buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila drawing world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never to leave recovery. for so long we have to resist become be numb to the sorrow. an emotional message from joe biden as the u.s. records more than half a 1000000 coronavirus deaths. from robots and this is all just a live from doha also coming up british prime minister boris johnson announces the easing of coronavirus restrictions in england include reopening schools and

allowing outdoor activities. italy's ambassador to democratic republic of congo is killed in an attack on the u.n. convoy in the east. * of martian touched on nasa releases the 1st video of its perseverance rover landing on the red planet. the united states is now a record of the more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world president joe biden and vice president's comments commemorated the victims with a moment of silence at the white house and biden delivered an emotional speech to the nation the people we lost were extraordinary they spanned generations. born in america emigrated to america but just like that

so many of them took their final breath along in america as a nation can accept such a cruel fate while we were fighting this pandemic for so long we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. bells tolled $500.00 times at the national cathedral and memory of those killed for many it's an unimaginable statistic and a brutal reminder of the viruses 'd reach into people's lives in all corners of the country it's been a little over a year since america recorded its 1st deaths from the disease more than 28000000 people have been infected since then alive now to christensen the me in washington d.c. kristen this number was always on the horizon wasn't it and yet the very fact that

it's a arrives is no less chilling and the president trying to remind people of the individuals behind those deaths. in many ways it was classic joe biden he is perhaps best known and best appreciated as a politician as someone who can relate to common folk it's something we've seen over the years he of course himself has experienced tragedy and personal loss from his 1st wife being killed in a car accident many years ago to his son beau dying from cancer in recent years and joe biden has made no has has often relied on that personal experience to help relate to people and clearly it's been such a difficult year for so many here in the united states and around the globe of course but in addressing people here in the united states he did seem to try to get

beyond the numbers to make this not about the milestone so much as the individuals and he referred to the man he met at a vaccine production facility in michigan whose father was dying and a woman who wrote him a letter he talked about loss and what it's like to remember someone's laugh the smell of their cologne the empty space at the table really attempting to personalize what for many has been a tragedy that they've had to endure alone and also remarking on the fact that many people have been denied the rituals that we would normally have the funerals in the way in ways that we cope by coming together that hasn't been possible because of the pandemic so the president along with his wife and vice president and her husband coming together marking with a moment of silence such a tragedy and attempting to bring some of that ritual some of that closure to

americans and one of the things that he says to heal we must remember and i thought it was telling towards the end of his remarks as well he looked to the camera and said you're going to be ok. kristen thanks very much indeed christensen we're bringing us up to date from washington d.c. well the number of vaccinations given in the u.s. is growing but tens of thousands of people are still catching the virus and almost 2000 are dying every single day guys who oversaw the reports. it's a staggering number that would have been unfathomable a year ago but now it's a tragic record american spare it's the highest death toll of any country and now scarred by death devastated families and health care workers are coping as best they can but as a frontline health care worker i can understand and i can describe the sound of the parana body bag makes the death toll is

a sobering reminder the pandemic isn't over and we're still not out of it a half a 1000000 deaths it's just it's terrible it is historic we haven't seen anything even close to this maxine's have helped curb infections but for many with kobe there's been little relief in the. disparities of race and money have been exposed for the world to see. things. that i can. already. in a campaign year wearing a face mask became political former president donald trump downplayed the virus which backfired on election day to cover it cover to cover so they put out because they want to scare the hell out of everyone graduations mr president president joe

biden took the opposite approach urging voters to wear masks and to social distance . for millions of americans the battle extends far beyond politics with no contact allowed in many hospitals this is as close as many families can get to their loved ones like an drill mind-o. if you really want to want to do it right the drilling down. the vaccines may be offering relief but health officials warn it's not yet time for americans to let their guard down. cartel upis of the young al-jazeera. layman could see an end to most coronavirus restrictions by the end of june prime minister bar sounds and has laid out a cautious and irreversible plan to start lifting pandemic restrictions for next month but it could all come to a halt if infection rates rise or vaccinations delayed and they've bought the

reports from london the long road out of la will be gradual and cautious a decision the government said was based upon data rather than pressure to set dates nearly a year after this pandemic began this unparalleled national effort has decisively shifted the odds in our favor so that we no longer have to rely simply on lockdowns and restricting your behavior and putting our lives on hold but with every day that goes by this program of vaccination is creating a shield around the entire population. the government now confirmed all schools will reopen for children on march the 8th many have already adapted to continue teaching the children of essential workers throughout the pandemic students and staff at this school have regular lateral flow tests on the school premises this looks set to continue when the rest of the children return. after the reopening of

