and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done qataris welcome to our home. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes. tensions high in senegal as opposition leaders month song call is formally charged with rape the president says violence is not the answer. the death toll from a series of blasts at

a military base in equitorial guinea rises to $98.00. people define me and maurice curfew to rally against police cornering hundreds of fellow protesters in a district of young gone and the brazil courts are mel's the criminal conviction of former president. clearing the way for him to challenge shade ball so that all in next year's election. in sport never joke a rich talks to al-jazeera about his record breaking spell as world number one i don't think yet fully aware of. the magnitude of this milestone he's now been on top of the tennis world for 311 weeks during his career. senegal's president says the struck the violence is not the answer to. his

country's problems like his south spoke in the past hour as tensions are still running high with protesters in the streets after the opposition leader was charged with rape was once appeared in court to be formally charged before being released by the court ahead of his trial he says the allegation is politically motivated to stop him from challenging president the arrest the sparked days of violence in the capital as well as in other cities. we have to show our differences in a way other than destructive violence because whatever our political choices we are a single family and none of us can have a separate destiny from that of the senegalese nation that is an. individual and collective work orders us to work together consolidating the fundamentals and not destroying them. nothing is more important than the preservation of keeping the soul of the senegalese nation. the president speaking there but some cause

a supporter is a say they are not giving up. some of these youth will not tolerate a dictatorship anymore we are determined we are engaged and we will go all the way to the end those men song. for peace to return to our country we must take strong measures courageous measures the authorities can take you to court and pursue you through the courts without provocation without provocation they try to humiliate you and imprison the free militants of our country. well our desire is nicolas sarkozy outside the opposition's headquarters in dakar and he says there were key differences between the messages coming from the president and the opposition leader. well i think he wants to reassure the population and say that he understands understands any empathizes with those that have dropped into poverty last year due to the corona virus primarily due to the economic fallout of the

current virus pandemic he also addressed the criticism made by the opposition specifically this month sancho who argues that he is arrogant and he takes decision on decisions on his own he says that he works towards consensus addressing and also engaging in dialogue with the opposition without. by which he comes up with measures but what's interesting here is the star difference between the formal address of president mikey cells inside his palace and what has happened here at the huisman song headquarters difference in language might be solid dress the nation in french when some code addressed his supporters in wolof which is the local language the talk by most senegalese difference in tone. on some go 1st started his press conference by naming those that were killed during the protests also engaging with the security forces saying that the security forces are

at the pride of the nation he also condemned the looting and he also insisted that the importance here is the restyle blish meant of the rule of law still criticizing like you saw saying that he is illegitimate that that to that he is an arrogant attacking president might be solved personally and yet saying that politicians need to move away from personal attacks. equitorial guinea's vice president says the number of people killed in a series of massive explosions at a military base has now risen to 98 this is rescuers continue to search the rubble the blast happened in the city of baton not far from the western coast bernard smith reports. the force of the explosions appears to flattened most of the buildings in a city of a quarter of

a 1000000 people equitorial guinea's mainland coast was it was ok to look at the city of about what it is we don't know what happened everything is destroyed these people say you know some of. the negligent handling of dynamite at the military barracks was the cause of the blast according to a statement from president. bush his son and the vice president's daughter all beyond visiting the scene with his bodyguards. the defense ministry says high caliber ammunition exploded after a fire in the barracks feeling of the time many people a fate of been trapped under the rubble of collapsed homes hospitals have been overwhelmed with the wounded the health ministry has made an appeal for blood donors and volunteer health workers and the government is appealing for international help. i'm asking from your excellent sees assistance from brotherly countries international organizations to help the republic of equitorial guinea in

this lamentable situation we have. the equitorial guinea is an oil rich country which has been run by president obiang for more than 40 years critics say he and his family enjoy lavish wealth while most of the population lives in poverty the country suffering a double economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic and the fall in the price of crude oil which provides 3 quarters of state revenue. it's myth. like authorial guinea is one of africa's richest nations thanks to its oil but that wealth 1 doesn't travel far the g.d.p. of more than $8000.00 per capita is multiple that of many sub-saharan african nations and the capital malabo is for stude with new hotels and then airports built with that oil money but the money is not equally shared just 3 percent of government income is spent on health care and it's much the same for education but

