this is al-jazeera. the time is 1500 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera however i'm come out santa maria welcome to the news hour a shipping mishap with global consequences the suez canal still blocked by a large container vessel that's run aground also in the news 1st was briggs it now the vaccines as the u.k. and the e.u. hold discussions to resolve the dispute this time it's about exports of covert 19

jobs with a health system that can barely keep up some earlier faces a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections. and as more migrants arrive at the southern u.s. border the white house searches for a way to manage the crisis. and i.v. steps with their sports the olympic torch relay begins with $121.00 days to go until the tokyo games and the latter is back abraham of which makes his international return for sweden will be live in stockholm ahead of their match against georgia. one of the world's biggest container ships stuck in one of the world's most crucial waterways creating one giant problem for global shipping and trade egypt's suez canal authority has now suspended traffic through the waterway while the tug boats try to dislodge that massive cargo. ship scene so easily from lands look at that

blocking the southern stretch of that busy shipping lane for 2 days now the 224400 metre long container ship lost control in high winds it turned sideways and it ran aground on tuesday the ship's japanese owners have apologized for the accident the bigger issue though is the huge disruption being caused to the fastest shipping route between europe and asia a growing number of ships have been forced to drop anchor while they wait to travel through the suez canal the costs of that disruption are expected to run into the billions of dollars so before we discuss that we've got a couple of graphics to take you through 1st marine traffic dot com this is giving us a close up of the canal as it is right now and there's not a lot of ships in there obviously you've got a backlog in the north port side you've got a backlog in the south that sue is but as we zoom out and as we keep zooming out and keep zooming out you see the sheer number of vessels that are waiting to head into either the southern port or the northern port it is

a huge logistical challenge. and if we look at it another way as well i've got the google map here just to give us an idea if this is going to be close for a while well what the ships have to do there in the middle but let's take a starting point broadly speaking of about here in the gulf and as you head down the coast of africa a good 6000 kilometers around the cape of good hope i'm doing this pretty crudely but it does give you a good idea of the numbers up past the canary islands through the strait of gibraltar and you're adding well 18000 kilometers on to that journey so we're going to talk more about that in the economic implications of in a moment 1st this report from charles stratford. 400 metres long and weighing 200000 tons stuck in what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world a maritime accident with global implications the ever given container ship became

wedged across the suez canal and choose day when high winds blew her off course about 12 percent of global trade policies through the 193 kilometer long canal which connects the red sea with the mediterranean providing the shortest link between asia and europe the vessel carrying around $20000.00 containers is registered in panama are operated by the taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck the japanese owner has apologized but says the situation is extremely difficult there's a sizzling that's present the traffic along this year's canal has been disrupted due to the incident and local authorities are working under some of the issue using tug boats but that is most myth of time for it to be dissolved this image posted on a ship tracking website shows the backlog of at least $150.00 vessels stuck in the northern entrance of the canal it put saeed in the middle in an area called the

bitter lakes and at the southern entrance at suez the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe along the canal oil prices rose sharply on thursday industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amount of cargo being held up including automotive parts and consumer goods 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 are delayed losses without physical damage that imply implicates particular admiralty rule. wells that may prevent innocent parties from recovering their damages from the ship owners would you be an official's say at least 8 tug boats are trying to dislodge the vessel which experts say could take days if not weeks containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the wait

ships now face the prospect of having to travel thousands of additional kilometers around the southern tip of africa a huge cost and potentially delaying delivery of goods by weeks it's a cork in a bottle and there's no way to go in as you describe the ships that are stuck throughout the canal and at the north and are in a precarious position in the name may not be able just to turn around and take another course as long as it's an expensive as it is to go from the mediterranean around africa and vice versa the sewers cannot authority says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year earning egypt billions of dollars in toll free revenue the ever given is one of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour and every day it remains stuck on a reef and stationary there are concerns about the financial fallout and impact on global trade chance trafford al-jazeera very pleased to have james moran with us now an economist former ambassador to egypt jordan and yemen as well and an

