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a legitimate political discourse and sport official competition at the winter olympics has begun and event overshadowed by the pandemic and human rights abuses. ah, well, i've run current of ours cruise. the state of democracy at stake, leaders from 55 african countries have a full agenda to deal with as they meet the c as african union summit, la pictures here actually from ada sap, about where the summit is being held and began a short time ago. our lead is addressing a number of challenges, things like conflicts with armed groups, and more recently, the increasing number of coups in the continent coming up with concrete plans on how to tackle the corona virus vaccine rollout is also expected to be a top issue. more from madison about an amendment with a correspondent, muhammad. oh, 1st his report about can union headquarters in these european capital?

the fust summits with big points did of a video link in more than 2 years. the newly established africa center for disease control africa cdc, is leading efforts to keep the 2 day summit covered free. the decision to oldest summit in possum, since the advent of brother pandemic was take him with the express of decision that we're going to make it safe. top on the summits agenda is how to step up books in ation against covered 19 in the continent. although covet vaccine supplies enough recoveries and significantly the continent is struggling to expand roll out with only 11 percent of the population fully vaccinated. african had self state and government gathered here will also discuss another epidemic of multiple who's in the continent. emboldened by popular hunger was african military leaders in marley, gideon, brooklyn, of fossil, of cut it out folk,

whose in 18 months they followed military takeovers instead, done and church in 2021 more than 115000000 africans that to day living under the rule of soldiers who illegally seized power, lovick and 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 polemical cruise, the now increasing calls for more action from the continental body. there is such as of cruise has a loved was that because remaining civilian didas on friday, cold and emergence is some of the regional 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, muddy guinea burkina faso answered done, but not chad. some analysts worn, the double standards could hop dire consequences. there is

a breakdown in the 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 and the poor are 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 crimes might be a tall order for the after communion. as promised, here is muhammad, is our reporting live from the summit in addis ababa? let's start with the current situation. mohammed, the rollouts, all covered vaccine seems to have been the issue. yes, it did. come all and there is a huge problem. is some places with only some countries up to 16 of them, only vaccine they think,

just less than 5 percent of the population. and it's not a matter of supply because there has been so many donations. so vaccines from different parts of the world, the united nations and the rest of the international community have been shipping. but since to africa, the problem is one awful no meaningful role out in many countries the, there are many countries were lacking the funds to take those like this to the people who need it. and that's a while to help organization that line of july where countries are supposed to have bugs elated up to 70 percent will not been made in africa because of this problem only in january, 9 to 6000000. but then the doses of the vin was shipped to africa. that is double what the continent received in the past 6 months. so it's not

a problem of supply. it is one of the problems with in the membership of the african union that countries are unable because they don't have the funds to take the exam to the people. and that's where the problem lies. ok, talk about the situation with coups and takeovers which have happened to in africa, you know, looking externally or for us looking externally. it just looks like a whole lot of crews happening in, in one area. but, i mean it's, it's so much more nuanced than that. and i wonder how group, but the african union can deal with all these situations while it is a problem and one which has been felt across the continent, 6 crews in 18 month for them in one region that is west africa, which has always been known as the cool belts of africa, with the exception of the qu, in chad, and the one is done, we saw people celebrating in booking of fossil guinea. and as well as molly that

take over the, the, the forceful and violent takeover of power by as soldiers. and not just shows the breakdown in the social contract between the leadership and the people of those countries. countries that have been unable to deal with the massive problems that people are facing from joblessness among the young people, to insurgencies. and this feeling that the government has not been doing much has led to people welcoming the fossil takeover of power by soldiers. and i'll just to interrupt you to thank you for that mohammed joe and out of egypt. sorry, prime minister. it is actually speaking right now at the summit. let's have a listen. exemplary just ship in our collective response to the challenge of the pandemic. over the past 2 years, we have a struggle not only against the human cost of the pandemic,

but also i'm going to get up in the system of the, in the submission arbiter double bonds, border closures, loc, dance and missed information about the value of vaccines. most importantly, although, because once i learned that corporation and collaboration is vital, not only for our health but also, but our collective survival. excellence is ladies and gentlemen. our union has committed thunder thick, ambitious plans designed to throw this form out a continent and to create the africa we once we once a prosperous africa, best done sustainable and equitable development. we want to politically united continents that aspires to fulfill the ideas of fun of the coliseum and the vision

of an african renaissance. fulfilling our aim of better seeing the africa we went through robust implementation of agenda to increase q 3. and it's fluctuate projects will require us to make extraordinary efforts collectively out of him. for 2022 is edition. and for security over the past 2 years, i paid for his acadia in africa has increased by over 60 percent. they fixed the quote in 19 continue to the i got of it's our fragile academies, fled but i was busy at locusts and other climate. it's natural disasters have increased food insecurity for millions of our citizens. when 60 percent of the one is out of the land in africa, it is over the most important that we need to use our natural asset to maximize

