america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking politics and. drug lords on al-jazeera. the u.s. capitol is on lockdown ahead of president elect joe biden's inauguration amid fears of possible protests against his election victory. in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. celebrations as it dawned as president wins a 6 but his main challenger calls the election results

a sham and says there's been widespread fraud. where in my house in brazil where emergency supplies of oxygen are being sent to hospitals struggling to deal with a coded 19 outbreak. not ready for takeoff already plagued by delays and overruns not cut short a crucial test to put astronauts back on them in. the u.s. capital 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. e thousands of national guard troops have been deployed and roads and bridges are being closed the city's on high alert after f.b.i. warnings of possible violence leading up to biden swearing in officials are gearing up for possible demonstrations to protest against biden's victory or a lone wolf inspired by far right groups. is in washington with more on the

security measures. washington d.c. is completely on lockdown here you can see big. block any try to get in that way and then you come over to you can really get a sense of how. this city has become here there are national guard troops. blocking traffic they're going to be 25000 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 security officials in washington are most concerned about. and on friday we're being told by the capitol police that they are arrested 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 $500.00 rounds of ammunition. that is why washington d.c. sees this unprecedented security presence washington d.c. the capitol of the united states very much. for the incoming biden administration's planning to use executive orders to undo several president donald trump policies it includes reversing the so-called muslim travel ban which trump a not to the week after taking office policy but entry of foreign nationals from muslim majority countries and led to widespread protests of the galaxy reports from miami. fulfilling a campaign promise to enact extreme president signed an executive order temporarily banning travel from 7 muslim majority countries in january 2007 see the president's reasoning to make america safe. the protection of the nation

from foreign terrorists and into the united. 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 . legal challenges were successful in blocking the 1st 2 iterations of trump's travel ban in 2018 the supremes court allowed 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 90 told us his

mother is close to giving up she stayed forcibly in jordan for 3 years and you know that ship dream court decision you since you 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 anymore. 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 that's a good name is in wilmington delaware she explained what other policies biden wants to reverse it. 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 inaugurated 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. uganda's president has

warned he'll deal decisively with anyone planning to create chaos following his election victory you were in a 71 a 6th term in office extending his 35 years in power but his main challenger bobby wine has denounced the election as a complete fraud catherine so reports now. that it did not come as a surprise president 70 has maintained a decisive lead against his opponents from the start of the vote count a little commission declares you. are elected president of the republic of uganda the president addressed the nation after his victory was declared and say despite attempts by some individuals to tamper with the barometric identification kits the election was largely free and fair. to you for. illegal numbers and the voting for the gun deaths

and for the parties. i think this may turn out to be the most. read. elections. supporters of the 76 year old incumbent cand out to celebrate. most to support. 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 had 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 for the question of the credits from forms including the 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 circuit. the result so wine received 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 gianna lists have been blocked from accessing his compound by soldiers surrounding his home security official 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 we may have been declared but the country remains on edge catherine soy al jazeera. jeffrey smith is a founding director of vanguard africa he explained why i'm a 70 so popular with many voters. just like any liberation movement leader as

a general must have been 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 uganda as being this bastion of stability and in other ways 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 disappeared the peaceful protesters who have been gunned down with

impunity i don't know how any sane person could possibly see that say that that represents a stable country. to come here and al-jazeera including germany's ruling party picks a new leader putting him in the running to succeed the chancellor merkel plus on top of the world the team of the nepalese climbed those makes mountaineering history stay with us. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. with a sponsor point qatar airways. the weather is remarkably quiet in the arabian peninsula and throughout iran there is more active weather on its way through the med once more the colder weather comes out of europe tends to produce stormy weather it's doing just that now i think monday be relatively quiet day and onshore breeze of plenty of showers from the north of egypt right up to lebanon the snow in

turkey is limited to the north coast in the mountains for the reste particularly the founders of iraq but look at what's coming in after that strong winds for cyprus the blue is clearly rain what would be snow so for monday night that's pretty much pummeling 1st of all western syria then lebanon lot more snows likely inland then the whole lot moves south was pretty stormy day by dancer gaza again to the north of egypt the his quiet until we pick up the active weather further south and they get the line from more or less botswana through zimbabwe to middle of mozambique is the active one leaving behind you think clear skies for south africa would be right $25.00 degrees in cape town in sunshine johannesburg 29 problems want to shout but i think the amount of rain falling repeatedly in mozambique in zimbabwe will produce flooding the rain is wanted but maybe not such great quantity . sponsible qatar airways.

