no we didn't really see. those toxic substances. to. be visible threats from al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello there i missed the attain this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes the 1st shipments of covert 1000 vaccines begin rolling out across the united states as the government as americans to take. an explosion hits a single poor flagged oil tanker off the saudi port city of jeddah. the u.n. says fighters into ice over forced 400000 people to flee their homes and northern mozambique. and bosnia 25 years on the anniversary of

a peace deal that ended europe's bloodiest conflict since the 2nd one. i'm going to go with the sports after more than a century cleveland's baseball team will drop their indian's name and i'll tell you why that subset the u.s. president. and the fast u.s. shipments of the pfizer kovac 1000 vaccine are being delivered in the nation's largest ever immunization project more than 16000000 people in the u.s. have now tested positive for the corona virus and the death toll there is heading towards 300000 california ohio texas and pennsylvania have been reporting the highest numbers of daily infections california has confirmed almost 200000 cases in just the past week alone but one of the riskiest places to be right now. the tiny

state on the right rhode island cases are up by almost 50 percent compared to just 2 weeks ago new york though still has the highest death toll overall with more than 35000 it was a fast epicenter of the virus in the united states and cases that again ryan's john hendren has all the latest for us from washington d.c. . 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 tested negative 70 degrees celsius. then in a scene not witnessed in this century that scene bearing fedex and 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 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 i would like to plead this to people who are listening to this this morning to really hit the reset button on whatever they think they knew about this vaccine that might cause. 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 well the 1st batch of the pfizer biotech vaccine has now arrived in canada the initial 30000 doses will go to frontline health care workers and care home stuff canada hopes to

have a quarter of a 1000000 doses by the end of the year canadian regulators are also expected to approve a vaccine by madonna within days all new zealand's government has given approval in principle for a so-called travel bubble scheme with a stray lia it would allow people to travel between the 2 countries without having to complete a 14 day mandatory quarantine the australian government is yet to get support of a lot of that deal that depends on private 19 staying under control. and we'll have more on the kind of pandemic and they surround sound in the meantime that there has been an explosion on an oil tanker delivering kaga at saudi arabia's jet a pause the shipping company has said one of its oil tankers the b.t.w. rhine had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused an explosion and a fire at comes off the end of the tanker was damaged by a mine off the coast last month that attack was blamed on yemen's heathy rebels how much of the area is the director of golf studies center at castle university he

says this is a serious incident and a critical part of the red sea it's very interesting to see this happened just after one month of our. other incident that we have to look at also what was happening to our i would previously i think of this we have to look at the context the context that is it is very tense there is a tension then and so it is and how the is that there is a tension between so there and there are there's a tension between iran and the united states and alliances and that he did so it's a very it's a very tense moment. and the minute we have to look at also the consequences of the assist the nation of a nuclear scientists of iran what is either so i think the context is very tense and there are lots of books of the nation who will appear in next few hours about what's happening but it does reflect that this region is basically is very tense

and you know now the state actors militia can act with solo or with the section from 3rd party if it's needed and i think that is what we what we have to keep our eye on it. parents in northern nigeria desperately waiting for information about their sons after an attack on a boarding school that gunmen raided that school on friday and hundreds of children are still reported to be missing some who escaped have been speaking about their ordeal as ports this summer 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 i thought it will be up i will get into the i started hearing gunshots then when i 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 who were trying to protect us but unfortunately they

were not. the sama 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 and most of. the 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 the cans may have stormed the school to force concessions

from the local government that guy actually benefited from. i see some forms of negotiation in the past with what they catch in our government and also the exam for us to go in 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 a show of force the guts not stick got into negotiating with them nigeria's defense ministry says the whereabouts of the said 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 chibok 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. well there's plenty more ahead here this news hour including the chief negotiator on bret's says 2 conditions remain unresolved and they'll give it their best shot so that's despite missing a self-imposed deadline on sunday. and also you may have thought the us president for that action took place last month but there's another one on monday and this is the one that actually counts. and ac milan's on basin street continues but they had to work hard to keep it intact so have all the action for you as. well let's now go back to the car the 1000 situation in the united states jay gray