agricultural outputs and fidel people without their lives on excel assistance in the past 3 years. if you're behind the med substantial investments and in intensifying in several reproduction through a vacation, i'll farmers have been able to control and manage production factors to maximize year less using allegation. nationally, we have attained production over 20000000 been tons of allegation with from one over 5 100000 picked us. these are generated nearly $60000000000.00 and income, while farmers. this effort started generating great wizards. and we had speaking at the opening of the african union summits, addis ababa mohammed to dos still with us? interesting, muhammad, he's actually bringing up what the,

what this summer is supposed to be about? and that's something we haven't discuss the issue of food security. yes indeed, and that is a major problem specially given the space of droughts that we have seen in various parts of africa now still in existence. in particular the hold of africa where many people have had their lifestyle wiped out by the recent drought. others us, felix pity, as it gets shot full of rain in many places, food security, millions of africans unable to feed themselves and libby to be fed by not just the governments, but also international organizations like the world food program. this of course has been a problem for a better long time. yes. so it is a major problem. but again, it is not on the agenda is just the prime minister raising it in his speech to showcase what they have been able to do in terms of improving food security. and if

you up the one of the most food insecure countries in africa. thanks for that mohammed jo, keeping us across the development of the african union summit onto the news in the united states is waiting sanctions on iran civilian nuclear program as talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal, enter a critical stage. the waiver was ended in 2020 by then you as president trump of jordan with more 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, a 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 ra 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. and we're getting some reaction on this from teheran that alisha honey is the secretary of the supreme national security council. he's tweeted this, ron's legal rights to continue research and development and to maintain its peaceful nuclear capabilities and achievements, along with its security against supported evils cannot be restricted by any agreements. more than half the un security council mothers condemned north korea for its recent miss are launches. 8 nations issued a statement that include the u. s. france, japan, and the u. k. that china has called on the u. s. to show more flexibility if it wants to break through with north korea or from out diplomatic editor james base. she needed, and judy of she almost killed 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 with its nuclear weapons and miss all programs, it's warring diplomats. there were 9 miss, i'll 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 actions. we have all seen where have all seen what happened in figure pull. we have all seen what happened in 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 of 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 hold. so meeting about sanctions around the world, james spies al jazeera at the united nations. and in the news ahead on our to 0, we'll look at why hong kong with losing its role in the regions financial hub. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored by capital airways. hey, they're great to see you. we've got disturbed weather moving across the islands of ireland and britain. so this going to generate some showers, snow as well. in fact, there is a yellow warning for snow in scotland. let's press play. see where this go saturday

into sunday. it's going to cross over the english channel, plague northern germany, right through into northern france. meantime, at the same time, we've got snow pushing from the baltic states into western russia. nothing major here just about a centimeter or 2 accumulation. similar story for a central europe. things are quite a few showers across the balkans. and these have also quieted down for the eastern med stay for a few showers in lebanon, and also ramallah with the high of 8 degrees. southern spain can also expect a few showers in the forecast for you on saturday, but temperatures in the twenty's, seville at 21 quiet for the northwest and the northeast of the top end of africa. but i really want to take your where the action is and all eyes on tropical storm back to right as it makes land fall long, the east coast, madagascar, just south of the capital. this one's going to pack a punch at one point, it was equal to a category for hurricane. and we're expecting about half a meter of rain to fall. so $500.00 millimeters in the days to come, and then it is expected to dip to the south. that's or update it. whether

sponsored by katara weighs ah, ah aah! on al jazeera, these are our top stories. a key summit of african leaders has begun an ethiopia, the $55.00 member african union is under pressure to come up with a coordinated response to a spite of military coups conflicts further fall out from the current virus pandemic. united states is waiving some sanctions on iran that civilian nuclear program as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. i enter a critical stage, former use president donald trump ended the waiver back in 2020 and condemnation of north korea's recent missile launches is growing more than half the un security

council spoken out against the tests 8 nations including the u. s. and u. k. described it as a significant escalation china purging dialogue. china is also backing moscow in it's stand off of the west of ukraine. at a meeting in beijing, the russian and chinese leaders announced a strategic partnership and called our nature to end its expansion to the east. katrina, you reports from beijing, vladimir putin and she didn't ping standing shoulder to shoulder, showing what bay describe as an unshakable bond. the leaders of russia and china met ahead of the opening of the winter olympics in beijing. it's the 1st time president she has met a foreign counterpart in person since the beginning of the pandemic, sugar certainly zulu, thoroughly hooked our spirit or friendship and the strategic partnership. her router, the unprecedented levels of jolie is out there. so she went to olympics 80 years ago, we promised to meet again. we have kept that promise. the leaders signed

