horace programs that open your eyes to an alternative. d. i then have kalashnikov, i have my voice on al jazeera. ah, nigerian government blames arm groups the killing 200 people in days of reprisal attacks in the northwest as am far a state. ah . hello and welcome. i'm pete, adobe. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up tensions in iraq's parliaments as the newly elected members meet for their 1st session and agree on a speaker. china orders mass testing from millions of people as ami chrome cases

are detected nearby, ging, just weeks before the winter olympics and let the games begin. the african cup of nations football tournament gets underway in cameroon, overshadowed by concerns about cobit 19 ah, gunman in nigeria being blamed for killing at least 200 people in the north west people returning to their damaged villages. the attacks were retaliation after airstrikes on the attack. as high doubts, mass burials had been held in a state of zam flora after hundreds of gunman on motor bikes reportedly attacked. 8 villages on tuesday, that followed airstrikes on monday, which the military said killed. 100 bandits including 2 of their leaders, dozens of hostages were rescued on tuesday after being abducted by armed groups 2 months ago acquired address as the latest from

a boucher. this happen because of the days of intense bombardment of binded high doubts in the zone for a stage and other neighboring states. remember this conflicts taught it more than about a decade ago, and we haven't seen increased military activity until the last 3 years when the president ordered that the military be deployed to tackle what was been a growing threat. and since then, it has little forced into a monster that to d. today we've been massacres. wash than this before in zone for a state we've seen recently, about 40 travelers were burned to live in a bus, an attack blamed on this bended. so right now, what's happening in the 10 villages typed by the banded school, the president said, what are treating from these strikes? what carried out in 10 villages? so the villagers are actually not going back to the villages. some of these villages have been completely destroyed them med of mine in school hearts and

things like that. they're only going back now to recover buddies as 24 hours ago, 100 more than 150 such bodies had been recovered. some of them have been burned or mutilated on recognition. so at the moment what is happening is that we are expected to see more burials. and as the recovery effort continues in the 1st stage, security analysts, kitty adama says, has been difficult for the government forces to capture the bandits because they occupy remote areas. now you have a centralized instrument, unfortunately, got some vulnerabilities where i'd be very local level. now in this instance, this cream, you know, i've been hired in or is that part of the state what, what you call them. and unfortunately, you think you get the picture that exist in and you don't have any special arrangement for this ongoing basis. and i think in summary, that is why the challenge of that, but it's not. that is 11 major issue,

the inability of the criminal justice system to address offences like this. what beyond that they are, could you fix your cultural issues in both the, on the title of the a lady extraction, be complain about the existence of the united states that have been targeted, killing their women, and all the factors beyond the collection of runs them is not merely criminal, there are a governance issue. there are climate change issues that are also involved in more people. if your issue that require you know, the same multiplicity of solutions. it won't be just the criminal side that look at getting up for us on several other issues like the one they mentioned. they're actually a parliament has maps the 1st time since general elections there 3 months ago,

a short time ago they voted to elect mohamed how to see as the new speaker. earlier in the session, there was an altercation and the eldest member of parliament had to be taken to hospital much up to what had is there after the hustle that happened? the heated argument between a members affiliated with love to the southern whose block the southwest movement won, the majority of seats on the one hand and those who belong to that. what is so called here? the coordination framework, which includes the pro erin, shia political parties. the conflict happened over who has the majority of seat, who has the biggest block in the parliament because by virtue of the iraqi constitution, in this session, the biggest majority of the parliament should be identified should be named, so that it will later be assigned with forming the government, now,

what happened is that the coordination framework, which includes the up she a political party which are affiliated to iran, that last many seats in the election, they submitted a list of 88 members claiming that they have the biggest to block. then they were confronted by the pro solder members and then the heated argument started tension was rising. and then the temporary speaker, ma'am, would that much had any who was in the middle of that tension. he was later taken to the hospital because at some sort of say he fainted. other say he was literally beaten by the bruce other members. now currently another speaker, temporary speaker, is running the session and they're now running the procedures of selecting, electing. in fact, a new speaker and 2 deputies to the bottom, it to sit on the web security forces. if i t,

