various looking pretty quiet now across the middle east some subtle changes going on we have still got some showers some wet weather it's that eastern side of turkey just pushing across the caucuses over towards the caspian sea northern parts of iraq could catch a shero 2 here and cold enough in terre temperatures at around 60 degrees celsius cold enough here in doha as well $25.00 degrees celsius on friday and it will feel even cooler as we go on into sas stay a freshening northwest of freshening shemale breeze blowing through $23.00 celsius here the winds picking up a little bit lifted dust and sand to watch out for down towards the south of the region you might catch a shower to around the southern end of the red sea into that western side of yemen but nothing too much to speak of and it's largely dry around the horn of africa plenty of showers though into the democratic republic of congo i will see some wetter weather ruadh along the rift valley noticing creasing showers just started

to push their way into northern parts of mozambique and northern areas in bob way also seeing more showers returning him still some showers in play there just around that eastern side of south africa over time these may well become a little heavier as we go on through saturday temperatures in cape town at 21 celsius looking fine dry and sunny. he uses performance ott to draw attention to the critical controversial issues facing china. one on one east meets china. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every.

you know lose interest is an audience we have a narrative i have a question join me richelle carey and up front is my guest from around the world take a hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on al-jazeera . we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the plate is that others cannot i was just throwing beer guy by to put the phone for the fires and then i'm going i'm a few. minor. the way that you tell death story isn't what and make it to friends. hello again this is a dream for going to here in doha with the news of the headlines lebanon's

caretaker prime minister has been charged over the beirut ports explosion which devastated the city of sunday up of 3 former ministers are accused of bank insurance around 200 people were killed in that soft wistful. european leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss breaking a deadlock of a major economic recovery plan the u.k. similar to posture is soon. u.s. experts meeting decide on the safety of the pfizer. vaccine if approved massing in isolation could begin in the u.s. in the next few days. as opposition has me to decide its next steps after losing the election they're accusing president. of rigging monday's vote he's appealing for unity after protests over his election victory at least 5 people have been killed from across his office here as ahmed address. gave the 2020 presidential contest everything he could knowing that there are 76 this might be

the twilight of his political career. is why delegations of corruption against his government are defying president to defeat tribal former president for 2nd time although his party said it knew it won it's this declaration that confirmed a successful 2nd term but they're going to hand people through the results have made loud and clear that the 2 parties the n.p.p. and d.c. must work together especially in parliament for the good of the country. now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite. join hands stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to plays gonna where she deserves to be. proud to say to you right one it's this

declaration that can be successful 2nd dump it on the basis of the foregoing election results and by the power vest said to me as a temp as a no then next i'll commission on donna and then attending office of the presidential election it is my duty and or enough to declare not. as president elect of the republic of donna. i to stand off between security forces and supporters of the opposition candidate john muhammad preceded the declaration although they may have forced a change in venue for the announcement it wasn't enough to save their candidate from defeat an angry protest or says they will never accept the victory of a call for i do. 6 not know. that's really i don't like the senate will be out of work and we are not accepting does that mean we're going to miss arias that. many party loyalist and the rest of the nation look

to former president john muhammad to rein in his supporters so as not to planck's the country into chaos he says he will but he's also not conceding defeat i want to states categorically. and family that i know congratulate any person. i have bad guys that you. know attempt should be made to steal this election we will resist it. tensions between supporters of gun us dominant political parties have been on the rise even before election day despite the deployment of 63000 security personnel and a peace pact signed by the leading candidates at least 5 people were killed in post-election violence. protests like this while what most people will be applied to an already tense situation why some business owners decided to me. the last time

elections were on his hands and kind of was 8 years ago. then opposition candidate non-alcohol i don't know tempering of the result and filed a petition with the election tribunals. for now though supporters of president say they want to hold back their celebrations appetit greece al-jazeera across goner. turkey's president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against armenia and its conflicts over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh president threats of top of the one attended a military parade in the as a capital baku ankara had backed azerbaijan during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month or one took aim at armenia and said the turkey is trying to bring peace to the region. we have no grudge against the armenian nation our problem is with

its administration we have armenians in our country some of them are immigrants some have citizenship some don't our main goal is to establish peace if you try to take care of by just deciding that in your own assembly and your own parliament and you think this is your own state you have no right to say so serious and i'm costello joins us now live from istanbul what's the significance of the one being there for these celebrations. well there during this victory is seen by 2 countries that it's a joint victory a victory of the turkish and i was our bijani member 3 and 2 leaders emphasized that earlier today during their speech is saying that this is this is also a victory that will a pave the way for the united of the turkic world of course from the joint press so that we watched almost an hour ago which is what is important is that 2 leaders that have strongly defended the armenian troops leaving dorky pite terry's

territories and the governor kobach they are open to peace both leaders brought to the table that an offer was made earlier for a 6 party. platform which will include russia iran georgia turkey as our bed john and armenia and saw that through this platform regional peace shall be installed shall be established and i don't send that remain as prisons will also serve for good and took is open is ready to open its border to armenia if they would like to be in walled in the 6 party. regional peace corp this was an important message actually apparent that the turkish leader who has supported our very leader militarily and diplomatically is actually aiming for a peace broker role in the region as it's also trying to extend its influence into the caucuses which is a very complicated landscape and also to the turkic world and also to leaders

just thanked each other for their support and this is the situation between the 2 leaders and apparent that they will say that they signed the agreements for the reconstruction of the regain territories in are going to go about 3 ounces or a sort of course we want to live in istanbul but it's eczema. libya's internationally recognized government has released 2 russian detainees signaling an easing of relations the pair were arrested in tripoli last year while working for the son of libya's former ruler muammar gadhafi they were accused by prosecutors of election meddling russia backs the tripoli government's rival in libya's civil war world. both sides agreed to a permanent ceasefire in october we will forces loyal to say that they've released a turkish ship that was seized on monday the libyan national army who control the

country's east said the vessel was violating maritime law the incident was condemned by turkey which backs the government of national court in tripoli analysis now from zeros mahmoud of the white head who's live for us in tripoli tell us about the significance of these these 2 events. well adrian the tour russian nationals have been just released by the tripoli based government this of course indicates that the relations of the ties between the tripoli based government and russia is in one way or another is getting better despite the fact that as you know that russia is accused of backing the warlord cliff i have to in fact leading with him through russian mercenaries are russian advanced weapons the military campaign that he launched on tripoli last year now the general prosecutor in the tripoli based government accused the 2 russian

nationals. should garley maxime should gully and sam are safe and 2 russian nationals that were detained by libyan authorities in may last year the german prosecutor accused them of meddling of election meddling in fact they were detained as they were trying to help safer less damage to a deaf ear to plan his return through elections or through eventual elections now since since since last october when the deal was reached it to release the russians the 2 were reportedly transferred to turkish costly in side libya until the transfer to russia. today as for the news from eastern libya this spokesman of have to forces that. are posted that they have released the. first of the their forces did to capture it on december 5th

it was. raising get a jamaican flag and 9 turkish nationals along with 7 indians and one from other beaches on the vessel crew were detained by have to those forces as they say for violating the maritime regulations by sailing in a restricted military zone they have reportedly paid a fine before the release. well one of many things did our series buckle up the lad live in tripoli the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize the event was held virtually this year because of the corona virus pandemic the world food program's executive director david beasley received the award he warned of a hunger pandemic that could be worse than covert 19 these days told al-jazeera interview that he hopes the refugee crisis in sudan won't become a protracted one he says the world food program is struggling to fund existing

humanitarian disasters more than 47000 ethiopian refugees have fled across the border into sudan since the conflict in the n.t. grey began in november. when you look at the amount of monies that we're having to raise now we're actually going to have we've been raised about 8000000000 dollars this year we're looking at $615000000000.00 that we're going to be next year 5000000000 just to avert famine so we've got so many hotspots right now and western donors and donors around the world are struggling with the amount of money that we need so we're hopeful that because we're already spending a lot of money in sudan and now you've got this crisis and we hopeful we're hopeful that this can be over as soon as possible al-jazeera said that morgan is that the camp in sudan's got a reef province and says the world food program has been at the frontline in helping refugees who fled fighting in ethiopia. the world food program already run several operations in sudan from creating the displaced people and the refugees in

the western region of dar for to opening up communitarian line and delivering assistance in the southern regions of little and south kordofan now the latest crisis the world food program has had to respond to in sudan and perhaps in the entire world is the refugee crisis that is unfolding in the eastern part of sudan thousands of people are fleeing from that to greater region in northern if europea many of them walking for days on empty stomach before arriving to the border to be able to be registered as refugees actually some of them have got that their organizations are now giving us food and we hope people benefit from it people who are hungry for 2 to 3 days some haven't eaten for a few days but now we thank god we can eat and benefit and. that michelle and i can i've come here to get food for my kids they're hungry and i can now get them food to eat and it had taken about a week for deadly afraid to step up its operations and be able to respond to the crisis by distributing food but then the reason it's attributes that to is that the

most of the camps are in remote areas it says that it takes as much as a week sometimes to be able to access the camps in the eastern part of the country . now the world food program says responding to this current crisis is not easy it comes at a time where the country is going through an economic crisis severe food shortages as well as a state of emergency that was declared in september due to floods that have devastated the country. when the world food program came here today they gave us a soldier an oil they gave us a lot of things to eat and that's. thankful that we go the food and drink to be able to survive because if not for the world food program who died including 2 children the world food program says it's motor is changing lives saving lives the number of refugees who've arrived to sudan is expected to head 200005 april but the world food program says no matter what the crisis and even if they risk shortage of funding and support for the other programs it will ensure that every single refugee

who arrives to sudan is fed and catered for. as you can see the full interview with the world food program chief executive david peace with a clip of a short time ago at 1630 g.m.t. . on al-jazeera. the u.s. says that it's concerned about bangladesh has plans to relocate more than 1600 rangar refugees to remote island barely a 1000000 right in the refugees of been living in bangladesh since they fled violence a man law 3 years ago now a new report says that it's taking a toll on the mental health stephanie decker reports. the numbers are staggering if not surprising a new report on the mental health of the right has found that most of those surveyed suffer some form of mental health problems almost 90 percent indicated they suffered some symptoms of depression and just over 60 percent reported

symptoms that suggest post-traumatic stress disorder or p.t.s.d. a lot of the elements of distress post-traumatic stress disorder depression what we're seeing in our research is that they are what is underlying this distress is the systematic arrays the 1st actually the 1000000 mark of violence experienced in myanmar and the every day living stressors of being in a refugee camp so these are much more systematic drivers of distress that are much more complicated to address. during your volunteers conducted surveys among households and in community workshops to come up with the findings the report adds that these mental health symptoms including p.t.s.d. depression and anxiety increase the difficulty of refugees to function for example just over 91 percent of those asked say they found it challenging to carry out common daily activities such as men tending basic hygiene engaging in social or religious activities or performing any other daily tasks around

a 1000000 have lived in tough conditions in these camps in the far southeast of bangladesh for 3 years now. they fled neighboring me and mar and 2017 during a minute to crack down the torched villages and lead to soldiers being accused of mass killings rape and torture. earlier this year the international criminal court ordered measures to prevent the genocide of ridding of muslims in myanmar genocide is a charge that has been strongly denied by me in mars' peace laureate aung san suu kyi calling the events in internal conflict triggered by reading a militant attacks on government security posts. but the stories of atrocities and persecution number in the hundreds of thousands each has a tragedy in what is the world's largest refugee camp the future of these people remains uncertain and now many are facing a controversial move by bangladesh's government. in ireland in the bay of bengal.

most have no identity papers no home and no future and that's adding to the worsening mental health of young and old stephanie decker. just ahead here on the force why this was a football saying goodbye to his chinese sponsors for a follow up in just a few hours.

the the old the old. type of school has far adrian thank you so much barcelona and french international

and one griezmann says he's cutting ties with longtime sponsors who while away because of their possible involvement in the persecution of weaker muslims in china the 29 year old made the move following reports that the chinese telecoms giants had been involved in testing facial recognition software used for police surveillance on weaker muslims greaseman is asked while way to make amendments for their action human rights groups say as many as 1000000 weekers and other mostly muslim minorities have been held in detention camps over more on this we're joined by professor of the eurasian sports industries simon chadwick he's live for us from coventry in the u.k. how unprecedented of a move is this by greece. it's interesting that we seem very few actions on the part of it if you are fleets around huawei and china there have been some other instances we saw last year for instance mesut ozil who of are still making statements on twitter about week of muslims in china but as far as individual

action in terms of terminating sponsorship deals with chinese sponsors this is pretty unprecedented it is as far as i'm aware what do you think the implications will be not just for griezmann himself but his entire team. the interesting thing about our griezmann has done is it is really there are 2 things firstly it's increasingly in keeping with the growth in athlete activism we've seen this year several times fairly high profile athletes making very strong source or political statements whether it's around the black lives matter movements around gender equality or other issues for example linked to the environment and so griezmann is one in a growing number of athletes who feel emboldened to make statements about or or take positions on issues that are important to them i think alongside that this is really significant because. the last 10 years china has been

a very lucrative source of business not just for individual athletes but for european football clubs in general and in fact across world sport and if we're now getting into a new environment where individuals or groups are going to start making statements about china or taking principles of particular positions of principle then it does potentially begin to impact upon the nature of relationships that european and world sport has with with chinese business. just to expand on that a little bit more do you think players will be emboldened by this new. i think so and as i say where we've seen particularly this year in 2020 although certainly our over the last 3 or 4 years where our fleets do feel they can be very open very public in the positions that they're taking on really important issues and they've been very vocal and not just be very vocal as well i think we've been through in a last few months of particularly in the context of the black lives lots of

movement people saying well you can't just speak you have to x. and what griezmann has done in this particular case in the case of the way the weakness in china is is not just to speak out but it's actually acting as well and this is this is an increasing phenomenon and as we're going to 2021 i think we're going to see much much more of similar type of activities taken place ok professor simon chadwick thank you so much for your time thank you italian football legend paolo rossi who led his country to world cup glory has died at the age of 64 crossed the one to italian syria titles during his 4 years with event is but it's his time with the national team that will be best remembered rossi was the top scorer innings best player at the 1982 world cup in spain is 6 goals led italy to victory at the tournaments to which she almost missed because of a match fixing scandal and we've been speaking to generate you're a c.e.o. and associate professor at rome trey university he says rossi's efforts contributed

to italy's most memorable world cup triumph. was called. huge criticism you only up came back to our football and he only played 3 games because they have been accused of a big fixing scandal to your employer to pay for for 2 years it could not play it was actually the trainer of the initial selection delayed until the end of the world we did including you mark because roth you have been one of the big surprises of the 1978 argentina world cup so we came out against the all they needed to. came out as the underdogs italy. brazil i would lead a stronger side in the competition argentina the world champion in jeddah money was the reigning european champions will clearly easily came i mean from the from from

down to win and that was something that nobody will ever forget south korean side also in high end they have advanced the semifinals of the asian champions league they beat beijing of sea at the elgin stadium and don't have to go through to learn a gary led also into the 2 male victory and stretches their winning streak in the competition to 7 matches and the n.b.a.'s most valuable player younis and he took or is refusing to comment on whether he'll sign a contract extension with the malaki bucks the 26 year old is locked into the 2020 season with the box and has until december 21st to sign a 5 year 228000000 dollar extension or enter free agency next summer but having the best regular season record the past 2 years the boks have not made it to the finals since the 1973 since. ok and that is all your support for now adrian back to you thought i think some day that's it for the news out of the news continues of course on the back to update you in just a moment we're going live in brussels in beirut see that.

the world food program will receive the nobel peace prize for fighting against hunger and the use of starvation as a weapon of war we ask executive director david beasley how the challenge of combating global hunger will be met in the age of the coronavirus pandemic the nobel interview on al-jazeera getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often dangerous but it's absolutely vital to the stories to be told lots of still side of this area we close to stall for this weekend to the frontline now

