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 combat and global hunger would be met in the age of the corona virus pandemic the nobel interview on al-jazeera. divided over trade deal the e.u. and the u.k. a race against time to break a brags it i'm ahead of a deadline at the end of the month. come about this and this is all just era live from doha also coming up russia rolls out its covert 19 vaccine targeting its most exposed groups in a mass campaign before safety trials are complete. we meet the sudanese people

helping ethiopian refugees forced from their homes because of fighting in the t. grey region plus. for a. capsule carrying asteroid samples that could explain the origin of life touches down on earth. the leaders of the e.u. and the u.k. have told negotiators to keep talking as the clock runs down before britain separates from the european union they're trying to break a deadlock and trade talks ahead of the deadline at the end of this month the 2 sides con to green issues of governance fisheries and competition rules but as prime minister abbas johnson and european commission president as sort of on delay and spoke on the phone and they admit major differences remain the goshi actions are expected to start again on sunday the news chief negotiator rushed back to

brussels from london earlier on saturday to brief president van de lay in speaking to reporters he stuck to his theme that there was no need to panic. we can as always and if there is a way. do we really should we keep calm as always and if you do we really should thank you if you are we really should put forward. you know him baba has more on the difficulties facing the negotiators there's been a lot of talk in the press about british on happiness or the european union trying to insist on a long perhaps 10 year transition period before e.u. access to british fishing waters would be reduced the european union have been saying no that is not going to be a problem there is somewhere we can meet in the middle but perhaps a bigger problem is the idea of unfair competition european diplomats have been

briefing journalists that several countries not just france but belgium spain denmark and so on have been unhappy about the prospect of michel barnier giving ground on the rules of what they call the level playing field on state aid for example to british companies and also on what see what happens if one side wants to move away from the common standards of workers' rights on environmental standards and the like so these are clearly sticking points it will be seen by some people as good news that the talks are going to resume on sunday negotiators being asked to get back together in brussels on sunday and sort of underlying and boris johnson talking again on monday lots of people did predict that in fact the whole file would be handed over to the political leaders before any ratification but if there is to be such a deal it has to be done in the next few days because it has to be signed off by

the british parliament and by the european parliament there's an e.u. summit on thursday and friday they'll want to know the exact details as well any. even if they have got a deal on paper it's going to be very difficult a big challenge to get it pushed through by december 31st there's talk that in fact it might be have to be put in place provisionally without the european parliament greenlighting it a large scale covert 19 vaccination program is underway in russia around 2000000 people are expected to receive the sputnik v. vaccine this month although final human trials haven't finished health workers and teachers are the 1st in line some scientists are welcoming the news but others are saying it's been rushed at the same time the world health organization is saying it wants 500000000 vaccines to be ready by early next year it's part of the kovacs initiative which is working towards providing equal access to vaccines worldwide

iran's signed up to that program and it's the worst hit country in the middle east with a death toll topping 50000 leave barca has more on russia's mass vaccination campaign . it's called covert back trade name sputnik v. after the soviet era satellite that triggered the space race and now russia says it's soaring ahead in its campaign against covert 19. dozens of clinics in the capital moscow have begun inoculating those most at risk from the virus the city remains the worst affected place in the country 1st in line of people who work in schools the health service and social workers the large scale vaccination of military personnel has also begun but each person getting 2 injections $21.00 days apart. i decided to do it right away not to wait it's difficult to say what to expect but i do hope it will stop me from getting ill the russian government

approved the vaccine for use in august after recording 95 percent effectiveness of preliminary trials at the time it was touted as a world 1st despite only being tested on several dozen people the speed of the approvals drawn criticism at home and abroad with health experts insisting more advanced studies are needed to ensure its safety and effectiveness. but the russian government says there's no time to lose the country has one of the highest rates of coronavirus and his aging health care system is stretched happy with day one of the vaccination program is a success people waited a long time for the vaccine so far so good i cannot say how many people signed in but there are a lot of people who want to be vaccinated but president vladimir putin has yet to be vaccinated himself although one of his daughters has apparently been inoculated all of those being vaccinated are reportedly volunteers but some public sector workers say they've been heavily encouraged to sign up in the absence of large

