since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. this is al jazeera. i know that i am how the markets and this is the news hour of live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes former french president nicolas sarkozy faces jail after being convicted of corruption. a huge show of support for armenia's to find prime

minister he says he is ready to hold a snap election. allegations of harassment of opposition figures ahead of chad's presidential election. and abused and tortured the hearo in story of how women have suffered in the conflict in ethiopia its northern 2 grey region. and i'm devon ash with the sport a spanish place have raided the offices of f.c. barcelona several arrests have been made after an investigation by the forces a financial crimes unit. but 1st former french president nicolas sarkozy has been convicted on charges of corruption and influence peddling he could serve up for a year in jail. his case surrounds that attempt to use his position to offer

a job in exchange for information on an investigation into his campaign finances judges handed sarkozy a 3 year prison sentence 2 of which are suspended well his lawyers say he will appeal against the conviction that. those court proceedings in paris i think in terms of corruption in politics in france as in many places unfortunately 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 is 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 for so feel who was of one time nicolas sarkozy's prime minister and a few years back another former french leader zach chirac who's 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 and certainly an issue in france the current french leader. 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. armenia's prime minister says he's ready to call a snap elections to bring an end to the go and political crisis he called passion and has been rallying his supporters in the capital. well just they are protesters who want him to resign stormed a government building have been demonstrations ever since his government city land

as a bystander in a bid to end fighting in the disputed. region well let's get more now from robin forester walker he joins us now live from yerevan and robin has the sensually selling his critics to put up or shut up what will the 80. well actually they have said that they will remain outside the parliament where they have been camping with their tents for several days now and that they are going to keep the app in you closed at the center of the central area where the government is based here in get it out until they call question and actually resigns which is something that he will have to do if this snap election is to go ahead it's a complicated constitutional set up that we are meeting in 60 minutes whereby he

resigns and then there's an opportunity for parliament to elect another prime minister but since it's hades block that has the majority that looks like that it's a process if you have to take place you can't simply step down so it's going to take place over a few weeks and we might expect an election if it is going to happen. in the year but this is certainly his way of telling his opponents that if they believe that he is not to govern the country because of the way he handled the war and he did accept that there were mistakes you know if you make mistakes if he isn't the man for the job well then the people of armenia have to decide and they will make that decision at the ballot box and interesting and that's in contrast what's the best political opponents those party many of them on it without any seats in parliament have been looked outside in their encampments on the air with their rallies they have not wanted to have elections they wanted to have some kind of an interim

government and so missed the press you know and and and his supporters are saying well where democracy and it's going to be resolved at the ballot box and so this is very much a stressed backwards if you push back from the government here that the way out of these crises is elections which they have confidence at the moment they can win and robin just had to find. the country right now. do your position have being very vocal and very good if you like being visible and and having controlling the message let's put up with it and i think that missed the passion and his alliance his government and its supporters in parliament but perhaps allowed themselves to to lose the opportunity to to to have their message heard so tonight was their way of of showing that they still have

a very large number of support amongst the armenians of sort of a silent majority so the polls that i've seen some of them are not published. indicate that he certainly still has that that moral majority and that the opposition those vocal are often comprised of many of them comprised of the former government and the former administration that was so roundly defeated in elections a couple of years ago and that they still if they were to compete now would struggle to win seats so they missed the passion yet lost popularity it still looks as if he is likely to be the chosen person to lead this country forward and that's why i think he's finally decided to end this political crisis he votes by holding elections ok have been for a save or care pay as the very latest from there i mean a capital robin thanks. l.s.a.

connects us from yemen and we've just heard from the un chief antonio good terrorists that $1700000000.00 has been pledged for humanitarian aid for yemen in 2021 this of course is coming in as a door to a conference is underway to raise funds for the country they've been looking for around $4000000000.17 pledge so far has been described by the u.n. secretary general as disappointing and tony harris had earlier said that the humanitarian situation in yemen has never been worse as he was asking the world to help starving yemenis know the united nations annual donor conference of course did see the u.s. announcing an additional $191000000.00 in additional humanitarian aid bringing

