actually. exposing the secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. and the health system struggling to cope i'll just leave the investigation. but still the world. held the way. it was president joe biden signs 10 executive orders to boost the country's covert 1000 response but warns of a difficult road it's. just about that from the headquarters in doha in derry you know we gave also coming up the u.s. says it will now join the world health organization's kovacs project to share a covert $1000.00 vaccines around the world twin suicide bomb attacks in iraq stop

it's all targeted a crowded market killing at least $32.00 people and injuring more than $100.00 the un envoy to the central african republic asks for more peacekeepers as rebels try to surround the capital they're angry about the president's reelection. thanks for joining us he's calling it a full scale war time strategy to be covert 19 in the past few hours the us president joe biden has signed a string if executive orders aimed at speeding up the response to the pandemic which is claimed the lives of more than $400000.00 americans so his plan includes making it mandatory for people to wear masks and requiring international travelers to quarantine when they arrive in the u.s. biden is inheriting a vaccine rollout that he calls a dismal failure the new measures also include improving testing and inoculations

these executive orders come a year to the day when the 1st case of the corona virus was reported in the u.s. . we didn't get into this mess overnight it's going to take months for us to turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat this pandemic and to a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way to day to day i am would value the national strategy on covert 90 and executive actions to be to spend demi from our plan let's bring in mike hanna who's running us on washington d.c. so what marketing tell us about the take away messages and also any reaction to biden's plan. well it's an incredibly wide ranging plan contained in a series of executive orders that he passed in the course of the day these range from establishing a testing panel to ensure that testing is being conducted throughout the country

improvement of sex scene lines of distribution which president biden say was absolutely desperate when his administration took over and this is one of the marks that we've heard from several biden officials is that there has been no federal strategy behind combating the pandemic one insider saying that when the previous sessions were asked for their strategic plan there simply was not one so this is obviously a major issue in terms of conducting the ongoing pandemic but a lot of executive orders dealing for example with safety in workplaces safety in schools how to open them safely and expanding on that national mosque mandate on federal property that was announced in joe biden's 1st executive order and his 1st day in office he's expanded that to include wearing masks in airports now it's a very unclear as to whether the federal government has got the power to do this

but by they're not pushing ahead with this he's insisting that where a mosque is the single most important thing that americans can do to play their part in combating this pandemic and mike we did see a familiar face in the white house press briefing dr faust she is making a comeback what did he have to say. well there's no doubt that a lot of americans breathed a sigh of relief when they saw dr anthony fauci in that briefing podium in the white house once more he'd been sidelined throughout the last months of the tram presidency. briefed reporters and the american public on various issues particularly on the various strains that are now emerging confirming that the mutant from the united kingdom is now in more than 20 states but stressing this does not mean that people get sicker but it may mean that the infection spreads more easily which has its own host of problems dr fox making very clear as well

that if the vaccine can get to 75 percent of the american public by the summer in a few months time then there is the possibility of a herd immunity being built up and this would be a major step in combating the pandemic but very very cautious choosing his words carefully choosing his words carefully too about his experiences under the previous president and the difficulties that he had it as a scientist in dealing with that this is what dr fox he had to say. it was very clear that there were things that were said. regarding things like a drug c. clora quinn and other things like that that really was uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific fact i can tell you i take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president so it was really something that you didn't feel that you could actually say something and there wouldn't be any repercussions about it the idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know what the

evidence what the sciences and no that's it let the science speak it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. now one of the executive orders that president biden signed yesterday was reestablishing the united states as part of the world health organization and there's been very quick action on this dr pollack she in fact took part in a virtual briefing with the w.h.o. in the course of the day so this is moving very quickly to reestablish the united states as a patna within the world health organization to help combat the pandemic both within the united states and of course further afield all right mike hanna reporting from washington mike thank you so much well california has become one an epicenter of cover 1000 in the u.s. and is now one of the worst hit states it's imposed some of the country's toughest restrictions in an effort to contain the pandemic joining us now from los angeles

so what what do you think the impact will be. on a state like california which is a very badly hit. well there in certainly biden's plan of action will be much appreciated by public health officials and political leaders here in california where the governor and the mayor of los angeles and many others have long complained and expressed their frustration . at the absence of any national plan. as mike hanna was just telling us from the former administration the instead really don't do all the responsibility for a dealing with a virus and coded 1000 hand vaccination on the states and on the localities there are 35000 people who've lost their lives and yet here where i am in the county of los angeles more than 14000 people have succumbed to the virus and as you

