much higher than advertised researchers say the huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm convinced this is the news our live from davos coming up next 60 minutes the european union's medicine regulator says the benefits of oxford astra zeneca vaccine outweighs the risks and there's no indication that it caused reported blood clots. the people of myanmar will be forced to defend them so the un envoy for me and parliament speaks to al-jazeera and calls for international action

. the netherlands goes to the polls for the 1st major electoral test for coronavirus policies in view of. and sport one of football's biggest names says he's ready to have one last shot at the world cup 5 years after quitting international football zlatan abraham of the edges back in the sweden team. the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca shot outweigh the risks the agency commissioned an investigation into a few reports of blood clots and people have gotten the vaccine a number of countries have temporarily suspended their use of the product the e.u. review should conclude on thursday that the agency says there's no indication the vaccine is linked to blood caustic. dominic cain joins us now live from berlin

dominic if the a.m.a. is convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks of the astra zeneca vaccine why are we seeing this pause that is the central question that has been posed in capital cities across europe both choose and in the build up to what has happened on tuesday the sense very much that is this a political decision that has motivated what has been posed to the e m a or are there serious health concerns we know that several different countries over the course of this week have raised concerns have sent that the incidence of blood clots amongst some people who have had astra zeneca administered to them was of such concern that they wanted the decision remitted to the e m a on choose the we have heard from the m a addressing this central issue this is what they're spokeswoman had to say there

is no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions they have not come up in the clinical trials and they're not listed as known ours or expected side effects with this vaccine in clinical trials both the vaccinated people the people who are thieves the 1st thiebaud have shown small or some very small numbers of plot talked about months the number of thromboembolism bends overall in the vaccinated people seems not to be higher than dot seen in the camera population. which basically means that the vaccine in those words is effectively safe because the doesn't appear to be any correlation between having the vaccine administered and a raised incidence of blood clots the important thing there is that if that is the final verdict as it were from the e e m

a on thursday in amsterdam at their headquarters then that will inform the decision they take about the safety or otherwise of the vaccine and very many millions of european citizens will be wanting to find out whether indeed it is safe this addresses the central issue about the public trust and confidence in astra zeneca is vaccine already we know that this is what the temporary suspension of its administration here in germany has meant something here in berlin at least that 2 of the 6 vaccinations centers cannot administer the vaccine and so it is sitting on the shelves in those centers which are closed so clearly people in berlin but also across the continent want to know if it's safe if it's going to be declared are safe and if then it can be administered to them in the way that many european governments have hoped that it would be ok thank you for that are they there dominic kane joining us live from berlin. oxana busiek is the leader of the

university college london global citizenship program on outbreaks of vaccines diseases she says the astra zeneca vaccine is safe. well it is every country's regulatory bodies job to evaluate the data in the investigate potential adverse event further different ways to do that and positing a rollout 'd there is only way to be scrutinized the data and understand it better it is absolutely essential that we are paying very close attention to any type of suspicions around and that we should be continuing to do this over them by however the timing of this couldn't be worse as we see 12 percent increase locally specially in europe with it's are way descending here this means that already problematic is low vaccine broke out in the e.u. is going to be delayed even further with potential unintended consequences. there isn't then but i think the important example to focus on is here in the u.k.

where there have been millions of people who've been vaccinated and again this means that specially those who have other underlying conditions and who are elderly that means that we have a live and from that perspective ringback thinking about what risk copiable who's he you and your health versus the vaccine i would be more covert because above and here in the u.k. is that this is safe and effective back to you that will save lives and i think that that's the that's the core message here the european union says it will soon receive more than 200000000 doses of the fines a coven 19 vaccine that amount is 10 maybe more than what was initially planned for the 2nd quarter european commission says an agreement was reached to bring forward doses meant to be delivered later this year to you aim to vaccinate at least 255000000 people by the end of the summer. the drug company madonna has begun

testing its covered vaccine in young children including babies as young as 6 months old the study was says the safety and efficacy of the jab in children under 12 researchers will have to determine whether to use smaller doses than in adults about $6750.00 participants from the u.s. and canada are expected to take part in the trial they'll be followed for 12 months the u.n. envoy for me and my civilian government is remaining defiant after the military charged him with treason dr sassa has spoken to al jazeera and says protesters will soon have no choice but to defend themselves in the face of an increasingly brutal crackdown 2 people were killed on tuesday days after the deadliest weekend since protests began earlier i spoke to dr who is in an unknown location for his safety i began by asking about his reaction to that treason charge to do.

