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burkina. faso is the region faces instability after a state of cruise. and how break through technology using covered 19 jobs, there's no paving the way for the 1st ever h i v vaccine. i'm joining us raska with the sport as egypt and host cameron gear up for their semi finally, the applicant of nations. the window will face cynical after study, amani fields their passage to the final as akina i say, ah, we're going to begin this. these are in syria where you are special forces are conducted. what they're calling are successful, a large scale counter terrorism operation. at least 13 people, including 6 children, are reported to have been killed, an arcade, a leader is believed to have been the target and the turn of atima in italy, province, and the northwest. people say they heard shelling and gunfire and that homes were damaged. it was the largest us rate in the province since an attack in 2019 that

targeted isolator abaca, i'll bach daddy. does it as other dean. i'll use us as more from italy province. kemesha had had the lindsey a lady. this is the house that was under siege last night. the helicopters kept hovering over it for more than 2 hours. later on the helicopters hit the house with 5 missiles, 6 children in addition to 4 women and 2 men have lost their lives. the helicopters hovered over the house for more than 2 hours, then carried out a landing operation and special forces stormed the house. we heard that no one surrendered. those who survived the missiles were killed by the special forces. okay, i was bringing in salt and walcott he's the finding director at the center for conflict and humanitarian studies, a doha institute, and is joining us by skype from doha. good to have you with us on our 0, sir. i'm given the nature and the size of this attack. what do we read into?

it's was very heavy to say in terms of details, but clearly the target must have been of very high security value to the united states for them to involve that scenario. captures, landing means that the saga is high volume and also maybe the information that they were hoping to to get from the position is also of great importance for their fight against terrorism. this is, of course, not the 1st operation and the united states ever since that claim has been created have been involved, and a number of attacks usually done through adorns, as tribes you mentioned at other very important getting off. i would like to talk about that in 2019, but also 3 other leaders connected one way or another to outside have been killed over the last couple of years. so leave my blossom as was assassinated in

september to 2021 month in october 2021. and this year they targeted over can and must re so the u. s. i think is resort about its position of fighting terrorism. the real question is around what constitutes success. and we have to wait to see what the washington stays in terms of their announcement, how they measure success, the high value personnel, whether they've captured or killed the information they come up with. but what is very unfortunate to deal with as always are the civilian casualties. and i think in that area is enough to will that people will be killed edges unsustainable. the situation that the whole region has been left in ever since 2016. we're talking about almost 4000000 people stuck in the north east, northwest of city,

and those in the northwest of syria under a particular within it live our moral race governed by i tell you to sham all the sham liberation front, which until 2018 was seen as an affiliate of abida, and they have tried to distance themselves from abida, but nevertheless, they are in control of the territory. and there are millions of people who are under their mercy in this area. so whatever operation is going to take, targeting will have, will include casualties. and that is something that i think the nice states needs to, to answer for and explain. why was it necessary for so many civilians to be killed? as you mentioned before, of course, this is we're getting only early reports of this details of this are still sketchy . 8 days, however, being reported in some u. s. media. but a helicopter loudspeakers had been blaring warnings and out a big for women and children inside the house to evacuate before we understand that

any action took place. do you think that this is an effort by the us to try to change its tactics and avoids criticism all of the what might be perceived as are necessary casualties and incidents like this? well actually it is. it is designed to do that, but it doesn't work. i mean, this is, this reminds me of what those righties used to say in gaza that you gave the warning. and you have to put yourself at these people's position. you know somebody at 1 o'clock in the morning screaming at you out of nowhere, leave your home, you leave your home. would you actually leave your home? at the women, they show privacy. children safety, the security number of the 9. most of these people are settled in wild areas. these are not cities or, or, or established or been here. these are all at home places where people took shelter . and so, you know, to show that we have given warning of 10 minutes or 20 minutes before

a major attack is not really an excuse. i think the rules of engagement as far as the not sure here majority and all very, very clear. proportionate g is a very important aspect. people must take salute measures to ensure that they avoid the civilians and any in any way. so again, i mean it's sally to say, but on the face of it, i don't think anything justifies killing civilians in this particular context, particularly given the way the whole world, including the nice states have led them down. those millions of people who are stuck in this area, they didn't come to live out of their choice. they did not follow to have a sham or wanted to be governed by them. they were part of deals that were struct. elsewhere as far as russia and united states and others, that involved creation of certain communities and movement of others. and

