vaccine supplies make their way to distribution sites across the united states as the country's coronavirus death toll approaches 3 100000. the whole romany watching officer alive my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the brits at trade talks will go on u.k. and e.u. leaders say they're far apart on key issues but won't give up on negotiations also nigerian authorities say they're stepping up efforts to rescue the boys still missing after gunmen attacked the school friday and. was.

strained by united opposition in pakistan protesters demand the resignation of the prime minister iran a car. welcome to the program a massive distribution effort is underway in the united states to dispatch the 1st batch of a coronavirus vaccine trucks and planes carrying 3000000 doses of the pfizer biotech bank scene heading for all 50 states as the nationwide death toll approaches 300000 workers cheered her as the 1st shipment left the production plant now they're loaded with dry ice and g.p.s. enabled senses to ensure the doses remain at minus 70 degrees celcius is a very different picture in brazil where the president's vaccination plan is receiving widespread criticism no start date has been provided no details on

vaccine supply despite being in the midst of the world's 2nd deadliest outbreak and over in europe italy has now surpassed the united kingdom for the worst death toll on the continent more than 64000 people have died respectively in both nations now we'll have more the situation europe shortly but 1st john hendren reports on the race in the u.s. to inoculate millions. the united states rolled out the most ambitious vaccination program in american history. to the applause of workers at pfizer's michigan vaccine plant it is a test of an unprecedented national effort to save millions of lives in the nation most ravaged by the pandemic. workers low dry ice into boxes containing the super chilled vaccine kept it negative 70 degrees celsius. then in a scene not witnessed in this century that scene bearing ferric to u.b.s.

delivery trucks are escorted by u.s. marshals the shipments are expected to reach the 1st $145.00 locations on monday and a total of $636.00 by wednesday $20000000.00 vaccinations dish this month and then we think will be up to $50000000.00 total vaccinations of people by the end of january and $100000000.00 shots. norm's by the end of february just with the daring and foster vaccine but amid the celebration there are warning signs to achieve the herd immunity necessary to stop the disease in the u.s. just say 75 percent of the public must be vaccinated but in a study of one health care system florida's jackson health system half of the health care workers said they would not be taking the vaccine another 35 percent said they would not take it in the 1st round the head of the u.s. national institutes of health says that's a major concern i would like to plead this to people who are listening to this morning to really hit the reset button on whatever they think they knew about this

vaccine that might cause them to be so skeptical please people when you look back in a year and you say to yourself did i do the right thing i hope you'll be able to say yes because i looked at the evidence across the u.s. the virus is reaching new peaks state of mississippi reports it now has no more intensive care beds available what i fear that people do not understand however is that the resources are finite. they are finite there gets to a point where we have to say we don't have another place to put another patient safely we can't do it with nearly 300000 dead in new infections rising the human toll continues to mount. well correspondent john 100 joins me now from washington d.c. and john really the public messaging couldn't be more important right now even the

president himself supporting the rollout tough to some devious statements throughout the pandemic. that's right so this is a massive unprecedented endeavor and the messaging couldn't possibly match it worse the president began for months by understating the effects of the pandemic by making not wearing a mask a political statement and in recent days then you had him publicly pushing the head of the f.d.a. saying he wasn't approving the vaccine from pfizer fast enough and that sent the message that this was politically motivated that this was politically generated an event has caused people to lose confidence in the vaccine there was a study of a health center in in florida i mentioned it in that story health care workers more than half of them not sure they're going to take it and so that is the biggest problem here because the message that the administration really needs to send is

that people should be taking this vaccine that it is safe and the same for the other vaccines that might be approved subsequently but that's not the message they're hearing the president now we are told is going to take the vaccination along with vice president pence as soon as sunday and then in the white house those people who work near them will get it 1st and then eventually the plan is to give it to everyone in the white house so the president is now doing what you would expect him to do but he hasn't been consistently saying what has needed to be said all along and there are a lot of people in the administration who are upset about that and it of course vaccine is heading out john it's primarily going to the elderly and frontline health workers who all some of the groups who sort of receive it to start with but where in the u.s. is the vaccine heading full because one presumes it's going to the major hot spots . it is going to the hot spots but politics being what they are in

the united states those $636.00 locations that were initially picked out to receive the 1st doses those are in all 50 states and they include territories like guam and puerto rico so just to take a state not quite at random because i happen to know it well. illinois has about $109000.00 doses coming there the city of chicago there will run its own program with $3534.00 hospitals receiving $23000.00 doses and so what you're also seeing is in addition to sending these to specific hospitals they're also being sent to c.v.s. and walgreens to drugstores and their pharmacists will receive the vaccine personally and in their own vehicles will take them alone within a radius of 75 miles from each of their locations to distribute them to nursing

