a main challenge and seeks to increase the cap on its nuclear warheads by 40 percent. the netherlands goes to the polls in the 1st major like told test for coronavirus policies in europe. and in sports football or we protect you theo is making good progress after suffering a head injury during a game on monday all the keeper was replaced under a new concussion rules in the premier league match against liverpool. the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca shot outweigh the risks the agency commissioned an investigation into a few reports of blood clots and people who've got the vaccine a number of countries have temporarily suspended their use of the product the e.u. review should conclude on thursday the agency says there's no indication the vaccine is linked to blood clots. while the investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the aft of the senate have vaccine in preventing popup 19 with its associated risk of hospitalized a sense that outweighed the risk of the side effects in the meantime anyone who has received the vaccine and has any concerns should contact their appropriate health care professional. donna kane is live for us now from berlin don what else did the european medicines agency have to say about this. the person you are hearing from their name a cook from the e.u. and they gave a news conference which went on for some considerable time and received nearly pointed questions from journalists taking part digitally several of which talking about were asking were there specific groups in society who would need to have special consideration given what's been said about astra zeneca but generalities really from a market person who was speaking also questions about whether there were there were more instances report being reported from particular countries that germany had reported 7 instances of websites and that sort of thing again the person the spokeswoman for the e m a didn't want to go into too much detail where she did go into detail was about the weight of evidence which the european medicines agency has compiled about astra zeneca the fact that the instances of blood clots of few in number relative to the number of doses that have been administered of the astra zeneca product around the continent we know that around 5000000 doses have created ministered to the end of last week and the end they had reported on 30 cases of blood clots a ratio of around 12170000 doses having been administered christia coming from the e.-m. a ruse the insistence that here instead of this is concepts that the benefits far outweigh the risks and she said that they would be nothing definitive no clear steer from the e m a until the outcome of a meeting in amsterdam which is where the m. is based taking place on thursday but remember that there is a great deal riding on whatever that steer will be many countries indeed who see. the astra zeneca as a key plank in their policy of combating covert and that's why they all want to know whether it's something that can safely be administered here in berlin alone there are 2 centers out of 6 mass vaccination centers which are currently closed the shelves are stocked with astra zeneca product that cannot be administered with with lots of people wondering a cure what will happen if they can't have it already one city in germany hamburg has said it's going to replace it's going to use the other vaccines very journal and pfizer bio on tech is a short term stopgap but clearly short term stopgap says one thing if there is going to be something more permanent and all these e.u. countries will need to to rearrange that's why so much is riding on what the e.m.e.a. has to say and as i say they expect to make some form of announcement on thursday in amsterdam all right thank you so much for that update there dominic came in better than. talked about is a senior political editor at the university of exeter medical school he joins us from bath thank you for your time so you disagree with the decision to suspend the use of astra zeneca in some countries why is that. yes i very much disagree and the evidence is that the astra zeneca vaccine has been given in millions many many millions of doses over 17 millions of this doses given have been scrutinised by astra zeneca and we have found that there is no link with development of blood clots in excess of what normally happens what that means in lay terms is of the people who have been given the vaccine we look for evidence of blood clots off the people who have not been given blood the vaccine will look for evidence of blood clots and we found that the people who have been given the vaccines don't have any more cases of blood class so there is no link it is a coincidence rather than a link that's not the message we're getting from the european medicines agency who are saying they need more time to analyze the data and make a scientific or science based decision what do you think there is really going on here is this cause purely scientific or perhaps their politics going on here as well i hope it is not politics because lives matter and lives will be lost without a delayed implementation of a already delayed european vaccination program i hope that what has happened is that one sector of the people decided that this may be of interest this may be of concern and then other countries have followed suit it is ever so possible for that sort of scenario to play out and i hope it's going to be resolved as quickly as possible because i just do not see the evidence or the link whereby the vaccine can cause clots well a as i said the a.m.a. that is something they said they're going to be investigating what do you think the longer term consequences of this pores and using the oxford astra zeneca vaccine will be. well i hope that there will be no consequences but one of the things that will inevitably happen is some people are not immunized in time and as a result they may go on to get an infection and by the way if you get infected with sars could be 2 and you have 19 disease that alone causes blood clots so we do know that if i had to judge between take the vaccine and be protected or get cold and