the use and abuse of power around the globe. announces it. be the hero of the world. washing. al-jazeera. hello this is the news hour on al-jazeera i'm fully back to go live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes new u.s. sanctions send russia message about both the treatment of dissidents alexina and their broader relationship. 279 schoolgirls have been released in northern nigeria after being kidnapped by gunmen on friday also this hour france changes course its

government says people above the age of 65 can now receive the astra zeneca coded 900 vaccine. and police in myanmar fire at protesters as neighboring countries hold talks with the military to find a way out of the crisis. and i'm here to stay with us for the latest on the so-called bossa gate scandal also known as former club president just a bottom as now being released off for a night in jail. thank you for joining us u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia is impose sanctions on russian officials and businesses in response. the poisoning and jailing of

alexei navalny the kremlin critic way of spores and with the nerve agents know the chalk in august and arrested when he returned to moscow after receiving treatment in germany let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly hall kate who is at the white house or so can be the 1st sanctions by the by an administration targeting russia what more can you tell us who's being targeted. yet the white house is still a little bit unclear in terms of releasing information about the individual specifically but what we do know is that in addition to russian officials 14 different businesses as well as one enterprise are being affected by these sanctions now the reason for this the white house is saying is for what it's calling russia's destabilizing actions this is a direct response to what u.s. intelligence has concluded was the intentional poisoning by russia of the russian opposition leader alexina vali as well as his jailing and this is just the

beginning oh what we're being told is that there are more actions that are planned for the hacking of u.s. agencies that expose the supply chain of the united states to russian officials what we can tell you is this has been done as promised by the by the ministration in coordination with american allies and partners overseas in fact we know that the european union was consulted in advance of these actions being taken today by the united states again the 1st biden administration against russia kimberly the relationship is going to be very different isn't it then under the top administration. 100 percent in fact this is something that joe biden campaigned on it's a promise he said he intended to carry out early in his administration and now we are seeing evidence of that it's a very stark contrast these actions so early there really very different than what we saw from donald trump and his relationship with vladimir putin and the russian

government to you famously remember the helsinki summit where even as the u.s. intelligence agencies concluded that russia had interfered in the 2016 u.s. election for donald trump's benefit that he defended russia and the denials there had been any russian interference also remember the bounties that russia paid on u.s. soldiers in afghanistan again the donald trump administration refusing to take any action even as there was bipartisan push in congress for him to do so so there was a reluctance on the part of donald trump to in any way take any punitive action against the russian government still unclear why but it is a very stark contrast to the actions were seen by the biden administration today thank you for that company how could my forests the white house and we hope to get reaction out of moscow to these new sanctions by the u.s. against russia in other world news now 279 school girls kidnapped more than 4 days

ago in nigeria have been freed the students of a government run school in the northern state of zamfara regain their freedom after days of tense negotiations on the trace reports in some far state. they arrived at dorm limped their way into the office of the governor exhausted and some too sick to walk. this of meals in an office where normally cabinet meetings are held. with their 1st decent meals in days they gathered the strength to tell us what happened saying it does it was. they drove us like animals some of us were falling and getting injured they made us trek for 2 to 3 hours and spent the 1st 2 days in the camp they pushed us forward threatening to kill anyone who refused to move despite the blisters on our feet they forced us to walk further into we reach the 2nd and then the 3rd camp. the $279.00 students like kidnapped

while they were sleeping in their boarding school dormitories in the town of john gave in circumstances similar to the kidnapping of more than $270.00 goes in she broke into into 14 this man a former bandage says he left several others to help bring the ghost back. we met and told them we came in peace to leave with the girls who for no fault of theirs found themselves in such a situation they also spoke about their grievances and why they took the girls it was a long difficult process full of tension but we also came ready and prepared for the unforeseen. the goes have now been taken to a secure location for medical examinations before they have reunited with their families. but that hasn't stopped excited parents like the one who's managed to get close to where they are. and my joy is indescribable i called my wife to tell her the girls are back i haven't seen my daughter but i'm relieved she's back in the

past 4 days with now we can afford to eat sleep and smile the governor of them for a state has offered amnesty to gunmen who sat and insists dialogue with the bandits will continue despite the pitfalls. that we are now fighting. for the government. so we are going to continue with that truth because not all of them that. we used to. live lives of leave. it because nobody can be able to get the kidnapping of these goes on friday came hours before the release of another set of students kidnapped in central nigeria there's one for attack is a 6 mosque or kidnapping in northern nigeria in recent years for the girls back attention is now shifting to the future of education with schools continuously being targeted especially in northern part of nigeria there are fears that the