a gas into crowds protesting against the military government, earlier bridges were closed around the capital cartoon to keep demonstrators away. the main pro democracy group has rejected un efforts to get stand transition to civilian rule back on track mohammed vol has more from cut him jackass has been used in the center called tom against thousands of for testers who march to words of presidential balis a try to reach the building, but they couldn't, as usual, they wealth water pushed back by heavy presence of security forces using tear gas here in under man. well i stand the crowd is just picking up. i'm trying to match was the presidential pollies planned to march to worth central cartoon, but not takes crossing the bridges, which are understandably closed. the security forces are lying in wait. c in big numbers and what happens every time they try to march is heavy use of tear gas and sometimes 5 bullets people get killed here on demand or not. has been the case over

the last couple of weeks and today, i mean everyone here saying they are expecting the same to happen. but as you can see, they are adamant to these for testers that they would not go back home until they realised their gold, which is a complete removal of the military from power. we have heard about us not in the city by the un yesterday, but they haven't yet to deliver the details of so many players. yet, many of the stakeholders are saying they have not yet received the details, but also they, i'm not going to negotiate with the military. and here i'm talking about that assistance committee is far behind these protests and also about the movement. all the forces of freedom a change. they have made it categorically clear that they're not going to negotiate with the military or so the up sedans, doctors, associations to dance professionals, associations, or they have the same united states to words, this initiative by the you and to resolve the problem to them. and the u. s.

secretary of state antony blinkin has said any order to shoot to kill, protest us and cast on should be removed. $164.00 people have died during several days of violent antique government protests there. because act president cassim drama took high f or thrice security forces to talk it protested to restore order. robin christie walker has the latest from tbilisi in georgia. we were waiting, unfortunately for the body count to rise because based on the scale of the fighting in the violence and shooting heavy machine gun fire explosions that went on for hours and hours during the 5th and 6th of january. the numbers surely had to rise, and so now we have that unpleasant statistic of 100. 64 people dead, according to the health ministry over a 100 of them in marty, where the worst of the violence was in among those killed marquis sadly to children

. the children's rights commissioner, cuz it's don confirming that one of them was an 11 year old child and to add to that the so called on to terrorism operation is continuing across the country. and we have confirmation now of a more than 5100 people currently in detention. so a very big operation now going on with the cast government attempting to take back control of the situation. press penny up is a correspondence covering central asia for radio free europe. he says rushes allegiances within the catholic political elite may now have shifted. the fact that they had the president, the guy had to call in foreign forces, is going to be seen as a sign of weakness. but certainly by the color people in one can sort of understand that he wanted to free up his own security forces to put down what he says is

essentially terrorist attacks on the attempted to, which is fairly ridiculous. there's definitely 2 different groups that work most, most of whom are peaceful for protesters, but he did call in russian troops. so the interesting thing about this is that the collective security through the organization that russia lead has never actually deployed troops in any of its members state when there's been unrest than there has been. been some number stake. its charter says it's not supposed to interfere unless the state space and external threat, which took i of provided by calling these terrorist international terrorists and suggesting that they were trained outside the country. you know, the fact that russia approved that so quickly was extremely interesting. because they never had no russia and 7000 kilometer long border. so this is a little bit different situation for russia. they don't want instability and all that stuff. but the fact that they did send troops, the unprecedented 1st time this happened, can be seen as a sign that the kremlin is now back into kind of not another bio faction, although,

you know, for years food said another bio was one of his best friends. but it seems pretty obvious at this moment that they're bagging to kind of in this current power struggle still to come here on al jazeera ah controversial celebration. bosnian served to fire court, been to mock state to day stoking ethnic tensions and intensifying the push for succession, a rerun election, and the venezuelan stated very thus becomes a battlefield between government and opposition candidates. ah oh, hello there. good to see here is your weather report, beginning in the middle east. energy we have over the east or med is now starting

