to challenge conventional wisdom. hope for the future of the ivory coast to go to the polls for its complementary election. march on al-jazeera. a group of nigerian students abducted last week have been freed. on kemal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. made it clear to him the rules are changing. a warning from the u.s. president after an intelligence reports that the saudi crown prince did approve the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi there is more chaos on the streets of me and

maurice police fired tear gas to break up the protesters in yangon. and the u.s. moves a step closer to approval for another covert 19 back saying this time the single dose job from johnson and johnson. a bit of breaking news to get us going this hour nigerian security sources say dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school last week are being released an official says they are currently on their way to mina in central nigeria you may remember gunmen raided their school in state taking 27 students and staff members one of the students was shot and killed during the raid let's talk to an editor is on the line now from a puja ahead tell us what more you know. well basically the grief is coming at the end of tense negotiations between the bandits and government of fritos what we

understand now is that they are on their way home these include printing 7 students 3 members of staff of the school and members of their families grow up members of their families. and remember like you said in the introduction one student was shot and killed but this is coming up to 10 days of intense negotiations and sightsee and concessions. banditry and kidnappings continued since the abduction of these students 10 days ago remember only yesterday gunmen invaded another boarding school and took away 317 students from a school in northwestern nigeria suffer a state it's becoming concerning we understand that situation to it's being handled by the police right now and we are not sure whether they are going to take military action or continue negotiations the way it happened in that just it but meanwhile a negative what do we understand now is preparations are being made to receive the

students stopped and members of their families it is a if i can use this word ahmed it is a tactic which gets used a lot doesn't it the kidnapping of young people. exactly and it's gaining traction across the country in the northwest it's become calmer now and some state governments since yesterday have ordered boarding schools to kid to stay shut 5 what these warning is the process of taking back the students a lot of i didn't feel that not enough functions is applied on the criminal school to pocket for the fact some i negotiated runs some up before the release of these students and a lot of not just but the this is what is encouraging these illegal credo criminology in northern nigeria and it's not stopping in no question that you handled it just put it to central parts of nigeria it's trickling down to the south of the country and everybody is concerned businesses have collapsed simply because

nobody dares to travel nobody goes to the farm nobody moves anywhere that it's not safe enough for him to move so it's becoming soul. of a problem in nigeria today business wise policy and economically thank you an injury. on the line from a good job. on to other news in the u.s. president joe biden has warned saudi arabia the rules are changing and their relationship it follows the release of the us intelligence report which accuses crown prince mohammed bin salman of approving the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the u.s. though stopping short of directly punishing the crown prince while the kingdom itself has denounced the reporter's false and unacceptable support from alan fischer in washington. when journalist jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the 2nd 2018 he thought he was simply picking up people want 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 know 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 them prior 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 fiancee 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 mohammed 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 reality 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 it. 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 caused by an imposing visa restrictions on 76 saudis not just

those involved in the killing but others who have been involved in threatening dissidents overseas so 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 muhammad bin selman because they say his denials of any involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi simply are not credible alan fischer al-jazeera washington and all that cynical so you know in istanbul of course that is where jamal khashoggi was murdered you were saying earlier than him how actually none of this would come as a surprise to the turks that actually matches up with their own findings. exactly kemel these are the findings from the investigation file that the stumble

chief prosecutor's office has prepared with the help of the turkish police and turkish intelligence and by the way as i mentioned earlier. the majority of the evidence of the report declassified by united states yesterday is actually based on the findings of the turkish security circles because as you would remember just right after we heard that jamal has shuji. wasn't seen after he went inside the saudi consulate building in october the 2nd there was a leak in the in the turkish press and international media basically turkish authorities leaked the voice recordings that they have gathered through some bugs from inside the building again at the time there was an understanding that for some reason turkish intelligence must have implanted there must have planted those bugs inside the saudi consulate even before jamal has shifted crisis probably there was

there was a tension between the 2 states then those voice recordings actually showed us how they organize this this killing have they cooperated how the hit squads came and then the technical teams in the security they matched those voice recordings. that came through the bugs with the telephone signals and the voices it through those telephone signals from all the c.c. camera pictures and all those information is some parts of those voice recordings were actually shared with the counterparts from the e.u. and from other countries but turkey never physically submitted those findings those voice recorders except for the former cia director get a husband who visited at that time with a delegation of 21 she came here with a huge technical team also with an expert. who was dealing

