colin mental health and discovering unique ways of k. pain control makes being a lead to get at the same 2 of all have a lockdown on al-jazeera. russia begins mass vaccinations against cave at 19 despite global concerns about the speed with which it's being rolled out. tom mcclintock this is al jazeera life and also coming up iran takes another step towards banning the u.n. nuclear watchdog from inspecting that site. the deadline looming boris johnson of the head of the european union to try to break the deadlock on trade deal. ethiopia's prime minister faces criticism for his handling of the 2 great crisis is

aid agencies struggling to reach thousands displaced by the violence. so russia is pushing pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale covert 1000 vaccination program teachers doctors and social workers they're all set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month while some scientists have welcomed the news others say the data has been rushed out too early the u.k. was the 1st country to approve the vaccine from pfizer and by intake it was granted emergency authorization by british regulators in the 1st doses they're expected to be rolled out from early next week and the american drug maker madonna is filing for u.s. and european emergency approval of its covert 1000 back scene regulators will look at trial data and decide if it is safe and effective enough to roll out well

alexandra go try and has more now from moscow on the facts a nation process that. we are in one of the vaccination centers in the south of moscow in moscow cleaning that opened today there is in total they say 70 of such centers in which patients after they signed for it on the line now these are very specific categories that get the priority that is people working in health care education in social services they have to be younger than 60 and they have to be of generally good health because people with chronic all diseases are not liable to get this vaccine yet so the procedure is that after they signed in they get their time and date and there was 1st people coming in here they 1st get a general checkup then there is a procedure to defrost the vaccine that has to be kept in the temperatures below minus 18 celsius and then after the shot so they are left to rest for like 30 minutes to see if there is any reaction to days now the massive x. nation started in moscow today by the end of next week it should spread to the rest

of the russia and i have to say that actually quietly had already started in previous weeks with some hospitals being offered to get the shots or not as a part of a clinical trial but to get vaccinated also army started vaccinating 1st now and the minister of defense of russia says they are doing it by temple $500.00 people people per day so russia was the 1st to register at the vaccine and is the 1st to start a massive vaccination. well while the dutch government has announced it wants to start vaccinating 1000 in early january many in the netherlands a less than enthusiastic survey suggest nearly half of the dutch population has serious doubts about getting a job the report from a. stocking up on dry ice needed to keep defies so biotech vaccine at minus 70 degrees even in mid air at amsterdam airport

a large operation is gearing up to safely transport covert 900 back scenes to destinations as far as africa and asia we have been preparing and we've been moving pharmaceutical go for a long time we've expanded our pool capacity and also are having capacity for instance for his containers so we are immediately ready but outside the airport many in the netherlands are far from pier while the dutch national airline is getting ready to do this job you'd texans worldwide millions here in the netherlands are still reluctant to be vaccinated and some say they will use the inoculation with covert 90 altogether you know until we know what the side effects are it's not monthly. and his daughter maxime i'm not against vaccinations but won't take a covert shot for at least a few years until more information is available at the cleveland i'm sorry to say i'd rather have a longer lockdown and have myself injected without knowing what it contains i'm not a guinea pig and for sure i won't let my children be getting pics the government

wants to start its vaccination campaign in nursing homes in a few weeks but even there many are reluctant as a recent survey shows what and 60 percent of employees working with the elderly say they're having doubts about being vaccinated it's going to be a big challenge. to motivate people to be. that of course or worry i think that's a very serious problem because it. is really necessary for the protection. of our employees and our homes that degree your fractionation is as high as possible with more than 12000 covert deaths the netherlands has a relatively high death toll despite the risks employers and the government can force people to participate in a vaccination program experts say to make a vaccination successful the government should tell people that despite its rapid production defects in a safe that they can explain how could this go that fast all the investments that

have been made both why there are so many scientists who have completely sort of let down all their normal tasks and went focusing focusing upon it but this is a story that needs to be told companies like a lamb have been preparing for the arrival of the vaccines for a month the government has yet to start informing the public because in concerns that other countries may have reach higher vaccination rates much sooner and therefore can also open up the economies earlier that fastens al-jazeera and sort of. their own supreme national security council has approved a motion to stop unscheduled inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog to increase its enrichment of uranium the planet is expected to be in place in 2 months time off to sign into law by the president hassan rouhani mation was approved by the guardian council earlier this week well those devorah joins us now from toronto and also what does this mean for iran's future with its

nuclear agreement with the. well it puts iran in a very different position they clearly are not happy with the way things are at the moment now under the nonproliferation treaty which iran is a signatory to there was additional protocol that iran had voluntarily agreed to as part of that agreement so in 2015 when the iranians signed the nuclear agreement known as the way with the world powers they went back to agreeing to the protocols under the nonproliferation treaty and part of that was these unannounced surprise visits by inspectors since 2015 until now there have been a number of inspections and there's also been access they've been given 2 to 26 non-nuclear facilities in the country this was something that iran was doing as part of a good faith gesture after they signed the nuclear deal now and that that deal is

