it's to be patient they play their game very carefully and it would be stephen control the common thing amongst the arab dictators is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. on a 0. the. the. europe demands answers over a holdup in vaccine deliveries but there are signs that one of the jobs does fight the new variants and 2 new studies show how lockdowns are making the very wealthy or while driving millions out of work. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out for an unprecedented 2nd time impeachment charges against donald trump will be

delivered ahead of a senate trial. we have a president. who leads the u.s. 3 enters the global conversation of climate change at a summit facing up to the realities of rising sea levels. as governments around the world scramble to secure supplies of coronavirus fact scenes the ability to produce them and how useful they will be is coming into question the european union has reacted angrily after the british truck from astra zeneca said it would not be able to meet supply targets the block's joint vaccination program has already been criticised as the number of people receiving a jab 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 timeouts the development of the vaccine and its production and wants to see the return of the british prime minister is considering a hotel quarantine for anyone to arriving in the country to try to stop the spread of new strains the u.k. has been under strict measures since last month in a bid to curb the impact of a variant that was 1st discovered in the country we're looking at the data as it comes in we're looking at the rates of infection this is you know. the j.c.b. i grew 24 going 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 this country has made huge progress in reducing infection i don't think people want to see another big surge in infection but there has been more positive news from the drug company madara now it says it's vaccine protects against both the british variant and it plans a booster shot to help tackle the south african strain all the while we're now close to reaching a 100000000 confirmed infections across the globe 13 months into the pandemic. well i guess frustration with lockdowns in various places is starting to make itself felt because protesters have defied a coronavirus curfew in the netherlands for the 2nd night in a row clashing with police in several towns and cities security forces in rotterdam used water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators rallying against coronavirus

restrictions at least 8 people were arrested in amsterdam the government brought in the strictest measures so far this past weekend imposing a curfew and limiting people to visiting one household per day officers had arrested around $250.00 people after the end rest began on sunday said fasten is watching the unrest unfolded. here in the south of herat to them and then looks like a battlefield here shops have been looted the windows have been smashed bricks are we where i've been throwing bricks at the police the police is here in full force helicopter flying over. a lot of people on the street it's curfew now so since friday the netherlands has this very strict measure of a curfew. and still a lot of people are on the streets release of just driving around not knowing when to start to arrest people and this is not the only city around 10 cities in the.

riots are taking place lots of arrests have been made and this is the most serious violence that we've seen in the netherlands in a long time and why is this happening that's a very good question we've had these protests against the flow the masses for months already kind of. very peaceful most of the time but now this seems to be more like brandon is a really good in islam people frustrated they're really angry at the police they say all our freedoms are being taken away. 2 new reports of remey of revealed more about the economic cost of the coronavirus pandemic and just how an equal its impact has been the international labor organization says an unprecedented $255000000.00 full time jobs were lost last year with 114000000 more workers either unemployed or left with working hours slashed young people and women have been particularly hard hit the 8.4 percent job losses for young adults is more

than double the adult rate while the 5 percent of women who lost jobs is higher than for men some of the lowest paid sectors were also hit hard with one in 5 accommodation and food services jobs lost all at the other end of the scale oxfam says the combined wealth of 10 of the world's richest men surged by $54000000000.00 during the pandemic while the wealth of the world's billionaires increased by nearly 4 trillion dollars and 2022 almost 12 trillion that's a quibble and to what g. 20 governments have spent in response to the pandemic well financially need quality isn't the only problem that is becoming apparent as more countries will have ahead with their vaccination programs many poor nations of barely started and they're being squeezed out of the race the by doses rosa scores that is a policy adviser for the doctors without borders access campaign she says global

supply must be back some eyes then order to ensure fair distribution. with things that you ation where everyone in the world wants access to these vaccines exactly the same time what we need to make sure of is that low risk people in high income countries do not get the vaccine before high risk people in low income countries this is really important to ensure that we actually tackle this pandemic for all of us and also longer term in the medium to long term what we need to do is ensure that we are maximizing available global supply so it shouldn't be a case of you know what you know one person giving in a high income country not being vaccinated so that someone in a low income country can be vaccinated overall we need to maximise available global supply so that we can all have access wherever we live everywhere there are fears that a health crisis is unfolding at a military barracks filled with hundreds of asylum seekers in the u.k. more than a quarter of residents have tested positive for corona virus many say it's impossible

