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convicted of corruption. and fear and suspicions around the rollout of the 1st covert 19 vaccine in the philippines i'm devon ash with the sport a spanish police say f.c. barcelona is cooperating in their investigation 4 people were arrested in a raid of the club's offices on monday i'll have all the details this hour. united states has urged saudi arabia to disband its rapid intervention force the elite unit behind the 2018 murder of disses and journalist. a u.s. intelligence report implicated saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman in the killing but the state department will not say if he is among the 76 saudi officials hit with visa restrictions because of their connections to the murder. we have

urged saudi arabia to disband this group and then adopt institutional systemic reforms and controls to ensure that anti dissident activities and operations cease and cease completely we have made crystal clear and will continue to do so that the brutal killing of jamal khashoggi current 28 months ago remains an acceptable conduct at the same time our relationship with saudi arabia is important it's important to us interests and it requires continued progress and reforms to ensure that this important partnership rests on strong fundamentals and continues to advance our shared objectives in the middle east mike hanna joins me now from washington d.c. mike some of what we had in that briefing was expected but how far to the new measures go. here's some of what we heard in the briefing was actually announced by state department on friday but this is the 1st time they've gone on camera to actually explain the details of these measures being taken against saudi

arabia the one new factor was the news that you heard there from the state department spokesman ed price that saudi is called on to disband that elite unit responsible for the khashoggi murder according to the d.n.i. here in the united states and cia report compiled on that particular murder now there was nothing further about the role played by the crown prince mohammed bin sultan it does appear that he is not on the list of $76.00 individuals and the state department has outlined as having been served with sanctions this is an ongoing situation there were numerous questions in that state department briefing about why the crown prince is being held accountable having the fact that the cia report in the d.n.i. report that it made public does hold the crown prince responsible state department spokesman continuing to walk around this particular issue continuing to press the

administration line that the u.s. does not impose sanctions against heads of state with whom it has diplomatic relations well some reporters in that news conference pointed out that that is simply not true there are more than 80 nations in which the u.s. has taken action against the leaders of those nations impose sanctions on them including some with whom the u.s. does have diplomatic relations so certainly this is something that is going to unravel in the days ahead remembering that president biden made the issue on his campaign that the crown prince or anybody involved in that murder would be held accountable by the actions but basically outlining in the state department today briefing out all fleshing out the details on those acts that will be taken and denethor what is called a coup shortly ban which will imply impose vs. the restrictions on those imposed on human rights abuses not only in saudi arabia but in other parts of the world and of course those individuals who have been labeled in terms of the magnitsky act they

will not be allowed to travel into the united states or will have their movement severely restricted but the top line in terms of what actually happened in that news conference in terms of new detail is the fact that the u.s. is now calling on saudi arabia to disperse what that report released by the united states found that it was basically a murder group mike hanna thank you very much indeed governments and donors have pledged 1670000000 dollars to help fund a response to the humanitarian crisis in yemen u.n. chief antonio terrace has called the result of a virtual donor's conference disappointing he's warned that after 6 years of war famine is bearing down on the country and that cutting aid is a death sentence for terror said that 50000 yemenis are already starving to death in famine like conditions more than 20000000 that's 2 out of every 3 yemenis need to monetary assistance with women and children among the hardest hit this

particular concern over $400000.00 children facing severe acute malnutrition who could die without urgent treatment but nearly half of all children under 5 will suffer from malnutrition this year with symptoms like wasting depression and tiredness the u.n. chief is calling for $3850000000.00 to help but in 2020 the world body any received just over half what it asked for our diplomatic editor james pace has more from the united nations. they believe they are certainly warning that yemen is facing the worst famine that the world has seen in decades now they did warn of famine in 2018 as well but they say they got enough money then to stop the famine this time their response has been much much poorer let me remind you 1st what the u.n. secretary general said at the start of the day as he addressed all the countries as they prepared to announce how much money they were going to give this is what he said today i mean is bearing down on yemen the race

