character and. documentaries with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. as president elect joe biden prepares to get the covert vaccine the number of coronavirus related cases and deaths in the u.s. it's a double record. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a hacking campaign targets critical government networks in the u.s. including the treasury and commerce department. china's lunar probe touches down bringing back moving rocks for the 1st time in over 40 years plus. 2022 football world cup

a run of the rights to hold another huge sporting event. the united states has registered a double record for highest single day increases of both coronavirus deaths and infections johns hopkins university has released figures saying that more than 3700 deaths and 250000 new cases were registered on wednesday as the world's worst affected country by far rollout of the 1st batch of vaccines is now in its 3rd day . for years vice president mike pence plans to get vaccinated against code 19 on friday the white house says he and his wife received their shots at a public event president trump is also open to taking the vaccine as well that's according to his press secretary was not said though when he would get the shot. and president elect joe biden will receive the vaccine as early as next week biden says he aims to do so in public to demonstrate his confidence in the medication 3

former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama also said they would receive their shots at televised events . well the covered 19 pandemic has had latin america harder and longer than any other region but there's one country that's been exception and that's cuba of the last american it's an essential reports. dr mark that the u.s. runs the plaza of the revolution polyclinic and knows just about everyone in the neighborhood every day she makes the rounds to check on call $1000.00 suspects who've been quarantined would be one of the owners of especially those who come from abroad like florida resident. upon landing in cuba she was given a cold 1000 test then she and her entire family were put under strict lockdown a doctor checks on them every day on the 1st day she got a 2nd test and now dr galavis has come to tell her she's in the clear the online

persona i'm impressed that despite cuba's 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 the population of 12000000 cuba has had fewer than 10000 confirmed cases of corona virus and fewer than 140 deaths this secret is in 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 mean while dr galavis and her colleagues continue keeping close tabs on every possible carrier

then i was in no numbers we have some one person of these quarantine family to go out and get essential is under strict protocol this is one of the. we prevent the transmission of the epidemic. at a moment but it's been so effective that roxana doral that's 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 to see a new man al-jazeera. the world health organization says the coronavirus 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 many are introducing new restrictions of a christmas john a hole as this report from london no one is expecting a normal christmas at 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 learnt they have not been tested cases not one 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 happen to 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 4 days i want to stress that these are maximum. 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 coronavirus deaths. it's very strange it's not normal i don't know what these politicians want to do they 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 join a whole al-jazeera. garza's government desire for international help to provide

medical supplies to contain the corona virus outbreak the strip has reported a new record of 935 new cases in one day the recent rise further strains the health system already weakened by more than a decade of the israeli blockade instructions have been tightened in gaza and doctors say the rate of infections could soon become uncontrollable palestinian territories are recorded more than 120000 infections and more than 1000 related deaths. from the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees he says overcrowded camps make it difficult for people to follow coronavirus measures . like in other parts of the world it's difficult to contain the virus because it requires public health measures such as physical distancing and mask wearing and in the context of gaza some of this is difficult to implement in the aid 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 settlers or european country is the difficult balance to strike between the economy and the council half the population is dependent on daily income and of course the authorities are reluctant to shop things down because that would have a devastating and quick economic impact the u.s. government has confirmed it was the target of a recent widespread hacking campaign that affected a number of its critical networks the f.b.i. is investigating who was responsible u.s. media reported russian government hackers were behind the attack the treasury and commerce departments were among dozens infiltrated by jodi westies the chief executive of global global cyber risk and has just written about the u.s. government's cyber vulnerabilities just plain the magnitude of the attack. we do

believe this is the most harmful cyber attack in our history probably in the history of the world because it is impacted governments and private sector in a daze around the globe so we're trying to determine exactly the depth and breadth of the attack what information may have been stolen. how many agencies were involved how many private sector companies what data was involved it's still too early to know but we know that this was a very serious attack that went on for many months and i might add it went on for many months during a time when most of the world was really working remotely and monitoring networks was more difficult and so it was a time when they had an advantage i think russia was behind the attacks that's what's been alleged and and i believe the forensic investigation data is very

credible i think they were trying to inch even number of things economic espionage intelligence gathering just flat. best of data that they could get and use for whatever purpose so i think it was a very bad and broad attack that again went to defense companies the top 10 communication companies that went to key government agencies and so it's it's very broad i think and so one thing too is this is a risk when all these agencies and companies use the same software. parties to the iran nuclear deal including senior iranian diplomats have held virtual talks to discuss the state of the agreement all signatories urged tehran 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 pact once he assumes office but iran's supreme leader ali harmony says

