and in the ward and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making healthy a world for you. to everyone. this is 0. color on our intake of this is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up the global death toll from cope with 19 passes one and a half 1000000 fueled by the u.s. and italy suffering their deadliest days yet. this is not a football competition is it ok let's approve it that's it may well be a good person is criticized for its quick approval of the fines a vaccine. reports that bangladesh is coercing thousands of rango

refugees into moving to a remote island that's prone to flooding. hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is denied bail and a former lawmaker goes into exile in the latest blows to the city's pro-democracy movement. should supporters the bron james assigns an $85000000.00 deal with the l.a. lakers and finally one driver right langridge return to the bahrain circuit the scene if it's horrifying crash just 4 days ago. begin with the coronavirus crisis in the global death toll has now passed one and a half 1000000 with a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months many countries are reporting soaring infection rates and deaths as government struggle to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country the united states 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total

italy has it to new record with 993 deaths in one day that's higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections have surpassed 1000000 in iran the country has reported a west 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the united nations and global health officials have warned. it's fast tracking the process this after the u.k. authorized use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grows social media giants facebook and instagram say they'll start removing posts with false claims where you know states continues report more than 200000 infections every day the latest record number of deaths in one day takes the country's total death toll above 274000 the centers for disease control and prevention says fatalities could reach 450005 february the u.s. is also struggling with hospitalizations 100000 patients were admitted in the last

24 hours. in a moment i'll speak to rob reynolds in los angeles which is announce a stay at home orders and christian salumi in wilmington where joe biden has been appointing officials to lead the fight against corona virus but 1st to alan fischer at the white house and the pick the figures seem to get worse and worse. certainly not good reading for anyone who's involved in the fight against covert i don't think anyone would be impressed by the fact that just in the last hour or so it's been confirmed that the united states has passed that 14000000 cases mark and that means in just 69 days they've gone from 7000000 to 14000000 that's quite a figure as you see through what 3157 people who died on wednesday that's far more than the peak that we saw in april and you remember that then the disease was really concentrated in the new york new jersey area this time it's a lot more widespread and it's putting pressure on hospitals right across the country and of course there's no con affects for anyone else who suffers another

health conditions such as heart disease or cancer they are simply not able to get to a hospital bed to get the treatment that they need so there is deep concern and there's also a worry too of course moving talking about this for a week because it's a week since the thanksgiving holiday here in the united states and many experts were saying that the fact that so many people traveled and went to see relatives that could see another break in the next week or so and so what the figures look really bad today in a week's time they could be significantly washed and that is why the c.d.c. is saying that there is a real problem here what people are thinking that with the vaccination news this is the end of the crisis isn't they're talking about significant numbers of deaths between 0 and february the death toll growing every single day and thousands upon thousands of more people being hospitalized across the united states and thank you very much an hour california has reported a surge shares we had

a new infections the governor is expecting that to increase over the holiday season gavin newsom says the state will be imposing a regional lockdown system based on each region's hospital capacity. the bottom line is if we don't act now our hospital system will be overwhelmed we don't act now we'll continue to see a death rate climb here is what we are introducing today regions where the i.c.u. capacity is falling below 15 percent we are now mandating that we are implementing a stay at home order for 3 weeks this off the never los angeles ordered residents to stay at home rob reynolds is live in los angeles so it sounds like the situation is getting worse in california what does it mean for all the people living there. it is indeed getting worse lauren and the state have passed a new record of 20000 individual new cases of covert 19 on

wednesday so that led governor newsome as you heard to. perform what he called pulling the emergency brake and imposing these new restrictions on virtually every part of the state the governor said that the projections are that the intensive care unit capacity of california hospital statewide will fall below 15 percent by the middle of this month so he has same pose new restrictions bars are closed personal service. sorts of stablish mislike barber shops and beauty parlors parlors are going to be closed for 3 weeks schools will remain open but. businesses stores groceries that sort of thing are going to be reduced to 20 percent capacity and there are a variety of other. restrictions put in place including our restaurants closed

except for takeout and delivery all non-essential travel throughout the state is being restricted and these restrictions as the governor said will last for 3 weeks the mayor of los angeles eric garcetti had a very blunt message for the 4000000 people who live in this city he said cancel everything if it's not essential don't do it so now all of this is is fine and good the restrictions are in themselves could be useful in stopping the spread or at least curbing it and preserving some of that hospital capacity that is so absolutely essential in treating kovan 1000 patients but it's only. is good is. the number of people who follow instructions and that has been the problem not only in california but all across the country it appears that americans are not. quite

