last month our interview were cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with a bulldozer president faced soldiers gave them one minute to go home it took the found me months to build their brick and dust than an hour to see it get demolished . ready. al jazeera. you know this is the news hour on al-jazeera i'm fully back to live from a world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the international criminal court opens a war crimes investigation which will look at both sides of the israeli palestinian conflict to own several people were killed in un type who protest say myanmar demonstrators fight with police during the crackdown also this

hour u.s. states are moving to open up as coronavirus vaccinations rise but health experts warn it's probably too soon and brazil records its high school for 1000 death toll but regional leaders calling for a long down are again being counted by president balsa model. and i'm peter standing with all of the schools reports in japan so the government is planning on stopping international friends coming towards the tokyo lympics in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus. the air. thank you very much for joining as the international criminal court has opened an investigation into suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by israel in the occupied palestinian territory honestly and who joined

the i.c.c. in 2015 have asked the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip in 2014 they also want the court to investigate israel's construction of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem now the i.c.c. says it will also look into the actions of gaza based hamas and other palestinian groups during the conflict while palestine's foreign minister has welcomed. the investigation in a statement he said this is a long awaited step that serves palestine's tireless pursuit of justice and accountability which are indispensable pillars of the peace the palestinian people seek and deserve while we have 2 reporters standing by to cover the story for us need abraham is in occupied west bank and how the faucet is in jerusalem for us need to let's start with you along the way to a decision by the i.c.c. it's taken years to come to this decision what is the reaction 1st from

palestinians. of course so wide welcoming remarks from many palestinian officials and n.g.o.s that have been working with the palestinian authority on advancing this issue in the international criminal court this is the main point that palestinians were hoping to get to since the palestinians have joined this. statuette in 2015 and some even say that this is the reason why the palestinian authority has seek its diplomatic and international approach at the u.n. security council with the hopes to get a full membership of course this didn't happen they got to nonmember states that this via the general assembly which has allowed them to go forward and join their own statute and ask the i.c.c. to investigate crimes now one of the main issues that the palestinians hope that the i.c.c. would investigate is the illegal israeli settlement on the ground they hope that the prosecutor would look into this as the main violation of international law and

if they believe that this has been a policy boy israeli authorities it's not just a war crime here or that they believe that the foreign minister has released the statement as you mentioned and they say that this has been continuing and if these were crimes are ongoing which is why they want to i.c.c. to investigate and conclude its investigation urgently needed the chief prosecutor of the i.c.c. fact to bensouda name the israeli army of course but palestinian groups also such as hamas as possible perpetrators of these war crimes what will be the reaction there from these armed palestinian groups especially at a time when different palestinian factions have tried to unite and bring about more unity within palestine. when the prosecutor said that she believes that there are grounds for opening an investigation that was late in

2019 we've seek the reaction from the palestinian factions including hamas and they have said that they are welcoming that they are what they want to have and investigation by the international criminal court the palestinian factions are arguing and there have been arguing for years now that they are part of the armed resistance as part of their legal. opposition and resistance against the illegal israeli occupation and this is why they hope that the i.c.c. would focus on the israeli crimes when it comes to the gaza wars but also and most importantly the ongoing in continuous illegal settlement construction in the occupied west bank need to abraham in the occupied west bank thank you very much let's not get the view the view from israel harry fawcett is in west jerusalem for is this is a move harry that's always been opposed by israel any early reactions. nothing that

we've seen so far to this precise step but as it was just just talking about there was this decision just last month by the panel of judges to see that the bill criteria had been met for this to be an investigation that could go forward and at that point we heard a very strong denunciation from the prime minister benjamin netanyahu of the endeavor saying that it was pure anti semitism accusing the i.c.c. of being a politicized institution of course he worked very closely in concert with the trump administration to try to head this off the track of ministration issuing sanctions against specific members of the international criminal court that's something that the biden ministration has been looking to unpick but the new president biden has also said through his officials but he views this as something that shouldn't go ahead this investigation there's also been comment from prime minister benjamin netanyahu coalition partner and shortly action

