covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for the listing posts on a. united states supporters 20000000 corona virus infections with a vaccination rollout going slower than planned. everyone i'm kemal santamaria this is the world news from al-jazeera the u.s. and iran accuse each other of ramping up military hostilities of the anniversary of the assassination of iran's military chief. really sad to be. european and getting used to the new reality britain selous how they feel about the u.k.'s

departure from the european union is a problem of more humidity just food is not enough and the temporary shelter is set up for migrants on the bosnia croatia border many though say there's no in near adequate in the freezing cold conditions. some more than $20000000.00 reported coronavirus cases and the threat of a more infectious strain united states really is entering the new year with few signs that its rampant corona virus outbreak can be contained and as infections rise getting people vaccinated is going much slower than expected rob reynolds has a report from los angeles. it was nobody's idea of a good way to ring in the new year on friday johns hopkins university reported the u.s. had surpassed 20000000 cases of covert 19 with more than 346000

deaths the number of infections has doubled since november 9th less than 2 months ago the u.s. accounts for nearly one quarter of all coated deaths worldwide in places like southern california hospitals and their staff are increasingly overwhelmed forcing doctors and nurses to ration care one california public health epidemiologist likened the situation to a viral tsunami florida became the 3rd state after colorado and california to report a patient with the relatively new more transmissible kovac variant 1st identified in the u.k. the man had not traveled recently at least 33 countries have now reported cases of the mutant strain a u.s. genetic testing company says its research suggests the variant has been circulating in the u.s.

since october on the vaccine front fewer than 3000000 americans have received their doses of figure far short of the trumpet ministrations goal of 20000000 vaccinations before the end of 2020 i think the rollout very haphazard there's been almost no coordination from the federal government the federal government basically delivered to the states but then the states were not funded for the rollout program adequately and furthermore basically the state said here's the here and go hospitals you guys will it out senator mitt romney a prominent us republican political figure called for stepped up efforts including the enlistment of medical students veterinary. ns and emergency medical workers to administer vaccines he said schools and other facilities that are closed due to the pandemic should be converted to mass vaccination centers president donald trump

spent friday tweeting about various political grievances but mentioned the full vaccine effort only once and then to shift blame to state officials president elect joe biden says he will use emergency wartime powers to boost vaccine production and speed up the lifesaving injections across the country rob reynolds al-jazeera and some ducks are birds they hear is from the city university of new york's public school of public health explaining why the state's a struggling to distribute the vaccines. there's been several issues though one is if you look at this d.d. de koven 1000 backing track her only 12400000 doses have been distributed it is state that's well below the actual number that you need to state the target goal of you know 20000000 people yeah i think that there's trouble is there is not in the facts and plus the whole row has not been organized in

a national level and it hasn't really been transparent but a lot of states were told get ready for the vaccine in advance of the approval but they weren't told like what are the plans and how are they going to get the resources in case they don't have enough refrigerators or cold places and things like that these these happy just the sole responsibly of the states because the virus as well as people cross the line so you really need to figure out like with states you don't have the resources where the supply chain used to be stored up and there were months before the vaccine rollout really get this in order and it really has so they have to tell all the states you know where the vaccines are you know like how many being produced and when to expect them and to is there needs to be analysis of you know which state and which locations have adequate supply chains which states don't know what types of resources that they need where the weak point which places the more bridge raters more transport devices more personnel this has

to be organized from a national and a very strategic orientation and that's not really very right now one other note on coronavirus south korea expanding its ban on small gatherings to the whole country now to combat the resurgent and fat number of infections there as much as 40 percent of recent cases have been linked to small groups according to the health ministry well an 800 new infections were reported on friday it was down from around 1000 the day before officials say the drop is likely due to keep to less testing over the holidays. on to other news in iran and the u.s. have accused each other of escalating military tensions ahead of the 1st anniversary of the assassination of iran's general custom so the money sunday will mark one year since he was killed in an american air strike in iraq in the last week it has to be said the rhetoric between washington and tehran is really intensified the u.s. flying b.

