the latest news as it breaks the explosion near an aids you transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles details coverage many have told us that they have. the state they are. the security situation in of the country from around the world to times where it is dependent on the success of its that seems to conclude it's a national image which is something since the beginning of the outbreak. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the given this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes new york's attorney general will review reveals that the state may

have undercounted kovan 19 deaths of nursing homes by as much as 50 percent. more protests and violence in the lebanon as people demonstrate against covert 19 measures the dire account of the. russian opposition leader alexina bounty to stay in jail until his next hearing which could send him to prison for several years. was a beast. but activists call on u.s. president joe biden to do more to change america's immigration policies. i'm gemini actually it's sports and the lympics not in doubt that's according to organizers intake a say not a positive raise objections to high stakes games in july. we begin in the united states which has confirmed its 1st 2 cases of the highly

infectious south african variant of the corona virus they've been reported in south carolina vaccines appear to be less effective against the transmission of the strain officials believe that it's already spreading in the community that's bad news for what's already the worst hit country in the world but the new york state attorney general says that the picture there may be even worse than we currently know a new report accuses the state of severely undercounting virus deaths of nursing homes which could be around 50 percent higher than already. porsches and in europe there are continued setbacks with the oxford astra zeneca vaccine germany looks likely to recommend the job only for people under the age of 65 saying there's no doubt data on its effectiveness officials in the u.k. disagree with that assessment arguing that the results are reassuring for all age groups we have 2 correspondents covering the story in a moment we'll go live to dominic kane who's in berlin but 1st let's get more from kristen salumi in new york tell us more about what the new york state

a journey attorney general has been saying. well it appears that deaths from coded in nursing home or elderly care facilities here in new york state have been greatly undercounted she estimates by as much as 50 percent that was based on a sample of some 62 facilities out of 600 in the state and that puts the. total of fatalities right now are listed as $8700.00 that would push that total beyond $13000.00 deaths in the state and this is partly explained by the health department of the state not including deaths from nursing home residents who were transferred to the hospital when they got very very ill those were not being counted as they had been in other states and journalists had been

asking for those numbers that was a very controversial subject in a sore spot with governor cuomo here in new york he had been criticized as well for requiring nursing home facilities to take so-called medically stable coded patients basically they were not allowed to turn away residents with coded whether or not they were able to deal with them in one of the issues is that a lot of these homes report that they didn't have the proper testing capability they didn't have p.p.d. that was needed to protect the residents so the report found that the lack of infection controls that nursing homes did put residents at risk it found that homes with less staffing had a higher fatality rate staffing a chronic issue for many of these facilities in the state all of this sure

to provoke more criticism of the governor for his response regarding nursing homes a governor who other. size has been quite popular in the state whose daily briefings related to the coronavirus earned him an emmy award and a regular following among new yorkers who are looking for the latest information on the state but this has been one. point of contention if you will and the governor has yet to respond to the report and kristen the south african variant of the virus has been discovered in the country for the 1st time that it is circulating in the community tell us more about. yeah 2 cases of a south african variant have been discovered in the state of south carolina and what's interesting is neither of the people who have it had traveled so this is confirming fears that this variant as well as others is already in the community and spreading in the country like the brazilian and the british variants which have

also been discovered here the concern is not necessarily that this variant is more deadly but that it spreads more quickly and just by virtue of spreading more quickly there will be more infections and that will in turn lead to more hospitalizations and likely more deaths. there is also some concern about the effectiveness of vaccines it's believed that the vaccines will still be helpful even against these variants but many pharmaceutical countries companies we know are now starting to look for work on new vaccines that are specifically tailored to these variants which are likely to become even more prevalent here in the united states. al jazeera kristen salumi reporting live. from new york many thanks indeed krista let's go live then to berlin which is a restaurant it kane is there 1st tell us the latest in the spat between the e.u.