you might even get blood clots which option i would take i will risk take protect myself with a work see how important do you think is transparency and communication in all of this i guess because oxford s or seneca already had a really bumpy smartest start and that it came out that in trials patients were only given a half dose at 1st so you know how is the way that this is communicated now to ensure that people trust the process i think we will have to double up and it is because this is important light matter and we do not want people to have any smidgen of concern that this rock scene may harm them and therefore the governments and the companies must double up on their efforts to give out very clear very sincere very transparent messages because we want to protect the people we don't want them to be concerned thank you so much for your time dr bought out here they're seeing a clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school the european union says it will soon receive more than 200000000 doses of the fires a covert 19 vaccine that amount is $10000000.00 more than what was initially planned for the 2nd quarter the european commission says an agreement was reached to bring 4 doses meant to be delivered later this year the e.u. em's to accelerate at least 255000000 people by the end of the summer. manaus military has challenged the deposed government's u.n. envoy with trees that talk to south side as he's known fed me and ma on the day of the coup last month he's accused of encouraging the civil disobedience campaign and calling for international sanctions it's called isn't bad call can explain symmetries decision to chop shop to salsa they're trying to to squash the protest movement the civil disobedience disobedience movement on the streets across myanmar but they're also trying to squash any voices outside of myanmar inductors is outside and he's appeared numerous news programs and news networks to get the word out of what's happening in the call for international assistance so this is their way just as way to try to silence him but he's out of the country so for them to try to enact this this this charge against him is going to be very difficult but despite that continuing on the streets of myanmar today we did see again it turned a bit deadly on tuesday we saw at least one death this is according to local media one death in yangon and then 2 deaths in a city outside of mandalay to the west which is in the central part of the country what's interesting though when you look at what's been happening in yang gone word is difficult to get out because the joint to has shut down most of the data networks mobile data networks so it's very difficult to get information out but what we do know is that flashpoint area from sunday where there were arson there were arson against factories in a certain district of the city that's were turned very deadly after that today we know in tuesday that a lot of people were trying to leave the area there are thousands in some cases people are saying tens of thousands of people are trying to exit that's because martial law has been imposed on that district as well as 5 other so people were trying to come out. the u.k. is scrapping plans to cap and snubber of nuclear warheads at $190.00 days it will move to stop palm oil more than $260.00 it's part of a major review of the country's foreign policy after brics it the review calls russia the biggest threat to the u.k. it also notes china's growing power and says cooperation with beijing will be vital the 1st dot com of the integrated review was the government's decision to invest extra 24000000000 pounds in defense allowing the wholesale modernization of our armed forces and take it forward the review of our nuclear deterrent that speak not to leave barca who's in london even if we talk about nuclear material we always seem to be talking about the likes of say iran now the u.k. wants to increase its stockpile why. well i'm sure this is all about brand britain reassessing itself after leaving the european union and also according to the authors of the review living up to some of the most significant challenges that britain faces in the coming decades it knows all too well the geopolitically power is shifting away from the old well the older to the new and that means the britain has to also shift its foreign policy gaze away from europe east to the indo-pacific region where according to the view britain hopes to build new trade relations and security partnerships with the likes of india japan and australia but of course the big proverbial elephant in the room is of course china how do you build business ties with china whilst at the same time remaining critical of some of the thorny aspects of the communist party policy over there this very interesting when you look at the wording of the review to see the comparison between how china is described and how russia is described china is described as being the biggest systemic threat to the united kingdom russia the biggest active threat and is precisely response to that active threat why the british government is now saying that it will potentially increase its. it's not saying that it will definitely do that but it is saying that it will potentially lift the cap meaning that it could increase the number warheads it has up to 260 at all if they says about same thing signals not only to russia but so other rogue play is that may well threaten the u.k. in the years to come on top of that announcement also plans to build a new antiterrorism center to counter the possibility of chemical and biological attacks and also a new situation room a crisis room this be going to be built according to the review under downing street and it doesn't just stop there the plan is also potentially. to look towards building a new space command's within a matter of months but let's not forget this country is still reeling after the impacts of covert $191.00 wonders whether or not this is just smoke or mirrors just part of a wish list or whether or not the u.k. is really up to the task. there for us in london thank you. but more ahead on the news are exuding i know dupree and shares