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opening in the u.k. . there are warnings that it's facing the worst weeks of the pandemic. from the u.s. is designating yemen's hooty rebels also known as. as a terrorist group secretary state mike peo says the black this thing is intended to hold the group accountable for its terrorist acts in response to clear it's the united states that's actually the source of terrorism especially the policies of the trumpet ministration. diplomats and humanitarian groups have warned that designation could threaten the peace talks and further complicate the delivery of the desperately needed aid in yemen you know 80 percent of yemenis live in areas under hooty control which includes the capital sanaa and the country's main aid ports from a 100 other top now he's in yemen's capital sanaa with reaction from

a leading rebel official hamann a hoot that he says that the. latest move by the the outgoing administration of the as a denounced act he says that it's cation and also. a fact that the united states is part of the devastating war against yemen according to his speech and also that the that has per participated in the killing and the and also pushing more people to the brink of firemen he says that the outgoing administration proves that its policies are sort of the source of terrorism in the world according to his spear remarks according to observers this would for the worse in the direct humanitarian situation in the war ravaged country especially that 80 percent of the population has been pushed to the brink of famine and the united. nations and also

other non-governmental organizations are trying to to help yemenis to overcome the devastating impacts of the the ongoing war many hope this the upcoming administration will facilitate and also bring the warring sides back to the negotiating table to resolve their differences peacefully there and rather than for the blockading the situation. is of course backed by iran so here is reaction from tell from with also jabari. things have been quite muted here the only thing we've heard so far is from the foreign ministry spokesperson who during his weekly briefing mentioned this in the same breath as the sanctions on the head of the popular mobilisation unit in iraq that's also been sanctioned. by the said that this is an attempt by a desperate administration in the last few days to try and really show that they are not a force

a stabilizing force in their region the united states that is the sentiment here and it has been over the past few years the iranian foreign minister had presented a peace plan a 4 point peace plan to the united nations in 2015 but of course these kinds of designations and sanctions are not new for iran and the revolutionary guard was that it needed a terrorist organization back in april of 2019 the reigning embassador to yemen who was appointed in november a month later in december he was sanctioned by the u.s. government so the view here is that this kind of behavior is not new it's part of the u.s. attempt to try and destabilize this region and also war wage. pressure campaign on iran the belief here is that this designation will only hurt the people because the aid that is reaching them is coming through a port that is controlled by the hutus and it's also being seen as an attempt to try and make things much more difficult for the incoming u.s.

administration of president elect joe biden. the human cost is so important here yemen already the poorest country in the middle east before the war started and has since descended into the largest humanitarian crisis of our time this conflict has killed nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people over the past 6 years the united nations is over almost 10000000 yemenis are at risk of famine 80 percent of the population needs humanitarian aid and then on top of that consider the corona virus pandemic which only adds strain to a devastated health system the executive director of the world food program was among those who've been warning against this. terrorist designation david beasley spoke to al jazeera about that in december when the w.p. was awarded the nobel peace prize. i was in washington d.c. just last week speaking with the leadership explaining the consequences of the designation and the hurdles in the problems that we will face we'll do whatever we

need to do we always have whether the sages are designations or not we'll do what we can to reach the people our job is to let the leaders understand clearly what will be the ramifications and what the difficulties that will be for us to reach people yemen is oriented in sri millie volatile fragile state with i can't begin to tell you we are on the brink of famine right now in yemen people are not getting enough food we don't have the access we need and we're going to i don't know how we don't face famine in a major way in the next 45 much. we'll hear from 2 other humanitarian organizations are responding 1st the international crisis group which says it's the latest of the trumpet ministrations scorched earth policies before heads to the exits one that risks collectively punishing all him and it's by precipitating a famine while doing little to hurt these other than pushing them closer to iran also the norwegian refugee council says it will have

a far reaching impact on the already humanitarian situation that will hamstring the ability of aid agencies to respond so let's hear from rana just mccormack who is from the norwegian refugee counsel's office in yemen she told us the u.s. move might just push more yemenis into desperate circumstances. our main concern here as aid workers. and ordinary people who've already suffered serious or. something you have promised exemption to protect the financial life. well that we need to. be made very clear we need to be i don't think we. already were a boy who had a very across the country throttling field for from the truth already a country where only one underway so we are talking about and i heard that matter here and. we fear that every after age we're going to affect the.

