somethin's and the official line we all decided we need to tell our story we don't want to rely on the authority and its media the listening post on out is the right . al-jazeera. hello there i'm here with the al-jazeera news are coming to you live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes we face a human tragedy and the public health humanitarian and development in. a year into the coronavirus pandemic some hold with vaccine development but still a long way to go recording to the u.n. . battling misinformation facebook and instagram will begin removing false calls

about covert 19 vaccines. fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. and people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. a national sport as a bron james signs an $85000000.00 deal with the l.a. lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. but we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. the more than 64000000

confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the united nations is currently holding a special session of the general assembly on covert 19 in his opening statements the secretary general antonio caetera she emphasized again that governments must be united in their response to the pandemic for the 1st time since $145.00 entire world is confronted by a common threat regarded less of a nationality at the city or face the world us organization provided factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basis for equality in a few global response unfortunately many of these recommendations were not followed and in some situations there was a rejection affects. and ignore those of the united nations

and when countries go in their own direction the violence goes in every direction where diplomats get said james bases at the united nations he says the tone of the speech was a noticeable departure from are terrorists. the secretary general who is known as job to be very diplomatic was not very diplomatic in that speech calling out some of the richest nations on earth saying that the the help for developing countries with regard to covert 19 was totally insufficient for the scale of the crisis and in particular he called out that grouping the g 20 which only met a couple of weeks ago he had called at the g. 20 meeting for very specific measures for a lot more money $28000000000.00 to get the vaccine to absolutely everyone and for them to increase debt relief to the poorest countries on earth they're already

doing that but to extend it for longer and also to extend that to some of the middle income countries that are in desperate need that hasn't happened and the secretary general believes that is a mistake and he's made it quite clear in this speech for the special session of the general assembly which is under way. well iran has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed nearly 50000 people there but the health minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included calls and non-essential businesses said they get sent to her and he explains the discrepancy in the fatality rate many people weren't tested and some people died before a covert tests could be carried out now figures are coming down slowly slowly since the country introduced this partial lockdown so with the new infections daily new infections around 13000 down from 14000 and the daily death toll come down to mid

300 to what it was last month the highest there had ever seen over $400.00 now these new restrictions mean that non-essential businesses are closed that restaurants and cafes are serving takeaways only and private vehicles are banned from the roads from 9 pm till 4 am in the morning if they're found to be out on the streets they face a financial penalty but also mosques and religious places have been closed and that's quite significant because iran is an islamic republic facemasks a compulsory both inside and outside in public spaces and government offices have either closed or working with minimum staff now this partial lockdown is set to expire on friday night some places could be extended or some restrictions depending on what category they fall into now iran has blamed us sanctions for stopping them and restricting their fight against the pandemic also at the start of this pandemic

around march this year iran wanted billions of dollars from the international monetary fund that was refused again iran blamed the united states in fact today foreign minister jihad the reef has been speaking and he said the united states has reached an economic war against iran that's cost many lives and said that they were able to purchase medicines to deal with patients. well here are some of the other countries were following as coronavirus cases continue to climb russian reported more than 28000 new infections on thursday the highest increase yet its 2nd largest city the petersburg has already announced restrictions around the new year holiday indonesia has also seen a record daily rise in cases reported in more than 8300 on thursday it has the highest number of infections and deaths since the station. in europe hungary has

just recorded 182 deaths its highest daily death toll pasha locked arms introduce 3 weeks ago with a curfew in force president viktor orban has yet to announce whether regulations will change in time for christmas in lebannon the health minister is warning there will not be an of hospital beds to cope with the increasing cases the country's already dealing with a major financial and economic crisis and is still struggling after the beirut port explosion in august. but the u.s. is still the worst affected country by far a wednesday it reported its highest daily death toll since april according to johns hopkins university there were more than 2800 deaths recorded in 24 hours for the 1st time daily hospital admissions across the u.s. topped 100000 in a single day 200000 new infections were also reports it's the heads of the u.s.

