risking it all afghanistan on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world news. washington. europe demands answers over a holdup in vaccine deliveries but there are signs that one of the jobs doesn't fight the new variants and 2 new studies to show how lockdowns are making the rich wealthier while driving millions out of work. blower barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up for another precedented 2nd time in pietschmann charges against donald trump will be delivered

ahead of a senate trial. we are standing for what is moral what is right and what is just uganda's high court says bobby winds house arrest it must end so why is the opposition politicians hold still surrounded by troops and we have a president or god who relates. to us 3 enters the global conversation on climate change at a summit facing up to the realities of rising sea levels. thank you for joining us as governments around the world a scramble to secure supplies of coronavirus vaccines the ability to produce them and how useful they will be is coming into question the european union has reacted angrily after the british drug from astra zeneca said it would not be able to meet

supply targets both australia and thailand have also been warned of delays the books joint vaccination program has already been criticised as the number of people receiving a job remains low last friday the company astra zeneca surprisingly informed the commission and the european union member states that it intends to supply considerably fewer doses in the coming weeks than agreed and announced this new schedule is not acceptable to the european union. that is why i wrote a letter to the company at the weekend in which i ask important and serious questions the european union has preferred time and the development of the vaccine and its production and wants to see the return meanwhile the british prime minister

is considering a hotel quarantine for anyone arising in the country to stop the spread of the new strains the u.k. has been under strict measures since last month's in a bid to curb the impact of a variant 1st discovered in the country it's put health services under severe strain. looking at the data as it comes in looking at the rates of infection this is you know. the j.c.b. i do it's wonderful to be vaccinated by the 15th of february before then we'll be looking at potential of relaxing some measures but don't forget that these countries made huge progress in reducing infection i don't think people want to see another big surge in inflation. while there has been some more positive news from the drug company modernity it says it's vaccine protects against both the british fairy and and plans a booster shot to help tackle the south african strain all the while we are now

close to reaching 100000000 confirmed infections across the globe 13 months into the pandemic. well 2 reports out today reveal more about the economic cost of the corona virus pandemic and just how an equal it's impact has be shockingly as from the international labor organization he says employment numbers should improve in the 2nd half of 2021. our actual analysis reflecting the latest development particularly in europe and the united states and relating to the 2nd wave and also the victory indeed some good news on the effects nascent front we actually expect that the 1st half will it this year is picture in the little advanced countries here in the us continues to be very difficult to so we expect a significant 2 level to working our losses persisting the 2nd half of the 1st of the year so we could agree on that roi is that you know our view will be the 2nd

half of the year in just a few hours donald trump's historic 2nd impeachment trial moves a step closer as the charges are sent from the house of representatives to the senate democrat impeachment managers will proceed with the articles of impeachment through the capital's national statuary hall where rioters paraded during the assault earlier this month normally a trial would start immediately but senate leaders have agreed to a 2 week the lay allowing the biden and the ministration to install a cabinet and start governing 17 republicans would need to vote with the democrats to find a tramp guilty a year ago in the 1st the trial just one republican voted to convict him over his dealings with ukraine as he's already left office the stakes are different and if he's found guilty this time bomb makers could block trump from ever running for office again with just a simple majority i can a takes

a look at how we got here. past managers 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 of the 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 of trump's picks simply ignored repeated requests to 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 is 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 war. because you'll never take back to our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong be seen so 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 and the 1st chance i get to vote to end this trial i'll do it because i think it's really bad for america others are keeping open minds it's your article of impeachment that were sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct but we have not yet heard either from the prosecution or for that 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 to vote alongside 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 if the pictures of donald trump holding any form of public office mike hanna washington well let's get the latest on that from kimberly halkett who joins us now from washington d.c. kimberly good to see you so 17 republicans would need to vote with the democrats and find trump guilty how likely is that to happen. it's looking less and less likely that all 17 are going to it's appearing now that some of the emotion has died down following the the protests in the rioting that occurred in

the u.s. capital in early january that in fact that this is looking less likely now there's still some time between now and the trial which will be held february 8th but what we're knowing and hearing is that there are increasingly a growing number of republicans that say that they may not support conviction the problem being that the president has left office and to many both sides of the political spectrum are eager to turn the page to try and unify the country and disagree with charles schumer there in the u.s. senate that he believes the trial will bring that unity take for example the fact that this trial this time unlike the last impeachment trial will not be presided over by a supreme court justice john roberts this time it will be by a democratic senator and so the concern is this is going to look like a partisan witch hunt and as a result there are many that are starting to drag their heels particularly in the

