when the health system over sway almost collapsing brazil's school with 19 vaccination campaign finally gets underway. well you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with. also ahead the world health organization's independent panel criticizes china's handling of the coronavirus a war could have been done to contain the outbreak. prime minister just epic on day 5 to save his government does a vote of confidence is about to be held in the senate and

a court in thailand sentences this woman to a wreck it would be 3 year prison sentence for insulting the king. brazil has begun a long awaited distribution of covert 1000 vaccines for people in the gateway to the amazon rain forest vaccines can't come soon enough the health system there is on the verge of collapse says oxygen supplies the window when it came back every forte's. the war room was set up in the warehouse where millions of coated 1000 vaccines had been stored on monday health minister. who 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 moses for the before dug solution 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 to a point that some scientists believed people here had achieved herd immunity the violence of the 2nd wave took them by surprise.

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 were at war. scientists believed. mutated versions of the corona virus discovered in one ouse have found better ways to pierce the immune system but that is not all so probably what's going on. is news stream new leaders. and of course if you get what we're mortals miscible gets a little lesion beds look. very care a little wary rusts liberation going to be added in man hours people watched on television the vaccines being loaded on military planes maybe in the year but so is much of brazil's immunization program brazil was counting on 8000000 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 meineke anarky of all just sirrah my mouse. china is being criticized by an independent panel sent to uncover what really happened in the early days of the corona virus outbreak set up by the world health organization the panel's interim report says officials could have applied measures more forcefully during the initial outbreak in was on the panel also criticized w.h.o. zone response saying the global pandemic alert system is not fit for purpose the full investigation will be released in may senior u.s. health official has called on china to provide evidence to link to the outbreak in was hot including samples taken from the wet market at the center of the investigation. the team which finally route as we will be well may be successful

if it is provided with the following information conway in the possession of chinese authorities 1st all studies produced in china on the presence of saws school the 2 related genetic sequence sequences in animals. animal testing results in and around a problem since ronald samples from the markets if you live in our sense of genetic data circles. have the trump administration has issued an order lifting an entry ban imposed on travelers from brazil and most of europe because of coronavirus but joe biden's incoming team says it won't go ahead the bans where imposed they nearly 2020 they barred most non-u.s. travelers entering the country from the european union the u.k. and brazil the restrictions are due to be lifted in the week after joe biden takes office a new requirement for a covert negative test will also be required she have written these in washington

he says the plans to lift restrictions are based on for incorporation between the countries involved. on the face of it you could say oh no look it's the troubled ministration just sort of flexing its muscles and being difficult for the beit din 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 we no longer 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 journey 26 in fact we plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of covert 19 stronger restrictions on travel potentially being promised by biden's press secretary clearly a. an argument about methodology and about an about strategy towards covert which is very much in keeping with how both biden and the respective teams are discussing things as it goes anyway you know the wild news italian prime minister. dressing santa says right now as he fights to save his ruling coalition by fictious right now from the opera house. on monday county want to vote of no confidence in the

lower house getting a similar vote in the senate is expected to be much tougher and the crisis follows a decision by former prime minister matteo renzi to follow his party's support for what the government will have to stephanie in rome for us so stephanie day 2 of a potential political crisis what are we expecting today. that's right we're probably just watching him the prime minister addressing the senate he's going to have a harder time is need he needs to convince more of them to be on board he doesn't have the numbers for he doesn't have the majority anymore off her. party pulled out so it's going to be another long day we're expecting that vote to happen sort of late afternoon early evening he did win the vote yesterday with more of a majority than people expected today what analysts predict is potentially because there is some word that the members of. the party that pulled out rather than

voting against that he could perhaps end up still with a functioning government but far weaker than before but of course there's still the possibility it's very difficult to predict that he loses the vote in which case you'd have to hand in his resignation then you go into a whole other political crisis but certainly the timing of this for you this is a country that is still reeling from coronavirus still under partial lockdown and it needs to apply you know over $200000000000.00. which is partially what caused this crisis so i was going to ask you how italians felt about all this you know given that the country is sort of partial lockdown and you know all this political crisis i mean how do they feel about this. well of course there are some who support red sea but i think the general consensus is that this is simply not the time to be playing political games to be what many see renzi as trying to sort of strengthen his power when it comes to the cabinet get a better better the positioning if you will particularly as you said you know this is a country with over 80000 deaths coronavirus still remains

