if you treat it and you just feel sure even through the 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 our just your. health care experts in the u.s. evaluate to find the coronavirus vaccine and of recommended it for approval for a nationwide rollout. and come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera in a deal brokered by the outgoing u.s. president don't trump morocco has become the 4th arab nation to normalize relations with israel the streets of argentina's capital erupts in protest as politicians vote on legalizing abortion and a total lockdown imposed in santiago appealed for chileans to stay off the streets

as the government tries to bring the pandemic under control. so welcome news in the united states as a panel of health experts recommends the biotech coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for emergency use the group which is advising the food and drug administration office some hope for an end to the pandemic that's killed more people in the us than anywhere else in the world most political and explains now the next step is formal approval to start an immunization campaign. good bye to the continuation of the go to court it was at times a little hard to understand but that may have been the point to let the thousands of people watching the f.d.a. meeting know that they did their homework this was an independent panel of scientists and doctors going on line and in essence putting the phaser vaccine on

trial hour and hour of testimony against the frightening backdrop of coppa death in the u.s. and at that made at about $55.00 out like every month over the next few months in the end after more than 8 hours of testimony the panel voted to we do have a. urging the food and drug administration to authorize the use of the 1st vaccine that is shown to be highly effective at immunizing people against the virus once final approval is given almost $3000000.00 doses of the vaccine will be shipped out for immediate delivery within days health care providers and residents and long term care facilities will be given the 1st doses it won't be enough to stop the case counts rising along with a record number of americans who are now dying every day while health care workers are begging people to take the virus seriously we're exhausted we are exhausted and there will be no care for your family members if just continue. and $95.00

we can not have a drink of water for hours. we are so idiot hi dana. you know and we're doing everything for eye patients because we know that they cannot see their family. but in much of the country many elected leaders are also not taking steps to stop the spread restaurants bars even bowling alleys remain open to the public and with hospitals filling up health experts are warning they may have to start rationing care basically deciding who can get treatment and who can't fight or says once it gets the approval it expects to be able to produce around $50000000.00 doses by the end of this year the one hopeful sign for a country in a terrifying fight one that right now it appears to be losing. al-jazeera marilyn's. on other news america become the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel the u.s.

brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region president trump announced the deal on twitter here is the area which up until now the u.s. a grade was disputed the grey area western sahara which has been for have a for years by morocco and they saw how we ethnic group of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says helps the path to peace for the why the 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 and 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. correspondent

for 7 western is and i'm. promised you know in the previous normalization deals has been stressing what it could mean practically for israelis and 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 that that is what he calls a bridge to morocco and so again he's been talking about the fact that there will be these direct flights that people can go and find families 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 the 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. how much were we has tweeted that between bribery and blackmail the trump administration is in a mad scramble to do whatever it can to extract concessions and benefits towards israel this is the 4th day where same between israel and an arab country which has put all the eyes by the white house started in august with the united arab emirates and then in september the agreement with the hainan israel but the u.a.e. and behind attended the ceremony at the white house to sign that deal then in october it was sudan's trees transitional government it was their turn and now with morocco it adds weight to carry kushner's claim that a deal with saudi arabia could get happen u.s. political reaction to this decision now with mike hanna in washington. president trump in this service acted unilaterally no consultation with allies or the united nations which is the overarching body discussing the western sahara issue this is

once again a trump move taken just by himself with absolutely no consultation whatsoever the meaning of this is that the u.s. position has not been reversed decades of u.s. policy with regard to western sahara as not simply being reversed the us had been alongside a united nations members african union the european union had all insisted that the way to get a peaceful settlement in the region was to get a referendum in western sahara now president trump has simply turned his back on all those years of discussion all those years of policy making and all those years of negotiation that happened and there's already been a consequence a very rare criticism from a republican in the senate jim inhofe has released a statement saying that president trump has traded the voices of the people of the no voice for this particular peace deal he really critical of president trump for

