A unified National Response to the climate cursed because there is a climate for which. U. S. President joe biden puts the fight against Climate Change at the heart of his governments agenda. And a crackdown on crime or political repression University Students in greece protest against a new Police Presence on campus. A team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is preparing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of one hand and begin their probe into the origins of the corona virus the independent scientists are set to interview people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market links to the initial outbreak the long awaited inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the w. H. O. And beijing of the 19 was 1st detected in one hand and late 2019. Of course not to train a year has gone and i believe outside the hospital where both scientists are quarantining just tell us more about this trip what does that entail what is the scope of their investigation. Thats actually outside the hotel where theyve been for 2 weeks and weve been speaking to a dutch for all of just name Marion Koopman who was a member of the team and she says since theyve arrived in china for the past 2 weeks theyve already began their investigation on the from the combined men of the hotel room during this quarantine period theyve been having daily online meetings with chinese scientists and others whove been on the ground working to contain the outbreak here in rouhani and she described their discussion so far as frank Going Forward though when they get out of their hotel today they dont have finalize plans yet but they do know that theyll be here in new han for at least a few weeks and as you mentioned theyre studying 3 different theories firstly in 1000 perhaps 1st came from washington and that secondly they got a look into the market where the 1st 1000. 00 plus 2 was identified and see how the pandemic 1st spread from that point and thirdly theyre going to visit the institute. Of calls for more you missed us President Donald Trump alleges that covered 1000. 00 leaked from that lad and marion cribbins did confirm with us that they had been in talks with chinese scientists from that lab now so far she says the team are in good spirits looking forward to the rest of their mission but they have warn the public that this is the beginning of a very deep dive a very long investigation and to expect any conclusive findings after a few weeks would be unrealistic i think its fair to say the whole world is invested in this mission wants to know all of those the answers to all of those questions which you talked about there but of course many people are skeptical that anything concrete can really be achieved what bitch. And that the w. H. O. Team face there. Well 1st of all kim there are already practical challenges its been more than one years since the beginning to operate and much of that key evidence simply may not exist anymore secondly its been well documented that the Chinese Government has been tightly controlling any information around the outbreak in fact thats potentially one of the reasons why they took so long to arrive here in china beijing was reportedly reluctant to provide them with access and this whole mission is highly politicized the u. S. Government in many other governments around the world has been blaming china for a lack of transparency saying this is what led to the outbreak evolving into a Global Pandemic in many now are still doubtful of the Chinese Governments willingness to be transparent even though the mission is already here and many experts weve spoken to have said look this really is an opportunity for they if they can cooperate with the machine if they can clear the way for the investigation then they can cool kind of redeem themselves and prove to the world that they are be open and transparent but of course that remains to be the Mission Members we have spoken to have said that theyre going to do their best theyve warned against cynicism and they said at the end of the day this is not about pointing blame this is about finding evidence to help fight the pandemic Going Forward will be very much looking forward to getting out of corn to getting to business thank you very much for that there could turn to you joe bidens newly appointed secretary of state says the u. S. Is prepared to rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal and to the brink and says tehran must come back into line with the terms of the 2015 deal before any progress can be made or on the has said it will only do that after the u. S. The all sanctions lincoln insisted the u. S. Needs irans cooperation if the deal is to be rescued. If. Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j c p a way the United States would do the same thing and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we call the longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with iran but we are a long ways from that point around it is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance in time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations so were not were not there yet to say the least. Tensions of the 2050 nuclear deal have been building for a while iran has dismissed comments from israels military chief of staff who on tuesday said preparations are being made for a possible offensive at some point in the coming year the senate general aviv called harvey is urging u. S. President joe biden not to rejoin the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal the biden says he wants to move toward it which would result in the easing of american sanctions on tehran. All of this says the u. S. Is temporarily frozen almost to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Secretary of state and city blinken says its typical for new administrations to review pending arms sales all trump said ministration had been doing deals in his final weeks including one for 50 f. 35. 