al-jazeera kept on. top a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency with the coronavirus pandemic at the request of the country's embattled prime minister located in yasin says additional powers are needed to stop a surge in covert 19 cases critics though say it's an attempt by an unstable government to cling to power outages here as far as mary has more now from the capital kuala lumpur and we hadn't governed by a very very thin majority in parliament so there will be some up and there will be some politicians who see this request for a state of emergency to be declared and this has now been given that the king has now given consent to this request by the prime minister as an attempt by the prime minister to thwart a leadership challenge and i think you'll also find that civil society organizations and activists will be even more alarmed at the fact that parliament and state legislative assemblies will not be sitting during this time. u.s. house democrats introduced a resolution jump each president donald trump for inciting violence on capitol hill l

al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with the top stories here on al-jazeera malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic at the request of the country's embattled prime minister look at any yassin says additional powers are needed to stop a surge in corona virus cases out there as florence new is in the capital of kuala lumpur she says the prime minister's opponents see the move as an attempt to silence calls for a stop election. a general election is not due to be held in malaysia until 2023 and i suspect the general public will be quite relieved that an election is not going to be held while the number of cases keep going up the 3rd wave of coronavirus infections in the country started after a local election was held in sabah in late september but there is one party that wants elections to be held and that is the main or the biggest party in the ruling alliance a party known as m no that's the united malays national organization now it's politicians believe that they're being sidelined by them we had an administration they threaten to leave the ruling a

al-jazeera kept on. top a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency with a coronavirus pandemic at the request of the country's embattled prime minister mackinnon yassin says additional power.

to designate the who these as terrorists and there may be a change once he's in office and al jazeera. malaysia's polman has been suspended after its king declared a state of emergency at the request of the prime minister who's facing a leadership challenge but he didn't yes in says additional powers a needed to stop a surge in coronavirus cases the country is reporting on average more than 2400 new cases each day well sean smith joins us live now from kuala import from inside the malaysian king has declared this state of emergency what does actually mean for the country. well this declaration of a state of emergency by the malaysian king also tom delay has come as a bit of a surprise to people in general the prime minister married and yes in her last october a request to the king declared state of emergency but that request was rejected since then the number of coroner virus cases in the country has more than polled and the king described the situation as critical the prime minister also said on monday when he announced tighter restrictions for several areas in the country that the health care s

lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia. or just days after saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt agreed to restore full diplomatic relations of qatar for minister sheikh mohammed bin number of parties spoke with al-jazeera about what they agreed to chairing a gulf summit in the saudi city of. the basic principles mentioned in the final communique of the same clear basics of non-prejudiced of the sovereignty of any state noninterference of the internal affairs of any country the joint cooperation to confront what threatens our national regional security and the cooperation in combat in terrorism and terrorist entities we believe that these basic principles are the same principles agreed upon by all countries now collective action between us and these countries must be intensified in order to bridge the gap that has happened in the past it is also important to have a future view of how to build a future relations between us and these countries china has defended delays in allowing an international team of exp

al-jazeera atlanta. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter elsewhere. and all forty's in argentina are all threatening tougher coronavirus restrictions as they struggle to vaccinate the population and infections surge to stay with us here on our just. it's time for the perfect jenny the winter sponsored plan qatar airways it's pretty cold in most of europe now temperatures well below freezing still clouds circulating causing falls out of the clouds likely to be snow and it certainly shown itself a huge amount of snow fell in italy but this is the line to follow now this is active weather couldn't back for eastern europe and then fading away so this is the pictures we see and. there will be snow falling in parts of rumania ukraine and particularly better roofs and they see rain here this rain certainly on the warmer side as you can see and that's affecting montenegro greece and back into parts of spain we'll come to that in a 2nd still a cold northerly breeze blowing through the british isles outbreaks of snow there vilnius is a case i

lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia. in the us more than 130000 coronavirus patients are now in hospital more than at any time since the pandemic began the country recorded its worst daily death toll on tuesday with nearly 3800 fatalities critics say people aren't being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the government. with the e.u. as a preview service 2nd grade of our us vaccine as it tries to accelerate its inoculation program for more than 440000000 people european medicines authority approved maternity leave it 19 job that consists of 2 shots there's been criticism of a slow roll out across the continent the netherlands only started its vaccination campaign a wednesday it is the last major european country to launch one service and has more now from ups of the. great relief at the university medical center in amsterdam and the 1st i.c.u. nurse caught up pfizer by an tech shot thousands of doses of the vaccine had been stored in the south of the country for many only 2 weeks with the hospital

al-jazeera mexico city. malaysia is imposing another 2 week lockdown after infections reached $3000.00 a day restrictions will apply to kuala lumpur and 5 of the country's 16 regions travel between all states will be banned sectors deemed essential including construction and manufacturing can continue to operate but under strict regulations well as he is planning to start a vaccination program next month facebook has shut down accounts belonging to the ugandan government officials days before the presidential election that the us social media giant says that fake accounts including those from the ministry of information being used to manipulate public debates ahead of thursday's votes election pits longtime leader 70 against 10 candidates including the pop star turned politician bobby why. the 1st commercial flight between qatar and saudi arabia in more than 3 years has landed in riyadh last week saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt agreed to restore ties with casa after a blockade that began in 2017. it is good

