in lebannon for for. what she was doing it was something brave as a woman algis you know well the town system we have shewn acoa. the beirut spy. rich the heart wrenching bios those. 2000000 people dead worldwide from covert 19 as infections continue to rise and countries rush to roll out vaccines. i'm about to send this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. president elect joe biden unveils his covert 19 vaccine plan to speed up

inoculations and promises to improve what he calls donald trump's dismal failure. ugandan military surrounds the house of presidential challenger bobby wine who rejects results which give the income but your wedding most of any an early lead. the dutch government resigns after a child care benefit scandal thousands of families have been falsely accused of defrauding the state. while the world's reached another tragic milestone in the fight against corona virus 2000000 people are now known to have died after contract in covert 19 just over a year after the pandemic began the united nations secretary general is calling for a joined up approach to save more lives. that's reached the heart wrenching by as though the government has now claimed 2000000 lives. behind the steady numbers and

names and faces the smile now only a memory the seats whatever at the dinner table the room that echoes the silence of a loved one sadly the deadly impact of the pandemic as been made worse but yes of the global you know if you their foods in the memory of those 2000000 souls the world must think we try to debate that so that 80 well brazil is causing particular concern average daily cases there are up by 44 percent in the past 2 weeks as 2 new variations of the virus spread rapidly in parts of the country like amazon the state hospitals are near collapse and they're running out of oxygen and in the us the hardest hit country president elect joe biden has just outlined his vaccination plan he's going to invoke a cold war era law to help boost the production of vaccines now we've got 3 reporters on the story monica you knock you have is in rio de janeiro she's going

to have more on the situation in brazil rob reynolds is in los angeles which has been the epicenter of the latest surge in the u.s. we're going to be speaking to them and a woman 1st let's go to know that natasha are going to name who's in biden's hometown of wilmington delaware natasha i was having a brief look at the plan that joe biden has been outlining for this there is a lot of detail in this plan isn't. oh definitely you probably are looking at the granular details look biden is will be staking his presidency on combat in the vaccine and reviving the economy and he says the 2 are intertwined you cannot revive the economy without combat ing the pandemic he's going to be announcing a national vaccination program what it would mean is community sites across the united states mobile vaccination clinics the ability for americans to go to the pharmacy and get the vaccine it would be free and next in line would be anyone 65

years and older he wants to ensure that people living in marginalised and rural communities are not left behind he also is going to use the defense production act to help deal with the vaccine distribution issue that's plaguing the country right now he'll use that to increase the manufacture of not only vaccines but vaccine supplies and he wants to create a public health workforce that would be 100000 people strong the city one of the most challenging operation if there's ever undertaken by a country but you have my word who manage that. but as i said last night we need funding from common congress to make this happen and i'm optimistic. but it will take office as the nation is struggling to

get its hands on enough vaccine and to get them distributed effectively in new york city the mayor says if the city does not get a significant supply of vaccine it will run out in a week and the c.d.c. warns that a new more contagious variant of the corona virus it's been detected in 10 states and it could create an additional spike in infections and deaths the c.d.c. is saying that in order to combat this new variant and effective vaccination program will be essential to touch i thank you very much indeed natasha going to him talking to us from wilmington in delaware where the u.s. health watchdog says it expects nearly 100000 more deaths in the next 3 weeks and los angeles county alone officials say the virus is killing one person every 8 minutes patients are waiting hours for beds to become available in intensive care units hospitals have delayed surgeries which are known life threatening well rob

runnels is joining us live from los suns of these rob it sounds as though this biden plan really can't come soon enough for the people of los angeles. you're absolutely right rob i mean for weeks now people here have been living in this shadow of tremendous fear and distress knowing that the virus is virtually everywhere the los angeles county health department estimates that one in 3 people in this vast metropolitan area have been infected by coded 19 and the death toll is. terrible it at this point in california there have been 31000 deaths since the pandemic began more than 13000 deaths here where i am in los angeles county and that's of course fran translates into families bereaved

a tremendous grieving tremendous loss tremendous. simply sadness and grief hospitals as you can imagine are really at the breaking point they have been for for weeks now. ambulances have to wait sometimes for hours at a time to. patients get them on the gurneys get them into the hospital emergency room because there's no room in the hospital or the no staff to take care of these people in the emergency dispatch center as people work as supervisors they're dispatching ambulances around the county say they get the calls just keep coming some of times there's 9 or 10 calls waiting on line that means 9 or 10 people who are in in serious distress oxygen. tanks and other. medical items are in short supply here and

people are the health care workers are simply doing whatever they can now there are a couple of hopeful signs for one. day in dodger stadium a big baseball stadium the largest fact mass vaccination center in the united states was opened and they expect to vaccinate 4000 people on friday and ramp up quickly to 12000 people a day and that will help there's also a big vaccination center ope that's opened in a parking lot next to disneyland south of here in 2 huge centers in the san francisco area so the rollout of the vaccine had been slow had been halting a lot of frustration a lot of criticism and that seems to be picking up other potential good news at least modest good news rob is comes from data about hospitalization rates and case numbers both of which are down slightly the case numbers may have plateaued and