scale preliminary tests critics say the mass vaccination program is essentially a phase 3 trial in the general population skepticism around this comes from. very quickly it's pretty it's pretty developed very quickly and it appears to be recruited into the general population rather. if you have been developed say the k. so the trials. do not appear to have been as extensive as they would have been that . the russian government is confident but it's likely to take time for the fast track to vaccine to build international trust eve parker al-jazeera. the united kingdom is preparing to roll out the vaccine made by pfizer and biotech possibly as early as tuesday and leading doctors are warning that vaccinations will only have a small impact over the winter and an open letter to health workers the u.k.'s 14

for medical officers say it could take 3 months before there's a significant drop in hospital admissions. the leader of ethiopia's t.v. region says his fighters are still battling government forces local leaders say government soldiers have bombed one tonne of fighting is underway outside the regional capital of hailey primus declared victory a week ago a communications blackout has made it difficult to assess conditions on the ground meanwhile sudan is playing an important role in sheltering thousands of refugees in the tikrit region despite its own economic difficulties and as mohamed vali reports from the sudanese ethiopian border it's not the only challenge posed by the conflict. the sudanese army on patrol near the g.o.p. border it's on the lookout for a few g.'s 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 muscle real nobleness hold 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 organized transportation for thousands of civilians and brought them to hash camps. the hash up also known as village aid hosted $15000.00 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 is aid agencies prepared food in the camps there is one of so many sudanese in the hash up a village who share their small homes and modest meals with the refugees. the one 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 economy problems stability at its borders is of utmost importance where the war in its european has brought to the fore another and resolved issue here what i stand is the facade of farmland thousands and thousands of hectares of militants asemi fields and this land is actually disputed between ethiopia and sudan alpha sugar 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 farmers exploit huge parts of the land a joint committee has been trying for years with little success to finalize a border demarcation. pointing to it across the adjacent up body for this sudanese

farm it is unequivocal. abode is a well defined and we're not really for compromise our 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 pick we made without. and sources we haven't crossed into ethiopian territory or do they want to take out. during the 1st few days of the fighting integrate some utopian army units abandoned bases within and the void was field by the sudanese army now it's come out just of us they're not intending to cede those positions to the chopping army if it tries to turn. a shrug a triangle so the knees each open both a. u.s. president on his way to georgia to campaign for 2 republicans in runoffs that will decide which party controls the senate this is going to be trump's 1st political

rally since losing the presidential election accountants are going to face off next mom's white house correspondent kelly holcomb 1st involved in georgia there have been a lot of political heavy heavy hitters in and around georgia in the last few days why is this so important. there's no question about it just to give you a sense of why this is important just look at the lineup of high profile people campaigning here yesterday we had the vice president mike pence. rally a virtual appearance by former president obama u.s. president donald trump is on his way and president elect biden says he's also going to visit the state why because the control of the currently republican controlled senate is something that will be determined by a runoff election that is set to take place here the u.s. state of georgia next month and so democrats are fighting hard campaigning hard

because if they win control of these 2 seats from georgia they could control the senate instead of republicans they already control the house of representatives than in january with the white house and this would mean that joe biden's legislative agenda would really face a little challenge not something that they're looking to do is. they tried to do the. what donald trump has done in the last 4 years so this is going to be a very very hard fought race but at the same time donald trump is also fighting for reelection even though joe biden was the declared winner of the november 3rd election donald trump continues to contest those results and says that he defeated biden even as many of the court challenges to that end have failed so. there's a lot of speculation isn't there currently about whether know donald trump is actually going to stick to the script and to support the 2 contenders the 2 republican contenders for the senate all whether he starts going to back to all his

allegations about what happened in the election do we have any indication what he might say when he arrives. will already he's been tweeting and he's not very happy with the governor of this state republican governor can in fact he's accused him of being less supportive of him than some but democrats so that's a pretty sharp challenge now he's also asking the governor to essentially make a change in the number of votes that the electoral votes that currently in the state are going to joe biden he's asking him to overturn that something that i don't think is going to happen in fact does it appear that there's a whole lot of love for these 2 manholes for each other right now we know that the governor is not as having his rally even as we know the donald trump continues to make the case that he is looking for a 2nd term in the white house in fact he released a 46 minute video this week of basically declaring himself the winner is saying