a real issue the country's on a partial lockdown what does that mean what it means restaurants and bars are closed which means people are losing a credible a lot of money people are not allowed to travel between provinces or not even a tie in tourism can help some of these areas schools are still partially shot it's still very much a problem it's got the biggest economic debt since world war 2 finally there are so many issues to be addressed here soaring public debt they need to apply the money that's been given by the e.u. in terms of helping the health care system helping the economy so a lot of people are saying you know what now is not the time we've got far more difficult issues here people having issues paying their bills when they looking listening to the politicians trying to you know tit for tat playing political games that they say right now certainly isn't the time thank you for that stephanie decker live for us in rome. security forces in guatemala have moved in on thousands of migrants to prevent them reaching the united states joe biden has aged

migrants and refugees not to make that journey john heilemann reports i the moment guatemalan police broke up a caravan of thousands of people from honduras. was they were trying to get the u.s. but they hadn't made it far just about their own though the town 50 kilometers into guatemala the 1st country in the room was security forces stopped them on saturday saying they needed covert 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 the lorries are running again but the problems of these people remain unresolved honduras is one of the poorest most violent countries in latin america and 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 hasn't save the president wanna learn

though he's been criticized for his handling of the economy the rule of law and democracy itself you're not getting around if the president doesn't want us to leave why doesn't he give us quicken a good salary is increasing taxes actress t. bills the price of gas or 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 heilemann al-jazeera. mexico's president is counting on joe biden's incoming administration to make good on his promises on immigration reform in the compact. in president joe biden's campaign he offered to finalize immigration reform and i hope he is able to achieve this with this commitment there is what i hope and i will acknowledge it and i will celebrate it. have dialogue with migrants in honduras and guatemala so that they can be looked after so that they don't enter the country by force look after them

respect human rights well here you go i think the time has come for the commitment to be fulfilled and that is what we hope. soon ahead on algis there are tens of thousands flee their homes after flash floods hit indonesia and one of america's most popular tourist attractions now resembles a war zone we look at stepped up security on one day before joe biden's inoculation . we're seeing some very heavy rain recently into the philippines little area of cloud here a little clutch of storms making their way into central and northern parts that's been producing some very heavy rainfall i mean may well see developing tropical storm as a result of that you can see where the heaviest rain will be as we go through wednesday more big downpours coming in to the central and northern parts of luzon

seeing some very heavy rain on wednesday and going on into thursday plenty of showers all way down into borneo shadow was stretched across much of southeast asia indonesia also seeing some very heavy already exists a little system to the south of that now that may well develop into a tropical sightread across the northwest of australia at the moment we have this particular system this is what was kimie just running along the eastern side of queensland and that has been producing some very heavy rainfall here we've also seen some heavy rain just into the southeast of queensland but you see this area cloud. just around the came relates awards that could bring some flooding rains in across more than piles of way as we go on through the next couple of days so showers stripes across northern and eastern parts of australia down towards the southeast it is financial i want sunshine in melbourne but notice it does time very wet and dry when they for new zealand.

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a long awaited call the 19 vaccine distribution program for people in the house the gateway to the amazon raids rain forests vaccinations can't happen soon enough now system there is on the verge of collapse the trump administration has issued a mass minute order lifting a coronavirus entry ban on travis from brazil and most of europe but joe biden's incoming team says they won't let that happen their assertions are due to be lifted the week capture biden takes office and italy's prime minister decepticon days addressing senators as he fights to save his ruling coalition on monday conti won a vote of no confidence in the lower house the crisis follows a decision by former prime minister my tail renzi to call his body's support for him from the government. to thailand now where a court has handed a record 43 year jail sentence to a woman for insulting the king the former civil servant was found guilty on $29.00 counts of violating thailand's straits laws criticizing the war narky rights group said she had posted audiotapes on social media the sentence comes amid ongoing

protests calling for the monarchy to be reformed and the political system overhauled right to a sentencing the woman known only as on child said she now understood what she had done. so i didn't really think it through and was too confident and not being careful enough to realise it at the time that it was appropriate this is a big lesson for me to live to our correspondent in bangkok scott heide lescott tell us more about this guilty verdict in the background to all this. you know as you mentioned folly should be sentenced to 43 years now that is actually half of what she was initially sentenced to predicted to be sentenced to or indicated to be sentenced to but she thought of the guilty plea and that's what have her time to be served in jail on this is something that's pretty customary for these article 112 the defamation law against the royal family here as it's known article 112 and so