on its very last legs and the official bodies of government to or from parliament to the guardian council to this supreme national security council have all decided now the time has come for iran to reduce its commitments to that deal and they are withdrawing from the agreement part when it comes to the inspections the unannounced inspections and they also said that they are going to increase their enrichment facilities and centrifuges this is all being seen done as a move to try and put pressure on the incoming u.s. biden administration later in january and it's one of the moves that iran has so decided to move forward with because since the assassination of the high ranking nuclear scientists last friday there's been a lot of calls from within the country for iran to abandon all of its agreements with the international signatories to the nuclear deal of 2015 for the time being this is a step they've decided to take the spite the opposition from their hard in government they've decided to take this step to show how serious they are whether or not they

will get the desired response from the incoming u.s. administration remains to be seen but this is an effort for them to try and reduce some of the sentients that the u.s. has imposed on the country crippling iranian economy goes on. into iran. u.k. prime minister johnson is set to speak to the head of the european union to try to break the impasse on a trade deal at british an e.u. negotiators post talks on friday after failing to find a compromise on a series of sticking points it's hoped the leaders can find some middle ground and certainly have until the end of the year to agree a new trade deal when the pre breaks agreements will expire and he has more from london on the next steps folded against ca shifts. u.k. government sources have been leaking or briefing the press that they see it as a 5050 chance of a deal by the end of the year we've heard from michel barnier the e.u.

chief negotiator as he left to get onto a train back to brussels on saturday saying that he remained carman was carrying on efforts to see if a deal could be reached but it's not up to him right now because of course on friday he and his british counterpart david frost issued a joint statement saying that they hadn't been able to reach a deal on all of the points that they were trying to get through and they said that significant divergences remained on the level playing field governance and fisheries boris johnson the prime minister and a sort of underlying the head of the european commission who are holding a telephone conversation in the next few hours to see whether they can actually go past their red line something they go in the negotiators were not mandated to do if there is some kind of movement there then possibly as early as sunday then a text could be presented to the cabinet here and to us it is embarrassing. to go forwards but that's

a very big if right now that that said both sides know the clock really is ticking the government saying m.p.'s him might have to sit right up until christmas virtually the e.u. parliament possibly sitting as late as the 28th of december to ratify an agreement but it's in these next few days that any deal has to be struck. saudi arabia's foreign minister says its allies involved in imposing the blockade against cutter are on board to find a resolution to the gulf crisis earlier the emir of kuwait said he was pleased with how talks have been progressing in that sentiment has been echoed by the country foreign minister mohammed bin abdul rahman al tani saudi arabia about bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a land sea and air blockade of gaza back in june 2070 still ahead here on al-jazeera keeping the peace thousands of security personnel are deployed across

gone ahead of monday's presidential election. venezuela's opposition is boycotting upcoming elections but they've got several turned to host the focus. of. winter has enveloped all of the station and the only snow of any substance falling is likely to be in northern japan on monday again just a few flakes in the high ground in southwestern parts of china the northeast monsoons given quite a lot of rain recently in taiwan intense rains blew through vietnam sudden thailand and into northern sumatra which is cause pretty widespread flooding and forced evacuations now the thought is dying down at this aftermath starting in northern sumatra as you can see but a lot of damage was left because something up to 2 meters of floodwater spread

through this town and that's largely because 5 rivers have burst their banks. now there is a bit more rain to come from the ones he watches during sunday that could well indeed affect that down i think monday that monday that he chooses will be dying day after an active area that you know we've just seen a tropical cyclone go across the northern parts of the foss out of india it's no longer identifiable as a sock and it may well regenerate in the next in the arabian sea but even if it doesn't it's left a legacy and it's northeast monsoon season of potentially more heavy rain of the flooded areas from chennai sas words. from. american people have finally poking america as i stood where americans are balanced or becoming more dangerous to liberals is looking at us live next year of sadness. with the election behind us the republican party dumptruck the feel we can

take on us politics and society that's the bottom line. be the hero the world needs. washing. but again this is 0 remind of our top stories this hour and 19 vaccinations are under way in russia despite questions about safety teachers doctors and social workers will be the 1st in line to get the to mystically produced sputnik fact. iran's supreme national security council has approved

a motion to stop inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog can increase its enrichment of uranium the plant is expected to be in place in 2 months time after it's signed into law by president hassan rouhani. saudi arabia's foreign minister says its allies involved in imposing the blockade against carter are on board to find a resolution to the gulf crisis saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a land sea and air blockade of qatar in june 2017. ethiopia's government says it has captured or killed most of the leaders of the embattled 2 gray region and said to tries to bring an end to the month long conflict but the head of it a grand people's liberation front says that people in the regions capital of mekele are protesting about looting by ethiopian backed eritreans options a media blackout in the area makes it difficult to confirm these allegations. sudan has played an important role in sheltering thousands of refugees from the 2 gray region despite its own economic difficulties but this is not the only challenge