it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit me off crashing you know. that's not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically the insignificant evil is a crime gag the very significant by dictating the government and the fucked up policy down shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at 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 from. the incoming biden administration is planning to use executive orders to undo several president donald trump policies that will include reversing from so-called muslim travel bans and rejoining the paris climate agreement. uganda's president has been reelected for a 6th term in office but his main opponent bobby wine says the vote was a complete fraud and urging his supporters to reject it the u.s. and other observers have described the poll as fundamentally flawed. there's 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 fox in our shots today or he was still declared the winner but both the rebels and the political opposition dispute the result at least 60000

people have fled the fighting many into neighboring countries. the president of guinea has been vaccinated against corona virus on national television as part of a scheme involving members of the government alpha condé received his 1st dose of the russian sputnik axing the country's one of the 1st in africa to immunize officials against code 19 a small number of elderly volunteers will also be inoculated for the government decides whether to extend the program. in northern brazil where more emergency supplies of oxygen have been airlifted to a city that's been overwhelmed by a surge in corona virus cases people in my mouse have been queuing in the streets to buy oxygen in a desperate bid to keep loved ones alive 2 new variations of corona virus are spreading rapidly through the capital of amazonia state want to you not kid was in when else has more now 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 are some oxygen some hope for hospitals where their families and their loved ones are now the police has limited the axis of cars here so many of them like this take 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 so these people know that they will not be able to wait any

longer on the streets india has begun its vaccination campaign one of the biggest and most challenging in the world state government data shows that 52 health care workers received the 1st dose on saturday suffered side effects critics are questioning the use of one locally developed vaccine that has not yet completed trials and as a parent of reports. these health care workers are registering to receive one of 2 vaccines approved for use in india 3 100000 medical professionals are being vaccinated at 3000 sites around the country on saturday including kitten driver. i'm a little bit scared but i'm also happy that we're being vaccinated 1st i've been named as one of the 1st so i'm happy about it and i want everyone to get back to nature it so we can end up it. the government is planning to vaccinate 300000000 people in the 1st half of the sierra 30000000 front line workers in health care sanitation

the police the army and disaster management will be inoculated in the 1st few months they'll be followed by people over the age of 50 and then those under 50 underlying health conditions promise to that in the more you describe the scale of the program. as. there are more than $100.00 countries whose population is less than $30000000.00 and injure will be vaccinating $30000000.00 people in the 1st phase of vaccination itself. the drug's regulator has approved the use of oxford astra zeneca as the shield vaccine and one that's being made of india there are questions around wide the indian vaccine by a local company called bought a biotech was given approval when it hasn't finished its final phase trials the government has said that it will be administered on the clinical trial conditions but independent health experts say there's not a lot of information about what that means. india is the only country other than

russia and china to be administering a vaccine that hasn't completed trials and that is from the buzz going to the concern among scientific. survey suggests that buyers that decision expected in such a way should be have a good a few weeks to get that data doctors at one of new delhi's biggest government hospitals have the same questions they want the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and not bought at biotechs but india's health minister says a lot of work had gone into making the vaccines and people cannot choose which one they'll receive elizabeth al-jazeera you debbie. germany's ruling party has elected a new leader 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 and a merkel set to step aside after 16 years in power when it came reports now from berlin that should 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 army 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 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 if i am in la should wants to replace angela merkel dominic king on al-jazeera. only brookman as a german political analyst he explained what the change of leadership means for the sea the un what challenges the party faces. i think for any candidate it became much easier to win back votes because the performance of the other than a t.v. food option has been so terrible in recent months and they're also running out of topics that can be instrumental to winning the hearts and minds of people like high numbers of refugees we haven't seen any pandemic wasn't managed terrible because in the 1st wave of the pandemic we only saw 5000 deaths in germany which was a record low compared with other countries so it became pretty difficult for them to define an agenda that could be seen as a major challenge to the conservative party it is the 2nd attempt to nominate

