and to mexico where the cartels have been responsible for a merciless spiral of violence. the final episode of drug trafficking politics. trees on just. america's top diplomat says the iran nuclear deals not dead but rejoining the day c.p.o. is still a long way off. and can be dealt this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. spill need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate change. u.s. president joe biden puts the fight against climate change at the heart of his

administration's agenda. 11 on protesters defy a strict lockdown to confront the government on economic failures and its handling of the pandemic. the stuff it's pushed up unfortunately it's a little like. a warning for investors about the sudden rise in stock sales of the gaming retail game stop. there's a new bat in charge of america's foreign policy and explained at how the new biden administration plans to rebuild the united states ties with the rest of the world secretary of state and the blanket says one of the top priorities will be a house to handle iran lake and insisted the u.s. needs cooperation if that is safe the 2050 nuclear deal if. iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j c p

a way the united states would do the same thing and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we call the longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with iran but we are a long ways from that point around it is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance in time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations so we're not we're not there yet to say the least the tensions of the 2015 nuclear deal have been building for a while there ron has dismissed comments from israel's military chief of staff who want to say he said preparations are being made for a possible offensive at some point in the coming year they said in general aviv coke avi is urging u.s. president joe biden not to rejoin the 2015 iran nuclear deal the biden says he

wants to move towards it which would result in the easing of american sanctions on . iran's presidential chief of staff isn't taking the israeli threat seriously. get out. they just talk they are leading a psychological warfare and have practically no plan no capacity and are not able to stop the 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 in defending our country. all of this says the u.s. has temporarily frozen arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. secretary of state and to me blinken says it's typical for new administrations to review pending arms sales all trumps administration and been doing deals down to the wire including one for 50 f. 355 jets from lockheed martin to the u.a.e. u.a.e. is the best into the u.s. is this country will work closely with the biden administration to add peace and

stability in the middle east. we share with townsend joins us now live from washington d.c. 1st talk about the nuclear deal the u.s. wants iran in compliance before it comes back to the j.c. p.-o. way iran wants sanctions lifted before it comes back to compliance and how tricky is this going to be for the biden administration. it's really unclear what the biden position is on the one hand lincoln always begins with a statement that the u.s. and iran will return to full compliance this will then be used as a platform to address other issues but then he always goes into a great deal of detail about how it will take such a long time to assess iran's compliance but what is the assumption there with a timetable that so that means only iran has to come into compliance and then the u.s. will decide whether it will come into compliance meaning it will lift the sanctions what is that really what was supposed to be on the table it was the u.s. that broke international laws and walked out of the iran nuclear deal unilaterally

it was the e.u. for that matter who then began breaking all the rules of the c.p.o. as well iran kept to it and then only in the last year or so then you know began enriching uranium a little further is the u.s. really saying that iran has to remove its only bargaining chip of enriching to 20 percent enriched uranium and then the u.s. will decide whether it will lift punishing economic sanctions is that realistic is that what blinken and the other biden foreign policy team members really think given this is their own baby they're the people who negotiated this in the 1st place this was the deal that they sold to the world as the best deal possible do they not believe it's possible anymore we're just really unclear we do know that the by the administration is under a lot of pressure from the gulf nations and israel and israel as a great ally has been consulted by keeps on saying we'll get unconditional aid whatever to not go back to the j.c. period as as negotiated but wouldn't that also be suggest then that it wasn't any good in the 1st place that they were right the blinken and and the new national

security adviser were wrong to agree to that my 1st question i think we're all a little bit it's still a little bit opaque even though blinken kept saying today that he was all about transparency and clarity ok what about the u.s. calling off cells to saudi and the u.a.e. is this a poor was or is this likely to be a more permanent thing. now this is another interesting another interesting issue because the announcement came of the state mccain which really did emphasize that this is just a routine review that any incoming administration would make and it doesn't suggest how long the review would take or which which way the administration is leaning on the other hand there in previous months the members of the team the biden team have expressed misgivings about the humanitarian crisis in yemen for example what does the u.a.e. use to create a humanitarian crisis in the in the amman but american woman's at the same time blinken was talking about how much he loved the abraham accords with israel the

normalization of relations between israel and the u.a.e. the quid pro quo is selling a 15 if they're 35 jets to the u.a.e. so again we're still looking for that clarity of stay well i guess all right thank you for that sample tons of it for us in washington d.c. . well u.s. president biden has signed executive orders to address the climate crisis that includes causing fossil fuel subsidies and poles and oil and gas leases on federal land biden says climate change is at the center of the united states' national security and foreign policy just like we need a unified national response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep we must lead global response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the united states alone we know what to do we just got to do it when we think of