is on if we want to prevent town get instead of asian from taking millions of lives it is impossible to overstate the severity of the suffering in yemen more than 20000000 yemenis leave you many dead in assistance and protection with women and children among the harvest heat for a 1000000 people across yemen have been forced from their homes in the recent would your parents even marty abstractness of these places and of the thousands more. well that was the plea from the secretary general to cut countries but they didn't step up to the plate in terms of the numbers that were needed and this is the statement he put out in the last hour saying the outcome is disappointing what they've received is $1700000000.00 that's less than received for the humanitarian response plan and 2020 and a $1000000000.00 less than was pledged at the conference in 2019 he said the best

that could be said about today is that it represents a down payment so in other words you've given some money but it's not enough i need more for the situation in yemen otherwise there will be a famine and it's worth reminding you that of the $3500000000.00 that the u.n. said it needed the head of the world pruett food program david beasley said that there was an absolute basic which was 1900000000 without that then a famine was virtually a certainty well they haven't got 1900000000 they've got 1700000000 so very much the u.n. now saying this isn't good enough thanks for your donations but we need a lot more otherwise there will be a serious family in yemen well conference called on more than 100 governments to try to plug funding gaps the u.s. has announced nearly 100 $91000000.00 in additional humanitarian aid for a total of $350000000.00 for 2021 saudi arabia has pledged $430000000.00 riyadh

is backing the yemeni government in its fight against rebels and the u.k. has pledged just over $120000000.00 just over half of what they gave last year but to some friedman is freeman a big bonus ever search coordinator at the organization campaign against arms trade he joins us via skype from birmingham in the united kingdom thanks very much indeed for being with us so what's your reaction it to that the u.k. government reducing its aid to yemen. really horrified that it's unspeakable in use to terrible policies of armed sales over u.k. government utter hypocrisy in continuing in sustaining the war while ost ing of it's a pledge now even but age pledge which was helping. protect hundreds of thousands of yemenis from starvation is being cut nearly in half the. conservative international development minister and to mitchell himself said today

this decision would condemn hundreds of thousands of yemenis to start starvation it is utterly appalling and it's. the very low bar of expectations i had even for this government said to me the government had already signaled that it was going to reduce the level overseas aid budget but asked it it as acknowledged that it has to go through a vote in the commons today to actually reduce it to how likely is it that opposition to that will build on it and that it might not go through and that there will be forced to change its mind well i don't know in britain it's very rare very many government m.p.'s to rebel against their leadership but i hope that. p.s. who are up to now style their consciences over arms sales by the fact that the u.k. is at least one of the largest aid donors to yemen who take

a hard look in their consciences and go against the government and this and think of the utterly appalling consequences if this decision goes through what is the scale of sales from the u.k. to saudi that would that would be end up being used in conflict in yemen focused on people. well the figures are actually quite opaque because the people open licensing says we only get the benefits because a small portion of arms sales but the biggest u.k. arms company b. a systems alone made 15000000 pounds in revenue from the saudi minutes 3 of it's between 205-2091 top of that there's nearly 4000000000 pounds worth of forms and missiles which the company b. 8 that have been license so getting close to 20000000000 and with the 2023 years it

will almost certainly be about that so i mean it will given that the government is it meant to kind of scratch around trying to find more money on pandemic how likely is it that it would might reduce its arms sales to to saudi when it hasn't so far the u.k. government does does not get anything directly in revenue from arms sales to saudi arabia that the company be a system that. indeed the u.k. government invests a lot of effort and some money into supporting arms sales overseas but unfortunately the government has waste prioritize the interest the arms in the space especially. over considerations of peace and human rights and the welfare of civilians but given the change that's happening in the us given that the menu the efforts to try to seek peace and the fact that even some of the

