only u.s. president to be impeached twice acquitted the 1st time but will donald trump make it out on scathed a 2nd time he faces charges of inciting insurrection and a possible disqualification from future public office we'll bring you the latest developments from capitol hill from on trial on al-jazeera. 6 rescuers france are vipers trapped after a himalayan classier break sending a wall of water down a valley in india but around $170.00 i'm missing. out on mccloud this is out 0 live from doha also coming up leftists and visitors claims victory in ecuador's presidential election but exit polls suggest the race is heading for a runoff in april. haiti's president says more than 20 people have been arrested

for prosecute these protesters accuse him of staying in office beyond his term. a new case of a boder in the democratic republic of congo 6 months after the last outbreak was declared over. so at least 7 people have been killed and around $170.00 are missing in northern india after part of a human land last year collapsed it sent a torrent of water rushing down a valley sweeping away 2 hydroelectric power plants 7 bodies have been recovered and rescue operations are continuing elizabeth pradhan reports now from cache in the mouth of the state of thought a car. a wall of water dust and rock rules down to dolly ganga river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed. a portion of the number davie is said to have broken off sending the tarn surging down the

mountain into now valleys but no people living on the tally congress and several neighborhood tributaries were blown to move to safety immediately is all but is it a good omen when the i've never seen anything like what i saw at the rashid 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 or . lived in the area where dozens of people working on major hydro power projects like the apple one vishnu god plant which was under construction. scramble to reach at least one block tunnel people were trapped inside. 6 here at least some good news but several workers pulled from the rubble. in that in the movies that it's 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 and restore normalcy here. 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. and vall mentum 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 pot plant which was right in the off this disaster today was actually in 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 for now the rescue team says they'll work through the night to find people believed to be trapped in tunnels and under debris elizabeth al-jazeera rishikesh the. leftist economist is claiming victory in ecuador 1st round of presidential elections but exit polls from the field of 16 candidates suggest it is still likely to face a runoff in april have been counted to decide who will succeed president clinton maria his main rival is conservative. or who's is backed by the former president rafael correa who's barred from running a criminal conviction get the latest now. joins us live from neighboring colombia and alexandra tell us more about the vote what the exit polls say. well yes nic it was overall a quite tranquil day of voting across ecuador even as if was

happening in the middle of a pandemic so there were long lines in the morning there was a big turnout of people voting for rose sort of 16 presidential candidates in the end as expected the leftist candidates backed by former president. and. came in 1st the exit polls have them somewhere between 35 to 36 percent of the vote way above 4 the 2nd best candidate to guillermo last so. i was a short press conference right after the polls closed saying that his was a big victory that there is a ratio of 2 to one daury instead decided to vote for him he'd been saved oh he

feet thinks or not that he has enough votes to avoid a runoff now according to a quote dorrian law if a candidate gets at least 40 percent of the vote while also having at least 10 percent more then the 2nd best candidate then he can win the elections out right. now according to these exit polls he's 4 to 5 percent in spring to be low that we have to wait for the 1st oficial numbers that are expected to arrive in the next where there is a fast tally that is officials and that electoral. in ecuador said they could have quite soon and then as though this is largely seen as a referendum on the former president rafael correa and his legacy is. yes definitely there were as we said 16 candidate sounds of ballots but the police

station that was on everybody's mind before today's vote was former president rafael correa he was president for a decade from 2007 to 2017 thanks to the commodity price boom he was able to improve the economy and the country left millions of people out of poverty thanks to big social spending and the ecuadorians are divided on his legacy and particularly given the fact that. their economy has been battered very heavily in the last 4 years during the presidency of korea's successor lenny moreno who was a quote their ally but then b. trade them politically after winning elections and who instead to move the country more towards a free market policies to try and revive the economy in things instead things have

gone even wars in the last couple of years compounded by depend dammy could that have hit ecuador very hard to hundreds of thousands of peoples have lost their jobs there has been arrests and riots in 200-1000 again in 2020 doing. 80 percent of it quite dorrian so according to a number of polls believe that the country whoever will win this elections will be worse off for 5 years from now so whoever wins has to show that they do have some solutions at hand for it quite dorian so we can expect that even more rested in the years to come for them as under thanks very much for the times under this reporting . haiti's president has announced that more than 20 people have been arrested for an alleged plot driven a lawyer said the group had been promising to kill him for more than 2 months a supreme court judge and

a senior police official were among those detained laurent dubois is a professor of history at the university of virginia explains why more protests within the coming days across haiti and know enough to. this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices in critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different it's important that today is february 7th a very sad and he said history is a very important date it's the anniversary of the overthrow of janklow devey in 1906 and also supposed to be the end of the president's mandate now there is a discussion and debate between opposition and president least about whether his mandate ends this february or next february because of the circumstances of the election that brought him to power which were themselves quite contested and so that's the kind of point i think today was meant to be a portent it was going to be

