he shoulders. the choice. but the decision must be made. by blood to the viewfinder asia series al-jazeera. india the country with the 2nd highest number of covert cases in the world is a step closer to approving its 1st vaccine for emergency use. time sammy's a dan this is out there live from doha also coming up a new variant of covert was 1st discovered last month in the u.k. now mutations are found of more than 30 countries. the official results are in and there's no winner in the jazz presidential election now be

a prominent plus god will witness severe ravines what has come so far has only been. around for hours retribution one year after the assassination of general. india is the world's 2nd country worst hit by the corona virus and it's now closer to approving use of its 1st vaccine a panel of experts has recommended the oxford astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use the government plans to inoculate 300000000 people over the next few months while india is one of the only country reform of the axioms are getting ready at one time you sort it astronomical school we should was a pool for emergency use there's increasing urgency to these campaigns as a more contagious variant of covert 19 is being detected around the globe after 1st

being identified in the u.k. it's now been confirmed in dozens of countries viet-nam becoming the latest on saturday all restrictions are being tightened in some states governments in thailand and south korea have imposed some of their strongest containment measures yet dr rajiv descriptor is the chairman of the center of social medicine and community health law you know who university he says india is in a very good position to roll out vaccines once they're formally approved. india's immunization program fundamentals are fairly strong it's grown and matured over the last 2 decades but took a limb connection with the oil spoil your program and as you know india did achieve the elimination status in 2014. further to that the logistics that speed district block and urban local body levels have been strengthened with

additional $240.00 walk in coolers 70 walk in freezers $45000.00 ice line representatives and so on including 300 solar powered reparative 8 years and the vaccine delivery will be across $29000.00 colgan points that's the scale at which india is prepared and it's going to be digitally backed by the app which is an improvement on the existing even app and that's how the indian government including the state governments are already there dryden as you know has been conducted in 4 states already and it's intro gress today and over the next few days too and india is in an optimistic position now viruses mutate all the time and there are multiple variants of this particular coronavirus covered 19 circulating

the globe what's unusual about the strain that was 1st identified in the u.k. is how quickly it appears to be spreading its finke called b. 117 the u.k. identify that last month but it's believed 1st emerged in september and it's now been detected in at least $33.00 countries and taiwan simon clark is an associate professor of cellular microbiology at the university of reading in england he says the main concern about this variant is its ability to spread quickly. it is unlikely that the v. taishan will effect the sensitivity of the virus to the vaccine ok but even if it is even if a strain does come along in the future where that happens it shouldn't be too much of a problem for the vaccine scientists to to tinker with it to reengineer it so that vaccine so that it fights any new version that should be a big problem the problem is its ability to spread rather than its susceptibility

to the vaccine. problem such as they are on not because of the anted unicity of the new strain it's been it's a general question about whether the new dosing regime will work toward or work as well as it would have done previously the data for the ox that zeneca vaccine we are told exists i don't think we've seen it yet certainly when journalists are story the press conference the other day they were treated in a rather dismissive manner and pfizer have said they do not recommend. extending the dosing regime for the vaccine i think there is no data for that no candidate has won a majority in the 1st round of the jazz presidential election that means the 2 leading contenders muhammad and sami will face each other in

a runoff next month assume is a close ally of the outgoing president mamadou was so full he won just under 40 percent of the vote but that's more than twice that of was money who's also a former president am an injury says been following those results from the capital niamey. whether or not more people will come out to vote because of voter fatigue in for every it depends on how well they pass their message messages too but this campaign has been characterized by petty issues of tribalism of racism but it's largely want without any major incident despite the threat of attacks by armed groups boko haram from niger inside and then i'll tell you that i still and the others on the board cannot be and molly and border things are looking up good for this country however the ruling parties fail to do what it promised to do to win this election in the past it would have been the 1st time

