al jazeera, a diverse range of stories from across the globe, from the perspective of a network, janice on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, so it's 10100 hours g m t here on al jazeera. hello, i'm come all santa maria. welcome to the news, allan, a former syrian official, a sentence to life in prison, charged with crimes against humanity, and will prosecute essays, the 1st conviction of its kind wold wives. also in the news, russian led forces begin withdrawing from catholic son after their deployment to help contain violent anti government protests in lebanon,

public transport operators go on strike blocking roads and demanding the government address, rising fuel prices and a d value currency. i'm kristen salumi and mayfield kentucky where one month after a deadly tornado. there is still a lot of cleaning up to you and his full nova joker, which has been included in the drawer for the 1st round of the australian open. but australia, governments is still deciding whether to revoke his visa for a 2nd time and throw him out of the country. ah. so we're going to start with some breaking news out of germany. the 1st ever conviction for crimes against humanity. for a former syrian government official, a german court has sentenced anwar osland to life in prison. he was head of an intelligence office in damascus detention center. prosecutors say that is where he oversaw the killing of 58 people and the torture of 4000 others. this was in

20112012 ross on trial began 2 years ago after he defected and sought asylum in germany with us from brussels to talk about us, eric vitti, who is a senior policy officer at the open society justice initiative. let's just talk about the verdict, 1st of all, the fact that and it sounds trite, but it does bring some level of accountability, or at least the start of some level of accountability. it does and for some victims of a systematic torture in bashar assad, syria. this will bring some measure of justice, some measure of solace. so let's go through the, the process of how this became a german trial. i mentioned before that he what was that, he defected and sought asylum in germany. he did, and germany has the ability to prosecute crimes that

are crimes against humanity and war crimes that happen outside of its territory under the principle of universal jurisdiction. it's called that a uniquely german 4, sorry to interrupt you as quickly. it's not uniquely german, but germany has really been leading the way in exercising, you know, universal jurisdiction. there have been other cases in france, sweden and another on such i talk to directly carry on with what you were saying. no. so the information came to the attention of the authorities on mars them was, was recognized by some of the victims of torture branch, 251 on where he led intelligence operations and really oversaw the regime of torture in that intelligence branch. and once that information was brought to the authorities, there was a tremendous effort by syrian activists and civil society to collect information

and bring that to prosecutors with the help of some international n g o z a. and this trial really validates those efforts over over several years now a to a to hold one a. well, really the most senior official today from the government of bizarre side a to, to account for the torture of over 4000 people and other others in the sites of the court as well. there are other complaints in germany and, and there are other cases in development in other countries and you know, for, for different crimes. and some of those cases also relate to the, the systematic torture in detention facilities. so some relate to chemical weapons

use ah, sexual violence and other crimes are good. he really appreciate your time today a fast moving a story, a breaking story. glad you could join us for that. thank you so much. until the news and russian lead forces have started withdrawing from kazakhstan following the worst unrest in decades. the pull out is that to be complete within 10 days, because like president cassim germany took i of asked for their help to quell the days of anti government protests. more than a 160 people were killed in nearly 10000 to 10 during those demonstrations in tbilisi, georgia is robin forest. a walker has been keeping an eye on this conflict since it started, it seemed to have for this deployment wrapped up very quickly robin, in fact, the pull out might take just as long as the the days of violence. did i come out? yes. it's been remarkably short deployment by this military force of

the collective security treaty organization. the moscow led me to military thought . this was the 1st deployment where they were actually going to do something that was actually read the wasn't about a training exercise. it had a genuine goal and that was to to secure security back in because it's done increasingly they didn't know it's in the end go into cities and participate in any of the so called terrorism cleanup operations. their, their role was to god infrastructure such as power stations, airports, military base and so forth. and there was a parade's, a symbolic ceremonial parade. how this morning and i understand that you spice and you to go out because he started,

the process will be completed within 10 days. and president took i of having said that, they played an enormously important psychological role. the purpose of this deployment, he said, so as anyone saying definitively, if i can use that word that this conflict is over, that, that the threat has passed i well, there have been a lot of eyebrow grades about terrorist tendency to carry out a 2 day top that was the justification for bringing the c s t o located in the 1st place because they not because they believe that the protestors were largely peaceful. there were groups that were criminal groups mixed in, but now we have 12012000 detentions yesterday.

