mattick about lascivious the people who don't live. near old world goes to the red zone near naples. to understand this unusual lot of. living with the volcano on al jazeera. the us gives emergency approval to a 3rd covert 19 vaccine the one dose johnson and johnson jab is expected to bolster efforts in fighting the pandemic. and brazil's president threatens to cut emergency aid to states imposing locked up. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. the. violence spirals in

yemen's memory provinces government forces trying to save their last wrong hold in the center of the country from the rebels. also head pain for his defiance mean mars u.n. ambassador is fired by the military giunta for denouncing the coup and calling it a betrayal. ok we begin this off with a welcome development in the fight against qubit 19 the u.s. has become the 1st country in the world to approve the johnson and johnson vaccine it's the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose job 100000000 doses will be supplied to the u.s. by the end of june the u.k. the e.u. and canada also have orders in the regulators need to approve it 1st and 500000000 doses have been promised to less wealthy countries through the koufax skiing it

does have a lower rates of stopping infection than other vaccines but it's thought to be effective against more contagious strains and the company says it has a 100 percent effectiveness rate in stopping off with lies ations and deaths gabriel is on the us the latest developments from washington the big difference with the johnson and johnson vaccine is it is only one shot to get it and then be vaccinated that's different from the moderna and pfizer vaccines which both take 2 different shots spaced out about $20.00 to $30.00 days apart also the johnson and johnson vaccine does not need to be stored or transported at freezing temperatures so that will make it easier to move around and get out to places and into the arms of people that need it as you know the pfizer and moderna vaccines both need to be kept in complicated freezing storage temperatures bottom line though is is that

health officials here in the u.s. say all the vaccines do the job. the f.d.a. has just announced emergency use authorization of us 3rd a back seat for americans this one made by ensign also did call johnson and johnson it's all the same but this is really good news that means we have the opportunity for even more people to get immunized as soon as possible against terrible pandemic early on saturday the house of representatives passed joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollar covert relief package it now goes on to the senate where it will be perhaps met with some resistance from many many republicans however the bill as a whole is very positively by most americans and by almost all democrats it would call for many things but primarily a one time payment of more than a $1000.00 to all americans it would extend unemployment benefits as well as put

money into schools and local governments to meet shortfalls as well it will now go to the senate and on saturday this is what joe biden had to say to senators as they approach a vote on this bill. now now the mill moves the united states senate where i hope will receive quick action. we have no time to waste if we act now decisively quickly and boldly we can finally get ahead of this virus we can finally get our economy moving again and the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long we need to relieve that suffering the american rescue plan does just that relieve the suffering and it's time to act i thank you all for being 14th that is the date that millions of americans could potentially lose some of their unemployment benefits unless this plan is passed so democrats feel they have about 2 weeks to try to work out an agreement with the republicans in the senate to get

this on joe biden's desk for possible signature well doctor is an immunologist and vaccine expert and a drug professor at the university of michigan earlier we discussed the significance of this latest development with him. so the good news because this is a fear of vaccine and as you know and everybody knows we have a great issue in distribution and updating these vaccines that are for vaccine i think people so having a 3rd one is a good relief and and it's going to be. added value and it's also it's one immunization one enjoy one injection and the oral will be on your way so until now we don't know whether we need if there 2nd immunization or not and why and for this vaccine do but definitely there is a an ongoing clinical trial at the in the u.s. for evaluating to immunizations and set of 20 minute session to see whether you can

up the efficacy from the 66. neighborhood to the 90 percent neighborhood like everybody else many people are asking this question you know how come you know when immunization and 6 this expense and because we are somehow spoiled with the 95 percent that ficus it this vaccine for one immunization you were 8. it prevented hospitalization no severe disease after. in the vaccine a group which means that even though you may have some symptoms you will never get you are not going to get into the oss people and to be serious to conditions that's number one number 2 is that also that sort of a major problem which is there was just thinks of warning people back to get the 2nd immunization and this is the only vaccine that is indicated for one immunization. the brazilian president joy of also narrow has threatened to pull

emergency aid for any state's reintroducing lockdowns he says any governor who in his words destroys jobs will not receive any support from central government or sonora whose covert 1000 himself has been strongly against most restrictions he's often dismissed the dangers even though more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died in brazil was you know millions you know very mergence the aid will come for a few more months and from now on the governors who close down the state and governors who destroyed jobs will have to provide for their own emergency aid. ecuador's health minister has resigned after it was revealed that several members of his own family jumped the queue to receive covert 19 vaccines one carlos of our last is the 3rd health minister in south america to go following similar scandals in peru and argentina. reports now from buenos aires. the battle to control the colored 1000 pandemic in latin america is underway but is

