denise are making serious efforts in order to in p. i'm to solve to turn the with baby years maintenance, stormy stock. ah, $25.00 men accused of flossing the 2019 east. the bombings were turned to the court, and sher lanka, nearly telephone and 70 people were killed in the attack. ah, hello money inside. this is alexandra ly, from dough also coming up. we're doing the best we possibly can. top u. s. health officials faced tough questions at the senate as the country. it's a new record for cove at 19 hospital admissions. i think

escalades between all groups on the border between columbia and venezuela, we speak to the families displaced by the violence and the humble noodle becomes the latest korean trend to spread globally joining the popular k drama and capable of the trial for 25 men accused of masterminding, the east of bombing in sri lanka has been adjourned until march, nearly 270 people were killed in 2019. the defendants between them faced $23000.00 charges at the government is facing criticism for the investigation anal. fernandez reports delicia, fernando, her husband, anton, and their 3 children were attending easter sunday mass at st. anthony's church.

when a suicide bomber struck, now pulling the end of it with a long look. volero napoleon then, in a moment, later with a loud noise and fire, started raining down from the roof. i told my girls to head out, my son was thrown by the impact. he's the one who found my husband dead. a total of 7 suicide bombers struck 3 churches and 3 hotels, all within an hour. 270 people were killed and more than 500 injured. the government blamed an obscure local group, the national town. he demand. but many people don't accept that explanation of position in b. r in fernando is one of them. biggest question for me, or who benefited out of these. and why con the goldman, when we are, is christians on sir philander says vital information uncovered by both the parliamentary committee and residential commission has not been investigated. the catholic church has been scathing about the investigation. caught in

a malcolm runjun the archbishop of colombo as frequently criticize the slow place of the investigation and implied that people now in government may have been involved in the attacks government representatives and the police denied those allegations. they point out that hundreds of suspects have been detained. an indictment issued in a dozen cases, lawyers for some of them have told al jazeera that their clients had no involvement with the bombing. meanwhile, elisha and dozens like her. jason long wait for justice. now i know that i will cleared a globe back gardening at vanity, though neither i've told god only you can show me the way to secure a justice, because people keep exchanging allegations about who did us while the years go by. we can't live with peace of mind unless dating allegheny governs. they can only hope their brands are answered. now fernandez joins us live from slang

as capital colombo man. now what happened in court today? basically with the $25.00 men appearing of before this special court in factor, the proceedings have come to an end for the day. and you might just catch a glimpse of some of the suspects over my shoulder. ah, you can just see their back. so they have finished their case, they're just waiting for transport to be taken to the different a rebrand prisons that they've been brought from. now we had to some of the lawyers making appeals to court, or some of them said that they wanted to meet bill applications because obviously this is going to be a long trial. 23000 chargers. they said they wanted to submit applications for bill . however, they were told by judges that a bill applications by a number of those who wish to make them would be taken up at the next hearing, which has been fixed for the 3rd of march. but there were other things like there

was one lawyer who brought to the notice of the court that 4 men claiming to be local police from his crimes area, had gone into his glance how spoken to his mother, who was alone at the house at the time demanded to know who the council or lawyer that was representing her son was and how much he was being paid. he said this was out of order and shouldn't have been done. there are other sort of requests that had been made of the court for some of the prisoners to be given, put on some of them and had the court on to read while in bremond prison. but when they had been transferred around this hadn't been taken as well as the final thing, the translations of doors, indictments still not ready in the tammy language, which a majority of these suspects speak. and the government and the lawyers said by the next hearing, they would sure brought of be pretty sure that these charges would be made available. so they understand what they're being charged for it. i live now. the

catholic church has been highly critical of this entire investigation. why is that they have seen as of a rising frustrations with the weird this has progress. they say that the government, the investigators have not. oh, should have investigated or lions or are sort of inquiry that obvious things obvious connections, clues have not been pursued and they have actually raised questions as to why this is. there is a presidential commission of inquiry that was appointed, that basically handed over something like $22.00 volumes of proceedings. it's only the very 1st that has been formally sort of presented into the public. and everyone says that if you go through the doors rather not have evidence that has been presented, did raise a lot of questions which haven't been inquired into,

which is what we see the 25 men, some of whom you again see behind me. these are just some of the people that have been accused with aiding and abetting. and the church says there are very high profile figures. there is even sort of allegations of military intelligence knew of the mastermind and had indeed he'd been on their payroll as an informant. of course the government has denied it. so these are reasons that the catholic church is very, very critical and said that more must be done to ensure that justice is served. okay, thank you for that. update. michelle fernandez there for us in colombo. good. he was president joe biden has defended his administration's response to a surge. and on the cong cases, more people are now in hospital, a coven, 19 than ever before. and infections a hitting an average of 3 quarters of a 1000000 a day,

