they. need the women leading the way. women make chains on al-jazeera. play important or all protecting even. face. the. attic. $1.00 trillion dollar relief package passes in the u.s. house of representatives a victory for a struggling population and the biden administration. i'm charlie and this is the al jazeera live from london also coming up unlocking universal access to corona virus vaccine south africa and india lead the charge at the w t o. if they have nothing to hard. the u.s.

secretary of state says china's treatment of ethnic minorities will be examined when he meets officials from beijing next week. and we sit down with key senate gallop position figo this one so could be tells us he's committed no crime. joe biden is $1.00 trillion dollar covert relief bill has passed in the u.s. house of representatives it's one of the largest economic rescue packages in u.s. history and the 1st major legislative victory for the biden if ministration the president will sign the bill into law on friday it includes $1400.00 checks to individuals earning less than $80000.00 a year or couples unless that 160000 the bill also has the biggest increase to federal health aid since the a-bomb era affordable care act around $34000000000.00

in subsidies will go to expanding that coverage around $55000000000.00 will be allocated to increasing covert $900.00 testing the public health workforce and vaccine distribution while $350000000000.00 will go to state and local governments struggling with huge tax revenue shortfalls well alan fisher is in washington for us now this is being called the most progressive bill in u.s. history but beyond receiving a few $100.00 checks what changes will the american see to the lives. well obviously the financial aspect of this is pretty big 1st of all it protects unemployment benefits all the way to later in the year so those that were worried that they were going to start losing their unemployment benefits in march that is not a worry there's already been an immediate impact 13000 jobs at american airlines the company had sent out a warning saying look we're going to have to lay people off they say because this bill is no being passed they've told the $13000.00 employees rip those letters out will decide what we're going to do once we get the full details of what's going on

but there's also added implications things like making sure that schools can reopen that means that it takes the pressure off periods and then there is the other issue as well that local authorities will be able to protect services that have been important to many communities too and then there's the vaccination we've just heard from joe biden in the last hour saying that he's going to buy another 100000000 doses of vaccine people across the united states might find vaccine easier to get ahold of easier to get through more people able to administer the vaccine so it's not just the financial aspect there are many aspects to this that joe biden and the democrats believe are big whens for the people here in the united states and it's important to mention 61 percent of the united states of the voters in the united states including republicans and democrats were behind this so by the republicans opposing it they were taking a bit of a political gamble. what 61 percent say being rejected by republicans how

could that lack of support possibly damage the party. well there is a problem for them their publicans have warned about the possibility of inflation more as inflation it's one too much money gets pumped into the economy and basic prices begin to rise now there are a number of a corner mrs see that's a real danger but some of those economists where the economy is back in 2010 who said we can't stimulate the economy too much because of the financial crisis because you could get inflation central banks said that didn't happen and we also know that the central bank is saying no look we have got the tools to deal with this if there is a problem as for the republicans well they've taken a gamble as i say they believe that they can paint this as a radical agenda by the democrats that they're pushing through things that really won't help the ordinary american people now of course 61 percent of americans say that this is a big win for them but if there isn't a big win at the end of this if there is

a problem then the republicans will be able to point at this and say look we told you so but the democrats believe that americans want to see a victory here they will get a victory here and they think that by delivering on this bill many people across the united states will be very happy with the money that they're going to get with the improvements for vaccine availability but also in the long run will be happy with joe biden and the democrats out of washington d.c. thank you for that update well after confirming the deal to purchase $100000000.00 extra doses of a covert $900.00 vaccine us president joe biden was asked about the possibility of having extra that is to give to other countries the surplus will. if we have a surplus we're going to share it with the rest of the world we've already decided we're going to work with the outfit kovacs we've committed $4000000000.00 to help get the funding for more vaccines around the world this is not something that can

be stopped by a fence no matter how high you build a fence or wall so we're not going to be only safe into the world is safe and so we're going to start off making sure americans are taken care 1st over then you can try to help the rest of the world thank you more than 100 developing nations one payton restrictions dropped on cave in 1000 facts in south africa and india are leading the push arguing the way the will allow poor countries greater access to vaccines for me to mina reports from johannesburg. this is a wonderful day it's been a year since the 1st 1000 in fiction was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower. no country. left. another important step is to enable the transfer of medical to.