a presidential candidate won an election in asia for the 1st time without going into a 2nd round which means of course with this development now the ruling party always have a party that ends up winning in trouble or it will need to form a coalition of parties to govern very well african union and un peacekeepers are to begin withdrawing from sudan's darfur region their joint mission to protect this place people there ended on new year's eve as al-jazeera is have a more than reports from kalon south dar for displaced people fear returning home but don't know if the camps they live in a still safe house. this little space is highly and his family's home in column a camp in south sudan for highly says he was forced to abandon his actual home when regional conflict reached his village he started his family here his children know nowhere else i was there one will hear more about who don't want to look on or i

know my home village and to recognize it but my kids were all born in this camp this is the only home they know they don't know their ancestral home if you ask them which village they come from they say karma if you ask them which county they say karma is not just a displacement camp for them. so settled has set up a pharmacy in the camp it's one of the structures that gives the camp a sense of a small village there's also a market a school and a health center was established after fighting started in darfur in 2003 between mainly non arab rebel groups and the government more than 300000 were killed and more than 2000000 displaced the camp is the largest in the region more than 150000 families live here and until the end of last year it was secured by united nations and an african union peacekeeping mission known as the thing come up may seem like a small village or town but it lacks basic infrastructure like running water and power lines and while many of the panes of income other similar to survive with the

end of the dance government has promised to continue securing camps for both displays until they return to their villages but for many this camp has become a permanent home. a peace deal was signed between the armed groups and sudan's transitional government last october it allows for the return of those displaced and gives them back their farms and properties but camp leaders here don't trust the deal and don't think it's safe to leave. our homes have been taken over by us there's no security back in old religious and with gone we don't know what will become of the count's the government is saying that there will be a joint force to protect the camps on to relieve what we can't leave because we don't trickle signed the government says it won't force anyone out of the camps but that providing for them will become increasingly hard. yeah if you could have had a service when there were plans to make the camp

a town but how do you do that when people don't want any government force or official to into the camp we can't provide services we can't provide protection we can't implement law and order inside the camps because the people are unwilling to leave our son and the location and the layout of the camps do not allow for it to be a town and with the implementation of the peace deal people should return home. that's easier said than done for the people living here whether they were forced from their homes or whether they know nothing else they see danger and insecurity outside the camp now life inside the camp is also under threat to the morgue and al jazeera camp south there for. moral gabriel is a sudanese human rights activist she says fears among the camps residents over the withdrawal of peacekeepers are well founded. the situation is still far gyle the violence continues we hear as you know every other day and attacked by the militia and the law that he heavily armed and roll being. unsupervised

in the in the villages in dar for only last week we hear that there is more than 13 people were killed. in darfur so. i think. you know it is very untimely as security is not still a concern for the displaced people in darfur who. attacks and when it started in 2003 and went to live in counts for now over 17 years but. for for peacekeeping mission to appear at these times where there sudanese government to this tale transitioning in and very close jobs to each and leading economic crisis we can see that it will be very difficult for the forces that will be. to be able to protect civilians in

doubt for the still ahead on al-jazeera shelter last hundreds of refugees stranded in the cold winter of bosnia herzegovina. and where in argentina where conservation groups are finding to save one of the world's most biodiverse regions. it's time for the gentle. winter sponsored by qatar airways. however the weather remains cold but dry across a good parts of china very different story into japan a fair bit more cloud coming through here we have got more snow in the full cost temperatures in tokyo struggling to get around 8 celsius sunday off then warms up a little bit to say less cold 10 degrees by this stage in the snow will continue for us and more than half of the country further south it's generally dry crisp

sunshine here dry across a good parts of china with high pressure in charge of keeping things last the settles settle syrian cities central areas of india but down towards the south will showers a rolling through his some showers to into sri lanka and up towards the north something of a change on the way hey westley disturbance helping to clear the poor quality that we do have around new delhi temperatures at around $21.00 celsius notice that rain and snow extends up into the north of pakistan similar conditions as we go one through monday by monday we will see some wetter weather just coming down towards good herat towards maharashtra right down the western ghats actually you can see some showers as we go on through the next couple of days the showers continue further towards a south into sri lanka and notice the rain and the snow becoming increasingly widespread was the final. spot at ways. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power and vesta gates

allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the torch realized that babies are the could be sold to america a coward in quite a nice and reveals shocking new evidence of how and where religious orders disposed of those who died frankly torn in the system like this one church and state are there to keep the truth from coming else islands mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera. welcome back let's recap our headlines here in al-jazeera now india's government says a panel of experts have recommended the emergency use of the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine and

a locally manufactured one puts the world's 2nd worst affected country a step closer to having its 1st vaccine the shares presidential election will be decided in a runoff next month ruling party candidate mohamed zoom won just under 40 percent of the vote in the 1st round former president. got 17 percent. african union and u.n. peacekeepers a begin are to begin withdrawing from sudan's darfur region their joint mission to protect this place people there ended on new year's eve troops will gradually pull out over the next 6 months. tensions between the united states and iran remain high on the eve of the one year anniversary of iranian general hassam sort of miley's assassination he was killed in a u.s. drone strike near baghdad airport last year in the coming hours a protest is being held at the side where he and several top iraqi figures died in

the attack washington into haranath been accusing each other vascular dating military tensions and the rainy and leaders including the head of the revolutionary guards of valor into active provoked. we would respond with a reciprocal decisive and strong blurry to whatever action the enemy would take against us and this has been proven time and again i mean but there are possible signs of a deescalation you see the pentagon announced this week the u.s.s. nimitz would be leaving gulf waters that's been patrolling since november american media reporting u.s. officials saying it's a signal to tehran to try and avoid any conflict. those and take a look back at the assassination just over a year ago in the early hours of january 3rd 2020 shortly after arriving at baghdad international airport major general hossam saw him and he was killed in a u.s. drone strike his close ally the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilisation forces.

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 courts 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 whom i know know all by knowing 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 further in thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds

at least of americans. shola money has been killed at his bloody rampage is now for ever. a law for ayatollah khomeini so the money 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 shut 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 a rein in 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 condemn b.x. no one has actually been held accountable the spite efforts by iran to prosecute

u.s. president donald trump who in support solem on his role was quickly filled by his deputy because the legacy is now entrenched in iran's history. north of the bari al jazeera attack iran. and also has this update home the iranian foreign minister's message for u.s. president trump in the past few hours we've also been hearing from iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif who's taken to twitter to reveal the latest information that iran has and according to him there is intelligence coming from iraq that israeli agents are going to are planning on an attack on americans in that country and the foreign minister warning that this is a trap for the u.s. president trying to trick him into engaging into a conflict with iran he said that you need to be careful any kind of fireworks will be responded with the same kind of force the latest that we hearing from the

foreign minister who has been quite active on his twitter account when it comes to responding to u.s. officials this is the latest in the rhetoric that we've been hearing over the past few days. let's go live now to cover all of us on the he's in washington d.c. so gabriel kind of posture is the u.s. taking out of the mention of the u.s.s. nimitz which i made. it's right there's always so much posturing between washington and tehran but more so now than ever on the eve of the assassination of solo money with all of the potential threats going back and forth this was a decision to pull out the u.s.s. nimitz battle group out of the region the aircraft carrier that apparently had some divisions within the u.s. government it was a decision made by acting defense secretary christopher miller and it's unclear if this was a decision that was a driven by the white house or by donald trump or not he's only got 18 days left in

office and he has been for the most part pretty disengaged at least publicly on issues of foreign affairs we have heard reportedly that the general kenneth mckenzie who is the top u.s. commander of u.s. forces in the middle east was apparently cautioning against the move and wanted to keep the nimitz in the gulf region but apparently the decision was made to pull it out this all comes as sort of a deescalation because over the previous weeks and days the u.s. has been doing just the opposite escalating the situation saber rattling if you will least on 3 different occasions the u.s. has sent to b. 52 bombers to buzz off the coastline of iran as well as sent a navy submarine equipped with tomahawk cruise missiles to the gulf as well cruise missiles that have the capability to easily reach pretty much anywhere within iran and of course in november there were reports that president donald trump had to be

