think. of how part of the viewfinder asia seems on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right. washer. the u.s. house is set to vote on a covert 90 relief package worth nearly 2 trillion dollars give joe biden a big political with. collapsible romney watching out of there alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up. to. a push for equal access to covert $900.00 banks seen south africa and india appeal

for the suspension of peyton's at the w t o. also closer to a political comeback former brazilian president lula da silva addresses his supporters after a court ruling boost his chances of challenging you shier balsa narrow. and wounded soldiers from the conflict in nagorno-karabakh the kill thousands we hear from survivors in our media shell shocked from their interests. to the program the u.s. house of representatives is debating a $1.00 trillion dollars over $1000.00 relief bill one of the largest in the country's history the bill will provide $1400.00 checks to millions of americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks it's already been approved by the senate once it passes the house the bill needs to be signed by the president around $10000000.00 people in the united states economy unemployed

a number that has risen sharply since the beginning of the pandemic our white house correspondent kelly healthcare his following events for a city it's nearly a done deal kimberly. yeah the debate is under way in the house of representatives that's where this bill was 1st passed it went to the senate or was modified somewhat so that's why the house is now taking another look at it but we don't expect that this is going to take long because already we know this is going to go likely down party lines maybe just one democrat who will oppose this and then it will swiftly be signed into law according to the white house press secretary we don't have an exact time but this white house is eager to get this package because this is a key campaign promise made by joe biden to deliver aid to the ordinary americans that he feels is still struggling as a result of this pandemic and needs help to catch up not just get ahead so the u.s.

president's back to sign this very swiftly and that he is really saying that this is one of the most for grass of pieces of legislation in u.s. history so he's excited to talk about it when he finally does sign it into law you just touched upon it can be when you said that you know it's about people being able to catch up it's not a final solution really is it to the problems that many of had to face during this very difficult what 3040. yeah there's a lot that's not in this bill that he was hoping for although the white house is saying the core of it is there in terms of the things that will help local governments will give direct payments to americans that could amount to thousands of dollars for some families but what's not in this that might help people move ahead not just catch up is the $15.00 an hour minimum wage for federal the federal minimum wage and in addition to that also missing is a number of things that the u.s.

president promised on the campaign trail that would be in there and and hasn't finally materialized like infrastructure that would create jobs so these are some of the disappointments but again the white house trying to sell this to the american people because the one fear they have in all of this is that people will quickly spend the money and then not really attribute this to the democrats and their policies so well this is 10 jubal evidence of the policies joe biden's put in place he needs to sell it remind people that some of those ripple effects that they're experiencing are also attributed to the white house so we're going to hear from the president thursday evening he's going to be selling this in a primetime address we're also going to hear him speaking in the coming hours from the white house as he announces additional vaccine supply as he meets with the c.e.o.'s of merck and johnson and johnson collaborative partnership that was a bit unexpected but should also help the american public for the thanks so much can we talk about force

a white house correspondent. well south africa and india are leading a push out the world trade organization to drop patent restrictions on covert $900.00 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group known as one richer countries are hoarding excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated the surplus of doses would be enough to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa johns hopkins university found only 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 populations the u.n. secretary general antonio good terror says the inequality of the vaccine distribution is widely uneven and unfair for me to miller has more from johannesburg. the other 4 that it's been a year since the 1st code in 1000 infection was identified in south africa since

then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected well richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower . another important step is to transfer. it's. south african india leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert 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 garner 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 are being left behind. there is a capacity by mr companies to produce things like stayed in medical suits it is essential that the wealthy states stop blocking 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. chile is set to extend its quota virus state of emergency making it the world's longest running curfew the government says the measures which are already been in place for a year and necessary to contain the spread of the virus but critics argue it's ineffective and gives health officials too much power the country has registering thousands of new cases every week and that's despite giving out the most vaccines globally per capita. brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from quote a virus in a single day nearly 2000 fatalities were registered on tuesday the country has had more than 11000000 cases and is facing the worst phase of the pandemic get pushing its health care system to the brink of collapse. and former brazilian president

luis in our salute to sell the has sharply criticized diable soras response to the coronavirus pandemic is speaking at his 1st news conference since a corruption charge against him was overturned he's told his supporters that he always knew he'd be vindicated when those decisions by a supreme court judge to overturn a corruption charge boosts his chances of making a political comeback the conviction in 2017 saw him serve 18 months in jail and barred him from running for office not yet akira's our correspondent live for us in rio de janeiro with the very latest and it seems that is perhaps giving us a little bit more information about what is long term plans may be. yes the very 1st question reporters asked because 1st he made a long speech and then reporters questions in the very 1st one was about whether he