with the high treason by the military junta if these trees in me i was 3rd in with the people of myanmar given my love for their freedom for democracy for justice is illegal illicit the mary-jane may have been committing crime against humanity and trust in this genocides at the classes for the last 700 years against dick and cheney karim. and. you know in 87 they have killed hundreds of his was stupid and. then their mother. you know it was a servant evolution. but will be to slaughter in 2017 there was. against all his people to know his story of independence this has to be lost and suffer across of 3. by those is

a means to protect our people these are the same generals who should be charged of high treason who charged me today on high treason what does this mean for you though i mean can you ever go back now are you worried perhaps for your friends or for your family who are still in the country well these high treason charge carry that sentence means that. if they go back there of course do everything they can support. for been killed and my family my brothers my sisters of cause they received every day they live on across the nations under streets these are the militants and there are those who should be put in jail who are now charging high treason we have heard some horrific stories stories of torture obviously of many people disappearing since you fled martial law has been

imposed the military and the police opening fire on protest is 'd how much longer can this continue how much longer where or or perhaps should protest is be willing to risk their lives their normal out of the people of myanmar will be forced to defend them sort of the international community do not do any action this again in this same belief that in the last we have been committed a crime against humanity what. everybody know or not so it has to be store so we are calling it is not. too quickly before it's too late because the bloodshed what you knew the u.k. is scrapping plans to cap and number of nuclear warheads at 180 and says it will move to stockpile no more than 260 it's part of a major review of the country's foreign policy after exit there are a few calls russia the biggest threat to the u.k.

it also notes. china's growing power and this cooperation with beijing will be vital. the 1st outcome of the integrated review was the government's decision to invest an extra 24000000000 pounds in defense allowing the wholesale modernization of our armed forces and taking forward the renewal of our nuclear deterrent back has the details from london. this is all about brand britain reassessing itself after leaving the european union and also according to the authors of the review living up to some of the most significant challenges that britain faces in the coming decades it knows all too well that geopolitically power is shifting away from the old world order to the new and that means the britain has to also shift its foreign policy gaze away from europe east to the indo-pacific region china is

described as being the biggest systemic threat to the united kingdom russia the biggest active threat and is precisely the response to that active threat why the british government is now saying that it will potentially increase its new killer arsenal it's not saying that it will definitely do that but it is saying that it will potentially lift the cap meaning that it could increase the number warheads it has up to 260 and all of this is about same thing signals not only to russia but to other rogue players that may well threaten the u.k. in the years to come on top of that announcement also plans to build a new antiterrorism center to counter the possibility of chemical and biological attacks the plan is also potentially to look towards building a new space command within a matter of months but let's not forget this country is still reeling after the impacts of covert 191 wonders whether or not this is just smoke or mirrors just

part of a wish list or whether or not the u.k. is really up to the time. let's get some more of what analysts are calling the u.k.'s biggest foreign policy shake up since world war 2 as we heard plans of food putting an extra $33000000000.00 into the military to modernize the defense forces and raise the cap on nuclear warheads and the nuclear arms campaign is accuse the government of pushing for a dangerous new nuclear arms race part of the reason for the new investment is defense from russia which the government calls the most acute threat to the u.k. posing the full spectrum of dangers but also singles out china as a competitive that says it's vital to work with beijing to tackle international issues like climate change of the next decade the u.k. wants to move the focus of its diplomatic and trade strategy from the west to the asia pacific region hamish gordon is a former commanding officer of the u.k. chemical biological radiological and nuclear regiment he joins us by skype from

