al jazeera. and. that. made it clear to him that the rules are changing joe biden tells riyadh he'll hold them accountable for human rights abuses as an intelligence report names the saudi crown prince in the killing of journalist jamal. folse and taken steps against people behind the killing.

hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching all just 0 live from our headquarters here and also coming up use any means necessary to take action against the minimum military mammals ambassador to the u.n. urges the international community to act against the coup and restore democracy. a 3rd coded 19 vaccine is set to get emergency approval of the u.s. the one dose johnson and johnson is expected to bolster efforts in fighting the pandemic. the us president joe biden says there will soon be significant changes in the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia it follows the release of a u.s. intelligence report accusing the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell man. of

approving the operation to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi it details how the crown prince's absolute control of the kingdom's intelligence operation would have made it nearly impossible for the attack to go ahead without his approval the report lists $21.00 u.s. individuals u.s. intelligence feels were complicit in the shock she's death in the saudi consulate in istanbul they include 7 members of the crown prince's elite personal protective detail notably missing from that list the crown prince himself agnes kalama the u.n. official investigating the shock trees death has urged washington to order new sanctions directly targeting bin psalm on saudi arabia has rejected the report calling it unjustified and inaccurate riyadh maintains the killers were a rogue group incenses done all it can to punish them helen fisher reports now from washington. when journalist jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the 2nd 2018 he thought he was simply picking up paperwork to

clear the way for his upcoming wedding instead according to u.s. intelligence the u.s. resident and saudi citizen met a team of saudi agents set to capture or kill him he was never seen alive again now a newly declassified report from the director of national intelligence says saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman approved the operation the report states the crown prince viewed khashoggi as a threat to the kingdom and broadly supported using violent measures if necessary to silence him i spoke yesterday with the king prince made it clear to him the rules are changing and we're going to be announcing significant changes in today and. we are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses and we're going to make sure that they in fact you know if they want to deal with us they have to deal with the way the human rights abuses are dealt with jamal khashoggi fiance

welcomed the report tweeting out this image with the words justice for jamal the killing lead to saudi arabia facing a measure of international isolation at the next 20 meeting in argentina world leaders kept their distance from hamad bin salman. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration resisted calls to confront saudi arabia citing the value of arms sales and the importance of support in confronting iran and refused to take action against mohammed bin salman joe biden promised if he won the election he would recalibrate relations with riyadh but again his white house want to take action against mohammed been summoned directly so what we've done by the actions that we've taken. is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate. to be more in line with our interests and our values and i think that we have to. understand as well that this is this is bigger than any one person the u.s.

is also knows what it calls the coup should you ban imposing visa restrictions on 76 saudis not just those involved in the coup should you killing but others who have been involved in threatening dissidents overseas saudi arabia has dismissed the report calling it negative false and unacceptable the release of this report is an extraordinary rebuke to a man anointed as the next leader of a close u.s. ally but the biden white house will come under increasing pressure from democrats to take direct action against mohammed bin salman because they see his denials of any involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi simply are not credible alan fischer al-jazeera washington ok let's look back at the events leading up to this point on october the 2nd 20 teens saudi journalist was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul after arriving to collect documents to get married 3 days

later turkish officials confirmed he was killed turkish media published images of a 15 member saudi hit team that arrived in istanbul on the same day has shocked she disappeared on october the 20th the saudi government admitted to show that she had been killed but said it was a result of a brawl turkey insisted it was premeditated murder and on november the 10th it should recordings from inside the consulate were several countries including the saudis more than 2 years later saudi prosecutors found 8 of 11 men guilty of the murder in close trials the turkish trial of 20 other officials has been adjourned until next month. richard chaz t. is professorial lecturer at the department of political sciences at george washington university he says the white house is aware it does need to tread lightly with its next steps you know the own lions game is a is a difficult game and in the case of the united states and saudi arabia you had confrontation over the coup shows the killing human rights violations in yemen.

