much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in 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. the u.s. and e.u. impose sanctions on russian individuals and entities over the poisoning of opposition leader and excited about me. here alive from london also coming up 279 nigerian schoolgirls limped to safety as their freed days after that kidnapping in zamfara state. concern for

men mas neighbors but no plans to intervene as police fire more live rounds at anti cooper testis. and cafe and restaurant owners in the netherlands open that outdoor terraces in defiance of the town. and it will begin with the news that u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia over the poisoning of opposition leader and explain avani the white house as an outside actions against 7 senior russian officials including the director of russia's f.s.b. security surface the prosecutor general and the head of prison service it's also targeting 14 companies or agencies associated with chemical agent production. no our neighbors the most prominent critic of president vladimir putin fell seriously ill last august the u.s. accuses the kremlin of poisoning him with a nerve agent something it denies about and he was jailed last month on his return

to russia for violating parole whilst being treated in germany the european union is also imposing sanctions on 4 officials close to president putin russia's foreign minister says his country will respond to the sanctions he cast doubt on an extent of arnie's poisoning but didn't mention the kremlin critic by name. we will let you when all those who treated him thoroughly hide all the facts which could help to understand what happens and in parallel instead of an 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 when i speak to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett there's a 1st sanctions by the biden and ministration targeting russia what more do we know about them. well the administration says that the sanctions are put in place because of a deepening concern about russia's authoritarianism and they also say that this is

a result of conclusions by u.s. intelligence officials that in fact it was the russian intelligence service they say with high confidence that poisoned the russian opposition leader alexina volley so as a result of these sanctions coming down through both the treasury department and the department of commerce the treasury department saying that there would be sanctions against 7 high level senior officials and from the treasury department we know that there are 14 different entities that are being sanctioned now the white house saying that the reason that they're doing this is because they're also trying to not only send a message or a clear signal as they say they're calling for the release of the russian opposition leader they say that they strongly condemned russia's repeated use of chemical weapons an attempt to assassinate russia's own citizens and they're calling for russia to declare and destroy its chemical weapons program but as for how the relationship will move forward here's what white house press secretary jim

psaki had to say it was not meant to be a silver bullet or an ending to what has been a difficult relationship with russia we expect the relationship to continue to be a challenge we're prepared for that and we're neither seeking to reset our relations with russia nor are we seeking to escalate. so what is this going to mean for the relationship between russia and the u.s. on the biden. well the white house press secretary was asked repeatedly notices absent from the list of high level individuals in the russian government that are being sanctioned of course is the russian leader himself lattimer putin repeatedly the white house press secretary defended that saying that they reserve the right to put in place further actions but the reality is that there need to be relations between the 2 countries moving forward on a whole range of issues having said that the white house said that they intend to

have a very different relationship than their predecessors in fact it's notable that donald trump had at times a very apologetic approach to his relationship with vladimir putin you remember that helsinki summit where following on the heels of u.s. intelligence agencies affirming that it was indeed russia that interfered with the 26000 u.s. election that the u.s. president donald trump defended russia and accepted the denials of lattimer putin so this is certainly a stark contrast and also mentioned was the fact that while donald trump did not do anything or take any punitive action regarding those bounties that russia put on american soldiers in afghanistan that the biden of ministration says that it's still reserves the right to take action stray should a very different approach promising there could be further action against russia if they deem it appropriate to me how can i thank you very much indeed you know he states is also sanctioned to military leaders of the who's the rebels in yemen and

accused of procuring weapons from iran and organizing attacks it comes days after the u.s. state department stripped the goofy's of a terrorist designation page by donald trump's administration on his last full day in office it was reversed of affairs the move would stop aid getting through and exacerbate yemen's humanitarian crisis. and aid organizations in yemen say the programs will be severely cut after u.n. appeal for funding fell well short of its goal of the global donor conference on monday raised less than half its 3850000000 dollars target years of conflict and entrenched poverty of the more than $2300000.00 children under 5 at risk of acute malnutrition the u.n. says more money is urgently needed to stop the country tipping into a devastating famine. britain's foreign secretary has defended the u.k. government after it came in for heavy criticism because of its aid to yemen the u.k. has pledged $121000000.00 down from 223000000 last year and 279000000

in 2019 of the last 5 years in relation to yemen including. 2021 will be between the 3rd and 5th time status we will keep up that effort we provide the mood in the 1000000000 pounds of funding to the humanitarian crisis in yemen since the conflict began and of course we fully support martin griffith un special envoys efforts to find peace the. 279 schoolgirls kidnapped last week from a government run boarding school in northern nigeria have been freed as you said there abductors had beaten them and threatened to shoot them as they were marched into a forest they released photos for days of tense negotiations counter-terrorism a dangerous was there as the girls arrived in the capital of zamfara state and sent this report. they arrived at dawn lim to their way into the office of the governor

exhausted and some too sick to watch. 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 see it that it was an hour at the hours are now worth it 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 reached the 2nd and then the 3rd camp. the $279.00 students like kidnapped while they were sleeping in their boarding school dummy trees in the town of junk in circumstances similar to the book quote i'm kidnapping of more than $270.00 goes in she broke into into 14 this man a former band it 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 had 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 will traumatic now we can afford to eat sleep and smile the governor was in for a state has offered amnesty to gunmen who said and insists dialogue with the bandits will continue despite the pitfalls. that we are now fighting.

