of our programs. documentaries. subscribe to eugene forward slash al-jazeera english 'd. this is al-jazeera. they're on the clock this is the news hour life and coming up in the next 60 minutes a grim milestone 2000000 people have now died from the corona virus outbreak across the world. house speaker nancy pelosi says the added security measures in and around the capitol following last week's attempted insurrection will not change the nature of president elect joe biden's inauguration. pop star turned presidential candidate be one says you go into the military as entities let alone all the hard

times of fraud and votes in the election. at least 34 people are dead and hundreds injured after a powerful earthquake on interviews you see no way to. i'm damn an ass with this for what doubts are raised over whether today a european championships can be held safely across 12 cities and new zealand's open city f.c. pull out of the face for club world cup in qatar because if travel restrictions. so we begin this news with breaking news 2000000 people have now died globally from code 19 the world health organization chief says people of failing to break chains of coronavirus transmission at community and household levels earlier farms are europe africa and the americas are seeing spikes in cases with multiple factors driving transmission risk this is because we are collectively not succeeding at

breaking the chains of transmission and the community level always in households we need to close the gap between in turn tend implementation of the country and individual level because at present there is immense pressure on hospitals and health workers well you and 30 general and turning to terrorise has repeated his calls for global solidarity is global covert 19 the death toll passes 2000000 or wall that's reached the heart wrenching milestone the covered 1000 pandemic has not claimed 2000000 lives behind the staggering numbers and names and faces the smile now only a memory the seats whatever and yet the table the room that echoes with the silence of a loved one sadly the death of impact of the pandemic has been made worse by the absence of a global coordinating their efforts in the memory of those 2000000 souls the world

must direct we try to break the story that 80 now is the time safe effective in vaccines are being rolled out and the many supporting countries that what we like is the largest globally musician effort in history we have to meet it's to making sure that vaccines are seen as global public goods people's vaccines. yes requires full funding for the excess to cover $1000.00 accelerator and its cover facility which is there making vaccines available and affordable to all. well brazil's army has send oxygen supplies to amazonas state after a surge of infections left hospitals they're short of supplies will get the latest on the situation from monaco given rio de janeiro in brazil 1st let's go live to regret awls in los angeles united states in dire straits in the u.s. county of los angeles believe that one in 3 people have can contract it cave in 1001 person every 8 minutes is dying across the country right.

that's right and with more than 380000 deaths since the pandemic began the united states certainly has a disproportionate share of the major fatalities. of that 2000000 figure that that has just been announced a world wide here in los angeles county which is really one of the epicenters of covert 19 in the united states at the moment more than 13000 people have died and there have been a total of 975000 positive cases of coronavirus just yesterday thursday 17000 new cases here in los angeles county according to the county department of health of these deaths are disproportionately occurring in the latino and black communities are also just reportedly occurring in areas geographical

areas that are characterized by higher levels of poverty so it is by far not and certainly not an evenly spread. wave of death and suffering in this part of the united states and that's true really across the country as well there is some modestly hopeful news however the numbers indicate that the. case rates have begun to plateau hospitalizations have declined slightly this is an indication that the post winter holiday surge may not turn out to be as severe as some public health officials here in california had feared and warned against still there are 21000 people in the hospital with covert 19 being treated right now in the state of california 4800 of them in intensive care

this shortage of bad medical workers and the health care systems as well it is close to collapse is creating enormous problems. we're hearing from doctors and nurses in hospitals in this area that indeed they are buckling under the strain they're overworked they're over. all right so about that we've lost our connection with reynolds let's tell you what we do we go straightaway over to brazil to rio de janeiro monaco and a cubit joins us now from that morning we were talking about how the army in brazil has sent austin supplies i mean is in a state tell us more about that and more about the situation generally well yes oxygen has been sent but it's not enough the situation is dramatic and amazon on a stage there to the point that what they're doing is they're flying out patients

patients that can be flown out of around 200 more than over 200 among them 60 premature babies because it's there's no oxygen at all anywhere so doctors can treat people at home at hospitals anywhere and there's they're starting to get try to get oxygen from other parts but basically what they're trying to do also is move people away to try to make the situation less dramatic in my mouse at this moment now we have to remember that next sunday. the brazilian equivalent to the f.d.a. the regulatory agency called visa is going to decide which vaccines can be used in brazil brazil has yet is the 2nd hottest. second country with the most amount of co bit 19 related deaths after the united states there are more than 20207000 dead but the vaccination campaign has yet to start. and.

