century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al jazeera chicago. recapping your top stories here on al-jazeera the police in myanmar have filed charges against the ousted leader aung sun suu kyi seeking to detain her for 2 weeks for breaching an import export law the army took power in a military coup on monday they have been symbolic displays of bangor against the military coup in me and ma in the past few hours people went onto the streets of young gone to bang pots and pans in a show of defiance the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs scheme says is on track to supply 2300000000 doses by the end of the year today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke it 19 vaccines to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and nova facts unicef along with our procurement partners including power hope will have access to up to $1100000000.00 doses of

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. and this is al jazeera these are the top stories the united states has not recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden as commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we lost were extraordinary they spanned generations born in america emigrated to america but just like that so many of them took their final breath alone in america as a nation we can accept such a cruel fate while we find in this pandemic for so long we have to resist becoming a nun to the sorrow. belzer bring toning 500 times in washington d.c. in memory of those killed during the pandemic it's been a little over a year since america recorded its 1st death from the disease more than 28000000 people have been infected there since then. but his prime minister boris johnson has laid out his plan to lift pandemic restrictions in england schools are due to reopen and 2 people from separate households will be allowed

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. brazil is relaxing its gun ownership rules critics say it could increase in violence but supporters argue they need greater protection of reports from rio de janeiro. inspired in broad daylight and in the middle of the night bullets flying over slums every day violence in rio de janeiro that's filmed by people on the spot and shared by thousands on a where is the shoot out the app was created by physics teacher myself and 3 friends. imus to help people avoid being on the wrong place at the wrong time by informing them what parts of the city dangerous. the president should be able so now to says the best way of reducing crime in brazil is to arm more people. he's just taken measures to make weapons and ammunition more widely available in a country that has one of the world's largest number of homicides. it's a promise he made to his voters but one that has sparked outrage among gun control campaigners they say brazil has weak gun control policies and dismantling them will make violenc

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago mike hanna joins us live now from washington for more on this there's been this declaration of a major emergency for the state of texas what does that mean for people that. well essentially what it means is freeing up a vast amount of federal funds for individuals businesses within texas itself president biden has signed off on this directing the federal emergency management agency to basically move into texas what will happen is that individuals businesses will then have to make a request for funding to either rebuild homes to redevelop businesses that have been affected by this weather outbreak and so it is releasing a huge amount of money within the state but there's a problem here this is essentially a short term fix texas as you heard there has not weatherized its systems for a long period of time and compounding this issue is that texas declares itself to be energy independent it does not want any federal involvement it is the only state in the country that does not rely anyway

the 770 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already bettered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago nearly 8000000 people in the u.s. state of texas a still having issues with water access after a severe winter storm caused widespread damage last week now many have been queuing for hours to get food and water at local churches and shopping malls the storm caused major blackouts and damaged infrastructure nearly 17000 people remain without power. brazil state oil company petro had a $30000000000.00 wiped off its value after its c.e.o. was ousted by president eyeball so narrow the company's shares plunged 22 percent on monday after the government nominated an r.v. general with no oil and gas experience as its new boss. had criticised the firm's market driven pricing policy after truck drivers threatened to strike over the rising cost of fuel. a standoff between the australian government and facebook over the publication of news content looks to be settled the social media firm says it'll restore straightly and news pages in the next few days the decision comes after the government agr

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago iran's top clerical body says there will be no further negotiations with the united states in the 2050 nuclear deal members of the assembly of experts met in tehran to review the agreement sunday's deal between iran of the un's nuclear watchdog is also facing opposition from hardline iranian politicians it allows inspectors to continue monitoring tehran's new caphis facilities for up to 3 months but opponents say it's illegal and want president hassan rouhani to be punished for it facebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in australia at the moment all its trauma news pages are blocked from sharing material on facebook and always use a ban from sharing links to australian news sources the decision comes after the government's agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for australian use content facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strained news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content .

the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. nigerian officials say they're negotiating with an armed gang that kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken on a wednesday is unknown but hundreds of still missing reports now from a. caleb knows he's fortunate to be back home he injured his leg escaping from a group of kidnappers who attacked his boarding school in nigeria's got a district his brother didn't survive he was shot dead by the gunman i see it on the way. but i was sleeping when i heard the kidnappers come into our dormitories they started shooting guns when i saw them i jumped over the fence other students also started running everywhere. nearby yet another family is devastated they're waiting for updates hoping to kidnap son or be found alive. the government should help us find our families our only hope lies but the government. hundreds of students who are sleeping when they are sailing stormed in now empty beds and deserted classrooms are reminded of growing attacks on boarding schools kidnapping

