algiers andrew simmons is the andrew of the start of the pandemic over a year ago or about a year ago the government's chief scientific adviser said that 20000 deaths would be a good outcome and that today we've passed this grim milestone. yes they brought expected but now it's here statistics mean more than numbers it's a shock that's right the way across the country the enormity of a 100000 deaths is well every family you can think of all ringback of the grief involved it is colossal i'm here outside bradford royal infirmary west yorkshire was one of the worst hit areas during 2020 it's been bad in the south east of england the past few months but now there's a period of reflection after so much loss all over the u.k. the enormity of what's happening is sometimes hard to absorb and. the health service is overloaded to near breaking point many hospitals have no more room left for the dead vos temporary mortuary is has been set up and now there's a landmark figure 100000 dead no one in our worst nightmares and to support it that would be 10 months into the pandemic was such a high los

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london still ahead this half hour a final day of campaigning in georgia a state that will decide the balance of power in the u.s. senate. the world's most popular digital currency slumps in value after hitting a record high. we still got some very wet weather across northeastern parts of australia probable cyclon image and a final warning was issued for that around 18 hours ago that's now in the process of making its way over towards that eastern side of queensland plenty of rain coming through some parts of say over 200 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours and we could see similar amounts over the next 24 hours or so to happen power cuts but the winds have died down it's all about the rainfall and there will be further flooding unless it is a remote part of the country say that's something of 1st some consolation here wanted to showers over towards the southeast as well brisbane the gulf coast could see some showers based in parts of new south wales down towards a sense out of it tori

andrew simmons. and you can find more on that story on our website al-jazeera dot com. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera president trumps briefly spoken about last week's violence on capitol hill on a visit to a portion of the wall that he ordered to be built on the border with mexico he said now was a time of peace and the rule of law as the house of representatives prepares to vote on a motion to ask the vice president to remove him from office trouble claimed he was not worried about the process. free speech is under assault like never before the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to me but will come back to haunt joe biden in the biden administration as expression goes be careful what you wish for the impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger in division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand. the u.s. secretary of state says al qaida has established a new home base in iran although he hasn't presented any hard evidence in a speech 8

far little moment will be live in bogota colombia with alice and m.p.i. 3 but 1st let's talk to andrew simmons he's live for us from london andrew it's another day and another grim picture being painted by statistics. yes i'm afraid so we have figures in for sunday 454 deaths compared to 445 on saturday that doesn't sound like a big increase 1st site but sunday's traditionally the day when figures are lower because of the data capture policies so therefore it is of alarming rise the total deaths now exceed $75000.00 in the u.k. a number of cases to give you the stark rather worrying picture the number of new cases on sunday stands at 54990 compare that to this day a week ago 577 to 5 it was the figure is this on saturday should i say and so therefore that that figure we're getting have confused those figures for you 577 to 5 on saturday compared with the previous week 54990 that's a dramatic leap in a week so we're getting now a situation whereby the vaccine is more and more crucial boris johnson saying fairly optimistic a promise that doubted by many health care professionals that tens of mil

opened after those 10 months of not going to be with you shortly how many want to stop by with andrew simmons in the u.k. . a 2nd vaccine now being administered couldn't come soon enough. it certainly could so there is a critical situation in the u.k. with the infection rate at its highest since the pandemic began to the 6th day running we expect the infection rates are climbing even more 75000. fewer hours ago a patient in fact a. kidney patient who is having good dialysis received the vaccine 82 year old. here is the 1st of many there are to be 6 hospitals across the country involved in this 1st wave of using this vaccine it is a much more useful vaccine than the 5 which was also a launch by the u.k. that was more than 3 weeks ago the astra zeneca is more easily stored it's more easily ministered and it is more effective because it can be put in a normal refrigerator freezer so this is a big hope the promise is that tens of millions of doses will be rolled out over the next 3 to 4 months the key issue will be the logistics of doing that to my no means is the system secure just to get that c

andrew simmons. security forces in central african republic have repelled an attack by armed groups near the capital bangui the prime minister says the assault targeted 2 neighborhoods near bungay in an attempt to take the city it's believed to be carried out by rebels from the coalition of patriots for change have been challenging president for. their eyes recent reelection. iran's navy is holding a 2 day missile trail in the gulf of oman as tensions with the u.s. run high tehran's unveiled its largest military vessel along with a new missile launching warships the u.s. has flown be 52 bombers over the gulf 3 times in the past month the trump administration's ramped up pressure on iran in its final weeks in office and u.s. secretary of state has accused iran of serving as a home base for al qaeda out without providing evidence he says the group is operating under tehran's protection iran has dismissed the claim as war mongering rise from a desperate outgoing administration. reality show that their p

andrew simmons al-jazeera you can find more on that story on our website al-jazeera dot com. the is. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera president trumps briefly spoken about last week's violence on capitol hill on a visit to a portion of the wall that he ordered to be built on the border with mexico he said now was a time of peace and the rule of law as the house of representatives prepares to vote on a motion to ask the vice president to remove him from office claimed he was not worried about the process free speech is.

