join me as i take all of this memo to misconceptions and debate the contradiction. and it's time to get up from here. 0. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes another kidnapping at a school the northwest in nigeria students and teachers were abducted at gunpoint. protests in rebel held cities across syria as it marks 10 years of civil war more than half a 1000000 people dead and millions forced to leave their homes. germany becomes the

latest country to stop using the astra zeneca vaccine because of concerns over its side effects. the. queen bee makes music history at this year's grammy despite winning the most awards on record . and in sport to new zealand pull off a big comeback win in the america's cup the defending champions are now within sight of retaining their title. but to get it nigeria where there has been yet another kidnapping gunmen have taken children and teaches at a school in nigeria it happened at a primary school in the village of rama in northwestern could do mistakes up interests is in nigeria's capital a budget what more do we know. well basically the

government has an update on the number of students taken by it's expected that dozens of them have been taken what's confirmed right now is at least 2 teachers have been taken along side the students we were told by a residence that gunmen invaded the town targeted the school when students and teachers were trying to go into classes before the classes started not when the gunman at least on 12 motorcycles stormed to school and seized the students and their teachers and before they left town they also raided cattle and other valuables from the town later on we were told that they released a 6 year old boy who one of the witnesses said looked dazed and confused because of the traumatic experience he had in the hands of his abductors who can fall also confirmed that a lot of his colleagues or students were taken along side the most and teachers of the school in grimma ahmed as i have been saying i mean there has been

a spate of these sorts of abductions have a mare how is the government able to tackle this given as we've been reporting for some time now that as these groups are trying to get a ransom it's sort of seen almost as a kind of business. exactly it's it's become the most lucrative criminal enterprise in nigeria today and it's expanding it's growing fast these incidents previously in the last 4 or 5 years 5 years ago what we hear is that these incidents happened only in the niger delta producing region in the south of the country but now it has become a very very big business criminal enterprise in nigeria as north and it's spreading fos it's not only criminal gangs book or also is engaged in the abduction of people for ransom across nigeria for example could go to state what the area we're talking about this is the 3rd up duction or attempted abduction in the last 5 or 6 days

on sunday there was an attempt to raid another school where more than 100 students were that but security forces for that attempt and the fust school raided in the last one week in the area still there are 39 students who are missing 108 we want to would 180 have been released early and then this incident this morning and couldn't escape so it's going fast we these these incidents are growing not only in the northwest of nigeria but the north central and the north east and this is of course the 4th nost school abduction in the north of the country this year ok thank you for that update on that if you're sad about means from a burka. syria is marking 10 years since the start of the uprising that spiraled into a civil war more than half a 1000000 people have been killed in the fighting thousands of people have turned

out across rebel held city as in syria to mark the grim milestone syria's become one of the world's worst humanitarian crises millions of people are being forced to flee their homes because of fighting that staggering number there adds up to more than half of the country's pre-war population meanwhile the u.k. has announced sanctions against 6 allies of syrian president bashar assad they include his foreign minister and close advisors the british foreign secretary says assad's regime is subjected to syrian people to quote a decade of brutality and a horde of books back at the last 10 years. this is the birthplace of syria's uprising in 2011 but opposition members call this moment the end of the dream of a democratic country it's 2018 and the government has just recaptured the southern province after 7 years of resistance. i almost had a breakdown after all the sacrifices when they raised the flag we felt stabbed the

town had a lot of symbolism for the revolution. it was here where the wall of fear was broken we watched syrians turn against the police state we watched them bury their dead demonstrators who were killed by security forces was still. going ahead with. protests spread to other areas in homs tanks were sent to suppress the uprising. the city which became known as the capital of the revolution became a battleground for. the regime forced us to take up arms and turned the uprising into a war it was no longer possible to face guns without screens. there was a siege on the rebel stronghold after months of heavy fighting months later the opposition agreed to leave the area. was among them he says they had

little choice they were trapped without basic supplies running low on ammunition and abandoned by the world 2 years later and after a 4 year stalemate the opposition was forced to abandon aleppo which weakened them politically. and i felt broken when i got on the bus i still think about it but the siege was unbearable people were dying either by bombs or hunger. is among the millions of internally displaced syrians who live in the opposition controlled north unable and unwilling to live under syrian president bashar assad's rule but he says he fears a ceasefire agreed last year will not hold. already hundreds of thousands have been killed millions have been displaced inside and outside the country and there has been no accountability serious conflict is entering its 2nd decade with the majority of its citizens poor and with little hope. we have been forced to give

