much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one. country scramble to enforce new code it 19 travel restrictions and ramp up vaccination plans as they grapple with the new strains of the virus. alive adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. india's protesting father stormed the historic red force of the due date in new delhi as they march against the government's new agricultural. it's only plunges

into political uncertainty as the prime minister resigns after losing his senate majority of his handling of the pandemic. and uganda opposition leader bobby why and vows to bring down president bush 70 a day after he's freed from house arrest. from lockdowns to infection milestones countries are still grappling with a virus that has multiple strains even though there are several vaccines being distributed around the globe at the moment the world is edging closer to 100000000 cases of covert 19 is how it looks now according to the johns hopkins university the top 20 countries almost all recording at least 10000 cases a day where the next day the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson will hold a briefing he's been meeting with his cabinet to discuss the possibility of imposing a mandatory hotel quarantine for all u.k.

arrivals travelers already need to self isolate but there's concern the people aren't following the rules people have already been warned not to book some of the cations until an announcement is made charlie angela reports now from london's heathrow airport. it seems ministers are a little bit divided on what form these measures to take some ministers are saying it should be a blanket approach to all travelers coming into the u.k. similar to what they have in australia where arrivals the bus straight to apple hotels and of course to quarantine for 10 days at their own expense other ministers are looking for a more targeted approach saying it should only apply to u.k. residents and u.k. citizens returning from the more high risk countries the allied industry is saying that this measure any measures will essentially be closing the ukase of borders and they say that the policies u.k. has already already enough at the moment as it stands arrivals into the u.k.

have to provide a negative posted test before they depart and on arrival they have to self isolate for 10 days so they say the government says that is not being properly enforced flights from south africa and brazil have already been banned but the u.k. is saying that this risk of a new unknown code variant entering the country is just too great a variant that could be resistant to the vaccines that are currently being a rolled out on that note we just heard from the health secretary matt hang called who's offered up the ukase assistance when it comes to analyzing and identifying mutations of the virus saying that you pay at least but on hand to any countries that can identify new strains trick trying to give the u.k. a bit of a heads up on the rest of the world because we are finally seeing a full infection rates here and the u.k. government doesn't want to risk a new variant entering by the skies that could jeopardize that the european union's fractionation plans have been disrupted by supply delays both astra zeneca and

pfizer biotech announced that they've falls short of their promised deliveries e.u. ministers are warning that they may restrict vaccine exports from the bloc thought it came reports from berlin. the view here in berlin is pretty clear that they believe that astra zeneca should be providing the millions of doses that it promised it would provide when it received an upfront payment of more than 400000000 dollars for a potential 400000000 doses money that they received many months ago now and not just here in germany but across the e.u. institutions of the e.u. in brussels but also many member states believe that this is should not be allowed to stand there have been people certainly the the federal health minister here on talking about perhaps a block being placed on vaccines made in the e.u. being shipped to the united kingdom what's really at stake here is that all very

many of the 27 member states in the e.u. had based their plans mass vaccination strategies on using the astra zeneca vaccine and now that astra zeneca has said that it's not going to be able to supply even half of what it had planned to supply in the 1st few months of january well that's caused alarm bells to ring so and that's something that the varian prime minister said in the course of the last hour or so now there is some crumb of comfort perhaps from the fact that some astra zeneca or officials have said well they may be able to accelerate the release of some of the doses they said they were going to deliver in february moving it forward from the 15th of february to the 8th of february but what it leaves still is many senior politicians in berlin in brussels around europe looking at what's happened with astra zeneca and wondering perhaps have they as it were backed the right horse should they perhaps have invested more money in the other vaccines available. talk to said israel vaccination program is