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. the u.s. space agency nasa has released its 1st footage of the perseverance rover landing on the surface of mars it's the 1st time a mars landing has been captured on video the craft was lowered gently into the red planet's surface on thursday by the sky crane lander it's already sent by pictures from the surface and is expect that the start exploring its new home by the end of the month. where perseverance also sent back the 1st ever ordeal recording from mars so this for the 1st time is what it sounds like on the red planet. now the top stories on al-jazeera more than half a 1000000 people have been killed by covert 1000 in the us that's the world's highest coronavirus death toll it's also around a 5th of all coronavirus fatalities in the world despite being home to just 4 percent of the earth's population it's been a little over a year since the country recorded its 1st test from the disease war than 28000000 people in the u.s. have been infected since then well chris.

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. no according to its closing all land and sea border crossings from wednesday as it tries to get on top of its credible racin factions the closure will stay in place until the end of march but the government says it won't affect shipping operations and exclude some domestic workers and people employed in the neutral zone the gulf nation barred the entry of non-citizens on saturday while anger over crowded virus restrictions in government has spilled over into violent demonstrations leaving 3 people dead security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in the capital leiber of il and the port genteel. restricted travel in and out of the capital city and expanded curfew houses to try and slow the spread of covert 19 the country is experiencing a 2nd wave of infections and has reported more than 13000 cases of the virus. after months of dinars tanzania's president has admitted that credit i was as a problem in the country john bag of food made the comments after th

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago one from mike hanna is in washington. well it means that there's a significant amount of federal resources that will be apportioned to that particular disaster and the president had signed a disaster declaration earlier in the week however this is declared a major disaster situation that means there's no financial cap on the amount of federal funding and resources that will be apportioned to the people in texas what it means essentially is that the federal government will provide things ranging from loans to rebuild businesses to help individual homeowners restore their property so it's a wide ranging situation but it has to be looked at in the wider context as well because president biden made as part of his campaign the slogan back he's been talking about a 2 trillion dollar national infrastructure plan now this is something that he wants to put into effect this is something that he's already been talking to members of congress about. his vice president of industrial both in supplie

the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. and the freezing temperatures also played a part in a hotel going up in flames in texas the automatic sprinkler system wasn't working because of frozen water pipes in the city of believe the hotel was for walk in see when the fire started with many people staying there because they didn't have power or water in their own homes one guest was treated for minor burns it's not clear what started the blaze. a ferry loaded with passengers in very cold says flip's in indonesia's west kalimantan. officials say they're still checking to make sure all passengers were rescued but been no reports of any deaths high waves are being blamed for the acts of the. u.s. and other wealthy nations accused of hoarding vaccines have promised to put more money into ensuring developing countries obtain those says they you is pledging $1200000000.00 to the vaccine alliance kovacs the u.s. says it will put in $4000000000.00 journal how has the details under pressure from the united nations and the world health

century shot to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al jazeera chicago one of the boss of amazon jeff bezos is stepping down as c.e.o. later this year he will stay on at the company he founded in 194 bt executive chairman and plans to focus on new projects often the strategy many people might not remember but when it was founded amazon dot com was originally an online bookstore in a quarter of a century founder jeff bezos made it the world's biggest retailer putting countless high street brick and mortar stores out of business amazon made shopping faster cheaper and easier the company's success made basis the richest man in the world and the 1st person in history to accrue a net worth of $200000000000.00 in any environment there is always an opportunity to you know and to just rot and to you know reshape the way the industry works i mean certainly amazon is not the 1st nor is it the last innovator who will disrupt the market but you know what's significant about when john basins has done is the magnitude of that disruption you know there are very few mar

the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. one a former u.s. president donald trump's most restrictive immigration policy is a started to be dismantled thousands of asylum seekers have to wait in mexico for their cases to be heard in the u.s. now under the biden administration up to 25 people a day will be allowed to enter the u.s. immigration courts consider the future of iraq in the reports from mexico city on whether the policy change when affect the number of arrivals at the border this is very much on the radar of immigration officials both in the united states as well as here in mexico and we should note that throughout the course of 2020 the lock down from the pandemic saw an overall decline in migration from central america specifically but then something interesting happens in december and we see a spike in the number of migrants coming up toward the united states we're seeing numbers that are higher than even before the pandemic began and we have heard those speculations that this could be in part due to the more re

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. this is all just here are these of the top stories the united states has not recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden has commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we love.

