and in 2 years after the unity government's failure to pass the national budget up from small hill to the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom. march on al-jazeera. 0. hello again i'm just on the take this is the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. several people are reported killed in anti crew protests in myanmar and demonstrators fight with police during their crackdown. challenging times for the u.k. it's chancellor lays out the budget during the worst economic downturn in century.

multiple rocket attacks targeting iraqi air base that's being used by the u.s. and coalition forces. and glowing in the dogs at the giant luminous shocks discovered off new zealand that could help scientists unlock more about life in the deep sea. i don't feel disturbed with all the day's news reports in japan so the government is planning on stopping international fans coming to watch the tokyo lympics even if it's a purveyor of the spirit of coronavirus. but we begin this news hour with reports that at least 9 people have now been killed and wednesday's anti crew protests police backed by soldiers fired live ammunition and an attempt to break up demonstrations in a number of cities protesters there are defying an increasingly violent crackdown to demand an end to the military takeover scott hyper reports.

new tactics and new equipment for the protesters as the crackdown from myanmar security forces escalates. but despite this wednesday's protest again turned deadly with live ammunition being used along with rubber bullets and stun grenades the protesters now wear helmets use homemade shields and even create smoke screens themselves to hide from snipers and gunmen. but when the smoke clears the protest barriers their line of defense are gone. in mandalay a regular scene for gatherings during the month of protests they have also increased their protection against the police and military but even with the added measures there's little they can do against live rounds. and in the southern city of da way the red flag of on song and all the party was hoisted images of the military leader men on lie pasted on the ground. as the protests continued on wednesday also present when men will face 2 additional charges his lawyer

describing what it could mean. with imprisonment i the description for a time which me extended 3 years all with 50 with. some feel that the charges against women and young songs hoochie are trumped up possibly to prevent them from ever returning to politics despite women being detained since you don't know distances to his lawyers and his lawyers haven't even received a copy of the child see the case file so these are fundamental trouble right. on top of everything else so as the protesters continue their stand against the coup on the streets across myanmar their elected leaders are facing their own battle in a judicial system that appears to be working against them scott hodler al-jazeera. and to update you just in the last few minutes we've heard for our team on the ground there that the death toll in myanmar has now gone up to 20 people will be bringing you more from that as we get it.

now the u.s. states of texas and mississippi are rolling back restrictions against the coronavirus despite a warning not to do so businesses are due to reopen and a mask mandate will end from tuesday texas senator greg abbott says infections are falling and it's now time to reopen texas 100 percent. issuing a new executive order that receive most of the earlier executive orders but the active next winds date all businesses of any type or allowed to open 100 percent then include any type of texas. also i mean in doing this statewide mask mandate. well there's less confidence in brazil after the highest single day death toll

since this pandemic began nearly 171007 100 people died on tuesday and hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising caseload and in the netherlands there's a growing anger there are lockdowns there have been protests for several weeks now against curbs on the economy and there's been an explosion at a private testing center just a few hours ago and now in the u.k. as you can see behind me the chancellor is preparing to unveil the budget to try to ease that lockdown fatigue he's expected to extend a scheme which keeps employees paid while businesses are temporarily closed well for more on all of this let's speak to our white house correspondent kimberly how is it i'm kimberly just listening there to governor abbott you could hear people cheering as he rescinded that mosque mandated mass marrying wearing has become so politicized during all of this i see not everyone in texas that was happy about it . well the bottom line is you to understand what's going on here you really have to understand how the united states works in terms of the power of the various

governments what we have here is a fight between the federal recommendations and the individual states that under the u.s. constitution have very strong * rights particularly when it comes to issues of health care and education for example so when the c.d.c. as it has has cautioned against lifting these mandates the states have the option to ignore the advice and that's exactly what's going on in texas and in mississippi what the argument that is being made by these governors is that there are now such good therapeutics there are many people who have been vaccinated and well these states are not herd immunity what they argue is that the sort of cost of keeping these restrictions in place harming businesses keeping kids out of school those sorts of things restricting people's freedom as they say is really much greater than the risk of catching cope with 19 so this is really a philosophical political argument conservatives in the united states believe it

less government and so they believe that this is something that has been infringing on their rights so well this is about cope with 19 this is also about the larger debate about the role of government in the united states and we see states like not only mississippi but also texas pushing back now very quickly one other point i should make about all of this is the concern is that particularly in mississippi many people don't have access to these therapeutics they don't have health care the education level there can at times be lower because there hasn't been the same resources and so the argument being as there is a very large community of color in mississippi is that this is going to potentially hurt those communities that don't have access to the therapeutics that for example the president of the united states donald trump had when he caught cove at 19 so this is the argument this. the battle that's taking place yes it's about health care but it's also an argument over which political ideology you believe when it