this new variant of the virus that is coming to brazil it's been detected in the state capital of the now sometimes as it seems if it's a lot more contagious. yes yes there's those new strain which has that's why the situation has escalated dramatically since like in 2 days basically. a city or a state that had no place very then then there were there were no places inside the hospitals to treat the sick and now there's no oxygen so why because people are consuming the double mound of oxygen that they were before and there's no production available for them or mortify so that's only on a given ridge you know thanks very much andy. indonesia has begun administering the

chinese made products you known as corona vikas part of a massive inoculation effort against covert 900 applies to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march next year tory gave me has this report. sent to lizzie ana is a health worker in bali she's come to this clinic to receive the chinese made corona that jab i have attached and some of the money i had up at s.s. i trust everything to the government rather than stressing over it the government has guaranteed it to say for us the president has been vaccinated as well as bali as governor i just have to get on with it into these he was one of the 1st countries outside china to approve the vaccine developed by pharmaceutical firms sign it back health officials said human trials showed its efficacy was 65 percent but that figure has come under scrutiny from regulators brazilian scientists say the latest data shows its efficacy is only 50 percent health workers here say they're not worried. about one that works in i don't know who's

a take to get the vaccine there was already a recommendation from the government there's no need to be afraid in my opinion just do what the government recommended indonesia is prioritizing health workers and public officials in the 1st stage of its vaccine rollout hospital administrators say safe take up has been good. yesterday we vaccinated 28 people today there were another 28 people registered and they all came to be vaccinated it shows there is a huge desire to be protected from the corona virus at this community center in tango rang near the capital jakarta people say the vaccine rollout has brought a glimmer of hope i'm only going to be somewhat tangoed hopefully the vaccine can break the chain of the covert 19 virus so that the pandemic will end soon because there have been so many victims in our country. the plan is to inoculate 180000000 people by march next year the equivalent of 2 thirds of the population and

hopefully southeast asia's worst outbreak of the coronavirus victoria gayton be al-jazeera. china is building according to an facility that can hold up to 3000 patients in anticipation of a spike in infections ahead of the new year china has largely contained for the spread of corona virus but resurgence in cases has raised concerns and the 1st death an 8 months was reported in a province where most of the new infections have emerged the country's health commission says more than 1000 people are currently being treated for covert 926 of them are in serious condition what health minister of health ministers have expressed severe concern after pfizer announced its temporarily reducing deliveries of its vaccine across all of europe it said shipments would be affected in till early february as it seeks new regulatory approvals for its manufacturing processes the european commission president has said that pfizer has guaranteed the delivery

of all doses ordered for the 1st quarter of this year but speak to dr julian tang who's a clinical for all ages at the university of leicester joins us live from leicester by skype to time welcome to the program 2000000 people dead from corona virus did you imagine one year ago that this is how it would be. well know that this is a new virus to which no one really has any meaning to see and deficit would go into the winter season where these were specially processed traditionally peak personally we get fully vaccinated for we go into the peak of the flu season and it can be current a virus vaccine have come out rather late so if you put all of that together the winter season that belowdecks anation indoor crowding that comes with the winter season this type of peak in mortality more but if he's probably not that surprising and also most of the operators them are immune about 80 percent of populations are

closer to bill and the vaccine is not wrote up very widely yet so this delay in the face of rollout in europe. is also worried right to what degree is who is it to worry what bothers you about it. well if you might in the virus incubation period like $5.00 to $7.00 days with a generation time of street to 7 days so in that delay to say middle of therapy say one months you can have at least 4 or 5 incubating pre's for the virus actually spread and if there are 0 numbers between one and 2 so for every single case you have you might generate one to 2 others but it's how the vaccine rose out you're going to have a lot more cases 2 that are spreading the virus during the vaccination program than you have now and that's a result in more cases more hospitalizations and more deaths and folks in across europe and a lot more cases means a lot more possibility of variance our view. yes fires variance always arise with great reputations so if you have more hours replication across different

host different populations you will get more chances of the new variants arising as the virus attacks the human population is we more likely to be attacked it's more transmissible but less lethal normally the duration says that the world is not doing enough who's to blame or the scientists have done their bit in there they've made these vaccines so we point the finger at the governments that individuals well i think people are forgetting that in the in the northern hemisphere that the cold winter season people spend more time indoors so we naturally see a peak of especially virus infections during the winter season so this current surge in cases across northern hemisphere countries in particular is probably not that surprising and this is a seasonal variation that we live with the flu but this is new to us to cuba 19 and think it when the when the pandemic started in the northern hemisphere countries outside of china just coming out of the winter season back in january for be last

