so no matter where you call. out is iraq bringing you the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. it. is iraq. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. europe's medicines watchdog says there's still no indication the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine causes blood clots and its benefits outweigh any risks. thousands for young gone where minerals military is facing districts on the martial law and the death toll continues to rise. protesters stormed the presidential palace in

aden as the u.n. envoy to yemen reports a dramatic deterioration in the conflict. and families dig for their missing loved ones often large scale searches finally begin in mexico as mitra comes to eat. and in sports 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 ybor him at the edge is back in this way to. begin this hour with the on going debate over astra zeneca has covered 19 vaccine the european medicines agency says there's still no indication the job causes blood clots and it's firmly convinced its benefits outweigh any risks 19 countries of now temporarily suspended their use of the vaccine because of reports of clots in

a small number of people who received it the regulator is investigating this report to see if there's any link between the vaccine and the crossing it says the results will be released on thursday. well the astra zeneca vaccine is the most widely used of all the available jobs $74.00 countries a using it with somalia the latest to start is also one of the cheapest that just a few dollars a shot astra zeneca says it's had reports of just 37 patients suffering clots out of more than 17000000 people who've received it in the u.k. and the e.u. that's a much lower instance of clots than the roughly one to 2 people per 1000 who would normally be expected to develop one john mccain is in berlin with more on what the european regulators said. we know that several different countries over the course of this week have raised concerns of scent 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 e m a addressing this central issue 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 and the people who are thieves the 1st cboe have shown small or some very small numbers of plot about months the number of thromboembolism bends overall in the vaccinated people seems not to be higher than that seen in the camera population which basically means that the vaccine in those woods 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 saved. well questions of the vaccine have left europe divided some box nation centers in germany have had to close because the suspension left them with no vaccines to administer in the u.k. in belgium though the rollout of the next shot goes on maybe improvement to bill for me it is not a problem so many tens of thousands of whom you've already been vaccinated successfully so do not have a problem with it at all i'll be in the media all this fuss in the media it makes me dizzy i have faith in science why should we all give our opinion i think you have more chance of blood clots with coated than with this astra zeneca vaccine

market thailand was the 1st country outside europe to suspend its use of the astra zeneca vaccine but after reviewing reports its resumed its rollout in an effort to build public confidence prime minister probably not sure became one of the 1st people there to get the shot thailand will start manufacturing astra zeneca doses in june and its reserve the 1st 61000000 for its own population panels prime minister has been given his 1st dose of the pfizer 19 vaccine. suga is the 1st japanese official to receive the shot publicly dozens of other officials will be vaccinated before heading to the u.s. for meetings with the biden administration next month or so ago will be the 1st world leader to meet biden as president. but diana has begun testing its covert 19 vaccine on children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years it's part of a study to assess the safety and efficacy of inoculating children against the disease almost 7000 children are taking part in the research which is being

conducted in collaboration with the nationalist 8 out of g. and infectious diseases the company is already conducting a separate study testing the vaccine in adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18. brazil's president has appointed his 4th health minister since the beginning of the pandemic cardiologist mustn't look at olga replaces an army officer who had no medical training but that doesn't seem to be any sign of a change in strategy well we're joined by our latin america editor you see in human and see what's the message coming from brazil's latest health minister. well you know that he is a doctor he's a cardiologist rather well known but while he may be a new name it's as you say the same policy in fact he's gone out of his way to to make it clear that he will remain loyal to president. and also to his policies up until now which have been and vaccine and. shutdowns or lock downs

very very disappointing for those who were hoping and calling for major changes in brazil to try to reduce the massive number of deaths and infections that are raging in that country the only good news i would say is that at least the last count was a reduced one from the more than 2000 deaths per day that we were seeing a brazil for almost a week to about $1400.00 so that is a slight improvement but again that could change for one day or one week to the next so we aren't expecting certainly for now any big changes from this new health minister the 4th as you say in just a little over a year and in chile where you are they may be forging ahead with vaccinations but the current situation doesn't seem to be improving. not only that it's getting a lot worse and it's very very ironic on the day the president. announced that more than 5000000 chileans have been inoculated this is about 2 weeks ahead of what had

