who in the in the end. the in. the global death toll from covert 19 tops 1.5000002 of the worst hit nations the us and italy report a record number of fatalities. i'm fully back to bore you watching algis dear i live from doha also ahead this is not a football competition. in the health of people britain faces criticism for its tacit approval of the fire as a vaccine raising fears it could undermine public confidence bangladesh chancers

hundreds of rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and rights groups and the show must go on law and warner brothers announces all of its films next year will be released on a streaming platform and in cinemas at the same time. thank you for joining as more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those days have happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths among them italy where nearly a 1000 people died on thursday the highest daily toll since the beginning of the pandemic new measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak and the world's worst affected country the u.s. continues to experience a 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 annoyed to say i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days to mask now for over 100 days and i think we'll see a significant reduction if we curb that everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably considerably all the sate of california has become one of the epi centers in the us rob reynolds reports. 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 past that mark by mid december were 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 lock downs and stay at home orders are useless unless people observe them americans are fatigued we were never very good turns out and abiding by public health advice. we just

not we have them all the more nast's we have been distancing we've alluded sizing it in been saying it's my freedom not to do it. and so we really battled 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 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 mere eric our city told angelenos if it's not essential don't do it rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles and america's top infectious disease expert dr anthony found she has apologized for criticizing britain's fast approval of the phaser by and take vaccine it followed criticism from e.u. regulate is about the u.k.'s approach shot at bennis 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 got the 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're much better country than every single one while 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 sign but they just took the data from the wise a company and instead of scrutinizing it really really carefully they said ok let's get may want 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 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're talking about 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. we should stop we need more than these 3 or 4 we need to increase production we hold the price down we love a $1.00 doors vaccine because the all of the action so far 2 doses so the integration is not finished we need the research to continue we need everyone to support our research i will appoint the scientists the british regulator 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 it safe and ready for years shelob ellis al-jazeera and other world news aid workers say hundreds of rohingya refugees are being coerced into moving to a remote island off the coast of bangladesh which the u.n. warns is prone to storms and flooding navy officials say more than $1600.00 running of refugees are heading to the island of bashan chalk from cox's bizarre 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. you know not really ringback 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. they mercilessly beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth when they brought him here my brother didn't want to go to the other they beat my brother and they brought my nieces and sister in law here last night al jazeera stand there chadri has more from cox says bazaar . at least 100000 during iraq it is will be moved to boston char for security reasons mainly and also because of the concentration of people in the camp now we know that precisely 1642 iraq was on the navajo basket on their way to the remote coastal i'm sure this there are things all which could take 12 hours or more depending on the sea conditions what they're told us the living condition is good no doubt they've got to find a considerable amount of money there cluster of villages and 920 of them and they have rooms that can accommodate up to 4 people just to hospital with 25 hospitals

rather police station there's a natural forward base and those who are there they don't those that were rescued from the boat told us they don't want to be there that they're used to being near their homeland which is watering where they live and they have extended families all across the time they can visit so the accommodation itself might be good but moving 800000 out of nearly 1000000 is not going to be a make major difference for the government india's government and protesting farmers have yet to find common ground on new laws that could affect crop prices they get to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday and that 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 and is that quantum has more from guys the poor on the border between the states of delhi and water pradesh. 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 border between the states of the predation delhi where hundreds of farmers from the states of with that are kind and author for 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 sit in protest 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 told. union leaders in the government on thursday the main issue for

farmers remain concerns over losing a minimum price for the project is that they've had guarantees all for decades losing electricity subsidies real concerns about private players private companies having an unfair advantage over farmers and new unions and concerns over who's going to solve disputes around procurement disputes around procurement and prices and the government did say on thursday that it's willing to take one of these concerns into consideration and possibly even amend the laws. police in peru have shot dead in 1000 euro far more catering a protest against no wages he was spotted a group of striking workers hold brock's the country's main motto away with branches stones and burning ties near the northern town of vero the protesters want to wage increases and the scrapping of an agricultural law they say limits their rights and income. still ahead on al-jazeera the former president of central african republic is barred from running for office over allegations of war crimes

and we need some of the people behind a grass or sad face to mob allies notice in the u.s. state of georgia before a runoff that will decide who controls the senate. some pretty wet weather coming in across the philippines over the next little area storms are rolling through here that stormy weather getting caught up in the northeast lemo seen driving showers down towards southern parts of vietnam say some very heavy rain recently runnable a peninsula into thailand a little continues to go on through the course of sunday but you get to see that western weather just coming to southern parts of vietnam by sunday could lead to some localized flooding here active storms across malaysia plenty of storms to into

a good part of indonesia because in while the stormy weather pushing towards the southeast of australia over the next day or so do the clutch of showers just moving through the bites our area of high pressure that will not be out of the way allowing some wet and windy weather to make its way in across new zealand and then as we go through sat stay showers longer spells of rain tucking in across southeastern coast south australia through victoria and also spreading across into southern parts of new south wales some heavy rain that so. when sewer tasmania over the lower ground even may well see some unusual summers snow as we go on through sats day things quieted down a little as we go on into sunday but cold in the southeast well it's just 20 degrees. with tiny you didn't cameras aminals are illegally filming and sharing people's most intimate moments going to an east investigate south korea's spy cam demick on

