exceptional access to some of its key flay is reveals the inner workings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside this in a low a cartel part 2 of a 2 part investigation people in power on al-jazeera. 0. l. a y money this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes israelis head to the polls as prime minister netanyahu hopes a successful vaccine rollout will win him another term despite corruption cases against him myanmar's military coups deposed the value leader aung san suu kyi of corruption and accepting bribes like cash and gold. more fallout faster zeneca u.s.

regulators says data from a us vaccine trial showing the effectiveness of the vaccine may be outdated and incomplete plus. the nuclear gaijin east a new strain which is being his by some of the worst floods in decades. and then school we're just a day away from the start of european qualifications for the 2022 world cup we'll be looking at how the coronavirus pandemic has been impacting the preparations of the teams. it's being seen as a referendum for israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vitus are heading to the polls for the 4th time in 2 years to decide who they want to lead the country the question now is whether netanyahu will be able to secure. majority in

parliament all be at the mercy of a coalition that could lead to more political instability. in a moment we'll be going to our correspondent harry fawcett in west jerusalem the 1st let's take a look at the main candidates that's now as head of the likud party but he's also on trial for corruption he is hoping that his efforts to get people vaccinated quickly against covert 19 and the normalization of ties with some arab countries will keep him in the lead his former chief of staff enough tele bennett head of the right wing you mean a party has criticized the prime minister's handling of the pandemic but he hasn't ruled out joining a liquid led government after the election another right wing challenge is getting inside he's the leader of the new hope party which supports settlement construction in the occupied west bank and opposes the iran nuclear deal his political agenda is similar to netanyahu spoke he's not interested in a coalition partnership funny this t.v.

host 10 politician yeah pete he heads the opposition centrist yes a tea party he is considered one of the strongest candidates and was once a coalition partner in less than yahoo's led government back in 2030 let's go over to harry forsett now harry with worries over coated in the fact that this is now the 4th election in just 2 years how motivated are people to actually come out and vote. well that was one of the questions going into this election day as you say it's the 4th election people are heart of the sick of this never ending cycle of inconclusive elections and they've been through a grueling year of pandemic nonetheless the early indications are that people still do have an appetite to try and get this system up and running again and try to get a result because at 10 am a couple of hours ago the last result we have so far the turnout was up marginally at just over 14 percent on the last election last year among those voting of course

benjamin netanyahu himself who is using these last few hours whereas in the past sometimes he's tried to panic his voters into turning out by warning them of imminent defeat he's exuding a sort of a sunny disposition this time around some confidence saying that they are 2 seats away from the 61 that they would need in coalition with other parties in 120 seat israeli parliament the knesset to have a functioning right wing coalition so he's calling it a festival of democracy he's talking about a nation of smiles because of the success of the vaccination program and the fact that so many restrictions have been lifted he's wanting to see some kind of electoral payback for that the president of israel is also voting his from netanyahu as party although a rival politically for many years he's talking about this harming the nation the fact that we are back in a 4th election in such a short period of time and the main opposition leader yasser p.d.s.

warning of a dark racist homophobic government if netanyahu gets into government with the kind of far right allies from whom he seeking support and so he is having himself given a pretty positive campaign all the way through with a sign of a rising sun in his logo and talking about the prospects of him bringing sanity to government he is now warning israelis that if they do. don't support the opponents of netanyahu then there's a real chance that this very right wing government will come in and start changing norms in terms of the judiciary and potentially even trying to get netanyahu to escape through legislation from his corruption trial something that doesn't you know himself denies harry so how serious is the competition against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. well he's in or a lot of his campaigning has tried to make it a sort of a binary choice between him and lockheed who is as you said in israeli terms

a centrist someone that netanyahu defines as leftist among other things because he is by no means a dove on the israeli palestine issue but he does support a 2 state solution and talks about not leaving this problem to be inherited by the children of both sides and says it should be a conflict between 2 states so as far as netanyahu is concerned that is a security issue for the mainstream and right wing israeli voters and he has cast him as the main villain lockheed himself has tried to downplay his own prime minister a prospect he hasn't entirely result from the idea of him leading a government but he hasn't come out and said that he is explicitly ambitious to do so and that is his one goal because he doesn't want to get drawn into that but the truth is he has many fewer routes to forming such a coalition in terms of the 60 potentially 60 seats according to the latest polls

