of the city and now said you doing away with the curfew. that was supposed to get everybody off the street. it's international perspective with the human touch zooming way in. and then pulling back out again. ah ah, reports that peacekeepers from a russia lead security allowance alliance will be sent that got conflicts down to help? well, be escalating unrest there. ah, lo and barbara sarah, this is al jazeera life london, also coming up after hours the pain that melbourne airport, the world's number one men's tennis player, nova jacob ich, as his visa cancelled and is told to leave australia countries around the world.

said new records for covert cases here in the u. k. an estimated one and 20 people were infected. last week. president macaroni calls is up for in france over his choice of words as he loses patience with the young vaccinate. ah, peacekeeping forces could soon be sent into kazakhstan to bring under control the worst unrest. the country is seen in more than a decade. protest her as i have seized the airport on a 2 week state of emergency has been declared. because like president, the costume drama back a year has appealed to a russia lead security alliance for help. and there are reports that it has agreed to send in troops for a limited period. copy lopez, the young reports. ah, it seems like leaves or rear in classics. them,

hotels had promoted in several cities outreach over an increase in fuel prices have spread across the country. while inclusions have food, particularly in the largest city, comedy with reports of a fire and gunshots heard, or the mayor's office were demonstrators trying to storm the building earlier in the week, ah, would begin as protests against fuel prices has turned into a wider coat for government accountability, i think his protests already started and killed by energy prices really are about the anger of the catholic people about their government. being wrapped in decades at school, about a government that has created a lot of wealth or small population and serve its own interests. but the vast majority of population haven't seen lucy, acknowledge that the cost of liquid fi, petroleum gas,

or l p g, which is widely used as car fuel, more than double to $0.28 a leader when the government lit the price camps. but i'm it political pressure, the government of the oil, which countries are the price would go back to $0.11 a leader in monkeys. dow, in the west and another provinces faced with a minimum wage of less than a $100.00 a month. protesters say the increase is unacceptable. as exxon's president sacked his cabinet and appointed a new acting prime minister, now he's calling for the unrest to stone. resume but go outside room when he calls to attack, civilian and military offices are completely illegal and it is a crime and that will be punished. pow wow. will not full. what we need is not conflict, but mutual trust and dialogue. am your conflict the government has argued l. the subsidies are unsustainable in the long term. but it's planning phase or price capital for 3 years is being fiercely resisted. the central asian country,

long known in the region where the political stability now faces widespread on rest . can see a little bit of a young elders here. william courtney is a former us ambassador to cause expanding, joins us now via skype from washington d. c. survey. thank you so much for joining us. we fact reports in the past hour, the peacekeeping forces so called would soon be sent in to context on to try to control some of the rest there. the local that the president of because extent has asked for them, had asked for them before from a russia lead security alliance. what do you make of that move? the unrest cause is so widespread ad, really as a result of a genuine popular uprising. i believe russia would be very reluctant to get involved in a large scale way and it would take time for rushing for us to be prepared to come

because a lot of things could change and this message came from armenia. so from your understanding is that where would the forces come in from an also peacekeeping forces could mean all sorts of things that do we have any idea of what this would actually mean. so a passing leader of armenia is just phenomenal. head of the collective security treaty organization, c s t o, it really has no power. this is a russian lad, russian dominated organizations. the real decisions will be made in the criminal and the criminal will have to think hard about this a decade ago. decline to get involved in a much smaller scale activity. and curious to be surprised of very been russian forces would be willing to come into a situation and forgive me for interrupting you. but if they don't intend to actually sending peacekeeping forces, why would they make this announcement? now all russia criminal test to make traveling

announcements fairly. busy often, most recently, of course, against the ukraine, also against dollars. so this is not unexpected, but to divert troops into a very uncertain situation will be difficult for russia. it will be interesting to see what reaction there is within kaz, extend itself to this news and whether it does quell or some of the unrest in any way for the moment. will the courtney former us ambassador to expand or thank you work. ah, that was number one men's tennis player, another shocker, which is to be deported from australia, hours after arriving in melbourne for the australian open joke of ha that his visa revoked by the syrian government because of his coven 19 vaccination status. his lawyers immediately appealed the decision shock of which had been given

