get in genocide on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world no matter when you. use in current trails that matter to you. in terms of our partnership with saudi arabia as a recalibration it's not a rupture the biden administration defends its decision not to sanction saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond for the killing of a journalist. darren jordan this is a jazeera live from doha also coming up cutting aid is a death sentence words of despair at the u.n. as a donor conference on yemen falls far short of funds needed to help millions caught

with teen war and starvation. former french president nicolas sarkozy faces jail after being convicted for corruption plus. thousands turn out in support of armenia's embattled prime minister under pressure to resign for his handling of the conflict against us about. the biden administration is defending its actions against saudi arabia over the murder of the journalist. the state department does care of 5 steps taken on friday after the release of an intelligence report accusing saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salmond of approving an operation to kill or capture. no direct actions been taken towards the future saudi king but the white house says it reserves the right to sanction him in the future if necessary instead the bite and ministration impose sanctions on saudi agents believed to be involved in the

killing including the former deputy intelligence chief mohamed el assyria. well the state department is also urging saudi arabia to disband the rapid intervention force that's the elite unit believed to be behind the. 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 democracy show equant 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 and the route to nations human rights investigator

agnus color says it's extremely dangerous not to take action against the crown prince it is extremely. in my view problematic if not manager of us to acknowledge someone's going to probability and then to tell bad someone what we want to do and i think most see that as if we have said nothing and i am calling only us government to act oh it's probably findings and to sanction mohammed ben-simon home once he has gone to sanction he will eyes and beyond the assumed he must see him and he seeks now individuals are sanctioned to sanction him in the diplomacy sense of the word by wishing him well in some of those. circles i'm cool on them to please you only internationally to really pull out for. your investigation of killings

and out of my own nation so against john the least cuarón hundreds. mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so some of the details announced by the state department earlier we had heard last friday so just talk us through what these new measures are and what they mean . yes well the state department fleshed out those measures that were announced on friday slapping sanctions on $76.00 of the individuals of that so-called rapid deployment force both in terms of a new law called the khashoggi ban which will apply to human rights abuses not only in saudi arabia but across the world treasury department also left a baton on some $76.00 members of that particular reaction force so those with the details that were fresh start in the course the one very new announcement made by the state department was the fact that it had called on saudi arabia to disband

that particular group now the cia report which was the basis of a report made public by the department of national intelligence made very clear that these individuals were involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi and to the direction the report contends of the crown prince mohammed bin salman but in that state department briefing the press spokesman dancing around that particular issue of why the crown prince is not among those served with sanctions it would appear and mike the biden administration's caught in a very difficult dilemma here i mean it's being criticized for not punishing the crown prince if it sees saudi arabia as an important strategic ally doesnt it. well it's very much that is the situation now where one goes back to the campaign. joe biden insisted that those responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi must be held accountable now he's president it appears that he is not going to take any

action against the crown prince despite the fact that his intelligence services have found the crown prince directly responsible the biden administration continuing to argue a number of things that it does not take the sanctions or impose sanctions against the leaders of governments with which it is an ally however that is quite frankly not correct there are more than 8 nations that the u.s. has slapped sanctions on the leaders of including a number that our allies and with whom the u.s. had or has diplomatic relationships so certainly this is an obfuscation of a kind but the by administration making clear is well that although it is going to recalibrate its relationship with saudi arabia as it puts it it still needs that saudi arabia as a very valuable partner in terms of its nash fissions within the region and its national interests within that particular reason so very much

a careful balancing act being carried out by the by then the ministration but it may not be that effective because it's going to be massive blowback from congress on the fact that no actions being taken at this stage against the crown prince in particular it's the one issue on which a deeply divided congress is immensely unified and that is there has been repeated bipartisan calls since the killings and since in particular the report was made public for the crown prince to be held accountable so the president is going to have to be answering to his congress in coming days and indeed weeks are to my kind of life for us there in washington d.c. mike thank you. now the united nations secretary general says he's disappointed by the outcome of the global down a conference for yemen and turn of the tennis says the event raised roughly $1700000000.00 that's less than half of the 3850000000 the u.n. was asking for our diplomatic editor james bays reports on u.n.