its total financial support since $350000000.00 but of course the organizers were hoping to raise nearly $4000000000.00 saying that is what was needed to do 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 leave humanitarian assistance and protection with women and children among the hardest hit 4000000 people across yemen have been forced from their homes the recent your parents even marty obstructions to displace under the thousands more were diplomats cancer james faces at the united nations in new york he says that pledges are down from last year. the u.n. saying that their warnings are extremely serious they say there is an imminent

famine and it's the worst famine that the world will have seen for decades and that's why they need a large amount of money almost $4000000000.00 they are asking countries around the world to give that money but it looks like they're having so far a very underwhelming response certainly some of the countries have offered less than they have in previous years saudi arabia this time around has pledged 430000000 that compared with 500000000 a year ago although the u.n. says not all of that money ever actually arrived in the united arab emirates 230 $1000000.00 the amounts pledged to bite the u.k. is less than last year as is the u.s. their contribution was announced by the secretary of state antony blinken united states is committed to doing our part of to provide aid and to help address the obstacles standing in the way of humanitarian access today i'm pleased to announce

nearly $191000000.00 in additional humanitarian assistance from the united states not only in the humanitarian crisis in yemen by ending the war in yemen so the united states is reinvigorating our diplomatic efforts and war they believe that there is the possibility of some new mode movements diplomatically but there is also deep concern about the situation on the ground not just with regard to the famine and the humanitarian situation but the on going who theophan siv on the city of merab that's a place that used to have 2000000 people in it now it has 3000000 because of people already displaced from other parts of yemen that's just one of the reasons the u.n. needs huge amounts of money money it looks like this conference is not going to give them the amounts they want. if you peons in the northern region of tigra you have told on just here about her civilians were tortured and killed by eritrean soldiers last year the evidence suggests eritrea did send troops from the

government's offensive began last november despite its denials charlotte 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 tinkering. they tried to rape me and i was thrown to the ground and 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 the grain and heard from witnesses who say they suffered abuses 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 and 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 deny even being integrated yet al-jazeera obtained these images showing trucks with eritrean license plates integrate caring so much is amnesty international also released a report stating hundreds of civilians were massacred by era trained soldiers in

the town of axum in november the. ethiopia's government has questions the accuracy of amnesty sources but says an investigation will be launched. as information slowly seep sounds survivors live with their truth every day. my husband was killed in our village along with a lot please go tell them well we are dying. by their accounts at the hands of soldiers who deny every entering this land shall it ballasts. or chris meltzer is a spokesman for the united nations refugee agency he says faber still escaping the violence and. we have now the martin $60000.00 refugees and sudan refugees.

this number is not not growing fast anymore but we have so-called internals place person so low richie's in their country if you look at. their home in if you look at who are parts of tikrit they aren't to the surrounding regions and we will assume the refugees follow up to knowledge. of the sleepers troy who tried to reach the 2 southern camps in the tikrit region our parents we asked definitely for his to cation of these potential crimes because if they are true then we are talking about criminal ations of international law meaning it's a sovereign country and that's why it's there would be the 1st address to investigate these allegations and if the op of course can also ask for help let's say for example by the united nations high commissioner for human rights. plenty more still to come on the news hour including 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 new charges against me on mars deposed leader aung san suu kyi and more protests calling for her release. and one of the world's top racehorse trainers and best against it after being pictured sitting on a dead horse stance coming up in sports with jemma. u.n. human rights experts are calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina if only he was poisoned with the novacek nerve agent last year vul me was later arrested and jailed spy russian police for a parole violation which happened while he was recovering from that poisoning in germany where u.n. experts in this column are and irene can't believe the russian government's may

have been responsible and that a domestic investigation won't uncover the truth eet ees our conclusion that russia ease response to both of the attempted arbitrary killing of mr lambert and at the time of mr marilee spoiler warning he was under intense you'll be also by russian intelligence it just flies in the fact of the in the face of the fact that people other than those monitoring every move could i have introduced to them say in the uk at all we did a highly dangerous poison and knew where and how to handle it in the ok hold so as to poison me still never. under sentence is following developments from the u.k. . what's been laid down here according to this report is a clear sinister warning from the kremlin that anybody who opposes it in a fashion like in the valley will face the ultimate penalty and that is murder

