he uses performance art to draw attention to the critical controversial issues facing china. china. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour of live from our headquarters in doha i'm terry navigator coming up in the next 60 minutes californians face stay at home orders as the number of coronavirus cases surges across the u.s. state polls have closed in ghana where the incumbent leader and his predecessor a facing off in an election that's being called

a battle of 2 giants france says it won't make human rights a condition for arms sales to egypt as president sisi visits paris. really. funny and cutting a new record bob dylan sells all his songs to universal music and one of the biggest such deals. announced and how much of the sport as europe hold its qualifying draw for the 2022 world cup in qatar details coming up this hour. thanks for joining us we begin in the u.s. navigating its way through a presidential transition as well as a worsening coronavirus situation a record 100000 people were admitted to hospital on sunday with more than 2000 americans dying from the disease every day so the president elect joe biden's

reportedly made his pick for health secretary one of the incoming administration's most consequential jobs and he's eyeing this man he's california's attorney general have you have a sarah for the position well in his home state some 33000000 californians are now under sweeping new restrictions private gatherings will be banned as intensive care capacity there are strings and members of congress who've been deadlocked for months over another coronavirus aid package could unveil a bipartisan proposal as early as monday it's expected to be some $908000000000.00 in funding let's bring in robert reynolds he's joining us from los angeles rob so what triggered the stay at home order in california. well as you mentioned during about 85 percent of all the people who live in this state about 33000000 people are now under the most restrictive stay at home order

imposed since march and it's all about hospital capacity i intensive care units around the state are stressed in every part of the state they are saying that they are they are running out of beds are running out of trained medical personnel to take care of people and there's because of the spread of the coronavirus across the country there's no place to transfer patients because every place is equally stressed so the shutdown is triggered when the i.c.u. that's intensive care unit capacity in a given region of the state falls below 15 percent on saturday the 5th of december southern california which includes lausanne. and the city of san diego and many other cities and towns of the capacity fell to 12.5 percent by sunday it was down to 10.3 percent with 10500 new cases of covered 90 so with hospitals under such extreme stress the lockdown is in place

and people are being told that they must hear to the rules or else the hospitals are simply going to get overwhelmed so what are these rules what sort of restrictions are californians facing. well there are considerable number of exceptions but what if basically what you can't do under the order is to gather with people outside your households except for outdoor church services who are constitutionally protected political protest restaurants are closed they're limited to takeout food only. like hair and nail salons barber shops are closed. and children's playgrounds are closed retail store capacity is limited to 20 percent and the los angeles unified school district most of which is shut down anyway but. by thursday the rest of the

classroom education will be closed to an emergency order by the superintendent of schools leaving virtual learning as the only possible route for education for children for the forseeable future you can still go outside walk your dog. go for go for a dog do some exercise but you're supposed to be wearing your mask while you do that and is the main thing is really to avoid contact with other people it's very unpopular there's a lot of question about it in fact people are demonstrating outside of the mayor of los angeles eric our city. home every day now and particularly the restaurant trade owners people that nature they say they're going to be driven out of business if these if these orders persist they are supposed to be in place during for 3 weeks all right rob thank you very much for bringing us that update from los angeles now

over in the u.k. it's preparing to administer the 1st batch of covert 1000 vaccines to the public on tuesday 800000 doses will 1st go to health workers and people over 80 prime minister boris johnson has called the rollout one of the biggest civilian logistical efforts the u.k. has ever faced it comes just a week off to the government gave authorization for widespread use of the pfizer vaccine we are very excited about it and been hard they've got direction and the fed to do it you need to crises you're going to come to an end and when we heard you know that it's going to start to do is get here and then i deceived to tell you good call i was very excited i got the opportunity of joining in and taking part. in pakistan 6 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in his shower after oxygen supplies ran to low hundreds of patients were left for hours on reduced oxygen because of

a delay to deliveries pakistan has so far a total of more than 400000 infections and over $8000.00 deaths from covert 19 or has more from islamabad. really only the preliminary to bolts and the preliminary reports speak of systematic failure. for example. had the capacity to have drained. me. however. for only a. cubic meter delivered. yesterday when this incident happened the operating experience. there tried to call the concerned department. including the biomedical engineer who is responsible for maintaining the optimum level of oxygen and.

