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completely crockett's, if someone like me, should have been an edge. seems as quite as devoris johnson was in the choice that the last election was don't go back from top adviser to the you. k as prime minister testifies over the government handling of the code 19 crisis. and i'm final, how much not have all the support the brooklyn that show one of the favorites for the championship as they take to nothing seriously over boston. ah, the secretary of state has met the egyptian president in cairo's balls to support for the cease fire between israel and mass speaking afterwards and to the blank and cold egypt, a real and effective partner in dealing with the latest escalation. egypt played a key role in brokering the cx, 5 after 11 days of violence. lincoln has now traveling to jordan,

where he has an audience with king of de la. for while those diplomatic efforts continue attention is turn to another potential slash point and is ready course is a john to review into the forced eviction of palestinian families. and so one in occupied east jerusalem process took place outside cause a reminder, a similar case of nearby shake, java sparked the recent escalation. let's go live now to west jerusalem. a diplomat to get to james bay's is the james, what was the secretary of the state and city of lincoln hoping to get from this visit to cairo? well, the idea i think is to cement the cease far as the idea of the whole to day visit is to try and keep things calm. they're not trying to push things forward in terms of an active piece process, a 2 state solution. they just want to build on the seas for last week and of course egypt was absolutely key in securing that sees far. and i think for egypt,

they're hoping they'll get a little bit of plastic leverage from that because they had being a country that it was effectively in the u. s. is bad books off to a very good relationship between president trump presidency. c, president biden, for the 1st 4 months, didn't call president cc a tall. he shunned him and it was only less than a week ago just before the seas fall that they spoke. so the gyptian, i think hoping to build on that there are all those still problems in the relationship. i think that will be tough. talk on issues like the nile and the damn being built and relations between ethiopia and saddam. they'll be tough talk on, on ages, neighbor libya and also on the right difficult subject of human rights back to the main subject, which is the see far off to the off to the 11 day conflict. that's why secretary blinking is going to another of the neighbors of israel, one of the arab countries,

along with egypt that has a long standing piece deal with israel. and that is jordan. and he's going to be meeting the king of jordan to listen to his concerns about the situation. diplomatic editor james pe lived there in west jerusalem, haven't el mastery is a political analyst and associate professor of media and cultural studies at the bow. high institute for graduate studies. he joins us now live from minneapolis. i'm from the blank consensus of egypt and the us working together to let israelis and palestinians live in safety and security. what do you make of the role of egypt as playing here? how is it been able to play this role? given that many see egypt as being more pro israel, the pro palestinian of the moment. here to be perfectly honest with you, this successful mediation came as a great surprise to many analysts, including including me. this obviously came in the aftermath of many years of

unprecedented egyptian support for the, for the is really straight out of state and cooperation on the military front, on the economic front and on, on other fronts. so this was something of a surprise, a kind of came out of my fear that was surprising to see egypt opened its borders and allow palestinians wounded palestinians in egypt, there was surprising to see the aid package that egypt offered up to the power thing and it was perhaps most surprising to see the change in rhetoric from dc and from sam chuk, the foreign minister minister. but i think we have to understand what's going on sort of behind the scenes. that's kind of what you're as you're corresponding with saying. there is a political objective here for the c c government. they are scoring points with the bite and administration right with been which has been very critical of egypt, human rights record. and they're also distracting from the ethiopian damn

crisis. and i think perhaps most importantly, egypt is working to kind of reestablish its image in the region as a, as a major are as a major force, you know, and even against moving against some of what is happening in the united arab emirates, the u. s. as the mass is a terrorist organization, how does egypt view it given that of course it's have to do a lot of talking with from us. it's very, it's a very peculiar and confusing relationship. on the one hand, egypt is saying, hum, as this is an enemy of the, of the egyptian state. it's accused of committing crimes inside of egypt. on the other hand, it's sitting down and negotiating with, with her medicine and hosting leaders from, from, from so it's, you know, this is,

this is the nature of politics sometimes. right. and i think it's, it's a sensitive situation for egypt and for because, you know, in egypt, public opinion is very much divided on, on comments, as it is on the most of them are heard. right? there are options who support comments on their education through who don't. and i think that the cc government is aware of that. got to talk to you but have a manufacture date and i don't master the in minneapolis in gaza. palestinians are now facing the mom of task of rebuilding. after $1000.00 homes were destroyed in the 11 day conflict of hundreds more damaged beyond repair. and it's really miss. i landed directly in front of this building. it's severely damaged, as even sunk a meter into the ground, residents and evacuated. and the government has ordered that the building be demolished, given outside is there at the site of the destroy building and has more knowledge of how much will have to be done to address reconstruction needs in gaza. the