theodora beyond where mad the president of more than 40 years is thought to be worth around $600000000.00 all plundered from the state 4 years ago a court seize the assets worth 100000000 dollars owned by his son in france alone well david auto is a security expert with global risk internationally joins me now by skype from abroad in nigeria search think you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera 1st of all your reaction to these dreadful explosions in we have seen the death rate jump from about 30 or so a few hours ago to now $98.00 do you expected to increase further. but this is the unprecedented disaster in terms of its enormous city with the with that these last record in a very tight area this is reminiscent of the same blast that happened in lebanon

but also the images and the video of this blast you know seems to be equivalent but also realty below to what we saw during the $911.00 attacks so it's a lot president of attack and the death toll was expected to rise because of the need for explosions that happened in your sleep in a very small country with about it's 1300000 people but takes of you know as you rightly know has a population of about a quarter of a 1000000 and for 600 people and close to have been injured it was highly expected that you know this is going to be a in massive disaster for a very small country remember this is like a triple disaster you have a corporate 19 which you know the country has to but to with it you've got if you fall in oil price and now you have an explosion in the middle of the economy capital absolutely and the president is already saying that basically it's negligence in handling the explosives what political impact do you think all of

this could have by suppose both because as you mentioned there you know relative to the population 600 injured and that's that can you know conservative number we have so far is still a relatively very high number but politically would you think the implications would be. i think the president is an octogenarian getting close to 80 he's been in power for almost 42 years and he has been complaints from human rights about the way that the government has been run remember the vice president at your door or beyond him so of it's all of the of the president and he controls the military and the defense but also the security of your ministries within the country and if there is sort of blast you know within a military barracks in quite tall macam then the blame is going to fall very squarely on the on the table of the song of the president who is also who doubles

as the vice president so if there is an enigma did you know in terms of this college or banner made to explosives then the president's son has been explained because he leads the military and he beats the security services this is an advantage which i think the opposition you know not very strong will march on and look at the the historical impact that you know it would have on the political scenario in draggin i mean it's still early days both when it comes to the investigation into what exactly happened what caused that and also unfortunately at the death toll which let me just remind the viewers as recently risen to 90 to david otto security expert speaking to us from a villager in 1000 area sir thank you thank you. victims of convicted congolese military chief of bosco and i have been awarded a record $30000000.00 in compensation by the international criminal court dugout

and that was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2000 in 1000 for murder rape and other atrocities that he committed in the democratic republic of congo from 2002 to 2310 grand that doesn't have the money to pay for reparations him self so the tribunal's own trust fund has been asked to set up and finance programs to support victims of these crimes. coming up on this news hour from london unmasking the immunised the u.s. starts to ease restrictions for those who have been vaccinated. relief and excitement as millions of children go back to school in england up for another 2 months at home and in sports we're going to hear from roger federer as he prepares to make his comeback to competitive tennis after more than a year away. from. the

u.n. human rights chief is urging me and morris police to allow protesters cornered in the elgon to leave safely and without the prices thousands more have defied the nationwide nighttime curfew taking to the streets to express their anger around $200.00 people are still trapped by riot police and the protesters are trying to divert the attention of the police the u.n. special envoy for me and maher has demanded that the protestors be released and then and to quote terror tactics cathy a lopez holder yan has the latest now on the day's protests. back on the streets defying a curfew in myanmar this protest against the military began like others with people marching in the streets of me. but moments later. at least 3 people were shot dead by security forces witnesses say several people

were then hit by gunfire from nearby buildings it's. exactly right it's part of an ongoing crackdown on those who oppose the military's recent coup. the. kneeling before security forces the scout like none pleads with them to stop the violence. the government has revoked the license of at least. 5 independent media outlets there were covering the protests watch scale demonstrations have taken place every day across many cities and towns in myanmar. i 7 4 bought these some stray sions cars at a risk but i can never know your the media i want to speak out and i want us to stop being afraid i want women to join and save this movement by protesting alongside men against the military dictatorship. dozens of protesters have been killed the united nations fears more jobs will follow in

