the similarities of cultures across the world so much of what you see the musicality for that matter to you who are some of the media stories a critical look at the global news media screwed up on its own al-jazeera government shut off access to social media. al-jazeera. this is a news hour on al-jazeera i'm fully back he will live from a world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes new u.s. sanctions send russia a message about both the treatment of prime min critical. and their broader relationship. 279 schoolgirls are released in northern nigeria after being kidnapped by gunmen on friday also this hour palestinians are the latest people to

wonder how decisions were made about covert 1000 vaccines and who went to the front of the lie and mannequins for customers to restaurant owners in the netherlands who are defying coronavirus restrictions. i'm john ash with the sports i'll have the latest on the so-called bossa gate scandal boss learned his former club president bazza mayor has now been released ofter a night in jail. thank you very much for joining as u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia is impose sanctions on russian officials including the deputy defense minister the russian spy agency and a number of businesses in response to the poisoning and jailing of alexei navalny the kremlin critic. us boys and with

a nerve agents know the chunk in august and arrested when he returned to moscow after receiving treatment in germany while russia's foreign minister says his country will respond to the sanctions and cast doubt on of ani's poisoning but didn't mention the kremlin critic by name. we will take you when all those who treated him thoroughly hyped all the facts which could help to understand what happened and in parallel instead of honest collaboration and not hiding place talk to punish us this doesn't bring any credit to those who take decisions and will surely respond let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hockett in washington for us so kimberly the russians saying that they'll respond to these 1st sanctions by the biden administration targeting them what more details do we know about the sanctions 1st. well in their ongoing press briefing that is still underway with white house press secretary jen psaki she has outlined a little bit more about these sanctions that she says the united states took action

in consultation with the european union and after consulting with u.s. intelligence officials that concluded with high confidence she said that it was in fact russian intelligence services that poisoned the russian opposition leader alexina volley now in a statement from the secretary of state and he blinken is that they also took action because of concern about russia's deepening authoritarianism the desire to set a clear signal that the use of chemical weapons is not only an abuse of human rights but it's unacceptable and a violation of international norms so in terms of these sanctions what we know is that they are targeting a number of high level russian officials 7 in total they include the head of the russian prison service the prosecutor general and the russian security service director this is what the white house had to say about the sanctions just moments ago. today the united states is announcing sanctions on 7 senior members of the

russian government and expansion of sanctions under the chemical and biological weapons control and warfare elimination act new export restrictions on items that could be used for biological agent and chemical production and visa restrictions now if they dish into the individual section there are also through the commerce department 14 entities that have been sanctioned for what the department is calling chemical weapons activities now the white house has made clear as joe biden said in the campaign trail that he intended to have a very different relationship with the russian leader vladimir putin than his predecessor donald trump you'll remember donald trump even as u.s. intelligence concluded that russia had interfered in the 2016 u.s. election in fact the u.s. president had a helsinki summit defended russia and accepted the denials by vladimir putin that

there had been any interference added that donald trump also did nothing or took no punitive action against russia with regard to the bounties that russia placed on the soldiers heads in afghanistan u.s. soldiers that is so a lot of confusion over why the u.s. president or donald trump or rather donald trump himself did not take further action the biden administration insisting that it would now we see the 1st example of that but they also say that there could be more because there are still concerns about the hacking russia participated in in terms of accessing the u.s. supply chain and revealing all of that information to russian intelligence they say that they will take further action in response to that incident as well ok thank you kimberly for that company how good life or is there at the white house. in other world news what are being described as huge numbers of nigerian being sent to the country's northwest a move by president mahmoud abbas comes us 200 schoolgirls kidnapped more than 4

days ago have been freed. they arrived at dawn limped their way into the office of the governor exhausted and some too sick to walk. their serve 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. 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 students like kidnapped while they were sleeping in their boarding school dormitories in the town of junk in circumstances

similar to the book or a 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 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 are reunited with their families. but that hasn't stopped excited parents like no one has 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 the past 4 days will traumatic 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. and so we're going to continue with that truth of course not all of them that. they wanted to. release of the 50. 8 because nobody can be able to get the kidnapping of these goes on friday came i was before the release of another set of students kidnapped in central nigeria. there's a 4 attack is a 6 school kidnapping in northern nigeria in recent years for the girls burke 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 who towsley highest rates of poverty may fall even farther behind it's not

