in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. al jazeera. i am. back to go this is a news hour live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. at push for equal access to covert 19 vaccines south africa and india at the end for the suspension of peyton's at the world trade organization historic day for libya

rival factions agree on a unity government after years of war also this hour a new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria's war of independence and the f.b.i. releases new video of the suspects planting bombs a day before the capitol hill by it's about to be distributed all day speech news all you see the president thomas box says you really expect the delay took you a little bit gains to go it was july that and more later in the program. i am. thank you very much for joining us south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to drop 8 interest rate sions on coal the 1900 vaccines more than 100 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccine for development for developing nations according to

a campaign group called one richer countries hoarding excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated the surplus of bill says would be enough to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa johns hopkins university found nearly half of those who've been fully vaccinated so far were in the united states and only 10 countries have been able to vaccinate 75 percent of their populations the u.n. sekret. very general antonio terrace says the inequality of vaccine distribution is widely and even and unfair from in a minute begins our coverage with this report from johannesburg. on the quarter it's been a year since the 1st call over 1000 infection was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower .

another important step. that occurred. as well low. production. south africa and india leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert $1000.00 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like ana ivory coast in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa being left behind. there is

a capacity welcome mr companies to produce things and i stayed in medical. it is essential that the wealthy states blocking legal barriers and delaying essential kozel ahead of. the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines being tested in africa many nations on the continent

still remain at the back of the queue for me to milan al-jazeera johannesburg or let's speak to dr brad pang kerney about this he's a senior clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school and he's also a specialist in communicable disease control and infectious disease management and is via skype from bath in the u.k. thank you very much dr bank for being with us on the newshour so pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers say freeing up intellectual property for vaccines is a far different proposition then compulsory licenses issued. a decade ago for 4 simplest small molecule drugs including treatments for hiv aids say say basically that covered $1000.00 vaccines are more complex they have hundreds of ingredients is that not a legitimate concern. it is a legitimate concern of the pharmaceutical companies and in the middle of a pandemic my interest is in forcing encouraging enabling the

pharmaceutical companies not to give up their rights but to accelerate the setting up of plant and nabl the manufacture with won't trade organization support w.h.o. support and other government support to manufacture under license and royalties in other regions of the world because it is a urgent need but they're said that peyton not jessie issue they say you know when you are trying to expand coverage 1000 vaccination you also have to look at ingredient shortages and manufacturing capacity would you agree with that yes indeed and i know that there is there are a series of ingredients that we need to have in a series of processes that you've got to undergo to make sure that the vaccines are correctly manufactured and safe i accept all of that all i am saying is in order to

increase capacity you've got to enable regional countries to also set up a plant and manufacture more under your guidance under your directives and under your license but you agree that waiving intellectual property rights is not the only solution to solve the covered 1000 vaccine crisis what what what what else need i had a little. i totally agree so what we need is cooperation and the will and the energy to say yes the manufacturing plants can be set up in distant parts of the world and that we will supervise and make sure that all the processes that we use in our parent plant are also used in the 2nd reply and that the quality control is absolutely 100 percent and that they will get royalties and i hope that they will not ask for an arm and a leg in terms of royalties but a fair exchange for humanity because this is an urgent need because if we do not

immunize at pace many people in africa for example we may get variants emerging which could not leave farai escape the vaccines that they're already using even now if all these things happen and they do agree to cooperate the pharmaceutical companies and so on we're already seeing disparities great disparities between wealthy countries and poor countries as you've said yourself and the gap seems to be only widening even if they agree to this how long do you anticipate it will take before these poor nations can also have access to the vaccines in the way that richer countries like the u.s. have had i'm so sorry to say that i think it is many months away because even if we were to agree to set up plants and new money factor in capacity it takes at least 3 to 6 months to go into full production but i still feel the

science could be to pandemic and maybe other emerging infections are never going to go away therefore in west now it will pay as dividends for bought the sars could we do pandemic as well as other necessary needs in the future dr brad thank kanya thank you very much for talking to us about their safety and for sharing your he is with us thank you. meanwhile brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from corona virus in a single day nearly 2000 fatalities were registered on tuesday the country has had more than 11000000 cases and is facing the worst phase of the pandemic yet pushing its health care system to the brink of collapse to the u.s. now where the house of representatives is expected to vote on a covert 19 relief package worth almost 2 trillion dollars senators approved it on saturday with men men sitting close direct cash payments funding for covert 19

