dr sanderson. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck your weekly take on u.s. politics and that's the bottom of. a warning of dark times ahead as the u.s. struggles to stop the spread of covered 19 records its deadliest week in 6 months. and so i don't know bottle or anything like that. at the front of the queue we meet the people preparing to take the 1st doses of the growth of virus vaccine as the u.k. prepares for mass and occupation. and given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i think the message from the report is that we can and must be sure. prime minister vows change after

a high level report into last year's mosque shootings finds failings by police and intelligence. 8 opposition activists are arrested in hong kong for taking part in a band protest in july. the u.s. says experienced its deadliest 7 days of the coronavirus pandemic since april 15000 americans died from cove at 19 in the past week and there are warnings this will worsen as more people travel for the end of year holiday season and number of states are introducing new measures including california hospitals could soon run out of beds. and what we have now is a challenge ahead of us of the bleak months of december and january where we have a baseline of inspections that literally is breaking records every day with the

guts of number of infections number of hospitalizations and numbers of deaths the numbers are really stunning we can do something about it but that's something right now is public health measures. well other cities are also introducing new measures amid a surge in infections among them hong kong where officials are also going people to work from home further restrictions are also being placed on restaurants and gyms and in just a few hours time the u.k. is set to begin its mass vaccination program after approving the funds a biotech vaccine elderly people and national health software will be among the 1st to be in all cases we'll hear more about the vaccine rollout shortly but 1st this report from reynolds on 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 you should not meet in person with any way you do not live with even in a small and even outdoors with precautions if you have a social level it is now 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 14 days you can 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 having holiday parties so we've lost all of our. private party business we've lost. 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 but 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 as that basic and people are

suffering now that's the cost of inaction. and action on real comprehensive bold covert relief legislation. that's right now backs against a wall with the funding deadline looming were 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 moderna are the 2 companies with vaccine candidates under review have declined to attend official say the search 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. as you heard the u.k. will begin its mass coronavirus vaccination program in just a few hours' time it's the 1st country in the wall to use the fire as a vaccine after regulations approved it last week health chiefs say the rollout

will be a marathon and not a sprint reports from london. hari shukla 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 very excited i feel you know it's good you know what the opportunity of doing get and so i'm not noble or anything like that i'm 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 from prizes factory in belgium the logistical challenge is immense the vaccine needs to be kept to the round minus 70 degree celsius. in england 50 hospitals would facilities to store the sea but 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. community 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 of the government's also hoping to build public trust and a vaccine developed and approved record speed. in the wake of the pandemic conspiracy beliefs of gaining ground a sizable minority of anti vaccination demonstrators believe the pandemic was fabricated by government and the vaccines designed to insert people with microchips i don't. according to researchers at oxford university up to

a quarter of the population could be entertaining such ideas. british scientists say stringent checks of being 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. a high level inquiry into last year's mass shooting into new zealand found failings by the police and intelligence but says nothing could have stopped the attack australian gunman brenton talent is serving life in prison without parole for murdering $51.00 were in march last year the world commission has made dozens of recommendations including setting up a new national security and intelligence agency. ultimately this roughly 800 page report can be distilled into one simple premise with some new zealanders should be safe anyone who calls new zealand harm regardless of race religion

sick szell orientation 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. whitehead joins us live from christchurch new zealand so wayne how did the commission reach these findings. well as you heard from the prime minister there was a very extensive report some 800 pages long hundreds of interviews conducted hundreds more recent submissions provided it really looked in many different aspects leading up to the attacks and. what could have contributed to those attacks taking place of course they looked into the background of the gunman himself. they found that he had racist views from quite a young age when he was growing up in. the commission looked into how he managed to

get a legal firearms license when he moved to new zealand despite inadequate background checks being conducted in adequate character references being provided as well and the commission found that the police failed to meet the appropriate standards when giving that. to him and for that the police commissioner. has apologized a lot of attention going on the security and intelligence agencies all of new zealand what they did or didn't know about breynton terence and the commission found that an inappropriate amount of result by those agencies focusing on islamic extremism and not enough time is spent on looking at the groups such as white supremacists. right wing groups and clearly that is one of the recommendations going forward and as we mentioned earlier. the 44 recommendations made by the commission is that a new security and intelligence agency. ok given all

of that what's the reaction be to this. i think overall from people who were directly affected by this from muslim leaders in new zealand saying that excepting and welcoming the findings and recommendations by the royal commission of inquiry but the overriding theme is that it doesn't go far enough that more needed to be investigated more needed to be said and there's also a sense of there is nothing new in this report for the muslim community because they have been complaining and raising some of the issues that are outlined in the report for many many years some muslim leaders saying that they have been for years before the attacks took place raising concerns with various government agencies about the fact that the muslim community was becoming increasingly marginalized that many muslims were becoming the targets of hate crimes and hate speech and for

