but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the bags for india's lead to call. on disease. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter when you go home we can use in current affairs that matter to you. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes pope francis encourages peace and unity between faiths in the middle east during a visit to an ancient religious site in iraq. more protests in myanmar but in some places militias are joining the fight for democracy.

police in senegal fired tear gas at supporters of a jailed opposition leader will be live in dhaka. and later we'll have an update on nasa's mars rover as it continues its journey on the red planet and i'm proud of how much with all the support but just a day away from one of the most important elections in the history of football club barcelona 3 candidates on the final ballot for the crucial vote. we begin our news hour with pope francis on the 2nd day of his historic trip to iraq the catholic leader has made an appeal for common ground among religious groups he was speaking at an interfaith meeting at the age in city of or a significant site for christians muslims and jews francis is the 1st pope to travel to iraq and this is his 1st trip abroad since the pandemic began.

belief is a strong element that unifies us terrorism and extremism has nothing to do with religion terrorism exploits religion it is up to us to find solutions and it's up to us to face and deal with those who betray religions but i've done so as they project director of the iraq initiative and senior research fellow in the middle east and north africa program at chatham house he joins us now live via skype from london good to have you with us again tell us more about the the significance of the pope's visit to iraq and his meeting with grand ayatollah ali sistani well today's a historic day for iraq and for the region it's the 1st night in the press well to to visit iraq iraq a country that has you know several in storage sites and a big history of christianity dating back dozens of years and also the 1st night at the local catholic church this is the you know the ninja and meets the grand

ayatollah ali sistani the head of it she. played and so in so close those that is the case this is a very historic and this symbolic visit and you know from the perspective of the rockies members of the iraqi leadership this is a story about iraq that's not what we've often heard about iraq since 2003 at least if not before a story of conflict the story of sectarianism you know a bad story this is the story of meeting in the story of trying to live up to a future to a better future but of course challenges remain and what about the words of the pope and those of the grand ayatollah following that meeting how important are those for christians in iraq. well of course the words are important and they're words they're symbols and a meeting is important neither the plug nor the ground as well that's a stanley have at any point said anything differently so and neither have any of

the heads of different religious groups faiths or political leaders and here are this idea of interfaith is something that has been there at the sort of rhetorical level many people have been talking about indicate particular in the last few years however the question that i think many iraqis are asking those who happens for living under a very dire circumstances where their governments are not meeting their basic needs their you know the needs of citizens their human rights is how do you translate those words it's good for the christians of iraq as well as for all iraqis to have a senior leader or senior religious leaders come together and stress the importance of living coexistence but how does that translate into basic human rights basic citizens' rights for those iraqis and i think that's the challenge so you know the pope will come the pope will go there will be this boost of confidence this post of of happiness iraqis are happy that the pope is there i think that's according to notes but then what happens the game after and that's the concern for anyone who is

looking kind of at the larger picture what of iraq's political leaders what are they making of the pope's visit are they supportive. definitely i mean this is a chance for the political leaders to showcase an iraq that's not in a civil war that's not at the behest of sectarianism original courses you know a cleaned up i mean one of the jokes running in iraq is where the pope goes a lot of the roads have been paved and the streets are thinking dark right so they're trying to showcase an iraq that is building rebuilding developing tour and of course conflict right and of course they are there and this is much easier to do it's much easier to to showcase this then to actually address the very real challenges they face the challenges in iraq are not at the moment between shia and sunni kurds christians because of the political level they all have a pact together they all work together to gain power the challenge for them is how

do they actually take a very corrupt system and transform into a system that actually represents in response the needs of the citizens so for the for the leaders unable to do that this kind of visit a glimpse creates symbolism and it showcase and iraq at least for a few days that's different to the every day and how will the pope's message of tolerance and dialogue be received in the wider region. i think it's important of course i mean the region iraq is often a playground but of course many of the challenges of the city i think in secular writings and conflict are regional and so it isn't for tend to have you know the pool come to you to talk about interfaith dialogue to talk about the need to to everybody to come together but it won't be the 1st time that this discussion is being had as i say at the rhetorical level these messages are important the symbolism of the pope is it in a place like who are like even if it's a day where the abrahamic sort of the abraham western and in many muslim christian

