ah ah this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm emily anglin. this is the news our live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. the u. s. says it's killed the leader of i saw avo abraham l correct. she in a ride in north western syria. this operation is testament to america's reach and capability. take out terrorist threats, no matter where they try to hide anywhere in the world. turkish president,

right typo on holds, talks in ukraine. it's the latest diplomatic effort to come tensions with russia. west african laid as a warned cruise of becoming contagious, as they hold an emergency summit on the military takeover in became a fessor and caught in the cross fire in columbia. fighting between rebel groups intensifies sparking his spate of kidnappings and killings. and i'm he to say that with your sport as we gear up for cameroon against egypt in the semifinals of the africa cup of nations at the winter olympics may not officially starts until friday, but they is already action in beijing. ah, you as president joe biden says, the leader of i still is dead to following a large scale counter terrorism operation in syria. but and said, abu abraham l correct. she blew himself up, at least 13 people,

including 6 children that reported to have been killed during the rage by us special forces. it happened in the town of acts man in italy, province. people say they had shelling and gun fight during a 2 hour battle. it was the largest to us, read in italy, province since an attack in 2019 that killed the previous later of iso. the driving force behind the genocide of the shady people in north western wreck. in 2014. we all remember the gut wrenching stories, mash slaughters wiped out entire villages. thousands of women and young girls sold into slavery, rape uses a weapon war. thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more as our troops approach to capture the terrace in a final act of desperate cowardice. he and with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up,

not just of the best, but to blow up that 3rd floor rather than face justice with a crime. she is committed. taking several members of his family with him just as his predecessor do. let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly how can, who's been covering developments? kimberly what more did but, and have to say at that press conference about the operation. well, it was a statement from the white house where the president was speaking from the roosevelt room. and what he had to say was really that is the reason that the president made the decision. after about a month of planning to target the ice, a leader had a lot to do with the fact that not only did the united states consider that he was a threat to us interests and to americans as a result of his activities. but also because of the crimes, as you heard there, the president talking that he had already committed. and he spoke specifically

about some of the crimes committed against women and girls. these eating minority in 2014 particularly northwest iraq, using rape as a weapon of war. and slaving them, but also for his activities in a network that stretched from africa to afghanistan, but directly in iraq and syria. now what we know is that the u. s. president ordered this operation to go ahead. after weeks of planning on tuesday morning, he watched it take place in the situation room, the white house releasing a photo of this operation in that photo, the vice president, as well as national security advisors present watching this as it was carried out. and the u. s. president, as he spoke there from the roosevelt room, taking great pains to say that there was an effort to limit civilian casualties. knowing there would be criticism and keeping in mind that just it. this comes just about a week after the defense secretary himself ordered a directive of the military to essentially limit civilian casualties in combat

operations. so on the heels of that to have the civilian casualties of certainly not to just an embarrassment, but opens the military up to criticism that was already in existence. so the u. s. president saying that this was a direct result of choices made by the ice, a leader that well they were able to evacuate some of the family error. they leased occupants of the hole where the ice a leader was hiding out. and fortunately in the final moments of his life, he chose to detonate a suicide vast using some of his immediate family members as human shields. ok, thank you very much for that. i'm to 8. kimberly. how can life press at washington day say, let's go to the pentagon now where patty calhane is standing by for us, patty, the pentagon press secretary, john kirby. he's just held a briefing. what more did he have to say a band us attempt to minimize civilian casualties? as we heard from kimberly

a good that briefing is going on right now. and so what he's laid out is the scenarios would they found this liter karachi? and they said he was in basically a 3 flat apartment. he was on the 3rd floor. they say he never really left that building using couriers. and they did believe that there was a family of sex that lived on the 1st floor that were not at all related to i. so they believe. and the 2nd floor was one of his lieutenant. and his family, so here's the scenario that they say played out. they sent in helicopters with about $24.00 special forces operations they immediately, this was around midnight syrian time. they knew immediately went to loudspeakers and arabic, telling people to get out telling out russia to surrender. they said very shortly after that he detonated in explosive. in that 3rd floor, they say that 3 innocent civilians were killed. by that they said it was himself. while his wife and a child and then a child on the 2nd floor. so then what we believe that, but they did want to stress that they did get out 10 people. so 6 people on the 1st

