jordi these illegal of us are talking about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. a day after announcing his coronavirus plan joe biden is expected to roll out more money and aid to those affected by the pandemic. this is al jazeera life and also coming up germany goes past 50000 coronavirus deaths a toll scientists describe it stressing in confront. a state of emergency is imposed in the central african republic as a coalition of armed groups threatens to overthrow

a newly elected president. we don't respond to threats. australia pushes back to google said it could block its search engine in the disputed. so yes let's begin in the united states where president joe biden is set to talk at the economy on his 2nd full day in office his executive orders are expected to help those struggling to feed their families or find a job because of the pandemic it's a temporary means of finance relief before congress considers its what his $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package biden said his pandemic response plan in motion on thursday with several executive orders so let's find out what's going to happen today who speaks mike hanna who is standing by there in washington d.c. and mike what are we expecting to be signed into action. well nic we

expect a few more executive orders from president biden one we understand will deal with step a minimum wage of $15.00 an hour for federal contractors another will help. the americans with assistance such as food stamps improving their conditions of life trying to relieve some of this situation as you say the legislation the vote wide ranging legislation in the coronavirus relief bill goes through congress so that president biden can obviously do some executive orders of which he has done a great many but in order for the over rocking type legislation to deal or to provide relief for the pandemic that has to go through congress that is something that is being discussed as we speak will continue to be discussed not quite clear where republicans stand on the issue at this particular stage but that is certainly something that joe biden regards as

a priority to push through in addition to his executive orders and meanwhile several key members of his company to be confirmed by the senate. yes we're not exactly sure how many are going to be going for confirmation today we do understand that lloyd austin who's the nominated secretary of defense he will come up before the senate for confirmation today now very significantly congress has a prove the waiver for general austin he retired within the last 7 years from the military so required a special congressional waiver but notably as well is that that was a bipartisan decision to grant this particular waiver so that is an indication that there will be little argument about lloyd austin becoming the next secretary of defense on the possibilities that nominated as secretary of state he is likely to come up before the senate as well as the secretary of the treasury so that there is

movement there we have had one ever cabinet appointee approved already the director of national intelligence admiral haynes so there is movement maybe not quite as quick as president biden would want but his cabinet is beginning to take shape as the appointments are confirmed my thanks that my kind of the emotions. portugal has closed schools for 2 weeks because of concerns related to the more contagious corona virus strain 1st found in the u.k. the decision comes a week after a 2nd lockdown was imposed portugal is experiencing one of the worst pandemic surges in the world with deaths hitting new records for 4 straight days field hospitals are being opened as its health system is pushed to the limit french president manuel macron says cave 19 tests will become compulsory for all travelers trying to enter france as of sunday lorry and train drivers and cross border commuters will be exempt france also now requires people to wear high quality masks instead of fabric face coverings in neighboring germany the number of people who

have died from the virus is exceeded 50000 chancellor angela merkel is defending a decision to extend the lockdown until mid february she says it would be unwise to ease restrictions given virus mutations have been found in germany the country has been in lockdown since november dominic cain has more from berlin. overall not just in berlin but across the entire country the trend certainly in the course of the last week or so perhaps 10 days has been slowly downward so that. 859 deaths announced today but there were fewer there are fewer today than the previous day the day before that and so forth and so there is a feeling among some analysts some scientists that perhaps the rate of new infections the rates of new deaths is starting to stabilize generally the point behind what angle america and coalition partners and to ministerial partners have been saying is that their view is that what is really concerning them is the

potential for the new variant 1st and identified in the u.k. to get to really take hold in germany that explains why they have been insisting upon the wearing of masks that are stronger than just fabric masks while they refer to the f f p 2 mask requirement which will come into force in here in berlin on sunday so that it that informs the perspective that's why she has been saying that people need to be staying home working from home wherever possible wearing masks whenever possible reducing their movement outside and observing social distance all of it needs to be seen from that perspective a british government minister in charge of the u.k.'s vaccine rollout says that over $1000.00 will go through unvaccinated communities like a fire the warning follows reports of vaccine hesitancy among some ethnic minorities in fear is that the low uptake in these groups will affect mass and not collation plans parker reports now from london. 321.