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. a u.k. court has booked the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange to the u.s. he's wanted there espionage charges reports from the courts. it is for now at least the result julian assange supporters had wanted. the wiki leaks founder will not be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges for the publishing of classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010 and 11 the u.s. claims the leaks broke the law and endangered long leaves and will appeal the ruling i outside the courts assan just fiance joined by the new editor in chief of wiki leaks welcome the news that said the fight isn't over. let's not forget indictment in the u.s. has not been dropped. very extremely concerned that the u.s. government has decided to appeal this decision. it continues to want to punish julian. and make him disappear into the deepest darkest hole of the u.s. prison system there should be a call outs and pressure on us sides to drop the appeal to say enough is enough we've heard enoug

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. mexico says it's ready to offer asylum to julian assange just there a decision by a u.k. courts notes to extradite the wiki leaks founder to the u.s. . i. was. his supporters celebrated the ruling outside the courts songes wanted by the u.s. on espionage charges for publishing sizes of secret american news you don't convince a judge denied the request sites in concerns over a songes mental health authorities are expected to appeal. my call on the president of the united states to end this now. mr president tear down these prison walls. let our little boys have their father. free julian. play the press free us all. well mexico's president under a smuggler lopez obrador says a son just a journalist and deserves a chance is. a far more i'm in favor of pardoning a song and not only that i'm going to ask the foreign relations secretary do the corresponding formalities request the u.k. government the possibility but it's on just free and the mexico option political asylum with all the righ

doesn't stop the burials the global spread of cove it carries with it a 2nd pandemic mass grief andrew simmons al jazeera bradford. still ahead in this half hour rolling into the heart of the indian farmers breaking barricades with their tractors as they fight against reforms. we've got more wet weather pushing into southeastern parts of australia over the next couple of days at the moment it's been pretty hot in new south wales the temperatures getting up into the high thirty's even the low forty's for one or 2 spots but we've had something of a southerly boston now sliding its way through and that's been producing some clouds and rain some shabby rain coming to ward sydney then as we go on 3 wednesday and yet more useful rainfall pushing across south australia seas and some of the best rains for decades recently coming through here and a little bit more wet weather coming in as we go on into weather state just sliding out that way running across the nullarbor still pretty wet across northern parts of north america doubly way to tropical lows here pushing up towards the cape york peninsula ag

diminishing level of power and a diminishing influence by the end of 2021 we may have an idea andrew simmons how does it. well as the u.k. faces the reality of brags that it's also dealing with an escalating coronavirus pandemic surging infections in england forcing north origins to reactivate emergency hospitals that were set up when the pandemic began most nightingale hospitals have been largely unused beneficial say they're now being prepared to admit patients if other medical centers which capacity challenge has more on the situation in the u.k. from outside the royal london hospital. whence they had some good news with the announcement the oxford astra zeneca vaccine has been cleared for use in the u.k. and it will be rolled out from january the 4th thursday there was a case of do you want the bad news or the worst news 20000000 more people in england started the day. before they joined 24000000 people already living under the toughest level of coronavirus restrictions now 3 quarters of the english population hospitals in london and the southeast are saying the i.c.u. use intensive care

let's go live now to andrew simmons he joins us from london so it's another day and more stats that paint a very grim picture a very worrying picture andrew. i'm afraid so the number of deaths sunday 454 and that brings the total number of deaths to 75000 the for the 6 day running there have been record figures in the number of cases 55000 nearly 55000 right now and that that up that's for sunday and that compares with last sunday which was 30500 so just work that out the level of increase as they've been seen since this crisis began so never before has there been more need to get a vaccine up and running an effective vaccine up and running that assurance we heard from boris johnson earlier in the day that tens of thousands of doses tens of millions should i say of doses i will be taking place within 3 months it does sound ambitious a lot of health care professionals feel that could be a much lower figure it's more a target than one that could be attained at the biggest challenges and so much the supply of the vaccines it is the actual logistics in getting it getting people vaccinated get