bath the united kingdom thanks so much for your time so why does britain need to increase its nuclear stockpile of the limits of its nuclear stockpile. well i think there are several reasons and of course the needler increases its headline grabbing not surprisingly but it's a reflection i think of all the threats we face the prime minister has laid out it is not so long ago very close to where i'm talking to you now but there was a russian chemical warfare attack on british soil and the russians to be very aggressive i think that is of great concern and one of the ways to try and deflect and reduce that throws certainly is in the nature error but also very clearly articulated in the river by the prime minister is a concern about other asymmetric threats from a chemical attack tenchi biological attack we've seen terrorists and others using

chemical weapons extensively in the middle east and there is a concern that terrorists will be developing that this is another reason to have a very strong defense i think also it should be very clear to people the britain hasn't had a root and branch or be involved or security in the principal policy for well over 5 years and a lot of the military equipment that tanks craft an artillery pieces are actually pretty days it ok not really for me to field i do ask one more thing about on the nuclear front because as you say i guess it is headline grabbing but for particular reason that you never really talk about the u.k. and nuclear weapons or the u.k. a stockpile so tell me how does this place the u.k. internationally comparatively to other nations in terms of its nuclear capabilities . well the that is

a very good question of course. the 2 superpowers the older 3 the russians the chinese and the u.s. have vasa plies of meteor weapons in the thousands of warheads. and then the sort of next here is from those. and some of the others with much less we are member of the security council and all the following members from each other weapons i think what we are trying to do is in the program post breaks it era and we are still absolutely dependent on nato and our european allies for our defense but there is also a desire to have a move closer to britain and as you pointed out in the prelims there's the prime minister there is a concern of there's a continent on the far east that we should have more influence and standing there

and certainly the chinese we want to work with them but there is a realisation that there are areas that we must protect against in order to provide a comprehensive security to the u.k. and also supporting our european and nato colleagues their review also says that it is likely that a terrorist group will last just successful chemical biological or nuclear attack by 2030 i mean how does one come to that sort of conclusion what sort of evidence would be taken into consideration to get to that point i mean that is quite a concerning statement that it's likely. absolutely and i think chemical and biological threats are always taken and meant to be seriously because the impact they can have is massive and although nobody is suggesting that kind of it is a part of what happened there is a huge concern of the impact that it's had around the globe and the thousands of

trees around the globe where deadly pathogens like video stores are manipulated and there is concern that terrorists will try and get hold of pathogens to turn them into a volatile and also has a pretty busy discusses been widespread use of chemical weapons in syria and iraq or i just had the forces and of course we have experience here in the u.k. these weapons can be incredibly effective for relatively little effort by terrorists and headed to heart attack and sit back and isms against them really since the end of the cold war have fallen into a bag so it is a a rejigging involved is recognizing that people will want to use i don't trying to use these deadly weapons and we need to make sure that we have that the military and security capability to make sure those threats don't develop and if they do

develop in the u.k. or with our allies we can counter them with minimum loss of law. thanks so much for your time that is why mr presson gordon. and more ahead on the news hour including . a defining moment in libya's conflict the 1st peaceful transition of power since 2020. 1000000 bank workers go on strike in india and beijing financial chaos across the country. and in sport the new head of african football has set a big target for his continent's teams as he would ban story. it's been years in the making him now the latest step in bringing together united libyan government has taken place the prime minister handed over power to the u.n. backed administration and the 1st peaceful transition of power since 2012 this move

is meant to help bring stability to heavily actions in december security is likely to pose a major challenge for the new government with an estimated 20000 foreign fighters still in the country trying to has more from the capital tripoli. libya witnessed its 1st peaceful transition of power today since 20122011 the libyan people rose up against war margaret daffy in a revolution calling for freedom and democracy now that hasn't really panned out as well as people hoped the years of political divisions and violence have really had a devastating impact on the people here so seeing today seeing the outgoing prime minister faisal rush hand over power to this new government this new interim government a government of national unity today really excited people we can see that people libyans feel now that there is a glimmer of hope that their country can become can become a democratic and civilian state but the the road ahead for the government of

