patients and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations israel's own program has outpaced even the richest countries but that's only made stock of just how much the palestinians have been left out of the process and how far they've been left behind. hello there i'm just and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes after 5 years in custody british iranian nazanin it's a garri ras cliff is one step closer to freedom but it's unclear when she can leave iraq. by promises of his support to the iraqi people in a town where christians were forced to flee from myself i see. the.

protests continue in myanmar after a nice of raids at all politicians and journalists rounded up by security forces. and the knock on effect of the pandemic taxidermists feel the economic fallout in zimbabwe now that big game hunting is all but shut down. and the school football club barcelona are electing a new president 3 candidates are competing with the winner lost it would take him boss the forward by the club having more than $1000000000.00 of debt. but we begin with breaking news coming out of iran the salah that. a jewel a rainy and british national is one step closer to freedom after 5 years in custody however it remains unclear whether or not she can leave iran her lawyer has told an

iranian website have house arrest has officially ended and british will make a child of city says ratliff's family told her she's had ankle tag removed but also that she has been summoned to appear in court on a not the charge but we can now speak truck correspondent us a bag who is in tehran for us as a 3rd appears that she may have been freed but this isn't necessarily over what more do we know at this stage. no it may not be necessarily over now she's been at home with her parents has since last year with the electronic tag that doesn't allow her to be more than 300 metres away from her parents' house now we understand that the tag has been removed but she has been summoned to court next sunday to face possible further charges and those charges are spreading propaganda against the establishment for the overthrow of the establishment now says that he is hopeful that those charges won't go any further a 5 year old deal is one step closer to coming to an end and that she was arrested

back in 2016 as she was getting ready to leave the country in april of 2016 when she was charged by the revolutionary guard of running an online b.b.c. persian journalism course. is banned in the country and she was charged with recruiting people to work against establishment for the soft overthrow of the establishment now she denied those charges at the time she said she was here visiting her family for the iranian new year but she was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years now this has been a bit of a diplomatic dispute back in 2019 the british foreign office said that she was eligible for diplomatic protection something which iran rejected saying that she is an iranian iran doesn't recognize jule nationals but she is set to be summoned back to court next week on sunday. a setback there with all the latest for us from the iranian capital thanks so much i said well we can now get the view from london joins us live from there neve the former foreign secretary has previously called

this whole incident hostage diplomacy any word from the foreign office today. no not yet as far as i'm aware at least the foreign office of course how for a very long time been dealing with this case in a very very sensitive way let's not forget that multiple foreign ministers foreign secretaries have been directly involved in trying to secure the city in cigar iraq clips release including the now prime minister who used to be foreign secretary boris johnson. monthly has since been taken over by the current foreign secretary dominic graham but even dominic we believe doesn't entirely know whether this actually means that cigar iraq clips could be on a plane back here to the u.k. any time soon this new court date has been confirmed by her lawyer is set for march the the 14th to face these new charges that are so just mentioned there they include her attending a protest in front of the iranian embassy and having an interview with the b.b.c.'s

persian service so we don't know whether these new charges and this subsequent court case would be the pretext for further detention or indeed that's simply a formality that needs to be processed to allow her to return to the united kingdom as i said mentioned there the iranians do not recognize jewel citizenship to them she is entirely iranian citizen but of course the british government has been heavily heavily involved behind the scenes in trying to secure her release the hope from the family's perspective at least is that this indeed is the final hurdle before she returns here and me we are getting a last minute statement just in the last few minutes from the british foreign minister dominic he says they have relayed to the iranian or thirty's and the strongest possible terms that have continued confinement. unacceptable despite the fact that they've welcomed the removal of her ankle tag now nieve i know her husband has been very critical of just how the british government has handled all of this saying at times that his wife has been used as a bargaining chip over

a tanker deal that can you explain that for us. you know richard so you're right cliff has been an incredibly toilets and vocal supporter of his wife throughout these past 5 years he has really been for the outside world a window for gari radcliff another day and his wife has spoken repeatedly about the level of stress and anxiety and depression that she has faced in her time in prison she was of course for some period in a maximum security prison in iran before being released to serve some of 1st sentence with that. tag back in her parental home but of course the british government clearly with that statement are looking for much more clarity and i'm sure that will bill so be they wouldn't be looking for look for by the family as well from the iranian or thirty's as to what this all means ok she may be a bit of come to the end of this 5 year sentence that was