region the highest rate of poverty may fall even farther behind it's not clear if these goals will have the courage to return to school or even if their parents allow them to return but for now they're happy to enjoy their freedom hoping the government will do more to protect them. with the increase. nigeria. the corona virus pandemic now and nigeria has received its 1st covered 900 vaccine store the global kovacs sharing scheme nearly 4000000 astra zeneca jobs arrived in the capital abuja on tuesday health care and frontline workers will be the 1st to be knockin ated geria is the 3rd west african country to benefit from the u.n. sponsored program it expects to receive 16000000 doses still kovacs peta hawkins is a unicef representative in nigeria he says a country can overcome vaccine hesitancy as it has in the past close to 4000000 is

a big amount it's a fantastic step forward for nigerian a fantastic step full for the whole of africa and people will take them there's no question about that in the same way as many people said at the beginning people would know where most people are starting to wear masks it's very difficult it's a cause a big change and with the vaccine is the same i remember in 2003 when people work against the polio vaccine we slowly slowly worked with the different communities with the traditional leaders the religious group things the community and at state level and slowly slowly we started working through that and fact seen has since is something that will happen but we need to work on addressing that and looking at different ways of helping the communities and helping individuals overcome their own fears the astra zeneca is a is

a good fact seen. there. are looking at all the time how appropriate is in a country like nigeria and the quicker we get people vaccinated the less likely the pandemic itself would overtake so that would that's why it's so peanut key that nigeria gets this amount this quickly and the kovacs facility has done an extremely well to bring this amount 3940000 doses into nigeria today on the 2nd of march which is a fantastic achievement. us on the so-called giants johnson and johnson has confirmed it will test its covered $1000.00 vaccine on children it's also planning to include newborns and pregnant women and it's expanded trius johnson and johnson's vaccine is the only single dose job and the 3rd to get approval by u.s. regulated says nearly $4000000.00 doses are being delivered across the united states tough tests on yasser nanya kase an associate professor of infectious

diseases at the australian national university he says it's unclear how essential the vaccination of children will be in slowing the spread out the virus certainly covert $98.00 for reasons we're still trying to write this and that may be because children ever less ace to receptors in their body that adults seem to be less susceptible to cove it and severe kind of it although it seems to be bore an issue in older children than younger children but we certainly do see deaths in children in the us data probably about 5 out of every $10000.00 children who get caught it will die which is very unfortunate that's still a bit of a very low level and if you break that down further it tends to be older children so since c.d.c. data from the us found that about the median age of $121.00 children who died from code it was 16 in the u.k.

for very small numbers from early last year 3 out of 4 deaths were in children over the age of 10 so you might want to target in terms of vaccination older children and the other thing we know is that children who've got co-morbidities or chronic conditions are more likely to die and that those who don't so you might also even target younger children with a chronic medical condition even if the children have vaccinated we don't know if they will necessarily stop track that will stop transmission the rest ill try to work that out of the adult backs of native population it probably will have a big impact but we're not quite sure so i suspect until we were all this out it will be good to continue taking the precautions that we are taking at the moment if we are opening schools in areas with coded. france's health minister says people above the age of 65 with health complications are now eligible to take astra zeneca is called 1000 vaccine france had restricted the vaccine because data on its effect

on older people was limited people older than 75 will be given doses from pfizer and modena as bring in a correspondent in paris on a tough change of course why is the french government now saying the astra zeneca vaccine is ok for over 60 five's yes certainly a change of message from the french government to the french health minister oliver ha has said that astra zeneca vaccine will be used to now in france for those who are over 65 with health problems that there is no problem with that as you said up until now only people under 65 were administered the astra zeneca vaccine and the reason for this is back when in january when the european medical agency actually gave the approval the green light to the astra zeneca vaccine for its use in the european union at that time france and other european countries including germany a cast doubt on the amount of darter in the trials that have been done for the

astra zeneca vaccine in france the french government said that they felt there was simply not enough darts on how the vaccine reacted in an older population for them at that time now since then the french government is saying that there is new research there's new science they have new evidence that this astra zeneca vaccine is is safe enough to be used in people over 65 and therefore should be used and that is what is behind this change of message from the government the french natasha tend to be a vaccine skeptics has that change or does the government now have to still convince people that this vaccine is safe. well i think it's clear that the french government have a huge public relations problem on their hands because for the past few months the french government of been warning against the astros a vaccine for over 60 five's and suddenly now they're having to try and convince

