on the bottom edge of that right in terms doesn't vary but the. little bit of it was more intense whether it learned. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.n. and the u.s. to say eritrean forces must leave ethiopia steve gray region is a league ations of rape and torture continue beating killing and unlawfully detaining protesters the list of accusations against me and more is military continues to grow. the u.s.

capitol on high alert intelligence reports suggest takes 3 missed groups could be plotting another attack. and it was all going so well a successful landing for space x. goes up in flames. i'm german ash with the sport south america's world cup qualifiers are in doubt with european football clubs unlikely to release their players because of coronavirus travel restrictions and quarantine. the un and the u.s. have demanded every train and forces leave ethiopia gray region over allegations that they may have committed war crimes the un's human rights chief has warned that reports of killings sexual violence and rape are still streaming in months after

ethiopia's government said the conflict in te grey was over he appeared declared victory after launching an offensive against the tea great peoples liberate. confronting november but since then there have been reports that eritrean soldiers and ethiopian forces have continued fighting in the region hundreds of thousands were displaced and thousands of others were killed in last year's conflict ravine asham the sun is a spokeswoman for the un human rights office she says independent monitors must be allowed into t. grey we have seen reports of quite a strong case is quite a lot of cases of sexual and gender based violence and we have all we've received reports of some 136 cases of rape that have been reported but of course you as you may be aware in cases of sexual violence the number of figures that are actually reported tend to be the tip of the iceberg because many of these cases do not report it we're also seeing door to door searches of individuals we are seeing

continued killing and continued fighting is in many parts of to agree. diplomatic editor james bays joins us live now from the united nations and the accusations of potential war crimes that keep mounting james what generally speaking what is the reaction from the international community. well i think the reaction would be from the security council and we don't have one yet they have been meeting on this very issue to discuss the situation inside a province clearly what they heard from the u.n. was from the humanitarian chief of the u.n. marlo cock and it was a very depressing picture of the situation echoing some of the things that you heard from the u.n. human rights office just a moment ago what was interesting also is the confirmed that the u.n. believes that air tran forces are that they say they've got cooperation information

that they're there and the u.n. says they must leave now that's what mr lowcock said in a closed meeting of the security council immediately afterwards i asked the spokesperson of the secretary general about that and that is also the secretary general's view that eritrean forces must now leave a province the security council though has made no statement at this stage they've been trying to work on a statement we understand that the african members of the security council are in firm favor of a statement but so far russia and china have not blocked the statement but they said we've got to consult with our capital so for now the security council is not going to voice on this issue but the president of the security council the u.s. ambassador linda thomas creamfields she did speak after the meeting to express the u.s. fears the honest to prevent further atrocities and human suffering squarely on the ethiopian government shoulder we urge the ethiopian government to support

any need to get into the fighting in tikrit and to that end the prompt what are all of eritrean forces and her regional forces from which a great are essential steps. i do think there's still a possibility the security council in the coming hours will be able to work out a statement i think all the council members are concerned about the humanitarian situation and there's certainly barbara been a change in the position of the african nations on this issue in the past they had been in favor of regional diplomacy a huge diplomacy but certainly now the african members who currently are not. kenya and also voting with them often isn't vincent granted jeans that the so-called a 3 plus one they i think now believe that the security council should send a very strong message james vai's with the latest there at the united nations james

thank you. international outrage against me in moscow is growing just a day after 38 demonstrators were killed in the deadliest crackdown yet the country's own embassy in washington has joined the chorus of criticism stating that it's greatly distressed by the deaths of civilians the un's human rights investigator has also demanded more sanctions and the global global weapons in bargo on the military meanwhile protesters inside myanmar remain defiant scott heide lawyer now reports. like thousands of others justin nicknamed angel went out to protest on the streets of mandalay on wednesday less than 24 hours later people gathered for her funeral she had been shot in the head. according to the un angel was one of 38 protesters who died at the hands of myanmar security forces the most killed in a single day since the coup on february 1st aid agency save the children says 4 of

the dead were children. in yangon bodies were identified and collected by family members this neighborhood of the country's largest city saw the heaviest death toll on wednesday there are reports that security forces opened up with live ammunition on the unarmed protesters without warning. but the protesters continued to put pressure on the giant on thursday again building barricades to block the security forces as they prepare for another day of protests young is the former u.n. special repertory for myanmar she and 2 other experts have started a council to track the situation after the coup the behaviors the actions of this so called. are. terrorists like behaviors they have stripers and on high and high rise buildings around tall buildings they aren't they meet and shooting at. civilian populations is

