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china as concern mounts over the spread of the contagious south african variant. all alone in the lone star state where storage freezers left hundreds of thousands of people without heating and electricity. the nations of the world are failing to meet their own climate change targets putting humanity's future at risk a new report from the united nations outlines a triple threat that's hitting the poorest people the hardest 1st the world is set to warm by at least 3 degree celsius by the end of this century sheeting past the 2 degree target from the power so cords and twice the one and a half degree ceiling that would prevent the worst impacts seconds no biodiversity targets are being manned sleeving more than a 1000000 of the world's estimated $8000000.00 plant and animal species at

a seriously increased risk of extinction and 3rd $9000000.00 people die prematurely every year from diseases caused by pollution which marked with much left to be done to clean up and water that's a toll that's disproportionately hitting the developing world. bernard smith has more on what's at stake. for a decade the lakes of kenya's rift valley have been rising swallowing up land and villages destroying communities deforestation is to blame soil once held in place by trees is washed down from the mountains by the rain silting up the lakes below stopping them from draining in a report called making peace with nature the u.n. environment program says we need on bishops global coordination to make the use of land and oceans sustainable there are vested interests that a stop action there we have subsidies for agriculture and for energy for fossil

fuels a perverse they encourage the use of fossil fuels that encourage the use of bad agricultural practices so there were many people around the world trying to repeat governments floyd said civil actions together the report says that none of the global goals for the protection of life on earth have been met deforestation and overfishing continues a 1000000 species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction and there is much to be done to reduce and water pollution but if we can get the business community so work with governments around the world i'm optimistic we can start to move in the right direction and i think most governments do realize that climate shades exactly i firstly are facing through security forces security shroom and health poverty alleviation without action the world is on track to warm 3 degrees above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100 so missing the paris agreement target

of well below 2 degrees and like the people of the rift valley the u.n. says it's the world's poorest in developing countries but suffer the worst consequences of climate change bernard smith al-jazeera. or the executive director of the un environment program says money and investment will be key. good news is that already 126 countries have signed up for into what we call the net 0 club that they will go be net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 we need to see more countries doing that and we see the need to see an end saying for the poor countries to enable them to make these shifts at the same time but biodiversity we need to invest in smart agriculture that doesn't destroy biodiversity and we need to invest in nature not not have and buy products that we need to buy products and at deforestation korean unpolluted of course we need to use those chemicals of course

and the other products but use and use them wisely and all of this means essentially let's not take out of the environment materials put them into the economy and when we're done with them we throw them back refuse and waste. the un special envoy for yemen has called for hitting attacks on the city of my rib to stop dozens of people have been killed as the iran backed armed group intensified its efforts to seize the government stronghold the fighting fetter displace hundreds of thousands more people and worsen the country's humanitarian crisis but the un's envoy says peace in yemen is still attainable feminism's can be agreed a part of what is needed is simply an fundamentally the political world there's a conflict. a decision and agreement on these are issues that offer you have it is a break from the looks of cycles of violence and with the political movements of people in both it could create

a deuce of environment for the parties and to move to the realist spirit of having inclusive talks to end the war on the basis of those aspirations the political process that would need to resume. our diplomatic editor james spaces at the united nations with more on what's at stake. special envoy has been in the job for 3 years now he said the tension on the ground is the worst it's been any point he said that offensive in marab risks millions of lives particularly if the fighting gets to places where there are people living you've already been displaced from other parts of yemen and the news of the security council meeting got even grimmer than that we heard from of the humanitarian situation in yemen from mark lo cox who is the undersecretary general of the u.n. in charge of coordinating the humanitarian response around the world and he said there was the risk now of the worst famine anywhere in the world in decades and he

came up with a most staggering figure of 400000 children under the age of 5 who may well only have weeks or months to live. more nato troops are set to head to iraq with the possibility of an american pullout from afghanistan still looming the alliance is secretary general said defense ministers had made no decision in a 2 day summit on how the mission there will end nato already has nearly $10000.00 soldiers in support roles in afghanistan u.s. president joe biden has until may to choose whether to stick to a deal donald trump made with the taliban to pull out ministers did agree to multiply the training mission in iraq from 500 to around 4000 personnel nato's goal is to ensure that afghanistan never again the concert safe haven for terrorists would attack our whole nance so our eyes will continue to together the