as good as people in other countries about wearing masks keeping their distance not socializing not mixing groups of people in households and so on so we shall see if this new alarm bell being sounded here in california by governors really across the united states will change that situation. right now thank you very much. u.s. president joe biden is due to hold talks with a top u.s. disease expert. and we hearing that he's starting to put a team together to help him fight it 19 let's get more from christianson in me in biden's hometown wilmington in delaware so do we have any names and a common lineup. well here's what we do know dr anthony found out she told us media today that he will be holding his 1st substantive meeting with the transition team of joe biden here and delaware virtually this afternoon we don't expect him to be meeting with the president elect

himself rather some of his top advisers and some of the priorities that we know he is going to be discussing is the rollout of the vaccine given that the f.d.a. is expected to give approval for one as soon as next week given that we're seeing these record numbers of new infections and hospitalizations here in the united states with over 100000 americans hospitalized and only about 40000000 vaccines expected to be available before the end of the year in this country of 330000000 people that is one of the issues that we know is going to be high on the list present the president elect biden has also stressed issues like the need for more testing and economic relief related to coronavirus concerns but while the. president elect has announced his economic team he has not formally announced his coded response team for the administration announcing a transition coated team was one of the 1st things he did after he got elected but

it seems as if we are moving in that direction we're starting to hear reports about who might fill that response team and that includes a man by the name of vivek murthy who served as surgeon general under president obama and is expected according to politico a web site here in the united states to be named for that position by the biden team again no confirmation on that yet but this is a name that spanned widely circulated and he is currently serving on the transition advisory team as well another name we're hearing is the man by the name of jeff zients he's currently serving as a co-chair of the advisory team for the transition now this is someone who also served in the obama administration someone who was an economic advisor not sciences but someone who's known for his management experience continuing the trend of joe biden reaching back to tried and true trusted advisors people he knows from his

past go around in government that can hit the ground running dr interesting lee enough was asked if he would be continuing on in his position in the biden ministration his response he's served 6 administration so far and has no intention of going anywhere which many americans i'm sure will find reassuring. kristensen to me thank you very much indeed and just bring you an update we remember the headlines we had the quote from. suggesting that he was disappointed with the u.k. regulations approving the vaccine so far within the last few minutes he's given an interview which in which he has apologized for his comments and said that i do have great faith in the u.k. mentions regulators i want to make clear to the british people have the utmost confidence in my colleagues in the u.k. and i did not mean to imply any sloppiness on the part of the u.k. regulators even though it came out that way i apologize so. back in apparent criticism of the u.k. regulations for approving the fine is

a vaccine quick. now as you heard earlier $993.00 people have died in italy in the last 24 hours it's the worst daily death toll since the pandemic began despite a fall in infections previous record was on march the 27th when the entire country was knocked down after becoming the 1st western nation to be hit by the pandemic it is overall death toll has now crossed 58000. more situation italy let's speak to freelance journalist seem a group to who joins us live from rome and see mother is there any serious to why the death toll is so high given that there were quite a few restrictions in place over a number of weeks and months. well i think it's important to remember that the 993 deaths that we saw in the last 24 hours based on people that were infected maybe 3 maybe 4 weeks ago even before the restrictions were put in place it takes a while for the impact of the virus to be felt and it's also important to remember

that italy has an elderly population some the percentage of people here that are over the age of 70 is 17 percent now that's compared to the average in europe of 10 percent so there are more elderly people here now as we know call it 19 the effect it has on the elderly is lethal and the average age of the person dying from cope at 19 here in italy is 80 years old so with an elderly population you are going to see more deaths unfortunately and that's what we're seeing with this very distressing figure today of 993 deaths and talk us through the spread of the cases this time because in the early days of the pandemic it was mainly concentrated in northern it if it is about where it is now well interesting to know that of those $993.00 deaths a 3rd of them still in that hard hit region of long body that's in the north of the

