france 24. ♪ >> welcome to world news and analysis. these are the headlines. france threatens to disrupt power supply to the u.k. over fishing licenses. france is accusing the u.k. of remaking the brexit agreement pledge. handing it all back, artifacts on show for the last time in paris for being shipped back to the state they were taken from over a century ago. brazil's president could face criminal charges over the

mishandling of covid-19. bolsonaro is a covid skeptic despite 600,000 resilience dying so far in the pandemic. this is life in paris. ♪ host: thank you very much. france has threatened to disrupt power supply to the u.k. if laundered does not move on the issue of fishing licenses. the channel islands are stopped from entering their fishing waters by the district. frank says u.k. is not honoring its brexit agreement and it could snap up checks on goods from britain and prevent them from accessing french ports.

the uk's withdrawal from the eu breeds a blind the fishing routes of northwestern europe. after years of negotiations, a deal was struck around a 2020 transition. several sticking points remain. this is where lines were drawn when the dos settled on the brexit deal with eu battles wanting to fish in british waters having to seek a permit from the british government. waters 1200 to 200 miles off the coaspose n problem. this area is populated by larger boats. they have beenranted 10 permits for the area in january over which 700 were french. the problems start closer to home. vessels in the fish rich waters six to 12 nautical miles off the coast pre-2016 may continue to do so -- operate but they must apply for a new license. a french fisherman obtained 100

authorizations but have received no reply for 75 other boats. those 75 in the meantime have no clearance to fish. the most heated debate has surrounded the channel islands of jersey and guernsey. they are granting their own permits and each boat must justify at least 11 days of fishing between february 2017 and january 2020. of the 217 applications submitted, 75 were rejected and 31 given provisional permits. the 75 rejected had 30 days to cease operations, while those on provisional licenses have until the end of january to provide documentation. those affected say they're small boats are not equipped with the tech to support their cases. neighboring guernsey has given only temporary approval and is working through applications but with the government granting

licenses and no submission deadline, the situation for fishermen is less tense than around jersey. we are watching for all the developments on the story. the eu's top -- court's finding poland to stop serio and irreparable harm to the border values. it imposed the penalty after a war of words in which poland told the eu to stay on its judicial affairs while other nations insisted warsaw could not continue to give huge subsidies while disregarding democratic principles. let's bring in our correspondent for more on this and a war on words is how it is been described. it has real financial consequences. correspondent: this is a big amount of money. it is something the polish government could absorb, but for how lo?

that is the big question. the bigger question is why? this concerns a disciplinary chamber and the right wing government and --in poland set up a while ago that critics say it sole purpose is to get rid of judges in poland that do not put -- toe the line or intimidate them into doing so. in july, the court of justice, they eu supreme court, said the disciplinary chamber violates eu princies, keeping politics out of the judiciary, and said: must omit -- dismantle it. the government flirted with ignoring the ruling and said we will dismantle it. they have not done so or started the legislative process to do so. last week, the polish prime minister towed the european parliament they are going to do it but the commission said if you are going to do it, you need to do it now. this was the commission asking the easy jake to make poland what it said it would do and we

need to see if this is enough and it starts dismantling the chamber as they promised. if they ignore the ruling, the commission can get this money. it has not been done before but they can withhold the daily amount from poland's eu funds from teh budget. host: i recalled our conversation at the time with the news about interference within the judicial system and poland. that recent alarm where you are and brussels. on the back of this, is there a possibility of another brexit scenario, poland seeking its way out? david: it is a different scenario because neither the government nor the people want to leave the european union. 80% of polish people would like to leave the eu antigovernment insists they are not looking for an exit. they do not want an exit. it is unpopular.

the current government would lose an election to fight it on that platform. it the government is saying let's talk about the exit but what people are talking about is if poland refuses to recognize the primacy of the eu law and refuses to honor the treaty with which it entered the eu in 2004, it may put the government in a situation where it has to leave because it refuses to follow its rules. could it be kicked out? that is a complicated question but it could be done or the other countries could make -- withhold funding to poland and it would have to voluntarily leave under duress. it is turning into a real possibility. it is a nuclear option. it is not something anybody wants but it is the road the government seems to be taking a country toward that is with other presidents warning the right wing government. marc: a word to note.