government's own m.p.'s are beginning to wonder about the wisdom of continued arms sales that it is not yet to europe to change course santana friendly thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you thank you very much. coming off of this news hour a deadly raid on an opposition leader's home in chad leads to protests and internet destructions in the run up to date for elections. thousands turned out in support of armenia's prime minister who says he is ready to call a snap election. and one of the world's top racehorse trainers faces punishment after be pictured sitting on a dead horse. i am . from a french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling suckers he was sentenced to 3 years in jail over 2 years was suspended if the conviction is upheld on appeal he may serve his sentence on the

house arrest but ends his hopes of a political comeback we talked about reports from paris. nicolas sarkozy arrived at caught in paris for the verdict in his trial a judge found the former french president guilty of corruption and influence peddling he was given a 3 year jail sentence with 2 years suspended he left the call to the al comment but is laurie's later said that he would appeal so cozy was convicted of trying to influence a magistrate in 2014 to obtain information about another legal case against him during the trial he denied the accusations but the judge said that sarkozy and his 2 kohak used knew exactly what they would doing the judge told the court he took advantage of his status and the relationships he had made since being voted out of office and 2012 sarkozy has sought a political comeback even ran for the presidency gain in 27 saying but the guilty

verdict in this trial is likely to deal a devastating blow to his ambitions some in france's conservative party had hoped that sarkozy would run in next year's election a lot of his face will within his own party remain hopeful that he could stage a comeback today that is over and that is over particularly because even if party faithful will still adore nicolas sarkozy is that the kind of charismatic political leader that commands this kind of control within the country there's no way you can have a president with such a edge additional case behind him as president sarkozy projected an image of a tough talking conservative with a taste for luxury now he's become the 1st former french president to be handed a jail term and with at least 2 more corruption trial is expected it's clear that sarkozy's legal problems are far from over with al-jazeera powerless.

arminius prime minister says he's ready to call a snap election to bring to an end the ongoing political crisis it has. been rallying his supporters in the capital yerevan just hours earlier protesters who want to him to resign stormed a government building have been demonstrations ever since his government ceded land to azerbaijan to end fighting in the disputed you're going to care about region across planet robin firstly walker is in your van and says there is calling for the prime minister to resign will continue their protests 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 haven't you closed at the center of the central area where the government is based here and get it out until they call price you know actually reserves 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 the armenian 60 minutes whereby he resigns and then there's an opportunity for parliament to elect another prime minister but since it's his bloc that has the majority that looks like that it's a process if you have to take place you cannot 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 later in in the year united nations human rights experts are calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of russian opposition leader and extend avani no money was poisoned with it no a check nerve agent in august he was later arrested and jailed for violating his parole because he went to germany for emergency treatment you know experts and yes kind of mad and irene khan believes the russian government may have been responsible and that a domestic investigation went uncover the truth. eet ees our conclusion that trust ease response to both hold the attention on the tree keeping of me still number of

time on me still not on the spot you was under intense you'll be almost by russian intelligence you just try again the fact of the earth in the face of the fact that people are other than those money caring is a marine who could have introduced to themselves in the uk at home with a highly dangerous poison and new way and how to handle each in the ok home so as to poison me still never and nigerian officials say they're close to rescuing $317.00 girls kidnapped from a school in the northwestern state is on fire and it's given their families hope after the raid in the early hours of friday i'm going to do he says more from cosell. it's difficult since $317.00 goals like taken from a boarding school to join. him jump on a stage now abortions are underway to recover them on the orders of nigeria's president but they won't they should be secured and returned home safe and sound

right behind it is a top law that he's on a surveillance mission that our 2 helicopters are to be deployed for this mission they are something to force and they sent them identify the location why these goes and they will want to make sure that they have not been moved so that whatever negotiations or whatever add to that needed to be taken is taken successfully we only have to take what the commissioner of police in tougher state of the said they are going to utmost best to cover this to. suspects fully aware and good to all the parties involved. and we. progress to got topless talking put specific temps at the point we are now and i saw you become a shot in this and that well top of the situation. thanks internet chants capital. security forces stormed the home of opposition leader and presidential