a who has to deal with the south did this against ever so basically these information over here is in this report a lot a lot along with some other information gathered by the say but it wasn't a surprise but by then not exposing any sanction to the crown prince mohammad long was actually a surprise for the turks cinammon corsi were you with that from istanbul thank you . ambassador to the united nations has made an emotional appeal on behalf of the ousted government urged the u.n. to take all means necessary to oppose the military coup as police and soldiers crack down further on protesters more now from our diplomatic editor james bass 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 this tension of 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 nothing good solution a message of defiance that's become a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him brisk courageous stand on for longer than the brand new u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield 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 sharana bergner 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. east 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 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 bays out 0 at the united nations police in may and mother were changing their tactics hoping to crack down on the protests before they get

a chance to even begin the demonstrators there remain undeterred. as the crowds gathering in yangon on their happening in mandalay and away as well on saturday police fired tear gas and stun grenades sending people fleeing into signed streets protesters are demanding the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and for a return to democracy tony chang in bangkok for us tony what we saw at the united nations that very impassioned play do you think that's the type of thing which could even embolden some of the protesters. it certainly seems to have been been seeing lots of messages on social media from those involved in the protest saying they are taking inspiration from this but on the ground what we're seeing is as you mentioned the security forces starting to take a harder line and they started this yesterday continued early this morning the security services were out occupying areas of the large urban areas the yangon the

mandalay where the protesters have been accumulating for the last 3 weeks pushing back 1st we saw them pushing back in yangon on the main streets and just a couple of minutes ago i was sent some footage from the sun trying the streets of young gone with ace they are now pushing the protesters back into the small streets where there were protesters and residents alike sheltering the police were firing tear gas into the areas they advance so clearly they've had new word directives to push back and quell these protests which of really maintained a huge amount of momentum since the coup and very large numbers in mandalay have been the clashes but the police of again occupied large areas of the city center put up large barricades in turn the protesters have started to arrange barricades of their own and they're being clashes in small areas too in the town i'm sure we

understand that. one medic has been wounded and there's been footage of the police actually slapping protests as they take them away lots more arrests we've seen journalists and medics being targeted as well today so it appears that while the pressure from outside is increasing the author says within myanmar cracking down harder on the protests persons thank you tony chang monitoring developments in me and from bangkok. in the news ahead we're looking at the growing number of dutch children suffering from depression during the coronavirus pandemic and the u.s. president visits texas to see the recovery effort from an unknown person is going to stall as millions remain without clean water.

it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored plan qatar airways how there we have high pressure dominating the weather across much of europe so last a fine and calm for the most part we have got this weather front just sinking further south was it is a cold front so it's introducing somewhat cooler air with the temperatures still not doing too badly if because as northern areas where we are now not quite getting into double figures what it's offered temperatures in the sort of values that we saw on the in the a week we have got the few showers down towards the southeast and with our weather front sinking down across rumania it's was the black sea want to see the showers there into ukraine as well temperatures in moscow now hovering around freezing again milder than it has been recently but cooler air which was the west but to the ten's and eleven's 12 degree celsius and that's too bad and it is going to be with light winds it really will feel quite pleasant across much of western and central europe a similar picture as you go on through sunday just notice

a few showers discounting into that east assaad of spain maybe into the far south of france as well want to see showers easing across the far northwest of africa we got some wintry weather over the atlas mountains for morocco much of northern africa does look fine and dry as we go on through the next couple of days we are now increasingly start to see those showers around the gulf of guinea. sponsored paul qatar airways when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish on the state line becomes the default media namely looking for images that leak that let it get to these guys and just how did he create a new system makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. this

is al jazeera and these are the top stories nigerian security sources say dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school last week and are being released an official says they are currently on their way to mina in central nigeria. president joe biden says the relationship between his country and saudi arabia is to change significantly this is after the declassified intelligence report a clue accused crown prince mohammed bin salman of approving a plan to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi and police in may in marjah use tear gas and stun grenades to prevent protestors from gathering the country's u.n. ambassador has appealed to the body to use all means necessary to oppose the military

to. well joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars coronavirus aid package has passed in the house of representatives it now has to go through the senate before coming into force it includes direct payments of $1400.00 to most americans it will not include the increase in the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour that has been blocked by sen officials the u.s. though a step closer to having a 3rd vaccine on the table is after experts recommended the approval of johnson and johnson's the u.s. food and drug administration the f.d.a. has been holding a virtual public meeting to decide whether to sign off on the one dose vaccine for emergency use though it will still need official authorization from the f.d.a. and that could happen later on saturday 4000000 doses are already to be shipped on monday and we've all seen the news about jobs and jobs actually today's just her

safe effective vaccine and is out they've approved today we're going to use every conceivable way to expand manufacturing of the vaccine 3rd vaccine to make even more rapid progress shots of people's arms covered news from europe and the czech government's imposing strict lockdown measures to contain a surge in cases it's maxine rollout can't come quick enough some hospitals now nearing full capacity the czech republic has the highest per capita infection rate in the world it is 10 times higher than that of germany the number of deaths has also risen from 600 to almost 20000 in just 5 months dutch children were once rang some ung some of the world's happiest but since the pandemic an increasing number of suffering from depression until health experts say they've seen a sharp rise in calls to suicide prevention help lines the support of some steps.

