part of the viewfinder latin america series on how to 0. the a. 0 . a low i maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up hopes of a capital blockade breakthrough saudi arabia says significant progress has been made in resolving the gulf crisis. bangladesh ships hundreds of rango refugees to a remote island despite complaints that they're being forced to go. americans are urged to wear masks and threaten with more stay at home orders as the u.s. off as its worst day yet the deaths and infections. and we look at why an advert

designed to highlight racial discrimination has sparked a backlash in japan. jevon ashwood support and speaking of japan the cost of delaying the take care of them pigs is revealed organizers say the current virus bespoke mint is likely to set them back a further $2800000000.00. hello welcome to the program saudi arabia's foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bitter dispute with cats are it's been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a land sea an arab blockade on cata for ministers of qatar and kuwait also say there's been progress towards resolving the crisis. has our report. crucial days a hand for gulf nations talks aimed at and during the 3 and

a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwait's foreign minister who's country has been be generally mediating and and to the crisis says he's confident in fact that a constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the interest of the peoples within this context we express our appreciation for the latest efforts by jared cushion or the us president advisor qatar's for him an assertion mohamed min of the like manner thani says he also remains optimistic about the prospect of a deal we have achieved certain for certain point of dime more than a year ago and then things has la donna and i now and there are some more moments that we hope that this will put an end for of this crisis because we see and we

believe actually that got a few nitty is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for the sake of our people needless crisis needs to end a few hours after the kuwaiti and qatari statements saudi arabia's foreign minister also said significant progress has been made and all sides are close to reaching an agreement. we hope that. this progress can lead to a final agreement which looks in reach and i coude say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to finalizing. an agreement between all the nations in dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all the gulf corporation council has welcomed the news in a statement its server development reflects the strength of the g.c.c.

its cohesion and its ability to overcome all obstacles the new developments come a few days after the us president's senior adviser jared questioner made a visit to the region he held talks with a meet of qatar shift i mean but how middle 30 and saudi crown prince mohammed bin said man the visit was widely seen as a last ditch effort by the trump administration to end the land sea and air blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt on qatar in june 2017 the blockade in countries sever diplomatic ties with doha and issued a list of 13 demands for qatar to implement. they include downgrading ties with iran closing a turkish military base and shutting down i'll just 0 qatar dismissed the demands

as a violation of its sovereignty the us has been trying to and the blockade were reared it might undermine its efforts to contain iran's influence in the region in the last few months american officials had been hoping saudi arabia would open his space to the tide of flights and move the trump administration believes will deny iran an estimated $100000000.00 in and a world view. these are tough pays to fly over space the coming days and weeks which show if the gulf rival nations are but is a set aside differences one of the ones of the blockade might take even longer to heal about a 0. well andrus craig is an asset in perfessor the school of security at king's college london he says that those core issues at the heart of the dispute why be solved quickly we are so obsessed of the last 3 days to come and see an

announcement been made of a breakthrough i think you know we have to we should forget this being 42 months of a crisis is almost tomorrow it's going to be 3 and a half years exactly where the goal of people have been sucked into this crisis much as a leader as much as everyone who is living in the gulf so to kind of resolve this which is essentially an ideational crisis as much as an issue based crisis you know this is a marathon this is not something that can be done overnight i think it's a positive development in the sense that this current effort between kuwait and the americans as a mediator between is essential between qatar and saudi arabia and these are the 2 parties who are now willing to talk to one another and come to a big basically came to an agreement to eventually negotiate an agreement if you will so it's a preliminary agreement to kind of. to kind of agree to an interim period where both sides can monitor others commitments and goodwill to actually solve this crisis the saudis are under immense pressure to make concessions at the moment because they want to look what was

a constructive player in the gulf and in the mena region to the new biden administration in the united states but they now have also the pressure to bring in our with our be into the fall which is going to be significantly more difficult because the actual parties to the conflict ideational ideologically speaking it is this is qatar and the u.a.e. these 2 parties are not aligned and it too kind of bring these 2 together is going to be the biggest challenge that's why the 1st step needs to be a resolution which in saudi arabia and qatar. bangladeshi authorities have shipped the 1st group of rangoon muslims from a camp to a remote island despite pleas from some refugees to abandon the move more than 1600 people boarded naval vessels to the isolated island of russian char the bangladeshi government says some rain had to be taken there to ease overcrowding in refugee camps its navy has built houses hospitals and mosques on the island but the united nations is concerned that refugees have been moved against their will.