country but it's not like it was in the spring as you mentioned demene what you're seeing right now is that you've got cases throughout the country and areas in the south which ont as efficient in terms of their health care system have also been badly affected despite these high 1 death rates though what we are seeing is that the admissions into the hospital for corporate cases as well as the admissions to intensive care units are falling and the increase in number of new cases daily is also on a downward trend so the authorities are hopeful about this but that's precisely why they say that it's important to continue with the restrictions and they've been imposed tougher restrictions to ensure that there isn't going to be a 3rd wave come january and what about the hospitals talk us through how they're coping with all this. i think health care workers here in italy are really feeling the strain of this 2nd wave i mean for a lot of people i think there is

a sort of coded fatigue if you like the frustration in the economic impact of the restrictions but also in seeing these death tolls after a while i think there's an element of numbness but the health care workers bills on the ground that are having to deal with these cases that are coming in they are really feeling the brunt of it and the heads of doctors associations have sounded the alarm out earlier in november november amount where we saw 10000 deaths due to covert 19 they're saying that you know really more needs to be done in that's why the government has toughened up on the restrictions particularly over the festive period of christmas and the new year there will be a restriction on movement between regions between the 21st of december to the 6th of january and on the key dates of christmas boxing day and new year's day the 25th 26th of december and the 1st of january people can't even move out of their town so really they're trying to contain it as far as they can because they say they know

the we're not out of the woods just yet similar to thank you very much indeed. health authorities in iran have now detected more than $1000000.00 coronavirus cases since the outbreak began it's the only nation in the middle east to cross that threshold the virus is reported to have killed almost $50000.00 people across iran but the health minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher restrictions remain in place across most of the country but some measures will be relaxed in the capital from saturday. a 2nd look at the situation in some other countries where infections and deaths are escalating russia confirmed 554 coded 1000 deaths on thursday and more than 28000 new infections hungary has recorded one $182.00 new fatalities with a population of $9000000.00 europe's 5th highest per capita turkey has been averaging around $30000.00 new data cases for the past week and reported $187.00

deaths on thursday and indonesia which is the worst hit nation in southeast asia detected a record $8369.00 infections well the u.n. general assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic a strongly worded opening statement text general antonio terrace emphasized the need for a united response for the 1st time since 145 entire world is confronted by a common student got a list of the nationality of the city or face the world us organization provided factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basis for a quote of the late you global response unfortunately many of these recommendations were not followed and the in some situations there was a rejection affects. and ignore those of the ravens. and when companies go in their own direction the violence goes in every direction

coming up on this news hour from london whatever report from the greek capital on the measures some museums are taking to stay afloat during the pandemic. or central african republic says former president for celebrities it has been stopped from running again. and coming up in sport with gemma at the news of a huge money deal for the n.b.a.'s biggest star. aid workers say thousands of regular refugees have been coerced into moving to a remote island off bangladesh which is prone to flooding. buses carrying hundreds of people left the camps in cox's bazaar bound for the island of russian char really 1000000 ringgit muslims 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 time

a child really is in cox's bizarre he says many refugees are concerned about a lack of facilities on the island. why suddenly take 100000 people to isolated island which is a 50 kilometer course not bangladesh which is prone to cycle on tidal wave the government will say we spend 218000000 with build embarkment there's clusters of villages like around shelters and hospitals although there is school missing which is one of the primary. reasons that rowing a record year they're 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 said they'll be farming they'll be domesticated animals they could get out of the livestock farming they could go fishing and all the stuff they said 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 it's me on 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 much about but the government has determined they're going to take place by probably will take months to relocate this 100000 people in that island the searches in hong kong the intensifying that crackdown on dissent outspoken beijing critic and media talking jimmy lie has been denied bail after being charged with fraud and another high profile pro-democracy filmmaker has left the city saying he'll seek exile in britain difficult part of 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 here's 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 proto moccasin newspaper 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 beijing lies 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 demonstrations on the streets of lawless. people of america. they're very worried about these 2 former legislative counselor told her he 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 of valuing to continue to monitor the government and keep up the fight

for democracy even in the absence of their boss if you go palin our desire our hong kong steve is director of the china institute at so as university and london he joins us live via skype from nottinghamshire here in the u.k. thank you very much for being with us so a lie is a big figure in the pro-democracy movement what do you know about the reasons for him being arrested and also denied bail well do this almost certain the government directed approach i think you've got to rely on some charges against he's called democracy after he's it would have done jacques couldn't. short as a case and what effect will be this latest arrest on the movement. well it is clearly having a very strong negative effect on the protest movement basically all the protests at liberty's that happened last year have been more but people in hong kong are