testing and for vaccine distribution a so-called american rescue plan isn't likely to face resistance from democrats who control the chamber president joe biden is expected to sign it later this week let's speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hockett so kimberly this seems like it's a done deal. it appears it's a done deal and what we're hearing is that the u.s. president is expected to sign this almost as soon as it is passed he wants to try and have this signed into law before he makes his pitch to the american public on thursday evening talking about the sacrifice americans have made and what is in it for them but you're right this is something that is a done deal given the fact that democrats control congress there's a lot in it for americans 1400 dollars for individual direct payments 300 dollars a week unemployment benefits and also a lot for kovan testing as well as contact tracing but the pushback has been why

this is along party lines in other words republicans don't like it is that they say the economy is opening back up now and the time to sort of shower americans with cash if you will has come and gone and the fear is that by sort of adding so much money into the economy that there will be inflation that could actually hurt american so this is controversial as we've been saying for so many years in washington really divided along party lines in terms of the strategy and this was a big priority can be for the biden administration were next plan their next ambition. selling it to the american public because what they've seen in the past after the 2008 downturn when there was a sort of an american stimulus plan similar but different kind of concept is that the obama administration felt it didn't get the credit that it deserved for bringing the economy back so they're determined not to make the same mistake they

know that right now 3 quarters of the american public likes this legislation but the problem is once the money spent people forget so they're trying to make sure that you will really see that this is something tangible that will improve their lives so as part of doing this we're going to see today the vaccine manufacturers merck and johnson and johnson that of c.e.o.'s will be at the white house today and we can expect that we'll see sort of a number of these events moving forward as the biden administration tries to convince the american public that this was the right step at the right time kimberly thank you very much for that kimberly white house correspondents live there in washington. israel has partially reopened for 2 for now rivals but only those granted special exemptions tourism remains off limits and that includes the religious pilgrimage is so important to a life of the old city of jerusalem harry fawcett has been to the church of the holy seppo to see the impacts the pandemic has had on one of christianity's holiest

sites. jerusalem's catholic patriarch leads a lent a procession down the ancient steps to the church of the holy sepulcher normally the priest would process through throngs of tourists and pilgrims but now the square like the church behind stands all but empty. first dedicated as a church by constantine in the 4th century on the site where jesus is believed to have been crucified and buried it's shared by 4 christian denominations and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. to a set situation not here at all i hope the corona will be. minimize its effect to the population and they will start coming this is the place is as usual as they did before between 20162800 more than half of all foreign tourists to occupied east jerusalem came here the old city's most visited site now

in the run up to easter its giant doors are officially open again but israel's main airport is still partially closed only handfuls of specially permitted foreign nationals are allowed in a far cry from the more than a 1000000 christian tourists who would enter in a normal year living interest from this is a place i've been to pretty frequently and when it's full of devoted pilgrims from around the world it has a real emotional power but on a day like this when it's all but empty in some ways the ancient nature and beauty of this place a more fully revealed those who are here now we found a mix of foreign workers academics and locals have the place almost to themselves no competing for snatched moments in revered spaces details that might have been lost amid camera clicks and excited shouts now gleam quietly undisturbed but this period of quiet comes at a cost in the form of missing religious donations and struggling shops in the alleyways outside merchants say 95 percent of their business is simply disappeared

. a deep judaize family is held the keys to the church for nearly a 1000 years even in that context he says these last 12 months have been extraordinary. it's been a year that was suffering and the old city is the most affected and within the old city it's the tourist reliant businesses and places of worship. there is hope among priests and shopkeepers but the talk of a vaccine driven return to international travel will indeed soon materialize this place will once again welcome the world back through its doors are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem that's more ahead on this news hour including the political standoff in armenia after the prime minister socked a top general of the military leaders are pushing back. on accompanied and under-aged a challenge many migrant children face trying to enter the u.s. or its southern border and sailings america's cup gets underway peter will have the

