inside story on al-jazeera the u.s. is always open for the people all right the world people pay attention to what the year now does it is very good to bring the news to the world from here. double coronavirus records in the u.s. its biggest one day rise in both infections and deaths. i'm. aware i'm have i'm a hit in and this is out is iraq vi from doha also coming out the u.s. government's confirms its networks are under attack from a significant hacking operation that's still ongoing. a decade after the arab spring began we visit the birthplace of china's ias revolution where there are a few jobs little hole. and

a chinese lunar capsule returns to earth with the 1st new samples of rocks from them and more than 40 years. the u.s. has registered 2 coronavirus records in one day for both the number of new deaths and infections johns hopkins university that tracks the pandemic worldwide said there were more than 3500 fatalities on wednesday alone and at least 247000 cases doctors had warned the us thanksgiving holiday in the amber would send infection numbers soaring as millions of people travel to join family and friends. well president elect joe biden says he plans to get vaccinated in front of the cameras as early as next week to demonstrate to the public that the vaccine is

safe and effective 3 former presidents bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama plan to the same while vice president mike pence and his wife will receive the vaccine at a public events on friday the white house says president trump is also open to being vaccinated but there's no indication yet of when that will happen in europe the world health organization is expecting things to get worse several countries including the saloons and germany are struggling to contain rising coal that $1000.00 infections well the u.k. government has again being accused of creating confusion and uncertainty as john hall reports live 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 my father michael who died 8 months ago tomorrow we were hoping

that by now lessons would have been there have not been tested cases not we're not 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 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 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 jonah al-jazeera. has governments is asking for help to contain a scone a virus site break 935 infections for reporters on whedon's say that's

a new records the health system has been with since by more than a decade under israeli blockades and is from the pressure palestinian territories have recorded more than 120000 factions and 1000 related deaths. well the world health organization says beijing has welcomed the plan visits by international investigators to look into the origins of the corona virus most experts believe the virus originated in animals and spread through a wet markets in the city of walk on the u.s. has criticized the terms of the w.h.o. let's investigation that allows chinese scientists to do the 1st phase of research well let's get more now live from florence louie who joins us from kuala lumpur in florence china snow allowing international investigators ensue or what can you tell us about this investigation especially given beijing's reluctance to shed light on

the pandemic initially. well there's not a lot of information that we're getting from china w.h.o. officials say they're still negotiating the exact terms of the itinerary so we don't know where exactly in china the team will be allowed to travel to but we do know that wu officials say they expect their team to be in china in the 1st week of january now and scientists say that the goal of this exercise or this mission is to gather as much data as they can to prevent a possible future outbreak so they'll be looking at when the virus 1st started circulating and how it was transmitted how it jumped from animals to humans as it's thought and from which species it came now it's thought that the virus could have come from a went to market in city that sells live animals if you remember last december a chinese doctor in rwanda city had warned other doctors about

a possible new virus outbreak he was investigated by police and told to stop making false comments now he has since passed away after contracting covert 19 himself and chinese state media have also been suggesting that the virus the outbreak had started abroad and that it was circulating abroad before it was actually discovered in china but scientists say that the whole reason for this exercise is really not about apportioning blame or finding out which country was responsible for spreading the virus it really is about getting as much information as they can so they can prevent possible future outbreaks and you know the source the search for the source of this virus has led to considerable tensions especially after the u.s. accused china of the u.s. under u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to cover up the initial outbreak. thorens looking at the coronavirus pandemic more widely what has the w.h.o.

had to say about the pandemic is progress or of course the asia pacific region. well the w.h.o. says you know even though the western pacific region am has fared fairly well in terms of handling the pen demick this really isn't a time for complacency and especially we're seeing countries that initially waybill to contain the demick quite well then are reporting a rise in new cases we're looking at south korea we're looking at malaysia so the w.h.o. officials are really keen to stress that the the the the measures that governments have put in place to contain the outbreak of the virus they still have to be men tamed and it all officials are also very keen to stress that a vaccine the successful vaccine is really not the silver bullet that people are hoping for it is the light at the end of a very long tunnel but it would be foolish to assume that people can just relax and

put their guard down because a vaccine is already being rolled out in the u.s. and the u.k. now officials say and that's because while. a successful vaccine has been developed having enough of the vaccine is still a challenge now at the moment officials estimate it'll take 12 to 24 months before a majority of people can be vaccinated and so they want people to keep. to keep doing the things they've been doing to keep themselves and other people safe and they say this is especially pertinent as we approach the end of the year as you know christmas and new year's eve party is coming nears eve is coming up as a time when people traditionally hold parties in large gatherings and the w.h.o. says people should really avoid large gatherings and they should continue to do the things they've been doing such as practicing physical distancing and washing their hands and wearing masks when out in crowded places and in public ok joining us live from kuala lumpur florence thank you. the u.s.

