if you can see on the ground the misinformation is right lays bare the bias so a lot of people believe things because they want to believe that a done covers the uncomfortable truths if you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on a. help is on the way. u.s. president joe biden signs 10 executive orders to boost the country's covert 19 response but warns of a difficult road ahead. though there are more a trial this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up japan denies reports the olympics are going to be cancel saying it's making every effort to make the games safe and secure join the pandemic. i saw claims responsibility for twin suicide

bomb attacks in iraq's capital at least 32 people were killed in a crowded market. and casting the net far and wide fishermen in the philippines say the government's plan to import tons of fish will harm their livelihoods. president joe biden has announced what he's calling a full scale war time strategy to beat covert 19 he signed a string of his acts of 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. . to see jake you're actually in 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 these are focused on combating

the pandemic the measures ranging from getting more vaccines to more people to improving safety in schools and workspaces we'll give you dismiss overnight which could take months or should turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way one of the. 2 things in this administration's if you know the answer don't guess just say you don't know the answer yet a familiar face returning to the white house briefing podium sidelined for many months stuck to anthony 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 sapient assesses for a pandemic plan there wasn't one. many members of congress are dismayed what did we learn 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 washington. well another break with the trump administration the country's top infectious disease expert has announced the u.s. will reengage with the world health organization donald trump informed the agency he planned to pull the u.s. out but dr anthony found she says that will not happen u.s. will continue funding the agency and join the global effort to make vaccines available to everyone lawrence gostin is the o'neill professor of global health law

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 and he planning or any coordination so you know what we are in a position now where the run ups event of the room. and we 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 so this is not a goal that audacious it's very much doable he saw over and over and over again with donald trump that he would over promise in early july ever 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. well the european union is planning to put a play in place tighter travel restrictions in the blocks covert hotspots areas will be labeled dark red zones and travels from there will have to get tested and undergo quarantine european commission president live on the lens as non-essential travel must be strongly discouraged the sort behind it is that we understand once again that we are one epidemic alogical 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 japan the government has denied reports is considering canceling the tokyo lympics the games have already been delayed by a year and now a state of emergency is in place in the capital because of a record number of covert cases the times newspaper has said the japanese government has privately concluded the games with me to be scrapped. the tokyo games will be symbol of humanity overcoming the novel coronavirus and a chance to showcase to the world japan's reconstruction from the devastating northeastern earthquake and tsunami we will be prepared on the measures against infection we are determined to work closely together with the talk you metropolitan government the took your 2020 organizing committee and the i.o.c.

to have a safe and secure olympics but he has the latest from take here. the government has been very very sharp very fast in denying this latest report about the possibility of concealing took your index crimes the suit mentioned in the parliament where he's attending the plenary session. he mentioned they're still very committed to a horse thing that really makes his the top spokesperson a spokesperson it's because not because of the government's spokesperson he went on to say that everything came inside their report is that there is no truth in the report. that has been said collated about hinting that and high official in the liberal democratic party the ruling party in japan say that they are. considering counseling counseling that really big games so this fast and reaction shows you

like how sensitive issue is for japan because actually almost 80 percent of the people according to local surveys. are we considering or delaying the games to the committee their special committee inside the liberal democratic party is considering several procedures of several levels of procedures to be implemented during the olympics one of those is to hold some of the games without spectators the other one is to reduce the number to a certain degree on the other that they're liberal would be to. to allow certain numbers of spectators to attend the games but with a precondition of having the coronavirus vaccine i so has claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the iraqi capital 1000 people killed and more than 100 engines and iraq's prime minister we shuffle several top security officials following the attack the west and 3 guineas so wonderful to 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 blocks down 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. 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 he asked for help. 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 still 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 and only after speaking with military and security officials are now no we are still lacking training experts weapons and also the need to share intelligence why am i saying this simply because i saw alternatives or certain i saw rings are still active and on the move in iraq

namely an island on at the outskirts of car kerk a muzzle i saw on some terrorist groups still have a firm presence in iraq. through side attacks were common but before i saw 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 to words 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 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 that. douglas ollivant served on the u.s. national security council under presidents george w.