schools allowing people to have more social contact will be a priority for march the 29th up to 6 people or 2 households can meet outside including in private gardens this is when the stay at home order is expected to be lifted the move follows encouraging new data indicating the oxford astra zeneca vaccines use in the u.k. can reduce hospital admissions by as much as 94 percent. the u.k. is hoping its lead in the vaccination campaign will allow it to recover faster than other countries but the number of people still receiving hospital treatment remains worryingly high when you look at number of people in hospital with coded in the u.k. again you can see there is a significant 4 that is continuing but the rates are still high and they're only slightly below the height of the 1st peak we had last year further stages for england several weeks apart include the reopening of non-essential shops and the

face return of people to pubs and restaurants hit hard by months of closures the reopening of hotels and hairdressers will follow but the prospect of foreign travel or summer holidays seems some way off the easing of restrictions can only move to the next phase providing for criteria have been met that previous measures do not in any way affect the vaccine roll out that there isn't suddenly an increase in infection rates or the national health service isn't adversely affected by any of these previous changes and lastly if there is any concern a tour about the possible impact of any new variance. more than 70000000 people have received at least warm dose of a covert 19 vaccine infection rates are falling quickly across the country with an 80 percent drop in cases in the capital cases of the south african very into also shrinking but after months of disruptive off destructions the last thing anyone wants is for a taste of normality to be suddenly taken away barca al-jazeera london on

a boat a vaccination campaign in guinea has been delayed because of bad weather on thursday the world health organization announced it was sending more than 11000 doses but the flight couldn't land in the capital conakry because of heavy fog and it had to be diverted to senegal inoculations could not begin on tuesday at least 5 people have died in guinea's ebola outbreak and at least 4 people have died in a separate ebola outbreak in democratic republic of congo overall 6 cases have been confirmed 2 patients are being treated in the north kivu region but officials are warning that people aren't taking the outbreak seriously enough. still ahead a knowledge in syria iran reduces access to its nuclear facilities we'll have reaction from tehran and washington. and thousands join a nationwide strike across me and despite

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a very wet weather recently into central areas of the philippines as a tropical depression as now is makes its way through he has been downgraded to fine warning has been issued but we still got some life showers rolling in here and 5000 people displaced from their homes as a result of the very heavy rain which caused widespread flooding the show as well they will continue as we go through tuesday into wednesday more downpours coming through the wetter weather will be across northern parts of the country there into lose on quite a scattering of showers as per usual across a good part of malaysia for the heavy showers have also returned into indonesia with more big downpours 40 cotta. sponsible qatar airways. the challenge to follow that is the core of the corruption is so full that that is now in syria the only way to do. a course of a minister a key list a european judge tasked with imposing or

a new order and a trial where testing the nose of a newly formed nation. witnessed. highway on al-jazeera. there are charges 0 remind of our top stories this hour the united states is now recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covered 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags are at half staff and president joe biden has commemorated the victims with a moment of silence. in tolling 500

times in washington d.c. in memory of those killed during the pandemic it's been a little over a year since america recorded its 1st deaths from the disease. this prime minister about as johnson's laid out his plan to lift pandemic restrictions schools are due to reopen and 2 people from separate households will be allowed to meet outside the starting on march the 8th. the congolese government's blaming are wondering who to rebel group for an attack on a u.n. convoy that killed the italian ambassador look at a nasa was bodyguard and driver were also killed in the ambush in the eastern democratic republic of congo italy's president's condemned the attack as cowardly conference or reports. they were on a mission to chew in loft cuple province to visit a school feeding program one of the many world food programme projects supports in the democratic republic of congo there johnny ended here in the view of the national park several kilometers from the provincial capital coma they tell you in

a battle to his body god and their driver were killed in a crossfire between pock ranges and gunmen during an ambush on their convoy several other people injured. we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth that soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants of the state of have suffered from and lost their lives. but beyond the shock of what has happened question. as will be asked as to why the convoy did not have a un national police or army escort in such a dangerous area the authorities in north keep saying they were not aware embassador was in town. it had been cleared to use that tool without escort the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british tourists were kidnapped in may 2018 so it's kind of a real evidence of this longstanding security lapse in the region it was also very close to where 6 were in the guards were killed in last month this is