would be a candidate in the 2021 presidential elections and he said it would be small of him to think this way now with so much going on is mind is is elsewhere he's thinking about the problems that brazilians are facing right now which are many of the high in employment rage the pandemic the mishandling of the pandemic which president. has been accused of and which he stressed by saying do not follow that imbecile and he also said go ahead and get vaccinated because just to show how differently things from. president who has downplayed the virus from the beginning so he said that when the time comes it's a party of the workers' party will decide and he also opened up for a coalition because he said you know the party the front they will make the decision when the time comes meanwhile he said he just wants to resume contact with

the brazilian people and he urged the social movements and trade unions to do the same to to talk to people and see what the problems are and solutions for them. because you say. things on his mind as he said in that press conference he comes entirely think about the presidency yet because he still has to really. do the court case itself under the conviction that still really in the end yes it is that the overturning of the charges just meant to that. this supreme court justice. realized that he had been tried in the wrong court that means that he can be retried again with the same charges and a brazilian and another in a federal court so he wasn't considered innocent it isn't like

a wall we just discovered that he was not guilty no the accusations still stand it's just that what has been said is that he has been tried in the in the wrong place so there's that and he does face other charges as well he sighed but it was a great vindication because he had been saying all along from the stars that he was judged in the wrong court just because one judge which is essential mortals will then went on to become president justice minister before he left after not getting along with the president but he he he he he said it was always more of a scheme to like draw him into that court so that he could be convicted by him of course the saga continues to civil continue to monitor events with you in rio de janeiro thanks very much. still ahead here on al-jazeera senegal's

opposition leader blames the government for the days of violence and the capital dhaka last week and off limits we look at the impact the current virus pandemic is having on one of christianity's most sacred sites those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways however say some rather heavy rain pushing across central and southern parts of china recently see this area 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 or recently that's all set to change because that west of where the push is out of the east china sea it not is our high a little further eastwards thursday doesn't like a lousy fine and dry day but come friday that rain set say in the across south

korea basin pieces of rain 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 80 degrees celsius with some pleasant sunshine make the most of it pleasant sunshine too across northern parts of the philippines loose on 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 got showers to make in the way towards us flanker over the next day or so and a westerly disturbance will cause some disruption into northern pakistan. sponsible cuts off at ways. one in 3 brazilian women is a victim of domestic abuse it seems every day a woman dies and it just becomes

a statistic but some of broken away from the cycle of violence it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspired others to turn their lives around i call the strong help program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera. but the back yard to 0 would be so ho rob the reminder of our top stories the u.s. house of representatives is debating a $1.00 trillion dollar relief bill one of the largest in the country's history the bill will provide

a $1400.00 check for millions of americans as well as extended employment benefits and tax breaks it's already been approved by the senate brazil's former president luis and i see lula da silva is speaking at his 1st news conference as group charge against him was overturned they called present. the seal and accused him of bungling the pandemic and the economy south africa and india are leading a push for the world trade organization to temporarily drop payton restrictions on covert $900.00 vaccines they say would allow more countries and manufacturers to mass produce the japs. well to the other break now on the roll out of a bowl of vaccines a guinea more than 2200 people have been given their job beginning with health care workers the world health organization is racing to vaccinate as many people as possible to contain the deadly virus officials say stocks are limited leading that the disease could quickly get out of hand if it were to spread to other countries.

libya's parliament has approved a new interim unity government as part of a u.n. backed deal it'll be responsible for holding elections later this year they view has been divided between 2 rival administrations supported by armed groups and foreign governments there's been an arrest since an uprising toppled by gadhafi in 2011 and it trainer 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 tobruk 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 the m.p.'s after years of visions were actually finally able to meet have

a session and give this new national unity government vote of confidence. police and made just as protesters in the city of madelaine. people fled as gunshots were fired more than 60 protestors have been killed since the military took over in set theory the u.n. security council calls for restraint but tend to agree on a statement condemning the coup. across me about the border with northeast india residents say more than 100 refugees arrived in the past 10 days fleeing violence at home among them is a policeman who refused to open fire on protesters in the involved town of cub but he says he traveled that night for 3 days to avoid being recognized. 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 who is all over i would like to return to

my country the dismissal of our media as army chief of staff has come into force 2 weeks after the prime minister fired him they call a push and accuse the bill a tree of attempting a coup last month after it demanded he resign but the sacking was blocked by the president army leaders have reiterated their calls for pressure she had to step down some of the obvious say the prime minister mishandle asters war with azerbaijan thousands of armenians were killed in the 6 week conflict in the go ahead of our road forestay walker reports are for me out of our on the challenges for some of the wars most seriously injured voters that is a veteran from recent war with azerbaijan he is adjusting to his new life a life without arms voters that lost his arms rescuing his own brother who'd been wounded in the leg it's almost too much for their mother leanna to remember that

