and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased poaching in the wake of the pandemic kenya the unfathomable virus on al-jazeera. within the next 24 hours they will begin moving vaccine from the pfizer manufacturing facility to the u.p.s. and fed ex hopes the 1st covert 900 back scenes applies to arrive in u.s. states on monday morning as the country registers another record death toll. comes around when you're watching out of there alive my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a number of students are fed kidnapped in northwestern nigeria as government storm a secondary school. also venezuela's opposition holds

a symbolic vote asking people if they want president nicolas maduro out. and international aid finally arrives in ethiopia's to grey region after more than a month the fighting between local forces and government soldiers. bought into the program advisers for the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention have voted to recommend the nation's 1st coronavirus vaccine for widespread to use in people over the age of 16 now this will help clear the way for health officials to begin the largest inoculation campaign in american history the 1st supplies are due to reach states on monday more than 297000 people have died of covert 19 of the world's worst affected nation and the u.s. registered another record toll of 3309 fatalities on friday john hendren reports

now from washington d.c. . in the nation most devastated by the global pandemic the 1st doses of the 1st approved vaccine or on the move within the next 24 hours they will begin moving vaccine from the pfizer manufacturing facility to the u.p.s. and fed ex hopes and then it will go out to the $636.00 locations nationwide the 1st $145.00 sites in the u.s. are expected to receive the vaccine on monday with the rest receiving it by wednesday now front line responders like dr ben you sachin colorado will be among the 1st to be vaccinated against cove at 19 i am going to be one of the tips of the spear when the 1st people to step in to help generate these herd immunity which is sold to us to get a grip on this terrible disease those 1st vaccinations will happen just days after the u.s. food and drug administration approved it on friday science and data guided the

f.d.a. decision we worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic not because of any other extra no pressure that external pressure came from president trump who on friday tweeted to han to quote get the damn vaccines out now trump on saturday called it a victory our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months the vaccine has shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing covert 1000 transmission but it must be stored it all true cold temperatures the road to immunity across the u.s. is likely to be paved with pain and tragedy ahead of the u.s. centers for disease control says over the next $60.00 to $90.00 days some $3000.00 americans that's more than were killed in the $911.00 attacks will die each day of covert 19 then there are the conspiracy theorists and skeptics who say they will

refuse to take it obvious. sometimes a thing like hopes and i don't i don't think i even pull with it because i don't know one soul. that has this know a lot of people that represents just one of the logistical conundrums for president elect joe biden he has set a goal of inoculating 100000000 americans within 100 days of his inauguration on january 20th john hendren al jazeera washington well let's bring in dr georges c. benjamin he's executive director of the american public health association joins me now live via skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on al-jazeera sir i mean encouraging news for many americans are you hearing the right things from those in charge of its distribution sort of gives you the confidence that the u.s. is able to distribute this vaccine quickly and effectively yeah absolutely you know many of us are working with the administration and both the outgoing and

incoming administration to make sure that we can get the vaccine from the from the science into people's arms always getting back to the nation and the army is always difficult but i believe this nation can do it it's a huge logistical operation perhaps one that has many considerations if you think about sort of the worst affected states and link that of course obviously to the burn and the rural areas how do you think easy or difficult it is going to be to cater for those considering we're talking about vast expanses of space. yeah the united states is a big country and we have lots of rule communities and then even urban communities and which they don't have the capacity to deal with the ultra cold storage so the ultra quartz storage which really went makes this a much more difficult that seem to distribute and get into people's arms but we know how to do it. you know this nation has. an amazing that same program

and if you just deal with the technology of getting this cold vaccine into into communities then we'll be able to vaccinate all the people that want to have to be vaccinated indeed if we just talk about this particular vaccine it's one which sort of gets the body ready i believe for any infection and one that will fight it i mean are we sure about how much immunity that a person would get from it all do we have to think over a period of time that more than one vaccine in a different form will be required as a preventative measure to secure immunity. i think what we do know is that this particular vaccine protect you from getting very sick and most people getting sick at all what we don't know yet even though studies are ongoing is how much it also protects you from transmitting your disease to other people and how long it lasts how long that protection last may be like a lot of that seems you know every 10 years you have to get

a tetanus shot because the immunity wanes on that shot but we just don't know yet but we will over the i'm sure you like alex the health secretary will be closely watching the vaccination process knowing that in the united kingdom to health workers with serious allergies. and that carried adrenalin pens suffered sort of non-life threatening adverse reactions so there's a concern is that not all will be that this could be an issue as it's administered to health care workers who will be the top of the list to get this vaccine to start with you know one of the interesting things is that all of us clinicians know that there are people out there that are allergic to any medication even tylenol and see them in a fit so that people who have histories of strong allergic reactions to vaccines have been recommended to not get the vaccine yet at this time and of course to work with their doctors in the future to see whether or not that might be possible to be

