making the healthier world for you. everyone. a warning of dark times ahead as the u.s. struggles to stop the spread of covered 19 and records its deadliest week in 6 months. i'm kevin l. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up i think the message from the report is that we can and must be show new zealand's a prime minister val's change after a high level report into last year's mosque shootings finds failings by police and intelligence. to opposition activists are arrested in hong kong for taking part in

the band protest in july. and married on a monday football fans in argentina are campaigning to put the late to the peso. the u.s. has seen its deadliest 7 days of the coronavirus pandemic since april 15000 americans died from co the 19 in the past week and there's warnings this will worsen as more people travel for the end of year holiday season a number of states are introducing new measures including california where there are concerns hospitals consume run alpha's beds. what we have now is a challenge ahead of us of the bleak months of december in january where we have a baseline of inspections that literally is breaking records every day with regards to number of infections number of hospitalizations and numbers of deaths the

numbers are really stunning we can do something about it but that something right now is public health measures. other cities are also introducing new measures some at a certain factions among them hong kong where officials are asking people to work from home there are also further restrictions on restaurants and gyms in just a few hours' time the u.k. is set to begin its massive vaccination program off to approving thousands of axing elderly people and national health staff will be among the 1st to guess not kill a cent i'll have more about the vaccine rollout little later in the program but 1st this report from our brand california's new coronavirus restrictions. the new rules prohibit gatherings of more than one house will close down personal service businesses like hair and dale salons and restrict stores to 20 percent capacity restaurants are closed for indoor and outdoor dining with takeaway and delivery

allowed even children's playgrounds are now closed until we get through this way should not meet in person with any way to not live with even in a small and even outdoors with precautions if you have a social level it is now topped triggering the measures hospital intensive care unit capacity falling dangerously low just above 10 percent remaining in southern california the viruses 3rd wave is still battering the state hard and fast hospitalizations we're now over 10000 patients in our hospitals 72 percent increase over the last 40. days you could see how quickly this grows the restrictions will remain in effect for 3 weeks predictably there was pushback from worried business owners and a pandemic weary public this is the busiest time of the year for restaurants. and generally speaking i would say

a lot of people would normally be getting together or having holiday parties so we've lost all of our. private party business we've lost all catering business i understand the concern but at the same time it's hard i mean i have kids so we've been inside for so long and now again we have to be inside even longer want to go back to normal and live your life like you used to some law enforcement officials said they would refuse to enforce the rules riverside county sheriff's department will not be blackmailed bullied or used as muscle against riverside county residents in the enforcement of the governor's orders with so many businesses facing ruin the u.s. congress continued to do their over financial relief legislation economy's not going to recover until we vanquish the virus is that simple is that basic and people are suffering now that's the cost of inaction and action on real

comprehensive bold covert relief legislation. and so now backs against a wall with the forming deadline looming we're racing to accomplish what should been done months ago outgoing president donald trump announced a so-called vaccine summit at the white house for tuesday but pfizer and derna are the 2 companies with vaccine candidates under review have declined to attend official say the surge dating back to the thanksgiving holiday in november has not yet pete and they are warning people against big family gatherings for the christmas and hanukkah holidays later this month robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. south korea says it secured millions of coronavirus vaccines amid a growing surge of infections they are buying vaccines from for pharmaceutical companies an additional $10000000.00 doses will be provided by the world health organization the total is enough to cover 84 percent of the population but the

inoculation program will only begin to monitoring other countries rollouts for a few months. of a broad joins me now live from saul tell us more about south korea's vaccine plan and particularly this bit about whiting to see how the rollout goes elsewhere. it is a very comprehensive plan and pearlie south korea has not rushed into into this it hasn't had to rush into this it has been unveiled this tuesday and obviously culminates in an awful lot of behind the scenes negotiations with the world's major pharmaceutical companies all the companies at the forefront of this vaccine rollout the likes of astra zeneca pfizer johnson and johnson and also as you mentioned there some vaccine will come from this w.h.o. supported program but there's going to be enough vaccine to vaccinate $44000000.00 people total that's pretty much the whole of the south korean population but interestingly is this

a question of the time table the 1st of this vaccine won't arrive here in south korea until next march when we're going to see obviously the priority groups will come 1st the elderly people in nursing homes frontline care workers and then there will be this gradual rolling out as more vaccine is imported and we're going to see more people being vaccinated but this program extends all the way through until the end of 2021 so it is certainly not a rushed program and it seems as though the south korean government as people here had expected do not have to rush into this they are pretty much on top of it yes we are into this 3rd wave there has been a recent surge as we get into colder winter months but certainly not the kind of acute crisis being faced by other parts of the world so the south korean government does have the luxury of waiting to see how these vaccines perform in other parts of the world and also conducting its own tests before the 1st batch ever goes into

