some showers that coming into jamaica will see that system just knocking a little further north woods as we go on through wednesday so the what's where the easing up towards the bahamas for the east and looking fine dry sunny and warm. at ways. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and. coming up in the next 60 minutes cleared of corruption the former brazilian president lula da silva is now free to make a possible return to politics catalan separatist leaders including carlos are stripped of immunity from prosecution in spain a shot in the arm in the u.s.

battle against coronavirus fully vaccinated people can soon mix and mingle indoors . and the global shortage of microchips highlights how a monopoly on production is hurting high tech industries around the world. i don't just image with the sport more reports of japan so just overseas fans won't be able to attend the olympics this year and of the. council in tokyo because of the courage of ours pandemic. hello welcome to the news hour brazil's former president who is in austria lula da silva is poised for a political comeback a supreme court judge has thrown out his conviction on corruption charges the decision restores his right to return for it to run for office in next year's

presidential election and he's expected to speak later today we'll bring that to you live 1st begins our coverage with this report from rio de janeiro. recently. i was leading the polls and $28.00 team the left wing political leader would have probably been elected brazil's president for the 3rd time had not been convicted on corruption charges and banned from running now less back in the political scene as the country faces its worst moment in the cool than 1000 pandemic and he poses a serious threat to right wing president jalal so narrow in next year's elections well it's good news that comes at the right time because the political situation in the country is so dire to the market here i would not believe a politician who has already been arrested for corruption and i don't think lula is the right person to run our country. has always said that he was wrongly convicted

and imprisoned he says the bribery money laundering in corruption charges were part of a scheme to strip him of his political rights after years of judicial battle a supreme court judge on monday a null licken fiction's against. the decision has nothing to do with the lolas innocence or guilt the supreme court judge argued that the former president had been tried in the southern city of course when he should have been tried in the capital brasilia. it may be a technicality one that could be she pursues political and judicial landscape the fact is that lula can now run for the presidency and he still has the support of half of brazil's voters according to recent polls. some of them took to the streets to celebrate and to protest against the take home present personalities mishandling of the pandemic. never reacted on twitter saying you know many of the charges

proves he has always been right also natural accuse the supreme court judge of acting on behalf of the workers' party and you brazil's political divisions deepening in the midst of a deadly pandemic monica nike of al-jazeera rio de janeiro let's discuss this and bring in jeffrey robertson he's joining us from london he's the founder and co head of delta's straight chambers he's also one of the lawyers who helped flip the conviction against the former president thanks very much for your time with us on the al-jazeera news hour sir so you must be very pleased with this decision tell us more about how it went about it we very used list syria may end up saving the amazon as well as saving a little a lot of lives but when you should never agree now stood the united nations human rights committee back in 2018 said that he should be allowed to start and begins. at

a time where in the opinion polls he was. one but great grand. jury sent him to prison i do think. that he was guilty of corruption in. the trial court there was not even room. on views are pretty but this decision with which sounds of it take. or is in fact quite fundamental he was simply tried in the wrong place in the place run by he's an emmy's who were out to put him in prison and not in the proper tools so that does meet at the moment of cause the government is appealing need the drug use a respected being depended on and is disease in the peeps that will

pave the way. probably we need next select good speakers as your record as she does the current process of how that can go then really the core of people who love him because of his work his president is a guy who would drag some 20000000 of them out to the die was poverty so he does have that great love that you see cause he's the son from the statements today to do something immediate i don't want to ask you about his response going forward sir but 1st on the issue of this ruling in just like you said i mean it appears to be based on a technicality so how confident are you that this is over and he could have a political future. whether he has a political future if he's a pretty good good is up so that's one way and the other way

is this decision as i say by a very respected subsets of course good. news cried in the wrong call and the process against it was was wrong and illegal. that he pursued as it were a 2nd street to his but to use effort to end this conviction were ridiculous buyouts and wipe out a black to be company with a it gave her the best one in the same clearly were never in the habit or never had any profit the right team get was convicted and jailed for messing it so what is this can mean that if our then our president's going forward enhance his political ambitions everyone is wondering whether in fact he will be

a presidential candidate and go up against paul so narrow in the next election. well let's he just choice and he's always to use in prison to fight against the enemies who came inside and tactics during the increasing criticism including the view through criticism so i think we. believe this he is for the taking of the system and to take that way but either way it means that his party it will work is it may well see the increasingly unpopular rightwing olmos because the can some ways both in our and with plans to assist the poor or to restore the amazon and. do something about the