there was no busy. later on. finding out about their report there was no. basic. oxygen for several months. regarding renewal of contract it's a failure. to achieve minutes. saying an independent inquiry a number of people have already been suspended and everybody here will be watching to see whether there is a proper it quietly or whether this again is brushed aside new lockdown rules have come into effect in south korea's capital a soul raises its alert level to the 2nd highest the military has also been deployed to assist with testing and contact tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday the 30th day in

a row of triple digit increases bride reports from seoul. this is the 3rd time restrictions have been increased in the past month and it comes as the number of daily infections. has continued to rise what worries the author ities is that this 3rd wave is far more 'd widespread than previous surges and unless the numbers are curbed hospital resources could become stretched upon the new not there is no center of this wave for us to focus our prevention measures on this could result in a much larger threat if the medical system reaches its limit it will coast great damage to all of us there will be tighter controls on restaurants and indoor gatherings no spectators at sporting events 50 percent occupancy on intercity trains and buses and private companies are urged to get a 3rd of their staff working remotely from home the measures introduced during this

way have resulted in a 20 percent drop in the amount that people are traveling and mingling just as it did in the 2nd wave over the summer but there hasn't been a corresponding drop in the number of new infections that's led to further concerns that people have been finding ways around these tighter restrictions and that in a country known for its high level of public compliance even here pandemic fatigue may be setting in robert bright al-jazeera so you know surface asking for 2 and a half $1000000000.00 a new funds for children in the middle east and north africa earlier this month that issued its largest ever emergency funding appeal for a 6400000000 dollars to reach 300000000 people it says 39000000 children in the mena region have been impacted by war poverty and the coronavirus the u.n. agency says the highest number of children in need of critical humanitarian

assistance are in yemen syria lebanon and sudan most of the funds requested by unicef would go towards education nutrition and health nicola bennett says the unicef's regional advisor for emergencies for west and central africa she says it's a crisis that will reverse years of progress made in advancing children's rights. i think we all know that that 2020 has been a year on like any other in the history of unicef. and we see rising humanitarian needs as a result of preexisting emergency situation as collating conflict situations also here in sub-saharan africa across the central sahal region in south sudan in the lake chad basin mozambique and ethiopia now also heating up and on top of that we now have the coverage crisis coming in both in terms of the direct impact of that it has of course on on the health and well being but also the social economic impact and the restrictions that are overburdening systems and that are cutting

access to health so we've really seen this as a child rights crisis that has the potential to reverse decades of progress made in terms of child rights it would really mean that we're going to see a reverse in some of the really hard won gains of the last the last few decades if i look at that summation rates which have increased dramatically in west africa and central africa over a recent decades those were immediately interrupted this year as health centers closed as a result of either conflict or cultivated so we really need this money to invest into a reestablishment of basic services and we know pockets are tight we know governments will struggle with budgets in the social economic impact that we've seen but we need what money there is to go into essential services like health nutrition education and we need donors to maintain the level of commitment that they had prepared demick. on to more ahead on the news hour including crunch time for breakfast at talks in u.n. u.k. push for a trade deal to prevent chaos at their borders next year trying to build

a new life ethiopian refugees are given supplies to create temporary homes at camps and soon done and support south africa's one day international cricket series of england has been called off details a little later with santa. but 1st they present french president so many future arms sales to egypt will not be made conditional on its human rights record he's hosting the egyptian president of that fatah has sisi in paris activists have been urging me to use the visits a purse for the release of political prisoners and reports from paris. the grandest ceremony at the start of a contentious visit egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi was a school to the lease a palace where he was greeted by the french president emanuel macro the leaders