what joe biden has to do is balance national interests of the united states in the region that includes threats from iran primarily so that the saudis and the israelis are key players even though they're not of of fish and we allies they've been working together for many years because their national interests coincide in terms of of what's to unfold here never remember international relations issue areas are related and the other thing that president biden has to deal with which is intrinsically found out with this is that the new iteration of the joint comprehensive plan of action and if you treads to happily it's conceivable that the israelis and the saudis might present the biden administration with some very hard to achieve demands with regards to how the americans will be engaging the iranians

in this new iteration of the iranian agreement and the iranian government strongly condemned american air strikes in syria describing them as illegal aggression the u.s. targeted facilities used by iranian backed militia the main target was the him out on a military base near kemal close to the syrian border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq to try to. make an impact on these groups and their ability to conduct. future attacks. and. to to send a very clear signal. that the united states is going to protect its people and it's going to protect our interests and secure protect those of our. of our partners in the region. this was that these targets were chosen carefully very deliberately and

struck in exactly the same manner. 5 people have been killed and more than 175 were injured during protests in nasiriyah in southern iraq. the classes with security forces on friday followed the week of violent protests in the city protesters are demanding the removal of the governor and justice for demonstrators killed since 2019. meanwhile as ambassador to the united nations has made a surprise appeal on behalf of his ousted government he's urged the u.n. to take all means necessary to oppose the military coup as police and soldiers crack down further on protesters here's our diplomatic editor james space 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 near my military has become that if

this don't feel trapped for myanmar as the political and civil society his voice was trembling as he continued and strong support from the international community is imperative for the be. in our 5 against the military regime. as he finished his speech he gave a 3 hoping good salute and a message of defiance that's become a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him for brisk courageous stand on for longer than 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 myanmar 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. arrests and asking 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 is a character 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 bay is out to 0 at the united nations. daming kingsbury is professor

of international relations at deakin university in australia he says both the ambassador's plea and international condemnation are unlikely to push the military to back that there's not a doubt representatives of the ousted government it will very strongly doubt this he is not going to. but there really there's already been international condemnation of the khomeini at myanmar and the generals haven't changed at all and now there's been some sanctions it's a strong condemnation it just hasn't made any difference at all and the general does not have the backing of china and russia in this matter and that is before that so they can quite secure in their solution i don't think you know will be self isolation certainly not in the way that it was something that was clear more than $62.00. the links to china a very strong links to russia

a very strong and links to thailand have been improving out in many years those relations were taking it of course the relationship with united states which you can say without a risk to countries has been damaged but this is really not a major concern for 'd dogs in my case simply because they know the economic eggs are not in a western basket the foreign investment is useful but it's not critical. still to come here on al-jazeera calls for more action against banditry in nigeria after $300.00 schoolgirls kidnapped by a woman. and a new report highlighting potential atrocities committed in europe is t. grave. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways

however there we've got simply some pieces of cloud of rain moving across the middle east but not soo much i think we'll see the west a weather easing out of iran heading over towards afghanistan and then you can see we're pretty much set fair pretty much we're not entirely because as we go on into sunday they'll be a few showers across northern parts of saudi arabia a.b. the odd shower or 2 a few spots of rain just coming into central and southern parts of iraq further north some snow just around georgia just spinning off the black sea further south delhi staying fine a drive with plenty of sunshine that sunshine stretching down into a good part of somalia one of 2 showers stand towards victoria want to see showers there just around rome one the pushing into brew and they will see some heavy a shower was 2 to seizing across southern parts of tanzania but the really wet weather over the next couple of days that's going to be coming in across zambia and zimbabwe you can see this little clutch of storms just around the border southern

parts of zambia seeing some very heavy rain then through saturday pushing a little further south which into by sunday more than parts of zimbabwe up towards the northwest as in bob where we could see some localized flooding so that's certainly want to watch over the next couple of days the showers continue there through monday. sponsored paul cuts at ways. to own just their own we heard so tell us all when a case where us from his home in compensated civilians when we listen to the only music you hear is the only the most beautiful music in the world is silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the mountain although it is their own the us is always of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to what was going here and i do see it is very good to bring the news to the world from here. who are.

