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power investigates least 6 links on al-jazeera. india launches its covert 1000 vaccination campaign one of the biggest and most complicated in the world. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to you bill also coming up u.s. president elect joe biden unveiled his vaccine plan and promises to improve on what he calls donald trump's to small failure. as search for survivors after a powerful earthquake in indonesia dozens are dead and the toll is expected to rise
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and on hold what sop postpones privacy changes that prompted many users to abandon the messaging service for it's my voice. thank you very much for joining us india has begun its vaccination campaign one of the biggest and most challenging in the world on saturday 300000 people are set to receive the region to receive jobs nationwide with health care workers given priority india is using to vaccines the oxford x. stores seneca vaccine and a locally developed one called call backs in india has a 2nd highest case count in the world after the us. great johnny. those who need the vaccine the most will get it 1st those who face the greatest risk of infection they will be vaccinated 1st are doctors nurses hospital sanitation staff medical and paramedical workers have the 1st right on the vaccine
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whether they are in government hospitals or a private one will be given priority. after that those who have the responsibility to manage essential services defense and law and order will be vaccinated these include our defense forces police firefighters and sanitation workers let's find out more about how this is all being rolled out and speak to correspondent in new delhi this is a huge task in a nation that 6 of the global population so where exactly are the medical authorities. telephony medical authorities as we heard from parliament in the morning very much stuff in health care workers we are one of the 3006 vaccination sites around the country where those 300000 health care workers will be getting back in today where one of the 81 vaccination sides in the capital delhi will seen health care workers mining for by destroying
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behind me to receive one of the 2 vaccines which have been a food by india's drugs regulatory body and then go into the area that's been set aside enough to get the facts and then taken away for 30 minutes observation and as the from hearing from prime minister modi if you go into the inoculation drive by talking to addressing those vaccinations sides of the country health care workers are given the priority and after that we see how the frontline work a sanitation me felice disaster management and then people all over the age of 50 followed by people on to the age of the she went to you it is a mammoth task but india does have a lot of experience with mass vaccination. has the world's largest immunization program where 56000000 infants and pregnant women are not related every we ever because of the sheer increase in scale from 56000000 to hundreds of millions every
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year the fact that this is a new virus new vaccines. vaccinated adults is a vaccination babies and taj country has been conducting mock drills for weeks now to test the systems on any issues and make sure that this process goes as smoothly as possible and was soon reaction is in india to it taking a bit of a risk like russia and china and using a vaccine that hasn't impeded phase 3 trials. there are a lot of questions about why india's bronze and regulatory body gave approval for the locally made a company bought it text vaccine call call vaccine why that was in a way instead of helping with that that was rushed through because it hasn't finished its face. that the problem now the regular body instead of its. use is only in emergency situations i think it is health minister said that it will
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be minister this on the clinical trial conditions but health experts independent health experts say. that it's not clear what that means and while the government you know stresses this isn't the most the situation that the. strain from the u.k. that there are cases of bash in india and also they say that they have group safety and efficacy das have for a father expected again and the president's health experts say that the doctor that matters most is not out yet because the trials haven't been completed and that's what the final movie should be based on thank you very much for that elizabeth run and reporting there live from new delhi. in the u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his cone of ice plan promising to boost surprise of the vaccine he wants 100000000 doses given out within his 1st 100 days in office and biden says he'll invoke a cold war if necessary to help increase production at name reports from wilmington
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delaware and her reaction each day used to bring tears for nurse melissa miner around the crying has stopped but the stress remains she hopes getting vaccinated will ensure she and her family don't get coded 19 again and 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 covert 19 doesn't discriminate but it has hit our communities so hard and we have to we have to start to build that trust so that we can get back to living the lives and once lived. in new york city on to the nation's coded 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
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challenges the c.d.c. has released a report warning that vaccination efforts are critical to holding 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 a 1st ever undertaken by our country but you have my word who will manage the hell out of this operation we need funding from congress to make this happen. as
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the united states approaches 400000 coronavirus deaths the biden transition team announced come next week the troubled ministrations operation warps speed will be no more the incoming president will be announcing a new name for the country's pandemic response program. going to. wilmington delaware in other world news the death toll from indonesia's powerful earthquake or in some no way sea island has gone up to 45 and that figure is expected to rise rescue teams are still searching for survivors after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck on friday another aftershock hit the island on saturday morning dozens of people remain trapped in collapsed buildings more than 600 people have been injured so far that's getting updates from jessica washington live from jakarta jessica so what's the latest on the safe for survivors.
