the buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts see manila has never truly recovered. 6 the rescuers free survivors trapped after a himalayan glassy a break sending a wall of water down a valley in india but around the $170.00 people are missing. no i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program. protesters in maine ma grow bolder marching across the

country in huge numbers as anger grows against the military. and the polls close in ecuador's presidential election with many eager for a return to socialism also. chileans demand an end to police brutality off to a street performer is shot dead in a sleepy tourist town. hello welcome to the program our top story at least 7 people have been killed and around 170 are still missing in northern india after part of a himalayan glassy a collapsed is and a torrent of warship water rushing down a valley slamming into 2 hydroelectric power plants rescue operations are still going on it happened in the mountainous state of atari cond from russia cache elizabeth prochnow brings us this report. a wall of water dust and rock

rules down the valley ganga river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed. a portion of the number david lacey is said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain into now of valleys but no people living on the ganga and several nearby tributaries who want to move to safety immediately this is what is it to give them one good i've never seen anything like what i sort the receive gang a power plant about 50 to 100 people were running for their lives they could not be saved and they were engulfed by the river. rescue teams and the military quickly arrived at the area where dozens of people working on major hydropower projects like the top one vishnu god plant which was under construction all those scramble to reach at least one block tunnel where people were trapped inside. here at least some good news but several workers pulled from the rubble. in

that in the movies that are caught in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that account the disaster management team is along with other security forces are already there the indian air force is also on alert it is our priority to minimize the loss of life and property to the people of conde and restore normalcy here. but that are in the himalayas as prone to flash floods and landslides in june 23rd record rainfall caused devastating floods that claimed close to 6000 lives. that disaster has dubbed the himalayan tsunami because of the torrents of water which buried homes and swept away buildings roads and bridges. 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 the pod plant which was

right in the. this disaster today was actually a less than 15 megawatt hydro plant the question is should we be compromising the integrity of the malia's for such a small projects more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster from now the rescue team said they'll work through the night to find people believed to be trapped in tunnels and under debris elizabeth purana al-jazeera rishikesh with the dhaka. well it's a week since the military launched its cohen man marm protests against it continue to grow tens of thousands of protesters poured back out onto the streets around the country earlier for a 2nd day of protest against the takeover shots were heard in the southeastern town of male y d where police charged at a group of demonstrators some of whom the pay to have been injured but internet services have now been restored after being blocked on saturday further angry protesters and the pope has been speaking out expressing his solidarity with the

people of myanmar using his traditional sunday address to voice his concern over the coup fronts louis reports now from kuala lumpur. 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 finger salute a symbol of defiance against authoritarian rule. even people who weren't part of the demonstrations showed the support by backing off honking their cars 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 already so you know we've decided in the fight and to be in the 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 have spread across

the country have been largely peaceful although police fired shots in the town and 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 aware of the military's violent crackdown of past uprisings but some saying they're not afraid i know that our ancestors had already made revolution against the military we can't just let 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 shutdown 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 one off the monkey dating 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 to a growing sunday's demonstrations are the largest since the 2007 uprising against the military. well earlier i spoke to one of the protest is

inside man mind we're not naming her or her location for safety she told me that demonstrators are going to continue with their protests but they are still worried about being targeted by the military but we're more than 200000 people in our childhood all and there are a lot of protests around the country like so much more than one day there were a lot of green on the margin call on the there are about 100100 police on the street but i don't see anything bigger than the one really and people are being very preachy so they don't shoot outs or do anything and we're worried about that oh yes good are back to my own awareness that such people are impeachable today we leave our. storage there oh we are there we got. a problem and then there are

a lot of areas that are for the common day for people who want to go get them or we have a country car a car that. in the last few minutes the polls of officially close in ecuador where people have been choosing and they want to succeed president lenin moreno but with a record 16 candidates vying for the presidency country looks at for a runoff election in april the main challenges are the leftist under our aus and conservative candidate to guillermo last so aroused is backed by the form a leftist president rafael correa who's barred from being his running mate because of a corruption conviction basso has run for president twice before and intends to continue the current lead as pro markets agenda so that the front runners but now that speak to us under yet you is following developments from neighboring colombia do we have