and the drug maker astra zeneca. one of the interesting things that has come to define the way this whole story has developed over the last few days is the differing version of events that comes with it so we've had a situation where here in germany the scientific commission which advises the government the federal health ministry about the sorts of vaccines that can be authorized and in what way well it's reported that it's indicated to the health ministry perhaps that only those under the age of $65.00 should be given the astrovan zeneca vaccine if and when it is approved at a european level because it says that the amount of data for those over $65.00 is just insufficient to be able to say that it can be authorised the health minister here has not confirmed that that is definitely going to happen and said well let's wait to see how the european union institutions approve astra zeneca for use in the

entire continent and inside the e.u. that is that is due to come on friday separately to that we have heard from the british government the prime minister boris johnson and the other relevant regulator in public health england the regulatory body in in england has said that although to accepts that there is not a great deal of data for that relevant age group it says that it's very reassured by the findings that it has made remembering of course that the astra zeneca vaccine has already been approved for use in the united kingdom for some time so you have that on the one hand and then you have the fact that the 2 parties to the contract that is astra zeneca and the european union hostility in taining a different version of events to each other they said that spain. thing that was held earlier in the week where was was a positive productive meeting between the 2 sides and yet still there doesn't appear to be right now a definite arts or as to how many doses will be supplied by astra zeneca to the

european union remembering that the european union paid upfront more than $400000000.00 for a potential $400000000.00 doses of the vaccine and that they'd been expecting a large fraction of those doses to be provided in the 1st quarter of this calendar year. al jazeera started it came by for us in berlin many thanks indeed it's a team from the world health organization has started its investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic they've ended that 2 week hotel coroutine in china and will be interviewing people from research institutes hospitals at the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak katrina year reports now from. after 2 weeks of being confined to the hotel rooms members of the world health organization research team beginning their investigation on their mission to find out as much as possible about how the current virus outbreak began. leaving quarantine. spoke to al jazeera about the immense job ahead.

try and get as good as. finding starting year in. primary on additional studies. trying to you know aggregate everything there is to learn from this initial phase of the mic but more than one year after the beginning of the outbreak experts say the team spines will be limited and discovering the pandemics exact origin will be difficult. for and. i think realistically what we're looking at. is a narrowing. of. options

include exploring the theory the virus was 1st transmitted from a wild animal such as a bat and that it 1st circulated in. a research is also planning a visit here institute a. chinese scientists have. former president. the chinese government has dismissed the claim and has raised questions about the what conducted a u.s. military lab fort detrick in maryland which was shut down in july 21000 information about the early days of the carver 1000 has been tightly controlled but insists it's been transparent. and without him in the past we have no intention to misguide public judgement or the work on the. positive about their investigation and has this message for the public. and this will take

a long time. and. because that's how science works it really will take a long time don't expect us to step out and say ok so now we can tell you exactly what happened because that will not be the case. and china has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent the virus from spreading the team members say their goal is not to point blame but to find evidence to help fight a pandemic between e.u. 100. 11 protests escalating of a lockdown measures and government corruption security forces fired tear gas and water cannon again hundreds of protesters who gathered in tripoli last night one person was killed 200 people were injured thousands joined the funeral procession for the victims chanted slogans against the ruling class many say they'll continue to demonstrate until. a met. meanwhile lebanon's central bank governor and several other c.b.s.

been charged with negligence of misuse of power. is in tripoli in northern lebanon she's with us now lives in a what's the situation that now. well as you can see excessive amounts of tear gas are being fired by security forces in order to disperse the crowds hundreds of young men have been trying to storm the government buildings actually they have been doing this over the past 4 nights these confrontations usually last for hours yesterday there was a serious escalation you didn't mention that a protester was killed he died from gunshot wounds he was soft in his back according to doctors so yesterday the security forces used live ammunition they didn't comment about the killing or the death of the protester but they did issue a statement using the protestors abusing of britney and that is that they said in that statement that they will use all that to them at. their disposal to protect

property but we've been asking people here they're saying what they've been using is molotov us the molotov sound from the hurling stones it's very hard for us to independently confirm what is happening but we have spoken to the human rights watch amnesty international and they too are trying to trying to determine. if it's. sorry sorry it seems that. they have to move back a bit of that. so as you can see the situation here. adrian this has been going on for 4 days now and people are not fazed by the fact that 5 ammunition. and it's not clear how this is going to be contained. there's a lot of anger. a law. out of the young men who have lost their jobs who don't have . and who work in informal labor so when you look around the country and there are

