the at. the in. the benefits of the. back seat in preventing poke at 19 with it that soviet at risk of hospital i think that that outweigh the risk of the side effects. the european union medicines regulator says the astra zeneca vaccine is not causing blood clot spot evaluation is still ongoing. my. clothes i am how am i getting in and this is al jazeera life and doha are also coming out

libya's new government officially takes over and the latest steps to bring peace after almost 10 years of conflict protesters in yemen's port city of even storm government offices angry about the worsening economic situation. and mars ruling military charges the deposed government's international representative with treason . my. european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine i worry the risks the agency commissioned an investigation into a few reports of blood clots and people who've received the vaccine a number of countries have temporarily suspended their use of the products well the year of you should conclude on thursday but the agency says there is no indication

at this stage that the vaccine is linked to blood clots and. while the investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the senate that box in preventing poet 19 with its associated risk of hospitalized a shot in death outweigh the risk of the side effects in the meantime anyone who has received the vaccine and have any concerns should contact their appropriate health care professional now it's been years in the making and the latest step in bringing together a united libyan government is happening the prime minister is handing over power to the u.n. backs administration in the 1st peaceful transition of power since 2012 well this move is meant to help bring stability ahead of elections in december security's likely to fools a major challenge for the governments for than an estimated $20000.00 foreign fighters still in the country. is in

istanbul he's the founder and director of the institute's. i think depending on how we view the conflict over the past decade this is really going to get to the heart of the problems that the g.m.u. the government national unity will will face the 1st being the basic challenges for daily life libya citizens electricity water every service that you can think liquidity into banks these are major services that need to be responded to and they have been degrading as a result of libya's you know erosion of the erosion of its quality and its embassy in the past decade the 2nd being perhaps the most important of all the code 19 pandemic and ensuring that vaccinations are delivered before the spring which was the promise of the of the appointed prime minister i'm to have a debate now we can get into the really challenging aspects the geopolitics of

libya's conflict there are 20000 messages across the country and then i would say the final challenge has been moving from an era of conflict to cooperation and i think that's going to be much more challenging than just arranging a new cabinet there's no guarantee that just because they've reached a compromise in the parliament that these groups will come will cooperate with one another and at the macro level will they cooperate in the most sensitive of institutional hopefully as the military institution that includes all of the different armed groups that have been fighting in western libya under the former government of national accord and those groups that were loyal to fill it behoved are the libyan arab armed forces that were to topple that government in the last 18 months there is no sign of progress in the military track and then military track is an inherently political track unless you have a subservient neutral military there is no guarantees that just because you have elections in december that you will achieve democracy. processors of my life the

machine presidential palace in yemen's port city of aden earlier sources told out a senior officials from the u.n. that's government fled the palaces hundreds of protesters forced their way through the main gate on the building without resistance from forces loyal to the southern transitional council is going anger about the government's policies and the deteriorating economic situation has more on what's triggered the protests. this process was triggered by members of the security services that receive their paychecks from the un backed government which was taken as a headquarter presence the militia overrun essentially the government up in the capital now those security forces haven't been paid or those personal haven't been paid their salaries for 9 months now the start of the protests around our break in so that as the package by jim. to bring you an update from the u.n.

security council they're holding a virtual briefing on yemen a special envoy for ye martin grievous is giving an update on the humanitarian situation in the country that's the center. of. significantly reducing. like me all of us concerned by intensification of the missile and drone stars including ones that had time to civilian and muslim for structure in the kingdom of saudi arabia and subsequently. strives to replace the only confines of siler city endangering so that it is there as well. are also seeing other fronts it never burning including with military escalations 100 cars and one day. the war that in full force motherhood of. it is there that are troubling to nourish the bones osing civilian deaths and injuries including women

and children wives are in general move up by khalid who is the head of that mission and condoning attack today just civilians the mission continue their efforts to reactivate the redeployment accord initially committed some security joint mechanisms to and achieve a more balanced mission for prayers across the church of the governor of the data of course of the parties that were started to move our lives in that mission to make progress on these particular. about the president even as the culprit intensifies. fuel shortages for civilian purposes it's on the surrounding neighborhoods people imports have not been permitted end of it since gerri. this is contributing to the increase in cost of basic commodities of hospitals and services that refer from our look people are hooked on the owners and

