fresh perspectives and new insights to challenge and change the way we look at the world. and al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.k. becomes the 1st country in the world to approve. pro-democracy activists are jailed for their role in last year's anti-government protests. thailand's constitutional court acquits the prime minister of an ethics

violation meaning he'll keep his post. nearly 4 months after beirut's ports explosion little hope remains for accountability. and in korean that could be said for an early exit from the european champions league 2 nil defeat against the past but then again the downside in danger of elimination. now the united kingdom has become the 1st country in the world to approve the 5 buy on takeover 1000 vaccine for public use the 1st immunizations are set to begin next week 50 hospitals across england are ready and waiting for the vaccine to arrive large scale vaccination centers are also being set up 800000 doses are expected in

the 1st delivery the u.k. health secretary says the most vulnerable groups will be given priority that includes the elderly people in care homes and those who care for them what it means for people is that from next week we'll be able to start rolling this out we'll start with those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus and it will you need 2 jobs so 21 days apart so and after that we will start protecting people as this protection comes with these these these 2 jobs and it will help save lives and then once we've started to. protected the most vulnerable it will help us all get back to normal and and and back to all the things that we love the pfizer biome take vaccine needs to be shipped and stored and cold temperatures making distribution difficult for the british government says

it set up 3 routes to distribute the vaccine as quickly as possible let's go live now to neve barker so the approval came in super fast how many. well something 1st of all the british government is now poised for one of the biggest health care operations to begin as early as next week the regulator here that gives the green light to see whether or not a vaccine can be used said that it approved the bio and tech pfizer vaccine for use from monday morning obviously the government had been waiting for their tsunami delayed jumped on that and gave it their seal of approval and according to as we just heard there might hang the health secretary for monday morning 800000 doses will initially be available for use that means they can treat for 400000 people

because you need 2 doses to jobs $21.00 days apart and the whole operation will gradually around popper in the coming months with the majority of people receiving the vaccine at the start of next year overall we know that around $80000000.00 doses of already been ordered by the british government with a possibility of treating 40000000 we're talking about 10000000 though being available before the end of the year and what we're waiting for now is to find out exactly how the government intend to prioritize giving out that vaccine dealing with the most vulnerable in society 1st to the youngest least affected by the harsh effects of the virus later it is a long and protracted process but one the government is eager to get started as soon as possible but there are of course lots of challenges talking about long and protracted it's going to be a bit of a challenge to get the vaccine out talk us through the just fix.

yeah that's absolutely right although the vaccine itself is manufactured in a plant in belgium and as you touch upon there it needs to be kept at extraordinary low temperatures minus 80 degree centigrade is called a cold chain vaccine meaning that every single point along the route from out a fracture to but from other factor to the point in which is actually injected into a person it needs to be maintained at that cold temperature which means that the best pay place to locations to receive the vaccine are going to be industrial centers with the all important equipment necessary to keep those temperatures as they are places like hospitals of course there is some indication when it comes to prioritizing how the vaccine will be given out that the most vulnerable in care homes will be given it 1st along with their carers national health service workers working in hospitals of course on the front line we dealing with covert also receive it to before then being given out to different groups progressively lower

down the age range to the youngest and least affected last as i said it was going to start slowly only 800000 doses those doses need to be approved before they are shipped in the factory in belgium 1st but things are moving behind the scenes who are believe that well fisi the 1st people start to get those jobs sometime on monday all right thanks so much nice barkha there. there's a briefing going on about that fax scene at downing street let's listen in analyzing the preclinical evidence the clinical trials the manufacturing and quality controls and then down to the final sampling. we've also reviewed and agreed the prescribing information so that the public and health care professionals are very clear and can be very confident that the vaccine is being rude used in the

correct way understanding what's involved and going forward from today our national institute for biological standards and control will be independently lobola tree testing so that every single vaccine that goes out meets the same high standards of safety and quality. and we benefited from a further safety step to following our thorough review of the data at the m h r a we have sought the advice of the government's independent body the commission on human medicines and i now like to turn to professor samir to explain the pivotal part its independent members have played in critically assessing every piece of evidence minear thank you very much so i chaired. a germs expert working i was listening in there tonight to dr julian ray and they have a regulator and h.r.a.

