it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line of the big questions on out is they are. holding the powerful to account as we examine the us its role in the war on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and welcome my money inside this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. the just tickled with the mega ships still stuck in the sea was canal authority to stop all traffic so they can try to move it out of the way. north korea fires 2 ballistic missiles and its fast major provocation since u.s.

president joe biden took office. with a relatively low vaccination rate leaders will meet to figure out whether to limit vaccine export spot it may come at a price. with a health system that can barely keep out somalia faces a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections i don't teach them how the school european teams begin the quest to qualify for the casa world cup and to make a fantastic still of the 4 to victory of the netherlands a round of o.b. action coming up this hour. egypt's service canal authority says it has suspended traffic through the waterway while tugboats worked to free a stranded ship this is the view of the skyscraper size container ship from land it's been blocking the southern stretch of the busy shipping lane for 2 days now

the 224000 ton container vessel lost control and high winds and run aground well the ship's japanese owners have apologized for the accident but the situation is causing heavy disruption to the fastest shipping route between europe and asia a growing number of vessels have been forced to drop anchor while they wait to travel through the suez canal and the costs of disruption are expected to run into the billions of dollars. here's the suez canal on the map running 193 kilometers between the mediterranean and red seas without it ships going from asia to europe would have to go all the way round the southern tip of africa in some cases that would be a journey of around 7000 kilometers or more let's take a look at this web image it comes from marine traffic dot com the green and red dots that you can see over there represent individual indep with vidual ships that

are now backed up at both ends of the canal so port said in the north end and sue is in the south and the concentration of dots in the center is another group of ships that were transiting the canal at the time of the accident than now trapped in the great britain lake the vessel that's blocking everything is near the southern end between sirius and the better lake we can get more on this we're joined by lawrence brennan in new york he's a retired u.s. navy captain and is currently a professor of admiralty and international maritime law at fordham university many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera now as of wednesday 185 vessels i believe were waiting to cross the canal are there others still on route and what are the wider business and vacations of the companies waiting for their shipments. there are other ships that had scheduled or planned to trains at the canal both through the mediterranean and and through the rich. owners and operators may delay

a decision as to where to go to determine if this is going to be a couple more days or couple more weeks or longer the economic implications are as you said in the billions of dollars and it's more complicated as things stand because a lot of the losses or delayed losses without physical damage did imply implicates particular group. roles that may prevent innocent parties from recovering their damages from the shipowners what is it that said have to think about in order to make a decision about what to do next the 1st and foremost thing for the ship owners is to see what happens and it may not be for another week then the title changes before things happen the other is to see if there's any further damage the photographs you've shown of the ship and photographs from yesterday show the ship

part aground at the bal and that the stern is afloat and that could could possibly emphasizing possibly cause additional damage to the ship if the ship were to break in half and could not be reflected as is and removed that would be a long term blockage of the canal in its present position is there a possibility that could happen sadly yes. there probably the historically the greatest example was during the attack at pearl harbor one of the u.s. navy battleships nevada tried to go to sea through a very narrow channel and was ordered not to go to sea and ground itself to prevent itself from blocking the channel to pearl harbor. if what if it's a cork in a bottle and there's no way to go and as you've described the ships that are stuck throughout the canal and at the north end are in a precarious position him a name may not be able just to turn around and take another course as long as it

and expensive as it is to go from the mediterranean around africa and vice versa having done that years ago on an aircraft carrier i can tell you even at high speed that's a long and x. expensive trip there's been a lot of attention on the impact on the oil market we saw prices jump up yesterday a belief 14 percent of the global daily supply of oil is actually clogged up that this this and what is the implication on the oil price that these short term fluctuations that we're saying or could we see some way a long term impact. could be long term impact to the worst possible case i guess it would be it could be weeks or months i am a bit of a a pessimist i would like to view myself as a realist but until i know exactly what's happened and what the plan is and when the people and equipment are on scene to remove that ship i think you have to plan a long time to bring major cell but you quitman both from the japanese wars and the

dutch celebre smit may take weeks not hours or days and 6 to get your thoughts lawrence brennan professor of animal and international markets on the world thank you for inviting me. tensions are rising on the korean peninsula after north korea launched 2 ballistic missiles off its eastern coast it's the 1st significant provocation by pyongyang since u.s. president joe biden took office in january they were launched from north korea's south young province into the sea near japan the u.s. past pacific command says the move threatens countries in the region south korea and japan have expressed deep concern and condemnation of pyongyang's actions. so you know here you are it is a 3 to our country into regional security and it's also a violation of the united nations security council resolution will strictly protest