national unity is not going to be easy they're going to be tasked with forcing over 20000 foreign fighters out of the country they're also going to be tasked with unifying state institution. the military is currently divided between forces in western libya and the forces loyal to the warlord holy for hafter told lots of challenges ahead of this country ahead of this new government and they're only going to be leading this country for 9 months lections arce nationwide elections are set to take place in d.c. in december this year but for them to make the the feeling here among the most libyans is one of hope and one of of us of one of hope and one of excitement to see a peaceful transition of power and and that this government may hope in bettering or improving basic services for its citizens. 10 years into the syrian conflict president bashar al assad is still in power many syrians say the international

community failed them and the uprising turned into a proxy war and also those that blame the opposition for failing to provide credible alternative they do ship sahar of reports on how in fighting lead towards within the war. protesters demanding the downfall of president 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 we are the assad in july 2011 but years later the former air force colonel like many others acknowledged the f.s.a. existed only in the. tomorrow. each of the armed groups had their own agenda and they wanted to implement it before the full of assad this cause divisions also 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 that 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 al qaida linked 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 dug. him in it's like this they don't want

our forces to be here. and also also it's. 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 community over promised none of that when you have president obama when you british french and german. saying that's present last stand son 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 santa for their beirut

. for a 2nd day bank employees in india are on strike their union estimates 1000000 employees protested against the government's plan to privatize a few banks and an insurance company you can name ripples. in public bank employees walked off their jobs and onto the streets of india to protest for a 2nd day. they say saving public banks serves the interests of indian citizens by protecting what they call social baking people savings and keeping charges low. these are preserved policies are against the country when used to strike for an increase in wages or stopping a bank manager but this is the 1st strike that the bank employees are doing to save the country union members are asking for the public's support even as the strike disrupts some essential services including check cashing and processing of

remittances were different figures that worked up my good i needed money as i had to go to the market and buy something i can get money from facing problems one needs money is not everything can be we could carter transfer going ok. there's anger after it was announced last month that 2 public banks and one insurance company would be privatized to generate millions of dollars in revenue the codeine $900.00 pandemic has drained government coffers around the world local media report in the last 4 years the government has merged 14 public banks and privatized one negotiations between the unions and the government have not led to an agreement more protests are planned this week the unions say their strike could continue indefinitely unless the government alters course natasha to name just 0. gunmen in northern nigeria have abducted 3 teachers from

a primary school and could do in a state the students managed to escape during the raid the latest in a string of attacks on schools in northern nigeria on friday 39 college students were abducted by armed men on the outskirts of couldn't city amid addresses outside one of the schools where a kidnapping happened last week the issue of kidnapping for ransom in nigeria and banditry has been there for quite some time now and the the fact of the matter is the security personnel 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 stance on kidnappers and banditry he said no negotiations with them and in fact he's calling for death penalty against anybody falling. 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 always strange and they've been casualties of war over time and these have not been replaced big 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 the fighting with all the criminals been supply for years ago and these been all sort of replaced 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. still ahead on al-jazeera a desperate search against the clock for mexican families looking for their missing

loved. in sport team new zealand move to the brink of victory in the america's cup . however we got a little bit of a mixed bag in our weather across the middle east over the next couple of days it's warm sunshine lovely weather across southern parts of the rate of 30 celsius in doha could have 36 in riyadh so that warm starting to set same with southerly winds look further north as more winds are here because some snow coming in across the turkish mountains some rain raffling in suicide for us pushing towards the levant and that's all making its way little further eastwards as we go on through thursday i think for much of syria the good parts of iraq it should be followed by but just from the northern fringes you might catch a shero to what is to showers wintry in nature there just around the caucasus