terrible pandemic so that in. the run would think would be attracting to the people of brazil many of the the us who vision the interest in the liberal side have become part of the city both in our air and by a swimming pool and it's important i think just for brazil you know for we're right that we bring brazil back into the climate change network and so on thank you so much geoffrey robertson for speaking to us from london thank you. now the european parliament has stripped 3 catalan independence leaders of immunity from prosecution it's a move that set to inflame once again the whole issue of separatism in spain so it means the likes of the former president carlos puja and 2 other politicians could

be extradited to face charges now in self-imposed exile in belgium and the trio are wanted for their role in organizing the 2017 independence referendum spain's government has welcomed the decision as a victory for the rule of law well let's remind you now of how we got here and catalan our forty's held a referendum on secession in october 27th teen spain's government on the court said it was illegal catalonia as leaders they cleared an independent republic but no foreign power recognizes it that same day madrid revoked catalonia as political autonomy and suspended its parliament's huge amount comment and the rest of the cabinet were fired the trio fled the country they managed to avoid extradition while many others were jailed they later won seats in the european parliament giving them protection from prosecution protection which has today been revoked the former catalan leader spoke shortly after the e.u.

parliament's vote he said while the matter of extradition lies with the belgian judge the trio will also be fighting the parliament's decision. it is a sad day for european parliament and. we have lost our immunity but the rupee and parliament has lost more than that and as a result european democracy to. this is a clear case of political persecution and just read the reactions on the statesman's of crime in the spanish political leaders including the minister of foreign the 1st this morning in the search of forming a farce for a and their low problem of a spain they say it is a judicial process that there is a breakdown of powers. but it is driving by a high intensity political and parliamentary strategies and no european

parliament has unfortunately fallen into the strategy or you also spoke with. one of the catalan members of the european parliament who has immunity has been lifted she says they all plan to contest any move to have them extradited to spain . these were believed because actions and the fact that spain is persecuting us could be mean only is the proof that spain is in capable of managing well that they look at it with the proper tools of a democracy we vote and they are using their duty should be to prosecute our colleagues. enough class that i know that and this international and united nations group of people in the danger and as we did we denounce these aren't we that we that they in terms nevertheless it's the u.k. being these for you to go police announce they want to cause more political prisoners and that way they are persecuting us but that's not going 2 to solve the

whole you've got problem going along so. spain is proving that they are incapable of managing peace probably the arc of thinking go along with them already goes and they they're. going to embrace persecution against these you know just another group of that. so we'll go test that european girl said we think that we would be years before and we could be encouraged there joe trust found that. they would not be a 3rd. has been violated from the bed beginning and that's why we can use that in european cups mar i go back as a professor of constitutional law at barcelona university she explains what effect puja mon's position as a member of the european parliament may have. he's

a member of the parliament so this really is kind of sad because as an unelected person the 3 of them the 3 m.p.'s one of them is with a car or system or he was the president of catalonia he has been all safe from his presidency as the other so this this is a challenging for for the european parliament because if our m.p.'s who got more than 1000000 both so this is not only about their right to vote or their right we can be very or m.p.'s but this also has to do with the people that voted for them their right to vote they were represented not only in the european parliament had also seen the catalan parliament or the council of government and at the end of the day did they stop them in march because that would the middle it will be the belgian judge the one who will be deciding if carla the president kalish put them

on will be extra guard or a lot. more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including this calls for a peaceful protest in senegal after the release of opposition leader last month some call. me mar security forces crackdown on protesters who violated and nationwide curfew. germany's world cup winning coach will go to the upcoming euro stock stories coming up a little later with peter and sports. but 1st final results are expected in ivory coast from saturday's parliamentary elections both the governing party on the main opposition are claiming victory the opposition says there has been widespread fraud which the government rejects. joining us from. europe the electoral commission what's been said so far.

basically the last contentious. seat. just a few minutes ago. by the election officials and the seats for you. and hauled away so some indications now the governing party of president of us of what. half the seats in parliament in fact the projections that he the party has won 100 seats in parliament. to the other parties now. the official statement so far all the officials. and we expect a formal statement from the election commission to tell us how they went about this so it's almost settled now. by their respective. well because last year when the opposition to the presidential elections.

