china rings in its 1st lunar new year since lifting cove 19 restrictions, but a rising death told threatens to dampen festivities. ah, la, watching al jazeera live from dough. how with me for liberty bore also ahead a new low in relations between volcano fossil and france, military leaders in the west african country demand friend serves withdraw within a month. perused popular much repeat, uterus side is closed as protests against the president spreads. ah, and how a citizens choir in chile is helping returned classical music to its roots. ah. after 3 years of taft, corona virus restrictions, china is celebrating the lunar new year with tens of millions of people traveling to their rural home towns. but the pandemic is overshadowing the festivities. nearly 13000 corbett linked deaths have been officially reported in hospitals between january 14th and 19th. that s the highest weekly death told to date. but this excludes those who died at home begging has also been accused of
the 1st time since 2019 tens of millions of travel to their rural home towns. but they are concerned is that the recent surgeon infections could spread to the countryside. katrina, you is in beijing with more. the previously new year was the year of the tiger. and according to the chinese zodiac, the qualities of year the tiger were restlessness and disruption. and that certainly ran true for many people here in china because of cove and 0 policies. we had huge disruptions to income to ability and to health, especially at the end of the year when those restrictions was suddenly lifted. and millions of people are estimated to have gotten sick with the virus and at least 60000 people died. and now we have this new year this year of the rabbit, which according to the zodiac, is supposed to have qualities of peace and posterity. so many people are coming here, crowds people lining up to the temple and they will be praying for a more positive year. ahead and certainly a better yea
ah, hello i, mariam noisy in london. you re watching alger 0 also coming up on the program, peruvian police evict protest is from a university campus in lima as the ongoing protest around the country lead to the closure of mac, p 2. for the 3rd week in a row, tens of thousands of israelis rally against benjamin netanyahu. government that s plans to reform the judiciary. and after talks with the taliban, the ones talk female official house al jazeera. there s much more to be done to resolve the grave crisis for women s rights in afghanistan. ah, welcome to the program and we begin in brazil, a president and we re in our seo luna. da silva has fired the countries army commander comes days after he said, some members of the military, it allowed the january 8th uprising in the capitol. lula says intelligence services failed when government buildings in brasilia was storm by supporters of the former president. joe bull scenario that was earlier this month. general our router had b
female official says, what s happening in afghanistan is a grave crisis for women s rights and a wake up call for the national community. the taliban is bod, within from education and much of public life. un deputy secretary general. i mean a mom. it is just wrapped up, afford a visit to cobble and has worn, but much remains to be achieved. she spoke to my colleague 40 by 2 in doha, earlier on. it was always very clear to me. i m going in there as an opportunity to air the voices of women of afghanistan. we heard this some young women who said to us, we don t need your voice senior, just amplify ours when you get in there, since we don t have that opportunity. so going in the house, very focused on getting those messages across, getting into the room. it is always intimidating. when you re facing people who do such things in this world is we don t accept. but i think, you know, focus on the issue and push it and we did and they didn t in some cases, didn t accept it and try t