but to put it on purpose. then i'm going to. the way they tell death story is what and they came to france. the u.s. hits $25000000.00 cases of covert 19 as politicians prepared to discuss president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus bill. i'm about to send this is all deserve a live from doha also coming up tens of thousands flee violences on the group's advance towards the capital in central african republic al-jazeera reports exclusively from across the congolese border. nightmare ends for 11 miners who

spent 2 weeks trapped underground in china but for others the ordeal continues. and we meet some of the young patients in kurdistan feeling the impact of a health sector that many say is stuck in the past. well the country with the highest number of covert 1000 infections and deaths the united states has just reached 25000000 cases it's less than a week after the country hit 400000 deaths a number of u.s. states say they don't have enough doses of the vaccine california health officials are warning that some of those most at risk are going to have to wait up to 5 months to be immunized from monday air passengers won't be able to fly in and out of israel unless they have a special exemption in hong kong mass testing is underway for thousands of people in neighborhoods that have been sealed off due to an outbreak and the u.n.

says the health crisis has severely disrupted education for 1600000000 children on his own who's live for us in washington d.c. let's talk about those numbers 1st of all this is staggering. number really is 25000000 americans now have coronavirus or have had corona virus in the united states and it staggering on multiple levels just to give you a comparison the entire population of australia about 25000000 what what really is cut so many people by surprise i guess if you will was how fast this excel aerated the 1st case of known case of corollaries in the u.s. was in january of 2020 and it took the u.s. 9 months to hit the 1st $10000000.00 cases but then as it kept accelerating at the end of last year it only took 7 weeks for the u.s.

to hit the 2nd 10000000 cases of coronavirus in the u.s. primarily because the big surge during the holiday season here and now course at 25000000 cases that's cool and to one in 13 people in the u.s. that has had coronavirus or 7.5 percent of the total population but what really worries people here is with many health experts here in the u.s. are saying that the real number of people that have been infected here in the u.s. is probably much higher than $25000000.00 because of an estimated millions more that had it but didn't even realize it because they were asymptomatic and we're learning a little bit more about the biden administration's plans to do with coverts and joe biden has been setting out specific deadlines particularly a vaccination start number of people within 100 days how confident are people that this is actually going to work. well there is some confidence here in the united states that his plan could work primarily because he's taking

a much different approach than former president donald trump the biden ministrations saying we're nationalizing this this covert plan a plan that he says is top of his agenda but the vaccinations are key and his chief of staff biden's chief of staff ron klain said on sunday that the challenge is to get vaccines to everyone that needs them is very very grave but the process to distribute the vaccine particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole did not really exist when we came into the white house as everyone american is seeing the way in which people get vaccine is chaotic it's very limited we've seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed but half of that has been given out so the process of getting that vaccine into arms that's the hard process that's where we're behind as a country. as you mention to the buy demonstration said they want to do 100000000

vaccines in the 1st 100 days but many people here in the u.s. are simply saying that that is not ambitious enough and that the by administration even needs to get more vaccines out even sooner to people here in the u.s. that need a gabriel is only talking to us from washington d.c. gave thanks very much indeed well how the forces in west jerusalem with more on this flight restrictions that are coming into effect from london israel. this is may just because it is really go them something that has not been done before so far during this and then 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 yet sure in the course of a cabinet meeting on sunday when a senate has now been approved that from monday midnight no. arrivals and no

exit through israel's main airport ben gurion airport will be allowed unless there is special permission granted in exceptional cases this is 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 8030 percent of the population as a whole being vaccinated 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 militate against some of those effects and also there's been some political pressure on benjamin netanyahu as well when it emerged that hadn't even been an attempt 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 when i hear her schooling for more than

1600000000 children has been impacted by the pandemic menace on cutting services director unesco global education monitoring report he says the children who haven't been able to longer mortlake have been left behind. 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 that 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 distance education despite the variance efforts all around the world is only subject beauty or maybe sometimes a poor substitute to what you cation in presence of and it is the disadvantage so you can really are about to fall 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 . the u.n. refugee agency says more than $100000.00 people have fired from the recent violence in central african republic to neighboring countries foreign forces supporting the

government of ca are have been battling armed groups since last month most of the refugees have been forced to find shelter in a remote border regions of the democratic republic of congo. got exclusive access to one area where refugees say there's hardly any food or clean water. killing looting and rape by fighters from armed groups in the central african republic 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 villages in the democratic republic of congo only accessible by boat he 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 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 and their farms. that's what it leads back home a tried. and she came back with nothing. the rebels attacked our village last week we heard a lot of gunfire they destroyed everything they raped and they kidnapped some of them didn't say 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 of sun biloela it's basic to the villages being

