desperate situation the indian government set up a new commission to monitor successive and pollution across 5 known for indian state health experts and mention the same thing warning for moms of the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in evolution and the impact that would have on dogs because the 19. tens of thousands from violence is on the group's advance towards the capital in the central african republic al-jazeera reports exclusively from across the congolese border. town know about this and this is obviously a live from doha also coming up israel is banning air travel in and out of the country to try to contain the spread of coronavirus. the u.n. says the pandemic has severely disrupted the education of more than 1600000000

children. and the nightmare ends for 11 miners who spent 2 weeks trapped underground in china but for several others the ordeal continues. but i want to people fleeing from violence in central african republic continues to nearby and it's soaring according to the u.n. refugee agency foreign forces supporting the government of ca are have been battling groups since last month it's estimated that 100000 people have left their homes but they're still inside the country of those who cross the border almost 5000 people have gone to cameroon a similar number i'm going to chad all 400 are now in the republic of congo but $90000.00 people have traveled into democratic republic of congo and it's not clear what's going to happen to them. got exclusive access to one area where refugees say

there's hardly any food to eat or clean water to drink. killing looting and rape by fighters from armed groups in the central african republic to send tens of thousands of villages on the run many of them of crossed this river. in dugout canoes on the other side is relative safety in remote villages in the democratic republic of congo only accessible by boat we went to look for them with the un refugee agency. and we found them in their thousands sheltering in villages along the riverbank. our arrival drew a crowd people here say they've been waiting for help since they arrived here last week they lined up hoping we brought it. and more keep coming. others go back to retrieve possessions from their homes or crops from their farms.

that's what it leads back home or tried. and she came back with nothing. the rebels attacked our village last week we had a lot of gunfire they destroyed everything they raped and they kidnapped some of them we didn't see exactly what happened because we had to run. violence escalated since elections last month which political opposition says were rigged the armed groups say the government must go. about 2 thirds of the country including most of its gold and diamond mines the armed groups now control the villages that we can see just over there on the other side of the river people who live on this side say they can hear gunfire when they're fighting this is one of the homes of one of the usual residents of the village. it's basic in the villages being completely overrun its population is fallen by about 20 times of the new. rivals those lucky enough to

have a mosquito net sleeping on the way out in the open many others have just built basic structures made of branches and leaves their exposed tomasky toes malaria and everybody here says that there's hardly any food to eat or clean water to drink. people told us of eating whatever edible plants they can find in the bush the local office of the u.n. refugee agency says it doesn't have funds for the new arrivals are supposed to treat them with dignity and so let me just saw with that up so when i got up on the well i mean the culture you want to see the promise of black by the absence. is not safe to go home but without help they can't relocate and settle here in congo they're wondering how long they'll be stuck here. after a few hours we have to leave people here desperately hoping somebody will soon come

back and help malcolm webb al-jazeera tsonga lola democratic republic of congo. is the country representative of u.n.h.c.r. and democratic republic of congo she says the refugees are vulnerable. that and more then at close to 90000 now is to mitigate their authorities we can classify as quite desperate because one the physical location in which this refugees have a right is very vast they are in 3 provinces and they are basically very very difficult to reach secondly didn't come emotionally depleted some of them this is not the 1st time that crossing into the d.s.e. those who even left lead last year help found themselves again being to again been displaced so emotionally in a very very hard position also in terms of their. 'd big canary

needs fault water sanitation 'd slippin and. 'd signs at the moment because we're a house we're still really looked at in assistance from kinshasa and from but only to this location and whether find themselves in 3 provinces and the host community that normally would assist them were the 1st responders that themselves in a very. precarious situation and when that's it where. more than a year into the covered 1000 pound amec in the country with the worst number of infections and deaths the united states has just reached 25000000 cases the mouse home was passed less than a week after the country had 400000 deaths hospitals and some states including california

a struggling to cope with the rising number of patients healing elected president joe biden signed executive orders aimed at ending the pandemic. ultra-orthodox protesters have battled with police into israeli cities after regulators tried to shut down when it is schools police moved in to try to close the schools for violating coronavirus lockdown restrictions 5 police officers were wounded and at least 4 people were arrested. meanwhile flights in and out of israel are being suspended for 2 weeks starting on monday to stop new covert 19 strains from being carried into the country israel started to see a promising drop in cases it's locked down is set to expire at the end of the month forces joining us live now from west to sell them just talk us through what the practicalities are of this latest shutdown of the air routes. well yes this is a major step taken by the israeli government some saying that it's. has not been done during this and they make there was reportedly some concern on the part of the