year so it may not be that surprising to see the situation now and it may not be anyone's fault in particular it is good news indeed is now so where can we look for optimism you know how long will it take for the vaccine rollout to have some kind of effect that can change things and can restore some kind of normality. it's going to take several months to get you have to vaccinate people and even have the wonders it takes $2.00 to $3.00 weeks to see that immunity protection kick in so you're looking at least again like 3 or 4 incubation period before you get any effective immunity to the virus to block for the transmission so far so i suspect things will get worse taking europe where that roll outs delayed. before it gets better dr julian tang appreciate your expertise thanks very much indeed for that thank you. so africa has delayed the start of the school year as it battles to contain the spread of a more contagious strain of corona virus or 30 say they want to prevent schools

becoming transmission sensis it's been reporting almost 20000 new cases a day for the past week and more than more than 35000 people have died from the virus that is the highest toll on the continent. well hundreds of thousands of hindu worshippers have gathered in the indian city of hardwell for one of the world's largest religious events it is going ahead despite the country recording more than $10000000.00 coronavirus cases and there is concern whether the city's medical facilities can handle what's to come and is withdrawn and reports not. before sunrise on the 1st day of the festival hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims congregate on the banks of the ganges river in the northern city of haifa . as well as offering prayers people immerse themselves in the river and the belief that it will wash away their sins. everyone because of the gun.

and all of the problems of. the 3 month festival is going ahead despite the coronavirus. this country is a hindu country the majority is hindu so even the government needs to show some flexibility when it comes to our religious festivals and. the events organizers and police said the deployed thousands of officers to ensure. was a followed. that really we are. all are welcome in the please come be offered prayers but follow the covert protocols where mosques use sanitizers. few seem to be listening at the command and other end to festivals and via this week millions of people are expected to visit. the state with the. tourism director said the event will revive the economy that depends on religious tourism. but the state's high court has criticised the local government for allowing the event to go

ahead it said medical facilities are insufficient and the state isn't prepared for what it calls an explosion of this is his elizabeth al-jazeera. or probably most of the head on the news hour including the pentagon confirms there's been a further reduction in. u.s. troops in both afghanistan and iraq for feeling a promise made by president donald trump. the dutch government resigns every child care scandal that wrongly accused thousands of parents. they don't support coming up to despite coronavirus concerns cameroon gets ready to host football's african nations african nations championship general have that story it's for. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called for just over the last week storming of the capitol building speaking to the media she announced a review of capitol security she also raised the potential of charges for any

members of congress who aided the see. if in fact that members of congress were accomplices to this interaction if they. are the prime there may have to be actions taken by congress. in terms of prosecution well security is being ramped up ahead of the inauguration of president elect joe biden in 5 days the mayor of washington d.c. is lot of public safety campaign all of this is made new allegations that some of the capitol rioters intended to capture and assassinate elected officials meanwhile palosi avoided questions on when she would send donald trump 2nd impeachment article to the senate for trial or i will get the latest on the security situation from castro who's standing by outside the capitol will go to hide in just a moment 1st let's go live to alan fischer at the white house. nancy pelosi really

laying out the concern that there is at the capitol for what's went on and announcing the launch of investigation. what we saw the video of congressman taking people who could well have been involved in what happened on wednesday around the capitol complex pointing over various doors certainly there were plans of the building online with one congresswoman who is actually tweeting out where nancy pelosi was during the right when people were actually in the building and so the question has persisted what happens to people who may have aided and abetted will nancy pelosi making it very clear that there could be consequences outside the senate so not just being kicked out of there or being sanctioned or censured but actually some criminal proceedings certainly had in the last hour or so from the f.b.i. that they're investigating 37 people in connection with the death of the capitol policeman who died during the riot and also a number of arrests continue to be made clearly security is

a concern that is why nancy pelosi is a known as the former general well head of fool security review and on top of that we have the inspector generals of a number of departments homeland security interior defense and no also the department of justice carrying an internal investigations to see where the flaws were because it's clear there were flaws which is why security is being stepped up so dramatically over the last 72 hours or so ahead of the inauguration why large parts of washington d.c. and essentially turning into the green zone in kabul and baghdad where you need your id to get an you need to have a reason to be here and that is going to continue all the way through until thursday morning after the inauguration and all the while president trump in his last days in office he's reported now to be planning to depart to make his exit from the white house on inauguration day itself. well i suspect there were a number of plans in place one person suggested to me that he was planning to head

