how does that. fears of a new threat security is ramped up in washington d.c. and u.s. politicians cancel a session amid reports of a plot to breach congress. i'm not matheson this is our desire a live from doha also coming up building barricades and protesters in me and mark take to the streets a day after 38 people were killed in a crackdown. the international criminal court launches an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories. russia. has made history.

excitement turns to despair for the 3rd time on mosques test of an unmanned rocket in flames. a u.s. house of representative session on thursday is reported to have been canceled because of fears of a possible attack it's 8 weeks since the world witnessed the storming of the capital by supporters of donald trump law enforcement officials have faced criticism in congress because help didn't arrive for hours alan fischer 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 know 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 inauguration of

the us until it was changed in 1933 the rumor spread on conspiracy websites and there's talk of a protest to back it up the carrot security or the capitol and we are working with force. 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 inner 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 appealed to support 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 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 anytime an adversary is 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 democratic representative says there are a number of reasons thursday's session was called off but security was in line and . i think that it was easier for us to just go ahead and get all of our business done as you know tomorrow begins the republican issues conference and so i think that there were a multitude of reasons but i do have to acknowledge the fact that many of my colleagues and staff and maybe even some of you who were there during the insurrection people are deeply concerned about what potential threats could be out there and it's not just threats here but it's us coming here it's we all live out in the community and so you have heard already from the capitol police that threats are up 90 percent to members of the house so i think it's reasonable that we just went ahead and finished our work the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill aimed at preventing police misconduct that includes restricting funds to

local governments but a lot of officers to use chokeholds the house passed the george floyd just as in policing act days before a former police officer goes on trial for his murder last year it's uncertain whether the senate will approve it george floyd's killing sparked a nationwide protest against police brutality and racism protests as a back on the streets across me in mar after 38 people were killed in the most violent day of the crackdown a funeral is being held for one of the demonstrators who died on wednesday. was killed during confrontations with security forces this is reported seeing soldiers firing into crowds with little warning despite the deaths demonstrations out again getting underway. well the u.s. has imposed sanctions against the military leaders and is calling on all the countries to take action. we are uphold and revolt to see the horrific violence perpetrated against the people of burma for their peaceful calls to restore

civilian governance we call on all countries to speak with one voice to condemn brutal violence by the burmese military against its own people and to promote accountability for the military actions that have led to the life and lots of life of so many people in burma the un special envoy amir mars says she's shocked by the violence and wednesday diplomatic editor james bays reports from the united nations . the u.n. envoy christine shriner bergan a 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 out blocking a state who happened on the 1st of february. we had to gain only to day 38 people died and we have now morgan or 50 people that.

started and many are wanted 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 at 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. a satellite coalition fighting in yemen says it's destroyed a ballistic missile fired into the kingdom's territory by who think rebels saudi

media says the missile was launched towards sun in the south with the rebels said they shot a missile at a saudi oil facility in jeddah most of saudis our facilities are in the east more than a 1000 kilometers from the city. the international criminal court is set to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territory of course prosecutors says it will look into violations committed by both the israeli military and palestine. groups has been welcomed by the palestinian authority but it's been criticized by the israeli government is abraham has more. this is a moment many palestinians have been waiting for the international criminal court reversed 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 regime and this is a state policy and this is the still the government of israel policies and it's a systematic and widespread violation for international law i meant it accords family hopes the court brings them justice he is one of the palestinians

bodies have been confiscated from their family. a practice 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 met at a checkpoint near a buddy's town the army said he tried to run over soldiers but the report says he didn't pose a threat. i lost a little girl at that he used our son as a guinea pig a subject for the trying this is a continuing policy that dozens have been killed like this after my son and hundreds before him. dies he's 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 occupation 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 jurisdiction in the cited are bruce old news every precaution to avoid civilian casualties against the 'd worst terrorist in the world we live with dogs. is our soldiers who are war rooms the israeli government says it's considering functioning palestinian officials and in response to the i.c.c. opening its investigation they might even advance more theft in the building. than so had an al-jazeera venezuela's president is accused of using the country's gold reserves to evade international sanctions. and covert comics the artist capturing the ups and downs of life at the quantum.

