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. as me and was gentle awards it will shoot protesters in the head russia says it wants to strengthen its military ties with the country. and protests in rio against new code lock down even though most of brazil's hospitals are now at 100 percent capacity. i'm german ash with the sport of france of playing scotland and rugby's is 6 nations right now in a match which will decide this is champions and in formula one is red bull's max 1st stop and setting the pace in bahrain notts world champion denise. hello welcome to the news our top story after months of conflict in ethiopia's northern region eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from the area human

rights groups say thousands of people died in the fighting and the eritreans who went in to back up ethiopian government forces are accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that the ethiopian prime minister ahmed finally admitted eritrean forces are into gray after months of denials eritrea and ethiopia forged a border war from 1908 to 2000 over a final peace deal wasn't agreed until 2018. i was awarded the nobel peace prize for ending the conflict ethiopia's the current government in eritrea have a common enemy in the to gray and people's liberation front all the t.p.m. left which was the leading force in ethiopian politics for almost 30 years until i became prime minister. catherine sawyer has our report. one of the clearest indications of the presence of eritrean forces in tikrit i came from the town of b. that this was right before you feel when prime minister ahmed addressed parliament

on tuesday and admitted for the 1st time the troops from the neighboring country had crossed into border areas in the north west of to guy he argued the soldiers crossed into ethiopia because of concerns about attacks by forces of the to guy people's liberation front several rockets were fired into every trap from t.j. when the conflict began last november your national security would those the reason why because of my own son also informed. of wrong doing. other things the government strongly denies the allegations and said it would take strong measures on any of the soldiers who are found guilty. and prime minister been now says they returned soldiers will leave this is after a meeting he held with the president. in the eritrea and capital asmara the detail and timeline of the withdrawal is high of

a still unclear if the eritrean troops withdrawal and that is if they totally withdraw which is a big if they're not to me that it would be very difficult. to a military to completely crush this rebellion by the so great defense forces so it's really not clear what the implications of the military strategy there is from the federal government. they are also looking to pursue some sort of secession hostilities and there are more reports coming out of the region the un refugee agency units yar cease to refugee camps that were hosting about $20000.00 every trend refugees were destroyed by and known people and there were about of most of the refugees is a known been able to contact around 2000 they are also staying in the neighboring cameroon. some have also been pounding the cup with all our dues but when our teams were able to reach kids our solution melber what they saw was a. large areas of the shelters level to the ground or offices or just

holes or so burned to the ground the forces in tikrit i have been accused of abuses including killings torture rape and destruction of property they feel can human rights commission and the united nations refugee agency have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into their leg ations of abuses committed by all sides catherine saw you are. or will get a cheer as a journalist at the reporter a private newspaper published in ethiopia he joins me by skype now from addison now many to gras ins are leaving the region thousands of them are in addis ababa where you are now are we getting a more detailed picture of the humanitarian crisis in the region particularly as it's been concealed from us because of this virtual information blackout. many are part of cannot travel to the air it will not know we brought labor with the

permission to proceed we have to rely on what the united nations. human rights commission are telling us and those that believe that they're there saying that region isn't quite that many people are short they took. their human rights of view this rape probably been acknowledged by the government but it's a disaster that there will be watching from that and it concerns us all all of what is known about how the fighting is unfolding inside the region itself obviously we're hoping for access to open up but are the killings and sexual violence still happening now. from what we know it's still happening there are many women that have being sexually abused raped acknowledged by the prime minister the u.n. agencies are telling us there are many many women that are reporting to local hospitals

that have been looted empty. medicine basic medicine again real disaster that has been. you know we've been watching from a distance. some of us are able to travel in the near what we have that in the last. almost half a year now. he's here that we could actually see an end up tekken in killings and massacres and sexual violence as eritrean troops withdraw from the region. the allegation has been on the soldiers we are soldiers. many many accusations not just. per se but violence. that has been reported the prime minister has said they will be moving from the ethiopian side and heading to their own side but again the allegations

that have been made. by many people and you know we've been hearing from many many people that have also gone to sudan they're saying exactly the same thing this is not something that was. being repeated by a few people it's being repeated by a majority of the women and the men and the young boys and girls that have been going to the sudan and even coming to the other parts of europe saying they've had the most violent. for months and we're hearing it in the last hour the children human rights commission report things on the violence that happened in the historic city of arc so again just. we've been watching from a distance and we're hearing from systems i mean and it is positive that there is going to be this joint investigation by the u.n. and if you have human rights commission. but it will sink the