said this is really the epicenter and the big issue here in los angeles right now is the lack of facts seen there the county health department put out a bulletin recently saying vaccine doses in the county are in extremely short supply and you don't need to be a epidemiologist a statistician to do the simple math there are 10000000 people approximately in los angeles county out of that there are about 800000 doctors nurses hospital workers and other front line people who are supposed to get their vaccinations as a matter of the 1st priority and then beyond that there's 1300000 people approximately who are age 65 or older so that's a lot of people but only 800 in 50000 doses of the vaccine has been sent to this jurisdiction by the federal government all in the hands of the federal government to distribute this and then it's up to the states and the localities to actually

get the vaccine as they say into the arms of the people who need it now at this point certainly widens. its president biden's son outspent that he's going to ramp up production by any means possible using the defense production act which is kind of a wartime emergency act is also a very welcome sir note here in this in battle county but people are projecting that at the rate things are go. and now it might be june before the over 60 five's are all vaccinated and of course that means that other people in vulnerable groups and younger people are just going to have to wait that much longer rides are brunell's reporting from los angeles thank you. the netherlands is imposing its 1st curfew since world war 2 arguments approved the overnight curfew to try to stop the spread of a more contagious corona virus mutation on wednesday and banned flights from

britain south africa and south america where the variance is present and portugal is also banning flights from the u.k. over fears about that very into a just sweeping across the country it's also closing schools and universities for 15 days there are fears that hospitals could be overwhelmed with the rise in infections ambulances are queuing outside hospitals waiting for beds to become available france could be heading to another lockdown if cases continue to rise health officials are worried about the potential spread of the new more contagious variants of the virus they're recommending people wear surgical masks instead of the fabric face coverings. and other news and iraq's prime minister has reshuffled several top security officials after a twin suicide bombing in baghdad on thursday eisel has now claimed responsibility for that attack which killed at least $32.00 people and injured more than 100 others it's the most violent incident there in 3 years similar to fulton reports

grief and shock in baghdad market after the deadliest suicide attack in years some people pick through charred clothes in search of human remains others like sit in silence to guard to block the emerging dice of friends who lost their lives he wasn't around when the explosion went off but arrived minutes later to find the dead. so why do they target these markets. all of them are. people they sell this. why did these people have to die it was a sunny cold winter day when 2 suicide bombers targeted the busy market on thursday morning killing more than 30 people and wounding more than 100 hasan has a shop tucked away in a side street and escaped the carnage. it happened in the

morning there was a young man he came here and pretended as if he fell down he wore a picture to help build and came to get him when they tried to carry him he detonated the bomb. as people ran to help the wounded a 2nd bomb exploded no one has claimed responsibility some accuse political parties and their armed factions of stirring tensions but many say the attacks per the hallmarks of eisel. the blast comes just a week after the u.s. confirmed it had cut its troop levels in iraq to 2500 citing gains in the fight against eisel in recent years i still sleeper cells have resulted mainly to get our style tactics targeting security forces and civilians in rural areas but have been unable to pull off major attacks in towns. yet officials admit iraqi security forces lack the expertise to fight the insurgency and. after speaking with military

and security officials i now know we are still lacking training experts weapons and also the need to share intelligence why am i saying this simply because i saw or certain i saw rings are still active and on the move in iraq namely an island on the outskirts of car kerk a most i saw on some terrorist groups still have a firm presence in iraq. the site attacks were common before i saw territorial get in touch 17 but there have been few since then many fear that this twin bombing could herald the return of instability to iraq's capital as the country heads towards elections in october this year. within hours of the attacks mourners were carrying the coffins of 2 of the victims through the square. their anger at the government's inability to prevent an attack it says it knew was coming the government has promised to investigate the bombings but few here expect anyone

will be brought to justice soon want to fulton al jazeera but that still ahead on al-jazeera a petition for freedom and your opposition leader waits to hear a court decision challenging his house arrest europe makes plans to phase out you're burning cars but can it retain its technological autonomy while doing that it's. we've got some other wet weather pushing into the southeast of the u.s. at the moment and some wintry weather pushing across central parts of canada with this area of low pressure just easing across ontario into quick back a little pushes where it was a canadian maritimes now inauguration day would stay in they say it was 5 and

that's when flies but nothing much to speak of similar picture as it go on through friday the winds if anything to back having said that let me go with the last of the snow just pushing away from that eastern side of canada come friday still some bits and pieces of rain around the panhandle let's look further west where the rain is rather more welcome we'll see some wet weather and some wintry weather coming in across california still quite a brisk wind here but it is now if sipek coldest of that will help with the fires that do continue to burn in one of 2 places we have got snow coming back in across the rockies the southern rock is saying if they're all scattering pushing across the northern plains by the time we come to sassed a bit dry and bright bright and breezy clouds the shades weather there around the eastern seaboard as we make our way into the weekend trying to get parts of the caribbean as well ia western side of the region will still see some showers just coming into honduras guatemala easing up towards year khatam peninsula a scattering of showers across the yard is for the most part is fine.

