corona virus infections continued his surge and europe a new daily record is reached in the u.k. as calls grow louder for vaccinations to be sped up. allow i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program a powerful earthquake brings down buildings in the croatian town of the train yet 7 people are confirmed dead. local till the end protesters from both sides of argentina's abortion debate gather outside the senate ad of a historic vote and spending a good beyond the story of how to raise indigenous pop preachy women are finding new values in ancient tradition.

but we begin this hour in europe where the coronavirus situation is deteriorating putting hospitals on the increasing strain u.k. reported a record 53000 corona virus infections on tuesday that's nearly 12000 more than the record set just the day before massive public health operations are under way throughout europe to ensure vaccines are distributed as fast as possible across the continent. chalons now reports. across europe a public health operation is underway the size and speed of which hasn't been seen before madrid spain one of 5 airports country wide with the same arrival new consignments certifies a biotech vaccine from plane. to truck and off with a police escort just in case spain now has 350000 new doses.

a german cab the country was one of 70 years states to coordinate the start of vaccinations on sunday elderly and caregivers are the priority while supplies a short order to the school zone for ye know the big vaccination pushes on and we as an aid organization want to do our part to eventually defeat the scourge of mankind. already 3 weeks into vaccinations is the u.k. because of the new more infectious strain of the virus the situation is worsening by the day there are more covered patients in hospital now than there were cheering the 1st wave speak the head of n.h.s. england acknowledged the picture is grim many of us of course are lost. family friends colleagues and at a time of year when nobody would be celebrating i think understandably a lot of people offer you're tired of interest in frustration. and now you're back

to be part of the storm of the 2nd wave of the water sweeping your home it's time for medical experts are deeply worried about rising infections the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine is advising that new restrictions plus a huge increase in weekly vaccinations may be needed otherwise they fear 2021 could see more hospitalizations and deaths in this year. ministers are considering keeping school and college people's home after christmas holidays finished they're also looking at a new tear of lock down measures rory chalons how to 0 meanwhile in the united states president elect joe biden has warned the pace of vaccination is much slower than the white house predicted and it could take to complete the program as i long feared ward the effort to distribute administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. a few weeks ago trump administration suggests that 20000000 americans

could be vaccinated by the end of the summer with only a few days left in december we've only vaccinated a few 1000000 so far the pace of action the vaccination program is moving now as it if you continue to move is now it's going to take years not months to vaccinate the american people. he joins us live now from washington what else did biden have to say about the pace of the vaccination program and what further action his administration might take. biden said he had 5 points to impart to the american people one was criticism of the trump administration's slow rollout of the vaccines and biden pledged that in the 1st 100 days of his administration a 100000000 vaccine shots would be administered social to 50000000 people. but he said it would need funding he said this is one of the points he's consistently said i mean he in many ways is repeating what we already knew about the biden the biden

covert policy he said he would be invoking the defense production act which would centralize production of vaccine and personal protective emergency equipment by commandeering supplies making this the priority for u.s. manufacturing using the force of the federal government and centralizing all that sort of production he said that he would be asking americans to wear mosques for the 1st $100.00 days of his presidency and he would mandate mosque usage where he can do so so that's on federal land and federal offices and things like that he called he doesn't 'd have the power to do that elsewhere but he will be asking americans to a mosque for $100.00 days and he said that once again that he thinks things will get worse before they get better and he specifically cited the huge spike in holiday travel we've seen in the last few days about a 1000000 passengers a day going through the airports over the last few days and the new year's celebrations as reasons why he expects things to get worse before they get better

and you know as you said before the darkest days being ahead when it comes to covert and that is u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocks an effort to quickly increase the $1000.00 stimulus payments and what is the plan with this now. we do seem to be getting an idea of what mitch mcconnell's plan is just in the last few minutes in fact mitch mcconnell has introduced a bill which he's been circulating 2 sentences which will combine various elements that don't trump has been calling for so that would be a $2000.00 direct stimulus track also the repealing of section $230.00 of the communications act which protects protects social media companies from legal liability for whatever users actually post on those social media sites and a commission to investigate electoral fraud that combined into one bill it has almost no chance of passing the senate with 60 votes this week so it's