chance of some wintry showers over towards afghanistan as well meanwhile the warm sunshine continues across the arabian peninsula and we could touch 34 celsius here in doha on thursday so even the warm side for us here well the sunshine sue into a good parts of somalia but showers not too far away much just catch a shower to just around the coastal fringes and you see want to see showers to the southern parts of ethiopia elsewhere across central areas of africa the seasonal rains doing quite nicely will see the rain is extending all the way down towards zambia zimbabwe catching some rains with a chance of want to showers the eastern cape. for a goalkeeper from one is a. full cup dreams were made. into a matter of a rest and. in the 1st of a new season footballing legend eric cantona introduces. one of the special

few stood up for their beliefs. just. on al-jazeera. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet police intimidation and charges of said dishes on the state line becomes the default and media. images that. just. makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. you're. the .

your child is there a reminder of our top stories this hour the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca shot outweigh the risks the agency said its investigation into a few reports a bug called some people who've gotten the vaccine is ongoing. the u.n. envoy for me and civilian government has spoken to al jazeera and says protesters will soon be forced to defend themselves in the face of a brutal military crackdown unless the international community steps in he's been charged by the regime for treason. the u.k. is reversing plans to reduce its stockpile of nuclear weapons it's part of a major review of foreign policy around foreign minister it is accusing the u.k. of quote also of course the. us president joe biden is on his way to delaware county in pennsylvania to promote the $1.00 trillion dollars covert

$900.00 relief package joe biden has signed off on it last week and bill this is a plan to rebuild the backbone of the country that includes billions for health care unemployment testing one of payments of $1400.00 to most americans our white house correspondent kimberly holcomb joins us live now complete so what are we expecting to hear today. we're expected to hear from president biden when he touches down here in delaware county about how businesses like the ones that are surrounding me are going to be affected they've already been negatively impacted by the kovac pandemic about 3 quarters of the business in the state say they have been struggling some have even shut down permanently and the unemployment rate in the state has gone up by about 2 and a half percent so this is part of the help is here to are that joe biden is promising all week he'll be fanning or across the united states to sell the

features of this plan not only to tell people how they are going to get checks into their bank accounts and that has already started some $1400.00 for each individual but also how it will help businesses try to rebuild so this is something the president will be outlining as he tries to reassure americans that he can turn this economy that's been so hard hit around ok can really what are americans telling us about this rescue plan. well it's enormously popular according to most americans but here in this county it's a pretty divided county just a little more than half supported joe biden in the last election so there's a lot of skepticism here what they're fearful of is that as taxpayers they're spending an awful lot of money but they may not see those benefits so joe biden is going to have to win over those skeptics the think too much of this package is not focused on code relief but on other projects and agendas of the democratic party so

these are some of the things that joe biden is going to have to win people over on make sure that this is not a waste of taxpayer money and so that's why the president is selling the features of this plan coming to these different states what he's sort of doing as well though is a bit of a victory lap because again this is a battleground state that helped joe biden win the white house so it's in part to sell this plan but it's also still say thank you to the voters of pennsylvania that helped push joe biden into the winning category in the november election all right thank you so much for that can really help a fair live from delaware county pennsylvania. opinion polls suggest the center right party of dutch prime minister mark is on course to win wednesday's election by a landslide that's despite a scandal involving child care benefits of forced his entire cabinet to resign in january steadfast and has more from zaandam. as the netherlands prepares to go to the polls this week hundreds of people have been queuing for food handout it shows

a growing divide in society after a decade of leadership by the center right government of market. the ever smiling prime minister went to the palace in january to hand in the resignation of his cabinet on a bicycle and says i will year old i grew up in poverty with lots of dept because the tax office accused us of fraud then we became poor. 11 year old and as part of a campaign launched before the elections to raise awareness about the one in 13 dutch children living in poverty a mother was one of 26000 families who were wrongly accused by tax authorities of child care benefits fraud now social says she was forced to pay back nearly $120000.00 and lost her job her house and her marriage she suffered from 2 strokes and is learning to walk again report concluded that most of the accused families graphic terms of racial profiling that we were confronted with that collectors on a daily basis they often came with police we lived in fear we look to door shut the

