company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against least amount which we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future energy. 2000000 people dead worldwide from covert 19 and a highly contagious there it threatens to make matters even worse. so horribly what you want to sterilize my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes u.s. president elect joe biden of bell says covert 900 vaccine plan to speed up

inoculations and promises to improve on what he calls donald trump's dismal failure . also search for survivors continues after a powerful earthquake in indonesia does is a dad of the death toll is expected to rise. on hold what some postpones plans privacy changes that lead to major confusion and saw many use abandon the messaging service for its rivals. bottom to the program 2000000 people around the world are known to have died from contracting covert 19 and despite the rollout of vaccines in the u.s. the death toll is expected to climb dramatically in the coming weeks with a highly contagious variant 1st seed in the u.k. set to become dominant already in los angeles county officials say the virus is killing one person every 8 minutes and as. brunell's reports patients waiting hours

for hospital beds to become available. ambulance crews are the frontline troops in los angeles is battle with covert 19 brutally long hours and the stress of trying to rescue so many sick people has put tremendous strain on emergency medical technicians like 30 year old jennifer muller i work 24 hour shift and we leave station at about 7 o'clock in the morning and we don't get back to about 630 the next morning so it takes a toll on our bodies everyone's exhausted e m t's rarely get a break or even a moment to rest it's a lot on a lot of the times we don't get lunches because they're systemic cars going our hospitals are so overstretched that ambulance crews have to wait for hours to wheel their patients into the emergency room there's simply not enough space not enough staff to take them it's typically like on all hours at the hospital you're where the person to be admitted to get up the gurney. could be waiting anywhere from 2 to

3 hours at ambulance dispatch centers the calls for help just keep coming 30 years and i've never seen kind of. call volume like this with the riots. it was not like this at one time 9 call fittings that's 9 people that are in distress the country's largest mass vaccination center opened friday at dodger stadium in los angeles other large vaccination centers are launching across the state as officials seek to rapidly ramp up what has been a frustratingly slow effort 4000 people will get the vaccines today we hope that's the goal this is just day one the idea of getting to 12 plus 1000 will be significant while hospitals and i.c.u. admissions have begun to decline in california the centers for disease control issued a sobering outlook the new much more transmissible and fast spreading coronavirus

variant 1st discovered in england last year could become the predominant strain in the u.s. by march the agency warned that would lead to more cases overall more deaths and more pressure on the health care systems overworked heroes rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. president elect joe biden has outlined is quite a virus plan promising to boost supplies of the vaccine but he wants 100000000 doses given out within his 1st 100 days in office biden says he'll invoke a cold war even if necessary to help increase production that's actually going to bowl from wilmington in delaware and back each day used to bring tears for coated tree nurse melissa miner brown the crying has stopped but the stress remains she hopes getting vaccinated will ensure she and her family don't get coded 19 again to help eradicate the virus i want to be the one to take

a stand for those communities and educate them on why it's important that we get this vaccine because kovan 1000 it doesn't discriminate but it has hit our communities so hard and we have to we have to start to build that trust thought that we can get. back to living the lives of once lived. in new york city on to the nation's code 19 epicenter the vaccination rollout stalled just as it was revving up barring a significant delivery of vials the city expects to run out of vaccines in a week supply and distribution issues continue to plague the country adding to the challenges the c.d.c. has released a report warning that vaccination efforts are critical to halting the spread of a more contagious variant of the corona virus it's been detected in 10 states and could lead to a spike in infections and deaths president elect joe biden plans to create

a national vaccination program with community sites across the country his goal is to get 100000000 shots into the arms of americans in his 1st 100 days and hire a public health workforce numbering 100000 people he will invoke the defense production act to increase the manufacture of vaccines and personal protection equipment to the city one of the most challenging operation efforts ever undertaken by our country but you have my word who manage the hell out of this. we need funding from congress to make this happen as the united states approaches 400000 coronavirus deaths the biden transition team announced come next week the drop administration's operation warp speed will be no more the incoming president will be announcing a new name for the country's pandemic response program the name l.

just 0 wilmington delaware now if the following need to be stalling all the u.s. capitol building last week house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for the prosecution of anybody because of congress who may have helped supporters of donald trump. if in fact you did stand that members of congress were accomplices to dish insurrection if they aided and abetted the prime there may have to be actions taken beyond a tangle and in terms of pressure occlusion my time there is in washington d.c. and has more of the investigations into the capitol hill siege the threat of violence in the days leading up to the inauguration and maybe even beyond certainly very real according to security officials here in washington d.c. and he palosi saying that it would be investigated whether some members of congress