headquarters in new york for weeks the u.n. has been warning that yemen's dar humanitarian situation is on the verge of becoming the worst crime in anywhere on earth in decades to date i mean is bearing down on yemen the race is on if we want to prevent hunger and starvation from taking millions of lives to avert humanitarian disaster the secretary general convened a pledging conference to raise almost $4000000000.00 but while big donors did give money in most cases they actually reduced their contributions 3 year earlier in the past the country's fighting as part of the coalition in yemen saudi arabia and the united arab emirates gave the most this year their contributions were down to the head of the world food program warned that out of the $385000000000.00 the u.n. wanted there was an absolute bare minimum needed to stop

a famine my point 9000000000 just over. $100000000.00 per month to help. but in the end instead of 1900000000 they got 1670000000 the un's emergency relief coordinator read out a statement from the secretary general showing his frustration the best that can be said about today is that it represents a downpayment 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 seen in decades. the message from the u.n. to donor countries is pretty clear thank you for your money but it's not enough and we're going to come back to you to ask for more otherwise there's going to be a massive famine in yemen. out 0 of the united nations so let's bring in dr i

said john she's founder and president of yemen relief and reconstruction she joins us live from seattle washington let me start by asking you is there now worrying sense that acute donor fatigue is setting in over yemen because donors i guess a yet again being asked to dig deeper into their pockets. i understand that people are having concerns and they're pretty may be an issue that we have to remember that yemen is a manmade tice's the famine in yemen is. a result of a political conflict that the like of the countries the donor countries actually bear responsibility for the devastation and the family and that is happening in yemen today yemenis who are parish and for the damage and the suffering that they have endured for the last 6 years with support from the u.s. u.k.

france and many other countries that supported the war that's led by the saudi and them. so i don't understand the donor fatigue especially from countries that have. produced the famine that we are seeing today ok if you look at the spending that they've had on the war and on the weapons it's in the billions of dollars and a fraction of that could save people from the largest famine that we've seen in more than 40 years ok so she said the u.n. says the u.n. had hoped to raise $4000000000.00 so i mean i think everyone would agree it is a huge shortfall here so what does the shortfall. actually mean on the ground for the millions of yemenis who won who are quite literally starving. so the u.n. has already said there are 16200000 yemeni who are experiencing

a famine there isn't any area in yemen that's not experiencing quickness security every single part of yemen is experiencing food insecurity we know today there are 2300000 children who have acute malnutrition these 400000 yemeni children and the 5 years that they are going to die in the next months or weeks if they are not receiving aid today and receiving food to help them survive the long term effect on yemen is actually going to be tremendous we know that a lot of these kids who are experiencing money. are going to have cognitive development problems we also know there are a lot of children and families are experiencing mental health issues due to the fact that they don't know where is that their next meal is going to come from so we've had people who have committed suicide whole families because they didn't have

anything to eat and they just could not bear asking for food anymore let me just let me just jump in here with a final question because time is against us i mean famine is yet to be declared in yemen but the u.n. has warned that it's very close to that now so what more can the international committee do right now to help yemen. so 2 things one is they need to lift the blockade on the blockade that is preventing food medicine and essential goods including fuel from getting into yemen lift the blockade and let the yemeni people you know hope themselves to that is a u.n. security council resolution that is made for war according to the previous year and security. you know envoy to yemen that you're under a solution needs to be changed so it's inclusive fair and just the certain thing is

there by the administration specifically needs to stop linking the iran to go with peace negotiations in yemen we need to be linked to these 2 issues because yemenis have been used as hostage in the past by the obama administration what a good lead to support the war and now by the by again administration they in many people should not be hostage to issues between iran and the you out ok we have to leave it there the doctor thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and he's been sentenced to 3 years in jail or 2 years were suspended if the conviction is upheld on appeal he may surface sentence under house arrest but as a touch of butter reports from paris it's made a political comeback unlikely. 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 that 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 again 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 educational 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. al-jazeera paris. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back rolling back the trump years the u.s. and mexican presidents meet virtually promised to cooperate on a number. of key issues. anger continues in bangladesh over the death of the writer and critic of the government in cyprus more on that state's.

