space on al-jazeera we've just done the differences on the same cultures across the world so no matter what we are using caliente for that matter to. al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. begins its covert 19 vaccination campaign with the hope that it will help stop the rise in infections. the burden imposes the highest level of coronavirus restrictions on london and in nearby areas to try to contain the rising infections they're. giving their stamp of approval the u.s. electoral college begins voting to formally confirm joe biden as the next president

. saudi arabia says in an spose of its laden boat targeted an oil tanker in the port city of jeddah. i'm generous with sports as the football world pays tribute to saudi the former liverpool and france manager has died at the age of 73. the u.s. has begun covert 19 vaccinations as shipments are being delivered throughout the country and intensive care unit nurse in new york was the 1st to publicly receive the job before the public vaccination governor andrew cuomo said he believes that this is the weapon that will end the war let's go now to hydrogen castro she's joining us live from washington d.c. there's no underestimating the scale of the operation that is going on in the u.s.

at the moment and of course as we were just saying the vaccines are already beginning to be administered. that's right and we're seeing scenes like the applause we just saw in new york repeated across the country with front line health care workers being among the 1st to receive the 1st doses of the pfizer vaccine we saw yesterday trucks and cargo planes taking some $3000000.00 vaccine doses out of the pfizer factories and distributing them to all 50 states and it is from there that each state governor is deciding exactly who and when we'll be getting these vaccines 1st the vast majority of states deciding on those critical health care workers for this week and then looking at residents of nursing homes to be vaccinated by next week and of course this is just the beginning of a tremendous public health endeavor never seen before here in the united states by

the end of the year which is just around the corner and the government is hoping to have $20000000.00 americans vaccinated and by march 100000000 people having been vaccinated with these double doses that are necessary for each vaccine to get to that goal though not only is it the pfizer vaccine that's being touted all but also other manufacturers namely modernity which is up for f.d.a. approval sometime at the end of this week rob heidi thanks very much indeed that's how digital castro talking to us from washington d.c. let's bring in dr eric bosons or he's an emergency physician among scientists hospital in new york he's joining us from there now it's good to have you with us on all jersey to give us an idea of just what kind of impart to these deliveries are going to have for you. what a historical day in our nation's history seeing media footage and noticing how many of my colleagues are about to receive the 1st vaccine for coverage 19 for me having

been on the frontlines for the last 9 months fighting this war the vaccine feels like a pivotal arrow in our quiver to finally get us over the hump so i'm extremely inspired and although the weather may be cold and rainy and cloudy in new york today i'm certainly seeing rays of sunshine. what would be the 1st public indications that the vaccine is actually having any effect because we are entering the period but essentially the vaccine is being given a given and there's a certain amount of finger crossing going on to see what happens next. it's a great question and really the most important step to determining the effectiveness and how well the vaccine rollout is occurring is measuring the level of trust and willingness of the general public to receive the vaccine i think that's the 1st step understandably a lot of people maybe we are a or anxious about having a vaccine that was developed in record breaking time but having this vaccine is

a critical moment of being able to overcome the virus i think hopefully in the spring we will start to see a drop in the number of cases we will start to see our i.c.u. beds and our hospital capacity improve because in recent weeks we have seen that number go in the wrong direction especially after the thanksgiving holiday so to answer your question 1st is trust 2nd is going to be seeing how things are affected in the hospital setting and in the communities or one just very briefly one of the key things of course is going to be tracking the data through all of this and one issue is going to be there are going to be is going to be a significant number of people who are not keen to take this vaccine for a variety of different reasons how important is it to try to educate people about the level of of safety reassure people that the vaccine is actually going to do what they hope it's going to do. it's absolutely

critical rob we need to have as many people receive this vaccine as safely as possible because we know through very robust scientific evidence that these vaccines are likely to make an enormous impact in the quality of life in staving off severe hospitalizations there are still a lot of unanswered questions questions such as will we need to have the vaccine every year how long lasting is the immunity but what we do know are the devastating effects of covert 19 i've had patients in the emergency room still to this day who were initially inoculated with the illness back in march and now they are still unable to walk around the block without feeling chest tightness or they're unable to run marathons and these are very young healthy people so i think not only do we have to look at the impact that immunity has toward saving you from a hospital stay we have to think long term and how these vaccines will improve our quality of life collectively because as you know the world is so interconnected so this is really a joint global effort dr eric loser for months sinai hospital we appreciate your

time sir thank you very much indeed. thanks to the u.s. is officially remove sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism lists the trumpet ministration approved the move as a side deal to sudan's normalization agreement with israel in october washington and khartoum signed an agreement to restore the country's solvent immunity meaning that it cannot be sued in american courts while prime minister speaking of let's take a listen. to a book about the situation. you know. that. was in the news and. i think. it's going to. russia not in evidence.