very. imaginative and they will come up with new ways to protests and the government to do try to clamp down on every imaginative new way. to measure what kind of appetite it do you see a minute that as it had the effect today of quelling dissenters someways what appetite is there internationally for standing up to beijing crackdowns on freedom of expression. hong kong is a subject that a lot of or western democracies don't care about but they also don't want to go to the extent of airing that hong kong is effectively lost is autonomy surely chinese government can still play on that and washington trees will still be fairly carefully calibrating their responses you not to destroy some kind of a balance and what's your view do you think that the 2 systems one country system

is actually finished now. well it is not showing a lot of movement of life at the moment i think people would prefer not to be clear that it is already that i think people would prefer to wait until it is totally absolutely completely debt free fall acknowledging that fact and how much is china concerned about the perception of china as a result of this kind of activity in hong kong. i'm not sure actually deterrence government generally just care about is international image but on a major policy why hong kong it will have to be decided by xi jinping and in situation in hong kong is very much to the result of miscarry that policy on the part oxygen pain so no senior official in the chinese government there could tell she didn't get with the group it's respects or it's your policy that brings in all these negative effects they won't turn into true steve saying thank you very much

and if you're an arse as appreciated you're welcome. there's much more still to come this hour. and we used to have our land our home here you don't know how you will find food to eat and edge in crisis in syria as the winter cold puts millions of people at risk. in the firing line has donald trump not just confidence in attorney general william. and dodging tina do you tend not to say i can never run the captain and i would expect why it's called. how much of your feeling something of a wintry blast at the moment with lots of cold air in place right across the continent some nasty weather to ensue central areas across italy and across into

the balkans quite an intense area of low pressure has seen a fair bit of snow over the past 24 to 48 hours in a fair bit more as we go on through the next couple of days as well actually this is crisis central chrysler where a way into has well and truly set in as you can see and there is more snow in the full cost of this because through the next day oh it's a heaviest snow will come back into the alps as we go on through sas day a bit of a breast right there for the balkans at this stage more heavy showers that's that western side of the mediterranean look at the temperatures struggling to get 76 and 7 degrees across western powers cold air will continue to dive its way across the british isles sliding down into france and all the parts of spain and portugal as we go through the next day or 2 and that cold air also affecting parts of africa with one or 2 shower was lapping into the shores of the mediterranean will possibly record will sing some west weather central areas will see somewhat dry weather and you'll see a few showers down towards the gulf of guinea with the usual showers all the way to

the if you haven't heightens. with tiny hidden cameras criminals are illegally filming and sharing people's most intimate moments when one needs to investigate south korea's spy cam the deming one colleges if. you don't lose your letter it isn't funny as we don't have a narrative i had a question join me richelle carey and up front is my guest from around the world take a hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on al-jazeera getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often dangerous but it's absolutely vital the stories to be told lots of side to this area we push this fall forward as we can to the frontline now the smell of day is overpowering a lot of the stories that we cover all high the conflicts so it's very important that we make them as on the stand it will as we can to as many people as possible

no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to do. among the top stories here are just their current virus cases a surging across the world with the worst affected country the us reporting $2804.00 deaths on wednesday its highest one day death toll yet it's also recorded more than 200000 infections every day. italy has also recorded its highest daily death toll from crowd of ours with 993 fatalities in the last 24 hours while iran

has become the 1st country in the middle east to report more than 1000000 infections and the top u.s. diseases expert anthony found she has rode back on comments he made which appeared to criticize british regulators for proving the pfizer vaccine so quickly. facebook and instagram have announced they will start removing posts with false claims about corona virus vaccines they say misinformation that poses a risk of imminent harm will be taken down and a sophisticated hacking scheme is targeting companies planning the distribution of covert 19 vaccines the us tech from i.b.m. says the hackers are specifically interested in how to manufacture and distribute the vaccine globally at freezing temperatures the company says about 10 organizations involved in the logistics have been targeted. interpol has warned countries to prepare for organized crime networks targeting covert 19 vaccines it issued a high alert to its 194 member nations outlining potential criminal activity both