interesting to see what happens and how this is rolled out it's been good to get your insights dr just see benjamin that thanks for joining us from washington d.c. thank you. now the world's largest catholic poker mage has been counseled into a surgeon kovac 1000 cases about 10000000 people visit the basilica of all 80 and guadalupe in mexico city every year but this time church and government officials have asked catholics to worship at home instead on a republic from mexico city. every year millions of people flock to the mexican capital for the day of the virgin of guadalupe celebrated on december 12th. it's the largest catholic pilgrimage in the world and an important religious festival for many faithful catholics. this year however the coronavirus pandemic has put those celebrations on hold. get the natural hands was among the last catholic pilgrims to visit the holy shrine before authorities closed it to the public.

interest back my mother's in the hospital she's in very serious condition and i have faith that our lady of guadalupe will help me so that she'll be home soon. mexico city's national shrine houses an image of the virgin mary which according to a legend dating back to $1531.00 is said to have miraculously imprinted itself on a cloak belonging to an indigenous boy named one diego the day of the virgin of guadalupe is mexico's largest annual public gathering on any other year this area outside of the basilica of our lady of guadalupe it would be a sea of worshippers but as deaths from coronavirus have continued to increase dramatically so have restrictions on public gatherings. in forcing these restrictions for more than 1700 mexico city police officers with the annual pilgrimage officially ancyl church leaders and government officials have encouraged de boaties to attend catholic mass via television or live stream serum oni's online

. body slow data and artists in the state of one haka says even though people aren't allowed to visit the national shrine they can still bring the virgin of guadalupe into their homes. i mean that's. what's being proposed is for people to not go outside and he's dead set up an altar in their homes where they can receive the blessings of the virgin and where we can still say the same prayers were used i'm sure the virgin would gladly make an exception in this case and visit each one of us in their homes. the annual pilgrimage for the day of the virgin of guadalupe is a tradition that reaches far beyond mexico's borders even though travel to her sanctuary won't be possible this year faithful catholics in mexico and around the world are finding other ways to worship melinda al-jazeera mexico city police in northern nigeria who are searching for missing students after gunmen stormed a secondary school a large group of attackers on motorbikes arrived late on friday at the boarding

school in chorus district in the state of kut senior officer was shot during an hour long battle between the gunman and security forces about $800.00 students attend school many flood and the attackers opened fire police are still searching for the gunman because. you know the child is a child regardless of his parent children were kidnapped and we didn't sleep throughout the night since 10 pm and we're just tearing gunshots some of my relatives children were also taken i have been at the school since dawn and when i sincerely speaking we here in katsina state are in a terrifying condition we don't see the value of the government in fact i have a younger brother and a child taken along by the kidnappers i am from down jack katsina state and i have been in this school since dawn and yet there is no update. here's a former nigerian education minister and the convening of the international bring

our girls back campaign it was formed in 2014 after nearly 300 students were kidnapped from a nigerian girls school she says the government has failed to communicate in a transparent manner when such attacks happen. this is a federal government that does not have the abit of tellin anything to tell its people were not surprised that it's on 4 years after. the dept cheap you know 2 years after the dept she gets when take in some 6 years after the to bug elsewhere take him we have this level of up doctrine that is not very clear in the minds of the people yet and we don't see a very effective management of the early days of this tragedy by our government so it's not surprising it is the way that government has

carried it on its anti-terrorism effort it has not been effective in transparently communicating happenings to citizens the us government has adopted a new map of morocco which includes the disputed territory of western sahara the decision to recognize your sovereignty over the region came as part of a u.s. brokered deal for morocco to normalize relations with israel the pro independence policy front in algeria as prime minister of both condemned the move. well still ahead here on al-jazeera find out why climate change is threatening the lives of mountain climbers in the french alps. and the what did you do during the lockdown about to sign for one of the biggest riddles in u.s. criminal history.

but. we got some very cold air plunging down across the korean peninsula over the next couple of days we've seen some well the wet weather while the wintry weather for a time making its way across japan still a little flurry of sea effect snow coming through his sliding through the sea of japan into that western side of honshu across a good parts of qaida sheltered by the mountains not too bad in tokyo around 15 degrees celsius of the sort of the water top temperature is so just minus 4 degrees celsius further south into southern parts of china we got some brain sleet and snow coming in him mainly right little bit of snow there a possibility on the northern flank shanghai no woman around 7 degrees celsius a good deal more than that of course across southeast asia the usual scattering of showers coming in here some of on the heavy side particularly down into malaysia and also into indonesia could see some heavy rain too just making its way towards

