up to date with what's happening on the ground in the woods and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.-h. and making healthy a world for you. to everyone. at least 32 people killed in twin suicide blasts of the market in the iraqi capital but. a lot nick lot of this is out there in life and also coming up u.s. president joe biden signs of a series of executive orders reversing donald trump's controversial policies on climate change immigration and the fight against over 19. the u.s. says it will now join the world health organizations kovacs project to deploy

capered $900.00 vaccines around the world. a twitter lots out the chinese embassy in the u.s. what it called a dehumanizing pace of change in the week is. certainly started see people have been killed and more than 100 injured in twin suicide bombings in the iraqi capital it happened in a market in central baghdad and it's the most violent incident in 3 years nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack but the government is blaming eisel legs here brian has this report. the market in baghdad's tire on square was packed with people making the most of a sunny winter's day. and we were there by the stands one man came to the ground started complaining of my stomach is hurting he pressed the detonator in his hand exploded immediately people were torn to pieces

a lot of people died and were injured. the interior ministry says that as more people flocked around the victims the 2nd bomb went off. it's the deadliest attack in central baghdad since january 28th seen it also happened in tire on square similar bombings were commonplace in the capital in the early 2000 after the us led invasion and later as isis influence group across the country but after the government declared eisel defeated in 2017 such attacks became rare we need to bring you. into an enormous bill bringing new ideas. and you are specially present in the many important. what were your rights you know are we eventually or how. moment. was just a few blocks from thailand is tahrir square the same turf more than

a year of anti-government protests demanding better security more opportunities and less foreign interference the protesters also want elections which have been postponed to october analysts say several groups could benefit from thursday's bombings we witnessed a continuous and a very prominent rhetoric from a lot of politicians and a lot of militia leaders that continues the war in iraq in one way or another and directly in this movement that the government will only be 2 nations that would remind us the isis. the blasts come just awake. after the us confirmed it had cost its troop levels in iraq just $2500.00 the lowest levels in nearly 2 decades but just this week iraq's an extra soldiers to its border with syria and a town north of baghdad where i still still has a presence. security now also stepped up and baghdad to

prevent any more attacks brian al jazeera so manifold and has been following events in baghdad. we're here at the side of the incident in baghdad central square disses the market where the bombs went off earlier on thursday on the floor we can see burnt pieces of clothing there is also quite a bit of blood that is still spilled which we're not showing you because it may be too graphic and people here are still very much in shock they can't believe that science such incidents could once again return to baghdad which has been relatively stable and peaceful since 2017 since eisel was officially defeated now many believe although there is not official claim of responsibility yet is that these a tag bears the hallmarks of i saw what appears to have happened is that the 1st

suicide bomber fame sickness to attract people to wards him to help him and after the 1st bomb went off and people gathered to help the wounded that's when the 2nd suicide bomber hits now you can see right now that many of the shops here are closed security forces have told people to stay home to disperse in case there would be further attacks but normally this area will be extremely busy it will be bustling with people doing their shopping at this time of the day and many people that i've spoken to they are very fearful that this incident could perhaps mark the return of such suicide bombings to talk about the return of instability it's only been a few years since life has really returned to normal in the capital with people once again going about their daily lives about having to worry about explosion we've seen concrete walls that surrounded buildings to protect them from from such blasts come down again revealing really the city and some of its architectural

heritage so there there is quite a lot of shock there is quite a lot of fear about what this incident means for the broader stability of the city but of course we have to wait and see what the investigations will reveal and we have to still wait for the official claim of responsibility. joe biden the $46.00 president of the united states is already making his mark at the oval office after one of the most bitterly contested and chaotic elections in american history he spent the 1st few hours of his presidency undoing some of the most controversial actions of his predecessor told trump mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the 46 president of the united states arrives at his new residence and he kept his word and went immediately to work his 1st action in the oval office was to sign a series of executive orders striking at the heart of his precesses policy legacy the mask in the oval another striking departure the 1st order.

