last year we had $200.00 words to report. when it comes to you it stretches for a while. you were with. the european commission says a curve in $1000.00 vaccine developed by pfizer that will be approved before the end of the year. there i'm starting to tell you this is out of their life and are also coming up as america begins vaccinations at warnings that the part of the country's public health officials are quitting and increasing numbers. a faction of poke around says it was behind the abduction of hundreds of school children in northern nigeria. would go through or biden of delaware

a democrat. 55 knows the role the u.s. electoral college can fans of joe biden's victory in november this presidential election. but we begin in europe where germany's chancellor angela merkel has announced that a european union vaccine should be approved before christmas there's been a drastic rise in coronavirus cases across the continent let's take a look at the rate of infection now this was the situation 2 months ago you can see lots of that dark red color that shows really high rates of infection well now nearly the whole continent is dark red the european center for disease control says any more than $120.00 cases per 100000 people is critical every country except finland norway islands nice and is on that highest level so georgia croatia and lithuania they have a. highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k.

they've reported the most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 on the day and baba is watching the situation for us across the continent from brussels nadeem it really seems like janni a fresh start is trying to tackle this on multiple fronts here. that's right we heard earlier on tuesday from the health minister saying that he hopes the country would be able to start vaccinating people by the end of this year he's been calling all the european medicines agency to speed up their approval of the pfizer biotech vaccine now that is going to happen it's being brought forward to december the 21st that has prompted a tweet spike to sort of underlying the president of the european commission based here in brussels she said likely but the 1st europeans will be vaccinated before

ends 2020 this is offering a lot of hope for people in countries across the continent who have seen other countries such as the u.k. start to roll out their must vaccination. programs germany says that it's ready to vaccinate up to 4000000 people before the end of this year alone and then they're saying that by the next the end of summer 2021 they hope 60 percent of the population can have had the vaccine that's the crucial figure according to the world health organization at which you can really start to bring the pandemic under control and a dame this is all happening as a number of other countries across the continent and staring down the barrel of father lockdowns here. of course germany's bringing in a another national lock down from wednesday until at least january the 10th closing on. sensu shops in schools how to light

a lockdown in november which was thought not to have worked chancellor merkel has been very worried about the rising infections the same in the netherlands they're now under lockdown for 5 weeks some people they're unhappy about it but the government says the way things are going with daily cases over 14000 now they had no option in the words of the prime minister we have to bite this sour apple before things get better and then here in belgium the cases are rising steadily again shops have reopened in the last few hours here bars and restaurants remain closed but the government is not ruling out at a meeting of a special committee on friday the further restrictions for the holiday periods will have to be brought in to react to the rise in cases so the message here and elsewhere is please follow the rules and do remember even if you're allowed to

celebrate christmas it's not going to be a normal one. want to miss that for us across here from brussels thank you so much mental well let's come across the channel now and john holl is in london with this update as the city prepares to go into lockdown. 60 percent of the country in all will be under 3. and in addition you know infection rates rising in parts of the south south east very steeply doubling they say every 7 days in part it's thought perhaps fueled by a new variant of the virus found by british scientists still being researched and so on the government mandated lifting of almost all the restrictions for 5 days over the christmas period allowing families to mix and mingle in households up to 3 households at a time and that particular measure has come under a lot of criticism most fiercely on tuesday from the 2 main medical journals in

this country both internationally eminent the british medical journal and the health services journal who have a simple message which is that this mixing at christmas time will cost lives they've urged the government to think again to avoid blundering into another era they predict that this measure will account for $440.00 times the caseload in the national health service after christmas than was the case at the beginning of the 2nd wave back in the autumn i think there is real concern about what happens in january with a possible 3rd wave a possible 3rd lockdown the government insists it's not planning a rethink here that it isn't planning in this in essence to cancel christmas but one minister did admit a little earlier on today in an interview that all coronavirus measures are under review all the time when the. paris as france comes out of lockdown. well over the past few weeks the french government has been lifting her restrictions or shops opened a few weeks ago but today the french government is really lifting the main

restriction that is on people's movement so people can now travel all over the country and they do know the permits however where some restrictions are been lifted others are being reimposed and now there will be a nighttime curfew so from a typical no it's till 6 o'clock in the morning so people will have to stay with us we've got a very good reason for example working in an essential service but some things do remain shots museums restaurants bars on cultural centers not is why there is a big protest here in central paris so many people are gathered on the steps of the paris opera house there are workers from the restaurants and bowls and cultural centers like the oprah house here in paris they are upset they say that they are not being allowed to reopen mid december that is what they hoped not to see huge numbers of cinemas in theaters that will close its catastrophic 1st will no longer be the culture city it was before the lockdown because it by force you can't say one sector is essential and another is not there's no evidence of clusters in