a potential day of protest against him and the beginning of more protests so it seems to me this is a preemptive move but i do not believe probably it is meant to be i think a show of force and maybe also a show of weakness and i suspect that the next days are going to see a great deal of response from the population. now a new case of ebola has been detected in eastern democratic republic of congo more than 2 months after the end of the last outbreak of infected women from the region has died the area suffered a large outbreak from 2018 to 2020 and it killed more than 2000 people last november the country declared itself a bona free law for ending a small outbreak in the west so let's take this on we can bring in oscar lane his and pretty meola just and the u.s. public health official based in washington d.c. also troubling say the least is that to have this recurrence how likely is it that it could spread now. well you know the one of the concerns especially after the last outbreak which was quite sizable in that same area west to maintain vigilance

and surveillance sense whether there be flare ups or even the possibilities of other cases of ebola are you prepared apparent so in particular i would say it would be definitely expected just given what has been happening in that region but what is most important are the strategies that going to be put into place to one try to exert control and ensure that it doesn't flare up past this fun fortunate death and any of the other individuals which we understand may have been exposed to this unfortunate victim at this time remind us about a boat or what it is and how dangerous it is and how easily it can be transmitted. it's a bio have more agitated these that unfortunately shuts down your entire body it really has a. trying to say the slightly not a kind that you essentially have a shutdown of all your bodily functions and it's from being a viral hemorrhagic fever be to say it's not one of the ways that you want to ever

experience any kind of illness unfortunately it is highly contagious which means that individuals can. be exposed by a what we call an animal and an exotic zoonotic exposure but then it's a rapid person to person spread and as we've seen from the last operate that they had which was the 2nd largest span and going on from 2018 to 2020 they had over 3000 illnesses and over 2000 deaths so a very high case to tally rate so it is of significant concern to want to suppress any of these illnesses that do have hair so that you don't have a sustained outbreak at any fair shape at all the most basic question is why why it is that when a country's been declared have been afraid that it would flare up again in 2 months . so one of the things that we must understand that while the large outbreak was contained meaning they had about 42 days of no more cases that they were able to

identify the concern from continuous surveillance was will you begin to see perhaps other cases of infection whether they're natural from exposure to animal or 'd other reza course or even as we may say rebound illness in the case if i understand from this most recent death this individual was married to another person who had been recovering or had been a case in a previous outbreak so it is quite possible that they may be a research based on what has been presented maybe the individual did not properly heal or to some extent so you are always going to maintain a degree of vigilance now the unfortunate nature with respect to the area of course not only has there been investment in health centers and vaccination and you know strategies but we also recognize that there are serious amounts of conflict happen in geopolitically in that area as well so one of the concerns has really been all of these events all these confounding factors of which that leak lends to reality

as to why vigilance is going to be important and not even forgetting that we do have to cope with 19 outbreak that's also pandemic that's also impacting that community it's all yes the ties of the many various of those whom we appreciate your expertise. thank you. still ahead here in al-jazeera volunteers carry out rapid covert 900 test brazil's digitas communities new fears of villages being want to. brave the cold of the fight for their rights why the women are better research asking for international solidarity and. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways there is more snow to comfort you and it's probably going to increase the avalanche risk as well because quite

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but again you're watching out 0 among the top stories this hour at least 7 people have been killed in the round $170.00 missing in northern india after part of a himalayan classic collapse it sent a torrent of water sweeping away homes slamming into 2 hydroelectric that. left as economists santa rosa roses claiming victory in ecuador 1st round of presidential elections but exit polls suggest a runoff is likely in april may contend is a rouse and conservative. haiti's president is announcing more than 20 people have been arrested for a failed coup attempt president juvenal moyes has brushed off criticism from the opposition and human rights groups who say his presidency expires on sunday. a police officer has been detained in chile over the fatal shooting of a street performer relatives and friends have gathered in the capital for francisco

martinez remarriages wake the 27 year old was killed by police on friday has triggered massive protests and several public buildings have been set on fire a lot of america to tell he said newman was at a protest in santiago and has more on the fate of the police officer. he is in detention there is an investigation underway the prosecutor's apparently going to charge him with a murder. with the homicide with 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 save that he used for his for his acts 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 bit 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 my 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 of penis who died on the side on the footpath right as a few minutes later so it is the at the latest incident that has inflamed political passions here we saw a bus just 2 blocks from here that was burnt by put it people we don't know who they were and we've also seen riot police water cannon trucks that 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. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets i'm involved in the biggest demonstrations yet against the military coup was. the holidays a growing civil disobedience including strikes internet access has been partially restored all through virtual shutdown according to monitor blogs it's nearly a week since the army alstad the democratically elected government and the rest of civilian leader answers e.g. rights groups say dozens of people have seats be detained for slavery has this ripple i. 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

