al-jazeera. every week. now. 2000000 people dead worldwide from covert 19 as infections continue to rise and countries rush to war live vaccines. i'm not matheson this is all it is the real life from doha also coming up the u.s. president elect joe biden unveils his covert 1000 vaccine plan to speed up inoculations and promises to improve on what he calls donald trump's dismal failure . the ugandan military surrounds the house of presidential challenger bobby wine

who rejects results which give the company away most of vanity and only leave. the dutch government resigns after a child care benefits scandal thousands of families have been falsely accused of defrauding the state. well the world has reached another tragic milestone in the fight against corona virus 2000000 people are now known to have died after contracting 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. which the heart wrenching as though the coffin. plate 2000000 lives behind the steady numbers and names and faces the smile now. the seats whatever at the dinner table the ruled that the silence of

a loved one. sadly the deadly impact of the pandemic as been made worse but yes of the global efforts in the memory of those 2000000 souls the world must think we try to debate that so that 80 brazil's causing particular concern average daily cases are up by 44 percent in the past 2 weeks as 2 new variations of the viruses spread rapidly in parts of the country like on a zone a state hospitals a 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 the city one of the most challenging operation a 1st ever undertaken by our country but you have my word who manage the hell out of this. but as i said last night we need funding from common congress to make this happen and i'm optimistic the u.s.

health watchdog says it expects nearly 100000 more deaths in the next 3 weeks and the signs of these county alone officials say the virus is killing one person every 8 minutes l.a. has been the epicenter of the latest surge in the u.s. patients are waiting hours for beds to become available in intensive care units hospitals have delayed surgeries which are non-life threatening rob reynolds has more from los angeles. 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 code at 19 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 offload 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 and now there are a couple of hopeful signs for one today in dodger stadium a big baseball stadium the largest that 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 other potential good news at least modest good news because comes from data about hospitalization rates and case numbers both of which are down slightly the case number is may have plateaued and that may mean doctors and epidemiologists 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 meanwhile as i mentioned the situation in hospitals in brazil is getting worse one of the you not camp has the latest from rio de janeiro. when i was is much poorer than religion and some fall and there it's not only a lot of places in the hospital or places to bury dead the problem there in my mouth is the lack of oxygen so patients are dying because they're not breathing and we're talking about co had 19 patients but we're also talking about 61 babies that were premature babies that are into baiters and the government has said that it has guaranteed for oxygen for those to keep those babies in integrators for another 48 hours so it's a very very dramatic situation and 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. something fuzzier we're always doing what we have to do the problem in manassas 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 there on monday and provided oxygen but truth is that the federal government did not do everything and. it's true that the government of the state of mind 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 the government. then we went back on his idea so people were taking that measures they should know social distancing and that sort of thing but it's also true that the president of brazil more that a bad example from the start he's always. me and. will

not be going back so it's not very clear the message that he's been sending brazilians and we must remember that vaccination yet start and it's not very organized. ok let's not turn to the political fallout of the violence storming of the u.s. capitol last week in which 5 people died house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for the prosecution of any members of congress who may have helped supporters of donald trump if in fact it is found that members of congress were accomplices to this insurrection if they aided and abetted the prime there may have to be actions taken beyond a congress and in terms of prosecution the mayor of washington d.c. says the city will have to adjust to what is calling the new normal security there is going to stay ties to joe biden's inauguration the f.b.i.

has identified 270 suspects linked to the attack on the capital leading to the death of 5 people or than 80 people have already been charged over the violence let's talk to mike hanna he's joining us from washington d.c. mike if things weren't so on but enough about this incident the fact that nancy pelosi is now suggesting that there are rumors that there are members of congress who good be linked to what happened on capitol hill. well indeed yes the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the sergeant at arms of the senate and of the house asking them to investigate the visitor's log the day before the siege took place at the capitol the allegation is that some lawmakers republicans hosted a large number of tours of trump's supporters on the day before the violence took place now the lawmakers have now asked the sergeant at arms to investigate this and

find out whether there was a direct collusion between these lawmakers who invited the groups into the capitol also remembering too that all tours are banned at the moment because of covert regulations also that lawmakers are asking about why some republican lawmakers still insist on carrying guns into the chamber at least one as attempted to bring her gun into the chamber and said publicly that she insists it is her right to do so she and other lawmakers have also refused to pass through the magnetometers that have been erected outside the house chamber so certainly great concern among lawmakers about the security situation within the capitol itself and clearly a very different atmosphere in washington d.c. particularly in the run up to the inauguration with these words from the mayor of washington d.c. muriel bowser warning that this is as he's calling it the new normal.