climate change we think of it this is a case where conscience and convenience crossed paths where dealing with this extra sense of threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same. as more now from washington d.c. . well climate change was always going to be close to the top of things that he believes are essential for the united states to take among the executive orders that he signed he's cutting fuel subsidies to those in the carbon industry he's trying to overturn a decision by don't trump to overtighten a measure that barack obama introduced he knows that there is a political tightrope to walk here because he emphasizes very much so the idea that green jobs will be created but it's still not enough to convince many republicans they've been critical of what they've had from the white house on wednesday they say as far as they're concerned this is simply big government getting involved in

the lives of ordinary american people again and making sure that they could possibly lose their jobs and also challenging joe biden suggesting that he is giving up the energy independence that the united states has enjoyed over the last several years and making them dependent on foreign sources because they won't be able to produce enough energy that a growing economy is making as for joe biden he believes that this is important and incidentally i spoke to john kerry who is the new climate czar essentially he is going to organize the global climate conference for april he's going to get many countries involved it's a sign that the united states again wants to take the lead on the climate question after what many here in the white house say was 4 years of neglect by donald trump . hundreds of protesters have clashed with security forces in lebanon as anger rises over haas coronaviruses directions the devastating an economy already on the edge of collapse police in the northern city of tripoli used tear gas and water

cannon to beat back protesters who are demanding that the government do more santa ana reports from tripoli. growing poverty is pushing lebanese people back onto the streets protesters say they are hungry unable to cope with a coronavirus lockdown now in its 3rd week they want economic support this is how the authorities responded. that they. are the politicians are focusing on distributing the spoils is that of focusing on us we are witnessing a collapse of all sectors security politics and health all irresponsible they're leaving us to die lebanon's economic collapse began more than a year ago there have been social unrest and political turmoil since official say 500000 families or 2500000 people are in need of assistance that's nearly half the population compliance with a 24 hour curfew that exempts essential workers is

a week in lebanon 2nd largest city tripoli it was already poor before the pandemic . these people are obliged to work even though it puts their health at risk other governments are enforcing lockdowns but they give people aid. there is no social safety net for the poor no government assistance the state is nearly bankrupt one 3rd of the workforce is jobless and around half of the workforce depends on daily wages like. he has for children no shop and on a good day he makes $20000.00 lebanese pounds which is less than $3.00 at the black market rate. let me know if. you. i can't even describe it i'm barely able to feed my family when others county when. they're good enough for . charity association say more and more people are relying on handouts among

them to middle class the cost of daily life is becoming too high especially since the local currencies value collapse on a daily basis we have people who would like to register because of course we register them according to nationality and location so i must say that the numbers are increasing on a daily basis the open ended political crisis is not helping politicians are arguing about cabinet seats instead of agreeing to fight corruption allowing lebanon to receive much needed international financial assistance the lockdown isn't place until february 8th and it can be extended officials are promising to help the most fun and are asking people to be patient but for many that's not an option then a for their own tripoli northern lebanon still ahead on al-jazeera says refugees in bangladesh will miss elssler mccrone of our sexing. another extension to lockdown

and further drastic measures imposed in the u.k. to try and bring coronavirus under control. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point cut some ways we've got to return to snow across to pad over the next couple days not to bad at the moment rain now in the process of pulling out of the way bright skies as we go on through thursday because that's not rolling across the korean peninsula both eastern parts of china eastern areas of russia and that will tumble its way towards that western side of honshu some very heavy snowfall avalanche rist certainly a possibility just destabilizing things as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours or so some very heavy snow to into hokkaido colder air comes back in behind crisp sunshine is solid around minus 4 celsius we get just above freezing there in

beijing around 2 degrees cold enough down towards the south much of china should be largely dry hong kong around 18 degrees celsius in the sunshine in the sunshine stretches down across much of indochina want to choose showers there into vietnam want to showers too into the philippines but not too heavy not too wise but the heat of the day shallow as per usual here show is 2 across a good part of malaysia heaviest showers a lot it's a b. across indonesia as a go through the next couple days and that is logical for the flooding here as we go on through the next day or 2 the show is showing up with a wet weather that we have for southern parts of the bengal india studies logic dry but showers that was formica. at ways. as a celebration of tradition life. and love. al-jazeera

bloodstains way insights into the diverse culture of somalia the bonus to different couples. embodying on land life together to weddings the money style announces there. have been. watching al-jazeera amar and their other of our top stories this hour the new u.s. secretary of state has laid out how joe biden's administration plans to rebuild ties with the rest of the world anthony blinken says iran returns to full compliance under the 2050 nuclear agreement the u.s. will also come back to the deal. joe biden has signed executive orders to address the climate crisis it includes causing fossil fuel subsidies and oil and gas leases