joins us live from outside a hospital in chicago jan i just how far away are the fast jobs there. look they're still waiting for drug to arrive here expect 2000 doses early as this morning and they've really converted the entire main entry way of this hospital into a vaccination center they've got individual where they'll take in people and give them the vaccine it's about a 5 minute process they believe and think they can funnel through as many as a 1000 people a day here now will be front line medical doctors nurses and others who get the vaccine 1st and then in phases it will branch out to the entire community they expect to be doing this for quite some time months but are very excited when you talk to the staff this vaccine is really going to game changer as far as giving

them some hope after fighting this virus for so long and jane is there a worry there are a concern that people may be less than came to actually get the vaccine. yeah there's a very real concern about that and when you talk to people right now there there are those who say look i'm not sure i'm ready don't know that i want to be in the 1st phase of this even some of the medical profession who are saying that i want to wait and see how this plays out. all of the experts are stressing that to get this done and to really beat this virus 70 to 80 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated and it's not a wait and see type thing they are saying that this is all been done above board and very transparent and that the science is there backing this vaccine when you talk to the staff here they're very excited about it say that they hope they can be an example that they can get this shot and get the follow up shot 3 weeks later and show the community show the entire country that it's safe and what needs to be done

to move forward jake ray they're watching that vaccine a lot for us and chicago thanks so much for that today. let's have a look at the situation on the other side of the atlantic charlie and that is watching all of that in europe for us from london charlie we've seen these fresh destructions come into place in germany can you talk us through how that's playing out there. yes so germany is really struggling to get a hold of its infection rate and death rate $321.00 people died of covert that on sunday and that's despite the fact that they've had pretty strict restrictions in place since november at restaurants bars leisure centers closed and on wednesday the country will return to a hard lockdown so non-essential shops closed and schools and that will continue until the 10th of january this morning we heard from the country's economic minister who said that corona virus is out of control in the country and he won the hospitals will soon be overwhelmed and for days we've been hearing from doctors in

germany who are saying that their intensive care units close to full capacity and they might soon have to start turning away some seriously ill patients and this is from a country that at the beginning of the pandemic was really singled out for its low infection rate thanks to its test and trace system so people really say what has gone wrong will apparently 48 percent of the public are behind these new harder stricter measures but it's thought that the christmas shopping period has contributed to the spread of the virus the christmas markets that germany is so famous for despite being outdoors have seen very large crowds in the government's plan now is to try and bring the infection rate down to a level where that contacting trace and system can really start functioning properly so they're looking at 50 cases per 100000 people but at the moment the rate is $169.00 cases per 100000 people so they really do have

a long way to go and charlie of course it isn't just germany we've seen a surge across the continent how other countries whole thing off. well the dutch government is supposed to decide today on stricter measures since mid october they've had some pretty strict measures in place but they've seen a jump in daily cases 10000 new infections in the last 24 hours all bars restaurants have been closed since mid october so it's going to be interesting to see what extra measures they can put in place it's rumored that they might be looking at closing schools. or extending those christmas holidays other cause concern is italy the highest death rate in europe $484.00 people died on sunday of covert and at the same time the government ease some restrictions and then so crowds of people flooding into several cities and as a result prime minister giuseppe conti is called an emergency meeting with his scientific advisors to try and work out if stricter measures are now needed

reported to be looking at putting the whole country under red zone lockdown measures which would mean curfew non-essential shops closed over the entire christmas period and any non-essential movement around the country and the government also said it's going to be rolling out into public parks when the vaccine to administer the vaccine in january but of course that can't come soon enough charley and watching the situation in europe for us from london thanks so much charting all the use chief negotiator says that although 2 conditions remain unresolved sealing a trade deal with britain is still possible michelle banja is briefing negotiating teams in brussels as they press on with talks to avoid a no deal outcome if they fail to resolve those sticking points or the checks and taxes will be introduced for goods traveling between the u.k. and the e.u. from january the fast while our correspondent paul brennan is in brussels for us

paul it does seem that banja is sounding rather guarded this morning about how these discussions actually going. yes that's right i mean michel barnier the european union's chief negotiator had 2 briefing meetings today firstly to brief the 27 e.u. ambassadors that was an early morning 730 meeting and then at 830 he briefed the coordination group of the european parliament's all of these people that he has to keep on board and up to date with how things are going in the negotiating room without i have to say giving away any of the nitty gritty of exactly what the sticking points are he generally paints in broad brushstrokes on the reports that we get back from those passages are in broad brushstrokes but the feedback that we got from that 1st meeting with the e.u. and busters was as you say he's guarded about the prospects for a deal couple of other things came out he said there was still disagreement on state aid michel barnier he said there had been backtracking unfortunately on