best of the action from day one coming up later in sports. maybe a spot a man tells a new interim unity government as part of a un backed steel it will be responsible for holding elections later this year maybe has been divided between 2 rival administrations supported by armed groups and foreign governments there's been unrest since an uprising toppled moammar gadhafi in 2011 that speaks to our correspondent in libya right now is in misrata libya finally has a unity government but it took intense negotiations to get here. well that's right it's been a long and difficult process to come up with this agreement and this new unity government now libya has been involved as you said since an armed revolution toppled moammar gadhafi in 2011 after that things went quite well for

a couple of years when this parliament was elected in 2014 they were supposed to be based in eastern libya but around the same time or after began a military operation there to cement his power base so many parlow many m.p.'s especially from western libya boycotted the parliament citing security concerns and really that's when the divisions began a a rival to rival governments began one in eastern libya one in western libya in 2015 the u.n. facilitated the libyan political agreement that brought the rival sides together they came up with the government of national accord which is the internationally recognized government here in tripoli. but that was after refused to recognize that government as well as the speaker of the brick base parliament so they've been quite divided and you know there's been

a lot of division also among the international community which sort of you know put fanned the fire of divisions but now we're seeing that the international community are more willing or want to see a unified libya and m.p.'s after years of visions were actually finally able to meet have a session and give this new national unity government vote of confidence just recently we've seen that both rival governments have stated that they are willing to hand over power so quite a historic day in terms of libya and perhaps the beginning of a serious reconciliation process thank you for that money and life are as they are in misrata let's discuss this. further now with marty who's the founder and director of the sadeq institute he joins us from istanbul good to have you with us . as we've heard there's some intense negotiating to keep all of libya's varied

factions on board 1st of all how hopeful are you that this photo day this new unity government will finally put libya on the right path to end its conflict. so it's a good question i think it's a symbolic victory it's huge it's the 1st unified executive in almost 7 years as a correspondent in a subtle as already mentioned that in itself is a major major victory it shows an demonstrates you know a little reflection on the part of the constituencies across the country that they want to turn over a new page in a new chapter and begin to unify the divided institutions that have essentially divided the country for the last 7 years and that aspect is something that is still a long long way away and i think that we have to be clear about it and understand the greater context here there is a political track a military track and an economic track all of libya's institutions are still divided now when we look at the cabinet that there just endorsed all of the positions have been endorsed by our 2 changes the 1st is that the foreign minister

was changed from let me i will say that are to measure and when bush that was done at the behest of the speaker of the parliament in eastern libya in order to have someone that is closer to the coalition someone that is closer to fully behalf there is live in the national army the minister of defense position has been left empty now that gives you an indication of really that bigger problems that have been kicked down the road and there are still yet to kind of frustrate this process so there's still much more left in this in fact right and addressing the parliament the prime minister the biber denounced the continued presence of medicine aires and other foreign forces this has been an issue for libya ah the foreign powers of balance these opposing sides in the conflict whether it's terry egypt are they 100 percent on board with this agreement will they also turn over the page. i don't believe so and there's a number of reasons why i don't believe that is the case number one we can continue

to ignore these major elephants essentially in the room elephants you know in central libya the very airport that received these members of parliament from eastern and western libya got to be airborne so that it's controlled by russian mostly that have been deployed there since the summer there was a withdrawal agreement as part of a cease fire that was announced and signed by the rival factions in october 2020 gave the mighty days to withdraw all the forces those forces as you said remain today in libya and they number according to the u.n. $20000.00 that continue to be the irrespective of the political process that took place in geneva and intimacy and irrespective of the vote that's taking place today they are long term investment in some respects some of the forces like the turkish forces that the ploys in november 2019 are new forces other forces that have been deployed to libya stretch back at least until 2014 if we begin measuring on the libyan national army side and egypt the u.a.e. and russia so there is so much left in this that i think that unwilling to let go

of a 7 year investment without having real guarantees that there geo strategic objectives have been met right and that still much much further down the line so briefly are elections planned for december 24th achievable. let me think that it was administrative process i agree with with your question dipping a finger is an inconvenience is not the problem it's an administrative process that can be done the question is always going to be are they free and fair elections free and fair elections requires a number of things but let me just well on focused on 2 of them libyans about a steady diet of toxic this information that has ripened them towards conflict over the past 'd several years that is part of the ceasefire agreement that both sides of adhere to adhere to at least in principle on paper but are not having to in practice so the libyan populace itself is not necessarily right at the stage where it's right to start making those kind of decisions the 2nd aspect is that we have

