together trying to deal with people who left behind ah. ready the cash at the council's ongoing silence is too high. more than half the un security council condemns north korea's latest launches, but china calls for dialogue. ah, hello and welcome on peach adobe. you're watching al jazeera alive from our headquarters here, and though, how also this half hour, the u. s. wave. some sanctions on iran has talked to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal . intensive on the 1st full day of competitions underway at the beaching winter

games, but the event is being overshadowed by cobit 19 and a diplomatic boycott strained relations. thousands of people rallying and molly to celebrate the expulsion of the french ambassador. ah, more than half the un security council has condemned north korea over its recent missile launches. 8 nations issued a statement including the us, france, japan, and the u. k. but china called on the us to engage in dialogue with north korea. his diplomatic editor, james bass. she didn't, judy of, she almost kissed at all this propaganda video has been ad in recent days on north korean t b kim john on is showing off his question skills riding at speed on a white horse,

but it is the speed of progress his country's making its nuclear weapons and miss all programs. it's warring diplomats. there were 9 miss are launches in january a record in a month. and the most recent launch was an advanced intermediate range ballistic missile. ambassadors came to a closed door meeting the 3rd this year. before it even started though, the chinese ambassador made it clear he felt there was a vicious circle and the u. s. needed to do more invoking the summits that president trump had held with the korean leader in 20182019. they should come up with more attractive and more practical, more flexible approaches, policies and accents. we have all seen, we have all seen what happened in finger pool. we have all seen what happened the hanoi china and russia wouldn't agree to a joint security council statement at this stage. that clearly angered 8 other

council members, which came up with their own statement read out by the u. s. embassy. the cost at the council's ongoing silence is too high. it will embolden the dpr k to further defy the international community. your chinese colleagues said that the u. s. needs to do more, and he specifically referred to the hanoi summit and the singapore summit, which president trump had with the supreme leader kim. so is it time for president biden to get directly involved in the diplomacy? united states has made clear that we are willing to meet with the north koreans without pre conditions. but before we can, can met our president to meeting, we need to have a better sense of what there is to achieve. the united states would clearly like the security council to take a tougher stand on pyongyang,

but china currently actually wants to ease sanctions on north korea. and it's a subject that will come up again on monday when the security council, under the presidency of russia, holds a meeting about sanctions around the world. james spies al jazeera at the united nations. now the u. s. is waving sanctions on iran civilian nuclear program as talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal enter a critical stage. the waiver was ended by the then u. s. president donald trump in 2020 roslyn. george reports from washington. essentially what to the secretary of state antony blinkin has done on friday is restore one part of the deal that was reached back in 2015. this sanctions waiver allows foreign companies and governments to assist iran in the maintenance of 3 of its nuclear reactors. both share a rock which is a heavy water reactor and the terran research reactor. otherwise, without this

a waiver, these companies and other governments could find themselves in trouble with the us, possibly facing a sanctions or ra, criminal charges of their own for assisting the government. this is a purely a maintenance some type of relationship. you're bringing in parts, bringing in the ability to monitor the amount of, of, of uranium that has been processed. and basically making certain that everything is safe at these 3 facilities. this is a technical step. one that needed to be done just for the safety of these facilities and to in order to load, try to make certain that all of the terms of the j, c, p, away or raw nuclear deal can be complied with. you need to have the ability for other parties, not just the u. s. and a rob, but other parties, other companies, other governments to know what's going on inside these facilities have the

technical information available so that they can best provide the assistance that the iranians would need to keep these facilities running. the 1st full day of competitions underway at the beijing winter olympics, nearly 3000 athletes are in a strict bubble because of cov 19. foreigners are not allowed to attend. the games have also been overshadowed by concerns of the human rights abuses by the chinese authorities. is david stokes thong g o m u curry in norway for more after a troubled build up the 24th winter olympics have officially begun in beijing. the venue for fridays opening ceremony was the birds nest stadium originally built for the summer olympics, back in 2008. it's the 1st city ever so spoke the winter and summer games. dear fellow olympians, your olympic stage is set you are for i fear. after overcoming

