fisheries officials said they should notice this banning people from selling or eating malice found a lot, but getting rid of the area affected by the red tide is small. but news of the lp 2 has affected seafood traders in the area. oh, a german court sentence is a former syrian intelligence officer to life in prison in the 1st of a conviction of an official for torture mass moda and serious war alarm. darn jordan, this is al jazeera live from dough. are also coming up a 6 percent rise in new coven 19 cases in india as concerns grow of

a religious gathering in building hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. rollins foreign minister says the risk of war in europe is at its highest and 30 years due to the crisis between russia and ukraine and the man who assassinated us presidential candidate robert kennedy, 54 years ago, is denied parole by california governor ah, a former serum colonel has been jail for life in germany for torture and murder during syria's civil war. and why russ lamb is the 1st sir and official to be convicted for such crimes. he held a top position in a prison where detainees were tortured and killed before he sought solomon germany in 2014, dominic came reports from berlin. 10 years ago. unwashed osland was a senior officer in the syrian government forces. now the former colonel is starting a life sentence for crimes against humanity convicted by

a german court of multiple counts of murder, torture, and sexual violence. all carried out during his time in charge of the al hattie prison, near damascus. dahlia collector, lying tight assist the defendant was a part of a system. at his instigation, thousands of civilians were greatly tortured. he is also responsible for the murder of at least $27.00 people. the evidence we put forward proved fat unambiguously pursuing ruslan defected to the syrian opposition in 2012 before eventually coming to germany. 2 years later where he was granted asylum, it was only in 2018 that police began checking out his story. when they realized the extent of his crimes, they decided to prosecute in bringing this case, the german authorities have invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction. effectively saying that some crimes are so serious that it doesn't matter where they take place. nor does it matter that the victims and perpetrators on not german . what matters is that justice be done outside the court on thursday,

relatives of those killed in syria gave their reaction to the verdict. yeah, they haven't shown that ever. that's yeah, we were actually expecting this verdict and were of course, hoping that this would be the word it. of course this doesn't bring back our loved ones and doesn't get our loved ones out of prison. we have to keep talking about it and keep reminding the world that there are still a lot of people in syrian prisons and math in under human rights campaign is welcomed the sentence, i think it's quite okay for, for their survivor. their syrian how are affected with these crime? so i hope that they serve these symptoms and is there little b as strong pays for her future war and water? aslan was not the 1st former member of the syrian government forces to be jailed in germany. and if the government here continues its prosecuting drive against those

suspects of war crimes, there, he seems. unlikely to be the last dominant came al jazeera berlin with india's daily corona, virus infections have risen to more than 264000 in the last 24 hours driven by the on the tron variant. that's as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for a religious festival in the west. bengal, there are fairs the gathering could see a repeat of super spectre events witness last year or probably natal joint us live now from new delhi putney. so cobra cases still surging across india. what's causing the numbers to rise so quickly to rethink where you all seeing the images your says hundreds of thousands of films and devotees have gathered across several regions in india to take what they consider a hulu. dip, and if this is not the only event, there are several festivals being celebrated across the country. now some states

have banned large gatherings, but mostly states are banking on corbett, 19 protocols to ensure that things don't go out of control. but that's not what's happening. for example, in a city in the northern state of the dish, which is hosting, one of the large gatherings cases had been rising up the site even before today's mega event. dozens of policemen who were deployed there have been testing boston. the city itself has soon covered 19 cases rise to about 10 times just in the last week. the largest of these gatherings is in the state of western gold, which has now broken all previous records in you covered 90 cases. and all of this has left public health experts shaking their head because we have been here before last year during the delta surge. you know, these religious gatherings were termed super spreader events, as millions of people across the country continues to be infected. the other

concern is that at this point on, most of the country is under some form of restriction to experts say that all these gatherings could undo all the work. these precautionary measures have done to now, yet pompey had with many more people falling sick. what sort of pressure is this putting on the health care system across the country? prime minister more, the reiterated the government stand, asking hospitals and states to ramp up oxygen supply. make sure there are enough facilities and beds in coven 19 boards. because even though oberon hospitalizations are lowered, that in previous waves, there is a graduate uptake. now the other big concern is that hundreds of healthcare workers themselves are falling sick. so this has led to star shortages. now this has all to impacted or not covered. 19 related medical treatment and surgeries and other treatments have had to be forced for the other place where resources are being