for the duration of the. aswell oh. 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 for mr companies to produce things like stayed in america. it is

essential that the wealthy states stop blocking or putting in legal barriers and delaying essential crows all 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 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. the pan american health organization has described the uncontrollable number of infections and deaths from covert 19 in latin america's largest country brazil as

a sober reminder of the threat of a resurgence in chile infections have surpassed the 1000000 mark despite being the country with the highest percentage of people vaccinated and the one with the longest ongoing curfew this in human reports from santiago. 75 year old leader his wife and his granddaughter arrive to get their 2nd jab at this and vaccination center. our 1st medical students are being inoculated so that we can help out in this pandemic. but. i'm thankful to lose my fear of the pandemic to recover somewhat of a normal life thanks to the vaccine. chile has now surpassed israel as the country with the narges percentage of citizens to be inoculated but it will be months before 80 percent of the population is vaccinated and in the meantime a new aggressive wave of covert 19 is forcing authorities to impose more lockdowns

it seems pretty clear that a dose of overconfidence mixed with pandemic fatigue are making many people take unnecessary risks new data shows that while the vaccine is helping to keep the elderly out of intensive care units hospitals here in chile are receiving record numbers of patients under the age of 40. in brazil it's the worst of both worlds not enough vaccines few precautions and now record numbers of people dying no pride of britain sao paolo the all school family mourns one of the nearly 2000 brazilians to have died of the virus on tuesday alone you're going to miss the kid knew now more than ever people have to understand the seriousness of this unfortunately every family's pain for the irresponsibility of others. in all but to state capitals 80 percent of intensive care units are occupied in brazil's largest

cities there are 90 percent full medical experts warn that many city health systems risk total collapse with the arguments that are so on buckwild president. has pulled those who complain. about their clogged. by contrast chile's president has to step t'ain't congressional approval to extend the world's longest curfew as part of a state of sanitary emergency declared exactly one year ago. critics question whether the real motive for such a long curfew is to maintain crowd control and use the army to patrol in rest of areas of south central chile. the government insists is indispensable to combat the epidemic but as inoculations continued full speed ahead the biggest challenge as we've come to convince people not to lower their guard the end of the pandemic may be closer but it's still far away. you see in human al-jazeera.

back in the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has been facing questions at the house foreign affairs committee outlining how the biden the ministration will rise to the global challenges of the day on the issue of china link and intends to investigate alleged human rights abuses against ethnic minorities i think it would be very important if china claims that there is nothing going on that it give access to the international community to the united nations if they have nothing to hide show it to us show show the world and so we'll be calling for that and then i think there's a series of practical things that are very very important for example we should make sure that we are not exporting and others are not exporting to china any products that can be used for the repression of their people and their minorities similarly we shouldn't be bringing into this country products that are created by forced labor including from changing well rosen jordan is in washington d.c.

and she says the u.s. has identified china as its number one rival. we've heard secretary blinken say it several times now in the past week that the u.s. is going to be cooperating where it can with officials in beijing and climate change is course one of those issues there's a very small working group that has been set up under the auspices of the g. 20 currently being run by the u.s. treasury department along with their chinese counterparts to work on these sorts of issues involving the warming planet but that does not mean that the u.s. as we heard there from blink ins testimony on wednesday that the u.s. is going to be overlooking china's human rights record particularly against its minority weaker community in the western part of that country the ministration is taking the position that the previous administration took which is that what is

happening to the weaker community in china is in fact genocide. still to come. fans of football today got married on a call for justice for their late hero. and wife funding cuts could put an african city under threat of volcanic eruption. how we got some rather lively showers across eastern parts of australia at the moment and they're going to continue over the next day or 2 this little up a trough and then in the weather here this just sitting across the southern parts of queensland easing into the eastern side of new south wales i got the showers

just popping off here we can see some rather heavy rain there right across the blue mountains into southern queensland and even inland as well they join up with a shower was that we have across the northern territory rabbits all panned over towards the pilbara the sunshine well quite as well as it has been recently but still getting up to 27 celsius there in perth with complet days and we go with a shot of ramping up again into the eastern side of the country not too bad and see much of victoria but there will be some showers into the eastern side of it to area as we go on through friday by friday we'll see what to make in the way across new zealand fresher weather coming in behind but it should at least this stage that lousy drive fine for the weekend so it's a pretty good so it's a bad race in the across japan but we have got some wet weather in the full cost over the next day or 2 as current in the process of sliding across southern and eastern parts of china it will continue to move across the korean peninsula into southern areas of japan by friday.