victims will get justice or because obviously these troops are fighting alongside federal forces or might say well the sort of if european culpability and this come to light. we hope so but you have to understand while there might be a commitment to look to the children government the children human rights commission or an agency of the government. 3 children government would have no record to embrace the good all that crying that would be happening that we just saw although it's been reported not just by. going to the but by the u.n. international human rights watch and by their own bit they took one government agency which is a human rights commission so it's just not all that will need. the to open government. it is and so much we probably still don't know about what's happening

there a very important story thank you sam we'll get your for joining us. thank you. france bears overwhelming responsibilities for the rwandan genocide but was not complicit in the events of 994 this is the main finding of a commission set up by the french government is there the state was blind in its support for what it calls a racist regime behind the killings about a $100000.00 mainly ethnic tutsi people were slaughtered over the space of 3 months under the hutu regime france was an active supporter of the government at the time and reports authors say it could have done much more to prevent the genocide well andrea wallace is a journalist and author of silent accomplice the untold story of the role of france in their one genocide he says this report is an important step forward in the in french rwandan relations. it is exposed in some ways in france the history of france in rwanda in the last 27 years has been pretty grim and they've been various

efforts and in $98.00 there was a french report which said been misled by the genocidal government and president sarkozy 10 years ago went as far as to say france had made so this is a substantial increase in language here and really the devil will be in the report itself is 1200 pages it will take a while to get through. but really it is it is explosive stuff and credit to president not going to breaking with his predecessors and allowing. these investigators these historians to look truly archives in the presidency defense from ministries and to to to make these findings now to try and have crashed in egypt killing at least 32 people and injuring 165 more the railway authority says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains and the

other crashed into it from behind present as promising to punish those responsible or bad manning or ports. the tangled wreckage from these train carriages reveals the sheer force of the crash that killed dozens of people c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment of impact and so had province south of cairo. egypt's railway authority says the 1st train stopped when someone triggered its emergency brakes and other crashed into it from behind causing tree carriages to flip over. parts landed in the nearby fields bystanders rushed to help survivors while dozens of ambulances scramble to the scene the latest i'm actually we need an official to come see what has happened we can't remove the people from underneath the trains it's a shame look at the children we need a crane but they don't have one people are dead and we can't even save the ones who are alive present abdel fattah el-sisi says those who caused the crash will be

punished by i don't believe it's the right the right think the dual and it's not the right way to go i believe there is a serious serious problem and serious issues when it comes to fundamental services given to the egyptian people including of course the way away egypt's road network has been plagued with train disasters in 2000 to 373 people died when people were trapped on a train as a firing to the carriages in southern cairo and 2 years ago a train ran into a barrier at high speed a cairo's main railway station killing more than 20 people there are more than 1000 train accidents annually in egypt and that is according to the government's statistical authority. i have a hard time believing that that's. the product of incompetence on the part of what

level and or well we have as an infrastructure problem we have a government problem this month the world bank approved a loan of $440000000.00 to modernize some of egypt's 5000 kilometers around network but it falls short of the $14000000000.00 the government previously said was needed to overhaul the system. for the victims and their relatives in this latest tragedy any upgrades if they do happen are too late you're about to see are you watching the london news hour still ahead for you on the program we look at the global cost of getting stuck in the su is as the canal traffic jam grows to more than $200.00 vessels. their few belongings tucked under their arms venezuelans flee fighting escaping with whatever they can. and england smash their way to victory over india in the 2nd one day international that's coming up a bit later in sport. military

is told protesters they'll be shot in the head if they proceed with plan demonstrations on saturday the country's armed forces day this is the 1st acknowledgement of a shoot to kill order by the army another 3 people were killed in protests on friday rights groups say they've confirmed the deaths of 324 testers since the military seized power 2 months ago but the actual number is likely to be higher meanwhile russia is saying it's seeking to strengthen its military ties with me and ma after a meeting between russia's deputy defense minister and the gent has leader rusher is me and my 2nd largest source of arms behind china the country's forged a number of new arms deals a week before the coup in february or people are starting to escape me and ma to neighboring countries with thailand preparing for