on its performance in subsequent elections and this is. right across the coast ok thank you for that update from. well the senegalese opposition leader asan sankoh is calling for peaceful demonstrations after his release on monday at least 10 people died during protests against his arrest on charges president saleh is also appealing for calm. ports from to car. a night of celebration after days of protests i there he is released on bail go addresses the nation in this press conference by his side are leading figures of senegal's opposition. the people are sending us politicians a message no matter convictions or beliefs we have

a dysfunctionality to unite the show and bring back politics to its noble cause you presenting the people. several people died in scores were injured after he was arrested over rape charges his supporters believe the case is politically motivated . the presence of the military did not deter demonstrators nor did the tear gas nor the police dressed in civilian clothes will the baseball bats restricting the internet to did not stop the hash tag 3 senegal from trending. hundreds if not thousands of people are gathering here still the flying the security forces who are farming tear gas there's a sense among supporters. that when the end detention it's a victory for them and a reminder to the government that they're accountable not to big business isn't corporations but to the people. demonstrators looted supermarkets accusing

president mikey cell of failing the country's poor by protecting big business interests. after days of protests he finally addressed the nation realizing that the demonstrations were not just about months on co but about many senegalese feeling disenfranchised. it's a generation faced with so many hardships expresses its own happiness is quite understandable to me because at the same time let's avoid participating in anything that the laser in the quest for a better future when you're insecure business when you take the goods of others you don't create jobs you destroy them you don't reduce poverty you make it worse. the president extended the current of virus curfew until midnight to allow small shop owners longer business hours but for many the protests are not just about the economic crisis or politics but about defending senegal's

a long standing tradition of democracy and freedom values protesters say are worth fighting for the. the right to car the death toll from a number of explosions in equitorial guinea on sunday has risen to 98 more than 600 people were injured in the powerful blast in the port city of bata officials say the explosions at a military base were caused by improperly stored dynamite along with stubble burning in nearby farms south sudan's government has agreed to a peace deal with opposition groups the agreement signed in kenya includes a cease fire that will put an end to years of violence between the government and an alliance of opposition movements nearly 400000 people have been killed and at least 4000000 displaced in the 70 year civil war in south sudan a 2nd official and. political party has died after being arrested overnight i mean

more security forces zalmay outlands cause of death isn't known and despite another night of violence demonstrators have again turned out across the country scott heiler reports. the campaign of intimidation reaches new levels in yangon hundreds of young protesters were trapped after they were surrounded by police and myanmar's military in the city's ascent chowed district threatening door to door searches they fired guns and use stun grenades as they patrolled warning that anyone hiding protesters would also be punished but. it lasted all night the protesters were finally able to leave in the early morning hours after the security forces pulled out in a rare and risky nighttime gathering protesters in yangon broke curfew went to the streets calling for the release of the others there were reports at least 2 dozen were arrested overnight unfazed by the heavy hand of the security forces across the country protesters came out and faced the continued crackdown just

a few hours after the trapped protestors in yangon were finally able to leave. since the february 1st coup and advocacy group estimates 800 people have been detained several lawyers have stationed themselves in front of insane prison helping relatives of those arrested find out if they are inside and if they need a lawyer they say they are dedicated to serving those who have been detained free of charge but also getting information to the families. we are not afraid of people threatening us because we are doing this in accordance with the local and if they do this is illegal we are prepared to carry out until the end. in nearby malaysia a court has given rights groups amnesty international and asylum access the right to challenge the deportation of myanmar nationals a big step in the country because its laws often make it difficult to challenge immigration decisions in court. 1086 citizens were sent back to me and mar on

february 23rd it's unlikely they will return to malaysia but it will prevent more than 100 others from being deported the next hearing is in 2 weeks. while it's clear myanmar security forces plan to continue their crackdown the protesters are also not backing down on the street. coming out to continue putting pressure on the joint or. al-jazeera. a senior chinese official has said beijing's plans to change hong kong's electoral system will protect its international role the legislation effectively dismantles hong kong's opposition by giving a beijing appointed committee control of who can run for office the national people's congress is expected to approve it on thursday. in recent years though especially since the over the proposed let's elect of amendments in 29. and he turned to troublemakers in the city have colluded with external post by opposing

