the scandal on out is the air play an important role. ringback a powerful earthquake hit central asia causing major damage to a town near the capital zagreb. results are live from doha also coming up calls for a speed up in the distribution of vaccines as covert cases ryans. difference between rich and poor why some people may have to wait longer to get inoculated. and boeing's troubled 737 max returns to american skies after 9 months on the ground.

has been hit by a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake 2 people have died in the town of petrina believed to be the epicenter the town's mayor says about half of it has been destroyed and he's calling for evacuations to take place as soon as possible not in barbour has this report. church bells and panic voices ring out amid the destruction as people in the small town of petrina rushed to rescue people from the rubble. one house collapsed on top of this car is a man and a boy in sight thankfully local residents managed to get them both out alive. thanks. but a 12 year old girl is known to have been killed these pictures filmed by al jazeera make clear the damage houses completely collapsed others partially destroyed and stonework. strewn across roads. al-jazeera reporter marian very was reporting live

when there was an aftershock ok. right now we're here although. it's about $65.00. people in the nearby town of c. also affected by the quake this is so now everything is destroyed all clouds are inside there was a girl inside but luckily she wasn't in the changing room and she wanted to try some clothes i don't know what to do now i'm all shivering i feel like everything is still shaking soldiers from a nearby barracks were quickly on site handing out blankets to elderly people evacuated from a nursing home they've also brought emergency shelters for the town's $20000.00 residents dollars emergency services are coming from zagreb police civil protection services fire brigades we have teams coming from other parts of the country we've mobilized everyone all of the world on the field we have to help people we have to

give them clothes and blankets we have to make sure they have food we must coordinate all teams and find a way to get into the buildings because as far as i'm concerned all these buildings are dangerous not. some of the injured have been taken to hospital in the capital zagreb 50 kilometers away the epicenter of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake was near here just like a week a quake on monday and once again it could be felt in zagreb where it damaged properties as well as in neighboring serbia and bosnia. bustle of via closed down its only nuclear power plant just a 100 kilometers from the epicenter as a precaution we cannot really. be. inequal or even larger events in the area back there are. you know longer even smaller market. smaller and the mains that we saw today might also even more significant when they come you know. to see. even more. in march this year

zagreb was hit by a magnitude 5.3 quake that killed one person but this is a small town still reeling still trying to make sure everyone is accounted for. she explained the situation in the hardest hit. every few minutes we can see here ambulance rushing 2 to see suck the nearest hospital and also capital of zagreb the 2nd the hospital mayor of patronised 2 we can hear him cry for help he said anyone just held just came to battling a come to penetrate and help armies here police here nurses doctors everybody came but what dutch made the most the ordinary people from other parts of asia they also came i spoke to them they said we saw we saw pictures on television we also said we also have children so we decided to come they have water they have

souls just so they came and help. like 15 minutes half an hour after the earthquake. this was totally system collapsed internet was not working mobile phones you couldn't phone anyone to see what is happening are they ok our parents our payouts of our children ok so i think that this 15 minutes half an hour was the 1st half an hour for many citizens of grace. the world health organization says many countries are still not prepared to deal with 2nd and 3rd waves a growing virus despite the limited rollout of vaccines a group of health experts indeed in the u.k. says the british government needs to double its target of vaccinating a 1000000 people a week about 200000 people every week you're currently getting injections israel says it's already given the vaccine to more than half

a 1000000 and it wants to increase that number 515-0000 every day rising infections of force the country into its 3rd nationwide meanwhile south korea has announced it's fast tracking its national vaccination program it's signed a deal to secure doses for the additional $10000000.00 after it detected the 1st cases of a more easily transmitted variant from the united kingdom so to those calls to speed up vaccinations in the u.k. rory chalons has more now from london the gravity of the situation that the u.k. is in at the moment we've just had the record number of daily infections more than 40000 reported in the last day we have a record number of people currently in hospital with covert cases more than 20000 people in hospital that's a record beating that the 1st wave of the virus you can see how serious it is it is here and then you have some schools of medical thought which is saying that

actually you really need to boost the level of vaccination so massively more than it is at the moment so if your target is 1000000 actually your target should be about 2000000 a week which of course we're way off the problem is that this biotech vaccine is difficult to administer it's fragile you have to store it at very low temperatures it's difficult getting it to people who are not particularly mobile you can't come to you you need to wait for more easily administer vaccines to really get that number up and they're not here yet. as a growing number of corona virus vaccines complete clinical trials become approved for use wealthy countries around the world have been able to secure enough supplies to inoculate their entire populations canada the united states united kingdom the european union australia 2 they're among the nations that have reserved the most data says unicef in fact says that some have enough to immunize their resident up to 6 times over many of those countries made early deals with pharmaceutical giants who have invested millions of dollars in development the world health organization