that slice of the population that the vaccine is safe and even though they might say that as you say many people in france already there's high skepticism in france about vaccines as can be very difficult to kind of convince many people that there is new darter and that it makes it safe now for this astra zeneca vaccine to be used by that is exactly what the government's trying to do in fact the person has been put in charge of the french vaccine rollout program professor alan fischer has actually said that the bad press that this vaccine has received over the last few months in the european union as it is is pretty devastating and it is important that people know that this vaccine is a safe so i think that it's clear that the governments are going to have a lot of work on their hands and particularly it's important for them that they get this message across because of the moment you have a population in france of nearly 70000000 people and only one when a half 1000000 people have received the full 2 doses they know that they have

a lot of vaccines to administer and it was recently reported using health french health ministry statistics that there are about well over a 1000000 astra zeneca doses of been delivered to france but only a quarter of them have been administered in part because of the bad press that this vaccine has been given at ash i thank you for that matter about the life for a sim paris. more ahead on this news hour including allegations that was crimes are being committed against hundreds of civilians in mozambique the biden administration defends its decision not to a sanction saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for the killing of. and england's need to win the 4th cricket test against india to square the series is over here to look ahead to that match in sports. the end.

for security forces in myanmar cracking down further on protesters 2 days after the bloodiest day yet since the military cool their reports live rounds were fired in the northwestern town of. this was a scene in young gone the largest city where they have been street battles between police and on tycoon demonstrators on tuesday despite the use of increasingly violent tactics to disperse the crowds at least 18 people were killed on sunday meanwhile say on leaders have been meeting to discuss the situation in myanmar jessica washington has the latest from jakarta indonesia. so about some of the points that. we don't get other countries raised during this meeting but we know that indonesia has been at the forefront of trying to organize these meetings between foreign ministers and trying to organize some sort of meeting at the in the end it ended up being

a virtual meeting between the ministers in tunisia and all the countries of stress for this process is that this meeting does not confer any sort of legitimacy on the military it is not showing any support but this is the start of a dialogue and the start of normalizing the situation. we know that indonesia has been the biggest advocate in the on. democratic transition to some of the stated aims we heard from the foreign minister. is that the safety and welfare of the people should be at the forefront of that. humanitarian access and that should stand ready to assist in that process this must also political prisoners should be released and that violence should come through and that she condemned the violence on the military she also stressed that the family that there

is an opportunity for this organization to prove that it has a role to play in. disputes such as this but that can only happen if me and is willing to open the door now she said that this has to be a dialogue that the democratically elected leaders of me and to have a role in that process as well she said ready to facilitate the process of normalizing the democratic transition in may but that me and my house to make that make allowances for that to happen in the 1st place so it is a long process ahead we know that the foreign minister. it depends what they say and i really dictate when i was going to have a unified approach to combating this crisis. amnesty international says war crimes are being committed in mozambique's kabul delgado province in a new report the rice says hundreds of people have been killed since 2017 it's

documented extrajudicial executions human rights violations and indiscriminate attacks the u.n. says the violence has forced more than 500000 people to leave their homes at the amnesty report says many parties are responsible for the killings fight is locally known as which is not linked to the group in somalia have beheaded civilians and burnt villages in the northern region state security forces also facing accusations of rights violations in an effort to crush the rebellion the report says government troops are betraying me arrested civilians tortured detainees and carried out extrajudicial killings it also says medicine areas from a south african security firm hired by mozambique's government have shot at civilians the company says it will look into the allegations let's speak some more about this not to. draw on who's a senior researcher and projects leader for southern africa at the institute for security studies from johannesburg thank you very much for being with us so we have

here both the mozambican government and insurgents being accused of war crimes against civilians in in this on a mysterious port but what is interesting here is that the government is said to have gotten help from a south african private military firm the dyke advisory group what more do we know about this for the extent of their involvement in. yes and this is been going on for cancer 2 years now we know that dad and the advisory group is involved in trying to fight this insurgency in canada and they have been previous accusations that they've been shooting indiscriminately armed groups and as have also killed civilians in a sedan because basically they are not on the ground so he look up to his with machine guns and that was me accused of. dropping grenades and are

