if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own. an earthquake strikes indonesia so no way sea island dozens of people are killed and hundreds injured. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back also coming up north korea and veils a new submarine launched ballistic missile during a military parade sending a message to the world it's so easy to go to we don't seem to want to be a cry for help hospitals in brazil's amazonas state are running out of oxygen as

they try to contain covert 19 and google is accused of strong arm tactics in australia for hiding some new sites from its search results. indonesia's civil defense i thought is a warning strong aftershocks good trigger a tsunami after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the island of soloway c. the epicenter is believed to have been about 6 or 6 kilometers from the city of my journey and he said the 5 people have been killed and hundreds injured rescue operations are underway to save those trapped in collapsed buildings including a hospital thousands have been displaced by the quake. the mostest in la we believe this still potential for more strong aftershocks like what happened at midnight the buildings were hit by 2 quakes and at least 28 aftershocks and because the a piece into is near the beach there's a possibility of underwater landslides so that's why this still is and i mean

potential indonesia's president joe cole we don't know has people in the disaster zones to remain cow. but invalid and in the name of the indonesian government and all the people of indonesia express or condolences to the victims who had passed away i urge the people to stay calm and to follow the instructions given by officials on the ground let's get an update on the situation with jessica washington and 4 hours jessica the death toll has been wising what's the latest on the search and rescue efforts 1st. this is still a developing situation this and as i'm speaking to you authorities in civil way see are attempting to restore communications electricity is still down but once communications are restored we should have a clearer picture of the situation but let me just give you a brief idea of what authorities have told us so far we know that 8 dead in the

city of mud in the city of which is the neighboring city at least 26 people are dead 10 evacuation cities have been set up in the city of and 5 in the city of moment you we did hear earlier from the president as you mentioned the president also said that he has spoken with the military officials with such a rescue crews and the social ministry and he's urging all of them to coordinate the efforts to best assist these people in need now we we know that as you mentioned the epicenter of the earthquake was 6 kilometers from the center of much in a city that has left 15000 people displaced and in need of a place to stay out of occupation centers which have already been established by authorities insulates the president jessica urging people to remain calm in the disaster zones i know that thousands have been left homeless by this earthquake and are fearing of returning to where they live what's being done to help them.

well this is a huge effort by engine asian authorities and indonesian authorities in a number of programs is very familiar with this process individual because of its geographical position is very familiar with natural disasters but they are a tragedy every time these cities in particular are small cities the city of today is home to just 150000 people just 100000 people to put this in context 15000 people are now displaced that is 10 percent of the community authorities say that the evacuation centers being stocked with food with supplies for babies and children and with backup generators as well thank you for that update jessica washington with the maid to say from jakarta and now the news north korea has unveiled what it says are new submarine launched ballistic missile the weapons were on show at a parade marking the end of the country's largest political convention kim jong un

has vowed to expand his country's nuclear os no a display of military strength is being seen as sending a message to the united states as its incoming president and in its incoming president joe biden rob mcbride is in seoul with more on the message behind this new military display. this does seem to be a departure by north korea for the past few years there's been very little evidence of north korea's developing nuclear arsenal while we've had this period of summit diplomacy but this does seem to be north korea saying by the way we have nuclear weapons or did you forget we saw in a big parade back in october again the display of a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile according to the north koreans which he hadn't seen before and also an s.l.b.m. one of these submarine launched ballistic missiles now in this latest parade this is according to the north koreans an updated version on that new s.l.b.m. so this is of a concern to united states and its allies because it does add

a completely new dimension to the nuclear threat from north korea and s.l.b.m. means that you know you have the power to have a nuclear missile on a submarine that can launch its missile a lot closer to its intended target so for example that is of concern to japan that has missiles that are intended to try to intercept missile other missiles fired from the north korean peninsula it's a different matter if it's dealing with a submarine just off the japanese coast in theory it could also be a concern if this is developed further to the united states but it is thought that their actual submarines are of the older type noisy a diesel submarines which would have a problem trying to get across the pacific but according to kim jong un in his latest statements that too is something north korea is working on that they want to develop and obtain nuclear powered submarines. the united nations says attacks on