up on our dreams the international community has failed the syrian people there is no reconciliation there is no peace 10 years of war has divided a country and its people so look at their beirut. one of the darkest chapters in recent history filled with unspeakable horrors that's the way u.n. special envoy pederson has described the situation in syria to a security council conference he's condemned the international community for its failure to help he says a countrywide ceasefire is more necessary than ever and it must be supported by foreign powers all syrians have seen that the international community has been divided trapped in gear or political competition called in their own computing verity is an offer focused on supporting the wrong side in the conflict the road has not succeeded in helping deliver the syrians as one people promote the

sector general has called a living might mirror a diplomatic editor james bass is live now from the united nations james i believe this is a monthly meeting other happens on syria but obviously this has taken on added significance given the day. absolutely given it is 10 years on your hearing everyone on the security council talking about the misery of the last 10 years i remember in 20121 year into the war being in homs province inside syria and watching it then the very brief period that there were u.n. monitors on the ground and speaking to people in syria about that hope in the un well it's our hope that has been completely dashed by the u.n. and in particular by the u.n. security council which has been so divided on this issue if there was going to be accountability for the crimes in syria then it would go to the international criminal court why has that not happened that because of the u.n.

security council and its divisions and the russian use of the veto. the use of that veto by russia and china probably almost certainly one of the reasons why assad is still in office in damascus as we speak the u.n. has tried to have talks to bring both sides together various rounds in geneva i've covered over the years why of those talks not succeeded well it's pretty clear to me because the syrian government representatives at those talks would not ever properly wanted to engage and have just tried to delay the protests and that's what's going on with mr patterson's current process on the constitutional committee it took 18 months to try and get the 1st meeting in geneva they've now had 5 rounds over another 18 months and absolutely no progress why because the syrian government is just stalling things ahead of another sham election that assad will win in a couple of months time ok there is a definite james based james thank you. over the last decade syria has been

divided with control of the different territories swinging between the government and opposition groups eisel turkey russia and the united states the government now has control over most of the country seen here in bridge although i still find it still wrong the days it in the east a kurdish majority syrian democratic forces control the 2nd largest territory seen here in yellow with support from the united states the u.s. also backs rebels in a small area on the border of jordan and iraq most opposition fighters were transported to aleppo and is part of a cease fire deal opposition groups. control a small area and on the turkey syria border turkish troops have taken control of the areas in green where they support opposition forces the free syrian army. before all of this we're joined by while the office in washington d.c.

he served as a senior advisor to samantha power president obama's ambassador to the united nations thank you so much for your time given how divided syria is we just explained it there how many competing and trenched power is there in the country now what's your assessment for the future of syria. thank you for having me on the show in pre-market the 10 year anniversary of the syrian revolution the assessment is quite difficult and bleak unless the. international community the arab world the regional powers come together to put an end to this to this to this war and to this conflict what we have here is there are opportunities there's a fork in the road either to continue with business as usual and reconvene 10 years from today talking about further suffering and misery in syria or to decide to prioritize civilian protection in areas that are not under the control of the show

assad to invest in the north the north east the northwest to make sure that people can live there in peace and to perhaps entice those who have been displaced and meet refuge where he sees to return to those areas and to use that new reality in the north are not talking about breaking up syria but civilian protection in areas that are not under the control of bashar assad. allowing them to grow and to be protected in concert with the regional countries and i'm speaking here specifically of the gulf countries and turkey and the united states and the europeans as patrons and to provide that as an alternative to the syria under bashar al assad's control not in order to wage war against the regime in damascus or to force a regime change but to provide as a safe haven an alternative and to use that reality to bargain or perhaps it will a little settlement for a better syria and the future but i think that is

a much more preferable solution than the christian issue but given the amount of territory that bashar assad now controls what is the likelihood that assad would ever agree to something like that. but surely personally will never agree but it is those around him and the people under is control including members of the louis community that have to make a decision is there a future with him or with someone else i do not believe in regime change anywhere in the world including in syria or whatever i can to syrian people will make their own decisions as they see perhaps an alternative developing there is not under their control but peter do you think we have to be a really that we have to show what we stand for not only what we have but it's ok i want to get in a minute to the to the idea of elections and whether they could actually have a be free and fair but 1st i want to talk about you know we've been talking