they ended up in a so called protected area. this should have been an area that is out of the civil war in syria. so i don't think these kind of measures are, are sufficient or on their own. and again, we will know better when the announcement is made as to the, the target to north justified such as such an attack. so somebody can, we appreciate you being with us analogy at a time. unfortunately, it's against us, but thank you very much indeed for time, sir. and get so much appreciated. the united arab emirates says it's shot down 3 hostile drums in the 4th attack within a month who the rebels in yemen claimed responsibility for previous attacks, but not wednesdays drawn launches an iraqi army group said it targeted vital facilities in the amazon. and it warned of further attacks until the u. s. e stops interfering in iraq and yemen. rushes condemning the u. s. decision to send

additional troops to reinforce nato in eastern europe. and the latest diplomatic effort to ease fears of a russian invasion of ukraine. turkey's president is doing here for talks with president vladimir zalinski. turkey has good relations with both ukraine and russia . 125000 russian troops are near the ukrainian border. most anime quasi olu is in istanbul. first, we're going to go to dos as a body in moscow. dasa tell us more about how moscow's reacting to this influx of us troops. well, obviously the officials here are not happy. we heard from the deputy foreign minister, alexander goosgo, who said that this was a destructive step, and it's certainly going to escalate the military tensions that have been ongoing for the past few weeks. we've also just been hearing from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri pascall, who reiterated that position saying that now any steps russia takes to ensure it

some security will be understandable in light of what the united states had decided to do and send more troops to eastern europe. we have to remember, of course, that nearly 2000 of those troops will be heading to poland, which shares a border with bell roofs. and that's where nearly 30000 russian troops have been heading over the past few weeks. according to the nato secretary general, again, stilton burke, who said that it's very alarming to see this high number of a you and russian personnel are going to bell roost for what the 2 countries are saying are military exercises. there is an operation that will begin from february 10th between the russian army and of a russian military named an allied resolve. and that drill will be one of the biggest that the russian army has taken parts and, and this number of $30000.00 troops according to nato secretary general, is the biggest number of russian soldiers that will be stationed outside of russia for any kind of military drill that of as ever taken place. the nato secretary

general also said that there has been a lot of military equipment headed to russia to bela roost. he listed some of that equipment saying that there was a special forces as well as fighter jets and dual capable iskander a missiles, which is in reference to weapons that are meant for conventional and nuclear warfare. they also, the russians have also sent a number of s, 400 air defense systems and all of this to take part in these military drills that according to the bell, russian president, alexander lucas jenko, is to try and as secure the country's borders. this is possibly a scenario where you could see american troops on one side and poland and then the russian and bell russian troops carrying out these miller military drills alongside their border in bella roots. it's certainly a cause for concern. and, but the russians have said this was planned from weeks ago, and this decision by the united states is what's going to cause an escalation in the tensions door. so thanks very much. those doors,

as your body talking to us from moscow, will bring in as soon of course, hulu has live for us from istanbul. so took his prisoners up toyota. one is going to be talking to the ukranian president. i'm what can he hope to bring to the negotiations? well, rob, actually presidents, our dance visit to ukraine coincides or with these a 30th they anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the 2 countries and a high level strategic council meeting that was also supposed to happen. like every year, a prison turned on stepped up a as a mediator and willing to mediate between ukraine and tricky as he he believes he can talk freely and frankly, with both leaders, presidency, lensky and president, putin. and he says a he, he doesn't like to see 2 neighbors in a conflict, but as a nato member, in case russia inmates crane turkey would do what it's, or what it,

what is necessary as a lay to member holding the eastern flank or of the atlantic alliance, but of course turkey and a russia has some strategic relations strategic cooperation when it comes to libya, syria and air karuba between armina and as our bay. john. so prisons are don, needs to be very careful while dealing with this issue while trying to mediate between a, the 2 neighbors. as he has some a, he has some interests and national interests at stake. a, but apparently, as russia is trying to a stop any american influence or presence in the black sea, a turkey will try to mediate between the 2. but i have to say that the turkish officials have also been a holding talks with the americans and e. u. members as well about, of course, what a ukraine is going to bring to the table and what mr. put in prison put in is going

to bring to the table. is it unknown because present our dance at that? present, put a will be, was a think a turkey after his trip to china, which means in a couple of days everything is going to be clear after mr. prudence or was it it to ankara. mm hm. it's interesting the timing about this, isn't it center because oh, falls, president of the one is moving towards ukraine and trying to get himself involved in that. at the same time, inflation in is so in turkey has had 40 percent. one would have thought he had enough problems a home well, yes, turkey has been dealing with a very high inflation air within the last one year because of a very unorthodox monetary policy are imposed by the turkish president and the national currency. a has seen, it's a, it's record laws and turkey is facing the highest inflation rate since 2002, which means the ruling up party present our dance party. it took power in the