discussed regional issues counterterrorism and their shared opposition to turkey's actions in libya and the eastern mediterranean mackerel said he also raised concerns about human rights in egypt with sisi but refused to jeopardize paris's strategic partnership with cairo. conditionally. i will not make our cooperation in defense or economic matters conditional on these disagreements 1st because i believe in the sovereignty of people and respect for our legitimate and reciprocal interests 2nd because i believe that it is more effective to have a policy of demanding dialogue than a policy of boycott that would reduce the effectiveness of one of our partners in the fight against terrorism and for regional stability president sisi dismissed accusations of rights abuses. it is not appropriate for you to present the egyptian state and everything it does for its people and for the stability of the region as no press of regime. the french president says that egypt is a strategic partner in the region but activists say unless cairo respects human

rights such a partnership is a betrayal of french values. france is one of egypt's main suppliers of weapons campaigners say the sale of arms to cairo should be suspended the accused sissy's government of using what he calls counterterrorism operations to crush civil society and arrest thousands of rights defenders journalists and perceived opponents as wrong as the egyptian huge president uses the fight against terrorism to suppress civil society voice there is no shortage of partnership that can be done with the government. in 2019 micro of his state cairo and spoke about human rights in egypt since then relations between france and egypt have been strained macro hopes to repair them but campaigners questioned the cost to france's reputation. i'll just 0 paris leaders from across the european union are continuing

talks to see what hope remains of a post brics a trade deal with the u.k. the chief negotiator michel barnier has been meeting ambassadors of the 27 member states to see if a deal can be agreed before the january 1st deadline. has more from london. those who are predicting and types i think are saying that perhaps there is a 60 percent chance of a no deal at the moment now what would in no deal mean this the stakes are are huge it has to be said particularly in a year that has seen the u.k.'s economy ravaged by covert 9 see what no deal would mean is that on the 31st of december this year going into the 1st of january suddenly trade in goods between the u.k. and the european union which for decades have been pretty seamless frictionless

where suddenly have the shutters slam down you would then have tariffs being imposed on things that didn't have tariffs imposed on them before when they were being imported or exported you would have standards checks on things that were just given the green lights previously these sorts of impositions words increase the costs of numerous things on both sides of the border so this deal does make a huge difference for the u.k. economy for the european union's economy and of course it makes a difference politically for the future of peace in northern ireland which relies on frictionless trade as being a central plank of the good friday peace accords and on the future diplomatic and political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. and whether they can carry on being friends with each other so a lot of fighting in this certainly. vote counting is underway in ghana to choose

the president and members of parliament election officials on political party agents have gathered at polling centers the incumbent president not a coup for those main rival is the man he replaced 4 years ago gone as regarded as one of africa's most stable democracies both men have signed a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner ahmed agrees has the latest on the capital across. the last voter in this particular polling unit and left less than and i haven't have a minute to go so what is happening right now is that election officials are packing up their. stuff and then from there over there you see one of the ballot boxes one of the ballot boxes for the presidential election the other one for the parliamentary elections so we expect them now they're putting them together we expect them to unseal those boxes and their content on the boxes on the table and then start the process of counting the ballots now what is happening is this is

happening simultaneously across ghana across the country and from here results correlated here will be transmitted or taken to the regional cooperation center the regional coalitions center will put together the results of all voting stations in a particular region and then transmit the results. to the national coalition center where there are devices that fax machine computers that will receive these results electronically and that is where representatives of the 2 political parties are all the political parties by the way but most especially because this is a 2 way race between the incumbent president and the money to play 4 years ago so these results will be correlated in the presence of security agents observers as well as representatives of these political parties then a result will be announced the election commission promised to announce the results in within 24 hours after the closing of voting here so we expect in the next 24 hours we will know who will be the president of ghana if that kind of this calls 50

percent plus one vote in this election otherwise it will have to go into a runoff in 3 weeks time angry exchanges have taken place in the congolese parliament over president felix plan to form a new government without the majority party. members of the common front for congress say the plan is to tauriel and violates the constitution. the party is made up of allies of the former president joseph kabila it holds most cabinet posts. more people are fleeing ethiopia's northern tigray region every day though the government's declared the fighting is over refugees are crossing to neighboring sudarsan in the hope of trying to build a new life. as their story. you drop in a few g.'s at the camp getting ready for a long stay they use this plastic sheets to top the ceilings of their new homes the un distributed 480 of them on sunday it also provides these bumble sheets to be