candidate yeah his elderly mother and son were killed in the raid several candidates say government is intimidating them ahead of the april election across the nicholas hike has more. defiant and no longer afraid supporters of opposition leader yeah do you 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 game 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 chaldeans 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 he queues is debbie's family of corruption and miss appropriation of public money a case was filed against dealers which prompted this operation. documented and turned it off so. it's charred and the charred. child parts and. despite the accusations of rights violation france has been backing these governments since 990 and germany is home to a major french military base with charging troops providing support in the fight

against armed groups and there's a hell regional stability is important but opposition protestors say so is the call for freedom from the increasing voices of dissent nicholas harkey al jazeera. iraq's parliament has passed landmark legislation to grant rights and compensation to the religious minority more than 5000 were killed by isis fighters who captured their ancestral region singe are in northern iraq 7 years ago about 7000 women and girls were kidnapped and forced into slavery you know to 14 has more from back that . the law is the most significant legislation to come out of iraq with regard to the almost 5 years after the united nations has done so it's finally recognized the crimes that have been committed against the years in the minority as genocide it also grants important rights as well as compensation to. the thousands of women and

also children that were abducted by i saw the law also set 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. 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. 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 of this law specifically those that need funding will come from and many is the survivors have become very impatient with the iraqi government because it has taken years for this law to finally be passed and many expect that it will take much longer to implement. yes president joe biden and his mexican counterpart president or. top level meeting via video link they were planning to discuss border policy and 19 vaccines amongst other topics that speak to minor upolu in mexico city and the next president expecting help from the u.s. with its vaccine program but then the noises are. not going to be likely. there are several topics and the agenda for this bilateral meeting between mexican president and the discipline to elope is over to the wood and his counterpart u.s.

president joe biden but specifically on that question of this potential sharing of vaccines between the united states and mexico we heard confirmation from the mexican president during his early morning press conference that he would be that he actually had already asked the u.s. president if the united states would be willing to share in their stockpile of vaccines with mexico and this actually falls very consistently in line with the mexican president who's become one of the loudest world leaders when it comes to the issue of equitable access to cope with 19 vaccines among developing nations specifically countries here in latin america just last month we heard from mexico's foreign minister marcello about who went before the united nations talking about that as well the an equal access to covert vaccine supplies specifically among countries here in latin america but this bilateral meeting they're going to be covering climate change trade they're go to be covering immigration but again specifically on that question of whether or not the united states is going to be

sharing vaccine supplies with mexico white house press secretary gentz psaki made it very clear that the answer is no she said that the biden ministration is focused on making sure that every u.s. american is going to have guaranteed access to the code 19 vaccine and once that objective has been completed then quote unquote next steps can be discussed now we should add that mexico was the very 1st country in latin america to begin its rollout of a national vaccination program but those efforts have stalled and they've stalled largely because of a shortage of $1000.00 vaccines specifically within the developing world that's one of the reasons that we're hearing mexican leaders sort of speaking on behalf of other countries in the region many other countries here in latin america that have not even begun to roll out national vaccination programs and you mentioned touched on the issue of migration and the pressure is rising at the border between the u.s. and mexico isn't it. that's right and immigration certainly

is another spotlight topic for the 2 world leaders during this during this virtual meeting we know that the by the administration since day one has been dismantling the policies put in place by biden's predecessor donald trump what we don't know is what role strategically mexico is going to play in these new policies we know that the by an administration has said that they want to place a higher focus on addressing the root causes of immigration specifically in countries in northern central america countries like honduras el salvador as well as guatemala where a majority of the migrants that we see traveling through mexico arriving at the southern border of the united states are originating from but again we don't know just yet what mexico's new role is going to be under this new relationship with the united states and we're hoping that this meeting that's taking place today between the 2 world leaders will sort of shine a light give us some insight as to the direction of even mexico's own migration policies the direction that those migration policies are going to take as this new relationship moves forward when you are up and thank you very much indeed. in the