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going to top stories on al jazeera u.s. president joe biden announced a national strategy and signed an executive order several of them to tackle the coronavirus pandemic being food making wearing masks mandatory and requiring international travelers to quarantine when they arrive in the u.s. america's top expert on infectious diseases says the u.s. will remain a member of the world health organization dr anthony felt she also said it will continue funding the agency reversing a trump directive iraq's prime minister has received several top security officials after a twin suicide bombing in baghdad on thursday i saw have claimed responsibility for the attack which killed at least 32 people in the ft more than 100 injured. a 15 day state of emergency has started in the central african republic in an attempt to stop rebel attacks a new alliance of armed groups known as the coalition of patriots for changes trying to get rid of president archons to watery at least

a 100000 people have been displaced since last ones violence over a disputed election malcolm webb has the latest on the capital bangui. a coalition of armed groups controls about 2 thirds of the central african republic territory and indeed to most of the country's gold and diamond mines they're also not far from where we are here in the capital borghi they've been threatening to attack it they did attack it last week but they were 4th off by forces along with the government that includes the national army un peacekeepers but the most effective prices are russian mercenaries and rwandan troops now the forces along with the government complain that it's not a fair fight because of the arms involved or they say they adhere to it but they say that their enemy the armed groups do not they say that means the army much heavier higher caliber weapons and rockets they have to fight against the communications minister we spoke to him a couple of days ago even said he thinks those armed groups are getting support and

weaponry from other countries in the region and possibly even from some european countries as well the united nations envoy to the central african republic has appealed to the security council to increase its peacekeeping operations there to u.n. peacekeepers were killed on monday during an attack christine salumi has the latest from the u.n. in new york. the head of the united nations peacekeeping mission in the central african republic as well as the country's foreign minister pleaded with the security council for more resources to keep armed rebel opposition groups at bay they are concerned about ongoing violence in the country as of december the united nations had more than $11000.00 peacekeepers on the ground in the central african republic the security council ahead of elections in december did grant them some $300.00 additional troops as well as a couple of helicopters from another mission to bolster their presence on the

ground but the head of the mission monk or and-i says even more troops are needed going forward as well as equipment to make them more mobile they're worried about supply routes into the capital of being attacked by these opposition groups and that possibly cutting off food supplies and medical supplies with more than 100000 civilians on the run because of the fighting the humanitarian situation there is worsening now alongside of the peacekeepers government forces are also on the ground the foreign minister of the country sylvie bi-polar tame mon said that she wanted the security council to lift an arms embargo that's been in place since 2012 she said this arms embargo is severely limiting the government's ability to respond to these attacks there was some reservation among security council members on that

front while there was widespread widespread support for the recently reelected president to dari and for bolstering the u.n. mission some were concerned the united states in particular that lifting the arms embargo would allow weapons to get into the hands of the opposition given there were some issues they said with de. and defectors in the central african republic military the foreign minister made a pleas saying that they were being outgunned not only by regular guns but by heavy heavy equipment like rocket launchers opposition already had these supplies in the government did not the security council heard that concern asked her to make a formal request for the weapons that the country needs and said they would consider it well the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell is proposing the impeachment trial of former president

donald trump starting february earlier the house speaker nancy pelosi rejected demands to drop the proceedings the republicans argue that the trial will divide americans even further pelosi says the article of impeachment will soon be sense of the senate for a 2nd trial trump was impeached just days before the end of his term for inciting a riot at capitol hill that left 5 people dead so you don't say to a president do whatever you want in the last months of beer administration you're going to get a jet you get out of jail card free because because people think we should make nice night and forget the people died here on january 5th that the attempt to undermine our election to undermine our democracy to dishonor our constitution no i don't see that at all i think that would be harmful to unity she have a town c. has more from capitol hill. well when nancy pelosi sends the article of impeachment

