understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. some imagine. outas iraq bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. how does the. nigerian students abducted last week freed just a day after another mass kidnapping. however and i'm come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. made it clear that. the rules are changing that's a warning from the u.s. president after an intelligence report says the saudi crown prince did approve the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi has been more chaos on the streets of me and

my police firing tear gas to break up the protesters and young gone. and it's been a slow start but finally south korea's government has begun vaccinating against covert 90. starting in nigeria where dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school last week are being released they are now on their way to mina in central nigeria government had raided the school in state that took 27 students as well as some of their relatives and school stuff one of the students was shot and killed more details now with who is in a mood tell us more. well they really followed the negotiations between the government of niger state and the government of course. and triggering forces regarding the safety of the students they spend

a month at least 9 or 10 days in captivity and at some point i lot of people give up that and the thing good will come out of this negotiations although the government you don't say where they paid run some initially said it's not going to pay ransom for the release of the students but he also understood that $1.00 understand that the bandits also demanded the release of at least 6 of their members held in police custody so it's coming exactly i was after another set of students $317.00 of them were kidnapped like he said in the introduction in a school in northwestern nigeria so banditry and kidnappings have become the biggest criminal enterprise now growing fast across nigeria. thank you for that update when addressing a budget on to other news and us president joe biden's warned saudi arabia the rules are changing and their relationship this is after the release of a u.s.

intelligence report which accuses crown prince mohammed bin solomon of approving the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the u.s. though stopped short of directly punishing the conference and the kingdom well it's just denounced the report as false and unacceptable and official reports from washington d.c. . 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 salman 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 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 it in a way the human rights abuses are still 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 g. 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 bin salmon 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 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 mohammed bin salman because they say his denials of

any involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi simply are not credible alan fischer al-jazeera washington the matter of course happened in assemble letters were seen in consumer reports from. 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 marcus shuji. wasn't seen after he went inside the saudi consulate building in october the 2nd there was a leak in the press 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 and those voice recordings actually showed us how they organized 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 although c.c. camera pictures so basically this information will use 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 mohamed was actually a surprise for the turks mere miles ambassador to the united nations has made an emotional appeal on behalf of the us to government urge the u.n. to take all means necessary to oppose the military coup as police and soldiers crack down further on protesters more from our diplomatic editor james bass it was a dramatic moment in the u.n. general assembly hall the ambassador. using his speech to speak out strongly

against his own country. and your mom military has become that if this don't feel 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 beeb. in our 5 against the military regime as he finished his speech he gave a 3 hoping good salute your message of defiance that's become a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him for his courageous stand for a long on 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 the u.n. 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 come to new make. arrests and have been forcing people to testify against him and 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 a 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 0 at the united nations. in may in mother has been a significant change in police tactics. riot police chase people through the streets of yangon on saturday firing tear gas and stun grenades cracking down on the protests before they can really get under way demonstrators there aren't backing down and crowds have gathered in multiple cities again across the country demanding the release of the elected leader aung sang suu kyi and her return to democracy so tony chang monitoring events from bangkok is this sort of almost what we've been waiting for we kept saying when will the military take another step up. i think a lot of people are expecting a one big crackdown what we're seeing instead is the military and the put the police slowly starting to tighten the screws and it appears the. they're doing this

so that those protesters who are still going out and they are still going out in very large numbers will be aware that they are putting themselves at risk of physical harm and of a wrist and i think that for to try to bring an end to to the strike to the civil disobedience movement that has brought many parts of everyday life to a standstill public transport hospitals banks businesses many still not working because so many people are going out on these marches protest but i think also just to instill in people a sense of fear of the military and that seems to be what's happening on the streets there not just in the large urban centers but in smaller towns too we've seen quite a lot of footage coming out of money watch which is to the west of mandalay in the center of myanmar where there has been some pretty brutal crackdowns seen protesters being knocked to the ground beaten by uniformed policeman with sticks but also plainclothes policemen one image woman is slapped across the face and

this is something that appears to be being repeated we are on the stand there have been several serious injuries and people who have been detained there we saw the same earlier in the day in yangon where the riot police fired flash bangs and tear gas at the protesters and i understand that while in central yangon on the police have now gone back to their barracks they're still pushing back protesters off the main streets and down into the little alleyways and residential areas to the west of the city so it does appear that there is a pattern emerging here that the security services are now pushing back and trying to get the message across to protests is that they will stop them and that these protests which again the loss of momentum in the 3 weeks since the coup are no longer going to be fermented and that is tony chang live in bangkok thank you tony . in the news ahead the united states having