u.s. deliveries of the johnson and johnson vaccine underway. being loaded up at a distribution center in kentucky from there they'll be flown around the country johnson and johnson is the 3rd vaccine to get the green light in the u.s. and the anyone to leave it in a single day is. still to come on out there this news out. protesters gather again despite the start of the largest trial using china's controversial national security level. and its borders to match the french rugby teams and coach brooks a quarantine bubble before a crowd of virus outbreak scored. how high that there's lots of lovely spring sunshine across a good parts

a few of them at last a clear skies high pressure in china does mean some early morning mist and fog to contend with this summer the chilly start as well but this time of year we're looking at a decent amount of strength to the sun so you and mr folk we do get will burn off quite nicely around our high we do still have a brisk wind bringing some wintry showers i was at western side of a russia that's in the process of pushing out of the way moscow 4 degrees celsius and it's mild even from moscow so we're looking at a lot of dry weather into central pa which was the west charles of want to show is just sliding into the southwest approaches of england maybe around the press but then tossed some showers to just around spain as we go on through choose day on the side of the med also a little unsettled a few showers rattling through here but nothing too much to speak of although it's a pep talk a little as we go on into wednesday by wednesday as that fine and dry weather across much of central year showers there pushing across some well southern parts of england into northern areas of france will see some wet weather it's in northern

parts of morocco over the next day i also want to see the breeze just blowing in across egypt as we go on through cheese day temperatures falling back to 98 celsius for wednesday. make it change challenge the accepted truths of the turn the status quo and fight injustice witness personal documentary deception on al-jazeera. march on al-jazeera if 10 years on from the tsunami that struck japan al-jazeera revisits the people most affected by the disaster football rebels eric cantona presents a new series about iconic players this influence has been as great off the page as on it. pope francis makes history with the 1st papal visit to iraq his 1st trip outside basically since the coronavirus pandemic upfront. cuts through the

headlines to challenge conventional wisdom hope for the future of the ivory coast the ghost of the polls for its palm entry elections. march on. the. amount of the top stories here on araa 0 united states has urged saudi arabia to disband its rapid intervention force the elite unit behind the 2018 murder of dissident journalists. the u.s. intelligence report implicated saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man in the killing of the state department will not say if he is among the 76 out officials

hit with reason restrictions because of their connections to matter. here in chief antonio tears has moved in a death sentence on who told him and. after a donor conference noted pledges were only $1700000000.00 terror says more than twice that amount was needed to fight famine in the country. the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling he was sentenced to 3 years jail although 2 years were suspended . exactly a month after the military coup in myanmar prosecutors have filed 2 new criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi a court appearance by video link was the 1st time she's been seen in public since her arrest protesters have been back on the streets the day after 18 were killed in

a major escalation of the military crackdown scott hardly has more. 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 giants 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 place on a military presence you know sometimes the outcome is not what you expect they. will get mad and instead. followed a way that international community once they do opposite thing he went on to say the best approach with the military is a regional one with nations myanmar is for a 1000000 with and views as allies that process is to start on tuesday when the regional block of southeast asian nations known as a c on is due to start talks on the m.r. scott either al-jazeera. the use of social media to organize and engage has been key to several new protest movements across asia and it means governments now want more control of the online world one of the 1st signs of the coup and me and maher

were sudden connection issues in the middle of the night since then social networks have been sporadically blocked with the internet simply turned off almost every night in india the government last week announced new laws that would force sites to remove content it doesn't like it comes after a climate activist was arrested for sharing a document to help farmers whose anti-government rallies have lost in months. and in bangladesh protest against the death of a prominent government critic and now into their 4th day. had to have been arrested under a digital security norf a critical comments posted online from a child really has no. there is widespread anger and condemn a nation across bangladesh these protesters want to know why a 52 year old writer and dissident died while in detention mushtaq ahmed was arrested last year under the controversial digital security act which critics say