floor that was a husband and wife and 4 children, and then 4 children on the 2nd floor bubble we believe happened is then there was a gun fight between those on the 2nd floor and the special forces soldiers that then later they said they saw people coming up the street that they were hostile actors. they engaged them. the whole thing lasted about 2 hours. but just kirby's really taken great pains tubes. explain why they tried to limit civilian casualties . were always mindful of the potential for civilian harm, harm to, to innocent life. and while m, the strong indications are here is that, that, that the life that the lives taken in this operation, the lives of innocence taken in this operation, were caused by a dollar. and his decision of blowing himself up and everybody else with him on that 3rd floor as well as the resistance of his lieutenant on the 2nd floor. we're

willing to take a look to just examine and make sure that there wasn't any action that we might have taken that could have also caused harm to, to innocence. so you heard it, president joe biden mentioned the cities, but don't, don't forget that this building has been particularly focused on isolate. since the explosion at the cobble airport i saw it was believed to be behind the explosives that killed 13 service members. at the time we heard the president say they will basically hunt down the people who directed that operation. so at that the pentagon, now they are again still briefing, still trying to get clarity on exactly if the u. s. was involved in the civilian casualties, the exact number, but he, as kirby said, this is less than 24 hours old. they did say that all americans returned home safely, still waiting to find out if any were injured. we do know that one helicopter,

at the very beginning, had mechanical problems. they say they decided to move it to a separate location and then just because it wouldn't be safe to fly, they blew it up. so we believe this involved in not only $24.00 special forces soldiers but got a helicopter gunship armed reaper drones fighter jets. we believe possibly a missile was fired during that gun fight in the 2nd floor. but again, we're just getting clarity now and we'll bring you more as we get it in day. thank you very much for that update protocol heinlein press at the pentagon. they are now and to more world news in the latest diplomatic effort to ease fees of a russian invasion of ukraine turkeys president tis im kia for talked with his counterpart for letting me zalinski check. he has good relations with both countries and hoped to act as a mediator. moscow has condemned the u. s. decision to send more troops to eastern europe, and nato says the cremeans moved. $30000.00 troops and weapons to bela roots are the last few days. hodder abdel hum and has moved from kiff. like, is there

a relationship that is improving by the day? i mean, these economic does are very important for both countries. and in turkey has always said that it, the territorial integrity of ukraine must be respected in the past president air to one has also said that it would be very unwise of russian president vladimir putin to have a military escalation or indeed to invade ukraine. so turkey was very clear on his position or all along, and actually i think there was a very symbolic imagery when he arrived at the presidential palace earlier today, he was received in grand pomp and then the turkish president stopped, looked at the parade there and said slab o gray, you know, which means glory jer, kraner, anything that says a very strong message on where he stands when it comes to this crisis. the problem is, he is

a nato member of the sort employed. he is also there difficult position because he does enjoy do. he does enjoy a good relations with russia even though they don't agree on certain files. for example, on syria and olivia, but jerky would like to keep that relationship while going ahead with his relationship or with you. great and being a native member, the 2nd largest army of nato's as it is certainly a very important position there. plenty more head on this news hour, including shock waves throughout the met reverse. as $200000000000.00 is wiped off the value of facebook. the body's not over for borrows johnson, britain's prime minister continues to refuse to stand down. following those allegations, he broke locked down rooms and clash of the giants as egypt takes on a host. cameroon, for a place in the africa cup of nations. final,

that's all coming up in sport with peter. ah, the president of garner is warning the series of recent crews in the other countries in west africa could be contagious and must be contained. nana occur through adot hosted and emergency summit of eco was leaders in the capitol across the original organization, discussed a range of sanctions to punish soldiers who deposed became her facile government. last week. it's the 3rd country in the 15 nation blow to have a military takeover in the past 18 months. the domino effect started back in august 2020. that's when military officers in marley over through president abraham river can cater following anti government protests. last april, the president of chad interest debbie was killed in fighting while visiting troops on the front line. his son replaced him as president in september,