to florida on tuesday to be on the golf course on wednesday when joe biden was taking the oath of office that may well have been discussed it may well have been pointed out that it wouldn't look terribly good or respectful to the united states in general so no that is reporting from the associated press that he intends to leave on wednesday morning he will take his last flight on air force one he will leave joint base andrews just to save washington d.c. there will be a small farewell ceremony and then he will head to florida to his estate to la go where no doubt he will watch the inauguration on t.v. also in the last 24 at last few hours we've had reporting from the new york times confirmed by the white house that there was a phone call between mike pence and come in the hottest. she was congratulated on a victory by the vice president and offered to systems ahead of inauguration day just remember mike pence will actually be at the inauguration ceremony in the last 24 hours or so apparent that a bank a trump will not be there she's decided that it would be inappropriate for children

of the president to be there when he is not that hasn't stopped with stop the children of presidents in the past but remember also holds the post of senior adviser says she also will not be at the capitol but we know who will be coming the hottest joe biden and also mike pence. or unintelligible out of the fish with the word of. your post who joins us know in washington they so how do you know we were listening earlier to what he was laying out the security plans for the days leading up to the inauguration. but i can tell you that from firsthand experience that this capitol behind me is on lockdown not one not 2 but 3 layers of security to reach the point where i'm standing now and you're seeing those national guard troops pouring in by the minute incrementing their presence there supposed to be 20000 of them here by wednesday

when joe biden is inaugurated this is a lockdown of the nation's capital city that has never been seen before in u.s. history we're talking about kilometers from this central point where life has come to a standstill these streets would normally be teeming not only with traffic but with tourists with legislative staff going about their business while all of that is gone now only those with credential can get to this point and it's like a ghost town you just see these soldiers the barbed wire of course all standing to barricade that building which of course was the scene of that violent riot just a week ago now these fortifications are of course impeding daily life in the district with the mayor saying that and also the secret service that just gave

a brief saying that vehicles coming in and out of the city may be subject to search those who certainly come within any. near miss in proximity to the capital will be expected to be searched people or vehicles not even allowed at all but only foot traffic in some parts and this is coming as there continues to be fallout and head scratching as to. how this riot took place last week when the f.b.i. had put out intelligence bulletins morning that such action may happen and the newest reporting from the washington post and new york times that the vice president mike pence who was in the side of the senate chambers it was 14 minutes before he was evacuated after the 1st occurred so many questions about why it took so long and in fact those rioters came nearly within eyesight of the vice president before he was whisked away now 37 people are being investigated by the f.b.i.

also for the murder of the police officer who died one of the 5 deaths that resulted from that violence or hardly thinks of how did you capture that in washington d.c. you know u.s. troop levels in iraq and afghanistan have been cut to the lowest level in nearly 2 decades now $2500.00 troops in each country that's down from more than 4500 in afghanistan and about 3000 in iraq the united states had already reduces numbers in afghanistan from 14000 last year after a deal was made to the taliban at the height of the war with iraq more than 125000 u.s. troops were deployed well there were 100000 in afghanistan in 2011 speak to a chorus want to go he joins us live from the pentagon so. these draw downs have been talked about but what's been the response. well i think there's a bit of confusion 1st of all just put in the context this is highly unusual that

an outgoing president would make such a sweeping decision when it comes to foreign policy but donald trump said president donald trump said he wanted to make this reduction and he bragged about it in a statement yesterday the problem is congress said no in the bill they passed that funded the military they said the military was not allowed to use any money to reduce the level below $4000.00 there were 2 exemptions to that the president could give it a waiver or they couldn't give these reports to congress and then they could do the drawdown well apparently the pentagon went ahead and did the drawdown people here telling me look this is in the works for weeks and months and it just the bill just passed in the beginning of january so is already in the works they didn't get the presidential waiver they did the drawdown then they got the waiver last night so they're going to be questions about that in the coming days but the pentagon making it official that if you total up the number of u.s. troops in iraq or afghanistan that's about $5004.00 times as many are at the united

states capitol right now our party thanks for the public. funding and. still ahead here on al-jazeera we look at what's next for wiki pedia as the internet encyclopedia turns 20. and a french driver when the record extending 14 dakar rally on a day every shadowed by tragedy but that will generate support. for. the last few showers or like to show up i think on saturday somewhere across the middle or saudi arabia but then all eyes probably need to look north because of east and med is follow showers again stormy weather really it's snow for turkey snow for the higher parts of syria and eventually even iraq by the time we get to sunday beirut catches it with the onshore wind frequent share very windy i suspect

