yes across the world so no matter what we. conduct that matter to you. 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. 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 departments. china's lunar probe touches down bringing back moon rocks for the 1st time in about 40 years fluster. the richardson in doha where the hosts

a p 2022 football world cup have landed the rights to hold another huge sporting event. the united states has registered a double record for highest single day increases of both corona virus deaths and infections johns hopkins university has released figures saying that more than 3000 deaths and 250000 new cases were registered on wednesday as the world's worst affected country by far role after the 1st batch of vaccines is in its 3rd day. well u.s. vice president mike pence plans to get vaccinated against code 19 on friday the white house says he and his wife will receive their injections at a public event president trump is also open to taking the vaccine as well according to his press secretary trump has not said when he would get the job and president elect joe biden will receive the vaccine as early as next week biden says he aims

to do sent public to demonstrate his confidence in the vaccine 3 former presidents bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama have also said they will receive their jobs at televised events. well the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year right now there are several european countries including the netherlands and germany are struggling to contain rising numbers of infections and deaths many are introducing new restrictions over christmas john a whole reports 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. 8 months ago tomorrow we were hoping. to have test cases. very takes. the government.

stake. mistakes happen to be protected 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 the smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas and a shorter christmas is a safer christmas. when we see 3 household can meet on for 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 corona virus 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 jonah al-jazeera. the world health organization says beijing has welcomed a planned visit by international investigators next month to look into the origins of covert 19 most experts believe the virus originated the animals and spread throughout market in the city of. the u.s. has criticized the terms of the. probe which allows chinese scientists to do the

1st phase of research joins us live now from kuala lumpur. this team. what more can you tell us about the investigation. well scientists say that the whole goal of this exercise really is to gather as much information as they can so that the world can be better prepared for possible future outbreaks of new viruses so they want to be looking at when the virus started circulating and also whether or not it came from one city or where it came from really now it's thought that the virus came from a market in one city that sells live animals and if you remember in december a chinese doctor in blue hahn city had warned fellow doctors about the possible outbreak of a new virus and he was investigated by police and told to stop making false comments he has since passed away after his contract in covert 19 himself so this whole exercise is to gather information now the solve. the search for the source of

the virus has created considerable tensions particularly between the u.s. and china especially off the u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to conceal the initial outbreak of the kerner virus but now with the w.h.o. team expected to arrive in china in the early january of next year to be able to start looking at how this virus came about and how it started transmitting its hope that scientists will have enough information to be better prepared to deal with future outbreaks provided of course that chinese authorities give the w.h.o. experts the access that they seek we know w.h.o. officials have difficulties in the past not only in just negotiating access into china but also in getting a little sort of data that they say they needed from chinese officials to florence just briefly the w.h.o. held a press conference earlier wills of those say about the pandemic across the region

while the w.h.o. officials were very careful to strike the right note as you know the u.s. and the u.k. have started rolling out vaccinate vaccines now and butt. the w.h.o. officials were very careful to say that although this may be the light at the end of a very long tunnel it is not a silver bullet and it wants people to really be very careful to take actions as individuals that will help prevent more cases that will put people safe as you know we're reaching the end of the year there going to be a year and celebrations christmas new year's eve office parties family gatherings w.h.o. officials say we should minimize that and we people should not stop taking the actions that they've taken throughout the year which is washing their hands down the times in them wearing masks because these actions will prevent will help prevent more cases more outbreaks off the current virus and that is what officials

want to stress that vaccine is not the silver bullet it's going to be another 12 to 24 months before there's going to be enough vaccines to have the popular the majority of the population vaccinated at the moment there's only enough for high risk groups such as frontline health care workers and the elderly are a different story there in kuala lumpur thank you dunces government is asking for international help to provide medical supplies to contain the corona virus outbreak the stripper's 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 an israeli blockade instructions have been tightened in gaza and doctors say the rate of infections could soon become uncontrollable honesty and territories are recorded more than 120000 inspections and more than a 1000 related deaths. now it's been 10 years since a fruit seller into his ear set himself on fire in a protest against state corruption the fatal act eventually topple 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 smith reports now 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 it's 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. they called trees going to the wall 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 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 think never happened before. he set himself on fire