a watershed moment but what does this new court case mean what does this new hearing mean clearly the british government they're looking for answers need far ahead there with all the latest for us from london thank you so much name well let's take into this now with afshin shah he's a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and he joins us now from leeds in the united kingdom absence or not an ins of iraq have has a stent simply been freed but she's potentially set to face these further 'd charges what do you actually make of her chances of being able to leave iran and be reunited with her husband and her now 6 year old daughter any time soon. good afternoon unfortunately the water you see at the moment is nothing but a hostage situation similar we should not forget that not only is not the only choice national being iranian prison is certainly dark but dozens of other july shuttles in the rainy and prisons but it is something about the specific chase

we each had a lot of media coverage city in the u.k. over the last 5 years so given all of the sensitivities around this case you've been caught that media interest in this case that. seizes i think simply as an opportunity since the far as or in getting cheap to be able to. pressure certainly on britain in order to get more involved i mean this is not the 1st time just like remember. when obama was about to a part and formal a car should be this or that it mean in your activities around that time again there were some present exchanges between the united states and iran and it at that for an iran use. iranian jewel national prisoners as a bargaining chip in all their whole game boxes unfortunately despite the fact

that the satisfying u.s. . reaction is all but even here's the big situation and given all of the interests of british government and the interests of british media in case it seems that iranian authorities not going to go anytime soon of course it is very difficult to 2nd guess. the public but it seems that you know once again another prisoner your bargaining chips fall at the. you know you mentioned that the relationship between tara and barack obama i mean this is obviously again also a very sensitive time for iran as the buying of the myths administration and the europeans are trying to reestablish the j c p o of the nuclear deal so presumably they do want to have as many chips as they can does that affect things here going forward. yeah absolutely i mean we should laugh again that you know it's an important part of little shushan recent

issue to a and right now given what has been happening since and over the last few weeks the rule of european play is primarily britain on the extremely important for what's going to happen certainly in that in the next few weeks and again as i mentioned you know iran has done death for a very long time and now iran has been you know very common we each position certain over the last few years really an army on there a lot of pressure you know arms on a lot of good to put pressure as well and now if they want to come back to the negotiation it will be one to ponder project some power they want to part of nickles she ate from the position of power of course this is not the only thing that iran is trying to you live in order to honor demonstrating or project part of

their sense of power back on a rainy day activity in the region a certain or the last stop of meats in iraq in yemen big all claims that kind of to this car pollutes it's just you know they want to pour portray that power be drawn to negotiate from their position with meekness now that is very important bargaining chip and there are certain it will use it to put pressure on iraq or the or pressure on britain reset is a very important the no bit of influence on them being on the police and the united states and they want to kind of make the best out of it absentia here they're saying electra at the university of brad said speaking to us from leeds great take your thoughts are not as they are thanks for being with us to shine thank you. well there is still plenty more ahead this news hour including our george howell in belfast northern ireland where post breaks he shouldn't have caused nearly as part of military groups to with rule their support for the good friday peace agreement.

and with growing demands electronics and protective gear china gets a major economic boost with its latest export figures. and in support of this tennis plan has just become a 2 time possibly even champions son i will have that story nation this season. now pope francis on the 3rd day of his 1st visit to iraq has been sending a message of hope healing and unity to the victims of war there he arrived in erbil just this past hour where he will then celebrate mass with thousands of worshippers earlier he met with members of the christian community and the town of kalak auschwitz was overrun by isola back in 2014 there he also visited iraq's largest church which was partly destroyed by eisel fighters. you know. it's a matter of conversion of the hearts reconciliation and putting aside our differences we must all work together for the future for turn

a love which recognizes a common humanity and together build a dialogue and forgive while our correspondents manifold tennis following this trip and joins us live now from smyrna it's really been a series of very emotive events that we've been watching today how was the pope received in both serbia and car crash. well we are next to the stadium here in erbil worth thousands of people have gathered with what watched the bus loads arrive for hours and the pope is expected to arrive any minute here at the stadium to hold a mass it's expected to be the largest gathering during his 3 day tour he has given his health mass and given prayer services and speeches at smaller venues before and the reason why this venue may have been chosen for such a large gathering is perhaps 1st of all because erbil is home to quite a large community of displaced christians who fled eisel back in 2014 and who still

live here because they don't either feel safe to go back to their villages or because those areas are still destroyed with no services or no infrastructure and the other reason may be because to some i also them a skirmish region and to be in the capital are relatively safe compared to the rest of iraq we we see relatively few security incidents here and of course security has been one of the major concerns here in district so so that may have enabled this this larger gathering here but throughout all the meetings that the pope has held over the past 3 days the message has been very consistent and that message has been one of reconciliation of unity of course existence of diversity has been repeating those words many times earlier today when he visits. at the old city in mosul and also when he gave his speech in the village or the town of color caught in the nato