how i once again we've got severe storms now moving across the deep south of the u.s. you can see this area cloud has some large hail possibly one of 2 tornadoes just touched in here but also some very heavy rain which could lead to flash flooding over the next 2448 hours that's where the wettest weather will be just moving through louisiana into mississippi alabama easing across into georgia further north as generate dry until we get up towards ontario quebec some snow coming through here right state and snow just around that western side of canada and some pretty strong way in the system around the west coast of the u.s. that windy weather will continue to also some shabby rain coming in here is to go on through wet in states was california and the great state the snow pepping up

there across that western side of canada central they suppose to kind of the dry out bright not kwan calm down quite nicely we will see whether the weather coming into the carolinas as we go through wednesday but you notice by wednesday it should be dry in place to say down across the deep south 21 celsius in dallas and warm sunshine coming through here lots of warm sunshine me ma across the caribbean and the a cloud in the skies absolutely gorgeous you might see want to see showers just around the east not and want to see showers to come in east and west inside of the region . but. frank assessments the world is on the brink drunk that model fabian is that a fair assessment you catastrophic hialeah to twice and valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying big oil ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth

analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on outages era. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour the by the ministration is defending its decision not to apply sanctions on saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon for the killing of a journalist. it reiterated what it seeking to recalibrate not russia the u.s. saudi relationship. the united nations 2nd general says he's disappointed by the outcome of the global turn a conference for yemen roughly $1700000000.00 was raised that's less than half of the $3850000000.00 the u.n.

. and former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption he's been sentenced to 3 years in jail although 2 years were suspended because he has appealed and is facing at least 2 other cases. maybe as prime minister says he is ready to call a snap election to end a deepening political crisis nicol passion he has been under pressure from the opposition to step down since his government gave up on land to azerbaijan to end fighting in the disputed nagorno-karabakh when john and his supporters and opponents both held large rallies in the capital on monday after she had opted to trample little cock i want to apologize to everyone to all citizens of armenia to all armenians of the diaspora to all citizens of new going back for my mistakes i thought a lot about where i went wrong we can list these areas but it is more important to ask why the government as a team was mistaken ironically one of the main reasons for our mistakes with our popularity as

a government will run forrester walker is in yarra valley and says those 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 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 until they call price you know 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 the armenian system is 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 it 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 mexico's president has held virtual talks with his u.s. counterpart stressing the need to cooperate on a range of issues and that is money lopez obrador told joe biden that both nations are safer and stronger together they spoke about immigration vaccine supply and trade cooperation among a number of other issues on money arapaho joins us live now from mexico city so the money there are 7 issues both leaders discussed at this bilateral meeting but the sharing of covert 19 vaccines seems to be high on the agenda. the virtual bilateral meeting between president joe biden and mexican president and it's monday look as otoh it concluded on monday with both world leaders seeming fairly pleased with the conversation they they had but as you said there was quite a bit of anticipation ahead of this meeting because of that announcement that was confirmed by president lopez over the during an early morning press conference here

