india launches its covert 1000 vaccination campaign one of the biggest and most complicated in the world as. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back to go also ahead a search for survivors after a powerful earthquake in indonesia dozens are dead and the toll is expected to rise uganda's you to announce election results as presidential candidate bobby wine says the vote was rigged and on hold whatsapp postpones privacy changes that prompted

many users to abandon the messaging service for its rivals. india has begun its tracks in addition campaign one of the biggest and most challenging in the world on saturday 300000 people are set to receive jobs nationwide with health care workers given priority india is using 2 vaccines the oxford astra zeneca vaccine any locally developed one called call vaccine india has the 2nd highest coronavirus case count in the world after the us. 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

whether they are in government hospitals or a private one and they 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. from outside the vaccination center in new delhi. we are at one of 81 vaccination sites in delhi where health care workers at the 1st group of people to be receiving one of the 2 vaccines which was approved for use and 300000 health care workers are being vaccinated around the country today and just over 3000 vaccination centers promised in the. vaccination drive saying that this is the biggest vaccination exercise to be carried out anywhere in the world $30000000.00 front line workers will receive the vaccine in the next few months it will be $300000000.00 people in the 1st 6 months of the. people over the age of 50

followed by those under 50 with. and while the beginning of the vaccination drive is being welcomed and dhea there are questions being asked about one of the vaccines one of the 2 vaccines which has been given approval that is a local vaccine called kovacs and made by a company called bot of biotech and that's because it hasn't completed face 3 trials now the drugs regulatory bodies said its use was approved for emergency conditions and the health minister said that it will be administered under clinical trial conditions but independent health experts are saying that clarity about what that means involve the government says that they have good safety and efficacy data that this is an emergency situation that the new mutant strain of the virus from the u.k. is here again and dependent health experts say that the doctor that mashes from face 3 trials has not been made available. 2000000 people around the world are now

known to have died from contracting kovac 19 and the u.s. house watchdog says it expects nearly 100000 more deaths within the next 3 weeks in a sanjay's county alone officials say the virus is killing one person every 8 minutes and as rob reynolds reports patients are 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 mohler 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. he'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 cause 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 hospitals you're with a patient to be admitted to get up the gurney. would 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 one kind of. call volume like this with the riots it was not like this at one time 9 calls sittings 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 a 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. u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his coronavirus plan promising to boost surprise of the vaccine he wants 100000000 doses given out within his 1st 100 days in office and biden says if needed he invoke a cold war era law to help increase production at tasha go name reports from wilmington delaware where each day used to bring tears for

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 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 of once lived. in new york city on to the nation's cold that 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 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 see 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 operation 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 trouble 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 elders era wilmington delaware. in other world news the death toll from indonesia's powerful earthquake on so no a c. island has increased to 45 and it's 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 are trapped in collapsed buildings more than 600 have been injured jessica washington is in jakarta with an update on the rescue missions. 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 now into these adults have experience with dissolve coordination ofter a vent 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 including food supplies for children and the elderly and 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. it is 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 uganda's

electoral commission is set to announce the results of thursday's vote in the coming hours early results from the presidential election show incumbent erema 70 in the lead with at least 65 percent of the vote his main challenger bobby wine claims the election has been rigged and has told al jazeera that his life is in danger after security forces surrounded his home 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 widespread food trading in the presidential election electoral commission has asked him to back up his claims with evidence. having survived. 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 or 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 joey 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 has 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 soy al jazeera kampala. at least 29 people have died in afghanistan in a series of attacks a car bomb at kabul university killed at least 2 members of the local police and on friday authorities in gori an inherent province say taliban fighters killed at least 13 members of the security forces and in demand kandahar authorities say 4

attackers were killed in a car bomb attack on a police station it all comes a day after the u.s. announced its reducing its presence in the country that 2500 troops. it's still ahead on the program why the national rifle association of america is moving to texas and children and maybe ahead back to their classrooms 10 months after they closed because of the horrific 19 at that. it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored plan qatar airways it has snowed a lot in central europe in the last day or 2 particularly in switzerland and this is year again i know you expect to see snow in zurich in winter but there was $3035.00 centimeters in about 24 hours so it slows anybody down at night when it's your rick is stuck underneath there if i precious estos stopped falling it's now

settled and quite cold most of eastern europe is cold so obvious new prevaricate was just top right hand corner and that cold is spreading down over the wall was the black sea in the measure indian at the same time the atlantic's pushing in the next frontal system so for saturday for today the low countries belgium and france will see substantial amounts of snow behind it temps the slightly higher so london gets to 70 eventually after the snow stops falling but warsaw sits in the potentially really cold bit 3 degrees on saturday as it snows then minus 15 and then a minus 28 not substantially colder than is the average obviously speaking that cold air will try and drift that the south was but probably won't make it it might just eventually warm up but generally cold picture with the most stormy weather as you already know need gene in the eastern med snow for turkey wind rain and thunderstorms to levant cyprus and xandra.

