listing posts on a jersey. if you want to help save the world. an independent panel appointed by the criticizes china's handling of the pandemic saying its response was not forceful enough. and the images from will hand that china tried to censor al-jazeera investigation raises questions about beijing's early efforts to control the outbreak. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live and also coming up donald trump announces the lifting of coronavirus travel restrictions on brazil and e.u. countries from the 26th of january a move rejected by incoming president joe biden. and brazil's darts vaccinating its

people but to some it comes to little too late. an independent panel set up by the world health organization has criticized china's early response to the coronavirus interim report says officials could have applied measures more forcefully during the missile outbreak in will hand the panel also criticised the double h. ozone response saying the global pandemic alert system is not fit for purpose its full investigation will burn least in may. show says it's too early to comment on a senior us health official has called in beijing to provide evidence linked to the outbreak and we were on including samples taken from the wet market. team which found the route well as we will be will only be successful had to do. with the following information conway possession of chinese authorities. first of all

stories produced in china on the presence of sars could be 2 related genetic sequence sequences in animals. animal testing results in around a province and environmental samples in the markets you can read an hour since the genetic data circles al-jazeera has obtained video recorded in the 1st days of the outbreak the images were smuggled out of china after police tried to prevent journalists reporting on a local health crisis that became a global pandemic they raised questions about beijing's only efforts to control the virus federalists has this exclusive report. a year ago journalists from chinese state media arrived in group han to cover a story about a mysterious new virus it's 3 days before the city goes into lockdown. the few confirmed cases of the disease are to seafood market. doesn't look so good on the

uniform we have concealed the generally psych entities for their own safety they soon realize the outbreak is much more serious than they fought. over a reporter who we've called yang continues to film secretly after being detained by the police. called a hero what you're showing up was a model called out of the 20200 or so japan adults and well when you volunteer i learned things i didn't go. yang is forced to show images on his camera to public security officers while doing so he continues to film on his phone. or knew very well china's response to the virus was late to praise the lack of openness at the beginning of the outbreak has been blamed for contributing to a failure to contain the disease 10 out of 5 yang is blocked from entering hospitals to see if their lives are you being told they didn't leave or even when

it's really needed in order to enter yang pretends to have a fever and. not have a heart. he finds packed wards with patients waiting to get tested. this was just one week after the disease had been given a name 19 and on here are a woman brought to simply 8 year old grandfather to the gates of the hospital he'd already been turned away from one that had no more beds i think if they meet on the guards wouldn't let him in for a very good job if you got. to go to the government. offices stop young filming even at the hospital gates i'm always aware of the going on the lockdown is announced at 2 am on january 23rd yang is told to return to beijing before it comes into force the next morning the roads to the airport and railway station are packed

with taxis yang joins 300000 people who left will hand that night the decision to provide an 8 hour window before the city is sealed off allows many infected patients to free rooms and for the outside world. still race al-jazeera. the white house says it will lift an entry ban on travelers from 29 countries but the incoming biden administration says it doesn't plan to ease coronavirus instructions most non-u.s. travelers are currently bought from entering the country from the e.u. the u.k. and brazil the restrictions on due to be lifted in the week after joe biden takes office a new requirement for a covert negative test would also come into force you have a chance he is in washington d.c. he says the plans to lift restrictions are based on good cooperation between the countries involved. on the face of it you could see how look. the troubled ministration just sort of flexing its muscles and being difficult for the bite did

ministration but actually if you look at the presidential proclamation that was that was released it was a rather well argued document it said look on the 26th of january we have these new c.d.c. mandated guidelines which mean that anyone returning or entering the u.s. on an international flight over the age of 3 has to have a covert test within 3 days and because the level of transparency and cooperation between the u.s. and the u.k. and the shame concern in the e.u. that's where they have borderless travel and brazil is so good then we don't need to just have a battle on their visitors because now we have these. the requirement for covert tests it wasn't just you know this is what we're going to do but almost immediately we got a tweet from joe biden's press secretary who said with the pandemic worsening and more contagious variants emerging around the world this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel on the advice of our medical team the administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on johnny 26 in fact we

plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of covert 1000 stronger restrictions on travel potentially being promised by biden's press secretary clearly a. knowledgeable about methodology and about about strategy towards covert which is very much in keeping with how both biden and the respective teams are discussing things as it goes anywhere. well tara clyde are doing is from the federation of american scientists he says it doesn't make sense to lift restrictions with mutated variants spreading although the c.d.c. guidelines are slightly changing the c.d.c. guidelines are not that strict because it allows for testing for 3 days before travel and we know that oftentimes it's into magic people and early infected people will not be caught by that such as p.c.r. test before travel in addition the new variants are the b. $117.00 barry in the u.k.