al-jazeera. parts of malaysia have reentered a 2 week partial lockdown after the prime minister declared the health system is nearing breaking point nonessential shops are closed in the capital kuala lumpur and 5 of the worst hit state the king declared a state of emergency suspending parliament on tuesday as after malaysia recorded almost 4000 new cases in a single day the u.k. meanwhile has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began 1564 people died from covered 1000 over the past 24 hours and another 47000 new cases were confirmed prime minister boris johnson told parliament the government is hoping to inoculate 15000000 people by mid february he also said the current restrictions are beginning to slow the spread of the disease but we're now seeing and it's very very important. to stress that these are early days we're now seeing the beginnings of some signs that that is going to have an effect in many parts of the country but by no means everyone and it is early days mr speaker and people must keep the discipline keeping forcing the rules and work together as i s

february annual appearance of the severity varies from year to year florence li al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia. greece's powerful orthodox church has violated krone virus restrictions and open places of worship to mark appear finney worshipers attended services for the christian holy day which were limited to 50 people prime minister could cause mr darcus had called on church authorities to set an example police were present but said they wouldn't interfere with the brethren in the room we should not mess with our faith greeks a very faithful christians we cannot prohibit them from going to pray and to carry out they teach to christ in the virgin who we believe in and is done on this day just as we have the restrictions at christmas and new years we could have done the same today without it becoming such a big issue. of 0.0 raman a reminder of our top stories members of us congress have reconvened to finish certifying joe biden's election when hours after a crowd stormed the capitol building the senate's rejected an objection to counting pennsylvania for joe biden the house of representatives

lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia rapid organization is driving up the demand for sound in bangladesh that's starting livelihoods and ruining river beds uncontrolled and often illegal extraction is also putting surrounding farm lands at risk further charges spoke to farmers in north central bangladesh. right michael can say is the german army very used to floor through where she is now standing and she and her family could farm here before but now it's full of illegally extracted sand her husband now drives a rickshaw card to make a living and their struggle to support their family of 6 bottles that they illegally took away all the sand from the riverbed using trucks after dredging and creating a sinkhole which makes the river and stable all this is now destroying our homes and farms in the area. they extract and sand is also used to fill in wetlands that people then lead plane to uncontrolled and mostly illegal sand extraction from river beds for construction and land fillings are killing rivers and farmlands across bangladesh rock gold as the sand lifters call it

al jazeera. then questions about the timing of a sweeping coronavirus state of emergency declaration in malaysia. we will tell you more. plus, an arrest warrant linked with the august explosion in lebanon that killed more than 200 people. >> it's time for the perfect journey. the weather -- sponsored by qatar airways. >> i'm pleased to say we have an improvement in the weather in japan. say goodbye to the snow for the time being. little bit of clouds, snow pulling out into the open waters. you can see the clouds across northern parts of peng shuai and into al qaeda. -- hokeida. as the winds push off in a more southwesterly direction, warmer direction, we will gradually see temperatures picking up. 40 celsius in tokyo. further west, we will find it dry. dry weather stretches across indochina, but we've got some heavy showers into central parts of the philippines. plenty of showers across malaysia, pushing towards borneo. hopefully a little dryer just around the malay peninsula. dry across central and northern parts of india, but for southern areas of india, we've got some rather heavy rains in the

possibly earlier if the number of krona virus cases in malaysia start to drop ok i think the story there live from kuala lumpur. still ahead on al jazeera search and rescue teams find more human remains in the java scene from the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board. out of school and out begging to survive a dicey to a ship of children in mali during the crowd of ours pandemic. hello there it's a title of 2 seasons across europe at the moment we still have that wintry weather across spain and portugal but it's been rather well some alike on the other side of the mediterranean this is where we still have some warm and winds coming in from a southerly direction across at least the side of the mediterranean athens getting up to around $22.00 celsius some parts of grace running around to $10.00 to $15.00 degrees above the seasonal average wore when off for people to hit the beach which you believe for a little dip in the mediterranean some lovely weather going on here we go through the next couple of days yes it will cool down a touch and we will see some a cool and west the weather coming through maybe it's a little bit li

heavy showers too continuing across a good part of malaysia with the possibility of further flooding around sumatra but she's. still ahead on al-jazeera there was a year ago when the 1st covered cases were reported from china a year later some victims are still feeling side effects china expresses outrage at the u.s. decision to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei. and the p.g.a. delivers a major blow to the golf about going u.s. president don trump details coming up in sport. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit you off trashing you know the next not insignificant in the numbers that insignificant ideologically that is significant even as a crime against the very significant by dictating the government and the fact of policy. shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground t

al-jazeera. thank you for having me back still ahead on the news hour the rapid spread of covert 1000 infection sends malaysia answer another coronavirus long time. air routes reopen as qatar and saudi arabia seeks prepared to speak behind them and in sports trapeze world governing body is facing claims that it's the sport may be bad for your health. it's time for the perfect. sponsored player qatar airways. the weather slushy set fire across the middle east at the moment very little cloud to speak of so business as usual we have got quite a brisk wind around the gulf temperatures here in doha to around 20 to 23 degrees celsius and pleasant temperatures across that ace's side of the mediterranean some of obviously are actually getting up to around 22 and by rote as we go through it shews day come wednesday the winds will start to pick up an area cloud of rain moving across to keep turning increasingly breezy 2nd half of the way doesn't like it could turn or rather wet just around the levant as a result of that for the middle a sin general leavitt does look fine and dry plenty of hazy sunshine which stretches