a lot about the international community why hasn't it done more why hasn't it done action taken action there was the very famous red line that president then president obama talked about back in 2012 that if chemical weapons were used in syria that would cross a red line a year later that we all saw those images they were harrowing chemical weapons were used and go to hundreds of people were killed at least and i'm sure you have and you were in the state department at the time everyone was bracing for military intervention it never came was that a missed opportunity to put an end to this conflict or for it to take a different route. i think it was a missed opportunity by not just the united states but including the european powers are recall when the british parliament voted against supporting any u.s. operations in syria after that chemical weapons attack the french also bought at that and i will share with you guys the arab countries also hesitated to give the obama administration a green light to carry out those strikes when we have to understand is that we live

in a multi for a world and the days of the united states fixing or believing they can fix everything are got and it will require a truly multilateral effort to help solve something like syria i will say though it was a missed opportunity not necessarily to end the conflict who knows what happened but i think we ought to ask found out if we carried out surgical targeted strikes against the regime to basically give it a credible warning and i think we saw with the turkish operations of last year that they proved that death theory may have work by now we've seen now a year since those that says those military operations by turkey have basically got the russian russians and the syrian regime outside of it live and where they are protecting 3000000 people. but actually they have a time thank you for your time while i was out there from washington d.c. for messing yessiree advisor to samantha power. syrian state media is

reporting security forces have killed at least 3 people who are planning an attack of the capital damascus at least 3 others have been arrested the plot reportedly involve the use of explosive belts. i did more ahead on the news all including funerals after the deadliest day so far and me and miles uprising against the military coup and yet demonstrators say they'll continue to fight for democracy plus. a defining moment in libya's war as the unity government is sworn in after a decade of diplomatic failure. in sport the north london derby produces one of the goals of the season premier league action coming up with. some of the challenges. facebook has begun labeling posts about covert in an effort to combat misinformation content about vaccines will have labels with facts from the world health organization the tech giant says it will expand its coronavirus awareness

efforts to its other platforms instagram and what's up facebook has faced criticism for allowing false claims to spread during the pandemic for anything that's viral that's misinformation to get your platform but there's a huge gray area of people who have concerns and i are having a conversation about. some of what some people would call misinformation and some of which other people would call doubt. and we also know from a lot of research that on the margin if we remove all about it's really icky polarize people even more. and so what we want to do what we've learned again with all health experts is the best thing to you in and out in a gray area is just to show up with authoritative information and whole way. polling in a general election in the netherlands has opened early for people in high risk coronavirus categories the vote is the 1st major electoral test of

a european governments pandemic policy the country has seen some of its worst riots in decades of it and go of a lock down restrictions engender a prime minister who has government resigned over a child benefit scandal and my vote takes place on wednesday. germany is the latest country to suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine more than a dozen nations have stopped using it due to blood clot concerns regulations across the world insist it's a precaution took conclusive evidence emerges the drug says its review dart of more than 17000000 people given its vaccine there's no increased risk ok live to germany in a moment but 1st the world health organization has told the reuters news agency that quote as of today there is no evidence that the incidence of caused by the vaccine and it is important that vaccination campaigns continue so we can save lives the mccain is and then dominic so germany is the latest to hold the use of

the vaccine even given what the world health organization is saying. he's saying. we've just been hearing from the health minister the federal health minister here yet in an emergency statement he confirmed that he has followed a ruling from the relevant competent government agency that reviews and approves vaccines for use in this country and said that following their recommendation he has to suspend the use of the vaccine in this country but when pressed by reporters what effect this would have on the german governmental vaccination strategy he said it was too early to know and could not talk about swats ramifications this might have for the very many tens of millions of people who are expecting to receive a vaccination in this country over the course of the next 6 months it's worth making the point that not just in germany but around the continent lots of