curtains and we're too embarrassed to go outside. prime minister mark whitaker was confronted by one of the victims during a recent gallup buys the bait. i will read responsible for this because he is the one in charge he keeps saying it is awful but i don't feel he means it he and the other victims don't understand why you chose to run again i explained to her that at the same time and i had to ask myself the question what did it mean for my rerunning again to become leader of my party and i'm hopefully the focus would give me just again i said to have also means very many things which have been very successful sort of the people in their lives have lost trust in politics because how do you gain the trust back. by working very much or you are good to hear although did not and has been struggling through to cope 19

pandemic bolton people in times of crisis are going to vote for the leader they know stem market the seen as a crisis manager but also a leader tainted by serious scandals a recent survey shows that even without a covert than that make poverty rates will increase by 30 percent or more people will depend on food handouts and one of the world's richest nations so even though market is still popular some are wondering how long he can rely on his survival skills most people in this queue are longing for a change in leadership they hope may come true sooner than they might expect some political observers predict a prime minister if elected again may have to step down after all a parliamentary inquiry into the childcare benefits scandal is scheduled for 2 years from now on al jazeera. and the last 15 years of struggle between rival gangs in mexico and the government the number of disappeared and mass graves has racked up the state of much work on was where the conflict began as being

consumed with violence ever since but there's been no large scale search for the missing in the state until now john heilemann has this report of. this bullet holes in the to this house might hope more secrets we did with. come to the 1st big hunt for the disappeared in the state of michoacan southwest mexico suspects in a police investigation revealed a number of places where they've hit of bodies. and this is the 1st stop to try and find the someone might be under the floor and. the cement in there is newer than outside and it sounds hollow that's what people do when they marry someone underneath them put down concrete to hide it. you know there's a brotherhood among the family searching for the nearly 80000 disappeared across mexico erik's traveled more than 2000 kilometers to help the locals they're going to blow us up but it's you know i've got a son who disappeared in tijuana and i feel the same pain as these families so i've

come to join their cause. because many of the teams of gangs or even authorities the tools their relatives used to find the basic this is the way that you search for the disappeared right across mexico to push this through out into the ground and then pull out how she's doing there and then sniff it and if there's a smell of decay that means that of bodies being found. from you know you are going to ask why do you sort of so rudimentary to search for the you know the name of the needle but we haven't got the money for technology there's a lot of poor families here that have used up everything we have trying to find our relatives i and a lot of people come here to search without earning a thing the government just up the funds to support us. it's a common complaint from the family's little government though the years they've had to do all of this of their own. to lena is learning how for the 1st time she's

a local go searching for a brother who was kidnapped a year ago the pandemic and fear stop to look into it now but we're not him is that he was finally someone is helping us and i'm hopeful that we'll find him in all of the others in a way i'm excited and in another sad because we're not going to find him a life. she's resigned to the she just wants his body and this is probably the only shot that she'll get to find it. this area's red hot the highly skilled new generation cotto and that viagra going to fighting over the the wants of victims found for 2 weeks only the government's providing security to help families look just at the end of the day you know you can see the number of trucks here of the national guard that have come to accompany the families now they're all piling out basically the families would never be able to look in this without this security because it is so full of criminals. this is just a slim window of time for them to try and end years of torture and finally lay

their loved ones to rest. john holmes how does it or this in to get it off in mexico. is really archaeologists have found fragments of a rare biblical scroll in caves never did see the text was found along with other artifacts including koreans and the 6000 year old mummy of a child israel's antiquities authority says the discovery happened during efforts to protect the caves from losing the chain of caves have been a source of some other important to start findings like dead sea scrolls and some of the oldest known copies of biblical books. once an outsider netflix is now dominating the academy awards. after a year of lockdowns the streaming services received 35 oscar nominations for 16 of its productions a record number of women and ethnic minorities have also been nominated for brown.