country. a ukraine is a very important trade partner of rob or the, the bilateral trade has been on the rise, especially in the last 2 years hitting may be more than a 3 to 5 per cent a compared to a previous years. and 2 countries are expected to sign a free trade agreement to day. and there is a visa free travel between the 2 countries. and one of the most important, a trading at topics between the 2 countries is that turkeys selling drones to ukraine, which has actually annoyed russia and air moscow has been very worchol about a turkish drone sales air to ukraine. and a, we heard ukrainian officials saying that a 2 countries actually are discussing about it having a joint production of the drones in ukraine as well. and also i have to underline that ukrainians are among the top 3 a frequent visitors to turkey and turkey. the it's tories them to deal with economy to overcome this inflation,

which is expected to hit 50 percent around april. so this visit is very delicate and very important for the turkish friends that i bought and diplomatic terms and economy said, am thank you very much indeed. that cinema costio lu, talking to us from kristen bull, they morehead on the news are included reopening their borders. new zealand is set to loosen some of the world's toughest covered 19 restrictions. ah, china welcomed the world to the winter olympics despite diplomatic boycotts and more corona virus infections and sport a valuable wind from mexico in the race to qualify for the world cup in. caught up . coming up with jo. ah, was african leaders are arriving in ghana for an emergency some adapter burkina

faso government was toppled by the military last week. the 15 country regional block acre was will be decided on a range of sanctions. unless civilian rule is restored, we can fossils. the 3rd country from the region to be taken over by soldiers that are fuse, the crews will de, will progress made and bringing stability and democracy in west africa. well, the domino effect started in august 2020. that's when molly and colonels overthrew president abraham booker hater, biting on a wave of antique government protests. and in april last year, shoddy and president either is debbie was killed in fighting or visiting troops on the front line. the military installed his son as the new president in september, soldiers overthrew prisons african day in guinea after he won a controversial 3rd term. and then last week, soldiers and became a fossil detained the president and seized power despite engagement by aka was elections, haven't been held in any of the countries after the military seized power,

or some mix in the logo in between a fossil for us. we're gonna go to ahmed interest in aka ahmed, what is an echo going to be for eco was going to be focusing on in this meeting. rob initiative. the plan was to discuss the unfolding situation in what akin a fossil, what 2 days before this summit. then we saw what happened a jack the in awe in this house, although. busy the cool did not succeed, but it's a warning shot to west african leaders and they ask, crumbling for solution. right now what they are discussing is the issue in burkina faso and how to pressure the military leaders. they had to hand over to a democratically elected government, as well as the new development in town, the cool that failed in the south. now the question is, african leaders, west african leaders try and we'll try, oh, we'll go beyond mere rhetorics and sanctions that seem not to be walking very well

in forcing soldiers or just kind of use for just in west africa, to stop over throwing democratically elected government some political analysts say that this is so contagious that we may not have seen the last in west africa or africa as a whole. now joining me to discuss more about video card and qu ah, incidence in west africa. and of course, i think as a whole is i, i big shiny or some security and political analysts talk to us is the safest democracy in west africa, particularly immune to coolers. we've seen some in some west africa. absolutely not even do their resist for their who is a plethora of said in dc. betsy, she called me can jump on to school deficits. that's 3 steps, exclusive charge and that's come. sometimes they expect that sometimes unexpected. it goes without saying that caused that contagious. and,

and the un secretary general antonio gutierrez, couldn't have gotten it any better. he said, we seem to have followed ourselves in a cool epidemic. so even the so called countries within strange that move tresses are not safe. and it also is important to note that a lot of these clues are called because it's similar to know apple bactrim what we, what we're seeing in molly and guinea is democracy failing africans is democracy failing west africans, or is a politicians who are failing democracy in west africa. well it's both on the context from which we have in this discourse from okay in lots of these so called democratically elected edo and countries. okay. they claim to be democratically elected, engage instead in activities that looks more like military dictatorship, they manipulate false dishes, so they can extend the out rule based gross violation of rights. they are not able

to deliver on the 2 main functions of the states, including one human security and secondly, fisco security. so it depends. and, but it goes without saying that a lot of these countries hooked themselves in so to speak, a democracy, democracy castillo, and then what's, what's before the course of state now? well, i think there's the templates, you know, immediately that military takes over you issue statements, you call for a meeting. you suspends you one, you impose sanctions. if it is not working, you impose more quickly, sanchez, but i think it is time. of course, dixie re looked at this templates because it was more that and it's making it was gradually lose legitimacy in the eyes of it was us. thank you very much. well, the only other option for west african leaders is to send in military personnel into these countries to try to force the military or the so we just will take over

from civilian governments there. but there is little appetite. in fact, to do that, i'm on west african countries simply because most of this countries in the region are facing their own problems. somali bookish fossil nigeria, and is your job. all these countries are having internal problems in services, separate is, and of course criminals, banditry and all that are happening across the region of that. so just i engage so very few countries may be willing to even commit. so just to do that, what we've seen the last time we've seen this was in fact and begun via when yeah, gamma was forced by the fact of force from echoes to leap, power in the gambia, rob ahmed interest talking to us from aucker. i'm it. thank you very much indeed. let's go to some medic, she's joining us from omega dojo in between a fossil sama, the beginner fossil was supposed to be the main item on the eco was agenda if the sanctions are imposed by echo was what is likely to be the possible reaction.