to. have authority. from. interstate commerce and center also among the orders the return of the united states to the paris climate accord a reversal of the decision to leave the world health organization the lifting of the ban on travel from some muslim majority countries and an immediate cancellation of the state of emergency that donald trump proclaimed in order to begin building a wall on the mexican border these are actions done at the stroke of a pen but other fundamental changes such as a new coronavirus relief bill and immigration reform will require the cooperation and participation of congress please raise your way hand and in the senate the new

vice president swore in 3 new democrat senators that in a chamber now are split 5050 it's a 49 vice president who will have the casting vote. as the new senate majority leader takes over today the threat to our democracy from the presidency itself has ended but the challenges we face as a nation remain in the wake of violence into the asian hatred mistruths and from the republican leader warm words for joe biden who came to this chamber as senator for delaware 49 years ago so i can grow droit my friend from delaware look forward to working with him as our new president wherever possible and as it gets to work the senate approves the 1st stuff the new cabinet appointments every haynes is confirmed as director of national intelligence by 84 votes to 10 marking

a bipartisan start to the new senate then the renewal of an old tradition that had fallen into disuse in recent months the 1st of what i intended to be daily briefings by the new press secretary under the sky turns from the president his objective and his commitment is to bring transparency and truth back to government to share the truth even when it's hard to hear and that's something that i hope to deliver on in this role as well president biden and the 1st lady arrived at the lincoln memorial for the final event of this inauguration day a day that took place in the shadow of a pandemic and the threat of political violence. but which ended in the celebration of what the new president promises is the beginning of a better and kind era. mike hanna out to sea or washington. biden's

climate envoy john kerry says the u.s. will need to significantly ramp up measures to tackle climate change it ministration is aiming to achieve net 0 emissions by 2050 and one of biden's face acts as president was rejoining the parents of cold there are challenges reynolds reports now from los angeles but working on that right now i don't want to get ahead of a lot but i want rejoining the paris accords is one step in president joe biden strategy to fight global warming biden plans to spend $1.00 trillion dollars on rapidly deploying clean energy technology around the country with an enforcement mechanism to reach 1st stage goals by 2025 and the final goal of 0 emissions by 2050 biden says he'll pay for that by repealing some of the trump era tax cuts for corporations scientists say biden must also work hard to dispel

climate change skepticism and convince people to act the basic answers to the problem or not in technological change there and changing human behavior i've been should do everything possible working with social psychologists to develop narratives that will people. in the direction of greater social responsibility and greater understanding of the existential threats biden says his plan will create millions of jobs and some economists who have studied it agree i asked him a did. that to a program create between roughly 3 and 6000000 new jobs in the united states are meant to be continued investing at that level that's far more than the fewer than 200000 people who currently work in the oil gas and coal industries for every job created in manufacturing or instruction there are many

additional jobs created in the economy from the spending bill. as workers are high wage jobs with excellent benefits in addition to ignoring global warming the trumpet ministration drastically loosened environmental regulations and least protected federal lands for mining and drilling some of what trump has done is reversible but what you never get back is the years that you watched in the thing to know about climate change it's the 1st trouble we've ever come up against with real time now it is we do not sell it and we will never settle in we just fast way for years that we could have been working on solving it there is much work to be done and the climate clock is ticking rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles at least 5 people have died in india after a fire broke out at the world's largest vaccine manufacturer the building was under construction and being erected to boost manufacturing of covert $1000.00 vaccines

serum institute of india says production will not be affected the course of the 5 is not immediately clear the company has been contracted to manufacture a 1000000000 tosses of the astra zeneca oxford university vax. lebanon is extending its national lockdown for another week as it coronavirus deaths in infections continue to rise restrictions will now be in force until february 8th doctors are warning that hospital beds at nearing capacity lebanon has seen around $5000.00 infections per day for the past month more than 2000 people have died since you have break began. so ahead here on out 0 civilians are bearing the brunt says rebels in central african republic continue a violent campaign to oust president. denise is a quake victims say help can't come fast enough and heavy rain and rescue.

it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways we are swapping snow for rain across japan over the next couple of days it should be largely dry having said that across northern parts of japan where we have recently seen a fair bit of snow coming through the snow will gradually peter out as we go on through friday for those northern areas of honshu through hokkaido but it will cloud over through the korean peninsula easing into q.c. and also into southern parts of honshu when that rain will set in more so as we go on through saturday but as i said at least towards the north a chance to dry out some crisp sunshine coming through sunshine too across so by this stage across the korean peninsula parts at least to be just around 9 celsius lotty dry for a good part of china central and eastern policy much as cash. nothing too much to speak of here why showers to into the far southeast of india but for the most part

it doesn't dry across a good part of south asia we have got a little disturbance making its way out of afghanistan through northern parts of pakistan and gradually saying that's a wetter weather that wintry weather pushing over towards the far northwest of india through jamel and kashmir it does bring with it the risk of the elevated risk of avalanches staying foggy warnings in force there right across the northern plain . qatar airways ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally easter basically archaic walls often legitimize and legal one is pedophile. online jumping to the quick section and the team to. this stream on out is there.

