government's struggle to balance a major holiday season with protecting people against corona virus is. on the 1st day of a stricter lockdown germany reports nearly a 1000 deaths. and given how this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up warnings that covered 19 hunger and collapsing aid will combine to create a catastrophe in yemen next year will be used to instill.

don't wins a vote to host the 2030 asian games. and 15 students kidnaps bible koran in nigeria have been rescued despite reports the president says he is not negotiating with the armed groups. 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 spots prime minister abbas johnson wants families to make their own decisions on whether or not to get together south korea though is preparing the met its toughest measure yes shelter according well that a 1000 on wednesday its highest daily figure a stricter logged on has taken effect in germany on the day it reported a record of 952 deaths. in the us monday it didn't climb a step i'm very pleased to see the new plan b. . as 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 and the sooner 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 united this year. joins us now live from brussels now dame tell us more about this lockdown and germany how strict is it how are people responding. welcome it's a lot stricter than what they call their lights lockdown which was introduced in november it doesn't go as far say is the lockdown which has just been lifted in france telling people that they can't go outside without authorization but it does close down all non-essential shops and schools and basically the only things that are going to be open and things like buying since supermarkets people are being urged to work from home now this is going to go

through to january the 10th behind it is an alarming rise in covered 19 cases the latest 24 hour death toll over 950 that does take into account some people some deaths reported on previous days but still things are going in the wrong direction over $27000.00 new cases as well chancellor merkel very worried she's warning that january and february are going to be tough months for the country's health system and there are reports that transmission cases are rising particularly among the elderly populations are the most vulnerable now at the same time the government in germany is saying they're ready to start vaccinating people next week now on monday we know that a meeting by the e.u. is regulator a body to talk about authorizing the pfizer biotech vaccine is going to happen so germany is saying that within days from then sometime next week they could start administering vaccines. it's going to be rolled out according to the european

commission across the european union to be seen to be done in a fair way in a coordinated fashion germany wants millions in the next couple of months to be vaccinated so they say 60 percent of the population could actually have the vaccine by next summer but between now and then there might be many hurdles and really the big concern now is to try to keep people from meeting each other if it's not necessary. now to live for us there in brussels thank you but how is in london he says the prime minister shows no sign of changing his mind . indeed the 4 nations of the u.k. health matters of course devolved have met and agreed on wednesday that it is simply too late to turn around and tell people that they can't meet as planned over christmas the plan of course is to allow them to meet up to 3 family secure covert bubbles at home over that 5 day period from the 23rd to the sept the 27th they will

now be allowed to go to go on and do that with strength and guidance coming out of those 4 governments to exercise greater course and perhaps self isolate if you're going to be seeing elderly relatives and so on just take greater care basically of course it's all fuel for the opposition leader kyrgyzstan who stood up in the house of commons and railed against the prime minister boris johnson. accusing him of ignoring scientific and medical advice telling him that his tears system of restriction simply hasn't worked as infection rates continue to spiral and broadly accusing him of delaying his response at every point during this pandemic so that britain the 6 richest country in the world suffers from one of the highest death tolls and deepest recessions of all the rich countries will boris johnson fairly unmoved by all of that stood his ground told kids starmer that really all the leader of the opposition himself was interested in was counselling christmas. almost half of singapore's migrant workers have been infected with covered 19 in

the past 9 months most of. the trees they face restrictions on their freedom of movement that are only. next year overall singapore has reported more than $58000.00 infections since the pandemic again follows though it has more from. 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 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 words 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 and it did and it still does extensive testing my good workers living in dormitories are tested about once every 2 weeks and then if they're found to have a corona virus they're isolated they're quarantine 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 corona virus and many of these workers are still living under movement restrictions. it's been announced the 2030 asian games will be held in doha the qatari capital was revealed as the venue by the olympic council of asia was named as host of the 2034 games a compromise agreed to in qatar and saudi arabia the games of the 2nd biggest