a question and she said that the international community needs to acknowledge the military's actions as being comparable to terrorism un. they should really be ashamed of what they've done we not done you know they haven't been hearing to the un charter to protect and to restore it to maintain order to secure peace in order. and the security council has have really not done its job. he went on to say that china and russia has veto power in the un security council is obstructing action that needs to be taken in myanmar so far the council has voiced concern but has not condemned what's happened since the coup but there will be a further test of that on friday as another security council meeting has been called to discuss the crackdown on protesters this week scott hyder al-jazeera.

well the european union has cut financial support to me and maher in the latest bid by the international community to hurt the military's bank balances its suspend its support for development projects which normally nets the country just over $240000000.00 for typically 4 year long projects it's a similar response to japan's which last month's hole to development to a divorce $1800000000.00 in 2019 the 2nd biggest contribution after china the u.s. has focused on sanctions hitting 10 individuals including me and lars acting president that's also trying to block a $1000000000.00 of government funds and the u.k. has lengthened its sanctions list adding 6 more military figures last week to a roster of 19 people. oman's arnie is an activist and co-founder of the forces of renewal southeast asia and joins us live now from skype thank you very much for joining us here on al-jazeera so i hope you could hear what i just

outlined the actions of the e.u. and the u.s. and countries like japan do you think that overall the international community is doing enough to put pressure on the military jointly in myanmar. no not at all you know i overheard her tell a former special report or professor young he leave talking about how security council has essentially failed to discharge is a charter function or mission i think barbara the the this is the very same regime that. has committed waves of genocidal attacks only you know the 3 or 4 years ago and security council field and now this regime is in fact fact committing crimes against humanity they're not retaining a good or containing the protesters they are using smite proves to kill on.

civilians about 550 different locations towns and cities and even villages where protests were going on for months and today un human rights commissioner. essentially said the military is murdering and engaged in in force disappearances and these are crimes against humanity and as you mentioned the embassy in washington d.c. joined the embassador in new york the burmese ambassador sensually saying that they are speaking out and they are not taking orders from the recently released and that was the ambassador to the u.n. a couple days ago and we've spoken to many protests who spoke to us from me and lara who you know describe similar scenes to the ones that you're outlining now but

and so we come back to the reaction from the international community where we look at me you know cutting financial support potential sanctions as well but the regime in myanmar is one that was frozen out by the international community for decades before our uncensored she returned to power so what impact do you think that these sanctions or the current actions of the international community are actually going to have on the military itself if any. well barbara i worked on the sanctions you know in the 1990 s. against. and the fact is the international community hasn't really applied effective sanctions you know against this regime so that's why the regime still has a degree of comfort zone you know as in china sink who invested about 86000000000 u.s. dollars the biden president himself announced

a freezing or $1000000000.00 government funds but the the burmese government military regime which young he called terrorists. have stashed their cash in china shanghai i think who in other places these are the places that u.s. and european union should go after and i think work something should be understood not simply in the in the form of economic sanctions but political sanctions if the european union 2526 member e.u. where to downgrade diplomatic relations or continue to recognize only the ambassadors in the missions which support the democratize ation i think that will make extremely powerful impact on the regime when they realize that they have you know regimes like china and russia and venezuela and a few international pariah and sir tomorrow friday there is due to be

a security council meeting about this issue do you hold that much hope or what do you hope or expect will come out of it. well security council is a permanent colmar it is in picton and because it's all about geopolitics you we've got 3 d. took power wielders from the west that agree that this is an outrageous situation as it was in the genocidal case of 3 years ago but russia and china continue to call it internal issues you know a regime a un member it treaty stated committing multiple crimes against humanity and genocide you know cannot be given a blank check. manzoni activist and co-founder of the forces of renewal southeast asia sir thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

