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lou ah, how can your monitor top stories? you'll notice era u. s. president joe biden has used a video call with his russian counterpart to warn of strong economic measures if there's an invasion of ukraine resume puget, in crest for a guarantee that nato went expand. eastwood's, at least 38 people have been killed in a far main prison in bernice political capital. their reports to foss service didn't arrive until 2 hours after they started. and at least 4 people have been killed by an explosion in the center of basrah in southern iraq. last happened near a hospital. yes, health officials say earlier occasion suggest the on the con variant of the current

of ours mainly less dangerous than the delta variant. this is the world health organization says travel bands are ineffective against omicron, answering countries to promote mosque wearing and vaccines instead of the bodies year of director cautioned against making vaccines mandatory mandates at on the vaccination or an absolute last resort and only applicable when all, all that feasible options to improve vaccination uptake have been exhausted. they have proven effective in some environments to increase vaccine uptick. but the effectiveness of mandates is very context specific. mandates must be supported by appropriate policy considerations. a comprehensive implementation plan, including provisions for exemptions and a strong communication component for the population. new travel restrictions have come into effect in the u. k. as

a result of the new k with 19 barrett people traveling into britain will need to show proof of a negative cave, a test before they travel. adding to the p c. r test they already require to take within 2 days of arriving. you case already banned flights from several countries in southern africa. nigeria was added to its red list on monday under simmons has more from london scatter, canceled. the restrictions on travel have been met with a sort of mood of, of reluctant acceptance by many nigeria. west african state has been added to the web list of the travel band, which already includes 10 other states there in southern africa. was lot of control to see about nigeria having this restriction placed upon it. but really the she gets on people's minds. well. anything else is the level of the restrictions in the u. k. as a prime minister forest johnson said tuesday is cabinet meeting. early indications

are that on the chrome variance is more transmissible than the delta very now, but not be may not be massively new. but the real concerns are whether this on the chrome very will cause some evasion on immunity. and also whether or not it's more dangerous, whether it will make people even more sick of them, they would be anyway, we've covered 19 and the infection rates is of great concern laser testable suggests that it's doubling every 3 days. up to 1000000 covered 19 vaccines in nigeria are estimated to have expired last month before being used according to to rogers news agency sources. it's believed to be one of the biggest single losses of vaccines in nigeria. less than 4 percent of adults are fully vaccinated. but they struggle to distribute vaccines to promote regions during the dose is short shelf life. according to reuters, some of the doses arrived in nigeria within 4 to 6 weeks of expiry. south africa is

also struggle to administer all the vaccines it's received and is delaying the delivery of more doses until those in stock have been used. it reported more of a 13000 new cove in 19 cases on tuesday. if you have been prime minister abbey, ahmed says his country's forces will continue to take back areas from to grind rebels. it comes a day after the government said it had recaptured 2 important towns, dessie and come boettcher from the to gripe people's liberation front. the towns which lie on a key road from tig ride to the capital at a silva were seized by rebel forces just over a month ago. the year long conflict has killed thousands of people displaced more than 2000000 and driven hundreds of thousands into famine like conditions. with we will continue liberating the remaining areas of the country. the victory will continue and nothing will stop us. the enemy will be destroyed. with

rob, from humiliates us, as you can see, we couldn't stand against the newly re elected president of gambia has insisted his people can overcome their differences. after saturday's election has been public unrest since adam of arrows reelection and his main rival. okay. who double has contested the result? on monday, police fire tear gas to disperse opposition supporters rejecting the results which declared barrow the window with more than half the vote. he says a delayed truth and reconciliation report looking into the abuses of his predecessor. yay! or jamie will now be brought forward. the process is this is suddenly the report to me that is my good. we look at the report when we mix or we make it public after $11.00, mixer after one more, it is public. so then me and you will all know what is in the report,

then not more than 6 months. we should come out with their white paper. but when do we want to show that we justice and reconciliation? everybody assumes it will all happen. i'm going to dress in banjo has more on present various briefing. he said he will reach out to every segment of the society, but also appeals to government to forget that differences and consider the election done and dusted ever when pushed to talk about the truth and reconciliation commission. it was asked whether he is willing to prosecute for me a long time, rude idea, jeremy. he said, i'm certain that in the, in the formative will mean taking your personal. but he assured that he will take the necessary measures to address the concerns of can be and will feel that the government doesn't have the will political world to see if it'll or implement the recommendations of the truth and reconciliation commission. right now you've got to

