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hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again a new report says the number of deaths an elderly care homes may have been grossly underestimated in new york. there's outrage in the u.s. as the acquittal of a man convicted in the murder of american journalist daniel pearl is up health plus . god bless you all thank you. she was an american entertainment icon cicely tyson has died at the age of $96.00. we begin with a coronavirus outbreak in the world's 3rd worst affected nation brazil has vaccinated more than a 1000000 people but that's less than half of one percent of the overall population and cities like mouse the gateway to the amazon rainforest still face

a shortage of oxygen and hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout. reports when you back to vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended from. the vaccination program team under scrutiny after local off dorothy's work used to favoring themselves and friends i skipping the line in taking shots i had of health workers and the elderly to field hospitals have been set up in man hours were patients must wait for a 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 both anything he does and didn't make it was 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 man hours 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 bomoh brazil's 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 brazil 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 out was not included due to a lack of data. brazil's president j. wilson rather has always downplayed the virus and even question the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid what damage government i. think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation locked down and confinement leads to just a true should have always said that the economy works 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 beaches are crowded and social distancing seem to be a thing of the past. mine pinaki of. the addition or. so here's a recap of how the rest of the world is handling the pandemic a new job developed by novak's has proved to be 89 percent effective in late stage trials in the u.k. and germany health officials are warning 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 demanded that belgian authorities inspect the 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 and corona virus 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 that deaths in care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported christianson reports. the elderly especially those in montana care homes have been among the most vulnerable to code 19 a new report finds the number of nursing home deaths and new york may be much higher than the 8700 status. 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 won't be courageous enough made a mistake and don't people grieve put people 1st and suffer the most. modest 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 i think should 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 who are staffing the poor in fiction 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 the taliban 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 kristen salumi al-jazeera new york the u.n. security jet the u.n. secretary general rather on the security council are once again calling on all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave libya under a cease fire deal all fighters from outside the country were told to withdraw by the end of this month but that as yet to happen diplomatic editor james baker

reports from the u.s. . it's now almost 10 years since the start of the uprising in libya it's been a decade of death and misery but the un's outgoing acting special representative stephanie williams told the security council there was no reason for hope that ceasefire is in place a cease fire agreed in october it was holding despite this she said blatant foreign interference was continuing this was the 1st security council meeting on libya attended by a diplomat representing the biden administration and he demonstrated what appears to be a more forceful u.s. policy we call all external parties to include russia turkey and the u.a.e. to respect libyan foreign t. and immediately seize all military intervention in libya a line echoed later when i asked the u.n. secretary general about libya can you please today give us your message to those countries that are still involved militarily in libya. the libyans are doing their

part it's essential that all the others at that involved in the libyan crisis will do their part it's essential that all foreign troops and all foreign mercenaries look 1st to benghazi and to tripoli and from there move back and leave the libyans alone because the leaders have already proven that left alone they're able to address their problems at the end of the meeting the security council agreed to position calling on all foreign fighters to leave libya russia in a statement to al-jazeera said that it has no military in the country although there been numerous reports that the wagner group a mercenary company has been operating in libya turkey has long said that its forces are in the country at the request of the legitimate government both those countries though now know there's a new policy from the u.s. government as does the united arab emirates which is already seen an arms deal worth $23000000000.00 blocked for now james ways out jazeera at the united

nations protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises over 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 santa has 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 estimated there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus lockdown they said that the government is not the lighting the poor and the funder vote with the financial assistance in order to cope with the loss but now that lockdown exacerbated the deep economic crisis in the so shaky economy that was

already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed those who. were in the end quote 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 pandemic was 1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets they're saying that they're no they say they want to do 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 they've largely fizzled out because 1st of all the response of the state of militarized states arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protest movements so and of course we also have. the corona virus 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. time for a short break here not just about when we come back more setbacks for russian opposition leader alex mentality as he fights against his potential. 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 .

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a time when she weather tucking in further south is fine it's rice looking pretty good him a consummate temperatures getting up to a pleasant 26 celsius with plenty of hazy sunshine it stretches down across the gulf of aden into the northeastern corner of africa just around whole of africa generally try and follow see more showers there just pushing across southern parts of kenya some showers there into a good part of tanzania where weather continues to drape its way down across balls juana with rain to south africa. and ways. may just news as it breaks the explosion near 18000 transmissions i knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles we've detained country many have told us that they have voted them down voting for peace i have a theory they are why read about the $15.00 to $50.00 listen in awe of the country from the around the one time israelis are dependent on the success of attack seems

to prove he's the national convention which is something since the beginning of the outbreak. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera brazil's president jabil scenario has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls resilience are angry at the government's slow vaccine rolled out the country has the 2nd highest death toll in the world. the u.s. drug company novak says its coronavirus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective join the trial in the united kingdom companies now expected to apply for a regulator reviewed early trials also suggest the vaccine is effective against the

new variant of covert 19 1st found in the u.k. . and protests in lebanon have been growing as anger mounts over the lock down the government corruption and security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon but protesters in the city of tripoli. the white house has expressed outrage after pakistan's top court acquitted the man previously convicted of killing american journalist daniel pearl u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says his country is ready to prosecute him instead pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of british born after my side shake us a big has more. after 18 years in prison 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 acquitted 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 the 1st year to say that one should do is position for the last 15 years he'd make it there he had. the rule he says here the minor role in the induction and murder of daniel pearl arundel because of his minor role he had to there to sentence he did used 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 but stands