conservative side thinking that now that donald trump is left office the best thing to do would be to just move forward and as you heard there in my cannas report senator marco rubio saying he would even vote to end this altogether. ok so there's some people that want to turn the page as you say presumably there's many more people that don't want to do that so what is the appetite for conviction why are the people that want to see donald trump stand trial here soaking to do so. the bottom line is that they understand that donald trump still has the support of millions of americans tens of millions of americans and what they don't want to see it particularly when it comes to his critics is him run for office again and there is the potential to do that so a conviction would ensure that donald trump cannot run for office again and so that is why so many that oppose him that oppose his policies and oppose his speech that

many would argue incited those supporters to to move towards the capitol they want to make sure that that can never happen again so the argument is to protect the institutions to protect democracy this trial is necessary so we'll have to see what happens we know that there was a bit of a delay until february 8th so that both sides could prepare and what democrats are saying is that they want to gather more evidence that the president directly incited this riot in order to make sure that they can secure the conviction and also win over some has it republicans can really help get with the latest from washington d.c. kimberly thank you. it's good to uganda now were security forces are still surrounding the home of the country's most powerful opposition leader hours after a court ordered then to leave the high court to directed the police and the military to leave bobby wines residence he's been under house arrest since you get in this presidential election on the 14th of january president you're waiting with

70 was the clear and the winner with 58 percent of the vote but the opposition has accused the government of rigging the results. unfortunately 6 hours later now the military and police are still surrounding our home and indeed we are still looking our gates and are not allowing anybody to move out or anybody to come in journalists have been blocked from accessing us our party officers and our friends and even family have been blocked from coming to us says us it is clear that you know mr binnie is continuously using the military and the police in your party's own mana to oprah's his openings and to some risk all our human rights will continue to call upon the world leaders to hold you know a 72 hour count to calling to order to ensure that our rights are respected because we are nonviolent we don't intend to use in violence but we must stand for what is

more wrong what is right and what is just still ahead in this half hour the $1000000000.00 palace in the black sea that's made russia's president issue are rare public denial. and 10 years on from the toppling of hosni mubarak some egyptians say the arab spring has not brought freedom justice and bread. well it's no good in london a fairly rare event of any significant snow that instead of a much of england as is done in much of the european plain in the last week or so constantly cold now but the significant heavy snow is really bunched up against the face of the western rushers and moving slowly northwards and getting caught in the

flow so you go places like poland better roost on the baltic states with significant persistence know the same is going to happen in bel garia and some parts of northern greece and there's more snow to come from the north the british isles otherwise mostly it's a sunny picture or entirely mislead with temps in the low single figures by day now the earliest represents that persistence with wind chills quite a cold wind changing direction until thursday when it dies out and it gets really cold by that time now this is wednesday and there's a streak of more snow here the bottom end of it is the significant weather developing in the eastern med changing things for places like turkey and greece the forecast is stamboul down to single figures the snow comes in but it does warm up come friday so things will change eventually but for the next 2 days the north of africa will also be affected by what's happening in the central med clearly is going to be our geria tunisia and libya.

from every one of us. even. so you can rely on. the breaking news. and when you leave with a smile. welcome to. the in the air. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the european union has accused the

pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca of failing to deliver a coronavirus vaccines despite providing funds to ramp up production meanwhile madonna has announced that its vaccine appears to work against more infectious variants found in the u.k. and south africa. there were crowds from the u.s. house of representatives are preparing to deliver dawn trumps impeachment charge to the senate the former president is being prosecuted in congress for allegedly inciting the riot at the u.s. capitol on the 6th of january which left 5 people dead. and uganda's high court has ordered security forces to free the country's most powerful opposition leader ruling that his the tension at home is unlawful but bobby weiner says his home is still surrounded by military troops. police in the netherlands are braced for another night of protests against a coronavirus a curfew or joining us from rotterdam is a step vasant so

a step but there have been scuffles in the netherlands before obviously what is the scene like tonight. yes where in the south or for rotterdam in a neighborhood where young people have been clashing with the police until now they've been thrown in a little bus stops been broken and with water cannon used to while we face here enough food for us and there's a lot of nervousness around the netherlands and several. people have announced that they would take to the streets again like they did on sunday night when there was a lot of damage done in the city in the south of the analysis and tova central station lots of damage there these are all of frustrated angry young people who are complained that they are losing their freedom as they say because of. measures we