deputy attorney general as to whether would even be legal to prevent israeli citizens from returning home but jury in the course of a cabinet meeting on sunday has now been approved that monday midnight. arrivals and no exit strew israel's main airport bangura an airport will be allowed unless there is a special commission granted in exceptional cases this is as you say an attempt to stop new strains coming into the country to a time when the vaccine rollout program is going at a much faster pace than anywhere else in the world already we're approaching nearly 30 percent of the population as a whole being vaccinated of some 2 and a half 1000000 people who've already had at least one dose nearly a 1000000 have had 2 doses and that have been signs even in a population level that among you know the sixty's for example the majority vast

majority have been vaccinated but the number of hospitalizations in that part of the community have gone down nearly 10 percent while they've gone up in other cohorts so there is evidence of the vaccine starting to work what they don't want in israel is for new strains which might escape the vaccine to militate against some of those effects and also there's been some political pressure on benjamin netanyahu as well when it emerged it's even been a tends to prevent people coming in without a negative coronavirus test in the proceeding 72 hours that's something that was eventually put in place just yesterday on saturday and is now being superseded by these much more stringent regulations and as we were just mentioning israel's lockdowns expected to expire at the end of the month and yet there are some people who are fighting police who are trying to close the schools down for breaching the covert regulations talk us through that. as you said the beginning of. it is a. series of protests that have been taking place in various different locations on

sunday police have moved in to try to enforce the regulations which across the country. areas. schools. in abeyance of the nationally mandated. schools now the issue. for the majority of the mainstream secular israelis. an increasing amount of anger against. this was being allowed to continue. given the. viruses on the national health system and on the national economy. at the same time relies on. in his governing coalition so he's had to.

find balance. in last few days and now we're seeing these pretty major clashes between. communities and the police as they try to enforce the regulations in one instance at least as weapon and. to ward off a group would surround it and so. something which was argued about between ultra-orthodox minister minister the minister during the course of the cabinet meeting so as well as taking place on the streets this is a very serious political issue of israeli prime minister as well. writers in the netherlands of set fire to a coronavirus testing facility on the 1st night of a nationwide curfew authorities say youths in the village of also threw fireworks at officers and stones at police cars 3600 people were fined nationwide for

breaching the curfew it's the 1st one imposed since the 2nd world war the country's trying to stamp out a 3rd wave of infections driven by a more infectious strain of the virus. and hours later dutch police have clashed with anti lockdown protesters in the capital amsterdam and the southern city of hovan in amsterdam police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators at a large square ringed by museums it's the 2nd sunday in a row the police have been fighting with protesters in the dutch capital 11 miners have been rescued in china's northeast after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among 22 caught in a blast at a gold mine in shandong province at least one miners known to have died while the condition of the others is unknown or a burden man it reports blindfolded to protect his eyes after 2 weeks in the dark but grateful to be alive this is the moment a gold mine was pulled to safety after being trapped hundreds of meters below

ground he's part of the 5th group of miners rescued in east china's shandong province 7 miners were able to walk to the ambulance others were too exhausted from their ordeal. rescue teams say they pulled up those most in need 1st . a critical case comes before the light one which is the principle of mine accident rescue so the severe ones have been pulled up 1st and the following are in better physical and psychological conditions. but more a still trapped. and animation shows what happened a blast deposited large amounts of rubble in the shaft rescue teams then began trying to rescue those stranded a handwritten note from the minus was hoisted above ground using a metal cable it read don't stop trying to reach us rescuers load food and medical supplies to the kind of the rescuers checked the miners to see if they

had any injuries and covered their eyes for protection generally speaking the rescue operation proceeded faster than expected after lifting all the trapped miners discovered will go on with the search for the other missing miners. the safety of mine is in china has improved in the past few years following a government campaign that's after hitting a peak of 5000 deaths in 2003 but what went wrong in this mine is yet to be determined the al-jazeera so had an al-jazeera of low income workers in the u.k. say they don't have enough financial support to self isolate while the country's in lockdown. and repatriating indonesia's stolen heritage relook at how the pandemic is hampering efforts to bring back artifacts from the netherlands.

