they will be challenged and that's what people expect from us they want the questions on such. matters will be the way some. israel sends a military warning to iran and tries to pressure u.s. president joe biden away from rejoining the nuclear deal. hello i'm barbara starr this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a 100000000 cases worldwide 100000 deaths in britain alone the toll of just one year of the pandemic is. hope you guys are.

the jury that will decide the donald trump's fate senators are sworn in for the impeachment trial. and the children who know nothing but war now scrambling to syria's rubbish to survive. israel's top general says he's ordered his forces to step up preparations for possible offensive actions against iran warning new u.s. president joe biden that it would be wrong to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. i had instructed the army to prepare a number of operational plans to the existing ones we are taking care of these plants undeveloped that in the coming year does he decide on cutting them out of course but the political leaders but his plans have to be on the table ready i'm

practiced. all hairy for citizen west jerusalem and joins us now via skype or harry give us a little bit of context and the importance of these words coming from him specifically . because this is something that has been reported in the israeli media for a couple of weeks now the idea that the israeli military is preparing an outdated set of plans for potential military confrontation with iran because of the prospect of the. to the that the trumpet ministrations policy of pulling out of iran daily might come day oh and secretary of state's maximum pressure policy against iran and as i say there were these reports that the israeli military had started to work on such plans was putting them back on the table now we have this very public. that position by the head of the army himself instead in general. and made these

comments online at a virtual. edition of the annual. national security studies conference in israel. high ranking security officials speak every year and as well as laying out as you heard in that clip the fact that israel the military wanted to come up with new plans during the course of this year he also said very clearly that his own position was that any nuclear deal with iran along the lines of the jay c.p.o. way even an improved one would still be a strategic mistake and could easily needs to iran developing a nuclear weapon in due course in any case and leading to a nuclear arms race within the region so says the head of the military saying this the politicians obviously have been pressuring the biden ministration already on this front and said to do so. there is reporting that the head of the israeli

intelligence agency the mossad will be dispatched with a list of israeli demands to washington in the coming weeks so at the moment they seem to be allowing the military to make this case while in public at least may. taking a slightly less. demanding attitude but there is some public debate as to the best way to try to get the budget ministration to come on board at least closer to the israeli position whether it's by getting the top generals to come out and say that any returns with a would be a mistake in that israel is during the course of the next year coming up with new plans to attack iran that has yet to be seen every full set with the latest from west jerusalem harry thank you across that there are such a binary in tehran the door says harry was saying there is this very much a message to the united states but a message that is going to reverberate in iran the so any kind of reaction yet or

what kind of reaction are we likely to get from the iranians well we're going to be hearing from the president hassan rouhani during his scheduled weekly cabinet meeting a. her on wednesday morning and he's likely to respond with the same kind of rhetoric that we've been hearing from iranian officials and that is that any kind of attack or hostilities towards iran we responded with similar measures iranian officials here and military officials have said over the past few weeks and iran is ready willing and able to defend itself against all enemies at forward this nuclear deal believe it or from the ring foreign minister mohammad javad zarif who is in moscow on tuesday he tweeted saying that there is no reason for iran to show goodwill to return to the nuclear deal of 2015 to return to full compliance he said why should iran do anything further is the united states who

looks to from the deal they are the ones that have to take the next step and that iran will respond there is a bill that was passed in parliament here in early december. i called a plant strategic plan to lift sanctions and that has forced the government to take certain measures when it comes to the country's nuclear program a plan that was passed that is now law has seen the country's enrichment capabilities increase again as of january 20 percent levels under the nuclear deal they were at 67 percent and the special here said that because the sanctions have been reposed on iran by the united states they are taking these measures to protect the u.s. to lift those sanctions and then iran will return to full compliance the next steps on that bill that law is that the iranians have given to the new administration in washington until late february to respond and that is the when they will take the

