brink of releasing new vaccines to reduce the spread of the virus will it be enough to bring the global health crisis to an end the coronavirus pandemic special coverage on a. plate . al-jazeera. hello this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. the u.k. becomes the 1st country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine it's been cleared for emergency use and will roll out from next week. after months of deadlock that's funny progress in efforts to restart peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban. 3 prominent hong kong activists are jailed for their role in last year's pro-democracy protests. and what

a 1000000 people displaced but what about those left behind from anna terry and workers are granted access to ethiopia's to great region. is the 2nd hottest year on record how climate change is pushing some of the natural world's most beautiful landscapes to the edge of survival. and in sport make sure america's son of former world champion michael will race in formula one next season the 21 year old the son for the 1st same 3 decades on his father's form but you. will begin here in london where the u.k. has become the 1st western country to grant emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine europe's worst affected country will start rolling out the doses developed by pfizer a biotech as early as next week while a pandemic continues to wreak havoc on people's lives and the world's economy.

first in line will be those most at risk including care home residents health care workers and those over the age of 80 the u.k. has ordered 40000000 doses that's enough for 20000000 people just under a 3rd of the national population as they'll need to receive a shot twice it will also be difficult to rollout the vaccine was 95 percent effective in trials but needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees celsius close to temperatures in antarctica the world health organization is reviewing the vaccine for a possible emergency listing which is a benchmark for other countries to authorize national use for brennan begins our coverage from london. the approval of a vaccine almost exactly a year since coded 901st emerged in china is a triumph for science the final trial data for the pfizer buy on tech vaccine was only submitted to the u.k. regulator the m h r a a week ago but as a result of

a process of rolling approval examining data even as the trials were taking place the regulator has been able to move swiftly and confidently to declare it effective and safe the safety of the vaccine has been scrutinized independently by our commission on human medicines and no stone has been left unturned so absolute confidence in the safety effectiveness and quality of the pfizer violent tech vaccine. brussels airport has been demonstrating its refrigerated cargo facilities in expectation of a major role in distributing the belgian made vaccine britain has bought 40000000 doses of the pfizer buy on tech job in the 1st 800000 doses will be shipped to the u.k. within days we're packing vials of fact seeing as we speak and will be shipping in the next 2448 hours the 1st batches to the u.k. $10000000.00 doses will be delivered by the end of the year and the remainder will arrive during 2021 we're no longer resting on the mere hope that we can return to

normal next year. in the spring but rather the sure and certain knowledge that we will succeed and together reclaim our lives and all the things about our lives that we love there are still challenges this specific vaccine needs to be kept within minus 70 celsius and minus 80 celsius meaning that hospitals will almost certainly have to be the main hops for distribution but it can be kept for up to 5 days a normal fridge temperature between 2 degrees and 8 degrees celsius individuals need to japs 21 days apart for full protection and in the u.k. a committee called the j c v i says elderly care home residents and their carers will be 1st in line in order to protect the most vulnerable we have prioritized the most vulnerable individuals 1st the other element is protection of the n.h.s.

the health and social care system because by protecting the n.h.s. we osu protect lives the challenge now is to manufacture and distribute the quantities required to meet what will inevitably be extraordinary demand britain has a head start but the united states has ordered 100000000 doses of the pfizer biotech jab and the european union 200000000 there are several other vaccines undergoing final stage trials and vaccine candidates by modern oxford astra zeneca have been submitted to regulators with the u.k.'s approval pfizer bio on tac are leading the field the options for tackling this global pandemic are likely to get even wider within a matter of weeks paul brennan al-jazeera london. one assessment telt and he's a professor of molecular of our energy at queen's university belfast and joins us live via skype thanks very much for being with us. just what the difference is here between the emergency approval and approval what how it would be an enormous 2nd sources. so the emergency honestly would mean that you would have to

