump white house and remember he even sat in the oval office with donald trump and talked about arm sales we know that might prompt you met muhammad been summoned just a few days after jamal khashoggi was killed no doubt having seen the intelligence report from the cia which has no been released but joe biden wanted to make sure that there was a different approach this is just part of that but i suppose it's also important to remember there is an alliance that has been in place for decades based on business and commercial interests in security operation and says blinken said they want to be very careful how they handle this. exactly right there's been bumps in the road in the past between the united states and saudi arabia you go back to the 1970 s.

and the oil embargo you go to 911 and the fact that 15 of the hijackers were saudi arabian the fact that there has been this issue with jamal khashoggi who although is an american citizen it sort of is a sody citizen was actually an american resident and working as a columnist for perhaps the most famous newspaper in the united states the washington post and so the really the u.s. couldn't be seen to be doing nothing but the trump white house in fact put out a statement saying that they had looked at the evidence and it wasn't conclusive on whether or not mohammed bin someone was involved here is the proof that says he was and of course with mohammed bin someone giving an interview to the u.s. media saying if there was any evidence he would like to see it here it is the saudis just in the last couple of hours of put out a statement essentially dismissing the report saying that the hamad bin salman simply wasn't involved that our senior democrats who believe that joe biden's punishment for muhammad been some and so do you really should go much farther they

believe that when muhammad been summoned denies any involvement in the model of democracy it simply isn't credible thank you thank you very much alan fischer in washington meanwhile agnes calmar the u.n. investigator into khashoggi killing is the u.s. to take the lead in ensuring justice has matter and jamal khashoggi fiance had to changes was waiting outside the saudi concert at the day he was mad and so after a report was released she simply tweeted this image of him with the words hash tag justice that your mom. is in istanbul where of course was killed. the support actually isn't a shock for the turkish authorities because since the killing of the journalist i'm after shoop the turkish authorities who have been involved in this investigation including the turkish police istanbul chief persecutors office and

a turkish intelligence they're sassaman to was the same this killing must have been ordered by someone at a very high place in the royal kingdom and the office was never named the crown prince mohamed bin salam but every time the authorities spoke including turkish president don he pointed out to mahomet been someone because he said his aides he was involved in this hit lots of came to kill them our has shipped to violently inside saudi consulate building in istanbul they came 2 days before and all those talkings them all of them inside the consulate on the day off the killing was actually recorded through some bugs that have been planted by the turkish intelligence inside the consulate building actually those voice recordings that were leaked to media was a game changer in this investigation and those recordings were partially shared with some counterparts by the turkish intelligence and as far as i learned from my

sources and ankara all recordings all of the recordings on the day of the killing were shared with the u.s. in teligent when cia director says how spell visited the turkish capital ankara with a delegation of to went to one people and apparently is the evidence that was gathered by the troops is actually one of the important bases of this report and this is an important step because now the united states can openly point out that the crown prince is responsible in tomorrow's you've just killing. police in northwestern nigeria say 317 goals have been kidnapped by armed attackers who carried out a nighttime raid on their school it happened in the town of jenin and zamfara state

police say they've launched a search and rescue operation officials say gunmen stormed the government girls science secondary school shortly after midnight firing sporadically before taking the girls and it disappearing into a forest it comes just over a week after at least 42 people most of them students are abducted from a boys' school in ny state or a security guard working at a school described the moment the gunman stormed in which it was illegal to us as we tried to get out so we were well known so when we fired at they fired back as we continue to fight them and all of a sudden they retreated one of them left his motorcycle to escape and that's when we thought we were going to feel that we were told to go home but now as i speak to you those soldiers are in the bush fighting with them though. well kidnapping is a common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs in nigeria just over a month ago gunmen abducted 8 children and 2 adults from an orphanage in nigeria's

capital abuja they were all freed a week later in december more than $300.00 boys were kidnapped from a secondary school and can car in the north although they were released after 6 days as well boko haram said it carried out the kidnapping the group also abducted more than 100 girls from a boarding school in the northeastern town of duchy in 20185 of the girls died most of the others or released after a week but it was the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the town of chill book in 2014 that really threw a spotlight on nigeria's security problems is sparked international outrage and a major campaign to bring the girls home but around a 100 of them a still missing. interest is in a budget force and says that the authorities are really in a race against time to find the children. i must've operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the terrain

is under way in i don't tend to be and the porter surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before sunset the at least rescue these students 317 of them or pinpoint the exact location before they abductors move farther away from the community also today shortly after the abduction government officials attempted to go to join their bid to assess the situation civilian officials actually and they were typed in among them of course in the convoy were 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 him for a state government. program or project to negotiate with bae and it's 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 they bring 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 stop. following the latest kidnapping the local governor has ordered all boarding schools for secondary students to close across the state. you know what good you know there are no schools. or. rather just

