far and wide. but for the fans back home it's more than just a football club and he wants his policy should be left out of football football isn't about politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiance giant. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. 6 rescuers free survivors trapped after a himalayan classier breaks sending a wall of water down a valley in india around 170 people are missing. this is al jazeera life and also coming up leftist 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 plots your coup as protesters accuse him of staying in office beyond his term. president biden says he won't lift sanctions on iran unless it returns to its nuclear deal commitments swelter on says america should make the 1st move. so at least 7 people are being killed around $170.00 missing in northern india after part of a himalayan classic collapse as in a torrent of water rushing down a valley sweeping away 2 hydroelectric power plants 7 bodies have been recovered and rescue operations are continuing and lisbeth purana reports now from cash in the state of us are. a wall of water dust in from rules down to

toli 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 tarn surging down the mountain and through now a valleys but no people living on the tony ganga and several neighborhood tributaries will want to move to safety immediately is what does it do to them one that 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 arrived at the area where dozens of people were working on major hydro power projects like the couple one vishnu got plant which was under construction of a 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 it's in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that account of 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. but that are the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in june 2030 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. and volume mental 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 office 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 when it happened in mountainous inter can state in the far north of india the glasses found on the country's 2nd highest peak which is called. a portion is said to broken off and to send a wave of water and debris down nearby rivers which support hydroelectric dams or power stations like the one i drive me on the younger river and the top of vishnu god power plant which was under construction further downstream and that's on the election under. life started by the forests in the. account is it really is devastating events what's the latest on the rescue efforts. absolutely and i can some good news on the rescue front is that the rescue

personnel have just begun working on a tunnel near the top of one they had to stop all work late on sunday night because of a rise in the ocean level this is a $900.00 region long tunnel that around 30 workers are believed to be trapped in and they were only able to dig about 150 meters of the tunnel and stop and work on sunday night there just restarted the work again because of the rise in the water level people along the river bank i'm sure more the district remained have once again pushed on police say they believe most of the people who are missing worked on hydroelectric power plants one is that top of van dam there are around $125.00 workers who are still missing at another one at the power plant the flooding that happened on sunday sunday actually swept away a bow at the top and that's used to divert water and there are

a lot of questions being asked about why hydroelectric power plants are being constructed in such ecologically sensitive areas there are also a team of scientists making their way to the non the. glazier to ascertain exactly what happened because there's different language being used to describe what happened what caused the floods and critics and experts are saying that if it was indeed a portion of the nun that they replaced the a which broke all of the people in the region should have been through warned about the devastating flooding that would follow. or at least thanks very much indeed for a number you can to us from the commission. leftist economists sunday as i do says claiming victory in ecuador's 1st round of presidential elections but exit polls from a field of 16 candidates just is likely to face a runoff in april to be counted to decide who will succeed president lenin marina

his main rival is conserved. russa's backed by former president rafael career barred from running due to a criminal conviction. he is in neighboring colombia and he says the 2nd round is provisionally scheduled for april the 11th. 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 roast of 16 presidential candidates in the end as expected the leftist candidates backed by former president rafael correa. came in 1st exit polls have them somewhere between 35 to 36 percent of the vote way above the 2nd best candidate to guillermo last so.

i was a short press conference right after the polls 'd close to saying that his was a big victory that there is a ratio of 2 to one door instead decided to vote for him he didn't say though 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 6 as of now according to these exit polls he's 4 to 5 percent unspoilt below that. haiti's president has announced that more than 20 people have been arrested for an alleged plot juvenile moyes said the group had been plotting to

kill him for more than 2 months supremum court judge and a senior police official are among those detained the opposition has called on the president to resign saying his term expires on sunday morning and time i don't think i'm not a dictator dictators or people who take power and don't know when they're leaving i know my mandate and on february 7th 2022 you're not gonna get a good job today l.-y. as to how there must a cut. there are people who suffered from poilus brutally to the population told the president's monday it is all of us will not leave the streets before he has left power learned abroad is professor of history at the university of virginia and he explains why more protests within the coming days across haiti well they're just inevitable 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 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. sudan's prime minister abdullah dog has dissolved his cabinet and is expected to announce a new government on monday it'll include ministers from rebel groups that signed

a peace deal in october last year sudan is transitioning to democratic rule under a true $1019.00 power sharing deal between the military and civilian protesters. and stay in sudan the army says it's made new gains in the disputed triangle farmlands along the ethiopian border tensions have led to an increased military buildup the talks between the 2 sides have stalled and morgan reports now from sudan's guy who stayed. from this that point can see the elevation of his farmland more than 3 and a half kilometers away but for more than 20 years he says he has not been able to access that he says if you're paying farmers back by militia men took over the area in 1906 bushing him and other sudanese farmers out of their property and then. there was nothing we could do ethiopian farmers came the previous government didn't send soldiers and the ethiopians were backed by the military we had nothing so we