a u. s. senate committee has question federal officials on how they've handled the approach. the pandemic particle haine has the latest on the situation and call them another new coded record in the us. more than 145000 people hospitalized with the virus. still u. s. president joe biden is sounding optimistic on top of that. we're on the right track, back pulled, show much of the country, disagree. one problem casting. this is boston and here in missouri long lines to get a test and results are taking longer to come back. everywhere we've been, it's been a lot like this is we're testing looks like in most of the country, the other option at home tests. but they are expensive and really hard to find. same with masks, the government says i'm a crohn means everyone needs better masks. if you can find and afford them, so some local government, you have begun giving en route. i was just going to get the mask. i can't find

anyone and was like, ok, let me vibes just sold, spencer. oh, take 2 or 3 weeks they did on at this senate hearing the focus was supposed to be on how to make it all better. but it often got contentious with republicans launching personal attacks on the nation's chief cobit adviser, who says he is receiving death threats because of it. so i ask myself, what, why would sen want to do this? so go to rand, pull website, and you see fire doctor found you with a little box that says contribute here. you can do 5 dollars, 10 dollars, 20 dollars, a $100.00. so you are making a catastrophic epidemic. so your political gain. so here's the problem, case numbers are extremely high, but hospitalizations usually follow those by about 3 weeks. and hospitals are already stretched this one several times as i did simply tell ambulance drivers don't come here,

we're just quite out of beds. the bind administration says they're ramping up the production of medicines, math test, but those are weeks maybe months away. and the situation is getting worse by the day. and after saying it wouldn't be needed. authorities admit they are working on a vaccine for the amazon variant. and working on others that could work on the next variant that comes after that. i'm a crown isn't likely not to be the last curve ball. this virus throws in us nearly 2 years on. and once again, hospitals are stretched, lives are being lost and every day, new size that life is far from returning to normal. paddling al jazeera, maryland home and half of the population of europe will have caught the omicron variance within the next 6 to 8 weeks. that is the warning from the world health organization. it's aging governments to prioritize vaccinations, including booster shots. 7000000 new european cases of on the corner were detected

in the 1st week of january alone. it is quickly becoming the dominant virus in western europe. and this no spreading into the balkans at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation for posts that more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with on the ground. in the next 6 to 8 weeks. north gray is claiming the successful launch of another hypersonic missile state media release images of the leader kim jong own. observing the 2nd launch this week, hypersonic missiles can more easily avoid detection and interception than ballistic . once kim said his new year aim was to improve, north korea's defences to ethiopian our an asteroid has reportedly killed at least 17 people in the gray region. dozens of others were wounded in the

southern town of may. the berry follows an attack on friday, in which at least $56.00 people were killed in a camp for displaced people. the government has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in the 14 month conflict. malcolm webb is in narbey. he says, ethiopia has been increasing its use of our power. the pin federal government, air power is widely seen as something that turn the tables in this conflict in recent month, the conflict began just over a year ago. now just a few months ago, the t p l f and allies were advancing towards the capital, addis ababa than last month. the government successfully fought them back in a lot of observe as a tribute to drones that the government has recently bought a combat. drones, which is certainly proved effective militarily. but the death of civilians in the asteroid is at the same time attracting, growing citizens from the international community. us president joe biden spoke

yesterday with a pin prime minister abbey. i made the statement from the state department said at a biden, was critical about the strikes. also expressed concerns about the human rights situation in ethiopia, including the very many people have been detained under the state of emergency. people have been detained for long periods without trial in large numbers that bite and did say that he was pleased with the recent release of political prisoners, but certainly with released vertical printed on one hand. but then it continuing conflict were even escalating conflict in the case of the civilians being caught up in the strike. on the other hand, that's gonna certainly leave a lot of people thinking that these extensive mediation efforts maybe aren't necessarily bringing this conflict any close to close. fill ahead on al jazeera president announced the eminent withdrawal rush of lead forces, as well as

a raft of political and social reform to decide to defend our lectures and to defend our democracy. us president pushes to change some rules as he rallied updating reform. ah now when to in most of europe is turned no, watch the quite quiet from any temperature bit below the average of the european plain most declared north and south and some of it wrapping rad a storm system. this one in particular. so there's the big picture that we still got with the atlantic is not as close it could be in the british isles, or indeed scandinavia. that's where the rain or snow will fall. mainly it's going to be in norway. so this suffering sometimes from morning fog temperature bit below

the average, but sunshine is predominant for the most part. now there is scenario, particularly cold air in ukraine, just gone through into western russia. that's heading slowly. sas to the black seattle effect the higher ground in turkey. which isn't helpful because it's this area which is going to be the most stormy. by wednesday, the central storage, the suddenly cheered more or less, which means you normally breeze increasing the code is, you know, being sto to the mountains of this pop turkey and particularly in the east. and the whole system is going to carry on on thursday. then spread south into syria and lebanon, for example, was beirut being particularly sherry bigger picture though into north africa. apart from the wind in this part is quiet and quite hot for some especially nigeria. ah frank assessments, this crisis is continued to weaken

