i read their message far beyond their hamburg home but some pollies history is far from innocent the globe is sending out a warning about the rise in popularity of far right parties like the f.t. . nazis and fascists have no place in some poli today. the u.s. launches an air strike targeting iranian backed militia in syria the pentagon says it's in response to attacks on american personnel in iraq. hello and welcome i'm peter told me you're watching on 200 live from doha also coming up fears in brazil that more contagious courbet 19 strains pushing the health system to the verge of collapse as the death toll exceeds 250000.

e.u. leaders to speed up the blocks vaccine rollout but warn of difficult weeks ahead. and armenia's prime minister calls his supporters on to the streets and accuses the military of an attempted coup after said he should resign. our top story this half hour the u.s. has launched an air strike in syria targeting structures that belong to iranian backed militia now it's thought the strike targeted the a military base near album kamaal the pentagon says it's in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq the strikes calm as tehran and washington continue to discuss what happens next with the 2050 nuclear deal.

the target that we were you know we. were. being you. shia militia. conducted the strike well she habits and she is following developments from washington we understand joe biden who authorized this on thursday morning the attack took place 23 g.m.t. and we understand that biden had been presented with several options and it's been reported that he picked the smallest target of all the options presented to him by the pens again and we have and that and that was this this facility which the u.s. claims was used by quote iran backed militias on the border between syria and and iraq and we have this statement which seems to be the key message that the u.s. is trying to get out that this proportionate military response was conducted together with diplomatic measures including consultations with coalition partners

the operation sends an unambiguous message president biden will act to protect american and coalition personnel at the same time we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to deescalate the overall situation in both eastern syria and iraq this message of deescalation this message of consultation as well we understand again there are reports that joe biden and certainly mentioned the possibility that this might happen in a phone call with the iraqi prime minister earlier this week if perhaps significant would be asked strike which is proportionately about coalition attacks on coalition forces in iraq is in fact happening in syria well hillary mann leverett is c.e.o. of the political risk consultancy strategic and also formerly a u.s. state department official she says the airstrike sends a message about the bite that ministrations loyalties in the region. ministration is trying to portray this as biden's 1st military strike it's the 1st military

attack act of his presidency and they're trying to portray it as measured in react in consultation with our allies he spoke president biden spoke to the iraqi prime minister earlier this week importantly he spoke to the king of saudi arabia today and that's something that i think is not being reported widely but the rocket attacks that. the u.s. administration is saying were perpetrated by these shia militias were not just attacks in iraq in baghdad in the green zone in northern iraq in the but there are also reports that rocket attacks were launched from iraq toward saudi arabia and from my understanding the conversation that president biden had with king's amman of saudi arabia today also included a determination to defend saudi arabia against external threats to the kingdom this is something that president trump had refused to do couple of years ago when the oil infrastructure in saudi arabia had been attacked so that's an important piece

'd but i don't think this is going to deescalate anything in fact it's a sign it's a signal very strongly to iran that notwithstanding their hopes and expectations that the biden administration would pursue a diplomatic track with iran that the body and straighten is in fact trying to increase its pressure and what it calls its leverage against iran. there are warnings that brazil's health system is on the verge of collapse the health minister says his country is facing a new stage of the corona virus pandemic with a mutated variant that is 3 times more contagious. says it's threatening to overwhelm the health system brazil is the worst affected country in latin america and it's just reached a quarter of a 1000000 deaths monica. has more from rio de janeiro. on friday it will

be the anniversary of one year since the 1st case of covert 19. or so and while the the country has the 2nd largest death toll after the united states the people are very worried because hospitals are really filled up in many states in this manner and all over the country and my one state has on top of that which back to yvonne top of that was and also in the break of day ingot so it is a complicated situation brazil has a large experience of max vaccination is in the past with it has of a very good system but this time with this virus what has happened is a lot of misinformation well you had the federal government the president downplaying the virus saying he would not be vaccinated so there was there was you know there was a. a political infighting between the federal government and governors and state

so there's a lot of. confusion and delays in starting this program and once it started in certain places it stopped because there wasn't enough there weren't enough vaccines like real suspended it's a vaccination for a while so this so far brazil has only vaccinated less than 4 percent of its population and that is a problem that is going on so the private sector is saying allow was to buy back the and so and mayors and governors have told have asked the federal government to allow us to buy vaccines on our own and not just depend on the federal government buying for the whole country and distributing it. hong kong has started its banks a nation campaign after 1000000 doses of the chinese made sign of bank job arrive there last week to hong kong administration and also the sign of a bank seen before trial results were published that despite the terror. already