because that's what is being discussed in all diplomatic circles has been since august 2020 when the valley was poisoned and now the issue had been initially was there proof that novacek the nerve agent was used well in germany they tested blood tests and other tests on the valley who'd been rescued from russia and flown to germany for treatment and was critically ill when he arrived there not a chalk was found in samples now russia takes germany to task on this and has said in a statement that the foreign ministry is saying that it wants clear proof now from germany on data that proves novacek was used now what the report goes on to say is that this this act was in contravention to all gnash

international guidelines on the use of of chemical weapons on the use of nerve agents such as novacek and therefore there should be an international investigation nothing other than that is suitable according to this report zimbabwe's vice president's kember my hardy has resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct 2 weeks ago local media reported that he had a sexual relationship with a woman including one of his subordinates how did the accusations last week in a statement on monday though he said he was stepping down but it was not as a matter of carriages but a sign of great respects see the office of the president. phone lines and the incidents of being cut off in chad's capital and the general security forces stormed the home of opposition leader and presidential candidates yeah dello killing his mother and his son a correspondence nicholas huck has more. defiant

and no longer afraid supporters of opposition leader yeah i do know attempt to block a tank from the presidential guard from moving closer to his home says elite forces killed his elderly mother an 11 year old son in an attempt to arrest him on sunday he spoke to his supporters from his home police officers came without a warrant and fired on my relatives killing my mother and others it shows the nature of president davies regime we need to continue our movement so that we can get a democracy and justice deserve i will not be intimidated after this declaration deal though a candidate in april's presidential election escaped from his house undetected despite the heavy security presence in 2005 dealer mounted a failed armed rebellion against president idriss deby who has been in power for the last 31 years and is running for a 6th term in office last april published this video where you queues is debbie's

family of corruption and miss appropriation of public money a case was filed against which prompted this operation. many years we also documented in internet cut off so. child and to respect the child. in. child part and. despite the accusations of rights violations france has been backing these governments since 1990 and germany is home to a major french military base with charging troops providing support in the fight against armed groups in this the hell we jewel stability is important but opposition protestors say so is the call for freedom from the increasing voices of

dissent nicholas harkey al-jazeera. the white house for 7 jen psaki has just said that the united states reserves the right to sanction saudi crown prince mohammed bin son man if needed it's well her comments come just days after the release of a previously classified reports and certain journalists should g. which said that the order to capture or kill question jake came from the safety crying prince well joining us now live from the white house is kember the whole kit kimberly more questions for the united states over its perceived action against the sage crain prince so why isn't the biden ministration doing more. you're absolutely right the white house press secretary jim psaki taking a lot of heat and a lot of criticism of president joe biden and the failure on his part according to his critics to not do more to take punitive action against the saudi crown prince

mohammed bin saleh given the fact that now that now public intelligence report squarely names the crown prince as being the one that ordered the killing of the washington post journalist shows she now jen psaki defending this saying that the administration has in fact taken action against $76.00 different individuals imposing visa restrictions on those who intimidate dissidents including those responsible for the killing of the journalist but at the same time reporters saying that this is not what joe biden promised on the campaign trail in fact his exact words is that he promised not only to hold the highest levels accountable in the saudi government but to treat saudi arabia the crown princess the pariah is the word that he used as it is so jen psaki defending the position saying that as you pointed out the united states believes that it can take further action if it deems

necessary taking perhaps a actions in the future but stopping short of saying that there would be any action immediately right now in fact just the opposite saying that what will happen moving forward is that there will be counterpart to counter about conversations where they will continue to try to hold the kingdom responsible and also accountable when it comes to human rights but in terms of any further action won't be the case because according to the press secretary she says that the united states doesn't typically sanction leaders when there are diplomatic relations in place talking about the diplomatic relations between the united states and saudi arabia so again a lot of heat for the press secretary some pointed questions and not satisfactory as cers for many of the reporters who continued to press why the bided ministration didn't do more as it had promised. bring is the very latest from the white house crumbling thank you very much andy. iraq's parliament says passed landmark

legislation to grant rights i'm compensation to survivors from the years e.g. religious minority more than 5 functions were killed when isis went through their ancestral region of seen in 2014 approximately 7000 women and girls were kidnapped and forced into slavery some wonderful scene has the latest from baghdad the law is the most significant legislation to come out of iraq with regard to the use e.t.s. almost 5 years after the united nations has done so it's finally recognized the crimes that have been committed against the as any minority as genocide it also grants important rights as well as compensation to. specially the thousands of women and also children that were abducted by eisel the law also sets up a committee to search for the approximately $3000.00 women that are still missing and perhaps most importantly it sets up the legal architecture for united nations