war planes and i've been asking people of the past 3 days about whether they believe that this visit as inspirational and moving as it has been could have a real impact in terms of for example stopping the steady decline we have seen in the christian population in iraq and let's listen to what the art this hope of ever be able had to say when i put that question to him the local media paying attention more attention are christian christianity this awareness is really important because i studied in a public school in primary and secondary school 12 years there is nothing i want to santee there's nothing about the history of christianity in iraq and our textbook at all so the muslims students they were the were really real friends in a sense but i would feel that they had some doubts because when the attorney islamic religious class they've told. the infidels

this you know i'm put put put my friends in a very disturbing situation he is my friend but the same time according to islamic sharia i use him for the in a way i would say yes to the meeting with sister and the what we know of the statements which came i would say because she are the majority there are forming the government they are they are they are so i think this would give a new light a new light and he started this how much of this polluter image it's up to us to tary cute responsibly or leave it as it is. a very personal reflection very from the archbishop of to be talking about whether or not he believes the pope's visit here in iraq can have

a lasting impact and we can hear from the stadium right next to us that the pope has arrived in the stadium now he is now greeting the thousands of worshipers will gather there to watch him hold mass but just returning to that idea of the last thing change of course these are the changes that are needed are on the political level and they're very difficult to implement because they require real change inside institutions they require legislature to be passed to require reforms in the security apparatus and even though the current government is rather reform minded we have seen a lot of a lot of obstruction a lot of resistance from the parliament which is really the gates gave birth to the status or here so even though there may have been chopped open even though the seeds may have been laid here with this visit actually implementing and really pushing forward this kind of new way of thinking will be very challenging indeed

simona fulton with all the latest from the pope's trip just outside that stadium in a bill thanks so much samantha well as you can see the print has arrived inside that stadium where up to $10000.00 people have gathered for hours now waiting for him to arrive and he will conduct a mass very shortly he's been driving around in his apartment below there were obviously very big concerns about security in that area as well as obviously during the current 1000 pandemic ensuring that people would attempt to socially distance it isn't outdoor arena where he will conduct this mass well they've been waiting for hours here to grease him and the pope himself ahead of this trip this 3 day trip this is the last day of that 3 day trip had said to despite the safety concerns in the security concerns that we've seen in recent weeks that he wanted to go anyway he didn't want to let people down and as you can see he's been extremely well received at this mass today. well moving on now to

where a prominent muslim politician has died after reportedly being arrested overnight by security forces can man luck cause of death isn't known but as tony chang reports the police and army have been carrying out increasingly brutal raids throughout the country. they come in the night firing stun grenades and live rounds. soldiers and police roaming residential neighborhoods shooting into buildings smashing property as they pass to some these are detention squads seizing protest leaders politicians and civil servants dragged away to an uncertain fate elsewhere they're cleaning up peeling stickers of the coup leader general min onli off the road but for those watching from behind twitching curtains it's clear they have one main goal to intimidate. the yangon resident who filmed this told al-jazeera that 40 armed soldiers and police have been searching houses for members

of the national league for democracy or in. the whole of our neighborhood in shock today is frightened we can't sleep at night in case they come back but the protesters have some mind games to play too in many areas clothes lines of women's skirts so long cheeses then and underwear and now hanging overhead playing on the superstitions of the soldiers and police and the mayor. and i the reason why we hang with lunges across the street is that we have the traditional belief that if we pass underneath a laundry we might lose our luck the younger generation nowadays doesn't believe it anymore but the soldiers still do and it's their weakness so we might gain more time to run if they come towards us. against the security services these obstacles are more effective than barricades or barbed wire the just the sun sets another sad ritual in modern. rituals for those who died on the streets in the cities of

yangon mandalay dar way and elsewhere the candles burned to commemorate a growing list of names until the darkness and the security services claim the streets once more toni ching al-jazeera now the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has launched a number of airstrikes on the capital sanaa fighter jets are reportedly targeting military compounds belonging to the rebels but a residential area has also been hit and there are reports of casualties earlier saudi arabia said that he is that fired a missile and a number of drones targeting an oil facility and civilian areas in the kingdom they were intercepted and destroyed well that's now across to muhammad in sana for us just how significant are these attacks are we seeing a renewed escalation here. son i was witness to witness today a moment ago seclusion. defy the military compound to the west of the capital sun

