the education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. this is al jazeera. and this is the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 60 minutes the un special rapporteur on me and masseurs there's growing evidence the military is engaging in torture and persecution that may constitute crimes against humanity also mark suspends astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine after reports of blood clots but says there's no evidence of

a direct link yet. in the us the push to vaccinate as many people as possible runs into some determined opposition. also the united nations holds a special meeting to raise awareness of the problem of 100 and parts of ethiopia. and asked with smaller to take care of them picked organizers deny reports they've already decided to ban a.b.c.'s founders and the international olympic committee strikes a deal with china to provide vaccines athletes around the world pairing for the games. to the new south the un special rapporteur on human rights miramar says there's growing evidence the military's crackdown on protesters could constitute crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture thomas andrews has also called for multilateral sanctions on senior john to leaders to be

a bar zoila gas and to price. credible reports indicate it means more security forces should murdered at least 70 people is a horrible truth that as soon as an issue a report the number of murders is arbitrary detentions and mean more become outdated who does the changing doesn't sometimes hundreds every day stop the flow of revenue into the illegal hooters congress is going to happen while the lateran sanctions should be imposed on both she are going to leaders and a major source of revenue including military only and control enterprises and need more oil and gas. military has rejected the report they say their actions have been necessary to maintain order in the reason these authorities are saying have been being a dancer to maintaining law and order in the country authorities have been assessed as or at most restraint to deal with the violent protests said. that thought it's

important to show off a few of their criminal procedure which prohibits gathering are fired on more people in public places in $146.00 shipped where violent protests and riot have created disturbances to the public or and the rule of law let's cross over to our diplomatic editor james bays who's live for us at the united nations in new york james i mean it was a tale of 2 narratives really one of restraint by me and bar the other of systematic murder according to the un special rapporteur but the presentation by that foreign ministry official was incredibly odd. it was very odd he was very subdued he seemed to be mumbling he seemed to be nervous it's worth telling you that this gentleman chung is a veteran foreign ministry official of me and ma he is the permanent secretary at the foreign ministry it's also worth reminding you that who used to be in charge in

the foreign ministry because one of the jobs of the state counselor was the foreign minister and that was sung suchi so this is someone who used to work very closely with young sung suchi who now is defending the military crackdown and saying the authorities have been exercising most restraint to deal with the violent protests which clearly goes against everything that we've seen on our screens since the coup on the 1st of february and it does beg the question is he speaking totally freely or is he in fear of the current situation is he in fear of fear of any sort of reprisals against him and indeed of course it's interesting that judgment speaking to the human rights commission knowing that it already has issues with its u.n. ambassador who. wonders who really is actually speaking for the country at the u.n. . well there's the bigger issue of international recognition in embassies

around the world and who they are loyal to and certainly a big prize for the military would be having the voice at the united nations coming from someone who is loyal to them and i have to say in new york i think they thought that was going to be the case when the ambassador at the end of last month got up and spoke and instead he denounced the military telling you the ambassador at the u.n. in geneva has resigned his post it seems the military got around this by submitting this statement from this official in myanmar but there's going to be a continuing battle i think on on the representation around the world who's in charge of embassies and who has the seat at the u.n. the situation right now it seems at the u.n. in new york it's the ambassador who is loyal to the democratically elected politicians most of who find themselves detained at the moment while in geneva they

seem to be getting statements coming directly from myanmar and from the military running giunta we'll leave it there for the moment and continue to monitor haven't with you james our diplomatic editor james bays there for us the u.n. in new york well meanwhile members military has leveled new accusations against deposed leader and son suchi a military spokesman said that she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 plus gold while the government has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. protesters in myanmar again believe bullets on the streets of yangon live ammunition used elsewhere to protesters and several other cities and towns are facing a stepped up violent crackdown and more cases of security forces shooting unarmed protesters in the head we protest peacefully but they crack down on us while mentally demotic stronger developer lucian east the happy side of the view continue until we've been in a news conference the military judge to restated its intention of holding on to

power only until new elections can be held. election fraud in november's polling was its reason for the power grab yet the generals have provided no evidence of it . they also accuse deposed civilian leader aung sang suu kyi of taking bribes and others in her cabinet of corruption. so how did you confirm a young gun regional minister appeal. said he gave. himself $600000.00 in cash and 11 kilograms of gold between december of 2017 to march of 2018 so i'm watching the news conference at a yangon tea shop call it one sided and question the jump to placing blame on protesters for starting the violence when they have no weapons always saying that the whole country is carrying out acts of violence it's horrible it's hurtful we have given our time we have given our lives to military does not care and say whatever they want. in another movie just to has taken the erik an army off its

