the father the son and the jihad can't run on al-jazeera. am. back to the negotiating table a u.k. team returns to brussels for more breaks at talks with key issues are on resolved and time is running out. in our barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera life from london also coming up venezuelans vote for a new congress an election that's been boycotted by the opposition and referred to as a shot by an influx of refugees and migrants to spain's canary islands are reports on how authorities are dealing with the crisis and building cities to prevent

another outbreak the architects designing spaces with social distancing and country living in. the u.k. and europe need a breakthrough in their talks on a trade deal and soon to prevent the prospect of a no deal breck's it talks have resumed in brussels after a personal intervention by the e.u. commission president and the u.k. prime minister late on saturday they go see if yours are struggling to agree on 3 key issues they are fishing rights fair competition guarantees and how future disputes will be resolved or sort of on their lane and boss john sun will speak again on monday to see if there has been progress but hopes of a deal before a summit of e.u. leaders on thursday are fading but the all important deadline is in 25 days time.

the transition period ends if there is no deal by then border checks will come into force and tariffs will be imposed on goods travelling between the u.k. and the e.u. and has the latest from london. back in brussels for another go at striking a trade deal with his european union counterparts are going to be working very hard to try and get a deal we're going to see what happens in a good game today and that will we will be looking forward to meeting oh you're being released later on so thank you very much to resume talks between david frost and the e.u.'s michaud down he came after an hour long phone call between lyon president of the european commission and british prime minister boris johnson their joint statement on saturday mention progress over the last week but said the 2 sides still didn't see eye to eye on 3 critical issues firstly there's fishing rights in other words what access e.u. fishing fleets have to u.k. waters and how quickly any changes happen then there's a more fundamental question of the level playing field that's measures to ensure

business is on one side don't have an unfair advantage brussels wants the u.k. to stick closely to its rules on things like workers' rights environmental regulations of especially state aid to businesses loss leaders governance including how any agreement would be enforced and what role institutions such as the european court of justice would have. if no deals in place by the end of the year the u.k. will be operating on the world trade organization rules with a bloc that accounted for 43 percent of british exports and 51 percent of u.k. imports last year the british government says it's ready for such a scenario but business groups are warning of major disruption now be no formal cooperation between the 2 sides so all kinds of. held top of the food a lot of businesses you trade with. our manufacturing industries are very experienced farming's their experience even fishing is incredibly expensive even if there is a deal customs checks and paperwork could create

a real challenge we know that there won't be carrots. and we do not know too well that you will. manage our arts chorus and girls. arts of the iris industry to really. market. and the talks could get overtaken by events in the westminster parliament the monday it's set to re-examine the internal market bill which breaks the terms of the u.k.'s already agreed protocol on northern ireland that could kill off any prospect of giving negotiations yet another final chance with the barber al-jazeera well the u.k. is preparing to roll out the 1st doses of the corona virus vaccine made by pfizer and by on take on tuesday initial batches are being distributed to hospital selected to administer the job priority will be given to those over the age of 18

care home staff and residents around 800000 doses are expected to be available during the 1st week but the u.k. has ordered 14000000 in total enough to vaccinate 20000000 people so the hole is at the hospital in london where the vaccine will be administered. predictably it's already being described as the largest immunization program in history as we speak hundreds of thousands of doses of the pfizer vaccine are in a country being held in ultra low temperature freezes at secure locations being tested rigorously we're told to ensure that they've survived the transit ok over the water from belgium where they were manufactured there then be moved in the next 24 hours or so to 50 hospital hubs that will act as the 1st vaccination sites one of them is behind me here the royal free in north london. and they'll begin that roll out on tuesday initially going for the most vulnerable sectors people over the

age of 80 and also care home staff and workers then spreading the program out possibly quite quickly the government has told general practitioners in local clinics to be ready and on standby from the 14th of december perhaps the start of ministering the vaccine of local level then and then of course expanding more widely than that to the mass population probably only in the new year including things like sports stadiums conference venues and the like but this is the beginning in 2 days as i say at sites like the one behind me the 1st vaccine doses will be handed out take a listen to what a senior executive from the national health service in england had to say this morning as a doctor this is a really exciting moment n.h.s. staff around the country vaccination hub such as this one we here at today have been working tirelessly to make sure that we are prepared to commence vaccination on tuesday this feels like the beginning of the end but of course it's a marathon not a sprint and it will take many months for us to vaccinate everybody who needs

