biggest breach of the 2050 nuclear deal is a new relationship with the incoming u.s. president over before it began. with the leaks founder julian assange is one step closer to freedom after a british court blocks his extradition to the u.s. . i'm john ash with supporters manchester united at us and gets the backing of his international team mates here guys that players union says it's the english f.a. that's racist not vonnie and of course his 3 day to be reversed. there's been a breakthrough in a 3 year dispute between qatar and 3 other arab nations saudi arabia has agreed to reopen its airspace and land and sea border to qatar from monday kuwait which has been the main mediator in the dispute made the announcement on the eve of a gulf cooperation council summit in. saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on qatar in 2017 accusing it of supporting terrorism qatar has always rejected the claim. here's announcement from kuwait's foreign minister i did also have a similar issue equating to me or maybe calls with a mirror and the saudi crown prince based on what the kuwaiti emir his highness shaikh now awful also proposed an agreement was reached to open the land and maritime borders between the kingdom of saudi arabia and the state of qatar starting tonight. expressed his gratitude to the custodian of the holy sites the saudi king for all the efforts he is making to ensure the summit will be successful . and then we will speak to our senior political analyst now and bashar and to gabriel is on day for reaction from washington d.c. but 1st let's go live to doha and jim and jamal talk us through the mechanisms of what's been agreed here. well essentially it's one of the major obstacles that were in place to finding a solution being essentially taken away namely the blockade on kut obviously this initial agreement only stipulates that saudi air space and the land border between qatar and saudi arabia and the maritime borders that the 2 countries share will be open it doesn't make reference to the other 3 blockading countries namely the united arab emirates. and egypt however a saudi is the main force certain least in terms of the current setup between those 4 countries and it is expected that during this summit that will take place on tuesday more agreements or more details of the agreements will be announced why i say this is one of the main obstacles because from the very beginning of this crisis back in 2017 when there was international summits that were taking place even in saudi arabia and other countries the amir of qatar said he would not be participating in those unless the blockade on his country was lifted and therefore for this summit to be a success and with all the push and drive that was coming from kuwait from washington to try and find a resolution in time ahead of the inauguration of joe biden or in time ahead of the exit of donald trump for the summit to be a success it needed to have the highest possible representation from qatar and it needed to be accompanied with an agreement now that partially the blockade has been lifted at least from one of those countries it is seeing it seems to be a lot more promising that we are on the cusp of getting a more holistic deal that will at least resolve not necessarily the deeper issues but at least will resolve this current crisis in the form of the blockade that was imposed on qatar and jamal give us an idea of the economic and political damage this whole business is caused. well of course i mean it was taken a soft hugely and not just one in the sense that in the early days it had to lift a century food supplies milk basic necessities medicine all of which was cut off without any warning on the 3 some $3000000.00 people living here but also throughout the time each country has been spending millions of dollars on p.r. campaigns on criminal action. courts and legal measures on on many different aspects and that's essentially really has had its impact on all the while the economic benefits of having a union in the g.c.c. were not being tapped into because there wasn't any unity within it so for example if we look at the trade deals that could have been struck or were meant to be struck for example between the united kingdom and the g.c.c. that fell through arthur the blockade happened so obviously there has been an economic impact on it's politically speaking it's created a lot of division it created a lot of uncertainty and it's through the region into more turmoil the g.c.c. for decades was seen as a more stable or maybe the more stable part of the wider middle east and north africa it was on the verge of actually going into a military conflict as we heard from the late eighty's a mere should someone who said that were not for his country's intervention in the early days of the blockade there could have very well been an invasion of qatar by saudi arabia and egypt and therefore there was great instability whether this deal is going to maybe bring about more. synchronization between these countries and maybe bring them closer together politically skeptics would say that is unlikely however at least it means that the overt animosity that has been expressed itself either through the blockade on qatar or other means that that's will at least subdue for the foreseeable future can mashhad thank you very much. some a quick recap of the dispute as parts of the gulf neighbors against each other for more than 3 years in june 2017 saudi arabia u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut all diplomatic and economic ties with carter they accused it of creating instability and supporting terrorism which causes government denies they closed its only land border and imposed an air and sea embargo kuwait then stepped in to mediate the trump administration also got involved recently in what was seen as a last ditch attempt to resolve the issue before the president leaves office let's go straight to out of there senior political analyst mo and bashara someone tell us how you see this playing out if it is resolved in a broader sense it's not just between saudi arabia and qatar what do you think it'll mean for the the region in general or a certainly. an important 1st step it's 3 and a half years late for step. but it is an important step nonetheless the countries the block at the counters could have saved us all a lot of trouble and a lot of expense and a lot of tension if they could have just dissolved this from several days after the blockage