thank you. great to see you. sedan security forces are holding three prominent pro-democracy figures and relatives and other activists. international pressure mounts. civil disobedience is growing. protest against the military coup. correspondent: chanting down with the military regime, protesters are once again in the streets of sudan. since the coup, there have been daily demonstrations. this wednesday, sudanese security forces have been sweeping arrest. in the capital, makeshift barricades block the streets. much of the country remains standi still witworkers on stri against the military takeover. >> [speaking foreign language]

correspondent: the opposition is planning to march this saturday. this could spark another army crackdown. several protesters have been killed and dozens wounded, since the military seized control monday. he has defended his actions saying they were necessary to prevent a civil war. he has been condemned by the international community. thefrican union hasuspended dan's membership. the coup will prove costly for the country. the world bank for his aid to sudan while the u.s. has stopped a $700 million package of economic support. experts warn if these developments are not walked back, progress toward stability of the economy would unravel. marc: the french president has

spoken about cultural artifacts handed back. this was at an exhibition in paris, home to a large collection of items gathered during colonialism. they were handed back after the six-day execution booted by french forces in 1892. it is part of a government decision taken in 2017. it is part of a drive to improve the image of france across africa especially among younger people. >> people awaited the return of these artworks for a long time, a very long time. young people need to appropriate their country's history to build the future better, to see the power d the tes and mysterious. there is no reason africa needs could be condemned or denied access to their heritage. marc: this all part of our revision of what happened during colonial times. correspondent: it is an

important historical gesture by france, which has been spearheaded by emmanuel macron. it involves the prostitution of 26 artifacts back to their home that were stolen in 1892 by french soldiers during colonial times. it is a way of writing that historical wrong but it is also about filling a promise made entered -- in 2017 in which macron said it is unacceptable that so much of africa's cultural heritage was in france. a museum housing these 26 objects for the last few years. there were 70,000 other african works of art here, not all of which were looted but it had set the precedent for more restitutions, not just in france but across europe. macron said today it was not about museums. it was really about identifying

those items which had been unduly gained and also, more importantly, giving access to people who have not had access to their heritage, particularly young africans. marc: zales president could face charges over his mishandling of the covid-19 pandemic. the senate has approved charges against both the crimes against humanity. the supreme court will suspend thpresidents access to social media accounts because of false information about covid-19. correspondent: good evening to you. tell us about the charges bolsonaro could be facing. tim: charges have been recommended against 78 people and two companies. at charges have been leveled at president bolsonaro, most striking which is crimes against

humanity. it boils down to the allegation that he deliberately exposed the population to the pandemic in a vein sip -- pursuit of herd immunity and was advocating ineffective medicines and railing against these masks and cial distancing. he was part of an institution of disinformation and fake news and his government had a deliberate delay in the acquisition o vaccines that also the acquisition of caracas and or obstruction of justice and some of that vaccine acquisition. these are serious charges. marc: notoriously, covid skeptic but he himself caught covid-19, didn't he? tim: he did and he said on march 22 of last year the death would not reach 800. he said on december 11 of last year that the pandemic was right at the end when it was around 190,000. it is now more than three times that number.

his analysis of the situation does not seem to have changed as the facts have and he is still talkinabout dangers of vaccine and last month, the united nations, he is talking about the effectiveness of anti-malaria drugs, whose effectiveness have been dismissed by health professionals. he is now open to these charges. what happens here at this point is a moot point. at the moment, he ceases to be president, he faces the serious charges. that will either happen this time next year or in five years. until then, he has a layer of protection around him, because this report goes to a number of different authorities. it is up to them how they proceed with it. he would see t have sufficient support in the comments toward off the threat of impeachment. both the federal police and the

attorney general have been reluctant to move against him. this reporter is trying to shame the attorney general into action. there are other strategies. it will go to the international criminal court. that is a cumbersome, slow process. the report can also be used a basis of private prosecutions by any iividualnd victims of the handling of the crisis but in the short term, the mos imrtant thing is the reception of this issue and the court of public opinion, with him away from his quest for reelection. marc: donald trump on his side. he says bolsonaro is a good guy. tim: yes and bolsonaro has followed some pages of the donald trump playbook. he has followed them further because trump was vaccinated. bolsonaro says he has not been vaccinated, although his medical

records have been sealed for 100 years. neither you or myself are not going to be around to find out what happened one way or the other. there are other takes fm the trump playbook, including system. about the electoral that wil be aigubject a we unt down toward the elections. you casee the response of the bolsonaro government, in the hopes of the coronavirus report will go away. it has responded with increased welfare payments. when farson arrow was an opposite -- opposition, he called them the dictatorship of the proletariat. when a pandemic struck, he discovered them and is now discovering the more. it is causing crisis and his government and will mean overspending. some of the economic team have resigned but he hopes a year from now, welfare payments will play more importantly than coronavirus. marc: i am pleased you are there to explain it for us.

