our combat is sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's lady cops. on jersey. girl or the world. this is al jazeera. over there i'm seeing and this is the news our live from doha coming up for you in the next 60 minutes former french president nicolas sarkozy faces jail after being convicted of corruption a call for an international investigation into the poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina valmy. war famine and

coronavirus yemen's confronting it all the latest call for financial help from the rest of the world's. and abused and tortured the how rowing story of how women have suffered in the conflict in ethiopia is northern t. growing region. with all the sports spanish police have raided the offices of a of c. barcelona and made several arrests details coming up later in the program. but 1st former french president nicolas sarkozy has received a jail term for an infamous case of heat stroke paying he's been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling judges handed sarkozy its. year prison sentence

to which are suspended or that sentencing has taken place within the past 2 hours let's go live to the time he joins us from paris sasha it's really quite something that a former french president is facing jail time just talk us through higher inequal or sarkozy ended up here. former french president nicolas sarkozy becoming the 1st of former french leader in history to be given a jail sentence me not an accolade that he would have liked to have had to pull against his name but that is the reality of nicolas sarkozy who arrived here a few hours ago to hear the verdict at the end of his a trial which began in november soon after a judge in the court here declared that he had been found guilty of corruption of influence peddling and he was given

a 3 year jail sentence 2 years suspended one year he is expected to serve in jail or he may serve that as house arrest now we've not heard yet from sarkozy's legal team as to whether or not he will appeal he would imagine that he would do so now during his trial nicolas sarkozy maintained that he was innocent and that he had not as he was convicted try to influence a magistrate back in 2014 in order to obtain information into another case that was actually being carried out an investigation that was being carried out of the time . against him now that investigation carried out by police was linked to some campaign funds illegal campaign funds allegedly that he had procured from that then libyan leader mohamed duffy again a case of sarkozy as always protested his innocence now prosecutors in this trial had asked for a 4 year jail sentence over the charges you heard has decided

a 3 year sentence was article of the judge saying that nicolas sarkozy and his character knew exactly what they were doing. the pressure the circus he had been trying to revive his political career what effect will this have would you say on his future political ambitions. well i think you'd have to say that this guilty verdict has dealt a devastating blow to his future political ambitions ever since he was voted out of office in 2012 sarkozy is certainly trying to stage a political comeback he's been a very prominent member of the public and party here in france the conservative party and in 2017 he around hoping to become for the conservative party's presidential candidate now he failed in that period you might say some of his legal problems had something to do with that failed presidential bid but it's clear that sarkozy was perhaps even hoping some say to run against the presidency next year

and now you'd have to say that this guilty verdict is certainly ended any of those possibilities will be very hard indeed for him to state such a comeback and just quickly trash what do you think the french public will make of all of this because this is certainly one trial that he's been facing is not the 1st president to have legal problems i mean how big a problem is this kind of corruption in france and what are the french public think about all. well i think in terms of corruption in politics in france as in many places unfortunately it can be rife and nicolas sarkozy has certainly had his fair share of allegations this is one trial that has now ended but it's worth noting that his legal problems are far from over because nicolas sarkozy actually faces a very likely

a 2 more corruption trials both linked to alleged illegal campaign funds and i think in france there is a sense that some politicians are indeed crocked they use their position for their own personal gain so i don't think it will be such a huge surprise we've seen other prominent politicians in the past few years certainly have their time in court france or feel who was at one time nicolas sarkozy's prime minister and a few years back another former french leader jacques chirac was also had his time in court he never appeared because he was actually sick but he was also found guilty of corruption even though he was never served a prison sentence so corruption in politics is sony an issue in france the current french leader of iran or mark or said that he wanted to do more to try and stamp out corruption in politics i think that would be very welcome but i don't think anyone would imagine that it's so easy to do.