so it is in guinea over through president l for con day after winning a 3rd term. last week, soldiers in became a facet, detained the president and seized power. their elections haven't been held in any of those countries following those power grabs the latest attempt was this week in guinea, resound, 11 people were killed in a failed co attempt. i'm an interest is following these developments for macro the options before these leaders ace to see how they could see from the fund. again space. i guess the cool part is in west africa. however, we've seen over the past one and a half years, how the money in readers or the money inventory rulers call the block of west africa needed and continue caution out there in transition program. supposed to be removed, jettisoning or setting aside the suggestions meant by a course. now,

some analyst, security analysts and political are wondering if the next approach to dealing with a problem in west africa is the deployment of security forces also just to deal with pockets in the region. however, there is no much appetite to do with that. at the moment, if you look at the continent or the sub sub region, if you look at the problems coming into those countries, many countries are having to do with their own internal problems. nigeria, the biggest contributor to any west african military deployment, is having its own problems. dealing with book, dealing with iceland, dealing with vendor st. kidnappings, taking hostages for run some in the region. you're talking about new j talking about value, which is having its own security problems. you're talking about booking a fossil. you're talking about several countries including char. we could also get a butter radio or buckle hardened in dealing with crisis like this in west africa and delaney go. joe is a specialist in security in this a hell region and she says,

original bodies and now analyzing the reasons for the cruise in some of these west african nations. these 2 political and military missions that took place in the past few days in booking and to check on the situation and have been analyzed by echo us today. and the decision not to impose other assumptions aside from the spending booking out from and from the community, from the economic community and was quite well received so far, although it just happened so. so we need to understand more and it was decided to impose sanctions on monday and getting the past year. and he did not just suspend these 2 countries from a class. and that was the attempted queen guinea this week is particularly irrelevant. i believe because it looks like there is this push from certain strands of west african military is to exploit this window of opportunity and ride the popular feeling. and we come, we come to to question that request and the governments are inefficient. so

the. busy african union has also responded to what happened in kena, and they released a document on the 27th of january in which they are. they asked to analyze root causes for these military takeovers. so there is a reaction and the perception that equity has been inefficient in the past few years is that a coal mine collapse in northern afghanistan has killed at least 10 workers. rescue is managed to save 3 others trapped underground in babylon. the province safety concerns have increased along with mining accidents, often and remote areas and authorize it illegally to the u. k. now and britain's prime minister is fighting for his job as more and pays from his body, submit letters of no confidence in his leadership. 54 conservative em pays, are made to trigger that far as far as johnson resisting a chorus of calls for his resignation. after an internal inquiry criticize his

serious values of leadership and police are still investigating 12 parties in his home. while the rest of the country was under locked down restrictions during a how has more on the story from london, where the prime minister is continuing to go about his usual duties, including visiting ukraine this week, despite the pressure to quit? he certainly not out of the woods by any manner of means old though the sort of intensity of the recent weeks of this crisis has subsided somewhat. that's because of an ongoing police investigation now that could take weeks or months to complete . but of course, this is still a party that he's troubled by what is what it 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 the 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 parties. 1922 committee on wednesday. that

brings i think, the tally a to 13 publicly who 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 regard action that it has been doing in recent weeks trying to sort of isolate and confront these. disaffected groups of m. p. 's and try to win them around, deserves to minister of no than island has resigned it 2 years after power sharing with shin fain was restored, whole given has quit to either brick sent checks in the irish same. there has been months of protest by the democratic unionist party against checks on goods. the european commission says givens resignation creates further uncertainty and unpredictability for the northern ireland protocol. facebook's parent company is suffering one of the biggest ever stock market. why pounds met is sheer

value fell at 24 percent in early trading on wall street. that plunge followed losses on wednesday, which wipes nearly $200000000000.00 of facebook's value. other social media companies such as twitter and pinterest are also suffering losses. kristen salamis covering this story out of new york. hello there, christine. tell us more about what land to such as sharp to climb. yeah, it is a big drop. 25 percent. almost 26. percent now it looks like states facebook stocks are down. this is in part due to the company's earnings. the last quarter were lower than expected. and predictions for the current quarter are also being down played by c o mark to soccer bird. they had their annual meeting yesterday. part of the declining revenues has been attributed to changing policies that apple, believe it or not, apple change its privacy policies that's having an impact on advertising and

advertising. big source revenue, obviously for facebook. so that's one big issue. also, facebook has been you losing daily users for the 1st time. it recorded a drop of 5, i'm sorry, 500008 half 1000000 users. most of them in africa in latin america, this is the 1st time they've seen their user ship go down and not obviously spooked investors as well. most of those jobs coming in africa and latin america suggesting that maybe facebook has reached a saturation point. they're also dealing with competition from other social media platforms, tick tock, in particular, the video, social media side has been gaining in popularity. so all of that combining to make investors very concerned about facebook's future. and chris, in the take having nasdaq stock index, he's all her down today. can we blame this on facebook?