are. this is an indication that the war is going towards a more intense between both sorry it's. a very of their so that is told sort. columns of 1st small guy was still raising up from the military compound the civilians in nearby the military compound had been frightened by the bombardment. there's also some kind of for this collision between both sides as you mentioned also the hoses have heads the saudi targets triangle to hit saudi targets but the these missiles and those have been intercepted by saudi defenses so far the war is doing you know it is going through. the hope these are the men to continue their. their advance and to towards the city you were the i

believe that we would. i apologize there we appear to have lost mohamed will bring you all the latest there from that conflict as we get it now moving on and anger over the u.k.'s breck's it deal with the e.u. could spill over into protests and possible violence according to one leading opponent people in northern ireland if you want to remain part of the u.k. say the deal has driven a wedge between them and the rest of the country john howard explains from belfast . in communities still divided protestant unionists from catholic nationalist the past is hard to shake off even though we have a peace process here it's probably more of a negative piece of those days or a take and. it's not a part of the case because they still have grills in their windows if they're still there still are security zation around here community activists on both sides witnessed regular confrontations between young people who weren't even born when the good friday agreement brought peace to northern ireland in the 1998 has kind of

frog back all that sort of old memories of traumatic times where that was a constant here as well and it is unfortunate that this is passed to another generation of young people who are basically going out and going out of their way to attack other communities the other community some fear that a fragile peace could falter with tensions raised further by post breaks it customs checks between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. under the so-called northern ireland protocol for unionists it's a stake through the heart of what they stand for causing loyalist paramilitary groups to withdraw their support for the good friday agreement any major decision affecting the north in our community hard to have the consent of both communities in the case of this protocol a fact just being given just to the national nationalist side of the agreement in other words there has been broader respect that this should not be hard for them on

the island of ireland but equally there cannot be a hard border oregan entry border between north and island and the rest of our own country some players anathema to you know some so how much of a threat is there to peace in northern ireland well observers including the police force don't believe there are many among the former paramilitaries who want a return to violence but there's no denying that unionists and therefore harder line lower. lists have been badly let down by the briggs it negotiations and there's very real anger about the feelings that loyalist activists warn shouldn't be overlooked if the concerns of young loyalists in the concerns of the way the unions community are persistently ignored then what's going to happen is the doubt anger is going to have nowhere to go and when you have all this pent up anger and even awarded to the act and then you end of a the interest territory and once once that genie gets out of the bottle it's extraordinarily difficult to put to put it back in again and that's

a concern the good friday agreement is underpinned by public support and it will likely stand regardless of the loyalists move but as long as there remains no alternative to a sea border between northern ireland and great britain their anger will grow threatening to spill over into something worse during a whole al-jazeera belfast it is now time for the weather his efforts. hello there we've got a lovely plume of warm weather across north america now just coming right out of the deep south up across the plains and just pushing up into the central part of kind of into minutes hober actually can see the the southerly winds that are coming in here and that's been lifting those temperatures up to what 11 celsius there in winnipeg still a little sod over towards the northeast for a sunday afternoon temperatures no higher than 4 degrees celsius but it's a warming trend as we go through the next couple days 6 ounces in new york by monday and we could touch 14 as we go on into cheese i said lots of pleasant

sunshine also fine and dry weather coming through over the next day or so for monday does look like a lousy draw day north of the border we have some snow just pulling out of ontario into quebec making its way further east was we see that drifting off as we go on into a choose they clear skies coming in behind but they get a little bank of snow just making its way through the mountains day snow in place through the prairie's and easing over towards that eastern side of canada meanwhile some wet and windy weather just rattling into the west coast of the u.s. the snow coming in over the higher ground little bit of wet weather meanwhile into southern parts of mexico over the next cubicle to see some of that wet weather as well showers through the great french it is but dry for the east. well still ahead here on al-jazeera schools in england get ready to reopen but with caution. trayvon because catholics wear black and protest at the lack of justice for the victims of the $29000.00 easter bombings. and sport on you know back on top of the german

football league all that action coming up later this year sounds. jumped into the story there is a lot going on in this one julia not global community when i talk of all the misinformation i think we don't want afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the 2 could be part of today's discussion this dream on out is their. hard work to al-jazeera english since its launch as a principal presenter and as a correspondent with any breaking news story in the world to hear from those people who would normally not get the voices heard on the international news channel one they would all be very proud all was when we covered the whole earthquake the 25th

