great off the page as on it's israel's 4th election in 2 years after the unity government's failure to pass the national budget up fronts mark lamont hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom. march on al-jazeera. almost 2 months after the storming of congress police uncover another possible plot against the capitol thursday's house session is canceled. clubs in iraq with more charges are alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up the international criminal court says it will investigate alleged war crimes of the palestinian territories angering israel and the u.s. also. fear miles military escalates its crackdown killing another 38

protesters of the deadliest day since the coup and as brazil records another alarming surge of crude a virus deaths in its most populous state imposes tighter restrictions. welcome to the program a session of the u.s. house of representatives set down for thursday won't be going ahead reportedly because of fears of a possible attack it's 8 weeks since the world witnessed the storming of the capitol by donald trump supporters and security has been tightened further following intelligence reports of possible plot to breach the building again al official reports now in washington d.c. . there's been tight security around capitol hill since the day the complex was attacked high fences razor wire national guard backing up several police services no. there's to be increased security after the f.b.i.

and others picked up reports of another possible breach the idea is donald trump will be installed as president on march 4th the date of the fust inaugurations in the u.s. until it was changed in 1933 the rumor spread on conspiracy websites on this talk of a protest to back it up the current security posture or the capitol and he wants we are working with law enforcement partners as well as the national guard to provide a robust security around the campus of course that security posture in the air we have an outer perimeter as well as an outer b.c. to the new security measures announced as the senate tries to figure out what went wrong on january the 6th the latest to give evidence the head of the national guard in washington major general william walker says local officials are frantically played for help he called the pentagon for approval to send troops a final decision inexplicably delayed by don't trust team at the pentagon i learned

at the u.s. army senior leadership at the request of the approval for chief signs we quest would eventually come from the acting secretary of defense and be relayed to me by army senior leaders at 5 o 8 pm about 3 hours and 19 minutes later as congress continues to investigate an intelligence failure which failed to spot the threat on january the 6th one leading f.b.i. figure insisted there was nothing concrete to act on none of us had any intelligence as suggested individuals were going to storm and reach the capital and that was the intelligence that we lacked and with the new threat a warning of why defenses are being increased agri any time an adversary a successful others pay attention and so we're worried that this would be an inspiration. capitol police say the threat has been assessed through increased internet chatter but there's nothing to suggest that there's any group ready to

head to washington d.c. with a plan of protest or violence but after january the 6th no one is ready to don't play the threat or take the risk of getting it wrong alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. well the u.s. has rejected a decision by the international criminal court to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories the courts prosecutor says it'll take a nonpartisan approach as it looks into potential crimes committed by both the israeli military and palestinian armed groups but washington says the court doesn't have a right to meddle in the region we firmly oppose and are disappointed by the i.c.c. prosecutors announcement of an investigation into the palestinian situation we will continue to uphold our strong commitment to israel and its security including by opposing actions that seek to target israel unfairly the i.c.c.

as we have said has no jurisdiction over this matter israel is not a party to the i.c.c. and it has not consented to the court's jurisdiction and we have serious concerns about the i.c.c. as attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over israeli personnel. from the palestinian ministry of foreign affairs says the investigation is a victory. we believe that the prosecutor did what she has with its obligation under its mandate that's why we saw it as a victory for international law and justice and that's why we will come the decision by the prosecutor to investigate the war crimes that committed committed in their capability then financially including in jerusalem we understand that and you know and his war criminal criminals they should be afraid now from this. important body from this important study by the international criminal court. today

bremer has moved from ramallah home the palestinian reaction. 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 to join this sign of their statute 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 a nonmember state status to be 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 they believe that this has been a policy by the israeli authorities it's not just a war crime here or there they believe that the foreign minister has released the statement they say that this has been continuing and if these were crimes are ongoing which is why they want the i.c.c. to investigate and conclude its investigation urgently. times more for what's true islam on israel's response to the announcement. well this announcement has brought broad condemnation from a pretty big swathe of israeli politics chief of the critics of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu he has long argued against this development from happening he worked very closely with the trump administration as was to try to head it off and yet now it has happened and he's making his case again the decision of the

international court to open investigation for war crimes is absurd. undiluted anti semitism in the height of hypocrisy without any jurisdiction desire that our bruce all jews who did every precaution to avoid civilian casualties against the worst terrorist in the world would deliberately towards. these are soldiers who are war rooms it was similar language from other leading israeli political figures the foreign minister gabi ashkenazi said that it was a morally bankrupt and legally flawed decision the president rivlin said it was scandalous that his main challenger from the right in the election later this month get on the saw he said that the court had been hijacked by terrorist supporters it's worth noting that the court investigates individuals not states that's something that benny gantz the defense minister referred to on tuesday when he was talking about the prospect of this happening he said that he as the former army chief in 2014 could be in the crosshairs of investigation and self as could

hundreds of other military figures he said that soldiers would be protected by the israeli state there was some support from the left of israeli politics from the human rights organization that selim which said this was a necessary step to address crimes that have been going on for decades and was still going on now. meanwhile has seen the worst day of violence since the start of the military the u.s. the u.n. says 38 people have been killed during protests on wednesday police backed by soldiers find live ammunition in an attempt to disperse break up and break up demonstrations in several cities school hardly 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 is little they can do against live rounds. and in the southern city of daraa way the red flag of. the party was hoisted images of the military leader meant 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. with imprisonment i their description for a time which me extended 3 years ago 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. 5 women being detained since once every.