associate senior research fellow at the center for european policy studies with us from brussels today good to have you with us there is that phrase which we use not someone saying it's like trying to turn all tanker around now congress at this time obviously but that's what it's like isn't it this is not a situation where we can just if it was airlines you could say right we ground flights here we redirect them here and we can get on with it this is a really slow turnaround. yeah and it's as you can see in your order just of what hour is an incredibly complicated technical challenge that lies before the su is come out authority and everybody else involved in getting this thing back on the water and it's going to take some time i think it's important what the salvage company has been saying it shows going very cautious about some of the time it's going to take to right this ship when it could well be a few days but

a few days of course is very very costly each day more people have made estimates of $3810000000000.00 of trade going into the suez canal absolutely fundamental for european supply chains it's not just about oil it's just as important the goods coming from the far east china and so on china number one but not the trade with the remuneration and most of the stock goes through the suez canal but without precedent james the canal has been closed previously when it was nationalized when the arab israeli war happened i guess it's just a different world now in that you have ships that are so much bigger than they were then so much more trade happening around and as we say this was an accident it could happen at any time how do you mitigate against. well i don't know i mean i think it's very bought not an hour but once the situation is resolved in that short will be we take time well there will be an ear of mary barra transparent

international investigation into what happened was it the weather was it was a problem on the ship itself with its engines was it the suez canal authority of course don't forget the ships that go through kind of our only authority are pilots provided by a whole series of us abilities up there was to examine why it happened but to make sure it doesn't happen again that will be very very important we will not be an easy thing to do. international investigation in something like this will be a challenge for everyone including their gyptian authorities don't forget well you just mentioned the history of the suez canal there who is going out as an iconic symbol of egyptian independence and we can take some time yes sir can i ask you to 0 in on egypt a bit more this that you've told us about the why there are implications but the importance the economic importance the employment all of these things to egypt itself. yeah there are 2 main aspects of the revenues they get

from the passage of ships through the canal which are worth up to $6000000000.00 a year which i think is the so possibly the whole most important source of foreign exchange we need it and the 2nd part of it is of course the developments that have been taking place around the canal area where the suez canal treason where you've got a number of investments especially from china and elsewhere in the last few years in from companies who are wanting to take advantage of the strategic position of the canal the european markets on the other side so they employ a lot of people thousands of people are working there and you have many people working at the kind of authority as well all of these jobs will not be risks but they're certainly extremely important for the well being of egypt now it's just a fascinating story isn't it playing out in front of us almost in slow motion turns around thank you for joining us thank you again. all right we're moving on to

corona virus news now and the issue of vaccine distribution this is dominating a summative european union leaders there discussing whether to in fact ban vaccine imports or exports to countries with a high level of vaccination coverage like the u.k. latin america mexico now closing in on 200900 related deaths a day after brazil confirmed its own tally of more than 300000 deaths 100000 of those happening within just the past 2 months would you believe and the w.h.o. is alarmed about a surge of new infections in africa the continent has recorded more than 4000000 cases so far and we're going to look at that in a little more detail shortly particularly in somalia let's start though with more of what's happening in europe there's worry chalons he's in the u.k. we'll be talking to him shortly but starting with natasha who's outside a vaccination center in paris take us through well what the ministers are

discussing today and also is there some sort of consensus going into it a broad consensus at least. yes or outside vaccination center in paris well that fits me of course because vaccines are really top of the agenda for this e.u. leaders summit now it was a summit that was supposed to be held in person but so many poets all of the year actually battling the 3rd wave rising infections that it was decided that this summit should in fact to be well vaccines will be the main topic of debate as i said not only the roller to europe which has been very slow in many countries but also how to try and boost the number of doses that are available to the e.u. and to this absolutely. quite controversial rather crucial proposal by the e.u. commission that is saying that perhaps you should block the export of. vaccine doses to other countries what the e.u.