theaters and cinemas. the french government says that they won't be able to open it least until mid january maybe month of march now the reason says the government is because the force is still circulating at rates that are far too high it is too much for risk they are calling these industries nonessential services but of course for these people who come to protest it's extremely upset because they are worried about a lot of units and now the madonna a coven $1000.00 vaccine is one step closer to being approved by american regulators the u.s. food and drug administration if you do report saying the vaccine is highly effective and didn't raise any major concerns it would be the 2nd to be a pretty fierce in the u.s. after the 5 vaccine was given the green light last week. well meanwhile other health experts in the u.s. say the pandemic has led to the largest exodus of senior public health officials in american history some say they've been the target of political activists

conservative groups and anti-vaccination campaigners who united around common goals . reports. protesters in the u.s. state of idaho gather outside a public health meeting they say they oppose the mandatory wearing of masks some health officials say they face similar demonstrations during the coronavirus pandemic if you haven't figured out what no. tissue coleman is the linn county public health administrator in the state of kansas she says she struggled to keep her rural county safe from coated 90 my friendship list has decreased and i just i don't have. it's not that important to me to be friends with someone who's going to be so against trying to protect the public because they don't want to be told to do something at least 181 health workers in 38 states have resigned retired or have

lost their job since april experts say it's the largest exodus of public health officials in american history this is their religion or anything or you know you know where we are. right now now linda valle is the health officer in michigan she's received letters at home calling her a communist and a fascist but she says she won't resign clearly have made that decision and they're not easy decisions to make because this is not a job that you want to leave during the midst of a pandemic there is an entire community of people that are out there depending on you and with the biggest back cieszyn campaign in the country's history and a way that may be more true now than ever before victoria gate to be al jazeera. a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria the students were taken on friday from a boarding school in katsina stains there are concerns the government hasn't been

upfront about the real number of those abducted it says it's negotiating with what they're calling bandits you know remember back in 2014 back around kidnapped more than 270 cows and sheep this time the group's faction says it's abducted more than 500 boys if confirmed that will be the largest number of people the group has abducted in a single day amid a dress has more for us from the capital of richer. we understand that the group has been on the move since the day or since the night they were taken from can kind of and they've been moving from one forest to the other climbing rocks and mountains according to witnesses who escaped the must subduction what they're telling the media and with the telling government officials and kids in the state so it's difficult to say exactly where they're all there are rumors that they've been moved from in a state deep into the forest in some for a state where over the last 7 years we have seen how. security

has deteriorated with bandits attacking communities and displacing hundreds of villages and. rendering a lot of people homeless and usually we were told that only a few dozen students were abducted the need later turned out that there were more the governor of kut in austin was talking about 333 and now witnesses are even claiming that the number is much higher than that because the school had more than 800 boarding students and on the night of the abduction on the following the following morning after the night of the abduction more than 200 students were reportedly rescued or have come back to school before the school was finally shot so if you had more than 800 students in a school and only 200 have come back then definitely more than 500 are left and accounted for but quite i mean saying that it's holding more than 520 of them if

not just classified or doctors can find them suddenly this will be the most the biggest abduction since this conflict or the book quite a crisis began 11 years ago well still ahead here on al-jazeera despise accusations of low trading and violating the constitution gimmes president as being sworn in a controversial that. we hear from the forest tribes who had their homes demolished. same livelihoods and conditions right for us well. it was. it's still blowing cold across the sea of japan the sea the yellow sea which means snow is still potting up in the forecast this is wednesday for honshu western slopes largely advocaat it out breezy easy and it'll bit is still going to feel

pretty darn cold every degree lesser now the sun's out through most of those in china so the cold here is it least replaced by sunshine rather than the star who shout out of japan that culls leads a long way sized gray skies all way down almost to guangdong hong kong is slowly warming up on thursday after 16170 wednesday a lot kodesh breeze will pick up the shower top and give some pretty big downpours in vietnam the philippines but the rainy season in indonesia is of them are rather more obvious increased rate he says there's a big showers around for java and for sudden born here. temporarily we've got our usual rain running up from behind her eventually to get to what i think jacaranda west bank goal will stir up the skies a bit it might ease some of the fog typically for all of northern india new delhi reflects at its full cost cold days and if you add the pollution to that his

daughter's fault is of course small. but. take calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation to be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls dads often legitimize them griego one is pedophile on arrow online jumping to the quick section and the chain to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. move. oh . oh.

