the lockdown on al-jazeera. play an important role. ringback the. from birth in london large parts of europe face tough restrictions with christmas just 10 days away. rather than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. my day. the u.s. begins vaccinations against cope at 19 as its death toll from the pandemic crosses 300000. a faction of boko haram says it was behind the abduction of

hundreds of school children in northern nigeria. go through by delaware a democrat. 55 knows the role. and the u.s. electoral college confirms joe biden's victory in the november presidential election . we begin in europe where germany's chancellor angela merkel has announced that a european union vaccine should be approved before christmas has been a drastic rise in the coronavirus cases across the continent let's take a look at the rates of faction well this was the situation 2 months ago a lot of that dog red color showing high rates of infection now nearly the whole. consonance it is dark red european center for disease control says any more

than $120.00 cases per 100000 is critical every country except finland norway ireland and iceland is 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 most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000. well we have a team of reporters covering the situation in europe will be speaking in paris in just a moment as france comes out of lockdown general standing by in london which is facing tougher restrictions from wednesday but 1st let's go over to the he's and brussels for us in a wet looking brussels not a team is that our attention to germany it's going into a hard lockdown over the holiday period but also hopeful of starting vaccinations by the end of the year. that's right germany along

with many other countries worried about the number of daily cases over 14000 the moment with around 500 people dying every day now the government has said in the last couple of days the health minister the un spawn has said he wants to see approval of this pfizer biotech vaccine by the european medicines agency brought forward from its original date of the 29th of december with a german press is reporting that that is not going to happen on the 23rd that's not confirmed but the german government has confirmed. that very believe that it will be sped up and that is a european union wide coordinated approval and they want to say now that they are going to start vaccinating beef people before the end of this year so the hope is that it can start before the christmas period but their message is we need to do

much more to drive down transmission so from wednesday this national lockdown coming in across germany shutting non-essential schools non-essential shops shutting schools and telling people really to do what they can to avoid meeting up where possible is a similar picture in the netherlands a national lockdown for 5 weeks announced on monday with shops and schools closing also all thirty's there are warning people that they should not travel across a. border to belgium shops of reopening on tuesday non-essential shots even though christmas markets are not happening there is a transmission rate here in belgium but the government here is still worried and on friday they're going to meet they haven't ruled out imposing further restrictions on people into the holiday period they are saying that they're worried about the way things are going the reproduction rate here is nearly one percent

that famous level where things could rise exponentially so in many different countries governments telling people to abate the rules otherwise further restrictions will have to be imposed ok that's. a view of germany from brussels thanks very much in the game over now to jonah he's in london and was normally europe's busiest shopping street because nothing normal about these times dana 3 terrorists but terrorist actions come into effect midnight local time what does that mean. when it's not the full lockdown that you deem was describing in large parts of europe that is tier 3 the highest level of covert restrictions in this country shops will be allowed to stay open so people can carry on doing their christmas shopping at places like the street behind you but you know a lot of things will shut down. big restrictions on the way people can meet and mix they can only mix in because of 6 in public areas out doors hospital kind of the

bars restaurants and so on will have to close down as well cultural venues it's a big not to the economy it's a big disappointment in the run up to christmas of course but as i said not a full lockdown a challis a tree moment mr hancock the health secretary described it as in parliament when he announced that this warning that this is not all over he said and he had another salutary warning on monday night that a new strain of the virus a variant of the virus has been. of it by british scientists he suggested that might be in part the reason behind a spike in infection rates in london and the southeast allegedly more virulent this new strain although there's no reason to believe he said that it would be in any way resistance to the vaccine and on top of all of this more bad news coming out of the office for national statistics. telling us that the unemployment rate is going up to 4.9 percent a lot of jobs hundreds of thousands lost in hospitality in the run up to christmas

that couldn't be more bad news and on top of all of that fears of a possible maybe even another lock down to come in january. france from london thank you jonah and finally now over to natasha she's in paris where it's a bit of a different situation than attash restrictions are easing but. it's restrictions have been easing actually for a while national a few weeks ago schools have remained open throughout this period but the main restriction that is changing today that is being lifted is a restriction on movement so people can now travel anywhere in the country without a permit now until now there was a restriction on where you could travel just within a few kilometers of perimeter and you had to haue a special permits when you left the house so that is a change however the government whether lifting restrictions there also re imposing some and they are putting in place now a nighttime curfew across the country which means that people between 8 o'clock in