is very infectious and the south african the brown brazil variants which is also in europe as well are also very very dangerous and it can potentially escape immune responses and antibodies if you've already been affected and maybe that might infect back scenes and we actually think a b 117 the u.k. variant might actually take over the u.s. as early as march and that's a c.d.c. estimate so we're very concerned about this especially given how infectious it is and it's definitely does not make sense to live to right now we are already expecting half a 1000000 deaths by the end of february because those deaths already effects and that's already happening now by think invoking defense production act mobilizing bax vaccinations $1.00 trillion dollars back scene initiative to create like a wartime crisis situation mobilization and it will make

a huge difference in addition to testing concentrating and all the resources that will be brought to this i think dulce are back in the room in terms of actual pandemic managed it. a rehearsal for the inauguration of president elect joe biden in the capital was interrupted by a fire staff were moved out of the capitol building after smoke was seen nearby the washington fire department dealt with the incident at a nearby camp for the homeless there was no indication of anything suspicious. when all the u.s. capitol is under a security lockdown ahead of the presidential inauguration on wednesday the secret service is carrying out one of its biggest ever operations the national mall usually packed with tourists now resembles a heavily militarized zone just 2 weeks ago the steps of the capitol were overrun by rioters now it's completely closed to the public well biden's inauguration will be held on wednesday right outside the capitol building officials are urging the

public not to go over security concerns and 19 the capitol building and nearby areas are part of a red zone that will be completely shut to almost all vehicles to most of this area has already been fenced off but just beyond that is a green zone it's still open to residents and cars used by local businesses but close to everyone else this is where vehicle checkpoints have been set up to screen entry into the red zone. kamel harris will be sworn in as us vice president on wednesday the 1st woman to hold the position she will join joe biden in the white house after 4 years as the junior senator from california and a career as a senior prosecutor alan fischer looks at the impact terrorists may have on the incoming administration. only. a moment of history a moment when it became clear would be the 1st female vice president. she will also be the 1st black and 1st of asian heritage too so it's taken you know nearly 245

years for this moment to happen because racism sexism myside war they're all deeply ingrained in us politics how does his father's from jamaica her mother from india she attended a historically black college in washington d.c. and joined alpha kappa alpha a historically white society for female students after graduation she wore to we are from attorney general in our home state of california. to senator a run at the presidential nomination ended early or connections to the biden family put it in prime support for the vice presidential nomination 1st of all is the answer yes. come on how this brings to the white house a background a set of life experiences that are different from anyone who served as vice president with race is such an important part of the national discussion at the moment she has the chance to influence policy on that and other issues which could

change the face of the united states we were. a country yes. that. black women hispanics and other people of color who are not being at the table she'll be a target for criticism she was before and will be again and you have to say her day brighter she gets very upset over there definitely going to be many challenges that she faces and of course her ability to respond to those will also be sort of circumscribed within the way that joe biden understands her role to be in his administration a she takes the oath of office those who know her passionately understand what it means a not just for her this historical moment. yes imagine what is in your black and. if you can see it being a woman in a space is revolutionary that just by remembrance i mean and we should not underestimate that because it's psychologically mentally as to get people in

a position where you know they talk about glass ceilings and the like where we think this is normal joe biden says he wanted a vice president who will hit the ground running someone smart capable thoughtful but come a hardass will be more than not a standard bearer for those who tried before and those who will try in the future alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. lots more still to come here in al-jazeera including. stopped in their tracks thousands of desperate migrants trying to enter the u.s. are pushed back by guatemalan security forces. and uganda goes back online as the government allows a partial restoration of the internet which was shut down ahead of its now disputed presidential election more on that stay with us.