they're forcing my son and his family to go he didn't want to go but before see him i came to see him probably for the last time. a little only ringback my family didn't want to go there taking them by force if my family go there to the island they would die because of floods. the mercilessly beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth but when they brought him here brother didn't want to go to the other brother brought my nieces and says to him or here last night. or bashar didn't even exist until recently it's one of several unstable islands that emerged from the sea some 20 years ago after silt bunched together at the mouth of bangladesh's mango river the island is quite remote it's more than 120 kilometers away from the coxes bazaar refugee camp and the northernmost point of me and mars rock and state where more than 730000 ring of muslims fled the military crackdown critics say bashar in

charge isn't safe it's known to be lashed by sightlines and it's prone to flooding during the monsoon the bangladeshi government says it spent $400000000.00 to build shelters and a 3 metre flood the embankment around the facilities turned their choudhry has more on this now from cox is bizarre. finally the controversial relocation of rowing a reference to a remote coastal island a boston charter has started out of 2500 listed rowing as it was 1642 rowing a reference is are on their way to this remote island by neville bethel now the government has come under severe criticism from local and international human rights bodies as well as the un despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least 100000 growing refugees in places now we know talking from the growing refugee camp as well as. 300 plus who were

rescued from the world who are living in the violent most of them are not happy with the situation the prefer to stay in the bartering with myanmar where they feel closer to home they can visit their extended families and they can help each other out now there is a lot of controversy this shortlist were made by the camp leader a lot of growing us told that they were in ties and forced into putting their name in there we cannot independently verify that now the government on its part says the facilities are good there's never base hospital at least 120 cluster of villages with good modern facilities despite all those there are still a lot of controversy the government insists the concentration is a major problem in one area and it cites security reason to moving this ruling us to this remote island well ethiopia says that it's captured or killed most of the leaders of the restive k. gray region aims to bring an end to the months and months long conflict there but the head of the grain people's liberation front says the civilians in the regions

capital mccalla have been protesting about losing by eritrean soldiers who is that to support ethiopia now it's difficult to confirm any of this because of the media and communications blackout in the area algiers malcolm webb is following developments for us from neighboring kenya and says the conflict doesn't appear to be over. the un's office for the coordinates coordination of humanitarian affairs is that it has reports of continuing fighting in many parts of it to grey region last week prime minister abbott said that the government forces were in control of the region and the government military operation was over that followed government troops taking control of the regional capital of macquarie but their enemy the 3 p.l.f. said that it wasn't over they vowed to continue fighting another 3 p.l.f. reported still control thousands of fighters and substantial stocks of military hardware researches say that thousands of civilians being killed in the fighting there will have been report of massacres of civilians by militia aligned to both

sides the leaders of both sides deny it but it's very difficult for anyone to verify any of these claims because there's almost no access for humanitarian workers human rights workers and journalists. meanwhile the united nations is saying it's concerned about the situation facing refugees inside gray almost 200000 refugees from neighboring eritrea were living in camps in the region and many thought to a fled the u.n. is hoping to get access to the region to deliver aid next week and says food and medicine is running out so i'm now joined by catherine moni has the global spokesperson for the united nations high commissioner for refugees she joins us from new york via skype what can you tell us about where the humanitarian organizations have this sort of access that they have to help refugees in the region. thanks mario you know my colleagues from u.n.h.c.r. the u.n. refugee agency in ethiopia stand at the ready we are waiting to go in and we're

ready to restore all of our humanitarian activities inside the. region now that's for you know as you say 100000 eritrean refugees who had been living for some 2 decades in 4 refugee camps in the region and for another 100000 forcibly displaced ethiopians but you know as of right now we still do not have the secure access were ready to go in but we you know as the days and hours pass we become increasingly increasingly worried for the safety and security of all but especially those eritrean refugees we continue to hear you know gruesome reports so we're ready to go and we just need to secure access right so no solid changes there in the level of access you have to the region you mentioned gruesome reports what do you know about the situation facing refugees in the area. you know unfortunately there

has been you know since the onset of this conflict you know some that's been going on for about a month and you know there has been a sensually a complete communications blackout in the region we've had no telephone no internet connection. any ability to reach so the reports that we're hearing are unverified but they are alarming gruesome reports of you know potential attacks on refugee camps of potential of the duck sessions even the possibility of the killing of civilians at refugees or humanitarian staff it could also you know we've also heard reports of forced recruitment so these are things that if they were to be verified would be gravely human rights violations but again intil we have access to the region we cannot verify any of this and that's why we need immediate access and are ready to ready to resume our activities what's the likelihood of an independent