a fast major attack on a big u.n. organization like the deputy if peace by the park is steaming with rebels who target game ranges civilians and other enjoy convoys to steal kidnap and demand ransom the security problem however goes beyond this part of in the war than 70 rebel groups control much of eastern democratic republic of congo extorting villages and attacking their homes at will in beni north of many thousands of people including u.n. and government soldiers have been killed and more displaced by the allied democratic forces rebel groups hundreds of thousands of soldiers are on the ground battling different armed groups but with limited success we're looking at a kind of longstanding funding issue for the for the congolese army in the area a lack of kind of security planning as well as strategy when it comes to trying to

combat the armed groups who operate in that area. obviously the u.n. peacekeeping force that has been operational for a good number of years has a lot to answer for with regards to insecurity in the area. many congolese in this areas live in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have struggled to defeat the rebels for yez will one day succeed catherine soy al-jazeera. iran's supreme leader has warned it could boost iranian enrichment up to 60 percent ancestor iran will never yield to u.s. pressure over its nuclear development by intel or harmonies comments followed a new agreement with the un's nuclear watchdog that allows inspectors to continue monitoring attack iran's nuclear facilities for up to 3 months but access will be reduced and will be no more a snap inspections to hans being gradually breaching the terms of the 2050 nuclear

deal since the u.s. withdrew and reimpose sanctions in 2018 assad has more on the reaction from to han parliamentarian's today we're discussing the budget but they stopped that to vote on this latest deal between iran and the i.a.e.a. that many of them believe that that's in breach of the legislation that the parliament passed last year and they referred the matter specifically president hassan rouhani to the judiciary day believe that he's acted illegally that this deal is against the legislation many of them have said that this deal between the i.a.e.a. and iran has violated the rights of the iranian people others have said that it's against the spirit of the legislation also there's of saying that the number of inspectors i.a.e.a. inspectors and inspections remains the same now what this demonstrates is that the difficulty that president hassan rouhani faces domestically this is a parliament that was voted in last year many of those people in the parliament are opposed to the 2015 nuclear deal and want to talk for

a stance against the united states and the i.a.e.a. on the other hand president hassan rouhani is trying not to completely shut the door in terms of discussions and negotiations with the united states and the european 3 france germany and the you kate. well the u.s. says it not only wants to return to the iran nuclear deal but it also wants to strengthen and extend it u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken said there was a great a risk of regional instability if the agreement wasn't fully restored but washington criticize ayatollah khomeini's comments about enriching uranium saying they sound like a threat the united states remains committed to ensuring that iran never acquires a nuclear weapon diplomacy is the best path to achieve that goal president biden has said if iran comes back into strict appliance with a j c p o a the united states is prepared to do the same working with allies and partners we will also seek to lengthen and strengthen the j.c. v.o.a.

and address other areas of concern including iran's destabilizing regional behavior and ballistic missile development and proliferation our white house correspondent kimberly hawkins says the joe biden and dong trump actually have similar positions on the iran nuclear deal just different strategies. the white house press secretary has really been reiterating the positions of the secretary of state and their european allies and and that is that they believe iran is not in compliance with the terms of the agreement so in that way they're not much different in terms of the perspective from an administration as the trumpet ministration where they differ in terms of how they move forward is approach and it's very clear that this is an administration that wants to move forward with diplomacy the foundation of their aronne policy so what we've heard from the white house press secretary is that is the view that they believe that they can move forward and that they are awaiting

a response now from iran that iran needs to reply to the european allies about whether or not it's willing to at least sit down and have a discussion the white house says this should no way be sort of perceived as nuclear talks but the said just a discussion on the pathway forward as you heard the secretary of state there he said he was to lengthen and strengthen the agreement from 2015 and what he means by that is again what the white house under donald trump believes is that there were other actions that iran was involved with destabilizing the broader region there is the concern about american hostages still being detained all of these issues need to be worked out and so that's what the white house is hoping to do hoping to sit down through their channels as they call it and have these initial discussions again demanding full compliance ultimately as the end state or goal for on the part of iran huge crowds of protesters have defied the risk of violence to march and tons and cities across 1000000 mark the denouncing the military coup despite

a recent crackdown and sold to protests was shot dead it doesn't stay long so the coal for the nationwide strike 20 chang reports. from the air men must southern city of daraa way appears completely jammed thousands of protesters blocking streets in the city center they marched despite a warning from the military that lives will be lost if the protests continue and you know seem the thinly veiled threat came in a statement read out on state t.v. on sunday night he blamed the weekend's violence on an emotional teenager's i but on the ground there is no mistaking the demonstrators message they won't accept the military coup and calls for the release of the country's democratic leader aung san suu kyi who has been held by the military in isolation since the beginning of the month. cross the country tensions remain high. we were holding a sit in protests and the police crackdown on last using force there were many and