hello again i'm a saucy that's remind you 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 and coronavirus cases. and now the madonna covered $1000.00 baxi and is a step closer to being approved by american regulates as the u.s. food and drug administration issued a report saying about seen is highly effective and didn't raise any major concern it's. a faction of program has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys and girls in nigeria it comes as the government announced it's negotiating with what it describes as bandits. president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after the u.s. electoral college validated his presidential election victory biden accused donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging. steve

clemons is the washington editor at large for the hill and also the host of al-jazeera is program bottom line he says it's now impossible for anyone in the republican party to deny biden's a victory. today was the day and we've seen major senators like senator roy blunt senator john thune who had really held out and had suspicions himself that he expressed about the solvency of the election came out and said it's time for this to end joe biden is going to be the president and they're coming around so we've had a good number of republican senators just today come out and say that they now recognize joe biden as the president elect so i think what's going to happen i mean we all you know we're in the business of speculating and i will let the audience know i'm speculating is that i think that that that number of people whether they're senators or members of the house of representatives even those house members that signed the legal brief to the supreme court they're beginning to look like you know comic acts if you will and i think they're going to find the number of those people

peeled away because there's just no way no serious way to consider constitutionally how to undo the votes of electors americans don't vote for the president united states directly they vote for electors and those electors from states elect the president united states that occurred today it will of course be certified on january 6th but the election happened today and we all know how it came out and what the numbers are so i think other members will see it and if they don't come along with that because they fear what donald trump may do to them in donald trump's you know after life in the post presidency then i think they are going to be come fringe politicians and fringe in the eyes of a lot of americans well meanwhile the attorney general of the u.s. has resigned and will step down next week when he had fallen out of favor with donald trump last month after he failed to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud has a resignation that said paul said the allegations would still be pursued. said that

their relationship had been a very good plan. well guinea's president alpha condé is now being sworn in for. its after a controversial election that saw him when almost 60 percent of the voters thought his opponents say that it was rigged and the condé violation of the constitution by running for. dozens of people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations that in recent months and the opposition as value him to continue to his protests and our correspondent has been following this for us from neighboring seneca present during this inauguration or other presidents have the state of neighboring countries among them 5 other presidents just like alpha crum they above the age of 70 some above the age of 80 just like alpha condé all of them running for reelection and among them alison want to who just like alpha condé tweak the constitution to run a 3rd mandate now absent for this inauguration or get ins in exile and were here in

a neighborhood in their car in the medina neighborhood which is home to up to 3000000 gideon's who live in senegal because the borders are closed between senegal and guinea they haven't been able to vote in this election nor have they been able to. witness this inauguration and if you talk to many of the people who live here they say that this is there's a feeling of deja vu yesterday we saw the inauguration of president alassane ouattara it's yet again for them another aging president clinging on to power holding as they say the nation hostage and stealing the wealth of elation that's the feeling among many young indians here that's how they feel towards alpha condé of course there is protest on the streets of concrete there's a heavy military presence here at this point all of this ceremony has taken place and they will be in his ninety's by the time he finishes his mandate.

as prime minister scott morrison has warned china it would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of australian coal his remarks follow chinese state media reports of a possible ban it's a further escalation and a growing trade dispute and also a potential blow to australia's economy as nicholas gage reports from sydney. a strike here is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of coal used in both steel making and to generate power one of its major markets is china but months of imported lives have left millions of tones of the strain in cold stranded on china's coast and the industry in turmoil trying to start a political reasons not economic growth because economically it's itself china that's clearly a political stance that the the parties back in. beijing faming reconfirmed a trolley was being targeted in that state backed global times newspaper saying

power plants have been granted approval to import coal without clearance restrictions from anyone except to strongly of those countries that are available and also are willing to export cochin-china interview to russia mccauley or are we seeing quite a large within this for those countries to actually expand their market in china. if no doubt further inflame tensions with beijing which is shutting more strongly in industries out of china in a deepening tried dispute over foreign interference beijing's affairs in hong kong and allegation about the origins of the coronavirus. talking about coal in a strong way right now is a sensitive issue the industry stakeholders have been reluctant to comment on what's happening with china and australia remains without an energy policy as more countries that climate targets carbon dioxide levels are at this trailer was blocked a commuter recent united nations climate summit due to its perceived lack of action

