does the right. play an important role. in. ringback the global death toll from covert 19 tops 1.5000002 of the worst has nations the u.s. and its leader reported a record number of fatalities. well i'm fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead. this is not a football competition we're talking mutilation the health of people britain faces criticism for its fast approval of the pfizer vaccine raising fears it could undermine public confidence. bangladesh transfers hundreds of rohingya refugees to

an isolated island despite concerns from the un and rights groups and a major shift in hollywood one of brothers announces all of its films next year will be released online and in cinemas at the same time. thank you for joining us more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died from colvin 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths have happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting a record numbers of deaths among them it's city where nearly a 1000 people died on wednesday the highest daily toll since the beginning of the pandemic you knock down measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak. that inclusion bias agent from the 21st of december to the 6th of january all movements from one region to another are prohibited even to reach

a 2nd homes attention on christmas boxing day in january 1st also prohibited travel from one place to another on the whole national territory there is still a ban on moving from team pm to 5 am for new year's eve however this person will be extended from teen pm the not before to 7 am on january 1st and the world's worst affected country the u.s. continues to experience as surgeon infections with hospital admissions and fatalities reaching new highs president elect joe biden says he'll make masks mandatory during his 1st 3 months in office isn't the 1st day i'm going to say i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days the mask now for over 100 years and i think we'll see a significant reduction if we incur that everything there that occurs with vaccinations unmasking to drive down the numbers considerably considerably the

state of california has become one of the epi centers in the u.s. rob reynolds for a course. 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 newsome 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 to be more nast's we have been distancing we've alluded sizing it and been saying it's my freedom not to do it. and so we're really bad at that 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 seach rhode island's governor is begging for help and if you're a retired health care worker of any kind or

a health care worker who's currently under employed maybe have 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 fauci 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 to do it rob riddles. more than a 1000000 people in iran have now had coronavirus nearly 50000 have died but the

health minister says the actual number is probably much higher but the government is considering easing restrictions in several areas iran is a worst affected country in the middle east and gaza is imposing a posh on lockdown this weekend to curb a rise in the number of calls in 1000 infections mosques and small schools will be closed during the day and they'll be a nighttime curfew from saturday a full lockdown is set to start next friday which will last until the end of the month and south korea has reported its highest number of daily new cases since march there were $629.00 new infections on thursday half of them in the capital seoul the government has announced a ban on year end parties and rainbows street social distancing guidelines in the greatest soul area. now america's top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci has apologized for criticizing britain's fast approval of the pfizer biotech vaccine it followed criticism from e.u. regulators about the u.k.'s approach shot ballasts 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 best bet ical regulators 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. and fictious disease expert dr anthony felt she appeared to cast doubt over how operatives 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

say when would 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 when it 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 e.u. 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 are talking about the life and health of 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 stop we

need more least 3 or 4 we need to increase production we need hold the price down we need we love a $1.00 vaccine because the all of the vaccine so far 2 doses so the innovation is a finished we need the research to continue we need everyone to support on the surge i will point the song to the british regulators says the strict standards have been made 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 if it's to prove it safe and ready for years shelob ellis. and other world news the united nations says famine like conditions have reappeared in parts of yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of thought 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 the more than 5 year old war has left 80 percent of the population reliant on aid the window to prevent famine in yemen is narrowing is new figures reveal record high of acute food insecurity in the country that's according to new information today from the food culture organization the world food programme and unicef the agency's new integrated food security face classification analysis for yemen indicates that pockets of famine like conditions will face 5 food insecurity have already returned to the for the 1st time in 2 years they warn that the number of people experiencing this degree of catastrophic food insecurity could nearly triple from 16500 currently 247000 people between january and june 2021. the former president of central african republic has been barred from contesting elections in december for candidacy was invalidated by the

constitutional court. did not satisfy the good more requirement for candidates the former leader is accused of war crimes nicholas hock reports. count if you can former president plus were busy 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 fermenting 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 illegible 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 so 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 for mentored 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 on. the other candidates need to exceed 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 our militias nicholas hawke al jazeera. aid workers say hundreds of rohingya refugees are being coerced into moving to a remote island off bangladesh which the u.n. says is prone to storms and flooding navy officials say more than 1600 rohingya refugees are heading to the island of bashan char from cox's bazar nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squalid camps in southeast bangladesh after being forced out of myanmar by a military crackdown. there forcing my son and his family to go he didn't want to go but he forced him i came to see him probably for the last time. my family didn't want to go there taking them by force if my family go there to the island they will die because of floods. my land on the mercilessly beat my brother

and broke 2 or 3 teeth when they brought him here brother didn't want to go to the island they beat my brother my nieces and sister in law here last night as bring in their chantry in cox's bizarre forest tanveer yesterday the refugees were being moved from camps on to the buses today i understand where seeing them on the boats does this mean the operation to relocate them is officially beginning. apologies for that we seem to have lost our connection with tangier chadri we'll try and reconnect with them in just a few minutes we're going to take a short break on al-jazeera and still ahead a protest by farmers in india against dollars that could impact crop prices as an aid to salts and without an agreement and we need some of the people behind a grassroots effort to mom allies notice in the u.s. state of georgia before a runoff that will decide who controls the senate. how

much of your feeling something of a wintry blast at the moment lots of cold air in place right across the continent some nasty weather too into central areas across italy and across into the balkans quite an intense area of low pressure has seen a fair bit a snow over the past 24 to 48 hours and a fair bit more as we go on through the next couple of days as well actually this is crisis central crochet where a winter has well and truly set in as you can see and there is more snow in the forecast in this because through the next day old say heaviest snow will come back into the outs as we go on through saturday a bit of a breast bite 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 maybe 6 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 showers lapping into the shores of the mediterranean will possibly record also seeing some west weather central areas so we'll 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. 2950 s. the disputed election force believe he is 1st indigenous president into exile as evel morale is considered his future and hope to return his party rallied behind new candidates with a tense new election drawing close in late 2020 people in power went behind the scenes to see if the indigenous movement could pull off

a remarkable comeback for livia exile will return on al-jazeera. but the back you watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to you bill a recap of our top stories more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died globally from coal that 19 at a special pandemic session of the united nations the secretary general calls for a unified global response u.s. president elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st $100.00 days in office hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. in the u.s. which is the world's worst affected country aid workers say at least $1600.00

rohingya refugees are being forced to move to a remote island off the coast of bangladesh the u.n. warns it's prone to storms and flooding let's get more on this with tanveer chantry our correspondent who joins us live from cox's bazar so we were talking about earlier the fact that the refugees were being moved from camps on to buses yesterday and today we actually seeing them on boats heading to bash and char does this mean that the operation has officially began. yes finally the controversial operation out of the end of the government for the last several months has been pushing the agenda that at least 100000 during a record is will be moved to boston charge for security reasons mainly and also because of the concentration of people in the camp now we know that precisely 1640 children are on the national guard on their way to the remote coast to live i'm

sure the bay of bengal which could take 12 hours or more depending on the sea condition the bangladeshi government tanveer says this relocation will help ease the chronic overcrowding at the camps in cox's bazaar but what do we actually know about the conditions at the facilities on bashan child end up. in the island for the last 2 years we were promised that we'll be taken within this month we're still waiting now what we know from our contacts and even the $300.00 plus refugees arriving directly rescued from both who are staying there what they're told us the living condition is good no doubt they're going to find considerable amount of money the cluster of villages and 120 of them and they have a room that connects all made up to what they call this 2 hospital with 25 hospitals rather the police station there's a natural forward base all those pathetic. but talking to their owners in the camp

and those who are there they don't know those that were rescued from the boat told us they don't want to be there is a story more. they're not used to living in their island they're used to being near their homeland which is bordering where they live and they have extended families all across the time they can visit so the accommodation it might be good but moving 100000 out of nearly 1000000 is not going to be a make major difference for the government are going to be in fighting security another reason even the foreign minister say that the programming out of parliament in italy here is could potentially jeopardize that regional but really the government hasn't thrown out glue and they've been books selected group and you don't run media when actually promoting their government agenda in recent weeks. thank you very much for that apologies for the poor quality of the connection then

to india now where the government and protesting farmers have yet to find common ground on new knowledge that could affect crop prices they're due to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday ended without an agreement farmers are continuing to protest against the legislation that was passed in september they're worried it will put an end to minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation that speak to india correspondent elizabeth cohen who's live at the guys who are on the border between the states of delhi and pradesh so the protests continuing despite the ongoing talks off alma's way you are at all hopeful that they can find common ground with the government. hi fairly well it's difficult for farmers to see how they're going to find common ground and they said that's because the laws are fundamentally flawed and so we're at the gaza food border between the states of the predation delhi where hundreds of farmers from the states of that arc and author they have led to this part of the highway

completely being closed off to traffic coming from those states this is the smallest of the 3 certain protests that we have been covering over the past week there are around 1000 farmers here at the other protest sides that single had to create there are tens of thousands it was just lunch time here where everybody here was fed and you can really see how organized farmers are how they're in this for the long haul because tens of thousands of people are fed you know 3 hot meals every single day and they say that they're not going anywhere until the government repeal the laws when we had the 2nd round of. those in the government on the main issue for farmers remain concerns over losing a minimum price for their project is that they've had guarantees off for decades losing electricity subsidies real concerns about private players private companies having an unfair advantage over farmers and unions and concerns over who's going to

solve disputes around for cure meant just to throw in procurement and prices and the government didn't say on thursday that it's willing to take all of these concerns into consideration and possibly even amend the laws but again with farmers saying that the laws are so flawed because they were created without consultation with farmers and pushed through parliament that nothing short of repealing these laws will do is run them in gassy paula thank you very much for that update liz. police in peru have shot dead a 19 year old farm worker during a protest against low wages he was fond of a groups of striking workers who had brushed the country's main motorway with branches stones and burning ties in the northern town of fear the protesters want wage increases and the scrapping of an agricultural law they say limits their rights and income. evacuations are under way in indonesia's north sumatra

province after flash floods killed at least 3 people heavy rains have battered the region for a week bursting the river banks sense of merging communities the government says more than 6000 homes have been damaged in towns surrounding the largest city made on. mollie's interim government has announced the formation of a new parliament with the military retaining a prominent role it's one of a deal to return to civilian rule or face international sanctions a group of army officers led by colonel a see me go a tough force president. to resign in august. a runoff vote in the u.s. state of georgia will determine whether republicans maintain control of the senate or if democrats can take power donald trump is planning a rally on saturday hoping to bolster the republican vote there's also an intense push among grassroots organizations to get more people to the polls before monday's registration deadline that name reports from atlanta.

order hurt. these signs wallpapering speak to the election fatigue among georgians the 2020 campaign cycle is continuing at a breakneck pace the outcome of georgia's senate runoff on january 5th will determine the balance of power in the senate and how ambitious of an agenda president elect joe biden can pursue our ancestors fought and died for us to vote in the 1st place so it's almost like a crime for me and who i stand for if i don't go out and vote one of the georgia stand up is one of the many nonpartisan grassroots organizations pounding the pavement during this pandemic holiday season its target is mobilizing the black vote especially eligible young and women voters we are experiencing

a cultural war. there's a shift in demographics this is a shift in power and so our job is empowered those who have the right to vote the last time georgians elected a democratic senator was 15 years ago but during that time the demographics of georgia have shifted blacks hispanics and asians now comprise more than a 3rd of the electorate i expect that you know both groups will experience a mixed bag of wins and losses going forward and that they're going to be really close elections you know the same thing happened when whites were shifting their party identification in the eighty's and ninety's from the democratic party to the republican party time around libris action is a conservative organization wooing the country's growing hispanic community latino's in georgia overwhelmingly voted for biden however the group points out that support for president trump in the state jumped 10 percent in the last 4.

years we're seeing inroads we're seeing more and more are beginning to. take a look at the issues take a look at their their lives take a look at policy and begin to say you know what the message that libra is is telling us in conservers overall that that's that's the direction i want to go whatever the outcome of the georgia senate runoff the real winner might be the power of each person's vote the tashi to name just 0 atlanta. in hollywood 1st want to brothers has announced it will make its says available to stream online at the same time as a cinema release is being seen as a major shift in an industry hit hard by the cove in $1000.00 knockdowns the company's upcoming titles will be released on the h.b.o. max platform in the coming months major studios have been forced to bypass traditional movie theaters as cocksure see their to dish no revenue streams dry up

john murray is a media and pop culture expert he explains how this decision came about. what happened wasn't 2021 of the brothers released him it was a movie by christopher nolan the director of the right of the producer and he was adamant that that film had to go into theaters well we're in a global pandemic and some people are going to be it is and depending on where you live in the world a lot of theaters will close so that will be heading over $200000000.00 budget but in the united states it only made $20000000.00 in his opening weekend though the global box office of the film has been strong they've made their money back and i'm sure what they start screaming in the film obviously make money but $1.00 of the brothers was like no we're not doing this again so they've already announced wonderwoman was going to this streaming platform h.b.o. max in december and now all 17 of their 2021 films will go on their streaming app because they are trying to err on the side of caution but also be think up their streaming platform we've seen other streaming platforms like disney plus already take some projects that were scheduled for theaters and added to the disney 1st

platform they've done that with several fields and for them just getting the unique brand new subscribers is a victory for the overall channel because the belief is if you show up for the matrix on a lot of brothers h.b.o. match or you show up or disney film on a disney 1st and then maybe you'll stay in consume all the content and so that subscriber and the long time in the long term sense of things is better than just a one off at the box office and so you know i don't know out of the theater owners across the world are frustrated they feel the same losing money but the truth of the matter is everybody needs to err on the side of caution so the studios have this product and now they actually have a direct to consumer platform with the streaming apps that they can get the product to them and they're not losing money and a lot. china says it has successfully launched its lunar probe off the surface of the moon the 1st country to do so since the former soviet union in the 1970 s. the chinese spacecraft took 6 minutes to reach lunar orbits it collected 2

kilograms of lunar rocks while it was on the moon engineers at the chinese space agency will now try to send it back to. the in the in the. headlines on more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died globally from call it 19 at a special pandemic session of the united nations the secretary general called for a global unified response u.s. president elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 100 days in office hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs in the world's worst affected country in the 1st day i'm an order to say i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days a mask now for over 100 years and i think we'll see a.