however there was a some rather nasty weather pushing across the eastern side of the mediterranean recently through turkey pushing across syria into the eastern side of the mediterranean then this is the northeast of syria where we have seen fighting fighting this particular camp in the northeast of the country i'm afraid there is further right to come over the next couple days hopefully not quite as intense as it has been but it trails all the way back across lebanon jordan down into israel the palestinian territories 9 celsius in damascus 12 celsius their interest in him to push his further race was cooler air coming interest in falling back to around 9 degrees as we go on into wednesday says certainly on the cold side and that cold air that wet weather will continue. across northern parts of syria or across to the caspian south of that it is generally 5 and dry temperatures here in doha getting up to around $22.00 celsius for a try to get parts of eastern africa but we have got the usual showers just around

the rift valley sliding away through tanzania and this northern parts of mozambique with some showers to just making their way into was wetter weather though in the form of tropical santangelo is making its way across northeastern parts of madagascar on shoes day northern areas set to some flooding this week. but. she was a society hostess in beirut in the 1940 s. she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese the recrossing to make this work code name was the power and she spied for mossad in lebanon for. what she was doing it was something brave as a woman algis you know well touts the story of shula coing. the beirut spy. movie.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour an independent panel set up by the world health organization has criticized china's early response to the corona virus outbreak the interim report also criticized the initial actions the organization says it's too early to respond. the white house says it will lift and entry ban on travelers from the e.u. the u.k. and brazil that impose a new requirement for covert negative test instead of the incoming biden the ministration says it doesn't plan to ease the restrictions. on the u.s. capitol is under a security lockdown ahead of the presidential inauguration on wednesday a rehearsal was briefly disrupted by a fire led by the secret service carrying out one of its largest ever aeration.

watermelon security forces have moved against thousands of central american migrants trying to reach the united states they were traveling in a so-called caravan that's a large group formed mainly for safety reasons incoming u.s. president joe biden has urged people not to make the journey is john holdren. the moment guatemalan police broke up a caravan of fans of people from honduras. who were trying to get to the u.s. but they hadn't made it far just about the turn 50 kilometers into guatemala the 1st country and there. was the security forces stopped them on saturday saying they needed coded tests and papers to pass since then they've been camped out on the highway well a huge traffic jam build up behind them. now lorries are running again but the problems of these people remain unresolved honduras is one of the poorest most

violent countries in latin america 2 massive november storms make things worse but there are many who don't how they work there is no food there isn't anything we're keeping up the fight. the government doesn't save the president when orlando has been criticized praise handling of the economy the rule of law democracy so you're not going to if the president doesn't want us to leave why doesn't he give us work in a good salary he's increasing taxes actress t. bills the price of gas for the sellers are rubbish. given all the many say they'll go on but they'll find it hard to do so as a group and even if they make it is far as mexico this is waiting for them others are being bussed back to honduras a place they say they left because they have nothing john homan. brazil has begun its long awaited distribution of covered 19 vaccines for residents many now as the gateway to the amazon rainforest vaccines can't come soon enough the health system

there is on the verge of collapse as oxygen supplies dwindle but i cannot get reports. the war room was set up in a warehouse where millions of coded 1000 vaccines had been stored on monday health minister. gave governors the order to distribute them throughout brazil. this is the 1st step towards the largest vaccination campaign in the world this is our mission in the world. but for many families in the northern city of my mouse on the edge of the amazon rain forest the order comes too late. struggled all week to keep her husband alive in the hospital ran out of oxygen most is what before the exemption i tried buying an oxygen cylinder but couldn't find one he died because he had no air do you know

what it means for a person to try to breathe and not to be able to to beg for air and suffocate he had so many projects for the future now he's gone. in one hour we witnessed 3 burials one after the other by now as had been hard hit by the pandemic in april and quick to recover points that some scientists believed people here had achieved herd immunity the violence of the 2nd wave took them by surprise never the . tsunami this is more than a wave it's a tsunami before the pandemic there were 30 funerals a day during the 1st wave we had $100.00 burials now we have more than $200.00 it's as if we're at war. scientists believed to mutated versions of the corona virus discovered in my mouse have found better ways to pierce the immune system but that is not all so probably what's going on all the. spring 'd

leaders i do believe and of course if you have what were. the police in beds look they very care a little wary musts liberation going to be aired in mouse people watched on television the vaccines being loaded on military planes may be in the air but so is much of brazil's immunization program brazil was counting on it 1000000 doses to kick off its national immunization program but it's still 2000000 doses short and political infighting continues making the hard task of vaccinating latin america's largest country even more difficult monica you're not to have all just sarah my mouse. about 25 people have been arrested in st petersburg after protesters rallied in support of the kremlin critic alexina value for our government. protesters were

taken one by one to nearby police buses the balinese been jailed for 30 days for breaching parole conditions a russian opposition politician was arrested at a moscow airport on sunday he was returning from germany where he was treated for a nerve agent poisoning. into running street battles between protesters and the police for a 4th day in a row demonstrators have been gathering in several cities to vent their anger against the government the coronavirus pandemic has crippled an already failing economy which depends on tourism and a 3rd of the country's young people are without a job reports. another night off undressed in tunisia young protesters reaching against unemployment poverty and police brutality in some of the country's poorest neighborhoods they say they have nothing left to lose even the threat of the coronavirus pandemic and a curfew aren't enough to keep them at home but. people are dying and there is