00 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. Uys ambassador to the u. S. Says his country will work closely with the Biden Administration toward peace and stability in the middle east shepparton the is at the state department with more. Its really unclear what the biden position is on the one hand lincoln always begins with the statement that the u. S. And iran will return to full compliance this will then be used as a platform to address other issues but then he always goes into a great deal of detail about how it will take such a long time to assess irans compliance but what is the assumption there with a timetable that so that means only iran has to come into compliance and then the u. S. Will decide whether it will come into compliance meaning it will lift the sanctions what is that really what was supposed to be on the table it was the u. S. That broke International Law that walked out of the Iran Nuclear Deal unilaterally it was the e. U. For that matter who then began breaking all the rules of the day as well iran kept to it and then only in the last year or so then you know began enriching uranium a little further is the u. S. Really saying that iran has to remove its only bargaining chip of enriching to 20 percent enriched uranium and then the u. S. Will decide whether it will lift the punishing economic sanctions is that realistic is that what blinken and the other Biden Foreign Policy Team members really think given this is their own baby theyre the people who negotiated this in the 1st place this was the deal that they sold to the world as the best deal possible do they not believe its possible anymore which is really unclear we do know that the biden station is under a lot of pressure from the gulf nations and israel israels a great ally has been concerned today and by keeps on saying well get unconditional aid whatever but its still a little bit opaque even though lincoln kept saying today that he was all about transparency and clarity u. S. President biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis that includes causing fossil fuel subsidies and forcing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change is at the center of the United States National Security and foreign policy. And just like we need a unified National Response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified National Response to the Climate Crisis because there is a Climate Crisis we must keep we must lead Global Response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the United States alone we know what to do weve just got to do it when we think of Climate Change we think of it this is a case where conscience and convenience crossed paths where dealing with the sexes sefl threat to the planet and increasing our Economic Growth and prosperity are one in the same. As has more now from washington d. C. Well Climate Change was always going to be close to the top of the agenda for joe biden he said throughout the Election Campaign and know here he is one week in the oval office outlining plans that he believes are essential for the United States to take among the executive orders that he signed hes cutting fuel subsidies to those in the carbon industry hes trying to overturn a decision by dont trump to overturn a measure that barack obama introduced he knows that there is a political tightrope to walk here because he emphasizes very much so the idea that green jobs will be created but its still not enough to convince many republicans theyve been critical of what theyve had from the white house on wednesday they say as far as theyre concerned this is simply Big Government getting involved in the lives of ordinary American People again and making sure that they could possibly lose their jobs and also challenging joe biden suggesting that he is giving up the Energy Independence that the United States has enjoyed over the last several years and making them dependent on foreign sources because they wont be able to produce enough energy that a growing economy is making as for joe biden he believes that this is important and incidentally i spoke to john kerry who is the new climate czar essentially he is going to organize the Global Climate conference for april hes going to get many countries involved its a sign that the United States again wants to take the lead on the climate question after what many here in the white house say was 4 years of neglect by donald trump. Still ahead on aljazeera china to launch a massive military drill at a time when tensions with taiwan and the u. S. Are ovarian high. I mean credible story of the computer game retail a game stop and how its shares went through the roof thanks for the day trade is. It time for the perfect jenny. Sponsored point Qatar Airways hello weve got a return to snow across to pad over the next couple days not too bad at the moment rain now in the process of pulling out of the way brighter skies as we go on through thursday because thats not rolling across the Korean Peninsula with eastern parts of china eastern areas of russia and that will tumble its way towards that western side of honshu some very heavy snowfall avalanche rist certainly a possibility just destabilizing things as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours or so some very heavy snow to into hokkaido colder air comes back in behind crisp sunshine is solid around minus 4 celsius we get just above freezing there in basing it around 2 degrees cold enough down towards the south much of china should be largely dry hong kong around 18 degrees celsius in the sunshine in the sunshine stretches down across much of indochina want to choose showers there into vietnam wanted to show was too into the philippines but not too heavy not too wise but the heat of the day shallow as per usual here shows to across a good part of malaysia heaviest showers a lot its a b. Across indonesia as a go through the next couple days and that is logical as for the flooding here as we go on through the next day or 2 the show is showing up with a wet weather that we have for southern parts of the goal india dry but showers that was for lanka. Sponsored by Qatar Airways a firsthand glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists and the donald trump we are fighting the fake tears fake phony the enemy of the people through the eyes of a veteran White House Correspondent what do you base your legs on the shares are down the press is not after trying this after the fact were not the enemy of the people we are the people u. S. A. The current Battle Ground truth is it anywhere on. The world. Youre watching im just there a reminder of our top stories this hour a team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is preparing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of theyre looking into the origins of the crown of ice cover 19 or 1st attempted in a walk on and make 29000. New u. S. Secretary of state has laid out how Joe Bidens Administration plans to rebuild ties with the rest of the world bank and says if iran returns to full compliance of the 2050 Nuclear Agreement the u. S. Will also come back to the deal. Us President Joe Biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis that includes causing fossil fuel subsidies and forcing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change is at the center of u. S. National security and foreign policy. China is due to start a large scale military