exceptional access. to many as the. inside. people 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. american tennis is out there live from london also coming up thousands flee young gone where myanmar's military is facing districts on the martial law and the death toll continues to rise. and. protesters stormed the presidential palace

in aden as the u.n. envoy to yemen reports a dramatic deterioration in the conflict. but there's better news from libya which sorts 1st peaceful handover of power since 2012. and france's prime minister says he intends to receive an astra zeneca coded 19 vaccine as soon as europe's medical regulators confirm its safety that declaration is expected on thursday the european medicines agency says there's no indication the vaccine causes blood clots and it's firmly convinced its benefits outweigh any risks 19 countries have temporarily suspended their use of the vaccine because a reports of clots in a small number of people who received it the regulators investigating this report to see if there's any link between the vaccine and the clotting while the

investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the. vaccine in preventing poke at 19 with a thorough theatre critic of hospital i think that outweigh the risk of the side effects in the mean time anyone who has received the vaccine and have any comforter and should contact their appropriate health care professional. 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 talked 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 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 saved. in our blow for the oxford dusters i think a vaccine a south african study has shown it's less than 60 percent effective against mild or moderate infection caused by the variant 1st found in south africa despite this the world health organization recommends the vaccine be deployed in countries where that variant is present it says it's still likely to protect against severe infection and hospitalization to explain what this means we're joined by dick to go to sunny senior lecturer in epidermal epidemiology at queen mary university of london thanks very much indeed for being with us so to tell us about the significance of this particular study and it's a south african variant that it that it concerns as. yes i mean in many ways the results aren't surprising and we've suspected this for a long time because other vaccines like novak's and johnson and johnson that were child in south africa also should ridged used advocacy against preventing mild to

moderate infection with disappoint south africa very and so white it is disappointing news it is surprising that the astra zeneca vaccine also produces reduced protection against at this particular breed we don't know what that level of protection is only that it is below 60 percent did it also confirm though or has it also been confirmed that it does still protect even with that variant protect against hospitalization and deaths. because a number of people studied are smaller the number of severe events in the study small it's difficult to see that at this point in time hopefully that detail will be a available in the future but it is entirely plausible that that may be the case because we have seen that with other vaccines for example but not all backs where the projection for severe disease is much higher one would hope that that would be the case that that's presented as well but i think we have to wait for the here to really see and why is the data on the the mild illness a concern to explain to us what impact that has if it doesn't affect that. sure so

vaccines produce different layers of protection so one layer of protection is it might prevent infection altogether which is ideal because that means if you can get infected the new contacts made to other people it might prevent symptomatic disease which may prevent you getting symptoms so that might sort of have that protection against things like you know whole bit etc and then of course the highest level of protection which is protection against of a disease the hospitalization vaccines act of different levels and i do the of course we want to see that protection against infection transmission as well because that's really important to protect the population where everybody may not be vaccinated so that the people who are vaccinated are unable to get infected and then transmit to others but even if that level of protection isn't present if it is it protects against hospitalization severe disease it will then protect those people who are vaccinated against of severe outcomes which is also very important is it your impression that the astra zeneca vaccine is coming on the more scrutiny

than some of the others what would you want to think that might be i think all vaccines at the kind point in time will be under huge amounts of scrutiny largely because this is a global vaccination campaign that is unprecedented and scale and we will potentially had to fight events that occur around the time of the vaccine and this isn't tylenol many of these events are essentially background events that are occurring around the time of the vaccine but are not to say linked to the vaccine and i think that's very important to tease out and the information that may get into the e.m.e.a. and to masters anika that the risk of those particular events doesn't seem to be high in the backs of heated group that of the general population and that's what we have to know as the monitor we also need to remember that millions of people have been vaccinated with astra zeneca and with other vaccines and what we're talking about is a very very small number of events that we don't know currently are even leading to the vaccine did to go to saudi thank you very much indeed for talking to scientists

here. but turner has begun testing its code 969 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 where 7000 children are taking part in the research which is being conducted in collaboration with the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases the company is already conducting a separate study testing the vaccine in adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18. the u.n. says 149 people have now been killed since last month's coup while a political prisoner group puts the toll at 183 protesters 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 young gone who we're not naming for his own safety he says the civil uprising will continue despite the threat to their lives soldiers military people should people because they care. little of that so they will be the last couple of days the worst was you know. a lot of precludes out there and that. really for mostly internally displaced people and not be. there was the most brutal crackdown. to moderate 50 people there are huge. singletary more than 300 people got into using machine guns. there were dead bodies all along. we. children very