take over the next president of this country's goal. he's still this competitor is actually not giving up. we probably, he probably has 7 or 8 days to take this matter to court and having judged in his favor. otherwise, mister battle would be sworn in us the president next year, early next year. 6 people are dead after a police officer went on a shooting rampage in the kenyan capital nairobi. king spark clashes between angry residence and police. authority said the man shot his wife at home before going rampage, to show himself dead with his police issued a 47, the director of criminal investigations as described him as a rose officer. we will not be drove past dismay in 3 others as we went on without business. he parked his car for about 20 minutes and then got out. i was able to recognise him, mister ben, but he got out with his k 47 cockers,

and started firing at us. discriminant lay them. the 3 political party set to rule germany have signed a coalition agreement paving the way for the formation of a new government. he does of the social democratic, green and free democratic parties attended the signing ceremony in berlin. the coalition marks the end of the conservative government, led by chancellor anglo marco. she'll be replaced on wednesday by social democrats on shoals. his day was anglo macros last full day as chancellor after 16 years empower. dominic came in belin expected time in office 4 times angle immaculate, her party into a general election 4 times. she won that election and using a leadership style based firmly in the political center. when the berlin wall fell, chancellor helmut kohl brought her into government where she thrived, and when a scandal engulfed him, she engineered his departure with

a ruthlessness which saw her 1st become party leader. and then chancellor in 2005. she was under estimated by her rivals the rivers talked about the way and the means they would come to power bud merkle, follow the logic of party politics, get power key, power, and get your opponents and wireless away. the in suing e u debt crisis propelled on to the international stage where her star rose as she helped broke a bailouts for europe's ailing economies and cemented her position as a german leader. the world's presidents and prime ministers wanted to be seen with . but it was her handling of another crisis which would shake people's faith in her when refugees from serious civil war began arriving on europe's doorstep, she opened germany's borders more than a 1000000 came increasing numbers of senior colleagues in her own party, openly disagreed with her policy her poll rating suffered and the far right

populace, anti immigrant alternative for germany party thrived, many wondered if mackerel was becoming a lame duck. but then came the corona virus and as infection and mortality rates rows across europe. so did michael's resolve? well, now it was fun to me. europe's economy is badly shaken with fundamental human rights have had to be temporarily massively raised to an extent unprecedented for our democracies. these are decisions that are among the most difficult and my term as chancellor. her pragmatism this time ment, agreeing vast grants to ailing european economies. she was brilliant and managing through all the crisis on what, again, not in a very visionary way. this hardly a project i could link to angela magazine. ok. this is where she actually implemented whatever topic were discussing, actually a great idea. so it's much more that she managed to to get through all this crisis

. but cove, it was the crisis, she couldn't manage your way through alone. in her last days, as chancellor, the numbers of daily cases had record highs. now she had to give way to the incoming government leaders who vetoed her proposed locked her. and as the new parliament deliberates, she is just a spectator looking on as the man who replaces her, does so having styled himself as a male miracle dominant came al, jazeera berlin, the top civil servants, the case. foreign office is admitted. he was on holiday for nearly all of the u. k . evacuation efforts from afghanistan. philip barton's admission came in a parliamentary hearing. utter whistleblower in the department described the evacuation as dysfunctional and chaotic. raphael marshal said $150000.00 africans who were at risk because of their links to british forces applied to be evacuated.