a vaccine being scrutinized to very very very rapidly for all of the components that are there and all of the data that's been generated throughout the the 5th efface 3 clinical trials but in a very rapid period this is what i would understand to be the case normally it takes a quite a while to have an iterative interactions between the the authorities that approve the vaccines and the companies in the case maybe to make sure that all of us in search rest very very quickly and early the emergency here is like is obviously to deal rapidly with the damage in trying to control the level of infection that's happening throughout the community and i mean is there any danger that there's a that if they have gone through all the steps people might have a perception is being rushed through and that might affect public confidence. that is obviously the concern but i think once we have a clear indication that the data has been looked at very very carefully and the

level of risk associated with. adverse events has been clearly looked at hopefully i can my hope is that people will be the fears will be relate and prevent it from giving people the impression that it's about vaccine and there's probably issues or any problems related to it so i would be fairly satisfied and have confidence that the image or a have done the job necessary to be able to tell us that it is safe and it is effective at this stage and so the thing in the u.s. regulates the f.d.a. and the european medicines agency they take a slightly slower approach and they range public meetings in the next few weeks to discuss the vaccine is ahead of the approval is it does that something that you think is a useful step or do you think they should just be bringing them in sooner. again difficulty to know without knowing specifically what. the conditions that they each of those regulatory agencies would be looking for and why they want to go slower

than the any jury it's difficult to comment on that laura. like you know maybe that's a question for them the f.d.a. and the e m a in order to get some indication of why they're being slower in terms of their analysis of the data and analysis of the process so far and why they will need more time to get to the point of approval should that be the case. in the field of vaccines and the says this area for a long time if you had to meet somebody asking about and they expressed doubts about this particular vaccine because it's a new type of vaccine what would you say to reassure them. so the reassurance is based on the fact that the vaccine trial has gone through all of the trials phase one phase 2 and phase 3 and things too cannot start to face one was not acceptable and especially in terms of safety there will be an independent monitoring board that will look at all of the data for each of the phases of the clinical

development the 2nd thing is that all of them have obviously passed so far in terms of safety the numbers that have been implicated in this trial being 43000 people that is a really big trial in terms of efficacy trial for a. vaccine a viral vaccine so that is exactly what would happen in any other situation if it takes a little bit longer one of the advantages of this particular vaccine in terms of the pandemic is one of the rare ones for that matter is that there's many many people are infected with this virus and there's a lot of transmission of the virus in the community and therefore the risk of the really the opportunity for people to become infected in the trial would be substantially higher than it would be for other some other vaccines for example. sparty sensitive virus which i've worked with quite a lot so that means the trials that can reach their efficacy end points in terms of

the number of people who are infected probably airily here than they do in other vaccine trials in which the virus circulation is 1st of all dependent on the time of year for example ours feet circulates during the winter response season and therefore if you initiate a trial during the summer you're unlikely to see any efficacy so this is a big part of that as well and the numbers as i say are like very very large in terms of safety so there's a tremendous amount of safety data available so far so this to me would give significant confidence that the vaccine is so far at least it looks very good one expect as opposed to the people who would be most at risk would would actually be quite keen to get a vaccine but perhaps that's not necessarily the case what do the figures suggest in terms of people readiness to have vaccines who are in the at risk groups. so i haven't seen a poll in all the poll data directly with that but my understanding is that there's some polls out there suggesting that over some 70 percent of people are willing to

take the vaccine so that to me is very encouraging obviously the main focus initially with the initial rollout will be to focus on the people who are at risk of the highest level of that severe disease and death due to the virus so the obvious thing that will happen very early the 2nd thing is obviously people in the health care system particularly doe's that have to treat individuals who are infected and therefore they're exposed much more frequently than people in the general community so these people i would suspect where their lives are in danger or their health is in serious danger were be very likely to take the vaccine much more broadly than say younger people who don't necessarily get severe disease with this with the scars of a soltan path think you very much indeed for talking to us you're very welcome. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention has announced relaxed quarantine measures as the country inches closer to the rollout of an approved vaccine and canada joins

us live from miami florida how close is the u.s. not to running out of actually. while the procedures going forward have pretty well laid out for everybody to see the food and drug administration will consider the pfizer vaccine 1st on december the 10th if that does get approval it's expected that vaccine will start rolling out within 24 hours in fact the company of all being flying in those vaccines to the united states in preparation the f.d.a. will then meet again on december 17th for durness vaccine if they get approval the same thing will happen obvious here over the last couple of days and we've had the center for disease control get advice from an independent board saying let's get this to people in long term care facilities and medical front line staff so that is the procedure going forward and remember this country has really seen a huge number of people with covert 19 an outsize number for what this nation is