speaking about the process that they've been taking to approve this vaccine it's been approved in quick time making the u.k. the 1st country to be approved to use fines or buy on tech vaccine for co with 19 that's bring in now our guest stereo's models in newcastle he's a molecular rod just at northumbria university good to have you with us as our saying this is been approved very quickly what sort of corners were cut. the review process right now has not being a classical approval process has been stated by many media this is what's known as the imagine seat years of the rise asian and an emergency use of horizon nation as you suggest house sense and. facilitations shows say well the risk benefit for a position in this particular instance is looked out and the need for society and

the economy is put. a safety however it's critical to point out that an emergency use of their isolation does not mean that the violence is going to be out there and everything's fine it means that as the lady just said the head of the military the every single buch of the vaccine will be tested to confront it's of the same quality i don't want to tell composition there will be a fairly strict monitoring system put in place to ensure a low now even the slightest of it to us about it is recorded and if there is anything done to hold the imagine raise a lot to do immediately and decisions are going to be taken very very fast probably faster than it has taken to review the vaccine for measures to use the phrase issue whether to stop oxygenating will continue just to highlight what i mean by this you will recall that only in the summer we had an incident with another vaccine which had an adverse event in brazil and for that reason vaccination stopped with it for

a few days worldwide so this kind of monitoring and this kind of safety comes 1st approach well be put in place. how much of the population must be vaccinated for the virus can be effectively controlled. that's is a very good question and i'm trying to i don't like doubling at these kind of projections i think they're an interesting sort of gauge but the reality is that we need to focus right now on the fact that we don't have the vaccine even by next monday the general population will not have the vaccine and we have a festive period coming up where everybody is thinking about their home unless you're in the 1st of individuals in a health care professional settings with a very high risk of transmission you're not going to be protected and you're not going to be protecting of those around you from all that doesn't change the numbers

from i appreciate your cautiousness but what i'm taking away from that means that basically we don't know how much of the population we can't rely on this sort of usual measure of 70 percent versus 30 percent of the population. look if you want to put it in gross terms like that i think you know with it have a vaccine that's of acacias out about 95 percent a good 80 percent of the population being covered is going to be adequate however the reality is that we have a lot of people who find themselves concerned that the vaccine has been developed too quickly we have this vaccine modernise that's been following us for the last 20 years pushing against vaccination and all that is going to come out of the woodwork and i'm going to have to deal with that and try to explain to these people that actually this is a good thing not about think and when we will have additional complexities around the distribution and manufacturing of these vaccines plural across the entire

planet so let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater and let's fungus of the tasks at hand we've managed in less than 12 months to take an unknown disease from oh this is killing people to look there's a vaccine we can use so let's not lose let's not lose focus of perspective here we truly have a substantial chance of returning back to normality within 2021 if you will rally up and maintain the social distancing maintain the face mask maintain the hand-washing get top place in the queue to get the vaccine keep an eye open for any kind of serious adverse event we're all going to get a little bit of a swelling and a little bit of focus redness on the arm but that's not what mine and what if we just get on with it you know focus on the baby and the bathwater how long will it take to get around 80 percent i think you said of the population vaccinated with

this vaccine given is very special storage requirements. ok look we're not going to have just this vaccine coming out this is going to be the 1st of at least another 2 possibly 3 vaccines that i cannot come out for general use and let's not forget the chinese have their own vaccine that they've been using the russians of their own vaccine that they have been using with comparable to think as you might so it's a worldwide effort with many different tools coming into play it's not going to be just the fires or biotech vaccine that is going to make it to the far reaches of africa and brazil there will be a more logical to trade and effort worldwide to distribute the available but explore all to cover what is needed at that to put down just to say these hopefully in the annals of history but we know very well that it's taken decades to eradicate one disease we will be getting there potentially if we all run up and be maintained

our consciousness over the next few months will we be able to go for holidays this summer i'd like to believe so i would certainly hope so we will think about that's for sure those of us have been working in this space but. i'm not putting any any money into any kind of summer holiday packages get hope you'll be able to so and we all will thanks so much good to get your thoughts and analysis on that most of us 3 of hong kong's well known pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to prison joshua one will spend around 13 months in jail agnes chalo was given 10 months roll in last year's protests another activist ivan lan was sentenced to 7 months. so why have these activists been jailed well officially it's because of their involvement in a rally held in june last year thousands surrounded the police headquarters to protest against what they saw as their heavy handed tactics by police officers had