investigators to submit evidence that they have gathered for example through the examination of mass graves in sin jar to iraqi courts for this evidence to be used in trials of i still suspect and that could set a basis for a departure from the current practice which is very much based on confessions currently the trials they usually don't contain any witness statements are usually not based on material evidence but rather on confessions of the suspects themselves and this is something that has drawn a lot of criticism from human rights groups but of course many questions remain about the implementation of this law especially at a time when iraq is going through a profound financial crisis there is certainly going to be a lot of question marks about where the funding to implement the provisions in this law specifically those that need funding will come from and many. vive ors have

become very impatient with the iraqi government because the death taken years for this law to finally be passed and many expect it will take much longer to implement . so it's a come on now to 0 haiti's growing political turmoil while it's on backing down from demanding the president resign and it's emerged the friendship between the head coach there quarantined bubble before a cruel virus outbreak in the school and general will have all the details for you in sports. hello the weather's laci set fire across the middle east at the moment lots of fine weather pleasant sunshine but we have a little more cloud is more the piles of saudi arabia into iraq and turning it around settle well at least the side of the mediterranean syria lebanon jordan you

can see some showers just sliding in here as you go through the next day or 2 you want to show us the scenes that eastern side of what's a weather does make its way across the black sea but across much of the region a little more clout so let's also want to spotty showers quite a brisk wind around that eastern side of the med cyprus seeing some of the live shows over the next day or so as well want to see showers to into afghanistan took many star couple of 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 try 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 this pushed out into south africa where

slushy fine. dry sunny and warm. when match day arrives the green army comes to life. but football is not all they shout about. a club where society's disenfranchised have the loudest voice. and political dissent take center stage. they resistance the old shows of roger cossack blank up the funds to make football on 0. zero's here it's a report on the people often ignored but must be heard so how many other channels can you say will take their time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global of friends about our own lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like

palestine libya yemen and legion and so many others we go to them you make me up hurts we care we stay. who knew. the. this is al jazeera quick reminder of our top stories this hour a court in france is find former president nicolas sarkozy guilty of corruption charges handed him a 3 year prison sentence 2 of which are suspended he is appealing against the conviction. armenia's prime minister says he is ready to call a snap election to end a political crisis which began after his government ceded lands to azerbaijan to

end facing in the disputed they're going to cut a region because passion young has been rallying his supporters and the white house says the u.s. reserves the right to sanction saudi crown prince mohamed in some on this just days after the release of a previously classified u.s. supports in saudi journalist jim ussher g.'s murder which said stats the order to capture or kill him came from the saudi crown prince. a former u.s. president donald trump has again haynes's at another presidential run but has ruled out starting his own political party he said the final and most anticipated speech at the conservative political action conference in florida as john hendren reports from orlando it was his 1st public appearance since leaving office. the former president told his most fervent followers the trump era is alive and well and ongoing we began it together 4 years ago and it is far from being over

i was the news of the 45th president will remain. on the national stage. crafted in his honor in the shape of the number 45 was well received by this conservative crowd that includes the head of the proud boys who calls establishment republicans rhinos republicans in name and i got a rough 1 7. 7 right. now. i want to see it running a party no i don't want to. but whether the party's 2024 presidential standard bearer will be named trump or which trump donald don jr or of he didn't say who would you like to see leave the party in 2024 is there any leader.

and what about the other trump. jr. i hope they run for 28 in his 1st public address since he left the white house rejected by voters trump ease the minds of many republicans with a call to unify the party across the bitter divide he helped create the republican party is united the only division is between a handful of washington d.c. establishment political hacks and everybody else all over the country i think we have tremendous. call for unity behind trump is a challenge to those republicans the party behind someone else in a post from europe but the former president isn't releasing his vice like grip on a clear majority of republican voters every party but now especially the republican party has to look inside after january 6th and say what have we become what's our great history and how do we go forward from here and reaching out to donald trump