bush and obama and is now a senior fellow at the future of wool project for the new america think tank he says it's too early to tell if i still is making a comeback. we don't know if this is the resurgence of ice well that's certainly possible or if this is all that i saw happen they burned all their resources in generating this want to attack you hate to say we need to wait and see but we really do need to wait and see if this is a trend or just a one off that they were able to make happen the prime minister is assigning blame and relieving officials but i think it's much more important to get the systemic causes of what's happening here rather than just firing some commanders their real danger for the brand new bike administration is in some ways this is in their comfort zone remember the bible administration left in late 2016 or early 2017 when these people left government i still still held mosul so in some ways this is the

news that they're used to hearing from 40 years ago so in some ways this may pull them back into their comfort zone and hide the fact that so many other things are real problems in iraq dysfunctional government you know a petro economy that can't sustain endemic corruption it's very powerful substate actors all these months to my mind much more important problems in iraq could be over a lot if this causes the by the administration to go back to their comfort zone of fighting eisel. still ahead on ounces or on a case for help from the un envoy in central african republic scott the told is the scenes by rebels angry about the president's reelection plus. keeping the faith our russian religious minority has cut off down some place for itself in many muslim cake a stone. how

i was saying some rather nasty weather pushing across northern parts of the middle east recently with clouds rain sleet and snow is easing across the event pushing across northern parts of syria well there is over iraq through iran heading over towards afghanistan just sliding out of 10 minutes down it is becky temperatures will struggle to get to 4 celsius then in teheran single figures for damascus and notice quite a cane blowing through the gulf on friday lift the dust and sad also visibility problems as a result health that things will quieten down a little as we go on into sas today at least 10 she's at around $21.00 sells it but it will fill on the cool side cold enough and coupled with temperatures struggling to get above freezing but at least it should be dry stage right see across the

whole of africa a few showers just coming into somalia for a time and nothing too much to speak of but jealousy of the shallow as well as south of lake victoria very heavy rain now in the process of pulling away from madagascar as. a ways gathers strength once again in the mozambique channel it will push its way into central parts of mozambique grassy field some very heavy rain it's a southern areas of zimbabwe where the risk of showers from the south africa. to make a change. change a life for the path of the country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you push to break it continually reminded of the turn the status quo and fight injustice all month iraq dead. will

still. weakness personal documentaries not going to deception on al-jazeera. the way. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminded us of our top stories this hour u.s. president joe biden has announced sweeping measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic including expansion of his mosque wearing mandate to ports and some public transport international travelers will also be required to quarantine when they arrive in the u.s. . japan has denied reports is considering canceling the pigs the times newspaper says the government has privately concluded the games would need to be called off

because of the pandemic. and i sill has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in iraq so on thursday 32 people were killed and more than a 100 injured iraq's prime minister reshuffled several top security officials following the attack the worst in 3 years. the top republican in the u.s. senate wants former president donald trump's impeachment to be delayed until mid february mitch mcconnells of this would give trump 2 weeks to get ready for the proceedings once the charges presented trump was impeached just days before the end of his term accused of inciting a riot a capsule hill that left 5 people dead house speaker nancy pelosi has rejected demands to drop the proceedings you don't say to a president do whatever you want in the last months of your administration you're going to get a just get out of jail card free because because people think they should

make nice noise 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 chance she has more from the 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 legislative 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 or 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 a lot of problems right now in the senate according to according to reports we're getting between mcconnell and schumer as the rules moving ahead but what was interesting about what police he said was there's that sense that 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 15 day state of emergency has begun in central african republic in the 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. dara welcome webb has the latest from the capital bangui a coalition of 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 fighters 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 embargo they say they adhere to it but they say that their enemy the armed groups do not know they say that means the armed group much 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 a court ruling june on monday will decide whether ugandan opposition leader bobby wine can be free to leave his house soldiers have been surrounding his home since last friday although the government denies he's under house arrest why has filed an