to slam into the levant. it's slumping toward the south and the east. we could get into some pretty good downpours in between a mecca in medina, in western saudi. now i'll put this the day forward on tuesday because we'll see that risk of showers pivot further toward the east. this could include re add, but i think it's gonna stay dry for places like bahrain and cats are. so has got a high of $23.00 degrees, much quieter weather pattern across both southern areas of pakistan toward the north. is wall karachi, a $23.00 degrees, a steady stream of rain over the eastern med and that's funneling in to southern parts of turkey, with the soggy forecasts for on talia with the high of 14 degrees. we've got a belts of heat across the areas of africa, so we looked toward heart tomb over into juba. bungie lagossi into a boucher boucher, in fact, at 37 degrees could set a new temperature record for january further toward the south. the risk of some severe thunderstorms around the suit you durbin, break down into the eastern cave. as we looked toward the west,

it's common cape town, $23.00 degrees, and sunny. once again in vin, talk with a high of 32 on monday. that's it. that's all we'll see again soon. ah, ah frank assessments this gracious or you continue to weaken luca, even though perhaps he believes in the beginning that people expect for informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most of the things that come out of these critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not choke it, right? it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a child. wants that inside story. on al jazeera lou.

ah, it's just approaching caught past the are, these are your top stories. the nigerian government says the death toll from attacks in the northwest has risen to at least 200 armed bandits attacked villages ins. i'm far estate following asked ranks by the military on their hides. her mother had a short time ago iraq's new parliament voted to elect mohammed al, how do see as the new speaker? earlier in the session, there was an altercation when the eldest member of parliament had to be taken to hospital. security forces ensued on her fight, tear gas into crowds, protesting against the military government. earlier bridges were closed around the capital cartoon to deter demonstrators. with

cove at 19 testing has now begun for 14000000 people in a city in china, doctor's report, at least 2 new infections of the army, kron variant and tan, jin. it's a few hours drive from bay ging where the winter games the olympics are due to start next month. the new cases have emerged despite the government so called 0 cope. it strategy. katrina, you is in beijing with more. the main problem for chinese authorities is it's book cemetery to beijing. it's only about 3 hours drive away ill, one hour by high speed rail. there is a loss of frequent commuting between the 2 cities and aging authorities are on high alert that anxious to make sure that there is no outbreak in the capital before the beginning of the wage in winter olympics on february the 4th. so as i mentioned, change residents have been ordered not to leave their homes until they are tested and then they cannot leave their city unless absolutely necessary. those who work and aging the work from harm and all of those in aging who have traveled to the affected areas in change in recent weeks,

must begin home quarantine. now this outbreak that we know so far with these 2 confirmed on the con cases, the 1st locally transmitted cases of the on the con, variance have been centered around a school community. and this is really going to test china's 0 tolerance approach to curve at 19. they're already about 14000000 people in china under severe lockdown in the provinces of sun sheet in hearne and province. and these infections are continuing to spread to other areas as well. now this is really going to be a test of china as current locked down policy, that mass testing reactions here. and we're going to have to see whether this on the kron varied is going to spread here. what is concerning to authority so far is that they have not nailed down the origin of the virus when it comes to these cases and tinge and india is reporting nearly 160000 cubic 19 cases a day for highest and 7 months. several states have imposed near restrictions,

including curfews and suspending political rallies, puffy, motel reports from new delhi, usually bustling wood shop markets in new delhi, emptied as a weekend counties started. most of the capital shut down as the number of daily cold life union structure least 7 months high. the new clubs followed the imposing a nice view, as well as closing schools jims and cinemas a few weeks ago. i'm more scared of the log down because we can't leave a whole lot of students like me recently graduated, it's been very difficult to get a job with people who have recently lost the job are also looking for jobs, but in vain. it's very frustrating. as infection serge nationwide, other states have talking restrictions or not to go in sudden india is imposing a coffee for the next 2 weekends and sunday locked downs. are planned in some a lot more harass job, which is in the hardest hit state will have