and condemn their actions. i'm determined to closely cooperate with the united states south korea and other related nations to protect the lives of our people. mcbride is live for us in seoul rob what do you make of this launch and the timing especially. this is a significant development and more people here are asking whether this marks in fact a new phase or possibly some kind of return to missile brinksmanship of the past for the last couple of years with the failure of denuclearization talks north korea has been busily building up its arsenal of weapons but it is being very careful largely to avoid 'd any provocative ballistic missile testing this is the kinds of tests which are banned under u.n. resolutions instead concentrating on less so weapon systems other types of rockets

that it is allowed to test and we saw that at the weekend with the launching of 2 cruise style missiles now this was seen as the 1st 'd weapons test since the u.s. biden administration came into being and the white house largely ignored it because it could now it can't ignore but listed missiles timing as always with north korea seems to be everything and this comes ahead of the 1st full news conference by u.s. president joe biden later on thursday which will ensure that north korea will be front and center of that event joe biden will have to respond as north korea's neighbors have been responding condemnation from japan and a very severe criticism from south korea. we expressed deep concerns over north korea's latest firing of what appears to be short range ballistic missiles amid our government's various efforts to achieve the goal of

complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. well this seems to be intended obviously to put pressure on the united states as it develops its strategy towards north korea it also puts pressure on south korea which has been hoping to revive high level diplomacy with the north using has the opportunity the upcoming summer olympics in japan much as it did based around the winter olympics of 3 years ago that at least is the hope but of course as long as north korea is launching ballistic missiles that remains a very remote possibility rob mcbride the 1st live in seoul many thanks. china's foreign ministry is urging all sides to continue diplomatic efforts to deescalate the situation we were taught in bandar. solving the problem through

dialogue and consultation serves the common interest of all and is the aspiration of the international community we call on all relevant sides to meet each other half way and continue to maintain the deescalation situation to advance a political settlement and work for lasting peace and security on the peninsula. well during the past year north korea has been quietly testing its latest missiles and steadily expanding its arsenal in march of 2020 its military tested a new type of multiple rocket launcher that can hit targets nearly 400 kilometers away with great precision a short range ballistic missile the k n 24 was tested next it's designed to fly low and evade missile defenses north korea has been building a diesel submarine that can launch nuclear missiles while submerged these new submarine launch ballistic missiles have been shown off during recent military parades and north korea recently unveiled its largest long range intercontinental

ballistic missile that in theory can reach any city in the united states. graham on the web as a fellow 9 young technology university says the international community needs to take a tough stand against north korea despite peer that the best way to deal with john young is to follow us. we've seen a series of episodes over the last 2 decades in which given a cycle of discussions ramping up expectations hopes for resolution only to crash into our disappointment because of the inability for or all sides popular not korea actually or all the core sense room to achieve your objectives and remains that are so i think we're going to see much more seeing going for. war but only difference is that the all g.'s and we can have

more korea will not never to be will have. nuclear military capability that's going to be very threatening and i think that's the change we can and so i think people still have to put a lot of work to make sure that we start meeting all koreans and prevent them from getting to that stage where it's going to be a position of strength a lot. for the rest of us a lot of this term the foreign ministers of italy germany and france are in libya's capital tripoli for talks a national unity government was sworn in earlier this month it's meant to unify the war torn country and stare it towards elections late this year let's go to malik china his life for us in tripoli nic this is interesting isn't it because some of these countries one opposite sides during the conflict that isn't long gone now they're here together what do we think they're discussing. well

it's definitely a great sign of support to libya's new unity government i think they'll be discussing a lot of files it appears there's an international consensus now for support for this new government and that elections can take place in december this year i mean many libyans are hopeful that the that's the case especially within the e.u. but we have to you have to remember we've been here before in 2015 a very similar visit by e.u. foreign ministers took place they came to tripoli and that was when. a un facility a un facilitated agreement gave power to the government a government of national court or the g n a so then people were very hopeful that the international community the e.u. would unify and try to stabilize libya that wasn't really really the case although many countries officially recognized that government. many countries were.