were forced to leave their lands and we have wasted. jealous farm lies in an for sugar incident eastern about of state and for sugar covers an area of about 3000 square kilometers and sudan's government uses to colonial agreement to claim the region it's divided into greater and lesser by a river contributing to its fertility to produce sesame and weeds but ethnic on her farmers from neighboring ethiopia in the east city area belongs to them and have been farming it for nearly 5 decades in december last year while this european government was occupied with the military operation and its northern tigre a region sudan's army moved in to push back here paying farmers in the area the move has sparked border violence in the past week that's resulted in deaths and injuries of soldiers from both sides this is the alberta river and on the other side is where all the military operation is taking place so that's army says it's reclaimed 80 percent of the farmland and grids of a sugar that were previously occupied by if the opium farmers and less of the army

says it's reclaimed 60 percent of the area so that is who have gotten their lands back say they're concerned with farming season only weeks away if they have those who've been pushed away from fresh and are welcome back even if they have to use force to do it since 2002 talk to the market the borders have stalled between the 2 sides sudan wants the boundaries drawn according to the 1902 deal if you are on the other hand want to renegotiate for a new deal we have to come up together sit together look into the problem. the study of the program and then defining the status of the part of. and the. sort of area it's only after that we can go into the americas. if your piece says it won't resume talks with sudan and less its forces withdraw from. some sudanese border specialists say if europe is more concerned about addressing domestic issues. there is an international agreement recognized by sudan

a you and before it even the un if you please messages right now are not directed to this with me or the world is directed internally towards its people the best way to move forward is to democrats the border and then look into the welfare of the once the border is clearly marked jalabi says he hopes he gets his farmland back before the start of the season like many other farmers from both sides of the continued tension along the border means they're likely to miss out on farming visit season and potentially longer if the issue is not resolved quickly he morgan al-jazeera got out of state. still ahead here in. the chileans demand an end to police brutality after a street performer shot dead in a tourist town. china aims to vaccinate 15000000 people next week sounds impressive but we'll tell you why it's been say it's nowhere near enough.

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and abuse of power around the globe. on al-jazeera. but again you're watching out sara to remind of our top stories this hour at least 7 people have been killed and around $170.00 missing in northern india after part of a himalayan classic collapsed and a torrent of water sweeping away homes and slamming into 2 hunter electric. letters economist's answer as i do says a claiming victory in nicole's 1st round of presidential elections the exit polls suggest a runoff is likely in april the main contenders are rousseau and conservative we

have no. eighty's president has announced more than 20 people have been arrested for a failed coup attempt spreads driven what it says brushed off criticism from the opposition and human rights groups who say his presidency expires on the sunday. in another reverse of doldrums foreign policies joe biden's administration plans to rejoin the un human rights council earlier this week by the invalid to put an end to trump's isolationist policies and declared diplomacy is back trump pulled out of the un human rights council in 2018 calling it a hypocritical organization that displayed an ending hostility towards israel. president biden says he will not lift sanctions as a means of getting iran back to the negotiating table during an interview biden suggested the move would only happen if tehran stops enriching uranium for president donald trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal which led to iran rolling back on commitments well around supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei said

iran 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 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 a samik republic and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy. let's bring in william lawrence he's professor of international relations at american university and a former u.s. diplomat joins us from washington d.c. mr lawrence good to have you here on the program so it sounds like both sides

really diggin but all of a there probably talking behind the scenes out there. well there's no direct talks behind the scenes but there are definitely indirect talks behind the scenes going on and even offers put on the table and i think the europeans are the main intermediaries in this discussion so working term i've been hearing by mantra behind the scenes talks is compliance for compliance and they get the 2 sides back into the g c p a way with this few new conditions as possible this is not easy but it's the easiest way to get things moving forward right now we're having negotiation by megaphone both with the pronouncements by the supreme leader and by by and that's no way to get anywhere how quickly then do you think we might see things back to the pre trumps thing to quote. well in some sense that will take a very long time because the iranians are saying there are whole new set of sanctions the result of the maximum pressure campaign that will probably take some

time to on why the main operative variable right now mini is the iranian elections and there was a meeting at the national security council on friday about whether or not to try to push for some sort of j.c.t. a way agreement on re-entry before or after the june elections in iran because already iranian parliaments and you know campaign conversations are making things more problematic what does the united states need iran to do as far as compliance is concerned and what about what iran iran as the months for the u.s. . well the u.s. says there's a list of things the iranians have to do but it really comes animal situated in richmond and centrifuges so the iranians would have to be there i get rid of or ship out the older enriched uranium to get back from 20 percent down to the 3.7 percent level and and stop sid if you just that are working now to just enough weapons grade uranium necessary for a weapon. this is probably true to most important things the other big issue for