list of terrorist groups it's one of 2 dozen ethnic armed groups in the country it's been removed from the list according to the joint because they have now stopped attacks in order to help establish peace some of the other ethnic armies have sided with the antic who protesters and across its eastern border thailand is preparing for the possibility of a refugee flow from ian maher those looking to flee the military's crackdown thailand's immigration department is converting a football arena into a processing center with health screening for now there hasn't been a large number of people trying to cross the border but in anticipation the time military has increased its patrols along the area scott tyler al-jazeera. norway denmark and iceland have temporarily halted the use of the covert 19 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca denmark says it was after a small number of cases of blood clots however the country's health ministry said it wasn't clear whether the clots were linked to the vaccine the u.k.

has responded and says the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective let's get more on this one correspondent paul brennan he's in london following events for us this sort of looks like it's escalating but how worrying is it. i think it is worrying it's worrying because there are potentially more countries going to get involved in this you know this started the smalling with just denmark and austria involved and now we have norway and iceland of 3 countries now who have totally stopped using albeit on a temporary basis they are astra zeneca vaccine and some 6 other european countries including its me and austria who have kind of stopped using one bachche one specific bachche of the astra zeneca vaccine but it's worrying because on what basis have they done this now it seems that there have been a very small handful of blood clot related illnesses and 2 deaths as we

understand it and because of that the health authorities in those individual countries have acted but the overarching message from the regulators both in europe and in for example the u.k. is that the vaccine is safe the european medicines agency for example has said there's no evidence of a link between from the events that have been seen and the vaccine that said they were just 22 reports not deaths reports of blood clots among more than 3000000 people who've had the astra zeneca vaccine and if you think about more than 11000000 people specifically have had the astra zeneca vaccine here in the u.k. and no reports it's all of any blood clots or any problems like that it remains to be seen exactly how big a problem this actually is but now the danish for example they admit that they're being ultra cautious they're saying they're waiting for more details to come out from data it may be to 2 weeks from now that it clear it's all safe but what's

worrying as well is the impact this might have on public confidence and trust in the vaccine indeed a bit earlier in the day paul you had suggested or reported that there was concern about one particular batch of the vaccine and that was the batch that perhaps was used between denmark and austria i mean can you give us any clarity on that. well that's what it's one batch it's around a 1000000 doses it was divided up between 17 different countries that know which batch it is it has a specific serial number so they can pretty easily isolate it but as i say what's not clear is whether there is actually any causal link whatsoever between that batch and any of the blood clots from bo and valek events as the a.m.a. courtney's and the people who've been vaccinated with that batch it's it's completely unknown at the moment now what the countries are saying is that they've suspended all 3 of the countries have said they've suspended it all together in order to look at the data and find out more details other countries france u.k.

and spain say that they disagree with the conclusion of the danish the icelandic and the norwegians not going to carry on using the astra zeneca jap as they have been so it's clearly drawing a divide between different countries within the european. and as i say worryingly at a time when in germany for example the rise in infections is giving rise to the idea that there may be a 3rd wave and in france we're seeing pressure on the intensive care units there with a big increase in occupancy of bets we're leaving the finance for the update banks from that poor brother in law to. the us vaccination campaign has now reached more than 93000000 people to shy of the 20 percent of the population 2000000 being vaccinated every day but the number of people rejecting the vaccine is also a sizeable brunell's found out it's tangled up in party politics and conspiracy theories. in recent weeks and months coated skeptics

have stormed shopping centers denouncing customers wearing masks others disrupted a major vaccination center in los angeles claiming the vaccine is harmful and part of a left wing plot. people in idaho rallied to stage a public mask burning ceremony. coppa deniers are busy spreading their message on social media this is the covert deception guys they want to see of us they want to control us they want to put this muzzle our face this mask now researchers and lawmakers say anti-vaccination groups and covert deniers are merging with the pro trump armed groups whose father worse attacked the u.s. capitol in january many anti vaccine leaders and braced conspiracies lights. and joined group white supremacist groups like the proud voice so you see this