physically and online the global police called nation agency says criminal organizations of planned infiltrate or disrupt vaccine supply chains. new vaccinations had to open in russia head of a large scale attacks nation program starting next week 3 new facilities were opened at hospitals in the moscow region with doctors and teachers 1st in line to receive these put nick v. shots the drug has not completed the advance studies needed to ensure effectiveness and safety in line with established scientific protocols. or sil's itself how a state has received another 1000000 doses of a critter are specks in developed in china is the 2nd batch of doses by krone fact that has been sent there brazil has been one of the countries hosting human trials of the vaccine so powers governor says he wants to start inoculating residents in january before a national plan showed you all for march numbers are rising again in brazil which

has reported 755 deaths and more than $50000.00 new cases in the last 24 hours. there was going to be again we came here to the international airport to send one more bite of the corona virus in about the brutal turns vaccine that the vaccine that will save the lives of millions of brazilians. today we received impetus to reduce 1000000 vaccine though says added to the 120000 vaccine we received last week now we have 1000000 120000 works in doses. and sri lanka the families of a number of muslim coronavirus fact victims are refusing to claim the bodies of their loved ones it's in protest of the government's forced cremation policy and almost dismissed accusations of discrimination now fernandez has more. modern uncle geoffrey date of call with on november 26th the sri lankan government crew meets the bodies of anyone who dies of course with 19 even if you're to suspected case it

says it's technical experts have advised this is the best way to prevent the spread of the virus but cremation is forbidden in islam and some families are now refusing to collect the bodies in protest where the lot there for you what they're where you want to come for you need this thing the need of the body with you and the welcoming a number of other muslims are also refusing to pick up the remains of their relatives on tuesday the supreme court dismissed 11 petitions challenging the forced commissions a joint statement by 20 civil society organizations on thursday rejected the ruling saying in a statement the freed the victims of forced cremation of corbett 19 or covered 900 suspected dead had been the highest court in sri lanka has been shattered victims and communities are now left without a recourse in sri lanka for the continued injustice they suffer the health minister

says burials can't be allowed until the technical expert committee presents its final decision after conducting an in-depth study into the virus. muslim activists sirrah says her community has lost patience and will continue to leave bodies organizers as they're called here at the morgue until the cremation stop the almost 18 months the muslim community has been asking our answer from the government so they are fed up. don't trust the government any more they feel that it is a punishment so they don't want to be part of this process at all so therefore they are just leaving the genesis and i've been told at least 2 or 3 hospitals of muslim john are piling up government spokesman says the decision to cremate lies with the experts committee government i started it in short he just exposed

committee that decides finally it's all garment to the government to the cabinet minister the president prime minister they're going to have the minister i'm not going to do it it is just that really we have and we do in terms of the. expert committee but cases like that of every news are seen here in these pictures are hard for the muslim community to accept the 44 year old was cremated within hours of dying at the infectious diseases hospital the next day the family was informed her test recorded 19 was negative her son seen here in this mobile phone footage had the task of burying her ashes losing a loved one to call vic 19 is bad enough but many muslims see cremating their bodies is a 5th worse than death the government says all call victims are crimean on the advice of its technical experts committee and it can't make exceptions for any

community with infections and deaths rising rapidly the dispute is far from over fernandez how does the era colombo. the kroner a spender make is forced greece to keep museums closed for much of the year depriving them of vital revenue now one of the country's most important cultural institutions has started auctioning off some of its art to avoid bankruptcy for us 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 world partly thanks to the museum's clean record of 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 bin ikea's doing as much online business as it can shipping gifts ahead of christmas but the shortfall it has to cover is considerable the nikkei museum needs 8 and a half $1000000.00 a year to keep its doors 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 bin ickes 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 but became a depository of christ the greek society and also the greeks of the day. that every single time they had something important to donate and preserve for the new. they would rather be would have been accusing the provide the. visa and company and over the years we've had these people process is now calling on that global community of supporters to help it survive during this challenging time jump. from. workers at french ski resorts have been protesting against an order from paris to close ski lifts the measure is aimed at slowing the

spread of covert 19 during the winter protesters say the weeks around christmas and new year a crucial to their survival making up a quarter of their annual revenue france's winter sports industry employs about 120000 people during the season many are worried forced of us will instead head to the open slopes in neighboring switzerland. france is threatening to close dozens of mosques flagged as security risks as the government ramps up efforts to combat what it calls extremist behavior as many as $76.00 mosques are being investigated the country is also deported dozens of undocumented migrants suspected of radical links it comes after 3 separate attacks in october including the beheading of a teacher who showed his students caricature of the prophet mohammed yet. there are in some concentrated areas places of worship which are clearly anti republican moms are followed by the intelligence services and where the discourse