he still expects the u.s. to remain hostile towards iran however he won't oppose any attempts by government officials to secure lifting sanctions but also jabari has more now from tehran. 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 their 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 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. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back. the a disarming the real life marco's why mexico wants to restrict american agents

fighting the war on drugs. because it went to 50 is. the asian games are returning to qatar doha would stage the multi-sport event for the 2nd time on a state. the latest winter storm is expanding normally when it does that its throws rain across iraq to iran is certainly doing that on thursday was no tide is split into centers so it's rather dismal from lebanon down towards northern egypt and equally we've got snow just a little bit falling in the northeast of turkey the resultant weather showing up in the forecast for gaza city is a pretty disappointing on thursday a bit better on friday and fine again on saturday normally when these things come

through you get to a change when directness blows through the gulf as the frontal system goes south or friday's kind of national diagnostics or fine day fairly humid i think it $24.00 degrees because of a cloud in the sky but on saturday the shamar kicks in might be a shower or 2 in the air even a thunderstorm and the field will be completely different where you'll notice it's still a mostly sunny picture south of all this the active rain at the moment is falling from more or less angola down towards mozambique we've seen showers along way south in johannesburg for example the forecast here is a sundry one for day and rain returns for saturday for governor one which is south of botswana same confirmation and share a couple of days. ok 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 the law is in the last allow

child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that often legitimize and legalize pedophiles on air online jumping to the comments section and meeting to be part of the discussion the stream on out is there a. welcome back to the top stories here this hour the u.s. has posted a record number of corona virus deaths and cases in a single day figures from johns hopkins university showed more than 3700 people died while another 250000 were infected as the world's worst affected country. the

world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year germany has begun a lockdown bar london and surrounding areas of move to the highest level of restrictions. on the us government has confirmed it was the target of a recent hacking campaign that affected a number of its critical networks the treasury and commerce departments were among dozens targeted the f.b.i. is investigating who was responsible. now a chinese lunar probe has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected from the moon in decades the successful return of the chinese 5 probe ends one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history the 2 kilogram delivery makes it only the 3rd country to retrieve lunar rock and soul samples and comes more than 40 years after the last collection or let's bring in katrina you she's live for us in beijing so katrina what more do you know about china's mission to the moon or what was beijing trying to achieve by bringing back these rock samples

. well they do his goals really are 2 fold the 1st is scientific china wants to find out more about the moon and more about the solar system and that's crucial for its plans when it comes to space exploration going forward and the 2nd really is political china sees this as a way to showcase its technological prowess and the progress that's made when it comes to space exploration now this luna probe capsule landed in china about 2 am local time on wednesday and about one hour later a recovery team arrived on the site cordoned off the area and promptly put a chinese flag right next to the capsule before broadcasting those pictures to the chinese public and to the world and we neuer that those samples are now being transferred to a facility where they're going to be examined and the condition of the 2 kilograms of moon rocks is going to be verified now this mission is the most complicated in the more successful that china has completed to date it started about

a month ago when the probe was sent into space and the trying of 5 lunar probe spent about 3 weeks 3 weeks on the surface of the moon collecting these samples and these samples a much younger it's thought then samples previously collected by the u.s. or russia for decades ago now shortly after the capsule landed chinese president xi jinping called the team behind it to congratulate them on their achievement this really is crucial for beijing because they want to really become a major space power going forward and it's thought that this mission will pave the way for chinese astronauts to walk on the moon some time in the 2030 s and what's worth noting as well is that the landing of this capsule and even the launch of the rocket about a month ago was not broadcast live because china doesn't want any in their assessment if something does go wrong indeed and the really carefully controlling the narrative when that comes to these lunar missions for china this is an opportunity to boost its image domestically to boost it internationally and really

that is crucial since that image has taken quite a beating since the outbreak of covert 19 earlier this year all right to katrina you live in the chinese capital katrina thank you. al-jazeera has exclusively obtained the european union draft resolution on worsening 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 a telly and research. in 2016 here's some of what's outlined in that resolution the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by gyptian authorities to hinder progress in the murder investigation and also express regret over a persistent refusal by egypt to provide their italian counterparts with all information needed for a transparent probe and urges e.u. member states to put pressure on egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with investigators and it's early and warn against retaliation towards witnesses for