international investigation into these human rights violations. you know i mean that will that will all need to come to be one scene other there is an investigation upon granting access secure access to the region but what we do know is that you know people continue to flee you know we've had some 47000 people cross the border from ethiopia into sudan a 1000 people cross the border just last night now what's different about the situation now we know people are still on the move those that are arriving say that more are coming but what's different in the past few days is a number of eritreans who have arrived which raises our concern for the situation inside the gray that where we're still waiting to see ourselves all right well thank you very much for shedding some light on what's happening there force as you say very difficult to to have any information when there's a communications blackout catherine monye from the united nations high commissioner

for refugees thank you you at the news hour live from london much more still ahead people in mexico are told to go back to working from home and even avoid exchanging christmas presents we're going to be live in mexico city and coronavirus disrupt south africa in england's cricket series will have those details in the sport. leaders in the u.s. a calling on people to wear mosques and warning of even more drastic restrictions as the corona virus outbreak continues to shatter records over 200000 new cases were detected on day and nearly 3000 deaths the highest daily rise in both infections and fatalities as part of the country's deadliest 3 day stretch since the outbreak started president elect joe biden is urging americans to wear mosques

for his 1st $100.00 days in office. so for more net the situation in american hospitals let's be honest got a satellite's has a pulmonary critical can medicine a physician joins us live from baltimore via skype thank you very much for taking the time to speeches can you explain to me then the situation that you are dealing with there at your hospital thank you so much for having me i'm currently running one of our intensive care units per coping 1000 patients and i can tell you the situation feels a lot like the spring where we are becoming overwhelmed with patients many coming in not just from our city were our hospital resides but so many hospitals from outside of the city hours away you know the smaller hospitals from rural rural areas becoming fields and they're sending us their patients and so forth so it feels a lot late spring but worse so we are to q.

and a lot of patients many of them very sick many of them here for days 2 weeks on end so it's you know it's a it's a it's not a good look at that moment here in our hospitals. do you have the resources to deal with the patients that are coming in particularly if you're having a wave of patients that might have gone elsewhere. so this is ringback one of the things that they do appreciate over the last several months of stocking up on resources such as a personal protective equipment mechanical ventilators medications and so forth think we've done a good job at our hospital and other hospitals to stop one of them however there is another resource that i do want to emphasize and that's those human resource the mood for instance in our intensive care unit while the patient here and so forth feels a lot like spring in the mood it's much different that's that's the part that i'm

most concerned about seeing my nursing colleagues mother physician colleagues. almost many of them seeming as if they're at their breaking points and that's the one resource i'm most concerned about just now and moving forward knowing that there is an end in sight to knowing there's going to be a one going surge i'm most worried about the human capital and the too little it's going to take on a lot of our health care professionals myself included in working the most 12 hour shifts for several consecutive days that just doesn't feel like there's an end in sight so that's that's the one resource that you want to emphasize in order to allow the community members to be conscious of this because your actions that are happening the community really are going to have an impact on those health care professionals who are moms and dads just like everyone else as well. yes i suppose that it's the exhaustion as you say of detainees 12 hour shifts day off today and then saying your patients becoming very ill in intensive care in debt and loved ones that. advocate trying to access that relatives which is obviously not always

possible with the virus what's it tell us what it's like for you it is psychologically emotionally. it's tough 100 percent and you become this patients not only that you become their doctor and nurse you become their family going to the family members do their best to stay connected of what's going on but they're doing in virtually of. through calls or or or video calls but it's that's not to say especially for a time like this you know those kind of virtual connections are not intended to the grass the grass the humanity of a severe disease impacting their loved ones that's robbing them of the ability to speak robbing them of their ability to have capacity and so a lot is asked the families to make decisions when the be here by the bedside and so for us doctors and nurses we've become this patients family we we advocate for them as much as we can but it is so tough it is exhausting to try to have these

dual roles one of the new objectiveness of medical and scientific here the other one of connectivity connectivity that you feel this patients you try to learn of them as much as possible to help their families make the right decisions that preserve these patients dignity and honor at a time where they don't have their own voices or capacity to make such decisions it is tough it is exhausting the other emphasis that i want to put out that really over the last few days that's come to realization one of the efforts we've done a lot in the community to prepare patients for hospitalizations and for many of them might be their 1st encounter at the hospital is to have a clear set of events directives for instance and a surrogate who should we call while you're in the hospital and of lawsuit really do have that conversation with us and what we find is the person again that genocide also has come of it we had a piece in where their loved one was also hospitalized and then another family

member was also hospitalized so it's this disease this virus at the moment is robbing medicine of its humanity and it's putting a lot more on those health care professionals such as myself or my colleagues to act this book doctor nurse and family advocate a great deal of pressure on you it's difficult for us to may imagine but thank you very much for helping us set to understand that appreciate it very much dr ann yanis at satis. well so the surge in cases is also hit the economic recovery in the u.s. 245000 americans found jobs last month but that down from $610000.00 new high as in october in the last hour president elect joe biden has been speaking about this so let's go live to christian salumi it is in biden's hometown of wilmington delaware so jobs were added the unemployment rate fell but the it's losing momentum.

