unscripted and al jazeera play an important role protecting. ringback face. the 1st shipments of covert $1000.00 vaccines begin rolling out across the united states is the government as americans to avoid skepticism. this is out there live from the heart. parents call for help as the nigerian government steps up efforts to find children missing after an attack on their school. that i'm afraid that it will not take long for them to come up to me choosing a life in exile the 15 year old joining a growing number of activists leaving hong kong as authorities crackdown on dissent

. and the british spy turned author john le carre who's novels to find the cold war as nostra has died at the age of 18. so the 1st shipments of the. 1000 vaccine are arriving at distribution centers across the country in the nation's largest immunization project it's a row of hope in the fight against a pandemic that has killed nearly 300000 americans more than anywhere else in the world but officials are worried that skepticism and conspiracy theories could undermine the rollout 100 reports now from washington d.c. . the united states rolled out the most ambitious vaccination program in american history. to the applause of workers it finds or is 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 fed-ex in u.b.s. delivery trucks are escorted by u.s. marshals the shipments are expected to reach the 1st $145.00 locations on monday in a total of $636.00 by wednesday $20000000.00 vaccinations this 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 in arms by the end of february just with the derren 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 so 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 john hendren al jazeera washington the 1st part of the pfizer biotech vaccine has arrived in canada the initial 30000 doses will go to frontline health care workers and calves though it kind of hopes to have a quarter 1000000 doses by the end of the year canadian regulators are also expected to approve the data vaccine within days well presumes topcoat has given the government 48 hours to announce a start date for its facts in rollouts the president job elsinore came under widespread criticism of the plans for sites nation program were released on saturday with no start they provided and that's despite brazil being one of the worst affected countries has repeatedly downplayed the virus at least 14 migrants have died following a shipwreck off the coast of venezuela it happened near the port city of

a key area of the ship was destined for trinidad and tobago in the past 5 years has thought more than 25000 venezuelans have left the island nation to escape the economic crisis. parents in northern nigeria are desperately waiting for information about their sons after an attack on a boarding school gunmen raided the school on friday and hundreds of children are reported to be still missing but it's not clear if they've all been abducted some of those who escaped been speaking about the ordeal is over and no reports. this summer i'm in is one of the boys rescued after gunmen stormed his school and abducted hundreds of children he says he was falling asleep when the attack started up a little bit up into the i started hearing gunshots then when they came out there were many people already outside we were asked to go back to our hostel then they said the gunmen were already in the school we climbed the school fence but they asked us

to return back we thought they were soldiers were trying to protect us but unfortunately they were not. this summer used all his wits to try and survive. when i decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but i ran away quickly and i ran into the crowd but they couldn't get me then i put my clothes upside down so they could not see me from there they said they would kill whoever is trying to escape i then began to run in climbing one rock to another through a forest. 2 days after the attack more than $300.00 boys still missing their parents said desperate. our last prayers to see that our children are back that is the only prayer that we are doing we are sleepless even this last night we stood up praying to god to bring our children. criminal gangs in northwest nach area have become increasingly brazen targeting civilians for ransom can't terrorism experts

say armed gangs may have stormed the school to force concessions from the local government is that guy actually benefited from. i see some forms of negotiation in the past what they can see in our government and also the exam for us to go by but it's believed that there is a conflict in terms of agreement reached between cuts not state governments and disbanded so it's more like an attack in the community so like sure all of the cuts gnostic got made into negotiating with nigeria's defense ministry says the whereabouts of the so-called bandits is known and the military is trying to bring the boys back home safely but there's anger that the abduction happened the tool. nigeria's government put measures to prevent school abductions after the booker harangued kidnapped 276 school girls at chip block and 2014.