a large influx of refugees. has been in that type border city of my sought speaking to some of those who've fled previous unrest. mojo was a student leader in the 1988 uprising in me and. for that he spent 12 years in a yangon prison. at a mason museum dedicated to myanmar as political prisoners he shows us the brutality of everyday life. torture techniques that myanmar security forces have used for decades in their attempt to squash dissent the jointer is accused of continuing these methods today but he thinks the protests happening now on the streets of myanmar are much different than past uprisings so this is going to be the last fight to end the dictatorship in a fight of judgement even though the civilians do not want to become refugees fleeing from the situation might arise he was they might have to become refugees

along this section of the time e.m.r. border there's little preventing people from crossing over because of the volatile state in myanmar thai authorities have stepped up patrols but have also intensified contact with those on the other side one indicator and we are monitoring this situation and we have been communicating with out maybe this especially and think groups along the border we have been checking information the movie a river here serves as the border between thailand and myanmar one of the korean ethnic armies you can see one of the camps right across the river they say in there they were sheltering hundreds of people who fled the increasingly violent crackdown by me and more security forces. we met the head of m a sought refugee committee in a football stadium and local officials were used as temporary housing if refugees start coming across the border as many as 1000 would be housed here. he's concerned

about resources as the area has been home to me and most refugees for more than 40 years fleeing fighting and economic hardship. well good luck with that in it many new refugees come to thailand there might be a stream of resources for the existing refugees if the organizations provide funding for the new arrivals will probably lose out the sun sets on friendship bridge ending a day in these uncertain times from a side a community that for decades served as the main gateway between thailand and myanmar both physically and culturally but with the unrest now unfolding in myanmar the differences are becoming more evidence the separation becoming more defined it's got harder al-jazeera may saw in bangladesh at least 4 people have died and dozens more were injured in protests against a visit by india's prime minister clashes in the cities of chittagong and dhaka turned violent as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds

officials say the protest as were followers of an islamist group which accuses and around remotely of alienating india's minority muslims he's in bangladesh to mark 50 years since it won independence from pakistan meanwhile farmers in india have held a nationwide strike to mark 4 months of protests against changes to agricultural laws demonstrators danced in the streets blocking major roads and train lines tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of new delhi since last year they're protesting against laws they say will leave them a mussy of big corporations several rounds of talks between the farmers and india's government a failed to reach a solution. when the. the head of germany's leading public health body is saying the country is now in a 3rd wave of the corona virus and it could be the worst yet more than 21000 new cases recorded on friday a notable rise on a week earlier there are concerns the health system will struggle if the numbers

keep climbing. skipped this is it there are clear signals that this wave could become significantly worse than the 1st 2 waves we must prepare for the number of cases rising strongly that more people get seriously ill again the hospitals will get overburdened of us a lot of people will die we are just the beginning of this development on a 3 day bus of recount to steer immediately the consequences will be grave meanwhile parts of kenya will return to lockdown to fight what the president called a devastating coronavirus death rate countries experiencing a 3rd wave of the virus with nearly a quarter of test coming back positive from just 2 percent in january. people in the capital nairobi and 4 other counties have been told not to travel to other areas restaurants bars and most schools have been ordered to close and curfews are also being imposed. analysis ration in brazil continues to get worse it's just recorded another 3650 covert related deaths this is the highest single

day death toll and it comes after another day of protests in rio de janeiro's a snap 10 day coronavirus lockdown began. demonstrators are against the forced closure of non-essential shops and a ban on visiting beaches much of the country is struggling is infection numbers saw thanks in part to a more infectious variant discovered in the country all spittles in almost every state how few or no beds available early this week the country recorded its 300000th coronavirus death. let's go live now to give who is in rio de janeiro so these new figures are extremely worrying over 3 and a half 1000 covert related deaths in a single day and i suppose you can expect that to keep on rising if the hospitals are at 100 percent capacity and unable to treat people.

yes and it's not only that it's also that they're lacking medicine for intubation in some cases people are worried they'll run out of oxygen again. but the problem here is and that's what led many states including rio which was late in doing this to shut down they did create a 10 day holiday in the hope of keeping people home so they won't get buses and have to go to work but there's an enormous informal economy here so there are people that really are left out to hang in the drive because they have no income and there is no emergency aid as of january so those were the people that we saw today in this morning in the protests that were street vendors who depend on people that go to the beach to sell all sorts of things from drinks and food to bikini's everything but there is another problem now is which is the spreading of the of the new variant and this new variant is infecting all so many young people.