people that i've spoken to here in want to do and across the country said that if sanctions are imposed they will take to the streets. they will protest if they they'll see it as an insult to the country which is already suffering lots of this place. people, people are hungry, people are angry at the insecurity, and they say that they feel like a what hasn't supported them until now. and that if they do this it's, it's a bit of a slap in the face. what does echoes need to see from the, the, those behind the military takeover in order to be able to give some sort of guarantee that the sanctions are not necessary. what people with in echo us have said to me that they've communicated to the who is that they need to see transition to constitutional rule within a reasonable time frame. they haven't specified what a reasonable time frame would be. some people have spoken to have said one or 2 years, but there's been no, no time on not however, they're communicating that this needs to happen quickly. this needs to happen now. the horn to itself is said that they will transition to constitutional rule when

the conditions are right, but they also have not specified what these conditions are. 7 and when that time will be so that there's little clarity right now. what that time frame looks like. some thanks very much indeed that said medic, talking to us from oregon to go the 2022 winter olympics open in beijing on friday . organizers say years of preparations are complete, but the lead up to the games has been far from straight forward. corona virus infections are increasing both inside and outside olympic venues. and as katrina, you reports from a capital. jain is facing diplomatic boycotts because of human rights abuses. and restrictions on freedom ah theme song, welcoming the world to watch the 2022 winter games, while the olympic torch makes its way through bay jake. china has promised to deliver a safe and splendid global event to sell one. but it shaving this? is it going to be easily mo, from

a nation wide outbreak of curve at 19 record cases abroad, a testing it's 0 tolerance. pandemic strategy. participants are greeted with help is it has math suits, and must undergo a rigorous testing rating before and during the event. for it's found to be positive, are immediately quarantined and could miss out on competing. there's been a lot of athletes that are testing positive right now. and it's scary because you put in for years since the last games you know, johnny put in 20 or years to get years and for all of that to go to waste in the last week last couple days it would be a tragedy. and so that's always kind of on your mind and it is stressful tickets won't be sold to the chinese public. instead, spectators will be hand picked by authorities. this will be the 2nd olympics to take place during the grown of iris pandemic. witnesses here a much stricter than during the tokyo games. participants are sealed off in

a closed loop system. the road lane just below me, is restricted to gains vehicles only, and local residents have been warned to stay away. even in the event of a crash breakdown. the heavy handed measures have led to an olympic atmosphere unlike any other, but for beijing that message is clear. there's not going to be the great crap crouch, you're not going to have the tourism boast. ah, that would have accompanied something like this. and so for beijing, what they want to show the world is that they're able to carry on regardless of how difficult situations become. difficulties also include crit, ism of china's human rights record, and diplomatic boycotts by the united states and canada. britain and australia. chinese officials have dismissed this as political grandstanding, but analysts say china's president is eager to avoid further embarrassment during the event. if he does not get the game happening as expected,

then it will be quite a bit of a slap in the face is not ah, a fake cold punch in any sentence. but he will be very embarrassing for she. jimmy chinese rights activists living in the capitol say they've been visited by authorities and want to stay silent during the olympics. within the bubble, the i always see says, athletes are free to express their views outside of formal events or ceremonies. but organizers say, those who break chinese laws with behavior or speech that is against the olympic spirit will face certain punishment. katrina, you al jazeera, they jing still had on all the 0. the part is not over for boris johnson, britain's parameters are continues to refuse to stand down. following allegations, he broke locked on rules. accused of riding a wave of misinformation in the philippines, the marco's political, dennis de bids for power. again, add

a clash of giants as egypt takes on hosts. cameroon, replaced in the africa, cup of nations file. ah hey, there, it remains unsettled in that southeast corner of europe. hello everyone, great to see you sundry down ports to be expected across the greek island, southern turkey over cypress as well as this energy runs into the the band. look at the switching wind direction across the boss for us. that's knocked down the temperature and it's stumble to 6 degrees of really raw feeling dade, there after central europe right now. and that still has mostly stopped through the alpine region. winds have also backed off across the south of france, so much calmer day for marcell with the high of 16 degrees. a steady stream of rain

across the islands of ireland and britain. but there are no weather alerts out for this. this is a cold trend. it will continue to dig toward the south and in the process knocked down those temperatures. by far best weather on the continent, iberia, we've got temperatures in the twenty's, valencia 23 of them funding of sunshine. now that disturbed weather in the mediterranean, its weapon up the sand in dots to the northeast of libya, northern sections of egypt. in fact, cairo could see some sand and dust storms, the risk of flooding for the eastern cape province in south africa with these solid bands of rain. and they'll pretty much stretch from durban right in. so port elizabeth on thursday. ok, that's it for me. we'll see again soon, take care the who's the world of high frequency share trading, exposed i had as engine that was basically trading. i couldn't last. $30000000.00 was a terrifying experience. how artificial intelligence is raised,