centers for disease control warns that are fair period and other 200000 people could die from the virus so we're in that range but don't actually now to see if team 100 to 2000 to 25 on. a day. from this far so you know the mortality concerns are real. and i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to foreign 50000 americans have died from this far. well let's get reaction from the us from the white house correspondent kimberly whole kids and kimberly we're used to hearing these dire warnings from public health officials but this time it really seems the faker's back assaults and. yeah there's no question the public health officials are concerned in fact the c.d.c. saying that the next 3 months could be among the most difficult in public health

history in the u.s. and so there's a lot of anxiety but to put this into context the population 330000000 the infections now topping 13900000 so most americans know somebody who's been infected but not necessarily somebody who's died so far in terms of the deaths we have 272000 and rising as you heard there the concern being that the thanksgiving holiday that just happened many americans did not stay home as they were advised but instead travel great distances to spend the holiday with family and so there is an expectation in about 10 days that these numbers are really going to surge overwhelm the hospitals and that is of grave concern that there just won't be enough facilities to meet the demand now in the midst of all of this a lot of anxiety but also optimism with the emergency or authorization imminent for the vaccines in the united states mid december already production underway but

there is also some fear that there just isn't going to be enough of it the white house saying that there will be about $40000000.00 doses by the end of the year again the population is $330000000.00 so it's going to be some time before all americans can be vaccinated in their. many they're nervous about the science and that's led multiple former presidents to say that when it's their turn they are going to get their vaccine on camera barack obama bill clinton george w. bush all saying that they are confident of the science and assisting in trying to reassure a very anxious united states population. thank you very much indeed mexico is another country that is hoping to start immunizing people against the corona virus this month on wednesday the government reached a deal with the u.s. drug maker pfizer to buy more than 34000000 doses of vaccine it hasn't yet

decided though the vaccine will be offered c. 1st portugal is planning to immunize nearly 10 percent of the population starting in january the priority will be given sold to people with preexisting health conditions and front line workers vaccinations will be free of charge to all citizens france too says it will ensure free call with $1000.00 vaccinations for all residents prime minister's own care stake says an immunization campaign will start in a matter of weeks and will be rolled out in 3 phases. here sec from i.b.m. says a sophisticated hacking scheme is targeting companies that are planning the distribution of covert 19 vaccines i.b.m. says the hackers are specifically interested in the delivery of the delivery cold chain that's used to keep these vaccines at the right temperature during transportation or at 10 organizations involved and with just 6 have been targeted

and security experts from i.b.m. say this appears to be a state led operation let's get more now from jody west species or chief executive officer at the global cyber risk she joins us now live from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program this seems difficult for many people to comprehend what do you think the hackers are trying to achieve year are they wanting to disrupt the supply chain for whatever reason or they're looking to extort the companies what's the rationale behind this. i think it's one of 2 things they are sending very specific e-mails internally into these companies trying to trick the employees because the e-mails look like a real email from someone internally that they are trying to trick the employees into clicking on something or opening an attachment and this would allow them

malware in this system they could then use this malware is still highly valuable confidence among the party terry data that may be one reason the other is they may want to have someone click on i mean a link or open attachment so they could then install ransomware and encrypt all their systems and essentially disrupt the supply chain this disruption would probably force these companies into paying a very high ransomware amount and they would probably do it because the risk would be the lives lost or spoilage of the vaccine if it wasn't me tain that is very low temperatures and i would you say is behind this because security experts i.b.m. are saying this could be a state led operation do you think this is states who are perhaps behind in the race for a vaccine or is this amount to trying to damage other countries and damage their

national security because this looks like a real national security risk when you consider the scale of the the pandemic and the efforts to try to bring it under control. it is and it could very well be a nation state sponsored attack i.b.m. certainly knows what they're talking about we had a lot of highly sophisticated cyber tools that were developed by our national security agency and the central intelligence agency and they were revealed by the shadow brokers and by wiki leaks a few years ago but this provided some highly sophisticated tools to cyber criminals and they've been using those so we've seen an uptick in nation state attacks because they have these weapons so they could be using highly sophisticated software and it would enable them to get training and research and development materials and and very advanced scientific information or in fact intellectual property that could help them in their own countries so it could very well be