and more of the same is not going to do that as expected in his kitchen sink his speech trump attack his rivals probably. to defeat them and repeated baseless claims that he won the past election actually as you know they just lost the white house but he also left the door wide open for another run in 2024. no i may even decide to beat them for a 3rd time ok. it was a welcome message for everyone in attendance but for other conservative voters and politicians it's a worrisome reminder of the widening rift in a bitterly divided republican party john hendren al jazeera orlando florida well spencer critchley is a democratic party consultants and the author of patriots nations he joins us now live from months or california great to have you with us on the sorry he saw that report john hendren the specific like christmas in march for the democratic party

does your party feel emboldened after watching the splits and tensions on display that sci fi conference well yes and no i think if democrats have learned anything from the past 4 or 5 years it should be to avoid being overly confident about which way we think the future is going because we sure got it wrong in 2016 but yes it does look to me like the republican party is engaged in a murder suicide pact they're apparently trying to murder american democracy while committing political suicide and 0 m. mowry though that perhaps the democratic party could face a similar splits because there is the the tensions which are ongoing right now in the senate between more moderate members of the democratic party and progressives like bernie sanders and c. is there not a tension within your own party and do you worry that the democrats could face a similar fate. yes but i think it's a difference between

a normal political tension and normal kind of debate we would expect both across parties and within parties within a functioning democracy and complete split between 2 radically different worldviews frankly the republican party is being torn into 2 pieces between really nativist populists which would be the trump faction and traditional conservatives and they have almost nothing in common whereas you know there are negotiable differences between say bernie sanders and the o.c. and the more moderate and conservative leaning parts of the democratic party and then terms of looking ahead do you think this situation is advantageous i mean do you wants donald trump to be the next nominee for president 2024. no you know patriotism has to trump so to speak everything else and one thing we must not lose sight of is that donald

trump led an attempt to overthrow american democracy it was a self cooed that he did and nothing less than that anybody is still supporting donald trump must realize and many of them do realize others are deluded enough not to realize but they must realize they are supporting an attack on american democracy and as no patriot can hope for a return of donald trump and for the good of democracy we actually need a same reasonable conservative party because the debate between the conservative view of american democracy and the more liberal view will necessarily be an unending one so do you think that's likely to happen though because the audience at the conventions in very. very serious by what john had to say they accepted in cheer and his claim that he had been fact one election when he had since given that the democrats are faced with this how does your party move

forwards. one problem we have in america is that we don't really learn history anymore and we if we did we would recognize what donald trump is he's a classic demagogue of the type that really goes back to ancient greece in a figures such as cleon back in you know 5th century b.c. greece he excites the passions and fears of the mob essentially is the source of the demagogues power and that's exactly what donald trump is and democrats have a tendency to be stuck too much in their heads and to not understand how demagogues appeal to the heart and the gut and so to combat trump they must make sure they don't just make logical fact based arguments to his followers they need to connect on the heart and gut level luckily joe biden is very good at that biden barack obama was very good at that j.f.k. f.d.r. so that needs to be the way forward i think it's a combination of rationality but also passion and soul essentially but motivated

by light as opposed to appealing to the forces of darkness within human nature ok spencer traits they are great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you so much for joining us from california my pleasure thank you. the hasties foot school turmoil is growing as process continue against president. they say he's an illegitimate leader and wants him to step down but maurice montagne his term last until next year will position argues it should have ended 3 weeks ago campbell elizondo has this reports. self described pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of port au prince haiti with one demand for the president to step down and. the demonstrators numbering in the thousands on sunday sage open and maurice 5 year term ended on february 7th but

that the president has refused to leave office and is instead consolidating power shots yeah i know what today we are showing the world that the haitian people reject the power of the ph d. k. headed beige of an illinois who wants to establish a dictatorship in the country the haitian people fought against the devalued regime in 10086 who will not go back to d.c. . or he says ruled by presidential decree for the past 13 months after dissolving the majority of parliament amid political gridlock he claims his term doesn't end until february 2022 and he'll step down only then he took power in 2017 in an election marred by allegations of fraud. the protest sunday were organized by religious groups but others joined in including the political opposition to the frustration on the streets goes beyond

the president demonstrators are also mad at what's known as the core group the united nations european union united states canada and france that for many years have held great influence over. mission affairs they say the group is propping up always at the expense of the haitian people that was for a long time the economic elite has been hijacked to the country with the complicity of juvenalia least in the cold who have joined forces to uncover so the country. i january the us announced an infusion of $75000000.00 in development aid to the country and just last week called for legislative and presidential elections this year but so far shied away from calling for moyes to step down then i think. what remains is anger on the streets a defiant president in a country now in