welcome back you're watching all to 0 your top stories this hour the u.s. president joe biden says there will be significant changes in the relationship with saudi arabia if one is the research be declassified intelligence reports accusing the crown prince mohammed bin cellmark of approving a plan to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia says it completely rejects the report and is warning against any measures that the fringe on its sovereignty or judicial system maintains the killers were a rogue group says it's done all it can to punish the. iran's government has strongly condemned american airstrikes in syria describing them as illegal aggression targeted facilities used by iranian backed militia main target was the

military base near albemarle close to the syrian border with iraq. the u.s. is one step closer to having a 3rd vaccine after experts recommended the johnson and johnson job should be approved by the u.s. f.d.a. the food and drug administration has been holding a virtual public meeting to decide whether to sign off on the vaccine for emergency use it still needs official authorization by the f.d.a. which could happen later on saturday 4000000 doses are ready to be shipped on monday if it's approved and we've all seen the news about jobs and jobs vaccines today's just 3rd safe effective vaccine and it's out they've approved today we're going to use every conceivable way to expand manufacturing of the vaccine furred vaccine to make even more rapid progress in shots of people's arms though to mattie davis is an infectious disease expert of the john cochran v.a.

medical center she says this approval is a huge step towards getting back to normal. this is not just good news this is fantastic news any safe and effective vaccine that we can get on the market means less deaths it means less severe disease the statistics the data that is coming out of this trial is really really reassuring we're seeing globally that it prevents over 65 percent of moderate to severe disease that number even higher in the u.s. with just over 70 percent and even higher in preventing severe disease a just over 85 percent but the clincher 100 percent effective against death from cove it understand what this would mean for our hospital systems for our population this is just one step closer to the normal see that we also desperately klay crave as much as i think that biden inherited ministration has been proactive there

unfortunately working from behind based on the truly ineffective rollout that started in december we're seeing a state by state variation in what's happening with different regions getting vaccine product at different rates and here in st louis where i sit on the board of health that has been very clear we will see that seem product one week in the county with none in the city and so what the u.s. needs to do a better job of is understand that they have most of the vaccine products in the world so really the focus now needs to be on a better rollout plan and that starts from the top down u.s. president joe biden was in texas on friday to see the recovery effort for himself from the unprecedented winter storm there 7 days of below freezing temperatures pummeled the state's unprepared infrastructure of course and $20000000000.00 in damage and taking dozens of lives al-jazeera as i did joe castro has more. the snow

has melted in texas but the disastrous aftermath of last week's frigid weather still lingers hundreds of people lined up for free food and water at this houston distribution site friday many had suffered days without power some are still without water a good sign because all of their head time enough to prepare and to do better than the people back they could apply for the lost lives include an 11 year old boy who never woke from his freezing bed and an 86 year old woman who died of hypothermia in her home their families are among those now suing texas' energy regulators for not adequately warning people before the days long electric blackouts i think it's incredibly ironic and sad that at the same time that these folks these 31 people who died for lack of power and water were dying we had the technology to put the rover on mars that demonstrates the

incredible lack of leadership and a lack of priorities in this country and in texas and we've got to do a lot better the state governor has promised an investigation and reckoning even as officials point the finger at each other to avoid blame the president joe biden approved a major disaster declaration last week and visited in person friday to offer his consolations on a crisis it's our state's like you want it texas is not a republican or democrat surety it's our fellow americans are heard we will be true partners to help you cover the bill from the storms and this pandemic and the economic crisis for the long haul this was biden's 1st trip to texas as president and not everyone here in this deeply conservative state was happy to see him most people in texas had voted for donald trump to be president and these pro trump protesters gathered to deliver by. right in

