this is the news live from united states passes 500000 coronavirus to. remember to each person we've lost some lives they lived and loved ones are left behind. candles like the white house as president biden leads a nation in mourning but he won't these months of suffering are still. also coming on israel reopens its economy with extra freedoms for the already vaccinated should the so-called green puffs feel awestruck to normal life or is it discrimination.

western powers to step up the pressure on the air miles general sas protests grow against the military coup can the toughest sanctions ward off the rising threat of violence. i'm gad alpha's it's good to have you with us the united states has marked another somber milestone in its fight against the coronavirus the country's covert 1000 deaths related to crossed the threshold of 500000 on monday just over a year after the pandemic claimed its 1st known victim in the u.s. president joe biden led the nation in honoring the dead. today we mark a truly grim heartbreaking milestone. 500000 71. dead. that's more

americans who died in one year it was pandemic. than a war one. war 2 in the vietnam war combined. as more lives lost this virus than any other nation on earth but as we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in america remember each person in the life they lived together has been a shift on the miles has more from washington. 500000 death by covert 9000 in the united states the washington post titled the number almost too large to aggress. president joe biden try to get through to the american public with his white house memorial ceremony and make sure that everybody understands that this is not just

a number that 500000 lives were lost here that also means that all their relatives families loved ones are still suffering mourning and there's more suffering in the united states because of covert 19 economically martellus tickly millions are still without work millions are still trying to get enough money every month to pay their rent and feed their children. in britain prime minister john snow has unveiled a road maps to ease the coronavirus lockdown in england he calls his plan a cautious but irreversible past back to normality infections and deaths have been declining in england helped by a rapid fascination rose more than a quarter of the u.k.'s population have received a 1st dose. pupils across england just still learning is home but in just 2 weeks they'll return to the classroom opening schools is the 1st step in boris johnson plan to successfully ease looked on measures every 5 weeks. there is

therefore no credible route to a 0 code britain or indeed a 0. word and we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy our physical and mental well being and the life chances of our children allowing people to socialize again is the priority with restrictions on outdoor gatherings relaxing just before easter next on the list is reopening non-essential businesses by the end of april followed by pubs and restaurants by mid may all limits on socialising could then be lifted by the end of june everything stop that there's an awful lot of people that need to pay their rent feed their kids so i would like to see things i put up quicker but i think if we did a long time now i know it's not 90 to long now i mean potentially some stuff would have just. that something johnson wants to avoid

with hopes of a complete end to lock downs pinned on the vaccine rollout the biotech pfizer and oxford astra zeneca jobs have so far offered strong protection the prime minister says the plan will be adapted if infection numbers rise but also insists that measures must be eased soon. we can't escape the fact that lifting lockdown will result in more cases more hospitalizations and sadly more deaths and this would happen whenever lockdown is lifted whether now or in 6 or 9 months because there will always be some vulnerable people who are not protected by the bat. the government is investigating a controversial proposal to introduce covert status certificates that's despite ministers repeatedly denying they would consider the use of these vaccine passports

fearing they could be discriminatory a report of the review is expected to be published before june. israel's vaccination campaign has also been surging ahead with more than 80 percent of the population now that least one shot. the country to start reopening after 2 months locked up as a sign that many shops and services are back in business but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with the so-called green pass to. fan since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christen only those who hold a green pass the paris issued by israel's history of hers that is given only to vaccinated people or those recovered from course at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone is vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels

like and apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday israel for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for you but gyms close cultural and sports events will be made accessible to create pass holders of over 4000000 people have received at least the 1st try and take pfizer's israel is one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions often emitting personal liberties as there is someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy

a cultural life you will enjoy spalt you will in joe you know going to the gym but . this time only a temporary base on the shoulder we will let only people being vaccinated all be covered for 2 of the green pins it remains unclear where the international travel could also billing to the green pass for now is spent googly on app poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group or film term friends and 2 recent every age between 80 $4.95 they had to play their favorite chinese board game a zone online for the past year after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's