because as now we all know there was no good reason just a vacation and that the pretext was false for the blockade so now that it is what it is and that we have some sort of an opening towards some real solution clearly this could be the trigger for a wider normalizations of relations restore ration of good neighborly relations and not only immediately in the gulf but this could be also the russia now why certain countries like saudi arabia might now want to take other positive steps for example to end the war in yemen to listen the tension with iran to improve relations with turkey and overall just improve nibbling relations within a region. that has been suffering from war conflict and certainly from the pandemic and it's being. present office has been saying this is down to jericho and that aussie want to make the get out of it but but remind us what role president trump had in the 1st base for this. well certainly the trumpet mrs finn was directly perhaps more indirectly responsible. for the crisis because back then in may 2017 when president trump and days son in law visited riyadh. they were part and parcel of at least question that was part and parcel of behind the scene conspiracy basically a case cutter he knew about it and now we know that he actually knew i did not tell the secretary of state at the time that rex tillerson about it so the top administration was responsible i have tried over the years to bring calm to today to this to the to the region and resolve it didn't work out very well for them and then of course kuwait and other stepped in in order to help resolve the conflict but you could say loren in 2 words that the trump administrations was responsible in some ways for the crisis and now it is in fact responsible in some ways for resolving the crisis but that's you know as you would say that's the least they could have done because the united. yes this does have but the likes of so we get it get the u.a.e. and other settler with egypt all of them are buying arms from the united states all of them depending on the united states for their protection all of them are in some form all or none problem ok strategic relations or even an alliance with the united states against their nemeses in the region so i think the united states did and still have an important role to play in the question of course lauren for all of us is what does this mean for the region's relation with the buy didn't administer action come january 20th. from what i stand set clearly. saudi arabia wanted to resolve this thing before the da the by then mr comes in so that it won't hold much to the coming and mr should that it would dissolve a thing without already departing and ministration that will basically open a clean page for saudi arabia and others to be able to start discussing the more important issues like ending the war in yemen and certainly like the question of iran because it's important for all this thing to be happening in the gulf and throughout the region mean it but there are arab solidity and by the way even among the non democratic leaders of the region because sometimes none democratic countries could act just as responsibly even more responsibly down the macwrite the countries and we've seen of course what democracies like the united states as we were saying are good but will love so all in all this hopefully it will lead to better relations with iran and that they will be part and parcel of whatever future american iranian negotiations whether it's over the nuclear or where the missile over regional security of their arab partners will be present at the table that they would have a stake in whatever results will be coming out from an american raney and deal so this is an important course steps in that direction towards hopefully more regional stability while i'm bashar thank you very much everything is under is in washington for us so talk to us there the u.s. position on this and the reaction to it. you know we've got no official reaction as of this hour from the white house or from president donald trump or from anybody at the state department however within the last hour or so a senior white house advisor has told out 0 that that it was jared cushion or that did negotiate this deal and brokered this deal and that is on his way to the region as we speak to attend this signing ceremony that we expect will happen in the next 24 hours this official told al-jazeera that accompanying shared cushion or on this trip to saudi arabia will be at the berkowitz a white house envoy to the middle east and brian hook a senior state department official who have been according this white house official involved in these negotiations from the very beginning of course jared cushion or being the senior advisor to president donald trump and his son in law now according to other reporting coming out of the united states and what we're hearing elsewhere is that these negotiations led by cushioning recording the united states began in the region several weeks ago with cushion and his advisors shuttling back and forth between riyadh and doha to try to broker this deal we're told that the deal was about to potentially fall apart as early as 24 hours ago but the cushion or was on the phone with his counterparts and others in the region late sunday night into the early hours of monday morning finalizing the deal which now apparently is done now going off of what i call the marwan bashar which was stating a few minutes ago in some ways this is sort of the trumpet ministration cleaning up a mess that it helped to start and to get a sense of that you have to look back to recent history and at the beginning of this this. conflict between saudi arabia and qatar donald trump when he 1st came to office in 2. 