president pervez musharraf had sided with the u.s. against the taliban in afghanistan a move that was widely unpopular in the country. shaq's argument to the court was the death sentence 100 down did not warrant his minor role in the kidnapping one appeal was why the. least to accept their appeal and give him a clean and equitable in 2011 a poll 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 share a travesty of justice and a danger to journalists everywhere and the people of pakistan i said break up

a russian court has rejected opposition leader alexina valmy has appealed to be released from jail and he was arrested last week when he returned from germany where he was being treated for points so again i got reports. of. the latest arrests connected to russian opposition leader. 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. we say that a series of rights on members of the n.t. corruption foundation were launched on thursday it's a clear and prejudiced violation of the right of defense as a lawyer i consider that yulia has rights have been violated. when live on the hour i greeted the police with music as they came to her door to arrest . when alex saying that 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 determined 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 0 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 badly was to blame it's becoming a concern for the russian leader especially since worsening the 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 about about corruption the like they've 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. now an icon of american television theater and movies cicely tyson has died at the age of 96 i just. like she's well known for her

role as a former slave in the autobiography of miss jane pittman and more recently in 2011 in the help performances often spoke to america's difficult racial past and in 2016 barack obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom in her 70 year career tyson won several emmys attorney award and was given an honorary oscar let's bring in john murray he's an independent media and popular culture critic who joins us via skype from washington d.c. john great to have you on the program now cicely tyson was widely regarded as a hollywood icon an extremely influential actress and you've actually met haven't you tell us briefly what she was like. well you know cicely tyson was a force of nature she's what i call a performance activists actually use the arts to expand the perception and the humanity of black people and she was a former model turned actress and her mom didn't want to become an actress but she

became one anyway and she took on a complex historically personal character is a critically acclaimed roles like sound of the autobiography of miss jane pittman roots and one of my favorites the women of the plains you know cicely had been acting since 1956 and she had a career resurgence in the may 2000 what's a series of roles that tyler perry put her and then in 2020 at the young age of $95.00 she starred in taliban areas of fall from grace aber do renee's mini series chairs that day and she had a recurring role on another one of my favorite series playing viola davis mother and her call to get away with murder i mean she her body of work won her 3 emmys a tony award a peabody and she even received an honorary academy award and like you mention president barack obama barack obama gave her the presidential medal of freedom and that's not too bad pokémon who didn't start acting until she was 31 yeah and joan as you say she had a prolific acting career and many people of course we remember her for her award

winning role in the t.v. series the autobiography of miss jane pittman just briefly john what do you think was so special about her performances. you know what in her own words she says she was a study or a study or of human nature and a dreamer of audacious dreams that came across in her performance she was a some viber she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women to particularly women of darker skin did we know whoopi goldberg biola davis octavia spencer lupita nyong'o go with out cicely tyson she released a memoir this week and then went on in transition a few days later that this be in and she's going out like any hollywood star would and seen it's over yeah and what's interesting john is that throughout her career tyson refused to play drug addicts prostitutes maids any of the roles that she thought was demeaning to black women absolutely she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this the perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we

know that hollywood and the entertainment industry has historically had for black people she was groundbreaking and pioneering and she used her art to make change and the fact that she was still working up into the very in she just done an i'm a juror interviewed her memoir with gayle king that just aired 2 days before she passed living until you're 96 with the body of work at a legacy like cicely tyson that's what we call good living and that's the legacy we should all and sad yeah and john just a final thought to you i mean many critics say she always brought a sense of nobility and grace to her roles where she broke many barriers for black actresses which is a point you just made and yet she remained quite feisty right to the end didn't she so so what sort of legacy did she leave behind them. listen her legacy is everything that i've shared with you but she was a woman of style grace and sophistication i was once at an awards show where the emcee was trying to gather there were many cops say hey guys could you quiet down

hey guys could you quiet down when cicely got on stage she turned to the mc and she said you don't refer to women in the room as guys you say ladies and gentlemen i am a lady and refer to me as such that was the class this is lee tyson demanded and that's what people respected her and with they did great story john thank you very much for that and something i found out today that she was actually married to the jazz great miles davis too wasn't she there you go you have it. so well a reason for us to play his workers this weekend absolutely joan thank you very much indeed. now the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the live music industry in most countries in 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 he reports. was. 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 then tour material which has made our fan base just explode. so it's a spin as from an awesome year 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 the pandemic that on on in the music industry and 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 world to a 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 music. clearly in a fortunate position but strict border controls mean no big international acts and that seen at least one company which employed hundreds of constant support staff close its doors figure the people that usually keep the live music industry 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 try and not talk to my mates too much overseas because if you don't rub it in their faces then you know it's like it's pretty unfair what's happening. very unfit you know to 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 hey al jazeera reglan new zealand's. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera brazil's president both n.r.o. has vowed to quickly vaccinate every body in the country as his popularity falls brazilians are angry at the government's slow vaccine rollout the country has the 2nd highest death toll in the world while tamara says he won't take the vaccine himself monica you're not here.