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al-jazeera. where every. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has has been charged over the beirut port explosion that killed more than $200.00 people. again i'm adrian figure this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we are willing to grant access to the single market to our british friends it's the largest single market in the world. but the conditions have to be sure the e.u. chief lays out a backup plan in case of a no deal breaks it after talks of britain's prime minister fail to resolve the

deadlock. health officials in the us discuss emergency approval of the fires and beyond covered by the 19 vaccine. please don't ask us to choose who lives in. a call to action combat hunger by the chief of the un's food agency or receiving the 2020 nobel peace prize and. we begin in lebanon where caretaker prime minister has on the air has been charged with negligence over the beirut port explosion 3 of our former ministers have also been indicted more than 200 people were killed in a blast caused by a huge stockpile of highly explosive ammonium nitrate it was improperly stored at the port for 6 years before officials of the city of the most senior figures to be charged in the investigation which has been criticized for its secrecy and lack of

progress let's go live to beirut al-jazeera zana holder can tell us more why has the can't take a prime minister put in charge when he was only in office the such a short period of time. yes a significant development in the ongoing investigation into that for it take. splosion the judge is saying that the caretaker prime minister has sand did was given written notices about the presence of explosive material at the babeu ports and he failed to take action has some yet himself really a knowledge that he was going to visit that warehouse warehouse and that he had postponed the visit because he was receiving conflicting reports now has sound you have says my conscience is clear and in fact he is accusing the judge found the so one of violating the constitution and bypassing parliament basically telling him

that he has no right to go after prime ministers and politicians and this is the job of the parliament and there has been a lot of debate really on the issue of political immunity because there has been a lot of public anger that so far in this investigation only low and mid-level employees at the custom and port authorities have been charged and no senior official or high level official has been held to account for this massive explosion so it's for the 1st time in lebanon history really a prime minister is being charged up saying denying really any wrongdoing but many will be questioning this accusation as you say he did have says that his conscience is clear is this likely to wind up in course but any point. it's really hard to say the next steps because the caretaker prime minister as well as the former ministers they are going to be questioned and then an indictment has to be issued and there's going to be

a lot of legal wrangling on who really has the authority and the jurisdiction to go after a caretaker prime minister many feel that he is the scapegoat and that's what he like you mentioned he was in power for just a few months what about the former prime ministers the former presidents and about the sitting president president allen who along with did in july were given official documents. told that this they this material were at the ports and that they were a security risk and they did nothing about it we were just in some neighborhoods in beirut which were badly damaged by the explosion people are not satisfied they say this is just not enough for the political class which have been governing this country for years they should be held to account cannot be the only scapegoat the wrangling can continue for months and years and many feel that this could be part of an attempt to silence the people to appease the public and tell them look we found a culprit someone has now been found guilty let's move on because it's not just the

lebanese public who are demanding accountability it's the international community as well and loving on has very little friends of the international community right now the authorities are under so much pressure to reform and to come up with a credible investigation i was it was a lot of reporting live from beirut center many things. i still faces of killed 3 iraqi soldiers during an attack on all my position in the western anbar province at least for the soldiers were wounded security forces and blocked off the area of searching for the fighters. in brussels e.u. leaders have stepped up their preparations for the possibility that the u.k. will break away without a trade deal britain's prime minister boris johnson and the european commission's chief or some of the land have until sunday to reach an agreement but they're making contingency plans in case they don't. we are willing to grant access to the single market to our british friends it's the largest single market

in the world. but the conditions have to be fear they have to be fear for our workers and for our companies and this fine balance of fairness has not been achieved so far our negotiators are still working and we will take a decision on sunday live out of brussels here as paul brennan is the poor can imagine that in the u.k. the e.u. publishing its contingency plans what has gone down very well. no it was a rather noncommittal initial reaction from the u.k. to the european union contingency plans and when it was realize that one of the proposals from brussels was that the arrangements over fishing grounds access would continue for the next 12 months for the throughout the whole of 2021 that was a pretty firm rebuttal from london for that kind of idea that clip that we just

played for most live on the land was actually a summary of the disagreements from one of the nights dinner between her and boris johnson the thinking of a sovereignty essentially the dispute service solvency so this morning thursday morning on the eve of the just as the leaders were arriving for the european council summit the european union which is had this contingency document for some time decided to actually publish it and there are some nuggets in there i'll read to you i mean they propose that the u.k. and e.u. can see you reciprocal access to fishing grounds they also propose that certain services should continue in between the u.k. and e.u. for up to 6 months they propose that there should be safety measures. safety measures for aviation should continue and they also say that basic connections for road freight and road passengers should also continue for 6 months so it's a kind of a stopgap. interim kind of arrangement so that the the level of disruption is

is minimized as far as possible but it's still going to be intensely destructive if there's no deal come january the 1st day stand by paul because while all this is happening with briggs it leaders have been deadlocked over agreeing on the budget which includes a major covert 19 recovery package poland the hungary have delayed signing off on the deal because they've taken issue with funds being tied to the rule of law but now hungary's president is hinting that a deal may happen. today we are fighting for the unity of our. common continent. and even what is more important not just the victory of the european union but we are fighting for the victory of the of the common sense because it's obvious that our nations and so many millions of people who are being real need because of pundit we can because of the economic consequences of that we have to

behave reasonably and to find a way for reliable approaches and a victory for common sense to provide. pandemic house services to the people who are in need and to provide financial assistance for those conflicts who are really in need to have that people so we can make of that paul are we going to get a deal. i think we are germany has been working very hard behind the scenes angela merkel the german leader has the presidency of the european council at the moment for this 6 month period and i mean this basically comes down to what is the european union about what are the central core principles and the key values of the european union are things like equality human rights things that some countries believe are not being upheld by the right wing governments in poland and hungary and as they are trying to agree sign off on a 7 year m.f.f. multi on your financial framework essentially the e.u.

budgets poland and hungary have been extremely angry at the idea that they might not get a share of that because the other countries might withhold it from them on the basis that they haven't been subscribing to the core values of the european union a compromise deal has been done germany is. broken and it seems that the european court of justice will be the arbiter so instead of the possibility of a politically motivated penalty clause against poland and hungary it will go to the european court of justice and a 2nd source of caveat is that it would have to have financial implications for the e.u. before any action would be taken so there's a kind of double safe guard for poland and hungary and they seem to be happy with that sort of fudge so it looks like it will actually get signed off and it's important because as you say it's more than 2 was nearly 2 trillion dollars worth of both aid and around and part of that is $900000000000.00 worth of recovery funds

paul brennan reporting live from brussels. for the 1st time the number of reported coronavirus deaths in the us has passed 3000 in one day that exceeds the number of people killed on september the 11th the world's worst terrorist attack almost 290000 people have died in the u.s. since the pandemic began. u.s. food and drug administration panelist meeting to discuss an emergency use of the pfizer beyond tech vaccine the advisory group will decide whether or not to endorse the vaccine signaling approval by the f.d.a. if given the green light by the regulator millions of jobs could be available to americans within days let's go live on a silver spring in the state of maryland with the f.d.a. headquarters is based business protocol had is that what's happening there today patty. adrian there's

a whole lot of media attention just take a look this is the big story in the united states today it's the 1st glimmer of potential hope in what has been 9 long painful months in this country the happening virtually it's being run out of the headquarters here behind me but there it's well what's been happening is your usual if you've been on a zoom call you know that there's a lot of glitches in people forgetting to themselves so that's even happening here at the f.d.a. but what we have going on is called verb pact this is an independent group of scientists and doctors there are poring through the data that pfizer and the f.d.a. has given them now they're talking about the very tough ethical question of the people who are given the placebo the basically sailing in the in the trial should they in fact be given the actual vaccine so they're debating all sorts of things how they're going to make sure it's safe how they're going to monitor people what they should do with those people who did get the placebo the 20000 people who got the placebo so they're going to go through this all day in about 21 g.

about 21 g.m.t. we expect that they're going to vote so what happens that well if they vote unanimously you could see the f.d.a. quickly turn around perhaps within hours or just a day and give its approval now the f.d.a. doesn't have to follow this advisory committee but it usually does what we're going to be watching for is if there's one or 2 or more people who say wait a minute there's one issue here that i need more information on that could delay the process but all indications are from. the f.d.a. they've released their preliminary data they think that this vaccine is incredibly safe and incredibly effective so we do expect that if the panel gives the go ahead that pretty soon you're going to see the 1st 2900000 jobs had out from the federal government to the states to start going in the arms of health care workers and the people who work and live in long term nursing care facilities. the latest on the the corona virus the pandemic day in the us with more than 3000 people dying in

just 24 hours. it's really really bad and this is exactly what scientists said was going to happen they told americans look it's thanksgiving the end of november but don't gather in large groups indoors we saw millions of americans not listening when they went to airports train stations they drove to their relatives houses and this is exactly what they said would happen you're going to see in an exponential spike in cases so this is as you mentioned the worst death toll since the beginning of the pandemic and experts say look we're just beginning to see this it's just going to continue to grow and grow and grow and what we're seeing dow is there unlike the beginning of the pandemic where states and cities they were quick to lock things down and say ok shut it down let's figure out who has it and stop the spread or not seen that in a lot of states now in some states you can still go to bowling alleys and restaurants and bars and what we're seeing is a big gatherings inside people's homes and we're approaching the christmas holiday

so experts say it could continue to just get worse and worse and so we're starting to see the concrete impact of that there are hospitals all across this country that are warning they're getting to the point where they're going to have to ration care it sounds unbelievable but in the united states of america there is thought now that we're this is how is doctors will have the excruciating choice of looking at different patients and saying you get a hospital but you get oxygen you get a ventilator or you don't you can go home and and hope for the best so this is exactly what officials said would happen and sadly it's exactly what is happening the worst death toll yet in the united states since the beginning of the panda how to go home and silver spring maryland many thanks. a weather update next here i was there of them cementing strategic ties turkey's president attends azeri military parade to celebrate its victory in the go to come back. but a new report finds most rohingya refugees suffer from depression but emotional

distress. with high pressure dominating the weather across a good parts of asia fine and dry and pretty quiet so i said in the case in too much of china 5 celsius there for beijing we're looking at celsius full seoul korea potentially generous satele want to show is still air into northern parts of honshu maybe the possibly wintry nature across a kaido for a time but nothing too much to speak of and as a similar picture as we go on into saturday should brighten up nicely in tokyo by this stage of temperatures getting back up to around 15 celsius in the sunshine a strong i had sunny it was a good parts of south asia as well although we do have a little cloud just pushing into northern parts of in the west

a disturbance rolling across pakistan will bring some wetter weather and some wintry weather across the high ground up towards kashmir northern parts of india and you see some wet or whether they're just around garrette and that's all to do with this area of low pressure the circulation just swirling away in the arabian sea throwing some west the weather through the northwest of india russia could see some wet weather as well along with mumbai temperatures here at around 32 celsius over the next couple of days elsewhere across of asia as you can say it's 95 and sunny. joint africa's largest trade and investment fair and rwanda enter african trade gives me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and buyers and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals worth $40000000000.00 as business and government come together to

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a major economic recovery plan the u.k. is it a departure from the block is also on the agenda. u.s. experts are meeting to decide on the safety of the pfizer beyond tech vaccine if approved massive in isolation could begin in the u.s. in the next few days. turkey's president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against armenia and their conflicts over the disputed territory of lugano color black president but i want to turn to the military parade in this area capital baku ankara backed azerbaijan during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month at a want took aim at the media and said that turkey is trying to bring peace to the region if. we have no grudge against the armenian nation our problem is with its administration we have armenians in our country some of them are immigrants some have citizenship some don't our main goal is to establish peace if you try to take

care of by just deciding that in your own assembly and your own parliament and you think this is your own state you have no right to say so al-jazeera simcoe silda reports now from istanbul. this victory is seen by 2 countries that it's a joint victory a victory of the turkish and as our bridge on a major 3 and 2 leaders emphasize that earlier today during their speeches are saying that this is their this is also a victory that will a pave the way for the uniting of the turkic world of course from the joint press but what is important is that 2 leaders that have strongly defended the armenian troops leaving dorky pite terry's territories and the go on a kind of are they are open to peace both leaders brought to the table that an offer was made earlier for a 6 party. platform which will include russia iran georgia or turkey as our bed john in armenia and saw that the through this platform regional peace shall be

installed salvias stablished and i don't sound that our main us presence will also so for good and turkey is open is ready to open its border to armenia if they would like to be in walled in the 6 party a. regional peace corp this was an important message actually apparent that the turkish leader who has supported our very leader militarily and diplomatically is actually aiming for a peace broker a role in the region as it's also trying to extend its influence into the caucuses . breaking news now on al-jazeera israel and morocco have agreed to normalize relations and a deal brokered by the united states as part of the agreement donald trump has agreed to recognize maracas sovereignty over the west and so harra where there's been a decades old territorial dispute with morocco pitted against the algeria backed polis r.-o. front morocco is the 4th arab nation to normalize relations with israel

in that deal brokered by the trump ministration war and that breaking story as and when we get it here on out to syria now the u.s. says that it's concerned about bangladesh's plans to relocate more than 1600 running the refugees to remote island nearly a 1000000 right in the refugees of been living in bangladesh since they fled violence and man lost 3 years ago now a new report says that it's taking a toll on the mental health stephanie decker reports. the numbers are staggering if not surprising a new report on the mental health of the rink has found that most of those surveyed suffer some form of mental health problems almost 90 percent indicated they suffered some symptoms of depression and just over 60 percent reported symptoms that suggest post-traumatic stress disorder p.t.s.d. a lot of the elements of distress post-traumatic stress disorder depression that

what we're seeing in our research is that they are what is underlying this distress is the systematic raised me and mark the violence experienced in myanmar and the every day living structures of being in a refugee camp so these are much more systematic drivers of distress that are much more complicated to address. range of volunteers conducted surveys among households and in community workshops to come up with the findings the report adds that these mental health symptoms including p.t.s.d. depression and anxiety increase the difficulty of refugees to function for example just over 91 percent of those asked say they found it challenging to carry out common daily activities such as men tending basic hygiene engaging in social or religious activities or performing any other daily tasks around a 1000000 have lived in tough conditions in these camps in the far southeast of bangladesh for 3 years now. they fled neighboring me and mar and 2017 during

a minute to crack down the torched villages and lead to soldiers being accused of mass killings rape and torture. earlier this year the international criminal court ordered measures to prevent the genocide of ridding of muslims in myanmar genocide is a charge that has been strongly denied by me in mars' peace laureate aung san suu kyi calling the events in internal conflict triggered by reading a militant attacks on government security posts. but the stories of atrocities and persecution number in the hundreds of thousands each hut has a tragedy in what is the world's largest refugee camp the future of these people remains uncertain and now many are facing a controversial move by bangladesh government to charge in ireland in the bay of bengal. most have no identity papers no home and no future and that's and into the worsening mental health of young and old stephanie

decker. famous in india a continuing their protests against the cultural wars that blocked major roads are now calling for more aggressive actions with the government of so far all failed as follows stick to that and is withdraw to reports from the state of utah pradesh. or one side of this busy highway between the states over there predation delhi remains closed to traffic as thousands of families continue to camp out here that's after farmers rejected the government's proposed amendments to farm laws on wednesday now it's been 2 weeks that tens of thousands of followers of blocking 3 key highways into the indian capital region protest against laws which they say give large corporations fettered access to the indian agriculture sector and that will see their prices for their projects minimum prices driven down and so the government said that it made 3 amendments addressing farmers concerns about the deregulation

of the market including rising assurances of minimum prices but father say that it's not enough to amend goals which were created without consultation with which were pushed through parliament which inherently favor large corporations and that the government must repeal them and calls for bigger protests up only growing farmers are asking for the blocking of 2. major highways between the cities of delhi and our grand delhi n.j. people on saturday and they planning for more nationwide protest on monday. the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize the offense was held virtually this year because of the corona virus pandemic world food program's executive director david beasley has received the award he warned of a hunger pandemic that could be worse than covert 19 because of so many wars

climate change the watchword use of hunger as a political and military weapon and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse 270000000 people are marching toward starvation failure to address their needs will cause a hunger penned him it was the impact of cove and if that's not bad enough out of that 2c7xw3xw depend on us 100 percent for their survival how will humanity respond al-jazeera has interviewed david beasley blanks and in that is he said he hopes the refugee crisis in sudan won't become a protracted one tens of thousands of ethiopians a flood across the border into sue done since the conflict in the integrated region began in november the world food program chief says that the agency is struggling to deal with an existing with existing humanitarian disasters when you look at the

amount of monies that we are having to raise now we're actually going to have we've been raised about 8000000000 dollars this year we're looking at $615000000000.00 that we're going to be next year 5000000000 just to avert famine so we've got so many hotspots right now in western donors and donors around the world are struggling with the amount of monies that we need so we're hopeful that because we're already spending a lot of money in sudan and now you've got this crisis and we hopeful we're hopeful that this can be over as soon as possible and you can see that interview with david beasley in full here on al-jazeera in less than 5 minutes now beginning at just after $1630.00 g.m.t. . many countries a benefit from the work of the world food program including. the world food program already run several operations in sudan from creating the displaced people and the refugees in the western region of dar for to opening up

humanitarian line and delivering assistance in the southern regions and south kordofan now the latest crisis the world food program has had to respond to in sudan and perhaps in the entire world is the refugee crisis that is unfolding in the eastern part of sudan thousands of people are fleeing from the to greater region in northern if europea many of them walking for days on empty stomach before arriving to the border to be able to be registered as refugees. some of that organizations are now giving us food and we hope people benefit from it people who are hungry for 2 to 3 days some haven't eaten for a few days but now we thank god we can eat and benefit and. i've come here to get food for my kids they're hungry and i can now get them food to eat and it had taken about a week for the player free to step up its operations and be able to respond to the crisis by distributing food but then the reason it attributes that to is that the

most of the camps are in remote areas it says that it takes as much as a week sometimes to be able to access the camps in the eastern part of the country now the world food program says responding to this current crisis is not easy it comes at a time where the country is going through an economic crisis severe food shortages as well as a state of emergency that was declared in september due to floods that have devastated the country. when the world food program came here the 1st day they gave us flour sold in oil they gave us a lot of things to eat and that's a good thing thankful that we go the food and drink to be able to survive because if not for the world food program who have died including children the world. program. changing lives saving lives the number of refugees after saddam is expected to hit 200005 april program to what the crisis and even if there is shortage of and support for the other programs it will ensure that every single refugee

a raft of. groups have you with us before that interview with the world food program's chief executive the headlines allowed to syria israel of morocco have agreed to normalize relations and a deal brokered by the united states donald trump has just announced the deal on twitter it also said that the u.s. will recognize brokers sovereignty over the western sahara lebanon's caretaker prime minister has been charged over the beirut port explosion which devastated the city on sunday happened 3 former minister sort of queues of negligence around $200.00 people were killed in the oldest 4th disaster eisel fighters have killed 3 iraqi soldiers in an attack on an army position in the western anbar province at least 4 soldiers were wounded security forces have blocked off the area of searching for the faces european leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss

breaking a deadlock over a major economic recovery plan the u.k.'s departure from the block is also on the agenda turkey's president has been as a pleasure to celebrate his close allies victory against a media and its conflicts over the disputed territory of the border color back president richard burr to one attended a military parade in the azeri capital baku backed up by john during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month. u.s. experts are meeting to decide all the safety of the fire as a biotech vaccine if approved immunizations could begin in the u.s. in the next few days and the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize the event was held virtually this year because of the pandemic or news here on up to 0 after the nobel interview 2020.

