meanwhile, schools in india, 7 karnataka fate continue to be close after confrontation following a ban on women's has cobs. the move spawns protest are muslim students earlier this week say they're being discriminated against. they were met with counter demonstrations from hindu, who support the bat. i so again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera, russia and bella was, have started joint military drills near ukraine's border. the criminal says the exercises will focus on what he calls suppressing and repelling external aggression . know what lee, she mashini. unlike maneuvers that russia holds in its own territory when their tubes go back to their basis. western troops far from their own territory of the u . k. the us and canada, their troops go to the baltics in the black sea, and they never go back to their bases or go home. you still may, julian,

have we done something that is not part of our sovereign right? something we're entitled to do in our own country. if russia is serious about diplomacy, they need to move those troops and desist from the threats. now if we are able to follow a passive diplomacy, a nato has put offer on the table for talks to improve transparency, to improve confidence between the parties. then there are all hopes of a better future. in other news, tenicia as president has announced, the supreme judicial council has been dissolved. it is tasked with ensuring the independence of the judiciary. but chi side to is it's become a thing of the past, is the latest in a series of decision side has taken in sacking the government dancer spending parliament in july. his critics say his bidding to consolidate power over institutions in tenicia. saudi arabia has warned it will bomb who si,

size in yemen, capital santa, and has told civilian c vacuum areas used for military purposes. this comes after 12 people were reportedly injured by falling debris at the ada international airport in saudi arabia. when a drone was intercepted by air defenses, the saudi led coalition says it's inexcusable that who the rebels deliberately targeted a civilian airport. drone strikes by the who fees have intensified in the last few weeks. libya parliament has voted to replace entering prime minister abdul hamid to biber with fatty bush aga, the former interior minister is came hours after the bible survived an assassination attempt. those are the headlines on al jazeera as always more news on our website at al jazeera dot com for madison will be here with the al jazeera and use our right after the stream to stay with us. teach it strong man is ruling with an iron fist and the silence from his allies is deafening. yours was perfectly

happy to trade off tomorrow. proceed for security. why are weston leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression? executions, torture censorship is not acceptable. and you won't hear such strong words from, let's say berlin or paris, or london, a man in cairo on al jazeera i anthony, okay, and your in the strain today we catch up on 3 stories, reef efforts to tanya brought much needed aid. but they also brought coven 19 and 70 own a rape crisis, affecting young girls 3 years after a historic nor was past. what progress has been made. the 1st to the story of chinese tennis player, pang, why her alleged disappearance ignited as social media campaign late last year. and

she emerged as pressure on the chinese government built. he is a later hong fincher showing her thoughts with us in november. i think that these propaganda pictures show that she is alive, but i hardly think that she is. well, we haven't heard directly from pung, try at all. i remember that she posted her lengthy accusation accusing a former vice premier, a john garley of sexually assaulting her. she posted very lengthy accusation on november 2nd and so that was a long time ago. and then they scrubbed it instantly and we haven't heard from her at all. i have no doubt that chinese security agents have been working on her probably interrogating her. probably i wouldn't be least bit surprised if

they been threatening her threatening members of her family. and so they've been working on her preparing her to make these appearances solely for propaganda, se, joining us now, yochi wine, a senior china research at human rights watch you. it is good to have me back. we were talking about pinch, why with you a few months ago. and the conversation was more than what has happened to a tennis player. there was so many more things to talk about in the past few months . if you're looking at pinch why situation, how would you unpack it? well, i think, i mean, recently she had, you know, participated interview with our french news media. and also she had a dinner waste. the i r c president thomas bock. but overall, i think it's the same story. i still agree with what don't let us said about, you know, her situation even now she's, you know,

talking to an independent media outlet by just saying that i think it, you know, to stay security still working on her or trying to prep her to say the things that they want her to say, i caught this tweet from cow it on my laptop and she knew that we were talking about pinch. why today? a cow says, do you expect her to tell the truth? she's in the grips of the c. c. p. like most chinese citizens forced to retire so they caught the effect anyway, my view is just leave this story alone. you will make it worse for her and her family. not you. i think i do think i totally agree with that because you know, we all know that she isn't afraid to speak her mind. so before engaging with her, you have to think twice, you know, would you want to ask a person? how do you feel when you know that she can't speak freely about how she feels? what are the questions them? because the, for instance,

