uncovers the plant. the right leaks and the politics at play. because beyond the picture the beautiful game is only one of. the fans who makes. coming soon on al-jazeera. mexico's president becomes the latest world leader to test positive for corona virus but says this and sums on mild and he remains optimistic. i want you now to 0 life from a headquarters in doha and also coming up president joe biden plans to renew a travel ban on several countries as the total number of code 1000 infections in the u.s. surpasses 25000000 israel closes its skies to most international flights in an

effort to contain and new highly contagious strain of the coronavirus 11 miners trapped in a gold mine in china for 2 weeks are rescued but the fate of 10 others is still unknown. thanks for joining us we begin with breaking news out of mexico where president andress money while lopez obrador has tested positive for a clove of $19.00 the 67 year old says he's being treated for mild symptoms and will continue to work from the presidential palace lopez obrador has been criticized for his handling of the pandemic mexico has the world's 4th highest death toll let's cross over to mexico city where john holliman is joining us from so what more are we learning about the president's condition. we don't know little of them you just said actually very we know that a 67 years old that he does have high blood pressure stories in

a vulnerable group but he says he sits in somalia as you said that he's going to continue working from the national palace and that's one of the jobs that he's got coming up on monday is to speak to russia's leader a lot of myth hooted. a new lot of that it seems he wants to get hold of the sputnik vaccine from russia and that's because mexico at the moment has got a bit of a lack of vaccines it's not just the president obviously that's suffering at the moment in the country mexico this week records for the number of coded patients and the number of victims those that have died the hospitals in the capital of been through to some weeks there's a lack of oxygen basically there's what's up groups facebook groups around the capital people desperately trying to get hold of oxygen tanks for their relatives and for those that are suffering from coded at the moment so it's coming at a really critical point for the country now as you mentioned he has been criticized by his handling of the pandemic the mexican president and there is minimal opposite

or doesn't like to wear face masks especially in the early days of the pandemic he also appeared a lot in public kissing and hugging his supporters which led to directly his own administration social distancing recommendations and he's kept things open when other countries perhaps might have locked down especially at the start of december when the cases started climbing here in mexico he said basically a lot of mexicans living hand to mouth and they can't afford to the economy to be locked down for long periods of time as it is actually looked down at the moment so this is a critical point for mexico but he says as you said that his symptoms and mark will be able to continue working and he's sort of 2nd in command the secretary of government as they call it here is going to take over for him and his morning briefings while he's in arrived on homeland thank you for that update from mexico several. well the u.s.

plans to keep travelers from several countries out in a bid to stop the spread of a new covert 1000 strain president joe biden is expected to impose a travel ban as the number of cases surpasses 25000000 the restriction will apply to countries where the highly contagious variant has been found but isn't expected to affect u.s. citizens more than 400000 americans have died from the virus making it the worst hit country earlier this week biden signed several executive orders to boost the response to the virus rosalyn jordan and washington d.c. explains who will be affected well this travel ban was supposed to have been lifted on tuesday day after tomorrow by the previous president donald trump and that was going to cover up people who were coming from the united kingdom from ireland and from the 26 countries in the zone in europe as well as from brazil but starting on monday the new president joe biden is reimposing that ban because the

government is trying to get its arms around the spread of the so-called u.k. variant of code at 19 we should note that that ban is going to expand on saturday and that's going to include people who are not u.s. citizens or residents coming from south africa and it doesn't matter whether you're a south african citizen or whether you're from another country if you're not a u.s. person you're not going to be able to come into the u.s. starting on saturday if your point of departure was south africa the white house chief of staff says the trump of ministration did not have a plan in place to disperse the vaccines president joe biden has set an ambitious goal to have 100000000 vaccinations administered in his 1st 100 days. 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 by the ministration on getting that ramped up israel is suspending air travel for 2 weeks to prevent a more contagious strain of covered $9000.00 from entering its borders under the government proposal only passengers with special permits would be allowed to enter or leave the country israel has started to see a drop in cases its lockdown is set to expire at the end of the month carrie fawcett is in west jerusalem with more on the flight restrictions that will go into effect on monday. this is may just by the israeli government something that. has not been done 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 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 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 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 to militate against some of those effects and also there's been some political pressure on benjamin netanyahu as well when it emerged that that even been