thank you indeed. in rio with the analysis regarding the criminal charges possible for bolsonaro in the course with the election looming in brazil. live from paris. france threatens tdisrupt power supply to the u.k. over fishing licenses. it concerns cruise off the channel islands. france it's accusing the u.k. over nagging on its brexit agreement. heading aback, cultural artifacts: shell for the last time before being shipped back to the african state they were taken on -- from over a century ago. civil disobedience grows and sudan against the military coup. it the army arrests three pro-democracy figures. with only four days to go, the

rebellion group has protested outside the venue, and the aim of the protest was to show the connections between the oil industry and those in power. an excerpt from the video. released by the program, it was produced inside the german assely with computer-generated imagery. it urges us to back away from -- >> here's my wild idea. don't chioose extinctio saven species before it is too late. . it is time for humans to stop making excuses and start making changes. thank you. marc: the extinct creatures invite us to look at ways to prevent extinction in the fight against climate change.

it wants to reduce methane and shape. thank you very much indeed. shape breaking wind. --sheep breaking wind. correspoent: they don't wear capes but the seaweed eating sheep could save the world with their farts. livestock accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. the onlwinter food urce for the sheep island is seaweed. the unintded result is they produce less mhane and other herds. in the future, they could start feeding the marine plants. >> we need to improve which get the best for us. what amount of seaweed into the feed gives the best effect. can you scale that up to have an effect on the uk farming?

correspondent: replenishing coral is child's play in singapore. scientists use them to graft coral to stimulate regrowth. >> it was modular and scalable. if we wanted to me --work with larger pieces of coral, we needed to stick on more building blocks. we coud use a smaller lego piece. correspondent: initiatives are needed on land. to reduce deforestation, scientists have built the first lab grown coffee, developed from coffee plant cells. although the research is warning it may not be everybody's cup of tea. marc: many ways to try to save the climate. more on that in 26. time for sports. simon harding joins us with a

story inspiring generations to come. tell us what we are talking about. simon: we hope this will improve diversity and inclusion in football forever. just cabello, he plays for adelaide united in the australian a league, has become the first openly gay male football player to come out. the announcement came via video in an open letter from social media. rather than me tell you, i will let him do it himself in the emotional video. josh: hi, everyone. i am at my home in adelaide. there is something personal that i need to share with everyone. i'm a footballer and i'm gay. growing up, i always felt the need to hide myself. i was ashamed.

ashamed i would never be able to do what i love and be gay. hiding who i truly am, i dream i always wished for as a kid. all i want to do is play football and be treated equally. i am just cabello -- josh ca bello. i'm a footballer and proud to be gay. marc: other footballers have come out but only once their careers were over, mostly due to the abuse they would have received from fans had they done so. simon: he has made history by becoming the first active player to do so and congratulations. staying in football, one of the greatest women to play the game has retired after 17 years with the united states. going out in style with a 6-0 when against south korea, celebrating her 316th cap for team usa and given a standing

ovation since making her debut in 2005. shhas scored 4 goals for her country and has won two olympic gold medals with a u.s. and had aston with manchester city in 2007. ronald carmen state says barcelona head coach more numbered than ever after -- the defeat leaves him ninth and the standings, 10 points behind league leaders around madrid. the goal in the first half secured three points for them as they continue their phenomenal start to the season. covid has lost three of his last four games and with the club doing badly in the champions league, because for him to be sacked are growing by the minute. after sunday's defeat, the rivals around madrid are a portion of catalan fans attacking him while he was in his car. in this area, he slumped to a defeat against -- to heed more

pressure. the old lady who had 13 points behind the league leaders. they conceded a 95th medical to the former marseille and maxime lopez to lose their first game of the season. catalan beets son daria 3-1 with goals from the pot top -- zapata who had a man sent off. he trailed against calgary and won 2-1. taking on bologna. they will be at the top of the championship once again. let's move on to cricket. defending champions england have demolished bangladesh in the group stage second round of the t20 to take their second win of the group stage. 8 wickets for the english. after 55 in the first and continuing to us out -- excel,

restricting bangladesh to 124 runs to nine. sensational. when batting, england recovered from the early loss. jason roy hits him 61. allen adding 28 not out. always going to struggle to win with 124 for england. got the job done and reached their target without too much difficulty. doing so with 35 balls to spare, england and pakistan mark the group stage of the t20, they are really the teams to beat. marc: thank you for explaining. what is sport. it is fantastic. correspondent: one of the biggest on the planet. marc: completely behind that. totally. great to see you. we will take a short break and more news. stay with us.

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