52 bombers over to the gulf earlier this week intending to caution iran against any attacks on american troops or interests iran sent a letter to the u.n. security council condemning what it called washington's military adventurism in the region the foreign minister jobs or if accused trump of fabricating a pretext for war the us on the other hand is accuse the iranian backed militias of attacking its embassy in baghdad last month there was an increased amount of rocket attacks on that compound in the iraqi capital the u.s. withdrew most of its staff over concerns of retaliatory strike well here's tools that are now taking a look back at the assassination of course observe the money just a year ago in the early hours of january 3rd 2020 shortly after arriving at baghdad international airport major general hossam so in mind he was killed in a u.s. drone strike his close ally the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilisation forces.

mohandas also died along with 8 others missiles from the us drone hit their convoy as it left the airport so the money was the commander of the court's force a unit of iran's revolutionary guard responsible for foreign operations and he was also considered to be the 2nd most powerful man in iran behind the country's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many of those. i know i don't know all of i know in the news of his death made official by iran's state t.v. . a 3 day mourning period was announced and iran vowed revenge as u.s. president donald trump stood by his decision with this claim last night at my direction the united states military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrors ringleader responsible for gravely would be unburdening thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at

least of americans. shola money has been killed and his bloody rampage is now for ever on a law for ayatollah khomeini so in mind he was a trusted confidant a member of his inner circle and a friend for more than 30 years almost 12 months on the commander in chief of iran's armed forces says he's not done avenging silliman his death. you know and built woman as a politician whenever it's possible we will take revenge we will take revenge on those who ordered so him on his assassination and the ones who carried out that assassination just hours after saw him on his body was laid to rest in his hometown of care mon on january 7th the revolutionary guard launched 13 missiles at the u.s. space assad in iraq no americans were killed attentions increased

iran was on high alert and accidently shot down the ukrainian airline passenger plane killing all 176 people on board while the united states said they were not seeking regime change in iran trumps the citizen to kill himself in money had far reaching repercussions feared by his enemies inside iran so the money had for years been one of the most popular national figures in the country the international face of iranian resistance to american pressure he remained largely untouched by the diminishing popularity of the country's elected government. his death prompted calls for the expulsion of u.s. troops from the middle east by iranian officials as well as the reigning back groups in iraq and it's a demand which still stands a year later officials here called solmonese assassination and you tapper in the history of the middle east while many countries condemned no one has actually been held accountable this by efforts by iran to prosecute u.s.

president donald trump who in support solmonese role was quickly filled by his deputy or his legacy is now in trends in iran's history. dorsett to bury. her on. also in iran the government is pushing ahead with plans to enrich uranium. up to 20 percent purity it's told the un's nuclear watchdog the work will be done in the photo plant which was built into the side of a mountain enrichment breaches the 3.67 percent enrichment which is about under the 2050 nuclear deal does fall well short of the 90 percent acquired to make a nuclear weapon the u.s. senate's delivered a significant defeat to president donald trump override his veto of the defense policy bill the senate which is controlled by trans republican party easily reached the 2 thirds majority required. earlier refused to sign the $740000000000.00 defense act into law the bill limits the president's ability to withdraw troops

from places like afghanistan and also the ability to divert money from the military's construction budget which wanted to use to build his border war with mexico now white house correspondent kimberly harkin says the defeat prompted a series of angry tweets from the president's. the u.s. president reacting on twitter calling this pathetic particularly angry with the republicans in the senate for not standing with him and he feels and tweeting that he believes that they should have done more for americans with respect to the coded relief raising it from $600.00 to $2000.00 that didn't happen and also the president so i happy with some of the power of the tech companies particularly leverage over the u.s. election also talking about why more wasn't done for that now in the midst of all of this the house speaker nancy pelosi she reacted as well sending out

a statement that this is a resoundingly we're buke of the u.s. president and his assault on the american military and national security noting that in the waning days of his presidency she accused him of attempting to sow chaos and undermine security so very strong reactions from the u.s. president but also one of the president's biggest critics in the u.s. congress what we've seen in recent days and weeks is a growing number of republicans distancing themselves from donald trump since his election loss on november 3rd what this really marks is a departure as they sort of look to the president who is outgoing and setting the sights on their own political future so this is certainly notable what is also notable is that many of these republicans are not backing the president's claim that he won the election that the election was rigged or even that there was widespread voter fraud so how this very notable loss on capitol hill the u.s.

president now setting its sights on the next big date on capitol hill and that is january 6th that is when the congress will be tallying the electoral college votes we do expect that there will be. number of dozens of republicans in the house and at least one republican in the senate that will stand with the president to at least delay that tallying but old. it will be unsuccessful the u.s. president will ultimately be joe biden in the news ahead why cuba believes eliminating one of its currencies will revive its failing economy. new technology to save an ancient industry in indonesia songs from what helped to modernize. its probably wintry of a mostly european play now it's not clatter and admitted li and the far east of