it's like. it's. getting more violent more and more violent protests goes on so we are well aware that we are putting our lives on the . protests is in yemen angry about poor living conditions and unpaid salaries of stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of aden witnesses told our syria that officials from the un backed government fled as hundreds of demonstrators forced their way in security guards no oil to the south and transitional council were stationed there but didn't try to stop the protests is a missile attack on a market has killed 2 people and wounded 7 others in the local in the city of marriage local reports say who the rebels fired 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's displaced families

a saudi led coalition is bombing from the air as it tries to dislodge the who feels un special envoy to yemen says the situation has taken a dramatic turn for the worse especially for children u.n. workers are still trying to raise nearly $4000000000.00 to feed millions of people there are diplomatic editor james bays has more this was a very grim assessment of the situation in 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 on. this council. to report the deterioration of the public in yemen this time a dramatic one. us rather than as if america got murdered engineers produce a 1000000000 is imputing an estimated 1000000 internally displaced persons wrist

fighting forces on both sides of suffered heavy losses in the us then this unnecessary battle and i see shocking report as our show we all do of children increasingly getting drawn into the war effort. deprived of the future. he says he's particularly concerned by the who thiis ongoing offensive on marriage by the cross border air attacks the drone and missile strikes on saudi arabia and the saudi air raids on sanaa and by the fact that 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. still to come this half hour. how do you gain the trust back. by working very much by the

cycling leader of the netherlands will have to think about people who slipped into poverty if he rings again. precarious archaeological mission that chunk of the biblical treasure is new fragments of the dead sea scrolls found south of jerusalem . how i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast to see some really heavy rain recently in 2 or queensland australia big downpours coming through here useful rainfall actually welcome rain best rates around 3 years for some parts of the state there and stand we'll see further heavy downpours coming in as we go on through where to stay some of the showers making their way into northern parts of new south wales the south that is father dr love the sunshine temperatures touching 26 celsius on wednesday afternoon and similar values for

thursday by thursday that eastern side of new south wales all the way down towards victoria will see some showers and the showers will continue its equation and skating up into the sunshine coast pushing back a lad across the outback and still some showers there rumbling. away across the top and towards the pilbara much quasi though cross the danish into new zealand fine and dry christchurch at around 18 degrees celsius quite another to coming into japan for a time we've had some rain and snow pushing a little further east was bright skies come back in still a few wintry flowers there into all my white and stay temperatures at 60 celsius full so fine and dry here by saying it around 14 celsius and what's the weather coming through here helping to clear our races and storm and quieting down behind. for a goalkeeper from one is a. home world cup was what dreams were made of. it turned into

a night matter by rushton told jim by argentina's military jumped. in the 1st of a new season footballing legend eric cantor down introduces cloud your tambourine one of a special few stood up for their beliefs whatever that cost. football rebels on al-jazeera. the all the. elegant or none of the top stories on our 0 european medicines agency says there's no indication the astra zeneca 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 young gone after several districts were put under martial law war. protesters in yemen angry about poor living conditions and on paid salaries of store in the presidential palace in the southern city of aden when all the un's special envoy to yemen warned of a dramatic deterioration in the conflict there. iran is reportedly enriching uranium using a 2nd war dance type of centrifuge which is news agency says it's had access to reports from the international atomic energy agency the work on the ground natanz plant is another breach of the country's deal with world powers it already says it has enriched it to 20 percent far beyond the less than 4 percent under the deal

iran has passed the terms since the u.s. pulled out entirely under president trump with joe biden aiming to revive it. well u.s. president biden is in pennsylvania promoting is $1.00 trillion dollars in relief bill the president's 1st stop was a small flooring business that's been hit by the economic downturn and on with vice president heresies touring the country after congress approved the enormous payout republicans have maintained their opposition to it despite widespread public support from voters. a u.s. intelligence report says both russia and iran tried to manipulate the 2020 presidential election with moscow seeking to undermine joe biden or tehran sought to damage donald trump let's get more on this from mike hanna in washington d.c. why tell us more about the we're what the report says. essentially the national intelligence report reveals that this was

a matter of attempting to exert influence on the election importantly the report found that there was no technical infringement of the election within the us by these outside actors in the registration of voters with the actual polling it found no technical interference whatsoever from either russia or iran it was more a question of russia for example according to the national intelligence creating a narrative that was detrimental to joe biden then candidate biden linking him to corruption in the ukraine details were fed to those around the trump campaign in an effort to discredit president biden then candidate biden of course in iran's case of wants to get it was the battle to influence it's attempted for example to send e-mails to democratic party voters purporting to come from the right wing proud boys movement so these were matters of intelligence of influence

