al-jazeera. went after. coronavirus cases rise across europe leading up to christmas and world health officials warn the outbreak could worsen next year. our intake of this is our dizzier live from london also coming up a pandemic has hit yemen hard aid agencies say there's a race against time to help millions already affected by war and famine. expanding influence of book around 15 kidnapped students are released in nigeria hundreds more still missing. in iraq. and disarming the real live non-code

by mexico wants to restrict americans fighting the war on drugs. or the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year but warning comes as several european countries including the netherlands and germany struggle to contain rising numbers of infections and deaths germany praised for its early handling of the pandemic is now reporting record numbers of deaths it's entered a hard knock down which will be in place until january the 10th it suffered more than $400.00 deaths a day for 11 days u.k. prime minister boris johnson has resisted pressure to ban christmas gatherings but he has warned people to be extremely cautious and exercise a high degree of personal responsibility in the us a winter storm could disrupt delivery of vaccines health secretary salazar says

government officials and career companies are monitoring any possible impact of the storm on vaccine shipments brazil is the 2nd worst hit nation but is yet to fix a date for a vaccine rollout on wednesday though the government agreed to pay $4000000000.00 to buy any vaccine that wins regulatory approval trade of how has the latest from europe. no one is expecting a normal christmas least of all those who've lost loved ones to the pandemic in london grieving relatives accused boris johnson's government of mishandling its response and demanded a public inquiry my father michael who died 8 months ago tomorrow we were hoping that by now lessons would have been learned there has not been tested trace is not right and that's very clear mistakes keep being made the government refuses to admit to any mistakes if one doesn't reflect on one's mistakes how can they be corrected there are concerns that the government is about to bungle christmas as

well with warnings from the medical and scientific communities about the deadly consequences of plans to relax restrictions so that families can meet they've provoked a change of advice not a change of plan a smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas and a shorter christmas is a safer christmas. when we see 3 households can meet on for days i want to stress that these are maximums not targets to aim for. the u.k. is not heading into the gloom alone germany has gone into a stricter lockdown after previous restrictions failed to bring infection numbers down on wednesday the country reported a record number of corona virus deaths. it's very strange it's not normal i don't know what these politicians want to do they've left it all open for too long and now all of a sudden we have to quickly buy everything in 2 days we don't know what they're

doing anymore in italy meanwhile they've been warnings of a national tragedy after the country statistics bureau said that deaths this year would be the highest since world war 2 the government says it's considering small adjustments to the current restrictions critics feel much more is required many european countries are planning to begin a vaccine rollout by the end of december pending approval by the european medicines agency light at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel still has some way to go joe the whole al jazeera. gaza's government is appealing for medical supplies to help contain the corona virus outbreak the strip has reported a record 935 new cases in the past 24 hours the recent rise is further straining the health system after more than a decade of israeli blockade restrictions have been tightened and doctors say the rate of infection could soon become uncontrollable india is likely to have to spend up to $1800000000.00 on the 1st phase of covert 19 vaccines that's according to the

global vaccine alliance gavi it is the world's 2nd highest caseload and plans to not collate 300000000 people over the next 6 to 8 months that requires 600000000 shots brazil has now reported more than 7000000 cases but is beginning to plan a vaccination program on a chaotic if is in rio de janeiro and explains the need to reassure the public. as infections are rising in brazil and specially here in rio de janeiro the city's mayor canceled the new year's eve party it's the 2nd largest tourist attraction in rio after carnival which has also been suspended and around 3000000 people come to this beach to watch the fireworks but this year with more than 182019 related deaths brazil has little to celebrate except the beginning of an immunization campaign the government has just announced it will begin 5 days after

the health regulatory agency approves any of a list of back currently being tested these will be free but not obligatory the government will nevertheless start a campaign informing people that they are safe and save lives until now present day both or not or have been downplaying the virus avoiding the mass even after having been infected and he says he will not be vaccinated more than 20 percent of brazilians say they don't want to be vaccinated either according to a recent poll. of the iran nuclear deal including senior iranian diplomats who have held virtual talks to discuss the state of the pact all signatories urged iran to reverse its violations of the deal which began after u.s. president donald trump withdrew in 2018 president elect joe biden says he plans to

