so the battlefields around also i would drop just to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. divided over a trade deal the e.u. and the u.k. a race against time to break up raids at amp hours ahead of a deadline at the end of the month. i'm not partisan this is all to see the live from doha also coming up at stake in this election is control of the u.s. senate and that really means control of this country president tom buttresses his 1st political rally since losing the election the head of a senate runoff vote in georgia. russia rolls out its covert 19 vaccine targeting

its most exposed groups in a mass campaign before safety trials are complete. simply. a capsule carrying asteroid samples that explain the all engine all the life touches down on a. bus a month before the deadline to reach a post brags a trade deal the u.k. and the e.u. are still at all but his promise about us johnson and european commission president von delenn admits that major differences remain but the 2 leaders have told negotiators to keep talking. we welcome the fact that progress has been achieved in many areas nevertheless significant differences remain on the 3 critical issues level playing field governance and fisheries both sides

underline that no agreement is feasible if these issues are not solved. and whilst recognizing the seriousness of these differences we have reached that a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be these issues can be resolved and that in baba has more on the negotiations there's been a lot of talk in the press about british on happiness that 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 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 and

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 when the u.k. voted to leave the european union more than 4 years ago but the route out has been difficult in the 3 main sticking points are fishing rights fair competition guarantees and have future disputes are going to be solved even if the 2 leaders reach an agreement member states can still rejected france says it won't back a bad deal is especially as it tries to ensure it doesn't lose access to british fishing waters the 2 sides have just 25 days to reach a deal otherwise the divorce process will end in a no deal bragg's it jonathan lace is deputy director of the business advisory think tank british influence he explains what's at stake for both sides. i would

always expect there to be last minute gesture politics and heart venture some drama the food resolution. i'm not remotely along surprised by what's happened this week and it's not the sort of thing the ija necessarily expects the through an acrimonious crush out but at the same time these things hang in the balance the deal is not guaranteed the differences between the 2 sides are real the e.u. wants to make sure that it doesn't have a huge complex or. potentially undercutting it on standards or introducing unfair competition by state age or any number of things. in 5 years time or in 20 years time and if there is such an act that it wants to make sure it can retaliate eastern terrorists who were some of the kind of sanction and so it's just about those things out is the most important point here is the

problems that people experience are not going to be resolved by proxy are going to be made worse now fishing which you mentioned before is a key example of that the fundamental problem is the british want to take back control. of british waters but the majority of the fish that we catch. into the e.u. so the e.u. as we said well if you will control if you would. control of our markets and. have exclusive rights to fish in british rule there's no point to that because they don't have the markets and mexico is the e.u. so these problems are simply not going to go away. what was meant to be a rally to back to senate candidates is turned into an opportunity for donald trump to once again falsely claim that he won last month's presidential election he's just finished speaking in georgia a few minutes ago he's been campaigning for 2 republicans who are up for runoffs next month the polls going to decide which party controls the u.s.

senate but trump spent much of the time criticizing democrats and georgia's republican governor who refused to endorse his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the presidential vote our white house correspondent kelly hawkins live for us involved in georgia there was an awful lot of speculation ahead of this about what donald trump was actually going to say was in the. yes absolutely right we weren't quite sure what it was going to say but it was what many of us expected that was done continues to insist that he was a little bit further presidential vote he also said that he will never surrender as he spoke to voters here in the u.s. state of georgia he urged them to go to the polls once again why because there's a pivotal runoff election next month in this state that will determine control of the u.s. senate currently controlled by republicans and donald trump is assisting that if

that doesn't stay that way the democrats will spell doom for the united states take a listen to. this is something that's very important and you have to get out you have to vote you have to make sure you have every vote counted everybody has to count. because it's stake in this election is control of the u.s. senate and that really means control of this country the voters of georgia will determine which party runs every committee writes every piece of legislation controls every single taxpayer dollar. now donald trump went on to an accused democrats breaking the presidential vote even if he's telling voters to go to the polls once again and that's a problem for republicans because many of them say if the voters brag why should we bother so the strategy has backfired of republicans a little bit donald trump says he's going to continue to fight each voters to save

in fact not only does he say he's not going to concede or surrender as he told voters but he also said that if he continues to lose his core challenges he will 1st of all the way the supreme court carrie thanks very much indeed that's our white house correspondent kimberly holker life 1st in georgia. the leader of ethiopia's to. region says his fighters are still battling government forces local leaders say government soldiers have bombed one time of fighting is underway outside the regional capital mechanic. declared victory a week ago a communications blackout made it difficult to assess conditions on the ground so done is playing an important role in sheltering thousands of refugees from the region despite its own economic difficulties and as muhammad ali reports from the sudanese ethiopian border it's not the only challenge posed by the conflict. the sudanese army on patrol near the beach open 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 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 then is aid agencies prepared food in the camps there is one of so many sudanese in the hash aba 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 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 where i stand is the facade of farmland thousands and thousands of active militants asemi fields and this land is actually disputed between ethiopia and sudan. 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 a border demarcation. pointing to it across the adjacent up body for this sudanese farm he's unequivocal. abode is a well defined 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 paper we made without. and sisters 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 flash 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 chopping army if it tries to return. i just got triangle so the knees each open border