fisheries i have to say though the brussels correspondent for the u.k. newspaper the telegraph a splinter u.k. source who has flatly denied that there's been any backtracking so some discrepancy there but he said there was some limited progress on an enforcement mechanism the negotiating teams resume their work today they will continue talking for as long as they can frankly to try to get the deal that the 2 leaders. boris johnson on the lead said it was their responsibility to try to achieve he said i'll keep talking point after all of these misstep lines just how much longer can these talks actually go on for. well sunday was by one count the 10th final final final deadline that has been proved not to be a final final deadline after all the really and the only deadline that we can really talk about is the 31st of december and that is the end of the transition

period there are issues with that particularly about ratification of a deal you know the deal can't just be signed off in a negotiating room it has to actually be properly signed off and ratified by both the u.k. parliament and by the european parliament there is some irritation and some impatience on detecting from the european parliament and the trade secretary. spoke today he said that serious ratification is becoming increasingly impossible he doesn't want the european parliament just to be a rubber stamp exercise but that said there's also the principle of postponed up location which means that the deal if agreed would come into force and ratification would have to happen at some point later it's all good it's potentially inconvenience it's potentially a minefield if one of the countries decides belatedly that they don't agree with the deal and vetoes it after the after the after the events after the 1st of january but these are avenues that are open to them but it's getting really complicated and it can get even messy it seems paul brennan there with all the

latest for us from brussels thanks so much for. more than 156000000 americans voted in the u.s. presidential election this year but the final call on who will be the next president and vice president is actually decided by a group of officials who make up the electoral college they'll cast their votes at state capital buildings around the u.s. later on monday now each state's number of electors is based on the size of its population nationwide at the electoral college has 538 members so to win a candidate needs at least 270 votes joe biden is expected to beat donald trump today 306 to 232 now because most states use a winner take all system to pick their electors it's actually possible to lose the popular votes and still win the election that's happened 5 times 2 of those just in the last 20 years while let's speak to interject palm and he's a professor in international politics at city university in london he's also an

expert on anglo-american relations and he joins us now here on the show professor i want to start with today's proceedings there was talk initially that states could send alternate electors to vote for a different outcome is there actually any danger of that today very unlikely because all 50 states now have certified here election results in their states so and appreciably that declares that the electors have to follow that line and that they will vote according to young people biden will be elected president of the united states or president has vowed to fight on against the result but does today's vote actually mean that it's over does he have any further options from here. he doesn't have any legal options only has the obvious political strategy which he has followed for quite some time particularly from reaction might itself which is to continue to deny that the election was fair continue to claim that biden and his party have stolen the election that he's an illegitimate

president and that trump himself is the legitimate president so i think what he's trying to do is to continue to roil the political environment the climate to study and write him again and maybe paves the way towards a robin run in 20 or 20 more but in the meantime the damage being caused to american democracy because you know the attorney general has declared that no sufficient for the supreme court as the. challenges haven't been to have no standing and not numerous other courts have done the same so he's going to carry on those but is damaging american democracy and of course of damaging america's global credibility and one professor as we were pointing out earlier it is possible to win the popular votes in the u.s. and still lose the election which actually happened back in 2016 with hillary clinton and also with al gore and 2000 i mean it didn't happen this year but it came pretty close is there a growing push either for a compact between states to support the popular vote or alternatively get rid of

the electoral college altogether. i think on the democratic side and particular because they're the ones who have been losing in that this particular activities of the electoral college there is a demand for the abolition of the electoral college as we know the electoral college is rooted in the power of the slave owning states of the deep south in order to try to keep as much clout as possible in the american national political system we're a long way from 787789 and all that but that continues to be a pretty undemocratic color component of the american political system and so there are the moms but the chances of it following a constitutional amendment to abolish it i think are pretty slim given the republicans have such great power in the senate or in the states as well and before i let you go professor you also up on transatlantic relations and let me ask you about how that the u.k. in your thought of viewing an incoming biden administration right. well before the