judaism all kind of had stance came back to the heart so it is a very symbolic visit again and the rhetoric is important but again you know where does the politics fit into all of this i think the politics is for anyone looking for the day after and what happens in that region moving forward that is the key to transform that important message that the pope it's giving to wards sustainable future for the region really good to have you with the so many thanks indeed for there in london let's go live out of. a summit in java is that what's next on the pope's agenda today some of. what pope's just left the city of or after making that speech you heard him call himself the messenger of each piece urging interfaith harmony making sure that that message of unity across all faiths in iraq is heard and that before that he was in the city of

najaf where he met a grand ayatollah ali al sistani and we've been hearing from various leaders of iraq's shia clergy there but i have been highlighting that not just the importance but the significance in terms of how brave the pope was and try and come to iraq i would not just the pandemic but also the security situation given next the pope traveled to baghdad where he's going to be holding a mass and then he goes to the city of erbil. his last stop in this in this 3 day tour is going to be with it in churches in the north in mosul and then in the hold to his final mosque in the city of their view before he travels back to rome the day after so it has been a packed visit for the pope he's been in baghdad visiting the lady of salvation church where there was a sponsible for a few attacks then he's made history as the leader of the catholic church coming to meet the most revert the leader of the jihad in iraq of interest

is not just significant because of him being as a revered leader but him playing a pivotal role in recent history in iraq whether it was elections whether it was the fight against isis or more recently telling politicians to respect the wishes of the people left hundreds of thousands of people across iraq came out to protest against insecurity lack of services and the lack of jobs. reporting live from najaf in iraq a sign of many thanks indeed the city of newark where pope francis was speaking in the last hour as a place of historic importance for both christians and muslims the summit of 14 reports now the visit is raising hopes of development of among a long neglected site. the ancient capital of mesopotamia it was 1st settled 5000 years before christ and became the seat of samarian kings but this was not just the cradle of one of the earliest civilizations in the world according to the biblical book of genesis would is also believed to have been the

birthplace of abraham the father of the 3 monotheistic faiths 2 days in christianity and islam that is why pope francis will pay a much anticipated visit here a hug. this visit is important in many respects tourism into it and will become a pilgrimage site for christians of course that will serve our province archaeology . hope the papal visit will usher in funding to further develop the site only around 10 percent has been excavated the walls of the royal tombs opened around a 100 years ago and left unprotected from the elements have been weakened by salt and humidity and are at risk of collapse. the fluctuations and with the conditions greatly impact the buildings which are made of mud bricks and one stone. of the great ziggurat of abraham's house are the only

structures that have been rehabilitated in recent decades this partly restored building is thought to have been the house of abraham some 4000 years ago he's regarded as the patriarch of the 3 abrahamic faith and it is here where the pope is planning to hold an interfaith dialogue to promote understanding between christians muslims and other religions for muslims abraham is known as prophet abraham who sacrifice is celebrated during the islamic holiday of. how they'll be. a father's used to take us to every homes house every 3 to 4 weeks since our childhood we were raised to love abraham's house his words his dialogue. shaken he has traveled to the vatican himself and hopes the pope's visit will result in formal collaboration. with and i hope this 1st visit will be followed by other visits from the institutes will be established here for mutual understanding an interchange where students from the vatican come to iraq to study for one or 2

years and our students can go to christian institutes the people who live around who would have more practical demands like this new road paved just ahead of the pope's arrival and. we hope that after the public calms there will be better services there will be more development arm jobs such expectations risked being left unfulfilled during a profound financial and health crisis still the pope's visit will at least for a day cast the limelight on a side that has had few visitors in decades of war and instability seem wonderful to al-jazeera in iraq's ancient city of. this is the news offer much as there are still to come on the program the u.s. accuses china of an attack on democracy of a beijing's plans to change hong kong's electoral system polls open in ivory coast spawn of entry elections that could lead to the return of an exiled former leader.

but in sports the lineup is complete for the final of the council open here with that a little later in the program. security forces of use to gas to break up another day of anti coupe protests in myanmar. draw. despite the crackdown large crowds have gathered across several cities more than 50 people have been killed in protests since the military seized power last month study chang is monitoring events from bangkok in neighboring thailand he says that many a concern but ethnic groups are taking pause in the demonstrations. once again people have come out on the streets in daraa where young gone mandalay in many places across the country and once again they have been met by security services who are firing tear gas setting fires trying to force them back off using those