a nation state and it could have some national security implication but that's a long term thing if they have a disruption they would they would have to be hoping to to weaken the country in an attack during that time which i think is highly unlikely that when they were talking about the the sophisticated. as sophisticated as it really though if you're relying on people clicking on a link in an e-mail i mean is this not the thing that companies especially these kind of companies that working with this material are not prepared to defend against. well you know the companies simply have not really over all these years invested the money they should have invested to get the new tourist cybersecurity programs in place they not have so when something like this happens you have a whole lot of companies and a supply chain and if all of them don't have a strong security program then you have a weak link somewhere and so it is a very big opportunity for cyber criminals and it's

a very big problem on the on the other side because you don't solve it very fast companies don't stand up material cyber security programs overnight and the criminals are going out and they're using things like social media pulling through contacts identifying internal executives and players and and gathering and i think they can write an email that's very credible it's using the serial numbers of the models of the cold refrigeration equipment so they're sending these then it's working like a very legitimate e-mail that someone internally might respond to so it's a highly sophisticated attack so what should companies be doing to protect against this kind of thing because we've seen you know hospitals in the u.k. being brought to their knees for it from these kind of attacks when you click on an e-mail a pair of stations in the ukraine being brought offline i mean these kind of attacks can have enormous implications so what kind of measures should companies already

governments be doing to protect infrastructure from these attacks which emanate from a simple email. wellcome companies need to spend the money they need to put the energy into it and spend the money to make sure they have in her cyber security program and it's appropriately staffed in resource number 2 they need to make sure they have tested backup and recovery plans with off site or off line backup data so they can quickly recover if their system gets encrypted all they have to do is restore it and go on with operations but most companies don't have very well tested systems the 3rd thing is they need to do cyber security awareness training with this particular risk in mind and advise the employees to train them on the tactics so they are on high alert and then last they need to establish communication trees so if an attack occurs or even if they think 1 may have occurred they notify everybody

the other companies and they notify law enforcement and government so there's an immediate alert warning system and so that needs to be put in place between all of the companies that would be involved in this those would be the poor things i would say would be most helpful right now ok jody where spain we're out of time afraid but great to get your thoughts and your expertise on this crucial subject jodi recipe there from the global cyber risk group. so let's have all sorts of come on this news hour including why a course in the central african republic has rejected former president francois busies as bit wrong in the upcoming elections hong kong pro-democracy activists and media mogul jimmy law is denied bail as he faces charges of frauds. and this news of a huge money deal for the n.b.a. is biggest star all that coming up in the sports with gemma.

the 1st lawmakers from libya's rival administrations of the right for their 1st joint session in 6 years more than 1000 members of the house of representatives are in the city of hadera this them joined by those from the internationally recognized government to tripoli for the 1st meeting on monday or the highly anticipated debate follows talks in morocco where the rivals agreed on framework to end the year's long division. go to ins will be able to vote for a woman south run the country for the 1st time on monday. who argument is the 1st woman's appear on the ticket as a vice presidential candidate she's running alongside former president strong mahama they're hoping to defeat incumbent presidents nana ford all the struggling to control the flagging economy hit hard spied a pandemic on the course hearkens following the story from dakar in senegal. the

judges of the constitutional court say he's in breach of article $103.00 of the constitution which says that in order to be candidate for this election you have to have good morals and you have to have a clean criminal record judges believe that he has neither of course he is wanted by the government of bunk who says that he incited hatred funded armed groups as well as accusing him of torture during the 2013 crisis where we saw christian and christian militia groups close also known as people like a close to france were busy fighting against the what is known as the. armed groups and so not only that the united nations security council have also put him on a list because they believe they accuse him of funding armed groups now he is not supposed