that may mean doctors and yep a di meola just and public health officials say that the tremendous surge that had been predicted coming out of the winter holidays may not be as bad as as they had feared rob rob thanks very much indeed rob runnels talking to us from los angeles well meanwhile things as i mentioned in brazil on getting worse want to connect kansas joining us now from a b addition into the numbers coming out of brazil are very very disturbing we mentioned earlier the average case danny cases up by 44 percent in the last 2 weeks that are 2 new variations of the virus spreading just talk us through what the situation is like there. well i'm right now in rio de janeiro and read there's an error and some follow have very high. and i'm talking about. private hospitals almost what

made the headlines and what caught the attention of the world was my mouse when i was is much poorer than religion and some and there it's not only a lot of places in the hospital or places to bury the dead the problem here is that there. is the lack of oxygen so patients are dying because they're not breathing and we're talking about 19 patients but we're also talking about 61 babies that were premature babies there are. and the government has said that it has guaranteed for oxygen for those to keep those babies and integrators for another 48 hours very very dramatic situation. but as president. today talked about what he did he says he did everything he can and let's hear what he has to say. as of the fuzzier we're always doing what we have to do the problem is terrible but

we've done our part by providing resources and means today the armed forces have launched a field hospital that the health minister was then on monday and provided oxygen. and so it would but the truth is that the federal government did not do everything but it's true that the government of out the state of my knowledge was to blame in a sense that it did try to shut down commerce before but public pressure to keep things open was so great that governor bush back then he went back on his ideas so people were taking measures they should know social distancing and that sort of thing but it's also true that the president of brazil was a bad example from the start he's always. said that. that will not fit the facts so it's not very clear the message that he's spending his

billions and we must remember that vaccination has yet to start and it's not very organized. rob will bring us up to date with this covered 1000 situation in brazil that's money can you not give from rio de janeiro. still ahead on al-jazeera the holland capitol hill writer is arrested and new details emerge about what the white house and all around from lawmakers. dozens are dead and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake topples buildings on the indonesian island of slow wasting. there's a big winter storm revolving over the midwest of the u.s. and the back edge of it's got strong winds of course damage already in montana so if you had these winds with the snow whipping through and further south you get

blizzard conditions so the big circulating storm moving generally in that direction in the midwest so there's an example for you to mourn friday's like to be in this it conditions the windies it's still snowing on saturday and it stays cold time that a minus 7 i think by sunday night a few showers still around all snow as it rolls eastwards most of those going to go across the great lakes briefly given a covering i think in many of the states and go off and give most is covering on the canadian side of the border leaving cold behind in cold remains the story there is some change in the pacific seaboard that began winding low will eventually bring rain down through washington doesn't don't need the rain washing or indeed in oregon and snow for the cascades and other branches other parts of the rockies but for the southeast dry and some california that means wind warnings yes far as a still in the mind further south throughout the caribbean it remains quiet i think will sit in crease in the shower likelihood in honduras and guatemala at least on

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they want to go to 0 reminder about top stories this hour 2000000 have now died globally from covert 19 the world health organization chief says people are failing to break the chains of coronavirus transmission of government and community levels . president elect joe biden's outlined his plan to inoculate a 100000000 people within his 1st 100 days in office is going to invoke a cold war era law to help boost the production of vaccines. the brazilian army is transported desperately needed oxygen supplies imus on the stage after hospitals treating coronavirus patients started running out to newly identified variants of the virus or contributing to the sharp rise in infections. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for the prosecution of any members of congress who helped trump supporters who stormed the capitol last week if in fact

it is found that members of congress. accomplices to this interaction if they aided and abetted the crime there may have to be actions taken beyond the pounders and in terms of prosecution meanwhile the mayor of washington d.c. says the city's going to have to adjust to a new normal security there is going to stay tight after joe biden's inauguration the f.b.i. has identified 270 suspects linked to the attack on the capital leading to the deaths of 5 people more than 80 people have already been charged over the violence or mike hanna is joining us now from washington d.c. in the past night night where we've been covering inaugurations there's usually by this point some sort of spirit of cheer and some degree of optimism that at least changes in the air but the words coming from nancy pelosi and from the mayor of washington d.c. very very serious. yes indeed

the threat of violence in the days leading up to the inauguration and maybe even beyond certainly very real of coding to security officials here in washington d.c. now you heard nancy pelosi saying that it would be investigated whether some members of congress assisted those who stormed the capitol last wednesday now the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the mass the sergeants of arms of the senate and the house asking for them to investigate how many people were brought into the capitol the day before the siege a by republican lawmakers they want to investigate the visitor's log to see exactly how many of trump's supporters were given guided tours of the capitol by nor makers in congress they had observed a large number of groups being given to us around the capitol on january the 1st

remembering at the moment all banned because of covert regulations so this is of great concern and nancy pelosi has appointed a retired lieutenant general to investigate all the events around january the perth however she hasn't ruled out the possibility of an outside commission such as investigated 911 so certainly there's great concern not only about what is happening now in the threats that are happening now but also exactly how those events last week came about and whether very importantly some members of congress were complicit in terms of assisting those who cedes to the white house on january the 6th to the capitol that is mike thanks very much indeed mike hanna talking to us from washington d.c. . u.s. troop levels in iraq and afghanistan have been cut to their lowest level in nearly 2 decades there are now only 2 and a half 1000 in each country that's done for more than $4500.00 in afghanistan and

