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 see manila has never truly recovered. the delivery which marks the beginning of the largest vaccination operation in history ghana is the 1st to benefit from the un's kovacs program. and our intake of this is on his ear a live from london also coming up. a message of defiance continues to sound from the streets of me and marks as the military appointed foreign minister flies to thailand for crisis talks. the un human rights

chief accuses sri lanka of systematically ignoring rights abuses during the civil war the claim the government calls unjustified. and a landmark ruling in germany where former syrian secret police officer has been sentenced to prison. or nearly a year after the corona virus outbreak was declared a pandemic the race to vaccinate the world's poorest people against private 19 is finally accelerating the world health organization says its kovacs program is the largest vaccination operation in history and the 1st 600000 doses from astra zeneca have been delivered to ghana which has reported nearly 600 deaths around half of which were in the last 2 months alone meanwhile regulators in the u.s. say johnson and johnson's single dose vaccine is safe confirming that it's around

66 percent effective over rule in preventing moderate to severe coated 19 trials suggest it could also be 88 percent effective against asymptomatic infection and chile is straight ahead of its latin american neighbors and probably the world managing to inoculate 3000000 people respond the government wants to vaccinate the whole country by june of one that story in a moment but 1st there's so sorry hotz report on the un's kovacs scheme finally taking off. yeah and that seems to ensure that people from less wealthy countries are protected against covert 19 is being hailed as a historic moment. the rival of 600000 votes from india marks the beginning of a massive campaign that will see more than 2000000000 doses delivered to several developing countries across different continents this cause that program is about equity and certainly darity if you follow the vaccination going on around the

planet so far it's only citizens from the let the say the better off countries that have benefited from this and from today we're bringing equity gone the plants inoculate around 20 percent of its population in the 1st phase of its campaign but is still not enough and the government says it's working on securing more doses. almost $2500000.00 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far rich countries have been able to buy far more vaccines and poorer ones and while kovacs has managed to raise $6000000000.00 in needs at least another 2000000000 to meet its targets the 2021 this is only financed now so we can reach in 1002 countries the most vulnerable population the older citizens the health workers people with school mobility you know but we need much more taxes and financing so we can vaccinate everybody just like if you walk in the rich world countries receive the lifesaving vaccines next we'll include some of the poorest countries in

the world including haiti democratic republic of congo and afghanistan where the kovacs program will cover 20 percent of its $38000000.00 population the global race for doses has met the high income countries can more easily do deals with vaccine manufacturers than low income ones so the world health organization and unit urging those companies to prioritise contracts with kovacs and ensure fair distribution worldwide so far 200 term 1000000 doses of vaccine have been are still globally bought however those are just 2 countries and 80 per cent are in just 10 countries. more than 200 countries are you 2 are single. altering year of disruptions due to the pandemic there is hope this is the beginning of the path to recovery for those most affected and those that's the most vulnerable sort of. chile has never had more people than all the countries in

africa combined more from a latin america editor you see in human in santiago amazing effort but how has the government managed to achieve this where you are absolutely right it is rather extraordinary and the government is getting a lot of applause for this it's a combination of political will economic solvency and i would say strategic planning this means that the chilean government began very early on when it saw that this epidemic was not going to go away in fact that it had turned into a pandemic it began negotiating with different laboratories that were investigating the possibility of making a vaccine including china. from the u.k. except for chile what became a place where some of the the the chemical. trials clinical trials could take place and they signed contracts with specialized lawyers and this was one of the

keys there are there are. a lot of legal tangled with him putting together one of these contracts for millions and millions of doses as we've been told and so to get these doses guaranteed they hired very very specialized lawyers law firms and that somehow seemed to be able to do the trick because chile has been able to vaccinate already as of today more than 3000000 people more than 5000000 by the end of march and probably the whole country according to the president by mid june which is quite a feat you see in human thank you very much indeed. myanmar's military appointed foreign minister is in thailand for talks for in this month's coup as part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis which began when the army seize power on the 1st of february just as continue to demand the release of elected leader and son suchi scott hardly has more from bangkok.

protesters gathered in front of the indonesian embassy in yangon calling for regional involvement as tensions grow across me and mark. this as the military appointed foreign minister visited bangkok for crisis talks meeting his thai and indonesian counterparts as well as thailand's prime minister pay a general job that's all part of stepped up efforts by the regional group of nations called aussie on to find a way out of the crisis following the february 1st coup and i'm not going to be as a man must i just didn't like to see on countries not to recognise the cue government if they do recognise it the dignity of will be eroded ossie and is reported to be planning to send of places to monitor a new being more election promised by the general but the protesters are urging arceo to recognise the november polling that put their deposed leaders including on song suchi in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling an aussie on to get more