ability to import food and other supplies moving around the country and the impact of only one of the was to completely push more people into. exactly the points for free the country. and why it's a little after 6 am in washington and in the coming hours moves will gather pace to take action against president donald trump over the siege on capitol hill u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says 2 motions will be presented from monday one calling on this man vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment that would declare trump unfits to carry out his duties it would force him out of office well i liked the 5 5th amendment because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is strong support in the congress for impeaching the president

a 2nd time this president is guilty of inciting insurrection to pay a price for that of mike pence doesn't agree then pelosi says the democrat led house would move forward with impeachment. remember 5 people died during the violence on capitol hill the pentagon now confirming $25.00 cases of domestic terrorism are being investigated while the hunt goes on for others involved in the attack as for donald trump still staying pretty quiet right hanna in washington as more details now of how things are likely to play out later on monday. if the house does vote to impeach president trump the house speaker can hold on to the articles of impeachment for an indefinite period of time before sending it to the senate for trial so if trump is impeached by the house it could be a long period of time before the articles go to the senate for a formal trial process now they are going fears about the possibility of further

violence a warning coming from the mayor of d.c. . who sent a letter to the department of homeland security asking for them to ensure that there are proper preparations put in place she's aussie acting secretary to immediately rescind open mission for any demonstrations over the next 10 days so certainly there are many fears still about the possibility of the violence now the department of defense has confirmed that it is investigating at least $25.00 cases of domestic terrorism the defense department involved because it controls deployment of the national guard who were involved on occasion during wednesday's events and justice department says it has arrested a further 2 individuals in connection with what happened at the capital dozens have now been arrested in the events of wednesday. well attempts are being made to

recover hundreds of bodies thought to be trapped under a sunken boat in democratic republic of congo when vessel collapsed on friday while crossing the congo river and criminal charges may yet follow the supporting couple opens up again. this sinking boat is part of a potential criminal investigation with dozens of bodies believed to be trapped underneath has injures were heading to the regional capital on this wooden boat when it capsized. and i think i'm getting the boat had 3 separate levels who lived . they're more full of people and their belongings there were hundreds of passengers including kids older men and women who were swallowed by the water i myself lost 5 members of my family. and these people had relatives on board and now they're using fishing nets to recover bodies. survivors say the boat was carrying too many people and too much cargo including bags of cement.

crossing lakes and rivers after nightfall is illegal in the d.r. see at least reporting agents are under arrest for allowing the boat to leave and the owner and members of the crew are under investigation so. horrified and heartbroken this tragedy is the result of fraudulent behavior on friday evening a boat owner in his crew undertook to travel at night despite a ban on nighttime crossings unfortunately they defied it and that resulted in the events we all deploy. on lookers do what they can to help but finding out how many people were on board those difficult one of them are so much to do that but that is the business people here are always hiding the data and authorities don't share honest information because they're the ones in charge of registering all the passengers before each trip and river. travel by boat is commonly used in the d.r. sea waterways link areas that are unconnected by rose and with limited regulation

that makes disasters like these more likely. to the young al jazeera. well i type very top stories in a moment and then china's outrage its plans to respond after the u.s. builds an even closer relationship to taiwan. and routes reopen as qatar and saudi arabia seek to put their years long dispute to hind them. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways probably we still have some snow in the full cost for japan i'm hopeful that will ease as we go through the next couple of days the fabulous snow that a cloud that just around the korean peninsula pushing through the sea of japan that see if it snows and you can see temperatures in tokyo struggling to gets just 5

degrees celsius says small sort of the western side of poland she opted to hold cotter that will see the worst of any further snow fall and they will see the waves go around to move a westerly direction a milder direction of course and temperature is creeping up into double figures there for tokyo still a chance of want to snow flurries there into the fall north of the country behind that temperatures starting to recover in so and in beijing getting up to around 7 or 8 celsius much of china will be fine and dry with a good deal of spotting sunshine coming through a fair bit of dry by the 2 in c. much of india but down towards the south we are still driving some very heavy showers in across tamil nadu and on into carolina we do have warnings in force to southern areas of in the air quite a rash of showers too still continuing across a good part. as per usual further north it is largely dry as i said a few showers there just around the foothills of the himalayas temperatures in new