used to side walls just creative ways to cook food are tested here as well solo over and designed to do the job with no environmental impact the norwegian refugee council distributes cash amounts equivalent to about $25.00 per individual if we give them cash they can buy whatever is. slim cards baby milk formula new clothes none the worse because they've been in the same clothes for 3 weeks now. they can borrow that from from local traders who are coming in for the camp. instead of us. are spending a lot of money with logistics importing items from different parts of the world. robin and his wife canobie soft drinks and biscuits or sweets for their children and puppy. any change to have a chicken dish if you have no food to pay by the money it would in my

child just. become the 8 year but i have passed anything. the camp is spreading and slowly turning into a village with about 10000 refugees this place is already crowded and ours more people are still coming the numbers are expected to grow the main concern now is that there seem to be no protection measures here to prevent a potential outbreak of the coronavirus in the camps. there is 0 social distancing here no masks and no covert tests whatsoever but there are also noted ported cases of severe illness that looks like the coronavirus much more concerning for people like yeah faith and his wife is food and shelter for the 19 days old baby after many days of sleeping rough with no ceiling above their heads they are now going to share one shack with another family until they can have their own the baby was born in ethiopia making him perhaps the youngest refugee to cross the border police

nailhead awfully halley follows the attack on our village took place 2 days after the birth of our child my wife and i took him and run away and he decided to ditch for some time they would have died had we not found some people who gave us some milk intrude. some of the refugees were themselves born in this camp during previous famines and wars gave birth to their children here during the current cycle of escape their future once again onset. al-jazeera in morocco refugee camp east and suit them. the u.s. secretary of state has called venezuela's elections held on sunday a political farce my pompei went on to say that the us recognized this one man as well as interim president nicolas maduro is ruling socialist party is expected to take over the law body currently controlled by the opposition who boycotted that election is holding a referendum to counter the vote

a lot america editor of the new men keeping an eye out on the situation in venezuela but she is joining us from chile's capital of santiago so how are my compos comments expected to be received. by compare already made a similar comment to while the election was actually taking place on sunday he tweeted that and it rather predictable that he would say that because it's very much in line not only with the trumpet ministrations policy but with what the european union and many latin american countries have been saying all along and that is that the election for the renovation of the legislative assembly in. venezuela was going to be a farce even before people went to the polls the reason being that it was the conditions that are considered internationally to be fair and transparent did not exist according to the opposition and most international observers in fact the only observers are and they were very staunch ally of president. so let's

see a what are the opposition's next steps because there are reports the opposition is launching a so-called counterattack following these parliamentary elections what does that exactly mean. that's right although a counterattack may not to sound probably more impressive than what may actually happen and that is a kind of an on line a referendum it's called a popular consultation which the constitution says is binding now the government of president nicolas maduro is not recognizing this there are a lot of problems with it 1st of all most people in venezuela don't even know about it and those who do have a great amount of difficulty even using the internet but the interesting thing is that venezuelans living abroad like hearing chile where there are hundreds of thousands of the ex-pats are also allowed to vote in this but again many people

haven't even heard of it from what we could gauge was speaking to venezuelans just out here on the street but it turns out that answer 3 questions whether they believe that there should be immediate new elections to replace president nicolas maduro whether they would like the international community to come to the aid of the news way of life and the 3rd question is something of a moral lesson on the lines that they did not recognize the elections that took place on sunday now we started remotely of course we asked why though a short while ago when he gave a news conference in qatar asked whether he thought like many are beginning to already suggest that his time is up having failed already after 2 years to dislodge president nicolas my little throughout this strategy of calling for an interim government which he leads he said no this wasn't the case he believed that if the international community which is the main goal here did not continue to support the interim government then it would be tantamount to supporting nicholas my little

right can see i thank you for that update from santiago. still ahead on the news hour as bursts fires forced evacuations in australia scientists say 2020 is on course to be the hottest year ever by athletes are joining the ever growing was the celebrities to stand in solidarity with india's farmers and in sport after the shortest offseason in n.b.a. history makers are preparing to defend their championship title details coming up a little later. where we went to the season that this is the time when you set up one storm system that goes from west to east the next one follows fairly rapidly that was an active one night falling apart giving showers snow wall right now afghanistan the tail end

