of the region where the growth and prosperity of your business will always be our key priority. invest in kazakstan seize the best opportunities in the heart of eurasia. india moves a step closer to officially approve its 1st corona virus vaccine for emergency use gearing up for the mammoth task of inoculating a 1000000000 people. hello i'm sam is a than this is out there are live from doha also coming up the official results are in and there's no winner in the presidential election now be

a runoff. thousands of refugees in sudan's darfur region face an uncertain future as the u.n. an african union peacekeeping mission comes to an end. and where in argentina's i'm biro wetlands where conservation groups are fighting to save one of the world's most biodiverse regions. india's drug regulator is a step closer to approving the country's 1st corona virus vaccines for emergency use the 2nd most populous nation has the highest number of cases behind the us and russia pal reports. gearing up for the world's largest immunization campaign these health care workers are taking part in a nationwide drill to test the delivery of vaccines. $300000000.00 indians are due to receive injections in the 1st half of this year that. yes the pain is part

of that. but i am. we're not worried to get rid of this pandemic we have to get injected i've been working in public health for the past year and i want an injection and to motivate others to do the same india's drug regulator has received a recommendation for approval for the oscars seneca oxford university vaccine for merchants to use it can be stored and transported understanded refrigeration that gives it an edge over those that need to be stored at extremely low temperatures it's also cheaper than the alternatives tens of millions of doses have been stockpiled and will be given for free to health care and front line workers in the 1st phase and more are being acquired fast others bought up india is one of the only country where 4 vaccines are getting ready are one dying and those others include copaxone a locally developed vaccine from behind a biotech that has been recommended for emergency use by a panel of experts but many are asking whether the vaccines will be effective or

reach the right people. you don't know nobody. they don't know david people who led me to believe there's often an example in fish said yes i did that not as often then i mean. yes i just didn't. get an option of the great meal that after. that he did all of that is on us to not believe. that i'm not really going to. ask me should we didn't. the serum institute of india has partnered with the u.k. based drug maker astra zeneca to produce 1000000000 doses for low and middle income countries but the anti-poverty charity oxfam says 9 out of 10 people in the world's poorest places may miss out on a vaccine this year enter chapelle al-jazeera thailand has doubled its order for the oxford astra zeneca vaccine to $52000000.00 doses the 1st shipments are

expected to arrive by next month the capital bangkok has entered a partial lockdown to control a new wave of infections a ban on bars nightclubs and alcohol sales and restaurants is come into force thailand managed to keep infections low during the initial outbreak last year but has seen a spike since mid december south korea will expand the ban on small gatherings insall to the entire country to combat a recent surge in infections there the health ministry says 40 percent of recent cases have been linked to small gatherings over 800 new infections were reported on friday be ok has recorded more than 57000 new coronavirus infections the highest since the pandemic began the country has been reporting over 50000 cases for the 5th straight day behind numbers are being driven by the mutated more infectious variant of covert 19 now viruses mutate all the time and there are multiple

variants of covert 19 that are 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. it's being called b 117 the u.k. identified it last month but it's believed to have 1st emerged there in september it's now been detected in at least $33.00 countries during vietnam and taiwan and simon clark is an associate professor of setting the 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 view 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

the 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. the problem such as they are are not because of the anted unicity of the new strain it's berates 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 seneca vaccine we are told exists but 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 their vaccine i that there is no data about. no candidate has won

a majority in the 1st round of presidential election that means the 2 leading contenders mohammed and. they will face each other in a runoff next month but soon won just under 40 percent of the vote that's more than twice that of money and former president raman address has been following those results from the capital niamey whether or not more people will come out to vote because of voter particular for every president how well they pass their message messages too but this campaign has been characterized by petty issues of tribalism of reeses them but largely went without any major incident this pride the threat of attacks by armed groups from niger inside and then i'll cry your eyes still and the others on the. and mali and border things looking up good for this country however the ruling party feel to do what it promised to do to win this election and

of course it would have been the last time a presidential candidate won an election in this year what across time without going into a 2nd round which means of course would boost development now the ruling party or whichever party that ends up winning in trouble will need to form a coalition of parties to govern very well now african union and un peacekeepers will begin withdrawing from sudan's darfur region their joint mission to protect displaced people there ended on new year's eve where troops will gradually pull out over the next 6 months sounds serious have a morgan reports from cal and south are for displaced people fear returning home but don't know if the camps they live in still safe. this little space is his family's home in a camp in south dar for colin says he was forced to abandon his actual home when regional conflicts reached his village he started his family here his children no

nowhere else i. want to go 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 calma if you ask them which county they say calma it's not just a displacement camp for them. settled his 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 thumb up camp may seem like a small village or town but it lacks basic infrastructure like running water and

power lines and while many of the planes 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 foreigners there's no security backing or religious and with gone we don't know what will become of the camps the government is saying that there will be a joint force to protect the camps on to leave but 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 people morgan al jazeera camp south are for. your braille 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. you know every other day and you're attacked by the

militias the law the heavily armed and and roaming. unsupervised in the in the villages in daraa for only last week we hear that there is more than 13 people were killed. in darfur so so i think. you know it is very untimely security is not still a concern for the displaced people in darfur who let these attacks and when it started in 2003 and went to live in camps for 'd now over 17 years but. for a 4 peacekeeping mission to appear at this time where they're sitting knees government is still transitioning in and very close and living economy crisis we can see that it will be very difficult for. the forces that will be full md to

