told to take journalist sign the petition was free to say. the word. as conflict hit me share prepares for a presidential run or foods attackers raid 2 villages killing at least 50 people. there and how he did and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraqis marcie years since the assassination of iranian general carson saw him money in baghdad while iran and the us trade warnings and he has drug regulator on the verge of approving to call that 19 vaccines the country looks to inoculate 300000000

people within 8 months and departing peacekeepers leave behind an uncertain future for families in sudan's darfur region. at least 50 people are fears have been killed in 2 attacks in villages in western asia where it happens in man gaze an unstable region neighboring mali burkean a fossil and been in armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw have launched attacks there in the past a correspondent armitage greece has more from the capital niamey. well an official told al-jazeera that the attackers the gunman the targeted these 2 villages crossed over into from mali and that at least 50 people have been killed in one of the villages he's not sure about the number of casualties in the

2nd village but he said and government delegation is already on its way to assess the situation there now we've seen increased activity in terms of operations by i'm groups in mali i'd like to either like i you there all i saw as well as in birkenau fassel and that's not the only region. in the shed that is having issues with security on the border with nigeria boko haram has been active we've seen increasing attacks bible koran targeting not all a civilian but also military personnel and that's awfully shelly sterling is that in fact there are no military casualties among the 50 over 50 people killed. well none of the quds is a teaching fellow in politics and international relations at the university of aberdeen he says the regional security challenges are part of the structural problem. the this all many different things that are causing the security situation in our. growing population. i make change this

islam is a problem as well as the problem with this in this region is ridiculous states need charged. more have a fundamental structural problems where over so many years many parts of the states and ran down a man now incapable practically incapable of providing security so that they been main problems with the economy get all of that i've been compounded by it is a problem that is deeds simply cannot wear that individual or collaborate he cannot provide security as the fact that we we need to deal with and accept and start thinking about how his deeds could be formed and mentally reform to meet the tactic challenge that the of piecing in the 21st century. there have been vigils

and protests and baghdad mark a year since the us assassinated iranian general qassam soleimani he was killed by a drone strike near baghdad airport's iran and the u.s. of a kiss each other of escalating tensions in the run up to see the anniversary earlier this week the u.s. conducted b. 52 bomber fly overs in the gulf and also sent a nuclear submarine to the region. i they will witness severe ravines what has come so far has only been glimpses. do not presume that anyone even in the position of u.s. president who appeared as a murderer or a session may be immune from justice being carried out never none of those involved in this assess nation in crime will be safe on earth man more said oh i have i explicitly said that the path of the police force and the path of resistance does

not change with the evils that the us commits the past is still the same path. today we have no problem or apprehension in encountering any of the world powers we will have our final words on the battlefield with our enemies. charles transfer tells us more about events in iraq's capital. seeing pictures of thousands of people that have gathered there we understand that this was for want of a better description some sort of memorial we are expecting large protests in the capital a call out has been given to people in various cities across the country to come and join those protests those protests very much focused on demanding that the iraqi government put pressure on the americans to withdraw the remaining soldiers and military personnel from the country and meanwhile every day people on the streets are very concerned about any potential escalation because as we've been reporting for months the protests that have dominated the streets of baghdad and

other cities protesters demanding jobs better economic conditions wholesale political change in an end to corruption all during a coded pandemic these people oversee very concerned about any kind of escalation any kind of deterioration in the security of this country the. health care workers in india have taken part in a drill to test the delivery of facts scenes and the as drug regulator is a step closer to approving the country's 1st coronavirus vaccines for american cus world's 2nd most populous nation has the highest number of cases behind the united states under ship out 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 was yes the pain is. right here. 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 what are the only country where for vaccines are getting ready are one dying and those others include kovacs and 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 yet david bieber led me to believe there's often an exam in fish said yes i did that not as often then i mean. now i just didn't. get an option of the great meal that admitting. that he did or that is on does not leave. a mark really didn't. ask me should we did it in. the sarah minced attune 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 and al-jazeera. the u.k.