multi-sport event after the olympics of zeros and the richardson has more. it's a victory really for the horan cattles long term commitment to its sporting infrastructure i mean it's hard of course not to see the geopolitics of this situation with saudi arabia being part of the blockade that's been imposed on cattle but i think this is slightly more nuanced and perhaps slightly more straightforward than that qatar has vast experience of hosting huge sporting events it started really in 2006 when it hosted the asian games for the 1st time it's remodeled its national stadium and everything really is in place so really host an asian games and since then last year we saw the world athletics championships hosted here in doha and of course the big one coming around the corner the football world cup and that has resulted in even more investments in training facilities in

transport facilities for fans and media so it's already there and the scale of this event is hard to understate it is the 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics it will involve $10000.00 plus athletes and the olympics the limbic association both regional level and the international level by thomas back is at pains to stress that it doesn't want to overburden hosting countries and at the moment cats are in a position where pretty much tomorrow it could host these asian games has to be said that riyadh and saudi arabia are also moving in that direction they are starting to host big sporting events be it a formula one race next year they've hosted big boxing matches in the last few months as well but in terms of hosting multi sports events with large numbers international athletes it isn't quite there yet so this compromise is being required by saudi arabia will be given that extra few years to prepare for the 2034 asian games. turkish president. says u.s. sanctions won't stop his country building up its defenses the sanctions have been

imposed over its acquisition of russian defense systems and says it's a hostile starts by the u.s. against its nato ally but added that the problems created can be overcome. the international rescue committee has released an emergency watch this to 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 a neat they are sees call for action includes afghanistan syria and the democratic republic of congo ethiopia rises into the watch lists top 5 for the 1st time because of the fighting in tikrit yemen tops the list for the 3rd year running the i.r.c. says the scale of the need and a steep drop in funding have left the humanitarian response close to collapse well but it don't report. top in yemen so. 3000000 people are displaced most live in does something complex like this one

surviving us best does the call for help from the outside world. thousands and during the cold on the water less planes in the shop come near the city of than 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 woman. 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 the

line you see in jealousy out of pollution at 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 wealthy rebels seized control of several more from provinces and forced the international government of president of the rebel months. out of the capital sanaa. so you he 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 quick 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 sick and dying. with double 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. still ahead on al-jazeera without trade bill rose iraq is not fully free i have. a call for action to defend democracy

as the opposition in belarus receives the e.u.'s top human rights watch. and the nascar and south korea's lambton lighting festival into its nest of cultural heritage sites who look at its history and what it symbolizes. but. it remains exceedingly cold in the korean peninsula northern china and to some degree japan but that's tempered by the amount of snow that's falling yes it isn't quite as cold when it snows normally that suits still true for honshu and falk rather but less so of the next as equally temperatures though not rising considerably won't be quite as below average as they have been they've been $4.00 to $8.00 degrees below average there maybe sorry to 7 per average gautami get

to friday but in hong kong things are warming up the cold air is underneath the grey skies in central china probably a little bit of rain in one or 2 places that will feel cold now as the rainy season continues in indonesia surprisingly air quality in bangkok has dropped moderate to unhealthy is on the border of the moment is helped by the fact the northeast monsoon of course is good clean air but it's don't particularly strong the time it gets to that part of thailand is inherent in the showers in vietnam you'll notice a mention of course for the south pretty what a moment nothing's going to change the widespread fog in northern india even this little bit of cloud here but the rain has come back to tamil nadu to sri lanka and to carola the southern part of india. gay calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation 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 easter basically archaic walls often legitimize and legalize pedophiles on air or online jumping to the quick section and the chain to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. why the way the. rules. go watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour germany has gone into a nationwide lockdown posing the toughest restrictions of its post-war history the country's recorded another 952 coronavirus deaths it's worst number guess who

disagree. britain's prime minister crossed johnson is resisting pressure to scrap the planned easing of coronavirus restrictions of christmas to british medical journals that say the decision will cost many lives. and it's been announced the 2030 asian games will be held here in doha qatar capital was revealed as the venue for a bit of the consul of asia will react the same as host 2034 games. in afghanistan there are concerns arise a growing a virus cases crewed puts fragile health system on the more strain the exact number of cases is unclear many afghans don't have the money to protect themselves from the virus fear contre 40 reports from coal. less than a month ago these beds were empty but since then footage obtained by al-jazeera from inside afghanistan's only covered hospital in kabul shows the beds are quickly