comes to to government and the governing of people's lives and came to you mentioned encouraging numbers they want to comes to the vaccine route and we've obviously been getting very good news on that front over the last few days but i say experts are saying that the declining numbers are actually down to tighter restrictions so is there a concern that we're going to see numbers then go back up in texas and mississippi absolutely and so the governor in texas has said essentially look it we're not going to be reckless here we're lifting this because we want people the opportunity to get out of their homes to make those personal decisions if they feel safe enough to go out but what we've heard from the c.d.c. is yes cases are declining but that decline is not a sharp decline it's kind of leveling off and so what texas has said is if we get to full capacity in terms of hospital beds of 15 percent for 7 days we'll put these restrictions back in place but they're optimistic that they can avoid all of that

and allow people to get out of their homes and to wear a mask when they feel it's appropriate house correspondent can be how it got there across that for us from washington d.c. thanks so much company. well as i was saying there are calls for a national lockdown after brazil recorded its highest number of deaths from crown of ice in a single day but president diable so far as opposing further restrictions on a chaotic have now reports from rio de janeiro. a battle of wills in the midst of tragedy one that has killed more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians in a year the 2nd highest death toll in the world local authorities shut down brazil's capital city brasilia to save the health system from total collapse more than 90 percent of intensive care beds are occupied in $1000.00 infections are on the rise . the emergency lockdown was met with anger by some who took

to the streets shouting we want to work and president. took their sign he threatened to punish governors and mayors who are pushing for lock downs in curfews by cutting off federal assistance was you know yes you know there are walls where this from now on the governor who closes his state who destroys jobs will be the one who pays for the emergency aid. but he offered no solution to the health crisis the worst since the beginning of the pandemic 20 out of brazil's $27.00 state capitals have run out of beds in their intensive care units and an estimated 70 brazilians are dying every hour from covert 19 meanwhile vaccines are slow in coming in only 3 percent of the population has been inoculated so far. if we do not stop the outbreak will face

a total collapse of the health system we can increase the number of intensive care beds are we want but if the number of infections continues to grow they'll never be enough the only solution is a 14 day nationwide lockdown like other countries have imposed with success but here we face a lack of leadership and total denial several brazilian states and the capital brasilia have been posed restrictions to fight the 2nd wave of the pandemic but here are wary of the janeiro life continues pretty much as usual people are making the most of their summer staying on the big as you can see until nightfall. but fears of a 2nd wave in the total lack of unity in fighting the pandemic are affecting business cattle fury says he rarely leaves the house but has decided to enjoy one last night out he's sure things will get much worse before they get better monica unite give al-jazeera rio de janeiro i also mentioned an explosion at

a coronavirus testing center in the netherlands step fasten is that with. quite some shock here at this explain about this explosion at what is basically a health facility i spoke to the mayor of earlier and he said this is a very sad day also for these health workers who have been working at this task facility and i'm now all quite shocked and quite scared as well of course because it is the 1st time that there has been an explosion at a testing facility we have seen before that test facilities were attacked in the west one set on fire and a war also damages done to other test facilities but this is the 1st time i'm at told bomb a pipe bomb basically of 10 centimeters long exploded right in front of this test facility behind me the bomb squad is there at the moment looking for all kinds of pieces of evidence police is also here still looking for who could be behind this there has been quite some frustration and anger here in the netherlands recently

about corona restrictions but at the same time as the mayor also pointed out in this region infections are actually going up the government is still warning for a 3rd wave we also saw on tuesdays that january infections are going up in the natl and so there is this whole wave of people trying to lift these restrictions to push against them by the government says this is just simply not possible and as i was saying britain's chancellor is also setting out his latest budget as the economy that continues to reel from the impact of this kind of like what was originally thought to be a temporary disruption to our way of life has fundamentally altered it people are still being told to stay in our homes businesses have been ordered to close foundations people are in hospital much has changed but one thing has stayed the same. i said i would do what ever it takes i

have done and i will do so. well let's be tory challenges outside westminster for us mr stern externally has a very big challenges to tackle their. yeah we have to remember that is not just. the u.k. is dealing with the moment it is also breaks it so these are 2 kind of unprecedented crises if you're like me the situation is a crisis wrecks it perhaps self-inflicted that the u.k. is trying to recover from at the same time so. you know the economy has been hit by 10 percent the worst economic contraction in 300 years there is an unprecedented situation here and he is saying that it's the conservative governments that is going to get britain out of this he said that the actual