been programmed and that's equivalent to 33 percent of the population the number of people getting sick the number of infections continues to rise and more importantly the critical care beds in all the hospitals just about in the country are overflowing i was at one hospital just a short while ago where they told me that they had increased the i.c.u. beds from 80 to 144. to try to cope with the number of patients and the head of the i.c.u. told me but they're already full. well there are many places especially in southern chile where people just aren't able to go in there are 4 of people that need ventilators on only 2 beds left so a very critical situation indeed in chile right now this in human thank you very much indeed. the death toll continues to rise in me in ma where the u.n. says 149 people have been killed since last month's coup and

a political prisoner group puts it at 183 protests as have defied nearly imposed martial law in many areas to gather on the streets barricades were built and set on fire in the country's largest city young gone but thousands of people have fled parts of the city where the military has taken firm control after 5 chinese factories were set on fire over the weekend earlier i spoke to a protester in yangon who we're not naming for his own safety he says the people will continue their uprising despite the threat to their lives soldiers militarist they were shoot people because they can. a symbol of that so they were i think the last couple of days the worst was in. a lot of different crews out there and the people living there are really poor and mostly internally displaced people and they're not sunday. there was the most brutal crackdown so more

than 50 people die each. on a single day and more than 300 people got into and they used machine guns snipers lybrel bullets and there were dead bodies all are coming even protesting since the beginning does any of that put you off or you can carry on protesting we will keep on until the very end we have been getting more violent more and more violent as the protests goes on so we are well aware that we are putting our lives on the line if not really somebody or somebody else like i pray you know i pray and i hope that nobody's heard over it's get killed then it's somebody got shot and we just have to make sure that we win this for those fallen for those so jim mitchell has been surprised by the level of resistance has encountered as a result of the can. actually they have no idea what the got themselves

into that there will be some protests here and there and they will just scare and it will be over within a month i think that's what they had a month but they didn't see serious resistance of the young people understand that a lot of people are fleeing certain areas when that happens where do they go where can they get to safety i think a lot of people have flee only especially in china because of so much crackdown so much greater on last sunday and then on monday and even today they keep shooting to killing people and then since monday the shut down all the internet i can use into the only true ally 5 but all the mobile data internet shut down so they are not even like large photos or less information less communication that thousands

and thousands of people are living and they are but there is almost a 1000000 people event the event today and yesterday there were hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people still on time they had treated protesting an enormous military has charged the international envoy and they asked a government with treason and issued a warrant for his arrest talk to these 9 phlegmy him on the day of the canoe last month he's accused of encouraging the civil disobedience campaign and calling for international sanctions and a spectrum al-jazeera charges. today i'm proud to be. with a high treason by the military from the. navy treasons me i was the thing with the people of myanmar given my life for their freedom for vender democracy in a whole just the. this illegal illicit a marriage women have been committing crimes against humanity and translate this

genocide at the classes for the last 7 years gays think that cheney karim they are more. in the united 7 they have kill. their mother civilly and you know he was a servant sorry more lucian. swaddle in 2017 there was. against all his people to know his story this has to be a blast and suffer across 3 by those these are manged to protect our people. at the same generals who should be charged of high treason who charged me today of high treason coming up on this news hour from london. idiocies its 1st peaceful handover of power since 2012. selling is $1.00 trillion

dollar giveaway the u.s. president visits pennsylvania to hand over a $65000000000.00 check. and as for the new head of african football has set a big target as continents teams. to yemen now where protesters angry about poor living conditions and unpaid salaries have stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of aden witnesses told around here that officials from the u.n. backed government fled as hundreds of demonstrators forced their way in security guards loyal to the southern transitional council station there didn't try to stop the protesters. has more on what sparked the unrest. this process was triggered by members of the security services that receive their paychecks from the u.n. back to government which was taken as