different countries will have had different strategies for the different vaccine vaccines that are physically available whether that's the bio on tech pfizer vaccine the more down of facts seen and of course astra zeneca and viewers should remember that there are fewer vaccines of the versions of the astra zeneca vaccine available because of course the company concerned was unable to produce the totals that it said originally it would give to european countries so this is clearly a problem for astra zeneca and for european countries about how this vaccine will be used but it is worth putting it into perspective that there aren't as many doses of that vaccine physically in the u. in the 1st place and of course in other european countries such as norway dominic as you say different countries have different strategies that what are these days is likely to do to the vaccine rollout across europe and also i guess to people's confidence in the vaccine. well that's the

fundamental question here this idea of confidence aside of how prepared people are to receive a vaccine to they think it's safe is this something they think is going to help them and help therefore the whole of society fighting covert is something that a prominent german politician has been speaking out today an ally of the health ministry enshrine the bavarian prime minister markers or a man who many people consider might to be a chancellor candidate in the autumn he was saying look we need to have certainty we need to know is this vaccine safe if it is stopped talking about its record and give it to people if it's not then stop using it and have it tested it seems as though the german government and other governments are following that line of logic of basically saying well let's have it further tested something mr lott one of the last things he said was that he will and he the german government will wait to see

what the european medicines agency says after having conducted research into the cases that have caused this stoppage the suspension of the use of astra zeneca now clearly other countries like germany like france spain and italy and others too are using a combination of vaccines to immunize their populations and it is worth making the point that they're moving at different paces so for example here in berlin the city of berlin some going around about 8 percent of the entire population have had a 1st dose of the vaccine around half that total perhaps 4 percent have received 2 doses now the vast majority of those people will not have received the astra zeneca vaccine and a similar sort of pattern is relevant also in germany the same sort of ratio applies so clearly everyone now is waiting to see what effect this astra zeneca decision or rather this decision about astra zeneca is going to have on that

strategy thank you. and we can tell you that breaking news is silly has now become the latest country to suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine it follows ireland and the netherlands and indonesia which is also suspended use of the vaccine while they investigate these reports of side effects and people who have received the dr p. to draw about is an infectious disease and global health analyst he says regulations are acting with an abundance of caution but evidence shows that the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risks. these are difficult situations when you hear reports of adverse events when a vaccine or medical product has already been rolled out in determining whether there's actually a cause it's hiv link or it just happens to be a coincidence and of course these vaccines are being given largely to people who are elderly or have other underlying medical conditions and may be at higher risk for developing things like blood clots irrespective of vaccines these went through

rigorous clinical trials and blood clots were never determined to be a problem during those controlled trials and of course tens of millions of these vaccines have been given out now this safety pause i think is certainly the praga of the regulators in those countries and it's a reasonable step however we have heard from the world health organization the european medicines agency and others that at this point the benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks were operating in a fast moving situation where information is sometimes incomplete here's a we do know for certain there has never been a vaccine related death linked to any of the approved kovan 1000 vaccines that all of the approved cope in $1000.00 vaccines have 100 percent or near 100 percent protection against severe kovan $1000.00 hospitalization and death so on the whole at both an individual level and at a population level i think that there is strong evidence favoring the benefit of

these vaccines if i were offered a vaccine today astra zeneca or any other approved vaccine i would take it into her being. parents are holding funerals for their children and me and after at least 50 protesters were killed on sunday the west day of violence and a long sorry month and a half long crackdown on the anti corruption and demonstrations defied martial law on monday that they were again met with live ammunition killing 6 more hot reports . the deadliest area on the most violent day of the anti coupe protests on sunday was in an industrial suburb of yangon. an armed protesters were killed with live ammunition some of the protesters there targeted factories financed by china many protesters say the country is supporting the coup global times a chinese state run newspaper said factories were attacked and set on fire by so-called instigators and causing $37000000.00 in damage it prompted the strongest

statement yet from china calling the situation very severe and urging myanmar's generals to stop all acts of violence punish the perpetrators and protect the chinese people and companies its large influential neighbor to the north china is by far the largest trading partner with me and more and is the biggest supplier of arms and military equipment to the tatmadaw me and mars' army. after sunday's violent crackdown in vandalism the joint to announce that at least 6 areas in yangon are now under martial law. in smaller groups than on sunday protesters came out again on the streets of mandalay on monday marching against the giant and supporting their democratically elected leaders. ousted civilian leader aung sang suu kyi was to have another court hearing on the charges against her including one added last week accusing her of accepting illegal payments but the hearing was pushed back to go on the sunday g.'s case was a jaunt to the new food on the spot. that cannot be just

could not be conducted to this city today because we have got no internet in the country for the whole country these 6 weeks on the protesters resolve has remained constant. but according to some they've had to increase their willingness to sacrifice. the good it could have found the meaning of the tattoo is freedom from fear they threatened us with weapons but our revolution won't win if we have fear so we must get rid of this kind of fear to prevail in our revolution. the term revolution now increasingly being used by those out on the streets protesting. but it's now also being used by civilian parallel government saying revolution is needed to overturn the coup scott hodler al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera. from the u.k.

