that the sound and the jihad. on al-jazeera. reveal an eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. governments worldwide struggle to balance a major home with a season with protecting people against coronavirus. on the 1st day of a stricter looked at in germany reports nearly a sigh isn't called the deaths. of the i'm how i'm a hit in and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up yemen's hopes on americans the watch list of countries in a spiraling humanitarian crisis over 1000 compounding the misery of war and hunger

. refugees and migrants are ensuring violence and the poor conditions near the poles there croatia border. but 1st nations around the world are facing tough choices in their fight against coronavirus ahead of a major holiday season in britain scientists warn that easing rules over christmas will cost lives but prime minister boris johnson wants to make one family's rubber to make their own decisions whether or not to get together south korea though is preparing to implement its toughest measures yet after recording its highest number of daily infections there are more than a 1000 cases registered on wednesday alone and germany has not brought in a stricter walked in earlier reports of the daily record of 952

virus related deaths as famous christmas market sans mulled wine stalls have been orders to coles hangs on as money it didn't fire muster i'm very pleased to see the new plan because the measures taken so far haven't shown good outcomes i wish the lockdown could last for a couple of weeks we think the situation will get better 6 months from now a bit sinjar i have a big family i definitely wouldn't be able to see all of them this year we hope to be together it's understandable if we cannot be if we united this year. well alric brickner is a political analyst he says the majority of germans support the lockdown. the political climate is pretty stable at best majority of germans fully support what they hear basically that chain of adjusted stations that move from a very soft lock down compared with what happened in other countries to

a much harsher one even if it's affecting the way we celebrate christmas most people understand that given the numbers that have you read every day in the papers this is an absolute must this is certainly something that affects tourism spots like he's 10 which is the highlight of the tourism season to have millions of people coming to the east to celebrate christmas on the christmas markets they face a major loss overall the economy in general and the was pretty well compared with others including the number of insolvencies so this is most likely postponed to next year but right now we expect something like 20000 insolvencies for the year of 2020. well jonah hill has more from london on the situation in the u.k. . a real head of pressures you say building on boris johnson's government to change the rules over christmas that were brought in

a few weeks ago during the bleakness of a 2nd national lockdown christmas would not be cancelled was the government's message families would be allowed to mix and mingle including with elderly relatives in many cases people hadn't seen each other for much of the year well since then the lockdown ended england went into its tier system of prescriptions and the infection rate has shot up in 3 quarters of local areas across the country and the rest of the u.k. seeing similar things suss scientists in the medical community warning of the n.h.s. risks being overwhelmed by the end of the year there were $506.00 deaths across the u.k. on tuesday in the clear message is there will be more deaths it's not going to be a normal christmas by any manner of means 60 percent of england as of wednesday when london and parts of the southeast fell under to 3 restrictions are under this highest level of restrictions that means shopping can continue but hospitality is close and there is this total ban on any form of mixing in the household or among

households that ban is due to be completely lifted under these christmas rules from the 23rd to the 27th and that's being taken up by the other nations of the u.k. as well so the people can form a secure kovac bubble of up to 3 families and spend their christmases together before the restrictions resume. the u.s. health system is straining under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic intensive care units have been running i say beds and at least one states mississippi and there are fewer than $100.00 available in the sunshine these kinds say which is home millions of people rob reynolds 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 gist is that there's a. 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. 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. the international rescue committee has released an emergency watch a list of countries where it says suffering will worsen in the coming year and 20 countries represent just 10 percent of the global population but 85 percent of those in needs call for action includes afghanistan syria and the democratic republic of congo and they feel peer rises into the watch lists top 5 for the 1st time because of fighting in the northern grey region yemen tops the list for the

3rd year running the i r c says the scale of the needs and a state drop in funding of life the humanitarian response close to collapse mahathir though reports that some of these small letup in human suffering and is the method 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. we're suffering due to the cold weather we need blankets for organization and philanthropist there is no support for the children the scald 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 woman. even before the war human imported 90 percent obvious to people 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 also people here the muscle the elements the line is in jealousy out of pollution and the prices of everything have increased even for. 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 recognized government of president of the rebel monsoon. out of the capital sanaa.

so the un had 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 color or from the crop in 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 is head of out for a 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 their own

little consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamed al jazeera. iran's president says he is not overly happy about joe biden's u.s. election win but it is grants that the quotes terrorists donald trump is leaving office hassan rouhani spoke a heads of a meeting in vienna on the 2050 nuclear deal well the deal has been unraveling since the u.s. withdrew and began really imposing sanctions there such a barrier has more from to her own. well if we're here to listen to the government of hassan rouhani there is certainly a lot of optimism and hope that president elect joe biden will return to the nuclear agreement has some ronny has said that the path is open for the incoming administration that they know what to do but things are quite not that simple there is a lot of roadblocks that have been put in place by u.s.