once it's gone through tends to produce the. persistent northwest breeze down through the gulf the next one through will give a few showers in jordan syria and turkey but probably not much further south than that sort of mains dry with the wind determining or rather a drop in temperature in for example doha $23.00 or $24.00 is indeed the average it's been a big shocker of the last month or so and this wind will be persistent dusty it 1st are suspect now here's a good consequence of what happens when these things come east was a tense disturb the which is otherwise stacked into this time of the particular northern plain of india in northern pakistan their quality is poor but 300 is hazardous and that was the case this morning in both new delhi and lahore this is tiny particles that you can see they can be spread out that's one option the other more effective option is just to wait because once these westerly waves come through they do disturb the atmosphere so on cheers day in northern pakistan or wednesday maybe around new delhi the i would shoot over and improve.

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the other part of this there's no consequence for this stream on out is there. top stories on the al-jazeera to his hour in the u.s. a record of more than a 100000 people were admitted to hospital on sunday president elect joe biden has chosen california's attorney general to serve as health secretary and some 33000000 californians are now waking up to a new stricter adventure of the french presidency money one might call says future on sales to egypt will not be made conditional on its human rights record but

macross said he did speak frankly about rights violations with the president of the fact that a c.c. in paris on monday without giving further details vote counting is underway in ghana to choose the president and members of parliament the incumbent president not out before as it was main rival is the man he replaced 4 years ago john muhammad both men have signed a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner. the european union have strongly condemned the unlawful attacks on journalists politicians and activists in afghanistan in a joint statement to your members held the taliban responsible it follows a warning from the un of an increase in targeted killings by unidentified attackers across the country from kabul failure contrary reports. it's been more than 3 months since a man's father a peace advocate and minister of education employee was killed on his way to work an explosive device was placed in his car i man wants answers the

government is responsible to find the killers. if. the u.n. says targeted assassinations by unknown assailants an activist government employees journalists and others have increased by 50 percent this year compared to 2019 these attacks spread fear and insecurity often they are carried out by unknown gunmen but another method. magnetic bombs placed on cars have become the signature weapon for on planes targeted assassinations that inexpensive is that it was and can almost certainly kill and injure not only those targeted inside the car but anyone more happens to be around when the bomb explodes. the head of of ghana stands independent human rights commission so how

does that akbar sees these attacks as an attempt to weaken and silence again a stand civic society we're also pushing for for civilian protection and more generally for cease fire to kid an enabling environment or for a peace process where there is just public participation because if this goes on i'm just why i just did you write about the fact that people will be very hesitant to take an active role in the process pressure has been mounting on the government to provide more security and to fully investigate these murders the government says several people have been arrested in ministry of interior says its investigations show the taliban the haqqani network and i still are behind the killings or intelligent and they are trying to know if a small section. that they are can make it in the big groups of the terrorist that

they. made the plot and the flavor of the plot an actual plan to do small groups and the act they do the. arctic bombs in kabul city after his father was killed i'm on feared for his family's lives and sent them out of the country he stayed to seek justice. for those so he didn't he got threats he didn't and i am who going on his. so. look for something so that i should fear for i'm just asking for just as if asking for just his would take my life so that asking for justice and peace for. kabul police in new delhi have stopped a group of athletes from returning their medals to the president it was meant to be a night of solidarity with farmers protesting new laws in india tens of thousands

have been rallying at entry points to the capital for more than a week they're pushing to overturn laws they say will damage their livelihoods are those with per annum has more. tens of well known athletes have a vibe here in the center of the capital new delhi after travelling for the past 2 days from the states of punjab and haryana where many farmers and protesting farmers are from they have been met with the largest security presence here on their way to the presidential building to return their national awards now they did make a brief stop at the main protest site single where they received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of farmers who were blocking a key highway it doesn't look like they're going to receive a warm welcome by president romney who has denied their request for an audience but pharma say that the athletes rather including a limpet gold medalist say that they support farmers they support their demands and they want to return their medals and protest against what they say is the