religious and of course insurgents are using civilians as a human shield and so these accusations that they will be as of the killings that have been going on for the damage what makes this amnesty report important is we now have duck you made to. scores of eyewitness accounts of this happening and as you said both the surge of the fighters from al-shabaab as i call the security forces and in the private security contractors and dag is a private military firm so how can they be held accountable. that is precisely the problem because they do have an agreement where the the government will die coolies this is a man standing out he's actually zimbabwean but he's been helping the bremer government intrusion on who has not lost any relations there he was actually contacted

initially defied poaching in a mozambique and there's a journey into you know mostly activity as such and that's what really at the eyes if amnesty many other organizations hands of our society organizations have been saying these are well it's was is over there you know it's not that there's insurgency it's as is that that is not sustainable to call on private security private military companies the most immediate government has also in the positives of russian mercenary instead of you know getting other assistance from from the region so there is no accountability as you say it's very difficult to measure they say they are now going to launch their own investigation into the killing of civilians but it's really not a solution to there's this very very serious crisis in kabul speaking of assistance

from the region i mean south africa at one point had said had express interest seen in helping mozambique tackle this insurgency how concerned is south africa about what's happening there and is there any link at all between dag this private military contractor and the south african government. yes in many instances the south african government has expressed concern and rightly so of course it's a neighboring country they all region is in there but of disarray i would say it's the 1st time southern africa really has had to deal with a stand of islamic state linked. insurgency that is as brutal and unpredictable almost as theirs also linked one has descended to the natural resources they are gas or you know gas projects going on in kandahar do so

yes diet is best in south africa and in fact south africa has got a strict laws against. there is and the past the south african government has been very clear against those areas for example fighting boko haram in nigeria but this time around and we know that an investigation has been norge to the foreign ministry as an act in south africa but it doesn't seem to be under very high level the let it go world to drag others through and we haven't seen really statements from this other african government condemning there's the use of private military contractors in mozambique as i say and there is no proof all suspicion of any official leagues between the government and and i but it's almost as if southern africa and the region is doing

a blind eye because that actually don't know how to how to handle this and barring sailing ships which the region really hasn't that is really no plan by the southern african development community sunday or other neighboring countries no official military assistance at least against this this crisis thank you very much for talking to us about this over drawn from the south african institute for security studies by skype there from janice by thank you very much for a insight. are still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour the british community is looking for a post pandemic relief as the government for. its economic recovery plan and the utah jazz after stopped in their tracks in the n.b.a. peter will be here with the action in sports.

the at. the weather is the thing dry and quiet across much of the middle east at the moment but some places of clouds over towards the gulf easing a little for that ace was quite brisk and all the way in but the winds will ease down over the next dial so temperatures here in doha to around $26.00 celsius now to swallow 2 showers into northern iraq maybe the odd shower just around georgia more the way of showers across eastern side of the mediterranean i think this is going to be the most active area as because through the next day or 2 so why to stay into thursday those showers sweep across cyprus will see some wet weather just around 11 on pushing a crossing through could possibly syria and the showers then just extending a little further east which in the process of iraq could see some showers south of that fine and dry temperatures again getting up into the mid to high twenty's

across southern half of the peninsula fun and try to across somalia pushing across into kenya we've got some big shallow is just around the rift valley slotting a little further south was sweater weather just easing over towards southern parts of towns and there mozambique channel because this little circulation brewing up here certainly want to keep an eye on over the next couple of days ago some heavy right it's eastern parts of maize and big and of course the good parts of madagascar. but. 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 takes center stage. they come along those resistance the ultras of roger cossack lanka the fans who

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to a reminder of our top stories u.s. president joe biden has imposed sanctions on russian officials and businesses related to the poisoning of and jailing of alexian up on the the kremlin critic was poisoned with a nerve agent navi chalk in august in august and arrested when he returned to moscow these are the 1st u.s. sanctions on russia by the biden administration. in nigeria 279 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northwestern state of some fire have been released gunmen took them from a state run school on friday this is the natives of the series of abductions in the region and the u.s. state department is threatening further sanctions against myanmar military for its crackdown on protesters still a street battles between security forces and on tycoon demonstrators in cities across the country on tuesday. by the director of the f.b.i.

is appearing before a u.s. house senate committee over the insurrection on capitol hill on january the 6 members of congress are expected to question christopher a on what the bureau did or did not know about possible security threats ahead of the riots allan fisher is on capitol hill for us joins us now live on the news hour so what have we heard so far allan in this latest hearing about what happened on january 6th. well this is all of the events of exactly 8 weeks ago today a point made by dick durbin who is the democratic chair of the committee saying that of course they remember what happened here in the capitol it is on their memories and he said that this was an insurrection inspired and directed by donald trump certainly he will want to know what intelligence the f.b.i. had before the events of january the 6th so often the f.b.i. have said look social media chatter is not intelligence there is a difference so they'll want to know what exactly the f.b.i. was telling the capitol police but also d.c.