supporters of senegal's opposition leader have been fighting with police in the capital dhaka police of fire tear gas and rubber bullets to break up protests and demonstrators have been throwing rocks there demanding as one song was released after he was arrested for participating in an unauthorized rally he was due to appear in court to face of rape charges which he denies and says is politically motivated al-jazeera is nicolas sarkozy in the capital with more on the protesters demands. they were chanting a song which means free song though they want to see the opposition leader out of police custody and that's where he's being held since yesterday. has refused to answer any of the questions that the investigators are asking him and the have another 24 hours to charge. he's going to be charged well it seems from the

prosecutors in charge of the case and with public disorder and the the security forces in the government feel that he is responsible for what we're seeing here unusual scenes there hasn't been scenes that of that violence since the last election in 2012 when the former president wanted to run for a 3rd term in office so a very tense situation where a few hours away from the corona curfew where people are expected to stay indoors but it seems that these protesters will be staying out to continue to fight with the security forces. if you're watching al-jazeera still ahead iraqi gets ready to welcome the pope but with health and security issues could his timing it be better another night in custody for hong kong leaving pro-democracy activists in china's biggest crackdown on the city's freedoms and michael schumacher son prepares for his 1st full of formula one season general will be here with that and more in sport

. police and other agencies in washington d.c. are on high alert for a possible assault on congress it follows intelligence that extremist groups were possibly plotting to take control of the building so conspiracy theorists and donald trump loyalists believe it is the day that he will return to the presidency authorities were criticized for failing to protect congress from rioters back in january to go live to hide his jocasta who is on capitol hill for us so obviously we know about the criticism and ongoing investigations as to what exactly went wrong on january 6th so this threat unsurprisingly is being taken seriously what is the security situation like where you are. barbara it's been nearly 2 months that the so-called people's house the u.s.

capitol behind me has been secure behind these higher high fences behind the military vehicles and the barbed wire as of course all of this put in place since january 6th the day of the riot which resulted in 5 deaths and the injuries of 140 some police officers so it was no surprise as you said that they took very seriously this intelligence report that there was potentially a plan to breach this capital again on today this this can speak. theory was spread by believers of the q anon which is the same people who had believed that democrats drink the blood of children absolutely ludicrous conspiracy theories and they had picked today march 4th as a potential day for another violent episode because they thought that this would be the day that trump would return to washington d.c.

to be inaugurated again none of that with out a grain of truth in it but security officials here took that very seriously they increased the already heavy security presence and it has been a very quiet day we've been here since the morning and there has really been no indication of even demonstrators coming here today all of this coming though as members of the house of representatives pushed up their schedule they finished late last night in order to not be in session today partially because of that threat and on this day the capitol police have also made a request for the national guard troops some 5000 who are still here guarding the u.s. capital to remain an additional 2 months originally they were their mission here was set to expire a week from tomorrow but if the pentagon plans this request and it is expected that this request will be approved that means these troops will remain here for another

2 months barbara predator castro ally for us the capitol hill thank you. it's going to yemen where southern separatists say a car bomb has killed and injured a number of their forces traveling in a convoy in aden forces from the u.a.e. back to southern transitional council have described it as an assassination operation targeting 2 of their generals who both survived the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and is the cause of the world's largest humanitarian crisis. at least 20 migrants have died in the gulf of aden after being thrown overboard by smugglers that's according to the international organization for migration survivors told the un agency that at least $200.00 people including children were on the boat traveling from djibouti to yemen but 30 minutes into the voyage the smugglers panicked about the number of people on board and so about 80

into the sea the boat was then turned back the i.o.m. has warned that the best hole could rise pope francis says shared a message of unity and hope ahead of this 4 day visit to iraq its 1st overseas trip since the pandemic began in a video released by the vatican the pope said he hopes for peace in the war torn country then will. i come as a penitent pilgrim to the lord for forgiveness and reconciliation after years of terrorism to ask god for the consolation of and the healing of wounds and i come as a pilgrim of peace to repeat you are all brothers yes i come as a pilgrim of peace in search of for turnitin animated by the desire to pray together and to walk together also with the brothers and sisters of other religious traditions and the sign of father abraham who unites all in a single family muslims jews and christians. takes