rival benny gantz the defense minister he was asked about this on tuesday and he was saying that he was judging himself as one of hundreds of people who could be investigated and potentially prosecuted under this investigation of course the i.c.c. investigate individuals not states and he said that members of the israeli military would be protected and that he was at that stage hoping to try to head off this investigation going forward now of course we know that it is going forward and as far as israel is concerned they challenge the legitimacy of the process thank you harry for that harry fawcett my friends say in west jerusalem less discuss all this further now with ambassador omar our diana who's head of the united nations and human rights department at the palestinian ministry of foreign affairs he's vice kuyt from ramallah thank you very much ambassador for being with us says i have a phone. what our correspondents at there the i.c.c.

investigates individuals in this case and not a state and already the israeli prime minister had said has said that he would protect individuals within israel who are suspected of these war crimes so what is your reaction 1st to this i.c.c. decision do you think it can achieve justice differently we believe the prosecutor did what she has with its obligation under its mandate that's why it was all of it to report international law and justice and that's why we will come this decision by the prosecutor to investigate the war crimes committed committed by her as you consider to be including jerusalem we understand. that you know on his. criminal criminals they should be free and now this is. important but produce important started by the international criminal court this as you say is about investigating war crimes it's not necessarily about determining other issues in

this conflict issues like statehood and so on so how does it help palestinians. it was very clear that there was nothing to do when they actually started on that question was the result of too early by the decision by the brits chambre that the issue is that what is but the thing that they are looking and looking about the jurisdiction of the intellectual a clearer or a no but it is this is you know being that was division it's very clear that there is a to that in voting to the to the addiction of the international criminal court one of the candidates to get to are crimes and crimes against humanity that means that the end of immunity for the israeli christians is coming to an end within within the month of the international criminal court right it's not just israel however as we said palestinian factions including hamas are also likely to be investigated

here in the next step in this will be to determine whether israel or palestinian authorities have investigations themselves then to assess tells so how much cooperation can we expect from the palestinian factions. we're ready to do we will come the decision by the prosecutor when we call that we will come. all the factions of the government of superstar and we all will go to this decision and loyalty to corporate who are the men with the office of the prosecutor or the investigator there was to get orders and or any other advisers by the international criminal court who will be ready to cooperate and more closely with the international criminal court but we don't believe that israel is going to investigate because it is our policy so widespread of systematic policy of aggression against the because you have people crimes against the bills you have people who don't believe that there is any kind of investigation in the israeli colonial regime and the settlement regime it's governmental policy on states where

it is indeed israel has already indicated at least the prime minister has indicated that it didn't want to cooperate with this investigation let me ask you a final question ambassador and this is about palestinian unity this is coming at a time when the various palestinian factions have have been trying to unite ahead of elections that are coming up soon are you concerned that any investigation and its result a conclusion if it found let's say palestinian factions also guilty of war crimes would hamper these efforts to bring about unity. we don't think as we said that all the functions but productions and the government they will come to know who to go to and we believe that our unity is a major. issue in our march to pretty them that's why monkey investigation or any other issue can stop this this process toward the completion of our unity of

agreement was burned. ambassador thank you very much for talking to us about this thank you for bringing giving us your reaction ambassador omar our donna is head of the united nations and human rights department at the palestinian foreign ministry now on to other world news in myanmar has seen its worst day of violence yet with the killing of at least 20 people during protests against a military coup police backed by soldiers fired live ammunition in an attempt to break up demonstrations in a number of cities protesters are defying an increasingly violent crackdown to demand an end to the military takeover scott has our report. 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 is 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 by 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 she'll be punished with imprisonment oh i the description for a time was me extended 3 years as a with saif always. 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 one you don't know doesn't exist was lawyers and his lawyers haven't even received a copy of the child to 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 it's got harder al-jazeera . more ahead on the sound just here in news hour including challenging times for the u.k. the man in charge of the economy lays out his budget during the worst financial downturn intentions multiple rocket attacks hit any rocky airbase that is being used by the u.s. and coalition forces and in sports why liverpool's manager isn't going to let some of his players channel to international matches this month.