forecasts are looking up to the office of budget responsibility a kind of watchdog for government spending he's predicting that the u.k. is going to bounce back faster than expected and also that unemployment is not going to be as bad as expected he is still saying though that he has a plan essentially to 1st and foremost continue supporting the economy continue supporting businesses then they are going to look at how to rebuild public finest finances and thirdly they're going to be looking at what sort of economy the u.k. is going to have going forward so in terms of supporting businesses and employer employees he was talking about extending this scheme in which the government has basically been subsidizing many private sector wage bills for the duration of the crisis that's going to carry on until september to gradually be tapered off they're

also going to be restart loans more assistance for the self employed as to rebuilding the public's finances well that's going to take longer of course and it's not going to be i think for another couple of years before we start seeing those tax rises that are inevitable starting to creep back in or a little the latest for us from london thank you so much sorry. well now worshippers wishing to make the hunch pilgrimage to saudi arabia this year will be required to show proof of covert vaccination the saudi health ministry says being inoculated against cove in $1000.00 will be compulsory in order to get a permit to attend that religious gathering the pilgrimage will take place in july . when our south africa says it's vaccinated tens of thousands of its health care workers with the johnson and johnson vaccine it had planned to use the oxford astra zeneca jabot that rollout was suspended earlier this month after the discovery of

a new and more contagious variant al-jazeera is for me to meditate into a lab and president to top where that new strain was fast found. and every day day after day visit to rio de oliveira leads the team at south africa's university of course they're responsible for sequencing the genomes of hundreds of some pools of covert 19 being moved through the room where they will extract there aren't very often a virus simply put scientists observe not only how the virus grows and mutates but also how effective vaccines are in protecting people from the disease it's at this lab late last year that scientists discovered one of the 1st coded 19 variants in the world after doctors noticed a wiring rise in fiction's 5 all one wired viewed through variance and at the head around like 2313 your patients from the audition always trained with 2 went off then called the i'm annoyed as sids change with

a change of their frontrunner off the profane which translates into vitals to be more profitable but i'll follow as neutralize a by and the board so given that scientific understanding it's not a surprise that the new variant is the dominant theory inference other even though they cannot be accepted as thought this variant when it arrives if there's basically had to be for 20 or 30 different limit to sickle a thing and they all basically disappear now we have all of the variant 3 just finished and for every day and 99 percent of the genome is there is very the discovery of the variant to railed south africa's plans to begin immunizing its health workers with the oxford astra zeneca vaccine studies had suggested it would cut the risk of contracting the rich. variant of covert 19 by 75 percent but a local trial of about 2000 people showed it was lisita fictive against the new variant we showed program there with colleagues of our foreign affairs velika that

a lot of infections to happen both in the book and often device in the scientists say more research is needed to show how effective that vaccine is against severe illness but the world health organization has approved its emergency use for now south africa is using the johnson and johnson vaccine which has shown to be more effective and will instead distribute its backchat astra zeneca vaccines to other african countries that are for america has been effective against very effective against not the non variant as the virus is likely to continue to mutate they are warnings that somebody has a vaccination drive should speed up and it's labs like this one that help ensure scientists stay on top of those mutations and determine just which vaccines will work for me to malone. moving on to other wild news now and an iraqi military facility that's also used by u.s.

forces has come under attack multiple rockets have landed on the airbase just days after u.s. president joe biden ordered a strike on the cities used by iran backed groups in syria at bases around 180 kilometers northwest of baghdad smyrna fault and has more now from the capital. the latest rocket attacks on iraq's western anbar province could be in response to the biden administration's 1st strikes against iranian backed armed groups last week in syria we have had no claim of responsibility so far but these latest attacks and i know last night which of course houses many u.s. troops does bear the hallmarks of previous rocket attacks that we have seen which the united states has blamed on the iranian backed armed factions now we have seen several statements come out from these groups over the past few days and they have of course condemned those u.s. strikes against their fighters they have claimed that those fighters are based at

iraq's border with syria to protect iraqi soil from iceland they have also called on the iraqi government to condemn those strikes which they see as an attack on iraq the fighters on iraq's sovereignty but of course the iraqi government has not done that last friday the ministry of defense did issue a statement in which it claimed that it had no involvement in those u.s. strikes that it did not call aberrated the united states on that matter but that statement stopped short of criticizing the united states for its actions and that is that is of course further angered these armed groups who may have then decided to take actions into their own hands now there were no casualties or material damage as a result of today's rocket attacks which is why we don't really expect the united states to immediately retaliate but it remains to be seen whether we will see an