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vaccination campaign one of the largest and most challenging in the world. 300000000 people by august that's nearly the size of the entire u.s. population u.s. president elect joe biden meanwhile has outlined his plan to provide 100000000 vaccine shots within his 1st 100 days now face he says it invoke a cold war law to help those facts in production. and uganda's electoral commission is set to announce the results of thursday's elections in the coming hours early results in the presidential vote show incumbent yoweri must 70 in the lead with at least 65 percent of the vote his main challenger bobby wine and ledges the election has been great. in the u.s. nearly 100 charges have been brought against dozens of people and close to 300 investigations opened in connection to last week's deadly capitol hill riot now 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 and abetted the pan there may have to be actions taken beyond the counter and in terms of pressure occlusion . mike hanna is in washington d.c. and has more on the investigations into the capitol hill see. 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. palosi saying that it would be investigated whether some members of congress those who stormed 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 them

to investigate how many people were brought into the capitol the day before the siege by republican lawmakers 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 $911.00 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. the u.s. government has carried out its 13th and final federal execution under the trumpet ministration best in here igs was executed by lethal injection in indiana he was convicted for the killing of 3 women in 1996 president trump resumed federal executions in july after a 17 year long moratorium no president in more than 120 years has overseen as many federal executions president elect joe biden is an opponent of the federal death penalty now one of the most powerful lobby groups in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy the national rifle association of america 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. over allegations of corruption and misspending by senior executives the n.r.a. has about $5000000.00 members richard feldman is

a former regional political director of the national rifle association and author of rico shea confessions of a gun lobby's he says the changes are unlikely to affect pending court cases in new york. moving into new york perhaps there are about 30 to 30 years too late to have done that. clearly you don't file bankruptcy when you're in a good financial position. they're contradictions. but. perhaps they're hoping that if some positive news they're doing something that has no impact whatsoever on the lawsuits that have been filed against them it only effects proceeding forward once they're dissolved in new york state and they establish themselves in texas would with anything change and only prospect of like chapter 11 reorganization they may be some protections. in there

but again it it's not going to affect the ultimate outcome of what the court is seeking to do in new york state national rifle association probably is missing a fair amount of its own clout that doesn't translate of course to gun owners losing clout there are 7 or 10000000 new gun owners in the united states just in the last year that's a trim that's more new gun owners than there are members of the n.r.a. . but the n.r.a. has had financial difficulties and they've been embroiled in this internal fight for the last 2 or 3 years and it's clearly hurt their ability to function in publicly in the political and legislative arena dates have been announced for the 1st palestinian elections in more than 15 yes president mahmoud abbas says the

legislative and presidential votes will be held in may and july have been delayed because of negotiations between abbas's party fatah and its rival hamas the palestinian factions are aiming to build a united front against this trial. to libya now where schools are 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 like they have this school year is very different to other years because of coronavirus and 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 . has 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 the good school. and i believe the opening the virus spreads very quickly some of them feel children can bring back home from school while this school has been given the ok to open its doors others have. sort of yes some schools are closed we have allocated the budget for every school in order for them to purchase the necessary protection and fix the issues that 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 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 who has approximately 600 students separated into 2 groups studying 3 days

a week school officials here tell us. inside classroom. although parents have mixed feelings about the government's preparation for the school year for most of these children there's nothing better than being back at the. no trainer al-jazeera tripoli. growing number of scientists and medical experts said turning to social media platform take talked to tackle misinformation about corona virus vaccines johnny angela spoke to some of them. 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 i have already had. this international team put together by the un on tip top posting videos about their work 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. go to alabama a cli 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 as a tribute to dolly parton jackson said. 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 its 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 baxi i'm really not there to convince people to get a vaccine i want to be there to educate them 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 empty vaccines are trying to change minds developing an online narrative with 3 key messages that covert $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 forum to steer people to the truth. about is there. the messaging platform whatsapp has postponed planned changes to its terms because of a backlash from users 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 whatsapp has more than 2000000000 users but concerns about the changes have led to a surge in demand for rival signal and telegram margay murphy is the technology reporter for the daily telegraph newspaper she says whatsapp didn't communicate very well with users about the planned updates. 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 chap with but over what. they might be sharing back information with facebook. they wanted to let people know the bats what the change was and africa 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 doing so for about 4 years so it's interesting that this week is when people start to realize what half assed came out when many people downloaded 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 pretty experts have said to be very cautious about using whatsapp if you care about privacy because terms and conditions change all the 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. and i don't know whether their peer group who got the only thing that might be stopping is if. the service that you get one signal telegram or ad is not as good as what's happened that might make people think well you know i i promise marital

better information and. the other thing is the contact you have you any want to go on and ask if you know other people have and be interesting to see how it plays out . i and. her again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines 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 that's nearly the size of the entire u.s. population health care workers are 1st in line to receive jobs and as a random has more from new delhi. it is a mammoth task but india does have a lot of experience with the mask like it has the largest immunization program where $50000000.00 and for instance pregnant women are not related every year ever because of the.