150000 cases a day here in the state of florida this is only one of a handful of states recording more than and 1000000 cases so it's clear that help is on the way of course there are some logistical problems we've heard before how cold these vaccines need to be kept up heard reports of refrigeration units being in short supply and also there are 2 doses needed with something like 21 days in between them and this is a very large country 330000000 people that's the population here so this is a huge task but the top administration seems pretty confident that they can get this done that they say by mid february something like 20000000 people will have received the vaccine but of course we are now going into those cold bitter winter months in this country and the warning from people like dr anthony is look don't let your guard down at the moment these next few months may be the most brutal of this pandemic that they're talking about the possibility of 200000 more people

dying according to some projections that i've seen so help is clearly on the way. it's a procedural matter now we are expecting the food and drug administration to approve both of these vaccines especially given what's happened in the u.k. but it is a huge operation in which certain groups will be prioritized but there are still questions about once the elderly and those in care homes have been treated once people who are on the front lines of all this have been treated who is next because we know communities of color have been hit pretty hard and people may have to wait until at least the spring before this is generally available and again i thank you very much russia's president has ordered officials to begin maskaev in 1000 mex nations next week that amid putin says $2000000.00 doses of sputnik vaccine will be ready within the next few days but it won't be mandatory that it is reported to be 92 percent effective against the virus russian health minister says more than 100000 people have already been vaccinated russia has detected 2300000 infections

under new coronavirus restrictions italians will not be able to attend midnight mass or move between regions over the christmas period italy has been reporting more daily virus fatalities than any other european nation in recent weeks new cases and hospital admissions slowly dropping but the government is worried about gatherings over the festive season health officials say christmas eve mass must end in time for people to return home before 10 pm curfew. coming up on out there this news out ok we come back in just to. the anger of survivors of beirut's deadly explosion 4 months on and they're no closer to returning home costs. are going to go back to a. speech a refugee from ethiopia. who was forced to leave his family behind. and his support we hear from one of basketball's biggest stars before his long awaited return.

has been a breakthrough in efforts to revive peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban representatives from both sides say they've agreed on a framework for negotiations to begin i mean holding talks for months to determine how peace talks should go forward that in a dairy is a member of the afghan peace negotiation team in doha he says discussions are moving forward despite the ongoing violence. there is no doubt the people of afghanistan are fed up with the level of violence would continue that tack on our institutional public infrastructure. innocent large that are being taken through attacks carried out more intensely in the past few months but the very fact that they will violence makes it more necessary to engage more.

into peace discussions our primary the people of afghanistan primary month interest to silence the guns to reach to cease fire and that's what we are committed to achieve there's. been a discussion about the systems by our key partners is a sort of decision of then but as long as much depends on our side it plans to some of us than is committed both to defend and protect our people and our busy constitution but also busy to commit fully genuinely with good faith to reach to peaceful settlement in this war. 3 prominent how college democracy activists have been jailed for their role in last year's protests joshua one agnus child and ivan lamb were found guilty of unlawful assembly aging brown has more from hong kong and a warning his report contains flash. it's become an end of the day ritual outside

west magistrates court a crowd chants defiant slogans as prison vans take away those convicted on trial over last year's unrest but the throng was bigger on wednesday so it was impossible to see which of the vehicles contained the 3 high profile activists among the more than 2000 people prosecuted since last you joshua one agnes char and ivan lamb avoided a heavy a sentence of depleting guilty last week the trio's detractors celebrated with champagne in spite of titan covert $1000.00 restrictions banning public gatherings of more than 2 people for the activists supporters though it was another blow and this is their choice our off law. yaphet we have very disappointed but we are at all be aware of they are not rightist one of the one who