working with all this every recipient free of covert teams following the 2nd dose tests of people who've taken the vaccine have also shown it to be effective against the u.k. strains israel's travel ban kicked out of it stopping all foreign passengers from entering the country are a force of reports now from west jerusalem the. initial findings so she almost said 100 percent encouraging what we've had is this plan by israel to native population as quickly as possible in return for giving pfizer the manufacturer a document it is by far the majority being used to. be very comprehensive data that israel through its full main helper by that is you can digitized hold on its population and so pfizer will be able to use israel as something of

a massive test bed of its vaccine and so far as i said those figures look very encouraging a week after the 2nd dose of the pfizer vaccine in one study by one of those how provided is they found that of nearly one 130000 who'd gone through that. only about 20 you'd had any interaction in the health ministry put out similar figures for a wide it would be nation as well this does have implications far beyond israel it's these results maintained obviously this is the scientific study that in the control group has no direct causation that we can establish but this is very encouraging senior advisor on the coded front to president joe biden this is huge tweeting in response to the news last night. in today's he has passed 1000000 cases of covert 19 it's the worst affected country in southeast asia with almost 30000 confirmed deaths the health care infrastructure is close to collapse doctors say that they've

been forced to run away critically ill patients jessica washington reports from jakarta. on indonesia's most populous island java hospitals are stretched to their limits these covered 900 patients were able to get treatment but many others are missing out now part of the not fastened on among we have rejected so many people in the hospital reject patients every day because there's nothing else we can do the doctors having to reject critically ill patients is a heavy burden the. psion it makes me so sad to turn down patients i read the files of patients who are referred to our hospital they can hardly breathe but we cannot help them. the indonesian hospitals association says hospitals on the island of java and bali are close to collapse doctors are forced to turn away patients because of a lack of intensive care unit bed and a shortage of health care workers. indonesia's covert 19 task force says in some

cities all hospital beds are full and health specialists say on average more than a quarter of people are testing positive for the disease. across indonesia the positivity rate is 27 percent it's hardly the w.h.o. standard is 5 percent to ensure that the pandemic can be controlled many have struggled to get care for their loved ones it also must. the emergency unit was full there was a tent for all the positive cases but all the rooms were full so my parents were sent home with medication. out of desperation some families have turned to a local covert 19 data agency to help them get their relative into a hospital often it is too late. from our cases one died in the health center another died in a taxi after being rejected by many hospitals another died in hospital because the

i.c.u. was full. despite the rise in cases and deaths indonesia's president says the situation is under control. we're grateful that indonesia is one of the countries that can control this crisis well. but many health workers have criticised the government for failing to properly implementor struction to stop the spread of the virus and allowing a crisis to unfold in their hospitals jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. colombia's defense minister calls homes through here or has died from complications of covert by the 69 year old conservative politician held several ministerial and diplomatic positions during his decades long political career or recently it backed u.s. efforts to force that as well as president nicolas maduro out of office by supporting his rival white oh. in india tens of thousands of followers have traveled to the

nation's capital new delhi their biggest show of strength yet against the government they breached the historic red for just hours after a large military and cultural parade was held to mark india's republic day follows a been demonstrating for months now against new agricultural laws which they say will destroy their livelihoods and favor large businesses. reports. prostrated and angry thousands of farmers occupy india's most prominent landmark the iconic red fort blocking highways and roads. they see new agricultural laws being introduced by the government will devastate their livelihoods and favor large companies. what began as protests months ago has turned into a movement with farmers marching into the center of india's capital. in the outskirts of new delhi police fired tear gas when

a group of farmers breached security barricades with their tractors. you know. we had designated routes for protest is many followed the orders by others who stones at police vandalized barricades and tried to run us over. the demonstrations coincide. india's republic day as farmers rallied nearby this. is what another side of the capitol looks like a festive display of the country's cultural diversity and military strength is that by the year. the entire country watches delhi on republic day so when the farmers roll the tractors into delhi and the message goes out that the farmers fight is not yet over it's just started we are fighting for our rights by entering the city. opposition just 3 agricultural last pass in november is challenging the authority of prime minister narendra modi. the reforms will relax rules on the sale price and storage of farm produce the government says the changes will boost incomes and