near gale winds on sunday the temperatures aren't affected much she's just going to feel pretty cold and frequently sherry there will be some flash flooding here the picture for sunday's for the system eastwards will be rain or snow depending on your hard to see level as i said in syria northern iraq whatever else remains quiet and that's true for almost all of iran until at least the start of monday. when you know it's been pretty wet recently in southern africa particularly in the movie it looks like cape town's temperatures back down to normal now and you're in the sunshine was a breeze coming off the sea the most the time $23.00 degrees pretty heavy showers seemed likely further east and south africa post missiles will catch them and then much of the heavy stuff goes off shore but every day we will get showers in the tank and across the border i think concerns a sudden mozambique later in the weekend.

you're. watching out there are in mind of our top stories this hour and $2000000.00 people have now died globally from coburg night all to health organization chief says people are failing to break change of coronavirus transmission of government and a community level. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called for just to save her last week storming of the capitol building she's announced a security review and the potential of charges or for any members of congress who aided. the u.s. says it has met its goal of reducing its number of troops in afghanistan and iraq to 2500 that's despite congress passing new measures to to go prohibiting the move

that was promised by donald trump. had been set for palestine's 1st election since 2006 a vote on the legislative body will be held on may 22nd with presidential elections being held on june the 31st that's after they were delayed amid negotiations between hamas and the current president mahmoud abbas let's join you to abraham who's life for us a i would like to go to needy abraham in ramallah but said we can't right now because we just lost our connection with her and we will try to get her back and a little while in the meantime. let's go to uganda where the ugandan opposition leader but we whine says the military has raided his home after he claimed victory in the presidential elections official figures show the pop star turned politician training the incumbent where the most of any wind has rejected the results and made claims of election irregularities in various interference when i spoke with by phone it is him and he gave his take on what had happened with the military.

and they jumped over the busy. complete. the people. now my wife and i. have come. to the people.

well catherine soi spoke with the deputy military spokesman compiler and he accused of lying i think splaying twice soldiers and that his. moby wayne as a presidential candidate is a not. a person is not a no they're not a person we have to ensure that we monitor his a security how to make sure we ensure that he's a safe until the declaration because all of them are still candidates. doing to working with the police we're providing security it's even a one thing why didn't they incidental that happen to us talking with the 2 to jumping to his fans it is not a true what happened out of the 3 people who moved from. approaching his compound the 3 people when they reached under they really mean 3 unknown people. they realize that these are 3 civilians and not to the security when they realize

that they are security because he's a home which is also along the road and these deployments are longer those are all of their deployments to ensure that as a presidential candidate also is safe they realize some people coming to point to buckle i designed a decided to jump over there were. doing this compound thank you go to by the vigilance of our security one of them was arrested on the 2 of them ran away so we have heard all of types of allegations unfortunately some from leaders and we are getting used to eat and what is important for us is to make sure we put the facts obeah the passenger who jumped over his compound was arrested on these are available he would have turned his story if he was security we would not to be saying that we know this person. what we're going to do the good connection with ramallah and that story of the day it's being said the president's 1st election since 2006 that said try our connection with it for him who's in ramallah and you

know i think you can hear is now. tell us more about the significance of. it's not the 1st presidential decree setting and actions in palestine but it could lead the way for the 1st election since 20052006 they have palestinian president support team. and hemis have been meeting over the past few months and they say that they want to come back thanks there are no dangers specifically after the u.s. has released its mideast peace plan and they say that they only have themselves in the this regional situation where many arab countries for specifically have signed agreement deals with israel and let's not forget that we are looking now at a new u.s. administration and palestinians have been trying to mend relations they say that this administration can backtrack some of the trump administration's movements and they move the embassy to jerusalem force they don't expect their merican still

backtrack on that but they hope that they can open. it america and consulates in east jerusalem as well as restoring the aid to the palestinian authority as well as the law so these could be seen as that's the kind of mend relations way they knew us an administration that is coming up just in a few days but if you ask many palestinians on the street they are skeptical we've talked to many of them about the potential possibility of holding our elections in palestine and they will tell you we believe it or anyone happens they did things about saying glad the convention held need able to him that in ramallah thank you. at least 40 people are dead and 600 injured after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the indonesian island it's in the words thousands in the cities of my jean and my mood you are displaced i don't or it is a warning of potential aftershocks or in the media correspondent just to washington as this. on the indonesian island of pseudo ac