very this is where the battle against a vaccine disinfo mation is being fought community by community this british muslim t.v. network in east london debate tackling some of the many myths that have taken root around the pandemic. whatever the myths whatever the false information out there that is not correct we all need to i mean obviously we are we are british muslims we are part of the society we need to make sure we get. in a recent british survey 42 percent of respondents from bangladeshi in pakistani communities so that they were all likely or very unlikely to be vaccinated and their figure rises to 72 percent of black and black british people meaning those people who are most at risk of contracting cope with 19 and ending up in hospital or even dying of the virus and now at least likely to be vaccinated. it's

a growing concern for the british government that wants to offer a 1st dose to every adult in the country by september if the adult population of the rest of the countries vaccinated the virus will look for a place for it to infect a human for it to infect and if it infects meticulous communities because they happen to be unvaccinated it will absolutely go through the market and will be hugely damaging while the whole world is searching for a vaccine this is one of many fake news items distorting people's understanding of the virus and the vaccines it claims inhaling steam kills the virus specks it is. specks it is going to change your d.n.a. wild conspiracy theories a deepening public distrust of medical science leading to an angry protest by this man outside a muslim community center offering covert jobs with muslims or south asians it can be aware that this article that scene where i'm going in the vaccine specifically

for products which is of interest to the muslim community and then there's other types of myths which are. viruses. that work all the vaccine can cause infertility or it can fundamentally change your d.n.a. of course i'd like to order. all of these assholes and i mean. there's a sense of unease among some black londoners many a keen to be vaccinated but one man told us he thought there might be different vaccines for black and white people. yet these you don't know what else covert hesitancy also extends to ultra orthodox jewish communities again over fears the vaccine contains pork or is this controversial israeli rabbi popular or new cheap suggested over fears and alters people's sexual orientation conspiracy

theories exploited a lack of trust in the government and the health system that for some ethnic minorities appears to favor white people and the more affluent the challenge now lies in building trust in vaccines proven to protect us all the bark at al-jazeera london. and denmark has halted all flights from the united arab emirates after reports of fake coronavirus tests in dubai the travel restrictions will last for 5 days shuls in copenhagen say they received a tip off the pre-departure test taken into by might not be accurate tribalism a show a recent negative test on arrival in denmark. china is battling its worst outbreak of covert 900 since march it's recorded more than 100 new daily infections for more than 10 straight days mass testing is underway in areas of beijing and all hospital staff are being tested in shanghai tens of millions of people are facing coronavirus restrictions in the north china is on high less as hundreds of millions

of people plan to travel during the lunar new year holiday on february. japan's government is denying reports it's considering canceling the tokyo olympics the british newspaper the times says the japanese government has privately concluded the games will need to be called off because of the current virus and demick. as this report. the olympic games jewel to be held last year but were delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic now a rise in infections has forced the government to impose a state of emergency in tokyo and other parts of the country and that's raise questions about whether the summer games will be held in 6 months as planned newspaper reports that you pan's government has privately concluded the games will have to be reshaped jeweled have been denied by the prime minister going to regarding the tokyo games it will be a symbol of humanity overcoming the novel coronavirus and a chance to showcase japan's reconstruction from the devastating northeastern earthquake and tsunami to the world we will be well prepared on the measures for

the infection. japan has spent $25000000000.00 preparing for the take lympics they stop which is public money but a recent poll shows 80 percent of japanese people don't want the games to go ahead this summer the keystone you even if japan was able to could the coronavirus a joint thing we can welcome athletes considering the current situation it should be canceled the money we spend on the game should be used for antivirus missions and state my. 80 percent i want the olympics to get a hat but the other 20 percent i wonder what would happen to japan if it was cancelled we're ready through a lot. and lympics has been cancelled only 5 times before all in war time a final decision on whether to hold the games this year or not is expected in early spring i think the day to watch is march 25th that's when the target really begins for northern japan 4 months 10000 runners crossing the country arriving in july

