given a witness documentary on al-jazeera. and out of. context. in storytelling around the biggest issues but had to do it with. 100000 britons have now died after testing positive for corona virus leaving families across the u.k. to deal with a national tragedy i'm deeply sorry for every life that has been lost and of course as good as i was prime minister i take full responsibility for. barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the drug

companies must deliver europe's ultimatum as our route was about vaccine supplies simmers rolling into the heart of delhi india farmers break barricades with their tractors as they fight against reforms and the children who know nothing but war now scrambling through serious proposition to survive. we begin in the u.k. were more than $100000.00 people have now died from cove at 19 it's less than a year since the country recorded its 1st death and authorities are rushing to speed up vaccinations well britain is now the world's smallest nation to past the 100000 mark with more than 1600 new deaths reported on tuesday the prime minister has faced criticism throughout but says that he takes full responsibility on this

day i should just really repeat that i am deeply sorry for every life that has been lost and of course as good as prime minister i take full responsibility for everything that the government has done what i can tell you is that we truly did everything we could and continue to do everything that we can to minimize loss of life and to minimize suffering in what has been a very very difficult. stage very very difficult crisis for our country. well meanwhile the pandemic is continuing to rip through the rest of the world more than a 1000000 infections have now been confirmed in indonesia while the planet edges closer to recording 100000000 cases overall exhibition efforts in some areas are also stalling with the e.u. urging drug companies to honor their commitment to supply dosis after 2 said that they would struggle to fill orders meanwhile lock down frustrations are spilling

into the streets police in the netherlands are preparing for another night of violent protests over the country's harshest restrictions since world war 2. well anderson joins us live now from bradford which is one of the war areas of the u.k. yes so andrew we heard boris johnson there say that they would take responsibility for the government's actions but has the government actually admitted to having made mistakes in its handling of covert 19. no it hasn't fully admitted that asshole. however he does say he'll take responsibility there will be a public inquiry on this heaven knows where but it will happen right now the political fallout is on hold there's been a lot of political criticism this past 10 months but right now it's on hold because of the enormity of this number $100.00 files and imagine this

a year ago boris johnson wasn't really taking the wood coronavirus seriously at a toll he regarded as some sort of virus on the other side of the world it was no threat to the obama to have life in the u.k. now a 100000 deaths that's a figure that sends a shudder down people's minds because they call really get to grips with the enormity of it the figure in actual fact it compares in some ways with a whole variety of countries much bigger than the u.k. and just get this this point that that in terms of a daily death rate all choose day was $1631.00 in the u.k. that took us over the 100000 take australia it's have $909.00

deaths since the beginning of the crisis so it is colazal the u.k. at the biggest in europe where do we go from here well they want to take the politicians want to take a. very close look at boris johnson's actions he was behind the curve at the beginning at least 2 to 3 weeks behind france and spain and then indians but 2nd lockdown it was he didn't take scientific it far advice with taking the walk down 3 weeks earlier and this latest lockdown again it was late he made a mess of a promise to give people time of christmas to get their families together he had to do it you turn on that and now we're faced with this situation with a new variant of covert that u.k. won the south africa one also of brazil a situation that is has been out of control and doesn't look like getting much better sue that is i've been around speaking to some of the people here who've lost

loved ones in this area of west yorkshire it is really a terribly sad place. all over the u.k. the enormity of what's happening is sometimes hard to absorb. the health service is overloaded to near breaking point many hospitals have no more room left for the dead vos temporary mortuary has been set up and now there's a landmark figure 100000 dead no one in our worst nightmares and to supply to that would be 10 months into the pandemic with such a high loss of life. and let's leave that thank you straight to the white house and listen to president biden american system of systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far far too long i said over the course of the past year

that the blinders i'm in taken off the nation the american people been murdered when many americans didn't see or had simply refused to see couldn't be ignored any longer. those 8 minutes and 46 seconds that took george floor's life opened the eyes of millions of americans and millions of people are all over the world. it was the knee on the neck of justice and it wouldn't be forgotten it stirred the conscious and tens of millions of americans and a my view it marked a turning point in this country's attitude toward racial justice when this is all a 6 year old daughter giana who i met with the when i met with the family i leaned down to say hi to her and she said look to me she said daddy changed the world that's it yana said his daughter daddy changed the world. and i believe she is right not because this kind of injustice stopped is clearly has it but because the