united states is missile development in their recent tests in iran but the us a behind the scenes will tell you they're willing to push out discussions on any new concerns that are included in the g c p a like the missiles until after the riyadh treated. whatever lawrence critical you know analysis on this that thanks a lot. for the united nations special envoy to yemen is visiting iran for the 1st time to discuss the war martin gryphus his visit comes after the u.s. revoked the terrorist designation for the iran back to 3 rebels this month the u.s. hold to that support for the saudi arabia led military campaign in yemen tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in manama in the biggest demonstrations yet to gain some military coup. the. this it follows days of growing civil disobedience including strikes internet access has been

posting restored after a virtual shutdown according to the monitor net books it's nearly a week since the army ousted the democratically elected government and the rest its civilian leader and son suchi rights groups say dozens of people have since been detained. a police officer has been detained in chile over the fatal shooting of a street performer francisco martinez remeron was killed by police on friday his death has triggered a wave of massive protests and several built public buildings have been set on fire on latin america newman said this report from santiago. the body of the latest victim of alleged police brutality in chile lies in wake in a low income neighborhood of santiago 27 year old francisco mayor dennis rodman or was a juggler a street artist who traveled around south america but met his end in a small lake side town in his home country then since he was

a child he loved using his hands juggling he was an artist who never hurt anyone and he used thomas 10 swords for his acts martinez who shot dead after he charged a policeman who had 1st fired 2 warning shots at him during an argument over a routine identity kick it unleashed a new wave of outrage and vandalism in southern chile to the capital. while his body lay in wait street artists paid homage to magic the this was a delegation of indigenous my pooches received special applause not about you guys getting me to kill francisco in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people it's not an isolated incident it's part of the police's more disciplined. in what appears to be a coincidence that venus is family says the victim was the uncle of a 16 year old protester who was nearly killed last october when a policeman threw over a bridge into an almost dry river. as then the government has asked police for an

exhaustive and quick investigation into the incident. people have been arriving all day from all over the capital not just to express their condolences to the family but also their determination to continue demonstrating until there is justice but given that the policeman who fired the 5 shots is insisting it was in self-defense there's no guarantee at this stage that there will be the verdict there all the people here are demanding. human rights monitors say only a fraction of the hundreds of officers accused of abuses have been tried and sentenced and guilty or not this killing has only added more fuel to the ongoing social unrest in chile often inflamed by allegations of police brutality you see in human al-jazeera something out of. a new case of a boat has been detected in eastern democratic republic of congo more than 2 months

after the end of the last hour break infected women from the north kivu region has died the area suffered a large outbreak from 2018 to 2020 that killed more than 2000 people last over the country declared itself a bona free after the end of a small outbreak in the west south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate frontline health workers with the astra zeneca jab after a trial showed it might be less effective in countering the new variant that's caused the country's recent covert $1000.00 surge instead it will offer vaccines developed by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks and more contagious south african variants is among a number of mutations causing concern about potential to resist vaccines the chinese government is a means vaccinate 50000000 more people by next week but analysts say that's still too slow the world health organization says it's currently assessing chinese made vaccines for emergency use true to you reports from beijing. every day

crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive covert 900 vaccinations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month here after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked made it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and to every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. vaccine a 50000000 people by mid february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd taste

of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to relax there are also fears beijing want to have enough doses for its $1400000000.00 population china has promised $10000000.00 doses to kovacs an international alliance distributing vaccines to developing countries it's also exporting about $400000000000.00 to countries such as brazil and indonesia and donating millions more to allies including pakistan. the discovery of a counterfeit vaccine ring in the southern province of jugs earlier this month has also undermined confidence in vaccine safety authorities say all fake doses have been tracked down. the chinese government attaches great importance to serve god in the security of the vaccines and will continue to crack down on vaccine related crimes the government is also under pressure to roll up vaccines

out of the national people's congress the nation's largest leaders gathering in march at the preparations for the 2022 winter olympics. has high hopes for the olympics and its vaccines will help improve its international image in the wake of the pandemic. but while questions about china's role the outbreak remain unanswered its borders are still closed and its people await their turn to receive a vaccine katrina you al-jazeera beijing. former u.s. secretary of state george schultz who played a key role in helping to win the cold war has died at the age of 100 shows held several cover every his long career but made the most impact leading the state department under president ronald reagan he helped cement a historic nuclear missile treaty with moscow. i met a goldman the 22 year old artist who performed the president joe biden's integration

has become the 1st poet to open the super bowl today we honor our 3 captains for the u.s. is that you know it's performed a chorus of the captain's praises 3 essential workers chosen as audrie captains to take the toss before the kickoff of the pre recorded recital was paid to a hall full stadium coronavirus restrictions. so this is our desert these are the top stories and at least 7 people have been killed in iran 170 missing in northern india after part of a himalayan classic collapsed and a torrent of water sweeping away homes and slamming into 2 hydroelectric dams elizabeth her name is more on the rescue efforts from she cashed in a 3 ton. rescue personnel have just begun working on

a tunnel near the top of one and they have to stop.