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a 1. 101000400. 1 of the people. who are. most needed. the medical. team. that's happened. you're watching our jazeera that is the prime minister of sudan talking after the u.s. decision to remove saddam from the list of state sponsors of terrorism that decision came into effect on monday dumbleton that ministration has approved the moves aside to deal to sudan's normalization in agreement with israel and of tobar washington in khartoum had signed an agreement to restore the country's sovereign immunity that means it can't be sued in american courts sudan has paid 3 $135000000.00 to the victims of the 1900 al-qaeda attacks on the u.s.

embassies in kenya and tanzania and analysts have been telling al-jazeera that this opens the way to financial aid from the us which will have a significant impact on the economy of sudan. europe is also seeing drastic rise in coronavirus cases and many countries are imposing new restrictions around the holiday season officials in london have moved the city to tear 3 that's england's highest level of coronavirus mr actions that embargoes in brussels with the latest lines across europe 1st let's go to john holl who's in london and jonah we heard the u.k. health minister matt hung cox speaking earlier on and getting some more details about what's going to be happening talk us through it. he spoke to parliament a short while ago i think we'll be hearing from him imminently in a press conference speaking to the nation explaining of course why the government has felt the need to take this step putting london and other parts of the southeast

into tier 3 the highest level of coronavirus restrictions from here to where it was and has been for most of the last 2 weeks since the end of the last lockdown in england the health secretary talking about infection rates doubling in some places every 7 days in the southeast notably he made mention of a new variant of the virus that scientists believe that they have identified it's growing he said mr hancock faster than the existing current form of the virus as we know it it's been identified in around a 1000 cases in 60 places so far it's thought to be more virulent but mr hancock was keen to stress that there is no reason to believe that it will produce any more severe symptoms of disease nor that it would be resistant to the vaccine remember that viruses to coronaviruses do mutate this isn't in and of itself a shocking. shocking thing to happen and he said it was similar to variants discovered

elsewhere so that in part the justification for the government's move not alone of course they've been pictures that we've seen in shopping streets up and down the country particular here in this article in london absolutely thronging with people in recent days going about their business in the run up to christmas everybody looking forward to the moment just before christmas when the government has chosen to ease restrictions substantially allowing families to mix at christmas time and all of that contributing to very real concerns about a possible 3rd wave coming in january putting more pressure on the national health service just as eat busies itself for the rollout of the vaccine so all of those factors of course taken together mean that the government felt it had no choice but to. now as general bring us up to date with the situation in london well there is increasing pressure on europe's drug regulators to give the green light to the coronas virus vaccine to stop the exponential rise in cases across the continent to

make it easier to compare the rate of infection between countries we look at how many cases are being reported parent 100000 people this was a situation 2 months ago lots of that dark red color to show high rates of infection look at it no nearly the whole continent is darker red in the european center for disease control as listed anything more than $120.00 cases per 100000 as critical because it means there's more chance of the virus spreading every country except finland norway an island in iceland are on this highest level serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported the most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 infections well let's cross over to brussels where nadine barber is live for us the situation in europe seems to be getting significantly worse doesn't it not

him. it really does and there are a number of governments now that are really telling their populations the measures that have been taken in the last couple of months haven't shifted the number of cases enough in the netherlands just now we've heard from the prime minister mark routes telling the population in a televised address there will be a general lockdown for at least 5 weeks so well through the christmas and new year period that's going to involve shutting schools shutting non-essential shops businesses which involve close contacts like physio therapy public buildings like museums and why is this necessary while the government is alarmed at the number of new cases per day that rate reached 10000 over the weekend now bars and restaurants are being closed in the netherlands since october the message from our groups here is more and more severe measures are needed urgently said