all the very latest there from paris thank you very much in. well being a u.n. human rights acts berths are calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina foamy and the lessons from moscow they phones in high level russian involvements vulnerable as poisons with novacek nerve agent last year he was arrested and jailed spy russian police for a parole violation which happens while he was recovering from that poisonous sack in germany let's take a look back at the recent events that have led seen the families jailing the opposition leader fell ill on a russian domestic flights in orcus he was then flown to germany to receive emergency medical care after he found into a coma doctors there says he was poisoned with the nerve agent novacek nomi has

accused the russian presidents of ordering the attempts on his life well for months later the vonnie returned to russia he was immediately arrested or a moscow airport shortly after a russian court's rule of only violated the terms of his probation and leaving the country to receive medical treatments and for that he is now in jail let's see if we can take you know to that live events where the u.n. discussing this case us listen and to hear an occasion to shoot for the roberts or to the russian authorities on 302020 and as procedure dictates this document is now publicly available and can be seen online you will find a link in the document in the news release that you received a short while ago so we are joined just call them our special operator on the extra

judicial summary or obituary executions and from this 'd our encounter here in person a special richer unproportionate protection of the right to freedom of opinion expression. oh gee it's going to turn around right now and we're also joined by mr william borden the lawyer who represents mr and of all the as well as mr shockley the proper tour of the problem which recently the council of europe so all 4 of the presenting old 4 of these of us will deliver opening remarks and then we'll open the floor for questions and we will try to limit this news conference to about one hour so without further ado but can turn to ms cullum or for your opening remarks we can fixture she is on us thank you very much. yes thank you very much and jeremy thank you very much to everyone for joining this important press conference. on the flight from tomsk to moscow on 20 yes our guests 2020 mr number and your experience team times. we let our described as beyond

as being beyond pain you know just consciousness shortly afterwards the plane's final. night to arms and made an emergency landing and 2 days later of the 22nd of august the mediterranean was evacuated from barely charity hospital clinical findings both the armscye a few told and embarrassing and he came to my reasoning which is a substance. of earliness terrorism in a handy tells. the russian that are a terrorist could not confirm what the doctor in russia. oh we can't so let our 5 laboratories or the other spread of amounts including 3 know can't or didn't germany france and sweden are cooled by the organization polar coalition of chemical weapons the us 5

a lot more attorneys and we don't really seem findings toxicologists toxicological test now why did an equivocal of course that mr ranney i be poison was an only child on the navi truck broke. mrs cannon are a 1st in an investigation of our similar months into the poisoning and i planned to chilling of this don't have any and the focus of our investigation was really to identify and determine the extent extent of speech response abilities or the so time to kill it is our conclusion that trust he's responsibly probably are planted arbitrary killing of mr lamb and we are to reach this conclusion on the following ground 1st not be chuck was put to be developed by the soviet union and the stage in 2022 and only russia is not on for

manufacturing's a substance for all fancy but a lot more to the bones the purpose only the russian state it was known how are being developed told and you must know that shock seconds were particularly compound used against mr not only is the novel form of not a choke suggesting that a toxic substance as been further developed and you may recall that in the aftermath of an r.v. truck poisoning of the mist just keep pulling his daughter out and though killing of mr so downs farrago since salisbury so to not be chuck our powers were added to the chemical weapons convention schedule when. but chemical weapons against the chemical count on used against mr arnault money is different than the one that was used in 2019 pointing to somehow there are developments to our earlier ones so no big shock. so we explode with of

a substance that poisoned mr lemon and it could have been developed and used by you know stay back don't fight i should say that in march part of our work our special rapporteur really worth to determine whether the non-state actors could have done once however it is our own conclusion that it is very unlikely that a non-student our toes would ever have the capacity to further deepen our such toxic further any prime and bio of such a substance would need to have a great technical expertise to bend on it so as to be able to a very fine way very close to all it's to be used when there are the can equally active when the other camp around was stoops to bomb since not all variants of the not be chuck our ponds are stable in tes our finding that those who would poison

mist on had anywhere exchange we find here with no easy it's handling and they were able to use it properly although he is probably it's once in a companion the show and to hold back on company mission so it's pretty easy is unlikely to be processed by any notes to factors within russia and this point where all of the russian state is further demonstrated by the fact that over time of mistah marilee spoiler warning you was under intense you'll be arse by russian intelligence in just tribes in the fact of the in the face of the fact that people are there are bundles monitoring is every more what could i have introduced to them said in the ok a hole with a highly dangerous poison and knew where and how to handle it in the ok home so as to pour it on ms don't ever knew. it is also the findings of our work over poisoning and attempted killing of mr lamb any along with the lack of