the corona virus pandemic now and the u.s. state of states of texas and mississippi are rolling back restrictions against school the 1000 despite a warning not to do still businesses are due to reopen and a mask mandate will end from tuesday texas governor greg abbott says infections are falling and it's now time to reopen texas 100 percent by michelin a new executive order that receives most of the earlier executive orders but fact of next wednesday all business. of any type. are allowed to open 100 percent then include any type of entity in texas also by an enduring the state wide mask mandate. oh ok but there's less confidence in brazil after the highest

single day death toll since a pandemic began nearly $1700.00 people died on tuesday and hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising caseload in the netherlands says growing anger at knockdowns have been protests for several weeks knowledge dense occur on the economy and there's been an explosion at a testing center on let's take a look at the situation in the us and speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hocket so kimberly the c.d.c. had cautioned against lifting the mask mandate why is texas and mississippi why they are lifting the mandates why they ignore in this a warning by the c.d.c. . it really comes down to the us constitution of the fact that well there is a federal government there are very strong states' rights and even though the c.d.c. or centers for disease control has said that it would like to see these state

restrictions stay in place states can essentially ignore it and that's what they're doing is ignoring this guidance now it also has a lot to do with political ideology conservatives in the united states believe that people should have the individual freedom to choose whether they wear a mask or not in contrast to a more liberal mindset that believes that there's a strong role for government in people's lives so that is the crux of what's going on here and the bottom line is there's a lot of concern that this might be premature in terms of lifting these restrictions given the fact that well there has been a downturn in the number of infections that has plateaued in recent days now the defense coming from texas is that look at if things get worse we will put the restrictions back in place we're watching very carefully if we have a 15 percent capacity in a hospital bed will put this back but the other concern with all of this is in mississippi particularly there are certainly

a communities of color that are greater risk have less access to health care and so this could really have an adverse effect on the debate continues in the united states as it has from the beginning of this pandemic but some good news came but when it comes to the vaccine rollout and the number of cases that are declining but it doesn't necessarily mean as you say that the u.s. is out of the woods yet. no absolutely not the biden administration saying it's now ahead of schedule when it comes to vaccine distribution believing now that it can have 2 months earlier than expected all americans having access to a vaccine by the end of may so they're really championing this trying to lead by example in the face of some states that are bucking the restrictions we expect that we're going to hear more from the vice president come away harris in the next hour she's going to be visiting a woman own business in alexandria virginia to talk a little bit more about the pandemic and also coded relief as they really hit this

next phase of trying to rebuild the economy and we're also waiting about the same time a update from the covert task force that'll be happening and we'll see what were they have to say about the lifting of these research and which again they have cautioned against kimberly thank you very much for that update kimberly how can i force air in washington in brazil there are calls for national lockdown after the country recorded its highest number of deaths from corona virus in a single day by present jade also narrow opposes further restrictions on it and i have 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 and kovan $1000.00 infections are on

the rise was. emergency lockdown was met with anger by some 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 and cutting off federal assistance. 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 coded 19 meanwhile vaccines are slow in coming in only 3 percent of the population has been inoculated so far.

there should be as 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. the president's son flavio both sonando congratulated authorities in rio de janeiro for avoiding curfews and lockdowns. it's easy to act as

a dictator and close down a city or a state just to show you doing something. but fears of a 2nd wave in the total lack of unity in fighting the pandemic are affecting business capital fury says he rarely leaves the house and 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. as we mentioned there's been an explosion at a coronavirus testing center in the netherlands families have cordoned off the area in. a town north of the capital amsterdam that brass shattered windows but there are no reports of injuries have been protests against downs in recent weeks in the netherlands and parliamentary elections are jew in 2 weeks. at the testing center and has this update quite some shock here at this expose this explosion at