clear if these girls 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. but increase al-jazeera. geria. now in addition to deploying troops president bihari has also placed a ban on mining in the mineral rich state of them far and imposed a no fly zone or let's speak about all this to. a nigerian socio political activists ayesha thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera so president wahid today ordering a massive military deployment in the northwest 1st just looking at the bigger picture do you think this will help improve the security situation and stop all this fate of kidnappings we've seen. thank you so much for having me i think one of the things that we have consistently seen is a file that the words of president mohammed of the absolutely millman nothing he

has been an ineffective commander in chief and an incompetent work in air pressure to a 1019 mine in 4 stopped by and for our state and it was resumed in generally 2020 nothing seems to have changed and today we're seeing that it's a norm in at the same time to get their say north. or was at the end of the day the president needs to remember that it is not we don't want to show we talk with men we we want to competent president our commander in chief to take control and actually fighting this war not just misstatements that meant aren't doing anything and the terrorists aren't abating for what they're doing we're tired of parents coming to the cause. children or saving their children's lives so as you say the ban on mining that was placed or 2 to 3 years ago and 21000 and some forestay didn't really work didn't achieve anything why is that where does the problem lie

the problem lies with the president and the commander in chief of the federal republic of nigeria it's not given that direct leadership that it's needed so it's not about just making statements then what interested in optics that actually fighting those soldiers are destined to be will believe will the government the government supporters would argue that they have been fighting the insurgency in my distaste i mean they've been a huge military operations there so they're not just fighting with statements are they. in one just said there have been a lot of abduction to have happened in the same one just got our students were taken away in 1000 city bus load of passengers were taken away a lot of production has been going on a lot of killings have been going on and we can't just keep saying that the government supporters are not the ones to tell us that that we're within the what we need to see it on the ground being warned and right now we are not winning the war psyche so the president needs to act more competent he needs to not so have clue and need to know what he is doing isn't doing the things that we need to get nigeria out of the situation that we are in right now you seem to be named the

blame solely on president bihari but this has been going on for some time now even before his time military operations haven't worked clearly in these areas what more needs to happen. what needs to help with you is that the young military operation we need it tell you just got rich and this are some of the things that the president talked about what's coming so that you feb 25th didn't when he spoke of the chatham house he did say he was coming to fight the insurgency and if things that needed to be don't we have a situation whereby the best of us in the military i'm not allowed or there's a general i've been ok my time talked about those the what i guess is sort of the under did that needed to be done what did he get he got then why should we cannot have a situation where but we are not doing the right thing and that we will have results so we need to fight this war the way it used to to before it is not about propaganda it is not about the government telling us that you did something when it did not doing things i said thank you very much for talking to us about this and

sharing your views i say so for is in nigeria and socio political activist well joining us via skype from a butcher the corona virus pandemic now and nigeria has received his 1st over 1000 vaccines to the global kovacs sharing scheme nearly 4000000 astra zeneca jobs arrived in its 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 and expects to receive $16000000.00 doses small kovacs in france the 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 vaccines used because data on its effect on older people was limited people under the age of 75 will be given doses from pfizer and. in the netherlands thousands of restaurant and cafe owners into 7 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 to control the spread of a new more contagious called the 1000 variant by some business owners in tel burg and brightest say they have had enough and open outdoor terrace says they face a threat of launch by step boston has been to the 2 cities that are defined. as if there's no covert pandemic people have been gathering here in the city this is a part of the south of holland where during the 1st wave of over a lot of infections and also many people have died here people and especially business owners are fed up with the. restrictions so they decided to go fight government regulations and just simply open up their serving drinks here until police came to a lot of people gathering police ordered them to leave but they're still defiant.