as you've already mentioned that we have all these most recent the ground we have rival military factions on the ground will they allow for you know for representatives or nominees to canvass openly in a practical sense if i have an issue with it if i if there is the libya can i still travel to eastern libya right canvas for votes if i'm in let if i'm a political party irrespective of which side i am on or where i'm on the spectrum can i go there and kind of us for votes will i be safe on the day to elect a member of parliament or a presidential candidate my own choice or will i be harassed or will i be put off we've seen in the previous years that iran's election time in 2012 july there was violence that close down at least 5 percent of the ballot boxes libya's last elections and in 2014 took place a month and a half after how to live up to split the country and growing country to its 1st civil war in the summer so we also have to because of that given that there were so many guns on the ground that's a that's a deep and a very difficult issue to consider so

a long road ahead dead same thank you very much for talking to us about the situation in libya. to senegal now opposition politician man some call has accused the president of being responsible for last week's violence some cause arrest for taking part in an unauthorized days of demonstration. 4 people were killed in confrontations between protesters and police sancho is also facing rape charges he denies the accusations which he says. to bar him from standing in elections in 2024 that speak to our correspondent in the car nicholas hack so nick you've been speaking to this month's encore tell us more about what he said and what are his plans now going forward. well he was quite clear that his plan is to become the next president of senegal and that he will be a candidate to the 2024 presidential election still 4 years ahead she wants to capitalize on the unprecedented movement that we've seen the last couple of days

where we saw protesters demonstrators taking to the street not just here in the capital the car but throughout the country was quick to condemn the looting and the violence saying that he is not looting in the violence towards friendship or markets he's saying that he's not and he french but she wants to rebalance of the relationship with the former colonial power in favor of not big corporate french corporations but in favor of the senegalese people he also said that the government and the people need to listen to the word on the streets and this call from people they have really taken on mass on the streets to express themselves he says he is not responsible though for the violence that has taken place that has resulted in scores of people injured and at least at least according to him dozens of people killed have a listen to what he had to say. we are absolutely not responsible for the violence

that happened and we are not responsible for what might happen next because senegal has a lot of problems right now and we will not profit from destabilizing the country further i'm calling on everybody for calm but to remain mobilized. now the onus is on president. answer to this call from the people on the streets there are more protests planned this saturday because this new movement called the movement to defend democracy will they say the least poor 100 people are currently in detention people that have been detained and were arrested during the protest movement that we've seen recently so a lot more protests at least a demonstration planned on saturday and for months uncle he sees this as a moment for the country to unite and to get together behind his movement thank you very much for that nicholas carr. france's president to mannion michael says his

government will speed up the declassification of secret documents from its colonial era the decision will make it easier to access information relating to the algerian war of independence but critics say the blocking of thousands of once public documents shows there is still a long way to go in january a truth commission was set up to look into france's colonial history historians have called for victims testimonies to be included algeria as war of independence lasted from 194-1962 was one of the world's bloodiest conflicts geria says more than 1000000 of its people were killed and earlier i spoke to use of london who's a professor of political science at university he says there are some algerians who believe french colonial rule benefited the country. i think the police in these documents and the archives will get a long way toward start let's not forget that the reports by benjamin should just

to make available to him the other case but he also who dumped. i believe that much more has made significant steps but to apologize for france's behavior in not julia would not be the would not be good for his electoral campaign leave that they get until the inside has not been called in for they get. the problem they because the underlings have not made so much effort in these demands and also there are so many people in florence who do not necessarily believe the reason was a bad thing they believe that the french adventure in on julia was 'd to civilise there was some veges its flaws that created a jury of its flaws but the big infrastructure in algeria and therefore they have nothing to apologize for if that is in opposing it should come from the un

jillian's terrorists who committed that there was a pause in seas not far check on the wild weather has had it and fox. hello there we got some rather active weather moving across the middle east at the moment re snow and wind will be a feature for many as we go on through the next couple of days lots of cloud pushing across to case some snow there once again over the higher ground south of that generally drive a quite a brisk wind if dust and sand here into southern parts of iraq as we go on through thursday night as a system continues to move a little further south with an ace was the winds to pick up just around that northeastern corner saudi arabia here in concert as well look at the temperatures the 34 celsius for drawing in some warm air once again as we go on through the next couple days not quite so warm in iran kohen off a snow actually then will be a fair bit of rain on the southern flank of this particular system but some very active weather as i said coming in behind things do turn some aquatic and bryce up

