it was something brave as a woman. well to have system. that be rude spy. the u.s. capitol on lockdown ahead of president elect joe biden's inauguration amid fears of possible armed protests against his election victory. and this is all just live from doha also coming up. celebrations as uganda's president yoweri most event he wins a 6th term but his main challenger calls the election results a sham and says there's been widespread fraud. germany's ruling party picks out

a main lash it says its new leader putting him in the running to succeed chancellor angela merkel. when the now it's presumed what emergency supplies of oxygen are being sent to hospitals struggling to deal with a cold the 19 outbreak. the u.s. capitol has been transformed into a fortress 4 days out from the inauguration of president elect joe biden barriers have been set up across washington d.c. thousands of national guard troops have been deployed and roads and bridges are being closed the city is on high alert after f.b.i. warnings of possible violence leading up to biden's swearing in state capitals are also beefing up their security officials are gearing up for possible armed pro trump demonstrations to protest and biden's victory on those in washington d.c. with more on the security measures. washington d.c.

is completely on lockdown on this street here you can see these are big concrete barriers that have been placed here to block any cars they could try to get in that way and then you come over to this side and you can really get a sense of how militarized this city has become here there are national guard troops on each of these corners blocking traffic they're going to be $25000.00 national guard troops here in the city by wednesday there are already over 20000 and as you can see they're blocking off most of the traffic over here as many of the streets in d.c. remain quite frankly very deserted because of all of this security presence of security officials in washington say they are most concerned about a lone wolf domestic terror incident and on friday we're being told by the capitol police that they are arrested a man that came up to a security checkpoint similar to this one that i'm at right now and he had

a fake inauguration credential and he also had a loaded weapon with more than 500 rounds of ammunition it's in these kind of incidents that worry people here so much and that is why washington d.c. sees this unprecedented security presence washington d.c. the capital of the united states very much on lockdown uganda's president as well and he'll do decisively with anyone planning to create chaos following his election victory it would be most of anyone a 6 term in office extending his 35 years in power but his main challenger bobby wian has denounced the election as a complete fraud he's under heavy guard at his home and what supporters say is effectively house arrest gotten so i reports from campania. it did not come as a surprise presidential lame 70 has maintained a decisive lead against his opponents from the start of the vote counted the unit

to a commission that could a. 72. even if the president did a public of uganda. the president addressed the nation after his victory was declared and say despite attempts by some individuals to tamper with about metric identification kits the election was largely free and. individual members and are voting for the candidates and for the parties. i think this may turn out to be the most. elections. supporters of the 76 year old incumbent cand out to celebrates. his support. is one of the he's the one with. the electoral commission and they've done their best under

the circumstances but already the results have been redacted by bobby why they have evidence of widespread irregularities including rigging in favor of president yoweri with 7050 members say they are considering moving to court to challenge the . other forms of grignon that are not restricted to force for just one of the credits on forms including chasing i will agents at the polling station including forcing people to vote in the open yet under the law i suppose the power of the secret but. the result so why not receive nearly 35 percent of the vote and his party the national unity platform has garnered a sizable number of legislative seats however he told us that his movements have been restricted and visitors including journalists have been blocked from accessing

his compound by soldiers surrounding his home security officials say they had information that he was planning to declare himself we know there's also been heavy deployment of police in the military in the capital and other areas perceived to be opposition strongholds the winner may have been declared by the country remains on edge catherine soy al jazeera. is the founding director of the vanguard africa it's a pro-democracy organization he explains why most of and he is still popular with some voters. just like any liberation movement leader has general most 7 it was nearly 4 decades ago he does retain support and one of the ways in which he has been able to do that is his system of patronage in the country when you've been in power for as long as he has longer than most ugandans have been alive for 35 years now this will be his 6th consecutive term in office rebuild the build up that was networks in are able to pay off and to pay bribes and use corruption to to stay in

power so certainly he does have his support because the people that support him are largely benefiting from him being being in office and i think the really unfortunate outcome here is so often people point to god as being this bastion of stability in an otherwise unstable region but that is clearly not the case if you look at the pictures and the videos coming from uganda the opposition supporters who have been bloodied and b. and killed in disappear the peaceful protesters who have been gunned down with impunity i don't know how any sane person could possibly say that say that that represents a stable country. germany's ruling party is elected a new leader should has been chosen as the next head of the christian democratic union that makes him the top contender for chancellor in elections later this year aguilar merkel is set to step aside after 16 years in power dominic king reports from berlin that he's led germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia

finale for years now arm in russia will soon be leading his national party with a clear direction in mind in mid after i'm vote on the voice i'm aware of the responsibility of the strobe and i will give my all to walk to give the through this year to win the regional election in only a few short weeks to make sure that we will win the next general elections and provide the chancellor of germany thanks although this vote needs to be confirmed by the entire party membership on friday so many i'm in lash it is a continuity candidate his slogan was that i am the representative of the executive branch so if you vote for me you can be sure you get a leader you get someone actually who had won elections so none of the other 2 candidates actually ever won an election governing in his state during the pandemic has been an ordeal for lash it the numbers of infections and deaths there have been among the highest in germany back when the incidence of covert was much lower he

argued for less stringent lockdowns hoping to protect the economy as much as the people it's important to point out that winning the party leadership on its own does not bring with it the right to work here the german chancellor angela merkel has already said she intends to serve out her term here so in order to replace the new party leader must win september's general election. but before he can do that he may have to deal with another leading conservative marcus's head of the cd used varian sister party the christian social union many say they would rather vote for him as chancellor. congratulations to i mean lash it i'm very happy i think this was an exciting party congress it was a very fair contest it was a very good introduction to 3 excellent candidates and in the end i believe there was a result from which the c.d.u. deserves congratulations but it offers an opportunity for great cooperation. but what form that cooperation will take in terms of who runs for chancellor remains

unclear meaning there is much still to do with arm in law should wants to replace angle americal dominant came out zira berlin. now to northern brazil where more emergency supplies of oxygen have been airlifted to a city that's been overwhelmed by a surging coronavirus people in laos have been queuing in the streets to buy oxygen in a desperate bid to keep the loved ones alive to new variations of corona virus is spreading rapidly through the capital of amazon the state as hospitals buckle under the strain the military's been flying critically ill patients to other states or hospitals are better equipped on a canal here was in that house and has more on the desperate search for oxygen. the situation here in my now is the capital of the amazon a state it's very dramatic these people that you see here behind me are in line with their oxygen cylinders waiting for them to be filled up in this factory and

they've been they put their names on a list and they're waiting to be called now this is not the only place where they've been we've been following these people around and they've come from other factories that have run out of supply so they're going from one place to the other leaving their names behind waiting in the sun and the heat to be able to bring some a breath or a some oxygen some hope for hospitals where their families and their loved ones are now the police has limited the access of cars here so many of them like this think these people here are carrying them on their backs literally so it's a very difficult situation to be carrying the cylinders from one place to the other the other thing that we must take into account is that at 7 pm in manassas time begins the curfew sylvie's people know that they will not be able to wait any longer on the streets still ahead an al-jazeera we look at the future of donald

trump's so-called muslim. and what that could mean under the by been astray ssion and not ready for takeoff by nasa cut short a crucial test for its movie system. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways it's going to snow again in so in the immediate future it's like to be just in japan the wind isn't particularly strong but there is cold enough and that will mean the avalanche risk continues but if you change things run a little bit bring the westerly wind across the yellow sea that it produces snow showers for the song the rest of south korea and probably north korea for a while as well and then the mast develops in the city power keeps going east woods behind it so sunny cold but not extrude thirty's frosty obviously at night there

have been some deep showers recently in borneo other folks is now further north so brutal i know in borneo and central and southern philippines of the could be the focus of some pretty big showers there's a line is developing not far away from java but for the west sumatra not quite as what is it was was probably good news and what rain there has been the northeast monsoon the last few days in southern india more or less gong in the forecast looking pretty dry for time alloted and indeed strong like other you know bone dry the fog is extensive in the northern plains of india and goes across into pakistan as well that's induced a cold wave really low temperatures at night i think as temps are going to rise for the fog itself that might signal bit as is maybe suggested new delhi is not going to disappear. sponsored poll qatar airways in affluent distress some neighborhoods are backed by social and economic despair 10 an ace makes a band of local heroes in one of us have

a responsibility to change health 1st place for their suburban drink on al-jazeera . al-jazeera. and. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. capitol is on high alert after f.b.i. warnings of possible violence leading up to the inauguration of president elect joe biden barriers have been set up across washington d.c. and thousands of national guard troops have been deployed. uganda's president has

been reelected for a 6th time in office but his main opponent will be wind says the vote was a complete fraud and is urging his supporters to reject it the u.s. and other observers have described the poll as fundamentally flawed. in northern brazil more emergency supplies of oxygen have been airlifted to a city that's been overwhelmed by a surge in coronavirus people in manassas are being curing in the streets to bile surgeon in a desperate bid to keep loved ones alive. in the u.s. the incoming biden administration is planning to use executive orders to undo several of president donald trump's landmark policies and includes reversing the so-called muslim travel ban which trump an act of the week after taking office the policy barred entry of foreign nationals from muslim majority countries and led to widespread protests and a gallagher's in miami and looks at what the future may hold for the policy.