any indications from exit polls yet. yes we do they asked actually just came in these are 3 different exit polls they pretty much all say the same and the left candidate would be the front runner as expected with 35 to 36 percent of the vote followed by conservative get more last so somewhere between 22 and 25 percent of the world vote in 3rd place yeah cool paris an environmentalist candidate with around 17 to 18 percent of the vote if these numbers are correct and these at this point are just the exit polls not the official numbers that we're waiting at some point in the next 3 to 4 hours if these numbers are indeed correct or close to correct then we will definitely see

a runoff next april for d.s. presidential elections as expected in ecuador referendum i mean really this election is seen as a referendum on the form of president rafael correa and his legacy tell us more about what this election means to people there and what they hope to get from it. yes there is go is going through one of the worst economic crisis in its recent history and it comes after a decade they could all meet could boom that happened when the country was governed by a file called rare a pope julius socially astute took advantage of very high commodity prices to help lift millions of people out of poverty and of course now a lot of people in ecuador would like to see

a return to that prosperity but there's also half of the country that believes that instead. overspending that is largest in the end is responsible for the kind of crises that follow his to his rule the current president the outgoing president learning more in a was actually korea's vice president he was backed by. in the elections 4 years ago in 2017 but then the trade him politically and changed course now korea is in exile he has been accused of corruption he cannot run again he cannot enter the country without getting arrested but even from far he has been able to essentially choose who was going to be at the camp to the candidate he won at the head of his political movement and that is at a house which is pretty much unknown to the majority of ecuadorians yet just the

fact that he was backed by could push them to the head of this very crowded field 16 candidates and from what we're seeing he's now the front runner in the most likely runoff in april which shows that a lot of people would like to go back to more socialist policies to larger social spending because they evidently gained a lot from it at the time on the contrary and it also shows that ecuador is still very much under the influence of this very powerful political figure thank you very much and by the time. well we go to developments in haiti now the president has announced that more than 20 people have been arrested accused of plotting to overthrow the government juvenile moyes said the group had been plotting to kill him for more than 2 months a supreme court judge and

a senior police official were among those detained it was already tense in port au prince is the arrest come on the day of your position has called on the president to resign is saying his term is ended botts morey's disagrees and says his 5 year term actually ends in february next year meanwhile in chile they have been 2 days of protests against police violence off the street juggler was shot dead relatives and friends of gathered in the capital for francisco martinez ramirez wake the 27 year old was killed on friday in a small lakeside resort in the south of the country but he said he resisted a routine identity check but officers have been heavily criticized for incidents of alleged brutality over the past year a latin america at its use in human was as a protest in santiago where people also came to pay their respects to martinez. he is in detention there is an investigation underway the prosecutor's apparently going to charge him with a murder. with those a homicide with a a fire

a weapon but the policeman claims that he acted in self defense so this is just the beginning of what could be a very long process and people here do not believe it was self-defense they say that the juggler was carrying sables but anyway the juggler was carrying a saber that he used for his for his act that were made out of tin. if this is the case the weapon or the so-called weapon has now gone missing then it clearly could not have been something with which he could have killed the policeman so this is going to take a long time but it has as i say that inflaming passions and it's going to cause more and more disruptions hundreds and hundreds of people have been coming here to the house where mike dean is his family lives and where his body is. you can see them some of them a lot of them behind me and they've been demanding justice they believe that he was murdered in cold blood by

a policeman cold blooded murder of the policeman had fired 5 shots 2 of them at the ground and then the other 3 apparently directly at point blank range adam out of phoenix who died on the side on the footpath right to as a few minutes later so it is the latest incident that has inflamed political passions here we saw a bus just 2 blocks from here that was burnt by could it people we don't know who they were and we've also seen riot police water cannon trucks are roaming this area but they haven't come yet however i can say that there are people who are carrying and holding rocks in their hands just waiting to confront the police at any moment and as it gets darker that is likely to happen as has happened so many many times especially when a protest or or even in this case a simple street artist is killed by police. with al jazeera live from london. graham israel is easing restrictions almost 6 weeks into a nationwide coronavirus lockdown also found camperdown word got out of.