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago the space agency nasa has released the 1st pictures of its perseverance rover landing on the surface of mars it indicates to the port. navigation have kind of that the parachute had deployed and we're seeing significant the celebration it's the 1st time a mars landing has been captured on video it's already sent back pictures from the surface and it's expected to start moving around and exploring its new home by the end of the month. this is all dizzy with these at the top stories the united states has now recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden has commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we lost were extraordinary.

john hendren al-jazeera chicago the u.s. space agency nasa has released the 1st pictures of its perseverance rover landing on the surface of mars applique it indicates she supports. navigation have that the parachute had the flight and we're feeling again the celebration it's the 1st time a mars landing has been captured on video it's already sent back pictures from the surface and it's expected to start moving around and exploring its new home by the end of the month. and this is all it is here with these are the top stories the united states has now recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from covert 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags at half staff and president joe biden has commemorated the victims with a moment of silence the people we lost were extraordinary they span generations born in america emigrated to america but just like that so many of them took their final breath alone in america as a nation we can accept such a cruel fate while we were fighting this pandemic for so long we have to resist becomin

$770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already bettered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. nearly 8000000 people in the u.s. state of texas are still having issues with water access after a severe winter storm caused widespread damage last week but they have been queuing for hours to get water of food at local churches of shopping malls the storm caused major blackouts and damaged infrastructure nearly 70000 people remain without power brazil's state oil company petrobras. $30000000000.00 wiped off its value after its c.e.o. was ousted by president scheibel sonera the company's shares plunged 22 percent of the day after the government dominated an army general with the oil and gas experience as its new boss paulson r.-o. had criticized the firm's market driven pricing policy after truck drivers threatened to strike over the rising cost of fuel. now for the 1st time ever the u.s. space agency has captured the bar's landing of video release the 1st pictures of its perseverance rover the subject of the surface of the red planet ready to search for answers signs of life laura

the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. it's only been on the red planet for a day that nasa is perseverance is already sending back days held color photos and on a mission to collect samples from the switch nasa hopes will one day be analyzed here on earth has. this is the 1st ever color picture from a world more than 54000000 kilometers beyond ours it's one of several sent from perseverance is a raid of cameras this one shows the rover being lowered down by cables to its martian landing spot from the delivery space vehicle. nasa scientists say the rover came through its action packed landing thursday in fine form and happy to say that the rover is doing great and healthy on the surface of mars and continues to be highly highly functional and then just an exhilarating this shot shows one of the rovers heavy duty wheels that it will use to explore the red dust of just 0 crater for signs of extinct ancient life but perseverance won't be making tracks right away 1st engineers will perform system checks update its software an

century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al-jazeera chicago. recapping your top stories here on al-jazeera the police in me and file charges against the ousted leader aung sun suu chee seeking to detain her for 2 weeks for breaching an import export law the army took power in a military coup on monday that have been symbolic displays of anger against the military coup in me and ma in the past few hours people went onto the streets of young gone to bang pots and pans in a show of defiance the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs.

the task there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago and is there as mike hanna joins us now live from washington d.c. mike what does this declaration of a major disaster in texas by the president mean for the state. well it means that there's a significant amount of federal resources that will be apportioned to that particular disaster and the president had signed a disaster declaration earlier in the week however this is declared a major disaster situation that means there is no financial count probably among top federal funding and resources that will be apportioned to the people in texas what it means essentially is that the federal government will provide things ranging from loans to rebuild businesses to help individual homeowners to restore their property so it's a wide ranging situation but it has to be looked at in the wider context as well because president biden made as part of his campaign the slogan pulled back that he's been talking about a 2 trillion dollar national infrastructure plan now this is something that he wants

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. there's christensen is live for us now in washington tell us cristin what this federal disaster declaration means for the people of texas while in short it means more federal funding the president earlier in the week had already declared a state of emergency that allowed the federal emergency management agency to provide things like generators and food and drinking water to the state by declaring a major disaster now that frees up more funds for individuals and businesses to make repairs and also find temporary housing if necessary it also makes low cost loans available for repairs that need to be done that aren't covered by insurance i should also point out that the president called on the departments of housing and urban development and the department of defense to look for other resources that might be able to help texas the 2nd largest state in the united states of course none of this addresses the underlying issues that john mentioned the fact that the state just was not prepare