have a curfew in the netherlands since friday night and since that curfew the anger has gone off but there's a lot of debate here in the netherlands what's actually behind these groups of people who are committing this violence this huge condemnation around the country also from the prime minister who called it criminal violence you can hear the firecracker right now the young people are going around the neighborhood trying to play cat and mouse with police so it is a lot of for this question who are these people are they hooligans went on are they actually protesters are there's a lot of discussion also about the right wing political parties who might be supporting them so there is a big mix of people who are. playing in this in these protests or induce riots i have to say ok so i mean i seem to understand that basically support

is pretty split for these actions people support your overall look down has been like in the netherlands you know most countries around the world certainly europe have been under a lockdown old some shape or form. so what's it been like there ever there has to be particular anger throughout. the us but the interesting thing here and the madeline system wasn't actually a lockdown from the beginning of the and i mean the government called it an intelligent lockdown basically putting the responsibility with the people themselves it was all very lenient and the government never really thought it was necessary with this thought that people would take these measures very seriously but here we are a month later and the corona condemning the infections are still very high there's a little lot of concern that there will be also lots of infections coming from this area and that started in the u.k. or in brazil or in south africa so now after all these months the government has

taken those. since the start of the big but nothing so people are really confused about what what's happening why are we now only taking these strong measures people are really also doubting the effectiveness of these measures and they're simply angry and also a lot of them are pretty bored i think. will step you'll be monitoring developments there to see if the violence does escalate once again for the moments that vested in rotterdam thank you. the new u.s. special climate envoy says his country is back to take a leading role in fighting climate change john kerry was one of the world leaders addressing a summit in the netherlands on how to adapt to a warming planet while previous summits have focused on the causes of the issue this is the 1st coping with the effects new u.s. president joe biden last week agreed to return to the 2015 paris climate accord

after donald trump had pulled out. we have a president now thank god who leads tells the truth and his seed used by this issue and president biden knows that we have to mobilize an unprecedented ways to meet a challenge that is fast accelerating so we're proud to be back we come back i want you to know if you militate the absence of the last 4 years and we'll do everything in our power to make up work. they start city of st louis in senegal is just one place threatened by vising sea levels more than $40000000.00 has been raised to help people living in the unesco world heritage site at that the effects of global warming here's nicholas. 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 nice sound but 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. but 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 suddenly to try to get to europe. more than 20000 people made it to spain's canary islands last year many. as a result the spanish coast guards you know be seen patrolling some of these shores . for 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 wild rich polluting countries poor countries. climate people here say the damage is done it's too late. in the camp an elder takes in

a blue sun 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. italy's prime minister is preparing to step down in hopes that he'll be able to form a new government she said pick on this cabinet office says he'll submit his resignation on tuesday morning after meeting his ministers the prime minister lost his absolute majority in the senate last week when a junior party quit in a dispute over the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis. russia's president has condemned protests calling for the release of opposition leader alexina valley describing them as dangerous and illegal police detained more than 3 and a half 1000 people across from during saturday's demonstrations the valley was held

when he returned from germany for medical treatment after a suspected nerve agent poisoning. well meanwhile a video posted by in a valley has forced flight amy a putin into a rare denial of all they claim that the president opened this lavish palace on the black sea his investigation team says the palace was built for putin through an elaborate corruption scheme particularly for months it was the information about this palace has been discussed for more than 10 years but now that the opposition has gotten this opportunity they've compiled everything and decided to brainwash our people with this information. it's been 10 years since the start of an uprising in egypt that toppled its longtime president hosni mubarak but the arab spring has a lift up to the hopes of those who took to the streets as jamal o'shea oh now explains. they were scenes that's gripped the world's

attention for 18 straight days millions of egyptians demonstrated in the streets and squares of the country's cities ultimately bringing about the end of president hosni mubarak's 30 year rule. the protests began on generally 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 155 shaab you read scott in iran or the people demand the form of the regime. on february the 11th it's felt or so all 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 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 the living conditions remained bad regular electricity 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. albeit 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 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 move all of morsi by a military coup in 2013 installed on the general abdul fatah his sisi as either an ultimate the president. since assisi came to power in 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 one $125000000000.00 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 meanwhile it's easy has found money to build several huge new palaces and buy a new presidential plane amongst other things but she's here actions that have

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 looked like egypt is not the country those who protested dreamed it would become and for tens of millions of egyptians they have little if any freedom justice and brit. just iraq. and now the top stories on al-jazeera the european union has accused the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca of failing to deliver a coronavirus fax scenes the spy providing funds to ramp up production the company told the e.u. on friday that it won't be able to meet supply targets until the end of march top e.u. officials have been holding urgent talks with astra zeneca to encourage it to him.