what is basically a health facility i spoke to the mayor earlier and he said this is a very sad day also for these health workers who have been working at this facility and i know all quite shocked and quite scared as well of course because this is the 1st time that there has been an explosion at a testing facility we have seen before that test facilities were attacked there was one set on fire and a war also damages done to our test facilities but this is the 1st time i'm at 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 day 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 infections are going up in the netherlands so there is this whole wave of people trying to lift these restrictions to push against them by the government says this just simply not possible. britain's chancellor rhee she has pledged to do whatever it takes to achieve economic recovery he set out a raft of new measures during his annual budget address furloughs support has been extended and small businesses will have access to new grants but the tax burden for households and businesses will increase in the coming years so not as one the cost will take generations to pay back 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 their homes businesses have been ordered to close thousands of 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. challenge has the latest on the budget from london. this budget was pretty much about how the government is going to carry on offering the assistance that it has been doing over the last year into the middle part and beyond 2021 then the 2nd part of the next 3 point plan what is going to happen to try and correct this huge amounts of public debt that the u.k. has got itself into right now basically public debt is now approaching 100 percent of the national income and the last time that that was the case was in the early sixty's we were in a contraction of of the economy that the u.k. hasn't seen for 300 years and the government is borrowing more money than it's ever

done in peace time before so these are situations that were not said can or in june there has to be a correction at some point as we return to normality so he was trying to say that he can do that over the ensuing years and also he was saying he is going to try to restructure the u.k. economy in some way so that this is a crisis that is not missed you shouldn't miss a good crisis is one of those kind of maxims in politics and economics so he's trying to say that britain can come back better than it was before but it's going to take. the crisis management in the initial in the in the near. balancing the budget again and how you're going to restructure the economy but that is something for the years to come. well for more on this last speak to alfie stirling who's the director of research and chief economic economist father he knew economics foundation his via skype from brighton thank you very much for being with us mr

sterling so last year's budget was delivered just days before colvin 1000 was declared a global pandemic so in many ways the 2020 budget was outdated and irrelevant within weeks of its publication what are your thoughts on this year's budget will will it provide a better forecast for the u.k.'s finances for the year ahead well we will very much hope we're not going to see such a monumental disruption again you know little for example of another wave of pandemic. putting up to one size i do you think this project was gravely gravely disappointing if you look at it in the round the u.k. was already an outlier in the g 7 and in terms of having the highest excess deaths as a result of the pandemic flu also the weakest. economy as well the deepest and sharpest decline in national income and we've now become an outlier in terms of the lack of support he put into the economy and preoccupation with our public debt the budget

has measures to continue exec's existing support but also topple the future economic recovery you think it's a bit too early perhaps to be trying to recover the economy while the pandemic is still raging. well i think actually it was the it was the overall levels of support and then the nature of it that was the real problem we had about 50000000000 pounds of additional support and now it's the economy over the next over the next year that's about $22.00 and a half percent of g.d.p. now that's not a half or quarter of what most economists really think it was needed 9 clues economists here in the table also international international monetary fund and its vast amount support what we see in the u.s. in terms of then the risk of the recovery support after that the issue there is it's been emphasized through tax cuts that problem with having a tax cut that recovery is it has a lot of dead weight loss you end up getting lots of money out to firms that would

not really done investment anyway even without the tax cut so how imagine the usa how does the u.k.'s public finances fare compared to the rest of the g 7 or even the rest of the e.u. . well this is the interesting thing our economy has declined much more sharply imply actually it's more government support and reserve let us know through public finances we have a lower total debt here than in most in many other advanced economies lower and lower than the u.s. lower than germany so there's a lot of space if the entity more than its budget fell short are we able to say this is staring what will have a bigger impact on the u.k. economy whether it's the pandemic or prexy. so i think it's you know there's no doubt that over the next 34 years the pandemic will certainly be the overriding factor in all sorts of economic considerations the impact has been really significant it's far larger even than the financial crisis but the hope has

to be that as time goes on to go to adjust things to respond to that recovery and then of course the long term effect of brooks in terms of the future trade relationship with key partners in the that may well end up being the longer term impact but it's very hard to know at this stage a lot depends on how much of the behavior of the pandemic is permanent for not working and working from home shopping online thank you for talking to us about this certainly going to be a long road to recovery for the u.k. thank you alfie starting from the new economics foundation back live there from brighton and still ahead on the news hour a new rules passed by conservatives in the european parliament to open up the latest rift between hungary and the rest of the european union the us it's not all green eggs and ham why dr seuss's s. state has decided to stop publishing 6 of his books and bron james cannot help prevent the latest defeat for the any lakers in the n.b.a.

