why should they get worse. if you want to help save the world. enduro. rescue teams in india free survivors after a himalayan glacier breaks and sends flood waters and debris down a valley but up to $150.00 are feared dead. watching al-jazeera lie from a headquarters and. also a heads. one in shots fired in

myanmar as police attempt to break up some of the biggest protest against the military in almost 15 years. voters in ecuador pick their new president to inherit a country facing deep economic problems made worse by covert 19. and african leaders try to hammer out a coronavirus vaccine planted their virtual summits but it's another deadly disease causing alarm in the democratic republic of congo. thanks for joining us more than 100 people are feared dead in india after part of a himalayan glaciers collapsed a tour in self water was sent rushing down a river where there are hydroelectric power stations and villages several bodies have been recovered but rescue operations are still underway alexy o'brien reports . a wall of water dust and rock rule was down. goggle river and northern

india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed a portion of the name to davy gracie is said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through narrow valleys below people living on the river and several nearby tributaries were warned to move to safety immediately let them get a lot of idea people are being evacuated from the areas here in atlanta as a precautionary measure floor by the rocky river has been stopped to prevent the flow of water from manic monday a dam and rishikesh dam have been emptied. rescue teams in the military quickly arrived at the area where dozens of people were working on major hydro power projects like the top of envision a god plant which was under construction others scramble to reach at least one blocked tunnel where people were trapped inside. in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that

account of the disaster management teams along with other security forces are already there and the indian air force is also on alert it is our priority to minimize the loss of life and property to the people of lootera can and restore normalcy here. but at a condom the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in june 23rd tain record rainfall caused devastating floods that claimed close to 6000 lives. that disaster was dubbed the himalayan tsunami because of the torrents of water which buried homes and swept away buildings roads and bridges. a former water resources minister and other environmental experts have criticized the construction of power projects in the area pointing to its fragile ecosystem and the damage caused by the 2013 floods it seems like which was. this disaster today was actually in less than 15 megawatt plant the question is should

we be compromising the integrity of the model for such a small project more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster for now though the rescue operation continues brian al jazeera. let's get an update from elizabeth brown and she's joining us from starts on the foothills in the foothills of the himalayas rather in nightfall where you are elizabeth so what does this mean for the rescue operation. it is nightfall but rescue workers say they are going to be working through out the night at the moment they say that there are 30 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel and that rescue operations are proving difficult because they believe a lot of people are trapped under. a lot of debris now local media reporting that at least 8 bodies have been recovered so far but the state's leaders said around $125.00 people are missing we know that hundreds of homes have

been washed away and as well as the homes that have been destroyed rescue teams have also saying that they're finding bodies really far away from the size of where the worst of the flash floods happened and that's because of how fast the water was moving again as well as the homes that have been destroyed 2 power plants hydroelectric power plants have been damaged one of them was under construction we did see 16 workers being rescued from a tunnel near the dam that's the power plant that was under construction. but there are fears for around 150 workers at the power plant that authorities have not been able to get hold of and a major bridge in the area has also been washed away by the floods and that is making the rescue efforts more difficult. is pointing out in her report

starting a conversation or rather a debate in india whether the government needs to stop building these hydro power projects in such ecosystems what's the government saying. there are there are a lot of questions being being asked about that especially because of how ecologically sensitive this area is and also because of the damage that was caused of the 2013 floods when thousands of people were killed now the government the state leader did take a question about this and he said that right now the focus is on rescuing people but that experts are going to be deployed to the site of the sea i think. on the day to look into the he said to look into the possible courses in the meantime this is a massive rescue operation played was late in landing at the airport because of the number of air force planes that are. also at the airport as well as the air force

the navy has said that they dive teams on standby hundreds of tibet and border police are involved in the rescue efforts as well and and nourishes been issued for all of the downstream districts including where we are. because of the flooding writes in this book purana thank you for that update from. india. scientists studying himalayan glaciers have warned that increasing global temperature ozark celebrating the rate of ice loss and their causing the development of glacial ponds which can hold millions of cubic metres of water satellite images of the gang hydroelectric project show the change in ice cover on the surrounding glaciers over the past 4 years from early february 27 seen through the fabric 28000 the region experienced a gradual increase in the surface area of ice coverage this growth continued throughout 2019 before rapidly expanding in the winter of 2020 but as you can see