election. a lot of other major economies and societies in the world were already making contingency plans for what might happen in the wake of were trumped pete rose political violence and instability inside the us i think they are basically going to have to sort of look to us which is not reliable is not predictable could easily reverse 2020 for everything the biden may do in the next more years and i think they're probably bracing themselves in order to be more so reliant and less reliant on the united states it's a dose of the world order is loosening up a new relations and alliances and cooperative acts and so on are going to be forming you know as the as the norm going toward some very interesting times ahead into japan that they're professor in international politics at city university in london great to get your thoughts on out there thanks for being with us professor thank you. a growing number of activists in hong kong are facing a difficult choice as well 30 is their crackdown on dissent many of them are

deciding whether to risk serving a prison sentence or flee the territory adrian brown met one such activist who is 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 the 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 having 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 i wonder if i did not expect that i would end up like this when i joined the protest i know we were 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 least behind a city where pro-democracy activists are being arrested almost daily. on saturday the prominent businessman jimmy lie appeared in court charged under the security

legislation and is now facing a lengthy jail term. activists only chung fled in august a warrant since been issued for his arrest for. sure. my family. is still home home. i'm not sure about their seats closer to our research. study wise at least try to start from africa and their families like a real or a son he doesn't know if you'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 the leaders of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the escalating violence in northern mozambique that's already displaced thousands of people the united nations says attacks by fighters linked eisel has forced $400000.00 people to flee groups and coverdell got a province wanting to set up

a caliphate have seized key towns for brief periods but region is home also to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project we cannot speak to he's the head of mission in mozambique for doctors without borders and he joins us now from pemba alon thank you for taking the time to be with us let's start with the humanitarian situation this displacement has been going on for some time we're talking about nearly half a 1000000 people where are they now and how they coping. we are thinking all the movement there are 50000000000 cells. but some of them i believe you can do because we are in the. center part of the book winds and also with the mobs so this people who are talking about we don't really know. who he views in the acceptable area and all is already. and it doesn't people. you know it may be. most of the time though they are moving from one place on that

was because of that as you can be even more protection. should be we have a broken government certainly in terms. of so. because where we are entering into the relief the room so of course is that you can . imaging and look at. the. shore line can you describe the situation on the ground and covered up gotten itself when it comes to security i know there's been a fair amount of confusion about just who has been committing these attacks and really how the government is dealing with all of that. believe we are struggling to get through to allan i'm sorry we've just lost the connection that we'll get him back later on if we can in the meantime though it is now time for the weather. winter in the u.s.

is getting further and further south every day the last trunk sure well this cold front here went through arkansas was unsurprising resource snow in colorado you were surprised that that is course a very high state that it came across nebraska and oklahoma than towards arkansas which you don't think of us at particularly cal state but there we are all the same snow on the ground that is now going eastwards and we've got rain head of it and it's chased away by that but as snow and in the codell it tucks in afterwards just have a look at these temperatures go way down to the south coast used 11 degrees atlanta 14 raly is 14 all monday on that is it dropped down to 7 by tuesday the same time on the pacific coast the next storm system is making some inroads there displacing the fog has been hanging around in montana for example bringing rain factory down to california the same time the next tranche of code as it shows itself a drop ronnie's temperature of 14 that iraq stays at 70 and there's more snow on its way rally should be around about 12 degrees so it's cold here too this cold

eventually leaks out in the gulf of mexico if not on tuesday then on wednesday when it does so it hans's the rain in the yucatan peninsula beyond that is quite quiet. well still ahead few here on al-jazeera indian saunas block a key highway and union need as go on hunger strike after talks with the government failed. and the precious by a tent or john le carre for his novels defines the cold the espionage thrillers on russia has died at the age of 89. and christiane i would also as an impressive form for you ventus and the italian football league job will be here with that story for you. it's 10 years since the arab spring shook countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of the revolution and

join us as we assess the changes in the political landscape of the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the all new ground realities of spec in the news coverage was the way of the one challenging assumptions in the official night listening post on al-jazeera. set in the discussion millions of americans feel disaffected by both political parties examining the headlines this group of activists and relatives are marching and tweeting right now where they're calling for the morning edition to explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform. the only solution for a child as young as 10 month to date and inspire you see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera.