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storage facilities at the. folk i'm batting hunger and fighting against the use of starvation as a weapon of war the world's food program has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize for almost 60 years it's worked through disasters and wars improving the prospects for peace and stability through food security hello i'm fully back in doha. welcome to the special edition of the no bad interview which this year is in a different format and location due to coronavirus restrictions i'm joined from

rome by the world food program's executive director david beasley congratulations david beasley thank you so much for talking to al jazeera what this is the whole your odds with peace prize mean to you your w.s.p. family and what does it represent for the millions of people that you help around the world. tell you it was a big surprise we had no idea literally on that day i was out in the field in the middle of the hill the knees ear and we were at that point negotiating nexus between extremist groups with the government trying to reach people it is a come back into the capital city to meet with the leadership this somebody comes busted into the room nobel peace prize nobel peace prize and i was like wow you know who what it is that we did world food program and it was like. you know wow i mean it was it was just amazing in the fact that we were there in the sale i think was a gift from above because people around the world are struggling in an unprecedented

way as we speak so this is going to mean a lot for the people around the world because as i've said over the last couple years there's been so much distraction with trump trump trump or breaks or breaks or breaks and a lot of people in the world all realize the impact that covert is having indeed in literally upon millions of people in fact the number of people on the brink of starvation has doubled in the last it literally in the last 6 months and so hopefully hopefully what this is going to do is i think the nobel peace prize committee was sent in a very clear message number one thank you to the women amendment to the women and men who put their lives on the line every single day to bring peace and stability to places all. around the world right number 2 is your hardest work is right ahead of you right and i do want to talk a bit more about covidien its impact on the operations in

a little bit but i want to ask you david beasley about a crises such sun folding right now in the horn of africa last year's recipient of the nobel peace prize the theo paean prime minister has been engaged in a war in northern ethiopia that you organisation is having to help victims of today in sudan what do you make of that a nobel peace prize winner in gauging a conflict. well sitting prime ministers have to make decisions on an ongoing basis and have a great respect for the prime minister of ethiopia and we pray and hope that this matter gets resolved sooner than later we are talking with the prime minister's office were talking with all parties involved make sure we have the access we need be in the supply in the funds that we need to address the deeds as they develop this is an ongoing crisis but we're certainly hopeful that it will be over sooner than later because the people people indeed stability in peace and particularly in the horn where you have show many issues over the past many decades the conflict in

northern ethiopia david beasley is having regional repercussions don a country already dealing with challenges of its own is now playing with an influx of refugees from ethiopia and like us to take a look at this report from al jazeera as mohammad vall from a camp in sudan the camp is growing more are being brought here in jos are doing what they can disability food and even cash about $25.00 a month to every individual that's helping people to mendocino here because they are complaining of the the type of food that is being disagreed on a daily basis since the day they are arrived here so the cash is given them the ability to go and buy whatever they want particularly for the families who have young babies so it's a it's a developing situation and nobody here is expecting to return home anytime soon because they say as long as the each open army is in control as long as there is no

locally elected to green government in other cities they don't think they will be safe if they return home david beasley refugees we heard there complaining about not having enough food in sudan how straight operations right now in this hot spot in this new hot spot that is the border between sudan in ethiopia and you know could this turn into a long for tactic crisis. well we certainly hope that it does not turn into a long protracted come clark crisis because we're already spending a lot of money in sudan and now you've got this crisis and we hopeful we're hopeful that this can be over as soon as possible because the the number of funds a number of prices in the lack of funds that we're struggling with now in crisis with us you haven't or syria somalia northeast nigeria south today in afghanistan d r c 3 haiti i could just keep going and going and going and we're prepared but money

is going to be a major issue in the future as it is now so that has to refugees wherever they may be included in sudan we will step up and do what we need to do so how has the pandemic then affected your operations i mean i imagine that if he must have had a major logistical challenge delivering food this year with notch parts of the global shipping and aviation network so close because of the pandemics what outearn it is that you have to find there is of course the money issue but access and food delivery has also been a major concern i imagine. let me tell you just when you think it couldn't get any worse into into 2019 hours preparing world leaders that 2020 was going to be a catastrophe and that was before covert you know we had economic deterioration in several places we had men made conflict a spiking here and they are calamity extremes and i was telling us prepare for a bad 2020 then desert locust cane weathers ethiopia kenya and then

just when you think you're dealing with every possible bad scenario. cove it just dynamic he does shift breaks i mean our whole global economy a lot of different things that we're having to do having a shift monies around how we do things because of deceiving as well as you can imagine in a lot of countries where you have a lot downs unlike in a wealthy nation where people might have 2 to 3 weeks of food in their pantry well they might not like what the eat in the 3rd week but they get food but most of the places we're in folly they live hand to mouth and you do a shutdown a lot down you will have destabilization famine and migration so we're working with the leaders of give us the flexibility and the funds so that we can come in and provide a safety net programs 1600000000 children out of school the high literally about 300 some odd 1000000 of those children get school meals lot of those children is the only meal they get so what do we do when the schools are shut down so we're working with leaders with the flexibility we need to get that food it to the home

through vouchers in any way possible and we are making tremendous progress in this regard but that's just one example then you might have a port to get such down a distribution point you can imagine what we're having to deal with on a daily basis so we're on the phone meeting person to person with prime ministers of ministers of health care as every other leader necessary to make sure that we're moving and not disrupting the supply chain because it's not just having money it's also have an access and is that is that is tough in this environment and i've read that at some point he was flying and chartering so many planes on the african continent that it was being called the continent at 9. you know someone had told me that that you know because when covert hit the airline industry just shut down around the world in so well you got to move supplies covert supplies ventilators testing equipment you name it not to mention 1st responders and bassett or doctors

nurses and so what do you do in so that's the world food program we don't carry into live or just food we do whatever is necessary to bring the world where it needs to be to get through difficult times and so in this type of time like with covert impact we are the logistics humanitarian backbone for the world for the world whether souter's if a w.h.o. we have actually transported over 100000 cubic meters of supplies to over 172 countries around the world 267000 passengers somebody said that we were the largest operating airline in the world right i don't know if that's the case but i know we ramped up scaled up and now that the airline industry is coming online is taking pressure off us to get focused back to where we want to be focus and that is feeding people and even people out and hopefully get vaccines out to the people and i was going to get to that in fact i mean vaccines are now being rolled out in rich

countries and the concern though is that poor countries on the african continent for it for instance will be left behind a number of them a part of that the kovacs program to distribute this vaccine but there as you know to just sickle challenges with this how is that you have to be going to be involved in how do we make sure that this attack scene also is available to countries that need it as well to poorer nations we don't quite know what our role will be yet but we're letting everyone know that we are available take advantage of all of our resource i would just 6 just absolutely proven and tried system where we're there was covert whether it was ebola whatever it might be we were available to make certain those vaccines get out in the most inexpensive way possible in the most effect. possible as the coronavirus pandemic rages on david beasley around the world refugees of course some of the most vulnerable people to catching and dying from this disease. water let alone health care al-jazeera stand their child reports

from the world's not just refugee camp. in bangladesh take a little over 3 and a half years since arriving are refugees crossed into bangladesh from myanmar when you walk around the camp there is a stability and normalises but on the other hand when you talk to the rowing or refuges them so you can sense there's a sense of frustration that been facing major challenges during the pandemic aside from restriction limitation on communication the brain also shortage of food and limitations of russian food you already know i'm very happy to get the russian but to be honest it's not enough for the family sometimes i have to do rice from. strictly depend on him an attorney and assistance from aid agencies and bangladesh government we had to make sure that we had enough to feed all 860000. and on top of that we also. feel assistance programs for members of his community

not talking to many of their own we found out their sense of frustration they're mainly concerned about their children and nearly half the population are children their own have access to any proper education there's been too frail repaired and there are no what their future holds there's a lot of uncertainty in their mind david beasley we saw there refugees from myanmar in bangladesh. under difficult conditions exacerbated by the cold a pandemic but i want to get now to the issue of conflict and hunger. and the reason these refugees find themselves in bangladesh today is because of the conflict in the states of course and in your various speeches to the un security council you have repeatedly linked conflicts and hunger where 10 years into the war in syria more than 5 years in yemen libya south sudan millions of civilians around the world being deliberately starved to death in 2018 we recall that the un

security council passed a resolution which prohibited the use of hunger as a weapon of war and yet it's still happening and no cases of human made famine have ever been prosecuted at the international level what do you see they did basically as the biggest stumbling block. this is where i think the leaders in the world have got to focus on the on the areas of conflict and bring the pressure to bear to resolve these conflicts is it to me in a more complicated we've got so many areas of conflict in syria for example david beasley bashar al assad's need. has beleaguered the country for most of its 10 year war and even earlier this year efforts to authorize the delivery of aid were blocked by the russians at the u.n. security council what is your message to the international community today on syria . well it's very frustrating around the world the number of conflicts are

continuing to bubble up and we've got to bring in into some of these conflicts quite frankly we could in world hunger if it were not for the man made conflict right in the leaders in the world kid is distracted as they are on so many issues we've got to come together elice to solve a couple of them right now let's solve human lists of serialist solve you know that's what we need you know allow you think that i have not being sold as a weapon yet this anymore yet do you think that this is not being solved this question of. food as a as a weapon of war because perhaps the w.s.p. has become a substitute for political action isn't there perhaps a danger of an over reliance on the w.s.p. that can absolve spa leticia from blame for creating famine or alternatively the international community's responsibility to protect. well it the politicians handle political questions but we use food as

a weapon of peace in fact when i got here my goal was to put the war or food program out of business so that we would no longer be needed because we have sustainable development but this manmade conflict is ongoing now with this is really important because you never could get the security council to come together with regards to food security in its relationship to peace and stability and we were able to pass that ledge that that resolution last year which was a major breakthrough so i think what the work nobel peace prize committee is doing here is sending that message to the world is saying that food is critical to peace and stability and peace and stability is critical to food therefore we must minimize and where we can stop food being used as a weapon of war weapon of recruit about extremist groups a weapon a division let's use food as a weapon of peace today millions of people in yemen are at risk of dying of hunger if one assistants doesn't reach them you have expressed concern w.s.p.

has expressed concern that deliveries ah being obstructed in yemen who stopping aid getting to the people who need it i'm a yemen is a crisis all of its own the worst humanitarian crisis literally on the face of the planet we feed unfortunately 13000000 people in a country of 29000000 people and so we face obstacles hurdles access and now money to rebuild is putting up the are now a half rashes with with about 8 and a half 1000000 people yeah who's putting up the obstacles because humans are you talking about but everybody's got well about a year and a half ago 'd 2 years ago i was tough on the coalition because the hard data port we worked through that and i remember the who teased saying thank you thank you and i say whoa whoa whoa whoa i'm not saying that because i'm on your side i'm saying that because we need the ax. this into the port see when you cross that line i'm go jump on your back too and i have been especially in the last year to have because

we haven't had the excess we needed we have a bit of put the biometrics in place we have not been able to put the people all the things we need to make certain that our donors are confident they were reaching the intended beneficiaries and it has been a struggle every single day in the hootie controlled area it's been just a disaster as i said i don't think she was incompetent yet now you've got all of these demands around the world right as president tom prepares to leave office he wants to designate the whole things as a terrorist organisation would you agree with that. well that's a political decision but that well nothing i can do on hands on in the spoken to of the leadership have spoken to the leadership in many countries around the world but i was in washington d.c. just last week speaking with the leadership explaining the consequences of the designation and the hurdles in the problems that we will face we'll do whatever we need to do we always have whether the sages are designations or not we'll do what

we can to reach the people our job is the let the leaders understand clearly what will be the ramifications and what the difficulties that will be for us to reach people yemen is already in an extremely volatile fragile state with i can't begin to tell you we are on the brink of famine right now in yemen people are not getting enough food we don't have the access we need is just heartbreaking what we're doing to the innocent people and victims of this war so we need money the gulf states need to step up because there's so many demands around the world if the gulf states will step up to yemen it will take some of the financial pressure off of to say western donors to be able to to impact some of the devastation we're seeing now with covert in the sahara region western africa eastern africa d r c afghanistan so the gulf states have got to step up in yemen right now as well

as other middle eastern conflicts david beasley your of course the executive director of the world food program but you're also a republican a former governor of the u.s. state of south carolina and you've described yourself as not a u.n. kind of guy what does that mean. i remember with some of our 1st you had meetings they had all this u.n. lingo these acronyms that i did know what the world they were saying half a tablet i said to the secretary general said i don't know what they're talking about. here though are they hug or. so they started you're trying to use common sense language and i really do think this one of the reasons that we've been a we've been very successful in raising the bar and raising more money because the parliament leaders around the world hear a common sense lingo elaine was the you understand because they've got to convince so they are taxpayers why should we send money down to shed i mean i've got problems of bridges eggs and bob very are or school problems in birmingham you know

this type of thing so what i do is come in speak the common person language that everybody understands if you do this this is what school happen if you don't do this this is what's going to happen is how do you how do you actually have no not at all sure there has and he's having. how do you view the u.n. the united nations as an organization president trump has criticized the un's bloated bureaucracy has called it has called it weakening competent not a friend of democracy he said would you agree with him on any of those points well although as to the world food program i mean i call you know the miracle on pennsylvania avenue we've been able to bring the administration the white house and the republicans and the democrats together where they're fighting over everything we've been able to bring them together increase funding because they see that the world food program is a very fishy right there effect resizing operation make a difference around the world let me just pick up on something you said there very interesting that you said that because many feared that the trump administration

would cut significant funding for w.s.p. as it did with other u.s. contributions to the multilateral system but w.s.p. and unicef both headed by americans like yourself remain the charmed parts of the u.n. system they're properly funded gifted by the u.s. don't you think this is unfair to other u.n. agencies that are doing great work as well i mean u.n. women or u.n. f.b.a. for example well of going to bat for a lot of other u.n. operations and my job my job is to to feed people around. world and make the world food program the most are too easy and effective that it possibly let me touch on palestine if i can please from 2018 until now the trump administration has cut funding for the west bank and gaza and basically all humanitarian aid for 4 palestinians in those cuts came after the palestinian leadership decided to sever

ties with the trump administration for having moved the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem i wonder david beasley how are you able to do your job and help people who desperately need you while having to navigate the wishes of the administration which provides most of your funding. well it has been a problem for me because i'm a straight shooter and that whether it doesn't matter which side of the fits you all you know in this job in the world food program i'm not republican or democrat i'm a humanitarian and so i'll just speak the truth and let the cards fall where they may and i have found a lot of leaders when i walked into the meeting who had one opinion when i sat down said this let me explain how washy things and let me answer any questions you have and you know they may not always agree with you but they walk away saying you know what i respect that and whether it's in the west bank or palestine or syria or afghanistan or yemen you know we've got to work through these issues with my job is

to make certain that innocent victims of conflict and war they they can survive and have a better life they can be the final question the united nations says one of his 2030 development goals is to eliminate hunger and famine is that a cheat people do you think you can do that because that would mean you'd be out of a job and that they wouldn't exist as an agency well my goal is to put the world food programme out of business as we've achieved 0 hunger do i think is do about 2030 the answer is yes do i think it's going to happen by 2030 the answer is no in the question why because of man made conflict eliminate a this is what really upsets me there's $400.00 trillion dollars worth of wealth on the earth today i mean just during coded billionaires made trillions of dollars and i'm sitting here struggling to feed. in keep children alive

this is incredible i mean what have i missing here there should be a single child going to bed hungry in the world today not one not when you have $400.00 trillion dollars worth of wealth we've got the capacity and the expertise to deliver we just need the politics to get out the way so we can help the people in create an environment that we're no longer needed in that is something we do well but we need the access we need the money and we need wars to in well i hope your message is heard loud and clear david beasley executive director of the world food program thank you so much for talking to are to see where they fall and thank you for watching the nobel interview it where again at 030-0830 g.m.t. on december the leavened and is available on demand at al-jazeera dot com for me fully back to the whole team here in doha thank you for watching by for now.

