On hold whats up postpones privacy changes that prompted many users to abandon the messaging service for its rivals. We begin in uganda where the latest provisional results from elections show the countrys long time president has a seemingly unassailable lead president yoweri most 70 appears poised to win a 6th term in office after already serving 35 years with over 91 percent of polling stations counted oficial same was 70 has won at least 58 percent of the vote is main challenger bobby wine has just over 34 percent but has been rigged the final results are expected in around an hour from now as ringing in aljazeera as katherine so income forest katherine with been here before of course not really a surprise that was 70 said to be in the lead bring us up to speed with the results then and the reactions to these early results. Hi foley let me fast give you some information that is reaching us ive just spoken to bobby wind who says that he is effectively under house arrest he says that his house has been surrounded by Security Forces particularly the military he says hes not being allowed to leave hes called poems journalists who are there get called journeys for press conference and they have been blocked from accessing his compound so basically saying that he is under house arrest but we have spoken to some Security Officials here who are saying that bobby wine called the press conference to announce hes all in results and that is not allowed by law thats why people hes busy terms and john lisa being blocked from getting into his house but then they say they havent restricted his movements he is free to go anywhere as long as he goes with Government Security because he is still a president ial candidate and yes as you mentioned coming back to the tally center where we are the final declaration a president ial results are expected and the next hour and theres no surprise there president yoweri with 70 has been in the lead from the very start theres been a little a few questions that have been raised people are for example concerned about how the Electoral Commission has been transmitting results without the internet in time and the internet has been down for the last few days the lets throw commission as i have tried to explain saying that they have a system that does not rely on the internet but pushed father on the details of that system theyve been very vague about that people quite worried theres also concern that results of from Opposition Strongholds are arrived very very late including here in kampala those people are concerned about that as well. Bobbie wine youre wearing the 70s main challenger is claiming fraud as you said and hes told you countering that hes not being allowed to leave his home how exactly does he plan to prove the fraud in the election and what is he going to do to challenge these results. I mean thats what the elektra commission is saying the chairman of the Electoral Commission addressed the concerns of bobbie one who has stated that he has evidence of widespread allegations of widespread rigging in favor all president ial way in which 70 bobby wine says that he is going to present that evidence once the internet is back up but the Electoral Commission chairman has said that he needs to provide that evidence and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was massive rigging he says that in every polling stations where results of being counted there is a clear ration form the result because declare ration form that has to be signed by every agent all of the candidates and what we want to be in possession of those declaration forms to be able to prove discrepancies by he is the problem there is no internet these 34000 polling stations hes been able to get these declare is informed physically from all the areas so its a big logistical challenge it will be hard for him to prove but he does say he has that evidence and he will present it about the court system he has that option he has the option to go to court but then he has previously said that he is not confident that the Constitutional Court will give him a fair hearing thank you for that Catherine Story reporting there live from kampala india has begun its Coronavirus Vaccination Campaign one of the biggest and most challenging in the world on saturday 300000 people are set to receive jobs nationwide with Health Care Workers given priority india is using 2 vaccines the osgood astra zeneca vaccine and a locally developed one called call vaccine india has the 2nd highest coronavirus case count in the world after the us. On the great johnny. Those who need the vaccine the most will get it 1st those who face the greatest risk of infection they will be vaccinated 1st are doctors nurses hospital sanitation staff medical and paramedical workers have the 1st right on the vaccine whether they are in government hospitals or a private one and they will be given priority. After that those who have the responsibility to manage essential Services Defense and law and order will be vaccinated these include our Defense Forces Police Firefighters and sanitation workers. There is a lizabeth for animals more from outside a Vaccination Center in new delhi. Where at one of 81 vaccination sites in delhi where Health Care Workers at the 1st group of people to be receiving one of the 2 vaccines which was approved for use and 300000 Health Care Workers are being vaccinated around the country today in just over 3000. 00 Vaccination Centers promised in that interim or didnt launch the vaccination drive saying that this is the biggest vaccination exercise to be carried out anywhere in the world 30000000. 00 front line workers will receive the vaccine in the next few months it will be 300000000. 