were supporting warlords after in his military rise to power those countries including egypt the u.a.e. france russia and the government of national court or the d.n.a. had support from italy it has support from church so although many are hopeful that this is a new beginning to a united government many are bit hesitant because you know the years of political divisions the years of conflict how to devastating impact on people here and that really was fueled by a by many foreign stakeholders many foreign countries. for loop for the e.u. libya's a very key security and geo political issue a stable libya means they have a chance to curb migration and to stabilize the entire region also means a steady flow of oil libya has africa's largest cruise. reserves and so it's

a potentially very rich country it's also very underdeveloped that's been made worse by the years of conflict in the years of violence so lots of potential for foreign investment and for contract for construction contracts to rebuild the country and you know many countries have their eyes on it egypt for instance is looking for those contracts tricky as well and the new presidential the head of the presidential council today is in egypt meeting with president sisi he's expected to fly out to istanbul later on tonight to meet with president. many thanks for that malik trying to live in tripoli. plenty more ahead on the news hour including doing everything they can to survive we report on the plight of abandoned children encountering. another pandemic monster in from brazil it's death toll crosses 300000 at hospitals

a breaking point. and in sport the olympic torch relay begins with 4 months to go until the delayed tokyo games. coronavirus cases in the united states have cost $30000000.00 since the pandemic began public health experts say they are cautiously optimistic 3 months into the vaccination rollout 70 percent of americans who all $65.00 and older have now received at least one dose of the vaccine 1000 related deaths have dropped below the 1000 daily average for the 1st time since november. astra zeneca has slightly downgraded the afic officio its code 19 vaccine to 76 percent as today's jab was initially thought to be 79 percent effective at preventing covert $900.00 symptoms it's now including more results from

a clinical trial held in peru chile the us. will later on thursday elite is expected to discuss curbing vaccine exports to the united kingdom person has received more than 10000000 doses from plants inside the e. but as exported no vaccines back to the block of the e.u. countries a struggling to find ways to stop the spread before more vaccines arrive chalons has this report. spring is in the air in europe but so too is something less welcome something that is also having its rebirth much of the continent. of corona virus. 19 countries are now reporting increasing case numbers 15 member states are reporting increased hospital and i.c.u. admissions while 8 member states are now reporting increase the number of deaths

with more with 19 infections comes agony about lockdowns belgium has shuttering schools non-essential shops and hairdressers until late april germany can't decide what to do angela merkel has apologized and cancelled a hastily planned 5 day easter lockdown after a political backlash and feel it's. a mistake it needs to be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected and if possible this needs to happen as soon as possible at the same time i am aware that this whole business has created even more uncertainty that i deeply regret beasts and i ask for forgiveness . for. europe's repeating misery comes as it tries to sort out its beleaguered vaccination program in the e.u. only 10 percent of the adult population has received the jab so far by contrast the u.k. has already injected more than hoff the european commission is planning tighter rules

on vaccine exports to protect already reduced we use supply and says it's not targeting any particular country but it wants the situation to be more reciprocal since the introduction of export authorization system some $10000000.00 are being exported from york a from e.u. to u.k. 0 dollars are still being exporters from u.k. in. according to the french government's 29000000 astra zeneca vaccine doses were discovered at the weekend in a police inspection of a plant in italy the drug maker insists most were for you can sumption not export france as a shipment block should be considered if that's not true it adds confusion to an already fraught atmosphere. well the astra zeneca vaccine has had more control this season any other jabs earlier this month several european countries said it led to

possible blood clots in some patients after that reports more than a dozen other nations mainly in europe stopped administering the shot. then the european medicines agency and the w.h.o. defended the british made vaccine saying the benefits outweigh the risks and the blood clotting was rare on monday spain became the latest of several countries to begin administering the shots again but now the e.u. says astra zeneca didn't deliver vaccines on time and may ban exports to the u.k. to be sure the rest of europe can get vaccinated as go to our correspondent laurie chalons who is live from outside of vaccine east born in the united kingdom where we what is the latest on this route between britain and europe over putting limitations on exports of the vaccine. well i mean the european union is being pretty clear or at least trying to be clear in saying that this is not

