the truth. upturn the status quo and fight injustice witness this new documentary deception on al-jazeera. the in the in. the in. close to a political comeback former brazilian president lula is due to address his supporters after a court ruling who'll sist chances of challenging some are. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead the u.s. house of representatives list of old on the cover 1000 relief package worth almost 2 trillion dollars that's been approved by the senate. last week

a push for equal access to covert 1000 vaccines south africa and india appealed for the suspension of peyton's at the world trade organisation and astore except for libya a rival factions agree on a unity government after years of war. we begin in brazil where former president lula is due to address his supporters for the 1st time since corruption charges against him were overturned monday's decision by a supreme court judge who has chances to make a political comeback the conviction in 2017 saw him serve 18 months in jail and barred him from running for office he could become president main left wing rival in next year's election let's speak to monica and ikea who is in rio de janeiro for as monica is due to speak any moment now what are we expecting him to say what tone

and what message are we expecting to hear from him today. well he's going to address an audi a big audience there's the local press the international press its supporters from the workers party also from other leftist parties in brazil were invited to he said the met meant to learn a trade union where his political career was born where he started his political campaign he's expected to make. to have a speech like a statesman not like an angry person who who is just very upset because he has been in prison apparently now without motive since the charges have been a nulled. and he's supposed to mark like a contract wean himself and write when pres sinatra was elected. as part of his campaign was he would be the person to defeat communism and the law

and the left and corruption so he that we're expecting him to make. to speak like a statesman and not 20 just to face the political campaign tribulations which will be and by the 2021 write this this could pave the way for a new of course to fight for the presidency next heir in 2021 how popular is is he still among brazilians know that. no he's a very popular figure but on the same side he's also rejected by many who still associate him and the key to corruption so he went from being the most popular president ever. someone known worldwide to becoming a hated person by least half of the population at some point. and

many are upset and those that are against him are upset of course that he's been the charges have been a mold because they have thought he was out of the picture now this can benefit both so narrow in a certain way because now we have the net and so far he was battling the pandemic not doing well at all brazil has the 2nd largest. $1000.00 related deaths after the united states governors $21.00 states have just now decided to join forces to fight the pandemic together because they feel the federal government has not been able to do so we're very slow in backs in aiding people so now having lula as a threat it's like polarization does benefit bold. and i think a little nose. monica thank you very much for the moment and i care for my forests in rio and we'll bring that news conference from president lula to you live here on al-jazeera as soon as it begins to the u.s.

now in the house of representatives is gehring up to vote on a call the 19 when a fact it's worth almost 2 trillion dollars senators approved it on saturday with amendments that includes direct cash payments funding for covert 1000 testing and for vaccine distribution the so-called american rescue plan isn't likely to face resistance from democrats who control the chamber president joe biden is expected to sign it made to this week as white house correspondent kimberly hocket was in washington's committee this looks like it's a done deal. we think that there may only be one democrat that opposes this so otherwise this is along party lines we're watching is the house of representatives set to begin the final stretch in terms of procedure to approve this bill and then the next step would it be it would go to the president's desk and president biden would sign it into law something the white house says will happen almost immediately there's a lot in here for americans 14 $100.00 direct payments that means one check and

possibly multiple checks if there are multiple people living in the family and then there's also an extension of the unemployment benefits coming in the nick of time that set to expire on march 14th there will be $300.00 a week payments for those people that qualify but the controversy in all of this and the reason it's on party lines is that republicans are saying look at we're getting all these people vaccinated the economy is opening back up should we really be spending $1.00 trillion dollars that could impact the economy could push up inflation when things are turning around so there's a lot of controversy over whether this is the right move at the right time tell us more about what it's going to mean for ordinary americans beyond cash in their bank accounts. well what it will mean is it will allow and this is an argument that joe biden made as he visited a hardware store on tuesday afternoon that the previous programs foot forward by

the trumpet ministration didn't get to the people that it was intended to go to in many cases for example small businesses mom and pops as they're often called here in the united states so joe biden visited that kind of a hardware store here in washington d.c. as of this is the type of benefit or a business that will benefit and we're going to see more of that but he needs to communicate that as well and so we're going to see a real p.r. push to let people know what the tangible benefits of this domestic policy will be we're going to see this at the white house today we're going to have the top c.e.o.'s from merck and johnson and johnson talking about an additional $100000000.00 vaccine doses that are going to be put out to get all americans vaccinated within a matter of months and we're also going to see the president talking about this on thursday evening as he sells this to the american people lets them know this is the right step and this will improve their lives thank you very much for that