and he said less than 5 percent received assistance. and some who were left behind were killed soon after. re challenge monitored the hearing and said much of it focused on boston's holiday. he says, effectively apologizing that, you know, he's reflected on there several times. and if he could have his time again that he would have come back from holiday much sooner. he repeated this. so often his testimony that i think he got the members of because a committee got fatty fed up with it. and tom, to not say the chair of the committee said yeah, you're saying the so many times that it's that started the sounds a bit scripted and not very effective anymore. but yeah there's, there's been a statement released by the chair of the, of the committee in the aftermath of it's finishing. and he says that today's session left the committee concerned about the foreign office, his role in the evacuation effort, the evidence we've had today, points to

a lack of leadership edge and see an adequate resource thing. and it's deeply painful how badly we have. let africa stand down that's coming from the head of the foreign affairs select committee. israel has completed construction of a high tech, 65 kilometer underground war on its border with garza. is there any defense mister benny gannons visited part of the wall on tuesday. it extends on the ground to stop tunneling under the border, an attack method which blindsided israeli security forces during the conflict in 2014 project. taken 3 and a half years to complete and includes a naval barrier. and hundreds of cameras and fences must limit the lift as issue boy and only today with the completion of this project, which is mostly hidden. we deprive how massive one of the capabilities had tried to develop. and it places in the iron wall senses on concrete between the terror organization and the residence of israel, south. what this barrier will provide is ready citizens with

a sense of security. i'm going to enable this beautiful region to continue developing and flourishing. after 30 years, one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature has gone back on display in iraq. the small clay artifact known as the gilgamesh dream tablet, was stone during the 1st gulf war iraqis of welcome the u. s. initiative to return it. but say it doesn't make up for the countries past invasions, which they blame for decimating the ancient heritage. robin valley reports it's known as the good ganesh, dream tablets, an artifact made of play with an engraved fragment of the epic of ganesh. one of the world's oldest, no religious texts. it was stolen from an iraqi museum in 1991 and sent to the united states. now it's back along with the world's attention. in a ceremony, us embassy officials in bagdad handed the precious reading to your father. to note gilgamesh tablet is a clay tablet dating back more than 3500 years ago. it has to marian engravings on

it. our embassy in washington received it from the holy bible museum. the text on this tablet is 1000 years older than homer's poems. and tells the story of a legendary hero named gilgamesh who is said to have ruled mesopotamia some 2000 years before the christian era. he was elevated in subsequent su marian mythology as a god. in 1991 during the 1st gulf war, 9 of iraq's regional museums were looted up to 4000 items were stolen or destroyed, including some that were thousands of years old, like the good gamut tablet. it was bought by a us based christian arts and crafts retailer in 2014 for display in its museum of biblical artifacts. it was later seized by the u. s. department of justice. according to the u. s. cultural agency, eunice co, it entered the u. s. in 2007. got your 40 say they're happy to have it back. now,

i've been lo. this template is laden with deep symbolism and 2 respects its own intrinsic value and then, and what it means to retrieve it. with all the efforts that have been deployed by the government in this regard, it's a message to all those who smuggled our artifacts and oxen them. they should know that will end up retrieving what they had stolen. the rockies may appreciate the u . s. initiative to help return their last artifacts. but they also say america's invasion of iraq in 19912003, led to the biggest disasters for their nations ancient heritage. and estimated $15000.00 artifacts were looted from the baghdad museum and smuggled out of the country. iraqi say the u. s. bales. full responsibility for what happened and needs to do more to help them retrieve what they lost mohammed van r dizzier. still had this news, i was just when you're a sports news with flora indo. yes. plenty to get through after the

break, including the latest from the fee for arrow cab annual for champions league. we're coming to you live from our special studio in dough has stay with us. ah with

with a whole ah oh wow. a thanks for your company on al jazeera, you're watching our special coverage. the era cough here in dough. and doha has all the quarter final spots from now been secured. more on that in a moment. also coming up, the international olympic committee defend their handling of the punish ways situation. parasol, men find some much needed form hammering,

club rouge and the champion, believe also we brought action from the n, v as best curry edges closer the all time record for 3 points. the international olympic committee has rejected criticism over their handling of the punish way situation. the chinese tennis player has not been seen publicly for weeks after, alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a senior official and the chinese government. the c claim they've spoken upon via 2 video calls, but the footage has not been released. we can't give assurances and we don't know the full, the full facts. but you can see that we feel ticky with those 2 calls and the fact that we have agreed to meet her in person in china. so it's, in other words, it's a real full roadmap to to least attempt to, to keep in touch and to see where she is. everybody should be concentrating on the

