world health organization scientists complete their quarantine and who have now they want to visit sites linked with the source of the coded 19 outbreak. will be so bad to travel from $32.00 countries where there is a risk of no various. types of covert 9000 restrictions are announced in the u.k. forcing some troublous to isolate in hotels for up to 10 days.

down jordan the sound as they are alive from also coming up if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j c p o a united states would do the same thing the new us secretary of state says the door is open for an american return to the nuclear deal but only if iran makes the terms of the original agreement plus. to stop its push up and unfortunately it's a little like a ponzi scheme. a warning for investors about the sudden rise in stock sales of the gaming retail company game stop. a team of investigators sent by the world health organization is preparing to leave the hotel quarantine in the chinese city of where they have begun their inquiry into the origins of the corona virus independent scientists to interview people from research institutes hospitals on the seafood market linked to the initial

break a long awaited inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the e.u. is in she says the scientists expect this to be a long process. there certainly is a quite a lot of skepticism about how willing the government is going to be in terms of cooperation with the world health organization team it's well documented that beijing has been tightly controlling any information any dasa around the origin of the outbreak and in fact it will reportedly reluctant to provide access to the hater of this is why it's taken them up to a year to arrive here and of course many are saying that much of the key evidence around when the 1st outbreak started now must be missing in therefore it will only still i mean this investigation and it doesn't help that this mission is also highly politicized we've had the u.s. government and a number of other governments around the world pointing blame at the chinese government saying it was not transparent especially in those early days and that is what led it to becoming a global pandemic now experts we have spoken to say that this is

a key time for beijing if they are able to cooperate with the mission if they are able to clear the path for this investigation they can really prove to the international community that they're willing to be open and transparent so far we have spoken to a member of the team who is inside the hotel behind us adults who are all ages by the name of marion men's she says that the team is in good spirits she's worn against any skepticism and says she spent the last 2 weeks having daily meetings with chinese scientists and their plans for the next few weeks once they leave quarantine finalized yet but they certainly have a few theories that they were going to investigate the going to investigate the market they're going to investigate with. virus 1st came from the baton we're also going to investigate the lab which former president donald trump alleged. as much for them to tackle and her main message to the public through us was that this is going to take time so the patients fear not tipping them has recorded its

2nd highest day the number of deaths in the past 24 hours with more than $1700.00 lives lost just a day after the u.k. passed a total $100000.00 deaths the government's now defending its handling of the covered $1000.00 crisis in an effort to stem the outbreak it's announced new restrictions for some people flying in. 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 when a permit 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 clear. by then we will a much more about the effect of vaccines preventing hospitalizations and deaths

the caveat being if no new code variants emerge and the vaccine rollout continues as planned the 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 clothing taishan u.k. citizens and residents flying in from $22.00 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've 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 structure rivals 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 argue the country already has strict protocols in place while some ministers wanted to quarantine every traveler we need a much stronger defenses of our borders we were one of the slowest countries to take any measures or all those when we had a quarantine system not many people and here we are today without a comprehensive way of protecting our borders at the very least it's urgently needed. vaccines are providing hope for many but the u.k. has the highest death toll in here at the prime minister insists he has followed the science throughout the pandemic at the scientists disagree and grimly predicts

another 50000 people could die charlie angela al-jazeera. the new man in charge of america's foreign policy says one of the top priorities of the biden administration will be how to handle iran and his 1st press briefings since taking office u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken said washington wants to return to the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out on but lincoln called iran to act 1st jabatan see reports thank you the new u.s. secretary of state once again pledged to rejoin the dream sleepy or iran nuclear deal president biden has been very clear in saying that if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j.c. v.o.a. the united states would do the same thing. but there is still a great deal of ambiguity about the new administration's approach sometimes officials around biden appear to be saying the administration will rejoin the j.c. as it was with no change lifting the u.s.

is crippling economic sanctions can conquer with iran's return to compliance while leaving open the option of follow on deals to address other issues of concern that did seem to be what lincoln said on wednesday but at other times they suggest the u.s. will use its economic leverage to strike a tough a deal before it lift sanctions we are a long ways from that point iran 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 and time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations both blinken and biden have repeatedly pledged unconditional military aid to israel and that the u.s. embassy will remain in jerusalem despite the occupation and it's clear that the israeli government understands biden will be a close ally and. we are in front of the era of a new american administration that is friendly to israel and we will know how to start a correct strategic dialogue in the near future we will use all the tools available

to us politically economically intelligence and security. but some wonder if the israeli government is concerned about exactly where the bike ministrations stands they have the very real prospect the united states and iran if you mean to go at a very high level these are things that the israelis are trying to grapple with and they're doing so by in my view really trumping up a threat from iran that has not changed in the past several. iran meanwhile continues to reiterate that it will return to compliance with iran nuclear deal once the signatories decide they really are prepared to abide by the agreement if they rejoin the deal will do so as well and for an entire year we kept going forward this way but we've always said as soon as you return to the deal we'll return to full compliance the next hour in the meantime the biden ministration are sending conflicting signals even on tuesday sending a b. $52.00 bomber on a round trip from the u.s.