a headquarter ever since the with the militia overran essentially the government up in the capital sanaa 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 mid day at bank square which is roughly around a kilometer away from the. palace and that then went on to their marching towards a presidential palace and essentially storming get interesting enough they stormed it with little resistance from the southern transitional government which is backed by the united arab emirates who were in charge of guarding the presidential palace and then entered it eventually where the ministers are and the prime minister we're not quite sure exactly what we do understand from sources on the ground that they weren't inside the palace other time there were some government officials there but none of the ministers or the main. statesman present economically speaking roughly 3 weeks ago the saudi backed government did say that it was going to

introduce some sort of stimulus package or something that was going to help those who were struggling economically that hasn't come to fruition obviously yemen is a devastated country to qana me is in tatters everything about it has been essentially all but destroyed over the past 4 years because of that's how do you eat lead war as well as obviously the actions of the militia and those that back it. a missile attack on a market has killed 2 people and wounded 7 others in the city of marriage local reports say the rebels fahd the missile the rebels are engaged in a major offensive in the oil rich arab province which is controlled by the government and is home to many of yemen has displaced families a saudi led coalition is boman from the air as it tries to dislodge the flames the un special envoy to yemen says the situation has taken a dramatic turn for the worse especially for children u.n.

workers still trying to raise nearly $4000000000.00 to feed millions of people there on diplomatic editor james space has more this was a very grim assessment of the situation in the yemen the u.n. special envoy telling the security council that it seems the war is back in full force this is how martin griffiths began his speech are returning to this council yet to. report the deterioration of the obligation you know. this time last year. i was rather the facility of morrow governor engineers produce a 1000000000 simply being an estimated 1000000. displaced persons wrist fighting forces on both sides of suffered heavy losses this is a search for allies to shocking report as our show we. are increasingly getting drawn into war over. the problems of the future. he

says he's particularly concerned by the who thiis ongoing offensive on marriage by the cross border air attacks the who the drone the missile strikes on saudi arabia and the saudi air raids on sanaa and by the fact the war is spreading again to places like who data and ties of course one of the effects of this is humanitarian disaster the u.n. is warning of famine in yemen they tried to raise money from the international community at the beginning of the month they wanted $3850000000.00 and yet they only managed to raise $1700000000.00 less than half the money they needed when we are in says a former u.s. diplomat in the middle east and co-author of the book after the uprisings political transition into his year libya and yemen he joins us from washington d.c. by skype thanks so much for being with us so it is always quite a complicated picture can you explain to us what's happening now on the ground

there in terms of the fighting. so we're fighting in 4 areas the most important one is the who the assault on mary which you described accurately and proxy fighting going on there we have fighting spreading to taze to has and to have data data where most of the food assistance comes into and then we have major protests in 2 cities to complicate things and a general degradation everywhere but i think the most frightening statistic of the many statistics i've seen in the last week is that 400000 yemeni children are on the brink of starvation we've had a famine and yet since 2015 but we never had quite enough data to officially classified as famine we've lost over 100000 children and we're on the point of losing as many as 400000 more who cannot fend for themselves and given all that how likely is it that there's any progress towards

a settlement of this conflict. quite low griffiths is doing his best the u.s. is a nuclear capable on the way to lender can you i know and there's many other aspects of diplomatic engagement but right now one of the many problems is that you having further fragmentation politically economically security wise that makes one big political deal less and less possible i am increasingly thinking that the most important thing that has to happen is ending the 6 year blockade of yemen which blocks a lot of food assistance and other assistance from coming in and decoupling that from. negotiations or have a cease fire which is what the saudis are making as a precondition for ending the blockade the blockade just has to be ended unilaterally and to me i mentioned in passing that the proxies that are involved in this what would it take for the proxies to stop or reduce their involvement and how much difference would that actually make. well it's already begun the main 2