taking this action for reversing u.s. policy now the question is when joe biden comes into office where the heat is follows along with what president trump does which could well anger many of his allies or whether he attempts to reverse the situation which could imperil this peace deal. argentina is poised to become only the 3rd country in south america to legalize abortion as politicians prepare to decide on a bill before congress pro and anti abortion rights campaigners have held rallies in buenos aires where the legislation is being debated ahead of a vote in the lower house is expected to narrowly approve the low performers to the senate where they're expecting an even closer vote an estimated half a 1000000 illegal abortions are carried out every year in argentina to raise suppose been out amongst the protests in when it starts. was not far away from underneath all the people that have. followed up with that of. 2 all

of those women for example. have been to be rezoned. legalized abortion not probably in argentina but also in other a lot more money problems along the front of the ocean the legal abortion. issue on the other side of the plug out of the front of the pro-life movement of the. 3 take the pressure on lawmakers to prevent those who from reaching the final 2 know that both from this week from argentina have mean clearly no no you can't recall any candidate who tried to couldn't even put both example below however ruffled a lot of the problems. legalizing abortion in the country from 0 to probably call every year thousands of. publications with an abortion many of them going to have it all be for the afraid of ending up in prison until the profit on it is

a matter probably called an old film not a lovely thing because women with resources from gold and probably from war from one of those who do not have one in a hospital to date is going to be happening through the boat has got the happened. over probably morning elite people and there was some. the world has seen a record drop in carbon dioxide emissions this year according to a preliminary figures from the global carbon project a group of scientists says this 7 percent global cut as large as down of course to coronavirus lockdowns which forced people to stay at home emissions dropped to 12 percent in the u.s. and 11 percent in europe but only by just under 2 percent in china are expected to jump back up of course once the 1000 pandemic and its bangladesh has launched what's thought to be the world's largest so-called climate refugee project in cox's

bizarre to house a growing number of people forced to flee their homes by climate change and a failing economy more than 400000 people moved to the capital dhaka every year the world bank says that number could exceed 13000000 by 2050 supporters from tanveer chantry. muzzammil hawk was 17 years old when his father died at sea during a devastating cycle on that heat southern bangladesh in 1901 an estimated 140000 people were killed and 10000000 lost their homes he managed to survive the storm along with his mother and 4 siblings but those memories still haunt him. the place where i was born went totally in the sea there is nothing there no but the ocean of family took refuge in a government lending cox's bizarre after 3 decades of government provided us with a permanent home here praise along migrants living on government land face the

constant threat of every action as they don't have any rights to stand most of the people living here in the supplement in our climate change migrant many fled their island homes that go due to the impact of global warming as part of his new strategy the government has started providing permanent homes to many of the families here. life is seldom easy for these migrants many workers day laborers or rickshaw pullers woman mostly work as domestic helpers are in clothing factories etc john likes a new home but says it's not easy living here she now runs a small shop to get by i live very short of the. i'll home got washed away in 1991 after 30 years finally our prime minister has provided us with homes here but this place is too isolated with little opportunity to make a living plus there are no schools no mosques or graveyards. according to the world

resources institute bangladesh is one of the country's worst affected by global warming despite having one of the lowest carbon footprints bangladesh government loses one percent of its g.d.p. every year due to the impact of climate change. environment experts say the 2015 peri segment is still the best hope to contain the facts of global warming but for bangladesh the impact of climate change is already

a harsh reality and dealing with climate internal migration has become one of its biggest challenges. are. more news coming up including this 9 is the time for the public and for businesses to get ready for january the 1st but talks with the e.u. still at a stalemate as a new sunday deadline but the u.k. prime minister's morning in no deal breaks it's a strong possibility. we've got so many hot spots right now and western donors and donors around the world are struggling with the amount of monies that we need. and recognizing the fight to end global hunger the nobel peace prize goes to the world food programme.