the united nations, i keep running special ref would to compensate on this situation cuz it started, they raised real concerns about this. overly broad use of the terrorists to many people being hard with that definition among those people that are in detention journals as well. login. we ourselves to be reporting on people who are simply full confession about their involvement from 1st year walk is reporting from tbilisi on the vincent catholic sound. thank you robin. another penetrate potential flash point i should say, involving russia of a talk to diffuse the crisis in easton ukraine. these talks underway in vienna. they involve b, o, s. c, e, the organization for security and cooperation. in europe. largest permanent security council with both russia and the united states as members,

so dosage of barry in moscow following this one. we just for the last 3 days. now, those are we talking about russia holding talks with various groups. what are the hoping to get out of this one? well, we've been hearing at this security conference in vienna from the russian foreign minister who has been appointed chairman for this year. and this is the 1st time this organization's meeting. at the 1st meeting of 2022 and at the top of the agenda will be there. we'll be discussing the security situation in ukraine. according to the polish foreign minister, he said that the risk of war in always c area is now greater than any time in the last 30 years. so very strong words. he said that the, for the last few weeks we've been facing the prospect of major military escalation, eastern europe, of course, talking about the russian to build up along its border with ukraine. this is

something that is very much a concern to this organization. and of course, this is the 3rd meeting that is taking place this week about the security concerns the europeans have, and the united states about russia. ukraine relations at the 1st one was in geneva, monday, and then there was a meeting yesterday, brussels with nato. and then today in vienna, but we've just been hearing from the kremlin spokesperson, who has said, according to the kremlin, they've called this week of talks between russia and the west, quote unsuccessful. and that talks with the west show that disagreements on fundamental issues continue. and they also have the strong warning for the americans. they said that for the us to impose sanctions against russian president vladimir put and that would be comparable to severing ties. the criminal spokesperson also went on to say that they're not interested in process for the sake of process. there must be concrete results,

and that nato can't dictate to us where to deploy our own troops within our own territory. this is of course, the 1st we've heard about the talk set up an ongoing all week in various european cities. and we know that we're going to be hearing from russian foreign minister surgery la rob at his 1st press conference of 2022 on friday. so we're going to get more about where the russian position is, where the russian position is at the moment. but as it stands, it appears that the russians believe this week of talks have not been very fruitful . ok, you will have heard doseover children, urban forestry walker moment about the situation and catholics down the russian troops leaving the not to draw a direct line between these 2 facts falling involving russia. but on shore, those events will play on the why. the situation with russia insecurity i certainly, and i was just speaking to an analyst who said that the russian president vladimir

potent will be meeting with his defense minister later today who will brief him about how these forces have been doing in kaz, extend and their withdraw process, so he'll get his proper briefing later this afternoon. in terms of what this russia, lead peacekeeping troops have done so far in kazakhstan, according to analysts have spoken to here, they said that it's been very much a success for a lot of me reporting and one when even went so far as to say that because it sound president to kind of gave a real gift to putin by asking this organization to send in peacekeeping forces. because this is the 1st example of them actually carrying out a request and being operational since they came into being. and this is a specific example of how russia can use the fact that they're actually being more of a peacekeeping force in the region rather than a dominant, forceful one dosage of ari reporting from moscow on this news out. thank you. dosa,

coming up, 13 minutes passed this new. here's what the head, inflation in the united states that a 40 year high supply chain disruption score by the pandemic, pushed up prices by households and businesses. also the real estate joint ever grant 5. the demolition of dozens of building more property develop is in china, struggle to pay off debt to your sports news. and this referees watch play the starring role of the african nations and they will explain all of the light in okay, round the world with covert news now starting of india which has reported its highest number of cases since may of last year was 250000 of them in the last 24 hours following the global trend really of a sharp increase in micron infections. but hospital admissions and deaths are lower than in previous waves. 380 people died in the past. they compared to

a peak of bolton, 4000 last year. his poverty metal in w most of the country has been under some form of restriction for a while now. in fact, authorities, even suspended election rallies after a lot of criticism was appointed to was fat. but there are concerns about the religious gatherings that are taking place across the country. now, over the next few days, there are several festivals being celebrated across the country. many states have put a restriction on gatherings, but largely the numbers have been concerning, especially in the state of western gold that is expecting about half a 1000000 devotees. now that state has already become a major hotspot. capital city called cut that has the highest positivity rate in the country about 60 percent. what that means is that 2 out of 3 people testing for

