up to date with what's happening on the ground in the mood and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. it is illegal. to leave her to travel abroad from there was the british prime minister and his tough restrictions on travel out of and into the u.k. to try to stop the influx of new strains of the coronavirus the e.u. is angry with astra zeneca over a shortfall in the vaccine supply but the company says it didn't guarantee full deliveries.

well again i'm peter w. watching all to 0 live from the also coming up israel warns of a possible offensive against iran creating a challenge for the new u.s. president joe biden tehran downplays the threat of psychological warfare. security remains tight in the indian capital a day off for a major protest against new farming laws as the government figures out its next move. and we'll tell you how horses are a source of wealth herdsman ignore them care to stop. ok we kick off in the u.k. where in the last 30 minutes or so the prime minister boris johnson has just announced tough new restrictions on people leaving and entering the u.k. because of new variants of coronavirus he has been under growing pressure as the number of infections and deaths of brought the country to a virtual crisis point chalons is our correspondent following rory spending the day

at london's gatwick airport just all on the surface of it what's your reading of what mr johnson's just announced. what i think the prime minister one still has to come across as tough restrictions but they're not tough enough for many essentially what he has done and this is going to be announced in detail by pretty early and in a very short space of time she's the home secretary is say that. people coming from certain countries which are already on the list of nations essentially people coming from which you can get into the k. now returning people who are british citizens or british residents are allowed back into the country saying essentially that those people will have to quarantine in hotels near to the airports or needs of their points of entry but this doesn't go

as far as many people have been asking for in france that the that they are. opposition part main opposition party labor said this is a half baked policy scientists have been saying you can't selectively choose which countries you're allowed to come in from and be put into these hotels on which you can just walk in and out into the streets and and back to your home because the new strains new variants whatever they are circulating out in countries around the world we don't know where they are yet and so this is a bit of a sort of a sieve like policy but we can hear now from boris johnson how he put it when he was talking to the to the commons just a. a few minutes ago i want to make clear that under the state home regulations it is illegal to leave home to travel abroad for measure purposes and we will inforce this at ports and airports by asking people why

they're leaving and instructing them to return home if they do not have a valid reason to travel we have also banned all travel from $22.00 countries where there is a risk of known variants including south africa portugal and south american nations and in order to reduce the risk posed by u.k. nationals and residents returning home from these countries i can announce that we will require all such arrivals who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception. i guess who are the key words there in the sun by no variance or more to the point on known variance because mr johnson might say look i've got to deal with what we know so far and the idea of the variance and how quickly they spread and how infectious they can be 70 percent more infectious than your box standard code at 19 coronavirus that's a worry for all governments all over the world. yeah

and one of the things the that has been talked about quite a lot in the u.k. is the. british science community is is advanced and it was able to pick up on the variants the new strain of corona virus that was circulating in the south of the country quite quickly in the south of england but other countries don't necessarily have the resources the scientific resources the united kingdom does and might miss new strains of the virus that circulating in their countries and therefore you have this issue ation and we've been told about this by scientists for weeks now where we are going to have to be on the lookout for these new variants and these new strains and you don't know where they're coming from necessarily and this is why as i say in my 1st answer to your question

why some scientists is saying that having a selective approach to quarantine restrictions on people coming from some countries having to quarantine people coming from other countries having more lenient koren seen restrictions placed on them or that doesn't account for the fact that you don't know where the next variance of coronavirus is going to come from and we have seen the cost of this in the u.k. the u.k. has pushed through 100000 deaths boris johnson made a mournful statements to the nation yesterday he said that he couldn't. done anything more to to prevent these but he is regretful sorrowful for every one of those deaths well what people are saying the opposition are saying him being a half baked about it in choosing to apply research into some people or not to others coming back of the country well perhaps you could be doing more rory thanks

very much challenge the gatwick airport. the e.u. has asked the drug maker astra zeneca to publish the contract it signed with the block on covert 19 vaccine supply as the pharmaceutical company c.e.o. says a deal for 400000000 vaccine doses was quote not a contractual commitment. announced a cart and supplies to the e.u. in the 1st quarter of this year drawing widespread condemnation vaccine rollouts in the e.u. have been slow compared to some other regions and countries jeff lazarus is the head of health systems at the barcelona institute for global health and was the senior technical officer at the world health organization in europe he says astra zeneca should work with other companies to produce the vaccine. the european medical agency reports that they're working around the clock that they're reviewing all of the materials are so many of us are surprised that it's taking so long but they're doing the due diligence a they report that they need to do so it's a challenging situation now yes it's an effect seen would be approved quicker but