this super bowl sunday could turn into a super spread to events just as u.s. covert cases of falling. the seas no rains in australia been all over the place where they're currently focusing more in the door into the circulation there a tropical low it won't quite make it but the amount of rain that came out of the sky so far would suggest there's going to be flash flooding in the northern territory probably bits a quick listen as well the rain that we're going down through western australia is tail end showers still into come coming to perth all monday which will help to damp down the ground with far has been a problem that carries ongoing science and you get the sun to replace it on tuesday and this is a broadening picture further north in the middle twenty's can't be complained about

in melbourne or up to 30 in adelaide. now there is some change of fortune in some parts of the station not up in japan where the traditional winds being blind all enough for weeks it seems out of the cold interior of siberia a lot more snow for honshu in particular but this should not be here this is running out of season it's running through me and and then eventually into vietnam in the southwest of china shouldn't be there but is there it's not really doing much to help with the weather in india the cold wave has gone and we've had a bit as snow up in the michelle pradesh otherwise sort of by the weather everybody is quiet and to static. after more than a decade of civil war life remains a challenge in sierra leone. we follow the citizens of this war

torn nation as they push their limits. for survival. risking years of sierra leone. on al-jazeera. welcome back for main stories now more than 170 people are missing after a classy i broke in india it sent a torrent of water down and malayan valley sweeping away homes and slamming into 2 hydroelectric dams. protests have again been taking place across me and tens of

thousands of people marching around the country in different cities to denounce the military can internet services have been restored after the a total blackout on saturday and then polls have closed in ecuador where people have been choosing who they want to succeed president clinton morena exit polls put the former present rafael correa as a protege under our hours in the lead but without enough votes to avoid a runoff election in april which is looking likely. now u.s. president joe biden says that iran must 1st stop enriching uranium before any talks to revive the nuclear deal can begin but iran's supreme leader says his country what we're turn to the table and less american sanctions are removed. the british out of the one that has the right to set conditions for continuation of the j.c. is iran because from the beginning iran has made all of its commitments they violated

their commitments we have the right to set the conditions if they want iran to return to the chase e.p.o. commitments the u.s. must remove all sanctions and not just in words and on paper they must remove all sanctions in practice then they will return to our commitments this is the definite policy of the republican and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy. on teacher castro's life for us now in washington and with 2 polarized positions it looks as though a return to those negotiations not happening anytime soon. that's right mariyam the stalemate only continues with a white house official telling al-jazeera that president biden quote certainly won't move to remove these sanctions just to get iran back to the negotiation table and biden himself told c.b.s. news on friday that he'll only lifted us sanctions or that he won't lift u.s. action sanctions unless you ron 1st comes into compliance with limiting the levels

of uranium enrichment back to the 2015 deal limits this is a position that also has republican support with senator lindsey graham telling american media today that he would advise biden to continue with this course and not lifting u.s. sanctions against iran until you run changes its behavior so we are back to this stalemate to see which of these sides move 1st we know ultimately the bottom ministration once the nuclear deal to be revived in renegotiated his administration has said that trumps policies towards iran has only escalated this nuclear crisis between the u.s. and iran and biden ultimately wants a return to diplomacy mariyam thank you very much from washington hi joe castra or volunteer coronavirus testers of pushing diva into the brazilian amazon trying