posed by the conflicts reports now from the sudanese ethiopian border. the sudanese army on patrol near the border it's on the lookout for refugees who might be stranded in the area after escaping the fighting in ethiopia is no integrate region brigadier general because it is proud of his country's humanitarian role for. a bit of mushroom global news for the 1st 12 days before aid agencies arrived the people of get a reef with the 1st to offer food blankets shelter and comfort to the refugees the sudanese armed forces organize transportation for thousands of civilians and brought them to hash camps. also known as village aid hosted 15000 refugees in the 1st 2 weeks after the fighting started integrate these homes were borrowed from local sudanese farmers to host the refugees so that he's aid agencies prepared food in the camps that is one of so many sudanese into his shop

a village who share their small homes and modest meals with the refugees. we look at if europeans as part of our family our neighbors and friends we have you started ties with them so when the war broke out we went out into the streets and open fields looking for those who came here fleeing the fighting. so that itself is going through chronic inflation fuel shortages and other city economy problems stability at its borders is of utmost importance where the war in its european has brought to the fore another on resolved issue here what i stand is the farmland thousands and thousands of active militants asemi fields and this land is actually disputed between ethiopia and so than. the triangle where most of the refugees are staying. covers an area of about 250 square kilometers and it has about $600000.00

acres of felt thailand so that says it's an integral part of its territory because it lies west of the line drawn by colonial britain but ethiopia maintains an army presence here and if you open a pharmacy exploit huge parts of the land a joint committee has been trying for years with little success to finalize both the demarcation. point take to it across the adjacent up body for this or that he's farming he's unequivocal. about is a well defined we're not ready for compromise no government has allowed these ethiopians to settle on our land but we object to them and we will fight them to the last minute to be restored fully that's the paper we made with our ancestors we haven't crossed into ethiopian territory what do they want to take out. during the 1st few days of the fighting integrate some utopian army units abandoned their bases within and the void was filled by the sudanese army now it's commanders tell

us they're not intending to cede those positions to the shopian army if it tries to return. i just got triangle so the knees each open border we're here because prime minister has faced criticism for pressing ahead with the military operation the un says fighting is now complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite reaching a deal with the government for access a deliveries are not expected to arrive in 2 granted next week the news crisis commissioner calls the un deal not acceptable one sided he says it only extends to government controlled areas the african union sent envoys to i decided by late last month in the hopes of finding a diplomatic solution the prime minister government insists this is a law enforcement operation and has warned against outside interference. well william davidson is a senior ethiopia analyst at international crisis group and he explained the reaction from the african union 70 frustration this sort of you have peace and

security architecture that's been established by the african union over decades and has been put to use many periods of political instability and conflict that's not being welcomed by the given government but of course you know when or when a state resists african union mediation or intervention creates a problem for the organization and that's a particularly acute problem when it's a lot read it to be powerful country like ethiopia which then of course has the idea it's irrelevant position of being the headquarters of the african union so this set me frustration and concern but there's limited options and you have to push through some form of intervention until the time of the federal government is accepting to it u.s. president hollande trump has ordered the withdrawal of most american troops from somalia as part of his plan to reduce u.s. involvement to missions abroad authoritatively as more. preparing for

a withdrawal some of the 700 u.s. troops whose what training local forces in somalia is coming to a premature end raising questions about the fight against the armed group al shabaab the blow from the u.s. operational standpoint is that over time it will lose its ability to have american eyes on the ground to have more interaction with small you have not proven that resilient in the fight against terrorism and needed that u.s. backing and so it really is a blow to smile in that sense for no good reason president don't trumpet who did that withdrawal as part of his plan to reduce u.s. involvement in military missions abroad it comes after announcements last month to draw down troops in afghanistan and iraq says he's determined to fulfill the election promises he made for the white house next month. there are the pentagon says it's concerned about the threat posed by al shabaab and one

democratic congressman on the house armed services committee says the withdrawal of u.s. troops is in his words a surrender to al qaeda and a gift to china and they say president elect joe biden could reverse trump's draw down the u.s. is all over africa they're all over the world there are some you know 40 or 50 countries that american troops and so biden will probably be able to get that level of troops back into somalia. the pentagon hasn't said how many u.s. personnel will stay in somalia to train and advise local forces but critics say the withdrawal could not comment to was time the fighting in neighboring ethiopia and upcoming elections in somalia the turei gates and be al jazeera well a security operation is under way i'm gonna head of monday's presidential election being threats of political violence in recent weeks election commission says it has concluded preparations for about 39000 polling stations i would address reports now from dawn as capital of accra. dinah's leading presidential candidates came to

signed a pact for good conduct and peaceful elections but as soon as the event started the political rivalry the defined their campaigns for decades was on display. recent events under the current administration have given many anxious moments of doubts about this administration's ability to deliver useful bargains be election we believe in election and the happen won't happen to give my work which will xcept the verdict of the people of god. present the people the peace unity and safety of ghana will be our primary concern situation. watched by traditional and religious leaders as well as the international observers including the united nations the 2 rivals signed the document anyway it's their 3rd agreement in as many elections. a few kilometers from the venue of the settlement some 63000 military and paramilitary offices have been deployed to keep the peace during the elections.