the western side of india we have had some mist in folk problems just around new delhi westley disturbance now in the process of pushing through bringing some sleet and some snow this is a little further north into what genuine kashmir as helping to clear the air at least for a time has that western weather that we have towards good herat in maharashtra when by with the top temperature of 30. so may al-jazeera london to a cost center to special guests in conversation i don't feel because of colonialism unprompted fun interrupted there's a sense of what month burden still having some legitimacy in terms of spreading the knowledge and technology pretty ago pal meat still has that parikh's you can really make a record ration for something more new mentally horrific past slavery studio to be

unscripted on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so who run the reminder of our top news stories the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is recommending the nation's 1st coronavirus vaccine for people older than 16 the 1st supplies of the pfizer violent economical ations onto to reach states on monday. police in northern nigeria searching for missing students after gunmen stormed a secondary school a large group of attackers on motorbikes arrived late on friday at the boarding school in the state of cut scene and about $800.00 students attend school. and the u.s. government has adopted

a new map of morocco which includes the disputed territory of western sahara the decision to recognize riband sovereignty over the region is part of the u.s. brokered deal for morocco to normalize relations with israel. but as well in the home and abroad her voted in a non-binding poll organized by the opposition leader one goh i don't know is asking people whether they want to end the president nicolas maduro is rule and hold new elections the poll was organized to counter last week's parliamentary elections of physician groups had boycotted the vote calling it fraudulent media as governing party regained a majority in the national assembly the only state body the opposition had controlled latin america to lucy in the human has more from santiago. i've been keeping a very close eye on both the turnout inside venezuela and outside of venezuela remember there are more than 5000000 venezuelans most of them here in latin america a large number here in chile and even more 2000000 just in colombia in. this

country was shall we say disappointing from the point of view of the of the opposition here in santiago there's a there's a 48 hour total lockdown people aren't even allowed to go out of their homes without a special permit so the polling stations have been set up by the opposition were not able to open another city as they were but still a few people showed up a similar thing happened in colombia but inside bin is where we've been seeing pictures of pretty decent lines people turning out to vote despite the fact that in some cases armed groups called peoples who are loyal to the government who are out there and disrupted the voting and in fact in some cases took out run off with the ballot boxes but but at least. one bible of the opposition leaders said a few hours ago that he was satisfied that many millions of venezuelans had voted for something taking place in cities across france as part of

a nationwide rally against a controversial police security bill the measure restricts the publication of soto's all videos of the offices critics saying it would undermine press freedom to document police brutality all supporters say will protect police from online abuse that could lead to violence there being weekly rallies against the bill and they intensify and after footage of a 3 policeman beating a black music producer. exactly 5 years after a long day long climate change was signed the u.n. chief is sounding another warning about the future of our planet and target terrorists use the anniversary of the paris accord to plead with world leaders to declare climate emergencies he says it's vital that nations act now for the sake of our future generations or son you're going to get reports. behind the crisis of a global pandemic another danger is waiting in the wings the climate emergency

fueling global warming and according to the united nations with devastating consequences for humankind if we don't change course we may be headed for to get the stuff of temperature rise of morgan city degrees the century again anybody still deny that we are facing at the domestic emergency if you strike today i call on not only those worldwide to declare a state of climate emergency in their countries and don't look now it is reach. 5 years on from the launch of the un climate summit when $196.00 countries signed on to prevent the rise in global temperatures the organization is sounding the alarm of the failures to curb greenhouse gas emissions. where some countries have acted on their commitments others have not one country which has seen the effects of climate change is australia the world's number one exporter of coal its economy is heavily reliant on fossil fuels and over the past 5 years it has moved away from

its commitment to cut carbon emissions. in recent years devastating bushfires have ravaged the country set off by record breaking temperatures as well as severe droughts and the us where in the past 4 decades the yearly wildfires in the west have grown 8 times larger the outgoing president donald trump controversially pulled the country out of the a court a policy that left many dismayed yet the commitment by president elect joe biden to rejoin the accords was welcomed at the virtual summit was a moment we find ourselves in an important moment days after the united states president elect joe biden has expressed his desire to rejoin the paris agreement and i really want to tell our american friends welcome back welcome home the impacts of climate change have been more evident in recent years from melting ice

caps to intense hurricanes and rising sea levels while they have been extra efforts to set up greener forms of energy the question will be how leaders deal with the current economic slump caused by the pandemic will they stick to their promises or will economic growth once again take precedence in a world that is experiencing more extreme weather phenomena sun agle al-jazeera. well climate change is having a devastating impact in the mountain regions of france ski resorts of close because of unreliable snow fall and scientists they all say the rising temperatures are causing mountains to crumble natasha bottler reports. striking and majestic the french alps aren't chanting site for thousands of years people have lived and worked in the mountains or simply come to admire them but scientists warn these ancient peaks are crumbling rising temperatures are melting permafrost the