to a stranger a rallying cry for governments to do more to end violence against women. and isis tristan maritime boundary dispute between kenya and somalia. and in support of this american gulf and puts on a final round a master plan for the players championship details later on in the show. how they're swarming up nicely once again across the middle east have lost the dust and sand that we saw over the course of the weekend glossy clear skies lots of hazy sunshine let's push further north where the weather action is we've seen some big winds are rolling in across the eastern side of the mediterranean driving some showers there for cyprus towards the levant wintry mix there into central and eastern parts of turkey as we go on through choose day just pushing

a little further east was as we go on into wednesday to the south of that there we go we warming up southerly winds picking temperatures up here in doha to around 30 degrees celsius so some more pleasant spring was coming through lousy dry then as one would expect and it's largely dry to across the whole of africa although we also want to see showers just coming into was central areas of somalia as we go on through chiz day chance of wanted to showers just cropping up into southern parts of ethiopia where the weather will be across the democratic republic of the congo easing across into the gulf of guinea more heavy rain coming in here from time to time and we got some heavy rain so you into central parts of south africa some wetter weather just pushing through here not seeing a little ace was joining up with some wet weather we have crossed. more the pulse of namibia into angola and fish i was to the madagascar.

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the. there are challenges there on her mind of our top stories this hour gunmen have kidnapped children and teachers at a school in nigeria it happened at a primary school we could do in the state it's the 2nd kidnapping of the state in the last week. thousands of people have turned out across rebel held city is in syria to mark 10 years since start of the war the un security council is mess and calls for a renewed effort for a cease fire and a political settlement. france italy and germany are the latest countries to suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine more than a dozen nations have stopped using it as a proportion due to blood top concerns the world health organization insists it is

safe. ugandan opposition leader bobby wine has been arrested while leading a protest in kampala. one called on all fours he used to free hundreds of his supporters arrested before during and after january's presidential election in which he lost a longtime leader you know what it was 71 disputes the results he tweeted he has not been charged but his home is surrounded by the police military. the. facts are that. we are not that and we're not the you to restrict the little we let go of your. religion and we believe that you're in the market demand of europe to respect the right to life of the good for the gander.

libya's new unity government has been sworn into office at a ceremony into book it's part of a un backed effort to bring stability ahead of elections in december years of conflict divided libyan institutions between the internationally recognized government in the west and a rival administration to the east security will be a major task for the government it's trying to in tripoli this seems like a very very important day is this a brand new start for libya or how much optimism is there. well i think kim many people here are hopeful now 35 ministers of libya's new unity government arrived into brooke and gave or were sworn into office including 4 in terms of libya for their 1st female foreign minister so i think for a lot of people it's a new beginning and it's definitely a breakthrough in terms of the u.n. support mission here it's been a long and difficult process for the u.n.

support mission to bring libya's rival sides together now during the ceremony these speaker of the took place parliament in a speech that now is a time for libyans to forget the past to forgive each other and come together under this unity government but that's not going to be very easy give us all it was a staunch supporter of warlords. who in 2019 launched a military campaign on tripoli and for 14 months the fighting raged on and it was very devastating to the people here according to officials over 125000 homes were destroyed hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced hundreds of civilians killed so it's rican silly ation and look it's going to be a very difficult process and one of the many challenges facing this new unity government. if we go down that road into into the challenges facing this new