that are lined up against netanyahu a much more diverse brandt bunch of political parties and programs than potentially we see on the right. natale bennett although saying he wants to replace the neos left the door open to working with him there is a real prospect if netanyahu can get even close to that 61. majority coalition even if he gets 59 or 60 there's a potential vendor poach other right wingers who are ideologically sympathetic to him in the days and weeks after the election so there is some real confidence being expressed by netanyahu but again no one would bank on this finally resolving the issue there is still a very decent potential for another round of elections later this year if the the the my. it was decided this time around how we foresaw it thank you let's speak now to ron ben in tel aviv he's

a political commentator for wine at news many thanks for speaking to us on the program prime minister benjamin netanyahu as we're hearing now from our correspondent is hoping that the country's fost vaccine rollout is going to push him into a stable majority but not everyone is convinced about how he's handled the coronavirus pandemic albay there is no 'd division of 'd billions of dollars their value of gave back seeing nick and you know scored that big win by arranging in a orchestrate getting the vaccine the nation come a bad day all over all the handling of the a team a damage crisis was disastrous by that then you know he really goes deep and try to save he says a repudiation by the vaccine made complaint which succeeded in

a we must say. well given that how do you expect the election to pan out today will he manage to get that majority so desperately needs i mean. he's easy a. for him i think he has a good chance to do and majority and that is not so much because these really populate totally rates he's a corruption allegation and he's been handling go of depend demi but because he's open and are divided and are to blame are the ego 'd a handling of the israeli politics which make them.

a and easy prey for netanyahu he's very experienced in. a. magician in manipulating he's opponent this is of course the folks fulfill action in 2 years and if things don't go as planned promise about benjamin netanyahu and deadlock is not broken we could even see a 5th election this yet what does that tell you about the state of israeli democracy is a system broken. no you know develop a fake that a minute can you know doesn't manage to a domain name deceit curation means that they. christie is still alive and kicking and about but the electoral system ees.

doesn't seek israel up to date fixed israel and when it didn't it was a study a in 1948 but he doesn't meet israel as if he's not and that is why it is so recommend that they day they. believe because of the rain i nees readies so fred meant that so you cannot get a clear result of its you and even have the lections are over they day compose ition of because nation their ruling coalition will be a a very painful in very difficult very difficult so it is a it is a if he's a. trade political sickness of the israeli democracy but the motor city. is. really good to get your thoughts wrong been speaking to

us that from tel aviv political commentator whining. and. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a fire to step a stated abraham the refugee camp in bangladesh. and india records its highest single day spike occurred in 1000 cases this year. and in sports one of the biggest stars of moto g.p. is set to miss the start of the new season sonas here with a story that. we are most military has accused the country's ousted leader of accepting bribes while in office an army spokesman made the allegations against young sons to achieve during a televised media briefing she was detained after being deposed in a military coup last month well this comes

a day off to the european union announced sanctions on 11 officials in myanmar including the leader of the military genter it's in response to the coup and the violent crackdown on protesters since let's go to florence louise live for us in kuala lumpur for florence good to see you so talk us through what we've heard from the military this morning. well it really came across as a rather desperate public relations exercise by the myanmar military and on the spokesman one of the 1st things you talked about was that the military expressed regret and they were sorry for the loss of lives and he said 164 protesters have been killed during the protests and it's worth pointing out that this number is much smaller than the number given by an advocacy group that's been tracking deaths and attentions since the coup the assistance association for political prisoners says 260 more than 200 at least 261 people have been killed and more than 2300 people have been detained since the coup on the 1st of february now and then

the myanmar military also went on to. in a way try and shore up support for their case against their democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi and if you remember she was charged with breaching import export laws by possessing an illegal walkie talkies and then after that she was subsequently charged with breaking covert 19 laws on gatherings and then about 10 days ago the military said she was guilty of corruption and now at this press conference they've shown video testimony by a former yangon chief minister saying that he had visited her and given her cash whenever needed and also accusing her of aseptic gifts of gold vase and silk now and then the myanmar military spokesman also talked about the case of the straightly and citizen and advised them to aung san suu kyi an economic advisor to aung san suu kyi shawntel now who's been detained since february 6th now and as early as the 1st of march as recently as the 1st of march