is our writers the governor was one is no stranger to prison he's already served 3 jail terms the activists were convicted of offenses that took place last june when protesters laid siege to the police headquarters marking the start of months of unrest agnus child who turns 24 on thursday burst into tears as the sentence was read out joshua long was in characteristically defiant mood shouting tough days are ahead but we will hang in there chao is due to return to court next year she was arrested in august under a harsh new national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers but has yet. to be charged. is a former local politician and a supporter of the law there are all lot of people some of those such as joshua wall and its child was actively. trying to promote in the home going to penzance

and that is a fight i know some of them are just about trying to say well we didn't authorize it but look at the look at the facts and look at the evidence hong kong's leader kerry says she's restored order after last year's on rest part of that process the almost weekly prosecutions of young protesters including now its best known ones adrian brown al jazeera hong kong the united nations says it signed a deal with his government to get on restricted humanitarian access to the tigre a region they greenman to allow aid workers into federally controlled areas more than a 1000000 people have been displaced by fighting that began almost a month ago jan egeland is the section general of the norwegian refugee council he says there are considerable safety concerns for humanitarian workers and citizens in hungary. we're desperate because for a month now we haven't really had contact even with their own staff aid workers on

the ground there's been no communications or networks have been caught conflicting reports about who's doing what to whom including what's happening to the $100000.00 every tree and refugees they fled or a trail they thought that a safe haven in t. grey and now they went golfed in the fighting so it's the golden principle of humanitarian work that we are always allowed to come to the vulnerable in their hour of greatest need and integrate we have been prevented from such access we need to have it now i would also appeal for the border to be kept open between at the opiah and sudan so that those who need to seek shelter here can still come here tens of thousands of people have fled to the region to live in camps in neighboring saddam has been heavy fighting in the area in the last couple of weeks and it's

affected the lives of many actually respect to one university student who says he had no other option but to leave home. my full name is costing q do our guy. 25 series or world i came from to drive to our own home or a. i was happy when i was there with my family and our help in my family i was playing with my friends i was playing with my brother even my mother having a you know when you are far away from your family you know. maybe you become unhappy it becomes hard and i pray to god to save my family when i go to the church i pray to god for this year my family and friends i feel sad when i think of the future of this all people as well because. there are so many people there was there out of the family like father like mother of like the star bradley i mean there are some of the people of the world on good life like

the civil servants of the house the salary payments they can make their lives good but this wire it becomes bring to the bad life the sake of this one special the sake of this one so many people as they go to their children. their become hopeless still now some of them they sleep on the ground some of them they slipped on the last ditch even. this is not good still a 1000 to any particular people this is a bad year and all the i don't remember family in my life. bad you know for the future out of the signal existence become pool. even died on the drugs why because there is not any sort of. buy though doc the condition or the season was. harvesting season. if you know the saga if you look at the system.

not harvest. you know is the the great people 80 percent daily on the agriculture. by harvesting the mag. so to go. to see him you know. if they can not part of us how they can do what i do i don't to go back to the right because. i was there is not freedom if there is not peace. i can a good thing if there is freedom wherever that's michael. representatives from libya's 2 rival parliaments are preparing to meet for their 1st joint session in 60 is parliament members are traveling to the city of her dahmus in western libya for the meeting on monday highly anticipated session for us talks in morocco where the rivals agreed on a framework to end the years long division stephanie with him says the acting united nations envoy to libya she says its political representatives need to come

together to see the peace process through with the political process now moving toward a unified parliament it's going to be needed particularly you know should there be and we very much hope that there will be agreement on unification of the executive in advance of the national elections which were decided upon by the libyan political dialogue forum. on november 15th in june and that was significant decision there is now a constituency of change in the country there is a desire to to come together to acknowledge that and there are well justified fears and there is justified lack of competence the between the different the different parties but you know the country there is slipping away. france's president has warned that the lebanese government must enact reforms if it wants international