a good way to neuter neuter the bill and neuter the course of $2000.00 checks but while actually getting giving republicans specifically the 2 incumbent senators from georgia who face a runoff election next week the chance at least 2 vote for 2 $1000.00 stimulus checks even though there's no chance of it passing so this seems to be the way that he's moving now to give give republicans who are under pressure to do more to help their struggling constituents at least the ability to say look we tried but we failed because of the other side thank you with the night's us from washington shabba chancy. iran has started human trials of its domestically produced coronavirus vaccine 1st volunteers to be inoculated were officials from the state conglomerate producing the vaccine and the head store to health ministers saeed nomic he says that it is a patient shows that the government has confidence in the job government says the u.s. sanctions of preventing it from purchasing a foreign made vaccination iran is the worst hit country in the middle east with

more than 54800 deaths and 1200000 infections meanwhile israel has vaccinated half a 1000000 people against the coronavirus the health minister u.-t. edelstein made the announcement on twitter 9 days after vaccination campaign started israel went into its 3rd lockdown on sunday prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he wants israel to overcome the pandemic in february a month ahead of the general election netanyahu is hoping to boost his election chances after 6 months of protests over his handling of the pandemic and alleged corruption or a nasa has more from west jerusalem. this is really going to bolster netanyahu ahead of an election that's coming up here in march on saturday he said that he's hoping that $2500000.00 israelis will be fully vaccinated within a month of this rollout now in terms of how they're doing it israel does have a pretty big health care system it is public but it is kind of it's not centralized

so there are many branches of it working simultaneously at the moment the government has also enlisted the military to set up some vaccination centers and also at the same time it is a relatively small country with just about 9000000 people in terms of population geographically it is also relatively small the vaccination campaign though does not include a palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza where things have been becoming much much worse in gaza the world health organization is warning that the health care system there could really collapse if things continue along this trend of the numbers of infection the palestinian authority has made attempts at securing the vaccine but it doesn't really have the economic and logistical means to do so they have applied for a world health organization program but that would really only provide about vaccinations to about 20 percent of the palestinian population now

a human rights groups are saying that it is israel's responsibility to facilitate getting the vaccine to the occupied west bank and gaza but really all that israel has said so far from the health minister who said that if they have any left over doses after they vaccinated all israelis then they may hand hand them over to our palestinian authority. at least 7 people died when a strong 6.5. a magnitude earthquake hit central croatia local media reports the town that senior is the epicenter that's 50 kilometers from the capital zagreb the town's mayor says about half of for china has been destroyed and it's calling for evacuations to take place as soon as possible and in barbara ports.

church bells and panic voices ring out amid the destruction as people in the small town of petrea rushed to rescue people from the rubble. one house collapsed on top of this car is a man and a boy inside thankfully local residents managed to get them both out alive. but there have been deaths including a 12 year old girl 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 she was reporting live when there was an aftershock . i know right now we hear oh bill. is seriously hurt there are. people in the nearby town of c. sacral so affected by the quake. so now everything is destroyed all clouds are inside there was a girl inside but likely she wasn't in the changing room and she wanted to try some

clothes i don't know what to do you know 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 was i going to school 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 water we have to help people we have to give them clothes and blankets we have to make sure they have food we must cordon i all teams and find a way to get into the buildings because as far as i'm concerned all these buildings are dangerous. 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. well sylvia closed down its only nuclear power plant just a 100 kilometers from the epicenter as a precaution and respond i want you like longer here and that even smaller market. smaller number mains that we saw today might even more significant when they come you know all sir you see it is already become even more shallow or in march this year as a group was hit by a magnitude 5.3 quake that killed one person but this is a small town still reeling and still trying to make sure everyone is accounted for . al-jazeera. still had fully on the program. jails a teenage pro-democracy activist the desecration the chinese flag during an illegal protest and taking off again in $77.00 max resumes commercial flights to me is often seen deadly crashes grounded yet roughed.

up. if your plan was to visit sydney you might want to think again if you're after is clear blue skies and sunshine it's been pretty sherry stormy around and it still will be i think all in one state is still the case that the majority of the rain the heavy rain is further north coming on shore run townsville possibly a bit further north than that which means it's come out of the interior temperature come up here purses up to 39 dropping down to 33 comes thursday is pretty warm in most of western victoria a few showers a luckly in melbourne adelaide is warmer still now flip your thoughts this is winter so it's cold and that cull push again across the sea is going to produce a lot of snow a lot of snow for holmes your car there and the edges of the korean peninsula