for 20 years old baker for most garden life has become a struggle the theater student suffers from loneliness and panic attacks especially since the dutch government imposed a nighttime curfew for studies are all online and she lost a part time job due to the lockdown i also sometimes. ferreted precious or just had trouble with school and getting out of bed. and rare have to care for yourself like a horse i. can't really go outside it just gets worse and worse and worse the parents of 14 year old the pain saw the son changing from an energetic positive teenager into a latasha child who started experimenting with drugs out of boredom the pain died in january of a tragic accident when he used drugs in a small tent and suffered carbon monoxide poisoning his parents believe lockdown measures led to their son's risky behavior he started to look for things that the

otherwise wouldn't have looked for probably growing will be much more engaged with his friends risk over sports in the will be between his death and the burial i was sitting next to his body every morning and i realized this is a this is a bunch of potentiality which is lying here which is just become dead. it hurts me so much that this is what we do with the youth to stay active but pain had turned his room into a small gym his parents say the government should have been more focused on the impact the lockdown has had on young people because i feel that as very little compassion for young. young people there's often a finger pointing at them you just want to have a party and you don't care about the elder people and i find that very that hurts my heart. because i see that my boys are struggling by telling their story but parents parents hope the government will look for more creative ways to

keep young people mentally healthy growing up and then that long man children have a good chance to be among the happiest in the world but a continuous lockdown has changed that schools have been closed since early december and this is our huge impact on the mental health of children and teenagers and the impact that could last for a long time according to experts and won't simply be solved by going back to class in the netherlands people with suicidal thoughts can call the suicide prevention line 113 since the start of the pandemic the number of calls and chats has increased by 30 percent nearly 80 percent of the callers are below the age of 30 especially the younger people. have lost their confidence their self-confidence and confidence in other people which is significant compared to before so far the number of suicides has not increased something the helpline contributes to the listening ear they can offer has also found support with therapy after a month on

a waiting list but local leaders say the government should do more so young people can meet each other in a safe way only then children and teenagers may score high on the happiness index again step fasten al-jazeera. just 100 and other not from brazil where the reuters news agency is reporting prosecutors are seeking to stop the purchase of an indian made coronavirus vaccine the health ministry approved a deal to buy 20000000 doses of vaccine for $300000000.00 prosecutors say the deal shouldn't go ahead because the job hasn't completed its clinical trials critics are accusing the government of cutting corners to speed up the vaccination campaign. ethiopian officials are being accused of carrying out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in the region this is according to a us government report obtained by the new york times the report says fighters who backed prime minister abu ahmed moving from town to town pushing out people into using intimidation and violence ethiopia launched

a campaign against the separatists in november with both sides accused of atrocities 5 people have been killed and more than 175 injured during protests in nasiriyah in southern iraq. the fighting with security forces on friday followed a week of violence during protests in the city people want the governor removed and justice for demonstrators killed since 2019. when a fractured u.s. republican party is now considering its future direction at an annual meeting of conservative activists and politicians the event is being held weeks after the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump though he'll be a keynote speaker at the conservative political action conference the pac 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 the other interests that 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 ipac 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 of it 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. meanwhile the man who is president joe biden visited texas on friday to see the recovery effort from an unprecedented winter's storm 7 days of below freezing temperatures of pummeled the state's unprepared infrastructure which has led to the deaths of dozens of people and colds wide caused damage valued at a $22000000000.00 cancer in houston. 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 but that's because they have time enough to prepare and to do better than the people. 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 president joe biden approved a major disaster declaration last week and visited in person friday to offer his consolations on a crisis hits our states like the one to texas is not a republican or democrat asserting it's our fellow americans are heard we will be true partners to help you cover the bill from the storms and this pandemic in 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 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. castro al-jazeera houston. taken to the headlines on al-jazeera nigerian security sources say dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school last week of being released an official says they are now on

their way to mina in central nigeria. u.s. president joe biden is talking about significant changes to the relationship with saudi.