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no matter what we've been musing kind of fast that matter to you. israel and morocco agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of president donald trump. hello i'm adrian figured this is all just 0 live from doha also coming up. caretaker prime minister how sandia is charged over the beirut ports explosion that killed more than $200.00 people. we are willing to grant access tool at the single market to our british friends it's the largest single market in the world. but the conditions have to be sure the e.u.

is chief lays out a backup plan in case of a no deal briggs's as leaders of the bloc gather for the annual summit. please don't ask us to choose who lives in. a call to action to combat hunger by the chief of the un's food agency while receiving the 2020 nobel peace prize. morocco and israel normalize ties and the u.s. brokered deal in exchange the u.s. has recognized morocco sovereignty over the disputed western sahara region it's the 4th arab countries to agree to diplomatic relations with israel president trump announced the deal on twitter let's go straight to washington. our correspondent our white house correspondent. kelly how god is with us at the white house in a moment we'll speak to harry forces who's in western roussillon kimberly what is

the white house saying about this deal. now as you mentioned the u.s. president making this dramatic shift in u.s. policy on twitter here's what the president had to say today i signed a proclamation recognizing moroccan sovereignty over the western sahara rocko serious credible and realistic autonomy proposal is the only basis for a just and lasting solution for enduring peace and prosperity and another historic breakthrough today are 2 great friends israel and the kingdom of iraq 0 have agreed to full diplomatic relations a massive breakthrough for peace in the middle east and what we're learning is that this deal was resolved or at least secured in a telephone call that reportedly took place between the u.s. president several hours ago and the king mohammad the 6th from the kingdom of course full diplomatic relations between morocco and israel are 1 what this deal

will mean as part of the deal the u.s. is recognizing the kingdom sovereignty over the western sahara and as you mentioned this is the 4th arab country though to normalize relations with israel as part of this administration's abraham accords initiative now made in a phone call of background call with jared krishna who is the senior advisor to the president the president's son in law what he said this is going to mean in terms of the deal is this will allow israeli airlines to have up to 20 direct air flights using american airspace there will be deeper business ties and also this will mean an establishment of a season eventually in the respective nations now this is something apparently that has been under discussion for some time adrian we know that the israeli government was consulted repeatedly the u.s. has been pushing for this what the belief is this builds on some of the established relations already in place it will allow for greater stability in the region

according to the trumpet ministration but there's a big buy here at. that but is is that this is a big shift in u.s. policy for the administration that's on its way out as a we know the u.s. election has occurred president elect biden takes office june twitter rather january 20th and so this is the united states being now the only western nation to recognize moroccan sovereignty over the western so hard i was formerly controlled by spain it's now claimed by morocco despite international dispute about that so there's going to be a tough choice for president like biden when he comes in is he going to affirm what donald trump has done or is he going to have to make the decision to reverse that this is going to be the tough challenge and that's why this makes this even a greater surprise that the u.s. president has done this knowing that it is a big departure from u.s. policy in the past and knowing that it could be reversed come january 20th

a white house correspondent kimberly how could that live in washington let's go to west jerusalem then i'll just there's harry forces that wants israel saying about this. well i am seeing any official reaction to this just yet but certainly this is obviously part of a wider strategy that has paid off so much over the last 4 years of such close alliance with the united states administration the administration of donald trump we've already seen the other 3 normalization deals with the united arab emirates with bahrain and saddam and now we have this one as far as benjamin netanyahu is concerned he has conducted a strategy since the new u.s. election of while welcoming. joe biden and congratulating joe biden being fairly muted in the terms that he's used he didn't in his initial congratulations even refer to him as the president elect while at the same time still being just as if you served as ever about donald trump that seemed to be in

many analysts opinion the possibility still more to be done for israel by the trumpet ministration even in its dying days and this would seem to be something very much along those lines are now a. arab nation a muslim nation normalizing its ties with israel perry force of that and west or islam let's bring in out of here a senior political analyst mullen bashara has hit and let me read you that tweet once again today i signed a proclamation recognizing we're all consultancy of the western sahara morocco serious credible and realistic autonomy proposal is the only basis for a just and lasting solution for ensuring peace and prosperity what do you make of this. well you know let's call it what it is the imperial proclamation right i mean in the end of the day. washington is

using its influence around the world on behalf of israel or rather israel is outsourcing american power for its own benefit in the great the middle east and hence you see that america would change its policy you know with the spin of a pen as it where in favor of israel and so i mean one at this point in time out there we've seen how this is really meant to you know set of arms so sophisticated fighter jets or you know a solvent the or a border or or and none entity as in the western sahara it's not piece it is what it is it's quick or quote that's the thing that the president talked never knew how to pronounce when it came to the ukraine now each should know that that's exactly what his policy is it is not a peace policy it's it is a policy it meant to sort of israel and. or on behalf of israel by giving out all

sorts of the words proclamations and in favor of this or that party and then calling it peace and what are we to make of morocco's motivations. well you know moral quiz is gaining an american look are going to show then as we all know an american group your mission is worth a lot in today's world because not too many people are paying attention at the united nations really in the end of the day and we've seen for example the american recognition of the jerusalem capital of course you know went on in not too many people being too much knowledge of it and now america is recognizing broken sovereignty over the western sahara so really all in all america is acting unilaterally is acting without consultation with the our lives without consultation with the united nations but always on behalf of israel outsourcing that kind of

influence is really really a tricky business because in the future people will get the impression right or wrong i think it's more complicated than a simple impression that israel controls america that that there's an israeli lobby that is in control in washington and if you need anything from the united states or what you're going to have to do is do this and that towards israel and israel will deliver the goods as it were because that's exactly what we're seeing now we're seeing a 55 is the most sophisticated fighter jet in the world being sold if you normalize relations with israel you get your sovereignty extended if you recognize or normalize relations with israel and so on so forth we're seeing america a motion or e a diplomatic motion that it on batteries or and morocco 42 on very narrow interest and that's our as been in for

a good number in return for for the time being consulates in jerusalem or tel aviv what about matter and perhaps you know future relations so it's a you know it's it's reality guys where it's it's not great because in the end of the day as we all know marrocco like the emirates like bahrain are making peace not with israel they're making peace with the israeli occupation of palestine. where does this leave the the incoming biden of ministration in a bind. not really because the reaction flowed from the by now in this session so far it has been 2 comments the courts as they were called between by her in the united arab emirates and israel under the auspices of the trump organization they're not going to go into much details and headaches into really seeing how this does change or how much a change the balance of power and what is not great for peace for palestinian

rights and why this complicates the peace process moving forward complicates the 2 state solution moving forward it it emphasizes and it through radicalizes the israeli right wing policies toward spineless line so none of that is really looked at by the by the by the administration a by the administration it will be looking at our goods we have 4 countries and normalizing relations with israel that can always be good and we will see late thought about how we will reward the palestinians by opening their office in washington by. relaunching some of the aid to the palestinians and perhaps even starting that dialogue 6 with the p.l.o. in order to please them all the while israel continues its occupation continues its settlements of the palestinian territory continues and deep inside its control of palestine and the by going to miss stations just going to have to live with that and we're already hearing from

a number of people who are taking the high. positions in that by demonstration that it would be taking a bit less attention to israel palestine a bit more attention to iran and other issues the middle east al-jazeera city a political analyst mullen bashar many thanks gave no one. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has has been charged with negligence over the beirut port explosion 3 of the former ministers have also been accused more than $200.00 people were killed in the oldest 4th disaster with thousands injured and many more left homeless it was caused by a huge stockpile of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which had been improperly stored at the port for 6 years before the most senior figures to be charged in the investigation which is being criticized for its secrecy and lack of progress left out of beirut to zeros in a whole can tell us more why it has been charged when he was only in power for such a short time. well according to the

lead the judge investigating the explosion did have received written notices that he was aware about the presence of highly explosive material on safely stored at warehouse 12 of the thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate believed to be responsible for that explosion and he did nothing about that he failed to take action definite self has acknowledged that the he knew about the presence of the material and he in fact was supposed to visit that warehouse but postpone the visit saying that he was receiving conflicting reports but many are asking questions about this judicial decision why are you going after jihad when he was not the only one who knew about the presence of this material in fact in july the president michel aoun also received a report from security officials saying that that material is a security risk and a security threat then of course there are others who say that the official

successive governments because this ammonium nitrate was stored at that warehouse for years for 6 to 7 years why aren't you going after former prime ministers or former. former prime ministers who were in charge so already some are saying that this is an unjust the accusation against her sandia but this is the beginning of what could be a very very long process. i was there as a hold up live for us in beirut thanks in a. weather update next here on out 0 then cementing strategic ties turkey's president attends a nazeri military parade to celebrate its victory in the grower kind of back. and libya's internationally recognized government has released 2 russian detainees signaling an easing of relations.

various looking pretty quiet now across the middle east some subtle changes going on we have still got some showers some wet weather it's that eastern side it's just pushing across the caucuses over towards the caspian sea northern parts of iraq could catch a shero 2 here include enough in terre temperatures at around 60 degrees celsius cold enough here in doha as well $25.00 degrees celsius on friday and it will feel even cooler as we go on into saturday a freshening northwest the a fresh breeze blowing through 23 celsius here the winds picking up a little bit lifted dust and sand to watch out for doubts was the south of the region you might catch a shower to around the southern end of the red sea that western side of yemen but nothing too much to speak of in islam dry around the horn of africa plenty of showers though in to the democratic republic of congo i will see some wetter weather route along the rift valley noticing creasing showers just started to push

their way into northern parts of mozambique and northern areas in bob wales a seeing more showers returning him still some showers in play there just around the eastern side of south africa over time these may well become a little heavier as we go on through saturday temperatures in cape town at 21 celsius looking fine dry and sunny. so may al-jazeera london to a cost center to special guests in conversation i don't feel because of colonialism unprompted it's fun interrupted there's a sense of what a month but i'm still hovering so i'm legitimacy in terms of spreading the knowledge and technology pretty ago powell meets jules the parikh so you can really make a record ration for something more new mentally horrific past slavery studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

hello again this is al jazeera let's roger the bay news there's a rocket israel a civilized ties and a u.s. brokered deal president trump announced the deal on twitter calling it an historic breakthrough it's the 4th our country to agree to diplomatic relations with israel . in exchange the u.s. has recognized morocco sovereignty over the disputed western sahara region recent violence but of a sorry affront faces about the collapse of a 30 year old cease fire. and lebanon's caretaker prime minister has been charged over the beirut ports explosion which devastated the city of sandia but 3 former ministers are accused of negligence around $200.00 people were killed in the august

4th disaster. in brussels a year leaders have stepped up their preparations for the possibility that the u.k. will break away without a trade deal britain's prime minister boris johnson and the european commission's chief on the land have until sunday to reach an agreement. we are willing to grant access to the single market to our british friends it's the largest single market in the world. but the conditions have to be sheer they have to be fair for our workers and for our companies and this fine balance of fairness has not been achieved so far our negotiators are still working and will take a decision on sunday or while that's happening with briggs it leaders have been deadlocked over agreeing on the punches which includes a major covert 19 recovery package poland and hungary have delayed in signing off

the deal because they've taken issue with funds being tied to the rule of law but now hungary's president is hinting that a deal may happen. today we are fighting for the unity of our. common continent. and even what is more important not just the victory of the european union but we are fighting for the victory of the of the common sense because it's obvious that when our nations and so many millions of people are in real need because of pandit we can because of the economic consequences of that we have to behave reasonably and to find a way for reliable approaches and a victory for common sense to provide. pandemic house services to the people who are in need and to provide financial assistance for those countries who are really in need to have people for the 1st time the number of reported coronavirus stats in the u.s. has passed 3000 in one day that exceeds the number of people killed on september

the 11th the world's worst terrorist attack almost 290000 people are known to have died in the u.s. since the beginning of the pandemic the u.s. food and drug administration panel is meeting to discuss an emergency use of the fire as a tech vaccine vizor a group will decide whether or not to endorse the vaccine signaling approval by the f.d.a. if given the green light by the regulator millions of jobs could be available to americans within days. libya's internationally recognized government has released 2 russian detainees signaling an easing of relations the pair were arrested in tripoli last year while working for the son of libya's former ruler muammar gadhafi they were accused by prosecutors of election meddling russia backs the tripoli government's rival in libya's civil war ward holly for half the both sides agreed to a permanent ceasefire in october we will forces loyal to khalifa haftar say that they've

released a turkish ship that was seized on monday the libyan national army who control the country's east so that the vessel was violating maritime law the incident was condemned by turkish officials turkey backs the government of national court in tripoli of 0 order up to 100 reports from tripoli. the 2 russian nationals that have been just released by the tripoli based government this of course indicates that the relations or the ties between the tripoli based government and russia in one way or another is getting better despite the fact that as you know that russia is accused of backing the warlord prefer have to in fact leading with him through russian mercenaries are russian advanced weapons the military campaign that he launched on tripoli last year as for the news from eastern libya their spokesman of have to his forces and in this mari posted that they have released.

this of the their forces did to capture it on december 5th it was. raising get the jamaican flag and 9 turkish nationals along with 7 indians and one from other beach on the vessel crew were detained by have to his forces as they say for violating the maritime regulations by sailing in a restricted military zone and they have reportedly paid a fine. before the release turkey's presidents was in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against armenia in their conflict of the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh president wrote some type of want to tend to the military parade in this area capital baku ankara had backed azerbaijan during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month or one took aim at armenia and said the turkey is trying to bring peace to the region. we have no grudge against the armenian nation our

problem is with its administration we have armenians in our country some of them are immigrants some have citizenship some don't our main goal is to establish peace if you try to take care of by just deciding that in your own assembly and your own parliament and you think this is your own state you have no right to say so more now from our 07 course we'll do in istanbul. this victory is seen by 2 countries that it's a joint victory a victory of the turkish and i was our bijani member 3 and 2 leaders emphasized that earlier today during their speech is saying that this is this is also a victory that will a pave the way for the united of the turkic world of course from the joint press but what is important is that 2 leaders that have strongly defended the armenian troops leaving dorky pite terry's territories and the go on a kind of are they are open to peace both leaders brought to the table that an

offer was made earlier for a 6 party. platform which will include russia iran georgia turkey as our bed john and armenia and saw that through this platform regional peace shall be installed salvias stylish and out on a sound that main us presence will also so for good and turkey's open is ready to open its border to armenia if they would like to be in walled in the 6 party. regional peace corp this was an important message actually apparent that the turkish leader who has supported our very leader militarily and diplomatically is actually aiming for a peace broker a role in the region as it's also trying to extend its influence into the caucuses the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize the event was held virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic the world food program's

executive director david beasley has received the award he warns of a hunger pandemic could be worse than covert 19 because of so many wars climate change the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon and the global war hills pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse 270000000 people are marching toward starvation. to address their needs will cause a hunger pains. and if that's not bad enough out of that $27030000000.00 depend on us 100 percent for their survival how will humanity respond the world's largest refugee camp his caucus bizarre in bangladesh it's home to almost a 1000000 refugees who fled a military offensive in 3 years ago the camp and the surrounding community depend heavily on the work of the world food program especially as penguin dash deals with

the coronavirus pandemic. is a. little over 3 and a half years since they're going to refuges crossed into bangladesh from myanmar when you walk around the camp there is a stability and normally see but on the other hand when you talk to they're going to refuges and so you can sense there's a sense of frustration that been facing major challenges during the pandemic aside from the limitation on communication that's been also started their food and limitations of russian. i'm very happy to get the russian but to be honest it's not enough for the family sometimes i have to prove rice from. a strictly depend on humanitarian assistance from. bangladesh government to make sure that we had enough to feed all 860000. and on top of that we also. reduce distance program for members of the community now talking to many of their own we found out their

sense of frustration they're mainly concerned about their children and nearly half the population are children that don't have access to any proper education there's been too frail repaired and there are no what their future holds there's a lot of uncertainty now in their mind. a prominent afghan female television news anchor and her driver been killed in one province the unidentified gunman opened fire on my ones car soon after she left her house she was an advocate for the rights of afghan women and children no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attack in the democratic republic of congo a political deadlock is threatening security protests have turned violent after the president threatened to dissolve parliament president felix she katie took office last year when joseph kabila stepped down after 18 years in power this was a peaceful transition that political parties still are thoughts just to katie's passing the u. d p s is trying to change some laws and court judges but those attempts have been

met by resistance from members of the f.c.c. that holds the majority the united nations envoy to the d.l.c. says the instability could seriously affect other economies in the region. were severely is an analyst at the center for research on the congo and washington he says that the president is still fighting for control. their elections in 2018 was not free and fair i was rigged and of course this was inevitable that a year almost 2 years after the election there is a crisis where religious acadian that's not control that institutions and strive to assert its power and try to rally the publisher 'd unfortunately this press is happening when the people are suffering in the east we still have instability we have a 22000000 kohli's a virtual star bishop according to the world food program and this political apparatus is not going well for the population and so community has not stepped up

really as i just indicated kamil a feeling for control of the country right now joseph kabila has a military force there and yes 2500 soldiers 'd paid by the call is government cortex it secondly the senate we have 108 senators 92 of the senators are from. equal troels the senate and names out is a senator for life according to our constitution opponents of a $23000000000.00 arms deal between the u.s. and the u.a.e. have failed to block it in the u.s. senate the trumpet ministration plans to sell f. 35 fighter jets not advanced reaper drones to the gulf country the president approved the sale as a side deal to the u.s. normalization agreements with israel france's data protection watchdog says that it's find google again the watchdog says the tech giant has been fined $121000000.00 for breaching european online privacy rules in

a safe and it said that it also imposed a multibillion dollar fines on amazon for breaching the same rules related to tracking user data. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera morocco and israel a normalize ties in a u.s. brokered deal president trump announced the deal on twitter calling it a historic breakthrough it's the 4th country to agree to diplomatic relations with israel and exchange the u.s. has recognized morocco sovereignty over the disputed western sahara region recent violence with paula savio from faces of the collapse of a 30 year old cease fire white house correspondent kimberly how could reports this will allow israeli airlines to have up to 28 direct air flights using moroccan

airspace there will be deeper business ties and also this will mean an establishment of embassies eventually in the respective nations now this is something apparently that has been under discussion for some time adrian we know that the israeli government was consulted repeatedly the u.s. has been pushing for this what the belief is this builds on some of the establish relations already in place it will allow for greater stability in the region according to the trumpet ministration lebanon's can take a prime minister has been charged over the beirut port explosion which devastated the city has been $34.00 minister sore accused of negligence around $200.00 people were killed in the oldest false disaster in brussels even leaders have stepped up their preparations for the possibility that the u.k. will break away without a trade deal britain's prime minister boris johnson the european commission's chief survive on the land have until sunday to reach an agreement. the u.s. food and drug administration panel is meeting to discuss an emergency use of the

fire bell and tech vaccine advisory group will decide whether or not to endorse the vaccine signaling approval by the f.d.a. if given the green light by the regulator millions of jobs could be available to americans within days turkey's president has visited azerbaijan to celebrate it is close allies victory against armenia and its conflict over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh president want to tend to the military parade in this area capital baku france's data protection watchdog says it's fined google again the watchdog says the tech giant has been fined $121000000.00 for breaching european union online privacy rules. those are the headlines we'll have more news fear here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next.