to a terrible not sure design stuff and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be there to tell the people story was very important at the time. well again i'm a saucy attainder that's remind you about top stories here the salad the noir of iranian british citizen thousands of says she's been freed in iran that's according to the iranian website and to that the charity worker was arrested back in 2016 for plotting against the iranian government charges she has always denied. pope francis on the 3rd day of his 1st visit to iraq has been sending

a message of hope healing and unity to the victims of war he'll very soon celebrate mass with thousands of worship is there a bill. in the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has launched a number of airstrikes on the capital sanaa fighter jets are reportedly targeting military compounds belonging to the rebels but a residential area has also been hit and there are reports of casualties. well now china says exports have grown to the highest level in more than 2 decades signaling a continuing rebound of the economy 1st hit by the coronavirus pandemic the generator february the january to february period saw a 60.6 percent increase compared to just a year earlier imports also rose by 22 percent and tonics and textiles such as mosques and other personal protective equipment all contributed to higher than expected shipments the latest figures are

a stark contrast to that same period last year that saw a 17 percent for in exports that was during lockdowns after the 1st recorded in 1000 outbreak and. what ali and i spoke to done one she's chief economist for one thing bank in china in shanghai and she says china's growth in exports is because manufacturing elsewhere has not yet recovered. this year's situation is very much a continuation or last year a since most countries manufacturing capacity are still not back to normal yet and i last year about 20 percent of china's exports were code related and this year at least in the 1st 2 months i think the number will be rather to the similar and for the rest of that support i think it's still mostly about trying exiting us as a ts and other industrial inputs the market consensus now for 2021 growth is 8.3 percent that's significantly higher but at the same time we also heard from n.p.c. that the fiscal policy anemometer policies are both more conservative than last

year so combine all those information my conclusion is that chinese government mint is not trying to spur growth and they want to contain financial risks and other economic risk for their personal growth and so this year i don't think we'll see much of a monitor expansion or targeted stimulus one key message from the n.p.c. is that china would absolutely stick to discover reliance strategy in its 45 year plan so a lot more a lot more of the resources will be shifted to research science and technology and that means when it comes to the u.s. china's dependence on u.s. technology support will be lower than before but at the same time the u.s. traded dependence on china regarding regarding to industrial impose and other materials were not necessary to go down so in a way i think the global reliance on china has been increasing not decreasing and

in china u.s. competition will continue. well nearly $7000000.00 students are expected to return to class in england on monday in the u.k. as a 1st stage out of coronavirus lockdown parents and teachers have spoken of their relief about returning after more than 2 months of disruption but it's still going to be a long way from normal paul brennan reports from a primary school in the town of working preparing for. it's been a long hard winter in the u.k.'s education system but the bombers are going up and the students are going back a whole school see the junior school friends and classmates who've been separated since the start of january all ready to be reunited again and right bill a bit strange seeing all my school friends again because i mean i haven't seen him in night 6 we and i most of it in pretty excited to see them again and i'm going forward to gain back to for no more seen school in the movie. more flies because we have will have more people in the classroom and it's going to

be. it's going to be more exciting many parents are just as excited this is what we're waiting for honestly it's all the time my husband he's working on our day sell everything he's on my child there so i'm really glad they coming back to school is that good for the future because it's not but their place their school you know and that for education so is amazing here i think through just tied to emotionally exhausted and we're on our last little not at all battery of kind of of energy so looking forward to getting back to normal so if i had to make a lot of changes to the school mrs wand had teachers here has been finalizing her reopening plan so every class 3 house new equipment senate to make sure the children are safe and secure there's been classes run throughout lockdown for the children of the workers such as health care staff but more than 80 percent of the school's pupils have been absent since january the 5th these empty classrooms are

going to suddenly fill again for what promises to be an overwhelming return children need to be happy and settled and for some children especially this last bit of luck it's been really tough they've been stuck inside they haven't happened or contact with white or friends and family so i think it's going to be quite difficult for those children to come back and reintegrate into school but we've got lots of things in place for them. in scotland or wales children won't all return to full time schooling until after easter another month from now but in england nearly $7000000.00 pupils are returning on mass the u.k. government has opted for a big bang return to school bringing all the children back on the same date subject to the school's ability to conduct tests but teaching unions have expressed concerns well you know. minister resisted calls for children to go back after the febrile half term and the extra 2 weeks of closure has allowed the u.k.'s 7 day

average to drop from $12000.00 new cases a day to just 6 and a half 1000 a day but amid all the excitement of friends reunited at the school gates the government's scientific advisors face a nervous wait to see what impact the school's reopening will have on that crucial infection data paul brennan al-jazeera woking well u.s. president joe biden has achieved his 1st major legislative victory the senate has passed a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill by the narrowest of margins the fulfillment of biden's campaign promise will provide one off payments wrath $1400.00 to most americans bill now goes back to the democratically controlled house for a preview of my counterparts from washington d.c. bill as amended is just. the full was finally passed in the process of vote a rama it was the longest senate vote in recent memory approval coming more than 24

