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 add a sleek like them for future mission to 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 one martian year or $687.00 earth days the knowledge it acquires for humanity will last forever rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. it's good to have you with us hello adrian fit here in the headlines i was here

a u.s. president joe biden has announced a return to multilateralism he spoke at the munich security conference on transcending the virtual g. 7 summit a promise coordinated action to deal with the pandemic as well as climate change i know the past few years of strain and tested our transatlantic relationship but the united states is determined determined to reengage with europe to consult with you earn back our position of trust and leadership achieving his these goals is going to depend on a course to t.g. proposition and that is the united states must renew america's enduring advantages so that we can meet today's challenges from a position of strength. biden went on to mention iran and said that he's willing to return to the 2050 nuclear deal but he criticized hiran for destabilizing actions the us government has agreed to enter mediated talks but iran is demanding an

immediate lifting of sanctions the u.k.'s prime minister 7 leaders to work together to ensure the fed distribution of vaccines to developing countries he says to the virtual conference to find the best way forward for a global recovery strategy. has been more come far in somalia's capital as anger grows over delayed national elections shots were fired in mogadishu as a presidential candidate led a rally against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire on. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protest of the dian myanmar's anti coupe protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital made the door of the u.k. supreme court has ruled that drivers should be classed as workers and not self employed that gives them the right to a minimum wage and paid holidays when you see here i was era after inside story which is coming up next.

when you'd have bona break in the shopping precinct one of deaths african countries roughly with health y.c. on different fronts so how come their health care systems go and could fair access to cope with 19 vaccines the continent this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. is raising fears of

an uncontrolled spread of the disease it's already being detected in the democratic republic of congo neighboring sierra leone and liberia are tracking possible cases the well health organization has 6 countries to be on high alert the crisis comes many african nations are struggling to contain the corona virus africa is seeing a sharp rise in covert 19 deaths and health care systems overstretched it's fear there could be more fatalities if a boat is left unchecked they double shift more than 11000 doses of vaccines to have why the disease in guinea. south africa is leading the rise in corona virus that on the continent accounting for nearly half in more contagious cove in $1000.00 variant has pushed hospitals have their limits and is spread across other nations the mutation is fear to reduce the impact of vaccines south africa has

just switched from astra zeneca doses to johnson and johnson's shots over such concerns officials are criticizing the dominance of pharmaceutical companies over access to covert $1000.00 vaccines it's representative of the world trade organization says structural change is needed to allow countries to manufacture their own vaccines vishu a fairer access to vaccine to poorer nations has also been raised by the french president in manuel mark ron has european nations and the us to hand 5 percent of their current cove in $1000.00 vaccine supplies to developing countries in africa macross comments came after the united nations secretary general antonio terrorist denounced the and even distribution of covert 1000 shots. we don't do then we must respond to what is a moral duty into the situation of glaring inequality and to do so out of

conviction and solidarity as president obama said but also if i may say so out of interest because if we do not eradicate this virus from the entire globe through an appropriate vaccination strategy let it thrive on the african continent and elsewhere in the poorest countries and to continue to circulate to make variants and probably variants that will end up being resistant to the vaccines now being deployed in europe the united states and the middle east let's have a look at other african nations that have started to roll out vaccines zimbabwe's using of this sign of that china has distributed to several african countries the strain that emerged in south africa is now thought to be dominant there senegal has received its 1st 200000 doses of the judge from the same company but there are concerns about the vaccines efficacy after study found it produced weaker immune response against the mutation deaths across the african continent have reached