the rango are experiencing a severe mental health crisis a report finds the crisis is said to be life threatening and has been overlooked so could this be a wake up call and what does it take to deal with this crisis this is inside story . hello and welcome to the program. they escaped terrifying events during the 2017 mean more military crackdown but we're going to refugees are still haunted by memories of burned villages killings rape and torture the suspected genocide has led to a severe mental health crisis for the survivors that's the finding of the fortify

rights organization about a 1000000 of the running the muslim minority now live in the crowded camps of bangladesh's cox's bazaar many have said they feel humiliated there and they now face being sent to a remote island reported to be unsafe with poor living conditions and a lack of proper facilities stephanie decker reports. the numbers are staggering it's not surprising a new report on the mental health of the right has found that most of those surveyed suffer some form of mental health problems almost 90 percent indicated they suffered some symptoms of depression and just over 60 percent reported symptoms that suggest post-traumatic stress disorder or p.t.s.d. a lot of the elements of distress radek stress disorder depression what we're seeing in our research is that they are what is underlying this distress is the systematic arrays in the unmarked violent experience in myanmar and the everyday living stressors of being in

a refugee camp so these are much more systematic drivers of distress that are much more complicated to address during a volunteers conducted surveys among households and in community workshops to come up with the findings the report adds that these mental health symptoms including p.t.s.d. depression and anxiety increase the difficulty of refugees to function for example just over 91 percent of those all sed so they found it challenging to carry out common daily activities such as men tending basic hygiene engaging in social or religious activities or performing any other daily tasks around a 1000000 have lived in tough conditions in these camps in the far south east of bangladesh for 3 years now. they fled neighboring me and maher in august of 2017 during a minute to crack down the torched villages and lead to soldiers being accused of mass killings rape and torture. earlier this year the international criminal court

ordered measures to prevent the genocide everything to muslims in myanmar genocide is a charge that has been strongly denied by me in mars' peace laureate aung san suu kyi calling the events in internal conflict triggered by reading a militant attacks on government security posts. but the stories of atrocities and persecution number in the hundreds of thousands each hut has a tragedy in what is the world's largest refugee camp the future of these people remains uncertain and now many are facing a controversial move by bangladesh's government to challenge in island in the bay of bengal. most have no identity papers no home and no future and that's adding to the worsening mental health of young and old stephanie decker for inside story. all right let's bring in our guests matthew smith is chief executive officer of 45

rights he joins us from the east coast in the united states in vancouver we have yes i mean ola president at working a human rights network tom andrews is u.n. special repertoire on the situation of human rights in myanmar and he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to each of you matthew let me start with you in my entire career as a journalist i have never encountered such horrific descriptions of atrocities as i did when i 1st traveled to cox's bazaar in 2017 and started interviewing rohingya refugees about what happened to them back in may and more we're talking about pain and trauma on a scale so large that to this day it is still almost unfathomable now fortify rights has released a new report where you delve in to the mental health impact that this campaign of brutality and violence against the writing a has had on refugees tell us more about your findings. you know my experience is similar working in human rights over the last 15 years in myanmar and we certainly

have never seen any levels like this either which of course is not to say that other communities in myanmar not in what this what this report provides is quantitative data on rohingya human rights experiences with human rights violations not only in myanmar but also in bangladesh and what's unique about it i think is that it it delves into. the quantitative side of this the scale you get a real sense of the scale through the quantitative methods that were employed so we're focusing on traumatic events daily functioning symptoms of mental suffering including as was mentioned post-traumatic stress disorder. post-traumatic stress disorder p.t.s.d. is a very serious mental condition it can severely imperil one's ability to live a normal and constructive life and the figures are off the charts what we found was that according to the united nations 12 months after an emergency situation whether

that be a situation of war or a natural disaster or in this case of millions being an act by a military in myanmar 15 to 20 percent of the adult population are expected to experience some type of mental health disorder the figures among the writing to are much much higher so this is certainly not a scale that is consistent with the gravity of the crimes that we knew were taking place and we knew have taken place and it is something that is in urgent need of attention yes i mean anybody who is visited the camps in bangladesh or spoken to are going to refugees or read about what transpired knows that writing are refugees who've been so traumatized need better access to mental health care how difficult is it for him to refugees to get that care. there is almost no sustained. type of mental health support at this moment in the camps

and given the timeline that this has been the 3rd tier of people living inside the crowded camps of the destitute situations there are there isn't really a support system nor is there a sustained effort or or some sort of effort that will allow refugees to be able to access the health care in the language that they're comfortable with often there is already are you know a very exhaustive health care system that's at work but not nearly answering to the needs of the refugees that's on physical health and there are a lot of fundings that are going into these facilities but it's still not enough to care for you know the general refugees population so mental health is in the back burner and it's not even talked about in the ways that it needs to be which is why

this report is really really jarring tom i want to ask you about the rangar who are back in may and more. many groups many rights groups many humanitarian organizations have said in the past couple of years that they believe that a genocide is ongoing and man war against the rangar that potential possible war crimes are still being committed against the rangar in me and more what are the conditions currently like for them and men. i want to say 1st of all that it's so important for the international community to pay close attention to what is going on both in bangladesh and in me and more with respect to the ring the community inside me and more there are more than 600000 members of the rainbow community living in reconning state more than a 100000 of them live in spread out in 20 camps. internally placed a displaced persons camp some refer to them as internment camps living in very very

difficult conditions they do not have access to rights that you and i take for granted they have very very limited in what they are able to do it that they're in an unsustainable situation and they're in danger the billets is even those outside of the camps are exposed they are being heavily guarded by the military so their movement and their right to to move around the country is extremely limited and access to basic services to health care education all the fundamentals of life that again we take for granted are missing in large part in many areas of rakhine state so it's a it's a very very. unacceptable and unsustainable situation in recounts date for the range of community. matthew what needs to happen going forward to ensure that rohingya refugees get access to that much needed mental health care well you know

the the the typical response to a situation such as this where there is a tremendous need for. psychosocial support would be humanitarian and i think at this point for the running a population for the ring a refugee refugee population. the purely psychosocial. response to this is absolutely critical but it's not sufficient what really needs to take place is some action with regard to the root causes of this problem what we learned in speaking with. and what we learned through this this this quantitative study was that the root causes of the mental harm that wrecking our experience in. pertained to genocide pertained to systematic pervasive human rights violations that are continuing in me and mark. and also relates to issues such as impunity and

so if the authorities. if we really want to address the mental health crisis you know we're calling upon governments not only the government that actually govern the myanmar but the international community really needs to focus on not only the psychosocial humanitarian needs but also dealing with the serious human rights violations and that can include holding perpetrators accountable the individuals who are responsible for genocide the architects of the road to genocide are still roaming free in myanmar and that needs to change those individuals need to be held accountable. citizenship needs to be restored the living conditions for running in refugee camps in bangladesh as well as in the more need to be improved so these are some of the areas it's obviously a lot that needs to take place it's not insurmountable this is some. thing that the international community can and should do yasmin last week there were around 1600 rohingya refugees that were transferred by bangladesh's government to the

island of basilan char which is this remote island in the bay of bengal and bangladesh is government says the only running to refugees who wanted to go to that island were taken but many humanitarian groups have expressed concern and they have opposed the move how worried are you about the fact that around 600 refugees were taken there and do you know if there were refugees who were taken there against their will well this is definitely a very concerning moment i am still very worried about the situation as a whole. there have been a few videos a few different footage that come out of the us and char soon after the move and it hasn't really given us the ideal picture that the bangladeshi government have painted and the. situation right now is that

a lot of the people within months and char are you know subjected to a lot of fear and intimidation which is a very very ironic moment where fear and intimidation was as huge part of the genocidal campaign by the miramar military and so this is no way of dealing with the refugees when they are you know seeking a safe haven now. the situation of how people were actually being moved was very very vague and very complicated in a way that they are told not the full truth and at times distant from ation actually became integrity to how they were lured into moving and i'm using a very very loaded word i understand but that the idea that refugees are

actually subjected to a very very traumatized existence and all they're looking for right now is a way out and we as an international community and people that are looking are on are absolutely almost stagnant in a way we're not trying to actively addressing some of the issues that they're dealing with on a day to day basis some of the refugees actually were absent directed to very little resources especially since the lockdown in april many many families have not been able to actually get enough food rations and so they were told some of the cases they were told by the authorities that yes you're going to be given enough food you're going to be given enough care and if the if the authorities are looking for people to resettle the people in bus and troll we consider it 1st and also some of the information gotten and this is no way of dealing with refugees at all you're actually using their vulnerability to your advantage. you know good to keep them

out of sight out of mind tom the united nations has also expressed concern about these relocations of refugees the u.n. issued a statement saying that it had not been involved in preparations for the transfer of the boston char they urged any relocation to boston charge should be preceded by comprehensive technical protection assessments have you gotten any more information about all this well 1st of all mohamed i think it's really important to recognize bangladesh is absolutely correct that the only durable solution to this crisis is for the right angle community to go where they want to go namely home and this crisis began in the in march the solution of this crisis is and it's critically important that the international community do everything possible to make sure that the conditions exist for the safe dignified and sustainable return of their anger to where they want to go to to home bangladeshi showed extraordinary compassion and generosity their anger will literally running for their lives over the border into bangladesh they welcome them they provided them with a safe haven and now there's

a real humanitarian crisis that that's going on because of the mega camps in cox's bazaar and bangladesh is correct in looking for alternatives options and also for being willing to voice the basic basic fundamental solution of this problem i am in marc what the united nations is calling for and what i believe is exactly in everybody's interest is for an independent affectionate to be made bosham trial and where as you pointed out 6100 reading the refugees were taken last week to make sure that the pursuit of these are safe sustainable. that people will be protected access issues are addressed and also to make sure that the people who are there are there voluntarily this is an important component of the bangladesh policy that only those who are there only rango who go to bus and trial and voluntarily will go there only those who want to remain a voluntarily will remain there this is

a very important principle and i think it's important. and for us to provide independent verification that the policy of the bangladesh government is being carried out on the ground so i think that it's in everyone's interest for there to be a a an open clear independent look at these conditions and they were in a population that's now in washington matthew you heard tom there talk about the importance of trying to get independent verification of what the conditions are like on boston char to be speaking to the refugees that have been taken there but you know fortify rights has also expressed a great deal of concern about these relocations to boston char your organization has said that you have testimony from someone in the refugees that suggests that some of these relocations may have been coerced how concerned are you and do you think that we're any closer to seeing bangladesh's government allowing organizations such as yours or the united nations to go there and independently assess the conditions on bus on char. that's right mohammed several weeks ago we

actually sent a letter to the foreign secretary by the dash with 4 other human rights organizations requesting access to the island we've not heard back from the government we did want to send a delegation there ourselves which of course would not involve any sort of technical assessment but it would provide us with an opportunity to assess the human rights situation on the island and to speak with people who are already there and we do know we have documented that a number of running to have already experienced what amounts to coercion to transfer to the island some are going to have been misled and they've been promised things like resettlement to 3rd countries if they moved to boston char which of course is not happening but beyond that i think in terms of the larger predicament of having upwards of a 1000000 refugees in cox's bizarre district transferrin 100000 from that population to a remote island is certainly not a solution to the broader treasure that the bangladesh authorities

are are experiencing are proceeding with regard to the refugee population there are areas in the subdistrict that. that could have been flagged as as areas where refugees could possibly be relocated to to take off some of the pressure in the congestion the camps but certainly boston char if from our perspective at this point is not the answer tom let me ask you about young the lead she's the former u.n. special repertoire on the situation of human rights in myanmar she was barred by the me amar government not allowed to return and report on the ground for me and more because memoirs government apparently believe that she was being too critical . will you be able to travel to me and i know that right now because of colvin 1000 restrictions you're not able to go but have you been assured by memoirs government your actually go. to be able to go there to go to places like iraq and stated check

on the conditions the ringing of the currently living in or out of the 1st thing i did on my very 1st day a special repertoire 'd was to reach out to the government me and are making that very very dirty request and they told me that well obviously and under these conditions which the pandemic will pandemic the conditions do not exist for you to be able to travel and come to come to the country. in the meantime i have been in direct contact with the government through their ambassador we've been engaging on a regular basis and we've built up i think credibility and trust i am the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights i have an obligation to speak the truth about what i see with respect to these human rights issues and concerns but i'm also very very committed to being to engage with the government of myanmar to listen to them if i get anything wrong to admit it and apologize but to make

sure that this in gauge meant continues and i think it's in the interest certainly of the government of me in law it's in everyone's interest for this dialogue to continue i spoke even before i became special up a tour to some officials in myanmar and they said one of their biggest concerns is a lack of understanding that they have by the international community about their situation from their perspective and i think it's it matt is going to be revealed to the international community if that perspective their side of the story is going to be part of the narrative of this of this crisis that it is in their interest certainly to be open to. the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and to the international community in general so i'm i'm hopeful that when conditions permit i will be returning to to meet more i think it's very important that i do yes me and i in 2018 i met a remarkable person in cox's bazar a rohingya refugee. by the name of girls

a harsh she was in her ninety's she was the head of 4 generations of family she had she had fled man more rock and state 3 different times in her life because of the violence perpetrated against the rohingya and when i interviewed her she told me that she wanted to be able to die where her parents had died and i found out a few days ago that she passed away in the camps in cox's bazaar last july and obviously that's very sad she didn't get her last wish but as she was recounting her story she was telling me that she didn't think she would probably be able to go back home and i wanted to ask you about the experiences that you're hearing up from so many were hunger refugees especially the elderly ones who so desperately want to go home but know that they probably won't be able to go home that they might be dying in those refugee camps in bangladesh are you hearing that concern more and more from people oh yes this is one of the. coup or.

conversation that i've had when i visited in february earlier this year and resounding really everyone that i have spoken to civil society groups. organization that are working within the refugee camps young people old men and women. everyone said almost in one voice that they all want to go home and i think that it's important to highlight the element of displacement that have come in to claim in our lives it has been the you know the theme within the refugees and rohingya lives actually in general we have always been displaced regardless of whether or not the current condition of our lives are ok or whether or not we are safe the existence that we you know as a human are living in embodying our. in that in

a way actually attached and detached with our homeland and we are almost living this double consciousness i think some of the people who might be familiar with the sociological theories at the arista by the name w.e.b. du bois will understand that there were double consciousness and this is basically it this is how we're living we live our everyday lives knowing that there are so many things that could have been had we been given you know that the proper rights the proper treatment by our own government to care for us who were supposed to protect us and that we would have been able to thrive and florists but this is are now reality and it seems like the cycle of abuse and the generational trauma or the genocidal existence will always carry forward and i

i fear that this will carry forward 2 words you know many generations in front of us all right we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests matthew smith yes i mean a lot and tom andrews and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me mohammed i'm going the whole team here by phone.