exercise on the day in the disputed waters of the South China Sea it comes at a time of increased tension with the neighboring island of taiwan as beijing waits to see what impact the Biden Administration will have on china u. S. Relations or macbride for its. Thats an air force base in the south of taiwan fighter jets practice for an incursion towards the island by military planes from nearby Mainland China jets have been scrambling for real more often as china has stepped up its military patrols most recently last weekend it seems to be beijings reminder that it will always regard taiwan as part of china and its prepared to take it back by force if necessary wellman we make no promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures our position has been consistent and will not change taiwans president saying when inspecting her militarys preparedness says the island is ready for any aggression to war from last year our radar stations have detected incursions by nearly 2000 Chinese Military aircraft and over 400 military vessels we drive them away in a timely manner and secured our maritime an airspace. Increased activity across the Taiwan Strait comes as the u. S. Conducts a socalled freedom of navigation exercise sending an Aircraft Carrier group into the nearby South China Sea angering beijing which would guards it as largely its own during the recent turbulent years of the trumpet ministration taiwan has often been caught in the middle of strained relations between china and the us and the new Biden Administration might not mean an end to that turbulence i also believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to china i disagree very much with the way that he want to about it in a number of areas but the basic principle was the right one the Major Players in east asia geopolitics are embarking on a new era but bringing with them the same tensions from the last one of the bride aljazeera. Lets bring in. Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Temple University to penn and joins us now by scott from tokyo thank you so much for your time mr ben law. Is china ramping up the pressure on taiwan and why now. Well certainly china has been rounding up pressure on taiwan since 2016 actually since the current president in one in taiwan was elected we have to understand that sign one is much more independent minded than her predecessor and she has refused to recognise the one china principle so weve seen a lot of a lot of pressure from china for the last 5 years but certainly over the last year this pressure has increased even further more military drills and much harsher rhetoric and now that we have a new administration and washington would be coming by in the midst ration certainly what we are probably looking at right now is an attempt by china to kind of test the waters and see what kind of reaction or what kind of bus approach will be new by doing the miss tracing have told words of the taiwan china situation to that and how do you think that the Biden Administration is that he to approach time and taiwan. Well one thing that quite interesting is for a very long time in washington especially coming from on the part of the republicans theres been no suspicion or accusations for the democrats that they were too soft on china too accommodating towards china but there has been a change over the last 2 years a kind of bipartisan consensus in washington over the need to be tougher on china and if we look at the recent declarations of joe biden a pretty look at declinations out of the anthony plane can sound a secretary of state its not the same kind of approach that they had under the Obama Administration we are looking at an administration that is much more likely to push back on chinese actions and we have seen over the last few days americas already deployed an Aircraft Carrier group in the South China Sea near taiwan and has certainly been quite strong in its in its support rhetoric at least support taiwans position how can send a who of being s. Going to his intentions right now. I am fairly concerned to be honest we have to understand that on the part of china these are no empty threats we have to be careful also but its not necessarily create allude to an invasion but these are not empty threats for beijing sovereignty and National Reunification are a quorum National Interest which means that there is absolutely no room for negotiation or a compromise then time want to probably the most sensitive issue really for for for beijing so the fact of the been ramping up pressure and the fact of the United States morris even more willing to be simply to kind of push back on this pressure always leaves that room or a potential for some errors or some milk miscalculation and something that could escalate further so we have to be quite concerned about it without necessarily overreacting i thank you so much for that. Fessor of Political Science and International Affairs at Temple University to. Thank you very much. Hundreds of protesters have clashed with Security Forces in lebanon as anger rises of a hoss cry virus or strict since their devastating an economy already on the edge of collapse and they say in the Northern City of tripoli used tear gas and water cannon to beat back protest is who are demanding the government do more than 100 reports from tripoli. Growing poverty is pushing lebanese people back onto the streets protesters say they are hungry unable to cope with a coronavirus lockdown now in its 3rd week they want economic support this is how the authorities respond. But they. Are also the politicians are focusing on distributing the spoils is that of focusing on us we are witnessing a collapse in all sectors security politics and health all irresponsible theyre leaving us to die lebanons economic collapse began more than a year ago there have been social unrest and political turmoil since official say 500000 families or 2500000 people are in need of assistance thats nearly half the population compliance with a 24 hour curfew that exempts essential workers is a week in lebanon 2nd largest city tripoli it was already poor before the pandemic. These people are obliged to work even though it puts their health at risk other governments are enforcing lockdowns but they give people aid. There is no social safety net for the poor no government assistance the state is nearly bankrupt one 3rd of the workforce is jobless and around half of the workforce depends on daily wages like. He has 4 children no shop and on a good day he makes 20000. 00 lebanese pounds which is less than 3. 