amber of calls to make it an official federal holiday. because people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be her . the u.s. reaches 25000000 confirmed cases as the biden administration seeks to ramp up the vaccination campaign. on our intake of his hours here in live from london also coming up israel bans a passenger flights in and out of the country for a week as clashes break out over could knock down measures. on the streets of the netherlands of the new nighttime curfew there. and hey mr hungry and desperate for

help tens of thousands flee fighting in central african republic seeking safety in mimic villages in the geodesy. just over a year after it reported its 1st case of the corona virus the u.s. has recorded more than 25000000 infections the latest milestone was reached less than a week after the country hit 400000 deaths hospitals in california and many other states a struggling to help the high number of patients and newly elected president joe biden as one that will take months to turn things around his chief of staff says the trump administration had no real distribution plan for the vaccine. 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 seen 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 and that's where we're focused in the biden ministration on getting that ramped up. of course not to those and children in washington d.c. and that figure is it's quite staggering isn't it 25000000 cases that's one in 14 americans who has been infected with the disease and of course the death toll is now above 417000 people here in the united states that's far and away the highest death total as well as the highest number of cases worldwide if you look at it by countries number 2 in terms of the caseload and death is india and that's only about 10000000 cases of code at 19 and that's in

a population that is 3 times as large as that of the united states it really does focus the mind it does underscore president joe biden's declaration late last week that this is a nature crisis and that it is incumbent upon the federal government as well as state and local governments to respond in kind and as passionate response mosques to be made man to channel airplanes and trains. that's right and that's because even though people are very much aware of the deadly nature of covert 19 there still is a desire for people to travel whether to see loved ones or whether to try to carry out business and certainly the airline industry in particular has been very hard hit because so many people have not been flying and really when you try to look at whether the airlines should be getting any more federal support really what seems

to make most sense would be to actually get passengers back into the seats on those planes but how do you do so safely one thing that public health experts have been saying for the past year is that at the very least if people have to be near each other within a 2 meter distance at least where some sort of face mask whether it's a cloth mask or one of the more medically designed masks really to try to cut down on the transmission of the virus and how likely is it looking at this stage that biden will get his $1.00 trillion donna bill through congress well even though the president says that this is a major crisis it is not definite that he will get congressional approval you have congressional democrats who tend to agree with the president that the more money you spend to prop up the u.s. economy the better because that will make it easier for people who otherwise would

leave their homes and perhaps infect other people it would make it easier for them to basically continue taking care of themselves and their families but you do have a congressional republicans who are saying look we've just passed a $900000000000.00 package in december that money hasn't been distributed yet why are we spending more money and increasing the federal debt so it's really going to be a period of negotiations but certainly this is something that is now very much front of mind in both the congress and at the white house president jordan thank you very much indeed. israel is banning passenger flights in and out of the country for a week to prevent the new 19 strains from entering its borders from turkey $200.00 g.m.t. on monday and the international fs inches for a special permit to enter only the country israel has started to see a promising drop in cases after vaccinating much of the country that's not down is due to expire at the end of the month farah fawcett has more from western aslan.

this is. by the israeli government something that's has not been done during this and make there was some concern on the part of the deputy attorney general as to whether would even be legal prevents israeli citizens from returning home but yet during the course of a cabinet meeting on sunday we understand has now been approved that from monday midnight no. arrivals and no exits through israel's main 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 at a time when the vaccine rollout program is going at a much faster pace than anywhere else in the world already we're approaching any 30 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 it's even been attempts to prevent people coming in without a negative coronavirus test in the proceedings have to oust that something that was eventually put in place just yesterday on saturday and is now being superseded by these much more stringent regulations. after author talks protesters have clashed with police in 2 major israeli cities after regulators tried to shut down religious schools 1. police moved in to try to close the schools for violating coronavirus lockdown restrictions 5 police officers were injured and at least 4 people were arrested demonstrations against richter coronavirus measures in the netherlands have also descended into fights with police officers used water cannon

to disperse protesters in amsterdam's museum square mare from kaho same undeclared the area a high risk zone giving police the power to search people for weapons they've been protesting against a nighttime curfew the 1st since world war 2 which came into effect on saturday and aren't open in the south protesters charged at police or others threw bricks at police vehicles and have police say they've made at least 30 arrests by late afternoon and warn people to stay away from the city center. brazilians have staged a 2nd day of social distance protests against the president but also narrow a somewhere on photo others drove through the streets of rio de janeiro honking their horns and calling for impeachment brazilians have grown increasingly irate at the slow pace of the country's vaccine rollout which only began last weekend the fellow fit the bill but i feel being taught them i feel as if brazil doesn't have