a look now at the security preparations are ahead of the pope's arrival to iraq on friday. baghdad is on high alert for the 1st ever visit to iraq by the leader of the roman catholic church still faces security threats and attacks from isis and militia groups which means iraqi security forces have their work cut out for them for francis will be in 6 cities in 3 days. all requirements have been secured through a plan drawn up by the joint operations command to secure and security matters for all the places that the pope will visit whether they are in. all places pope francis has frequently traveled to muslim majority countries and in iraq he will meet one of the world's most influential shiite clerics grand ayatollah ali al sistani the pope's visit is meant to expand on his message of in defrayed the dialogue and bring hope to iraq's christian community but it also comes during a pandemic to

a country which has not started vaccinating its people and is important. to try and stop the spread of covert 19. the vatican the master to iraq who would have escorted the pope to all his appointments has already tested positive pope francis and his entourage have been vaccinated and organizers say they will strictly enforce crowd limits at public events but with a sharp rise in iraq school with 1000 cases in a week health care system critics have questioned the effectiveness of social distancing as it's expected crowds will gather to see the pope can add a 3rd. some people close to the pope believe that the visit should be perspiring treat the pandemic and security situation but the pope insisted on his visit iraq needs his visit and he feels the pain of the people who are suffering the. iraqi authorities say all necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of all involved are being taken. out of the civil defense plan has 2 components 1st part is protection fire. fighters and rescuers will be in all places to be visited by

his holiness and the 2nd part is sterilization of all places and without exception it will be in court a nation with those in charge of churches and holy sites that will be included in the visit of his holiness erotic christians can trace their lineage to the earliest days of the religion they are a diverse group with syriac the syrian khaldiyeh an armenian and communities since the 2003 us invasion and later the persecution suffered and derisively the visit is a rare opportunity to lift broken spirits among the dwindling christian population but there are all faiths are excited about welcoming pope francis baba as he is affectionately known in arabic and job with al-jazeera. germans aged over $65.00 can now receive the astra zeneca vaccine after it was approved by an independent panel it was one of several countries which initially restricted it to people under $65.00 citing a lack of effectiveness in trial data the panel is also recommending just one dose

of the vaccine is given to people who've actually recovered from covert 19 it's opened that will stretch limited supplies after a slow vaccine rollout across the e.u. . and the problems of the vaccination campaign has led italy along with the european commission to block the export of doses to australia a quarter of a 1000000 italian made astra zeneca vaccine doses are being held with the drug firm accused of failing to keep to its contract with the e.u. officials have blamed slow supply for their inability to speed up vaccinations. well italy will only offer one short of the coven 1000 vaccine to patients previously infected with the virus just like germany the policy applies to people diagnosed between 3 and 6 months before the plant short its that saving doses as the country struggles to secure an adequate supply italy is the 3rd country in the

european union to take this step following spain and france. this is the news hour from london still ahead why desperate measures to protect their populations from coronavirus approaching brazil's governor is on a collision course with the president. the deal that sealed peace in northern ireland for more than 20 years loses paramilitary supporter and it's all the deal to brag. and empires a break up a heated exchange between 2 of the biggest things in world cricket jemma we'll have all the details in sport. that deep winter maybe a vote we still got temperatures going up and down quite widely this is another active cold front on its way down through europe the temperatures there food drop

behind it on the front itself will be rain or snow and it will head right down eventually towards the eastern mediterranean now behind it the sun is out the temperatures just are rather low than they were doesn't necessarily feel bad but that 3 degrees after the snow go through more so you maintain 3 and subzero by night the cold will reach book arrested have to remain here by saturday that's quite a big drop in temperature as the front goes through briggs it is sleet or snow with it even in bordeaux in western france will be a feeling as a temp drops from what it currently is 20 down to about 10 degrees little wind so this is the picture then for saturday a lot of sunshine significant temperatures proper snow in finland maybe again the baltic states and norway otherwise not much precipitation apart from the rain that's been hanging around in portugal's heading slowly size and it still shows itself in northern turkey and that will eventually be a temperature drop so the current right and then in the algarve is a circulating low bringing some showers all right even as far into the atlas

mountains as to draw. the showers for. a diplomatic feud between australia and china is threatening one of the asia pacific most expensive who tried pot she. won i won a speech goes it was in the middle. one out just. to say just say that it's time for a different approach so let's leave them closely to the headlines join me as i take all the lies dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions and marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front they captured the hearts of sounds around the world they did for pulled us but unlike most elders they forward hard against time put themselves on the minds of something more important than the beautiful game footballing legendary cancer donald introduces fine for the players who bucked