they're going to come in in just a few hours time he's trying to avoid a rush for example on the shops pre christmas and similarly here in belgium bars and restaurants have been closed for a while they are set to remain closed but there will be a reopening of nonessential shops here from tuesday which has proved controversial among some cabinet members the figures here are also concerning a 3rd of the total death toll of around $16000.00 has come in during the 2nd wave there's a lot of discussion about whether it's time to start easing restrictions and in fact although over christmas households will be allowed to meet or have one extra person with that won't be the case of a new year they've banned fireworks displays on the messages from the government here as well people really do need to think about whether they need to be meeting up with anybody at all the team thanks very much indeed that's the name baba

bringing. up to date with the situation with regard to the corona virus across europe thanks very much well germany's president is warning the covered 900 situation there has become bitterly serious as nadeem was saying the number of infections is soaring prompting a nationwide lockdown starting on wednesday chancellor angela merkel's office says germans faced tough times ahead. we have all come a long way together in recent months there is continue and completed together and with consideration for each other i am quite sure the pandemic will not rob us of our future we will overcome this crisis we must succeed and we will succeed coerces boss is the managing director and head of research at the german economic institute he says locking down a 2nd time is going to hurt germany's economy. there will be a recession re-insert we believe that there will be a shrinking economic activity in the 4th quarter and again in the 1st quarter but

not this difficult or not as. sharply as it has. springtime so it will be a rather my recession and as long as we manage to to concentrate the effects on the service sector and not of the manufacturing sector what happened in april was that the automotive industry was more or less closed down and so it was very difficult for many. industries of the manufacturing sector right now all those industries are still open and asked her book and that's why the economic effects are like the moderates that's deliberately recession in the end of this year beginning of next year so far the drone position is some other comfortable we have had. to g.d.p. ratio of about 60 almost 60 percent a bit below 60 percent so that famous must wish. and so there's plenty of space to

. put to use public money and use deficits but of course that can't last forever so what we really need is. an increase of. vaccination of quick vaccination in the next following months and hoping that some of time good bring bring relief but only to society but i want it to or the business is affected . furthermore ahead on the news hour including forced from their homes we meet the people in northern mozambique who've been displaced by isolated fighters. and informers intensified process of talks failed with the government over new agricultural laws and cleveland's baseball team drops indians from its name after 105 years gemma is going to have all the details in the sport.

the electoral college has been voting to choose the next president of the united states this is one of the last steps to finalize the outcome of november's election each state has already certified its results now electors are casting their ballots joe biden won 306 electoral votes surpassing the required 270 while president donald trump got 232 the state by state votes have drawn more attention this year because trump has refused to concede let's go live to alan fischer who's at the white house for us i suppose the big question is what does the tongue campaign do not. no big surprises as far as the voting is concerned so far everything going the way it's meant to go in fact one republican voter in michigan said he had to vote the way the voters wanted to to do anything else would be to risk losing the country we've also had stephen miller who is a very close adviser to donald trump on american television in the last few hours saying that they were going to set up an alternative slate of electoral college

voters who would then cast their vote presumably in favor of the current president and then they would present that to congress in time for their meeting on january the 6th now remember donald trump has lost more than 50 court cases in fact lost another one just the last couple of hours in the wisconsin supreme court and each one of those should have been a nail in the coffin of the idea that he was going to overturn this election remember he also lost at the u.s. supreme court on friday he talked before the election about how the me be the people who would decide this election that is why he was very keen on pushing through. it on to the supreme court just before the election they kicked out his case brought by texas the state of texas and supported by the trump campaign with one prominent republican lawyer saying essentially the supreme court said this is nonsense go away and so now donald trump is really focused on january the 6th what happens then when not there is there there's

a joint meeting of congress and they ratified the electoral college votes they're hoping that there will be enough republican politicians who will turn round on that day and say look there is a problem here we cannot possibly ratify the election result the difficulty they've got with that of course is that that would upset many states and the voters in many states whose votes were suddenly being cast aside but also you look at the attorney general of the united states bill barr a donald trump appointee who said he has looked at the election and there is no evidence of white. spread fraud certainly not enough to overturn the election result as for rudy giuliani who of course is donald trump's lawyer he said he will continue arguing the legal case to overturn the election all the way to 11 'd $59.00 am on the 20th of january that's just a minute before joe biden will be sworn in but certainly what we're seeing from the electoral college is thus far no surprises no shocks so donald trump really running