next step and that means the surprise visit by inspectors will no longer be allowed this was an additional protocol that on iran was voluntarily following under the nonproliferation treaty and they've said that they will take that away as well if by the end of february if the united states doesn't lift some of the centuries or show some measures that there is about returning to the j.c. in terms of israel's part in all of this of course iran sees them using this opportunity to pressure new administration to getting what they want but they've said there is absolutely no room for renegotiating or mending this nuclear deal it stands as is and you're on the way to see what the united states will do in the coming weeks dorsetshire bari with the latest from tehran d'orsel sank you well let's go to the united states there is so i will speak to alan fischer who joins us from outside the white house allan joe biden made it clear that it wasn't is intention for the u.s. to rejoin the nuclear agreement in some shape or form how do you think that the

biden administrator will welcome this message from israel. well they're likely to see it as the israeli military putting pressure on to joe biden but joe biden is about to change his position he believes that it would be in the benefit for the united states to be back into the iran nuclear deal the likelihood of it being near the top of his agenda at the moment simply isn't on because he believes that dealing with the covert crisis both the disease and the economic followed much more important for him particularly in the 1st 100 days and we've also heard from a couple of senior officials who will be part of the national security team during a confirmation hearing. who is the new director of national intelligence said that there was nothing imminent as far as getting back into the iran nuclear deal was concerned and tony blinken who will take over officially as secretary of state on wednesday has said just in the last few hours that really iran needs to be in

compliance with the iran nuclear deal and then the united states might consider reengaging but of course throughout the entire election campaign joe biden was saying look if we go back into the iran nuclear deal it will have to be much stronger than the deal that was negotiated by barack obama just 4 years ago or the other thing the israeli chief of staff said was that if there were to take military action it would be against a much weaker iran and that is simply because the sanctions that were put in place by the trumpet ministration have not been lifted and there is no intention at the moment that we can see the joe biden intends to lift those sanctions so the campaign of maximum pressure as donald trump calls it still continues what will be interesting is that when the head of mossad the israeli secret service actually gets to washington d.c. what message he wants to convey both publicly and privately and of course whether or not 20 blinken one of his 1st calls will be to the israelis to find out what on

earth that they were thinking by publicizing this just when the by the. is less than a week old so a lot of questions to ask and answer but there will be no immediate action from the by the ministration we've heard it from senior officials and also his priorities lie elsewhere and certainly not at the moment in foreign policy. alan fischer with the latest there from outside the white house allan thank you. within the last few hours the number of recorded coronavirus cases around the world has passed 100000000 governments are racing to vaccinate has many people as possible but new coronavirus mutations are raising new concerns about whether approved vaccines will remain effective katrina you reports from beijing. one year

ago the central chinese city of cotton went into what was then an unprecedented lockdown 11000000 people were isolated from the rest of china and the world in a desperate attempt to prevent the spread of a deadly corona virus that attempt failed cases of a quickly identified in thailand japan and south korea and the united states began restricting travelers from china in han authorities makeshift hospitals to treat thousands suffering from the illness the world's 2nd largest economy was at a standstill as authorities work to contain the outbreak. in february the virus was officially named curve of 1000 and europe faced its 1st major outbreak a certain cases in italy spread a lockdown in the body well it also arrived in iran on the 11th of march the world health organization declared a global pandemic we have never been before seen a pandemic spark could by virus this is the 1st fundamental caused by

a cordon of voters and we have never before seen a bunda me that can be controlled at the same time the number of corona virus infections around the world now exceeds 100000000 and more than 2000000 people have died the us brazil and india have recorded the highest number of deaths more than 50 countries are now racing to inoculate their populations several vaccines have been approved for use internationally but poor countries are struggling to secure doses meanwhile fast spreading virus mutations are raising concerns of a vaccine efficacy concerns health experts are trying to address there's a thing called a cushion effect so if you have a vaccine like the moderna and the pfizer vaccine that can suppress the virus at a delusion let's say of one to 1000 and then you influences it by bringing it down

to maybe. once of the do 800 or something like that you are still well above the line of not being affected in china months of tough measures and closed borders have seen the outbreak largely controlled but in the north authorities are now battling resurgent cases in beijing mass testing and tracing missions have been reimposed. not a lot of countries previously thought it a large numbers of infections have retreated restrictions due to increases in cases 2021 may be a new year but our has grown at the global fight to contain covered 19 is far from . katrina al-jazeera beijing. for more than 100000 people in the u.k. have now died from cove of 90 it's the highest best haul in europe u.k. prime minister boris johnson offered his condolences to everyone who'd lost loved ones but the fended his government's handling of the crisis 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 i was 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 the very very difficult crisis for our country of in your case for families left behind the emotional cost is going andrew symonds travel to bradford in the north of england where densely populated poor areas are among the worst hit. all over the u.k. the enormity of what's happening is sometimes hard to absorb and. the health

