venezuelans vote for a new congress in an election that the opposition has boycotted calling it a for all of. this and this is all dizzy a live from doha also coming up a warning that covert 19 in the u.s. is going to get worse california is going into another lockdown to try to stop the spread of the virus. seeking to avoid a no deal bragg's it even british negotiators try to reach a trade agreement and prevent a chaotic scene at the end of the year. and we take

a look at how the coronavirus pandemic is changing the way architects design buildings. voting has ended in venezuela in an election that will likely see the opposition lose control of the national assembly people are choosing a new congress which is the only government branch conkling controlled by opposition parties they boycotted the polls saying it was a fraud opposition leader. is planning his own referendum. if there are literally middling when the morning came today i said the day has a wrong the hour has arrived we had the patience and wisdom to wait for the selma to wait for this day to get rid of that nefarious national assembly that has been swollen and that brought the plague of sanctions cruelty of pain of suffering we

were patient we resisted and today we are making justice with the boats. in america at its alyse in humans following events from chile's capital santiago not list c.e.o. i know that there are a lot of people from venezuela who are in santiago who left venezuela because of the macdougall government how are people reacting to this vote that's correct we were in a neighborhood where there were hundreds thousands probably of venezuelans shopping at the fair on a sunday as they normally do and the people we spoke to without exception laughed when i asked them whether they were following these election results the polls haven't closed yet they said it was pointless to do that because the outcome was a foregone conclusion they already knew that the pro-government socialist party would be taking over the national assembly they said they described those these elections as fraudulent unfair and

a joke so that's what we're hearing from the from the venezuelans here in chile the question though 2 but it's what you what you just heard from president nicolas maduro he too while he voted made it clear that he would soon be recovering to use his words the control of the national assembly which had been in the hands for 5 years of the opposition led by one by the of the opposition leader who has also been proclaimed goes self proclaimed as the interim president of the country. this year for an opposition had control of the national assembly one of the actually able to make any impact on the decisions made by the middle government. well that's that's exactly the point that they never really had any power that the of of the national assembly which is a congress so that our viewers have to have very clear they were unable to pass laws whatever they did was not recognized by the government or by the supreme court

which is in the hands of government loyalists or by any other institution so it was really very nominal but it did allow the opposition to name why though as an interim president as this leader of the only. the only institution that was recognized abroad as having been democratically elected for all this time and now that is going to be lost among other things because the opposition or at least the mainstream opposition parties did not take part in this election because they feel that it would have been pointless and unfair that they would have lost anyway so they were really in a lose lose situation no matter what they did they see it thanks very much indeed that's a lot in america to say listen human talking to us from chile's capital santiago health officials in the u.s. are warning people not to become complacent about coronavirus even as it gets ready to roll out a vaccine with infections and deaths still on the rise a former f.d.a. commissioner says things are going to get

a lot worse most of california is going into lockdown as its shock turns records for the number of new cases and fears grow that intensive care units could run out of beds the u.s. health secretary says there is a comprehensive plan in place to vaccinate millions of americans regulators will meet to review the vaccine candidate from pfizer and biotech on thursday night if that's approved distribution could begin within 24 hours my kind of reports from washington d.c. new lock downs are being put in place in a number of regions amidst the ongoing surgeon infections health officials are considering ending even outdoor dining and in most of california stay at home orders have been imposed. this a far from festive season for the small businesses that rely on holiday trade christmas template mean that's how people get them now no more you know get meal before holiday and now they said now again the food and drug administration is set

to review a new vaccine this week it's in a process that in the past would take months but in what amounts to a life or death situation health officials are hoping it will take a better of hours based on that there isn't it i know i expect the f.d.a. to make a positive decision but of course it's their decision and as you probably know they are totally separated and firewalled from the operation they will make their own judgment based on the data and i hope that the decision will be positive but even when they are approved to to take months before the vaccines are widely available to the general public be thinking in the february march timeframe that you're going to see more general vaccination and by the 2nd quarter of next year will soon will have enough vaccine for every american that wants it and yet another plea for the public to accept and follow measures when i go out i just don't meet with health care providers and governors and mayors but i also meet with community and so i

hear community members parroting back those situations parrying that mass don't work parroting back that we should work towards herd immunity parroting back that gatherings don't result in super spreading events and i think our job is to constantly say those are myths they are wrong the frustration fueled in part by president trump's insistence on continuing to hold mass rallies like this one in georgia where many are not wearing mosques just days after he hosted a crowded party at the white house where vast also conspicuously absent. this of a time when the virus is claiming the lives of 2 americans every minute. mike hanna al-jazeera washington is being described as the final throw of the dice the u.k. and europe are struggling to secure a post bragg's its trade deal talks resumed on sunday after the e.u.