stifles freedom of speech had died on thursday in a high security jail in god before district because of his death was not immediately clear rights groups a mushtaq ahmed and cartoonist on the. web talk shot by police while in custody i know you had let me get back to look i don't use writers and cartoonists are i'm able to express themselves and the independence of all media is sisterly curtailed now by saif when the free expression of people is in a way an effort to destroy a nation i was the writers that has led to violence seems like these in the past several days as police attempt to break up the opposition and that protests dozens of people have been injured including officers police have arrested several protesters. to tell us what the digital security act is not miking citizens any more secure rather it's designed to startle free expression of the people. has to be abolished and all those who were convicted and arrested on additional including

a cartoonist crucial have to be freed rights groups and other organizations are concerned international law goes along with ambassadors from 13 countries have demanded an investigation into that that. he was arrested for his calling on his social media criticizing the government's response but call it 19 and other nations bangladesh prime minister sheikh hasina has dismissed accusation our government is not doing enough to protect human rights. government to come on no death is desired nor is it desired that unrest will be created focusing it. what can be done if someone full 2nd dies. on friday the home minister outside there's a man can ordered an investigation people are scared of expressing their opinion and this opinion if you look at the platforms in our country barry limited political activities left in our country in the last couple of years so because of

these people resorting to express their opinion in the social networking sites. u.k. based rights group article 19 ses as many as 457 people of all professions were prosecuted under the digital security act of this figure 75 were journalist while the rest included teachers students folk musicians and cultural artists among others while many still remain in jail the protesters say they will soon announce what they intend to do next sadly child rail jazeera dhaka bangladesh. let's talk more about all this with a level affairs analyst michael. of the upcoming book digital pandemic it joins us now on skype from the city of barrie in canada thanks so much for being with us how worrying would you say the attempts to control the internet ah in particular in asia. good to be with you again well it's very bad i mean it's really a mixed picture in asia when you look at japan south korea taiwan i think you can

call that a pretty liberal state of affairs but as soon as you get to china hong kong now going down through into china down to myanmar indonesia it's a very bad picture i think what we're seeing is going on a lot of dictators and autocrats and not even out of crowds are watching each other and starting to play from the same playbook and an example of that is for example introducing very broadly worded digital laws or digital legislation that can pretty much give them an excuse to detain or arrest anybody and that's not a very good picture to be in right now what about the protest movements if they found new ways to communicate as a result of this kind of action oh absolutely is very very interesting to watch i mean i was in the hong kong protest document what was going on there in the past year or so and what we found is yeah the protesters knew very well that the police were monitoring them on whatsapp and other social media outlet cation so what they do is they switch to new technology for example bluetooth where it's much more

difficult for the police to monitor them and i've noticed also in myanmar protestors are doing it the same thing they're also lauren watching each other on apps like instagram you have something called the milk tea alliance where they're kind of trading images of slogans and placards to really reinforce their messages so it's very interesting to watch in terms of the pandemic came this some some people have used it to try and bring in most of that would then be used to control people in a different way but what about advantages of the other been a digital advantages for the pandemic. well i mean to keep people safe and contact tracing absolutely and singapore is the big stand out in that regard they have an app and a digital token that can be war and that helps everyone kind of keep track of where they've been and if there's an outbreak they will be notified but having said that just a few weeks ago the singapore government turned the tables suddenly on everyone and said the information gathered from those absent from those tokens can be used by