commission head is saying is that is simply unfair that the e.u. would be sending doses to other countries of a time when it really needs them and it's not receiving any back in fact it's talking a lot about britain the e.u. has said look at britain we've sent 10000000 vaccine doses over to the u.k. but the u.k. has sent 0 doses back to the e.u. so of course that's a real bone of contention between the u.k. and to the you as well as the whole roughan vast percentage of the e.u. still very unhappy that the british swedish pharmaceutical company is in its words failing to deliver on the doses that it was contracted to do now e.u. leaders are very divided on the idea of these so-called of the so-called blocking of exports you have some e.u. politicians are saying look this is just the narrative it's all talk this is the commission basically trying to ramp up the rhetoric in order to put pressure on these pharmaceutical companies to deliver their doses some e.u.

leaders only countries france italy for example that are really backing these 2nd waves a 3rd waves i should say release of. the idea of these export blocks other countries netherlands germany far more cautious they certainly don't want the to become embroiled in any form of. ok so there is no chance in paris with the european side of things thank you natasha we cross the channel now reach chalons in brighton in the u.k. with this peculiar situation i guess rory with the u.k. could almost in their eyes get see themselves being punished for doing so well with their vaccination rollout. yeah i mean the perspective from the u.k. government is the lead the government was just quicker getting their orders in with the vaccine companies astra zeneca pfizer etc and 2nd that they signed better contracts that their contracts or exclusivity contracts where is the european

contracts are signed with the drug companies drug companies are a bit looser a bit more woolly so the u.k. government boris johnson is warning the european union against what it says is vaccine nationalism of course is trying to safeguard its own vaccine supply but there are concerns about this proposal that are coming not just from the u.k. they're coming from further afield and they're to do with the actual. general production of these vaccines across the world and looking at raw materials concerns about whether those are still going to start being stockpiled by the drug companies who are concerned to the day if they put these raw materials into the european union for the manufacturer or manufacture of vaccine doses perhaps that's going to gum up the supply if the european union is blocking the export of those vaccines around the world and i think there is

a concern about what that might mean for the rollout of vaccines in countries that really need these. these vaccines to inoculate their own populations not in the european union not in the u.k. but much further afield of the w.h.o. has insisted that this is a problem and needs a global solution and the fear is that if the european union goes down this route things are becoming much more self interested and a lot more partisan whole tangled web and thank you rory challenge joining us from brighton today. now building on this and i mentioned africa before this is a recent study published in the lancet medical journal which says 40 of the 55 african union countries have experienced a 2nd wave a covert 900 factions and now the director of africa's center for disease control says he's concerned that those restrictions on vaccine exports we've just been talking about proposed by the e.u. and india could lead to a 3rd surge of infections as a country in

a truly few headless. men who feel. this attrition is going to significantly improve to fight is that we have gone through 2 waves of the difference in the 2nd and that in your street you see that base understood this extent that i just shared is going in that we had it into was it that we and without rapid access to vaccines we challenge continue to be challenge life would be lost. if you continue to struggle so let's focus on a bent look on somalia where health authorities say the country is in its 2nd wave of infections cases are rising more than 300 people have died from the virus in the last 2 weeks but without an official system for actually tracking deaths that is pretty difficult to know exact numbers catherine soy has this report. this is the main cemetery in mogadishu and it's filling up fast mostly with people

who 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 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. people do not believe in the existence of

the government in virus in somalia once they get sick if misused or maybe since to solve it by the time they are coming to the hospital they are critically ill. the government has rolled out a vaccination program health workers the elderly and people with underlying conditions are getting their fast dose of 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 our mosque in the world is 1st and foremost the young muslims the 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 recent flooding and a desert. infestation that has left around 2600000 without enough food some are hoping that vaccinations will help prevent new infections but with only a fraction of the population able to access medical help their fear is things might get worse catherine sign al-jazeera place to welcome professor yup to al-jazeera preceptor i'm sorry epicenter a representative for africa at the research branch of doctors without borders he's in you on there in cameroon thank you for your time professor we've heard all about somalia there we've heard from the african c.d.c. as well as one more thing i want to throw at you in the numbers i've heard out of kenya where they're saying we can get 30 percent of the country inoculated by june 2023 that is absolutely extraordinary how can

