his off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion listerine own out is there a. the conservative former banker looks set to become ecuador's new president is left with rival concedes defeats in a running. around the clock this is out 0 live from doha also coming up iran says it's an act of terrorism a power blackout of its main nuclear facility. india now has the 2nd worst rate of corona virus infections in the world pilgrims gathering for

a religious group of festival threaten to make matters even worse. and covered in ash $20000.00 people could be displaced months in the caribbean island of st vincent a volcano continues to erupt. so people in a could all have rejected the leftist revolutionary chosen conservative bank aquarium or last out to be the next president with most of the runoff ballots counted took nearly 53 percent of the runoff vote economists on his out who's admitted defeats with 47 percent of electors voting for him a latin america tellus in human as this report. 3rd time lucky after losing 2 previous presidential election bids 65 year old ecuadorian banker and businessman yet one last look set to govern his troubled country yes thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to be your president so i can serve you

. facing the worst economic crisis in recent memory at the door into preferred to choose the conservative last or rather than swing back to the left. to former president rafael correa as citizens for evolution represented by his protege and s. at ouse. national campaign tirelessly underscoring his middle class roots national. conciliation and his promise to eradicate corruption. that despite having so many natural resources we are in this crisis because instead of working with honesty to solve your problems many public servants did it kate themselves to fighting amongst themselves and using public office to enrich themselves was the 1st national team less than 20 percent of votes in the 1st round owns his unexpectedly comfortable victory more to ecuadorans misgivings about returning to what many saw as an authoritarian political party. that the

career years were characterized by violations of human rights ecuador was one of the most authoritarian versions of so-called socialism of the 21st century there was persecution of journalists opponents and even unsolved murders of people who denounced corruption the challenges for the president and the country are enormous unemployment is at the top of the list the oil rich countries of qana me has suffered from a steep fall in oil prices and the pandemic has only made things worse it happened what a lot i believe in democracy of course in ecuador and i believe all of us ecuadorians know how to elect a new president to get out of the crisis our country is in and the lack of employment that exists throughout because of the president make. the country faces another difficult problem it's steep foreign debt lasso says he hopes to maintain

good relations with the i.m.f. but has not specified if you will continue implementing highly unpopular belt tightening measures that ecuador agreed to in exchange for a $6500000000.00 loan. was so much at stake the new president will have to move quickly to convince ecuadorans that they made the right choice to see in human al-jazeera. polls have closed in peru for the 1st round of its presidential election the corona virus pandemic has overshadowed the vote tens of thousands have died in there have been more than 1600000 cases 18 candidates running. now a power blackout of iran's main nuclear facility has been described as an act of terrorism it's happened a day after iran unveiled advance uranium centrifuges at the site and as it struggles with the u.s. to revive the 2015 u. clear deal more about mali as a. nuclear terrorism is how an iranian official described

a power blackout at its natanz nuclear enrichment facility but it stopped short of blaming any group or country sundays cutting the electrical supply grid cause no casualties or contamination. see a terrorist the terrorist incident in the tunnels following the incident and the tons nuclear facility this morning the head of the atomic energy department called it a terrorist move and emphasize on the necessity of response by international bodies and i say to this act of nuclear terrorism. israeli media claimed it was caused by a cyber attack launched by israeli security services although it quoted on identified sources some media outlets have a close relationship with intelligence agencies iran is now urging the international atomic energy agency to take action saying it reserves the right to punish the perpetrators the development comes at an important time as iran prepares

to step back to the negotiating table in vienna. talks about iran's nuclear agreement started there last week with indirect talks with the united states. president joe biden says he's willing to rescue a deal abandoned 3 years ago by his predecessor donald trump that is if iran comes into compliance with the deal in my view without a doubt this is definitely not a coincidence and one thing you need to remember well it is. israel is the usual suspect in these events over the last few years one must be mindful there there are many opponents in many different corners to the resumption of their joint comprehensive plan of action not the least of which is from within iran itself tapper on has been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal since the us pulled out the blackout happened a day after iran unveiled

a fancy rein him centrifuges at the facility but iran had previously made clear the negotiations in vienna are on the right track nor about the money al jazeera. india now has the 2nd worst rate of corona virus infections in the world it's reported nearly 169000 new cases to move past brazil health officials are keeping a afford a super vaccine dr can turn around the surgeon numbers in a religious festival that's causing concern with thousands gathering of a pilgrim site officials say the size of the crowds makes and for some social distancing rules nearly impossible as you can see let's speak to a correspondent for the way elizabeth purana joins us live now from new delhi so we'll come on to the religious festival in a 2nd tell us more about the overall picture in the country for.