the police in investigations and if i can just put out one di canio it's really really interesting to see as well here in north america especially in the u.s. the government is under pressure to come down on homegrown terrorism by reference the right song capitol hill the rest of the world particularly autocrats autocrats and dictators feel they're under pressure to suppress freedom of thought by them which already of their people who are mostly you know a lot by doing so at the end of day we're seeing a social media in the internet proving to be the ultimate disruptor disruptive force i'm sorry for both good and for evil to be mentioned hong kong and finding out what people were doing that how much of a change has the you know the chinese bolton you know cool is that how much does it impact on people's lives. sure well it's the nail in the coffin for hong kong as we know it and in effect that national security law has made hong kong

a traditional suburb of mainland china i find that very chilling because again the law is very broadly working and to give you a very clear example for example whatever i'm saying to you right now could easily be used by the hong kong government against me even if i'm transiting through hong kong airport you can be pulled off your flight or your connection and charged with violation that in our national security for example being critical of the government or the judiciary and then possibly even taken to china for trial and not given a fair trial at the moment in canada we have to michael's who are innocent and who are arrested and are still being held captive by china and there's no end in sight to that case michael thank you very much. pleasure. on that vein actually $47.00 prominent activists have faced court in hong kong charged under china's controversial national security law they're accused of subversion by taking part in an unofficial election primary last year it's the

largest use of the new organs pro-democracy activists since it was brought in last june adrian brown has more from hong kong. there was a heavy demand for seats at west kalou magistrates court on monday morning the queue stretching around the block dressed in the uniform of the protest movement their mood was defiant like many of those now facing charges the police tactic was restrained even though some symbols and slogans openly defied the new national security law a reminder that not all dissent here has been entirely extinguished i come here just then with my fellow brothers and said those who are being prosecuted who are be your birth it's the closest hong kong's come to a large demonstration since mainland china imposed its national security law on the territory 8 months ago some said they were here to protest against all 4 of terry

and ruth everywhere you want. to have for your gun fight it can be 50 pounds. if yes then if i am not in spite of the new national security law people are chanting borderline seditious slogan slogans you heard during the protests in 2090 it is a reminder that in spite of the restrictions of covert 19 people are still prepared to come out in large numbers to show their anger. police fans brought the $47.00 activists to court for the start of what could be a lengthy legal process the cases represent the largest mass charge so far against the pro-democracy camp they're accused of can. spira seek to commit subversion diplomats or make country sent representatives including britons concerned that a vaguely worded law is now being widely applied to chinese and hong kong

authorities were clear that it would be used in a very narrow scope the fact that $47.00 people were charged in one day is evidence that that is no longer the case the $47.00 are accused of breaking the law by helping organize an informal primaries in july to select candidates for elections which were later cancelled the aim was to win a majority in parliament and block legislation 600000 people took part in the poll selecting representatives closely connected to the protest movement whose leaders china says must be severely punished adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong 2 women have been charged over the excesses and death of a 9 year old girl in sri lanka the suspects of the girl's mother and the woman who performed the exorcism police say the mother believed her daughter had been possessed by a demon she took her to the home of the exorcist so she could drive the spirit away it's alleged the exorcist poor all of the girl then repeatedly beat her with

a cane she lost consciousness and was taken to hospital where she died. the mother told her to have a manic ritual performed that when she took it to have the ritual performed perform a heater using canines attack to she attacked her until the child suffocated that sort of being told i don't know anything else and we're going to hear anything right her. release of warn people against such rituals saying the girl is not the 1st to die. the e.u. will this month unveil plans for a digital vaccine passport e.u. commission president also the from the lion says draft legislation will be ready soon a digital system to confirm a person's vaccination status could be essential to lifting travel restrictions within the region member states including greece and cyprus have already created a travel bubble recognizing each other's vaccines at the fitz. the philippines is finally rolling out its 1st cave in 19 inoculation program the last nation in the