alignments with these other conspiracy groups and right wing organizations have. anti-vaccination propaganda is partisan in nature growing partly out of x. president donald trump's repudiation of mass wearing and his repeated denials that the coronavirus caused serious illness the seeds of science denial and then to intellectual ism run very deep in culture it's her stronger right now among republicans a february poll shows 42 percent of republicans say they will never get vaccinated some of the covert conspiracy theories are outlandish on a par with the beliefs of q. and on at harriet's about a global cobol of satan worshipping pedophiles or the believes that the vaccine is being manufactured to oh oh bill gates to microchip people

it's not a matter of intelligence it's not a matter of mental illness or friends that these are mistakes that human even very well educated very intelligent people can make dr richard pan is a california state senator and a practicing pediatrician he says the. pearcey theorists in danger millions the dangers of allowing people to spread lies about vaccines actually endangers all of us and it slows our ability to stop this disease which has already killed over half a 1000000 americans pan and others call for stronger social media fact checking and removal of conspiracists material online is a large group of americans continues to reject reality the by did ministrations goal of near universal adult vaccination and a return to some semblance of normal life may prove elusive rob reynolds al-jazeera

los angeles talked on the spot or is an assistant professor of population health science and policy at new york's mount sinai hospital she says the longer people wait to take the vaccine is the more likely it is that will be taishan so much i think you know the main the main thing that we were need to actually remember is that it doesn't matter what vaccine to fund a view is out of vaccine that saving lives or about lives and that ones are protecting us there against the development of man's of their new need patient does not mean the he needs to spread was uncontrolled manner then we're going to continue continuously vans and some of those we already know this so a right question is at you know that you know if it had been trying to be safe yes only vaccine to 12 that they never been authorized and in use had been shown to be safe and. with the cabbage being that the ones that i would say that the ones

that have been developed in the global north and in private the mcgann of the academic. dan j. that means and certainly the chinese that things have a track record not being in the states and i would say don't get started trying to effectively take it plenty more ahead here on the news hour including the foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey hold a meeting in doha with the goal of addressing the humanitarian situation in syria. also top u.s. and israeli officials hold a video conference navigating a new relationship that comes with a new administration. and in sport with germany we'll show you how much a federal caught on in his 2nd match since returning from injury. the united nations is holding

a special session on the rising threat of hunger especially in yemen and parts of ethiopia the head of the world food program has begun looking for private donations the agency needs an extra 6 $100000.00 to provide aid to yemen in the next 6 months nearly half a 1000000 yemeni children need immediate assistance to save them from starvation david beasley says those who've made it to hospitals on the brink of death of the lucky ones it's a horrific situation it really years i went to what would be the best hospital. room to room to room with us all children literally. the lucky ones that actually get into the what called the doctor how many years you had here and he said 25 are still what do you do with the worry that you know that curve and you don't have room for should we start the whole so what have we still hope. now food supplies are running dangerously low in ethiopia's northern region of the great

were millions are an urgent need of support people arriving in camps for for the displaced in the region say that their survived surviving by eating leaves aid agencies say there isn't enough space for the thousands that turn up every day now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has spoken out about the ongoing violence in ethiopia is 2 very region led to thomas greenfield called on all sides to come to a solution ongoing violence hips that humanitarians from helping a desperately hungry people activists in ethiopia including eritrean forces from across if you will be as orders have restricted humanitarian access to the rural areas where the most europeans live we can that allow the situation to hear it are there we call on all sides and i stress all sides to stop the fighting and allow this man made humanitarian situation to be addressed. cattles

foreign minister has held talks with his russian and turkish counterparts in doha the talks focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war now in its 10th year turkey's foreign minister expressed hope for a breakthrough double the cut could the we are contribution with our efforts for a sustainable political stability for syria of course unfortunately the conflict has been going on for 10 years and we have witnessed many unfortunate events our wish is to see that syria's legitimate request will find a result within the criteria of the united nations and turkey. to last we are constantly coordinating with our counterparts in russia and that's why we do not see any bilateral meetings as come. to the diplomatic process all the efforts aiming at peace all the bilateral meetings are supportive

in other words as they are meant mentally to support the collective efforts towards lasting peace and they are all. transparency between clatter and russia and with fully appreciate the support provided by the russian 2 words the doha efforts with respect to the afghanis issue. ben smith was at the news conference in doha and has more on the major issues that were discussed. well we're 10 years on from those 1st and the acid protests in syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between the 3 countries was another way of trying to achieve a political solution for this start