a best edition and only 9 narratives are proper nouns have trained on growing russy one of the kids around the tree killings over them to the killings including who poisoned him by the russian authorities john at least critics and dissidents and now that they are thought consistent with and i'll go back to i'm a mother so here and i. t's are finding that russia's apparent repeated systemic practice is relevant in assessing the response ability of russia promise television is attempted murder a very bitter practice such as are used signature poison east quality of in determining whether the skate barrels response ability fall and other similar attack and it is some suggest but as in other case we still know many was engaged in activities disfavored by the government he was exposing the lead don't know when

i'll be in the individuals associated with the government of russia and he was encouraging and advising political candidates in local elections as you know their cases mr nominee were spies on by you signature kind of problems this time not to chuck one unlikely to be used final state actor are another government and as in other reported cases the attempted to help me don't have any has been followed by him action with either no criminal investigation and by attacking the credibility of the except on other elements pointing to the response abilities of the state will be presented by mrs can. wow me too even you so we've been listening soon. angus calomiris she is the u.n. . special envoy on extra judicial killings the special rapporteur i should

say and she's been outlining the investigation ends in the poisoning of alexina vile me she started by outlining the timeline when the election of ali fell ill on the plane describing the symptoms as beyond pain and then went on. to state that they believe russia is responsible for that attempted poisoning of mr stating that 5 labs had examined the substance they all came to the same conclusion and she's been outlining the reasons why they believe russia is responsible for the fact the compound novi chalk was developed by the soviet union that only russia. has is known to be developing the substance and also interest in the saying that this was a novel a form of novi chalk that was used on the election of army suggesting that the

compound had been further developed and it's believed by russia also saying that it's couldn't really have been anyone else speakers in the valley had been under intense surveillance by the russians and the fact that the poisoning was followed by an action or criminal investigation further underlines the un's belief that russia was responsible for the attempts of poisoning of mr. that's a press conference and presentation of evidence is going to continue in geneva we'll keep an eye on it for you but right now here on al-jazeera let's turn. other news this. the united nations secretary general antonio the terrorist says the humanitarian situation in yemen has never been worse and is asking the world to help starving yemenis united nations is who is in its annual donor conference in

the u.s. has just announced an additional $191000000.00 in additional humanitarian aid that brings its total financial supports to 350000000 dollars this year organizers want to raise nearly $4000000000.00. to date i mean is bearing down on yemen the race is on if we want to prevent hunger and starvation from taking millions of lives it is impossible to overstate the severity of the suffering in yemen more than 20000000 yemenis live humanitarian assistance and protection with women and children among the hardest hit 4000000 people across yemen have been forced from their omes the recent your fancy marty obstructions to these places under the thousands more. well as certain as how it's implemented cancer james bass who is live from the united nations james just outline for us

exactly what exactly the u.n. is asking for at this stage. it's asking for money huge amounts of money because of the very serious situation in yemen and what we're seeing right now is an event that's taking place co-chaired by sweden and by switzerland and by the u.n. trying to get the countries around the world the $193.00 countries that make up the u.n. to give the money that is needed that the u.n. says is almost $4000000000.00 and they say otherwise there is going to be a very serious famine in yemen they say $16000000.00 people at the risk of famine that's part of a total of $20000000.00 who need humanitarian food a they say the situation is very very urgent indeed in previous years much of the money has come from the region particularly the countries that are involved in

military operations in yemen the so-called coalition saudi led coalition saudi and kuwait have given much of the money as i say the u.n. searching for up to nearly $4000000000.00 we certainly already know the funding that's coming from saudi arabia in the last few minutes 430000000 last year saudi arabia pledged $500000000.00 although the u.n. said they didn't get all the money that they say that saudi said they were going to give and the u.s. a 230000000 has been pledged in the last few minutes for this year that suggests to me those figures although they're huge amounts of money they're not big enough perhaps if the majority of the money is going to come from those countries to help the u.n. get to it it's very large figure of almost 4000000000 dollars among the others pledging money the united states its secretary of state antony blinken spoke

a short time ago united states is committed to doing our part to provide aid and to help address the obstacles standing in the way of humanitarian action. today i'm pleased to announce nearly $191000000.00 in additional humanitarian assistance from the united states we can only end the humanitarian crisis in yemen by ending the war in yemen and so the united states is reinvigorating our diplomatic efforts to end the war we listen to the concerns of the not patients from humanitarian groups and members of congress and we are committed to putting the well being of the yemeni people at the forefront of our policy and then find our way with the u.n. mediation efforts. well certainly the u.n. will tell you they're pleased that the u.s. as you just heard is reengaged you heard it from the secretary of state he's appointed a veteran u.s. diplomat to melinda king as the u.s. envoy on this issue he has been shuttling around so has the u.n.