and the repentant ones can force the government. so we're going to continue without proof because not all of them that. we used to. live leisurely thursday. night 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 an for attack is a 6 school kidnapping in northern nigeria in recent years for the girls barrack 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 tells the 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. with the increased al jazeera

nigeria. security forces in man marking 10 years into a crackdown on protesters 2 days after the country's bloodiest day since the military coup there are reports that live rounds were fired in the northwestern town of kalak this is foreign ministers from the regional bloc in held talks with them in ma meant she representative in indonesia and said all parties should refrain from instigating violence jessica washington reports from jakarta. in the streets of handgun peaceful protest says remain determined even in the face of force i say any of them were hard hats and trying to protect themselves with makeshift barricades feel ok pious streets to fight against military rule. but this

footage shows police firing it on a demonstrator. in the country's northwest several people were injured when police used water cannon and tear gas. as the attacks on peaceful demonstrations continue and 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 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 shy and in the us 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 though on songs flukey yes well that's our ministers and the president. charged them with the whole walkie-talkie offenses 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 as. expressed. must in the start of the road or. place the democratic 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 to washington al-jazeera jakarta myanmar's ambassador to the u.n. insists he will carry on in his role despite being fired by the military joined to go motown was dismissed after he gave a dramatic speech at the un general assembly on friday our diplomatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. 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 basser 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 and thus the 2 and 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 a 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 d rather than people 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. $47.00 the pro-democracy activists in hong kong will appear in court for a 3rd day on wednesday in a marathon bail hearing the 1st day on monday lasted 15 hours and had to be adjourned when one of the defendants fainted and was taken to hospital the activists are facing charges under a controversial chinese national security law they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territories legislature. still to come this haha more media workers targeted in afghanistan with 3 women killed in the latest attacks. and assault on the u.s. capitol while the head of the f.b.i. believes the riot was an act of domestic terrorism.

however the weather remains fine and model for a good part of europe at the moment lots of subtle weather around big area of high pressure so large the clear skies early warning folks who were think of but nothing too much if the truth be known we have got the system this area of high pressure just not a little further east for say over the next couple days so there will be something a change coming in to western parts of here but the moment we got showers state snow just pushing across western russia some unsettled weather coming through here that makes its way through as you go on through wednesday still a few showers around the eastern side of the black sea org and also into that a side of the mediterranean so some lively storms a possibility just around cyprus pushing over towards the levant over the next day or 2 with some strong winds got a few shows that in place across the eastern half of spain as well but some west of weather just making its way in from the atlantic so northern parts of france will see increasing rights to get up to 17 celsius in paris to also says that for london

as it clouds over what the weather coming in across southern parts of england and a good part of wells look how it cools off as we go on into thursday winds coming in from a northerly direction wetter weather easing across germany pushing a little further east was and by this stage is fine and dry for the met. some people marry for love others it can be a commercial transaction. see us i mean it's worth 3700 euro payment just for the march counter out as their world meets men and women using marriage as an illegal passport to europe you know just as they can get arrested for attempting to organize a sham marriage and a financial and emotional cost but then he left me for a woman 33 years older than him marriage for sale on al-jazeera.

earth. logan are one of the top stories here now to 0 united states has announced sanctions on russia over the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny 7 senior russian officials and 14 agencies associated with chemical agent production have been targeted the european union is also not sanctions on 4 top officials. of 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last week from a boarding school in northern nigeria has been freed they say their abductors beat them and threatened to shoot them as they were marched into a forest. and there are reports that live rounds were fired to disperse protesters in the northwestern town of kalak that's despite foreign ministers from relieve regional role last year and meeting with

a minute she representative and urging all parties to refrain from instigating violence or an asphalt screw. 3 media workers have been shot dead in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad government officials say the women women were all employed by local television station and he cast t.v. they were on their way home from work when they were killed in 2 separate attacks the shootings are the latest in a wave of attacks targeting journalists activists and civil service workers in recent months. when nato senior civilian representative in afghanistan stefano political rival responded to the attack by tweeting another tragic killing of 3 professionals of afghan media in jalalabad today afghan women working in the media sector are especially targeted their voices are more important than ever to ensure lasting peace in afghanistan. and united states the f.b.i. director has been testifying in front of a senate committee and the storming of capitol hill on january the 6th one fishes

