the streets trying. to 0. the. u.s. government panel endorses the use of fires as coronavirus vaccine in another big step towards a mass and not kill ation campaign. i know there are more kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. on called media tycoon and beijing critic jimi lie is charged under the city's contentious national security law. one more deal brokered by outgoing u.s. president donald trump morocco becomes the full for arab nation to normalize relations with israel. and submit news on global emissions but scientists say it

will only be brief as industries roll back to life after coronavirus shutdowns. a mass vaccination program is a step closer in the u.s. off to a panel of of advisors told regulators that pfizer vaccine is safe and effective it paves the way for the shot to be authorized in a country that's lost almost 290000 lives to cohabit 19 classical hane reforms. good bye to the continuation of the go through 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 it 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 no 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 in 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

we can not have a drink of water for hours we are so idiot hi dana. you know and we're doing everything for ip sions 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 fire says once he gets the approval it expects to be able to produce around 50000000 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 medical al-jazeera marilyn's. prominent hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie has been charged under the controversial security law that was imposed on the city

by beijing the allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces law is already or is already in jail after being denied bail over a separate matter to pick up holland joins us now from hong kong to explain these charges against him eli and the punishment that he could face. well jimmy law has been accused off and charged with collusion a foreign with foreign forces to endanger national security now it's a very serious charge he's facing and if found guilty he could get up to a life time and that prison as you said he has a number of cases already against him and several other charges including fraud for which he is currently in jail as he was denied bail but this is the most serious charge against him and the only one under the national security law several people there a couple of dozen people have been already arrested under this national security law but only a handful have had charges against him in this particular case he was arrested in

august and a massive police swooped on his media headquarters now he's the far. possibly the biggest and only pro-democracy media out local media outlets left in hong kong here and police had just raided the newsroom and offices there and taken him out in every you very aggressive fashion and in a matter that was live streamed across the city and shocked the city as hong kong people had never seen anything like this before jimmy lies also known for his close ties with the u.s. in fact last year he met up with the u.s. secretary of state my comp a you and the vice president mike pence to talk about the situation in hong kong at the height of protests and since then he has called on the u.s. to safeguard help safeguard hong kong so tanami those kinds of comments and those relationships are what's gotten him made in the target of this national security

law and incidentally this latest charge comes just days after the u.s. levied even more sanctions on officials in china for eroding hong kong it hong kong's autonomy david gopalan in hong kong thanks very much to fear. morocco has become the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel the u.s. brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize rocker's claim over the disputed western sahara region the area which until now the us agreed was disputed western sahara in dark grey has been for save a few years by morocco and some ethnic group. this is the foundation on which we can now build this piece 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. well the united arab emirates was the 1st to make a normalization deal with israel and that was back in august and september it was followed by an agreement between bahrain and israel both attended a signing ceremony at the white house that in october it was the thought of so dongs transitional government mike hanna is in washington d.c. with the u.s. political reaction. 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 of 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 there's been a record 7 percent f.n.c. aid to emissions this year and that's according to preliminary figures from the global carbon project the goods a scientist says the drop which they see as temporary and largely because of the coronavirus lockdowns that shut down industries and transport and missions fell 12 percent in the u.s. and 11 percent in europe but only 1.7 percent in china. well apart from 2020 global greenhouse emissions have grown every year since the paris climate accord was signed by almost $200.00 countries in 2015 the un says emissions must fall by 7.6 percent a year by 2030 to reach the most ambitious temperature cap of $1.00 degrees celcius

signatories also said that work towards limiting emissions to levels that the earth can naturally absorb. well bangladesh's north was thought to be the world's largest so called climate refugee projects the goal is to house the growing number of people forced to flee their homes by climate change and a failing economy. reports from cox as bizarre. 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 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. our climate change migrant many fled their island homes decades ago 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 workers 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 very short of the. home got washed away in 1901 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 says it loses one percent off its g.d.p. every year due to the impact of climate change. and garment 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 india's internal migration has become one of its biggest challenges. cox's bizarre. coming out of the weather. a better dispute with poland and hungary to salvage the plots coronavirus recovery plan. and we look at a palestinian israeli my. education rights for his children. the weather looks pretty changeable across much of europe at the moment and not in the goodbye was seeing some very heavy showers some very down poles around the age of the attic areas of low pressure moving from west to east bumping into this area