the coronavirus restrictions they don't work they don't make an income and they copied their kids so this is why they are here in the states. not just to lift the coronavirus restrictions but to tell their leaders the politicians who are governing this country that enough is enough they need to take action and improve their economic situation and give them a better life. or i'd say we'll leave it there for the moment many thanks indeed it is reporting live from tripoli. well lebanon has faced a number of challenges over the past year it's been hit by an economic collapse the 19 pandemic and a deadly explosion that shook the port of beirut in orcus last year economists say that things are likely to get much worse before they get better lebanon's government and the world bank estimate the hoff

a 1000000 families that's nearly 2 and a half 1000000 people are in need of assistance with one 3rd of the total workforce currently unemployed more than half of the population is living under the poverty line that's on less than $14.00 a day according to the u.n. the lebanese currency which remains pegged to the dollar has lost at least 80 percent of its value since 2019 the government is seeking tens of billions of dollars in aid from donor nations and the international monetary fund but that's been dependent upon whether it implements several reforms patrick madine is president of the lebanese institute for market studies he joins us now live via skype from beirut good to have you with us patrick as we reported a few minutes ago lebanon's long term central bank governor and several other senior figures have been charged with negligence and misuse of power given all that we've just said is that significant. oh big time because today with the lost of confidence in the monetary or photo at the end of the

political class in general people systematically lost their confidence in their liberty span and and this loss in confidence have translated into a massive devaluation of the pound as you just mentioned that when his plan went from $1500.00 lebanese bond to the $1.00 to $9000.00 lebanese ponder the meaning that it had been this person who used to make the equivalent of $1000.00 per month now what for the same depends upon denominated salary he is making only $160.00 or he lost 84 percent of his income although he still getting the same amount in of unsponsored right so people because of this increase in bali are people people systematically went below poverty line and they were ok they were making money and now with the same amount of money they cannot buy anything and that's the real reason why people are today in poverty in lebanon now you add to that the economic recession of course and it counts for like 20 to 25 percent of of the loss in

income but the median the reason behind the loss in income is actually the devaluation of the lib and spawn bribe and that's that's the real problem today and it seems that politicians are totally disconnected from that they are fighting over who would control this ministry or who would hold that office and even when they suggest free form it seems that they don't see that the pound is getting worse right is losing in value there are centered on other things like electricity which are important to be dealt with but to do the proper authorities to stop that evaluation of the currency and people are frustrated because they are getting poorer and poorer and they don't see any reaction there on the or if you say patrick people are getting poorer and poorer economists say that things are likely to get much worse before they get they get better how can they get any worse than

they are at the moment. oh they can get they can get much worst indeed and we are not sure if that they would get better after a certain or item of time because simply today although lebanon is facing a massive crisis and massive meltdown we are we are faced by a total immobility of the people in power in charge right no single reform has been implemented since the beginning of the crisis which is more than a year ago we have done nothing the government continued to spend a lot of money and this money they don't have enough income to to finance those spending so they are simply printing money to finance those spending about the libyan government and the lebanese authorities have been monitored like using their debt they have deficit and this is the reason behind the meltdown of the purchasing power of the lebanese population and this is the reason behind poverty and as long

as government continues to spend it lentulus the the central bank continues to foreigners those spending where you don't have any bottom right at the dollar can go up to a 2 to astronomical levels as long as you don't do that correctly for to basically stop this this this wave of this behavior patrick really good to talk to many thanks to patrick martini the president of the lebanese institute for market studies. this is the news on for months 0 still to come on the program aid agencies to monitor urgent access to ethiopia's northern region as reports emerge millions of people in dire need of humanitarian aid. and president biden said ministration signals a more assertive approach to the conflict in libya pulling on turkish and russian forces to leave immediately tony then in sports ronaldo romantic holiday under investigation for possibly breaking its allee's ban on travel.