targeted at the u.k. this is not about a specific country and trying to choke off the u.k.'s vaccine supply having said that there really is a very nationalist atmosphere to this boris johnson has said that he opposes any blockades and he warns against any kind of vaccine nationalism as he put it. in companies drugs money factories might think twice about locating in places where such arbitrary restrictions are put on their trading practices i mean what it comes down to i think really is a kind of electoral risk and reward situation we're seeing in the u.k. at the moment the boris johnson is going through something of a polls boost at the moment because generally the population thinks that the government has handled the vaccine rollout pretty well certainly when it's looking at what's going on in europe european leaders awarded the. electorate's

judging them for the fact that europe is not doing particularly well has told so. what europe is trying to do is sure rob it's our own supply and production of vaccines to make sure that it's you know it's populations as well inoculated as say those across the channel in britain are and they are not going to suffer politically if things even worse that's why they're looking at these these restrictions talking about those later on today at this summit which would basically be about tightening up the controls to. these vaccines that are going to countries like the u.k. should be going there when there are people in the in the e.u. who need them just as much and more what are the wider implications of that export limitations could we see some sort of trade war as a result. possibly there are certainly dangers of that kind of thing you

know as i was just saying we've heard from the kind of language is coming from boris johnson warning against this. they're not talking about retaliation from london yet but then again we haven't seen any actual implementation of the of these plans controls yet we might not see them be used at all in fact you know there are lots of european diplomats who are saying they don't want this to be actually put into practice they just want the toolkit there and they want to look to their electorate as if they're doing something about this situation there is also the fact that you know even if there are restrictions placed on the exports of vaccines from the e.u. to places like the u.k. that doesn't necessarily mean that those vaccines are then going to be re directed to the citizens you can put a block on sending them overseas but they can't the e.u.

can actually requisition those vaccines from the drug companies and redistribute them in side the e.u. so this stops the flow vaccines out of the e.u. but it doesn't necessarily boost the control of the flow vaccines within the many thanks for that warry chalons speaking to us from outside a vaccine in east orange in the united kingdom health authorities in somalia say the country's in a 2nd wave of coded 19 infections cases arising and more than 300 people have died from the virus in the last 2 weeks without an official system for tracking mortality it's difficult to know exact numbers cathing sore reports from north neighboring kenya. this is the main cemetery in mogadishu and it's filling up fast mostly with people who are say to have died from 1000 complications. this family is just the latest to bury

a loved one. so mali is struggling to deal with a 2nd wave of covered $1000.00 cases but health experts say with limited testing and data collection it's hard to know the true extent of the pandemic here. for the past 2 months we have just over a 1000 people not all of them have died of the disease but these are numbers we've never witnessed before the pandemic. hospitals like de martini and isolation center are also overwhelmed and oxygen is running out. so malia has one of the world's most vulnerable health systems the world health organization says just about a quarter of somalia's 15000000 population can access basic health care doctors are worried the situation is getting worse a machine. people do not believe in the existence of the covenant in virus in somalia once they get sick if misused traditional medicines to solve it by the time

they are coming to the hospital they are critically ill. the government has ruled out a vaccination program health workers the elderly and people with underlying conditions are getting there fast those are the astra zeneca vaccine under the un backed. the government hope to vaccinate at least 20 percent of its population as soon as possible. but despite the severity of the situation and forcing how 3 strictures has been difficult these are some of the city's popular cafeterias people are reluctant to socially distance or where are mosque on the 1st and foremost young muslims religion tells us that when people become very sinful some are known diseases will spread around the world only god can protect his people. apart from the pandemic somalis also continue to face the threat of violence from al shabaab a humanitarian crisis caused by reason flooding and

a desert. locust infestation that has left around 2600000 without enough food so i'm hoping the vaccinations will help prevent new infections but with only a fraction of the population able to access medical help their fee is things might get was katherine sawyer. so ahead on al-jazeera the opposition and the republic of congo of course the president's election win 4 didn't. the number of migrants arriving at the us mexico border is growing we'll hear how the white house is tackling the crisis. and in sports the u.s. women from both stossel invited to the white house to mark equal pay to.