homes where the elderly are most at risk in many cases it will be the frontline health care workers doctors and nurses who will be receiving the vaccines 1st and then it will spread out to the general public over the coming months we are told the general public might start getting vaccinations from march to april may and june and the hope from the administration is that if everything goes right that the general public will be largely vaccinated by this summer and they'll be able to achieve that herd immunity that authorities are going for well certainly a very important 48 to 72 hours and we'll be monitoring that from the u.s. thanks joe. well the brazilian government is also facing criticism over its vaccination plan and the supreme court has now intervened hunts a cause over it's done who's in knowledge and seen as couple monitoring events for the neighboring brazil it does seem brazil's vaccination plans a state did uncertainty and political criticism.

certainly the case is a very similar situation in brazil to the one john has just described in the united states a president who right from the beginning didn't take the virus seriously coded nothing worse than a little flu really whereas moths in public. suffered from from the virus and then recovered but he's been giving out mixed messages his health ministry has announced that it wants to vaccinate 51000000 resilience in the next 5 months but it's not clear where those that are going to come from which vaccine they're going to use how it will be rolled out and then have how the next group of people will be vaccinated after those initial $51000000.00 health workers on the most run mostly elderly people and those with serious illnesses newspapers health experts other politicians have criticized president job also now accusing him of homicidal recklessness criminal negligence in his approach to trying to have 200 or so

1000000 the brazilians vaccinated they've about 7000000 brazilians have been infected with the virus 181000 have died the numbers keep rising i.c.u. beds close to such a ration more than 90 percent occupied in cities like brazil. and so the release of these mixed messages the president himself saying he's unlikely to take the vaccine has cast doubt on their effectiveness really his supporters going along with him and continuing to mix in public trying to work trying to keep the economy afloat those who are opposed to him strongly critical of incompetence among other things at the same time here in the southern hemisphere christmas approaching summit sign people heading for the beaches many tens of thousands of people not heeding the advice of health experts to stay indoors to maintain social distancing so it's

a very mixed message is numbers going up and a very unclear plan about how people in brazil are going to be vaccinated daniel for the observance very much on the shore with our correspondent in borders honorees. as we mentioned earlier italy has overtaken the united kingdom to be the country with the most credible iris related deaths in europe and in germany stricter locked on measures are being imposed until the middle of january to reduce the surge in cases the senate has the details from across europe. quiet days and silent nights this is a festive season like no other here in germany where traditionally at this time of the year the streets are bustling with christmas markets this year not so after more than 20000 cases were confirmed on sunday the chancellor angela merkel announced most stores would be closing of the christmas shopping period as well as further measures placing germany into a complete lockdown over its record number of infections and killing in the

hundreds but of when we urgently need to act the decisions made today are the result of that the goal remains we need a ration of 50 cases per 100000 people per week all this will all have an impact on the holidays we know this but we're forced to take action and that's what we're doing. initially another grim milestone has been passed at least 64000 people have now died some kind of a 19 at the taking the u.k. for most deaths resulting from the virus in europe transmissions had slowed down over the summer but as the days grew colder the numbers began to rise again. much hope is being pinned on to a new vaccination campaign that will see pavilion set up in squares across the country to dispense vaccines the hope that italy will bloom again in the coming

year france's stay at home policy has now been lifted but a nighttime curfew is today in place the government will only loosen the restrictions when infections fall to around 5000 a day. but it is a long way off from that figure with 11 and a half 1000 new infections announced in the past 24 hours in the u.k. joining another nail biting moment in the bronx negotiations the vaccine rollout has already begun as the spread of the virus continues relentlessly from 16 and a half 1000 new cases a day on wednesday to nearly 18 and a half 1000 on sunday with the capital once again one of the worst hit areas so need a egle al-jazeera the british and the leaders have agreed to extend breaks at talks with both sides don't agree all a trade deal by december 31st they'll be border checks and terrorists for goods traveling between the e.u. and the european union. high drama and 11th hour brinkmanship

north for the 1st time in the 4 and a half year break up between the u.k. and the e.u. are negotiation teams have been working day and night over recent days and despite the exhaustion after almost one g.o.p. goshi asians and despite the fact that that lines have been missed over and over we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile did the fact that the 2 sides hadn't called a halt to trade negotiations as some had expected mean that progress was being made you know what was going that far. i do think as i say there is a deal to be done if our partners want to do it but we remain very far apart on these key issues and they are u.k.