hours after the role of members was called this bill will deliver more help to more people than anything the federal government has done in decades we could all work together. but our democratic colleagues voted as. a top priority one pandemic relief it was their washer and wish wish. the whole process began as it would largely continue with the deciding vote by the vice president kaamelott harras to accept the board would debate breaking a 5050 dead log along party lines. the 1st major delay was among democrats with senator joe manchin holding out for more than 10 hours before reaching a compromise to president biden on unemployment payments i asked at republican insistence the whole ball was read out in the chamber a highly unusual measure that in itself took some 11 hours and then came dozens of

amendments introduced by republicans he's the vice president's vote not needed many as a republican senator from alaska had to return home for a family funeral or not agree to the amendments were rejected by 30 votes to 49 on torsionally my friends on the other side have used the link tactics after the link tactics obstruction of structured obstruction some senators raising the issues as part of the abstraction it should taxpayer money be set $1400.00 to every illegal alien in america provoking a heated response the statement of the senator from texas is just playing force force let me be clear the ball will go back to the house for approval and president biden is likely to get his big tree when i was elected i said really get the government out of the business of battle you know on twitter and back in the

business of delivery for the american people making a difference in their lives could be every one achieves a fighting chance but made very clear is that any legislative process depends on a razor thin majority one that could be threatened should any single democratic senator go against the party line my kind of al-jazeera washington. well police in sweden have dispersed hundreds of demonstrators holding an anti lockdown protest in stockholm what r.t. say the rally was illegal as large gatherings a band undercurrent of our sister actions no more than 8 people are allowed to meet protesters there are demanding that measures be. well polls have closed in switzerland looking at a controversial vote on whether to ban face coverings and public how the law doesn't mention islam specifically but it is known locally as the back

a bad it's backed by the right wing swiss people's party who say veils are a symbol of quote extreme islam opponents say the ban which includes exceptions for health and cold weather islamophobia and an attack on personal freedoms of more on this we can speak on the restaurant as an essay he's a coordinator at the center for research on religion at the university of new sound and he joins us now from there andreas i last year you yourself conducted a survey to try to work out just how many women actually wear full facial coverings so how many do. we found though that it must be around 30 women to be exact we approached the figures in the muslim field we asked them home in the movies women do you know personally or identifiable and we ended up with a stand between 21 and 37 and so all these women are wearing. gloves when they go out but there are no brokers in switzerland at all so already

the name of the initiative is somewhat misleading and just to b.k. andreas that's not percentages right that's between something like 21 and 37 people individual people that this law would potentially affect in terms of make ups but i see from projections today this is going to likely pass and back in 2009 there was also a law passed banning the construction of minarets on mosques what is behind this public sentiment and in switzerland. you know a very is a committee behind both initiatives a committee that wants to stop islam is asian in switzerland as they call it and that's why we can consider this 2nd initiative muslim as well as the 1st one. of the it doesn't have this explicitly mention islam and it also pretends to target hooliganism and. some demonstrations. but the dog that

is mainly. in the muslim community i would say. and the initiative does not draw a clear line between what they term big stream islam of liberal or moderate islam and so this is one of the problematics of this initiative undress i know face covering battles that we've seen affronts belgium and the netherlands most recently they all lead to increased discrimination and violence there especially when it came to muslim women j. believe that that's a dangerous what's renter. i do not think that there will be much change in life circumstances in switzerland except for these 30 women some of whom consider emigrating in fact. for the rest of the muslim population there not be a major change but they are asking themselves what could be next if this

muslim type of initiative goes on and that's really something which can worry more people because if the trend trend is to deter rather than to to unify the population to deepen goals and the demarkation lines which is not something society needs in times of crisis. so this is a feeling for much of the muslim population which is. bringing uneasiness about the future of course andreas to hasn't the neti there speaking to us from here sen thanks so much for being with us andreas great take your thoughts here on al-jazeera. russian and syrian government forces have carried out strikes on oil refineries in aleppo province according to the syrian of

that tree for human rights at least 4 people have died and more than 20 were injured as fires spread to almost $200.00 tankers on friday night oil installations in turkish controlled zones in aleppo have come come under attack in recent months may the moscow there nor the syrian government have claimed responsibility for the strikes all roman catholic worshippers and sri lanka are demanding justice for the victims of the 21000 easter sunday bombings there wearing black to chat on a day that religious leaders have declared that sunday the catholic church is criticizing a government report to not revealing who was behind the attacks more than 260 people died in the coordinated attack. well relations between haiti and its welfare neighbor the dominican republic have been historically difficult on the caribbean island of hispaniola now the dominican government has announced plans to build a wall between the 2 to end illegal migration anderson reports.