to be in the country to govern a bank you were looking for him and he mysteriously appeared just weeks before the presidential elections so this this this announcement that he is not legible for this election comes as no surprise and of course it paves the way for president who does the favorite for this election to really make his way forward for a 2nd mandate. that was nicholas how clever reporting on the decision by a top court in the central african republic you had rejected the candidacy of former president francois boozy zay who had plans to run against the current president in elections at the end of this month let's move on to other news now and iran's top council has approved a law that would allow for higher levels or you blame him in richmond it would also stop unrestricted inspections by an stache not nuclear war stocks or the law still needs to be approved by president has done rouhani is seen as

a show of defiance after the assassination of a top nuclear scientists last friday. or as foreign minister says the u.s. should rejoin the nuclear deal hold on its own and 2018 or stop interfering in the go see asians the united states walked out of the nuclear agreement but did not walk out of the united nations it's hard to responsibilities obligations as a un member of the security council member and there is a security council resolution $2231.00 which the united states must observe as a permanent member of the security council of the united states has been in great breach of that resolution because trump administration has been a rogue regime. bangladesh has begun transferring hundreds of rangar refugees to the island of bashan char which the u.n. wants is put into cyclons and flooding at least 40 buses carrying around $1500.00

people left the camps in cox's bazar on thursday in the 1000000 rangar have been living in squalid camps in southeastern bangladesh after fleeing violence in myanmar well they are refusing to return there without guarantees for their safety and their rights tanveer choudary has more from coke's is bizarre. why suddenly take 100000 people to a isolated island which is 50 kilometer coast of bangladesh which is prone to. tidal waves the government will say we spent 218000000 with built on barking and there's clusters of villages around shelters and hospitals although their school missing which is one of the primary. reasons the roaring wreckage is are really concerned about because there's no education either in the camp or in that island now talking to a lot of their own many of them said they're really not interested despite having all the infrastructure facilities the government so they'll be farming they'll be domesticated animals that could be the livestock farming they could go fishing and

other stuff that they feel comfortable here because they can visit camp to camp their extended families here close to their homeland you can see the several kilometers behind me is me and mark 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 much about but the government is determined they're going to take place probably will take months to relocate the $100000.00 people in that island the former hong kong politician and pro-democracy campaigner ted queeny has announced he's seeking exile in the u.k. is facing multiple charges relating to last year's anti-government protests and media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate jimmy line has become the latest high profile figure to be taken in simply sky city pollen reports from hong kong. a

news room that's once again at the center of the day's news as the apple daily goes to press the detention of the tabloids founder will be making the headlines on thursday jimmy lyon 2 of his media companies executives appeared in court to face charges of the illegal use of an office space in the paper's headquarters the court ruled that jimmy lie was a flight risk and denied bail he could remain behind bars until the next hearing in april the 73 year old is one of hong kong's most high profile democracy activists a businessman with a net worth of around a $1000000000.00 he has 6 cases against him mostly related to his support for anti-government protests with his close ties to the united states he has lobbied for support for hong kong's pro-democracy movement prompting beijing to label him a traitor. in august lie was arrested for collusion with foreign forces

a violation of the national security law which was imposed by beijing just a month before around $200.00 police stormed his next digital media complex the raid on the apple daily news room live streamed across the city the apple daily is hong kong's biggest pro-democracy newspaper it reported widely on last year's anti-government protests and despite coming under pressure it has continued to be critical of not only hong kong's government but also of bating life detention came just a day after 3 pro-democracy activist joshua long agnus chauhan ivan lamb started jail terms of 1310 and 7 months respectively more than 10000 people have been arrested for protest related activities since last year there is traces on the streets of loyalists. people are now keeping their cell very worried about these developments former legislative counselor ted hurry is the latest to go into exile