can't be locked into the e.u.'s regular treaty or bit we've obviously got to take back control fisheries full of years after people voted for it no deadlines been set for this latest extension of talks frankly there's been so many deadlines made and missed that no one would believe it anyway the only hard date now is the 1st of january by which time these 2 giant trade partners will have separated for good deal or no deal britain intent on protecting its sovereignty the e.u. looking after the interests of its single market it is a nail biting time particularly for businesses for whom world trade organization rules in a no deal scenario would mean tariffs and quotas raising the cost of imports and exports with implications for some sectors that may struggle to survive the amount of tax. people. specially after. you can. return the poor even more poor

soul. we don't know how it's going to be you know boris johnson's government is adamant britain will flourish even without a deal no one it says should warre but plenty do don't know how al-jazeera london. well still ahead here on al-jazeera pushed out on persecuted by christians in iraq say they no longer feel safe. and celebrating the chill in china we show you how to make an ice halo when it's minus 40 degrees outside. winter is the seam now in most of the u.s. and canada i was front after front coming down the cold weather wisconsin this is

madison wisconsin has some significance though she may not find that surprising for wisconsin and you'd be right however this snow has come a long way south and you go as far south as our console and tennessee maybe some in kentucky south of that fairly heavy rain through texas and that's moving eastwards but look at the temperature regime they are quite low temperatures the wind is still blowing enough in parts of california for a red flag warning but we had a fog warning in the northwest in parts of wyoming idaho and even washington is now replaced by a winter storm warning that snow this is coming in it will tumble down through the rockies the same time as that snow disappears eastwards was right on its eastern flank you're left with the cold air behind a high temperature in new york is 13 in houston of 11 that's going to be a cold feel and it's going to continue i think during tuesday much quieter weather to the south of that now we still got outstanding floody weather in guatemala this should not be but is now effectively a lake in this part of northern mali

a few more light showers to come but basically this is seasonally quiet. algis there a while tells the intriguing story behind 4 classic songs from palestine and jewish social snapshots of different times and places from the british mandate to 19 fifties jordan and the palestinian diaspora today musical expressions of their cultural identity and their yearning for the homeland that many with forced from in 1988 songs for the love of history on al-jazeera. the arab. world a world away form.

you want your visit with me still run a reminder of our top stories the 1st batch of the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine is being dispatched across the united states like the nation of health care workers and the elderly begins on monday and that says the wide nationwide death toll approaches 300000 italy has overtaken the united kingdom before the worst covert 19 death toll in europe both nations have registered more than 64000 deaths italy special commissioner for the pandemic says all e.u. countries will begin their vaccination program on the same day. and british leaders have agreed to extend breaks it talks without a trade deal they'll be border checks and tariffs the goods traveling between the united kingdom and the european union after december 31st. the hackers have

infiltrated computers at the u.s. treasury department and possibly other government agencies the u.s. national security council says it's investigating the cyber attack and it comes out less than a week after a major u.s. cyber security firm afire i said foreign government attackers had stolen tools it uses to probe the defenses of its customers but a series of coordinated protests have been taking place in bello reuss against president alexander lukashenko for months after his controversial election victory more than 70 separate rallies took place across the capital minsk a new tactic by protesters after security forces violently crackdown on mass demonstrations more than 200 people have been detained because election win in august was widely discredited with the main opposition leader discredit discussion . skier forced into exile. nearly 2 days after government raided

a school in the northwest of nigeria hundreds of parents are still waiting to find out what's happened to their son's families desperate for news of converged on the secondary school in katsina state a government spokesman told the reuters news agency that 321 students are still missing but it's not clear if they've all been abducted by the authorities of order all schools in the state to close what about hunters on the way attacks by armed gangs are common in northern nigeria and is not clear if there's a political motive behind this attack or the way said the a top is a counter-terrorism expert and former officer at the nigerian state services department he says there are 2 well known gang leaders in the region the could have staged the raid. that guy actually benefited from. let's see some forms of negotiation not past we want to catch in our government and also the exam for us to got them police believe that there is a conflict in terms of agreement reached between cuts not state government and

disband it so it's not like an attack in the community so it's all like sure all of what's that cat's gnostic got made into negotiating with then or good bye to any agrement of sentiments so it is believed that this is the behind the. attack saddam's prime minister has made a brief visit to ethiopia in an effort to resolve the unrest in the north and to grow a region of the prime minister abu ahmed and says the to agree to hold a meeting with the bloc of the east african countries also called i get the fighting between government forces and it's a great people's liberation front broke out last month the violence forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes some of them crossed into sudan to seek refuge. opposition supporters in pakistan have defied coronavirus restrictions to

protest against the government they want the prime minister him run contra resign accusing him of failing to deliver on the promises of mishandling the pandemic alexia brown explains was pakistan's opposition party has described this rally in the hole as a referendum on prime minister imran khan's government they say the turnout proves he has to go valentine match on the capital islamabad to force him from office believe that. the time for dialogue is over we don't have any other choice except a long march i want a leg on your coming now is lama bagby are coming. this is the latest in months of protests by an opposition alliance called the pakistan democratic movement is accuses khan of incompetence and failing to deliver on promises made ahead of the 2018 and lection by building millions of houses and creating jobs for the poor. inflation has reached its peak no one's listening to us people are helpless and