hello there we got something of a mixed bag and i wear the still across europe it's slushy settled and dry across central pasta we have got that wintry mix down towards the southeast at key northerly wind blowing in here with some snow and it will turn colder up tools in north west got a cold front that blue line that will make its way in for the weekend in the showers say will turn wintry at the moment those showers are generally of rain we've got temperatures of around 12 celsius in london starting to cool down in glasgow would be getting up to double figures here over the last couple of days 7 celsius for friday night is something of a wintry mix coming on as we go on through the course of friday some rain there into positive fronts of course northern areas of spain fought in trying to central park for the most part and there's that so wintry mix and snow there on the side of the black sea that will tend to ease away as we go on into sas day prizes guys coming in behind temperatures still struggling. with a way of wetter weather coming in across the low countries the easing across since

you were poland tools about 6 days and that comsats blast of showers as we go on through the course of the weekend blustery showers are rattling in a few blustery showers too into northern parts of egypt but for much of north africa is fine and dry. a sister turned human rights activist the day her brother is locked in a notorious supposed back desert prison. her fight for his freedom sees her exiled surveilled and betrayed by those closest to her. but her resolve is unshaken. only the devil lives without hope. witness on al-jazeera. when the news breaks 4 months ago janine onions was president of bolivia now she's

under arrest when people need to be heard more than 11000000 people infected hospitals in brazil are struggling to cope al-jazeera has teams on the ground the last time voters lawyered up to cast their ballots in the central african republic an attempt to truth was taking place to bring you more award winning documentaries and life moves on air and online. you watching al-jazeera mind our top stories this hour. egypt's syria's canal dorsey says it's suspended traffic through the waterway while tugboats work to free a stranded ship that's been blocking the southern stretch of the busy shipping lane

for 2 days. north korea's fired 2 ballistic missiles into the sea of its eastern coastline the u.s. pacific command has responded saying the actions show pyongyang is a threat to its neighbors. astra zeneca has downgraded the effectiveness of its kind of a 90 vaccine to 76 percent the company had initially said it's 2 days job was 79 percent effective at preventing symptoms it's now including more results from trials. let's get more now on one of our top stories the visit by foreign ministers of italy germany and france to libya's capital it comes off to a new government was sworn in at the of this month which is meant to unify the war torn country and steer it towards elections in december for more on this we're joined by peter millet in london he served as british ambassador to libya from 2015 to 2018 many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera that was not been long since

that new unity government was put in place how optimistic are you about the future of libya. i think the progress that has been made in the last couple of months has been beyond the expectations of most observers and there are plenty of reasons usually to be skeptical and pessimistic about the future of libya i think the way the u.n. handled the peace talks and the way that the government has a taint the house of representatives approval and the concession of the other 2 competing government. remarkable expectations are high and meeting those expectations is going to be very difficult and the passage towards elections at the end of this year is fraught with bumps in the road but i think it is looking better it is possible to be cautiously optimistic about the future of libya now the elections as you say and not till december is there not the interim government can

do in the meantime to try and get its country back on track. massive a massive number of tasks in particular they need to deliver public services the public in libya has been disenchanted and lost confidence in the political class because they've seen the political class as corrupt and self-serving so priorities for this new government apart from preparing for elections have to be better public services getting the electricity to run the water to flow schools to be properly provided for and the health sector in particular helping to deal with coded so those public services have to be a priority but also the security sector tripoli is full of corrupt and venal militias as is benghazi and we saw a murder last night in. this

a cure of the situation in the country is still very fragile. economic reform public services have to be priorities for this new government and i think that's what the government to say and we have this with a visit from foreign ministers from a number of european countries italy germany france these are countries that were on opposing sides in the libyan war. how does that work what are the what is the dynamic going forward for europe i think is that it's a nice symbolic gesture trying to show that these 3 governments are working together we've seen paris and rome competing in the past for which country is number one even earlier this week we saw president macron invite to the live council to paris the italian foreign minister going to rome europe has lost its voice in libya and turkey where are. you u.a.e.