a government brazil has been left to fend for itself we have psychopaths in power and the time to stop no one can take it anymore we're not going to wait for a 1000000 of our people to die for people to rise up nobody can take it anymore. because there's all this horrible fake news that is deceiving people and the president's disapproval rating is greater than his approval gather strength we have to get rid of that guy ross brazil will go under he will prevent the economy so impeachment now out with. the u.n. says more than 100000 people have now fled central african republic to escape the violence triggered by december's disputed election 100000 people are displaced within the water and country and west 5000 people have traveled to cameroon 5000 to chad and 400 to the republic of congo but the vast majority 74000 people have

crossed to the democratic republic of congo where they face an uncertain future many are getting their own canoes gained rare access to one of the patrol boats aid workers are using to track the refugees down but even when they're found there's little u.n. teams can do because funding is running out malcolm webb sent this exclusive report from one village near somebody in the democratic of of congo. killing looting and rape by fighters from groups in the central african republic to send tens. of thousands of villages on the run many of them have crossed this river. in dugout canoes on the other side is a 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 drew a crowd of 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 to leave back home a 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 didn't see exactly what happened because we had to run her sister fled with her one month old baby daniel. you know. it was 4 in the morning when the rebels attacked and started burning houses we all ran my husband ran into the forest where he fell into the hands of the rebels and they killed him. danny you'll never know his father one of an unknown number of civilians killed in the file and

in the last month. russian mercenaries rwandan troops and u.n. peacekeepers have helped the government to keep the coalition of armed groups out of the capital. violence escalated since elections last month which political opposition says was 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 song 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 they're exposed to. malaria and

everybody here says there's hardly any food to eat or clean water to drink. people told us to eating whatever edible plants they can find in the bush the local office of the u.n. refugee agency says it's operating on a car budget internally for supporting long term refugees who settled here after the last exodus 8 years ago are supposed to treat them with dignity and so let me just saw what that absence and i want it up on the wall well i mean all. the land out there as they promised so i want to see their promises. 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 out a 0 song democratic republic of congo still to come this half hour 11 miners rescued in china 2 weeks after an explosion trapped them underground and putting a smile on the faces of kyrgyzstan's children doctors battle a poorly funded system to treat their patients. there is a current heatwave in central queensland that stretches dancers south australia south wales victoria a.c.t but this is eating into this is a frontal system effectively contains remains that track record lows given welcome rain to the farmers in south australia and as it comes to trying adelaide it'll drop attempts at the head of it notice melbourne's at about 40 then we see the drop

$25.00 in adelaide $22.00 in melbourne that will be a sundry breakdown but the water is still just held ahead and things stay there to be honest in our back queensland but the world is also being dragged south and headed for the system look at the south on the new zealand particularly christ church you don't see 35 very often that's approaching a record for the middle of summer and it lasts as a heat wave until when sit down 30 the wind change takes you back down to the water at $23.00 degrees. the real cold in east asia has been confined to the arctic part of siberia the last few days it will be in the forecast there is inducing a frontal system which means the temperatures will drop and then rise again sun comes up in beijing in one hand snow goes across north korea and then rain b.c. again returning to the southern part of japan no rain for india or even sri lanka to talk off but persistent fog still in the.

freezing winds and rugged terrain and at times seem impossible. but for afghan traders who brave the will can carry dog that is no choice. combating the impossible to sell their goods in isolated areas so. we follow that daring journeys as they overcome the extremes. risking it all afghanistan on al-jazeera. the all. our money the top stories here are 0 just over a year after reported its 1st case of coronavirus the u.s.

is now recorded more than 25000000 infections the number was passed just a few days after the country hit 400000 deaths. is rose suspending air travel for a week to prevent the new covert ninety's strains from entering its borders from monday only international air passengers with special permits will be allowed to enter or leave the country. and the u.n. says more than 100000 people have now fled central african republic to escape the violence triggered by december's disputed election most have crossed into the democratic republic of congo. a damning report by the bush's news agency has found multiple cases of soldiers raping female refugees it ethiopia's to grey region and if the attacks happened weeks after the government announced it would secure the capital mccully and ended its conflict with rebels last november if he appears military entity agree in the north to dislodge the governing party and rebel groups triggering