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of folly as you mentioned that confirmed death toll has now risen to 45 across the city. we know that 800 people injured and 15000 people have displaced there are 100 search and rescue officials from the national search and rescue team on the ground attempting to assist residents in these affected areas they're also being assisted by the military by the ministry of health and by police we know that authorities just recently installed a satellite phone at the governor's house that should aid efforts. over this recovery process they have also been able to restore 60 percent of eligible city to west still the way see these are complicated circumstances for rescue teams how of into these adults have experience with disaster coordination ofter events such as these we've also heard from the military that they do have a ship on the way to these affected areas with 30 tons of essential supplies
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including food supplies for children and the help. only on medical supplies there is also a medical team on board that vessel as well of course some residents say they are still waiting for supplies but. as possible with the difficult circumstances of dealing with the rain with roadblocks caused by landslides and of course there is a further warning in place for the potential for more off the shocks jessica thank you for that update jessica washington live there in jakarta uganda's electoral commission is set to announce the results of a presidential and parliamentary polls in the coming hours early results in the presidential vote showing combin show where he was 70 in the lead with at least 65 percent of the vote his main challenger bobby wine claims the election has been rigged and he's told all just there that his life is in danger after security forces surrounded his home catherine sawyer reports from kampala. shoes john against the soldiers deployed around his home he says they raided the house on
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friday beat up the security guards and arrested some this was after he made allegations of widespread food treat in the presidential election the electoral commission has aust him his claims with evidence. i know we find it 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
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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 was 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
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local human rights groups say the electoral process is already tainted but the electoral commission maintains that everything has been free and fair catherine saw al jazeera kampala. at least 29 people have died in afghanistan in a series of attacks a day after the u.s. announced a troop reduction in the country a car bomb at kabul university killed at least 2 members of the local police and late on friday authorities in gori an inherent province say taliban fighters killed at least 13 members of the security forces there also reports of an ongoing attack on a police face in demand kandahar. still ahead on al-jazeera not waiting for immigration reform in the u.s. house some undocumented migrants forced to leave are finding thriving kerry is in mexico for us libya's children head back to their classrooms 10 months after they close because of the coffee 19 and every illegal.
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everywhere in central eastern europe and just beyond in russia is exceedingly color the moment you may be not surprised to see that moscow is covered in snow but something like 35 cent visits on the ground felt too quickly to clear a way to make the streets quite clear this is brought on this video shows that anyway now this code has got a lot of clout in it and are dots of low pressure as it's me there's more snow or was stormy weather to come but moscow sits in really cold and minus 14 at best buy they don't i'm honest 25 on sunday not yes these are well below average now it's not going to stay in moscow some it's going to be brought around across the baltic to give 10 pretty pretty poor conditions for poland for the baltic states and that cold weather keep pushing so as to enhance what's already over turkey in the
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eastern med of she's cold air of a warm or a stormy weather the same time coming if the atlantic behind is surprising enough warmer weather 6 degrees in london but on this boundary where you're pushing against the call the significant snow for belgium for the low countries for france eventually spoke and yet more for the northern house already covered in snow but the real stormy weather with wind rain and hail is in the eastern med and levant with snow for turkey. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in the situation he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like you live get
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a back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on al-jazeera. but the back a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera india has begun its coronavirus vaccination campaign one of the largest and most challenging in the world it aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by august stealing the size of the entire us population in one us president elect joe biden has outlined his plan to provide a 100000000 vaccine shots within his 1st 100 days in office he says invoke a cold war law to help boost vaccine production and in other news uganda's
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electoral commission is set to announce the results of the ses elections in the coming hours early results in the presidential vote show incumbent erema 70 in the lead with at least 65 percent of the votes counted his main challenger bobby wine alleges the elections been way. in the u.s. nearly 100 people have been charged in. and close to 300 best occasions opened in connection to last week's deadly capitol hill riot now the house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for the prosecution of any members of congress who may have helped supporters of president donald trump if in fact it is found that members of congress were accomplices to this insurrection if they aided in advantage the crime there may have to be actions taken beyond the congress and in terms of prosecution al-jazeera as mike hanna is in
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washington and has more on the investigations into the capitol hill see each. threat of violence in the days leading up to the inauguration and maybe even beyond certainly very real coding to security officials here in washington d.c. and then see 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 in all makers have sent a letter to the mosque 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 visitors log to see exactly how many supporters were given guided tours of the capitol by your makers in congress they had observed a large number of groups being given to us around the capitol on january the 1st
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remembering at the moment all tours of 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 1st however she hasn't ruled out the possibility of an outside commission such as investigated $911.00 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. one of the most powerful lobby groups in the u.s. has fined for bankruptcy but the national rifle association of america insists its in its strongest financial condition in years the gun rights school plans to move from new york can 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.
