neutral and all of these cases goal here is to terrorize and here's the other part of this there's no consequence to this dream on out is the. 'd 2 deaths every minute are surging coronavirus cases in the u.s. sends california into yet another lockdown. clubs' the whole romany watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a low turnout as polls close in venezuela's general election which the opposition has dismissed as a fraud. crunch time for brics it talks the european union and the united kingdom push for a trade deal to prevent chaos that their borders next year. plus ethiopian refugee

share stories of separation and survival as they find shelter in neighboring sudan . welcome to the program millions of people across the u.s. state of california are preparing for harsh new lockdown rules to come into place in the next few hours the stay at home orders places restrictions on the opening of restaurants salads and stalls while also limiting gatherings the measures come in as the state reported its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in a single day the recent surge in infections is prompting fears some hospitals could run out of i.c.u. beds covert 19 is now killing more than 2000 people a day in the u.s. health officials are hoping the approval of a new vaccine will happen quickly the food and drug administration are set to meet on thursday to review it i didn't castro reports now from washington d.c.

. new walk downs are being put in place in a number of regions amid the ongoing surge in infections health officials are considering ending even outdoor dining and in most of california stay at home orders have been imposed this far from festive season for the small businesses that rely on holiday trade christmas template mean that's how people get the now no mortgage no get beautyful holiday and now they sit down again the food and drug administration is set to review a new vaccine this week it's a process that in the past would have taken months but in what amounts to a life or death situation health officials are hoping it will take a matter of hours based on the data that 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 fired from the operation they would make their own judgment based on the data and i hope that the decision will be positive but even

when they are approved it will 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 still have enough vaccine for every american that wants it as health officials continue to call on americans to follow social distancing measures and no other member of trump's inner circle who hasn't followed that advice has fallen ill to the virus rudy giuliani personal attorney was reportedly hospitalized sunday after he tested positive he traveled the country last week trying to help the president overturn the election it was trump who announced his lawyer has coded 19 on twitter calling it the china virus meanwhile the pandemic is claiming the lives of 2 americans every minute. castro al-jazeera washington. the united kingdom is getting

ready to roll out the 1st doses of the krona virus vaccine made by pfizer and biotech on tuesday initial batches have been distributed to hospitals selected to administer it priority will be given to those over the age of 80 frontline workers care home residents and staff the u.k. has ordered enough to vaccinate 20000000 people about a 3rd of the population will join the hope is at a hospital in london where the vaccine will be administered. for 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're here at today i've 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 palmer 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 brecht's had to contend with on the 1st of january. venezuela's opposition leader says that he's still the leader of the national assembly regardless of the results of parliamentary elections counting is now underway for the vote which was boycotted by the opposition and the likely result is president nicolas maduro further consolidating his hold on power or lots of america did you see a new human reports. it wasn't necessary to wait for the official election results

to be announced to know the outcome as it jubelin president nicolas maduro made clear that we will help us in we had the patience the wisdom to wait for this hour to wait for the state to get rid of that nefarious national assembly that the opposition used to bring the plague of sanctions on to venezuela now with this vote we will have just been a sign i. have been israel is mainstream opposition boycotted the legislative assembly poll which they say they lack the minimum conditions of a fair and free election the pro-government supreme court had taken over 3 of the 4 principal opposition parties appointing new leaders who are accused of being pawns of mughal in addition the court appointed a new electoral council also going to the government. and there were no independent observers only staunch supporters like former bolivian president evo morales despite threats to withhold subsidized food boxes to those who didn't vote the

turnout was poor there and over the hill in this voting center in the macoutes a district that is normally a lot of people when there is an election today what you have is a fraud in our country which is clearly detect and my. mother has foreign allies like russia china and iran will likely applaud the elections which could give their commercial agreements with venezuela a stronger legal framework with which to circumvent u.s. and european sanctions but the united states the e.u. and many latin american countries say they won't recognize. new parliament. plans to ask the new assembly to appoint a special commission to try enemies of the state especially opposition you know one by gore but that could bring on more international reprisals declare. i think it would be better from a juror to leave quite all alone and play cat and mouse with him grab him by the

tail and let him go what will the world see an opposition leader who once had 61 percent support and now has half of that and is losing more by the day. why don't has been recognized it when israel is interim president by more than 50 countries but his legitimacy has rested on being the elected leader of the national assembly and have come january when the new legislature is sworn in the opposition will lose the only state institution it controlled destroying what critics regard as the last remnant of democracy in venezuela. you see in human al-jazeera phil gunson is the senior analyst for the andes region at the international crisis group he says after this vote venezuela's opposition will lead a new strategy to convince voters. why go on the opposition's leadership have said that 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 wind all over time because of kools politics is about power and power in this country it's how about how to not bite why don't he doesn't even have the keys to his own office it think it's going to we question of the opposition going back to the growing. divine sink in strategy i think we have to start recognizing the most people have been swayed are concerned about putting food on the table and. issues like the like the pandemic there is no convinced. with the war why though in the so-called interim government really have much to say about those 2 conditions that they face which are conditions of extreme poverty conditions of breaking epidemics not just put 90 in a collapsing health service collapsing infrastructural around and so there is very

little just in this election and there's going to be little interest i think within venezuela for the referendum to impose in the case of this referendum there will be the possibility of people voting remotely by internet for hope rule where about 5000000 venezuela for meeting in exile. because between the u.k. and europe are said to be on a knife edge us they struggle to secure a post break sit trade deal they can't agree on 3 key issues fishing rights fair competition guarantees and how to resolve future disputes that embargo has more 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 the get go today and that will we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on this afternoon thank you very much to resume talks between david frost and the e.u. michel barnier came after an hour long phone call between those who have underlying