beer to be thin tear gassed and arrested protesters who spoke out against the law which would allow people charged with crimes to be extradited to mainland china but critics say the protest is just an excuse to charge the activists they say it's the beijing government once again flexing its control of the region and silencing its critics adrian brown has more from hong kong on those charges. joshua wong received 13 and a half months for organizing and inciting an unlawful assembly agnes chow received 10 months for organizing and participating in an illegal assembly and of course ivan lamb received 7 months now the reason why their sentences were not as high as might have been expected they were facing the prospect of 3 years in jail is of course a week ago they pleaded guilty the magistrate said on wednesday that only an immediate

jail sentence was the appropriate option now of course this is not the 1st time that joshua one has been to jail he has served 3 terms before he's been arrested 10 times when the sentence was read out in court agnes channel whose 24 on thursday burst into tears joshua one was in characteristically defiant mood he said the days ahead will be tough but we will pull through now in the past 18 months or so since the protests began more than 10000 people have been arrested a 1000 of those people were under the age of 18 and there have been almost 2300 prosecutions so the courts here in hong kong really are getting clogged up with cases stemming from those protests which are now of course largely died out. for them all still ahead on the news hour including contradicting the president the u.s.

attorney general bill barr weighs in on trump's claims of voter fraud settling a new legal precedent the story of one mother's fives i had daughters official cause of death. that is for as we hear from one of base basketball's biggest styles ahead of his long awaited return. type. ns constitutional court has acquitted prime minister. of ethics violation allowing him to keep his job the opposition had challenge the 4 magenta leaders decision to continue living in a military residence despite being a civilian leader but seize power in 2014 and then did his career as an army chief to become prime minister protests calling for his resignation started in july of since grown into calls for reforms of thailand's powerful monarchy. has more from

bangkok they said that because he is still serving the country and he's a retired senior member of the military that it's ok for him to be living on that property which is technically on a military base but they say also that this little house that he lives in is there for gas for v.i.p.'s so that they say was not a violation of any of these ethics codes as stipulated in the constitution obviously you've got this protest movement that is really kind of swelled since july and 1 of the main goals of the protest movement movement is to see prime minister pro tentative go they obviously were hoping for a different verdict today they're holding a protest just a little bit from here the constitutional court they wanted to come here during this hearing today but they were barred by authorities so they're holding a protest nearby again they say after this verdict came out they say they're going to continue on they're going to continue with the fight to have him resign and for the reform of the monarchy and they have a new constitution drafted so you might see it as a setback for them but they say they're going to continue with the fight u.s.

attorney general william boss says the justice department has not found voter fraud of a scale that could change the outcome of last month's presidential election his comments to the associated press contradicts president claims the vote was rigged unofficial now. william barr got the job as america's top law enforcement officer because he was loyal 'd to donald trump no the president might be questioning that loyalty just hours before a routine meeting at the white house the u.s. attorney general told the associated press he couldn't back up the president's claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020 saying we've not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election william barr became attorney general after jeff sessions was sacked donald trump didn't think he was loyal enough during the days of the investigation into alleged russian interference in the 26000 election since he took over bar has often been accused of acting more as trump's top lawyer rather

than america's his department of justice got involved in cases involving trump allies it dropped charges against a former national security advisor michael flynn even though he had method lying to f.b.i. agents and it intervened in the sentencing of course trump ally roger steward. attorney general barr also announced the findings of the miller prove into russia interference but was accused of misrepresenting the final results to make his boss lose a better investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities i am sure that all americans share my concern about the efforts of the russian government to interfere in our presidential election. a concern here by robert miller himself but there was a growing rift between the white house and the department of justice donald trump

wanted a pre-election investigation into barack obama and joe biden on the rules in the russia probe an f.b.i. announcement into hillary clinton's e-mails weeks before the 26th you know election gave him a boost he was hoping it would be the same again but had nothing to work with and couldn't deliver just weeks ago the man in charge of election cyber security said the 2020 presidential was the most secure in america's history that angered the president who claims without evidence that the election was stolen from him so he fired his official when news of bart's comments hit capitol hill other suspected what might be coming in response to attorney general bill barr i guess he's the next one to be fired since he now too says there is no fraud. trump's legal team says there's been no substantial department of justice investigation into any allegations of voter fraud the vine covered the sea they have substantial evidence