police says well one of the key things will be a message passed from the f.b.i. office in norfolk virginia in the southern part of the state to the capitol police the day before the insurrection but it was never passed up the chain of command center we knew that senators will want to know a lot more about that and also democratic senators will want to know exactly what the f.b.i. is doing about domestic terrorism particularly white supremacy back in 2019 want to see an f.b.i. figure gave evidence to the senate he said that it was about 80 percent international to 20 percent domestic the attention of the f.b.i. so senators will want to know whether or not that ratio has changed it's interesting that chuck grassley who's the leading republican on the committee started his comments by 1st of all agreeing with everything that dick durbin said about the events of january the 6th but he also wanted to know what the f.b.i. was doing about what he described as left leaning threats to the united states particularly the anti fascist organization and tea for making the point that many

people were arrested in portland it's important to point out that after the events here in january the 6th is still an ongoing operation for the f.b.i. it's something they believe that they can be proud of more than $300.00 people have been arrested all of them individuals what the f.b.i. is doing now is looking for more people who may have been involved and whether or not there are charges the can bring which will lead. conspiracy which means more than 2 people have been involved in the plot to attack the capitol and whether or not this was a coordinated effort by good thank you for that alan fischer live for us on capitol hill now one of the things that those hearings are highlighting is how differently democrats and republicans do the events of january 6th democrats call it an insurrection but many republicans not question why the trump supporters were actually involved that speaks to eric cantor about this he's a political analyst and is via skype from washington thank you so much for being with us erick so the the u.s. republican party seems to have collectively embraced

a faction in correct vision of what happened on january the 6 1st of all why do you think that is why they why they doing this well they're doing it for political reasons and they're also doing it to differ but the flecked responsibility from where this attack originated and that is with president donald trump in addition to that to be part of a a political party a major political party that sought to not only undermine the government but to overthrow the government that simply does not bode well politically particularly when you're trying to win elections and so what we're seeing here is an attempt at revisionist history to deflect and also to office kate but that does not address the root cause of the problem which not only we have heard from this f.b.i. director but also the u.n. secretary general has also called white nationalism and you know a growing threat across the globe and i think that is going to be a sense of tension in congress as they try to address these problems what about

donald trump in all this i mean normally when an incumbent loses an election the party tends to forget about him but you know in a way that's unprecedented for american politics still commands a lot of support and even influence within this party as we saw with this week how yeah and why yes officer. you know i think and that is why we continue to see members of congress particularly when you look at the opening statement by republican chuck grassley where he sought to focus much of his has this his opening statement on and tif or left wing radical groups but again what we're seeing is just a widening disconnect not only within congress but also between congress and the american public look if we go back to that incident last may in the death of george floyd the support for black lives matter among white americans actually rose 15

points in the wake of that and you saw just a groundswell of support for this and for this movement however what we continue to see among republicans is a continued pushback on those who are temp to regulate police or try to curtail police departments and so and that also continues to i think be into this idea this notion that somehow there is not this accountability which is what we have saying from former president donald trump as a relates to what took place on january now president biden keeps talking about unity keeps talking about finding common ground is there any way the political system can move forwards as a whole if the 2 sides are living in offset realities. well i think that is one of the major concerns and we're seeing that play out right now where you do have a president who talks about unity but you do have a a party that continues to spew racism continues to suggest that this is an

illegitimate president and i think that is going to be a major source of conflict between the white house and they're republicans that are currently out of power and i think this will only be a matter that will be adjudicated at the ballot box next year and we can thank you very much for talking to us you bet thank you. u.s. president joe biden's administration has sidestepped any direct action against saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon that's despite a u.s. intelligence report on friday revealing his involvement in the matter of journalists. al-jazeera it's was in jordan reports 3 days after the bike ministration declassified an intelligence report on the murder of journalist jamal 2 officials say they're taking a hard line regarding the mastermind named in the report saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler mohammed bin solomon we have also conveyed very clearly

and candidly through diplomatic channels that this absolutely can never happen again that our relationship will be different from what it has been in the past and that we are going to be of course hold the option of holding saudi arabia to it to their commitment to to take reforms in place and make progress moving forward but critics aren't buying it they say the u.s. should have imposed the same punishment on the crown prince that it has imposed on $76.00 saudi individuals whom the u.s. believes have sought to threaten dissidents overseas including those implicated in murder at the state department spokesperson argued the u.s. considers king solomon not his son to be the country's ruler and that officials are trying to preserve a critical relationship in the middle east it's important to u.s. interests and it requires continued progress in reforms to ensure that this