to the gulf in a show of force aimed at iran used by the trumpet administration several times in the dying days of its presidency she turns the al-jazeera the state department meanwhile the u.s. has temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says it's typical for new administrations to review pending arms sales donald trump's administration had been doing deals down to the wire think looting one for 50 f. 35 fighter jets on lockheed martin to the u.s. the u.s. ambassador to the u.s. says his country will work closely with the biden administration towards peace and stability in the middle east where william laurance there professor of international relations at the american university he says the sale to the u.s. should eventually go through. well there's sort of 2 stories here one is that it is entirely normal as the administration is saying to review such weapons sales when a new administration comes in with its own usual is all of these public statements

and all of this turmoil including tweets by senators you know and all and all the brouhaha around it that that's quite a typical it's very likely that these symbols will go through but it's the way in which the children ministration hastily went through a whole bunch of quid pro quos related to the abraham accords and other hasty actions at the end of the ministration created a circumstance by which he even if the democrats and the vitamins tradition agree with the arms sales there's a kind of bitter taste in their mouth about the way in which trump went about it and that's really what's under review and so what happened last year in the year before is the murder of. the war in yemen sort of into one issue at the level of the senate and there was a lot of comments by senators about you can't trust saudi arabia can't trust yemen and much as much that was as much directed at the trunk administration and their relationship with those countries as any human countries were doing and then what

happened after that is they got $55.00 votes in the senate $55.00 votes against the arm sales but they needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and that's still about the same ratio in the senate so if it came up for another congressional review the sales would go through again but the opposition to the conduct of the war and you met and world's greatest humanitarian catastrophe is something the senate's going to continue to raise the alarm bells about. time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back protesting one of europe's most conservative abortion mills crowds take to the streets in poland. and fears that ring of refugees in bangladesh will miss out on the coronavirus vaccine more on that stay with us.

hello there we've got a north south split in the weather across the middle east at the moment surface southern areas says looking lousy fodder dry quiet but the north is a fair bit of cloud rolling off the turkish mountains that a ceasar to the mediterranean bringing some shabby right into the levant syria saying a few showers some showers there into northern areas of iraq pushing across into that western side of iran as we go on through friday the rain really peps up by friday actually cyprus will say some heavy downpours south lebanon jordan pushing down across israel seeing some heavy rain into the palestinian territories into full this lot of cloud on the right which stretches across northern parts of iraq into kuwait it's essential areas of the red say north of that that's where the active weather is south of that it is generally 5 and dry $22.00 celsius here in doha with some pleasant sunshine the sunshine stretches down across the gulf of aden into the horn of africa a few showers just around the lake victoria into the rift valley and then as usual showers there across

a good part of southern africa the wettest weather will continue across southeastern side of angola coming down across the botswana into the eastern half of south africa now remnants of a real tropical sites in the shallows continue here with wet weather the zimbabwe. freezing winds and rugged terrain and at times seem impossible. but the afghan traders who braved it will concur that it's no choice. can batting the impossible to sell magnets in isolated areas so. we follow that daring chinese as they overcome the extremists. risking it all afghanistan on al-jazeera. you're.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera a team of investigators sent by the world health organization is preparing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of new hands that looking into the origins of the corona virus covered 19 was 1st detected in late 2019. 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 and to me blinken says if iran returns to full compliance somebody 2015 nuclear agreement the u.s. will come back to the deal. lincoln also announced a temporary holding arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. donald trump's administration had been doing defense deals right down to the why including one for 50 f. $35.00 fighter jets from lucky martin to the u.a.e.

. now a new law has come into force in poland that makes abortion almost illegal it comes just 3 months after the biggest protests in the country's recent history calling for the procedure to be legalized the holding of the story. during a winter night in warsaw hundreds of protesters came out to the streets to tell the government that they think its stance on abortion is wrong is that your own government should say nothing is enough we demand solidarity from you we demand solidarity. on wednesday night poland's new abortion law went into immediate effect banning terminations of pregnancies with fetal abnormalities abortions will now only be allowed in cases of rape and incest or if the mother's life is at risk. doctors performing illegal abortions will face jail time. here i want us to have our basic rights the right to decide to buy our

bodies the right to decide what we want to do and if we want to bear children and in what circumstances to have children i do not want to get pregnant one day and see my child die off to bear this thought horrifies me. the ruling led to weeks of much larger nationwide protests in october because of this the conservative law and justice party delayed its implementation of the law the abortion law is in line with other policies from the right wing party since taking office in 2015 it is also ended state funding for n.v. trophyless ation was this predominantly catholic country now has one of the most conservative laws on abortion in europe there are fewer than 2000 legal abortions every year but women's groups estimate that an additional $200000.00 women either abort illegally or abroad leah harding al-jazeera. there's been a 3rd night of violence in the lebanese city of tripoli. these pictures appear