2 refugee camps in ethiopia's northern tikrit region are a major violation of international law satellite imagery shows fires burning and signs of destruction at the melba and hits scams they're home to refugees from neighboring iran the un's lost access to the region and has warned food and medicine running out. the corona virus pandemic now in the health system in the brazilian state of amazonas is facing collapse because of a surgeon called a 1000 infections hospital say they're running out of oxygen and it's feared a new variant of the virus detected in the state capital mouse could be more contagious every force from rio de janeiro. my nose was already in chaos with no room to bury the dead nor treat the sick. now hospitals in the largest city of the brazilian amazon have simply run out of oxygen to save who with 19 patients doctors are using morphine to ease their pain while desperate health

workers have taken to social media to raise the alarm to please meter cardboard so you need to have some people run out of oxygen in an entire health care unit there are a lot of people dying if anyone has any oxygen available piece into to us piece and this video to everyone peace. of police is one of many go to brazil so we only have 3 oxygen cylinders left we're having to use the one in the ambulance says . this health care unit 5 patients are taking turns to brief i estimate. doctors don't know what else to do it's a calamity. human rights watch blaine's the government for the health crisis. most of us in our open politics at the forefront of health recommendations and even tried to sabotage the measures taken by governors of different states of brazil to contain the disease. also now those political rivals some palos governors says he

will not wait for the federal government to solve the crisis he has been working with china to test its corona back vaccine and his promise to start an occupation is in his state fund january 25th brazil's health minister says the country will start massive not elations next week but so far the brazilian regulatory agency under has not approved any vaccine in rio de janeiro 4 hospitals are also on the brink of collapse people are hopeful the government will finally bring the pandemic under control. we should already be vaccinating people the government should have had a vaccination calendar by now or an awareness campaign to educate people on the importance of a vaccine and stated we have a president who downplayed and politicize the virus saying he will not be vaccinated. while the government has been dragging its feet the virus has been

spreading fast claiming more than 200000 lives and the situation is only deteriorating while brazil op waits for a vaccine monica innocuous i'll just sirrah rio de janeiro u.s. president elect joe biden has unveiled a stimulus plan for the american economy with nearly 2 trillion dollars he says his immediate priority beyond unifying the country is to get aid money and vaccines to as many americans as possible biden's urging congress to approve it as soon as is sworn into office reports from wilmington delaware. a short drive from where president elect joe biden announced his so-called american rescue plan we met william tolson he just picked up 2 bags of donated food from a church food pantry he's been unemployed for 6 months and is hoping the renewed promise of a bigger stimulus check doesn't evaporated we elect them to do

a job that they are dropped the ball i'm not going to blame it on public as a democrat immigration or everybody because that's the group just supposed to come together and do what's best for you are on thursday biden announced his $1.00 trillion dollars strategy he says the american economy can't be revived without combat in covert 19 is the 1st of what he calls a 2 step rescue and recovery plan in the middle of a once in several generations economic crisis with a once in several generations public health crisis. the crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste. biden's proposal includes $1400.00 stimulus checks for those in need funding for a national code 19 vaccination program and increase testing with

a focus on reopening schools and creating a public health workforce with 100000 jobs biden also wants to provide money to combat hunger in america struggling public transit systems and small businesses there are 10000000 fewer jobs in the united states than there were before the pandemic some economists say without a major injection of capital millions of americans will remain unemployed but there is some concern among lawmakers about the plans price tag when there is already a more than $3.00 trillion dollar deficit the largest since world war 2 tolson is optimistic biden can unify the country and resuscitate the economy as americans it's what we do tough times we come together as we should biden warns we are in a race against time millions of struggling americans are now counting on the democratic controlled congress to act quickly natasha going to name. wilmington

delaware. still ahead on al-jazeera asked seeking entry hundreds of asylum seekers from new migrant caravans in honduras in pursuit of the american dream. the area that's most like to get hit by yet more big downpours sits in the same place the last day or so most of borneo soloway see caliban town had the biggest downpours but i think in the focus was it further north it's malaysia as well for the obviously and the central and southern philippines if you look to the west of that the far south of thailand and sumatra is a much dry picture not bone dry so some big showers in northern sumatra seem likely but the concentration is pretty obviously here bander serious beggar what could be

a very wet place by the end of the weekend there's been some snow overnight in the victorian alps it's not as unusual might think and not much fell but it just shows how cold it can get when you get that southerly wind during summer the resultant daytime temperatures hobart 18 and melbourne 20 overcast quite a lot of the time in sudden victoria's to victoria and much of tasmania for the rest of australia it's much quieter only a few showers on the far north brisbane could be sherry but quite humid $34.00 and pursed much the same but rather dry heat up to 36 in new zealand has one more day in the forecast to find whether or not saturday very nice looking than the rain closes in on sunday. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands

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underway to save people trapped in collapsed buildings including a hospital. north korea has unveiled what it says are new submarine launch ballistic missiles at a military parade in pyongyang the display follows a ruling party congress where leader kim jong un filed to expand his country's nuclear arsenal and the health system in the brazilian state of amazonas is facing collapse because of a surge in corona virus infections some hospitals in the state capital mauer's have run out of beds and oxygen. the u.s. says it's met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan to 2500 by this month despite a law barring it congress passed new measures 2 weeks ago prohibiting the move that was promised by president donald trump now with uncertainty over peace talks and an increase in violence some fear the draw back could further destabilize afghanistan contra for the reports from kabul. it's america's longest war longer even than

vietnam but it could now be approaching an end for afghanistan however it could just be the beginning of even more uncertain times the pullout of u.s. troops has raised fears that without a peace deal between the taliban and the afghan government in place there will be even more violence you already defined there because as we speak there is fighting going on inside kandahar city district. so taliban are not moving from rural areas to urban warfare and that the afghan forces are now fighting the total. city outskirts the american soldiers who remain in afghanistan are part of a u.s. led nato mission foreign troops from dozens of other nations for the 1st time outnumber the americans nato trains the afghan security forces and relies heavily on the u.s. military for intelligence and logistics nato says it will decide on its future in

afghanistan in february a former afghan military chief warns of dire consequences and not only for afghanistan if all countries decide to pull out and 5 years time if the democracy the iraqi gained newly gained very fragile democracy is not supported then it will break or it will go into pieces the current 2 will be turned back and towards we had in the ninety's now then what happens you will have explored every day in london and frankfurt and bonn and washington and a role model whatever street you think nato secretary general jens stoltenberg says the alliance may pay a heavy price if there is a hasty and uncoordinated withdrawal he fears of ghana stand could again become

a place from where international armed groups could organize attacks on the united states and its allies the taliban has welcomed this abrupt drawdown of american troops because it brings it closer to its main goal a complete 4 into a withdrawal security has been rapidly deteriorating across the country and even here in kabul explosions and targeted assassinations have become daily events afghans see their country in a downward spiral and some are more than happy to be rid of us troops. americans must leave the prisons is meaningless the reason is that americans were not able to bring security in afghanistan in 17 years and were not able to bring peace to the afghan people. but others see problems ahead. we're going towards more difficulties and we're getting more concerned and all the

people especially the young are asking the u.s. to continue their support the troops at least some to stay in afghanistan. now all eyes are on the next u.s. president joe biden who has suggested he wants to keep a small military presence in afghanistan in which case america's longest war will become even longer filioque country for a couple. australia is urging tech giant google to focus on paying for news content instead of blocking it this fall is reports australian news websites are not showing up on google search engine google and facebook are among tech companies fighting against the government's plan to force them to pay for news content australian says sits plans will save jobs on struggling news publishing platforms or let's speak to mark a storm about this is the federal president of australia's media union and he's via skype from sydney very good to have you with us on al-jazeera marcus so google is

saying that its bra king of some size in australia is simply an experiment to measure the impact of news do you buy that what do you think is the real purpose of this try this experiment. will most media observers in a strike take that with a pinch of salt and really say this is google flexing a bit of muscle during these negotiations google is such that the current proposal for government is unworkable and will be on sale to people who use a search engine however they seem to really be very reluctant to enter into a process where there will be arbitration and they can be forced to contribute money to news organizations to carry their content on their new sites right the legislation being considered in australia would force big tech firms to pay australian news outlets a content which appears on their platform that $1.00 of google's arguments is that they'd already supports news media business and that therefore it shouldn't have to

pay what's your response to that and how would money race or making tech companies pay for news content actually help media companies in australia who google and facebook now have an effective monopoly of the distribution of online news in a strike there and in many other markets the amount of money that they've given back as we say they were welcome but it's it's a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of money that is being driven out of that the thais ing from news organizations which was used to sustain journalism into high school and so what this is seeking to remedy is for some of that money to go back to news organizations. part of the problem is not biz no guarantee that money will go with journalism that's one of the concerns that we have as a union but the competition commission in a straight here is seeking to redress the balance between effective monopolies and

strong news organizations right at but as you know google has has withdrawn services entirely in countries like spain for instance because of regulations and this of course raises broader questions about the power of these tech companies i think we've arrived at a point now where they're too powerful and that they're the ones regulating civil society when it should be the other way around well you know this is what we're facing is that tech companies big tech companies seem to be regulating what goes on in civil society suspending people from the networks and rather than civil society being out to regulate what happens on the on the tech giants what a strike is trying to do to get around that is whereas in spain. good who just suspended their entire google spain news tat if that was to happen here and google was still distributing. astray in news or as they were in spain on spanish news google operating he could still caught up to $10000000.00 fine for those breached