and again understand the attack and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour the 1st batch of the pfizer coronavirus that scene it's been dispatched across the u.s. that's a nation of health care workers and the elderly begins on monday as the nationwide death toll approaches 300000. a saudi arabian port of jeddah has been closed off to an explosion on an oil tanker delivering called the shipping company has said the beat up the rhine had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused the blast under fire. mages of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the rising violence and displacement in northern rising be the united nations says attacks by isolate fighters have forced 400000 people to flee.

as marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the dayton peace accords that brought the war there to an end but not everyone is celebrating tens of thousands of displaced people still unable to return home and the country's fraught political framework and dire economy many bosnians are leaving to find work tony about he reports from sarajevo. plus new buildings in sarajevo but it's a facade real life for most of bosnia is not as bright as one of the poorest countries in europe has high rates of youth unemployment widespread corruption and a fraught political framework. for the. orchestra playing mozart's 25th symphony a special coded restricted online 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 the credit. 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 all 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 still genocide here because there is too school 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. 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 centralized state where the majority of us. all decision to do service and to other nations yes 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 dayton 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 led $1800000.00 in still leave the country. well let's. talk us through the legacy of has it been successful at keeping the peace. but i think it depends on which side you're talking about here because some people think it has been a success i think ultimately you have to say that it stopped the war it ended the bloodshed and there was 100000 people killed in this conflict so that in itself was a success but the loss of you know issues that come on since then was in a very difficult place so with me at the moment is mr. who's going to throw some light on that now 25 years after dayton there's lots of issues here that are causing problems for the balls ins you've got a dire economic situation you've got a brain drain you've got lots of issues in is no reconciliation how much better off is balls you today. well i mean it's really hard to say how much better off is both

there today is certainly there are some things that have moved to move the positive direction but when you look at our problems i don't think. we are looking at the issues which plague the whole region so to say so this is. brain drain the fact that we're basically have an aging population mostly to the worst educated people are asked for size here the fact that there is that the state capture is so widespread throughout the whole region. tendencies that of this is actually endemic to boston it's pretty much something that the whole region struggles with the only thing that. the only added layer of complexity if you want me to put it does we're just a party and i'll fix that complexity is this entire ethnic element of relation to the boss and the fact that we have a system which in itself which is itself kind of inflationary which is spending more than we can earn which in a way breeds corruption or allows for

a number of entry points and it creates i would say or allows for a president a level of irresponsibility on the part of political elites other than darts we are actually probably swept by the same wave that is sweeping through the rest of the world right now all you felt i would say strongly here in bosnia so it's really difficult to say but i would say that 25 years is a remarkable time if you think about that for for a peace deal to hold and that is exactly what is what is happening here in boston still holding from its core surprising in some ways that there hasn't been any kind of revenge killing or ethnic interesting violence and that's that's a plus side but there has been no real reconciliation either as dayton agreement he said people should be able to go back to their homes that hasn't happened how much of a problem is that posing for both knew what and certainly i mean i think that it was naive to think back then 25 years ago that we can simply reverse the time and. they

set the clock back to the early ninety's to recreate the multi-ethnic birth year that used to exist as a result of war lot of people moved from their places of residence were expelled from their places of residence were killed in the process so there was there are some things that are irreversible so to say additional soul if you cation of this of this division is pretty much the the essential part of the dayton peace agreement the way it is organized but on the other side the reconciliation process really never took hold i don't think it was ever taken seriously we experimented or talked about several models to be used northern ireland south africa even germany dealing with the past that of not of these were actually properly employed plus when the group the international group which was pretty much present on the or where when the international activism subsided in the debate through thousands what we got is basically the return to the rhetorical 1990 s.

by the us possible political leaves which actually use this this entire ethnic conflict as a smokescreen to hide behind a concealed behind when basically misusing the public funds and transferring money into their own pockets and this is what's been going on for pretty much the last 15 years and we very much in the world view it shows that those years come a long way since the end of the war but still a long way to go in the future and nobody knows exactly how that will turn out to any of that on the ground thanks so much tony. union leaders in india has begun a one day hunger strike in a bid to ramp up protests over a new agricultural as their farmers have been camped on major roads for weeks to block entry points into the capital new delhi they're angry over legislation that would change rules on the sale and pricing of projects talks with the government have so far failed to reach a compromise correspondent and as of parana is in gaza a pool that's on the delhi pradesh border lizzie i know you've been talking to

