the syrian dictatorship would have done better sometimes i thought it would be better to die than continue to be sure really to control. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. iran reaches a deal with the u.n. nuclear watchdog on inspections allowing them to continue for now. that he says axis let's face it let's face it that's axis. hello again i'm peter w. watching all to 0 live from our headquarters here and also coming up. a mid-air emergency prompts u.s. aviation regulators to order more inspections for boeing triple 7 passenger jets.

gunman make an attempt on the life of libya's interior minister just weeks after a peace deal was signed. and u.s. coronavirus deaths approached 500 s. claiming more american lives in the battlefields of 2 world wars and vietnam. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says an agreement has been reached to cushion the impact of iran's latest moves to reduce cooperation tehran wants to put pressure on the u.s. to remove sanctions the agreement means monitoring will continue but inspectors will get less access to such a party reports now from tehran. is an important visit at a critical time rafael grossi the director general of the international atomic energy agency arrived in tax on saturday the head of iran's plan to partly suspend

his agency's inspections of its nuclear facilities early on sunday grossi sat down with the head of iran's atomic energy organization to discuss what happens next to his inspectors the director general also met foreign ministers of odd serif before heading back to vienna. and the outcome of those meetings is that the i.a.e.a. reached a temporary bilateral technical understanding with iranian officials which will allow the agency to continue its monitoring of to iran's nuclear program the hope of the i.a.e.a. has been to be able to take. each iteration which was very understated. and i think this. understanding does it. so that other political considerations are other levels can take place and. we can avoid

the situation in which we would have been in practical terms like officials have said as a february 23rd iran will no longer abide by the additional protocols of the nonproliferation treaty because the united states left a 2050 nuclear deal and imposed tough new economic sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector this decision is part of a bill which parliament passed in the summer in an attempt to force the united states to lift some of those sanctions and return to the nuclear deal. for ministers of god serif is not optimistic anything will happen before that that mine nothing has changed by didn't claims that trump a policy of maximum pressure was maximum pavia rincon also just recently said that that policy favored but for all practical purposes there for the pursuing the same policy they haven't changed that policy. the new restrictions mean i will no longer

be allowed to make surprise visits to any of iran's 6 declared nuclear facilities and they won't have access to any other sensitive or military sites either they will also be denied access to the 24 hour surveillance cameras at those sites with less than 4 months left in office there are hardly administration was hesitant at 1st to implement the bill which had passed out of it but after the endorsement of the supreme leader the president had no choice now the government is hoping that the new administration in washington lift some of the sanctions which have cost iran estimated $1.00 trillion dollars or president rouhani is 8 year term will end with a failed nuclear deal and a crumbling economy. dorsetshire party al-jazeera. developing story out of the state's u.s. aviation regulations ordered more inspections for boeing triple 7 and crawford a fitted with an engine that exploded during a flight in the u.s.

the engine made by president whitney suffered catastrophic failure soon after takeoff from denver littering suburbs with deborah the united airlines jet landed safely no one was hurt japan has told airlines to ground triple sevens with those engines while united airlines has grounded $24.00 of its aircraft kristen salumi joins us from washington kristin what more do we know about what's coming out of the f.a.a. . well the emergency directive does call for stepped up inspections of these pratt and whitney engines there the p w 4000 model and apparently only boeing 770 seven's have this and this is likely to mean that flights will be cancelled planes will be grounded as you said united has already announced that $24.00 of these planes will be grounded it has another $28.00 already in storage. they are saying this will only cause minor

disruptions for passengers but the whole situation is still being reviewed by the federal aviation administration along with pratt and whitney and boeing they're working on the details and notifying civil aviation authorities so that other carriers know that this could be a problem but on the plus side just to recap for us christine what happened yesterday as you're talking to us we're looking at some of that amateur video filmed from inside the aircraft and there's the big frontal back room from the engine that landed in somebodies front yard the reality is that the flight deck on that plane the pilot the copilot they played an absolute blinder here because they many still and they landed safely nobody was hurt on the plane and nobody was hurt on the ground. it's really quite incredible and the flight had just taken off it was on route to hawaii and shortly after takeoff passengers reported

hearing a loud bang and saw the flames saw the debris flying the plane landed miraculously rather smoothly pilots are trained to land with just one of the 2 engines intact but it does happen sometimes that there is an engine failure like that but it's statistically fairly rare and it's that debris that was showering neighborhoods outside of denver i think that was really a concern for officials here as well because it's amazing that it was the middle of the day and people were outside no one luckily and this is just situation in this case was heard but it could have been much worse and those were some pretty big pieces of debris that you see falling on the ground there so clearly a lot of concern among aviation officials and we don't want to see this happen again christine thanks very much kristen saloon with