we knew about her case for quite some time it started 6 years ago just after the most recent coup and as you mentioned she had posted audio clips to facebook and youtube and there were deemed. against a monarchy again this kind of law insulting the monarchy here is one of the most strict in the world and we're seeing that now it's very interesting to see you know how this is kind of come through you know she was initially held in jail for 2 years then she was released on bail and then came back and we've heard this verdict just now it's very interesting you know because there are a lot of other cases pending right now but this one is the longest sentence that has been put down again 43 years the one before this was 35 years yes so what does that mean for the ongoing anti-establishment protests and and the calls for a change in the rules they. well what you can see this as

is a clear message coming from the establishment here in thailand i say that the government as well as the monarchy this is a case that has been going on as i mentioned for 6 plus years what we're looking at right now we're looking at an anti stablished movement that has been going on now for about 7 months and the political taboo the highest political taboo in the land here in thailand is as we can see by the sentence is talking about the monarchy it's something that really has not been done in the past until this movement really broached that say 4 or 5 months ago and we have seen a flood of article 112 cases being filed being sent to the police focused on these protest leaders about 50 in just the last several months from from november onward so that is obviously a move by the government here by the establishment here to send a message to those protesters look at this is what could possibly happen scott thank you for that live for us and bangkok. in indonesia more than

a dozen people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated after flash floods across the country on monday president visited flooded areas in the south on province heavy rains battered the region for over a week bursting river banks and submerging villages and towns environments they say the deadly floods are a stock reminder of the climate change risks affecting the region jessica washington has this update from jakarta. this crisis began on the 9th of january and 10 days later is still no indication of when it might come to an end authorities say that flooding in some areas has already receded but in others heavy rain continues yesterday's president djoko widodo visited some of these affected areas and he did note that this is the worst flooding that south has experienced in at least 50 years and he said and this is what the line has been from the government thus far that heavy rain is to blame so far authorities say they have evacuated most people from the affected areas just based on what we've heard from

all sources on the ground some people are choosing to remain in their homes because they say they don't want to leave all their possessions behind we know so far that 15 people have been sadly confirmed dead and at least 40000 are in evacuation centers to give you an idea of the scale of this crisis there are 13 districts in south delhi mountain and at least 11 have been impacted by this flooding the military has already started distributing aid but efforts a complicated by the code 19 situation ordinarily would be volunteers flying in from all over in geneva to assist in a crisis like this that simply cannot happen this year this particular part of indonesia deforestation is a major issue judy mining and palm oil plantations a large percentage of the land has been cleared and environmental groups say that this is what is exacerbating this crisis and making the floods so much worse this year from what we've heard from all sources on the ground some communities which

have never experienced flooding in the pauls are now doing so this year. the u.s. capitol is under a security lockdown ahead of wednesday's phrase eventually inauguration the secret service is carrying out one of its largest operations to date biden's inauguration will be held on wednesday right outside the capitol building officials are urging the public to stay away because of concerns of a security and also call the 19 the capitol building and nearby areas out part of a red no go zone for almost soul vehicles most of it has been fenced off just beyond that is a green zone it's still open to residents and local businesses but close to everyone else john hendren has more from the streets of washington. this is where washington d.c. is green zone ends and the red zone begins these are some of the 21000 guard troops who've been called in to protect the capitol by wednesday when joe biden is inaugurated there will be 25000 of them and there was a bit of

a scare because of the fire near the capitol there was some concern that that was an external threat the capitol was shut down people were asked to stay away from doors and windows and people who were outside rehearsing the inauguration were asked to clear the area to evacuate and now the 25000 national guard troops who are here are being vetted because there was a report that there was possibly someone inside this a curate area that was helping someone outside with a potential threat that's why each of these national guard members are now being vetted to make sure they don't have any ties to these outside groups as you can see there's new razor wire that has been added on top of the heavy fortifications already here so you curity is tight now but only likely to get tighter. meanwhile a truck was spotted at donald trump's future home in florida he plans to live at his mile of the resort in palm beach after his time ends on wednesday trump is expected to leave washington on wednesday morning hours before joe biden takes the