a relatively strong economy like kenya before and behind so much like. heal a couple of issues. before talking about somalia and africa us showing some information about you and your opinion on the fighting to have access to those is so even if they are fighting or really side you can imagine that in african countries the access to those dollars are quite limited especially for current trees were really need. to highlight that not all countries are facing the same challenges what you what you just saw in sudan is different to what to do reality that we have in the country like need for example where we have a list in this case lift death so it's important to take care of that diversity so there's a problem clearly with the kovacs system isn't there because that's what everyone points to the world health organization saying you know this is the thing which

will supply to the developing world but it's not is it. it's not when you when you hear what the talking us on is mentioning the target for africa is 60 percent of the population kovacs it's only 20 percent and even in terms of timing how many dollars has been supplied some of country ghana has already used almost 70 to 80 percent of the back door that you have received rather distant so they're going to be on standby while or a country going to be that actually nation so i think that's in balance in the selfishness i think we can you walk quite a number of country are selfish on keeping all the doors for the for the for the communities but the challenge that many country have not understood is that or to get into that there is no way the western countries will be safe until africa and all those country are also saved because of the virus is going to move

from one side to the other you can function it all your population if the people in the limited resource country are not accepted as well then there is a new virus will come back and you have to do it again and again. so much work to do isn't there professor one from doctors without borders we thank you for your time and pleasure. just about 23 minutes past the news hour and here's what's coming up. 4 more people killed in the antique to crackdown in myanmar human rights envoy called this for an emergency summit. also north korea fires 2 ballistic missiles the 1st launch since u.s. president joe biden took office and spoil the olympic torch relay begins 4 months to go now they delayed tokyo somebody else.

but u.s. president joe biden has appointed his vice consul 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 after the growing outcry from those images which revealed over crowded and makeshift conditions at a center in texas and so it's not like sandwiches around here. from one of the right amounts are going to grant us you know everything we have to give the money to you really haven't taken our kids or us to them we're going to take for crossly this is does it really speak the language well before. one of the ways we learned is that. if you deal with the problems in new countries and if it's . just people who knows that there. is the tame literally both sides of the

border. in mexico will be with you shortly manuel 1st the monitoring developments in texas straight up. right and we're expecting biden to have a press conference shortly where he's going to be asked tough questions it's only that's what's been telegraphed from the white house press corps but what's interesting is we're expecting at least judging by the that was saying in the in the media for the questions to be based on a narrative that's completely on its head i think the questions he's going to get from the press corps is biden being too soft at the border as he opened it up as he allowing too many people in when actually the reality is that joe biden has kept the most draconian measures from donald trump's presidency specifically title 42 a public health woodman's that's being used to prevent all undocumented migration

by adults without children and that's the vast majority of people who are attempting to cross the border because they say that because of the pandemic that's completely in violation of international domestic laws the u.s. is humanitarian and legal obligations for asylum seekers and refugees best there is a spike in child arrivals but that is basically one thing that we see each spring time it's certainly been supplemented because donald trump shot the border between march and november of last year boy interesting questions might be why is the u.s. always taken by surprise by something that happens almost every every year instead of spending 55000000000 dollars as both obama and trump did on militarization and high tech equipment on the border industrial complex will they start spending money on facilities that can treats asylum seekers refugees children humanely and the bureaucracy to kick to get those children into the arms of their family members and god is in the u.s. because 80 percent of them have people in the u.s.

who can actually take care of them that would be interesting as you say is that going to be in charge of the response she says she's going to travel to the region is she actually going to look at inequality in central america is she going to go with the same old private sector private sector solutions. which just basically usually increased inequality make lots of money for multinational corporations which of them and then when people start complaining the us supplies lots of military equipment to central american countries to put puts rebellions down it will widen pledge not to overthrow democratically elected governments and central america who do want to address it a quality barack obama overthrew or helped overthrow about was allowed in honduras in 2009 when he said he was going to look at redistribution of wealth that was going to affect american multinationals obama supported a coup on yours as well in chaos ever since a bunch of the kids behind me in the thames here in boulder and from all jurors because it's been chaos ever since if you like to see some of those questions being a k. she had her chance and as you said donna texas on the human side of the border now