10162017 actually he sided with saudi arabia and he actually accused qatar a trump himself of being a. sponsor of terrorism that's something of course that qatar has denied from the very beginning and it denies all the way up until today now when. the qatari amir came to washington in 2018 he met at the white house with donald trump qatar has very close relations for many years with the united states dating back long before donald trump and at that time trump reversed himself and said that. qatar is very much a supporter of the united states helps the united states and is fighting helping to fight against terrorism around the world so the trumpet ministration policy from the very beginning here has been very confusing quite frankly and it's been giving a lot a lot of mixed signals so what you're going to be seeing now is question are in the white house and washington quite frankly in the administration basically trying to declare victory here a diplomatic victory if you will on this likely in the coming hours and days basically with only basically with only 16 days left in donald trump's presidency basically what they're trying to do is clean up a mess that they helped to start gabriel's own i thank you very much indeed for as mike said is a giant professor at george washington university joins us from washington d.c. via scott thanks very much for being with us so what do you say would have been the main factors in getting to the point of a breakthrough now. well thank you lorna the the various parties involved have been interested in reaching a positive conclusion to this crisis now prime number of months we know that the saudi leadership for example has been moving in that direction and the temper of those of us who follow these issues closely know that there's been a lot of rumors in the in the hallways of power in washington about getting this issue resolved before trump leaves office now obviously the timing is also related to the gulf cooperation council the g.c.c. summit tomorrow in saudi arabia and so i think that clearly the time has been opportune the issues make sure that over time over the last couple of weeks as they were to be debated there seems to have been some last minute political. theater perhaps or a climax when the deal almost fell apart in the last 24 to 40 hours but then the quick u.s. intervention and diplomacy was able to resolve the dozens of barry welcome with promising and i think all of us will be watching as the iraq gulf leaders a fly into thought your abs for this historic summit tomorrow. how would you say the new allies a share of relations between israel and some of the gulf countries has played into this is it been any kind of factor in it. i don't think there is a direct relationship there lauren i think those are 2 separate tracks but i think they are maybe perhaps related or one way that we can sort of put them together is clearly the saudi leadership clearly or riyadh is resetting the table in preparation for the incoming biden administration all these issues are issues that will play favorably with the incoming administration whether it is you know we're tries or at least a lessening of tensions right if the towards israel certainly lifting the blockade and having resulting the gulf crisis issue is also another one and so clearly the saudi leadership recognize that there needs to be a new page in dealing with the by the administration and this is part of that ng that table or you come you know the inauguration on january 20th when it was about the genesis for itself i mean how do they put this sort of bad blood behind them and what effectively as a bulk. well while we all look on this agreement i think we have to be very cautious but i think when we look back we also have to recognize that there has been past agreements in the past similar agreements that did not. come into fruition the felt through in terms of implementation you know similar agreements that were struck in 20132014 certainly there will there are song number of issues that remain unresolved i think we could expect to seize some kind of a lull or cessation in the media war that has taken place between these various countries i think there certainly an agreement not to intervene in each other's domestic affairs in domestic politics or in opposition groups though they're all welcome but there are also real differences when it comes to the geopolitics of the region what our relations with turkey and iran or the muslim brotherhood one of those relationships going to be like and we know the couple has been very fiercely defending its right to an independent foreign policy while the rest of the g.c.c. led by saudi arabia want to see greater coordination so these are all very important questions potentially unresolved and i think what we thought today or what we've heard from what we'll see tomorrow at the summit is an important 1st step in the right direction but a 1st step nonetheless yes emma has a connection to tell us a lot. still ahead on the hours or news hour it's reported any $65.00 coronavirus deaths but thailand still sees the need to tighten restrictions. and begin create a 1000000 early tests positive for kevin 19 on arrival in sri lanka details coming up with gemma in sport. what other news now the u.k.'s prime minister has ordered england into a new international lockdown as the country's code 19 outbreak threatens to overwhelm hospitals 1st johnson says a new variant of the corona virus is causing a surge in infections and deaths and that urgent action is needed to slow it down emergency measures come as the u.k. reported more than 58000 new cases on monday the 7th day in a row that infections have topped 50407 more people died as the new variant of corona virus continues to spread rapidly elsewhere thailand's prime minister's urged people to stay at home after designating 28 provinces as high risk zones including the capital bangkok and european union regulators a meeting to consider proveable for a 2nd vaccine but there's criticism for a slow rollout so far in a continent that seen all than 15000000 infections under simmons begins our coverage boris johnson it started monday at the rollout of the oxford university astra zeneca vaccine a world 1st easy to store will distribute but any fanfare was last replaced by a realisation that the spread of covert in the u.k. is out of control by the end of the day came this announcement the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. you may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law such as to shop for essential zz to work if you absolutely cannot work from home to exercise to seek medical assistance johnson had said he hoped the rollout of vaccines could protect the most vulnerable people care homes carers medical staff and people over 70 by mid february he said all schools and colleges would have to close the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet but i really do believe that we're entering the last phase of the struggle because with every job the goes into our arms we are tilting the odds against coded and in favor of the british people and thanks to the miracle of science not only is the end in sight. but we knew exactly how