someone who could lead the conservative party into a brighter future or maybe not their conservative but a party that if finds itself something america managed to achieve in the 15 years of being the face of the christian democratic union and the chancellor of germany so number of challenges and we have not really an idea what someone who only has a regional profile so far will do in the future what his positions in international affairs in european integration as a response to initiatives that come from the french president will be. there is skepticism in the palestinian territories about whether the 1st elections in 15 years will ever happen friday's decision to hold polls in may in july has been welcomed but there are questions about whether a successful vote could bridge the divide between fatah and hamas it reports from

the occupied west bank. this might be the closest palestinians i've got to holding elections in 15 years a presidential decree setting 3 dates just lots of em presidential elections and those for the palestine liberation organization or p.l.o. the announcement marks a breakthrough in a palestinian divide that lasted more than 13 years. factions will meet in car within a week and resolve some important technical issues to ensure fia and transparent elections we are aware that there are problems but we are certain that they will be resolved and if not we can resolve them. previous agreements to hold elections didn't materialize because attempts are to conservation between the 2 most dominant palestinian parties to have how mass failed this time they say they will hold elections perced and then discuss how to end their divisions. the last time palestinians cast their ballots in general elections wasn't 2006 the unexpected

a massive victory to give the divide in 2007 and paralyze the legislative council. a mass became the de facto ruler of the besieged gaza strip and fetish remained in charge of the occupied west bank protest leader mahmoud abbas was elected in 2005 and has remained in office ever since when i caught the whole philistine when there's a concern that fatah and hamas will agree on a unified list this will take the meaning out of these elections and minimize participation of independent civil society and the youth may said are we works in the palestinian election committee at 32 years old she's never had the chance to vote and. i'm optimistic we need new faces to serve we've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time a majority of palestinians want general elections that will fight corruption and to store unity but the recent polls show that they don't believe that's possible more

than half palestinian say that even if they're held they want to be free or fear. the occupied west bank. france's foreign minister is warning that iran is in the process of building up its nuclear weapons capacity joy he called for an urgent return to the 2015 nuclear agreement terrine started breaching the terms of the deal in 2019 after the u.s. pulled out on reimpose sanctions this month iran further advanced its uranium enrichment plan. a team of nepalese climbers have made history becoming the 1st to scale the world's 2nd largest mountain during the treacherous winter season the group was one of 4 international teams aiming to reach the 8600 meter summit of k 2 which is on the pakistani side of the himalayas at this time of the year winds on the mountain can reach 200 kilometers an hour while temperatures drop to minus 60

degrees a spanish mountaineer who was climbing at the same time died during his descent nasa has cut short a crucial test of its space launch system which it's hoped could put humans back on the moon by 2024 the boosters for powerful engines ignited simulating a liftoff than 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 but any thomson has been covering the launch for space dot com she says there's a long way to go before humans return to the moon. s.l.'s is going to be nasa's next havea lift rocket 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 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 the

tests didn't 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 this is the only technology that's available at the moment that can lift the amount of payload in cargo that we need to make it to the 1000000 so space access to an incredible things with their reusability but they can't make it past low earth orbit so this is the rocket that's going to take astronauts and cargo back to the lunar surface trump sat for a 2024 hour deadline which is great because deadlines mean that hard work gets done tests get done but their deadlines are not always necessarily realistic so there's a lot left to do to get to the lunar surface obviously the test today ran for about 60 seconds nasa needed according to experts have they had talked 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 football now in the african nations championship has kicked off income a room the tournament was meant to stop last april but was delayed because of coronavirus the 16 team event is only for players competing in the domestic leagues for the group stages stadiums will have a reduced capacity due to covert restrictions. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera 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. as more. they are not so

much worried about the same scenes as january 6th.