. on the mexican side and to build on what she has been saying there about the conditions in the situations that people would face going into america still they come. indeed they do and we are at. literally a stone's throw away from the us mexico border where are the migrant camp that popped up just a little over a month ago we're told that there are somewhere between a 1009500 people staying at this camp many of them are central american migrants people that are from predominately from honduras or or guatemala but there's also migrants from all over the world they're migrant from southern mexico states like us. there are haitian nationals there are a colombian nationals there really is a mix of of migrants staying at this at this camp and the sense that we get from the people that we've spoken to yesterday up and down the us mexico border is that they're waiting they just don't know what they're waiting for exactly some of the

people that are here have been waiting for more than a month some some of the people that are in one have been waiting for over a year at this point and there's something there are some nuances here because there is this narrative not only in the united states but here in mexico as well that unaccompanied minors who cross the legal and into the united states are going to be welcomed by the united states that's not what we've seen throughout the course of yesterday we were at a different port of entry where there was a slow trickle of migrants coming in among them there were miners people under the age of 18 so that we should be questioning the stared of that miners are somehow allowed to stay in the united states there's also this other narrative floating around that somehow a reversal of trump era policies is being interpreted by migrants on this side of the border as a move but invitation to come and try their luck at the border but again that is not what we're seeing here on the ground overwhelmingly we're hearing migrants saying that all they want is an opportunity to plead their asylum cases to u.s. border officials ok thank you. into. immigration just one of the

issues expected to be raised by and to president joe biden at his 1st news conference in a few hours time kimberly what's the white house correspondent who be covering that hi kimberly. what. so much on joe biden's by immigration i can see gun control is going to be a big issue as well. yes all kinds of domestic as well and foreign policy questions are expected with respect to. immigration there's no question that that is going to be asked of the president given the fact that yesterday he tasked his vice president cobble harris with that issue there are questions about whether she may also be at this press conference to answer some of those questions but there's no doubt here in the united states that many people are scratching their heads wondering how if this is the more humane immigration policy the pictures are certainly not showing that on the southern border with mexico so that is one topic that is certainly going to be under scrutiny but also as well as

a number of foreign policy issues there's going to be a question i'm sure about iran and what the effort is with respect to trying to get iran to comply under the j c p a way north korea has of course launched 2 tasks in less than a week and what that means for the north korea policy and finally when it comes to gun control here domestically we've had 2 mass shootings so how that will play out as well goodness me busy afternoon ahead we will be talking more to kimberly how could later on. still more news for you in this hour returning to the scene of a nato intervention the foreign ministers of germany germany italy and france are in libya to endorse the new unity government and every action backed. some mozambique's military launches a major offensive against i saw only groups and civilians have been caught in the crossfire and in sport u.s. women football stars are invited to the white house to mark equal pay day.

we got a big contrast in the weather across the middle east at the moment more wintry weather coming in across northern parts of a bit of cloud and a fair bit of snow temperatures hovering around freezing and 0 celsius for ankara. meanwhile we're touching that he 738 here in doha 38 is 100 in found a cow mixing my but temperatures here but you get the idea 38 celsius 100 fahrenheit warmer across the raeburn peninsula plenty of snow there further north and that's now running out of it's was a caucus is could see some snow to into tech menaced on maybe into. some wet or whether they're pushing up across is because stan will parts of afghanistan but elsewhere for much of the middle east it is fighting for

a as it should be at this time of the if i did try to just around some good parts of ethiopia looking fine plenty of sunshine showers popping out once again just around tanzania kenya kept want to see showers into the house but it is largely looking settled and sunny here the showers they run up towards the gulf of guinea nothing further north woods as they should take lots of wet weather though coming across angola easing across the northern parts of zimbabwe and northern areas of mozambique. frank assessments the world is on a brink drawn that model fabian is that a fair assessment you catastrophic hialeah to twice valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying it course ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying that is the direction this is all headed in-depth