of wrongdoing in 6 states evidence they've yet to make public or present in court alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house and then the election official in the u.s. state of georgia has lashed out at president tom potter election staff received threats george is carrying out a 2nd recount of the trump campaign's request it has to stop mr president. you have not condemned these actions or this language senators you cannot condemn this language or these actions. this has to stop we need you to step up and if you take a position of leadership show some. speak now to robert coochie he's an associate professor at lang cost a university in the u.k. good to have you with us so how much of a change has that been the position here yeah i mean donald trump must just be

sitting back on his chair wondering where did it all go you know far did fall in line. rightfully in your your reporting there throughout his time in the administration and now you know i think donald trump grasping at straws looking for either states that will come to his support or his own justice department which really isn't his own justice department this might be the 1st time or seeing bar operating autonomously from the white house actually. interesting what's prompted the change is it that you know slowly even trump loyalists are realizing this is the end of the road so they might as well go out with some kind of reputation of being loyal to the constitution rather than the president. well i think that you know if we if we look at how donald trumps acting and then and then measure that against other folks it's what we've seen all along the donald trump's acting the way that he acts that's better and beneficial for him but the rest of these people

are career politicians right they want to keep some sort of job or you know in government or on some sort of board somewhere a corporate board and that's where a lot of these people go this connection between industry private business and then the public sector is immense and so people want to keep some form of credibility whereas donald trump can go back to his business whatever that may be in stick his nose and if you want into political movements but here we're seeing career politicians and civil servants holding a line and saying things are going to be very different come end of january we're going to have to work with a new administration we may want to have a role to play in that and so this is a maybe not so much about the constitution as it is about the south so also complaints in the state of georgia about threats of violence is the present all the president's comments encouraging bot. well donald comes demeanor and tenor

throughout all of this particularly now i mean even saying something was stolen can it can really get to the emotion of those true drum supporters and so he's never come out and said don't do violence right throughout his entire time as a candidate and as a president and certainly now is that this about any. so it was a concerns or any you know threats towards the violence and that's i think what some people are looking for is you know keep his tone and tenor but at least come out and say that he doesn't want his his truck supporters to ride. in one way and he's just not doing that so in that way that is fueling the ability of people to take this this route of ventas issue and that's when the wiring i mean how real do you think the threat of violence is well we did see and could know it was constant for instance when there were street violence there. there earlier in the year we

had you know white men coming from a completely different states with guns walking into these neighborhoods in the have been now accused of shooting and killing black individuals in a city that they weren't even from largely because. of what we see for manifestos of these people and statements that they've made that again the tone of the tenor of the trump administration and the campaign so these these ideas of take action are very very much a part of donald trump's messages that he sent by not disavowing and creating and it was he started creating enemies of the press then he started getting any enemies went with anybody who disagreed with him and almost seems to revel in the amount of emotional reaction he gets all right thanks for your analysis from a coaching that has time for

a weather updates with everything. hello there we got yet another tropical cyclone are running across southern india right warnings in force a see that massive cloud and here we go this systems continuing to intensify 110 kilometers per hour at least it is moving quickly so once it does punch its way through sri lanka into southern india the heavy rain should not last for too long it will cause flooding it will cause mudslides as you can see we could see in excess of 200 millimeters of rain so that's certainly something to keep an eye on them of those heavy downpours across the far north korean issue here we go through thursday into friday it will start spreading big and heavy downpours across a good part of town will not do and eventually it will roll its way across carol as we go on it's friday and saturday quite a splash of rain coming in behind southern parts of under professionals as seeing some of that weather weather as we go on through friday and on into saturday and then it'll east out into the open waters of the arabian sea but still quite a legacy of showers behind certainly going to see widespread disruption here on the

other side of the arabian sea a little bit of disruption here as well we got some clout there across central parts of saudi arabia maybe pushing towards the gulf we have seen flooding here recently those heavy downpours continue this weekend. so i had on al-jazeera. been hearing about the vaccine rollout in the u.k. we'll hear about american officials and what vast sang about 1st access to the shell that. china begins drilling on the moon scientists could have their 1st new samples of lunar walks since the 19 seventies and the heat is on last season's champions league runners up the latest from europe's premier club competition coming up in sport. in 2008 raggy omar traveled across the united states discovering what it was like