indeed yes well the security arrangements in d.c. in recent days are absolutely unprecedented and hearing there from the mail to the district that these arrangements may continue after the inauguration now in the latest move the governor of virginia has just announced that all the bridges from virginia into downtown washington d.c. will be closed for 48 hours over the inauguration period now these are 4 major bridges over the potomac river absolutely crucial to the free flow of traffic they will be shut for 48 hours to both vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic just another sign of how intense the security is into this period leading to the inauguration and potentially beyond thanks very much indeed mike that's mike hanna talking to us from washington d.c. still ahead on al-jazeera dozens are dead and hundreds more injured after

a powerful earthquake topples buildings in the indonesian islands. and what's up dinies privacy changes amid a growing backlash from users. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways more snow to come to japan particularly i don't you can see why the center of the storm generally speaking we're still talking about low temps has been not severely so for almost all of china certainly the korean peninsula is colder than usual but really about 4 degrees below average might see a bit of snow and so on i think on sunday but be mostly focused on the other side the water in hong shooter or current or what cloud there is in the far western side of china will give no more than a few breaks of snow in you now for example but temperature wise you're only 17 in

hong kong could be better. big showers still warm the slowly around the south china sea this town is falling back into northern borneo and across the central philippines flash flooding seems likely from these the same is also possible in sort of y.c. but to the west things are much quieter than they were all the way down through southern thailand toward singapore and over sumatra shells are nothing like as big nor is frequent as they were and we got seasonal right and proper seasonal rain in sri lanka and parts of the south of india otherwise it's dry there's extensive fog in the northern plains of indian across in pakistan nothing much is going to move in the next day or so of course in the cities like delhi that also means smog. sponsored poll qatar airways. second episode of the series exposed the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of terror and i said it's a mexican government a little told the traffickers we have to produce the boy is

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a cold war era law to help boost the production of facts in its. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has suggested that any lawmakers fun to be accomplices in the capitol hill riots will be prosecuted many democrats are voiced concern that some republicans may have helped the rioters. ugandan presidential challenger bobby wine has told al jazeera that his life is in danger after security forces surrounded his home their rivals soon after the pop star turned politician claimed victory in the presidential election that's despite early results that show him trailing behind president yoweri museveni catherine 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 whites played in the presidential election electoral

commission has asked him to back up his claims with evidence. having survived association attempts on the campaign trail. i know we find it still we're being attacked. so yes. if. military officials say the soldiers are around one's home we're following suspicious unknown men who jumped over his fence they're 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 president yoweri 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 so

al jazeera kampala. the dutch government's resigned over the child benefit scandal that drove thousands of families to financial ruin fun and some are caught and his cabinet will stay on in a caretaker capacity until elections in march the parliamentary report blamed them for mismanaging of child care subsidies which saw around $10000.00 families accused of fraud many were targeted based on their ethnicity and forced to pay back tens of thousands of euros. which is it as if 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 childcare 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 in. 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 texel 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 any 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. says he will still run for a 4th term during the march election angering some families and has more from under saddam. 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 had 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 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 this 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 they've been delayed because of negotiations between party fatah and his rivals hamas the palestinian factions are aiming to build a united front against israel it will come has more from ramallah. it's not the 1st presidential decree setting elections in palestine but it could lead the way for the 1st elections that's 20052006 they palestinian president's party fatah and hamas have been meeting over the past few months and they say that they

want to come back the exterior no dangers reciprocally after the u.s. has released its mideast peace plan and they say that they only have themselves in this regional situation where many arab countries who are 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 moved the embassy to jerusalem force they don't expect their americans to backtrack on that but they hope that they can open the american consulate 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 always the new u.s. an administration that is coming up just in a few days but if you ask many palestinians on the street they are skeptic and 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. a powerful earthquake on the indonesian island was slow as it has killed at least 40000 people and injured 600 a magnitude 6.2 earthquake left thousands forced out of their homes in the cities unless any on the margin authorities are warning of potential aftershocks are indonesia correspondent jessica washington reports. on the indonesian island of pseudo a.c 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 djoko doto says every effort will be made to get to those in need so i. invite an aa 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 margin 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 to washington al-jazeera jakarta. one of the most powerful interest groups in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy the national rifle association of america insists its in its strongest financial condition in years the gun rights group plans to move its headquarters from new york state to texas because of what it calls toxic politics in unspent comes months after that state's attorney general sued the n.r.a. over claims of corruption and misspending by top executives. the messaging platform whatsapp has postponed planned changes to its terms because of a backlash from users what's up had given customers until next month to accept an

