more. intensive care units are running out of beds in several u.s. states because of the coronavirus pandemic. about how to market c.n.n. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. warnings that covert $1000.00 hunger and collapsing aids will combined to create a catastrophe in yemen next year stray their heads back against chinese tariffs on its barley an increasingly bitter trade disputes. you still need to voters it

relied to pride john because it does. and u.s. president elect joe biden rally supporters ahead of one of races that will determine who controls the senate. the u.s. health system is straining on to the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic intensive care units have been running out of beds in at least one states mississippi and there were fewer than $100.00 beds available in the sanctions can see who the millions of people from l.a. 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 hole just sit there says. statewide more than 42000 cases of covert 19 were reported on monday breaking all previous single day records we're 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 like you are now to

the public. 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. there have been another 952 coronavirus deaths in germany its worst daily fatality figure yet this has been released as germany goes into a nationwide lockdown in the toughest restrictions in its post-war history all non-essential businesses close the famous christmas markets and mulled wine stalls wooden shutters through the holidays british prime minister boris johnson is resisting pressure to scrap plans easing of coronavirus restrictions over christmas

johnson says strict rules will be relaxed for 5 days so families can be together to british medical journals a cone for rethink saying the vasher decision will cost many lives and south korea has recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day more than a 1000 on wednesday alone it's the 2nd time the tally has topped a 1003 days. the international rescue committee has released its emergency watch list of countries where it says suffering will worsen in the coming year is there any countries represent just 10 percent of the global population but 85 percent of those needs the irises call for action includes afghanistan syria and the democratic republic of congo the g.o.p. arises into the watch the top 5 for the 1st time because of fighting in the northern region of the grey yemen tops the list for the 3rd year running the i.r.c.

says the scale of the needs and a steep drop in funding of left the humanitarian response close to collapse mohammad that 0 reports. these small letup in human suffering and is the method 3000000 people are displaced most live in does something complex 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 in a shop come near the city of them in the south. 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 to health center in the camp to deal with mountain and also to treat pregnant women. even before the war human imported 90 percent of the steeple

from kuwait but supplies. 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 most people here the muscle the elements one liners didn't kill us out of pollution or 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 international government of president of the rebel monsoon. out of the capital sanaa. so you a led coalition then intervened with diversity in consequences in

a country rocked by conflict no one knows how many people are dying from diseases just cholera or from the cold with 1000 pandemic. yemen's health system has all but collapsed across the country doctors say hospital beds of food and they don't know where to put the sick and dying. looked up to latif alcoholic is head of son as of photo hospital. the loss of 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 after or a hospital or in other hospitals. then many courses of the war in the for there are

only 2 consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamad the. iran's president says he is not overly happy about joe biden's u.s. election win but is gods that the courts terrorists donald trump is leaving office a son rouhani has been speaking ahead of a meeting in vienna only 2050 nuclear deal deal has been unraveling since the u.s. withdrew and began really imposing sanctions let's get more now from dorset so barry she joins us live from teheran and door so the iranian economy is under significant pressure after the moves that donald trump had taken with regards to the nuclear deal is there any hope that when joe biden comes into office that this could breathe new life into the j.c. . there is certainly cautious optimism is how i would describe it from present has some rouhani that there is

a possibility that the incoming u.s. administration could use this opportunity to wrong to do some right in light of everything that president trump has done the president hassan rouhani was speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting this morning where he said that the situation now is very different than when they negotiated that nuclear deal in 2015 he said the iranians were under extreme pressure and united nations security council sanctions had a lot to do with that right now is iran is under u.s. sanctions so it's a very different story for the iranian government but when it comes to how he feels about dealing with the incoming president elect and the outgoing u.s. president has an rouhani was not shy about making his feelings no to the officials that were at this event let's hear some of what he had to say they matter to me. i tell our people if this pressure persists it is from an individual that