out of room really running out of time to overturn this election he will go on to say that the election was fraudulent he said it in tweets again with no evidence he's retreated that just in the last couple of hours and that there is an illegitimate president that's an argument he's going to use all the way up to january the 20th and probably for some time beyond if the reports are to be all believed and he's considering a run in 2024 for the u.s. presidency alan thanks very much indeed don and the white house. well by november the 3rd the date of the presidential election millions of americans had already voted either by mail or in person but the word delays in counting the votes president trump's campaign requested a recount in key states alleging irregularities then followed that by finding at least 30 lawsuits citing fraud and refusing to initiate a handover by early december however recounts were held disputes settled and joe

biden's victory was secured official results are said to be confirmed when the electoral college meets today as it is now here monday night john markham is the vice president of the institute for constitutional government at the heritage foundation he's joining us now from skinny mountain in north carolina we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed for those of us outside the united states perhaps you could explain to us why the u.s. feels it's necessary to have these 2 stages if you like in a presidential election with the popular vote and then the electoral college vote vote. well in this country we don't elect our presidents by popular vote we do that by the electoral college there are many reasons for that. it's been the case for our entire nation to serie a so the winner in each state gets the electors from that state the number of electors in each state is equal to the number of representatives that they have in

the house of representatives plus 2 representing the 2 senators that they have in congress and the district of columbia has one electoral college vote and then you have to get to the magic number of 270 on a few occasions not many in our nation's history the loser of the popular vote has been elected president that's what happened with donald trump in 2016 and with george w. bush in 2000 the electors are voting today as you said in the lead in joe biden it seems will have 360 electoral college votes donald trump 232 but those election those votes will not become official until congress certifies that vote assuming they do that and i assume they will on january the 6th and then the vice president in this case mike pence will announce the results of the election will be certified and why is the structure the way it is because as you mentioned there were 2 occasions george w.

bush and donald trump where the popular vote did not ultimately be represented in the white house and that seems counter-intuitive why does this system exist. well. basically our country wants to have a president with broad based support so for instance who coined out to as i just did that hillary clinton won the popular vote but by the same token in 2016 donald trump won 30 out of our 50 states we want to have a president who represents the entire country and we don't want to president who is just elected based on the wishes of what happens in the major metropolitan areas like los angeles new york city chicago and we want all of our states including north dakota south dakota wyoming down the way are they all have equal representation in the senate and we want them all to have a say in who is our president it's it's you know it's

a set up that has worked well for our country throughout its history although there are some people of course who would like to do away with that turn to a national popular vote system as it was pointing out of course that having so many legal attempts to overturn the outcome of this election almost all of them have failed does that make you hopeful or concerned about the u.s. electoral process. well i don't know that makes me hope for concerned i think that we have a lot of vulnerabilities in our system that ought to be plugged we should have substantial majorities of both parties having confidence in the outcome of the election whether they like the result or not i think it's important to address those issues and shore up those vulnerabilities there are some people who believe that there was massive fraud that occurred in this election you know i have seen no evidence to support that or refute that but as long as you vulnerabilities exist there will be people who will not have confidence in the outcome and that is

a shame we really appreciate your giving us your expertise and knowledge as is john malcolm thank you very much indeed for your time. my pleasure. is still ahead at al-jazeera no more flying leaflets the new controversial law in south korea that critics say violates their right to free speech. of this trail is using i v f to restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems. and there's an emotional win for skiing's biggest star that's coming up in sports with jack. once again early winter is showing us a disturbed weather pattern in the eastern med we've seen significant rainfall in southern turkey in the last day or so and there's more to come we're talking about a 100 maybe 200 more millimeters of rain so there will be flooding that could be

landslides as snow inland as well this is light effect cyprus the wind is bringing wet weather into the coast of egypt and probably it will keep going eastwards into the hole in the event that once it gets inland tends to do some impetus you get these straggly shastri iraq and saudi arabia but there will be some more snow or rain depending on your height running into the western side of iran come wednesday as things in proving the eastern med although not necessarily for example in gaza to the size of this the seasonal rains have been briefly useful and flooding in places like zimbabwe is settling down to be in not quite survives at the moment although the potential for big storms is still there on the eastern half of south africa and in the suit to further west it looking quiet but the real line is from northern one go and down towards central mozambique in zimbabwe bull always got 3 days of shari weather coming up the same is true in the long grey representing