behind quiet and dry weather across the whole of africa at present we do have some showers just around lake victoria gerrity the showers that are going to be as southern parts of tanzania into northern areas of medic ask joining up with shows that we have into northern madagascar mozambique pushing across san bia right across into the gulf of guinea that a bit of wet weather today for the far south of south africa but clearing through for friday. and still ahead on the news hour we'll be live in rio where former brazilian president will notice silver is expected to address a border is a day after a corruption charge against him was overturned long term exposure 10 years on from the fukushima nuclear accident why people in the area are still feeling the effects for decades to come and in sports christiana rinaldo intervent is have crashed out of the champions league in the last 16 that's coming up with it.

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the or the ear. problem back a recap of our top stories on this al-jazeera news hour a south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to temporarily drop 8 interest rate on covert $900.00 vaccines they say it would allow more countries and manufacturers to mass produce vaccine says the u.s. house of representatives is expected to vote to make over $1000.00 relief package worth nearly 2 trillion dollars it includes direct cash payments funding for covert $900.00 testing and vaccine distribution and libya spawn a mentality approved a new interim unity government as part of a u.n.

back to plan it will be responsible for holding elections later this year the new government will replace the 2 rival administrations. to brazil now where former president lula da silva is expected to address his supporters for the 1st time since his corruption convictions were overturned monday's decision by a supreme by the supreme court judge paved the way for luis ignacio lula da silva to make a political comeback his conviction in 2017 saw him serve 18 months in jail and barred him from running for office he could become president main leftwing rival in next year's presidential election and speak to morning who's in rio de janeiro for is so the court has yet to make a final decision on this case but what tone and what message monica can we expect to take when he speaks to his supporters. well what's expected is that he will see as a statesman. not a candidate but as

a person that can unite those brazilians which are unsatisfied with this government to mark the contrast with but as president will somehow do people in his workers' party have been talking and saying that in just a fading the race for the presidential elections which will be held next year towards the end of next year it will do little or no good right now a recent poll that just came out after. charges were not. showed both so maddow in front like a frontrunner with some 30 percent and lula in 2nd place with some 20 percent he's told her very not reliable really at this moment because everything is is nothing has been defined but it's true that both. have had its popularity high although he's been very criticized for mishandling the pandemic has

emergency t.a.a. that he gave journeying the pandemic and which kept brazil's economy from falling for now this emergency aid stopped in december brazil ran out of money but now congress is voting to extended for another 4 months around $40.00 per month. per per person and the last emergency aid package benefited 60 percent of result population and that helped take away. some of the votes of the workers' party had in the north eastern states which are the poorest so were expecting him to be rich and been vacated perhaps not angry and speaking like a statesman. ok monica thank you very much for that monica and i live for us in rio and of course we'll come back to you went lower addresses his supporters thank you for the moment the dismissal armenia's army chief of staff has come into force 2

weeks after the prime minister fired him a call pashley and accuse the military of attempting a cool last month after it demanded he resign but the sacking was blocked by the president on the leaders have reads aerated their calls for passion and to step down as some in the army say the prime minister mishandled last year's war with azerbaijan thousands of armenians were killed in the 6 week conflict in nagano caballe robin foresee a walker reports from yerevan on the challenges with some of the war's most seriously injured voters that is a veteran from recent war with azerbaijan he is adjusting to his new life a life without. virus that lost his arms rescuing his own brother who'd been wounded in the leg it's almost too much for their mother leanna to remember that they. voters that was with his brother in the ambulance when the shell struck that

despite his pain my brother came to help me the medic and driver rules the wounded the interior was on fire the mattresses were burning but we drove on while my brother tried to put out the fire who officially knowing 1094000000 soldiers were wounded in the 6 week war over in the go no care about talk to treat some of the most seriously injured at this rehabilitation center in central europe . as summoning to get back to something you never get used to all of this it's very difficult to see these young soldiers and many of them are helpless as a doctor it's terribly difficult for me to tell some of them that they will never walk again that burden is on me. physiotherapy and dry needling is helping hikes depan yet with the pain in his stumps he tells me