government's agencies are rushing to be front their computer security have to confirming that they've been hit in the long running and sophisticated hacking operation as hackers are suspected to be russian pierced saumur defenses and access to e-mail and internal files at the treasury and combers departments possibly elsewhere is once again showing the vulnerability of supposedly secure government networks we'll go to west is the chief executive of global cyber risk and it's written by the u.s. government signed the shortcomings she explains the magnitude all this 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 governments and private sector in today's around the globe so we're trying to determine exactly the depth and breadth of the attack what information may have been stolen. a can see these were

and it 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 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 bad and broad attack that again went to. depends

companies that are trapped in communication companies that went to. government agencies and so it's it's very broad i think it says one thing too is this is there a risk when all these agencies in company hughes the same software the southern pacific island nation or fiji is bracing for a severe tropical storm category 5 cycling yes sah is on course to hit the main islands in the coming hours more than 850000 people are in its path the government is warning who villages could be whitesides when overnight curfew is in place and people have been told to move to higher grounds when haiti is monitoring developments for us from auckland in new zealand when what walkie tell us about the situation in fiji as it stands. i can tell you 1st of all is that the where the agencies here in new zealand are

monitoring the situation very closely as well they work closely with their counterparts in the pacific islands and they are saying this is the 4th largest storm ever recorded in the south pacific and will be right now the largest storm to hit fiji since 2016 when cyclon winston another category 5 storm slammed into fiji killing 44 people and causing a lot of damage at that time that was the largest storm to ever hit fiji so we're heading for a very significant event in the form of cycle. fix all that are being felt right now on those 2 main islands in particular where most of the population of fiji live reports coming in already of some very strong damaging winds causing damage to buildings flooding in some areas and some power outages as well all of that is bad enough right now but it is forecast to get a lot worse in the coming hours overnight on a night forecasting that the winds could be as strong as 300 kilometers an hour in

terms of the gusts that could hit those islands and up to $300.00 millimeters of rainfall could be seen as well and then you have the storm surge with the gut which the government and the disaster agencies and weather agencies in fiji a warning could be very dangerous as well they are predicting there could be swells and excess of 10 meters so in those low lying coastal areas where most of the concern lies right now and that's why we've seen such an effort from the government to urge people in those areas to get out before the storm approached and get to some of those evacuation centers which for the most part are placed in schools. thank you. we've got the weather for you next and then. angry at. the hands of progress in the 26th. case plus.

is disarming the real life norco's why mexico wants to mistakes american agents fighting the war on drugs. another big storm this is this bomb that beautifully as you can see said go force winds across the whole lot's moved on so during thursday the bulk of it's going to be rain or snow across southern scandinavia and the bottom half of this waiting front hangs on getting a miserable couple of days in the rain valley in front of the next things already want to say fridays give another windy one for the british isles an increase in the i think of portugal northwest and spain snow hangs around and better routes and most to central europe is cold fairly quiet some cloud around but as sunshine the stormy weather in the gene and the eastern side of the med has gone now you know as

we've taken the whole wheat week to do that. the still legacy shows on their way through rocco with his star forward on the air a smart is the show's percent into central jiri to draw a picture otherwise tempest are quite high in the sahara which shows still in this part of west africa is found also is freetown courts possibly but it's pretty much dried now in south sudan nice europea comes out of that into a rich fatty you pick up the significant right have been some big showers recently in york around the delta on the east side of south africa they're going to continue with a concentration in mozambique and sometimes in broadway. the . gay calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last

allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls dads often legitimize and legal one is pedophile on ara online jumping to the comments section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. move. i am. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour the us has registered to coronavirus records in one day the number of new deaths and cases nearly 3600 people have dies of course a quarter of a 1000000 were infected. the world health organization says beijing has welcomed