strained is in testing the government has realized that cases good boss, early of peak. so now they're prioritizing testing for all done and what they called high risk patients. people who are younger and relatively low risk, had been advised to says quarantine. if they come in contact with coven 19 patients, and avoid testing, like i probably met a life or stay in new delhi pub, thank you. on china's facing a test of it, 0 coven policy ahead of the beijing winter olympics. and february, the near by city of john gin is under strict locked down with 41 locally transmitted omicron cases reported on tuesday. travel in and out of the area has been severely restricted. their affairs, the outbreak could disrupt the winter games and also the upcoming luna new year celebrations next month. what kind of has a latest from hong kong? the focus of china covered efforts is intention. now. they're not exactly sure what

the sources and gym, but they do know that the chain of transmission looks to have gone through primary school kids now genji and to give you an idea is just about a 30 minute train ride to beijing where it went to games will be held, so that's why this alarm around this cluster in change and they taking no chance with the lympics as a closed loop system. so that athletes and a travelers will be separated from residence there. and authorities of also now a doubt that they will be ramping up more rigorous checks for inbound travelers into beijing. there is also a suspected case of coven 19 in the southern district of phone tai that's believe to be linked to the change in cluster as well. as we know, one case in china is one to many. there are around 140 cases every day in china at the moment, and that is causing some, some concern in the country. now chasing covered 0 is something that we know a lot about here in hong kong to there are currently are under around 10 local

cases every day. but there are some districts that are more alarming than others. the western district of chin moon that is under mandatory testing right now because 2 nurses have tested positive. the u. s. supreme court has blocked the biden administration's vaccine or testing mandate for large companies. the plan would have forced around $80000000.00 americans to get the corona virus job or take regular tests if they work for a company with more than a 100 employees. while the court voted $6.00 to $3.00 against the mandate saying it's an improper imposition on the lives and health of those affected, but they've ruled health care workers can be mandated to get the job lap, makes it a legal requirement for more than 10000000 people in the sector, the british prime minister faces a growing backlash from members of his own party. a day after admitting he did attend the garden drinks party in the middle of the 2020 locked down. a number of conservative m. p. 's and our openly calling for boris johnson to resign. police say they weren't been investigating unless

a government inquiry suggest there was criminal behavior. the book reports from london. the rhythms of normal life are returning to the british capital. few em asks for tourists. not so it may 2020, when the country was under a strict lock down the city, silent yet behind the doors of 10 downing street around 50 staff were enjoying drinks in a sunny garden. mister speaker, i want to apologize. an hour of judgment boys, johnson told parliament on wednesday, he thought the gathering was a work of ent, he said, falling within government guidelines. this after initially denying anything, had taken place to complete. her explanation however, has enraged and peas and irked the british public and resign. you can't leave and not lead by example. and if you do your fraud, i don't think very as a com couldn't solve the bulk of the british paper animal. and therefore,

i would say istation hm. but it probably doesn't break the rules about who has and i suppose you know, i don't, i don't know. it's time for him to go. we would do about a job who would do a better job, but it could be his own party that does johnson the most damage. several conservative m piece of broken ranks and urged him to resign with one m p calling him a dead man. walking members of his cabinet, meanwhile, have rallied around him. he had feel, i think his, his frustration and his air is a very heartfelt apologies to those in a so many, all of us you live through the very challenging locked animals that we have to bring in. the majority of conservative m. p 's though are quiet, waiting for the results of the inquiry, waiting to to hear what their constituents have to say. if public anger continues to grow, those i'm piece may have little choice but to table letters of no confidence in bars. johnson, $54.00 letters would trigger a leadership challenge. meanwhile,