government's ill treatment to farmers. we want to tell the government that farmers provide the food to the nation the government's been stubborn in its attitude towards farmers and it should stop behaving with arrogance these laws have been made for farmers and if they're not happy the laws should be repealed and there is growing support for a nationwide protest that's been planned for tuesday a number of the country's biggest opposition party said they're going to participate in protest in a shutdown against laws which they say will threaten india's food security and destroy farmers and the agriculture sector by mortgaging it to corporate farms said they're going to block all of the key roads the coming into the indian capital region at the moment tens of thousands of farmers remain on 3 border crossings including where we're at the gaza border between india's most populous state to predation and we're also hearing that wholesale produce market from the state of

raj is a planning to close and some of the country's biggest transport trade and banking unions are planning to shut down all the services. on tuesday in solidarity with india's farmers australian emergency services are evacuating homes in the path of a bushfire in queensland people on fraser island have been told to leave after the fire burned large parts of the northeastern coast big story again the reports. the view from a helicopter over straightly is inferred the bush lies on fraser island have been burning for 7 weeks they've destroyed half of the us go listed world heritage site now people living in the town of happy valley have been told to leave as the fires closed in a look we are preparing for the worst you know it's over the ng and we're going to try to hit it with everything we've got today we're pulling out all stops we're trying to stop these 4 impacting on that happy valley township as well as managing

the other numerous far as accounting course for his role in the blaze was sparked by an illegal campfire but it's been fueled by high winds record low rainfall and record high temperatures it's been a warm day been a tough tough day when it comes to farting and we have been dividing significant resources to far in the far on fries or on. spot fires go down a public inquiry into australia's devastating bushfires last year said the conditions that created them were precedented and wounds they may become more common it was the country's hottest and driest year on record and the fire has burned about 350 square kilometers and. many blame climate change but a strain as prime minister has rejected calls to cut dependence on coal and take more action on global warming. what we're saying is very much according to the playbook of climate change we've been expecting these sorts of changes for decades

now they're increasingly coming to fruition and increasingly what we're seeing is climate change is embedded in each of these events so it's not a question of whether this would occur with or without climate change it's just that climate change is ramping up these events when they happen. the authorities of praise island say mobile phone coverage power and will to services might seem because of despite the dangers some people are staying behind to defend their homes big turi gates and be al-jazeera the united states has imposed sanctions and a travel ban on 14 chinese officials the sanctions targeted members of the national people's congress standing committee it's over their role in beijing's disqualification of elected opposition figures in hong kong last month for opposition members were expelled triggering mass resignations by pro-democracy lawmakers the world's largest music recording company has acquired over 600 of bob

dylan songs. so the us singer songwriter a nobel prize for literature winner has a body of work which spans over 60 years and has sold more than 125000000 records globally universal music described the deal as the most significant music publishing agreement this century so universal music is home to the stars such stars including taylor swift lady gaga and the beatles was valued at $36000000000.00 that was last year unlike most big name artists bob dylan own the publishing rights to his music and iconic catalog like his will generate revenue for decades his songs will go on to be streamed played on the radio or used in films in advertisements the sale of a song catalogues has become a booming business during the covert 1900 pandemic streaming on spotify and other platforms has surged during lockdowns let's discuss this deal as well as the

industry with andrew perry is a music writer joining us from london thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera how significant do you think this deal is between bob dylan and and universal. well it's certainly an awful lot of money it sounds like big money anything between $450000000.00 and maybe $180.00 that's what people seem to reckon it would be. but i think many of us are thinking that actually that's a bit of a bucket and one of my slightly more betrayed friends is suggesting it's a revolt why do you say that. well because bob dylan is just pretty much the greatest living all it is his catalog is probably the greatest place warrior are after the beatles. and you know you have to think of everything

that universe that are actually going to get from that. as well as the sort of t.v. in revenue t.v. and radio revenue from the recordings you've also got all the hundreds of people who versions of his songs which sort of range from hendrix to meet and greets the wreath of frank right through down. to make you feel might not quite recently so how do you think this deal was then made. well i you know i don't think bob needs the money from his side you know and i'm sure he can keep himself in sunglasses at this stage. but i think it is partly about the time i think the music business in general is feeling somewhat jeopardized right now. by the cheering. and this is still to see