on climate change some experts believe now is the time to plan for a future of reduced use of coal and other for who you struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international pariah on climate action a trial in a the plan we need a plan to get out of calling guess we need a plan and transition all of those workers for a plan in the short term to songe new trade partners israelis coal exports to china were worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that's threatened and other industries will be wondering if i could be next making a gauge al-jazeera deeply. katrina you has more now from beijing the relationship between china and australia has hit the lowest point but it's ever been at and that's clearly manifest in the trade relationship but it pours far beyond that now tensions between the 2 countries really ratcheted up when a strongly demanded an independent inquiry into an origin of the carbon 19 outbreak earlier this year but they've been souring for much longer than that really one

clear point was in 2018 when the previous australian government imposed this law against political interference and china was and specifically named when that was announced but china definitely was implied as the target of that law and since then the struggling government has taken various steps that have really good beijing culminating in what we saw last month in a 14 a list of 14 grievances released by the chinese embassy a basically expressing to australia all the things that it was unhappy with including the fact that australia banned while wage china's iconic telecom giant from participating in the development of its 5 g. network because china knows that australia is economically reliant on china its biggest trading partner about 30 percent of all the trailing exports end up in china and china really is exploiting this fact and it's almost as if they gene is making an example of this trail is sending a clear message to smaller countries that are economically reliant on china that if

you do not behave in the way that beijing deems appropriate that there will be consequences for your country. dozens of homes belonging to nomadic tribes in indian administered kashmir have been demolished local authorities say the community is illegally occupying forest land but those tribes argue that they have lived there for generations as alexie o'brien reports. to those destroying these hearts and the himalayan forests there and wanted pieces of wood and cement. but to the back of. the muslim nomadic tribes who live here their home at least for 6 months a year as they move between the forests and mountainous pastures what they heard of goats and sheep. to recover from the shock we have been living here for generations. for our livestock and our children

i tried to plead with the demolition team but they threatened us with the rest and a fine some in the tribe received a notice from the local forest department saying their homes were illegal a few days later people arrived to tear them down. the himalayan region of kashmir is controlled by india and pakistan and pot but claimed by both in full last year india revoked the region special status imposing restrictions on movement and enforcing a communications blackout. critics say the government wants to change the demographic of the muslim majority region as carrying out the demolitions to do that they want to be gradually from the. told them out make them all listen there are. so upset. indians there and that. bad agent of ridley. but local officials say they only following court

orders and that more than 60000 people are legally squatting on the land in india traditional forest while as a usually protected by law and tribal leaders in kashmir say that should extend to them. briskness hold up street last year with a special status was it appealed to the government published an advertisement that they were going to implement the forest floor in the region but the reality on the ground is different the government is working against us people are suffering under pressure from the government to move from the forest and from encroaching cities some say their traditional way of life is becoming too difficult you give it home use pointed at the live in fear that remain free is to see him freed as the others we keep on thinking dear night that our homes may be demolished where would we go for generations they've led a nomadic lifestyle but that could soon become

a thing of the past oleksandr an al-jazeera one tens of thousands of tourists have converged on chile and argentina to experience this year's only total solar eclipse and visitors were worried that they wouldn't seem upset because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time latin america at least in human reports from santiago. for the 2nd time in 6 months the moon passed over the sun in the southern hemisphere creating a stunning spectacle that turns day into night. unfortunately for residents and tens of thousands of visitors and astronomers who traveled to southern chile as i would call me a region the weather clouded over what they'd hoped would be a perfect clearview. eclipse is never cease to amaze especially astronomers they study the sun's corona which drives solar winds and can produce alterations in

the cycles of the earth why is it just important to be able to see the corona better though. we cannot forget that the sun is really the votes in the solar system so if you turn to some lights on. we. will die in less than a week in the capital santiago will only 80 percent of the moon could be seen covering the sun well this is about as good as it's going to get i can still see a sliver of the sun peeking through but you can still see sunlight out here but it's darker than it was just a half an hour ago at high noon there are no clouds in the sky it was boiling hot and now it feels much much colder. residents who come to see and feel the same things were not disappointed. this gives you a different energy it's an extraordinary sight a privilege. in 2024 another total solar eclipse will pass through mexico

and parts of the united states but it will be another one in this exact place for another 400 years to see a human out a 0 sum game. played alice's out of there and these are the headlines germany's chancellor angela merkel has announced that a european union vaccine should be approved before christmas and europe is saying a drastic rise in credit virus cases and the baba has more for us from brussels to german population is seeing other countries getting the phase a biotech vaccine a now saying that they believe they can start vaccinating people with that vaccine before the end of the year it's believed that the european medicines agency is going to bring forward approval to december the 23rd j. .