a statement and said we are deeply concerned about the fate of some $200.00 peaceful protesters including women who have been cornered by security forces and young gone in may be at risk over arrest or ill treatment. signs of resistance have followed despite arrests and violence the hanging women's clothes across the streets of myanmar may be one of the most creative lines of defense walking beneath female clothes this traditionally considered bad luck for men and many soldiers are overjoyed ing crossing the line being i mean you're to me down and as a woman from myanmar this is motivating me these garments are considered sacred so using the superstition to fight back against the military was the military denies responsibility for protestors loss of life the claims toppled leader on songs which she deserved to be pushed out last month she was elected it says a middle widespread electoral fraud but thousands of protesters disagree and say

the public outcry will continue cocktail opus of leon al-jazeera. well earlier i spoke to a protest organizer in yemen gone who we're not naming for her own safety she told us more about what's happening overnight. so as of this afternoon over 200 protesters. are trapped in a township area within our city mona fans out there are still trapped there as of 12 46 am. unfortunately what has occurred is that the military and police have closed off all streets and exits but the youth protesters would usually take meaning at that they walk past those areas they would be immediately detained and arrested therefore there chap there. now president of firms out are trying to house and protect the police and soldiers have stopped genter alas homeowners who are housing these protesters as

a result other townships such. and say fuck it are and many others are protesting in order to take the pressure off. in the hopes that if police are redirected to this town ships they will give a chance for the youth protestors to escape they are doing so well breaking the martial law curfew but we have the sentiment if you come for one of us you come for all of us we seem to have seen an escalation in violence certainly over the past week or so how would you describe the way that the tactics of the authorities have been changing. i would say that the tactics of things far more brutal and farm farm are against a large that they themselves have created. even so there we witness that they are randomly doing checkpoints for card check into our phones to see if we are posting

anything on social media related to our movements. they have to detain people as well and at random they're gone to. even tea shop they've been drinking tea on the side of the road you can be subject to being arrested what do you make of some of the actions of the international community so far in trying to rein in the military john tanian mara do you get the sense that it's had any kind of impact on the story so far it's been 36 days and things are only getting worse for us there are trying to kill us and kidnap us in the day and doing the same at night. whatever international community can do in terms of pressuring the military. we urge the international community not to acknowledge or legitimize the. military

government we need the international community to be on the side of the people. 18 protestors in thailand have been charged with sedition over anti-government rallies held last year another 3 protest leaders were indicted for defaming the monarchy and jailed pending trial next week for other activists leaders are also in jail awaiting trial thailand's pro-democracy poet or protest movement has been calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy since last year. saudi arabia is promising to take all necessary measures to protect itself after yemen's who the rebels launched more attacks on its energy facilities the latest escalation comes at a time when the u.s. administration has been trying to restart peace talks among the feuding factions. reports. more soldiers loyal to yemen's u.n. recognized president of the hardy are facing their biggest challenge in years preventing who the fighters from taking control of mareeba the province east of the

capital is which in oil and natural gas is also how does last chance to regain control of yemen. by the who these have been sending reinforcements they know the battle of bad it could decide the future of the country. further south fighting has intensified around the city of tire as government forces have launched an offensive to retake military bases controlled by elite army units moyal to the whole thiis. iran backed rebels hold ground in ties to prevent government forces from advancing to was mad if the north violence is spiraling out of control why that's going on the whole things have launched an attack targeting oil facilities in saudi arabia was allowed her to go in was say all the artillery and drone divisions were able to conduct a wide offensive in the depths of saudi arabia with 14 drones and 8 ballistic

missiles we targeted around cole in ras port and other military facilities and their mom more military sites were targeted in a syria and resigned in the strike was precise. but saudi arabia says its defenses intercepted the drone and b. sila tax which was swift the saudi coalition launched airstrikes in the capital sanaa. the escalation comes as the u.s. on void to yemen is visiting the region to rally support for and to the conflict to the land the king is hoping to bring all the parties and give diplomacy a chance but the last breakthrough in yemen was short lived in 2019 the un convinced the warring factions to agree on a ceasefire a prisoner swap and political talks on the future of the country weeks later the