proxies are saudi arabia u.a.e. who are not working together in fact the crowds that stormed the presidential palace in aden today crossed one line of security that was backed by the u.a.e. let that through and can help to another who have security back of saudi arabia which didn't come through it's already there we have to practice on it seems over conflict who's forces don't agree with each other and whose are really cooperating well the ground the other one is the iranians who give very little systems to the who thinks that just enough to give them missiles that sting and the saudis recently gave a number of 900 missile attacks in in 6 years that have been stopped by their own missile defenses of course that needs to end but i don't think the who these are going to stop they're winning the war right now any time soon so the saudi arabians

are going to have to take some unilateral actions and the biden who's direction is already trying to push them quite hard in that direction and if nothing does change and the conflict continues aside from the increasing humanitarian crisis what other risks are there associated with it. well as i started to hint that further fragmentation right now you have the 3 big political blocs you talked about and several others that don't get along 'd and further political pragmatism makes it harder and harder and harder to have one big deal that gets not only just one euro back together but even 2 humans back together you have security fragmentation saying lines you have islamic state making group gains in the arab area because the 2 other forces are fighting each other and then you have the economy equation increasingly weaponized so you have for example the who these taxing desperately needed food assistance us fuel lockheed and who data that the saudis are doing in a weaponization of gas distribution which is it to distribute food so all these

fragmentations and fragmentations and weaponized and have anything that's weaponize of all could continue to get worse and needs to be stopped as soon as possible so we are so every appreciate your analysis thank you very much nate a pusher. people have again set fire to tires in parts of beirut after the lebanese pound crashed to a new low against the $1.01 u.s. dollar now costs about $15000.00 pounds which has pushed up food prices the lebanese currency is lost 90 percent of its value on the informal locket in the last year the country's dealing with rampant unemployment and the currency crisis means wages are worth a lot less. libya has moved a step forward in putting the violence in division of the past decade behind it with a united government taking office has head of the outgoing un backed government in tripoli transferred power to new prime minister abdul hamid debate in the capital was

a smooth transition of power from the 2 rival governments in the east and west following painstaking negotiations the new ministers have their work cut out trying to unite all the warring factions and prepare for december's elections and the trainer has more from tripoli on the challenges ahead. libya witness its 1st peaceful transition of power today since 2012 in 2011 the wooden people rose up against war margaret duffy in a revolution calling for freedom and democracy now that hasn't really panned out as well as people hold are the years of political divisions and violence are really had a devastating impact on the people here so seeing today seeing the outgoing prime minister raj hand over power to this new government this new interim government the 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 force you know over 20000 foreign fighters out of the country they're also going to be tasked with unifying state institutions the military is currently divided. between forces in western libya and the forces loyal to the warlord holy 4 have to hold a lot of challenges ahead of this new government and they're only going to be leading this country for 9 months lections arse nationwide elections are 30 take place in days in december this year but for them to make the feeling here among the most libyans is one of hope and one of 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. in asia gunmen have attacked a group of people returning in convoy from

a weekly market killing at least 58 of them the government says the attack happened on monday in the troubled teen of barry region no one has claimed responsibility for the massacre but are still fighters and known to be active in the area. on terror and police are continuing their search for 3 teaches abducted from a primary school in can do no state students managed to escape when gunmen raided the school on monday it's the latest in a string of abductions in northern nigeria police are also trying to locate $39.00 students taken from a college on the outskirts of couldn't a city on friday we couldn't as governor has told us that no ransom will be paid to the kidnap as he spoke to a military suzyn cadena. so much has been invested in the field of education yet these attacks are trying to derail all that and it's not only happening in katrina state it's across the north of nigeria we have broke or i'm in the north east and these bandits attacking schools institutions now to talk more about this is the

governor of state model i'm not sure i'm at a little. talk was why the targeting of school educational institutions including a student how devastating is this to educational climate well the bandits have been targeted in educational institutions and schools and abducted in students in particular because it makes headlines as you know headlines constitute the oxygen of the terrorists and these terrorists the fact they are carrying $8847.00 does not give you the platform to negotiate because if we do that they would have to negotiate with every criminal in their geria and glam team. we have not named of us to wouldn't they were several college of forestry mechanization in the hands of the bandit we know that they're safe because the. forces have been carrying out surveillance we know that they're safe and we are now involved in a waiting game we have told them very clearly not a penny would come from the government and they are waiting hoping that something