within the past year all that newly gained ice cover melted away tens of thousands of people have risked violence under arrest to protest and me and him are in the largest demonstrations yet against the military coup the mass demonstrations followed days of growing civil disobedience including strikes florence that we were reports. for a 2nd successive day people in myanmar have taken to the streets to protest against the military takeover marching through downtown yangon they held up the thing considered a symbol of defiance against storytelling group even people who weren't part of the demonstrations showed the support by clapping of hong kong protesters are demanding an end to military rule and the release of. the democratically elected leader and

others still in custody they marched undeterred by the police presence and the threat of arrest. we've decided i'm fighting to be in the ground lives for a generation we have to work for the next generation to get democracy to them if we want to end this military dictatorship. the demonstrations which are spread across the country have been largely peaceful although police fired shots in the town of on sunday to disperse the crowd and video showed at least 2 protesters being arrested a man might emerge from nearly 50 years of military rule in 2011 people here are aware of the military's violent crackdown of past uprisings but some say they're not afraid i know that our ancestors had already made revolution against the military we can dislike the military when citizens had already shown their demands by voting we are on the streets to show that we are against the military dictatorship. a near total shut down of the internet and disruption of phone lines

was partially lifted on sunday facebook and other social media platforms had already been blocked the un special rapporteur on myanmar has accused the military of trying to paralyze the movement of resistance and keep the outside world in the dock all week the voice of disquiet has grown louder and bolder from nightly noise protests to gang gone to a civil disobedience campaign the roman catholic pope is the latest in the international community to express solidarity with the people of myanmar but activists say mere words are unlikely to have an impact. the military leaders dictatorship is gambling on the fact that there will be a lot of statements but no real action it's time to target military companies because the economic situation is an economic power it's one off to monkey baiting forces for the military to grab power like this for now there's no sign the

generals are ready to give up control even though the calls for them to go are growing sunday's demonstrations are the largest since the 2007 uprising against the military. voters in ecuador picking a new presidents who will be expected to steer the country out of an economic crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic 16 candidates are vying for the top job but the main contenders are former banker gear modest so an economist and dress our own voters are also choosing members of the national assembly assembly asunder and pretty is following developments from the colombian capital of bogota. well if we look at the polls more than a 3rd of voters are saying that they will vote for a full court press candidate. that could very well put him and within striking distance of an outright victory to win you need the 50 percent of the vote or 40

percent while also having a 10 percent and point advantage over whoever gets in 2nd that could happen but most polls say that most likely we will see a 2nd round in april we will probably know more later during the day. the 1st. early polls are expected this evening in ecuador usually they're quite fast in giving the results and there is a lot of attention internationally on who will win because whether or comes from again a very very difficult economic crisis there's also the fact that the pandemic has hit the country very hard so there's also talks about possible abstention people being afraid of going out to vote because the pandemic so we'll see what happens

during the day but so far the voting is going under way in a normal manner still ahead on al-jazeera haiti's opposition wants the president out saying his term is finished the job now more he's insists he still has one year to serve. and fear is that the biggest day on american sports calendar could turn into super special effects. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways now we have the usual pattern repeating itself of cold air coming out of the northeast of china coming across the open waters and producing a lot of snow for japan this is a story for monday and tuesday so once again that's not particularly cold and that's going to increase the avalanche risk otherwise it's called sunshine

potential in the way up this however is not particularly usual this line of rains developing really threw me in my nose and thailand and then going towards vietnam with some orange tops that significant right shouldn't be there this time the year the average rainfall is pretty low to be honest it's just not the season so that's unusual but it's there all the same the usual stuff the heavy rain is still around borneo just south of java or of a job for itself for the next day or so but lazier is drier than indonesia for the most part my night because the active weather is this line of rain here we've had snow recently up in the michelle pradesh the heaviest full 30 is and there's evidence of it as a sort of policy area so they're enjoying themselves in shimla there's no more to come in the forecast most of india pakistan bangladesh that is no longer under the throes of the cold wave there is persistent fog once again in the northern plain of india in bits of bangladesh which means the air quality new in new delhi is once again pretty poor. support qatar airways