conditions on the ground as we do the protection of our troops remain spare moment and we will take all necessary measures to keep them safe. zimbabwe has joined just a handful of african nations in launching a covert 19 vaccination dr says the continent reports at least 100000 deaths from the disease for the 1st time since bob ways and vice president constantine she went was the 1st to be inoculated with one of the 200000 doses donated by china a 2nd wave of infections has overwhelmed hospitals in many african nations believed to be driven by a highly trance miscible variant identified in south africa. is in harare where there is public concern over the vaccine rollout. this was will go on for

about 10 days throughout the country health workers are being vaccinated most of these people work in public hospitals way they've complained for many years about the lack of p.p.s. masks and gloves to some of these nurses and doctors hope that getting this vaccination will take them again kovac 19 and then you will see the police soldiers and immigration staff come to get vaccinated later the elderly and people with underlying conditions and then the rest of the population will follow the government purchase an additional $600000.00 vaccines from china those are expected to come into the country early in march they also talking to russia and india about buying more that means they are also trying to get more that the country from the kodak realty that's being coordinated by the world health organization and the global of act in alliance the aim is to vaccinate 10000000 people about 50 percent

of the population by the end of the year on tuesday the government saying that the variant that with identified in africa is now in zimbabwe from people i'm now concerned arkan question how effective is the fact going to be against that variant some of them i think if you look at the chinese like the implied apartment other that things on the market were produced you quickly they want to know what exactly is in these vaccines and would it be any good for the world health organization is calling on wealthier countries to help strike a balance by participating in its global scheme to help distribute vaccines evenly among middle and low income countries officials say this would reduce the risk of new variants emerging. our big message is that we should get on with vaccination as quickly as possible and at the same time do everything possible to reduce transmission because the more these viruses transmit the more likely they are

to have additional mutations occur and more likely to have issues that could emerge that relate to reduced impact of the vaccines the global vaccine rollout is accelerating 20 more african nations are expecting the astra zeneca vaccine next week the african centers for disease control and prevention says a 1000000 doses will arrive but didn't specify which countries would receive them pakistan's inoculation program set to receive a boost next month when it receives nearly $3000000.00 astra zeneca doses so far it's only taken delivery of half a 1000000 chinese shots new data from israel suggests that once someone is vaccinated they have only a warnin a 1000 chance of contracting corona virus of more than 600000 people inoculated with the pfizer job just 608 people then caught it all in all nearly 32000000 people around the world have received all the doses they need to be fully

vaccinated. the dutch prime minister is trying to rush through emergency legislation to maintain the country's controversial nighttime curfew the aim is for the bill to pass parliament by friday when the restriction could be lifted if government lawyers lose an appeal a judge ordered the curfew to be lifted on choose day ruling emergency powers have been wrongly used to reinforce it some of the country's worst riots in decades were seen after the 9 pm to 4 30 am restriction was brought in last month step vasant has more from amsterdam on how this has become a damaging political issue. well many expect that here to happen but the lawmakers have some very strong words about the government's a big mistake as they call a day also call it a big mass where the country is landed in because the government has used this wrong legal basis for this curfew and as we know the curfew from the ferry start

has been leading to political legal and also security dramas here in the netherlands it has led to the largest riots in 40 years when the curfew was actually impose its 1st curfew since the 2nd world war so there was a lot of resentment already so many took to the streets in the 1st few nights i was looting there was a lot of destruction fighting with the police and then this week the government got a real big blow because the court in the hague decided that the curfew wasn't legal at all so now they very quickly came up with this emergency law at the moment this is very quickly now being discussed in parliament there's a lot of criticism from lawmakers of course especially. the far right is really profiting from this mistake but at the end many here expect at the end of the day also tomorrow when the 1st chamber the senate will look at it that there will be

approved but there's still also an appeal hearing on friday about this curfew law so at the end maybe we still have a curfew but you can imagine this has led to a lot of confusion here in the netherlands do we have a curfew or don't we have a curfew and also it's seen as an example of the very inconsistent policy the government has had since the beginning of the pandemic. still to come on al-jazeera and protestors bring young gone to a halt again as mammals military rulers continue their arrest campaign and facebook friends know more but after a long australia new sides of the social network risk a backlash. now there's been a sudden warming in most of europe gone from frosty by day and by night to above

freezing both but the edge and we're going into turkey here is still getting the snow it's more or less stopped now and it's certainly gone from greece but that was the picture in turkey is this area here is the bit that's got warm now unfortunately is a bit of blocking cold from the baltic states dancer ukraine down towards the black sea which is not being pushed either way very much but for most it's surprisingly high temperature wise borders at 20 berlin's attend but also right on the average anchor reference turkey's thinking about it not quite got there borzou 20 degrees 8 above normal and stays there until sunday when the wind changes a little bit and this is the picture for saturday mostly sunny picture wind and rain for parts of portugal and the british isles but these temperatures are otherwise and there's that edge still in the frost but not seeing very much there but in bulk area maybe warsaw slowly see the temperature creep about freezing for the next 3 days and istanbul does the same but it's

a slow creep and it's frosty overnight so some snow for turkey but still plenty of shows including of snow in the levant. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions and cuts and loads of music across the country and as a dockside in the 12 is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the him fix into something more like the team i didn't see of the british football i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera.