a humanitarian crisis aid agencies still can't access many areas and the u.n. estimates some 4000000 people there urgently need food from your guitar choose a journalist with a reporter newspaper and i discover he says while the larger conflict might be over there are still pockets of fighting. i've been speaking to half a dozen people in the past week they're echoing what's being reported by reuters there are many many people that are suffering in terms of not just sexual harassment but literally running out of fruit and all kinds of stuff it's still a conflict there. and again people are desperate and people many people are still going to the sudan the government is insisting they're sending donations donating products to the region but there are many many people that are still starving northwood no medication this has been a conflict area for the almost for the last underlain 100 days and i don't know how

much is enough to help these people but again it's a very desperate situation that's being echoed by all sites thousands of buildings have been damaged or destroyed and almost 7000 people displaced after psycho in a weenies hit mozambique heavy rain caused widespread flooding in the coastal province an area still recovering from cycling it i was hit in 2019 killing several 100 people as latest storm caused a power outage in the coastal city of bear but despite the damage no deaths and few injuries have been reported so far we have been kind of lucky this the wind has not been as high as we were anticipating and as you can imagine it is. it's usually reams of the destruction so comparatively this has been my own however there are a lot of water on the ground so the floods and. they are and telecommunication

system has been destructive. portuguese president must center or below d'souza looks set for a 2nd term after exit polls showed him winning around 60 percent of the vote in sunday's election the 72 year old was regarded as the clear front runner among the 7 candidates a law professor and former television personality has consistently had an approval rating of 60 percent or more and he thought the election should have been perspire and as portugal currently has the world's highest 7 day rolling average of new cases and deaths per capita. 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 chandon province at least one miner is known to have died it's not known what condition the others are in nor about many reports blindfolded to

protect his eyes after 2 weeks in the dark grateful to be alive this is the moment a gold miner was pulled to safety after being trapped hundreds of metres 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 ambulance others were too exhausted from their ordeal rescue teams say they pulled up those most in need 1st. critical piece 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 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 miners 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 the u.s. has called on china to stop exerting what it calls military diplomatic and economic pressure on taiwan a warning from the u.s. state department comes after taiwan said 15 chinese bombers including 12 fighter jets entered its airspace on saturday taiwan's defense ministry described it as one

of the biggest incursions by chinese warplanes in recent years meanwhile a u.s. aircraft carrier group has entered the south china sea on a mission to promote what the u.s. military called freedom of the seas. a police vehicle in the u.s. city of tacoma plowed through a crowd on saturday after responding to reports of street races in the city police told local media they'd been notified of a crowd of about 100 people blocking roads the driver said he was afraid the crowd would break his glass when they started pounding on the window one person was injured in the incident. southeast asia's 1st nuclear power plant has stood unused for decades but with electricity prices going up the philippine government thinks it might be time to give nuclear a try to read island again reports on where the dormant plant could finally be fired up. 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 but 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 except 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 who 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. i don't want to start our nuclear program in the wrong for the one that started in the right for 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 d. good at their day 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. al-jazeera but on province northern philippines the un says more than half the children in syria are being deprived of an education it says it's a shop rise from previous estimates largely because of covert 19 the un warns the education system is overstretched and on the safe in a country that suffered a decade of war one in 3 schools has been destroyed damaged or is being used by fighters. decades of political instability have badly affected care stands health sector clinics lack funding and basic equipment despite this health workers are meeting the challenge head on a child stratford report or

a children's center in. the ups who really ability chanson said norton 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 pregnant mothers receive basic health care. but not something often not available to many women forced to rely on what experts say is a struggling government health sector 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 mom brings you here to the center of a physio and voice their plea every few months as easy clearly enjoys it mom says she's improving. and. 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 the city's on 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 best in the country in treating children with cerebral palsy. it was constructed over a hot spring because of the therapeutic qualities of the water. shaman and then cut their off drives 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 was a call of 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. no i want to be a good auntie specialist and work for a big company that's my plan he says it's hard work constantly trying to improve yourself but you have to and that's my advice. they doctor he says there's not enough government money to offer basic medicine invisibles let alone more specialized treatments some of the children need to. do their job 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 her family and the staff are the center but with the care and sarah p. she needs there is every reason she should live

a long and fulfilling life charles trafford al-jazeera nor could the storm space x. has set a new record for the number of satellites into space on a single rocket is folk and 9 rocket blasted off on sunday carrying 133 commercial and government spacecraft as well as 10 space x. satellites firms and governments pay a company to send the technology and just base as part of its ride chair program. i want of the top stories and i was there just over a year after it reported its 1st case of the corona virus the u.s. has recorded more than 25000000 infections the latest number was.