a tends to prevent people coming in without a negative coronavirus test in the proceedings have 2 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 ultra-orthodox protesters battled with police and to israeli cities off the regulators tried to shut down religious schools police were sent to try to close the schools for violating current virus locks on restrictions several previous officers were injured and of these 4 people were arrested. and a growing number of us democrats have condemned israel for not vaccinating palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza israel has already become the world leader in vaccinations per capita palestinians in occupied territories are yet to receive their inoculation human rights watch have called on israel to carry out its responsibilities and obligations under international human rights law protests against a 1000000 pose curfew in the netherlands has spread to several cities

a nighttime restriction went into effect on saturday and is the 1st if its kind since world war 2 police use the water cannon to disperse crowds in central amsterdam the city's mayor declared the area a high risk zone giving police the power to search people for weapons of course this is a measure that is really minimizing our freedoms it's something that we are not used to in this country but again i think we have to do everything that's necessary you know. giving up a bit of freedom. well it's a thing we just have to do. and then a separate protest in a village northeast of the city demonstrators set fire to a covert testing facility riot police were sent to the town off to reports of the fires and damage to police cars nationwide more than 3000 fines have been issued for violating the curfew. the un refugee agency says more than

100000 people have fled recent violence in the central african republic foreign forces supporting the government of c.a.r. have been battling a coalition of armed groups trying to overturn last month's presidential election that saw the incumbent hold on to power most of the refugees have been forced to find shelter in remote border regions of the democratic republic of congo. malcolm webb got exclusive access to one area where people say there is hardly any food to eat or clean water to drink. 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 relative safety in most 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 that from. that small to leave 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 we didn't see exactly what happened because we have to run. violence escalated since elections last month which political opposition says were rigged. the armed groups say the government must go the occupy 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 some biloela it's basic but the village is being completely overrun its population is fallen by about 20 times of the new arrivals those lucky enough to have a mosque eater 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 try and 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 that they make this all work that up and i'm not

up on the world i'm in the culture you don't want to see their promises blocked by their 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 had to leave people here desperately hope somebody will soon come back and help malcolm webb al-jazeera. democratic republic of congo still ahead on al-jazeera the difficulties of educating during a pandemic the coronavirus is further widening the gap between rich and poor. you know with the edge of the atlantic to get the city of st louis in senegal in what is a unesco world heritage sites being destroyed by the rising you should find out that's why people here are struggling to cope with the changing climate.

it's time for the perfect jan and the winter sponsored by qatar airways. there be a brief bit of rain or snow for many places throughout china on the korean peninsula of the next day or so as this week frontal system goes eastwards the real cold is held north and the turks back into drop which enters into about that minus 18 we don't see a huge drop elsewhere the sun revives things afterwards rain light in china we're redevelop a significant i think of a sudden japan which is going to cause a bit more problem with potential flooding is that still some snow to get rid of to melt if you like south of that and again it's relatively quiet moment there are pretty big showers in indonesia but malaysia and most of the philippines most of southeast asian mainland are rigidly dry weather to showers around but not the extremes we've seen over the last few weeks still does look pretty sherry and

you'll see does return to borneo come tuesday rain is not the story even the are all sort of that they want to light showers and there they are in the forecast but we've got persistent fog from bangladesh always through northern india less so in pakistan and the cold war which means pretty cold not so good by day so unsurprisingly the forecast for new delhi is still disappointing the forty's not going to shift on monday tuesday or wednesday which means yeah quality is also pretty dire. sponsible qatar airways it's 10 years since revolutions across the arab world challenge the power of the us but how did these leaders rise to their positions the principle of the before his dictation is to be patient they play their game very carefully and how good they stayed in control of the common thing amongst the arabic states as is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. on