our concerns with trying to destabilize the yorkshire the u.s. secretaries of state and defense are in japan to strengthen relations with china top of the agenda. a defining moment in libya's conflict with the 1st peaceful transition of power since 2012. and in sports team new zealand moved to the brink of victory in the america's cup is here with that story. the u.s. secretaries of state and defense of use their 1st overseas trip to reaffirm washington's commitment to its east asian allies and the blinken and lloyd alston have been holding meetings in japan they say washington is prepared to push back against beijing's growing influence in the region from abroad has more from seoul. this high level visit is confirmation of the station's importance in the world view of the new u.s. administration president joe biden and the mission took particular an aim at the human rights record of me in ma in china in burma the military is attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election and is brutally repressing peaceful protesters and china uses coercion and aggression to systematically erode autonomy in hong kong undercut democracy in taiwan abuse human rights in changing and tibet japan has been looking for support against china's territorial claims to islands which tokyo administers and it got it with this pledge to respond to china's attempts to control the seas that surround it and addressing aggressively in course should behaviors from china especially in the south and east china sea. i know japan shares our concerns we're trying to be stabilizing our actions japan also got an assurance from the u.s. that it remains committed to the complete denuclearization of its neighbor north korea but more fundamentally this visit is a chance to reset relations after 4 to multi were c. is under the previous administration of donald trump so we think we're all over them so i think there is an appreciation of a much more focused strategy in principle the u.s. is going to be under by the ministration much more concerned about how the u.s. speaks with its allies on wednesday this mission continues to south korea where dealing with north korea will dominate the agenda with concerns about the lack of any response from pyongyang to repeated u.s. attempts at dialogue of course the policy is always our goal our goal is to reduce the risk of escalation but today we have not received any response time to coincide with this diplomatic mission and with the resumption of joint military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces is a stinging attack from the north korean leaders influential sister kim yo jong telling the americans not to cause a stink in this part of the world a warning of how relations could slip back into the acrimonious saber rattling of the past rob mcbride al-jazeera so. stephen nagy is a senior associate professor of international relations at the international christian university he says multilateralism have passed away at the core of washington's new strategy in the eastern pacific region. the joint statement released by the united states and japan touches upon the areas that i think japan is knows most concerned about the sake of violence north korea and of course chinese assertive behavior broadly within the region a 2nd the statement actually included at their east explicit statement to on china and i think that's critical japan today as well has not been forthright in terms of explicit criticism about china and its concerns there and i think importantly that the united states committed to defending japan and strengthening the alliance in particular on those sensitive areas such as defending the same couple eyelets against a 3rd country that would invade or or try to take over these islands if you look at the statement that was a released by the americans of the japanese focuses on south korea japan and u.s. cooperation and coordination on dealing with issues in the pacific and one of the core areas is the north korea the statement also focuses on the idea of not just denuclearizing the current korean peninsula but denuclearizing to north korea so the focus will be at least a trilateral approach to putting pressure on some young bar but also providing some carrots if they change the behavior will be able to make progress i think what's important is that they're going to pursue a multilateral approach to pressuring pyongyang. for a 2nd day bank employees in india are on strike they union estimates 1000000 employees protested against the government's plan to privatise a few banks and an insurance company and ripples. in helpless bank employees walked off their jobs and onto the streets of india to protest for a 2nd day. they say saving public banks serves the interests of indian citizens by protecting what they call social baking people's savings and keeping charges low. these are preserved policies are against the country when used to strike for an increase in wages or stopping a bank manager but this is the 1st strike at the bank employees are doing to save the country union members are asking for the public's support even as the strike disrupts some essential services including check cashing and processing of remittances were different figures that worked up my good i needed money as i had to go to the market and buy something i can get money from facing problems one needs money is not everything can be we could carter transferred and. there is anger after it was announced last month that 2 public banks and one insurance company would be privatized to generate millions of dollars in revenue the codeine $900.00 pandemic has drained government coffers around the world local media report in the last 4 years the government has merged 14 public banks and privatized one negotiations between the unions and the government have not led to an agreement more protests are planned this week the unions say their strike could continue indefinitely unless the government alters course natasha to name just 0. it's been years in the making and now the latest step in bringing together united lou. government is happening the prime minister is handing over power to the un backed