the face cream al-jazeera has teams on the ground but climate is changing all of the right to bring you the winning documentaries and life. the eh . eh eh. new u.s. sanctions send to russia a message about both the treatment of dissident alexei navalny and their broader relationship. they're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up 279 schoolgirls have been released in northern nigeria after being kidnapped by gunmen on friday.

police in myanmar fire as protesters as neighboring countries hold talks with the military to find a way out of the crisis and from baby powder to baby vaccines pharmaceutical giants johnson and johnson says it plans to test its gold in 1000 back seen on infants. u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia his impose sanctions on russian officials and businesses in response to the poisoning and jailing of. the kremlin critic was poisoned with a nerve agent snowy chalk in august and arrested when he returned to moscow after receiving treatment in germany as speech are white house correspondent kimberly hockett committee the 1st sanctions by the biden administrator against russia what more details do we know. or standing by for a press briefing by the white house press secretary we're really hope to learn more

about these actions what we can tell you so far from a background briefing with reporters is that this will include 14 businesses and one entity as well as 7 senior members of the russian government so we're still expecting to get more details on those specific individuals but what i can tell you is that the united states consulted closely with its european union allies to try and kind of send a message to russia on the heels of the european union doing its own set of sanctions but this is just the beginning because not only are these sanctions in response to the intentional poisoning the u.s. intelligence say of alexina volley the russian opposition leader and his subsequent jailing but also the united states is interested in another action by russia and that is the effect ing the american supply chain notably the hack that took place many months ago of american agencies which lay that supply chain bare to russian

intelligence officials so we expect according to u.s. officials there will be further action this they say is just the 1st step in response to really a changing of the relationship that is taking place between the united states and russia and how the u.s. government will proceed moving forward yeah i was going to ask you about that but it signals in terms of the relationship between the u.s. and russia and how different it will be on the biden administration. it's a completely different relationship now when as a result of these actions taken so early in the biden administration you remember the the 2016 hacking by russia this was something that was concluded in terms of the intelligence here in the u.s. side that russia had interfered in the 2016 us election to benefit donald trump or we even though there was that u.s. intelligence donald trump refused to acknowledge and even at the helsinki summit where he met with lattimer putin defended russia and accepted lattimer putin's

denials it was a shocking moment here in the united states and left many people wondering what they didn't know about the u.s. russia relationship as well add to that that the u.s. president donald trump never in fact took any punitive action against russia for those bounties that were paid for on the lives of american soldiers in afghanistan so this is really a different approach taken again by the by administration in contrast to donald trump but again we're waiting to hear what more details we'll get from the white house press secretary when she holds her briefing in the next hour thank you kimberly for the moment of course we'll be talking to you when we have more information out of washington it is our white house correspondent meanwhile russia's foreign minister says his country will respond to the sanctions he cast doubt on the next in of on his poisoning but didn't mention the kremlin critic by name your story will get you when all those who treated him thoroughly hide all the

facts which could help to understand what happened and in parallel instead of honest collaboration and not hiding they start to punish us this doesn't bring any credit to those who take decisions and will surely respond dimitri babich is a political analyst at the russian state news agency of o.c.s. have void he says the sanctions won't have an impact on the russian economy. certainly these actions by the u.s. will not have any effect on russia. especially if you take into account the fact that actually. the trade between russia and the united states is very small sanctions from the european union will be march more harmful but so far they were limited to just several people who are. accused of being involved in the mildness case they're not going to have a serious impact on economy and actually if you look at the real picture mr trump was mighty ruler and much more course with russia than mr baez and mr biden is just

insulting now president verb and you know if you made that terrible speech at the munich conference where he didn't even mention the fact that what is the president just said bolton is you know undermining our institutions so that's just the rudeness but it's a verbal rudeness tromp was ruled in the sense that he imposed on russia and heard of sanctions but in general of course this is a very unfortunate situation because russia would like to improve its relations with the united states and the european union but certainly not at the forst of letting someone like nirvana who was declared guilty by the russian not for political actions but because he was a crook he's in jail russia will not leave let the krakow told you even under sanctions hey now the world news 279 schoolgirls kidnapped more than 4 days ago in nigeria have been freed the students of a government fund all in the northern state of vampire regained their freedom after

days of intense negotiations comedy 3 for some go sour in the fantastic. the arrived born limped their way into the office of the governor exhausted and some too sick to one. of their serve meals in an office where normally capitol meetings held. with their 1st decent meals in days they gathered the strength to tell us what happened saying it doesn't yet i 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 jungle

in circumstances similar to the kidnapping of more than 270 goes in she broke into into 14 this man a former bandage says he left several others to help bring the goes back to put them another 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 are reunited with their families but that hasn't stopped excited parents like the one who's managed to get close to where they are. 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 the past 4 days work for magic 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. and repentant ones can force the government. so we're going to continue without cause not all of them that. we used to. leisurely thursday. night 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 which has the highest rate of poverty may fall even farther behind it's not

