does the push the limits. force avoid. risking your. sierra leone. on al-jazeera. 6 press here is 3 survivors trapped after a delay in the himalayas burst triggering flash floods in india around 170 people are missing. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up the u.s. president joe biden says he will not lift sanctions on iran unless it returns to

its nuclear deal commitments while tehran says the u.s. should make the 1st move. calling for democracy in me and mom protesters gather for the 3rd day in a row denouncing last week's military coup. and socialist and reza rose claims victory in ecuador's presidential election but exit polls suggest the race is heading for a runoff in april. top story today rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a himalayan glaciers collapsed sending a torrent of water and debris down a valley at least 7 people are known to have died on the run 170 a missing the water swept away 2 hydroelectric power plants and forced the evacuation of villages elizabeth purana reports from where she cashed in the states of. a wall of water dust and rock rules down the

river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed a portion of the number they've said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through now a valleys but no people living on the telly ganga and several neighborhood tributaries will want to move to safety immediately what is it to give them one good i've never seen anything like what i saw at the receive 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 hydro power projects like the vishnu got plant which was under construction. 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. 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 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 vironment an expert 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 way of this disaster

today was actually a less than 15 megawatt hydro plant the question is should we be compromising they call article integrity of the malia's for such a small projects more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster . well this happened in mountainous states in the far north of india other places on the country's 2nd highest peak is called nunda debbie a portion is said to have broken off sending out a wave of water and nearby rivers which supports the hydroelectric power stations as well like the one at rainy on the rashid gunda river and the top of the power plant which was under construction further downstream on the nunda list for their own and has the latest now on the rescue effort there. rescue personnel have just begun working on a tunnel near the top of one they had to stop work late on sunday night because of

a rise in the ocean level this is a 900 meter long tunnel that around 30 workers are believed to be trapped and. only able to dig about 150 meters of the tunnel before stopping work on sunday night they just restarted the work again because of the rise in the water level people along the riverbank inch or more the district who remain have once again pushed on police say they believe most of the people who are missing worked on hydro electric power plants one is that van dam there are around 125 workers who are still missing at another one at the power plant the flooding that happened on sunday actually swept away a at the top 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 number david place which broke off the people in the region should have been forewarned about the devastating flooding that would follow. and another reversal of. ministration plans to rejoin the human u.n. human rights council earlier this week mr biden put an end to trump's isolationist policies and diplomacy is back. to the un human rights council in 2018 calling it a hypocritical organization the displayed on 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 mr biden

suggested the move would only happen if tehran stops enriching uranium the former president almost trump withdrew from the 2050 nuclear deal which led to iran rolling back on its commitments iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei says tehran would only return to compliance if the u.s. 1st lifts all economic sanctions we. had the british american 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 republican and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy heidegger castros in washington she says biden has bipartisan

support on the decision not to lift sanctions. 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 to administration wants to renegotiate the

nuclear deal that had been cancelled by trump. biden's national security advisor 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. william lawrence is a professor of international relations at the american university in formerly a u.s. diplomat he says iran's forthcoming elections may complicate efforts to get tehran back to the negotiating table. there's no direct talks by the scenes but they're definitely in direct talks behind the scenes going on and even offers on the table and i think the europeans are the main intermediaries in this discussion they're working term i've been hearing from behind the scenes talks is compliance for compliance and they get the 2 sides that in the g c p we does few new conditions is

possible this is not easy but it's the easiest way to get things moving forward right now we're having negotiation by megaphone all through the pronouncements of the supreme leader and by by and that's no way to get anywhere the main operative variable right now 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 way agreement on re-entry before or after the june elections in iran because already an iranian parliament and you know campaign conversations are making things more problematic the u.n. special envoy to yemen is visiting iran for the 1st time to discuss the war there martin griffiths visit comes after the u.s. revoked the terrorist designation for the iran backed hoofy rebels now this month the u.s. halted its support for the saudi arabia led military campaign in yemen. hundreds of