vaccination and the beginning of the end as mr barry said there of an immensely technically and logistically challenging operation is fact vaccine as we know has to be stored in very specific conditions around minus 70 degrees celsius it's got to be thawed before use it can only be moved around 4 times during that process 5 days shelf life all very well in a hospital setting like this much more challenging in hospital settings and then of course as we've been hearing there's bricks it to contend with on the 1st of january. well the u.s. health secretary says there's a comprehensive plan in place to vaccinate millions of americans the country's food and drug administration has been reviewing a vaccine made by modern a along with the pfizer and by all take joint effort the 1st public hearing is expected next week and alex as ours says emergency authorization could be expected if everything we manes on track on friday president delayed joe biden said his transition team had not seen

a detailed plan for the roll up but as are described that as nonsense mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. we have some kind of a timeline there are very much saying that there is a plan so that we should know how soon the vaccine could be rolled out. if indeed well for the past few weeks since our sins of officials from the food and drug administration have been going through the data from the tests for the treatment from the trials the data that was collected the they'll be meeting with independent experts thursday and will review all the data together a decision will then be made now this would normally take months to achieve but some health experts saying that it could come within a matter of hours if approval is forthcoming say health experts the vaccine can be on its way for distribution within 24 hours that's by the end of next week but

that's just the beginning of a massive problem and that is a logistical one how to get the vaccines to each individual state the federal government insisting that it's up to the states to distribute the vaccines on the ground bearing in mind too that this fact seen requires at least 2 shots 3 weeks apart which creates its own problems the trumpet ministration had promised 300000000 doses by the end of the c.o. once approval was given but now this has been dropped way down to 110th of that and the secretary of health is now saying that it will be the middle of next year before the vaccine is available to every american we're going to focus on those most vulnerable and those most on the front lines of treating people with kovan with the initial $40000000.00 doses in the next month and then we're just going to progressively keep adding more and more people so be thinking in the february march timeframe that you're going to see more general vaccination and by the 2nd quarter of next year wilson will have enough vaccine for every american that wants it but

more and more people are just going to keep progressively getting vaccinated week by week as the product rolls off a lot. to give some idea of the depth of this particular problem it took 100 days off to the 1st test was recorded in the united states the 1st case of the virus was recorded before 1000000 infections were reached however in the past 5 days alone 1000000 americans have been infected with the virus i can with the latest from washington d.c. thank you. voting is underway and parliamentary elections in venezuela the poll is to elect a new congress which is the only government branch currently controlled by opposition parties but they are boycotting the election saying it is

a fraud the u.s. e.u. and the organization of american states all say that they won't consider the outcome as legitimate president plus matilda's coalition is expected to win while the opposition leader one way bill is planning his own referendum or latin america to see a new man looks at the issues at stake. like a great many venezuelans who live in low income areas have got access and employed baker william feddis says he has much better things to do the vote in sunday's national assembly elections. like for example preparing since sheets and wood as a stove because he has no cooking gas but. it's always promises promises and every day things are worse over government does is blame those who have no power this is one of the world's richest countries but we have nothing because of this terrible administration the problem he says is that voting in the legislative elections won't change a thing yelling in that mainstream opposition is alleging fraud in isn't even

competing thus making the outcome a foregone conclusion there's a joke going around in venezuela it says those americans should follow our example we know the winner of our elections long before they even take place critics say it would be funny if it were true. this is the new electoral commission which is stacked in favor of the ruling that israel and socialist party and these have been israel is new in the trunk voting machines they were bought after a mysterious fire burned down all the ones that had been audited by an independent body is the visions are far worse than the ones that work your past fraud that was occurring to 1017 with the problem that national consistency as a great soul non of the technical basis has been. among the candidates for president nicolas maduro his wife celia flotus and his son nicholas

jr. apart from declaring the leadership of the largest opposition parties illegal the government controls and censors the media and while voting isn't mandatory at a recent rally party strongman deals that look at they feel said those who don't vote don't need. it won't be food for those who don't vote. government supporters say they're counting the days until they take over the national assembly. but. this is an opportunity to expose congress who for the last 5 years mistreated the venezuelan people and indeed there's no doubt about the winner the only question is how many people made the opposition's call to staying home and abstain. well let's cross to the sea and human she joins us live now from the chilean capital of santiago so lucy we're just listening to your report in chile has one of the largest venezuelan migrant communities in the world so are people there following

these elections or considering that no one seems to be taking them seriously are they following suit. i know barbara people here that i've spoken to and we've been here for about 5 hours talking to just loads of venezuelans and without exception they say they're not even paying attention to the national assembly elections because they already know the outcome and they consider them both a joke or a fraud those are the some of the words being used to describe them now in venezuela itself and more importantly we're hearing that there's been a very light turnout so far even though president nicolas maduro had said that there would be massive amounts of venezuelans out at the polls ready to vote he himself just voted a short while ago and interestingly enough barbara he did not vote in the copy a neighborhood that's a working class neighborhood where he has always voted before instead he has voted in the fort that is a the largest military establishment in the country so that's rather interesting