the evening and 6 o'clock in the morning will have to stay in time unless they've got a very good reason for example if they're working in one of the essential services what does remain shop bars restaurants cinema as museums cultural center is not is why there's a big protest behind you could probably see people gathered on the steps of the paris opera house they are extremely upset they are representatives from all the industries i've just mentioned because they thought that they would be able to. now in mid december but the government saying they may not even be able to reopen in mid january in the government's point of view the virus is still circulating at levels which make it too much for risk to open these cultural centers all restaurants and bars they say those are mana essential industries and services if you like but of course the workers in these sectors are extremely upset they are saying their jobs are being lost and that the industry simply won't be able to survive if they continue to be shot in this way that has about paris thanks very much. the view and look at the us where the number of deaths linked to

covert 19 has pos 300000 that's grim figure was reached on the same day the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history began medical workers were among the 1st to be immunized finds a vaccine but health officials are warning it could get lots worse before it gets better as reports from washington d.c. . never before has the nation been so caught up in watching a delivery packed up shipped out and flown to it's just a nation's all under the watchful eyes of security usually anonymous workers now celebrated but i'm very hopeful. happy to. be here. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from pfizer almost 3000000 doses shipped out across the country and it led to very unusual live television it's not

often you hear this when anyone gets a shot. what happened in the. state governors from kentucky to colorado new york to louisiana waiting to see them arrive with this you. start to see our ability to preserve water protect our people we are going to be told it starts right there. one of the 1st shots watched on live television intensive care nurse in new york who wanted to send a message right over from our beginning and very painful time in our history. i want to instill public confidence that america the way they all of these made for t.v. moments meant to let people know that the vaccine is safe and everyone should take it when they can as polls show as many as 50 percent of adults say they won't there's also a question about how long it will take to have enough facts. for all americans

right now you said 50000000 for a visionary mission it already has been manufactured and you know taking it. will be. we are going to make much we have in. the 1300000000 cities or there were but you don't want to make much another vaccine from the company madeira is expected to get approval later this week that will increase supply and experts say they think that that means by the spring every american who wants to get the vaccination will be able to find one it's positive news but it comes a very grim day as it's announced that the u.s. has now lost 300000 people because of covert and experts say without big changes it's only going to continue to get worse. al-jazeera washington. a faction of booker her arm has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria comes as the government announces negotiating with what it

describes as armed bandits and students were taken on friday from a boarding school in katsina state there are concerns the government is concealing the real number of those of doc says faction claims it has captured more than 500 boys the largest number of people abducted by the group in recent times a plan to address has the latest from. over the past month we've heard and watched videos like you lady. but what i'm calling on activists non-state actors in the north was in central parts of nigeria to form an alliance with them and there was such an videos that came online why such groups were pledging allegiance to boko haram it could be a possibility that these groups may have carried out the attack and 100 over the boys to boko haram above the numbers but what i'm is claiming that all the more than 520 students which could also be close to the figure

a lot of people are walking with that boarding school had more than $800.00 schoolchildren and the day after the attack we were told by officials and gets in a state that more than 200 boys have returned which leaves a balance of 500 more than 500 students and accounted for later on the government gets in a state spoke about a few dozen state can buy these attackers confirm days later that more than 300 people or rather more than 330 children missing so this could be the largest abduction ever carried out on a school in nigeria since book i'm starting remember chibok 270 plus now this figure we're working with is perhaps one of the biggest if not the biggest since this book quite a crisis started in nigeria. still has on al-jazeera guineans president will be sworn in for a controversial 1st time shortly but the ceremony comes after the dolphins have been killed in antigovernment protests. and will terraces sites under threat house

ability in libya to help bring a new lease of life to these 2000 year old ruins. but . the cold is still blowing out is the real cold of the siberian arctic there's a storm system developing in the barents sea but if you come south of the effect is going to be just snow sheriff a snow shovel kreider on honshu the cold is leaking across the high ground so your maximum temperature take us back not as soccer's 8 it's subzero and so and all these temperatures are on the low side compared with their averages which is really properly set in is a bit of an easing in the flow during thursday but it's still produce a lot of snow on the western side particular mantas not entirely of honshu and the