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ah, you're watching our da 0 my the my top stories, this are the largest u. s. lead operation in northwest syria for 3 years is reported to have killed at least 13 people, including 6 children, a fighter, a link to al qaeda in italy, province was the suspected target. russia's condemning a u. s. decision to send more troops to eastern europe. that comes as turkey's president had to care, to try to ease tensions over moscow's military, build up the border with ukraine. west african leaders are holding an emergency summit after military leaders, top of the book in a fossil was government last week. 15 echo was countries are meeting in ghana to discuss a range of sanctions unless civilian rule is restored. britton's prime minister is fighting for his job as more m. p. 's from his party submit letters of no confidence in his leadership. 50 for conservative m. p. 's are needed to trigger

a vote of confidence. modest johnson's resisting a chorus of calls for his resignation. after an internal inquiry criticized his serious failures of leadership and police are investigating 12 parties in his home . while the rest of the country suffered lockdown restrictions, which on house life for us in london, we've got mounting pressure on boris johnson helped me. he certainly not out of the woods by any manner of means of old though the sort of intensity of the, of recent weeks of this crisis has subsided somewhat. that's because of a, an ongoing police investigation. now that could take weeks or months to complete it, but of course, this is still a party that he's troubled by what is what it's heard, what has happened that he's asking itself very serious questions about whether mr. johnson is the man they want to lead it and to leave the country specifically to lead the party into the next election, or whether they want to see a change of leadership at the top. and that's why you're still seeing these

trickles of letters going into the bodies, 922 committee, 3 more. as you said on wednesday. that brings, i think, the tally a 13 publicly who's done so unknown. the number of m. p. 's who may have sent letters in privately, that of course, makes it quite difficult for the government, for downing street to, to fight it's real got action that it has been doing in recent weeks trying to sort of isolate and confront these disaffected groups of empties and try to win them around. so where are we? well, there is this police investigation as i say, it could take a long time for that to conclude bars. johnson has asked that he not be judged until it does so that has bought him in a sense, some time to try and re establish his credibility, his credentials for leadership, but the count goes on. the magic number is 54 letters required. 15 percent of the party and to remind you if that number is reached, that triggers a vote of no confidence in the prime minister within the party, it would be

a secret ballot of tory and fees if they were to succeed. if they were to draw the numbers to 2, to deliver a vote of no confidence in him, well that triggers leadership contest, he would have to stand down. if however, the prime minister succeeds and comes out on top, well then he is safe from challenge. at least by that method method for 12 further months. and the last couple of days we saw ball as john's and heading to to ukraine to have a talk with the president there about the, the crisis. how much of all of this at home is proving a distraction from, from key issues both inside the u. k, but also globally ukraine. the ukraine crisis in a sense, comes at a convenient time. of course, it is a big deal on the international stage. and britain has been largely absent in recent weeks from debate around that, or is johnson inserting himself very firmly into and onto the world stage in that crisis, by standing shoulder to shoulder with floating as zelinski in kiev on tuesday?

certainly that, that downing street will hope is a distraction. the rather big distractions, though, are here at home and not necessarily good news by any means for downing street voters are facing a whole range of issues that go far beyond party gate. there is a spiraling cost of living crisis happening here. rising inflation rates, imminent bank interest rate rises, coming. there are shortages in the supply chain post for exit, trade hiccups to deal with them. so in all conspiring to make people feel likely to make people feel poorer in the weeks and months to come, there is a big intervention do this afternoon from the chancellor. she sumac to pump billions into the economy to try and ease that crisis we've heard. so much from dining street in recent weeks about the present, the prime minister's credibility, trying to shore up his credibility to promote his achievements in office. none of which will count for anything. if in the end vote his feel worse off under a tori government. so this is a crucial day for the government. it matters that people are persuaded that the

intervention about to be introduced particular on energy cost rises, will work for them. john hall in london. jonah, thank you. use eland is eating strict border controls imposed nearly 2 years ago in response to the pandemic. and the initial stage of a phased reopening vaccinated using and is an extremely a will be allowed home without having to call it in teams from the end of this month. when he has the support for almost 2 years, new zealand has been largely shut off from the rest of the world. tight border restrictions have seen it control the spread of coven 19 better than most countries, with only 53 deaths from the virus. and now with the army kron variant, already circulating here, the government feels the time is right to open up. there was life before. and now life with covered. but that also means there will be life after coveted a life where we have adapted. where we have some no melody bag from the end of

