scene in f. 100. there is a family in britain i believe that has not been touched by empire. unscripted on al-jazeera. hong kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fools. a lot of a very unforgiving this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands of indian farmers camp on the outskirts of new delhi in protest of proposed new laws on farm produce. we could be close to form $50000.00 americans died from this far a warning from one of the top health officials in the us after reporting the

highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began. at a different type of exam season hala for 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. we begin this news in hong kong where the pro-democracy movement has suffered a huge setback yet another prominent activist is facing time in prison and media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate jimmy lie is the latest to be taken into police custody he'll be held until a court case in april next year he's accused of fraud it comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced joshua was this child ivan lamb 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the hong kong government says that all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges to silence critics

of mainland china to view the pollen reports now from hong kong. this is a very significant move here that's being seen against hong kong's pro-democracy movement jimmy la is in jail at the moment he on wednesday night reported to police on a scheduled visit regarding this fraud case and the prosecutor saw him as a flight risk so he has been denied bail as you said until april which means he's likely to spend the night at christmas and the months after in jail although we're hearing that his lawyers are currently currently trying to appeal that decision to try and get him bail this is of huge consequence here in hong kong not just because he's one of the most high profile pro-democracy activists but also he's a very well known high profile tycoon here he is estimated to be worth about a $1000000000.00 he said true rags to riches stories he made his fortune on the clothing business and eventually built it up to

a media empire you know and one of the biggest pro-democracy newspapers here and this particular case now is related to an office within his media complex which he's accused of violating a lease with a government and her prize but what's also raising concern about this particular case is that the judge that has been chosen to pursue this case is one of those that's hand-picked to deal with national security cases although it is being said that this case has nothing to do with the national security law so there are many questions swirling around what's motivated this latest fraud case against him farmers in india meeting government ministers for a 2nd round of talks as protests intensify against proposed laws on farm produce fala say they'll carry on with their protests after negotiations on tuesday ended without an agreement they're worried that the new legislation will put an end to

minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation let's go live to the single board. crossing zeros elizabeth problem is that more salacious there's any progress on these talks going on. high adrian so those talks are still going on they broke for lunch and to answer your question about whether there's been progress while the farmers union leaders wouldn't eat the lunch provided by the government and brought their own lunch meanwhile the protests are continuing on 3 major highways coming into the indian capital where one of them with thousands of farmers tens of thousands of farmers are using hundreds of their vehicles to block these key highways they have been joined by more and more protesters from states which joined to border delhi we're seeing protesters arriving from the states of roger stone from the states of money with their we've heard speeches from a prominent protest leaders in the country here at citigroup and what the farmers unions while they i me go shaking with the government with the pharmacist saying is

they going to continue to cause this disruption to traffic it is causing a lot of disruption until the government either repealed things 3 from loss of rights guarantees of minimum pride's prices for their progeny into laws a given prime minister that in the morning statements earlier this week that these laws are in the interest of farmers who are not expecting a breakthrough thousands of people are demonstrating there and elsewhere near the capital but they represent just a tiny majority of india's farmers what's happening elsewhere in the country. where there are more protests elsewhere in the country we've seen protests in the states of odisha and in maharashtra and odisha state capital where the nation farm is protested outside the state assembly and have been smaller protests all of them had asha commons unions of calling for a nationwide protest on saturday now farmers have

a lot of support and sympathy from the public given that one half of in. is 1300000000 people who work in the agriculture sector who have had famous musicians from the state of punjab with many of these families of from come out in support of them and most recently 150 athletes many of the olympic gold medalists from punjab have said they're going to go to the presidential building on saturday to return their national awards that they've been given in protest and the government is very aware of how much support farmers have which is why they 1st met them into the caption a few days ago after trying to stop them for days using water cannons and tear gas and now they are holding talks with the farmers a 1st they said clear the highways and then we'll talk to you but now they're doing it even though the farm is a very much blocking these key highways which is there is elizabeth cohen reporting live there from the single border crossing many thanks indeed liz ethiopian t.v. has released footage from within the northern to grey region the footage appears to

be from the military and the shows life seemingly returning to normal because of a media blackout we're unable to verify these pictures the united nations says that the conflict is a space to run a 1000000 people tens of thousands of fled across the border to sudan al-jazeera mohammad vaal is a refugee camp near the border with ethiopia but what's the situation where you are . yes adrian it's a situation of wait and see because remember yesterday there was that announcement that the each open government is going to allow humanitarian relief agencies to access a region that good news is being handled now by those in jos preparing themselves to go inside. probably on wednesday they'll be the 1st the 1st arrive on sale for the and joe's people here in the camps are waiting for information from back home