these farms for weeks now can you tell us a little bit about what you're saying. to us around 40 farm union leaders are on a hunger strike today at all of the different protest sides including here. between the borders of india's most populous state and delhi where all traffic coming from there for the remains closed coming into delhi as it has been for the last 2 and a half weeks and despite the disruption to traffic that the close in the 3 major highways into the national capital region has caused the protests are receiving support from delhi's ruling party state leader ivan kidd to all the members of his aam aadmi a common man party taking part in the hunger strike today in solidarity with farmers on the weekend we saw farmers from the state of raw just found blocking a part of another major highway between raja stan and delhi and so far most of just

increasing pressure on the government the government remains defiant we heard from prime minister that in the morning on the weekend about this the defense minister today he's been involved in talks between government ministers in the talks between government ministers and farmers and you know these maintain the lie that these laws are in the interest of farmers and that they are willing to listen to farmers but farmers rejected the government's proposed amendments and they say they won't leave these highways until the laws which they say are fundamentally flawed they can't be amended that the. laws must be repealed this given that it feels like there's been very little movement here despite all this pressure what is the next step for these families. what it looks like we're seeing both the protests and the laws themselves going to india's top coach to the supreme court that's after we had he followed at the supreme court it's going to be heard on wednesday by

a law student saying that authorities need to clear these highways because of the disruption that they're the protests are causing it to traffic and also because protests with tens of thousands of people that each side shouldn't be held during the coronavirus pandemic their asking that protesters should be moved to the ground that's been designated by the government for these protests now what might not well boiled well for the farmers is that in a target the supreme court actually pasta judgment saying that public places cannot be occupied and definitely interesting lee it said that when it was referring to a case of the protest against the citizenship law earlier this year farmers themselves have gone to the supreme court through their asking the court to repeal the law saying that it was passed without any discussion that the deregulation of the agriculture sector is going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations so yes both the protests and the laws themselves are going to be challenged in india's top of course next and as both purana that with those protests and doesn't paul

thanks so much for all the latest. now the united nations says child marriage rates have surged in sierra leone because of the coronavirus pandemic it estimates that hardships resulting from cova 1000 will drive 13000000 more girls to marry before the age of 18. is 16 years old and wanted to be a notice that the coronavirus pandemic pushed her family into poverty she says she had little choice but to leave school and marry instead. when he went to meet my parents they called me and also me about his proposal and i told them you have no money to send me to school so let me get married. re stepfather runs a tailoring shopping komo in eastern sierra leone he's had few customers this year because of the pandemic worries husband is in his mid twenties and offered to provide rice for her younger sisters and access to his who train whole as part of

his marriage proposal. to mourn. the past months have been hard for me it's been difficult to afford enough i don't have money people don't come to buy for my business because of this pandemic. the un defines child marriage as a marriage of a girl oh boy before the age of 18 and it says the number of girls getting married in sierra leone before that age dropped from 56 percent in 2006 to 39 percent 10 years later but when schools close to march child marriage rates. activists say many of the girls' mothers were themselves married office teenagers and see child marriage as normal they do not see. the children for them it's like this is possibly one of the better investments and better things that i could do for my child. it's a mindset that sierra leone's 1st lady is working to change with her campaign called hands off. a child doesn't give consent to sex. so if you if you

force a child to be at a very early age you're legalizing child in that has been our. schools reopened in sierra leone 2 months ago but the impact of covert 90 means many girls may never go back to the classroom victoria gate to be there. the united states has officially removed sudan from that state from its list of state sponsors of terrorism the trumpet ministration approves them or as a side deal to saddam's normalization agreement with israel in october washington signed an agreement to restore the country's sovereign immunity meaning that it can't be sued an american court and return sudan paid $335000000.00 to the victims of the 1900 al-qaeda attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. john le carre the spy a tense 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 that helped to divide to find that genre. of what's. 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 those particular middle east we never know where they'll end up we don't know the good guys our guys i was so our crew that was i think a little thin we can we can explore knowledge 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 liter a giant and a humanitarian spirit while the handmaid's tale author margaret atwood said le carre's. novels are key to understanding the mid 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's and donald trump but tina life such as that of john le carre how much of it was fiction and how much of it was true. when your opponent stuck at it like that joe will have all the action for you from gemini is fun and sport i am.