being hindered by patchy deliveries of the vaccine and scandals in the government with the task of organizing the vaccination programs here. the latest is the ecuadoran health minister one caller survive with knitted ensuring that his family was given preferential treatment for the most committed we have all committed era's this is a pandemic that has taught us the importance of recognising him. last month as the vaccines arrived in ecuador a country one of the highest per capita death rates in the region he said they would firstly be given to the most vulnerable. because that is present us because that for the people who are on the front line medical staff and also people over 65 years old. many of them are still waiting for the former minister has fled the country. a similar scandal emerged earlier in peru when it was revealed that at least 2 ministers and a former president were among the 500 people to be immunized weeks before the rest

of the population. and in argentina a few days later the health minister hin is going to sell his garcia resigned when it came to light he devoted friends and colleagues to receive what have been called the ip vaccines. his replacement call of the sortie has since tested positive for covered 19 and is self isolating. supplies from a number of sources continue to arrive this 1st batch of nearly 200000 doses landing in europe why from the chinese sin of that of oratory. and 40 tons of oxygen donated by chile to prove with supplies of monday d.c. you know. that protests against handling of the pandemic are increasingly common it's one on saturday and one osiris is there but if you didn't think they'd give it to the president and the vice president then ok but they shouldn't vaccinate the deputies of the ministers that's no good i'm almost over unless you're on from what

i've got inside information from independent media that the pandemic doesn't exist it's just tests that are full of the holy. war they're angry with the government some still believe the pandemics is a hoax but others are against the vaccine or whatever else people feel their impatience to put the pandemic behind frustrated by the slow pace of the vaccination programs confused by contradictory information and i angered by corruption in their governments the road towards normality is still fraught with obstacles that are trying their al-jazeera today after a new case of covert 19 was found it's been confirmed as the more contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. schools and non-essential shops are shut while all but essential travel in and out of the city is banned the rest of the country is under a slightly lower level of restrictions including a limit on the size of public gatherings new zealand has avoided a high number of infections by banning most foreigners and quickly imposing strict

measures when community cases emerge. we have think really been without loss of life i covered 19 for some time but that is still the primary reason we take the strict short end shot measures covered kills people just recently we saw the united states mark a devastating milestone in tombs of the scale of lives lost in the country we must never lose sight of the reason we take these measures it is to save our people's lives and to save their livelihoods. small pacific island nations have been some of the most successful countries anywhere in the world keeping covert 19 at bay but despite those efforts the tourism dependent economies have been badly affected and there's no sign yet of a recovery as nicolas cage. puppet you guinea is experiencing a rise in coded 19 cases and testing rights alone but for the most past pacific

island nations have avoided a major health classes during the pandemic they crisis is an economic one with borders shot many people are out of work intrusion dependent countries like that a while too and. that's also recovering from a cycloid that devastated communities from many in the proper transport the children of every school uniforms that's a real crisis vaccines are being rolled out in the marshall islands and helped by the u.s. government but for the rest some experts say it could take years to bax in a small oist of their people countries are initially relying on the global kodak's initiative an alliance of organizations delivering that seems to developing nations exact rollout dates for the pacific conserved but it's hard to tell begin in the coming months for the interest from the percent over what do we know x.

but there isn't enough support of everyone to make sure that eventually everybody. gets this horrible out there. for the other 80 percent this trial ia and new zealand have committed to supplying vaccines but their timeline also isn't clear some experts believe this trial years should already be hoping its neighbors given its relatively low numbers could that 19 cases and to secure regional influence in the pacific place we want to keep being relevant in the region it is a good. ruster. provide the region with that seems to help them with the implementation of that explanation rollouts the region has previously faced challenges in delivering vaccines to isolated communities this time around that the nation is critical to reopening borders and getting countries back on track nicola gage. still to come here on this program donald trump isn't their president anymore

but his influence still as large as the republicans at the conservative political action conference and protesters in martinique in the caribbean demanding action against the past aside playing high levels of comes out. of. however we got some rather heavy rain pushing across the great plains over the next couple of days little area of cloud here just spilling through the southern plains sinking further south with with some very wet weather to come could cause some localized flooding elsewhere we got some rather wet and windy weather pushing up towards the pacific northwest through western parts of canada tightly packed ice over towards california got some pretty strong winds coming through here as well

santa ana winds so that does mean the wildfire risk up here as we go through the next couple days as that wetter weather that we have across the central and southern plains and lively storms are rumbling away his severe storms could cause some problems that we want to watch out for possibility of your tornado that west of where the pushing up through the tennessee valley up towards that northeastern corner and notice some snow to the north of that will be some snow then through new england to the eastern side of canada and we'll see that wetter weather drapes all the way back across the carolinas throughout right the way down through louisiana and on into texas so some very wet weather to come over the next couple of days not so much wet weather coming in across the caribbean over the next couple of days here it is lousy 5 and tried also pleasant sunshine rolling through one of 2 showers for the east and islands and also into central america. on counting the cost no way got very rich of oil and gas now it has controversial