government i mean there's been many years of conflict to ask how does the new here is a government plan to ensure security. well i think the 1st is to you know the prime minister of the has said that he plans on unifying libya's state institutions including the military now the military and libya's divided those in eastern libya controlled by. and in western libya previously by the g.n.a.s. so the hope is now to this military track that the u.n. is facilitating meetings have been ongoing. we just started yesterday and began today to sort of unify libya's military ranks but there's also other issues for instance according to the u.n. support mission there's over $20000.00 foreign fighters in libya so being able to come together 1st unifying libya's military and then and then foreseen the foreign fighters out of libya is just one of the tasks that the governor of national unity

will be. will have to focus on also bringing about elections now throughout this throughout last year we saw elections city elections take place in western libya and a few cities in the south but that hasn't happened in eastern libya and areas like that are controlled by by have to her so whether or not elections can take place in december the government's main objective is to leave the country until elections so whether or not that will be able to take place some some people are concerned that that might not happen but for the most part libyans and i think now the international community want to see libya move towards a democratically elected country so the hope is that libya will see a unified country and elections in december and i thank you for that trying to there. police in india administered kashmir are locked in

a gunfight with a suspected rebel one person has died and championed where the standoff is taking place security forces afforded off the area and are trying to detain the gunman kenya is boycotting the start of an international court of justice hearing to decide its maritime border with somalia the neighbors both they claim to energy resources off the coast of somalia 1st asked the international court of justice to rule on their maritime border in 2014. and the dispute is over a triangle shaped area of about 100000 square kilometers somalia argues its maritime boundary should run toward the south east to match the direction of its land border the kenya says it should take a roughly $45.00 degree turn the shoreline the area is believed to be rich in oil and gas is considered one of east africa's richest fishing grounds let's get an update now from conference away who is in nairobi kenya for what reasons has kenya

given for the withdrawal. well kenya has been asking for a postponement of these hearings this would have been the 4th time so the judges rejected that hence why the black court now kenyan lawyers basically saying that they feel that the court is biased against the country to the judges have been not flexible and not listening to the pleas by kenya for delaying the hearing the judge is also saying there are they don't see why this hearing should be should be happening in the middle of a global pandemic and that then constables with this so called hybrid hearings that we have some people who are physically in court and others who. are being provided gradually the rationally in court arguing the case of kenya lawyers saying that they are not comfortable with that a tall so the judges have said that they have noted china is concerned that they're going to use kenyans who returned

a submission to what's going on now is that the somalia side the agents and lawyers are presenting the oral arguments this is going to happen today and tomorrow so what the lawyers are saying that is that somalia never agreed to any boundary line that much haitian by kenya as the country suggesting they say there is no treaty no written agreement and that kenya has been taking advantage of the political and security situation in somalia to use that disputed territory which they in the somalia lawyers are saying can use already exploring these already fishing going on which is against international law so after that the judge is going to eventually make a bad acts which is binding but it's also important to note that the i.c.u. does not have in and force meant powers and we have seen in the past many states ignoring the ruling of the international court of justice. all right thanks for

that catherine sawyer for us in nairobi. to turn now to one of our top stories the growing concerns about the astra zeneca vaccine in the last hour germany italy and france have announced they're suspending its use it's a precaution due to concerns about blood clots more than a dozen nations have stopped using the vaccine but the world health organization insists it's safe don't it cain is live for us again from berlin dominic so this is all happened just in the last few minutes since we spoke to you. yes it seems that many different european countries are expressing their concerns about the efficacy the safety of this vaccine and they want more research to be undertaken into this blood clots line of questioning that they have this idea that the use of the vaccine the administration of the vaccine is producing blood clots in specific individuals and their concern about this is and has risen to the point

where they think it's better to suspend its use while the european medicines agency examines the claims puts the research to some use and makes a recommendation about what can go what can proceed from this we know that the federal health minister here in germany here in berlin just in the course of the last hour or so of saying this is the decision that he wants the m a to make to make a ruling and to give guidance to countries as to what they should be doing with astra zeneca now he referred us with the shrine referred to 7 cases which were causing concern and he said he was following the advice of the relevant competent government agency that approves or not the use of vaccines for people here in this country and it's the the same sort of argument we've been hearing from other countries so the french president menem mccann talking about remitting the decision