lebanon is grappling with its worst economic crisis in generations. exasperated by the coronavirus pandemic and this. one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history shone a light on a nation already in economic and political freefall people in power travels across the country to find out what's next for the trouble states lebannon the state of collapse on al-jazeera. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s.

house of representatives has passed a $1.00 trillion dollar covert $900.00 relief bill one of the largest spending plans in the country's history the bill will provide $1400.00 checks for millions of americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks. more than $100.00 countries led by south africa and india are appealing to the world trade organization to temporarily ways patents on covert $900.00 vaccines they argue it will be an equitable access to the lifesaving vaccines. u.s. secretary of state and blinken plans to meet top chinese government officials next week it will be the 1st person to person meeting between senior u.s. and china representatives since joe biden took office. fans of the late footballer diego maradona have gathered in buenos aires to demand justice for their idol who died of a heart attack in november maradona died weeks after having brain surgery his

supporters believe his death was caused by medical negligence and a panel of convened by argentina's public prosecutor is investigating whether to bring a case of wrongful death. what reason but it was live for us in buenos aires to raise a what is it that these protesters want exactly. what those hundreds of people that have come here to demands justice over the death of the mother of all that just i'm told about an hour ago his former wife his daughters were also present here they want to see the investigation into what led him to his death and this is happening just as something else came out in a documentary that well messages that way extends change between the people that were surrounding bill maher going to his doctor his lawyer in which they treated him as a business and this is something that angered many people here in some of those told us you can hear for example one of those saying just give him something so that he can walk and you can enter

a stadium for example there's also this ongoing battle between the lawyer and the doctor and he's daughters apparently his daughter saying that not only was kidnapped by his people but they have been trying to see him for months to talk to him and that they could never reach him there was also in another ordeal for example they were talking about giving him alcohol. and several psychiatric medicine so there's a full investigation ongoing into what went wrong people here are extremely angry about this revelations that have come out here currently 7 people have been charged they're being investigated one of them one of the lawyers the ferengi had requested a visa to travel to the united states and what people here are saying is that times noire shouldn't be leaving the country and they wanted to see him in prison. so the public prosecutor could deliver findings in $2.00 to $3.00 weeks what kind of penalties could be handed out to this team if they are found guilty.

well we'll have to see exactly what comes out some of that investigation that we know about to turn 70 people are being the best of it is what they're saying is that they will. yeah i guess for example one of the things that one of our bill maher on his daughter said is that he should have been in the hospital after brain surgery he should have been in a place where he was taken care off and not in a house just outside when a site is where people were giving him alcohol and medicines that were not controlled one of the daughters for example said in one of the audience that was. just released it was so you could hear one of the lawyer saying if they take him to a hospital we will lose all control that we have over him so most of the lawyers we have spoken to say that this is a very serious issue we'll have to say what the results are and the consequences that he did what this will have on the. trees of our life for us in buenos aires thank you so much for that update. a controversial energy bill favoring government owned plants largely run on fossil fuels has been signed into law in mexico the

bill has drawn complaints from private business groups and foreign investors some of whom back into energy country john home and has more to do one thing makes president makes no secret of his favoring state over private enterprise and micros especially for the country's electricity industry under his predecessor it was opened up to private investment now he's doing what he can to reverse the. season i am convinced that privatization has been a failure robbery looting of mexico resources just to benefit individuals. thanks to the energy reform he's pushed through a bill that favors the state companies see a feat to supply the country's electricity and sends private firms to the back of the line on wednesday it became law nope as obrador says it will help give mexico energy independence but environmentalist are worried that many of the state plants of fossil fuel and the companies providing renewable energy formerly given

preference and now getting such a bad deal that they won't want to come to mexico the most and that us we're going backwards then years on all the. bounces that we made in los and policy instruments that push for the transition to renewable energy. in general investment is going to be hit say analysts flip flopping regulations don't inspire confidence and the country could also be open to lawsuits if it doesn't respect the investments already made when the sector opened up it doesn't look good economically it doesn't look good technically it doesn't look good environmental way and particularly because it might cause a decline medic a crisis because by little ation the rights of countries that have invested in mexico i particular analysts say the changes could run afoul of the new trade agreement between the united states canada and mexico but what the president says is that this is really going to help mexico to get back control of its electricity

to the country and its people now that claim is questionable because a lot of the state power plants still depend on gas that's coming from abroad but politically it's a win on. my car and it should go over noise the president's base going into the upcoming midterm elections whoever it like should be helpmates kerry's energy sector as well is open to question john homan how does it make scary civil brazil's former president has blasted the government's handling of the pandemic in his 1st speech to supporters since a corruption charge against him was overturned monday's decision by a supreme court judge paved the way for luis in the descent of a to make a political comeback the 2017 conviction saw him serve 18 months in jail he could become president jai able scenarios main left wing rival in next year's presidential election there he said he hadn't yet decided whether to run.