a process if the russians had their way would ultimately lead probably with the assad regime staying in charge we have the m.r.i. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league the catheters when asked about that weren't interested in seeing syria at this stage back in the arab league and turkey which of course is not in the arab league but it said never to have a soul of the foreign minister of turkey said that the syrian regime wants a new military solution he doesn't believe in a political solution so despite least 3 countries getting together no indication that there are any closer than they ever have been to finding a political solution to what's happening in syria also on the agenda was afghanistan talks started here in september peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban they've been off here in this very hotel since then they haven't achieved very much the u.s. last week sending a letter to the afghan president saying they want to find a new political solution to afghanistan so they can withdraw their troops and now

the russians saying that next week in moscow they're going to have a meeting to try and find is another way forward for afghanistan but they were keen to point out that that was not taking away from the talks that are happening here in doha al-jazeera senior political analyst bashara says russia is crucial in and dig the conflict in syria. clearly since the russians got involved militarily in 2015 things might have stabilized in favor of the assad regime and his russian patrons but russia has ended up with a major crisis on its hand as as most international humanitarian organization would tell you there are some 600000 dead syrians today after 10 years of conflict 600000 there are 6000000 refugees and 10000000 people lack food security so clearly after 10 years of conflict of civil war

this issue needs to be resolved and while other issues like afghanistan and yemen have their own processes the process that took place in geneva has not succeeded yet the so-called constitutional process because of the stubbornness of the assad regime so clearly russia needs a solution turkey and qatar and others are interested in helping out but the elephant in the room is of course the absent american because hardly anyone can provide help without america 1st if the sanctions. china has approved changes to limit democratic participation in hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress pass new laws to veto and screen candidates but follows must protests in the semi autonomous territory in 2019 calling for greater freedoms katrina you has more from beijing thank you beijing is great all of the people

almost 3000 communist party officials closed china's national people's congress by voting on a road map for the next 5 to 15 years the priorities achieving 6 percent g.d.p. growth increasing the domestic market and creating 11000000 new jobs. lutea we would certainly be happy to see robust growth but we are also aware of the uncertainty evolving chinese economic rebound global economic development is also uncertain also approved by nearly all the delegates with just one abstention a bill to overhaul hong kong's political system the reforms with the seats added to the territories legislative council allocated mostly to prove beijing think it is a committee will be established to vet those who hold public office ensuring them loyal to the chinese government or considered patriots by beijing ted why a former opposition politician who fled hong kong fearing punishment and abating

his new national security law has just arrived in australia and says he's heartbroken by the reforms it took like a decade. confirmed to develop. the finish that is in the design of the 2 sions but it only took 2 or 3 months so had to have that whole industry wide and so we feel betrayed of course hated and. we feel miserable of losing our freedoms the u.s. is leading growing international criticism about the changes saying there are an attack on hong kong's democratic freedoms strained ties between the 2 countries were a focal point of this year's national people's congress washington has called beijing a strategic threat china's leaders have responded by pushing for more innovation driven economy china has much more focus on using damascus resources and increasing demands to

a mass amount in basic research like biology semiconductors so i think now the competition between china and us will stay for a long time our edge make economic sense for china to be more self-reliant president xi jinping has called for an increase to china's military capability time as it is that they want to work with the biden administration to expand its top officials from the rest einstein are expected to alaska next week to discuss this is the long list of disagreements that is to overshadow the tops of buildings with the world is the center china's communist party says its approach to the weakest and hong kong are strictly domestic affairs and it would be swayed by so-called foreign difference between e.u. al-jazeera beijing. well still ahead here on al-jazeera after the fukushima nuclear disaster some countries say that they're rethinking their use of nuclear power

a decade later other views changed and the environmental effects of 91 activist in the u.k. are urging people to ditch disposable face masks. all the world cup winning rugby player who's giving up the game to concentrate on the box set. how i recall some rather active weather moving across the middle east over the next couple of days a fair bit of right sleet and snow piling outs it's asked going to make its way across the caucasus georgia or armenia azerbaijan all seeing significant snowfall as we go through the next couple days northern parts of iraq could see some snow northern areas of iran certainly in with a chance to see some significant snowfall for

a temperature drop 13 celsius in tehran 33 in kuwait even here in doha we're going to warm 35 celsius that brisk wind 50 dust and sand but look at the temperatures for why friday going on into sas day 25 celsius a 10 degree drop here in doha so freshening up 13 degree drop there in kuwait ready getting up to 7 celsius therefore tear around that right statement snow that will make its way across tech menaced on northern parts of afghanistan let's look further south with things with a good deal quater the u.a.e. yemen doing too badly and that dry weather that comes down across the horn of africa you find in dry here all the way down across the rift valley like victoria looking pretty good got some heavy a shower 7 c. northern parts of madagascar northern areas of mozambique through zambia those heavy showers right all the way up into the gulf of guinea. $100.00 media going to be embedded in such

