families left like this. the water is highly contaminated. we're living in the cloud risk in it all on al jazeera. ah, a so case of the best documentary films from across the network. on out as era. ah, a former serene official was sentenced to life in prison, charged with crimes against humanity. what prosecutors say is the 1st conviction of its kind world wise, ah, another, i'm hello my, he did this is al jazeera life from dough home. also coming up, declaring mission accomplished,

russian lead forces begin withdrawing from kazakhstan after their deployments to help contain violence. antique government protests, as long as we have tons of millions of people who will knock your racks, new, we're going to have 4 hospitals. you as president recruits the military to help the hospitals deal with the record number of covert thank seen hospitalizations and renewed calls for people to get vaccinated and public transport operators in lebanon. go on strike blocking routes and demanding the government to dress, rising fuel prices, and a deval. he's currency. ah, it's a verdict that's being called a landmark leap towards justice. a german court has convicted former syrian official anwar roslyn, of crimes against humanity. the sentenced him to life in prison. ruslan was head of an intelligence office in

a damascus detention center. prosecutors say he or were saw the killing of 58 people, and the torture of 4000 others from 2011 to 2012. his trial began 2 years ago after he defects it and sought asylum in germany. dominic cane that has the details from berlin, the list of crimes. but this, this theory, the defendant was accused of, was very long, very extensive. and it took in murder, sexual offences, torture old mamma, of particularly heinous crimes. this man has now been found guilty of and it refers to his time back at the start of the syrian civil war when he was working as a colonel. so that is the high ranking office in the security forces of president bush. and it refers to specifically to the time when this man unwashed rash line was working and had responsibility for this unit in the ad hoc. and,

and the evidence against him was very considerable or makes a significant is the importance of this position ruslan held in the security forces. all present tried to somebody at the office being brought books to justice and the fact that it's happened in germany. that's the thing that matters here. also this involved victims who will not german, a perpetrator who was not german offences that did not take place in germany. and yet the gentle forties argued plays lead that view that universal jurisdiction allowed them chance to bring before the court and mission. and it's worth saying that the court said over its life sentence against them, they don't want to be released under any circumstances for at least 15 years. sit on police say a senior military official has been killed, showing protests and cartoon security forces frontier against the 1st protested in

the castle, sciences 6 in the streets against the funds. the country in successful deadlock reports is multiple injuries testers won't military leaders and return to civilian governments. muhammad vol has more form cartoon. the 2nd of the killing are not clear to the statement that was issued by, by the police department, was only like, you know, an announcement of his death and condolences to his family. the only detail they mentioned was that she was who was doing his duty in for, in protecting the protective for that's the only amount of details we have received from the police so far and also the reactions. i'm not just clear on the part of the professors that comes with trying to reach the, the systems committees, but they're not picking up the phones. so as i said, it's very unclear so far,

some of his colleagues, some of the police officers themselves, they said that the brigadier who had killed his name was the bremer. mad. and that he was killed near the presidential police in confrontations with protest as wild police and security forces were trying to push them back as they fly to march. that was the presidential policy, and that he was sub twice by a knife or sob by tonight to deformed my. the incident today is dangerous because the government might half of the military might have now to try to accuse the processes of being violent of the people who are responsible or might say that there are elements within the protesters or some of their elements who would like to turn this into a, a blood confrontation and that of course if it happens we'll derailed the, the, the, the, the, the approach itself was something very dangerous. nobody had once that in sudan. nobody wants a serious scenario or libby

a scenario or anything of that sort. and the assistant committees have, have always been saying this is going to remain peaceful forever. no matter how many people have be killed. russian. that forces sent to kessick stone to help curb and rest have become withdrawing. because of course, he's claim security has been restored 10 times and people were rounded up, sharing anti government protests and at least $160.00 were killed in the violence. robin forced a walker because this reports, oh yeah, just the week in catholics dawn and barely a short by denying the russian lead military force of around 2000 troops is on its way home. its role protecting power stations and other infrastructure seems as symbolic as the parade ceremony. mocking its departure to premier at the peacekeeping mission of assisting the bridal people of kazakhstan has been successfully completed. so not the observers believe the c s t o his mission was

actually to show that president cathy and jo mark hawkeye, have had russian backing. this deployment was very much chris to the extent of government, the president to class. and clearly he needed this 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 in the city of our marty, where the troops were earlier deployed. what the authorities describe as an official terrorist threat remains. anti government protests had led to the worst violence in casks, dance, modern history. more than a 160 people died, including peaceful protesters and police officers around 12000 people have been detained. friends and relatives are anxiously waiting for news. no more go without

my friend, i can even call him a brother sanderson. i keep of which was detained on january. 4th, he was firstly held at the district office of internal affairs like then they told us he was in an internal affairs department since january 6. we've been here and we don't know whether he's a life or not activist say those detained aren't being provided with their rights. it would. oh, on that other snug misty denay, neither lawyers or relatives, no one's allowed inside. lawyers should be present during interrogations. the checkpoints block the access for lawyers and relatives to see what's going on in there. we don't even have a list of the detainees of great d. oh, that's not in to with the c s t o 's note of mission accomplished. foreign troops are on their way out, but much remains to be resolved in kazakhstan. robin for astir walker al jazeera.