and brazil has also just unveiled not one but 2 domestically developed vaccine candidates for human trials and i suppose the idea is trying to gauge the efficacy of this to get it out into the population as soon as possible. yes brazil was very slow in starting the vaccination program program we have like less than 7 percent of the population has been vaccinated the 2nd death toll after the united states. her vaccines are rolling out faster than a year and these 2 vaccines one of them will be produced by the blood institute in sao paulo using the similar technique of the chinese corona vaccine but they say that it will probably be just one jab and they're expecting to produce 40000000 doses now nobody is really there's a lot of hope but people are wary because brazil has been announcing that vaccines

are coming in changing numbers all the time as in other parts of the world but here a lot has of this changing the numbers have been going on so people are hopeful but they're you know they want to see before what happens thank you very much from rio de janeiro. argentina are suspending flights from brazil chile and mexico to prevent the spread of new strains of the virus measures will come into effect on saturday the government says it's concerned about the rising number of infections in neighboring brazil which has recorded more than 12000000 cases argentina has reported nearly 2300000 infections so far. thousands of venezuelans have fled to colombian border town to escape ongoing fighting between the military and colombian rebels more than 4000 people have crossed the river border in the past 5 days fearing for their safety. reports to us

now from bogota. they skate carrying whatever they could from their battered homes 4000 venezuelans are seeking shelter in colombia's border town. following days of clashes and bomb being speak when venezuela's military in a colombian armed rebel group many say the venezuelan soldiers were abusive during . it was very painful to see how the soldiers aimed a gun at a mother the government is taking away our lives in one house a grandfather died an 8 year old boy died a 9 year old girl and her mom the situation was terrible. among the refugees are indigenous people children seniors and sick people they're being hosted in makeshift camps that are overwhelming the capacity of this small town to help them and more arrive every day. in the last 36 hours another

800 people arrived and have been screened but her capacity to respond to this wave of migration this humanitarian displacement has already been exceeded. these are the few available pictures of the aftermath of one of the attacks inside business. the venezuelan government says 2 soldiers died in the operation and at least 32 people were arrested blaming colombia for his failure to control the armed groups operating at the border. and military forces are hitting drug trafficking organizations that are useful to the colombian government and the north american empire in their continued assault on venezuela the river separates the 2 countries that have cut diplomatic relationships in 2019 the colombian government has repeatedly accused of harboring in their territory rebel groups such as. the former fired but some experts believe that this fighting show that the

relationship between venezuela and at least some of these. roups is now breaking down he put it yes it could only yes we don't know it but old a new guerrilla groups operating in venezuela fighting to control cokes and mining gold and cocaine trafficking the fact that they're fighting each other recruiting children and threatening people has broken a fragile balance and the venezuelan government's tolerance of their activities would force them to intervene colombia announced it has increased the number of troops at the border to to taos and locals say clashes continue and divinest well inside in an escalation that promises to further inflame tensions in an already volatile situation. alison that i'm i'll just. still to come on the program. as yet more people made their way towards america's southern border 2 groups of politicians visit as well but with different aims.

i'm going to add a rash as the u.s. state of georgia signed into law a controversial new voting rules. and a big draw the extreme kayaker who took on a giant waterfall in iceland. is coming up in sports at. places say we've got some slightly warmer weather pushing into the south east of here as we go on through the next couple of days will start to lose that snow that was seen around and on the other side of the black sea but we have got some blustery shower still rattling in across the northwest of here but spring showers here will say yes temperatures around 11 celsius there in london as that wet weather started to move in cross silent western parts of scotland northern areas of

england central parts still not too bad although there will be some bits and pieces of shabby rain coming in across germany long spells of brain around the baltic states over towards that eastern side of clocks change for many as we go on into sunday where i'm afraid we are going to see more that wetter weather coming in across northern parts of england blustery showers rattling 3 lossie dry though for central parts west the weather there over towards the crane pushing up towards barriers down towards the southeast at long last ankara getting somewhere near double figures fun a dry course a good part of the mediterranean we still have that cool breeze dragging in across northern parts of egypt $21.00 celsius in congress that's going to be on the cool side once again as whenever around $24.00 degrees funny try for many we have got a few showers there lurking around the canaries. blue face masks a common sight in city centers around britain but as lockdowns abusive people will

still be wearing masks for months or even years to come an ongoing nightmare for the environment this video shows stauffer to wildlife hospital helping a bird that's been caught up in discarded litter it's a face mask made of plastic now a recent survey found 70 percent of people using disposable most didn't realize they were using single use prosthetics researchers at university college london say if every person in the u.k. used one disposable mask every day every year it would create $124000.00 tons of waste half of which would be on. we cycled through this factory there trying to provide an alternative but antiviral code to like other such mosques can be washed and reduced the design that we've come up with is i think osa stein of all an entirely might in the u.k. it looks like a place mostly because of many people's lives at least in the short term whatever kind they where they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it will end up.