administration and the 1st peaceful transition of power since 2012 this move is meant to help bring stability ahead of elections in december security is likely to pose a major challenge for the new government with an estimated 20000 foreign fighters still in the country and are sort of commodity is the founder and director of the city constitution he says now the real challenge begins to transition libya from conflicts to cooperation between all stakeholders. think depending on how we view the conflict over the past decade this is really going to get to the heart of the problems that the g.m.u. the government national unity will will face the 1st being the basic challenges for daily life libya citizens electricity water every service that you can think liquidity into banks these are major services that need to be responded to and they have been degrading as a result of livia's you know erosion of the erosion of its quality and its embassy actually the past decade the 2nd being perhaps the most important of all the covert 19 pandemic and ensuring that vaccinations are delivered before the spring which was the promise of the of the appointed prime minister i'm to have a debate now we can get into the really challenging aspects the geopolitics of libya's conflict there are 20000 residents across the country and then i would say the final challenge has been moving from an era of conflict to cooperation and i think that's going to be much more challenging than just arranging a new cabinet there's no guarantee that just because they've reached a compromise in the parliament that these groups will cut will cooperate with one another and at the macro level will they cooperate in the most sensitive of institutional portfolios the military institution that includes all of the different armed groups that have been fighting in western libya under the former government of national accord and those groups that were loyal to philip or have to or the libyan arab armed forces that were to topple that government in the last 18 months there is no sign of progress in the military track and then military track is an inherently political track unless you have a subservient neutral military there is no guarantees that just because you have elections in december that you will achieve democracy. gunmen in northern nigeria have abducted 3 teachers from a primary school and cut down a state and students managed to escape during the rate the latest in a string of attacks on schools in northern nigeria on friday 39 called students were abducted by adventure on the outskirts of content a city i met interests outside one of the schools by kidnapping happened last week . the issue of kidnapping for ransom in nigeria and banditry has been there for quite some time now and the the fact of the matter is the security personnel overstretched underfunded and they craved and of course not able to deal with the situation the crimes that we are seeing in northern nigeria is fueled by so many things poverty one under development 2nd and of course the issue of negotiating with criminals now we are in a state where the governor has taken a tougher stand on kidnappers and banditry he said no negotiations with them and in fact he's calling for death penalty against anybody found. in this in this now if you look at the military aspect of it the military has been deployed to deal with several situations in nigeria from kidnappings in northwestern nigeria to book one time in the north east and then you have crisis in that you stand part of the country where you have the probie a procession its movement and several other criminal activities that been going on so the security services has been almost strange and they've been casualties of war over time and these have not been replaced the nigerian government has not fully funded the security system we just heard from the national security adviser complaining that some of the equipment ordered for the military and security forces have not even arrived and the fighting with all the criminals been supply for years yes they go and the has been no part of the fleet replenishment and one other key aspect of it of course is the issue of intelligence gathering which of course has not been invested in so much. 10 years into the syrian conflict president bashar al assad is still in power many syrians say the international community has failed them and the uprising turned into a proxy war as also those that blame the opposition for failing to provide credible alternative leadership said huldah reports on how infighting led towards within the war. protesters demanding the downfall of president bashar assad's regime were shot at arrested and tortured syria's opposition decided to defend itself and fight back after losing hope in an international intervention the formation of the free syrian army was announced by rebel military leader riyadh in july 2011 but years later the former air force colonel like many others acknowledged the f.s.a. existed only in. each of the armed groups had their own agenda and they wanted to implement it before the full of assad this cause divisions international powers intervened and supported different groups. a unified authority that would serve as an alternative to the syrian government is what the opposition has so far failed to do they control territory they have a base to govern from but it is territory where wars within a war are being fought. by 2013 much of northern syria belonged to many opposition groups that were only united against the common enemy and they share territory with al-qaeda linked groups which wanted to establish an islamic state. at the start foreign fighters were welcomed by the opposition which felt abandoned by world powers. that changed when they started to take territory from those they called corrupt rebels armed opposition groups linked to the free syrian army are no longer here i saw also imposed brutal tactics arresting killing and forcing into exile activists who called for democracy from the foreign fighters actually don't people. who need him like us so they don't want our forces to be here. and also also it's. global attention focused