the man in charge of america's foreign policy says that one of the top priorities of the new biden administration will be house to handle iran in his 1st press briefing since taking office u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken said that washington wants to return to the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump withdrew from but blinken cold on iran to act fast 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 and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we called a 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 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 so we're not we're not there yet to say the least. well iran's foreign minister jobs aretha's responded in a tweet saying the u.s. violated the iran deal and caused harm to its population through reimposed sanctions serif says that at abiding by the deal and that sort remedial measures he goes on to say that the country will never forget what he called trump's maximum failure towards iran. with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke earlier and said that he hopes the american administration won't return to the nuclear agreement with iran because it would be a grave mistake let's go live now to west jerusalem are a force that is there for us how to tell us more about what the prime minister had to say. yes this was during

a visit to the country. part of the. facility here in the creative arts crisis but this was some 20 minute. press conference live streamed on his facebook and as part of the questions he was asked what obviously the one about iran now this doesn't come as a huge surprise everyone knows what benjamin netanyahu stance is on the iran nuclear deal he loved being very hot and very successfully to get the americans on the trunk to pull out of it what is interesting is the timing at a time of course just a week into the by the ministration when there are reports that netanyahu has preferred course of action to try to persuade the new u.s. administration to take a line close to his own that he wants to do that in a relatively quiet way not have a major confrontation well this is him speaking publicly it's coming from the horse's mouth on record when he says going back to the deal would be a grave mistake and it comes just

a couple of days after his most senior military officer of the country's most senior military officer made far more stark comments during a security speech saying that any not just a return to the existing deal but even an improved deal would be bad and wrong and talk about the fact that he is awarded the military superpower new attack plans this year against iran in case they should be necessary to stop it from getting a nuclear weapon carrier u.s.s. temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates prime minister netanyahu has been speaking about that to what he said. that's right and this is the aspect of what was said that's actually getting more play here in israel because of the concerns about the longevity and the notes these new normalization deals with arab states what will be influence of a nearby administration be and so we got the news late on wednesday that the by the

ministration had caused the sale of military hardware including the study 5 fighter jets to the u.a.e. and this was under review. netanyahu made it very clear that as far as he was concerned the deals being made that there was no going back from them and that they would still be expanded upon i mean i don't think so i think we have passed the point of no return and i think everyone understands now off to mohamed bin zire as the king of bahrain took this historic step so did the king of morocco and so did the leaders of sudan now it is already in a different stage everyone understands they are huge advantages here it's peace in exchange for peace peace in exchange for prosperity peace in exchange for progress peace in exchange for technology peace in exchange for a future i do not see this happening and i think we need to move forward. and just

to recap why this is significant is because the sale of these jets was seen by many analysts as very much part of the pressure by the united states will be the way that they encouraged the states to move towards israel in this way some analysts are also talking about whether the new biden ministration might be able to use the prospects of you gentlemen as a show deepening the existing ones as a way to try to influence the israeli government to awards further concessions or some concessions at least towards the palestinians at least this side to some extent this does show that there is some influence available to the united states by the fact that they have paused the. al-jazeera sorry force at reporting live from west risler very many thanks pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of the man convicted that acquitted of the murder of the wall street journal

reporter daniel pearl in 2002 british born ahmed omar saeed shaykh has been found guilty of abducting the journalist and was sentenced to death of his ear as i said baik reports. after 18 years in prison i am an almost side shakes acquittal has been confirmed pakistan's supreme court rejected an appeal by daniel pearl's family and the provincial government one of the country's high courts had to quit it last year but had remained in prison while the appeals were lodged and heard before the supreme court however after years of denial has admitted in a handwritten letter to the court of playing a minor role in the killing of the american journalist in pakistan although it's not clear what that involvement was 1st here chaired contrary to his position for the last 15 years he'd make it there he had to. rule he says here the minor role in the induction and murder of daniel pearl parent or because of his minor role

he had asked their to certain speed reduced and more importantly he also said their team knew. their to the real killers of daniel pearl world he named someone daniel pearl was abducted and beheaded in 2002 he was the south asia bureau chief for the wall street journal a graphic video of his beheading was sent to the u.s. consulate in karachi a month after his abduction pearl had been investigating links between the british man richard reid the shoe bomber and al qaida in pakistan at the time box stands president pervez musharraf had sided with the u.s. against the taliban in afghanistan a move that was widely unpopular in the country. scheck's argument to the court was the death sentence handed down did not warrant his minor role in the kidnapping one appeal was fly the cortez mean police to accept their appeal and give him a clean and complete acquittal in 2011