weapons of fear they be using to kill a harshly for the last week interesting new one place where they didn't push back was in northern shan state in the town of last year where a very large crowd came out at about 9 am local time yesterday evening the t.n.l. a which is an armed insurgent group one of representing one of the ethnic minorities in that area we come out close to the city and made it very clear that they were supporting the protesters and we've seen this in other places too where soldiers from the qur'an ethnic groups have come out in support of the protesters. those protesters in last year stood off with the security services further down the road for a couple of hours they were waving groups representing different protesters around the country but also their own ethnic groups and the security services stood back they didn't push back because they had done so many other places and this highlights

a big problem that i think many people are concerned about that these aren't ethnic groups and they exist all across men ma in many of the border areas and they are very well armed in certain cases these protests could be the potential for greater strikes in addition to which the military shows any weakness a tool those groups could use this is an opportunity to push back against them was tony mentioned the coup in myanmar has sparked a rare unity among ethnic minorities who spent decades at war with the military. fighters from the qur'an national liberation army can be seen here with protesters in the southeast on friday the armed group has been engaged in one of the longest running battles with the central government troops handed out water and trash to 3 finger salute a strong indication of their support for the anti crew movement. well is a man mark human rights activist and co-founder of forces of renewal southeast asia he joins us now from london good to have you with us again so what do you make of

the involvement of these ethnic groups in the protests. well it reflects the popular desire to have some kind of protection in the absence of any prospect for the united nations security council or doing anything meaningful or for instance the triggering or applying the responsibility to protect don't try and when a state a member state fails to discharge. the mission of protecting in promoting wellbeing of the people that is the document that ought to be a trigger but as you know the china and russia will never go along with. intervening in what they consider their strategic domain or even client state but with respect to the ethnic organizations yes there is it a radical reversal on the part of the majority here we have means public

that have been brainwashed to over decades to view these as insurgents rush so these are all communities that that want to have a fair share in the way the country is run and the military is the major bloc and so not the reversal is this the public views that national are forces that has unleashed on president a degree of terror and violence against its own citizens and becoming a national army so they have the public view of the national armed forces simply terrorists and insurgents and want to have a federally did me all the different ethnic organizations we've got over 2 dozens of those and this is an extraordinary situation a standing army is reject it categorically by the society at large ok so the

coup has a saying has brought about a sense of of social inclusiveness if you like out of the army forced of for years to. to divide the community along religious and ethnic grounds. that's correct there are 2 things that that happen e that have not been captured on camera because it's not possible one is the. complete and total ostracization of the security sector including extended family members you know children of generals cronies families that have ties with the military by the society you know the vendors would not sell water to police or like you know of food and also there is what they call the protesters and the society call social punishment it's the religious equivalent that societal society's equivalent of excommunication excommunication of the entire

security sector and it's a sub social system and the other one is forging all of us in an inclusive society that recognizes that muslims and buddhists and other different ethnic groups they do not pose a threat to each other the common anime at this point they suddenly realize is the national army and the the generals that have unleashed president biden's and attempt to put society back under the boot and on a personal note how does this make you feel. well i've been running on empty you know i i look i have could decide my own majority we have burmese society i am but distant and i'm from an extended military family for the last 10 years i have blown the whistle but that oh no society is cheerleading the military's genocide

against the muslim rule hinge or i've been treated as a national traitor no a lot of people suddenly wake up to the fact that i was telling the truth as someone who cares about the country and so i am actually very very proud that our society has had this seismic you know black light matters consciousness type of you know a shift in the attitude and we you know just a few days ago a chinese the burmese girl was killed in mandalit there's poring over mosques of sympathy and solidarity for her family and so we have pushing ahead in addition to democratize edition new type of inclusive society that embraces people simply because they are old people despite religious and ethnic differences that is actually

a major major civil aligning however the political revolution and indigeneity term really good stories here again so many thanks indeed ones on either in london thank you so much rights groups say they're concerned about senegal's handling of protests against the arrest of an opposition leader amnesty international has condemned a wave of arrests a partial t.v. and internet blackout of the use of live ammunition 4 people have died in 3 days of demonstrations serious nicholas hawk reports now from the capital dhaka. a march the government tried to ban protesters chant this is our society be brave and strong protect our senegal not just a message to the security forces but for a government the queues of stifling dissent thousands indycar in other cities have been demonstrating after police detained opposition leader who spun song go accusing him of both rape and public disturbance to begin to do. the young people

