current affairs. with corona virus cases rising across europe in the run up to christmas warnings from the world health organization but the pandemic could worsen across the continent next year. hello i'm adrian full again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the besieged gaza strip is seeing a rise in corona virus infections the ongoing israeli blockade making the situation even worse. china saloon approved touches down in mongolia over 40 years since the

last time moon rocks were brought back to work. and i'm 90 richardson in doha where the hosts of the 2022 football world cup have landed the rights to hold another huge sporting event. the world health organization says the corona virus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year right now several european countries including the netherlands and germany are struggling to contain rising numbers of infections and deaths in the u.k. london and surrounding areas of at the highest level of restrictions prime minister boris johnson's plans to relax those restrictions over the christmas holiday have been criticized by some medical experts germany has begun its 1st day of an emergency lockdown with limits on most christmas gatherings at the vents at the same time a record daily death toll was recorded more than mine 150 people died

a vaccine rollout will begin there on december 27th joel reports now from london. 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 since 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 house meet on 4 days to stress that these are. 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 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. 19 infections and. 11 cases in one day it's the 2nd day of a strict 5 week lockdown. operates and there's a record of almost 650000 cases 10000 related deaths. the united states has registered a double record for highest single day increase of both corona virus deaths and cases johns hopkins university has released figures saying that more than 3700 deaths and 250000 new cases were registered on wednesday it's the world's worst

affected country by far roll out of the 1st facts of batch of vaccines continues its day. government is asking for international help to revive medical supplies to contain the corona virus outbreak there the strip is reported a new record of 935 new cases in one day the recent rise further strains the health system which is already weakened by more than a decade of the israeli blockade restrictions have been tightened in gaza doctors say the rate of infections could soon become uncontrollable palestinian territories of recorded more than 120000 covert 19 infections and more than a 1000 related deaths the small is director of operations at the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees he says that overcrowded camps make it difficult for people to follow coronavirus measures. like in other parts of the world it's difficult to contact in the virus because it requires at hearings to

public health measures such as physical distancing and mask wearing on the context of gaza some of this is difficult to implement in the 8 to refugee camps where on road works there is huge overcrowding and it's just simply a challenge for people to keep the necessary distance and many people are too poor to afford personal protective equipment including mosques so that's one set of problem i think a 2nd set or european country is the difficult balance to strike between the economy and the council half the population is the and but on daily income and of course the authorities are reluctant to shop things down because they would have a devastating and quick economic impact new zealand says that it secured enough corona virus vaccine doses to treat everyone in the country for free the government reached a deal with the u.s. based drug manufacturer novak's for almost 11000000 doses the drug is you have to

go through final trials approval but they're hoping to roll it out by mid 2021 a south korea is preparing to implement its toughest coronavirus measures yes on thursday had reported more than a 1000 cases the 3rd time its cross-town bark since the start of the pandemic the us vice president mike pence plans to get vaccinated for covert 19 on friday the white house says that he and his wife will get their shots at a public event president trump is also open to taking the vaccine but according to his press secretary hasn't said when he will get the shot. president elect joe biden will receive the vaccine as early as next week and says that he aims to do so in public to demonstrate his confidence in the medication 3 former presidents bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama have also said that they will receive their shots at televised events. parties to the iran nuclear deal including senior

iranian diplomats of held virtual talks to discuss the state of the pact all signatories urged to iran to reverse its violations of the deal which began after u.s. president donald trump withdrew in 2018 president elect joe biden says that he plans to rejoin the pact once he assumes office but iran's supreme leader ali harmony says that he still expects the u.s. to remain hostile towards iran or president hassan rouhani 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 is 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 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. from those debris into. there is a lot of discussion inside iran from various officials we also heard from the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini who said that if these 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 the iranians have said that they've done everything there and uphold their side of the way they have had inspectors from the i.a.e.a. visiting 26 military facilities that are outside the nuclear sites they've given access been unannounced 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 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. al jazeera has exclusively obtained the european union draft resolution on deteriorating human rights in egypt the motion will be voted on by the e.u. parliament on thursday among other topics it condemns the kidnapping torture and

killing of the italian researcher julio regime he and 2016 and his some of what's outlined in that resolution the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by gyptian authorities to hinder progress in the julio regime the murder investigation it also expresses regret over a persistent refusal by egypt to provide their italian counterparts with the information needed for a transparent probe and member states to put pressure on egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with investigators in italy and want to get straight tally ation towards witnesses well this comes as italy's foreign minister is also urging the european union to seek justice its lee wants the e.u. to pressure egypt to respond to new evidence which suggests 4 security officials were involved in kidnapping and that one was involved in his killing 2 prominent a tally and figures a journalist and a former cabinet minister are returning france's highest award. after egyptian