the prospect of returning to sports keeps him motivated. hike is one of 300 patients at this center receiving therapy therapy that wouldn't be possible without the support of charitable funding because the state here is simply not in a position to cope with the sheer scale of the problem that's a little bit too short the center will soon have a prosthetics workshop paid for by a dutch armenian charity there are a lot of empathy ated people they are waiting for prosthesis in a short time and that's a big challenge but i think it's a big plus that they are generally healthy and de are very motivated to do to walk with prestigious armenian tax payers also make mandatory payments into a soldier's insurance fund but voters that needs advanced prosthetics costing tens

of thousands of euros the kind that would enable him to hold his own cup of coffee again or mission they've told us these kind of prestige is beyond our reach. maybe this is a huge amount of money and people like us can't afford these types of artificial limbs but what does that say about us if we can't afford it who can if the home land was worth sacrificing my arms for why should new ones be beyond my reach. but as that hasn't wasted time since his interviews he got engaged to his girlfriend there's still hope that he live an independent life again. russia has restricted access to twitter accusing the social media platform or failing to remove banned content the country's communications watchdog says it slowed down the website speed and they've warned it could be blocked entirely

unless action is taken on tuesday russian authorities announced lawsuits against 5 social media platforms for post related to opposition protests according to the interfax news agency critics say it's a move by the crime crime into critics to silence its critics in the us 3 members jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a wife policeman accused of killing george floyd in the city of minneapolis. he was on top. they were interviewed in a courtroom and their identities have not been relieved floyd staff in police custody made worldwide protests former officer facing charges a 2nd degree murder and manslaughter the court has set aside 3 weeks to choose the 12 terrorists john hendren has more from minneapolis. on day one of jury selection in the case of the former police officer accused of murdering george floyd the court picked 3 jurors one a white chemist a man from minneapolis another is

a white man who works as an auditor and says he's got a friend who's a police officer and he's got a relatively negative view of black lives matter the 3rd is a woman of color who says her uncle is a police officer and all 3 said that they felt they could judge the case fairly race is particularly important in this case of a white police officer accused of killing a black man in a racially charged incident that was videotaped by bystanders and went viral that video sent protesters into the streets across the united states and set off riots here in minneapolis and elsewhere it's rare that a police officer is charged with murder and really we're still that one is convicted in the concern here in minneapolis is that if derrick show of an is found not guilty of these charges that those riots that began on may 25th when george floyd was killed could begin

a new that's why security is heavy around the courthouse with high barricades arrested around it national guard and police inside and very few people allowed inside that courtroom now ultimately the judge needs to pick 12 jurors and at least 2 alternates in order to start the trial but with 3 jurors being picked on the 1st day of jury selection they are on pace to begin as scheduled on march 29th. the f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect accused of planting explosives outside the democratic and republican party headquarters near capitol hill the f.b.i. says 2 pipe bombs were placed the night before the capitol hill attacks on january 6th they were discovered and diffused the next day a reward for information leading to the arrests of the suspects stands at $100000.00 the governor of the u.s. state of texas has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to the southern border with mexico in response to

a surge in migrants trying to cross the border among those seeking to enter the united states or thousands of central american children traveling without their parents and that's supposing a challenge for the biden administration reports. u.s. border patrol agents encountered more than $19000.00 unaccompanied migrant children at the border this fiscal year a number on pace to vastly surpass previous surges the miners made the arduous journey from central america without a parent arriving after president joe biden reopened the border to them we felt it was the most humane approach to addressing whatever very difficult circumstances in the region and that means there are more children kids under the age of 18 of course coming across the border the border patrol encountered $78000.00 migrants in january a leap from former president donald trump's final months in office and the highest january total in a decade on tuesday the republican governor of texas announced

a surge of state police and national guard troops in response to the worsening situation there is a crisis on the texas border right now with the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border this crisis as a result of president biden's open border policies the biden administration says the border is still closed to the majority of migrants the few who are allowed in officials say are the unaccompanied children and the asylum seekers who had already been waiting in line in mexico for 2 years these families will live freely in the u.s. until an immigration judge decides whether they can stay but the children who arrived alone are detained inside border patrol holding cells for days or weeks in violation of a court order as they wait for shelter space that's nearing 100 percent capacity the government has cancelled pandemic restrictions of the shelters to fit more children who live here for more weeks until they are placed with u.s.