a free thing this city a symbol of defiance against authoritarian rule. even people who weren't part of the demonstrations church the support by package of homefront because 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 have decided and we fight until the end of life for our generation we have to work for the next generation to get democracy to them if we want to in this military dictatorship. the demonstrations which are spread across the country have been watching the peaceful although police fired shots in the town of mayor wanted 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 wary 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 melody. a 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 dark all week the voice of disquiet has grown louder and bolder from 1000 noise protests than 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 on 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 their economic situation is economic power is one off the block to breaking horses 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 science daily al jazeera. so that figure has suspended plans to vaccinate frontline health workers with the astra zeneca job after a trial showed it might be less effective in countering the new variant this calls the country's recent covert 19 surge instead it will offer vaccines developed by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks more contagious south african variants is among a number of mutations causing concern about potential to resist francine's.

volunteer testing teams are pushing deep into the brazilian amazon to help stem a coronavirus surge they're trying to identify and isolate people in digitas communities have caught the virus but it's showing those symptoms hospitals in the closest city were now also being overwhelmed with limited oxygen supplies many people left to die in the homes of highly contagious strain of the virus detected in the amazonas region in december has been spreading rapidly there are many unverified into my mouth this is a community that is outside monastic and surrounds the capital but does not receive assistance these actions of members of the society working 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've managed to get him that logistics a challenging because we need a boat gasoline and the willingness of the people to get here. and afghanistan has

received its 1st half a 1000000 vaccine doses india sent the astra zeneca jobs although they've not yet been approved by the world health organization for use in the country the health ministry has reported 55000 cases of a population of 38000000 protesting espouse many cases and going on reported. here's president joe biden says he will not lift sanctions as a means of getting iran back to the negotiating table trian interview by suggesting the move would only happen if her own stopped enriching uranium former president donald trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal which led to iran rolling back on commitments around supremely the ayatollah ali how many said tehran the would only return to compliance if the us 1st lifted all economic sanctions we. had. the one that has the right to set conditions for continuation of the j c p o a is 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 chase e.p.o. commitments the us 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 a samik republican and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy hard to castro's in washington d.c. and she says that biden has bipartisan support of the decision not to listen sions on iran. the white house official told al-jazeera today that president biden quote certainly will not be removing these sanctions from iran just to get iran back to the negotiating table biden himself spoke to c.b.s. news on friday in a recently released interview clip he said this will the u.s. lift sanctions 1st in order to get iran back to the negotiating table now they have

to stop enriching uranium 1st and republicans are supporting president biden in not lifting these u.s. sanctions 1st senator lindsey graham saying that it must be 1st iran that changes its behavior so certainly the stalemate continues even as we know that the background of all of this is that the by administration wants to renegotiate the nuclear deal that had been cancelled by trump. biden's national security adviser jake sullivan has criticized policy saying that they only aggravated the tensions between iran and the u.s. escalating this nuclear crisis in his words and president biden has said that this is his hope is to return to diplomacy how that happens though of course is still to be determined small groups of protesters have been braving cold weather in belarus

to demonstrate against president alexander lukashenko many who joined the government demonstrations over the past 6 months to be put off by freezing temperatures and continue police brutality spree approaching the opposition is preparing to ramp up efforts to oust the longtime there. well many opposition leaders remain in exile or in detention opposition candidates flip flip. who claim she won the election has called for western pressure to force you can go out another problem need a miraculous cover has been in detention since september she is just one of 30000 people arrested during the protests. over america's led color is a leader of the better result movements calling for an international day of solidarity to support demonstrations and she says support for the look at check of government is thin. you cannot stay in a bar while into contra way you have on this t. percent of the population who supports you and we as you know in below us look at

the hip meal as regina where not if you go opposition candidate can survive or even exist in the country if you are in that position you are going to end up either in a jail or in advice this is what happened this is one of the hopes this is what happened to myself on board might call a sneak of our 3rd are without friends means in the company and she is still in the present this why we believe you cannot through the come to wake up on the people side of the population who supports us at the same time we work with the international community and we convey the message do not accept the question as a legitimate leader do not we can ask him as a president we set an example and then i was how the people can fight with the dictatorship of the person below so as i said that would have a date in dictatorship which was built for the last 26 years and we set an example for on the countries so i hope and for russia as well because when we see what's happening in russia right now but now we need to focus on bellows and we hope that

by the way there then your administration in the united states we will be negotiating with russia on there was because we understand russia is a big neighbor or bellows in when the stand the thought we need to get support for example from the united states of states in terms or in terms of negotiation with the rest should to do ration about the future or below was. the it. this is dogs are these are the top stories and at least 7 people have been killed in iran 170 missing in northern india off a part of a himalayan glaciers are collapsed on the ship torrent of water sweeping away homes and strung into 2 hydroelectric dams this with problem has borne from russia cash register workers said they are going to be working throughout the night at the moment they said that there are 30 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel and that rescue operations operate.