welcome back a recap of the main stories now if european says that eritrea has agreed with joran its forces from integrity where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians fighting broke out back in november. france was not complicit in their a one genocide according to a commission set up by the french government but it does bear overwhelming responsibilities for the stores which saw 800002 seize killed in 1904 and at least 32 people have been killed up to 2 trains crashed in egypt or than 100 people were injured only in the collision when one train slammed into the back of the novel.

the crash comes as egypt struggles with transportation disaster of a different kind the latest attempt to refloat the container ship blocking the suez canal has failed and there are fears that the ever given could be stuck that for several more days more than 200 ships are now waiting to get through the canal in the world's largest maritime traffic jam the su is now is one of the world's most important shipping routes linking asia and europe shipping companies are considering whether to route ships around africa which can take an extra 2 weeks and as imran khan reports it's already affecting the global economy. confusion about the fate of the ever given a team of salvage experts flew in from the netherlands to help the so far unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the vessel while egyptian officials seemed confident the su is canal would reopen soon the dutch expert said they wouldn't commit to a specific time frame saying it could take days weeks it's a mammoth task the ship is 400 metres long weighing 200000 tonnes and it's stuck in

what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world a maritime accident with global implications shipping analysts already predicting disruption and price hikes. this series can now i'm a feat of amazing engineering the world has taken for granted for 150 years what has happened is very unusual i can't remember it happening before you have a given container ship became wedged across the so is canal on choose day when high winds blew it off course about 12 percent of global trade passes 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 and operated by taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck this image posted on

a ship tracking website shows the backlog of many vessels stuck at the exit and entry points and in the middle. the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe through the canal global oil prices have risen as a result industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amounts of cargo being held up automotive parts are in consumer goods containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the wait the suez canal authority says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year and in egypt billions of dollars in total fee revenue the ever given is $1.00 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 its financial fallout and the impact on global trade imran khan. the taliban says it will resume attacks on foreign troops unless they withdraw from afghanistan by the fust of may taliban latest be

forced to fight to free that country if the soldiers don't leave they made the threat a day off to u.s. president joe biden said washington would struggle to meet the deadline which the trumpet ministration agreed to last year well us politicians are sparring over the surge in people crossing the border with mexico including the arrival of unaccompanied children which has reached near record levels in recent weeks members of the 2 main parties have been visiting the border in texas democrats say the trumpet ministration left behind a broken system on able to deal with asylum seekers humanely but republicans blame president biden for encouraging migrants to make the johnny let's go to shall britain citizen mccallan texas what do we know about their visits to these detention centers in texas. they're very much as you describe trying to put forward their own particular policy narrative of why there

is such overcrowding at these facilities as you saw arise as far as the republicans are concerned this is all the result of a system gone ma down to joe biden joe biden flipping open from tears to undocumented migrant holds carrying disease and the coyote's and smugglers who are making a fortune from the process this is at this is this is the end of the result of blood but you can also see that they're trying to get their own back a little bit for the narrative we saw in the donald trump that was quite prevalent when the tribe of ministration was forcibly separating children and adults. all of us today witnessed the biden cages. what is occurring here on the border is heartbreaking and it is a tragedy we requested that media company in the facility by did ministration said no. the trumpet ministration allowed media inside facilities like that the obama

administration allowed media inside facilities like that the george w. bush administration had the bill clinton administration hand but the by administration wants to hide what is going on here. and as your side there the democrats say this is all the result of a system that's been broken by dollar trial but in fact that him out of democrats for him now to attempt to fix that system. and so we're here today to find solutions. we're here today to go back to washington and offer recommendations for how this process can be improved all the asylum process can be improved and people's human rights can be respected. and it's true yes did dismantle the asylum process from march of last year but in fact country to the republican joe biden has retained the most draconian poets'

