a supreme and black in its place a race for america part one on a. we understand the differences and similarities in cultures across the world so no matter what you see we've been using the calendar for that matter. a desperate search for survivors at least 170 people are missing after a glaciated in the himalayas burst triggering flash floods in india. alone will come on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up calling for democracy in me and all protesters gather for a 3rd day in a row to denounce last week's military coup. president biden says he won't lift

sanctions on iran unless it returns to its nuclear deal commitments all tehran says the u.s. should make the 1st move. socialist and reza rouse claims victory in ecuador's presidential election but exit polls suggest the race is heading for a runoff in april. part top story rescue crews in northern india are trying to reach survivors after part of a glee see in the himalayas collapsed sending a torrent of water and debra valley at least 14 people have died around 170 are missing the water swept away 2 hydroelectric power plants and forced the evacuation of villages elizabeth purana reports from her she cash in the state of what our current. a wall of water dust in floor rules do. 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 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 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 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 and restore normalcy here. but that are in the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in june 23rd 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 viral 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 way off this this disaster today was actually

a less than 15 megawatt hydro plant the question is should we be compromising they call article integrity of a malia's for such a small project more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster. well what happened took place in mountainous current state as we've been hearing today in the far north of india the place is on the country's 2nd highest peak is called nunda defeat portion is said to have broken off sending water and nearby rivers that support hydroelectric dams and power stations think loued one rainy on the ganga river on the top of on vishnu god power plant that was under construction further downstream on the like nanda is less prone again with more on the rescue effort. rescue personnel have just begun working on a tunnel near the top and they have to stop. 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. the restart of the book again because of the rise in the roof from level people along the riverbank and to more of the district who remain have once again. police say they believe most of the people who are missing worked on hydro electric power plants one is that. there are 125 workers who are still missing at another one. of the flooding that happened on sunday actually swept away a. that's used to divert. and there are a lot of questions being asked about why hydroelectric power plants are being constructed in such ecologically sensitive areas there are

a team of scientists making their way to the non the. to ascertain exactly what happened because there's different language being used to describe what happened what caused the floods and critics saying that if it was indeed a portion of the. which broke all of the people in the region should have been forewarned about the devastating flooding that would follow. the police have used water cannon on protesters thousands returned to the streets day of demonstrations one week after the military seized power. i feel those days of growing civil disobedience including strikes last monday. stood the democratically elected government under resolutely civilian need to cheat rights groups say dozens of people including a super led the growing demonstrations to be detained. is monitoring the situation from bangkok we've got someone on the ground who we've been speaking with over the

last couple of hours since these various marches have started in yangon the commercial cap of the largest city in myanmar and he's telling us that they're going to converge right in downtown yangon this will probably take over the next couple of hours but what he has been telling us is that what we're kind of seeing from images and video coming out is that it's definitely in the thousands we just don't know how many 1000 that is because thousands that is because you have different marches coming together what's interesting coming into today monday morning you know we saw those big numbers over the weekend tens of thousands was that we weren't sure if there's going to be a lot as many people or even that many people because it's a work day but what has happened is organizers have called for a work stoppage a general strike is part of their their movement to get more people out on the streets now this is what we're seeing in yangon we're also seeing in mandalay this is the 2nd largest city in myanmar healthcare workers are also out on the streets there protesting against this coup that happened exactly

a week ago we're seeing you know some numbers coming out it's still kind of early hours on on monday but what's interesting again you know because we saw such a large outpouring over the weekend we didn't know what to expect on monday because of the workweek but because organizers have called for a strike for people to come out and even though it's a work day come out and protest we're seeing bigger numbers than initially anticipated on monday morning. well staying with us store i don't i'm in zollo is the executive director at the meanwhile institute for peace and security he says the military is tolerating the protests for the time being. just the beginning off the gathering momentum once to protest so on mochi people are joining them along their march so by the thai when they can vote in downtown the crowd gets to go to thousands and thousands of people so that is see classic tactics used by the

organizers of the protests in 1988 must have pricing fassel. so far of the security forces are tolerating the protests and they are keeping the security presence low profile so the minimal security until yesterday we hauled in saw some video clips the. military vehicles feed coming into young gold from different directions and they may be preparing for the crackdown by usually before they do that they make that announcement at night calling like. to disperse the protests not to go out to the streets and not together so they usually have like this a wonderful for at the activity the one for for at legally we haven't seen yet so far and another reversal of donald trump's foreign policies joe biden's that