about the safety of this facet of this vaccination astra zeneca to the a.m.a. which is a body that's based in amsterdam there are some suggestions certainly from the italian side that perhaps some sort of decision may come from the e m a around lunchtime tomorrow that choose day but that's not confirmed but clearly what you have here is a whole slew of different european countries remitting this decision to the e m a basically saying look you need to re-examine this vaccination to work out whether it is. safe enough for us to give to big chunks of our society of our population remember also and this is the thing to put it into perspective which is that astra zeneca vaccines there are far fewer astra zeneca vaccine doses in the e.u. or in continental europe than there are of the other vaccines that were approved before us resenting the modern or vaccine but specifically the pfizer bio on tech

vaccine the one that was 1st produced in the 1st detected and then developed in germany will that there's much more of those doses years of the so there's a bit of perspective there and a suggestion that perhaps sun sort of decision may come from amsterdam to more launch on right thank you very much for that is dominic came live for us from berlin. u.k. politicians are debating reposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests that would allow officers to intervene of protests cause serious disruption civil liberties groups say it's an assault on free expression it comes as london police faced criticism of the handling of a vigil for 33 year old woman sarah ever odd who was killed while walking harmon actually right now the u.k.'s home secretary pretty to tell is getting a statement in the commons on policing are after all the police handling of the sarah ever odd vigil listen and to ask the police whether their

partner has a violent or abusive past we have also introduced new preventative tools and powers to tackle crimes including stalking female genital mutilation and so-called obstinate in but we can never be complacent which is why throughout the passage of the domestic abuse bill we have accepted amendments from honorable members from political parties across this house. the bill now includes new offenses of non-fatal strangulation rules threats to disclose intimate images and extends to controlling or co-hosts coercive behavior of parents to cover post separation abuse this is in addition to the bill's existing measures which include a new statutory definition of domestic abuse that recognizes the many forms of abuse can take psychological physical emotional economic sexual and of course the impact of peace on children. as well as you so

that is the u.k.'s home secretary there pretty patel. speaking there about efforts to tackle violence against women which of course is very much at the forefront of public discussion right now. after the death of sarah ever art and the outcry from women around the world angry at the way they don't feel safe and also there was a lot of anger about the police handling of the sarah ever average joe which turned into a protest in which women were arrested pinned to the ground let's bring in our guest we have chris phillips who is a former metropolitan police crimes investigator and head of the u.k. national counter-terrorism security office he joins us by skype from cornwall in the united kingdom so as we were saying there thank you time as we're saying there chris there is a bill being debated that would basically put more restrictions on protests give police more power in that respect i mean if we look at the police response to the

stair ever are vigil do police already have enough power it would appear that they do. well i think 2 things are completely different. no one would say in the u.k. that the criminal justice system works we have a situation or we had a situation over the last couple years where we've had off the cuff demonstrations in london which is to be shut down the whole of the city now we can't allow that to go on the ship everyone's got a right to demonstrate not to effectively blockade cities and of course when they were don't they were able to go straight back again and again so so the issues that happened over the weekend the slightly different but they're all a morning to you to the coding the rules that have been in just a few months ok can you explain a little bit more for me why these 2 things are not related what is it that this bill will do it was my understanding that it's about giving police more power to

shut down protests. yeah well basically this really does go back to the extinction rebellion protest where literally people were coming off the street they weren't telling the police what they were going to do they would go to oxford circus shut the whole street so that no one could go about their business and then we were trying to deal with the law as it stands at the moment wasn't able to keep them off the streets for more than a couple of hours and they went back to square one so so that part of protest if you're going to protest that's fine when every weekend in london there are protests that will continue but actually try not to blockade everyone else in the city where you're going to do it so so from that that's a totally different piece than what we saw at the weekend which was. to be quite frank the police stood away from the vigil and that let the ladies pay their respects to this all and say that's not the elections that we're looking at right

now chris what we're looking at right now is police putting women on the ground at a protest which is about women not feeling safe with men but i do i do i do see your point i hear what you're saying about the bill and the need for police to make sure that cities can stay open so we will have to leave it at a time chris phillips there for a metropolitan metropolitan police crimes investigator thank you. how once an outsider netflix is crashing the academy awards after a year of lockdowns the streaming services received $35.00 oscar nominations across 16 of its productions previously a film had to have been screened in a cinema in los angeles for at least 7 days to be eligible for oscars consideration last year organizers allowed streaming services to be part of this year's awards of the theaters across the world shut down due to the coronavirus demick. beyond say has made grammy history by becoming the most decorated female act at the awards for more to her collection she secured her 28th trophy when she won best r. and b.

performance or who hit black parade and singer taylor swift has become the 1st woman to win album of the year 3 times at the grammys one song of the year for the black lives matter and i can't breathe. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport the mistake that could prove to be decisive in the outcome of the 636 america's cup car over here with that story crew.

