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so mom makes a report and if i need to shoot and it's fine but a new generation is fighting fire with a recently you're fighting for voices to be heard because you don't want to see if you do speak it. never again part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera. u.s. pharmaceutical company but the other claims that it's coded 19 vaccine is effective against the u.k. and south african variants of the virus but the data is only for the. hello everyone forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up if we fail to act climate change could push more than 100000000 people in developing countries
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below to poverty line by 23rd world leaders made virtually to come up with a plan to deal with the effects of global warming especially on poor countries. uganda's high court rules the house arrest of opposition leader will be why it is more for the border security forces to leave the premises. and we look at what's changed in the 10 years since egypt's revolution calling for an end to oversee unemployment and corruption. the u.s. pharmaceutical company says that its covert 19 vaccine appears to work against new coronavirus variants the early findings show success against the u.k. variant but the vaccine is less effective against the south african variant mutated strains of more infectious that are spreading fast in the number of countries pfizer is also so that its vaccine appears to work on the u.k. variant of zeros and the gallagher is live for us on this from miami to tell us
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more what we are talking about these 2 variants that perhaps scare health officials more than anything else of course viruses do mutate it shows the shape shifting nature of the covert 19 virus but what madonna is saying is that their original vaccine which was among one of the 1st produced is effective against the u.k. variant but it's potentially 6 fold less effective against that south african variant so out of an abundance of caution they are now potentially working on what could be a boost in other words when people get the 1st fact seen followed by the 2nd one a few days later a few weeks later they may then have a booster one year later they say they want to get ahead of the curve because the south african variant is potentially quite scary for many people around the world of course as lots of misinformation going around but it appears that this pharmaceutical firm is trying to get ahead of that curve now in response to that
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here in the united states president joe biden has just reimposed a travel ban on 26 european nations the u.k. ireland south africa and brazil something that was rescinded by president trump just 2 days before he left office this was an expected move by president joe biden and one specifically put in place to tackle these potentially new deadly and faster spreading variants of the covert 19 pandemic. how to sirius and you get to go reporting live from miami andy many thanks indeed neal is an immunologist professor at the trinity college dublin school of biochemistry and immunology he joins us now live via skype from dublin luke good to have you with us what's the significance of this yes they're concerned about the south african very until it works against the us was the u.k. well of course this is good news that's one very out there but it's not going to seem to be less a fact of the matter in a vaccine against the one now it doesn't it doesn't work it may work less hopefully i suppose it might still work in terms of an immune response but citizen concern
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you had any telling us the maybe we'd have to have a some sort of boost to jab after having the original perhaps up to a year later is this something that we're going to have to get used to a bit like the flu vaccine in that every year we might have to have a covert vaccine yeah it's becoming clear is this virus changes over time just like the new virus and every winter of course even you vaccine against lou this could well be the case that this virus as well as i say the hope is these vaccines will show some it because when people on that slightly i'm a darn are saying to going to do a trial now with a booster shot just see if they can boost the up because it gets so african so it's very much a work in progress what about the other viruses they have a vaccine i'm sorry that are out there the. the astra zeneca oxford university one the one from pfizer a bio in tech. yes pfizer seems similar to the maternal one again those reports working well against the u.k. variant maybe less than again so that we can vary and then it got us through our
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way to see what they say about their vaccine and by the way there's new york vaccines coming down the pipeline which should work against many variants which is good news i guess and also madonna and pfizer can modify the vaccine to make more suitable for new variants we're going to see pretty much a process here as the next few months go up on us ok but this is something as you say the possibly we're going to have to get used to because it's just what viruses do they do mutate as time goes on how important is it to to ensure that we get everyone vaccinated as quickly as possible we've got to go as fast as possible now to stop this review none of us the big mess all over the world every country is ricing to vaccinate all sweetness really really important once we get muscle vaccination the whole picture begins to change thankfully its new variant summer and next winter of the one after we can modify vaccines against them and it will just become like the flu oh yes the ultimate ambition in the meantime though while we wait for everyone in the world to be vaccinated i suppose we've just got to go
