test treatments and of that see keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. safe and highly effective u.s. regulators are set to approve johnson and johnson single shot coronavirus vaccine paving the way for a global rollout. columns are already watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up facebook targets me and miles military spanning the armed forces of using any of its platforms as protests against the coup showed no signs of letting up. i believe

. also more violence at one of 3 prisons in ecuador where riots broke out killing at least 79 people. and declaring victory over poverty china's president says it's reached its goal of stuff to get out by 2021. month into the program the drive to end the quote a virus pandemic is picking up speed new research shows that the johnson and johnson vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe cases of covert 19 and it could get emergency approval for use in the u.s. by the end of the week the single shot banksy has been tested in the u.s. brazil and south africa studies show it's highly effective in combating the aggressive variance europe's inoculation program is also gathering pace e.u. countries are set to discuss vaccination certificates for their citizens as part of

efforts to stimulate travel through the summer and the fact that his vice president of vaccine research and development blue willow biologics he says the johnson and johnson job could be a game changer. going for one immunization is a great thing that happening because for a mass vaccination you don't want to have the trouble of bringing people back to get the 2nd vaccination so they are the only company that went for one of the back of the nation and look for the sickest and they showed that they would have a decent that because surely they crossed the line of the expectation of the end of their order for licensure so on friday we will see how the exact data looks like and probably with the advisory committee at the f.d.a. it will be looking forward to see more details about that in addition are all other

vaccine in fact sean if it gets here start one vaccination but for short periods of time because we did not we have to administer the 2nd vaccination so they only got the need for a priori one or one vaccination was injected i'm sure that if you look at the data there is a good data to support at some point of time some other vaccine that can go for one vaccination original and then you bring people back for a 2nd immunization after you have done more work and they expanded the vaccination . as a matter says u.s. regulators are testing its due credit hours vaccine a that's a variant that's prevalent in south africa another strain is considered one of the more dangerous because it evades some of the blocking action of antibodies that means it has reduced the efficiency of the current generation of vaccines maternal is considering using the new vaccine as a boost to how combining it with its original job. more people

all the countries in africa combined it was the 1st nation south america to start its campaign the 5th highest vaccination rates in the world more than 3000000 people were. in the barracks. and she explains how chile has been able to roll out. so quickly the combination actually of 3 factors one very very strong political will a very aggressive energy put into acquiring these vaccines on the part of the president who was a billionaire businessman before he was a politician so he knows how to negotiate especially in the international market also economic solvency chile has been able to pay for these facts up front and 3rd some very very savvy lawyers because as we have discovered it's not so easy to purchase millions of vaccines in this quantity the legal framework is complicated

and especially when there's competition worldwide to acquire them so apparently was able to come up with these very almost airtight contracts with pharmaceutical companies 3 or 4 of them at least even before the vaccines were approved and they have been arriving by the millions and so so far i've had my job most of the people i know have and by the middle of the end of june if going as they are now the whole country should have been inoculated one of the things that the health minister he wasn't all that popular although he was recognized for having done a very good job in bringing ventilators to chile but there was a there's a new health minister but probably the biggest criticism was more along the lines of what the government did not do as efficiently in terms of economic aid to the people who needed most. social media giant facebook says that it's bad to be a mass military from using its platforms the firm says it's

a necessary response to this month's q. and the violent crackdown on protesters at least 3 protesters have been killed in weeks of rallies denouncing the takeover and demanding the release of the elected leader and signs chief let's get more on this from scott hired our correspondent who's in the neighboring country of thailand capital bangkok scott i mean what sort of pressure and reaction will facebook's actions have really on the military getting their message out. well so hill facebook is used widely in myanmar and has been for years once the country kind of opened up and connected to the outside world via internet so it's been a very very critical way of communicating inside the country even to people just using it most for communication just with groups and with people so the way that the military had been able to get its message out is through facebook so it will be a hit to them in that respect facebook saying that the military in myanmar had

violated its rules and also that it. rights abuses against it so they are pulling the plug in that this is something that we've seen before to facebook has had to take measures against the military against entities connected to the military in the past because of some of the ways that they used facebook and other entities under facebook's banner to its advantage and manipulating things so this is a big move by facebook it's going to be a hit to the military because again it's one of the main ways people get messages in myanmar but when you look at it kind of beyond that those people who would necessarily listen to the military or kind of be on their side of the current situation they're probably not going to really look at facebook that much in this environment they are probably looking more at state run t.v. which is still on air so it's going to be a hit to them it's kind of again the international community kind of chime in on the situation there so i would think looks more you look more at that as the kind