deal collapsed and fighting has not stopped since. 0. the us state department has condemned the sunday's attack by the who these on saudi arabia and urged the armed groups to work towards a cease fire the who these in our view and in the view of our allies and partners have to demonstrate their willingness to engage in a political process they need to quite simply stop attacking and start negotiating protesters in lebanon have blocked roads in the capital as part of protests over the country's economic crisis they declared monday a day of rage using our own barriers and burning tires to close several roads linking beirut with the north and south the lebanese pound continues to fall against the u.s. dollar and there hasn't been a government in place since august. after a 3 day tour spreading messages of hope and religious unity in iraq pope francis

has flown home to the vatican a farewell ceremony was held at baghdad airport as the head of the roman catholic church departed during his trip pope francis the fide security concerns with visits to regions devastated by i saw where he met members of one of the world's most persecuted christian communities at his last mass before returning to rome pope francis said iraq will always remain with me in my heart. brazil's former president of the easy now to the sea has had his criminal convictions an old by a supreme court judge according to court documents the ruling restores his political rights ahead of the elections set for 2022 govern latin america's largest economy between 20032011 he was convicted of a graft allegations in 2018 and then released in late 2019 while monica. live in the area vision for us so what reaction has been there in brazil to this

news. well brazil is still a very divided country we must remember that both had both the nat'l of the current president right where your president was voted also in part because many people were against lula and not in favor of both the novel they saw him as the only person that could defeat rule law and so it still is a divided country and you still have the people who support the law and you can use it for both a matter of saying both you know there still. has strong ties to the left wing party the workers' party which is rule of party so it is divided and this is a polarization that had will affect 21 the next year's elections 202022 i mean you mention that but i wonder how worried do you think whole scenario will

be by the fact that now can can run again. i don't know if he will he is worried i do think that it does help him in a way because he was losing popularity he was an unknown person to most resigns until the 2018 elections and he came as the person with a very strong anti little discourse now now there was no public enemy anymore and he had just told that 19 to fight in brazil has not done well at all who has downplayed the virus of brazil is that has the 2nd world's 2nd largest number of kobe banking related deaths since popularity is being affected and he still didn't do didn't. bring forward the economic reforms that market friendly reforms that he had promised in the campaign because of the 1000 well now

he has this enemy again so he it's it divides it and they can make it can help him more than. work against him although polls show that a recent poll shows that little would have more support and in the next year's elections than both sun out of money. thank you. also more still to come in this hour including. a meatball in london where the british royal family remains deafening least silent following that bombshell interview with a jew conduct just of sussex aka aria make it. and millions of people have lost their jobs during the pandemic but in the u.s. and many of the countries why have most of them women. and in sports find out how tiger woods is still having an impact on the golf course the spike hospital.

however got something of a change in the weather on the way across a europe over the next couple of days we are going to see little area a cloud some of the rough weather pushing in as we go on into the next few days some wet and windy weather piling in across the british isles and the slot is where coastal western parts of europe have the moment we do still have areas of high pressure loss the inches but the fading away that is squeezed out of the way things have been settled and fine for the most part and also as an all faced we have this weather system making its way further south what's in this was cooler at sucking behind monist on the top temperature in moscow those that moller air that whets and windy weather streaming in across western parts of europe as you go on through choose day we'll see some very heavy rain and some very strong winds damaging winds

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a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera senegal's president says the struck the violence is not the answer to his country's problems tensions continue to run high with protesters back on the streets after the opposition leader of was charged with rape equitorial guinea's vice president says the number of people killed in a series of massive explosions at a military base has now risen to 98 as rescuers continue to search through the rubble and the u.n. human rights chief is urging me and marse police to allow $200.00 protesters cornered in yemen go on to leave safely and without reprisals other protesters have defied the nationwide curfew to express their anger at the siege another 3 people were killed in protests on. the by the administration says americans who've been fully vaccinated can meet other people indoors without masks and the gallagher is in miami with more on this