rejoin the deal once you assumed office but iran's supreme leader ali khamenei says he still expects the u.s. to remain hostile towards iran our president hassan rouhani says he isn't excited about biden either. i tell our people if this pressure persists it is from an individual that unfortunately still has a few weeks to go he has been the united states most lawless president and. hopefully he is leaving we are not excited about mr biden taking office but we are very happy to see trump go he committed so many crimes he's a murderer a terrorist 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 dosage of ari has more from the capital tehran there is a lot of discussion inside iran from various officials we also heard from the

supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who said that if the sanctions are removed they shouldn't hesitate for one second he was pointing to the fact that officials who are in favor of dialogue should continue if that is in the national interest in the best interest of the country we heard also in the past 24 hours from the u.s. special envoy on iran elliott abrams who said that the united states now has the upper hand given all the pressure the economic pressure that iran is now under they have a chance to really seize this opportunity to force iran into possibly renegotiating this nuclear deal but officials here have said over the past the point of contention that remains on all sides is iran's ballistic missile program and iranians have said that that is absolutely not up for negotiation their winnings have said that they've done everything there and uphold their side of the way they have had inspectors from their i visiting 26 military facilities that are outside

the nuclear sites they've given access been on announced visits those are things that could possibly come to an end given the fact that the parliament has passed a new bill given the remaining signatories of the green meant a 2 month period to remove some of the sanctions so there is a sense that time is of the essence and there will be a small window for the incoming u.s. administration to try and remedy the situation. 15 of a group of more than 300 kidnapped nigerian students have been released a spokesman for the governor of the northwestern state of katsina didn't provide any information on the rescue operation has claimed responsibility for the abduction from a boarding school the president says the government isn't negotiating with the attackers despite previously saying talks were under way i'm going to address as the latest from a butcher he says because her arm is expanding its influence 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 military rescued 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 can get out governments can do 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 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 video 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. the european union has held back more than $100000000.00 in financial aid for ethiopia because of concerns over the ongoing crisis in te grey unicef says more than $2000000.00 children have been cut off from humanitarian assistance in the northern region the fighting broke out there last month when prime minister ahmed ordered a military offensive against local forces thousands of people have been killed and 50000 more have fled into neighboring sudan yemen has talked to the international rescue committee is emergency watch list for the 3rd straight year and this yemen is the country at greatest risk of catastrophe including famine the country's been plagued by violence since the start of the civil war in 2014 mamma had a report that. 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 for help from the outside world and thousands and during the cold on the waterless place 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 in 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 mountain and also to treat pregnant women . even before the war yemen imported 90 percent of the steeple from kuwait but supplies on. 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 one liners didn't kill us 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. well 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 months to the out of the capital sanaa. so did you eat led coalition then intervened with divorced 18 consequences in a country rocked by conflict no one knows how many people are dying from diseases just 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 2nd boy. looked up to latif is head of out for a hospital. visit us 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. there many courses of the war in the for there are only 2 consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamed al jazeera. still to come on al-jazeera nearly 6 years after the challis of do

attacks a court rules on 14 accused accomplices and. back to us china's chang approach turns with its precious congo rocks its. it's play time now in the gold coast as the result of the story weather show themselves this is all foam churned up from seawater itself the still flooding inland in new south wales the warnings should be all disappeared now because the storm's got it still like to be humid and fairly wet all way from queens and new south wales to victoria and a.c.t with that breeze coming in from the northeast the next heavy rains more like to be up near darwin that's a particularly heavy back on its way through sydney's humid weather with sandstorms

hang on to a frog in the wind changes to a southerly and temperatures drop considerably as a result but our eyes are to the east it is tropical cyclone season some according to super soccer and it's certainly officially a severe cyclonic storm and it's on its way slowly south towards fiji as a dangerous thing now locally because a category 5 internationally is a category 4 with winds likely on impact at their worst at 240 kilometers per hour they will gust higher than that landfall for the worst conditions probably going to be around about dusk in fiji but the winds pick up before that so it's an overnight damaging storm heading south and away during friday. the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the north east tell a different story the green day to control our religion our believe their religious

leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like you can vote what i'm doing but i'm also people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera. the war the war the world war former. armaan of the top stories here are 0 the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year it comes as several countries report rising numbers of cases including germany which has seen a record number of deaths. remaining parties to the iran nuclear deal have held

talks as tensions rise signatories urged iran to reverse the violations of the deal committed since the u.s. pulled out. yemen has topped the international rescue committee as emergency watch lists for the 3rd straight year as the country is it greatest risk of humanitarian catastrophe with a population on the brink of famine. a french court has found a compass says of the door attackers guilty for their roles in the 2015 deadly assaults 14 people were convicted of crimes including financing and membership of a criminal gang at a shuttle has more than a quarter in paris. survivors a lawyer is arrived at the cotton paris for the verdicts at the end of the trial into the generally 2015 attacks judges found 14 people guilty of helping 3 gunman who killed 17 people in the city they were handed sentences of between 4 and 30 years 3 were tried in absentia bill. we are happy that in our country when faced

with terrorism the justice system works and the perpetrators were condemned. a lawyer for one of the defendants called the verdict disappointing and it's not very satisfying for the victims yes sentences have been given but what the victims wanted was to know who the real perpetrator is because it certainly wasn't those in the course saeeda and sheriff cautions shot dead staff in the offices of shelley abdo and a policeman outside they targeted the satirical newspaper because it over. pitas lee published cartoons of the prophet mohammed the brothers claimed the attack in the name of al qaida. in the following days i had pledged allegiance to eisele shot dead a policewoman and 4 jewish people in a kosher supermarket police killed coulibaly just hours after officers tracked down and killed a co-op brothers who'd been on the run. for survivors of the attacks and relatives

of the victims the past 3 and a half months in court have been an emotional and harrowing experience the son about sally had customers at the coach's supermarket he said he hoped the verdicts would provide some closure but working at the moment the terrorists a dead but those who supported them were tried and it's a huge relief they were condemned it's important for me and the families of victims who need to grieve with the problem the judge said that without the logistical support of those found guilty the gunman would not have been able to carry out their crimes the defendants have been given 10 days to appeal natasha bottler al jazeera paris australia is taking its trade dispute with china to the world trade organization is launching a formal appeal over china's decision to impose heavy tariffs on its barley challah best reports. from bali fields in the astray and state of victoria to beijing

and now to the world trade organization in geneva china has imposed tariffs of 80 percent on astray and barley effectively hosting the $1000000000.00 trade it was the largest market for these farmers astray is calling foul and for the 1st time asking the world trade organization to intervene we along with many other countries use these processes in the right normally why and destroy an industry should say this is bang about a strongly defending the values operation in the interests of a stroll in produces. but doing so in a calm methodical and careful manner china insists a stray leader is breaching w.t.r. rules it argues that australian farmers produce barley with government subsidies and sell it below cost so should be subject to any dumping jussi the more when we're both ashore where we have said multiple times that some discriminatory practices by australia against chinese companies go against relevant international

norms the australian government should take chinese concerns seriously and take concrete action to correct discriminatory actions against chinese companies. china is a strangely is largest trade partner with 2 way trade totaling nearly 200000000000 dollars last year but diplomatic relations have deteriorated and with a trait it worsened after a stray leah rallied international support for a un inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus since then it is gloated further with a range of trade measures it's not post bali it's tourists that's why in its call even lobsters cotton sugar so it's quite sharp there are between the 2 countries where the world trade organization will act as a referee for china and australia a result will take time potentially years in the meantime china is piling tariffs on a straight goods in cambra as searching for new markets shallow bellus al-jazeera the

prospect of a 3rd runway at london's busiest airport is back on track after a court ruling which environmental campaigners have called disappointing the u.k. supreme court overturned an earlier ruling against heathrow airport plans which found the government had violated its own commitments to the paris climate accords but construction will not start yet as the runway still needs to win planning approval. it's been 10 years since a fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire in a protest against state corruption the fatal act eventually toppled the president and spot similar uprisings across the region which became known as the arab spring but a decade later many into his yes a little has changed when their incomes dropping 20 percent and unemployment rising but as 1st reports from city busied with the uprising began. looking for a way out of city whose eat this specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers

hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has failed them the oldest here is $24.00 but young to be disillusioned. going to the war really going to the world nothing change it's like there was no revolution we only changed the precedent that it has there is too much freedom now with it that others there is no security like there was before you can be killed to go into the stadium to watch a football match these kind of things never happened before muhammad who is easy set himself on fire to protest against police in city abuse eed who often demanded bribes so he could sell from his street car it was the spark for unprecedented protests the forced an autocratic president to flee. led to the arab spring that toppled regimes across the middle east. is still. tunisia is one of the only arab countries where democracy survived but incomes are

fallen by a 5th over the past decade. can't leave on what the jobs pay into the receipt life is more expensive $100.00 a month job is only enough money for yourself if you have a family it's very difficult. this is the memorial to mohammed who is easy tunisia's unemployment rate was 11 percent when he died today it's more than 15 percent and there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12 months. this generation protested against the all thora tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear a human. life is really very beautiful and that we have a very beautiful life we lived happily together we loved each other we used to have everything now we don't have anything only crime and of a bad thing. the economy here is expected to contract by 6.5

percent this year that's a significant challenge for any country but there's arguably more pressure to get through the downturn in tunisia where it's jasmine revolution is often held up as an example of how popular uprisings can succeed in the middle east. burnitz me i'll just era city booze eat. and you know has been passed in mexico to cab drastically the powers of u.s. drug agents in the country american say it's a major setback in the fight against organized crime mexico sees it as a question of sovereignty from home and has more drug enforcement agent in fictional series like narcos there are bone storming presence in mexico. that the u.s. is drug enforcement agency. in reality they operate under the radar but for decades they've been given a wide scope in the country to help take down big name couples like walking guzman

the chapel minister with the kids but now a game changing minutes can law aims to put the the day on a much tighter leash the government says it's a question of national sovereignty like mr mickey is the issue here is that if our 2 countries a currency cooperate the u.s. has to respect mexico's area of jurisdiction. this is the main point of the new law the agents will now have to report regularly to the mates can government what they're doing in the country and any information that they dig up. for a former chief of the d.a.'s international prey shin's widely sharing previously need to know intel in mexico poses a huge problem there is inventing corruption within mexico security forces and this one in danger agents informants operations in investigations the other problem area is that they're requiring all mexican officials to write

a report every time they have communication with the well they're not going to work and answering their phones if they have to do their at each and every time as law enforcement officials the u.s. is outgoing attorney general was equally worried the passage of this legislation can only benefit the violent transnational criminal organizations and other criminals that we're jointly fighting he said in a statement but what started all this was the u.s. his arrest of mexico's ex defense secretary general salvatore c m fragos in los angeles 2 months ago. u.s. officials didn't inform the mexican government beforehand the president wasn't happy and neither was the army and so talks started in mexico about putting that the and the closer control in return a key question here has become what the us allow mexican agents the same so powerless that the da it's hard for many years down here think of it that you that

anything senator knight the u.s. ultimately handed sam for it was bad but it seems the damage had already been done . and now this will be a headache for incoming president joe biden as the powers of his drug agents south of the u.s. border will be dramatically reduced john heilemann how does it. doha has beaten riyadh to win the right to host the 2030 asian games the world's 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics capital was announced the winner after a vote at a meeting of the olympic council of asia in oman it will be the 2nd time doha has hosted the event are saudi capital will host the event for the 1st time in 2034 the decision comes against the backdrop of the ongoing blockade of qatar by saudi arabia and other gulf nations. a chinese space probe has touched back down on earth with the 1st moon rocks brought to earth for decades but china 5 probes successful

return brings an end to one of the most complicated and challenging missions in china's aerospace history the tiny 2 kilogram delivery makes it only the 3rd country to retrieve you know iraq can source samples and comes more than 40 is since the last collection. top stories on our syria the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year it comes as several countries report rising numbers of cases including germany which has seen a record number of deaths it's entered a hard lock down which will be in place until january the 10th in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson says he will not abandon christmas gatherings despite pleas from some of the country's top doctors instead he's urged people to be extremely cautious. the.