would come so we're involved in the waiting game we have to wait and see how things play out now for 5 the governor of katrina state. nor negotiations no ransom to be paid to the band it his in his own words the waiting game continues and so much more still to come this hour. this is the right wing country we have to accept that we need the woman helping to run a seat in the doctrine actions and help the country faces problem with race. iceland on high alert after tens of thousands of mass quakes in the past few weeks . and his sports team in new zealand moved to the brink of victory in the america's cup. way insist certainly hasn't done with us just yet across here we've got quite

a messy picture going on here areas of cloud down towards the southeast in conus and storms rumbling away with rain sleet and snow mixed in but quite a weather trying to push its way into western parts big area of high pressure here i will let turn things settled brighter light winds will feel pleasantly warm temperatures getting into double figures there in london and also in glasgow glasgow touching 12 degrees celsius on a par with rome actually right at 13 celsius and on a dry weather but in between there's that rain coming down across the north sea pushing into the low countries some snow coming back in across the aisle so see some snow moving in super bowl garia into remain the into a good part of ukraine as well further north dry brush weather coming through sparkling sunshine in scandinavia with temperatures getting up to around 4 or 5 celsius as we go on into worth stay we will see a more wet weather coming in across the low countries most snow just coming back into war psy-ops this is the turn of southern germany to see some of that wintry mix more snow that is easing across towards rumania want to see showers continuing

into central parts of the mediterranean eastern areas to spank you can't just say no the parts of africa generally find a dry well we will see some wet weather pushing towards morocco. for afghans with ties to international organizations. this rate has never been greater. left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops. it may be the only path to safety. but alienation makes home feel ever further away. bill part of the viewfinder is a series on al-jazeera. for hostages the rose here to report on the people often ignored but who must be hurt how many other childs can you say will take their time and put extensive fault into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover

major global offense but our lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like dallas to find the young men and legion and so many others to go to them you make me afterwards we care we stay. the all. or none of the top stories are not as are the european medicines agency says there's no indication the astra zeneca of 19 vaccine causes blood clots and it's firmly convinced its benefits outweigh any risks 19 countries have now suspended the use of the job after reports of clots in

a small number of recipients. as the death toll continues to rise in myanmar people have again defied the security forces to protest against the coup thousands of also fled the biggest city and gone after several districts were put under martial law. and protests as in yemen angry about poor living conditions and on paid salaries have stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of aden this is the un's special envoy to yemen warned of a dramatic deterioration in the conflict there. and a 15 year struggle between rival gangs in mexico and the government huge numbers of people have disappeared michoacan state was where the conflict began and has been consumed by violence ever since there's been no knowledge scale search for the missing in the state until now from b 20 quid arrow in the truck and drive home and report. this bullet holes in the door but this house might hold all secrets with. we've 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 the bodies. and this is the 1st stop to try and find some might be under the flu. the cement in there is newer than a. side and it sounds hollow that's what people do when they marry someone underneath and put down concrete to hide it. and 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 terms 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 want 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 a body has been found. so you know if you're going to walk why do you sort of so great and then treat 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 the funds to support us. it's a common complaint from the families of little government help the years they've had to do all of this on 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 stopped looking till now but you know tim is right you are finally someone is helping us and i'm hopeful that we'll find him in all of the other is in a way i'm excited and in another sad because we're not going to find him

a life. she's resigned to that she just wants his body and this is probably the only shot that she'll get to find. this area's redhawk the highly skilled new generation cotto and that viagra going to fighting over it lead. victims found for 2 weeks only the government's providing security to help families look just at the end of the day now and you can see the number of trucks here of the national guard 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 and years of torture and finally lay their loved ones to rest. john holmes how does it are this in to get it all in mexico. u.s. president joe biden is in pennsylvania promoting his $1.00 trillion dollar covert