on thursday while on a business trip to denmark he faces 9 criminal charges including offenses related to last year's protests the apple daily newspaper has called it one of the saddest days in their 25 year history but sent out a statement vowing to continue to monitor the government and keep up the fight for democracy even in the absence of their boss there you go palin al-jazeera hong kong . u.s. media reporting saudi arabia is close to reopening in say a space and land border it's accounts are the gulf nation has been under a land sea and air book aid by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt's since june 27th seen a president trump senior advisor jared kirshner was in doha on whedon's day in this report says so i've also visited saudi arabia limburg anthony on time suggest the tentative deal is being brokered by kuwait's but does not include behind the u.a.e. and egypt's i'll just say i'm

a senior political analyst marwan bashara explains what reconciliation with saudi arabia would mean for carter 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. solution with or you know open relations with would probably be saudi arabia the other ones are not that important i'm not sure that that cares very much whether or when bahrain decides to call them board egypt is kind of a bit far and it has forces the dishes or it had and the u.a.e. is playing its own game you know perfecting good relations with israel that credit relations with its own neighbor qatar so i think that they're important or that. the corner store if you will is hopefully a really you know opening of relations between presidents are going to be and that might lead or should lead to bilateral really bilateral negotiations then between gotten each and every one of those countries but i think actually in fact those

countries will be paying more attention of course once saudi arabia gets on board. still to come on al-jazeera an urgent crisis in syria as the cold of winter puts millions of people at risk. and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackled the most important day in their family calendar. and argentina do a u. turn after sacking their rugby captain gemma will explain more in sports. how the weather looks decidedly disturbed across a good part of the middle east at the moment still a fair amount of cloud just around the black sea the caspian sea so through the

event we got some showers in the forecast here just some cloud to just coming down into saudi arabia through kuwait just to the north of us here in qatar will see the showers continue across central parts of saudi arabia want to see showers to up towards the north of iran and showers just pushing into that eastern side of the mediterranean over the next day or 2 becoming a little more extensive as we go through saturday so sliding across jordan more than past saudi arabia try to push a little further southwards that the is going to make too much progress for us here in concert but come the early part of next week this may well flick through not much rain on it but it will freshen things up temperatures struggling to get to maybe $24.00 or $25.00 degrees for the south africa fun and dry across the whole of africa plenty of showers into the heart of africa and you see across central and southern parts of the wet weather on the cards over the next day or so lively showers there through the rift valley just pushing down towards zimbabwe botswana zambia seeing some heavy showers and if you show us to just extending it to central

and southern parts of mississippi. 2 in kolkata culture of knowledge openness and pluralism worldwide and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity the shape come out a warrant for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and ana translators under knowledge their role in strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation between our of islamic and world cultures. in 1958 charles de gaulle made a famous speech in algeria the exit plan. was to take the dot hold back the tide of algerian independence or keep france's colonies in africa and the pacific.

in the final episode of the series al-jazeera explores how the long and bitter fight for the french empire still resonates today blood and tears french to colonize a sham on al-jazeera. were more. this is al-jazeera quit right off the top stories for you know multiple countries a racing's or proof that 19 banks seen have been more than 64000000 confirmed cases of the virus around the world you know the one and a half 1000000 people have died u.s. general secretary is calling for unity in tackling the pandemic iran has top 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases says the largest said country in the middle

east where the 50000 people have. died from the virus but officials say that number could be much higher. and u.s. tech from i.b.m. says a hacking scheme is targeting companies that are planning the distribution of covert 19 vaccines this is the hackers are specifically interested in the cold chain used to keep vaccines at the right temperature during transportation. well the governor of brazil's paulo state says here to start vaccinating residents from us early as january on thursday he welcomed 2nd batch of chinese vaccine brazil has been one of the countries hosts a cuban trials of corona fact it also has the 2nd deadliest outbreak in the world 2nd only to the u.s. meanwhile health experts in brazil are warning of a 2nd wave of corona virus as authorities struggle to deal with the 1st intensive