system of lawyers and lawyers haven't even received a copy of the child or the case for. the the fundamental iran trial run. by a sponsor. 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 got harder as iraq. earlier we spoke to a protest who didn't want to bed for security reasons he told us what he saw right now they are shooting. this fire in a glass. that is in the is part of. and they are also should things the hospital i don't know why but they are shooting and. kidnapping people right now even even i'm talking to you i

live in a. township. that novel about township which. was a lot of people died today today evening. as far as i know there were try to 20 people. and. and over over 50. injuries. and. about 20 people. in critical condition the u.n. special envoy all shocked by the day's violence diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations. the u.n. envoy christine sharana bergen spoke to reporters just 2 days before she's due to brief the u.n.

security council she said the international community needed to send a clear message to the military because the situation is getting worse by the day to day tossed a blocky a state who happened on the 1st of february. we had to gain only 2 days 8. he have now more than or 50 people that it started and many are while. she said she'd last spoke into the military to the deputy commander on the 15th of february she told him there were likely to be harsh international measures including sanctions he replied that they had had sanctions before and had survived them she told him his country was likely to be isolated internationally he replied we'll have to learn to march with only a few friends she was also asked by reporters why she thought the military had staged a coup of this stage on the 1st of february she said the commander in chief is due

to retire in the summer and he may have wanted protection from future prosecution by the myanmar authours his or by the international criminal court but she said the main reason was the military were used to power and didn't want to lose power. well still ahead here on al-jazeera investigations into another explosion in the netherlands why it's being called a cowardly act of destruction. and the destruction of a cultural and archaeological treasure forces the resignation of one of australia's top mining bosses both stories after the break. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways hello we have the temperatures warming up once again across japan over the next couple days albeit temporarily only briefly will say that high pressure in charge

here to keeping things calm and settled for the time being but we've got some cloud rolling out of eastern parts of china and that's going to continue moving further eastwards moving into the east china sea we'll see some wetter weather coming into south korea for a time and as this cloud and rain runs into our area of high pressure it does fizzle out but the key issue seeing some heavy rain southern parts of honshu also seeing some bits and pieces of rain will get up to 18 celsius on friday here in those temperatures to fall away as we go on through the weekend but it should be dry not so for central and southern parts of china rain is set to continue here with the possibility of some localized flooding with say some heavy rain recently borneo some very big downpours just coming through here again some localized flooding we'll see some wetter weather continuing from a spec the seasonal showers just popping off there across a good part of indonesia not too bad into the philippines lotty financial i wanted to share was not so bad is even though charred

a bit more showers than we have seen a recently barely any showers on the forecast charts across india over the next couple of days here is fine and dry with temperatures above average. sponsored by qatar airways some people marry for love others it can be a commercial transaction. for 3700 euro payment just for the march counter al-jazeera world meets men and women using marriage as an illegal passport to europe you know just as i can get your estimate for attempting to organize a sham marriage and a financial and emotional cost but then he left me for a woman 33 years older than him marriage for sale on al-jazeera.

talk about you want to al-jazeera with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories police say they've obtained intelligence of a possible plot to storm the u.s. capitol 8 weeks after it was breached by donald trump supporters house of representatives thursday has been canceled. the international criminal court has opened on investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories it says it will take a nonpartizan approach to possible crimes by both israel and palestinian groups the united nations says 38 people about being killed in the worst day of violence since the start of a military coup it may involve witnesses reported seeing security forces firing into crowds with little warning.

dear me the u.s. president says a move by 2 states to ease coronavirus restrictions is a big mistake the governors of texas and mississippi are lifting nearly all measures from next week despite warnings from health officials all businesses can reopen and no one will have to wear a mask biden says it's critical that states follow scientific advice i hope everybody realizes by now these masks make a difference. we are on a crossroad be able of fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way in which we're able to get vaccines in people's arms we've been able to move that all the way up to the end of may to have enough for every american to get every dollar american going to. the last the last thing we need is the editor for thinking you know in the retiring from taking off your mask forgetting. brazil's most populous state has to close all non-essential businesses for 2 weeks as the

country registers a record number of creative iris deaths for a 2nd straight day parlors governor says the health system is at breaking point with someone is being admitted to intensive care every 2 minutes brazil recorded 1910 deaths and more than 70000 cases on wednesday more states are likely to follow zappala despite president balsa nara threatening to cut federal funding and the governor who opposes lockdowns want as you he just wrote me you see it as yesterday brazil recorded 1726 deaths the worst day of the pandemic 6 march 2020 we will now face the worst 2 weeks of the pandemic since the 1st case of covered 19 was confirmed in brazil which is for the sad reasons we will comply with the recommendations of the contingency center and the entire state of south will go to the red face. julia ponce years and i've. just specialized in mortality data now he says both celera is continuing to undermine efforts to fight the pandemic. the