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to bo a reminder of our top stories the international criminal court has opened an investigation into suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by israel in the occupied palestinian territory in 2014 it says it will also look into the actions of gas abased hamas and other palestinian groups during the conflict myanmar has seen its worst day of violence yet with the killing of at least 20 people during untie cool protests security forces fired live ammunition in an attempt to break up demonstrations that took place in several cities and the u.s. state south texas and mississippi are growing back restrictions against coronavirus despite a warning not to do so texas governor greg abbott says infections are falling and is now time to reopen texas 100 percent. in other news an iraqi military

facility that's also used by u.s. forces has come under attack multiple rockets landed on the assad air base just days after u.s. president joe biden ordered a strike on facilities used by iran scoops in syria at bases around 180 kilometers northwest simona 14 has more from the iraqi capital the latest rocket attacks on iraq's western 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 on analysts 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 leigh's 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 especially as pope francis is expected to visit iraq on friday. senior u.s. officials have held their 1st meeting with iran backed hoofy rebels according to the reuters news agency the biden administration is pushing to negotiate an end to the 6 year conflict in yemen talks reportedly took place in oman last friday who fees conflicts with the saudi coalition has cost tens of thousands of lives in yemen. the german media reporting the opposition turn a day for germany party a f t is being put under state surveillance is suspected of links to what officials call right extremism germany's intelligence agencies already put the party's youth wing under surveillance in 2019 the government is refusing to confirm or deny the latest reports the biggest opposition party in parliament the move comes ahead of

general elections set for september 26 meanwhile hungary's rightwing fidesz party has pulled out of a conservative group in the european parliament before possible elections the european people spondee adopted new rules on wednesday making it easier to remove members for days and its leader prime minister viktor orban have been criticized for an evolution of the rule of law in hungary or bonn called the new rules hostile and anti-democratic the. block in the e.u. parliament let's speak to daniel ahead of this is a nonresident fellow for central europe and the german marshall fund of the united states and he's joining us from berlin thank you very much for being with us daniel let's start with what's happening at the european parliament and the e.u. we know has been trying to figure out for some time now how it adapts to hungary and how it deals with it which is really current in its current political form hungry anyway doesn't meet the e.u.

criteria for membership do you think this decision today changes anything in the short term as far as how the e.u. addresses hungary's democratic failings. good afternoon and thank you for having me. indeed i say it's a remarkable move in the right direction but on the other hand i don't believe that it would change the way how do european union is addressing hunger is the poverty backsliding which in fact has been ongoing for nearly a ticket and the reason for that is that the european people's party was crucial and neighbor of hunger is democracy backsliding and safeguarded. governing body feed us from potential you sanctions but wasn't the only player doing so hungary still has important partners inter-governmental level. national governments of member states like for example germany or poland all of these

countries carved on european governments for rather different reasons but it shows that the intergovernmental level when it comes to the procedure which was triggered to demonstrate that e.u. fundamental values are tightened in hungary the so-called article 7 procedure their member states decide simply changing the autumn political affiliation a few does vote have and impact which which can be deemed as a game changer and it's not just hungary is it across europe days growing voter sentiment for the far right driven by dissatisfaction with the e.u. there even growing anti-democratic sentiments in many countries can the e.u. deal with these tendencies is it able to contain it. it's a very good question when we take a gander to a good time and i think it's fair to say that all to lose. mechanisms are

available for the european union which are required to do so but very often simply the political will and determination is missing however i just taste that anti-democratic sentiments are growing in the european union democratic opposition against of the criticising regimes in hungary and poland are growing as well and in this regard i think it's fair to say that we have. experienced polarization in the european union we can also states that the core of of the 19 endemic destabilizes governments throughout the european union but it does start eliza's democratic and non-democratic governments now and in germany where you are the a.f.c. the opposition party has been placed under surveillance but this is a party that has significant influence on the political discourse in germany do you

