on al-jazeera. play an important role protecting it with. ringback the help of the i.a.e.a. has been to be able to stabilize a situation which was very unstable. the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog strikes a deal with iran to allow inspectors into the country. so robin watching officer of life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.s. aviation regulator orders more inspections on boeing triple 7 passenger jets after

a midair emergency over denver. also not backing down crowds began to gather in the a bar after a call for a general strike against the military coup. and u.s. quote a virus deaths approached 500000 more american lives the world war 2 vietnam together. welcome to the program the u.n. nuclear watchdog says an agreement has been reached to cushion the impact of iran's latest moves to reduce corporation to herat wants to put pressure on the u.s. to remove sanctions now the agreement means model train will continue but inspectors will get less access also jabari explains from tehran. an important visit at a critical time rafael gross. the director general of the international atomic

energy agency arrived in town on saturday ahead 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 hope of the i yield as being to be able to take. a situation which was very unstable. and i think the. understanding does it. so that other political culture patients at other levels can think and. we can avoid

situations 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 2015 nuclear deal and impose 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 why foreign ministers of god serif is not optimistic anything will happen before that that line nothing has changed by going claims that trump policy of maximum pressure was maximum pavia rincon also just recently said that that policy fate. 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 60 cleared 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 any administration was hesitant at 1st to implement the bill which had passed the parliament but after the endorsement of the supreme leader the president had no choice now the government is hoping that the new administration in washington will lift some of the sanctions which have cost iran estimated $1.00 trillion dollars or president rouhani as 8 year term will end with a failed nuclear deal and a crumbling economy. dorsetshire party al-jazeera. also has a nuclear security specialist he says iran is being strategic. i think it's trying

to rebalance the deal to be fair at the moment the economic quid pro quo that underpinned it namely through the sanctions relief that was promised as well as economic engagement that it should have been given access to that doesn't exist anymore so iran feels that its patients has slowly worn thin they waited a year before taking any operational steps the steps that they did take were technically reversible and they didn't touch any of the access that the agency had in iran until now i think that iran has been watching what the biden administration has done over the past month and largely the feeling in tehran is that this is a continuation of trump's maximum pressure campaign there were lots a lot of chatter among the europeans and the administration about whether or not they would try to use this leverage to try to get more out of iran that plus you know relatively slow movement from washington has made iran feel like it doesn't to

continue increasing its leverage and rebalance the deal indeed i think the deal is being unraveled but the thing is is that when we are unraveling it the core is missing the u.s. is not a participant the u.s. sanctions remain in place which is the core thing that the u.s. was meant to not do under the terms of the deal so although iran is taking steps away what the agency in iran announced today shows that there is still a willingness by iran as well as other parties involved to try to get it back to the original terms. u.s. aviation regulators have ordered extra inspections for boeing's triple 7 aircraft that are fitted with a time to venture that exploded during a flight in the u.s. now the engine cut a strong fix alias soon after takeoff denver latrigg suburbs with daybreak christensen leave the house will. this frightening scene on board

a united airlines passenger flight has led to the grounding of some boeing 777 aircraft around the globe large pieces of the plane's pratt and whitney p w 4000 engine fell over the suburbs of denver colorado shortly after take off the plane landed safely and no one was hurt but u.s. regulators quickly stepped in to investigate and on sunday the federal aviation administration issued an emergency directive calling for stepped up inspections focusing on the engines fan blades united announced it would voluntarily and temporarily remove $24.00 of its $77.00 seventh's for muse saying safety was their highest priority it has another $28.00 of the planes in storage it's yet another setback for boeing the u.s. aerospace manufacturers $737.00 max only recently returned to flight after being

grounded for 20 months due to 2 paid all crashes in less than a year and more trouble for united which like other airlines has seen a drastic reduction in travelers due to the coronavirus pandemic. other than united airlines in the united states the f.a.a. says the prime whitney engines are only used in south korea and japan the investigation is continuing kristen salumi al-jazeera let's cross over to japan for a correspondent is in tokyo it seems the that the incident. is now having repercussions in japan and what are you hearing. of course the foot is here have asked the 2 men line carriers japan airlines and the only point. to land there all aircrafts of this type which has