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india after part of the himalayan glaciers are collapsed officials fear up to 150 people are dead including people who are working at 2 power plants one flash floods hit both sites tens of thousands of rest violence and arrests to protest the. b.s.o. been the largest demonstrations yet against last monday's military coup. polls have opened in ecuador's presidential election voters will choose between 16 presidential candidates as well as elect a 137 lawmakers to fill the national assembly country is suffering a severe economic and political crisis. african leaders have wrapped up their virtual african union summit pandemic dominated the meeting while mass vaccinations have begun in other parts of the world the rollout has been slow on the african continent leaders also discussed political and humanitarian issues including border disputes and displaced people asking why is the nairobi with the latest on this

summit. but on the agenda was the response to the coded 19 pandemic africa although it seemingly hasn't been hit as hard as other continents is significantly behind in terms of vaccinations south africa which has some of the best data in the continent in terms of testing in cases is recording a 2nd wave and also a new variant which is proving much more deadly than the original variant of coded 19 not vaccine shortages been addressed by a task force from the african union who ordered 680000000 doses of the vaccine to health care activists say is just a drop in the ocean and tiny compared to what rich countries are snapping up they also discussed various internal mechanisms some reforms that they're trying to bring about within the african union and they completed the handover of the outgoing to south african president to run a poser to the incoming chair whose felix to carry the president of the democratic

republic of congo. a new case of ebola has been detected in the eastern democratic republic of the congo infected women in the city of birth tembo in the kiva region has died the area suffered a large outbreak from 2018 to 2020 that killed more than 2000 people last november the country declared itself ebola free after ending a smaller outbreak in the west. so don has warned it's national security will be threatened if he goes ahead with the 2nd phase of filling its blue nile day sudan's water minister says it will also put the lives of half of the country's population at risk so. fear the mega will divert too much of the water they rely on while the o.p.'s says the project is vital to its economic future talks held last month to resolve the dispute failed to make any headway iran's supreme leader says his country won't return to the 2015 limits on its nuclear program unless the united

states lifts all the sanctions it's imposed and sleeving the deal in 2018 but u.s. president joe biden has rejected that saying any future negotiations would depend on stopping its uranium enrichment 1st jabari reports from to her on. it is national air force day in iran and this day is named after a day 42 years ago when the country's air force pledged their support to ayatollah khomeini who had just returned to iran on february 1st after spending 14 years in exile abroad we heard from the current supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who addressed the country's air force and he used the opportunity to reiterate iran's position when it comes to negotiating with the united states and what iran expects the new administration in washington to do before they return to the way. out of the one that has the right to set conditions for continuation of the. iran

because from the beginning iran has met all of its commitments they violated their commitments we have the right to set the conditions if they want iran to return to the commitments the u.s. must prove all sanctions and not just in words and on paper they must remove all sanctions and practice. then they will return to our commitments this is the definite policy of the islamic republic and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy this is something we've heard in the past from not only the supreme leader but also all other levels of government including the president and the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif this is where things stand at the moment they radians have given the binded administration till roughly about the end of february to see if they will do anything in terms of lifting any of the sanctions so otherwise iran has said that they will take the next step and that means according to

a law that was passed in the country's parliament they will reduce their compliance to the j c p a way by limiting the access of i spect hers to visit the nuclear facilities under the nonproliferation treaty iran currently now allows the inspectors to visit any time any of the facilities that are declared nuclear sites but after this deadline the end of this month that will no longer be the case the inspectors will have to request in advance what sites they want to visit and when this is something the international community has said they don't want to see happen it is in the best interest of all parties involved for the united states to return to this nuclear agreement and for iran to return to full compliance the opposition in haiti is threatening more protests of president java now moyes does not step down on sunday haiti's constitution says a new president's term begins on february 7th everyone agrees on but not on which year always says he still has another year left in office terrorism reports on the

political crisis. clashes between the opposition and security forces right next to the presidential palace. it's become a regular occurrence on the streets of port au prince. protesters continue to demand precedential in and steps down. it's a strike against kidnapping against hunger in the country and we are sending a clear message to the president to respect the constitution. earlier this week transport unions and other workers went on a 2 day strike denouncing institutional violence and an alarming grice in kidnappings human rights groups say at least a 1000 people were kidnapped in 2020 when someone is kidnapped the person must go to the street and ask for a given so you really does a reason why we organize 2 days of look up to show. that we accept this

situation you know but as soon as the look of finish the kidnapping restored quickly. haiti's opposition says it's time for moyes to go they say he's mandate ends this sunday but moyes does a greece he says his 5 year term began when he was sworn in in 2017 and he still has one year in power but members of the opposition say maurice term began in 2016 in the wake of chaotic elections. and while the political crisis deepens haiti's economy continues to deteriorate. economies like. says urgent action is needed. the amount of people going hungry in the country has doubled it's gone from $2000000.00 to $4000000.00 people the currency is devalued and there's an inflation rate close to 25 percent. to complicate matters

