sure for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our you if you're putting your money into the hands of someone kicking money out of the hands of other workers several goes to the king of it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line the big questions on out is there. we will buy more $100.00 of those have a $200.00 shots in his 1st news conference as u.s. president joe biden the sets a new vaccination target defends his handling of the situation at the southern border and says he expects to run again. on the intent of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up. physic could take weeks to move the container ship blocking the suez canal

a new setback for global trade. warnings a vaccine war will worsen a 3rd wave of kobita in africa where several countries have yet to receive any doses plus. hundreds protest against china's treatment of reagan muslims as the foreign minister visits turkey. and his 1st news conference 64 days after taking office u.s. president joe biden has set a bold new target in his fight against coronavirus he's up his vaccination goal to inoculate 200000000 people by his 100th day after already reaching his goal of $100000000.00 doses taking questions for around an hour he also said he intends to run for reelection in 2024 and he defended his handling of the influx of migrants many of them on a come. any children at the southern border saying the situation there is already

getting better so we're sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming we're trying to work out now with mexico their willingness to take more of those families back but that's what's happening they're not getting across the border and those who are coming across the border who are unaccompanied children we're moving rapidly to try to put in place what was dismantled and i said for example of all the children are coming across the border over 70 percent are either 16 or 17 years old we're not talking about people ripping babies from mother's arms or little 3 year old stand on the border less than i think it's one and a half percent when jordan is live for us in washington d.c. and much about news conference devoted to the situation at the border. that's right the president time received many questions about his administration's handling of what the press here in d.c.

is calling a surge of unaccompanied children to the us mexico border as well as questions about how the u.s. government is handling the care of these children once they make it into the united states and it did seem that joe biden the u.s. president was getting a little tired of those questions because he started questioning reporters promises for their questions to note he questioned one reporter who wanted to know whether he thought it was acceptable for children to be staying in a facility that was overcrowded with some of them having to sleep on the floor and he basically said to the reporter you know what kind of question is that of course i'm not happy about the situation which is why he argues he has put the u.s. vice president comma harris in charge of finding ways of fixing the situation as quickly as possible biden also said during the press conference that if things did

not improve in order to deal with this particular situation that you might see people leaving his administration so there was a lot of questioning about it it certainly is the talking point of the day here in the united states but the president did try to talk about other issues as well so what were the main ones that were raised on the on perhaps the foreign policy side of things. well the president was asked about the trumpet ministrations deal with the afghan government to pull out all the u.s. troops by may 1st and in fact that was a promise made to the taliban as part of the ongoing of peace talks in that country but biden has a hint at before this press conference that it would be very difficult to do so from a logistics perspective and he repeated that point during the press briefing on thursday can you commit to the american people to find me a 2nd the u.s.

will no longer have forces in afghanistan. it's true that could be hard to meet me when deadlines. to terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we. started do you believe though it's possible we could have troops there next year. i can't picture that be the case it's also worth pointing out that reporters at this press conference didn't ask the president about his handling of the pandemic and it was left to the president himself to announce that he would be known as sheeting a number of steps to improve the united states's infrastructure everything from plumbing and the electrical grid to cyber connections as well as fixing the proverbial highways and streets things that american voters do care about. thank

you very much indeed. it's one of the key arteries that keeps global trade pumping carrying around 12 percent of the world's goods but the suez canal could be blocked for weeks i beached cargo ship at an estimated cost to the global economy of some $3000000000.00 a day $224000.00 ton ever given has been stubbornly stuck for nearly 48 hours and so much teams have flown in from around the world to shift it is why it's a problem the 193 kilometer canal cuts through egypt linking the mediterranean and red sees it means there's a route for goods from southeast asia to the markets of europe that takes around 3 weeks if it's blocked for a long time the only other route is around the cape of good hope thousands of kilometers and at least a week longer trial stratford has been latest. 400 metres long and weighing

200000 tonnes stuck in what's often described as the most important shipping lane in the world a maritime accident with global implications the ever given container ship became wedged across the suez canal and choose day when high winds blew her off course about 12 percent of global trade passes through the 193 kilometer long canal which connects the red sea with the mediterranean providing the shortest link between asia and europe the vessel carrying around 20000 containers is registered in problem are operated by the taiwanese transport company evergreen marine it was sailing from china to the port city of rotterdam in the netherlands when it got stuck the japanese owner has apologized but says the situation is extremely difficult there's a sizzling that'll present the traffic along this year's canal has been disrupted due to the incident and local authorities are working under the issue using tug