the weather maze pretty quiet across china at the moment said last week watch who across the korean peninsula is a little on the cloudy side that cloud spilling over towards japan bits and pieces of cherry rain into western parts of honshu temperatures in take a 14 or 15 degrees as we go on through saturday the breeze just picking up a little but it should be largely try to that eastern side of holland shape fine enjoy across central and southern parts of china but a few showers just coming back into northern areas as we go on through the next day also plenty of showers across the philippines at present some lively ones there into lose on west the weather also sliding back towards southern parts of thailand down towards the malaysia peninsula more than areas of smart travel see some very heavy rain pushing back through here exacerbating the flooding places say it's much stronger now across much of south asia will be do have a circulation out in the arabian sea and this is just throwing in some west the weather towards good herat towards the northwest of india

a westerly disturbance bringing cloud and rain across northern pakistan pushing across into the fall of india general kashmir seeing some snow hopefully stirring up the dense fog and smoke that we have around new delhi temperatures here struggling to get to 26 degrees. al-jazeera wild tells the intriguing stories behind 4 classic songs from palestine enjoyed social snapshots of different times and places from the british mandate to 950 s. jordan and the palestinian diaspora today musical expressions of their cultural identity and a yearning for a homeland that many with forced from in 1948 songs for the love of history on al-jazeera. roof. over.

the top stories this hour on al-jazeera an advisory board to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the pfizer coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for use committee meets again for formal approval but this is another step in the right direction for an immunization campaign in the worst affected country in the world. morocco it's become the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel the u.s. brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region. and argentina is poised to become only the 3rd country in south america to legalize abortion as politicians decide on a bill before congress pro and anti abortion rights campaign is upheld rally in

buenos aires where the legislation is being debated ahead of a vote in the lower house. brags that now more than 4 years after the vote to leave the leaders of the u.k. and a you've given the negotiators just 3 days to shore a proposed brigs a trade deal as prime minister johnson is warning there's a strong possibility those talks will fail so both sides are now beginning to prepare for the u.k. to leave with no deal at the end of the month support from the fucka. a very real and sudden lurch towards the prospect of a no deal breaks it the british prime minister told the u.k. to get ready the deal on the table is really not at the moment right for the for the u.k. and now is the time for the public and for businesses to get ready for january the 1st because believe me there's going to be change either way that we change whether it's a canada style deal or an australia style deal the comments follow high level talks

between boris johnson and the president of the european commission in brussels on wednesday after a 3 hour working dinner compromises remained off the table negotiations however have resumed with sunday set as the new deadline for reaching a breakthrough with the u.k. officially left the e.u. on january the 31st it's been the transition period ever since subject to e.u. rules and regulations while it tries to reach a trade deal with the u.k. falls back on very basic world trade organization terms often called an australia style deal but what it really means is the sudden unplugging of britain's economy from the world's largest trading bloc and the prospect of checks and tariffs on goods going between the u.k. and the e.u. on sunday the new deadline will be exactly a year since boris johnson returned to downing street having won a landslide in the election largely on the promise of being able to deliver bricks

in 12 months all of the repeated promise of a trade deal with the e.u. though it's still to be on it. and now hopes of a deal are drifting away seemingly irreconcilable differences on fishing quotas business competition rules and how the new arrangements will be enforced to talk negotiations for mums and in a possible sign of things to come images of tailbacks of trucks on the road to the port of don't. the channel tunnel of folks till thursday logistics companies are reporting a surgeon orders ahead of the brakes a deadline a warning to from france the british citizens may need visas to stay in the e.u. longer than 3 months the e.u. suggested it's ready to keep the continent's roads open to british trucks and let the u.k. operate flights for a period of 6 months providing the u.k. does the same but the british government promised a hard break from the e.u.

come what may on december 31st without a willingness to compromise it's difficult to see what avenues are left eve parker al-jazeera london. albanians have been hit with tear gas and water cannon as they marched for a 2nd night protesting the killing of a young man who violated coronavirus curfews police attempted to disperse protesters who gathered despite warnings to 25 year old man was killed early on tuesday more for his described as an excessive use of force by an officer. hundreds of construction workers cleaning crews and miners in peru of cause traffic chaos in the nation's capital demanding salary increases and labor improvements crowds marched through lehman's historic center and then over to the parliament a demonstration follows another held last week where thousands of farm workers farm workers protested for better wages. protesters rallied in haiti's capital accusing