europe to key west and russia it's tomorrow would not expect that cold front is trying to push the coded doesn't drop temperatures much as leaven in bucharest which compared with vienna is a huge difference but the difference between cold and warm water is what's produced the stormy weather in the west involved in that now by the time we get to saturday that strong southerly component there will be all that's left the stormy weather you know be showers around through saturday or course current snow up in the higher ground of the sky and the still that normally present in northern spain but the emphasis on the card has dropped somewhat milan's quiet by saturday sun still maybe and then missed a bit of rain returns during monday now the snow because this cold is pushing up to the adriatic will then reappear as he joins that cold wind coming across the baltic in germany in luxembourg and in france for across the luxembourg confirms that dismal 3 days you've got sunday monday and tuesday i think london with jordan with

equal dismal weather and who knows the rain then pushes through greece into was the g 8 in western turkey significant rain some of which we falling in croatia as well . what is that they've been doing with the money that it's borat we bring in the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world to live in scene as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars to the super rich poor families hit hard by and damage counting the cost on al-jazeera. play an important role texting it would. ringback face.

with al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour more than $20000000.00 people in the u.s. have not tested positive for corona virus almost a quarter of all the world's cases the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected nearly 3000000 people in all collectives iran's government plans to enrich uranium by up to 20 percent a significant breach of the 2015 nuclear deal but well short of the 90 percent needed to building their weapon in the u.s. senate's votes to override president donald trump's veto of the defense policy bill the senate is controlled by transfer of public and party easily achieved the required 2 thirds majority. bosnia's military is set up tents for hundreds of refugees stranded in freezing conditions they were left without shelter for several

days after a fire burned down their old camp authorities have tried to relocate the refugees but local people reject yes as other young reports. a sign of relief and of new shelter this will be home for hundreds of migrants and refugees stranded in bosnia-herzegovina sleep a camp near its north was border with croatia back in the military set up tents to shield hundreds of migrants from the winter's freezing weather after days of sleeping out in the cold the nation faced mounting criticism for leaving the migrants without proper shelter heat or facilities to do it with. we don't mind we're going to gesture and we can drink of water that's enough for us but the problem is then problem for us we need to contain this. for days there were cries for help earlier this week migrants and refugees went on a hunger strike 7. amid reports of frostbite and hypothermia they held

a protest to bring attention to their. poor living conditions with no the despite the problems caused when these people were abandoned by un organizations and by local authorities we must show solidarity we're here today with the red cross we're trying to help them as much as possible. most of the campus destroyed in late december when police say occupants deliberately set a fire to protest the schedule closure and lack of alternatives plans to move them to another facility fell through rejected by politicians and people living nearby aid groups have warned of a potential humanitarian crisis is a problem of more humanity just food is not enough combinations bad madness mostly but disease most of the people here are from south asia and the middle east they are among thousands hoping to make it to western europe to start a new life we don't have beyond kids we don't have jack up you can see this i don't

have shoes the new camp will be run by the international organization for migration it's not a long term solution but it is a way to help people with nothing to survive the winter katina llopis of the young al-jazeera. and afghan journalist has been shot dead in the central province of corps this miller was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car he was a human rights activist and the editor of a local radio station he's the 5th journalist to be killed in afghanistan in the past 2 months dozens of refugees in ethiopia have arrived at the border with sudan they include families and farmers fleeing conflict in a country of $1700.00 refugees now in areas under the control of the sudanese military some of reported seeing the fighting between the sudanese army and farmers in the area. at least 16 palestinians have been injured in a protest against israeli settlements in the occupied west bank israeli troops

fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in a village near ramallah follows days of escalating tension after settlers set up dozens of tents and outposts in the area to indonesia now which has one of the longest coastlines in the world but its salt farming industry is long failed to meet the needs of the domestic market so millions of tonnes are imported each year that threatens the livelihoods of indonesians sold farmers as jessica washington reports from interim are you on the island of java the government hopes investing in technology could change that. in indonesia's west timor this is the process behind harvesting one of the world's most common minerals these men have farmed felt this way for years it's low tech and low cost the salt they farm can be used for consumption or industrial use. but not all of indonesia's salt is this quality

indonesia has the 2nd longest coastline in the world but despite being surrounded by salt water the country still imports millions of tons of salt each year not only but we have got we need to improve the quality of our engineers and solved we need it to be the best quality so that we don't need to buy from abroad the government said a quota of around 3000000 tonnes for industrial salt imports an increase from previous years scientists working with the government's research and technology ministry say they're trying to improve the quality of locally produced salt by using technology to increase sodium chloride contents finally be made not the. bed i believe we need. because we want to make the people farmers become more with. this most important but common say they don't receive enough support there are more than 800 souls farmers in into my youth on the island of java. one farmer showed us