ok and remained pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st cautious step back to some kind of normality. times over look now at some of the other stories making headlines this hour canada's parliament has passed a no non-binding motion saying that china's treatment of we're muslims in this in young amounts to genocide from mr justin trudeau and his cabinet abstained from china has rejected. so it is in the democratic republic of congo of blame to london hutu rebels for the killing of italy's ambassador the envoy was one of 3 people killed when a convoy from the world food program came under fire the president of the d r c has called the bush a terrorist attack. $100.00 boeing triple 7 planes have been

grounded worldwide for inspections after a jet engine code file over the us city of denver at the weekend large sections of the engine broke off and fell on residential neighborhood it's understood the issue involves a relatively small number of the triple servants in service. facebook says it will lift the ban on australian news pages in the in the coming days after reaching a compromise with government of a paying for media content chandra agreed to make changes to a law and not penalize facebook if the company reaches some deals with local media . the military regime in myanmar is facing growing pressure both at home and abroad 3 weeks off and seized the european union has warned that is it is considering sanctions and the u.s. has been a loss to more jumbles protests continue to swell and modest sponsor sorties

threats to use force against the problems at least 3 protesters have been killed in the regime insists that police are using minimal force. for a day the military is warning that protesters put suffer loss of life seems to encourage more protests. certainly with the turnout that happened yesterday you saw that they were backing down but clearly the demonstrators are taking this seriously i mean a lot of demonstrated yesterday they wrote their blood types in the cockpit information for the next of kin on there are i mean the movement to demonstrate against this military coup is incredibly powerful the numbers that we saw yesterday the work stoppage that we saw were in so many communities commercial activity basically so many communities came to a halt practically and the number of government workers who refused to work yesterday progress a lot of misery for a sense to close down at the same time though everyone there is keenly aware that

this is a military coup in the past has gunned down massive numbers of protesters such as in 19882007 among others the question now is where's the line where the military would cross and potentially go that route again but the u.s. has as penalized an additional 2 generals and the e.u. is considering sanctions on businesses owned by the military do you think that will help to force army generals to rethink their absence and. i mean that's a pressure point but in the end it's not going to get the generals to give up on the coup and just go back to their barracks it's not going to do that but you really need to get on board or asian countries that have some influence over the military such as china southeast asian nations and while these countries have said you know don't gun down the protesters release aung san suu kyi none of those countries have shown any appetite to pressure the generals to reverse the coup and that's where you would really need to see that happen. council special tried

privileges. free access to the. what's. so this trade preference that gives industries such as the textile industry tariff free access to be used 450000000 consumers i mean it's led to tens of thousands of jobs and many of them are filled by people who come from villages they come to the cities to work in these in the outskirts of the cities in these textile making plants and they send most of their income back home to their families you take those jobs away which is what would happen if you cancel these trade preferences and those jobs are gone and it's not the generals who are millionaires who get punished it's the common working people who make subsistence level salaries practically and they'd be the ones who is punished and the reason for taking this route is from lessons learned from sanctions in the past when you had widespread sanctions from the u.s. and europe and it punished the common people but it did nothing to really impact

the salaries of the generals. sure thing. before we go we have got some new images of last week's models landing to show you take a look at. this was the view as nasa was a monster over perseverance touched down on the red planet surface after traveling nearly 500000000 kilometers well but will look for signs of life on lost that's does not take in that spectacular landing. signal from m.r.o. . they go dr. kind of. ironic. to begin picking up. it was if you don't hear news here is a reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s. president joe biden has led americans in observing a moment of silence after the country's coronavirus death toll cost 500000 people

biden urged americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic together. that's it from me and the news team the front also has of us kind of a loud update for you in 45 minutes don't go away coming up now i don't feel if you very much for watching i'm going to say. in mexico many push old lines on so i know the world climate change is very harmful story this is my plan same way from just one week. we're going to really get. we still have time to act i'm going. through this. process.