that he'll continue to fight but was the respect that donald trump is going to talk about that when he takes the podium behind me in the coming hours but at the same time even though donald trump is making this about him it's really about control of the u.s. senate and winning those republican seats at least that. what the republicans here are insisting even as they are also saying they're here to see donald trump and support him as well many thanks very much ed so why does postponing kimberly holcomb's. still ahead on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition is boycotting upcoming elections but they have an alternative proposal for voters not backing down farmers in india threaten a nationwide strike as their standoff over the new law continues. a

significant nor'easter is on its way through the northeast corner of the u.s. and effectively means rain on the coast and then snow inland during sunday it'll most be going off towards the eastern side of canada then the cold back washwoman temperatures drop quite considerably for everybody on the east coast they've already had one plunge in temperatures in the last one week ago land has max about trove degrees for any cold gets even further in in fact even down the coast of texas houston's about 60 degrees so this really is a cold plunge once again despite the daytime sunshine is the temperatures for monday were down to 9 lanta there has been some more wind to just crossing the border from british columbia into washington basically the pacific coast is fine and dry and the santa ana winds are dying down at least temporarily. now without

kodaly here across the gulf of mexico there will be to increase the likelihood of heavy rain in mexico west inside of cuba as well otherwise it's pretty seasonal standard light daily showers and small odds the caribbean but it looks like the doors of the constant of south america and costa rica and panama are all saying a decline in the recent shows. for. so many al-jazeera london broke our fantastic 2 special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with opposition if you're not upsetting people you're not saying anything if one has needs any other leg because there is not a family in britain i believe that has not been touched by empire studio b. unscripted age on al-jazeera.

you want your jersey to remind of our top stories this hour post drugs a trade talks between the u.k. and the european union are set to resume on sunday the 2 sides a deadlocked over issues of governance fishing and competition rules. russia has begun its large scale covert 1000 vaccination program and medical workers and teachers are 1st in line for the sputnik vaccine the plan is to inoculate 2000000 russians this month and some scientists warn the process has been rushed. after attacking top party officials in georgia for his election last president donald trump is going to attend a rally for 2 republican candidates in next month's runoff senate election the

results will determine which party controls the senate. iran's president is under pressure to sign a new law that could hinder nuclear talks with global powers the supreme council has approved a bill to prevent international inspectors from making surprise visits to nuclear sites lawmakers want president hassan rouhani to sign it into law even though he's expressed doubts the proposal comes after the assassination of iran's top nuclear scientists last week doses about he has more from tehran. president hassan rouhani has said is that this was true mental diplomacy but what it really means is that the iranian officials would no longer allow an an ounce visits by the i.a.e.a. inspectors now this is part of the nonproliferation agreement that iran has signed since 1970 this was a carrier of that agreement that was voluntarily signed by iran in 2015 after the nuclear deal was signed they for iran to show some good face to the

international community to say that we don't have anything to hide but since then the i.a.e.a. inspectors it's no important to know they have visited 26 non-nuclear facilities they have visited a number of military facilities as part of their inspection so the officials here have said that it's enough now because the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2013 this bill was seen as an effort to try and lift some of the sanctions that they would post on iran since then now in terms of the i think it still visit the nuclear sites but they have to go back to the pre 2015 agreement which is they have to announce in advance of where they want to go and when they want to come in and that will still continue but the unannounced visits will no longer happen within this new as a result of this new bill what this essentially does is it puts the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden in to face one of his 1st really

foreign policy challenges they will have a small window of opportunity when they take office from january 20th until this bill comes into effect the beginning of february to see what they will do and that will determine how iran will proceed polls are closed in kuwait's parliamentary elections they're looking to fill 50 seats on the record number of women are among more than 300 candidates but as muhammad from june reports the votes being overshadowed by covert 19. in kuwait where the economy is worsening as a result of low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic parliamentary elections still went ahead as planned voters masked up before casting their ballots and said they hoped these polls would begin to turn things around and. i boycotted the past 2 elections this time us told that i should participate because the situation is deteriorating we need to be united and elect me foremost in the

parliament so that the situation may improve hopefully you feel like columnist i hope that the kuwaiti people will choose wisely that they will choose the people who represent kuwait changes a must these are the 1st elections in kuwait since its new emir. took office in september after the death of his half brother and a civil have with the opposition weakened in recent years analysts say no major political shift is expected and with the campaign season severely muted due to the pandemic many believe voter turnout will be lower this year up for grabs are 50 seats in parliament and among the $326.00 candidates a record number of women $29.00 are running. and not go we have to fight corruption by choosing he will represent us inside the national assembly and be a person with a conscience honesty he loves this country and its citizens kuwait's nearly 140000000000 dollar economy is facing a deficit of 46000000000 dollars this year in september it was downgraded for the