a south korean arm and south korea ramped up its standard flu vaccine program this year and i believe encountered some problems with misinformation and people were a bit afraid and wondering could the country's response to that now serve as a sort of blueprint for the coronavirus rollers. it does serve as a bit of a lesson there was concern about this general vaccination campaign against the flu the government to roll this out a number of weeks ago because what they wanted to avoid is a so-called twin demick and early on they had very ambitious plans to vaccinate millions and millions of people but there were a number of deaths a few deaths at the start which people thought could be linked to the vaccine people naturally had concerns about that an obviously public confidence is very important when you are getting into a mass vaccination campaign so very quickly the south korean government had to be very transparent investigate each and every one of these deaths and i think as of

this tuesday we've had something like 20000000 people being a vaccine for the general flu vaccine and 108 people of that group have since died so the government has gone through each one of these deaths as said they 'd are not linked to this vaccine to try to allay people's fears and i think generally it does seem to have worked the government is still on course to have this general flu vaccine campaign completed in the next month or so which does you would think bode well for when the coronavirus vaccine comes along especially as we've had this delayed roll that only starting next spring. ok thanks for that rob mcbride live from seoul. a high level inquiry into last year's mass shooting at 2 new zealand mosques was found failings by the police and intelligence it says nothing could have stopped the attack australian gunman brenton terence is serving life in prison without parole for murdering 51 worshippers and. the world commission has made

dozens of recommendations including setting up a new national security and intelligence agency. ocean atlee this roughly 800 page report came be distilled into one simple premise with some new zealanders should be safe anyone who calls new zealand harm regardless of race religion sexual orientation gender should be safe new zealanders deserve a system that does its best to keep you safe and that is what we are committed to building the white house has more from christchurch where the attack happened. very long and detailed reports that has now been tabled in parliament and released to the public will mice a 100 pages long hundreds of people interviewed hundreds of submissions received a very exhaustive an extensive. it began the reports by looking into in great detail the events of the actual day and much. when the gunman brinson attacked the

2 mosques in christchurch and then it delves into the background of the events that led up to that day who was brenton terence i when i found that he had racist views from quite a young age when he was growing up in australia it looked at how he managed to get a firearms license legally when he moved to new zealand despite the fact that he failed to provide adequate character references and that adequate background checks were not carried out the commission found that the police failed to meet the required standards in handing out that firearms license to brenton terence and for that the police commissioner has today apologized so it looked to the huge range of issues focused a lot on the intelligence and security agencies and the commission found that an inappropriate amount of resources was focused on combating islamic extremism and not enough attention was placed on looking into other groups like white

supremacists or right wing groups which clearly branch in time and had those views are clearly that is one of the $44.00 recommendations going forward that the commission has made not should mention also that the government has accepted or $44.00 of those recommendations the overriding theme here is that the commission found that nothing could have been done to stop the attacks taking place. still ahead on al-jazeera why brazil's president and a state governor are at odds of a plans to begin vaccinations early. was. american singer songwriter bob dylan sells his entire song catalog in what's being called one of the biggest ever music publishing deals or.

it's about to snow again in afghanistan which is the forecast for tuesday seems quite significant go across the north next as well following that it's much quieter weather for iran the next system next westerly waves it might divide probably won't make much of an impact and between the 2 we're going to have 3 days of a fairly stiff breeze dropping temperatures in bahrain and qatar but nicosia on cyprus reflects what this westley wave could have done if it went across into iraq we want some storms or shots the next 3 days and they'll tend to move up into what's turkey you might get a tailwind as far south as gaza it just shows partly cloudy in the forecast but i would say the likelihood of a shower even asunder storm out of that but otherwise it's a fairly quiet looking picture with a cooling breeze going down through your way towards oman muskets maintaining 26 degrees and the seasonal rains are going science out of tropical african other's toes some big showers in the forecast in parts of kenya maybe tanzania but

