in dictatorship without the sometimes i thought it would be better to die continue to be surely to uncork. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. this nation will smile again this nation will no sunny day sickie. remembering the lives lost 19 u.s. president joe biden holds a memorial to mark the 500000 deaths and warns against becoming complacent. the whole romany watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha are also coming up. when i travel in

a one way road to freedom the u.k.'s prime minister lays out his road back to live covert 1000 restrictions in england hoping that life can get back to normal by the end of june. also italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo was killed in an attack on a u.n. convoy in the east the r.c. blames a rwandan hutu armed group also they go doctor. and. that was a martian landing nasa releases a 1st of a kind video of its perseverance rover descending on to the red planet. welcome to the program the u.s. has recorded mold in the hof a 1000000 deaths from cave at 19 the highest toll in the world despite efforts to rob the vaccinations about 2000 americans are still dying every day.

bells tolled 500 times at the national cathedral in memory of those killed it's been just over a year since the u.s. recorded its 1st death from the disease bolton 28000000 people have been infected since that christensen has moved from washington d.c. . president joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house acknowledging the half 1000000 lost took over 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary they span generations born in america emigrated to america just like that so many of them took their final breath. in america as a nation can accept such a cruel fate. while we are fighting this pandemic for so long we have to resist

becoming numb to the sorrow after addressing the nation the president headed outside for a moment of silence 500 candles lit 450-0000 dead 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 the grim milestone comes after winter storm stalled vaccination efforts in parts of the nation so far just over 80 percent of the doses that are available have been administered health officials say they should be back on track this week backs and eating at a rate of 1800000 shots per day while hospitalizations and pay tallies remain high the most of any country in the world they've begun to decline dramatically cover $19.00 in the united states has been declining for 5 weeks with the 7 day average dropping 74 percent since the 7 day average on january the president has promised

to vaccinate 100000000 americans in his 1st 100 days in office and white house officials expect to meet that goal but that may be small comfort to those who've lost a loved one nevertheless the president offered the grieving a message of hope you could be ok and to heal he said we must remember kristen salumi al-jazeera washington. england could see it in 2 minutes quote a virus restrictions by the end of june prime minister boris johnson has laid out a cautious and irreversible plan to start lifting measures from next month but it could all come to a halt of inspections right starts to rise all vaccinations are delayed these baka reports from the british capital. the long road out of lockdown 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 who's decisively shifted the odds in our favor so that we no longer have to rely simply on lockdowns and restricting our 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 they said look set to continue when the rest of the children return. after the reopening of schools allowing people to have more social contacts 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 pfizer and 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 i. 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 rollout 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 17000000 people have received at least one 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 variant are also shrinking but after months of disruptive on office trick sions the last thing anyone wants is for a taste of normality to be suddenly taken away need barker al-jazeera london. now the congolese government has baby a rwandan hutu rebel group for an attack on a u.n. convoy that killed the italian ambassador. and the star bodyguard and driver also

died in the ambush in the eastern democratic republic of congo italy's president has condemned the attack as cowardly catherine sawyer reports. you are on a mission to ritual in law thank you for the province to visit a school feeding program one of the many world food programme projects supports in the democratic republic of congo their journey ended here in the virunga national park several kilometers from the provincial capital goma they tally and ambassador his bodyguard and their driver were killed in a crossfire between park rangers and gunmen during an ambush on their convoy several other people injured. we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth 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 questions 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 he ses 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 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 the last month this is a fast major attack on a big u.n. organization like the deputy if paid by the poc 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 pot of 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 that area. many congolese in this area of lead in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have struggled to defeat their rebels for yes well one day succeed catherine so i.

iran's top cleric bought it clerical body says there will be no further negotiations with the u.s. on the 2050 nuclear deal because of the assembly of experts met in tehran to review the agreement known as the joint comprehensive plan of action a recent deal between the government and the un's nuclear watchdog is also facing opposition from hardline iranian politicians is that allows inspectors to continue monitoring to iran's nuclear facilities for up to 3 months but opponents say it's illegal i want president hassan rouhani to be punished for it well iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has warned it could boost you radio in richmond by up to 60 percent and says tehran will never yield to u.s. pressure over its nuclear development trita parsi is executive vice president at the quincy institute think tank he explains why haven't these remarks mean to the iranian public. i think the way to understand what those comments meant and the primary audience for them is that as the iranians are making an agreement with the