says it is looking to raise $35000000000.00 through its kovacs program to ensure $2000000000.00 doses will reach low income countries by the end of 2021 but how that will actually be done remains unclear. to me is the vice president of vaccine research in development at blue willow biologics he's calling on pharmaceutical companies to reserve part of their vaccine supply for the developing world. i think there is are several ways of trying to ensure the supply for different countries number one is really for the big companies to live up to their promise that one of the portion of their or dark will be available for world countries through the devaluing cho so we would expect that they will live up to that that's number one number 2 is to try to expedite the

development of the other back scenes and they buy blind to get to the end point so that those scenes which are possibly cheaper are going to be available for that they are hooked on trees the other thing they're mechanism that was used in the past is doing manufacturing in this field walled and solid like india egypt other countries where they can approve use as a those their scenes at a cheaper price by transferring the think knology to the contract manufacturing organizations and these guys will be running and developing a new manufacturing process so that it would suit the demand in the field what country for a list writes members of the u.s. senate set to gather to decide whether to pass defense spending and stimulus bills with just 22 days left in the white house donald trump is at odds with members of

his own party on monday republicans in the house have voted with democrats to override a presidential veto on defense spending many also refuse trump's demands to back an increase in cash payments to americans speak to an official he's live in washington d.c. and alan strange times. yes when he thought 2020 couldn't get any weirder the senate is about to go into session so we should get an idea from mitch mcconnell exactly what he is planning to do but we are in the bizarre situation where donald trump who has spent the last 4 years criticizing attacking vilifying the democratic leader of the house nancy pelosi now the 2 of them are in exactly the same page and instead donald trump is a tactic attacking republican leadership calling it weak saying it needs to be replaced this source of his anger in the last few hours has been the $2000.00 stimulus checks he wants them to go out to everyone in america who is eligible

nancy pelosi in the house put that motion before the house on monday and it was passed that no goes to the senate so it's up to mitch mcconnell to decide whether or not he wants to take that forward now charles schumer chuck schumer who is the leader of the democrats in the senate says he will put forward a motion that means that they have to vote on it the democrats would they want people to get the money but if they don't want then it's a political win for them if they do because they put forward the motion and it's also a political win for donald trump but if the republicans in the senate decide not to take up the vote or vote against it it's another political one for the democrats because they can then say particularly with the senate runoff coming up in georgia on january the 5th lou the republicans don't want to help americans during a pandemic so which mcconnell's got a big decision to make in the next couple of hours what is interesting as well is that the senate also has to take on board the motion that was passed by the house

yesterday to overturn the presidential veto the 1st time that's happened because he of course decided not to sign the defense bill the defense bill very important to donald trump he decided not to sign it because there was a couple of things unrelated to defense that he thought. what in the bill or not in the bill and therefore he didn't want that to go through mitch mcconnell wants to get that pushed through he wants to overturn the veto he's probably got the votes to do it but bernie sanders says no vote on that until you talk about the $2000.00 so the 2 of them mesh together so it's going to be an interesting couple of days in the senate mitch mcconnell's got a very fine line to tread from getting done what he wants to get done not upset in the president and suddenly nancy pelosi is donald trump's best friend on capitol hill who'd have thunk it but then it's 2020 it would indeed well as mitch mcconnell speaks on the senate floor right now one man who will be what you will probably be

donald trump with just over 3 weeks of his presidency left and all the while the president elect is looking to the transition and he not happy. first of all donald trump probably isn't watching mitch mcconnell he's on the golf course in florida so and playing golf that's more important to him at the moment 2nd thing is is the president elect going to be watching yes because everything that happens though of course has a knock on effect on the 20th of january and we're seeing the transition go ahead but joe biden is upset particularly with the defense department he said that the political appointees there are not being as forthcoming as they should be and that 2nd sound for him he says that's putting america's security at risk of course with a big hat in the last couple of weeks that impacted many many branches of the u.s. government also there's american troops based overseas they're still fighting in

wars even though there are peace talks going on with the taliban in qatar at the moment all of these things impact what joe biden wants to do come day one so he believes that there's a real problem there and secondly the trumpet ministration is coming under pressure from republicans and democrats to do more to help the transition the problem is donald trump still doesn't think he's lost the election he's been twisting it again in the last 24 hours saying that he won the election one of the things he's saying more votes cast in pennsylvania than there were voters that's simply not true there are 9000000 voters in pennsylvania there were 7000000 votes cast that sort of thing is really easy to check and because he doesn't want to accept defeat he's dragging its heels over the transition but joe biden still believes he'll get things done but the fact that he's making it public sure is the level of frustration because he's been the guy that saying oh we can what both sides we can do this will be fight the fight that is actually expressing his concern shows just what he is that