let's take you to another potential flash points involving russia. holland says talk sid if he is the crisis finishing ukraine, have yet to reach any breakthroughs. i should trip 2nd gathering on the cranium border raising fears of an invasion. neo se talks in vienna are the latest round of negotiations this week to try and de escalate tensions she moscow and kiss. the polish foreign minister, his count, the charing, the group. he says the stakes the highest, they've been in decades. yes, president joe biden has announced at one season's military medical personnel are being sent to help staff hospitals across the country. he says the government is also requiring more coven 19 tests. it comes as hospitalizations, reach in all time high in the health system, struggles with shortages of frontline workers. dozens of federal medical personnel have already been sent to states struggling with acute stuff in shortages has been

a long road. but what's clear as we get through this, when everybody does their par, no matter where you live, no matter your political party, we've got a fight this together. unfortunately, our military stepping up as they always do. they're either sitting on the side launch and we're standing away. we haven't gotten vaccinated, do it. let's bring in a white house correspondent, kimberly hall kits. kimberly just talk us through what jo biden's been saying there . what does he and i asked exactly, and will it help? well, you know, the us president by no means this is no accident that he started out addressing the issue of the vaccinate in the united states. that has been one of his personal goals. and he's not only meeting some frustration with the millions of americans that have not gotten their 1st or 2nd shot,

but the numbers in terms of those boosted is also not as significant as the white house would hope. and so as a result, they're continuing to push. the problem is, many americans are frustrated, they were promised that if they got vaccinated, they would not contract cobit 19, and i'm a crime has shown us otherwise. and that is affecting the president's goals. and really this has been a challenge for this white house is that there is conflicting messaging and americans are simply starting to not pay attention to what the president has to say . so what we're seeing is this white house coming out again today. and we should point out reiterating announcements that weren't really made last month. in fact, the deployment of the military is something that was announced last month. now this is the announcement of the implementation of that. the testing that has not yet been widely available in the united states was an ounce last month. it hasn't actually gotten into the hands of americans yet. in fact, the vice president was pressed on the timeline and we still don't know. but the

president now announcing that there will be $500000000000.00 or $500000000.00 more to make a total of $1000000000.00 that eventually will get to americans. but still isn't there? yes, i am. the other conflicting message that has frustrated americans is on the issue of math. we're now hearing. finally, as we are into the 3rd year of the pandemic that the white house is going to make available. high quality math for americans. many wondering then why wasn't this done sooner, and if these clos masses, so many of us are wearing are not suitable. shouldn't this have been done before? the surge in coven infections, that we're seeing again, as well as hospitalizations. so the president trying to get ahead of a narrative even as americans are starting to ask very legitimate questions that are still not been answered about the scale and extent of the white house response to cove at 19. ok. kimberly, how could that bring is up to date from washington, d. c. cat. thank you, kimberly. and let's get more on this now. elizabeth and karen is associate professor of american studies and physical science at george washington university

. and she to join us from washington d. c. it's great to have he with us, elizabeth, where do you think the problem is here? is the problem with the administration or is the problem elsewhere? the problem is in a few locations, the problem is definitely with the administration. it has been slow to respond. it gives out conflicting messages, or the problem is also with the u. s. health care system. on the one hand, we have a lot of it is regulated at the local level. so you might have mask mandates in one city and then the next city over doesn't have mask mandates. and that's, you know, incredibly confusing for people. and i think last and really importantly, is that so much of the u. s. health care system is outside of the federal government. it is privatized, it is for profit. so having the government coordinate everything is, is quite difficult given that so much of our health care is not meant to be coordinated at this level. so the buying an administration has to overcome

a lot like deploying the military, even just to get doctors and nurses, the support that they need at this is where should they approach b? because the trump administration was, came that states sorta and do themselves go head to head and, and deploy their own advice. the barked administrations clearly trying to take some kind of federal response here. where does the solution lie? because it seems neither president is particularly popular with the american public right now. right. and part of that is of course the, the disease itself is unknown and uncontrollable to a certain degree. but part of what we see biden's challenge is that he has not coordinated the federal response in the way that i think a lot of people would have liked, for instance, getting masks out earlier, getting testing out early or even deploying 1000000000 tests is really only a little more than 2 tests per member of the u. s. population, and that's not enough for people when they feel sick or when they're not sure if they've been exposed. so we need a lot more ramping up, and they also think the bike and ministration has to do