and egypt are being able to take over that space i think it's important for europe to show that it is working together behind the whole united nations process to try and bring peace and stability to libya in the past libya's wealth has very much been concentrated in parts of the country rather than as a country as a whole what can be done whether it be by international players or domestically to make sure that doesn't happen again but the oil is flowing a process around the high having a budget which distributes the wealth in a way which is seen to be fair is important at the moment to the budget is concentrated on salaries and subsidies much of which is money which is what existed the older bureau recently produced a report showing that 2380000. libyans are receiving

a public sector salary that's 37 percent of the population the civil service has been subject to patronage and corruption in the past focusing more on development developing the infrastructure providing services this is something the libyan government themselves can do they don't need international law systems to do it the money is there the money has to be focused on where it can deliver genuine benefits to the libyan citizens when looking at international countries as we've discussed they'll be many wanting to be part of the rebuilding effort that are some countries better placed to win contracts than others the turkey in particular has always had very strong links with misrata and a lot of construction projects many other countries with strong consult a construction sector like korea. have been in the past i think

those companies should be knocking on the door of the libya. i think other countries that have the strength in financial services legal services consultancy services like the u.k. like france and germany can also play a key role working together inevitably in economics when it comes to commercial deals there is a degree of competition but i think working together to respond to the. request of the libyan government is important it is also important for the libyan government itself the ministry of planning for example to coordinate all of these projects and programs and not overlapping and competing with each other it's a military to get to talk to a piece of millet's served as british ambassador to libya from 2015 to 2080 many thanks thank you. the united nations estimates 2000000 children in calorie in need of urgent humanitarian assistance and have them have

been abandoned after being caught up in the conflict between boko haram and the government forces in cameron's region nicholas haq has a story these children have spent the best part of the night begging for food and money they have been abandoned here in cameroons far north region near the nigerian border they will not keep what they get instead they'll give it to this religious teacher who in exchange gives them shelter water and occasionally teaches them prayers sometimes he allows a charity and they offer amounts for children to sleep on and teach them to read and write but the children are distracted most have been abused many have witnessed their fathers being killed or mothers being raped by book fighters who entered their villages like 8 year old mohammad yousuf. when i grow up i want to be a soldier because boko haram killed my father we were picking it when i saw them

slit my thought their throat and take my mother away. 10 year old man hopes his father will come back to get him and his vocal her aunt came to my village and i picked up all the kids but i ran away my father well my father i don't know where he is thousands of children have been separated from their parents either abducted by boko haram or friend by the conflict between government forces and the fighters children who have escaped from the armed group or seen with suspicion with schools refusing to enroll them in the state authorities unwilling to register them the u.n. says state authorities are failing the children they are meant to protect. we have to recognize something children develop skills when they're with armed groups they develop an incredible sense of resilience sometimes leadership it's not it's an elicit kind of function but they nevertheless do develop some skills and some of those skills we need to capture and and reinforce as well as help them get over

their very negative experiences. carr is one such child while he has lost his parents and continues to beg on the streets he has joint a state school he says he wants to be a doctor not only to heal his country but the children of cameroon who have been abandoned but worthy of care nicholas hawke al-jazeera. political opposition the republic of congo have rejected the results of the presidential election as for talent president dennis has already ruled for decades on the electoral commission says he won more than 85 percent 88 percent of the vote of the opposition politicians boycotted the poll or on jail malcolm webb reports from brazzaville. political opposition in the republic of congo say they've been cheated the electoral commission said president any sasa requests

a one with nearly 90 percent of the vote but due to local motorboat the congo is not a democracy you can see what happened congress a dictatorship pure and simple presidential polls one sunday results were announced 2 days later the supporters here don't believe the result but also many of them say they're not surprised some of the opposition candidates boycotted the elections entirely to others who won in the last election are in jail serving sentences of 20 forced labor that they were given off the challenging the result of the last election the breeze past. the most prominent opposition candidates is dead. it was announced just after voting he tested positive for covert. many of his supporters think he was poisoned his party officials say they've discovered widespread irregularities like polling stations where the president won more than 6 times as many votes as the worst people voting liberal politically not

a democrat human history the union of humanist strongly rejects these results as a whole and invites the constitutional court to do the same. then he sasser in queso has ruled for most of the last 40 years a french public relations company run his campaign along with the minister for education he told us the president's past record and charisma won him the vote over with yet in a party democracy can you say there is no democracy i think that those who are saying that are just in need of consoling themselves because they're not able to win an election. people complained of irregularities during the voting here dozens of armed police came when opposition supporters said a ruling party official was ballot stuffing many opposition politicians and rights activist said there was never a chance of a democratic process in the 1st place if you thought a country which is now working health care. human rights violation record told you