runs counter to our values such as equality between men and women anti semitism and hatred against france. only after course your share them with a look each time at the mosque i'm not sure that the solutions are here the reality is there is work to do in reaction to hating people radicalization also takes place a lot on social media we must think about an islam on social media which is more visible in fighting the lies that are being spread. hundreds of protesters. have blocked streets in armenia's capital yerevan as they keep up their calls for prime minister nicola question and to resign several were detained by police they say bashir and betrayed the country over a ceasefire deal reached with azerbaijan last month the deal handed as a version territorial gains to stop fighting in the disputed never occur right region. to talk or to in central african republic has ruled that former president. can't stand for election a 74 year old plan to run against president. bush 2

a day or later this month the court said was he did not satisfy the good morality requirement for candidates because of an international weren't and un sanctions against him the former leaders accused of murder torture and supporting groups guilty of war crimes nicholas hackers 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's wanted by the government of bungling he 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 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 election 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's tipped as the favorite for this election to really make his way forward for a 2nd mandate. ethiopian security forces reportedly blocked refugees from fleeing the country or the 45000 people have fled the conflict in ethiopia's northern region for eastern sudan but sudanese troops have told the associated press news agency that ethiopian forces stopped refugees from crossing the border earlier on

thursday thousands of people are thought to have died r.t. here because prime minister ordered a military campaign against the grain fighters last month. new footage has been released from inside tikrit it appears to be from the military and shows life seemingly returning to normal because of a month long communications blackout out there is unable to verify these pictures united nations says it's reached a deal with ethiopian officials to allow aid into the region now invalid is that the ash of a refugee camp in sudan near the border with ethiopia. hundreds of refugees here they have lost contact with their loved ones they don't know 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 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 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 hold. those villagers 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 stone the home so that there were some of them were still waiting to be handed their homes saw that the war happened just when they were about to be moved here and those a few days came they were given a priority by the sudanese government and the asians are going on between the 2 sides between the owners of the homes the the to be owners of the homes and the government to convince them to wait until the situation can be improved and more of

the refugees can be moved to permanent camps. the u.n. says famine like conditions have reappeared in parts of yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of food insecurity aid agencies are warning time is running out to prevent mass starvation and the outlook for next year is worse famine has never been officially declared in yemen where more than 5 year old war has left 80 percent of the population reliant on aid. the u.n. is warning that syria's harsh winters putting millions of displaced people in danger many are settled in overcrowded camps where they lack basic supplies and shelter to keep them warm so hot of course. 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. time. 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. be

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 hand that were freed the regime will launch an offensive to capture the 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 will. we saw what happened to the others who were forced from their homes nobody lives 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 so what the. lawmakers from libya's rival administrations are arriving for their 1st joint session in 6 years more than 90 members of the to brook based parliament are in the city of hadera miss will be joined by those from the internationally recognized government in tripoli on monday libya's war and parties are still divided on the composition of a new unity government and presidential council. israel has warned its citizens against traveling to several countries including the u.a.e. and bahrain citing threats of iranian attacks iran has been threatening to attack israeli targets since its chief nuclear scientists those in factories are day was assassinated last friday near terror on a top adviser to iran's supreme leader has said the country will give a calculated and decisive response israel has not commented on the killing of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is government established diplomatic ties with the u.a.e. and bahrain earlier this year. the trump administration has issued

a new visa policy making it harder for chinese communist party members and their families to reside in the u.s. the new rule reduces the maximum duration of travel raises from 10 years to one month white house as the measure is to reduce the party's influence in america china's foreign ministry says the restrictions represent an escalated form of political oppression towards china. u.s. president donald trump has declined to say whether he still has confidence in attorney general bill barr the department of justice chief said earlier this week there was no sign of major fraud in last month's election he's a little hard core. ask me that. in a number of weeks from now they should be looking at all of this fraud this is not civil he thought it was civil this is not civil this is criminal stuff this is very bad criminals. so ahead this news up one of the best of

a football action from the asian champions league that's coming up the chairman sport and an unexpected guest check see how this when he visited turned up inside a hotel in wales. ofeibea.