sandy what else do we know. well these guidelines from the c.d.c. have been long awaited we're about 30 plus 1000000 people being vaccinated in this nation that's around 10 percent of the population nowhere near the 40 percent that we need for herd immunity but if you are a grandparent in this country and you have been fully vaccinated this will be very welcome news it means in essence that you can visit your children and your grandchildren even if they haven't been vaccinated as long as it's in an indoor space there are some carriers so they are telling people that have been vaccinated they need to continue to social distance and wear their masks while in public and there are a few unknowns here they don't know if people who have been vaccinated can still act to spread is themselves they don't know what the vaccinations will do against the variations of covert 19 that are currently running rampant through this country but i think overall this guidance will be welcome by those especially over the age

of 65 who haven't been able to take visitors or visit their own children and grandchildren for almost a year all this happening is at least 2 states have wound back their mask mandates i'm talking about mississippi and arizona that's been criticized heavily by president biden who call that neanderthal behavior by the c.d.c. says we are beginning to turn a corner cautions need to be taken even with $31.00 plus 1000000 people now fully vaccinated against covert 90 can i just clarify one point when you say fully vaccinated does it mean that for the vaccines that need to win jackson's 2 doses the 2 doses have been given because of course in other countries they've opted to give more people the 1st dose and then wait as long as i guess advised often 3 months before the 2nd. yeah this get these guidelines specifically refer to people that have had both vaccines and that is what is

considered fully vaccinated of course there is a johnson and johnson vaccine now which is just one shot in the arm and you are done but i think it it is good news for people that living in long term care facilities especially in places like florida where there are many many people over the age of 65 they can now go and see their families they can't travel that restriction is still in place of certainly. the advice of the c.d.c. is not to get on airplanes and stay home as much as possible but if you're living in a state where your family is close by you can now go and see them and they gallagher with the latest there from miami in florida and as always thank you. well italy's coronavirus test told passed the 100000 mark is the government battles to contain a 3rd wave of infections it's the 7th country in the world to reach that milestone prime minister matter that id has vowed to speed up vaccinations. for all we

are all now facing a new worsening of the health emergency everyone must play their part in containing the spread of the virus but above all the government must do its part indeed it must try to do more every day the pandemic has not yet been defeated but with the exoneration of the vaccine plan we can see a way out that is not far off. and nearly $7000000.00 students have gone back to school in england as the country takes its 1st steps to loosen its latest lockdown there was a mix of relief and excitement for children definitely parents and teachers after 2 months of home schooling from ports with fierce paul brennan. this 1st step out of the u.k.'s lockdown has been eagerly anticipated by children and parents alike with high school pupils were clambering excitedly into the school bus was clearly relishing a return to the familiarity of friends and face to face learning. sites just to get

back to less. just maybe seeing my friends to see i'm very very badly about because it feels like it's been ages not seeing anyone so it's really comforting my teach them my friends it's just really great fear to see people actually have less interaction especially because i'm doing a science based object so you have to go to private schools mainly it's just the people that's the real big difference i guess u.s. defense. in scotland and wales children won't return to full time schooling for another month but in england alone nearly $7000000.00 pupils are returning on mass well i'm hoping they're going to go smoothly i'm hoping the rate stays down and schools stay open but obviously we will respond to whatever the safety message is testing is widespread and as part of their return secondary school children are being asked to have 3 target tests at school followed by an ongoing program of home testing but that is voluntary and it remains to be seen how many will opt out.

preparing. for primary schools to a year of disruption in the past 2 months of homeschooling has taken its toll on role being as well as learning attainment i think root is tied to emotionally exhausted and we're on our last little nothing all battery of kind of of energy looking forward to getting men to know. by april 12th u.k. government hopes to have non-essential shops open again but it will be a nervous wait to see whether the data will allow that allowing $7000000.00 children to mix and mingle again even within the constraints of year group bubbles will inevitably lead to an increase in infection the crucial question for the government and its scientific advisors is whether that increase can be managed well enough to allow the next steps out of lockdown to proceed as timetables paul brennan al-jazeera portsmouth syria's president bashar al assad and his wife asma have tested positive for corona virus both show minor symptoms and are reportedly