in other world news south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to drop. 1000 vaccines more than 100 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one richer countries are holding excess doses preventing born ations from getting them it's estimated the surplus of doses will be enough to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa john hopkins university found nearly half of those who've been fully vaccinated so far were in the united states and only 10 countries have been able to vaccinate 75 percent of their population the u.n. secretary general antonio terry says the inequality of the vaccine distribution is wildly uneven and unfair has this report from john it's burg. it's a wonderful it's been a year since the 1st 1000 infection was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected while richard

nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower. another important step is to enable the transfer medical to. swallow. production. i did not become south africa and india are leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights fork over 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waiving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like ana ivory coast

in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa being left behind. there is a capacity welcome mr companies to produce things and i stayed in medical. it is essential that the wealthy states start blocking or putting in legal barriers and delaying essential kozel ahead. of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once

again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines been tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. libya's foreign entities approved a new interim unity government as part of a u.n. back still it will be responsible for holding elections later this year libya's been divided between 2 rival administrations supported by armed groups and foreign governments has been on my sense yeah uprising that toppled moammar gadhafi in 20 malik traina has the latest from misrata. it's been a long and difficult process to come up with this agreement and this new unity government now libya has been engulfed as since an armed revolution toppled moammar gadhafi in 2011 after that things went quite well for a couple of years when this parliament was elected in 2014 they were supposed to be

based in eastern libya but around the same time war leslie for half their began a military operation there to cement his power base so many parliament many m.p.'s especially from western libya boycotted the parliament citing security concerns and really that's when the divisions began a a rival to rival governments began one in eastern libya one in western libya in 2015 the u.n. facilitated the libyan political agreement that brought the rival sides together they came up with the government of national accord which is the internationally recognized government here in tripoli. but that was how after refused to recognize that government as well as i give us a lot of the speaker of the brick base parliament so they've been quite divided and you know there's been a lot of division also among the international community which sort of put fanned

the fire of divisions but now we're seeing that the international community are more willing or want to see a unified libya and and m.p.'s after years of visions were actually finally able to meet have a session and give this new national unity government a vote of confidence. still ahead on al-jazeera the 6 week conflict in the garden that killed thousands we hear from the survivors shell shocked from injuries and accompanied an under-aged to challenge vast numbers of migrant children face trying to enter the u.s. through its southern border. but . how i would say some rather heavy rain pushing across central and southern parts of china recently they say sorry

a cloud just rolling across the region here that will continue to just slide a little further east with bumping into this area of high pressure which has kept it settled in sunny across the korean peninsula and japan recently that's all set to change because that was where the push is out of the east china sea it not a little further eastwards thursday does a lot of fine and dry day but come friday that rain set say in the cross south korea basin places a frame pushing up into north korea as well but the really heavy rain will slide across q ship into southern parts of honshu with some snow over the high ground ahead of that we are hanging on to the warmth in tokyo still getting up to 18 degrees celsius with some pleasant sunshine make the most of it pleasant sunshine too across northern parts of the philippines luzon is generally set fair but the still a cloud just storms that's been producing some very heavy rain is the central and southern parts of the philippines more of that as we go through thursday water rushes showers into northern parts of borneo brunei seeing some heavy rain and then plenty of showers there across indonesia has to make in the way towards us flying

through over the next day or so and a westerly disturbance will cause some disruption into northern pakistan. welcome. to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax and enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know la day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home.

the end. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera brazil's former president lula is due to address his supporters in the media for the 1st time since a corruption charge against him was overturned monday's decision by a supreme court judge says his chances to make a political comeback in. the u.s. house of representatives is gearing up to vote on a covert $1000.00 relief package worth almost 2 trillion dollars it includes direct cash payments funding for covert $900.00 testing and vaccine distribution. and south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to temporarily drop bait interest rates on corporate 19 vaccines they say it would allow more countries and manufacturers to mass produce the vaccines. police in myanmar have dispersed protesters in the