this openly advocated hunk of independence and the so the trouble in hong kong and china. by exploiting. exploited 3 elections one has such chaos proves that there are obvious pose and the deficiencies in the electoral system of the one hi sarah. in thailand 18 people have been charged with sedition for anti-government rallies held last year another 3 protest leaders accuse the defaming them on a cure of being held in jail until their trial next week thailand's pro-democracy protests movement has been calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy since last year or for other activists leaders are in jail waiting for trial. we always say that when we decided to join these 5 we giving all we've got even if it means our lives are we going to be in jail and

that's in the end even if there are more people in prison even if i'm not the person who ends up in prison those who are outside can keep fighting it's not necessary to have us continue to fight a global shortage of semiconductor chips is hurting high tech industries from the makers of game consoles to automobiles car plants are reporting production delays of up to a 1000000 vehicles and the problem has highlighted the dominance of 2 of the world's leading chip makers taiwan and south korea pride reports from seoul. between them south korea and taiwan have a near monopoly on the world's production of processing and memory chips it's a dominance in a strategic commodity that's been developing over years but now making itself felt as the world becomes increasingly technology driven but from here on out it's going

to broader considerately to egypt with everything modern fighter. it's not a semiconductor electric vehicle if your car's going to have a retreat it's getting old like other car makers this general motors plant outside seoul has been experiencing delays because of a global shortage of chips it's been a wake up call for many world leaders but the investment of time and money needed to become a chip maker means south korea and taiwan will maintain their lead for years to come it's a global shortage that's been made worse by the pandemic when car factories ramped up production again late last year it coincided with a surge in demand for consumer goods also needing chips and a move towards online activities requiring greater data processing that needs yes ever more chips frank wiring is the founder of one of taiwan's chip

manufacturers whose business has grown as the island has come to dominate the sector this is a burning portal with a one continual sub why a bell in the porch opinion of the state and other your country helen is so buying toys in their 2nd largest processor if we have a problem the war or have a problem it's this indispensable that works well right now taiwan's chips are also indispensable to mainland china providing it with the so-called silicon shield against beijing's expansion in the region but also raising the stakes in the increasing comp. tition between china and the u.s. semiconductor is strong taiwan is strong but it's becoming so strong in that so we need to be careful so it is a better to keep a neutral because if semiconductor all silicon shield you know distress is being used as a weapon taiwan will get involved it will that was the conflict between us the in

china and that is the dangerous there is the it's not you get increased action target range if you let. it extra dreary washington heights trying hard a conflict in competition south korea's and taiwan's production mastery of a tiny component that makes any potential conflict in east asia a matter of global concern rob mcbride al-jazeera seoul or workers are pumping oil out of a chinese fishing boat that has run aground off the coast of. the vessel was carrying 130 tons of oil when ahead of coral reefs near the capital port louis on sunday there was a small spill at 1st but the whole remained intact and should take 5 days to empty in tow the ship away it's the 2nd shipwreck in the recess and less than a year to get a check on the weather on the al-jazeera news hour here's everything. however got

some rather stormy weather in the forecast the western parts of the u.s. the central and eastern areas it's lost the fight and drive this base and places of cloud here most in the area of high pressure keeping it quiet across the eastern seaboard least for the time bama drawing up warm southerly winds and those temperatures getting up to 19 celsius in minneapolis saddle change as we go through the next day or so succumb wet and stay temperatures struggling to get to around 7 celsius and that cool air grassy making is where little further race was but a plume of warmth across cities inside of the country to be enjoyed let's see what's going on over towards the west we've got some stormy weather raise things know something of a a wintry storm filtering in here as we go on through wednesday and into thursday some heavy snowfall for some and certainly some pavey rain all the way down into northern parts of mexico actually pushing lads' type towards the brasco will see some snow coming through here just spilling off the mountain states and wetter weather over towards the lakes and then law continues to make its way further east

was full thursday with some very heavy rain just coming in across the central plains more snow just around the mountain states over towards the rockies further race with this woman dry temperatures a respectable 22 celsius in d.c. . still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we take a look at who would get what from the $1.00 trillion dollar u.s. covered 19 relief package libya's rival factions seek common ground on a new government to unite the country and the race for the oldest trophy in international sport is about to get underway peter will look ahead to sailings america's cup. frank assessments the world is on a brink of a catastrophic moral failure is that a fair assessment catastrophic. weiss. informed opinions

should we be buying it course ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying us that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. when afghan filmmaker has sand catches the taliban's attention a bounty on his head forces him to flee with his family desperately seeking sanctuary they journey across continents chronicling their multi-year saga on their phone. midnight traveler an odyssey of hope resilience and ultimately one family's love for each other and witness on al-jazeera.