malawi's wet weather. oh my booming city a city with a drug problem. in a neighborhood concealing the by trafficking giulio transforms to scare into. giving children to retrain their street and it's. on the street of the viewfinder latin america series. drizzy. the latest news while not all of those this plays out with this be a fact others recount they say this there is they heard from family members and relatives were enough to make them come here rather than think back to detail coverage challenge the government faces is aware that it can persuade people to keep applying but restrictions when they need to see defense. from around the world

the so-called swedish model may be under some pressure but a full lockdown is unlikely i'm perhaps even impossible. you're watching our jazeera remind of our top stories this hour the u.s. has begun covert 1000 vaccinations as the death toll nears 300000 shipments are being delivered throughout the country. most european countries are struggling to contain a new wave of covered 19 cases the president of germany's describe the situation there as bitterly serious all but essential businesses will have to close what and stay until january the 10th. the electoral college has begun voting to formally

choose the next president of the united states this is one of the last steps by electors to finalize the outcome of november's election. saudi arabia's energy ministry says an oil tanker delivering cargo was hit by a boat full of explosives at jeddah port it's described the incident as a terrorist attack the shipping company said it's b.w.i. and vessel was hit by an unidentified external source and caused an explosion and fire comes after another tank or was damaged by a mine off the coast last month that attack was blamed on yemen's hooty rebels and that is craig is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he says it raises serious questions about security at saudi ports. the saudis have admitted that it was an explosive lowden boat or vessel that was basically charged against this or tanker which suggests it was a very much a low tech low skill kind of job which is something that the who these can do

without external support but the question that rises then is if you know obviously this is a high target and you know the general port is obviously a very very high security risk or a high security target then you would make sure that obviously this port is adequately secured and it's kind of in the current context kind of surprising that the saudi authorities have not had it better under control and make sure that some of this cannot happen because of an external vessel can come into sight at the port and actually attack while a tank is being unloaded this is obviously this should not and must not happen so that suggests then that possibly this might have been an external devise of a different type like the ones that we've seen last year being used against targets of the coast of for geron cell in the united arab emirates where again it was probably the most most likely iranians and iranian mines there that were glued on and stuck onto the outside of these vessels and then exploded if it was one of

these the top sort of attacks executed by iranians directly that is something that i can see the saudis being unable to deter and actually to deal with at the moment but if it is actually this kind of low skilled. boat being driven into the port and then exploded that is something that saudi authorities should have should have better under control 11 and security for prime minister has refused to cooperate with the investigation into the beirut port explosion which happened in august was on the album 3 former cabinet ministers those charges of carelessness and the glass victims' families have welcomed the charges so many more people need to be held to account in a heart of reports from beirut. there have lauri's what these people are demanding they came to the palace have just this to show. support for a judge who is facing a political backlash for charging the caretaker prime minister has stunned and former ministers with negligence over the babe ruth port explosion fadi so when it

was supposed to question them this week but the defendants accuse him of violating the constitution by overstepping his powers and are refusing to comply it says me either he takes a decision that shows that he is truly working for justice and live alone or he don't do that and the short that the whole decision that he took and everything that happened in the past few weeks was just another scenario that case is now politicized leading politicians and religious officials friends and foes rallied behind accusing so when of bypassing parliament and are calling his decision selective justice the judge has some say so one could have avoided criticism if he explained that more officials will be charged with a judge or a focus for work her has the jurisdiction to indict to. file a claim against anybody once the judge has submitted

to the parliament now i think he has the total and complete jurisdiction jurisdiction over the port was in the hands of many security agencies ministries and political parties and the ammonium nitrate blamed for triggering the explosion was stored in a warehouse 12 since late 2013. that is why some politicians believe the charges are about settling political scores they question why former ministers linked to president michel aoun for example have not been charged the president has denied accusations that he intervened in the judicial probe the families of the $200.00 people killed believe charges of negligence are not enough and that many more officials need to provide answers. we want justice for the blood of the victims we want to know who caused the death of our children we are with you somewhere in a country with a history of a lack of accountability and the judiciary long accused of being politicized this