of high pressure as blocking things off there's more wet sand windy weather coming into. from the west as we go on through the next captive days but started to cry she would say it's a very heavy rice lavinia to drop it had all the 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 rain that has inevitably caused widespread disruption then there's more wet weather where that came from further showers longer spells of bright rolling in as we go on through friday southern parts of the balkans at this stage some snow over the high ground west of weather pushing towards greece you notice but 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 wet weather will also make its way across the aegean turning

increasingly wet for that western side of techie. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground and in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. the and.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour an advisory board to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the finds a coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for use it's another step towards rolling out an immunization campaign in the worst affected country in the world. hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie is being charged under a controversial security law the allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces i was already in jail after being denied bail on a separate chanche. and morocco has become the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel u.s. brokered deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco his claim over the disputed western sahara beaches. the u.s. has signed a number of alleged human rights abuses including the leader of russia's chechnya region ramzan kadyrov as

a close ally of president vladimir putin 5 other individuals with close ties to putin have also been sanctioned 3 people in haiti and 5 connected to yemen's in the revels the sanctions are parts of the u.s. human rights accountability act also known as the magnitsky act. doctors in india are going on strike and get that traditional medicine practitioners are being granted permission to perform surgeries last month the government said are evaded doctors would be trained to perform more than 50 procedures india's medical association is condemning what it calls the retrograde step of mixing morton and alternative medicine well let's go live now to the problem she's in new delhi and this tell us more about this government decision and why they've made it. hi laura so the indian government announced 2 weeks ago that it was going to allow practitioners of an ancient traditional form of medicine and vehicle are you ready

the anyone who had a bachelor's degree said graduates to train and perform 58 surgeries including a number of in nose and throat and dental surgeries also p.j. the list is long and this is a government that for the last 6 years it actually says top a ministry of alternative medicine 6 years ago and has invested a lot of money and effort and has been pushing for its integration for the integration of modern medicine with more traditional with traditional forms. and people in the members of the indian medical association which has almost 300000 members the largest oldest group of indian medical professionals are against what they call mix up at the you can see perhaps science behind me that say same mix up at the end we are joined now by the national president of the indian medical association dr rajan sharma to talk more to talk more about this dr sharma very

good to have you with us on al-jazeera to tell us exactly why the indian medical association is so opposed to practitioners of traditional medicine performing surgeries. first of all let me make one thing that if you're. a modem or december me. and you put. all the birth. but. yet opposing parties are what we have pictured you because. of medical and. it takes years to become a sort of auditor gynecologist. on top of the years of review goes here within 3 years. similar to giving them the symbol of the degrees and out of the knowledge you have m.s.n. m.d.

and in their minds to fear it will disappear. from head girl. so the. ear that i'm sort of getting. to take faction of the world cannot uproot my. big sign as i know so you do automatic so that is dining and above all the globalization all such as you can procedure. is going to play havoc with the. common person and when we talk about you know the common people as well that impacts some more than others because it's traditionally poor people in rural areas they access traditional. practitioners more so than you know the more well to do people in urban areas who have better access to modern medicine hospitals 1st of all. let me give one thing there is no shortage of modern medicine. because of the infrastructure for them to work.

but i'm assuming you need to initiate this. you have to go to the rural area they didn't have nothing more than a room not the one accommodation for me. and i'm not talking. to. them. i would. have also included modern medicine. and why it takes 3 years for me to be the member of. the family. which is a lot of. just when you're going to become us. we thank you very much for your time with us and so that that is the main

opposition that people who haven't trained in modern medicine should not be allowed to perform perform surgeries and not only are they opposing this government's the government's decision to do that but also the government's plans to further integrate. all the various forms of medicine and dia under a banner called one nation one system that the government has planned as a product in new delhi thanks very much as both. leaders are heading into the 2nd and final day of the summit in brussels on thursday they unlocked a more than 2 trillion dollar budget which includes covert 19 recovery measures poland and hungary have threatened to veto the deal because of conditions attached to it and it is also agreed on additional sanctions against turkey over the resources and drilling speech in the eastern mediterranean. the u.s. says it's received was it calls credible reports that eritrea and troops are

involved in the conflict in ethiopia's northern t grey region or its news agency quoted u.s. officials say eritrean soldiers have been helping the ethiopian military fight the local rebel forces washington has called on them to pull out of the area ethiopia and eritrea deny the reports of 2 countries fought a long running war before ethiopia's prime minister and secured a peace agreement. lebanon's caretaker prime minister says he's done nothing wrong after being charged with negligence over the beirut port explosion sunday happened 3 foreign ministers are the highest profile figures to face charges over the disaster reports from beirut. it's been 4 months since a massive explosion at beirut's port this story didn't damage surrounding neighborhoods killing 200 people and injuring thousands and investigation has yet to provide an explanation on what caused nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate to