ivory coast prime minister. who had been seen as a possible successor to president allison ouattara has died but died in germany 2 days after his 56th birthday it flown to france for a medical check last month and then to freiburg in germany president ouattara says he died from cancer unrest continues in senegal following the arrest and detention of key opposition figures. speaking to al-jazeera says he has committed no crime and the politicians need to listen to the people nicholas haq reports from the capital dhaka where more protests are planned this saturday. for some months on co is one of senegal's rising opposition leaders for others including the state prosecutor he's a repressed responsible for public disorder after protests are ruptured following his arrest last week but sancho who is out on bail says the allegations against him

are politically motivated. i have committed no crime we can't trust the justice system in the way the case is being carried out against me the trouble is by altering the law in the process in order to sentence political openness the prosecutor is not working for distinct but. the government deployed extra security forces including the military to end days of nationwide demonstrations rights groups say hundreds of people are being detained the protests stopped after president monkey still called for calm and dialogue in a nationwide address but sancho is calling for more protests. what we are seeing right now is a revolution but this is not a privilege to overthrow president. it's a smart revolution we need to organize local elections that are 2 years overdue in the parliament election in 2022 so that the people can freely elected and will

leader 2024. song who describes himself as the anti establishment candidate for the 2024 presidential election critical of senegal's relationship with former corner of power france u.k. hughes's the government of corruption favoring french corporations our relationship with friends like in other countries need to be more balanced it has to be a win win relationship not a one way relationship critics say some goes nationalist discourse is dangerous during the recent protests his supporters are accused of burning and looting french supermarkets those looting are do not because they support me but because they need provisions these are people that walk past the split markets unable to enter because they can afford it the trolls the feel of the seat. scores were killed in many injured by security forces since some cause arrest last

wednesday president mikey blames the economic fallout of the pandemic for the unrest for sanko the crisis calls for political change those that died were 141618 years old they know all the future is at stake in ireland to them and all those that are political prisoners of my cell we can't give up the fight. but this is a movement that goes beyond politics it's a call by young senegalese tired of being ignored wanting to be heard sancho believes he is the best suited to carry that voice nicholas hark at al-jazeera the car. 5 young palestinian children arrested by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank have now been released the boys between 8 and 12 years old had been detained when they were found picking flowers near mt hebron the army is accusing them of trying to steal parrots from a nearby outpost under israeli law children under the age of 12 cannot be arrested

under any circumstances the u.n. says at least 67 people have been killed and hundreds injured me in mars and t. cooper tests. police on wednesday once again use firearms to disperse protesters in the city of mandalay people were fleeing his shots were fired the un security council has agreed on a statement that condemns the violence against protesters but has dropped language condemning the political situation as a coup urging restraint from the military. indian officials say about 100 people for me and are mostly police officers and their families have crossed the border since protests began many seeking refuge in the border town of champ high lance corporal paying is one of them he says he fled meanwhile 2 because he was ordered to shoot protesters if dispersing efforts to don't work he twice refused and feared he'd go to jail if he stayed. did you see the

places to protect the people in fact the shooting of people bothered me in my place and. so i could not follow those orders. i miss my family i'm married and i have 2 children. every night i could not sleep well. real democracy. returned to my country. of a kind of disaster could be about to erupt in the democratic republic of congo this is. the world's largest continue really active love the lake it sits less than 20 kilometers north of the city of goma readings at the crater a vital elements to the early warning system the funding cuts meaning the searches call pay for an internet connection to run remote sensors or fuel to transport them to the volcano 250 people died when the volcano erupted in 2002 and experts fear

and worst tragedy. if we don't do it regularly we won't know where the crater is expanding the more magnet that goes into the crater the more the crater expands we need to know where that is exactly even if the crater if you can see is already at 1.03 kilometers it's possible that it's expanding on the other side we have to know by how much is expanding. the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives have passed and $1.00 trillion dollars coded 19 relief bill it's one of the largest spending plans in the country's history the bill will provide 1400 dollars checks for millions of americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks about $10000000.00 people in the u.s. currently unemployed.