a toilet of the way we're being governed we need to free him some coas everything to us. police fire rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowd the military has been deployed to help security forces stop the looting banks gas stations and supermarkets have been attacked sancho has repeatedly accused president mikey cell of helping french companies profit from senegal spore. in the distance behind me police are far and water cannons to try to disperse the crowds they're trying to protect a french gas station and supermarket there now so much of this protest is less about the opposition leader response unquote more about this feeling shared among many senegalese that they're not getting a fair share of this country's wealth. among those protesting are trader mo he's jumps employees he has come out to assess the damage job sees

a failure of the state to care for its youth but this is about this is. this is this is not something i'm really proud of my homeland this is terrible you know. kids angry they model how. that's why they're breaking the shops stealing to take home children not going to school properly you know. not being looked after properly among those arrested are many teenagers the government is restricting access to certain social media sites they say to stop this information and public gatherings but so far all attempts to bring called have failed and the demonstrations continue to spread. and dicks with us now live from dot com nick that report is from yesterday what's happening there today. well the looting it seems continues where one were in one of the most or the most wealthiest

neighborhoods in the capital the car and also one of the most secure you have multimillion dollar homes here at the very end. the american embassy not just for senegal but for the region probably one of the most secure area in this area and this is where people in the neighborhood normally come to shop look at it now. a french supermarket that was looted late last night and look at where the looters are children indian children going through the rebels here trying to pick up whatever they can they're picking up. toilet paper here they're picking up all of this one in anything that they can get their hold of such is the level of desperation of many people here let me take you inside adrian. it's very slippery and you can see the looting started late last night they've burnt. the supermarket down and so you see people coming in trying to take whatever they can for free

now. you see down the aisle here. children trying to pick up adult mothers women. from neighboring areas people that would normally you know be able to afford to walk into the supermarket let alone buy anything here. and we've seen things like this not just here in this neighborhood but across the capital. this protest isn't just about the opposition leader who's done something about this it's about people that feel that they have been let down by the government people they have suffered through their pro divorce kind make specifically economically. are just going to take you inside to show you. what people are picking up here. much of all of the.

anything that they can get. their hands on so that you and so you are saying that your own forces have given up and just letting them. yes this is this is more than just politics that this is about more than just politics. exactly this is much more than than politics well it's the the rest of response song has crystallized this feeling and remember we spent sancho this part of himself as the anti establishment politician he's been very critical of the relationship of big corporations with the state and the government specifically the president himself accusing him of corruption and that has really resonated among many people here as pacifically after this year of pandemic where the government has put really restrictive measures on the on the on on people the curfew has badly affected some of these people to no longer can earn

a living many of them have stalls fruit and vegetables stalls and they're not able to sell they're not able to compete with big corporations that sell their vegetables at half the price that they are selling it so there is this feeling that this protest is not just about politics it's about a social movement it seems you know protesters these unarmed protesters these are people that live in this neighborhood young people that come here to get by and to get some food maybe for today. and it's not just happening here it's happening in so many other places not just in the capital but throughout the country now there has been less protests today it's still early morning weeks suspected it might be more protests in the afternoon so far the police have responded by firing tear gas they have let in some instances the protesters just coming like they've done just here to avoid any clash or violence with the protesters but this. was burned

late last night. and it seems that people are still coming in to pick up whatever they can on a dream that many thanks data of zeros nicholas lives in dark. pools of open that ivory coast spot of entry elections the vote comes 3 months after. a presidential election that was boycotted by the opposition as a result address now what's at play. driver coastal position parties staying away from saturday's election he's not an option they say every vote counts to stop the country turning into a one party state and taking control of parliament could make governess difficult for president a lesson or tara leader of the irish tea party who was reelected for the last december's presidential election the son of water us arch rival and former president laurent gbagbo is arjun voters to ensure the opposition now takes charge of parliament. let's go to the elections and type at the path to give it back

to whoever has the bright to it in the ivory coast but this election is seen by the opposition as the biggest possibly only opportunity to stay politically relevant before the next presidential vote in 5 years. we think it is important for us to go to these legislative elections because we cannot yet allow the d.p. to exercise absolute power in ivory coast. so my voters believe the planned return of former president laurent gbagbo will influence both turnout and outcome but the president supporters dismiss the opposition promising to record another decisive victory. this election is an opportunity to take stock they all came to power here we saw what they left