anymore after 6 months close. to half. so. it stays quiet this is still a city in the south of the netherlands known for its cafes bars and restaurants people like to go out here and if you look from a distance it may be look like it's crowded here at this terrace but in reality the business owner didn't want to risk a large fine of 4000 euros and decided to put here a symbolic protest against the fact that the government decided to reopen some businesses like massage salons and here dresses but restaurants cafes and bars remain shop. closed. for medical reasons. or give us a chance to prove. that we can do is going to save work these protests have not

only been taking place here in the south of them but also in shops opened also to defy government regulations mayors have been putting pressure on the government to be more lenient to give businesses more opportunities but the government insists that this is still needed also this evening curfew will be maintained until infections will go down. on this news hour including. police in myanmar fiats protesters as neighboring countries hold talks with the military to find a way out of the crisis. is up to hold a climate summit a new coal mine object is threatening to undermine its credibility and in sports formula one world champion lewis hamilton reveals why he only signed a one year contract work in the city's general have the details since crossing.

the palestinian health ministry has had to explain its vaccine distribution strategy following the delivery of 20000 sputniks doses human rights groups are demanding they reveal the criteria used to select who got jobs 1st well let's speak to. the director general of the palestinian independent commission for human rights and is live from ramallah thank you very much for being with us or so are these vaccines that are finally being distributed in palestine getting to the right people to the people who need them the most. well the 1st let me say that the authorities. who are next in aiding the population should be israel look at bipolar according to international they'll keep. on civility over supplying the axioms and immunization to the population under the occupation however unfortunately.

decided to go there next year and see next year there ought not to hold it does radio sponsible. until now the ballots in a suit less than 10000 accidents and this 10000 that seems according to our documentation were not suited properly according to a clear and transparent process and brutalization criteria some of this vaccine were to politicians or pressures to launch a persons in the pursuit of authority and less went to a medical start and vulnerable population let's say that this 7 pounds a is very few in number compared to the population of person isn't the worst they're going to give us that we need at least 2000000 back scenes for the population in 7000 years but not mean enough however this is very short this very in many long wanted your question issue should be and. distributed in

equitable and. transparent manner so vaccine distribution you're saying is not equitable it's not going to the people who need it the most right now i wonder though is the palestinian authority. giving any information on how and where to get vaccinated and how to know if you may qualify for the vaccine is the palestinian population well informed about how this is being rolled out. well according to my knowledge and sooner. or the. purchase of $2000000.00 vaccines or the cost of $10000000.00 they have a clear distribution plant criteria everything but this plan is on paper only the population is still not aware of this and we are not aware not certain when this are like these 2000000 vaccines we don't know when they were not right what we know is that 7000 vets you notions are alive to the restaurant and there they were not

distributed in an equitable manner that really undermines the integrity and the it could ability of the works to be process of that also given resits question of are under $2000000.00 what they are each tribute that's why we are mistreating nice numbers criteria lands in population norway how to actually direction and when and where all these questions ministry has to provide sensible answers to them you talked about guys are bad i mean. the west bank and i want to talk to you about gaza because the palestinian authority is not in charge or how long do you anticipate it will take for vaccines to arrive in the besieged gaza strip. well the palestinian authority announced that the vaccination mission to recover what west brecon guys. put also our son 2000 mexicans to gaza their announcement and also i understand that guys are scenes separately donations there

seem to are 20000 mexicans from macedonia immigrants also i guess that the distribution process of them actually is also is not transparent as you believe we have a problem with transparency and accountability submission process we hope that we'll get enough number actually means that the process will be better and it will be a bit and were affected more equitable distribution process but so far things are not more than you thought i'd watch thank you so much for talking to us about this mr ahmed awake is the editor general of the palestinian independent commission for human rights joining us there from ramallah we appreciate your time thank you. now security forces in myanmar are cracking down further on protesters 2 days after the bloodiest day yet since the military co there reports live ons were fired in the northwest and this as leaders from the assy on region were meeting in indonesia to

try and find a solution to the crisis jessica washington reports some jackpot. mistreats of hand gone peaceful protesters remain determined even in the face of force. many of them will hardhats and try to protect themselves with makeshift barricades . o'keeffe highest streets to front against military rule. this what it shows police firing at on demonstrators. in the country's north west several people were injured when police used water cannon and tika. as the attacks on peaceful demonstrations continue in most neighborhoods in southeast asia held their 1st meeting since the military turned. the talks were held virtually and behind closed doors in tunisia is the largest democracy in shall be saved and has been at