clear if this goes 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 al-jazeera nigeria. the spending now and nigeria has received its 1st over 1000 vaccines to the global cold angst sharing scheme nearly 400000000 astra zeneca jobs arrived in its capital abidjan tuesday health care and frontline workers will be the 1st to be inoculated nigeria is the 3rd west african country to benefit from the u.n. sponsored program it expects to receive 16000000 doses through colfax peter hawkins is a unicef representative in nigeria he says the 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 for 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 will not wear masks people are starting to wear masks it's very difficult it's. 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 brings the community and at state level and slowly slowly we started working through that and vaccine has since he 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 the 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 with that's why it's so peanut key that nigeria gets this amount this quickly and the kovacs facility is done in extremely well to bring this amount 3940000 doses into nigeria today on the 2nd of march which is a fantastic achievement. u.s. pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson has confirmed it will test its cold with $1000.00 vaccine on children it's also planning to include newborns and pregnant women in its expanded child's johnson and johnson vaccine is the only single dose job and the 3rd to get approval by us regulate is nearly 4000000 doses have been delivered across the united states tough to send. is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he said it's unclear how

essential the vaccination of children will be in slowing the spread of the 5 s. certainly covert $94.00 reasons we're still trying to write this and that may be because children ever less ace to receptors in their body than adults that seem to be less susceptible to cove it and severe kind of it although it seems to be more an issue in older children than younger children but we certainly do see deaths in children in the us probably about 5 out of every $10000.00 children who get caught it will die which is very unfortunate but still it was 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 was 16 in the u.k. from very small numbers from early last year 3 out of 4 deaths were of children over the age of 10 so you might want to target in terms of vaccination all the

children and the other thing we know is that children who've got co-morbidities of 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 truck that will stop transmission ryssdal try to work that out with the adult backs a native population it probably will have a big impact but we're not quite sure so i suspect. until we work all this out it'll be good to continue taking the precautions that we are taking at the moment if we are opening schools in areas with codes that still ahead on al-jazeera allegations that walk rhymes are being committed against hundreds of civilians a mozambique and a new coal mine project in the u.k. could undermine its credibility ahead of a climate summit. the east

. the weather is the thing dry and quiet across much of the middle east at the moment but some places of cloud over towards the gulf easing a little for that ace was quite brisk and all the wind 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 just around georgia more the way of showers for c.s. and side of the mediterranean i think this is going to be the most active area as because through the next day or 2 so white and stay into thursday those showers sweep across cyprus will see some wet weather just around 11 and pushing across into could possibly syria and the showers then just extending a little 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 their mozambique channel because this little circulation brewing up here we want to keep an eye on over the next couple of days ago some heavy right it's eastern parts of missouri and across a good parts of madagascar. 4 months ago financer up to an ivory coast after a disputed presidential election now it's time to choose members upon a man on march 6th vote is cast that ballots could devote revive the fortunes of the main opposition and how will this affect the region the ivory coast parliamentary election on al-jazeera a diplomatic feud between australia and china is threatening one of the asia pacific my sixpence right pocket. when i want to speak good fortune to me.

when i'll just. go on. all the old. problem back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden has taken action targeting moscow for the 1st time imposing sanctions on russian officials and businesses related to the poisoning and jailing of alexina vonnie they were done in coordination with the e.u. who recently a private on sanctions against russia nigeria's president is deploying troops to the country's northwest and has also impose a no fly zone over the state of some fire and it's an effort to end the wave of mass kidnappings that have taken based in recent weeks 279 schoolgirls kidnapped from a school ins on fire on friday where released on tuesday and u.s.

pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson has confirmed it will test its called a $1000.00 vaccine on children expanded trials will also includes newborns and pregnant women to see only single those job and the 3rd to get approved by u.s. regulators. in other news security forces in myanmar cracking down further on protests 2 days after the bloodiest day yet since the military coup there reports live rounds were fired in the northwestern town of cali meanwhile foreign ministers from the regional bloc have been holding talks with a representative of myanmar's military in indonesia they released a statement saying all parties should refrain from instigating bidets jessica washington has more from jakarta. mistreats of hand gone peaceful protest says remain determined even in the face of force. i say any of them were hard hats and tried to protect themselves with makeshift

barricades few lives occupying the streets to fight against military rule. this footage shows police firing into an arms demonstrators. in the country's north west several people were injured when police used water cannon and tear gas. as the attacks on peaceful demonstrations continue and most neighbors in southeast asia held their 1st meeting since the military turn. the talks were held virtually and behind closed doors indonesia is the largest democracy in southeast asia and has been at the forefront of the push to help resolve the crisis in me and indonesia's foreign minister acknowledges that while noninterference isn't shunned to be as the on charter so too is a commitment to peace stability and good got the. indonesian foreign

minister said her country is very concerned about the violence in man. it's worrisome because an increasing number of civilians have lost their lives or injured. singapore's prime minister joined those calling for the release of man was a democratically elected leader has to i rest go on songs flukey yes well as a minister and the president. charged them with a. walkie talkie or francis and things like that i don't think that's going to help solve the problem malaysia's foreign ministry said the resolution to what it called a political deadlock must be a domestic led process. experts say on theone must come up with a plan rather than reflecting on whether it should or should not be part of the solution.