important partnership rests on strong fundamentals and continues to advance our shared objectives in the middle east we seek to accomplish a great deal with the saudis to end the war in yemen and ease yemen's humanitarian crisis. ending that civil war is one of president joe biden's top foreign policy priorities he's already taken on her. order line with riyadh by cutting all future of fence of weapon sales the saudis have long been accused of using u.s. provided bombs to kill again many civilians on monday washington announced at an aid conference for yemen that it would give another $170000000.00 in humanitarian relief still not enough said aid workers to help the people suffering from 4 years of who are they need to lift the blockade on the blockade is preventing food medicine and essential goods including fuel from getting into yemen that she needs

to be changed so it's inclusive fair and just by the administration specifically needs to stop linking the iran negotiation with peace negotiations in the. meantime another human rights question has been left unanswered whether in light of the national intelligence community's report the u.s. will ever give crown prince mohammed bin solomon and his family a waiver to visit the u.s. congress passed a law banning all foreign officials in their relatives from the u.s. if they were involved in cases of major corruption or a gross violation of human rights which many would argue includes. murder rosalind jordan al-jazeera. the u.k.'s finance minister is as is expected to set out his plan for economic recovery on wednesday says the nation's finances are under enormous strain after supporting millions of people through the pandemic but

that could be bad for a region still recovering from the last recession 10 years ago china home reports from munch a sec. economic damage caused by the pandemic is written largely in britain's deserted city centers shuttered restaurants boarded up shops not everything will emerge intact and nor will the country's regions bounce back at the same pace and last year was a really challenging year for a lot of people. but what it really showed was any inequalities that we had in our regions they've just widened and worse since joining the pandemic so for example in the north child poverty levels are the highest one in 3 more than children are in poverty right now and unemployment it's the highest levels that we've seen since 1904. chef and restaurant owner mary ellen mcteague could only clean norma's the pandemic ripped through the hospitality sector it's an industry where it's difficult to make money it's difficult to stay afloat anyway there are so many

hospitality business is even less of a healthy economic environment every struggle to keep going so it's applied isn't really doing it just isn't it felt like the end i think for a lot of people and i'm constantly surprised that we still head she now prepares meals for a local food bank helping those who have suffered far more than herself mary ellen is fortunate to have weathered the covert storm many businesses haven't survived and here in the north of england as elsewhere attention begins to turn to recovery in a post pandemic era and whether the government keeps its promise of leveling up bridging the divide between north and south after a decade of austerity and under investment we cannot continue the way that we go in right now in the qualities will can seem to widen we have a lot of challenges in the north and right now failure is not an option but failure is reality for many of the economic victims of covert 19 normally 12 families using

our service at the moment about 3435 a week on average people are in debt but they've got men through as people have got commitments of their votes in the last job so they can't keep those commitments financial hardships going to really mean it is going to be on the increase no doubt about that what the government does next calls for ever greater financial help or hiking taxes to pay the all back will determine how britain rebuilds and whether as prime minister boris johnson has promised it builds back better jonah al-jazeera manchester. our plans in the u.k. to build the 1st new deep coal mine in 30 years have brought criticism from climate change activists but as andrew symonds reports from white haven in northwest england and opinion polls suggest nearly 95 percent of locals support the project. a coastal town in northern england who would want a coal mine built next to the answer nearly everyone living here will go very well

she's going on the. employment was just think you know it's about what we need around the you know papers losing their jobs and it's not looking bright overlooking white haven a disused pit it is a reminder of what was once the lifeblood of this area generations of miners and their families dependent on coal now comes this futuristic looking plan a promotional video here for a project promising $500.00 new jobs here and an estimated 2000 more in the supply chain west cumbria mining says it's called wouldn't be fueling power stations it would be for steel production and steel will be in big demand for the planned green infrastructure. the green energy projects going forward be the. wind we have nuclear all gonna need stale now to produce stale at the moment we're importing call from all around the wealth you know from places as far away as australia