explode. but for the 1st time senior officials are being charged. the caretaker prime minister has along with 3 former ministers are accused of negligence deep says his conscience is clear and that he has no intention of being questioned again he's now the 1st prime minister in lebanon's history to be charged. dad was forced to resign days after the blast but later returned as caretaker he was only in power for a few months when the explosion happened that's why some are questioning the judicial decision that the state is protecting itself and the clearest indicate your truth out is with that accusation cut and foreign minister they also accused 3 previous transportation ministers a lot of articulate sponsible for the pork but faded to accuse the 3 previous prime ministers who've been and power since 2014 when the might through ammonia shipments

came into lebanon so it's very clear that this has been a very selective accusation by the state which includes the major 16 with the can parties and their leaders. deb repeatedly acknowledged receiving prior warnings about the dangers posed by the ammonium nitrate but he wasn't the only one. so far though and mid-level employees at the port and custom authorities have been charged and that is why there has been so much public anger official correspondence between various branches of government so the president the now caretaker prime minister former and current ministers as well as security officials and judges knew that the large amounts of explosive material were at the port and fail to take action it was one of the world's biggest non-nuclear explosions and for many it was the direct result of corruption encouraged by political class that governed for decades.

this is not enough all this destruction in beirut is due to a history of corruption before her son and after him they should question all of them. and the. families of the victims have been protesting against the delay in justice now a high ranking official is being held to account but this process could drag on for years already some are saying dia is being unfairly targeted he once said corruption is bigger than the state senator there are beirut. protesters have returned to the streets of haiti's capital saying the government is failing to deal with violence and instability crowds burn tires and set up barricades walls denouncing present german illinois arms gangs controlled large parts of port au prince and blamed for a recent string of kidnappings. hundreds of construction workers cleaning crews and

miners in peru of course traffic chaos in the nation's capital demanding salary increases and labor improvements crowds marched through limos historic center and over to parliament. a palestinian israeli father says he's fighting for equal educational rights for his children in a case involving israel's controversial nation states nor kassam bakri was seeking compensation for having to drive his children out of town because there's no arabic language school or a 4th set for ports from carmel in northern israel. it's an early morning routine that carson bakri and his children have had to get used to a 20 minute drive from their home in the town of cameo down the valley to an arabic language school custom has been fighting for years for a suitable school close to his home now he's seeking compensation for the daily commute and. i don't want my children to be treated as guests in the city achmet should be equal to your see their son should be equal to any other girl in camile

she has the right to study and come male i will not let them discriminate against her because she's an arab last month a magistrate ruled against the bakri family saying karmiel didn't have to follow legal obligations to provide either arabic schooling or transport costs. i support having students studying camilo however i do understand the mass concern about the city losing its jewish character solutions can be found for everything i guess and once they allow this to happen it will be a flood listen each one wants to worry about their own interests a community fine arabs and jews can learn together but to open a school for arabs boy. the most controversial aspect of the ruling was its use of israel's nation state law passed amid much protest in 2018 it defined national self-determination as a solely jewish right arabic is a special status language not an official one and jewish settlement is a national value the magistrate ruled that 3rd provision was key in this case

located is coming amid the beauty of israel's at the galilee the town was founded in 1964 on land that had belonged to surrounding palestinian israeli towns as an explicitly jewish settlement. this decision on the rights of this one family in this one more than town has already been discussed in an israeli parliamentary committee on the rights of the child during which a senior lawyer for the israeli justice ministry argued that the nation state law should not be used to limit individual rights and not to diminish the rights of children but a lawyer who's been campaigning for a year to get camile to cover the transportation costs for hundreds of palestinian israeli school children says there's little comfort to be found in such words. see what happened in the courts is another level of racism and it's now no longer a matter of practices of institutions but the protection of these practices by judges under the nation state law. custom bakri whose only job is teaching hebrew

to palestinian students says he has no problem with his children learning alongside jewish classmates he campaigned to set up just such a kindergarten but he doesn't want them to learn what he sees as a militaristic israeli curriculum nor have their rights denied by what he calls a racist law sorry for sit out 0 come you know northern israel. with out of there these are our top stories and advisory board to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the pfizer coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for use as another step towards rolling out an immunization campaign in the worst affected country in the world hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie has been charged under a controversial security law the allegations include that he is colluded with foreign forces lives already in jail after bad.