holding the phone to account as we examine the ulysses role in the war on al-jazeera. a warning that covert 19 in the u.s. will get worse california is going into another lockdown to try to stop the spread of the virus. i wrote about this and this is all it is here on live from doha also coming up a venezuelans vote for the new congress in an election that the opposition has boycotted calling it a fraud seeking to avoid a no deal bribes it even you and british negotiators try to reach a trade agreement and prevent a chaotic parting at the end of the year. and we take

a look at how the coronavirus pandemic is changing the way architects design buildings. health officials in the u.s. are warning people not to become complacent about coronavirus even as it gets ready to roll out of vaccine california has recorded its highest ever number of daily infections more than 30000 the states going into lockdown in an effort to halt the spread of the virus but all fears that intensive care units could run out of beds and that's prompted several countries to impose a stay at home order the u.s. health secretary says there is a plan in place to vaccinate millions of americans regulators will meet to review the vaccine candidate from pfizer biotech on thursday if that's approved distribution will begin within 24 hours by 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 far from 1st of season for the small businesses that rely on holiday trade christmas tampa 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 paring back 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 on. not wearing masks just days after he hosted

a crowded party in the white house with 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 the u.k. is getting ready to roll out the 1st doses of the corona virus vaccine made by pfizer biotech on tuesday initial batches have been distributed to hospitals selected to administer it priority is going to be given to those over the age of 80 frontline workers care home residents and stuff but the u.k. has ordered 14000000 doses in total that's enough to vaccinate $20000000.00 people join the halls at a hospital in london with a 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 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 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 celcius 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. voting is ended in venezuela and then election that will likely see the

opposition lose control of the national assembly and the people are choosing a new congress which is the only government branch country controlled by opposition parties a boycott of the polls saying it was a fraud opposition leader is planning his own referendum phil gunson is a senior analyst for the andes region at the international crisis group and he's joining us by skype from caracas good to have you with us on al-jazeera when the opposition was in charge of the national assembly did it actually make any difference to anything that was coming out of the middle government. very little on the domestic level. refused knowledge the opposition's control of the national league they use that supreme court to prevent a problem national assembly for carrying out any of its futurity from passing laws to hold the door of the ministers to account where it did make

a difference was that by the way the worst president of the assembly was able to garner the support needed 60 votes to slow why his play that he was really the legitimate president of venezuela based on the idea that you do the work fortunately in 2018 if one has removed himself from the national assembly does that argument still stand how are fallen government's going to regard him now. well that's next in question the. of the opposition leadership have said they will continue to be the legitimate national assembly because they don't recognize this election either and they expect governments to continue to recognize why does the president i think that recognition is likely to be with little over time because of course politics is about how power in this country it's how about how do what go who doesn't even have the keys to his own office i think it's going to be

a question of the opposition going back to the drawing. a bicycle huge strategy that perhaps knowledge is to stop spying knowledge of the reliance of power you who has the power who doesn't. understand that the public interest in this vote has been significantly less than it has been in previous years how do people feel about the political process at all levels and venezuela and also given the fact that one quite oh says he's going to hold a referendum is that actually going to make any impact to toll given the fact that people don't seem to be interested in this election but i think we have to start by recognizing that most people are concerned about putting food on the table and. issues like the like the pandemic they're not convinced. but thought why though and his so-called interim government really have much to say about those

conditions that they face which are provisions of extreme poverty conditions are made to get the damage not just but 90. elapsing infrastructural 'd around and so there is very little interest in this election and there's going to be little interest i think within. the referendum both in the case of mr brendon there will be the possibility of people voting remotely by internet from abroad where about 5000000 by his weapons are for beating us up. one right oh says that he boycotted this election because basically it was going to make any difference that by being part of it he was going to legitimize what he regards as an illegitimate election but is it a danger that this is going to backfire on them is there a danger that he is essentially almost writing himself out of venice well in politics yes that the mandate that. the