the prime visits by international investigators next month to look into the origins of covert 19 most experts believe the virus originated in a wet markets in the city of han. and the southern pacific island nation of fiji is bracing for severe tropical storm category 5 cycle yasar is on course to hit the main islands in the coming hours. well 10 years ago a fruit seller in cinesias set far as himself in a desperate and face all process. actions taps into frustration and fury at home and across the region they didn't see who became known as the arab spring cinesias the only country that transition to democracy but many say things have only become worse when

a smith reports from cd. revolution began. looking for a way out of city boozy the 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 but 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 though it has there is too much freedom now with it others there is no security like there was before you can be killed going to the stadium to watch a football match these kinds of things never happened before mohammed bouazizi 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 and the toppled regimes across the middle east. tunisia is one of the only arab countries where democracy survives but incomes of fallen by a bit over the past decade. natalie wood it can't leave on what the jobs pay until it was a good 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. this generation protested against the wall 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 boozy. al jazeera has exclusively obtained a draft european union resolution on deteriorating human rights in egypt's the e.u. parliament's will vote on the motion on thursday among other topics it condemns the kidnapping torture and killing of italian researcher julie origine in 2016 the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by egyptian authorities to hinder progress in the

julio origine murder investigation is also expresses regrets over a persistent refusal by egypt's to give its of the information needed for a transparent proof and it urges e.u. member states to pressure egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with italian investigators and warns of the timid ation of witnesses and to see these governments is also urging the e.u. to help seek justice there are sites in new evidence which suggests for egyptian security personnel took part in with jenny's kidnapping and that one was involved in the killing an italian journalist and a former cabinet minister are also returning france's highest honor the lives of the nerve it's in process against egyptian president up of c.c. being awarded the same owner last week let's bring you more now on the coronavirus pandemic and brazil's government has announced plans to buy billions of dollars

worth of covert mines in vaccines is the world's 3rd worst affected country and infections and virus related deaths continue to rise again to hear freeport snow from rio de janeiro. christmas shopping in brazil's largest city is a risky business forget social distancing there's bearly any room to walk in these packed streets of somebody without breathing down somebody's neck. fear seems no longer to be a factor despite the rise of infections in latin america's largest country after much political infighting the government has finally unveiled its vaccination plan present jade bosso natto said his government has set aside $4000000000.00 to buy any vaccine as long as it has the approval of the brazilian health regulatory agency this is though dr all of us old brazilians will receive the vaccine which

will be voluntary and free brazil's health minister said the musician campaign should last 16 months but he said no date for the rollout to begin but. why is there all this anxiety in. reference point in latin america meanwhile the covert 1000 pandemic has already claimed to more than 180000 lives in brazil the world's 2nd largest number of deaths after the united states here in rio de janeiro the mayor has just canceled the new year's eve festivities it's one of the citizen main tourist attractions but this year there will be very little to celebrate hospitals in rio are full and hundreds are waiting in line to be admitted in intensive care units. in the city slums people are more worried about putting food on the table once they stop receiving the government's financial emergency aid in january. i'm not so sure when or if the government will vaccinate us all but i do

know that food is much more expensive the health minister expects the vaccination campaign to begin in february but for many here that is not soon enough monica and i give all just sirrah rio de janeiro. a new law has been passed in mexico to curb the powers of the u.s. drug enforcement agents the americans say it's a major setback in the fight against cartels mexico though says it's a question also friends say john heilemann has more than foresman agent in fictional series like narcos there are bones 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 i want to kill 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 nicky 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 full my chief of the d.a.'s international prey sions whitely sharing previously need to know intel in mexico poses a huge problem. in bentinck russian with then 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 way well they're not going to

work and answering their phones if they have to do their engine 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 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 comes 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 and our mexican agents the same so how is 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 eagle's bottom 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 homan how does it. a chinese lunar brule has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected from the moon decades china of 5 successful touchstone brings and ends to one of the most complicated missions china's space history katrina use in beijing with more on china's most of ations the mission. of 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 it'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 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 the samples and the 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 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 s. a small storm has move. if there are no in the northeastern u.s. this is how new york's times square legs as the freezing weather heads schools coronavirus testing sites and hospitals say vaccine to liver is maybe delayed. i am i ever this is al jazeera these are the headlines the u.s. is registered to coronavirus records in a single day the number of new deaths sands new cases you know the 3600 people died and cost a quarter of a $1000000.00 were infected in one day president elect joe.