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago expects 10 as mike hanna who is in washington d.c. might tell us more about this presidential declaration of a major disaster in texas what does it mean. well there was an emergency declaration made earlier in the week but this is a major emergency declaration as it is describes what it does is releases a huge amount of federal funding for the restoration of businesses for the repair of homes all sorts of factors that would come into account following that weeks of freezing weather in texas it's basically each individual businesses need to make a claim from the federal government for amounts of money but what it does do is release a huge amount of federal funds to bring some kind of relief to those living in texas through this freeze. any of that money go to the companies who have been blamed for the part of water just of great old weatherproof the infrastructure of the future. well this is a very complicated issue because texas since the 1930 s. has declared itself energy independent

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. now president joe biden's administration has begun dismantling one of dol traumas most restrictive immigration policies thousands of asylum seekers have to wait in mexico for their cases to be heard in the u.s. now up to $25.00 people a day will be allowed to enter while the immigration courts consider their cases i know of apollo reports from mexico city on whether the policy change will affect the number of arrivals at the u.s. border this is very much on the radar of immigration officials both in the united states as well as here in mexico and we should note that throughout the course of 2020 the lock down from the pandemic saw an overall decline in migration from central america specifically but then something interesting happens in december we see a spike in the number of migrants coming up toward the united states we're seeing numbers that are higher than even before the pandemic began and we have heard those speculations that this could be in part due to the more relaxed polic

century shot to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al jazeera chicago across latin american leaders are struggling to control a surge in coronavirus cases that are overwhelming medical services in mexico ambulance crews are being forced to wait for hours for available beds and that's if any can be found oxygen supply is also limited the russian sputnik vaccine has been approved for use that it's a similar story in peru where people are sleeping outside medical facilities to make sure they can get oxygen the country has recorded more than 1100000 infections over 41000 people have died because of cope at 19. in honduras politicians have made it nearly impossible to legalize abortion by changing the constitution human rights groups say the move is a response to the decriminalization of the procedure in argentina last month manuel of apollo reports. a trip to an emergency room in 103 years ago changed his life forever that's when she learned for the 1st time that she was pregnant between 20 and 25 weeks along. the way but i didn't visit the hospital because

century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al-jazeera chicago joe biden's also signed a series of executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hardline immigration policies they include the creation of a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families under trump's 0 tolerance policy they'll also be a review of the asylum process at the border with mexico. now the united states has rejected a proposal from iran to have both nations come back to the 2050 nuclear deal iranian foreign minister job as a reef had suggested the european union could facilitate a simultaneous return to the agreement by both sides the details now with us. it appears a game of who acts 1st and right now neither the u.s. or iran are making a move the us has rejected an offer by iran for it to synchronize a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with the european union with iran for filling its commitments that could have allowed to both parties to save face internationally and at home but the u.s. says it's not ready to rejoin of course though we ar

there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday john hendren al-jazeera chicago. time for the weather now his that it then how is that we've got to last a spring like weather now into east asia so looking good over the next couple of days unpleasant will busting through too much in the way of any significant snowfall to come 21 celsius there for tokyo warmest still as we go on into monday a little further north you could catch one or 2 wintry flies but not much to speak of chance of some wet weather to into southern areas of china should be few and far between i think more the way of dry weather than a ray meanwhile we got some very heavy rain making its way towards the philippines without a tropical storm so the process of weakening but we are still looking at some very heavy rainfall over the next couple of days but nothing like the kind of rainfall that we have seen in indonesia jakarta $95.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and over the last 5 days we've seen $262.00 millimeters of rain that's almost the a monthly average for every average is around 310 milli

century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al jazeera chicago canada has designated the us pride boys a terror entity adding the far right group to a list that includes al qaida eisel and al shabaab it comes less than a month off the group allegedly joined the bomb that malta stormed the u.s. capitol building 5 people died in that attack they had attended a rally by the then president on trump in the hope of overturning the presidential election result. extreme weather has battered syria's northeastern region leaving thousands of displaced syrians homeless internationally groups are trying to deliver aid but are warning of a catastrophe if they can't reports. their fled to war sheltering in this camp for the internally displaced in syria's rebels last stronghold. of the out of the mercy of stalls and flogs mohammed has taken his family to higher ground after the rainstorms turned the camp into a muddy quagmire. attended to give us a tent if you 2 want to be easy to erect and then i could have to bring all our belongings. which is quite frankly a