a pearl project investigation at georgetown university said the reporter had been murdered by khalid shaikh mohammed being held at the u.s. military prison at guantanamo bay something officials also said khalid sheikh mohammed the man accused of masterminding the september 11th attacks had admitted to while in custody daniel pearl's family called thursday's decision to release him at home or side share a travesty of justice and a danger to journalists everywhere and the people of pakistan i said break. we're going to weather update next here on the news then warnings of white supremacist percent supremacist attacks u.s. security officials issue a new alert about the threat of so-called domestic terrorism. and a viral photo of the u.s. senator bernie sanders hopes to grab big bucks for charity. in sport pakistan take control of the 1st cricket test against south africa jenna here with news about

that a little later. how the weather set fire across southern parts of the arabian peninsula push from an all things you know all the parts of the middle east we've got some pretty unsettled weather coming in sliding across cyprus and eastern side of the mediterranean turning decidedly unsettled deficit area lebanon jordan right down into israel and the palestinian territories that cloud on the right will make its way across northern parts of iraq into western areas of iran continues just not a little further east which is we go wanted to sas a dry weather comes back in behind for too long i will see more wet weather and some more windy weather as you make the way to the 2nd half of the weekend that we go further south is fine and dry and warming up nicely here in doha temperatures

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color again this is the new sound from al-jazeera a very unforgiving with you here in the headlines the united states has confirmed its 1st 2 cases of the highly infectious south african variant of the coronavirus neither of the cases of travel had to travel history suggesting community transmission. security forces in lebanon of fired tear gas and was a can of the protesters in tripoli that angry at lockdown measures government corruption at a failing economy. but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that it would be a grave mistake for the u.s. to rejoin the 2050 nuclear deal with iran president joe biden's upon astray she is reviewing policy in the region. 3 months since a conflict in ethiopia's to grey region triggered a cross border humanitarian crisis aid groups continue to call for assistance the international red cross is urging more funding to reach vulnerable people aid

groups lost access to the t. grey region in november after federal troops launched an offensive against rebel regional forces thousands of thought to have died with nearly 50000 refugees fleeing to neighboring sudan last week the un reported a high number of rapes and teague rape soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities the un also estimates that the only $2300000.00 people or nearly half of teague race population is at risk of starvation and in need of emergency food aid. david shinn is a former u.s. ambassador to the theo pia and is currently a professor of international relations at george washington university it joins us now live via skype from washington good to have you with us you were among a group of 4 former u.s. ambassador to ethiopia who roots to prime minister ahmed voicing your concern over the conflict in the to greater region what did you say to him you know several

concerns the 1st is the need for immediate one to carry out access why all of the international and domestic aid organizations so that they can deal with me in monetary and crisis that is taking place on paper a region today we also expressed concern about what we believe to be to continuing existence so there are military forces entity grey region we don't think that contributes to it he's also mental of all this this because now we were concerned about the whole you know hate speech which is not really an issue for the government of ethiopia and so russian of the manatee india as far as maybe some elements in any the south that are sort of spreading the. claim of this and i'm also the among different ethnic groups in ethiopia now and we hope that

there can be some sort of national political dialogue to deal not only with the issue and keep your eye but wider ethnic issues in ethiopia and did you get a response to that last. you know there was who was an open letter all wrong and they one of the local papers and we have not had a response so far and while not sure that there will be a response all aware it 'd is not to an open letter or i was there has been a no respect for my ethiopian officials to stop their act or nation as to what is going on and keep very well there are songs all surgeons that he will or that the government will own up to grade the international humanitarian organizations all that remains to be seen we hope that's true really gets too many thanks indeed for being with us david chin the u.s. on bass the former u.s.