school for the past 6 days now india has been reporting its highest ever number of coronavirus cases more than 100000 cases every single day about a week ago the government sent a medical teams to the worst affected state and also to the states of punjab and check this go to see why the situation was the worst of maharashtra and also why the death rate was so high in punjab and the medical teams have reported back saying that it's because of the very high levels of crowding in maharashtra because appropriate behavior isn't being followed anywhere and a concerning situation in maharashtra which doesn't have enough health care workers to deal with the current caseload where they don't have enough hospital beds and in these states where they don't have enough ventilators and in some cases ventilators malfunctioning we have maharashtra looking which is the country's 2nd most populous state the wealthiest state and home to the financial capital by now considering a complete lockdown saying it complete lockdown as

a likely from wednesday and over the past few days we have started to see pictures of migrant workers india has a very large number of people. work in different states to where they're from starting to leave mumbai and leave because they've either lost jobs already or afraid they're going to lose work and they're afraid that public transport will close as it did last year we have nice curfews in place in many cities delhi announced new restrictions on sunday delhi's chief minister is asking prime minister modi again to remove the age limit for vaccinations which is currently 45 to allow any adult who wants to be vaccinated to do so amid a 2nd wave with cases arising much more rapidly than the 1st botched many states are complaining of vaccine shortages and the indian government has on sunday banned the export of the antiviral drug deaths of a half because of demand skyrocketing and dhea it's used to treat corona virus even

though the world health organization has recommended against its use saying that it doesn't lead to better survival chances nonetheless many countries including india continue to use it its demand has gone up and now india has banned the export offer him disappear right you have all of them we see these pictures of huge numbers of people the religious festival. that is what we're seeing large crowds of people gathering along the ganges in the town of how did. they taking a death as is customary this festival the comit began 3 months ago with the event organizers and police saying that they had deployed thousands of officers to ensure that people follow the 19 protocols that we can see that that's not happening most people aren't wearing masks police have said that it's not possible to ensure social distancing and this isn't the only large gathering that's been going on and

the past few months on monday we have prime minister that ended morty and home minister on the shop attending 3. political rallies in the state of west bengal where there were always be large crowds where elections are taking place and all of the political parties in the 5 states where there are currently elections taking place have been holding such large gatherings for the past few months and continue to do so all right liz thanks for that in their reporting from new delhi china's top disease control official says likely produce vaccines aren't highly effective it is a rare admission by the center for disease control china has produced 4 different cavan 1000 jobs and has shipped millions of them abroad health officials are reviewing their vaccine strategy and considering mixing different brands one study found the sign of a job has a success rate of just above 50 percent and the maker of side of ak is recommending

longer intervals between the 2 doses to increase the japs effectiveness and spokesman admits the vaccine could work better in some countries than others. the protection rate of the vaccine is affected by many factors such as the intensity of the local outbreak the vaccine immunization program different virus strains the criteria for determining a case the age range of patients under observation and so on this is one of the reasons for the different protection rate of sign of covert 1000 vaccine in a different country. let's say now from katrina you has who has more from beijing. it's not just a senior health official this is the head of china's center for disease control gulf or who made these comments now on sunday he tried to walk these back somewhat giving an interview to the chinese state media tabloid global times saying that his comments were misinterpreted he didn't mean to say that they gave lower protection because chinese vaccines he said still do provide protection against serious

illness and death but what he meant to say he says on saturday during this conference on corbett given mainly to doctors was that chinese that scenes are clearly not as effective as other vaccine brands namely that seems using a technology now this is for example used by pfizer which has an efficacy rate of about 90 percent and in comparison chinese that seems the top to sign a vaccine sign of have at the casino rates of 50 percent and the other 175 to 79 percent so chinese officials he said have a lot of work to do in figuring out how to improve the efficacy rate but there has been a lot of criticism about china's rollout of these vaccines because of the 3 available currently here in china they have not released their phase 3 dosser in terms of the efficacy rates to the public which many have criticized around the world. there are warnings that the volcanic eruption on the caribbean island miss vincent could leave 20000 people displaced for months the loss of free

a volcano 1st erupted on friday it's expected to continue for weeks the government says most crops and livestock will be destroyed the actual moffitt is a volunteer helping to collect and distribute relief aid in sveinson she says the scale of the operation is just overwhelming the shelter are in need of water food. basic living supply toiletries and so on many people had to leave without properly preparing so we're trying to. the lesson that impact right now we have received in from the those i think yesterday sorry these have just been a bit fuzzy for me but i think it was yesterday that the course the gad would have come up for with. some material some supplies for us so the national emergency management all the i's asian they'd be assisting in ensuring that the

shelter have supplies for the next couple days but we do have and telecom so we're hoping that that stays for well we're unsure how long this may last having visited some shelter. you know people are concerned the bow not having anywhere to go back to the north of the island is covered in ash livestock lands the videos do pictures coming out of the north of the island is it's. there is no better word to describe it it's just. still ahead here in our desire they make up a 3rd of the population but they're not being vaccinated why refugees and migrants in lebanon being left behind. and teenagers on the front line of conflict in