envoy martin griffiths and i'm told quite positive news coming from key regional players like saudi arabia when mr griffiths was in riyadh and like iran when he was in terror on in fact both those 2 countries were surprised that the other one they were told that the other was quite willing to to pursue peace efforts but there's some marring news as well and that's on the ground that's the ongoing offensive that's taking place in the city of marriage that's a place that has $2000000.00 people in it normally the population swelled to $3000000.00 because of people displaced from other parts of yemen it's a difficult dipper diplomatic problem that obviously found no solution in recent years and of course the problems in yemen are tied into some of the regional problems iran has some influence potentially on the who thiis of course that's tied in to the nuclear issue that you've seen saudi arabia clearly is one of those

involved in the war leading military coalition i talked about earlier on clearly that is all tied in potentially also with u.s. relations with saudi arabia and the khashoggi of ok james base. there from the united nations in new york james thank you. ethiopians in the northern region have to grow you have told down to 0 but how civilians were tortured and killed by eritrean soldiers last year and the evidence suggests eritrea did send troops when the government's offensive began last november despite its generals shot ballasts reports. 18 year old mona lisa is traumatized by one day the 4th of december it was then she says eritrean soldiers into her village in the ethiopian region of 2 gray should

stay. but they tried to rape me and i was thrown to the ground then one of the soldiers fired bullets to scare me but they hit my hand and then fired another bullet that went through my arm i was bleeding for hours then i had my arm amputated. al-jazeera has gained rare access to tigray and heard from witnesses who say they suffered a pierces that could amount to war crimes but at the hands of every train not ethiopian soldiers. some girls and i managed to leave the village but on the road we were caught by eritrean soldiers more than 10 soldiers took turns raping us in november ethiopian prime minister. launched into strikes and seen federal troops into 2 great saying he was responding to attacks by the to grain people's liberation front witnesses say eritrean forces crossed the border to support the

ethiopian military and while here committed egregious crimes committed nagen i do i just don't wish that al-jazeera convey our message and my cowboys who we demand the exit of the era trying forces from our country. here are trained soldiers denying even being integrated yet al-jazeera obtained these images showing trucks with eritrean license plates into gray carrying soldiers amnesty international also released a report stating hundreds of civilians were massacred by era trained soldiers in the town of exham in november the focus. proceeded to shoot both only the ends of the streets using sniper rifles and machine guns ethiopia's government has questions the accuracy of amnesty sources but says an investigation will be launched. as information slowly seeps out survivors live with their troops

every day. and my husband was killed in our village along with i'm not please go tell the world we are dying. by their accounts at the hands of soldiers who deny ever entering this land shall the ballasts al-jazeera. so it's come on al-jazeera you charges against a man known as deposed leader aung san suu kyi and more protests calling for her release. back in school after nearly 18 months we'll tell you why there are fears for the mental health of children in indian administered kashmir. and sports golfers on her tiger woods over against red and black colors it's never covered sports contract.

hello there whether the set fire across the middle east at the moment lots of fire but a pleasant sunshine but we have a little more cloud is more the piles of saudi arabia into iraq and turning a little unsettled when i base the side of the mediterranean sea. lebanon jordan you can see some showers just sliding in here as you go through the next day or 2 you want to shout as the scenes that eastern side of what's the weather does make its way across the black sea but across much of the region a little more clout still a chance of one of 2 spotty showers or a brisk wind around that eastern side of the med cypresses some other life was over the next day also as well wanted to show was to into afghanistan to minister kabul it around 15 degrees celsius for the arabian peninsula that was followed by a some lovely weather gentle breeze 24 celsius here in doha so good over the next couple of days that dry weather stretched out across the horn of africa usual showers just around the rift valley some big down poles just around the mozambique

channel of the sort of the mozambique channel central parts of mozambique could see some very heavy rain as we go through chews day and that wetter weather just nudging a little further north was in the process that's pushed out into south africa where slushy fine dry sunny and warm. the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i am afraid because i know on the minorities i mean terribly afraid of where do these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives how much we've tried to send the kids getting into school a happy family all of the reports of joining me opticians our seat on the final part of my journey when i to become a target of the hindu 1st policy in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines it didn't matter you're rich or poor what your