update about the data it shares with its owner facebook it's now scrapped the deadline boasts more than 2000000000 users concerns about the changes had led to a surge in demand for rivals signal and telegram along murphy is the technology reporter for the daily telegraph newspaper she's joining us now from san francisco thank you very much indeed for being with us if i understand correctly wash up what's up already does share some data with 3rd parties including i think some subsidiaries of facebook why are people so angry this time. yeah it's been a really interesting story of this week that's been a lot of misinformation about be up to date that was actually passed and so. what's up is actually updated how he talked to businesses on what happens here a few maybe you're buying something from a shark or a retailer wants to interact with you kind of like a chap what are the what. they might be sharing back information with thanks.

and they wanted to let people know that bats what the change was i'm offering to everyone out and that led people to look into what actually is being shad's whatsapp and actually does check quotes about information that has been doing so for about 4 years so it's interesting that this week is when. it sounds from what you're saying that this is essentially a breakdown in communication as much as anything off as much as anything else if it is limited to contacts that people have with businesses right that's exactly the case and if you know what's happening is the gold standard you have a pretty see in terms of you know it doesn't check quite enough information there are many other messaging apps well if you if you really care about where your information is going you can choose to use them and maybe they have less functionality but they're sharing less intimation with subsidiaries or being used talking advertising but in this case actually this time around was happening was

just updates on people to a very small part to best service chains and there's nothing changing at outrageous cherry if it's anything to do conservation army or friends. that i remember from what site 1st came on the scene that one of the elements that it was touting was the fact that its calls were secure its communications were secure i understand of course in the context of what the context of what you're saying but how much damage has this done to what sites credibility amongst its customers. yeah i completely have when what came out right many people dominated it it was actually owned by facebook then facebook subsequently bought and that's when things started to change and that's why i think for a long time prigs said to be very cautious about using whatsapp if you care about privacy because terms and conditions change over time it's a private company and it's about to do you wouldn't want. the damage is that we were really seeing people now migrating off into telegram signal which will pretty

face and i don't know whether there'll be a group at uni thing that might be stopping it is if we establish that you get one signal to iran. it's not as good as what's happened that might make people think well you know i i promised mation and. the other thing in contact you have you or anyone else who. you know other people have and that it will be interesting to see how it plays out i understand that the partners signal is having some technical problems because the volume of people who are switching over from what's up to signal that which is an interesting knock on effect from that how difficult is it going to be as you were talking about for whatsapp to try to as you put it call back people from signal when they have when clearly people's greatest concern is the level of security that they have and in their messaging and in their calls. yeah it's going to be a really tough job for them because if what i mean by facebook facebook is having

if they did that backlash the public content happy of masaka bag they years we've been concerned about privacy we have a cambridge analytical scandal and this is kind of feels like the marinol and they're going to have to have. some kind of campaign to reassure people that their information is a and b. anything not being made in my house as you mentioned signal is having problems at my end ignored the donation and it would not off and i don't have the funding and that's going to the white house and it's thinking great maybe it's functionality you can offer at and. private nation really good to talk about this marty murphy the technology reporter for the daily telegraph thank you very much indeed and. hong kong's internet domain firm says it will reject any new web sites it believes could incite illegal acts sunda beijing's new national

security law and comes less than a day after an internet service provider admitted it had complied with the government's request to block access to a website run by pro-democracy activists authorities have conducted a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent weeks internet access is widely censored in mainland china but have been mostly free and home call. this is all just here these are the top stories 2000000 people have now died globally from covert 19 the world health organization chief says people are failing to break the chains of coronavirus transmission to government and community levels . the brazilian army has transported desperately needed oxygen supplies to amazon the state after hospitals treating coronavirus patients started running out to newly identified variants of the virus are contributing to the sharp rise of cases

in the area u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his plan to inoculate 100000000 people within his 1st 100 days in office.