a lot more to counter act that really strong anti vaccine anti vaccination movement in the united states. the fact that so many people still don't even believe that cove it exists. the problematic one place they can step, you will have going to say just the american public not to have it soon share of responsibility here for what's going on. because we heard there from job by only 80000000 people have been to stage and a country 300 plus millions, under 1000000000 plus and a 3rd of americans aren't wearing masks. it's all. i mean, it's all very well play me the government here, but isn't there certain degree, personal responsibility when it comes to going about your business in the middle of pandemic? i think that is definitely true. there are a lot of people who don't take precautions seriously, or they believe that any kind of vaccination movement is a conspiracy. we just heard the congressman right after joe biden talk, saying that of vaccine mandate is akin to a nazi or a law. so there is

a lot of, you know, of people refusing to take responsibility not only for themselves, but for their community because masking often protects other people even more than it protects oneself and a huge amount of misinformation, especially from the republican party. and members of the party about the health of the country and what it requires from each person about what the federal government can do and whether or not a vaccine mandate has anything to do with, you know, freedom is they've been claiming. but instead it's something that is really about care for a larger population. okay, elizabeth and cover out of time at 4. it's a great to get your views and perspective though. thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera features and france of walks off the job and a nationwide strike said, protest against the government. humbling of the corona virus may say the measures in place don't go far enough to protect them. france is one of the country's most effective by the omicron variance

a on the european continent. the number of infections has increased. 45 percent in the last week. i solution period in england for people who coven 19 this being reduced. the basic health secretary says that starting next week, those of course seen will be able to get out of isolation after 5 days. if their test is negative, the policy shift comes as the crew of virus case is search to record levels. after reviewing all of the evidence, we've made the decision to reduce the minimum self isolation period to 5 whole days in england. from my people can test twice before they go, leaving isolation at the start of day 6. still the heads on al jazeera, kristen salumi and may be of kentucky where one month after a deadly tornado. there is still a lot of cleaning up to do. look

forward to brighter skies the with sponsored play cutaways. hey, there. good to see. here's your weather report. for asia, we're going to begin in india where we've got a slug of rain siding down the east coast of india. this is for this states of additional into method per dash. but the bulk of that energy will side out toward the been call over the weekend few spits in spots of rain and tom on that do. but i think that should i will stay dry. northern sections of india, fog alerts in play. this includes for the, for dash and air quality once again, starting to reach some hazardous levels in new delhi, off to southeast asia, jolts and bolts over sumatra, java and borneo as well. so the very real risk of seeing some flooding here at the ne monsoon subdued right now. so what that means is we're just stealing was showers for coastal vietnam. it's going to be dry and which means city with the high,

$32.00 degrees central china looks like this. we've got below average temperatures in woo hon. shanghai and grey lin with a few showers there as well. and also some cloud covered stuck there. now, for japan, skiers in snow borders are gonna love this. another wall above winter weather, through the hills of honshu and whole kato, a snow storm warning. so now just 30 centimeters of snow, but that snow is going to be width and around blizzard conditions on friday. be careful out there. see again soon. lou weather sponsored by katara always stepped beyond the comfort zone. were assumptions or challenge traveled to the ends of the earth and further experience the unimaginable of the people who lived with strange tuition. i've been involved in how quickly things contract award winning documentary, but also

a perception witness on a just a year. ah ah, this is al jazeera, quick reminder, all the top stories. this are former cillian and tap. syrian intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in germany, the courts convicted and were ruslan for crimes against humanity. i have 4 pieces at a detention center in damascus between 20112012. russian led forces started withdrawing from catholic storm following the worst and rest and decades. the police to set to be completes within 10 days. women,

a 160 people were killed during the demonstrations. yes, present, joe biden says military medical personnel will be help sent to help hospitals deal with the search all covered 19 cases just a short while ago like nor so announced that the governments will get half a 1000000000 additional crone of ours tests out to the public health transport workers in lebanon are on strike. drivers have been blocking roads across the capital bay routes. they're angry about increasing fuel prices and shot the valuation of the currency. st hotter reports, they tried to paralyze the country, public transport workers blocked roads across lebanon. in the hope the authorities will improve their living conditions and international increase in fuel costs as adding pressure to their financial challenges. but at the rapid depreciation of the local currency that made petrol unaffordable for many in the phone