a special exemption to play in the open and defend his title. but the search was stopped as soon as he landed in melbourne. i was earlier, the streaming prime minister scott morrison had warned that the port taishan was a possibility if he's not vaccinated, he must provide acceptable proof that he cannot be back tonight if for medical reasons and to be able to access the same travel arrangements is fully back to that of travelers. so we are white, he is presentation and what evidence he provides to support that. if that evidence is sufficient, then he won't be treated any different to anyone else and he'll be on the next flight, not. so there should be no special rules than that which at all. sarah clark joins us live now from a fairly, as sunshine coast by skype and sarah, good to see you. it does seem a bit incredible. you think that they could have sorted this out before he actually got on the flight? what more do we actually know about what happened?

we should re twist in a saga that looks like it's got a few more twists as the day goes on in australia. and so the, a huge development over not. and you would see that he really brought the right or plot to the right basic needs to be the problem that he's at the airport in melbourne by police on arrival. this was like last night and it seems that he seems the positivity the wrong that he's trying beautiful to release the stipend in the last a few minutes, stating that he failed to meet the requirements. and then as a result, he has been provoked when he gets that i got martha comments that teach afflicted back to the victorian government of course the victorian government. and he's trying tennis authorities which authorised, he's probably exemptions out the vaccination in the 1st place. but certainly everyone is commenting on if it's leading the need to register. imagine the victorian government says it will not support the be that he's applied to enter a study when the he's also noted that he will appeal this

decision at the serbian communist as a person that i should say has also white in the, in the port to docket, which he's pointing and said that the whole of serbia is with him and working to see this harassment and maltreatment come to an end. so this is an ongoing saga. the father job which is also said other players would support the pool came together on the street if the pitcher is not resolved. busy so we haven't heard the end of this on thursday, right? yeah, no, we definitely have an answer. we're having some glitches with your connection, but let's just persevere for, for a little bit because i'm curious as to what the reaction has been there in australia. i know it's relatively early in the morning, but when it comes to both the exemption and now the visa being cancelled as a being seen as a you know, the rules apply to everyone kind of scenario. well, there was widespread ango, blin out too bad, but he was coming to australia on

a travel exemption without vaccination. of course, you have to remember that mobile, which is the host city for the strong you, i've been, they've been in the longest. humans have locked down in the world and we've got to the moment to record number of daily cases as a result of the lighting bearing on the console, allowing a tennis class special kind of treatment, which is what he's been accused of. to enter a country that's battling a lot downs and, and the spike in infections of like had really angered the people accusing the federal government of giving him special treatments. and certainly some people were talking about boycotting the strain open as a result. so widespread, i got, and no doubt they'll be support for his revoking of his visa, but we expect more reaction throughout the day. sarah clark, thank you. and we have had a one updated newsletter on this story. just coming in, the australian prime minister says on the joke of which a visa cancellation rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders that just coming in now from the australian

prime minister on the fact that norfolk chocolate which has ad his visa canceled well, speaking of kobe, the argentine now strangely, the netherlands, sweden, there among the latest countries to report record numbers of covey cases, and the united states has registered another 869000 daily cove infections as disruptions to school slides, hospital care, and other services continued the latest figure follows date on tuesday that revealed more than 1000000 cases in a 24 hour period, although this was likely inflated by the new year holiday. the us centers for disease control says the 7th, the average of new cases is up 98 percent on last week. we should not be complacent. since the increased transmissible city of varian may be of alma kron might be overwritten by the sheer volume of the number of cases that may be reduced