president donald trump to make things much more difficult for president elect in any attempt he might make in trying to return to the nuclear agreement there's also a lot of domestic pressure within iran as well as in the united states there's a lot of voices that say this is a golden opportunity for the incoming administration in the united states to use this time to put more pressure on iran to try and get it back to the negotiating table to do updated have an updated version of the nuclear agreement but that is something the iranians have said is out of the question the point of contention is iran's missile listed missile program and the iranians have always said that that is not something that's up for negotiation the iranian president hassan rouhani was speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting on wednesday morning where he highlighted the differences between how things are within iran now this year 2020 and what things were like in

the conditions for iran in 2015 let's hear some of what he had to say. one rose. a bad day iran negotiated with them iran was negotiating under the threat of 6 un resolutions and the threat of possible military dimensions all those threats are gone now back then iran was accused of being untrustworthy but we proved to be the most committed country in the world we are hard negotiations but when we strike a deal and think it we remain committed he. says come on al-jazeera we'll tell you what cuba secret is keeping corona virus infections low. and a chance to crack down on social media in uganda ahead of next month's presidential election. but. it's been particularly cold for about 3 days though in some parts of the

station this is south korea that's a result of extreme cold air from the north and the interior now that cold air that comes across the waters which is still open waters produces snow showers they've been concentrating in japan the temperatures providing that sort of contrast are 4 to 8 below average these are the morning temperatures this morning if you like for the whole of east asia even by day they're lower than they should be compared with the average you've got about 9 in tokyo about 4 in beijing and south korea doesn't get above freezing a tall for the most part the snow is still falling just less intense of the next day or so still in the western side of honshu. but the wind is dying down which also means doesn't penetrate as fast as they still cold in shanghai for hong kong back up to where it should be. the persistent fog is still persistent in north india this is just one side a number further cyrus the rains pick up again for tom will now do kara this is

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this is al jazeera a quick reminder of our top stories for you know germany has gone into a nationwide mocked own by imposing the toughest restrictions in its police war history in another 952 coronavirus deaths in germany its worst daily fatality figure yet britain's prime minister boris johnson is resisting pressure to scrap up plans an easing of coronavirus restrictions over christmas johnson says strict rules will be relaxed for 5 days the british medical journals say the rash decision will cost many lives and aid agencies warn the humanitarian crisis and yemen is expected to worsen in the coming year while suffering more and famine him and also how some of the highest mark. alice evades from kuwait 19. well as army says syrian mercenaries arrived in the eastern city opened garci to

support warlord holly for half their last week armed forces loyal to the un recognized government based in tripoli said a russian plane arrived in syria with ammunition for have to are sporadic fighting is being reported despite a un backed cease fire between the warring sides let's get more now from mahmoud of the ahead he joins us live from tripoli and mom was one of the conditions of this ceasefire which was signed in october was that foreign fighters leave libya given that plane loads of them has just landed aids in the ongoing skirmishes on the ground which you say the cease fire is still holding. we'll have it seems that the ceasefire implementation on the ground is very ironic the at least for the time being it specially as you know that. the departure of mercenaries and foreign fighters is one of the main or essential conditions put

forward by the ceasefire agreement that was signed by both warring factions and geneva last october as you know that only 3 months has been given to medicine reason foreign fighters to leave the country there is no sign of that as of yet in fact city and mercenaries and russian mercenaries keep. flooding into the country by have to his forces and according to the senate and then just for a military operation. that's under the government of national court forces the spokesman of that operation rooms has that. sort of valence unit has spotted. a plane. carrying get medicine rees a russian syrian mercenaries it took off from latakia in syria and led him but it

has a yesterday and this morning there are surveillance units spotted that illusion plane cat it disappeared in syria and mercenaries from the 2 are going to be. in sit the course of the city of sirte also last week the operation room also stated that last week this but it around 10 buses carrying good mercenaries. from eastern libya to a job for ministry and central libya which is under the control of his forces that sounds to be ironic because this could in fact derail the political talks. that is aiming at ending the division and implementing deescalation in the disputed areas in central libya ok mahmud. joining us live from tripoli mahmoud thank you so much. the pandemic has hit latin america harder