ministry of works and how thing announced that it needs $350000000.00 just to reconstruct their residential buildings that have been destroyed, including a $150000000.00 to demolish the those partially destroyed buildings and even like like this building and building the building that has been partially destroyed or partially targeted. so as long as this funding is delayed, also the, the reconstruction process is going to be delayed until now in many areas, almost all the areas in the gaza strip. the rubble hasn't even yet been resume, which means that the entire tree has been closed in front of the movement of the cars and people. because most of the streets are also destroyed. and as long as this trouble is kept in place, of course, because the mystery talks about the lack of capital,

villages as equipment for the moon, for municipalities at the mysteries here in the gaza strip. this trouble shall stay until they can get, lending had an emergency funding to help them out. the 2nd cycle to hit india in a week has damage to hundreds of thousands of homes psycho yass a landfill. and india is east coast on wednesday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains. at least 3 people have been killed. a more than 2000000 people have moved to emergency shelter saw india correspondent, elizabeth from reports now from new delhi. heavy rain and high tides, better the eastern states of edition and westbank gold, severe weather caused by psych loan yards. i have never seen such a storm in my life. in the last 3040 years. my houses, i'm witnessing this for the 1st time. the water may cross the mean door for the 1st time in west bend. goals. government says 300000 homes have been damaged

in one of its was defect districts, south 24 paragon as not. my baby says she has nothing left. she and her son moved to a safe area and now her home has destroyed more than 2000000 people have been moved from low lying areas of westbound goal and addition to emergency shelters. why do you maybe we are inside a shelter sleeping by putting papers on the ground? our situation is really bad. health experts are concerned about the conditions and evacuation centers as india battles, a devastating 2nd wave of the corona virus. so the psych loan is suddenly going to affect effect because it containment measures. and this type loan shelters are going to be potential areas that could actually enhancements spread. psycho nails has weakened but it's expected to cause severe flooding across many eastern states. elizabeth per on al jazeera new delhi,

the former chief advisor to the u. k, as prime minister told a parliament re committee that the government failed the public in its corona virus response, dominate, coming, says that he and other officials acted too late. last week, he accused for his johnson's government and incompetence and lying to the public about its further immunity strategy. cummings was asked from downing street in november and the room as of a rift with the prime minister was no doubt at all that many senior people performed far, far, disastrously below the standards which the country has a right to expect. i think that the secretary of state for health is certainly one of those people. i said repeatedly to the prime minister that he should be fired. so to the cabinet secretary, so did many other senior people short time ago in parliament. prime minister maurice johnson responded to dominic cummings accusations. the handling of this

pandemic has been one of the most difficult things these countries had to do for a very long time. and none of the decisions have been easy to get into a lockdown is a traumatic thing. for a country to deal with a panel on this scale has been appallingly difficult and we've, at every stage, i tried to minimize loss of life to save lives. and we felt like the best scientific advice that we, we can buy that's london. let's get more financing to miss jona. how this testament has been going on for hours now. what else has cummings had to say and what's the significance of it, jonah? yes, i'm still. i'm going after several hours, scintillating testimony from dominic cummings. how important it will turn out to be will of course depend on how much it dominates the news, a gender the days to come. and how much of that drips down and actually embeds with the public. many of whom, of course, would have made up their minds about events over the last year. already. they know

that mistakes were made. there's a great deal of positivity around now the back of the vaccine program that many people see leading this country out of the pandemic. how much will it affect public perceptions? that is, the big question will be a worry for the government. they will hope not as much as they fear, of course, dominant cummings, as i said, still talking, this man spend god like figure who occupied an all powerful position in downing street as far as johnson's chief adviser until november last year. now full of contrition. as you heard him there, not a whistleblower so much. he doesn't like that word. but seeking to reveal the truth about the government's handling of the pandemic contrition as well extending to his own role in all of this when he broke lockdown rules. famously undermining the government's messaging at the time. he says he was simply moving his family to a place of safety after threats against them. details that he left out last year, a terrible, terrible mistake. he said in one that i deeply apologize for,

he's taken us through the failure of the initial heard immunity policy. he's taken us through the delay in instituting the 1st lockdown. that is thought to have led to a great many more deaths. he's told us about the meltdown in government as it dawned on them just what was coming their way unfolding, like a bad action movie. he said no proper data systems modeling wrong numbers being counted up on an iphone and fingers pointed in every direction, not least at the prime minister, himself a bad decision making, putting the interests of the economy above the interests of public health and really, really brutal. take down of health secretary, matt hancock, who he says should have been fired for 15 to 20 different failings, including lying on multiple occasions to the public standing in the way of a proper test and trace system. and crucially, failing to proper properly protect care home residents,