$100000.00 where the contagious variant and limited access to vaccines many are concerned that figure could get much higher. let's bring in our guests from johannesburg having really shares member of the south africa ministerial advisory committee for covert encoded vaccine from brazzaville. dr richard miniter coordinator of the immunization and vaccine development program of the world health organization and from paris john johnson vaccination and a pedantic response referent of a doctors without borders friends thank you all for joining us. your country has stepped in criticizing vaccine inequality globally but at the same time we're seeing the same pattern which is wealthy nations hoarding hundreds of

millions of doses which they want to possibly be using how do you see of this disconnect. when i think the disconnect is obvious and we just heard president micron make a state. from france's point of view they're beginning to understand that and recognizing that from a global health perspective this makes absolutely no sense at all and the african union as you said then led by president hu's that have made very strong statements about this in the 2009 pandemic flu and the african region was that the last continent to get any vaccines and by the time we got plexi it was they were going to be of little use in terms of pandemic prevention so the whole efforts of the african union the kovacs of the 2 the world health organization and now i'm pleased to say many large countries that are both manufacturing vaccines and have these sorts of vaccines i think that we've got to change the dialogue to say that that

really has to be the norm sharing has to be the norm and access for poor countries and particularly in the african region we've got to change the pattern of distribution that that has so far prevailed which is the extremely limited. richard there is this issue of changing the mindsets to be able to convince people that it's about time to share the stock buyers they have by the same time of the current pace it seems that millions of people in africa won't be able to get vaccine by this by the end of this year how concerned are you about this particular thing. well we have very very much concern indeed and as professor reserve said the promise of international solidarity has been so far elusive and we believe that . until people you know a few guys well are protected and it be nice nobody will be safe everywhere so i

think it's. time for that time that. for the international and public health perspective that we understand or that unless people at the meanest everywhere are i think nobody would be really safe even in places where exhibition is going to be going on so it's it's not only in more and more and they're active to do the right things but it just makes public have sense to to make sure that vaccines or so to reach the people you know africa . this looks like an uphill climb for the african continent john because they're underfunded like a fly behind western countries the having their own political economic problems they're tackling kovi the overstretch and now they are faced with a new threat which is the author of a boat you've been working in one of the epicenters of

a bowler back in the past how concerned are you about the new bric which seems to be stretching about spreading from guinea all the way to many other countries in west africa well 1st of all it's not spreading yet but we have is a cluster of 7 cases 3 that were confirmed in 4 that are probable cases so we haven't confirmed them biologically but it's assumed that there were cases so it's not a huge number of cases so far and it's in guinea for the moment however it is very concerning because we see that this is happening in a city and it's the 2nd largest city in guinea and it shares a border very close with. liberians here and. so this is this is concerning because obviously bill it is a very mortal disease. and we are taking it very seriously i think all the international actors have made a very rapid response that we can give me and in the neighboring countries to make sure that we're ready to respond quickly because the best time to respond to an

outbreak is that beginning to stop quickly. howling which we've been talking about the inequality gap here when it comes to the access to the vaccine when it let's talk a little bit about software you have switched from the to johnson and johnson because of the reports about the efficacy against the south african variant and because ultimately with johnson and johnson it's just one single dose as you know we're learning going to databases about this disease the way it moves forward isn't this something that could potentially have an impact on the way which is the particular kind of vaccine to to deal with in the near future. yes and i mean not only in south africa there are huge global discussions going on including with the manufacturers and the developers about how are we going to respond you've probably read that globally there are variants now occurring all over the world

that the force that if you have a strong horse infections knots of people infected you're much more likely to get there it's emerging we're also seeing that these variants are starting to to move towards each other in terms of the changes and so we're probably going to see that certain changes that mutations of the virus are an advantage for the virus in terms of spread and in terms of resisting the body's immune system so we're going to see this convergence of variants probably worldwide so south africa is grappling with the variants and thinking about which vaccines to use of course the problem is that the moment for most of the new vaccines their brand new the variant to spread it to the u.s. well is that we don't have an awful lot of data on which to judge you know is one of actually going to be better than the other and there's a very careful discussion going on to say well can we understand the bar actually welcome we understand from animal models and how much clinical data do we need to get to really understand the impact on the variance on how effective the vaccine is