inside a warehouse with thousands of kilograms of unsold salt. across this area there are many similar warehouses with bags of salt going to waste my money and i mean. the government isn't on our side salt imports are always open and the amount the importing creases every year farmers say the techniques used by the government in the past to improve the quality of their self haven't worked and they're struggling to sell their harvest this so has been farmed and processed by local farmers here in injure my you it will be packaged and sold for consumption across indonesia but farmers here say it's increasingly difficult to on a living and they say imports are to blame the farmers say they're feeling the impact of low salt prices because of imports from the stranding in india and china . the government says it's not possible for indonesia to stop importing solved but across communities where hundreds rely on the mineral pharma say more should be

done to train them in modern farming techniques so they can match the quality of imported fell. we have experts from the government they should come here and tell us what kind of production they need so we can compete with the imported salt if their prospects don't improve these men fear for the future of their farms and their livelihoods jessica washington al jazeera interim i think you post for exit for traffic between the u.k. and france and so smoothly despite earlier concerns about potential backlogs the 1st ferry from person to dock in the french port of kalar arrived several hours after the u.k. officially left the customs union no serious delays reports but as the u.k. comes to terms of break that many are reflecting on life outside the e.u. actually means for their sense of identity and if bob has been looking at that from london. a clouded sunrise over westminster nothing extraordinary here

many of bricks its changes will be slow but knowledge even but in the minds of british people the u.k. now adrift from the e.u. is alone again for some that's a cause for optimism for others profound regret the country still working out what breaks it means in practice with new rules on travel trade and immigration to name a few but beyond the dry details it's also about something much deeper for many brits especially those in their twenty's and thirty's being british and a member of the european union a part of one indivisible seamless identity that now is a result of bragg's it has been split in 2 of the 48 percent of people that voted to remain in the european union many now feel like they're being told to abandon half of who they are. really sad to be not european anymore but i think it was a really awful decision that we made as

a country the idea that we this nation the world has to do better outside of something the size of the european union are things a bit stupid it's hugely problematic and the people who have grown up in the eighty's ninety's noughties a european identity was it was fundamental to how we saw the world we call yeasty be able to travel freely in the european union being able to work live and of course people who are older were able to retire that fathers european union membership was felt in some way forced and disingenuous voting to leave the e.u. is a shock treatment for some parts of the country that felt left behind a way of restoring the country's factory settings i think it's a great opportunity for the u.k. now to stand alone and to really. build some business across the world but it's not as simple as hitting reset in the past 50 years the case become intertwined with

europe london's often called france's 6 biggest city because of its sizable french population i'm picking the relationships required a form of diplomatic surgery in the shape of years of torturous brags that negotiations and be no human could have been the message for many of europe's leaders is the breaks it is not something to celebrate the last thing the e.u. wants is for the 1st member state to ever leave the e.u. to be followed by others how future generations will judge this moment we don't yet know is it the beginning of new opportunities or the end of many a sunrise or sunset nave back out 0 london. when the cuba is overhauling its currencies the peso will be kept but devalued and then the so-called convertible peso which is pegged to the u.s. dollar will be eliminated in america as

a listen human explains. that he stole my tickets owns one of her banners most successful private restaurants a must even for the most high profile visitors until now his customers paid in cook's r.c. you see a state invented substitute for the u.s. dollar with $25.00 times more than the cuban besought but now that who is being scrapped with an unsustainable dual currency an exchange rate system that's what i mean there is only that it just means the elimination of a currency that was circulating for a long time and reactivate in our national currency. if only it were that simple one of the most common phrases in cuba is nice fasc or it's not easy. and that's the perfect way to describe the risk elimination of cuba's 2nd currency while it's considered to be hard currency it's in fact worthless outside of cuba

hindering exports and desperately needed investments one. then when the creek was put into circulation it was picture the dollar but in time it was value it's elimination in general terms as positive but there will be collateral damage. first and foremost a devaluation of the pisot against the us dollar and a steep increase in prices which means purchasing power will drop despite the much higher promised salaries. i don't see the point they raise your salary but they triple or quadruple the price of the dollar which we need to buy all the basics. and that the other big problem if you want to buy anything from food to clothes or even hygiene products you need to go to one of the more than 120. or stores and that's why all these people are lining up in front of the bank to exchange hard currency for an electronic debit card in m l c the cuban name for the u.s.

greenback cash transactions aren't allowed. not that iran has broad who can send money if you don't work with tourists you don't have access to hard currency this change has been very bad. it will be a difficult process for a country that is already suffering from a deep recession scarcity and harsh new u.s. economic sanctions but then as they say getting cuba's finances in order won't be easy. to see in human al-jazeera. they are and these are the headlines more than 20000000 people in the u.s. of not tested positive for corona virus almost a court.