on the way down the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour a brazilian supreme court judge has thrown out the criminal convictions of former president louise and. it allows the popular politician to run in next year's presidential election the parliament has stripped 3 catalan separatist politicians of their immunity from prosecution catalonia his former leader and 2 others are wanted by spain for going to be an independence referendum final results are expected in ivory coast from saturday's parliamentary elections both the governing party and main opposition are already claiming victory. in the coming hours the u.s. house of representatives is expected to vote on a $1.00 trillion dollars over $1000.00 relief package was approved by the senate on

saturday it includes $1400.00 checks to individuals earning less than $80000.00 a year or couples earning less than $160000.00 the bill has the biggest increase to federal health aid since the obama era affordable care act around 34000000000 dollars in subsidies will go to expanding that coverage and around $55000000000.00 will be allocated to increasing covert $900.00 test thing the public health workforce and vaccine distribution while $350000000000.00 will go to state and local governments struggling with huge tax revenue shortfalls. our white house correspondent kelly alka is joining us from washington d.c. to. tell us what to expect kimberly and what we don't expect is any hangups on this legislation correct that's right what we're hearing from the house speaker nancy pelosi is that there should be swift passage of the final version of this bill because you have to remember it was passed in the house it went to the senate where

there were some modifications made now the house needs to take another look at it so we expect that that will be passed in the final sort of 24 to 48 hours which we're already in now in terms of that window and it couldn't come soon enough as you've outlined there are a number of things that could help american families that are struggling with not only will there be those direct payments of $1400.00 but for a family that could amount to thousands of dollars but you have to remember given the fact that we've been in this pandemic now a year that what this will allow people to do is catch up but it won't allow them to get ahead and so that's going to be the next task for congress once this is signed into law is looking at some of the things they weren't able to accomplish like raising the federal minimum wage to $15.00 an hour and an infrastructure package that would create jobs and so this is badly needed but certainly this is going to help because a lot of these benefits that were in place run out on the 14th that's this week and

so we expect that the u.s. president is eager to sign this we know that from his white house press secretary and we are expecting that there will be swift passage in congress yes so on the note of the president but when do we expect joe biden to actually sign this. well it's not 100 percent clear that is it contingent on when it is passed in the house but what we do know is that there is going to be a tremendous sales pitch and there are a number of reasons why 1st of all the u.s. president wants to boost morale so he'll be making a primetime address on thursday evening here in the united states to sell this plan to talk about the sacrifices that americans have made so far and what can they can expect in the future but there's another reason that he's doing this he was not able to unite democrats and republicans on this bill in fact it's being passed on party lines they learned some lessons from the obama years after the 2008 crash when there was a feeling among those in the administration they didn't get enough credit for their

rescue package then and so they spent too much time trying to win over republicans ultimately that effort failed so they didn't waste any time trying to do it this time so there is going to be the argument this is a bipartisan package that this was only favored by democrats not republicans so it doesn't tick the box for uniting the country but what it does do is give them the opportunity to sell this to the american people and that's what we're going to hear from the president as he speaks on thursday ok can really thank you so much for that update from the white house. now for the 1st time u.s. health regulators have issued recommendations for people who've been fully vaccinated against cope in 19 so the guidelines are for people to weeks after their 2nd dose of pfizer and moderna jobs and the single dose johnson and johnson vaccine the centers for disease control says fully vaccinated people can visit each other in doors without masks or social distancing they can visit other unvaccinated

people who are living in the same house and are at a lower risk of severe infection without masts or physical distancing and they can skip quarantine and testing if they come in contact with someone with covert 1000 and they show no symptoms. sunny is a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london she says there is uncertainty about how effective vaccines are at preventing viral transmission. we don't know the effectiveness of these vaccines in preventing infection or what transmission particularly in the elderly age groups even in the younger age groups these are likely to be between about 60 to 70 percent of the elderly they might be even dora so allowing people to sort of mix with others protective measures when he puts other people at risk if they pick up infection and passes on to others and this uncertainty is even higher with the large number of variants we have now circulating in different parts of the world many of which we know are associated with lower backs