the forefront of the push for to help resolve the crisis in may and indonesia's foreign minister acknowledges that while noninterference isn't shunned in the us the un 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 manama. manchaca 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 to arrest go on songs to clear as well as the ministers and the president. charge them with a. walkie talkie or fences and things 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 as. expected. 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 just a washington jakarta i mean mars u.n. ambassador insists he will carry on his role despite being fired by the military join into chao more torn was dismissed following a speech at the un general assembly on friday n.a.t.o.'s international community to call use any means necessary to restore democracy let's bring in our diplomatic

editor james spaces live at the united nations or so james you have new information about all this what are you hearing is the ambassador still in his position on iran . it depends who you are scout and most people you are so it's not at all clear at this stage yes you're right on friday the ambassador made that dramatic intervention condemning the events in his own country very unusual his voice quivering as he spoke later on saturday the military said that he had been fired and they sent this letter around the united nations to all of the various countries the 192 other countries in the u.n. saying that he was no longer ambassador and the deputy ambassador was taking over as the acting ambassador that was certain that it was sent around on sunday on monday this letter with an identical letterhead from the ambassador himself

a bus that turned saying no i am still the ambassador so you have rival claims here i've spoken to the spokes person of the u.n. secretary general the spokesperson for the president of the general assembly there is a procedure for this but it's a very very long winded procedure involving the u.n. credentials committee which is 9 countries. that are appointed every year to deal with these sorts of matters but they don't meet very regularly and the problem right now is you have the deputy ambassador claiming he's the acting ambassador the ambassador saying he's still the ambassador and both of them have passes like my one here although it says the rather than p. for diplomats so they can get in the building so it is a problem i think for the u.n. i put it to the spokes person of the secretary general who's going to decide who sits in the seat and the answer was simply and it's not really a very very satisfactory answer it would depend on the meeting and who's presiding

over the meeting who they recognize and they could be another security council meeting on your models we can decide what can we expect from that. well we don't know for definite but certainly the new president of the security council the newest member of joe biden's cabinet linda thomas greenfield said that she wanted a meeting as soon as possible on this issue i hear it's likely to happen in the coming days certainly some countries vietnam going to see a member want to wait for the ice and meeting as you've heard that's taken place and so there'll be some pressure for that security council meeting certainly human rights groups would like the security council to take some real action now they'd like an arms embargo and they'd like designation of some of the of the generals that's not at all clear that will happen because of course china and russia have said this is mainly an internal matter and they are veto wielding members of the u.n. security council who the biggest question about a meeting right now is whether it will be another closed meeting or whether it

would be an open meeting of the security council that would be important because it would be pressure on the military and ma'am are if it was held openly and also under the rules of the security council the ambassador and i am are not sure which one but the ambassador of myanmar could only address security council meeting because he's not on the security council if it's held in open session i james thank you for that james spaces our diplomatic editor live there from the u.n. and still ahead on the news hour a new deadline looms for argentina to deal with its large dads the government says it want to be bashed by the head of the f.b.i. testifies on capitol hill and offers new details about the january 16th direction and england's need to win the 4th cricket test against india to square the seat is general be here to look ahead to that match in sports to stay with us we're back after the break.

how 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 the 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 notice while the 2 showers into northern iraq maybe the odd shower 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 why to stay into thursday those showers sweep across cyprus will see some wet weather just around 11 on pushing a cross into 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 their mozambique channel because this little circulation brewing up here with us we want to keep an eye on over the next couple of days ago some heavy right it's eastern parts of my zombie and across a good parts of madagascar. the pope has set to visit iraq on his prostrate the brood since the coronavirus on. one its christian population continues to do until security issues plague the country. can the pope bring hope to those who see him as an authority. 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 centers. stage. the resistance. of roger cossack lanka the friends you make on. covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to light on how and why. the of the. the one. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to our remind our top stories u.s.