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market in the world. but the conditions have to be fear the e.u. is chief lays out a backup plan in case of a no deal bragg's it as leaders of the bloc gather for the annual summit. of health officials in the us discuss emotions here approval for the fires a b. on tech covert 19 vaccine after reports of allergic reactions to the jab in the u.k. . and in sports and to wall champion football and says he's ending his sponsorship deal with telecom giants his move follows the reports of the company's involvement in the survey. in time. morocco and israel will normalize ties so the u.s. brokered a deal an exchange the us has recognized morocco sovereignty over the disputed

western sahara region it's the 4th arab countries to agree to diplomatic relations with israel president trump announced the deal on twitter we have correspondents covering every aspect of this. is reporters all morocco extensively is with the syria in doha harry force that is standing by western we also have a diplomatic gets a james pays at the united nations but 1st let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly in washington kimberly what's the white house saying about this deal and how it came about. yeah the u.s. president announcing this on twitter in a series of tweets he says today i signed a proclamation recognizing moroccan sovereignty over the western sahara rocko serious credible and realistic autonomy proposal is the only basis for a just and lasting solution for enduring peace and prosperity and another historic breakthrough today our 2 great friends israel and the kingdom of rocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations

a massive breakthrough for peace in the middle east what we're being told is that this was worked out in a telephone call earlier today between donald trump and the moroccan king what this means is full diplomatic relations between rocco and israel is part of this deal the united states will recognize the kingdom sovereignty over the western so hard now it's important to note this is the 4th nation now to normalize relations with israel as part of the administration's abraham accords an issue in a telephone call with reporters the senior advisor to the president shared cush are saying that what this will entail is that israeli airlines will be allowed to use moroccan airspace there will be an establishment of embassies in the respective countries and there will in terms of the airspace being used the 20 direct flights from israel that will be happening as a result of all of this and then of course deeper business ties now something that the united states says will occur in all 1 of this is that this will promote

stability in the region something that we've heard as they've been announcing these deals but there's a really big bite here at all of this and that is that this is a big departure in terms of foreign policy for the united states and it's unusual to have this happen given the fact that we know come january 20th donald trump will leave office and president elect biden will be sworn in the united states right now is currently the only western country to recognize morocco sovereignty over the western so hard so the question becomes when president elect biden takes office will he keep this policy in place or will he reverse it deserves complete how could the lives of the white house let's go to west jerusalem 104 so there's the promise of netanyahu has been speaking about this deal how he wants to been saying. that's right well you remember that when the election was called in favor of joe biden there was a bit of a delay and less than

a shoo soon for the victory welcome coming from the administration here of prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's been contrasting the extremely a few since still about his relationship with president trump analysts wondered whether there might be another gift in the works from the trauma administration and its dying days and yes they have delivered and so it has been more accused of notice in response from prime minister netanyahu saying thank you to president trump by his extraordinary efforts to bring peace in the region in his words saying that israelis would never ever forget also thanking king mamma the 6th of morocco for deciding on this normalization deal and always with an eye on domestic politics promised you know in the previous normalization deals has been stressing what it could mean practically for israelis in terms of trade in terms of tourism in this instance he's been talking about the fact that so many hundreds of thousands of

moroccan jews came to israel in the early days of zionism and throughout the early days of the israeli state and mit's that is what he calls a bridge to morocco and so again he's been talking about the fact that will be these direct flights that people can go and find a family find trace their family histories in morocco presumably that is something that has happened in the past but in terms of organized to a groups having to fly by europe being able to do so independent be directly will be a major change for. israeli jews of moroccan heritage there's been obviously a very different reaction coming from the palestinian side the outgoing member of the executive committee of the p.l.o. one of mush where he has tweeted that between bribery and blackmail the trying to administration is in a mad scramble to do whatever it can to extract concessions and benefits towards israel even just before the takeover of the presidency by joe biden. carrefour

said live in western let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays who is at the united nations what's been the reaction there at the u.n. james quite a lot of shock here at the united nations this is a change of the u.s. his position with regard to western sahara it goes against the u.n. security council resolutions that means it's a breach of international law that the u.s. is now recognizing morocco's sovereignty over western sahara we just had the daily u.n. briefing with the spokesperson for the secretary general clear that he didn't know any sooner than the rest of us i'm told that even u.s. officials working on this issue had been given no advance warning i asked the spokesman whether he felt this was a quid pro quo remember from the impeachment that phrase that means this for that

i must say that we we found out about this these developments at the same time that you did. and on the on the issue of the i can't speak to you know you mention a quid pro quo that's a question to ask the parties the parties involved. well the rest of the security council being very silent right now they are not saying anything public there is though i can tell you armies in other delegations of the security council about this change of u.s. position i think what is likely is that they're not going to say too much too publicly this does put the president elect joe biden in a bit of a bind because if he goes against this deal it'll be going against a deal between israel and morocco that's the bit that the that the u.s. population are likely to like but he has a real problem with the western sahara part of the deal and i think you'll get quiet pressure from other security council members once he takes office in january

diplomatic as the james base of the u.n. in new york many thanks james joins us now out here in doha russians covered extensively. what's your take on this deal russian well adrian this is something that is definitely going to have far reaching consequences not only in the region by we'll see its impact in the african continent and in the middle east for different reasons as far as the issue of western sahara is concerned there while palace in morocco issued a statement welcoming the decision by the u.s. but of the announcement by president donald trump to recognize walker's sub over western encouraging morocco and the polish to move ahead with the autonomy plan that was presented by morocco into 1006 and that was rejected by the parties sorry a movement that recognition today by the u.s.

president on trial is something which will definitely shape the whole thing about the conflict of western sahara is going to give morocco massive political advantage in the coming in the future it will put more pressure on the polish side your front backed by to keep players in africa. south africa and algeria as far as the middle east peace process of the normalization between morocco and israel the royal palace said that the kingdom of morocco reiterated in the special status of jerusalem and would like to see 2 solution a 2 state solution happening in the near future the king of morocco is at the same time the chairman of the. committee of jerusalem committee which was established in 1975 with the aim of finding a solution to the issue of jerusalem and i think the walkers would like to take

this opportunity now to say that we will use our normalization with israel to move forward and to help the both the palestinians and the israelis move forward to work as a permanent solution to the crisis i can say this is a seismic movement move moment that could shape the future of the conflict between morocco and the body so front and could have far reaching consequences consequences in the middle east also the u.a.e. and bahrain have already signed normalization agreements with israel how will this sit with saudi arabia. well the you remember the statements we heard from the trump and musician over the last few weeks that basically they expect. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu that expecting the saudis to step in and i think that with this new decision by the bible iraq and israel to normalize relations the israelis are hoping that this could build the momentum towards more

countries joining the normalization if if the saudis do that in the near future that could have a huge impact on the whole narrative between the arabs and the israelis given the fact that the saudis have always been pride in themselves on being the protector of the sunni islam and one of the most powerful nations in this part of the world but i think the general sentiment at the same time is that you have a new u.s. administration which is going to take over the white house in a few weeks from now and i think they would like to give it some time and see how this is going to move forward but i can tell you're covering this part of the world for quite some time what we have been seeing over the last few weeks is something that could have a huge impact on the b.g. could redefine the whole thing the whole narrative about the other israeli conflict al-jazeera sashing all about our reporting there live from doha many thanks ashleigh. this is the news hour from now to 0 still to come on the program some men

things to teach it ties turkey's president attends a missouri military parade to celebrate its victory in the gotoh cut about. libya's internationally recognized government has released 2 russian detainees signaling an easing of relations. in sports italy's world cup winning hero paolo rossi dies we'll have reaction from italy a little later. the evidence can take a prime minister has sandia has been charged with negligence over the beirut port explosion 3 of the former ministers have also been accused more than $200.00 people were killed in the august 4th disaster with thousands injured and many more left homeless it was caused by a huge stockpile of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which had been improperly stored at the port for 6 years before the most senior figures to be charged in the

investigation which is being criticized for its secrecy and lack of progress let's go live out of beirut of zeros anahata is the center what has been charged but he was only in power for such a short time. well according to the jews sharif the caretaker prime minister has found dead was aware and was given written notices that there was highly explosive material large amounts of nitrate storage warehouse 12. who are at the end he failed to take action dep himself has acknowledged that he knew about the presence of the ammonium nitrate he even sent an officer there in fact he was even scheduled to visit warehouse 12 but just poland the visit because in his words he was receiving conflicting reports but already there are many even some politicians who are now saying that this accusation is unjust that jab is being unjustly targeted like you mentioned he was in power for only a few months he does not have

a political party he is not part of the political class that has been governing this country for decades and many believe it is the political class that should be held to account former prime ministers former ministers even the president the current president who also received a written notices and reports in july from security officials saying that this highly explosive material is a security risk and yet nobody did anything about it and that's why there has been so much public anger that massive explosion killing 200 people damaging and destroying many many neighborhoods but right now a significant development in the investigation a high ranking official is being charged. how does arizona hold a reporting live from beirut let's take a look at how some deb's roll over the past year he came to power in january after weeks of civil unrest led to the resignation of. at the end of 2019 he was quickly

tossed with fixing the was an economic downturn in decades hoping to rescue thousands of jobs and keep the country's currency afloat but they have stepped down in august after a string of his ministers resigned accused of corruption and negligence over the beirut port blast by thousands of angry protesters. is a professor at the american university of beirut he says that lebanon's deep state is simply sector facing the weakest link to appease the people. it's not very surprising this is the deep states attack on the request link and that the state is protecting itself and the clearest indicates your truth out is with that accusation cut and foreign minister they also accused 3 previous transportation ministers a lot of the ticket a sponsible for the pork but faded to accuse the 3 previous prime ministers who have been and power since 2014 when the my trade ammonia and shipments came into

lebanon so it is very clear that this has been a very selective accusation by the deep state which includes the major 6 political parties and their leaders and on with the security forces because an accusation like this without including any of the security of what he was that i would buy to create a sponsible called reporting this and taking action including the customs of thought he reports management the minute to the intelligence officers who all do you know about this is a great failure probably his sons deb's makers the mistake was is that he admitted publicly that he sent his personal details to check on the ammonia nitrate and the officer he said the senior officer who said they reported back saying it's only to fertilize it all monium that it is known to us to take action and that was on the record in some of the meetings that was neat and women's press so i think that it's they it is taking that event is that will sacrifice saying the weakest link to

a key is something the public been on that they are taking some actions for 2 months after the death as they think of last. libya's internationally recognized government has released 2 russian detainees signaling an easing of tensions the pair were arrested in tripoli last year while working for the son of libya's former ruler muammar gaddafi they were accused by prosecutors of election meddling russia backs the tripoli government's rival in libya's civil war war highly for after both sides agreed to a permanent ceasefire in october meanwhile forces loyal to come if i have to say that they've released a turkish ship that was seized on monday the libyan national army which controls the country's east so the vessel says the vessel was violating maritime law the incident was condemned by turkish officials turkey backs the government of national court in tripoli turkey's president has been azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against armenia in their conflict over the disputed territory of

nagorno-karabakh president or one attended a military parade in this area capital baku ankara backed azerbaijan during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month he took aim at armenia and said the turkey is trying to bring peace to the region. we have no grudge against the armenian nation our problem is with its administration we have armenians in our country some of them are immigrants some have citizenship some don't our main goal is to establish peace if you try to take care of by just deciding that in your own assembly and your own parliament and you think this is your own state you have no right to say so 07 costello reports now from istanbul. this victory is seen by 2 countries that it's a joint victory a victory of the turkish and i was our bijani member 3 and 2 leaders emphasized that earlier today during their speech is saying that this is this is also

a victory that will a pave the way for the united of the turkic world of course from the joint press but what is important is that 2 leaders that have strongly defended the armenian troops leaving dorky pite teri's territories in the gonna kovach they are open to peace both leaders brought to the table that an offer was made earlier for a 6 party. platform which will include russia iran georgia turkey as our bed john and armenia and saw that the through this platform regional peace shall be installed salvias stylish and out on a sound that remain as prisons will also serve for good and it turkey is open is ready to open its border to armenia if they would like to be in walled in the 6 party. regional peace corp this was an important message actually apparent that the turkish leader who has supported our very leader militarily and diplomatically is

actually aiming for a peace broker a role in the region as it's also trying to extend its influence into the caucuses the u.k.'s primary supporters johnson says there's a strong possibility of a no deal briggs's or wednesday evening he held urgent talks with the e.u. is chief for the summit in brussels they set themselves a deadline of sunday to secure a trade agreements the prime minister says the pla jarius of disagreement remains. i've just cabinet on where we've got to the friends and partners in the e.u. and they've agreed very strongly with me that the deal on the table is really not at the moment right for the for the u.k. and r.t.t.y. is a couple of things at least to the most important is that. really just in the last couple of weeks they've brought back the idea of this equivalence between the u.k.

in the e.u. which basically means that whatever new rules they brought in we would have to follow or else face punishment sanctions tariffs or whatever that's going to have a serious need parker who joins us now live from london a stray or style dale as opposed to a canada style one is the way that the prime minister describes the way that the u.k. is headed right down the. however you describe it canada australia what it basically means is a no deal breaks it without a trade deal in place and we are very suddenly lurching towards the prospect boris johnson has told the public and businesses to prepare for the eventuality of a break that this is despite having high level 11th hour talks with the head of the european commission us live on the land on that wednesday the prime minister had

hopes that a face to face discussion would help to slow the blockage for the costa shadow of the talks so far however there are a few days yet to play with negotiations continue between the u.k. and the e.u. there is a new deadline of sunday we've been told by the british government that that is the new full stop we may well see some kind of trade deal signed and sealed by sunday we may well see a positive mood music behind the scenes that mean that that sunday deadline is once again pushed forward or we may well possibly see this being the absolute end of it all we have how already had a suggestion of what things might be like if there is indeed no deal breaker reports of tailbacks of lorries heading down towards the port of dover and also the euro tunnel of folkson as companies are getting a surge in orders in anticipation that their supply chains may be badly affected in

the event of a no deal breaks it also some indication from the european union about their contingency planning as well suggesting that they could keep the roads open to british holy is and allow flights from the u.k. to continue for a period of 6 months we don't know if that's an extension to the transition period or whether indeed terrace will be in place but the message from boris johnson is that things are getting very serious. need many thanks dates and a serious new bulk of the live in london in another development from that summits in brussels e.u. leaders have resolved their differences in the nouns to 1.8 trillion euro budgets and pandemic recovery package let's go live now to brussels i was there as paul brennan is that it was hungary and poland who'd been holding up this deal pull what happened to break the impasse. what happened was that germany got on board the presidency of the european council that grouping of e.u.

leaders and brokered a compromise deal on the presidents of the european council shall michel for belgian prime minister has tweeted in the last few minutes the following deal on the m.f.f. the multi annual financial framework now we can start with the implementation and build back our economy it's good news for from their point of view certainly this is a deal of in excess of 2 trillion dollars worth with as part of that around a $900000000000.00 recovery fund which would be dispersed in kind of half grants half handouts sorry half as loans and. it was a big battle over whether or not poland and hungary would veto that deal the reason why because certain e.u. countries felt that poland and hungary were not abiding by the e.u.'s core values of equality and human rights the right wing countries in the right wing governments

in those 2 countries interfering too much for some in the judiciary and in the media and they wanted to make these this funding conditional on the governments falling into line well it seems that a compromise has been done by using the european court of justice as the arbiter in that and making a political decision it would be a legal decision if this mechanism was ever called into question or deserves paul brennan reporting live from brussels paul many thanks. we'll get a weather update next here then. please. don't ask us to choose who lives and who dies a call to action by the head of the un's food agency as he receives the 2020 nobel peace prize. i'm going to suppose in argentina as congress prepares to vote on a bill to legalize abortion. then in sports the n.b.a.'s most valuable player is

being tight lipped on where he's going next son i will be here with the details a little later. hello various looking pretty quiet now across the middle east some subtle changes going on we have still got some showers some wet weather it's that eastern side of turkey just pushing across the caucuses over towards the caspian sea northern parts of iraq could catch a shero 2 here in cool enough in terre temperatures at around 60 degrees celsius cold enough here in doha as well $25.00 degrees celsius on friday and it will feel even cooler as we go on into saturday or freshening northwest of freshening shemale breeze blowing through $23.00 celsius here the winds picking up a little bit lifted dust and sand to watch out for down towards the south of the

region you might catch a shower to around the southern end of the red sea that western side of yemen but nothing too much to speak of and it's largely drier around the horn of africa plenty of showers though into the democratic republic of congo will see some wet weather wrought along the rift valley noticing creasing showers just started to push their way into northern parts of mozambique and northern areas in bob way also seeing more showers returning him still some showers in play there just around that eastern side of south africa over time these may well become a little heavier as we go on through saturday temperatures in cape town at 21 celsius looking fine dry and sunny. as joe biden prepares for the united states to return to the paris climate treaty boris johnson and u.n. secretary general antonio terrace co-host a virtual meeting of world leaders we'll bring you live updates an in-depth reports

as countries struggle to meet their climate targets special coverage on al-jazeera . you know closely related to the players we have a narrative i have a question join me richelle carey and up my guest from around the world and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on al-jazeera. the city a city with a drug problem. in a neighborhood consumed by trafficking. drugs. into oak. street and its. street. view finder latin america series now does it.