boys johnson's reportedly doing everything he can behind the scenes to convince m. p. 's. he's done nothing wrong in parliament on thursday. the focus was back on the government's achievement in handling the pandemic with an announcement that the covert isolation period can now be cut races. after reviewing all of the evidence, we've made the decision to reduce the minimum self isolation period to 5 full days in england. this country is leading the world in learning to live with coke. but with opinion polls putting the opposition labor party 10 points ahead of the conservatives. for the 1st time in a decade, there were fierce johnson's now more of a liability than a leader nave park al jazeera london does not says come here now does air including the lead of a fall right group is in charge with seditious conspiracy of last year's attack on the us capital and mission and completed as russian lead forces had home on a week long deployment in kazakhstan,

more not ah hello alice, my winter is really set improperly across so much of the middle east. i'm out shelf the southern past ill on the, on the warm side, but further north exact amounts of cloud, rain, sleet, and snow, particularly around turkey, the levant, just around the caucasus thinking farther south was in this long line of cloud, and re stretch right across saudi arabia and on into the a red sea further south. this is where we got some wolves around 26 celsius here in bo, how 27 there for re add? was he? those temperatures just started to dip away as we go through sass day. this system does weaken somewhat, but it does slide a little further southwards as we go through saturday on into sunday, and the temperatures will fall away accordingly. more snowy weather there around the high ground into iran, pushing up towards turkey. cool enough,

just around the levant jerusalem, 89 celsius over the next couple of days, 4 or 5 degrees below what they should be. few showers to just around northern parts over libya may be in too much next year as well. cool enough there in kyra. just 15 celsius, we got some wet weather there, just around the gulf of guinea stretch across coastal fringes of west africa, by the showers into central africa. some have you down, pause there into se parts of angola, right? the way through mozambique. and madagascar. ah. the step beyond the comfort zone were assumptions or challenge travel to the ends of the earth and further experience, the unimaginable of the people who live it is probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in how quickly things contract award winning documentaries,

but also perception witness on i'll just the euro. lou. oh, well, come back, i took him out of the top stories here. this former syrian colonel has been jail for life in germany for torture and murder during serial civil war. and war ross law is the 1st to reinstate official to be convicted for such crimes. he moved to germany as my sign up secret in 2014 india's daily corona, virus infections have risen to more than 264000 in the last 24 hours is driven by the on the con, there it comes as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for

a religious festival in the west bend gold. there are fears together and could become a super supportive event. and the u. s. supreme court is blocked a federal vaccine or testing mandate for large companies. the plan would have forced millions to get the cobit 19 job take regular texts. teachers in france have walked off a job, but a nationwide strike to protest against the government's handling of the pandemic. they say the measures in place don't go far enough to protect them. france is one of the country's most affected by the armstrong veterans in europe. infection rates up by 45 percent last week, but i shall buckle as the latest from past. will thousands old, mainly primary school teachers and workers are walking across paris to protest, abbey education, ministry. they are angry with the french government for imposing what they say restrictions and rules, but a too complicated, unmanageable, often imposed on them at the last minute. so they don't have time to prepare. and

they also say those rules are in fact, exposing them to the farmers even more than before the time when. oh, cove, it infections also high and problems with the virus is so widespread. they sent them the government to simplify the rules, to make them fall clearer and easier to follow, more manageable. and they also say they want more measures that are going to protect in the caution. we are protesting against the lack of respect the, from the government, or we put the thing against her, the sanitary protocol, which is a absurd, the victim of crystal. indeed, the rules change. often, viruses change in to so we have to adapt. we're not against the rules, not at all. it's just that we don't want to put the children and our families at risk. well, the french government, it made sad. the rules in schools all complicated and they have changed rather often, but they say not any dislikes, the ever evolving situation out with cove it and people need to be flexible and to

adapt. they say the current rules in the schools i'll put in place to try and keep schools open as much as possible. in fact, people schools open has been a priority for this government. since the beginning of the pandemic is also being something very widely supported by most people in france, certain portion of the government now just 3 months before the presidential election, that there's a big strike like this. ponens has talked to the fuse, the crisis and east him ukraine have yet to reach. a breakthrough. russian troops have been gathering near the border, raising fairs of an invasion, dosage bar reports from moscow. this is what russia says is within its sovereign right to do hold military drills in the southwestern region, neighboring ukraine. yeah, these drills were held on wednesday as representatives of russia and nato met in brussels for talks of security. the 1st in nearly 3 years since late last year,