ministration plans to rejoin the u.n. human rights council earlier this week by about to put an end to trans isolationist policies and declared diplomacy is back from pulled out of the u.n. human rights council and 2018 calling it a hypocritical organization that displayed an ending hostility towards israel. and president biden says he will not lift sanctions as a means of getting iran back to the negotiating table during the interview mr biden suggested the move would only happen if tehran stops enriching uranium the former president mr trump withdrew from the 2050 nuclear deal that led to iran rolling back on its commitments iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei said 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 mr biden does have bipartisan support on this 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 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 the administration wants to renegotiate the nuclear deal there have been counseled 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 the united nations special envoy to yemen is in iran for the 1st time to discuss the war martin gryphus visit comes after the u.s. revoked its terrorist designation for the iran bank you see rebels this month the u.s. halted its support for the saudi arabia led military campaign in yemen. a socialist economist undress

a rose is claiming victory in ecuador's 1st round of presidential elections but initial results from a field of 16 candidates suggest he is likely to face a runoff in april and asunder m.p.'s he reports now from neighboring colombia. despite depend there make a quick durians flocked to polling stations in record numbers on sunday to choose a new president early results indicate terry 6 year old socialist economist and race at house is the front runner with more than 31 percent of the vote but he won't be able to avoid a runoff in april. even though the final results are yet to be announced at oust claimed the victory minutes after the polls closed this is the must get public but i don't think that's obvious you need people to have solutions now there are many changes that must be made urgently and we're ready to work for a country to work for and after this resoundingly. people have given us. but his main rival conservative x. banker last so who is running on

a free market platform insists the contest is far from over. what i can tell you is that there will be a 2nd round and we will be in the 2nd round. another candidate ecologist paris who offers a middle ground between populist socialism and a mainstream free market economy could also end up a surprise 2nd after an unexpected strong result. the vote was largely seen as a referendum on the government's handling of an economic crisis that sparked violent protests in 2019. at ause mostly unknown to ecuadorians was handpicked by former president of a failed korea which immediately pushed him to the front of the fields of candidates. despite could have being in exile in belgium were removed before and they could dorian court sentenced him to 8 years in prison for corruption his political influence still looms large in deeply divided dorian's. there's concern

in tension fear of being infected with a virus and the instability we're experiencing in the country i'm worried about the candidate that will be elected at houses promising if elected to make $1000000000.00 us dollars in direct cash payments to families affected by that and then make an a return to the socialist policies promoted by his mentor but most analysts agree on is that whoever wins will have to prove he can offer real solutions to a country on edge i listen to al jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera the haitian president says an attempt to overthrow the government has been for oil. china aims to vaccinate 50000000 people next week that may sound impressive we'll tell you why experts say that it's nowhere near enough.

the last of the significant rain and snow is on its way out through iran as it leaves monday largely fine and dry the blowing down which is always the case are together with spell there is rain to come in yemen and the into the southwest saudi otherwise a breeze or coming out of the interior is like to warm things up further west particularly for example in the valley things are up in the levant for above average for beirut and 6 above in luck so so that is warm at least probably were lost with just a nice temperature change the rain following the sun is slowly coming up from southern africa and in fact there's been one usually heavy rain in those kenya and tanzania recently leaving behind cars and increasingly sunny bit in most in namibia and south africa but it's still that time of year we should watch what's happening in madagascar and in mozambique and if you take a look at it as

a hint here we're trying to create itself circulation a tropical or which we don't really want watch all the same plenty of showers for madagascar and back through botswana as well want to see further south even for example in the city where tuesday wednesday look showery for a little windy to blow through some of it to thursday we're back to sunny skies once more. what is the price of luxury. an undercover team travels deep into the illegal cocoa plantations of the ivory coast simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor. chocolates heart of darkness encounters unpatrolled labor is working in a $100000000000.00 industry well over half of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line. on al-jazeera.