the trend and stood up for what they believed in let's do it. a new season of football rivals coming soon on al-jazeera. a comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the un and the us have demanded eritrean forces leave ethiopia steger a region over allegations that they may have committed war crimes the un's human rights chief has warned that reports of killings sexual violence and rape are still screaming in months after ethiopia's government said the conflict in tikrit was over me on mars over the embassy in washington says it's greatly disk. pressed by

civilian deaths in the country a day after 38 people were killed in a crackdown by security forces the un's human rights investigator is also accused me of mars military of between killing and unlawfully detaining protesters since last month's coup and as the bandit a global weapons in bargo on the arm. and supporters of senegal's leading opposition figure have been fighting with police in the capital dhaka there demanding that be released after he was arrested for participating in an unauthorized from. just under 7800 more people have died from corona virus in brazil in the past it adds towards heading towards its deadliest week of the pandemic but as it faces this peak it's also experiencing a sharp increase in poverty monica and i kill every ports now from rio de janeiro.

there are no people standing in line in front of the banks and increasingly more in line by the door on the sidewalk like 33 year old bad about her and her soon to be born baby boy. i lost my job as a cleaning lady when the pandemic began but at least i could rely on the government american see age now i have nothing or in me a child on the way. government handouts benefiting 60 percent of brazil's population stopped abruptly in january but the effects are beginning to show now. 17000000 brazilians will return to poverty by the end of the year brazil went from one extreme to the other from having the most generous emergency aid program in the region benefiting 60 percent of the population to having none the question is how will people survive until we are all texan ated street vendor paul and his wife used to live in a shack in the slum until last week when their savings dried up and their customers

stopped buying. it's a vicious cycle we can't pay the rent or clients quit buying or finding a job now things are going from bad to worse is almost impossible. brazil's economy minister says the solution for the disease and the economy is the vaccine by president. has always downplayed the pandemic and political infighting has delayed binocular vision campaign less than 5 percent of the 210000000 population has been vaccinated in previous days rio's oldest slum people are wary of promises. we have less money food is more expensive and vaccines will take a long time to get here brazil's public debt is 63000000 high and the government says it could not maintain the emergency aid but economists say that dropping it

altogether can be dangerous. the specter of recession already lou. and with it the fear that the high unemployment and poverty rates will lead to an increase of violence which is already on the rise. want to hang on a joins us live now from rio de janeiro a really is as you painted a worrying situation in brazil what kind of reaction is there from the people now to what's happening as the infections rise and also that restrictions that are going to come into force. well yes it's extremely worrying because people are. there's no way out basically it's a moment where supposedly vaccines will be the solution or slow in coming so here with the 1st directions to for example the street vendors won't be able to sell any

more for at least for some time and rio still is better off than some other states where you see dramatic images of like in the north and the south of containers. hospitals adding to render containers to take out the bodies of those that die in the hospital so on the one hand people aren't noticing every day that there are many people dying around 1800 every 24 hours on the other side they're thinking i will be cold because there is no more emergency aid but congress is pushing for your emergency aid it will be a smaller amount that was given in. but it's something that people need and the president again today has downplayed that he's he's not he's against stopping any kind of economic activity so he's saying like stop whining we'll just have to face this but it's something that infections are spreading so fast that

governors and mayors have decided to take a stand and impose their own restrictions because they just can't keep up with you know just getting more hospital back beds to the intensive care units but then infections are on the rise specially because there's also the new variant here. joining us live now from. being obese means being more likely to die from coronavirus the world obesity federation says it's 2nd only to age as a factor in how likely someone is to succumb to the infection it says 9 out of 10 covert $9000.00 deaths are in countries with high obesity rates more than 2 of the 2 and a half 1000000 that killed the correlation includes countries like the u.s. and the u.k.