commission president and u.k. prime minister told negotiators to keep discussions going they're struggling to agree on 3 key issues fishing rights fair competition guarantees and how to resolve future disputes i said evangelion and boris johnson a set to speak again on monday to decide of progress has been made but hopes of a deal before a summit of e.u. leaders on thursday a fading and that in baba 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 when you go to get the day and that will we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on thanks very much to resume talks between david frost and the e.u.'s michel barnier came after an hour long phone call between the lion 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 businesses 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 lastly there's 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. health up and

a lot of businesses you do trade with europe or go into our manufacturing industries a very experienced farming's very experienced even fishing is incredibly exposed even if there is a deal customs checks and paperwork could create a real challenge we know that there won't be carrots under the. course parents and we do not know what you will. manage our arts chorus girls. arts of the ira's it industry to grow really in markets and the talks could get overtaken by events in the westminster parliament from 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 barbara al-jazeera. so what happens if

britain and the e.u. fail to agree a trade deal but the movement of goods between them could seize up overnight with both sides enforcing tariffs and custom checks of the borders while e.u. countries lose access to a big market it's britain that's likely to lose most europe accounts for nearly half of its trade the economic knock on could be harsh with an expected 2 percent drop in the u.k. economic output and nearly a quarter of a 1000000 jobs lost but the impacts wouldn't only be financial that will affect everything from energy supplies to intelligence sharing and there are fears that changes to the u.k. is only land border with the e.u. in northern ireland could stalk violent tensions from the past jonathon porritt says is a professor of economics at king's college london he says no significant progress has been made so far. well the compromise would be with her and has been for the last 6 months this is nothing has happened really fundamentally changed the

outlines of a deal of always been very clear a compromise on fishing rights whereby the u.k. gets back some but not all of its fish and they compromise on the living feel provisions where the u.k. agrees to some discipline and over future changes on the state a environmental and labor protections but the except that the u.k. is indeed an independent country and as some flexibility which he didn't have as a member of the e.u. has never really known and this is nothing has really changed a few months the outer part of this compromise is only to be very clear the only question remains the question which is out of bed which is whether boris johnson in particular is prepared to accept this compromise or not and the most important thing to remember is that. whether or not there is a detail there will be these very major changes in indeed in some respects to delist secondary appeal doesn't really make any difference to for example the fact

that custom checks will be imposed on the 1st of january deal or no deal a deal will make things easier there will be no tariffs but the vast majority of the extra bureaucracy the extra border controls and all the rest expert regulatory barriers those are going to come deal or no deal still ahead and al jazeera escaping ethiopia sudan is facing a refugee crisis as hundreds of to drains cross the border every day scientists say they've been covered the mysterious illness playing american diplomats in cuba. the boy in. the end of the weekend story in the u.s. and count some to be had 3 points of interest i think you had

a winter storm up in the northeast corner you had persistent fog in the northwest and still the santa ana winds giving a fire danger than southern california as the 1st nor'easter of the season and quite a significant one it was started beautifully in connecticut and that soon turned into rather a lot of trouble on the roads and several tens of 1000 people of thousands of people lost power of course now this storm is rolling out through east encounter the next 24 hours or so this is the forecast for monday in the backwash will be quite a cold with temps down to low single figures in boston over the top of the snow that lie on the ground that's the south dakota tocsin you're going to have snow getting a long way south with commensurate drop in temperature that the pacific seaboard doesn't show that it just shows b.c. getting more snow and probably rain in seattle but if you look at the temperatures further south in the u.s. they're down to single thing is once more in the atlanta the forecast for in georgia down to 9 degrees subzero if it warms up by says day equally new orleans is

pretty cool cool but should be better than this. al-jazeera well to meet some extraordinary women. who are making things happen the way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. egypt's women street salad is on al-jazeera.