fulfilling a campaign promise to enact extreme vetting president trump signed an executive order temporarily banning travel from 7 muslim majority countries in january 2017 the president's reasoning to make america safe and this is the rejection of the nation from foreign terrorists and including. in the aftermath protests broke out at airports across the country as those fleeing violence and trying to reunite with their families were prevented from entering the u.s. civil rights organizations branded the ban religious discrimination against muslims no legal challenges were successful in blocking the 1st 2 iterations of trump's travel ban in 2018 the supremes called him out a 3rd version of the executive order to go into force now nationals from 13 countries including north korea venezuela and several african nations are on the

list the travel ban has been particularly hard for those hoping to escape the violence in countries like syria and yemen when the supreme court made its ruling those trying to reunite with elderly relatives were devastated zaid naggy told us his mother is close to giving up she stayed forcibly in jordan for 3 years and you know the green court decision she finally said listen i read it out. this far. i want to go back in its roots are pretty much united and to be honest we couldn't see anything any more. president elect joe biden has promised to repeal the travel bans and increase refugee admissions by 125000 civil rights groups say that doesn't go far enough because the same old same old isn't going to work anymore and as hard as we fought against the trumpet mensuration we're going to fight even harder against the biden administration because we expect them to

resolve these issues for those still stuck in the bureaucratic limbo known as administrative processing the incoming administration is promises if filled will bring renewed hope president elect joe biden says the travel ban is morally wrong once he takes office he can rescind the order with the stroke of a pen that reuniting families will be a long difficult and complex process biden says the policy betrays us values and doing its legacy could take years to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida other times are going to ames in wellington in delaware and she explains what policies biden wants to reverse. he said that he would be using executive orders to either overturn things that he thought were not in the nation's interests or that were an example of overreach by trump on the day that he is a dog rated he will be sending an immigration bill to congress immigration is

something that has vexed both republican and democratic presidents for decades the l.a. times is saying that this bill will hopefully for undocumented immigrants create a path for citizenship the l.a. times also says that unlike previous bills that have been put forth to congress it won't necessarily be contingent expanding immigration won't necessarily be contingent on expanding security and enforcement biden will also in a real departure from trump says that he will rejoin the paris agreement president obama for president obama signed this in 2016 at the time he called this international treaty addressing climate change a landmark decision the following year in 2017 trump pulled out he said that it would create draconian economic and financial restrictions in the united states and would mean a loss of 2700000 jobs to address the pandemic biden is moving

forward with a mask mandate he's calling it a masking 100 day masking challenge now this is something that the trump administration has not only opposed but been hostile toward. well joe biden's picked his science advisor and elevated the post to a cabinet position but and says geneticists every glenda will lead with science and truth to combat the coronavirus pandemic climate crisis and all the challenges london is a former mathematician was an advisor to president barack obama. today the opportunities we have and the challenges we face are greater than ever before the president elect knows that science and technology will be crucial in meeting this moment this tension in central african republic where rebels have given the government 48 hours to resign a coalition of armed groups launched an offensive last month to prevent the

reelection of president fast in our homes to a dead he was still declared the winner but both the rebels and the political opposition dispute the result at least 60000 people of fled the fighting many into neighboring countries many elderly people in the netherlands say they fear they'll die waiting to be vaccinated from coronavirus currently health care workers and care home staff are getting the 1st inoculations the national health council is urging the government to revise its vaccination program steadfast in reports from the hague. bit of on the pole is waiting for is inoculation but the 71 year old doesn't know when that will be in other countries the elderly are 1st in line for vaccinations against gove it 19 but not in the netherlands many of beatles fellow residents have died in the past year and month of quarantine and restrictions are taking their toll. and makes me very emotional it really hurts me not seeing my children and grandchildren i've not seen my grandson for 6 months they have also

been delays in organizing vaccines because all 120000 residents in dutch nursing homes have to give special consent for their covert $1000.00 japs a time consuming procedure especially because 75 percent of them are suffering from dementia peter has no doubt he has survived one covert infection and is worried he won't be so lucky next time. i really don't understand that in neighboring countries people have been vaccinated for weeks and we're only just starting we are much too late especially for as vulnerable people are on a very high risk especially in such a closed living environment the nursing home has a special covert section where residents who are tested positive are kept in strict isolation many of them die behind these doors because of their age and vulnerability doctors have advised against taking them to intensive care units in hospitals hundreds of residents in that care homes are dying of covert every week

but not a single one has been inoculated yet the so-called flexible dutch vaccination strategy has led to great confusion about who will be vaccinated 1st and what vaccine will be used this has not only created frustration anger but also fear now the british variant as the country bar ologist say it's a race against time before the nat'l and will face a serious outbreak of the new strain and they're urging the government to get a proper vaccination strategy in order but accusations of managers and office workers in. care organizations jumping the queue have turned this into a more personal battle household coach i know hostess was invited by her employer to be among the 1st to be vaccinated but when she realized that care workers on the frontline working directly with patients and allie are still waiting she said no cap back i looked this up when i canceled my appointment the health authority said they are not involved in gets back needed 1st that made me angry this is one of