on defeating eisel in what was described as a counterterrorism mission rather than an effort to tip the scales in the war. over promise to none of that when you have president obama when you british french and german is saying that its present last stand aside it triggered an expectation that they were going to back this up so instead it was the regime which received outside support russia and iran's entry on the battlefield turned the equation on the ground in assad's favor. the opposition has been pushed to the northern corner of syria where millions of people remain vulnerable to attacks demands for a safe or a no fly zone to protect them are still ignored 10 years on jennifer there beirut. still ahead on al-jazeera protesters in yemen support city of 18 stone government offices angry about the was an economic situation. a desperate search against the clock for mexican families looking for their missing loved ones. and it's gone ahead of world athletics says he's still hopeful that overseas fans will be allowed to attend this year's of the books. however there we got a little bit of a mixed bag in our weather across the middle east over the next couple days it's warm sunshine lovely weather across southern parts of the region 30 celsius in doha getting 36 in riyadh so that warm starting to set same with southerly winds look further north a small winter here because some snow coming in across the turkish mountains some rain raffling in suicide for us pushing towards the levant and that's all making its way little further eastwards as we go on through thursday i think for much of syria the good parts of iraq it should be fodder dry but just around the northern fringes you might catch a shower wrote say one of 2 showers wintry in nature there just around the caucasus chance of some wintry showers over towards afghanistan as well meanwhile the warm sunshine continues across the arabian peninsula we could touch 34 celsius here in doha on thursday so even a warm side for us one sunshine to into a good parts of somalia but she was not too far away much just catch a shower to just around the coastal fringes and you see want to see showers to the southern parts of ethiopia elsewhere across central areas of africa the seasonal rains doing quite nicely will see the rain is extending all the way down towards zambia zimbabwe catching some rains with a chance of wanted to showers the eastern cape. for a goalkeeper from one is a. home world cup was what dreams were made of cotton it turned into a nightmare of a russian told by argentina's been turned. in the 1st of a new season footballing legend eric cantor now introduces cloud your tambourine one of a special few stood up for their beliefs whatever the cost. of football rebels on al-jazeera. since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. the new law. you're watching algis there on her mind our top stories this hour the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca outweigh the risks the agency commissioned an investigation into a few reports of blood clots and people who've gotten the vaccine. 1000000 miles military has charged the deposed government's international representative with treason off the sauce son as he's known is accused of encouraging the civil disobedience campaign and calling for international sanctions. the u.k. is scrapping plans to captain snubber of nuclear warheads at $180.00 says it will move to stop no more than $260.00 it's part of a major review of the. excuse me the country's foreign policy after brics. the netherlands is voting in the 1st major electoral test of a european governments coronavirus policies. polling is spread over 3 days were vulnerable groups allowed to cast their ballots 1st the campaign has been dominated by curfew measures triggered protests are protests government also resigned in january over a child benefits scandal the center right people's party for freedom and democracy is aiming for a 4th constricts vesa term in office. racism has been another central issue in the netherlands that has more from amsterdam. the stormy weather in amsterdam did little to deter a dutch parliamentary candidate silvana simmons very good with a well known former t.v. star simmons entered politics 5 years ago the party by ayn is campaigning to end racism and inequality in the netherlands you know we need to stop it because you know we are all equal and therefore everyone is entitled all deserve the same rights simmons came to the netherlands as a baby from the former dutch colony of syria nom she says that the image of the netherlands as an inclusive society is far from reality she's on surprised by the rise of far right parties we've been served politics that say. be afraid of everybody that doesn't look like you it's been going on for 20 years it's not something that just came up this is a right wing country we have to accept that for simmons and her party more diversity in mainstream national politics is essential to help change the attitudes in the netherlands and help end what she calls institutionalized racism michel as a yes runs the black archives a project or documents discrimination in dutch society its books artifacts and clippings are a catalogue of oppression and a testament of those who fought against it and so yeah says that the root of the problem lies in the netherlands failure to face its colonial past and that legacy is still visible in present day society and the daily basis people are confronted with different forms of racism and i break racism islamophobia there's a lot of research showing it. however unfortunately there's not enough acknowledgement from the government that this is a serious problem prime minister margaret is hoping to be elected for a 4th term despite his center right government resigning in january after a child benefit scandal tens of thousands of people were wrongly accused of fraud the majority immigrant families targeted by the tax office prime minister was convicted in 2007 for racism and discrimination yet after that he became prime minister and he has been for over 10 years so this is how institutionalized it is simmons knows that her party is unlikely