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now 3 of hong kong's well known pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to prison joshua will spend around 13 months in jail agnes challen ivan lamb received shorter sentences prime minister probably youth channel church has been acquitted of ethics violations in a case challenging where he lives a former army chief is still in military housing despite resigning from his army post 6 years ago. the u.k. government has approved the pfizer and biome tech code with 19 vaccine to be rolled out from next week its vaccine committee says it's expecting to start with those most at risk including health workers and residents of care homes. deciding who

gets a vaccine 1st is also under discussion in the u.s. set to approve a vaccine that is expected to start distribution before the end of the year the advisory committee on immunization practices says health care workers in the elderly need to be a priority and the gallica has more. in hospitals across the u.s. medical staff are making preparations to receive the 1st branches of the coronavirus vaccine currently to drug makers pfizer and maduna seeking emergency approval for their drugs as the u.s. averages 150000 new cases a day the death toll according to johns hopkins university stands at close 227-0000 the advice from health experts to the c.d.c. is that the elderly and frontline medical staff should receive the vaccine as a priority it's estimated that close to 900 health care professionals have died after contract in the virus. 50 concerns of prompted health care workers to strike

in illinois we pack our workers die from coal that we have health keeping laundry dietary worker's activity a everyone on our department have died from this disease and so we might have to pay for our workers the elderly and those who care for them have also been hit hard by the pandemic the doctors say they'll be prepared when the time comes company has not yet told us all the details but we do know there's maybe a little bit ahead a years after the vaccine but that's good because that means you're now getting a response and certainly i mean a side effect is better than getting kind of it or spreading the food and drug administration will meet with drug manufacturers later this month to discuss emergency authorization if vaccines are approved they'll be ready to ship within 24 hours ultimately it's up to individual states who gets vaccinated 1st but logistical challenges remain some vaccines require refrigeration at great expense

others need more than one dose in all for a 21000000 health care workers across this country and 3000000 people living in long term care facilities despite the challenges many states have been preparing for months for people who are in michigan as an example we're going to make sure that they don't get left out. doing a lot of back and figuring out you know. how many people where and they're going to distribute it that way health experts say the general population may not get the vaccine until spring next year warning that people will still need to wear masks and practice social distancing the next few months are expected to be brutal as winter takes hold and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida brazil has unveiled its plan for vaccinating nearly $110000000.00 people that's about half the population indigenous people health care workers and those age 75 and above will be the top of

the list those aged between 60 and 74 and people with prior health conditions will be vaccinated later the final phase will include teachers 1st responders prison staff and inmates. the prime minister swore to me has been transferred to hospital after testing positive for corona virus 2 weeks ago the government statement released on social media says bro's meenie will be taken to a neighboring a medical facility in neighboring south africa for care says he is responding well to treatment as fortini has recorded 6000 coronavirus cases and 122 deaths nigerian m.p.'s have summoned fraser muhammadu buhari to parliament to answer questions about last week's mass killings in borneo state at least 67 people were beheaded by boko haram fighters on saturday senators have criticised biharis government for failing to stop the armed groups attacks in the north they also want

security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman caused anger after blaming the farmers for the attacks nearly 4 months after the beirut port blast him vesta gazes of almost completed their task. but the families of victims survivors and human rights groups fair high ranking officials will escape blame the reports were on the frontline of the explosion and from 4 months ago nobody helped us on august for a powerful explosion believed to be caused by ammonium nitrate that caught fire ripped through port. its impact was felt kilometers away 200 people were killed thousands were wounded and tens of thousands made homeless peers emails extended family used to live in this 8 story building who are still displaced how can we come back in the states i didn't believe thousands of lebanese have been struggling to rebuild their homes the cash strapped government has largely been absent and

geos can only do so much piers family didn't just lose their homes they lost a brother jacob what's happening grief is now compounded with anger towards a political class that acknowledged knowing about potentially explosive material and safely stored for years they destroy not only this city not only in my houses and my brother houses and our building we lost everything we lost any hope survivors and victims' families and human rights groups believe high ranking officials including the president should be held to account so far the investigation has focused on port and customs employees like other explosions and assassinations were not locally tried and therefore we called for an international investigation there is little face of lebanon's judiciary long