whereas most of china very very cold is enjoying fine. blue skies down to 12 degrees of a hard temperature in windy weather on 35 that is not good the average is 19 there's equal kull compared the average over a good part of northern india northern pakistan is a daytime temperatures which you get for 3 hours in the day as a fog in the smog lifts and there's nothing much to churn every now and again you get funds to ensure that might happen if you're lucky in delhi. mass protests forcing the government but are we seeing the whole picture listening to such an end to our affairs we follow journalists on the front line establishing a free press committed to reporting the facts as police officers on pointing guns

at jeremiah's to say stop telling the hong kong frankton friction in this truth is in any way on al-jazeera. the a. form. will come back a look at headlines now u.k.'s reported a record 53000 corona virus infections on choose day that's nearly 12000 more than the record set just the day before and then across europe massive public health operations are ensuring vaccines are distributed across the continent as soon as possible in the u.s. meanwhile president elect joe biden is one the pace of vaccination there is much slower than the white house predicted he says it could take years rather than

months to complete the program and are all the headline this hour is 7 people have been confirmed dead in a power 4 of quite the struck central croatia the mayor petunia says half the town has been destroyed the support for evacuations as soon as possible. now to argentina protesters have gathered outside the senate as lawmakers debate a bill to legalize abortion ahead of a vote set to take place in the coming hours both pro and anti abortion rights rallies were held outside the legislative body if passed the law would allow terminations up to 14 weeks of pregnancy test mated there are half a 1000000 illegal abortions in the traditionally roman catholic country every year or protesters on both sides the debate has been pushing their cases forward. ok love never son and just because the other person has not taken precautions i'm not going to teach that killing a baby that has no voice is a right. but i mean it was a it's a historic day for me this is

a day we owe to a lot of comrades who are no longer here to the historic activists to a lot of women who lost their lives for this price that we need to have to access to legal safe and free abortion and to decide on our lives our bodies and personal matters the state must take care of this must guarantee safe access to abortions and we want it to become legal. joins us from outside congress and when desirous and just hearing it getting a flavor of the views on this obviously some very strong opinions to raise a but if this is going to be a historic shift in a country that has had very restrictive abortion rules like many other countries and in latin america how divided of people on this. was the let me tell you right i just don't like this people are starting to

hear the lifting of this thing where we are right now it's. a sector of our people are wearing the colors we know women are lifting their back their kids and this has become a symbol of you know just you know i was very good that demand the right school for you guys to be in this country the fact that right in front of congress is completely divided on one side there's disagreement who as women put it on the other side there are anti-abortion movements or with the math happening there just until a few minutes ago this is a divisive issue in argentina i think the most make up for the country pope francis is from here he's been looking personally against the your colleagues senatorial governors to vote against legalizing abortion in this country but when you talk to women here it's it's important what they tell you they say that abortion is already happening at about 500000 abortions happen every year that women end up in

hospitals because they end up resorting to desperate measures in order to terminate their pregnancies that women that have resources go to save to have them have a safe abortion go to the pictures that take care of that while those who do not end up resorting to desperate measures that end up in a hospital and that's why the president of the phone numbers to say that this is a matter of public health that needs to be addressed when. and archaea are saying that this is urgent that women are being hospitalized after dying and that's why they're hoping that a person will become legal in argentina 52 still very early on wednesday because we're expecting the phone to the debate to keep on going throughout the night. right thank you very much turns a boat in what is iris where the at the opera house the senate is debasing that bill to legalize abortion it is poised to go through but history is a saying like at the result for a while. now in other news hundreds of rango refugees have been arriving on the

island of bus and charles bangladesh despite safety and security concerns raised by human rights groups the bangladeshi government is moving around 1800 people from the other crowded camps in cox's bazaar it's a time that child reports now from the 4 city of chittagong. around 800 running a refugee is boarded navy vessel in the post city of chittagong in southern bangladesh there been sent to passion char island where 1600 of their fellow refugees were relocated earlier this month. and his wife who have a young child don't know what to expect. most are saying things are fine every day we are going because government told us the facilities are good over there and so we are following their advice but no one really pressured us to go there human rights group have questioned whether the island is safe and can withstand natural disaster and floods and whether the refugees were forced to go there against their will. the un who the international community and the various governments and the

diplomats and doc are all looking to actually take on this assessment are just not being allowed to go there. struggling to find a long term solution to the running a crisis more than a 1000000 are living in the world's largest refugee camp at cox's bazaar after fleeing man march in 2017 during a military crackdown the government is now looking to some of them elsewhere this is the 2nd batch the 1st batch run on december for the government is determined to relocate at least 200000 refugees to this remote costello and despite opposition from rights groups and even the un for any rowing are worried about how safe the island. people who are willing to go there also knows the risks involved so why are they going there i would never go because i'm afraid but the commander of bangladesh navy in chittagong is confident everything will be ok government has