see this move in any way diminishing that influence. no i don't think so and and. saying that's the case of a 50 and the cases of poland and hungary speeders are rather different and in some way it's like comparing apples to oranges. it's a matter of fact that even if he is one of the most influential parties in germany and practically the biggest opposition party but it's still what was it in body which means that due to the fact that it's isolated by all other political parties present in the german political landscape it has practically 0 influence on legislation or policy formulation and of course. it's domus to issues to put. extremist parties under surveillance and of

course. legal and wider meant. is especially strict in this regard. to the countries historical experience with political extremism but i think it's rather a unique each other case and and similar approaches to too radical or extremist parties are rare in other e.u. member states thank you very much for talking to us about this daniel hegedus from the german marshall fund in berlin there thank you for your time thank you for that unity in the us the director of the f.b.i. has told senators there's no evidence to support claims that fake trump supporters took part in the siege of the capitol building on january the stakes christopher a described the attack as domestic terrorism and promised to hold the riotous to account alan fisher has a report from washington this is the 1st time christopher really has testified before a senate committee since the insurrection at the u.s.

capitol 8 weeks ago i was appalled. like you at the violence and destruction that we saw that there was appalled that you our country's elected leaders were victimized right here in these very halls that attack that siege was criminal behavior plain and simple its behavior that we have view is domestic terrorism. some republican senators have claimed among those who stormed the capitol and to trump agitators speak supporters bent on causing trouble and idea dismissed under questioning by directory based on your investigation so far do you have any evidence that the capital of terror was organized by quote fake trump protesters we have not seen evidence of that at this stage certainly christopher ray has been director of the f.b.i. since 2017 he was a donald trump appointee after he fired james komi he says in his time in office

he's seen a tripling in the number of cases involving white supremacy that has been the most deadly area of attacks domestically in the past 10 years he also says there's been a dramatic increase in the number of arrests of people who self identify as anarchists. the big question for rape was the january 6th attack an intelligence failure by the f.b.i. he pointed to a report sent by a local field office on january the 5th it was as you noted raw unverified uncorroborated information that have been posted online and my understanding was that that information was quickly as in within an hour. disseminated and communicated with our partners including the u.s. capitol police including matter of. not one not 2 but 3 different ways. directory says an internal investigation is underway to see if the f.b.i. could have done more should have been more proactive in protecting lawmakers from

threats that were being widely circulated before the attack alan fischer al jazeera on capitol hill voting has ended in pakistan senate election members of the provincial and national assemblies are eligible to vote half of the $104.00 sitting senators are reaching the end of their terms as a secret vote but prime minister imran khan had wanted the electors ballots to be made public for event vote trading but pakistan's supreme court rejected that move come on hydra has more from islamabad. this is a bitter contest between the combined opposition known as up august on democratic movement and the progress on teddy can solve richard the ruling party the government of galt had wanted an open valid for drunk baron c. because in the bought the senate elections have been marred by allegations of corruption or if there's

a board or didn't order while the buggers gone daddy can solve the ruling party really be able to emerge as the single largest party where they end up a house is still really need crucial support from key allies and also coalition partners or indeed all eyes on the senate the prime minister of course 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 bridges reserved for islamabad dead the cornhuskers between a next prime minister use of rather gailani and the country's finance minister. worshippers waking to make the hash pilgrimage to saudi arabia this year will now be required to show proof of vaccination against over 19 the saudi health ministry says being inoculated will be compulsory to get a permit to attend the religious gathering a pilgrimage will take place in july for media workers who were arrested recently

in ethiopia fnl then to grave region have been released no reason was given for their arrest to a journalist the other 2 were a translator has access to take or has been sitting any restricted since the government launched its military offensive in november. found 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 would treat people in ways that are hurtful and wrong it made the decision after months of consultation with teachers and other experts it was a rush to buy the books after the announcement with the titles rocketing up the amazon best analysts 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 it and use it once again as a teaching tool what better opportunity we cannot show your our kids from what was again we can influence them on what will be. still ahead on al-jazeera the winning run continues so manchester city has a moral 15 points clear in the premier league stay with us he says needs.