february fully vaccinated ye zealanders will be able to return from australia without having to quarantine soon after it will be extended to new zealand is in other countries and to all visitors by october to to this decision was the vaccination rate, which is recovered from a very slow start. more than 93 percent of the eligible population is now fully vaccinated. and the minimum time between the 2nd and 3rd doses has been shortened to 3 months. the government was also coming under increasing pressure politically, economically and legally to open the border. thousands of diesel and as are stuck overseas, unable to return home because there aren't enough quarantine or m i q hotel rooms. and some a taking the government to court. it's easy to hear the word in my queue and immediately associate it with headache. there is no question that for new zealand. it is being one of the hardest parts of the panty mac. but the reason that it is

right up there is one of the toughest things we have experienced is in pad. because large scow, loss of life is not at this stage, quarantine will be replaced by home isolation for 10 days, which is expected to be shortened to 7, possibly fewer in the months ahead. wayne, hey, al jazeera towed on new zealand. the dog maker, madonna, has launched trials for the new h i v vaccine using the same technology developed for their coven, 19 job. 37000000 people worldwide are affected by h. i. v, and aids. despite decades of research and trials, they're still not effective to him because the virus is so complex. madonna's new m r m a vaccine teaches the body how to make proteins that trigger an immune response against the fast you tating virus will tries, using antigens that triggered a successful immune response. in previous test, it's hoped m r n a could be the make key to making rapid progress towards an

u vaccine. ok, i want to bring in jeffrey lazarus, he's head of the health systems research group at the barcelona institute for global health. good, happy with us again on al jazeera and the phrasing of this announcement concentrates on the fact that this is a new direction for vaccine design and testing rather than focusing on any, an ultimate outcomes. why is a new direction so significant is still significant because h a v vaccines have been failing for over 2 decades. i remember being at the aides conference in 2008 when we expected a vaccine to be successful. and again, it failed. so given the success of the m r n, a vaccines against corporate 19, this is, this is fantastic news. how could this affect the lives of people living with h o v, assuming that it is a success? well, it won't have much of an effect for those with h i v,

but the vaccine will prevent new infections. and right now, almost $700000.00 people die every year of age related diseases. so this is a major infectious disease and a vaccine would be a complete game changer in the country is most affected, which are largely in sub saharan africa. it's one would imagine it's, it's easy for, for somebody who's who has h i v r is in a community where h i, v, and aids is prevalent to be get their hopes up about their, to have their hopes raised by the prospect of this. is it important to try to keep people who expect asians limited, shall we say we do. i mean we week we can hope, but we have to follow the progress very carefully. this was us. this is a phase one trial. so this is the earliest stage after proof of concept, the 1st few people received on the vaccine just a couple of days ago. so this will be a multi year process. but given again the rapid success with them, the coven,

19 vaccines using m r and a technology. and that after 30 years, we had a malaria vaccine approved last year for the 1st time. obviously expectations are going to be very high. what is it about the, the intensity of research that say of the pandemic has, has produced, that allows people to extrapolate from that and why it, given that amount of research that there is done into h i v and aids and a possible the search for possible vaccine, is it in any way surprising that this isn't a root that hasn't been gone down before? it's a bit surprising, but what we know is that the m r and a technology was not both, frankly, very well thought of or successful until the cobra. 1900 vaccine. so, so now that we've seen that, that technology can work there, madana and pfizer actually going to be trying to develop more than 20 different vaccines. there's been so much attention given to h. i. v aids in recent years. both in terms of vaccines and treatments and issues

related now to quality of life that you know, the focus on in a chevy vaccine is, is definitely going to capture the world's attention. and i think everyone in the field and in other fields will be closely watching on as the phase one trial progresses and hopefully moves to phase 2 and phase 3 trials. and given what we have seen about the roll out of covered in 1900 vaccines across the world, there is a identifiable disparity between so the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere richer and put a countries to, to use an unfortunate shorthand. do you think that there's a risk that the same thing might happen when it comes to this h i v vaccine? i don't think there's a risk at all on the m r n. a vaccine can be produced rather quickly. and while there will be certain key populations that will be prioritized in high income countries, that isn't the vaccine that will be needed by anyone far from it. so it will be largely targeting sub saharan africa and other countries, maybe parts of russia,