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al-jazeera. you're dizzy a reminder of our top stories this hour the latest u.s. house of representative sessions being counseled reportedly because of fears of an attack security has been ramped up since donald trump supporters stormed the capitol building in january. a funeral is being held in me in march for one of $38.00 demonstrators killed on wednesday and coup protesters are back on the streets across the country after one of the most violent days of the zone to strike to. the international criminal court is opening an 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 on groups . police in senegal fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to break up protests against the government one person's been killed senegal's opposition leader also in a song called was arrested for taking part in an unauthorized rally and he's due to appear in court to face a rape charge that he denies and says his politically motivated soldiers are stationed outside the police station where he's been held there was hacked was at the demonstration in ducky. 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 stronghold for some 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 monkey cell including the son of former president. the former mayor of of deckard 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. in nigeria there have been scenes of chaos as 279 schoolgirls kidnapped last week were returned to their families. police fired shots into the air about after parents burst into a hall where government officials were giving speeches in front of the children but this is say they were impatient to be reunited with the girls after their 5 day ordeal that the students say their kidnappers threatened to shoot them as they were marched into a forest nicolas sarkozy says he'll fight his conviction for corruption to the end the former french president was sentenced to 3 years in prison on monday with 2

years suspended for influence peddling and attempting to bribe a judge speaking on television for the 1st time since he was convicted he said there's no proof he did anything wrong but the tasha battle has more from paris. well former french president nicolas sarkozy was certainly in a very defiant mood on a primetime television news show here in france it was the 1st time that we've seen sarkozy in public since monday when a court in paris convicted sarkozy of influence peddling and corruption and gave him a 3 year prison sentence with 2 years suspended now sarkozy reacting to that said it was a travesty of justice he called it an untimely cratty decision he said he was innocent and during the trial he has maintained that this is all the result of a political smear campaign that there are those in the justice system perhaps in the police service that are simply against him now sarkozy said that he intends to

appeal he doesn't know how long that appeal will take but he is determined he said to clear his name. if nancy i've come to sage the french people i am a man who was always assumed his responsibilities i will keep my head high because i am being blamed for acts that i did not commit it is an injustice i will fight to the end until truth prevails when it goes sarkozy said the long before this trial he had already decided to step out of politics that he was always going to of course take an interest but he wanted to spend his time with his family doing other things however there are many people many of his supporters on france's right in the french conservative party that a perhaps hope the nicolas sarkozy might even run for president in next year's presidential election he said though that simply wouldn't happen it is clear though the nicolas sarkozy's political career is over not only because of this conviction

but also because he faces at least 2 other trials in france has oppositions accuse president nicolas maduro as government of illegally selling gold reserves to evade american sanctions. a representative of hong quiet though the opposition leader made the allegations before a u.s. congressional committee says the gold was refined in mali then sold mainly in the united arab emirates the opposition says miller scheme generated more than a $1000000000.00 in cash last year what do those government i'm lucky america at a tele see in human has more from santiago in chile. venezuela's opposition foreign commissioner who you are board has held a news conference in which he revealed what he calls are the details of a cash for gold scheme being carried out by president. in venezuela in order to circumvent u.s. economic and banking sanctions it deals with sending tons of gold to countries like the united arab emirates on russian planes via sometimes countries

like mali or other countries in africa this is not the 1st time that these allegations have been made but this is the 1st time that so many details have been spread in spelt out the board just did not make any of the documents public but he does say that he gave them to the u.s. congress to the u.s. office of foreign asset control or as well as to the u.s. state department interestingly this coincides with the 1st face to face we presume meeting between opposition leader and the new u.s. secretary of state this was followed by an announcement by the white house that it would continue to regard venezuela as a threat to u.s. national security and this is the mechanism that used to justify all these wide economic sanctions that were 1st imposed during the barack obama administration the chief executive of the power grid operator in texas has been fired that's up to