the same engine we understand that john has 13 airplanes of this kind and has 19 and they all have been grounded now and there are careful inspection as. john has ordered the announced that the last 13 planes of triple 7 are going to be the decommissioned under tired by 2022 hours one of them was involved in an accident in december over. the island of okinawa they had. been then had to make an emergency landing in airports because the cover of the engine the wind. went off and apparently hit the tail of the airplane costs about $28.00 centimeters a hole in it and that caused their bent to make an emergency landing and so be much affected by the latest developments but. they already have

152050 airplanes of triple $7.10 of them are now going to be. they're going to hold their operation so the company is operating around 300 airplanes so this is considered a considerably large number all this situation is adding more to the what he offer flying though in japan as you know by now is under a state of emergency which is going to end in the 7th of march and so. most of the international. in japan now because to basically have on doesn't allow any foreigner to get into and into the country now so although if all the income of the chinese lines are getting. it's coming now from domestic flights and with this news this would add more to the fear of the future of the. industry in japan at the time when the has announced that they're cutting 3500 jobs

they do saying that a fleet by 10 percent by 2023 for the update thanks very much for the sun about how a correspondent there in tokyo well todd curtis is the founder of that safe dot com he says he doesn't expect the problem to be a serious as the betting 737 max what happened with the 737 max was of a different nature altogether although the engines weren't pour it wasn't the same engine manufacturer it was in the same model of the engine and it wasn't a uncontained earlier such as what happened and the investigation of the 77 letters very thorough and the one was rightfully. determined to be somewhat at fault with the design process nothing it was lord has come up in the history of the triple 7 is turns up this particular aircraft in denver was one of the very 1st produced but

it was manufactured in 1940 has been flying for united airlines since 1900. and in that time there hasn't been a sustained pattern of this kind of engine problem happening with this aircraft model and engine combination. building for another big show of defiance and me and mom in the coming hours protesters started to gather in the capital young god following a call by the mood for supporters to join national strike now that's despite warnings from military rulers who seized power 3 weeks ago the army has issued threats of a national broadcast on sunday night saying lives will be lost in confrontations let's get more this more correspondent tony chang reporting from neighboring thailand by bangkok another big day of demonstrations expected that tony. absolutely and the crowds or the already gathering as you mentioned there in yangon think the ambition of the protesters is to get a lot of people to take part in the civil disobedience movement today they've

called a general strike people have been participating in there for the last couple of weeks and slowly the brought to your doctors have been participating transport workers public health systems are slowly grinding to a halt we understand that the train service in yangon is already effectively closed flights internal flights around the country have been severely delayed because pilots taking part there are ging civil servants to join in as well in fact in yangon today even the supermarkets are close to this i think is the hope the protest is that they will effectively bring the country grinding to a hold. that is going to cause huge inconvenience to many many people hope that that will put an awful lot of pressure on the military to to reverse the coup that said while general strikes have been used by protests pro-democracy protesters in the past the last time it happened was in 1908 and it was followed by

a fairly brutal crackdown by the military and of course a real worry of how far these demonstrations. support knowing that the military is quite clearly now saying lives will be lost in confrontations. that announcement came on t.v. last night broadcast by a hunter spokesman i think there's no doubt particularly after the crackdown we saw on saturday afternoon that they are going to start to turn the screw as it were we've seen increased presence of security services in yangon although the protesters in yangon in the last couple of those have said they have felt relatively secure they haven't seen a big change in the way the security services have been handling the protests there although they are in much greater numbers than they are in other plates places around myanmar but i think the fact that the hunters broadcast this statement

