to survive on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. is role in the world on al-jazeera. to. intensive care units are running out of bad since several us states because of the coronavirus pandemic. other than i am however here and this is out of syria my from doha also coming out yemen's help some americans the watch list of countries and spiraling humanitarian crisis over 100 compounding the misery of war and hunger. a stray a heads back against chinese tariffs on its barley in an increasingly bitter trade

disputes. is still made of voters it relied depends on it because it does. us president elect joe biden rally supporters ahead of runoff races that will determine who controls the senate. the u.s. health system is straining under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic intensive care units have been running out of beds in at least one states mississippi and the affair than $100.00 vailable in the santa this county home to millions of people from l.a. rob reynolds has this reports. in california and across the u.s. the coded 900 numbers are staggering in los angeles county population 10000000 there were fewer than 100 intensive care unit beds available on tuesday in some areas like the central valley and counties east of los angeles there are 0 i.c.u.

beds left more people will die because the whole. statewide more than 42000 cases of covert 19 were reported on monday breaking all previous single day records were still in the tunnel going through the most challenging and difficult search we've experienced since the beginning of this pandemic most of the state is under a stay at home order still public officials pleaded with people to wear masks and socially distance. we just had to order $5000.00 additional body bags they just purchased for the state that should be sobering after more than 300000 deaths nationwide millions of doses of pfizer's vaccine are now being distributed around the country with medical workers at the front of the line more encouraging news came from the u.s. food and drug administration which found moderna vaccine candidate to be 94 percent

effective emergency f.d.a. authorization for the vaccine is expected by the end of the week a new poll shows 71 percent of the u.s. population wants to get vaccinated right away that's an 8 percent increase from september widespread vaccine acceptance is essential to combat in the virus vaccine rollout also costs money congress is still working on multi-billion dollar covert relief legislation but they're not there yet no matter how long it takes will be here until we get a codebook the country's top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci recommended that president elect joe biden who is 78 years old and vice president elect kamel harris get vaccinated right away in the interests of national security we want him fully protected as he enters into the presidency in january so that would be my

strong recommendation biden said he'd take that advice why do i go out now that i was a republican much of the ongoing nationwide search is attributed to virus exposure during travel and family gatherings over the a thanksgiving holiday last month with hanukkah underway and christmas coming next week doctors are begging americans to stay home and stay safe rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. streets in brazil have been teeming with christmas shoppers this is the biggest city sao paulo and the current virus deaths in brazil passed $900.00 for the 1st time in 3 months this concern that could be another spike after the holiday season. south korea has recorded it size number of coronavirus cases in a single day with more than 1000 registered on weight in the states the 2nd time

the tally has topped the thousands in 3 days present prime minister boris johnson is resisting pressure to scrap plans easing off coronavirus distractions over christmas johnson says strict rules will be relaxed for 5 days so that families can be together see british medical journals are calling for a rethink saying the brash decision will cost many lives that many european nations are facing tough choices cases are surging ahead of christmas with fears that increased travel could accelerate the spreads but new restrictions will hit businesses such as nadine barber reports from brussels. in brussels they're dreaming of a busy christmas shops reopened in belgium on tuesday despite a recent rise in covered 19 cases but bars and restaurants have to stay closed shop keepers here in belgium are hoping to make the most of the reopening but with daily covered 19 infections roys ing and the reproduction rated almost one the government

is not ruling out bringing in new restrictions at the end of this week. over the border in the netherlands they've gone into a 5 week lockdown closing all non-essential shops as well as schools prime minister insists that rising infection rates make it essential to in his words bite through this very sour apple before things get better. it's totally understandable the number of afghan if this wasn't done the consequences cannot be neglected. or locked down is not really dissolution of a strict enforcement law compulsory facemask even the coronavirus at and shopping malls the temperature should be checked but there's new hope at the prospect of mass vaccinations across europe after pressure from the german government the european union's regulate free body is set to approve the pfizer biotech vaccine next monday ursula von der lion president of the european commission tweeted i welcome the e m a bringing forward its meeting to discuss the pfizer buy on take vaccine before

christmas likely that the 1st europeans will be vaccinated before the end of 2020. germany hopes of vaccinate up to $4000000.00 citizens by the end of the year but with hundreds still dying from the corona virus every day it's bringing international lockdown on wednesday. in france they've lifted a lot down but they're bringing in a nighttime curfew and bars and restaurants remain closed tuesday so members of the cultural industries protests angry that places like museums and theaters and also allowed to open number 3 to the huge numbers of cinemas in theaters that will close its catastrophic person will no longer be the culture city it was before the lockdown. yeah. you can't say one sector is essential and another is not there's no evidence of clusters in theaters and cinemas now the governments are voicing people to quarantine before meeting up at christmas because the controls of budgets and scientific can't sleep and i view that as reasonable if you can self confine for 8