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on being careful how we do we do carefulness for the next 6 months probably really is the message here because you never know what's going to happen and secondly or even a very close eye on these very very very important that we track them and measure them and look out for them that could be new variants come along beyond these ones again so it's funny what sort of the science is that emerging from the spiders and it's also important mustn't forget about about poor income countries in the world the people there get vaccinated as well there's no point in in vaccinating richer countries and leaving huge swathes of the world's population without. yes the great for you series no one is say everybody say we must fight the knight widely disparity and might crop up in other countries haven't vaccinated and those variants that might come into say the usa you are absolutely the key message now is that the facts and i as many people in the world as possible and as quickly as we can ok and is as far as. the virus becoming more dangerous over time
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it's thought that the u.k. virus is the u.k. variant as well as being more transmissible may be more deadly. could the vaccine become more deadly as time goes on. well there's a concern now that the u.k. when might be a bit more deadly were waiting for the full data that work in progress as well but again the word you would be variants arise that make you sicker at the moment the variance are more transmissible for sure the big question is will they make people actually securing it right sadly it's more deaths and also little again that's an unknown and something so what's extremely close professor really good to talk to a good many thanks indeed luke for being with us really appreciate it thanks very much germany's government is increasingly concerned by the spread of corona virus variants an entire hospital in berlin was put on the coroutine on saturday after an outbreak of the u.k. variant was found the health but a says that it's adding to the urgency to approve more vaccines he says that
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irregular basis are likely to approve the vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday just here as to what it came in berlin says the number of daily new cases continues to go down in germany but that official say the danger of infection remains high. the main concern emerging now from ministerial circles but in berlin birds elsewhere in germany too is about the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom the minister hediger the han who works in the chancellor alongside anglo-american on a day to day basis where he told german news outlets and sunday evening that he has no doubt he's certain that the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom will very soon overtake the original coronavirus in become dominant in this country that explains the haste with which the ministerial circles here i've tried to intensify locked and sort of said that people need to wear masks that
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can withstand the virus better that can protect people against the virus better why they've extended lockdowns why are they keeping schools shut wherever possible all because their belief is that the new variant will soon dominate in this country and because it's so much more infectious that's why they're taking their precautions world leaders are addressing ourselves on how to adapt to the effects of climate change it's hosted by the netherlands brings together all of the $120.00 nations previous submits a focus on the causes of climate change this is the 1st one coping with the effects their research presented at the summit suggests that half a 1000000 people have been killed by extreme weather events this century. if we fail to act climate change could push more than 100000000 people in developing countries below to poverty line by 2030 but also one that lets for us here to climate adaptation is a matter of pure survival and
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a large part of my country lies below sea level as you know the netherlands is a small densely populated and resourceful country so we are very ambitious but we're reaching at the same time the limits of what climate nature but also the environment can cope with so business as usual is no longer an option for my country and for many others in the same situation where the u.s. is promising global leadership on climate change president joe biden's climate envoy john kerry is making his 1st appearance of the global summit last week by an agreed to return to the 2015 paris climate of cold and president biden knows that we have to mobilize an unprecedented ways to meet a challenge that is fast exhilarating and he knows we have limited time to get it under control but that reason united states immediately rejoined the terrorist
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agreement and we intend to do everything we possibly can to ensure that cut 26 results in an ambitious climate action in which all major emitter countries raise ambitions significantly and in which we help protect those who are the most vulnerable 0 step help steadfast reports now from the hague. well we've been listening to 30 world leaders government leaders in the last couple of hours and they all make very strong commitments to put money in into climate adaptation it's of course it's significant that the $2.00 largest middle 3rd china and the united states are involved as well but of course this summit comes at a very crucial time when all the countries are struggling with the covert 19 pandemic and that's of course immediately the 1st question will they actually put this money in climate friendly investments and that's where a lot of people are worried about so that's why markets are the prime minister of
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the nat'l and sat climate should be at the heart of this covert 19 a response so the 12 trillion u.s. dollars that worldwide it's blatche to put into the recovery of economies should go to climate adaptation at least part of it it's very important because especially also in the netherlands the country is 30 percent below sea level we've been struggling here not only way to change in weather storms but also drop and rising sea levels. well got a weather update banks here and i was there then donald trump 2nd impeachment trial steps up a level we'll have the latest from washington d.c. plus. i think we're on the edge of the atlantic in the city of st louis in senegal in what is a huge disco world heritage sites being destroyed by the rising you should find out why people you're struggling to cope with the changing climate.