so that's one way that goes around but it is something that we need to face up to as a society these organizations to be do they have much power and how can we effect of lee regulate big take when they operate across jurisdictions thank you marcus for talking to us about this marcus strong is the federal president of australia's media union joining us there from sydney thank you for your time thanks for having me on. and google says it's closed a deal to buy fitness trucking company fitbit for $2100000000.00 it's pushing ahead with the acquisition in spite of an ongoing u.s. justice department investigation regulators are looking into whether the acquisition would harm competition and consumers will says it's buying fitbit to compete with the apple watch and others if it be test $29000000.00 active users by us prosecutors are saying that some riots as well stormed the capitol building

last week intended to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona asked for this man jacob chancing to be arrested they details of an invest an f.b.i. investigation into him it reveals he warned in a note for u.s. vice president mike pence it's only a matter of time justice is coming jon's these lawyers say he doesn't feel at fault and has asks for a presidential pardon a black man shot in the back by police in the u.s. state of wisconsin last year has given his 1st interview since the incident jacob blake who was resisting arrest told a.b.c. that he had been preparing to surrender once he put his knife in his car his left paralyzed after being shot 7 times in the back the officer involved has not been charged and said he feared blake would stab him in his interview old weeks of protests in the city of can osha and other others across the u.s. that time i wasn't thinking clearly you were thinking what you get the knife into

the car you're going to feel so much so to the ground you know put my arms where are my back because if they did there and they killed me there everybody was babies or a babies so i have to stop shoot me. you love you better work i thought it was going to be. thought it was going to be the last thing i say that oh thank god it was. a u.s. born noir living in hong kong has maintained his innocence after his arrest last week us china constanta on descents in hong kong john clancy and dozens of others were detained over their involvement in last year's unofficial primary election they are accused of planning to paralyze a government and subvert state power john clancy became the 1st foreigner to be detained under this controversial national security. i don't think of the anything wrong that merits time in prison. but will have to wait to see what the courts say

there's a mention to others that the courts will have a big decision to make on the one hand we have all these basic rights. including the right to the markets the were voting for you expression built into the basic law and on the other hand we have this new national security law told by the national people's congress the courts and the judges and ultimately will how to the saw you know which takes precedence and which is stronger the u.s. has added chinese smartphone maker shalmi to its economic blacklist washington says shalmi and 8 other companies have links to the chinese military and u.s. investors have until november to divest their stakes or face penalties the company has become the world's 3rd largest smartphone maker benefiting from a previous blacklist of wa wait mexico's attorney general says charges will not be placed on his former defense minister accused of drug trafficking in the united

states salvatore's he and fragos was arrested in los angeles in october but the u.s. let him return to mexico to be investigated washington has accused him of conspiring to produce and distribute illegal drugs but mexico's attorney general says you have it instils never met criminal organizations no promise to protect them. has stationed more than 2000 police and soldiers along its border with honduras a group of migrants is heading its way helping to make it to the u.s. and for a warmer welcome under the biden administration john heilemann has a story. a couple of 100 people gathered in some pedro sula honduras in the early hours of thursday morning to start their journey to an improbable destination the united states. it's a far cry from the thousands in the caravans of 201819 who hoped that by sheer

force of numbers they could make it to their promise land. but the last one didn't get further than guatemala and this time to the country is deploying security forces and demanding code vitesse from anyone wanting to cross the capital and you only bring up papers supposedly what they've asked us to bring they asked for the covert 19 test and have all the paperwork in order even if they make it further up the route the mits computers equally tough i so want to try a tool. the answer for many is that they're desperate after a double whammy of tropical storms in november many people have been left with next to nothing but a middle up on the 1st the pandemic then the 2 downpours that left us in crisis and i think that because my child is disabled we can get through if god wants a story they may also hope that incoming u.s. president joe biden will be more sympathetic to them than donald trump but biden's team is reportedly already wary of encouraging any rush on the border the many of

these people the trip will surely end where it began back in honduras john home and al-jazeera. far so siberia are experiencing their longest cold spell in 14 years temperatures in the region dipped below minus 40 degrees celsius more than a month ago and similar weather is expected until the end of january this week the macquarie could fall below minus 50 and schools have been closed until the weather warms up again. the air flow again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera a powerful earthquake on the indonesian island us in a way she has killed at least 35 people thousands more have been forced to flee their homes rescue operations are underway to stay for people trapped in collapsed buildings including a hospital jessica washington has this update from to caught it.