are going to watchdog 0 remind about top stories this hour and at least $32.00 people have been killed and dozens wounded in twin suicide attacks in iraq's capital explosions happened in the central baghdad market suicide attacks have become rather city lost what happened in 2019. hours after being sworn in as the 46 president of the united states joe biden has signed 17 executive orders and action dismantling some of donald trump's contentious policies they create a rollback of the immigration battle with limbs having the u.s. rejoin the parents live. in another break with the trump administration's

controversial legacy the country's top infectious disease expert and city felt she has announced the u.s. will return to the world health organization and he says america will help fight coronavirus at home and abroad. to announce that the united states will remain a member of the world health organization. yesterday president biden signed the letters retracting the previous administration's announcement to withdraw from the organization the united states stands ready to work in partnership and solidarity to support the international covert 'd 1000 response let's cross across one of them for who joins us from washington d.c. and islands a raft of new covert measures on day one of the biting ministration. what's most important is that there's going to be a national strategy that to be unveiled by joe biden is going to speak to his

covert task force he's then going to make remarks to the public 10 executive orders to follow up as well among the things that he's planning to do is to increase funding to schools he's also going to say that departments across the whole federal government should use the defense procurement act if they are not getting the response from private companies they need there's also going to be money for personal protection gear and also things like syringes because it turns out that when the by the administration walked into the white house there was no plan to get the vaccine out into the country you'll remember that joe biden has promised that he's going to get 100000000 doses into arms in the fast 100 days the had been complaints from the biden transition team that they simply went getting a response from the white house when they wanted to know what the plans where turns out there were no plans now according to the by the ministration they've come in and they've found that there simply wasn't a national plan to distribute the vaccine we know this 16000000 vaccines have been

issued that 60000000 have been distributed but there was no plan beyond that and that doesn't seem to be a huge reserve joe biden is or the added logistics people to his covert team it's clear that the issues that they thought they had with covert are going to be a lot watch so he's got that problem as well but the whole idea of a national covert plan is part of this 10 day themed rule all of joe biden's plans today they're looking at covert in how to combat the vaccine and on friday it will all be be about the economic fallout and what the federal government can do to help ordinary people is it a return to business as it used to be in the president's office in this new administration or how would you. well there was certainly a feeling among trump and trump's supporters that part of the federal government had to be broken it simply wasn't walking for people and over the last 24 hours

we've seen a return to what we've been used to in the past with the press secretary coming into the briefing room and having a briefing saying she is going to do that every day so we'll get an idea of what the president's thinking not from twitter but from his press secretary who will actually speak to him we've got an idea too that she says there will be confrontations but how intention is to be honest with the american people getting information out and of course joe biden made a big deal of a return to on a state journeys and during his inauguration speech so she spent her self to that and then there's even just the idea of a daily sched jewel from the president before since the election up until yesterday we were getting a note from the trump white house that the president would be making calls and having meetings from airlie in the morning until late at night the benefit of the american people this time we had almost laid out by the hour what joe biden was going to do and of course as i say part of that is

a daily press briefing what is interesting is that jen psaki finished a briefing note with the might drop moments that we've come to see from killing mcanany as she catered to an audience of one but actually said this was fun let's do it again tomorrow we know that donald trump always thought he was his own best press spokesman we saw that when he went on to twitter and he came to sideline this press secretaries jen psaki says she's going to be there every single day joe biden all of the sle wants to make sure that when the american people hear the news the hear what he believes is the full unvarnished truth even if it's not something he's comfortable with or i don't think the official in washington d.c. . china has expressed concern over twitter's decision to block the account of its u.s. embassy social media giant blocked the account after its controversial post defending beijing's policies towards weak of muslims in this region the embassy tweeted that we get women were no longer baby machines thanks to government policies to

eradicate extremism twitter says this violates its policy on dehumanization china has been accused by rights groups of forcing it we were in women to have a sterilizations and take birth control in china denies the accusations. heavy rain is hampering efforts to get aid to survivors of a powerful earthquake or indy's is to the way xian and thousands in the cities a magazine and mood you are displaced the people in affected villages say help has been concentrated in the city center and those on the outskirts of struggling just to washington has more now from jakarta. on these an island a soon see these villages the trying to shelter under simple top pollens after their homes were destroyed by the $6.00 magnitude earthquake and the sri is worried they running out of essential to survive just fine we need milk and baby food you see the conditions the poor children these are not conditions for children