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it is still remarkably quiet weather wise struck the arabian peninsula iran turkey the levant in fact if anything temperatures are rising is feeling a bit more spring like in the next couple of days in for example beirut but it can't last kind of just look what's happening in turkey there's a hint of what's to come and here's the forecast for beirut you know the wind picks up the temperature drops you got showers all rain for thursday and friday that small market for science and rain is definitely the story partly as a result of that tropical cycle we've seen some pretty dig big downpours recently in southern mozambique the eastern side of south africa and the thing at nearly 100 percent of the generally average in this area so there is definitely flooding around and there's more to come through monday that's this whole line is potentially pretty dangerous reports here flash flood stretches into southern
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mozambique and then if you look just said to the west here in southern botswana's a circulation redeveloped it's not tropical cyclone but this is rainfall and you want to normally desert area of botswana namibia and this part of south africa that last into tuesday and will probably take the rain again to the normally dry bits of namibia now i know it's the wettest months for these all the wet months will never rest as a lot of rain. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration 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 live get a back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting
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for an inside story on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera of the main news this hour the u.s. pharmaceutical company says the early lab tests show that it's covert $900.00 vaccine appears to work against new variance found in the u.k. and south africa more studies are needed from the results of the findings have yet to be peer reviewed germany's health minister says that he expects the regulators to approve astra zeneca as covert 19 vaccine on friday concerns a growing there about more infectious u.k. variant that is spreading rapidly and leaders from around the world are attending
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a virtual summit to address the effects of climate change previous conferences are focused on courses of 120 patients a promising coordinated action let's stay with that climate conference and the challenge for developing nations one place under threat from rising sea levels is the city of san louis in senegal france on the world bank of donated more than 40 $1000000.00 to help people living in the u.s. go world heritage sites adapt to climate change was a serious nicholas hawk reports. an unexpected tide swept away zena booth calls 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. being forced to live a difficult life here this was supposed to be temporary and we're living here now
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for 2 years there's no food no help and no sign from authorities anything will change it 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. with you but it's a catastrophe more than 500 fishermen of drown because of the breach people are
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desperate now that's why so many young people are leaving suddenly 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 southeast 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 for countries to adapt to a changing climate people here say the damage is done it's too late woman clean up living in the in the camp and elder takers 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 oceans tight in search of a safe place to live because hawk al-jazeera. seneca. ugandan
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opposition leader bobby why are they still under house arrest despite a high court ruling ordering his release the court has directed the police and the military to leave wines residence has been under house arrest since january 15th the day after uganda's presidential election. the military and police are still surrounding our home and indeed we are still looking our gates and they're not allowing anybody to move out or anybody journalists have been blocked from accessing us our party officers and their friends and even family have been blocked from coming to us it is us we call upon all the region no continue to and one of these east african community the african union and the united nations and all citizens of the one who will intervene in these are serious catherine soyuz
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monitoring the situation from neighboring kenya. i'd have spoken to the police spokesman fred and mongo who said that they will abide by the court ruling and will withdraw the soldiers and the police that have besieged bobby winds hope he did not say when he higher also said that they're going to keep the surveillance going he did not give details on what this surveillance is but then when i was in uganda covering the election i spoke to him several times and he did mention about this surveillance that has been going on he insisted and continues to insist that bobby wine is not and house arrest he's safe what the security forces have done is provide a cover a surveillance because of a body one's own protection and also because they have information that whine was planning to organize a violent protest after they declare a ration of the presidential results but he does say that they that they will
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withdraw the forces that are there now i also talked to one of winds lawyers of benjamin katana who says that he is not holding his breath his breath he's going to believe this withdrawal when he sees it he however says that if the police defies that court order then the lawyers of wine are going to be forced to go back to court to file for contempt russia's president vladimir putin has denied allegations of owning a lavish terrace on the black sea opposition leader alexei have only published a 2 hour long video making the claims last week his investigation team claim that the palace was built for putin through an elaborate corruption scheme videos already amassed more than 86000000 views on youtube. an article of impeachment will be handed over to the senate later on monday that accuses for president donald trump of inciting a riot which resulted in the storming of the capitol building the senate will convene to decide on the rules of the trial which is unique in that it's the 1st
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time it involves a president who no longer holds office al-jazeera as mike hanna reports from washington. post manages to walk articles of impeachment through the corridors of the capitol to the senate this was a little over a year ago but for the 1st time in american history this ritual is to be repeated against the same man. this marked the beginning of the chain of events that led to impeachment joe biden declares victory in the november election but his opponent donald trump refused to acknowledge it and declined to concede if you count the legal votes i easily win instead a sitting president mounted their real in campaign against the result deeming the process fraudulent and contesting it in dozens of courts all in pain. the supreme court including 3 off trumps picks simply ignored repeated requests to