the virus are turning out to be corbett. 19 positive. the other criticism has been towards the government's policies. and this mixed messaging, you know, couple of days ago, the government said that unless you a high risk people who have come in contact with coven 19 patients don't need to test. one of the top epidemiologist in the country said that, you know, on the con, variant of fueled corbett 19 is like a common court. not the government has clarified that that's not the case, but there has been some flip flopping and confusion which has encouraged people to lead down their god. busy over in pakistan, cases are also setting records. daily infections have hit a 4 month high. more than 3000 of the health system is under strain from the search caused by on the crone has come all harder reports from islamabad. largest on it, in the grape of the 5th wave of the corona wire. there have been 3000 cases in the

large 24 eyes. that guards is a dangerous sign because country positivity now stands at 6 point dreads, but then and according to the world health organization guidelines that mean that they should be more testing, they have been reported cases of people having contracted the omi cron radiad, most of them of course, have a home the advisory from the government, but it might not. again, i know reading the mod and also the standardized hand. but people are large and focused on are oblivious to the trait of the 5th grade. despite the government warning, the education miniature of the country will also be deciding today. where did it did now? to keep the educational institutions open, the government had won the people much take this very seriously. they called it and now the looming tread of their delta crohn,

which had to be reported in cyprus. and i had a ministry saying it was a matter of time before dad radiated also lounge on august on shore. and all the world health organization says more than 15000000 people contract and coven 19 in the past week, which is higher than at any period. and this pandemic. it's more than 50 percent up from the previous 7 days. and the w h o says the number of deaths is also rising. let's be clear. why and omi can cause less severe. this is done delta. it remains a dangerous bias, particularly for those who are and vaccinated almost $50000.00 dead. so weak is $50000.00 does too many we heard from tara. yeah, shot of it. here's a spoke session to the w h. i. and it says the fire still poses danger despite some level of progress they made to combat the outbreak. $50000.00 a week,

it's something that we can not just accept. so although. busy the, the number of data is not rising exponentially as a number of infections. we can see more people needing hospital care, and that's another burden to health systems around the world. we need really to close the gap in vaccination. 85 percent of people in africa has not been vaccinated. an army is particularly a dangerous will. people who are on vaccinated. we need to continue that and we need to try to reduce risk of infection and try to prevent hospitalisation. we understand very much the, all the difficulties that countries around the world are facing with the increasing number of actions. and we have to be also flexible. we can, for example, reduce the number number of days of, of clarity. if we combine that with testing, we can look into surveillance measures and how we can ease that. but control

measures really have to stay in place. we have to do everything we can to, to try to, to prevent people needing a hospital and people die. and that is basically on individual level, keep the behavior that reduce the tryst at on a country level, try to box. and they told us we had not been submitted yet. and on a global level, really try to get that. i've seen equity that will bring the scenes to those who have not been offered at that primary protection. yes. expect to live in and where public transport work is are on strike. because the countries struggles with its ongoing economic crisis drive as of blocked roads across the capital, bare route, angry, over increasing fuel prices in a shop devaluation of the currency. in fact, the lebanese pound is more than 15 percent of its value since the start of the year, which is what 13 days ago, the crisis caused by growing national debt and political deadlock of we go to barret zayna harder reportings dana, tell us about where you are what you're saying?

well as you can see, we are, and one of the main highways leading to bay route, the roads are blocked, public transport. employees are hoping that this time that protests action will pressure authorities to improve living conditions. it's not the 1st time they've taken to the streets, but the situation, the economic situation is only worth sending. many people are struggling to put food on the table. many cannot afford to pay for fuel because as you know, global fuel prices are increasing and the local currency is depreciating. that means it's very hard and difficult to find dollars. the dollar, the official exchange rate 2 years ago was $1500.00 leverage to the dollar. it's now trading at more than a 13000 and most people in 11 on earth in and lebanese lira. so people are struggling with this high inflation. many people can no longer afford

to use their cars, they can fill their cars with gas because filling their cars with gas will require more than the minimum wage and the public transport fees also have increased by 400 percent food inflation increased by 600 percent according to the united nations, so the economy continues to collapse that began to collapse 2 years ago. but politicians, the political class have done nothing really to mitigate the pac not provide any social security guarantees for the poor. and at the same time, they haven't presented any economic recovery plan. and in fact, the government has not met for 3 months now. and it needs to meet in order to deal with the international monetary fund to come up with a financial bailout package. so many believe that this protests action is not going to change much. ok then a quarter in barrett, i'm sure we'll be talking to you again later in the day. thank you. dana inflation in the united states. meanwhile, as hit levels not seen in 40 years with