a curfew from 4 pm we don't care about other things and find us work for some the games of the arab spring which led to the ouster of former president seen a lot with the ben ali 10 years ago seemed like a distant memory and obviously i was 20 years old when the revolution happened the people out in the streets right now we're doing the same thing maybe worse we hope that things would change for the better we hope that at the end of our studies we would find a job. depressed and visited one of the cities near the capital and called for calm but if you don't have that i know the state of poverty and i also know who is exploiting your poverty don't let anyone exploit your misery don't attack private or public property. the government has deployed army across several cities hundreds of people have been arrested mostly teenagers. the rights group amnesty

international has warned against the use of excessive force. for now these protesters have vowed to stay on the streets despite the army the petition says that the police. and to syria. the constitutional court of central african republic has upheld president fast and tried there as reelection the opposition to hunt challenge the results of last month's vote and ask for a recount from the capital his balcombe with. violent last month's presidential election and widespread rigging according to political opposition but the central african republic constitutional court rejected their demand for a rerun president faust into a day or was announced the winner you can see that was that the candidate favs didn't what they are having reached the absolute majority of the express forwards

is declared elected in the 1st round of the presidential election. i good news for tiger and his allies but the other challenge is the government's fragile grip on power the cool building is in the center of the capital which is one of the few parts of the country is under the control of the government and the foreign armed forces this quarter you know everybody agrees with the court's decision just a few kilometers up the road groups refute the election dispute is result in a threatening to attack the city. they tried last week. forces on the government side for the more. but the rebels have said the government must go. they are a coalition of armed groups backed by former president ford swappers easy to control about 2 thirds of the country's territory and most of it diamond and gold

mines. the communication minister told us they have foreign support we have some suspicions but we cannot say for. european countries. and some countries. for. the passage. for the. president and his government are assisted by russian mercenaries and rwandan troops it's not clear who is covering the costs the government says it's not today or is now due to be sworn in for a 2nd term. we have over criminals who want to divide the country. the u.n. into the elections the international community has seemed desperate for a clear outcome to support the election process however flawed some may see it is

now over the conflict is not. malcolm webb al-jazeera. central african republic. a nationwide internet blackout imposed ahead of elections in uganda has been partially lifted but social media platforms are still blocked president in 71 a 6th term in office but opposition leader bobby wine has rejected that citing widespread irregularities catherine so reports in the capital kampala. or britons that work with were put out of afternoon on a normal day this office at a motorcycle transport ordination will be very busy robert thomson ricky started their own line company that connects motorcycles taxis called put up or does with passengers and food korea's 2 clients so the 5 day blackout affected the company badly over 20000 border boarders borders in each of these people and between predator 50000 people they are between are around 50000 shillings

a day and the action for now what for 5 days. government officials say the shutdown was necessary to crush violent demonstrations that were being planned by opposition leaders like bodyline some political analysts who trusted it was for the best the one who cannot afford now is having another round of is the ability i think shutting down to get it for 3 days or even a week in order to ensure there's a bit of discomfort is a very small price to pay. when it comes to internet shutdowns african countries are among the world's worst offenders according to transparency international cameroon the democratic republic of congo born algeria peru and the if the countries have all shut down or restricted internet during elections or periods of unrest this uganda election observer says only progressive leaders can reverse the

trend if you have for instance a parliament. like the 12th parliament that you know is going to parliament. expect that parliament to be very proactive in terms of championing. a civic culture. that. takes us away from the convention the internet in uganda might have been restored by the political dispute is far from over the winds home and his national unity platform offices are still the siege by security forces he says he has evidence of widespread use regularities in the just concluded polls and will file a petition with the supreme court some election observers say the internet shut down infringed on the rights of ugandans to get information people we spoke to here in the city told us they were frustrated because they were unable to get election

related information as quickly as they would have wanted. many are disappointed that the internet was shut down on important days but they say with election out of the way and internet back up they hope the leaders will settle the dispute peacefully catherine al-jazeera kampala. africa check of the headlines here on al-jazeera an independent panel set up by the world health organization has criticized china's response to the coronavirus interim report says officials could have applied measures more forcefully during the initial outbreak and will have a panel also criticize the only response saying the global pandemic alert system is not fit for purpose the organization says it's too early to comment.