ukraine in eastern europe that have high prevalence rates. and i think it's been such a focused on the most effective countries with h i b that very quickly the vaccine will reach them and bought a few years ago, i would have said it was would have been difficult to reach everyone in fact scenes . now we have the experience we covered 19 to to build on at least a positive side. that experience, always good to get your thoughts and stuff like this, jeffrey lazarus, we appreciate it as always. thank you very much. thank you. the u. s. as mysterious and sudden, brain injuries suffered by diplomat stationed overseas were probably caused by electromagnetic devices. an intelligence panel investigated the cause of the symptoms known as havana syndrome says 2016. about $200.00 us and canadian diplomats of complained about a range of illnesses including vertigo. at least 24 people are confirmed to have died in a landslide in ecuador,

his capital quito. the disaster was triggered by the heaviest reigns in almost 20 years. victoria gayton been reports in a poor neighbourhood in the ecuadorian capital quito rescue workers search for bodies in the mod. 17 hours of continuous, torrential rain, overwhelmed in a by reservoir monday, sending a wall of water mud and rocks through this residential area. france hernandez is a migrant from venezuela. he works in quito for hello. he was badly injured and his home was destroyed. and he came home. yeah. where sony wireless oliver's, we were so scared we were in the living room and we tried to leave the house. but it was too late, a wave of flood door to burst through the front door. it was so powerful in brooklyn doing too. oh my god. this footage was filmed by a woman living there. it shows a kilometer long deluge of muddy water sweeping down her st. dozens of people were

killed and injured. authorities say the area is still unsafe. both of you must go to them about the superiority, as many things can still happen to the top side of the mountain. lance lights can still happen. we're continuing to monitor the situation with drones to provide residents with a sense of safety on and congress. the mayor has set up shelters for families, forced to leave their homes, but many say the disaster could have been prevented if the ravines bordering their neighborhoods had been properly maintained. this is not new. it has been going on for a long time. you sent many letters to the municipality, warning them about the danger of the ravine. this tragedy was anticipated when many say they feared they wouldn't survive the mud slide. now those with the least will have to rebuild what little they had to stall with victoria gay to be al jazeera. the philippines election commission is said to decide whether to bar frontrunner found an unmanned course junior from

a presidential election in may. the song of the controversial former leader fed and, and marco says popular with many voters, but he's been accused of spreading misinformation, mal allen, golden or votes from manila. really, the 22 year rule of president for dan and marcus. it seemed to day as a brutal and divisive period in philippine history. a people power revolution forced him out of office and into exile in 1986. but decades later, his son for ended in marcus junior and also known as bon bonded, is a front runner, this year's presidential election. my intention to run, it may seem surprising to many, but the political resurgence of the marcus's didn't happen in an instant. oh, experts see the mark passes have spent years using social media to rewrite history . monitoring online means like this. new zealand prime minister has sinned dar dern

praising bumble, marcus, junior or of the american basketball superstar michael jordan, receiving a box of breads from the late president have dominated online chat groups. it's even said that the marcus's will give away tons of gold bars and other treasure. if bon bon becomes president treasure, that fact checkers and journalists see this not exists. but the story has already spread widely on social media, even after twitter announced last week that it has suspended hundreds of pro mark as accounts. i think it's also important to consider the desperation of many poor can it be those and that aspiration, economic and social, their needs. and demi cars exacerbated that and this, this just the marcos, exploiting that desperation, making filipinos believe that there is

a quick way out of poverty. al jazeera requested an interview with mr. mark as his campaign team, there was no response. the marcus camp has repeatedly denied owning social mutual farms. we know that should be just very low, very viability philippines once a shining star on democracy in asia is now build a box lighting country. the philippines is the big is the facebook user in southeast asia, and the 6 in the world's researchers say, the higher populations exposure to social media, the higher it's vulnerability to dis, information. this information they say has the power to obliterate the ability of people to distinguish what is real. and what is not jamal alan. again, i'll 0 manila still hadn't, i'll just eat of the winter. olympics officially start on friday, but the curling action is already underway in beijing. that's coming out with the job in sport.

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oh. oh. a sport his joe rub. thank you very much. will this still one day to go before the start of the winter olympics and by jane? but one of the events has already begun the mixed doubles. curling competition is on the way at the national aquatic center, with a very small domestic crown because a coven 19 restrictions. but those supporters were able to chair on china's 1st competitors in the game funds the young. and when she won that opening match, it will get some the way for real on friday with beijing set to be the 1st he ever

to host the summer and winter games. the elliptic torch relay continues having stopped off at the great wall of china, making its way to the opening ceremony, the buzz ness stadium, which was the venue for the $22008.00 summer and lympics. but these games have been controversial staging one the hosting light back in 2015. i've been hit by a diplomatic boycott from several countries, including us, britain and australia, over china's human rights record. athletes are allowed to express their views, but not in the field of play on podiums. some of the president of the international committee wants to stay separate from politics. we are writing a new check. in sporting history. we can only accomplish these mission. it was a limby games stand above and beyond all political differences. this is only possible if the olympic games are politically unusual and do