president joe biden has taken action targeting moscow for the 1st time he's imposed sanctions on russian officials and businesses related to the poisoning and jailing of. the kremlin critic they were done in coordination with the e.u. who recently applied their own sanctions against russia nigeria's president is deploying troops to the north west of the country and imposing a no fly zone over the state of some fire it in an effort to end of the wave of mass kidnappings that have taken place there in recent weeks 279 schoolgirls kidnapped from a school in south fire on friday were released on tuesday and the u.s. state department is threatening further sanctions against myanmar military for its crackdown on protesters in a street battles between security forces and on tycoon demonstrators in cities across the country on t.v. . now plans in the u.k. to build the 1st new deep coal mine in 30 years have brought criticism from climate change. 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 nearly everyone living. their own lives. employment was just think you know it's what we need rounding up 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 sure when we have nuclear all going to nature stale not 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 companies 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 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 drew simmons al-jazeera whitehaven cumbria. now there's little sign that the world's coal consumption is set to decline substantially in the coming years the international energy agency forecasts a 2.6 percent increase in global coal demand this year driven by higher electricity demand and industrial output china india and southeast asian economies account for most of the growth but he says the united states and europe may both see their 1st increases in coal consumption in nearly a decade the rebound in coal demand is said to be short lived the i say as coal use will flatten out by 2025 at around 7400000000 tons this would make 2013 when global

coal demand reach 8000000000 tonnes coles all times peak that speak to karen kennedy about this she's a deputy legislative director of the sierra club which is a major u.s. environmental organization she's live from washington good to have you with us on al-jazeera so so far just little sign that the walls coal consumption is going to decline substantially in the coming year what are your thoughts about this for us and how big of a challenge will this be for efforts to reduce carbon emissions and reaching climate and energy goals. yeah that's a that's a great question and thank you for having me on. you know i i view this as some aspect of a setback but what we know trending wise is that the e.u. and the ek in the united states are largely divesting from coal and in an increasing number of cements into clean energy sectors and part of that especially from you know the sierra club's perspective is that you know coal whether it's deep

mining like what we're seeing proposed in cumbria or surface mount temple of all the other types of mining practices are is really really expensive. and so what better way than to protect air water and also reduce bills is to switch more to green infrastructure and clean energy right. coal the really the biggest threat to climate change for the global south i mean because a lot of these countries in the global south don't have the resources to switch to other sources for electricity. yeah that's that's an interesting conversation yeah healthwise absolutely and there was a stop that and then nationally when we were talking about this 30030 years ago we talked about allowing the global south to to go ahead and do a whole development as a way to ramp up the way that the west has but what we've found out in the world

bank has been proven. to kind of stepping in this direction is that actually it is still more expensive and what's even more expensive that is the health impacts due to pollutant exposures in water and in the air by communities that are surrounded by coal a good example of this was that kosovo was going to have a mind financed by the world bank in the reason why the world bank walked away was because it was going to be too expense up there are other issues politically senator on that but a large part of it was the financing piece it just doesn't make monetary sense right so then how can we help countries in the global south how can they be helped and convincing reaching clean energy in making that transition to fossil fuels yeah then. so part of that conversation is also centered around increasing investments by other corporations in other things to more green energy type

things so whether we're talking about using access to natural gas ramping up the production and development of when mills which would provide in the areas where that makes sense and then even using solar panels you know we're seeing in areas where we do that not only can we increase utility power and things like that but we can also increase access to water being able to. get access to other natural resources that we weren't able to get to before while providing more green jobs to people and let me ask you finally about the u.s. where you are what direction is it is it heading now has it made improvements in recent years or is it becoming worse when it comes to the consumption of coal yes you know so you know we when we have a new administration and so what we're definitely seeing is the direction out of that administration to go back to what we started 12 years ago which is really this large investment and clean energy and to that point state by state even after

we left the pair's agreement that hopefully will be rejoining and we saw the state by state across the country group states making commitments to 100 percent clean energy at the state level so it's definitely something that's increasing and then we also have some of our major banking institutions who are pulling out of the coal in mining industry and then a lot of proposals for mines in the united states have actually just been withdrawn because one because the companies just for the actual cost that it it is to set up a mining operation the united states at this point thank you for talking to us about the sink you karen kennedy from the sierra club joining us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time and insight. thank you. not staying in the u.s. the director of the f.b.i. is accusing those who stormed capitol hill on january 6th of domestic terrorism