it's time for the perfect jan in the winter sponsored by qatar airways. bit of a change on the way for japan the sun's come out and for china and the korean peninsula this frontal system which doesn't look much will change the feel of things is mostly light as are bricks of rain but it's cold enough to snow in the north and the real cold stays a long way north mostly mongolia so beijing is it touches the briefly on monday that it's clears up briefly woman then it gets cold again particularly at night there's the snow as it goes through north korea's is tuesday and there's more cloud rain building further says the ones going to be up and then temperature wise as well hong kong's more reliable about 22 degrees a change in the have just in the shower seems likely in the next day or so it has happened in the last day of a good parts of southeast asia so the northern philippines northern luzon will be sharing not much in the rest but then focus for the south and a good pub and these are looking still pretty wet as far east as poverty guinea in

india i'd like to see a change in the way there's been a bit is there is snow falling in the far north and certainly god otherwise we've got persistent fog you can't see it because it's nothing happening to be honest but the coal waves back temps is wrong the low side a lot of northern india and bangladesh and this is the forecast the new delhi it is not very promising. sponsored by qatar airways field and for me to the poles good kids are renowned for their courage on the 5. 101 east finds out what it tikes to join the elite brigade. on al-jazeera. to own their own we tell us all in a case where us what is happening compensated civilians who we listen to the only music you hear if you own the most beautiful music in the world is silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter although just 0.

or. i want to go to 0 remind of our top stories this hour a surge in violence in central african republic forcing tens of thousands of people to escape across the border and un refugee agency says those fleeing attacks by on groups desperately need help. 25000000 people have now been infected with the corona virus in the united states the country is the worst affected by the pandemic the grim milestone was passed less than a week after the country had 400000 deaths. flights in and out of israel have been suspended for 2 weeks starting on monday to stop new covert 19 strains from being carried into the country israel started to see

a promising drop in cases it's locked out and is set to expire at the end of the month. mass testing is underway in hong kong for thousands of people in neighborhoods sealed off due to a coronavirus outbreak the city is struggling to contain a rise in cases over recent weeks and that are similar concerns in mainland china as a country is seeing its biggest wave of infections since march sarah clarke reports from hong kong. health authorities have sealed off hong kong densely packed district of jordan after a surge in fiction those living in around $150.00 buildings had been forbidden to leave their homes in a 48 hour men down the sewage systems in several blocks have also been contaminated with high concentrations of the virus found in movie samples is part of callan is home to many elderly and paul residents living in small and subdivided flats the district accounts for half of the new transmissions recorded i've the last week are

actually. we should have a complete lockdown for. pro trial days all 4 of fortnight. this today mandatory lockdown in hong kong is the 1st but it's not expected to be the last but the chinese new year holiday just weeks away the government is tightening restrictions to avoid another spike in tysons as families gather for the biggest annual celebration chinese new year is the most important family holiday large celebrations have been impacted by surge in cases on the mainland mad recovered tests are ongoing in chanche and city in the north of china residents in who by province surrounding beijing as well as those living in julian and helen jang province have been forced into another lockdown temporary quarantine facilities are being built to cope with the highest number of infections since march last year. millions of people in mainland china would normally travel across

the country to see their families over this holiday break for a 2nd year in a row chinese new year plans are under threat but the government advising its citizens to stay home sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong more than 5000 people in taiwan have been told to self isolate for 14 days health authorities are trying to contain a domestic cluster of infections connected to a hospital 15 people have tested positive in a city in northern taiwan but thousands more may have had contact with them taiwan has largely succeeded in controlling the virus through early and effective prevention methods that have been just 889 cases and 7 deaths since the pandemic was declared. 1.6000000000 children and young people had their education severely disrupted last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. but the united nations shows 29 countries in red that have closed schools juta covered 19 the ones in blue

are partially closed as of january 258000000 children have been unable to attend school juta closures while children in more developed parts of the world have been able to continue classes remotely many more without access to computers of the internet have been unable to learn the un secretary-general until you tell us marks the international day of education on sunday by saying it's a fundamental rights that must be protected to avert a catastrophe or minus until an anthony says is director of the us school global education and monitoring report he says many children have been left behind because they haven't been able to learn remotely. in the international date of education it is a stark reminder of the multiple purposes that education serves in children's lives and i think this also has children out down to politicians minds and governments minds all around the world but it is really essential to maintain schools open it

is really to be really the very last resort to have the schools closed but inevitably in some countries the health situation does not really leave them must choice i think around the world everyone believes in the value and importance of education but unfortunately many children are going to be faced with the poverty of their families and the lack of means to continue their education and it's again not a mindset issue it's the issue that so many children have been actually left behind because of limited access to the means that will enable them to follow distance education and also because at the end of the day we know that this is an education despite the veins efforts all around the world is only subject beauty maybe sometimes a poor substitute to what you cation in presence of her and it is the disadvantage

so you can really are about to reform behind further because it is them that are suffering more from the living condition that make falling education from a distance much more difficult but also from the means and the support they can get . germany to begin using the same experimental cocktail of antibodies credited with helping donald trump's recovery from grover 19 the former us president was given a therapy developed by a regenerate on before it was approved by regulators it said to prevent high risk patients becoming seriously ill if it's used in the early stages of infection 200000 doses are due to be delivered to german hospitals in the coming week italian government says it's considering legal action against a vaccine maker us to zeneca after it announced plans to cut its supply to the european union the company's reduce its offering by 60 percent for the 1st quarter of the year blaming production problems it's a big setback for the blocks vaccination program last week pfizer said it would