to stop the brutal 2nd wave unfolding there the trying to identify and isolate asymptomatic people in indigenous communities hospitals in the closest city menow said been overwhelmed with oxygen supplies running out and many people left to die in their homes i'm a zone as region is where a highly transmission of all coronavirus variant was only recently detected. there are many and varied before and in my mouth this is a community that is outside. the capital but does not receive assistance these actions of members of this is side of the work in favor of the indigenous communities have been fundamental during the absence of local government the actions of friends have made this possible and it's extremely important we have managed to get here but logistics a challenging because we need a boat gasoline and the willingness of the people to get here. meanwhile in cambodia they have received the 1st batch of covered 1000 vaccines with a shipment coming in from china 600000 doses arrived in phnom penh earmarked for

health workers and the military the country is expecting another $400000.00 sign of vaccines while australia has pledged $28000000.00 to provide a job approved by the world health organization i'm going elsewhere bangladesh has started its own mass vaccination program with astra zeneca doses sent in from india afghanistan has also received its 1st half a 1000000 vaccine doses the astra zeneca jobs were sent by india but haven't been approved for use in the country nonetheless a 1000 people have been trying to administer the job that's about a 3rd of the hope for nationwide deal according to the health ministry the country of 38000000 has had 55000 cases but real numbers of probably likely to be higher because many people haven't been tested. we received 500 of those as of for what seemed to work over 1000 patients from the government of india based on

the national waxen deployment plan disc consignment will be administered for the health care sector for swine defenders in the rest of the bunch will be located for the elders with quranic diseases like heart disease based on the national walks into plain plan we will be trying to cover 60 percent of our population in developments elsewhere israel has started lifting it straight describe the virus lock down restrictions with some businesses able to reopen including takeaway food services and head dresses people also don't have to stay within a kilometer of their home anymore but schools will remain closed and international travel is severely restricted a 6 week lockdown was the 3rd time the country has shut shops and kept people at home for an extended period of time how i foresee it is in west jerusalem. what we're seeing as all 7 am on sunday is an ability to travel outside of one kilometer

radius from one's home go to other people's homes go to bed and breakfasts as a nuclear family still no word yet on how they will reopen the education system but some of the most restrictive parts of the lockdown are being eased a lot of it does depend on whether they can maintain at least the within bounds the effects on the hospital admissions and severe cases stemming from a more relaxed approach because of the vaccines certainly they're going out of this lockdown at a far higher rate of infection far higher positivity rates than the previous 2 in fact the positivity rate according to the wind at new site has risen during this lockdown so there's certainly no real indorsement in terms of the infection rate coming down for relaxing the measures but there is at least the opportunity because of a vaccination program to try to do so and so israel is not just a test bed in terms of the sort of medical efficacy and effect of this is this of

this vaccine which obviously pfizer is using it for but also it's a bit of a test bed to see even at this relatively early stage in israel is far more advanced than other countries in terms of its vaccination program whether there will be enough of an effect to allow the restrictions to be relaxed even at a high rate of infection. of course has super bowl sunday in the united states and the kansas city chiefs a chasing their 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers kickoff is just over an hour away but only a limited number of fans are being allowed inside the stadium with health experts worry the event could cause another spike in 1000 cases just as the daily infection numbers are falling in the country and gallacher reports now from florida. 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 phone 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 the 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 to exciting like you don't even believe it you know 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 mayor says the goal is to have funds arrive healthy and leave healthy umask mandates now in place but health experts warn there could be a spike uncovered 1000 cases following 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 to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. there's been

a muted start to this year's strips back venice carnival a 1000 people gathered in st mark's square in full costume and wearing traditional handmade mosques shorn of the usual parades and music there was only the sound of the famous basilicas bells to fill the usually packed square or the usual events have been canceled of course because of a pandemic it was one of the worst hit countries and has recorded europe's 2nd highest number of deaths. a reminder of the headlines this hour now at least 7 people are dead and around 170 people are missing after a glass broke in india it sent a torrent of water down a himalayan valley sweeping away homes.