a straight in officials though weren't clear whether he had been charged or what he was going to be charged with the myanmar military says he is being investigated for immigration offenses as well as for possibly breaching state secrets now but the fact that this information or the so-called evidence that the myanmar military is trying to present the fact that all the. since coming out in dribs and drabs more than a month out that after these people have been detained really while need people to question whether or not. what the myanmar military is telling them is believable and as to an indication of what direction the protests in the myanmar military just which of actions are going to take in the future i mean the myanmar military said that the violence in the protests appeared to be on the deep decrease and that they're going to focus on those who are. focused on those who provoked unrest so i think we can read into this that the will possibly be more and more arrests of people who they think are capable of leading the protests or organizing

protests and of course the military also said that internet restrictions are going to remain in place for the foreseeable future florence larry the 1st live in kuala lumpur many thanks for that we can get more on this story we can speak to debbie starts ours here is the founder and coordinator of old zeon burma and network of organizations and individuals working to support human rights and democracy in myanmar she joins us now from bangkok many thanks for speaking to us let's start with some of these comments made by the military this morning specifically when he expressed regret the loss of lives in the protests how do you interpret it is it a sign that maybe the military's regretting their campaign against protesters. it's a sign that despite paying a lot of b.s. millions of dollars to push back on sanctions and to sell their illegal and the illegal coup they have it hasn't worked they are feeling the pressure they are

feeling the pressure from the from the international community and they are trying to step back in and pretend that these killings of young people in the streets of the country the turning of a place near entire neighborhoods in yangon and other cities into urban war zones is something that is x. a dental this was an intentional crime against humanity in order to take control of the country and we still cannot. despite all the charges though they might try the book they might try a kitchen sink at also in order to prevent hope of being involved in politics in order to close down the end of the the people of the country are still resisting and they're not going to forget that this is an illegal home that came to power through an illegal state of emergency and how worried do you think the hunter are

about the international community if not the domestic community i mean we've had these announcements yesterday about new sanctions on many of the military in myanmar how much is that likely to impact what they do next well the main international financial institutions have had to freeze any transfers of funds to myanmar to accounts controlled by the junta and a lot of businesses are feeling very nervous about the fact that they've faced reputational and legal risk if they can if they deal with this illegal home turf. what do you think the military's endgame is here do you think. the various things that have happened since the coup took place you think that's come as a surprise to them until i think of the military coup who was hoping that the coup and the brutality that they picked on on the people are going to be

shot to a media circus and somehow the international community will go back to business as usual this is not the case they have already committed a genocide against their will he know of people who have committed war crimes against ethnic people in other parts of the country and now they have killed people in the streets of the means to accuse in their country many thanks for your thought study star saad founder of the quote narrator of the. network of organizations and individuals working together. at least 15 people have been killed and thousands left homeless off to a major far also running a refugee camp in bangladesh it swept through the colony camp in cox's bazar charles stratford has this report. claims and panic in the largest refugee camp in the world more than

a 1000000 range of refugees from myanmar living culture is bizarre the shelters of flimsy and closely packed the fire started on monday afternoon and spread fast that of 1000 brother i don't have any idea where my wife and children are a lot of where my wife and children i'm alone now i was unable to salvage anything from my home. thousands of shelters were reportedly destroyed in the blaze at least $20000.00 people fled for their lives as black smoke billowed overhead people scramble to save their belongings and gather their families. i can't find my children are even my husband the name of one child these men moon and on and there is their being and my husband's name is on the mind. it's not known what started the blaze one witness told a news agency agent strong's press that the fire spread fast after gas cylinders used for cooking exploded. you know that the more the 1000 shelters have burnt down

many people have died elderly people were unable to get out of the shelters. firefighters worked into the night and this is a. huge he had been to dying to put the fire out we are trying to extinguish the many burning gas cylinders. most of the ranger arrived in the camp in 2017 during a crackdown by the myanmar government that the un has called textbook ethnic cleansing the religion have suffered persecution and being denied citizenship by governments in myanmar for decades they often called the world's largest group of stinkers people. in the place they fled to for safety is a reminder of how difficult their lives are and how tenuous their survival can often be chance trafford al-jazeera.