increase in these kind of incidents over the next few days is especially as pope francis is expected to visit iraq on friday. 4 media workers who were arrested recently in ethiopia's northern region have been freed no reason was given for their arrest 2 of them were jan last and 2 of them were translated as access to tikrit has been severely restricted since the government launched its military offensive there in november well aid agencies say that syria's rebel controlled areas need urgent help to support their devastated health systems that warning coincides with the 10 year anniversary of the civil war in that time the syrian government and its allies have carried out widespread and deliberate attacks that have damaged or destroyed hospitals then a has more. much from of the. hospitals have been repeatedly bombed in what has been described as a systematic campaign to force the opposition to surrender in.

hundreds of airstrikes by syrian government and russian warplanes have been documented throughout the years of conflict. many advocacy groups like physicians for human rights have tracked that least 595 air or artillery attacks on health care facilities in syria since 20112 years later they were described as war crimes by u.n. investigators who said the hospitals were being bombed to gain military advantage but apart from condemnations little else was done from the rules of war continued to be ignored. but still nothing but the russian and syrian governments have denied targeting civilians or civilian buildings despite evidence to the contrary and international recognition of the widespread and sometimes deliberately which are of the attacks. we know now.

we know that. a survey by the international rescue committee showed the risks health workers and civilians face in the past decade 81 percent said they had a coworker or patient injured or killed 77 percent witnessed an average of 4 attacks on health care facilities 68 percent were inside a health facility when it was attacked and part of that because you know how to build myself in the fall 2 of the hospitals i was working in was hit i survived but the feeling is hard to describe we all felt vulnerable but we all knew what the risks of being in the hospital it meant we could be killed with one of the heads and got a decade of attacks is also compromised the health care system and its ability to respond to the needs of millions of syrians in opposition controlled areas in the north and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are an added pressure on an

already weak system where there is one doctor for every 10000 civilians in the midst of the situation is not good there are millions of people that live in the countryside of aleppo a matter how much aid we get just not enough we really suffer from a lack of medicines and medical equipment to treat chronic diseases as ceasefire appears to be largely holding but it hasn't eased the humanitarian crisis the violence has caused critical damage to syria's health sector affecting the ability of millions to receive proper health care center for their beirut. time for the weather and his efforts. over the past few days we have seen some very wet weather into northeastern parts of australia and down into the southwest up to us in ne we have tropical cycle and they are around that is in the process of pulling away and down towards the southwest of this area of low pressure which should be free to some very heavy rain flooding rains in parts very close to perth again that will ease as we go through the next couple of days that's thursday's pitch of the

shall still in place and you can see how near and moves out into the coral sea clear skies come back in behind it if not much of australia will be fine and dry as we make our way into the weekend shell is pulling away from the southeast as well cooled enough still in melbourne it around 21 celsius and we'll see that shabby running grassy making its way into new zealand as we go on into the next complet day said tony well the wet and windy here some of the wet and windy weather making its way into japan over the next day or so is driving out to central parts of china moving out into the open waters to shanghai seeing some of that west the weather will move across southern parts of south korea and eventually that will roll across the south of japan so accuse you saying the heaviest rain bits and pieces of rain into southern parts of honshu but still warm ahead of that with hov 18 in tokyo. after the head here on al-jazeera we're tenderest channon is to step down next year

after his mining company faced an uproar for destroying a crude aboriginal site. it's not all green eggs and ham why dr stewart says the state has decided to stop publishing 6 of his books. and bron james can't help prevent the latest defeat to be any makers in the n.b.a. peace will be here with all the action. they captured the hearts of founds around the world leagues for pullmans are unlike most elders they fold harder j. . tom put themselves in the minds of something more important than the beautiful game footballing legendary can saddam introduces a form of players who bucked the trend and stood up for what they believed there would be a new season of football rebels coming soon on al-jazeera. frank assessments

the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure is that a fair assessment you catastrophic. to twice and valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. so there are no stasi attainder that's remind you about top stories here this hour there are reports that 20 people have now been killed and wednesday's and the

protests in myanmar security forces fired live ammunition in an attempt to break up demonstrations that took place in several cities. prisons chancellery she soon to is currently setting out his latest budget as the economy continues to reel from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic unemployment has now topped 5 percent and last year saw the biggest drop in economic output and 300 years. in iraq a military facility that's also used by u.s. forces has come under attack multiple rockets have landed on the another side to air base just days after the u.s. struck this that she's used by iran backed groups in syria. on german media reporting the opposition alternative for germany party o f t is being put on the state's available it's suspected of a link to what officials are calling far right extremism germany's intelligence agency has already put the party's youth wing under surveillance back in 2019 the government is refusing to confirm or deny these latest reports the f.d.a.