other side of the english channel shortly but we're starting with this report from london with andrew simmons on how the changes are going to affect by people and. finally the bells of big ben bring bricks it in with the trade deal taking the u.k. out of the european union the end of a relationship that dates back nearly half a century brussels had set the time midnight in belgium 11 o'clock here in the u.k. e.u. had already made its other adjustments with only a day to spare the trade treaty had been signed and sealed within the shores of this island nation british politicians say sovereignty has been fully restored the political slogan we must take back control had gone down well with the majority of voters now it's going to be put to the test it's good to be better we need to govern ourselves and be our own bosses but it's going to be a lot of stress between everyone anyway because it's a very unknown people don't do a change. in legal terms it was 11 months ago that the u.k. left the e.u. nearly a year of transition followed with the trade deal now in place brics it is set to show its tru

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. miscarry says it's ready to offer asylum to julian assange a decision by u.k. court to extradite the wiki leaks founder to the united states. was this his supporters celebrated the ruling outside courts songs as blunted by the u.s. on espionage charges for publishing thousands of secret american military documents the judge denied the request citing concerns over songes mental health the u.s. is expected to appeal against the decision they've bollock reports from outside the court. it is for now at least the result you supporters had wanted was the wiki leaks founder will not be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges for the publishing of classified military and diplomatic documents some 2010 and 11 the u.s. claims the leaks broke the law and endangered long leaves and will appeal the ruling. outside the courts assan just fiance joined by the new editor in chief of wiki leaks welcome the news that said the fight isn't over. let's not forget indictment in the u.s. has not be

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. still ahead here on al-jazeera they run breaches the nuclear deal again into another affront to world powers also. rabbani a pillar of the lebanese music scene dies at 83 you look back at his life. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways how it was save some rather nasty weather moving across northern parts of india recently and even to the south has seen some very heavy showers around for lanka and southern areas of india but up to the north where we've seen some big downpours some thundery showers but a bit of snow just around in kashmir but it's the heavy rain which is cause recent problems one consolation as it has been clearing the poor air quality that we have seen in recent days and weeks across the north of the country but warnings still remain in force just across jamul kashmir pushing up into northern parts of pakistan some heavy downpours likely to turn wintry as we go through the next few days further south it quietens down somewhat but we will

doesn't stop the burials the global spread of covert carries with it a 2nd pandemic mass grief andrew simmons al jazeera bradford. and in asia is now the worst affected country in southeast asia and hospitals in some areas are completely overwhelmed jessica washington has more from jakarta. on antony's is most populous island java hospitals are stretched to their limits these covered 900 patients were able to get treatment but many others are missing out now part of the not fast and i'm among we have rejected so many people in the hospital reject patients every day because there's nothing else we can do the doctors having to reject critically ill patients is a heavy burden the. psion it makes me so sad to turn down patients i read the files of patients who are referred to our hospital they can hardly breathe but we cannot help them. the indonesian hospitals association says hospitals on the island of java and bali are close to collapse doctors are forced to turn away patients because of a lack of intensive care unit beds and a shortage of health care workers. indonesia's covert 19 task force

andrew simmons al-jazeera. india's supreme court has suspended the implementation of controversial new agricultural laws farmers have been protesting since november angry that the changes could lead to a monopoly of big corporations the government says reform of the agriculture sector is long overdue elizabeth. poor. farmers continue their protest on a major highway connecting india's most populous state to the capital region of delhi they've stopped all traffic on this and 2 other key roads for nearly 7 weeks and said they won't stop despite the supreme court suspending the implementation of 3 farms have been protesting against the government they're also not hopeful about the committee the top court has formed to look into the laws. the members of the committee are pro-government people who have supported the laws and other government recommendations their ideology. and they are in favor of market reforms they're not part of the fun of it it's. the protests began after the government passed 3 agricultural rul

andrew simmons al-jazeera. course of the past few hours we've been covering proceedings in the house of representatives in washington where representatives are discussing a resolution calling on vice president by pence to invoke the 25th amendment to dismiss president donald trump the breaking era's right now is that vice president by pence has indicated that he will not invoke the 25th amendment he's written a letter saying so to house speaker nancy pelosi let's go live to washington. mike hanna is there and can tell us more mike. there is indeed a dream or what is happening is that the vice president has now written a letter to the speaker of the house nancy pelosi in which he makes very clear that he will not exceed to the motion in the house when it is passed he says in the letter to see that the 25th amendment which the house wanted to ask him to impose does not deal with punishment it is not intended as punishing a president he said it has more to do with the incapacitation of a president now on previous