of a setback for the military because here's this tech giant saying you know you're spreading this information during this this very delicate time in your country so we're going to pull the plug on your pages well the protests continue will be to with you through the day. thank you. so iran serve again broken up 3 gangs in a prison in the city of now this week has seen the worst prison balance in the country's history with at least 79 people killed police have released video showing special units entering some prisons during the riots laura but manley reports it was. her. fellow. how many of her friends confronted by flames and prisoners on the loose was my ecuadorian special forces a maximum security prison in the country south. i would prefer was.

they shelter the inmates to get on the ground. and fight a gas in a bid to bring the riot under control i. prepared for people in makes a scene covering themselves from the choking fumes all those arrested oh there's a child's a some of the prisoners attempt to jailbreak. this dramatic video was released the day after riots broke out in 3 presence within these walls rival gangs of turned with each other in the battle for power in the district. some fought with handmade weapons others reportedly the head that. dozens of people have been killed over the brow of the crowd the police and military remain stationed outside while a killer let a cougar and cuenca there are frequent riots and violence in acquittals prison system but this is so far in the deadliest was i want my son out because he

could get killed your thought is what the hand to my of a dead no my son is aust me to get him out because they want to kill him oh thanks i don't know anything about my son i was sent a message yesterday on the phone he all. uses to communicate and it said only we are locked up that's it i sent another message but i didn't receive a response many worried loved ones who i'm only in danger with gang disputes regularly springing into by them in front of the prison. nor about a man out of fear are. for as well as expelling me had all the european union delegation in caracas in retaliation for sanctions imposed on some of its top officials isabel process has been given 72 hours to leave on monday the e.u. froze assets and imposed travel bans on 19 venezuelan officials accusing them of either undermining democracy or violating human rights is the 2nd time in the year that venezuela has expelled the diplomats in response to european sanctions not on

the we know. we would not have wanted to do this we are doing it against our will because we want to have the best relations with all of europe but we cannot accept that anyone comes to offend venezuela to attack venezuela or to sanction venezuela we are not going to accept it from anybody well still ahead here on al-jazeera a landmark ruling in germany a court sentences a former syrian intelligence officer for aiding crimes against humanity. and sorting out the u.s. postal service we ask if it can be saved from years of losses and public mistrust. of. hello there we've got snow in the forecast for parts of the middle east over the next couple of days not as widespread as it has been recently on places i think

for the most part it is looking fine and dry but iran could see some rather nasty weather so you have a higher ground increasingly turning to snow and it joins up with the snowy mix that we have pushing up towards afghanistan kabul around 30 degrees celsius iraq syria. lebanon jordan pushing down across the levant looking fine and dry with some pleasant sunshine and more the west sunshine too into northern parts of saudi arabia following on from our recent spell of shabby rain coming out of this they system pay which continues to make its way further race was dry skies coming back in behind snow just the winds picking up across the gulf is because through friday blowing snow some lifted dust and sand to watch out for but it will be largely dry loss of hazy sunshine across much of the arabian peninsula while she drives soon as he hop across the wall says here into somalia got a few showers there into the highlands maybe some showers just around southern parts of uganda through the rift valley the usual crop of showers coming in here

but some really wet weather will make its way into the eastern side of south africa for the next couple of days but it warms up quite nicely for cape town. and the 1st major legislation for president joe biden is getting the pandemic under control with the because action of money we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in now while the pandemic has devastated many industries and to give it a huge boost to the video game site counting the cost on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of that narrative for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why.

but the back i want you all deserve means the whole romney reminder of our top story is the johnson and johnson corona virus vaccine to get emergency approval for use in the u.s. by the end of the week this afternoon research showed it's highly effective in preventing severe cases of covert 19. social media giant facebook has been to be advanced military for abusing its platforms firms says it's a necessary response to the schools and the violent crackdown on protesters also police in ecuador say riots have broken out again between criminal gangs in a prison in the city of. this week has seen the bloodiest prison violence in the country's history with at least 79 people killed. china's president has declared a complete victory in a long running campaign to stamp out poverty she made the announcement at