region to do so health care workers in manila were among the 1st to get doses of the son of a vaccine which arrived from china on sunday but has been really low reports in the capital many are still unhappy with what's on offer filipino health care workers had been expecting the arrival of covert 1000 vaccines for months the philippines was the only country is southeast asia that had an vaccinated a single citizen. but the wait is finally over only because the afraid that seem never seen so before making a point to maybe be the 1st good thing is that people having been dating make. up does be done next bit that they both takes on the 9 for a lot. most 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 chips it's a huge day for the philippines to be rolling out over $1000.00 vaccines after months of delay 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 vaccine to have arrived in the philippines is corona fact 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 of health the food then drug administration and the department the past had said it isn't for health workers who are exposed to the bias and would be so this are back with a high in a fake a 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 that then box a job after concerts about its serious side effects. officials have said repeatedly

doe the best back scene is what's available down. there people who want. but protesting health workers say they should not have to face this dilemma barnaby lol i'll just hear manila. still to come on out there this news and i just told a developing story at f.c. barcelona west 4 arrests have been made after police raided the cubs offices at ces for gemma.

jim is here now with the sport thank you lauren spanish police say boss ally is cooperating with their investigation after a full people were arrested following raids at the football club's offices on monday among those reportedly detained is the club's former president josep maria bottom my investigation relates to last year is so cool bossa 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 ottley in a messy we spoke to a piece of global sports correspondent rob paris. this all comes in the week 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 to date on the poor former president himself a boss a 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 leon all messy he tried to leave in the summer his transfer request was denied and leaks recent showing what he's paid up to 138000000 euros a season and it really highlights that's why past learned in such a financial mess and also why we saw an alleged smear campaign against messi and other players known as boss a 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 boss lomas biggest names lightly on a messy and p.k. bust line it did conduct an investigation they brought an external source saying that and it 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. gosling a 2nd in the spanish taken would have been overtaken by ram the dritte have they've beaten sausage at this one has ended 10 rama dritte just getting a point in this one so that means they stay 5 points behind the leaders athletic a madrid but i do have a game in hand one of the world's top trainers gordon and it has been banned from racing horses in britain while she is under investigation for an image showing him sat on a dead horse this cropped picture 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 governing body in our that in our land has opened an investigation and the british horseracing authority won't allow him to saddle any run is in person until it's concluded at it said in the 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 sat down to take it hearing a shout from one of my team i gestured to wait until i was finished such background information may seem trivial at this time however i feel it is important to provide people with context surrounding this phase say well we spoke to racing broadcast every put bell who says the sport 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 photoshop 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 storage is a huge headache they've 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 resolved 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 nose he has the on 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 nice that france's rugby had left the team's bubble before a bit outbreak in the squad that's the to spain and of the 6 nations game setting goals he went to watch his son play a rugby match but 10 days later tested positive for the virus and levon of his

players all say quote coronavirus which led to france's game with scotland which was supposed on sunday being cooled off russia's moved a step closer to having its long term ban from track and field left it after a lot of plastics approved a plan of doping reforms it includes more testing of athletes a crackdown of russian regions with daken problems encouraging whistleblowers. giving athletes more of a voice in how the sport's run wild with essex hasn't yet set a date to fully readmit the russian track federation which has been suspended since 2015 but its hospitals will monitor its progress with the reforms dublin picked triathlon champion alistair brownlee says the international olympic committee will need luck to pull off the games this year because of the corona virus outbreak the person's looking for a 3rd straight gold in tokyo and what would be his last olympics and he's back in 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 authority is in tokyo they are actually there aren't they man after well when eyes like it's on and keep going keep going and you know hopefully you know hopefully they've got they're going 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. 83 run as from 6 countries have craved subzero temperatures in siberia to compete in the market participants raced across the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake lake by cal in russia i'm a 42 kilometer race was won by alexis merson and he's the former captain of the russian national team so he's clearly not taking it easy in his retirement there is a. thing about it very little that's not only in the stars that really and that's all sport for baylor thank you very much emma. and that's it for me arteta for the said news out of in catch up any time with our website address that is al jazeera

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