is the biggest opposition party in parliament that may have come as the head of general elections set for september 26th of dominic kane is in berlin for us this is really quite the statement there from the german government. will the point about what's happened today is that a respected news outlet is reporting that it has seen a report from the government which suggests that a lot of evidence has been compiled regarding certain statements and speeches made by leading members of the alternative germany party the largest opposition party it must be said in parliament which the agency concerned believes are infringing democratic principles and human rights it's worth making the point that the f.t. challenges that completely what's interesting here is that already the f.t. is under investigation by this government agency the domestic intelligence service

in several states of this country one particularly the states of the ring year in the old east germany and one of the leading people there for the f.t. a man called beyond her well he had set up a movement within the f.t. called the flugel the wing now many of the people involved in that movement are people who are prominent now in the f.d.a. and to a different to defer to differing degrees rather the interesting thing though although the government has not commented on the report and the one thing that does stand out is that although there is the suggestion that surveillance is now. we're going to be taking place across the f.t. across the entire country the relevant agency has said it will not perform surveillance on any elected officials existing elected officials for the ethnic be they at state parliament level at federal parliament level or european parliamentary level nor indeed will they perform any surveillance on candidates in

states parliamentary elections and federal parliamentary elections in this calendar year that matters because there are many elections taking place in this calendar year specifically 2 very important elections taking place in western german states the sunday after next where 15000000 germans will get the chance to vote and then of course in september where the entire country gets to vote at the federal parliamentary level so this is in some ways could be construed as a warning shot to the f.t. because its parliamentary leaders will not have surveillance performed on them until everything has percolated down as it were but the party now knows if this article is accurate that it is being monitored across the board doesn't it came there with all the latest for us from berlin thanks so much donna on our russia has called near u.s.

sanctions unacceptable and says it will reciprocate president joe biden made that decision in response to the poisoning of opposition they get elected in a valley and if measures follow some of the sanctions that have already been imposed by the european union like hannah reports. google books as in the case of the e.u. the us sanctions are aimed at some very senior officials in the putin administration these include a federal service director victor was a lot of listening here to his president the russian prosecutor general eagle cross north and the head of the russian investigative committee alexander streak in. the buy didn't ministration also non-sentient sent to the us chemical and biological weapons control and warfare elimination act against at least 13 russian companies with the threat of more sanctions to follow there is an ongoing review there we reserve the right to take any additional actions at the conclusion of that review

and just reiterating that the tone and the tenor and the type of relationship that this president intends to have with president putin will be quite different from the last administration earlier the russian foreign minister was dismissive of the imposition of sanctions just go to somebody sure moves a little there isn't much to comment on and so we have numerously expressed our position in regards to illegitimate unilateral sanctions that with or without reason actually mostly always with our reason are used by our colleagues from the united states and those who take an example from them the european union and the view from the u.s. state department is that the coordinated action with the e.u. sends in itself a message to russia that things have changed together they sent an unambiguous signal that the united states is working closely with our closest allies and partners in europe to make clear that this kind of behavior is not acceptable we

will not countenance it we will not tolerate it and there will be penalties going forward the previous u.s. president appeared eager to accept the words of his russian counterpart over those of the americans european allies as well these sanctions signaled that the president incumbent will not and that his administration is beginning to restore a more conventional approach to foreign policy plans. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. secretary of states has now spoken to venezuela's opposition leader calling for in his words a return to democracy and a phone call with one anthony blinken stressed the importance of free and fair elections washington recognizes quite as venezuela's legitimate leader after disputed elections that's all president nicolas maduro returned to power in 2018. now voting has wrapped up in pakistan sen lection members of the provincial and

national assemblies are eligible to vote half of the $104.00 sitting senators are reaching the end of their times now it's a secret for years but prime minister imran khan had wanted the electors ballots to be made public in order to prevent vote trading but pakistan's supreme court rejected that move to a high the has more now from islamabad. this is a better go on dates between the combined opposition known as the pakistan democratic movement and the progress on teddy can solve richard the ruling party the government of golf had warranted an open ballot for drone spread in c. because india bought the senate elections have been marred by allegations of corruption there's a border didn't order while the buggers gone dead you can solve the ruling party really be able to. the single largest party where did. they really need crucial support from key allies and also correlation partners or indeed all eyes on the senate the prime minister of guards are canceling all of the engagements for