a massive search and rescue effort is underway a $6.00 magnitude earthquake in the early hours of friday morning struck at a depth of just 10 kilometers the cities of marginalia mahmoud you have been hardest hit with many buildings being severely damaged. search teams found this young girl trapped under the debris of a house but she says her name is angel and she isn't sure how many people are still under the rubble and. she's told she will be ok. the earthquake and aftershocks triggered landslides blocking roads and making it difficult for more rescue teams to gain access to the affected cities president joke overdose says every effort will be made to get to those in need. are 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 if these

a small communities magine is home to just 150000 people and at least 15000 of them have now been displaced authorities warn there may be more destruction. the buildings were hit by 2 quakes and at least 28 aftershocks and because the epicenter is near the beach there's a possibility of underwater landslides so that's why the stills and i mean potential. to hospital collapsed in the disaster and local media report at least 4 people were trapped beneath the debris the air traffic control tower at the nearby . airport was also damaged communications are being restored and military personnel and additional search and rescue workers are attempting to reach the area just in washington al jazeera jakarta. the dutch government has collapsed over child care subsidies scandal that had a devastating impact on thousands of families the prime minister margaret and his

capital have quit after a report blame them for mismanaging the subsidies thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud some were forced into bankruptcy or will remain in office in a caretaker capacity into the elections already scheduled for march so fast and has more now from amsterdam. this walk of shame so to speak is seen as merely symbolic here by many even including the parents who have become victims of this huge scandal in which prime minister mark curtis sad the government did not protect its citizens many mistakes have been made in many things have gone horribly wrong so he is taking responsibility the cabinet is taking responsibility but they will all stay on except for one minister of economic affairs who has actually resigned but the government will stay on to take care of course of this serious grown up and make and in the next weeks 9 weeks there will be an election and prime minister marketa will run again and there were many questions about this during the press

conference he held after he announced that the cabinet has resigned and many were asking him why are you not taking individual responsibility you were the prime minister for the last 10 years many of these years these this candle happened when the tax office was hunting down tens of thousands of the tram elise wrongly accusing them of fraud racially profiling them discriminating them because of where they're coming from their double nationality so there's a lot of questions being asked why is the prime minister rather not feeling personally responsible and he said that he didn't have the individual responsibility as a minister and he wants the voters to decide in march russia says it's withdrawing from the open skies military treaty which was meant to build trust between russia and the west because in effect since 20023 countries surveillance flights over each other's territory the u.s. withdrew last year accusing russia of violations moscow rejects that and says it's

leaving because of a lack of progress. north korea has unveiled what it says a new submarine launched ballistic missiles there appeared during a parade marking the end of the country's largest political convention the display of military strength has been seen as a message to the united states and its incoming president joe biden from abroad reports now from seoul. it's coming after a rare congress of the ruling party and before a gathering of its supreme people's assembly this was north korea on tour 8 its leader kim jong un has admitted his country faces extreme economic problems in part because of isolation from the global pandemic but the densely packed ranks of soldiers were another illustration of his country's claims of being coronavirus free. and that it remains a potent nuclear armed state showing off the kind of military hardware that it has

largely hidden away during the recent years of summit diplomacy. the secret path we are following will lead our socialist korea to be more powerful and prosperous. the star attraction what is claimed to be a new type of submarine launched by listing with south possibly a direct challenge to the incoming administration of u.s. president joe biden the question for many analysts is whether north korea might be tempted to show the potential of such new weapons with a return to provoke a missile testing if north korea leadership is so corner it and so frustrated and then we cannot rule out the possibility that north korea will take all wrong path at least say at the beginning of the biden or the ministry of sharon mainly in order to get attention from washington to restart negotiations with the united states in recent speeches kim jong un has made it clear he intends to push ahead

with further development of his. i know that doesn't necessarily put him on a collision course with the us i will return to the acrimonious relations of the past but it does confirm compilation would be needed but the recent period of face to face miles is officially i was promised bride al-jazeera so. friday marks 20 years since the volunteer produced internet encyclopedia pedia was found that website is the 7th most popular worldwide and aims to spend the next 20 is further expanding free access to information we compete it was founded in 2001 by the american british entrepreneur jimmy wales it is now available in 309 languages so let's explore this secret of success with jim anderson who's c.e.o. of social flow which is a tech company which helps me to companies distribute social content he joins us