yes, it is down and the stock market in general has been having issues this year has been having some troubles. the nasdaq, the tech heavy stock index in particular, had a rough start to the year. things were looking up last week after stronger than expected earnings reports from microsoft and google brought check investors back. but this facebook, the latest information on facebook really seems to be speaking investors in the market. the nasdaq is down over all social media stocks like twitter, our down spotify, a streaming service that had some controversy here in the united states, over accusations one of its artist was spreading vaccine misinformation. that's down as well, of the facebook when all is said and done, still made $39000000000.00 in profits last year, but to see what's happening there. all of these changes in the social media world

clearly are spooking investors and raising questions about the future of social media, and that is having an impact on the market. or i think you've arrhenius up to speed kristen. so let me live for us in new york still in the us and california had its gold rush almost 200 years ago. now the hunt is on for lithium. the highly prized metal is a key component of batteries to pow electric vehicles in the drive to combat global warming. for more on this story, let's go to ro reynolds who's in the sultan see in southern california. hello, they rob, tell us more about the increase in the popularity of the lithium market. well, it is a, an enormous increase and the price of lithium has been rising very steadily. because as you mentioned, it is a key component in ah, the clean energy revolution, battery powered cars, electric cars that do not admit any ah,

greenhouse gases. this is a, you know, a beautiful spot at almost an eerie spot. the vast body of water in the middle of an air desert. at one point it was a touted as of the vacation playground for the middle classes. but then the salton sea became polluted. the fish died. people didn't want to swim here any more. and the community descended into poverty, and it's now really one of the most impoverished spots in the united states. but there's a new new rush, the lithium rush, a new dream, not only for prosperity in this particular area, but also as a way of combating global warming. california is salt and see shimmers like a mirage and an arid land. but its waters are nearly lifeless. full of salt and agricultural chemical run off the farm and communities near the sea are among the poorest in the us with high unemployment and nearly one and 4 people living in

poverty. frank salazar is a local resident and activist, but we lack is opportunity. you know, i think opportunity is what we need here in this, in this county. the salt and see is shrinking as streams are diverted. to farming on windy days, toxic dust from the dry lake shore fowls, the air. when you look at the asthma levels of our local children, when you look at the cancer levels of our local residence there through the roof but far below the seas, flor lies a vast reservoir of super heated water rich in lithium. the element used to create batteries for electric vehicles and a key to slowing global warming. we have what some of described as a saudi arabia of lithium here in the state of california. the stakes are high, not only for the regions, future prosperity, but for us national security. the u. s. wants a domestic supply of lithium today. more than 80 percent of all,

lithium is mind in australia, chile, and china. but the salt and seas, treasure trove of the mineral, could change those numbers dramatically. we expect to produce about a 3rd level in from this site. it's incredible. resource companies are already drilling what you say in the background. there are 2 production wells full diamond wells that will produce enormous amounts of ron to fade the plant that which will be located. he state and local officials envision a lithium based industrial complex with battery factories, an electric car manufacturing well paint job with benefits that currently are in here in imperial county salivate. when i think about it 510 years down the road, how big it can be. conservationists like aileen anderson, approve of the environmentally friendly extraction process, powered by geothermal energy. they hope lithium projects will generate funds to restore the salt and see which is a crucial stop over point for migrating birds. and she's looking at the big picture