6 years later more than 100 of the girls are still missing the fare for parents and cats in the state is that their sons could suffer the same fate barbara. out to sarah. evident in southeastern asia has come under attack leaving at least $27.00 people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed around 70 assailants opened fire on the village in the differ region before burning half of it down on saturday boko haram has claimed responsibility for the attack which was described by local officials as unprecedented savagery it happened the day before local regional elections took place. because have infiltrated networks in the us treasury department and possibly other government agencies the u.s. national security council says it's investigating the cyber attack this comes less than a week after a major u.s. cyber security firm that's far i said

a foreign government hackers had stolen tools that uses to probe the defenses of its customers richard is thin and is the chief research analyst for i.t. harvest he says the hacking attacks are far more far reaching than expected. so it appears that this is a widespread use of an attack and supply chain so 1st we had the attribution to russia and the hackers called cozy bared her a p t $29.00. and then minutes later we learned that it was yes the same people as attack as the treasury department but now we're learning that they got in through a vulnerability installed in a major piece of software infrastructure called solar winds in solar winds has tens of thousands of customers around the world 90 percent of the fortune $500.00 and many government agencies all 5 branches of the u.s. military the pentagon the state department and the office of the president so if

they get a foothold in these early indicators treasury and fire could very well be that they are also already penetrating and breaching these other agencies but they should be concerned because we've been hearing these warnings and pundits frankly myself in that group have been criticizing the government's approach to security for a long time. but it should be no surprise right to have a gigantic bureaucracy and then larry and new branches of government like the h.s. on top of that they consent policy but they don't control the purse springs you know it goes through congress and cetera so they really can't be proactive or prescriptive about the actions that each of the agencies takes to hong kong now where a growing number of activists facing difficult choices authorities crackdown on dissent media choosing between present time will live in the city and brown met one such activist his now facing an uncertain future. there was

a time when hong kong was a haven for families fleeing persecution in mainland china as 2020 nears its end people are now living this city for the same reason aged just 15 a rule ranks as one of hong kong's youngest political exiles here packing her bags in the hotel room where she spent last week before flying to london on saturday she was 14 when she was detained during protests 7 months ago and although not charged remains worried about the impact of a sweeping new national security law or said i joined a social movement last year and became one of the frontline protesters on my protest team mate have been a rest and charge with serious crimes including rioting and asan i'm afraid that it will not take long for them to come up to me her actions of divided her family but her mother supports her decision to leave she's being helped by a group assisting others who also want to go to britain where

a ruler expects to resume her studies in january i found out when the only thing i did not expect that i would end up like this when i joined the protest i know it would be hard to say goodbye it would be sad but rather leave to seek a bag of future and to live without fear as much about this case that's troubling auroras age the fact that she was radicalized so young and is now seeking political asylum in a country where she knows few save the members of a group who now in effect be her guardians. she leaves behind a city where pro-democracy activists are being arrested almost daily. on saturday the prominent businessman jimmy lai appeared in court charged under the security legislation and is now facing a lengthy jail term. activists sunni chung fled in august a warrant since been issued for his arrest for me a major culture of us my family who is still in hong kong i am

concerned about s.c.t. and i. are weird acts. come to the studio why is that they try to silence in front office and their families like aurora sunny doesn't know if he'll ever step foot here again and like her has no regrets about where their activism has led them adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. still ahead here in algeria bosnia 25 years on the anniversary of a peace deal that ended europe like this conflict since the 2nd world war we both think back it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra my home but i do think as i say there is a deal to be done gregson negotiated remain optimistic on a trade deal despite missing self-image and deadlines.

