Travel from 22 countries where there is a risk of various types of covert 9000 restrictions are announced in the u. K. Forcing some travelers to isolate in hotels for up to 10 days plus. If. Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j. C. T. Away the United States would do the same thing the new u. S. Secretary of state says the door is open for an american return to the nuclear deal but only if iran meets the terms of their original agreement. And a potential breakthrough in mali to end the violence thats killed thousands of farmers in recent years. So we begin in china where the 1st cases of corona virus were reported the team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is theyre preparing to leave the Hotel Quarantine where theyve begun their investigation into the origins of the pandemic independent scientists to interview people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market linked to the initial outbreak the long awaited inquiry comes after months of negotiations lets cross now to katrina you shes in katrina so how helpful is the Chinese Government likely to be to this team and what are they hoping to find given that its been over a year since the virus was found. And there is a really good point there certainly is a quite a lot of skepticism about how willing the government is going to be in terms of cooperation with the World Health Organization team its well documented that beijing has been tightly controlling any information any doctor around the origin of the outbreak and in fact it will reportedly reluctant to provide access to need of a hater if this is whats taking them up to a year to arrive here and of course many all saying that much of the key evidence around when the 1st outbreak started now must be missing in therefore it will only still i mean this investigation and it doesnt help that this mission is also highly politicized weve had the u. S. Government and a number of other governments around the world pointing blame at the Chinese Government saying it was not transparent especially in those early days and that is what led it to becoming a Global Pandemic now experts we have spoken to say that this is a key time for beijing if they are able to cooperate with the mission if they are able to clear the path for this investigation they can really prove to the International Community that theyre willing to be open and transparent so far we have spoken to a member of the team who is inside the hotel behind us adults religious by the name of marian mens and she says that the team is in good spirits shes want to get any skepticism and says she spent the last 2. Its having daily meetings with chinese scientists and their plans for the next few weeks once they leave quarantine arent finalized yet but they certainly have a few theories that they were going to investigate the going to investigate the market is going to investigate whether this virus 1st came from the baton theyre also going to investigate the lab which former President Donald Trump alleged cover 19 indeed leaked from so theres much for them to tackle and her main message to the public through us was that this is going to take time so be patient and get treatment in terms of the big picture across the country Chinese New Year is just a few weeks away is there a worry that infections will rise with just so many millions of people traveling across the country. This certainly is there a lot of governments in the north of battling resurgent cases hundreds of millions of people typically travel around the country during Chinese New Year and the government this year discouraging people from doing that to prevent further spread so they put in some policies saying that people can have refunds for that tickets and some governments are even providing financial incentives up to 300. 00 for my good work is willing to stay in the city and as a result weve seen travel bookings for this Chinese New Year period down about 40 percent this year all right to katrina are you there katrina thank you for United Kingdom has recorded its 2nd highest day number of deaths in the past 24 hours with more than 1700 lives lost just a day after the u. K. Passed a total of 100000 deaths the governments now defending its handling of the covert 1000 crisis in an effort to stem the outbreak its announced new restrictions for some people flying in. More than 100000 dead livelihoods lost in a generation put at risk with no clear end in sight and a Prime Minister unable to announce a way out of the National Knock down and he give a date of when a plan might emerge we remain in a perilous situation with more than 37000 patients now in hospital with almost double the peak of the 1st wave but the overall picture should be clearer by mid february by then we will know much more about the effect of vaccines in preventing hospitalizations and deaths. The caveat being if no new code variants emerge and the vaccine rollout continues as planned then look down is particularly tough on Children School closures have led to Mental Health plummeting and inequality soaring the government says classrooms may reopen on march 8th but it will take years for students to catch up on lost education meanwhile new quarantine rules for some arrivals into the u. K. To try and protect the country from unknown clothing. U. K. Citizens and residents flying in from 22. 00 countries will be forced to isolate hotels for 10 days at their own expense the high risk countries include south africa and brazil like a variant already circulating we have also banned all travel from 22 countries where there is a risk of known variants including south africa portugal and south american nations and in order to reduce the risk posed by u. K. Nationals and residents returning home from these countries i can announce that we will require all sorts of rivals who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception. The Airline Industry says with no exit plan these measures will effectively close the u. K. s borders and argue the country already has strict protocols in place while some ministers want to quarantine every traveler we need a much stronger defenses of our borders we were one of the slowest countries to take any measures or all those when we had a quarantine system not many people and here we are today without a comprehensive way of protecting our borders at the very least is urgently needed. Vaccines are providing hope for many but the u. K. Has the highest death toll in here at the Prime Minister insists he has followed the science throughout the country make it the scientists disagree and grimly predicts another 50000 people could die charlie and al jazeera. The new man in charge of americas Foreign Policy says one of the Top Priorities of the Biden Administration will be how to handle iran in his 1st press Briefing Since taking office u. S. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken said washington wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out of but blinken called on iran to act 1st jabatan see reports i give the new u. S. Secretary of state once again pledge to rejoin the joint c. P. O. Iran nuclear deal President Biden has been break clear in saying that if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j. C. V. O. A. The United States would do the same thing. But there is still a great deal of ambiguity about the new administrations approach sometimes officials around biden appear to be saying the administration will rejoin the j. C. As it was with no change lifting the u. S. Is crippling economic sanctions concurrently with irans return to compliance while leaving open the option of follow on deals to address other issues of concern that did seem to be what lincoln said on wednesday but at other times they suggest the u. S. Will use its economic leverage to strike a tough a deal before it lift sanctions we are a long ways from that point iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance and time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations both blinken and have repeatedly pledged unconditional military aid to israel and that the u. S. Embassy will remain in jerusalem despite the occupation and its clear that the Israeli Government understands biden will be a close ally and. We are in front of the era of a new American Administration that is friendly to israel and we will know how to start to correct a Strategic Dialogue in the near future we will use all the tools available to us politically economically intelligence and security. But some wonder if the Israeli Government is concerned about exactly where the bike ministrations stands they have the very real prospect the United States and iran you mean negotiations at a very high level these are things that the israelis are trying to grapple with and theyre doing so by in my view really trumpeting a threat from iran that has not changed in the past ever. Iran meanwhile continues to reiterate that it will return to compliance with Iran Nuclear Deal once the signatories decide they really are prepared to abide by the agreement if they rejoin the deal will do so as well and for an entire year we kept Going Forward this way but weve always said as soon as you return to the deal will return to full compliance the next hour. In the meantime the biden ministration are sending conflicting signals even on tuesday sending a b. 52. 00 bomber on a round trip from the u. S. To the gulf in a show of force aimed at iran used by the trumpet administration several times in the dying days of its presidency. Of the state department. Meanwhile the u. S. Has temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. S. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken says its typical for a new administrations to review pending arms sales Donald Trumps administration had been doing deals down to the wire including one for 50 f. 35. 00 fighter jets some lucky martin to the u. A. E. The u. S. Ambassador to the u. S. Says his country will work closely with the Biden Administration to its peace and stability in the middle east where William Laurance a professor of International Relations at the American University he says the sale to the u. S. Will eventually go ahead. Well theres sort of 2 stories here one is that it is entirely normal as the administration is saying to review such weapons sales when a new administration comes in whats unusual is all of these public statements and all of this turmoil including tweets by senators you know and all and all the brouhaha around it that thats quite a typical its very likely that these sales will go through but its the way in which the children ministration hastily went through a whole bunch of quid pro quos relating to the Abraham Accords and other hasty actions at the end of the ministration created a circumstance by which even if the democrats and the by demonstration and really the arms sales structure theres a kind of bitter taste in their mouth about the way in which trump going to about it and thats really whats under review and so what happened last year in the year before is to murder. And the war in yemen sort of in one issue at the level of the senate and there was a lot of comments by senators about what you think you can trust saudi arabia cant trust yemen and much as much of that was as much directed at the trunk of ministration and their relationship with this country as any human countrys was doing and then what happened after that is they got 55. 00 votes in the senate 55 votes against the arms sales but they needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and thats still about the same ratio in the senate so if it came up for another congressional review the sales would go through again but the opposition to the conduct of the war and you met and worlds greatest humanitarian catastrophe is something the senates going to continue to raise the alarm bells about lots more thoughts coming on aljazeera including. We desperately need a unified National Response to the Climate Crisis because there is a Climate Crisis u. S. 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Sponsored plan Qatar Airways hello there weve got a north south split in the weather across the middle east at the moment surface southern areas sr looking lousy fine and dry quiet but the other north is a fair bit of cloud rolling off the turkish mountains that a ceasar to the mediterranean bringing some shabby right into the levant syria saying a few showers some showers there into Northern Areas of iraq pushing across into that western side of iran as we go on through friday the rain really peps up by friday actually cyprus will see some heavy downpours South Lebanon jordan pushing down across israel see some heavy rain into the palestinian territories you can follow this line of cloud on the right which stretches across northern parts of iraq into kuwait its essential areas of the red sea north of that thats where the active weather is south of that it is danbury 5 and dry 22 celsius here in doha with some pleasant sunshine the sunshine stretches down across the gulf of aden into the horn of africa a few showers just around the Lake Victoria into the rift valley and then as usual showers there across a good part of Southern Africa the wettest weather will continue across the eastern side of angola coming down across the botswana into the eastern half of south africa now remnants of a real tropical sites in the shallows continue here with wet weather the zimbabwe. 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The brink and also announced a temporary halt in arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. S. Donald Trumps Administration has been doing defense deals down to the wire including one of the 50 f. 35. 00 fighter jets from lucky martin says the u. A. E. Rival ethnic groups in mali have signed peace deals after months of mediation thats been years of violence between the magic herders and farmers hundreds of died and thousands displaced the reports. Im only the cattle in the slaughter house on the outskirts of the capital bamako are families hiding from death they are ethnic dogs and for long herders members of 2 agricultural communities who have been fighting over arable land in central mali their knowledge big side by side in the capital waiting for the violence to subside and you Peace Agreement mediated by swiss negotiators has been signed by both sides the deal is supported by malis Transitional Government but the people here are still too afraid to return home there than there are how can i dont believe a few signatures on a piece of paper can bring peace 1st we need to disarm everyone i mean each and every one by one needs to forfeit their weapons to allow us farmers to return to our land and bring this war to an end or. Rainfall and more droughts have made central mollies arable land a source of conflict full on the nomads encroach on dawn farmland to graze their cattle in 2900. 00 this learn dispute turned violent according to the Armed Conflict location and event data project almost 3000 people have died in the fighting mostly in central mali in the absence of the money and state to mediate this crisis armed groups stepped in fueling divisions eisel and alqaeda affiliates protecting the full on t