going to be because clearly we can't keep doing these huge clinical trials every time we get a new variant with every maxine it's simply not feasible so we're trying to find alternative ways to give us a good idea how effective a vaccine is likely to be as we get these new variance and so forth about africa we are we changed to the johnson and johnson because there we do have some clinical data generated from south africa and the clinical chart earlier are as alongside lab data that suggests that this is that scene will be effective and that was one of the reasons why we've made that switch. richard when french president even where micron said that it's about time for european countries or the u.s. to set aside something like 5 percent of their own stockpiles of the vaccines to be distributed among poor nations do you see of those countries. responding positively when you know that ultimately. i would say it's safe to wait until the

last citizen in my own country get the vaccine before i start handing out to the other nations. when i think about the announcement represent micro. city i think is a very good right direction. but the idea is to see what would your reaction of other. high income countries we know that are today at the g. 7 meeting there would be a discussion around this in talk econ how each country can step in and then start to share some of the disease that they're hoarding and which at the end of the day will not make sense to keep well we know very well that people in the and you're looking at countries are still waiting for the vaccine and it's important here to mention that the and professor reason mentioned these we does not to have

learned from the past in 2009 during each one h one n one pandemic i think we we were. we're breaking into the inside story of if she can see again at midnight 30 g.m.t. or on line of 0 dot com to take you back to the munich security conference where the united states special presidential envoy for climate john kerry is making his speech that's listener munich security conference which is exactly where it belongs today climate change as we just heard from u.n. stoltenberg is a security issue and the fact is it's among the most complex security issues we've ever faced what we do or don't do in the coming months and years will make all the difference but for millions of people wolf. you know they don't have to look into

a distant future to see the impacts of climate change now they just have to look out the window this week in the state of texas we've seen unprecedented extreme cold related to climate because the polar vortex penetrates further south because of the weakening of the jet stream related to warming last year the u.s. or record 30 named tropical cyclones europe is warming even faster than the global average and the melting arctic ice has changed geo strategic and military calculations for every country on the planet from russia to china and obviously for nato and what these extreme weather events translate to on the ground should concern every single one of us climate change is again as jen said it's a threat multiplier when tensions are already high somewhere and resources are increasingly scarce the embers of conflict just burn brighter and when farmers can

no longer make a living because the weather is so extreme and unpredictable they become increasingly desperate many. according to some studies hundreds of millions of people will be forced from their homes forced from their habitat from the place they've lived a life died and not only can mass migration drive humanitarian crisis but as europe knows only too well as we saw with turkey's manipulation of the numbers of people being released and people being pushed out of syria if it is not managed well it can literally begin to undermine countries homes peace and stability and we've seen dramatic change in politics in a lot of places because of this so when we talk about the impacts of climate change we're talking about security energy security economic security food security even

physical security and the question now is pregnant li what will the world do about it 3 years ago scientists warned that if we want to prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis we have to limit the planet's warming to 1.5 degrees celsius that's the magic number by consensus among most scientists the same group of scientists told us that we had 3 years ago about 12 years so now 3 years later 3 years wasted sadly largely because of our president united states around 2030 is the date it which we have to get the world now on the right path in order to cap the warming at that level of $1.00 so we are absolutely clearly without question now inside the decisive decade. it is simply not acceptable wolf gun for countries to think they can go to glasgow the meeting will

have a cop in november and simply put big numbers out for projections 30 and 40 years from now or lager it's what people will do in the next 10 years that matter that's what we have to talk about what are we going to do starting now going to 2030 for the simple reason. that if we do not sufficiently reduce our emissions and that is true for the united states as it is true for other major emitting countries like china and india and russia and japan and so forth and the e.u. as a whole if we don't reduce then we simply have not any longer got the possibility of holding the temperature at 1.5 degrees or of having net 0 by 2050 and unfortunately today the day the united states formally reenters the paris agreement today the fact is that only one or 2 countries are actually meeting with they said