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london the world's most popular digital currency has slumped in value after reaching a record high on the weekend when bitcoin was worth a little under 28000 dollars on monday and have risen dramatically over the new year holiday to more than $34000.00 investors seem convinced the cryptocurrency is on its way to becoming a mainstream asset for more than $18000000.00 get currency in circulation. 2 brothers in bangladesh are doing all they can to bring attention to a red dog breed on the brink of extinction the summer hellhound has been treasured for centuries but only a few dozen remain in the region robbie dust brothers and using social media to set up mating dates with pure breed and anything descend from english greyhounds owned by landlords hundreds of years ago government efforts to breed and save the home collapsed in the seventy's. or let's have a recap of the headlines here in al jazeera and saudi arabia is opening its airspace and borders to qatar and what is seen as big steps toward

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. silence was one seen as a success story in containing the virus things have changed forcing a tough response scott high the reports from bangkok. it's not the way thailand wanted to start the new year since mid january the country has seen a steady increase in new locally transmitted covert cases of all going into a full fledged 2nd wave this after no new local cases for months but on monday a milestone was reached the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic more than 740 as the last few weeks most of the cases are tied to an outbreak in some province it's believed to have been brought in by migrant workers in the large seafood industry in the province while thailand was the 1st country outside china to register a locally transmitted covert case it has been successful in preventing a major outbreak heavy restrictions on foreign arrivals and mandatory to eat corn teen help that the 2nd wave has the government concerned responding quickly with restrictions and a s

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. and germany is expected to extend its lockdown measures until the end of january regional leaders signaled they would agree to prolong the restrictions after seeing record numbers of cases and deaths last week meeting with chancellor angela merkel later on tuesday now the shutdown includes schools and non-essential stalls the country began vaccinating people last month now u.s. president joe biden elected president all trump have relied rally pardon me in the state of georgia of 2 crucial senate runoff elections the republicans need to win at least one of those seats in order to retain control of the senate and a vicious as the latest from dalton in georgia. the last push from a president whose power might be waning but his influence with the base of his party remains undiminished he came in their thousands for the rally in rural georgia the ghetto the vote effort for a crucial senate runoff but from a president who want except last november's election a list of unproven grievances a

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. and germany is expected to extend its lockdown moshe's until the end of january regional leaders signaled they would agree to prolong the restrictions record numbers of cases and deaths last week now they're meeting with chancellor angela merkel later on tuesday the shutdown includes schools and on essential stores the country began vaccinating people last month. the new highly contagious corona virus variant has also been found in france the health minister says there are around 10 cases and as promised to speed up vaccination france has had one of the slowest roll outs in europe but aims to have 300 vaccination centers in operation next week it's in a sharp spike in hospitalizations. u.s. presidents like joe biden and president donald trump in the state of georgia are ahead of 2 crucial senate runoff elections now the republicans need to win at least one of those seats in order to retain control of the senate fisher has the latest in georgia. the last push from a president whose po

s but 1st let's talk to andrew simmons is live for us in london so andrew how much confidence is there in this promise of tens of millions of vaccinations being carried out. well certainly the supply line looks as if it's good to be set to receive that sort of figure of vaccination doses but the actual despite dispensing these doses whether the the whole infrastructure of the logistical operation will allow it to happen in 3 months will that is seen as pretty as scott a skeptical viewpoint from many health care professionals and indeed it would appear we understand from medical scientists as well within the government that could be an overly optimistic one but the take no doubt about it that the u.k. has done quite well with vaccines so far in that there has a supply line that's better than europe it would seem because of the quicker approvals burdick can't afford to be complacent because of the figures there are now 5 days in a row we've had record numbers of of infection rate rises and we have a situation now where by the u.k. is likely to overtake italy in being the worst hit countr

doesn't stop the burials the global spread of cove it carries with it a 2nd pandemic mass grief andrew simmons al jazeera bradford. well dr john ashton is a former director of public health in northwest england then and joins us now via skype from cumbria sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera so why do you think that the united kingdom has found itself to be so vulnerable to cover. well it's it's a sad and tragic story and today we need to mourn with all those families who've lost loved ones because of the catastrophic failure of the british government allowing its public health system to be run and. the prime minister to be distracted by preg zet and by his chaotic personal life so that he never got to grips with the pandemic back in february and march so you know we're so far behind new zealand and australia and other countries that we might wish to compare or not i suppose it was maybe easier comparisons would be with other european countries will it in fairness have also suffered from the pandemic so when you say that there have been catastrophic failures from the government spec