help in money and michael is hosting a virtual aids conference in paris as lebanon struggles to recover from the devastating blast in beirut port 4 months ago inside the country investigators have almost completed their task but families of victims fair high ranking officials will escape blame and how to reports on the frontline of the explosion and from 4 months ago nobody held off on august who are a powerful explosion believed to be caused by a nitrate that caught fire rips 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 state 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 existed 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 but 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 negligence 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 just organized a sort of flame war to park to recall the the memory of the tragedy in lebanon we used to raise all the way 'd to the memorial to which the grain silos are credited for absorbing the brunt of the explosion and limiting the damage to the western half of the city there also evidence of a crime many fear may go unpunished in a country with a legacy of impunity. bait and. still to come on out there this news

hour a courtroom winner for thailand's prime minister fails to dent the determination of the nation's student protesters. and his support the head of well the flat tax as the coronavirus vaccine could be a game changer for the tokyo and impacts. we got a real mixed bag in the weather across europe at the moment some very thundery showers across central parts of the mediterranean some nasty weather rolling through here choppy seas as well as some very strong winds but some really heavy rain to boot up towards the northwest is looking pretty unsettled as well the areas of low pressure sliding through here wet and windy and increasingly wintry weather piling in cross

the northwest as we go on through the next couple of days is going to cloud and rain across parts of france into the bay of biscay you can see some snow that just pushing too will see out as that western weather across central parts of the mediterranean aging its way towards greasy adriatic see some heavy showers into the balkans and a lot of snowy weather up towards portugal lessel making its way slowly but surely further east which is because through the next couple days look at the temperatures in glasgow and london well down into single figures in london to the top which is a 5 celsius little snow he makes a fair bit of that could see a meter or 2 snow over the alps and then more heavy showers right across the mediterranean pretty unsettled and that onset of weather just lapping onto the coastal shows of maybe she needs the northeast in algeria much of north africa is fine in try but the showers that into the gulf of guinea.

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or none of the top stories how large is area the u.k. has become the 1st western country to grant emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine europe's worst affected country will start rolling out the doses developed by pfizer and biotech as early as next week. russia's president has ordered officials to begin maskaev 19 vaccinations next week at a mere pichon says 2000000 doses of the sputnik 3 vaccine will be ready within the next few days it will be mandatory. and there's been a breakthrough in efforts to revive peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban representatives from both sides say they've agreed on

a framework for negotiations to begin. iran has approved new legislation that would allow the resumption of high levels of uranium enrichment the bill which was passed by parliament on tuesday was signed into law after approval by iran's top decision making body also stop on restricted site access by the international atomic energy agency the legislation is seen as a show of defiance after the killing of a top iranian nuclear scientist on friday. has more from the capital tehran. the speaker of parliament. has now sent a letter to president hassan rouhani informing him that the guardian council has approved this bill a motion and it is now been signed into law and they're calling it the strategic action for the lifting of sanctions this means that the government has 2 months to see whether or not any of the signatories to the nuclear deal of 200-2015 would lift the sanctions they've imposed on iran since the united states withdrew from

the deal in 2018 unless there is some sanctions relief the government is now lodged by law to decrease its cooperation with the international atomic energy agency and what the parliament wants to do is to go back up to 20 percent enriched level in richmond levels of uranium in the country's nuclear program as well as to put in some advanced centrifuges also to stop allowing i inspect hers to come into the country without any advance notice to inspect nuclear sites the most important point within this new law is that there is a 2 month period there's a grace period and i think that is very significant because this will allow the incoming biden administration a very small window of opportunity to see whether or not they can actually do something to relieve some of the sanctions on iran but present us on ronnie had or has already said that this new bill is detrimental to diplomacy and his government

has voiced their discontent at what parliament has done but whether or not he has any choice in the matter will remain to be seen because if the government doesn't abide by these rules which this new law there are penalties that the parliament can enforce on officials within the government. and to government just as have rallied in thailand after the prime minister was acquitted of an ethics violation and allowed to remain in his role activists say they'll continue fighting for reform scott hunter reports from bangkok. the. 16 year old patch was raised by his activist grandmother and he didn't hesitate in joining the student protest movement when it began earlier this year this week he took part in an act of civil disobedience organized by the group bad students many refused to wear official school uniforms to class this was to highlight inequality and to call poor reforms in thailand's education system patch had a black uniform made and displayed rubber ducks which has now become