the elderly who he said were going to be tested before, leaving hospital back into their care homes. they weren't a great many number of them died as a result, a scandal. mister cummings says the biggest scandal indeed of the pandemic. how does the return of holl reporting live from london? joe? many thanks day patrick diamond is an associate professor and public policy at queen mary university of london and share of the policy network. think turnkey johnson, i live via skype from under. good to have you with a set, patrick, you heard the trip of the prime minister swatting away in parliament, this criticism from dominant cummins. but how worried should johnson be about cummings, his testimony? how much damage could he really do? i think the big picture here is the, the country has moved on from the the last year. obviously, march april, last year there is a perception among the significant number of the u. k. public that were made in

humbling terrain. the virus, but clearly events of these, all the fascination programs, the government has been driving over responses for successful in the u. k. among the by successful back the initiative anywhere in the whoa. and so there was a sense in which things moved on and what was on the coming today isn't like from the mentally just that having that, that are cool. there are details on it coming testimony from ministers, evidence about inappropriate decision making. i was that were made or i don't indecisiveness that will not be comfortable watching for or don't team. so i don't think that will be in consequential, but it's not a bring down the government and the leg truly as if it's not going to bring down the government. could it damage the government in the next election, which is still one to 3 years away?

yeah, the big event will be the public inquiring to take place. it's right next year. and obviously in that price that that will be a rigorous thing of all the evidence about what happened in the bumps. the panoramic boss many keep big as will be required to give evidence, not just dominant coming around to the best, the lessons learned that going back and be much more significant. i think shaping the public. you have how the government has done than the particular test needed, but when it comes to giving a call, want to get it coming from. so it's a very controversial big he's a button to devise to pick up within the british conservative part. the buckle himself is also off. you're breaking down rules, and so it might do the public to try. he's new about seeing if there is in the government could talk to patrick many thanks for the patrick diamond in london.

molly's new ruler says the interim prime minister and president have resigned following that attention by the military, the entry and vice president kind of see me go into who let a crew last year asked the transitional leaders and all the arrest. go to says that elections will take place as plan next year. the un security council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis later on wednesday. nicholas huck. john just on the line now from docker. nick tell us more. well, we've just heard this announcement made that was not really a surprise because the vice president has been holding the president of the, the prime minister since sunday. and there were rumors on it since monday. sorry. and there were rumors on monday night that there would be a resignation coming, but we just didn't know who what's surprising for many millions. it's the resignation of both the president of molly and the prime minister that had just announced a new government on monday. and that was supposed to appease this ongoing crisis

that is happening in molly a crisis of trust between the money and people and it's government of transition. now, what we know is that this information came out from an aged to the vice president. and you go into this was on the, on the, on the sidelines of mediation efforts put forward by the chief, the mediator from echo on the west african body. good luck, jonathan, who is in bama, who is trying to find an end to this deadlock. now there are rumors that is a possible curfew. we've been borders being closed and so you can really send to tensing of the situation in the capital, dumber co. and it seems that the military, the military that had taken over power by but by taking over power from president and august has nominated themselves the president and the prime minister . well, they seem to have the upper hand. this used to be a tone in which

they seem to say that they will continue to control and hold to power despite caused by president amendment mcclung. the french president, i'm calling this a qu within a qu, and called from the international community, including the african union, the european union for the immediate release of the president of molly, by and out. and the prime minister looked, i went, we have yet to hear from, from them adrian. and that's really causing some concern, not just for the international community, but for themselves on the sheets of bama. we're worried about what is to come next . adrian think, let's talk putting live fat from dotcom in senegal. nick many thanks with an he is from out here. a still to come on. the program will tell you why iran is president has honie is speaking out against a decision made by the countries supreme leader, the president of the worse office, an explanation as to why his government divert the european flight in order to

arrest a critical journalist. and his force a chance i'm interested united to finish the season on a real high. the details coming up later. ah, iran, the president is urging the country supreme leader to allow more candidates in next month's presidential election. sandra hottie says that he's written a letter to follow up on the need who has a final say on all state masses. ronnie criticized decision by the election watchdog to reject several nominations. the council has approved 7 out of nearly 600 candidates dealing with the husky ache. i wish the conditions were different and the guardian council would have allowed more candidates to be added that the nature of the election is competition. if you take this from the election, it becomes a body without life and falls down. this is the essence. there must be