the regulatory agency says they need more time imagine you're doing a phase 3 trial with us at astra zeneca you get approval quicker than you've ever gotten approval or a medication or vaccine before and you already have a demand for hundreds of millions of those so they've had to carry out a production enterprise that they've never done before what they probably need to do and i think pfizer's discussing this with sanofi is look to other companies to its production and that's where the e.u. needs to step in and do everything they can to help astra zeneca and other companies produce the vaccine as quickly as possible and that would be really the only way i think they make up for the shortfall that we're expecting now we understand there was a good contract in place and the e.u. feel so strongly about it that they're willing to make it public and the last i've heard is that astra zeneca won't make that public i think astra zeneca you know is facing the real challenge of production something we saw also earlier and and amec

with masks that this infected gel with respirators and now it's vaccines but now you know going a year into the pandemic the populations the economy they can't take it anymore so we need to vaccines it as quickly as possible and the e.u. is standing up and saying we want you to meet we set out in the contract and we've been willing to make that contract public to show that we we did what we needed to do from ourselves. a 38 year old nurse has become the 1st person to get the curve at 19 banks seen in bangladesh the campaign began in the capital dhaka with mass inoculation expected to begin next month bangladesh has reported more than half a 1000000 infections since the pandemic began officials in beijing have begun a 2nd round of mass testing there as new cases of the u.k. virus variants continue to emerge for locally transmitted infections of the more contagious strain reported on weapons day millions of people have been affected by

a partial lockdown imposed in the city a week ago residents can leave beijing with special permission and a negative test. israel's military chief says preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iran lieutenant general of vive coffee is also urging the us president joe biden against rejoining the 2015 iranian nuclear deal saying it threatens israel the new u.s. administration is drafting its approach on dealing with tehran harry force it has more now from west jerusalem. congratulations mr president. you did so to joe biden was sworn in as u.s. president last week israel's prime minister released a congratulatory video. referencing a warm personal friendship and also his government's immediate priority for the new administration and to confront common challenges chief among them the threat posed by iran on tuesday israel's top general turned up the volume saying he was

preparing new attack plans targeting iran. i have instructed the i.d.f. to prepare several operational plans in addition to existing works which we would develop throughout the coming year the power to initiate lies with the political echelon however they are friends of options lead to be prepared ready and able. the general will the new u.s. administration that returning to the iran nuclear deal from which donald trump withdrew in 2018 would be a mistake that would allow iran to develop a nuclear weapon cause less chemical in even if there's a similar agreement with a few improvements it is operationally and strategically wrong it's operationally wrong because it will again allow edits in or even before in iran to enrich uranium to develop centrifuges to develop even the capabilities of the weapons until developing a bomb the message was delivered on the same day that joe biden's pick for

secretary of state was confirmed by the us senate have to resist weak anti blinken signal that the u.s. was not preparing to rush back into the deal and would consult with israel and other regional allies on its policy for its part iran says time is short for the us to revive the deal known as the joint comprehensive plan of action or j c p a way. any progress in this regard is totally dependent on the practical steps of the tech to meet its obligations under the reason lucian 2231 actually i may because time is limited and the window of opportunity for the u. s. and the european members of the g c p a remains open for a limited period. iran is still reeling from a series of blows inflicted during the last year of the trumpet ministration including the us assassination of its most revered military figure kassem still a money and the killing of its chief nuclear scientist most in fact residing which tehran attributes to israel and israel

a shift away from trump's hard line on iran is a major foreign policy challenge provoking a debate about whether the government should confront the biden ministration publicly or lobby behind the scenes in this instance the public confrontation has come from the head of its army air force it al-jazeera west jerusalem. iran's presidential chief of staff israel's comments amount to psychological warfare we've had them but it can get out on you has they just stuck they are leading a psychological warfare and have practically no plan no capacity and are not able to start a war our armed forces are trying to defend iran the different maneuvers that we have done are signs that we do not intend to attack nor go to war but that we are serious and defending our country live now to washington and my colleague. benjamin netanyahu saying iran is a shared problem but he seems to have made it more into a problem for mr biden because of the the jay c.p.o.

way. there's no question that the united states finds itself in a difficult position it has to do with the fact that the previous administration the trumpet ministration pulling out of the j c p o a and so sort of snapping back to the status quo pre donald trump is not going to be possible nor is it going to be easy at least in the short term and there are a couple of reasons why not only is there the heavy sanctions that have been put on iran but also the concern from the united states standpoint from a security standpoint is the fact that in the interim it's the belief of the united states that are iran has continued to amass enrich uranium for the potential of building a nuclear weapon so the official reaction to these latest developments coming from the biden administration is that it wants to engage closely with partners and allies in clearing israel in terms of a way forward but what we see is kind of