not be common to or to achieve political gorgeous senegal have reached the final of the africa cup nations for a 2nd straight time, also beating booking a fast. so in the 70s of her goal is 1st health center goal. got the bright through the 17th minute, cut it up to the yellow, then double barely, 6 minutes later. gave that a go back in the last 10 minutes that it was synagogue captain and little money who wrapped it up for the lions and toronto, 31. the final school, the african final in their history, senegal will face one of 2 african football giants in that final as host camry and take on egypt and the other semi later camry and have the tournaments top score in their ranks. and vincent rubica, who's got 6 goals in 5 games, and they have home advantage. bob. so defense hasn't come up, kids the player of the level of egypt mohammed sala,

so far in the competition on egypt out for revenge. having lost the cameroon. in the 2017 final we have a huge respect for the cameras team. the players they've been doing very well. i just had this back and forth of camaro and they've been scoring goals. but we read the classic less you do like a camera in egypt. it's an africa cup of nations classic part from the stakes. every match that is a semi final adapt on is a revenge match. we can't forget doable. but as i said, our objective is to win the african matter. the opponent in front of us will be determined, african football journalist carry l. smith joins mean i live from yellow and day gary, which way do you see this one going to night? or we seem to have some problems there with getting ahold of gary in your own day. we'll try and return him in a little while. but let's move on to the next story. canada are flying in that

quest to qualify for the catherine well cup. they beat el salvador to know to make it 11 or 11 games on beach, in the north, central american and caribbean region cba hutchinson and jonathan david caught the goal for the canadians who are looking good, make it their 1st woke up in the united states were beaten by canada last time out, but got that campaign back. contract to the 3 new simulation of from juris christian polis, which was among the scores just minutes also coming off the bench. us trying to reach the well cups of the missing out on russia. in 2018 windless, honduras had already been eliminated. coming into the mat. and this is the key moment in the mexico, panama game, diego lane. it's going down pretty dramatically to mexico, a penalty. him in a school it to secure the one the when and unconvincing performance. it's still a valuable 3 point. so we're 3 games to go. it is canada full points clear at the

top with the us and mexico occupying the other 2 automatic qualifying spots. the team in for go into play off. and that's currently panama fighting of costa rica and el salvador, jamaica and honduras are already eliminated. now, after more than 8 decades, the american football team based in washington has officially changed its name to the commanders. the original name was widely seen as a racial slur against native americans. alan fisher reports. we are the command and you name a fresh start for the american football team in washington. when the new season starts in august, the washington commanders will take the field in the traditional bargain doing gold . i think it's important to, you know, understand that the all members retired for particular reason. you know, i don't want to go into a name debate with people, but i'm happy that it's been retired and we're moving forward. it can represent so many different things, right? for the military, it's a very patriotic type of name, nothing favorites,

but patriotic name. and then for other people, you know, it's a positive work. it's been 18 months since a team dropped a name, which was demeaning for native americans and regarded as racist. offensive an outdated, the t mono resisted coals from mirrors, senators, even presidents to change. you finally stepped on to the right side of history. when so the teams, biggest financial backers said they were happy unless the money's talking, they're just not gonna care. so that's really where you have to hit on. i think that's a huge reason behind the change. the campaign to change the name stretched over years with protests, boy courts and lobby, but many still see racist names and other cities and other sports and hope for change there too. i think it's hopefully can i just again, really be one of the greatest demonstrations yet. that these name changes can be successful, right? they can be done on the and so really it then turns the,

the gays to teams like the kansas city chiefs and the atlanta braves. and you know, the still many schools across the country that still have races. sports mascots to say, why not? why not? you are why not what you know you need to be next. the time is now. i think a lot of has to do with how far technology has ground, you know, even in the past 5 years, the big thing about technology and things like social media is that it's given more of a platform term weiss's are historically silenced. the washington organization has been played with problems off the field involving racism and massage judy and on the field it hasn't won the biggest prize, the super bowl in 30 years. the funds snatching up merchandise here will be hoping the new name brings a change of fortune both on and off the field. olive fisher al jazeera, at the home of the washington commanders. and that is all useful for now. it is back to rob joe. thank you very much indeed that he never hate is going to be here

in a couple of minutes with more on all the stories. i'm rolled madison vice for being with me. i'm gonna ah, ah frank assessments for china? well banner said from the 0, call it strategy. if the rest, the world cannot get informed opinions at all costs focused on needs. and on fridays from that statement critical debate, whether it would be a good place that need to constitutes an existential threat to russia. but it's precisely, his actions that's rated this insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the

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