it's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today policing what amala have fired tear gas and used the times against thousands of migrants from central america who are pushing north towards the united states it's thought the migrants are hoping joe biden's incoming administration will be less tough on migration and the current war . in south korea the billionaire defacto head of samsung j. widely has been jailed for 2 and a half years on corruption charges this comes after the high court in seoul overturned lee's original suspended sentence he was convicted of bribing an associate of the former president park geun pay in 2017. china's economy beat expectations in the 4th quarter of 2020 growing by 2.3 percent this makes it the only major economy to avoid shrinking last year as countries struggle with the impact of coke in 90 beijing's tough measures to contain the virus so thought to be one reason behind the growth and brazil has started vaccinating its health workers against coated 19 after authorities granted emergency approval to 2 corona virus vacci

kilometers across central america and mexico a foreign minister has said allowing them to cross throughout amala and reach a potentially close border with mexico could create a humanitarian crisis he's asking honduras to help organize for their return. started as a deterrent soon turned into a real use of force on monday guatemalan security forces despairs thousands of 100 migrants there stranded in the department of cheeky but want to continue their journey towards the united states is the 3rd time in recent days that soldiers have clashed with the caravan of migrants which includes women and children guatemala's government accuses the caravan of being infiltrated by criminal gangs and says most of the migrants did not have the negative coronavirus tests required to enter the country now they're being sent back to honduras even though they insist there is no home for them to return to. europe. i don't want to go back i lost everything in that country. the clashes with guatemalan troops have started a new tensions between the 2 central american neighbors hundreds this human rights commissioner u

policing what amala have stepped up efforts to stop thousands of the honduran migrants on route some were arrested after a group tried to break through police that blockade and headed towards mexico between $7.80 of entered guatemala since friday many of the fleeing poverty and violence hoping for a warm reception from the incoming u.s. administration. the u.s. justice department has expressed disappointment mexico's failure to prosecute a former defense minister salvador see of way goss was arrested in los angeles last year he was accused of working with a powerful drug cartel u.s. prosecutors let him go after mexico promised a thorough investigation but now mexico says it won't press charges u.s. prosecutors say they might restart their case of mexico fails to act uganda's president has warned he'll deal this size civilly with anyone planning to create chaos following his election victory 71 of a 6th term in office extending is 35 years in power but his main challenger bobby weiner's denounce the election is calling it a complete fraud why is under heavy guard at his home in what h

so to come on out to say ruins groups around the pandemic combine to make course amala sound of crisis worse. it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored plan qatar airways hello the weather looks pretty dry pretty quiet across a good part of china over the next couple days but it's certainly going to be cold still cold enough fane shapin cold enough for some some snow nowhere near as intense and when there is widespread heavy across parts of honshu and hokkaido the avalanche race becomes more of an issue over the next few days but certainly still a bit of a wintry mix going on here some wet weather toss some wintry weather to sliding across the korean peninsula minus 2 in seoul on monday plus 2 for beijing as we go on into choose day things starting to warm up if we can say getting up to one degree celsius is warming up there in so still some wintry weather there across northern parts of japan not see bad down towards the south but again cold enough only 6 celsius there in tokyo she will up a little as we go into the middle part of the week what enough of the moments across southern pa

health organization's kovacs program the scheme is helping 92 middle and low income countries quite amala is just announced it will receive its 1st supply of vaccines through the program in 2 weeks but the president alexandra gamma today says it will receive just 800000 doses by the end of february is false short of the number needed to inoculate around 60 percent of guatemala spoke relation in order to achieve herd immunity. fresh measures to contain the carnivorous pandemic are being implemented across latin america including border closures and new lock downs but the number of deaths and infections is still rising as a 2nd wave of infections sweeps across the region then i reports now from the argentinean capital when i was. a rare piece of good news amongst the coronavirus misery bolivia's 1st max a nation a nurse in the country's hearted eastern city of santa cruz in. the end i feel good very excited and also a bit nervous but positive. she's in the frontline doctors one a medic is dying every day the virus has killed 10000 bolivians the government has ordered 15000000 more doses of