south korea's president has received a dose of astra zeneca as coronavirus vaccine mungy in the 1st lady kim jong so they got their shop together around 680000 medical workers are critically ill people have been vaccinated in south korea since february. coronavirus cases a surging again in india for the 1st time in 5 months the country's recorded more than 40000 new infections in the last 24 hours in many states roles on social distancing and wearing masks are being ignored the health ministry is warning that large crowds gathering for a hindu festival could lead to further rise in cases. per annum has more from new delhi. situation india right now is the worst it's been in about 4 months for the western state of maharashtra very much leading the rise in case there's something like 26000 more than half of the 40000 new infections reported on monday are from

maharashtra and just a handful of states account for 80 percent of the number of cases in the country the worst affected states along with maharashtra. punjab karnataka and. now here in delhi cases have doubled since last week though they are still in the high hundreds around 800 today and not the 10s of thousands like in maharashtra and neighboring cases have gone up chimes as much as they were just 3 weeks ago and to put that overall rise in context the number of infections in india had flown from the peak of all nearly 100000 cases a day in september to an average of $10000.00 a day early february but this monday after a month of cases rising steadily the highest number of cases and for months. and so with that the restrictions of returning in many parts of the country with the government with health experts saying that the rise in cases is because people

aren't following that 19 protocols so restrictions are coming back and in the same time vaccinations are continuing around 48000000 people have been vaccinated so far but the government is running behind us on sched jewel to inoculate 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of this year. germany is set to enter a 5 day lockdown over easter as new code 9000 cases so only essential shops will be allowed to open and the be strict limits on gatherings the lockdown will be in place from april 1st. the agency overseeing vaccine trials in the united states has voiced concerns of a data provided by astra zeneca on monday it said it's trials showed it was 79 percent effective let's get an idea about who joins us now from london nadeem confusing messages here what exactly is this u.s. regulators saying about the astra zeneca trial

well on tuesday the u.s. national institute of allergy and infectious diseases are a r. and d. has said that astra zeneca the company may have info has been informed sorry that it may have provided out dated data on the efficacy of its covered 19 vaccine coming out of a large scale trial in the u.s. now that was after in the us the national data and safety monitoring board said it was concerned about the astra zeneca data so the n r a id the agency you're talking about is asking astra zeneca to work with it to review the data and to ensure the most accurate efficiency data is forthcoming on monday we heard better than expected results out of the trial which was taking place in the u.s.

and also chile and peru suggesting a 79 percent efficiency against stopping symptomatic of it and 100 percent efficiency against stopping serious illness the company also said or rather the interim data also said there have been no issues around blood clots so that was good news for the company in the us and worldwide in boosting confidence in its coverage 19 vaccine now the u.s. agency suggesting that well the data might not have been quite as a reliable as hoped but nobody's talking about any drop or any change to the efficiency of that vaccine right now where is europe with the astra zeneca vaccine rollout. well europe of the continent of europe is playing catch up they are desperately trying to boost the supplies of the astra zeneca vaccine of course last week the european medical

agency medicines agency story came out and said that the a vaccine was safer than of bay had been saying all along that was after several e.u. governments halted the use of the vaccine over concerns over blood clots which which to tell the truth all of the scientists have been saying was not a reason to stop the year may came out and said the benefits clearly outweigh any risks and so governments across the continent rushing now but they know that their public has been really put off this vaccine just on monday figures came out about how many people feel that it's unsafe 61 percent in france 55 percent in germany 52 percent in spain so they've got a public relations battle ahead the company is under pressure the head of the european commission over the weekend raised the prospect of banning exports of all

vaccines from the e.u. to the u.k. now boris johnson the prime minister here has been on the phone he's spoken to chancellor merkel in germany is spoken to france's president michel ahead of a summit on thursday where they're going to discuss the idea of an export ban it's really not something that many people want to see because of the prospect of mutual retaliation he we're hearing from sources now that in fact the british and the european union and now discussing whether they can share production at a plant in the netherlands which has yet to come online but that could be a compromise which says to the european union yes you will be able to get the jobs that you need if you want to meet your targets about that with the very latest on the astra zeneca rollout in europe speaking to us that from london many thanks. still ahead on al jazeera. torture trials we speak to syrian refugees to describe

the abuse they've enjoyed in lebanon. traumatized they scramble for safety out to a shooting at a crowded supermarket in the u.s. or hear from one of the survivalists. and it's all the rockets relaunch this season possible action coming up later on the program so i know you're going to look. at. how i would have some rather nasty weather in the southeastern corner of year recently this massive cloud here that is an area of rain sleet and snow which has been pushing across turkey really has hold the temperatures down here which have seen some significant snow fall in many parts all coming out of area of high pressure so winds generally coming in from a northerly direction that's what been somewhat cool across central and eastern parts of europe not too bad for the west winds coming in from the southwest the