in mexico where he said that he had asked if the united states would be willing to share in their stockpile of the covert 900 vaccine in the country we have course no that the answer would eventually be no we heard from the white house press secretary john psaki who said even before the bilateral meeting that the number one priority the top focus of the by the administration is to make sure that all 'd u.s. americans are guaranteed access to the vaccine once that is accomplished then the quote unquote next steps can be can can be can be discussed now it shouldn't come as any surprise that mexico's president would sort of take this position he's actually become one of the loudest voices among world leaders when it comes to the issue in the question of equitable access among developing nations to cope with 1000 vaccines and not only because mexico's own coded 900 vaccination program has largely stalled because of this shortage internationally of covert 1000 vaccines but because there's many countries several countries here in latin america that have yet to begin their own inoculation programs for that very same reason and on

the issue of immigration there's now increasing pressure on the us mexico border because of policy changes on the bottom of ministration. that's right and it wasn't only immigration in covert 19 there were issues of bilateral cooperation on crime bilateral cooperation on climate change but immigration certainly was a spotlight topic during this bilateral meeting that took place on monday we know that the biden administration since day one of the presidency has been working on dismantling many of the policies that were put in place by joe biden's predecessor donald trump policies that resulted in countries like mexico guatemala honduras becoming those quote unquote safe 3rd countries where asylum seekers to the united states were forced to wait for their asylum cases to be processed but not in the united states we also know that the by an administration is is turning the

tide on that seeking a new relationship with mexico and that's what we really heard from both world leaders but however up until now we had not heard what mexico's sort of strategic role would be we know now with with certainty that the new relationship seems to be based on a bilateral strategy working with mexico to address the root causes of immigration in countries where a majority of these asylum seekers originate again to countries like hunter s. solve the door and guatemala or to mount a rapid i live for us there in mexico city manila thank you. the world health organization is warning that global coronavirus cases are on the increase again for the 1st time in 7 weeks of an h o chief had that oscar b.s.s. says it's disappointing but not surprising beauty member that i reported the virus was on a decline for consecutive 6 weeks but 1st time in 7 weeks we have a cool view to increase reported cases increased in fordo for

w 2 sikhs regions of the americas europe sause east asia and the east to meditate in some of it appears to be due to lack of measures. continued circulation of violence and people looting down their gun vaccines will help to save lives but if countries relies solely on vaccines they are making a mistake basic public and measures remain the foundation of their response the european union is set to unveil plans for a digital vaccine passport later this month e.u. commission president on the lion says draft legislation will soon be ready a digital system to confirm a person's vaccination status could be essential to lifting travel restrictions

within the region and in the u.s. deliveries of the johnson and johnson vaccine are due to begin on tuesday they're being loaded up at a distribution center in the state of kentucky is the 3rd vaccine to be approved in the u.s. and the only one that requires just a single dose. hundreds of people in bangladesh are protesting for a 4th day against the death of a writer inside a high security prison they want an investigation into how many died i met was a critic of the government and was arrested under a controversial digital security yet on the challenger reports now. there is widespread anger and condemning nation across bangladesh these protesters want to know why 52 year old writer and dissident died while in detention moshtarak ahmed was arrested last year under the controversial digital security act which critics say stifles freedom of speech died on thursday in

a high security jail in god before district because of his death was not immediately clear rights groups say mushtaq ahmed and cartoonist on the show where targeted by police while in custody i don't know yet 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 am. the writers that has led to violence seems like the in the past several days as police attempt to break up the opposition and the protests dozens of people have been injured including officers police have arrested several protesters. to tell us what did you do security and he's not making 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 will have to be freed rights groups and other organizations are

concerned international law goes along with ambassadors from 13 countries have demand and i'm investigation into that that. he was arrested for is calling on his social media criticizing the government's response but call it 19 and other racers bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has dismissed accusation our government is not doing enough to protect human rights. no death is desired nor is it desired that on rest 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 you know our country beneath 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 site. u.k.

based rights group article 19 say's as many as 457 people off 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 to be child realtors into dhaka bangladesh now a large media has blazed its way across the skies of the united kingdom thousands of people across the country witnessed the slow moving meteor on sunday night it's been described by the u.k. media network as a fireball and researchers say it likely began life as an asteroid.