filling up doctors say as winter sets in and respiratory diseases flare up coronavirus patients needing treatment in hospital will increase. that this hospital has capacity for only 120 patients if we put the patients in the hallways or any other rooms that will increase the number of beds to 150 we do not have any other space and we cannot put beds on the streets many officials and diplomats say the official tallies are seriously undercounted and there is no reliable data to give a clear picture of the pandemic in afghanistan the country has received millions of dollars in aid to manage the pandemic but a lack of testing and knowledge about the virus especially outside the afghan capital who remains a big problem forcing many people to seek help in kabul. my mom was sick can cause the doctors there were not able to get a diagnosis for her her health was getting worse by the day when her breathing got

really bad we came to this hospital when we got the results of the covert test it was positive. there's no social distancing in afghanistan and barely anyone wears a mask many afghans believe the coronavirus doesn't exist here what if there was coronavirus i could have been infected as i'm in contact with hundreds of people every day here and i'm not but there is another reason why afghans do not follow the government's recommendations to take protective measures sanitizers and masks are available almost everywhere yet many afghans can not afford to buy them with most of living on less than $1.50 a day spending event $0.10 for one single use mass is too much. deficit of also increased according to the ministry of public health because afghans did not axes the health care they need to curb the spread of the virus

during the winter wedding holes will be shot while universities have already been closed our prediction is that for months the whole system will be under severe pressure from patients so that's why even though we have doubled the number of beds the are increasing the. more the are prepared for that but let's see what happens the thing is predictable that. the government says millions of dollars in international aid have been pledged to help of ghana stand deliver the car on a virus vaccine in the next 7 months initially for 20 percent of the population yet it managing the pandemic has been a big struggle vaccinating afghans could be an even bigger one. al-jazeera. iran's president says he's not overly happy about joe biden's u.s. election win but it's glad that the quote terrorist donald trump is leaving office

. speaking ahead of a meeting in vienna on the 25th the new create the. says more than 2000000 children have been cut off from humanitarian assistance and ethiopia's to great region fighting broke out there last month when prime minister had 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 in the great. uganda has google which owns you tube to shut down 14 channels it says a link to riots last month more than 50 people died following the latest arrest of opposition presidential candidate bobby why uganda goes to the polls next month and the government has already cancelled media accreditation. nigerian security forces have rescued at least 15 students kidnapped in the northern state of katsina hundreds were taken on friday from a boarding school in can caught

a city the government is being accused of not being open about the number of children abducted it's also denied reports that it's negotiating with the kidnappers a faction of the armed group boko who roam has claimed responsibility ahmed idris has the latest from a blue chip. the return of 15 more students are greeted with a relieved by communities in and cuts in the state however the emergence of these students is still shrouded in mystery a lot of people are saying a lot of some reports are saying that the millet to rescue them however a lot of witnesses are talking about how the children escaped their abductors and made it to safety now some parents are maintaining vigilant governments in the school insisting that they will be there they will continue to be there until the government and all the authorities rescue their children and return them to their parents safely now there are concerns in the old west in nigeria after the claim bible koran that it's holding more than 520 of these students abducted last friday

many communities are now concerned that boko haram has expanded its area of operations far away from its traditional power base in northeastern nigeria now to the north northwest and now i've been to the existing problems of banditry and kidnappings that have displaced many communities in that area meanwhile the kids in the state government insist that it's not negotiating with the abductors of the children of the school children. this radio is launching a formal appeal to the world trade organization of the chinese decision to impose huge tariffs on its body and may beijing opposed 5 years of 2 seats on the grain effectively stopping a 1000000000 dollar trade in its tracks of pain in a growing trade dispute since australia called for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic. we are highly confident that by stone the evidence darter an analysis we've put together already destroyed here has an