move. for. war. welcome back les the recap your top stories for you so far this half hour rescue crews in the north of india are trying to reach survivors after part of a glacier in the himalayas collapsed sending water endeavoring down a valley and 14 people died but 170 are still missing. police in myanmar have used water cannon on protesters after thousands held a 3rd day of demonstrations one week after the military seems to power the followers days of growing civil disobedience including strikes. socialist economy sandra soros is claiming victory in ecuador's 1st round of presidential elections but exit polls suggest a runoff likely in april his closest rival is

a conservative g.m. a loss of. more than 20 people have been arrested in haiti for allegedly plotting a coup now the president of an el moisi says the group that includes a supreme court judge and a senior police official had been planning to kill him for more than 2 months the opposition has called on the president to resign saying his term expired on sunday his manuel republic. another day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continued their calls for the resignation of president bush of knowing. they wanted to do or said we cannot accept that job now moyes violates the constitution of the country we demand that the constitution be respected. but instead of responding to the opposition president moyes told reporters his political rivals had plotted to overthrow his government and have him killed or drag. thank you to all my security guards thank god they're planned didn't work out

security personnel will explain in detail what happened yesterday the security of the national palace arrested more than 20 people who had one goal and that was to leave the country without may images on social media showed the arrest of opposition members including a supreme court judge in id be a judge's court in the uk the less than 48 hours ago he's been captured along with an inspector general of police who are planning to arrest the president and take him to pattaya at the same time they plan to invade the palace to install a provisional president who already had his speech prepared in this case we can all speak of immunity here. the arrests come on the day that opposition leaders see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from haiti and just gathering the strands is that 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 and critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different. tensions in haiti remain high as opposition leaders have vowed to continue to put pressure on the mores government and if called for more demonstrations. a policeman has been detained in chile over the fatal shooting of a street performer francisco martinez romero was killed by the police on friday whose death has triggered a wave of protests and several public buildings have been set on fire latin america at its embassy in yemen 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 was 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 not pooches received special applause and i want 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 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 shot 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 played by allegations of police brutality you see in human al-jazeera something out of. sudan's prime minister abdullah him dog has dissolved the cabinet he's expected to announce

a new government on monday if you conclude ministers from rebel groups that signed a peace deal in october of last year sudan is transitioning to democratic rule and a 29000 power sharing deal between the military and civilian protesters. 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 the infected woman from the north kivu region has died the area suffered a big break from 222220 that killed more than 2000 people last november the country declared itself people are free after the end of a small outbreak in the west. elaine 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. 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 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 it 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 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 spend in going on from 2018 to 2020 they had over 3000 illnesses and over 2000 that's 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. so people are expected to leave the chinese capital to travel home in time to ring in the new new year the government says it's aiming to vaccinate 15000000 people as the rush begins but analysts warn of that is too few tens of millions more will have to receive the job in order to reach so-called immunity catrina you know from beijing. every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 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 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 $2.00 to $3000.00 people are not curious 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 program 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. china vaccine a $50000000.00 people by mid february the problem but it doesn't mean much is only $130.00 s of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 are inoculated will

see the difference china afford to relax there are also fears beijing want to have enough doses for its 1400000000 population china has promised 10000000 doses to kovacs an international alliance distributing vaccines to developing countries it's also exporting about 400000000000 to countries such as brazil and elysia 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 to. 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 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 new al-jazeera beijing amanda gorman the artist who performed the president joe biden's inauguration has become the 1st poet to open the super bowl today we honor our 3 captains for the next the u.s. youth poet laureate performed the chorus of the captain is now the poem praises 3 essential workers chosen as onery captains to take the toss before kickoff the prerecorded recital was played to a harmful stadium because of coronavirus restrictions. on the field the tampa bay buccaneers won the super bowl for the 1st time since 2003 back from quarterback tom

brady threw 3 touchdowns and was named the most valuable player as tampa eased to a $31.00 win over the kansas city chiefs since the 43 year old 7th super bowl title . more news and sport whenever you want it on our websites al jazeera dot com the headlines are next. and 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 himalayan last year collapsed sending water and down a valley at least 14 people have died and run 170 are still missing elizabeth purana has more on the rescue effort from where she cashed in a sort of calm and rescue personnel have just begun working on a tunnel near the top of one day and they had to stop all workplaces.