private investments but farmers insist they are an invitation for conglomerates to take over agriculture in india it's come up that. the government has passed these laws without any discussions without any thought they just imposed them. about half of india's 1300000000 people work in agriculture the government's offer to delay the new laws for 18 months has been rejected by farmers. they say they will continue protesting until the laws are fully repealed cuts the locus of a on al-jazeera. a weather update next to al jazeera then iran says the us should recommit to the 2015 nuclear deal before it's too late. and while many displaced syrian children are having to sell rubbish just to survive.

it's time for the perfect jan and the weather sponsored play qatar airways all over the weather squatting down for the time being. in japan but we have got more unsettled weather coming through as we go on through the next couple days hopefully less in the way of snow more in the way of rain right now in the process of pulling out of the way dry brush the weather for good parts of saying that fine weather stretching across the korean peninsula will pass of china but this little clutch of wintry showers they will gather they'll make their way across the korean peninsula north korea to see some very heavy snowfall that could cause some disruption as we go on through thursday it will eventually make its way toward northern parts of japan as we go on through the weekend so but most of that 10 south is that we have in tokyo both fought in try across a good part of china 10 celsius there in shanghai as well somewhat warm in hong

kong temperatures here at around 23 degrees with some pleasant sunshine and the sunshine stretches across much of india china much of india also try and quiet we have still got the mist and folk problems of course across northern parts of india up to as more than pakistan lahore and new delhi around 18 degrees and over the next couple of days further south chance of water to show us just coming into that eastern side of india was a possibility of wanted to shout over the next couple of days pushing across much of sri lanka. qatar airways join africa's largest trade and investment in rwanda into african trade to give you access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors in bias and moving 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals with $40000000000.00 u.s. dollars as business and government come together to explore business and networking opportunities at the international exhibition boat by the african export import

bank and their premium partners the i 80 s. 2021 transforming africa. well again this is out 0 the main news this hour the world is quickly closing in on 100000000 cases of covert 19 countries are struggling to keep infections under control with the restrictions being rolled out almost daily. indonesia supports 1000000 reported cases of coronavirus it is the worst affected country in southeast asia with almost 30000 confirmed deaths the health care infrastructure there is close to collapse. and tens of thousands of farmers have traveled to india's

capital new delhi in the biggest show of strength yet against the government they entered the historic red force and blocked roads farmers have been demonstrating for months against new pricing us. some news now related to covert 1000 in europe italy is privatised as is epic conti has resigned in a bid to form a new government it lost his majority in the upper house when a coalition partner withdrew its support over his handling of the corona virus outbreak contests submitted his resignation to president socio mother ella who will start consultations for a new government resignations being seen as a gamble in attempts to forge a new alliance al-jazeera stephanie decker reports from rome. political consultations party consultations develop meeting with the heads of different parties over the next 2 days or so to figure out who will be the right person to get that majority a lot of analysis here about how it's going to go i think the consensus is that perhaps i'm saying perhaps because everything is still up in the air that just epic

want to maybe given a 3rd chance to form a 3rd government that will then be more acceptable to those who have been you know shuffling for power party political around him which is led to this political crisis so we don't know what the motive good what's going to look like other people say that potentially you know there could be a situation where someone else is appointed so i think we're going to have to wait and see but certainly speaking to many entirely and over the last couple of weeks this is been bubbling before those votes actually happened is that this was not the time to pull the political crisis there's a lot of issues to be dealt with you know they called economical situation has been the worst since world war 2 in terms of public debt small businesses struggling people the homelessness is up for example in the last year here people called pay their bills having lost jobs the vaccination campaign has been wheedled back because those are not being delivered by belgian and the schools remain closed people are frustrated as there's a lot going on so it's they need a strong government to push through legislation get