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over allegations of corruption and misspending by top executives the n.r.a. has about 5000000 members. mexico has deployed extra soldiers and police so its southern border after thousands of honduran migrants began walking north towards the u.s. mexico's government and others in the region are worried about the migrants spreading coronavirus many in the so-called caravan a trying to escape violence and a lack of opportunities in their home country. already detained hundreds of migrants at its border with hunter s. . now undocumented migrants deported from the u.s. to mexico say they hold the incoming biden administration will bring about comprehensive immigration reform but for a growing number of the so-called dreamers who are returning to mexico the american dream seems just says achievable in their homeland bania rapido reports from mexico city for the little women will pena remembers walking to los vegas strip but that's
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when he lived with family in the batter as an undocumented migrant scared of what seemed like a looming threat of deportation from the u.s. him and made the choice to return to mexico just over a year ago when. leaving the inlet of faith. in the moment. because. trump. all the stops. i've decided to come back to mexico and start again. like thousands of other mexican nationals who return to their country of birth by choice or not a popular starting point is a neighborhood in downtown mexico city known as little l.a. the nickname is a nod to the many deportees who have settled in this part of town this area is also home to many start up businesses that offer employment to deportees often its american companies who draw on the english language skills and genuine knowledge of
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u.s. culture that a majority of deportees possess. someone or one such startup that's always looking for talented in english speakers returning from north of the border is new call me insoles or new beginnings since 2015 the organization has not only helped thousands of returning mexicans get back on their feet but teaches them how to thrive in a country many only know as a distant memory. israel founder of new communes has lived most of his life in texas before being deported says his organization and others like it are getting rid of dated stereotypes and misconceptions about those sent home definitely here we are you know years later what's happening with these people that got deported while many of them are now creating now opportunities for themselves and for others for example the american dream in mexico we have many people from our community that are sending remet insist to the u.s.
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from mexico they're able to provide for their family while they're living here because times have changed their bring in drugs they bring in crime their rapists since the start of the trump administration the white house has pursued more than 400 executive actions related to immigration policies that led to thousands of deportations and voluntary repatriations to mexico. for one man to it and for many others like him however the solidarity of this tiny community in the. the mexican capital has brought new opportunities even though. it's tough as well. we have a better life here in mexico than the united states when it is not a low al-jazeera mexico city dates 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 have been delayed because of negotiations between abbas his party fatah and its rival hamas the palestinian
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factions are aiming to build a united front against israel need to abraham 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 those 20052006 they palestinian president's party. and hemis 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 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
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they've 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 that 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 skeptical 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 that only when happens. schools in libya reopening after being closed for nearly a year because of the pandemic. strain i went to see what kind of precautions authorities are putting in place in the capital tripoli. after almost a year children in libya are returning to their classroom administrators at this primary school in tripoli say they are taking safety measures seriously.
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this school year is very different to other years because of coronavirus a thanks to god the measures we have put in place are working very well but some parents say the ministry of education has been slow to provide adequate protection . for children but one is at a different school and he can't start yet. the ministry of education should have been more prepared the school. and a delivery opening the virus spreads very quickly and feel children can bring it back home from school while this school has been given the ok to open its doors others have. some schools are closed we have allocated a budget for every school in order for them to purchase the necessary protection and fix the issues they should receive the funds but some parents are more optimistic than this many. as parents were very happy our kids are back at school
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they went a long time without studying my son has down syndrome says school is very important for his mind to develop and for him to socialise with friends. these children are happy they are back in school with their friends this pool has approximately 600 students separated into 2 groups studying 3 days a week school officials here. inside classroom. although parents have mixed feelings about the government's appropriation for the school year for most of these children who are looking better in the back of the. tripoli. wildfires are sweeping through central a so regions forcing 25000 people to feed from their homes local government officials believe the fires were deliberately lit they've burned through more than 400 hectares of forest and 10 properties in brazil 11 people have been charged
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over a fire at a football club that killed 10 teenagers in 2019 the boys died when a blaze swept through the flamengo training center on the outskirts of rio de janeiro the club's former president is among those charged prosecutors say officials tried to cover up the facts the boys were staying in shipment containers when the fire broke out. now the messaging platform what sop has postponed planned changes to its because of a backlash from uses it had given customers until next month to accept an update about the data it shares with its owner facebook but it's now scrapped the deadline has more than 2000000000 users but concerns about the changes have led to a surge in demand for rivals signal and telegram moggy murphy is the technology reporter for the daily telegraph newspaper she says whatsapp didn't communicate very well with hughes about the planned updates. what's up is actually updated how you talk to businesses and what happens here if you maybe a bind something from
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a shock or retire i want to interact with you kind of like a chapel with but over what. they might share in back information with thanks missed you will that they wanted to let people know that bats what the change was and the through to everyone out and that led people to look into what actually is being shot and what's up and actually don't check quite what information that has been getting snow for about all years so it's interesting that this week is when really when what half assed came out remember people dominated it was actually earned by facebook and facebook subsequently bought and that's when things started to change and that's why i think for a long time pretty 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 seeing people now migrating off into apps like telegrams signal which. will
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prevail and on and on and on whether there'll be a group who got the only thing that might be stopping it is if. the service that you galland signal terrible about it not as good as well thought that might make people think well you know i i promised merit mation and. the other thing in the contacts you have you or anyone who you know other people have. be interesting to see how it plays out. now and the employer again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera india has begun its coronavirus x. nation campaign one of the largest and most challenging in the world it aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by august that's nearly the size of the entire u.s. population health care workers are the 1st in line to receive jobs elizabeth forum has more from new delhi.
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