a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un is warning that millions of people as well as animal and plant species are at grave risk from climate change report identified 3 main threats warming climate decreasing biodiversity and diseases caused by pollution. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is calling for a halt to hooty attacks on the city of maria dozens of people have been killed in intensified efforts to seize the government strongholds. zimbabwe has joined just a handful of african nations in launching a covert 19 vaccination drive as the continent reaches at least 100000 deaths from the disease the wave of infections are overwhelming hospitals in many african nations believed to be driven by

a highly transmissible variant 1st identified in south africa. more than 11000 a bowl of vaccine should arrive in guinea over the weekend after the country declared an outbreak them it's hoped inoculations could then begin on monday 5 people have died out of 6 confirmed and probable cases democratic republic of congo has also begun vaccinations after recording cases more than 11000 people were killed in an outbreak that spread through west africa from 2013 to 2016. hundreds of thousands of homes in the united states of state of texas are facing a 4th day without heating in the middle of a freezing winter storm it's knocked out much of the state's electrical supply leaving around half a 1000000 homes without power down from a peak of 2700000 on wednesday the governor of texas has asked natural gas supplies

to stop exporting outside the state more than 20 people are confirmed dead as a result of the cold weather with authorities expecting that figure to rise. well let's cross to gabriel elizondo who's in new york for us gabriel it seems like things in texas at least have gone from bad to worse particularly in a part of the united states that many associate with beach holiday so how is texas coping. yeah that's right to texas is not used to freezing cold temperatures that they're seeing for the last 4 days and the system really has collapsed there the electrical grid the power system pretty much has completely failed the entire state and as you mentioned there still about half a 1000000 people that at this hour are with out any power or lake tricity in the state at one point there are also about 12000000 texans that had their water supply

cut off at their homes because of greasing pipes as you mentioned dozens of people have lost their lives says well there are growing calls for the national guard to be deployed to texas to help with the growing crisis there's a shortage of water and food in many places in texas in supermarkets and also a shortage of gasoline as well so the problems are far and wide in texas and there's a lot of questions being answered on how was this allowed to happen there. because of this storm clearly the state was not prepared their electrical grid system is independent from the a rest of the united states the power grid they have their own power grid system only for the state of texas by their choice so when it feels like it has now there's nowhere else to try to get power from a lot of questions being asked nancy pelosi the speaker of the house of

representatives has already said she plans to open potentially congressional investigations into how this works out allowed to happen in texas but the situation . there is downright critical and amid all this weather chaos the misery of the state's republican senator ted cruz has provoked anger has been a by jetting off on something that many of us haven't been on for a while holiday. that's right while his state is in crisis people are freezing. and dealing with a huge weather calamity there he went with his spam really late on late on wednesday to fly to cannes koon a beach resort in the yucatan peninsula of mexico he did that unexpectedly when word leaked that he did this are photographs taken of him boarding the plane to can . he immediately we are told he's flying back to texas right now because there was

an outcry on why he would go take a holiday at a beach well 29000000 people in his state are suffering in record cold temperatures bruces c. issued a statement saying that he was just simply accompanying his daughters to cannes koon and he was in contact with his staff and emergency officials in texas the whole time but bottom line is cruz is expected back in texas in the next couple hours and he is expected to face a lot of questions by a very angry texans on why he would simply think this was a good idea to take a vacation at a beach in the middle a situation of what they're facing gabriel if anyone needs a hot sunny beach right now it looks like you would be a good candidate so from a very cold new york on his own day the democrats in the u.s. congress have introduced president biden's plans to reform immigration policies

including the possibility of citizenship for $11000000.00 undocumented migrants a white house correspondent can be how explains what the plan hopes to achieve. there is this feeling that if they create 2 pathways for immigrants in the united states who are currently here undocumented they will be able to push these through bring these people out of the shadows allow them to pay for taxes and other things that at times when the united states really needs it what they'll do is those that are working here as farm workers for example those with temporary protected status or even those who came as children are now adults only know the united states as their home country known as dreamers they would be given an automatic green card as it's called or permanent residency and the chance to kind of fast track for citizenship everybody else would then be given background checks would be given work permits and would also be able to request deportation relief now what's really