direction here getting up to 12 celsius in london despite the cloud and the re which will continue to drive in as we go on through wednesday if you blustery showers sickly across oland across a good parts of scotland northern parts of england come down into much of france will northern parts of see a few showers around the breast potentially much of france fine and dry as is a case to it's a spade am portugal $21.00 celsius in madrid over the next couple of days more blustery showers on thursday for the british isles while wintry showers down towards the southeast in ankara will struggle to get to a high of one degree celsius yes it's that bad single figures 2 for athens so not so great here a ball or a wind blasting away across southeast assad of the mediterranean so a little cool to across the north coast of africa 15 cells just there in benghazi 21 in karachi but fine and dry for the west. but. al-jazeera has investigative unit takes you on for months on the cover. both

to prove you had actual victims who had survived torture detention and feigning this was the cause of my arrest revealing the illegal dealings of the surveillance industry to intercept you dish your goods these are the nuclear weapons of the 21st century al-jazeera investigations. mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital was the deadly upsurge in an effort to build off a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they can purchase a free guard without for. all has the government's unorthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour israelis are voting in their 4th election in 2 years it's widely seen as a referendum on prime minister benjamin netanyahu he has voted and the campaign has been dominated by yahoos corruption cases the economy on the coronavirus pandemic. yet most military is accuse the country's ousted leader if accepting bribes while in office no army spokesman made the accusations during a televised media briefing she was detained after being deposed in a military coup last month. the agency overseeing vaccine trials in the u.s. has voiced concerns over data provided by astra zeneca among dates at its trials

showed it was 79 percent effective. russia has joined hands with china in hitting out western powers for imposing sanctions on beijing the foreign minister sergei lavrov says they're on acceptable united states the e.u. you can count imposed measures against chinese officials for human rights abuses against the weak of muslims the measures prompted immediate retaliation from beijing braille elizondo reports from washington d.c. . a message from western powers to beijing stop the human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities or there will be a price to pay a cordon aided set of sanctions from the united states european union britain and canada against several chinese officials who are now subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze for their alleged role in human rights abuses against

muslim wiggers in northwest china that use foreign policy chief says the sanctions are meant to engage beijing in dialogue rather than changes fallacies another illegitimate concerned china is against the blind eye and these measures that will the next unacceptable. there will be no change in debian union did to them a nation to defend human rights and to respond to city is that your nation abuses as he said it respective where they are going it it infuriated beijing who almost immediately issued retaliatory sanctions of their own against several european politicians they said were spreading lies and misinformation china has repeatedly denied human rights abuses are perpetrated against religious and ethnic minorities but u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken said china is guilty of genocide against weekers

and the same sions come just days after contentious meetings between chinese and american officials in alaska but on monday the white house said the sanctions are not a direct reaction to the alaska meetings under former president donald trump the u.s. took a unilateral approach to all things china that has clearly now changed under president joe biden the way to do this is certainly not to do it unilaterally but to do it coalition of other countries in this is the 1st time that the united. states has worked together with its allies the e.u. canada and the u.k. to jointly slap sanctions on china and it is a signal that there are many countries that find china's policies in sin job to be unacceptable reprehensible they are violations of human rights and china has to start rethinking its approach the sanctions are largely symbolic and on their own

likely won't be nearly enough to change beijing's behavior but with china set to host the winter olympics next year the sanctions do mark a shift of western powers returning to speaking to beijing with one voice when it comes to human rights and now tensions could escalate gabriel is on doe. washington the u.s. section of state says america is ready to rebuild the transatlantic nato military alliance self 2 years of friction under the presidency of don't trump anthony blinken made the pledge on his 1st visit to nato headquarters in brussels he warned that the alonso is a pivotal moment with threats around the world and also from climate change lincoln promised to share any plans for withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan let's bring in mark than in tallinn he's the chairman of

the foreign affairs committee at the a stony and parliament many thanks for speaking to us on out is there a double trance presidency brought the u.s. relationship with nato and europe to near breaking point what does the u.s. have to do to repair that relationship. actually not much that goes as lincoln said already and then president biden the united states is back and back to this very white the relationship which is france a blanik alliance transatlantic relationship and i guess the meeting in brossel will start from the agenda which is pool of challenge and already like it like you are right now message said that in your program the unity among western nations is growing and growing bank to the change in the u.s. administration you say that but it's interesting isn't it that the e.u. pushed through a new investment treaty with china just in december that despite protestations by