people in me and have returned to the streets for a 3rd day to protest against the military coup exactly a week after it happened. was. growing civil disobedience including strikes last monday me and was army ousted the democratically elected government and arrested the civilian leader aung sun suu rights groups dozens of people including activists who've fled the growing demonstrations have been detained for more let's cross live now to bangkok and our correspondent there scott hardly scott so we've got some of these latest pictures just walk us through what's going on there. peter yes exactly i just spoke with a contact on the streets there in yangon and what it sounds like now there was a call for a general strike more civil disobedience acts so that is something we knew coming into monday morning it was probably going to take place but what we're hearing now to you and we saw those images those are several 100 people gathered in front of a mall right in the heart of yangon young dawn is the largest city in myanmar in

the commercial capital so they are gathering there but what i'm hearing also from our contact is there are several marches organized around gang gone and they are going to converge at some point in the center part of yangon in downtown as he put it so it's very interesting to see you know we saw you know tens of thousands the most people coming out demonstrating on the streets of myanmar right across the country over the weekend the most since 2007 the saffron revolution so these numbers were big over the weekend and then going into monday today there was the thought that maybe because it's a work day we might see less but so far we are seeing hundreds gathered again there was a civil disobedience call out so that means that people aren't going to go to work today and it sounds like we're at the beginning stages of a but what's interesting and we thought it was just that one gathering at the mall but no someone on the ground there is now telling us that there are several marches that have been organized and then they will converge at some point soon peter scott

many things called reporting live from bangkok an economist is claiming victory in ecuador's 1st round of presidential elections however exit polls from the field of 16 candidates suggest he's likely to face a runoff in april votes are being counted to decide who will succeed president lenin. his main rival is a conservative p.m.o. laso. he is a neighboring colombia. 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 a roast of 16 presidential candidates in the end as expected the leftist candidates backed by former president rafael correa and various came in 1st 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 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 oh he 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 unspoilt below that. still to come here on al-jazeera

a new case of ebola in the democratic republic of congo just over 2 months after the last break was declared to be over. china aims to vaccinate 50000000 people next week sounds impressive we'll tell you why however experts say it is nowhere near enough. another nor'easter is rolling up the east coast the u.s. and into eastern canada nova scotia in particular leaving behind the cold weather and rather more quiet weather to be honest so i've had a fax nova scotia sees that weather roll through with a windy day on monday a brazilian to see the sun turning and snow showers after that the temperatures really drop after the very i'm talking about the edge of the atlantic is pretty

cold there and cold air is the story in central canada right down through the plain states the orange well the pink really represents really low temperatures well below where they should be and then there's a junction and whether to come together light snow seems like not a lot of basically but you can see the line that takes you through kansas city more or less more lake effect snow south of that sun's more dominant the temperatures clearly coming up houston's about $21.00 and the pacific coast is and the like is what is it was a few showers maybe around san francisco but much more than that rain certainly down the southern states down towards florida and the bahamas south of all that though and the trade winds just plug steadily so it's still fairly gray around the coast of nicaragua a few showers it's both costa rica and panama a few in the ardennes otherwise it's very pleasant weather was temperatures in the middle to high twenty's for most.

when the going gets tough many bangkok slum dwellers are forced to borrow. she may be kinder than your average money lender. she may have more patience. but make no mistake. she means business. granny loan shark part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour rescue crews in northern india are trying to survivors after possible in the himalayas collapsed sending

a torrent of water and debris down a valley at least 14 people are known to have died and around 170 are missing. hundreds of anti coup demonstrators have returned to the streets of mean mars biggest city for a 3rd day of protests exactly a week after the military seized power follows days of growing civil disobedience including strikes. and a leftist economy sandra survivors is claiming victory in that could always 1st round of presidential elections but exit polls suggest a runoff is likely in april his closest rival is the conservative. haiti's president has announced that more than 20 people have been arrested for an alleged coup plots show in el moisi so the group had been plotting to kill him for more than 2 months now a supreme court judge and a senior police official wrong those detained the opposition has called on the president to resign saying his term expired on sunday. morning and in the mind on