we also saw what we've done in 10 years that's the balance sheet but if they continue to believe that time has remained fixed that things haven't changed well we whiting for them. a 2016 referendum that the opposition called illegal pave the way for tourists 3rd term in office that led to violent protests that killed dozens of people those low violence and more death leading to do symbols presidential election something most ivorians don't want to see repeated accommodate breeze al-jazeera ivory coast has a long history of political turbulence last october's disputed election sparked violent protests president alassane ouattara whose government for more than a decade won with 94 percent of the vote but his opponents didn't accept the result a constitutional amendment following a referendum and 2016 allowed what's harder to seek a 3rd term but led to violence between opposition and ruling party supporters and

security forces ivory coast experienced a civil war after war taught us 1st election victory in 2010 former president laurent gbagbo refused to step down leading to violence in which 3000 people were killed. is an african affairs analyst and president of africa international media group she joins us now live from paris so after a 10 year boycott suddenly the opposition wants to get involved in elections again why. you know this is a constant. opposition has been competing all over. and not by so in the example. we may whenever they have an argument against the incumbent power or the iran against a president and the work like the. election was that there's

instant the 1st look and that is to say we boycott the next election we don't get back to early in the immensity election we should be a mistake so the what happens is that the. sudeep for. me could you want because that way to jones now when we don't accept it was absolutely wake up what happened you don't see any opposition in the parliament they have no say whatsoever we've arrived just before elections so all of the student that if there is a positive dynamic. for them to break is now up but john the time has come to what we lives and we sits in the bottom of that i'm going to have to say but there are other other. blowups i've sort of got to interrupt the other still a potent enough political force to make

a difference in this part of the trail actions. ok what we expect is that basically the acts we major forces in terms of what so not that will. actually be the biggest. and you have everybody thought but so did. i say. let's say it 3030 your way that the treaty or so so if you don't force the stupid kids. have a coalition they expect the if even we lean over. the incumbent party right now so what happened is the a not 20 should and these are absolutely unique when you see the british c.e.o. of womanhood out what might be having a coalition we've gone well and he's fucking well that's he's a hard off so they didn't have many places and they expect us to wait they

simply are the amount of force that we should be able to have majority or if you believe what's in the farm and they also expect the voting probably eat to be sort of one out of 10 years or. that have disappointed in a way that what the that's what they expect her and that all that arguments in their favor but the one party they say we have a very good. beat now they went straight in the result what get the cheap infrastructure in the in the in the into the income oh people up speaks for us so we should be doing the majority so we'll see the result the election. live in paris many thanks indeed for being with us.

a weather update next here on the news out then people in rural south africa say that they're being left behind and it's covert 19 vaccination drive will tell you. people are going to hurt the right. of the u.s. president is trying to relieve some of the pain of the pandemic. at its core find out why this ice hockey game took an ugly turn and the details of what santa a little later. cold weather has returned to central and eastern europe it's on its way south this is sort of frontal system here doesn't look amazing active does it and it probably won't be by time it gets down to the black sea it's a more or less fizzle out that's roughly where it isn't the moment but there is more to come that looks innocent enough at the moment but it really isn't that's

a developing winter storm a significant snow for most of scandinavia and eventually will come down further south into baton rouge poland the baltic states the same time the cold the 1st tranche of this the late winter is going to cross the black sea so it's affecting north and turkey the modes it will affect the weather in istanbul today behind it all mostly it's colder but last sunday some fog around a bitterly night frosts it's warm enough for proper rain showers in most parts rain in some parts of spain and indeed portugal so bucharest so cold on saturday slowly warms up so it's not going to continuation of this cold air plus i said it different to the north of that this is screaming when this edging slowly says even into northern germany so the forecast the warsaw in poland is 3 degrees and dropping with the wind strong which 1st and then when it comes out there was still inherently cold and frosty.

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well again a very unforgiving in doha here with the news off from al-jazeera of the headlines pope francis has appealed for common ground among religious groups he spoke at a meeting between people of different faiths in the aged city of or on the 2nd day of his historic visit to iraq security forces fears tear gas and stun grenades to break up another day of anti kook protests in myanmar the un special envoy is urged the security council to take swift action to stop an increasingly violent crackdown . so the police opposition leader last month song code has appeared in court for the 1st time since the arrest on weapons say this detention spawn violent protests in which 4 people have been killed. by his stance prime minister imran khan has won a vote of confidence in parliament off the suffering a surprise setback in senate elections khan's governing p.t.i. party won the most seats but his finance minister lost the former prime minister opposition candidates useful for the golani kong called the vote on saturday after