about 3000 in iraq the u.s. had already reduced its numbers in afghanistan from 14000 last year to deal with the taliban at the height of the war with iraq more than 125000 u.s. troops were stationed there particle haynes at the pentagon and explains how the government could break the law against the pullback well i think there's a bit of confusion 1st of all just put in the context this is highly unusual 'd 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 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 was in the works for weeks and months and it just the bill just passed in the beginning of january so it's already in the works they didn't get the presidential wavered they did the drawdown then they got the waiver last night so they're going to be questions about that in the coming days ugandan presidential challenger bobi wine as told all dizzy or that his life is in danger to security forces surrounded his home there i've soon after the pop star turned politician claimed victory in the presidential election that's despite the results that show him trailing president yoweri museveni and sawyer reports from kampala. bobby wine shoes journalists the soldiers deployed around his home he says they raided the house on friday beat up the security guards and arrested some this was after he made allegations of widespread voter rigging in the presidential election collector

a commission has asked him to back up his claims with evidence. on the campaign trail. i know being confined at home still we are being attacked. so yes. you have not shown us. military officials say the soldiers around one's home were falling suspicious unknown men who jumped over his fence there arrested one while the other 2 escaped a security we could not allow somebody to jump over the fence of a presidential candidate the presidential candidate is not an ordinary man presidential candidate must be given enough security because we don't know this person who decides instead of using the main gate to jump over the world what are the intentions the intention presidential results are coming out gradually and presidential weigh in with 70 has taken the lead over 10 other presidential

candidates including wine ugandans are also voting for members of parliament the lead up to the election was mad by violence with security forces accused of using excessive force on some kind it is and their supporters police and military officials have in town accused some opposition leaders of encouraging violent protests and defying covered 1000 rules it's also been a huge deployment of security forces here in kampala and other towns we've seen roadblocks set up by police in some parts food patrols by the police and military in areas particularly perceived to be opposition strongholds all this i had of the final declaration of the presidential results these are tough times in uganda some local human rights groups say the electoral process is already tainted but the electoral commission maintains that everything has been free and fair catherine soy al jazeera kampala earlier african affairs commentator joseph channel spoke to us

on the phone from kampala because of the internet blackout he says the crackdown on communications could lead to questions about the results and the credibility. military barracks are appreciate my doubts are the ugandans but. i never knew i would go through a process in an action for he is from the 2nd to last the election and claim that you can to the bush i can tell you that except for being blind are not about. to end up in uganda and indeed you know 1000 sites are. very difficult because. depending on peculation need to be would be nation and vigilant but. that is no reason why people cannot begin to one their want i'm not coming will be and whether or not i do think that profit you can even if you become a fairly mean election which is possible that you can at least it's going to be

very difficult for people to keep the credibility. they have been announced for the 1st palestinian elections in more than 15 years president mahmoud abbas says the legislative and presidential votes will be held in may and june the being delayed because of negotiations between a bus party fatah and his rivals hamas the palestinian factions are aiming to build a united front against israel the dutch government has resigned over the child benefit scandal that drove thousands of families to financial ruin prime minister mark rutte and his cabinet will stay on in a caretaker capacity until elections in march a parliamentary report blamed them for mismanaging a child care subsidies scheme it saw around 10000 families accused of fraud many were targeted based on the ethnicity and forced to pay back tens of thousands of euros which an ancient. we are of one mind that if the whole

system has failed we must all take responsibility and that has led to the conclusion that i have just offered the king the resignation of the entire cabinet and. to the parents affected by the child care allowance of fear i would like to say this we will continue to work for prompt compensation and the improvements that are necessary in the future with friday's decision in the government wants to do justice to those who have been unprecedented lee wrong. and the parliamentary inquiry found families were driven to bankruptcy unemployment or divorce if. i had to pay back 5 years of childcare allowance every year i had to provide data to prove i was really entitle to the money and i did that every time but the texas authorities indicated that i had never provided it the amount of money was almost $40000.00 euros which i had to pay back and that turned out to be unjustified it was terrible because at a certain point you can't pay me bills you can no longer afford anything you get

a wage seizure and you allowances are withheld my bank account was seized i couldn't go shopping or pay regular life costs and even got into more debt. prime minister says he will still run for a 4th time during the march election and that's i'm giving some families step vasant has more 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 the powerful earthquake in the indonesian island of has killed at least 42 people and injured 600 the magnitude 6.2 earthquake left thousands displaced in the cities and was rainy and

mahmoud 2 authorities are warning of potential aftershocks are indonesia correspondent jessica washington reports. on the indonesian island of pseudo e.-c. a massive search and rescue effort is underway a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the early hours of friday morning struck at a depth of just 10 kilometers. says 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 djoko doto says every effort will be made to get to those in need.

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. 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 to

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