these clashes that's the 1st time it's about the police and this and the armed forces who might come back to officers who come to provide actual and rapid response to those. in the trial of innocent dead yet you see those battered by you from correspondents more than 6000 hotspots have been identified by gun a security service during this election among them the volatile region why separatists still a substantial threat there also ethnic and political tensions capable of disrupting the vote. at the election commission materials for the leave the stores for the 39000 polling stations election officials accused by the opposition of attempting to rig the vote say they have nothing to hide. not do. so little it is in the shipping that. when it does

not. monday's election will be the 8th since the country's return to democratic rule 28 years ago. hoping to build on their record as one of africa's most stable democracies. but they also know the dangers posed by the current political and ethnic tensions as well as the threat from separatists near the border with turkey. across. poles have opened in parliamentary elections the record number of women are among the more than $300.00 candidates it comes as its economy is reeling from falling oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic. venezuela's main opposition parties are organizing an alternative to sunday's national assembly elections which they described as fortunate they're preparing a 6 day constitutional consultation similar to a referendum that starts on december 7th on the market and is in human as this

report. on the eve of crucial legislative elections in israel an opposition leader why the all is out on the campaign trail. but his goal isn't to get out the vote rather to convince everyone to stay home and boycott the poll just as he and the mainstream opposition are doing it is he more of the political give it the more you know because we resist torch of political violence because we love our country and we won't stop until we have time for it but. it looks like history repeating itself 15 years ago the opposition also boycotted the legislative elections arguing that they were rigged against them that handed control of the national assembly to former president hugo chavez on a silver platter i thought 7 of how this time you know opposition party leaders are proposing an election of their own called suit up a poor lad similar to a referendum which the constitution recognizes as binding even if president nicolas

maduro does not. seem really silly finnis whalen's will be asked to respond to 3 questions. do you want president nicolas maduro out and new in free elections do you reject sunday's electoral of them and and do you want stronger international assistance to rescue venezuela's democracy and protect its people from crimes against humanity. it's a risky proposition the last question could be interpreted as an invitation for foreign intervention but that mainly online consultation presents other problems only 7 per cent of innocent people has internet every day. and. with water would have occurred with gasoline sold. need to move to contact to the people to get informed and it's very difficult 77 percent of

venezuelans say they don't believe the opposition can promote change within the next year so there's little motivation to risk government reprisals by voting in the consultation but that is not an opposition leaders tell us that their primary goal is to maintain and in fact increase international support for those interim government here in chile as in the united states and europe the government has already promised not to recognise the new national assembly that results in sunday's elections and. so while the consultation is an imperfect substitute for an election that the opposition can't win it could at least by its leaders a bit more time you see in human al-jazeera. the cuban government has again rejected calls for dialogue from a group of artists who are protesting for more freedom of expression they say that police have continued to harass and threaten them in the. sense we've got people

officials initially agreed to hear that the month before backing off from the deal the queues in them receiving u.s. support. farmers in india are meeting government officials as they continue to push to overturn laws which they say will damage their livelihoods tens of thousands of protesters have been rolling up and she points to the capital for more than a week by minister held talks with his top ministers on saturday trying to break the impasse. supporters of tyler's monarchy are attending a candle lit ceremony to mark the birthday of the former king bhumibol he held the position for over 7 decades and is regarded as a people's king his son the current king at least $30000.00 prisoners to mark the occasion catherine comes on the heels of months of anti-government protests tens of thousands of the rally demanding reforms to the constitution and to the monarchy japan's space agency is awaiting the arrival of samples from an asteroid that orbits between earth and mars the mission began with

a launch of higher booster 2 spacecraft 6 years ago and it's covered billions of kilometers the capsule will briefly produce a fireball as it reentered the sphere before landing in a remote area of southern australia japanese scientists hope the sample could provide clues as to the origin of the solar system and even possibly how life began . so let's have a recap of the headlines here on al-jazeera and capered 19 right solutions are under way in russia despite questions about safety teachers doctors and social workers will be the 1st in line to get the domestically produced sputnik. xandra go for has more now from moscow we are in the center of moscow in front of the cleaning company behind me is one of the vaccination centers that opened today there is in total 70 of them.