important about all of this is that you have to have been here in the united states before january 1st of 2021 so this is not going to apply to people that are coming for example who are hearing this news thinking they'd like to cross the border and in fact the white house press secretary jim psaki talking about this and be very firm saying that the united states is not ready for a wave of people to come as a result of this legislation the infrastructure is not there the policy is not there what they're saying is that for those who have been here for years and have been living in the shadows they will finally be able to if this is passed be able to be an important part of an integrated american society kind of the united kingdom the latest nations to announce sanctions against myanmar as ruling generals as international pressure builds 2 and a half weeks of military coup but the nation's military government is showing no sign of backing down in the face of must demonstrations thousands have protested for the 13th straight day with security forces firing water cannon in the capital

night patrol of the united nations estimates 3 courses of civil servants on now on strike has more on the process. rickshaws and trucks joined the 2nd day of a civil disobedience campaign with protesters blocking roads by pretending their vehicles have broken down this to stoke further disruption ahead of another day of rallies protesters in yangon parked in the middle of streets again and then drove off a road off very slowly yet. once we stop the operations our revolution will be successful this civil disobedience will have been just a way we can defeat the military to into that's the way forward we are creating the traffic because we want to stop the government workers who are getting tax money from getting to the office i want everyone to join has. in southern myanmar protesters gathered out front of complexes run by foreign companies involved with

international gas pipelines in the gan area. they appealed to the companies to stop doing business with the new military government. and in mandalay they gathered in front of a court house where hearings for 2 officials connected to unsung suit the party took place. as a joke to continues its campaign of harass people in the capital ne put or called for the release of suchi and students who were detained here earlier in the week. we rode to the subways in front of jail every day for information about children but we get nothing we aren't even allowed to get close to the gate and the authorities keep denying that the detained children. the joint has also issued arrest warrants for several celebrities who've encouraged the strikes hundreds of people have been detained since the coup not only those politically connected to aung sang suchi it's got to al-jazeera. the prime minister of georgia has announced his resignation george says he's standing down over

a disagreement with his cabinet over the arrest of opposition leader. he's been critical of the avast saying it'll only increase the political tension in the country caria had been in power since september 29th teen. facebook risks stirring an international backlash after it blocked news feed in australia in a row over regulation government and charity pages were also wipes but after google backed down it could give governments around the world resolved to get tough on tech giants sharp bellis reports history wants to regulate facebook in return it's got a news blackout facebook's scrubbed its news feed wiping information from health pages government agencies welfare networks and with the warnings the government wants to bring in a law that forces facebook and google to pay media outlets when they re publish the continent google has conceded signing deals with several media outlets but facebook

has not facebook was wrong facebook. sections were unnecessary they're way heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia facebook announced the move on its blog saying astray misunderstands the relationship between itself and publishes it says publishers willingly choose to post news on facebook to sell more subscriptions grow their audiences and increase advertising revenue it is to make generated more than $5000000000.00 free referrals to australian publishes with an estimated 315000000 dollars last year the government and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg talked again on thursday the principle is very clear way going on facebook are important parts of the digital eco system in australia they're important part of the economy we've made it clear that we want them to continue operating here but we've also made it clear that if you do business in australia

you need to comply with a lot of the in the strategy of many in the media agree arguing tech giants must pay for the journalism they re publish because news organizations use whatever platform they can to share their content problem is that what this is meant is google and facebook now take share of advertising revenue which makes it very difficult for media companies boy the journalists our members need to use human rights watch also condemn the move saying facebook has cut off more than the media they were all strains of the ones caught in the middle here because whilst this floor is saying that years companies there are a whole range of community organizations have been affected astray or has given google and facebook 2 options strike deals with media companies or have fees sit for them but facebook has decided on the 3rd take away its news feed altogether shallop bellus al-jazeera. the most advance rather vanessa ever sent to mars is due

to land on the red planet and. over an hour from now perseverance left earth nearly 7 months ago and has traveled 300000000 miles in its bid to search for traces of life the rover is carrying a range of instruments it will use to analyze rocks if successful the mission which cost nearly $3000000000.00 would mark the 9th craft to successfully land on masts. the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.n. is warning that millions of people as well as animals and plants species are in grave risk from climate change report identifies 3 main threats warming climates decreasing biodiversity and diseases caused by pollution the u.n. secretary general used to report to appeal to world leaders to make a commitment to fight.