. if we're going to transition to clean energy and get off our fossil fuel induction, the fans gonna being key proponent, hope for a region down on its luck and a planet heating up. now the lithium extraction is expected to really get underway and you know, be fully realized in 2 to 5 years. and at that time, according to the department of energy in the united states, as many as $600000.00 tons of lithium could be extracted from this area. and of course, that translates into an awful lot of lithium ion batteries that will power those clean energy vehicles and help fight global warming. thank you very much for that report. rob reynolds life for us in southern california. still ahead on al

jazeera reopening may vote is he zealand is set to loosen some of the world's toughest curve at 19 restrictions. it's been decades in the making, but scientists if finally beginning trials for an h i v vaccine. and we'll hear from india's early as late after beijing winter olympics, that's coming up in sport with patient ah, let's go with your weather report for the middle east and africa. hello everyone. great to see you. we have some disturbed weather across so that we'll touch on that in a sec. but look at this southerly push there. riyadh may hit 30 degrees on friday. let's go in for a closer look because it's not just rea, it's round the golf though. her 25 look at q weight 27 degrees could see some sand and dust stirred up. i think it's going to stay dry here. most of that energy will

be across western areas of iran. high temperature is for southern pakistan, karachi, $31.00 degrees. that rain peters out across the northeast to pakistan. so those temperatures will come up. okay, here we go to the levant right now in some thunder. he downpours could be expected here. it's kicked down those temperatures ramallah just the high of 9 degrees flooding a possibility for south africa. we're talking pretty much durban rate in 2 port elizabeth. we've got an incoming tropical storm. first. i want to show you what it did to maricia is, is our top wind speeds of about a 155 kilometers per hour. so that down trees more than $200.00 millimeters of rain . and by saturday it's looking like it's going to make landfall long that east coast of madagascar. and that's gonna generate some severe flooding and the days to come. okay, that's it for me. we'll see you soon. take care. ah,

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ah, ah, ah, hello, are you watching on his ear? i'm emily, anguish, reminder of our top stories this. our president joe biden says the leader of i so blew himself up before us special forces could arrest him in syria. at least 13 others, including children, were killed. and the overnight raid in italy, province, turkeys president, is held, talks with his ukranian counterpart in the capital key f. the gremlins condemned the u. s. for sending more troops to eastern europe to counter the threat of a russian invasion of ukraine. and gunners, president is warning the series of racing cruise in other countries in west africa could be contagious, and must be contained. nana

a co adot hosted an emergency summit of acre was leaders to discuss how to punish soldiers who deposed became officers government last week. ok, let's return to our top story now on syria and the death of the leader of i. so following a ride in northern syria, patrick crowley is a former us assistant secretary of state and the author of red line. he says, the strike will undoubtedly rise many questions. any time that you can, you know, put a dent in the leadership of a group like this. it's meaningful. think about al qaeda, for example, is never quite been the same. so it's a loss of or some have been long, so leaders will be replaced, or they can also be capable of, but it takes some time for a group like the islamic state to recover from what we've all been focused on ukraine and all of a sudden were brought back to syria, but it's a reminder that

a global power, like the united states, can do more than one thing at once. so we do have the situation in ukraine. we still have a negotiation going on with iran, and yet we still have this lingering battle with the united states and the region against the law mac state. obviously they're trying to make a come back and, and this is a reminder that we haven't overcome, you know, the threat that the a small mistake poses as of yet. this will obviously be scrutinized. there. there should be a lot of video that allows people to kind of go back over, you know, what happened? i think we have to be very cautious of the specific details. so, you know, even going back to the re, the killed or some of the log in 2011. it was days or weeks before we had a firm understanding of what happened. so was this a, a case where there was an explosion launch from the outside,

an explosion launch from inside. who are these people? how good was the intelligence that we had? not just about the location of the la mc state leader, but who was surrounding him? i think we've gotta be, we've got to let wait and let you know a lot of the details, you know, emerge, be verified, and then we'll have a full accounting of what happened and lessons learned from the us. president joe biden is in new york now to outline his strategy for dealing with a surgeon gun violence last year, placing the us confiscated a record number of illicit firearms covering this story is gabriel. alison de l. as under rama who is live for us outside the headquarters of the new york city police department, hello, they gave what's been the public's reaction to biden's efforts to bring down a gun crime. well, it went well, you're right by news here in new york,

and he will be visiting the bronx for to new york city. police officers were killed last month. i will also be visiting the new york police department headquarters behind me and a school as well. the public is worried for the most part about the increased crime throughout the united states and increased gun violence. several cities in the us that have seen almost a 100 percent increase in the last year of gun related murders in italy, including here in new york city where there's a violence has gone up. it's not at the same levels that it was 20 years ago, but it is still been creeping up. so biden is here to announce or to, to push for more of his plan, which entails 2 things. prevention and enforcement prevention meaning more play more money for local jurisdiction to try to put in programs. busy to get guns off the streets, illegal guns, but also enforcement more police officers. not only here but elsewhere throughout