has had to get another record jump a new infections announcing more than 57700 on saturday alone many are being attributed to what scientists say is a more contagious strain of colon virus is particularly rampant in london as an intern or jinsei a vaccine wallets hospitals have been getting their 1st doses of the one developed by oxford university in astra zeneca it's the 3rd to be approved the british government says that a low mix of different vaccinations if supplies are shorts as well as delays between doses but joe miller is a professor of microbiology and immunology at cornell university in new york he says any delay between those is a mistake. people are only 5 they protected that 3 month period and people will get infected after receiving the vaccine and again there's so little dates wrong it's

that it's in the realms of of guesswork and finger crossing and there has been discussions about this in the u.s. that they it will not happen based on statements over the last few days from attorney from. 'd people associate 'd with the f.d.a. so the americans have looked at the same idea and replace they saying it's not going to happen again because the data don't justify it and you know the wider angle problem here is how do you who 1st public confidence and vaccines in both the u.s. and in the u.k. there is a significant fraction of people who are hesitant about taking banksy they don't trust that they don't they're concerned about the outcomes the last thing they need is is can traverse the news. and the imposition of policies that are based on minimal amounts of potato no data at all so rather than having a healthy debate which is happening in the u.s. the u.k.

government seems to be squelching the opinions of british scientists and british physicians simply saying go with the policy we don't want to hear any opposition to it and that's very unhealthy it's an all out western democracy should. zimbabwe has gone into seconds national locked and only places like hospitals pharmacies and supermarkets will be allowed to open for the next 30 days and an overnight curfew is in force there's been a huge spike in infections over the holiday season in a country already struggling with a deepening economic crisis soaring inflation and high unemployment but lisa in north western france a shutout in an illegal new year's eve rave 36 hours after it started ranting half 1000 people attended state party close to the city over when they said 10 arrested 7 people including the suspected organizers for breaking over 1000 mistreat actions

in the she'd a furnace and fines. still to come out my knowledge in syria my high profile u.s. senator has joined an all but impossible attempt to overturn joe biden's presidential victory and indonesia so far most fight for change to meet their business profitable. it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored plan qatar airways hello we've got more snow in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days it is much quieter the west high pressure dominating proceedings across a good part of china but there we go we got a system making its way out into the open waters of the northwest pacific winds not too strong but still strong enough to fade some of that sea effect snow in across the northern side of honshu pushing across into

a card i temperatures struggling over the next day or 2 to get up into double figures for the south you might just see want to see showers coming into northern parts of taiwan as the a northeasterly monsoon continues to drive its way through more heavy showers on that same system monsoon trough now feeding some very heavy showers in across a good part of the philippines having to say some very heavy rain brewing up across the malaysian peninsula pushing across to northern parts of somalia by the time we come to monday we could see some very wet weather also affecting southern areas of vietnam southern parts of india also seeing some rather heavy rainfall a lot of cloud of rain across the andaman sea into strength up towards the northwest we have a westerly disturbance pushing across northern pakistan northern areas of in the helping to clear the air somewhat but as you can see a fair old dusting of snow mixed in. sponsible qatar airways take the worst possible material you have

a deal grounded into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause colossal you bet i do as well and so many people i think you deserve the file in cuba but does it make you feel nice if you like a murder we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. to. earlier. my. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour at least 50 people have been killed in attacks on 2 villages in western asia where it happened in an unstable border

region neighboring mali fassel and been in erbil vigils and process in baghdad smocking a years since the u.s. assassinated or really in general got some sort of money iran and the us server queues each other vesco its intentions in the run up to the anniversary. hospitals across england have begun receiving doses of the newly approved oxford university and astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine the 2 types of vaccines that are available the government hopes a slow contraction of the virus which has affected a record number of people over the past 5 days. in the u.s. ted cruz says he will spearhead an effort by nearly a dozen fellow republican senators so overturned joe biden's election victory they plan to objects when electoral college results tallied in congress on january 6th but the senate's rules certifying the results is largely symbolic president donald