1st time by moody's investor service. and just a month earlier kuwait's finance minister warned the government may no longer be able to pay salaries still analysts say it's not just the economy that would pose a challenge to the upcoming parliament also the lack of trust and between people and many people with the parliament and government they need them to be more. effective and used to be and i think this is going to be seen in 03 and the election results many say that no matter the results the biggest difficulty going forward maybe how to overcome legislative gridlock. and. find his own ins man the opposition is boycotting sunday's national assembly elections and organize an alternative that's planning a 6 day constitutional consultation similar to a referendum on latin america at its embassy in yemen reports. on the eve of

crucial legislative elections in israel an opposition leader why the wall 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 polls just as he and the mainstream opposition a deal he gets he might have a bit of a given the more you know because we resist torch of political violence because we love our country and we won't stop until we obtain freedom. it looks like history repeating itself 15 years ago and the opposition also point carted to 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 have how this time you know opposition party leaders are proposing an election of their own called. similar to a referendum which the constitution recognizes as binding even if president nicolas

maduro does not provide that as you see really silly in israel and it will be. asked to respond to 3 questions. do you want president nicolas maduro out and new in free elections do reject sunday's electoral of then to 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 queues with water would have accrued c.d.n. now with gasoline sold the capacity that you 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 increasing international support for those interim government here in chile as in the united states and europe the government has already promised not to recognize the new national assembly that results from 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 to see in human al-jazeera. in india the i know over projects prices and agricultural subsidies shows little signs of dying down protesting farmers and government ministers have ended this weekend's talks without any agreement instead discussions are set to resume next week farmers are trying to

overturn a new law which they say will damage their livelihoods elizabeth put on them is on the outskirts of new delhi where thousands of farmers have been demonstrating. they're staying put they said they're not going anywhere until the government repeals 3 recent farm laws and on the day that promised in the end there morty held a meeting with the ministers of home defense agriculture and commas ahead of those government ministers meetings with farm union leaders protesters here burnt an effigy of prime minister that is a morty there's a real difference emerging between the 2 sides are not just what's in the north but what to do about the farm is concerns remain they're afraid they're going to lose minimum prices for they produce these electricity subsidies they're afraid that private companies are going to have unfair advantage over farmers and unions now the government has said that indicated that they might be willing to make amendments to farmers maintain that because the law wasn't so fundamentally flawed

because they were created without consultation with farmers pushed through parliament without a proper voice that nothing short of repeal in the laws will do and they're only expecting the protests to get bigger they have called for a nationwide protest next tuesday. john space agency says it's cut so caring samples from an asteroid has landed in a stroller the mission begun with the launch of the habbush the 2 spacecraft 6 years ago scientists hope to sample could provide clues to the origin of our solar system and possibly how life began. points i think special delivery of the capsule to the australian outback and this one came hurtling down from space. and it may contain some answers to help us to understand the origins of our solar system and how life began. this is the end of the high opposed to 2

probes mission that was sent to the 4600000000 year old asteroid really grew to collect samples of the rock. it had lost it off from japan in december 2014 before reaching the asteroid in june 2018 it touched down twice on the asteroid. once in february last year when it fired a pellet the surface of the rock to kick up debris it's landed again 5 months later to collect dust and rock from under the surface making it the 1st pope ever to achieve this this is the moment a team of researchers realized the capsule safely returned home to. japan's air space exploration agency confirmed the capsule had successfully separated from the higher percentage to. its service is a challenging operation the required precision control 220000 kilometers from.

it traveled much father about 300000000 kilometers having passed over to the sun for 3 years space enthusiasts in tokyo reacted to the sneeze. more quickly and night all i heard that if the separation did not work i have to say itself would crash into the earth i'm really glad that it was successfully released my heart was beating a bit faster when i was watching 21 or more years or more with japanese technology high obesity went to a distant asteroid and came back safely i think it has the potential to prove how advanced japanese technology is scientists say they will analyze the organic materials that come from the subsurface of the asteroid it could be in the same state it was when the solar system burst formed. they say they know organic material is the origins of life but they still don't know how but the higher bus had to probe and its cargo may provide some answers more about the manly al-jazeera

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