to those who spoke on the capitol last wednesday now the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the master sergeant 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 by republican lawmakers and they want to investigate the visitors' logs to see exactly how many of come supporters were given guided tours of the capitol by lawmakers in congress they had observed a large number of groups being given tours around the capitol on january the 1st remembering at the moment all tours of banned because of covert regulations so this of great concern and nancy pelosi has appointed a retired lieutenant general to investigate all the events around january the 1st 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 to other news now on the death toll from indonesia's powerful earthquake in some ways yarmouth has gone to 45 and that figure is expected to rise now rescue teams are still searching for survivors after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck on friday dozens of people remain trapped in collapsed buildings but the lack of heavy equipment has been hampering efforts to reach them more than 600 people of being injured so far jessica washington has an update from the capital jakarta. well we have the confirmed death toll with sounds of 42 at this moment 34 dead in the city of moment your age in the city of marginally and more than 826 people injured 15000 people are still displaced in the city of margin

a majority of them are seeking shelter at emergency evacuation shelters established by authorities some of them are still in sports stadiums and some are seeking shelter at all being residents the ministry of health search and rescue officials the military and police are working to assist these communities at least 100 a visual search and rescue workers are on the ground and they're also indonesian and she owes working to assist those communities as well we understand that electricity is being slowly restored to my major which should assist with the recovery effort there is still no electricity up margining however as i'm speaking to you are military vessel is on the way. on them essential supplies to the muslim children and the elderly and health equipment as well 30 tons of supplies on the way to these affected communities a team of medical workers is also on board that vessel which should arrive soon now

in the past 2 days alone there have been 30 cho off the shelves in these communities just this morning there was an obvious shop with a magnitude of 520 kilometers from the center of margin a authorities in indonesia warning of the possibility of further strong arm. fox. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the dutch government resigns after a child benefits scandal and so files of families falsely accused of defrauding the state plus that seems. cutting through the noise the scientists getting creative to tackle vaccine and misinformation. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways

the last few shows in for at the sky over society i think during saturday and then all the focus to significant weather is much further north filling the east and the mediterranean storm system because the cold coming down from above look at this anchor is a class 3 istanbul be about a round about 0 and of course where you have to be towards the youth of the of stormy weather sunder storms with hail or rain or even snow if you've got the height will come all the way i think from northern egypt particularly focusing on lebanon and inland the high ground a lot more snow on sunday and then turkey this blue is rain going trust northern parts of syria and iraq as well overnight on sunday the whole system does move east was leaving clearest guys behind but full of showers it will be windy and sherry in beirut for example and book at jerusalem's high 8 degrees so it's not going to feel particularly nice. proper but warm wet weather is during the middle the summer in

much of southern africa we've seen significant rain recently in the movie in botswana has more to come it looks like a good part of south africa years fairly dry but significant rain seems like in gauteng in the southern part of mozambique and zimbabwe during sunday where the rain is wanted. sponsored by qatar airways as the perseverance space rovers to to land on mars we ask nasser's lead engineer how her journey as an immigrant has influenced her work creativity and resource is incredibly important perseverance as well like don't give our aerospace engineer deanna troi talks to al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to come back dress to our planet on al-jazeera.

talk about the watching al-jazeera of me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories 2000000 people around the world on our dive covert 19 the chief of the world health organization says governments and communities are failing to break the chains of coronavirus transmission. also u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his plan to give out 100000000 vaccines within his 1st 100 days in office he will invoke a new cold war era law to help boost production. and u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has said that any lawmakers found to be accomplices in the capitol hill riot should be prosecuted many democrats are voiced concern that some republicans may have helped rioters. the

brazilian military has brought desperately needed oxygen in a state where supplies are dwindling and hospitals treat incredible as patients. has more 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 that 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 good 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 then 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 governor. then we went back on his idea so people weren't taking measures they should know social distancing and that sort of thing but it's also true that the president of brazil has set a bad example from the start he's always done the mining he said that he himself

that will not take effect so it's not very clear the message 5 that he's sending brazilians and we must remember that vaccination has yet to start and it's not very organized eyes. in the coming. back did to be the world's largest covert 19 immunization campaign concerns about the virus has not stopped thousands of hindu worshippers from attending a religious festival is going ahead despite the country recording more than 10000000 infections elizabeth problem has more from new delhi. 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 this sense. everyone has come here because of the blessings.

and all of the problems of. the 3 months festival is going ahead this year 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 are the deployed thousands of officers to ensure protocols are followed. that really are the you. all are welcome in the fair please come be offered prayers but follow the covert protocols where mosques used sanitizers. few seem to be listening at the command and other end to festivals in india this week millions of people are expected to visit. the state for 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 visitors elizabeth al-jazeera you daddy. now mexico has deployed extra soldiers and police to its southern border after thousands of honduran y. groups began walking north towards the u.s. mexico's government and 10 others in the region are worried about the migrants spreading coronavirus many of the so-called caravan are trying to escape violence and the lack of opportunities in their home country has already detained hundreds of migrants at its border with honduras. the dutch government has resigned over child benefit scandal that drove thousands of families to financial ruin prime minister margaret or this cabinet will stay on in a caretaker capacity until elections in march a parliamentary report blame for mismanaging a child care subsidies scheme 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 well the prime minister says that he'll still run for a 4th term jury in the march election angering some families step bason has more from ups to the. 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 said the government did not protect its citizens many mistakes have been made 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 trammel use 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 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. so we're going to hold the 1st palestinian elections in more than 15 years president mahmoud abbas the legislative and presidential votes will be held in may and june may be delayed because of negotiations between abbas's fatah party and his rivals hamas the