members of the incoming biden team at the time that's a clear indication isn't it that the e.u. is not wholly ready to trust the u.s. yes. i guess this is also more to do with unity among the member states when it comes to the police the door to china but when we are talking about nato and the challenge he's in front of violence then i guess what lincoln said and also allies here in europe argue that the 1st challenge he's are enormous and perhaps at the time ever nato as alliance that so many to so modest multiple challenges from i do mention climate change to china and russia and so there is no opportunity for having to build strong unity across north atlantic. one of the issues that has played a part in straining relationships is the sharing of military spending the bit and

that's been a recurring dispute between the united states and europe donald trump of course was a very harsh critic of countries that he said were failed partners and bad players do you think this is something the u.s. and lincoln specifically is likely to address at these nato talks. most importantly i guess today the language is day changed but the need for specifically for a new capabilities or even european allies is still there and nobody says that we showed in the paper more about or to be attention which kind of data believe these we have to spend money on but again today's meetings in draw souls which will start that will focus on on challenges like go what to do with the gun is the mission or hard to standard it jerk reaction assertiveness and heart of

build strong unity which means i read non-singing this growth of power which. shows china and specifically what we saw from the meeting in alaska interesting to get your thoughts mickleson chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the estonian parliament thank you. amnesty international is accusing lebanese security authorities of violating international human rights laws in their treatment of detained syrian refugees the group says it has documented cruel and abusive treatment ranging from torture to unfair trials reports from beirut. lebanon is home to more than a 1000000 syrians some live in refugee camps others have integrated in communities many are scared to speak in what they see as an unwelcoming country hundreds have been arbitrarily detained on terrorism related charges over the years in what

rights groups call a violation of international law i mean the 26 cases we document represent why did . hundreds of syrian refugees 2012 and history and refugees we got it. and they have come it will not be treated should have access to trial and should not be subjected to torture during interrogation the report documents violations described as cool abusive and discriminatory detainees speak of beatings at times with metal sticks and electric cables torture during interrogation or detention that involve being hanged upside down 2 of the survivors were aged 15 and 16 years old at the time they also described harsh conditions like being forced to stand for 3 days handcuffed and blindfolded and having to beg to go to the toilet and for water 2 women were also mistreated and sexually harassed and verbally

assaulted during the tension. amnesty international says the lebanese authorities have so far not responded to its findings but it's not the 1st time they've been accused of mistreating syrians. measures in place make it hard for refugees to move around and work it also makes them vulnerable and with more than 75 percent of refugees not having that i trust the 6 that puts them at risk of being interrogated by police but security by. religious officers that's what happened to many who complain about discrimination and harassment 1st and they're sure in detention the military intelligence slapped me when he knew i was syrian while questioning me about my documents i feel the way they treat us is deliberate to force us to leave many live in fear and this is sort of the syrian refugee is exposed to all kinds of violations to the extent that if he is beaten he can't even report it the regime

here is the same as the one in syria. those in power in lebanon are close to the authorities in the syrian capital damascus leading some to accuse them of being driven by political motives and treating refugees as a security threat senator their beirut. scottish parliamentary committee says 1st minister nicola sturgeon missile that over her handling of sexual misconduct complaints against her predecessor it comes a day after an independent inquiry cleared her of knowingly misleading the scottish parliament sturgeon faces a vote of no confidence table by opposition conservatives she says she's confident the parliament will back. as correspondent anna holmes joins me now from the scottish capital edinburgh dana even if parliament i'm stamets has been down that road and by the events of that recent weeks.

tricky to know really that may unfold in the coming weeks over the election campaign 6 weeks to go to a parliamentary election that she hopes will deliver her party discussions just start its national party an outright majority they're currently a minority government it is possible that this pretty an edifying spectacle of the great divide that is opened up between nicolas sturgeon and alex some of the 2 of the independents movement here may have eaten into support for independents and indeed the latest poll out this week suggests that 57 percent of people here in scotland would now vote to remain within the united kingdom that margin has opened up quite considerably in recent weeks since a whole string of polls out around the end of the year when bracks it became real indicated that support was growing for independents among staats who voted of course heavily to remain within the european union and have seen since bragg's it declined the great decline in this their fishing industry and the economy generally