a. whole or. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera mexico's president on dress when you are lopez obrador has tested positive for covert 90 in the 67 year old says he's being treated for mild symptoms and will continue to work in the presidential palace mexico has the world's 4th highest death toll. the u.s. will reinstate a travel ban in an effort to contain the highly contagious covert $1000.00 variant but it won't apply to americans nations affected include brazil the u.k. and a majority of european countries south africa will be added to that list israel is

suspending air travel for 2 weeks to prevent that new strain only passengers with special permits will be allowed to enter or leave the country. hong kong's 2 day lockdown has been lifted after a mass coronavirus testing was completed residents living in the densely populated districts of ya might say and jordyn in kowloon were ordered to stay home on saturday the city's toughest measure so far 7000 people were tested and only 13 had positive results over the past week the area accounted for half of all new cases in this city. thousands of brazilians have held a 2nd day of socially distance protest against president diables an arrow who's under fire for his government's handling of the pandemic cars paraded through the streets of sao paolo and more than a dozen other cities as demonstrators called for his impeachment anger is mounting over the slow pace of the country's vaccine rollout which began last week on the

ballot to the battlefield but then 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 brazil will go under he will bring an end to the economy to impeachment now out with. the coronavirus pandemic has severely disrupted the education of 1600000000 children and teenagers in this month 258000000 are on able to attend school due to closer as those of more developed parts of the world have been able to act continue classes remotely but many without access to computers or the internet have been unable to learn so the reports. of

a school year unlike any other they've known stockage classes mandatory hand sanitizing and of course one vital piece of uniform the face mask when the number of infections in any given area becomes overwhelming they too are forced to close students then left at the mercy of their home circumstances especially those from households where parents are still going out to work. serve as a mini me. i'm a mother and i also have a job to do so i'm worried about leaving my kid to learn at home during the pen demick i don't know if she will eat on time and study by herself staying at home alone without the company of her friends may also course some psychological problems and i feel sad about this with parents taking on the role of educators juggling their work and teaching has left many fearing for their children's futures digital learning has taken over the classroom but for those who have children with

special learning needs that can mean an extra expense on already strained household budgets when. i have a child who needs a special assistant he has autism he needs special assistance and special school one day per week is not enough for him he's in a 3rd grade he doesn't know how to read write or spell. the economic fallout of the pandemic has had far reaching consequences for children around the world as well as losing out on their education many are being forced prematurely into work in order to support families. every day when i come back home. i take a shower have a meal sit with my father and then go to sleep i go to work from 9 am to 9 pm i work for 12 hours and then what i do not want the chrono pandemic to affect my studies as i want to finish them to become a pilot and make my dream come true. educational experts predict that 10000000 of

the world's most vulnerable children will fail to return to school and they're urging the international community to do all that is possible to prevent more lives from being disrupted and to get educators vaccinated faster so schools can open sooner rather than later. has and understood what's more there all the pictures play which is not just that role of instruction and passing knowledge it's their role as essentially leaders in their communities in many regions around the world really have done the most good to keep in touch with the students and what isn't happening that's something we should be really cherishing the pandemic may have exposed the inequalities in education systems around the world but also the role that educators have in students' lives which goes beyond just teaching so hagar al-jazeera. catherine helicity as

a child psychologist she says the effect on school children will be long lasting. there are wide differences depending on poverty and even gender so at a very basic level the loss of structure and routine has a huge impact on children psychological well being that of seeing their friends the loss of key people in their lives their teachers and it's important to remember those teachers are the 1st line of defense in terms of safe parenting against neglect and abuse so there are so many aspects of this from the beginning with social learning and right up to protecting against neglect and abuse well within south africa ghouls has remained close for an extended period of time and for many children there attending school is the one place where they can access the need so they may be at home or know their parents may be either unemployed or still going