a constitutional crisis. how does he. now less than 24 hours after myanmar's most violent days since its military coup began prosecutes as to fall to new criminal charges against imposed. she he appears as a hearing in court a video link across major says he security forces are increasing their crackdown on protesters but people remain defiant here scott hyla. 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 joint 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 hot plate 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 promoting with and views as allies that process is to start on tuesday when the regional bloc of southeast asian nations known as r c one is due to start talks on me in mar scott harder al-jazeera. to take you back to the un i read that donor's conference on yemen is ongoing let's listen in that it's a mark of law called the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief high level pleasure event. let me just start that again so here is the sec general's statement quote the outcome of today's high level pledging event on yemen is disappointing pledges announced total approximately $1700000000.00 now is the last them we received for the humanitarian a spawn's plan in 2020 and

a $1000000000.00 less than was pledged at the conference we held in 2019 he goes on millions of yemeni children women and men desperately need aid to survive cutting aid is a death sentence the best that can be said about today is that it represents a down payment. i thank those who did pledge generously and i ask others to consider again what they can do to help stave off the worst famine the world to see in decades. united nations will continue to stand in solidarity with the starving people of yemen. the secretary also in his statement touched on members of the peace process and an end to the fighting and the conflict and so on but most of those were his conclusions about

the pleasure event and all i want to do is go and indorse that this does not solve the problem we're disappointed in the outcome it's going to be impossible with such limited resources to prevent a large scale famine so we're going to have to come back to people and ask them for a stronger response before too long thank you very much mark and just to note that the secretary general's statement is online at u.n. or current spokespersons our website. i now invite only say so we've just been listening there to mark lowcock the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and the emergency relief coordinator speaking as. a donor conference was underway for yemen let's see if we can cross that serves at the mouth scads of

james who is at the united nations now james. the key line for from that response then is that the u.n. are very very disappointed with the donations that were received to help prevent famine in yemen. yeah they may not be able to stave off a famine is what they're saying because they asked the world to step up and to give money they asked the countries of the world to give money they knew it was a lot of money they were asking but they said what they were facing was the worst famine in for decades $3800000000.00 is what the the u.n. estimates yemen needs in order to feed the 20000000 people who rely on humanitarian assistance for for survival 16000000 of those i think are the ones that they say are in threat of famine also worth listening to david beasley who is the is the

head of the world food program which won the nobel peace prize at the end of last year he said that 1.9 of that 1900000000 was absolutely essential otherwise there was in his view certainly going to be a famine did they get $1.00 no they got $1700000000.00 so the u.n. i think very frustrated very concerned about the situation that this could be leading to the worst famine as you heard. the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs say the worst famine in decades very unusual the statement that was just read out from the secretary general himself about his disappointment in in in what has been achieved here normally when you have these pledging conferences the u.n. knows that it tries to ask for what it needs and it never quite gets what it needs and it has to make do and it has to put a brave face on things they're not putting

a brave face on today they're shouting out very loudly this is not enough we need more and gives us that was there any indication at this pledging conference why nations simply weren't prepared to to give the they were saying they've pledged less than 2020 less than in 2019 was there any reasons given for the donations. well look i think you can look at who gave what in previous years and compare that to who lives pledged to walk this time around certainly in their speeches they don't say well we've plotted less than last year and we've done it for this reason they present it as a very big positive we're giving all of this money to yemen but then when you look back at the figures you do see in most cases of the big pledges there was less money than there was before for example european countries the u.k. for example substantially last for yemen than last year the us down

a little bit from last year in the western countries and then the other thing to focus on as well is when they have raised quite a lot of money for this issue it's come mainly from the region and certainly in the past one of the interesting things that has taken place in yemen is that the countries that have been involved militarily in the yemen have felt that they ought to give quite a lot of money human. humanitarian terms so you've seen the saudi led coalition and particularly saudi arabia and u.a.e. give very large sums at least until 20182019 but last year they gave a lot less and this year they've given less than they gave last year so if you don't get those big sums from the big rich countries in the gulf then it's very hard to make the big massive figures that the u.n. was hoping for just a reminder of the figure the u.n.