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hulu. book about watching out is there is news on with the cell rama reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur on human rights and mia maher says there's growing evidence the military's crackdown on protesters could constitute crimes against humanity murder persecution and torture the military has rejected the reports also norway and denmark have temporarily halted the use of astra zeneca as covert 90 vaccine after a small number of cases of blood clots but denmark's health ministry says it's not yet clear whether the costs were linked to the vaccine and the u.n. is raising alarm on the issue of hunger in yemen the parts of ethiopia nearly half

a $1000000.00 yemeni children a risk of starvation food supplies are running dangerously low in ethiopia as northern to grey region. national security advisers from the u.s. and israel are holding a virtual meeting to coordinate on security concerns in the middle east iraq is expected to be a major topic of discussion israel opposes the 2050 nuclear agreement with world powers well the by the administration has signaled it wants to return to the deal let's get more of this with kimberly hellcat our white house correspondent who joins me now from washington d.c. i mean when these 2 nations talk about strategic partnerships kimberley and regional issues we can expect iraq to be high uphold the agenda. there's no question the that is what they are talking about when they say that agenda item is regional issues in fact we now have a readout of that meeting as and we understand from the readout that both israel and the united states share their perspectives when it comes to what the united

states is set as a destabilizing action on the part of iran in the broader region they pledged to confront the challenges and threats as well according to the readout but not much more in terms of detail and so we're left trying to understand why it was so important that this group which had been in place under the obama administration why i joe biden when he was vice president then and now as president now has decided to bring it back now there is some speculation here in washington that it may have a lot to do with benjamin netanyahu the israeli leader who's been very vocal that he is opposed to the. agreement there the green it with iran to limit its nuclear program that the united states currently is outside of as of a decision by the top administration and so given the fact that joe biden has stated that there is interest in rejoining that deal should iran comply with the terms of it it really leaves both sides at odds so this is something that

presumably was being worked out although again that readout leaving a lot of the details and specifics out and of course putting a bone to one side could be the relationship between israel and the united states is a strong one but in this particular case we've got to know who brings to right wing american president is not going to deal with a very different type of president even though he does know joe biden personally. knows joe biden personally but you have to remember that when joe biden was vice president there was a lot of tension with the obama administration particularly between barack obama and benjamin netanyahu and so perhaps this is an effort to try and do things differently we also have those looming israeli elections which are factoring in perhaps as well and then you also have to remember that there is the concern here in the united states that the actions of israel given the fact that top security officials inside israel have said not only do they not like the agreement to limit

iran's nuclear program but that military action is still an option on the table that makes people in washington nervous there's this fear that the united states could be drawn into some sort of armed conflict as a result of israel so there's a lot of discussion taking place strategy moving forward many factors including those a looming not only israeli elections but also iran so these are some of the things that are being worked out as the united states tries to move forward in terms of limiting iran's nuclear program possibly resuming joining the j c p a way we'll leave it there for now with you completely so much complete how could our white house correspondent let's move this forward now with p.j. crowley a former u.s. assistant secretary of state joins me by skype from washington d.c. good to have you on the program again mr crowley just following on from what kimberly said. in washington d.c. the relationship between tel aviv and washington d.c.

is perhaps more important now than it's ever been considering we have not only that israeli election but we also house and the radial action pending as well. yes and and you know in some interim national security guidance that the bike in this tray she put out earlier this month you know front and center as the 1st line of that strategy on the middle east is to continue to support israeli security. confront iran and see if there's a path back to negotiations between the israelis and palestinians so you know that is a very traditional. view of a what is a central relationship between the united states israel in the region how do you read bringing back this sort of 2 way. dialogue between both parties something that was taken away during the trump era.