they can't feed their children we know the corona virus is spreading rapidly but we don't have any other option except to protest. the crowds defied covert 9000 restrictions which banned gatherings of more than 300 people cases have been on the rise in pakistan where a 2nd wave is well underway leaving some hospitals overwhelmed the government has said opposition leaders are pushing their own interests ahead of their supporters by holding rallies in the middle of a pandemic. this is a political circus they're threatening the government but it's useless they're just playing with people's lives while the corona virus is spreading rapidly. the former cricket legend turned politician can has dismissed the allegations against him as pathetic he said the protests are aimed at blackmailing him to drop corruption cases against opposition leaders like convicted former prime minister nawaz sharif

who now lives in exile his daughter was among those who addressed the crowds calling on supporters to join the march to the capital prime minister imran khan those says he will never give in. of the next year brian al-jazeera. algeria's president has made his 1st public appearance since testing positive for covert 19 nearly 2 months ago of the boon has been receiving treatment in germany since the end of october there's been widespread speculation about his health not much of mention about his condition was released the 75 year old appeared in a video posted on twitter saying he was expected to make a full recovery within the next 3 weeks pope francis will make his 1st ever papal visit to iraq in march the announcement has been welcomed as a sign of hope by the country's christian community that's fallen from 1000000 to around 300000 spent a faulty report from the christian town of boteler. in

iraq's town of the christian orthodox march many church has reopened its doors it was partly destroyed by eisel as the group launched its offensive still in northern iraq in 2014 but there are few worshippers to fill its restored nave that with superman has been a pastor here for 24 years and has gradually watched his congregation shrink so. if this hard situation continues it will be difficult for christians to stay in iraq maybe we will persist but the next generation no we cannot force them to stay . but tell i used to be a christian majority town but over the past 4 decades the number of muslims here has steadily grown in the 1980 s. then president saddam hussein nationalized farm land belonging to christians and gave it to families of soldiers killed in the iran iraq war in 2014 eisel took over

forcing the christian population to flee almost half emigrated abroad about a quarter have returned while another quarter remain in the semi autonomous kurdish region members of this family in that abuse christian quarter of say the reason they don't feel safe to go back is the security force that controls the town they want to remain anonymous for security reasons. of course safety is the most important thing we've had enough of the infringements on our lands there is should be controlled by the sons of the area why do they bring strangers to rule the area . that group is the 30th brigade of the shia led popular mobilization forces which helped retake but eisel the brigade is composed of ethnic shabaka just like most of the muslim population that lives here last year its leader though was placed under u.s. sanctions for alledged human rights abuses against christians other was forced to

step down 2 months ago he denies the charges against him and out of here. i believe there's no control of one function over another we should back on the christians have been residents of the area for a long time the christians are welcome to return back to live in their homes and we support these returns there's complete stability and security you have. the majority of the town is now shut buck many shopkeepers in this market are shot back who have bought or rented shops that used to be run by christians one of them mohammed of nun who recently returned belief such changes are a natural development it's the purchasing power that is ruling the situation the christians don't have money to buy but the muslims conboy but many christians say they are being pushed out and that much of the construction in but is funded by people in power who want to accelerate the demographic change the vatican's

announcement of pope francis visit to iraq has given many christians hope that what is left of their heritage can be preserved but the demographic changes here are so extensive that few believe they can be reversed simona felt in al-jazeera but. john le carré of the spine turned novelist behind some of the world's best selling espionage fiction has died at the age of 89 the kerry's agent said he died in cornwall in england on saturday after a short illness he worked for britain's intelligence service before turning his experience into books which helped define the genre of cold war espionage literature they include tinker tailor soldier spy and the spy who came in from the cold well it's time of the year when china's northernmost city becomes a popular tourist attraction with people drawn to his extreme cold temperatures have dropped to more than 40 degrees below 0 making it one of the few places on the planet where it's possible to do this boiling water thrown into the air immediately

freezes into ice crystals forming a halo effect is a phenomenon that attracts towards recross china perhaps beyond 2. 0 with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories the 1st batch of these fires a biotech coronavirus vaccine is being dispatched across the united states but the nation of the health care workers the elderly begins on monday that signs the nation wide death toll approaches 300000 job 100 has more from washington d.c. in addition to spending these 2 specific hospitals they're also being sent to c.v.s. and walgreens to drugstores in their pharmacists will receive the vaccine personally and in their own vehicles will take them alone within a radius of.