this comes as its enemies foreign ministers also urging the european union to help seek justice if he wants the e.u. to pressure egypt to respond to new evidence which suggests for security officials were involved in regimes kidnapping and that one was involved in his killing 2 prominent italian figures a journalist and a former cabinet minister are returning france's highest award the leisure and owner of the egyptian president abdel fatah sisi was awarded the same on last week but arsalan iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer he says the move by the european parliament has been a long time coming. has been an hour and 2013 and i am. persecuted in. women in political opposition probably were groups. courses that thousands of people there are massacre and sadly you know it takes. 126 year old what european permit only. good standing here. condemnation but

if the other hand is also being courted by france leader and then you know you know on her words allergic. we're. so we really have a lot. when you go in terms of actually meaningful change in this regard if you know that they were not doing anything you know. you know no in the world is 30. 7 years and you know if we get a little bit of momentum because you have. 26 year old graduate student if that actually leads to meaningful change and the union has actually you know you know growth spine and actually put their money out there martin says you know we're going to get you into without saying that you're going to commit to protecting human rights you know and then c.c. is going to continue to persecute impunity. now it's been 10 years since a fruit seller intern is here set himself on fire in protest against state corruption the fatal act of engineer toppled the president and sparked similar

uprisings across the region that became known as the arab spring but a decade later many into his ear say little has changed their incomes are down 20 percent and unemployment is high as it was burning smith reports from city blues in where the uprising began. looking for a way out of city boozy 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 eldest here is $24.00 that's 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 but with it the others there is no security like there was before you can be killed to go into the stadium to watch a football match this kind of thing never happened before mohammed bouazizi set

himself on fire to protest against police in city blues eed who often demanded bribes so he could sell from his street car 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. this year. tunisia is one of the only arab countries where democracy survives but incomes of fallen by a 5th over the past decade. can't leave the jobs may need 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 there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12

months. one of the this generation protested against the all for a tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear don't lay human. life is really very beautiful and 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 in 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 bernard smith al-jazeera city boos eat. a new law has been passed in mexico to drastically curb the powers of u.s. drug enforcement agents the americans say it's a major setback in the fight against organized crime mexico though sees it as

a question of sovereignty john heilemann reports can force major in fictional series like narcos there are bones storming presence in mexico. the d. e a 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 on the kid but now a game changing nets 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 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 there's 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 there 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 us is the rest of mexico's ex defense secretary general salvador see him for a goals 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 under closer control in return a key question here has become would the u.s. allow mexican agents the same sort of hours that the da it's had for many years down here think of it that you the leaf in senator knight the u.s. ultimately handed c.m. for eagle's back 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 us border will be dramatically reduced john homan al-jazeera mexico city. now the asian games are coming to doha for the 2nd time qatar's capital one of those in amman to host the 21st edition of the event in 2030 rival bidding city

riyadh will stage the games 4 years later and the richest reports of the city will have the high for daughter who is hosts wealth disparity is. another sporting victory for catalyst capital doha this time winning the rights to host the 2030 asian games the 2nd biggest multi sports event after the olympics doha beating saudi arabia's capital riyadh in a vote by the olympic council of asia riyad will host the 2034 edition i didn't just limit it is achievement wasn't made just today but is the result of 16 years of hard work we are proud of these historical moment today we have won the big 42030 and it's not a. price the wider context of 2 regional rivals going head to head in this photo is hard to ignore 627 seen saudi arabia along with bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt has imposed a blockade on qatar. but for both nations there is more than political point

scoring at play with cats are already looking beyond the football world cup it will host in 2 years' time as we knock at our house effectively built a nation. based upon sport so a lot of it infrastructure a lot of its urban developments have been connected to the staging of the world cup and so it was absolutely crucial i think in terms of legacy and in terms of delivering a return on investment for the. from its. various projects to not only did over the world cup but to subsequently also host of the makers and. in 2006 doha held the asian games for the 1st time it was the starting point of an ambitious plan to make cattle a global sporting hub since then the country's hosted a series of major events including last year's world athletics championships and in 2022 the football world cup will be coming to cats are the nation has made no

secret of its desire to one day host an olympics with 2032 now looking an increasingly realistic target and the richardson al-jazeera don't have. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. has posted a record number of corona virus deaths some cases in a single day figures from johns hopkins university show more than 3700 people died while another 250000 were infected as the world's worst affected country by far. the white house has announced u.s. vice president mike pence will be vaccinated against kobe had 19 on friday.