absolutely president elect joe biden painted a pretty grim picture of the economic situation in the united states calling it the worst crisis or one of the worst crises since modern history in the united states with more than 10000000 jobs that have been lost since the pandemic still haven't returned he talked about the impact this is having on working class families in particular and the need to act quickly and order to help them out with some one in 4 small businesses in danger of closing their doors with workers losing health insurance with one out of 6 renters behind on the rant he said these people aren't looking for handouts but they need help and he said if congress does not act quickly things will get worse this situation is urgent if we don't act now the future will be very bleak murders lead to help and they

need it now and they need more to come early next year but i must tell you i'm encouraged by the bipartisan efforts in the senate around $900000000000.00 package for relief it's a bipartisan if congress if we congress as they work out the details of this relief package then you have to focus on resources for direct public health responses to covert 90. so a grim situation painted by president elect joe biden he said if congress doesn't act soon the moratorium on of the actions will expire it will be harder to keep kids and teachers safe in the schools. cities and states who are now seeing massive budget deficits will have to lay off more workers they've already laid off a 1000000 of them and he even talked about the need to deficit spend something that

republicans are traditionally reluctant to do but he says if we don't act now the implications will be even worse and harder to reverse next year this is why he took this step he said encouraging congress to act quickly but also trying to give americans a little bit of a sense of the hope that he himself has a plan in said himself that whatever congress does now will only be the 1st step that he plans to hit the ground running when he's inaugurated on january 20th and propose even further measures to help alleviate the pain that many americans are feeling with the downturn in the economy and some rough months expected ahead with the virus surgeon here and more restrictions on business is expected. christian salumi. want to move to europe now italy has reported another 814 code related deaths and more than 24000 new infections cases

a slowly falling but deaths over the last few days have been high with the highest number yet reported on thursday italy was the 1st western country hit by the virus when it fully emerged in february 1000 has killed more than 58000 italians restrictions have been tightened over the coming festive season with movement between regions inside the country now and and then in brazil younger people there are being blamed for fuelling a rise in new code that 1000 infections nearly 47000 new infections were detected on friday along with 694 deaths that america's largest countries recorded almost 6 and a half 1000000 cases since the pandemic began in 175000 deaths the 2nd highest in the world after the us well the mayor of mexico city has called on businesses in the capital to close their offices to help fight a surge in cases their people have been urged to work from home in the local government will scale back operations this is the president encourages mexicans to

cancel new year travel plans and even avoid exchanging christmas presents the nation has the world's 4th biggest caseload with over $1100000.00 infections officials admit that figure only represents a fraction of the true number of infections let's go live now to money in mexico city just tell us more about what's happening there the instructions that people have been given. well run through the numbers very quickly these are the latest numbers out of mexico nationally over 1000000 133000 confirmed cases 108000 confirmed deaths over 108000 confirmed deaths the bottom line here is that the situation in mexico nationwide and in mexico city is quite bad it's the worst that it's been since the start of the outbreak earlier this year and we should note that mexico's president on this monday lopez what other who has been heavily criticized since the beginning of the pandemic for downplaying the the severity of the virus for for questioning the efficacy of wearing a face mask he's had

a significantly drastic change in tone as of friday when he outlined a set of guidelines for mexican citizens over the holiday season to not participate in gift exchanges to not travel on christmas or on new years 2 to self isolate to avoid going out of their homes unless they have to stopping just short however of urging people to wear a mask now there is a big concern specifically here in mexico city over occupancy at hospitals here in the mexican capital occupancy currently sits at 69 percent that number is quite high but even that is only an average at some hospitals specifically the medical centers that are designated code 9000 hospitals they've already reached a saturation point there's at least one hospital the one who school made the you hospital to city run code 1000 medical center it's reportedly operating at 122 percent capacity so that is a big concern and it's easy to understand why medical professionals both here in