world being open, try and not trying to use this for any other purpose. we believe we might be wrong, but that's that way. we believe the best way to keep her with being in the center of our fault. don't write it off the shelling diplomacy. you have very powerful tool and we plan to come to speak to the for the, for, for a, for many, many issues of that caliber of difficulty in the there was one last spot available for the arab quarter finals with jordan's saudi arabian palestine all with a chance so he'll got through our reported join, i guess raska has the details. morocco and jordan go through from group see into the quarter finals of the arab cup, jordan clenching the final quote to final thoughts as they b palestine here at stadium 97 full. and it was a much more convincing result than the seen from them. so far. in this tournament,

they went ahead from the penalty spot early in the 1st half and then doubled their advantage before palestine actually scored from a close range header just before the great. but as much as palestine pressed in the 2nd half, they couldn't find the breakthrough. and jordan went on to school, 3 quick goals in succession, to win 51 that's a lovely run through. is it a 2nd goal? it is for your van in the, of the game of the night morocco be saudi arabia, one mill, sending saudi arabia home. and that much was voluntary, redundant because rock heard already gone through as the when, as a group see. but morocco and jordan will have a tough, tough ahead of them in the quarter finals as they play to north african power houses in algeria and egypt. food qualified from grouping top spot to in that group was up for grabs when bitter why holds algeria and egypt

faced off, finished 11 with egypt finishing on top thanks to the fair play role, meaning they received less yellow cards during the group stage. let's take a look at both those goals and each squares it verbally. i'm not sure to do a b, a having a close. now, to have a loop. the monitor, it is a possible penalty to guy is the player that school. the goal for algeria has been saved in here

but here's the line up for the quarter finals, tennessee animal, and our 1st stop on friday. and later that night, host nation kept her face the way saturday egypt tackle jordan. and then it's morocco versus algeria. paris, st. ran have finished the group stage of the champions league in style, hammering, club rouge for one in paris, killeen and bob, a score twice in the opening, 7 minutes and in the process became the youngest player to reach 30 goals. and the competition. legal massey added to his own, his 1st was a trademark strike from outside the area. he, as she were already guaranteed, 2nd place in the group behind manchester city and the primary leak side suffered a to one last r b. leipzig. and nancy's night got worse when there defender coll, walker was sent off late in the match for kicking. and the, and the steph curry is now only $153.00 pointers away from breaking the all time record for mo, shots made beyond the arc. curry was in game winning form against the rolando magic,

the golden state warriors guard scored 31 point the warriors or top of the western conference with 20 winds for 24 games. hurry is on track, surpass ray allen is the and the all time leader for most free pointers in the regular season of former pakistan, cricket captain. and now prime minister emron con, has launched the country's largest ever sports drive. the aim is to encourage young people to compete and one of 12 sports at the highest level. a tory gaten b reports. pakistan is known for its love of cricket. but these students in the capital islamabad, aunt heading to a match. instead, they're making their way to gin stadium to watch one of pakistan's most famous school mac cricketers launch a $22000000.00 sports initiative aimed at young people. prime minister sharon con hopes it will inspire the next generation of spook stones. augustine, in pakistan as a country with 70 percent of the people below the age of 30,

we're aiming for pakistan to participate in all international sports was telling tom to help us find the very best people. the 1st phase of the project is a series of competitions to be held across pakistan. they'll be open to girls and boys who compete in one of 12 schools, including football, hockey, squash, and skiing. we are playing football game a day for him and i will especially thank him because even given 100 opportunity, possibly anyone age 11 to 25 can compete. it's estimated around 1000000 young people will take part in the selection process. students like for zanna, are excited about the initiative, but our diploma i do karate and there aren't many opportunities available. gern to international events or the olympics is only a dream,

but i am confident this sports drive will create opportunities for us. the prime minister acknowledges that pakistan musty more to develop its sports facilities and programs for this initiative to succeed. he says, new zealand, a country of 5000000 people has more school grounds than pakistan. a country of 220000000. but he says the government is committed to funding the sports facilities and training talent needed to help students like these reach their potential victoria gait and be al jazeera. okay, and matt is all your sport for now. it's now back to lauren in london. thank you very much indeed. and a great reminder that you can always catch up with all news and was fought on our website address that is our 0 dot com. and what to us live on there by clicking on the black live icon. a set for me learn tanif us usa, of in a moment with another 4 under state news like from the georgia.

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