boats but that is most most of time for it to be dissolved. this image posted on a ship tracking website shows the backlog of at least $150.00 vessels stuck in the northern entrance of the canal it puts aid in the middle in an area called the bitter lakes and at the southern entrance at sue is the vast majority of oil from the gulf is transported to europe along the canal oil prices rose sharply on thursday industry experts are warning of a flood of insurance claims covering the vast amount of cargo being held up including automotive parts and consumer goods which option officials say at least 8 tug boats are trying to dislodge the vessel which experts say could take days if not weeks or a few days of course is very very costly each day and people have made estimates of $3810000000000.00 of trade going through the suez canal absolutely fundamental for europeans flying chains not just about oil it's just as important the goods coming

from the arms china and so on china number one trade with the european union containers may have to be offloaded in order to lessen the weight. ships now face the prospect of having to travel thousands of additional kilometers around the southern tip of africa a huge cost and potentially delaying delivery of goods by weeks it's a cork in a bottle of beer is no way to go in as you've described the ships that are stuck throughout the canal of the north and are in a precarious position to may name may not be able just to turn around and take another course as long as it's an expensive as it is to go from the mediterranean around africa and vice versa the suez canal authority says around $20000.00 ships pass through the canal last year earning egypt billions of dollars in toll free revenue the ever given is one of the largest container ships in the world but for every hour of every day it remains stuck on

a reef and stationary there are concerns about the financial fallout and impact on global trade chance stratford al-jazeera africa's 2nd wave of corona virus was far more aggressive than the 1st according to a new report in the lancet medical journal a scientists say understanding why it could be key to fighting a 3rd in mid july of last year africa was reporting an average of more than $800000.00 new cases per day that rose 292-4005 the end of december it wasn't equal there was a 403 percent rise in daily cases between the 1st and 2nd waves in $24.00 of the 40 countries that were in a 2nd peak that could be because a 3rd of most countries mostly north african don't appear to be doing enough testing but the african centers for disease control also says the 2nd wave saw less mask wearing and social distancing and many countries put open borders for trade before managing who was crossing the director of africa centers for disease control

says he's concerned a vaccine war involving restrictions on exports could lead to a 3rd surge in infections. as a constant in a truly few hapless. men who for. this edition is going to significantly in prague to fight is that we have gone through 2 waves of the virus difference in the 2nd week and i think it's fair to say that based understudy 6 that i just shared is going in that we had it in 2 was it that we and without rapid access to vaccines we challenge continue to be challenge life would be lost. to miss who continue to struggle with health authorities in somalia say the country is in the grips of its 2nd wave of coma 19 infections cases arising and more than 300 people have died from the virus in just the last 2 weeks but with no official system for tracking deaths the exact numbers aren't clear threats oil

imports from neighboring kenya. this is the main cemetery in mogadishu and it's filling up fast mostly with people who say to have died from 1000 complications. this family is just the latest to buy a live one. somalia's struggling to deal with a 2nd wave of covered 1000 cases but health experts say with limited testing and data collection it's hard to know the true extent of the pandemic here if for the past 2 months we have just over a 1000 people not all of them have died of the disease but these are numbers we've never witnessed before the pandemic. hospitals like de martini and isolation center are also overwhelmed and oxygen is running out. so malia has one of the world's most vulnerable health systems the world health organization says just about

a quarter of somalia's 15000000 population can access basic health care doctors are worried the situation is getting worse the machine. people do not believe in the existence of the government in virus in somalia once they get sick if misused or maybe sense to solve it by the time they are coming to the hospital they are critically ill. the government has ruled out a vaccination program health workers the elderly and people with underlying conditions are getting there fast those are the astra zeneca vaccine under the un backed cosmetics initiative the government hopes to vaccinate at least 20 percent of its population as soon as possible. but despite the severity of the situation and forcing how 3 strictures has been difficult these are some of the city's popular cafeterias people are reluctant to socially distance or where our mosque on

the 1st and foremost young muslims are religion tells us that when people become very sinful some are non-busy spread around the world only god can protect his people. apart from the pandemic somalis also continue to face the threat of violence from al-shabaab a humanitarian crisis caused by recent flooding and a desert. locust infestation that has left around 2600000 without enough food so i'm hoping the vaccinations will help prevent new infections but with only a fraction of the population able to access medical help their fears things might get worse catherine sawyer. and the vaccine rollout has dominated talks at a virtual here pain union leaders summit members have been discussing ways to ramp up vaccine supplies and initial fair access within the union commission president also left underly and said astra zeneca cannot export any more covert 900 vaccines from europe to it makes good on its contracts with the e.u.