ambassador to ethiopia a russian course has rejected opposition leader alexina boney's appeal to be released from jail on wednesday police raided his offices and the homes of his relatives and associates the valley was arrested last week when he returned from germany where he'd been treated after being poisoned he's accused of violating previous parole restrictions al-jazeera so he had a go reports. the latest arrests connected to russian opposition the death i'll explain. this time targeting those closest to him. police raided the apartment of his brother and detained his wife yulia at the a promise they rented not even allowing access to her lawyer. movie just to see what not to drink of the we think that a series of raids on members of the n.t. corruption foundation were launched on tuesday it's a clear and prejudiced violation of the right of defense as a lawyer i consider that yulia has rights have been violated.

in the i like greeted the police with music as they came to her door to arrest. when alex in the only appeared in court through video conference from prison he told the judge he had been denied access to his own lawyer. i understand my rights i want to draw the attention of the court to the front but since i've been to tell you and i've not had a single opportunity to meet with my lawyers in private not a single one night at the police station nor at the detention center i since saturday when tens of thousands of people protested across russia in anti kremlin demonstrations more than 3000 people have been arrested. because. you have only who president vladimir putin betty was to blame it's becoming a concern for the russian leader especially since worsening living standards in

russia are doing little to come public anger this is an all out front against alex and of all the him and his supporters and and also people who came out in the streets to protest not just his detention but also to air just their their general grievances with again about about corruption the like they have there they have they really they have spared no effort to undermine and to undermine the law in washington president joe biden's new secretary of state made clear how the administration sees russia's treatment of the opposition leader we have a deep concern for mr involve the safety and and security and the larger point is that. his voice is the voice of many many many russians and it should be heard not i as russian authorities continue to take tough the measures against the opposition it is unlikely that will deter and of all these

supporters for the kremlin is detractors any time soon so no diagonal al-jazeera. a more assertive approach to libya is a merging from the dubai ministration at a un security council meeting the us deputy ambassador called for the immediate withdrawal of turkish and russian forces diplomatic as a james bays reports now from the u.n. 1st let me tell you where we are in libya it's almost 10 years since the start of the uprising it's one year since that big international conference in berkeley in to try and get the into national community on the same page now that didn't work initially but there is some some good news from the outgoing u.n. acting special envoy stephanie williams she says there is a region of a nation in libya following the ceasefire deal that was brokered on october the 23rd she says that ceasefire is holding that's the good news but she also says there is blatant foreign interference continuing in libya and that line was picked

up by the u.s. this is the 1st meeting on libya since the biden ministration has been in office the deputy ambassador a career state department official richard mills in the chair giving an indication of the new biden policy and it was a strong statement calling out individual countries we call all external parties to include russia turkey and the us. to respect libyan sovereignty and immediately cease all military intervention in libya per the october cease fire agreement we call on turkey and russia to immediately initiate. there was draw of their forces from the country and the removal of the foreign mercenaries and military proxies that they have recruited financed deployed and supported in libya and in the last few moments we've had a right to reply from the russian representative of that security council meeting saying there are no russian military personnel in libya of course we know that

there are operatives from the wagon a group and mercenary group which obviously is based in russia. u.s. president joe biden has been in office for a week now activists say that that's long enough to pressure him to deliver change immigration was an important battleground between republicans and democrats and since biden's victory that have been calls for quick reforms zeros and there are child reports after 8 days into office and another challenge for president joe biden. left over from the trump era immigration reform pardon removed the ban on travelers from several muslim majority countries on his 1st day in office immigration rights activists want him to do more quickly. than is the floor. and if justice is going to be possible for all of us. they want to the u.s.

as children to remain and be given permission to work something that was allowed under president obama this also calls for why the immigration reform. for my family and i'd like it's crazy to drive me crazy. and they're not going to help me if i'm to be bald. president by then and i. believe now it could be. any more far away from washington that the u.s. mexican border former president donald trump's policies are still in place. those seeking asylum under trump were detained in the u.s. and sent back across the border to wait for the outcome in mexico a process that can take months even years we hope those who have been put in remain