i.a.e.a. as and as you or package reported which a large part of the iranian parliament opposes and believes is in the violation of the law that the parliament passed at the same time sabrina hominy then makes a statement about potentially going up to 60 percent i would read that as an effort to try to appease those hardliners. and calm them down for doing that on the bone mindful of the fact that khomeini is greenlighting the agreement with the i.a.e.a. which the parliament is upset about but as your package pointed out it is an increasingly tense situation domestically in iran in which disagreement with the idea of continuing to collaborate with the i.a.e.a. when the united states still remains outside of the nuclear deal is becoming increasingly difficult if it's not done now then the west would be forced to negotiate with the next iranian conservative president most likely and that conservative president is most likely going to run on that platform very much like

trump did in 2016 opposing the j c p a and that's going to make this already difficult puzzle even more difficult to resolve so there's a tremendous degree of urgency that needs to be injected into this situation and getting some diplomatic movement much faster than what we have seen so far. well still ahead here on al-jazeera wise sri lanka's muslim community hope a visit by pakistan's prime minister could help her. and health experts line diggity on the search for a silent killer we'll have more on the efforts to halt the a bowl of outbreak straight after the break in. places a normal service has been resumed across the united states with warm weather coming

through a same norma's actually very much on the mall side for the deep south dallas touching 19 celsius shippy about 60 at this time of the year but after a race and it's really cold record breaking cold weather pleased to say some of this milder rest are to push its way through it continues to nudge further north which as we go on through tuesday dallas touching $23.00 degrees by choose day so what's going on is largely quiet actually we've got some wintry flowers around the pacific northwest around the cascades and snow there snow there too into the rockies but for many it is fine and dry and a bit of wintry weather over towards the northeast 3 pennsylvania upstate new york pushing into new england as we go on through wednesday temperatures in they say at their station or around 16 degrees celsius for many as you can see it is looking fine and tried is looking for the dry across a good part of the caribbean certainly for the islands is largely set there lots of lovely tropical sunshine we got a few showers into central america having said that nicaragua honduras guatemala

seeing some lively showers from time to time through tuesday going on into wednesday we might even catch a shero to it to the east in jamaica. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dies and it just becomes a statistic that some have broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspired others to turn their lives around i call the strong help program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me sell robin a reminder of our top stories the united states has now recorded more than a half a 1000000 deaths from covert 90 by far the highest toll of the world flags at half staff for president joe biden the victims with a moment of silence. told the 500 times in washington d.c. in memory of those killed during the pandemic more than 28000000 people in the u.s. have been affected. also british prime minister boris johnson has laid out his plan to lift pandemic restrictions schools are due to reopen on march the 8th and 2 people from separate households will be allowed to be taught song.

play make a boeing has asked around the world to ground the sub of its triple 7 jets that's after the engine of water craft partially disintegrated admitted on saturday an investigation is underway into what caused the incident which got to daybreak over residential areas in the u.s. state of colorado. has moved to chicago where boeing is based. for boeing of 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 at several parts are united required. to. thank you if you are ready to serve immediately in the u.s. federal aviation regulators have demanded stepped up inspections of the engine type that rained down on

a home 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 depressurization 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 modem machinery a full which hadn't been detected before suddenly makes itself known and everything is frozen for a while and inspection takes place to try and correct this is not a total systemic faults 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 that's 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. no according to its closing all land and sea border crossings from wednesday as it tries to get on top of its credible racin factions

the closure will stay in place until the end of march but the government says it won't affect shipping operations and exclude some domestic workers and people employed in the neutral zone the gulf nation barred the entry of non-citizens on saturday while anger over crowded virus restrictions in government has spilled over into violent demonstrations leaving 3 people dead security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in the capital leiber of il and the port genteel. restricted travel in and out of the capital city and expanded curfew houses to try and slow the spread of covert 19 the country is experiencing a 2nd wave of infections and has reported more than 13000 cases of the virus. after months of dinars tanzania's president has admitted that credit i was as a problem in the country john bag of food made the comments after the funeral of

a senior politician who had the virus the president declared tanzania crowed a virus free last may and said covert 19 could be defeated by prayer authorities of blame pneumonia for a recent rise in deaths but they number of tanzania's travelling overseas have tested positive for the virus. $11000.00 doses of a bowl of vaccines and $200.00 health experts have landed in guinea is capital conakry after a resurgence of the virus at least 5 people have died in the latest outbreak which was declared an epidemic earlier in the month nicholas hack has more. they work like detectives trying to trace a silent killer a ball the health workers question the son of a nurse who died from the virus in early february asking questions on what she ate where she went and what she did did he see anything unusual before her death still in shock he calls out to his deceased mother. i can't stop

crying. but we don't really know is this true are they lying to us go the only knows if you powerless night and day i cry why did you have to go he is not alone in doubting a bull is resurgence at the at the center of the outbreak the regional market is bustling despite a ban on public gatherings worse meat from wild animals known to harbor is sold in stalls. what he has noted people are just that some haven't come into the market so those people you see he was from a boat in countries in 2015 more than 11000 people died in 20000 were infected after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring liberia and sierra leone the outbreak was contained after an experimental vaccine was distributed but not before health workers were attacked by people who did not