well obviously what's missing is a white house on boy and a family on boy you know so you're going to see a return to to regular channels of communication you know between the 2 countries they are very broad they are very deep and i think that they are there's kind of a here and there to it on the one hand you know the biden mr ation a signal very clearly it will continue to support the normalization process to see if it can push other countries into full diplomatic relations with israel and on the other side there is this just agreement to disagree about the value of the iran nuclear deal and i think you know there obviously in these conversations it's clarifying the fact that you know that should you know the biden mr a should find a path you know back to the deal and that's a big if it will do so in full consultation with israel america perhaps needs to have this channel of communication because times are netanyahu is heading towards

as well full general election in 2 yes' he had to embrace a right wing president in trouble thinking that perhaps america was changing in a way that suited him has he miscalculated. well. obviously all politics is local whether you're talking about politics through slim you know our politics in washington these are 2 men that know each other well they have done a lot of business together over the years but speaking from the standpoint of washington obviously. the president you know will not forget the fact that netanyahu directly lobbied against the iran nuclear deal during the obama administration i think they're prepared to work together but i think here in washington they are in fact going to wait and see you know whether or not you know 1st and foremost survives this current political challenge be interesting to see what does happen for the moment p.j. conny thanks so much for joining us from washington d.c. you're welcome. the u.s.

church has reinstated a 3rd degree murder charge against the former policeman accused of killing george floyd some talk of a 2nd degree murder and manslaughter charge due to be brought to trial at the end of the month now the former officer is accused of killing floyd by kneeling on his neck for around 9 minutes his death sparked anti racism and police brutality protests around the world. the new u.s. attorney general of merrick garland has arrived at the department of justice for his 1st day in the role the former supreme court nominee was approved by the senate with bipartisan support on wednesday garland has promised to run an impartial justice department the only way we can succeed and retain the trust of the american people is to add here to the norms that have become part of the d.n.a. of every justice department employee those norms require that like cases be treated alike that there not be one rule for democrats and another for republicans.

one rule for friends and another for foes one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless one rule for the rich and another for the poor or different rules depending upon one's race or ethnicity. mexico has moved closer to decriminalizing cannabis the lower house of congress approved a bill allowing use of the drug for recreational medicinal and scientific purposes now it's backed by president and the mayors manuel lopez obrador the bill now has to go to the senate. now where prince william says the british royal family is not racist just days after his brother took part in an interview to reveal why he and his wife left the u.k. the duke of cambridge says that he still hasn't spoken to prince harry but he intends to carry a neck and interview with oprah winfrey sparked global controversy the duchess of

sussex told winfrey she faced questions about the skin color of her then unborn son . japan is marking 10 years since a back to choose a 9.9 earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast killing thousands of people not triggered meltdowns at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant forcing entire communities to flee some people have since returned but the recovery is still far from over al-jazeera is fadi salama who reports now from the tub or in fukushima prefecture. the port of ok though is just 5 kilometers from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant it would be easy from here to mistake the boat's masts for the water cooling towers and the cranes on the reactors and offs it was only a year ago 9 years after the disaster the port was allowed to be used again as the 11 over the asian had gone down to what are termed normal limits. it was

something the fishermen were waiting for but today they are not in the mood what fishing. they want to mourn all those lost in the tsunami. because you know what and i would like his photographs of the additional celebrations in the town of soma the birthplace of someone i would years to provide inspiration. hayden and then if they wanted to remove i don't know maybe no one will come to see my photos but if somebody does i hope they inspire them with courage to overcome the challenges ahead. japan has undergone a massive reconstruction project since 2011 rebuilding homes and ports repairing ships and building hundreds of kilometers of falls along its coastline in case of another tsunami. was but when you travel along route 6 which she is just 3 kilometers from the fukushima plant you realize there are signs

showing the amount of one of the asian in there. the fukushima plant has 6 reactors 3 of them to be removed that could take at least 10 years then there is another 30 years for the cleanup of the entire sites but there are also other challenges the 1st is getting rid of fragile active water more than 1000000 tons of it and there is no space to store more next year. you know we have no possibility of building new reserve was to conserve contaminated water we are awaiting the government's decision after careful consideration of the situation. but there is also the matter of contaminated waste 14000000 cubic meters of it the contaminated waste is temporarily stored for future disposal in warehouses like here in just the 3 kilometers away from the nuclear plant but on to

know no one knows how or when that will happen fred he said i mean i just put up. now jonathan karp as a senior analyst at the nuclear world nuclear association he says following the accident governments around the world have reassessed their energy needs. well i think what happened after the accident in for she mandated she is that round the world nuclear reactor operators governments and regulators carried out stress tests to find out if there was anything they needed to do to make their reactors more resilient to learn from what happened to focus shima daiichi and having done that i think in many countries governments are looking at their energy policies they're wanting to hit net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 and they realize many of them that they're going to need nuclear energy along with all the other low carbon options like wind solar and hydro in order to reach that target there is a new issue to do with public understanding and public attitudes towards nuclear