relief bill the president's 1st stop was a small floor in business that's been hit by the economic downturn and on with vice president harris he's touring the country after congress approved the enormous payout republicans of maintain their opposition to it despite widespread public support from voters. our white house correspondent kimberly halkett is live in delaware county in pennsylvania so what have you heard president biden saying on his 1st stop there. well joe biden is talking or has been talking here in delaware county about the issues that he knows people are facing the fact that just here in the state alone the unemployment rate has gone up by 2 and a half percent and there are roughly 3 quarters of the business that feel they've been negatively impacted by the pandemic there are thousands of people out of work here and he knows that they're feeling paved so he says he's here the tour is called help is on the way help is here and that's essentially what joe biden is

delivering in terms of this message he's trying to explain to people that beyond the 1400 dollars checks that people have talked a lot about there's a lot in his 2 trillion dollar rescue plan to help bring back businesses businesses like this main street that i'm standing in in delaware county so this is the message that joe biden is delivering he really wants to give people the confidence when there's so much mistrust of government right now in the united states that their government can work for them but if this were the feel is already popular why does he feel the need to go out and sell it in this way. well he needs to for a number of reasons that the 1st is that this is a very divided nation we talk about this a lot this county is a really good example of it narrowly went for joe biden about 60 percent of the voters here support him that means a good chunk of 40 percent do not and are skeptical they think there's too much in

this plan that doesn't go to covert relief and that was the big thing that we heard a capitol hill in fact in this legislation not a single republican supporters so these are the challenges as joe biden promises to try and unite this divided country that he has to kind of reassure people that this is going to help them to he says he's the president for all americans but he needs to show that the other thing that's happening here because we're in this battleground state of pennsylvania is joe biden is doing a bit of a victory lap given the fact that he won the white house with the help of voters from here so really this is a bit of a p.r. tour and also an education piece as well in order to explain to americans what's going on and we should point out it's not just joe biden here in this county in fact his administration's fanning the united states all this week the 1st lady dr jill biden his vice president come laris her husband doug they'll be doing this across the united states in order to get americans on board about one of the biggest expansions or enhancements to the social safety net in the united states in

decades can be how can i thank you very much indeed and u.s. intelligence reports as both russia and the wrong trying to manipulate the 2020 presidential election with most seeking to undermine joe biden while tehran sought to damage donald trump let's get more on this from mike hanna who's in washington d.c. what does the report say mike. for this was a declassified version of the report that was issued to congress and given to the president in january does find that the russia and iran attempted to influence the election importantly it finds that there was no direct intervention by russia in the technical process of the election the counting of the votes of registration of voters also importantly it found that unlike 2016 there was no attempt by russia to cyber had the election infrastructure it was more a question of influence the narrative being created by proxies associated with

russia was anti biden linking him to corruption within ukraine in particular and selling this narrative to those who are close to the campaign this was the method that russia used according to this report the report stating to that russian president vladimir putin had knowledge of this and in all likelihood actually directed the operation as to iran that went the other way iran attempt to influence in various forms for example hackers sent out e-mails to democratic party voters purporting to come from the right wing proud boys movement these type of elements were put into effect but very importantly as i said no evidence was found by the national intelligence of any attempt to interfere with the technical process of the election this was all about influence and this is where it's very different to the report that compound russian involvement in meddling in the 2016 election and the

rush funding appears to run counter to the narrative of no interference. very much so when president trump was absolutely adamant that china was responsible for election defeat not russia both in 2016 and the run into the 2020 election well the report categorically states that china had no involvement whatsoever in the u.s. election its finding was that china would not see this as beneficial in any way the blowback from any such attempts chinese analysts pointed out would be far greater than any benefit that might have been obtained from it so this is directly counter to the narrative that was put out by president trump and his supporters that it was not russian volved in election interference it was in fact china will this is completely written off the table by this national intelligence report completely