a 7 percent increase on the previous year. the white house is blaming the global supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic. but other se, stimulus programs are the main reason for the rise in prices. mike, hannah has the support from washington, dc. prices for groceries rent another needed items continue to saw. the own as a small shops are particularly hard hit, as they see their customers beginning to treat what every day purchases as luxuries . you can see have the money flows you can seeing when people are not getting the extras when they're getting coffee trip coffee instead of capital. you can see it. you can see how they pay. they're paying in coins, be increased in prices, is now being felt at every gas station and in every grocery store. i just think for a little more careful, i notice it in almost every product. fruits vegetables, which we buy,

a lot of jelly products. i can't really see anywhere that the prices have gone down, but they've gone up bottlenecks in the supply chains of distributors all the primary reason. and these and turn, or the direct result of stopping shortages as a pandemic continues to rage worldwide. at the stage, though, the head of the federal reserve insists there's no need for panic. that this is a temporary situation. we will use our tools to support the economy and a strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. it's a similar message coming from the white house, which points to a dropping unemployment rate as evidence that economic recovery is underway and is adamant that the supply chain issue will be resolved. we are well positioned to attack the challenges of prices and cos had on, and that's exactly what the president i and this administration are doing. but

republicans continue to blame stimulus measures for overheating the economy. one thing is clear, it's impossible to predict the ongoing economic impact of the ami kron varian surge, which the nation continues to face. i don't believe we've seen that peak yet here in the united states. the rise in price increases reflect a harsh reality. that in the pandemic, it's not just people who get sick, but the economy as well. mike hanna auto 0, washington, still in the u. s. and last year was one of the most costly for whether disasters a string of unseasonal tornadoes across the midwest last month alone cause a $145000000000.00 worth of damage. learn. kristin salumi reports now from mayfield . kentucky. one of the hardest hit locations. the destruction stretches for miles house after house, business after business, even the county court house and mayfield kentucky is damage seemingly beyond repair

. the tornadoes that rip through the state and december, killing 77 people destroyed more than a 1000 structures. now the biggest challenge for us was trying to find a new place to live, you know, funding from place to rent, not possible. now if we want to stay in medical, i mean everything has gone clean up cruise however, are everywhere. with so much destruction cleanup is not going to be quicker easy. they estimate that it will take another 160000 truckloads to carry away all of the debris throughout the state. local volunteers have sprung into action. helping provide everything from clothing to toiletries while fema, the federal emergency management agency, doors out cash to those who qualify for emergency housing assistance of the $9500000.00 of him is dispersed so far, 2 families,

6800000 of that is for housing assistance that that is the 1st option for families to find a place to live in the interim while they're rebuilding and finding that, that permanent solution. the mayfield green company is among the many businesses that were destroyed, taking jobs with them. but duncan's pharmacy was able to reopen quickly and a new location were getting phone calls the day after the tornado. people calling, i apologize, not trying to be insensitive, i'm not a medicine. why do i do? the store has been part of may field for over 100 years and its current owner has no intention of leaving, or things used to be a certain way. they're not like that right now. just have patience and in love for each other and with time i think would be able to grow back maybe not like who are before, hopefully stronger, but what least be able to to rebuild, rebuild. they must, but it won't be easy. and the spring tornado season is just months away. kristen salumi al jazeera mayfield, kentucky. hey, in the news ahead,

we meet families in northwest nigeria forced from their homes off the villages were attacked. and morning loved ones killed in the violence bus in sports and bad news for plays hoping to have a big impact at next week's australian. ah hey there, here's your weather in a minute 15 and we're going to begin in europe. the southwest of france, 8 regions are under flood warnings and that comes after days of rain. so the rain has stopped for now, but we know it will take time for those water levels to come down. another spot, i think we may see some flooding is norway. few reasons for this. first high temperatures, also a high of 10 degrees. so that's melting the snow rapidly melting the snow. then it's steady stream of rain pouring into the country. in fact,

