most bucky jr supporters are born into these club colors. in an epic feud of rich versus poor the fans who make football on al-jazeera. the threats of another possible attack on the u.s. capitol forced the house of representatives to cancel its session. but i mean this is out there a line from there are also coming up waiting for justice the palestinian families who an investigation by the international criminal court will bring them the answers they need. the last thing into the editor for thank you in the retiring from the. u.s.

state so warned against lifting 1000 restrictions after some announced plans to begin easing measures. with. excitement turns to despair musts latest test of an unmanned rocket. so that no session of the u.s. house of representatives sat down for thursday will not be going ahead reportedly because of fears of a possible attack it is a week since the world witnessed the storming of the capitol by dole trump supporters and lord foresman officials who have been facing criticism in congress for delaying sending help for hours and official reports from washington d.c. . there's been tight security around capitol hill since the day the complex was attacked high fences research 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 for 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 in 1000 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 downplay the threat or take the risk of getting it wrong alan fischer i'll just read up on capitol hill. calling clarke is the senior research fellow at the sioux front center which is dedicated to increasing awareness around security issues and he says that january experience some critical security fades there's got to be a kind of deep dive or forensic analysis of what went wrong and that's what we're seeing play out in these hearings over the last several days you know there's got to be from the top to bottom accounting of where the breakdown occurred and some serious efforts to ensure that doesn't happen again we've got to harden what's been perceived to be a soft target it certainly emboldens our adversaries including international terrorist groups overseas but i think would be a misnomer to think that that could happen again i mean that was

a real wake up call for the u.s. government for us for the various layers of security that are intended to protect the capital you know i think it's highly unlikely we've ever seen something like that happen again at least i hope this was a failure of the system there was failure failures at multiple levels and i still think we haven't held accountable all the individuals that need to be held accountable for that day in terms of what it would achieve we'd lay out the failures transparently and force ourselves to take a long hard look at what went wrong and to commit the resources necessary to fix it . now the international criminal court is set to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territory because prosecutor says it will look into potential crimes committed by both the israeli military and palestinian armed groups it's been welcomed by the palestinian authority criticized by the israeli government it as more. this is

a moment many palestinians have been waiting for the international criminal court us to getting allegations of war crimes in palestinian territory including violence against protesters near the gaza israel fence a few years ago but the clearest violation of international law is the illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank more than 600000 israelis live in jewish only settlements killing any possibility for a future palestinian state it's been 6 years since palestine joining the international criminal court earlier this year the i.c.c. is chief prosecutor received a green light from the pretrial chamber confirming the court's jurisdiction over gaza and the west bank including occupied east jerusalem i think that we will be encouraging of prosecutor to look at all the situation in palestine all crimes crimes against humanity and war crimes and mainly the settlements regime because

there is no complementarity and such. and this is a state policy and this is the state the government of israel policies and it's a systematic and widespread violation for international law that a cause family hopes the court brings them justice he is one of 70 palestinians bodies have been confiscated from their family. of collective punishment a recent report by you case for end sick architecture says it was shot and bled to death after being denied medical treatment israeli soldiers killed at a checkpoint near. the army said he tried to run over soldiers but the report says he didn't pose a threat and i thought i don't get off with that he used our son as a guinea pig a subject for the training this is a continuing policy that dozens have been killed like this after my son and

hundreds before him. dies is chief prosecutor says it's also investigating allegations against palestinian armed groups in gaza. you can't equate the oppressor with the oppressed and the israeli occupations policies constitute a grave violation of international law but our national resistance is legitimate. israel is not a member of the hague based court prime minister benjamin netanyahu termed the decision absurd and anti-semitic. without any juicers the cited are brutal views every precaution. against the worst terrorist in the world will deliberately target. is our soldiers who are war who the israeli government says it's considering sanctions on palestinian officials and in response to the i.c.c. opening its investigation they might even advance more threat in the building.

the occupied west bank a funeral is being held for $138.00 protesters killed in may and more in the worst violence since last month's military coup 19 year old mark ice in died in clashes with security forces a wednesday witnesses reported seeing troops firing into crowds with little warning . despite the deaths protest as they're running again to demand an end to military rule and to live pictures from mandalay just one of the cities where demonstrations have been taking place for weeks they want democratically elected leader and sense you cheat released she was told so please targeting health care workers who are trying to help protestors at this video from a grocery store in yangon appears to show officers forcing volunteer medics out of a vehicle for beating them with rifles and battles al-jazeera has not been able to verify the footage. 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 dropping nearly all measures from next week despite warnings from health officials my kind of reports now from washington d.c. . businesses in texas preparing to reopen fully the governor's decision greeted with a mixture of joy and trepidation there was a wonderful to hear you know money is more in the let us open our 100 percent i'm a little bird. they mentioned the total taking off the total masks i have a portion of my customers that long what we're doing over here and this message from houston's police chief making it clear that private businesses have a right to insist on a continued wearing of masks a right some say they will exercise we're still going to encourage our customers to wear a mask because i think it is probably safe for our staff are still going to wear masks were still in our sanitizer we're still going to practice the safest thing we