to maintain social distancing and conditions are poor john to help travel to the site in kent to speak to some of those inside. they've survived oppression poverty and war but for many the worst part of escaping has been arriving in great britain what is life like it was. widely back last week when i wondered if it was did you have got all of this 130 yes vote was up to everybody everybody this is not a lot of a lot of really hard coded 19 is the latest hardship they face a recent outbreak has infected more than a quarter of the $400.00 asylum seekers housed at this former military barracks behind the curtain a man who has tested positive this is what passes for isolation and social distancing. in a statement the government blamed residents themselves for failing to take proper

precautions in response they addressed an open letter to all british citizens when we are becoming more and more mentally vulnerable and physically ill due to the coded outbreak ministers are intentionally ignoring us and trying their best to cover up the disaster in this army camp. and i spoke to the man who wrote the letter signed by 200 of his fellow residents he wanted to remain anonymous. i want to live your. golden. parachute for you. oh like many who've been here at napier barracks for months denied access to legal assistance and with no idea how long their claims for asylum might take a combination is derelict there's little access to medical or mental health care

one nurse for 400 people there been suicide attempts and hunger strikes in protest at the way they're being treated and it's alleged that staff from the private company appointed by the government to manage this and other facilities like it warned the refugees that if they speak out in any way they'll risk jeopardizing their asylum claims they've got 4 principles of schools aerospace engineers barbers. internationally recognized chefs and athletes and chip chip to find yourself somewhere like this surrounded by barbed wire fencing when you think this this is the country that you are going to to make your life and contribute to society but this society is putting you in a camp like this and leaving you there any invite with no answer to your asylum claim they came hoping for something better they can't have imagined this i don't

know how al-jazeera can't. 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 statues here statuary hall where rioters paraded during the assault earlier this month now normally a trial would start immediately but senate leaders have agreed to a 2 week delay allowing the biden administration to install a cabinet and start governing 17 republicans would need to vote with the democrats to find trump guilty a year ago in the 1st trial just one republican voted to convict trump over his dealings with ukraine well as he's already left office the stakes are different if trump is found guilty this time lawmakers could block him from ever running for

office again with just a simple majority. castro is live for us at capitol hill so heidi crucially how likely is it looking that there would be 17 republicans likely to convict trump. well it is still a tall order here barbara and increasing with time there appear to be more republicans who are shying away from conviction namely there are 2 arguments that they're putting forward there's the one about whether or not this trial is constitutional with the argument that since this would be the 1st time a former u.s. president is held before an impeachment trial that is not constitutional a constitutional scholars would argue otherwise and there is precedent for other lawmakers who were not president that were impeached after they left office and tried after they left office the other argument against conviction that some

republicans are positing is that this trial itself is divisive for the country at a time when unity is what's called 7 for democrats agree with that that there is a need for you more unity but they say that to get to that the 1st step is accountability their argument is that if a president can't incite an insurrection as they are charging trump with doing and then simply leave office in order to avoid further accountability that that would set a dangerous precedent going into the future but getting to 17 republicans crossing the aisle to join all 50 to join all 50 democratic senators to vote to convict former president trump that is still looking less likely i guess we'll find out when than if it happens but in the meantime how is the process expected to unfold over the next few weeks. we shall see the official kick off if you will in just

a couple hours time barbara that's when the article of impeachment will be ceremonially delivered to the senate you'll see those senators standing at attention they'll be commanded to keep their silence on pain of imprisonment you'll hear the article read aloud by the lead impeachment manager which again charges trump. with inciting the insurrection on january 6th that led to 5 deaths here and around capitol hill following that tomorrow we will have the senators sworn in as the jurors and then you have those 2 weeks of pretty much silence on the impeachment front that is when the legal teams can work behind the scenes on filing their briefs and then january rather february 8th the week of february 8th is when the trial would kick off in full force with those arguments one notable difference that will see this time around as compared to trump's 1st impeachment is that the presiding officer will not be the chief justice of the u.s.