over the next 24 hours, we could see a $150.00 millimeters of rain off to the east or med rate. now a disturbance we've got there is throwing rain around cypress into the vance. we'll see bursts of rain forbade roots with the high 18 degrees and look at this and north went through the boss for a sets, putting a cap on temperatures and is sample just a high of 2 degrees breezy through the g and his wall athens. we've just got yen for 6 off to italy in the balkans right now, fairly calm but still are bore a wind for croatia. we'll look for gus there of a 165 kilometers per hour of 2 iberia in the clear as well. but a bit more cloud cover hanging around madrid with a hive. 8 degrees on the gulf of guinea. we've got some out of season showers. this is impacting actor a guinea and abby john the ivory coast with a hive 28 degrees on thursday. a frank assessments this crisis is continued to weaken a location even though they're cap cbd in the beginning that it was informed

opinions like the whole edition will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most types of things can come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, i think, right. it's a really simple question. let's give tommy a child wants inside story on now. jazeera ah ah ah.

ah ah, in the news i am here at al jazeera and these are the top stories of german court has sentence to form a syrian government officials to life in prison for crimes against humanity and water. offline was head of an intelligence office in damascus detention center. prosecutor say that's where he oversaw the killing of 58 people and the torture of full balance and transport workers in lebanon are on strike. with dr. is blocking roads across the country. they are angry about increasing fuel prices and shops evaluation of the currency. and russian forces have started drawing from catholics, don, following the worst unrest there in decades. that's a complete that pull out by the end of next week. more than 160 people were killed, maybe 10000 to 10 days of finally violence,

anti government protests. we're going to talk about this with richard sock ways, a professor of russian and european politics at the university of kent. nice to have you with us. profess that secretary state us, could you say anthony blink and said the other day about 4 days ago, if it, once you've got russians in your house, that can be quite difficult to get them out. and yet here they are leaving very quickly in your opinion, was this was this deployment always going to be a short one when it was going to depend on what kind of how the situation develop. reuben context on itself as you know. so the question foreign ministry made a rather severe battle to lincoln who said, look at your own house when you get us forces in decades to get them out. but the key point is that this deployment was very much a request to the next time the government, the president kind of and clearly he needed the force to stabilize his own internal situation. once that was stabilized,

once they understood that his own domestic forces would remain loyal, then the c s t o deployment was no longer needed. okay, so what russia get out of it in the end, is that another, i mean, obviously helping at the request of the governments of context on, but does it get some sort of, i don't know, showing how quickly it can mobilize the assist type is when it when it, when it wants to. absolutely. no, that's crucial important point it show number a number of things. first indeed sure is as it were, the major security provider to the james to the systems within its neighborhood bell are sent from august 2020 to 21. years or 2020 election. also, of course because x ton is a major, an important neighbor. huge border with russia. it also showed the importance of the c s t or the collective security teach organization as a security provider. earlier would have been invited in and to get this done

a few years ago, it took a few years to intervene. but on this occasion, given the importance of the stakes, it intervened and it left, so it shows it can work. okay, why the context, if you wouldn't mind, i would like to put this into context of what else is happening because they have been 3, lots of talks this week between russia and the us and nato. and now the o. c. a which the russians have said it's all been very disappointing and hasn't resolved any thing. how does all of us play together? russian troops on the ukrainian border as well? absolutely. so you're sure, of course there's a huge contin. it's looking to the east, the context also in these is the fall of ask, understand, last august, and the security concerns and central asia, of which cars extend his part, hence the speed with which you have in. but as you say on the western russia western front, the view of us is that the security tank lines are all negative,

that the old new russia. that's why earlier this year and again, this time, they have mobilized forces. when it, when you say, when people say it's on the boat is not quite the consist us and force is a 125 kilometers away. and at least $10000.00 forces have gone in. the stones isn't ready for an invasion. an invasion was never on the cards. the key point was to show, please listen to our security concerns. if you can join nato, o enhanced security relation bilateral security relation with us. then russia felt absolutely threatened 57 minutes missile flying time come ukrainian border to moscow. a no country would find that acceptable. the west is being remarkably abuse in not listening seriously and engaging with these russian concerns. these talk so good. it's a good sign of cost that finally that happening. richard talk was from the university of kent pleasure talking to you, so thank you. thank you. the british prime minister,