she continues to blame drug firms for the slow rollout in europe. vaccination is now finally progressing steadily we have 88000000 doses that have been delivered so far and 62000000 doses have been administered overall if you look at the number of people that have been fully vaccinated in europe these are 18200000 so 4 point one percent have already received 2 japs but of course we all know we could have been much faster if all pharmaceutical companies had fulfilled their contracts still to come this half hour mexico battles to convince some communities to get vaccinated as it becomes the 3rd country in the world to record 200000 deaths. and africa's gentle giant now endangered now decades of pitching and habitat loss

but the continent elephants at risk. how in places say we got some cause weather now coming into eastern parts of australia we can see this massive cloud just around tasmania we had record rainfall coming in out west where the snow in the process of moving away or courtesy of this area of low pressure that's the one that brought the flooding into those eastern parts of new south wales for the east side of tassie well 275 millimeters of rain in just one day and that has never we. led to some flooding i'm afraid there is more right in the full cost of this and what's the weather we're rolling through the bite that will make its way into victoria as we go on through saturday evening across tasmania generous east west weather coming into was new zealand as well but ahead of that is flooded trough new zealand should around 27 celsius let's push

back into walls we got some showers there just around the cape york peninsula out across the top and thought to drive over to west impossible that around 20 celsius fun to try for the most part to across a good pos of eastern china but the change is on the way here central areas will see some western weather as we go on through friday and that cloud of gray will continue to make its way further east was rolling through the east china sea the elysee korean peninsula seeing some wet weather but is this a fun and dry for japan tokyo with a high of 20 degrees. in russia not. going. to bring fame. and how will that one when he didn't take on al-jazeera. play an important role in protecting human.

the. amount of the top stories here. u.s. president joe biden has set a new coronavirus vaccine goal of 200000000 shops within his 1st 100 days in office at his 1st presidential press conference he also promised to rebuild the immigration system to deal with an influx of unaccompanied minors at the southern border. a serious canal could be blocked for weeks by a beached cargo ship at an estimated cost to the global economy of some

$3000000000.00 a day salvage teams are being flown in from around the world to shift the 224000 tons ever given. and the director of africa's centers for disease control says he's concerned a vaccine war involving restrictions on exports could lead to a 3rd surge of infections on the continent. brazil has just reported a record 100158 new coronavirus cases and 2777 more deaths and mexico has now become the 3rd country after brazil in the u.s. to record more than 200000 deaths and while mexican officials continue to roll out vaccines in rural parts of the country some people appear reluctant to get the job done holeman reports. some the goal is a small missive politician so the minutes where news and updates about the coronavirus pandemic can be limited. to rumors about the government's covert 19 vaccine program the pizza be everywhere. something goes home to several indigenous

communities not everyone his feet spanish through an interpreter recover mendoza. tells us she stays abreast of pandemic news through the radio but she says she has no plans to get the coded 900 vaccine happily and you'll see these happens when people don't know how to find traditional medicine which exist for many illnesses i believe in god he gives me life and he will protect me. recalled is not the only person in town feeling hesitant p.p.o. garcia says he also sees no need for the vaccine adding that kobe has not affected his community. so put a kidney for me as i say to each his own i tell my family to not get the vaccine if god says our time is up then our time is up there's no need to run and hide it's good that the government is worrying about the people but on the other hand we are free to make our own choice. local leaders say that while everyone over 60 years

old is eligible only about half of registered to receive the job you see you ever see you there i think people should just accept the vaccine this community needs it and why because here there are no doctors and there are no hospitals close to us some girl isn't the only place in mexico where people are refusing the vaccine since the country started its national vaccination program dozens of communities in the south of officially expressed opposition to it but that isn't the biggest obstacle to everyone in mexico getting the job. though the overall rate of corona virus contagion in the country is on the decline experts warn that vaccination efforts have fallen short of what's needed to curb the outbreak in relation to not get it and it was based on this. i think the lesson developing countries must learn mexico latin america africa eastern countries is that we have to produce our own vaccines we can't be relying and waiting on the good will about this december axioms because that's what's going on. there are several towns in southern mexico

like some ago that been largely spared from the worst of the covert 19 outbreak but authorities are still asking residents to ignore conspiracy theories about the vaccine and get the job to continue to keep this region free of the virus john homan how does either. saudi arabia says it's destroyed several drones laden with explosives fod at the kingdom by yemen's hoofy rebels but petroleum distribution terminal was hit by a projectile and the attack on the port city of g.'s near the yemeni border caused one of the terminals tanks to catch fire no casualties have been reported it comes as the u.s. special envoy for yemen travels to the middle east to push plans for a cease fire in the country israel remains in political deadlock off the final results showed no party winning an outright majority in parliament the election commission says prime minister benjamin netanyahu is block $159.00 knesset seats in tuesday's vote it needs $61.00 to claim victory