can country star dolly parton celebrates receiving the vaccine actually that scene that scene there at sea and the increased rollout across the u.s. is one of the reasons quoted by the governor's decision to open their states but this is premature insists the centers for disease control which continues to encourage a mass mandate the next 3 months are pivotal and asking you to reach deeply to protect our nation and to protect your luck. whether mandated or not as individuals and as communities we can still take the right public health action to protect ourselves and others on the strongest repudiation of the decision coming from the us president for every describe the governor's position as a big mistake in the last the last thing we need is neanderthal think you have in the meantime are going to try and take your mask forget it still matters in some

states like florida the mask mandate was virtually ignored throughout the months of pandemic this despite cases peaking at close to $20000.00 a day in the wake of the december holiday season here in the nation's capital the mosque mandate and other mitigating measures have been strictly enforced since march last year this discrepancy in hull states deal with the pandemic is explained by the lack of any federal mandate under the previous administration but now a federal mandate is in force some governors insist on ignoring it mike hanna out of sarah washington will go to matters like whoa davis is an infectious disease physician at john cochrane v.a. medical center and she is concerned the latest developments of the u.s. will in the u.s. will cost even more lives this goes against everything that we've learned over the past year masks work social distancing works and to

do this at a time when texas the 2nd largest states 29000000 people with the case positivity rate of 13.5 percent is absolutely unacceptable as you know the w.h.o. has said that you can only lift mitigation strategies once you've reached a case positivity rate of 5 percent. 5 percent and $13.00 the chasm is clear there this is dangerous and it's going to put lives at risk it's unprecedented you know i compare this as an infectious diseases physician to you know the last time we had a very large epidemic that sort of rocked the nation in hiv back in the eighty's and the clear distinction here is how much politics has come to the fore and caused this dramatic polar a polarization within the population what these leaders and governors the president

are trusted messengers for better or for worse many people in the population go to them for this information and to trust to trust its validity and when they do this when they undermine the work of scientists and are trusted and the truly should be trusted messengers in scientists medical professionals and public health of officials people's lives are at risk there are variants and play to be considered here this is not the time to be easing up on this at a time when the c.d.c. is actually recommending double masking. you're still ahead here down to 0 brazil records another alarming surge in coronavirus death its most populous state imposes tighter restrictions plus. police move in to break up protesters after the arrest of senegal's opposition leader.

it's time for the perfect gentlemen to winter sponsored point qatar airways how they once again we've got some rain in the forecast for parts of the middle east over the next couple of days we will see some wetter weather just moving into the eastern side of the mediterranean through the levant spent some rather wet weather hala cool side to beirut just 13 degrees celsius cool enough in jerusalem just 9 degrees celsius is that cloud and right slidin across syria moving across northern parts of iraq some snow there over the turkish mountains and that wet sabotages wintry weather just making this where little further eastward into iran surprises guys come back a bit high the temperatures do recover to be fine we came for the most part if i don't try to across the arabian peninsula that temperature in doha could be up to 30 degrees celsius by friday afternoon so some pleasant sunshine coming through although the winds will gradually pick up present sunshine across

a good part of east africa but around the rift valley we're seeing those showers continuing to work around below way here more thundery downpours possible southern parts of tanzania seeing some heavy burst of rain from time to time as well plenty of cloud there into the democratic republic of congo showers 70 eastern parts of angola really wet weather will be across northern parts of mozambique originally and then we'll see west of weather come into western pass madagascar. sports of paul qatar airways the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a good story a cool reckoning i am afraid because i know on the one tragedy of what the news how much we've tried to send it was a good thing it was good work a happy family over the course of joining me on just us here on the final part of my journey when i to become a target of the hindu 1st policy in search of india's soul on al-jazeera.

but again you're watching out there are much about top stories this hour and police say they've obtained intelligence of another possible plot to storm the u.s. capitol 8 weeks after it was breached by don't transforms the house of representatives session scheduled for thursday has been canceled. the international criminal court is opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories it says it will take a nonpartisan approach into possible crimes by israel palestinian. a funeral is being held for one of the $38.00 protesters killed a 1000000 muslims in the worst day of violence since last month with a trip to 19 year old mark died in clashes with security forces on wednesday

eyewitnesses reported seeing troops firing into the crowds with little warning. police in senegal have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to break up anti-government protests one person has been killed and of course off with social media his main song code was arrested for participating in and unauthorized rally in dhaka is due to appear in court to face a rape charge which he denies and says is politically motivated the military is stationed outside the police station where he's being held nicholas haq was at the demonstration into. police have been firing tear gas and if you look right behind me over there there are hundreds of protesters in one of the main arteries of the capital there are supporters of opposition leader with one song go and look there over here to and inside the university which is a strong full force on coke now they're protesting because he was arrested earlier this morning on his way to meet a judge over a case of alleged rape he says that case is politically motivated but the

authorities say it's a criminal case and since he has refused to attend those meetings with the police he is now in detention he's also in detention for causing public disorder and what you're seeing right now. the opposition accuses the government of heavy handedness previously the courts in senegal have charged rivals to mikey cell including the son of former president. the former mayor of the car all ended up in jail with this arrest of this bears and other significance because he's seen as the voice of young people young people that have suffered during the coronavirus pandemic young people that are fed up with the restrictive measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus and have suffered economically for this and so much of this protest is less about the opposition figure but more about