this neighborhood is known as little haiti it lies in santo domingo the capital of the dominican republic on the eastern half of the island of hispaniola about half a 1000000 people from haiti on the western side live here but since the pandemic they have fewer jobs especially in construction and farming many like residency permits or access to employment services and health care and now the dominican government says it will build a border wall to keep migrants from haiti out that's a little sign us in just 2 years we want to put an end to the serious problems of illegal immigration drug trafficking and the movement of stolen vehicles at achieve the protection of our territorial integrity while some people from haiti who've lost their jobs now sell whatever they can on the street tens of thousands have returned home the dominican republic is one of the fastest growing economies in latin america while its neighbor is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere much of the dominican public supports the move to increase security along the border but obviously important time to put their feet i think it should be

important because it would control migration from one country to another that there wouldn't be as many problems as they could be if the wall is built and if it's cricket dimmock hated it's been official for both countries. when border gates opened in the hub on this past friday hundreds of people from haiti were able to cross and sell an exchange goods at a border market it's one of 4 official crossings were many people's livelihoods depend on informal market trade but there are dozens of unofficial crossings along the 380 kilometer border critics say the war won't solve the underlying problems me the. measures such as increased border control should ideally be complemented by measures to promote regular and orderly migration that the international organization for migration or i.o.m. and other rights groups are calling for a humanitarian corridor for those from haiti who are in need during economic and political crises and who left that money until there is a permanent persecution we really regret that a government that claims to be

a government of change is not respecting the dignity and rights of immigrants in the dominican republic many in haiti say that despite the shared ancestry and history on the island they've long suffered persecution and they are concerned the wall will only create further division and are schapelle al-jazeera. i'm saddam has witnessed widespread anger against coronavirus restrictions this weekend one of europe's best known policies thoughts came alive where the concept attended by over a 1000 people stepped out of was among them now just a warning her report does contain flash photography. an explosion of an itchy was released after hundreds of duck trustable fance returned to the dance arena after a year of absence and with no social distancing it was just having a party again look out the to be rid of heavy drugs and if you're a barber you love it hear me leo love it if you're not hearing live.

it was so amazing i'm still alive like drilling is still my body but i love every 2nd the people went crazy so really amazing organizers divided 13 on the people in 6 different bubbles in which different rules apply with sand so they gathered data about their behavior after you want is asked to get tested afterwords but researches say the results are not needed for the experiments to work and not interested in the real infections it's it's a mess magical prediction model what we are actually doing isn't that strange because that's the best proof you can get right if it's safe or not yeah but then people really become guinea pigs and i don't think that's the idea it's it's not set. before the event and 11 people pass associate it with covert 19 they were not allowed to enter. the letter startling not in the least like there was no no. it was really not that.

similar experiments will be held in the next few weeks if successful organizers are hopeful they can reopen soon we have the eurovision song festival in may we have the euro. football tournament in june and we work want to build up the capacity step by step in order to have a summer with. hopefully a full capacity and much will depend on a possible 3rd wave of infections many in the netherlands have urged the government to ease the lockdown which is one of the strictest in the region not. stu's day an explosion took place at one of the testing facilities police called it an attack but with infection still high and night curfew remains in place. the future now. to be honest i hope not i don't really want to go back to normal but if this is necessary why not for at least 1300 people life out

a little bit like normal again but however wellcome it was shortly after a few hours on the dance floor they went back into lockdown step classroom al-jazeera and. while still ahead here on al-jazeera and sports this english golfer is closing in on a long lived you title details with after the break. frank assessments should we be following bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on our. march on al-jazeera studio b. unscripted brings you 2 special guests in conversation exploring ideas and finding common solutions 10 years on from the tsunami that struck japan al-jazeera revisits

the people most affected by the disaster football grapplers eric cantor presented you see reason about iconic players whose influence has been as great off the page as on its israel's 4th election in 2 years after the unity government's failure to pass a national budget upfront smocked lamont hill cuts through the ad lines to challenge conventional wisdom. match on al-jazeera. welcome back it's not time to support thank you very much mr voting is underway in the presidential election of spanish football club barcelona over 100000 barcelona