to protest against police in city boozy 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. is still. 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 on what 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 mohamed bouazizi. 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. for 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. 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 and 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. city boozy time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back greece aims for superiority in the skies after months of rising tensions with turkey. as well. is. the asian games are returning to qatar doha will stage the multi-sport event for

the 2nd time stay with us. the latest winter storm is expanding normally when it does that it's throws rain across iraq to iran is certainly doing that on thursday was not hard 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 resulting 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 a change of wind directness blows through the gulf as a frontal system goes south of friday's kind of national dionysodorus a fine day fairly humid as a good 24 degrees bit of

a cloud in the sky but on saturday the share market same obvious shower too in the air even a thunderstorm and the feel 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 seen showers a long way south in johannesburg for example the forecast here is a sundry one for thursday and rain returns for saturday for cabo in which is south of botswana same confirmation and share a couple of days. of . an invitation to bear witness to all that life office. the highest the learner's the trials and tribulations. i'm seeing and every day miracles the injustice nice little fine it's

the tests of character and the personal take to witness documentaries with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. muar. welcome back a quick recap of our 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 3500 people died while another 20150000 were infected with the world's worst affected countries . the world health organization says the corona virus pandemic could worsen in

europe early next year and germany has begun a lockdown on london and surrounding areas a move to the highest levels of restrictions. on the world health organization says beijing is welcomed a planned visit by international investigators next month to look into the origins of covert 19 most experts believe virus originated in the animals and spread through a wet market in the city of. now 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 where jodi westby is the chief executive of global cyber risk and has written about the u.s. government's cyber vulnerabilities she explained 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 does impact the governments and private sector in

these around the globe so we're trying to determine exactly the depth and breadth of the attack what information may have been stolen. to be a can see these 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 with more difficult and so it was a time when they had an advantage i think russia was behind the attack that's what's been alleged and and i believe the forensic investigation data is very credible i think they were trying to in chiba number of things economic espionage intelligence gathering just flat. data that they could

get and use for whatever purpose so i think it was a very best 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 it says one thing too is this is a risk when all these agencies in company hughes the same software now a chinese moon approaches return to earth with the 1st rock solid poles collected from the moon in decades the successful return of the chinese 5 probes and one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history the 2 kilogram delivery makes it only the 3rd country to retrieve in iraq and soil samples and comes all the 40 years after the last collection the trainer who has more now from beijing. well beijing's goals really are 2 fold the 1st is scientific tonneau want 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 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 called in 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 nor 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 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 they're trying a 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 than 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 palate 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. now greece's parliament is set to approve the purchase of 18 french fighter jets it's all part of a rebound of the country's armed forces and alliances to counter what it sees as the threat of turkish expansion john zarrella reports from athens. greece has flown french mirage fighters for 30 years it's now trading some back to front as part of a $3000000000.00 deal to buy 18 rafal fighters greece wants the rafal to gain an edge against turkey in airspace over the aegean sea tensions have been rising with

ankara over exploration rights in the eastern mediterranean and the greek government is in a hurry it's pushed for the 1st 6 jets to arrive by may and be operational almost immediately. look very much forward to implementing. in the next few weeks i don't leave for france 3. projects including. for the. navy greece is rearming alarmed at turkey's claims on what it sees as its maritime jurisdiction in the mediterranean sea and turkey's claims on the g. and islands greece and france have been discussing a defense alliance outside nato where turkey is also a member greek and french ships and aircraft recently carried out their 1st joint exercises in the east mediterranean with cyprus and egypt also taking part was the

united arab emirates the 2nd country with which greece is now striking up a strategic alliance during. some year. crises. sense. it's in greece where. it's. government. and greece is encouraging the united states to expand its military presence here after 12 years of budget cuts greece will increase its defense spending by almost half this year to $6700000000.00 some of that will be spent building for new frigates and if greece chooses an american design the u.s. will finance a buyout of the elysees shipyard behind me and they will be built here for 7