must. blame. the democrats we. must be at the. un member states trying to decide what they can do to resolve this crisis a battle with highest stakes is playing out on the streets jessica washington jakarta amnesty international says war crimes are being committed in mozambique's delgado province in a new reports the rights group says hundreds of people have been killed since 2017 it's documented extrajudicial executions human rights violations and indiscriminate attacks the u.n. says a violent task force more than 500000 people to leave their homes early i spoke to elise solo overdrawn who is a senior researcher for southern africa at the institute for security studies she says the accusations leveled in the report are not yet. they have been previous accusations that they've been shooting indiscriminately armed groups and

others have also killed civilians in the city because basically they are not on the ground so he looked up to his with machine guns and that was being accused of. dropping grenades and so on villagers and of course insurgents are using civilians as a human shield and so these accusations that they will be as a 1000000000 killings have been going on for a very long time but what makes this analyst the report important is we now have documented. cause of eyewitness account of this happening because of that release this is a long standing he's actually zimbabwean but he's been helping the dream of government international has not lost any relations there he was actually contacted

initially defied poaching in mozambique and this is not only to you know have mostly activity as such is over the years now that there's insurgency it's as is that that is not sustainable to call on private security the private military companies that most of the government has also in the past recruited russian mercenaries instead of you know getting other assistance from from their regions. france as health minister says people above the age of 65 with health complications are now eligible to take astra zeneca as cover 1000 vaccine france had restricted the vaccines used because data on its effect on older people was limited people older than 75 will be given doses from pfizer and medina at ash about lays in paris with more. 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 astrovan 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 many people in france already there's high skepticism in france about vaccines 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 that's 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 and the european union is 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 we're not half a 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 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. in the netherlands thousands of restaurant and cafe owners into southern cities are preparing to open their doors in defiance of a lockdown and restaurants were closed in october since then the dutch government imposed more restrictions of control the spread of a new wall contagious called the 1000 variant of some business owners say they've had enough and will open outdoor terrace says despite the threat of launch finds peru is easing its coronavirus restrictions but some health experts warn it's too

soon as cases a surging large crowds could be seen on the streets of the capital lima as businesses reopened on monday thousands of new infections are being recorded every day with more than 40000 diagnosed in the past week by president francisco side gusti says people need the economy to reopen in order to survive the head of head of the world health organization is warning that global coronavirus cases are on the increase again for the 1st time in 7 weeks that's risk every issue says it's disappointing but not surprising some of it appears to be due to lack of public of measures continued circulation of violence and people looting the gun rocks will help to save lives but if countries rely on work since they are making a mistake basic public and measures remain the foundation of the

response. 2 americans accused of helping orchestrate the escape of former nissan chairman carlos cone have landed in japan a u.s. federal judge ordered the extradition of michael taylor and his son peter taylor just a month ago they believed to have held gone flee from japan to lebanon on a private jet in 2019 go in was accused of financial crimes and was out on bail in tokyo he denies the charges. to the u.k. now it plans to build the 1st new deep coal mine in 30 years have brought criticism from climate change activists but as andrew simmons reports from white haven in northwest england an opinion poll suggests nearly 95 percent of locals supports the project. a coastal town in northern england who would want a coal mine built next door the answer nearly everyone living here. what else is

going on their. employment was just think you know it's what we need down day and you know people 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. wind where 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 aware 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 though the local authority has agreed to review the plan could it be off to the deep mourning in the u.k.

stays as it was 30 years ago confined to the history books and drew simmons out 0.2 even cumbria. the people in indonesia's northern carroll region of being a should keep a safe distance from an erupting volcano monsoon a bunk sent columns of ash up to 5 kilometers into the air in its biggest eruption since august of all kaino became active 10 years ago after being dormant for centuries since then more than 30000 people have had to leave their homes. unfairly bad these are the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden has taken action targeting moscow for the 1st time he's impose sanctions on russian officials and businesses related to the poisoning and jailing of alexei now vonnie they were done in coordination with the e.u. who recently applied for their own sanctions against russia our white house

correspondent kimberly hockett has more but what we're hearing is that it's for the destabilizing as.