the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. the u.s. capitol is locked down ahead of president elect joe biden's inauguration. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. celebrations as president wins a 6th term but his main challenger calls the election results. we're in mouse brazil where emergency supplies of oxygen not being sent to hospitals struggling to deal with the covered 19 upper. class are cut short a crucial test to

a rocket it hopes will put astronauts back on the moon. the u.s. capitol has been transformed into a fortress just 4 days out from the organization 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 f.b.i. has warned of possible violence leading up to biden swearing in officials are preparing for possible pro trump demonstrations to protest at biden's victory all alone attack inspired by far right groups who has more now on the security measures . washington d.c. is completely on lockdown on this street here you can see 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 corners 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 say they are most concerned about. domestic terror incident and on friday we're being told by the capitol police that they are arrested and it 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 it's kind of incidents that worry people here so much that is why washington d.c. sees this unprecedented security presence washington d.c.

the capital of the united states very much on lockdown the incoming biden administration is planning to use executive orders to undo several of president donald trump policies it includes reversing the so-called muslim travel ban which trump an act in a week of the taking office the policy bought entry of foreign nationals from muslim majority countries led to widespread protests on the galaxy reports. 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 nations. 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 green court decision she finally said listen i rate it out. this far. i want to go back in it's disagreement you started and to be honest with

you we couldn't say 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 u.s. values undoing its legacy could take years to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida

natasha boehm is in a wilmington delaware she explained what other 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 is calling it a masking 100 day masking challenge now this is something that the trump administration has not only opposed but been hostile toward. to new zealand police have fought with demonstrators in the city of sana'a on a 2nd night of nationwide protests the crowds build barricades and set fires to block the streets about 130 kilometers from the capital tunis rallies began on friday after a video showing a police officer beating a man went viral the protests come just days after tunisia mark the 10th

anniversary of an uprising that sparked the so-called arab spring. uganda's president has warned he will deal decisively with anyone planning to create chaos following his election victory you were in the 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 become part. of. the world it did not come as a surprise president yoweri was 70 has maintained a decisive lead against his opponents from the start of the vote count the little commission declares you were. 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 they who were issued to you for telling your illegal numbers and voting for the candidates 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 celebrates a very grand to support. this and of being 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 wine said he had evidence of widespread irregularities including rigging in favor of president yoweri with 7050 members say they are can feed moving to court to challenge.

other forms of grignon that are not restricted to for the question 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 sekret. the result so why not receive nearly 35 percent of the vote and his party the national unity platform has garnered a sizeable 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 winner 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 in the 70s still popular with many voters. it's like any liberation movement leader as 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 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 that 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 say that say that that represents a stable country time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back germany's ruling party picks a new leader putting him in the running to succeed the chancellor and then the. top of the world the team of nepalese climbers makes mountaineering history or not stay with us. the weather is remarkably cotton 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 along shore braids of 20 showers from the north of egypt right up to lebanon the snow in turkey limited to the north coast in the mountains for the reste of particular in the far north of iraq but look at what's coming in after that strong winds for starters the blue is clearly rain what would be snow so for monday night that's pretty much pummeling 1st of all west and 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 will be right $25.00 degrees in cape town in the sunshine john is big 29 problems want to shout but i think the amount of rain falling repeatedly mozambican zimbabwe will produce flooding the rain is wanted but

maybe not such great quantity. of the 2nd episode of the series exposed the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of town said it's a mexican government little told the traffickers would have to produce the body is a new image their. america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking politics and power to change drug lords on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour the u.s. capitol is on the high alert after f.b.i. warnings of possible violent speeding up little gratian the president elect joe biden barriers have been set up across washington d.c. and thousands of national guard troops have been deployed. the incoming by the ministration is planning to use executive orders to undo several president donald trump's key policies that will include reversing from so-called muslim travel by rejoining the paris climate agreement. to museum police afford with demonstrators in the city of the city on a on a 2nd night of nationwide protests the crowds build barricades and set fires to block the streets about 13030 kilometers from the capital tunis the rallies began on friday after a video showing at least beating a man went viral. this tension in central african republic where rebels have given the government 48 hours to resign a coalition of groups launched an offensive last month to prevent the reelection of