to win the election but she hopes to become the 1st black woman party leader to win a dutch parliamentary seat for her supporters that would be a huge victory and to sign that the winds of change may be blowing the tasha butler al-jazeera amsterdam. matthew goodwin is professor of politics at the university of kent and co-author of national populism the revolt against liberal democracy he joins us by skype from london thank you time what is most interesting to you about these elections what will you be watching awful. well this is really the 1st opportunity that we have to gauge the strength so populism since the crisis we've had obviously direction in america at a smaller election in portugal but when it comes to european politics and the broader mood on the continent. election in another lens it's really the 1st test to see how these policies whether they're still connecting with voters and how much of a threat they are the mainstream and how do you think that's going to go what do you think voters appetite is for populism in the netherlands slow looking at the polls which obviously we've been just so the policy for freedom is currently 2nd it's looking like it's going to attract broadly consistent levels of support with the last election in 2017 i think will also be watching some of the euro skeptic and immigration policy to not fall takes that also the. recent years and i think probably a lot of commentators are going to be watching closely to see what this election might mean for the big elections that we've got coming out noted noticeably in germany at the end of the year ok speaking of opinion polls polls put party on course for parquet win even though his entire cabinet was forced to resign over the childcare benefits scandal how was he managed that. well the reality of the olympics is that it's highly fragmented sego a lot of parties competing. in fact than in nepal i've always been i think a very adept party leader he's always be competent to the winds and in what direction they are flowing and i think he's somebody. with regard to other european leaders has remarkable saying how well it politics he seems to have a very good political compass and somehow always keeps and one step ahead of many of his competitors and we've seen of course the protests in the netherlands about the coronavirus lock down the policies do you think that reflects the population how much will these coronavirus policies be front of mind to vote. i think coronavirus is ultimately the big backdrop but we also know that europe generally is very divided over things like the. issues like inequality and the like those are the issues to do with the on going concern. at a refugee challenge from the refugee crisis which is ongoing so i think it's going to be interesting to see how this rackspace of course we've also seen more visible protests in the netherlands like the lock out issue and it's going to be interesting to see the extent to which the populous challenges continue to. push back against the mainstream on some of these issues if they don't do well of course that's a pretty good sign that actually made coronavirus like his attorney more to competence and expertise than i ought to populist outsiders and i thank you for your analysis there matthew goodwin the professor of politics at the university of kent. protesters have now left their michigan presidential palace in yemen support city of aden earlier sources told al-jazeera officials from the un backed government fled the palace as hundreds of demonstrators forced their way through the main gate they stormed the palace without resistance from forces loyal to the southern transitional council is growing anger about the government's policies and the deteriorating economic situation jamaal as child has more on what triggered the protests. this process was triggered by members of the security services that receive their paychecks from the un backed government which was taken as a headquarter ever since the who threw militia overran sentry the government up in the capital sanaa now those security forces haven't been paid or those personal haven't been paid their salaries for 9 months now the start of the protests around mid day at the bank square which is roughly around a kilometer away from the. palace and that then went on to them marching towards a presidential palace and essentially storming get interesting enough they stormed it with little resistance from the southern transitional government which is backed by the united arab emirates who were in charge of guarding the presidential palace and then entered it eventually where the ministers are and the prime minister we're not quite sure exactly what we do understand from sources on the ground that they weren't inside the palace at the time there were some government officials there but none of the ministers or the main. statesmen present economically speaking roughly 3 weeks ago all the saudi backed government did say that it was going to introduce some sort of stimulus package or something that was going to help those who were struggling economically that hasn't come to fruition obviously yemen is devastated the country to qana me is in tatters everything about it has been essentially all but destroyed over the past 4 years because of that's how do you eat. war as well as obviously the actions of the militia and those that back it. the u.n. security council has held a virtual briefing on yemen the special envoy for yemen and griffiths says the war is back in full force and diplomatic as it james bass joins us live from the united nations in new york james wells came out of this briefing. well that the briefing is still underway in fact the representative from france is now speaking in the security council but the words being used in the security council briefing intensification escalation it really grim assessment of where we are right now in yemen just listen to how the u.n. special envoy martin griffith started his speech are returning to this council yet again. reports the deterioration of the public in yemen. this time a dramatic. us rather than incident of morrow got merged into news producer villianous