a standoff going on right now because iran is insisting look we're not going to come back to the table and talk about anything until these sanctions are lifted and there's no question that they have inflicted serious pain particularly economically on iran but the united states from its standpoint is saying kind of the opposite look it we need to have assurances from you that you're going to be compliant with this agreement before we have those discussions as you can see the problem here so this is why the united states is now looking to its partners and allies trying to engage but it finds itself in a very difficult situation at the moment is it doubly complex can be as well because we don't know how the other signatories to the g. c.p.u. a people who've stayed friendly with iran during the trumpet ministration would react if the by ministration confirms look we want to cherry pick bits of the

original agreement and renegotiate it because we know the starting point for that for the iranians in effect would be look came over. this is the problem i mean there was it was no secret that there was enormous unhappiness from european allies in particular with the decision by the trumpet ministration to pull out of the c.p.o. way the feeling was look at it's not perfect but it's better than nothing let's build on this now the problem is that things have gone back even further and so where do you go from here and that is the delicate situation that the united states finds itself in the overall concern too from the body ministration is that the trumpet ministration did not achieve its stated goals in other words it said it was pulling out of the oil because it wanted to address iran's alleged malign activity in the broader region they say that did not get accomplished so they feel that things are even further back than before and so that is what is now carefully being

navigated as this new secretary of state anthony blinken takes the helm of the state department and tries to move this forward the only clear message we're getting right now is that they want to work with their partners and allies but how is still very unclear ok you can believe many things can really help you there in washington. still ahead here on al-jazeera the russian parliament agrees to extend a nuclear arms treaty with the united states plus. i'm not in the french alps where work in the resort. has the not been. a snow cloud sagaing once again for japan because troy weather at the moment writes

take the snow pulling out of the way here so not see bad as we go on through thursday but you can see where the next area of when she weather will tumble and that's going to slide this way out of that all thiessen corner of china are rolling across the sea of japan and pushing towards the honshu very heavy snow most see effect snow coming in here dumping huge amounts as we go on through friday that will cause some disruption and i'll call it i was icing a fair bit of snow as well not seep out in tokyo sheltered by the mountains of course for the southeast that coming in behind it is quite down a crisp minus 4 celsius in the sunshine there for seoul on friday cool enough in hong kong at temperatures at around 18 degrees celsius and cooling off across northern parts of india towards pakistan as well more mist and folk problems coming in here 18 in the hole 21 there in new delhi little bit of building cloud just around the eastern side of india chance of one of 2 showers into addition for a time but by far the wettest weather will be into more heavy downpours coming in

here as we go on through friday that rain really setting in possibly some localized flooding with a chance of showers there for time will not do. much more than. 100 temperatures. 'd in the long run out of iraq to get. where they are now nasa has the land. and community. in the canal and. the.

mercury watching al-jazeera mining's peter davi these are your headlines the u.k. has announced new restrictions on travel out of and into britain is trying to stop the influx of new strains of coronavirus people entering from high risk countries will have to quarantine for 10 days. the new has asked astra zeneca to publish the contract it signed with the e.u. on co with 19 vaccine supplies but the company's c.e.o. says a deal for 400000000 vaccine doses was quote not a contractual commitment. israel senior military commander says he's ordered his forces to speed up preparations for possible military action against iran is also urging the u.s. president joe biden against rejoining the iran nuclear deal. russia's lower house has ratified an extension to the nuclear arms control pact with the u.s.

it's the last remaining arms control agreement between the 2 countries after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during his term now president biden has proposed a 5 year extension the deal was supposed to expire in about a week alexander golts ra is in moscow with more reaction. this has been done basically in the last minute to extend the last standing nuclear arms control deal between these 2 countries now russia is saying it is done on our terms which in essence is the true sense of what they insisted on at the that since the countries could not agree during the presidency on the 3 d. at least of the existing one is prolonged and without additional conditions and that is exactly what is happening now and they are showing also been relation to the us russia relations some optimism some hope but they're very very very cautious

what they are saying or the deputy minister of foreign affairs said is that they see biden as more inclined to have a responsible and comprehensive negotiation on this issue then the associates of trump showed. the indian government has tightened security in new delhi all from the unprecedented day of protests by tens of thousands of farmers the police in delhi say more than 200 people have been detained in connection with the violence on tuesday and they're warning more arrests could follow catching lopez 40 young reports. the large protest is over but the tension lingers in the indian capital farmers who rallied against the government's new agricultural loss are gone removed from new delhi's famous landmarks the red fort instead of demonstrators and now there are additional soldiers guarding the city on the border but the protesters are nearby planning their next move there back in the outskirts of the capital

where many have camped for the last 2 months a day after the violence their demands still stand the farmers want the government to repeal 3 laws that they say will eliminate subsidies and ruin their livelihoods it's hard to build a successful year the protest was a success there were a few incidents of violence reported but the rest was peaceful the government will have to listen to us we willingly came to protest it's the right of every citizen the 10s of thousands of farmers broke to police barricades and marched to the center of the capital on tuesday as a country marked republic day the now damaged property scattered throughout is a reminder of how quickly things can get out of control police say more than 300 officers were injured almost come home. with it we were deployed to the red fort when people started breaking through we tried to remove them but they became aggressive we didn't want to use force against farmers so we exercised as much