a defective ness particularly against symptomatic disease which will very likely translate to lower effectiveness in preventing infection and transmission particularly norty to in those elderly people and even in younger people the effectiveness of preventing infection is thought to be 60 to 70 percent of quite far from the 100 percent i mean you know i understand the need to sort of allow people to make because you've been investigations for a long time what we need to remember that people have been distractions for a long time because we haven't managed to get on top of the pandemic and you've adopted several higher strategies in the face of uncertainty and i'm worried that we're doing that once again and what would be really bad would be if such a strachey led to another sort of increase in transmission or cases which lead people needed to be in the strict sense but even know the best attitude to adopt is a strategy with the least amount of uncertainty which countries like new zealand and australia taiwan vietnam have adopted where we bring cases down to extremely low levels so that there is no community transmission and then we open up to everyone not just people who are vaccinated and they don't need to worry about

things like vaccine effectiveness new libyans because there isn't that transmission happening in the community and most of the population is not at risk. a surge in coronavirus cases in jordan is forcing the government to roll out new restrictions a nighttime curfew will be extended and some businesses will have to shut other measures including school closures and a total lockdown on fridays are already in place more than 7000 covert 1000 cases were reported on monday driven by the spread of the more contagious u.k. variants a u.s. court in the city of minneapolis has delayed the start of jury selection in the trial of a white police officer charged with killing george floyd the judge is awaiting an appeals court decision on whether a new murder charge can be added floyd who was black died in may after the officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death triggered anti-racism protests

around the world. well members of the u.s. congress are reviewing major security changes recommended for the capitol building the proposals come from a report on the security failures that happened on january the 6th that's when supporters of the former president reached the halls of congress how to jocasta reports from washington d.c. . to security experts who watched the january 6th riot at the capitol memories of the 2012 attacks on u.s. embassies in tunisia and sudan came to mind or my draw jaw dropped because of the fact that it happened to see. people in the united states doing this is opposed to what happens overseas keith used to this is president of fabrication designs inc a manufacturing firm that makes reinforced doors and windows for u.s. government buildings his products were not installed at the capitol where a mob successfully broke through using their fists and

a flagpole that allowed them to enter through the through the openings of the glass and really felt the need to be stronger perimeter the nonpartisan task force charged with reviewing security after the capitol breach agrees its report recommends reinforcing doors and windows the deployment of mobile fencing and retractable barriers the hiring of more than $800.00 capitol police officers and a more efficient decision making process for security leadership in a crisis more than 5000 national guard troops remain protecting the nation's capital a jarring sight for americans who are unaccustomed to seeing their military at work outside of natural disasters or foreign wars but these troops will eventually go home the plan is to replace them with a rapid response team of local guardsmen who could deploy to the capital at the 1st

sign of trouble and after the so. suspension of 6 capitol police officers for their alleged role in supporting rioters on january 6th background checks are recommended for all identification card holders who work at the capitol of people are going to be here protecting us we'd like them to go through the same background checks and security assessments 2 months after the riot the so-called people's house still stands behind barbed wire and armed guards security experts say the u.s. capitol can return to its normal look we do it either with additional concrete and steel or we do it with laminated and polycarbonate glass. or you know the doors of that robot up there all of that can be hidden the cost of the security recommendations run hundreds of millions of dollars and some members of congress have already baulked at the price but included in the report is a warning the threat from domestic extremists is growing and the need to arm

a robust defense is urgent heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington of us says granting temporary protected status to venezuelan migrants living there the decision could help around 232-5000 people and follows up on election promises made by president joe biden his administration says it's working to coordinate international pressure against venezuelan president nicolas maduro to hold free and fair elections but nessa newman is a venezuelan american former diplomats who served as a consultant to the state department on latin america she says the decision has been welcomed by some venezuelans. the biggest one that asked for a celebration because it represents a shift from the relationship with the trump president zuma to the relationship with the biden presidency among venice what is an absolute collapse you have something like 90 percent of that as well as within the country have food