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than just force. will start with reports that japan is planning to block foreign fans attending the olympics later this year reports. the tokyo game starts in 5 months but now seemed destined to take place without overseas friends a japanese newspaper is reporting the government has already made up its mind as it looks to allay the fears of an increasingly skeptical public about hosting a medical lobel health crisis. now. regarding spectators from abroad we will listen to the scientific experts personally i want a decision by march the 25th before the torch relay starts 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.

already secured the talk you're very soon asian not all athletes will take up the offer jamaican sprinter yohan 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. 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 rendell 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 his doctrine 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 it means 42 percent of the board and now women including the new president seiko hashimoto whose previous as a resigned last month over sexist comments. motor when her new look organizing committee had 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 al-jazeera calls to boycott the beijing winter games in china next year are doomed to failure according to a chinese government spokesman a country has denied allegations of abuses against muslim we go to basins and other minorities but more than 180 organizations have called on governments to boycott next year's games where. 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. there are just $100.00 days to go until football's european championships are set to kick off but liverpool manager you're going top is already saying he won't let these players travel to international matches later this month if they have to quarantine on their return and the current coronavirus guidelines the club's brazilian and portuguese squad members would have to spend 10 days in a hotel upon returning back to england but pfieffer has given clubs for a mission to decline international call ups and plop is going to take full advantage. we cannot let the boys just go and sort of situation when they come back go visit all players and attend currently in a hotel or whatever that's just not possible. and stand to the needs of the different have is but this is a time cannot make everybody happy so and we have to admit that the players are paid by the clubs so that means we have to be 1st

priority coaching the superstar cristiana rinaldo has maybe 600 career club appearance and celebrated in style with a goal for its team you ventus you they were in action in the italian city are on tuesday against spezza one elder took his time to get on the scoresheet though. and federico he had for the current italian champions to know ahead and fame in the 89th minute when elder wrapped up a 3 nil when it's his 20th goal of the season and it moves events of 23 points behind 2nd place to ac milan. torino failed to pitch up for their away match against a lot of their players tested positive for the coronavirus so so you know were placed under quarantine by regional authorities meaning they were unable to travel to rome nevertheless said they are refused to postpone the game and considered so the you know 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 there now 21 wins in a row in all competitions their latest was a 41 victory over wolves brazilian striker get real jesu stole the show with 2 of city's goals it was and 15 points clear of the top of the premier league head of the rivals manchester united who they play in the darby on sunday. indian cricket captain virat kohli says the debate about pitches is too one sided ahead of the 4th and final test against england in the lead the series $21.00 of the 2 successive dominant victories including the 3rd test which finished inside 2 days both results sparked 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 405060 no one right 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. this narrative and what what purpose it serves people who keep continuing this conversation which is quite one sided the n.b.a. champions los angeles lakers were on the losing side on thursday or to their big pardoning in the phoenix suns despite $38.00 points from the bron james phoenix did not have a star player with such a tally on the night but thanks to significant contributions from everyone on the court able to come out on top 114104 of the suns have now won 15 of their last 18 games and also moved ahead of the lakers in the western conference they lie 2nd behind the utah jazz. that's all the sports news peter thank you very

much we'll talk to you later that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera do stay with us so i'll be back in just a few minutes with marketing spins. and . jumped into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want to feed that we and be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are good enough to hear from you and each

week be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there. what should americans be thinking and doing right now there should be about ideas they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the calling for the devoted defense budget to be cut the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world on al-jazeera. march on. studio b. unscripted brings you 2 special guests in called the station exploring ideas and finding common solutions 10 years on from the tsunami that struck japan out jazeera revisits the people most affected by the disaster. football read books and recounts and presents a juicy reason but iconic players whose influence has been as great off the page as on its israel's fulfill lection in 2 years. after the unity government's failure to

pass a national budget up front smocked lamont hill cults through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom. march on al-jazeera. the international criminal court opens a war crimes investigation which will look at both sides of the israeli palestinian conflict. they're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back to bill also ahead . several people are killed in an tycoon protesting in myanmar in the deadliest day so far since the military take.