rolling blackouts in the u.s. state last month left millions of people without power the region was hit by a new jand snowstorms many people want to build magnus to step down after they had to live in extreme cold for days dozens of people died. 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 michaela reports 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 going to let us open our 100 percent and i'm a little bit nervous about very mentioned the total taking off the total mask so 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 a mask we're 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 community we can still take the right action to protect ourselves and others are the strongest repudiation of the decision coming from the u.s. president every describe the governor's decision as a big mistake and the last thing the last thing we need is leander for think you know in the meantime we're going to try and take the mask forget it it's still matter in some states like florida the mosque the 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 how 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 my kind of out to sarah washington legal experts in canada i'm not recommending 4 months between corona virus vaccinations so more people will be able to receive a 1st doze their advice applies to injections using vaccines made by pfizer madonna and ice to zeneca the critics say extending the time between those is an experiment with unproven consequences canada has been short of vaccines it into separated from its vaccination drive brazil's most populous state is to close all non-essential businesses for 2 weeks as it records a record number of corona virus deaths for the 2nd straight day in sao paulo's governor says the health systems at breaking point but a patient being admitted to intensive care every 2 minutes brazil confirmed to 1910 deaths and more than 70000 infections and weapons to driven by homegrown variant.

many people have felt a roller coaster of emotions over the past year sorrow joy loneliness and heartache are all feelings captured in a new comic book a boat life in quarantine it's drawing on the experiences of more than 70 artists around the world as old reports from new york a dystopian future vision of a plague read world a depiction of life as an asian american being blamed for the virus spread to a hopeful message of renewed friendship during last year's lockdowns just some of the stories that make up this quarantine life a new collection of comic strip art depicting life during the coven 1000 pandemic the anthology was the brainchild of steve walker a comic instructor at the art students league of new york in may last year he put out a call to artists for their stories of this most unusual of times what surprised me

about the entries were. just the breath of the work the amount of detail and love that people put into their work the the amount of craft that we got shown on you know on the page was really incredible some of the stories are vignettes on the humdrum of coron teen like this one about remote learning and several deal with the issue of shopping but there are also more sinister tales looking at the power of conspiracies and even tender stories like the final one lullaby about having a newborn child during lockdown every artist was dealing with the pandemic differently from feelings of extreme loneliness or anxiety. but working on the stories you. i could see that and then you would lift the lid and you've got the

sense of hope underlying everything to cover work was provided by a new york artist whose work is a commentary on artists in corn teen at the very height of the pandemic in spring last year you'll see little islands with with artists on them like in their own bubbles and the sea between them is filled with these screens at least screens that are filled with like really awful scary news. that's how i felt at the pipe available as a free download the anthology provides many different perspectives on a shared world history gabriels john doe. new york it's been the 3rd time unlucky again for billionaire elon musk in his attempts successful test flight of an unmanned rocket. lately. russia. has made history everything seemed on target until the space x.

rocket landed it's not clear what went wrong 2 previous flights crash landed in fireballs said webb's an astronomer at swinburne university of technology she says when it comes to rocket development this kind of setback is to be expected. the thing that sets this rocket apart was that it did manage to land and stay pretty steady as it landed on like the other 2 previous test front so that in itself is a huge success but unfortunately then it didn't blow up which is unclear exactly why that happened but still pretty successful in comparison to the other 2 to launch any type of engineering feat where you are not only developing news how to post and system but a new type of fusion. just so many testing boundaries that have to occur and so it's not on surprising that we have seeing that he cocked up play out in real time but it is a good thing because this is this is how we land this is how engineers and scientists are able to gather more data and figure out exactly what needs to change so space x.

is trying to achieve something that we've never done before as the human race so by trying to create a rocket that is able to not only leave earth's orbit but come back and return and land and be usable and as you can probably imagine there at heart and having things that are useable is very helpful you can imagine if you're caught with one essentially it be a very expensive time trying to get anyway and that's the same when it comes to space industry you want things that have reusable and sustainable so production i would say that is the ultimate goal. this is all just 0 these are the top stories the latest u.s. house of representatives sessions been counseled reportedly because of fears of a tug security has been ramped up some.