energy but i think one of the things that we can learn from is that recently just in the last couple of days a u.n. report is being released that it's concluded that there will be no health effects discernable for the people of africa shima and therefore i hope the people in fukushima as well as around the world they are reassured by that expert advice and the expert study so really if they understand the true impacts they will have a better understanding of nuclear energy and put it into context with a much bigger mess of climate change and event pollution which are really are the things that are threatening us globally. well still ahead here all the news will overseas funds bail out at the olympics the latest from tokyo coming up with is full so do stay with us.

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book about tough sport out his job. thanks i'll take it as like i limp it organizing committee says a decision has still not be reached about whether to allow overseas fans at the games several media outlets are reporting that it's already been agreed that foreign fans will be shut out to prevent the spread of coronavirus tokyo 20 twentieth's say that's not true they do want a decision before the start of their limping torch relay on march 25th this requires an extremely careful and vigilant decision foreign fans book f lights and many of book hotels so we believe it's better to let them know as early as possible the japanese organizes it didn't comment on the international olympic committee

doing a vaccine deal with china vaccination is not mandatory but this came up we're also chapstick level athletes as they prepare to take the 2022 winter games in beijing and so it doesn't seem like sports jumping the queue at the i.o.c. were also provide doses for the general public for each of these additional don't for an olympic and paralympic team. yeah you see we'll pay for those is more which can be made available to the population in the respective country according to their needs. with 4 months to go one of the other pressing concerns is getting athletes qualified they then picks lots of qualification events being cancelled because of travel restrictions just this week another gymnastics meet was scrapped which means results from the 2019 world championships will now be used to award entries there are similar problems of the canoeing traffic on and also boxing with more than 50 fight has to be given spots based on results dating

back 4 years while the official deadline for qualification is set by the i.o.c. is june the 29th covered the a 25 percent of the athlete quota places a still to be filled with another 14 percent to be decided on rankings and time is running out with a $134.00 days until the opening ceremony. after winning his 1st match in over a year roger federer has now been knocked out of the cast are open the 39 year old swiss was competing at his 1st event since undergoing double knee surgery he beat dan evans in his comeback that he was up against nicholls abassi bashfully in the quarter finals fedorov the 1st set 63 but lost the 2nd 61 and despite having a match point in the decider he was unable to convert it and it was the georgian who took the victory and he'll be up against a tale of fritz in the 70s the american of thought from the set down to beat canadian and 4th seed denis should have

a lot of that's not the only sport in doha right now the cats are masters golf is going on as well as scotland's a david lohr leads after the 1st round he made 7 bodies including one here at the 15th and he didn't go for shots to finish on 7 under par that leaves him a shot clear of the fields while in florida the biggest event of the season so far the players' championship is taking place and the famous island par 370 has already come some victims on day one this was paul casey of finding the water twice before making a quadruple bogey is fellow englishman matthew fitzpatrick well he's fairing a bit better he's in a tie for 2nd a 3 shots behind the early sergio garcia. professional sports in the brazilian state of south has been stopped because of a rise in coronavirus cases also want to have bad activities that produce large gatherings before the house system collapses this includes the state's football championship so teams are meeting later to discuss whether to move games elsewhere

over 87 percent of intensive care beds in sao paolo a taken by patients of corona virus which is claimed more than 270000 lives in brazil germany coach believes stepping down after this summer's european championship will give his successor more time to prepare fiore 2024 on home soil he predicts that the current crop of players will pick up the tournament in germany in 3 is the 61 year old is the longest serving coach in international football. you seem nice white house and feel i don't see myself as a national coach in 2024 anymore and i just think it's also right when you talk about renewals and about energy and about these things now it was the right time for me i honestly also think that a new coach who comes in and takes over this team needs the necessary time as a coach of a national team and sometimes not quite as easy as with a club team. fans have been demanding justice for one of the world's greatest football as a diego maradona the 6 year old died of