talked out of a plan to preeminently strike and alleged nuclear site in iran so all of this now on the eve of the so the money assassination the one year anniversary of it pulling out of this aircraft carrier from the gulf clearly is an indication that the u.s. is somewhat trying to deescalate the situation but certainly the u.s. still has plenty of military resources in the region thanks so much gabriel that. falseness maitreya 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 trying to relocate the refugees local residents opposed that the tale of those arianne 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 northwest border with croatia 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 face mounting criticism for leaving the migrants without proper shelter heat or facilities to do with you know 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 ok. for days there were cries for help earlier this week migrants and refugees once on a hunger strike i am it reports of frostbite and hypothermia they held a protest to bring attention to their poor living conditions when i see all these nor 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 camp was 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. combination's bad madness mostly but diseases 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 bill gates 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 survive the winter katia lapus of the young al-jazeera. argentina's i veer away at lands are one of the most biodiverse regions

in the world but over the last few decades there have been severely impacted by human activity and industrial farming conservation groups are now working to reverse that damage reports from iberia national park in korean this. means in the local indigenous quote any language water the chinese and here in the province of korean days in northeastern argentina there is splendid of it. but in the past few decades the wildlife in the event and national park that covers more than a 1000000 hectares of land began disappearing because of human activity. and that's what people like my long trying to change. that i mean that we are working to really wild argentina this means reintroducing crucial species that disappeared from the ecosystem in this case we're working with the jaguars the

main objective is to generate a sustainable population and. at least jaguars now will and i.c.'s are kept here so their cubs can one day repopulate the area jaguars are seen as a threat to agricultural settlements in the area and that's why their numbers have plummeted in the past years in fact in the province of korea because they have been extend for over 70 years now and that's why projects like this one are crucial to reintroduce this kind of species into the eco system. a little but there are 7 other jaguars who have almost no contact with the humans and i ready to be released they are kept in 30 hector corel's it's extremely difficult to see them but using our stay one of them might be what needed a g.p.s. color changed. he's. going to be said for this is

likely the last contact we will have with him so we are digging all the possible samples that. and then buy a mint in the area. the project is part of rewilding argentina more than 20 years ago american philanthropist douglas tomkins and his wife kristen began buying up land in argentina and she led to protected and then donated to a national park service rewilding argentina has now given thousands of hectares of land to at least 6 national parks. and. it's very strange in argentina that a private owner donates to the state but when we do it all the prejudices crumble we start to see the projects because the animals start to appear like the giant anteater the pampas day or the tourist start to come and communities get involved this is a model of producing nature because it leaves resources to communities it's an

economic alternative. the rewilding foundation says it's about helping nature heal and local species are crucial to that process. the giant and eater bear had disappeared from even a mainly because of hunting but thanks to rewilding their beers they brought here have started to reproduce. but it is here where we found medicine and her cub. was born in the region and says attitudes in this rural area are slowly changing. there's lots of people that have never been here they did not know that it was a natural reserve sometimes they get messages when they let me know they saw a bear they're starting to become aware that it's not ok to hunt you. argentina has tough economic problems to deal with and that's not being helped by

the corona virus pandemic which is why preserving nature is a major challenge but it's not just about protecting the wildlife it's the wildlife that would generate alternative work opportunities that would convince locals to protect the natural wealth they already have. already in place argentina. let's take a look at some of the headlines here in al jazeera now india's government says a panel of experts have recommended the emergency use of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine and a locally manufactured one it puts the world's 2nd worst affected country a step closer to having its 1st vaccine new jazz presidential election will be decided in a runoff next month ruling party candidate one.