so many challenges, but vow your moment this come the moment you have been longing for like the tokyo olympics last year. coping 19 has given these games a different complexion that taking place inside a closed loop system, keeping competitors and staff away from the general public athletes must get tested for carbon 19 daily. and there were no foreign fans with only a small handpick domestic audience allowed to attend. some of the world's best winter athletes are unable to compete after testing positive. this is not tougher than injury because you aren't putting yourself out. let's take the risk. it's just the risk is everywhere around us, and i really feel for those athletes, i can't, i can't even imagine how it must be to day 4 years of work and then at the last minute. so had that taken away by something that's out of your control. several world leaders have traveled to beijing for the games, but other nations including the u. s. britain and canada have declined a diplomatic boycott over china's human rights record. specifically its treatment

of muslim wages. china to noise human rights abuses, the people's republic of china is perpetrating a campaign of gross human rights violations, including janet sought, over the next 2 weeks is an urgent moral duty to shine a bright light on the many human rights violations being perpetrated by the host nation, beijing, 2022 organized essay. the games will be carbon neutral. oh, venues will be powered by renewable energy. and 5 of them have been repurposed from 2008, but with very little slow, full, more than 200000000 liters of water have been used to generate fake powder for the alpine locations. let's not be name in the artificial snow is used in a consistent way for decades. you oh, in winter, a competitive sport. what is really important, like for any other activities that there we, we practice is to try to do it in the most efficient way. with the lead up to the

olympics dominated by politics uncovered 19, most of the athletes will have the focus now shifted to the action as nearly 3000 competitors from 91 nations fight to take home a gold medal. david stokes al jazeera, thousands of people have rallied in molly against the former colonial power from st . they were celebrating the expulsion of the french ambassador. the demonstration happened on the same day. the e, you unveiled a series of sanctions against the countries military leaders is alexi o'brien waving money and fled susan's gathered in molly's heaped obamacare the taste against the former corn poor fool. it was even herbert concerns of french president macklin, which was later set on fire. oh, the crowd was celebrating the expulsion,

the french ambassador. he was given 72 hours to leave after the french foreign minister described molly's military leaders as illegitimate and anxious control the media, media, and media media. there are thousands of thousands of thousands of marlos to day who say no to france. so what the european union in france needs to do is respect the maryan authorities. they need to understand that the authorities in charge today of the only ones who can speak for our country. mellie, the school, my permanent nationalist activist and member of the transitional, 40 adama, ben diarra, the european union says, helped overthrow molly's government. in august 2020 the demonstration happening on the same day. he sanctioned money that he knew that his wrong in the measures include several bands and a set freezes and target $5.00 people including the transitional prime minister,

jo gail mega and members of interim president, a scenic coit is in a circle. pretty darn de la, closes your relations with the you have soured. since goiter put himself in charge and renamed on a promise to hold elections this month. your in sanctions are a sign of rationing at the pressure, but simply follow as the africans are balance out. i think dialogue certainly is still an option and that's the preferred course of action by both like a wash and the international community. but the yahoo described the sanctions as an honor saying expelling the french ambassador is only the latest step and getting rid of paris. his influence of a certain, it's important that i live, it's an important step on the fight, but the victory must go all the way up to next step must be the departure of french forces. and then we will start to move towards economy and monitor if sovereignty. there are about 5000 foreign troops in mali deployed to contain years of insecurity in the north. they include missions from france,

the wider you and the united nations. them on. we don't want any foreign troops and marley, they've been here for 8 years now and nothing has changed. i knew were russian flags in the crowded friday's reli russian nurse and raised welcomed by marley's military leaders last year. and diarra says he will rely on moscow to ensure france is forced out for good alexia bryan al jazeera still to come here on this program, minneapolis sees another police killing officers, entered without warning, and within seconds 22 year old emmy alarm was shot dead. the african union will hold its 1st in person, summits as the pandemic began with coons on the corona virus, on the agenda. ah,