to show security forces using live ammunition to disperse dozens of protesters there's anger over a lockdown which many say has made a bad economic situation even worse and they say they were responding to him going to threaten by demonstrators more than 80 people were injured. yes president joe biden has signed executive orders to address the climate crisis that includes cutting fossil fuel subsidies on posing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says climate change is at the center of the u.s. is 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 the sex the central threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same island official as more from washington d.c. . well climate change was always going to be close to the top of the agenda for joe biden he said throughout the election campaign and know here he is one week in the oval office outlining plans 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 i don't trump to over ton 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's. armed forces in peru are bolstering security at its borders to prevent

unlawful migrant crossings they're trying to stop the spread of coronavirus in the region as latin america struggles to vaccinate its population to raise about reports from going as ours. peruvian armed forces on their way to the border with it while it's the latest move by people's government to prevent mostly vinous women my gran's from entering the country and potentially bringing coronavirus with them is that for us is that sarah or our borders are closed to sanitary reasons and what we have to do is to make sure that any passage that takes place is lawful. but it's been a challenge to close the border completely since early january the 2 countries have to tech tid and destroyed 11 routes used to cross illegally. we are deploying our military police across the border to assist our people so that the virus is not carried the virus goes with those who migrate all illegal border crossings are to

be shut down. we do has a reason to be concerned the number of covert infections has increased dramatically in recent weeks. this is a daily seen in this and then nation which has already reached more than a 1000000 cases it is one of the worst affected countries in the region and that money even though we are going through a period of terror we are unsafe we go out in public with great insecurity we come to the hospital and there's a line we wait for hours and hours i think the government needs to take note for the health minister to come to hospitals look at the people there are children and elderly inside hospitals are struggling to cope with the increasing infections and that's why president francisco so got these week announced a told her lockdown of the capitol and 9 other regions. of over there is a medical i think we've got 2 or 3 very difficult weeks ahead because we don't have any more physical space to treat patients we don't have beds in intensive care so we won't have places for all those who are sick in the coming days it's certain that the number of deaths will go for

a lot which is difficult because we're seeing more young people dying than in the 1st wave to has lagged behind other countries in efforts to ensure vaccines for its citizens the ouster of one president and the rest ignition of another one in 2020 has had a huge impact on how this country has handled covert 19 access to the vaccine is a major challenge in latin america right now even though governments from argentina chile and others say they have secured doses of the vaccine massive vaccination maybe months away there is simply not enough vaccines in the region right now and that's a problem for governments in the region who are trying to prepare for what's coming next. argentina's president alberto fernandez says all of latin america must join forces to combat the pandemic. and i will never hear you know that we have to make latin america an integrated region because we are now seeing what the disintegration of the region means we are seeing it and what's

happening in public health in what's happening with the purchasing of vaccines where each one of us runs in a hurry to solve a problem and if we had all been united everything would have been easier. a nurse has become the 1st covert 19 vaccine recipient in bangladesh why do you not collections are set to begin the next month but concerns remain for the allocation of vaccines for running the refugees living in bangladeshi camps as kancha no strategy for the minority group has more now from dhaka. the 1st person to be vaccinated in bangladesh is a 38 year old nurse veronique acosta 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 what has been time as a vaccine diplomacy the government right now has 7000000 dosage of vaccine oxford

estrogenic made by indian pharmaceutical company institute off india $2000000.00 of those vaccines were actually donated by the indian government a government plan to start mass vaccination program next month probably in the 1st week at least $200.00 people mostly foster responder will be vaccinated in phase is not that dissimilar a lot according to critics in a country over a population of 165000000 as well as 1000000 refugees living in southeastern part of the country bangor that suffered quite a bit of economic slowdown when they went into a lockdown 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 masks and taking necessary precautions

the plane make a boeing has announced a loss of more than 8000000000 dollars in the 4th quarter of 2020 the company has suffered its worst year on record for the code 19 pandemic slash demand for planes and in the aftermath of a safety crisis there but 737 months john hendren has the latest from bunnings 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 its 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 was 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. now the videogame retailer game stop was one of 2 companies which despite losing millions of dollars of sold in value this week on the u.s. stock market as the result of a group of day trade as communicating online and banding together to force the

share price to skyrocket institutional investors happy christensen only has more from the. game stop a video game retailer was in trouble even before the coronavirus pandemic hit suffering hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and close. in 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 scale and what we're seeing here is the result of having a 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 on supply and demand and at this point anyone who's just buying up the stocks is further 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 it's pushed up and 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 up there on dollars and now it's trading at $88.00 well you just got stuck the 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. now a city in southern finland has launched the world's 1st urban ski sharing system residents of lottie are used to skiing to get around during the winter well now they can borrow a pair from one of 3 stations around the city authorities want to encourage people to reduce transport related carbon emissions lotty has already been declared this year's european green capital. of the headlines here in al-jazeera a team of investigators sent by the world health organization is preparing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of will hand looking into the origins of the corona virus code with 19 was 1st detected in who had.