their day and of course he will be watching this election race closely it is going to be important to see who emerges from the seat bridge is reserved for its lama bought dead they're gone dexters between an expert a minister use a rather gailani and the country's finance minister. 3 media watches have been shot dead in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad government officials say the 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 shootings the latest in a wave of attacks targeting journalists activists and civil service workers in recent months iso has claimed responsibility for the shooting. now 6 books by the popular children's author and illustrator dr seuss will no longer be published because they contain racist stereotypes dr seuss's est said the books betrayed people in ways that are hurtful and wrong and made the decision after months of

consultation with teachers and other experts there was there a rush to buy these books after the announcement with the titles rocketing up the amazon bestseller list they were very very thoughtful about the way they did this and i think they recognize that. you know these 6 books really don't fit with the way we think today about to picton people and so i appreciate their decision and i think that they've done it in a way that still recognizes the vast works that dr seuss has provided to many of us if they would update the book if they maybe have an updated curriculum guy that goes along with that and use it once again as a teaching tool what better opportunity we can that shows your art you know from what was again we can influence them and what will be on it stick into this with you who are williams he is university chair and distinguished professor of history

at the university of cent thomas and he joins us now from minnesota professor we were just listening to some pretty divergent opinions there 3 about all of this i mean this is a choice that dr seuss's est is making themselves let me ask you do you agree with it. i do i think it's a great decision on the prairie estate primarily because we are in a moment 'd of racial reckoning in the united states and beyond and it's an important occasion at the state recognizes this moment that those images and depictions of people of color in particular african-americans or africans and particularly asians which dr seuss was you know very some of that artwork is very hurtful some of the propaganda he produced is very hurtful no longer needs to be represented in those children's books particularly for young people were reading those at a fair. i see i feel like this is all coming at a very specific time in history that you've had a time where people right now are really hyper conscious of anything that could

potentially offend how do you feel about the status of the cancel culture debate in the u.s. and some people are arguing that it's gone too far. well i think it's interesting because i don't exactly see this is part of cancel culture they're not getting rid of all of dr seuss's books they're targeting these 6 books which are particularly egregious images associated with them but for me i think it goes back to what the united states supreme court argued with regard to capital punishment in 1006 that we draw our meeting from evolving standards of decency that marks the progress of the maturing society we no longer consider drawing and quartering a legitimate fear of punishment in this country it's also fair to say that we no 'd longer consider those images to be appropriate for young people it's i think perfectly acceptable for us it's a society in its history to look back in to judge whether things continue to represent their system in an appropriate way this is one of those moments and i think that's what the state decided that's what the publisher decided and i think

it's a good decision again it doesn't remove dr seuss from the canon it's simply says these 6 works i'm going to represent our values presently and so therefore we're not going to continue to publish those books professor you mention even if that and cultural norms have a say shift conversations change and i'm not defending my sister to have someone say one of the last people who did that but i do wonder is there not any value in using these as tools potentially to educate children about how we have evolved how far divesting itself has changed us. yeah i think so and i think that's appropriate but it depends on the context so if we're talking about a history class for example or other social studies course that makes perfect sense for a teacher to say let's take a look at some of these images let's look at some of the propaganda that was produced by dark to see slides problematic lets you do that in the context of the news in terms of this country and why that was an issue and i think that's entirely appropriate it's a great use of that when richard concerts and that would be

a group we do that at the same time just to have those circulating in a classroom without any context is a problem and i think again it's one of those things where we're not saying let's get rid of this entirely there are certainly still available for people to deal with in that context but to simply have them it's part of the curriculum without any context is the real issue here i'd like to ask you then fessor a bigger question because i wonder does a more divest america necessarily mean a lower tolerance for racism or does that potentially mean that more people are facing culture clashes that they're trying to navigate i mean it really feels like i'm in a even in the last few weeks as we've been watching these attacks on asian americans that these gulfs have only become larger. i completely agree and i worry about the same thing i think ultimately sometimes when people descend images from the past their argument is that we have to view them in the context in which they were created i would argue that that's fair but at the same time we also have to view them in the context of arkansas for a moment and then our concern for