other legislators obtain december 2015 to the 5 years and that mandate expires on the 5th of january that they're going to really have to struggle to retain their relevance to politics if that's what of course much of it as a say will depend on how will we at a what happens also with the new u.s. administration because of course the coincidence is this change is happening precisely as the whole bows out somewhat reluctantly and joe biden sounds and i think will be a change of emphasis there would also require so the adjustment on the part of the opposition when you get to get your thoughts on this for grants and we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed. it's being described as the final throw of the dice the u.k. and europe struggling to secure a post brags that trade deal is struggling to agree on 3 key issues fishing rights fair competition guarantees and how to resolve future disputes that in bob has the

latest from london. back in brussels for another go at striking a trade deal with his european union counterparts we're 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 our you're being released later on thanks very much to resume talks between david frost and the e.u. 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. held up. a lot of businesses you do trade with europe and our manufacturing industries are 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 will be carrots under a deal of. course carrots and code but we do not know to what extent

you will allow manufacturing arts cars and girls. arts of the iris industry to grow really into 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 the barber al-jazeera is still ahead in al-jazeera escaping ethiopia sudan's facing a refugee crisis as hundreds of to grains cross the border every day and boycotting the vote separatists in cameroon say the regional election is meaningless but they want instead.

there has been snow as far south as hunan in china so here this fair amount of cloud around not much more for the concentration is going to be in her card or increasingly and during tuesday on the western slopes of the high ground in holland sure northeast monsoons take a bit of a wobble to it which means enhanced rain in taiwan and in hong kong you'll probably feel a bit of a chilling overcast conditions might well come in with spotted serve rain by thursday before the sun returns after that and that road to be cooler and hans's the shouts of vietnam you follow it down it kills away just north of the equator and south of the equator potential develop into a tropical cyclone which means jakarta could be could be in the zone where you get a line of thunderstorms produced and forced through and that's certainly the case in singapore we've got same potential in singapore for monday tuesday and wednesday

the rain in the northeast monsoon is continuing as it should do for this ties he's inside of indians potential development in the arabian sea or the clone once more the last mass of whether it's on its way out through iran that day or 2 of quiet weather throughout the levant and the arabian peninsula but with the set up than the gulf. of. al-jazeera well meet some extraordinary women. who are making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. swimmin streets. on al-jazeera.

i want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour most of california is going into the harshest lockdown in the u.s. the state's recorded its highest daily covered 1000 infections 30000 of them this as health officials said the distribution of a vaccine could begin soon if it gets approved this week. vote counting is underway in venezuela an election that will likely see the opposition lose control of the national assembly the people are picking a new congress which is currently controlled by opposition parties but they boycotted the elections saying it was a fraud. e.u. and u.k.

negotiators have resume talks in a last ditch attempt to cement a bragg's a deal but both sides remain divided over 3 key issues with less than a month until they split with no trade agreement. the u.n. says new fighting in ethiopia is northern region of tikrit is forcing more civilians to flee into neighboring sudan more than 1000000 people integrate have already been displaced by the month long conflict ahamed volved reports from hyundai it's 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 militia said they would kill us because we're to grand they told us you have 24 hours to leave and they began to lose you know animals and property according to the u.n. during the last few days the number of refugees arriving into sudan has increased

from. about $400.00 a day to more than $800.00 part of the pleases due to a new round of fighting in the area of shitty west of the regional capital a killer there's a lot of rest men they reckon. 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 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 days since this if you open woman from the city of ramallah lost contact with her husband and children she is here again to check with us 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 to see our one day at sudanese ethiopian border. sporadic violence has been reported in parts of cameroon as it holds its 1st ever

election to appoint regional councils one voters being killed in the english speaking northwest region reports. downtown by amend the capital of cameron's english speaking region it was supposed to be a day of voting for greater autonomy instead it's another day of protest separatists in the north western region have threatened those taking part in the vote calling on people to stay indoors and not take part in what they describe as a sham regional election for them cameron's english speaking region is a country they call embers onya fighting for independence against a central french speaking state that not only oppress is their right to use the english language but profits from their regions natural resources rich and precious minerals but for ruling party municipal councillors voting for these new regional assemblies in the political capital yeah this is an opportunity to have greater local autonomy each of the country's 10 provinces will have a regional assembly made up of both traditional leaders and elected officials will