the latest winter low is spinning up in the eastern side of the mediterranean which means significant rain for turkey snow height and the whole lot expands down to northern egypt and across into the levant now initially it's not going to be particularly cold it'll just be shower is the forecast the gods take you through monday tuesday and wednesday showers on tuesday wednesday a bit of a breeze temps are dropping below 20 degrees and it goes probably love that jerusalem's forecast is a 15 to get to tuesday the rain the 1st band is going through as a cold fronts are iraq the northern edge of course the high ground is going to be bream or snow potentially big thunderstorms in its way down through saudi across to kuwait and of course when we contact the western side of iran significant right and

significant snow possibly once again even the capital up in tehran otherwise it's quiet and the next season already we come across this course in southern africa and there's masses of it but really the line takes you from angola dian through zambia and towards not the gasket but significant big sons to has been around in south africa there continue and in zimbabwe but always a good example of 3 days of the. but . dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the all the ground realities of back in the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the span of a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not and your team challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to cut our score we don't want to rely on authority and it's media village just on out

is the right. hello again you're watching al-jazeera the mind of our top stories this hour and the 1st batch of the 5 is a biotech coronavirus vaccine is being dispatched across the united states vaccination of health care workers and the elderly that begins on monday all that says the nationwide death toll approaches $300.00 cells. parents in northern nigeria desperately waiting for information about their sons off to retype in a boarding school gunman raided the school on friday and hundreds of children are still missing it's not clear if they've all been abducted. hackers have infiltrated

computers at the u.s. treasury department and all through it is believed other government agencies could also be affected becomes less than a week after a major u.s. cyber security firm far said foreign government hackers had stolen tools it uses to probe the defenses of its customers. british and e.u. leaders have agreed to extend breaks it talks as the deadline for a trade deal approaches they've got until december 31st to make the deal otherwise there will be order checks terrace for goods traveling between the u.k. and you general as. high drama and 11th hour brinkmanship north for the 1st time in the 4 and a half year breakup between the u.k. and the e.u. our negotiation teams have been working day and night over recent days and despite the exhaustion after almost one g. of negotiations and despite the fact that deadlines 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. is regulatory 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 just seem going to be afforded and specially after kovi. you can tell a lot of rich asked in return the poorer 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 scores of people have been arrested in belarus in another weekend of protest

against the president's more than 70 separate rallies took place across the capital minsk a new tactic by protesters after security forces crackdown on mass demonstrations mass protests began more than 4 months ago after alexander lukashenko claimed victory in the presidential election. scuffles have broken out between police and protesters in poland poland where thousands took part in a mass anti-government rally there's widespread anger at policies including an almost complete ban on abortion the russians due to come into force there were traitors marched on the residence of the tip the prime minister and ski widely seen as the architect of the new abortion law it's really has overtaken the u.k. to become the country with the most creative arts related deaths in europe and in germany strict measures are being imposed until the middle of january to try to reduce the surge in cases there. 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 take in the u.k.

for most deaths resulting from the virus in europe. transmissions had slowed down over the summer but as the days be 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 it's really 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 with infections full to around 5000 a day but it is a long way off from that they go 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 a wednesday to nearly 18 and

a half 1000 on sunday but the capital once again one of the worst hit areas so need a agel al-jazeera that's what amy's prime minister has died 4 weeks after testing positive for covert 19. me or passed away in a hospital in south africa where he was being treated he was 52 countries for me known this was a population of 1200000 this recorded nearly 7000 infections algeria's president has made his 1st public appearance since testing positive for cope with 19 nearly 2 months ago of the much need to brain has been receiving treatment in germany since the end of october 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 has been widespread speculation about his health is not much information about his condition has been released. and sudan's

prime minister has made a brief visit to ethiopia effort to resolve the unrest in the north and to greater region ability met the prime minister and says they agreed to hold a meeting with the bloc of east african countries called it god of the fighting between government forces and the people's liberation front broke out last month violence forced tens of thousands of people from their homes some of them crossed into sudan to seek refuge bosnia has marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the dayton peace accords that brought the war to an end but not everybody is celebrating tens of thousands of displaced people there still unable to return home in the country's fraud political framework and dire economic situation means that many bosnians are leaving to find work tony berkeley reports now from sarajevo plus new buildings in sarajevo but it's up to sod real life for most of it's not as bright as one of the poorest countries in europe has high rates of youth unemployment widespread corruption and a fraught political framework. with the. orchestra playing mozart's