donald trump's policies the majority of asylum seekers are not in their only letting in on documented children. reluctantly it would appear families that's mothers or fathers with children under the age of 7 as far as joe biden is concerned according to his press conference yesterday that i try to pressure mexico to take those children because mexico's been saved they just don't have space for those children and i think mexico is being pressured by unicef and others not to take in those days children so in fact 8 what we're seeing is because of that blanket the majority of asylum families when they get to the mexico border faced with the choice. of homelessness in a mexican border town where we know crime is rife that choosing to send their 16 and 17 year old kids over companies where the separation is occurring it's not occurring with an influx and a bigger influx unusual of single children traveling through central america in

mexico to get to the border the separation is actually happening at the border with the u.s. because the by the ministration isn't giving due process to all asylum seekers then added to that we have the pandemic we have several we have we have tornadoes rip climate change we have the economic and social instability fostered by us foreign policy over many decades that's where we are now. a coalition of civil rights groups is suing the u.s. state of georgia writes the republican governor signed into law sweeping new voting restrictions it comes as republicans and many other states propose similar changes after for president all trump blamed his election loss on voter fraud and fishing has more now from washington. from the white house condemnation of georgia's new voting what's your curiosity you don't need anything you. know that this is nothing but you hear this i think people from both. demonstrators

gathered in the state house as the republican governor signed this weeping measures behind closed doors why is the governor trying to sign something in private once the legislature was arrested for banging on the door not pulling on the. georgia voted for joe biden in the presidential election then sent 2 democratic senators to congress in a runoff election is there to democratic. is on america. to try to make it harder for people to vote. rather than making it easier. for people to vote here are some of the key measures in the new law there will be voter id number required for absentee voting that replaces the old signature checks there will be a limit on the number of drop boxes for early voters in each county so it will be less convenient the law makes it an offense to hand out food and drink to those

waiting in line to vote and those lines get long but it does expand in past and early voting the man who signed the bill into law says this cuts the chances of electoral fraud georgia's will no doubt be soon overwhelmed with fancy t.v. ads mailers and radio spots attacking this commonsense election reform measure. in fact left wing groups funded by the state billionaires are already doing that now they're using outrageous false rhetoric to scare you into millions of dollars in their own pocket there was no bribe this is not about being there this is a response to is the increase voter turnout black and brown voters in the state of georgia georgia's election process is already seen as one of the most efficient in the country so critics claim this is the solution to a problem that never existed one image and by donald trump and his supporters it will put pressure on politicians in washington especially democrats to come up with

a national baseline for voting rules and regulations and to do it soon alan fischer al-jazeera. joining us now via skype from rest of the genea is rina shah she is a lifelong republican strongly opposed to president all the time she founded republican women for biden so thank you for joining us this all seems to be part of a broader tug of war of american democracy doesn't it but help us understand more about why the new voting rights in georgia deal. well what we saw take place in georgia yesterday with an air temp being at a complete hypocrite look see this for what this says governor kemp last year tried to take a stand against president donald trump at the time this year seems he's embracing much of what president tom did which was put out the big lie and he's furthering what these measures in this bill that he signed really further the big lie that our

elections are not secure and that there was foul play in the elections of george we which we know experts and empirical evidence has told us did not take place right so it is not just governor camp though is that this trauma obviously lost children in 2020 but his narrative that the election was stolen from him was adopted by state republicans and has now been effectively endorsed by state law. well which you see here in the united states right now is an avalanche of voter suppression bills by republican state legislators around the country not just in georgia and this is to make no mistake this is out of fear this is a complete theory that there is a rising electorate of black and brown voters across associate not a status spectrum there these aren't just working class folks these are people who are black and brown some of them voting in some ways for the 1st time vocalize for the 1st time for example in georgia is an american south asians in particular which

is where my 5th family's from they were not though they have such high social economic status they were not mobilized to vote so why would republicans not want black and brown voters to vote in droves why because a large they largely both democrats and that's a problem with georgia state republicans right now this is absolutely absurd because anybody who sees us on this base it sees this is an effort to lead certain people out and to silence the voices of black and brown voters. now you say the republicans are trying to enact something similar event trying to enact laws in other parts of the country similar to this that we have seen in georgia it's not i mean it's not clear even if these laws take effect how it could impact democrats' electoral prospects they might still be able to win with this sort of with these voting rights in place. well certainly we have a long ways to go until 2022 but this is the reality that we're public in part of