is uncharted territory but justice here is now at stake. beirut south korea's national assembly has passed controversial legislation making it illegal to fly propaganda balloons into north korea the move seen as an attempt to revive denuclearization talks that have ground to a halt but macbride reports from seoul. branding them as human scum north korea has long been enraged by defectors releasing propaganda messages into its territory activists have regularly sent leaflets by balloon or in rice filled bottles to float across the waters separating the 2 koreas the issue came to a head earlier this year with the north destroying going into korean liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone and cutting all hotline communications with the south in a bid to restore relations with north korean leader kim jong un south korea's

liberal president moon j.n. has tried to prevent the propaganda or activities the defectors have accused him of violating their rights to free speech. so as long as kim jong un continues to threaten south korea with nuclear weapons and to suppress the people of north korea we will continue to release our leaflets under this new law offenders will now face up to 3 years in prison and sauza as of dollars in fines it's not known how north korea will respond outwardly president moon remains optimistic as when he addressed the virtual un general assembly in september. the republic of korea has been steadfast in making relentless efforts to achieve denuclearization and establish permanent peace on the korean peninsula with north korea still largely isolated by the international community and by the global pandemic president moon's options for reviving into korean relations are limited

but by passing this legislation he'll be hoping to at least keep those hopes alive robert bright al jazeera so. restaurant bar and hotel owners in france are protesting against violence restrictions that have kept businesses closed since late october public establishments will remain shut over the normally busy christmas period but it could be allowed to reopen next month as the infection rate slows down no decision has been made for barnes. the un says child marriage rates have surged in sierra leone because of the corona virus pandemic it estimates that hardships resulting from covert 19 will drive 13000000 more girls to marry before the age of 18 victoria gating reports marie kamar is 16 years old and wanted to be a nurse that the grade of r. is pandemic pushed her family into poverty she says she had little choice but to leave school and marry instead with an emphasis in

a wood tennessee when he went to meet my parents they called me and asked me about his proposal and i told them you have no money to send me to school so let me get married. marie stepfather runs a tailor in shopping como in easton 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 in the bathroom or in the trunk i want to know 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 closed in march child marriage rates.

activists say many of the girls mothers with themselves married office teenagers and see child marriage as normal they do not feel. 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 girls child doesn't give consent to sex so if you if you force a child to be a minute at a very early age you're legalizing rape on that child and that has been our campaign schools reopened in sierra leone 2 months ago but the impact of covert 90 means many girls may never go back to the classroom viktoria gates and b. . are of course incumbent president alassane ouattara has been sworn in for a 3rd term as follows i'm told was disputed election which saw several opposition

leaders arrested on charges of sedition they argued that i was taught as a 3rd time is a breach of the constitution which limits presidents to 2 terms but what tara and his supporters maintain that the 2016 reversion allowed him to run again. the leaders of 5 african nations have failed to find a solution to the escalating violence in northern most amby coaches displaced thousands of people united nations says attacks by fighters linked to weisel of forced 400000 people to flee armed groups in capital gado province of briefly seize key towns wanting to set up a caliphate the region is home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project. i think cason is the head of mission in mozambique for doctors without borders he says it's difficult for his organization to get to the people who've been displaced or the moment there are 50000000000 cells of the current that some of them i believe you could do which because they

are in the city could play instantly in the central part of the book winds and also in the. in the mouth so these people that we don't know exactly where he goes this league is in the area and the orders or ungrouped. and the 1000 people and yet they are moving. most of the time now they are moving from one place on the base because of the. more protection and also the name of the plant and the government said that in the new games this season bursts. because now we are entering a new meaning to them so of course is if you could do. anything and look at places that people may be reading you can for the commune weeks and months. the chief negotiator says sitting a trade deal with britain is still possible although 2 conditions remain unresolved sobhani is been briefing negotiating teams in brussels as they press on with talks