a moment in the shadow of january 6th you saw images of racial terror the confederate flag in new shoes but insurrectionists in our concern for a moment where we're seeing attacks on. writing in arkansas for a moment we're talking about on really developing strategies and policies or procedures that help us achieve we're going to resist framework this is an appropriate sure's by the publisher of the state to say ringback let's really tell the group here how can we need tribute to trying to create a culture which 'd these things these it's not it's in greece's elitism no longer see it is acceptable i think that's a good thing overall for all of us here i went to a distinguished professor of history and asked have sent thomas great to get your thoughts here on out there thanks for being with us. to be with you thank you and i'm moving on and rio tinto is chairman has announced that he will step down after the australian mining company destroyed ancient aboriginal rock shelters last year the sacred caves have blasted despite warnings of their cultural significance and

as nick cage reports there is pressure on the mining giant to do all. this video shows the irreversible damage caused by rio tinto when it blew up the ancient you can go a drop in australia's remote pilbara region. countries be disappearing. nearly a year on after pressure from investors its chairman solomon tolson has announced he won't seek reelection as a board director saying he's ultimately accountable for the caves destruction but he won't be leaving until next year and they're coles for him to step down immediately. started thomson was the one that i just say i am a coach at that and the. explanation which i am ready to pay the $1.00 that actually you know it's late 3 for. the rock caves contained evidence of human activity 46000 years ago as well as some of the oldest examples of boeing tools in

australia rio tinto as chief executive john sebastian jacques has already quit along with other executives some received significant payouts despite being forced to leave i believe that there are still some on the board who should be reflecting very carefully about their role in the actions subsequent to the destruction of jason gordon in the enabling of that culture other companies have also been accused of damaging aboriginal heritage slots in australia without the permission of traditional owners the western australian government has promised to update indigenous heritage laws that allowed for rio tinto to legally destroy this you can go check out needs we want to shift the power dynamic we want to put some control back in the nation's paper today and have a stand i know what happens here each of reaction harry janette country rio tinto says it's taking steps to change its processes and approach to cultural heritage

nicola gage al-jazeera. when our scientists have discovered 3 new varieties of shark that can glow in the dark luminous fish were found by scientists during a survey off the east coast of new zealand and the sharks live in the deep sea where very little light gets in it is still unclear just what purpose the glow serves but scientists believe it could be linked to hunting or camouflaged well earlier i spoke to fair he's the lead researcher on that shark project and also a research associate at the national science foundation of the university of nevada he explains more about the significance of this discovery. shouted glowing because you know if you are living and are living below 200 meter in 200 meter that's used to have a stint amount of light coming from the surface so. there is a bluish atmosphere heard on the air decreasing but if you are swimming in that

bluish muster and you have a predictor which is below you even each smooching at the surface you will see the shadow of your body and then he knows that the food is ready in picture q but if you produce and you can see it on those image new right eventually of course you disappear because you are blue ish unapproved light surrounding you and that's the main purpose of the sharks bonus and we believe we just just discovered a pattern of light emission the shark was known in a family containing some luminous stuff some new species but we didn't know at all that they are producing under the dorsal 'd fin and the reason why is totally unknown for a dish are for another shark luminously not so easily thing up the spine which is there close to good or sufficient but has no spine so why is it glowing on the

dog and on the dorsal fin we don't know so we still have question marks and still have research to move to understand maybe there is a difference between male and female and they can signal then each other we don't know. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the winning run continues to manchester city as they move 15 points clear in the premier.

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reports that japan is planning to block foreign fans attending the tokyo lympics later this year organizers are doing all they can to combat the pandemic which has already forced the games to be postponed once already david stokes reports. the tokyo games start in 5 months but now seem destined to take place without overseas friends a japanese newspaper is reporting that the government has already made up its mind as it looks to allay the fears of an increasingly skeptical public about hosting a medical able health crisis a final decision is expected within the month meanwhile the international olympic committee says it's trying to get as many participants as possible vaccinated before the games although it's not mandatory a considerable number of. national olympic committees has already secured the prieto cure or vaccine nation not all athletes will take up the offer jamaican sprinter you know how blake

earlier this week said he'd rather miss the games than get the vaccine but others like german canoeists brendel are prepared to do whatever it takes to get to tokyo . to the cave workers should get their vaccines 1st so the sporting world doesn't want to shove its way to the front of the queue but of course it would make it a lot easier for us as far as preparations go. here randall competed at both the london and rio olympics and won 3 gold medals he's expecting a very different type of games this time around in fact as a start when i assume that it will happen without fans and there will likely be no olympic village but we've all been told that it's happening and this is really important for a lot of the disciplines. back in tokyo the games organizing committee has now ratified the appointment of 12 new female members which means 42 percent of the board and now women the change was prompted by the committee's new president seiko how she moto she took over last month after her predecessor resigned of