completely overrun its population is fallen by about 20 times of the new arrivals 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 tows 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 so let that dignitas all with that upset and i'm not up on the world i mean the culture you don't want to see the promise of blacks by ups and . it's 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. liz ohio is the country representative of u.n.h.c.r. and democratic republic of congo she says the refugees are vulnerable. that and more than a close to 90000 now is to mitigate the authorities we can classify as quite desperate because one the physical location in which this refugee is how i write is very vast they are in 3 provinces and 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 even left let last year serves again been to again been displaced so

emotionally in a very very hard position also in terms of their. 'd big canary needs fault water sanitation slippin and. 'd signs at the moment because we're a house we're still a relook at in assistance from kinshasa and from but only to a dislocation and whether find themselves in 3 provinces and the host community that normally would assist them were the 1st responders that themselves in a paradigm. a precarious situation and when that's it well so had an al-jazeera that's been lying dormant for decades so once the philippines thinking about reviving this nuclear plant. repatriating indonesia's stolen heritage will look at how the pandemic is hampering efforts to bring back artifacts from the netherlands

. the weather remains surprisingly quiet stretch the arabian peninsula the levant and iran the good part of turkey if anything temperatures are slowly rising by approximately a degree day that's not quite true in western turkey here is breezy and sherry and the shells from blood has become much lighter than through the go so temperatures in doha are coming up a degree a slight put day as well otherwise it is remarkably quiet for this time of the year . we just got pictures in from places further south we've seen active weather is tropical cyclone eloise which just about gave us winds about 130140 kilometers across barrier now these pictures show some wind damage there's widespread flooding

i would say maybe it's mine a structural damage but sound it was fairly major this is a big signpost brought down or across the road so there was you know it's pretty widespread stuff but the communications of being restored slowly now so the next day or so we're going to be looking into what happens as the remains of this tropical cycle well this is what happens the likelihood of significant flooding in the far south of mozambique the eastern side of south africa botswana reasons sudden zimbabwe the likelihood is one to 200 is the right or in hunston storms with significant hail from many. of the frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy they get in the early stages of on this ration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global

headlines how will a place like it lead get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al jazeera. more charges it'll remind of our top stories this hour 25000000 people have now been infected with corona virus in the united states the country is the worst affected by the panda. that comes less than a week after the country hit $400000.00 deaths. from monday air passengers won't be able to fly in and out of israel unless they have a special exemption that's in a bid to stop new covert 19 strains from being carried into the country. a surge in

violence in central african republic forcing tens of thousands of people to escape across the border the un refugee agency says those fleeing attacks by on the groups desperately need help. taiwan says several chinese military planes have entered its airspace for a 2nd day the islands defense ministry as reported that a total of 15 chinese aircraft including 12 fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of its air defense identification zone it's the 2nd day in a row chinese warplanes have carried out what taipei is describing as an incursion into its airspace meanwhile the u.s. state department has called on china to stop exerting what it calls military diplomatic and economic pressure on taiwan it comes as a u.s. aircraft carrier group has entered the south china sea on a mission to promote what the u.s. military is calling freedom of the seas 11 miners have been rescued in china's northeast after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among $22.00 caught

in a blast at a gold mine in shandong province at least one miners known to have died and it's not known what's happened to the others not a burden money reports blindfolded to protect his eyes after 2 weeks in the dark but grateful to be in life this is the moment a gold mine was pulled to safety after being trapped hundreds of meters below ground he's part of a 5th group of miners rescued in east china's shandong province 7 miners were able to walk to the audience out the wood too exhausted from their oatmeal. rescue teams say they pulled up those most in need 1st. critical case comes before the light one which is the principal of mine accident rescue so the severe ones have been pulled up 1st and the following are in better physical and psychological conditions. but move 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 miners 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's went wrong in this mine is yet to be determined the al jazeera is going to national parties revealed plans to hold what it calls its own legal referendum on living in the united kingdom scotland's 1st

minister nicola sturgeon says they'll push ahead with a 2nd vote after the pandemic if the british prime minister refuses to grant one themself that says new polls reported in the british newspaper the sunday times show 50 percent of scottish voters want a referendum on the majority of all u.k. voters expect scotland to become independent within the next 10 years. well those same polls showed just over half of voters in northern ireland also want to referendum on irish unification the sunday times goes on to say that 48 percent of northern irish voters believe there will be a united ireland within 10 years. doctors in kyrgyzstan say they're struggling to treat their patients because of a lack of public funding the health care sector has been hit hard by 3 decades of political instability in the country since the breakup of the soviet union joel stratford went to a clinic in the northern uk sue district. the uk sue rehabilitation