accused the big politicized there's also little faith in the political class accused of decades of corruption and that legends now some accuse officials of wanting to bury the past by demolishing structures at the port that have come to symbolize what happened to beirut and its people the state says the grain silos risk collapse an assessment dismissed by some experts who say the structures should be kept as a memorial there is a similar situation that happened in hiroshima when the hiroshima bomb explodes to. organize. a sort of memory park to recall the the memory of the tragedy in lebanon we used to raise always the memory of to reach the grain silos are credited for absorbing the brunt of the explosion and limiting the damage to the western half of the city there are also evidence of a crime many fear may go unpunished in a country with a legacy of impunity. israel's

alternate prime minister benny gantz says his party will back an opposition bill in favor of dissolve parliament can says he's lost patience with benyamin netanyahu and is ready to break their alliance if a long overdue budget isn't passed immediately the move could force israel's for selection in less than 2 years lawyerly assure you that because. i had no illusions in regard to netanyahu i knew his record as a serial promise violator but i thought that the citizens of israel are more important than any leader and that netanyahu will rise to the occasion it didn't happen netanyahu promised unity he promised netanyahu said there will be no tricks he promised responsible management of the corona crisis and the public is paying the price he didn't lie to me he lied to you around 8000 people in

a remote community in indonesia are seeking shelter from an active volcano authorities of raise the alert level on down to lower talaq jessica washington reports from jakarta on the boat island in indonesia's southernmost province he says now and. thousands usually live on the slopes of the volcano accustomed to its quiet grumbling close to their homes. but days ago a large eruption triggered panic among the local population ashot more than 4 kilometers into the sky people fled their homes and sought shelter to free that i was so scared i fed my goods quickly and took off to the town the volcano is still highly active authorities have closed the nearby airport and set up a safety zone the bag was at the up but there was still eruptions this morning every time it happens this thick smoke coming from the u.k.

new emergency shelters are providing food blankets and medication and it is not whenever we will keep evacuating people in accordance with the warning the closest villages could potentially be hit by hot lava and volcanic materials that local authorities are also having to deal with the ongoing health crisis and the added number that are diarrhea dengue fever and coated 19 we are implementing health protocols in a camp to stop your virus clusters forming. the alert for the volcano was raised to the 2nd tightest warning level and the experts on the ground warn against complacency. according to the das that there have been intense volcanic earthquakes and there is the potential for more eruptions. in asia sits on what's known as the ring of fire which makes it vulnerable to frequent seismic activity it has $147.00 volcanoes and several have been highly active this month. pulled across different islands are now on the 2nd highest alert level prompting

the evacuation of thousands of people authorities here in the capital say they are closely monitoring the situation after a census picked up an increase in volcanic activity authorities say the situation is normal. in indonesia in what year or millie 10 to 12 will cain was iraq. can be at the same time can be a different time on the boat island the streets are quiet and the houses empty people left not knowing what might remain when they return just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. the mother of a 9 year old girl from south london and died after a severe asthma attack is trying to make legal history she is fighting for air pollution to be recorded as the course of death something that's never happened before and there's nadine barber reports strong evidence to support her.

deborah was a keen swimmer dancer and cyclist by the age of 9 she had the reading age of a teenager but she never made it to her 10th birthday over a 3 year period she suffered numerous seizures going into hospital 27 times with breathing problems an inquest in 2014 found ella died of acute respiratory failure after a severe asthma attack but that was quashed when new evidence emerged about local air pollution her mother wants air pollution recorded as the cause of death something that's never happened before in the u.k. for the 6 years of her life there is no warning of how everything was going to and hopefully from this case we would learn a lot more about the impacts on health and governments everywhere would take action so no children will have to go through what my late daughter went through the new inquest is also considering what steps were taken to reduce air pollution and to inform the public experts say pollution levels at

a monitoring station hearing cat food near relatives home consistently exceeded legal limits in the years up to. most developers half hour walk to school was along this highly congested roads 2 years after she died an expert report concluded there was a direct link between her condition and levels of nitrogen dioxide and airborne particles in this area the inquest could set a precedent helping people hold local and central government to account for the air they bring. rosamond q.c. deborah was never told about the risks of air pollution to her daughter but clean air campaign is say there's now plenty of evidence it's cutting short thousands of lives across the u.k. . it causes and makes worth a whole host of diseases from asthma heart attacks to cardiovascular disease to dent and we know that it impacts and hardest as well say that's children older people and also those on low incomes the local authority where rosamond lives has