as more snow falls in the rainy mountains as a by john sudden caucasus, but leaves turkey behind the cold, it always follows. it generates a shamal, it will blow for a day or 2, bringing some dust out of iraq to east and saudi, probably bahrain at her, and the you a tempted event, you will drop to high teens or low twenty's. so those severe, as we've seen, the last 2 episodes when this happened, this sunday, and the breeze drives dies down a little bit, but not completely. dubai will fill it. by this time, the sun is predominant, she shouted levin and may be serial. by this time, rather more violent and significant weather is this tropical cycle, an intense one, but sir, i on his way to make landfall during saturday afternoon. it sparsely populated area of madagascar. but this is going to affect a lot of madagascar. and they've not seen a store this intensity in this area. i think since probably 2012 possibly before that these are the conditions, 105 kilometer brow wind,

50 meter ways generated flooding rains is going to be extensive. coastal lowland flooding and damage from those winds that a storm will fall apart almost. it goes across madagascar to the gets to the side during sunday. and monday, when it will slowly regenerate and hang around for a bit. ah, there was a time when the aka van go with a flood through enough to sustain live in the northern calahan desert all year round. but that's changing. we followed 3 men in different parts of the alcove angles and they faced drought. wild animals and men meet in the constant fight with a vine risk in it all. but swan an algae there?

lou ah, by 15 gmc, you're watching al jazeera pizza, w headlining stories. more than half the un security council condemned north korea for his recent missile launches 8 nations, including the u. s. and the u. k. described it as a significant escalation. china is calling for dialogue. the us is waiving some sanctions on a wrong civilian nuclear programs, talks revive the 2015 nuclear deal, enter a critical stage. former president on trump ended the waiver in 2021st day of competitions on the way at the beijing went to game. strict corona virus measures are in place. 10 countries have staged

a diplomatic boy called because of human rights abuses. the pandemic and recent coups, a top of the agenda at a 2 day summits of the african union, the does are under pressure to increase the number of africans who have been vaccinated. mom the doe has more from addis ababa adapter can unit autos endif european capital. the fust summit with big points did of a video link in more than 2 years. the newly established africa center for disease control, africa, c. d. c is leading efforts to keep the, to day summits covered, free. the decision to hold a summit in the possum. ah, since the advent of brother pandemic was tick kim with the express of decision that we're going to make it safe, help on the some its agenda is how to step up looks in ation against covered 19 in the continent. although covered vaccine supplies enough recovery isn't significantly,

the continent is struggling to expand roll out with only 11 percent of the population fully vaccinated. african had so state and government gathered here will also discuss another epidemic of multiple coups in the continent. emboldened by popular hunger was of the can military leaders in marley, gillian brooke, in a fossil of cut it out folk whose in 18 months they followed military takeovers, is to done and church in 2021 more than 115000000 africans that to day living under the rule of soldiers who illegal is seized power, the african union with it's often much hyped slogan of african solutions to africa . problems has been unable to do much to tackle what sama calling on a p demco, whose the now increasing calls for more action from the continental body. there is such as of cruise has a lumped was done because the remaining civilian didas on friday, cold and emergence is some of the digital economic community of west african states

. of course, miss not really fall into the illusion that the military takeover will solve the problem. they cannot solve the problem and that will not solve the problem. because we have seen it in the past. the african union suspended molly guinea burkina faso answered done, but not chad. some analysts worn, the double standards could hop dire consequences. there is a break down into official contract between the government and the people. the governments are not delivering for the people, but the benefits of economic growth are going to those who are already rich on the poor. continue to the poor. and the marginalized, continue to be marginalized, with many african nations facing mid to security threats. relentless humanitarian disasters and millions of young people with no prospects. reducing the number of crews might be a tall order for the after communion mohammed i do elders eda, i disobey few appeal. hundreds of protest as have driven their cars through the