they expect also the government of each opiah to end the information and communication blackout that you just talked about they want to collaboratively about what happened to their loved ones in mumbai that hundreds of refugees here they have lost contact with their loved ones they don't know well about so moms and fathers and sisters and sons and daughters that's the most traumatic aspect of what's going on here inside the camps with regards to the situation the other aspects of the situation you can see behind me aid is being distributed on a daily basis across the camps we are in now closer to the border with ethiopia and this composts about $15000.00 each opens but this is not going to be a permanent camp this if you look behind me you can see those small houses this is a village that has been built by the sudanese government to holes. those villages who have been displaced and moved from there from their areas because of the dam

that has been built here the city the lake of the encroached on their home so that there were some of them were still waiting to be handed their homes so that the war happened just when they were about to be moved here and those refugees came they were given a priority by the sudanese government and they go see asians are going on between the 2 sides between the owners of the homes that the to be owners of the homes and the government to convince them to wait until this situation can be improved and more of that if you can be moved to permanent camps so i mean that dust over a hasn't settled yet and people here are waiting for information about their loved one is that as i said some of them are waiting to be moved on this place so it's a temporary situation and you can imagine the trauma you can imagine the stress but there these people here are leaving because of that al-jazeera small bit of our

reporting live from the refugee camp in sudan bangladesh has begun to transfer hundreds of rohingya refugees to the island of bashan char which the u.n. warns is prone to psych loans and floods at least 10 buses carrying around $400.00 people left the camps in cox's bazaar thursday nearly 1000000 have been living in squalid camps in southeast bangladesh after fleeing violence in myanmar they are refusing to return without guarantees for their safety and rights soldiers it is time their child reports from cox is bizarre. why suddenly take 100000 people to an isolated island which is 50 kilometer coast of bangladesh which is prone to cycle and tidal wave the government will say we spent 280000000 we'd build them back and there's clusters of villages cycling shelters hospitals although there are school missing which is one of the primary. reasons the rowing or equities are really

concerned about because there's no formal education either in the camp or in that island now talking to a lot of their own ingle many of them said they're really not interested despite having all the infrastructure facilities the government said they'll be farming they'll be domesticated animals they could get the livestock farming they could go fishing and other stuff just said they feel comfortable here because they can visit camp to camp their extended families here close to their homeland we can see the several kilometers away behind me is me and my there's a sense of belonging here even the regional people here speak their dialogue they can communicate more or less in the same language so that sense of belonging a psychological factor they don't want to be isolated far away in a coastal island which they don't know my thing about but the government is determined they're going to take place by space probably will take months to relocate this 100000 people in that island. a weather update next year i was there then countries are racing to approve covered by team vaccines we ask how they

decide which to take and what data to trust. and an urgent crisis in syria as the cold of winter puts millions of people at risk. how i once again the weather looks pretty quiet across a good part of china not too bad for the korean peninsula and today for a good part of japan but we do have something in north westerly breeze coming through so western areas of japan could just catch a shower or 2 sheltered by the mountains token not see bad temperatures here at around 14 celsius as we go on through friday see the temperatures you go on into sas and at this stage you might just catch a shower with say nothing too much to speak of so we go with that quasi weather tucking in behind sixes and sevens there just around the korean peninsula northern parts of china 4 degrees celsius still seeing some showers there with

a northeasterly breeze drifting into thailand taiwan some heavy downpours a possibility here heavy downpours now moving across northern areas also southern parts of india in the form of tropical cyclon brevity continues to push across southern india as we go through friday and on into saturday with some very heavy rainfall event state will punch its way out into the arabian sea but quite a legacy of showers rolling in behind widespread flooding certainly a possibility widespread destruction across a good part of the area further north it is a good deal quieter more smoke there for new delhi and showers for the ills of the himalayas. in the light of the ape in seas hides a dark secret. men forced to work without pay in slave

field. but a glimmer of hope remains for the forgotten fisherman as a group of activists delve deep into the illegal fishing industry demanding justice . and freedom. go street a witness documentary on al-jazeera. to to. again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate jimmy lai has been refused bail the outspoken government critic has been charged with defrauding the government of businesses. farmers in india meeting ministers for a 2nd round of talks as protests intensify against new laws on produce they're

worried that the change will end minimum crop prices complete corporate exploitation. bangladesh has begun to transfer hundreds of bringing the refugees to the island of russian char which the u.n. warns is prone to cyclons and floods buses carrying around 400 people have left the camps in cox is. breaking news now iran's government has announced that it's passed 1000000 recorded coronavirus cases it is the worst hit country in the middle east with almost 50000 deaths well the u.s. reported more than 2719 deaths on wednesday that's the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began and for the 1st time daily hospital admissions across the u.s. topped 100000 in a day 200000 new cases were reported that's another record now the head of the u.s. centers for disease war disease control warns that by february