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all the back it's now time for sports and history north of here thank you after years of protests from fans and native american groups cleveland's baseball team will drop the word indians from its name the team has come under increased pressure amid protests against systematic racism and police violence this year in new york times says the century old name will be dropped by 2022 cleveland had already removed images of its mascot chief wahoo 2 years ago while the news from cleveland prompted u.s. president donald trump to tweet calling it cancel culture at work but it follows growing pressure to remove native american names from u.s. sports teams earlier this year n.f.l. is washington football team stop choosing a name and logo long considered a racial slur but others have been slow to follow super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs have been accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes with fans dressing in native american costumes and performing the tomahawk chop games the

chiefs haven't officially responded to the criticism well that tomahawk chop is also common a lantern braves baseball games the team released a statement in july saying that working within the native american community but changing the name was not deemed necessary and ice hockey chicago blackhawks say they have no plans to change their name there also dozens of college and high school teams which is named after native american tribes. in the last hours been announced that former liverpool manager gerald who has died at the age of $73.00 in his native france really enjoyed a decorated career where he took charge of percentage man and the french national team but it was at liverpool where he enjoyed most of his success in 2001 he led the club to 5 trophies in the calendar year he was named european coach of the year for that achievement french champions p.s.g. are waiting to get scan results on a miles and call after the brazilian appeared to suffer

a serious injury in sunday's defeat neymar was in tears as he was carried off on a stretcher at the end of their one no loss to leon it was also pistes fourthly defeat of the season it is silly league leaders ac milan dropped points against parma on sunday before the action began the teams held a moment of silence to honor a 982 world cup hero power rossi who died on wednesday parma took an early lead in this match and were looking good for the upset victory just me katich double bellied early in the 2nd half but then there hernandez scored twice including this injury time equaliser to rescue a teaching tool for milan now unbeaten in 23 said he are games. he was also by his old club you ventus before the game in genoa he won 2 said titles on the european cup with uva and in this game it was their current star striker christian renowned on who spoke to penalties to help them win

a match 3142 goals in 42 games for him this year event is a force in the leak barcelona style in a mess he has helped his club to a 10 win in spain's lower league over 11 say messi school the only goal is boss a return to form after just 2 wins in their last 8 games in the league with a team struggling in 8th place this results in a timely boost for boss from old cumin. you know our situation in the league we knew that was 3 games at the home for d.h. we need to we need to do to have more and more points and to left a little bit better to asian behind us in the league and we did a good job today is become customary over the last few years to expect to see buy in munich at the top of the german bundesliga but that's not the case 11 games into the current season. instead the club leading the way in germany and they have done so in some style i hammered hoffenheim for one on sunday hoffenheim were not helped

by 2 red cards and also dreadful defending as you can see here that laver case and took full advantage on base called twice and florian verts and lucas allowed also from the back of the net in this resending victory. 20 time tennis grand slam champion roger federer says he might have to sit out the australian open the 39 year old is recovering from 2 surgeries on his left knee but according to the swiss it's taking longer than expected he's not played since this year's australian open where he was beaten in the semifinals find a joke which the 2021 aussie open could be pushed back to february to allow players time to quarantine in australia before the tournament. thanks to saturn has won the last formula one race of the season in abu dhabi the red bull driver led from start to finish with them sadie's pare down 3 bottom and world champion lewis hamilton in 2nd and 3rd respect this was how one's 1st race back off from recovering from kobe

19 as for stop them it's the template of his career and 2nd of 2020. it was really enjoyable out there today you know we did critically everything all right so. yeah i think once you start up from to know you can get chilled place a bit more and a good makes your larger bit easier that was a really hard race for me physically of the whole year the physically i've been fine but today i just said i'm just glad it's over combat says the gold u.s. women's open will come back later to finish the final round after it was to late the rain and he said on sunday cause play at this year's final women's may just be suspended need to he was unable to tee off on sunday the 22 year old japanese leads by a stroke as she looks to win her 2nd karim asia all right that is useful for now i'll have more feel later the stuff thanks so much jared lott that's it from me in a saucy table this news out there will be here in a moment with more of the day's news and i'll see you after that stay with us on

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months to build their brick house and nuff than an hour to see it get demolished. the in. the 1st shipments of coded 19 vaccines began rolling out across the united states as the government urges americans to take. hello that boruc aisle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up an explosion hits a singapore flight oil tanker off the saudi port city of jeddah.