some live angel who's going to be happy and maybe 8 percent no it doesn't make sense since there are so. many people we spoke to here say they wanted change it looks like they won't get it. malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo . the united nations has confirmed reports as special rapporteur who investigated the journalist jamal khashoggi received what she perceived as a death threats from a top saudi official the guardian newspaper initially reported that the official threatened agnes saying she would be taken care off if she was not reined in. published a detailed report into casualties murder in 2018. more than 300000 people have now died in brazil since the pandemic began 100000 of them in just over 2 months president diable solara has long downplayed the threat of the virus but as

recently agreed to take action like again a cure reports from rio de janeiro. is brazil school the death toll keeps growing women across brazil have joined hands twin void or their grief and the names of all those who died from coal bed 19 this by november the map of america this panel has 2 and a half meters per presents only 0 point one percent of the number of victims we would need $1000.00 panels like this one for all the victims that's another 2 and a half kilometers of. pressure against president who has been mounting as infections and death continue to spiral out of control brazil's bar association has asked the attorney general to charge president. with criminally mishandling the pandemic $500.00 bankers economists and business men wrote a letter asking the government to stop boycotting measures aimed at controlling the

new wave of infections and to start heating to the advice of doctors and scientists . on tuesday night or went on television to say he was in favor of the vaccines he had criticised in the past and was slow to start finding raw brazil his words were greeted with poc banging protests with next year's presidential election in mind also national met wednesday with representatives from congress in the supreme court one year after couvade 19 struck brazil the government has finally announced a committee to deal with the pandemic on a national level. meanwhile in this square 19 year old in weezer castro embroidered the names of her daughter in law and a friend she says she can deal with the sorrow but not with the anguish of watching nothing being done. there for. everybody silent while president jay bo's'n out of school and the virus the masks and the vaccine even the church which

threw up against of the datasheet is holding its tongue i'm feeling very anguished knowing i have nobody to turn to she decided to write a letter to the pope but while waiting for an answer to her prayers in luisa and her friends will continue using their needle and thread to keep alive the memory of brazil's 300000 debt meineke in nyc you all just sirrah designer. u.s. president joe biden has appointed kamelot harris to manage the steady arrival of asylum seekers at the southern border members of congress have been visiting emergency facilities that have been reopened recently and follows a growing outcry often images revealed over crowded and makeshift conditions at a texas center and so it's not like someone sits around. the table from one of them one of them all and said i got a great idea let's show everything we have to give the money to hire really haven't

taken our kids or us to the border of america or take for cross rivers in the desert we don't speak the language won't that be fun. and one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in the country it benefits. just people closing down. she had her town seize on the u.s. side of the border donna in southern texas. several steps which he said she would take but each and each announcement actually more questions were raised i mean them if joe biden seemed to be getting all nostalgic there about how he had undertaken the same role under president obama to deal with unaccompanied children at the border you know when obama was president suggested actually a biden didn't actually fix anything didn't actually get very far and one column went through the different steps she's going to take it sounded awfully familiar so she said that she would lead

a diplomatic effort for immigration enforcement in mexico and central america what does that mean is i just mean pressuring mexico and central america to crack down on migration to increase its militarization give more money to the police and security forces to crack down on migrants up lead off into human rights abuses is that really the solution is that what they mean by that she said that she was going to engage the private sector engaging the private sector hasn't been a problem $55000000000.00 has been spent since 2008 to 2020 on what's called the border industrial 'd complex mainly high tech militarization of the border contract is making it an almost fortune defense contract is a lot of the given to the democratic party and also building shelters which often quite substandard because they're in for the profit motive in fact right now as the biden session looks from all shelters there are real questions about whether some of the people who are being given the contracts have very poor record on housing housing migrants. so is there. a way of course among the world's best golf

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. it's time for the sports his money thank you very much european teams of the gun they quest to qualify for the 2022 world cup in qatar and turkey pulled off an impressive win against the netherlands they were 42 winners at home thanks to a good. trick to qualify for a world cup since 2002 when they finished food but they're off to

a flying start in greece gee a bad night for the netherlands who missed out on the last world cup in russia and 2018 and they coach frank the bush described the result as terrible. reigning world champions france were held to a 11 draw at home by ukraine and one griezmann put france ahead of a fantastic strike to move level with the delhi tears again as he's country's 4th all time top scorer but the match would levelled up by an own goal from a prisoner in ukraine who are managed by they form a striker on their shift chain co held on despite having no shots on target the world's top ranked side belgium continued their impressive run in the qualifiers they fall from a goal down to beat wales $31.00 kevin the brain a talking has arthur and romelu lukaku with the girls of belgium who are unbeaten in competitive home matches since 20 m. the result also makes the 20 wins in their last 21 qualifying matches and the boss ripper to martingales the world cup hosts cutter world playing in europe on