including an estimated $1000000.00 internally displaced persons . fighting forces on both sides of suffered heavy losses unless there's a massive search for allies to shocking report as ours or we order children increasingly getting drawn into the war. deprived of the future. well it's not just the situation in marab he's concerned about other parts of yemen too he says he's concerned about the cross border attacks those air attacks the drones and missiles fired by the who seized towards saudi arabia in the saudi air raids on sonar he's also concerned that the war is coming back to places like data and thai is again and all of this of course just makes the humanitarian situation in yemen even worse and it was already very very bad the u.n. has been warning for months of an imminent famine in yemen and what i think makes people here at u.n. headquarters really concerned is that when it comes to that humanitarian situation with the fighting only escalating there is not the money to feed the people the u.n. at the beginning of the month put out an appeal to get $3850000000.00 from the international community as a matter of urgency otherwise when people were going to start and they only managed to raise less than half of that $1700000000.00 all right thank you for that out there there james bays our diplomatic editor at the united nations russia plans to block twitter in one month the social media platform doesn't remove bad content last week the country's communications watchdog announced it had slowed down the website speed russian authorities are also sowing 5 social media companies for posts about opposition protests critics say it's an attempt to silence them. on the last 15 years of struggle between rival gangs in mexico and the government the number of disappeared and mass graves has racked up the state of michelle khan was where the conflict began and it's being consumed with violence ever since but there's been no large scale search for the missing in the state until now townhome and has this report. is bullet holes in the door but this house might hold more secrets within we've come to the 1st big hunt for the disappeared in the state of michoacan southwest mexico suspects in a police investigation revealed a number of places where they've hit of bodies. and this is the 1st stop to try and find that someone might be under the floor. the cement in there is newer than inside and it sounds hollow that's what people do when they marry someone underneath and put down concrete to hide it. and get there's a brotherhood among the family searching for the nearly 80000 disappeared across mexico erik's traveled more than 2000 kilometers to help the locals there goes about it i've got a son who disappeared into you want to and i feel the same pain as these families so i've come to join their cause. because many of the teams of gangs or even authorities the tools their relatives used to find the basic this is the way that you search for the disappeared right across mexico to push this through out into the ground and then pull out how she's doing there and then sniff it and if there's a smell of decay that means of bodies being found. from you know what you're going to walk why do you sort of sort of rudimentary search you know to move the needle but we haven't got the money for technology there's a lot of poor families here that have used up everything we have trying to find our relatives i and a lot of people come here to search without earning anything the government just stopped the funds to support us. it's a common complaint from the family's little government help the years they've had to do all of this on their own. to lena is learning how for the 1st time she's a local go searching for a brother who was kidnapped a year ago the pandemic and fear stop to look into it now but we're not him is that he was finally someone is helping us and i'm hopeful that we'll find him in all of the others in a way i'm excited and in another sad because we're not going to find him a life. she's resigned to that she just wants his body and this is probably the only shot that she'll get to find it. this area's red hot the highly skilled new generation cotto and that viagra going to fighting over it lead the wants of victims found for 2 weeks only the government's providing security to help families look just at the end of the day no you can see the number of trucks here of the national guard that have come to accompany the families now they're all pulling out basically the families would never be able to look in this without this security because it is so full of criminals. this is just a slim window of time for them to try and end years of torture and finally lay their loved ones to rest john homan how does it or this in to get it all in mexico . a british police officer charged with the abduction and murder of a 33 year old woman is to remain in custody after appearing in court in london when cousins were back in court again the july he's accused of abducting sarah ever out while he was off duty she was last seen walking home in south london on march 3rd the city's police have been heavily criticised for saturday's crackdown on a vigil for ever. person's 99 year old prince philip has left hospital after 4 weeks of treatment the husband of monarch queen elizabeth the 2nd was seen leaving the private facility in central london in the last hour the prince had been recovering from a successful heart procedure and infection buckingham palace has yet to confirm his discharge. call make a volkswagen stocks have seen a boost as it lays out future cost cutting and reinvestment plans the german auto giant plans to axe around $4000.00 jobs through early retirement and says it will invest savings into battery production for electric cars and new technologies the company is looking to gain an edge in the market regulators clamp down on emissions . israeli archaeologists have found fragments of a rare biblical scroll in caves near the dead sea the text was found along with other artifacts including koreans and the 6000 year old mummy of a child israel's antiquities authority says the discovery happened during efforts