a step closer to approval for another covert 19 vaccine. and hopes of a let up and fighting in libya is welcome news for many of the country's ancient science. however we have more wet weather coming in across much of indonesia we have of course seen flooding particularly. showers never really to far away from here but i'm hopeful the wetter weather just easing across into the eastern side of into they have these heat of the day showers as seasonal showers of course never really too far away borneo seeing some sharp showers sunshine in shows too into the philippines but to come across in there china it's largely dry here want to showers into central and southern parts of vietnam but nothing too much to speak of much just catch a shower or 2 just creeping over towards thailand as we go through the next couple

of days monday sees further showers across malaysia into indonesia joining up with the heavy rain that we still have in place across northern parts of australia in places dry and now just around the top and parts here have had their wettest february for around 10 years a little disturbance little area of low pressure tropical low just off the coast of queensland here and that's going to feed some very wet weather into that eastern side of queensland up towards cannes towards townsville as we go on through sunday still a few showers around for the eastern side of new south wales but elsewhere across much of australia with is fine and dry cooling off a touch in melbourne as we go on into monday warming up in sydney the showers moving towards new zealand. on counting the cost norway got very rich of oil and gas now it has a controversial plans to mine the seabed grains pandemic. that will they be moved

taxes and unnecessary austerity debate all past our social media hate charity exports to china. counting the cost on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze and euro. it with al-jazeera these are our top stories nigerian security sources so dozens of students kidnapped from secondary school last week i'll be released an official says they're currently on their way to mina in central nigeria. president joe biden

says the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia is to change significantly this is after a declassified intelligence report accused the crown prince mohammed bin salman of approving a plan to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi. and police in me in marve used tear gas and stun grenades to prevent protesters from gathering the country's u.n. ambassador has appealed to the body to use all means necessary to oppose the military to. ok quite a bit of corona news to get through 1st u.s. president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars coronavirus aid package it has been passed in the house of representatives that will now have to go through the senate before coming into force it includes direct payments of $1400.00 to most americans it will not include though an increase in the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour that has been blocked by senators officials also in the u.s.

well they're a step closer to having a 3rd vaccine after experts recommended the approval of the johnson and johnson jabs the u.s. food and drug administration has been holding a virtual public meeting to decide whether to sign off on what is a one dose vaccine for emergency use though it will still need official authorization from the f.d.a. that could happen later on saturday 4000000 doses already to be shipped out on monday and we've all seen the news about jobs and jobs actually today's just 3rd safe effective vaccine and it's out they've approved it today we're going to use every conceivable way to expand manufacturing of the vaccine the 3rd vaccine to make even more rapid progress to get shots of people's arms. good news out of south korea which is saying more than 18000 people have now received their 1st doses of the covert 19 vaccine it started the inoculation campaign on friday but the shots been given to from health workers and caregivers the government has been relatively

successful in controlling the pandemic but it's taking its time in starting these vaccinations and brian reports now from seoul. staff from a nearby elderly care home were among the 1st to get the astra zeneca vaccine at a hospital in seoul south korea started its national vaccination role. playing for the past year i've been very worried that if i got the current virus i could pass it on to the elderly residents this campaign begins exactly a year after a large outbreak in the city of daegu made south korea for a time the worst affected country after china its success in controlling the spread through innovative testing and tracing was a model for other countries to follow. but it meant there wasn't the same urgency to vaccinate soon or. of course if we had a rapid increase in confirmed cases like in europe or the united states them even

if it was risky we would have to go ahead with vaccinations and it's led to claims of complacency from many medical professionals pictionary for having what we should have secured vaccines in a more aggressive way instead of being late the government says it was being prudent want to but when it comes to securing vaccines it's like a war out there largely praised around the world for its handling of the coronavirus criticism of its vaccination rollout has stung the government and it seems determined to show with this mass vaccination campaign that it's still a pioneer in fighting the pandemic for weeks the government has been staging drills with the army and police to fine tune the distribution system the goal is to have most of the population vaccinated by september achieving herd immunity by november that's far behind other developed nations and longer than many here would like but

at least for the government it will have to be done with the efficiency for which it prides itself rob mcbride al jazeera so. you see the biggest city is going into lockdown for 7 days prime minister just in toronto and announce the restrictions will begin in oakland on sunday imposed after a new coronavirus case was discovered which can't be definitively linked to previous recent outbreaks zenon has avoided a high number of infections by largely closing off international travel and quickly imposing restrictions when new cases emerge. the czech government is also imposing strict measures to contain a surge in corona virus cases its vaccine roll out can't really come quick enough as some hospitals now near full capacity the czech republic has the highest per capita infection rate in the world 10 times higher than that of germany while the number of deaths is also reasons going up from 600 to almost 20000 in just 5 months the reuters news agency is reporting brazilian prosecutors are seeking to stop the