religion is you are battling this and you're staring at it in the face and you're dealing with it setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions was it a coup on folding on capitol hill international filmmakers the world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and anyone of us have a responsibility to change al thurston's place for them to get out on al-jazeera. the. the. the all. this is al jazeera a quick reminder all of our top stories this hour a court in france has found former president nicolas sarkozy guilty of corruption he was also convicted on charges of influence peddling the judges handed him

a 3 year prison sentence 2 of which are suspended here and human rights experts are calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of kremlin critic of x. and of army angus kalama and i really can't believe the russian government's may have been responsible. the u.s. has just announced an actual $191000000.00 in additional humanitarian aid for water in yemen that brings total financial support to 350000000 dollars this year u.n. is asking for nearly $4000000000.00 as it holds a donor conference let's get more on the snare form from olivia heaton she's a spokeswoman for the international organization for migration and is based in yemen she joins us now by skype from santa cruz have you with us on the news are how much money realistically are you expecting to be raised for yemen at this donor

conference thank you so much and so really what we need is everything that's been laid out by the u.n. as a whole which is near 4000000000 number that. well we need to be able to help people survive this crisis but 7 years old we need to be able to hurt starvation and. bring health care to people who need us of course we don't always gas everything that we need. between crisis but last year we only got half of the 3000000000 that we were asking for and that was unacceptable that meant the people were going hungry all year that amanda people were there that meant the displaced people didn't have the sleep so we need to at least go back to the funding levels of 2019 out of the same situation as 2020. 6

lives lost as a result the reason money is one thing and as you've just laid out for is often quite difficult particularly in the midst of the current situation are countries are all struggling with the coronavirus pandemic but getting the money to the people who needs it is also another quite separate issue him leaving aside how much money is actually placed at this conference are high confidence are you there any aid that gets to a native let's get to the people he needs it because that's been a problem in yemen has it not. yes that has been a problem in some parts of the country what i can say or. the money that we get through. those directly people to displaced people to the migrants who is trying to in the country on their way to saudi arabia to all communities that we read her affect the conflict of course we have. access challenges

running some aid into the country and also we've been trying at the country but i think within a zation we took. we took the decision last year to focus on the areas where we have better act so that this year in 2021 in that we will definitely reach the people that need it the most in the areas where we can access them and just told us about the donor countries themselves i mean. would you say is is donating i mean who are you confident will be do when they sing. and what are these countries getting the turn for those donations. so i think you mentioned in your intro that the u.s. have already made a donation traditional donors are the e.u. and many countries in the e.u. also in the gulf the kingdom of saudi arabia is one of the largest donors to the response in yemen. i can't say the country's got in response or they're pledging

except. that this is a responsibility of the global community but we all live in it's not yet many people on the ground fault that they're living tree 7 years of crisis if not a mother's fault that she can't feed her children and their money. because she can't afford the right food it's not her fault or a part of a global world and there's a global responsibility not to turn her back on yemen and to ensure that vulnerable communities are able to survive day to day and in an ideal world they wouldn't just be surviving they would be thriving in this crisis would be over so we're also calling for a political solution and the only solution and peaceful solution to this crisis do you feel are a countries out there that kids and syrians be doing more to help the people in yemen. i mean in terms of funding definitely what we'll know by the end of this conference how much countries are willing to find the people in yemen and a little helps but of course as i said earlier we need to go back to the funding

levels of 2019 to avert famine in the country so there are always can be more done in terms of financial contributions to make sure that we reach that 3850000000 that's needed for humanitarian response and then the countries that have power to influence the political situation. that is driving the conflict on the ground which has been escalating in recent days in an area called re seen over 10000 people displaced in just 3 weeks these people are these countries with pirate influence political and complex situation also need to come together around the table to to do all they can to find a peaceful solution for the yemeni people and important points and well made thank you very much indeed olivia he's in there joining us from the international organization of migration based in santa in yemen thank you.

now less than 24 hours after myanmar's most violent days since its military coup prosecution has. new criminal charges against a fool's leader aung san suu kyi she appears as a hearing and caught soon a video link across major cities security forces are increasing their crackdown on protesters but people remain defiant scorn her. messages for general men on lang the morning after his security forces gunned down protesters on the streets of yangon sunday was the bloodiest day since the february 1st coup in myanmar and the weeks of protests that have followed. but that did not keep them inside on monday. the police and military forces quickly advancing in yangon firing tear gas at the gathering protesters sending them running. in the early hours of the coup last month civilian leader aung sang suu kyi was detained in naperville along with most of the elected leadership of her governing and the party