from new york jim say $5500000000.00 schools 1700000000 visits months what is behind this well it's a remarkable achievement if you think about it and it has an all volunteer army effectively of editors who constantly that the english language the language version i saw had about 230000 editors i'm not sure what that number is globally but it's remarkable that sort of a shared sense of purpose and mission can mobilize that many people to donate their time and expertise to trying to create what they like to call a repository of the world's knowledge but there is this achilles' heel is no they said it facility in the ability to to write well absolute nonsense. you know it's interesting i do use the analogy i mean in many ways wiki pedia is nothing like a social network like that like facebook right i mean they're completely different purposes and you wouldn't think there's really any commonality other than maybe they're both on the internet but if you think about it both of them are built on the backs of user generated content right some user who is not an employee of the

organization creates content and puts it out there that's what happens on facebook that's what happens on twitter that's what happens on wikipedia now what happens from there is very different in the purpose is very different but they both suffer that common challenge that if i am somebody either who is a malicious actor and i'm intentionally trying to mislead or distort or i just legitimately have a different view of things i upload that well then what happens and how do you moderate how do you sort of not stifle free and fair debate but also not leave whether to hate speech or just outright you know in correct your facts and lies that's a real challenge regardless of whether you're facebook or your wikipedia right of course it is the fact that it is not actually speech form but like many other social platforms but it is she's a project to build an encyclopedia which is kind of a kin to the moral virtuous aspirations of the original designers of the internet. well you're right it is not a free speech platform so it's not you know certainly in the u.s.

there's there's a lot discussed and written about 1st amendment rights and those kinds of things that actually more the government than private companies but you know you're in societies where free speech is prized you know that's clearly not what we get paid is but underpinning that free speech and what people are saying are really important principles right so i go with the u.s. example we just had an election you know there seems to be you know a lot of dispute of the election even though the facts clearly seem to be on the side of well it was a free and fair election there are significant number of people in the 10s of millions who don't seem to believe that that's the case so take that and then translated to wikipedia if you were to write in tree on wikipedia about the 2020 u.s. election what does it say it's that's not a free speech issue that's a fax issue but clearly you know free speech and facts collide at some point what about this this lack of commercialization talked about this is all me evolve into is that make it happen is like a commercialization is that part of its success. it is part of it's excess and i think in some regards it gives it a noble purpose and a noble cause that's not

a sort of clouded by capitalist game and there's nothing wrong it was certainly with the company making a profit there's plenty of companies of mine included you know that seek to do that but you know it does sort of create a higher calling but that again the achilles' heel as you said there is the challenge really of something like that is you end up with a particular stratification of editors one of the comparable complaints and criticisms of the english language editors that 230000 number i mention is there's not enough diversity right it's typically older white men from wealthy countries who have a skew towards technology and and that's just a factual statement in terms of the demographics what about underrepresented minorities what about other perspectives because that also clouds or influence is probably a better word than clouds influences what's covered and the editorial judgments that are made yeah it is very nature was submitted creates a perpetual funding crisis but that is a question for another day doesn't appreciate that thank you very much indeed. thank you. coming up next here on al-jazeera and

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take charge of the team to saturday's a league game against a o'shea. the head of switzerland soccer federation says it's unlikely the delayed european championship can be held across 12 cities as originally planned dominic blong believes it could be held in one country or one major city with enough stadiums for example london banks in no doubt it will be staged with no fans and says it would be a financial catastrophe if it was canceled altogether after being pushed back a year the us set to starts on june 11th the fifa club world cup is coming up in qatar next month but new zealand's oakland city f.c. they won't be there that's because they've pulled out because of quarantine measures required by the new zealand all sora taze the tournament which involves all continental club champions will be played across as 3 of the 2022 world cup stadiums or clinton's withdrawal means the 1st round has been dropped but otherwise the format's unchanged the african nations championship starts in cameroon on

saturday despite a current a virus concerns safety measures are in place with a limited number of fans and loud inside stadiums david stokes reports. it's the start of what set to be a huge 12 months for football in cameroon next year the country will host the continent's flagship international tournament the cup of nations and this week the african nations championship is kicking off a 16 country event for players who feature in their domestic leagues 19 meant the tournament was delayed by 9 months. due to covert football was stopped not only in cameroon but all over the world organizing this tournament is a good thing for africa and the world even if there are restrictions stadiums can be a 25 percent capacity during the group stages and hopefully 50 percent for the knockout rounds. visiting teams it's a chance to play top level football at