in a year that saw theaters shuttered and movie fans marooned in front of their t.v. sets the netflix drama make about an alcoholic screenwriters foray into 1930 s. hollywood won the biggest number of academy award nominations with 10 including for best picture david fincher was nominated for best director and gary oldman for best actor other best picture nods with 2 no man's land minori judas and the black messiah promising young woman the father the sound of metal and the trial of the chicago 7 these defendants had a plan and the plan was to incite a right to women directors were nominated a 1st in the 93 years of oscars chloe zhao for a no man's land in the emerald fennel for promising young woman what happens in life under i'm usual circumstances given what happened right why i dropped out i'm not the only one didn't believe it all

a record number of 76 nominations went to women film professionals it was kind of historic all the way around for actually spreading things out and getting more diversity across gender lines and also race but i think there's still so much more that needs to be done also for the 1st time an asian american actor was tipped for best actor steven un was nominated for me nare the story of a korean american family trying to make a go of farming in the rural south places tend to be good programs when i say baby events friends some of them. but you know a lot of their face sort of movie need being nominee in that supporting actress role in. did you cry other best actor nominations went to anthony hopkins for the father. made for

sound of metal and a posthumous nomination for chadwick boseman in my rainey's black bottom becoming goldman's death from cancer last year at the age of just 43 shocked and saddened his many fans. got about the kind of god god god he did i think a lot of people with the sentimental favorite not just for his performance from the bottom but truly for his body of work in the best actress category frances mcdormand received her 6th us her nomination for nomad land and viola davis got her 4th nomination from our rainey's black bottom the other actresses nominated r. carey mulligan for promising young woman but s. occur before pieces of a woman and andra day for the united states versus billie holiday the award ceremonies will be held mostly virtually on april 25th robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. professor peter newman heads the m.b.a. m.f.a.

program a york university's tisch school of the arts where 2 of its graduates are competing for best picture at the c.i.s. office and joins us now live from maryville tennessee via skype thanks so much your time so we've got a lot of netflix nominations is this likely to be a one time only thing just for 2021 or is this a new era for the oscars. thank you 21 is good most unprecedented at times because and that and the fact that most of the major movie chains were either partially or totally closed so the amount of streaming films that qualified and are being considered for this picture and all the other awards it will continue but not in this kind of volume this this was really an extraordinary set of circumstances that allow. ok what do you make of the nominations this year in general but also i'm thinking about the diversity in terms

of race and in terms of gender. well again just to just to salute my students' vote clearly. directed no madeleine and shouting who directed here's just some of what messiah both entered n.y.u. graduate film school in 2007 it's a very small program it's only 35 certain sort of i just want to say how proud i am their combined 12 nominations. it's a unique year in that the major studios elected by and large not to put their films in the theaters with the exception of christopher nolan's pendant which didn't do very well and so it was a much different process of people seeing films and especially for the academy voters to be able to the aware of films and the promotional efforts were much much different which which obviously favored the streamers because people were able to

watch all the to highly touted movies on her home screen and what about the nominations themselves as i said the diversity race and gender we had one analyst fair in that piece of hardware not saying you know it's great when making headway but it's not enough. you know i go again i think this year my theory of fit if an operation it's great that it's progressing this way but a lot of the really big heavy hitters elected not to release their films last year and it's given a window of opportunity for some of the smaller and independent and more unique type films to be understood careful scrutiny and actually getting the nomination but it is certainly moving in the right direction absolutely i want about their wants themselves april of 2001 should we be expects from the actual not the virtual event. well you know there's so many different things to play it in the film industry the content and history and with the oscars it's one of the

few businesses where ego and vanity is a tradeable commodity in many ways just as important as money. and it isn't portland to the creatives to win those trophies and get gets them other parts it gets or quotes up higher i think the biggest question not only as to who's going to win it is how many viewers are going to watch the show because both the golden globes and just in the past 24 hours the grammys the ratings were horrible and the motion picture academy the member the organization that selects the pictures depends on advertising revenue for how many people watch the show and many many people at least and it's certainly in the world many many people have not seen most of the films that are heavily nominated well have people who look at the films now and then try and find them streaming online if they can hey i thank you so much for

your time and congratulations to you on having 2 of your graduates be nominated this year professor peter newman there from the new york university's tisch school of the op. very proud of them still ahead on al-jazeera. in sports the female jockey making history one of horse racing's biggest events are is here with that story.