you're watching out to see it a reminder of our top stories this hour vote counting is underway in venezuela and an election that will likely see the opposition lose control of the national assembly people are picking a new congress which is kind of controlled by opposition parties but they boycotted the election saying it was a fraud. several u.s. states have begun enforcing new locked up and to control rising corona virus infections this as u.s. health officials say the distribution of a vaccine could begin soon if it gets approved this week. the u.n. u.k. negotiators have resumes talks in a last ditch attempt to cement a brig's a deal but both sides remain divided over the 3 key issues with less than a month until they split with no trade agreement. with the u.k. is preparing to roll out the 1st doses of the corona virus vaccine made by pfizer

and biotech on tuesday initial batches have been distributed to hospitals selected to administer the vaccine priority is going to be given to those over the age of 80 frontline workers care home staff and residents but the u.k. has ordered 40000000 in total that's enough to vaccinate 20000000 people join a hole is at a hospital in london where the vaccine is going to 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 the 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 the end as mr powers said there of an immensely technically and logistically challenging operation is fact the 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 non hospital settings and then of course as we've been hearing there's bricks are to contend with on the 1st of january 2 thirds of koichi m.p.'s are lost their seats in parliamentary elections opposition candidates made substantial gains with state media reporting the election of $31.00 new law makers it's a change for the gulf country which is dealing with a large economic deficit and comes just 2 months after a new mayor took to the throne a record number of female candidates stood but none was elected. the u.n.

says new fighting in ethiopia is northern region of t.v. is forcing more civilians to flee into neighboring sudan more than 1000000 people in the way of already been displaced by the month long conflict how many reports from hyundai that near the sudan ethiopia border. valley. father mother children grandchildren great grandchildren relatives neighbors all crowded into one tent they're among the latest ethiopian refugees to cross the border to sudan then send them the final 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 un 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 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 dividing the 2 countries and these people you see behind me are all ethiopian 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 side of it. we started a program called family reunification at the begin. we allow them to call their

family members for free if that doesn't work we send short messages via 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 days since this if you open 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 home. or does iraq have a day at sudanese ethiopian border. record numbers of migrants and refugees arriving on the shores of spain's canary islands many are making the dangerous journey by sea after losing their income during the pandemic temporary camps are being set up by the government to cope with the influx al-jazeera is byron smith has more from the island of gran canaria. just in the last 24 hours more than

$300.00 migrants have 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 person there reasons because you know most people coming from west africa it means that you know in this

area there might be close enough of that play climate change. 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 of filling up with migrants more than 300 people have been arrested in the belorussian capital in yet another weekend of protests against the

president demonstrate. the demanding an end to alexander lukashenko 26 year rule they held smaller rallies to make it harder for security forces to target them protests have been taking place since all this disputed election which solar center when a 6th term they accuse him of rigging the poll. heavy rain and snow has caused flooding and landslides in italy's northern region strong winds complicated rescue operations which have been under way for 2 days road and railway lines have been closed due to the risk of landslides and access to austria has been cut off from the italian. american scientists think they may have uncovered the calls of a mysterious condition that's played stuff at the embassy in cuba for years diplomats in havana have been struck down by north korea dizziness and even hearing loss now a government report says targeted to microwave radiation may be behind this strange symptoms the study doesn't say who's responsible or whether it's an attack but

a former cia officer glenn carr believes this is an attack of some kind. the usual suspects are those governments that are hostile to or 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 those are. 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 had their

their pet dogs poisoned and killed simply to mess with the americans and cause trouble for them or hue of bump their cars and them the things that this. this is. still a level higher and because you can 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 and wounding him or her in combat. so it is a mystery why they would do this and what they they whoever is doing it are seeking to achieve as the world struggles to stop the wising number of covert $1000.00 cases architects are already transforming the way we live to avoid future outbreaks and to set a clock reports from hong kong designed as a creating a post pandemic environment that limits human contact and encourages social

distancing. 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 that 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 all 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 a virt future outbreaks in one of the buildings that we're looking at at the moment so we've got a continuous tree in the going through the building with an interconnecting stair and this encourages the staff to walk through the building not touching anything and actually taking the demand of the elevators knockdowns have emptied hong kong

streets masks a mandatory temperature checks are in every building classrooms at this school have been redesigned to be more adaptable 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 stay 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 open space teevan public areas green area how we encourage people to stay active the good advice pandemic has been the catalyst for change globally a hands free future living at arm's length is increasingly becoming the new neural circuitry al-jazeera hong kong. this is all to see with these are the top stories votes are being counted in venezuela they're picking a new congress which is controlled by opposition parties but they boycotted the election saying it was a fraud a latin america editor listen human explains what's at stake for venezuela's opposition parties they never really had any.