world leaders gather virtually for a group of 7 summit they look to build a united strategy to fight the krona virus pandemic. i'm sam is this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. chaos in the capital of somalia shots are fired during

a protest demanding the president steps down. a protester dies days after being shot during demonstrations in may and mark thousands of people are back on the streets. mission to the red planet after a 7 month journey nasa is rover gets to work looking for signs of ancient life on mars. u.s. president joe biden is for pairing to address world leaders for the 1st time since taking office british prime minister boris johnson is hosting the virtual meeting of g 7 leaders to come up with a united strategy to tackle the covert 900 pandemic. and how best to revive the global economy i'll talk to kimberly halkett in washington d.c. in a bit but 1st let's go live to jonah how in london a big issue jenner's i mention is how to combat the covert 19 pandemic specially

when it comes to vaccines what kind of action can we expect from rich countries to take to make sure that developing nations have good access to vaccines. well i want to mountains this will be an opportunity for the leaders of the g. 7 to show that they are responsive to the sort of moral pressure being thrust upon them chiefly by the un the w a h o in particular made the point that in a global pandemic with global consequences and global costs it's all very well for rich countries to race ahead and vaccinate their populations but if the developing world the poor world is left to languish without that that sort of help for months perhaps even years as potentially is the case now well then the pandemic is not over for the whole world the hope is that that will weigh on the conscience of these leaders as they deliberate on covert boris johnson chairing this meeting seems to be keen to take the initiative here he is going to pledge to the others to

his fellow members that the u.k. will for the 1st time interact with kovacs that's the developing world initiative being run by the w.h.o. to provide vaccines to poorer countries he says the u.k. will donate any surplus supplies of the vaccine. to kovacs presumably only when the u.k. is finished with them it's got far more than it needs only when u.k. the entire population has been vaccinated so we don't know when exactly that will be we don't know how many doses exactly that will amount to he's also pledged 3 quarters of a $1000000000.00 to kovacs the u.s. has pledged quite a bit more there may be other pledges to come at this meeting and boris johnson is talking about a sort of global pandemic cooperation treaty he wants countries to pool their expertise and resources to be better prepared to move more quickly in the face of future pandemic threats what he's not talking about is delivering

a single dose of the vaccine to any developing country now as the w.h.o. would like france has come up with a plan a suggestion that the countries to deliver 5 percent of their available stocks now to kovacs with see if that flies at this meeting but there will be certainly steep hurdles to climb in convincing didn't domestic populations still waiting for the vaccine or that now is the time to be giving it away. jonah hollis continue this story with our white house correspondent kimberly how because she's in washington d.c. and kimberly talking about the kovacs campaign and the g. 7 support for it we expect the u.s. is going to be donating some money towards it part of a bigger picture about the return of the u.s. to multilateral action is that how it's being seen yeah there's no question that that is the foundation of the biden ministrations foreign policies pushing reset the last 4 years and donald trump's america 1st policies sending

a message to the global community that the united states wants to work with its partners and allies into that and what we know is with respect to the pandemic not only has the dieted states already. rejoined the world health organization but also there will be this pledging of money for $1000000000.00 to the global vaccination program known as kovacs now the reason the united states is doing this is because it wants to lead by example and to encourage other wealthy economies to staff up in terms of making sure that all countries are able to be vaccinated to have vaccinated programs not just sort of the developed nations but also the developing nations so this is one part of it but the other part of it in terms of. this sort of multilateral approach is in confronting china that is one area where the united states is identified that china is one of its main competitors and as a result there are some grave concerns the united states has with respect to human

rights regarding china intellectual property theft and other issues so this is where the united states feels it's best to engage and so that's why the white house press secretary says that this is the message that the president will be delivering as he speaks to world leaders. and also this is an issue iran's nuclear deal issue those specs it's come up both in the g. 7 meeting as well as that munich security conference what kind of line do we expect the bible ministrations to take home what we've already seen a very important 1st step being taken by the united states as of thursday it had said that his secretary of state would be participating in the p 5 plus one meeting with iran this is certainly a stark contrast to the actions we saw under donald trump the other thing that we've seen is this kind of olive branch be extended by the united states in terms

of undoing another policy of the trumpet ministration with respect to iran and that is lifting those restrictions on iran's mission in new york for the united nations so these are kind of the gestures that we're seeing but at the same time what we're also seeing is a very clear understanding by the united states that it can't. meet with iran without the help of its global partners because there is a sort of brinkmanship that's going on right now the united states has been very firm in saying that it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement with iran to limit its program but only if it sees compliance under that agreement and the fear is that here in the united states that iran has not done that in the last 4 years iran is saying we want sanctions lifted before we have any of these sorts of discussions and the united states is insisting that there be compliance 1st so this is where the trouble has come in between the united states and iran and this is where the european allies will be so valuable and so that's why the united states