plans to mine the seabed claims pandemic dad to blow they've removed taxes and unnecessary austerity to paid off social media help carry exports to china. counting the cost on al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across them with tommy take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. welcome back let's update your top stories for you here on al-jazeera u.s. regulators have approved the johnson and johnson vaccine for emergency use the 1st

country in the world to do that only one dose is required it is around 66 percent effective at preventing illness 100 percent effective in preventing hospitalization . ecuador's health minister has quit after it was found several people connected to him jumped the queue to receive early doses of the vaccine is the 3rd south american health minister to go following similar scams using as big a city or cones in lockdown after a new case of coke at 19 was found their schools all non-essential shops are shut while all but essential travel in and out of the city is back. to saudi arabia where several ballistic missiles fired by who the rebels in yemen are southern cities in the capital riyadh have been destroyed now the attack comes as a new offensive escalates in the yemeni province of marine his charlotte palace. your saudi arabia into 6 rockets over riyadh on saturday night were both rushed to go after wilma while the saudi state media said they came from yemen fired by who

few variables several explosive laden drones targeted other southern saudi cities. the attack came as hooty rebels push forward in the northern yemeni province of merab. they launched an offensive against the saudi backed yemeni government here in early february excess a day was the most violent day yet man if my read front is one of the hottest war fronts since the beginning of the aggression on yemen this is been the situation since the beginning and except for a small period. after more than 60 years of war the who these more merit because it's the yemeni government's last northern best year. and to capture it could bokes to the things at the negotiating table this is a very critical but building making place it looks lie both sides would like to be in a stronger bargaining position and dissipate the peace talks the problem of course

is that these short term gains they are thinking all good actually the iranian peace process launched by the new u.s. administration. the yemeni government has issued urgent calls for the huth east to stop their offensive they warn of a humanitarian catastrophe merab is already home to the largest concentration of displaced yemenis and he's to make his 2000000 people. still the government is fighting back on saturday they reported killing 350 who the fight is in just 30 hours and cobra benefits a suicide mission. when the yemeni government urges them into the fighting it's not a sign of weakness we make these calls out of responsibility but regarding the fighting forces were fewer numbers and they were defeated. but revenge is hard to swallow when you're starving for 2 thirds of the population some 20000000 people

food is what they need the u.n. estimates 400000 children under 5 are severely malnourished and that they are in their last weeks and months both sides say the other is putting civilians at risk and yet neither stop shelling shallop palace. israel says iran is to blame for an explosion on an israeli own ship in the gulf of oman thursday's blast left holes in the m.b.a. for a vehicle carrying no one on board was injured in the course is still unknown israeli defense minister benny gantz says an initial assessment found iran responsible there's been no immediate response from the government in tehran. myanmar's u.n. ambassador has been sacked for denouncing the military coup he made an emotional appeal to the un general assembly on friday urging the international community to quote use any means necessary to restore democracy. military has.

for myanmar as the polity and civilized society. now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes against humanity can committed by myanmar military the international community must ensure that has no place in the modern world as bound by in the un secretary-general in that regard we the committee representing our c.r.p. duly are the united nations the united nations security council and international community that aspire to build peaceful and civilized global society to use any means necessary to take action against them our military and to prove i say 50 and security for the people of myanmar. well diplomatic editor james bays says it's unclear if the ambassador will actually step down. well the ambassador would have

known what was at stake when he made those words he would of very carefully judge that he knew the the possible repercussions against his family he knew that the military would try to sack him and recall him the big question now is is he going to go is he going to give up his job or is he going to say that he is the legitimate representative of the people of myanmar and of the rulers of the country who are currently jailed it's worth reminding you that at the same general assembly session the special envoy the secretary-general special envoy on myanmar christine shawna bergen said it's important the international community does not lend legitimacy or recognition to this regime so will they recognize the decision of the regime to sack the ambassador i'm sure that the military will now strand send a new ambassador that will reflect their views but which one is the united

nations going to recognize it will go to a rather obscure body part of the general assembly known as the credentials committee if there is a dispute it has 9 members interestingly among those 9 members of the u.s. is one as are china and russia which of made the point that this is largely an internal affair they will come up with a recommendation and then it will go to the general assembly for a vote so it's although the military is saying they've sacked the ambassador is not a tall clear whether he'll be losing his job or after a protective fight will actually stay in the job. the fate of $317.00 schoolgirls abducted in nigeria on friday is still unknown they were taken from the town of jang gay be on friday in the latest of a series of mass abduction in the north of the country the government has ordered all boarding schools in the area to be closed down police say they have information the girls have been moved to a nearby forest in a separate incident in the north west of nigeria dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school in kogarah 10 days ago have been released they've now arrived in