unfortunately still has a few weeks to go he's been the united states most lawless president and hopefully he's leaving we're not excited about mr biden taking office but we are very happy to see trump go he committed so many crimes he's a murder a terrorist he even causes problems when he wants to buy a vaccine he's a man without humanity or moral principles we are very happy that this arrogant man who wasn't committed to any pledges has been toppled. and there are so it's around prepared for a scenario where joe biden won't rejoin that agreements. certainly i think they are they've put in place certain measures the most recent of which is a bill that was passed in parliament which gives the international community 2 months from when they pass it in early december so early february if they don't lift some of the sanctions on iran that the iranians will then go back to reducing their commitments not only under the way but also to the international atomic

energy agency this bill wants the iran's nuclear program to go back to 20 percent enrichment levels and also to reduce cooperation with inspectors from the i know under the nonproliferation treaty that iran signed in 1700 there are certain standards that iran abides by based on that agreement with the additional protocols within that is one of surprise inspection and after iran signed the nuclear deal in 2015 they decided as a goodwill gesture that they will abide by this part of the additional protocols as well and the parliament now wants that to cease they don't want the inspectors to be able to come into the country unannounced at any given time that has been going on since 2015 and the spectre's have visited over 26 military facilities as well as nuclear sites and that is something that the parliament wants to stop present as an

rouhani has not been in favor of this but there is very little he can do in the end that this bill has been approved by various levels of government this is one of the measures that has been put in place so if the incoming biden administration doesn't show any signs of lifting sanctions or willing the serotonin to j.c. peel away iran has the opportunity to go ahead and enforce this bill so there are some steps they've put in place and that's just one of them. now there is a waiting game. at the moment to see whether or not the biden administration will do what they have said they want to do in the past and that is to return to the nuclear agreement of 2000. there bring us all the very latest from teheran thank you nigerian security forces have rescued at least 15 students who were kidnapped by boko haram the northern state of kut sina hundreds of students were taken on friday from a boarding school in concord a city the government is being accused of not being open but the number of boys

abducted and has denied negotiating with the kidnappers. still to come here on al-jazeera the refugees and migrants during violence and the pool orrible conditions in the polls the at croatia border. shows on the vietnamese coast been typically dumping about 4050 millimeters of rain is rather more than that coming down just a bit further south this circulation here look significant coming through the southern philippines and through our job for the next as they will see big storms gather moving up and down maybe borneo but job as good a good focus for this and as you see the southern philippines the stormy weather off the coast of new south wales is no longer

a stormy the results of course are still plain to see with coastal erosion and it's going to be more showery stuff inland stretching down towards tasmania not a loss in humid weather i think the next day or so the same is true up in the north in our proper tropical trough if you like an area particularly wet weather for northern australia temperature wise 19 in melbourne disappointing perth around about 31 mark but the story is probably a bit to the east in fiji with this huge tropical cyclone severe tropical cyclone yasi a lot to make landfall in the dark at the start of friday in fiji with winds that could fix the category 4 categorisation they can move south journey as dark it leaves behind probably some significant damage.

building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and the last a dream shared by so many but so few make it a reality. a family business led by a mockable woman with a flair for cooking and a zest for living. my chin is yet island kitchen on al-jazeera. to move to. this is al jazeera quick right there of the top stories for you this hour hospitals in parts of the united states a strange to breaking point as coronavirus cases search

a pfizer biotech vaccine is now being distributed across the country with a 2nd vaccine expected to be approved this week. there have been another $952.00 coronavirus deaths in germany its worst daily fatality rate yet it's been really stands germany goes into a nationwide locked on the toughest restrictions in its post war history. and aid agencies warn the humanitarian crisis in yemen is expected to worsen in the coming year as well as suffering war and famine famine also has some of the highest mortality rates for covert 19. almost half of singapore's migrant workers have been infected with covert 19 in the past 9 months will slip in large dormitories where several people share a room and still face restrictions on their freedom movements which will only be gradually lifted next year overall singapore reported more than 58000 infections