00 people in the 1st 6 months of the cea after front line workers its people over the age of 50 followed by those under 50 with us and while the beginning of the vaccination drive is being welcomed in india there are questions being asked about one of the vaccines one of the 2 vaccines which has been given approval that is a local vaccine called kovacs and made by a Company Called bought of biotech and thats because it hasnt completed face 3 trials now the drugs regulatory bodies said its use was approved for emergency conditions and the Health Minister said that it will be administered under Clinical Trial conditions but independent Health Experts saying that theres not a lot of clarity about what that means involve the government says that they have good safety and efficacy data that this is an emergency situation that the new mutant strain of the virus from the u. K. Is here again and dependant Health Experts say that the doctor that mashes from face 3 child has not been made available get. A germanys voting party has just elected a new leader has been chosen as the new head of the christian democrats. Chances are im going to marco prepares to step aside after 16 years at the helm as for a correspondent in berlin dominic cain so tell us who the new leader of the c. D. U. Is and which direction will he be taking the party. The man the christian democrats have just chosen as their new party leader has been seen by very many people in germany as the continuity candidate the man who if given the chance would keep his party but also his country on the same sort of course that angular magical has set is this country and her party for the best part of the last 15 years or so the point here is that in essence what mr lasher it is doing now is not replacing angle americal as chancellor or as chancellor candidates he is merely filling the position of the actual leadership of his party which had been in the hands of another person and that cant count on bar for the past 2 years also but now mr lasher it is the choice of his party at least the delegates at this conference but there are many many journeys ahead as it were many steps ahead for him as he plots his way as the new party leader. Hes led germanys most populous state for nearly 4 years soon i am in law should be leading his National Party with a clear direction in mind. To see you in the c. S. U. Or the last remaining parties which can guarantee social cohesion which is under threat right now we see it out on the streets with the coronavirus lots of aggression people who deny the virus exists and others who are lying in the Charity Hospital 500 meters away who are fighting for their lives and we feel this polarization of society in many other areas too and the c. D. U. As always been about bringing different positions together. Although saturdays vote needs to be confirmed by the entire Party Membership for many armyn lash it is a continuity candidate his slogan was there i am the representative of the executive branch so if you vote for me you can be sure you get a leader you get someone actually who had won election so none of the other 2 candidates actually ever won an election governing in his state during the pandemic has been an ordeal for lashing out the numbers of infections and deaths have been among the highest in germany and back when the incidence of covert was much lower he argued for less stringent lockdowns hoping to protect the economy as much as the people now his message is changed as he is the general election. Its important to point out that winning the Party Leadership on its own does not bring with it the right to work here the german chancellor Angela Merkel has already said she intends to serve out her term here so in order to replace the new party leader must win septembers general election but before he can do that may have to deal with another leading conservative marcus head of the c. D. U. Sister party in bavaria the christie and social union he could be the center right candidate in the autumn and many conservatives say they would rather vote for him as chancellor than any other candidate so far has played down the suggestion but not ruled it out completely meaning armin lash it has much to do if he wants to replace angle america in the autumn he put. The interesting thing is that mr deserve it took to twitter soon after the victory of armin nash it was announced to say that he looked forward to working together with with mr lasher to improve germany but the question still remains in what guys both of them are prime ministers of their respective states but now mr lasher it is affectively leader of his party that needs to be confirmed by the members on friday but its likely that they will confirm him but what they cant confirm is who actually will lead the conservative the center right force in germany into that september general election its still unclear thank you for that dominic cain ally forests in belin. Still ahead on aljazeera tight security ahead of joe bidens inauguration u. S. Cities do their utmost to avoid a repeat of last weeks chaos on capitol hill and why the National Rifle association of america is moving to texas. Its time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored plan Qatar Airways. There is still not much snow falling in china this cloud such disease mostly high and dry but you just hit the water with the cold and you see in the result it snows a lot in japan and its doing more of the same the wind is coming out of the cold interior cross the water and hans you get snow as does her car there and then every now and again sings change subtly the wind directions change gears as mondays forecast substantial snow seems likely to cross both north and south koreas already includes sold in this and then produce a huge amount of snow i think the north lawn shoe wants war but the sunshine for details of its 16 degrees in hong kong as well as it could be but not particularly when the in the sun is art which is not in new delhi in fact most of northern india good part of eastern pakistan is covered in this fog briefly clears about middle of the day and it gets cold at night with a cold wave is lifting in the forecast for sunday monday and tuesday is not cold at night. Well a bit more dubious that that would improve very much as bit of a breeze in the northeast monsoon in tamil nadu so a few showers here but nothing very much nor indeed much is happening in iran or the Arabian Peninsula but of course in turkey the levant its stormy. Sponsored paul Qatar Airways American People have finally folk and america as i see it when america is off balance or will become more dangerous the world is looking very little mixture of sadness and grief. With the election behind us will the Republican Party dump truck to the fuel weiqi take on us politics and society thats the bottom line there are some of the media stories a critical look at the global news media spread of us are on aljazeera government shut off access to social media. Welcome back a recap of our top stories on aljazeera if youre just joining us ugandan president yoweri most 70 is poised to win a 6th term in office with over 90 percent of ballots in the president ial