on federal lands biden says climate change is at the center of u.s. national security and foreign policy. hundreds of protesters have tussled security forces in the lebanese city of tripoli and get has been rising of a harsh coronavirus restrictions that are devastating an economy already on the edge of collapse. but here ok retailer game stop is one of 2 companies which despite losing millions of dollars have soared in value this week on the u.s. stock market it's a result of a group of day trade is communicating online banding together to force the share price to skyrocket and institutional investors aren't happy kristen salumi reports from new york. game stop a video game retailer was in trouble even before the coronavirus pandemic hit suffering hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and closing hundreds of brick and mortar stores as gamers increasingly made their purchases online but none of

that has stopped its stock from skyrocketing in value spurred on by individual investors posting on the reddit page wall street bets started by jamie rosen ski and what we're seeing here is the result of having massive influx of retail traders who don't care about fundamentals never really have cared about fundamentals they cared about the short term moves so in theory in the short term anything is possible i mean the price is set based. supply is just buying up the stocks for the putting pressure to raise the price institutional investors had bet against game stop shorting the stock to make a profit but read it investors rallied against them buying the stock on mass this increased the price and created a so-called short squeeze where hedge funds were forced by the rising stocks to avoid massive losses further pushing up game stop shares after losing hundreds of millions of dollars institutional investors like andrew left of citron research

have admitted defeat and walked away analysts warn this is a dangerous game the stock is pushed up what usually it's a little like a ponzi scheme because if you're a last person old in those years under $60.00 a share you got a dollars and now it's trading at $88.00 well you just got stuck a last part of the train you lost a lot of money game stop express and standard statement but many day traders appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. is with bison interests he joins us live from houston texas via skype thank you for your time mr young i just want to quickly

make this very clear for people who may not understand so this is a bunch of people banding together online to purposefully push up the price of a stock in reaction to another group of people the wall street institutional investors who usually do the same thing but have been doing but doing it to push down the price of the stock is that right. yeah it kind of so i think i think i would frame it differently game stop had been actually i guess manipulated down there had been a set of investment funds that kind of go from one company to another and aggressively short their stock you know put out kind of negative things about them encourage negative news stories and so game stop shares probably bertucci on one hand there are not doing very well as a retailer james on the other hand they have a promising new board member who is the co-founder of chewy and to have some interesting online initiatives and so on one hand you know things aren't great for

them but on the other hand maybe their stock should have been at 20 instead of 5 and so the risk is if you bet too much against something sorry and and if you short more than 100 percent of the shares outstanding some of this can happen where instead of it going up to 20 which should maybe was like the fair value of the stock and end up at 200 or 3 up that raises a kind of moral question doesn't it say 20 said i don't want to put the c.s. is it ever got to admit it's really something to see wall street says with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of post as also a trading the market as a casino does she have a point do you think. i almost never agree with c. . but yeah i think i think to some extent it is kind of ironic to see people who make careers out of manipulating share prices and aggressively betting against certain companies or in favor of other companies getting upset when other people

kind of do the same thing so it is very risky to do a trade and it's very risky to buy a stock that's up as much as game stop is over the last week but it is kind of ironic to hear the same people that are doing this sort of thing professionally get upset when other people that just click a should find that to regulate his base stepping in here i mean what could they even do. you know i actually think that they should not i think there are situations where they should step down i mean it's ironic because the biggest funder got affected was started by a guy who has at s.c.c. capital in the founder of s.c.c. capital was known for doing stuff like this and now just bought the mets so you know the regulators i think missed the boat on that a number of years ago but for this i think it's something where thankfully we have a free market and i think it kind of takes care of itself the stock went up in a parabolic move probably comes down in a similar sort of parabolic move maybe down to a higher low but no i think regulators might actually make this worse and start it

. all right thank you so much airtime there with vice and interests thank you. boeing has announced a loss of more than $8000000000.00 in the 4th quarter of 2020 the company itself at its worst to get on record of the pandemics last a month the planes and in the aftermath of a safety crisis of its 737 max at craft john hendren has an assist from the company's headquarters in chicago. the good news for chicago based aircraft manufacturer boeing is that 2020 is over the company posted a loss of $11900000000.00 for the year that is its worst ever by far c.e.o. dave calhoun says i'm sure glad 2020 is in the rearview mirror that happened largely due to twin crises there was a global pandemic that dramatically slowed air travel around the world and also the company's continued problems with it 737 max aircraft that was grounded for 2 years