a strong hand on things and serving at the moment that's not happening. protesters in syria back on the streets voicing their anger against poverty and social injustice that are moderate the race of other demonstrators who were arrested over the past few days human rights organizations say that all but a 1000 people have been detained including hundreds of minors protesters defying a government ban against gatherings put into place to curb the spread of the coronavirus meanwhile opposition parties according to the resignation of the government of prime minister. he reshuffle his cabinet last week but the opposition says that it's not enough. france says that iran must comply with the obligations of the 2050 nuclear deal before the u.s. returns to the landmark agreement to iran says that it's waiting for washington to make the 1st move. on no plan for talks of contacts with the u.s. still waiting for the off the shelf stance of the u.s. government about their return to their commitments in removing sanctions which is

part and parcel of the commitments any progress in this regard is totally dependent on the practical steps that the u.s. will take to meet its obligations under the reason lucian 2231 actually america's time is limited and the window of opportunity for the u. s. and the european a member of the g c p a remains open for a limited period. the acting u.s. envoy to the u.n. says the president joe biden's policy for israel and palestine will be to support a mutually agreed 2 state solution the u.n. security council has been meeting to discuss the issue it's the 1st briefing with a new u.n. middle east coordinator it's also the 1st time that the council has met discuss the region since joe biden was sworn in as president. the economic situation in syria has drastically deteriorated in recent months the syrian currency is in a downward spiral setting the price of food and basic goods soaring by more than

200 percent it's spreading creasing numbers of syrians are turning to landfills to survive a shot of bullets reports. more lives in a refugee camp in the syrian province of idlib every day with her friends she comes to this landfill she searches for plastic she can sell for cycling probably a lot of ballet and i come here every day to work and help my father who is sick and can't work i'm helping my father to buy some bread because we left our area jar and we have nothing but some clothes. after 10 years of civil war syria's economy is in tatters in 20 livin the currency traded at $47.00 layers to the dollar no it's more than $1200.00 the u.n. says food prices tripled last year and used to mates 4 and 5 syrians now live below the poverty line this winter has been a shortage of fuel and wheat crossover on

a. we come here every morning scrapping through leftovers and plastics to bring back home and sell to make a living sometimes we find food and eat it even give it to our children at home if there's enough of it. it leaves home to about 3000000 syrians displaced by the war about half the children many here abandon their assets use this savings to flee and in are desperate for work they have little buffer for an economic downturn so there is a growing reliance on child labor like the less they like the pub and we search for plastic iron and copper we go to every car that comes and then collect and sell what we can so i can have enough money for my family and return home. more than 30 refugee camps around it lives landfill sites those who scavenge here contract's skin and lung diseases of course hippa titus 3 weeks ago 3 children died after a landfill collapsed on them. i know now we are poor and don't have anything to eat

we struggle day and night working with injured hands breathing fumes from smoke and the waste it's a lot of suffering only to earn $4.00 which is not enough to cover the basics like medicine for us or our children. the world food program estimates more than 9000000 syrians suffer from food insecurity that's half the country and the highest on record. the worst of the war may be over but the fight for survival goes on shellac bellus al-jazeera. ugandan opposition leader bobby why and says that the police siege on his home was a form of torture it been under house arrest since the presidential election 12 days ago wine claims was for sale and security forces about lifted the blockade after the high court ordered it to do so why is promising to bring down president yarima $73.00 peaceful means excuse me within

a year. the law provides for the people of uganda to stand for their rights and we encourage them to stand against one fragile link results that were read by mr b. about common mr 70 should not be president of uganda and we encourage the people of uganda to use all really go and or nonviolent means and ideas that they have to free themselves from them in 70 dictatorship al-jazeera is katherine sawyer is following developments from kenya's capital nairobi. this press conference was held in his home after the police and soldiers while with the drone income plans to the court order issued yesterday and basically he reiterated that he has overwhelming evidence of widespread rigged widespread irregularities including rigging he did not provide this evidence but he said that he's part of the national