care units in sao paulo and rio de janeiro running out of beds from rio want to monica janak it has the reports. as some are approaches and temperatures rise the beaches in rio de janeiro are increasingly cracked. and so are the intensive care units both in public and private hospitals 90 percent of them are occupied many of them by younger patients but that's not stopping countless others who believe the cool with 1000 pandemic is soon i'm no longer afraid of the coronavirus nobody is just look around ignoring social distancing and the use of masks is a risk that comes at a high price. we are not prepared for the 2nd way a margin c field hospitals have been dismantled doctors say existing hospitals in rio de janeiro and sao paolo are reaching their limit and may no longer be able to

cope with the increasing number of infected unless urgent measures to stop the march. they can have several. docks that were in the front already that. they are all right here that. means that we are headed on the other it don't make peak and and i am afraid i'm really afraid that december can bring to brazil this week so like personal feeling is that we are going to have very sad christmas and beginning of the new year with 174000 couvade 1000 related deaths brazil has the world's 2nd largest number of fatalities after the united states but just as the curve was beginning to flatten there was a spike more and more young people were seen in crowded bars and parties and

then there was the recent political campaign for mayoral elections in more than 5000 cities nationwide and as soon as the november 29 municipal elections were over the governor of the state of announced new safety measures a foggy. no we wanted to close down economic activities but restrict them to avoid gatherings. as of now shops bars and restaurants will only be able to operate at 40 percent of their capacity and must close by 10 pm. for some it may be too little too late brazil still lacks a national policy for dealing with the pen demi so even for researchers working on the vaccine like margaret thought of como it's hard to imagine what will happen if government authours and brazilians themselves don't take the necessary precautions i don't know i don't know. i am trait.

i don't know why. experts say the best hope is still the vaccine but in the best case scenario mass vaccination in brazil is expected to start only after march of 2021 monica and i give rio de janeiro all just sirrah interpol is warning countries to prepare for organized crime networks that targets covert 1000 back scenes it's issued a high alert sightline in potential criminal activities in the falsified cation theft and of legal advertising a fact seems interpol says criminal organizations are planning to infiltrate or just from vaccine supply chains facebook has announced it will start removing posts that have false claims about coronavirus fact scenes it says misinformation that poses a risk of imminent harm will be taken down the social media company will label and

reduce distribution of other claims contradicting health experts a matter where the couple bianco is a director of health the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says the best way to reduce the spread of fake news on vaccines is to use evidence to back the information we are very worried about gave me super mation that he circulate the particularly on also shall be going on for months and he is intensifying right now with the arrival of vaccine a lot of rumors going around that coleridge may not be very cool we may not affect africans that if you get a vaccination you may be sterilized or if you use garlic you may fight 1000 all these claims are not based on evidence and are very very risky. is that we are all trying to stop. terrible. i think a lot of people in social media and outside like

a direct cross are working very much hard to to to combat music formation to look forward to the right information we really believe that is the priority east to bring in the right type of information at all levels of media politicians researchers and organisations like like the red cross and then you can also try to to to ban be the wrong information but you can also backfire so what is absolutely critical to improve the amount of evidence based information that he's brought to the communities those ones that are connected but remembering also the fact that are many communities that do not have access to social media where is the person to person interaction that actually vital information on how to prevent the transmission of the virus. the united nations says urgent aid is needed for 3000000 syrians living in refugee camps whence it can be harsh so they desperately require essentials and shelter to keep warm and to say no to reports there's

a possibility 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. 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. you don't know how you will find food to. a life in exile is what many fear particularly those living close to the front lines a truce reached in march were made for a child by him were freed 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 is on the m 4 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 and emptying villages along the route. we saw what happened to the others they were forced from their homes now they live in the rain but 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 that what they're. the indian army has denied reports of reprisal attacks after the death of 2 of its soldiers an indian administered kashmir last wake but residents of one area tryna go have told al-jazeera details about an attack they say was carried out by security forces and reports. days after an indian army patrol came under attack in 2 soldiers inside the vehicle were shot later died in hospital authorities are looking for those responsible no group has claimed responsibility