after crashes the killed 346 people the company made significant changes to that plane and it was recertified to fly in the u.s. in november and on wednesday it was announced that it would also recertified to fly in europe their continued concerns deliveries of that plane have been slowed because airlines have had slow business and also there's a concern of whether people want to get back on that plane so many airlines have decided if people realize they're on a 737 max and don't want to be they can cancel and rebook the company did relatively poorly compared to its rival airbus industry of europe airbus delivered 255 planes in the 4th quarter compared to 59 for boeing 2021 is looking up but only relatively speaking compared to 2020 he continued presence of the pandemic and slow delivery of vaccines means 2021 could look historically slow as well. they don't have kingdom has recorded its 2nd highest

a number of deaths in the past 24 hours with more than 1700 lives lost in an effort to stem the outbreak it's announced new restrictions to some people flying in and has will. more than 100000 dead livelihoods lost in a generation put at risk with no clear end in sight and a prime minister unable to announce a way out of the national knock down any given date of when a plan might emerge we remain in a perilous situation with more than 37000 patients now in hospital with almost double the peak of the 1st wave but the overall picture should be clearer by mid february by then we will know much more about the effect of vaccines in preventing hospitalizations and deaths the caveat being if no new code variants emerge and the vaccine rollout continues as planned then look down is particularly

tough on children school closures have led to mental health plummeting and inequality soaring the government says classrooms may reopen on march 8th but it will take years for students to catch up on lost education meanwhile new quarantine rules for some arrivals into the u.k. to try and protect the country from unknown kovac mutations u.k. citizens and residents flying in from 22 countries will be forced to isolate hotels for 10 days at their own expense the high risk countries include south africa and brazil like a variant already circulating 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 such a ride those who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided

accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception. the airline industry says with no exit plan these measures will effectively close the u.k.'s borders and the country already has strict protocols in place or some ministers are to quarantine every traveler we need a stronger defenses are told us we were one of the slowest countries to take any measures or do so when we had a quarantine system not many people and here we are today without a comprehensive way protecting our borders at the very least this urgently needed. that seems a providing hope for many but the u.k. has the highest death toll in here at the prime minister insists he is following the science throughout the country to make the scientists disagree and grimmy predicts another 50000 people could die. al-jazeera.

has become the 1st covered 90 vaccine recipient to bangladesh wide in occupations are set to begin their next month but concerns remain for the allocation of vaccines for him to refugees living in bangladeshi camps is currently no strategy for the minority group have a child 3 has more on the vaccine effort from. the 1st person to be vaccinated in bangladesh is a 38 year old nurse veronica costa now 12 other people in this hospital general hospital has been vaccinated all of them are emergency 1st responder there's a plan to vaccinate at least 5 to 600 more people across the capital city today now what is being time as a vaccine diplomacy the government right now has 7000000 doses of vaccine oxford estrogenic made by indian pharmaceutical company institute off india 2000000 of those vaccines were actually donated by the indian government the government planned to start mass vaccination program next month probably in the 1st

week at least 1200 people mostly foster responded will. vaccinated in the face is not that dissimilar a lot according to predicts in a country over a population of 165000000 as well as a 1000000 refugees living in parts of the country my mother suffered quite a bit of economic slowdown when they went into a log down last year but the government took a strategic decision to open up the country there's a sense of normalcy in the country most of the businesses shops and government offices are open other than the school everything is open people are walking all about but they're cautious they're wearing modest and taking their society precautions. the u.n. and oxford university have conducted the largest ever survey on climate change they found 64 percent of people recognize it's a global emergency they polled 1200000 people from 50 countries on their attitudes

toward climate change and how bad like their governments to respond all of those polled the most concerned were in the u.k. and italy but in general trends showed the highest the level of someone's education the more worried they are in every country more young people than all people believe is a comment about agency more than half of respondents won't lead governments to conserve forests and land invest in renewable energy promote climate friendly farming methods and create green jobs the renowned primate research private research rather jane goodall has told al jazeera the key to addressing environmental crises is by 1st policy she says consumers need to be in the position to make ethical choices every day in order to save the planet. every single day really we make some impact on the planet and we have a choice as to what kind of impact we make where do we lie where does it come from if it harm the environment was it cruel to animals is it cheap because of child

slave labor make the ethical choice when millions and billions of people make a cultural he says but that'll never happen in big enough numbers until we leave poverty because when you're really poor you just do what you have to do to lead cut down the trees because you're desperate to get land to grow more food to feed your family buy the cheapest junk food you can't ask who knows and pickle questions because you've got to stay on. this is there and there is the top stories the new u.s. secretary of state has a doubt how joe biden's administration plans to rebuild ties with the rest of the world at the brink and says if iran returns to full compliance under the 2015 you play agreement u.s. will.