unity platform is considering the option of going to court even if they do not trust the system and don't trust the judges will give him a fair hearing then he went i had to call on ugandans to use every means nonviolent means legal means to free themselves this will likely upset many government officials and president yoweri was 70 has also spoken about the election he was speaking in entebbe during the country's labor liberation day celebrations where he said that the election was free but there are some people who are trying to cause trouble he said that the government will not tolerate any form of violence he also said and i'll quote this we are not a shallow force we shall be tossed around by opportunists forget about threats so definitely a looming showdown but like i said bobby wine strong statements he made but he was also careful saying that whatever is going to happen whatever is going to happen

going forward is going to happen using within the confines of the low. france's interior minister has threatened to shut down a far right group that seeks to expel muslims and migrants from europe authorities in france outraged by generation identity's efforts to undermine the french republic the group's secret links to marine le pen's far right party were exposed by al jazeera as investigative units in 2018 the documentary generation hayes should members of the movement carrying out racist attacks on arabs and celebrating hitler's germany allowed a serious investigative unit producer david harrison describes the french interior minister's comments as significant. this is the 1st time that the interior minister has commented publicly and condemned generation identity. we heard last week that was that this whole thing was sparked by a yet another protest by this group where they went to the pyrenees to

a mountain pass in the france spain border and said they were there to defend europe now it's not the 1st time they've done this and last week there were lots of unsocialized allegations calling for the group to be to be dissolved but it's very significant this is the 1st time the interior minister has talked about the possibility of doing asked himself and he was using quite strong language as well you know he talked about he's told his staff is team at the ministry to gather evidence on generation identity and he says that if there is sufficient evidence he will indeed dissolve the group we have an undercover reporter who infiltrated the legal headquarters of generation identity he was there for 6 months filming secretly and he discovered all sorts of things mean the people using wielding guns he found we filmed 3 people assaulting a group of young teenagers in the city center one of them pepper sprayed a 13 year old girl another one shoved her and the 3rd one punched her 4 times on

the head wearing these plastic reinforced gloves one of those people ready follies was also caught on camera declaring that his wish was to his dying which would be to drive a car into a market popular with muslims in little the upshot of this was the police investigated and all 3 were charged and convicted they were convicted on the charges ranging from assault to incitement to religious and racial hatred and in one case the case of police incitement to terrorism they were all given jail sentences suspended and given fines as well. in brazil relatives and friends of hundreds of people who were killed in the mining disaster marking its 2nd anniversary with a memorial service they're also calling for those responsible to be held to account efforts to find and recover the remains of those who died a still ongoing in the southern state of maine a generous as under schapelle reports 2 years after her sister went

missing natalia dooley there are still hopes her body will be found some families in the town of broome a genial are continuing to search for the remains of their loved ones they were swept away when the dam collapsed nearby meanwhile parts thankful for that my sister can be anywhere in this search for listen to i come and pray hoping to find her as soon as i can there's a lot of possible areas we don't know if they're here we pray for everyone to be found when the dam collapsed at this mining complex 12000000 cubic metres of mud in mining waste was unleashed authorities say more than 270 people were killed but people here say that's a low estimate and many more were swept to their deaths to myopia hedo sister was among them along with other families he wants the mines operator valley to be held to account for what happened excavation efforts are still taking place. that would still sol not only did they destroy my family countless families were destroyed the

lives of many people today we don't small is only said miss the state government is seeking billions of dollars in compensation from ballet the world's largest producer of iron ore while the company's former c.e.o. was charged with homicide last year no one has been convicted. of vigils in memorial services provide moments of solitude and reflection many here still feel anger and they say it's hard to move on and move forward when no one has faced justice and al-jazeera. it is could tell you with a cell or a dream so to get here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the world is quickly closing in on 100000000 cases of covert 19 countries are struggling to keep infections on the control with new restrictions being rolled.