days before christmas if you can it's not possible for everyone across europe the message from governments is the same please be careful over christmas so the new year can be a better one knitting barber al-jazeera brussels. international rescue committee has released its emergency watch list of countries where it says suffering will worsen in the coming year the 20 countries represent just 10 percent of the global population but 85 percent of those in need they are sees call for action includes afghanistan syria ams the democratic republic of congo theorizes and the watch lists top 5 for the 1st time because of the fighting in the northern region of t. gray yemen tops the list for the 3rd year running the i r c says the scale of the need and a steep drop and funding of left the humanitarian response close to collapse. has

this reports. these no letup in human suffering and is the may 3rd 3000000 people are displaced most live in does something companies like this one surviving us best as they come waiting for help from the outside world. thousands and during the cold on the waterless plains you know shop come near the city of them in the south. when we are suffering due to the cold weather we need blankets for organization and philanthropist there is no support for the children this called the corona virus pandemic disease and malnutrition her all adding up to make life here extremely difficult we need a health center in the camp to deal with month ration and also to treat pregnant women. even before the war yemen imported 90 percent obvious to people from kuwait but supplies to. a sharp fall in the value of the yemeni riyal has led to

the prices of essential commodities like food and medicine story in the absence of help from the government and international allies assurance people here the muscle the elements the line is didn't collapse out of pollution and the prices of everything have increased even. for bread and vegetables prices have gone up because the road is cut off so everything is expensive for me i'm a motorcycle driver my daily income is not even $6.00 so i cannot afford to eat. yemen has been mired in war since late 2014. when the whole thing rebels seized control of several more from provinces and forced the internationally recognized government of president of the rebel monsoon. out of the capital sanaa. so the u.a.e. led coalition then intervened with diversity to consequences in a country rocked by conflict no one knows how many people are dying from diseases

such as cholera or from the crop in 1000 pandemic. yemen's health system has all but collapsed across the country doctors say hospital beds are food and they don't know where to put the 2nd boy. looked up to latif is head of son of photo hospital don binns philosophy the war has had a huge impact on the health sector we've been affected by the brutal aggression on our country and the air and sea blockade we suffer from a dire shortage of medicine such as cancer drugs open heart surgery drugs and others and fortunately aid organizations also have a monopoly on what support they offer and we have no say on what help they bring in all this leads to a severe shortage of service whether in the aisle for a hospital or in other hospitals. then many courses of the war in the for there only to consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamed

al jazeera. this trailer is launching a formal appeal to the world trade organization over china's decision to impose huge tariffs on its barley inmate beijing imposed 5 years of cheese on the green effectively stopping a $1000000000.00 trade in its tracks the sea countries have been in a growing trade dispute since a stray a cold for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic but peter mccawley is the sociate professor at the stray international university he says it's clear the standoff is going in the wrong direction it's not us but it's tourists that's why and it's call even lobsters cotton sugar the coal issue has been in the pipeline for a little while now but it now seems clear just in the last 24 hours or so that china is imposing curbs on on coal the really big is you down the track is iron ore but it looks as if china does not have many alternatives suppliers exporters and

it's not just bali but all exporting sectors are concerned on the other hand the australian government is playing the security card the australian government is saying this is a matter of national security and therefore everybody must tell you the law and so the economic sector is divided there's almost a split between exporters on one hand and people who stress military and security aspects on the other there's quite a divide. still to come here and i'll just 0 we look out the latest efforts to salvage the 2015 iran nuclear deal sanctions critical to her on war and the refugees and migrants injuring violence and deplorable conditions in the bosnia croatia border.

wednesday is going to be a stormy day for the british isles that's the thing they're developing fairly quickly running up through all and 1st one crossing into england scotland and wales the wind and the rain and the struggling blue here is rain that goes away down through spain and briefly to push through to it to keep moving eastwards through france but showing itself more in denmark southern parts of both norway and probably central sweden where you'll see snow as well previous snow the next storm systems weighed already so this is all going up this part of europe which means central eastern europe is quite quiet fairly calm but not a lot of standing busy anymore the eastern med is improving currently stormy weather but by i think the middle of when said to be much better for the most part and that's you happen to be in north need it for example where to be called wet and windy and that same sort of weather going to creep in through morocco during when same ticket he says there is no up on the at this mountains otherwise it's going to

be rain showers and then of course it's largely dry i've been looking at temperatures throughout the sahara they've been on the high side recently all the way as far west as senegal they're coming down to where they should be no temperatures still in the middle thirty's just in a few showers around the gulf of guinea. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in this rush he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines how will a place like it live get the back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera quick rise of the top stories for you now hospitals in parts of the united states are strained to breaking point as coronavirus case a surge of pfizer by on tech vaccine is now being distributed across the country the 2nd it's expected to be approved this week south korea has recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day more than 1000 registered of witness say it's the 2nd time the tally has exceeded a 1000 in 3 days and aid agencies warn it's of race against time to save yemen as its humanitarian crisis is expected to worsen in the coming year as well as

suffering war and famine in yemen it also has some of the highest mortality rates from coal with 19. meeting is being held in vienna later on wednesday to discuss ways to preserve iran's 2050 nuclear deal has been around feelings since the u.s. withdrew began reimpose and sanctions new ones were added in october which targeted iran's petroleum industry as well as the national oil and tanker companies a few weeks earlier the us blacklisted 18 major iranian banks and the foreign companies that do business with them as part of u.s. president donald trump's so-called maximum pressure campaign to squeeze the a rainy and economy well let's head live to tehran we can join door search and doors of the iranian economy is under sustained pressure is there any hope that

when president biden takes office this could breathe new life into the j.c. peel way. well there certainly is if you ask the iranian president hassan rouhani has said. over the past few weeks since the election the united states that they expect president elect joe biden to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement he himself at present president like biden had said that he would do so at the rein in government is relying on that they see this as a opportunity for things to go back to what they hoped would be the case and when president u.s. president donald trump came into office the reigning present as 100 honey has also been speaking at his weekly cabinet meeting earlier this morning where he had some very strong words there were several warnings to the incoming administration saying that any kind of renegotiation of the agreement is not acceptable to iran and that

there will be a small window of opportunity for the u.s. administration incoming administration to return to the remains and that certain parts of iran's military programs will not be included there will be nothing added to the 2050 nuclear deal this was part of what the issue was with the united states leaving the remans in 2018 that iran's ballistic missile program was not included in this agreement there when ins have said their military program is not part of their nuclear program and they're very separate this was one point of contention and the reasons you would u.s. left and impose a series of sanctions the iranians have said that that has resulted to what they believe to be economic terrorism on the country and giving the situation with a pandemic that they are not allowed to purchase the medicine that they've required over the past few months because of those sanctions on iran's banking sector so there is a lot of optimism that the incoming administration will rejoin the agreement and lift some of the sanctions that president trump has imposed on iran since leaving

the agreement in 2013 and also is iran prepared for a scenario where joe barton won't rejoin the agreements. well they certainly are earlier this month there was a bill that was passed in parliament that would prevent this would actually prepare iran for that very situation they've given the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal up to the beginning of february a 2 month period since the bill was passed and if that doesn't happen then iran will no longer a buy additional protocol that they have been volunteering their the nonproliferation treaty that is unannounced inspections by the i inspect or is that has been a very significant step for iran since signing the nuclear deal they voluntarily did this as a goodwill gesture and since then there has been unannounced inspections not only

in iran's nuclear facilities but also over $26.00 military sites have also been visited by specters that is something that will no longer happen also the enrichment capabilities will increase iran will go back to the pre $215.00 enrichment levels of 20 percent that is the maximum that we are aware they can carry enrichment so far they've said that these are the steps they will take to make sure that these sanctions are lifted so there is an opportunity given to the u.s. administration coming in for them to do something otherwise the parliament has decided against the advice of the president's mind you that iran's nuclear program will actually go ahead and move further away from the nuclear agreement dosage of ari that bring us the very latest live from to her own door so thank you now 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 the northern state of kut sina the government is being accused

of not being open about the number of boys abducted it says it's negotiating with potent kohls armed bandits. aid workers are pushing for better care and shelter for refugees and migrants stranded near the bosnia croatia border bosnian officials are meeting later to discuss what to do as temperatures plunge one camp may be to be closed because it hasn't been made safe for winter even though international funding is available to syria's 20 berkeley reports from velika. it's not a prison it's a camp and for these migrants and refugees the former be real warehouse in velika kuzushi in northern balls here is a staging post on their journey to the promised land europe some have spent years getting to this point my dream is that their life. living condition good