one thing 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 not today are wise to how there must a cut. there are people who suffered from poilus brutally to the population toward the president's monday it is all of us will not leave the streets before he has left power. lauren is professor of history of the university of virginia he says more protests are 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 junk load of a year 986 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 that 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 police officer has been detained in chile over the fatal shooting of a street performer francisco martin as romero was killed by the police on friday his death has triggered a wave of massive protests and several public buildings have been set ablaze in america edison lucien newman reports now from santiago. the body of the latest victim of alleged police brutality in chile lies in week in

a low income neighborhood of some people. 27 year old francisco mayor dennis roamin all 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. since he was a child he loved using his hands juggling he was an artist who never hurt anyone and he used thomas 10 sots 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 my duty as. a delegation of indigenous mapuche has 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 mordor

surprise. in what appears to be a coincidence that dennis 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 but 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 play. by allegations of police brutality you see in human al-jazeera something. a new case of ebola has been detected in eastern democratic republic of congo more than 2 months after the end of the last break in fact that woman from the north kivu region has died the area suffered a larger break from $20000.00 to 2020 that killed more than 2000 people last november the country declared itself a free after the end of a smaller break in the west oscar island is an epidemiologist and the u.s. public health official he says the authorities must put strict measures in place to contain the virus from spreading further. the one of the concerns especially after the last outbreak which was quite sizable in that same area west to maintain vigilance and surveillance and whether there be flare ups or even the possibilities of other cases of ebola be 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 despond fortunate death and any of the other individuals which we understand may have been exposed to this unfortunate victim at this time it's a viral hemorrhagic disease that unfortunately shuts down your entire body and 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 needless to say it's not one of the ways that you want to ever experienced any kind of illness unfortunately it is highly contagious which means that individuals can. be exposed by 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 a pair so that you don't have a sustained outbreak at any fair shape at all. south africa has suspended plans to vaccinate frontline health workers with the astra zeneca after a trial showed it might be less effective in countering the new variant that's caused the country's recent $1000.00 instead it will of vaccines developed by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks the more contagious african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern of a potential to resist vaccines. volunteer testing teams are pushing deep into the brazilian amazon to help stem a coronavirus they're trying to identify and isolate people in indigenous

communities who have caught the virus but are showing no symptoms hospitals in the closest city are being overwhelmed with limited oxygen supplies and many people are being left to die in their homes highly contagious strain of the virus detected in the amazonas region in december has been spreading rapidly. there are many and varied before and. this is a community that is outside of manasseh 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 that'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. so people are expected to leave the chinese capital to begin their journey home in time to ring in the lunar new year now the government says it's aiming to vaccinate 50000000 people as the travel rush begins but analysts warn that is still too slow tens of

millions more have to receive the job in order to reach herd immunity katrina new reports from beijing. every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 taxa nations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 50000000 people by the middle of this month here after vaccinating essential workers will move to ordinary people we asked mate 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 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 until late 2022. 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 junk suit 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 that vaccines out of the national people's congress the nation's largest leaders gathering in march at the preparations for the 2022 winter olympics beijing has high hopes 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 new al-jazeera beijing. amanda gorman the 22 year old artist who performed at president joe biden's inauguration has become the 1st poet to open the super bowl today we are our 3 captains for the axioms and the us is youth

poet laureate performed a chorus of the captains now the poem praises 3 essential workers chosen as honorary captains to take the toss before the kickoff the prerecorded recital was played to a half full stadium because of coronavirus restrictions 18000000 people were expected to tune into the game double the number of people who watched coleman's inauguration recital. more news on the website whenever you want to the address as ever al jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories so far rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a glacier in the himalayas collapsed sending a torrent of water and down a valley at least 14 people are known to have died in around 170 a missing this but around him has more on the rescue effort from where she cash in order.