election counted no 70 has won at least 50 percent of the fold his main challenger bobby wine has just over 34 percent and says the volt was raped india has begun its coronavirus tracks Nation Campaign one of the largest and most challenging in the world it aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by august thats nearly the size of the entire u. S. Population and germanys ruling party the city who has just elected i mean like shit as its new leader ourselves chancellor im going to merkel prepares to step aside after 16 years at the helm germany will hold a general election in 8 months time. At the Un Refugee Agency is calling for fighting in the Central African republic to stop they say the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries has doubled to 60000 in just a week on wednesday rebels try to attack the capital bongi but were pushed back by Security Forces a coalition of armed groups wants to overthrow the president. Want to 2nd term in office in december aljazeera is malcolm webb has just arrived in bangor joins us now live malcolm tell us 1st about the situation our Security Forces firmly in control of the capital right now. There are fighters from a coalition of rebel groups just down the road a few kilometers away on the outskirts of the city another Significant Group of them about 12 kilometers in that direction also on the edge of the city in both areas was heavy fighting 3 days ago now security sources say they also know how several so here within the city in preparation for an attack. Coalition of armed groups has given an ultimatum to the government it gives them 48 hours to get out that ultimatum expires on sunday evening now this comes ahead of the constitution ruling that due on tuesday which will potentially reaffirm the office of president there bring him in for a 2nd following the announcement of his victory in elections last month that victory is disputed the civilian opposition say the election was rigged and the armed opposition it was just down the road refuted the legitimacy of the whole election in the 1st place or the situation is tense the u. N. A reported widespread rights abuses kidnapping tortures killings of civilians cause many people to flee their homes now more than 60000 is the Un Refugee Agency said and people are still on the move right now people are waiting to find out whats going to happen here in the next couple of days but many of them arent risking it on sticking around to see what will actually go down so a tense situation. Around bangui of course is not the 1st crisis the 1st political crisis to hit the Central African republic how are people reacting to this. The situation in the citys sense is a curfew here now its nothing to do with covert there are barely any code restrictions the curfews because of insecurity so by the end the afternoon everyone closes up their shops disappears and goes inside people are waiting to see if there is indeed going to be attack in the coming days but in many other parts of the country when the armed groups or the fighting gets no its people to simply pack up and leave their homes because those widespread rights abuses part of the reason is certainly a tense situation here and a growing humanitarian crisis both for the displaced people here and those across the river in the neighboring democratic republic of congo who fled the camps thank you malcolm for that markham way of reporting there live from in Central African republic in the u. S. Nearly 100 charges have been brought against dozens of people and close to 300 investigations opened in connection to last weeks deadly capitol hill right. Nancy pelosi is calling for the prosecution of any members of congress who may have helped supporters of President Donald Trump if in fact it is found that members of congress were accomplices to this insurrection if they aided and abetted the crime there may have to be actions taken beyond the congress and in terms of prosecution aljazeera as mike hanna is in washington and has more on the investigations into the capitol hill. Threats of violence in the days leading up to the inauguration and maybe even beyond certainly very real according to Security Officials here in washington d. C. And palosi saying that it would be investigated whether some members of congress did those who stormed the capitol last wednesday now the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the mosque the sergeant of arms of the senate and the house asking them to investigate how many people were brought into the capitol the day before the siege by republican lawmakers they want to investigate because this is a slog to see exactly how many of come supporters were given guided tours of the capitol by lawmakers in congress they had observed a large number of groups being given tours around the capitol on january the 1st remembering at the moment all tools of banned because of covert regulations so this of great concern and nancy pelosi has appointed a retired Lieutenant General to investigate all the events around january the 1st however she hasnt ruled out the possibility of an outside commission such as investigated 911. 00 so certainly theres great concern not only about what is happening now in the threat that happening now but also exactly how those events last week came about and whether very importantly some members of congress were complicit or strict security measures are in place across the u. S. Ahead of wednesdays president ial inauguration road closures in parts of washington have already begun including major bridges and some metro stations how downtown have made way for some of the neighboring state of virginia where residents have been on edge since the storming of the u. S. Capitol. Its Early Morning in a new america arms stores is packed here all sorts of weapons on display from machine guns and semiautomatic rifles to destroy the revolver which jennifer when all this carries with her and its very small as you can see it fits in the palm of my hand. And we wouldnt typically consider caliber that you would use for selfdefense youd want something more substantial however a bullet. And if this discharges to someone it will cause damage and depending on the shop placement it could cause lethal harm americans bushs supporters 17000000 firearms and 2020 a Record Number the spike in sales started during the coronavirus pandemic and continued to rise during the black lives matter protests over Racial