we will get there early as scotland's 1st minister was on her feet that a recall session of her devolved parliament with a similar announcement we have to say to introduce from midnight tonight for the tradition of the january a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes this is similar to the lockdown of march last year and there's another worrying development a u.k. government scientific advisor is reported as saying that he's concerned the vaccines won't be as effective against a south african variant of kofi furthermore matter henk or the u.k. health secretary says he's concerned because the south african variant seems to be more infectious than the u.k. strain the u.k.'s plan straight into this lockdown with no delay on the country's coded alert level has switched to 5 meaning hospitals in the material risk of being overwhelmed the u.k. finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. and here's the problem the u.k. is facing an extraordinary rise in recorded infections over the last few weeks the country is now seeing an exponential rise in cases far outstripping the 1st wave last year the number of actual cases may be even higher because not everybody is being tested we're now joined by john senior data visualization journalist at the financial times he joins us our skype from london thanks very much indeed for being with us so you've been tracking the numbers on this right from the start and it seems that boris johnson was saying that actually what the main problem is the new variant in the transmissibility being 50 to 70 percent higher does that do your figures how do your figures kind of current to that. that's right you know i think what's clear is that the long term that we had from november into early december in the u.k. was having a clear impact it was bringing transmission down until the new variant b 11 cell phone took hold and what we then saw was that because the natural transmission rate of the new variant is significantly higher than what we were dealing with before the measures we've had in place previously were no longer enough to keep cases down and that is essentially what's been fueling the very steep rise is that you were just showing there any previous lock downs how fast did it you know how fast was the effect to reduce that curve and do you expect that to be the same this time or do you think that with this new variant that can be predicted yes so words relatively quick last time new cases seem to pekin early april back in the spring or sort of early to mid april so that's we're talking sort of a couple of weeks 2 or 3 weeks for infections to to come back down after measures were put in what we're seeing now is evidently well not that because london and other parts of the southeast for example have been under quite strict measures now for several weeks or at least a couple of weeks and we've not seen any slowdown in the spread now obviously the hope is that we will start seeing over over the coming days and weeks especially with the announcement the schools will now be closed but know the the greater transmissibility of this variant means that the time it takes to get it under control will also be longer and in terms of deaths i mean we've seen the number of cases above 50000 for the past week or so what do you think that's going to translate into. yeah i think as i was before what we can do is we can look at the parts of the country that have seen the most steep increases in cases and see what's already happening to the us so if you look at places like london the south east of england and the east there's already been a marked increase and a steepening of deaths in the last 2 weeks or so so in the east in the southeast we've seen we're seeing deaths now that are higher daily death rates higher than they were in the spring now that's not the case yet in a lot of the unfortunately but those patterns are what we're now likely to see in other parts of the u.k. as well as the northeast century catches up as it were to where the south in the southeast have been over the last couple of weeks there was also an in the announcement from they promised him saying that he expects all the n.h.s. expects to vaccination the kind of top 40 years of vulnerable people by mid february were you surprised that a date was put on that and and your experience is that is that likely to be the case yes it's an interesting one so obviously the danger of putting a date on these things is that it is giving giving people a stick with which to be johnson as it were if that target is not met bots obviously what he in the government are trying to do there is provide a sense of optimism to give people an end date as it were when things might be able to start normalizing it's going to be it's going to be a big challenge to get that would mean vaccinating about 13 and a half 1000000 people by mid february which will need an average of $2000000.00 a nation's per week in the u.k. until then and so far we've only been doing about half a 1000000 per week so it's going to be it's going to require a big ramping up from where we are right now nobody's to be expected especially now with the docs that astra zeneca vaccine in the arsenal as it were but yes i think i think it's going to be a challenge to hit the target but as i say i can understand why they they they put a date on that to try and give people a sense of when things might start returning to normal john byrne murdoch thank you very much indeed for talking to senators there. tuns government is tightening coronavirus restrictions off the shop spike in infections the country had been viewed as a success story in containing the virus with any 65 deaths but it's now contending with a 2nd and stronger way as scott high reports. it's not the way thailand wanted to start the new year since mid january the country has seen a steady increase in new locally transmitted covert cases of all going into a full fledged 2nd wave this after no new local cases for months but on monday a milestone was reached the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic more than 740 as the last few weeks most of the cases are tied to an outbreak in some province it's believed to have been brought in by migrant workers in the large seafood industry in the province while thailand was the 1st country outside china to register a locally transmitted covert case it has been successful in preventing a major outbreak heavy restrictions on foreign arrivals in mandatory