23rd in tokyo it would seem absurd to start the torch relay and then have to have no olympics the international olympic committee make 75 percent of its income from selling broadcast rights of the olympics if is cancelled it could lose an estimated $2.00 to $3000000000.00 of revenue victoria gate and be al-jazeera. still ahead here in algeria joe biden sets a new course for america but where does that leave israel and its legal settlements after years of forced often don't trump. we'll have the latest on those gold mine is in china who have been trapped underground for 12 games. when it's warmed up good seeing the amount of snow is on the ground in japan means

he's got a melts. the avalanche risk will go up but as you can see the circulation here which is will this bring rain to most of southern honshu and snow is northern flank which might well just briefly affect tokyo as well temperature wise look at so plus 10 beijing plus for most of china's looking for there is some cloud around an increasing likelihood a bit of light rain or even though moving out from the west at the same time the cold is trying to dig a bit further into home she stuck to be severe as a turkey bucket is from it were lost the shot is tradition for the south has changed now throughout the philippines is a risk a significant big thunderstorms 1st of all in the north and then further south spots are made it to sunday as for india more useful change you look what's happening up here the west a disturbance which means study for the hindu kush snow for the finals of pakistan and india that usually indicates that the air will move as well so delis weather

will improve its unhealthy unhealthy air quality right till sunday then the wind picks up and it will be briefly brilliant unfortunate on monday all quiet and stand the fog returns yeah quality drops. are. welcome. from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy breaking your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done cats are always welcome to our home. the emerging order.

again you watching our desire i'm out of our top stories this hour and u.s. president biden is that target the economy in the 2nd day in office is executive orders are expected to increase food aid in secure assistance for the unemployed comes before congress considers his $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package. the number of people who've died from coronavirus in germany has exceeded 50000 since the european union works through these new travel restrictions on the books hardest hit areas japan has denied it performs its considering canceling the take your lympics the british newspaper the times says the government has privately concluded the games would need to be called off because of. that joe biden is doing all he can to mark a sharp change in course after 4 years of donald trump and some are questioning how

that shift will play out for israel and palestine biden officials have already said that they will not undo the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital or the moving of the u.s. embassy but they are signaling a move from trump's unprecedented pro israelis don't force it has this room i just of robin hood biden jr do soundly swear the inauguration of a new u.s. president is a moment of reappraisal for america's friends and foes around the world perhaps none more so than israel whose prime minister has aligned himself so closely with donald trump president biden you and i had a warm personal friendship going back many decades i look forward to working with you to further strengthen the us israel alliance at the same time netanyahu is delivering a very different welcome message for a president he knows will oppose the expansion of illegal israeli settlements issuing approvals for nearly 800 new housing units tendering outbuilding work for 2

and a half 1000 more and with just 5 hours to go before the inauguration confirming building contracts for worked. start here at give out how much oss the long delayed settlement between jerusalem and bethlehem the palestinians say would be a major obstacle to their future state. it's reminiscent of another major settlement announcement made during a biden visit to jerusalem in 2010 leaving then vice president furious it's basically poking a thing in the president elect why he's doing that it baffles me he is going to need the cooperation of president biden an issue sectors iran the reality is biden's pick for secretary of state anthony blinken expressed support this week for a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict along with doubts about making progress on that in the near term nonetheless palestinians have been making moves designed to find favor with biden such as president abbas is announcement this month of the 1st presidential and legislative elections for 15 years. we