president fattah el-sisi was awarded the same or last week. if the guy's an international human rights lawyer he joins us now live from sterling in the u.s. state of virginia via skype good to have you with us sir what are your thoughts on this e.u. draft resolution. well i think that you can have her resolution set the 7 years to late. has been in power since 2013 and in that time he has persecuted entire. swimmin uploaded by opposition probably were groups his forces of killed thousands of people there are massacre and sadly you know it takes the brutal murder of 126 year old white european permanently you know to get some in here make condemnation but as you mentioned you know on the other hand it's also getting courted by france's leader a man you know you know on her words. a war that you can get to audition

so we really have a long way to go in terms of actually meaningful change in this regard ok 7 is too late what should the e.u. be doing now bowed to pressure egypt well i think if you read it right now are you going to. egypt then c.c.r. actually negotiating a new deal with european union historically a green when it can't comes to these. countries usually sign writers saying that their way to respect overall human rights and include it also you know even though they might not actually do it egypt in this case is not even pretending that they're going to sign any writer and so if the e.u. who really wants to bring about some a lot of we're going to egypt the 1st thing that they can do is ensure that these human rights protections are writers are and he sort of new deal with egypt is that kind of pressure going to work though. well you know can i mean at the end of the

day you know it's worth i'm not doing anything you know. you know no i know we're all this turd and i did this last 7 years and you know if we get a little bit of momentum because you have the murder of 126 year old graduate student if that actually leads to meaningful change and at the end you have actually you know you know grow the spine and actually put their money out there martin says you know you're going to get he'll well out saying that you're going to commit to protecting human rights you know and then once he is going to see who you know persecute you know he really gets to go to so many thanks indeed arsalan iftikhar other thank you. a weather update next year and i was era then. disarming the real life narcos why mexico wants to restrict americans fighting the war on drugs. and the gannon

government wants google to block more than a dozen you tube channels linked to rival candidates in the presidential election. it remains much colder than is normal for this time of the year for a good part of the korean peninsula the northern china and indeed japan but japan's had the cold tempered by the amount of steroids it's falling now that is easing because the wind isn't as strong the bottom gets the into friday few snow showers left a bit of rain on the coast and even hokkaido you've got more sunshine than style but temperatures are still low it's cold all the way to the south of china all the ground dong including hong kong looks about nor by this time more rain returning to taiwan not everybody left in the northeast monsoon to be honest now it's a cold all these monsoon so it's like to pick up the strength of the showers in

vietnam and this circulation coming toward sudden philippines to the mindanao books a very wet one for later on friday and throughout indonesia pretty big showers are fairly frequent showers of this thing at the moment. the rain has returned to the southern tip of india and will return to sri lanka this still not much disturbing the skies in the northern plains of india including new delhi where it's not only cold but obviously foggy and with that lack of movement that falk turns rapidly to smoke in any of the city centers of northern india and all in pakistan. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us on.

the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad part one on al jazeera. the. allegan this is a 0 that's for much of the main news this hour the world health organization says the coronavirus and then it could worsen in europe early next year has begun of emergency lockdown while london and its surrounding areas have moved into the highest level of restrictions. gaza's government is asking for international help to provide medical supplies to contain the corona virus outbreak the strip has

reported a new record of 3 at 935 new cases in one day. and parties to the iran nuclear deal including syria ready and diplomats held virtual talks to discuss the state of the agreement said to me to go. thanks weak as the psychiatrist urged her to reverse its final ations of the deal. brazil's government's announced plans to buy billions of dollars worth of covert 19 vaccines president jaya balsam auto held a news conference to outline immunization plans after facing mounting criticism over the lack of vaccine planning resilience just 7000000 cases with more than 180000 deaths of the world's worst affected country want to get medical yannick here this in rio explains how brazil is trying to reassure the public about vaccine safety 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 $182019.00 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 played both or not or have been downplaying the virus avoiding the mask even after having been infected and he feels 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. a chinese lunar probe has returned to earth with the 1st rock

samples collected from the moon in decades the successful return of the chiang 5 probe brings to an end one of the most complicated missions in china's space history the 2 kilogram delivery makes it nearly the 3rd country to retrieve lunar rock and soul samples and comes more than 40 years since the last such collection let's go live that of beijing ultra serious katrina you can tell us more so when the geologists get their hands on what's contained within the space probe. well we know that it arrived 2 am local time and it took about cover teams about an hour to get to the actual capsule and it will take hours after that for the samples actually to be transferred to its closest space facility to be examined and for the quality and the condition the good condition of these rock samples to be verified now this as you mentioned is what china considers its most successful space