a tight race for a reelection to happen to a high turn out unimportant election guarantees to legitimacy of the establishment . and this is a fundamental thing. we have forgotten this. how serious acid beg reports now from tehran? iran the presidential election is less than a month away, and the list of prospective candidates has been released by the veteran body in a surprising and controversial move. larry johnny, the 3 term former speaker of parliament and adviser to the supreme media has not qualified to neither has a current vice president. it's hard to hungary. former to term president, mahmud moved in the judge was also stopped from participating. it means the muddrick and reform is blocked in iran. don't have prominent candidates to take part in the election. some believe it's because powerful political forces in iran one. this meant to be the next president ibrahim, right? the current head of the judiciary, who is backed by the countries conservative block in short on these qualifications,

made today bitter and dark day for democracy and elections in iran. the guardian counts decision had several victims. the 1st was the election process. the 2nd victim was the guardian council itself, an entity that must protect the constitution, and the 3rd victim was rising on people and society will believe all this happened to promote him to the presidency. finally, politician, such as learned johnny john girl, possess kion and i'm a dinner. john became victims as well. this already been concern over a possible low voter turnout. and with a lack of competition, it means the electorate have little to choose from and vote for my last time he said i, i voted into previous elections, but decided never to vote again because i don't believe in the system anymore. no. to john bush expected learn janisa aid mohammed and vice president. you get to be qualified, but you didn't, hawkins, i will for these tamar on my magnet. any thought i used to vote i voted from harney

4 years ago. but this time around, i will not vote. i would have rachel didn't a job, but he's not on the list. but there are voices speaking out against the decision. a member of the guardian, council and brother to learn johnny treated this statement. he said the decision was indefensible, and accused security services of intervening in the vetting process. right. if you released a video thing, he had been speaking to authorities to ensure the election of a competitive. but only the supreme leader can issue a decree to allow bought candidates to stand, but it's uncertain he will intervene. now the moderate who favor the 2015 nuclear deal and engaging with the west would have to either try and challenge the decision or back at different candidate assa joins us now live from terror on how unusual asset is it for the president to lobby the supreme leader, what's the significance of it? what is pretty unusual needs for him to come out publicly. now the last time the supreme leader to law from any intervened in this process was back in 2005

incidentally for to reform and candidates who ended up losing the election anyway. but there is considerable anger and frustration, not just amongst the moderates here, and reform is, but also the conservatives. and they have been some republic voices speaking out against the decision of the guardian cancelled. one of them sat on the councils for 20 years happens to be the brother of disqualified candidates, learn johnny. now what he said was the decision with indefensible, an accused security services of intervening. now this seems what seems to have happened is that any competition for it, brian wright has been eliminated to ensure that he becomes iran next president and hasn't gone down role. not amongst the moderates, reform, if conservatives or the general public. and there's already concern over a low voter turnout last year during the parliamentary elections. you saw the lo locust folk to turn out since 1979 revolution and one. and the supreme need to came out back in march. often people to come out to vote to ensure the dignity of the

nation. but one way to make sure that people don't come out to vote is disqualifying prominent candidates and eliminating the competition. so people don't have someone to choose from. i'll just here, as i said, beg reporting live from around as many thanks. indeed a caught in, the netherlands says rule that the energy john shell is responsible for reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. greenpeace and friends of the earth brought the case . it was dubbed the people versus shell of a suit has 17000 co plaintiffs. they argue that the company should meet global targets sent by the paris climate accord. shell says the case has no legal basis. let's go live now to sierra step boston, who's in the hague step. what's the reaction to this verdict? what does it mean for shell? well, this is a really a historical further the landmark verdict here in the hake. because this is the 1st

time that a court has now ordered a comm corporation. a multinational company like shall to reduce its emissions because it says the climate change is endangering lives of people and also against human rights. the european preacher of human rights is here also part of this, this court. of course, the plaintiff 217000 plus dutch citizens who have filed this case together with $7.00 and $4.00. your mental groups are really, really excited about us. we just hearing the verdict right now. so we have and they haven't even come out of the court room just yet, but i'm sure they're very excited about it because they were not that optimistic before. but the same court ruled 2 years ago that the dutch state was also responsible for cutting down emissions and force the dutch state also to cut down by 25 percent. now this judge has now said that shall,

the royal dutch shell has to come emissions with 45 percent compared to 2019 before 2030. so this is a huge setback for shell who sat that this case was inappropriate. they can't be held responsible solely for climate change. of course, they say that there's so many other companies as well. and what can lead from this verdict is that other, all companies can now be taken to court as well a globally because this is, of course, a precedent verdict. i'll just step back live for us in the hague step for the moment. buddy, thanks date. when a russian president, alexander, look shank, he says that he was protecting his country's people by diverting a european flight over baylor, russian airspace lucas shank, a deny it that a fighter jet force, the civilian aircraft land off the wall, turned out to be a false bomb threat a dissident journalist on board was arrested when the plane arrived in minsk

airlines are now changing cause to avoid bella roof. the president hit back at international outrage over the incident. nothing in the british allegedly is near de lutrece than the wishes outside and inside the country have changed the methods of attacking the states. they cross numerous raid lines and also limits of reason and morality. it's no longer just an informational, it's a modern hybrid war. and we need to do everything to prevent it from spilling into a hot conflict. more or less from our various nadine barbara who joins us live from london. the president nadeem said that he had no idea that this journalist, critical of his regime was on board this flight when it was forced to land in med school. are we to make of all of this? well i think it's fair to raise an eyebrow at what alexander lucas has said in terms of what happened to the plane, because he ordered the fighter jets. so actually a school that play into the airport in minutes just before it was due to land in

the lithuanian capital vilnius. he says he didn't know that mister potter said, which was on board, but it's clear that robin savage and his russian girlfriend with any individuals who were detained before the plane, then flew on to lift the way. and now of course, the consent knows that he has a powerful alloy in russian president vladimir putin and hence his belligerent language in the last few hours, saying that it is part of an international conspiracy. if you like a hybrid war, as he put it and saying that everybody needs to try to avoid this turning into what he called a hot conflict, where there is no threats of a hot conflict. but there certainly is the possibility of increased sanctions by western countries. on better roads that something that we've heard a call for again by the exiled opposition, leaders for atlanta taken off sky up on wednesday, she spoke remotely to the european parliament in brussels. and she had 3 real

suggestions. she said, firstly, she wanted to view you to publicly maintain its known recognition policy of lucas shanker. secondly, to initiate an international high level political conference to resolve the better of the crisis. and then to launch what the comprehensive plan of support for the country, including herself for that will be a long time if it ever does come. but the you is talking about sanctions on individuals on wednesday as well. we've heard from v a v, a tional authorities who are calling on european kerry carriers to avoid flying over better roost. they have been doing that in the last few days, not flying over battle risk, but there's been no formal action. we've also seen the release of a video from detention by romantic to say that she's

a girlfriend. she just $23.00 and she's in it she. she says that she edit a media channel which release the information postal information about better ocean police officers. and the like, well, has support to say she was clearly forced to do this, as was roman, proud to say that you appeared in a previous video, admitting to organizing protests, his family say that he's grave danger and urging the international community to make sure that he's released, we haven't heard anything on what's going to happen to him from president lucas shanker. but it's clear that lucas shank didn't know mood for batting down. or in fact, even admitting that he went talk to this individual right now, which is why it's so interesting to see what will come out of a closed door meeting at the un security council with easy you states, whether in fact bell come up with any concrete action or even steps to be taken out

of here is not even bother life for us in london. many thanks to the police in italy have arrested 3 people in relation to the deadly cable car crash in the alps . 14 people died when the carriage cell to the ground on sunday and investigation. found that a clamp placed as a patchwork repair prevented brakes from engaging, causing the cable to snap. police say that at least one of those arrested as admitted to what happened. let's go to what a full cost. now here's kara. hello that, let's start in india and fight loan. yaz continues to move inland across those north eastern states in india, bringing with it some of those very destructive reins where the wind does die down those flooding rains are expected to bring some widespread damage to areas there. but as we go into friday, it's moving quite quickly as you can see, and they'll bring wet snow to the foothills of the himalayas. that's a different story for north west. in india,

we've got temperatures edging up in the high thirty's, new delhi, at 38. there's a lot of heat as well for northern areas of pakistan for winter weather. we have to come to the western coast of india, and we've also got monsoon rains affecting them all these and sure lanka, some shop thunderstorms could bring further, floods there, and it's a wet picture as well. for china. we've got our may you fronts bringing with the wet weather to central and eastern parts affecting japan as well? you can see that heavy rain, a pretty affecting southern areas as we go into friday. it's the korean peninsula that's going to see very wet and windy weather from the weather system. but shanghai saying fine and dry with 30 degrees celsius connor. many thanks to come here. all these are the syrians opposed to a presidential election condemned by the opposition as a sham will speak to refugees about the hopes for the future. south africa's former leader back in causeway,