northern ireland the older generation being blamed for reigniting the drill. or whether sloshy set fire across the middle east lots of sunshine across the arabian peninsula bits and pieces a fair weather cloud nothing too much to speak of the clouds that we did have further north that will still produce a few wintry flurries but it isn't improving pitcher so we'll see temperatures noncredit around 4 celsius into the mid scenes around the levant they said which is will pick up as we go through choose day as wintry showers feeding their way out across eastern parts of maybe georgia catching a shower or say you want to see showers to just around tech menace down northern parts of afghanistan but elsewhere it is pretty much water will sunshine that sunshine stretches down across the whole of africa somalia largely dry and finally

a few showers around the therapy in highlands somewhat of weather just coming into southern parts of ethiopia through the rift valley as well will see some big showers southern parts of kenya could catch a shower or to tanzania with a chance of seeing some wet weather in the showers across the central parts all the way up towards the gulf of guinea those showers to extend down across the northern parts of a zombie as zimbabwe could catch one of 2 showers in the north of the country where the neighbors of mozambique or so when to madagascar but to the south of that glorious sunshine too over the next few days. the plates are larger than life but the world is. sumo wrestling is shrouded in secrecy want to when east gets rare access inside a sport where ancient tradition meets modern scandal on al-jazeera.

be the hero the world needs right around. washington. to. be a anyway a. again you're watching out 0 her mind abroad top stories this hour and conservative bank going to weigh my last hour has declared himself a new president elect after putting nearly 53 percent of the runoff vote economists on today's out whose admitted defeat with 47 percent to $35.00 and. a power blackout of the runs may nuclear facility has been described as an act of terrorism

the israeli media quoting unidentified sources claim it was a cyber attack carried out by israel's intelligence services. china's top disease control official says the locally produced vaccines and effective center for disease control made the rare enough to one study found inside if i had a success rate of just above 50 percent. lebanon's health ministry is coming under fire for not vaccinating many refugees human rights groups say syrians and palestinians are being left out but ministers point out that it's not that simple isn't harder now or. isolation is seen as a privilege for palestinian and syrian refugees in lebanon who have died from coronavirus at a higher rate than the national average along with migrant workers they make up 30 percent of a nation of 6000000 people they are included in the national vaccination campaign that is supposed to give equal priority to all but many refugees don't seem to be aware of their rights mad age and nobody came and mentioned anything but if people

truly take it. government data shows only 3 percent of those vaccinated so far are non lebanese human rights groups blame this on hesitancy little information on how to register and the government deviating from the national plan the distribution by private sector has meant that they don't have to follow the us priorities or categories so you have on the one hand. people who are politically connected or work for organizations or couldn't buy the vaccine have access to it and then people like migrant workers and refugees who depend on the national. who aren't getting vaccinated and now health officials say the private sector is helping and you're bankrupt state and limited supplies are the reason why only 2 percent of the adult population has so far been fully vaccinated no one is a prevent you from registering because you are

a syrian or if you know it or whatever if you are just. to get the vaccine one of the prior to go no one is the prize and you are from having an appointment but for the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers registering can prove to be an issue they don't have enough accurate and reliable information on the different vaccines the side effects or any other information related to their illegal status given that i don't know are undocumented and nothing has yet been communicated publicly to give them guarantees that they will not be deported or arrested and they are not protected by the law the authorities long accused of corruption and nepotism enjoy little trust many question how they are distributing the vaccines for example a donation of 100000 doses is being given out by the priority groups there is concerned migrant workers and refugees the vulnerable will get their turn if the criteria established is not followed. beirut. rescuers are trying to reach

21 coal miners talk hundreds of meters below ground in china they became trapped after the mine flooded in the northern provinces on saturday and each of them had been pulled out alive the rest a trapped in 3 different areas of the mine and it's not clear what condition the workers in. counting is underway and been in the presidential election an incumbent president. is being challenged by 2 candidates but voted turnout is low even though the president predicted to win nobody expected him to be on the ballot and started interest reports from the country's largest city of cotton. when patrice to learn became binion's leading to 16 he said he would remain in office only for wanted. but 5 years later he years voting for his 2nd presidential term after he voted to long dismissed the recent protests that broke out in parts of the country . it looks like we'll get