a sexist comments is you need to have a school the new council is now formed of experts but rich experience in many different fields including academics with insight on gender equality and also medical experts to enhance our covert 1000 coat of cause to lead the games to a success with diversity we also have people from the i know tribes more than ever but this is where idea of opinions can be reflected in the management of the games . motor when her new look organizing committee have their work cut out with lots of questions still hanging over the games and only 142 days to come up with the answers david stokes out 0. calls to boycott the beijing winter games in china next year were doomed to failure according to a chinese government spokesperson the country has denied allegations of abuses against muslim we get is to basins and other minorities but more than $180.00 organizations of called on governments to boycott next year's games so far those

calls have been largely met with silence although both canadian and dutch lawmakers have agreed that china is committing genocide. some individual foreign politicians have politicized courts with an attempt to disturb and sabotage the preparations and the holding of the beijing winter olympics calling for a boycott these acts are in violation of that and pick spirit we believe that the move will not win support from the international community and are doomed to failure portuguese superstar cristiana ronaldo has made the 600 career club appearance and celebrated in style with a go for his team events as you they were in action in the italian city are on tuesday against spezza for now though took his time to get on the scoresheet. federico had put the current italian champions to know ahead and then in the 89th minute ronaldo wraps it up. with 3 you know when it says 20 of goal of the season and it moves events to 3 points behind 2nd placed ac milan. but torino failed to

pitch up for their away match against a lot 08 of their players tested positive for the coronavirus or to you know were placed under quarantine by regional authorities. and able to travel to rome nevertheless city are refused to postpone the game and considered to have forfeited the club's president says the league is ignoring reality and they intend to appeal . in england manchester city's incredible run continues and they are now $21.00 wins in a row in all competitions their latest was a $41.00 victory over wolves brazilian striker gabriel jesu's stole the show with 2 of city's goals it moves and 15 points clear at the top of the premier league ahead of their rivals manchester united they play in the darby on sunday. one of the greatest players in history pele has received his 1st dose of a covert 19 vaccine brazil's 3 time world cup winner described it as an unforgettable day the 80 year old has self isolated at home in sao paolo state

since the start of the health crisis which has claimed more than a quarter of a 1000000 lives in brazil at the same time in sao paolo one of brazil's top clubs corinthians has announced 19 positive cases that includes 8 players and 11 staff and board members about them is the goalkeeper cassio who has been reinfected all cases have already started isolating corinthians are set to play rivals power met us on a wednesday. india cricket captain of a doubt kohli saves the debate about pitches is too one sided ahead of the 4th and final test against england in the lead the series $21.00 after 2 successive dominant victories including the 3rd test which finished inside 2 days both results complaints about the quality of the playing surface which heavily favored spin bowlers. we lost in new zealand on day 3 in 360 s. i'm sure none of our people as well roared about the pitch it was all about how

india played badly new zealand it is always been the case that spinning tracks come into focus remote. and when the ball seems on a particular pitch and teams get burned a lot for $45060.00 no one writes about the pitches sort of is about bad acting so i think they wanted to be very honest with ourselves that what space are we talking from and what's the idea behind continuing this narrative and what what purpose it serves people who keep continuing this conversation which is quite one sided the formula one season is just weeks away now but 7 time champion lewis hamilton does not seem too excited by his new car to sadie's have revealed their latest model which they hope will secure them a record extending 8th straight constructors' championship a change in regulations has been postponed by the pandemic so it's largely the same technology as last year but not as good according to hamilton i don't know if the fans know but we've had this downforce adjustment that's been made for this year

which does mean that it's going to be the car won't be as fast i don't know why they've done that except for bring the cost closer in they've got tires that aren't as fast as the previous years so there's a few really going to excited about this. it just adds a new element into the mix you know tires you know we don't know how he's going to perform. the n.b.a. champions los angeles lakers were on the losing side on tuesday against the phoenix suns to spawn 38 points from le bron james phoenix did not have a star player with such a tally on the night but thanks to significant contributions from everywhere on the court were able to come out on top 114104 the suns have now won 15 of their last 18 games they have also moved ahead of the lakers in the western conference and now live 2nd behind the utah jazz bands ok that's all sports is for now i'll see you again later from the start thanks so much peace and that is that for me for

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faced an uproar for destroying sacred aboriginal sites. on the japanese government reportedly plans to stop.