has made clear that it's going to be important partnership moving forward all right thanks so much complete help to. now there's been heavy gunfire on the streets of somalia's capital mogadishu it happened during a rally calling for the president to step down and delay the elections to go ahead . trots were fired as a presidential candidate was holding a march against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire roads have been sealed off and there's a heavy security presence the u.n. is calling for calm and is urging both sides to come together to reduce tensions. presidential candidate turned former prime minister has not entirely addressed the media accuse security forces of killing protesters. today security forces opened fire against us as we led the peace rally in mogadishu this happened as event was being watched around the world some have died and others

wounded i'm standing well wishes to those who would somalia's federal government and the 5 federal states are deadlocked over how to carry out election reforms and agreement was reached in september to hold the 1st in direct elections since the 1960 s. but it unraveled and the parties missed december's deadline to hold parliamentary elections the mandate for president mohamed 100 also known as for marjoe expired nearly 2 weeks ago his opponents no longer recognize him as president and are demanding a and power to a transitional government catherine saw is following developments from neighboring kenya. about this incident at the airport we have spoken to people in or around the airport who have told us that operations in the airport have been suspended and it follows this dramatic since we've been seeing that played out this morning we saw

an exchange of gunfire intense an exchange of gunfire between government forces and propositioned forces there was also a huge explosion i have a little more detail on that we have spoken to some opposition leaders who are saying that it was a rocket propelled grenade that was launched and inside the airport and a building was destroyed we've also spoken to the government spokesman who has confirmed there was an incident but wouldn't give us more details so this all happened at the start of this protest march that was being led by several opposition presidential candidates including a former prime minister have some kind of they were trying to get to an area where they had plans to address this massive rally to call out the government and everything that has been going on in the country politically it's very difficult to see how that is going to happen now a days of police checkpoints military checkpoints all along the way huge military

deployment was also another incident yesterday involving 3 other presidential candidates they're still holed up at a hotel called might very close to the venue where this political rally of this a protest rally was supposed to be held it has been surrounded by military pass and now one of the presidential candidates of former president shaikh shareef has blamed accused presidents from marjo of ordering an attack on them to stifle their freedom of expression and to stop them from going to that rally. 20 year old woman has become the 1st protested to die after being injured in may and mars and the coup protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital knife a door thousands of people have joined nationwide demonstrations for a 14th straight day demanding the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi and the return to civilian rule scott the reports. i cite the attic who

protest movement never wanted to see the death of a protester. kind had just turned 20 when she was shot in the head as police dispersed a crowd of protesters in the capital navy doctors say it was a live bullet she had been on life support since she was taken to hospital on february 9th. i want to encourage all the citizens to join the protests until we can get rid of the system. in central yangon security forces extended an area blocked off by barricades. protesters have gathered in the district around too late to go to nearly every day since the rally started more than 2 weeks ago it's the site of some of the largest gathering. elsewhere in yangon a group from the l.g.b. t.q. movement marched against the coup their concern progress for their community could be erased. we don't want to go back to a time when. we don't want to go back to the previous age where the military

companies so we have gathered here to protest today and. more members of the joint are to face sanctions from britain 3 from the defense and interior ministries will be added to the 16 already sanctioned for human rights violations before the assets will be frozen and travel restricted canada will also impose sanctions this is unacceptable behavior. must. be resisted that we must find our way back to democracy and those who perpetrate violations of human rights abuses as we've seen a man must be held to account. in the ancient city of began protesters tap what they believe is the supernatural to counter the military john they performed a ceremony to put a curse on the coup leader general. 7 the temple has been associated with national leaders for centuries the general had visited it just last year to seek divine blessing he's got idler al-jazeera. still ahead of al-jazeera the epicenter of

a new ebola outbreak guinea steps up efforts to control the spread of the deadly virus a victory for drivers the u.k. supreme court rules to give them workers' rights. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways how are you i'm pleased to say it's turning to side least springlike across much of japan as we go through the next couple of days across bits and pieces the plot rolling across the korean peninsula pushing up towards the fun north of japan sapporo around 7 celsius but take a look at tokyo running around 7 or 8 degrees above average on saturday with a high of 18 sunday's even warmer could touch 20 celsius 68 in found had not mild

air that comes right across the korean peninsula 68 in cells a good 10 degrees above the average 17 celsius there for beijing much of china will be tried some walks in shanghai as well around $23.00 degrees with those southerly winds coming through but a chance of wanted to showers down towards the southwest of china well in parts of vietnam which i also wanted to show was to see the eastern side of india as we go through the next day or so you can see some showers just sliding towards others but that she's ing over into tumble not too much of southern india a chance of seeing a little bit of wet weather as is the case to into shrank of the showers will pop up just around chennai as we go on through sunday by the time we come to monday they are still there they are hopefully just making the weddell for the west was becoming a little lighter in the process further north some wintry flurries coming in across northern pakistan. qatar airways.