a heart attack in november weeks after having brain surgery supporters of the argentine i don't believe his death was caused by medical negligence series of a report what is heiress. you might have known at did not die he was killed chanted hundreds of his followers in the center of one our society's. whenever one has daughters attended the rally and joined his fans in the call for justice. his entourage used him were with him for money they let him die they gave him weed beer if you love someone you don't do that they have to pay you if it's not in jail there has to be social condemnation. people blog to one of the main avenues of argentina's capital they want a full investigation into what happened to their idols. it was a god like figure in argentina who struggled on alcohol and drug abuse he had

a poor health but still the ministry of justice in argentina appointed an medico committee to investigate metal enough that it is expected to take 2 to 3 weeks to issue its findings. to a documentary by in full by local media company revealed all your recording said to be between my own as lawyers doctors and caretakers in them prosecutors say there is enough evidence to prosecute my brother in us doctor and 6 others. the documentary reveals how his daughter's wanted to hospitalize him after his brain surgery but it's a ledge he's and to rush wanted to take him to a private home so they would lose control over him and the profits he generated the sourdough. well what we expect is that the detectives can have access to all of the documentation the public prosecutor has been gathering very meticulously to reconstruct this great puzzle that is the events at the end of diego armando method

on his life so what we expect is that each of the detectives will issue an expert opinion one of his biographers says what's happening is a legal battle. i feel is a battle between lawyers between his descendants dear good heart problems lung problems addictions all sorts of problems what's extraordinary is that he made into a 60 years old. man i don't i was a man who generated passion when he was alive and continues to do so now that he's dead. that is how will when a scientist. new zealand's a 2 time world cup winner sonny bill williams has announced his retirement from rugby the 35 year old switch between league and union during his 17 year career but he's not giving up sport altogether he's planning to get back in the boxing ring that is all your sport from a finale back with more later. thanks very much chairman well environmental

campaigners in britain are warning of the impact of disposable masks they say most people don't realize the cheapest masks a plastic and they end up in waste dumps or discarded in nature that a barber has more. blue face masks a common sight in city centers around britain apparently only essential shops are open but as lock downs a loosens people will still be wearing masks for months or even years to come and that means an ongoing nightmare for the environment because there's us all over there really is a mounting block to this video shows staff at a wildlife hospital helping a bird that's been caught up in discarded litter it's a face mask one of the disposable surgical face coverings made of plastic. campaign group keep britain tidy have found disposable masks and gloves at 14 percent of sites they've surveyed since last summer they say such discarded items are now even more common than plastic bags were before a compulsory charge for the bags came in more than 100000000 disposable face masks

like this get thrown away across the u.k. every single week that's enough to cover more than 230 soccer pitches now a recent survey found 70 percent of people using disposable masts didn't realize they were using single use plastics and nearly one in 5 thought they could be recycled which isn't the case i know it's going to be waste but these are the quickest and most easiest ones to use put on take out go again you know i mean with these cuts god they're not washable they're not reusable so you have the bible where you put up notice a lot more in the mind of famous people discard them i'm given any of your thought as to what happens to them afterwards the problem with single use plastic mask is they'll end up in a landfill site like this in an incinerator or simply discarded researches at university college london say if every person in the u.k. used one disposable mask every day for a year it would create $124000.00 tons of waste half of which would be and we. cyclable contaminated plastic when we use it in health care they're classed as

clinical waste so then health care workers will put it in state the yellow bins say then like they are separated from general general waste and then take it to incineration for the public domain there isn't actually this system at this factory they're trying to provide an alternative their mosques are based on specifications from old a children's hospital in liverpool which gets a percentage of the sales they have an antiviral coaching and like other such mosques can be washed and reused how to be something that was always practical comfortable easy so i could be produced locally so the mosque in the design we've come up with is ethical sustainable and entirely made in the u.k. it looks like facemasks will be part of many people's lives at least in the short term whatever kind they where they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up al-jazeera london. we watching the news out of me so.

we'll have more of the new sanctions take. to jump into the story there is a lot going on in this. global community when i don't have all the misinformation i think we don't want to feed than we are aware that 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 who would love to he. be part of today's

discussion this dream on out is there a. good goalkeeper from one is a. couple's one dreams with my. lab a rest i'm told to just. close to a single footballing legend cancer introduces cloud your tumbling one of a special few stood up for their beliefs whatever other. football records on al-jazeera. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theater has become a symbol of moneyless to katie now the philippine government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many

structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recover it. as the security forces and men mark hill at least 7 more protest as a senior hunter official tells the un they've been exercising the utmost restraint . i'm charlie rangel and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the e.u. approves johnson and johnson's one shot to covert vaccine as infections rise in italy france and.