a lot going on as we demand, they fixed a dollar rates, so we can live, we can survive with the fuel prices. we can't feed our children, we are in pain, lebanon inflation has reached triple digits, and is among the highest in the world that lead to fuel consumption, falling by nearly half as many people are no longer able to afford using their cars, filling them with fuel costs more than their monthly minimum wage that's now worth $20.00 us dollars. he kinda went to work is cheaper than using my car, but i still have to pay one ford of my salary for transportation. a few months ago that nearly bankrupt, the government lifted subsidies on fuel because of a lack of foreign reserves and public transport costs increased by 400 percent. le mom. i know people who walk in for kilometers because they can't afford to pay for the ride. everything is too expensive. the economic crisis is likely to worse than as politicians blame for years of corruption. they'll have

a recovery plan needed to unlock international financial aid. much. i'm going to talk, we have to beg for money to survive. we are dying slowly. the situation is drastic . many people are also struggling with power outages, lasting 22 hours a day because the state can't afford to buy enough fuel. on this phone i pay 1600000 years for private electricity. that is more than an average salary. what about the other bills? food inflation in lebanon is among the highest in the world. most people in lebanon are paid, and the local currency at the official exchange rate of $1500.00. leigh rose to the u. s. dollar, but the prices of goods and commodities are based on a power low market rates. that's now more than $30000.00 lurise. there doesn't seem to be a clear way out of the crisis. the government hasn't convened in 3 months because a political infighting. all the while desperation among many is increasing in what

was once a middle class country that had their elders. eda, beirut, and a 2 year old palestinian american there who died after being detained and beaten by israeli soldiers has been laid to rest in the occupied at west bank. omar assad was arrested after visiting a relative in his home town near the city of ramallah. he was reportedly handcuffed and left in a house under construction. he was state department as asked israel for clarification about what happens the cost of natural disasters to the u. s. economy last year was the 3rd highest from wildfires to stones, extreme weather events, cost the country around $145000000000.00 worth of damage. i'll just say was kristen salumi as in mayfield, kentucky where people are so picking up the pieces after tornado sort through the destruction stretches for miles. house after house,

business after business. even the county court house and mayfield kentucky is damaged, 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. joe flemming some place to rent, not possible. now if we want to stay in mayfield and everything is gone, clean up. cruise however are everywhere. with so much distraction, cleanup is not going to be quicker easy. they estimate that it will take another 160000 truckloads to carry away all 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. dole's out cash to those who qualify for emergency housing assistance of the $9500000.00 of removed disburse so far to

family you $6800000.00 of that is for housing assistance that for that is the 1st option for families to find a place to live in the interim while they're rebuilding and fun finding that that permanent solution, the mayfield grain 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, and love for each other. and with time i think would be able to grow back maybe not like who were 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. nigeria has lifted its ban on twitter. the government bought the social networking site 7 months ago after the company deleted a post by president, 200 hurry, switch rocky, the message threatened violence against secessionist. now as part of the deal to reinstate twitter, the social media giant secrete to open a local office or kabir them louis, managing director of beacon consulting. that's a security risk management firm in nigeria. he says the decision to lift the ban may be linked to next year's elections and tens of the social media penetration in the year at the available see, got you in about 202123 percent and it's growing by today, especially on mobile devices. a broadband is still at a very low rate and boot positive as well as negative mobilization takes place

within the at faith. and among the youth population. the embracing of technology, including a i and several other technological platforms include payment platforms, has made this to be very, very favorable to you. now, political mobile, i vision to is going on with that. and i did a lot of them on several of the above. the reason why the government looked at this bomb is because you're probably aware, 9 year old have a general election next year and the government and not been able to use the platform for mobilization. and now that it realizes that are interested, i use enough, but then it also comes into the platform as well. today. a lot of give and take on both sites. organize this of the australian open tennis championships have included novak jokers, which in the official droll,

despite uncertainty over his visa status draw to place hours later than it showed shall time joke of his visa was revoked. last week, after questions about his vaccine exemption, the decision was overturned in court. immigration minister says further action could be taken. sarah clark has moved from prison australia. 3 days after a federal court reinstated the vader of the world. number one, men's tennis player, the federal government, is yet to make a ruling of whether or not, no joke of it can stay in australia. the immigration, mr. alex hawk holds the discretionary power to cancel his visa and to put him from australia, jacob, it continued his training in the rod laver arena ahead of next week's australia open. after initially delaying the draw ceremony tournament organizes 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 despite. 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 play entered the country illegally in light december. since september citizens from serbia, native vaccine certificate or special exemption to enter spanish territory authority site, they didn't receive a request. prime minister scott morrison declined to comment on the visa stash when after a press conference in cambro. if the federal government does decide to deport novick brokovich, no doubt, his luez will appeal this dry and tournament begins on monday. ah,

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