supreme court this time rather the patrick leahy who is the senior democrat in the senate that is because the u.s. constitution only dictates that the chief justice serve as a presiding officer for a current president who is on trial it doesn't say anything about former presidents . castro with the latest from capitol hill thank you. and still ahead in this half hour we stand for what is moral what's right and what's just you get this high court says bobby winds house arrest that must end so why is the opposition politicians home still surrounded by troops and the $1000000000.00 palace in the black sea that's made russia's president issue a rare public denial. the

heat wave to 3 day he is being pushed out of south australia has gone through new south wales and victoria sydney will hang on for another day the forecast is $36.00 here but that is going to be a drop about 15 degrees as this rain comes through and that rain is quite heavy contains remains of the tropical depression that came in over western australia a few days ago and it's triggs already down towards new zealand but it's to say takes the heat away from those par it and about 25 on wednesday in sydney the tempest over new zealand a quite high as well tries church will hang on to that heat wave until at least wednesday when changes then you're back down to normal or below normal come friday that we've seen a rise in temperature recently and it's in the forecast for southern japan as rain replaces the snow in fact starts to melt the snow what's left in south korea and japan so there's a flood risk there as you can see and then things get colder again at least they're

coming out as cold across beijing for example down to 2 degrees after briefly being into double figures i'd like to say the same is happening dramatically in northern india but no persistent fog in the north indian plain and bag this will not move if anything temperatures go back into cold wave conditions. to make a change. change a life for the part of the country challenge the access to truths you want to create something you 1st break into a new remolded overturn the status quo and fight injustice that all must see to it. will. witness personal documentaries not alter deception on al-jazeera.

with the old. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the european union has accused the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca of failing to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by 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 democrats from the u.s. house of representatives are preparing to deliver donald trump's impeachment charge to the senate the former president is being prosecuted in congress for allegedly inciting the riots of the u.s. capital on january 6th which left 5 people day.

ethiopia's human rights commission says children as young as 11 are being detained in the western region along with thousands of ethnic to graham's the government has launched a crackdown across the country months after a devastating conflict that's believed to have killed thousands and centrifuges fleeing to sudan the u.n. is also warning of growing reports of sexual violence in t. great government troops seize control of the regional capital mecca lay in late november and weeks of fighting with local forces the un says there are reports of women being forced by the military to have sex in exchange for basic commodities and other disturbing acts of sexual violence well earlier i spoke to mark the un's undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs i started by asking him about what is happening in a region that is effectively being cut off from the rest of the world. when it's an extremely alarming situation as you say to fighting. it with this

operation the government describes the northern force in early november and while the government of call some place is back under their control as lawless ways of. with many many people. living there which a basic could be still not accessible certainly to agencies and hundreds of thousands more about an hour access to food or electricity ole telecommunications or whatever else services for a long time now so we're very very worried about the situation. there have been many worrying reports coming out of the area of rapes of killing also of killing livestock and burning crops i mean what do you make of the reports that you've been hearing and do you think that potentially could amount to war crimes. well i have been multiple allegations of atrocities of many different sorts actually killings and rapes and. sexual crimes against women and teenage girls

it is very alone but the wind a situation is just as a law risk of acute malnutrition starvation people dying because they don't have access to basic health services the appearance of cholera and all the diseases. because 90 more to roll immunization campaigns the fact that large numbers of people have run away from that because that afraid of the men with the guns and camped out in some field or some months a place with no shelter role and food or supplies it's a very boring situation we've been able to get a little bit and if you can saddam's in trucks in here and then we need much better access and we would appreciate it if the government would provide essentially blanket access to. you know to a regular aid agencies the u.n. the red cross the mountains and then if we can negotiate the same thing with the

people who are in control of the government accounting control some people are trying to exert pressure on the government the e.u. for example has suspended more than $100000000.00 over budget supports until agencies are given access to gray do you think that that is the right approach and if not what steps do you think should be taken by parts of the international community to try to solve the situation. i think 2 things need to happen the 1st is access which we've just talked to bound the 2nd is there is a need for a some kind of reconciliation process between the government and all the communities in and that's what's needed to. happen in order to bring every situation under control and i think ultimately what's needed is cooperation and agreement to move in that direction but it is the case that goes that many countries have been generous providers of assistance to ethiopia many years not