restraint as possible the farmers say the government of prime minister narendra modi is highlighting incidents of violence to undermine their movement. you'll be him said we don't support the incidents of violence happened in red fort we condemned them it's not our object. and it should not have happened it impairs the movement and we regret that. with negotiations at a standstill security is on high alert. farmers say they plan to march to india's parliament building next week when the government is scheduled to present its annual budget cuts this is the young al-jazeera. spain's government says it's opening up new camps on the canary islands for undocumented migrants in preparation for a significant influx of new arrivals the government there is refusing to transfer the migrants to mainland spain to prevent more people reaching europe critics argue this move will not be good for the migrants or for the local population. now in

france national lockdown looms the government has conceded ski resorts will probably remain closed for the rest of the season the french winter sports industry employs 400000 people and brings in $12000000000.00 but the pandemic has devastated the sector attash about the reports now from the french alpine resort of flame. spectacular views and abundant powdery snow in the french alpine resort of flying but few visitors or skiers to enjoy either the french government's decision to keep lifts closed across the country until at least the end of february because of cove it has dealt a crushing blow to the winter tourist industry and its workers frederick gasnier has relied on the ski season inflamed for work for nearly 2 decades this year he was supposed to operate a lift instead he's an employed. we just don't understand at all resorts have put in place special sanitary measures against coded so that people

can come but we're told we have to stay shut financially it's catastrophic for all the workers the government says that opening lifts would encourage crowds at a time when cases of the more contagious covert strains are rising but without lifts skiing is out of the question for most only the very determined to hike up for a downhill run. the alpine ski industry is the backbone of our winter economy it's hard for us to survive without the lifts and the economy link to them of course we have other sports like cross-country skiing and sledging but 90 percent of our february income is from skiing without it will make half that this would normally be paid 3 days in the air inflame the resort would be packed with tourists many from abroad and the slopes would be busy with skiers and snowboarders instead it feels eerily empty on the main square restaurants and balls a shot to under covert restrictions this hotel is one of the only ones open. but

the manager wonders for how long is the government is considering a 3rd full look down on the. we just need answers precise deadline so we can organize because we have 30 seasonal workers here and we want to know if we'll have enough work for them until the end of the season we're not complaining about the government's decision but we need to be able to plan months of uncertainty little business and a looming lockdown people here say resorts like flynn will need government aid to survive without it tens of thousands of workers will be left out in the cold natasha buchla al-jazeera fillin horse is a way of life in the mountainous regions of central asia they've been fought over by clans and armies for centuries because of their strength and stamina especially during the harsh winter months but as charles stratford reports from kyrgyzstan the status and the use of horses is changing.

at the foot of the chant shan mountains curators farmers guide their horses towards fields where the snow is less deep so they can graze horses from this region were fought over and prized by nomad clans invading armies and russian settlers for centuries to farmers like buckets chalky of they were a source of wealth cultural identity and national pride. movies together a movie called the horse is the killer gives man's right hand with a regional enormous we discovered no less israeli forces like the ones who drink their milk and it's the i meat horses mean so much for our culture. each of these animals is worth around $2000.00 protecting them from mountain predators can be a challenge especially this time of year. awards. this winter has been very bad for attacks by wolves 4 horses in the village have been killed so far. for the farmer the hardy indigenous breeds of horses remain fundamental to their working

lives but they also breed them with animals from europe and one of the reasons is a desire for victory you know nationals or. the game of look towards teach demands a horse not only be strong why does wrestle over a goat congress have to drop the animal into a school zone to win points. can and so there's a cool over who's been competing for 4 years he's a horse called nick meaning colonel in english he's a killer european mixed breed a bit of them but he wouldn't let you wean them to be idle and fast there's a lot of horses with physical ability but they get scared they also can be too tall because we need to bend them down the good carcass. russian settlers were the 1st to mix curtis with european breeds when they came to this region in the mid 19th century there is now increasing interest among stump farmer almost like bechtel shut the gulf to breed pure european horsey specifically for racing he breeds

imported into shanah ml's which cost me around $50000.00 to transport from the u.k. . moving to them the more we feed the difficulties of raising pure foreign breeds is you need better quality pasture and vitamins they're not used to harsh winters it's much more challenging and expensive. horses are a way of life in this mountainous region of central asia. for bucket and his fellow herders they mean more than the money and prestigious chance struck for i'll just hear a northern killer storm. recapping your top stories here on al jazeera the u.k. has announced in the last hour or so new restrictions on travel into and out of the country is trying to stop the influx of new strains of coronavirus i want to make clear that under the state home regulations it is illegal.