the government of failing to contain violence and instability crowds burned tires and set up barricades while denouncing president of an illinois say violence is on the rise with armed gangs controlling large parts of port au prince they are also thought to me behind a recent string of kidnappings. a surge in covert 19 infections in southern chile has surpassed the 2nd wave in european countries the contagion rates in the i got an s. region for example is $47.00 per 100000 inhabitants compared to 22 in the u.k. 13 italy and 13 in spain so chilean authorities decided to re-impose restrictions in the capital as infections saw sinema has more from santa. this is downtown santiago on the 1st day of new restrictions aimed at getting massive numbers of people off the streets and as far away from each other as possible chile's health minister says authorities had no choice but to roll back on

the confinement measures given what we want to show the progress of the weekly surge of cases in the capital of increased by 53 to see in less than a month from 1775 cases and the 2698 decisions are based on the data shows that we are in a critical situation in a moment. faced with the 2nd wave of coded 19 much sooner than expected the government has limited restaurant capacity to 25 percent and only outdoors. told not down will be enforced on weekends residents can travel outside of the metropolitan area and no more than 20 people can gather outdoors although no one seems to be paying much attention. to blocks away and towels mare and governor appealed for understanding and

discipline and. it's a harsh measure without a doubt but let's not forget that santiago already suffered one of the world's longest lock downs $144.00 days and nobody wants to go through that again. at the peak of the pandemic chile had one. the world's highest mortality rates per capita from cold 19 hospitals warned that their staff are too exhausted from the 1st wave to deal with the 2nd one effectively but i believe that when the new restrictions will hit small businesses most crass woman and he was counting on christmas sales to survive bonnie said below it's the uncertainty of not knowing if we'll be able to work anymore we've worked all year to sell these and it's not just some kava that in trouble 11 other regions have been declared critical some have even been put under total lockdown authorities say that they hope to be able to relax some of the restrictions private and of your holidays but there is no guarantee as

president since there won't be a vaccine for anybody here before the 1st quarter of next year you see i knew then how does here are some data. canada's prime minister says the 1st $30000.00 doses of the finds a vaccine will arrive in the coming days the government's planning to have a quarter of a 1000000 doses to administer by the end of the year if you're feeling relieved and hopeful you're not alone this is the good news we all need but remember this is only the 1st step in would be a massive project over a long winter i announced to the premier's that the federal government will be covering the cost of these vaccines as well as the supplies needed to administer them not only will doses be free for canadians but provinces and territories won't have to use their funding to pay for this vaccine that's the kind of news hospitals and medical storage facilities across the u.s.

are been waiting for the mount sinai health system in new york is one of few places ready to receive doses of the vaccine is prepared the temperature appropriate phrases for the final product which needs to be at $79.00 degrees below 0. there's no reason to hold great help 100000 we sat. here in the house we. live now is it time to to be really. absolutely not really feeling your grief. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has and 3 former ministers have been charged with negligence over the beirut port explosion that the most senior figures to be charged in the investigation which has been criticized for its secrecy and lack of progress more than 200 people were killed in the disaster in august with thousands injured and many more are left homeless this was caused by a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate which had been improperly stored at the port

for 6 years. the world food program has received this year's nobel peace prize for its efforts to combat global hunger executive director david beasley accepted the what the award from the un's u.n. agencies headquarters in rome he warned of an approaching hunger pandemic with hundreds of millions of people headed for starvation. and speaking to 0 b.c. said he also hopes the refugee crisis in sudan won't become a protracted one more than 47000 ethiopian refugees have fled across the border since the conflict in today began last month the world food program is already struggling to generate funding for existing humanitarian disasters. 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 in 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 well. that the campaign sudan's got the reef province where the world food program's been helping refugees who fled the 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 the military in 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 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 the. 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 water flowed on them and just our. when the world food program came here the 1st day they gave us flour soltan oil they gave us

a lot of things to eat and that's a good thing and thankful that we caught the food and drink to be able to survive because if not for the world food program who would have died including little children the world food program says its motor is changing lives saving lives the number of refugees who are over after sudan is expected to head 200000 by 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 and the full nobel interview with the world food program chief david beasley is here on al-jazeera with falling for the next screening 830 g.m.t. . but 2nd to the headlines now on al-jazeera an advisory board to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the for.