typically somalia and ethiopia and south sudan are drawing the significant rain is because further south and it showing itself that is a pretty heavy downpours recently in the central part of music mozambique and then moving north now into malawi. 2020 the year of lock downs and social distancing he can't reach across the screen to give someone a hug alleyway explores one of the global pandemics biggest side effects loneliness everyone who lives alone has been forced to be sources for the 1st time highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping controlling it being in the together episode 2 of all hail the lockdown on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. health experts are warning of dark times ahead in the fight against cover 90 reported its deadliest week since april and their fares the worst is yet to come as people celebrate the upcoming holiday season. south korea says it secured millions of coronavirus vaccines amid a growing surge in infections but the inoculation program will only begin to monitor in other countries rollouts for a few months. an inquiry into last year's mass shooting at true new zealand mosques has found failings by the police and intelligence it says nothing could have stopped the attack australian gunman brenton tower 2 serving life in prison without

parole. is founder and chief executive of the leadership network and has worked extensively with new zealand's muslim community she joins us by skype from auckland thank you so much for your time how did you feel reading this report. thank you kurt haven't young board look i think the report and its findings no surprise and you would hear that unanimously from muslims across new zealand so we welcome the find it and we welcome the opportunity that the government has actually excepted all of the recommendations however it is unfortunate when no responsibility is taken along side a report like this so it's a shame to have to say to hear things like nothing could have been done to avoid the terrorist attack yes my next question because they're saying oh look you know that the licensing there was perhaps an issue with the with the firearms licensing

and how he was able to get this weapon you know there was an issue with the focus being on quote islamic extremism but you know even with all of that nothing could have been done i mean that must be frustrating. yet it look at steeply frustrating muslims who have been under the scrutiny of surveillance full of very very long time could tell you that they have been talking about threats towards game for decades now and so it is a shame that you know not only have we been hurt as a community but that agencies who know that they've actually made mistakes are saying that they could have done nothing to prevent those mistakes from happening so like i said as well as welcoming as it is to have the government accept all 44 recommendations as great as it is to have a report that does not say anything that is too surprising it is a shame but actually no one is going to take on civility for what happened last year i read your opinion column in stuff today and it's interesting we were just

looking at the images of just send in the wake of the attack. because i was struck by your observation that despite the general discourse in the wake of the attacks there look how kind of empathetic a reason we're all one nation you know all of this you said that the mosque shootings exacerbated the otherness of being muslim in new zealand can you explain that for me. yeah and i think what i mean by that says that we are not unique in that experience being muslims and new zealand. we are living in a distrustful environment where coming from countries that are constantly under scrutiny and war and conflict and displacement it does mean that we are now a body of people around the world who lack trusts not only within society and those from those around us but within our communities and so the terrorist attacks have just made that experience will exacerbate it and that is that is what i meant my

opinion piece it is a shame that you feel the otherness from those around you that who won't be muslim but then to have distrust within the community added on top of that with the trauma that you've experienced is very difficult to navigate i definitely noticed as as a new zealand journalist pre and post the attacks the stories where people journalists were going up next and trying to engage with the muslim community because you didn't see a lot of that before the attack but coming back to your opinion piece you say you believe there is a lack of importance placed on engaging a diverse faith community instead liaising with the most visible loud and accessible talk to me about that. yeah well i think it's easy right those who are visible those who did those who are accessible are easy to engage because it's just there and you know you know you can easily call upon them but what that means is that we mess

a large proportion of the community who are most deeply affected those who might not have the language skills those who might not know the system those who suffer the most in terms of the system and it's discrimination and we've completely missed the opportunity to engage those people and this rush to move things along to be kind to move on from the trauma that we experience it has mates that actually in the process of the commission out of 60000 new zealanders we've had 1100 submissions actually if you look at that that's not not even close to the body of people that make up the community here there's also no data to suggest how many muslims actually cut to support at the royal commissions and quire a process so we are talking about scrutiny around whether you know the muslim community more us in fact that really throughout this process and it is just easier to reach out to people who can speak the language and who are

a to what is who might look and sound good but there is a whole group of people out there who need for us to hit a story's most and we have not done that we really appreciate your time thank you so much for coming on the program become the founder and chief executive of the leadership network. thank you. at least 8 opposition activists have been arrested in hong kong it's because they joined an annual protest in march on july sorry an annual protest march on july 1st of this year it was deemed an illegal assembly a number of those arrested which included several former politicians were announced on their social media pages difficult hollande is in hong kong with more these are very prominent pro-democracy figures some of them as you say are former lawmakers here they were arrested for taking part in the protests which usually takes place every year for the past 17 years on the anniversary of hong kong's handover from