center of the us city of minneapolis to protest over the killing of a 22 year old blank man. i me a lock. he was shot dead off to the police, entered his apartment without any warning. the mass now impose the moratorium on no knock warrants. his mike hannah the footage shows a police officers unlocking the door with a key and storming into the apartment. within seconds of a verbal warning, 22 year old m l. luck lying and blanket is dead. as an emotional news conference on friday, family members called for justice and accountability. i believe that he was executed by the apd and i white, the police officer that murdered marcella here to be prosecuted and fired in the video lock can be seen holding a gun. family members said he had a permit to carry the weapon. amir was

a gun carry license in the bid you are earlier logs family appeared with the lawyers in a virtual news conference. they didn't announce any one's name. all they, all they announced was that they were, they're executing a warrant, waking somebody out of sleep, while lawfully possessing a gun. the minneapolis police department has confirmed that locks name wasn't on the warrant. these are wrenching videos to watch their painful but it's necessary. and i hope that it provides some answers along with the questions the minnesota gun owners caucus released a blistering statement criticizing. the police saying mister locke did what many of us might do in the same confusing circumstances. he reached for a legal means of self defense. while he sought to understand what was happening, this latest incident comes nearly 2 years after george floyds killing by the

minneapolis police sparked international outrage. that part but now finds itself at the center of another controversy. a lawyer for locks family pose this question. as he called or change the fact that it's repeatedly black americans who end up in that situation makes us wonder. why isn't it any america? why is it only black americans that we don't give a chance to to live in the situations. the minneapolis police department is being investigated by the justice department to see if there's a pattern of civil rights violations. my kind of jazeera washington, more than 900000 people have no died from cobra. 19 in the united states, new infections linked to the army. kron variance and falling, but daily deaths are still on the rise. there's an average of $2400.00 per day. the us job market took an unexpected up turn in january, half

a 1000000 jobs were created despite the search and the number of cases related to all micro. the white house says it shows the economy is recovering from the pandemic. what's happened just in the past 3 weeks, today's extraordinary job report. that data was collected. the code crisis has been cut in half down and half, just 3 weeks. still too many cases, still we have to be on the, on the alert. but to be clear, this is a dramatic decline. thousands of teachers across puerto rico are protesting against you, budget for the island, the u. s. territory. fiscal plan contains a salary increase for teachers and other public employees, but freezes their future pensions. the move is to reduce puerto rico, $70000000000.00 public debt. the us republican national committee has voted to sense here to politicians from its own ranks their lives cheney and adam kinsey.

again, they're accused of defying party leadership by taking part in an investigation into the january. the 6th riots. republican politicians have described those events as legitimate political discourse and they have largely boycotted the inquiry. the former us vice president mike pence is dismissed claims by donald trump that he could have overturned the results of the 2020 presidential election. mister penn said he couldn't think of anything more on american. and i heard this week, the president trump said i had the right to overturn the election. president, trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more on american than the notion than any one person could choose . the american president changed their course as a democratic strategist. he says mike pence is considering his own presidential

ambitions, pencils rejection of donald trump's lives about the 2020 election should have happened long ago. and with extraordinary about this that it took this long. and he's been clearly positioning himself for 2024 run at the presidency. so this was just as much about beginning to stake a pass for his political future as it was about telling the truth. and he'll likely have to stand on a stage across from donald trump during the republican primary. and we'll have to look strong, unprincipled, and can't avoid this topic. and he did it in a politically expedient environment. you did it in front of the federalist society, like these are not people who are going to throw tomatoes. these people were supposed to be devoted to the constitution. but it was also important, though i don't want to downplay the importance of hearing a man with closer to donald trump in the white house. acknowledge that january 6th was a dark day in american history. a large minority of our country believe that this was political discourse,