the president also today or he was still declared the winner but both the rebels and the 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 that's part of a scheme involving members of the government alpha condé received his 1st dose of the russian sputnik x.e. the country's one of the 1st in africa to immunize officials against kogut 19. 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 spreading rapidly through the capital of i'm a zone this state but it is in the now seen as more of a 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 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 india has begun its vaccination campaign one of the biggest and most challenging in the world state government data shows $52.00 health care workers received the 1st dose on saturday suffered side effects critics are questioning the use of one locally developed vaccine that hasn't yet completed trials and as with iran a 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 hope it the government is planning to vaccinate 300000000 people

in the 1st half of the seer 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 problem is to many in the more you describe the scale of the program. as did their. there are more than $100.00 countries whose population is less than $30000000.00 and enjoy will be vaccinating her $2000000.00 people in the 1st phase of vaccination itself. the drugs regulator has approved the use of oxford astra zeneca as the shield vaccine and one that's being made 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 buzzing of the concern among scientific. disciplines that buyers that decision expected in such a way should be have a did 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 the 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 and lush it is the top contender for chancellor in elections later this year i'm going to merkel will step aside after 16 years in power dominic came reports now from berlin i mean last it he's led germany's most populous state north

rhine-westphalia finale for years now arm in russia it will soon be leaving his national party with a clear direction in mind in mid after i'm vote on divorced 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 for many armyn 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 election 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 to 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 arm in law should wants to replace anglo-american dominant king on al-jazeera berlin. well rick wagner is a german political analyst he explained what the change of leadership means for the c.d.u. what challenges the party faces i think for any candidate it became much easier to win votes because the performance of the other door slam has been so terrible in recent months and they're also running out of topics that can be instrumental lies to win the hearts and minds of people or higher numbers of refugees we haven't seen any pandemic wasn't managed terrible. because in the 1st wave of the pandemic we only saw $5000.00 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 this is the 2nd attempt to nominate

someone who could lead the conservative party into a brighter future or maybe not a conservative but a party that he finds itself something merican managed to achieve in the 15 years of being the face of the christian democratic union and the chancellor of germany so there are 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 police in guatemala have stepped up efforts to stop thousands of 100 year in migrants trying to get to the united states some were arrested after a group tried to break through a police blockade and head towards mexico. doing 78000 have entered guatemala since

friday hoping for a warm reception from the incoming u.s. administration. hundreds of migrants in bosnia-herzegovina hoping to get into the e.u. still suffering in subzero temperatures that's despite attempts by the government to improve conditions in response to growing international pressure now about the pope's. wrapping up against the biting winter coat this building was abandoned during the both the award of the 19th and offices people little protection they dream of crossing the west the border both knew how to go to croatia a european union state. but with the bogan country refusing to accept the best stock in the city of the hatch is really weird harry that is really cold or turning we don't have water the international organization for migration says it's helping around a 1000 people sheltering in houses like this one. a few kilometers south is sleeping

camp the temperature here has been this low as minus 8 degrees celcius in december a temporary camp for hundreds of refugees were set on fire with local authorities unwilling to give them shelter about 900 people were left out in the cold. under pressure from the e.u. authorities have erected warm adiabatic of tents and plan to build a larger shelter. this camp is planned for 1500 that number might possibly be extended. the european union is covering the expenses . calling it an artificial humanitarian crisis it's a you ambassador says officials need to do more to be to ensure the dignity of human beings the dignity of migrants and refugees who are here that also means this is an obligation for bosnia herzegovina it is a signatory to un conventions it wants to become

a member of the europeans it has to abide by those rules and by the way there are still a few 100 people out there in the woods who we also need to be taken care. of that makeshift camp is in a forest further north of belleek a cloud to say here this fire is the difference between life and death and people struggle to get basic supplies last night. very crude we are suffering very much with the last night and we are getting the internet. and here are. not safe. for children the dangers with a greater. local towns and cities refusing to accommodate the families and croatia refusing to let them across the border their only option is to try to survive where they are more about a man the out is there are now a team of nepalese climbers of made history becoming the 1st to scale the world's

2nd highest mountain during the treacherous winter season the group was one of 4 international teams i mean to reach the 1600 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 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 that's hope could put humans back on the moon by 2024 the boosters for powerful engines ignited simulating a liftoff but it sounds sort of 8 minutes needed to stay on track for its planned debut of later this year i mean thomas has been covering the launch for space dot com. 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 test 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 and cargo that we need to make it to the man so space x. that's done 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 me in that hardware gets me in test 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. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. capitol is on high alert after f.b.i. warnings of possible violence leading up to the no gration of president elect joe biden bar is 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 hundreds.