involved we asked. to decide between the military 100 wish oppressed people right now. people were just trying to protest as they can to. lead. we will be. in a tree again this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader men on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power but overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after 82001000 political rivals called it badly flawed. so while the protesters are maintaining their pace of protests and strikes they are also stepping up pressure on regional

players to engage with the crisis al-jazeera bangkok. there are grave concerns for a group of refugees adrift in the end a man sea with no food or water about 90 people including children are on board the rights group the air account project says at least 8 have died the boat left southern bangladesh about 10 days ago and experienced engine failure it's now somewhere in the end a mancy which is part of the indian ocean and bounded by coastlines in me and mar and thailand but the un does not know its exact location with 1000000 ring the refugees are living in crowded camps in bangladesh nasim a cartoon and her family live in cox's bizarre the world's largest refugee camp a 25 year old son is on board the missing vessel ample ark and i see how is my son is my son eating is he getting treatment i have been told that my son did not carry any medicine he only took 4 liters of water with him is my son alive i don't know if anything happens to him or if he is hungry joe biden is expected to speak to

saudi arabia's king solomon soon before publication of a u.s. government report on the murder of journalist. it would be biden's 1st conversation as president with a saudi leader a classified intelligence report is widely believed to implicate the king's son crown prince mohammed bin sound man in official g.'s killing the trumpet ministration refused to release it let's go to our white house correspondent jim to help get in washington d.c. can we know the call will go ahead but we're not clear on when that will be. that's right the white house press secretary a short time ago would not nail down when this will happen only that there will be a phone call and there will be a release of this unclassified report that will take place through the channels of the director of national intelligence now in terms of the report we have an idea that it could be potentially quite damning particularly unflattering to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon and so there were questions from the white house

press corps about if this could change the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia here's what jen psaki had to say the president is taking a fresh approach to how he engages with foreign leaders around the world and different from the prior administration and that means he will not hold back and he will speak out when there are concerns he has about human rights abuses about. the lack of freedom of speech or the lack of freedom of media and expression or any concerns he has at the same time we have a long relationship with saudi arabia they are being attacked in the region and that is certainly an area where we continue to work with them on but i expect we'll have more to say when we get the release of that report. now in terms of the report and its contents well it isn't classified the public has not had an opportunity to see it that's why there is so much anticipation given that there are details that have been made public by members of congress who were

briefed by the director of the cia gina housefull many months ago as that report we know that members of congress emerged to speak to reporters saying that there was only one person that could have been responsible for the murder of washington post journalist about how shoji and that is the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon reporters also asked the press secretary today if mohammed bin or rather the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond if he would be on the telephone call with joe biden the saudi king she said that that would not take place she said a call between his counterpart the defense secretary led austin and himself has already occurred and that is what the white house feels is appropriate at this time so a lot of anticipation about this call the white house saying there will be a readout once it is has taken place but at the same time they will not get ahead of that process or a change in policy as

a result of the contents of the report once that intelligence report is made public can be ok thank you very much indeed. still to come on there are actually road maps speeding up through southeast asia malaysia and vietnam among the latest to stop their campaigns. anger outside of lebanese court as families fear anti-government activists could be executed for terrorism. probably their weather's looking pretty good across the good parts if europe at the moment lost a clear skies into central and southern pos little more cloud further north as you can see and we have got these areas of cloud of gray he said weather systems just rolling in across the top of our area of high pressure which is currently just across central parts but it's a model direction with the winds coming in from the south westerly direction here

we are looking at temperatures getting up to around 1920 celsius the northern parts of germany so pretty typical a weather system a weakening weather feature which will run into that area of high pressure just rolling down across the southeast of england through east anglia just pushing its way down across the low countries for northern parts of france as you go on into friday that will continue to sink its way further south which across a good part of germany getting stretched out in the process but there will be some rain pushing across southern parts of poland right down across the czech republic and on into the alps so we'll see some rain turning to snow here south of that it stays fine and try and. warming up in moscow temperatures getting up to around 5 degrees celsius and at long last we seem fine weather meanwhile across a good pass over northern africa we got a few showers down towards the gulf of guinea with west the weather making its way towards lagos.

and. one man's dream to transport planes from europe and fly them over his beloved country. in a nation reeling from decades of violence. callen international team of pilots get this man's dream off the ground. over babylon on al-jazeera. amount of the top stories here not a 0 ghana has become the 1st country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the

international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca medication arrived in the capital accra on wednesday and chinese streaking ahead of latin american countries vaccinating more than 3000000 people this month. as military appointed foreign minister is in thailand for talks following this month's coup it's part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis the test is in man marcantonio to demand the release of elected leader on some sushi. and joe biden is expected to speak to saudi arabia's king solomon soon before the publication of a u.s. government report on the murder of journalist. classified intelligence report is widely believed to implicate the king's son crown prince mohammed bin sandman in her show she's killing. alasia is the latest country in southeast asia to begin vaccinating people while in vietnam more than 100000 doses arrived for the planned rollout there just to washington takes