in good health and working at home syria has had more than 50000 cases and 1000 confirmed deaths from the virus but testing capabilities are limited in the war torn nation so actual numbers are thought to be much higher and made a recent surge of infections. the trial of a white police officer for the death of george floyd has been delayed at the last minute jury selection was you to start on monday for the trial of their at chauvet in the case which sparked widespread protests last year but a higher court in the u.s. state of minnesota ordered the judge to reconsider our 3rd degree murder charge against the former officer thousands of people have marched in the city of minneapolis the one thing justice for george floyd john hendren is outside the court and explains what's behind that the leg. let me 1st set the scene if i may because you know how raucous it got here over the summer when this incident

happened. you could see a few stragglers over there there were about 100 protesters but because it's just jury selection we are not seeing the huge amounts of people that i expect we will see during the trial and possibly after the verdict in this case so what's happened is they were supposed to begin jury selection this morning and what happened was the judge said he was going to consider as he is required to do to a recent appeals court decision whether a 3rd degree murder charge is appropriate now here's how it works in the state of minnesota 1st degree is intentional premeditated murder that is not being charged here 2nd degree murder is intentional but not premeditated and the idea in this case would be that when this police officer derrick children put his knee on george floyd's neck for over 9 minutes that he intended to kill him this could take one day might take a few days they might take evidence on whether this is a 3rd degree charge with the defense derek chauvinists lawyers they say they don't

want that charge and essentially what the prosecutors are doing here is giving themselves one more opportunity to convict derek children and that's something he doesn't want his lawyers seem to be going for all or nothing. the british royal family is under mounting scrutiny following oprah winfrey's explosive interview with prince harry and making mochel the duchess of sussex accused of oil family you've perpetuating false odes about her and raise the specter of racism at the palace and he reports from london. i just didn't want to be alive anymore the pressure cooker of palace life push make an markel to the brink of contemplating suicide in a candid interview with the queen of chat oprah winfrey meghan also accused the royals nickname the firm of spreading lies about her i don't know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating

falsehoods about us and when meghan was pregnant she said there were questions about her son's color macon's mother is black and her father white so we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security it's not going to give in a title. and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born to feel really like down but also in the spotlight prince harry's relationship with his father prince charles and what i was seeing was history repeating itself but more perhaps or definitely far more dangerous because then you add race and you add social media and there were echoes of the $995.00 t.v. tell all with prince harry's mother princess diana when she revealed details about her prince charles's marital affairs and her mental health crisis diana died in a car crash in 1997 the sad thing is that royalty is diminished

by. coming down into the gutter and having a public fight it benefits from keeping a distance from common argument and unfortunately neither side is going to come out of this particularly well and indeed i think we can assume fairly safely that there are faults on both sides ahead of the interview the palace launched a formal investigation into allegations make a mark or bullied her former aides something she strongly denies the family feud has led to a frenzy of claims and counterclaims in the tabloid media and social media are separated into 2 rival camps in the u.k. united states to make this team monarchy. the police has been accused of double standards for investigating the bullying claims but not prince andrew's ties with convicted sex offender geoffrey epstein the rose meanwhile have been focusing their attention on commonwealth day celebrations with

a message of unity from queen elizabeth the 94 year old monica was praised by how you and meghan as a warm and caring grandmother but the overall picture painted by the 1st black member of the royal family is an institution quickly out of touch with modern attitudes and a hostile media bent on taking meghan down the barker al-jazeera london. its international women's day and around the world there have been protests against inequality and violence against women in central istanbul women demanded more stringent laws to protect women from domestic violence it comes after a video appearing to show a man these things ex-wife on the street caused outrage president has announced a parliamentary commission to look specifically at violence against women. well women are currently marking the day across latin america we have correspondents at events in chile and argentina 1st let's go to argentina and speak that there is

a bull in buenos aires so what specific aspects of the many problems that women still face in argentina are being focused on the by the demonstrators behind. her work here right in front of argentina's congress and there's thousands and thousands of people that have come here in spite of the fund demick in spite of covert 19 because they say that there is an enormous problem in this country with the amount of time aside that are happening women rights groups are denouncing that women is killed in argentina every day and a half they say that all are alive at least 50 women have been killed what by their partners in 2021 and that's why many of the people here are you carrying this handkerchief but you can see here it's a violent handkerchief that's certain to me when i'm in office or not one less referring to the amount of women that have been killed in argentina last december