a reporting live from washington. libya's interior minister survived what he's describing as a well planned assassination attempt to shock as convoy it was fired on as it drove in the west of the capital tripoli it happened as the government in tripoli in which bashar prepares to make way for an interim administration it's part of a u.n. led process to unify warring factions within the house and the whole the guard tried to get away from the car but it kept coming until it flipped over one of my guards was hit by gunfire one person died in 2 arrested walk of the i believe it wasn't a coincidence it was a well planned operation because it happened as we arrived. malik train the reporting from misrata in libya says the interior minister has taken a tough approach to armed groups. 30 percent of the minister of interior is a recently from here the city of misrata is also seen by many as western libya strongman he's taken a hard stance against armed groups and and militias which has resulted in him

gaining lots of popularity among ordinary libyans and the international community in a statement released by the ministry of interior a short while ago they said that as the minister was returning to his place of residence in the city of west of tripoli a vehicle containing 3 men opened fire on the convoy after a brief exchange of fire 2 suspects were apprehended one was killed the situation has been described as tense in western libya as a result the minister of defense along has said that he has appointed a force from tripoli to calm the situation down. is a number that was once unfathomable but very soon will become a stark reality 500000 coronavirus deaths will be recorded in the united states very soon it means that within the course of one year the virus is now killed more

americans than the 2 world wars and the war in vietnam combined and even as vaccinations ramp up the u.s. still has tens of thousands of new infections every day and almost 2000 it's it's just it's terrible it is historic we haven't seen anything even close to this for well over 100 years since the 1918 pandemic of influenza it's something that is stunning when you look at the numbers almost unbelievable but it's true if this is a devastating pandemic and it's historic people will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now. that's dr eric fi gilding he's an epidemiologist and a senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he joins us from washington dr erik fikile doing welcome to al-jazeera 500000 is such a big number one can barely get one's head around it how high do you think that numbers actually going to go before we start coming down the other side of the

curve you know 500000 is mind boggling although i want to point out that total access u.s. is already approaching almost $600000.00 because of course not every death has been counted and there's many indirect so i think the actual confirmed cases from 500000 we can easily reach another 50100000 or it is all contain because it all depends on how quickly we get back seems rolled out how are we still continue to mitigate and if we can hold back the new infections. that could actually undermine our efforts to contain it we've by rollbacks in roll out as quickly as possible we can't permit you know there is no fate but what we make and there's a lot of still choices tough choices to be made to stop it from having 600700000 when they come to write the short term and long term history of this horse are the

lessons that have been learned so far if we we view the optics of this through through a prism of getting the best health care to people at point of delivery. you know we've obviously messed up on many things in the pandemic last year we silence the c.d.c. in terms of and its many scientific guidelines on the trying to ministration we do not have a vaccine rollout plan that was really courtney anyway for a mass mobilization of vaccinations but i think we will of these and they are being corrected soon we're approaching probably 2000000 vaccines a day in the u.s. in the near future and if we can get to 3w4w5w a day that will really need difference of how many lives. and right now i think it's trying to change health care in america is like trying to turn the titanic we

can do it especially with a vaccine mobilization does it need to be enshrined in law in as much as that relationship over the past 12 months between the federal government the federal authorities the senators literally the sentences and state governments across the united states that seem to be connected and joined up and run by adults and then 6 weeks or 8 weeks later there was no connection so we had just said we had slightly ridiculous scenarios where a special advisor to the then president jarrett cousineau was saying actually the federal resources are not mine to give to you they yours but you've got to ask me to have them in the 1st place and by the way i'm going to hang on to them because i don't particularly like for example the mayor of new york. right and there was a lot of political fighting over critical critical resources last year when we clearly knew that if it was not politically conflated we could have saved more

lives ventilators with premium mass we should invoke defense production and had more premium math last year we could've enabled rapid test proved rapid testing and made that cheaply available as a dollar or 3 across us like unlike many other countries actually offered for free we could have done all that but we did not and we're now we're paying a hefty price and after this is over we're going to need a reckoning and $911.00 commission type reckoning of what went wrong who really hampered the pen democrats sponson who is responsible for a lot of the law there were last. dr eric a difficult conversation but a conversation i think that needs to be had thank you so much for joining us dr eric feigin dale doing there in the united states. still to come on this program defiance in the face of protest the deaths myanmar's n.t.p. movement says it won't be intimidated by an increasingly tough crackdown. and glory