the west has been concerned by russia building up a force of nearly 100000 soldiers near ukraine. demanding that washington pledge never to let you crane joined a 30 member of military alliance or expanded eastwards, appoint the united states, refuses to accept. and at the opening session of the world's biggest security conference, the organization for security and cooperation in europe. a star warning from the incoming chairman, the risk of war in v o. c area is now greater than ever before. in the last 30 years for several weeks, we have been phase 2 of a possibility of emergent american, an escalation in eastern europe. while the polish foreign minister went on to warn that tensions could up end the post cold war order on the continent. moscow

continues to maintain, it has no intention of attacking ukraine. after the borrowed schnell would get killed was put in you much. we should abandon a vicious cycle of treating russia as the enemy. we propose mechanism of agreement, consultation, et cetera. our written ideas for the american side and for the nato alliance are aimed at preventing the scenario through diplomacy, consultations, and not through raising 2 inches and the use of military instruments diploma. you. this follows high level talks between nato and russia and brussels on wednesday, where the 2 sides clearly did not have a positive outcome. after a 4 hour meeting, president vladimir putin spokesperson has called this week talks unsuccessful. the kremlin says that if the united states were to impose sanctions on president pollutant, it would be comparable to severing ties with russia. it is now clear that dialogue and diplomacy have not bridge the gap between moscow in the west, but rather highlighted their unresolved differences. dorset avari al jazeera moscow

. meanwhile, russian led forces center kazakhstan to help curb unrest are starting to leave cassock authority, say the situation has now been brought under control of the days of violence and several cities. $10000.00 people were rounded up during anti government protests, and at least a $160.00 were killed. robin foster walk a report. oh, after just a week in kazakhstan and barely a shot fired in anger, the russian led military force of around 2000 troops is on its way home. it's role protecting power stations and other infrastructure seemed as symbolic as the parade ceremony mocking its departure. like it all depended on the peacekeeping. mission of assisting the brother people of kazakhstan has been successfully completed. so now 2 areas. puget, observers believe the c s t o 's mission was actually to show that president kasim

jermarta archive had russian backing. this deployment was very much at the request of because externally government, the president took, i have and clearly he needed this force to stabilize his own internal situation. once that was stabilized, once he understood that his own domestic forces would remain loyal. then the c s t o deployment was no longer needed in the city of al 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 of my group, but my friend, i can even call him a brother. zahn does not 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 alive or not. activists say those detained aren't being provided with their rights. it will oh, on just additional misty to me. neither lawyers or relatives no one's allowed in sight, yet. 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 g, ha, that's not in to with the c s t o's note of be should accomplished. foreign troops are on their way out, but much remains to be resolved in kazakhstan. robin 1st year walker al jazeera, the you and secondly general says it's a race against time, prov. galveston, with cold temperatures and frozen acids forming a lethal combination and tony guitar. there's reiterated that the world not doing

enough to address the crisis. they're ahead of talks. but in the u. n's, humanitarian chief and u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin. james bass reports mar from un headquarters in new york. the u. n. is appeal for more than $5000000000.00 to prevent about $9000000.00 people from starving in afghanistan. the situation could get even worse if there is a complete collapse of the financial system in the country. and that's why the un secretary general antonio guitarist has asked his humanitarian chief martin griffith, along with the head of the international committee of the red cross. peter morrow, to reach out to the u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin. they'll be meeting virtually in the coming hours to deal with what the secretary general calls a race against time. you have afghans on the verge of death and docket concluded death on the ground because of hunger because of diseases and because of lack of assistance. so it's absolutely essential to avoid the collapse of the