center in northern kyrgyzstan was built by the soviets in the 1950 s. to treat polio victims. in outreach children suffering from a neurological condition the doctors say could be prevented if pregnant mothers receive basic health care. but that something of a not available to many women forced to rely on what experts say is a struggling government health so stuck in the past 7 year old aziza has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth it's a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to move maintain balance and speak. her mum brings you here to the center for physio and voice their plea every few months as easy clearly enjoys it mom says she's improving. previously she couldn't talk sit down or eat but this therapy is helping and she can now even play with her

sister our lives are beginning to improve. with facilities are shockingly basic proof experts say of years of government neglect but around $3000.00 children come from all over the country every year for treatment for cerebral palsy. despite lacking basic modern equipment and few professionally trained staff the center has built up a reputation for being the based in the country in treating children with cerebral palsy. it was constructed over a hot spring because of the therapeutic qualities of what a. shame and then cut their off drugs his son is 8 hours from the capital bishkek to get the hydro and physical therapy he needs. his condition does not affect could need to function like intelligence he can be treated but not cured. john it as a cough will graduate this year with a degree in i.t.

he's been receiving treatment here for almost 20 years and staff say he is proof that despite the difficulties they face success can be achieved. well. i want to be a good auntie specialist and work for a big company that's my plan had he says it's hard work constantly trying to improve yourself but you have to and that's my advice. they dr hayes says there's not enough government money to offer basic medicine and visit mins let alone more specialized treatments some of the children need to. get up what they do we have difficulties i believe the government is trying to help us to provide free treatment but it has to fund every sphere of the health sector it can't just focus on us. the challenges are immense aziza her family and the staff of the to center but with the can therapy she needs there is every reason she should live a long and fulfilling life charles trafford al-jazeera norden could be

a star the philippines is looking to revive a dormant nuclear power plant to solve its energy crisis experts say it could reduce soaring power prices by up to 70 percent general allen dorgan visited the set facility in baton. entering the philippines only nuclear power plant is like a step back in time the but the nuclear power plant was built in the seventy's and was the 1st in south east asia but it never opened it was marked bald and past presidents were hesitant to recommission it because it was a reminder they say of the excesses of former president ford in the markets his regime but the country's electricity prices are among the highest in southeast asia partly because it's dependence now on imported fossil fuels that means the average filipina family spends between 10 to 20 percent of their monthly income in

a lecture city philippines has for decades now been avoided as an investment destination in southeast asia because. electricity has either been expensive or in short supply and unreliable philippine president rodrigo the turkey has ordered his officials to look into the possibility of including nuclear power into the country's energy mix and a possible revival of the butter on nuclear power plant it tells the whole world we're ready for a nuclear b. and p p s 3 sister plants that have been running for over 30 years exact same design in slovenia in brazil and in south korea but what people forget is that no nuclear plant in the world operates without the blessings of the international atomic energy agency the watchdog it is quite clear that some parts of the nuclear power plant are aging but regulators here tell us all it needs is a few years and an estimated $1200000000.00 of commissioning and it will be as good

as brand new. but there are also those in government to say that but the and nuclear power plant belongs to a bygone era there's already a big push back on nuclear technology now you get a jump start which is all embroiled in controversy we don't. i want to start our nuclear program in the wrong for you want to start it in the right foot environmental activists also believe that the government should focus on producing clean energy instead like wind and solar but whether but to and will be recommissioned by president or drug addicted to or not one thing they say is for sure the energy crisis in the country is a social justice issue and one that may worsen if there is no investment in the country's energy system to get al-jazeera but i'm province northern philippines one of the world's most wanted men has been arrested in the netherlands accuser running asia's biggest crime syndicate says he logged was taken in by dutch police on

a request by a stereo united nations office and drugs and crime says it is believed to be the head of a multi-billion dollar drugs operation for more than 300 years the netherlands colonized what is now modern day indonesia and took thousands of cultural and religious artifacts after years of negotiation the dutch government returned some items last year but indonesian historians want more to be returned as jessica washington reports from jakarta they say the process is long and complicated. 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 months on hundreds of years ago decorated with the hair of their enemies. but given that i got out 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 netherlands so that indonesian culture can be experienced there too but there are also financial reasons for it the thing that can only mean that i don't which i mean 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 but when they get out and as you know many of our items are related to us an auger 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 this 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 all to say that these are the top stories 25000000 people have now been infected with corona virus in the united states the country is the worst affected by the pandemic that comes less than a week after it recorded 400000 deaths as although has more on the reaction from washington d.c. .