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you're in the news are here at al-jazeera these are our top stories egypt sue is can our farsi has suspended traffic through what is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes salvage teams still trying to dislodge that massive ship that's run aground they say take days or weeks. e.u. leaders are meeting virtually for a summit dominated by vaccine distribution and a looming 3rd wave the block is discussing whether to ban exports of vaccine this and u.s. president joe biden is expected to address criticism of his immigration policies and his 1st news conference in less than 2 hours he's appointed vice president comes to manage the steady arrival of asylum seekers at southern. and update on me and my now in the u.n. rights voice for the country is calling for an emergency summit to discuss the military's violent crackdown on antique demonstrations of the 4 people at least were killed on thursday. and

among those rallying medical workers and l g b c activists in me and health care staff wearing white coats march and rode in a motorbike convoy through the city of mandalay chanting slogans in support of the deposed leader unsung sue shane meanwhile foreign pressure against the military junta has been mounting on thursday britain announced further sanctions against a military owned enterprise florence lou is following this one from kuala lumpur. the u.n. human rights investigator tom andrews gave a very stark warning of the situation in myanmar he says if there isn't an international response that is full and united conditions in myanmar will do terrorism and he warned that there could be a very dramatic increase in the loss of lives and ngo that's been tracking the number of fatalities as well as the arrests since the coup on the 1st of february says that 2900 people have been arrested or charged sentenced and nearly $300.00

people have been killed since the 1st of february and the military is also continuing its crackdown on the media and on my news service base in central media says for that staff members were detained on wednesday night while this is taking place we know that international pressure on myanmar is also building up the u.s. has now put 2 military controlled conglomerates on its blacklist so these sanctions will no doubt be welcomed by people who oppose the coup in myanmar but we should still be i think be realistic that the generals may find a way to circumvent these sanctions they've had decades of practice while the country was run by them that by a military dictatorship while it was an international pariah of being able to circumvent sanctions so you know while the sanctions are welcome they may not be enough to stop what's happening in myanmar. tensions rising on the korean peninsula

again after north korea launched 2 ballistic missiles off its eastern coast this is the 1st significant provocation by pyongyang since president joe biden took office in january that were launched from north korea's south having young province into the sea near japan the u.s. pacific command says the move threatens countries in the region south korea and japan of express their deep concern and condemnation of pyongyang actions. jake you know here it is a 3 to our country and to regional security that'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 in china's foreign ministry is urging all sides to continue their diplomatic efforts to deescalate the situation we were talking bandar. solving the problem 3 dialogue

in 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 during this past year north korea has been quietly testing its latest missiles and steadily expanding its arsenal in march of 2020 the military test of a new type of multiple rocket launcher which could hit targets only 400 kilometers away with great precision a short range ballistic missile the k n 24 was tested next designed to fly low vary the missile defenses. north korea's also been building a diesel submarine that can launch nuclear missiles while submerged these new submarine launched by the stigma such missiles have been showing off during recent military parades and north korea recently unveiled its largest long range intercontinental ballistic missile that in theory could reach

a city in the united states his grandma where by a fellow at nanyang technical technological university he says the international community needs to take a tough stand against north korea now or face the consequences later despite 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 patients hopes for resolution only to crash into to disappointment because of the inability for all sides optically north korea actually or all the course sent to me to achieve your objectives. so i think we're going to see much more seeing going forward. more the only difference is that the g.'s moving ahead more korea will not inevitably

will have nuclear military capability it will be very threatening and i think that's the change equation and so i think the you still have to put a lot of work to make sure that we start any and all koreans prevent them from getting to that stage where it's going to be a position of strength a lot of area and for the rest of us a lot of this. to mozambique where soldiers have launched an offensive to find raided the northern town of palma this area was considered a safe haven but now around $70000.00 people have had to escape to other regions it's also the base for offshore gas exploration projects worth about $60000000000.00 on groups linked to sonic state have launched similar attacks in the region since 2017. well you know what you need to also call on the population to collaborate with the authorities denouncing ted it is an armed men for the utilization of the defense and security forces will do everything to ensure