for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear. an army soldiers have carried out raids in the past week and those who live here say they've become victims to reprisal attacks. on the day of the attack the soldiers questioned us we told them we didn't know anything a day later around 1 30 am the soldiers righted our neighborhood all men were taken out of their homes and lined up in a neighborhood square we were beaten badly we were separated into 3 groups soldiers took turns beating us at least 5 soldiers beating a single person with iron rods battens whatever they could find we were even pushed on the ground and beaten were civilians why would we know anything about the attackers they were soldiers and they should know how to deal with civilians. al jazeera has spoken to numerous people who say they've seen many beatings or have been attacked most have the bruises to prove it there was one of the. last few

months some were tied to electric poles and beaten badly children were beaten in front of their parents sons were beaten in front of their fathers fathers were beaten in front of the sons or were ruthlessly beaten always screaming the woman were crying and weren't allowed to move closer they were abused too. some say whenever they hear the army coming they now flee their homes. an indian army spokesman has denied the allegations of beatings in this area a local official from india's governing b j p says such complaints are rare when one. incident i believe if such an incident happened we like a moment in the local administration to launch an inquiry to make sure it doesn't happen again but i don't think that sentients didn't happen to me as a disciplined force if it has happened they need to be investigated and the guilty needs to be punished. those. services have been held to

remember the 2 soldiers who were killed as soldiers and civilians alike remain on edge in this disputed region and al-jazeera. farmers in india are meeting government ministers for a 2nd round of talks this process intensifying against new laws on farm produce the farmers say they'll carry on with their process in the. day ended without agreement and warning that the legislation passed in september will put an end to minimum crop prices and be to corporate exploitation or india correspondent elizabeth purana miss out the single border crossing. even as farm union leaders attend the 2nd round of talks this week but the government tens of thousands of farmers remain on 3 key highways blocking 3 roads into the indian capital region where one of them is very much fun of defiance it's also festive at times and the farmers here are

being joined by farmers from states other than those which border dairy farm is a coming from the states of riders from the states of madhya pradesh and they all say that they are going to continue to cause this disruption until the government either up here those 3 recent. all right guarantees around price for their produce. and we're also seeing protests elsewhere in the country now and the stay. disha and maharashtra in odisha farmers have been protesting outside the state assembly and now fanis have support from athletes 150 athletes from the state of punjab where many farmers have from have said they're going to go to the presidential building on saturday a day where farmers have called for a nationwide protest and return their national award last some of these athletes a little gold medalist and the government as very aware of just how much support

these fans have from the public. and the pandemic has forced greece to keep its museums cool's depriving them of much needed revenue so one of the country's most important is no resources to emergency measures in order to avoid bankruptcy. reports from athens. the nike museum is the 2nd most visited in greece after the acropolis museum it has a collection spanning 2000 years of greek islamic and asian civilization but it's in financial trouble 70 percent of its income is from ticket sales restaurants and shops and it's 9 venues the pandemic has forced greece to close museums drawing up that revenue so the been a key asked the living artists it displays to contribute works for an online auction it gathered $240.00 priced anywhere between 40 euros and $70000.00 and the auction it says is going well partly thanks to the museum's clean records

acquisition contrary to all the major european museums this is not a colonial museum which it was built on the love for art and history it was not built as the outcome of an imperial power a colonial power that has gathered all those treasures from around the world the been lucky is doing as much online business as it can shipping gifts ahead of christmas but the shortfall it has to cover is considerable the bernanke museum needs 8 and a half $1000000.00 a year to keep its stores open every month that it closed it loses half a $1000000.00 to lockdowns this year have so far kept it shut for 5 months depriving it of almost a 3rd of its annual income and that doesn't include company sponsorships for exhibitions like this one which was due to open on the day the latest lockdown began but the binoculars board is determined to succeed because this is the only