decades greece has invested in nato and the european union for its security but that is no longer enough other e.u. members are reluctant to sanction turkey which is a lucrative export market the crisis with turkey this year has taught greece that it has to find new friends jumps at all plus athens. now 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 boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of the boarding school a state official says the government is in talks with the kidnappers for the students to release one of the school boys who escaped says other children were among the fighters who kidnapped them utility william walk out of it after we scaled the fence we were hearing voices saying that we should come back thinking there were police officers unknown to us that was the bandit the name given to us at a spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform skill

set of i don't know if you would be more king for so long i was already exhausted from a sickle cell patients want to hold my french shoulder on to my right the up to to my lift before i could continue the treacherous walk into the bush as the bennetts continued to float people from the back so that they move faster. we came across young boys they're not as old as the ones that came to kidnap us from the school boys in the teens armed with guns in the bush some are younger than us. now our jazeera has exclusively obtained a draft european union 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 the italian research. in 2016 well here's an outline of what it contains the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by egyptian authorities to hinder progress in the julie origine murder investigation it also expresses regret over

a persistent refusal by egypt to provide italy with information needed for a transparent probe and it urges e.u. member states to put pressure on egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with investigators in italy and warns against intimidating witnesses arsalan iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer he says the move by the european parliament has been a long time coming. has been in power since 2013 and i am. persecuted in. women in political opposition probably were groups. forces of thousands of people there are massacre and sadly you know it takes the. 126 year old white european permit only. 7 year. condemnation but the other hand is also being courted by france's leader and then you know her front bill you know on her words. were you can get her audition so we really have

a long way to go in terms of actually meaningful change in this regard if you know that date it's worth not doing anything you know it you know the underworld is 30. 7 years and you know it will get a little bit of momentum because you know. when it's you know 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 we're going to get you into without saying you're going to commit to protecting human rights you know and then he is going to. you know persecute impunity hundreds of thousands of people in fiji are bracing for a severe tropical storm that has the potential to be one of the most destructive in living memory category 5 cyclone yasi expected to make landfall in the coming hours and is on course to hit fiji's main island more than 850000 people are in its path

and all thought is one villages could be wiped out away in haiti is monitoring developments from auckland in new zealand and joins us live so wayne bring us up to date with what's the situation now in fiji. well certainly. weather agencies here in new zealand monitoring the situation very closely as well they are saying at the moment this is the 4th largest storm system that we've seen in the south pacific as you mentioned the. category 5 very damaging storm potentially as expected to make landfall in fiji on the 2 main islands sometime on thursday evening but already it is making its presence felt reports coming out of fiji suggesting there is already damaging winds heavy rainfall in causing flooding and already some large sees being reported as well of course in the coming hours those conditions are expected to worsen significantly our forecast

is saying we could see wind gusts in excess of 300 kilometers an hour of course much of the infrastructure in fiji is not built for that we could see more than $300.00 millimeters of rain and very large swells causing a significant storm surge so particular concern for those living in those low lying coastal areas and the government has been warning really for the past couple of days that fijian should prepare for the worst those living in those in the most at risk communities in those low lying coastal areas should seek safer ground immediately or right away in haiti live in oakland in new zealand monitoring events that. could be heading into fiji wayne thank you very much indeed. now the asian games are coming to doha for the 2nd time qatar's capital one a vote in oman to host the 21st edition of the event in 2030 rival bidding city riyadh will stage the games 4 years later. the richest reports the city you'll have

the high for and with host 2030 is gone. another sporting victory for cattles 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 riyadh will host the 2034 edition other than just limit this achievement wasn't made just to the right is the result of 16 years of hard work we are proud of these historical moment today we have one could be for 20 or 30 and it's no surprise the wider context of 2 regional rivals going head to head in this vote is hard to ignore since 2017 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 a play with cats are already looking beyond the football world cup it will host in

2 years' time as we know cattle have 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 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 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. headlines here at this hour 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 3500 people died while another 250000 were infected as the world's worst affected country by far meanwhile the white house has announced u.s. vice president mike pence will be vaccinated against code 19 on friday president elect joe biden will also receive the vaccine as early as next week both men will get the jobs in public to boost confidence in the medication. the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic.