anita and this is. in the final episode of the series al-jazeera explores how the long and bitter fight for the french empire still resonates today blood in tears french to colonize a sham on al-jazeera. lives are in the balance lives will be lost unless we do more than we've ever done. a warning from the governor of california more than 5 and a half 1000 americans have died in just 2 days. the whole rommany watching i'll just live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes this is not

a football competition we're talking about the life and the health of people britain faces criticism for its approval of the pfizer vaccine raising worries the debate could undermine public confidence. also residents of indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of reprisal attacks against civilians. the former president of the central african republic is barred from running for office over allegations of war crimes. i welcome to the program more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of corona virus worldwide a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months now several countries have been reporting a record numbers of deaths among them italy where nearly a 1000 people died on wednesday the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic now new lockdown measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak. there.

from the 21st of december to the 6th of january all movements from one region to another are prohibited even to reach 2nd homes attention on christmas boxing day in january 1st are also prohibited travel from one place to another on the whole national territory there is still a ban on moving from teen pm to 5 am for new year's eve however this prohibition will be extended from teen pm the night before to 7 am on january 1st. the world's worst affected country the u.s. is experiencing a surgeon infections with hospitalizations and deaths reaching new highs now more than 210000 new infections have been registered in just 24 hours more than 2700 people have died in california stay at home orders have been imposed from los angeles rob reynolds begins our coverage. with new covert 19 cases surging across the u.s. california's governor said he's pulling the emergency brake and will order

a 3 week stay at home borders in parts of the state based on hospital capacity the bottom line is if we don't act now our hospital system will be overwhelmed we don't act now will continue to see a death rate climb more lives lost governor gavin newsom says the shutdown will go into effect as each region's hospital intensive care unit capacity falls below 15 percent most parts of the state are due to pass that mark by mid december we're bursting at the seams with too many i.c.u. patients too many patients that need oxygen and the projections suggest we're just in the beginning of this new some big people to hold on a little longer till coronavirus vaccines are rolled out we have a light at the end of the tunnel with these vaccines but we need to take seriously this moment this is the most challenging moment since the beginning of this

pandemic but public health experts say restrictions lockdowns and stay at home orders are useless unless people observe them americans are fatigued we were never very good turns out i do buying by public health advice. we just not we have them all the more nast's we have been distancing we've alluded sizing italy been saying it's my freedom not to do it. and so we really battle back and i don't see any indication that we're going to change another issue that many states are struggling with is a lack of trained medical personnel to handle the siege rhode island's governor is begging for help and if a retired health care worker of any kind or a health care worker who's currently under employed maybe has some time to spare

or are unemployed or working in a non health care setting. i'm asking you to suit up and help us out the nation's top infectious disease expert dr anthony met via video link with members of president elect joe biden's transition team for what he called substantive discussions about dealing with the pandemic here in los angeles the mayor had a blunt message for the city's 4000000 people cancel everything mayor eric garcetti told angelenos if it's not essential don't do it robert oulds al jazeera los angeles well president elect joe biden says that he will make mast manda train during his 1st 100 days in office christensen remains been following developments from wilmington delaware. interesting news coming out late here from wilmington and president joe biden saying that he intends to ask americans to mask up once he

takes office for 100 days the 1st inkling we have of how his response may be different than the current administration's he was speaking to us network c.n.n. and described his plans he said where possible he would mandate mass for example on interstate travel on airplanes and in federal buildings but otherwise would seek to influence americans by his example and they said it was important for him and the vice president themselves to wear a mask as an example of course mask wearing has become controversial in some parts of the united states so there could be some pushback on that front but both biden seeming to stress that there would be an end date that this was for a limited time $100.00 days to get the virus under control he also talked about the fact that his plan was not to close the economy but to offer clear guidance not to impose strict or not to impose specific lockdown so much as guidance he talked

about if restaurants and bars need to close for periods of time that they need to know that there would be assistance in what the ground rules were going to be moving forward of course that's perhaps easier said than done for him because any type of aid for restaurants would have to be approved by congress but nonetheless again a clear signal a clear indication of where the administration is heading in terms of its covert plan iran is a 1000000 confirmed cases 19 was killed nearly 50000 people but the health minister says the actual number of is probably much higher tough restrictions of employers. gardner is imposing a partial lockdown this weekend to curb the rise in the number of infections and schools will be closed during the day and they'll be a nighttime curfew from saturday awful lot done is set to begin starting friday until the end of the month and south korea has reported its highest number of krona virus cases in one day since march 629 year infections half of them in the capital

seoul the government has announced a ban on year end parties and reimpose strict social distancing guidelines in the greater seoul area but the united nations is holding a special session of the general assembly to discuss the credit virus crisis the secretary general has accused wealthier countries for not doing enough to help developing nations for the 1st time since 145 and world is confronted by a common student you've got of us of a nationality and the city or face the world also going to is asian provided factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basis for a quarter to 8 you global response unfortunately many of these recommendations were not followed and in some situations there was a rejection of facts and and a lot of those of the united nations and when countries go in there don't die in

action the values goes in everyone action. america's top infectious disease expert has apologized for criticizing britain's rapid approval of the pfizer vaccine antony found he said regulators didn't go far enough to prove its safety and effectiveness but later he backtracked saying his comments came out wrong the apology comes amid criticism from year regulators about the u.k.'s approach charlotte dallas has more. hope is housed in a belgian factory where millions of doses of the vaccine developed by german scientists from biotech and the u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer being made the u.k.'s leading the race to roll out the drug after its independent regulator gave the vaccine emergency approval on wednesday the 1st doses will arrive in britain within days we've got the very best people in this country and we've always ago vest benteke already elaters much better than the french have much better than the belgians have much better than the

americans and that doesn't surprise me as well because we are much better country than every single one well it may be a political win for the u.k. u.s. infectious disease expert dr anthony felt she appeared to cast doubt over how british regulators approved it so quickly you know i love the brits they're great they're good scientists but they just took the data from the wise a company and instead of scrutinizing it really really carefully they said ok let's they went with it the scientist hastily backtracked apologizing for what he called a misunderstanding she said he did have great faith in the regulatory community in the u.k. it's essentially a temporary approval one that is made under extraordinary circumstances when there are risks to health and no other treatment available. it doesn't mean that the scrutiny is not there it does not mean that the regulators have not acted safely but i think what we're seeing right now is a bit of political posturing the rabbit approval had already been politicized by

the you who called its approach more thora we are definitely not in the game. of comparing regulators across countries nor in commenting on claims as to who is better this is not a football competition we're talking about the life and health a few people the world health organization has asked british scientists to share their findings the un body which acts as a benchmark for other countries is eager to approve a vaccine as soon as possible we need to develop more vaccines we should the stuff we need more the least 3 or 4 we need to increase production we hold the price down we need we'd love a $1.00 dog's vaccine because the all of the vaccine so far 2 doses so the innovations are finished we need the research to continue we need everyone to support our research i want to thank the scientists the british regulators says the strict standards have been met to assure the vaccine safety and effectiveness the rollout is being cautiously welcomed in the u.k. but the race to regulate exposed rifts between scientists undermining international

efforts to prove its safe and ready for use shelob ellis al-jazeera drugmaker pfizer has revealed it to slash its original vaccine rollout target by half to 2 supply chain obstacles pfizer and partner by untac had hoped to distribute 100000000 vaccines globally this month that's been reduced to 50000000 because they couldn't get enough raw materials to make the vaccine or pfizer hasn't said which materials contributed to the shore for but vaccines usually contain anti virus agents and septic sterile water and elements of the virus d.n.a. while drug makers are also facing major logistic hurdles in distributing an estimated 9000000000 doses that actually needs to be distributed using glass vial syringes syringe safety boxes dry ice and using the equivalent of 8000 boeing 747 cargo planes. dr marty davis says an infectious disease physician at washington university school of medicine joins me now via skype from st louis in

missouri good to have you with us dr davis i mean the importance of the supply chain could not be highlighted more by the statement to pfizer have just delivered about the sort of shortcomings in the supply chain should the alarm bells have been ringing and that perhaps also we shouldn't really be just dependent on one vaccine but really several in various physical forms that's the way forward yeah i mean what this right here is all of this attention on the government going back. and all of the scrutiny and fortunately some degree the really great holiday spent then were placed around there maybe i'm not paying much much attention to the line distribution now i believe a lot of issues can be over in country b. you ask me you may have the resources to get it i guess is the big issue from the

rain from countries who are ready have challenges in even understanding the vaccine but of course that is highlighted by the issue of you say the rule materials again it's place really why are we not why we need hearing about it now when for the last 10 months there's been no other conversation other than finding a solution to covert surely sovereign governments the un the w.h.o. all slightly of fault for not actually you might say taking their eye off the ball . think the great expense pressure under scrutiny major got methadone or not and i mean we're going to pretend that a lot of people in leadership where for good reason a lot of the mistrust and this is going by the public came to the fore and here i mean we're now paying attention to who getting the mountain and trying to sell this to the public so certainly i agree with you get there they should have been

a lot more preparation in education around what once having found that i have you believe that those of us who do this work and in public health at least i did have the fact that you were being worked in private and give an example of you know my hospital washington university where we meet have been diligently working to rangoon strategies around how are you with that however like i can see you're saying not everyone is that level of criminality in rural populations and low income country the especially in black and brown communities when disproportionately affected that is not the case and back with spangles here and it does seem that the u.n. secretary general on 10 it is addressing that on a global scale if i can just talk about the u.s. of course where you off of the pleasure of visiting the united states on many occasions and i've been to states like kentucky and to montana and then of course as new york on one side and california on the other the the the the 5 to dos

vaccine does require refrigeration and we know the logistics of the problems even europe is facing over that the united states is a huge area montana for example is a huge state as is kentucky i mean not all of those states have those major refrigeration facilities you talk about the logistics it is a problem for the u.s. just a for your country alone. it is it is right again barrier certain level of privilege that exists in the resources of the state and there are there are i don't think can be tapped into to make that work but it absolutely is an issue there is a very big level of difference between what at a top institution and hospital at washington university can provide for my patients than a doctor in rural america can and it requires infrastructure a lot of what's left out of here is you know like you said a lot of each schools needed to make this happen

a lot of going to. a lot of the injections and things that actually are needed to administer not to mention you know vaccinators that need to be recruited the training that needs to happen this is a complex issue that requires a degree of rank and means once again ability and for some research that infrastructure is just not there and that is where we need to prioritize our funding and support how concerned are you with the reports that where obviously monitoring that packages are trying to disrupt supply chains criminal groups offering fake vaccines that makes the task even harder especially when the public message has to be so focused everybody has to be all message as well doesn't matter whether you're in america or whether you're in the democratic republic of congo. exactly this does not help any structures. are no

exhausted i challenge your workers who have been doing this work in the beginning of the year to get at this point where we finally got something that gives us a measure of hope and then become angry attack is absolutely unacceptable and quite good marline thing i miss to have happened and it's time where you know public perception in public the public is not not on board from you know serving more speakers and saying that almost charter american do not want to speak does that mean the 67 percent of african-americans all feel you are not one to take it to ben adam mayer bags of criminality that shakes the security of what going to the core it's just not something that we can afford and dates will certainly keep an eye on things certainly from your perspective davis very good to speak to him thank you very much for your time. you're in pain right now and you. still had his problems as there are. concerns the thousands of rethinking refugees who've been

moved to a remote island that's prone to flooding. after a year in the doldrums a major hollywood player tries to rewrite the rules of big studio film releases their stories of the break. how i would say some rather nasty weather across the northeast new ass eastern parts of canada recently that's in the process of pulling out of the way easing away from newfoundland allowing for more when she whether to come into that eastern side of canada for once area pushing across towards quebec we've got some wet weather just around the appalachians pushing back up towards new england snow with the northern flank of that and some wet weather all the way down towards the panhandle for central areas of the u.s. it is january dry and slushy dry say if it was that western side of the u.s.

california well high fire risk back on the on the cards here over the next couple of days further north you've got some wet weather and at times when she weather sliding across into the pacific northwest western parts of canada through b.c. and you can see as we go on into sas day the snow becoming a little more extensive for that east side of canada even new york could see a little bit of that wintry weather much of the u.s. at this stage looking fine and dry as is the case to across a good part of the caribbean although into central america for we do have a clutch of storms still rumbling away just around northern costa rica pushing back into nicaragua into hunch areas still suffering from the floods from our recent hurricanes more showers here this weekend. 2019 fiercely disputed election 4th believe your 1st indigenous president into

exile as ever morale is considered his future and hope to return his party rally behind a new candidate. with a chance new election drawing close in late 2020 people in power went behind the scenes to see if the indigenous movement could pull off every market will come back to live yeah exile will return on al-jazeera. routinely. oh. oh. welcome back i want you all deservedly so robin a reminder of our top news stories the united states has recorded more than 210000 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours 2700 people died u.s.

president like joe biden says he'll ask americans to commit to mass choir into the 1st 100 days of his administration. italy has announced rick measures on movement during the holiday season after recording $993.00 deaths in 24 hours it's the highest daily death toll so far and the u.n. secretary general has called for a unified global response to corona virus as the number of deaths worldwide reached 1500000 until you get tara she was speaking at a special pandemic session of the united nations. iran says it will honor the 2050 nuclear deal if the incoming u.s. administration lifts crippling sanctions u.s. president elect joe biden says that he will rejoin the deal which donald trump abandoned 2018 if iran complies strictly with its terms but the foreign minister zarif says washington is in no position to set preconditions. the united states walked out of the nuclear agreement but did not walk out of the united nations its

hands responsibilities obligations as a un member as a security council member and there is a security council resolution 2231 which the united states must observe as a permanent member of the security council and the united states has been in great breach of that resolution because trump administration has been a rogue regime ethiopian security forces have reportedly blocked refugees leaving the country more than 45000 people have fled the conflict in ethiopia's northern to grey region the eastern sudan but sudanese troops have told the associated press news agency that ethiopian forces stopped refugees from crossing the border early on thursday well ethiopian t.v. has released footage said to be from inside the 2 gray region that appears to be from the military and shows life seemingly returning to normal because of a month long communications blackout al-jazeera is unable to verify the pictures the united nations says it's reached a deal with ethiopian officials to allow aid into the region there are 6 restate my

pompei or says washington is appalled by the treatment of pro-democracy advocates in hong kong his comments come amid a growing crackdown on dissent including the jailing of 3 prominent activists for their role in protests on wednesday joshua warne likeness chauhan ivan lamb received sentences ranging from 7 to 13 months and on thursday a hong kong court denied bail and detained newspaper publisher jimmy live from paris says the chinese communist party's greatest fear is free speach. aid workers say thousands of refugees are being coerced into moving into a remote island off bangladesh which the u.n. warns is prone to storms and flooding buses carrying hundreds of people left camps in cox's bazaar on thursday bound for the island of bosh and char nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squalid camps in southeastern bangladesh after fleeing

violence in me and bar now they are refusing to return without guarantees their safety and their rights. india's military has denied reports that targeted civilians in reprisal attacks after 2 soldiers were killed in indian administered kashmir last week but residents of one area outside srinagar have told al-jazeera the security forces are rounding up and beating innocent men women and children under schapelle has more. 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 raided 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 where 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. 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 these sons were ruthlessly beaten always screaming the women 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. and 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 hike 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 event happened 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 are shipped al-jazeera. the former president of the central african republic francois busy has been barred from contesting elections in december his candidacy was invalidated by the constitutional court.

did not satisfy the good morality requirement of the candidates the former leader is accused of war crimes as nicholas haq reports. catch me if you can former president taunting authorities at a campaign rally last week despite an international arrest warrant for his involvement in mass killings and torture the former president currently under un sanction for from ending unrest after he was deposed in a coup in 2013 is not only back in the central african republic but wants to become the country's next president with the slogan the day has come. except the country's constitutional court has now ruled he's not eligible to run in december's presidential election his supporters are dismayed at the judge's ruling that he lacked both a clean criminal record and the moral character to be a candidate. it's a bit strange the courts have never summoned him neither has he been charged or sentenced he has been the country's head of state for 10 years it's

a bit surprising to question his character. french troops intervened in 2013 after a boozy fermented religious divisions calling on christian militia groups known as the. to attack pro-government fighters known as the celica university student who is relieved by the court's decision fearing that busies is candidacy could spark violence. the other candidates need to accept the court's decision so that we can move forward with the upcoming election and turn the page from violence the campaign has so far been tense 14 armed groups continue to fight the government and each other despite a peace agreement in the presence of 812000 strong un peacekeeping force as a result 2800000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance and a 1000000 people are displaced with former president bush out of the race many fear the reactions of his supporters who still include armed militias nicholas hawk al

jazeera. warner brothers has announced all of its movies slated for theatrical release in 2021 will also be variable to stream online in the u.s. major studios have been forced to bypass traditional movie theaters as coronavirus lock down measures have close cinemas the company's upcoming blockbusters will be released on streaming service with cinemas is being seen as another major disruption to an already struggling industry. 0 it means the whole romney reminder of our top stories the united states has recorded more than 210000 new krona virus infections in 24 hours 2700 people have died u.s. president elect joe biden says that he'll ask americans to commit to mass squaring for the 1st $100.00 days of his administration italy has announced strict measures on movement during the holiday season after recording $993.00 deaths in 24 hours

its highs daily death toll so far infections have been falling but authorities are worried about him.