service is overloaded to near breaking point many hospitals have no more room left for the dead vast temporary mortuary is 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 was such a high loss of life this is bradford there are high levels of deprivation poor housing and ethnic minorities living close together here has struck these communities hard and this muslim cemetery is where many of the dead are buried. the grave digging is relentless and they're running out of space coated has frozen painful moments like this in the minds and hearts of too many people brothers fathers mothers daughters sons taken by the virus and the numbers increase remorselessly 100000 lives lost and how many more to come the

scale of this ongoing disaster can be measured in so many tragic ways the crowded graveyards and the challenge of trying to visualize how many lives have been lost as the counting of those who have died continues a look at the u.k.'s biggest football stadium wembley can help convert those to to sticks into some sort of scaled imagine every seat here is one last life and even with the stadium full it would fall $10000.00 short of the total just as hard to visualize is the number of those in mourning charities that arrange counseling estimate the number of bereaved at more than half a 1000000 and we're worried that that's the silent crisis going on behind closed doors marie curie and end of life charities says lockdowns mean many of the bereaved aren't getting help those people are isolated they're dealing with complex

difficult the reason and that they might not be getting the support they need surely would gallagher's father died alone she's shielding because of a health condition and couldn't go to the funeral instead she was given protective clothing and allowed just a few minutes beside her father's body the rituals we have around funerals my. new lives. are all taken from. around 100000 need to be down in bradford darkness doesn't stop the burials the global spread of cove it carries with it a 2nd pandemic mass grief andrew simmons al jazeera bradford. still ahead in this half hour rolling into the heart of the indian farmers breaking

barricades with their tractors as they fight against reforms. we've got more wet weather pushing into southeastern parts of australia over the next couple of days at the moment it's been pretty hot in new south wales the temperatures getting up into the high thirty's even the low forty's for one or 2 spots but we've had something of a southerly boston now sliding its way through and that's been producing some clouds and rain some shabby rain coming to ward sydney then as we go on 3 wednesday and yet more useful rainfall pushing across south australia seas and some of the best rains for decades recently coming through here and a little bit more wet weather coming in as we go on into weather state just sliding out that way running across the nullarbor still pretty wet across northern parts of north america doubly way to tropical lows here pushing up towards the cape york

peninsula again a chance of some wetter weather coming through here and a similar picture as we go through thursday there's that rain returning to south australia temperatures to the high twenty's for melbourne say pretty good but keep out in new zealand basin places a shabby rain but we are getting into the low to mid twenty's for the most part cheri rain sleet and snow in the process now of moving across japan clear skies will gradually come back in behind so it will cheer up for a time because more snows coming into the northeast of china sliding across the korean peninsula and that will push into north passage upin this weekend. for. the 1st time glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists in the age of donald trump we are fighting the fake it is a phony the enemy of the people through the eyes of the effect. white house correspondent what do you base your legs on the press is not after trying

this after the fact we're not the enemy of the people we are the people usa the current battleground. is it anyway on. the the in. time for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israel's top general says he's ordered his forces to step up preparations for possible offensive actions against iran warning new u.s. president joe biden that it would be wrong to return to the 2015 nuclear deal the number of recorded coronavirus cases around the world has now passed the 100000000 the pandemic emerged from the chinese city of wood and

a litter of regular go. and more than 100000 people in the u.k. have now died from covert 90 it's the highest number of deaths in any european country. $100.00 u.s. senators have been sworn in to act as jurors in the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump starting next month. solemnly swear. to all ever came home of the impeachment of donald trump from the president right now. you will do impartial justice record the constitution and the law so don't you guys need to call it. trump is accused of inciting and in so direction for his speech to supporters before they stormed the capitol building 3 weeks ago but at least 17 republicans need to vote against trump for him to be convicted how do you cast was