a ceremony marking the country's accomplishments it's a goal that beijing was hoping to achieve by this year between e.u. has more from beijing. now we've got to look at the benchmark for what poverty is according to china china says that's an income of $2.30 per day which is slightly lower than what the world bank recommends for higher income countries which is about $5.00 a day that being said though china says according to its own benchmark of $2.30 it's lifted $717000000.00 people out of poverty since the $970.00 s. now this campaign has been underway for decades but really it was galvanized under siege and payne who really made it quite a significant part of his leadership a promise to end extreme poverty at the time in 2012 when he came to power there was still about 100000000 people mostly in rural areas living in poverty but what he did was send about 3000000 chinese communist party officials to these rule areas and they would told to go door to door knocking on every household checking their

income details and then they were provided with targets to alleviate these counties out of poverty so for example the government has poured billions of dollars into building apartment blocks in your housing building factories building schools building roads and infrastructure and over the past 8 years these county officials have been tasked with making sure every household that they've nurtured has been lifted out of poverty and has had the quality of life improved china has criticised the united states for sailing a warship through the taiwan strait saying it undermines peace and stability in the region the u.s.s. curtis wilbur passthrough a wednesday in what the u.s. navy described as a routine taiwan strait transit beijing says it strongly opposes the move. israel has stopped the sale of fish following all still tons of tar across the coast to southern lebanon a greek oil tanker company denies accusations that it is responsible managers of

the minute helen said the vessel is in spain and has no deficiencies israel's public broadcaster reported the tanker was the suspected source of the country's nature and parcel 40 says it's one of its worst ecological disasters on record $55.00 tons of tar have been cleaned up so far jonathan aiken bar israel director for greenpeace e says authorities are close that identifying who's responsible for the oil spill. i seemed a continuity with b.s. to be scary so i mean the company can maybe try to yank sometimes but doubt so many technology co disability to do dots by ourself without also trying to see where this came from and it's really just things off easy no and once we have new elements we also release them to israel has has the resources but not the playground has to deal with such a difference so basically it's the n.g.o.s who to believe them that then broke

stows and volunteers to deal with the cleanup some parts of the cleanup really haven't seen fast and so i'm sure those will be probably reopened to the public quite soon maybe in a few weeks but for other parts mostly the rocky parts and it's very special and sensitive area has some natural reserve offs and not to reserves it was very special ecosystems and the cleanup will take months but it isn't for sizing whole took 2nd thought and i think i'll fulsome fuels and huge infrastructure and to many town and see its hundreds of dunkers that are making their way all along especially in the east marathon and sea and it's also many other and gas drilling that are already existing until developments so what we saw here is you know just a kind of promo of what is going to be destroyed nation in the east on midtown and best seen. unless we change our governments gender way to sink and really addictions this kind of. supporters of new jersey positionally to have clashed with

police after he declared himself the winner of the presidential runoff demonstrators that are barricades and lit fires in the capital of the m.b. the election commission declared maman barzun the winner but maher harmonia claims widespread voter fraud and insists that he is the rightful winner. a german court has sentenced a former syrian intelligence officer to 4 half years in jail for being an accomplice in crimes against humanity it's the world's 1st prosecution involving state sponsored torture by president bashar al assad's government dominic kane reports from berlin. 10 years ago a yacht guard was working for the syrian intelligence services now he's starting a lengthy prison sentence in germany the prosecution sand 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 break bashar al assad and his inner circle before 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 the final. 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 a yad algarve stood trial alongside another former member of the acid forces both men had left syria and come to germany as refugees the 2nd man on watrous line 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 joshua landis is director of the center for middle east

studies at the university of oklahoma and he says the case sets a very strong precedent. it's very important it's cortlandt because obviously these victims of torture are going to get some justice it's also important because this is a syrian on german soil who has abused other syrians and it means that people can be arrested anywhere in the world and thirdly it's very good news for syrians who are applying for asylum in any country particularly young syrians who have not served military service because if they're sent back forcibly to syria they'll have to serve military service and this man who he had of a country who was arrested was or was accused of taking people to prison where they could be tortured although it wasn't proven that they any of them were tortured but that means that simply serving in the syrian army is tantamount to carrying

out crimes against humanity so anybody who is going to go back to do national service in syria can appeal for asylum basis that he's going to be forced to do to torture people. amnesty international has stripped russian opposition leader in the valley of his prisoner of conscience status the rights group says the decision was made in relation to some of the volleys past comments that bordered on hate speech and he has previously promoted nationalist and anti immigrant policies the valley in cinema scojo and amnesty says it will need to fight for his freedom. the human rights council sensor is unwilling to be held to account for its international crimes and rights violations are the critical report says tamil and muslim minorities are being increasingly marginalized sluggers government accuses the council of meddling in its domestic issues ben smith reports. only 12 years