the opposition demanded his resignation. egypt's president. see is a arrived in sudan for a diplomatic visit he's meeting sudan's leaders including the head of state of the fatah will harm expected to discuss several key issues including the dispute with ethiopia over the grand renee's on sturm earlier this week egypt and sudan called on the international community to mediate in the crisis. in the past the u.s. senate has passed a compromise by democrats and republicans on federal benefits for millions of unemployed americans politicians have approved additional weekly unemployment rate of $300.00 until the beginning of september egremont overcomes one of many obstacles to president joe biden's the a 2 trillion dollar covert 19 relief bill but then chaotic scenes in

rio de janeiro as thousands of elderly brazilians lined up for hours to covert 19 vaccines many acute overnight after a city mayor said the jobs would be given to people over 60 but only a fraction of the doses needed are available lines of people and vehicles stretched for several kilometers south africa's plan to vaccinate most of its people by the end of the year is running into problems one major challenge is getting the vaccines to rural areas where a 3rd of the population lives in serious form of the miller reports now from kwazulu-natal where some say they're being left behind. buried her brother behind a family home in him too but. just months ago she says he died from 1000 well she says a family's been devastated by his and the death of 2 other relatives they're not

convinced the vaccine will protect them. that. you know it's not. a good vaccine to be take him because it can continue killing us they can say that is it really airbags that it can continue maybe we are going to die more after these bad things done does he lives in the village of some killer which is nearly 200 kilometers from the city of durban the main clinic has already under pressure it's limited resources have been further strained by the call of the 1000 pandemic i'm not trying to just now and we have many challenges we have few nurses and not doctors. in its 1st phase of the vaccine rollout south africa's government has vaccinated tens of thousands of health care workers across the country here in course do not tell fewer than 2000 have received the jab so far only after all health care workers are immunized with it vaccinate essential workers the elderly and the vulnerable more than

a 3rd of south africans live in rural areas that are often difficult to get to and have poor infrastructure well tens of thousands of health workers in urban areas have been vaccinated it's unclear how the government plans to inoculate those who haven't been and others in areas like this one. in addition to its current supply of johnson and johnson vaccines the government is expecting $20000000.00 doses of the pfizer job later this year but it requires storage at minus 70 degrees and that's unlikely in rural areas with facilities a limited our population is going down arc but for now we can't just our process because we will create an expectation that will not be 4 feet if we story now get the votes needed then they will see when and then we are not read the with specifics because we are still as i've said to you we've only $10.00 in

a bowl term balls in. the government expects more vaccines every 2 weeks and it's increasing the number of vaccinations sites but as time does heal as family mourns their loss and fear becoming sick themselves their faith in the vaccine and when it will come remains uncertain for me to miller al-jazeera was do not tell south africa. the dalai lama has received his 1st dose of the covert biotene vaccine the 85 year old oxford astra zeneca jab at a hospital in india's northern city of durham sala the exiled buddhist spiritual leader encouraged more people to get the vaccine. the u.s. has condemned new veto powers proposed by china on hong kong selection of election candidates saying that it's a direct attack on the territories autonomy beijing revealed the legislation on friday at the opening of its largest political meeting but our national people's congress changes would effectively to spawn dismantle hong kong's opposition by

giving a beijing appointed committee control over who can run for office al-jazeera is adrian brown has been speaking to opposition leaders in hong kong about the proposed rules and they say they won't give up without a fight though kinne hey represents what's left of a once thriving opposition party many of its members have been arrested with others now on trial accused of subversion loz doing caught in 6 months to face unlawful assembly charges but is free on bail he says china's government can eliminate hong kong's political opposition but not the aspirations of its people the tiny scale the men or the whole government they can suppress the whole competitions they can suppress the opposition politicians but they couldn't suppress all the oppositions the opposition come from the people beijing's electoral overhaul of this territory

will likely mean the opposition's landslide win in district council elections 60 months ago was probably its last. many of the winning candidates will link to the protest movement a year later the hong kong government canceled the more important elections for the mini parliament citing code with 19 now it seems that poll could be persona to gain until 2022 china's leaders say that only patriots can hold elected office in hong kong without specifying exactly what that means but it does though raise serious questions over the future of the opposition and whether credible elections can be held without it. says with only candidates approved by mainland china to choose from many people will be dissuaded from voting in elections already rigged in china's favor the reform means that they want more control they want more secure