receive positive messages that we can build on to restore bilateral relations and restore a peace process that is built on the 2 state solution and international legitimacy biden supports the normalization deals between israel and arab states that the palestinians call a stab in the back deals that netanyahu happily emphasized had come without concessions but some see scope for biden to extract concessions from netanyahu in the future and he would like to have help from a president by then in securing additional normalization agreements he knows now that this will require further 'd changes in israel's policy towards the palestinians and to the extent that these are minor he seems to be ready to go down that road the initial phase of the biden netanyahu relationship is likely to be defined by differences over iran the israel palestine conflict may well slip down the agenda the 1st time but bruised by 4 years of donald trump the palestinians at

least have a more familiar style of u.s. leadership with which to engage our aforesaid on jazeera. new york by and west bank let's take this on we can speak to deanna boo too who's a former legal advisor to the p.l.o. and a palestinian human rights lawyer joins us live by skype from haifa in israel didn't know there are those that say that the biden presidency will not be so much a reset of the previous administration but more a continuation of what are your thoughts yes and that's precisely the problem what brought us trump in the 1st place was all of the years of the inability or lack of desire on the part of u.s. presidents to actually hold israel to account even just listening to the way that people that israelis are speaking about this they talk about concessions when this isn't their land to be conceding in the 1st place all that we have really demanded and all that we need is to have somebody to uphold international law it's not difficult it just requires israel getting out of the west bank getting out of the

gaza strip and allowing us to live freely and unfortunately i just don't see that that's going to happen with this by the ministration we're just going to see a continuation of the same old policies that brought us trump in the 1st place biden does support a 2 state solution we know that but you'll not see any progress on that front. no not at all they all say that they support a 2 state solution and they do everything possible to undermine that 2 state solution thanks sample we've seen already that before biden was even in operated that there have been thousands of housing units that were announced in between the period of the election to the day of his inauguration he had he did not make a single statement about those settlement announcements and he went back a single statement about the single of those announcements either instead what they will do is they'll continue to claim that they want to see a 2 state solution but they are going to impose sanctions on israel for making sure that there is no 2 state solution that that's possible this is what's needed and we

need sanctions and the biden administration has made it clear a very clear that they are not going to be the ones that are going to impose sanctions on israel now the palestinians a promising that they will hold elections or the be the 1st time in 16 years do you think that might help things. it helps things for us internally we have had a leadership that has been that has been terrible for a quite quite a number of years it's been a leadership that is lackluster that is lacking in imagination that doesn't want to hold israel to account and it's definitely time for some new blood for a new strategy and a new way of pursuing things but those are all internal issues the bigger issue is what is the world doing this isn't a question of palestinians liberating themselves it's israel that has been enabled by it by the united states and by the rest of the world and this is where the real problem lies that the world has got to start up holding its laws not just for our us but for the world order as we know it if we simply allow countries around the

world to go in and steal land of other people you can imagine the chaos that it will create and this is why it's been so vitally important for us to be continuing to push for by cons for divestment and for israel to be sanctioned for its action and to blink in biden's pick for secretary of state he says that the administration will not reverse donald trump's controversial u.s. embassy move to jerusalem you know i guess that's expected but what do you make of it. well this is part of the problem is that they're not going to reverse anything they're going to be kinder and gentler and then we saw in terms of the trumpet ministration but i don't see that they're going to reverse any of the policies i'll give you some examples already the administration said they're not going to reverse that issue when it comes to tourism but what about the recognition that they've extended regarding settlement products that products that are coming from the settlements are labeled as made in israel do you see that the biden mr ation is going to reverse that i don't think so what about the issue of restoring funding to

under wa he could have done it one of his many executive orders on the 1st days of office but he didn't do that and so all of these things that require that require some very strong leadership i don't see in the biden administration is going to do it and this is what the trump people were banking on they made sure that the trump plan was a plan that is being instituted on the ground put into place on the ground and that nobody no leader is going to undo it because no leader is willing to do it and that's the problem. the antabuse who appreciate your perspective this thanks very much indeed for that my pleasure now the u.n. says it is concerned about the security situation in syria's largest refugee camp after a series of murders at least 12 people have been killed in the whole camp since the start of the year the u.n. says the violence could jeopardize delivery of aid and humanitarian assistance. a 15 day state of emergency is in force in central african republic to combat armed