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a stunning comeback could go a long way to deciding the outcome of the 36 for america's cup italy's luna rossa looks set to level the contest against new zealand but the sailing gods had other ideas and the richardson reports. with defending champions team new zealand for 3 up in the best of 13 concerts there was a lot riding on the race 8 of this america's cup. the new zealand boat was going well in the contest with its elite luna rossa until this happened the home favorites made a tiny error in the light winds of the oil can coast on the boat carrying off its foils the foils are carbon fiber hooks that lift the whole out of the water and allow these boats to race at speeds of more than 80 kilometers per hour but well positioned like this the boat came to a temporary stop and that allowed luna rossa to sail away and build up a full minute late the race looked to be over and saloon

a russert made their own era the italian boat producing an action replay and the 2 fell off its foils. that gave sea new zealand a chance to recover and pull off one of the biggest comebacks in the 170 year history of this event that over here. the wind pushing them 53 up and within sights of victory i thought i heard our. pretty unreal fight back from the from the guys their absolute made a pretty costly error jiving out right behind them. on the 1st down wind in the last 4 hours but got it back up briskly quickly and then you know salvage rate rise from their end of the sea bed i'm going to say one of the techs at the top marquee and it made my day it's really right when tim and jim i made a mistake and we never looked back ever almost all the other ways talking about a washington you know is going to be 7 male. so yeah you if you if you ask

a whole lot of people out here that my have a different answer to buy my answer is i take off and some might say mites if you're on it same with are also believes we can win this and we'll certainly be going out tomorrow with the gloves off and ready to fought whenever their rivals may not be giving up but new zealand could now when the 36th america's cup with 2 more wins on tuesday and the richardson al-jazeera. football now and then. darby produced one of the best goals of the season as top no more beaten by arsenal in the english premier league argentine erik lamela put spurs ahead with this stunning aspart but is day would go downhill from there arsenal equalised not long after and then took the lead with a 2nd hand penalty from alexander like a set things got worse for spurs when le melo was sent off for a 2nd yellow card is josie merinos team went down to one they're now 6 points off the champions league spots 2nd. only to seeing as it were positive in the 1st 12

was an amazing goal and the result. the 11 result because. the 11 was not a fair reflection of that 1st of all where are they going it was that with the league title seemingly out of reach a manchester united boosted their chances of finishing 2nd by beating the west ham or craig dawson own goal having united as one no when they trailed leaders manchester city by 14.60. golf's world number 3 justin thomas has won the players championship in florida american produced a 4 under par round 68 on the final day that saw him finish one shot had of lee westwood who's now been the runner up for 2 straight tournaments this is thomas' 1st win this season and his 14th p.g.a.

tour victory. it means a lot obviously it's a huge championship very special it's a tournament i've i've wanted to when the tournaments that i truly did feel like i was going to win it at some point and hopefully multiple times i just i love the golf course it was an incredible shape this week the greens were were so good the fairways were perfect rough was was long. just a great test of golf. what i tell you from the 2 is just just a lot of pride you know ground 0 today gave myself a chance to suppose and. made some nice bird reports nice powerful. blasts we lost we was also very good you know these are world class fields these are young guys you know given 2025 years to most of them and. yet i'm still concerned and so i'm enjoying the thrill to be out. and the stars steph curry put in a birthday performance to remember helping golden state warriors and

a 4 game losing streak the time m.v.p. who turns 33 on sunday celebrated in style scoring a game high 32 points his effort saw golden state beat the western conference leading jazz by 12 points the warriors are currently 9th in the west one place outside the playoff spots. strange. and tokyo's olympic organizers have confirmed that the torch relay will begin as planned on march 25th and realize i will be subject to cope with 19 safety measures and the start won't be open to the public games organizers have also said that ahead of the relay they want to make a final decision on whether or not foreign fans will be allowed into japan for the games the olympics are due to begin on july the 23rd ok and that is all your support for now came back to you thank you for. and that says it for the

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