a british colony into a chinese territory but this year that was banned the government says due to the pandemic although incidentally that was also the day that beijing imposed the national security law on hong kong now this seems to be just the latest in a number of arrests yesterday we saw another 8 arrested 8 students for a protest on campus 3 of them under the national security law and last week we saw what's possibly hong kong's most recognizable pro-democracy icons joshua walling and the media mogul given jail time here in hong kong so just seems to be part of an ongoing crackdown on any kind of opposition or dissent and particularly those who took part in protests in recent months and even last year. and one day nationwide shutdown has been launched in india has farmers ramp up protests against new agriculture laws transport workers and teachers are among the of the union supporting the strike tens of thousands of farmers have been camped outside india's

capital for more than a week they say the law will hurt their livelihoods the calling on the government to repeal it. and just a few hours the u.k. will begin its mass coronavirus vaccination program the 1st doses of the vaccine made by pfizer and biotech will be administered on tuesday the back reports from london. will be among those at the front of the queue to be vaccinated against kovac 19 the racial equality campaigner from newcastle upon tyne in north east england says it's a relief and i have received a telephone call i was really excited i feel you know it's good you know i want the opportunity of doing get and so on not know. i looking forward to final preparations are under way ahead of the largest vaccination program in british history of the pfizer bio and tech drug approved for use in the u.k. last week have been arriving for pfizer's factory in belgium the logistical

challenge is immense the vaccine needs to be kept to the around minus 70 degree celcius everything we need in england 50 hospitals would facilities to store the super chill drug will be the 1st to administer it scotland wales and northern ireland will also begin similar programs and hospitals on choose day it's the beginning of the end of this pandemic we're not there yet it's so important that people keep doing the things we know we need to do following the rules and the basics to make sure we keep this under control but we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel the government's ordered 40000000 doses so far and initial 800000 will be available in the 1st round of treatment this week capable of inoculating 400000 people with 2 injections 21 days apart this is one of several london hospitals that will begin backs in ating this week because initial supply is

a limited those at the front of the line will be elderly people currently receiving treatment in hospital many others over the age of 80 have also been contacted to come forward and get their jobs and care workers who look after the elderly have also been prioritise if there are any doses left to health care workers at serious risk of contracting the virus. immunity starts to build after the 1st dose but becomes fully effective a week after the 2nd in later phases of the rollout boxes of the vaccine that come in packs of almost a 1000 doses will be split up shared around the country and defrosted the vaccine could be stored at normal fridge temperature but only for a few days as well as the logistical challenges the government also hoping to build public trust to the vaccine developed and approved record speed. in the wake of the pandemic conspiracy beliefs of ground a sizable minority of anti vaccination demonstrators believe the pandemic was

fabricated by government and the vaccines designed to insert people with microchips . 7 according to researchers at oxford university up to a quarter of the population could be entertaining such ideas. british scientists say stringent checks have been carried out to ensure the vaccine safety and effectiveness the u.k. is setting the pace for many other countries what happens here could be a game changer in the global campaign against coronavirus. london. brazil's most populous state is said to be going to coronavirus acceleration program in january sao paulo's governor wants to begin the drive ahead of a national vaccination plan b. using a vaccine developed by china but not yet approved by brazil's health regulative that scores tensions between states and federal officials. campaign is underway in

argentina to put the face of the late football and diego maradona are on a banknote it's how does image could attract investors and collectors and reports from when a site is. he was a legend on the pitch a controversial but inspirational figure off it. 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 for now the more. this came from our fanaticism from our love for diego a commemoration of that could help improve the country's economic situation this is the no designed 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 with about $124.00 what we are seeing is 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 bunker. now with the economy we can buy debt inflation and lack of foreign investment argentina needs him again. and getting that hand 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 arjun time still don't want to let diego maradona go to put his face this face on a 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 death argentina has been analyzing and appreciating what marathon it 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 money tree good sense all those will point to his drug problems and treatment of women but as for what he did on the pitch that most want to remember him or know anything i see anymore i am 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 dangle shrine there al-jazeera one of cyrus. the world's largest music recording come near diverse soul has acquired bob dylan's entire back catalogue of more than 600 songs . universal music describe the deal as the most significant and music publishing this century is in turn less than

author and rick perry says the deal is a reminder of the last thing value of. the music business in general is feeling somewhat jeopardized right now it's a bit under 5. and this is still to see a very big message to basically swirls that music is a vast commodity. and will not be viable i think i'm from the universal saw i i think they're doing it because something like 600 bob dylan songs is just like goals you know it's something that is going to depreciate in value. this is al jazeera and these the top stories u.s. health experts are warning of dark times.