an antecedent. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow. the. a new hope in the fight against variants of covert 19 the latest trials of a new vaccine show it's nearly 90 percent effective. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. you ask the hope you and she says she can't do anything because she's dealing with another patient who is dying right in front of you hospitals are swamped in brazil with

a number of covered patients rising sharply as the back of the nation program gets off to a slow start also. we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again in a new report says the number of deaths an elderly care homes may have been grossly underestimated in new york. and there's outrage in the u.s. as the acquittal of a man convicted in the murder of american journalist daniel pearl is upheld. we begin with a global effort to contain the corona virus pandemic there's a positive development on vaccines a new job developed by novak's has proved to be 89 percent effective in late stage trials in the u.k. but in germany health officials have warned that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be used on people under 65 years old saying there isn't enough data on older people and the european commission's demand that belgian north orat is inspect an

astra zeneca plant in the country after it said the delivery of millions of doses would be delayed and the highly infectious south african variant of the corona virus has now reached the united states 2 infections were confirmed in the state of south carolina well brazil has vaccinated more than a 1000000 people but that's less than half of one percent of the population and cities like my mouse the gateway to the amazon rainforest still face a shortage of oxygen in hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout want to tell you knock it has more. my new back to vaccines has arrived in my mouse and inoculations have resumed after being suspended for a week the vaccination program team under scrutiny after local off already is work you have favoring themselves and friends by skipping the line and taking shots ahead of health workers and the elderly to field hospitals have been set up in my

mouse where patients must wait for room in shock or are they to me were swapped field hospital should help us redistribute patients. but this the largest city in the brazilian amazon still uses a shortage of oxygen and health workers have been working around the clock to keep patients from suffocating to death like many anything he does and didn't make it well you ask a nurse to hope for you and she says she can't do anything because she's dealing with another patient who's dying right in front of you there aren't enough health care workers to deal with this we wouldn't be in this situation if the amazon a state had invested in health care where did all the money go the health minister . visited mahnaz this week for the 2nd time he's also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. so we to begin increasing the number of the actions in early january tripling the number of infected people this was

a completely unknown situation to everyone. and then there is a new variant of the corona virus discovered in my mouth and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to some paulo brazil is richest city as a result countries like the united states portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. bring tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended us result as the largest covert $900.00 death toll after the united states but according to a study by australia's lowy institute comparing how $98.00 countries have dealt with the pandemic brazil is considered the worst it's at the bottom of the list right after mexico colombia iran and the us china it was not included due to a lack of data. brazil's president j.

wilson now who has always downplayed the virus and even pasture in the value of vaccines he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid lock down your government well it's got think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation lockdown and confinement leads to destitution i've always said that the economy walks hand in hand with like. some new and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in rio de janeiro where the number of infections is also growing the beaches are crowded and social distancing seems to be a thing of the past. mine pinaki have all just sirrah the addition or. coronavirus deaths in one of america's worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated that's according to a new report an investigation by new york's attorney general has found deaths in care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported christensen

explains. great care the elderly especially those in long term care homes have been among the most vulnerable to co the 19 a new report finds the number of nursing home deaths in new york may be much higher than the 8700 state officials have recorded by as much as 50 percent we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers the state's attorney general faulted the department of health for not including in their tally nursing home residents who died after being moved to hospitals or in the case of 88 year old norman are being taken home to our liking officials one agency. stake people who really put people 1st and suffered the most.

maddest only 2nd here related to the impact of covert 19 on nursing homes the report has reignited a controversy that prompted hearings over an order from governor andrew cuomo requiring nursing homes to accept patients who'd been discharged from hospitals even if they might have the coronavirus nursing homes there are a top priority they have been from day one a move the governor defended as necessary to keep hospital beds free but later rescinded saying it wasn't needed the report acknowledges the policy may have contributed to more deaths but also cites a lack of infection controls in nursing homes as well as low staffing levels and under reporting which some say are the bigger issues the report is obviously devastating and heartbreaking but unfortunately it also speaks of the light on what we've known for throughout the pandemic and what we were really trying to call

attention to at the very beginning is that poor staffing the poor infection show protocols the governor has yet to respond to the findings but his health commissioner argues the state has been transparent while the total number of a tallit is is on change the higher death count in nursing homes undermines claims by the governor that new york has been better than other states when it comes to protecting the elderly christian salumi al-jazeera new york protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises of a lockdown measures and government corruption security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of unrest. well thousands join the funeral procession of front man who was shot dead by security forces in those protests they chanted slogans against lebanon's ruling class and vowed to continue to demonstrate until their demands for reform and that. on lebanon central

bank governor on several other senior figures have been charged with negligence and misuse of power of the banks boss came under scrutiny often lebanon's financial system collapsed in 2019 senate us sent us this update from tripoli. another night of protests another night of violence in lebanon 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days 2 protesters killed the situation on the ground is escalating there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus lockdown they said that the government is not through writing the poor and the undervote with the financial assistance in order to cope with the loss but now that that lockdown exacerbated the economic crisis and the so shaky economy was already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed

those who. work in the informal sector which means they live day by day if they don't work today they can't feed their kids and this city has long been impoverished before the friend that nick was 1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets and they're saying that they're no they say they want a new leadership in fact. in fact there has been a popular uprising in lebanon for more than a year now people have been holding protests in other cities as well on and off but they've largely fizzled out because 1st of all the response of the state of militarized state arrests the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protests movements so and of course we also have. the corona virus is spreading among the community it's not clear whether or not the situation can be contained in the days ahead but this is a country for over a year now there has been

a social unrest political turmoil and as the our economy collapse more and more people are are drowning in poverty the u.n. says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce unemployed so difficult a tense situation in this city. the u.s. says it's still committed to a negotiated settlement with the taliban in afghanistan the biden the ministration i said it in review its predecessor as landmark deal signed with a group pentagon spokesman john kirby says there must be a rational end to the war in the country we are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement the taliban have not met their commitments. as you know there is a looming deadline of early may that that is before everybody in terms of you know wanting to have. the suit the solution here but without them meeting their

commitments to renounce terrorism and to. stop the violent attacks on the afghan national security forces and you know by dint of that the afghan people it's very hard to see. a specific way forward for the negotiators only but we're still committed to that. lots more still to come here now jazeera including. that another man it is considered a very good fortune for the chinese during the noon here but i'm going to report about these cherries is turning out to be really very bad lot here in chile. i'm white hey in new zealand one of the few countries in the world where people can gather in big numbers and enjoy life music we take a look at the global music industry and how the coronavirus pandemic is changing it's.

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on a. book about her could come out about top stories here at this hour the u.s. drug company novak says its coronavirus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective gena trial in the united kingdom company is now expected to apply for a regulator reviewed any trials also suggest the vaccine is effective against the new variant of code 19 1st found in the u.k. . brazil's president general sonora has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity for spurs indians are angry at the government's slow fax he wrote them. on protests in lebanon not been growing as i'm going outside of the

lock down on government corruption security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannons at protest as in the city of tripoli. now the white house has expressed outrage after pakistan's top court ordered the release of the man previously convicted of killing american journalist daniel pearl u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says his country is ready to prosecute. instead he was convicted of abducting and murdering pearl in 2002 but was acquitted last year as a big reports. after 18 years in prison i met almost side chicks 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 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 to say contrary to his position for the last 15 years he admitted there to. the rule he says here the minor role in the induction and murder of daniel pearl handled because of his minor role he had to there to sentence be deduced and more importantly he also said their team knew. there to the real killers of daniel pearl the 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 shaikh 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 them or side shift a travesty of justice and a danger to journalists everywhere and the people of pakistan i said break. so let's bring in elizabeth threlkeld she's a senior fellow and deputy director of the south asia program at the stimson center

and joins us via skype from washington d.c. elizabeth good to have you with us so the white house has expressed outrage by this decision to acquit these men does this mean there's likely to be a rocky start to u.s. pakistan relations under the new biden administration. i think that's safe to say it's really hard to imagine a worse start for us pakistan relations under the bike and a demonstration this then this and quite all i don't want to send him an element here you know this decision trees defendants including marsh exist who admitted involvement in the bernal in the murder of daniel pearl but politically you know it really takes what had been an opportunity to build on more positive u.s. pakistan relations and have kind of a reset of the relationship and takes it back into longstanding concerns the u.s. is about pakistan's policy when it comes to terrorism and also it's likely to inflame pakistani concerns about perceived u.s.

not only pakistan's internal affairs and that's an important point to make elizabeth because u.s. pakistan relations had been quite positive recently with cooperation on the afghan peace process and so i mean what does this mean for the security paradigm going forward. right well it's been interesting there has been cooperation between the u.s. and pakistan particularly with regards to afghanistan and pushing parties to the table in doha in the afghan peace process that comes from mutual shared interests it is in the interest of the us and in pakistan's interest to find a negotiated solution in afghanistan simultaneously know pakistan has been eager to shift the bilateral u.s. from lesions to more of an economic frame to look for trade investment and move away from the security paradigm that has dominated the relationship for the last 2 decades i would say with this decision we've seen today that will be increasingly

hard to do in the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says the u.s. is now ready to prosecute shaikh but i mean how difficult is that going to be if he is now legally a free man in pakistan. right well i think looking at that statement from secretary going again there were a few things that jumped out at me so 1st he didn't recognize the fact that the defendants are still having bars despite the fact that this entire court back in april had actually issued this ruling calling for them to be released they were kept under under lock and key under an emergency order based on a perceived threat to public safety we'll see what happens now with this court has weighed in but the question of whether or not they remain behind bars and for how long i think is one to watch secretary blink and also noted that pakistan's attorney general has issued calls for a review of the case now how likely that is to succeed since it will be the same