clearly is a statement of intent that they aren't going to back down that said the last time or in previous occasions when they have used their force to to disperse protests and to reinforce military rule it's been a very different situation this is a myanmar which has had 5 years of democratic relatively democratic rule i think people has seen the opportunities that they've had from a democratic government and they don't want to lose it and that's what we're hearing from the streets in the voices protesters who are saying that this is their chance to try and turn back the clock on the coup and if it's lost a big bang down it could be lost for a very long time will continue to monitor events with you talk tony chain our correspondent. still ahead here on al-jazeera the government make an attempt on the life of libya's interior minister just weeks after a peace deal was signed. should we look out the reshaping of

a new zealand city 10 years after a shattering way to stay with us here officer. hello i'm pleased to say the weather is warming up nicely now across much of north america down across the deep south dallas at around 17 souses on sunday take a little of little further north or south is that the denver and also for kansas city those temperatures will pick up nicely over the next couple of days we're getting up into double figures by monday and getting up into the low teens by cheese day and by cheesed we could touch 21 in data so expect a rapid thaw here certainly things improving in terms of those temperatures well so weather to making its way across the appalachians to will cease to see both through

monday notice some snow on the northern flank of that quote the weather comes in behind for a time then another little covering a snow sweeping across the lakes as we go on through choose day that eastern side of kind of also seeing something of a wintry mix we'll see some snow too just around the mountain states i'm a little further south is fine and dry across the western side of the u.s. 21 celsius f. san francisco says pleasant sunshine coming through here lots of pleasant sunshine across the caribbean line of cloud there just around the bahamas sliding across cuba towards central america that will produce some outbreaks of rain down towards nicaragua and honduras so also want to showers for the east not as but more in the way of sunshine. acid attacks in india. leave many scars most of which cannot be seen. they also create

a bond. born of for sarah to ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face. black roses and red dresses parts of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. but by watching officer of the civil robin remind of our top stories the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog has reached a temporary agreement with iran on its back should less access will be granted as iraq continues reducing its alliance with the 2015 nuclear deal u.s.

aviation regulators have ordered extra inspections for boeing triple 7 aircraft that are fitted with a type of venture that exploded during a flight on saturday japan has told carriers to ground triple 7 s. with those entries protesters have started to gather in beer bars in yang gong after the 2 booty call for supporters to join a national strike the demonstrators are defying warnings from military families. it's a number that was once unfathomable sood will become a stark reality 500000 quote a virus deaths will be recorded in the united states in the coming hours it means that within the course of a year the virus has killed more americans of the 2 world wars and the conflict in vietnam combined and even as vaccinations are ramped up the u.s. still has tens of thousands of new infections every day and almost 2000 deaths 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 is starry people will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now dr erica gayle digger's an epidemiologist of a senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he says the u.s. could have avoided such big numbers if the government continually fail to take action. 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 than to leaders with premium mass who shouldn't vote production and had more premium assets last year we could've. rapids has improved rock it has doing

and maybe cheaply available less than a dollar or free across the us like unlike many other countries actually are after the for free we could have done all that but we did not and we're now we're paying a heavier price and after this is over we're going to need a reckoning $911.00 commission reckoning of what went wrong who really hampered pandemic response and who is responsible for a lot of these lives were lost 20000 vaccine doses of arrived at dulles or from the united arab emirates shops where they get all but they started with health care workers and people with long term illnesses the russian made sputnik that scenes were secured by a have a doll and who is based in the u.a.e. there he's a political rival of palestinian president mahmoud abbas the territories 1st elections since 2006 to be held in 3 months of this president has finally acknowledged that the current virus is

a problem in his country job by a fairly tense a kurd a virus free at last may even if the door was being blamed for a recent spike of deaths but tanzania's travelling overseas have tested positive for cope with 90. a top diplomat has accused former u.s. president dog trouble of trying to suppress and contain china when you told a forum in beijing that the actions of the trumpet ministration lead to difficulties in their bilateral relations though he served washington to stop smearing china's ruling communist party let's get more this from katrina you in beijing interesting time really for joe biden to make the comments that he's been making of the back of his sort of 1st international appearances as teach at the munich security conference and one wonders how those words are going to be treated by china. that's right and sensually this