well at the other end of the scale japan and south korea have low rates of obesity and low rates of coded $1000.00 deaths in fact the report suggests that no single country were less than 4 out of 10 people are overweight has a high death rate while olivia but at that calvert county is the director of science and programs at the world the beastie federation she joins us via skype from london madame thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera we were just speaking about brazil we were live with our correspondents i was looking at brazil's figures brazil of course one of the countries war state for a variety of reasons but again when you look at the obesity rate about 56.5 percent of the arnold adult population is overweight and they've had 117 deaths per 100000 people so quite high. really is staggering is that how it correlates with this rates. if the association is very strong it's funny we're talking about brazil

originated as my hometown so i would follow in closely everything that's happening there and it's similar to other countries we have high rates of obesity and overweight and we have high rates of mortality it's probably a little bit more surprising in brazil than the u.k. or the u.s. because we still have a very young population so the age factor is not as significant as it is in other countries but i feel in the last 10 to 11 months we have been finding in seeing more research from different countries and a field that is very clear now and that the 2 major factors associated with complications from obesity are age and b.m.i. there's no denying it i mean you mentioned brazil's example of it obviously there's a variety of factors and political decisions that were made at variance so it's called the view that as you as you say i mean it does highlight that these 2 were factors just to make it clear for viewers what is it that your organization in this study means by obese and what would you want governments to do with this

information. a person is considered to have obesity if he or she has a b.m.i. of over 30 and overweight if he or she has a were b.m.i. will return to 5 means that is to roughly 1314 percent of the world as obesity and around 40 percent of the world is a weight so it's definitely a global problem in terms of action the world obesity federation calls all governments to adopt the group's framework so really looking at obesity from a holistic our point of view when recognising 1st of all obesity as a disease ensuring that countries monitor obesity ensuring obesity prevention treatment of disease and a systems based approach that means that for a problem ask complex as obesity is because it has to do with genetics with epigenetics the environment food trauma so many causes we need

a coordinated response to just put the onus on the person and talk about individual responsibility is not enough telling people to eat less and move more is absolutely not near enough to solve the problem it's not a question of person responsibility is a question of action from different actors so government the food industry the person everyone i suppose the irony that the study in the sling exposes is that actually lockdown has done nothing for anybody's waistlines because we've all been stuck at home and often not actually able to even leave the house to exercise for a couple of months so looking back i guess the immediate future when it comes to vaccination programs for example do you think that some nations should take obesity into account so the way that we take other underlying illnesses that obesity should be considered one as well. so some countries already do that the u.k.

for example are. people with a b.m.i. over 40 i think in this instance we really need to look at it from a science perspective and look at the evidence so we know that the 2 main factors associated with complications from coding 1000 are age and b.m.i. so from a scientific point of view those are the 2 criteria that should be use for a vaccine per it is ation pretty simple. olivia but our attack of a county director of science and programs of the world of the federation thank you very much it really was a fascinating study thank you thank you now nearly all of them kong's leading pro-democracy activists are now in jail or exile after a court ordered $47.00 of them to be kept in custody the activists have been charged under a national security law imposed by the chinese government 15 of them had been granted bail but prosecutors have appealed against the decision they were detained

on sunday over their involvement in an unofficial primary election held last year hong kong's authorities accuse them of trying to paralyze the government chinese leaders are reportedly preparing even more sweeping changes for hong kong as they gear up for the country's largest political meeting on friday. the european union's border agency has been cleared of illegally pushing back migrants from its southern front 2 years but questions remain an inquiry found no link between frontex and the series of incidents at the border between greece and turkey last year mostly in the a g. and c. but it found that what happened in 5 cases could not be resolved so called the push back break refugee protection agreements by refusing entry to people who could want to apply for asylum do you think i share with you that this was taking too long tom this time has not been good our or for the reputation our. and the trust.

for the. a group of paramilitary organizations which support northern ireland staying in the u.k. is say it's temporarily pulling out of a historic peace deal the loyalist loyalist communities council says it's suspending its role in the good friday agreement over brics it they say it's destructive trade and commerce between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. in 1980 deal ended the 3 decade conflict between catholic nationalists and protestant unionists john hall is in london and says it comes down to being consulted on changes. i'm not sure there's any realistic immediate threat to the integrity of the good friday agreement itself after all this is an agreement that's backed by public support as much as anything else nor is there any sense that the parties to the former troubles really want any real return to the troubles or resumption of violence but this being northern ireland it's impossible to say where