economy and said that we need to inject liquidity, the economy. what does the us need to do? and what moral duty to this, does it have to prevent the breakdown of the financial system in afghanistan? and i think the west as it is a very important role to play because a most of the financial system in the world operate in dollars. and obviously there is a meaningful volume of funds that are frozen in the united states . and indeed, several other countries in the world, but to the way to apply them in a way that is not diverted, but truly serves the interests of the afghan people is something in which we are working guards to make sure that all the necessary guarantees are provided one high level un official has told me that they believe the u. s. is beginning to realize it must change its position and find a way to unlock some of the funds which are currently frozen. bought the americans

remain adamant that none of the money must go to the government of afghanistan, which of course is now the taliban. california governor gavin newsome has denied parole for the man who assassinated us presidential candidate, robert kennedy. sir on sir hon. a palestinian refugee has been serving a life sentence for the 1968, killing robert kennedy's murder came just 5 years after his brother, president john f. kennedy was killed in texas. rob reynolds report now from los angeles, the man convicted of killing robert f. kennedy. more than 50 years ago will remain behind bars. california governor gavin newsome rejected parole for sir, han b. sharice your hon. a palestinian immigrant found guilty of assassinating kennedy . in 1968 kennedy was a democratic us senator and younger brother of the assassinated president john f. kennedy, he was running for the democratic party nomination for president and had just

celebrated winning the crucial california primary at a rally at the ambassador hotel in los angeles. i thank to all of you and out on the chicago and like when as kennedy and his entourage made their way back stage in the kitchen area of the hotel, sir, hans struck fatally wounded kennedy with a bullet to the head. dozens of people witness the shooting. it was an act of violence that changed the course of american history. in august of last year, a california parole panel recommended that sir han who is now 77 years old. be released, saying he had expressed some remorse, but newsome has the final say on pearls. in a statement he called sir hans assassination of kennedy among the most notorious crimes in american history. he said sir, hans still poses a threat to the public. sir han initially said he was motivated to kill kennedy because of the senator's support for israel. he never denied the crime but later

claimed he remembered nothing from that night. although 2 of robert kennedy's children urged sir han's release, many kennedy family members said they were deeply relieved by the decision. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, the founder of the far right militia group, has been charged with seditious conspiracy over the storming of the u. s. capital by donald trump's supporters last year, prosecutor say 56 year old stuart roads, lead the oath keepers group to washington d. c. last year. the trying to stop the certification of jo biden's election victory, 10 others have also been charged shabby towns. he has the latest from washington, dc. these are the most significant charges against anyone. some $700.00 people have already been charged and connected january the 6th, but mostly for trespass and for trying to impede congress is activity. but this is actually, this is the real thing with sedition. i mean sort of where you have very often. and one of the reasons why not is because prosecutors in the past when you're very

difficult to prove that someone actually was mounting of the seditious conspiracy. i'm not merely employing that culture useful right to freedom of speech. i didn't partners with very active debate here in dc as to whether what we saw on january the 6th was part of some coordinated conspiracy to prevent certification of the election, or simply a demonstration that went awry not least because the capital so poorly poorly defended, instruct you have informants in the crowd corners and your times different, right? re militia group, the proud boy. he said that there's nothing organized. this is just happening. well, now it seems that the d o j things have has evidence. that was something organized . and there's a suggestion that they may have the cooperation of various other members of your cases in putting forward these this case, which involves a lot of emails from, from the roads, for example, as early as november 2020. we are going through this without civil war to late for that. prepare your mind body and spirit that in december there is no standard

political or legal way out of this. and then interesting the on january the 6 itself and right isn't actually q is actually entering the capital, but of directing his followers to put in motion this plan. so this is what he right then all i see trump doing is complaining. i see no intent by him to do anything. so the patriots are taking it into their own hands. they've had enough. and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen. the address out to 0 dot com. ah, i have a quick check at the top stories here, a former syrian connell has been jail for life in germany for torture and murder during syria's civil war. and why russ loan is the 1st syrian state official to be convicted for such crimes. he moved to germany as an asylum seeker in 2014 india's daily corona, virus infections have risen to more than 264000 in the last 24 hours driven by the

on the con variant. it comes as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gather for a religious festival in west bengal. iraq fears the gathering could become a super sputter event.