since the pandemic began life see florence louie who joins me from kuala lumpur for us at the start of this pandemic singapore was hailed as a model of success in the way it was tackling it what seems to have happened since then. well it was hailed as a model of success at the very start of the pandemic but if you remember back in april there was an explosion of coronavirus infections among the singapore's migrant workers community in a sense when singapore drafted its response to this to this pandemic and how it would tackle it it had in a way left out this community and as you mentioned these workers they were living in cramped conditions they were living in dormitories where many of them share a room they were sleeping in bunk beds physical distancing was extremely difficult in those circumstances it's no surprise that an at that academics have described

this pandemic as a pandemic of inequality and that's how corona virus infections were cases were able to spread so quickly among this community even now with singapore having accumulatively confirmed more than 58000 cases migrant workers make up more than 90 percent of that number now in the singapore government response has been extremely swift. test it and and it did and it still does extensive testing migrant workers living in dormitories are tested about once every 2 weeks and then if they're found to have a coronavirus their eyes late at their quarantine and or they're treated now and authorities had also decided very early on when they were tackling the explosion of current virus cases among migrant workers community that the dormitories would have to be sealed off to contain the spread of current virus and many of these workers are still living under movement restrictions so there has been a spate of suicides and attempted suicides among migrant workers although the

singapore government has said it has not deserved a spike in the number of migrant workers taking their lives this year compared to previous year now the government has also said it will gradually start lifting movement restrictions on migrant workers living in dormitories because the outbreak in dormitories is now under control but what this pandemic and the explosion of cases among migrant workers as done is it has forced the singapore government to confront its treatment and the living conditions for migrant workers and the singapore government has said that it will continue to further improve conditions for migrant workers ok florence live from kuala lumpur florence thank you astray aaliyah's launching a formal appeal to the world trade organization over china's decision to impose huge tariffs on its own early in the beijing imposed 5 years of gc's on the grain effectively stopping a $1000000000.00 trees in its tracks where they've been

a growing trade dispute since strew called for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic it's a macauley is an associate professor at the history of the national university he says it's clear the standoff is going in the wrong direction. it's not just bali it's tourists it's wine it's coal 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 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 export is on one hand and people who stress military and security aspects on the other there's quite a divide aid workers a fishing for better care and shelter for refugees migrants transit peoples the a croatian border post in officials are missing latencies discuss what to do this temperatures plunge one camp may need to be closed because it hasn't been made safe for winter even though international funding is available to see those 20 pertly reports from the leak occurred to say. it's not a prison it's a camp and for these migrants and refugees the former the real warehouse in velika kuzushi in northern india 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. 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. 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 close their campaign be hatched 2 months ago because of local opposition you wouldn't be any country like this going to 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 worst is that is some humanitarian crisis as 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 attala says an apartment in this throwing them plays 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. hungary

has redefined what makes a family and its constitution effectively banning adoption by same sex couples or sessions approved the amendment that says a mother is a woman and a father a man as options by same sex couples have been possible if one partner applied as a single person is the latest in a series of restrictions on l g b t rights under conservative prime minister viktor orban. facebook is being sued in history aliya over accusations it's been covertly collecting use data it's consumer watchdog says the social media giant has been harvesting the data through a security software add on facebook's already dealing with lawsuits in the u.s. for its accused of using a buy or burry strategy against other social media companies. fresh from his white house when u.s. president elect joe biden is back on the campaign trail he has rallied supporters

in georgia which to run off ones will determine who controls the senate white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports from atlanta. he won the southern state of georgia in november narrowly with just 12000 votes that's why us president elect joe biden is back in 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 but i didn't need to democratic party to pick up 2 georgia senate seats in next month's runoff election republicans hold the seat 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 'd 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 will be nanny state. somebody have to be big enough to say it's it it's over ob-la 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. 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 such robots the grace of god up so awkward look i'll consider i've left my and

finally 20 new species and 4 thought to be extinct have been found in a forest region off the bolivian andes that will appear in front is among them just 10 millimeters in length that's one of the world's smallest and 50 ns the devil i focus also phones in large numbers it was last observed 20 years ago. my. hello there you with al-jazeera these are the headlines this are hospitals in parts of the united states is trying to breaking point this coronavirus case a surge of pfizer biotech vaccine is now being distributed across the country with the 2nd expected to be approved.