things like this might go where they might end so we're talking here about the loyalist communities council the l.c.c. this is an umbrella group that represents what remains of a number of loyalist paramilitary groups that were largely disbanded certainly disarmed under the good friday agreement of 1998 the l.c.c. as you say writing to the british and irish governments giving notice that it's withdrawing its support from the good friday agreement because of concerns about the so-called northern ireland protocol a key piece of legislation underpinning the post briggs it trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. and you may recall the protocol involves new customs checks brand new checks down the irish sea on the trade of goods between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. remember this is meant to be one big economic entity and that was a way of avoiding a hard border on the island of ireland and that in itself was

a precondition of the peace now there's been problems brewing with this protocol since the beginning of the year concerns about a shortage of goods on the shelves some trade disruptions and so on and the l.c.c. says particular concerns in the loyalist unionist communities about a breach of their rights because this new relationship between northern ireland and the u.k. is something they were consulted on and didn't consent to which is a right of this is guaranteed under the agreement so they want their rights restored they say their protest will be peaceful and democratic but they're essentially threatening here with whatever power they may have that anything short of a fundamental change to the nature of the protocol could result in time to the destruction of the good friday agreement. facebook is lifting a self-imposed panel of political and social issue ads which are put in place during the u.s. election last year the restrictions were to stop the spread of misinformation political groups and organizations will be able to advertise their campaigns on

facebook and instagram from sir's they twitter has banned political ads permanently google meanwhile says it's dropping its method of tracking users for personalized ads on its chrome browser that take giant says it's to protect people's privacy it's expected to heavily impact online advertising but it will not apply to its search platform maps function or you tube well it looked like a 3rd time's the charm for space x. is the latest test flight until it wasn't the charm the starship rocket landed successfully on wednesday but then blew up just a few minutes after it had already failed twice before the explosion took place a day after applications opened for space x.'s 1st commercial flight to the moon and we sued reports. he's made history it looked like

a successful test flight for space x.'s next generation rocket that was until this . it's not clear what went wrong. the private american space firm launched a giant rocket a few minutes earlier. after a high altitude to test flight the 10 starship prototype or s n 10 touchdown in the u.s. state of texas the company called it a beautiful soft landing with its billionaire founder in a mosque praising the fact it landed in one piece 2 previous prototypes crashed into the ground. but space x. remains confident that starship will eventually replace its existing fell can rockets any type of engineering feat weight you not only developing news happy potions system but a new type of fusion. just so many testing boundaries that have to occur and say

it's not something i think that we have seen that he cut a play out in real time bit it is a good thing having sent nasa astronauts into orbit last year space x. also has ambitious plans for commercial flights the 1st civilian lunar mission to you know it's promised a lunar excursion for japanese billionaire yes. on a starship and 2023 myself i began accepting applications for 8 others to join him a day before the failed flight test on thursday although under the name of the key . i want to reach out to a wider more diverse audience to give more people across the world the opportunity to join this journey. if space x. is successful private spaceflight will be the world's 1st and despite the latest failure musk says he's optimistic you'll be able to send passengers to the moon mars and beyond to our jazzier new zealand has been hit

by several strong earthquakes in less than 24 hours an $8.00 magnitude quake struck in near the karate kyle and prompting evacuations and tsunami warnings in the south pacific earlier a $7.00 magnitude quake hit 100 kilometers off the shore of today are our officials that have warned people in certain areas in the north islands east coast so that they should move to higher ground and should not stay in their homes. iceland is bracing for a potential volcanic eruption scientists say tremors a show strong signs of activity at mt the caylee which is just 30 kilometers southeast of reykjavik police have closed the roads a surrounding year and issued a warning not to go near the area in the me the vicinity is uninhabited but the country's main airport and fishing port are just a few kilometers away that will pay no has lain dormant for about 800 years.

still ahead on the program shafiq back to the n.b.a. legend who's now showing off his skills in the wrestling ring that's coming up as for to with gemma.