international olympic committee are using the interactions that they have had with pinch. why? as an example, to feel comfortable about doing business with china, having a beijing olympics in china. they are using these examples as she, she's fine. she told us this. what questions should they be asking if any then yeah to you. it's really shameful of what i owe see to keep participating in the chinese government orchestra. i did, you know, scheme or propaganda saying, you know, she's fine. nobody's controlling or look, she's happy really. i mean, we all know what's going on, right, that she can speak her mind and for, in order for the olympic games to, you know, be held in baking, in order to, for this whole thing to going on. this is the, you know, the activities, the, i would say are still willing to engage is really shameful. i mean, the, i would say needs to ask of aging, you know, how about what,

what's about the investigation, you know, what, what about the censorship about the her stories? well, yes, if she is free, why are you still answering her story of the chinese internet? why can't a chinese, you know, company to discuss about her case? those are the questions, the ios, a need to ask the chinese government on each if we have questions for you to you. and he's watching right now and he says, i am curious. if a chinese citizen is being harassed by another chinese citizen opiate a very high profile one, what can the rest of the world do? well, i think it, you know, the media wearing to show, discussing about this case. i think it's a, it's a, it's, it's a good saying that we need to keep the pressure on that to, you know, this happened to 10 is going to scrub her off the internet and they show her to the world. oh, she's doing fine. look, she's happy and the way keeping ask a question, you know, why are you answering her? you know, what about the investigation? so this is something that we can, can keep doing. and also, you know,

push i case is just one of the many cases happened to the chinese, me to movement. there are many other people who are less high profile or keep speaking up, keep, you know, showing support despite the government, censorship of the whole movement, despite the governments harassment to surveillance of women who speak up. and i think we need to pay more attention on the broader mutual been in china. i think it speaks to. i don't want to say legacy pinch. why? because she's still around. she's still with us all the acts. i think it's quite limited, but it speaks to what she has achieved in the sport of tennis that people care so much about what she's doing right now. there was a broader conversation to be had. this is what some of our world of community share with us earlier. have a listen, have a look, got you and then respond immediately of the back of the video. the time is gone and i was see trying to convince people that i'm sorry, is free and safe. i see it's not free and not safe. she's under $24.00

seventh's. and there is she wanting to say $1.00 to $10.00. he's gone, wants her to sit, this is not an individual case alone. this is also a part of a systematic campaign to ensure that nothing is ever said. that might challenge the state that could be perceived as criticism state or that could cast a negative light on state officials. and that's part of the reason that we need to see a more robust response from the international community. insisting on accountability and transparency from chinese authorities and calling out the entrenched systems of the abuse and silencing. i absolutely agree. i mean, this is emmy polish, right? because for some after the status because you know the world cares about sports. you know, that is really the reason why the broad international communities discussing about her. but there are so many, you know, last are no human rights activists. human rights lawyers who have gone through this,

they have said something that to the government doesn't like it. they got disappear, then they reappear almost certain, you know, 2 year programs and oh, i confessed to my client, i am so sorry, i do think the state then, you know, they have been under surveillance, the detain of their family, a harassed. so this is just one of the many cases having to so many people and i think of the intention of community shooting, you know, pay attention to the broader context of the issue that you thank you so much. you've helped us do that. pay attention to the border context of this issue. we appreciate you always feel pairing on the stream. so now we move from china to the pacific nation of paula for more than 2 years, it's isolation has helped keep corona virus mostly at bay, but a recent full kind of corruption and to nominate left the country desperate for 8 am video commentator quinn now to clag shad the difficulty of the situation with us last month. this is

a really hard and challenging emergency in china and we, patchy and limited communications. we're really struggling to make contact with her on the ground. but what we're hearing from the time government is that water and fuel is critical, and the time government is also desperately trying to keep her out of the country. so the best thing you can do right now is what you cylinder agencies through cash, donations and back money will get to the communities on the ground for delivering back critical. katie greenwood is back on the street with us. she's pacific head of delegation as the international federation of the red cross katie. so good to have you of. we were talking just quite recently. oh, january the 22nd. it was about so much work that needed to be done for tanya when or where the nation was, what help they needed, how they were going to get it done. and then at the back of our mind was this worry

about cove. it like there's no covey don't tanya right now, how do you keep it cove, it free. and now the situation is, there were about a dozen cases or so that is the worst nightmare katie. what happened? well, i mean, yes, it is a bit of a nightmare. and unfortunately, like a number of pacific nations over the last month or so has succumbed to having quoted reach shaw's. actually in the last overnight we heard that the cases have risen. so there's now about 34 active cases they in toner, which does mean that it is spreading in the community, the governments doing a great job of keeping it, trying to keep it contained to the communities where it currently knows that it is . those communities are locked down and that is also presenting, you know, a number of challenges, of course, for the, i'd in relate delivery that needs to happen as

a result of the volcano and army. so if it's that, that are happening with red cross and others on the ground, a slightly hampton, just because of those protocols and the extra layer that needs to happen in terms of personal protective equipment. but it is still happening. so the government is working with aid agencies to make sure that happens what happened in terms of cobit arriving. i guess some people might say that it was an inevitability. after 2 years of working so hard. sometimes you can find a little tiny chink in the arm of where i've been, particularly when it becomes these more virulent strands actually is manages to get through. they've done everything that they possibly could contact was. delivery of aid is just incredible in these times where people are working. so i quickly to get that relief in there. i can't. can you describe what contactless delivery of? 8 nunes on the ground?