contradicting president trump and many of those around him i can't thank you very much britain plans to increase the size of its nuclear arsenal as it makes the 1st big stocktake of its defense challenges for the next 3 decades and as the u.k. reviews its foreign policy priorities after bricks it the prime minister says it's time to look east and you barco reports wonder. it's being called the most significant overhaul of the u.k.'s defense security and foreign policy since the cold war a radical reflections of the prime minister of a rapidly changing world the review describes how we would both to our alliances strewth our capabilities find new ways of reaching solutions and really learn the art of competing against states with opposing values. the u.k. wants to build deeper trade and security links with india japan and australia was johnson's heading to india next month and the u.k.'s new state of the art aircraft

carrier will deploy to the region in may where warships go trade has historically followed but the proverbial elephant in the room is china. in 2015 on a state visit president xi promised to invest heavily in the u.k. brics it's made britain even more in need of new trade ties with the u.k. he's under pressure from the u.s. and others to toughen its stance on the chinese government. china's tightening controls over hong kong has made it increasingly difficult to find the business with phasing so too has the massed attention of the we get minority described as torture by the british government china's military expansion into international waters in the south china sea is also a major cause for concern what might happen actually in china that might be a recognition that britain is finally being a bit more straightforward with china and saying yes we do want to trade with you

but on some points we're going to disagree which actually is that and approach china will say takes with some of its partners as well where the review refers to china as britain's biggest systemic threat if you use russia as the country's biggest active threat in response to a new antiterrorism center will be built to counter the risk of chemical and biological attack the number of nuclear warheads the country can potentially stockpile will be increased by 40 percent and a new crisis command center built under downing street because britain really up to the task. because of 19 pandemics cost the country i water in the amounts of money lives and livelihoods remain at risk to help the recovery the government's planning a green industrial revolution with ambitions to become the world leader in carbon capture but in the midst of current challenges it's difficult to see the review is anything but a wish list part of britain's breaks it rebrand. the stark message from the

government is that the old world order is being swept aside britain must adapt if it wants to thrive new parker al-jazeera london russia says it plans to block twitter in one month if the social media platform doesn't remove banned content last week the country's communications watchdog announced it had slowed down the website speed the russian authorities are also suing 5 social media companies the posts about opposition protests critics say it's an attempt to silence them the leaders of the top 8 parties in the netherlands election have made a final pitch for support head of the last day of voting voting was extended to 3 days to limit crowding at polling stations with more vulnerable people allowed to vote on monday and tuesday prime minister margaret is conservatives likely to come out on top despite a child benefit scandal forcing his government to resign earlier this year. issue

of race has played a major part in campaigning as natasha partly reports from amsterdam. the stormy weather in amsterdam did little to deter a dutch parliamentary candidate silvana simmons break up to 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 surinam 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 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 the 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 i black racism islamophobia there's a lot of research showing it. however unfortunately there's not enough 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 the tasha butler al-jazeera abs to. iceland is on high alert for a possible volcanic eruption they've been tens of thousands of earthquakes in the past week in an area near the capital reykjavik which hasn't seen volcanic activity for 800 years experts expect what they call fairly harmless lava flows nevada

interruption. scrapes sequences are not heard of but this is the 1st time you see it with neighborhood of a couple. of eyes on. it. for a lot of people to see last puts everything. to head this news out in sport the female jockey making history at one of her horse racing's biggest events are is here with that story. and new fragments of the dead sea scrolls were found south of jerusalem.