severity, but could still stress our hospital system. now and fisher has more now from the white house. the experts told us from the new year from thanksgiving all the way up to christmas and new year, we would see a search early in 2022. and that's exactly what's happening. and of course, the big problem is that it's impacting a lot more people. so health systems that were relying on core workers to treat the ill no find that those co workers also have to isolate or are being affected by covert. it's happening to police is happening in transport. remember on christmas eve, we talked about how flights were being canceled that still happening in the same sort of numbers. simply because airlines either don't have the flight staff to do it. or we don't have the support staff on the ground to help those planes and transports impacted as well. montgomery county, which is not far away from you. it's north of washington dc. it's a school district there. the didn't have enough bus drivers to man. all the buses

today and we're seeing problems to in school districts, take chicago thought biggest school district and the whole of the united states close to day. simply because the teachers say they won't work until they get some sort of assurances and guarantees about testing about making sure that they are safe, that their pupils are safe and their pupils. families are safe, as well as a problem to were testing the bite in white house didn't order enough tests and time the joe biden and his team say americans will be able to start going online and getting those tests in a couple of weeks for many that simply not good enough, and that's why we're seeing lines of several hours of people waiting to get a test before they go back to work or before they start spending time with others. this is not the situation that joe biden wanted, particularly as he said, just a couple of weeks ago. they have the tools to deal with a micron. well, their li infections in the u. k. also remain high with more than 194000 detected on

wednesday, it's estimated 3700000 people across the country were infected in the week ending december 31st. but prime minister boys johnson still insists the current measures are sufficient to control the virus that the baba has one. well, there's no hiding the extent to which covered 19, and particularly the on the con variant, is continuing to spread rapidly throughout the population. last week is estimated that one in 20 people in the u. k. had covered 19 and it was one in 10 here in the capital. and that's adding a pressure to various sectors, including education, including the us, fire, a service in many cities and to including the health services, of course. now that's something that boys johnson referenced in parliament on wednesday. and he said that there was a worrying rise in cases among the elderly and vulnerable population would and which would increase the pressures on the national health service. but he said that

the government is sticking to what it caused plan b. that's advice on face coverings and advice on working from home, not the time. he says to introduce greater measures, but he did admit that there had been pressure on the testing system. and now the government is getting rid of certain requirements, but thanks to the sheer size of the on the con wave, we still need to take steps to ensure artistic capacity reaches those who need it most. so we will be suspending the need to a pc arc to confirm the result of a positive level flow test from next tuesday in england. if you test positive on the natural flow device, you should just record that result on gov dot u k. and begin, so facility, we're the, we're tough questions in parliament from the labor opposition over the testing system. and why in it's were to become a shambles in recent weeks with so many people around britain unable to get lateral

flow tests, or in fact p c r t s. robert johnson said that the government was now working to ensure that key workers would get tests where and when they needed them. he also mentioned the ongoing booster campaign, 3rd doses of vaccinations which he said was one of the best in europe. of france. meanwhile, has reported another record high with about 332000 new cases and the most recent 24 hour reporting period present to manuel micron is facing criticism. meanwhile, after delivering a deliberately provocative warning to unvaccinated people, natasha butler reports from paris flexible. so there was an uproar in france, his parliament as emmanuel macros, comments some strong language about on vaccinated people, became public, some opposition and peace boot the health minister. while others described the french president's words as vulgar. before a debate on the government's proposed vaccine pass was abruptly suspended. the la

going up is all deploy renews. we asked for the presence of the prime minister because the words of the president of the republic or worthy, responsible, contemptuous unapproved very premeditated. this is the reality of the situation. one conflict, so saw it was the reports of good in the parisian newspaper, macro said that on facts, native people were irresponsible as for the unvaccinated, i really want to piss them off. he said, we have to tell them, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant. you will no longer be able to go for coffee. you will no longer be able to go to the theater. you will no longer be able to go to the cinema. france's recorded record numbers of new coded infections in recent days. fueled by the delta, an omicron variance doctor say most kind of it patients in intensive care, unvaccinated. the french government says vaccination is the best way out of the pandemic. although 90 percent of the population are immunized,