facing charges of corruption and fraud. in 15 minutes and sports and harsh criticism for rushes, empty doping procedures. the details coming up the me. in the 1st episode of science in the golden age, i'll be exploring the contributions made much scholars during the medieval slamming period in the field of professor jim elk believe me brings the videos of a pass to light point incredible wisdom. the real, all we've done is lock out the light from a room and then allow it to come to the school episode one of science in a golden age on al jazeera, the latest news as it breaks all the half of the coal mine by separatists is we labeled as russian coal and transported out to markets in asia and europe with

detailed coverage before until the withdrawal is underway and will be completed after the may 1st the deadline from around the world. these demonstrations change your mind, the british government about any new laws, designs like a tail people's rights of assembly, damage the country's democracy. oh, a get a room for it again with you here and how these are for me. i'll just here are the headlines. the us secretary of state just met the chips and the president in cairo, the balls to support the sci fi between israel of hamas, he called egypt a real defective partner. in dealing with the latest escalation, molly's new ruler says the interim prime minister and presidents have resigned

following that attention by the military, the inter and vice president, colonel, a c. me goiter. who let a crew last year to the transitional leaders and ordered the arrest a court in the netherlands as rule that the energy john shell is responsible for reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. greenpeace friends of the earth for the case, represents $17000.00 co plaintiff's. for south africa, president jacob zoom. i pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in an almost deal case. summa faces 18 charges of corruption, racketeering fraud of money laundering in a $2000000000.00 deal in 1999. soon i served as deputy president then as rejected the charges saying that he's a victim of a witch hunt by the rival faction of the rule and ruling african national congress by the johannesburg. i'll just serious. finally, the miller can tell us more what happened in court today from

well as expected by many south africans, a former president jacobs, whom i pleaded not guilty to those charges at the 1st official, please by the president. he has on many occasions prior to that said that he's done nothing wrong, but this is a witch hunt. it's politically motivated. it's been going on for almost 2 decades. and this really is attached to these factional battles with the, the a n. c's also said just following the adjournment of today's court proceedings, that as far back as the time as he was deputy president, these charges were made, they were late to dropped and reinstated. he said, there's always been a plot to get rid of him, and he's willing to clear his name. at the same time, critics have said that he's doing anything you can to avoid prosecution. and in today's court proceedings, we saw some of that when the former president,

a legal team put forward an application, a special plea to remove the lead prosecutor in this case, saying that he would not be objective. he would not be impartial, is not independent. and that he is political interference. some would argue that this is again another ploy to try and do whale the legal process. the former president, on the other hand, is saying that this really is about the verification of, of his presidency and him as a person. and it really talks to this ongoing fight against corruption in south africa that current president from a port a is trying to spearhead. but many would say it's not going to land houses. there is somebody miller lives or how this book, sirius president, bash alice had, has cast his balance in a controversial presidential election that sent to extend his grip on tower aside. and his wife, i was voted in damascus. some of the key rebels stronghold. that's where it was re

taken by government forces in 2018. posting is being held only in government controlled areas. a sad face is few rivals and is expected to win a 4th term despite a decade, a war policy and an economy that's in free for. he's dismissed or criticism, but the election is a sham. but on the other stage we do not care at all about such statements but more important than what the government say's or does not say is what the people say. i think that's what we have seen during the past weeks, and it's clear answer to all of those people. and it tells them that the value of your opinions is 0. syrians in the last struggle held province of protesting against the election. it lip was the target of a fierce battle for control of the government forces launched an offensive in 2019 . it now falls within a de escalations on the agreement between turkey and russia. now let's hear from us

here isn't a whole honda who's in neighboring lebanon where thousands of syrians live as refugees in the back of valley. presidents sharla says 21 year rule is about to be extended for another 7 years. he's run for a 4th term in an election where the outcome is not in doubt. the long time leader stood against 2 largely unknown figures who aren't considered serious rivals, and whose candidacy required the regime's approval. the exiled opposition wasn't allowed to take part. in our evident constitution and legal as security obstacles that not only deny the syrians in 5 years from participating in these elections. and by adults, i mean the displace periods in oregon area, or even the series who are in the areas controlled by the regime. because even just huge lot in areas control by the region, you have the freedom either to vote nor to run for office. and many of the millions

of people who live outside government controls mainly in the north are refusing to give us a legitimacy. they call him a criminal for killing and the resting tens of thousands of syrians during the 10 year war. the elections won't help bring about a last thing solution, millions of syrians refugees, and they are losing hope of returning home. some are afraid of retribution as long as i said remains in power. others say they won't return because the living conditions are so bad in syria. i certainly believe he won the war, but there is discontent because of a collapsing economy. the syrian leader hasn't been able to start reconstruction, he needs money, but the international community is refusing to engage with him. russia will attempt to convey this as game over to normalized series relations with its neighbors and international community. and to say that this actually, his 2 years care to counsel resolution 2250 for the opposition. the united states