taken up the project. 3 years back and before taking up this project in our financial. and detailed study has been carried out by international from nowhere in the world any government has such kind of projects that in my knowledge. this is something that. we believe that my government will take them back to their families and build them. with no means to earn a living and a congested living condition at cox's bazaar summering a refugee has decided to take the chance. that a lot of it is about it life is hard in the camp and it's difficult to earn a living there they said they will provide us with better living facilities and means to end a living 3 years andro hanger refugees are increasingly frustrated they don't have a voice in the decision making process and feel their fate and destiny is at the

marcy your father's kind of a child 3 al-jazeera chittagong. now a hong kong quarter sentenced teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung to 4 months in prison he was convicted of desecrating china's flag and taking part in an illegal protest in may last year in a separate case is accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security law the former student leader has been imprisoned since october now boeing 737 max plane has made its 1st commercial flight in the u.s. after being grounded for almost 2 years the max was taken out of service globally following 2 fatal crashes that killed 346 people a u.s. congressional investigation blamed a culture of concealment at boeing and criticize the regulators for their flawed oversight i'm gonna go reports. then it was the longest grounding in u.s. aviation history but boeing's 737 max is once again flying passengers in the u.s.

and there are canal lines flight 718 flew around a 100 people to new york's la guardia airport all aware of the aircraft's troubled past on board american airlines president robert isom who says the research advocation of boeing's were a course plane should inspire confidence this is an aircraft that has been more highly scrutinized than any ever before we're very confident that this aircraft is the safest in the skies and we're confident to be putting it back in the air and confident to showing it to our customers and getting people back to where they want to go the 737 max was grounded in 2019 following 2 fatal crashes in indonesia and ethiopia that killed 346 people investigators blamed an automated flight control system that pushed the aircraft's nose down boeing failed to mention the system in the aircraft manual major airlines in the us are planning to expand use of the 737 max in the coming months and boeing is hoping to restore its battered

reputation as long as all the tape the measures are in play for i think the good idea so we're just waiting to see if there are regulations are respected. maybe think they'll. never think about it the more research those pilots never had a chance a sweeping congressional inquiry found that boeing made faulty technical assumptions and the u.s. federal aviation authority failed with grossly insufficient oversight those that lost loved ones in the 2 crashes a calling for the aircraft to remain grounded aviation experts expect the passengers will fly the 737 max despite fears over safety assuming there are no headlines or any kind of wasn't warning myatt's or any kind of incidents by ins diverted than humans they were simply referred to as i think it's on. the 737 max is already back in the air in brazil in mexico with the european aviation authorities expected to recertify the plane for regular service in the coming weeks

the aircraft continues to be a big seller for boeing who are keen to put safety concerns behind them while the fine public here remain cautious of boeing's 737 max major airline sirrah placing more orders for the aircraft fuel efficiency is a big selling point 52 airlines are already struggling with a global pandemic while boeing is keen to put this entire tragic chapter behind them it may take some time before full confidence in the aircraft is restored and the gallacher al-jazeera miami florida chile's indigenous map which if people are experiencing a cultural revival that goes beyond teaching their language in history at schools is also being why then thread by thread by preachy women as alice there is latin america edited in explains now from wherever and perry l. . speaking wall is a all this time. even though these days it's rare to find anyone who knows how to

do it but didn't rule southern chile indigenous put you women joining forces to revive an ancestral skill that wasn't sufficiently valued until recently my put you women were paid almost nothing for these traditional hand-woven blankets rugs and ponchos there may be a better thing to me there are here this piece was inspired by the map which is simple for worrier i feel that we are women warriors. it's that perseverance that led them to form large cooperative 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 for a grandmother taught her to die wool and leave when she was 8 but the technique was being forgotten even to see a lot of c.d.'s and suddenly we had the opportunity to organize workshops and teach those women what they didn't know that many people were burning or burying their sheep's wool but we said no we have to take advantage of our heritage enough you might have given it if these symbols represent our 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. 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 where we imperial chile. i am. in the air. just a quick reminder of our main stories now the coronavirus surge of cases across europe is continuing the u.k.'s reported a record 53000 coronavirus infections on tuesday 12000 more than the record set just the day before meanwhile there are massive public health operations underway across the continent to try and get vaccinations distributed as soon as possible.