to eat corn teen help that the 2nd wave has the government concerned responding quickly with restrictions and a system of color coding areas with rising cases. compared to other countries the measures in thailand are acceptable but we can't let our guard down the government has the authority and i support it we have to suffer for a while to bring down the new cases we have to work together $28.00 provinces designated as red zones are facing the most severe restrictions schools are closed in mass gatherings prohibited restaurants have to limit the number of dine in customers in hours bars and clubs are shut malls and supermarkets remain open but have to measure people's temperatures and set up track and tracing systems the government has stopped short of calling this a lockdown as the people here have been living in relative normality since july the 2nd wave is a bitter pill to swallow also officials are encouraging businesses and companies to explore remote working options. maturo to now runs an open air hotpot restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok these new restrictions cut deep and she is still recovering from the lockdown last year never let me try to pull as a citizen i understand the situation and will try to cooperate but as a mother how can i support my family my kid has to eat and go to school what about my staff they have to pay bills and support their families everyone has their burdens. the thai government is planning to inoculate more than half of its $70000000.00 people over the next several months the 1st round of jabs could come as early as the end of february the vaccine from chinese scene of a biotech going to health care workers 1st and then it will look to locally produced the oxford astra zeneca vaccine with the capacity of up to $200000000.00 doses a year it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. this is the news hour live from london coming up the world's most popular digital currency slumps in value after hitting a record high. steph curry lands a career best 62 points for the golden state warriors as coming up in sport the chance. hello there it's been a stormy start to the new year for a central part of the mediterranean and there's no sign of that letting up anytime soon more thundery showers just around if only and the balkans little bit of moisture a little bit of more warm is being pushed up across that eastern side of here but as soon as we take it that warm one strap pushing into the colder air quite releasing a fair bit of snow that way some snow all the way up into powdered into the baltic states temperatures struggling right our area of high pressure over scandinavia northeasterly wayne said no higher than about 3 or 4 celsius for glasgow london and even for paris you can follow that cold air all the way down across spain as well madrid getting no higher than round i've celsius could see some snow over the peyronie's could even see some snow into madrid as we go on into the next couple of days is certainly something to watch out for that wintry mix will continue across central parts the italy certainly seeing some rain sleet and snow with a possibility in particular a snowy weather sliding across c.h.b. asyik well way across into parts of grace more wet windy and wintry weather coming in here and you say how flurries of snow will continue up to as germany and the low countries cold enough across northern parts of africa as well just 10 celsius in repatch on tuesday with wetter weather from the algeria. from. the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics in a simple art form i think you're off as a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and to collect data in a way that makes a represents a different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hope the pie crates and handling instructions doesn't alienate people just like people who are like i'm not smart most understand this truth is it any way out is there are. when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in indian administered kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate the sky for food back home we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentaries and lighting effects on air and online. armaan of the top stories here now jazeera kuwait has released a statement saying an agreement has been reached to open the airspace land and sea borders with qatar as of this evening the leaders of qatar saudi arabia and kuwait have been talking on the eve of the g.c.c. summit in saudi arabia. britain's prime minister has announced a new lockdown for england the u.k. has recorded more than 50000 daily cases the past week scotland's leaders brought in emergency measures from midnight g.m.t. . iran has announced a new breach to the 2050 nuclear deal just weeks before joe biden becomes u.s. president with hopes to resurrect the pact it says it has resumed enriching in uranium to 20 percent purity at an underground facility the european union called the move a considerable departure from the deal or so known as the j s j c p o a john mccain ports in berlin. this is what the world's great powers have been trying for years to prevent or to minimize the enrichment of uranium in iranian centrifuges to teheran this is a peaceful civilian enterprise but some around the world fear it may lead to the development of a nuclear weapon under the existing vienna record of 2015 known as the j c p a iran should be enriching uranium only to 3.67 percent but now it says it aims to enrich to almost 6 times that number and has notified the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. in a tweet iran's foreign minister has said we regime is 20 percent enrichment as a legislated by our parliament the i.a.e.a. has been julie notified our remedial action conforms fully with paragraph 36 of the j c p a after years of noncompliance by. several other participants our measures are fully reversible upon full compliance by all to european eyes this act is beyond the terms of the vienna accord which when it was signed brought together britain france germany china russia and the us under then president obama's administration his successor president trump abandoned the deal in 2018 citing iranian noncompliance since then the europeans have been at the forefront of trying to ensure tehran abides by the terms of the deal helping to by trying to reduce the impact of u.s. sanctions its reaction to monday's announcement in brussels was clear if this announcement