delay shipments of its vaccine for up to a month. the u.k.'s vaccination rate is speeding up that the country is struggling to keep infections down some senior ministers are demanding tougher penalties for those who disobey a lock down rules but others are calling for new policies to address people in casual jobs there are fears low income workers don't have enough financial support to self isolate john to help reports. laura is among tens of thousands of food delivery riders considered critical workers out and about despite the coronavirus lockdown i only had what. i currently have i think they pull it out of my account it does feel like a moral decision and. it's specially now with peak time winter and often time is when we have most deliveries and when we are off it most rewards as well she admits that it's common among her fellow riders to bend the rules sometimes the widespread

sort of attitude is so if it's not going to happen i'm not going to pass it on or i'm not carrying it it's kind of like sweeping under the rug in favor of your own personal life instead of really considering the global situation. government discussions reportedly underway about whether to offer fixed payments to anyone required to self isolate only serve to highlight what many say is an abject failure of test trace and isolate measures that the prime minister once promised would be world beating it seems britain's pandemic never stops breaking new ground highest death numbers record hospital admissions even its own deadly variant and while the vaccine rollout is currently the most advanced in the world the current lockdown is also projected to be the longest one yet this in part is why recent government research shows that only 17 percent of people with symptoms are coming forward to be tested and just 11 percent of people actually self isolate

when asked to do so by n.h.s. test and trace in many cases these are the lowest paid who can't afford not to go to work. there is no point in testing and less you can get people to self isolate because that's where you stop transmission we now know and actually we've known for months in ma that the very people who are the most exposed to this virus who are those on the frontline and low paid for example i care workers can't afford to sell isolate and literally they are in that really difficult position where they have to choose between self isolation and putting food on the table so laura is not alone among society's least well off the cleaners carers and supermarket workers short of being physically ill herself she says if told to self isolate she'll instead go on

delivering food to british doorsteps she has no choice joel al-jazeera london for more than 300 years the netherlands has colonize what is now a modern day indonesia and it took thousands of cultural and religious artifacts after years of negotiation the dutch government returned some items last year and the asian historians want more to be returned but they say it's long and complicated as jessica washington reports from jakarta. this dagger is called the christian indonesia it's made from gold and is covered in precious stones it's one of $1500.00 items returned last year for more than 300 years dutch cohen eyes is occupied what is now indonesia. they stole thousands of precious cultural and religious artifacts and took them to the netherlands. after years of negotiation the artifacts were finally handed back the 1st time such a large collection has been returned to indonesia. it includes this shield used by

the dayak people in cali month on hundreds of years ago decorated with the hair of their enemies. but you know that i think that i am it shows that as a colonized country we had our historical culture and this is important for future generations to understand getting these items back took 6 years of planning and putting them on display was delayed due to the outbreak of covert 19 the dutch government offered to return more than $12000.00 artifacts in total the indonesian authorities chose to select only a small percentage of them indonesian historians say some items should remain in the middle and so that indonesian culture can be experienced there too but there are also financial reasons for it at the dock and when we did that was a meal that is we don't want to museum to become a warehouse by taking items which are not important it would just add to our maintenance costs because all artifacts need special care this manuscript for

example contains instructions for protecting against witchcraft it needs to be stored at $25.00 degrees so that it isn't damaged by humidity there are thousands of indonesian artifacts still in dutch museums and authorities hope to eventually bring more for them home but it's a long and complicated process and historians say they'll need to carefully curated items that are returned. those of great interest are the ones that reveal more about the country's past than up when they all get out and as you know many of our items are related to snog or free they add to our understanding of the many ethnic groups in indonesia which we did not have before in october a dutch commission on colonial collections recommended its government return items taken from former colonies that includes the diamond which once belonged to the sultan of punjab muhsin and used to be 70 carats it was violently seized by dutch troops who are bullish the sultanate and sent the rough diamonds back to the

netherlands to be caught into this rectangular 36 karat jam. if something belongs to indonesia they should return it to indonesia but the repatriation of such a valuable item is complicated the descendants of the sultan say it should be given to them and not to the government jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. this is i'll just say that these are the top stories a surge in violence in central african republic forcing tens of thousands of people to skate across the border the un refugee agency says the fleeing people desperately need help the physical location in which this refugees i write is that are vast. 3 problems is. basically very very.