or at the very least thinks that the violence came from other sources. they believe conspiracy theories that perhaps the f b i instigated the violence. so it's really, we're in a very, very difficult place. right. now, as a nation in our democracy is very fragile, because people don't believe what they can clearly see that this was a violent insurrection. farmers in greece have been demonstrating against rising energy prices. they use transfers to stage protest on a road in the central region. some say high fuel and electricity prices have increased their production costs by 50 percent, almost say it to $1000000000.00 government power subsidy for farmers isn't enough. fighting between rival rebel groups in colombia is making it impossible for politicians to campaign for next month's congressional elections. for the 1st time voting include so called special electoral districts for peace created under a peace deal with the fog is alessandra from pierre

t. farmer and congressional candidate to jo niga vedo has lived the horror of columbia conflict. first hands a local victim leader. he's running for office for a special electoral district for peace created to give a voice to under represented people like him. but the return of violent confrontation between arm groups in at ok has made campaigning impossible vicinity . i meant there were some we are just sitting still trying to work in the village, talking to friends, knocking on doors when possible. more than 60 people have been killed since the beginning of the year in a conflict between 11 rebels and dissident groups of 4 or 5 gravels. we had planned to follow giovanni, handing out flyers and visiting a perspective voter. but as we were leaving, he had a change of heart. but he said, yeah, when i was, i don't think we should, it would be a nice thing for me to take you around town and be on the news telling people what

my plan is. what i want to do if i win, but right now will put us at risk the little campaigning that is happening is limited to the main urban center. that's because all candidates are saying it's just too dangerous to travel to rural areas, even on main roads like this one. because the groups are known to set up checkpoints at any time. the situation is also affecting regular candidates. older cassidy's was running for a traditional seat in the house of representatives has campaigned, in alca for years, and this is momentous that we are putting our lives in the crossfire to campaign. and we accept silencing ourselves and confinement to try to sustain democracy. but in like a man, he says, the situation is as bad as at the height of the conflict. he's running most of his campaign on social media go. yeah, it was organizing a meeting and for tool is impossible. going to the town of life, the where i was a teacher and getting 4050, pull together,

also impossible. the local human rights official says political and social leaders have become the main targets of the arm groups. and a pop in bo sooner on tapered everything is great. the government has full filling its obligation to the victims who can vote in these elections. but the reality on the ground is the opposite. when people can't exercise their rights, when i'm running a political campaign in the conflict written region like cut, alco was never easy, but this time was supposed to be different. instead, threats and attacks are once again silencing this already marginalized voices, allison, that impurity and jesse. you know, peruse, deploying hundreds of police officers and soldiers to the capital, lima, a state of emergency has been declared off to violent crime. their sword, the measure suspend freedom of movement on the rights of assembly. at last for 45 days. heaving the state of emergency with the government as we have it is dangerous,

but unfortunately it's necessary. the figures of committed crime speak for themselves. last year there were $70000.00 assaults and robberies reported in the streets of lima. in its 43 neighborhoods. 225 people died from hyde killings. more than 60000 families in bolivia been left homeless by flooding and lands lies the capital. la pas is one of the worst effected areas with dozens of homes destroyed. much of the country is on alert with bad weather conditions expected to continue clara karita setting. and i think the weight was coming into my yard since the mud come from above, it comes down with strength from when it rains it becomes worse. and practically don't sleep any more. we haven't slept for all my free days. a historic bridge and the dutch city of rotterdam could be dismantled to allow a super yard built for the amazon founder jeff bezos to pass by the city is considering a request from a ship build of the bridge to be taken down temporarily. if approved,

the billionaire would have to cover the cost, the yacht will be the biggest in the world. it'll be worth half a $1000000000.00. yeah, i think the break you feel okay. i think it's a bit of a 1st because in fact, only the middle part needs to be removed temporarily. and yes. okay, it's in old bridge, so it's a bit vulnerable. so i hope everything will be fine. so i think it's a bit of a shame to dismantle the breach just for some persons private property, to pause for it. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, more than half of the un security council has condemned north korea for its recent missile launches, 8 nations including the us and the u. k. described as a significant escalation, china is urging dialogue. they should come up with more attractive and more practical.