facing growing calls to resign despite apologizing for a party at his official residence during the height of the current of ours lockdown in 2020. the time the government had imposed strict measures confining millions of people to their homes and her simmons as our report. ah, horace johnson has never been under such pressure from his own party, the opposition of the people who elected him. he set out to try to defend himself. the key question, did he attend a party for around 40 guess in his back garden, that appears to have breached cove at restrictions? first, he tried to address the british people. i want to apologize. i know the rage. they feel with me or with the government i lead when they think that is done in street itself, the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules. and when i went into that garden, just after 6 on the 20th of may, 2020,

to thank proofs of stock before going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. with hindsight, i should have sent everyone back inside after months of deceit and deception. yeah . so pathetic spectacle of a man who's run out of road way. his defense, his defense, that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah, it is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the pretty. yeah. with the whole country was locked down. he was posting boozy policies in town, express. se, now going to take a decent thing and resign. johnson didn't say yes or no. i want to, i want to repeat that, i thought it was

a work event and apologizing again and telling opposition leader care stammer. he should wait for the results of an inquiry into revelations of several parties in downing street and whitehall. i regret very much that we did not do things differently or that evening stammer repeatedly rounded on johnson. the part is over prime minister. the only question is, will the british public kick him out, police party kick him out, or we'll take that decent thing and resign yet. and johnson's constituency in north west london, many who watched, wouldn't accept his apology. i'm angry. i just think he's a man and doesn't tight responsibility for what he's done. typical boy thought thing for it's to be expect. vega me is found to come back with with, with something about whether or not it's true or noise, but it's probably not true. this crisis is being called part again by the media.

johnson is trying to write it out. much rest though with outcome of the inquiry into downing street and whitehall parties and what the police do about the latest revelation. with more rest though, on whether the conservative party decides johnson is now a liability and has to go and through simmons al jazeera, let's pick up on that last point with nave. barker, who's in downing street sir to day the position of his own of bars. johnson's own party members, the conservative party that is key going forward. how can this potentially play out? it is key. i think the question many people in the u. k. are asking though, is, or should he resign? could he resign or critically will members of his own conservative parssi make his future untenable? force him to essentially step down kick, starting at a leadership race in the conservative party. we know that there is huge amounts of

public anger about sir. the attendance of boys, johnson, that this party that he claims he felt at the time was a, a working business meeting that just has fallen flat with the british public. and clearly the opposition parties, as we heard there in that report are enraged by boys johnson. we had kissed armour directly accusing boys. johnson of being a lawyer, something that the opposition labor leader has fallen short of doing should is though, whether the real threat comes from within the we know that a handful of conservative and piece of already come out urging the prime minister to do the honorable thing and resign the most senior of those being leader of the a scottish conservative party and other conservative m. p. described boss johnson as a dead man. walking, saying that though there are key members of his cabinet that are closing ranks that have urged the british people to focus on his success is over the past 700 days of

the pandemic in the quickness to, to get vaccines into people's arms. and that leads to be the way in which the british public we focus is their attention all boys. johnson's success is boy johnson. though the time being appears to be waiting for the results of this all important inquiries which may well worse and the situation for the prime minister. the steps that he takes next will be critical, knave banker in downing street. thank you. now nigeria has lifted it's been on twitter, the government blocked the social networking site 7 months ago after the company deleted a post by president mohammed harry. twitter argued the message threatened violence against secessionist. now as part of a deal to reinstate twitter, the social media joint as agreed to open a local office with us from a bridget, kabir adama, who's the managing director of beacon consulting, a security risk management and intelligence provider in nigeria. anamosa who

regents nice to have you with us. so at opening a local office, i mean at and how much of a, a concession that is from twitter. how is this whole thing sort of played out the back and forth a majority of 9 year and feeling. you know that the government with more interested in regulation or rather reducing devices to express themselves really? yes. if you and your ends, including myself, realize the need for some of you know, responsibility by the social media giant twitter in terms of like a present the year. but the question was, why did it have to take a shot and down on the platform do for government would require that type of a president and the country today is not general given,

especially among you who are very active on twitter and who have you in the past for several activities, not unfortunately during the summer months, which shot record able to use what? so this is what i was on and yet how popular it is. clearly it is. and so she, amongst young people, and generally when something's popular and it's used to mobilize, that's when governments decide they don't like it. i mean, i guess what's to stop all of this happening again. a someone with a very active in the que would be the new social media platforms, unfortunately have become a p where a lot of heat message and then it found a government really concerned about that. now in terms of future media penetration, nigeria,