a message. there's nothing that he's doing that's helping the great state of texas we can stand on our all but texas standing on its own is one reason for the disaster severity the state's self-contained independent power grid was unable to accept help from surrounding states and decades of deregulation offered private utilities little incentive to invest any quitman upgrades the result a literal perfect storm for disaster and now a long road to recovery heidi joe castro al-jazeera houston. while staying in the states a friend should u.s. republican party is this weekend considering its future direction at an annual meeting of conservative activists and politicians the events being held weeks after the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump he will be a keynote speaker at the conservative political action conference john hendren

reports now from orlando florida. having lost the presidency the house and the senate the republican party is looking for a new standard bearer and based on the mega hats in the speakers at the conservative political action conference the new face of the republican party is unchanged let me tell you this right now donald j. trump going anywhere. reminders of the twice impeached former president are everywhere and come sunday when donald trump himself takes the podium there will be no need for reminders the former president has made it clear that he will back his own brand of republicans in primaries against moderate republicans trump style challengers like louise miguel i am completely consider myself a trump republican i believe in the trunk platform of america 1st putting our country 1st before those of foreign interests before the chamber of commerce and before all of the other interesting marco rubio and the likes of also mitch

mcconnell and other leadership in the g.o.p. represent miguel is running against incumbent florida republican senator marco rubio from inside this ipad conference you could be forgiven for thinking that donald trump was still in the white house and not a mere 240 kilometers away at his moral law go resort there might be republicans on capitol hill who would like to move on from the trump era but here he's as popular as ever and then there's the next generation we have to be vocal we can't be put in the corner we must be out and engaged among the speculation heard in the halls of c. pac is the question of which trump signed will run for office 1st evolve or donald trump jr i'm looking forward to sunday john hendren al jazeera orlando florida. more than $300.00 schoolgirls have been kidnapped in the northwest of nigeria it happened in the state of zamfara gunman arrived at nights shooting sporadically at the school complex and then took the girls into the bush

a security guard working at the school described the moment the gunman stormed in it. as we tried to get out we were overwhelmed and when we fired they fired back we continue to fight them and all of a sudden they retreated one of them left his motorcycle to escape that's when we thought we were going to defeat them and we were told to go home and now as i speak to you soldiers are in the bush fighting with them. from the nigerian capital abuja . 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 get me 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 why 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 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 submit to 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 one of the boarding schools 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 that 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. ethiopian officials are being accused of carrying out a systematic campaign of cleansing in the war torn region to grade that's according to u.s. government report. tain by the new york times the report says fighters who backed the prime minister made a move in from town to town pushing to greens using intimidation and violence if the opiate launched a military campaign against separatists in the region in november both sides been accused of atrocities in a separate accusation amnesty says hundreds of civilians were massacred by eritrean soldiers in acts. back in november the rights group has released a report which says the killings could amount to a crime against humanity yes malcolm webb. eritrean an 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 a report it says on the 28th of november last year the grain militia and civilians tried to fight back some of them armed with only sticks and stones attacking eritrean soldiers on this hill. it says the militia failed and 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. shot in the back. one behind the other and exactly.

every trained 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 amnesty sources and said it was committed to undertake investigations. in early november prime minister federal forces into the to great region he said it was a law enforcement operation to topple the thick gray in people's liberation front that dominated politics and military for nearly 3 decades before abby came to power. when government troops took control of the regional capital abby declared the operations over but the rippin reports of low level fighting ever since researches say the satellite images taken last week show hundreds of

structures destroyed by fire in the town of key jet. but it. is it was in progress but there is no doubt the situation keeps improving along one tough month and operations except for a few pockets where there is sporadic shooting by this are imminent. access to the conflict areas has been heavily restricted information about what happened into gray in recent months steadily theat south and with it a growing number of reports of atrocities by all sides malcolm webb al jazeera. you're watching also syria these are your top stories a newly declassified u.s. report says saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man approved the plan to

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