and many other western nations disagree. they say the elections aren't free and fair and there's no safe environment to allow all syrians to participate. resolution $2254.00 mandates that the you and facilitate the political process that would come in in the holding a free and fair elections. in accordance with a new constitution administered under un supervision. i said has so far, refused to meaningfully take part in that process. agreeing to political transition means losing his grip on power. he wasn't ready to do that. when his regime was close to collapse. years ago, his message has been and remains that the world must accept that reality. then there are 0 because eastern lebanon back down to the situation in the occupied territories, palestinians dealing with more than conflict and israeli occupation. corona virus spreading almost unchecked. 250 infections, and 5 deaths were reported on tuesday. but as harry force reports from gaza,

there's no real way of knowing. the actual figures made out i'm a see is struggling for breath like much of goes is population. he'd spend days at home in fear of his really bumming rates. the trouble was, he'd been infected with cobit 19 and was getting worse day by day. now, his condition doctor say, is very serious. had the money he's infected at home during the war, get corona virus symptoms, but he couldn't come to the hospital because he was scared of the shelling. we've had many cases like death that we've been dealing with in another ward and garza cities. she hospital, we find measured sally, a doctor turn patient recently out of intensive care. it wasn't covered 1900 that put in there. it was an israeli as strike. the security camera in garza's ministry of health building shows the moment he was blasted out of his office. the building wasn't hit directly. this was collateral damage from

a strike across the street. but it was more than enough to shut down garz's only cove. at 19 test lab testing finally resumed at less than half the previous capacity on monday. as well as keeping people at home. the strikes also drove tens of thousands out and into temporary refuge in school buildings. there was some rapid flu testing done in places like this. the positivity rates were as high as 50 percent low, that about the you know, distancing no masks, no protection, no hygiene. all of this created a bad situation. we know that corona spread rapidly, that we have the british variant. aaron garza and 5 cases would have been enough to infect all 4000 people in one school other than the american. look at the health ministry is worried about the prospects of what it calls a disastrous 3rd way. the corona virus, which is why this is so necessary. $48600.00 doses of the 5 vaccine delivered under the kovacs international alliance,

straight to garz's only ultra cold freezer in the run tc hospital in comparison to the vaccination campaign so far in garza, this represents a major delivery and a much needed one. but in comparison to the need across garza, especially right now, it remains the drop in the ocean. this is far from the mass vaccination campaign. seen just a short drive and a world away in israel. so far less than 2 percent of garz's population has been fully vaccinated while gaza has been focused on the immediate life and death concern of a brutal but short war. a longer term threat may well have been gathering pace very close it. i'll just 0. garza took care lympics organize a say that they're not discussing a possible cancellation despite increasing pressure to do so. one of the official partners, citation but newspaper says the games should not go ahead in life of the ongoing current of iris crisis. last week, a union representing metrics said that it strongly opposed the events which is

scheduled to stop now at less than 2 months. jeff kingston is director of asian studies at temple university, japan. he says, despite the growing cause for cancellation, the government seems determined to go ahead with the games and the torpedoes full speed ahead and the people. busy are scratching their hands why? only 14 percent japanese favor host in the games that about 80 percent want them postpone or cancel? we have a who's who of c o. speaking out against the games, one of them call them a suicide mission and all public council experts believe that this is recklessly endangering the health of the japanese people. so yes, there are good reasons why people wonder why prime minister suca seems so determined to go ahead. the vaccination campaign here, the roll. busy out has been a dribble, only a, just over 2 percent of japanese have gotten fully vaccinated. suddenly they're

going to be bringing in 628-0000 visitors from all over the world for the olympics . you know, are good reasons. people believe this could potentially be a super spreader event. perhaps there is some misguided pride there. i think that the also they want to hold the sort of global coming out party, but the end of the panoramic. but a lot of people here are worried that the declaring mission accomplished a little bit too soon. i think more importantly is money. they spend about 28000000000 preparing for the olympics. nbc is pay 3000000000 to the i'll see for television rights. and so money is driving this decision and this seems inconsistent with the olympic spirit. so i was accused china of blocking a deal to purchase 5 bio intake vaccines, beijing denies interfering, and says that it's offered to provide taiwan with bio intake shots produced in

china. taiwan says a lonely by from the original manufacturers, the islands, total infection rate remains low, but it's experienced a recent spike in the number of cases. thomas in india will knock 6 months since that protest against agricultural reforms began. they've been demanding that the government reversed agricultural reforms, which unions say will lead fall is worse off from us roads to prime minister. the names are moody this week, seeking the resumption of talks and demanding the laws be repealed properly. the tal, it's been one of the former demonstrations in new delhi. i'm here in the outskirts of new jelly at one of the 3 sides. the foremost had been camping out of the 6 month to protest freeform laws passed by the mo, the government last september. now joined the peak of the movement. hundreds of thousands of protesters had gathered across the 3 sides 1000 at this sight alone.