simply are acceptable of course of about insurance or marking some of the urine is considerably draw the attention of this council so these are serious. along with a regular engine it's vital that obstacles that involve a domestic diffusion of the fuel for civilian use obstacle to those are removed so the whole of the public prioritise civilian it is not about when i visit company. as a result. like all of our friends in the gun here and certainly permitted the entry of your ships of the day without delay we also believe very strongly that the revenue stemming from the fees and taxes of ships or ships coming in should be exclusively used for the patrons of civil service areas but based on the $24.00 g. better oday ships. i have or the budget is a gauge constructed big with maurice in the earth including my colleague david

grassley the resident you might start in on it or divine is the stable solution of this extraordinary important humans are in a serious. situation one of the surrounding governors from it is difficult for. we have seen reports today of the occupation of the perfect balance i think without loss of life over so it's encouraging our the new governor cabinet suit made it to any of the executed for things that are inside of yemen despite the attack that took place on the other edges of december this is beautiful stages jewish and it's good for the overall prospects of peace in the animal but it's clear that improving basic services could be acceptable or truth city of egypt making sure the salaries paid to government bodies will assure the security and

stabilization economy that needs more resources than is currently available to the government that. these resources are of course in short supply. but the president. this is a mother which we know is that his daughter yemenis are suffering it never. the world of the motherhood of the clash of the mind of euna should not create what an extraordinary horrific fire. at a detention facility it is are out in predominantly syrian migrants and overcomes dozens fired up and were killed in that fire and over $170.00 seriously injured. must be an independent investigation into the cause of the fire to settle the claims which are now a matter of public commentary that all 'd people are the enemy regard as

a lost luggage it is a professional and to begin to serve. been preserved learned to return. to the proposed way forward that have been many reports and much of it over for later on the efforts of the major bridge the fighting and the need for the lot of the political process if you permit me i would like to share a fight here of this council my own appreciation of that it isn't a situation that could be offered and rather he reminded that yemen is the world's largest humanitarian crisis in the famine is now i think a route. to the tragedy of yemen and this connection mugford reminds us of the lineage of the incidence of the famine and other. humanitarian needs and the kinds of where war is not just the demands of the front line of the conflict and the grossest our ability to disease and crisis and it isn't logical therefore and it

has been companies above the budget burden on fire and now more than ever troops to stop the fires it and to silence the guns and a nationwide 6 fire along with the opening of summer and injury and into the flow of fuel and other commodities into the air and through a bit of course our urgent humanitarian the purpose of us. because members. of the public was of the will of the solicitor is road to freedom of. speech. survivors are given the charts of the circumstances and certain logical which infers on these issues the priority. of those you might observe his interactions. are all we've been listening there to

martin griffiths the special u.n. special envoy for yemen giving an update on the humanitarian situation in the country listening and to that also as our diplomatic as said james pays he joins us now from the u.n. in new york and james has to be said a fairly grim picture being painted there by martin griffiths. yeah absolutely hala if you listened to the very start of that briefing and i think we missed the 1st few seconds on air he said i'm returning to this council yesterday to report a deterioration of the conflict in yemen and he reports every month and he said this time it's quite a dramatic deterioration and then he went on to talk about the various different fronts of fighting that are going on in the country that offensive by the who these on marib that's taking place the cross border attacks that have been taking place the drones and the missiles that have landed in saudi arabia and the bombing that

has happened in sanaa he also has increased fighting in other fronts in yemen in type ease and harsher in his data he reported a very grim humanitarian situation the government of yemen. is not permitting fuel ships to day and he said that there should be no further delay in this and it was just adding to a really huge humanitarian crisis remember the u.n. has warned of imminent famine in yemen the special envoy making it difficult make it clear that humanitarian situation in the political situation really are the same thing because the areas with the worst famine are the areas where the worst conflict is and the only real solution is a political solution but it is very very grim listening to this briefing because it comes only a couple weeks after the u.n. had a big pledging conference because of the humanitarian situation in yemen they wanted 3 point $85000000000.00 from the international community otherwise people are going

to starve they didn't get that they only got $1700000000.00 less than half the money they wanted ok james bays there live at the u.n. in new york james thank you very much indeed. well let's head back to our top story dominic kane is in berlin dominic we were hearing there from the e m a in amsterdam that's the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine i weigh the risks this of course is coming in the midst several european countries continuing to pause their roll out of the vaccine but work ito was. interesting lee enough this news conference went on for a very considerable time and emma cooke and others found themselves facing questions from a group of different european journalists all with pointed questions about what's