the united states to enforce the laws. there is some skepticism by some or looking at this is perhaps over policing. and they say that there shouldn't be too much of a focus on policing so much as the underlying causes for gun violence. and that is what many advocates and critics, if you will, are worried about. they're saying there needs to be more of that investment in local communities that can help engage communities to bring got illegal guns off the streets. and gabriel, the president is a big supporter of police, putting him in aunts with some in his party. he want to hold the police more accountable. how was he handling them? yeah, the backdrop of all of this is in, within the democratic party. you do have a more progressive left leaning, leaning side of the democratic party that is calling for things such as the funding police, what a central meaning is called the police more financially accountable. and this all

came up after the murder of george floyd and many high profile instances of police using excessive force ticket people. as we've all seen over the recent years, president joe biden supports the police. he rejects the call for funding the police just the opposite. biden is calling for more police funding, so that puts him in sort of in conflict if you will, with some within his own party. so biden is walking a very thin line here. he was he so he clearly throughout his entire career in congress and in the presidency, support police whole heartedly supports more funding for the police, but also has to appeal to the more progressive side of the democratic party and others who also say, hey, we also need to make sure that there's not over policing, particularly in communities of color. also the critics point out to the fact that the new york police department, the biggest police department united states,

their annual budget for everything is $10000000000.00 a year. that's 1000000000 with a b, so they point out to the fact that then why p d, for example, certainly has quite a lot of money. and so there, urging president by just to not write a blank check to in their words, the critics over react to the uptick and crime by just giving police throughout the country a blank check. so certainly that's the overriding backdrop of this visit here as well. okay, well thank you very much for breaking that down for us. gabriel. alexander. i live in new york city bomb explosions in kidnappings, in colombia during the past month of killed at least 50 people. rebel groups a baffling for control of cocaine smuggling and the oil which region of a road come as alexandra ramp, yet he reports the attacks. a terrifying communities workers are busy reconstructing the actor martinez building in the center of the vienna. last month,

a car bomb exploded, destroying much of this flock. the students of former fight grab both are being blamed for the attack, which killed one person, the buildings house, human rights group, social organizations, and unions lay nomic us. if we were holding a security meeting because of the way the conflict with evolving with direct attacks against social organizations and community leaders. got that out the far distance or accusing us of sympathizing with the ellen. and that's how they justified attacking us. i know ill rich region on the border with venezuela has been mostly calm since the signing of a peace deal between the government and 5 rebels in 2016. but violence returned as far as dissident groups began to fight e l. n. rebels for control of drug trafficking in contraband routes. since the beginning of the year, more than 60 people have been killed. others kidnapped or forcibly displaced. at

that time though, they got the sister of security guard see me on this guy killed in the explosion, says locals are terrified when this war is said, and my brother is just one of many victims. everybody's anxious because we don't know what will happen tomorrow. at the moment, so even on a quiet day, people can sleep can't rest. well, they fear leaving the house. yes, everything has been affected. i normally at 6 30 pm, the streets of the center of sarah may and i would be alive with people shopping. but since the conflict started, shops are closing early and people are hurrying home, fearing and other possible attack. and on top of that, the mayor has imposed a curfew every night, starting at 9 pm. the government has increased this military presence of the area under the violence has pushed more than a dozen health workers to quit after hospitals were also threatened by the groups.

hey, catholic priest, albert here, al dos, holding healing sessions to help workers deal with trauma. we love what he says, part of the problem is that the military is mainly protecting the oil infrastructure in the region long neglected by the government, as always thought equal. it's a problem that goes back in history. the government has always prioritized, protecting military infrastructure. instead of the people, the church has asked the president to re open the door to abuse dialogue with the yellow. there was supposed to be a meeting in stockholm. the government didn't go. we're also trying to talk to then dissidence, but we are on our own. for hundreds of left, others like sonya lobbyists promised to rebuild and continue their work for the people, even if it might cost them their life. allison, that i'm p a t al jessia said of in with them. and alexandro joins us live now from sarah vena in columbia. we've just heard from your report there, alessandra,