cold is least for the south there hong kong is warming up a little by this time. not much action in india even the showers in the south have disappeared temporarily got a bit of an outbreak of a usually known seasonal right in maharashtra and we've eastwards might end up in west bengal not much to it to be awesome by this time now it's wednesday we're talking about the shouting to tamil nadu northern indian plane sees no disturbance of the air quality and the persistent fog they're both still there on the low side obviously is the next storm system develop in the eastern med and developing it is it's produced flooding in turkey it'll probably do the same on the coast of the levant. frank assessment you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinions

how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it lead get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of the rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. the. again what you want is there has a reminder of our top stories this hour germany's chancellor angela merkel has announced that a european union vaccine should be approved before christmas europe is seeing a drastic rise in coronavirus pesos. the number of covert 19 deaths in the us has

passed 300000 as the biggest vaccination campaign in the country's history gets under way medical workers and elderly home residents are being prioritized. and a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility for b. adoption of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria it comes as the government announced it's negotiating with what it describes as an armed. somalia has cuts diplomatic ties with kenya saying it has constantly violated its sovereignty its accusing its neighbor of political interference in juba land one of somalia's 5 semi autonomous states has recalled all its diplomats from kenya and has ordered their counterparts to leave somalia within 7 days welcome webb has more from nairobi. then election is happening next month is based on a fragile agreement between the leaders of those 5 so you autonomous states and its

president came here to visit nairobi kenya spoke to the government returned back to somalia and the somali government then said the president a jubilant were negative on the electoral agreement and blamed kenyan interference for that now just 2 days ago the president of another region somaliland also came here to nairobi and that's been followed by further allegations by the somali government of interference by kenya that's what's led to this latest move them cutting all diplomatic ties this is the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between the 2 countries began nearly 2 years ago those disputes were initially about a maritime border dispute over which country gets to control substantial offshore oil reserves is more recent this be based around somalia accusations of kenya interfering in its forthcoming election. president alpha condé will be sworn in

for a 3rd term shortly after a controversial election that saw him win always 60 percent of the vote his opponents say that vote was rigged and that condi violated the constitution by running for a 3rd term dozens of people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in recent months the opposition is vowing to continue the protests. following events from neighboring senegal joins us now from there so make a highly contentious inauguration taking place. well that's right i mean the inauguration that's taking place very few heads of state are attending this inauguration senegal for instance has sent his has sent his foreign minister present as well as is the nigerian president mohammad hari to heavy weights in the region president or 5 heads of state in the region who are also running for reelection there's

a feeling among many especially here in this neighborhood now we're neighborhood where mostly there are good ins who are unable to return home well there's a feeling among this people here deja vu yesterday we saw the inauguration of the son ouattara an aging president who has tweaked the constitution allowing him to run a 3rd man tain 3rd mandate here again we have alpha condé who when he will be sworn in will be in his ninety's in power tweaking the constitution again many of the people here the gideons that we spoke to here well they say that again it's another aging president clean gone to power they say robbing their nation's wealth and leaving young people here without any opportunities now the borders between senegal and guinea have been shut so has the borders with getting. there waiting and they're hoping that with this inauguration the situation will calm down and they'll

be able to return home laura what many of the opposition is being jailed what do we know about protests that are being planned. well protests have been simply clamped down in guinea in the capital conakry today is another day of protests and the paramilitaries have been deployed the military as well has been deployed and between the announcement made by the constitutional court that announced alpha condé the winner and this on inauguration we've seen house to house arrest police going in the houses of protesters arresting them really clamping down on the opposition. jello the main opposition candidate says he has won this election and he is the rightful president of guinea he continues to contest the election results the result this fight the inauguration that's happening today so we're seeing we're expected to see more protests in the days to come. in guinea

and really this feeling among many gideon's here of deja vu of him. clinging on to power in this country back to you reckless reporting from dhaka thanks very much nic u.s. democracy has prevailed that was the message from president elect joe biden shortly after the election of college formally validate his victory in the election in the last hour russian president vladimir putin has become the latest wells leader to congratulate biden on his when she had her tons of reports from wilmington delaware joseph biden of delaware a democrat. i sniff the 5 nose 0. california's electoral college vote made it official joe biden is the president elect and in the end the formal tally of the states joe biden won in the november election was the procedural affair it normally is across the country electors in