what groups in society might be most at risk and swapped out the strategies there may be and and that sort of thing and what other evidence had been provided by particular countries as to why they believed that it was important to have a review of astra zeneca why they wanted to suspend it and the answers were in generalities mccook did not want to go into specific detail regarding which country had said its had cases of from bosis blood clots and that sort of thing and very much the repetition of what she was saying there that the the weight of evidence is in the direction that the benefit of receiving the astra zeneca vaccine outweighs the potential risk and we should remember that early in the week and last week the e m a was saying that it had received complaints of perhaps about 30 a few more than 30 instances of blood clots from among almost 5000000 doses having

been administered a ratio of around 12170000 that is what is informing their perspective but also we should remember that they're saying that they don't want to give in. anything definitive for no particular year as to the safety efficacy of the vaccine until thursday because that's the day when the year may formally in amsterdam where it's based who will be speaking more openly about this but clearly there's so much riding on this that so many countries in europe have astra zeneca as part of their arsenal to combat covert 19 and on that basis that's why everyone's got their eyes on amsterdam waiting to see what will happen as a thursday lunchtime is when we should find out a great deal more ok dominic kane in berlin thank you memories military has charged the deposed government's international representative with treason not

just as he's known for at me and maher on the last day of the coup he is accused of encouraging the civil disobedience campaign and calling for international sanctions scott hired lawyers in bangkok here explains the military's decision to charge dr sasser. they're trying to to squash the protest movement the civil disobedience disobedience movement on the streets across myanmar but they're also trying to squash any voices outside of myanmar inductors is outside and he's appeared numerous news programs and news networks to get the word out of what's happening in the call for international assistance so this is their way just as way to try to silence him but he's out of the country so for them to try to enact this this this charge against him is going to be very difficult but despite that continuing on the streets of myanmar today we did see again it turned a bit deadly on tuesday we saw at least one death this is according to local media one death in yangon and then 2 deaths in

a city outside of mandalay to the west which is in the central part of the country what's interesting though when you look at what's been happening in yang gone word is difficult to get out because the joint to has shut down most of the data networks mobile data networks so it's very difficult to get information out but what we do know is that flashpoint area from sunday where there were arson arson against factories in a certain district of the city that's where it turned very deadly after that today we know in tuesday that a lot of people were trying to leave the area there are thousands in some cases people are saying tens of thousands of people are trying to exit that's because martial law has been imposed on that district as well as 5 other so people were trying to come out. the u.s. secretary of state and offensive use their 1st overseas trip to reaffirm washington's commitment to its east asian allies they say washington is prepared to push back against beijing's growing influence in the region robin wright has more

from seoul. this high level visit is confirmation that the stage is important in the world view of the new u.s. administration president joe biden and the mission took particular an aim at the human rights record of me in march and china in burma the military is attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election and is brutally repressing peaceful protesters and china uses coercion and aggression to systematically erode autonomy in hong kong undercut democracy in taiwan abuse human rights and changing and tibet japan has been looking for support against china's territorial claims to islands which tokyo administers and it got it with this pledge to respond to china's attempts to control the seas that surround it and addressing aggression course of behavior is from china especially in the south and east china sea. i know

japan shares our concerns we're trying to be stabilizing our actions japan also got an assurance from the u.s. that it remains committed to the complete denuclearization of its neighbor north korea but more fundamentally this visit is a chance to reset relations after 4 to multi were c. is under the previous administration of donald trump so we think we're all over them so i think there is an appreciation that i can have a much more focused strategy in principle the u.s. is going to be under the by illustration much more concerned about how the u.s. speaks with its allies on wednesday this mission continues to south korea where dealing with north korea will dominate the agenda with concerns about the lack of any response from pyongyang to repeated u.s. attempts at dialogue of course the policy is always our goal our goal is to reduce

the risk of escalation but today we have not received any response time to coincide with this diplomatic mission and with the resumption of joint military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces is a stinging attack from the north korean leaders influential sister kim yo jong telling the americans not to cause a stink in this part of the world a warning of how relations could slip back into the acrimonious saber rattling of the past rob mcbride al-jazeera so. 10 years into the syrian conflict and president bashar al assad is still in power many syrians say the international community failed them and the uprising turned into a proxy war there's also those that blame the opposition for failing to provide credible alternative leadership say no how to reports on how in fighting lead 2 wars within the war. protesters demanding the downfall of. that and bashar assad's

regime were shot at arrested and tortured syria's opposition decided to defend itself and fight back after losing hope in an international intervention. the formation of the free syrian army was announced by rebel military leader. in july 2011 but years later the former air force colonel like many others acknowledged the f.s.a. existed only in. each of the armed groups had their own agenda and they wanted to implement it before the fall of assad cause divisions international powers intervened and supported different groups. a unified authority that would serve as an alternative to the syrian government is what the opposition has so far failed to do they control territory they have a base to govern from but it is territory where wars within a war are being fought. by 2013 much of northern syria belonged to many