receiving jobs from pfizer and astra zeneca residents can choose between the 3 bank scenes and a low take up rate of the chinese made shot could be seen as mainland sentiment so clark joins us live now from hong kong so sarah let's just talk initially about the vaccination program in the coming days weeks months how do we think this will be rolled out. this is the 1st day of this mass vaccination rollout we've been at a couple of the community vaccination centers this morning and we now know that 70000 people have signed up the next 2 weeks to have their jab and that's fully booked but 1000000 as you mentioned 1000000 the sun about jabs at doses that arrived last friday today is the 1st time the public has been given access that's friday that includes sea essential workers will be getting access the elderly as well as the cross transport workers across the border transport workers as well as teachers and the government's hoping to issue around $2500.00 and occupations per day and to vaccinate at least

a 70 percent of hong kong's population which is about 7 and a half 1000000 people you did mention that 3 vaccination tots will be made available at the government for $22.00 and a half 1000000 doses to try and knock out the entire population it's a sign of fact was the 1st one to be made available that's of course the chinese manufacturer or the mainland vice manufacturer it was fast tracked as was the fires of one by the government in what was called an emergency response now the but the fire someone has actually been delayed and we also have the asters and center which have no arrival date as yet but i should state that the hong kong rollout of these vaccinations has been quite delayed when you compare it to other developed cities across asia and we should note that the mainland got access to their vaccination or their vaccine last july is the potential here for the vaccine i.e. the vaccine that people choose to receive or the vaccine that the clinicians choose to administer being seen as some sort of political football here. well certainly there's been

a lot of skepticism about the 1st one that's been made available of course that sort of a side effect and that's of course it's the mainland pharmaceutical company the questions were raised about the lack of published data that's been made available the manufacturer was actually exempted from publishing the results the 3rd phase of those clinical trials and that of course has fueled skepticism in hong kong of the government the door suspect saying before those results were made available so the governmental advice has been specifically to the people saying it's better to have the vaccination the not the concerns of also being right is about the potential risk for elderly people getting access to the sort of act only in the local media survey has suggested only one of the i should say 4 in 10 people a lot to take it the other question mike with regard to sort of reckon the take up it's been it's been seen as a barometer of anti mainland sentiment and some are expected to wait for the other 2 that seems to be made available so there are many things circle out there reporting live for us from hong kong. now the head of the european commission says the e.u. is on track to fully vaccinate 70 percent of adults by the end of the summer time

despite criticism of its slow roll out on the line speaking during the summit where e.u. leaders put pressure on astra zeneca over delayed qubit 19 banks in supplies the company says it will hopefully deliver $40000000.00 doses by the end of march but that still less than half the amount it had originally promised well the leaders also discussed the need for banks and nations to figures which could allow inoculated people to travel without restrictions you know months and voyage down here and she didn't answer and so when in germany we decided to develop such a national vaccine certificate the basic dato which such as a ticket must contain is defined by the european commission and member states the german health ministry issued a prick you meant procedure and the european commission need to about 3 months to create the required technical conditions. dominic king has more from berlin. brussels on thursday was the venue for 2 separate meetings both of which have a role to play in the way that the pandemic will be managed across the continent

going forward on the one hand e.u. heads of government heads of state met in a digital conference to discuss the next steps 3 specific areas for top for discussion the 1st about how to speed up the production of the vaccine to get more vaccines into the arms of europeans living on the continent although they spoke about the need to close up bottlenecks and facilitate production but in go to much detail about it the 2nd area for discussion was about vaccine certificates how people who have had the vaccine may be able to go beyond the social distancing rules perhaps to travel in the near future a broad agreement about how to go forward but no precise details of when and how that would happen and then looking into the future you had a meeting also in brussels at the same time at the european parliament there interviews with the heads of several of the vaccine manufacturers specifically with

the c.e.o. of astra zeneca several different members of parliament but hostile questions to him about the way they perceive the treatment of the e.u. visa his vaccine was going compared to the way that it was happening in the united kingdom his answers did not please those members of parliament the fact they were asking the questions shows the level of envy or resentment there is among some people at the way the rollout of the vaccines are proceeding in the e.u. relative to the u.k. and other countries. the french government could impose weekend lockdowns in paris and 19 other regions in march of corona virus infections continue to accelerate the prime minister's own class taxes people to respect measures to avoid more restrictions. than as a lever which we must only use when we cannot do otherwise all you have to do it at the right moment and at the right level you have to do as much as possible to delay

it to allow the vaccination campaign to have an effect still to come here on al-jazeera another vaccination rowland's but for a different disease guinea starts protecting its people against people of class. rising from the ruins our system most of all cultural revival and the iraqi city devastated by life so. i think it's safe to say that temperatures have well and truly recovered now across the deep south of the us to say last week the 16th the fabric temperatures were struggling to get to where they fell as low as minus 19 celsius in dallas couple days back we got up to plus $27.00 say massive swing in temperatures still