wednesday maybe luxembourg won no in hungary striker mohamed muntari taking advantage of a defensive error by their opponents carter the current asian champions have been included as a case team in qualifying group a which also includes european champions portugal although their matches will not count towards the qualification process. later on will see the latter only bring him a bitch back in a sweden should for the 1st time in 5 years the striker who quit international football after euro 2016 has come out of retirement to help his country qualify for the world cup slaton is sweden's top scorer with 62 goals and has been in good form with these club side ac milan in italy sweden host georgia on thursday and travel to kosovo on sunday. from one of football's biggest names to some of the smaller teams trying to earn a place at canter 2022 qualifying has also begun in the north central american and

caribbean region and this was the cayman islands up against sorry ma'am it was sort of who came out on top in this one winning a 3 nil to go top of the group the next match is against a ruber in 2 days' time on the cayman islands face canada just 3 direct world cup spots available in the concord half region president joe biden and 1st lady joe biden hosted members of the u.s. women's football team to recognize equal pay day that's the day that symbolizes how far into the year women must work on average to make up the pay disparity from the previous year the women's team have won the world cup $4.00 times but all pay less than the mainstream they wage disparity lawsuit was dismissed last year but they plan to appeal president biden made it clear what side of the debate he is on it doesn't matter if you're an electrician an accountant or part of the best damn soccer team in the world the pay gap is real and this team is living proof

that you can be the very best at what you do and still have to fight for equal pay after a delay of more than a year the olympic torch relay ceremony for the tokyo 2020 games has begun the flame started its journey from fukushima which was devastated by a tsunami and earthquake 10 years ago and the chapelle reports. you know policies they cannot think of putting a stop at long last the torch relay begins in japan for the olympic games. our football star. who was the 1st to carry the flame 10000 others will take it to every part of the country. it's shining a light on the progress made since fukushima was devastated by an earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster 10 years ago. on the long road to tokyo it's hoped the relay will generate excitement for the games but many are wondering

why it's still happening as the country is still battling covert only because i've got to. say how could i see what it would be sad to see the olympics cancelled but the priority now is to end the pandemic we can still postpone it and hold the games when it's safe again the pundits say it could cause another pandemic here because people from all over the world are coming here. if it is successful it will symbolize how we overcame many difficulties. knows what it's like to represent japan on the world stage and compete against the world's greatest he's worried organizers have run into too many problems to go ahead. with an effect on your all factors necessary for hosting the games are facing issues there are sports that have held qualifying events while others haven't when you look at domestic issues in japan the covert infections a far from over vaccination is not making progress. yet if the relay goes ahead safely over the next 4 months it will go

a long way in reassuring the public and signal the end of a dark chapter in japan's history and her schapelle al-jazeera. the western conference leading utah jazz of showing just why they have the best record in the n.b.a. this season they swept the brooklyn nets aside 118-8818 wednesday night of the mitchell scoring 27 points for utah brooklyn who were not helped by the absence of star players james harden kevin durant's and kyrie irving either the jazz have now won 32 and lost just 11 so far this season. and let's finish with a golf shots a forgets for one of the world's top players rory mcilroy a photo major when i was competing at the world matchplay eventing texas but check out this tee shot at the foot hole it went way off course literally straight over the trees and into somebody's swimming pool that grew it was thrashed $6.00 and $5.00 by ian poulter he's worst matchplay defeat tain years that's all the sports

news money many thanks for that that's it from a money inside for this new silent age and we'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a strong that moral failure is that a fair assessment you catastrophic. to weiss valuable back say informed opinion should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying us that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the

day's global headlines inside story. this was wrong to take children away from their appearance and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is in the big player and we sort of look after ourselves i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the words canada's dark secret on al-jazeera . it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised

researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. 'd a logistical nightmare with a mega ship still stuck in the suez canal authorities stop all traffic so they can try to move it out of the way. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up north korea fires to ballistic missiles and its 1st major provocation since u.s. president joe biden took office. with a health system because.