the well being of the population against inhumane acts perpetrated by terrorists while continuing to guarantee the protection of economic projects with us from london joseph hannon a visiting fellow at the london school of economics written numerous books on mozambique including a decade of mozambique politics economy and society mr hamdan thank you for your time i mentioned in the intro there that palma had been a relatively safe haven. what's changed is that the fact is that the lure of of energy riches i guess well not so much the energy riches as it is the one. in north east couple to go to they have not occupied before and it's the one which is closest to the gas project and so they are attempting to show their power they already control much of the northeast corner of the province and it was

a very coordinated attack yesterday. but also it targets 2 different things the united states last week send in special forces to train mozambique emerge. and yesterday morning just hours before the attack total announced that it was felt safe enough to resume. work on the gas terminal which it had stopped at 1st of january because of a review. we mention the link to i so isis the islamic state would have you might like to call it a group which obviously started in the event is that to say then that this is i guess how linked is it to that group because this seems to be more of a domestic insurgency. it's a very tenuous link indeed it's local people who are in i as the development of rubies of gas

a huge mineral wealth in that area well people were not getting any of it and they were arguing it was taken by the deletes by the ruling class by all the garbage whatever you want to call them and that would have got 2 problems becoming poorer and more unequal and so finally in 2017 local people in a town just south of. the prior. took up arms and occupied the town for a period of time and there are human this is you know that they want to regain some share of this wealth. has obviously resonated right how some of that band of very quickly and now occupy a big chunk of the province just quickly how seriously does the government have to take this they the size of this insurgency the way it's moved is it a is it a reminder or is it a really serious threat. it's really

a serious threat. and one of the reasons that the palmer attack is so important was this is the closest they have gone to the gas project in scale i mean there are over 100 insurgents it was well organized well coordinated and so far as we know they have pulled out. but they robbed 2 of the local banks they attacked the police station. and basically took control of the town for a day and the government has promised total the gas company that it would protect an area which included palma right and manifest you couldn't do it then so the. show of strength of the insurgency was not so much they had occupied the town but that they could go into the town for

a. forward and just tend to gas project joseph hannon the man to talk to when it comes to mozambique thank you so much for your time we appreciate it thank you the foreign ministers of italy germany and france have held a news conference with libyan leaders in tripoli and her opening remarks the interim foreign minister knowledge among called for an end to the violence in order to achieve some stability and national unity government was sworn in earlier this month his mother trained in tripoli to take us through i mean the significance of having these countries coming in some who were on opposite sides of the conflict initially and now trying to show this united front. well that's right italy and france have been known to have different views when it comes to libya but it appears now that the e.u. is coming coming together with a unified stance i think in general here libyans want to see in and to the

political divisions and the fighting that's lasted years. of fighting the conflict has had a devastating impact on people here they saw this visit as a step towards building international consensus on libya now they're going to be tasked we heard the 1st female libya's 1st female foreign minister demand that foreign fighters must leave the country and that's because there are a huge obstacle to to for this for libya to have elections take place in the summer so i think many are hopeful that that the international community will. or that live the new interim government can capitalize on this on this consensus to stop the fighting and unify state institutions we also saw today mohammed in the head of the presidential council along with one of his deputies met today with

president obvious that the c.c. in egypt in cairo he's expected to later on travel to turkey where he'll be meeting with the president earlier gone so i think this government is now trying to capitalize on the momentum that is and the and the support that has been receiving an order to move the country towards elections later on this year now that trying to in tripoli with that up thank you. youl sports news is coming up on this news hour why else koch's one of the world's best golfers hits his ball into. a swimming pool he's got that in the rest of the sports field they.