a symbol for the protests after being questioned for 3 hours by teachers he was sent home but the book is not only about the uniform rules head coach moves it's about party rights the expression of political opinions an education system and subjects need to be reformed these would be victims for as protestors were out in big numbers on wednesday after the constitutional court unanimously acquitted prime minister. of violating ethics standards ruling that it was not illegal for the prime minister a former army chief of staff to live in a house on an army base while the protesters who would have welcomed a guilty verdict for the prime minister if thou to carry on their fight to see that their demands are filled and that is that the prime minister resign there's a new draft of the constitution and if there's one for you in the model they don't live i'm not saying my how what she wrote on corner has been the focus of more rallies this week 1st targeting his estimated 30000000000 dollars fortune thousands

gathered at the headquarters of one of the biggest banks in thailand the king is the largest shareholder personally owning 23 percent and then a protest was held in front of the world guard's barracks demanding that the king give up his command of 2 army regiments he took over when he ascended to the throne 2 years ago at the same time he also shifted the crown's wealth to him personally. for the 1st time in 2 years officials issued warrants to protest leaders under article $11.00 to harsh defamation laws designed to protect the monarchy. charged multiple times under that law but never convicted su locks the will lock has criticised action taken against protesters he has met with the king in the past and says that it's key for him to engage with the protesters his position is not as secure as he thought and he tried to be popular but so far he has not managed. to confront or school supposed to be against it. and i feel that if he would be reading 200000 or so who were declared himself to be again

a monarchy i think that would help people but so far the king has not taken that advice well he has been making public appearances they've only been with those who support him and the monarchy and there's been no official palace statement on the protests scott either al jazeera bangkok. israeli politicians have passed a preliminary proposal to dissolve parliament a move that could force the country into its 4th national election in less than 2 years oppose all its past 61 to 54 just 7 months after a coalition led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu and defense minister benny gantz was agreed since the coalition was formed to try to tackle the coronavirus pandemic their relationship between men has deteriorated with fighting between their parties the vertigo preliminary approval to ending reliance on education now heads to a committee before parliament. $61.00 to $54.00 at

least on a preliminary reading that doesn't mean that parliament immediately dissolves itself 1st it has to go to committee is likely to be a fair bit of horse trading potentially some attempts to resolve some of the splinters within the coalition although that is a pretty risky bet at the moment if you are betting on that to happen given what you just heard from benny gantz so we're probably looking at a couple more weeks at least before the next 3 readings that are required 3 votes before this becomes law and the israeli parliament the knesset dissolves it's all taking us towards 4 elections for benny gantz he was put in this position by essentially by the opposition which brought this bill and also by his own increasingly. difficult chances of taking the premiership himself under the coalition deal that he made with benjamin netanyahu in may the 2 are supposed to

rotate the premiership with supposedly taking over in november next year but for that to happen there has to be a state budget for 2 years that was part of the deal and so far netanyahu has continually put that off there was an extension on agreeing to that budget which has given a deadline of december the 23rd for that to take place. or elections are automatically triggered anyway so this is a way that netanyahu could take what he wanted from that coalition dui becoming prime minister again after the most recent round of elections as many predicted without actually had to give the power to benny gantz and so israel has released more than $1000000000.00 in tax money that's been withheld from the palestinian authority since may the funds are normally transferred monthly but palestine stopped their arrangement when israel announced plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank as the taper him reports of stuff thousands of workers short of

cash. this is the money israel collects on behalf of the palestinian authority and because palestinians do not have their own of their own they rely on israel to do these calculations and pay them at the end of every month and that allows the palestinian authority to pay its public now in may the palestinian president said that the palestinians are no longer abiding by signed agreements with israel including security coordination and the coordination that used to happen between palestinian and israeli officials to allow transfer of that money the result meant that the palestinians were interested in being any. money since may and that has caused the palestinian public in the only receive half a century for a couple of months and this has crippled the economy now 2 weeks ago the palestinians have said that they received a letter from an israeli government official saying that israel will be abiding by