ground has shifted because it's changed minds and mindsets because it laid the groundwork for progress over 19 is further ripped a path of destruction through every community in america but no one has been spared but the devastation in communities of color has been nothing short of stunning just look at the numbers 40 percent of front line workers nurses 1st responders grocery store workers are americans of color and many are still living on the edge one in 10 black americans is out of work today 10 levon matina americans out of work today one in 7 households in america about one in 4 black one in 5 latino households in america report that they don't have enough food to eat in the united states of america black and latino americans are dying of covert 19 at rates nearly 3 times

that of white americans. it's not white americans fault but just a fact and the americans now know to specially younger americans one of the reasons i'm so optimistic about this nation is that today's generation of young americans is the most progressive thoughtful inclusive generation that america has ever seen and they're pulling us toward justice in so many ways fortune is to confront the huge gap in economic and security economic inequity between those top and everyone else fortune us to confront the existential crisis of climate and yes forces to confront systemic racism and white supremacy is just been weak sense all of america witnessed a group of thugs answer actually just a political extremist and white supremacist violently attack of the capital of our democracy and so now now's the time to act it's time to act because that's

what the faith and morality call us to do across truly every faith the same principles whole we're all god's children we should treat each other as we would like to be treated ourselves and this is time to act in this time to act because it's what the core values of this nation call us to do and i believe the vast majority of americans democrats republicans and independents share these values and want to act as well we've never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation state the obvious that all people are created equal and have a right to be treated equally throughout their lives and it's time to act now not only because it's the right thing to do but because if we do we'll all be better off for it for too long we've allowed a narrow cramped view of the promise of this nation to fester you know we've we've bought the view that america is a 0 sum game in many cases if you succeed i fail if you get ahead i fall

behind. if you get the job i lose mine maybe worst of all if i hold you down i lift myself up we've lost sight of what president kennedy told us when he said a rising tide lifts all boats and we lift each other up we're all effected up you know in the corollary is true as well when anyone of his is held down we're all held back more and more economic studies in recent years have proven this but i don't think you need economic studies to see the truth just imagine if instead of consigning millions of american children to under-resourced schools we gave each and every 34 year old child a chance to learn to go to school not daycares school and grow and thrive in school and through when they've done that the places have been done it shows they have an

exponentially greater chance of going all the way through 12 years of school and doing it well but you know does anyone does anyone in this whole nation think we're not all better off if that were to happen just imagine if instead of denying millions of americans the ability to own a home and build generational wealth we made it possible for the bio home their 1st home and began to build equity to provide for their families and send their children off to school. does anyone doubt that the whole nation we better off just imagine it is said of denying millions of young entrepreneurs the ability to access capital we made it possible to take their dream to market create jobs reinvest in their own communities does anyone doubt this whole nation would be better off just imagine of more incredibly creative and innovative how much more creative and innovative we'd be if this nation held held that historic black colleges and

universities to the same opportunities and minority serving institutions that had the same funding the resources of public universities to compete for jobs and industries of the future you know just as the 1st h.p. she you graduate aleck to the vice president that's not true. but to do this i believe this nation and this government need to change your whole approach to the issue of racial equality equity yes we need criminal justice reform but that isn't nearly enough we need to open the promise of america to every american and that means we need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government it has to be the business of the whole of government that's why i issued him on the 1st days my whole government executive order that will for the 1st time in advance equity for all throughout our federal policies and

institutions. it focuses on the full range of communities who have been long under certain overlooked people of color america's the disabilities t.q. americans religious minorities rule urban suburban communities face the persistent poverty and i've asked them bassett or susan rice to lead the administration is charge through the white house and domestic policy council because i know we shall see it through. every white house every white house component and every agency will be involved in this work because advancing equity has to be everyone's job today i'll be shortly signing and a additional package of executive actions to continue this vital work. housing for example housing is a right now american homeownership is an essential tool to wealth creation and to be passed down to 2 generations today i'm directly the partment of housing and