ok it's time to get all the support now here's gemma thank you barbara this month's wild cup qualifiers in south america are in doubt with european football clubs unlikely to release that players to travel due to concerns over the pandemic and

quarantine restrictions liverpool manager. club has already said he won't let his players join up with their countries if they have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days on their return the u.k. government requires anyone travelling from red list countries like brazil to do just that manchester united boss are they going to social agrees it doesn't make sense if you lose your player for 10 days isolation of course it doesn't and we're the ones paying the players. from what i understand. that's the rule the fee for given the rules that don't have to be. released so i would think that months that's going to be a hard hard call to make to let them go and play in the red list countries south american football's governing body economy will meet on friday to discuss what to do about the games where should you take place on march the 25th 30th earlier we

spoke to one guy who's a match commentator and latin american correspondent to fit the area sports you know or a mistake he says european clubs a right to be worried about their players travelling to south america. it's quite understandable if you start hearing what i both a hater said the other day the coach of made us he say i'm terrified of the situation there shooting the football being played because of how bad things are in brazil so so if you're liverpool and you hear that from a coach of the defending quibble about the lotus champions then you start saying why should i put my players at risk as well i mean there's a lot of liability in terms of this but the way that things have been handled the past few months in terms of the fun terms of the brazilian confederation terms of comparable it ends up worrying people now it's rightly so that they should be worried those players that the majority of the core of the nucleus of those respective teams ends up being affected because of those of the teams that are going to have to try and look for something some national teams have already

started to make some time but some type of contingency plan if you will sheila being one of them as yesterday one of the last out of the established a list of 26 players from the domestic league that could be called up for national team action he'll have a mini camp if you will with those players to kind of get to know them a little bit better in the event that the international from europe do not come and participate in the upcoming rounds will not be as competitive as the european players probably not but you will still be able to see some telling to players if this decision does go through well portugal have already acted to make chill that players are available fs time qualifier against azerbaijan has been made to its way to avoid those quarantine issues for that play as and as i conveyed in education if a political style manic christiania went out today the match will be played at his club side event is home ground and cheering. the pandemic continues to affect the european champions league as well live upon an r.v.

will have to return to hungry for the 2nd leg of their last 16 tie the 1st match between the sides was played in budapest rather than germany due to cave a travel restrictions and for the same reason liverpool can host leipsic at anfield either so it's back to the same venue for next week's match with a new poor leading to nail after the 1st leg hole in fact in action right now in the premier league they're playing chelsea both sides are looking to go forth with a win at the moment it's like it's going to be chelsea that going to head 4th because they're leading this 11 nail not too much longer to go tottenham made it back to back wins for the 1st time since november by beating for them one nil and everton continued their push fear of football with a one no when the west brom and it's a day into milan have extended their lead at the top of series x. they want to on the way up palmer thanks to 2 goals from alexis sanchez into and now 6 points clear of city rivals ac milan who was 2nd in the table to cricket in england's batting problems continue they were all out for 205 on day one of the 4

final test against india in ahmedabad spin x. off it's how the pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets for the home side india has only need a draw to claim a series with $24.00 for one at the close of play one of the talking points from the opening day was a heated exchange between india captain in a very cold day in england or around the bend stakes with the umpires having to break it up mistakes is played down the incidents sides. said these are. the words of the. fans will be allowed to attend the 1st race of the new formula one season in bahrain but there are some conditions and treated the circuits will only be allowed for those who can prove they've been fully vaccinated against cave in 90 or have

recovered from the virus organizers say they'll be health screening on arrival the mosque will have to be wanted to all times the race and sack it is in 3 weeks and they'll be a schumacher on the grid in bahrain mixi mako son of 7 time world champion michael he's preparing for his rookie season the 21 year old who won the formula 2 championship last year it will make his debut with the has team they unveiled the new car on the day in tennis a 2 time wimbledon champion a patchwork of it of a is into her 3rd consecutive cattle rape and semifinal the number 4 seed it was up against and that comment of a in the quarter this and she raced into a 518 in the 1st set is of course taking it $63.00 but conservation fought back to take the 2nd because it's about who's won this event and they all 3 years ago when they decided 62 to advance to the last 4. play australian open quarter finalist jessica you stunned 2nd seeded carolina this before she beat touch opponent

6361. and 2 time diehards are going to tour as a regular is also into the 70s after beating the tournament top seed alina's vassily in a in straight sets and she did it despite suffering from back pain throughout a match which required medical treatment from the trainer as a guy. who finished with n.b.a. legend showing off his skills but not on the basketball court this is him making his debut in the all elite wrestling series in florida and despite being put through a table he did still win it this tag team match at 7 foot one at around 165 kilograms it's no wonder the table came off the 2nd best is. that is always fought for me. thank you and that is it for this news hour do stay with us the i'm going to be back in just a few minutes and with more on the day's news thanks for watching by. the

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