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al jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their role in the arab society as products of creativity debate the 2nd secrets of the arab café on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter double your top stories this half hour the head of the euro nuclear watchdog has reached a temporary agreement with iran on inspections but less access will be granted as iran continues reducing its compliance with a 2050 nuclear deal. u.s. aviation regulators have ordered more inspections for boeing triple 7 aircraft if

it is with the engine that exploded during a flight in the u.s. the engine suffered catastrophic failure just after takeoff from denver the train suburbs with deborah. $500000.00 coronavirus deaths will be recorded in the united states in the coming hours it means that within the course of the year the virus has killed more americans than the 2 world wars and the war in vietnam combined. more process a planned for monday in me in modifying an increasingly tough military response thousands are expected to be back calling for the release of the elected civilian leader unc son suchi who's been detained since the army seized power his 20 chang. protesters a back on the streets of mandalay less than 24 hours after the security services shot 2 dead and injured many more occupying an important intersection in the city the message is clear it will not back down footage that has emerged overnight

suggest this was a well planned and sustained crackdown not a temporary lapse in discipline building showing the scars of live rounds that were liberally used. the soldiers beat and shot my husband and others he was standing on the side and watching the protests but the soldiers took him away. and while the police took the lead it appears it was the military they were in charge soldiers from the 33rd light infantry is said to be in command a division known for its piling crackdowns on ethnic unrest. in just city yang gone the bloodshed in mandalay appeared to have hardened the result of those protesting against the coup who do woman the people dog ideas today are protesting peacefully but people have to die the general wants to stop us from coming out on to the streets so they strongly respond to us we the people won't accept their unfair oppression and we will continue to fight. and calls for the international

community to intervene i'm not going to get beyond the numbers of people increase today and we will not stop we will continue to walk to our go democracy we want international countries to take more severe action than effective sanctions. in the capital a huge funeral cortege for the 1st petain or to lose protests a 20 year old student who died on friday. she's now become a symbol for the protest as for the sacrifice she made in the one they may face themselves. tony chang al jazeera. 20000 vaccine doses have arrived in gaza from the united arab emirates shots will begin on monday starting with health care workers and people with long term illnesses the russian made sputnik back scenes were secured by mohammed dahlan he's based in the u.a.e. he is a political rival of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the territories 1st

elections since 2006 are due to be held in 3 months time. for deaths have now been recorded in the democratic republic of congo over all 6 cases have been confirmed 2 patients have been treated in the north chieveley region which is on the eastern edge the world health organization has launched an opponent vaccination campaign but officials are warning that people aren't taking the outbreak seriously enough 7 election officials in new jersey have been killed by a landmine the explosion went off as their car was driving through the southwest and the ledbury region has been holding a presidential runoff vote. being counted when it rest reports now from neighboring nigeria. the just president mohammad isa for voted to choose a successor after 25 year terms he could have run for for a term but is choosing to step down while other leaders in the region desperately cling to power. the election is coming at a difficult time for space

a point not lost on the president. needs here is facing immense challenges security challenges demographic challenges climate challenges economic recession development challenges including the immediate senator each having a park a week 19 i'm convinced that to face these challenges we need strong and stable democratic institutions as voting is under way 7 electoral officials were killed interlibrary a region close to the job border with mali bonaire and birkenau fossil their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb that also injured 3 others had been fears of violence even before the boat especially in the region that seen several attacks by armed groups but this is the man the ruling party chose to take over from the come but. a trusted ally of president is a full and former minister both the interior and foreign ministries. and of course . i have just voted after spending several weeks in the provinces i visited several

villages and had a lot of contact and i wish for calm during this election discipline another win to be blessed with good fortune i wish for good fortune to be on my side of course and i have many reasons to believe that it is on my side i therefore look ahead to the future with serenity and a lot of calm his challenger is not just former president and prime minister. who is running for the 5th day seeking to come back to the post he held 25 years ago this man who voted in his home region of zinder want to get elections for c. . let's see. if citizens notice that these elections of once more being frugal and elections i fear the situation will be difficult to manage last time people were disciplined we ourselves contributed to making sure it was calm and serene and tolerated the results of a fraudulent election but this time since you asked me my feelings i feeling is that the population is no longer ready to tolerate fraudulent elections in the 1st round of parliamentary and presidential elections held on december 27th. mohammad