talk about me to stand up the sport come on thank you very much it's a football and one of germany's players has tested positive for 19 ahead of their opening world cup qualifying game in just a few hours it's been reported that. back midfielder jonas hoffman as. well the symptom free but he has been isolated and officials of currently establishing others who may have had contact with him as things stand they gave us a little for against iceland haid. later on will sees let anybody him of age back in a sweden shoot for the 1st time in 5 years the striker who quit international football of euro 2016 has come out of retirement to help his country qualify for the world cup sweden host georgia in a few hours time. and our correspondent is in stockholm covering the game for

us not many sports stars well known by one name but slaton is one of them how big a figure is he in sweden. i can begin answering that question with another question how many internationally famous swedes can you count on the fingers of one hand for most people that's probably one not one is probably zlatan you have to really go back to maybe the seventy's and eighty's tennis player you're on board to find any swede who really has his stature and even then zlatan is is probably. i mean everyone here recognizes he's by far and away the best player to ever pull off a swede and he has their record score and individually brilliant player he lit up this stadium back in 22 over the famous spectacular goal against england in 2012

and you can't ignore him off the pitch either love him or hate him he's an incredibly engaging character so him being back to sweden is really huge internationally he's probably recognised as the greatest player of his generation behind the enormously and christiane aldo neither of whom and i don't generally buy that 1st name you did say there that some love him some hate him he's not really popular with everyone is the. well it's always been a bit of a 'd 'd love hate relationship between slots and abraham which. swedes on the swedish team in general over the years. balkan background growing up in an immigrant family in malvo in the south of sweden and never quite fitted in with this sort of swedish culture of all of fitting in not standing out above the crowd although that relationship has mellowed and he said now that he wants to be part of

the to. not and not stand out too much as an individual however in malmo where they're supposed to love him the most for 4 he did for. years ago they actually do you really hate him now they put a statue up to him a couple of years ago a couple years ago so you months 3 months later they tore it down after he invested in a club in star ok he's 39 years old how big a difference can he make on the pitch in boosting sweden's chances of making it to carter next year. well it obviously remains to be seen he said. it's he's done all these talking and now he has to perform on the pitch but you know he's done incredibly well for ac milan since signing for them just over a year ago $25.00 goals in syria when really his career looked to be coming to an end and this weekend team has lost 6 of their last 8 games they've got some very exciting young attacking players but no one no one likes lots and lots on himself

it will be really important for him to get to the world cup if they can get out of a group that also includes spain and to prove to the generation of swedish players from the past that came 3rd the world cup in 1994 that he really is the greatest player that sweden has ever seen poor results always a pleasure talking to you thank you then most governments are said at least $11000.00 fans will be allowed to ensue 2020 games in copenhagen later this year the city is said to host 4 matches during the tournament which was postponed by a year because of the pandemic way for originally planned to hold the euro's across 12 cities but it's still unclear which ones will be able to welcome fans or even host games at all. 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 are paid less

than the men's team they wage disparity lawsuits 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 an earthquake 10 years ago and a chapell reports. you know politics a kind of thing that i 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 because she 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 a country is still battling cove it. so i kind of 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 you 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 are far from over and vaccination is not making progress. if the relay goes ahead safely over the next 4 months it'll 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. and let's finish with a golf shot to forget for one of the world's top players rory mcilroy the 4th a major when i was competing at the world match play event in takes us but check out this t. shirt at the foot hole it went way off course literally straight over the. trees and into somebody's swimming pool it didn't get any better for mccloy you suffered his worst matchplay defeat 118 years. well that's not good when even they have most faults these legs are quite funny but the michael proud says it might get

a thank you peter. porter the next news hour at 800 hours g.m.t. and i'm back right after the break with another bunch of news sort of. april on al-jazeera from october wave to the vaccine roll out we'll bring you the latest developments from around the world a year into the coronavirus pandemic one on one east skeins rare behind the scenes access into the secretive world of japanese sumo. good president introduced they be secure a 6th time in power join us on april 11th for the chop election. the award winning

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a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put us in the big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget that counted as dark secret on al-jazeera. a shipping mishap with global consequences the suez canal still blocked by a large 10 a ship that's stuck. hello again on come out santa maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera with its relatively low vaccination rate a year leaders meeting to try to figure out whether to limit vaccine exports by come at a price that might.