will get. from every one of this. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done. welcome to our home. don't come back you're watching al jazeera time to recap our headlines u.s. president joe biden is making his debut on the international stage addressing a virtual meeting of the g 7 he's calling for greater cooperation on vaccine

distribution. has been more gunfire in somalia's capital as anger grows over delayed national elections shots were fired in mogadishu as a presidential candidate level battling against the current leader. who opened fire . a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die in myanmar santy coupe protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital maybe door. the world health organization or shipped more than $11000.00 doses of vaccines to guinea to stop the spread of about on top of the corona virus pandemic it's asked 6 countries to be on high alert for possible infections and this is where new cases are emerging giving the south as nicholas hockey explains. in guinea's for a street in the epicenter of the new ball outbreak at the regional health center un

health workers dispatched from conakry to treat the patients in isolation among them is nurse lucy her husband it is in this home where nurse lucy suffered from a fever vomiting and diarrhea a week later she died in hospital health workers were unaware that she had contract it. during her funeral relatives and friends hugged her body contracting the virus but not her uncle dr louis who kept his distance he says he alerted authorities because he sensed her death was more than simply a personal tragedy. to see who was treating her grandmother who had a fever and was reading from my nose and everywhere tried to get blood clotting medicine from the main town eventually the grandmother died and nursed contracted littleness. security forces stop and search vehicles in an attempt to trace close contacts and check for temperatures isolating those that appear ill guinea is on

high alert people are scared haunted by the previous epidemic in 2015 over 11000 people died in 22000 were infected across guinea sirrah leone in liberia a bull that was contained thanks to the development of a new vaccine but the 350000 doses distributed then expired last december the u.n. says that new vaccines are on their way we are shipped into the $11000.00 of ebola vaccine and this is the achievement at least for the 1st time in guinea we are having a vaccine not the beginning of outbreak to control this our break with the pollution vaccine alone will not stop a virus harbored in nature by bats and primates the resurgence of a bull and brings more questions than answers with scientists still trying to

understand why a forest region is again the center of the outbreak nicholas hawk al-jazeera a doctor appeals calls will rule next week and the case against the government's controversial nighttime curfew a lawyer for the government deserved appeals judges in the hague to overturn the ban on the curfew meanwhile the senate is debating new legislation to maintain the curfew the bill was approved by the lower house of parliament on 1st day or violent protests in january when the restrictions were imposed. the u.k. supreme court has ruled drivers should be classed as workers are not self employed the judges agreed with an earlier tribunals decision that found 2 drivers were workers under british law that gives them the right to a minimum wage paid holidays. then i think states officially returns to the

paris climate agreement on friday it reverses 4 years of former president donald trump scaling back on commitments to a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions habitat sirrah faults set backs the previous administration's decisions by a fat i'm going to sign. it was the 3rd executive order signed by joe biden. during the climate of course. the biden administration is about to reverse donald trump's extremely rollback of environmental safeguards some $100.00 rules over the last 4 years including emission standards for cars power plants and the oil and gas industry all seen as key to saving the planet we're getting out president truman announced the u.s. is withdrawing from the paris accord in 2017 however due to a strict exit timetable stipulated in the agreement the us only officially withdrew 3 and a half years later the day after trump lost the election nonetheless it was an announcement

symbolic of the irreversible damage wrought on the planet by the us over the last 4 years it did have incredible ramifications domestically and globally we are on an actual emergency trying to scale we need to actually transition our dire law tricity systems by 80 percent reductions in missions by 20 or so every day that we are writing that we are exacerbating the climate emergency. parasitical agreed to by the obama administration and 2015 committed the us to a 28 percent cut of greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2025 at the time scientists said it was an inadequate pledge if the goal was keeping the global temperature from rising over 2 degrees celsius from pre-industrial times and a larger rise and planetary catastrophe is predicted. now it may also take several

years to reverse regulatory rollbacks crucial time for the pilot doesn't have biden visions of carbon neutral us by 2050 but given the damage of the last 4 years members of congress argue biden will have to take bold action himself and i think it it might be a good idea for president biden to call a climate emergency. because they are not he can get relates to what you're saying then he can do many many things under the emergency powers of the president that wouldn't have to go through that he could do without we're just lation now trump used this emergency for a stupid. all right let's take you to that g. 7 virtual meeting that was being held let's look into the beginning of that meeting the joining the 7 deliberations for the 1st time great to read to see all of you and i want to get your to know now what i want to do more in reality is have this be to face to face and have this group again face to face as the g.