a look at inoculation campaigns in the region. at a health clinic in the city of which are giant delays as prime minister kicks off his country's corona virus vaccine campaign the southeast asian nation plans to vaccinate 80 percent of its population of 32000000 by makes year. in neighboring indonesia one of the world's largest mosques thousands of religious leaders are being vaccinated this week in jakarta using the vaccine developed by chinese pharmaceuticals manufacturer a sign of ike the dr is part of the push to encourage more engine asians to accept the vaccine. have a target of 17000000 public workers a religious leaders and 21000000 elderly people hopefully the 2nd phase will be finished by the end of june indonesia is the worst affected country in southeast asia with more than 35000 confirmed deaths thailand will start vaccinating priority groups including health workers this week using the same sign of aca back scene the

country has received 200000 doses more will arrive next month the day. i thank china for sending us the 1st batch of vaccines this month the vaccines will keep arriving as planned the philippines is yet to start its vaccine rollout and its labor department has sparked anger suggesting it was open to allowing more nurses to work in foreign countries in exchange for vaccines from europe when we 1st. read and heard about it but we are sad then the we were heard of this embrace as if we are like an object not by the bank we did see in vietnam has been praised as one of the world's best performers in handling the virus and now it's received its 1st shipment of vaccines it will be hoping that it will continue when it starts rolling them out next month jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. people with learning difficulties will be prioritized for

vaccines in the u.k. after a plea by a popular radio host d.j. jo whiley revealed last week that she was offered the vaccine before her sister who has a genetic disorder a campaign that the government to update its vaccine policy chemist ahead whatley says doctors will start inviting everyone registered with learning disabilities to get vaccinated pakistan's prime minister has been talking trade and tourism with sri lankan president got a bio rajapaksa in colombo imran khan has been on a 2 day visit aimed at improving relations between the 2 nations is promoting pakistan as a good tourist destination for the people of sri lanka but it is also discussed working together on defense un human rights chief is criticized for lanka for not doing enough for victims of its civil war issue says there has been no justice even though it's more than a decade since the conflict ended some 100000 people died in the 26 year war

between the government and rebels from the minority tamil community. the government has largely caught. on the possibility or do you need progress to end purely through a national cross for these reasons a call on the council or no waste were banned remus types of accountability at the international level for all parties and seek redress for big things including by supporting it did give us the elect and preserve evidence and information for the future of the group the process. or should i guess foreign minister has rejected the report saying it's unjustified really broad politicize and should stay out of the country's domestic affairs the sri lankan government has been criticized partly because of its failure to bring accountability to those involved in the civil war which went on for 25 years last year the government announced it was withdrawing from a un resolution signed by the previous administration that promised to promote reconciliation

accountability and human rights rights groups have accused president go to by rajapaksa of waging a campaign of fear and intimidation against activists journalists lawyers and political challenges and last month at the un human rights chief michel brushless said she was alarmed by the deteriorating conditions in sri lanka and called for sanctions. a german court has handed out the world's 1st prosecution for state sponsored torture by the syrian government a former intelligence officer has been sentenced to 4 and a half years in jail the crimes against humanity the verdict gives hope to thousands of syrians who say they were tortured by president bashar assad's government john mccain reports from berlin 10 years ago a yacht guard who was working for the syrian intelligence services now he's starting a lengthy prison sentence in germany the prosecution said that in 2011 he knowingly

brought dozens of protesters to a notorious jail outside damascus to be tortured his defense lawyer said he feared being punished himself if he refused to carry out his orders the court in corpulence rejected that convicting him and jailing him for 4 and a half years. this is this s. to show that this is the 1st step the road to justice is long and one of the goals is to bring bashar al assad and his inner circle before a court this is a relief but it's also not the end it's only the beginning. this is the 1st trial of alleged atrocities carried out by the forces of president bashar assad as such lawyers for the victims in this case hope it will set a precedent. this is what's important is we have a verdict the crimes by the assad government in the secret prisons crimes against humanity this is the 1st verdict worldwide a view that seems to be shared by many in government in berlin another element that

distinguishes this case is that the german justice system has prosecuted convicted and punished a known german whose victims were not german for crimes that were committed outside germany. in doing so prosecutors have invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction for such serious crimes. trials outside syria are a glimmer of hope but also a clear signal to victims that we and the international community recognize it's an issue which not only concerns germany but many of our partners to signal to victims is that justice will be done they yet algarve it stood trial alongside another former member of the acid forces both men had left syria and come to germany as refugees the 2nd man. was a senior intelligence officer in 2011 he's accused of multiple murder rape torture and other serious offenses he denies the charges and his case continues dominic