is going to be implemented and also went to the iranian authorities it would constitute a considerable departure from iran's nuclear commitments under the j c p o a real serious north nuclear nonproliferation implications now let me recall also the importance of any steps that could undermine the preservation of the nuclear deal and here i would like to recall all the previous statements by all the participants of the j.c.b. a way that they are interested in keeping it is a life and that the old will be kept alive as long as all the participants deliver on their obligations the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has condemned iran's move you know of years ago little more than a lot of iran has announced that it will increase the level of uranium enrichment and will develop industrial capabilities to reach your rhenium underground. this is a blatant and absolute violation of its obligations there is no other explanation other than continuing iran's international to produce nuclear weapons and the iranian government believes by announcing enhanced enrichment it might be able to compel the other signatories to the vienna accord to comply think there is chairs because iran has clearly said that if there are other parties to the nuclear deal including the europeans i think you. if the united states returns to the if the written into full compliance iran will do the same in a very short time the question remains as to what response the us government will give both now and to president trump and in just over 2 weeks time under joe biden he helped broker the original deal in 2015 as vice president soon he will have to react as president in his own right dominic cain al-jazeera early in. iran says its nuclear projects are for civilian purposes and not to attain weapons but the whole point of the 2015 deal was to restrict iran's path to a nuclear bomb and lift sanctions once you are a new ms enrich to 20 percent to get much easier to increase its purity and 90 percent refinement needed to make nuclear weapons is then just a technical step away but you also need enough fissile material to make a bomb in 2019 iran broke the deals limit on how much enrich uranium it can hold the i.a.e.a. said in november that iran stockpile was at 2442 kilos or than 10 times the limit set by the nuclear pact how long it could take for iran to assemble a bomb is still unclear. a u.k. court says wiki leaks founder julian assange will not be extradited to the us he's wanted on espionage charges for the publication of thousands of secret american military documents in 20102011 us authorities are expected to appeal against the decision he's back or reports from outside the court. it is for now at least the result julian assange supporters had wanted. the wiki leaks founder will not be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges for the publishing of classified military and diplomatic documents and 201011 the u.s. claims the leaks broke the law and endangered lives and will appeal the ruling. outside the courts a song just fiance joined by the new editor in chief of wiki leaks welcome the news that said the fight isn't over. let's not forget indictment in the u.s. has not been dropped. or extremely concerned that the u.s. government has decided to appeal this decision. it continues to want to punish julian. and make him disappear into the deepest darkest hole of the u.s. prison system there should be a call out and pressure on the u.s. sides to drop the appeal to say enough is enough we've heard enough of this we have a plan to deal with in this new year. but not this a santa arrived at court from london's belmarsh prison where he's been held since april 29th teen his defense team has always insisted the case was politically motivated powered by u.s. president donald trump's administration but one by one the judge rejected the defense's claims including concerns a son wouldn't get a fair trial in the u.s. refusing extradition soli over fears he could take his own life if he ended up in a u.s. maximum security jail the judge said he suffered from severe depression and had been diagnosed with autism after a razor had been found in his cell and he told medical staff about suicidal thoughts. it was footage like this if u.s. forces killing civilians and journalists in iraq in 2007 that drew intense for still a t from the u.s. government and after swedish prosecutors opened a rape and sexual assault investigation against him he was arrested in london facing imminent extradition 2012 he took refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy and didn't leave it for 7 years. when i could or finally let british police in to haul a sound out the u.s. allegations were finally revealed for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents a maximum 175 year sentence under the espionage act the prosecution has cost wiki leaks is a criminal enterprise responsible for encouraging its supporters to hack into government computers and steal sensitive information but julian assange his supporters say that he is a defender of freedom of speech and the right for journalists to hold the powerful to account a someone just lawyers will now ask for his release on bail at a hearing on wednesday if granted he could be given a taste of freedom within days barkha al-jazeera london. take you straight to u.s. president joe biden who see that riding on stage is about to speak in atlanta georgia. oh whoa whoa whoa whoa. this is good to be back it's good to be back. let's hear it for allie. direction and a great lineup of entertainers you've had. your probably disappointed you're not a speaker look at the entertainers background here. and let's hear 1st a shared rooms. body nobody in america 'd has done more for the right to vote thing stacey stacey here change in georgia you've changed america i want to personally thank you again so let's hear it for the next public service commissioner daniel blackman. i don't know where daniel is run over here look. and one of the best mares america has a good friend kesha lands bottom ah. if i add 3 of her i could rule the world *. i love her. and let's share for the next united states senator john r. soft and their reverend word ah i was talking to the back to him they're talented they're principled we're qualified they're decent there are a bull they mean what they say and they believe what i believe the definition of america is it's about the possibilities unlike any other nation in the