in mexico will be able to make their asylum cases from the safety of the united states and outside of detention but again we haven't seen our direction from abiding restrictions. exactly what's going to happen so there's a lot of uncertainty on the part of those in the remaining mexico program. and around $65000.00 people were tense to mexico during the trumpet ministration biden's white house says the program will stop but there's no clarity on what will happen to those still in detention. don't send me back i ask you please to look at me i am guatemalan and you will see that things are tough over there there is no work there's crime i can't take it anymore that's why i have come here i have a family here and that's why we are looking to cross i came by bus he took a month to come here by bus. just a little more than a week off to coming into office president biden faces many expectations from

americans and those who wish to become one in the navy. america childfree which is there. as that report and this president biden is about to sign an executive order that aims to give more people access to health insurance let's have a brief listening to what he's saying before we move on says little who are expensive and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those 2 items for the care or medicaid is 2nd to. second order signing also changes what the president has done present the 1st reform president that is done in a memorandum reversed the model for this is attack a moving. vehicle excess and as you continue to cover 90. critical words or we. can so i

threw 100 about do we and again i'm not initiate any new law the aspect of the law this is going back to what the situation was prior to the present secular war. right so that's president biden about to once again sign but one but 2 executive orders let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how could tell us more about these executive orders kimberly. yeah so this is the latest in the string of executive orders that joe biden has been putting in place since taking the oval office and you heard from his lips himself there just a moment ago what he's been doing and why he's been doing this if he's trying to undo the policies of the last 4 years and restore the obama administration's agenda which he of course was a part of as vice president the latest aspect of that is in the area of health care and this one is particularly timely given cope with 19 in the fact that we now have

more than 430000 americans dead as a result of covert 19 many americans have lost their health insurance because they lost their job due to the pandemic and the system of health insurance in the united states is largely still employer based you get your health care coverage through your employer so that's why this expansion that is is coming with this sign of this executive order of what many in the united states and around the world call obamacare is so critical it's going to allow millions more of americans for the next 3 months to sign up for that program and i also heard him talking about women's health that's kind of code for abortion services in the united states and what essentially that is is something that we've seen the pendulum swing back and forth between republican administrations and democratic ministrations for almost as as long as i've been alive started back with ronald reagan and essentially what it

is is that conservative administrations come in and they cut funding for international aid groups that supports abortion counseling and other access to abortion and then you have a democratic administration come in and they restore it so that's what you're seeing joe biden do right there the bottom line in all of this is i think we're now up to about 42 executive orders and that's getting a lot of criticism for joe biden namely because you're supposed to do legislation. through congress and when you control both houses as he does with his democratic party a few eyebrows being raised about why he's doing so many executive orders just to give you some perspective donald trump did about 5 in his 1st week in office and brock obama did about the same and george w. bush did 0 so this is quite substantial he's done dozens but he defends it he says the reason is that he wants to undo donald trump's agenda and the actions that he put in place over the last 4 years so this is something quite deliberate that's being done on a serious katrina helka kimberly how could have sort of carefully kimberly how

could reporting live for them. it's been a long week the u.s. is facing weeks of domestic threats from people angry at donald trump's election defeat that's the findings of an investigation ordered by president biden last week the puppet of homeland security says there's no specific or credible threat at this time but washington still on high alert off the hundreds of trump supporters raided the capitol building earlier this month last year the department identified $199.00 white supremacist groups it warned that individuals from these groups are responsible for violent crimes and racist attacks while dozens of white supremacists who appear on a government watch list were allowed to travel and attend the trump rallies and at least 5000 national guard troops staying in washington for the next few weeks for trump's 2nd impeachment trial matthew schmidt is an associate professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven he says that authorities now realize that these radical groups must be dealt with like any other

threat to the nation. they pose the greatest threat to united states right now since 911 domestic terrorism in united states has caused you know more deaths or injuries than any other form of terrorism the f.b.i. for a number of years now has listed white supremacist groups or anti-government groups of a sort as the number one threat that they're facing i think it's going to take a long period of time it takes effort from private industry to suppress non-factual speech on social media platforms like facebook and twitter which we're finally starting to see it takes work by schools and by churches here in the u.s. a lot of the right wing extremism is tied into a very into christianity what i would call christian is a. which and in this way it's not unlike the kind of extremism you see that comes out of you know perversions of religion in other parts of the world in the middle

east which the u.s. is more more likely to sort of understand they need to reflect back on their own version of it and and it will take a long long time it reflects in the end i think the difference between a portion of the population that is trying to hold onto a vision of what they think america was like in the past and their tension with where america is going in the future that it will be less whites you know less male and less christian. still to come on the new south. wales but i don't think it will take some of the australian open tennis players and started to be released from that 14 day long down gemma here with that in the sport thanks tony.