out to work so you can either have financial hardship or lack of supervision there is lack of access to electricity for hours at a time lack of access to devices and internet so the education is extremely patchy and what it's doing is it's taking any disadvantage that are vulnerable or say that was already within a family in just magnifying as many times over and if you look as yemen schools were closed for quite some time and after the 1st wave schools began to reopen in october and what we're seeing are huge overcrowding within classrooms and many children didn't return and so for many children this is their premature end to their education we have increases and domestic violence substance abuse gender based violence and sexual abuse and early child marriage and child labor so there are huge extremes. a report by the reuters news agency has found multiple cases of

soldiers raping female refugees in ethiopia's to grey region many of the tax happened weeks after the government announced it had secured the capital mackellar and ended its conflict with rebels last november the military entered to great to dislodge the governing party and rebel groups triggering a humanitarian crisis. 11 chinese miners trapped underground for 2 weeks have been rescued they were among 22 caught in a blast at a gold mine in the province at least one miner died but the others are unaccounted for laura burdon manley reports blindfolded to protect his eyes after 2 weeks in the dark but 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 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 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 mine this 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 portugal center right president marcello has won a 2nd 5 year term the 72 year old captured more than 60 percent of the vote in these polls but turnout was low amid a surge in coronavirus cases president holds a largely ceremonial role but can veto some laws on declare states off emergency members of the u.s. house of representatives will deliver the article of impeachment against donald trump to the senate later on monday paving the way for a trial they senate majority leader says trump's 2nd impeachment hearing will be fair but moved quickly everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history

behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial affords and so we will move forward with the trial it will be fair but it will be. at a relatively fast pace. brazilians have held a vigil marking to your collapse that a mine killing more than 250 people cars and motorcycles formed a procession to remember the victims victims in the states of. the collapse was one of brazil's worst environmental disasters it released a torrent of talk 6 sludge bringing some of the mine's facilities village. several world leaders are set to attend a virtual summit to discuss how to mitigate the dramatic effects of climate change one place under threat from rising sea levels is st louis in senegal. the world

bank have donated more than $40000000.00 to help people living in the unesco world heritage site adapt to climate change nicholas reports. an unexpected tide swept away xena goofballs home with it a lifetime of memories remember she says to her son at emma how in a matter of hours our living room where you used to watch t.v. kitchen and your bedroom were wiped away by the ocean's currents you now live on the outskirts of the city with thousands of others displaced a new life the city council told them to adapt to no less than we're being forced to live a difficult life here this was supposed to be temporary and we're living here now for 2 years there's no food no help and no sign from authorities anything will change we won't be able to return home. to save what is left of what used to be the capital of the colonial era french west africa france and the world bank have raised $40000000.00 for what they call climate adaptation the funds have so far

been used to buy more tense educate displaced children and construct new embankments but when the tide recedes the ocean's destruction appears entire neighborhoods of a historic unesco world heritage site are swallowed into the atlantic in 2006 the city cut a 3 metre breach in an embankment thinking it would empty out the water instead it allowed more of it in with the breach growing to 8 kilometers long making matters worse you sand formation has made it dangerous for fishermen to navigate. it's a catastrophe more than 500 fishermen have drowned because of the breach people are desperate now that's why so many young people are leaving st louis to try to get to europe. more than 20000 people made it to spain's canary islands last year many from sunday week as a result the spanish coast guards can now be seen patrolling some of the shores. first spain protecting europe from

a wave of illegal migration starts here but there is no protection against the rising oceans for this and they believe living here and while rich polluting countries asked poor countries to adapt to a changing climate people here say the damage is done it's too late one cleanup in the in the camp and elder takes in abu son adam aside you have nothing to lose he explains showing him a picture of a young man who is now in madrid with so much loss adapting to a changing climate means letting her son go and brave the ocean's tight in search of a safe place to live because hawk al jazeera center we send it off.