. for the 1st time since then she appeared in a video link in this courthouse during a hearing for the charges against her according to her lawyer she appeared to be in good health. 2 additional criminal charges against on song suchi were added on monday on top of the 2 existing ones the next hearing is in 2 weeks. as international pressure builds against the jungle and its increasingly violent crackdown against protesters some feel it might prompt the military to dig in deeper the worse case scenario is when you try to put a very very hot place on this group of military persons you know sometimes the outcome is not what you expect they may you know get matt and instead south followed away that international community stand out once they do the opposite thing. he went on to say the best approach with the military is a regional war with nations myanmar is familiar with and views as allies that

process is to start on tuesday when the regional block of southeast asian nations known as r.c. one is due to start talks on me in mar scott harder al-jazeera. foresee 7 prominent activists have appeared in court saying hong kong after being charged under beijing's controversial national security law they're accused of subversion after taking part in an unofficial election primaries last year it's the largest use of the law against hong kong's pro-democracy activists hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse in supports. in armenia the prime minister is trying to rally supporters as he faces mounting pressure to resign. and the has gathered his supporters in the central square of the capital yerevan just hours earlier protesters stormed into a government building demanding that he step down protesters say he betrayed the country last year and ceding land to answer by john to end financing in the nagorno

karabakh region. they you is set to unveil plans for a digital vaccine passports later this month e.u. commission president or sort of on the line says draft legislation will soon be ready a digital system to confirm a person's vaccination status could be essential to lifting travel restrictions within the region member states like greece and cyprus have already created their travel bubble by recognizing each other's vaccine certificates dominic cain has more now from berlin what sort of funded line is talking about today is the result of what was talked about by e.u. heads of government heads of state last week in the virtual conference digital summit that took place in brussels this idea of what sort of underlying arkell's a digital green pass effectively a vaccine certificate or passport that would allow the person with

a certificate to travel from one place to another and not necessarily have to go into quarantine or some form of lockdown thereafter effectively the person would have to be able to prove one of 3 things either that they had had a vaccination both vaccinations and therefore han't could prove that they had to jump all that they could prove the result of a very recent p.c.r. test for covert or in the 3rd instance that they had recovered from covert in the recent past and therefore would have some degree of immunity now are sort of underlying says that all of this will be done with data protection in mind so that no individual's sensitive medical private personal data. could be mis used. in the u.s. deliveries of the johnson and johnson vaccine are set to begin on choose day they're being loaded up at a distribution center in the state of kentucky and there will be food around the

country this is the 3rd vaccine to be given the green light in the u.s. and the only one that's delivered in a single dose a senior mexican health official criticize for the employing the pandemic has tested positive for corona virus assistance health secretary hugo lopez gutteral has been receiving treatments and is in a stable condition he's been the face of the government's response to the pandemic but has been criticizing for criticized rather for dismissing the need for masks leading a strategy of limited testing. india is expanding its vaccination campaign beyond health workers and allowing people above the age of 60 and those aged above the age of 45 with medical conditions to get its vaccine prime minister narendra modi was among the 1st of the new group to be inoculated vaccination drive started in january but the fall it has been slow india is the 2nd worst hit nation behind

the united states. and students in indian administered kashmir are returning to the classroom nearly one year after the pandemic forced schools to close the students had been forced to study at home even before the pandemic cheater a military crackdown in august 29th seen new delhi ended the beach and special status and put it under the direct rule of the central government's internet was cut off from local politicians uproots under house arrest was both branom has more from the indian capital new delhi. educational institutions schools universities have been closed for the better part of the past 18 months it began when the indian government revote the region's autonomy in august 19th and imposed a very strict curfew lockdown restrictions and just when they were starting to reopen again in february of last year they were open for about

a month before the pandemic forced close. the closure closure of all schools and so today we have students from classes 9 to 12 that's between the ages of 14 and 18 going back to school we've spoken to students who said that they're very excited to be going back to be with their with their friends teachers have told us that they're taking all of the precautions and sure that everyone follows all the guidelines around wearing masks sanitizing social distancing but many schools only allowing 50 percent of their students to attend to ensure that there is social distancing there were many problems with accessing online education and it had been administered push made as they were with the rest of the country and even if people had devices to access online education 4 g. internet services only restored in february of last year so edge educators say between not being able to access online education and slow internet children and