groups trying to blockade the capital bangui the un peacekeepers have been helping to push but the rebel coalition groups are trying to overthrow the newly reelected president fast and are charged to a debt of the constitutional court confirm to it that his victory this week despite allegations of vote rigging the web is following developments in both. coalition of armed groups attacked the capital bomb the where we are last week they were fought off by forces the foreign forces the support the government but they're still just outside the city from what we know about 9 kilometers to the aist about 12 kilometers to the north and we've also heard reports that their cells have infiltrated the city that they've been smuggling in weapons ahead of a possible potential attempt to take the city they've said that the government of president fast in today or must go now the presidential spokesperson has said that the reason for the state of emergency or one of the reasons is that it will enable

the security forces here to do searches from house to house to try and find these hidden weapons normally that would require a warrant from a cotton according to the constitution so by suspending those constitutional rights it gives the security agencies the power to search for the weapons that they want to find to try and prevent that rebel attack and try and keep control. of their fragile grip on power in the country the head of the peacekeeping force here known by its acronym. was just on thursday are asking for more troops from the security council he said that they're desperately needed to try and maintain security across the country just within the last few days or one day and the burundian peacekeeper of being killed one of the limitations for the peacekeepers is that their mandate to protect civilians and support the government. is met by a more aggressive enemy their coalition of armed groups have been pushing and

attacking the peacekeepers. rescuers in eastern china say it could take at least another 2 weeks to free gold mines who've been trapped underground for 12 days the desperate attempt to save the 21 workers has been complicated by a blockage delaying drilling efforts and already say 10 of the men are alive with 11 others unaccounted for a jim brown has more from hong kong. the state television is giving prominent coverage to the rescue in a round the clock operation a giant drill is boring through granite to create a tunnel wide enough to bring up the miners trapped more than half a kilometer below it's become a race against time oxygen is limited because the main ventilation shaft is blocked by rubble there's also a risk of flooding and animation captures the drama of what happened. and the challenges that lie ahead rescue teams have already drilled several emergency shafts 6 days ago

a handwritten note confirmed 12 of the miners were alive don't stop trying to reach us it implored they detach the paper to a wire cable lowered from the surface the miners are receiving medical supplies and food. the food in liquid sort of seem to them a rich in nutrients and are more necessary than eating meals it's still difficult for them to take in protein like meat as more time is needed for the digestive systems to recover a telephone connection has also been set up the mine was reportedly under construction when the blast happened but it was only reported 30 hours later the local communist party secretary and has since been sacked the mine is owned by a private company registered here in hong kong but ultimately controlled by one of china's largest gold producers labor rights activists who can't operate in china say the media coverage of the accident has raised comfortable questions not just

for the owners but also the authorities. previous accidents of exposed to a cold hearted reality says one activist base to the united states sometimes the companies don't even want to rescue the miners it's just too expensive for them but for this case they have to because of all the attention from the media it is almost 2 weeks since this latest accident and while rescuers are still hopeful of getting the man out alive state media is also warning the operation could last another 2 weeks adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. google has threatened to make its search engine unavailable in australia over plans by the government to make tech giants pay for news content australia's prime minister scott morrison hit back at the companies saying we do not respond to threats of repose alls would allow local news websites to be paid for content featured on google and facebook google's regional director says the plans pose unmanageable risks for the company in its current form

the card remains unworkable and if it became law would hurt not just google but small publishers small businesses and millions of australians that ease our services every day the principle of unrestricted linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the card were to become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making google search available in australia. so this is our desire these are the top stories and u.s. president joe biden is set to target the economy on his 2nd full day in office its executive orders are expected to help those struggling to feed their families or find a job because of the pandemic it is a temporary means of financial relief before congress considers his $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package biden said his pandemic response plan.