a location even though perhaps he believes in the beginning. that informed opinions i think will additions, will now be under incredible pressure from the young people that he's one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think they should be facilitated? not okay. great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel just once. inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, ah. oh, come back, you're watching out to sara. reminder, our top story is this. our trial of 25 man accused of masterminding shore lancaster . easter bombing has been adjourned until march. nearly 2 option 70 people were

killed in 2019. the defendants faced $23000.00 charges north korea's claiming the successful launch of another hypersonic miss south state media released images of leader kim jong and observing the 2nd launch. this week, you as president joe biden has defended his administration's response to a surgeon on the con cases. more people are now in hospital with coven 19 than ever before. an infections, a hitting an average of 3 quarters of a 1000000 a day. president biden says the united states is asked a turning point on voting rights. he's urged the senate to pass legislation to protect the right to vote on fisher reports from atlanta in georgia before this important speech to bite and took time to pay tribute to civil rights. i caught, he stopped at martin luther king's grave site. a man who fought for rights. the president no believes are at risk. ah,

since the election that carried him to the white house lighting states have changed the rules about voting and a touch on the people says joe biden, at a touch on democracy for the right to vote. that that vote crowd is democracy sh threshold liberty without it but it is possible, but worth it. anything is possible. while the denial of fair and fair elections is on democratic, it is not unprecedented. he made the speech in georgia, one of the places where the laws have changed. it cut the number of drop boxes, made it harder to ask for a meal and vote even made it illegal to hand water to people waiting in line to vote. joe biden wants to change the rules in the senate to push legislation through against republican opposition, but he knows 2 senators from his own party. are dead set against that idea. he threw down this challenge. well, you stand against voters suppression?

yes or no, that's the question will answer. what do you stand a lie against elections aversion? yes or no. we stand for democracy. yes or no. there is one thing, every senator, every american should remember. history has never been kind to those of sided with voter to oppression over voters rights. joe biden route to election victory with the overwhelming support of black voters in many experts believe that's who would be most disadvantaged by the change in the legislation. advocates who support a national law didn't attend. we believe joe biden should be in washington getting things done. not here, talking about getting things done. this is york hardy, mister president. these are your soldiers. you need to find a way to get them in line because we delivered or you to lee is party and now you need to leave this party. oh, my god, congratulations,

mr. ha joe biden. like every president had an ambitious agenda when he took office . he hasn't spent a lot of time on voting rights. this speech signals, it's no a priority. supporters of had the words. no, they want results. i'll and fisher al jazeera, atlanta, georgia to taca. it is a political strategist. she says voting reforms and vital in expanding access to the pulse. i thought today the president of the united states and the vice president of the united states and a very strong message to the american people, to the united states senate. that was a very clear message that democracy is before us and that we have a choice. are you going to be on the side of the martin luther king junior and get a better side of george wallace? and it was clear that he outlined a case for voting rights. why it was so important for us to pass the federal legislation, the freedom to vote at and john lewis voting rights act,

that it was imperative that congress needed to do it now. and he also laid out a pathway that we needed to adjust the filibuster in order to make way for there to be a focus on this issue. any also made it very clear that adjusting the full buster heads taking place before with the debt ceiling. and there is no reason why i should not happen again for us to deal with a fundamental right in our country, which is democracy. at least 30 people have been killed since the start of this year in fighting on the border between columbia and venezuela. the colombian government says rebel l n 5 is a battling, a dissident group of former fall rebels was on the ram. pnc reports from boca, for the 2nd time in less than a year. colombian store owner, height organ miss, and his family had to flee, escalating violence between arm groups. last march, they left venezuela for columbia alco region. they're now here in the capitol of

searching for help and shelter. and ben, it's got a small sewing venezuela, and at times we sold things to talk dissident that was enough to be targeted as supporters. when the killing started last week, the brother of a commander arrived and told us you have 2 options. you can come with that, meaning become part of the guerrilla forces, while you're going to have to leave because the l m. u. d lane is columbia, the largest remaining rebel group, after the fark made peace with the government in 2016. but they sit in factions of the fire car since appeared, and in recent weeks violence in the lawless region along the border with venezuela's been growing. some 30 people have been killed since the beginning of the year, while others have been kidnapped or forcibly recruited or displaced. i think that the not so beer in the population. many people fear that the region is going back to the the call that they live in and then