least the. the u.k. in the u.s. and i do understand why those countries that go and why they would lie they is here in our thirty's to take different measures as a means of providing confidence that the forms of cooperation can safely continue do you worry that this could escalate into a regional conflict because we're seeing hundreds of thousands of refugees heading to the sudan there is of course that an issue potentially you know with neighbors to the east do you worry about that i'm extremely worried about math but i haven't all the worry is well we is the ethiopia has multiple streams country multiple ethnic groups there are the parts of the country where that trashes of being a caring and growing so this is a situation which has the potential to affect the whole of ethiopia as well as the wider neighborhood ethiopia has been a boat work of stability it's been an amazing story of development progress over

the last 30 years and news tragic to say all that now being put at risk which is why the soon people can get around the table and find a negotiated way forward the best for everybody to cry and the rest of you around the wider region. ugandan security forces are still surrounding the home of the country's most powerful opposition leader hours after a court ordered them to leave the high court directed the police and the military to leave bobby winds residence he's been under house arrest since uganda's presidential election on the 14th of january president you know what he was 70 was the clear in the window 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 in the b.s.d. looking our gates and they're not allowing anybody to move out or anybody who can

be journalists have been blocked from accessing us our party officials and our friends and even funny have been blocked from coming to us is 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 audience and to some priests or our human rights will continue to call only one has to hold you know missouri need to our count to calling to order. that our rights are respected because we are not violent we don't you doing to use in violence but we must stand for what is more wrong what is right and what is just russia's president has condemned the protests calling for the release of opposition leader alexina valmy the scribing them as dangerous and illegal police detained more than 3 and a half 1000 people across freshened during saturday's demonstrations that ali was

held when he returned from germany for medical treatment after a suspected nerve agent poisoning. well meanwhile a video posted by the valley has forced vladimir putin into a rare and denial he claimed that the president owned this lavish palace on the black sea the valleys investigation team says the palace was built for putin a sort of an elaborate corruption scheme but putin says neither he nor his family own the building. 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. cuba is taking the lead among latin american countries and trying to produce its own vaccine for covert 19 the cuban government has signed an agreement with iran to carry out massive phase 3 clinical trials for one of its 1st promising vaccine candidates our latin america editor lucien human reports.

scientists are working around the clock at have and his family institute named after the renowned cuban epidemiologist who discovered how yellow fever was spread statement institute has been researching and producing vaccine street decades and its latest project is called sovereign to. using good common in protein technology it's a promising and inexpensive alternative to the cold 1000 vaccines already on the market according to cuba's government of you who are a little it's a difficult challenge to the extent that there is no other 3rd world countries that have done so only us but all of them have then it has signed a technological transfer agreement to soon begin carrying out 150000 face 3 clinical trials of the vaccine in iran where i'm like in cuba with 1000 infections are rampant later of their wives and who is not very high so therefore we cannot go

for a combination of history so that's why does why we are coming to more to a large population. already in the priest group. the institute says it's collaborating with its counterparts in canada france italy and the netherlands to test and eventually produce the vaccine one advantage they say is that it would not require special refrigeration. going to the vaccines at the conceit and safety of proving including to children under the age of 16 the entire cuban population would be inoculated 1st says dr bayliss. the closing of this brutal course. we're prone to do half in the order of 100000000 doses during the good the one. despite its size and limited economic resources to this biotechnology industry has

produced major breakthroughs including the world's 1st vaccine against meningitis b. the goal now is not just to protect its own population against cold 19 but to offer inoculation at a price that poor countries like cuba can also afford to see in human al-jazeera. the new u.s. special climate envoy says this 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 or previous summits are focused on the causes of the issue this is the 1st on coping with the effects new u.s. president joe biden last week agreed to return to the 2015 paris climate accord after donald trump poll that. we have a president now or god who really tells the truth and his seat used by this issue

and president biden knows that we have to mobilize an unprecedented to meet a challenge that is fast exhilarating so we're proud to be back we come back i want you to know if you really are the absence of the last 4 years and we'll do everything in our power to make up for. and now a reminder 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 the company told the e.u. on friday that it will not be able to meet supply targets until the end of march top e.u. officials have been holding urgent talks with us for seneca to encourage it to increase production the block has been criticized for the slow rollout of vaccines among its 20 set.