a very big message to the business world that music is a vast commodity and and will not be value i think from the universal side i think they're doing it because something light 600 bull dylan songs is just like goals you know it's something that isn't going to depreciate in value. and if you look at bob dylan's the pale adele covers they were i mean even my mother who's now 86 has actually just discovered both that right now i. just think that his his appeal will never way it's almost like the shakespeare of rock and what about other artists i mean are we going to see other artists in your opinion keen to sell their songs going forward as a sign of the times. when i mean obviously this will be

a major incentives people are thinking about still. people who actually hold back publishing who could sell. but i mean recently i think only in the last couple of weeks maps sitting on stevie nicks is just so well apparently about $60000000.00. but there's even a sort of dance producers like calvin harris apparently sold his for $100000000.00 which i think makes dylan's work trip $3400000000.00 actually seem like a bit of a snare. all right so andrew parry we thank you very much for joining us from london thank you. so i had on the news hour the sports news on the 2022 world cup draw for a $55.00 european nations takes place and 0 details are coming up right after the break what's.

well again a campaign is underway in argentina after the face of the late footballer. to be put on one of the country's banknotes he's held in such esteem in argentina that it's hoped his image could attract investors and collectors to the reports from. he was a legend on the pitch a controversial but inspirational figure offit. tens of thousands mourned his

death last week from a heart attack at 60 he's gone but no one is letting him be forgotten. this came from our fanaticism from our love for diego a commemoration of that could help improve the country's economic situation this is in the design by some of his most ardent fans who have launched a campaign on change dot org appealing to the president and the central bank to issue 810000 pesos note worth about $124.00 what we are seeing if is is how people you know use reacting in a way that brings you know maradona back you know to the center of the scene. with something up very concrete and very. symbolic such as a bank. now with the economy weakened by debt inflation and lack of foreign investment argentina needs him again. it could be an interesting boost to

the argentine economy imagine the central bank accumulating reserves this way with interest from abroad to generate dollars the petition has so far attracted more than $20000.00 signatures and is growing rapidly it's clear that many are still don't want to let diego maradona go to put his face this face on. banknote would put him on a pedestal with the country's founding fathers with a veto a figure transcending sports and inspiration beyond the football pitch. with his day continuous been analyzing and appreciating what maradona gave them during his life the most poignant being in 1986 world cup however the bank will be asking whether they're a donor who made an squandered millions is an appropriate symbol of monetary good sense all those will point to his drug problems and treatment of women but as for what he did on the page that most want to remember him already anymore you're

a great inspiration and very emotional the brings a tear to my eyes just talking about him and. his legend grows his followers now hope his image will continue to inspire them from beyond the grave their own 201 osiris let's get an update on the sports news with sun up thank you very much a day and while less so with football on the european qualifying draw for the 2022 well cup in qatar $714.00 days until the time it starts at al bates stadium one day story it was a virtual one out of cirque in switzerland that $55.00 european teams but only 13 will progress let's quickly run through the groups. or european champions portugal are in group a along with serbia republic of ireland look some born azerbaijan while 2010 champions spain group 2 a swede in greece georgia and kosovo italy are the top seeds and the next group alongside switzerland northern ireland that will garia in this way nya and the current champions france are there in group d.

against ukraine finland it was in the end because of stan the world's top ranked team in belgium and they face well the czech republic by the roots and the stone yes and then the groups contending sixteen's with denmark austria scotland israel foreigners and moldova angre the netherlands face turkey norway montenegro latvia and gibraltar then is the runners up but last time croatia against slovakia russia slovenia cyprus and multiply and the final page england take on poland hungary albania andorra and summary no will germany will play romania iceland north macedonia armenia and liechtenstein or join us now from london is a piece global sports correspondent rob paris rob for me personally the draw looks pretty much balance so what are the highlights. yes all the major teams were in pot one meant they could come up against each like in the qualifying for the $28.00