between the land and the far back then and the human impact has been really, really to be. the violence has reached a new level since a long standing truth between the arm groups broke down. the last word between the den 5 rebels in the last less of a 1000 people that and displaced almost 60000, the colombian government and now blames have been a swell for the current violence. accusing the venezuelan government of sheltering the on groups in their territory. something the government in kodak has denied people from towns along the border, a take him to the streets, demanding peace. colombian president, divan duke as deploying 2 battalions to regain control of the region. but some experts believe more troops won't solve the problem. and then i'll call you in order make awfully, a rica still has a huge unresolved conflict,

and people have no confidence in the state. it already has the highest amount of soldiers per square meter in columbia, sending $600.00 more trips will not make a difference. what's needed is to restart patient negotiations with the l in that ok. and until the troubling that alca can be contained, the humanitarian crisis will only continue to grow spreading here to the capital and beyond. allison and purity and jesse will gotta conflicts downs, president cuts him. joe took a f, has announced the withdrawal a russian lead forces. they will leave within the next 10 days, following the worst on west the in decades. focus has also appointed a new government and taken aim at all the gods linked to former liter north fulton, not by robin for she walker this report. the people who looted this almighty shopping all knew, no one was coming to stop them. not only did they steal new shoes, they had time to leave their old ones behind. what the store arona estimates damage

. is it over a $100000.00? most call him a quick check it out from the guys who did the looting, mostly men. right. but they still took all the launcher, right. everything's gone. so, so what, let's just get on tuesday the president took, i've did not say how he would help business recover from an estimated $57000000.00 in losses. but he did promise social, economic and political reforms, and strikingly a crack down on the countries all the galks who must pay into a new national fund. what are they happy about? thanks to the 1st president passed a group of very profitable companies and a lot of people, even by international standards have appeared in the country. i believe that it's time to pay tribute to the people of catholics dawn and help them systematically and regularly relatives, the former president, northville 10. as a bias,

have amassed fabulous wealth and taking it abroad. it's estimated that his daughter and son in law own properties in london alone worth over $350000000.00. slightly more than half of natural wealth is held off shore is probably a reasonable estimate. so you're talking about more than half of all the well from the country is outside the scrutiny of the government. and therefore, if the owners of that wealth decide not to participate in the new national firm, then that wealth will not participate in the national front. there's nothing the government can do about that. took, i have says foreign troops will leave within 10 days. he seems confident he no longer needs the moscow backed military force to hold on to power from the prime minister down that loyal deputies of being appointed, vicky issued to what extent you will be able to repair the columbia to pick it out of this corrupted her creaming law, all you gotta keep typo full full fooling. and 2nd, me how he will be able to do the re distribute the wealth or make to narrow the

social gaps and socially what it is soviet injustice if you will be able to the so this is the best way of healing. there's much healing to do widespread damage to both the private and public sectors. more than a 160 people have died, thousands injured. this is a traumatized nation, hoping the nasa by era is drawing to a close. but wary of what comes next. from in 1st year walker al jazeera sells for its aid, has become the latest export from the country to see a rise in popularity. its sediment music industry have already swept the globe. but now the pandemic is pushing sails off korean instant noodles, especially in the west for a bed of manly as the struggle in the street market. and so all these spicy rum, your noodles pack, a punch, a stable,

the south koreans. they're now winning over palate for round the world. since the pandemic demand for oodles of the spicy noodles have food leading south korean manufacturer. a non shim says a pandemic helped to spearhead a k food wave in america, canada, and europe. and that expanded noodle cells by 24 percent last year over 2019. ah, the noodles has become a latest trend and a growing western appetite for all things south korean that including cape hot k drama, and k movies. non shem sales went up after the oscar winning film parasite presented a made up dish. could jeff glory using its product? korean brown. some young rahman, full sales, reached new highs. alternate with youth in the popular netflix show with game

and caper band btn pushed international sales of monday or dumplings by 90 percent of the team members got into a fight kogler food, a korean wave. how you play a huge role in the popularity of korea noodles and things like b t. s like the world wide sensation b t s. and just seeing rahman in korean drama has played a huge role. people see it and they see that it's not just something that we eat out of convenience or something that broke college students. it. they see that it's something that people really enjoy. the humble in the new door isn't new to american society. it's the main se in prisons as much as it is on the students plate. but south korean foodies claim their brands taste better and say there's only one way to eat it. that brings out that spicy flavor. i think it goes to the

satisfaction of eating the noodles when you hear a good slope or who is the western has gone on korean food and culture where they also take up this experience widely shared on social media who are about manly algebra. ah, this is al jazeera, these are your top stories. the trial of 25 men accused of master mining sher lancaster. easter bombing has been adjourned until march. nearly 270 people were killed in 2019. the suspects faced 23000 charges between them, but al fernandez has the latest from colombo, almost half of them when the trial started a few weeks ago, did not have any legal representation. this, this lot sort of is drawn from all walks of life there.