incredibly strong case demand in relation to defending the integrity and propriety of our growing growers and bali produces we have full confidence at the diner not i'm julie subsidized that they do not dump their product in the global markets in the day i have operated with nothing but commercial imperatives in relation to the way they have engaged in the china market. china's foreign minister insists a stranger hasn't properly addressed allegations that the bali is being undervalued and subsidized which i'm going to share what i want to stress is that the last trillion government should take china's concerns seriously and take concrete actions to critter's discriminatory actions against chinese companies. a coroner has determined that air pollution played a role in the death of a 9 year old girl from south east and that is the 1st legal case of its kind of the britain possibly the world elect his it deborah died of an acute asthma attack and 2013 the coroner ruled that unlawful levels of pollution exacerbated her condition

and contributed to her death she went to hospital nearly 30 times in 3 years with breathing difficulties. britain's top court has given the go ahead for the expansion of heathrow airport the $19000000000.00 project was designed to build a 3rd runway but it's been bogged down and legal battles for decades on wednesday the supreme court ruled that environmental concerns had been properly addressed. you know asco has added south korea's lantern lighting festival to its list of cultural heritage sites known as the lotus lantern festival its event to celebrate but his birthday was among 25 applicants to receive the designation reports from self. it's an annual event eagerly anticipated across south korea held around borders birthday tracing its origins back more than a 1000 years the festival symbolizes the enlightenment of mines through buddha's

wisdom but coming in spring it is also a celebration of life that all koreans can share in this year's event was scaled back because of the pandemic. this reflects the philosophy of buddhism that we care about people normally large crowds gather to see the illuminated floats that often reflect current events recent improvements in into korean relations that lead to joint a limb picked teams and the possibility of reestablishing rail services between north and south were celebrated last year to kuwait to tear this year's festival with the goal of peace on the korean peninsula and in the world by overcoming conflicts with buddhist spirit of mercy 2 years ago south korea's buddhist temples were recognized by unesco for their contribution to the heritage of humanity for the cementing buddhism's role in the fabric of south korean society. the law total

enter 1st will represent traditional culture that has been practiced by the korean people for a long time and has also played a leading role in promoting korea to the world south korea's bed to have this festival included on the year nasco list emphasizes its importance beyond religious boundaries and coming during 'd a winter dominated by the global pandemic lanterns for many here are reminded of the promise of future springs to come pride al-jazeera sold. the opposition movement in bellerose has been awarded the european union's asarco of prize for human rights of the protesting against the governments and the disputed election in august alexey o'brien reports law on cleve. xavier malisse in a socially distanced european parliament svetlana taken off sky or the face of the protest movement collects the issues any award for defending human rights we are

not alone she had to dig beside as thousands of tourists sans who inspire us give us strength and hope. until a few months ago she was a teacher with no political ambitions. when her husband an opposition candidate was jailed ahead of august's presidential election she vowed to continue his campaign stepping up to challenge a man often described as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko who's been in power for 26 years the european union's called the vote neither free nor fair president lukashenko was sworn in for a 6th term and taken a skier was forced into exile. hundreds of thousands of people began protesting week after week calling his victory illegitimate and demanding he leave office you to me see everything which they had. over the past few months you have shown the

world what it means not to give up you have defended your rights and you have not given up the struggle despite the pain the suffering and the fear. bella rose's summer of discontent is extending into the winter protesters braving freezing temperatures and refusing to give up the air. they won't cry long live balor ropes. and the using a new tactic to evade the security forces holding smaller rallies away from the central city gathering and dispersing sometimes within minutes it's been described as an underground resistance organized in secret chet's on social media. these crowds chant i'm going out the last words of a fellow protester as he left his house and men sc he died after being beaten by police. i the european union sanctioned lucas shanker for what international

monitors described as massive systemic rights abuses the taken off scalia says more actions needed we called the euro to be brave in their decision and support the people of bill the rules now. said he'll step down after a new constitution is agreed but hasn't said when opposition protesters say they'll stay on the streets until he's gone next year brian al jazeera. i'm convinced on doha with the headlines on al-jazeera germany has gone into a nationwide lockdown almost central business is a closed and it's wildfires christmas markets and mulled wine stores will be shot through the holidays and.