are some of the measures authorities implementing working well, emily, evidently not, or at least not enough because every day, something else unfortunately, is happening. the violin started in earnest on january 2nd, when the 1st 22 people were killed in cold blood. and since then practically, every day something has been happening last night. for example, a military check point was attacked allegedly, by far this dance a soldier died. 2 other soldiers were wounded. 2 days ago, a social leader in a rural village, not far from here, was kidnapped again, allegedly by these far dissidents groups. there was a harrowing video of his family, asking the group to please return him home. and he said that he was found dead

yesterday. this has been, this is the situation since the beginning of the year. the saddest part here is that much of this confrontation has not happened between the 2 groups. we haven't seen any clashes between the 2 groups, at least here on the columbia, inside were very close to the border with venezuela instead. here it looks like the 2 groups. and in particular again these, these students of the former fark rebels have been openly targeting and attacking civilians are in particular social leaders. community leaders in a village is also human rights organizations. even hospitals are, as we reported, have been trapped in by these groups. everybody that they see as an obstacle towards a dare effort, said to regain control of this territory. only elaine did last.

this and being a rebel group or in colombia remained here at stirred a fork sign the p. steel in 2016. so what we're seeing now is that these new dissidents are coming in, trying to regain control of these 3, sorry, a, fighting with the yelling, but attacking civilians to try and regain control of some of the drug routes. the cancer bound, the aroused in other illicit activity that happened in, in, in this territory that is very remote, but is oil rich. and there are also other important mines and, and other businesses that the, these groups are interested in. certainly sounds like a multi layered problem. thank you very much for that update alexandra ramp. yeti left for us in serafina to brazil. now where heavy rain triggered floods and land slides killing at least 29 people. many a missing in south palo stage where it rescue workers and digging through mud and

de brain. 1500 families have been forced from their damaged homes to new zealand now, which is easing strict border controls imposed at nearly 2 years ago. in response to the pan dimming in the initial stage of acts night in new zealand is in australia will be allowed home without having to quarantine. wine hang explains 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 chrome variant already circulating here, the government feels the time is right to open up the 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 back 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 painting, mac. but the reason that it is right up there is one of the toughest things we have

experienced is in pat. 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 a new zealand. the drug make madana has launched trials. so the 1st ever h i v vaccine using the same technology developed for its coven, 19 job. 37000000 paper worldwide are affected by a driving eyes. despite the decades of research and trials, there's still no effective vaccine because the virus is so complex. medina, you m r n a vaccine teaches the body how to make proteins that trigger and immune response against the fast mutating virus. the trial is using antigens that triggered a successful immune response. in previous tests, it's hope to m r, and i could be kate making rapid progress towards

a new vaccine. jeffrey lazarus is head of the health systems research group, the boss learning institute for global health. he explains about initial trials. this is a phase one trial. so this is the earliest stage after proof of concept, the 1st few people received the vaccine just a couple of days ago. so this will be a multi year process. but given again, the rapid success with 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 we know is that the m r n a technology was not both, frankly, very well thought of or successful until the curb 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 than you know, the focus on an h i. v vaccine 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 . because h a v vaccines have been failing for over 2 decades. i remember being at the aides conference in 2008 when we expected vaccine to be successful and again, it failed. so given the success of the m r n, a vaccines against cove at 19, this is, this is fantastic news. still ahead on al jazeera in the winter olympics, officially staff on friday, but the curling action is already underway in beijing that's coming up in full with ada. ah.

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lou. ah, he's and emily, thank you. there's still one day before the song of the winter olympics in beijing, but some events have already begun the mixed doubles. curling competition has started at the national aquatic center, with a small domestic crown because of coven 19 restrictions. but those supporters cheered on china's 1st competitors in the games. fancy young and ling g when they're opening match. but it wasn't a great day for the hosts in the women's ice hockey side. china were beaten through one by the check republic. bmo. there was some big hit as the 2018 so my lists,

canada faced switzerland in their opening match, the canadians winning that one convincingly 121. it all gets going for real on friday, with beijing becoming the 1st city to have the summer and winter olympic games. the olympic torch relay continues. having stopped off at the great wall of china, making its way to the opening ceremony at the birds nest stadium, which was the venue for the 2008 olympics. but these games have been controversial since paging one, the hosting rights in 2015. they've been hit by diplomatic boycott from several countries, including the u. s. person and australia of china's human rights record, i think are allowed to express debuts, but not in the field to play on podiums. international olympic committee president thomas bar wants the sport to stay separate from politics. we are writing a new chapter in sporting history. we can only accomplish these mission. is the olympic games stand above and beyond all political differences.