a further 200000 people could die with the virus. so we're in that range potentially now to see if teens 100 to 2000 to 2500. from this farm so yeah the mortality concerns are real. and i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be comes to foreign 50000 americans have died from these farms brendan o'connor as a professor of american politics at the university of sydney he outlines the challenges that lie ahead for president elect joe biden and tackling covered 90. on day one to take it seriously so one of the problems with donald trump is that he's very interested in publishing a speech making attention grabbing tweets and speeches like today all facebook but he's not particularly interested in the hard sometimes boring work of government

particularly when things don't get better quickly that was one of the signs of the early pandemic site having a president who takes this problem seriously who addresses the american people with on a state who gives people reasons to wear face masks and be cautious to curb their behavior for the betterment of their fellow citizens all of the nice things will be at least improvement but he doesn't have a magic wand this so much kind of it in the united states he said 200000 cases to that 160001 average i have it 2 and a half 1000 people dying on a number of days recently those things don't go away quickly and you heart the fight parties will get behind a vaccine the coordination of a vaccine will be really hot to get out because it is a patchwork health system controlled at the state and city level so the administration of that i think is going to show floors an american bureaucracy just as producing ventilators did at the beginning of this crisis but you've got

a hard point pieties make the case for people taking the vaccine there are a lot of people in the united states who are very skeptical of vaccines are effectively opposed to taking vaccines so that would be a one of the early great to suggest biden's capacity to bring the 2 parties the republicans and the democrats together and present a united front on this crucial issue. officials in the u.s. are racing to follow the u.k. and approve the pfizer vaccine as early as next week approval for the madonna vaccine could soon follow the u.s. health secretary says that he hopes 40 percent of adults could be and ok they said within 3 months we can make our 1st shipments of vaccine to state this month and we're on track to be able to ship enough vaccine for $20000000.00 americans before the end of the year of course we're all eager to have enough supplies vaccinate every american who wants it because of operation works we'd we expect to be at that

point in the spring vaccines will only bring this pandemic to an end if enough americans choose to take these vaccines the world health organization is also reviewing the pfizer biotech vaccine for emergency listing however it could take developing nations months to get access to it we need to develop more vaccines we should stop we need more least 3 or 4 we need to increase production we need to pull the price down we need we'd love a woman those vaccines because these all of the vaccine so far 2 doses so the innovation is a finished we need the research to continue and we need everyone to support that research russia's president has ordered health officials to begin masco that 19 vaccinations next week bloody may have putin says that his country will have produced $2000000.00 doses of its sputnik 5 vaccine within the next few days it's said to be 92 percent effective but data hasn't been released showing that it's gone through the same clinical trials as other vaccines russia's reported more than

2300000 infections dr peter is an infectious disease medic and global health expert he says the best thing is to have several options. we need all of these vaccines or as many as possible i think what's important is that because we've moved so quickly that we make sure that we have immense rigor in the process of clinical trials and then of independence scrutiny of those results by regulators and other independent scientists to make sure that we feel good about the safety and i think you see results so therefore what we're seeing now the processes with the the mid-air the vaccine the pfizer vaccine in the oxford vaccine ongoing is more heartening because we know what we're getting and and i have a little bit less comfort with the vaccines in china and russia simply because they went ahead and gave emergency approval without doing the stage 3 trials and we haven't seen that level of independent scrutiny overall though this is good news we

have a 150 other vaccines in the pipeline frankly we're going to need a lot of them the 1st ones may not be the best ones some countries may to an extent follow the lead of the work done by regulators in america and europe and then also the world health organization which also has an approval process for medicines and other health commodities that is a stamp of approval that has a lot of currency with other countries as well so we're seeing now is that this is happening up front at the european medicines agency the f.d.a. and others and i think it'll it'll flow from there. u.s. media reporting that saudi arabia is close to reopening its airspace and land borders to qatar the gulf nations but on the land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt since june 27th teen president trump senior adviser jared kirshner was in to stay and is reported to also visited saudi arabia bloomberg of the new york times suggest the tentative deal is being brokered by kuwait but doesn't include

bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt but a deal between qatar and saudi arabia would signal the end of a dispute that spitted the gulf neighbors against each other for more than 3 years in june 27th seen saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt because whole diplomatic ties and economic ones also with casa they accused of creating instability of supporting terrorism which causes government denies they closed its only land border and imposed an embargo q.h. initially stepped in to mediate that there had been little or no compromise the latest effort by the trumpet ministration is seen as a last ditch to ditch attempt to resolve the issue before he leaves office in syria syria political analyst mo and bashar explains what reconciliation with saudi arabia would mean for qatar. i think for qatar the important player is saudi arabia and the important neighbor and the and that country that which they