museum that traces greek identity through all its phases from antiquity through by sent him to the modern state became a depository of trust for the greek society and also the greeks of the diaspora that every single time they had something important to donate and preserve for the new. and race when they would rather give it to the night museum the nikkei then provide me with my society. vision and company and over the years we had this relationship of trust the been lucky is now calling on that global community of supporters to help it survive during this challenging time jump start or pull us out as are atoms in south korea nearly half a 1000000 school students assessing their national college entrance exam during a recent spike in corona virus cases and as rob mcbride reports from seoul the annual events 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 normally throng 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. for me. 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 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 on. that i had various concerns but today looking at the preparations and i am somewhat relieved to be however the

cove in 1902 ation is now worse than when we 1st planned for this day. already on drink credible exam pressure students this year have the added concerns of the pandemic to stress over rob mcbride al-jazeera sole still to come here on al-jazeera will have the best film of the football action from the asian champions league that's coming out with gemma after the break.

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john has returned to the bahrain circuit just 4 days off to his horrifying crash the 34 year old french been spent 3 nights in hospital for treatment it's a burns on his hands and a broken left but he returned to thank those who helped save his life on sunday when his car break through a barrier split in half into flames investigation into the crash is ongoing but changes have been made already the tie a barrier placed at the turn for this weekend's grand prix at the same venue. for good for me would you describe the front. you wouldn't mind across the board. for. your rights to watch you play so that you do your work as well was a big thank you will soon be over. thanks to football an australian side melbourne victory have reached the last 16 of the asian champions league the

competition has been played inside a bio security bubble and cats are now been beat s.c. so so you won on thursday to secure a 2nd place finish in their group is the 1st time they've made the knockout stages since 2016 melbourne and will face also on hand the south koreans were a dominant weight as i have a shanghai shanta with a 41 victory johnson school twice in the 5th straight win for all sounding group after. japanese club also use 3 to the last 16 past glory one that on thursday to seal 2nd place in group brazilian player and lawyer talk of the only goal of the game in the 8 minutes they'll face a group even as beijing f.c. in the next game while perth glory they go head to bosco and be biggest star le bron james is a great an $85000000.00 contract extension with the l.a. lakers it's a 2 year deal for the man who led the lakers it to the n.b.a. championship back in october when he was also named the most valuable player of the

n.b.a. finals. james tons of $36.00 and later this month and i can is that they will say much to keep hold of their other stops and he davis he became a free agent after winning the n.b.a. title but is now expected to sign a 5 year contract $190000000.00 meanwhile the houston rockets have traded russell westbrook the to the washington wizards and exchange the rockets john wooden from washington as well as a feature a 1st round draft pick and a team to being back in training for 2 days but unsurprisingly corona virus remains a problem nearly 9 percent of players have tested positive ahead of their ascent to camp 6 players have to isolate fed 10 days after the symptoms pass argentina's rugby skipper has been reinstated just a day after being stripped as a caption save for offensive social media posts on wednesday a problem it's terence who if his teammates were dropped off to tweens deemed racist and xenophobic for nearly a decade ago resurfaced however maseru and his team mates will now any sense how

this saturday's trying to test against australia or the knowledge. we will. be. women's golf legend anika sorenson has been elected president of the international go federation the i.g.f. is the gulf body which is recognized within the olympic and paralympic movement silenced and what with them i says i want him to get this will back into him pics in 2016 on the men's european so english by andy sullivan leads the way at the dubai championship after 2 rounds is already 17 under paul the lowest hof a title on the tour this season he's 3 shots a clip of the failed and that is only useful for now i'll have more later on. and

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matter to you. down to 0. 0 and the air at. the u.s. record its deadliest day yet with the coronavirus claiming another 2804 lives on iran becomes the latest country to pass a 1000000 current of arson cases. are intended this is al jazeera live from london also coming up why britain is quick approval of the pfizer vaccine is drawing criticism from both the u.s. and the e.u. . reports bangladesh is coercing fountains of bringing the refugees into moving to a remote.