speech by one year is a response to comments we have heard from the biden administration over the past few weeks now one you gave a speech at a forum attended by chinese officials and various academics this is really significant in terms of the time we because this is the 1st week back for the chinese government the 1st for we back 4 weeks back after the chinese new year period so this is really beijing setting its torn its strategic approach to the u.s. going forward now one you said that the u.s. and china were at a crossroads and he put the oar in his on washington to put things back on track and he asked he said that us we need to do 3 things in order to do this mainly number one is remove tariffs on chinese goods that have been imposed during the last few years because of the trade war he also called for the end of restrictions on chinese students and restrictions on chinese cultural and educational institutions in the u.s. and he also called for the end of sanctions on chinese technology companies he then

reiterated areas in which the 2 countries could continue to work together or start to work together that is climate change fighting the pandemic and on economic recovery but of course this comes at a very difficult time relations between china and the u.s. are at an all time low and for this one you blame the previous administration let's have a listen to what he had to say there she was trying to u.s. relations deviated from the nordic track and are running to the biggest difficulty since the establishment of diplomatic ties the root cause was that the previous u.s. ministration out of its own political moves seriously distorted china's future path and policy. well of course restarting dialogue with the u.s. is not going to be easy joe biden just on friday called china the more serious competitor to the u.s. but of course joe biden and she jinping had a foreign call last week which robot in greece said she didn't think happy new year and that was seen as positive here in china but many sticking points during main

sticking points by which the biden administration has said that they will continue to take a tough stance on china being alleged human rights abuses and shinji attacks on democracy in hong kong and taiwan on all of these issues are red line issues according to beijing if you be here in beijing thank you. now libya's interior minister has survived what he's describing as a well planned assassination attempt fattier bashar goes convoy was fired on as it drove in the west of the capital tripoli it happened as the government in tripoli in which the the shagger serves prepares to make way for the interim administration now it's all past of the un led process to unify warring factions manik trying to reports from misrata in libya and says the interior minister has taken a tough approach to armed groups 30 or the minister of interior is a originally from here the city of misrata is also seen by many as western libya strongman he's taken a hard stance against on 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 jones or 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 a lot has said that he has appointed a force from tripoli to calm the situation down israel has warned people to stay away from the mediterranean coast to avoid tar pollution now it's closed nearly all of its beaches after one of the worst oil spills in its history black tar was 1st reported on the mediterranean coast last week after a heavy storm of workers and volunteers are scrambling to clean contaminated

beaches. 10 years after it killed $185.00 people and appended countless more lives new zealanders have paused to remember the victims of the christ church earthquake thousands joined the service at the national earthquake memorial the massive seismic tremor measuring 6.3 hit along a previously unknown fault when it directly under the city about 170000 buildings and homes were destroyed or damaged well new zealand is marking the 10th anniversary of the christ church earthquake the magnitude 6.3. killed so many people are charlotte dallas reports. it was it was a tuesday lunchtime on a sunny summer's day in christchurch in tim sickens a city that had taken 150 years to build and was unrecognizable. was. the shallow magnitude $6.00 earthquake shared the facades of

dozens of structures it completely leveled the pyne gould and canterbury television buildings those were where the majority of the $185.00 deaths would be tallied once risk your operations turned recovery and we may well be witnessing a new zealand stock to stay 'd 'd. new zealand was in mourning but in christchurch there was no time to 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 but tens of thousands of homes were badly damaged or destroyed. if it wasn't 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 metre deep. over just hassled notice that she was for blast off.

and then for years parking spot some weeds flourished where progress did not resilience the city government and insurers were at all it's negotiating how to rebuild and at what cost 70 percent of buildings were eventually demolished he zealand's 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. already do you feel like as a city we've turned a corner others still grieve for the last. 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 building but people did fight for once 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 forth that either of you if you will in the. first city called christchurch its cathedral essential to its identity and that's not something its people could let go chela bellus. you what you have 0 means the whole robin in doha a reminder of our top news stories 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 the 2015 nuclear deal that is less taxes let's face it let's face it that he's less access but still we were able to

retain the best at. the peak of monitoring application work for what it is.