7 usually does it in a gentle almost all earthly thoughts and again your eyes and. it's ok it's very easy to beat and i love what i built more than anything else and grass will caucus day so in the end called one of the many poles of the coolish i mean the era in egypt i'm much you'll have to make our possible what we're doing is fascinating maybe everybody's thinking this is an incredible still need vaccinating i.e. child populations and. that means it's wonderful to behold it because science is finally getting the the upper hand on kobe which is the great great the along take global pandemic. around the world make sure everybody gets the vaccines that they need so the whole world who can through this kind of

need to get around it several colleagues have already announced that i'd be willing to be the case strongly strongly supported of course we also want to work together on building back better through the pandemic a slip of the doubt i think that. joe is used several times i think i think he may have leaked it last night certainly nip it in somewhere else that it probably is a u.n. disaster relief program that we want to build back better than the pandemic and i think that this is the right moment that for us for us cool to focus on the other great natural. challenge about which we've been trying to trying and trying again we can't ignore it the words of the need to clear out the labor of the katyn that is the problem of climate change and that's why we're going to be working very hard to get. some great things done at the g 7 on our plans

to put the 6 summit that we're holding in with why would i tell you friends in glasgow in november and it's great by the way that joe has brought the united states back into the paris climate change accords a great great step forward and i think what we're going to do to reach. our plan is to make sure that the building back that that that the green technology that will be used to tackle climate change to live with the hundreds of thousands if not millions of new green collar jobs that we know it could but it's jobs and growth is what we're going to need up to this kind demick and i think that the other bill that better operation office the right way forward anyway folks at the g. 7 is the great gathering of like minded liberal free trade and

democracies it's a very very important forum and we stand together on many issues around the world whether it's the views of the could even be annoyed where our current ministers joined the expressed their strong view or on the detention of alexey and the valley in moscow where again we have condemned it and we have a lot of work to do so i think we're out because that further ado we really get down to the sake you. we stand together on so many issues the words there of boris johnson the british prime minister addressing the opening there of the virtual summit of g 7 leaders saying the g 7 is the great gathering of like minded liberal democracies now and some of the challenges they need to start working on from covert or continue working on from covert to climate change. thank you more on that as

a as it comes in. miles of rover has touched down successfully on the red planet this spacecraft called perseverance has traveled 470000000 kilometers to find out if there ever was life on mars has more. space scientists erupted in cheers when perseverance landed safely on mars it was the culmination of an action packed nailbiting 7 minute landing sequence. first the spacecraft entered mars orbit then its intrigue capsule raced into the martian atmosphere at 19000 kilometers per hour. the craft then deployed a large parachute to slow its approach to the target zone. slowing down the craft fired thrusters to hover just above the surface then deployed a crane to lower the rover gently downwards i can confirm get.

ready made and again at the end of. the complex and delicate operation went off without a hitch moments later perseverance beamed back images of barren landscape studded with boulders congratulations our savior pain and our own team that's not years well excellent it's the most ambitious and far reaching mission to the red planet. you know by the end of the made by the extent of 2030 start pushing out of the earth moon system in lancaster about something. the rover is primary goal to search for signs that microbial life may have existed on mars billions of years ago we can go somewhere in our solar system you know in our backyard and see signs of life in them and it was on another planet that could tell us why. is incredibly common and

gives us a great shot of central even finding more complex or even intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. perseverance is landing spot is does iraq crater which was once likely a large water filled lake a prime spot for traces of long ago life imagine you know an ancient microbial net microbial color that was growing along the shoreline of a lake and cement it in a rock and leave behind those kind of biological exteriors if we see things like that associated with organics that would be an absolutely fantastic ride that would be probably the best they were look for on mars perseverance we'll also take samples of martian soil and rock those samples will be stored securely inside the rover and we're going to like them for a future mission to come grab it back to earth. finally perseverance brought along a helicopter drone called ingenuity which scientists hope will be able to fly a short distances proving that flight is possible in the extremely thin martian

atmosphere with its dramatic landing done perseverance is mission will last.