to avoid a no deal outcome if they fail to resolve the sticking points border checks and taxes will be introduced for goods travelling between the u.k. and the e.u. from january the 1st. of you are pretty down to shut off and. our responsibility is to continue these very difficult negotiations never before in the history of the e.u. if we negotiated with an entire country on such an agreement on business goods energy security of citizens transport we've never negotiated an agreement on such a short amount of time it's been 9 months we should have had at least 5 years to get through all of these so we'll give it our best it's our responsibility it's still possible to get a good balanced agreement that needs to be 2 conditions that are still not fulfilled free and fair competition and an accord that guarantees reciprocal access for fishing and markets. farmers union leaders in india have begun a one day hunger strike in a bid to ramp up protests over new agricultural laws farmers have been camped out in major highways for weeks blocking some entry points into the capital new delhi

they're angry about legislation that would change the rules about the sale and pricing of projects several rounds of talks with the government have so far failed to reach a compromise elizabeth chronons at the gaza pool border crossing between delhi and auto protests states she says the farmers are showing no signs of stopping. farm union leaders are on hunger strike at all of the protests sites including here at the border between the states of the predation delhi where traffic all traffic coming from the british on this key highway has been blocked for 2 and a half weeks and over the weekend we saw farmers blocking a part of a major highway between the states of just down and delhi farmers continuing to increase pressure on the government and they're receiving support from the ruling party here in the national capital region of delhi the state leader i haven't. members of the odd meal common man party are also on hunger strike in solidarity with the farmers meanwhile prominent in that in the modi remains defiant he's

defended the laws on the weekend saying that they will make farmers prosperous that they will attract investment in the agriculture sector but farmers maintain that the laws are fundamentally flawed they've rejected the government's proposed amendments and say they aren't going anywhere until the 3 found law was repealed. years or minister pranab. farmers have been protesting on the streets for 2 months in punjab and it has been 17 days in delhi and it has been very peaceful we will not leave this part of nonviolence the government is hoping for the movement to turn violent people get restless because that might work in their favor but we want to tell them that we have enough provisions to last one year and we will continue our peaceful sit in protest meanwhile this battle over the protests and the laws is moving to court and the us supreme court is going to hear a plea on wednesday asking authorities to clear the highways to remove farmers

saying that farmers are causing a disruption to traffic by blocking highways and that such protests shouldn't be held during a pandemic a law student who filed the petition is asking that the farmers be moved to a ground that was designated by the government for protests meanwhile as you know themselves have asked the supreme court to wood to draw these 3 laws saying that they were passed without enough debate and that the deregulation of the agriculture sector is going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations so both the protests and the noise i'm now being challenged and is top court. has suffered a worldwide outage with failures reporters across the company's services multiple services and websites including you tube g. mail google assistant on google docs were done for around an hour the monitoring website done detector says the number of reported you tube problems peaked at more than 100000 most offices have now been restored. hackers have infiltrated networks

of the u.s. treasury department and possibly other government agencies the u.s. national security council says it's investigating the cyber attack it comes less than a week after a major u.s. cyber security firm filed i said fought in government hackers had stolen the company's own hacking tools and still ahead in the sports will show you how the teams lined up in the draw for the last 16 of the european champions league that's on this board with gemma.

it's time for the sport is general. thank you robe form a livable manager has died at the age of 73 in his native france he enjoyed a decorated career when he took charge of piracy. on the french national team but it was at liverpool way enjoyed most of his success in 2001 he led the club at 2 an f.a. cup and league cup and u.a. for cup travel he was named european coach of the year for that achievement the cup tweeted saying they mourned his passing michael owen he was part of that trouble winning liverpool side posted this photo of him with new day saying he was heartbroken over the loss of a genuinely caring man while another former teammate jamie carragher said he was devastated adding he changed me as a person and as a player and got liverpool f.c. back winning trophies your type of people know what i'm doing it was

true but whatever you're trying to do. you know what it's like when you take. the unit to see that through the sounds like you know when he got the idea but he was absolutely. no still a complete shock to all of. what he did for liverpool football club was absolutely amazing hilarious from a club p.s.g. say initial tests on name was angola reassuring the brazilian appear to suffer a serious injury in their defeat on sunday he was in tears as he was carried off on a stretcher the end of the match but it seems he will recover in time for the last 16 tie in the european champions league and it's one he won't want to miss f.c. barcelona so for barcelona every source of mine we have