world and it's possible. there are very dark every street toward justice and hope and progress and asked out hyperbole that's room folks this is it this is their it's your through year and tomorrow care bear don't carry for atlanta for georgia and for america. first let me start by saying thank you for elected me and commerce president vice pres united states. joe biden robin rising in atlanta there for this final part of the election is run over into the into 2021 but it was originally run in 2020 as part of the presidential election and now they're having to go to a runoff and to show name in atlanta so this campaigning is going right to the last minute really isn't it. absolutely for georgians the election cycle never ended because as soon as the general election ended it became apparent that there were neither candidate in the senate race here in georgia received a majority which is required for state law and it would move to a senate runoff this is president elect joe biden's 3rd visit to i'm sorry to georgia in the last 2 months in what has been an intense and often caustic senate runoff campaign that is because the stakes are so high both of these parties have passed this runoff race is determining the future of america by berkeley perhaps for the least the future for the next 4 years because if democrats can flip these 2 republican seats democrats would not only control the house of representatives they would also control the senate and of course president elect joe biden at the home as president and it could really make a difference from the biden. active in terms of what he and his administration could accomplish the republicans in this race. come but senator david perdue and senator kelly lefler spent more time talking about their opposition then they have themselves both of these candidates have passed the democratic candidate john oster and reverend raphael warnock as radical democrats and said that a vote for them means fending off these quote radical democrats and fending off socialism the democrats have really looked at this campaign as a way of reaching out to ordinary georgians they have talked about expanding health care for people who qualify for insurance because they can't afford it they talked about getting a handle on this pandemic and ensuring that everyone has quick and easy access to the vaccine they talked about a livable wage promoting clean energy and promoting judicial reform really focusing on the what they believe are the everyday needs of georgians they have criticized the democrats have criticized the incumbent senators for their in their opinion putting profits before the pandemic what they're alluding to is allegations that both purdue and leffler made stock trades at the very beginning when it became apparent that 19 was going to ravage the globe now both of those candidates have denied any wrongdoing and say they actually have a record of creating jobs for do was a c.e.o. lefler is a high level executive and owns a local w. n.b.a. basketball team but there is a sense among democrats that they can make history here even though georgia has not voted for a democratic senator for 20 years but democrats believe that they have already broken a barrier by bitin carrying georgia in november that was the 1st time that a democratic presidential candidate. done that in 28 years there were the 2 democratic candidates there believing they could make history john aasif would become if elected the youngest member of the set it and reverend it rafael were not would become georgia's 1st black senator. thank you very much indeed natasha her name. mentor is an associate professor of political science at katyn state university in morrow georgia he joins us via skype a lot of skate at stake and what's your prediction for how this will pan out well and thanks for having me laura so this is going to be a very tight race as we've seen since november and it was relatively tight general election that had. president elect biden to georgia i expect this one dewsbury similar path as the general election did i fully expect you'll see a surge in the polls for the republican candidates and they won absentee ballots for the mail and vote start getting counted you're going to see that blue wave calm and if it's anything like the general election it should be enough to sweep at least one maybe even both democrats and office but it will be a close him a long night for the next 72 hours all eyes are on george how much difference does the the coal that we were reporting on in the last day or so the president trump school to the success to how much will this play in this do you think. it's getting some i mean getting national attention and national attention. it is cause some worry amongst the republican party you see vice president pence talking about it's important to go to the polls 'd and vote to urge republicans to go to the polls and vote regardless of what's being said about potential election fraud even if it is baseless and he has been very clear in voting is the most important thing for the republicans to do right now and that's a pretty strong stance taken the vice president and you're seeing producer and leffler both to explain that they need to be able to get to the polls too so there's an actual real fear that this kind of mixed message about election fraud or voting negative that came from the call that we heard from the president just last night and early this morning we're hearing that to really play on public energy to the polls and that's what we really know if people aren't energized about their candidate or about an election they're not going to come and you could see just based on what we're seeing with president elect biden and lana's excited people except on the democratic side so they're coming to the polls and if they turn out to be wrong if it doesn't go the democrats way what do you think the impact will be in terms of biden's ability to maneuver. i mean to be difficult you have a very set savvy and crafty. leader right now in the senate mitch mcconnell he hasn't shown that he has the power he won't caped even when the president demanded the elbow on $2000.00 checks so just imagine the opposition that's the same party so it'll be difficult if the democrats aren't able to switch but biden has run on being going across the aisle he was in the senate for a very long time as a as a unifier so it won't be nearly what we saw maybe under the obama administration at times but you'll see