agreements signed with the palestinians so they decided to resume coordination and accept receiving that money and i'm sure we all know that this also has something to do with the fact that president elect joe biden has won the elections and we might be seeing a little bit of an advancement when it comes to the palestinians and israelis now as far as the world bank is concerned the palestinian economy is still crippled even though that the salaries might be paid there are a lot of factors that have led to a very weak economy and not to forget that a part of that was the latest restrictions related to the coronavirus. the state of the planet is broken and humanity is waging war on nature that's the warning from the u.n. secretary general who says human activity is having a dark impact on the environment and turn your tears for more nature and climate

change at columbia university in new york he wants to put tackling climate change at the heart of the un's global mission the secretary general says his central objective next year will be to build a global coalition for carbon neutrality 2020 is on course to be the 2nd hottest year on record and climate change has now become the biggest threat to the natural world's most important treasures that's according to the international union for conservation of nature which says a 3rd of the 252 sites listed by unesco and now at high risk pushing some places like the great barrier reef into critical condition the world's largest tropical wetlands have been burning for months record wildfires in that america's panton our region have already consumed around 28 percent of the flood plains rising temperatures are also helping the spread of invasive species in protected areas such as south africa's cape floral region peter said is the director of the world heritage program at the conservation agency that issued this report joins us live

from south in switzerland via skype thank you very much need for being with us so i understand that you did a report 3 years ago how much has changed since then. thanks lauren it's really nice to join you. we undertake these outlook assessments as they are cold every 3 to 4 years so there are a kind of health check on the state of the world's natural world heritage sites and we've we've undertaken them since 2014 so we've we've this is the 3rd update so we've had them from 24 to 2017 and now 2020 where seeing we're seeing some shifts but we're also seeing a business as usual patent so you know overall sense the good news is that about 2 thirds of these 250 odd places are considered to have a positive conservation outlook in other words their values look like they'll be retained into the future about

a 3rd are really suffering and they're suffering from threats such as climate change which you introduced in the beginning of the segment we're seeing a shift in those threats so we're now seeing climate change as the number one threat for natural world heritage sites affecting a 3rd of all of these sites in a lot of different ways and other new places that would stand out as a place where they're doing things better and they things are improving. well i think you know the it in your introduction you made the point about the fundamental connections between the natural world and and what we need to do to combat climate change and you know we know that it's only through that kind of combined global action that the sort of cooperation that we heard calls for today from the u.n. secretary general that we can really address some of the root causes to this however there are other things that are being done and can be done at more local levels we've seen you know some good examples as

a lot of tools out there now to look at site level combating of climate change impacts how can they sites adapt how can i understand their vulnerability to climate impacts how might it shift habitats how might it change extreme weather conditions and patterns and how do local manages the guys who are and women who are at the coal face who are dealing with these places feeling a little bit pallas how to how do they address it so he seemed good examples of response strategies and different approaches on the ground as to what about there the coronavirus pandemic i mean one might expect that that perhaps would actually interesting might might be had for some of these bases because as it has that been the case or. well the assessment the report that we did was was kind of mid stream as covert started to escalate so it wasn't systematically assessed in our report but we do know and the report notes that about 50 sites already reporting the

impacts from the pen demick and they're both positive and negative so yes you're right we've seen some places where tourism numbers have dropped dramatically you know places that would normally be thronging with people suddenly suddenly empty so nature is taking a breather in a lot of these places but it's also had a perverse effect on interrupting you know staff and management of these places we got examples staffan unable to monitor for poaching and we've had incidents such as this and we've seen big impacts on the revenue that a lot of these places depend on from tourism petitioner thank you very much an effect on there thank you you're welcome. the mother of a young girl from south london who died after a severe asthma attack is trying to make legal history she is fighting for air pollution to be recorded as the cause of death something that's never happened before and pops. 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 will learn a lot more about pollution and the impacts on health and governments everywhere will 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 others 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 they bring. rosamond 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 a whole host of diseases for. 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 still to come. on a form. that is going to start his own formula one career.