a classic goal rested on of asses body size your mind this yr. and they were all that half against his former club oscillating and former teammate you know less if he's fit it will be his 1st meeting with the cast lance's leaving them in 2017 of a world record free of $263000000.00 his the full draw than a barista got back face of manchester city while holders a bond up against a tally inside last ca athletic a madrid get chelsea english champions liverpool play german title chases logic and christiane as eventis take on porto it's of a against dortmund and 13 times when israel madrid rough against the atlanta those games we played in february and march next year with some is taking place in london but it's bad news for football clubs in the english capital with covert $9000.00 restrictions changing again because of a rapid rise in cases there so for one say they won't be allowed any fans at games

just 2 weeks after they let them back in in limited numbers. even though we wanted to we had friends in for a game already argued feel they should have been a level playing field if some clubs can have them some car we've seen i think radio for we're on the pitch the the back in the day give you money down to the game i think it should be pretty level i also think that we can we can tell in the government to control 2000 fans coming into the stadium if they're coming from within that here or wherever however they want to do that to keep things moving along. so it's unfortunate to say the least after $105.00 cleveland's major league baseball team is decided to drop its indians team name is comes amid protests against systemic racism in the u.s. and a wider push for sports teams to stop using native american names and imagery the indians named we phased out completely by 2022 cleveland to follow washington's american football team which changed its name in july roger federer s as he might

have to sit out the australian open tennis the 20 time grand slam champion is taking longer than expected to recover from 2 nice surgeries is not playing. since this year's australian open when he was beaten in the semifinals i know that joke which skiing's biggest on mckayla shifrin has won her 1st world cup races since the death of her father nearly a year ago she took 1st place in the giant slalom in the french aus resort of course chevelle her last victory was in january 1 week before her father passed away she friends at the reigning olympic champion in the event and this is her 67th world cup when i row which ties a master chef a 3rd on the all time list behind only lindsey vonn in last in muck and this when it clearly meant more than most. really like. 95 percent of me. that. i couldn't do it just. the small bit of me at the rate. when i was.

2023 rugby world cup is a 1000 days away but the draw has already been made hosts france have a tough looking assignment i was being put in the same poll as 3 times champions in new zealand or their france have an ox they were blacks out of 2 world cups before back in 19092007 so exciting. we don't. so we so. the pools are incomplete at this stage because 8 teams still need to qualify but we do know france and israel and are joined by italy and pull a while current champions in south africa will face arland and scotland wales and australia have been drawn together for the 3rd world cup running alongside fiji in paul c. and last year's host nation japan will be up against england and argentina in paul

de sport for now i'll be back later. jemma thanks very much large parts of chile and argentina went dark on monday ms a solar eclipse blacked out watch of the sky it lasted about 2 minutes but for many in chile it was dampened by rain and fog which obscured the view this astronomical phenomenon won't be repeated in south america for almost 13 years. researchers in australia say they've developed a technique to grow and transplant coral on the great barrier reef they say coral i.v.'s could help replenish one of the world's most endangered ecosystems and sounder buyers' reports. they may not be the most vibrant but these corals are healthy and resilient and represent a major lifeline for the most spectacular ecosystem of its kind on the planet. they're part of the very 1st trial of in-vitro fertilization for corals or coral

i.v.'s. coral large by our collective during what are called mass spawning events there are rare annual moments linked to the cycles of the moon then baby corals are cultivated in floating nursery pools before being transplanted onto damaged areas of the reef. 4 years later the original population has grown large and even survived coral bleaching events. this proves that the lava restoration take works just as we predicted and we can grow very large corals from tiny microscopic larvae within just a few years. scientists say the success of this project is critical for the great barrier reef the un listed world heritage site runs more than 2000 kilometers along australia's north east coast but it's being severely damaged by climate change and ocean warming it's lost more than half of its coral in the past 3 decades impacting

many other species that depend on it. at the beginning of december its status was downgraded to critical and deteriorating that prompted environmental experts to call on the australian government to step up its efforts to protect the reef it's abundantly clear. what we need. to the. media in significant we don't need to be chary know when we need to be. and we need to be. in leadership as well broad policy change may take longer to achieve but harrison and his team say they're optimistic their techniques will work. soon these will be the world's 1st transplanted coral populations to start reproducing on their own. and it's hoped they'll start to really grow what's been lost on the great barrier reef alexandra byers al-jazeera. and

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