and again time for sports is gemma. thank you a.j. and take care and then pick organizers say that main quatenus have raised no doubts or objections about hosting the games in july that includes the international olympic committee and the sporting federations involved in the games the i.o.c. yesterday insisted that hosting the games would not be irresponsible and that it's a question of how not if that will take place expect to release a playbook seen to explain how they plan to get thousands of athletes to compete safely issues she was for show up after talking with everyone and asking them about their thoughts the i.o.c. president thomas back told us that no one from anywhere raise questions or objections and everyone wants to make you take your game to success. athletes are

largely supportive of the olympics going ahead even if it's without fans sport climbing is set to make its debut at the games and 6 time our champion young are gone bright as one of the is hoping to shine and take you. there will be another lot of people in the olympic village and like right after you finish different missions you go home so i think there's a lot there's nothing to worry a ball because i know that everything will be planned and it will be safe we've kind of gotten. to the side a little bit where it's you carry you carry you can't push the most prolific boarding of being in all of mankind through the start you know i guess ultimately i have to trust my own instincts as well and i won't know how i feel until i'm in that position and know the current state of the world and everything that's going

on time so yeah i'm hoping that everything will be in place you know the kind of feel safe and be right that's something that we've got to be ready for. so if the australian i can tennis players can find it to their dreams that for 14 days i've started to be released thank you we'll all come home here ok. the 1st group are allowed out earlier today but somewhat have to wait longer until as late as sunday afternoon before they get out a total of 960 players a coaches and stuff of being in full lockdown because a positive 1000 cases on their flights era say 5.8 positive cases linked to the tournament which starts on february 8th. christiane i went out i was under investigation by a tally and police for going on a ski trip which might have broken coded 19 rules eventis forward took his girlfriend to the resort of call while for her birthday which is 150 kilometers

from turin where they live the pair went on the 2 day trip despite non-essential travel between regions being banned a video appeared on social media of the 2 riding on a snowmobile but it's since been taken down pakistan on top of the 1st cricket test against south africa in khorat she scored a 70 runs in less than an hour on the 3rd morning pakistan finished a $378.00 all out for an overall 8 of 158 aged markram it managed 74 for south africa before falling its name on ali and there were 2 more quick wickets as the tourists ended the day 100 $87.00 for 4 that's a lead of just $29.00 as a south african at the top of the leaderboard at the gulf's dubai desert classic richard studies produced an impressive opening round which saw him make 9 birdies this tee shot at the 15th set up one of the stanley is 8 on the pod overall that's a one shot clear of the field 2017 moss' champion and sergio garcia is also in the

hunt the spaniard who won this tournament 4 years ago is just 2 shots back. friends say yannick best event has been declared the winner of the vaughan the globe around the world race he was actually not the 1st to cross the finish line but he was awarded a time by innes for his role in rescuing a fellow a competitor he sank and taking that into account he completed the race faster than anybody else singlehandedly sailing around the world in 80 days of 13 hours 59 minutes and 46 seconds it was on. that he said it's wid you come from total so the cheated the celebrations these laws people here despite the complicated situation with 19 it's a joy and it's not sunk in yet it's all the child's dream come true it's just time to say some impressive pictures from scotland this is scottish mountain bike macaskill is used to travelling around the world to get his adrenaline fix but

travel restrictions his place is challenge a little bit close it's a high this is him riding down the deuce slabs on the on of sky which a 610 metres high school students have been feet over 500000000 times on the cheap judging by these pictures perhaps not surprising that is what you'll sport for now i'll be back with more later gemma many thanks indeed that's it from b c's. february on al-jazeera on our street it accents to iran's nuclear program is about to end will u.s.

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