the government's targeting those yet to receive a job. 3 months before the french presidential election might quote, risks alienating some voters brought to support to say he's taking a calculated risk betting on the majority of french people agreeing with them because they fed off of restrictions and want to see an end to the co. the crisis center tradition, the french voters don't like aggressiveness, intellectual campaigns, a bubble from a sitting president. so micron took a raise, but it was an assumed risk because this interview was re read and approved by the laissez. it wasn't a gap or an error of communication. it was intentional. he sent a message that the campaign will happened with a certain rhythm and tone for the micro has yet to declare his candidacy for the presidential race. but he is widely expected to run his victory in 2017 was partly due to the image he projected as a straight talker who didn't shy away from control the sea and was afraid to break

with tradition. but whether it will be a winning formula this time around is uncertain. natasha butler, al jazeera paris, come in this half hour. the events of january 6th did expose critical departmental failures and deficiencies us. capitol police chief opens up to a senate committee a year on from the storming of the seat of the united states government. and canada takes another big step in its attempt to make amends for the decades of abuse suffering by the indigenous children. ah hello there. we have severe storms in heavy rain affecting southeastern parts of australia at the moment we have got as circulation as tropical cyclone seth that's

drawing you some moisture towards new south wales joining up with this. so where the system here, this oper, trough and to where the to a meeting with st. some really big down pool. so there will be some heavy showers, long spells of re particular crosser eastern parts of victoria. as we go through where thursday more heavy showers. there and to that east, the side of new south wales, through where a c t further showers in the forecast then for the test match. instead me the given english will do well to we're to lose this one. we are going to see further showers, longest bells of rain over the next couple of days across that southeast corner of australia. there is actually a flood risk across parts of the sidney basin. and that way we're still drapes its way all the way up to was the gold coast and beyond for the showers to around the cape york peninsula. very strong. when setting in for friday, just around the tasman straight just around the bass straight for new zealand. on the other hand it looks fine and dry over the next couple of days. some very pleasant weather coming through here. far to try to for much of japan. for the time

being i'm phoebe have got more snow in the forecast over the next couple of days. setting in, ah, a mineral central to the quest for clean energy. a key ingredient for the production of electric car batteries, cobalt extracting it is dangerous, but profitable with global demand set to skyrocket. people empower, investigates, claims that industrial mines extracting the precious material, needed for cleaner energy, are in fact, poisoning the environment with dire health consequences for those living in their shadow. the cost of cobalt people empower on m. j 0. lou.

ah, reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera armine as prime minister says, of russia lead alliance of ex soviet states will send peacekeeping forces to kazakstan to bring under control the worse than the rest, the country seat. in more than a decade, protesters have seized the airport and a 2 week state of emergency has been declared. the world's number one men's tennis player. novak good job is to be deported from australia hours after arriving in melbourne. fully australian open joke, which is at his visa revoked friday, australian government because of his cobit 19 vaccination status. his lawyers immediately appealed to the decision and australia, italy, and argentina are among the countries registering record numbers of new cobit cases . the volume of people testing positive is causing disruption in schools and increasing pressure. and hospitals ex, though,

are not increasing significantly on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the storming of the us capitol, the new head of the capitol hill police force has told congress his team is dramatically improved and ready to protect them. j thomas mania was a retired police chief in maryland when the assault occurred and was hired to refashion to departments so that he could withstand future attacks. john henderson has more from washington d. c. if the attack on the u. s. capital were to happen again today thomas bangor says the newly revamped force could hold the mob at bay. we didn't have the people, we didn't act on the intelligence and we just weren't prepared the way we should have been. and that, that's going to change that has changed and, and the next time that we're tested, we will not be making those same mistakes. the inspector general for the force that

protects the u. s. capital complex found that during the january 6 2021 assault, one year ago, officers had ignored intelligence warnings that writers might attack the seat of government. and when they did offices were numbered. outmaneuvered in illinois equipped and while i'm proud of our officers, the events of january 6th did expose critical departmental failures and deficiencies with operational planning, intelligence, staffing, training, and equipment. um anger, outsider brought in to overhaul the camp or to lease told the senate rules committee. he's addressed 90 of a $103.00 recommendations made by the inspector general, though it could take 3 years to hire the $447.00 additional officers. it needs across the u. s. federal agents in nearly every state are continuing to track down the estimated 2500 writers involved in the attacks. they're using 14000 hours of video from reporters surveillance cameras and police body cameras. so far more than