but today, around a 100 farmers and of more are expected during the course of the day. they are wanting black flags. observing today, last day, tomorrow, 6 months since the agitation began last november. now because of the corona virus panoramic and the cobra, 1900 protocols in place, union leaders have asked people to show this on the data the busting who, and instead foisting black flag can made between the movie government and the farmers have gone on for months despite 11 rounds of talk, earlier this year, the supreme court, the implementation of these laws and the multi government also offered to put them on hold for a year and a half. but sama say that these 3 laws put the likelihood that state of pro corporate and want them repealed to show you some pictures from a few hours ago in sydney, australia, a red astronaut, a astronomical phenomenon, which is incredibly editable to say the super flower, blood moon,

it happens when the moon becomes full at its closest point in its orbit to the earth. this is also the is only total lunar eclipse. just ahead in sport. the statement when for one of the favorites of the n b, a championship basketball action with santa just a few months. ah ah ah, ah,

ah ah ah ah, ah, ah ah . again time before his. thank you very much adrian. while the brooklyn that have taken control of the 1st round series can be m. b a. playoffs against the boston

celtics. they're taking it to nothing. lee, that with all of their start is putting on impressive displays. so malik has more jason pay to the brooklyn. it for living up to their billing of one of the favorite for the n b, a championship over an ocean in game 2 against boston. it wasn't just the biggest dog, kevin durant and james hardon that were on fire washington, but 5 daughters looked on stuff. joe harris was on target from long range making 7 of his 13 pointed him, looked his interested on defense, but wildly griffin nailed monster, don't talk about the address on off the monster. and then the carrier being the former and be a champion, looking as impressive as ever, on route to 15 points. net winning this 11321

a wait. we were able to pace both in the floor after we got it going off instantly . so, good, good night, for jove, good night for all of us to just play off one another and just make easy reads brooklyn will take it to nothing. theories lead into game 3. to have malik algeria, the lakers bounce back after losing their open against the phoenix suns. anthony dave is a song. the 3rd full point 5, the champions leveled the series. and the dallas mavericks beat the l. a. clippers to take a to nothing lead your appellate final kicks off. later on wednesday, english side, manchester united take on a villareal of spain and good does. poland all going to a soldier has the chance to when he 1st trophy as united boss is villareal counterpart unit. murray has won the police 3 times. every player who goes into

final has the expectation. pressure to win. you have to prepared to win. we. we plan to win, we expect to win, but i'm sure i feel the same way his team and his players and their players. so that's no different. it's been a long qualification to get there on it 5050. when i get to a final i feel, as i've said so many times, now confident in that we are ready for this russia yet to show a new attitude towards the falling of anti doping rules. according to athletics integrity unit are currently serving a ban from major international sporting events issued by the wolf anti doping agency for noncompliance, suspension that will run until december 2022 after being reduced to 2 years by the court of attrition for sport in switzerland. the ban means that russian hill will be competing on their neutral a flag at the tokyo olympics, which begins in july. however,

no more than 10 will be able to compete and track and field. i think even adopting a big picture view of their approach to the world in the doping agency, they could have done a lot more a lot quicker and avoided a lot of the problem is time went on, but what i did time and time again was not to front up and deliver what they had said they would in fact delivered information, particularly to the warranty agency that was manipulated, destroyed, and so forth in a situation where it could have been easily delivered in pristine condition. so that means that a number of russian athletes have to die not being sanction for probable anti doping offences. and that's that. so the concern, because there was a lot of hope that in dealing with these matters, the russians would show

a new attitude toward anti doping. so would be to see that we hope it will come, but it hasn't come yet. and it's on the throne to maple leaf. at half thrash the mon trail canadians for a nail and game full of their playoff series. jeff campbell made 32 phase in his 1st sale. shutout alex gotten york had a memorable nights inside the bel center. he sets up 2 goals and called into the emptiness. guess his former teens feel the when the lease now lead the series of $31.00 caroline, the hurricanes made a great come back to be the natural predators. 3 to in game 5 go. the saw was the star of the night. it's called the game winning goal over time to feel the wind for the hurricanes and take a seat who leaps. and that's always what man do back to adrian. somebody facts date and that's where we and this news out,

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