young people trying to express their discontent towards the government. now brazil's most populous state is to close all non-essential businesses for 2 weeks is the country registers a record number of corona virus deaths for a 2nd straight day palos governesses the health system is a breaking point someone being admitted to intensive care every 2 minutes brazil recorded 1910 deaths and more than 70000 cases on wednesday. states are likely to follow power despite president jaya paulson are threatening to cut federal funds to any governor who imposes lockdowns. ponce is an epidemiologist who specializes in mortality data and he says that paulson are continuing to undermine efforts to fight to 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 are 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 a serious that that is or that it is and that that will and whatever we are doing will not be able to curb the pandemic what they stand to see is that we are right now on the brink of getting and the fact that we have very slow in fact the nation efforts here but we are great at getting back and. 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 if this isn't something we are able to vaccinate enough people so that they are protected against the dire 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 1000 symptoms so if we were able to curb those numbers we would have probably no lower numbers and mortality in. the coronavirus pandemic has already delayed the world's biggest sporting spectacle but as the rescheduled tokyo lympics gets even places is now the prospect of a lot less fun family has this report. 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. 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 you know how blake earlier this week said he'd rather miss the games than get the vaccine but others like german canoeist sebastian 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 is 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. moto 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 al-jazeera. or let's bring in don all of it he is

a sports writer at the japan times joins us from by skype from tokyo and great to have you here with us so the lympics this business grand occasion this great festival of support of sports but this time without fans how would that be. well right now according to local news reports it does sound as though all the organizing committee is looking toward barring fans from overseas from attending the games and sensually it would be an older less thick audience japanese citizens and foreign residents of japan that looks to be. countermeasure in intended to prevent fans from some strains of the coronavirus there's lots of concern among the local population and that seems to be the best compromise so far toward actually having fans at the games so i'm just wondering how it will be as an event in itself without the great spectacle this great carnival of fans and

athletes at one of the world's greatest sporting spectacles. well obviously it won't be an olympics of the sort that we've been used to over the past few decades it's going to be much quieter organizers have released regulations that indicate that fans won't be allowed to cheer or they won't be allowed to sing they'll be allowed to clap and that's about it those are the same rules that have been in effect at japanese sporting events since last summer they have allowed to 10 to successfully hold sporting events with thousands of fans football baseball basketball sumo wrestling and it certainly won't be the atmosphere that we had all been hoping for but that is the better alternative in some people's minds to holding the games without fans at all here very much a thought about time some force that is new and currently disappointing for japan who have spent years preparing for this cleanup tourist sites and so forth. that's

right this is were supposed to be the pinnacle of japan's our efforts they were making a lot of improvements to inbound infrastructure improving english excess ability for tourists signage cleaning up let's say most landmarks there is a lot of renovations over the last year of successful 2019 rugby world cup was it tests you had tens of thousands of foreign fans coming in for those 6 weeks and they were expecting anything greater buzz surrounding these olympics but now it doesn't look like that's going to happen going down because this financial aspect too has the ability to cost more than $15000000000.00 of these most expensive games ever is that it could be way more than that and how will they be able to recoup or there's no friends that are going to get some certain amount from ticket sales but not much. well that's certainly the problem that they get one of the biggest problems japan's bases overseas barons are the games most of the

local organizing committees regular are coming in from ticket sales 'd those overseas fans were buying a lot of hotel nights the amount that they were expected to contribute to the economy is quite substantial so while the i.o.c. will be getting its broadcast fees because the games take place as scheduled will go out and it will be shown on t.v. it's the organizers won't reach the benefits of fans in the stadium of course you'll still have local fans but they won't be spending as much as for him fans what have you getting into the v.i.p. packages and the rose sorts of situations so it will be a significant financial hit. here on a sign of either of the times down although it's as i say a bit at least the game's going head thanks very much indeed. thank you venezuela's opposition has accused president nicolas maduro his government of illegally selling

the country's gold reserves to evade u.s. sanctions of representatives from opposition leader won quite a made the allegations before us congressional committee he says the gold was refined in mali then sold mainly in the united arab emirates the opposition says last year the scheme generated more than a $1000000000.00 in cash for duros government. former french president nicolas sarkozy says he'll fight his corruption conviction to be hanged on monday so cozy was sentenced to 3 years in prison even 2 years expended for influence peddling and helping to bribe or judge speaking on french t.v. for the 1st time after his conviction he said there was no proof of any wrongdoing on his own committee but it's been 3rd time unlucky again for billionaire ilan mosque and his attempts at a successful test flight of an unmanned rocket. i mean. if you would you could do it. well everything seemed to

be on target until the space x. rocket landed and then that happened 2 previous flights crash landed in fossils and despite this latest failure musk remains optimistic kill one day send the futuristic starship to the mood into miles it's not yet known what went wrong this time around. so this is odds are these are the top stories and 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 the house of representatives a session scheduled for thursday.