however protesters say the company's p.r. campaign and the mayor's views are flawed jobs are a good thing but jobs in a coal mine producing coking coal for a steel industry that is moving away from coking coal that is moving towards electric out furnace is away from blast and this is moving to hydrogen away from coking coal that's not a good thing that's not going to deliver permanent jobs for our local people people in the town have been told by the government that plans for a mine are a local matter and then local decision but it's hardly a local issue it's a national war and with the u.k. hosting the cop $26.00 climate change conference in november aides are telling boris johnson the prime minister but it could all be an international embarrassment but now the local authority has agreed to review the plan could it be off to all

the deep mining in the u.k. stays as it was. 30 years ago confined to the history books and to simmons. even cumbria. argentina's president alberta fernandez says he'll not rush into a new deal with the international monetary fund there's concern his nation this concern rather his nation may miss him a deadline to agree on how to repay a loan of more than $40000000000.00 there is a ball report someone a size. i want to for a man this went to congress on monday to present his plan on how to help the country recover from the pandemic he spoke about plans to reactivate the economy industrialize canaries and investigate the loans granted to argentina by the i.m.f. creditable never seen. 7 do it only what it got out trying to put an end to the adventures of indebting a country it is necessary that doing so isn't free and they cannot walk around and

teach about how they carry out these debts that's why i have to initiate an investigation into those who took part in the biggest fraudulent administration that our memory can recall. the president is hoping to investigate former president . and some of his closest allies in 2800 more my president. i didn't know what the largest lending panel wasn't a real well the international monetary fund over $40000000000.00 the argentina are currently in the middle. what internet economic troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic and that's why the ration of precedent. setting that we did it with the loan that was granted during the previous administration. argentina is struggling with a rise in poverty unemployment and a drop in economic activity the government is also having to do damage control

after it emerged that several politicians and their relatives jumped a queue and got vaccinated folk over 1000. this scandal has raised questions about the government's credibility and angered many people who took to the streets last saturday in protest. but monosyllable data says he voted for freedom and this and hopes he will do what's necessary to help millions of argentinians recover from the ongoing crisis. i voted for him because i believe he can help us the government gave us some money to survive these past months but it's not enough i'm still living on the streets i'm waiting for a pinch and that will help me survive. one of the demands by the i.m.f. is to cut down government spending for man the center left peronist administration faces mid-term elections in october and is unlikely to impose austerity measures that will hurt him politically but economy saying the i.m.f.

may prove to be more flexible but in the past. jessica i.m.f. knows that there is no chance argentina praised the loan in a timely manner lissac shooting has to happen the thing is it has to be in good terms and with an accord the agreement may happen because of the pandemic and it maybe the i.m.f. should be more flexible this was argentina is the i.m.f. largest sovereign borrower and that's why ideally is crucial to help the country recover they said well what are scientists. force next with pizza and boss known as former president poses for a selfie being released from police custody. looking to reassure people in indonesia the government lifestream present joko widodo getting the country's 1st chinese scene of 1000 vaccine the 1st nations outside of

china to grant emergency use thailand malaysia singapore and the philippines have all placed orders this despite a wide range of data on its efficacy from the early trials of the vaccine some southeast asia countries have not yet approved the jab this has led to some questions about the vaccine stemming from the lack of transparency and data the chinese regulators do not want to give up the control if the submit their. give up a certain amount of control thailand is looking to start vaccinating high priority people with the scene back jab some here feel is though the lack of transparency around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of. group taking a stake in a company that produces back like some of its neighbors thailand is ordering vaccines from other companies as well.

time now for sports has peter ali thank you very much the former barcelona president just a bottom has been released a day off to being arrested over corruption allegations but ali as he left custody battle most stopped outside court to pose with a fan the 58 year old spent the night in jail before a judge agreed to he's provisional release for tomorrow who resigned as president last year was one of 4 people detained in relation to the so-called bossa gate scandal it's alleged the club hired a company at 6 times the market value to run a social media smear campaign against players who were critical of his regime including messi. well macy tried em failed to leave boss

at the end of last season and the messy fall out was part of the reason bottom step down he and his team mates were out on the training pitch earlier trying their best not to let the controversy affect them they are preparing for the 2nd leg of the capital race semifinal against save. these are truly when the news came out i was angry because i know parts of my and oscar ground very well i feel bad for them for me bottom a i was always been an exceptional person i think it's not a good image for the club but we have to wait and see what happens i wasn't here at the time so i can't talk about it we just have to focus on our job on the pitch prime minister barak johnson has confirmed britain has offered to host extra games at the euros later this year if required the tournament which was postponed from last year because of the pandemic was originally planned to be staged across 12 european cities including both semifinals and final at wembley in london you