people. everything. good living style good working. because issues here are basic but they have heat shelter and clean water they are lucky these men from algeria not they have no electricity no water no proper heating all of them have tried and failed to cross the border into croatia and failure comes with a price this man shows the bruises on his legs he says were caused by croatian police who robbed him and then sent him back barefoot. his aim is to get to france and beatings not a deterrent. in effect on there's nothing for me and i'll derian the algerian government does nothing for its people i'm 40 years old i have nothing i've looked for work there but there is not just the danish refugee council says that in october alone they recorded 189 claims of extreme violence by croatian police against the migrants and refugees but there's been no investigation so far hundreds

more migrants are scattered in woodlands throughout the area these are the most basic of shelters made by men mostly from afghanistan pakistan and bangladesh they moved here when the bosnia authorities closed their camp in be hatched 2 months ago because of local opposition european union any country like this can do this man says he's tried 10 times across the border and spent nearly $15000.00 and trying since he left his home 2 years ago he says he wants to go anywhere in the european union anywhere is good he says. the winter is coming in in northern bosnia there is snow and temperatures can drop well below freezing survival will be difficult because he has been split about what to do about the problem in the worse is that in some humanitarian crisis you don't have enough money so you cannot take care of everyone else here defending is not an issue we have the funding to take care of those people in proper centers but simply because of the lack of political decision making we actually cannot take care of them in

a way that we should the sad irony that in a country that was so dependent on international aid and assistance during the war but apparently not the same kind of humanity is being shown to people who simply want a better life but this never ending problem is leading to a growing anti migrant feeling here that 1st migrants and refugees were helped 2 years on and some feel differently but only problem are with them it out causing problems that upsetting locals they're breaking to put i have a policy is an apartment in this 3 them play is god go go there is enough international aid agencies have been providing basic supplies in sleeping bags but they describe it as the very minimum needed to some this will be just another migrant story to have been so many others it will be one of the arduous journey is taken by those who are trying to escape poverty and hardship and make a better life in the woods and abandoned buildings in northern bosnia a better life looks a long way away tony berkeley al-jazeera the liquor clear dushka. well

fresh from his white house when u.s. president elect joe biden is back on the campaign trail he's rallied supporters in georgia where to run off oats will determine who controls the senate a white house correspondent kimberly holcomb reports now from atlanta. he won the southern state of georgia in november narrowly with just 12000 votes that's why u.s. president elect joe biden is back your voter as if your life depended on it well guess what. now you're going to have to do it again come january 5th by the need his democratic party to pick up 2 georgia senate seats in next month's runoff election republicans hold the seats currently but if democrats win they take control of the senate and the u.s. congress on health care and voting rights on criminal justice racial justice and

climate change when your show march done so much that can make the lives of people of georgia and the whole country was so much better a win in the senate means biden will be able to push through policy without resistance from republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who for the 1st time ignalina biden's will. after the country's electoral college on monday certified the vote result the electoral college. vote. so today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden but even as members of his own republican party are now congratulating biden on his victory president donald trump refuses to concede the white house press secretary insists the vote result is still not final the president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election polls show dozens of congressional republicans support

trump's unproven claims of election fraud and trump's refusal to concede to biden is worrying some georgia voters if this really line is straight. somebody have to be big enough with their thing that it's all rob lost you know but this is hard and unfortunately that's the way we are in the world today archer sharp over for knowing his agenda is on the line biden is promising voters he'll make history with his diverse cabinet the latest expected announcement former democratic presidential candidate pete british as biden's transportation secretary. will be the 1st senate confirmed openly gay cabinet member if his nomination succeeds there's no letter to her conspirators but there will be a limit on the number of people that commit to show by the grace of god but it's

up to the op carol about i'll consider i was hungry has redefined what makes a family in its constitution effectively banning adoption by same sex couples politicians approved the amendments that says a mother is a woman and a father a man as options by same sex couples has been possible if one partner applied as a single person is the latest in a series of restrictions on rights under conservative prime minister viktor orban. facebook is being sued in a straightly over accusations it's been virtually collecting user data because the country's consumer watchdog says the social media giant has been carrying it's using a security software add on it similar to another case in the united states their

face because accused of maintaining market dominance with a buy or bury strategy against other social media companies. meanwhile facebook says it's uncovered rival french and russian this information campaigns ahead of elections in the central african republic this month almost $500.00 accounts and pages have been suspended central african republic president is a russian ally a relationship often seen as a threat to france's influence. they say is out of syria and these are the headlines hospitals in parts of the united states a strain to breaking points as coronavirus cases surge of pfizer by on tech vaccine is now being distributed across the country with the 2nd expected to be approved this week rob reynolds has more from the sensuous the system is really a pro.