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the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the united states is moving to designate yemen's group the movement which controls the capital and the country's main a board as a foreign terror group reacted to the u.s. actions saying america however is the one that is the source of the terrorism. search teams working to recover hundreds of bodies thought to be trapped under a sunken boat in democratic republic of congo wouldn't vessel capsized on friday crossing the congo river. and u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless he is removed from office 1st 25th amendment allows vice president mike pence to declare trump unfit to carry out his duties. coronavirus news in 7 new mass vaccination centers of opened in england the government is speeding up vaccine delivery as the chief medical officer warns the

worst weeks of the pandemic are ahead and is aiming to offer vaccinations to 15000000 people by mid february the elderly and frontline medical workers will be us in london for us paul brennan he's at the xcel center which is one of the vaccination sites what sort of numbers of people have you seen coming through today . well i wouldn't call it mass to be perfectly honest the census nationwide are going to be open from 8 am till 8 pm london one here on the 1st day today opened at 10 am presumably just because it's the 1st day we start with the press officer and it was always only going to open at 10 am and the numbers that we've seen going through i would estimate less than 20 people in the 1st hour that we've seen so it's clearly not a deluge of people that could be because some people who received their invitation to come for their appointment here decided not to decided to wait perhaps they had

access problems couldn't get the transport or whatever like that perhaps they simply didn't want to come felt that they were uneasy about the idea of coming to a sense such as this so i can report that the numbers here are relatively low or steady in another word that said the government is pinning a huge amount of hope on these centers and more that are going to open during the course of the week these are 7 mass vaccination centers that spread around the country manchester new castle bristol birmingham as well as here in london. to 1000000 people so far have been vaccinated which bears quite well in comparison to other european countries but the need to get that vaccine out to the vulnerable people is pressing the government knows that the government has been doing the rounds of the media broadcast. studios this morning emphasizing that it's going to be over 7 seas health care workers at the medically vulnerable before then spreads out and they hope to have some 15000000 people vaccinated by mid february and very

much needed because there's what $50000.00 plus cases a day at the moment paula and chris when he we mentioned there soaking about dockets days yet to come. indeed it's unusual for the chief medical officer for scripts with c. to come out and do say the rounds of the media broadcast sensors the radio in the t.v. studios in the morning normally that's politicians who do those kind of early morning photo calls and interviews so an indication of a change of strategy clearly from the government and from its chief medical advisors to try to get the message across that the restrictions that have been put into place in britain there is concern that compliance is not adequate from the general public there are also concerns that people are just just aren't taking the situation seriously chris reddy when he was saying he said if you're not shocked by the situation that's ongoing now in britain's hospitals then frankly you're not

paying attention he said there are now 30000 kovi in patients being treated in hospitals just in england alone now at the height of the peak of the april stage of the pandemic in april 2020 there was only 18000 so you can see just how big this has grown and how desperate the situation is both for the people of being admitted and for the staff who although they have more treatments now available to them to administer this still under pressure of time energy and morale in order to try and treat those people that get going in that so chris was he saying that the darkest days are probably in the right now for quite frightening as i thank you paul brennan with that update from london. malaysia now which is really imposing a 2 week coronavirus lockdown as infections surged to 3000 today it will apply to kuala lumpur and 5 of the country's 16 regions travel between states will be banned as well but the prime minister said essential sectors including construction and

manufacturing can continue to operate under strict regulations the country's planning to begin vaccinations next month and indonesia has approved the chinese developed sign a vaccine for emergency use it becomes the 1st country outside of china to give it the green light the head of indonesia's food and drug agency said a human trial there showed it is 65 percent effective ginger plans to launch its mass vaccination program on wouldn't stay still with indonesian search and rescue teams there are working to recover the black box recorders from the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board on saturday the devices are expected to shed light on the reasons behind the sudden plunge of that plane into the java sea just minutes after it took off jessica washington with the latest now from jakarta. we're here at 240 injured hard in north jakarta this is where the search effort is being coordinated we've been here all morning and we've seen search teams going out

to the java sea north of jakarta to the area near the 1000 islands and coming back to this port and just a few moments ago a search team returned with the debris from the sri with we were able to see debris in the form of metal scraps about a metre large and you could actually see the blue and red colors of sri which also just a few moments ago we saw an ambulance depart from the port heading to the police hospital most likely with human remains now at the police hospital that is where they are conducting an investigation and relying on support from relatives of those on board the plane to help identify some of the passengers but of course everyone is waiting for the teams here to to locate the black box divers here all still searching the seabed we do know that authorities say they are confident that the signals they have picked up on all coming from the plane's black box so it is

likely that we should hear some good news soon however if the black box is not found today those efforts will of course continue tomorrow china's foreign ministry has strongly condemned a decision by the united states to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei this is off to taiwan's foreign minister praised the move saying relations with washington have been elevated to a global partnership china of course considers taiwan to be part of its territory and a ministry spokesman said beijing will resolutely fight back any attempts to sabotage its interests well from katrina you are in beijing. they go to sleep very angry at this move beijing's foreign ministry spokesperson has said time and time again that taiwan is a red line issue and in terms of this particular move they've said that this violates the u.s. china joint communique which was signed in $7879.00 that is 1979 where the u.s. promised to relinquish any formal ties with taiwan so china's foreign ministry has