al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. the you. know again you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go a recap of our top stories more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died globally from coverage 19 at a special pandemic session of the united nations the secretary general call for

a unified global response u.s. president elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 100 days in office optimisations and deaths have reached record highs in the world's worst affected countries and aid workers say at least $1600.00 rohingya refugees are being forced to move to a remote island off the coast of bangladesh the un warns it's prone to storms and flooding. to sri lanka now where the families of a number of muslim victims of cold 19 are refusing to claim the remains of their loved ones they're protesting against the government's forced cremation policy because they say it's against their religious beliefs but now for nando's has a story from colombo. mammadov uncle well he didn't jeffrey died of cool with 19 on nov 26th the sri lankan government crew meets the bodies of anyone who dies of course with 19 even if it's a suspected case it says it's technically 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 but he obeyed the law for you'll do whatever you want we don't come for a need this thing the need of the body with you and the welcome 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 cremations a joint statement by 20 civil society organizations on thursday rejected the ruling saying in a statement the fate the victims of forced cremation of called 191000 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 on till the technical experts committee present its

final decision after conducting an in-depth study into the virus. muslim activision says her community has lost patients and will continue to leave bodies organizer's as they're called here at the morgue until the cremation stop almost 18 months the muslim community has been asking are from the government so they are fed up they don't trust the government anymore 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 hospital muslim john as a sub piling up government spokesman. says the decision to cremate lies with the experts committee government to. ensure he just exposed committee that decides finally it's all garment to the government to the cabinet ministers the president prime minister the cabinet the ministers from nothing to do

with it it is just that really. and. in terms of the. expert committee but cases like that of mary 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 covert 19 is bad enough but many muslims cremating their bodies is a 5th worse than death the government says all covert victims of crime rates are on the advice of its technical experts committee and it can't make exceptions for any community with infections and rising rapidly the dispute is far from over

fernandes out 0 colombo. the u.n. says famine like conditions have reappeared in parts of yemen aid agencies are warning time is running out to prevent it and the outlook is even worse for next year famine has never officially been declared in yemen where after 5 years of war 80 percent of the population depends on. 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 a new information today from the food cultural organization the world food program 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 egyptian authorities have released 3 human rights workers who are being held on terrorism related charges they were working for one of the last rights groups in the country when they were arrested last month and accused of joining a terror group and spreading false news the arrests were condemned by western governments activists and the united nations al-jazeera continues to demand the release of journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been detained without any formal charges in egypt for more than $1400.00 days hussein was arrested while on vacation with his family in cairo in 2016 his detention is in violation of both egyptian and international law. the former president of central african republic has been barred from contesting elections in december candidacy was invalidated by the

constitutional court it role that did not satisfy the good more requirement for candidates a former leader is accused of war crimes reports. 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 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 and. 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 most 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 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 armed militias nicholas hawk al

jazeera. miley's interim government has announced the formation of a new parliament with the military retaining a prominent role it's part of a deal to return to civilian rule or face international sanctions a group of army officers led by colonel. force president of a car cater to resign in office. now the trump administration has sued social media giant facebook accusing it of favoring immigrants over americans the lawsuit claims thousands of high paying jobs were reserves for overseas applicants it says facebook refused to consider u.s. workers entirely for some roles facebook hasn't publicly responded to the accusation. a runoff vote seen 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 is also an intense bush

among grassroots organizations to get more people to the polls before monday's registration deadline named reports from atlanta. hurt 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 just 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 there's a shift in power and so our job is empowered goes 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 labor is is telling us and conservatives 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 going to say oh just 0 atlanta. and hollywood 1st one of brothers has announced it will make its best as available to stream online at the same time as their cinema release is a major shift in an industry hit hard by call the 1000 knockdowns the company's upcoming titles will be released on the h.b.o. max platform in the coming months may just studios have been forced to bypass

cinemas as cocksure see their traditional revenue streams dry up john murray is a media and pop culture expert takes pains 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 the film had to go into theaters well we're in a global pandemic and some people are going to beat us and depending on where you live in the world while there is one quote so level we have a over $200000000.00 budget but in the united states it only made $20000000.00 in its opening weekend though the global box office of the film has been strong they've made their money back and i'm sure was the start spinning it to fill obviously make money but want as brothers was like no we're not doing this again so they already announced wonderwoman was going to the streaming platform h.b.o. max in december and now all $17.00 of their 2021 filled will go on their streaming out because they are trying to err on the side of caution but also be think up their streaming we've seen us streaming platforms like disney plus already take

some projects that were scheduled theaters and added to the disney 1st platform they've done that with several fields and for them. didn't say 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 all at disney 1st then maybe you'll stay and consume all the content and so that's why for a long time in the low flow sense of things is better than just a one off at the box office and so you know i go out of the theater owners across the world are frustrated this is a 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 that they can get the product to them and they're not losing money at the original gun used by the need to sean connery in his 1st james bond film has been sold for a quarter of a $1000000.00 the prop became one of the best known items from the film franchise

after appearing in the 1962 movie dr no it sold for higher than expected at auction more than a month after the actor died at the age of 90 the winning bidder has asks to remain anonymous act. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera 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 called for a unified global response u.s. president elect's jonell joe biden a says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 100 days in office hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs in the world's poorest affected country. isn't the 1st damage margaret to say i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask their.