urban affairs and urban development to redress historical racism in federal housing policies today i'm directing the federal agency to reinvigorate the consultation progress process with indian tribes respect the tribal sovereignty and respect for tribal sovereignty will be a cornerstone oron gazey with native american communities this builds on the work we did last week to expand tribes access to is to use to achieve national stockpile for the 1st time to ensure they receive help from the federal emergency management agency fema to fight this pandemic today i'm directing federal agencies to combat the surge of xenophobia particularly against asian americans and pacific islanders that we've seen skyrocket during this pandemic this is only acceptable and it's un-american i've asked the department of justice to strengthen its partnership with

the asian american persevere got a community to prevent those hate crimes i've also asked the department of health and human services to put out best practices for combat is not a phobia and our national response to coven. look in the weeks ahead i'll be reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity equity and inclusion and accessibility building on the work we started in the obama biden ministration that's why i'm resending the previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolish the offensive counterfactual 776 commission unity and healing must begin with understanding in truth not ignorance and lies today i'm also issued an executive order that will ultimately end the justice department's use of private prison as private prisons and industry that houses

treats out of the trainees and detainees and federal prisoners. the executive order to rex the attorney general to decline to renew contracts with privately operated criminal facilities a step we started to take at the end of the obama administration and was reversed under the previous administration this is the 1st step to stop corporation from profiting off them incarcerated because ration that is less humane and less safe is the studies show and it is just the beginning of my do sessions plan to address systemic problems in our criminal justice system here's another thing we need to do we need to restore and expand the voting rights act named after our dear friend john lewis and continue to fight back against laws that many states are engaged in to suppress the right to vote while expanded access to the ballot box for all eligible voters because here's the deal and i'll close with this i ran for

president because i believe we're in a battle for the soul of this nation. and the simple truth is our soul be troubled as long as systemic racism is allowed to persist we can eliminate if not be overnight we can eliminate everything but it's corrosive it's destructive and it's costly it cost every american not just to felt the sting of racial injustice where it's just less of and we are not just a nation of morally deprived because of systemic racism we're also less prosperous we're less successful us secure too we must change and i don't gotta take time but i know we can do it and i firmly believe the nation is ready to change but government has to change as well we need to make equity and justice part of what we do every day today tomorrow and every day i'm going to sign these executive actions

to continue the work to make real the promise of america for every american again i'm not promising we can end it tomorrow but i promise you we're going to continue to make progress to eliminate systemic racism and every branch of the white house and the federal government is going to be part of that effort thank you. but. you. know. this 1st executive order. is a memorandum from the secretary of housing and urban development to redress our nation's and the federal government's history of discriminatory housing practices

in paul's. next executive order for me to course ration system by eliminating the use of pearlie are pretty cruel to teach interest. flourless like you were. is a member of the food birds and reject the departments and agencies tribal consultations truthy mission lucian relationship.

rastignac. is condemning very recently little weary and intolerance against asian. and pacific islanders in the distance. the country really lose in this nation. this is going to hurt. you. it's president joe biden there signing some executive actions owner of racial equality he's been outlining his plan for a racial equality and he said that he ran for president because he felt the soul of the nation was at stake and he said the american soul be troubled as long as

systemic racism was allowed to continue or let's cross live now to a white house correspondent kimberly halkett can really talk us through some of those executive actions that the president is going to undertake. now with the signature what we see is a stark contrast to the previous administration in terms of priorities that this is a conscious shift in some cases even undoing policies of the previous administration that joe biden felt were counter to his ultimate goal and that is of achieving racial equity and justice he said in reference to the death of george floyd that the 8 minutes and so many seconds that there was the police officers knee on his neck as the world was captivated by that death and it was the beginning of this tipping point in terms of change and so he's acknowledging his part in

bringing about that change as president of the united states so there are a number of different actions here 4 to be precise and they address a number of areas that historically in the united states we've seen gross racial inequality particularly this 1st one pertaining to the issue of home ownership and just very briefly for decades in the united states mortgage companies have been allowed to have predatory mortgages and loans to communities of color at higher interest rates simply having them out of the market keeping them away from this generational wealth that we heard biden referencing there in order to pass this on so in other words contributed to generational poverty in many cases so now the department of housing and urban development will not only be seeking to turn these policies around but will be mandated to do so another important part where we see disproportionate numbers of black brown people being treated