they do from paris and even if we did everything we said we do in paris their wrist temperature will rise to about $3.00 degrees so we have to raise ambition that is why president biden moved to rejoin the paris agreement hours after he was sworn in on day one it is a process that takes 30 days that means that as of today we are officially back in again but in rejoining we've got to be really honest with each other we have to be humble and most of all we have to be ambitious we have to be honest that as a global community we're not close to where we need to be we have to be humble because we know the united states was inexcusably absent for 4 years and most of all we have to be ambitious all of us because we have to get the job done in november when we convene in glasgow for the un climate conference cop $26.00 i

believe it is our last best hope to get all of our nations on the right road to keep us at the 1.5 and achieve a net 0 by 2050 we all need to develop not just a number but a roadmap for how we will actually make. the dramatic progress we need to make over the next 10 years and what we will specifically do to get to net 0 by no later than 2050 and we need to be working. hand in hand with the private and public sector to provide the finance which will be critical fight him soon the trillions in order so that countries can do what they have to do we're already hard at work on this we will spend the coming weeks and months working very closely with our european 'd allies at the leaders' summit president biden will host in april at the gatherings

like the g. 7 the g. 20 camel are at our oceans conference and in the arctic council anywhere and everywhere we can leading into the united nations meeting in new york in september and then glasgow. there's simply no faking it at this moment failure is really not an option if we expect to pass there are thought in in the shape that it needs to be to future generations and so we all need to determine what success looks like how to achieve it and commit ourselves to get this job above all to get this job done thank you and i'm happy to take a couple of questions thank you and secretary kerry i would like. well that was the united states special presidential envoy for climate john kerry addressing the munich security conference. that's some pretty in white house correspondent kimberly how could somebody who was listening to what john kerry had to say come 26

of them but he said last best hope on climate change. yeah the special envoy for climate in the united states john kerry using the opportunity of the munich security conference but also reminding that it's an important date for the united states in that is the day that joe biden by entering the club paris climate accord that given the fact it takes 30 days that this is also the sort of marking of the start of the americas entry back into that as being a vitally significant acknowledging that precious time has been lost he believes because of the policies of the previous president donald trump and that. he didn't use the words that joe biden has used he certainly implied that this is an existential threat that the the world is facing and he really seemed to issue

a challenge to global leaders acknowledging the failures of the united states but also saying that there have been failures on the part of other nations saying that when it comes to paris really only one or 2 countries are living up to those commitments and those don't go nearly far enough so not only highlighting some of the recent examples around the world and currently in the united states in the u.s. state of texas facing frigid cold temperatures in an area that's typically warm and ball me this is just an example of how the weather and the threat to climate and the climate crisis isn't just an issue of climate security but also food security of physical security goes so much farther than that it interest into it's in all interrelated so what we have from john kerry there is not only a reminder and an apology yet again from the united states for the own mistakes of the american public and voting public and the policies that were

a result of that but also that there is no more time to waste and he is urging global leaders along with the united states to make firm commitments as they look towards glasgow and others that. the time for action is has come and gone that this needs to happen now as that he called it a decisive decade there really is time is running out forgive the rather simplistic summary here of the trumpet ministrations policy about one of the recent reasons why it withdrew from the paris accord was because of the impact that that meeting those those targets would have on u.s. jobs how will the by dint of a stray sions climate policies go down domestically. such a good question it is the number one reason that donald trump pulled america out of the paris climate accord the issue of jobs that while the united states was adhering to some of those international commitments he said that major polluters

like china for example were not and so wasn't having an impact globally that was desired the only impact was it was hurting ordinary americans who elected him to bring about this type of change that is now being undone and this is the controversy that joe biden and the criticism that joe biden is facing here in the united states with the pulling out of the transatlantic pipeline or rather the x.l. pipeline in the midwest of the united states. immediately jobs were lost by the thousands and as a result people are saying where these green jobs to replace them and they'd ministration hasn't had a good answer. but i think steve our white house correspondent kimberly how could that who you'll be seeing again in a few minutes time when we begin on next news out inside story by the way just a reminder if you want to see that in full it is again a midnight 30 g.m.t. here on al-jazeera or you should be able to find it online at our sarah dot com.

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