remove. the status quo and fight to justice all month to. witness documentaries like alter the section on al-jazeera. the way. u.s. president joe biden signs 10 executive orders to boost the country's covert 1000 response but warns of a difficult road. watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters and. also coming up japan's prime minister determined to hold the summer olympics in tokyo amid questions whether the delayed games can take place during the pandemic eisold claims responsibility for twin

suicide bomb attacks in iraq's capital that killed at least 32 people at a crowded market. the u.n. 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. or president joe biden has announced what he's calling a full scale war time strategy to be covert 19 he signed a string of executive orders aimed at speeding up the response to the pandemic which has claimed the lives of more than 400000 americans mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . this you're surely day 2 of the biden presidency and another flurry of executive orders 24 hours after the u.s. recorded the worst single day coronavirus death toll focus don't come back to the pandemic. the measures ranging from getting more vaccines to more people to

improving safety in schools and work spaces we can give to dismiss overnight it's could take months to turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat this pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be clear stand this point help is on the way one of the new things in this administration is if you know the answer don't guess just say you don't know the answer yet familiar face returning to the white house briefing podium sidelined for many months stuck to antony found she is a central figure in the new pandemic task group and he made clear reference to the difficulties he experienced as a scientist and the president there were things that were said. regarding things like a drug cyclone rick when another 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 the idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know what the evidence what the sciences know that's it let the science speak it is somewhat of a liberating feeling there's been shocked at how little planning had been put to to combating the pandemic but there has been no centralized federal strategy it's been left to governors and their states to plan and sometimes fund and pandemic measures administration officials say that when they are safe for a pandemic plan there wasn't one. many members of congress are dismayed what have we learned this morning we learned this morning that the company ministration had no real plan for the production and distribution of the vaccine just another in a series. of their. terrible in affective

approach to it from the start and americans are reeling from a startling statistic the country has 4 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of recorded coronavirus cases. before assuming office joe biden stood at the reflecting pool in memory of the 400000 americans who have died his message now that there sadly will be many more before the pandemic is brought under control. mike hanna our washington lawrence gostin the o'neill professor of global health law at georgetown university he says a national and unified plan is what's needed to combat the pandemic. it's so heartening to hear that we're rejoining the community of nations by rejoining the world health organization that we're going to lead in science and that there's actually going to be and is a federal plan is not going to just be

a free for all. at the state and local government without any funding any planning or an organization so i feel like we are in a position now where the roll ups event in the room. and we've got a strategy and we're going to follow it and it will be a long time but i do believe we'll get to the end and i think we can do a lot better just to give you an example we already in the united states on some days i think yesterday for example we vaccinated a 1000000 people we can do better with the new administration and i think we can double even triple that amount this is not a goal that audacious it's very much doable but having said that actually do support the president biden because we saw over and over and over again with donald trump that he would overlook promise in early july i think it's really refreshing

that we have a new president and president biden who will under promise and over deliver and i certainly hope that he does over deliver on the vaccine front and then another break with the trumpet ministration the country's top infectious disease expert has announced at the u.s. will ring aids with the world health organization as you've been hearing last year donald trump informed the agency that he planned to pull the country out but anthony felt she said that will not happen he said the u.s. will continue funding the agency and join the global effort to make vaccines available to poorer countries. european union is planning to place covert $1000.00 hosp arts in the block under stricter travel restrictions areas will be labeled dark red zone soon travelers from there will have to get tested and undergo quarantine european commission president or some of underline says non-essential travel must be strongly discouraged the sought behind it is that we understand once

again that we are one epidemic a logical zone and not divided in different member states where we have different situations and we will only contain the virus if we have targeted measures and not unnecessary measures like blankets closure of borders which would severely hurt our economy but not very much restrict the virus of the netherlands is imposing its 1st curfew since world war 2 parliament approved the overnight curfew to try to stop the spread of the more contagious coronavirus mutation on wednesday a ban flights from britain south africa and south america where the variant is present france could be heading to another lock down 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 iraq's prime minister has reshuffled several top

security officials offer a twin suicide bombing in baghdad on thursday i saw has claimed responsibility for that attack which killed at least 32 people and injured more than 100 others it's the most violent incident there in 3 years simona 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 the bloodstone urgent eyes of friends who lost their lives he wasn't around when the explosion went off but arrived minutes later to find the dead. just before so why do they target these markets all of them are. people they sell this for less than a dollar 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 big jacket to help them 4 men 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 the blast comes just a week after the u.s. conference it had cut its troop levels in iraq to 2500 citing gains in the fight against eisel in recent years i saw sleeper cells have resorted 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 i believe after speaking with military and security officials are 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 bar on the outskirts of car kerk a mosul i saw on some terrorist groups still have a firm presence in iraq. suicide attacks were common before isis territorial even 2017 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 others their anger fueled by 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 the debt. 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 change is trying to get rid of president 4 star shines through. the united nations envoy to the central african republic has appealed to the security council to increase its peacekeeping operations there. you start to. really need a strategy to manage the mandate a substantial increase of uniformed troops in the missions of the police and the penal administration must be strengthened we must have greater mobility this is because of the increased ambushes by c.p.c. fighters which would lead to 7 deaths among the blue helmets. cooperation will need

to be prolonged for several months and as many people as possible could come from the integrated mission of south sudan at least $100000.00 people have been displaced since last month's violence malcolm webb reports from bonking where civilians are bearing the brunt. mores 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. and told them if you want to kill me to my face as we were talking he shot me in one leg i started screaming esau i could still walk 3 short the other then i couldn't walk anymore. the bones in mores legacy shattered with it his plan to study. it was

a passer by who grew moist this hospital in the capital. it's run by the charity doctors without borders. the manager says many others so 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 burst and during these kind of because playlist where everybody is more in the bush and are not able to stay in the villages i think that's all the kind of care is unlimited. 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 on the control of the foreign forces that support the government the city sits on

the banks of the river. more than a 10th of central africans have fled the violence today bring 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 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 that's 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 malcolm web al jazeera central african republic. coming up on al-jazeera in just a moment we'll tell you why top senate republicans are pushing to delay donald trump's impeachment trial and so february we look at the challenges facing brazil's president j. are both center on the world stage now that trump is out of the white house. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways hello i'm pleased to say we've got snow clearing away from japan over the next couple of days we will see rain pushing into the south but the troublesome snow that we've seen of course more than pass in recent weeks is on the way out they'll

be some snow flurries into northern parts of honshu on friday maybe also into whole kata but notice how the class starts to gather pushes out to the east china sea pushes across the korean peninsula southern parts of japan will turn increasingly wet as we go on through saturday temps just to get up into double figures in there just to the north of that more than honshu into hokkaido it doesn't last you 5 and dry at long last financial right sue across a good parts of china the cloud of rain pulling away from eastern areas where the west sunshine just want to read showers lingering on for a time now plenty of showers across southeast asia some big downpours recently into the philippines the showers set to continue as we go through the next day or so perhaps not quite as intense but they are there nevertheless the showers do continue across a good parts of malaysia and we'll see some heavy showers continue once again into 5 hit parts of indonesia want to show us into southern areas of in there over the next day or so but the looking fine and dry few showers there into sri lanka with

a westerly just for pakistan. 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 that was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that often legitimize and legalize pedophiles on arrow online jumping to the comments section and meeting to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. following

on the top stories just 0 u.s. president joe biden has announced a national strategy and signed executive orders to tackle the coronavirus pandemic thing clude making wearing masks mandatory in federal buildings 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 and see reversing a trump directive iraq's prime minister has reshuffled several top security officials after a twin suicide bombing in baghdad on thursday i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack which killed at least $32.00 people and left more than 100 injured. japan's prime minister is determined the upcoming summer olympics will go ahead the games were scheduled to be held last year but were delayed because of a coronavirus pandemic arisan infractions has prompted the government to impose

a state of emergency in tokyo and that's raised questions about whether the games will be held in 6 months as planned let's get an update from fadi said that he's joining us from tokyo so what more can you tell us about the fate of the olympic games. as you mentioned the japanese government has been repeating again over again that commitment to holding successful and safe olympic games actually. and his policy speech on monday in. the kitchen off or being the plenary session of the parliament he mentioned specifically that his government is committed to having the games and japan always explains that they want to have the games because they want it to be and they get ational victory for humanity over the couldn't abide us and then they

make but to do so they need also to hold it in a safe and successful way to do that japan has. almost always seen as a very rare case that the so-called japanese model in tracing the banda make till now the numbers the last year the numbers being so high in japan but yesterday since you have been seeing an exclusive increase in the numbers especially in tokyo tokyo has seen during january and we still have a days in the month seen almost $50000.00 infections that's triggered off that total infections since last year in tokyo and the numbers are also increasing not only in tokyo but also in other places in the country that now total is over 300000 infections and with this continuous increase in the number of infections many people doubted the possibility of having the olympics and some local opinion polls

show that over 80 percent of people have been as people they are with gun sitting or delaying the big games but still the government has been repeating its stance that they want to hold that really makes till we've started hitting some. some information that. some medias and other reports on. the high officials from the ruling liberal democratic party in think about the possibility of considering the index and if that happens that's good to go. big but i missed that who has been committed to the olympics as i mentioned but still this situation is very challenging japan has. is not and not accepting now any photo not from from outside of japan to come into the country in no way you know to be natural in an effort to stop the increase of infections in the

country but still the numbers are not as high as they were before committing the emergency situation but they are still very high ok if i decide i'm a thank you for that update from tokyo now the top republican in the u.s. senate wants former president donald trump's impeachment to be delayed until mid february mitch mcconnell said this would give trying to weeks to get ready for the proceedings once the charges presented earlier the house speaker nancy pelosi rejected demands to drop the proceedings trump was impeached just days before the end of his term for inciting a riot at capitol hill that left 5 dead you don't hate our president do whatever you want in the last months of the year in the situation you're going to get a jet you get out of jail hard for me because because people think we should make nice nice and forget the people die here on january 5th. that the

attempt to undermine our elections undermine our democracy to dishonor our constitution no i don't see that you know i think that would be harmful to unity she 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 sudden day and then the trial will continue monday to saturday every week until it until it ends. the sense that we got from her from nancy pelosi out of 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 lead 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 with this is 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 trial 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 are still tussling over the rules of the senate that may actually lead to delays as as well so there are a lot of lot of problems right now in the senate according to according to reports we're getting between mcconnell and schumer as the rules move ahead but what was interesting about what police 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 are precise thing of the trial those in congress were eyewitnesses to what happened. john ritter 6 there isn't the need

for all that ever gentry 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 a sense when it does happen there is a desire on both sides to get it over with as quickly as possible weekly jobless figures in the u.s. have improved slightly after reaching a 4 month high last week the labor department says that it's recorded 900000 requests for assistance down from around 126000 in the previous week the u.s. job market has been under pressure after a new measures to stop the resurgence of covert $1000.00 cases were put in place brazil's president also narrow has changed his tone towards the newly inaugurated u.s. president joe biden biden was critical of brazil over its environmental policies and analysts say if those don't change the country will pay a high price want to have has more from rio de janeiro it took him

$42.00 days to recognize joe biden's victory in november selection but on his inauguration brazil's right wing president jade bull so now too soon biden an olive branch a tweet and a 3 peach letter mentioning brazil's interest in working with united states on sustainable development and environment protection specially in the amazon the tone was conciliatory compared to both scenarios outburst during the campaign when biden threatened brazil with the economic sanctions if they did nothing to stop farmers in mind grabbers from destroying the rain forest it could make us both of us a fragile how can we confront this diplomacy is not enough when we're done yelling we need gun powder we don't have to use it but they must know that we have it. also not ahead openly campaign for donald trump's reelection i can't hide my feelings they come from the heart until now brazil's president had followed trump's lead

downplaying couvade 19 criticizing global organizations and attacking china there with trump gone a lot of the you know the madness and the rather cold is something that has shaped a way that. acts on a daily basis. will become much more visible and i think you will have to p. a greater price particularly if the united states and europe will work together and pressure or both not only issues like human rights or the environment so it's a it's a it's very bad news i would say that is probably why he was negatively affected head of state by defeat and i think it will force him to adopt a much more moderate stance which for him is not easy. the subject was raised in washington on inauguration day and white press secretary jeh 1st media briefing so

her change to be one of the defray or it is how this president biden plans to work with revealing what i can convey on climate change of course and addressing the climate crisis that's one of the 4 crises that he's identified will impact his administration is impacting not just the american people but the global community is that rejoining the paris climate agreement is a vital step toward doing that but i'm sure we'll have more to discuss on brazil in the coming months also not is also having to adopt a conciliatory tone with china with beijing being brazil's sole provider of covert 19 backfeeding so far keeping the country's best interests in mind without hurting his support home made proved to be a challenge china is brazil's main trading partner they're both from out of the right wing voters want to hear him criticize the chinese communist party to people all content will have to walk

a fine line monica you're not here i'll just sarah rio de janeiro a new york state judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the national rifle association the court rejected the n.r.a. is attempts to dismiss or transfer 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 planned to register as a nonprofit in texas that was seen as an attempt to avoid the lawsuits. the 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 why it has filed an arbitrary detention complaint to the united nations the musician turned politician declared victory in the presidential election saw yarima 70 win a 6 term in office rescuers in china are drilling a new shaft into

a gold mine hoping to reach workers who've been trapped for almost 12 days they've been stuck deep below ground since an explosion in the hooshang mine in the major gold producing region and. rescuers have been in contact with the 11 workers but the fate of 10 others remains uncertain at least one miner died from his injuries. here's a check of the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president joe biden has signed 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 is inheriting a vaccine that he calls a dismal failure we get to dismiss overnight which could take months or should turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we need.