get this from al-jazeera a very unforgiving here in the headlines morocco and israel to normalize ties and a u.s. brokered deal in exchange the u.s. has recognized. over the disputed western sahara region. before our countries were agreed to diplomatic relations with israel. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson says there's a strong possibility of a no deal brags that he's been holding urgent talks with the leaders of the solace of boston. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has been charged over the pay reports explosion which devastated the city. and 3 former ministers are accused of negligence around 200 people were killed in the disaster oldest. as a member of global crude it 19 cases continues to rise signs that vaccination

programs around the corner have sparked optimism but safety concerns could slow the progress of inoculations the fire bell and tech vaccine was rolled out for the 1st time this week in the u.k. with health care workers and the vulnerable 1st to get it but officials warn that those with out a full act ecology is shouldn't get the job after 2 national health service staff had adverse reactions the u.s. food and drug administration is meeting now on whether to approve the vaccine for emergency use they'll be looking at possible safety concerns let's go live now to silver spring in the state of maryland to 0. 0 hey it is there it's where the f.d.a. headquarters is that what's happening that today. well what's happening is a run in the meeting of the building behind me but most of it is being held virtually because of the pandemic so what this is basically is a group of independent doctors and scientists and they're think of it like

a jury trial they are right now pfizer executives are up there giving them the details and they're really grilling these experts the maker of the vaccine as well as government officials trying to get to basically the safety of it how effective is it who should be given it one of the big questions that they're taking on is whether the 20000 people who were given a placebo and not the real vaccine should be told hey you're not actually vaccinated be given priority to get the vaccine so at the end of the day what all of these independent scientists and doctors are going to do is they're going to vote 21 g.m.t. and then the f.d.a. can choose to take their advice or not now they norm. we always take the advice of these experts but it's the necessary next step before that decision is made so if it's a unanimous vote we could see the f.d.a. turn around tonight tomorrow or on monday and say ok go ahead release the vaccines and then we're going to see the u.s. government ship out about 2900000 doses across the country so this is basically the

last stage for this vaccine before the f.d.a. says yes or no what could happen though if any of the members have questions if they say you need to get back to you with these details then it could be delayed but it is a rare bright star spot in a country that is just coming to grips with just how bad the coronavirus is here the highest total death rate on wednesday $3011.00 people died from corona virus in a single day that's more than 911 so obviously this is the impact of the thanksgiving holiday experts say don't eat indoors with extended members of your family or friends people did millions did and now we're starting to see the repercussions hospitals are warning that if this continues they may get to the point where they're going to have to decide who lives and who dies who gets care you get sent home. depot hane in silver spring maryland thanks patty and spencer would talk to us on who's in london he's a frontline and can talk to for the u.k.'s national health service could tell us

again dr i'm blessed with pretty good health but like many people watching i'm allergic to penicillin it makes me very ill if i take it should i be avoiding the fine as a b.n. tech vaccine. i believe the current vice at the moment is a few people have reacted well to people have reacted to the current baxi and we don't know why that is what's caused it to make a sort of blanket protection i believe the mh ari has suggested that anybody with it's not sort of allergies should avoid it so if you have an incident allergy and you're already somebody who maybe carries an epi pen then at that moment i would suggest you we're told having the vaccine until further investigation can be done to the exact cause of the reactions ok coming up what about other vaccines down the line or will they have less chances of bringing about some sort of allergic reaction or doesn't really matter of. a vaccine is

a vaccine and some people will i mean because it triggers and i mean response get a reaction to this. well i think that i believe the research shows that 6 in a 1000 were reacting to the. vaccine but 5 in a 1000 reacted to the placebo so it may not be the vaccine itself or maybe how it's carried the product etc that is causing a reaction at the post the back seat itself over the active ingredient of the backseat and so i think you know more research needs to be done and as we are rolling the vaccines out you will find more and more side effects that are resulting such as the allergy and then you can decide you know what is causing the allergy itself other vaccines coming out again you may have no reactions you may have lots of reaction time will tell but what i've said it suggested to a lot of people is look you some people react to simple painkillers like i would prefer and it doesn't mean it's about drug it's just some people are going to react so we have to be very safety at the moment but i mean 500000 sounds like pretty good odds to me we shouldn't necessarily then be worried about getting this kind of

vaccine in the end that its benefits outweigh the possibility that you might react to it. and i think that's a very sensible thing you mentioned if you are high risk for getting corona rather than a vaccine of the see the benefits outweigh the risks but if you're somebody who is allergic to cats dogs dust mite penicillin absolutely everything under the umbrella then you would be a bit more cautious having the vaccine knowing that you could potentially react to it so i think it's all about benefits versus risks but for the majority of people i think the benefits far outweigh the risks you know on the front line you're at risk would you have any qualms about about getting the job i don't have any reactions allergic reaction to anything at the moment so i being a bit healthy adult i think i would be quite active be happy to have the vaccine. but let's see when my time comes ok dr it's been great talking to you many thanks indeed for being with us once again really good to talk to thank you very much.

m.p.'s in argentina are expected snarly approve a bill that would make argentina only the 3rd country in south america to legalize abortion campaign us on both sides of the base holding rallies outside congress if the law house approves the bill it will move to the senate as well even closer votes is expected to an estimated $500000.00 illegal terminations each year in argentina which is there is to raise a boy is live for us in the south is what's happening right now to reason. why we're here right outside congress for charges from women are starting from right here to show their support for the field that is currently being the base congresswoman but i mean what became of my clinic green except my father green which was because. of this agree disagree leave that is not only happening here in argentina but across

a lot more america in non-drug roughly what i say some of abortion the placards right behind me is pretty fucked paraded by security forces on the other side pro-life activists. coming yet to go further to sell their profession to the bill to be a good road russet their notion around 500000 just from abortions in order to not every year over 55000 women suffer the loss because. those operations have also remained legal in the funding for so many women to resort to extreme measures to try to terminate a pregnancy as we have been hearing stories of women here who. knows a guy like none of you know the guidelines from them that many of us are in argentina because of the conflict church forget that pope francis polygamy no pro-life movement public have really turned. 2 any pressure on lawmakers are currently keeping it from us from this is. you're not going to what will happen

you believe that i'm wrong. in the morning i. remain here going to the broader front of. tourism reporting live from this thank stories of. a group of un human rights experts have issued a joint called for the release of blue jane flu the saudi women's rights activists they say that she's facing trumped up charges under a law that by the sight of her trial in riyadh special terrorism calls on thursday flew on a dozen other women's rights activists were arrested in 2018 that accused of harming saudi interests just weeks later the government lifted a ban on women driving which is what they've been campaigning for flu has been held in solitary confinement at assaulted while in prison according to a family of rights groups saudi officials have denied allegations of torture that

speak to sarah leah whitson in new york she's the executive director of democracy for the arab world now or dorm and out of the sea group originally founded by the militant saudi journalist jamal khashoggi good to have you with us and what do you make of the fact that i mean much to everyone's surprise she was back in court today a family were only told yesterday apparently. well there is no surprise and nothing shocking about this. process of prosecution it matches the sham charges against her and this is a pattern we've seen with many detainees when he received little to no information about the prosecution against them what the procedures are going to be i mean they have bounced alleging around him originally bringing her to terrorism were then moving her to criminal court that not having a hearing or any word whatsoever for over a year and now being bounced back to terrorism court it's

a whimsical process that is clearly or a product of political machinations by muhammad with some of them in his entourage especially as criminal courts did say the investigation would be opened in to the torture allegations that at least as a positive as that. i mean i suppose so it's a positive that's a few years too late keep in mind that when jane actually specifically raised her complaints with the national human rights council. last cells and they did nothing they visited her shortly after some of his torture had taken place and they did nothing and the head of that human rights commission is now saudi ambassador well to norway. and the notion that she should be awarded parents awarded for saying nothing about russians torture is really. sadly not much that we can expect from these missing promises if put together

a dossier of the james case even if you'd people close to washing has been imprisoned what if what if you found. well i think what the information that we've compiled on our website very clearly shows and i urge people to take a look at it and because of the extent to which it details of the ridiculous process against her what it very clearly demonstrates that even on the face of it the facts that the government is alleging constitute crimes as. so-called offenses like applying for a job that the united nations a speaking to human rights organizations or journalists what we're doing right now this is what constitutes terrorism in saudi arabia this is what the government of saudi arabia thinks it should be able to put people in jail for as terrorists i

think the information that we have directly from the prosecution there written hurts. verifies what what we've been saying all mom which is even if you take everything that the saudi government has alleged is true they amount to normal ordinary activities that are protected speech protected wool conduct in any normal country in the world but saudi arabia is not interested in allowing its citizens to live like normal people around the world talk to sarah leah whitson that executive director of door. i saw afghan news anchor of activists who was on her way to work in the eastern city of jalalabad she is the 3rd afghan journalist to be killed in a month reports. outside this hospital mortuary in anger province gether people that she had reported on people she had reported with but now i'm i warned

is the story 25 years old she had worked as a t.v. reporter for 7 years on thursday morning gunmen opened fire on her car as she was driven to work. and her driver mohammed zahir were killed. trying. to dent took place unfortunately we lost 2 of our employees one was a presenter of various programs and the other was a driver both of them carried. the had a pair our ally was also a woman rights activist speaking out about the difficulties of reporting in a conservative patriarchal society she was following in the footsteps of her activist mother who 5 years ago was also assess the natives. down there thank you very much in every meeting she was discussing women's rights and always supporting women she was not only a journalist she was a breadwinner for her family in fact she was the mother for her brothers and her sisters because years ago her mother was also killed by our enemies her brother

posted these photos in tribute to her the killings come after nato and the e.u. issued a joint statement condemning recent assess nations in afghanistan members of civil society activists government employees and journalists have been targeted attacks are up 50 percent this year a combination of shootings and bombings the perpetrators are often unknowen although i still has claimed the killing of my lai afghanistan was already one of the most deadly places to be a journalist she's the 3rd to die in a month. another well known journalist alias diy died in a bombing in helmand in november yama see a warship prominent t.v. presenter it was killed in a similar blast in kabul. my lai my wand was a brave female journalist and anchor and fortunately she has been martyred by our enemies not only her family but all the women of our mourning her. mom who are

many say they are frustrated by a failure to bring those accountable to justice and what they say is a failure to investigate the local girl from mrs meller lies killer will be found out. i have very clearly asked the security institutions to find the murderer at any cost the murderer will be brought to justice. the afghan journalist safety committee has warned if the killing of journalists does not stop afghanistan will lose one of its greatest achievements press freedom shelob ellis out his ear the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize event was held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic the world food program's executive director david beasley received the award he warned of a hunger pandemic could be worse than covered 19 in an interview without 0 basically said that the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the number of

people who depend upon the world food program. just when you think it couldn't get any worse into into 200-1000 hours preparing world leaders that 2020 was going to be a catastrophe and that was before covert you know we had economic theory ation is several places we had men made conflict despite being here and they are calamity extremes and i was telling us prepare for a bad 2020 then desert locust cane weathers ethiopia kenya and then just when you think you're dealing with every possible bad scenario cove it just dynamically to ship wrecks i mean our whole global economy we assist right now about 100000000 people but cove it is really going to double that impact in so here's what's really try in on us is because of coal video you've got all the monies that were made available this year i mean $19.00 trillion dollars worth of economic stimulus packages covert response of which we were beneficiaries so that

we could truly overt famine this year so that we could make certain there was not destabilization in mass migration so we received the funds we needed this year but the economies have tanked the needs of doubled which means next year is really going to be catastrophic cox's bazaar in bangladesh is home to almost a 1000000 refugees who fled a military offensive in myanmar 3 years ago the camp and the surrounding community depend heavily on the work of the food well food program especially as bangladesh deals with the coronavirus pandemic of serious time to child free is that. a little over 3 and a half years since the writing i refereed has crossed into bangladesh from me on my when you walk around the camp you sense there is a stability and normal lissie but on the other hand when you talk to the rowing refuges themselves you can sense there's a sense of frustration that been facing major challenges during the pandemic aside

from its limitation on communication that's been also started their food and limitations of russian food you know not enough i'm very happy to get the russian but to be honest it's not enough for the family sometimes i have to prove rice from . a strictly depend on him an attorney and assistance from aid agencies and bangladesh government had to make sure that we had enough food to feed all 860000 left and on top of that we also introduced a fetus distance program for members of the host community not talking to many of their own we found out their sense of frustration then mainly concerned about their children and nearly half the population are children that don't have access to any proper education and there's been 2 failed repair and they don't know what their future holds there's a lot of uncertainty now in their mind just ahead on news and sports find out why this world champion footballer by his chinese sponsor. if you.

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can i get touched thank you very much adrian all barcelona in france a stalin man says he's cutting ties with longtime a sponsor. because of possible involvement in the persecution of legal muslims and tying up the 29 year old made the move following reports that the chinese telecoms giants had been involved in testing facial recognition software used for police

surveillance on bigger muslims chrisman and has asked how are we to address their reported actions human rights groups say as many as 1000000 illegal and other mostly muslim minorities have been held in detention camps i was spoke to professor of eurasian sports industry simon chadwick he expects that in 2021 it will see more more actually speaking up on political issues. this is really significant because. the last 10 years china has been a very lucrative source of business not just for individual athletes but for european football clubs in general and in fact across world sport and if we're now getting into a new environment where individuals or groups are going to start making statements about china or taking principles of particular positions of principle then it does potentially begin to impact upon the nature of relationships that european and

world sport has we chinese business we saw last year for instance mesut ozil who of arsenal making statements on twitter about we could muslims in in china and as i say where we've seen particularly this year in 2020 although certainly out over the last 3 or 4 years where athletes do feel they can be very open very public in in the positions that they are taking on really important issues and they're being very vocal and not just be very vocal as well i think we've been through an era of your last few months of particularly in the context of the black lives lots of movement people saying well you can't just speak you have to act and what greaseman has done in this particular case in the case of the way the weakness in china is is not just to speak out but is actually acting as well and this is this is an increasing phenomenon and as we go into 2021 i think we're going to see much much more of similar type of activities taking place. italian football legend paolo rossi who lead his country to world cup glory has died at the age of $64.00

or $31.00 to italian syria titles during his 4 years with the event but it's his time with the national team that will be best remembered for aussie was a top scorer and named a best player at the $982.00 world cup in spain his 6 goals lead italy to victory at the charmant which he almost missed because of a match fixing scandal oh been speaking to. an associate professor wrong tree university he says was his efforts contributed to italy's most memorable world cup trounced. he was cold called the hmong huge criticism only as came back to our troll football and he only played 3 games because the i've been accused of a big speaking scandal queer and for years to pay for twee for 2 years it could not play it was actually the trainer of the national selection relating to better

growth when you said including you mark because rossi has been one of the big surprises of the 1978 argentina world cup so he came out against all odds in 82. came out as the underdog italy. brazil i would believe the strongest pride in the competition argentina the world champion and the money all the reigning european champions who clearly easily came i mean from the from from down to when and this was something that nobody will ever forget the final round of course matches in europe a league are already underway tottenham are have already called 5 can claim top spot if their group as they beat that game is yet to kick off ahead of their match 1st boss and maureen york has questions of fairness of teams dropping down to the competition after being eliminated from the champions league 8 sides from the europe's elite competition will join in the next one. south korean side also on

hand i have advanced to the semifinals of the asian champions league beijing at the stadium in doha 2 goals from junior to go lead you to the 2 nil victory stretches their winning streak and the competition to 7 matches yourself facing the so-called in sunday's 10 on. belgium have topped he says end of year rankings supposed 3rd straight time. champions france to retain top spot a total of $352.00 international matches were played this year the fewest since 1987 because of the covert $1000.00 pandemic brazil and the 20 twentieth's with england and for. the n.b.a.'s most valuable player yannis and it can pull is refusing to comment on whether he'll sign a contract extension with the milwaukee bucks 26 year old is locked into the 2020

season with the bucks and has until december 21st signed a 5 year 228000000 dollars extension or and to free agency next summer despite having the best regular season record the past 2 years the bugs have not made it to the finals since 1973 season. i'm getting focused in basketball i know this is really really big the city of milwaukee and now with the n.b.a. world and the media world and all that but you know being a private person. whenever you guys. decide something and i sign a contract you guys probably go before i know. and that's as well for me and about the. effects of a time for us here and to pass the baton to our colleagues in london we'll be here to update here in just a few moments with another person is probably sarah it with your facts for all of us here thanks for watching we'll see you again by 5.

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in one brave group of indonesian workers speak out and seek justice for their exploitation migrant dreams a witness documentary on al-jazeera. morocco is the force arab country to normalize relations with israel in a deal brokered with the help of president donald trump. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . is the channel for the pub and the business to get ready for january the 1st talks in deadlock and the new sunday deadline but the u.k. prime minister warns that no deal with the e.u. is a strong possibility. the investigation into the blast that devastated lebanon's capital

the caretaker prime minister and 3 foreign ministers are charged and 3000 coronavirus that sin a single day u.s. doctors consider rationing care as emergency approved. for a vaccine gets a little bit closer. israel and morocco have agreed to normalize ties in the latest deal brokered by the united states in exchange the u.s. will recognize moroccan sovereignty over western sahara the u.n. is considered western sahara a non self-governing territory and the ceasefire between the polisario front and morocco has been in place since 1991 u.s. president trump announced the agreement on twitter calling it a great result for america's friends well this is the 4th deal organized by the

white house the united arab emirates was 1st to sign an organist in september it was followed by an agreement between by hurricane and israel both attended a signing ceremony at the white house that in october it was the turn of sudan's transitional government and now with morocco there is added weight behind the trump advisor jared cohen risk claim that a deal with saudi arabia is inevitable well the white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live kimberly traditionally presidents that are you know in the transition period and there's a new president coming in in january would usually back all foreign policy trump seems to be doing the opposite he is pushing ahead i guess with leaving a legacy in the middle east just tell us how all of this came about. donald trump breaking with precedent yet again what we understand is that this latest deal security through a telephone call between the u.s. president and the moroccan king earlier today what we know from senior adviser

jared cushion or in a telephone call with reporters is what this means in terms of the normalization of relations with israel is that we will see an establishment eventually of embassies in the respective countries and also that the israeli airlines will now be allowed to use moroccan airspace with up to 20 direct flights a day as well this means that there will be deepening business ties the belief being that with economic activity increasing this will promote stability in the region but with respect to foreign policy you're absolutely right to do this given the fact that we are you know very very close about 6 weeks away from inauguration day where there will be a new president president elect joe biden it's highly unusual to be putting in place this kind of foreign policy in fact what makes this even more unusual is the fact that the united states is the only western nation to recognize morocco

sovereignty over the western sahara so the question becomes what does this mean moving forward given the fact that this is happening at such a late stage it is going to leave joe biden president elect with a difficult choice does he embrace this policy that's been put in place or is he going to reverse it can be how can with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you well israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it helps the pass to peace for the wider middle east. this is the foundation on which we can now build this peace will resume liaison offices quickly between israel and morocco and work as rapidly as possible to establish full diplomatic relations we also institute direct flights between morocco in israel and israel morocco giving this bridge of peace even more solid foundation this will be a very warm peace peace as never the light of peace on this hanukkah

day as never shown brighter than today in the middle east well we're now joined by hashem how about our from window a hashimi of obviously covered morocco in the region extensively there we have benjamin netanyahu saying this puts the region on the path to peace how do you think this changes the dynamics i guess in the 2 regions because both the middle east but also africa while this is something this is a pivotal moment for morocco this explains why we've seen 2 statements one coming from the royal palace a while ago praising the decision by a president all trying to recognize the maracas sovereignty over western sahara the same time talking about normalization of relations between more rocko and israel why is it pivotal 1st of all as far as western sahara conflict is concerned it started in 1973975 a conflict broke us between morocco and the poorest are you front if it continued

until 1901 when the united nations mission in in the region managed to implement a cease fire which still holds however over the last few weeks we've seen some new tension between morocco and the porous area front which has decided to resume. the armed conflict in the region. tromp represents the most powerful nation on earth and this is the 1st western nation to officially recognize morocco sovereignty over western sahara it is going to provide a broker with massive political advantage in the near future particularly when it comes to any way out of the conflict in western sahara morocco has presented and autonomy 19 in 2006 and still can think it's the best way out of this to this conflict now trump is saying i back that proposal by the americans as far as the

middle east peace process is concerned moroccans today have been saying that they have been in touch with palestinian president mahmoud abbas of the told him that this is not something which is going to be at the expense of the rights of the palestinian on the contrary normalizing relations with israel is going to be in favor for fighting all together with all our obligations to words a palestinian state that would exist along with an israeli state although this is going to be a long political process on western sahara this is something which is going to be having far reaching consequences not only on morocco but on other main countries in africa particularly algeria and south africa because the other main backers of the policies are you movement and this is something which they will not really be happy about as far as the middle east process i think we are starting to see new political optics that are going to change the whole narrative about the peace

process in the region we're seeing more countries stepping in and saying that it's about time to normalize relations with with israel and considering trump is of course technically president for about another month will be interesting to see what developments there woman next few weeks for the moment actual data with the latest is speaking to us from doha hashem thank you. u.k. prime minister porus johnson has warned there is a strong possibility that his country will fail to reach a trade deal with the european union they go see it has have until sunday to present him and european commission chief or slept on the line with an agreement but he's told his ministers to prepare for no deal or what he's trying to call an australian solution yes i do think that we need to be very very clear there's not a strong possibility strong possibility that we will have

a solution that's much more like an australian relationship with the e.u. than a canadian relationship with the it doesn't mean it's a bad thing there are plenty of ways as i've said that we can turn that to the advantage of both sides. for more on this let's speak to al-jazeera correspondent needs barker who has been following all the twists and turns so technically both the e.u. and the u.k. said that they have until sunday to come to some kind of agreement or stop the talks but this really sounds like a prime minister who almost has given up we'll talk about twists and turns that this is a very real and very sudden lurch towards the prospect of a no deal breaks it and that is despite the fact the boris johnson went to brussels and met with us live on the land the president of the european commission held 3 hours of talks over dinner no sign of compromise on the table that ok there is some wiggle room that means that the talks will be resumed and there is this new full stop deadline for

a solution on sunday if there are some positive steps behind the scenes before that who knows we may well see the goalpost moved beyond sunday we've seen that happen several times before but you do get a sense there isn't just the u.k. but it's the e.u. to the perhaps wants to draw a line under all of this we've heard from the e.u. that contingency plans are in place that they could potentially allow british hall is to allow them access to european roads for a period of 6 months the british flights may be allowed to continue also for that period but the sense from the u.k. is that they already whatever the case is for a hard break say that the possibility of a no deal bricks it. of course means potential checks on the border it means friction when it comes to the movement of goods very law so we've already seen a sign of perhaps things to come reports of long tile backs of trucks on the way to the port of dover in the euro tunnel in folkston logistics companies rushing very quickly to fill demands before that sudden cut off at the end of the month yet

there's been 2 weeks away so. quite an interesting prospect need barker thank you. well the leaders meeting in brussels have broken the deadlock over a major coronavirus recovery package hungary and poland which had been standing in the way of the more than $32.00 trillion dollar deal have signed off on an agreement with the rest of the block let's go live to paul brennan in brussels so how was this compromise finally reached for. well they do sometimes do get deals done here in brussels unlike wednesday nights this was largely down to the intervention of the germans and angela merkel being the president of the european council for this germany being the president holding the presidency of the european council for this 6 month period really got together with the polish and hungary and to try and find a way through this the gist of it is that this 2 trillion dollar fund which is

a 7 year budget essentially. comprising parts all with part of it being a $900000000000.00 recovery fund part grant part loan for recovery from the coronavirus poland several countries toward poland and hungary should be not allowed to partake of that reason why is because in recent years the right wing governments in those 2 countries haven't especially been felt to be holding up the european values things like human rights equality they had a bit of a track record as far as gay rights for example now in the polish took exception to this they threaten to veto the whole budget deal because it needs to be agreed by all the countries in the european union unless those provisions this rule of law provisions were dropped. a compromise was reached what they've decided is that instead of just being a political decision to trigger the mechanism to withhold money it will be the european court of justice that will have to get involved that makes it

a lot more legal a lot more objective and the other thing is that it would have to be a contravention of rule of law which has financial implications for the e.u. would be very difficult i think to try and think of a qantas circumstance where that would be the case so they've done a compromise they've made a fudge they've agreed the budget and that means there's been celebrated reef social media treats are massive on the lay and michelle in the last talking about how wonderful this is and how the the economies of europe can now move forward are content in the knowledge that there is actually going to be money there to fund some of these big programs that they have absolutely pulled brain in with the latest from brussels thank you. amental still to come here on al-jazeera a mental health crisis in the hangar at refugee camps of report finds many are suffering from depression and trolls. and the turkish president hails what he calls our glorious way against armenia in russia's backyard.

how the weather looks pretty changeable across much of europe at the moment and not in a good way to see some very heavy showers thundering down poles around the age of the attic areas of low pressure moving from west to east bumping into this area of a high pressure as blocking things off there's more wet sand windy weather coming in from the west as we go on through the next couple of days but started to cry she where we say it's a very heavy rain slovenia to rome and had well a month's worth of rainfall in just 24 hours and that has led to widespread flooding much of the country saying some problems particularly along the age reacted with some very heavy writing that has inevitably caused widespread disruption then there's more wet weather where that came from further showers longer spells of rape rolling in as we go on through friday southern parts of the

balkans at this stage some snow over the high ground west of where the pushing towards greece you know just more wet weather also making its way in from the atlantic snow there over the alps that's going to gather and make its way further east which is be go on into the weekend some more big downpours coming through most of my over the alps snow there for the pyrenees as well but some really wet weather swirling away across central parts of the mediterranean and that wetter weather will also make its way across the aegean turning increasingly wet for that western side of turkey. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. by them both isis and us on. the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of

a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad caught one on al-jazeera. the e the e.u. the e.u. . a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera israel and morocco have agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the united states in exchange u.s. president donald trump has agreed to recognize morocco's sovereignty over the western sahara the u.k. prime minister says there is a strong possibility that there will be no post the breaks a trade deal with the european union negotiators have until sunday to come up with an agreement course johnson says the one currently on the table isn't right ok.

e.u. leaders meeting in brussels have broken the deadlock over a major coronavirus recovery package hungry in poland have signed off on an agreement after initially blocking the 2 trillion dollars. lebanon's caretaker prime minister hasa india has been charged with negligence over the beirut airport explosion 3 other foreign minister is have also been accused more than $200.00 people were killed in the oldest disaster with thousands injured and many more left home it was caused by a huge stockpile of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which had been improperly stored at the port for 6 years the 4 are the most senior figures to be charged in the investigation which is being criticized for its secrecy and lack of progress said a holder is in beirut and says the charges may be seen as too little well according to the judiciary the caretaker prime minister has found there were aware and was

given written notices that there was highly explosive material large amounts of ammonium nitrate stored at warehouse 12 hour. courts and he failed to take action deb himself has acknowledged that he knew about the presence of the ammonium nitrate he even sent an officer there in fact he was even scheduled to visit warehouse 12 phone the visit because in his words he was receiving conflicting reports but already there are many even some politicians who are now saying that this accusation is unjust the idea of his being unjustly targeted like you mentioned he was in power for only a few months he does not have a political party is not part of the political class that has been governing this country for decades and many believe it is the political class that should be held to account former prime ministers former ministers even the president the current president who also received written notices and reports in july from security

officials saying that this highly explosive material is a security risk and yet nobody did anything about it and that's why there has been so much public anger that massive explosion killing $200.00 people damaging and destroying many many neighborhoods but right now a significant development in the investigation a high ranking official is being charged. the united states has set a new global record for daily coronavirus thefts more than 3000 people lost their lives on wednesday that exceeds the number of people killed in the september 11th terrorist attacks the war on u.s. soil almost every state across america is reporting a surge in infections there have been more than 15400000 confirmed cases there since the penned that make began and almost 290000 americans have died after contracting the virus. well advisors to the u.s. food and drug administration are meeting to discuss emergency use of the pfizer bio

intake coronavirus facts in the panel will decide whether to recommend that the f.d.a. issue authorization for the vaccine if given the green light millions of those. this could be available within days that would make the u.s. just the 2nd country to roll out the pfizer vaccine after the u.k. began its inoculation program this week classical hanna's following developments from outside the regulators headquarters in silver spring maryland a run in the meeting of the building behind me but most of it is being held virtually because of the pandemic so what this is basically is a group of independent doctors and scientists and they're think of it like a jury trial they are right now pfizer executives are up there giving them the details and they're really grilling these expert the the maker of the vaccine as well as government officials trying to get to basically the safety of it how effective is it who should be given it one of the big questions that they're taking on is whether the 20000 people who were given a placebo and not the real vaccine should be told hey you're not actually

vaccinated be given priority to get the vaccine so at the end of the day what all of these independent scientists and doctors are going to do is they're going to vote around $21.00 g.m.t. and then the f.d.a. can choose to take their advice or not now they normally always take the advice of these experts but it's the necessary next step before that decision is made so if it's a unanimous vote we could see the f.d.a. turn around tonight tomorrow or on monday and say ok go ahead release the vaccines and then we're going to see the u.s. government ship out about 2900000 doses across the country so this is basically the last stage for this vaccine before the f.d.a. says yes or no what could happen though if any of the members have questions if they say you need to get back to you with these details then it could be delayed but it is a rare bright star spot in a country that is just coming to grips with just how bad the corona virus is here the highest total death rate on wednesday 3011 people died from corona virus in

a single day. growing every few g.'s who fled suspect the genocide in mia law are in the grip of a severe mental health crisis where than a 1000000 are living in bangladesh a new report found the majority of those displaced are suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder stephanie decker has more. the numbers are staggering it's not surprising a new report on the mental health of the right has found that most of those surveyed suffer some form of mental health problems almost 90 percent indicated they suffered some symptoms of depression and just over 60 percent reported symptoms that suggest post-traumatic stress disorder or p.t.s.d. a lot of the elements of distress post erratic stress disorder depression what we're seeing in our research is that they are what is underlying this distress is the systematic arrays the 1st accusing me and mark of violent experience in myanmar

and the everyday living stressors of being in a refugee camp so these are much more systematic drivers of distress that are much more complicated to address during a volunteers conducted surveys among households and in community workshops to come up with the findings the report adds that these mental health symptoms including p.t.s.d. depression and anxiety increase the difficulty of refugees to function for example just over 91 percent of those aust so they found it challenging to carry out common daily activities such as men tending basic hygiene engaging in social or religious activities or performing any other daily tasks around a 1000000 have lived in tough conditions in these camps in the far south east of bangladesh for 3 years now. they fled neighboring me and maher in august of 2017 during a minute to crack down the torched villages and lead to soldiers being accused of mass killings rape and torture. earlier this year the international criminal court

ordered measures to prevent the genocide of ridding of muslims in myanmar genocide is a charge that has been strongly denied by mean mars peace laureate aung san suu kyi calling the events in internal conflict triggered by reading a militant attacks on government security posts but the stories of atrocities and persecution number in the hundreds of thousands each heart has a tragedy in what is the world's largest refugee camp the future of these people remains uncertain and now many are facing a controversial move by bangladeshis government. in ireland in the bay of bengal 'd . most have no identity papers no home a new future and that's and into the worsening mental health of young and old stephanie decker. un human rights experts have a expressed alarm at a trial set to get under way against

a prominent saudi women's rights activist who is a. case had recently been transferred to a court dealing with terrorism related charges she is among a dozen activists arrested in 2018 an accused of harming saudi interests rights groups say that she's been held in solitary confinement and assaulted saudi officials have denied allegations of torture. and the prominent female television anchor in afghanistan has been shot dead gunmen opened fire on the. car soon after she left her house in the eastern province of non-god her driver was also killed in the attack i saw has claimed responsibility by one and had been a vocal advocate of the rights of afghan women and children. turkey's president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against armenia in their conflict over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh president

trichet i pad the one attended a military parade in the capital ankara head back to baku during 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month's editor that took aim at armenia and said turkey is trying to bring peace to the region. we have no grudge against the armenian nation our problem is with its administration we have armenians in our country some of them are immigrants some have citizenship some don't our main goal is to establish peace if you try to take care of by just deciding that in your own assembly and your own parliament and you think this is your own state you have no right to say so seemed to say glue has more now from istanbul. this victory is seen by 2 countries that it's a joint victory a victory of the turkish and as our bridge on a member 3 and 2 leaders emphasize that earlier today during their speeches are saying that this is their this is also a victory that will a pave the way for the uniting of the turkic world of course from the joint press

but what is important is that 2 leaders that have strongly defended the armenian troops leaving doorkeeper terry's territories and the go on a kind of are they are open to peace both leaders brought to the table that an offer was made earlier for a 6 party. platform which will include russia iran georgia or turkey as our bed john in armenia and saw that through this platform regional peace shall be installed salvias stylish and out on a sound that our main us presence will also also for good and a turkey is open is ready to open its border to armenia if they would like to be in walled in the 6 party a. regional peace corp this was an important message actually apparently the turkish leader who has supported our very leader militarily and diplomatically is

actually aiming for a peace broker a role in the region as it's also trying to extend its influence into the caucuses . politicians in the democratic republic of congo are debating a bid to remove the speaker of parliament it's the latest move in a bitter dispute between president felix she has k.t. and supporters of his predecessor joseph kabila violent protests erupted inside the parliament building earlier this week when she said k d try to form a new majority opponents say the president's actions are illegal hundreds of police have been deployed to stop rival protests outside the government office. the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize for its efforts to combat global hunger the u.n. agencies chief executive david beasley accepted the award from the f.p.s. headquarters in rome the traditional oslo ceremony was moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic w.s.p.

as it was hailed for its efforts in preventing hunger as a weapon of war accepting the prize beazley warned of an approaching hunger pandemic with hundreds of millions of people headed for starvation. while speaking to al-jazeera he said he hoped the refugee crisis in sudan will not become a protracted one more than 47000 ethiopian refugees have fled across the border since the conflict in te grey began last month but the world food program is already struggling to generate funding for existing humanitarian disasters when you look at the amount of monies that we are having to raise now we're actually going to have we've been raised about 8000000000 dollars this year we're looking at $615000000000.00 that we're going to be next year 5000000000 just to avert famine so we've got so many hotspots right now in western donors and donors around the world are struggling with the amount of monies that we need so we're hopeful that because we're already spending a lot of money in sudan and now you've got this crisis and we hopeful we're hopeful

that this can be over as soon as possible. and i'll just there is no bell interview with the world food program chief executive david beasley will be at 0030 g.m.t. right here on out or on the web site al jazeera dot com. thank you i am. going to come after reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israel and morocco have agreed to normalize ties in a deal brokered by the united states in exchange the u.s. will recognize moroccan sovereignty over the western sahara the u.n. is considered western sahara a known self-governing territory and the ceasefire between the polish sorry a front and.