appearing before a u.s. senate committee christopher a is promising to help and hold them accountable as bring in alan fischer on capitol hill for us has been listening to this hearing so christopher a facing tough questions alan about the f.b.i. says failure to prevent the attack on june on january the sakes what he had to say . well there are questions over whether or not the f.b.i. ignored intelligence that was circulating widely on the web he said that they have to make the distinction between chatter and actionable intelligence pointed to the fact that the norfolk field office which is in southern virginia sent a message by 3 different ways to people on capitol hill suggesting there could be a problem on january the 6th what christopher did ray did do was the bunk a number of conspiracy theories that have been pushed by republican senators and also supporters of donald trump 1st of all he said there were no fake trump supporters involved in what happened here on january 6th certainly no evidence that they have seen anything of and there is also the issue of whether or not there was

a problem with voter fraud in the 2020 election he agreed with former attorney general bill barr that there was no evidence that there was widespread voter fraud incessantly not enough to change the result of the election christopher ray you'll remember was appointed to become director of the f.b.i. in 2017 after donald trump fired jim comey he says since he's taken up his position he's seen a tripling essentially in the number of cases involving white supremacists he said the number of cases involving self identified anarchists has increased as well domestic terrorism he said is floating across the country but what is that issue here for many senators is why the f.b.i. didn't seem to know what was going to happen on january the 6th and therefore why the f.b.i. senators and lawmakers at risk when they gathered to affirm the results of the 2020 presidential election alan thank you for that allegation life i sound capitol hill

. the u.k. finance minister is expected to set out his fund for economic recovery on wednesday of rishi so knox says the nation's finances are under enormous strain after supporting millions of people through the pandemic john a whole week for some matches. the economic damage caused by the pandemic is written 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 or 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 flow 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 have and 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 we might now be qualities will concede 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 for the loss of jobs 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 prime minister boris johnson has promised it builds back better jonah how al-jazeera manchester. 2 americans accused of helping august street the escape of former nissan chairman carlos go and 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 believe to have helped go and flee from japan to lebanon on

a private jet in 2019 going was accused of financial crimes in was out on bail in tokyo he denies the charges. el salvador's president is said to secure an overall majority in parliament sprays enable kelly has claimed victory for his 40 legislative elections has been accused of being an autoroute tarion leader if confirmed the win would give him sweeping new powers including the appointment of judges to the supreme court's. i still ahead on al-jazeera a sports boss known as former president poses for a southie after 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 back over 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. would give up a certain amount of control thailand is looking to start vaccinating high priority people with the see the back jab some here feel as though the lack of transparency around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of the c p a group taking a stake in a company that produces a side of back like some of its neighbors thailand is ordering vaccines from other companies as well.

time after source. thank you folly in the form of barcelona president josep of bazza my has been released a day after being arrested over corruption allegations bizarrely as he left custody he stopped outside the court to pose with a fan the 58 year old spent the night in jail before a judge agreed to his provisional release he resigned as president last year was one of 4 people detained in relation to the so-called bossa gate scandal is alleged the club had a company at 6 times the market value to run a social media smear campaign against players who were critical of his regime including leno messy messy tried and failed to leave at the end of last season and the messy fall out was part of the reason a bottom i stepped down he and his team mates were out on the training pitch area

trying their best not to let the controversy affect them they're preparing for the 2nd leg of their copper direct semifinal against severe d.c.s. a little truly when the news came out i was angry because i know parts of my own os could grow 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 the president of the spanish league agrees with cumin the situation is damaging to the club's reputation and that's of league or the wish to bruise and bring out above it's called reputation problem it's not good what happened to either f.c. barcelona or to the league i don't like to see the kind of things that happened yesterday. prime minister boris johnson has confirmed britain has offered to host extra games at the european championships later this year if required the