many examples where things have gone wrong during this crisis. because of strict privacy laws in the nablus for both employers and how the authorities it's difficult to know who was vaccinated and who it's not how worried are you about a delay of a couple of weeks how serious is that for the people concourse is very serious because if you see how many people in this category of age. have big problems with disease and kind of overall also or can die about. this is really important that we go on very. quickly bit of on the poll is reading the reports about what's happening in the u.k. and holding his breath his nursing home a schedule to start inoculations in 10 days time unless the government changes its plans again step fasten al-jazeera the hake nasa has cut short a crucial test of its so-called space launch system the boosters for powerful

engines ignited for about a minute simulating a lift off and consuming about 2 and a half 1000000 liters of fuel but it fell short of the 8 minutes needed to stay on track for its planned debut later this year the project is part of an effort to put humans on the moon again by 2024 it's 3 years behind schedule and nearly $3000000000.00 over budget. it is without question the amount of progress that we've made here today is remarkable and no this is not a failure this is a test and we tested today in a way that is meaningful we're going to learn and work and we're going to we're going to make adjustments and we're going to fly to the moon that's what the artemis program is all about that's what nasa is all about and that's what the united states of america is all about this was a successful this was a successful day we didn't get everything we wanted and yes we're going to learn or you have to make adjustments but again this is a test and this is why we test well amy holmes has been covering the launch today

from space dot com she's joining us now from orlando in florida it's good to have you with us i want if you can help me out i've been trying to explain to some of my colleagues with varying degrees of success that this is a big deal why is this so important that you so s.l.s. is going to be nasa its next have a year left track at that's going to take astronauts to the moon so that and self is a big deal but the engines that were used to power this vehicle are r s $25.00 engines and 3 of them are actually used on the space shuttle program so today was the 1st day that 4 of them were fired in conjunction and although they tested in the go entirely as planned it's still a big deal because this is the 1st time that all 4 of these engines have been fired at the same time just as you've been talking we've been looking at some of the pictures all of that firing and as always they're incredibly dramatic but explain something to me this is shuttle era era technology it costs about a $1000000000.00

a time to do this and yet we're in an age when obviously there are cheaper alternatives like space x. united launch alliance why is not going with this technology at such a cost. well this is the only technology that's available at the moment that can lift the amount of payload incur ago that we need to make it to the man so stay sexist and incredible things with their reusability. they have launched and landed the same rocket 7 times in a row they've done that with at least 2 boosters now but they can't make it past low earth orbit so this is the rocket that's going to take astronauts and the cargo back to the lunar surface that was something to obviously was done by a polar rockets in the past why does it need to be such a big rock at this time well this rocket is actually a little bit more powerful than the saturn 5 and i think it's about 1.5 percent

so it's going to be able to carry basically anything that we need to get back to the lunar surface which is something that no other rocket in existence can do at the moment there have been of reports of course that president biden is president elect joe biden his ideas to space advisors a saying that they are going to push back the 2024 deadline the president trump said what does that tell us and what concerns might not give for the future of the s.l.s. program. i think that it doesn't necessarily impact the s.l.s. program i think that maybe the 2028 timeframe which is what they're talking about is a little bit more reasonable so trump set forth a 2024 deadline which is great because deadlines me in that hard work gets made and test get done but there are deadlines are not always necessarily realistic so

there's a lot left to do to get to the litter surface obviously the tests today ran for about 60 seconds nasa needed according to experts so they had talked to this past week they needed at least 250 seconds worth of data and they obviously fall short of that so it's kind of up in the air as to what. comes of this test if they need another test or what happens with the path forward it's going to be very interesting to see how quickly they can get this thing back on track and hopefully we'll be seeing those dramatic pictures again fairly soon and we appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you. the african nations championship has kicked off in cameroon the tournament was meant to list arts last april but it was delayed because of coronavirus the 16 team event is only 4 players competing in their domestic leagues the group stages syrians will have a reduced capacity due to cope with restrictions. we are aware of the pandemic that

is currently raging around the world we will test the plan to have 25 percent stadium capacity on the side of calf on the side of the local organizing committee all the arrangements are made. this is all to syria these are the top stories the u.s. capitol is on high alert after the f.b.i. warned of possible violence leading up to president elect joe biden's inauguration barriers have been set up across washington d.c. and thousands of national guard troops have been deployed. to is in washington d.c. they are not so much worried about the same scenes as january say.