to protect the caves reducing the chain of caves have been a source of some other important historic findings like the dead sea scrolls and some of the oldest known copies of biblical books. a significant step now in the countdown to the perspire and the big games in tokyo organizers have confirmed the torch relay will go ahead and 9 days before then they hope to make a final decision on whether to allow foreign fans in japan for the games which are due to begin in july. so you will be watching the torch relay along the streets yes please do that when you do that please ensure that you have physical distance with everybody else we want to ensure the safety while you are enjoying the live picture. so head on al-jazeera and sports one of football's biggest names says he was ready to have a final shot at another world cup appearance farce here with that story. time off for his far jim thank you so much footballer really pre-treat see i was making good progress after suffering a head injury jury a game on monday for g.s. international collided with his own teenage conor cody late in the premier league match against liverpool the match was halted for nearly 15 minutes while he was traded but he didn't require hospital treatment the wolves keeper was replaced on the pitch using new concussion rules you know we just an update from the doctor he's a week he's going to. speak and. we have to take the right precautions but he's ok he was. a big big no. but he's ok so no everything before football lawmakers gave a green light for concussion substitute trials to begin from the start of this year for any league or competition that wanted to try them out which the new rule means permanent substitutions can be made if a player suffers a head injury even if a team has already used all of its replacements other sports including rugby and cricket have similar systems in place the australian football league is also likely to introduce new rules for the upcoming season and we've been speaking to the chief medical officer for roll players union chief pro he says he was impressed by the action taken during this latest incident. i was definitely pleased to see how careful is a medical team that engaged we pray you know on the video footage it was clear that there was a so there traumatic brain injury and obviously you think about concussion but you have to sing 1st abut neck and spine injury so definitely credit to the medical team and i was the reply. she's poor i've been your gene everyone to change and explore you know these amendments and also temper recomposition 62 shen unfortunately is a temporary completion 62 sion we're not allowed to be tried yet we have to do with the men and completion superstition and we are going to evaluate whether or not a pleased 10 countries didn't many festa interest in order to try and seize this concussion 60 to sion 5 years after announcing his international retirement as latin even him of that is back in the sweden's god squad the 39 year old is his country's record course score and has made himself available for upcoming world cup qualifiers the ac milan player could also feature in this year's european championships with sweden is set to take on spain poland and fly back yet. team new zealand are one win away from retaining the america's cup they beat italy's luna rossi in the race 9 off the coast of auckland to take a 63 lead in this best of 13 match or the 3rd race in a row to new zealand came from behind to beat the challengers the team will return to the water on wednesday for what could be the final break. i was over see a really close rice you know we felt we got off to a pretty good and then and also got the run in sort of us with a bit of a run in shifts and we couldn't quite hold in there so the more thought on the back for you know we just get fighting and keep trying to find opportunities and don't have any late charges they were it was great to get the final shift in and it was pretty much what it came down to felix audit. honestly feel exhausted and you know we were disappointed in the roster is not no doubt about that time but i'm excited you know we will live to fight another die and when we come back to the dark it was not set our heads down you know negative energy from any better you might syria fans of supporters they were lit up and they were ready for the head of world athletics seb coe says he's still hopeful that overseas spectators will be allowed to attend this year's tokyo olympics out of the torch relay beginning later this month organizers are hoping to make a final decision on whether or not to allow foreign fans into japan for the games elin pics are due to begin on july the 23rd and i would love to see people from overseas in the stadium safely and securely him and following all the code beat protocols and i know that the athletes you know it's not a deal breaker for the athletes but i think everybody would prefer to have stadiums that people in and i do. diverse reflecting the planet and the olympic movement we live in. and the bron james got the better of his old rival staff curry as the pair faced off on monday james scored 22 points and triple double to help the l.a. lakers beat golden state curry to face le bron and 4 straight n.b.a. finals did at least out score him by 5 points it was enough though with the lakers stealing a big 128297 with. ok and that is all you are now come back to you thank you for that far i think i speak for every expert expect here we around the world when i say let's bring our home to new zealand we got this more news for you here on al-jazeera do stay with us i'll be back with you in just a few minutes time when you think about it out. from the al-jazeera london broil call center to people in thoughtful conversation generally whenever you talk about race or racism people. with no host and no limitations our society has structural racism built into a new season of studio b. unscripted. convenient blind spots you know some aspects of our history racism and different types of prejudice coming soon on al-jazeera. mixing the traditional with the modern nobody 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