believe in the virus infected patients were kept in isolation and the dead were taken away buried without their families being present. a good listen when you are on is that instead of doing everything right i was safe we have to give the resources and the means to the population then to do the work or their local authorities to manage to break by them said we cannot continue coming with the greatest movie any reason lot of people in small villages. 11000 vaccines and 200 health workers have just arrived in guinea's capital cannot create to help manage this latest outbreak they doses will go to frontline health workers and close contacts patients are being treated in. corner creek and little by the 1000000 border almost a month after louis mother died of a paula the virus is spreading nicholas hockey al-jazeera. the united states supreme court has ruled that donald trump's tax records can be released to

new york prosecutors as part of a criminal investigation it's a major setback for the former president to keep the documents private the investigation is partially focused on payments made to 2 women who say they had extramarital affairs with trump it's also looking into potential fraud as well as the falsification of business records. nearly 8000000 people in the u.s. state of texas are still having issues with water access after a severe winter storm caused widespread damage last week many have been queuing queues for hours to get water and food at local churches and shopping miles the storm caused major blackouts and damage to infrastructure nearly 17000 people remain without power. the wife of jailed mexican drug basu yakima el chapo guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges in the u.s. court of merrill

a spoto was caught at washington d.c.'s international airport she's charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine methamphetamine heroin and marijuana the u.s. justice department also accuses her of helping her husband in an infamous a skate from a banks can prison in 2015 years murder serving a life sentence in the u.s. jail back as the prime minister world begin their 2 day visit to sri lanka on tuesday the 2 countries are expected to sign economic agreements but sri lanka's muslim minority has high hopes for a different reason than all fernandez reports are from the capital colombo sri lanka imports more than half of the onions in the dieter's from pakistan the end part of the range of food items including vicinity rice and mandarins that are brought in from pakistani ports at the up the market to go to the pakistan is a big help to our market we can get what we need quickly and easily and at

a good price. driven commissary media focus of prime minister imran khan's visit to colombo but that's not all he's been urged to discuss lanka's minority museum community has complained of being marginalised in recent years it says cool that 19 has made things much worse with the government forcibly committing all victims disregarding it's a practice for big meanie slone. prime minister can respond treat as a champion of islamic rights has been asked to help in the practice community's members of society big games themselves have appealed to muslim countries including pakistan. so in that context he's. very critical khan's visit comes as the un human rights chief presents a highly critical report on sri lanka it highlights the country's failure to ensure

justice and accountability 12 years after the bloody end of the civil war between government troops and the tamil tigers officials here were hoping that prime minister imran khan would help rally support against any critical resolution at the un in geneva but the government forced cremation policy of covert 19 victims which has angered its muslim population could make that support unlikely even if a man does out of the euro. for the 1st time ever the u.s. space agency has captured a. video released the 1st pictures of its perseverance rover descending on to the surface of the red planet ready to search for ancient signs of life laura begley reports. that's our kind of. an historic moment for nasa the 1st ever color video of

a spacecraft landing on. a planet more than 200000000 kilometers from ours. that's 10 that we've been dreaming about for years and then he give you a quick warning to not blink as things go really fast here you can see that you get a sense really of how violent that parachute deploy and inflation are the 2700000000 dollar perseverance rosa is on a mission to explore the red planet for ancient signs of life it was a nail biting moment the scientists who have to wait several minutes to receive the signal that it had successfully landed on the just there a crater that said to be an ancient really bad that carried water billions of years ago. it's not just video of thursday's land they did not say had released this is the microphone that was part of the e.t.o. system i know right now too if you would like to close your eyes and just imagine

yourself sitting on the surface of mars. it will take a few weeks for the rover to get rolling on its heavy duty wheels the team will 1st check all systems software and test the instruments it will allow us to do further in depth check out to be a shipment we have our core drill in the center are pixel and charley instruments mounted to the side and that block is to support the gut gas dust removal which will remove dust from the surfaces that we will be inspecting later. and in about a month a drone named in junior to what attempts to explode before this. is also pieced together 6 pick choose to create a panoramic of the dusty motion on scape surrounding the rover.

explore the river delta that ran into an ancient lake there in the darfur settlement scientists are hoping to find fossils that prove life 1658 on the red planet. near about money and is there. and of course you follow all of those stories on our website ouch that dot com it's updated throughout the day our top story of course that death toll in the united states will. be watching i was there with me as a whole robin here in doha remind of our top news stories the united states has recorded well the half a 1000000 deaths from cave in 19 by far the highest death toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we lost were extraordinary.