a face considering other options to limit travel the british government has also backed a bid for the 2030 world cup but form a little pool and scotland striker even saint john has died at the age of $82.00 he joined the club in 1961 for a vain club record fee of $52000.00 and became a key member of the side managed by bill shankly son john won 2 league titles and scored 118 goals including the decider in liverpool's 1st ever f.a. cup victory in 1965 after a long illness he passed away peacefully with his family at least bedside horse racing's images taken a further blow after a video emerged of a jockey straddling a data horse which had just suffered a heart attack we will show you the video but this is rob james who writes for irish trayner called an early it seen here on the right it himself has been temporarily banned from racing in britain after this image emerged showing him

sitting on another date horse making a phone call both are being investigated by the irish horseracing regulatory board . so here's the limbic organizing committee is planning to add 12 new female directors to its board this fall is the announcement of sake of the motor as the committee's president last month she replaced your sheet of mori who quit over sexist remarks and she vowed to raise the ratio of women to 40 percent the new members will make it 42 percent 7 time world champion lewis hamilton says increasing diversity in formula one is as important as winning another title this season hamilton was speaking at the launch of maceda new car which for the 2nd year running will have a black library the british driver was also asked why he'd only signed a one year contract with the team firstly i'm kind of in a fortunate position where she most of the stuff that i've wanted to achieve up

until this point and so there's no real need necessarily to to plan too far ahead in the future i think we live in quite a new period of time in the kind life and just wanted one year as a then we can talk about if we do mourn keep that in that one if we have to the main priority for 2021. in the past it was about just winning championships but now it's really pushing for make it real you know last year there was a lot of discussion about. equality and. inclusion and i think there's a lot of talk this year it's all about pushing for diversity and really making sure that action is taken but of course we've just to win so that's what all these guys here and girls here are working towards and so that's my goal is to deliver that for them. coronaviruses effect of the pakistan super league cricket tournament with 2 players and a staff member testing positive this event has thus far managed to go ahead without

any delays and they had even been found in the stadiums the pakistan cricket board says the 2 players that have tested positive for covert 19 are both foreign cricketers but their names have not been revealed. elsewhere england's cricketers are in a must win situation going into the 4th and final test against india in armed bird india lead the series $21.00 including an unbelievable win inside 2 days in the 3rd test at the same venue the pitch was criticised for the assistance that handed spin bowlers and who play on saving record or spinning we get it's all about playing that line and if all this while it's being too much you don't ever think about it and you just play the line if you missed of all. things back in your defense backing your ability on spinning and seemingly sticky and that's what we follow in the n.f.l. 3 time defensive player of the year j.j. waters doing the arizona cardinals on a 2 year contract the 31 year old signs as a free agent after seeing out his deal with heat and texans what sort of 128 games

in the past 10 years for houston he was a 1st round draft pick for the texans back in 2011. in the n.b.a. the atlanta hawks have decided enough is enough and they fired coach lloyd pierce atlanta have lost 20 of $34.00 games for the season and lie 11th in the eastern conference his last game in charge was the 10999 loss to miami on sunday the hawks president says he hopes a change in coach can help the team fay better in the 2nd half of the season. over in the western conference the top team there will be said on monday in new orleans the utah jazz have been flying high brought down to earth on this occasion by the pelicans so on williamson and brandon ingram's full 26 points each as new orleans came out on top in this high school in a fair 129124 the final score. at all the sports news no more on the way again later thank you very much and that's it for this hour

but do stay with us more news coming out very shortly including the latest u.s. sanctions on russia live from washington thanks so much. the latest news the decision here means that donald trump will not be excluded for running for political office in the future he could run again for the presidency in 2024 with details coverage this is now the only official crossing that it's functioning and it's strictly only open to allowing european workers to work in farms hearing about of spain from around the world i do study by soul city has

shown just how much life has been transformed. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure is that a fair assessment you can be catastrophic. to weiss valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy 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 00. the population growth in anything is increasing the movie pregnancies and women and lots of self a preschool from attended and introducing family planning interview to your culture is a challenging task the fire resistance tissue to come through a man when a woman can decide for his blood and how many children she wants it should be in policy but one moves perseverance is transforming her community women make change

on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on al-jazeera. new u.s. sanctions and russia a message about both the treatment of kremlin critic alexei navalny and their broader relationship. let. m 40 back to boil watching al-jazeera live from doha or so ahead france changes course its government says people above the age of 65 cannot always see the astra zeneca covered 1000 vaccine.