this country this south american country legalized abortion a women's rights group were already saying that around 500000 regular abortions were happening in argentina that thousands of women were hospitalized because the food and that's why abortion became legal in argentina this was a huge an enormous victory for women rights movement but what they're saying now is that much more needs to be done in this country and that's why they're demanding gender violence and marriage and see they say that that's what's necessary in argentina in order to save women's lives principle with the latest of what designers there is a think you were let's go to our latin america the tour lucien newman she joins us now from santiago in chile is so in the c.l. when it comes to chile and i guess across the. the region is it domestic violence or violence against women that's also the main focus. it's one

of the main focuses here in chile barbara there's also the issue of abortion unlike in argentina women in chile did not have a right to free. and open abortion without any particular cause only to get in chile in the case of rape or if the mother's life is in danger but guess feminism femen femicide some sorry have to have jumped to a normal sleep in chile as in the rest of latin american fact that a recent u.n. report shows that this is the region of the world with the highest number of senate sides per capita of anywhere in the world and so women here are asking for legislation to finally. come to terms with that the women's movement in chile has become very strong very influential and so women here have been celebrating the fact that there's going to be a new constitution and the 50 percent of the delegates to that constituent assembly will be women and that was that was something that being one it was

a victory one from the pressure that women have been exerting both on the streets and in congress you can see that women are still arriving here but there are thousands and thousands more ahead of me they were sent scurrying by water cannon and tear gas riot police came in and tried to disperse the crowd because of the pandemic this is not a legal demonstration we don't know exactly what happened but a lot of women with babies and children had to run forward but they're starting to come back at this hour and we assume that this march or the disk activity will continue what well until almost curfew time here barbara see when there are less in america editor with the latest there from santiago to c.s. thank you. well the u.s. secretary of state and the 1st lady of all nude women from ground in 13 other countries with the international women of color. ward jill biden said nearly 2 dozen women made an intentional decision to persist and demand justice despite

their fear anthony blinken also presented an honorary award to to a group of 7 afghan women who were assassinated in 2020. and us vice president kamala harris has called the number of women being driven out of work during the pandemic and national emergency and she says the issue could impact the economic recovery chris says salumi takes a closer look. linda hamis hold her management skills as the chief operating officer of a multinational consulting firm i want to put my name here in valentinian there but these days she's spending more time in her backyard than the boardroom she left the job in the early days of the pandemic to care for her children now $4.00 and $6.00 my mindset was how to patch together and enough hours in the day so i would get up early and i would start working around 6 or 630 sometimes she became one of 2 and a half 1000000 women to leave the workforce in the last 12 months compared to 1000000 men my husband and i had to make

a choice right you know which one of us is going to be at home with the girls and has not there was no other choice when schools in care facilities closed women began leaving the workforce in droves some like those in the service industry who were laid off had no choice others did what they thought was best for their family but the impact on the economy has been profound what some have labeled a she session nicole mason chief executive of the institute for women's policy research came up with the term women of color have been just personally impacted mainly because they're overrepresented in the service sectors while men and women are now returning to the workforce mason says many women are working fewer hours for less pay while others have stopped looking for jobs altogether when we talk about you know working women and mothers or general who are often responsible for the majority of your responsibilities and naomi's lack of job here and all those

years have had a devastating impact on working working women with only about a quarter of the nation's children in school full time the worry is gains made by women in the workforce will be lost hamma says hoping the last year will inspire systemic changes like flexible work schedules and better childcare options it's really an economic issue it's a societal issue it's a business issue it's not one it's a shell she herself is exploring some promising new job opportunities but like many mothers is waiting to commit to anything full time christian salumi al-jazeera new york. well across russia volunteers have been handing out flowers to women to celebrate march the 8th even the army has been getting in on the action marking that they in its own way with a passion force but activists say the government has failed russian women when it comes to protecting them from domestic violence as well as giving the other rights . i see. in practice women face violence they are not protected from

violence the lure on protection against domestic violence is not passed in the state duma women face discrimination when getting a job this is leighton discrimination associated with reproductive pressure and as a result discrimination in admission to work. still ahead in this news hour we speak to the tennis world number one about a history making and a controversial few months in his career that's coming up in sports.