what's chipped away at the rights of folks to come and really just express their voice at all levels of government in georgia that bill yesterday for example gives state officials the right to go play some selves on local election boards this is mysterious in every sense that word it's an anti-democratic bill and anybody who loves american democracy can see exactly what this bill will do 2022 it will disenfranchise a certain crop of voters so it makes it much harder for democrats to go and have the wins like they had in georgia this past fall this is what national republicans want this is what statewide republicans what they know they have trouble getting minority voters a new rising electorate you americans to vote for their policies and so therefore what can they do they have to suppress the vote a process right from reston virginia rina shah thank you thank you

all now the company that supplied most of the electronic voting machines for the last presidential election is suing fox news for defamation hosts and guests on the channel repeatedly accused demean in voting systems of helping to rig the election so joe biden could beat donald trump dominion is now fighting a $1600000.00 defamation lawsuit its machines for use in 28 of the 50 states including most of the key swing states staying in the u.s. and at least 6 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes tore through some southern states the storms began in alabama before moving across parts of georgia on friday entire neighborhoods have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people are without power tennessee residents have been warned the severe weather might move north over the weekend. now britain is china's latest target as it hits back at sanctions imposed on chinese officials by western governments this week of human rights abuses against the weaker people into injun province former conservative party leader in duncan smith is among 9

u.k. citizens banned from entering china hong kong and macau or doing business there they include politicians lawyers and an academic as well as for organizations china 1st retaliated with the e.u. immediately sanctioning several european politicians e.u. parliamentarians are now threatening not to ratify a major trade deal with china nike i did ask him and burberry are all among the western apparel brands that are now being boycotted in china because of their concerns about work practices in john anderson and has more. lies of the century as the way the chinese embassy in london described the u.k.'s stand on the human rights of we go in june journey the foreign ministry in beijing went further saying actions imposed on china by the u.k. and other western powers had been outrageous then the interest had to now with an

action on chinese individuals and entities citing so-called human rights issues in sion jeg a based on lies and disinformation it breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations and interferes in china's affairs and undermines bilateral relations among the 9 individuals sanctioned by china is ian duncan smith former leader of britain's conservative party he served the chinese action gave him a badge of honor for speaking out in a tweet u.k. prime minister boris johnson supported those who had been sanctioned writing freedom to speak out in opposition to abuse is fundamental and i stand firmly with them. johnson's foreign secretary says the criticism of china will be stopped the ambassador here will be summoned and we will explain the very clear. the position very clear relation to the m.p.'s and the other figures are spoken out but also that we will not be silenced. among the issues is the detention and reported abuse

of week is in camps which china says are reeducation centers the rift between china and the west on this issue has a new low some analysts say it's likely to get worse the c.c.p. will not back down on this would damage the authority of general secretary sitting on but neither can western liberal democracies afford to give ground when it comes to dealing with what is effectively a genocide in india this isn't so much diplomatic spats but a major with andrew symonds out. russia's flexing its muscles at the top of the world with major military maneuvers in the arctic as part of the drill 3 nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaced by breaking through one and a half meters of ice it's all taking place close to an ice bound russian island inside

the arctic circle present that in a prison sees the arctic as vital to russian interests as global warming melts the ice and makes the north more accessible. and watching the news hour life from london still ahead for you the world cup winning football to carry on really an ounce is that he's quitting social media until more is don about online abuse.

in the future. well jan is here now with sport and thank you marianne wiles just moments away from

being crowned 6 nations rugby champions for a 2nd time in 3 is and they probably have scotland to thank the scots are facing fronts in paris right now france all leading the match 2320 that isn't going to be enough as they needed to win by at least 21 points and score 4 tries to snatch the title away from wales so just a few minutes left in that one france are going to be denied a 1st title since 2010 formula one of our champion at lewis hamilton on the miss a day's team have dominated the last 7 seasons that could all be about to change red bulls max the staff and fired a warning shot in that direction and he went fastest in both of friday's sessions at the season opening a bahrain grand prix the red bull has shown itself to be quicker than the miss eighties in pre-season testing to the dutchman atop the time sheets with howard stern managing in the 2nd session. you know been a good day again of course with the heat not easy to to to find