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a son of former world champion michael is sets a race in formula one next season the 21 year old has been signed by the has team she junior currently leading the formula 2 championship which is heading into its foreign in bahrain germinal got his 1st taste of f one actually drives for house during a practice session of the final race of the season in abu dhabi. is a product of ferrari's driver academy in the house car is powered by a ferrari engine his father raced to the italian team for a decade. full f one debut will come 3 decades after his father's 1st start in the sport that was at the 1991 belgian grand prix michael's medical condition still unknown he suffered of course severe head injuries during a skiing accident 7 years ago and hasn't been seen in public since she markus chosen 47 as his racing number he says it's a partial tribute to the 7 world titles won by his father. i'm very proud to be to

be you know driving my surname and you know having the german flag on my car and just giving you know giving something back to the german fans as well and of a c 2 to my racing number i got the 47 which is a 4 and a 7 both mom is really special to me. and i mean some also i think some fans already did the association association saying it's for michael so for 7 which is a which is also very nice and it's kind of true so now really happy to be here. williams driver george russell will step in for lewis hamilton at the upcoming 2nd grand prix in bahrain well champion hamilton has had some pull out after a positive test the coronavirus 22 year old russell was a miss sadie's reserve driver a couple of years ago before joining williams last season i'll be like sick of secured a crucial win in the european champions league last season's semifinalists shed 7

goals with turkey's a stumble a start she had a stoppage time winner from alexander so that gave leipsic a $43.00 win but despite their efforts the still not guaranteed a spot in the last 16 manchester united in price sanjay around the of that same in that group. stephanie for has become the 1st woman to referee a men's champions league match the french referees in charge of events this k.f. has previously refereed at the 2050 and 29 women's world cups including the final in paris last year. let's have a look at some of the scores from wednesday's games most games now just coming up it's a full time pay s.g. of beating united $31.00 now if it stays that way united p.s.g. and leipsic will all be our 9 points heading into their final group game chelsea in severe well they've already qualified for the last 16 from their group wins also a few events and barcelona they look set to secure top spots in group g.

with a comfortable when their over foreign virus of hungary the united states women's football team have won their battle for better working conditions a player spokesperson said the deal with the u.s. soccer federation is long overdue it will give them the same conditions as the men's team when it comes to travel outsells in training facilities but it seems a legal fight to get equal pay well that is still ongoing. basketball star kevin durant's he can't wait to make his return from injury the 2 time n.b.a. champion chewed his achilles tendon 18 months ago hasn't played since the 2019 n.b.a. finals that sammy was with the golden state warriors he has since moved now to the brooklyn nets a new n.b.a. season will begin on december the 22nd. who. you should. use

we're. together. well i'm be a players may be hard pushed to make it so next year's olympics the upcoming season will only just to finish when that kid games begin and the coach of the national same admits i will be hard to get the roster he wants the time. does make everything difficult. some real sore searching. out of the box type of sticky. to put together the best team we possibly can. for games organizers have said they'll only make a decision on whether athletes and fans will need to have a covered 19 vaccination when it becomes more widely available and of world athletics saying the vaccine could well be a game changer for those tokyo olympics that event due to start next july. is the vaccine is available and you know it's limited in the right and

proper and timely way then clearly i would like athletes to avail themselves of it so that it does lead to meeting directors a little bit more certainty a clarity around who they can have their hands the sage day that we all all crave and a bit of good news for boxing fans $1000.00 spectators will be allowed to attend anthony joshua's upcoming world heavyweight title defense the fight in london against kid rock her love was meant to happen in june but was postponed due to the pandemic about on december 12th an easing of restrictions on crowds at live sports events throughout the. ok but as a sports looking for now let's get back to lauren in london thanks very much had set up for me don't tell if there's news out of the back in a member of the full run of the day's news thanks for watching at home watching.

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of it we don't want to they lie on the authority and. the listening post on out is they are. the u.k. becomes the 1st country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine it's been cleared for emergency use and will roll out from next week. and our intent of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. this may be the most important speech i've ever made donald trump's 46 minute outburst the u.s. president outlines why you believe the election was stolen. after months of deadlock says.