legislative elections were postponed when parliamentary terms expired this past year preston moyes has been ruling haiti by decree the u.s. and the organization of american states have urged new legislative elections to restore the balance of power maurice is proposing a referendum in april to reform the constitution. last week we held a major meeting with all interviews including the un the provisional electoral council the advisory committee the government the police chief the prime minister we had a big talk about security issues elections and the referendum we were clear with all these people on april 25th because it will be a victory for us. but the opposition says it's another excuse to hold onto power and that's why they vowed to continue pressuring the government on the street . and. astra zeneca says it's working to adopt its covert $1000.00 vaccine against a very and 1st identified in south africa after

a trial showed it might be less effective this study shows the vaccine has significantly reduced efficacy against the mutation that's according to a report in the financial times the trial is small and has not been peer reviewed the south african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern because of their higher rate of spread and potential to resist vaccines. in a major reform of cuba's state dominated economy the government says it will allow private businesses to operate in most industries in the past small businesses could only participate in 127 sanctioned activities but that's not been expanded to more than 2000 the communist period be an island is trying to recover from an economic slump brought on by tough u.s. sanctions on the pandemic well for decades cuba's economy has largely been run through state owned companies and it relies heavily on price controls on subsidies

and owes massive debts to venezuela russia china others tourism health care agriculture and offshore oil or some of its major industries any foreign investment is tightly restricted the economy has stagnated for years the government began slowly rolling up policies to open it up and 2011 but analysts say it hasn't been enough the economy shrunk by 11 percent last year its worst decline in nearly 3 decades and for months cubans have faced shortages of basic goods and this. is a former special advisor to the world bank and he says it's too early to say whether these changes will be enough to turn cuba's economy around. i think so other than suggested that right no doubt 124 sort of you suggest it will be under state control but don't move because they're removing the 127 and pretty well what 2000 in numbers are impressive however one doesn't wish to change one wants to see

genuine reform to take the agenda forward correct the economy has contracted considerably it was and because of the soviet union we left percent entrenchments but we also know that with the continued closure of the borders because the people that mix with the collapse of tourism industry and also the rolling back of the obama era policies with cuba last trumpet ministration and the invention of the incoming by the administration for loosen some of those restrictions and look at its use or remittances which is of great reason to think that the sense of investment capital going to be ireland would be up with this is what i was it's clear that the present president is showing some indications of even centralizers right agendas are right the economy by putting up a bit of foreign direct investment. encouraging export by having was up by huge with an economy. to support now and it's super bowl sunday in the us the kansas

city chiefs are chasing their 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers this is a pandemic the chase opted to spend super bowl week at home before flying to tells us and this was them arriving on saturday and the gallagher has more from last. n.p.r. pro word got out of. the super bowl is by far the biggest sporting and television event in the united states last year's final attracted over 100000000 viewers but as the tampa bay buccaneers and kansas city chiefs prepared to meet on sunday this will be a game like no other tampa's raymond james stadium is the venue it's also a testing site for code 19 in a state that's lost close to 30000 people to the virus in a bid to keep the game safe the stadium will only be a 3rd full with strict protocols and social distancing as you pass through security screening your tickets will be scanned and you will be provided with a safety kit which includes a and $95.00 mask and

a hand sanitizer health experts say the national football league's measures are acceptable under the circumstances that more concerned with what happens in areas outside their control it's the pre-game post-game and for those people who aren't at the game the during game celebrations where we expect folks to get together in private and public venues and that's where the risk is especially since we now have 3 new strains of the disease that have made landfall in the states there will of course be the much anticipated celebrity filled multimillion dollar ads but also a recognition of the sacrifice made by u.s. healthcare workers $7500.00 free tickets have been allocated to vaccinated frontline staff mostly from florida just so exciting i kinda don't even believe it you know it's like a fairy tale almost it's amazing and we're very grateful all this is a far cry from previous super bowls were host cities reap huge economic benefits last year's game in miami generated more than $500000000.00 for the local economy

tampa's mess says the goal is to have fans arrive healthy and leave healthy umask mandates now in place but health experts warn there could be a spike uncovered 1000 cases. slowing the game the super bowl was never going to be canceled all anyone can do is make the best and hopefully the safest of a bad situation gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera rescue efforts are underway in india after part of the handover in place or to lapsed officials fear up to 150 people are dead including people who were working at super power plants when flash floods hit both sites elizabeth purana has more from rissa cash in the foothills of the himalayas. for rescue workers said they are going to be working throughout the night at the moment they say that there are 30 people believed to be trapped in

a tunnel and that.