members that have the chance to cast their ballots saw forward misty has already voted the results could have a big impact on his future at the club there are 3 candidates for. barcelona president. viktor fanta and tony fix up who has the on the clubs a board however winds will be tarred with taking the club forward despite exceeding $1000000000.00. dollar study out. these are the most important elections in the history of our scientists and they make bar some more than a club with voting i believe that everybody has all the fans including myself we all want to take part in this and have members come to vote because that makes us more than a club that i. think is behind closed doors contributed to after tax losses of $115000000.00 for the 292020 financial year they've also spent $492000000.00 on players over the past 2 seasons that's $146000000.00

more than they have earned from player transfers well then there's according to recently he's on a contract worth $167000000.00 per year deal and in june and he could leave for free. and on monday former president josep. was arrested as part of a corruption investigation well we've been speaking to school finance analyst. sheffield hallam university who believes the new president will have some room to maneuver despite the financial challenges. there's no longer an in financial issues here with cost alone of the stretch back you know over the course of a number of years debt in itself is not necessarily a bad thing of course but it takes not being able to service that debt in and as it falls here when i think the short term aspect of the debt you know around 400000000 of that is used you. mention the pandemic and bosler ical that has been hit harder

than some because of the pandemic if you look at the museum alone and international tourism brings them in $58000000.00 euros per year and they're estimating 200000000 euros lost revenue because of the pandemic and funds not being ground so there are this is a kind of perfect storm also i don't know i think barcelona can afford to keep leno messy i don't think that's. potentially an issue i think the terms of the greenman will will be key here obviously we know that the current squad have taken a pay cut we know that barcelona's wages are $3.00 quarters of their revenue so about 75 percent wages to turnover is a concern i think the interesting thing with messi and one of the one of the presidential candidates has said this is that he he makes 08 percent of boss alone as cost base but he generates them around 30 percent of their revenue so it is in the fact that here with a little messier not around he's overall value to barcelona but i think you know from a wages perspective of course he's the biggest and so moving somebody like him on

and off the wage bill would be a weight loss but i don't think any of the kind that is really you know want to do like even though the uniqueness of messi. south african billionaire parties much happiness said to become the new president of the african football following the withdrawal of other candidates from the race before contestants have reached a deal which will see them a stepping aside to take other positions in the organization which up it will succeed who has been bad for 5 years over governance issues the election takes place in rabat next friday his elevation is expected to be formally announced i don't know. if you realize that the message that you are sending today to the whole of africa and to the entire world. he's an incredibly strong message. by munich have gone back to the top of the

bundesliga after a thrilling win over dortmund top men went to our place in this game and thanks once again to holland it 20 year old norwegians going twice inside the 1st 10 minutes is so so for the season now stands at $29.00 but by and have their own goal scoring master properties and replied with 2 goals of his own before half time for the world and european champions in the 2nd half holland went off with an ankle injury by a wrapped up to win. on target and live in dosti completed his hat trick his team are 2 points clear of sick at the top of the table. difficult harvey we had this game under control and we know it ok come on boys we have to try to score the other goal because we want to get 3 points and we did so i think that was something special and show everyone that we we want to stay on the

1st place peterkin bit of a has won the qatar open title for the 2nd time in her career it took the czech player barely an hour to be. in the doha final the 2 time wimbledon champion dropped just 3 games against her spanish opponent give it to wrapping up a straight sets victory 6261 to claim her 28th career title but it's her 1st tournament when in almost 2 years. the u.s. wood has taken a one shot leave going into the final round of the arnold palmer invitational in florida englishman is chasing his 3rd p.g.a. tour title and 1st since 2010 he carded the 7 under $65.00 on a low scoring day at bay hill to move to 11 on. $2800.00 champion roy mcelroy is 4 off the lead after a round of $72.00. and

that's all his fault for mandy woodson we'll have more for you later on but for now it's back to the 1000 francs a month santa well that's it for this news hour but don't go away i'll be back and just. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish and the state line becomes the default the media in any way to looking for images that lead to the negatives of these days and just how did he create a nuisance makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news this covered the listening posts on a. a diplomatic feud between australia and china is threatening one of the asia pacific most successful trade partnership. when i won a speech goes forth in the middle. examining

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river is lower than your in the summer months these tiny little yellow flanks you can see fun don't look much they were around $50.00 a gram. after 5 years in custody but if you're rainy and now that means a gary radcliffe is one step closer to freedom but it's unclear when she can leave iran. hello there i'm a study of hey this is out there and.