2nd city monday. people fled as gun shots were fired more than 60 protestors have been killed since the military took over in february the un security council has called for restraint but has failed to agree on a statement condemning the call now across myanmar's border with northeast india residents say more than 100 refugees have arrived in the past 10 days fleeing violence at home among them ah policeman a policeman who refused to open fire on protesters in the town of come in myanmar he says he traveled at night for 3 days to avoid being recognized. yes we would have. the duty of the police is to protect the people in fact the shooting of people by the myanmar police and army is against the law so i could not follow those orders if we get the real democracy and the army coup is over i would like to

return to my country. saying as opposition politician has accused the president of being responsible for last week's violence sancho's arrests for taking part in an unauthorized triggered days of demonstrations 4 people were killed in confrontations between protesters and police zongo is also facing rape charges he denies the accusation which he says is to bar him from standing in elections in 2024 moved from a pool of about a 4th of the 6 we are absolutely not responsible for the violence that happened and we're not responsible for what might happen next because senegal has a lot of problems right now and we will not profit from destabilizing the country further i'm calling on everybody for calm but to remain mobilized the dismissal of armenia's army chief of staff has come into force 2 weeks after the prime minister fired him they call pashley and accuse the military of attempting a coup last month after he demanded he resign but the sacking was brought by the

president on the leaders have retreated their calls for passionate man to step down some in the army say the prime minister mishandled last year's war with azerbaijan thousands of armenians were killed in the 6 week conflict in a box or in foresee a walker reports from the area van on the challenges for some of the wars more seriously injured voters that is a veteran from meany is recent war with as a by jove he is adjusting to his new life a life without. voters that lost his arms rescuing his own brother who'd been wounded in the leg. it's almost too much for their mother liana to remember that day. virus that was with his brother in the ambulance when the shell struck that despite his pain my brother came to help me the medic and driver role so wounded the interior was on fire the mattresses were burning but we drove on while my

brother tried to put out the fire. officially 9094 armenian soldiers were wounded in the 6 week war over in the go no care about the octopus treat some of the most seriously injured at this rehabilitation center in central europe. as so many get back to something you never get used to all of this it's very difficult to see these young soldiers and many of them are helpless as a doctor it's terribly difficult for me to tell some of them that they will never walk again that burden is on me. physiotherapy and dry needling is helping hikes depan year with the pain in his stumps he tells me the prospect of returning to sports keeps him motivated. hike is one of 300 patients at this center receiving therapy therapy that wouldn't be

possible without the support of charitable funding because the state here is simply not in a position to cope with the sheer scale of the problem looks a little bit too sure the center will soon have a prosthetics workshop paid for by a dutch armenian charity there are a lot of empty ated people they are waiting for prosthesis in a short time and that's a big challenge but i think it's a big plus that they are generally healthy and de are very motivated to do to walk with these. armenian taxpayers also make mandatory payments into a soldier's insurance fund but vallas that needs advanced prosthetics costing tens of thousands of euros the kind that would enable him to hold his own cup of coffee again all mission they've told us this kind of prosthesis is beyond our reach going to cost maybe this is

a huge amount of money and people like us can't afford these types of artificial limbs but what does that say about us if we can't afford it who can if the home land was worth sacrificing my arms for why should new ones be beyond my reach but as that hasn't wasted time since his injuries he got engaged to his girlfriend. there's still hope that he will live an independent life again robin for a steelworker al-jazeera europe. the governor of the us state of texas has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to the salan border with mexico in response to a surge in migrants trying to cross among those seeking to enter the u.s. saw thousands of central american children traveling without their parents and that's causing a challenge for the biden administration. as a story. u.s. border patrol agents encountered more than $19000.00 unaccompanied migrant children at the border this fiscal year

a number on pace to vastly surpass previous surges the miners made the arduous journey from central america without a parent arriving after president joe biden reopened the border to them we felt it was the most humane approach to addressing whatever very difficult circumstances in the region and that means there are more children kids under the age of 18 of course coming across the border the border patrol encountered $78000.00 migrants in january a leap from former president donald trump's final months in office and the highest january total in a decade on tuesday the republican governor of texas announced a surge of state police and national guard troops in response to the worsening situation there is a crisis on the texas border right now with the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border this crisis as a result of president biden's open border policies the biden administration says