a joint statement, presenting a united front on a range of foreign policy issues. they called for nato to end it expansion. and for the military alliance to abandon its so called cold war approach, they also denounced the orca security alliance between the united states, britain and australia, and the formation of further blocks in the asia pacific. the statement comes as both russia and china experience souring ties with the u. s. and it's western and european allies. but doris allies are also at odds. they see that the west is not speaking with one voice, and i'm has some ah division. so this benefit spoke, russia and china. the visit comes as tensions escalate over the presence of more than $100000.00 russian soldiers on its border with ukraine. washington is threatening to impose tough sanctions on moscow. should its forces invade. they

ging, says russia security concerns are legitimate. the intention me here here is to send a very clear message to the west that russia has options that russia china relationship is a possible alternative for, for moscow that is, is not going to be backed into a corner. and leaders are expected to find 15 agreements on issues ranging from trade to technology during putin's visit. russia will increase gas applies to china, and has announced a 30 year contract for a new pipeline between the 2 nations. china already received gas through what's name to the power of siberia pipeline that began pumping supplies in 2019 economic support from china could undermine any western method to punish any possible russian incursion into crane. but unless say, an even bigger concern, is it possible deepening a military corporation between moscow and they do?

she didn't being has often spoken of his deep friendship with vladimir putin who was the 1st major leader to confirm his attendance at the beijing winter olympics. the u. s u k. canada and australia have not sent officials to the vet in protest against china's human rights record. katrina, you al jazeera, they jing, as katrina mentioned her, the event has been overshadowed by the panda america to promote boycott concerns about china's human rights spots in a be games are on when some of the world's best acids, competing for top medals in winter sports. they've had strokes, reports, sonjee, olympia, in the way, try more. ah, after a troubled build up the 24th winter olympics have officially begun in beijing? the venue for friday's 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. the fell olympians. your olympic stage is set. you are for rife to you

after overcoming so many challenges. but now you are more with 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 cub 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 tough, an 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 genocide. 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 of a neutral. all venues will be powered by renewable energy, and 5 of them have been repurposed from 2008, but with very little snow full. more than 200000000 liters of water have been used to generate fake powder for the alpine locations. let's not be name, you know, artificial snow is used in the consistent way for decades. you know, 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 efficiently 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 rescue workers in morocco are getting closer to reaching a young boy who fell down a well the digging up pot of a hillside now and a delicate operation. to reach the 5 year old, he's been shot at the bottom of the 30 to me to well for 5 days. now can wish will answer arcadia. to me like, are we living in a true catastrophe in this area with our son, ryan? we pray to god for good news to make us in all moroccans happy. god that will love and as though as it were praying for ryan to be alive may his family. if patience and honestly our hearts are breaking through labor. i hope he will come out of this

. okay. it's like one of our own children has fallen. we are praying for his safety . he's one of our children. the us republican national committee is voted to censure to of its own politicians. they alice cheney adam adam tinge, and timson jer, i'm sorry, they are accused of defying party leadership by taking part in an investigation into the january 6 ride on capitol hill. on friday, republican politicians officially described the attack by donald trump, supporters and events leading up to it as legitimate political discourse and transplants president at the time might pen said he couldn't overturn the result of the 2020 election pence. in fact 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, hong kong leaders are under increasing pressure to change their no tolerance approach to the pandemic. as on the current cases, reach, wrinkled levels, economists so warning that any failure to relax restrictions could in fact jeopardize the territory status as a financial hub for credit reports. hong kong is known as asia, is world city that economists a warning that could soon change the territory as keeping in line with a 0 coven policy adopted by mainland china. lock downs and mass testing are common place and social distancing. restrictions have been extended, at least until mid february. people have been suffering a lot in the past 2 years and i doubt whether people can stand another 23 years in the current state. so, so to me, this is definitely not ideal. according to

a report by the european chamber of commerce, hong kong international isolation could extend into 2024 or until mainland china reopens to the world. experts say, hong kong reputation could suffer long lasting damage given that to the hong kong is the financial hub. is the headquarters for many multinational firms in the region? ah, and therefore many experts will want to come to hong kong, but you get discouraged by this policy is going to make hong kong last international. hong kong is one of the few places in the world, still maintaining its no tolerance approach to coven and sticking to mainland china's policy. but as a 5th wave of infections sweep through the community, followed by another round of restrictions, people here are increasingly questioning whether the strategies sustainable or not a scandal over a birthday party attended by government officials, has done little to boost trust on monday, hong kong home affairs chief casper choice stepped down after making he behaved

inappropriately by attending the gathering last month. the government is also under pressure to boost vaccination rights among the elderly, currently at just over 30 percent. with our mc crohn infections expected to serge following the lunar new year, festive period. getting infections to 0 is looking increasingly out of reach brit clinic al jazeera hong kong ah, off past the hour and these are the headlines. a key summit of african leaders is beginning in ethiopia, and $55.00 member african union is under pressure to come up with the coordinated response to a spate of military coups conflicts and further fall out from the crown of iris pandemic. or from mohammed ado in addis ababa on.