trump has refused to concede defeat the piece in baseless claims of electoral fraud share a chance he has more from washington d.c. . there are a lot of theories but this group of 11 senators drawings and other services under josh wally's adds 12 silencers who say they will be challenging the certification process on the 6th of joggers that's almost a quarter of the republican senators and over a half of congress republican congress people are expected to challenge the results in the house and why are they doing it well really this 11 this group of 11 says they're doing it not because they and they intend to overturn the results but because they was the 39 percent of americans who feel that the election was rigged to have best say so they're kind of threading the needle perhaps off of keeping true to a trump base who could publish them enormously over the next 4 years either in primary challenges before the 2022. midterm elections or if they have presidential

election issues themselves they could be in trouble if they were seen to be not sufficiently trumpy and when they have the trolls and the trump bases still going to be a big part of republican politics it's a very seemed to be the reasons why they're putting up the symbolic fight but it's not going to change anything we think an artillery strike has killed at least 5 people at a wedding in the yemeni city of her data and shell landed in front of a hole where people were celebrating the saudi led coalition and he rebels are accusing each other being responsible for the attack the ammons prime minister says an attack on wednesday at agents international airport was an attempt eliminates the unity government it happened as a plane landed with members of the government on board 25 people were killed more than 100 others were injured he's denying it was then prime minister my league saeed insists they're responsible. who. it was

a major terrorist attack that meant to eliminate government local authorities municipal appointees all those waiting at the airport it was a horrific attack thank god it didn't come to that but the planning and techniques of this attack are ones that who these have used before with the same guided missiles preliminary evidence and investigation points to the who these being behind this. african union and u.n. peacekeepers will begin leaving in sudan's darfur region their joint mission to protect displaced people and its own new year's eve that's causing unease among the sizes have lived in displacement camps for years have been morgan reports from outside a camp in yala in south darfur. this little space is highly and his family's home in 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 would go on we'll hear more about who don't 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 karma if you ask them which county they say karma it's not just a displacement camp for them. 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 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 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 had 7 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 insecurities outside the camp now life inside the camp is also under threat to the morgue and al jazeera camp south there for let's return to the pandemic now in thailand has doubled or so order of the also oxford astra zeneca vaccine to $52000000.00 doses and coke is in force and tougher rules including closing bars and banning alcohol sales infections were alone during the initial outbreak that have been rising since mid december. well viruses mutate all the time and there are several variants of

covert $1000.00 circulating around the globe what's unusual about the strain that was 1st identified in the u.k. is how quickly it spreads it's called b. one $17.00 and has now been detected in at least $33.00 countries in taiwan simon kark is associate professor of cellular microbiology at the university of reading in england he says the vaccines are effective against all strains of the corona virus. it is unlikely that if you take a shit 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 do tinker with it to reengineer it so that vaccine so that it fights any new version that should be a big problem indonesia has one of the world's longest coastlines but yet its salt

farming industry fails to meet the needs of the domestic markets millions of tons of salt are imported each year and that's threatening the livelihoods of the salt farmers in indonesia that as jessica washington reports from india my you on the island of java the government hopes investing in technology will save jobs. in indonesia's west timor this is the process behind harvesting one of the world's most common minerals these men have found 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. the government isn't on our side salt imports are always open and the amount be importing creases

every year family 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 salt 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 farmer said they're feeling the impact of low salt prices because of imports from the strain 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 cells. 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. argentina's a better wetlands are one of the most biodiverse regions in the world but they've been severely impacted by industrial farming conservation groups and i working to reverse that damage today's of all reports from a barren national park in korean to us. even means in the local indigenous quote and language water the chimes and here in the province of korean days in northeastern argentina there is plenty 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 seas 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 because 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. needed a g.p.s.

color changed. he's. going to be set free this is likely the last contact we will have with him so we are digging all the possible samples that how she sees them biome and 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 was 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.

did to a 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 i you know. there's lots of people that have never been here they did not know that if there 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 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 all turn and the work opportunities that would convince locals to protect the natural wealth they already have. already and they say argentina. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 50 people have been killed in attacks on 2 villages in western these air.