says it needed $3850000000.00 and then when you push them really hard they have the world food program $1900000000.00 otherwise you're going to get one of the worst famines for decades and they haven't even got that 1700000000 dollars ok james bays their brain has the latest from the united nations james thank you. students in indian administered kashmir are returning to the classroom nearly one year after the pandemic for schools to cools the students sakshi they had to study at home before the pandemic began military crackdown. has more. students in indian administered kashmir are once again back in school this is the worst it's the 1st time they've been in a classroom in nearly a year after schools were shut down at the height of the pandemic which things are different now and students are readjusting to life under covert 19 to be honest i

had gone have a choice of staying at my home now or coming out of my room but then the news came out that the schools are reopening and i was quite reluctant to come to the school but then. when i wore the uniform and when i stepped into the school i had a different feeling but even before the pandemic the students were already forced to study at home when india revoked kashmir's autonomy in august 21000 the move led to more unrest in the disputed territory and it also led to a log down in the area such what. for the last 2 years kashmiri children have not been to schools the kashmir valley was going through a cycle of lockdowns after it samee autonomy was revoked then came the pandemic for the rest of the world the lockdown has been for a year but here in kashmir it's basically been 2 parents who worry their children will fall behind with so many gaps in their education but there's also fear of the long term effects of social isolation i would certainly get depressed because again

the courage of getting out of the home again and then being shot in the home again that that takes out of a person its moral and everything. india is expanding its vaccination drive and some are questioning of politics and longstanding tension in the region will eventually cool down to the education system students have already been the biggest victims i think they're on the education their perspective will be dormant if the situation doesn't improve the students say their day to day priority is not about politics but rather getting an education cuts the young al-jazeera it's time for the sports heroes gemma. thank you have a spanish police have raided the stadium offices of boston a football club and made several arrests i'm only is it reportedly detained as the club's former president josep the marriott boss and why the operation is related to

last year as a so-called wasik a 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 that biggest stock nino messy and yet we spoke to a piece of global sports correspondent rob paris we don't know how many people are in custody but the reports polls are showing not bottom a or the former club president is one of them he was forced to resign last year in a storm of controversy with the club mired in financial difficulties there over a 1000000000 euros and this all comes in the wake that balts mayor successor is due to be elected in the final stages of the election campaign and we've heard from one of the candidates today john the pool of 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 leonore messi he tried to leave

in the summer his transfer request was denied and leaks recently showing what he's paid up 238000000 euros a season and that really highlights why past lives in such a financial mess and also why we saw a no let's make him pay against messi and other players known as the gate 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 barcelona's biggest names lightly on a messy and p.k. boss learned to 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's history. one of the world's top racehorse trainers gordon elliott

has apologised 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 his animals which had died from a heart attack in training racing's a governing body in our land has opened an investigation while the british horseracing authority set support on are considering its own sanctions it's emerged that france's rugby head coach left the team's bubble before a cave of 19 outbreak in the squad lets the perspective of a 6 nations game fabien go see i went to watch his son play a rugby match but 10 days later tested positive for the virus and 11 of his players also called coronavirus which that de frances came with scotland being cooled off russia has moved a step closer to having its long term ban from track and field lifted after a lot of plastics approved a plan of doping reforms it includes more testing of athletes a crackdown of russian regions with doping problems encouraging whistleblowers and

giving athletes more of a voice in how the sport's run wild with ethics hasn't yet set a date to fully readmit the russian track federation which has been suspended since 2015 but a task force task force will monitor its progress with the reforms doubler then pick a triathlon champion alister brownlee's says the international olympic committee or need luck to pull off the games this ship because of the current virus outbreak the person's looking for a 3rd straight gold in tokyo in what would be his last olympics and he's backing the games in japan to go ahead despite the pandemic i don't think it be right to call it off now you know i think. we're not in the thirty's in tokyo not sure if they might have the will when eyes like it's on and keep going keep going in you know hopefully you know they've got they've got to have a bit of look i guess what i'm saying is unfortunately there is a little bit look at marriage that they need. and that's all you'll sport for now

avi back with more later thank you very much gemma well that wraps up this new search that being the team in doha we're going to hand you over now to our colleagues in london will be with you right after this very short break. the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i am afraid to be closing on minorities need to be afraid of whether these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives how much we've tried to

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