than any other region but one country has avoided the worst of its design severe economic problems cuba has managed to keep infections consistently on the control latin america and so the sea in yemen explains. dr marc that alice runs the plaza of the revolution polyclinic and knows just about everyone in the neighborhood every day she makes the rounds to check on covert $1000.00 suspects who've been quarantined would be one of the. especially those who come from abroad like florida resident isabel garcia upon landing in cuba she was given a cold 1000 test then she and her entire family were put under strict lockdown with a doctor checks on them every day on the 5th day she got a 2nd test and now dr galavis has come to tell her she's in the clear online persona eric everything i'm impressed that despite he was few resources they've been able to control this pandemic so well also the people are very aware of what's

going on and what they have to do. with a population of 12000000 cuba has had fewer than 10000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and fewer than 140 deaths this she could isn't the weather the same detail to block by block organizational control that the state uses for political purposes is also an effective tool for confronting everything from natural catastrophes to pandemics a. lot of i'm convinced that the organization of our society has been vital in confronting the virus and controlling it an organized society with active participation of its citizens has given cuba the success it's had dr old had amassed says the results of clinical trials for a cuban vaccine against cold 19 look promising but not the meanwhile dr galavis and her colleagues continue keeping close tabs on every possible carrier then i was in no numbers we have sound. one person of each quantum family to go out

and get essential is under strict protocol this is one of the ways we prevent the transmission of the epidemic but at a moment it's been so effective that roxana doral last who lives in miami says she flew to cuba last week to stay with relatives in havana because she feels much safer than in the united states you see in human al-jazeera belarusian opposition leaders are being presented with the european parliament sucker of prize for freedom of thoughts for you live pictures now from strasbourg where svetlana tikkun of sky and veronica kallis are receiving the awards belarus of course has been and political crisis says a controversial election back in august incumbent alexander lukashenko claim to have won with a landslide but the opposition regard sticken of skier as the real winner.

aid workers are pushing for better care and shelter for refugees and migrants are stranded near the bosnia croatia border will soon officials are meeting later to discuss what to do was temperatures plunge one camp may need to be closed because it hasn't been made safe for winter even though international funding is available al-jazeera has 20 berkeley reports from velika. it's not a prison it's a camp for these migrants and refugees the former the real warehouse in velika kuzushi in northern balls here is a staging post on their journey to the promised land europe some of spent years getting to this point my dream is that their life. living condition good people. good living style good early 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. 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 on 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 it has been split about what to do about the problem in the worse is that in some communitarian 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 the 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 without causing problems that upsetting locals they're breaking into private houses and apartments in this throwing them players god go go it's 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 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 nigerian security forces have rescued at least 15 students kidnapped in the northern state of kut ciena hundreds were taken on friday from a boarding school in concord

a city the government is being accused of not being open about the number of children who've been abducted it's also denied reports that it's negotiating with the kidnappers faction of the book or her on arms group has claimed responsibility . you know sort of says more than $2000000.00 children have been cut off from humanitarian assistance and the theo p.s.t. grey region fighting broke out there last month when prime minister ordered a military offensive against local forces thousands of people have been killed the european union is reportedly delaying a nearly $110000000.00 aid package to ethiopia over the crisis. uganda has asked to go which owns you tube to shut down 14 channels it says are linked to riots last month when 50 people died following the latest arrest of opposition presidential candidates probably why in uganda goes to the polls next

month when the government has already canceled media accreditation it's welcome where this mansion developments from nairobi in the neighboring kenya. the gunman communications commission written to google complaining about these channels he says that their content incite violence puts people at risk of being attacked for their tribe or because of their political beliefs or rights groups have already spoken out about this they said that the ugandan communications commission hasn't followed you process that none of the stations in question have actually breached any guidelines and neither have they been any court cases against them but it is interesting that these almost the t.v. stations do include some stations that frequently follow and cover the activities of opposition candidate for the pop star bobby wine who's followers have been repeatedly disbursed on the campaign trail he's been arrested in our violence just a few weeks ago in which 50 people died was following an arrest of bobby wine

during one of his political rallies. britain's top court has given the go ahead for the expansion of heathrow airport in $1900000000000.00 project to build a 3rd runway has been bogged down in legal battles for decades the judge ruled against it in february but on wetten state the supreme court overturned that saying environmental concerns hands properly addressed british prime minister barak johnson is among the pawns. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines germany has gone into long term by imposing the toughest restrictions in its post-war history all non-essential businesses are closed down it's world famous christmas markets will be shot through the holidays germany also reported a record daily number of coronavirus deaths 952. as

monday.