opposition groups that were only united against a common enemy and they share territory with. groups which wanted to establish an islamic state. at the start foreign fighters were welcomed by the opposition which felt abandoned by world powers. that changed when they started to take territory from those they called corrupt rebels armed opposition groups linked to the free syrian army are no longer here i saw also imposed brutal tactics arresting killing and forcing into exile activists who called for democracy and the foreign fighters actually don't get the us. or maybe kill him in the slightest so they don't want or forces to be here. and also all sides are global attention focused on defeating eisel in what was described as a counterterrorism mission rather than an effort to tip the scales in the war.

binged actually unity over promised that when you have president obama when you british french and german is saying that its present last stand aside it triggered an expectation that they were going to back this up so instead it was the regime which received outside support russia and iran's entry on the battlefield turn the equation on the ground in assad's favor. the opposition has been pushed to the northern corner of syria where millions of people remain vulnerable to attacks demands for a safe or a no fly zone to protect them are still ignored 10 years on jennifer their beirut. gunmen in northern nigeria have adults and 3 teachers from a primary school in kids in a stays the students managed to escape during the raids in silesia sent a string of attacks on schools in northern nigeria. outside one of the schools

where a kidnapping happened last week in the northwestern could in a state. the issue of kidnapping for ransom in nigeria and banditry has been there for quite some time now and the fact of the matter is the security personnel are overstretched underfunded and they craved and of course not able to deal with the situation the crimes that we are seeing in northern nigeria is fueled by so many things poverty one under development 2nd and of course the issue of negotiating with criminals now we are in a state where the governor has taken a tougher stand on kidnappers and banditry he said no negotiations with them and in fact he's calling for death penalty against anybody found. in this in this now if you look at the military aspect of it the military has been deployed to deal with several situations in nigeria from kidnappings in northwestern nigeria to book when i'm in the northeast and then you have crisis in that you stand part of the country

where you have the probie a procession its movement and several other criminal activities that been going on so the security services has been almost strange and they've been casualties of war over time and these have not been replaced the nigerian government has not fully funded the security system we just heard from the national security adviser complaining that some of the equipment ordered for the military and security forces have not even arrived and that fighting with all the criminals been supply for years yes they go and these been no part of the fleet replenishment and one other key aspect of it of course is the issue of intelligence gathering which of course has not been invested in so much. the netherlands is preparing for a general election on wednesday in the issue of race is playing a major parts in campaigning. in a postcard party says the country has failed to faces colonial past and sasha butler has this report from amsterdam. the stormy weather in amsterdam did little

to deter dutch parliamentary candidate silvana simmons very good with a well known former t.v. star simmons entered politics 5 years ago the party by ayn is campaigning to end racism and inequality in the netherlands you know we need to stop it because you know we are all equal and therefore everyone is entitled all deserve the same rights simmons came to the netherlands as a baby from the former dutch colony of syrian arm she says that the image of the netherlands as an inclusive society is far from reality she's on surprised by the rise of far right parties we've been served politics that say. be afraid of everybody that doesn't look like you it's been going on for 20 years it's not something that just came up this is a right wing country we have to accept that for simmons and her party more diversity in mainstream national politics is essential to help change the attitudes

in the netherlands and help end or she calls institutionalized racism michel as a yes runs the black archives a project or documents discrimination in dutch society its books artifacts and clippings are a catalogue of oppression and a testament to those who fought against it and so yeah says that the root of the problem lies in the netherlands failure to face its colonial past and that legacy is still visible in present day society and the daily basis people are confronted with different forms of racism and racism islamophobia there's a lot of research showing it. however unfortunately there's not. and the acknowledgement from the government that this is a serious problem prime minister margaret is hoping to be elected for a 4th term despite his center right government resigning in january after a child benefit scandal tens of thousands of people were wrongly accused of fraud the majority immigrant families targeted by the tax office prime minister was

convicted in 2007 for racism and discrimination yet after that he became prime minister and he has been for over 10 years so this is how institutionalized it is simmons knows that her party is unlikely to win the election but she hopes to become the 1st black woman party leader to win a dutch parliamentary seat for her supporters that would be a huge victory and to sign that the winds of change may be blowing natasha butler al-jazeera amsterdam. this is al jazeera and these other headlines the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca shot outweigh the risks they didn't see commissioned an investigation into a few reports of blood quotes.