insecurity meaning that they women stand on line for 10 hours just to find food to eat and then when they when they when they at the exit if they have worn from going to swell it will be the biggest migration exit is in the world it's going to surpass your area by the end of this year so the fact that the state department downstairs on the international day of woman's day it is significant because that women have are so greatly impacted and basically we already have a goal to have over $7000000.00 refugees by the end of this year so biden is giving the example he has said that he will not abide by that by presidency so he is giving the example that step one you need to address the humanitarian crisis and to be consistent you need to protect the people who have fled this humanitarian crisis and enter the united states t.p.s. permission is very very clear that it is temporary protected status applies to the people who have who are here in the united states you know and this is their main

residence so it takes them from being illegal to be illegal basically so these are people who have entered the united states are here already or trying to or they can't work there were in this diplomatic limbo the uys nuclear regulator has issued an operating license for a 2nd unit at its backup power plant it's the 1st and only nuclear plant in the arab world you know one reached 100 percent power last year the facility was built as part of the u.a.e. is efforts to diversify its energy mix once all 4 reactors come online then they'll supply up to 25 percent of the country's electricity needs. saudi state media say the kingdom's air defenses have intercepted another attack from yemen its missiles took out an explosive drone heading towards a city of say that the area hosts a number of military bases and has been targeted before by who the rebels approach has also launched

a series of attacks on saudi arabia's energy facilities on sunday the u.s. state department has condemned the assaults on urge the rebel group 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 the u.s. central command general kenneth mckenzie says his forces will continue protecting saudi arabia. the last wave of attacks and even before that we have done a number of things to help the defense of saudi arabia and you'll understand i can't go into those and you'll understand that for operational reasons but we continue to help saudi arabia defend itself we haven't backed away from that promise and i think we've been very helpful to them very close to war with iran because of their their strike on the al assad air base we negotiated our way through that through that very dangerous period of time i think right now there were again in the spring of 2021 we do have an opportunity to find

a political way forward on the ground in yemen government forces and the fighters have been locked in fierce battles near the city of thais here you can see the government troops firing on the positions yemeni media say the rebels were forced to retreat it's the fighting is taking a heavy toll on civilians in the area. libya's house of representatives is due to resume consultations on whether to endorse a new interim unity government if confirmed the cabinet of prime minister designate debate well replace the 2 rival administrations in the east and west of libya parliament has until march 24th to make a decision. today the house of representatives received insecurely to the formation of the government and the proposed plan and the ministry of information was discussed some said that he does an expanded government and it should be a small government at the end of the session the members of the parliament agreed

to mr out that they would be simone tomorrow to discuss the formation of the government. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour the sports. leader is look to keep their winning streak going peter will be here in just a moment with all the action in spite.

of tension between the u.s. and iran doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon but that doesn't mean iranians aren't interested in reading about the lives of the u.s.

presidents and 1st ladies some bookstores are full of western titles which are proving popular as the big explains from. book lovers students and avid readers all come to centers to rant to look for the latest releases and it's here in a quite back street where one publisher translates western titles he's just finished his 5th edition of former u.s. presidents barack obama's promised land we don't you hope this. you know there are severe sanctions laws big american publishers don't get themselves involved in a situation that can be dangerous for them getting involved with the run and risking the sale of millions of copies of their books they say they can't get involved with the running publishes we can't have cultural relations with americans or a financial relationship not even to receive a simple permission stuff here say obama's book was sold out in 2 days people don't like to know about everything that is going on in the out and of course america is

one of the important ones so people are interested to know outside on the streets there's an appetite for western titles. i've read hemingway's old man and the sea and now i'm reading tolstoy's resurrection this famous iranian bookstore has western titles in both english and farsi the books are printed inside the country and not authorized by the original authors or publishes the exception is american academic noam chomsky who iranian publishers say gave permission for his works to be translated and printed you can find books on u.s. president joe biden here michelle obama's becoming and the book and former u.s. president donald trump fire and fury all in farsi consumed by iranians but there is a downside to an authorized publishing especially for authors trying to make a living. british author found out his book the good immigrant had been translated and published after

a google that i thought is great has an international reach amazing thing for. what i originally envisaged as a small project but i also thought. that the writers should be compensated because you know these are all writers who got paid money for the original book and that's. the shame of this that we didn't have any so many we didn't have any we don't have any say on how it's been translated house remarked the publishers we've spoken to say they'd like to be a part of the copyright convention it would increase translation standards and reduce the number of publishers allowed to print a book but u.s. sanctions mean many companies don't want to engage with iran missing out on reaching a country with a population of more than 80000000 people as big al jazeera to. get an update on this for us is what peter during thank you so much they are fresh