the mexican capital and across the country are quote unquote at wit's end losing patience with the lack of policy to curb contagion by the federal government we heard just last week from doctors and nurses at one hospital which is the one of the largest hospitals in the mexican capital basically threatened to stop treating patients unless the government of mexico city enforce at least at the very least a. partial lockdown of the city to prevent people from going outside if you go outside right now you see the amount of people that are out on the street at restaurants not wearing face masks entering businesses and stores the amount of traffic that's outside in mexico city is almost at prepared demick levels it's easy to understand why doctors and nurses are losing patience over the lack of policy now when asked about whether or not he'd be willing to enforce a lockdown earlier this week the mexican president said that he is unwilling to do so that a lock down is only is the sort of thing that only authoritarian regimes would do

but again on friday morning a very different change of tone from the president now urging people to stay in their homes to only go out if the absolutely have to this is being interpreted by many as as a sign that even though things are quite bad now they may actually be worse than they appear thanks very much from mexico city. where there is still much more to tell you about in this news hour as town bull's eye in the sky keeps watch on social distant thing as turkey brings a new restrictions to encourage a virus cases that. box office battle of the owner and his talks with want to brothers over its decision to make all of its films available to stream instantly for next year. and the best of all the football action from the asian champions league that's coming up in the sport with chapman.

however we've got lots of cold and unsettled weather across a good parts of europe at the moment low pressure dominating proceedings every of low pressure company located just around a decent side of england over east anglia so in a good little dusting of snow here in my hometown of cambridge and other parts of east anglia to see the tightly packed ice of swirling around our lowest dragon is a very cold and some wet weather makes its way into western parts of france through the bay of biscay significant snow fall there over the pair and a significant snow to coming in across the alps over the next couple of days here we could see maybe 34 meters of snow coming in so some very heavy snowfall coming through very heavy rain as well through the idea that a central part of italy likely to lead to some localized flooding further east is a good deal dryer it's cold in moscow just minus 6 celsius but at least here it is

lousy dry last you try to across the northeast of africa a very different story to the northwest area of low pressure driving that colder air across western europe will bring cool enough to him to the northwest of africa to know the past america is seeing some heavy rain for a time localized flooding heavy rain there to stretch across northern areas of algeria gradually pushing into. 2900. 4th bolivia's 1st indigenous president since rights. of all morality is considered his teacher and hope to return his party rally 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. exiled will return on al-jazeera.

held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied their right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al-jazeera correspondent mahmoud you're saying his crime journalism. to demand more neutral links and voice solidarity at all to train journalists sign the petition. free 100 percent. the earth will. come back a look at the headlines now gulf states appear to be nearing

a resolution with cats are over their 3 year blockade saudi arabia's foreign minister says all the nations involved a close to finalizing an agreement after significant progress in talks human rights groups are saying they're worried rango refugees are being forced onto a remote bangladeshi island government says the group of more than 1600 people will move to ease the overcrowding in camps in the us has suffered its worst day yet for corona virus infections and deaths with close to 2900 fatalities country's economic recovery also appears to have stalled with just 245000 jobs added last month. were elsewhere turkey is now struggling with a sharp rise in corona virus infections around 30000 cases a day have been reported in the last week with nearly 200 deaths on friday or now more restrictions have been introduced in an effort to try and stem the contagion seen a new reports from istanbul. the area near istanbul's taksim

square is now being voted toward by police rooms to see how many people are walking through it's pedestrian only zone it's part of afeard to tackle the suppression of 19 issachar street remains a popular tourist destination despite a global pandemic. the police allow almost 7000 people to cross at the same time here while others wait to enter this came after the turkish government and else new measures from overnight curfews to partial weekend lockdowns the government wants to encourage people to stay at home as the number of daily call with 900 cases of course to come 3 surpasses 30000 we need to observe but also to proceed there's no need for full curfews people have businesses to run controlled progress is important with masks and social distancing especially before the vaccine. according to official data at least 22000 people walked through

a stickler street at any given time and this number reaches around 28000 during the summer. the crowd restrictions only apply to sick last street other public squares that are s. crowded as the streets are still open to everyone. so i'm here for play in the measures that have been imposed are not enough to prevent the surprise of call it 19 since many spent always commuting to work they would like to see more restrictions on public transport and if we were measures on open public areas like the streets. smoking outside has also recently been banned restaurants and cafes are only open for takeaways and delivery foreign tourist we spoke to say it was easy to come here for a visit the spiked restrictions which was there are good because. we don't need to bring. this to come inside the growing tree is good for tourism i