of course what this means now these 2 reports that are out this week is that she is essentially cleared of critical wrongdoing breaches of the ministerial code she began this week waiting for these 2 reports to come out perhaps anticipating that she might have found herself in very deep trouble under intense pressure to resign if allegations of breaching the code had been proven by one or other report yesterday james hamilton q.c. a barrister not a politician you can't write off his findings as being partisan and came out and said no wrongdoing the report out today a parliamentary committee report here suggests she did mislead parliament mrs sturgeon has already tried to undo. mind the findings of that committee by calling it parties and saying they've decided about her they'd made up their minds about it before she even open their mouth to give evidence in the end they will be a vote of no confidence later called by the opposition conservative party but james

hamilton's report on monday has taken the sting out of that the only way she was to have been trouble there is if the governing partners the greens had voted against they said they were waiting for james hamilton's report she's been cleared she won't go down in the vote of no confidence later so she's free now to look ahead to look ahead 6 weeks hence to that scottish parliamentary election in the hope as i said of gaining an outright majority an outright majority that she will use to point to as an electoral mandate for a 2nd referendum on scottish independence but he thinks that during a whole speaking to us there from edinburgh people in northwestern colombia a cleaning up after heavy rains caused flooding across the region this was the scene in the town. to months lights went through early monday and he said 185 homes and more than 50 businesses have been destroyed there's also been serious damage to roads in the mountainous region so i thought that the no deaths reported.

australian forty's are warning they may need to order more evacuations as heavy rains continue across the east coast hundreds of people were rescued and thousands more evacuated in the sate of new south wales seeing their worst flooding in decades with several places declared natural disaster areas in the kind of gauge sent this report from pitt town which is west of sydney. unrelenting rain hits already flooded regions in australia's east some towns in the state of new south wales now resemble islands caught off by rising floodwaters and surrounded by debris those who didn't leave the stranded with no way out including in peat town western sydney pulls them at left in time but has been watching as floodwaters rise around his harm fencing tools and cars already lost relays it's an absolute disaster i'm not kidding. next door is

a building company under water its owner already counting the costs. of the stock and yet. still pretty upset for everybody else on. the scale of this unfolding crisis is enormous thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes many rescued by boat helicopter and areas declared natural disaster zones authorities say sydney's largest dam will likely spillover for days threatening highly populated areas people using boats and cars i aks to rescue animals and salvage anything they can from the floodwaters the cleanup will be immense and the damage bill is expected to tip into the billions of dollars. watch now the focus is on ensuring paypal and adam holds a safe ryan is forecast to weighs in the coming days but the flood threat is

expected to him by the strong warning when he paypal his place continued to be patient because we envisage that even when the rain stops in some of these coastal communities the rivers will keep rising people living in lawyer lying areas of new south wales the no strangers to floods but this one many say is unlike anything they've seen gauge al-jazeera town. at least 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in the u.s. state of colorado police in boulder city say an injured suspect is now in custody one officer was among those killed. were at work out. and caught her going on. her part of the car back when i you've heard her it would start and i think. you're going to get. good.

with her reporting in there are. prepared and then there is the great white shark and i would run. still coming on al-jazeera european sides trying to navigate the global pandemic as a carer for well cut call of qualification details coming up in just a mite. it's

time for the sports his son a thank you very much a minute while european qualification for the 2022 world cup in qatar gets underway

on wednesday but preparations have been impacted by the koran a virus pandemic belgium began their campaign by hosting whales they were forced to sweat however over the veil ability. overall miller kakul stoffel of player plays that for italian club into milan who recently suffered the cold and 19 out break the cockle have a tested negative and daw end up with his belgian teammates on monday other countries have also faced issues with fever haven't relaxed rules that forced clubs to release days and light of the pandemic by munich had refused to release a live and dusky for potence trip to england but it's been confirmed he won't need to quarantine for 2 weeks upon returning to germany so that he's allowed to go portugal have moved their home game against as a began to turn italy had it gone ahead in portugal some players including several from the english premier league would face quarantine issues upon their return and there was controversy in france illegal had barred the foreign players that from