president of the european commission and british prime minister boris johnson their joint statement on saturday mentioned 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 and 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 their experience 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 barracks under a deal of. course parents and we do not know to what you will. manage art's cars and girls. arts of the iris it industry. to grow really. 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 with the barber al-jazeera still ahead here on al-jazeera why so many migrants not choosing to make the dangerous journey across the atlantic to europe and thinking outside the box we meet some of the designers creating spaces for post pandemic world to stay with us here on out to say. the end of the weekend story in the u.s. and counts on 303 points of interest i think you had a winter storm up in the northeast corner you have 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 that soon turned into rather a lot of trouble on the roads and several tens of 1000 people or 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 temperature down to low single figures in boston over the top of the snow that lie on the ground that's the south that has the cold air tucks in 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 died a single thing is once more in line to the full cross for granted in georgia down to 9 degrees subzero if it warms up by says day equally new orleans is pretty cool last cool but should be better than this.

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a reminder of our top news stories millions of people across the u.s. state of california are preparing for harsh new lockdown rules to come into place in the next 2 hours it comes as the state reported its highest number of new covert 19 infections more than 30000 in. but as well as opposition leader one who slammed sunday's parliamentary vote as a fraud counting is underway for the poll which was boycotted by the opposition it's likely that president nicolas maduro will consolidate his hold on power. and negotiations between the united kingdom and europe are said to be on a knife edge as they struggle to secure a place brics a trade deal they remain divided have a 3 key issues after 8 months of talks they've until the end of the year to reach an agreement. so what happens if britain and the evil to agree a trade deal the movement of goods between them could seize up overnight with both sides and force interest and customs checks at the border while e.u. countries lose access to a big market it's britain that's likely to lose out most europe accounts for the

half of its trade well the economic knock on could be harsh with an expected 2 percent drop in the case economic output and nearly a quarter of a 1000000 jobs lost but the impacts would only be financial that affect everything from energy supplies to intelligence sharing and there are fears that changes to the case only land border with the e.u. in northern ireland could still violent tensions from the past jonathan porter's 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 state

a environment to labor protections but the e.u. accepts that the u.k. is indeed an independent country and as some flexibility which he didn't have as a member of the there is never really none 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 always been 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 a deal is secondary a deal 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. it workers say the situation in

northern ethiopia is still too volatile for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians a need for the fighting and grey is also forcing more civilians to flee into neighboring sudan more than 1000000 people integrate have already been displaced by the month long conflict by midvale reports from one date near the sudan ethiopia border. knowing that he was father mother children grandchildren great grandchildren relatives neighbors all crowded into one tent they're among the latest if you opened 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 pleases 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. this is the city 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 a man who's been on the other part of

a lot of the. 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 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 ramallah 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. after 01 day at sudanese ethiopian border a record numbers of migrants and refugees are 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 of as there was bernard smith has more 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 of 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 filling up with migrants. demonstrators in moldova who descended

on the capital to demand early parliamentary elections thousands gathered in support. of incoming president my son do not she's accusing the government of limiting her ability to fight corruption last week voters loyal to her predecessor voted to strip her of her 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 well more than 300 people have been arrested in the belorussian capital in yet another weekend of protests against the president demonstrators are demanding an end to alexander lukashenko 26 year rule the hills are similar rallies in to make it harder for security forces to target the protests have been taking place since the disputed election in august which saw a 6th term they accuse him of rigging the poll. today is a beautiful day when we again see the unification of bella rhesus people nobody is

scared everybody goes out to the streets because it's everybody's deal for now. more than 200 people have been hospitalized in india to contract to an unknown illness all the cases are from one town and under protest 8 people have reported feeling dizzy nausea and epilepsy like symptoms all of the patients have tested negative for corona virus officials are now going door to door to conduct medical tests. several people in london have been arrested for breaking quote a virus regulations at a protest in solidarity with farmers in india thousands gathered outside the city's indian high commission a blocked traffic the farmers say the indian government's reforms will endanger their livelihoods a larger gatherings are prohibited in the united kingdom in a bid to curb corona virus infections. the 1st shipment of covert 1000 vaccine developed by a chinese company has arrived in indonesia the government is preparing for a mass inoculation program but it's waiting on emergency use approval by the

country's food and drug control agency by a pharmaceutical companies sort of attack is still conducting phase 3 trials on the vaccine indonesia has the highest number of cases and deaths in the southeast asia region rules the world struggles to stop the rising number of covert 1000 cases architects are already transforming the way we live to avoid future outbreaks and as sarah clarke reports from hong kong designers are 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 avert future outbreaks in one of the buildings that we're looking at at the moment so we've got a continuous dream that going through the building with interconnecting still 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 decidedly more flexibilities 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 hochul is a very developed city so i always say if we want to turn a city upside down is kind of impossible and it will be very costly we also need to open space. area how we encourage people to stay active they could advise 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. a chinese man probe her successfully docked with

another craft in lunar orbit another probe which is carrying samples of moon rock is now heading back to earth its 2 to london in among go in the next 10 days it would be the 1st time in 4 decades that lunar rock has been brought back to or. desire of with me soho run the reminder of our top stories millions of people across the u.s. state of california are preparing for harsh new lockdown rules to come into place in the next few hours the state has reported its highest number of new coated 19 infections more than 30000 in a day as well as opposition leader. who has sunday's parliamentary vote as a fraud counting is underway for the poll which was boycotted by the opposition it's likely that president nicolas maduro.