sponsors we're definitely seeing an uptick in numbers but we're also seeing that the administration is very conscious of it and is working very quickly to put resources into place to handle future flows. progressive's urged the white house to improve the conditions of detained children while conservatives accuse biden of inviting a run on the border meanwhile pandemic related poverty in central america is driving more people to leave putting more pressure on biden and on the u.s. border hide your castro al-jazeera washington the united arab emirates is appealing for the lifting of u.s. sanctions against the syrian government and the news conference with the russian foreign minister the u.s. official said the sanctions are making it more difficult to end the 10 year conflict the u.s. imposed economic penalties accusing syria of war crimes against its own people i sought to keep the seas

a little as it is will make things harder and not only for us as countries but also for the private sector this has to be a part of the dialogue where we are speaking clearly about it with our friends in the united states of america it is very important for syria to return to its role in the arab league no doubt that this needs huge if it differently from the syrian side as well and it needs huge effort from our colleagues from the arab league. the chinese government is being accused of breaking every single act of the un genocide convention and its treatment of way gore's and change on a report by more than 50 global human rights experts says there's clear evidence china is responsible for committing genocide against the muslim way course as we moved around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the shame john region china denies allegations of human rights abuses. japan is walking 10 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed thousands of people it also severely damaged nuclear power plants that continue suppose

a contamination risk rob mcbride reports. it was the biggest quake japan has ever recorded creating devastating tsunami waves that crashed into towns and communities along its northeastern coast it left around 20000 people dead or missing and it caused a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant that led to more than 150000 people being evacuated from surrounding areas 10 years on and just 10 kilometers from the plant the town of tommy yoker still hasn't recovered utah was just 14 when he was evacuated with his family residents were allowed to return only 4 years ago but parts of the town are still off limits and strewn with bags of radioactive soil gravel 30 the used to hold the cherry blossom festival here and this lordly

filled with food stalls and people further along the coastline away from the contaminated areas lives have been rebuilt and sea defenses strengthened the government has turned the reconstruction effort into a symbol of national revival coinciding with the delayed summer olympics but the games remain in doubt and the decommissioning of the react. this poses a challenge for years to come. as of now i think we should keep our current plan to decommission within the next that. more than a 1000000 tons of contaminated water has now built up at the site and made speculation it might be released into the sea there is widespread opposition in spite of government assurances that the water has been treated your banking on what is going to i'm concerned about what will happen to the fishing industry in the next 10 years there is talk of releasing the water and i'm very worried that many

this anniversary will be a time to reflect on a natural disaster that took so much from this part of japan and that is still dealing with the legacy of it some precedented fools rob mcbride al jazeera. and still ahead on the news our boss a no no to overturn a 41 deficit when maybe the p.s.g. in the champions league be here with that story and the rest of the day sports for a short.

and now for sports. thank you very much delayed 2020 tokyo olympic games will go

ahead safely according to i.o.c. president thomas but the german says he fully expects the opening ceremony to take place on july 23 although decision has not been made yet it is expected that organizers will announce later this month that no international fans will be allowed to travel to japan for the games. to be reelected unopposed for a 2nd term as the head of the olympics movement on wednesday. the i.o.c. is standing shoulder to shoulder the side of our japanese partners and friends without any kind of reservation. talking remains the best prepared. for. this moment we have no reason to doubt that the opening ceremony will take place on 23rd of july. it's all square after the 1st day of racing at sailings america's cup defending champions team new

zealand took the honors in the opening race of the best of 30 match against challenges luna rossa the team's skipper by olympic champion peta billing won it by 31 seconds after their opponents fluffed the start in oakland but the italians food back in the 2nd race to win by 7 seconds competing for the old astray fi an international sport. it's different obviously you got to get off the. air get a few shots up there 1st but now we. found ourselves on the wrong sort of everyone up the 2nd base but never really thought it was worth to. do the experiment over korea from moving on so they're really happy with the 1st start on the way that the teams got apart and could charge. the boys saw the price we had of see quite a lot of attacks. just at the back yard well so it was a good sort of structural sort of bounce back after the 1st 1. 5 time champions league win a cristiana rinaldo and as you venters team have been knocked out of this is