the available to go through at about 202123 percent and it's growing by especially on mobile devices, broadband. busy is a very low rate and boot positive as well as negative mobilization takes place within that state among you population. the embracing of technology, a and several other technological platforms include payment platforms, has made a very, very favorable to you. now political mobile, i have to go, you know, we did a lot of them on several of the reason why the government listed this bar is because you're probably aware and you have a general election next year and the government and not been able to use the platform for mobilization and now and i did realize that, you know,

interested a platform as well today the given date on both sides of joining us from a project and i talking about the reinstatement of twitter in nigeria. thank you. thank you. 60 people are concerned dead following raids on villages by dumb in northern nigeria. search teams are looking for more bodies. these attacks come after government air strikes, targeted the hide outs of criminal gangs, and addresses travel tourism for a state. when the attacks have been happening. as dusk approaches these displaced women pound grades to prepare the meal, this families open kitchen is busy, which means its members will get to eat. but 10000 of others were fled. the violets of little food or shelter in nor muddle returns to our family. empty handed are 4

children will go hungry today. so when at our me as i like, there's nothing i can do about it. i have no options, but it breaks my heart to see them in such a situation. so members of our family are still missing more than the week after the massacres. there's been no contract, no demand for runs. they are presumed dead. their bodies have not been recovered. muhammad is yet to overcome his grief. he lost 4 children and 10 other relatives in the attacks. lovable bobby old, they showed no mercy women children. the elderly were knocked down, charter slaughter children were yanked off their mother's backs and thrown into fire. wonder all holmes and granaries were burnt down. some forested governor says the time for negotiations with the criminal gangs is over. some of them are pushing put a dialogue. the letters allow the cabinet to go on fust. do

delaware pushed? don't come up with genuine reconciliations that for now. why not do for eat? the conflictions and for i began this dispute over landed water resources between farmers and herders. but successive governments ignored the danger site. it's now spread to most part of the country with criminal gangs and even bull cora caching in thousands have been kidnapped for ransom, including school children, hundreds of whom are still being held by gunman. many villages, like these in nigeria, north are forced to make difficult choices, cooperating with criminal gangs, results in long prison terms. but helping security forces means death at the hands of the bandits for many poor vulnerable families. their reality is there isn't anywhere else to run to in december last year than our german government declared those responsible for the deadly attacks terrorists and says they're committing

more troops and equipment to end the bloodshed. oh, do i it is a sunday there, but that's little comfort for survivors of the massacres in the villages in nigeria, north was priority. now we survival while trying to find closure. our losses that don't seem to stop. edris al jazeera is on foot north west nigeria, the world health organization chief as accused ethiopians government of creating hel by blockading the northern tegra region. ted ross arden on gabriel seuss. who is from to guy himself called the blocking of food and medicine. an insult to

humanity. fighting between the government and local forces in that region has killed thousands and displaced millions. the situation is serious. nowhere in the world you would find a crisis like what you see in the northern part of europe. yeah. especially into gray. none. no, no, where in the world are we witnessing hell, like into guy? now the united nations says it needs nearly 4000000000 dollars this year to help the victims of civil war in yemen. the un estimates, 13000000 people are risk of starvation and it is calling on the iranian backed hoot, these and the saudi back to government, to negotiate an end to 7 years. the conflict between the 2 is starting on a challenging the military escalation. i described in this counter last month has

accelerated as the part is dumping down on military options. 7 years down the road of war. the prevailing belief of old war insides seems to be that things sufficient harm on the other will force them into submission. however, there is no sustainable long term solution to be found on the feed. therefore, i will continue to stress that warring parties can should, and indeed must talk even if they are not ready to put down their arms. in the news ahead, actually the sports news ahead, one of his main rivals says, no joke, vicious behavior is made fools of the other players. andy is here with your sport and alignment ah.