have a say on provincial affairs. but if it's among call it we want our actual step toward decentralization of power so that we can see changes in areas of held education and local policies. for the last 38 years incumbent president old b.n. has tightened his grip on power giving little room for autonomy for the country's 250 ethnic groups and languages the regional elections were meant to take place 24 years ago following constitutional changes to address cameron's diversity but faced with a growing regional crisis both in the far north and in the english speaking regions where more than a 1000000 people have been displaced and an estimated 3000 killed he agreed to these elections many in cameroon feel this is too little too late. so many times the government has proposed to do something but they have done nothing. that most people don't know what these elections are about they should explain to us what it's all about many view the new regional body as an added level of bureaucracy to

a centralized government controlled by the president with the opposition and boycotting the vote the ruling party is said to win all the seats giving even more power to paul b. as government in your own day and even more control over cameron's restive regions nicholas hawke al-jazeera are many is prime minister says he's won enough support in elections to form the next government exit polls suggest the race is still too close to call with a call button has told supporters of his centrist p.-l. party he'll be able to form a coalition with several possible partners has been in power for a year pledging to make romania more pro european players left wing opposition held control of parliament and is blocked as plans demonstrators in moldova have descended on the capital to demand early parliamentary elections there thousands have gathered in support of incoming president. she's accusing the government of limiting her ability to fight corruption that's after the parliament stripped sunda

of a power over the intelligence services the largest party in parliament is aligned with the former leader and is led by a businessman convicted of fraud. stern emergency services are working against the clock to evacuate people in the path of a bushfire in queensland residents of fraser island were told to leave their homes on sunday a huge fire has burned large parts of the north east coast it was started by an illegal campfire 7 weeks ago and scorching temperatures are making the already volatile situation even worse but these foreign fries are all it is a marathon not a sprint there's no significant rain in the forecast and really rain is the only thing that's going to put this far out so it will continue as far falling if it's for the coming days and perhaps even weeks ahead of us. as the world struggles to stop the rising number of covered 900 cases architects are already transforming the way we live to avoid future outbreaks and acidic clock reports from hong kong

designers of 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 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 it into connecting stairs

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 depth to bill 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 90. 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 sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. millions of children in pakistan already struggle to get an education but the situation is only getting worse the schools across the country are shutting down for a 2nd time because of the pandemic one university student has decided to try to help there's a story my name is. and i'm a psychology student i've been for imparting knowledge so i'm running

a small library in. a small village a remote village in the northern areas pakistan i used to work in islamabad i had a good job then i felt i can do better than that so i moved in here because i always wanted to do something for the community of this region i came to know about the move by library that was founded by a japanese lady called musial i started working with them. in the middle of to be sure is and there more to be always have threats we never know what can happen next because the glacier outburst the landslide ings they're very common here we go to different villages we provide the kids with book the books are all like for different age groups. literacy rate of foster's 100 person i think of education system in pakistan is very poor. there are 2500000 kids in pakistan who are out of school right now is books are not for sale we don't sell them it's been few months

i've started running it along with my team we're thinking to expend it more we want to go to more school more villages where kids don't have access to good books because these books are very send these are modern that every kid should get i think kids of pasta are super lucky to have this both by library i think what attractive as compared to a library packed in a room so it's more attractive cute kids get attracted when they see them all by library coming they're all drawn to us at all we need books i appreciate their passion for books that would be great if we have more more by libraries like this because having books at your doorstep says it's a great thing. because the government there should make such initiatives. such great ideas everybody tries to send their kids to school to good school and get them good education so get there get good jobs or maybe scholarships and go abroad and you know they can make their earnings when you have love for something you get

it search teams of successful in the case of the japanese capsule containing the 1st extensive samples of asteroid dust the probe touched down in a remote desert in australia after a dramatic reentry on saturday it's hoped the samples could shed light on how the water was brought and some of the mysteries behind life itself. this is a disease of these of the top stories most of california is going into the harshest lockdown in the u.s. the state's recorded more than 30000 new daily infections that's the highest to date health officials say the distribution of a vaccine could begin soon if it gets approved this week and the u.k. is getting ready to roll out the 1st doses of the corona virus vaccine made on tuesday initial batches have been distributed to hospitals selected to administer it as adults.