competition in the last 16 if the porto were 21 up after the 1st leg and seen late in this match thanks to a surge of penalty to fit it in the goals for you've a level the time on aggregate but in extra time only vera netted a game for the portuguese club and despise the other in the robbie o. scoring to make it 3 through on the night for you ventus they would go out on away goals i'm sure michael much and everyone know we put pressure on ourselves but it was the same purport to be prepared for this match very well even though it took a different turn but we reacted well and we tried to win it until the very end we were unlucky but we still tried to win it at all costs we believed in our chances the team wanted to go through but unfortunately a loss can happen elsewhere because you dortmund saw through to the quarter finals of the losing in the last 16 in each of the last 2 years 20 year old star earning hole and scoring both goals against sivia there was a bit of a skate is the spanish club school 2 late goals to level matters but dortmund would

go through 54 on aggregate anyway you know it's going to you move them and also it's home when i was a little boy i dreamed of getting old with football at the moment i think i'll get old because of football it was nerve wracking but we put a lot of energy into it from the sidelines as well the whole coaching team and the boys that were in the stands have watched with excitement and we wanted to help the team it wasn't easy but it worked if you. 5 times champions league winners barcelona are in action on wednesday night with a very tough job ahead of him and his team mates need to overturn a 41 defeat by paris st germain in the 1st leg if they're to progress the 2nd leg is in paris but boss a cultural 2 minutes convinced the side have the ability to bounce back the feat would mean no messi or an elbow in the quarter finals for the 1st time since the 20045 season. but i'd be that we're still alive we're team that always tries to win regardless of where we play and we always create chances to school so if we manage to be clinical nothing is impossible to. get in most

class if you've got we want to qualify and we want to do it by winning the match knowing that we face a barcelona side which have great players and a great coach we have the maximum respect for our opponents but we know it is going to be a very tough match and that we have to produce a performance as good if not better than the one we produced in barcelona if we want to get through to the next round. also on wednesday liverpool take on german club rb leipzig liverpool are 3 left after the 1st leg but the english champions have been in different form of late they have slipped to 8th in the premier league standings and midfielder gini one album says the champions league offers the team a chance to rescue the season and i think everyone in who is in the champions league have a chance to win it's whom. you know in the beacon of the season it was already. we already wanted to play for everything we could win and that germany was one of

them and i don't think the change we're going to do is to give us and give us a best and trying to win it that's pretty vital to come to this it's not an easy task the players know that and i know that but we believe in ourselves and we've got a lot of confidence in the past weeks and didn't do too badly in the 1st leg but we still made mistakes which led to the defeat we will throw everything into the game and give our best. now the in-form player in the world of gulf right now the big heating bryson the shambo the american won the arnold palmer invitational last week thanks to incredible shots like this from the 70 god drive he says the presence of fans help boost his performance so he's pleased they will be a 20 percent crowd capacity at t.p.c. sawgrass this week for the players' championship biggest tournament of the season so far which is known as golds major. fans are what create some of that momentum for players and for me i know that was definitely the case last week and will continue to do so they've always kind of been. my little. i guess you could

say for helping improve my performance in the off worse there's no doubt about it you know winning in detroit last year and the one in the u.s. open it was it was just it was weird it was a weird feeling to win and i have fans there the tournament tees off on thursday and they will be one noticeable absence the 15 time major champion tiger woods who is still recovering off a car crash last month the p.g.a. tour as commissioner says hopefully tiger will be back to full health sooner rather than later you know i've been in communication with tiger and i stay close to many members of his team and. like so many others you know are we're just praying for his recovery and we're just so grateful for the fact that he's on the road to recovery. and you know that's the thing that is that's the most important thing that's the only thing at this point in time. that's where we'll leave it for now i'll pop in again a little bit later for sports news for the day to thank you very much for that

that's it for this news hour but do stay with us we've got plenty more news coming up very shortly after the break we'll be live in pressing. military takeover amy and molly respond to chaos a mystery that's 101 east is on the ground investigating what it means for the future of the south station. on al jazeera. the states are 4 months it's the mouth of their arabian gulf at the eastern end of the arab peninsula if you look at the arabian peninsula was up there a essential to the ancient culture and to the east and to the west gather. it's sometimes known as the switzerland of the gulf because of the important regional role it plays in the gulf cooperation council the g.c.c.

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