following events for us in washington d.c. so what is the latest all these events and what are we looking for in the next few hours. well barbara as you said the court of impeachment has officially convened with those senators taking the oath to become impartial jurors quote unquote but we had an early test vote of how their thinking goes when it comes to conviction this was a result of trans allies senator rand paul republican trying to stop this trial before it even starts really by arguing that it is unconstitutional to hold a former president through an impeachment trial will ultimately that motion was defeated and the trial will proceed as planned but this victory is hollow in a sense for democrats because there would have to be 17 republicans who are voting to convict well only 5 of them today said that this trial was constitutional the

vast majority 45 of the 50 senate republicans voting against this trial proceedings so certainly the mountain is high for the house impeachment van managers to climb if they were to convince more republican senators to convict what we'll see in the next 2 weeks are a lot of behind closed doors maneuvers the legal grease will be written and submitted than i was february 9th is when we expect to hear opening statements from both sides barbara what is your coaster with the latest from capitol hill why do you think you. tens of thousands of indian farmers broke barricades with their tractors to force their way into the center of delhi as police officers fire tear gas and water cannon to try to beat them back it's the latest confrontation in 2 months of protests against reforms which opposed the one of the biggest ever challenges to the prime minister's role at least one demonstrator died in the

clashes as katia lopez hadi and reports. was. frustrated and angry thousands of farmers occupy india's most prominent landmarks yet conic red who are walking highways and roads they say new agricultural laws being introduced by the government will devastate their livelihoods and favor large companies. what began as protests 2 months ago has turned into a movement with farmers marching into the center of india's capital. in the outskirts of new delhi police fire tear gas when a group of farmers breached security barricades with their tractors. the demonstrations coincide with india's republic day as farmers rallied nearby this. is what another side of the capital look like on tuesday morning a festive display of the country's cultural diversity and military strength it's

a bad day over. the entire country watches deleon 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 to 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 say they are an invitation for conglomerates to take over as. coachmen india it's come up to be a good job for you that we're calling for the modi government to take back these 3 laws so that the farmers get their rights back the government has passed these laws without any discussions without any thought they just imposed them. about half of the country's 1300000000 people group in agriculture the government's offer to

delay the new laws for 18 months have been rejected by farmers. they say they will continue protesting until the laws are fully repealed katia look the super young al-jazeera. riot police in tunisia have used water cannon to disperse the largest rally seen since protests began more than a week ago hundreds of protesters gathered outside parliament to voice their anger against poverty and social justice in justice they are demanding the release of other demonstrators who have been arrested over the past few days human rights organizations say more than a 1000 people have been detained including hundreds of minors italy's prime minister just epic on to has resigned but will carry on as caretaker leader as he still hopes to form a new coalition government called to formally offer his resignation to the

president said that a luck who will now speak to all the party leaders to decide whether there is a chance that they can reach an agreement italy has been in political crisis since the italian vivre party or former prime minister matteo renzi pulled out of contest ruling coalition 2 weeks ago economic conditions in syria have drastically worse and then recent months the currency is in a downward spiral sending the price of food and basic goods soaring by more than 200 percent that means increasing numbers of children are trading in school for landfills charlotte bellis reports. mona lives in a refugee camp in the syrian province of it live every day with her friends she comes to this landfill she searches for plastic she can sell for cycling probably a lot of money. 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 see jar and we have nothing but some clothes. after 10 years of civil war syria's economy is in tatters in 20 live in 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 cross over on a dry land. 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 then are desperate for work they have little buffer for an economic

downturn so there is a growing reliance on child labor that the left that leg up had been research 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 hypnotizes 3 weeks ago 3 children died after a landfill collapsed on them. we are poor and don't have anything to eat we struggle day and night working with injured hands breathing fumes from smoke in the way so it's a lot of suffering only turn for dollars which is not enough to cover the basics like medicine for us or our children. the world food program is to make small the $9000000.00 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 balance out to 0. and you can get more of everything that we've been covering on our website you can see it there you can see our top story the u.k. passing the milestone of 100000 covert deaths. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera israel stop general says he's ordered his forces to step up preparations for possible offensive actions against iran warning new u.s. president joe biden that it would be wrong to return to the 2015.