qualifiers outside the e.u. but the government changed the rules and players are exempted from quarantine all joining us now from london is international football journalist gavin hamilton given how much pressure is there on fifa to make sure these call fires happen on schedule. well it's up to fit to organize the qualifiers and up to the confederations to organize them in each region and they need to get them all done on time in order to host the world cup in in 2022 so there's a lot of pressure fever but there are international dates in place that the calendar is in place and dates are set aside for the games but as you mentioned there are individual countries who having problems with players being released and there are particular issues in europe but there's a bigger problem in south america this current round of qualifiers has been cancelled and they have to reschedule and they're going to be problems they're going to be problems in the future with the south american qualifiers but i think the european games are taking place over the coming week and in africa as well will

go ahead there will be certain individual issues but as a whole i think the 1st is pretty confident that they will go ahead as scheduled how do you think european clubs have been abusing the relaxation of rules on releasing players for international duty. i don't think so i think there are individual cases but people in our own back on them you mentioned the french authorities you mention by new nick so i think once it's clear that the countries in the individual federations are following procedures about testing and comes up political and moving going then there are ways around the problems and i think people are cork racing and i think clubs are right suit to be concerned about their players they pay the pows wages their employees and they're concerned about their future safety so clubs are right to be concerned but i think the confederation's and the fed at the individual for their actions are apt to put it as well let's talk about the players that themselves their concerns about their health how

difficult is the situation for them having to work their way around to join the national team. well i think there's a use to you know that the did the international calendar take place in a very short space of time within the wider kind of supplies or are used to to to to to international travel and to time traveling in tight sort of spaces and tight tight calendars suddenly closer to concerned and you know let's face it they do travel 1st class and travel in quite some luxury so i don't they set the ticket upon but obviously there are there are problems that associated with international travel and international football. is possibly contributing to the transfer of the virus and that is a concern for everybody can finally are you confident that come qatar 2022 will have a full lineup of qualified teams in place and things will go smoothly i think so i think south america is a problem and they will have to find a way to squeeze in more games i think a wider issue is the issue of fans attend the games we've seen in the past week the

olympic organizers saying that overseas spectators will not be allowed in tokyo this summer the euros are still discussing new wife is still discussing with the fans who were let into the european championship games this summer so i think the issue of fans attend the games is a bigger problem than whether the actual. international football journalist gavin hamilton thank you very much for that. and being now and the houston rockets have ended their 20 game losing streak it with a win over the toronto raptors the rockets hadn't won a game since early february but on monday all 5 houston stars as it's called in double figures john wall scored the triple double to finish 19 points which is good also had a 19 helping houston win 817299 you so scared it was tied up for the 9th worst in and history. and los angeles lakers all star. has died at

the age of $86.00 starting out in 1958 he spent 14 seasons with the lakers and reached 8 n.b.a. finals is korea scoring average of just over $27.00 points per game is the 3rd highest in n.b.a. history in statement make his own boss described him as the superstar of his era. 6 time moto g.p. champion mark marquez wall missed the 1st 2 races of the year as he recovers from injury the 28 year old has undergone 3 surgeries since breaking his arm in a crash at the start of last season doctors say he may be able to resume racing in april of for the go on pretty in portugal season starts in qatar on sunday or the olympic torch relay is set to begin its journey over a year since the games were postponed due to the pandemic the torch it will begin in focus on thursday and will travel across the country for the next 4 months

and that's it from him money. many thanks. for this news our be back. coming up next morning's. frank assessments should we be following because ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on 00 it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there a white supremacy impacts all of these you're putting more money into the hands of

someone taking money out of the hands of other workers their own goes to the king of it becomes a us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line the big questions on out is they are in the midst of war a generation grew up in exile more than 13000000 syrians tough the pre-war population remain displaced inside and outside the country and as the conflict enters its 2nd decade with no political settlement in sight there could be further displacement home for many has been informal camps like this in neighboring countries in lebanon's bekaa valley life has been one of poverty and uncertainty. syria's economy is collapsing and international aid organizations are warning it is pushing millions deeper into poverty many are jobless and hungry the united nations says 60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have regular access to enough food despite the battlefield being largely quiet for

a year aid agencies say the dailies. suffering of syrians is worse than it has been a nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship does not stop at syria's borders. the earlier the air the. israelis head to the polls as prime minister netanyahu hopes are successful vaccine rollout will help him win another term despite corruption cases against them. they want change al jazeera live from doha with me for the back to go also ahead on mars military accuses deposed civilian leader on santucci of accepting bribes like cash and gold it's. more bad news for astra zeneca a u.s.

regulators says data from a vaccine trial showing the effectiveness of its covered 1000 vaccine may be outdated.