day. veterans that was with his brother in the ambulance when the shell struck that biomarker despite his pain my brother came to help me the medic and driver also 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 treats 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 the pannier 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 that's a little bit too short 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 tax payers also make mandatory payments into

a soldier's insurance fund. but vallas that needs advanced prosthetics costing tens of thousands of euros the kind of that would enable him to hold his own cup of coffee again or not these kind of prestige is beyond our reach. 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 interviews he got engaged to his girlfriend. there's still hope that he will live an independent life again robin for a steelworker 0 year ago. jury selection is continuing for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd in the us city of minneapolis.

he was on that. so all 3 jurors have been chosen they were interviewed in a courtroom but their identities have not been revealed for officer direction of our own is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter the court has set aside 3 weeks to choose the 12 jurors. so the girls opposition politician the swan song go has accused the president of being responsible for last week's violence because arrest for taking part of the alter ised rally triggered days of demonstrations 2 people were killed in confrontations between protesters and police sancho's also accused of rape he denies the accusation which he says is part of a plot to buy have him standing in elections in 2024 the close hackers mall from the capital. he wants to capitalize on the unprecedented movement that we've seen the last couple of days where we saw protesters demonstrators taking to the street not just here in the capital the car but throughout the country was quick to

condemn the looting and the violence saying that he is not looting in the violence towards french supermarkets he's saying that he's not anti french but he wants a rebalance of the relationship with the former colonial power in favor of not big corporate french corporations but in favor of the senegalese people he also said that the government and the people need to listen to the word on the streets and this call from people who have really taken on mouse on the streets to express themselves he says he is not responsible though for the violence that has taken place that has resulted and scores of people injured and at least at least according to him dozens of people killed some. 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. now the owners he says is on president to answer to this call from the people on the streets there are more protests planned this saturday because this new movement called the movement to defend democracy well they say that at least poor 100 people are currently in detention people that have been detained and that were arrested during the protest movement that we've seen recently so a lot more protests at least a demonstration planned on saturday and then for months uncle he sees this as a moment for the country to unite and to get together behind his movement a saudi court has upheld the original sentence of women's rights campaign allusion through she had hoped that a 5 year ban on travelling outside saudi arabia imposed as a condition of her release last month would be lifted the activists spent more than

3 years in detention on multiple charges through a campaign for the right of women in saudi arabia to drive a right there was granted a month after her $28.00 arrest. russia has restricted access to twitter accusing the social media platform of failing to remove banned content the country's communications washed logs says it slowed down the website speed we want to that it could be blocked entirely unless action is taken on tuesday russian authorities announced lawsuits against 5 social media platforms for posts related to opposition protests according to the interfax news agency. israel has partially reopened its airport to foreign arrivals but only those granted with special exemptions tourism remains off limits and that includes the religious pilgrimage is so important to life in the old city of jerusalem very force it explains. jerusalem's catholic patriarch leads

a lent a procession down the ancient steps to the church of the holy sepulcher normally the priest would process through throngs of tourists and pilgrims but now the square like the church behind stands all but empty. first dedicated as a church by constantine in the 4th century on the site where jesus is believed to have been crucified and buried it's shared by 4 christian denominations and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. here. i hope. i will be. and they are coming this is the place. before. between 20162800 more than half of all foreign tourists to occupied east jerusalem came here the old city's most visited site now in the run up to easter its giant doors are officially open again but israel's main airport is still partially closed only handfuls of specially

permitted foreign nationals are allowed in a far cry from the more than a 1000000 christian tourists who would enter in a normal year living interest from this is a place i've been to pretty frequently and when it's full of devoted pilgrims from around the world it has a real emotional power but on a day like this when it's all but empty in some ways the ancient nature and beauty of this place a more fully revealed those who are here now we found a mix of foreign workers academics and locals have the place almost to themselves no competing for snatched moments in revered spaces details that might have been lost amid camera clicks and excited shouts now gleam quietly undisturbed but this period of quiet comes at a cost in the form of missing religious donations and struggling shops in the alleyways outside merchants say 95 percent of their business has simply disappeared a db judaize family has held the keys to the church for nearly

a 1000 years even in that context he says these last 12 months have been extraordinary. it's been a year that we're suffering and the old city is the most affected and within the old city it's the tourist reliant businesses and places of worship. there is shared hope among priests and shopkeepers but the talk of a vaccine driven return to international travel will indeed soon materialize and this place will once again welcome the world back through its doors hard force it occupied east jerusalem. is there with me the whole problem of our top stories the u.s. house of representatives has begun debates.