admitted it should have treated pollution levels as a public health emergency she's hoping the inquest into well as death can make everybody think about its impact and take action to save lives. al-jazeera london. peru's former president is refusing to testify before the parliamentary commission that removed him from office last month martin attended a closed door session on tuesday but told reporters he had made use of his legal right to remain silent he remains under investigation for corruption which he denies the scars removal in the vendor led to a political crisis that saw 3 presidents in 9 days and violent protests across peru the giant radio telescope and puerto rico has suffered major damage 100 ton receiver platform fell 140 meters smashing into the radio dish below after cables holding it up snapped it was the largest dish in the world when it was built nearly 60 years ago was used to discover the 1st planet outside the solar system is also

featured in the james bond film goldeneye a chinese spacecraft to started collecting rocks on the moon. 5 touchdown on tuesday if it gets the samples back to earth successfully china will become only the 3rd nation to do so an important step in a much more ambitious space program under chapelle now. shortly after touching down on the ocean of storms a volcanic plane on the near side of the moon china's state television showed pictures of yet another homegrown technological breakthrough in space. or long march 5 is on a historic mission to bring back rock and soil samples from the moon the 1st such mission in more than 40 years to go down a little mundane this movement is the 1st step it's steadily landed on the surface very steady and very good playing a very important foundation for the next steps for. the lander has

a number of instruments to make this happen including a camera as well as scoop and drill capabilities. to ensure that next is the drilling and collecting of samples on the surface and folding the national flag and making preparations for taking off. if all goes to plan 2 kilograms of rock and soil samples will be brought to earth later this month with hopes of learning more about the moon's origins formation and volcanic activity. but 1st another historic feat an unmanned meeting and docking with a return craft in lunar orbit 380000 kilometers away from earth. although we've done the landing twice before this mission the land is heavier than the jade rabbit rover so it's harder to control and requires more precision i don't know i only know that mission last year landed a rover on the dark side of the moon which has never been done before it's still roaming around exploring the surface and sending back images like these billions of

dollars are being poured into china's military run space program which has ambitious plans in store including building a moon base in the coming years and a space station with a permanent crew the mission is expected to wrap up when the spacecraft returns with its samples likely to land in inner mongolia later this month. al-jazeera. staying with china and the country is cracking down on imported frozen nathan after packaging was found to be contaminated by covert 19 in more than 10 cities authorities say traces of the virus have been discovered on imports from brazil india germany and several other countries katrina you reports lacey hall used to run a thriving imported meat and fifi business but the pandemic has changed that the chinese government says an increasing amount of furs and food being sent to china carries traces of coronavirus and it's placed heavy restrictions on many of the products she sells are imparted to me the undersea food now must pass well worth it and

customers who are a about the 50 who don't dare to buy chinese authorities say traces of the virus have been found on furs and chicken beef and seafood from nearly 2 dozen countries nearly 3000000 people were tested in the put city of team gin up to 2 warehouse work is reportedly contracted carved 19 off the handling last month the findings have resulted in new screening measures and some implants being banned the government crackdown has affected vendors. our wholesale is nationwide this used to be a busy hub and may just also this is an important phrase and see if it now this area has been completely shut down and closed off experts say it's possible for current virus to be transmitted via cold chain products they are unlikely. to read. in english.

and most important. thing and actually. for them and. the foreign ministry says frozen food transmission suggest the corona virus may not have originated in china do you want to work over there china was the 1st to report cases it doesn't necessarily mean that the virus originated in china tracing the origin of the virus is a complicated scientific issue. the world health organization says it's highly speculative to argue that if these did not come from china the agency is conducting an investigation into high on the original epicenter of the outbreak but will be given limited independent access to official records germany and new zealand are among several governments who have criticized china's crackdown on imported for isn't fruit say new restrictions amount to unfair trade barriers the chinese

government has frozen packaging can be contaminated by the corona virus there have been no cases of people acted by consuming imported foods. and international sand art festival is giving indian artists a chance to shine it normally shows off the world's best sand sculptors but this year foreign artists couldn't join the festival art. is from across india have crafted seaside works based on the crown of virus and climate change. still ahead of al jazeera in spalls these world champion footballers score a major with field details coming up in just a moment. over