body that just issued this decision is difficult to say but i think the ball really is in pakistan's court right now in terms of next steps before i even think about a potential request for extradition which seems unlikely to succeed and just a final thought to you it is a both a pole family has said there was a complete shock by this acquittal is there any hope the family will ever find justice who do you think. you know i really know that those in the family after all many of the jurors seeing this case what they thought was close was the man you know when you get in this way you know only time will tell in terms of how this will play out in pakistan but it unfortunately i think the signs are not positive that we're likely to see any sort of overturning of today's decision elizabeth great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al-jazeera thank you when the. hundreds of journalists and activists in haiti have marched with the capital port au prince to protest against police brutality several

journalists have been injured while covering recent clashes between protesters and police also want justice for colleagues who've been killed some was shot while they were reporting on corruption allegations against the government. now exports of cherry's from chile to china have taken a hit that appears to bill because of a rumor unsubstantiated reports began circulating on chinese social media that traces of covert 19 were found in some boxes of cherries a latin america edison a cinema reports from santiago. all year long producers wait for this moment when their cherries go through the final stage of selection sanitation and packing before being shipped off to china for the chinese this color red ribbons good fortune so the import cherries mainly from chile to celebrate the chinese new year which starts next month but when an unsubstantiated story went viral on chinese social networks last week it brought misfortune to chile's multi-billion dollar

cherry industry if the money for my so not this was the result of non-official information in china a rumor that's provoked a steep drop in demand that our government is working round the clock with the private sector to see what we can do. when claims began circulating that some imported cherries had been found to be tape. the code 19 overnight exports plummeted from 500 to 0 containers a day australian cherry producers have also been impacted it would not nearly as much as in chile which exports much larger quantities noice all know what we've never been formally accused of anything by chinese symmetry or customs with already stressed a story in the media that was never retracted by the ones who suffer most of the small and medium size produces it invested everything they have and we need to do basing basing on a good idea. the president of the exporters association says exports are picking up

but that the cherries are being sold at a loss and time is running out it's summertime in the southern hemisphere good companies carries the creaky believe valuable because they are good pack and ship it is clear that time for the chinese market but i don't like these great these cherries were all oil in just a matter of weeks. chile has launched an intense counter offensive in china using influencers and scientists on social networks to try to convince consumers that their cherries are safe to eat all this is more than just bad luck it underscores just how vulnerable food exporters are to a negative tweet or story substantiated or not to see in human al-jazeera santiago apple's chief executive tim cook is criticizing social media companies for spreading misinformation and polarizing society in a message to

a privacy and data protection conference cook said many social media collect too much information and prioritise conspiracies for hiring dates meant he said dissent from asia is rampant and supported by algorithms what are the consequences of prior ties in conspiracy theories and violent incitement simply because of the high rates of engagement. what are the consequences of not just tolerating but rewarding content that undermines public trust in lifesaving vaccinations it is long past time to stop pretending that this approach doesn't come with a cost a polarization of loss trusts and yes of violence now the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the live music industry in most countries and the u.k. organizers are scrambling to work out what to do with events planned for the summer but new zealand has emerged as one of the few places in the world where bands can

still play to large crowds when a report. was odd. it's been a career defining 12 months for this rising new zealand band while much of the world has been in various forms of coronavirus lockdown l. a b. has been traveling the country playing to packed stadiums we've been able to still perform. get out there and play gigs and and tour material which has made a fan base just explode. so it's been a fan and also mia but in other countries the pandemic has destroyed the live music industry one of the world's largest festivals glastonbury in the united kingdom has been cancelled for a 2nd consecutive year industry leaders worry that without support from the government and insurance companies some concerts and festivals may be lost for good it's very hard to. underestimate the state's you under exact on

the music industry what we need now government to support that too is very critical time so that we can get to operate again. with the main form of income playing live music largely gone artists have taken gigs online swedish band the hives are playing what they call the world's 1st world wide web. substituting stadium shows like this for online concerts tailor made to different markets you graphics this it seems important to us that we're actually playing to people i mean . germans are going through you know we can play to the germans in new zealand there are no restrictions on public gatherings so the summer festival season carries on to those in most countries new zealand musicians and bands are clearly in a fortunate position but strict border controls mean no begins a national acts and that seen at least one company which employed hundreds of concert support staff close its doors bigger the people that usually keep the live

music into. afloat far away from the bright lights and big stars are the ones that are suffering the most during the pandemic new zealand stars and their fans are enjoying their freedom while it lasts but feel for their counterparts in other countries. not talk to my mates too much of this is because you don't rub it in their faces like it's pretty unfair was happening. very and you know fellow muses around the world so we just feel blessed and lucky to be able to get out and play and right now new zealand bands can claim to be playing some of the largest concerts in the world wayne hay al-jazeera reglan new zealand now an icon of american television theatre and movies cicely tyson has died at the age of 96 i just couldn't live like. she's well known for her role as a former slave in the autobiography of miss jane pittman and more recently in 2011 . at performances often spoke to america's difficult racial past and in 2016 barack

obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom in her 17 year career tyson won several emmys attorney and was given an honorary oscar. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. drug company novak says it's corona virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective during a trial in the united kingdom the company is now expected to apply for a regulator review early trials also suggest the vaccine is effective against the new variant of code 19 1st found in the u.k. brazil's president jebel scenario.