a night caufield schools and colleges have already been close for a month as have gyms and so long cases have been doubling every $2.00 to $3.00 days . such a rapid surgeon could, nevada has concerning. people are getting infected even when to come in contact with patient for a short time. in a further effort to stop the infection spread election organizers have suspended rallies and restricted public meetings as well as door to door campaigns. for a week, hundreds of millions of indians are due to vote and state elections next month. and mass gatherings like these have been heavily criticized for violating cobra, 1900 protocols. and in fact, even for the 2nd wave, i don't think it was locked down that prevented infections on the country. it was the mass gatherings that actually exacerbated the infections. so you don't need to have locked down, is need to not have mass gatherings. the government has tightened rules for international arrivals. they now have to quarantine at home for

a week that follows hundreds of passengers from italy testing positive at an airport in northern india, with relatively few versions of hospitals, particularly among the north lated. the vaccination drive is being increased for total jobs crossing one and a half 1000000000 this week on top of that health care workers, and those above 60 with underlying health solutions will start getting the booster shots on monday. partly with al jazeera, you daily, and the u. k education minister says producing the period of isolation, people who test positive recovered 19 from seventy's to 5 would ease staff shortages as well. micron spreads businesses, schools and hospitals are struggling to find enough workers. it would certainly help mitigate some of the pressures on earth schools on critical workforce at ubs. but i would actually be driven by the advice from the experts,

the scientists on whether we should move to 5 days from 7 days. otherwise, what you don't want is obviously a crate or the wrong outcome by higher levels of infection. demonstrators in the belgian capital, the calling renewed, covered 19 measures on democratic they marched in brussels to protest. the governments push for inoculations which some call vaccine dictatorship. belgium requires people to show a cobra certificate to enter places such as bombs, restaurants, and attend cultural events. of the health minister is pushing for tighter measures . mexico has approved the emergency use of a cubic 19 anti viral pill clinical trial show mon appear via reduces hospital admissions and deaths. by 30 percent, the mexican president says another treatment called pax, livid, will also be available soon. the u. s. approved both treatments last month. 300000 mexicans have so far died following covert infections. protest as in ukraine or on

the streets of the capital to denounce the russian and american security talks that are due to be held later on sunday. brushes. rule that making any concessions that talks with the us diplomats due to meet in geneva to discuss moscow's true build up on the border with ukraine. washington has threatened sanctions if russia invades the us secretary of state antony blinkin, says russia, we'll have to choose between dialogue and confrontation. we're going to listen to their concerns. they'll listen to our concerns and we'll see if there are grounds for progress, but to make actual progress. it's very hard to see that happening when there's an ongoing escalation. when russia has a gun to the head of ukraine, with a 100000 troops near its borders, the possibility of doubling that on very short order. so if we're seeing the escalation, if we're seeing a reduction tensions that is the kind of environment in which we could make real progress. and again, address concerns. reasonable concerns on both sides. on was a bosnian serbs in republic, a serb sca have to fight

a court ban to celebrate what they call state hood day. it comes at a time of heightened tensions about secession plans. from bosnia, the bosnian serb leader millard thought it was among senior officials who attended a military parade. he faces us sanctions. after calling for separation from the rest of bosnia herzegovina, liliana's milan, it shows more from benya luca, in bosnia. while this a day, albert public, a sort of scar, is a dispute for many years, the hearing bars in her sabina but decisions of the constitutional court to bosnia herzegovina are clear ripple because of sky is entitled to celebrate the day of april because of sky. just not on the january, the 9th. so there is a dispute about the date because for serbs here in this part of bosnia, herzegovina, 9th, january of 1992 is a date when at hipaa lucas of scar, herb started to exist. and that is something sacred than important for them or

something that, as they say, ah, guarantees a liberty for them and a best conditions to live in bosnia herzegovina. on the other hand, for bash next living in this part of bosnia herzegovina, the same date means something completely different. the start of the war, horrors that they endured in the public. a subscribe during the ninety's and layer on war crimes and genocide and southern usa. so there is a lot of dispute about that, but this year it's even worse because we've been in a serious political crisis for over many months. and we keep a listening to me, laura, daddy who is saying that if bosner has given or is not functioning in accordance with the constitution of the country, he will begin the process of declaring a republic, a sub scott as an independent state. and he also announces that he would a, bring back some levels of authority from bosnia herzegovina,