that it will be nearly as easy to break a tie with vice-president like the harris if the democrats of course don't get those 2 seats just your mental cousins taking us to thank you very much indeed for being on to their lives thank you much. generous here now with all sport thanks lauren i am luis suarez and several other euro quite footballers a calling for the english football association to reverse its decision to ban addison for racism the manchester united striker was suspended for 3 games and find $136000.00 of for using a spanish term for black people in an instagram post which he says was intended as an affectionate greeting players' union says is the english f.a. not vonnie as being racist for punishing the whole culture and way of life cavani didn't contest the ban out of respect for the fight against racism in football england cricketer moan alley has tested positive for coated 19 on arrival in ahead of the 2 test series that he now isolate for 10 days making him a doubt for the 1st match which starts the day off to his due to leave quarantine fellow around chris weight has been named as a possible close contact and will also self isolate the team landed in toronto on sunday in the greeted by men in hazmat suits he sprays the players and their equipment with disinfectant the 4th test between australia and india is in doubt because the indian team don't want to quarantine again the current in sydney for the 3rd test by crowd capacity has been cut to 25 percent after a covert outbreak in the city state rules that will require them to isolate for 2 weeks on arrival in brisbane for the 4th match and india threatening to boycott if that's the case with some of the team having breached protocols last week there's a little sympathy from their opponents. i know there's a few people from different from both squads who have been bubble for close to 6 months now but in more oil as it's very small so forced to for us to get in there imply the gang that we live in and put a lot of small zone a lot of people's faces and a room the world's in more as we just have to suck it up and get on with it. australia is a tight restrictions a causing headaches for formula one organizers as well the season was juicer begin in melbourne in march but with australia still in forcing strict travel rules the sport might have to reshuffle its calendar to start with a race in bahrain instead a decision on suspending the australian grand prix is set to be made later this month over in japan the government is considering a state of emergency after a spike in 1000 cases but the country's prime minister insists the take your olympics must be held as planned as just 200 days to go before the games begin in the japanese capital officials are yet to release plans about how they'll get 15000 a limb pick and paralympic athletes into japan and keep them safe let alone hundreds of thousands of fans media officials and v.i.p.'s one of the main lympics venues was in use on monday more than 24000 fans were allowed into the take your national stadium to watch the cup final and it was like will slide f.c. tell you here he won it beating question re so she won that game i'm scheduled for november but was postponed off to a covert 19 outbreak among the casual squad is the time to take you won the trophy for the 1st time the whole of the march madness u.s. college basketball tournament will be held in one state had to be called off last year because of the pandemic which in an effort to avoid that this time on $67.00 games we played in indiana with the majority in indianapolis where the n.c.a.a. is based the governing body will partner with a local health provider to administer 900 testing for players coaches and officials it's not yet been decided how many fans will be allowed inside venues after a slow start to the n.b.a. season in the golden state warriors steph curry is on set his critics in style the warriors star guard scored a career high 62 points to lead his team 281372122 win over the portland trail blazers on sunday plays as well they simply have no answer to his dominance as curry had the highest scoring game in the. m.b.a. this season and finally a to the dachau rally in saudi arabia and qatar a job at nasa our actually as bounce back from a poor stops after a disappointing at 10th place on the opening day he won monday's 2nd stage by more than 2 and a half minutes past 11 a good enough to put him in 3rd eye roll in the clock after agree that's 9 minutes finally stefan at a home full of 3 behind defending champion kala science you seconds that carly's being held in saudi for the 2nd year running that is all you'll sport for an hour thanks very much indeed gemma and rhonda before we go north catch up with all the stories including the sports on our web site the address for that is dot com plenty vito's there of the latest on the reopening of the land border between saudi arabia and qatar and bring more not. in the next hour that's it for me for this news of one of the most stupid question. finland has committed to cutting its carbon emissions with the world's most ambitious reduction goal carbon neutrality in just 15 years now it's really time to actually get to and we can do it if we want to but 1st the nation must tackle the dirty legacy of a profitable fossil fuel industry so it's in being an active emanations souls people in power finland's climate warriors on a just see it. for generations nobody could is rather mongolia's clients being free seeing the stream whether it's killing their stock forcing some to abandon tradition and move to the seas one of the nice divest a guy on al-jazeera. performed weeks america engulfed in protest every day all over the us even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly pandemic. and it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and i think that by willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th an unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. as people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be heard . saudi arabia to open land and air borders to qatar an end to the 3 and a half year embargo. and our intake of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up. it's clear that we need to do to get. this forced back into lockdown just hours after scotland as the u.k. struggles to slow the spread of a new coronavirus variant. iran announces its biggest breach of the 2050 nuclear deal.

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