push made have suffered greatly and you know mental health professionals say that the clothes in the schools really compounded the stress the anxiety that comes with living with conflict with living with civil strife as well as depriving children of their right to an education. the philippines has ruled as its 1st school with 19 vaccination program health workers in manila are among the 1st to get the. bugs to be low reports many are waiting for other vaccines. filipino healthcare workers had been expecting the arrival of covert $1000.00 vaccines for months the philippines was the only country in southeast asia that hadn't vaccinated a single citizen but the wait is finally over only been asking for a vaccine never seen so before you make their point to be the definition of genocide become having been dating make. up does be done next bit that they takes

on the 9 are a lot of little ost government hospital staff had shown a willingness to take the shots in surveys conducted internally but that anticipation waned after it became clear they wouldn't be getting the pfizer or astra zeneca jepps is a huge day for the philippines to be rolling out with $1000.00 vaccines after months of delays but many health care workers here are resisting they say they don't trust the only option that's being offered to them for now. the only back seem to have arrived in the philippines is corona effect from china 6 public hospitals in the capital manila were the 1st recipients but only a small number of their employees have signed up on the on the department know the food then drug administration and the department the past had said it isn't for health workers who are exposed to the bias every day so these are back with

a higher if he can city this reluctance by medical workers adds to the public's hesitancy to get back sedated that's largely because of the recent controversy about a vaccine against dengue fever the government had to suspend its backs a nation campaign using the job after concerts about its serious side effects. officials have said repeatedly though the best back scene is what's available down there let me hear him but will there. be but protesting health workers say they should not have to face this dilemma barnaby little al-jazeera manila. let's say return see one of the stories and been following the situation in armenia rival process in the capital yes we can cross 19 robin forest walker who's been following developments there for a. process in favor of the prime minister against the prime minister was the latest

right now. ok well the big story the big headline to come out this evening is that prime minister nicola has told a big crowd of supporters in the central republic square of europe and that he is ready to hold snap elections and that means i think that he wants to put an end to all the questions being raised about his popularity and is legitimacy to continue governing armenia after the war with as a by john back in november where a lot of questions were asked of him and the way he had handled that war his popularity took a day and as you mentioned the opposition have been holding rallies regularly for the last few weeks calling for mr passion resignation tonight's nichole question and organized a big rally of his to prove that he still has the support of the

silent majority in armenia and let's not forget that he has been facing some pretty tough times lately with the president of the country rush fusing to dismiss a chief of army general that he wants gone and the reason he wants to get rid of the top army leadership is because they also called for his resignation and he saw that as the potential for a military coup but no military coup has happened here the army have not shown a willingness to put any tanks on the streets mr passion tonight saying let's go sure elections will prove to our detractors that we can continue to govern and that it's the opposition that is really behind this request these calls for a military coup and that is not going to happen mr passion you know and says ok robin forrester we're covering is the very latest there from yerevan robin thank you very much taints well the sinai afore the sports here. thank you very

much spanish police have raided the stadium offices of barcelona football club and made several arrests among those reportedly detained is the club's former president just up. maria about the mayo the operation is related to last year's so-called boss the gate scandal club officials were accused of launching a smear campaign on social media against some of their own players who were critical of the club's leadership including their biggest star messi earlier we spoke to a.p.'s global sports correspondent robert harris. we don't know how many people are in custody but the report was are showing not bottom a or the former club president is one of them he was forced to resign last year in a move storm of controversy with the club mired in financial difficulties there over a 1000000000 euros in debt and this all comes in the week that bottom a successor is due to be elected in the final stages of the election campaign and with one of the candidates to date on the poor former president himself

a boston loner who believes that what we're seeing today is a consequence of the bad management of the club and so much of that perhaps relates to the handling of the biggest player of them all lee and all messy he tried to leave in the summer his transfer request was denied and leaks recent showing that he's paid up 238000000 euros a season and it really highlights apps why past 9 years in such a financial mess and also why we saw an alleged smear campaign against messi and other players known as boss again which seems to be at the heart of this investigation today the key part of it is the fact that social media influences and accounts were being used to allegedly smear and spread disinformation perhaps about some of boss lomas biggest names lightly on a messy and p.k. bust line it did conduct an investigation they brought an external source in and did find there was no wrongdoing from the leadership of boston but there are still questions clearly to be answered about just what was going on in terms of trying to