tournament which was postponed from last year because the pandemic was originally planned to be staged across 12 european cities including both semifinals and final at wembley in london your wife is considering other options to limit travel the british government is also back to bid for the 2030 world cup. the former live a poland scotland striker in st john has died at the age of $82.00 he joined the club in 1961 for then a club record fee of 52000 dollars and became a keep member of the side managed by bill shankly since john one tear league titles and scored 118 goals including the decider and liverpool's 1st ever f.a. cup victory in 1965. wolf racing's image has taken a feather bly off to a video image of a jockey straddling a dead horse which had just suffered a heart attack we want to show you the video this is rob james who writes for irish trayner gordon elliott seen here on the right at it himself has been temporarily

banned from racing in britain that was after this image of showing him sitting on another dead horse making a phone call baseband of apologized and of being investigated by the irish horseracing regulator able to take a limpy organizing committee is planning to at the knee female directors to export this follows the appointment of psycho is the committee's president last month she replaced us here in mori who quit save a sexist remarks and she vowed to raise the ratio of women to 40 percent the new member is set to be announced on wednesday will make it 42 percent 7 time world champion new is how much and says increasing diversity in formula one is as important as winning another title this season i want to know is speaking at the launch of the sadie's new car which for the 2nd year running will have a black livery the british drive it was also asked why he only signed a one year contract with the team firstly i'm kind of in

a fortunate position where cheve 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're living 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 more and people are 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 for making real in the last year there was a lot of discussion about. equality and. inclusion and i think there's a lot of talk this year is all about pushing for for diversity and really making sure that action is taken but of course we exist 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. from the current f one champion to

a formal island this is the alpine car and under a lot and so it will be driving as he makes his return to the grid after 2 years away that he's time world champion was unable to attend the launch that you should travel restrictions they are in team formerly known as red i have gone for blue white and red colors very nice the crowd of us pandemic has affected the pakistan cricket 20 minutes with 2 more players and a staff member testing positive this comes after a game on monday had to be postponed by a day after islamabad tested positive the pakistan cricket board says the 2 other players are both overseas cricketers but their names have not been revealed or to be sports who are what all the sports which are going on there not only meeting these challenges but also overcoming these challenges we will also try to run this exciting event in india in a good way with the help of franchise owners who would like to run this event the way it's begun which is seen a lot of entertainment quality cricket and we would like it to in that way.

england's cricketers are in a must win situation going into the 4th and final test against india and are mad about india 121 up in the series after a thrashing england inside 2 days in the 3rd test the same venue the pitch was criticized for how it favorite spin bowlers. for from may for now i'll be back with more later gemma thank you very much for that argentina's frozen director for nandan says he'll not rush into a new deal with the international monetary fund is concerned his nation may miss a may deadline to agree on how to repay a loan of more than $40000000000.00 there is a ball report somewhere in size. i wanted to find 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

a lot of intuitively but it got out by 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 then our memory can recall. the president is hoping to investigate former president . and some of his closest allies in $2800.00 former president mauricio muggeridge argentina was granted the largest lending panel has a real well the international monetary fund over $40000000000.00 the argentine and the i.m.f. are currently in the legal medical association of multiple. what internet economic troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic and that's why the net ministration of precedent. is one thing that we did it with the loan that was granted during the

previous administration with. argentina 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 watching 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. i.m.f. knows that there is no chance argentina pays the loan in a timely manner this structure in 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 i deal is crucial to help the country recover they said well and to see what our scientists. u.s. and canadian diplomat a phrase the quality of pineapples grown in taiwan the show of support for the self warning island comes after china raptly imposed an import ban on pineapples following bad citing harmful creatures in the fold taiwan's government has also

urged locals to buy more of the food to cushion the blow for fox. that's it for this news hour from me and the whole team in doha thanks for watching. and. the population growth in me is increasing the most pregnancies alignment as well to self christopher mccandless downs introducing family planning interview to yorkhill culture is a challenging task the fire resistance tissue to come through a man when a woman can decide for her blood and how many children she wants it should be in policy but one movement's perseverance is transforming her community women make

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testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. the a us and e.u. impose sanctions on russian individuals and entities over the poisoning of opposition leader and excited about me. live from london also coming up $279.00 nigerian schoolgirls limped to safety as their freed days after that kidnapping in zamfara state. concern for

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