following events for us in washington d.c. alan this is the 1st time christopher ray has spoken publicly about the incident what did he have to say. that's right he's just wrapped up his evidence the senators on the judiciary committee they want to question him particularly about the intelligence that the f.b.i. received whether or not they could have done more he also managed to puncture a couple of well 2 worn conspiracy theories that have been batted around since the election 1st of all he said the agreed with former attorney general bill barr that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the presidential election he said that certainly there wasn't anything to suggest that was on the scale that would overturn the result that of course is something that donald trump has talked about extensively over the last couple of months and even mentioned it again when he made his speech his return to public life at sea packed on sunday and then there's the question about whether or not there was another issue something that christopher

really addressed during his testimony. certainly worthwhile were equal opportunity and looking for extreme ism of any of any ideology we have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to anti for in connection with the 6th that doesn't mean we're not looking and will continue to look but at the moment we have not seen that and did the f.b.i. have knowledge any advance warning for us. while there is this question of whether or not they got intelligence from a regional field office in norfolk in virginia which is in the south of the state and whether or not that was passed on the christopher reeves said at the scene nothing online that they felt and the significant risk and they said they really have to discriminate between what they see is chatter and actual actionable intelligence what is aspirational and when there is a real risk of people doing something but they saw this message that was sent by

the norfolk field office he said it was sent in 3 different ways to the staff here at capitol hill which had to essentially said there could be an issue the question that the senators want to know is could the f.b.i. have done more where they really at proactive when it came to seeking out this intelligence christopher ray says that there is an inquiry underway and he will come back to the senators with the results of that but the senators want to know if there was more they could have done to protect capitol hill and of course to protect them and fish thank you very much indeed there's growing pressure on new york governor andrew cuomo to resign after a 3rd woman accused him of inappropriate behavior and iraq worked in the white house during the about the administration she says cuomo touched her face and back and asked to kiss her after meeting at a wedding reception instant was photographed by a friend of hers 2 other women have already accused him of sexual harassment. the

biden ministration has announced a partnership between pharmaceutical rivals that will help accelerate america's vaccine rollout the drug company matt will help make johnson and johnson's single shot coronavirus vaccine after its vaccine candidate failed johnson and johnson's vaccine is the 3rd to be approved by u.s. regulators meanwhile johnson and johnson has confirmed it will test its k. with $900.00 children and expanded trials. french government has reversed a ban on giving people over the age of 65 the astra zeneca coded 19 vaccine when the job was approved by the by european union regulators france insistent there wasn't enough data from trials in older age groups but the initial ban has left many reluctant to accept the vaccine has more from paris 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 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 that's been put in charge of the french vaccine rollout program a 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 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 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. in the netherlands thousands of restaurant and cafe owners into southern cities have opened their outdoor terraces in defiance of a knock down. have been closed since october since then the dutch government has imposed more restrictions to control the spread of a new more contagious kind of 19 variant so fast and has spoken to fed up business owners in the 2 cities. as if there's no covert plan that makes people have been gathering here in the city of this is a part of the south of holland where during the 1st wave of the covert pandemic there were

a lot of infections and also many people have died here people and especially business owners are fed up with the lock down with the covert restrictions so they decided to go fight government regulations and just simply open up their terraces there been serving drinks here until police came to a lot of people gathering police ordered them to leave but they're still defiant. each it's really nothing to do anymore after 6 months close. last year to have. probably have to pay for a fine so in the u.k. they said this is going to open then this is going to. be for the whole of 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 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 my dolls here a symbolic protest against the fact that the government decided to reopen some businesses like massage salons and hear brussels at restaurants cafes and bars. help us through people's clothes for medical reasons. or give us a chance to prove again and again that we can do it in a safe way. these protests have not only been taking place here in the south of the nablus but also an outer tallents shops are open also to defy government regulations mir's have been putting pressure on the government ministers to be more lenient to give businesses more opportunities but the government insists that this lockdown is still needed that also this evening curfew will be maintained on till infections will go down it's got a purchase a broken out across lebanon as the country's pound is a record low against the dollar on the black market but just as in beirut the scene

setting tires on fire and using rubbish bins to block roads the dollar is trading at 9009 $175.00 pounds on the official price remains at $1520.00 pounds to the dollar antigovernment protests began in october 29 teen but the anger has been compounded by the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and a deadly blast in beirut support last list. to u.s. citizens accused of helping the foreman is sand motor company chairman carlos cohn escape from japan and now in tokyo a u.s. federal judge ordered the extradition of michael taylor and his son peter in january they believed to have helped go in free from japan to lebanon on a private jet 2 years ago good was accused of financial crimes in japan and was out on bail when he escaped the country. even indonesia's northern cairo region a being urged to keep a safe distance from an erupting volcano mount sinabung sent columns of ash 5

kilometers into the air and its biggest eruption since august cinnabon became active 10 years ago after lying dormant for centuries since then more than 30000 people living within 5 kilometers of the volcano have been forced to leave their homes could monday catch up any time on our website to dress for that is our desire to come. top stories are now syria the white house is not sanctions over the poisoning of opposition figure aleksandr valley the u.s. accuses russia poisoning the kremlin critic with a nerve agent last august something it denies 7 senior russian officials and 14 agencies associated with chemical agent production have been targeted a.q. the director of russia's f.s.b. .