terrible because of so which means that he would again form the army of the public a subscribe. and that he would completely control the tax system and the traditional re and his wayland voting for a 2nd time in 2 months to choose the governor of the rena states at the latest battle ground between the opposition and the government of president nicholas madura, his ruling socialist party has controlled the home state of madura is predecessor lucca chavez for more than 20 years, sundays rerun is the result of a disputed election in november through the bo has more on what's at stake? yeah, it's the home a former associate, he's president award. charlie's a place of enormous value for the government of nicola mother. that's why who here? yes. how? what one's venezuela? foreign minister is hoping to become the new governor of readiness. i came here. we

are making a commitment together because we are going to govern together, right? we're going to govern together. you can't leave me alone. we're not going to walk away anymore. we're not going to disconnect from the people ever again. get them to be out of. yes. accused a copy of the sort of independence he will see mom while you are and brought the power of the state to help him went on sunday. during last november's local elections in which the governing party won in most states voters in but he never showed ample support for the opposition candidates. so venezuela, supreme court, we true actively disqualified him and called for a new election after an apparent defeat of the governing party's candidate, chavis' brother at his chavez. now both parties have elected new candidates that he is hoping to become the 1st governor of but enough in more than 20 years, who does not bear the chavis last name. this is

a massive demonstration from the people of for enough. and we're going to win january the 9th, in spite of the differences we have, the government has all the resources of the state money resources coming from drug trafficking. even we have the people and with the people who are in us, we are going to win january the 9th. be assured, this would be the case. god is with us. for the election in november. when wanting toi, by the european union, for the 1st time in 15 years, your position ran divided and was unable to defeat the governing socialist party, most states. but in but enough, the situation with different people. the government was desperate to gain some credibility internationally to try to get the reduction of some sanctions to be able to sit and be able to maneuver in some crucial offices internationally. but they still went ahead and dismissed the past election in burying us in spite of it all. it could become an inflection on whether elections or way out of the current crisis in the country. venezuela have been struggling with

a devastating economic crisis that has affected every aspect of their lives. this sunday voters embody enough will test once again the country's electoral system. the results will show whether the ballard will help them in the fight for change. they will alessio africa. festival of football has kicked off in cameroon, but it's been overshadowed by coded 19. the africa cup of nations was postponed from last year because of the panoramic fans attending the match. she must meet strict restrictions before entering stadiums. $515.00 offensive players tested positive 24 hours before their game, but their coach is demanding follow up tests. nicholas hark has more now from decker incentive go. some of the european teams had told the organizers that if there weren't the sufficient measures in place to prevent the spread of cobra, then they wouldn't sent their players. that didn't happen. they're all they're on

the ground right now. but according to what happened for burkina faso, dave launch an official formal letter of complaint to african, the, the, the african and confederation of african football. and in that letter they, at denounced at the double standard. the aston villa striker bethel highway said there was a double standard in the way that they were to. we didn't that other players were treated. they were woken up late last night at 10 o'clock to get it to be given. anti gent tests and 5 players tested positive not to blow to this team. so they've been all to an official complaint. they're denouncing it a double standard. they wish that they had given out p c r test to the players. now that's for the players. there's also the, a test happening on the ground for those are participating. you're watching the gauges, the, those that are making their way to the stadium. so there are anti 10 tests, p c, r test. and also vaccines offered to those that attend the games. remember,

out the african continent has the lowest rate of vaccination at the moment. and while at cameroon, yesterday just announced that there was only $280.00 cases of coven, that is, according to health act experts. just the tip of the iceberg. there's a real fear that this event could, could a further spread, the coping varied. alma kron in, cameroon, and beyond. ah, this is al jazeera, these, all the top stories, the nigerian government says the death toll from attacks on the northwest has risen to at least 200 abandoned. so tank villages of the state of sam farro following as strikes by the military on their height ups augment address is in a pu joe. what's happening is ah, search and recovery effort about 2048 hours since the attack.