team or cup when we had it silly and spain together. it's really missed out on the world cup and they've got a pretty tough draw this time because they've got switzerland in their group and switzerland highest ranked of the number one teams complicated but it's only the top sites that do qualify also my sick leave the runners up of the tank groups then have to go through the playoffs as for you know you look at spain well they've got sweet and in that group next week in are actually like that did not need a place at the 2018 world cup and there's also a politically charged element so that spain greece as well because you've got a in and you've got georgia and you've got greece who don't recognize the independence of kosovo. is in that group and see how that those games go down that security if you've got fines back in stadiums father time qualifying does begin in march qualifying should be wrapped up in terms of the groups by november

but if you look at france obviously the world champions well they've got finland and they lost phil and in a friendly last month's french and things around that in terms of next year when qualifying starts and england semifinalists so surprised the 28 c. that got some familiar faces teams that come up against quite often in qualifying like poland and hungary as well just recently seated in the nation's league so not necessarily an easy route but down south it will be hopeful that you be able to not get back to a 2nd welcome but we have mentioned that all of these qualifies need to be wrapped up before november next are they with the current situation with the pandemic they can says that all these games will be will still be completed. one of the big things on faith from side is this move to the when the world cup in 2020. control. would be held in june and july is no wall of the in the emperor in

december because of the summer heat and cats on but now it could really help feet because it gives that breathing space in terms of finishing qualifying in time for the told events. in 2 years' time and so much uncertainty about the fates that hide them that speaking to the company to shift yesterday they believe the vaccines on the progress on those vaccines will now actually enable so it meant to be a more normal one with stadiums as we count down and so 2 years just under until told mn the games well got to football to be paid in europe including the delay the euro is that next year when we'll plan for that to be finalised. yeah that's the big question as we look for what's now the june. i think as we get to the should be a bit more of just what will the told will it still be able to use all 12 cities in 12 countries or will they have to reduce the sting plan because it doesn't get used

to could complicate it really is this a 6 trying to move so many teams and the fans around the consonants and what will be stadiums by banks in england it's the european football nations by and that does have fines in some of that league games just this weekend a few they privately game starts to bring 2000 pounds back but the consonants and they're not close to doing side the other big question is the load on play is because once the season around you say yes and this and this thought will continue all the way through until next summer and then straight into the 202122 season and they will get a break it seems in the summer of 20 twentieth's but all of them having the woke up the. season starting out over september and that will be the european leagues going into a november but it could well come the to the players with rockland they yet

normal. right at the end of a grueling. thank you for them it's. all right now in qatar the world cup stadiums are being used to host the asian champions league inside the quarantine bubble japanese sides wrestle coby i have reached the quarter finals for the 1st time they knocked out tiny side. e.g. at the stadium and dressin yes that got the opening goal in the 31st minute before diego nietzsche jagga need to know when. south africa's one day international cricket series good england has been called off it follows positive covert 900 cases and reported breaches of the teams by a secure environment in cape town one south africa player and 2 member of staff have been confirmed to have caught on a virus while sunday england revealed that they had to unconfirmed positive results

among their touring party or earlier we spoke to daily mirror cricket correspondent dean wilson who is in south africa covering the tour he's got the impression from members of the england camp that the measures in place have been less strict than those used for international series hosted by england. i think every order 'd tries to do the best that they can by the players but there are different circumstances throughout the impression that i get here and certainly speaking to one or 2 members of the being a group they have found this bubble 'd to be different slightly less stringent to the public they had in the u.k. where you know they're very strict on things like social distancing and you know wearing p.-p. in clubs and things like that to happen meals really keeping people apart as

much as possible you know. kind of socializing. in communal areas too much and certainly community areas were at a minimum so i think things in a slightly different here of course you know the weather is pretty good him and the hotel that the english as an effort to keep staying it's got some you know pretty outstanding facilities and grounds that the players can use and they're all outdoors which is which is ideal to increase ventilation and reduce risk so i think it's very much a case so you know during the best each port can based on the facilities that they have certainly there's a feeling here that this bubble is perhaps not quite as strict and as restrictive as it was in the u k. and that's as well for me i'll have more for you later on but for now i hand you back to betty ok sunny thank you very much for that update and that's it for

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