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time for sport his far. thanks so much lauren 5 years after announcing his international retirement zlatan abraham that is back in the sweden team the 39 year old is his country's record goalscorer and is made himself available for upcoming world cup qualifiers they seem a land player could also feature in this year's european championships in sweden set to take on spain poland and slovakia but time confirm the move in typically understated fashion he wrote on his twitter page it's the return of the god so it is had coach says he isn't concerned about personality distracting the team we talked about this week with me is logged on and he is the person he is he should be the person he is in one way but he's also an excellent food with a very good experience that we can use into the team so for me it's that's not the

problem of the one we have talked about this of course how we work together and how we work in a national team and what he can add to that when he is ready to play so. i'm sure it will be good the new head of african football has set teams on his continent a big target speaking in his home country of south africa patrice mazzetti says it's time for an african team to win the world cup on saturday was elected unopposed as a ruling bodys 8th president last friday judy the next will come and also during the forthcoming the well comes that african nations compete and if you look at what we said in the money 1st of. it's part of a plan that an african team must be in that will come i think just depends what it . premier league team will say they're player really pre-treat see i was making good progress after suffering a head injury on monday more days international collided with a teammate during

a match against liverpool the game was halted for nearly 15 minutes while he was treated but he didn't require hospital treatment the keeper was a placed on the page under new concussion laws you know we just an update from the doctors ok he's awake he's going to his speaks and remembers what happened we have to. do right precautions but he's ok it was. a big big no. but he's ok so no. everything before 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 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 taking during this latest incidents. i was definitely pleased to see how careful is a medical team that engaged we play you know on the video footage it was clear that there was a so the dramatic brain injury and obviously you think 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. poor i've been your gene everyone to change and explore you know the amendment 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 we're not at least 10 countries didn't many festa interest you know that to try and. 62 sion to new zealand are one win away from retaining the america's cup they beat italy as the race 9 of the coast off the coast of our home to take all 63 lead in this last of 13 match for the 3rd race in a row to new zealand came from behind to beat the challengers that he is will return to the water on wednesday what for what could be the final race. i was obviously a really close rice you know each other we got off to a pretty good start and then went also got the run in sort of us with a bit of a run in shift and we couldn't quite hold in there so the more thought on the back foot they were to skip fighting and keep trying to find opportunities and don't have any late turned as they were it was great to get the final shift them and it was pretty much what it came down to. felix audit. honestly felix audit.

you know we were disappointed in the rise to no doubt about that. but how much sort of you know we live to fought another die and when we come back to the dog it was not a hades dinner 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 chatham horseracing testable in england 12 months ago is hands of thousands of fans were allowed to attend the 4 day event on the eve of the country going into law down spectators are allowed to this year and they missed the chance to witness 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 it's now back to lauren in london. thanks foreigner dozens of fragments of 2000 year old scrolls bearing biblical texts have

been recovered during an archaeological expedition south of jerusalem the fragments belong to the collection of jewish texts known as the dead sea scrolls found near qumran in the occupied west bank in the 140 s. and fifty's the most recent finds include lines written in greek from the biblical books of zechariah and the home teams repelled down an 80 meta cliff finding the fragments at a site called the cave of horror because of its precarious position jewish rebels were believed to have hidden the reigns there. was still something about the cultural world of the of the rebels of the vocal horrible. many times these rebels are thought to be specifically very nationalistic. hebrew speaker of the jews but we see here is that they also spoke rick that they read in greek and that they had their scriptures in greek sometimes. that's it for

me loren tale if this news out of the back in a moment with more news i found. moved out of his parent's house after he got to me he says he found more space living in biscayne after a run of beating it last year it's now his home along with his wife and all but the israeli government said that he was reconstructed we've gotten permits and issued as a militia and ordered last month our interview were cut short as he hears that the

israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to their home it took the found me months to build their brick and dust in an hour to see. mixing the traditional with the mountain what do you expect ignoring cause divides the only thing with united their force the music group yusuf. wielding the power of music to turn up the volume on india's social injustices when i saw the performance . and shake things out. of the. witness kostis collective on. it's one of the world's most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the life he hoods of hundreds of thousands of people and behind the deaths of many more exceptional access to some of its key

players reveals the kings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside this in a low a. part one of a 2 part investigation people in power on al-jazeera. europe's medicines watchdog says there's still no indication the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine causes blood clots and its benefits outweigh any risks. on the intelligence is out there live from london also coming up thousands flee young gone where myanmar's military is facing districts under martial law and the death toll continues to rise.