a pretty. appreciate to look up or someone. on the other. in this. more support group. now eritrean soldiers have been accused of killing hundreds of ethiopian civilians in a 24 hour massacre late last year amnesty international is saying the attack on the city of axum came as ethiopian federal forces reach out the capital of the to gray region after a deadly battle that and as al jazeera is malcolm web reports the killings my own mount a crime against humanity. eritrean and ethiopian forces began their attack on the town of axum with indiscriminate shelling according to rights group amnesty international. it's released these videos and the report

it says on the 28th of november last year to grain militia civilians tried to fight back. some of them on do with only sticks and stones attacking eritrean soldiers on this hill he says the militia failed the reprisals were brutal. according to dozens of testimonies amnesty says eritrean troops came into the town and executed hundreds of civilian men and teenage boys this video shows the body of one of them people described her. people running and being shot in the back of people being you know no one behind the other end exactly executive. every 10 soldiers. eritrea's government didn't respond to our requests for comment it has previously denied its troops were in ethiopia ethiopia's government in a statement question the accuracy of amnesties sources and said it was committed to

undertake investigations. in early november prime minister federal forces into the t. grey region he said it was a law enforcement operation to topple the thick gray and people's liberation front that dominated the g.o.p.'s politics and military for nearly 3 decades before abbey came to power. when government troops took control of the regional capital micheli abby declared the operations over but the rift been reports of low level fighting ever since researchers say the satellite images taken last week show hundreds of structures destroyed by fire in the town of kids yet. a return to austerity is a walk in progress but there is no doubt the situation keeps on improving along could be a 3rd one tough month of an operations except for a few pockets here else where there is sporadic shooting the biases are imminent

access to the conflict areas has been heavily restricted information about what happened into gray in recent months steadily seeps out and with it a growing number of reports of atrocities by all sides malcolm webb al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program is there life after trauma all americans conservatives find a way to keep him at the center of that political projects. and with evidence of global warming mounting the u.n. wants several governments that climate change plans aren't going to crack it. why once again we've got some rather heavy rain still in place across northern

parts of australia the other the monsoon rains of course the seasonal downpours where just weather will be just around the cape york peninsula as we go through the next couple of days can seeing some very heavy rain and slide a little further south which right down towards townsville and pushing a little further south of that as well some shop shows it to the northeast of queensland sydney at around 26 degrees and then south of that so little cooler than it has been recently but dry and bright temperatures bouncing back nicely melbourne getting up to 20 celsius the sunday afternoon and it should brighten up into new south wales are they still want to share was around here east in queensland still sweat weather coming in here somewhat weather making its way towards new zealand as well as we go on through the next couple of days but ahead of that still getting up into the mid twenty's for christ church as it begins to cloud over i would say it's a rather cloudy skies spilling out of central parts of china recently faded some wet weather into the far south of japan the weekend looks fine and tried does look

essentially settle it a little on the cool side 9 celsius there for picking up to around 12 degrees by the time we come to sunday notice and colder with some snow pushing into northern parts of china. but. i'm counting the cost norway got very rich of oil and gas now it has controversial plans to mine the seabed grains pandemic dad to blow baby move taxes and unnecessary austerity debate all the social media hate charity exports to try. counting the cost on al-jazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the desert no matter when you go home we're going to news and current affairs that matter to you. you're. the or you are. the

a. welcome back a recap of the headlines now the united states has announced a visa bans for 76 saudis this is after the declassified intelligence report that says saudi crown prince mohammed bin some money approved the operation to capture or kill the journalist jamal khashoggi saudi foreign ministry has rejected the findings. and our other top stories search and rescue operations are underway to locate 317 girls kidnapped from a school in northern nigeria officials say gunmen stormed the school in zamfara state shortly after midnight taking the pupils into a forest and amnesty international is accused eritrean soldiers of killing hundreds of civilians in a 24 hour massacre in ethiopia's temporary region which is alleged to have taken place late last year. and almost 4 weeks after

a military coup that toppled the elected civilian government meum our police have been trying to disperse the ongoing demonstrations across the country protesters in the city of yangon away with rubber bullets and stun grenades are also reports the military has moved the ousted leader unsung suchi to an undisclosed location she was under house arrest in the capital neighbor door but sources in her party say she was taken 6 days ago and they no longer know where she is in other developments me i'm also an ambassador to the united nations as urge the international community to use any means necessary to take action against his country's military our diplomatic editor james bays reports from un headquarters in new york it was a dramatic moment in the u.n. general assembly hall the ambassador of myanmar using his speech to speak out strongly against the events in his own country. nimmo military has become that if this tension threat for myanmar as the polity and civilised society his voice was