25th symphony a special covert restricted on line celebration marked the official signing of the dayton peace agreement that ended the war bill clinton who was u.s. president at the time lauded the achievement the nightmare you endured then has never returned and their credit for their achievement belongs to all the people of all backgrounds. the peace deal ended the bloodiest conflict in europe since the 2nd world war but it didn't kick start the process of reconciliation or we knew the ethnic co-habitation enjoyed in pre-war bosnia had the dayton agreement been implemented we would have had a much better situation today. what is being implemented is to genocide here because there is. in an effort to reverse the ethnic cleansing the dayton accords stated that everyone had the right to return to their homes or to get compensation

that has never happened the serbs control 49 percent of the country and for them dayton was a good deal but it's the newly elected mayor of east sarajevo says 80 percent of bosses would vote for independence if they have the chance and not thinking about it but if different counterparts different sides. if they do have to have a centralised state where the majority of. all decision to send to other nations is i'm going to say that's not possible the dayton agreement has been criticised because it appeared to reward the serbs for aggression by legitimizing their territory republika srpska despite the atrocities committed on all sides during the conflict there have been hardly any revenge killings or into ethnic violence but with many unresolved issues especially the prosecution of war criminals according to some there's tension the sparks that is here in boston there

is very dangers should not be here what has been done is often harder to undo deighton unintentionally cemented the division of the country most don't know how injustice will be solved but they do know that bosnia can never go back to what it was when no one looked at the religion but only a person. the lack of opportunities here has laid $1800000.00 in salif the country there are both positive and negative aspects to the agreement depending on your point of view but ultimately it stopped the war and ended the bloodshed the question that has to be asked is whether the fault for the lack of progress and reconciliation lies with the agreement or the bosnians themselves and the answer is probably both tony 3 al-jazeera sarajevo. john le carre the spy turned novelist behind some of the world's best selling espionage fiction has died at the age of 89 he worked for britain's intelligence service before turning his experience into books which helped to find joe de silva has this report. for millions of his

readers around the world john le carre's work shone a light on the world of shadows in a writing career spanning over 6 decades now carry author 25 novels and one memoir that came to define the genre of the espionage thriller it was art imitating life the 1st 3 novels were written while the car a whose real name was david cornwall was still working as a spy for the british intelligence his employers made him published under a pseudonym and he kept it for the remainder of his literary career titles such as the spy who came in from the cold tinker tailor soldier spy and the honorable schoolboy became cold war classics. the currys writings help reshape perceptions of that era by patrolling the treacherous antics and moral ambiguity of the british and the soviet spy agencies after the end of the cold war he shifted focus to the chaos of the us dominated world order tackling issues from

corporate corruption and russian oligarchs to extraordinary rendition and the wars in the middle east the themes are very relevant i think. the notion that the flood the world with armies to the middle east we never know where they'll end up we don't know the good guys and. so i was. i think there's a theme we can we can explore. as the news of his passing was announced tributes poured in from other genre defining authors on twitter horror and supernatural fiction writers stephen king called le carre a literary giant and the humanitarian spirit while the handmaid's tale author margaret atwood said le carre's novels are key to understanding the 20th century in his last book published just last year le carre continued to draw on the world around him he brought the perfidy and deception that's been central to his novels into the world of briggs it and donald trump but in

a life such as that of john le carre how much of it was fiction and how much of it was true. plenty more about all the stories we're covering right there on the website al jazeera dot com is the address. all right let's have a recap of the headlines here and al-jazeera and the 1st batch of the pfizer biotech corona virus vaccine is being dispatched across the united states $20000000.00 vaccinations this this month and then we think will be up to $50000000.00 total vaccinations of people by the end of january effect the nation of health care workers and the elderly begins on monday but there's the nationwide death toll approaches 300000 the 1st batch of the 5 biotech that she has arrived in canada the initial 30000 doses will go to frontline health care workers and care home stuff.