kane al-jazeera perlin. security has been stepped up outside a minute she court in beirut where $32.00 anti-government activists are standing trial accused of terrorism is the 1st time the charge has been leveled against a protester an offense that carries the death sentence and a honda reports from beirut. it's been nearly a month since an alley saw her son she waits for news outside the military tribunals where allie is among dozens of men facing trial on terrorism charges birth of birth alert those charges can carry the death penalty and are seen as an escalation in the ongoing conflict between the state and the people. in need i mean it should be a bit heavy yet they're accusing our sons of being terrorists they are the terrorists they stole the people's money they are responsible for the explosion of that they report our children are nationalists not them the defendants are alleged to have thrown molotov cocktails at security forces and burned down

a melissa polity building during protests in the northern city of tripoli last month the demonstrations were held to demand the government compensation during a strict coronavirus lockdown that worse than living conditions for the poor. one protester was shot in the back during the unrest his family and activists want to know why no charges have been brought against those responsible for killing him the facilities i'm not going to tell you who was monitored was killed by these men they know who fired the shot and they're not telling us lawyers have criticised the use of a military court to try the defendants and say they have been obstructed from seeing them they also say the young men were interrogated without lawyers being present and described the charges as unlawful arbitrary and a form of oppression this escalation has 3 reasons for us 1st is to put the stigma on the protestors mainly in 3 put it that they are terrorists 2nd is to put the

fear factor to the protesters not to hit the streets again and 3rd is like to put the pressure on the investigation judge not 3 of the detainees human rights groups say terrorism charges should be used for serious political crimes and not acts of public disorder. repression is increased in the 11 on some said nationwide protest movement began more than a year ago security forces have been accused of using excessive and unlawful force against the demonstrators. lengthy pretrial detention prosecutions with limited rights to appeal interrogations without the presence of a lawyer and beatings have all been documented warnings that free speech and assembly are at risk are not new for many the dwindling numbers of those who continue to speak out is a testament of that we are lety. beirut. was in how to lead our coverage of last year's devastating boston beirut which killed more than

200 people there is reporting on the explosion has won an award from the royal television society in the u.k. for best breaking news coverage it was harmony was held virtually but the r.t.s. has tweeted the result calling it a journalistic total farce. a chinese divorce court has offered a man to compensate his wife for the house which she did during their 5 year marriage but i'm not ruling followed china's introduction of a new civil code catrina use in beijing this ruling has sparked a flurry of debate online here in china over the role of housewives in chinese society now according to this case a beijing court awarded a woman named wang about $7700.00 in compensation following her divorce from her husband in addition to hof the couple's assets and custody of her only child now this is the 1st case of its kind since china's marriage law was amended earlier this year saying that any carers of children or parents would be entitled to

compensation now this story has been viewed hundreds of millions of times on chinese social media there are some comments saying that it's an unfair decision that the man had already been contributing to the family by his work but the vast majority of comments we've read have been in support of the woman one and in fact many believe that the compensation is not enough 7700 dollars for 5 years of being a housewife others are saying that this is going to discourage divorce which has been on the up tick here in china and there are also many hubris comments with something that this is simply a cautionary tale for women against becoming housewives because the legal compensation they would receive upon divorce is not enough to justify sacrificing their career or being dependent on a husband and other men are saying that this really is a reminder to contribute to the housework and perhaps to document their efforts on social media or via pictures in case there would be a divorce in the future but overall everyone here seems to agree that this is

a landmark significant ruling which has sparked much needed reflection and discussion over the role of women generally in what's a traditionally patriarchal society and many others also say that this is going to give a boost to the feminist movement here in china which is burgeoning at the moment. german officials say they've seized a record amount of cocaine the not just ever found in europe 16 metric tons were found in containers that arrived in hamburg from paraguayan customs officials say it's also one of the biggest single seizures worldwide another $7.00 metric tons were found in belgium and a suspect has been arrested in the netherlands authorities in hamburg so the total street value amounts to several $1000000000.00 ocean scientists in france are calling for a trial or a fishing to be paused because a record number of dolphins more than $400.00 have been found dead since the beginning of the year for searches in the ocean on the atlantic coast so the

animals were disease free but were bruised and showed other signs of trauma they're asking for a winter moratorium on the use of large fishing nets which can reach up to 10 meters deep thoughts. are there we're here we beat the record of the year before it's not pleasant to announce records like this we want the species to be protective of the biodiversity of its environment that we preserve the way we treat these animals is a reflection of the way we exploited the whole environment which is damaging for all the other species. the top stories are now jazeera nearly a year after the corona virus outbreak was declared a pandemic of the race to vaccinate the world's poorest people against kobe 19 is fine except orating ghana has become the 1st country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the international kovacs scheme 600000 doses of the astra zeneca

jobs arrived in the capital accra on wednesday and chile is streaking ahead of other latin american countries executing more than 3000000.