that he didn't want to go out in public to vote in this election what about the opposition figure one why though he's actually barred from participating is asking for his supporters to boycott the vote i mean how do you think he's going to emerge from all of this. where you know the one by the law and the mainstream opposition in general they're sort of damned if they do and they're damned if they don't to they most of the deputies they then they will continue to be deputies until january when the new legislative assembly is sworn in have been barred from participating in politics their parties have been declared illegal and one wise all himself is going to be very badly hit by this because his legitimacy as the interim president that he had declared himself to be in which nearly 60 countries validated or recognized was based on the fact that he was the president of the national assembly they he that the president is elected every 5 years so now

he is he's out of that job in the question is will. the international community continued to support him especially after donald trump leaves office we are hearing that of these some of joe biden's advisors are suggesting that the law is now in quote a lost cause and that they have to rethink their strategy not because they approve or or support it that my good old government but because they feel that it just hasn't worked and see a new movie the latest from santiago in chile thank you. era. of fun and malicious and they would kill us because we're to graham. forced out in their hundreds every day now so down the face is a problem and we believe the only unrest jeans and the mysterious sickness plaguing us to perhaps even have been about us scientists say they may have the assets.

of the eastern edge of yours big cold dough of and it's hard to push is an area of high pressure which means that by day temp is not a river freezing in here vilnius for example a mosque is run about months for to minus 6 but this is moving so you know offices are allowing the persistent snow which has been more falling if the italian be moving eastwards and staying out of it you've got snow over the slightly higher ground in remaining in down to which but again for example with significant rain and thunderstorms with that low now that cold air as it comes across the northeast developing in another storm system is going to slowly revolve into the north of the u.k. and this northerly wind coming down through the baby. has weathered western spain and western france will disappear or at least prompt

a development in the western med that if you remember not so long ago has a problem sodomy with flash flooding world this might be a repeat forecast because it will cloud up on monday then you've got 2 days of windy and potentially nastily wet weather here it is the tuesday development so it goes across suddenly into what's italy had problems again more significant snow they telling an austrian alps last the rest of europe is still quiet and fairly cold. in 2008 rocky 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 know how to be american 1st i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that i mustn't be elected to the united states congress want has changed rewind islam in america on al-jazeera.

the way. of the back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera e.u. and u.k. negotiators a resumed the talks in a last ditch attempt to cement a breakfast deal but both sides remain divided over 3 key issues with less than a month until they split potentially with no trade agreement. the 1st approved corona virus vaccine doses have arrived in the u.k. for the 1st people are inoculated on tuesday the jabs made by pfizer and by young tech are being stored in special freezers ahead of distribution. and venezuelan

still have a couple of hours left to vote for a new congress it's the only body currently held by the opposition but they are boycotting the polls president maduro is a socialist party is set to take control. record numbers of refugees and migrants arriving on the shores of spain's canary islands more than $8000.00 people made the relatively short trip from north africa during november many are making the paralyse journey after losing their incomes during the pandemic temporary camps are being set up by the government to cope with the influx thousands more are being housed in empty tourist hotels and apartments but that is causing. burn and strafe that is on the island of ghana can idea which is one of the main rival points for refugees and migrants. just in the last 24 hours more than $300.00 migrants of arrived here on grand canaria that's about typical in november there were more than $8000.00 the whole month was believed to be

a record for migrant arrivals and they all appear on these fishing boats from the north african coast about $25.00 people crammed into a boat each paying around $1000.00 per person the ambition for most of them nearly all of them is to make it to mainland europe to look for better opportunities but at the moment they're not being allowed to leave these islands because the european union doesn't want to encourage more migration the recent bush people still flee from their country they are also it makes recent i mean it means that there are economic reason because of the crisis of. there are also personnel reasons because you know most of the people is coming from west africa it means that you know in this area. because enough of the clay climate change there you know different mean that this can mean for families in

a hilarious the last the rescue boat heading out on another mission and more and more migrants heading to the canary islands because it's getting much harder to cross from north africa over the mediterranean into europe because of increased patrolling particularly along the libyan coast the spanish government wants other e.u. member states to agree to take an equitable share of all the migrants arriving here but there's currently little and for that it also wants morocco and other countries to take back those migrants who have no legal right to be here but we coronavirus restrictions on transport but it is also making things extremely difficult which is why the canaries filling up with mine. while both sides in ethiopia's conflict trade accusations of war crimes more people are streaming into neighboring sedan every day the un says the number of people fleeing the tea great region has suddenly doubled. for generations of one family taking shelter together.