these political appointees are getting the way of him hitting the ground running on january 20th stimulus defense transition and gulf you've covered the full remits of american politics right now and so that's an official there in washington d.c. . still ahead here on al-jazeera indigenous chilean women bring an ancient craft into a new era weaving their culture and their future together thread by thread. the last storm has just about gone through but it left flooding in southern turkey this is a cache which is a place that grows vegetables quite readily from much of europe and elsewhere tomatoes do like water but maybe not quite that much focus wise we're out of it by

wednesday a few showers in the west maybe and these showers developing in northern saudi as well it's a slow moving revolving system wouldn't think much about of it there's a potential flash that there but i don't think we'll see anything from an otherwise look at this the comparison with a couple days ago to run back in sunshine 10 degrees is no snow falling in iran now it's getting active further south this is a tropical storm really forming chalet now it's like to make landfall in mozambique named beira i think about it's early morning this is local time during wednesday it's got winds of approx 100 kilometers per hour and rain about $200.00 millimeters so locally could be damaging with some friends and some minor wind damage but a dirty gets to branch having said that it will be a rain mess the goes across mozambique and then into zimbabwe where it goes or the tougher pull away or during thursday.

frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in this race he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get a back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

i'm going to watch out there are mind about top stories this hour and a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake has hit the central question ton of between the 2 people have died in the town believed to be the epicenter there's been widespread damage to buildings. the united kingdom is reporting more than $53000.00 new cases of coronaviruses comes as the world health organization is warning many countries are still not prepared to deal with the 2nd and 3rd waves even though they've started their vaccination for. the u.s. senate is voting to approve higher cash payments to americans struggling during the coronavirus pandemic the president travels to man for the $2000.00 checks which was welcomed by democrats now faces an uncertain future. argentina said it will decide later on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of anti-abortion activists protested outside congress ahead of what's expected to be a close vote in the house of congress back legalizing the procedure earlier this month as a pro has more from santa fe on an issue that has divided the nation for decades.

not among us never thought she would become a pro-abortion activist she lives in a poor and conservative community in the province of santa fe but her life changed when her teenage daughter who was pregnant was diagnosed with cancer in her job own fundraiser. she was one month pregnant and i told the doctor why don't you do an abortion because she has 3 children but they said no that a judge needed to get involved my daughter needed chemotherapy and no one wanted to help her and the money yessiree there was 1000 when she died doctors kept her in a hospital until she gave birth so she could begin the treatment but the tumor almost covered her entire face neither she nor the baby survived and many here are making a run i said only said they would do and. pickel meeting while we waited on the streets with my grandchildren and i was pushing them so that they would begin treatment the ethical meeting was with the priests i wanted to save my daughter.

that i might. show that even though abortion is legal in argentina in cases of rape or if a woman's life if i don't risk it finds lots of resistance when it comes to implementing the law especially in places like this one where poor women have almost no we sources to fight for their rights. as the senate gets ready to vote on legalizing abortion stories like those of us on her daughter show how entrenched anti abortion culture is in argentina's most remote regions. in spite of this health authorities say at least half a 1000000 irregular abortions happen every year and many women end up in hospital because of complications. and that's one of the reasons why pro-abortion activists have been taken to the streets for years wearing the color green the symbol of

their campaign. early in december the lower house of congress approved a bill which would allow interruption of pregnancies until the 14th week the senate vote is expected to be close and there is an ally of. the senate is much more conservative and we know this we're very conscious of this we also know that last year there was an election that renewed the legislative chambers and so there are more senators willing to make history and 30 to democracy that we have with $3200.00 women who've died in democracy and for all of us who are still alive and all future generations to come for the debate has polarized society that has close ties with the catholic church francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against . gaza anything can happen with the result of this for. because we have a president who is taking it upon himself to demonstrate the worst of corrupt politics which is to go to his own party politicians and ask them to vote even

though they may be opposed a president who is showing no mercy with this law because he thinks it will be his administrative victory and his end of year victory of victory that people like not a whole will guarantee what happened to her daughter will not happen to anyone else that is how will. argentina. home kokoda sentence teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung to 4 months in prison he was convicted of desecration china's flag and taking part an illegal protest in may last year in a separate case he's accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security go before was didn't leave has been in prison since october to be compiled it has more now from. not long ago a 4 month sentence for a teenager whose main crime was taking part in an on off advice protest and disrespecting a national flag would have been seen as a hefty sentence but now it is seen as mild particularly compared to the other

charges that he is facing and those are under the national security law charges of secession and sedition tony chung was a member of a group which advocated hong kong said dependence the group broke up hours before beijing imposed a national security law in hong kong but not long after he was accused of promoting his support for hong kong's independence overseas online and in social media in october he was nabbed outside the u.s. consulate and accused of trying to seek asylum so that he would have to face those charges here in hong kong this is seen as just the latest notch and beijing's crackdown on dissent in hong kong fact since the protests of last year there have been more than 10000 arrests and countless cases through the courts many of them involving protesters and pro-democracy activists tony jones case sense a stark message to his generation young people who were born after the handover in