$700.00 people have been charged. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6 perpetrators at any level accountable under law retired general russell, honor a who let a house review the failures of the police on january 6th told us the force was simply unprepared. it was a total failure government that be said, the law officers and the d. c. police saved out democracy. but somehow, the trial defense department where he had ripped out the qualified people and put his old operators in their father way, not to send the national guard when they could have been there early. we've got to get government straight. president biden is expected to address the attack on its anniversary. he will forcibly push back on the lie spread by the former president, an attempt to mislead the american people and his own supporters as well as

distract from his role. and what happens that turns the tables on the last president who sent the mob to capitol hill in his speech, the perpetuated ally that he not fight and actually won the 2020 election. john henderson, al jazeera washington, at least 13 people, including 7 children, have been killed in a fire at an apartment building in the u. s. city of philadelphia. a people managed to escape the early morning blaze. the fire department says several smoke detectors inside the housing block failed to go off. it's believed that 26 people lived in the building, which is owned by the government funded philadelphia housing authority. nearly a 100 hostages, including women and children, have been rescued in northwest nigeria more than 2 months after they were captured by bandits. among the 97 fried hostages were 19 babies, and more than a dozen children they had been abducted from their homes and long highways. in

remote communities in some farah and neighboring so called the state police say they were rescued, enjoined security operations targeting the camps of armed groups that have been terrorizing the region. the u. s. has imposed sanctions on bosnian serb leader miller ad that dodie. it accuses him of corrupt activities that threaten to destabilize the region and undermine a peace accord. the treasury department also alleges that though dick has used his position to accumulate wealth to grasp and bribery balls near, has been facing its biggest political crisis since the war. busy in the 1990 s, as though they threatens that separation of serv dominated areas from canada has taken another significant step in its attempts to make amends for the decades of abuse suffered by its indigenous people. the government says it will pay more than $30000000000.00 in compensation to those who were taken from their families as children and put into state care. so the vance reports from vancouver.

this is history making in canada, a press conference to announce a milestone in addressing miss treatment and discrimination against 1st nations families. i'm very pleased to announce that canada and the parties have agreed to significant agreements and principal one that provides fair and equitable compensation to 1st nations children and families harmed by discriminatory under funding. and the other addressing the long term term or form that's needed for the 1st nations child and family services program. it's been almost 15 years since canada as human rights tribunal, ruled child and family services had discriminated against 1st nations children leaving hundreds of 1000 suffering trauma and spiraling into poverty. billions in compensation in an agreement, in principle and still for those affected. it is mostly an important step forward.

we have a long way to go to address the poverty in our nations. and no amount of money will ever be the right amount, nor will it bring back a childhood last. but today is about acknowledgements about being seen and heard children taken from their families and put into a system under funded and ill equipped to deliver the basics of life, led to generational trauma, harm and loss. this milestone announcement cannot turn back the clock, but if solidified by the deadline, will build the framework. the agreement, in principle we assigned today will support 1st nations children so that they can have the same opportunities to grow up with their families and communities thriving through their cultures and languages. as a next step in a difficult one, canada and the parties will negotiate a final settlement agreement which will map out how compensation will flow to 1st nations, children and families will establish a framework for long term funding to improve services for children and families.

the parties have until march 31st to finalize the agreement. jody vance al jazeera, vancouver, and finally, a blue fin tuna has sold for about a $145000.00 at a new year, tuna auction held by tokyo's largest fish market. the to know weighed $211.00 kilos and it was caught in the waters off the northern japan mori prefecture. it was sold to a sushi rest awe . and now the top stories on al jazeera armenian prime minister says, a russia lead security alliance will, said peacekeeping forces to catholics on the help bring on the control, the worse than rest. the country is seen in more than a decade. protest. there's a c z air.