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ah no that joke of each day. not enough for 507. yes, it's still happening to happen of a joke which has been included in the drawer for the 1st round of the australian open australia government though, still deciding whether or not to revoke his visa for a 2nd time and throw him out of the country. we start with our number one seed for the tournament, novak jock of which jock rich, that being drawn against fellow my may kits, man of ich and round one of the year's 1st grand slam. the draw was delayed by more than an hour that hide some speculation that some sort of final decision on joke of which is immediate future was about to be made. australian immigration minister is still assessing the validity of joke of which is medical exemption from being

vaccinated. against coven, one thing. you have to be frank. the vast majority of australians said didn't like the id that another individual, whether they're a tennis player older than the spinal. the queen of england can come up he and have a different set of rules to what everybody else has to deal with. i agree with the rules, will not they believe i should abide by the rules, but our reports sarah clark has been following this story. spain is also now investigating whether jock of a chance at that country illegally in the days before his arrival in australia. 3 days after a federal court reinstated the visa, the world number one men's tennis player. the federal government is yet to make a ruling a whether or not no joke of it can stay in australia. the immigration. mr. alex hawk holds a discretionary power to cancel his visa and to put him from australia job. it continued his training in the rod laver arena ahead of next week's australian open . after initially delaying the draw ceremony tournament organize is named him top

seat even though his visa status is still in question. the immigration minister is now reviewing new evidence provided by dr. which the tennis champion has acknowledged that his travel declaration did contain false information after a member of his team take the wrong box study he had not traveled in the last 14 days prior to his arrival in australia. when he had travelling from serbia to spine . he also confirmed that he attended an event in his home country after he tested positive joke, which is now under investigation in spine. the government there is checking whether the unvaccinated player entered the country a legally, in light december. since september citizens from serbia, native vaccine certificate or special exemption to enter spanish territory authority site, i didn't receive a request. prime minister scott morrison declined to comment on the visa stash when after at a press conference in camp. rob, if the federal government does decide to deport novick doc,

which no doubt his lawyers will appeal astray and tournament begins on monday. but weldon, before, stephane cit, surpass isn't holding back with his opinion on the matter. he says, joker, which has put a grand slam tournaments at risk and has taken the majority of plays for fools. no one would have really thought, you know, i can, i can just come to australia and vaccinated and not having to follow the protocol that they gave me, which is just, it takes a lot of it takes a lot of bearing to do i thing and putting a ground slung, kind of a risk seems like not everyone on his playing and by the rules. a very small majority of, of that percentage chose to follow their own way, which kind of makes the rest. the story, the majority makes the majority look like i don't know,

like they're all fools or something. a one definitive decision that was made on thursday concerned proud sizes at the tournaments organize is saying the venue will be canceled. 50 percent capacity, june carbon 19 face masks will also be mandatory for all fans, except when eating, or drinking about news for play. he'd been looking in good format of the australian open. she knew his own bo 1st to foster its high hertz in her sydney tenant classic court. a final, a back injury brought an early in the world number 10, munchkins and conservation. she has also just recovered from about the curve at 19, but she is still set to compete. next week's grand slam and welcome complete chaos at the after a couple of nations in the game between she is here and molly on wednesday, molly were leading one know when the referee mistake in the blue for full time in the 86 minutes. the much did then restart on the for the rest event, once again in the game. before 90 minutes was up 20 minutes late to torment,

organize the game should be played to a conclusion. but by that point, the changing players had started. they were going to refuse to return the pitch, and molly were declared when his ah, unexpectedly muted scenes out of more insane use match against tournament debbie. since gambit. c failed attempts to play martinez national anthem left their prize looking less than impressed things, didn't get much better for the multiply started. a stunning strike coming up from i believe jello. an gambia, a maiden cup of nations, tree ivory coast about kinetic campaign, where the when as well, max, cradle, strike, them one know when i could. soil guinea, egypt, mohammed, sally, one of the store names competing on the cup of nations. some speculation about his future with liverpool, where his contract is expiring next year for the cool bossier club. however, not worried about the situation. i know,

but wants to stay. we want more to stay. that's why where we are. so and at these things take time. i cannot change, sorry. but it's i think it's all in a good place. nothing else to say. asked oliver pulls next opponents for the teams facing off in the lea cup. semi final lights are on this thursday live full arsenal . also have a number of plays taking part in the africa cup of nations. i always have hope when, when i play and when i'm competing for any choices. and they have a couple of players out there. we certainly have a low talent as well. is what it is and we're going to have to go there to try to win them as much because are going to put us in a better position for the 2nd one. i chelsea, i've already booked this spot in the final. i'm sunny root a guy scoring as they be suppose one. now on wednesday they advanced 3 now on aggregates. ok, but as i suppose looking for co thanks andy and he's back an annex news hour at

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