what amala is riddled with corruption and violence. the murder rate is 20 times higher than in most european countries. in view in the way of inhabitants feel the wrath of paper. the local boss of the party or 18 getting. his lieutenant christiane has returned from the weekly protection money roundup. he collected 900 cats dogs for residents. the equivalent of about $110.00 euros. christiane receives a 10 euro share. pedro 20 with the remaining 80 going to the senior gang leaders. protection rackets are the main source of income for the modern us ahead of drug dealing and prostitution. here in my neighborhood alone that we collect around $5000.00 the cat salaries per week and that's only in my neighborhood. and the other parts of the favela gang takes in between 708-0000. sometimes more than 150 grand in a week. in 21000 extortion rose by almost 40 percent across the country. the victims are mostly the poorest citizens who have no choice but to give in to the gangs. if people don't pay you kill them yes. grew up in poverty the 4th chil

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a little bit and we've got big showers like the focus once again in western honduras pos of course amala as well and maybe sudden billie's that's because the cold has come out of the u.s. not cold air isn't as intense as it was the winter storm is blowing through the midwest is now in the northeast and eastern canada they'll be some lake effect snow still to come in places like pennsylvania for example most places quite colburn extremely so atlanta's 6 degrees rises to 10 by monday but look in not turn temp it was still freezing on sunday and monday morning and this is sunday is picture more generally still to this now around there are a valley the california coast his far. qatar airways. they call them see is knowledge property subdivided into small quarters where one or more families live crammed together is the only option for many haitian migrants in chile and it's public knowledge that they're exploited by unscrupulous landlords and now with the coronavirus pandemic they're being discriminated further. a few weeks ago this day with 88 groups became nationwide news because of hard sh

in parts of quite amala medical staff stepped out of hospitals to set up testing centers in popular markets out of 250 cova test an average of 40 people test positive every day would be as a simple point as we know your situation seems a bit gallus i think the measures in place aren't strong enough the government needs to be more strict about it. but in a continent where much of the economy depends on mobility and street vendors many fear things will get worse before they get better. this is the young al-jazeera. argentina's president. says the pandemic has revealed divisions in the continent speaking in chile on his 1st foreign trip since taking office fernandez called for unity he didn't walk etc i'm really going to dinner and i will never hearing that you know that we have to make latin america an integrated region because we are now seeing what the disintegration of the region means we are seeing it and what's happening in public health in what's happening with the purchasing of vaccines where each one of us runs in a hurry to solve a problem and if we had all been united everything wou

that investment and some of those phones to go to central america including the key countries of what amala under us and some other which is largely who which are largely the number the countries where migrants are coming from i remember talking to an immigration lawyer a month some months ago when this and 5 years ago when this 1st came out she was saying one of the significant issues with this was that people were actually attempting to get into the united states legally but the structure and logistics of trying to do that were so complicated and the service itself was so overwhelmed that in many cases on at least some cases people were being forced to try to enter the u.s. illegally do you think the u.s. has got to start looking at its own immigration systems as well as its policies. of course look foreman is only part of the picture and m.p.o. we've for a long time eh suggested that enforcement a wall on the border and control centers mexico border have to be part of the picture but they cannot be the only factor of this solution to a regional problem migration we have to think of legal

people to now from somebody who's in a leadership position, as you are, joe biden won the election, amala harris won the election, they're president-elect, vice president-elect, and they will positionrated into the of president and vice president january 20. mr. jordan: you know who said that -- you know who said that? of the united states has said that. mr. perlmutter: ok. mr. jordan: peaceful transfer of power. guys -- mr. perlmutter: that's all. that's all i want. mr. jordan: you want to -- look 25th amendment. the president of the united clear.has been mr. perlmutter: mrs. lesko can sk you questions and you can add, if you want. look, i'm not trying to bark at you. mr. jordan: you could have fooled me. [laughter] not barking r: i'm at you. i just want a declare tiff claitivet from you -- de statement from you so we can get through the next week without more violence. you.s all i'm asking mr. jordan: ok. mr. perlmutter: you and i have been here a long time. we worked together on things and we have been opposed on things. mr. jordan: that's true. it.preciate thank you. mr. perlmutter: i