absolutely thank you for that andrew simmons there in london or we have katrina you now joining us from beijing katrina just tell us about the vaccine rollout in china this push to get things done before the chinese new year. well the chinese government has started 2021 by this mass with this mass rollout across the country 1st in about 16 cities across 9 provinces in china including in beijing now we only have figures so far from the capital but they've said that at least 70000 people in beijing have been inoculated so far they've set up about 220 vaccination centers across the city and each center they say can vaccinate up to 500 people per day now beijing is prioritizing 1st 9 key groups including medical workers government workers people who do with transport or who deal with imported products but what's interesting about china is that it's also prioritizing people between the ages of 18 and 58 or 59 so not prioritizing the elderly so far but mainly the working population now we know in beijing individuals are not yet able to volunteer or sign up for the vaccination themselves but t

andrew simmons. all the world health organization along with 3 other groups are establishing a stockpile of the ebola virus vaccine almost 7000 doses of the air of a vaccine are already available and it's hoped half a 1000000 more can be collected for use within 3 years ever a boa set to be effective in preventing the most common strain of ebola it was used in the democratic republic of congo during a massive outbreak between 20182020 let's say to john johnson who is a vaccination an epidemic response reffer and a doctors without borders in france also known as m.s.f. is joining us from paris thanks very much for your time john johnson so your group the m.s.f. is. the group of international partners that have announced the creation of this ebola vaccine stockpile talk us through how important this is and how significant a moment it is. ok so the international courting coronating group has been around for a while consist of the world health organization unicef the farsi and and n.s.f. and it's been it

andrew simmons al-jazeera. still to come on al-jazeera this news i want an english f.a. cup matches halted in spectacular style general we'll have the details in spain. i. agree with gemma is here now with the sport thank you barbara the captain of the u.s. women's soccer team has said white supremacist a not welcome at that games repays comments came after a photo of a woman returning from the capital riots wearing a us team jhumpa about cup champion has been outspoken in opposing the president's and supporting the black life mass movement that is not the kind of fan that we will welcome the u.s. crest is not to be confused with anything that has to do with white supremacy anything that has to do with the trump of ministration anything that has to do with that divisive culture that we saw on the capital we want to create and continue to create a place that's inclusive and safe and diverse for our fans to be and for our players to play in front of them for people to watch on t.v. in for the media to cover so. don't bring up here. new england patriots and f.o. coach bill

reportedly offering up to 50000000 vaccines across the african continent by the end of the year but andrew simmons is live for us now in london so andrew a very big day there in the u.k. where the infection rate has been soaring. most certainly a very dangerous situation here in the u.k. now just under a month after the launch of the pfizer vaccine in the u.k. which was a world 1st here we have the 1st of half a 1000000 doses going out this is this vaccination to an 82 year old a kidney dialysis patient was regarded as really being something that you could celebrate something triumphant you kate sermons but that's been completely put to one side by the situation that's getting out of control in the u.k. with the infection rate $75000.00 deaths in the u.k. now the u.k. prime minister boris johnson saying that he's going to have to take more restrictions are right across the u.k. was seen very soon whether that will be on monday or not is remains to be seen but already there are 40 years with millions in the highest tier right now of restrictions and so that is of great concern now this new vaccine

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. barker's joining us now from london things just seem to be going from bad to worse in the u.k. at the moment on any. it is it is pretty bad despite the optimism about the start of the year about the rollout of the oxford vaccine about the fact that the far as a bio vaccine was starting to reach people that needed it most it's announcement by the british government of a total lockdown across england similar situation in scotland there already existing laws continuing in northern ireland and wales as well and all of this of a fears about the spread of this new strain london is the epicenter of the moment said the government to deeply worried about it rapidly spreading across the rest of the country is 50 percent more transmissible than the 1st strain uncovered cases the number of people with been admitted to hospital is now significantly above the number that were admitted back in march on monday there were 50000 new cases of corona virus reported for the 7th day in a row that's a 30 p