1997 they were brought up with the ideals that they could say and do what they want even advocate independence so long as their activities remain peaceful they were a large part of the protests last year and now they're considered by many of the probating politicians and establishment supporters as home. last generation. trouble in the united states has reached its highest level since the pandemic took hold in march the us transport authority says nearly 1300000 people were screened at airports on sunday despite public health warnings against travel during the holiday season for fear of spreading the corona virus for. the 1st u.s. based boeing 737 max is taken off from miami international airport almost 2 years after the aircraft was grounded american airlines flight 718 from florida to new york is the 1st passenger service since regulators cleared the aircraft to resume operations 737 max crashed in ethiopia and indonesia in 2018 in

2019 killing 346 people might daniel is managing director of aviation insight he says regulators will be paying close attention to any issues the planes experience . well this 1st started with a redesign this is considered a system stand with after that the redesigned there and there's considerable testing and there are a redesign of the testing then needs to really change the processes that the pilots have to follow in particular the flight you know their procedure so now with the lifting of the order to allow their lives to be fly many ones incumbents who in their minds to really trying their their parliaments and want her to meet the expectations if they were her it is all about safety now talk about the confidence of the flying company. but it really is the bottom line and safety measures taken

by the family and those will lose their lives to to boost that higher remove of safety to restore the color of its life but when the changes that have taken place and not only with only go inside but also on the every side so no it's really looted her my site and that goes back to training and we need you can you sing her back into the system and so i'm going to get a lot of people want to go wanting this to have things that people may not be aware of what you're going through we were in the crowds who is that are attributed to introduce the aircraft so they don't know what the marketing it's going to cost lady i thank you i have some specter zones quite as well for mark. a global aviation says a creative arts pandemic has wiped out 21 years of industry growth sorry madaline insights review for 2020 days that the number of passengers world wide has dropped to 999 levels as for satellites to cut the number of flights by hough in relation

to the previous year jeremy bowen to see syria which is a travel data and analytics firm he says the next 6 to 8 months are a make or break moment for airlines. there's no way of dressing up those numbers for the for the industry that catastrophic we've city hall off the number of flights in 2020 that we saw 2019 globally here 30 the number of passengers traveling on those flights and that's 21 years of continuous year over year growth wiped out in a matter of months. to stream to turmoil of us having to do that and struggle that way through the challenge of the industry have a moment that cash is running at is why the full cost of the assault become cash positive in the latter half of next year and those organizations that have taken. recently funded a refinance have got to see out the next 6 to 8 months of cutting costs trying to

entice passengers on to those aircraft as much as possible until as you say the facts and hopefully kicks it passenger numbers start to come back to chile where the indigenous people are experiencing a cultural revival that goes beyond teaching their language and history at schools it's also been thread by thread by the pretty women as out 0 as lucy in human reports from norway fit in pretty well. speaking rule is not all discount and. even though these days it's rare to find anyone who knows how to do it but didn't rule something jimmy indigenous might put you women joining forces to revive an ancestral skill that wasn't sufficiently valued until recently map which you women were paid almost nothing for these traditional hand-woven blankets rugs and bone jewels there may be a better thing to me there are here this piece was inspired by the map which is simple for warrior i feel that we were 2 women warriors. it's

that perseverance that led them to form large co-operatives set decent prices for their work and even begin exporting it to europe and the u.s. these are all natural colors this was dive for example with barks from the aloe tree and this with onion peels which is what makes it aren't here we have green made with chili in chilies all of this is part of the effort to enrich the cultural fiber of them up which of people. i need to buy your meal is one of the main organizers her grandmother taught her to dye wool and leave when she was 8 but the technique was being forgotten even to set up the c.s.s. suddenly we had the opportunity to organize workshops and teach these women what they didn't know that many people were burning or burying their shapes will but we said no we have to take advantage of our heritage you know

a few might have given it up these symbols represent eyes for us it has to do with being observed because my approach has a tour that we must be good and that someone is always watching and. dying and weaving these pieces of art require time and talent they also provide much needed income from up which is families and most infant that are in water. when i 1st started a lot of women couldn't speak spanish they were afraid to bargain but no longer now we're more dacia. and they're also more proud and independent thanks to an ancient craft that experiencing a long awaited revival. you see in human al-jazeera normally imperiously chile. so this is an answer these are the top stories and that's.