with. his gentle with a sport thanks lower phone and drive it right in great john has returned to the bahrain circuit just 4 days off to his horrifying crash that the 34 year old frenchman is spent 3 nights at hospital for treatment of buns. his hands and a broken efforts he returned to thank save his life on sunday when his car broke

through a barrier split in half burst into flames investigation into the crash is ongoing but changes have already been made with a tire barrier placed in the tunnel for this weekend's 2nd grand prix at the same venue. thank you for. giving the banks the front row so you wouldn't mind across the board. for the. human rights watch you play so that you do all your work as well was to go thank you with the right. thank you i would just leave straight after the race on sunday you know literally a few hours after his escape from the who's scenes on the train. you know already that it was like immediately he was talking about wanting to get back in the car so everything taken in consideration i would say really good i mean. his spirit is is

incredible you know what he's just been through to build an australian side of melbourne victory of reach the last 16 of the asian champions league the competition is being played inside a bio security bubble in qatar beat f.c. so 21 on thursday to secure a 2nd place finish in their group is the 1st time they've made the knockout stage since 2016 melbourne or face alliston high on the next the south koreans dominant what is shanghai shut up with a 41 victory johnson scored twice in a 5th straight win fell sound in crete half jeff and he's club f.c. tokyo also you through to the last 16 they beat perth glory one there on thursday to seal 2nd place in great brazilian player and your tongue with the only goal of the game in the 8 minutes that face it brings the winners at beijing f.c. in the next game while perth glory they go home. in europe the draw for the away from nations a finals has been made the standout semifinal see. champions france up against the side currently ranked number one in the world and bound him in the other match

spain at stake on it's les who will host all the games in children and the land the finals take place in the next year after the european championships in european club football that will also fans inside the emirates stadium for the 1st time in 8 months after lockdown rules changed in london 2000 spectators were allowed in to watch them play rapid vienna in the right to take arsenal winning that 141 to boss people in n.b.a.'s biggest star le bron james is a great an $85000000.00 contract extension with the l.a. lakers is it to 0 for the man who led the lake is 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 he turns 36 and later this month and then i have also managed to keep hold of their other software anthony davis he became a free agent after winning the n.b.a. site open is now expected to sign a 5 year contract worth 100 $90000000.00 meanwhile the houston rockets have traded

russell westbrook to the washington wizards in exchange the rockets get john woo from washington as well as a future 1st round draft pick argentina's rugby skipper has been reinstated just a day off to being stripped of the captaincy for offensive social media posts on wednesday problema tara and 2 of his team mates were dropped off to tweet deemed racist and xenophobic for nearly a decade ago resurfaced however mr and his team mates will now only says how this saturday's trying to test against australia. athletes training for the paralympics will get grants worth an unprecedented $2200000.00 to help support the international paralympic committee announced the

package to compensate losses suffered by more than $200.00 federations and national olympic committees from the coronavirus the 2020 games was postponed until next year because of the pandemic is the biggest source of income for paralympic federations women's golf legend has been elected president of the international go federation the i.d.f. is the gulf body recognized within the olympic and paralympic movement so instead of what 2 of them as an ambassador to get the sport back into the infix in 2016 as a player the swede won 72 times on the hill and 10 major championships she starts her new role on january the 1st on the men's european so english player andy sullivan leads the way at the dubai championship after 2 rounds he's already 17 under par that's the lowest half way total on the tour this season he's 3 shots clear of the field as he chases his 2nd victory of the season and that is all you

will sport for now to me thank you very much indeed. surprised stopford hotel in wales after it was spotted waiting for the lift. the sheep nicknamed sydney had escaped from a nearby field and let itself in through electric doors with no room boot the unexpected guest was swiftly sent on its way. and a christmas tree in south australia has acquired an unusual pull and adelaide family came home to find a koala perched amid the stars and other decorations on their plastic tree and they called in wildlife rescues to collect the festive moss you. and a quick one you can always catch up anytime with our web site the address for that is al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon. that's it from me to this news up on the bottom with more news.

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a lives and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recover it. the u.s. records its deadliest day yet with a coronavirus claiming another 2804 lives one iran becomes the latest country to pass a 1000000 coronavirus cases. of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up. reports bangladesh is.