the border is still closed to the majority of migrants the few who are allowed in officials say are the unaccompanied children and the asylum seekers who had already been waiting in line in mexico for 2 years these families will live freely in the u.s. until an immigration judge decides whether they can stay but the children who arrived alone are detained inside border patrol holding cells for days or weeks in violation of a court order as they wait for shelter space that's nearing 100 percent capacity the government has cancelled pandemic restrictions of the shelters to fit more children who live here for more weeks until they are placed with u.s. sponsors we're definitely seeing an uptick in numbers but we're also seeing that the administration is very conscious of it and is working very quickly to put resources into place to handle future. close progressive's urged the white house to improve the conditions of detained children while conservatives accuse biden of

inviting a run on the border meanwhile pandemic related poverty in central america is driving more people to leave putting more pressure on biden and on the u.s. border. castro al-jazeera washington russia has restricted access to twitter accusing the social media platform of failing to remove banned content the country's communications watchdog says it's slowed down the website speed and they have warned it could be blocked entirely unless action is taken on tuesday russian authorities announced lawsuits against 5 social media platforms of post related to opposition protests according to the interfax news agency critics say it's another attempt to silence the opposition now japan is marking 10 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed thousands of people it also severely damaged a nuclear power plant that continuous a pause a contamination wisc robin wright has more it was the biggest quake japan has ever

recorded. creating devastating tsunami waves that crashed into towns and communities along its northeastern coast it left around $20000.00 people dead or missing and it caused a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant that led to more than 150000 people being evacuated from surrounding areas 10 years on and just 10 kilometers from the plant the town of tommy yoker still hasn't recovered u.-turn was just 14 when he was evacuated with his family residents were allowed to return only 4 years ago but parts of the town are still off limits and strewn with bags of radioactive soil over 30 they used to haul a teddy blossom festival here and this in order to fill it with food starts and people further along the coastline away from the contaminated areas lives have been

rebuilt and sea defenses strengthened the government has turned the reconstruction effort into a symbol of national revival coinciding with the delayed summer olympics but the games remain in doubt and the decommissioning of the reactors poses a challenge for years to come. as of now i think we should keep our current plan to decommission within the next 30 years more than a 1000000 tonnes of contaminated water has now built up at the site amid speculation it might be released into the sea there is widespread opposition in spite of government assurances that the water has been treated your hanging on they're going to go in and i'm concerned about what will happen to the fishing industry in the next 10 years there is talk of releasing the water and i'm very worried for many this anniversary will be a time to reflect on a natural disaster that took so much from this part of japan and that is still

dealing with the legacy of it some precedented force mcbride al-jazeera. a court in malaysia has ruled that christians can use the word in publications a judge decided a ban in 1906 on using the term that using the term was unlawful and unconstitutional the case began 13 years ago when authorities seized publications that contain the word a law from a christian woman at an airport she then launched a legal battle which fueled religious tension. in the u.s. see f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect accused of planting explosives outside the democratic and republican party headquarters near capitol hill the f.b.i. says 2 pipe bombs were placed some night before the capitol attacks on january 6 they were discovered in diffuse the next day a reward for information leading to the arrests of the suspects stands at $100000.00 alan fisher has more from washington. first time i've seen this video it

comes from buildings near the democratic national headquarters and also the republican national headquarters so obviously the f.b.i. have had this for a while one of the 1st things they would have done was check the video you can't tell if it's a man or a woman you can't see a face but they do have distinctive brand name food where the f.b.i. are hoping that someone might be able to identify that or perhaps even the gate that the suspects use no they're also saying look think about january this year was anyone near you buying a couple of backpacks did they express any interest in how would you build a bomb that even go to a hardware store and pick up piping with that be considered unusual all of this as far as the f.b.i. is concerned it could be important now you remember that these 2 devices were found around 1 pm on january the 6th that was just before a big crowd moved towards capitol hill to try and contest the results of the

presidential election many people thought at the time that this was a decoys plant that those devices which were attached to timers would go off and detract resources away from capitol hill therefore making it much easier for the crowd to sweep into the building which was of course endorsing the electoral college results but also this video tells us what the f.b.i. doesn't know and that is that they would have gotten forensic of the backpacks they will be able to perhaps get d.n.a. maybe even fingerprints but 2 months on that has led them nowhere 3 jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george florida in the u.s. city of minneapolis he said. he wasn't tom who. they were.