still ahead and al-jazeera homeless and desperate for help 100 and struggle to find shelter and food after being hit by 2 of the strongest storms of the year and how colombia is trying to balance the weak economy and the pandemic to help small businesses just in time for christmas. but. there's more snow to come for probably bits of honshu as the cold leaks out of continental east asia and temperatures here are above freezing temporarily that is lost or just about there going back down again by the time we get to monday much of china is enjoying sunshine but you get out of the middle of china has quite a lot of of cloud overhead has disappointingly cold there's no sun to relieve it we've seen some snow in the southwest in the high ground might be

a little bit more but not very much is just it's a little overcast. whilst the coldest sneaks down in the northeast monsoon we've seen various bands of heavy rain the still some heavy rain in northern sumatra the fall of this wind down and sit in hans the rains over west and java could be quite significant by some of the circulation south of the equator off the coast of australia jakarta's 4 crosses 3 days of thunderstorms flooding seems quite likely and flooding has been a certainty from chad are south of sickly put a cherry and towel not there now you can't long see a structure or tropical cyclone that might redevelop but at the moment we just got rain in this part of southern india. but. it captures memory and present realities.

that camera is a tool photography and often. in one umbrella a siren is most deprived areas children who have nothing. now have a voice. as close a part of the viewfinder latin america series on out as the on. the moon. or. we want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour post brogues at trade talks between the u.k. and the unit being union set to resume on sunday the 2 sides a deadlocked over issues of governance fishing and competition rules. and his 1st

post-election rally president donald trump parts again falsely claim to won the election in georgia he's in the state campaigning for 2 republican senators in one office that will decide which party controls the senate. the leader of ethiopia's tikrit region says his fighters are still battling government forces local leaders say government soldiers have bombed one town of fighting is underway outside the regional capital new delhi. a large scale covert 900 vaccination program is underway in russia around 2000000 people are expected to receive the sputnik v. vaccine this month although the final human trials aren't finished eve barker reports. 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. 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. to the general population rather. if you have been developed say the. trials. do not appear to have been as extensive as they would be to.

the russian government's 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's preparing to roll out the vaccine made by pfizer and be on tech possibly as early as tuesday but leading doctors are warning that vaccinations will only have a small impact over the winter in an open letter to health workers the u.k.'s for chief medical officers say it could take 3 months before there's a significant drop in hospital admissions. colombia has been trying to restart its economy after months of covered 1000 restrictions the christmas holiday season is often seen as a lifeline for small businesses but with cases rising again many fear a 2nd wave of infections will hit the country soon. reports from bogota the largest wholesale fair. grandstand mall is bustling get to in the morning thanks.

to small resellers and regular buyers from all over colombia has sold for the best and cheapest garments of the market are gone or great early rise the biggest gloating wholesale fare in the country taking place this year in the shadow of the 19. heavy this family has had a stall here for almost 20 years of import i got this year is different but even more important because we're all struggling to rescue our businesses from failure to save the sacrifices of so many years i could be the restrictions of hit colombia's economy hard especially small businesses that are only now starting to recover the weight infections rising once again many feared a lucrative christmas season might be cut short if it only causes that but selling these clothes is the only line support for us the only way to pay the bills pay off

some debt keep our head above water because we haven't received any help from the government. traditionally demand to go in with take place every december night but this year it has been cut down to 2 per week shopping centers of reduced capacity and increased security measures to avoid becoming a new focus of infections but the biggest worry lies outside the malls. where hundreds of informal vendors occupied the streets with merchandise and thousands of buyers corralled them often without wearing masks are maintaining any distance the mayor's office is threatening. side. airfare unless the crowds are somehow brought there could but the seller sirrah say that would be an economic catastrophe. because it's complicated and contradictory the government has the right to impose restrictions they see fit but what about our right to survive i mean i love our

experts say that allowing these events is like playing with fire. it's a difficult period even if the government has been orienting people day in and day out people are tired at this point i expect that after this holiday season we'll have the same situation we are now seeing in europe or the united states people might still fear the virus but they're done with the restrictions. it's a balancing act between the economic needs of the people and the reality of a pandemic that is far from being able become listen to them and just. in india the anger over projects prices and agricultural subsidies shows little sign of dying down protesting farmers have ended talks with government ministers without any agreement and said discussions are set to resume next week farmers are trying to overturn a new law which they say will damage their livelihoods. it's been nearly a month since $200.00 can slammed into central america and many areas are still