after the end of sri lanka's civil war the pain is still warm for those who sons daughters and husbands disappeared. this was a protest earlier this month they want answers accountability and justice. but not getting any because the united nations human rights council says the highest levels of sri lanka's government is in denial about past crimes the spaces were seen as and that and the media which have grown significantly is now rapidly from the independence on the story the human rights commission of. the national police commission another key warning as the neatly eroded by the recently about the apprentice constitutional amendment the. president got a bye rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including

murder and torture. and now the u.n. says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long list of complaints including trying to get education in the tamil language and oppressive police surveillance of muslims. as government rejects all the allegations made in the report including claims he uses divisive rhetoric. constitutional guarantees as i mentioned before fundamental rights of war citizens and anyone can can must under the fundamental right and our full 3 lanka. in the last few years as well as today we have all our programs economic social law and the many official programs all are equally enjoyed and implemented from the

not to the scout leader not the raja's son was taken away by the military at the end of the war she's no idea what happened to him but he's convinced he's still alive her story is the same for thousands of other families and the board and the people on the island it up with what we see now is that they're trying to make is fed up and stop the protest so we can trust them we will have to go to the international community to get our children back as we have realized that there is no point going to the government here the un's high commissioner for human rights has urged member states to consider prosecuting alleged crimes in sri lanka to try and get answers for the thousands of people like lila bernard smith al-jazeera the u.s. congress is trying to help the struggling postal service recover from years of financial losses the government funded mail and parcel service has long been valued by many americans but delivery delays have led to plummeting public trust and your castro

reports now from washington d.c. . when lori cash of new york took a job with the u.s. postal service 22 years ago it was for the security of a government job and a chance to work closely with the public to be able to service the public and do something that i know is helping people every day has just always been apparent to me but lately she's been hearing more complaints from customers dealing with delayed mail who have met someone military active in one city and it takes 3 or $45.00 days to get to the next city over only 38 percent of 1st class mail was delivered on time in late december according to postal service court filings that means everything from medications to bill payments arriving late and it's a problem that persists people have got their bills delayed and they've sent them to companies or utilities companies or utilities are charging late fees.

small businesses that once depended on the u.s. postal service to ship products are also suffering marilyn boutique owner fares on jagger says many of the gift orders she received before christmas weren't delivered in time even pathway past the holidays we were getting e-mails where is my gift that it received the big get delivered to the recipient and she now uses private shipping carriers though they're more expensive the u.s. postal service lost more than 9000000000 dollars in business in 2020 the delivery delays that drove away some customers will likely improve after the agency's long running money troubles will be harder to tackle because its costs routinely exceed its revenues the man tasked with finding a solution is postmaster general louis to joy a trump mega donor who implemented cuts to the postal service at the height of the pandemic and in the lead up to last november's mail in voting the joys latest plans

for the agency reportedly include reducing services for local mail and raising postage rates by nearly 10 percent we can do so much more her our communities than what we do now so if he's not willing to look outside of what we currently do if he just wants to cut what we have and turn it into a business then he does not belong in the postal service because you can't run the service with that closed minded attitude everyone agrees the u.s. postal service cannot continue on its current footing but the visions for how to help the can see defer even as most believe the service is worth saving heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. the international olympic committee has picked bruce been as the preferred host of the 2032 games the australian city will now into talks with bid organizers although the i.o.c. president says no final decision has been made so this year's games organizers

remain optimistic they'll go ahead as planned despite worries about covert 19 and low public support in japan. spectators will be allowed to line the olympic torch relay route to head of the tokyo games but cheering will not be allowed the relay begins in a month but organizers say it will be a subdued event because of the pandemic fans must wear face masks avoid crowding and watch from near their homes organizers warned the event could be suspended if big crowds gather last year the relay was scrapped when the olympics was to spend. what you want is there as we said whole romney a reminder of our top stories new research shows that a johnson and johnson vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe cases of covert 19 the single shot job could get emergency approval for use in the u.s. by the end of the week biotech firm durness says u.s.

regulators are testing its new coronavirus vaccine aimed at a variant that's prevalent in south africa it's considered one of the more dangerous strains.