doesn't secured 39.3 percent of the vote last month got 16.9 percent but without a clear majority it forced a runoff i had to send this election the 2 candidates went into strategic alliances with just more political parties with a view to forming coalitions and only suggest the governing party whose party won 80 of the 171 seats in parliament the opposition which has only 7 seats by the candidate of the opposition insisted the voters that have the final say the result is expected in a matter of days when they like should come should declare a winner 2 weeks after that the constitutional court will validate or reject the results us and alledged but for many voters what's important now is to what leader who can quickly address the problems poverty unemployment and violence by on the cross committee treece al jazeera. new zealanders opposing this

out a month 10 years since the christ church earthquake let's show you the latest pictures from the national earthquake memorial the thousands of people gathered to remember the victims. yeah. the powerful earthquake killed 185 people and destroyed or damaged 170000 buildings and homes shelob ellis reports. it was a tuesday lunchtime on a sunny summer's day in christchurch in 10 seconds a city that had taken 150 years to build it was unrecognizable. the shallow magnitude $6.00 earthquake shared the facades of dozens of structures it completely leveled the pine grove and canterbury television buildings those who

wear them. majority of the 185 deaths would be tallied once risk your operations turned recovery and we may well be witnessing new zealand's darkest i. c c new zealand was in mourning but in christchurch there was no time for tears the central city was cordoned off in case of aftershocks there would be more than $20000.00 power water and sewerage mains were ruptured across the city people needed a place to sleep the 10s of thousands of homes were badly damaged or destroyed. if it was in the earthquake that broke them the silt that follows did across one 3rd of the city it bubbled up through new cracks in some places more than a meter deep. or destroyed hassled she was. settled in and then for years parking spot some weeds flourished where progress did not resilience the city government and insurers were at all its negotiating house

a rebuilt and at what cost 70 percent of buildings were eventually demolished these ilands government bought out others pitching it as a chance to entirely redesign its 2nd biggest city more than $30000000000.00 and a decade later. is returning. we've come a long way and we still got some but are ready to feel like as a city we've turned a corner others still grieve for the lost heritage if you knew the city beforehand and you love the architecture it's really sad to walk around and remember what was there and the things that have changed i think we we did take down too many old buildings but people did fight for one the city's cathedral a crumbling ruin for nearly a decade is finally being restored completion is expected in 2027 i think of the 3 significant because it will be one of the final pieces in the 6 or putting part but

you know if you're in the. first city called christchurch it's cathedral essential to its identity and that's not something its people could let go shelob alice. touch of sports news novak djokovic she's getting closer to a grand slam tennis wreck or the world number one has won his 18th major title putting in just 2 behind roger federer and rafael nadal in total and he's delivered at the australian open despite courting controversy poll a band of us reports was no big joke that has repeatedly spoken out in the past 2 weeks against the decision by the australian open organizes to quarantine play is a hit of the tournament but in front of the almost 7 and a half 1000 fans allowed in to watch it now one pot with the trophy in hand it seemed as if all was forgiven look there are a lot of mixed feelings about what has happened in the last month or so with tennis

players coming to australia. but i think when we draw a line in the end it was a successful tournament for organizers. djokovic hadn't lost in 17 appearances in simi finals and finals at the australian open i his opponent in the old medvedev hadn't lost to anyone since october but the world number one show doesn't teams from the very start was in the 2nd seat the pressure proved too much for the russian 9 address i was in a strat i thought telly's amazing and probably it's not your last one so i mean i have no words to say. it's a matter of time when you're going to hold a grand slam that's for sure. if you don't mind waiting few more years to show. up djokovic has won 6 of the last 10 majors and is now just who wins away from joining roger federer and rafael nadal with the men's all time overall record of 20 grand slam titles was. the one in melbourne guarantees you stay world

number one until at least months 8 that'll be 311 weeks in the top spot. and that breaks another of federer's records that are with algae. 0. and women's champion naomi osaka has been showing off her trophy in melbourne she claimed her 4th grand slam title on saturday beating the american jennifer brady the japanese star is hoping to repeat her success at the tokyo olympics if they go ahead. updating your top stories for you so far today here on al-jazeera the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog has reached a temporary agreement with iran on inspections but less access will be granted as iran continues reducing its compliance with a 2050 nuclear deal in.