a little bit of cooler air coming down towards the southeast as it bumps into our warmer air we will see some light showers on a cold fronts here where we can you can see how the the warmth has made its way back in and this we go on through the next couple of days temperatures will generally continue to recover ship about 18 celsius in dallas $21.00 here by saturday not looking too bad but we have got wetter weather across the deep south parts of texas arkansas so just pushing up towards the tennessee valley we're going to see some wetter weather just easing over towards that eastern seaboard meanwhile still some wintry weather across. the rockies around the cost cascades we're going to see wet and windy weather and winfrey weather piling in here avalanche risk has been elevated as a result of that those snow flurries will continue to make their way further east was sas does look like a pretty wet day there across a good part of the tape south and we still got some snow in the forecast for the east side of canada.

but. the corona virus has affected every corner of the world. people in power look back to the early days of the pandemic and examines where the air is and delays at the world health organization may have made the global spread of the virus inevitable steel getting as i say you know. human teeth in transmission chronicle of a pandemic people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha i'm peter dhabi your headlining

stories this hour the u.s. has carried out an air strike in syria targeting structures that belong to iranian backed faces the pentagon says it's in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq. there are fears that parts of brazil's health system are on verge of collapse the health minister says the country is facing a new phase of the fires and demick with a strain of the virus that is 3 times more contagious. hong kong has started a vaccination campaign residence with receiving the chinese made sign of which was approved by the city's government before trial results were published. turn your attention to armenia where the political crisis is deepening the prime minister nicole passion young as fired his military chief after a senior army officials called for his resignation he says that call amounts to an attempted coup thousands are rallied both for and against passion yet in the capital the now opponents have set up camp outside the parliament saying they won't

leave until the prime minister steps down there's been a smith in the center of yerevan on thursday armenia's prime minister was defiant in the face of calls from the military for him to stand down made it back. some people want to drag the army into unconstitutional processes this is an attempted coup but the people will not allow a military coup in armenia an estimated $20000.00 people came out onto the streets of the capital after nicol pushing in called for a show of support. back to army con take part in political processes it must obey the people and the elected authorities machine ian has been under pressure to resign after his country lost last year's war with azerbaijan over the region of nagorno-karabakh. i'm not as much of supporter of caution you know but i don't want to corrupt the dream to come back more than 3 and a half 1000 damini and soldiers were killed in the 6 week conflict

a significant number for a country with a population of under 3000000 passion yon was forced to cede large swathes of territory around the going to karabakh that armenia controlled for almost 30 years since the end of the last war with as a by john that prompted weeks of protests led by the opposition are not equal. passion ian came to power in 2018 and what was called the velvet revolution after an attempt by the previous leader to stay in control beyond his term limit we are in effect. crises and i hope to see i do means to texans therefore 66 percent chance now security agents and police just pinned by their army and to demand to leave our prime minister without any. opposition representatives say they'll spend the night and yet of an essential freedom square the prime minister it gives government have diminished popularity

but the alternative the discredited political opposition has much less support though in general there is little alternative to partially own or his government but this is unprecedented in terms of a military record. what's not clear is whether the army is willing to use force to back its call for the prime minister to step down passion and says he'll announce a replacement for the head of the army in the coming days the crisis he says will be resolved constitutionally but smith al-jazeera. guinea has launched an ebola vaccination campaign in stand spread to stop the spread of the virus which resurfaced this month the 1st time since 2016 at least 5 people have died in this latest outbreak is with me. health workers that thin 8 people against ebola in the town of a in southeast guinea and you outbreak was discovered near here almost 2 weeks ago

the c.t.'s year i am very proud to be vaccinated and it's a joy to me to see the population get vaccinated specially those on the frontline all my stuff it allows us to be safe protected from this disease because ebola is not a good thing 11000 vaccine doses and 200 health experts arrived in guinea's capital conakry on monday the government in the world health organization hope the vaccination campaign can stop the virus spreading by april i should remove workers to help the fight against ebola we interrupt the train of transmission by targeting the 1st contacts of ebola patients and also the health workers on the front line who are exposed including those who apply the vaccines ebola causes severe fever and in the worst cases unstoppable bleeding in 2015 more than 11000 people died after the virus spread from guineas for east region to neighboring liberia and

sierra leone the outbreak with contained after an experimental vaccine was distributed but not before health workers were attacked by people he did not believe in the virus the next scene is an extremely. break but it is not. under essential aspects. to happen as well and it always comes back to community engagement. the w.h.o. has wound 6 african countries to be on high alert for ebola including sierra leone and liberia the hope is this campaign will stop the virus from spreading any further and potentially save thousands of lives victoria gate and be al-jazeera india and pakistan have agreed to stop fighting along the disputed border in kashmir have been several exchanges of gunfire in recent months the 2 sides also agreed to more diplomacy to avoid further violence tension has been high since

india revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir in august of 2019 both countries claim the entire region control only parts of it has more now from islamabad. they failed in dade an important development given the fact that the 2 military director general military operations have not gone over the hard line for months and there's been tension along the line of control just last year pakistan reported over 3 towers in here 5 violations and richard says 26 people were killed 260 seriously wounded but the conversation between the director general of military operations general comes at a critical time when there had been an exchange of fire along the line of guns drawn border director general military operations saying that they should take steps which are beneficial and pledged a neighborly in order to reduce the violations along the a line of control at the same time the pakistani military chief had already said

that pakistan wants to extend a hand of friendship to its neighbors but that it should not be construed as a weakness also the pakistani military spokesman bobert after card saying that tensions were with india were running high that words carry on wednesday before the director general of military operation hard line communication. india's government has announced tough a new rules covering social media streaming services and digital news outlets now the goal is to stop what it calls and national propaganda platforms such as facebook whatsapp and twitter must now erase content which the government considers to be unlawful critics say it is the latest crackdown on free speech has been in dispute with twitter after it refused the government's demands to remove posts links to the recent farmers' protests sanjay heyday is a senior lawyer at the supreme court of india he says the government has

increasingly been clamping down on critical voices in recent years. since 2014 there has been a slow clamping down and in on dissent. the even doors for dissent have been shacked one by one and on lange's face has been stopped to be regulated. in business these norms also will make it much more difficult for people to remain anonymous if this requires. platforms to get a government food who uploaded the 1st read you are going to things the devil is in the details and as they work out what we are doing is probably building. china's version of a wired internet where you got in the internet and twitter especially and facebook have been more than willing to cooperate for the indian government it's only the

events in the united states which they set up by different standards insofar as trump is concerned which also possibly set alarm bells ringing in the indian establishment that. speech of a right of a nationalist kind of an overtly next in the sky could come within the within the norms of censorship by the platforms themselves i think the government says that government if india wants to say that anything in dealing with censorship. of online content the government wants to say and act and the platforms to listen to what the government what. former u.s. gymnastics coach john gebhardt has committed suicide just hours after being charged with crimes including sexual assault and human trafficking get it was head coach of the 2012 u.s. women's olympic team he worked closely for many years with the disgraced team doctor larry nasser 3 years ago nasser pleaded guilty to sexually abusing female

gymnasts get out always maintained he had no knowledge of masters crimes greece plans to toughen laws to combat sexual abuse and better protect minors after a series of scandals in the culture and sporting sectors one of them involves the former head of the greek national theatre who appeared in court on wednesday on allegations he raped 2 minors the prime minister told parliament the new measures include stricter penalties for sex crimes and creating a registry for professionals who work with children. a bombed church in mosul is the last place you'd expect to find an orchestra but 4 years after i saw was a violent rain budding young musicians are some of the artists changing the face of the iraqi city is similar fault. amid the ruins of old mosul a cultural awakening the city hasn't seen in decades members of mosul's orchestra established just 3 months ago by

a local radio station in rehearsal. many are beginners others played in secrets during. a. terrorist organization by music people were scared and the society did not encourage all support musicians but that began to change when i saw was driven out in 2017 but the. energy of the youth which had been hidden before started to come out now missiles floor of. the orchestra is a melting pot of religious and ethnic groups just like mostly used to be before eisel just like they wanted to be again. the main goal of the orchestra in mosul is to revive life in the city especially in destroyed areas like this church now wish most of the city can return to its former beauty high hope that peace does return here. but the orchestra has no budget no proper place to

rehearse the whole is a promotional video to be published online it will attract attention and funding musicians and artists are spearheading mosul's cultural revival and say they're doing so despite limited support from the governments their work is a show of hope for the future and the way to process the collective trauma from iceland devastating 3 year reign that trauma screams from many of claves paintings the veteran artist fled the city in 2014 his pieces from that period portray the chaos of war and displacement. but after the feat the great tones gradually gave way to pink green and yellow the facial expressions of his characters soft and well. i change my colors i give them more optimism for the future i have hope that through all my art i can send a message to the world that we are people who like art and beauty that we like

peace away from terror his colleague love now wants to revive memories of mosul's architectural heritage much of which was destroyed during the war. most of the things i painted take from what was there before my out depends on old architecture like dame stad wells old folklore but all that was destroyed so i use old tapes for my way. her paintings also depict women who now enjoy greater freedom a reflection of how mostly opening up again and a sign that its residents have turned a new page seem awful to an al-jazeera mosul. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the u.s. has carried out an air strike in syria targeting structures the belong to iranian backed fighters the pentagon says that's in response to recent attacks against u.s.

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