a time when many african leagues face delays and disruption even you'd call being a team in life need to point. when you impose it the way so that people get the hope because people are affected by 2 peaks one medical and 2nd one mentality so we need to play and get mental and all that woodward being played gives the hope to people to not be studious and mentally disturbed cameroon was meant to house the last cup of nations but egypt had to step in due to delays in stadium construction hundreds of millions of dollars is being spent readying the 6 venues that will host the event when it arrives in the west african nation next january you know the army is the op and we've seen it with other countries especially with born in the quarter again when there was the difficult missions on the invested millions and millions of dollars in the rectum facilities which turned out to be white elephant projects in the short term cameroon stadiums will be busy as the country becomes a focal point for international football in africa david stokes al-jazeera.

the german doctor who masa minded an international blood doping ring has been sentenced sentenced to 95 years in prison. dozens of athletes i have a is many in the winter sports and cycling blood doping aims to base the number of red blood cells which then allows the body to transport more oxygen for increasing stamina and performance schmidt's not allowed to practice as adults have history is and has been fined $191000.00 england and manchester united's record goalscorer wayne rooney has announced his retirement from football after being named manager of darby county the former striker joined as a player in january last year but he hasn't played for them since november that was when he took temporary charge of the club after they sacked phillip cocky he's now been given the role on a permanent basis signing a 2 and a half year deal. my future i feel as

a management. about the. journey in. my career as a player hopefully i can start now. right to history and i was successful. managerial changes in american football as well with the new york jets set to appoint the 1st muslim head coach in the n.f.l. robert salah has agreed a deal in principle to take charge of the jets he spent the past 4 seasons as defensive coordinator at the san francisco 49 ers and he helped them to the super bowl last year with the number 2 ranked defense will replace adam gates who was fired at the beginning of the months french minister fun a pet to hansal as one a record extending 14 dakar rally title 55 wrote his name is mr jack our very appropriate nickname finished ahead of an ass alex here in the overall standings

after friday's and final stage victory came 30 years after his 1st that one was on a motorcycle back in 1991 he's now in the car category 8 times and the motorbike category 6 times but the victory was overshadowed by the news earlier in the day of the death of 52 year old motorbike right up here chapin the frenchman was placed in a medically induced coma after a crash 5 days ago he passed away while being transferred by plane from jeddah to france he's the 3rd rider to die in the rally in the last 2 years. australia's cricketers are off to a solid start in the 4th test against india and brazil been they won the toss and batted on day one but they didn't have all their own way of 1st steve smith he was the 3rd batsman to fall before the hosts reached 100 but the day belonged to monosyllabic shane at the aussie number 3 hitting his 5th test century he was eventually out for 108 with the australians 2 $174.00 for 5 at the close of play.

and england trying to buy 185 runs in the 1st test off today to captain jerry rigged it was 168 knots out as the how to side to 325 fall away from the failed england's management say that unconcerned but remain vigilant off to to scoff at the hosts house tested positive for corona virus to be zealand where britain's america's cup sailing team has come roaring back into full team and he also led by lynn picture on pm is that bangs they lost all 6 of their races in the december regatta but it was a different story on friday when they won the opening 2 races of the challenger series there's still plenty of racing left but the overall winner of the series were on the right so facing team new zealand for the main america's cup in march the n.b.a. has fined brooklyn nets god kyrie irving a $50000.00 for violating the league's coded 19 protocols went to a party last weekend and was filmed without

a mosque while he was that he hasn't played since january the 5th that but he will be allowed to rejoin his team on saturday as if he continues to test negative now as a former heavyweight boxing champion a george foreman is no stranger to jabs and this is him getting his cave at 19 vaccination in texas foreman one the heavyweight title twice but perhaps his most famous for losing the rumble in the jungle fight against the hamad ali 72 now he wants others to follow him in getting the vaccine because. i don't want to we're going out for good maybe 7 fool or i won't do a great run you know that's. it was very very good you would always do this no be right this is no go have a member who is moving. out here to my mind. and that's all yes well for now i'll be back with more later carol see you later thanks very much abbi for that but as if they do use our buffalo. are

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well like don't give up aerospace engineer deanna trujillo talks to al-jazeera. the number of people killed by the coronavirus around the world passes 2000000 as brazil's aff forced to live as emergency oxygen to amazonas state where hospitals are overwhelmed by a new surge in co the cases. i know i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program. lloyd everywhere. after claiming victory in thursday's election.