makeshift camps like this one have sprung up around west so the way i see what authorities are struggling to get aid to all of them. closer to the city center evacuation centers are better resourced president joko widodo visited one this week and pledged support for the affected areas. as for the collapsed houses the government will provide help for those that were heavily damaged. but some were not reassured by the president's words rebuilding the city is not the priority for many as they scramble for food and clean water and in the. we are lacking clean water diapers milk and blankets it is so cold here during the night local n.g.o.s and workers from government agencies say the heavy rain and challenging geography of the area makes it difficult to access some communities far from the city center. the government was 1st we need more tents for them the

weather is so unpredictable sometimes it rains sometimes it's really hot and at night the wind is so strong and cold. indonesia's disaster management agency is working with hundreds of military personnel and volunteers to reach these makeshift shelters. in remote areas i mean. together with the police and military we are delivering aid to those isolated places with helicopters to the places we haven't reached yet we are using heavy machinery to open access to deliver the aid that takes time but we are trying our best. and covered 19 travel restrictions have only added to complications on the ground with fewer volunteers a bailable to help out just 2 weeks into 2021 intermediate is battling multiple natural disasters across the country meteorologists warned the extreme weather could last until the end of february and has the potential to reach even more just by washington al-jazeera. at least 100000 people have been forced from their homes

after rebel attacks in central african republic during last month's disputed elections opposition politicians say the vote was rigged and a rebel coalition outside the capital says that president fast onto there and his government must go. reports now from punky where civilians are bearing the brunt of the fines. were bang hoped digging for gold would pay for his education he worked at a mine in the bush here in the central african republic he bought a new motorbike to get there on his way home he says militia held him up stole it and then told him to lie face down on the ground he refused you don't know them if you want to kill me with my face as we were talking he shot me in one leg i started screaming esau a could still walk safely shut the other then i couldn't walk anymore.

the bones in moyes legace shattered with it his plan to study. it was a passer by who through this hospital in the capital. it's run by the charity doctors without borders. the manager says many others lucky the armed groups who want to overthrow the government control most of the country or wondered if maybe some hundreds or even 1000 people we do not have any right to groups and dream discount of because. everybody is more in the bush and are not able to stay in the villages i think that's all the kind of care he's limited the violence escalated before during and after elections held last month political opposition say they were rigged un peacekeepers russian mercenaries and when the troops support the government. and a bit of territory around it is one of the few parts of the country that's firmly under the control of the foreign forces the support the government the city sits on

the banks of the river. more than a 10th of central africans have fled the violence the neighboring countries most of them across the river to the democratic republic of congo on the other side inside the country more than half of its 5000000 people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. sandrine natalie is one of them she told us nothing is more terrifying than waking up to find yourself in the middle of a battle when you're 7 months pregnant now she's staying here at a relative's house also at 5 in the morning i was woken up by the sound of heavy weapons they were shooting rockets he did my room traumatised i didn't know what to do when the situation got come i took my children and walked for 6 hours to get to hospital. the current crisis here began 8 years ago when armed groups overthrew the

government of the time. when these people fled their homes they've been living on the plastic sheeting ever since the conflict has continued for as long and so has its devastating effect on people's lives. now come web al jazeera central african republic. lawyers of the ugandan opposition leader but we wanted to wait to hear the outcome of a petition challenging his house arrest after last week's disputed election probably wind has been prevented from leaving his home to declaring victory in a vote the opposition says was marred by widespread fraud and violence electoral throaty says that long time president you when he was 71 a 6th term in office with almost 50 percent of the vote while bobby wine secured just 35 percent katherine sawyer has this update from my chair close to the wind. well the wise lawyers have finally been allowed to go and see him but for us journalists this is the end of the road we have been prevented from going farther

he leaves about 500 meters from this bar and he has said that he's under house arrest he's been confined to his home since friday not been allowed to have visitors journalists have been blocked in the u.s. ambassador here natalie brown has also been denied access to him she says he she just wanted to see how he's doing how he's health is but security officials are spoken to have been very careful with that word arrest they have said that he is not under house arrest what they have provided is a cover a a for his protection and 2 because of national security threats and that is the basis that his lawyers went to court today to ask the judge to compel security forces to produce him to court if he is not in the house arrest they say that that he is because confinement is not justified it is indefinite and that he's

confinement is he's being confined at a place that is not does that ad buy low it's his home it's not a prison facility now the prosecution on the other hand says that this case lacks merit because he is not under police custody and the police cannot be compelled to produce him if he is not under their custody the judge say that he's going to make his ruling on monday. this is out there these are the top stories in at least $32.00 people being killed and dozens wounded in twin suicide attacks in iraq's capital the explosions happened in the central baghdad market sabrina fulton went to the scene of the explosion in baghdad's tyrone square something on the floor we can see burned pieces of clothing there is also quite a bit of slots that are still filled which were not showing you because of maybe.