frozen soil an ice that holds them together speeding up erosion and triggering dangerous rock falls glaciologist frost manuf says the high vertical rock faces of the alps are particularly vulnerable to changes in temperature. in effect we have noticed that in warm periods particularly the last 2 or 3 decades rockfalls have been more frequent than in past colder decades or so when the summers are very hot as they were in 20032015 the rock falls happened more often. also melting faster than before there are 4000 in the alps chain that spans 7 countries scientists say half will have disappeared by 2050 climate change is also transforming low altitude mountains like those in the photos region in eastern france it's still snowing here every winter inventer on the problem is the snow fall has become less reliable the ski season much shorter so not so why the

operator this year has decided to close the resort. duke's grandfather created the ski resort his family have always run it is odd competed in the olympics shutting the resort down wasn't an easy decision but he says he had no choice he now plans to build a luxury hotel to attract tourists all year round. the ski states. faced the same problem because to work you need snow at the right time during the holidays and good weather so it's hard to have all that in a short season we used to have a bad winter every decade now it's every 3 years so it's impossible to recover. rising temperatures are forced dozens of ski resorts to close in france in recent years scientists warn that unless more is done to stop climate change snow capped mountains and glistening places may 1 day become things that the past natasha butler al-jazeera venture on live ocean the lawyer representing the family of an

italian student tortured and murdered in egypt has welcomed what she calls a new chapter in the investigation on thursday italian prosecutors announced plans to charge for senior members of egypt's security services over the killing of 28 year old julio of a genie his body was found in a ditch outside of cairo in 2016. yemeni chidi julio julio regina he was spied on for many weeks and that was even in his house the egyptian national security forces entered his room searched it and took pictures of his passport and followed him everywhere they were taking pictures of him and creating a spy network that includes his friends all this can't be done by one individual only and the responsibility as well can't be placed on one single person such a matter and daschle would be from the highest authorities. international aid is arrived in the city center of recent fighting a convoy of trucks from the red cross is distributing medicines and other supplies

to hospitals and in the north into grey region alexia brian reports. precious cargo carefully packed and headed from a calais a city that's been cut off from international help for weeks inside these boxes is aid made since surgical supplies and disinfectants reference was. has been unable to function of the. drugs and supplies for over a month now they are dealing with a large number of trauma patients but also their. chronic care patients delivering babies meghalaya is the capital of ethiopia's northern to cry region that became the frontline and a power struggle between the central government and regional authorities. ethiopia's army says it's captured nicolay and declared victory forces from the to cry people's liberation front say they're still fighting back each regards the other as illegal and the conflict has threatened to destabilize the country and its

neighbors. will and 50000 refugees have sought shelter across the border and slow down many terrified and traumatized. and more evidence is emerging of mess killings in the region this man tells of a message in the town of make khadra november so now after the fighting began. they just hid any body they slaughtered them with knives they cut them here with a machete there was so much killing a saw about 300 to 400 people who were dead and it was this video said to show the aftermath of the attack which refugees like to blame on the military ethiopia's government though says to gray and forces were behind it an informal group of youths. who are supported by militias and police they staged those attacks but having said that i would also like to point out. as i said earlier the reports that

we've so far released is preliminary in nature. last month prime minister ahmed denied any civilians had been killed by his forces during the operation. but some analysts suggest thousands of people have died it's hard to confirm what's actually happening the government's restricted access to the region and there's been a communications blackout rights groups are calling for an independent investigation and say while this 1st convoy of international aid to to cry is a step forward it's not enough they warn of an all out humanitarian crisis both in ethiopia and across the border and i hope we don't have any plans for the future everything we worked for is now useless we are just a sleeping on the ground without even a change of clothes life for these people is on hold and they feel scared and far from home. brian al jazeera. while many of us spend locked down baking bread or

trying to learn a new language 3 amateur sleuths cracked an encrypted letter by the killer now the 340 character coded letter was mailed to the san francisco chronicle by the serial killer in 1969 the killer who was never caught murdered 5 people in a string of a souls that terrorized the some francisco bay area the f.b.i. confirmed the claim by australia mathematician dr samuel blake and 2 cryptologists from the u.s. and belgium part of the message reads i hope you're having lots of fun in trying to catch me without giving any further clues to his identity. it was such a long shot we we tried several 100000 encrypt ways of solving the software and just by chance we happened to sort of stumble upon a fragment of of how it could be solved and using that fragment we reverse engineer

the entire solution and got the entire message out from i'm not an expert on what the zodiac had to say our i managed to help to to get that message out. it doesn't reveal his identity it doesn't give a lot of clues to his identity i think more what it does is the the method that he was able to use to create that that sata maybe help track down who he is. your child is there who needs the whole rom the reminder of our top news stories the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is recommending the nation's 1st coronavirus vaccine for people older than 16 the 1st supplies of the pfizer biotech inoculations are due to reach states on monday the u.s. registered another record toll of 3309 fatalities on friday mike hanna has more from washington d.c. .