century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al-jazeera chicago. us house republicans are currently discussing potential action against 2 of that congresswoman in a closed door meeting that could point to the future direction of the party marjorie taylor green is drawn heavy criticism for promoting right wing conspiracy theories including a suggestion that school shootings were fake and advocating violence against democrats and senior congress a minute liz cheney has been accused of disloyalty from 1900 ph former president donald trump well alan fisher is at the white house and joins us now alan what what is happening today tell us about the discussions that have been underway. well those meetings ongoing these were planned after the impeachment forward it's interesting because this is the republican party essentially making a decision on its future ties to donald trump 1st of all because you've got liz cheney who is number 3 in the republican hierarchy in the house she voted for impeachment remember that vote was very much of what of clinton's th

century shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al-jazeera chicago. people are marching to the capital in solidarity with protesting farmers to denounce a crackdown on the 10s of thousands of agricultural workers been rallying against the new laws which they say will make them much worse off recently security has been stepped up against the. hundreds of people have gathered in the center of new delhi and to march. they say in support of the hundreds of thousands protesting on the street with a very large police presence police and. telling them that they don't have permission to protest that there was a pandemic and that no more than 4 people are allowed to gather there police buses standing by to take people away there's also a lot of water cannon standing by but the people who have come out say that this is exactly why they hear this because of what they called police. and the government repression against protesters now since there was some between protesters and police on republic day last week have a respite around a 160. charges of writing sedi

al-jazeera. states the chicago police department has been found to have been quote woefully unprepared for violence that broke out after the deaths of george floyd it died in police custody last year triggering nationwide protests against racism and police brutality an independent report into the chicago police response also found some officers took steps to cover up their actions lived to john hendren in chicago for us this john how can the police department of mis read the signs so badly. well that's what this support report says it says this is pretty much a textbook example of what a police department should not do to respond to massive protests in the streets the report says that the police department and the city leadership essentially failed its own police officers and its citizens and nearly every level starting with being utterly unprepared despite the fact that they were violent riots in the streets of minneapolis and other cities the police department had not prepared to train for a massive arrest for years before this happened and didn't do a quick training course and head of china when

al-jazeera. in the u.s. chicago's police department has been found to have been woefully unprepared for violence that broke out after the death of george floyd the an armed black man died in police custody last year triggering nationwide protests against racism and police brutality and independent report into the chicago police response also found some officers took steps to cover up their actions for the place most of the blame on the department senior leaders. white house has unveiled sweeping new measures to overhaul the nation's immigration system it wants to offer permanent protected status to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. is children and millions more who have worked in front line roles during the pandemic legislation would also provide an 8 year path to citizenship for 11000000 people already in the u.s. the white house has already overturned the trumpet ministrations remain in mexico policy that required asylum seekers to stay in mexico while their applications were processed the department of ho

black lives matter protests has heavily criticized chicago's force and some said officers took steps to cover up their actions let's go live now to al-jazeera is john hendren in chicago chong they slugs at the surface like an extremely damning report what more do we know. this was indeed a scathing report that targeted the city's leadership including the police supervisors as in julian said that the police failed in every possible level they failed to prepare to get the intelligence a head of time to know that protesters would be in the streets here in chicago even after they were in the streets in minneapolis and all over the country and they failed to have a plan in place the police department had not done training for mass arrests in years and this is a city that has routinely experience that over the past few decades it found that when the police were deployed they were often given little supervision that left the police feeling that they were sort of left there to hang and in fact when they encountered people it was often according to this report with extreme brutality the head of the civilian police oversight board was himself or hers

hoping family members they've left behind will join them he will morgan al-jazeera on the sudan if your paper order. with us from chicago and also remember who is a senior fellow at refugees international you know so the 1st thing which struck me with this story is that we were obviously and rightly i would say focused on the tigre a region for so long and what's happening there and yet there is this happening in another area and i suspect other refugee problems in the country to worry about. yeah i think that's a really important point and while so much attention is well deserved on tikrit given how dire the situation there is a report really does highlight that other regions in ethiopia are an increasingly violent increasingly dire many of these are a lot of standing tensions over as the report demonstrates fertile land and other disputes but also ethnic conflict that runs quite deep so there is a concern that he is having this kind of increased or exacerbated fragmentation that could domino spiral into other conflicts but but you're right a lot of the attention has has sort of taken the spotlight off of some of these