andrew simmons. while hundreds of suspected members of the and that it gets a crime syndicate are on trial in italy that charges include murder extortion money laundering and drug trafficking the trial is being held in a purpose built high security court house in the southern region of tellabs area that's where the gang operates stephanie decker has more from rome. over $350.00 people on trial lawyers politicians police chiefs which gives you an indication just as the chief prosecutor. that he has been prosecuting been for years he's been living under police protection for 30 years just to give you a sense of just how dangerous it is to confront a group of such power but he said you know this is a mafia that looks just like us but people just before he went into the court today said people are starting to talk before you talk about this organization in whispers this is now it seems that people are opening up you're going to have around 900 witnesses coming forward to give evidence against those who a

ok andrew simmons there live from london thank you for more than 70 people have been killed in 2 attacks on villages in western knees where it happened in the tilbury region an unstable area neighboring mali became faster binny fighters from groups linked to al qaeda and i saw a cross in an out by the porous borders the specter of interests who is in the shias capital the army med just give us an update what more do we know about these latest attacks. right now the very high powered government delegation is visiting the area mongers a in particular where there is a military base 20 kilometers away from that military bases where the attack happened on the 1st village where more than 50 people were confirmed dead and the minister we understand is also visiting the 2nd village to see the situation there said yesterday no official was willing to commit to how many people were killed in that village but what we're hearing now is the total number of persons killed in those villages have exceeded 70 and officials are insisting that no military casualty in that attack no group has claimed respon

andrew simmons al-jazeera. it's almost 9 pm in washington d.c. these are live pictures from inside what appears to be a deeply divided congress of representatives suspended basing and voting on efforts to make president tunnel trump accountable for last week's unprecedented assault on the capitol building democrats a put forward a motion that urges vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment of the constitution to carry the president unfit to hold office but he's already ruled out saying invoking his recess in his words a terrible precedent will keep you updated the proceedings of live reports from the analysis in just a few moments. it's 10 years since the arab spring countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of a revolution. join us as we assess the changes in the end it's come on skate in the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. hello the weather's lousy 40 dry across much of north america now we've had a little bit of wet weather pulling away from the eastern seaboard clear

finds itself at its most critical state since the 1st wave in the spring andrew simmons al-jazeera london. and here's the problem the u.k. is facing an extraordinary rise in recorded infections over the last few weeks the country is now seeing an exponential rise in cases far outstripping the 1st wave last year the number of actual cases may be even higher because not everybody is being tested we're now joined by john senior data visualization journalist at the financial times he joins us our skype from london thanks very much indeed for being with us so you've been tracking the numbers on this right from the start and it seems that boris johnson was saying that actually what the main problem is the new variant in the transmissibility being 50 to 70 percent higher does that do your figures how do your figures kind of current to that. that's right you know i think what's clear is that the long term that we had from november into early december in the u.k. was having a clear impact it was bringing transmission down until the new variant b 11 cell phone took hold and what we then saw was tha

vaccine developed by oxford university of astra zeneca let's go live now to london to sirius andrew sum of simmons's for supporters johnson says that he hopes to have tens of millions of doses distributed over the coming 3 months logistically is that possible andrew. you hit on the main issue the that is the logistics of rolling out these vaccines it is an ambitious promise or a suggestion that could take place but it is feasible by the number of vaccines to hand in the u.k. and we'll see on monday the 1st rollout of the oxford astra zeneca. vaccination of half a 1000000 doses of those going out in a in a fairly tram front way could be described by the u.k. government because the head of the rest in terms of rolling these vaccines out there is an issue it would appear there are reports that only one in 4 people in the u.k. will be able to access a vaccination center in the coming weeks so there is a lot to do to actually have really reached that figure of tens of millions added to that there's a controversy in the u.k. about trying to deal with this rapid record infection rates and these school holi

the 2nd to be approved along with pfizer biotech and you simmons joins me now live from london so a lot of developments there in the u.k. andrew just bring us up to speed what's the latest. the latest is burroughs johnson the u.k. prime minister has been interviewed on t.v. and he's from acing tens of millions of doses of vaccine being given in the next 3 months that's what he hopes he says will be the case now on monday we're going to see the roll out of her familia the start of a half a 1000000 jobs from the oxford university at astra zeneca development which is this is the approved latest approved vaccine in the u.k. giving a lot of hope to a lot of people but the government has been getting into a situation whereby there is concern amongst the backbone of community health in the u.k. a general practitioners there a furious about suggestions and recommendations from the government to get the best out of the situation they will actually not abide by the recommended dosage for the pfizer drug which is the 1st dose followed 21 days later by the 2nd dose but actually to delay that 2nd dose so it was a get more. or out there in