reports out of japan that oversee spectators won't be allowed to attend this year's olympic games in tokyo the country's kyoto news agency says the government has decided to ban fans from abroad to prevent the spread of coronavirus games organizers will hold a meeting with officials from the international olympic committee this week and a formal decision is expected at the end of the month the agency is also reporting that the torch relay will begin behind closed doors on march 25 it all comes as the international gymnastics federation canceled it all around the world cup event which was to take place in tokyo on may 4th the competition would also have acted as a qualifier and test event for this year's games the $2900.00 world championships will instead be used to determine extra entries into the individual all around competitions. germany's world cup winning national football coach york in lurve will step down after the upcoming european championship love took over the job after the 2006 world cup and led the germans to the 2014 title along the way he has

also won the fever confederations cup and reached the semifinals at least in 4 major tournaments the euros are set to take place in june and july in italy said they are league leaders in tamil and restore their 6 point lead at the top of the standings on monday with a one the win over atalanta in his closest rivals for the title ac milan and you venters one day matches on saturday and sunday so it was important for him to to win here and scream scoring the games only go for into the 7th straight win and so you can't say it's men are looking for a 1st league title in 11 years they took it down deep inside and i think many were sure that tonight into milan would come undone against atalanta so this is an important win many of the boys are playing for the 1st time under this kind of pressure and they are showing that they are reaching the right level of maturity chelsea's good form since thomas 3 call took over as head coaches continued on monday they hosted everton in the english premier league the visitors gifted chelsea the lead with

a ben godfrey own goal in the 1st half and then in the 2nd half true genius lifted a penalty to double the lead and wrap up a 2 know when that's 5 clean sheets in his 1st 5 home games were to call chelsea or 4 for the standings. it was difficult in 1st half but we were always in control of the 2nd half we created a lot also his aggressive baldwins transition game and also. with some more with more self-confidence and more rhythm in our possession so we had a lot of chances and could have been more somebody served when i'm i'm super happy for them. the former president of african football ahmad has had his 5 year ban from the sport reduced to 2 years by the court of arbitration for sport after mud was banned in november for misusing calf's finances for his own benefit while the news might be welcome by the man from madagascar it's still ruled him out of running in caps presidential elections later this week instead of the path is clear

for south africa's patrice mort's a appear to take over the owner of 2016 champions league winners marmalade sundowns is now the only man remaining in the race after all of his opponents withdrew in the last few days before owning sundowns made his name in the mining industry in his home country. the race for the oldest trophy in international sport finally gets underway later in new zealand a sailings america's cup begins racing was delayed by 4 days because of a coronavirus lockdown in alton but now the defending champions team new zealand will go up against challenges a luna rossa in the best of 13 contest team new zealand skipper believes it will be a tight competition between the 2 teams you know it's been a pretty incredible campaign you know obviously it is. been a lot of i suppose changes going along especially with the covert environment you know not being out of the warm up of in. touched on you know in a lot of different. situations getting thrown at us but you know i think at the end

of the day you know we're here now on to mars the day we're you know get exciting and you know we actually get to go right in front of a room we know they're fast because we see the leg is there more than 2 months ago and we say we saw them. a few weeks ago it is the american men and english but. are there no other and i think is to is to a live for me i don't know the crystal ball. in the n.f.l. the cowboys have agreed the richest contract in club history with quarterback dec prescott the 4 year contract features a guaranteed a $126000000.00 and an n.f.l. record $66000000.00 signing bonus this makes the 27 year old the 2nd highest paid quarterback in the league behind patrick my homes of the kansas city chiefs dallas will be helping prescott canal lead them to the 1st super bowl title since 1995 and

that's all the sports news more on the way late today we will see later thank you so much peter and thanks for watching the news hour back in a moment with much more of the day's saying about. jumped into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian our global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want afraid that we are nowhere to 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 the new in the to be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there. an act of youthful defiance i mean rooted on the return next hour also on the school will they arrested me at home at 4 in the morning was electric shock treatment or worse that triggered

a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war. on al jazeera. halfway between tokyo. she's a look of who was there and relatively sleepy place not a lot of violent crime and so when 4 people get killed on one occasion in those bloody and massacres this was the tracks a lot of the board. the task force of each police officers was created to find out what happened. police counted more than 40 stab wounds all together victims.

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