ballingall. father mother children grandchildren great grandchildren relatives neighbors all crowded into one tent they're among the latest if you open the refugees to cross the border to sudan then send them the following malicious and they would kill us because we're to grand they told us you have 24 hours to live and they began to lose our animals and property according to the u.n. during the last few days the number of refugees arriving into sudan has increased from about 400 a day to more than 800 part of the cliche is due to a new round of fighting in the area of sherry west of the regional capital a killer there's a lot of rest men. they also reckon there's a lot of fear there's a lot of. communal conflicts inside to get i and they found it easier or safer to come to sudan i'm standing at one of the main border crossings

between each opiates around this is the city 3 of dividing the 2 countries and these people you see behind me are all it yoko refugees fleeing the conflict inside utopia the other side is the top you don't see many people on the outside they tell us they are afraid to talk to the media but at the same time they say they really don't want to go far away from this place because it is the closest to their homes . stories of separation or not being able to reach family members are common here the sudanese red crescent working in coordination with the international committee of the red cross is trying to help but then i'm on the bottom on the other part of it. we started a program called family reunification at the beginning we allow them to call their family members for free if that doesn't work we send short messages viral partner agencies in ethiopia so far we've conducted 2500 phone calls and sent 86 messages 70 percent of the phone calls lead to good results it's been 26. this if you know

people woman from the city of hama lost contact with her husband and children she is here again to check with this with a nice red crescent office for new information not ready to give up she says she prefers to stay near the border hoping that her loved ones might show up here at. 105 or 201 day at sudanese ethiopian border. american scientists think they may have uncovered the cause of a mysterious condition that's plagued the staff of the embassy in cuba for years diplomats in havana have been struck down by north korea business and he even hearing loss well now a government report says that targeted microwave radiation may be behind the strange symptoms but the study doesn't say who is responsible however former cia officer glenn carlip told al jazeera that he believes this is an attack of some

kind. the usual suspects are governments that are hostile to or they're contending with the united states directly and that's russia china north korea and iran right now and by far the most likely ones are russia 1st and china 2nd that it's. in critical or would suspects russia but we don't know it's standard practice and the reality in the intelligence world in the great game behind the scenes. competing or hostile intelligence services and powers countries to do things that simply are harassment i know that for decades the soviets and now the russians will do things simply to harass american diplomats or officials they will slash their tires poison their dogs i know people who have their their pet dogs poisoned and killed and simply to mess with the americans and

cause trouble for them or to a bump their cars and dump them the things that this. this is. still a level higher and because you could argue it's a cause a spell it's a cause permanent brain damage to an official of the is what's how is that different than him or her in combat. so it's it is a mystery why they were do this and what they they were is doing it are seeking to achieve as the world struggles to curb the spread of the coronavirus architects already transforming the way that we live to try to avoid that future outbreaks designers are creating a post and then make environment which limits human contact and the normalizes social distancing set a clock reports from hong kong. it's the latest luxury hotel to launch in hong kong

the harry will open this month it was built before the pandemic i did to death to the social distancing regulation we've been fortunate in some regards to be able to watch what's been going on in hong kong and how the hotel industry and restaurant industry have managed or the social distancing and what the best practices are and whilst we may have wanted to have a big fanfare of an opening that's now going to be rather more located the pandemic is transforming the way we live work and interact with social distancing laws in place architects like john pauline who designed the aquatic center for the beijing olympics are adapting to avert future outbreaks in one of the buildings that we're looking at at the moment so we've got a continuous atrium that going through the building with interconnecting stairs and this encourages the staff to walk through the building not touching anything and actually taking the demand of the elevators lockdowns have emptied hong kong streets masks a mandatory temperature checks are in every building classrooms at this school have

been redesigned to be more dropped a ball still allowing interaction but with more space incorporating social distancing regulations the space will be decided with more flexibility so he could and enable different kinds of learning situation in the library we desire spaces for different kinds of quality there are places for solid team which students can be quiet as they can meditate they can do their own exploration the way we live in hong kong was transformed after the sars epidemic 17 years ago since then the city landscape has been tightly regulated better ventilation has become mandatory and building codes have changed to deliver what the government calls healthier residential building. natural ventilation is being increasingly installed instead of a conditioning systems that circulate used public spaces are also being redesigned to incorporate covered. regulations is

a very developed city so i always say if we want to turn a city upside down is kind of impossible and will be very costly we also need to create from open space even public areas green area how we encourage people to stay active the current vice president has been the catalyst for change globally a hands free future living at arm's length is increasingly becoming the new search out his era hong kong. and now the top stories on al-jazeera e.u. and u.k. to go see a reserve resume the talks in a last ditch attempt to cement a brics deal this comes after a personal intervention between the european commission president and the british prime minister late on saturday both sides remain divided over sri key issues they are fishing rights fair competition gary.