sure, i mean, it's kind of like getting your pizza delivered in a contactless way, but imagine, you know, under the time is right. yeah. so that is that the people who have come with the ships and the containers ring, they get it to a certain point. and then people in they move back and then people in town who are unloading those containers, move forward. those goods are actually quarantined for a period of time. so around 72 hours, those those good to being quarantined for just to make sure that any surface residual contact with it is and is gone by then and then disinfect it as well. so a lot has been done to try and keep this a way that is actually we currently investigating that don't specifically know the source of where it came in. so that would be how little that that would be helpful . but, but once it's out, it's just i how to really then stop it from spreading

a question from how nice he's watching right now. does tanya have an infrastructure for me? 18 storage. so everything that's coming in is there a way to store it? like how is it being distributed? if you're doing it with out people who would normally be on the ground to help you get it around who certainly are using people on the ground to get it around. some people have gotten passes that has been issue in order to keep, you know, maintaining the flow. i distribution, that is a good question. there are warehouses, they are in to the government and others have a combined warehouse for i. that is a huge volume coming in. so i was reading just this morning about, you know, 51 i can time is that have come in from new zealand. stocked with goods also from community groups who are wanting to help at church groups and others in the community. and that's good. but sometimes that flow,

when you only have the capacity to unload about 2 of those containers per week, that's a huge amount coming into the country. and yet more if that is going to be required to get that out and distributed as quickly as possible. i'm going to add another voice to our conversation, katie, not suggesting picking. also i was looking at this as an international development challenge. this is what she told us a few hours ago. even if the civic are extremely resilient and thomas, they no exception. luckily we haven't had too many fantasies, but the devastation is extreme. this is going to be a long term recovery. people are still concerned about access to clean water. ash has ruined many of the crops. luckily it rained it over weekend. so the tanks wash some of the ash off, but this will be going on for a long time and now on top of everything cause it has arrived in the country. so a lot of people are nice it other a, she sent the health system is extremely fragile and it cannot afford to have the

outbreak. this is can tell the head guy. yeah, i mean, it is, it is a concern. and as i said, a number of pacific countries are facing these concerns that the vaccination writes in tongue are one of the things that will protect that sort of more fragile health system that is there the vaccination, right? to quite good up around 80 percent of people have had a 1st dose, a fully vaccinated. yeah. so that is a one level of protection, but we know that it's not the full answer. so it's a range of measures. ready that are required and when you're trying to recover from a disaster, those range of measures are really difficult. so social distance saying, socialist lation, personal protective equipment, which sometimes can be hard to come by, people in the lockdown. you know, all of those sorts of factors just make it incredibly difficult and those short

medium, longer term plans that we're talking about for recovery now. absolutely must plan for coping response in amongst all of that work as well. it's just an add another layer to that response as a headline on my laptop. i see i never thought of sharing with you, but it says here space x star link to provide internet access to tanya. so this is earl must saying, hey guys, i can help you out with your internet because since the recent sonoma, the volcanic eruption down to want to volcanic eruption, they said that the big cable that basically provided internet bandwidth service to you and to tanya and not have to be repaired and that's a long job. so all of this recovery is happening without a great internet connection without internet connectivity. that is challenging. how's that working out? i've never struggled in 20 years of doing

a disaster response work. i've never struggled to make contact as much as we had with our colleagues in tawna. i'm under many different circumstances, so we still are now without, with the national society of red cross. in tonga, we are maintaining some phone calls daily fine calls. but that's like speaking over radio, so it's very short shar, information, having long, deep conversations about the context and what's happening and highly vulnerable people and how you address those things is very, very challenging. and so one of the most critical things that we can do as we respond is also to prepare for the future. i am so proud of the red cross team on the ground for the preparedness with they've done because they don't have the kind of support that you would usually access during a major disaster like this, of being able to whole on technical support from outside the preparedness and the