trembling as he continued and strong support from the international community is imperative for the people of myanmar. in our 5 against the military regime as he finished his speech he gave a 3 hoping good salute the message of defiance that's become a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him for his courageous stand for among them the brand new u.s. ambassador linda thomas greene failed in her 1st full day in her job we urge every member state here today to use any channel available to tell the me or my military that violence against the people of myanmar will not be tolerated together we all show the people of myanmar that the world is watching we hear them and we stand with them at the un special envoy christine shauna bergan or has been trying to

visit myanmar but she said permission for the trip has not been granted regrettably the current regime has so far asked me to almost all n.b.c. it seems they want to continue making large scale arrests and have been for some people to testify against and what he thought i meant he says is cruel and inhuman such a powerful session in the general assembly now puts pressure on the part of the un that has real teeth the security council very karajan but it's worth remembering one of the permanent members of the council is china it has veto power and the chinese ambassador in the general assembly meeting said that his country largely sees the situation in myanmar as an internal matter james out of the united nations. white house says u.s. as strikes targeting an iranian backed militia group in syria sends an unambiguous

message that president biden will act to protect americans an official from the group says one fighter was killed and several others injured in the strike the main target of the president's 1st military action was the imaam military base near i'll become ill close to syria's border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq now american conservatives have gathered to discuss the future of the movement around donald trump but they weren't impressed when they were asked to wear mosques i know i know it's not the most fun. you have the right. or the announcement was met by a blues in the conservative political action conference which is being held in florida this year in washington taking place in person indoors by the pandemic discussions are likely to center around what the right direction the republican party should take now that trump is no longer in office well donald trump's eldest

son was friday's key speaker and got in a dig about joe biden as he spoke about his father's upcoming appearance i'm looking forward to sunday i am marriage and. i imagine it will not be what we call a low energy speech. and i assure you that it will sort of donald trump and all of your feelings about the bargain movement as the future of the republican party. now almost 20000000 coated vaccinations have been given here in the u.k. but there is concern that some in minority communities are risky because they don't want to take the chance national campaigns and local projects have been working to reassure the public and opinion appears to be shifting john holl reports now from oldham in northwest england. a lot of door to door community outreach under

lockdown in oldham greater manchester so you can write from short part of there is was actually very healthy profit with various on the doorstep some bring up their worries about vaccines i think using proven slowly but it was a 1st initial for that while and because it was so much attention on our site the things really must go and get it done without y. will be targeted to go get it done like what's going to lead and because of 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 c. 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 most is the one we should always stand up against that it is false the mums here receiving 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 community is where social inequality has led to higher death rates from cope with 19 but 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 him. has been all that deprived populations the elderly lucia with the monarchist those google beauties and if we do not get over

this hurdle but because these are the people who are the most. we going to why did this is that we already seem we've been so we don't know war it's more like 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 joho al-jazeera oldham and they are there are many as prime minister accuse the military of an attempted coup thousands of protesters have gathered in the capital demanding he resign opposition supporters have set up camp near parliament in blocks and major road on thursday top military leaders demand a nickle and leave office due to his handling of the war armenia lost to azerbaijan but the prime minister refused telling a rally of $20000.00 supporters that only the people could decide his future

meanwhile political tensions are rising in georgia where people are demanding the opposition leader be freed hundreds of people marched in the streets of the capital before gathering outside parliament police raided nican nearly as offices on choose day and held him on charges of inciting violence in 2019 trying to wrest prompted. to resign as prime minister last week. now the united nations is warning that the world is falling far short of the paris climate accord goals its analyze the climate plans of $75.00 countries which together make up 30 percent of all clean house gas emissions and it concluded that the world is on track to reduce emissions by just one percent by 2030 to keep below the one and a half degree celsius temperature rise cap emissions need to come down by 45 percent only 2 of the 18 largest emitters that person in the european union have presented strong rises in their emissions reduction targets the u.s.

china and india are yet to even present their plans the un specifically said at least 10 countries have failed to improve on their 2015 targets that includes brazil japan south korea russia new zealand switzerland and australia they say a failure to act now will be catastrophic altogether or between 2002 montini more then $475.00 people lost their lives as a result of an 11th hour of the extreme weather events. in the last this amounted to around $2.00 trillion dollars or go alone power and have a strong events so this is where there is going to continue to happen kyra to reduce our in siberia our earlier. winter we continue and

that means loss of lives lost of life and hoots and. a huge iceberg has broken completely free from an antarctic ice shelf it is more than 1200 square kilometers in size that is larger than new york city icebergs do naturally come apart from the 150 to fake ice shelf bot scientists think it's a process that is exaggerating thanks to climate change. our top stories this hour saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon approved the operation to capture or kill a journalist. according to the u.s. intelligence agencies in a declassified report a saudi journalist who was resident in the united states was killed in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul in 2000.