under water and honduras thousands of been left homeless and that's making the already critical covered $1000.00 health emergency even worse $100.00 and government has admitted it struggling to cope our correspondent man of apollo reports. this is baby joshua he was born just over a week ago at this makeshift shelter under a bridge in san pedro sula. his mother 23 year old. tells us her family lost everything during hurricanes ada and iota 2 powerful back to back storms that flooded the city last month. has been in my living here for more than a month now 8 days ago my baby was born inside this tent it was very hot i was expecting to go to the hospital but i had no choice but to give him. ada and i otoh were 2 of the strongest storms of 2020 in one of the most active atlanta hurricane

seasons in recorded history. the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating bridges and power lines collapsed roads buried under mudslides and entire towns flooded many are still underwater more than a month since the 1st storm hit. a lattice says she hadn't finished clearing the mud from the 1st storm when the downpours from hurricane iota flooded her home for a 2nd time. what that some i think other people suffered more than myself i thank god because even though i have nothing left inside my home. the phone will still standing and that something. honduras is one of the poorest countries in the americas the destruction left by the storms has exacerbated an already critical situation and complicated efforts to curb the coded 1900 outbreak here. relief workers say international assistance has become more important than ever and warned that in many ways the crisis is still worsening. i really serious day need to be

easier those families are displaced. destroyed. and there's not a small number. of them and they are in a soup show or interim shocker in medicine. the honduran government says state shelters are at capacity meaning that thousands are now left to fend for themselves on the streets any hopes they have left now depend on the kindness of others who are willing to lend a hand when you end up alone al-jazeera. campaigning for monday's presidential election in ghana has ended with the candidates making a final push for votes incumbent presidents. faces 11 other challenges but many canadians believe the race will be between mr and the man he replaced 4 years ago john dramani mahama. reports from the capital.

handling of the coronavirus pandemic maybe one of the best in africa but as candidates make a last push for most of the supporters such a site. calls. it $7.00 to $6.00 incumbent president. is fighting the biggest battle of his political career losing this election is and. so he took his keys not only to supporters but members of all political parties. here. haven't i delivered on the work you gave me for 4 years i strongly believe i have so i'm asking for another term everyone regardless of party affiliation should give me another chance. and his good course. his biggest challenger 62 year old from president john dramani mahama is capitalizing on widespread discontent over allegations of corruption in the current government. and 2000 with the seat was good we have a lot of young people. young people do not see

a good future with this present government and i willing to make a change but political analysts say there is little difference between the 2 dominant parties which have been with teaching power among themselves for the last 28 years the n.b.c. and the n.d.p. has nominated has won a nation's and i formed government. these 2 posts. to the leader. if you look a lot of some piece conducted by institutions across the country and outside the country. they cannot make intelligence units will port the meter so be. that become mean. as a final day of campaigning draws to a cools voters are aware that even with 10 other candidates on the ballot the race will be between the 2 arch rivals for many years this election will be determined by what voters think about the rough handling of the covered 19 and its impact. it

will also depend on voter turnout. nearly 18 percent of gun a 17000000 registered voters are either undecided or may not vote at all and these are the votes both parties are targeting a candidate for school more than 50 percent of the vote to win in the 1st drone and avoid a runoff. across ghana japan's space agency says it's retrieved its capsule carrying samples from an asteroid after a successful landing in the strain outback the mission began with the launch of the have 2 spacecraft 6 years ago it created a fireball that we enter the earth's atmosphere japanese scientists hope the sample could provide clues to the origin of the solar system as a pearson's a space journalist and author of robots in space the secret lives of our planetary explorers she says scientists expect the samples to contain organic chemicals and

a type of water. but once they've collected it they will then take it to a secure facility where they can be which is he controlled where they can control exactly what the atmosphere is like to make sure that when they have been to open up the capsule and and get to that their precious sample it's not being contaminated by things like atmosphere by dust and that they're only looking at what's the use of brought back from asteroid where you the asteroids are one of the ways that they're partly the building blocks that were left over after the solar system got made so they also helped to modify the planets after they have formed and we think asteroids might be one of the main ways that water came to our planet so off the earth formed it cooled down and then something brought water to the surface possibly asteroids so they're going to try and measure the water that they find in the sample to see if it's the same colleen to the same flavor of water as

we have here on earth we also think it might contain something called organic chemicals these aren't doesn't mean that biological they're not created by life but what they all is they are the fundamental building blocks of life so it might be the asteroid goes to and that's what created the 1st life forms that eventually led to us here today. this is all just over these of the top stories post brogues it's trade talks which in the u.k. in the european union are to resume on sunday a deadlocked over issues of governance fishing and competition rules we welcome the fact that progress has been achieved in many areas nevertheless significant differences remain on the 3 critical issues level playing field government.