for. the on what. kind of sport has fox came thank you so much 5 years after announcing his international retiring men's latin abraham of the edges back in the sweden team the

39 year old is his country's record goalscorer and has made himself available for upcoming world cup qualifiers the ac milan player could also feature in this year. european championships with sweden set to take on spain poland and slovakia glad than confirm the move in typically understated fashion he wrote on his twitter page it's the return of the guard sweden's head coach says he isn't concerned about latins personality distracting the team we talked about this week with me is loved by him and he is the person he is he should be the person is in one way but he's also an excellent pupil with a very good experience that we can use into the team so for me it's that's not the problem at all we have talked about this of course how we work together and how we work and what he can do that when he's ready to play so. i'm sure it will be good the new head of african football has set to teams on his continental

big target speaking in his home country of south africa patrice wants separate ways says it's time for an african team to win the world cup but separate was elected unopposed as the ruling bodies ate the president last friday judy the next will come and also during the forthcoming the will comes that african nations compete and if you look at what we said in the money 1st it's part of our plan that an african team must be in there will come i think this group has for that. really in team well the say there player room pre-treat see i was making good progress after suffering a head injury on monday the portuguese international collided with a team majoring a match against liverpool the game was halted for an alien 15 minutes while he was treated but he didn't require hospital treatment the keeper was replaced on the page under a new concussion lots. you know we just an update from the doctors ok

he's awake he's conscious speaks and remembers what happened we have to take the right precautions but he's ok it was. a big big not that we had but he's ok so for now everything for football lawmakers gave the green light for concussion substitute trials to begin from the start of this year for any league or competition that wanted to try them out the new rule means permanent substations can be made if a player suffers a head injury even if a team has already used all of its replacements other sports including rugby and cricket have similar systems in place the australian football league is also likely to introduce a new rules for the upcoming season and we've been speaking to the chief medical

officer for world players union face pro and he says he was impressed by the action taken during this latest incident i was definitely pleased to see how careful is a medical team that engaged we played on the video footage it was clear that it was a so their trauma to brain injury and obviously you sink about concussion but you have to sing 1st abut neck and spine injury so definitely credit to the medical team and i was the reply. she's poor i've been your gene everyone to change and explore those amendments and also temper recomposition 62 shen unfortunately is a temporary completion situation where not a lot to be tried yet we have to do with the men and completion superstition and we are going to evaluate whether it's weeks or not a pleased 10 countries didn't many festa interest you know that to try and this

conclusion 62. team new zealand are one win away from retaining the america's cup they beat italy's luna rossi in race and 9 off the coast of auckland to take a 63 lead in this best of 13 match for the 3rd race in a row to new zealand came from behind to beat the challengers the teams will return to the water on wednesday for what could be the final race. it was obviously a really close rice you know we felt we got off to a pretty good stuff and then then also got the run in sort of us with a bit of a run in shifts and we couldn't quite hold in there so they moved slowly on the back foot but they were just get fighting and keep trying to find opportunities and didn't have any lead changes they were it was great to get the final shift in and it was pretty much what it came down to. felix audit. honestly feel exhausted and you know we we're disappointed in the rice is not no doubt about that guy but

i'm excited you know we live to fight another die and when we come back to the dark it was not set our heads down you know negative energy from any better you might cerny a fan to support those that were lit up and they were ready for. there's a very different atmosphere at this year's child than the horseracing festival in england 12 months ago tens of thousands of fans were allowed to attend the 4 day event on the eve of the country going into lockdown no spectators are allowed this year and they missed the chance to witness some history on the track rachel blackmore becoming the 1st female jockey to win the champion hurdle. ok and that is all your sport for now back to you karen. don't forget you can always find much more on our web sites the address for them is al-jazeera dot com.

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