palestinian factions are going to build a united front against israel. ugandan presidential challenger bobby weiners told our jazeera that his life is in danger to security forces surrounded his home they arrive soon after he claimed victory in the presidential election and that's despite early results showing him trailing president yarima 70 catherine soy has more 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 vote in the presidential election electoral commission has asked him to back up his claims with evidence. having survived association on the campaign trail. i know. still we are being attacked. so yes. we have not shown us.

military officials say the soldiers are around one's home we're following 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 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 balance 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 by the electoral commission maintains that everything has been free and fair catherine so al jazeera kampala. one of the most powerful lobby groups in the u.s. as far the bankruptcy protection but the national rifle association of america since then its strongest financial condition in years the gun rights group plans to me. from new york and register as a nonprofit in texas because of what it calls toxic politics the announcement comes

months after new york's attorney general sued the n.r.a. over claims of corruption and misspending by top executives the n.r.a. has about 5000000 members. hong kong's internet domain firms there's little reject any new web sites that believes could incite illegal acts under beijing's new national security law comes after an internet service provider admitted it had complied with a government request to block access to a pro-democracy website or forty's of conducted a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent weeks internet access is widely sensitive medland china but had been mostly free in hong kong the messaging platform what's. planned the changes to its terms because of backlash from users it had given customers until next month to accept an update about the data it shares with its own facebook but has now scrapped the deadline what sun boasts more than 2000000000 users but concerns about the changes have led to

a surge in demand for rival signal and telegram marking murphy is the technology reporter for the daily telegraph newspaper she says what's up didn't communicate very well with users about the planned update. what's up is actually updated how you talk with businesses on what happens here a few maybe a bind something from a shop who are retiring want to interact with you kind of like a chapel with but over what. they might be sharing back information with things. they wanted to let people know the bat's what the change was and africa everyone out and that led people to look into what actually is being shy and what's happened actually don't check quite what information has been doing so for about 4 years so it's interesting that this week is when. when what have left came out when many people dominated it was actually owned by facebook then facebook subsequently bought it and that's when things started to change and that's why i think for

a long time pretty experts have said to be very cautious about and 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 seeing people now migrating off into apps like telegrams signal which often will prevail. and i don't know whether there'll be a group who got at the only thing that might be stopping that is if. the service that you get one signal telegram or ad is not as good as what's that that might make people think well you know i i promise merit mation and. the other thing is the contact you have you any want to go on you know other people have and be interesting to see how it plays out. for the growing number of scientists and medical experts are turning to social media platform to talk to tackle misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. to some of the. when

looking for information about covert vaccines many young people turn to social media and scientists who developed them of their to help often straight from the lab hi everyone apparently ready. this international team put together by the un take top posting videos about their work altering questions to promote confidence in vaccines and doing a bit of singing and dancing to. dr paul mackay on the imperial college vaccine in the u.k. currently in phase 2 trials he's also researching the new code variant while challenging and he backs misinformation to the number one question is politically this is rushed these there is no safety data for this how can you possibly make a vaccine in this so much time so people are concerned that the crops the same safety analyses haven't been done on these vaccines that are done every other 5

scenes and we can assure them that it's exactly the same. rigorous safety analysis is has been done on all of these vaccines. that to al of the lake leigh is another has become an unlikely internet style with her in gauging vaccine explanations putting in 3000000 lights had ticked up video on formulating a vaccine imperial college is a tribute to dolly parton. says. she hopes people watch her videos for the entertainment but stay for the science and she says this way she can connect with the general public and reassure them about the speed at which the vaccine is developed it's ingredients and side effects when i'm talking to people i try to just be really open minded you know people have a whole number of reasons why they might be hesitant to get a vaccine and you know oftentimes lots of really good reasons why they shouldn't get a vaccine i'm really not there to convince people to get a vaccine i want to be there to educate the. and give them the data and you know

educate them about vaccines as opposed to convincing them so i'm there to answer questions i'm not trying to like change somebodies mind but m.t.v. that says are trying to change minds developing an online narrative with 3 key messages that cave in $1000.00 is not dangerous the vaccine is dangerous and vaccine advocates cannot be trusted but this misinformation could cost lives with these scientists injecting the facts into the fore and they hope to stay people towards the truth. you're going to 0 with the whole robin hood of our top news stories $2000000.00 people around the world who died from corona virus the chief of the world health organization says governments and communities are failing to break chains of transmission us president elect joe biden has outlined his plan to give out

a 100000000 vaccines for the 1st 100 days of office he'll evoke a cold war era law to help the.