this is only possible if the olympic games are politically neutral and do not become a tool to achieve political goers. india is home to the world's largest mountain range, but it has a patchy record in winter sports any one after he's representing the country at the beijing olympics. winter athlete say they is little government support and few financial incentives. the sports people have new, metal has more nestled in the himalayas in indian administered kish, me. the town of good mark is one of a chas highest and largest key resorts. it's also an artist con. first took up, his key pulls and now he's competing into slalom. events at the olympics in beijing committee ski include training. i was trained by my father for the 1st 8 years. he taught me the basics. the state and national level champions also trained. you're

in good mug. they inspired me by and i also learned by watching them or eventually i started training in europe or not the countries those experiences what grade for exposure and skill development. take him every couple of heavy the india has sent only 15 olympians in the history of the winter games and has never won a matter. con is the only entrance 50 of many of those came to compete. say there's little money and no one to nationally recognize federation to support athletes. current training was funded by his father who runs his key shop. his family and friends also supported him. perhaps the night is a national level nor border who once dreamed of competing at the olympics due to no support from government and from the private please. i couldn't make it in reality . and i think the stream is going to die in goldberg only. ah, as far as the infrastructure is concerned, we snowboard here on a very,

very basic infrastructure, we don't have any slopes for snow borders, no lift for snowboard. over the last few years, hundreds of enthusiasts have attended training camps and competition sponsored by the government. but the local sporting body said more needs to be done to support and support putting talent might be on other countries or winning metals. so why not india? kashmir has the best assets in terms of snow. we have slopes and new equipment. we request the ministry to conduct international level tournaments and coaching comes to boost our youth. there's no darth of talent here. we will have more r e cons con. hope to break into the was top 30 at the game. his greater goal is to inspire more people to take up the fort, but no said getting the support that's needed will be an up his dos. bob middle al jazeera new delhi, a class of giants kicks off in just a few minutes the africa cup of nations, semi final between hosts, cameroon,

and egypt. the camera unions have the tournaments top scorer. that's a vance on our back and he's got 6 goals and 5 games and they have a home advantage in the bathroom play finagle in the final, but egypt out for revenge. having lost the camera and 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 come around. they've been scoring goals, but we read the come visit san classic douglas like a camera in egypt. it's an africa cup of nations classic part from the stakes. every match that is the semi final it up on is a revenge match. we can't forget. but as i said, our objective is to win the african no matter the opponent in front of us will be determined. earlier we spoke to african football journalist gary l. smith, who says egypt, mohammed sola has made no secret of his desire to win the title. but he thinks

thursday's match will be too close to call. there's a reason the semi final is being built as probably the biggest fixture that could have happened is couple of missions. and it's because between them and top 12 titles that you know to must assess all size and competition history. that means that it's not easy to call asked div also being perhaps 2 of the best sides. most a lot like his teammates or your money, who has got it, you know, keep saying, look, he doesn't care about individual. i was in this competition. all he wants is the gold medal or on his neck on sunday. remember most of one european achilles, the highest, especially in the primarily good champions league. the wants this semester, a spectrum, legacies, you know, in the countries for marcella in a country like egypt. you are not a legend if you are not one at least africa. and so he needs this for his legacy.

ah, canada or flying in their quest to qualify for the cancer woke up, they beat el salvador to know, make the live games. i'm decent in the north central american caribbean region at cb hutchinson and jonathan david school for the canadians who are looking good make their 1st woke up since 1986. 6 6 so 3 games to go, it's canada for boys cleared the top with the united states and mexico occupying the other 2 mattie quantifying spots, the team in 4th going to a playoff. so panama aid of costa rican el salvador. as it stands, stops in golfer bryce and december has reportedly been offered more than $113000000.00 to become the face of a new gulf super league. the project, backed by saudi arabia, has approached several big names, but it's yet to be launched. the chicago and any other player who signs up risks the lifetime ban from the more established pga and european to it's. that's all the sports news. emily. thank you very much,

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