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take up any of the cases and an increasingly frustrated president focused in on preventing the vote being certified in congress. pressing his vice president to abandon his constitutional duty and prevent certification once again in vain let's get back to work in a series of tweets he urged his supporters to come to the capitol to protest it will be wild he promised. and when they arrived the article of impeachment alleges that then president incited them to riot now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy and after this we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to look down because you'll never take back to our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong he
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seems it's alleged by a majority in the house was a direct consequence of trump's words and actions in contesting the democratic vote as if it's not enough that he sent an angry mob down the mall to invade the capitol didn't try to stop it and a police officer was killed i don't really know what else you need to know some senate republicans say they've already made up their minds not to impeach the 1st chance i get to vote to end this trial and do it because i think it's really bad for america others are keeping open minds article of impeachment that were sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct but we have not yet heard either from the prosecution or from the from the defense in the last trial then president trump was confident of the outcome is confidence in the decision not to republican controlled senate was not misplaced only one republican registered
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a guilty vote along side the democrats. but just over a year later the dynamics have changed and democrats have a slim majority in a senate that will act as jury healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability and that is what this trial will provide and if a minimum of 17 republicans vote to convict. these could be the last pictures of donald trump holding any form of public office. washington in yemen thousands of people are protesting against the trumpet ministrations decision to designate who the rebels as a foreign terrorist organization protesters have been rallying in the capital sanaa and other hooty controlled provinces the current by the ministration is reviewing the designation aid groups say that it will disrupt their operations and harm the
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ongoing peace process it's been 10 years since the start of an uprising in egypt but toppled its longtime president hosni mubarak for the 1st time since becoming president of the fatah of sisi has referred to this road the 5th of january revolution he spoke to mark the government approved national police day. it shows the will of the author in this day i say to egypt's youth that your homeland is in need of your vigorous and see if it's to proceed in the path of reform construction and development helping achieve the expiration of voltage of shien's for a bright future that secure was all citizens equal chances of a decent life al-jazeera reported from egypt during the revolution he looks back down to 18 days of protests that change the nation but hasn't lived up to everyone's expectations. there were scenes that's gripped the world's attention for 18 straight days millions of egyptians demonstrated in the
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streets and squares of the country's cities ultimately bringing about the end of president hosni mubarak's 30 year rule the the protests began on january the 25th with wholesome social media platforms for people to take to the streets demanding freedom justice and bread. those calls by unarmed civilians were met with a type of police brutality that was synonymous with the mubarak regime consequently the demands and chants shifted to a simple and very clear one. shaab you read scott in the rom or the people demand the form of the regime. on february the 11th it's felt or solo the faults were boxed up the site and the country's military generals took charge despite attempts by the army to maintain power they were forced to allow the country's 1st ever free and fair parliamentary elections to take place those were
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then followed by a vote for the presidency which resulted in the muslim brotherhood parties mohamed morsi becoming egypt's 1st ever democratically elected president. throughout that time social and economic instability became the norm egyptians had begun experiencing political freedom but living conditions remained by. regular addict tricity outages and the never ending fuel shortage crisis led many to direct their opposition to egypt's post revolution president discontents continued to rise and in 2013 supported by the army and police another mass protest took place will be it's far smaller in size and shorter in duration than that of 2011 the protesters said morsi had to go because he failed to deliver on the goals of the revolution his supporters said it was the counter revolution that had been sabotaged the morsi presidency and was now behind the unrest it's led to transpired that most of the
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crises were in fact manufactured and the violence which rocked egypt streets had been encouraged by a deep state that once a quarter versus the gains of the john you 25th revolution. there or move all of morsi by a military coup in 2013 installed on the general abdul fatah has sisi as either an ultimate the president it. since assisi came to power egypt has become the world's 2nd largest borrower from the i.m.f. in 2014 the country had a foreign debt of $46000000000.00 today that figure is more than 125000000000 poverty levels in egypt have increased just a clique and more than 50 percent of the country's revenue is spent on trying to pay back its foreign debt. and c.c. points to infrastructure projects like the expansion of the suez canal and the construction of a new administrative capital to justify the loans but she's also found money to build several huge new palaces and buy a new presidential plane amongst other things but she's here ok actions that have
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enraged the egyptian public the vast majority of which lives on or below the poverty line. 10 years on cairo's tahrir square is a far cry from what it's looked like egypt is not the country those who protested dreamed it would become and for tens of millions of egyptians they have little in the way of freedom justice and brought. i'll just iraq. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. pharmaceutical company but says that early lab tests show its covert 19 vaccine appears to work against the variants found in the u.k. and south africa more studies are needed though to confirm the results of the findings have yet to be peer reviewed at a gallop.
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