potentially spread missin misinformation and and smear some of the biggest names in barcelona as history. one of the world's top race horse trainers called an alias has apologized after a photo emerged of him sitting on a dead horse this cropped image shows the 42 year old irishman making a phone call while sitting on one of these animals which had died from a heart attack in training racing's governing body in ireland has opened an investigation elliott who is trying 3 grand national winners confirmed the image is genuine and has apologized for any offense caused he said in a statement i was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body in the course of which i received a call and without thinking i set down to take it hearing a shot from one of my team i gestured to wait until i was finished such background

information may seem trivial at the time however i feel it is important to provide people with some context surrounding the photo earlier we spoke to racing broadcaster rupert bell who says racing has been rocked by the story. it's horrendous there's no 2 ways about it i know when the pictures were 1st circulated everybody in the sport was dearly hoping that these photos this photo was photo shopped and was a fake well clearly it has proved not to be the case and racing is reeling from it that statement to many people doesn't really answer the question what he was doing sitting astride a dead horse under any circumstances even while answering a phone this is going to cause the are is racing or sorority is a huge headache they got sort of procedures in place for punishing anyone who brings the sport into disrepute but i think this is a new level and i'm sure they want to get this was old as quickly as possible you

could range from him being losing his training license or he could be given a substantial fine to sort of use a football analogy in ireland there are 2 big powerhouses a bit like in spain you've got barcelona and real madrid well willie mullins and gordon elliott are the 2 and quine training powerhouses in jump racing in our mongst his own as he has the our brian air boss michael o'leary and a number of other highly influential racing owners so they will be taking a dim view and clearly we've already seen one of his sponsors has already pulled the plug on their involvement in the yards it's emerged that francis rugby head coach if the team's bubble before a covert 19 outbreak in the squad led to the postponement of a 6 nations game 7 galatea wins to watch his son play a rugby match but 10 days later tested positive for the virus 11 players also

called coronavirus which led to france's game with scotland being called off but the french rugby federation president says he doesn't see a problem with what guilty he did as he was outside and wearing a mask. russia has moved a step closer to having its long term ban from track and field lifted of the world at later takes approved a plan of doping reforms includes more testing of athletes a crackdown of russian legions with doping problems encouraging whistleblowers and giving athletes more of a voice in how the sport is run well that has not set a date yet to fully readmit the russian track federation which has been suspended since 2015 but a task force will monitor its progress with the reforms. tiger woods says he was touched to see so many fellow golfers offer their support as he continues to recover from his car crash last week several players including remark on roy all

the traditional tiger rave should and black trousers for the final day of the world golf championship tournament in florida with remains in hospital in los angeles after surgery to repair multiple fractures to his right leg. but tournament winner cullen maroko are trying to wear the tiger colors but he sponsors couldn't get the clothing to him in time because of weather delays the 24 year old now has 4 wins on 2 including his major win at last year's p.g.a. championship more eco or didn't have the red shirt but the host round interview to show his respect for woods tiger means everything to me and you know yes you have the crash and thankfully he's all right and hopefully he has a quick and great recovery but i don't think we say thank you enough so i want to say thank you to tiger. because you know sometimes you lose people too early and that's you know lost my grandpa. about a month to go. there and you don't get to say thank you not. on the women's tour

the season has so far belong to the quarter sisters maybe quarter one her for 3 a title again bridge following her sister jessica they were in the preceding tournament legend anika song stand wearing tigers red and black colors here played her 1st lp ga event in 13 years and finished 13 over pollock. ok that's all the sport needs another be more a little bit less run. thank you very much indeed peter well from sports to the glitz and glamour of holy words and chloe joe has made golden globes history becoming the 1st woman of asians a sense to win the prize for best director beijing born joe directed the film no man's land and is the only the 2nd woman to win the awards the 1st of course as opera streisand's 1984 for her film yet until a moment lands was also named best drama and finally black panther star chadwick

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lead an establishment about how to fight but all the people and the majority of these illegal of us are talking about just good hard working people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. former french president nicolas sarkozy faces jail after being convicted of corruption. so that i'm out of my head and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.n. experts call for an international investigation into the poisoning of the russian opposition leader alexina foamy and say the government says the russian government's was likely responsible.