mean we're going to walk into street more relaxing that in other countries in europe but the turkish medical association say's the measures are too little too late or very late to impose restrictions except for the essential we must close all production facilities for at least 10 to 15 days we've already lost 207 medical personnel so far these are the 1st hours of a full weekend locked down and a quieter friday evening in text him weeknight curfews have already been in place for a week some sectors are excluded from the restrictions now many are waiting to see if these latest measures will help turkey curb the virus or if it will be forced to impose a full lockdown so you now because al-jazeera stumble. meanwhile a warning from the world health organization that vaccines alone won't eliminate

kovan 1000 as data suggests that they're probably not going to offer lifelong protection the head of the w.h.o. is saying he's worried progress on vaccines are less as lead to a perception that the pandemic is all but over doctor said the world is now seeing light at the end of the tunnel but more needs to be done to help poor countries let me be clear we simply cannot accept a world in which the pool and marginalised are. by the reach and powerful in the stump it. seems this is a global crisis and the solutions must be shared equitably as global public goods not as private commodities that why don't inequalities and become yet another reason some people are left behind. bahrain has become the 2nd country after the u.k. to grant approval for the pfizer biotech vaccine but thoughts are now turning to

how it's going to be administered germany is hoping to have maxed mass vaccinations and is ready next month to start immunizing people as soon as it approves the chap from berlin dominic kane reports. this is a 1st glimpse of what the mass vaccination centers will look like who've created inside large warehouses or exhibition halls where thousands of people can safely be immunized every day there are 6 of these centers planned across berlin serving a population of several millions to centers will be at the former temple hoff and now closed tegel ports the man responsible for coordinating the construction of all 6 centers explained the process we recently we know that we need to vaccinate 20000 people every day and we wondered if we could do this in one place the answer is no there is no place big enough and the organisation would have been very complicated i thought about how many centers we would need with 6 centers we have an optimal

number in terms of their location in the different areas of the city the plan is for these centers to be ready by mid december so that if and when the vaccines are approved the centers are ready to go almost straight away but with the u.k. government having already approved one vaccine for distribution ministers here are facing questions about why their approval process seems to slow or the health minister says rushing to be 1st is not the most important element and. we are following a different approach within the e.u. there are also individual member states germany included that could activate these emergency approval procedures but after much consideration we decided against doing this they said we would proceed in collaboration with the e.u. we are proceeding with caution to keep the maximum level of trust in this product. the need for the vaccine is clear every day so far this week germany has been recording record daily covert death rates almost every day hospitals are gradually

becoming follow with corona patients which explains why some eminent scientists here have put great faith in the vaccines being developed since we have so far they're from india. extremely fast friend to stick the science behind it really is great. but they're. tested for now 6 months ok and if you were to have a vaccine and road to be in your own for a lifetime you have tested for a long time so there's still some insecurity you hold good fees are opinion polls suggest the majority of germans are prepared to have the vaccination provided it is i'm going to merkel has said the 1st vaccinations could begin before christmas but so far nothing has been finalized donna came. in other developments voluntary mass testing has started in austria with officials hoping it'll help avoid further lock downs it's being handled by the military which is set

up its biggest testing facility in the capital vienna the quick result tests are being rolled out days before the country starts loosening restrictions in place since the middle of last month luxembourg and slovakia also carried out mass voluntary testing now the world's biggest cinema group is saying it's an urgent talks of one of the largest hollywood movie produces in a round of a showing films online amc wants one of brothers to change its plan to stream new films online for next year the same time as they are released in the cinemas the owner of audience cinemas in europe is just one company being bypassed by major studios after they were forced to close for lock downs and now is restrictions essential as a desk for exclusive content to live viewers back. it's a good. i mean it depends on the movie i like to see and i'm in both but

i'm kind of a t.v. guy so for the most part you know i want to be we're going to see a movie but i think a virtual comeback is nothing like taking a friday night movie you know. everyone does right now i think people want to stay home you know for that car for him to see the but i think once you know america can best. go to it's comfortable for everybody i think everybody will go back to cinema same thing with broadway you know people love the feeling of being able to get out of your house and experience it in the u.k. in the e.u. still haven't managed to work out a bricks a deal with less than 4 weeks to go until britain's transition period comes to an end. negotiation michel barnier says they've agreed to pause the talks because the conditions for a deal haven't been met british prime minister boris johnson is now expected to hold talks with european commission president on delay and on saturday both sides have clashed on fishing rights and fair trade rules. well now we go to belarus the

un's talking rights official is calling on the government to release people unlawfully arrested during months of anti-government protests michelle bachelet says that they've had reports that at least 27000 people have been detained since august disputed election they include protesters activists and journalists despite the crackdown hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have continued to protest the rule of president alexander lukashenko. i know with concern that at least 4 person lost their lives in the context of the protest numerous accounts describe demonstrators some passers by being rammed only chased kicked and severely beaten with battles during the dispersal of rallies. now some news about palestinian officials saying israeli soldiers have shot and killed a teenager. was a weekly protest against israeli settlements near the village of my ear when he was

hit by a bullet the 14 year old was then taken to hospital but later died of his injuries the protesters were throwing stones at israeli forces who denied using live rounds . now to prove they've been protests taking place there and work farm workers have been joined by hundreds of miners as demonstrations paralyze the country's major highways they want the government to turn over control of a major mining complex and have blocked a road critical to the capital's food supply farm workers have been cutting off roads for days calling for higher pay and a controversial agricultural law to be scrapped at least one person was killed when police opened fire on protesters on thursday and then farmers have been protesting outside india's capital new delhi as well as calling for a nationwide shutdown on tuesday after another round of talks with the government failed to go she has will meet again on saturday while tens of thousands of farmers

keep up their process against new laws the government insists the reforms will revitalize india's massive agricultural industry but the farmers are saying it'll put an end to minimum crop prices and leave them at the mercy of private buyers. you're watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead football's world governing body announces a new host country for the club world cup we have the details in sport with gemma and then the daring operation to save and in endangered you're off stranded on a sinking ivan we will explain all.

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up and back now the sports have giant nike is facing a backlash in japan over a t.v. commercial company says it highlights discrimination but it's led many people to call for a boycott of the brand but pride explains the video features 3 teenagers who face bullying at school but overcome discrimination through sport. 2 of the girls are from racial minority groups and for some the ad wrongly portrays japanise prejudiced online criticism accuses nike of creating a false impression of japan from another critic the one that's prejudiced is nike while others have promised i won't buy nike ever again i think that they see the ad as. unnecessarily negative towards and and i think you have an older demographic it more male who are against one of the featured teenagers belongs to

japan's ethnically korean community mainly a legacy from japan's colonial period when it ruled over the korean peninsula touching on the troubled relationship between the 2 neighbors always rekindles old i name all cities especially for the older generation but for younger people in japan there seems to be a greater acceptance of diversity with sports leading the way the success of japan's multi-racial rugby team in last year's rugby world cup was widely celebrated and the emergence of bi racial tennis star nyoman osaka who is featured in the ad is having a profound impact the images experiences that are project in the air you know i think resonate with young japanese over the summer we had black lives matters march is here japan is served leading towards greater

tolerance and diversity but of course there are people are not comfortable. for its part to nike is standing by the ad saying discrimination is a global issue and it exists around the world but clearly some in japan would have been happier if the company had focused on a different part of the world of the bride al-jazeera so. an awful is for gemma thanks mariam that's how it for me one drive i write my. john he says he's happy to be alive after his horrifying crash at the bahrain grand prix last week the frenchman somehow escaped from this fire with only mine about ends to his hands and a broken foot we saw him on thursday back at the track to say thank you to those who helped save his life and he's now been speaking for the 1st time about the ordeal. he appeared to be alive to see you have been to talk to you happy to meet people when he puts me on like this someone who is me i'm

a life we walk into do i need the world to. camera i needed to see that yes i jump out of the car but i can walk to the bed the last image of me for my one will be among those all crossing the chicken line but all my going to be walking out of the flames. we're going to sitting out this week's sakit grand prix unsurprisingly and so is about champion lewis hamilton who has coronavirus his replacement sadie's did very well in practice they taught russell online from williams for the week set the fastest times in both sessions on friday. the cost of delaying the take your olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic could rise to $2800000000.00 the game is already running double the official $12600000000.00 budget before the postponement and as the japanese taxpayer bearing most of the brunt is new actual costs will be shared by the organizing committee the tokyo government and the japanese central government but despite growing opposition

within the country the prime minister remains committed to the olympics with a much more. at the u.n. general assembly in september this year i express my strong determination to host the tokyo olympic and paralympic games in the summer of next year as proof that humanity has defeated the pandemic i will continue to spin no if it to bring about the games that are safe and secure. after the olympics japan will also be hosting another big sporting event next year football's governing body pfieffer has announced the stage at the club world cup that in december 2021 the delayed 2020 version of the tournament is being staged in cats are in february. right now qatar is hosting the asian champions league with teams looking to qualifying for that february club world cup the sioux on blue ngs have squeezed into the knockout stage the south korean side needed to win by 2 goals against the khalifa international world cup stadium and they did just that they had in the last 16 as