exploration mission to date and really the goal is a twofold one to learn more about the moon about the solar system and to quite political as well china wants to showcase its progress and its power wes when it comes to the space exploration now chung 5 1st launch about 54 weeks ago and when it launched its spend about 8 days in orbit before landing on moon on the moon and then it spent about 3 weeks collecting these moon samples about 2 kilograms of them and what's significant in terms of these samples is it is from a relatively unexplored area of the moon much newer samples than samples that were collected by the u.s. of the soviet union decades ago are now fit china this is really hugely significant mormon president xi jinping called the team responsible for the mission hours after the capsule landed congratulating them and what's interesting to note as well that china does not broadcast live these rocket launches all the capsule landings they

really carefully and then it in the narrative of this new mission because it's seen as really quite important to the national image and they want to save themselves any embarrassment should there be any any failures or anything that goes wrong but here today definitely seen as a source of triumph and national pride here in china deserves control your reporting live from beijing the truth about he thinks did. the u.s. government has confirmed that it was the target of a recent widespread hacking campaign that affected a number of its critical networks an f.b.i. investigation is ongoing in order to pursue and disrupt the perpetrators u.s. media reported the russian government hackers were behind the attack the treasury and commerce departments are among dozens of departments infiltrated texas and 9 other republican states of filed a lawsuit against google accusing it of illegally working with facebook to crush competition the suit says the tech giants made deals and used their monopoly on all

pally to consolidate power of online advertising texas has called for google to be broken up and face fines it comes as tech companies are facing increased scrutiny in washington for anti company competitive behavior uganda's government has asked google to close 14 you tube channels ahead of presidential elections next month the channels are all connected to popstar the opposition candidate bobby wine is trying to unseat yarima 70 has been in power for 34 years welcome web reports. the campaigns for presidential elections in uganda haven't been peaceful police and soldiers who blocked political opposition candidates on the road to being live streamed by online t.v.'s like this channel on you tube. the government now written to us. asking it to block 14 of the channels accusing them of inciting violence.

before. my insurance reforms so the government is simply right. this. is. all of the 14 channels a link to pop star turned presidential candidate probably why. his supporters a young here at home online and the platforms provide an opening for opposition in a country where the government controls access to much of the traditional media. dozens of people were killed when police violently broke up demonstrators last month. before they'd be arrested bought in wine police said his rallies broke kovi rules opposition and rights groups say the government doesn't want ugandans all the

world to see what's happening. please since announced that all journalists have to be vetted to be able to cover the elections this will give a distinction between journalists and those that are in general. and also to the provoke. this is. going to stick discussions. which are likely to say to us. violence is something that journalists say they've suffered at the hands of the police this camera man was shot in the face with a rubber bullet this reporter has among a group who say they were beaten by police last week police say they're investigating press groups say the government is now trying to prevent foreign journalists from coming to cover the polls but the journal that they want to comment is uganda. and what we. many are based on that

flight. i've been waiting a day a week but i had heard that. letter and everything being that the government blocked social media services during the last election google has said governments have to submit court orders for you tube channels to be removed say for now the online t.v. keep streaming malcolm web al-jazeera. a new law has been passed in mexico to drastically curb the powers of u.s. drug enforcement agents the americans say that it's a major setback in the fight against organized crime mexico sees it as a question of sovereignty john holeman reports of enforcement agents in fictional series like narcos there are barnstorming presence in mexico. the d.e.a.'s 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 and chapel minister older kids but now a game changing minutes can law aims to put the d.a. 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 are going to 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 their 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 trans national 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 al-jazeera mexico city. a major winter snowstorm is hit the northeast of the united states. this was the scene in new york city's times square as the storm rolled in its full cost to dump up to 60 centimeters of snow in some areas where the warnings were in place from georgia to maine. the new zealand government has agreed to a $30000000.00 deal to buy disputed land it's aimed at breaking a deadlock between a property development company and indigenous people the government will own the

land but it's not clear exactly how it'll be used for testers of occupy the area since 2016 say that it was illegally confiscated by settlers 150 years ago doha has won the right to host the 2030 asian games the world's 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics capital was announced the winner. of the meeting of deliberate council of asia you know mom it'll be the 2nd time that the house hosted the games all the saudi capital will stage the event for the 1st time in 2034. have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines about syria the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year germany has begun of emergency lockdown while london and its surrounding areas of moved into the highest level of restrictions but the u.k. .