00 at the black market rate. Let me just look you know 1st. I cant even describe it im barely able to feed my family my mothers kone when. Theyre going to. Charity association say more and more people are relying on handouts among them to middle class the cost of daily life is becoming too high especially since the local currencies value collapse on a daily basis we have people who would like to register because of course we register them according to nationality and the location so i must say that the numbers are increasing on a daily basis the open ended political crisis is not helping politicians are arguing about cabinet seats instead of agreeing to fight corruption allowing lebanon to receive much needed International Financial assistance the lockdown is in place until february 8 and it can be extended officials are promising to help the most vulnerable and they are asking people to be patient but for many thats not an option for their own tripoli Northern Lebanon Police in moscow have raided the apartments and offices of relatives and associates of russian Opposition Leader and x. In a valley the belize brother was among those arrested but he says tamil knees Anticorruption Foundation and the studio way reduces his online videos it comes just days after thousands of his supporters across russia protested against novell needs arrest. Syrians in greece of protesting against a bill that would create a new branch of the police Free University campuses the government says the force is needed to fight Violent Crime and greek universities johns Office Reports from athens so. If the government has its way student protests like this could become a thing of the post a new bill would ban Noise Pollution and political banners in universities it would also introduce a Campus Police empowered to arrest and charge those considered troublemakers and disciplinary boards with power to suspend or expel students the government says too much crime goes unpunished on campuses where faculty members have been attacked or bricks into their offices and students have been raped but these students disagree with that guy and this whole discussion about insecurity and how universities is not based in reality if you look at Police Statistics the crimes committed on campuses are negligible what where really afraid of is whats in the bill the sanctity of University Campuses goes back to 973 when the military dictatorship then ruling greece used the army and police to crush a student protest here at the athens polytechnic although no one was hurt on the campus an estimated 3 dozen people were killed on the night of the operation and the following days in 1902 police were forbidden to enter campuses but anarchist groups often took advantage of this to escape a rest after confrontations with Police Police community was abused in other ways police recovered this expensive equipment stolen by intruders from the athens polytechnic to be sold on the black market. When it came to power in 2019 the conservative new democracy government allowed police on to campuses at will. She goes yes god gave me that was the only thing the government is achieving is to irritate an already vexed society and a student body that is anxious about its future and is giving the kiss of life to extremists specifically the leftwing syrias opposition so to start a cat and mouse game on University Campuses we dont need this tension the government decided to tighten Campus Security last october after 8 assailants held a University Rector hostage in his office and called for a return to immunity from policing the main problem is created by from people who come from outside the University Students so i strongly believe that 90 percent of the problem is going to be sold we think to the doctrine of the checking of the people who went there the inverse the building students are protesting against the the government has the votes it needs in parliament but the students are claiming the streets jumpstart ople us finance. 5 fires in argentina are struggling to contain fires destroying large areas of forests now for a 3rd day the area affected in rio negra province dili doubled on wednesday now 11000. 00 hecht is have been destroyed because of the fire is not yet known but 2020 was the countrys driest and 15 is. Video game retail a game stop who is one of 2 companies which despite losing millions of dollars have soared in value this week on the u. S. Stock market its the result of a group of day traders communicating online and banding together to force the share price to skyrocket and Institutional Investors on to happy christmas are movie reports from new york. Game stop a videogame retailer was in trouble even before the coronavirus pandemic hit suffering hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and closing hundreds of brick and Mortar Stores as gamers increasingly made their purchases online but none of that has stopped its stock from skyrocketing in value spurred on by individual investors posting on the reddit page wall street bets started by jamie rosen scale and what were seeing here is the result of having massive influx of retail traders who dont care about fundamentals never really have cared about fundamentals they cared about the short term moves so in theory in the short term anything is possible i mean the price is set based on supply and demand at this point anyone whos just buying up the stocks is further putting pressure to raise the price Institutional Investors had bet against game stop shorting the stock to make a profit but read it investors rallied against them buying the stock on mass this increased the price and created a socalled short squeeze where hedge funds were forced by the rising stocks to avoid massive losses further pushing up game stop shares after losing hundreds of millions of dollars Institutional Investors like andrew left of. The tron research have admitted defeat and walked away analysts warn this is a dangerous game the stock its pushed up and fortunately its a little like a ponzi scheme because if youre a last person old in those years under 60. 00 a share you got a dollars now straight to that 88. 00 well you just got stuck in the last part of the trade you lost a lot of money game stop express and Stanford Taman but many day traders appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling Companies Like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. This is just there and these are the top stories a team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is impairing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of homs looking into the origins of the corona virus covenanted with fast attacked and hot of late 2019 katrina you has the latest from. Rocky outside the hotel where theyve been for 2
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