do you visit out here already 3 as group winners so on your face at yokohama f.m. radios in the knockouts the japanese needed just a point against sydney f.c. to secure a top spot in group h. and. out them to a one and rule. china's a shanghai s.i.p.c. into the knockouts to face kobe despite losing their final great game champ notice of south korea beat them to nil with a choke you song scoring price goes down but still heading home now the pressure building around woodridge as they struggle for form in the spanish league and in europe after losing to shakhtar donetsk in the champions league on choose day they now face an away game against severe in la liga round currently 4th or without so it in 3 games and head coaches it is that i am the naysayers out need to improve quickly. this is my job at real madrid it's normal to receive criticism when we can't win matches but it doesn't change what i think my problem is it doesn't

affect the work i do every day i've never thought i was untouchable or there was a player as a coach or as a person. sudan's form of france team mate patrick vieira has been sacked as head coach of nice these are shots of the former arsenal captain joining the club a 2 and a half years ago as the league defeat to buy leverkusen it was their 5th in a row. now to italy one that really have officially renamed their stadium after diego maradona the argentine world cup when it died just over a week ago he spent 7 years in that play in the 1980 s. and ninety's leading into to a serious high tools on the way for cup trophy. stadium will now be called the study on monday tomorrow donna staying in italy and sporting director is under criminal investigation found a teachy is accused of trying to speed up the process of getting luis suarez a tally and citizenship so as it was trying to secure

a move to from barcelona back in september he passed a citizenship test but it's now been proved even given the content of the test beforehand for staff members at the university of paris you have been suspended for how being him cheat suarez never moved to italy of course he stayed in spain and signed for athletics a mature it is not played since testing positive for corona virus in mid november but this was him training on friday after a negative test gave him the green light to play england cricket sort of south africa hangs in the balance after their opening game in cape town was postponed because of current virus one south african player tested positive which forced the postponement just an hour before the start the series will now begin hopefully on sunday but any further issues could see it come together both teams staying in the same hotel in south africa are investigating if there was a breach of the bio security bubble. further testing indicate that this is

a more recent infection that occurred within the boys if environment so that so you know clearly there seems to be some kind of breach which investigated in great detail to try and determine where this happened i can i can categorically state that no player can believe he was able to leave the hotel environment simply by virtue of the fact that is security around and the security will not allow a player to leave unless that player is leaving in a sign of yoko english cofounded sullivan which i could see a shot late into the final round of the dubai championship he made 5 bodies including one where the 17th great approach shot this one and dropped it just the one shot in a 4 on a par 3rd round of 68 that puts him 21 under overall as he looks his 2nd ties of the season on the european tour. that is only a sport for now thanks very much gemma so just enough time sorry about conservationists in kenya they need some engineers he say but you're off on a slow shrinking island i see one who's an endangered rothschild or office stranded

on longer charo island waters off laboring go rising by almost 15 centimeters a day in the islands getting smaller she was loaded onto a rough made of steel and empty drums and pushed across the lake to safety or plans to move another 7 giraffes in the coming weeks. and a 25 year old jeweler in india has a shiny new world record for creating a ring with the biggest number of diamonds 12683 diamonds here to be exact it's called the mary gold the ring of prosperity and weighs a little over 165 grams its creator harsh bansal insists it can be worn but you can't buy it just yet you has no plans to sell it calling it for now at least priceless sure it will sell for a fair bit that's in the news hour i'll see you in just a couple of minutes with another full policy by fidel.

the world food program will receive the nobel peace prize for fighting against hunger and the use of starvation as a weapon of war we ask executive director david beasley how the challenge of combating global hunger will be met in the age of the coronavirus pandemic the nobel interview on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera right well every. 2023 year of lockdowns and social distancing he can't reach across the screen and give someone a alleyway explores one of the global pandemics biggest side effects the loneliness everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time or highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping control makes being in the together at the same 2 of all have a lockdown on al-jazeera. in 2008 raggy omar traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can he be muslim and american you have to be an american 1st i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that

a muslim to be elected to the united states congress want has changed rewind islam in america on al-jazeera. hopes of a cattle blockade breakthrough saudi arabia says significant progress has been made in resolving the gulf crisis. and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program bangladesh ships hundreds of rango refugees to a remote island despite complaints that being forced to go americans are urged to wear masks and threaten with more stay at home or does the u.s. suffers its worst day yet for deaths and infections. and why.