they are arrest many protestors. a general strike is being widely observed shutting banks and businesses and bringing transport systems to a halt. and despite the short term impact many feel that's the most effective way to make the military back down was you know good day to day is a day for countrywide protest we do not want to stay under the control of a military dictatorship so we came here to join the protest regardless of the salaries we make nothing will happen if my salary is cut but if we stay under the control of a military dictatorship we will become less like. even in the capital naypyidaw a city whose white boulevards were designed for the military to maintain control civil servants took to the streets. but the protesters have no illusions about the dangers they face this candlelit vigil held to commemorate those who've already

died in the protests with the military and protesters both standing their ground real concern as more violence to come tony chang al jazeera. there and. called for the immediate rescue of dozens of are here refugees stranded at sea they reportedly set sail from cox's bazar refugee camp in bangladesh around 11 days ago their last known location was just northeast of the undermanned islands a few 100 kilometers off the meum our coast here human rights initiative says at least 90 people on board the boat child who's following the story from the bangladeshi council dhaka well the latest we know this is coming from rowing a human rights group in new delhi which is confirmed by our al-jazeera bureau in delhi now they have been in touch with some of the rowing in the boat they say the indian navy has come across and are giving them relief and emergency material they have not been rescued per se but they are providing them with all the provision of

help we also spoke to one of the refugee whose brother is in the boat he has sent out an appeal to raise by other enduring a camp is the name is mr shiloh and was stranded in the middle of the sea and on the man he said please tell the international community that we need to be rescued and given shelter somewhere we've been a drip little over 10 days now and things are really bad the heavy active area for traffickers from me and mary as well as bangladesh who takes lots of money from these people to take them in those countries but never usually succeed now bangladesh navy and cause got a way out of this the keeping an eye but the government has a very very strong at it you're taking back any more running us the wife of mexican drug kingpins. has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges in the u.s. and mcconnell i spoke with who was caught near washington d.c. she's charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine methamphetamine head and mental

mana the u.s. justice department also accuses her of helping her husband in an infamous escape from the mexican prison in 2050. they make a boeing has os airlines around the world to ground some of its triple 7 jets to the engine room one aircraft partially disintegrated in midair on saturday and investigations underway into what caused the incident which got to deborah over residential areas in the u.s. state of colorado john hendren has more from chicago where boeing is based. for boeing of fiery flight leads to another plane grounding in a 2 year corporate spiral more than $100.00 boeing triple 7 aircraft with a specific type of pratt and whitney engine have been pulled out of service after an exploding engine on united flight 328 over the skies of colorado led to an emergency you john kerry not ever apart for united required every night aircraft to . thank you if you are ready to depart immediately in the u.s.

federal aviation regulators have demanded stepped up inspections of the engine type that rained down on a home a soccer pitch in streets of colorado. before the plane landed remarkably with no injuries inside or outside of the plane. aviation experts blame hollow engine blades that apparently broke off and started the fire it not only blew through the case and blew through the column but actually penetrated the fuselage damaging the fuselage the wing and blowing out a window causing a deep pressurization that led boeing managers in chicago to call for the global grounding of a limited number of 770 seven's that had been flying only from the u.s. japan and south korea the u.s. federal aviation administration is now investigating whether the fan blades failed because they were damaged and that damage went undetected in routine inspection or whether there was a manufacturing flaw that led to the explosion that could mean wider problems.

analysts say this engine failure is less catastrophic for boeing than the flight control problems found to have caused 2 crashes that killed 346 passengers and grounded then brand new 737 max aircraft for nearly 2 years it's just now returning to service this is the kind of thing which happens from time to time with highly stressed modern machinery a full which hadn't been detected before suddenly makes itself known and everything is frozen for a while while an inspection takes place to try and correct this is not a total systemic folks like the max problem was still after the grounding of a max plane that was expected to be the company's most lucrative and a pandemic which kept millions of passengers on the ground the $770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren

al-jazeera chicago the space agency nasa has released the 1st pictures of its perseverance rover landing on the surface of mars it indicates to the port. navigation have kind of that the parachute had deployed and we're seeing significant the celebration it's the 1st time a mars landing has been captured on video it's already sent back pictures from the surface and it's expected to start moving around and exploring its new home by the end of the month. this is all dizzy with these at the top stories the united states has now recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden has commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we lost were extraordinary.