care to have an immediate. reconsideration with or open relations with with probably saudi arabia the other ones i'm not that important i'm not sure couple cares very much whether or when then decides to come aboard egypt is kind of a bit foreign and it has the dishes or tags and the u.a.e. is playing its own game you know prophetic good relations with israel then credit relations with the tornado. so i think that then porton toward. the cornerstone if you will is hopefully you know opening the relations between continents are going to be and that might lead to or should lead to bilateral really bilateral negotiations then between caught up in each and every one of those countries but i think actually in fact those countries would be paying more attention of course once all of the a big gets on board. the united nations says that urgent aid is needed for 3000000 syrians living in refugee camps winter can be harsh that they desperately require

essential oils and shelter to keep warm and as a halt to reports there's a possibility that many more people could soon become homeless. winter in northern syria can be bitter and harsh it has still not fully set in but already heavy rains have flooded overcrowded camps home to nearly one and a half 1000000 people displaced by war the united nations calls it one of the biggest displacement crises in the world. we have. x. . times. already. but peace remains elusive so for now the priority is survival families have been

moving into new camps but the u.n. says it received only 54 percent of the money it requires to provide safe for living conditions to all those in need 2020 with this the largest mass displacement in the 9 year conflict nearly a 1000000 left their homes because of a months long russian backed syrian government offensive in the opposition controlled province of idlib so you see. you know we now live in a big prison and used to have our land all home yeah you don't know how you will find food to eat. a life in exile is what many fear particularly those living close to the front lines a truce reached in march remains fragile. were frayed the regime will launch an offensive to capture to syria then will have to leave and never be able to return. just a show or city as. the m. for international highway which the government wants to be able to connect the

coast to the commercial capital aleppo in the offensive earlier this year the regime recaptured the m 5 after intensely bombing an empty villages along the route . we saw what happened to the others they were forced from their homes no they live in the rain with no means to make a living at least half of it lives population have been displaced from other parts of syria people trapped in a small pocket of territory where a humanitarian situation threatens to get worse it's a reality that doesn't appear to be temporary than what they're. france's prime minister says visiting poloi and kalai as part of preparations for briggs's billions of dollars of goods including pharmaceuticals drink and food flow between the e.u. and the u.k. every year from the region firms on both sides of the channel will now be subject to full customs controls again industry leaders are concerned that no deal briggs's could lead to serious delays and congestion at the ports and channel tunnel

a former french president valerie's discard the stang a supporter of european integration has died after contracting the coronavirus just got the stang became president in 1984 he was known for having a more liberal attitude on social issues like divorce but abortion but his relationship with the emperor because of the central african republic was criticized after he was accused of receiving diamonds as gifts and gifts just got the stang was 94. american airlines has taken its boeing 737 max jet back to the skies in a test ahead of its 1st commercial flights later this month the u.s. aviation regulator gave the go ahead for the return of boeing's best selling model a 737 max was grounded for more than 20 months after 2 crashes in indonesia and ethiopia linked to a faulty anti storm system 346 people were killed. in south korea

nearly half a 1000000 school students are sitting the national college entrance exam during a spike in coronavirus cases mcbride reports now from seoul the annual event looks a little different this year it's the most important day in the academic calendar and it's being held under tough coded 19 restrictions as south korea fights through a 3rd wave of the pandemic. it's in stark contrast to what is traditionally a celebration that brings everyone together in a society obsessed with academic achievement. younger pupils and family members and only through the schools as the students arrive for the exam. police provide escorts for those running late and even flight departure times are adjusted so planes don't disturb exam takers. this year all students are carefully checked

while distancing measures are being strictly observed for examinees and invigilators alike. special evening classes known as cram schools which are normally busy preparing students ahead of the exam have mostly suspended operations as part of the government's efforts to ensure safety. i think i urge all people including examinees to follow the prevention rules in your daily lives what hasn't changed is just how important this day is in the lives of students and their families this exam will determine which college they get into and so influence their career paths afterwards it doesn't get much bigger the temples across south korea families have been praying for exams success but also probably for their children to stay safe special arrangements have been made for infected students to take the exam in hospital and south korea's president has being seeing for himself

special centers set up for students who are self isolating or. that i have various concerns but again looking at the preparations i am somewhat relieved to be however the cove in 1902 ation is now worse than when we 1st planned for this day already under incredible exam pressure students this year have the added concerns of the pandemic to stress over rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. it is kids have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate jimmy lai has been refused bail the outspoken government critic has been charged with the free.