a coalition of parties that wants to oust him got 57 seats and typical name is in west jerusalem and says prime minister benjamin netanyahu might have a backup plan up his sleeve there are a couple things that are expected to be happening on election night netanyahu came out and said that he would be making overtures to members of the knesset who shared the likud party's ideology that was taken as a signal that now netanyahu is trying to win back formerly crude members who defected to other far right parties look there is a possibility that if they you mean a party joins his coalition that would mean that he has 59 seats so then he'd only be looking for 2 former likud members to defect and he could lure them to defect by perhaps offering a minister seat there's also the united arab list that's

a conservative newcomer party that can bring 4 seats there's been discussion under way that perhaps. the leader has that he might support netanyahu but again the far right elements of that senior who blocked strongly oppose any arab support. turkey's foreign minister says he conveyed the nation's sensitivity and sorts about the treatment of weak and muslims to his chinese counterpart during talks in ankara we can muslims across turkey protested against the visit of chinese foreign minister wang some 40000 regas live in turkey and hundreds came out to protest against the treatment of the ethnic minority in china turkey has become less vocal about their plight in recent years as its developed economic ties with china in december beijing ratified an extradition treaty signed 2 years ago by the 2 nations and in course new was one of the protests. and the lawyers are simple

living in perth gathered in a sawmill for the with chinese foreign minister sergei and they have been throwing the prime his government open fires because they say they want to get their land in their own plan for all the same here on patrol and since i was seen as they sit. down for those people and they have a stroll in the missile plant of the chinese government down inside and many of those. and they are some of the in-laws are in danger and that's why sometimes they cannot even contrast they have family is this in china us can charges a. government to release our family member and close the camps on the stop the genocide that is over. today is the 57 years old and this is the almost of the trial your civil servants you're working for government the more than 30 years and she can't speak chinese are very real what kind of education is my mother made my father is the one taken to concentration camp my father is that business owner who

is always helping people in the and south tomato and sounds of a loving person he was taken to a concentration camp and it's been more than 3 years i haven't heard i haven't heard his voice. truth he holds the largest we've heard i ask for our heart. and the world and these people have been absolutely invulnerable as specialists the 3rd here on our side the maximus of the old in 2700 men to say about itself the nexus of this and they all find it mean anything to apologise for israel since the prairie kids try not to relations indeed put in because of economic cooperation with china isn't enough to increase it for drugs so simple are afraid to have a lover it over on fire off for that awful this year fear for their fingers at the time and the government told us terrorists might meet extradited. this is i've been

saying that and they did they give importance of time out there it's all in so i would say they are against any kind of mistreatment against their will they are the cold made so much so despicable north korea has confirmed it launched 2 ballistic missiles off its eastern coast on thursday is the 1st significant provocation by pyongyang since u.s. president joe biden took office in january they were launched from north korea's south how myung province into the seed near japan president biden said there would be a response if north korea escalates tensions but the u.s. is also open to to promote diplomacy leading to denuclearize action. i should have on these wife says the russian opposition leader should be freed from prison as his health is deteriorating one of his lawyers has revealed that he has serious back pain and can barely use one of his legs he was jailed last month for breaking bail terms of being treated in germany for a nerve agent poisoning and was moved to a remote penal colony earlier this month his lawyer said he had been asking to see

a doctor for a month but the request has been ignored. has that all of your new hook on your snark in my view his health condition is extremely bad he's suffering strong pain in his back and his right leg he's feeling numbness in his lower right leg broke his leg is disabled one of his legs is almost not functioning. the bridge is a you tube video he's been suffering for 4 weeks from this pain and he forbids us to say anything we knew the day before that the problems with his legs had deteriorated and then only yesterday we were not allowed inside the prison so we decided to make it public because we were afraid for his life and health it was decades of poaching and habitat loss of put african elephants on the endangered list for the 1st time the african forest elephant which is native to west africa and the congo basin is now critically endangered one step away from extinction numbers of foreign by almost 90 percent in the last 3 decades and the savannah

infant which has habitats across sub-saharan africa has lost 60 percent of its population in the last 50 years international union for conservation of nature is red list of threatened animal and plant species shows more than 37000 and are in danger of extinction that's doubled in just a decade but the organization says it is possible to reverse the decline and several african countries are leading the way and a keytar is co-chair of the african elephant specialist group the international union the conservation of nature he says elephants are facing a twin threat. the human activities are become. one of those silent killer us event was them watching in terms of from entering habitants or the sunday mornings in terms of making them smaller and in terms of making them not available as much as some of them might be suitable you know it as much as you can then they're not available because either the fermented. small insights yes are too

many reasons. or there i've written and also the happy tips if we can all rallied behind the 2 groups and meshes that stomp out coaching better plan while on. our land uses you know a that allows. for the needs kept us with the needs of these animals. was was. a man of the top stories when i was there is president joe biden has held his 1st news conference 64 days after taking office he set a new coronavirus vaccine goal of 200000000 shots within his fast $100.00 days taking questions for around an hour biden said he intends to run for reelection in 20.