be able to protect civilians in darfur dozens of ethiopian refugees have arrived at the border region with sudan being 2 families and farmers fleeing the conflict in ethiopia more than one $1700.00 refugees are now in areas under the control of the sudanese military some have reported seeing fighting between the sudanese army and farmers in the area. still ahead on al-jazeera iran vows retribution one year after the assassination of general kasim manny. shelter at last for hundreds of refugees stranded in the cold winter of bosnia herzegovina. hello the weather remains lossie ciara if

a little on the cool side across the arabian peninsula further north where we have got some basin places of cloud into the eastern side of turkey but nothing too much to speak of law she joins us at around the arabian peninsula but you might just catch maybe they ought shout across northern parts of saudi arabia they will be few and far between in this because for sunday as you can see it is lousy dry 24 celsius here and falling back to around 22 as we go on into monday to south of that generally lots of hazy sunshine coming through that extends across the whole of africa was you draw here as well a majority of the showers where they should be made to the heart of africa into those central areas those things are very heavy rain just around the rift valley pushing across. still seeing some very heavy rain actually from the remnants of our old tropical sideway across a good parts of the maybe a that west the weather will just slide a little further southwards as we go on into where monday says some cloud of dry coming into central parts of south africa pushing

a little further east which we have still got the shower as they stand in their way up into mozambique all the parts of mozambique telling a little wetter as we go on through cheese day with a chance of showers too on the other side of the channel the madagascar. but. when all that seems to matter is the headline when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the listening post drips away the spin lays bare the bias done covers the uncomfortable truths the listening posts on al-jazeera a runoff that will determine if democrats take control of both chambers of congress as no candidate received a majority of november's election georgia is getting ready for a historic vote that challenges the republican senate majority. joining us for this special coverage of the u.s. storage a senate runoff. welcome

back you're watching on this let's recap our headlines now in the as government says a panel of experts have recommended the emergency use of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine and a locally manufactured one that puts the world's 2nd worst affected country a step closer to having its 1st vaccines. presidential election will be decided in a runoff next month ruling party candidate mohammed bazooms won just under 40 percent of the vote in the 1st round former president mohamed smiley got 17 percent . african union and u.n. peacekeepers will begin withdrawing from sudan's darfur region their joint mission to protect this base 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 the assassination of iranian general hossam soleimani people in iran have been paying their respects at his burial place in quetta man city so the money was killed in a u.s. drone strike near the baghdad airport last year washington and tehran have been accusing each other of escalating military tension the head of iran's revolutionary guards is vowing to retaliate if 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 one year on the also takes a look back at the assassination. in the early hours of january 3rd 2020 shortly after arriving at baghdad international airport major general hossam so in money 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 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 supreme leader ayatollah ali how many of those whom i know know all by 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 furthering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. solo money has been killed and his bloody rampage is now for ever on 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 reigning back groups in iraq and it's a demand which still stands a year later officials here called so i'm on his assassination and you tap here in the history of the middle east while many countries condemn the acts no one has

actually been held accountable the spite efforts by iran to prosecute u.s. president donald trump threw in support solem on his role was quickly filled by his deputy because the legacy is now entrenched in iran's history. dorsett a pari al-jazeera attack iran. has this update on the iranian foreign minister's message for the u.s. president 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 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. bosnia's matri has 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 but local residents rejected the move. reports. a sign of relief and of new shelter this will be home for hundreds of migrants and refugees stranded in boston had to go to 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 faced mounting criticism for leaving the migrants without proper shelter heat or facilities to do

with it's ok we don't mind we get a 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 went on a hunger strike. amid reports of frostbite and hypothermia there. as a protest to bring attention to their poor living conditions when there's 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 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 beyond gates we don't have jack up to 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 katia llopis other young al-jazeera. oh peter van der alright is the international organization for migration is representative for bosnia-herzegovina he blames what's happening in the camp on the government's lack of action. well i think that's fair to even you terry and suffering that you are not seeing clearly the responsibility lies with

the ability of the authorities in policy it's going to come to a consensus as to how to move forward in terms of providing a communication for the markets and refugees that. give you 2 examples i count was always intended to be an emergency response recovery 19 the only thing that you have toward it is the local tourism see to do was to continue to get to increase the water so it could be heat and that containers could be poynter proposed containers there are no use not workable as the local authorities know because there is no excuse the you will typically these containers still and that would also lead to people being in the 2nd element is the issue there was an attempt to relook at the migrants to the but also to a new location but i think it reaches into another part of the country are also there local politicians and local people who are patient with mike and so we need the national support international assistance is available and can be activated immediately but we need to local authorities to take

a decision as to where the money my concern is going to be the locate that then accommodate the inappropriate human manner and does he still has to be nice and as a final point no he says we have been warning together with others you know toward these for months some are actually saying we need about 2000 places additional accommodation in those years of government we have 8000 migrants in the country it's a country of 3500000 people 6000 are in centers in the war and getting access to military says it shouldn't be too complicated for a country of 3500000 to find accommodation for 2000 people especially if you can get national international support and tinker assistance. available. now argentina zubair a wetlands are one of the most biodiverse regions in the world but over the last few decades they've been severely impacted by human activity and industrial farming conservation groups are now working to reverse the damage. reports from our bureau

national park in korea enters. the reader means in the local indigenous what any language water the chimes and here in the province of korea in this in northeastern argentina there is plenty of it. but in the past few decades the wild life 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 the sort of the decimal condoleezza 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. these 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 extended 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 color 30 that are. going to be set free this is likely the last contact we will have with her so we are digging all the possible samples that how she sees and then buy a mint in the area along. with. 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 sorry world in 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 pump 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. data was born in the region and says attitudes in this rural area are slowly changing and. 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 here. argentina has tough economic problems to deal with and that's not being helped by the coronavirus 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.