unfairly is when it comes to incarceration that's a really big piece of it and criminal justice reform is something that was taken up by the trumpet ministration but not to the extent that there has been significant change so what we're seeing now is this. mitt made the end of the use of private prisons this is a big deal because for so long in this country people have been allowed to make profit out of other people's misfortune in many cases so this is something that is not going to be allowed at least at the federal level the state level is a completely different story also what we've seen here is an executive action to reaffirm the sovereignty of tribal nations in other words 1st nations people you heard the president there referencing the nation to nation relationship giving equal platform with the federal government this is a big shift a huge shift and something that has been long sought after by so many in the 1st

nations communities here in the united states and finally something that we've seen reversing a trend that had previously been in the right direction going in the wrong direction with covert 19 has been the targeting of asian americans many pointing the finger somewhat ignorantly blaming asian americans who are often born here in the united states for the fact that covert 19 has decimated the economy has killed so many hundreds of thousands of americans now there will be efforts at the federal level to combat xenophobia so these are some of the actions that this president has taken but you heard from his comments there by no means will they be the last this is something that the president campaigned on he's promised given the fact that he sees hope and he sees a generational shift in the united states to bring in more policies to encourage the united states to move in the right direction when it comes towards equity and racial justice he's obviously shown that it was

a priority and as you say something that he campaigned on and presumably a lot of people voted him in for but he himself doesn't shy away from the fact that it is going to be difficult for the u.s. to shed some of its past ways. yeah and one of the big problems in all of this is and where we see a big fresh sort of fraction in the united states is the fact that inequality isn't just racial in the united states it's also economic and that encompasses a large number of white communities as well particularly when you're talking about rural areas and this is where we saw donald trump gain so much traction and that is going to be the challenge is that in trying to achieve this racial equality how to also make those communities feel included and you actually heard joe biden referencing those communities when he spoke just a few moments ago that wasn't an accident he's trying to say that he's a president for all americans even those that did not vote for him you've

acknowledged in the end the big problem in trying to achieve that unity that was going to be bringing on board those people that feel joe biden doesn't speak for them even as a white american himself so this is the challenge he's going to have to undertake and it's going to be a difficult one because the american history precedes you know the last 20 years of tensions it goes back centuries and and it's going to take a while to repair kambli halkett with the latest on that from washington d.c. can belief thank you. well let's stay in washington then it's been a busy few hours for the senate it's just confirmed president joe biden spic chris secretary of state and then senators will be sworn in as jurors for the impeachment of governor trump well how do you feel cast was following events for us in washington ok let's start with the secretary of state and to me a blink and then quite a popular choice for both sides of the political spectrum. absolutely

and he has confirmations sailed to a confirmation vote as expected with a strong bipartisan majority voting in his favor the credentials of anthony blinken that he was the 2nd in charge of the state department under the obama administration later serving as national security advisor to then vice president joe biden and during lincoln's confirmation hearing a week ago he really managed to stay out of making any controversial statements and in fact was awarded with praise not only from democrats but even from republicans including lindsey graham one of the strongest allies of former president trump who said that lincoln was an outstanding choice as the secretary of state for biden so now with his confirmation more of biden's cabinet is being flushed out particularly those in charge of national security for the u.s. which is something that biden ministration had to have prioritized and as you heard

from the president moments ago saying that this priority for this for the congress to continue with his agenda certainly even as they're also turning their focus toward the impeachment of former president let's focus on that impeachment what is due to happen shortly. right you were seeing the senate back in session and in a few moments time the agenda is for this senators to be sworn in as the jurors for the senate to be converted into a court of impeachment to put former president trump on trial but before we get to that i think there's going to be a roadblock in that senator rand paul republican also a supporter of trump he has indicated that he's going to bring up a constitutional point of order or an objection that this impeachment trial is even

happening at all his argument that he laid out on the floor about an hour ago is that there should not be an impeachment proceeding against a former u.s. president in fact this is the 1st time that we will see that take place and there is constitution are constitutional arguments on both sides once rand paul brings up this order this motion of this objection that will likely force the full senate to take a vote on whether to sustain or dismiss this objection and the reason that is something we're watching closely is because for the 1st time senate republicans will have to go on the record the question being whether or not they even think this trial should proceed which could be an early indicator of how eventually they may vote on the question of conviction as we know it would take 17 senate republicans to cross the aisle to convict former president trump right now we know only a handful who have indicate.