election system in hong kong and i think whenever you want to control an election more. representation of the election for the people would just be less and less shows one calls himself a patriotic the probe asian businessman was born on the mainland and heads a new political party that could benefit from china's new electoral rolls he says you don't have to love the chinese communist party to be a patriot actually people should respect communist china and also respect the communist party but having individual china hong kong to love a party which they have very little knowledge or experience with is unrealistic i think those are 2 different things supporters of the chinese government deny the new laws will weaken hong kong's already diluted democracy and insist the promises made before this place was returned from british to chinese rule have not been

broken but to some those guarantees now seem worse than this adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the white house is warning of a powerful cyber espionage campaign that is targeting microsoft exchange email software so-called how hacking group has been remotely breaking into e-mail service since january the group is believed to be based in china microsoft says that the targets include infectious disease research as more phones higher education institutions defense contractors policy think tanks are normal governmental groups this is significant vulnerability that could have far reaching impacts 1st informants this is an active threat and as the national security adviser tweeted last night everyone running these servers government private sector academia needs to act now to patch them we are concerned that there are a large number of victims and are working with our partners to understand the scope of this the perseverance rover has traveled its 1st few pieces since landing on

mars last month the u.s. space agency nasa says that all systems are go well brunell's reports. making tracks on mars the perseverance rover went for a spin 2 weeks after landing on the red planet. and milestone on a mission and the mobility of home like we've driven on earth but driving on mars or even the all call and. tell me if i can even how i work toward the ferry moment here it wasn't a long trip just over 6 metres in total nor was it a fast drive the whole exercise took 30 minutes and almost 0.02 kilometers per hour but so far perseverance is working perfectly we haven't had any hardware issues you know everything i've been working that we've been checking out. and so it's it's actually been amazingly smooth and in that

respect and what here in this picture of a rock formation near the landing site you can clearly see stratification or layers of rock they may be made of sediment washed down billions of years ago when mars was rich with surface water either existed or iraq are likely to copulate by rivers flowing into the engine shantaram and perseverence has been flexing its robotic arms with the instruments named sherlock and watson mechanical detectives searching for signs of ancient life within weeks the rover will deploy its mini helicopter ingenuity for a test flight scientists have named the landing area in honor of the late octavia butler a novelist who was the 1st african-american woman to win top prizes in science fiction and a macarthur fellowship for her books including parable of the sower with the help

of a spacecraft orbiting mars scientists are plotting possible routes for perseverance to reach its goal an ancient river delta that may hold some. signs of long extinct microbial life forms if found such signs would be evidence that life perhaps even intelligent life exists in abundance beyond earth throughout the vastness of space robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles times sports his saga thank you very much adrian you all are just a day away from one of the most important elections in the history of football club barcelona on sunday the spanish giants will elect a new president. president while a porter is the favorite he helped the club when 13 major trophies during his 7 year reign where he is up against media and technology entrepreneur victor fanta and lawyer tony fixer who has a served on the club's a board of 111000 club members will be voting on who will lead the club at this

pivotal moment right now the club isn't in a good financial state has reported debts of more than $1000000000.00 then there's lindahl missed his future his contract expires on june 30th meaning he could leave for free also barcelona now off far from their best on the field their league title defense crumbled towards the end of last season and they're on the brink of a last 16 exit from the champions league but the election is also taking place off though it's been a controversial week for the club a former president. but timo who stepped down in october to haunt these elections was one of 4 people connected to the club arrested on monday as part of a corruption investigation club's offices were also raided by the police has since been conditionally released well joining us now live from barcelona spanish

football dentist rick sama rick 1st of all explain to us how big of a toss the new president has on his hands. well everything you've just said it's a huge huge task there are so many factors they have to consider i mean messi is the most tired you want because he in the summer he can walk away for free if he wants to join another club and so i saw in him and you contrast is that is the crucial thing because he's a boss a legend and you don't want to be the president loses lynn are missing and ok there's another part as to that or was it because the finances like you say there are over a $1000000000.00 of debt and that ties into the messy there were because you can't believe how messy the same contract is on at the moment this is not enough money in barcelona to do that so it's like a mixture balancing plates there's also the planning because that is where bottling have a ball and down in recent years which also ties into the finances we've seen the club spend 400000000 euros on this monday and they could t.d.m.