president ever since the beginning of the pandemic has called. the corona virus a little clue or a fluke or a hoax so he has been undermining all the efforts to control the kinetic both by announcing mass say they're in effect that affected but not presenting any solid data or saying that a lockout lockdowns don't work so of course he was elected in the last election so he has a lot of popular support and that has the cre in the past few months and also has this course of saying that we should save the economy. but that of course is that the expense of human life that we cannot recover so many people who support the president believe that the pandemic is either not as serious as it is or that it is and that that will and whatever we are doing will not be able to curb the pandemic

what they fail to see is that we are right now on the brink of getting and the fact we are very slow and back to nation after c.r. but we are great at getting back. to of course protect resilience from the coronavirus and we need to have flock now measures we need to wear masks and we need to teach social this isn't until we are able to vaccinate enough people so that they are protected against the fire we are saying our. hospitals collapsing because they are not able to take in all the patients that are presenting to emergency rooms with coping 1010 so if we were able to close those numbers we would have probably no lower numbers and mortality in. an explosion is a dutch crime the virus testing center has been described as a cowardly act of destruction by helpful forty's the suspected pipe bomb was subtle in bevan cost both north of amsterdam the black shuttered windows but there were no

reports of injuries and it's at least the 3rd time a testing center in the netherlands has been targeted that's going and there's a current virus lockdown measures. franson has more from. quite some shock here at this explore 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 are 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 facility s. were attacked there was one set on fire there were also damages done to other test facilities but this is the 1st time 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 should these domestic intelligence agency has put the far right party the alternative for germany under surveillance posing a threat to democracy is suspected of links to far right extremists in the party is the biggest opposition group in parliament and the security comes months before a general election one of the party's leaders call the agencies move scandalous. well hungary is a far way new fish party has pulled out of

a conservative group in the european parliament before possible ejection the european people's party adopted new rules on wednesday making it easier to remove members for desh and its leader prime minister viktor orban have been criticized for an erosion of the rule of law in hungary or been called the new rules hostile and anti democratic the e p p is the largest bloc in the european union parliament. former french president nicolas sarkozy says that he'll find his corruption conviction to the end on monday sarkozy was sentenced to 3 years in prison with 2 years suspended for influence peddling and attempting to bribe a judge speaking on french television for the 1st time after his conviction he said there was no proof of any wrongdoing on his part. to release more said we have never betrayed the trust of the french people fight until the end our fight until the end because never in my life have i tolerated nor accepted injustice what is

taking place today is profound injustice i will denounce it and the truth will blow up when this will be at what point in time i don't know but i will fight until the n.t. rio tinto as chairman has announced that he'll step down after the australian mining company destroyed ancient aboriginal rock shelters last year the sacred caves were blasted despite warnings of their cultural significance and as nicola gage reports says pressure on the mining giant to do more. this video shows the irreversible damage caused by rio tinto when it blew up the ancient you can go or drop caves in australia's remote pilbara region. countries being destroyed. nearly a year on after pressure from investors its chairman simon thomson 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 there coles for him to step down

immediately. on a thomson was one that i just say i am a coach at that and the. explanation which everybody the one that actually you know it's late. 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 cape and gold 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 it caves we want to shift the power dynamic we want to put some control back in the hands of ships nations faithful today or have a stand i know what happens here egypt reaction harry janette country rio tinto says it's taking steps to change its processes and approach to cultural heritage gauge al-jazeera. think rotavirus pandemic has already delayed the world's biggest sporting spectacle by a year and the research will tokyo olympics conceive in closer there's another prospect of a lot less fun for david stokes reports. the tokyo game starts in 5 months but now seemed 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 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. 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 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 is now ratified the appointment of 12 new female members it means 42 percent. the board and now women including the new president say go hashim otoh pre-disaster resigned last month over sexist comments hashim otoh and her new look organizing committee have their work cut out with lots of questions still hanging over the games and only $142.00 days to come up with the answers david stokes audi's era. an unmanned space x. rocket has exploded on the ground after an otherwise successful test flight is the 3rd catastrophic failure for a long musk's prototype starship rocket as you can see here the rocket did manage

to land after the flight but with flames apparently coming from one side of its landing platform fire crews on the ground trying to put them out but the rocket exploded a few minutes later. your child to 0 with me still robin a reminder of our top stories police say they've obtained intelligence of another possible plot to storm the u.s. capitol 8 weeks after it was breached by donald trump supporters. house representative sessions have not been shy jeweled or counsel for thursday the international criminal court is open to us to go into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories it says it will take a nonpartizan approach into possible crimes by both israel and the palestinian armed groups. the u.s. or.