states that biden flipped from the republicans cost their states votes for the president elect joseph r. biden has received $16.00 votes under the u.s. constitution the president isn't chosen by the popular vote but by the 5 $138.00 electors of the electoral college however usually they follow the majority vote in each of their states as part of the trump campaign's efforts to overturn the election results efforts were made to subvert that process they have actors have not honestly cast 16 votes for joseph r. biden but even in michigan one of several states where electors were given a police escort the vote was conducted without surprise and eventually 306 electors across the country voted for biden 232 for trump soon after joe biden made a national address calling for the page to be terms 306 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that donald trump vice president parents received when they won in 2060. me at the time president callers elect the electoral

college tally a landslide why is our own standards these numbers represented. a clear victory van and i respectfully suggest they do so now if nothing else some wonder whether this rather focus on the electoral college might lead to more discussion about whether us will use should be allowed directly to vote for president i myself disagree that we still need an electoral college to certify our election results and we should really lived into our principle in this country one person one vote and make sure that we honor the popular vote when americans vote for president on election day as the electoral college finalized biden's victory throughout the day trump tweeted about election fraud he has repeated he will fight on in the courts but it's not clear what his motivation is at this point the electoral college votes will now be sent to the u.s. congress where they will be counted and certified on january the 6th there are reports that some republicans may attempt

a last ditch style and at that point would have nothing else will be a symbolic moment that will help a narrative that many from supporters still believe that this election has been stolen however the polls also show that a majority of americans do feel that it's time to move on she represents the al-jazeera wilmington delaware it had a general of the united states has resigned and will step down next week william barr had fallen out of favor with donald trump this month after he failed to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud and his resignation the allegations would still be pursued trump tweeted that their relationship had been a very good one. dozens of unesco sites have been damaged all right the risk of losing that world heritage status in the 1st of a 5 part series we visit the ancient. ruins on libya's mediterranean coast by saying has left the site neglected by local authorities but as malik trying to

reports peace talks could help change that. established by the phoenicians in the 4th century b.c. the coastal city of so brought was used as a trading post that served as an outlet for trade from africa it was later ruled by the new median kingdom of messines until rome rebuilt it in the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d. . today from a distance it looks like it's endured the violence libya has witnessed for nearly a decade but close up are signs of the conflict. the conflict in libya between the internationally recognized government of national court for g.n.a.t. and warlord pleased to have 2 years libyan national army l in a letter to unesco to puts abroad and 4 others on its list of endangered world heritage sites so brotha was controlled by forces loyal to have to drain his failed military campaign to capture the capital but the tripoli based government retook

the city in april yeah. unfortunately the city of subprocess has seen several armed conflicts in the last decade the ruins were hit during the fighting but thank god there was only minor damage to the fear. but now brought as crown jewel a 5000 seat theater has survived and stands 3 stories tall built by the romans nearly 2000 years ago it's a testament to the history and culture this country on the southern shores of the mediterranean has official here 30000 of the foreign tourists use the come and visit but the years long conflict and political divisions have had a devastating impact on the tourism sector. and of course there's also the penn demick for now besides a few local families heritage sites like this remain for the most part abandoned but some still come. we live in tripoli with cave 19 we're all

a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear and when the ban will help the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical sites are it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave their weapons behind with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites malik traina al-jazeera subrata. is the director of the mask as well heritage center and she says rehabilitation of libya's rowan's is underway but more is also is a needed for all the endangered sites. at the moment you have all of the cultural

sites in libya on unesco's heritage list on the danger list so that means we have a continued monitoring and the last meeting we had with. libyan authorities was actually in early march 20 twentieth's just before of the lockdown in paris and be continued why different tools and assume meetings or so it is towards not removing them from the danger list but that means a lot of efforts from their side there needs to be coordination as specially etc read to see it are also damaged during the conflicts but i think there is hope at the end of the tunnel we got to funding those that you n.d.p. year project on the site for the rehabilitation and there is funding also from i leave them from unesco especially for the management plan and the future recovery of this property there is lot of money when it comes to nominations for new sites

we would like to see more resources for the conservation of air it it's so important for the identity of people the parents bring the kids to learn about the history of their country and their culture so this is a very important part of our joint and shared history around the world and if we cannot safeguard world heritage site what is left on earth. go without as there are these are our top stories germany's chancellor angela merkel has announced that he european union a vaccine should be approved before christmas europe is seeing a drastic rise in coronavirus cases france is coming out of lockdown but a nighttime curfew will remain in effect bars restaurants and cultural center workers are protesting that their industries a stank shot that has a butler has more from paris.