presidential oath and the outgoing 1st lady has posted a farewell message on social media and warned against violence and calls for unity . in the midst of her cheap we have seen the best of america shine through students have made cards and delivered groceries to our senior citizens teachers have worked twice as hard to keep our children learning families have come together to provide meals supplies comfort and friendship to those in need. be passionate in everything you do but always remember that violence is never to answer and will never be justified. by uganda has accused the u.s. of trying to court blatantly meddle with last week's disputed presidential election this is up to washington's ambassador to come pollard try to visit opposition leader bobby wine wine claims president you were in the 70s reelection was

fraudulent his win under house arrest since the weekend uganda's government spokesman says the u.s. ambassador natalie brown was attempting to subvert the will of the people in tunisia they have been running street battles between protesters and police for a 4th day in a row demonstrators have been gathering across several cities to vent their anger against the government the coronavirus pandemic has crippled an already failing economy that depends on tourism a 3rd of the country's young people are without a job priyanka gupta reports. another night of under arrest in tunisia young protesters reaching against unemployment poverty and police brutality in some of the country's poorest neighborhoods they say there's nothing left to loose even the threat of the coronavirus pandemic and a curfew aren't enough to keep them at home but at a corner of the earth coronavirus people are buying and there is a curfew from 4 pm we don't care about color of water so all the things for you dos

and find us work. for some the games of the arab spring which led to the ouster of former president seen a lot but then barely 10 years ago seemed like a distant memory and a thought as to the obvious is there i was 20 years old when the revolution happened and the people are out in the streets right now and 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 but it was depressed and visited one of the cities near the capital and called for calm but if you don't have the pleasure i know the status 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 mourned against the use of excessive force. for now these

protesters have vowed to stay on the streets despite the army the petition says and the police. i do see are. in russia about 25 people have been arrested in st petersburg after protesters rallied in support of kremlin critic alexina parker and over the years the rebel protestors were taken one by one to nearby police buses of army has been jailed for 30 days so reaching parole conditions the russian opposition politician was arrested at a moscow head or airport on sunday he was returning from germany where he'd been treated for nerve agent poisoning charlie rangel has more. outside of moscow police station protesters demand alexina valley's release inside the kremlin's chief critic found himself in front of a judge in a hastily convened court an urge to supporters to take to the streets against vladimir putin. what is this toad sitting on

a pipeline most afraid of what are these thieves from the bunker most afraid of you know the answer people protesting on the streets because that is the thing the political factor that cannot be ignored it's the most important thing but essence of politics so don't be afraid go out on the streets not for me but for yourselves and your future. the valley was detained on arrival from berlin on sunday arrested for breaking parole on a suspended sentence the reason he missed his parole hearing is because he was in a coma after being poisoned with another chalk nerve agent doctors say he should still be resting and recovering from the attack which many countries believe was sanctioned by the kremlin outside the police station his lawyers and journalists were denied entry into the impromptu court city but stars behind that those 2 actually i did not understand why the hearing is taking place at a police station why was no one informed or notified i have seen

a lot of times the mockery of justice but it looks like the old man in his bunker was so scared of everything that the criminal procedures codes have been blatantly torn up and thrown out what's happening here is just impossible this is the highest degree of lawlessness germany the u.k. and the u.s. have all demanded his immediate release store sign. through its own constitution and its international obligations is tied to the principles of rule of law and the protection of civic rights which obviously also goes for mr valma these principles must be applied which means nothing else but to immediately release mr not only. but russia's foreign minister has scoffed at the reaction from the west and says a values detention is legal or you know the case of pneumonia has given foreign political resonance artificially baselessly everything is happening to nirvana in connection with his returning detention for was within the competence of the law

enforcement forces. novelli will now be hold for 30 days he says he's not afraid because truth is on his side in this important election year for putin truth might not be enough to set him free charlie anja al jazeera. so again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera brazil has begun its covert 1000 vaccine distribution program for people in malice the gateway to the amazon rain forest. can't come soon enough the health system there is on the verge of collapse and oxygen supplies are critically low china is being criticized by an independent panel sent to uncover what happened in the early days of the call and a virus outbreak the interim report says officials could have applied measures more forcefully during the initial outbreak in washington.