being attempted what is very important though is that the report finds that there was no technical interference in any part of the election but also very different to 2016 as the report states there was no attempt by russia to cyber hack the infrastructure of the election so this is very much a matter of influence being a to exercise by these outside actors the report that there was no impact on the election result itself and the russian funding appears to run counter to the trump narrative of no interference. well very much then president trump and many of those around him insisted that russia was not responsible for election interference in either 2016 despite what the then special counsel robert miller found out about russian involvement and certainly not in 2020 the campaigns absolute assertion was that china was the major figure well the report completely contradicts us it says that china played no role whatsoever in

attempting to influence the outcome of the election it's analysts found that china had determined that the any effect or any impact it would have would not bear the blowback that would result from any form of chinese interference at all so certainly there was no chinese involvement according to national intelligence and this completely contradicts what president trump and many of those around him had been saying during the 2020 campaign mike hanna thank you very much indeed. 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 has lost 90 percent of its value on the informal market in the last year the country is dealing with rampant unemployment and the currency crisis means wages are worth a lot less. libya has moved

a step forward in pushing the violence and division of the past decade behind it with a united government taking office as saraj head of the outgoing a un backed government in tripoli transferred power to new prime minister of to have a debate in the capital it was a smooth transition of power from the 2 rival governments in the east and west for in painstaking negotiations the new missed it ministers have their work cut out trying to unite all the warring factions and prepare for december's elections when a 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 of 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 is

a rush handover of 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. currently divided between forces in western libya and the forces loyal to the warlord holy for hafter told a lot of challenges ahead of this new government and they're only going to be leading this country for 9 months lections arce nationwide elections are such to 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 us of one of hope and one of

excitement to see a peaceful transition of power and in that this government may hope in bettering or improving basic services for its citizens. in usia 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 trouble to bury region no one has claimed responsibility for the massacre but are still fighters are known to be active in the area roger and police are continuing their search for 3 teachers abducted from a primary school in kaduna state as students managed to escape when gunmen raided the school on monday is the latest in a string of abductions in northern nigeria but he's also trying to locate 39 students taken from a college on the outskirts of kaduna city on friday. make up on the governor there has told our desire that no ransom we paid to the kidnappers is put amended reese who's in katrina. 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 block or i'm in the north east and these bandits attacking schools institutions now to talk more about this is the governor of state well i'm not a little so 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 a $47.00 does not give you the platform to negotiate because if we do that they would have to negotiate with every criminal in their jury or graham team or we have not named of us to wouldn't they were 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 in pain you 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 a matter of 5 or governor of could win a state. but normally go solutions no ransom to be paid to the brand it his in his own words the waiting game continues well which i was on course to become one of the netherlands longest serving prime ministers until a child benefit scandal forced his government to resign this year despite that he's still on course to hold on to power after wednesday's election let's step back and report many people have had a hard time under his leadership. as the madams 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 who 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 is 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 $26000.00 families who were wrongly accused by tax authorities of child care benefits fraud now sasha 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 a 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 was confronted by one of the victims during a recent gallup buys the bait. i will do a little responsible for this because he is the one in charge he keeps saying it is awful but i don't feel he means it. and the other victims don't understand why you chose to run again i explained 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 them hopefully this would give me just a good. many things which have been very successful out of the people in the last trust in politics because how do you gain the trust back. by working very much. or you could have you although do not illinois has been struggling through the covert

1000 pandemic goal to indicate that people in times of crisis to vote for the leader they know mark or 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 mark could 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 child care benefits scandal is scheduled for 2 years from now that france and al-jazeera sandown. iceland is on high alert for a possible volcanic eruption even tens of thousands of earthquakes in the past weeks in an area near the capital reykjavik that hasn't seen volcanic activity for

800 years experts don't expect a violent explosive eruption rather some harmless flows of lava but gas emissions could be more dangerous tremors have not created any significant damage so far. 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 can run in the occupied west bank in the 1940 s. and fifty's the most recent find include lines written in greek and the biblical books of soccer and know who teams repelled down an 18 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 from the rooms that i was told 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 speaking the jews but we see here is that they also spoke rick that they reading greek and that they had their scriptures in greek sometimes you get the money you can always catch up with all the stories we're covering on our website address or that is our dot com. top stories on our jazeera the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine outweigh any risks 19 countries have now temporarily suspended their use of the vaccine because.