a really good balance and i don't hold that but i think it was a positive day if there's are still things to look into what we can do better for tomorrow 'd but again also 2 more i think is going to be even more when this or that will be the more difficult to drive that because that same fervor and so on you will see what happens. we don't read all the process they are not fast enough so we know they're leading at the moment mccloughan and looking great and it's great to see them taking the step. it will be interesting to see how the long ones on. earlier we spoke to perry sports the f one correspondent so duncan he's in bahrain and he expects things to be a lot closer this season. well i guess the form book naturally over the last 7 years points towards misstating and lewis hamilton sadie's of one of the past 7 drivers and constructors chairmanships how it's an obviously with his 7 world championships he got up to way to the to the championship last year one of the 3

races to spare but the impression here in bahrain is that it's going to be a bit closer red bull seems to have closed the gap so i think there's a real hope i guess that we might see red bull and max a step in really taking the fight to lewis hamilton and miss avies which should be great i think that's what the sport is really crying out for a bit more of a competitive field so hopefully red ball will be able to follow through on their encouraging pre-season form and really take the fight to. from bahrain to cats all of the moto g.p. season begins on sunday and it's the showing the early pace australian rider jack miller went quickest in 2nd practice he was just a fraction off the last record of the self gets his teammate back and i are just behind him on the time sheets there was a late yellow flag off the polis potteries crash but he still went quicker than

world champion. he was only 11 fastest in the 2nd session. england's cricketers have won at the 2nd one day international against india levelling their 3 match series at 10 they were set 337 for victory by their hosts in johnny bester you made 124 and ben stakes smashed $99.00 runs off $52.00 balls as the world champions chase down the target with $39.00 balls to spare so it will all come down to the final match of the series on sunday the top ranked team in world football belgium will be without 7 squad members for saturday's world cup qualifier against the czech republic in prague 5 of those players play in germany's bundesliga and they can't travel because of quarantine restrictions 2 others are injured. former france it also starts here has announced he's quitting as social media because of toxic racism and bullying the strikers the retired has 15000000 followers across

twitter facebook and instagram but he won't use them again until more is done to regulate online abuse with the same vigor and for us to with which copyright infringements dealt with. now to an upset at the miami even tennis one seeded cameron nori beat grigor dimitrov to make it into the 3rd round for the 1st time nori it was 53 down against the number 9 seed in the 1st set but he then won 4 games in a row to take it 75 and the british number 2 won the 2nd set by the same school for his 2nd when i've read top 20 of pain in this season he plays american taylor fritz next in the women's tournament a 2nd seeded namely a socket didn't have it easy either but she battled prost eyelets amount of it in straight sets to extend her impressive winning streak to $22.00 matches she to start with. the olympic torch continues it to make its way through japan ahead of the games in tokyo in july former olympic freestyle skier show endo and some local

schoolchildren carried it on a slope in fukushima on friday around 10000 people are expected to carry the torch staying on and japan's 2nd ashley made history in the world of ski jumping she finished 2nd as a competition in russia and that moves to the top of the all time list of podium finishes with 109 altogether in world cup individual. and if you thought ski jumping was scary how about extreme kayaking these shots have been released of french women and they're really new and taking on a pretty serious waterfall in iceland back in october definitely worth another look . this is what it looked like from her point of view. as a 20 meter drop so a big at risk of injury but thankfully as you can see she pulled it off and emerged unscathed what a brave lady you know that you know feeling when you jump you feel it in your stomach and you watch that guy die rather than me also like inside thank you gemma

thank you of the news hour but we've got the full bulletin in a couple of minutes. when freedom of the press is under threat it's demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and chargers ups edition and the state line becomes the default media in any way devoted looking for images that lead to the negative to these guys that just how did he create a nuisance makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside

the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital was the deadly upsurge inevitable to take a good half a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they can purchase a 3 guards with. all has the governments on orthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against covert 19 on al jazeera. lights made you look like a city from the sky but they're fishing vessels just outside of argentina as exclusive economic zone the united states launched operation southern cross to combat illegal and regulated fishing in the southern atlantic argentina's coast guard say their main task is to control their movements so they do not cross into

arjan time territory from this form large in time forty's and money for what's happening in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters. ethiopia's prime minister says eritrean troops will withdraw from the tigre a region after months of denying they were there. now i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program at least $32.00 people are dead after 2 trains crash in southern egypt with many passengers left trapped in the wreckage.