mena in central nigeria relatives of the students and staff members were also abducted one of the students was shot and killed. sunday is the final day of the us conservative political action conference and the most anticipated speaker is the last speaker the former president donald trump it will be his 1st major appearance since he left office now he is expected to make a pitch for a bitterly divided republican party to unite behind him john hendren has our story from the conference in orlando florida. so thank you feedback thank you for being here this is not the republican party that party is it war with itself one part the moderates are hoping to move into a post trump era the conservative political action conference is home to the other half proudly pro trump activists and would you vote for president if you're in a heartbeat most people look at president found they think i don't like the way he

looks i don't like the way he sounds they don't look past that they don't look at the policies and i follow him based on policy moderates need not apply not here former vice president mike pence senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and congresswoman liz cheney all moderates who have disappointed trump i don't think you can turn to the stars of c pac or trump stalwarts like former secretary of state mike pump aoe a potential 2024 presidential contender who sounds like he's running against president joe biden already in the last few months we've been called clowns and deplorable and ignorant rednecks. because the evil resistance the new york times think i'm the worst secretary of state of all time but i am proud of our fight and i'm proud of our accomplishments in that we have truly opened to the status quo. and then there is house republican leader kevin mccarthy who's made no secret where his allegiance lies in the party's divide it was forgotten man and woman that

donald trump listened to the voice that no one else would listen to and we're never going to forget that people are those people and that's what we're focused on trump memorably announced his long shot bid for the presidency at the end of an escalator donald trump speech to see packed his 1st major address since leaving the white house is his most into paid since he took that escalator ride into history outside of c. pac the former president's visit his drawn both supporters. and detractors . but inside see packed there's little doubt who the attendees favor for the presidency in 2024 john hendren al jazeera orlando. for sisters in the french overseas region of most of the cuckold on judges not to throw out a long delayed case of a pesticide poisoning the insecticide clora code was used for decades on the

caribbean island it was banned on the french mainland as being blamed for high levels of cancer in the region people and demanding compensation some of it is a duck influx of those who have already deported our ancestors to enslave our ancestors who today want to poison us want to see us disappear enough is enough now it's just time for the fight to resume. well dr arthur caplan is the director of medical ethics at the new york university school of medicine he says cancer rates in most any are out of control in the talks and also affects the nervous system of children. it really said spector development of children it's horrendous that this . pesticide was allowed to be used actually area spraying around the island so we got everywhere sadly i do think they put business ahead of health i think there was racism here they didn't do it in france they wouldn't have done it there but they did it in a place where they if you will were once the colonial power and i think did not

care enough about the health of the citizens there are undoubtedly going to see health effects for many years to come maybe decades to come that pesticide lingers in the soil and obviously crops grown there are going to have it and then risk exposure people classed just exposure to all wind and so we're blowing around i hope that france will do the right thing step in provide the necessary health care in the compensation. now an oil spill that's devastated the israeli coast has begun to affect southern lebanon too it happened earlier this month and environmental groups fear it could take years to clean up catching up as how to get reports. the sand on tire beach in lebanon is contaminated and soaked in tar. it's residue from a massive oil spill that started in israel's coast now the beginning of a tedious cleanup effort entire is underway to protect the environment and the

city's tourism miami are sort of empty of the image and nature reserve is suffering from approximately 2 tons of tar 90 percent of which is hidden under the sand we're trying to extract it as soon as possible so we can protect the turtles hatching season. the spill is considered israel's a biggest environmental disaster beaches have been shut down and there are reports of turtles and birds covered in oil. the sale of fish and other seafood from the area is now prohibited but not all fishermen are following the guidelines now they are mad sean were still eating the fish the entire village many of my friends and people i know bought it and were not affected the tar floats on the water it damages the reefs and seaweed the beach and our equipment like nets and boat but the fish don't eat anything unnatural. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says nearly $14000000.00 have been earmarked to clean up the country shoreline should move to an oil tanker leak off the coast is suspected to have caused the

spill and tons of tar continue to wash up the mediterranean coast environmental groups fear it could take months or perhaps even hears to clean up the damage. missile a on al-jazeera. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter double your top stories the u.s. has approved the curve of 19 banks in its f.d.a. the food and drug administration has given emergency approval to the one dose by johnson and johnson unlike those already in use it only requires one show.