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now here is and the with this point thank you so much barbara love a joke of it has told al jazeera he feels the best this still to come in his career the 33 year old has just broken roger federer as record for most weeks as world number one of a survey has been out celebrating that achievement in belgrade there's been some controversial moments in the last few months as well joke of it was heavily criticized for organizing a tournament in the balkans last year which had to be cancelled after some players tested positive for coverage 93rd although the serbian has been on top of the world rankings and he's held the number one spot for 311 weeks during his career he's been talking to algeciras son hamish well of all you see very happy and you know this is a huge milestone in achievement not just for myself or my family or it's also people in my life the people that have you know supported me all the way through

my beginnings since beginnings of my professional career and my life allow me to you know obviously play this or that i truly love and have a lot of wonderful moments traveling around the world and and achieving my realizing my dreams or i don't think yet fully aware of. the magnitude of all of this milestone let's say if you keep on winning more grand slams does that prove that you are better than what the federer and rafael nadal. does it doesn't prove anything really to me because to me to me the only proves that i am able to to. you know way meet my own desires and my own expectations it's been a very tough 12 months with some negative press around the edge yet or any regrets over the way it was worked out. i don't have an issue to say that i'm floored

that you know i make mistakes when i make a mistake i do say i made a mistake. of course apologized for down and i'm want to try to learn a lesson from it i think the only really mistake that was done during the tour was was that closing celebration party after they was done here in belgrade other than that i i don't think there was any mistake that was made i don't think it's you know with done anything wrong in contrary we you know we tried through those events to. do to share with people passion and love for this or roger federer says he's keeping expectations relatively low ahead of his comeback the 39 year old is making his return at the cats are open 20 time a grand slam champion has had 2 knee operations and hasn't played competitively now for more than a year and he has been given a pint the 2nd round in doha he'll face either britain's dan evans or jeremy

shockey of france i'm really curious to find out how it's going to go in a. mazing amount of question marks so rounding you know my comeback for me personally and i don't know what to expect i know that expectations from my side are extremely low and i'm just very happy that i'm playing a term again regardless of the outcome of this event. no football official accused of using a racist term during a champions league game last year has been suspended and so the end of the season for inappropriate behavior remain in sebastian colchester q house though being cleared of racism price and your man in eastern he stumbled bisection here players walked off the pitch in protest during the match in december it was claimed culture ask you had used a racist sermon when referring to this actually his assistant coach pierre weber and the european club association which represents the consonance leading teams says it's very close to officially backing your wife his plans for

a new look champions league your wife a boss on the cheffing wants to reboot the competition in 2024 and have $36.00 teams playing a minimum of 10 games each at the moment the final $32.00 only guarantee to take part in 6 games it will mean fans will get see $100.00 more champions league matches and of course clubs or receive even more ticket revenue and television cash and any such agreement would end speculation about clubs breaking away from european football's governing body to start their own super league i would say. a week everything should be. pretty much. all the balls grow them chaffering and. all the british and all's going to be going for. and bryson the shambo said a supportive text message from tiger woods inspired him to victory at the arnold palmer invitational in florida woods is still in hospital recovering from that car

crash. shots live that's helped to shown by win the tournament the 15th time major winner got in touch with him just ahead of the final round the reigning u.s. open champion going on so win this title by a single shots i you know my heart has been heavy with tiger and what's been going on with him in just kept telling myself you know it's not how many times you get kicked down it's about how many times you get picked back up and you keep going and that's what i surely did out there today i get those high scores looking for now let's get back to barbara in london. andy thank you so much and that is it for this news hour don't go away though i'm going to be back in just a few minutes of our the bozo's.

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the and the but i have. tensions high in senegal as opposition leader it was months song co is formally charged with rape the president says violence is not the answer. the law. alone barbara sever you watching our jazeera live from london also coming up the death toll from a series of blasts at a military base in equitorial guinea rises to 19.