to the senate the rules say that the trial should begin at 1 pm the following day unless it's a sunday and then the trial will continue monday to saturday every week until it until it ends. the sense that we got from from nancy pelosi and the reports we've had previously all that the that the wrangling over the format of the trial is still underway in the senate questions like who should. over the trial should it be the chief justice of the supreme court if it's a former president for example at what how long the trial should take what sort of evidence should be presented should there be witnesses involved can the senate and the house conduct alleged of business in the mornings and the evenings and have the trial in the afternoon clearly joe biden has a big legislative agenda he also wants to get his cabinet nominees confirmed so will that be done in around the impeachment these are some of the details in

addition we're actually getting reports of some pretty serious roadblocks ahead for the senate because mitch mcconnell the that the outgoing senate majority leader and chuck schumer be the incoming majority leader i still tussling over the rules of the senate that may actually lead to delays as as well so there are a lot of problems right now in the senate according to according to reports we're getting between mcconnell and schumer the rules moving ahead but what was interesting about what he said was there's that sense of this could be done rather expeditiously once the trial begins because unlike the 1st trial which needed witnesses and documentation those who up are citing of the trial those in congress were eyewitnesses to what happened on john ritter 6 there isn't the need for that ever dent tree evidently documentation of what happened on the day and we did actually hear there was some talk of maybe having a 3 day trial some agreement coalescing around that i was 11 possibility but there is that sense when it does happen there is

a desire on both sides to get it over with as quickly as possible. a new york state judge has denied an attempt by the national rifle association to avoid criminal charges the court rejected the n.r. is attempts to dismiss or transfer of the ongoing lawsuit new york's attorney general is suing the special interest group over allegations of corruption and misspending by senior executives the group filed for bankruptcy last week and said it plans to register as a nonprofit in texas that was seen as an attempt to avoid the lawsuits a court ruling due on monday will decide whether the ugandan opposition leader bobby wine can be free to leave his house soldiers have been surrounding his home since friday although the government denies he's under house arrest and has filed an arbitrary detention complaint to the united nations the musician turned politician declared victory in the presidential election that saw your room is 70 when a 6 term in office katherine sawyer has this update from a garri near bobbie winds home. well the winds 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 barrier 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 where they have provided as a cover a a for his protection and to 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 on the house arrest they say that that

he is because his 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 add by low it's he's 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 demand for electric vehicles was booming worldwide with governments in europe making plans to phase out fuel burning cars but the confidence risks falling behind in the race to build the vehicles if it allows asia to dominate the battery development sector whole routes reports from gothenburg in sweden. further faster cheaper and greener demand for electric cars is rising and so are the demands placed on the the swedish

chinese pollstar to is one of the latest vehicles trying to tempt drivers away from petrol diesel why is this a cyclic time for the electric cars because it's finally happening because finally not nice anymore the other aspect whole can you still at all think that the combustion engine oriented car is a future proof business pole star is a joint european asian vehicle made by the chinese owners but the emerging electric industry is about intense intercontinental competition as well as collaboration. cars like this are developing extremely rapidly as engineers try to match the speed and range of petrol driven very coals and whoever makes the biggest leap forward now is likely to win the race to dominate the transport industry of the future. in europe that race is being run from here the laboratory in uppsala north of stockholm because when it comes to electric cars the advantage is all about the

battery like this the lab is the standard bearer for the battery 2030 plus project the constant speed to take back some of asia's dominance in the development and sale of electric batteries the europe wide group is led by chemistry professor christina edstrom we need to snake the finding a new materials a new battery calls to. europe in the hard competition in asia they're good in asia they're doing new existing batteries if we want to have industry in europe we need to catch up. there is a lot of catching up to do you factories for the current generation of lithium ion batteries are being built in sweden and germany but europe makes just 3 percent of car batteries globally while asia led by china japan and south korea produces 85 percent to change that europe needs to find a battery that provides great to mileage charges faster underlies less on the damaging effect of mining from mineral such as cobalt the problem with the fact is

today they don't hold enough energy in that container and we want to make it back to something and we need to understand what's going on really the fundamental to mystic level that could be the ace up europe sleeve the world's most powerful neutron source a kind of x. ray for atoms is also nearing completion in sweden in time to join the hunt for a new car battery a breakthrough will be needed to stop asia putting the rest of the world in its review mera for good polar ice al-jazeera gothenburg sweden. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president joe biden has signed the executive orders to speed up the response to the virus his plan includes requiring international travelers to quarantine when they arrive in the u.s. biden isn't here.