purchase of an indian made coronavirus vaccine the health ministry approved a deal to buy $20000000.00 doses of vaccine for $300000000.00 prosecutors say the deal shouldn't go ahead though because the germ hasn't actually completed clinical trials critics accuse the government of cutting corners to speed up its vaccination campaign. president joe biden's visit to texas on friday to see the recovery effort from an unprecedented winter storm 7 days of below freezing temperatures of pummeled the state's unprepared infrastructure that's led to deaths of dozens of people and caused damage valued at $22000000000.00 how does your cast your reports from 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 all of the head time enough to

compare and to do better than the people back there. the lost lives include an 11 year old boy who never woke from his freezing bed and 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 hits our states like the one to texas it's 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 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. a message. there's nothing that he's doing that's helping the great state of texas we can stand on 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. castro al-jazeera houston. the iraqi foreign minister for his sainz arrived in teheran on his 2nd trip this month he'll meet his iranian counterpart of the reef just a day after u.s. airstrikes hit iranian backed militias in the east of syria as mike hanna reports from washington the u.s. is still defending that attack. the decision to strike was taken at the very top after days of consultation with his national security teams president biden ordered the attack which took place on early thursday evening d.c. time this apparently in retaliation for a series of recent attacks by militia groups in lebanon and iraq one of which

killed a u.s. contractor it's believed the attack was carried out by 2 f. 15 s using joint direct attack munitions a j.-dam is described as a precision weapon with g.p.s. navigation capabilities the target says the pentagon was a base being used by an iranian backed militia on the syrian side of the border with iraq and this response was conducted together with diplomatic measures including consultation with coalition partners this claim of acting in a restraint a way echoed by the secretary of state we took this action that i think was focused proportionate. but also effective in degrading some of the capacity that the militia in question had to perpetrate new attacks. and also to be very very clear notably to iran that they cannot act with impunity

against our people our partners our our interests the reaction in congress was mixed some welcoming the strike others criticizing the president for not consulting the relevant committees. the president felt no need to defend what appears to be the 1st red line drawn by his administration in the region. you can't get you can act with impunity be careful. the president attempting to balance the need for the terence with his stated desire to reopen nuclear negotiations with the government in tehran mike hanna washington in iraq 5 people have been killed and more than 175 injured during protests in the south. the fighting with security forces on friday

followed a week of violence during protests in the city people want the governor removed and justice demonstrators killed since 2019 the number of people killed in a major prison break in haiti has risen to 25 including one of the most powerful gang leaders more than 400 people escaped the jail in port au prince on friday police opened fire on rioting inmates as they fled killing a number of people including joseph he had been haiti's most wanted fugitive until his arrest in 2019 the old city of tripoli in libya dates back thousands of years having survived empires and conquerors but it is much more recent conflict and neglect that's left its homes markets and workshops needing urgent attention from tripoli malik trying to reports. the arch of roman emperor marcus really is built more than 1800 years ago it's the only fully

standing structure that remains from the roman era here in oil. the ancient city was a stablished by the phoenicians nearly 3000 years ago it later came under roman control and flourished in the 2nd and 3rd century and. the city was conquered by the law she doing khalifa in the 7th century and later renamed tripoli the old city is one of 5 you know sco world heritage sites in libya iran its endangered list you know the city is 3000 years old it survived very same pies from the phoenicians the romans the byzantines the caliphates the osmonds of the $28.00 parts ruled the city and it continues to fight to survive the battle of time for centuries the old city thrived its markets visited by foreign traders but for decades it's been neglected made worse by the country's tenure conflicts here roads in homes are falling apart

but now the government has begun a renovation initiative. work was suspended during warlord khalifa haftar failed military campaign on tripoli. but his forces retreated towards the east more than 6 months ago it was restarted. how are you most sure we want to keep what is left of the old sea to mean certain your life into its so that it can be able to withstand the future the 1st step was to build trust with the residents and shop owners because without that nothing can happen. it is a blacksmith he says the lack of attention by the government and political disputes have had an impact on his business. this craft is like a why we have ups and downs when the political and economic situation a stable business is beta but there are still some people who enjoy handmade items and come and buy from us. tripoli's long history and the variety of cultures and

religions that thrived in the city have left an interesting blend of architecture and given the old city a unique identity. people in shop owners here hope that with the recent political settlement in libya stability can be achieved and with that more attention given by libya's authorities to its historic sites well it traina al-jazeera tripoli. at half past the hour these are the headlines nigerian security sources say dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school last week are being released an official says they're on their way to mina in central nigeria more from and interest now he's in a picture they release followed tense negotiations between the government of niger state and the government of course and.