a lot of just your security forces dealt with the problem with tact the trouble makers were young men and were unfortunately objects of manipulation our security forces overcame a situation calmly by this time tomorrow the healing process begins and will make sure such a situation never arises again. i heard of sunday's vote security forces were deployed in large numbers to maintain order nearly 5000000 people have registered to vote in the election in 29000 less than a quarter of the voting population participated in the parliamentary election that was won by the governing party in very poorly stations like this only a handful of voters turned up to cast their ballots other stuff stayed away because of concerns about recent attacks now we lecture fischer's admit that the protests have disrupted the supply of election materials in the mainly opposition stronghold of the north. a week an opposition has accused the government of harassing and intimidating its waters one of the candidates threatened to pull out of the race 2

days before the election citing continuing harassment and intimidation of the opposition by the government. there is ample. it is interesting for all the parties taking part in this election that the participation rate exceeds at least 70 percent elections are held so that citizens can choose to choose means to vote to vote means to choose who is interested with the future of this country for the next 5 years i hope that victory will be on our side because it is a sanction vote that i invite with the economy slowing down many voters have high expectations of course ever wins. i want to see the elected president provide jobs and improve security as it is it's too dangerous to go out at night. tension is still high is a part of believes and election observers according for com. to appeal is. meant.

to ensure that. the playing field is level. continue to give opportunity to everybody to participate results are expected within 48 hours if you expect this vote to go into a 2nd round which means the president alone would likely secure a 2nd 5 year mandate that could strengthen his grip on power. al-jazeera go to the voters in calgary start of supported greater power to the presidency the changes from the constitutional referendum allow presidents had a jeopardy of to appoint judges that shrinks the country's parliament while allowing him to run again critics say the referendum is jap rovs attempt to impose a more authoritarian form of rule preliminary results show 80 percent support the changes although only around 30 percent of people think. ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed by russian backed separatists in the country's east it's

a latest incident as tensions mount along the border with verbal threats this week from both nations u.s. sector state and steve lincoln has called for russia to deescalate ukrainian soldiers have been fighting separatists in the region since 2014 when russia annexed crimea. violence in northern ireland has eased after a week of the worst rioting seen there in decades frank said and claims that some groups broken coronavirus restrictions sparked the anger from procrit is unionists and as andrew simmons reports from belfast it's teenagers who are on the front life . it's a new generation engaged in the sort of confrontation that belongs in the last century their teenagers many of them encouraged to take part in the unrest by their elders the late 1960 s. the start of 3 decades of conflict that's happening here now isn't remotely like that but it's provocation and confrontation nevertheless and it's legal youngsters

not old enough to vote in many cases goaded on by adults that has shocked people. well i blame the parents i mean i'm here with my son who i feel to be you know in the streets. out of being horrified that the politicians here have to really unite and come together and condemn it and look for peaceful ways forward for you know the young people for the people who don't think they're being listened to at the moment in this process these are the grounds of stormont castle the seat of a devolve power sharing government created by the good friday peace agreement signed 23 years ago hannah irwin was born just before that now she's leading the youth wing of the alliance party which covers the middle ground in northern ireland politics parents don't feel they have the ability to it's to stop their kids going right there because the kids are being drawn out by by community leaders by people

here care stoking violence and stoking fears they're being joined by them. parents can't really speak out against those darker forces they can't stop their kids going i'd because they know if they're seen to go against community leaders in that way they could face attacks themselves they could face threats they could face anything there's deprivation in both the loyalist and nationalist community says of northern ireland those who wants a united ireland and the loyalist areas where there is anger about a border in the r.e.c. imposed by a brics deal in many areas like this surrounded by echoes of the past it almost feels as if time stands still difficult then for young people to avoid the bad influences within this youth leader has no doubt that many of the young people are under the firm grip of power by the trees children should be encouraged to take to the streets this kind of balance. the child to be sets for the social services to

consider in relation to this and even when we think about the sinister forces that are behind some of these young people taking to the streets on the element of their plan that could be considered child abuse. stephen and others like him have an uphill battle on their hands andrew simmons al-jazeera belfast. a black u.s. army left hand into suing 2 police officers for pointing their guns and pepper spraying him at a traffic stop late last year. here out now i did oh. it's pretty camera video shows me tend to count on being forced out of his car repeatedly pepper sprayed police say he was stopped for failing to display license plates it's a temporary one is visible in the footage and then later then arrested but later released without charge. they knew they were in the wrong and then they threatened to destroy a man's career if he called. after seeing what i've seen on the body count.

it's kind of hard to justify having them serving it protect anything. they learn house of france's parliament has approved a controversial ban on short haul domestic flights in an effort to reduce carbon emissions if passed the law would force airlines to cut all routes that can be covered by train in under 2 and a half hours it's part of a broader climate bill that aims to cut emissions in france by 40 percent by 2030. this is our desire these are the top stories and a conservative banker has declared himself ecuador's new president elect after winning nearly 53 percent of the runoff vote economists and the result is has conceded defeat with 47 percent a latin america editor in human as well. he's going to change the tone of his campaign.