and 20 greaseman and with the possible exception of them bill and he's been playing a little bit better in recent weeks those players have not done enough to justify that cost so the new president has to come up with a structure that helps barcelona get back to where they want to be the team that can reach the champions league final instead of being thrashed 80 by by munich and also tying into the finances there's everything to do with the stadium the new stadium and the s by a bus that would suit the surrounding area of the stadium and which is as you are really remaking remodelling that was voted through but the price of that has gone up over the years and nothing's happened nothing's been built so that's another good question the new president to deal with when we went to the area saying that kwan the part that could be the favorite to run this sale the same thing also who has a better chance of keeping messi. i think that was it is that a birthday ever and he probably is also the guy who has the best chance of keeping

messi because he has a relationship but they know each other look what that was about bottom 2310 which is the latest that stage is that era of the best the best possible owner in history possibly the best football team in history perhaps pep guardiola brother 200-200-9010 look also was there and he knew messi and he speaks to messi i would say regularly but he just be too much unlike turn expression and think it's a fight you don't have a personal relationship with messi i love porter to me is the guy with the best plan he's not the guy with who's been working on this their selection be years and years and years that's the good spot for them is the one who's you know he's a businessman he's carefully plotted out how he wants things to go even when he becomes president but look water is a personality he's a character is a showman and people like that and that you know that they haven't liked upon him in the last week they've been drita baits between the candidates and one of the

accusations aimed at lord's or by a point of pressure was that he was avoiding the baits and avoiding speaking but in the debates it's been a little daughter who's come out on top because he does have that natural character and i think if he was a favorite at the start of the week he's of bourbon a favorite now spies for dennis thank you very much for that. well trying to time grand slam champion roger federer has arrived in doha for the qatar open as he gets ready to make his competitive return to tennis after a year are put into a 39 year old to has undergone surgery since his exit from last year's australian open. i get very very excited and it's maybe also a moment where i can maybe thank all the people involved and made this possible it's been a long and hard road i know i'm not at the finish line yet but it's it's good you know where i'm at a good place i've been practising very well and just really pumped up. because it

will play god being made a good in the final of the women's qatar open later on saturday check number 4 seed convicted by beating american called jessica to go 646 full. of spain advance to the final without hitting a ball one her opponent victoria azarenka would do on the semifinal due to a back injury give it about into the title decider for the 3rd time in 4 years. canada's corey kaunas has taken the lead after round 2 of the arnold palmer invitational connors carded a 3 under $69.00 to get to 9 on the paul so determined to leading a by one stroke going into the weekend 2018 champion rory mcilroy is 2 shots behind. and show now in the boston bruins beat the washington capitals 51 in a game that was overshadowed by nasty fights boston took the lead through brad marsh on the game took an ugly turn one capitals forward tom wilson brandon call

into the gloss in the 1st period. was called on the play carlos helped off the ice and was taken to hospital later on the bruins responded with a 3 goal 2nd period to help seal the win. and that's it for me a.j. sunny thanks data and finally as they say in all the best news programs italy has its pizza france has its champagne now ukraine has applied for borscht to be awarded unesco world heritage status ukraine insists it's that it created the soup like dish the move is an attempt to resolve a wider dispute with poland and russia the war so claim it as their own a typical borscht contains carrot beets peppers alongside a mix of oil fat garlic and brown bread. the reason to apply to unesco is really for ukrainians to make them love ukrainian cuisine to revive it and to let the world know about the great meal that borscht is maybe they know minestrone heard about hobo or even tried kona carney but i want everybody in the world to know

borscht to taste it and to know that borscht is a ukrainian meal. haswell treasurer just a moment i'll see you again by phone. what should americans be thinking and doing right now you should be about ideas they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the hall calling for the bloated defense budget to be high the bottom line on us politics and policies america fact of the world is iran. the protests started cheerfully in front of the x.

museum in amsterdam hundreds of protesters gathered to demand the government is locked down with strict ins and lift a curfew the 1st in the country since world war 2 the threat is that we lose our freedoms the protesters who are not following social distancing rules are repeatedly ordered to disperse by police but police are trying very hard to confront a scenario that happened last week and thousands were rioting in cities across the battle. after some protesters started throwing stones and letting off fireworks police on horseback moved in to clear the area. amidst destruction and despair a group of friends resist. rescuing books from the rubble they build a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. to witness.

on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on which is iraq. there's been looting across senegal's capital this process continues against the detention of opposition leader and a struggling economy. i mean it was halted in the wealthiest neighborhood of the capital the car outside a supermarket where looters had been helping themselves with supplies.