Injustice the november election has flirted divided the country with both republicans and democrats suspicious of each other more than ever there are those politicians who. Basically if you boil it down to really want control and we know historically that control cannot be achieved without disarming a population there are many examples of that. And so we are seeing the extreme left. I want to disarm the populace in the whole point behind english for control thats the truth of it nobody wants to admit that robert louis thinks this is a defining moment in the history of the United States you can see already in american politics im sure. We have to be on a Reasonable Republicans supported donald trump. And another con about being off oil and. I can see the point. Being a lot of the people who are opposed to. You know what so im just trying to be unified im not the father he wanted his children to witness how different this city is ds days with its empty streets and barriers this is a scene thats repeated across the country deceit of the State Government shut down to the public and sealed off and thats because the f. B. I. Has warned of potentially large scale and violent demonstrations and this is something most americans have never lived through before and its causing a lot of apprehension. One block away above scared to Virginia Supreme Court building authorities sealed off the area but the explosives were found just an example of how the country is on it the city council has banned firearms at demonstrations many say their rights are being stripped away and vow to rally in support of the 2nd amendment in the days leading up to the no gration of joe biden with the country deeply polarized the image of public parks and buildings closed is one of a nation in fear of itself but at that Hamid Al Jazeera in richmond virginia. One of the most powerful lobby groups in the u. S. Has filed for bankruptcy the National Rifle association of america plans to move from new york and register as a nonprofit in texas because of what it calls talk sick politics the announcement comes months after new yorks attorney general sued the n. R. A. Over allegations of corruption and misspending by Senior Executives Richard Feldman is a former regional director of the n. R. A. And author of confessions of a gun lobbyists he says the changes are unlikely to affect pending court cases in new york. Moving into new york perhaps theyre about 30 to 30 years too late to have done that. Clearly you dont file bankruptcy when youre in a good financial position. Theyre contradictions. But. Perhaps theyre hoping that if some positive news theyre doing something that has no impact whatsoever on the lawsuits that have been filed against them it only effects proceeding forward once theyre dissolved in new york state and they establish themselves in texas would with anything change and only prospect of like chapter 11 reorganization they may be some protections. In there but again it its not going to affect the ultimate outcome of what the court is seeking to do in new york state National Rifle association probably is missing a fair amount of its own clout that doesnt translate of course to gun owners losing clout there are 7 or 10000000 new gun owners in the United States just in the last year thats a trim thats more new gun owners than there are members of the n. R. A. But the n. R. A. Has had Financial Difficulties and theyve been embroiled in this internal fight for the last 2 or 3 years and its clearly hurt their ability to function in publicly in the political and legislative arena. In brazil 11 people have been charged over a fire at a Football Club that kills 10 teenagers in 2019 the boys died when a blaze swept through the flamingo a Training Center on the outskirts of Rio De Janeiro the clubs former president is among those charged prosecutors say officials tried to cover up the facts the boys were staying in shipment containers when the fire broke out the messaging platform passed postponed grand changes to its terms because of a backlash from uses it had given customers until next month to accept an update about the data it shares with its owner of facebook but its now scraps the deadline are more than 2000000000 users but concerns about the changes have led to a surge in demand for rivals signal and telegram margy murphy is the Technology Reporter for the Daily Telegraph newspaper she says what saab didnt communicate very well with users about the planned update. What sucks is actually updated how you talk with businesses and what happens there if you maybe are buying something from a shark or retailer want to sit in traffic for you kind of like a chap with that idea what. They might be sharing back information with state whos listing all their data for them they want to let people know about what the change was and not free to everyone out and that led people to look into what actually is being shy what and actually go check quite the information that has been doing so for about 4 years so its interesting that this week is when people start to realize well whats half assed came out really many people generated it it was actually owned by facebook then face that subsequently both say and thats when things started to change and thats why i think for a long time prince yes but said to be very cautious about using whatsapp if you care about privacy. Terms and conditions change over time its a private company and its about to do what it wants at the jam edge in that were really seeing people now migrating off into apps like telegrams signal which often more presale. And i dont know whether that would be a good clue but the only thing that might be stopping is if. The service be gallant signal a telegram or other apps it noted that is whats that that might make people think well you know i i probably share a little bit of information i have read. The other thing is the contact you have you any words to go on now you know other people have. Said it will be interesting to see how it plays out. As always much more news on our website at aljazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on the aljazeera the employer again im fully back to go with the headlines on aljazeera the latest provisional results from uganda as the elections show the countrys long term president has seemingly and as the seemingly unassailable lead president yoweri must 70 appears for his to win a 6th term in office after already serving 35 years and