arbitrary detention complaint to the united nations after so he has this update from my garrick wines 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 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 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 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. a group of. reconnect with their roots the northern community was settled by russian in the 19th century and what was then the most east and outpost of the russian empire. has been speaking to descendants of the

a religious ceremony in. russian priest vladimir stupidly cough when the new bells in his orthodox church in northern kyrgyzstan. they recently arrived from the town of bor in russia almost 4000 kilometers away. members of this small russian orthodox community have gathered to pray on the day of the orthodox epiphany many of the worshippers can trace their lineage back to cossacks who fought their way into and then settled in this remote region of central asia in the mid 19th century. before we get support from local cagas people and from russia it's important because our community is small it is sometimes difficult to find money for things like coal to keep the churchwoman winter we feel accepted there a much part of the kid is community the original church was built in $863.00 but

was destroyed by fire it was once the center of a small garrison on the most eastern edge of the czarist russian empire. the current building was constructed in 1912 on the same spot as the original it was renovated last year this is one of 10 churches in the region serving an estimated 40000 ethnic russians many of them descendants of those settled here around 200 years ago vladimir and the cossack leaders who lead the congregation chancing the russian orthodox liturgy down to the frozen river. they gather on the bank and pray . the icy water is blessed before the priest splashes it over them they then collect water to use in prayer and ceremonies at home. the most the biggest fany was good everyone should be blessed by the holy water we pray for russia and heal people may god bless them oleg with his medals with pride his

cossack mother was born here she met his father when he came from southern russia to live here off to world war 2 it is it is this roof of the russians in this region are deep rooted we have been here for generations so we feel like kurdistan is our motherland. their ancestors came from far away to expand an empire but for these russians killed a star has always been hollow chance trafford al-jazeera. northern cuba storm. rescuers in china are drilling new shelfs into a gold mine hoping to reach workers who have been trapped for almost 12 days they've been stuck think below ground since explosion in the mine in the major gold producing region of shandong rescuers have been in contact with 11 workers but the face of 10 of those remains on player and he's one miner has died from his injuries . fishermen in the philippines are angry of a government has to import thousands of tons of fish and he lost their jobs when

the tel volcano erupted last year and the coronavirus added to their problems too and they're going reports from province thank you xing has long been a main source of income for many families in towns surrounding the towel volcano on the island of luzon at least 50 kilometers south of the capital manila but most of the fish pens were destroyed by falling ash when the volcano erupted in january thousands of fishermen lost their jobs including says circling neeson was spent most of his life working in fish pens own by is called. the lockdown imposed by the philippine government to prevent the spread of coronaviruses means recovery has been much slower than it might otherwise have been but fishermen say the situation is getting better and that's why the government's plans to import fish is upsetting many here. molinari they're getting more fish know and they're earning again we

don't need more imports what we need is government support fisherman here tell us they're still struggling financially but months after that to our volcano eruption they say their harvest are now back to normal industry or again ization scarlet an artificial shortage and say there are enough local stocks even joining to 3 months closed a fishing season it's estimated more than $30000.00 metric tons will be imported and there are fears that prices of local fish may drop significantly but the government says those who earn a living from fishing shouldn't worry. we're going day sure. that their unborn i mean we will give those that increase the. country species. in time there will be no need for importation of what we are doing right now to

take care of our pollution a lot because a lot of the sheeple was the most important right now that all the fish that we need most important right now that. all the fish that we need fishing has long been seen as the solution to the country's problems the government says it wants filipino fisherman to be able to compete fairly with those from other countries but those who work here say the government does often resorted to imports in the past and these remain a stop gap solution jim ellis island dog and al jazeera for its profits in northern philippines. go with al-jazeera these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden has announced sweeping measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic thanking the expansion.