the most part those concerns were ignored by those government agencies so yes these findings recommendations are being welcomed and accepted but there is a sense that more needs to be done needs to be done and also a level of skepticism about whether that we will see any real change come out of this ok thank you for that wayne has a live for us in christchurch. still ahead on al-jazeera. as a hospital in pakistan runs out of oxygen while treating coronavirus patients. workers across india prepare for a nationwide strike is known as ram protests against agriculture.

it's about to snow again in afghanistan which is the forecast for tuesday it seems quite significant to go across the north next as well following that it's much quieter weather for iran the next system next westerly waves it might to divert 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 westerly wave could have done if it went across into iraq we weren't some storms or shots the next 3 days and they'll tend to move up into what's turkey you might get a tail and as far south as gaza it just shows partly cloudy in the for cross 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 that cooling breeze going down through your way towards. us maintaining $26.00 degrees now the seasonal rains are going sighs 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 sides 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. al-jazeera well to meet some extraordinary women. who are making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. swimmin streets. on al-jazeera. the in. the.

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 covert 90 it's reported its deadliest week since april and their fares the worst is yet to come people celebrate the upcoming holiday season. the u.k. is gearing up for a mass coronavirus vaccination program which begins in a few hours the 1st doses of the pfizer biotech vaccine will be administered in england wales and scotland. an inquiry into last year's mass shooting a true new zealand mole skins found failings by the police and intelligence there's nothing to stop the attack strategy and gunman brenton tear of the 7 life in prison without parole. entire column is founder and chief executive of the

leadership network and has worked extensively with new zealand's muslim community all she welcomes the report she says it's a shame that no one will take responsibility for what happened. i think the report and its findings no surprise and you would hear that unanimously from muslims across new zealand so we welcome the findings and we welcome the opportunity that the government has actually excepted all of their 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 terror attack it's deeply 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 them for decades now and so it is a shame that you know not only have we been heard 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 us did 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 we are living in a distrustful and wire and we're 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 trust not only within society and though from those around us but within our communities and so the terrorist attacks have just made that experience far more exacerbated. south korea says it secured millions of coronavirus vaccines amid a growing surge of infections they are buying vaccines from for pharmaceutical

companies additional $10000000.00 doses will be provided by the world health organization 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 several hospital officials in pakistan's city have been suspended after 6 coronavirus patients died from a shortage of oxygen supplies the director of the facility is among those accused of negligence or better management. a delay in the delivery of oxygen to a hospital in the city of pushover is being blamed for the deaths of several crew of ours patients. they didn't lie didn't oxygen to stay alive at the khyber teaching hospital but with no backup supply they died shortly after it was caught the minister of health of the past and province tweeted a preliminary report from the hospital that showed failures in many areas it's the lack of oxygen for several months and cylinders not being completely filled it says

this went unnoticed unsupervised an unchecked cell phone also absent at the hospital's oxygen plant brown's parents the big compromise do you want to tell you there will be no compromise on transparency action should be tough and fair and bring back the credibility of the hospital to our masses we tried our best in making the report public in as little time as possible this sad incident will help put us in the right direction for the future strategy of health care although staff members have been suspended some analysts say this reflects a government failure to prepare for the pandemic but this incident. reflects care less that as callous not as criminal negligence as such or disaster knowledge where the essential is there. and then mitigation in that case. the government of capital in particular and the government of pakistan have

basically failed as far prepared this is concerned the world health organization know them the praise pakistan for its fight against the pandemic saying it had taken appropriate measures to control infections in mangy it worked with the country to set up labs and to test 50000 people a day but so far only around 2 percent of pakistan's population of around 220000000 people has been tested for the virus back in the shower as an investigation is underway many want to know why there was so many failures and how they all seem to go unnoticed nor about the money out is there a. at least 8 opposition activists have been arrested in hong kong that's because they joined an annual protest march on july 1st this year it was deemed an illegal assembly a number of those arrested which included several former politicians announce it on their social media pages because pollen 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 that protest 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 wong 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. the united states has

imposed sanctions and a travel ban on 14 chinese officials it's in response to hong kong's decision to disqualify opposition politicians from its legislator last month china's parliament gave the territory powers to expel lawmakers who support the territories independence. she joined with hong kong is china's hong kong hong kong's affairs are purely internal affairs of china no foreign country has the right to interfere in it if the u.s. insists on going its own way china will continue to take countermeasures to safeguard its sovereignty security in development as well as the legitimate rights and interests of chinese person now. u.s. media is reporting that president elect joe biden is said to choose a retired army general to become his defense secretary if lloyd austin is confirmed by the senate she will be the 1st black american to head the pentagon it was commander in iraq leaving u.s. and coalition troops on the president barack obama but he disagreed with obama's

decision to withdraw from iraq biden has promised to choose the most diverse cabinet in u.s. history. a one day nationwide shutdown is underway in india as farmers ramp up protests against new agriculture laws transport workers and teachers are among the other unions 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 and calling on the government to repeal it several rounds of talks between the farmers and the government have failed to resolve the disagreement. angry exchanges have taken place in the congolese parliaments politicians are opposed to president fixed plan to scrap the coalition government and form a new one without the majority party. members of the common front for congo party say the plan is dictate tauriel and violates

the constitution the party holds the most cabinet posts and it's made up of allies of joseph kabila a former president. votes are being voted is after got his presidential and parliamentary elections with results due later on tuesday and it's expected to be a close race between the president a coup for ardor and his main rival john dramani mahama interest reports from the capital accra president ford who are huge to vote at a polling station his sister katie hoping to to seat against this protest as you defeated 16 the president is confident his performance of the past 2 years will mean another term in office. we have a mature civilized people that get it and keep it as we have proved in the past we have deep attachment democratic values was no culture i don't have

a molecule surprise that this is going there is scrutiny of this across the country . in the northern town of family his main challenger former president john muhammad voted but raised concerns about shoddy preparations especially with the late stops and problems with ratification machines on voting day. you're just like hitler i mean he's already saying this i mean you are just going to kind of i got this from the station that had me and i thought oh my god why don't i remember that i was having you stand here with him her during the exhibition we checked his name with the we got it from his name is something while the 2 leading candidates differ constance of marie is participating in an election for the 1st time of the late. so still how it's supposed to pull. us out it's very little value. but i want to buy nolo dirty has been voting since when gunness founding president

kwame cooma was in power. i continue to borrow he said to our democracy keep growing not also expect whoever is charities in work to develop the country. of service say this election is a referendum on both candidates a president for 4 years well i think the the the beauty of the recordings the next one is that the leading candidates one point on the on the i've been presidents. and that gives the all we need for the electorates to access them on the basis of the 4 months dunning's also voted to choose $275.00 parliamentarians. a few incidents including gunshots were reported on election day but election officials say these once that difficult enough to affect the outcome of the vote. or the voting officially all of our attention shifts from polling stations like this to regional and national counting centers the national electoral commission has

promised to announce the results within 24 hours a candidate must call more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright otherwise the names will be asked again to turn out to decide the winner in 3 weeks. to decrease al-jazeera across gonna. the united states the european union and a number of latin american countries say they won't recognize the results of venezuela's parliamentary election allies of president nicolas maduro won the poll which the opposition boycott it people were electing a new congress the only government branch controlled by opposition parties and their leader one quite 0 has rejected the results and is launched a referendum to counter the vote. the important thing for venezuelans is not to be apathetic about the situation on the contrary it's participation protest and demonstration the response the slap in the face that you want to give maturer to the dictatorship to poverty to dignity is in the streets and it's on december 12th

the organized and mobilized. the international olympic committee has banned the ballot regime president from all in the pick events including next year's games in tokyo the i.o.c. say the country's olympic committee headed by alexander lukashenko hasn't protected athletes who have expressed political views protests against the president's 6th term have continued for months and thousands of people of the detained. staying with the olympics and the i.o.c. has agreed to include breakdancing in the 2024 games in paris surfing skateboarding and sports climbing will also be added to the list of events new i will see rules also allow host cities to hand-pick sports to include in the games based on local popularity and public appeal peris organizers say they want to offer sports like break dancing to attract and new younger audience. the world's largest music recording company universal has acquired bob dylan's entire back catalog of

more than 600 songs. the us singer songwriter is a winner of the nobel prize for literature its body of work spend 6 decades and he sold one of 125000000 records globally universal music described the deal as the most significant music publishing agreement this century. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories u.s. health experts are warning of dark times ahead in the fight against profit 19 it's reported its deadliest week since april and their affairs the worst is yet to come as people celebrate the upcoming holiday season u.k. is gearing up for a mass coronavirus vaccination program which begins in a few hours the 1st doses of the fines a biotech vaccine will be administered in england wales and scott.