. the all. all right sports fans trying to catch up with all the games thank you very much sammy lowell majed head coach than he did then says he's not going to resign to his . shock champions league defeat against shaktar the 13 time european champions are in danger of elimination after the 2 nil away lost on tuesday their fate is still in their own hands however real can guarantee progress to the knockout rounds by beating rusia motion to in their final game. you know put on a really beat you to put on a no i'm not going to resign you do all the moves keep going in the 1st half we were good but we couldn't get the 1st goal that would have changed

a lot because the goals did a lot of damage we played well at the home and personally with the ball we had 2 or 3 chances and hit the post then it got complicated. and by immunex were called winning streak has ended the reigning champions that were held to 11 draw by a tactical buy and have already made it to the last 16 while that eco need a point next week to seal their place in the next round. liverpool have booked their spot in the last 160 with a victory over i x. at atlanta also one on tuesday they face next with both sides in with a chance of advancing or inter still have a slim chance to progress after their win over munchen gladbach and man city were held to a goalless draw by portal but have secure a top spot in their group who play exceptionally well 14 who cannot to score but we came here to finish 1st we are happy i guess who ports as well so begin program blumen for

a competition for the team on last year's runners up. take on that manchester united in the pivotal game on wednesday the french side need to win at old trafford to make sure their have their fate in their own hands for the final round of the matches this year are currently level on 6 points in group h. both trail leaders united by 3 points only going assaulters side know that a point from their remaining 2 matches it will be enough to see them progress. the quicker you can qualify the better of course with a win win win the group so of course does our intent we want to go out there with it. in our style talking into and defending well against a top team with some top individual players of course both our mindset is win this game and we won the group. on a sunday remember shoes we had the same feeling before the game against it was obviously a must win match also it depends on lives it is result at istanbul before our game

we were at old trafford to win not just to get a good result and winning here is one of the world's toughest challenges but it's not impossible. yokohama money knows us through to the knockout rounds of the asian champions league it for the 1st time in the history of japanese side be 2 time champions jones working on di motors for one in their group game the result means the south koreans are out of this year's competition york a home a well have the chance to win the group when they play sydney f.c. on friday. and china 12 if a grand missed a chance to guarantee their spot in the knockout round they came back from a goal down a draw 11 with blue links south koreans still have one group game left and the overtake ones who if they can beat a vessel could be by to go marchin on friday. and the

seattle sounders are through to the m.l.s. western conference final the f.c. dallas one nil on tuesday took their place seen only got the goal on 49 minutes this will be their 2nd consecutive trip to the conference final. united states women's football team have won their battle for equal working conditions as a mail account to parts or they've reached a settlement with the u.s. soccer federation relating it to areas such as hotel accommodation venue selection and professional staff support that this agreement has been made to the reigning world champions and can move forward forward with their appeal for equal pay a judge had ruled against them on the mat and may. basketball star kevin durant's a says he cannot wait to make his highly anticipated return from injury the 2 time

n.b.a. champ in rapture to his accolades tendon 18 months ago and hasn't played since the 2019 n.b.a. finals at that time he has with the golden state warriors and has since moved to the brooklyn nets the new n.b.a. season will begin on december 22nd. i'm just looking forward to have a some new energy source for. the o. to play with his team especially your guys look forward to them anywhere i care. about experiences that i would do honestly and hopefully kind of shape hoekstra as they go to work this league so i'm just looking for just an excuse position in this rule you know i'm excited about taking them and that's why as well for my own hand you back to sammy thanks so much sarah you can get much more on all those stories

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. how just 0 world. on al-jazeera. 201950 disputed in next and forth believe you dizziness president inflight style as of o'malley's can fit it if he chose and hope to the 10 his party rallied behind new candidates. with a tense new election drawing close in late 2020 people in power went behind the field to see if the indigenous movement could have an mockable comeback in libya exile over 10 on al jazeera it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual numbers could be much higher than advertised researches

say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. the u.k. becomes the 1st country in the world to approve fires and bio and text could it 19 vaccine. i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hong kong pro-democracy activists are jailed for their role in last year's anti-government protests. thailand's constitutional court acquits the prime minister of an ethics

violation meaning that he'll keep his post. and drilling on the moon scientists could have the 1st new.