said that it will not hesitate to hit back although we have seen this concrete language i mean this strong language in this these very strong threats we are yet to see a concrete response as to what steps beijing might take in response to this and this does raise the question as to whether they are taking this move from the trump administration seriously knowing that the administration is in its last few days of office quaternion one of the foreign ministry spokesperson spokespersons last week said that the trump administration is and what she called final madness and moving to subatomic the relationship between the u.s. and china as much as possible and that followed an announcement by mike pompei o that the u.s. would send its ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft to visit taiwan this week on wednesday but we have had an even stronger response today from chinese state media on monday writing in an editorial saying that this move was dangerous for taiwan and that china wouldn't hesitate to use its

military force to defend what it considers its own territory in the populist candidate has claimed victory in the country's presidential elections preliminary results showed that of with close to 80 percent of the vote he has pledged to we don't corrupt and revive the pandemic battered economy was serving jail time on hostage taking charges until the mass protests in october saw him freed by his supporters. but an opinion again more we go to the point here once the new constitution is adopted we will have political reforms in the country there will be a new structure of government every citizen of the country should do his or her part to fight corruption we will not repeat the mistakes of the previous government all work will be open and transparent the doors of the government will always be open to the people all proposals and urgent problems will always be discussed openly with the participation of civil society. well the 1st commercial flight

between qatar and saudi arabia in more than 3 years has taken off from doha bound for saudi capital riyadh of the last week saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind in egypt agreed to restore ties with carter after the blockade that began in 2017. is there for the inaugural flight from does have an internationally. that is the 1st qatar airways aircraft to travel now to saudi arabia direct from go up the airways flight heading to the saudi capital riyadh on board family members who were previously separated from their loved ones because of the blockade over the past 3 years not only is this seen as a positive move following the reconsideration declaration that was signed last week between qatar and the form of locating countries because of what it means for the people of the region because of what it means for the political stability of the

movie region but particularly here in the airports where the airline industry has been hit so hard because of the pandemic not just in qatar but around the world this resumption and flights between destinations is something that is extremely welcome so it's very historic moments in what would have seen seemed to be normally a monday in flights between. countries but historic because of all the implications it has following 3 years of a bitter dispute which now seems to be somewhat in the process of being or of being in the distance. finally in take the gaza and one of the biggest sporting events in the territory daniel horse race which was staged at the airports bombed out runway and sorry for such reports for many spectators it's a chance to escape the realities of israeli occupation. to horse racing fans this is going this is a new location the runway is the. airport bombed by israel in 20013 years after it

opened has become literally a wasteland but this event in southern russia still draws a crowd from across the gaza strip because we are going to come here for some fun because of the siege covered 19 and all the other difficulties of life this is an escape from all the bad things and i look forward to it every year. with gaza in the grip of a coded 900 crisis putting a further strain on its overburdened health system and resulting in weakened shutdowns and likely curfews the organizers have found themselves defending the decision to press ahead with the movie up for the race last less than a minute and a half and the airport is a big open area we tried our best to avoid cratty and this event should have taken place at the end of 20202021 so we had to do it after preliminary round 6 entrants had qualified for the final and it at least a nod towards health and safety concerns only 3 were able to run 4 year old local

favorite. born in russia side by race was imported from israel easily outrun the competition narrowly evaded the crowds for a clear victory for the winning jockey his moment of triumph but with it a coon sense of awareness of everything that's missing right now and then. the race track isn't up to standard sometimes the horses as you see there are no responsible organizers lots of people lots of disorder no prizes for the winner we want to be able to travel abroad and take part in international races but because of the siege we can't gaza has a long tradition of a question is i'm writers here compare themselves favorably to their counterparts in the occupied west bank is not uncommon for wealthy enthusiasts to import european horses worth tens of thousands of dollars the contrast with gaza's ruined economy where more than a 1000000 live below the poverty line is stark and it's reflected every year in the images of the sports the. just a very fortunate al-jazeera. before we go north korea's leader has

a new title a symbolic vote elected kim jong un as the general secretary of the ruling workers policy although he was already at the top leader of course this title was formerly held by his father and his grandfather they now retain the titles of eternal grand secretary and eternal president. they are on al-jazeera and these are the top stories the united states moving to designate yemen's hooty movement. which controls but the capital and yemen's main aid port as a foreign terror group the u.s. backed saudi led coalition's been fighting the group in yemen since 2015 they accuse the rebels of launching attacks against civilian targets in saudi arabia and of targeting major oil facilities but it is reacted to the.