pre positioning of relief items, the work that we've done in training, in simulated exercises. i think that's what people don't necessarily say all the time we, we concentrate on this bit of response when it happens. not all the months, all the years of preparedness work, which makes people on the local level absolutely able to respond from their community base. i title, thank you so much. that is a challenge in time. the tanya and the people bringing out a tongue out, but really appreciate the update. thank you very much. now we got from tanya to sierra leone in 2019, the president declared the rape crisis. and national emergency. here is the 1st lady speaking about her husband's reactions to her. if it case had a major impact on his move to enact policy. a note for you. this next segment or discuss gender based violence and abuse of children and it might not be suitable

for all of us. there was a morning one day he think he was going to work. and in on to read your he had about a 3 month old kid that was penetrated in the child, passed away. and that was a very, very hectic day for him. he was, you will basically of sit there all day. he came home. he was really, really angry and they had to like, force him to tell me what's going on. and then he explained that a 3 month old child was actually vol looted and the child died. i said, wall of through want all, whoever did that, did not do it just to have sex that serve as mortar. you kill your, kill somebody's baby. so vicky remote jones ass. now she is a producer there vicky remo show vicky. thank you so much for, for being on this show a couple of years ago. the national rape crisis in silly and caught our attention

because you told us about it and a particular about a little girl who you found in a hospital. will you re tell that story because that little girl passed away recently? i don't. yeah. so in 2018 while in here early on to produce an episode of my show, i went to a clinic to visit the philanthropists who fun. it's a women's clinic called the abilene women center and they provide free health care and health care services for children under 16. but most importantly, they repair 50 and i was waiting around getting a tour of the facility when i went to the fiscal ward and saw the little girl really seen and threw in a wheelchair. and my 1st assumption was that she was there because she was visiting

her mom because you know, usually 15 or something but happens from obstructed labor. and so it did not occur to me that she was still a patients. but she was because she had been a victim of rape, that had left a golf sized hole on the bottom of her vertebrae. and it had made her paralyzed. and it's a story that completely torn my soul and broke my heart. and i went home and wrote about it, and that the story went viral in sierra leone, and a lot of people were angry. and the thing that was infuriating was that at the time that i've been there, the child had been in the facility for about 2 to 3 months. and a police report had not been filed. so the case hadn't been reported. but then after, you know, the story broke the women's organization called legal access to women, yearning for equal rights and just to sincerely own. and they took up the case. and

then a lot of other people who are in, on the front lines you know, safeguarding women and fighting for women's rights, sincerely own, including the asthma, jane foundation, the rainbow center, which has been providing services for victims of rape across fairly own for a decade. everybody basically came together to, you know, raise the alarm that this is unacceptable. and the a campaign started called last tuesday and you know, the public was, was 1st for the 1st time in my life, at least rented for my adult life. having a conversation about gender based violence, sexual gender based violence in sierra leone. and 4 months after that story breaks apart, the president called a national emergency for rape. also, the 1st time in, within a year, legislation had changed in sierra leone, where the parliament passed strengthen the laws and increased penalties for people

who riley children. so to vacate it, like a minimum of so it's okay. i'm just going to pause you just for a moment because we, i love the trajectory that you're sharing with me about a conversation that had to be had about child rape, rape coaching civilly on, and in the process to enshrining protection in the law. i'm going to phosphor to where we all right now. we spoke to the un in sibley own about what impact making legislation has made that take might be very different from your take. let's have a listen. just made it great. the boss is 2019 in terms of being generated by the government is very committed to make the changes. we see a development harness and can see.

and in the services such as one sub center, special i believe, is strengthening our social workers and case management. you and many other advocates have done, has changed the way syria looks at. right. and net slates about right. but as a journalist and a broad costa, if you've been very frank, what's changed yet so. so yes, i think it strengths the legislation is great. that has happened, however, nothing has happened in prevention and nothing has happened in safeguarding. so the conversations that need to happen within our communities in our society, with boys and men to help them understand the value. ready of the girls life issues of consent to valuable women's life women's rights. women's rights to autonomy. girls rights to autonomy. that's not happening. and in terms of safeguarding. yeah . i think in terms of safeguarding this is where we're going to end at our program

because you see that there is so much more to be done. but i really appreciate you coming back and reminded us of that and getting us up to date with the story that studied a home stream program a few years ago. thanks for watching. see next? ah. as well, best athletes prepare for the winter. olympics aging is bracing itself with the arrival of estimated 11000 people kind of 0 tolerance corvette strategy. what? and despite diplomatic boy cloth, which one is winter game thrive, will bring you the latest remaining 2022 winter olympics on al jazeera. this feel like representation out who i am and what i want people to remember me by markson is my get out to is, is not even just marked against the people around like got away. i'm telling the

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