it was. a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. double coronavirus records in the us its biggest one day rise in both infections and debts in south africa is counted more than $10000.00 infections in a day as the 2nd wave gathers pace there del square on the continent. other than i have in my head and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. government confirms its networks are under attack from a significant hacking operation the stone go in. a decade after the arab spring

began we visit the birthplace of tunis he has revolution within a few jobs and little hope. and a chinese lunar capsule returns to earth with the 1st new samples of books from the more than 40 years. the u.s. has registered 2 coronavirus records in one day for the number of deaths and infections johns hopkins university that tracks a pandemic worldwide so there were more than 3500 fatalities on wednesday alone and at least 22402147000 cases doctors had warned the us thanksgiving holiday in the vendor would sense infection numbers soaring as millions of people travel to join family and friends or president elect joe biden parents to get vaccinated in front of the cameras as

early as next week to demonstrate to the public that it's safe and effective 3 former presidents bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama plan to do the same of vice president mike pence and his wife will receive the vaccine at a public event on friday the white house says president donald 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 netherlands and germany are struggling to contain rice and cool with 19 infections while the u.k. government is again been accused of creating confusion and uncertainty john home ports 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 traces you know and that's very clear mistakes keep being made the government refuses to admit to any mistakes if one doesn't reflect on one's mistakes how can they be corrected there are concerns that the government is about to bungle christmas as well with warnings from the medical and scientific communities about the deadly consequences of plans to relax restrictions so that families can meet they've provoked a change of advice not a change of plan a smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas and a shorter christmas is a safer christmas. when we see 3 households can meet on for days i want to stress that these are maximums not targets to aim for. the u.k. is not heading into the gloom alone germany has gone into

a stricter lockdown after previous restrictions failed to bring infection numbers down on wednesday the country reported a record number of corona virus deaths zach or me this isn't a normal it's very strange it's not normal i don't know what these politicians want to do they've left it all open for too long and now all of a sudden we have to quickly buy everything in 2 days we don't know what they're doing anymore in italy meanwhile they've been warnings of a national tragedy after the country statistics bureau said that deaths this year would be the highest since world war 2 the government says it's considering small adjustments to the current restrictions critics feel much more is required many european countries are planning to begin a vaccine rollout by the end of december pending approval by the european medicines agency light at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel still has some way to go jonah al-jazeera. gaza's government says asking for help to contain its break

935 infections were reported on whedon's say that's a new record its health system has been weakened by more than a decade under israeli blockades and is buckling from the pressure palestinian territories have recorded more than 120000 infections and one the size and related deaths. so if africa has recorded more than 10000 new infections over the past 24 hours it's highest figure since august several countries across the continents are bringing a new restrictions as they worry about a 2nd wave of the virus. in johannesburg and joins us now just talk us through what certain africa is doing about this rise in new coronavirus infections. were the rise in infections was expected when love done midges with a few months ago we saw schools reopening businesses reopening people being allowed

to move up and down the country and now with the festive season coming officials here are concerned of further increase what's going to happen now likely as you see people entering are from the bigger cities like to have been spared going to the rule areas to spend the festive season with their families and their friends and attend large gatherings what the governor said is they try to tell people not to participate in these lives gatherings limit those numbers to only a few people there for example impose a nighttime curfew they've said alcohol can only be sold on certain days and at certain times when it comes to beaches it's a tradition here in south africa where people and families go to beaches over the festive season in huge numbers and have big parties there those parties that now are being badgeman to be seen whether people will follow those regulations follow those restrictions so where the governor is trying to do now is trying to tell people not to gather in large numbers because this rise defections is a huge concern and now people are waiting to see what is going to happen especially

maybe in a couple of days time when people start leaving the bigger cities going to visit their families for that festive season. and how are the other countries across africa fear and with this pandemic. not sure for so your hard sciences solver. unfortunately appears we have lost our correspondent in johannesburg we're going to try and get her back here for explore those questions of how the pandemic is a rolling across africa later in the day but for neither the world health organization says that. as welcomes a planned visit by international investigators to look into the origins of the virus most experts believe it originated in animals and spread through a wet markets in the city of one the u.s. has criticized the terms of the w.h.o.

led investigation chinese scientists are being allowed its to do the 1st phase of research before as louis is in kuala lumpur with more. now and scientists say that the goal of this exercise or this mission is to gather as much data as they can to prevent possible future outbreaks so they'll be looking at when the virus 1st started circulating 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 rwanda 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 as you know the source the search for the source of this virus has led to considerable tensions especially after the u.s. accused china the u.s. and u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to cover up the initial outbreak. brazil's government has announced plans to buy billions of dollars worth of covert $1000.00 bank scenes present job also naro as outlined the strategy after facing mounting criticism over a lack of vaccine planning brazil just top 7000000 cases more than 180000 deaths. u.s.

government agencies are rushing to be fought their computer security after confirming they've been hits in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation these hackers are suspected to be russian they pierced cyber defenses and access to e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce departments and possibly elsewhere it's again shown the vulnerability of supposedly secure government networks well judy westby is the chief executive of global cyber risk and has written about the u.s. government's cyber shortcomings she explains the magnitude of this 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 much 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 reporting 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 in 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 and companies use the same software. fijians have been warns that no parts of the pacific island nation will escape the approaching super cycle. it's a category 5 storm which is the top of the scale yes is expected to bring flash floods huge waves and significant destruction prime minister frank bainimarama is blaming the unfolding emergency on climate change adding that this storm could be worse than a cycle in 4 years ago that killed dozens of people. well we'll have the weather for you next and then the new problem is anger at a 10 spot rejection authorities to hinder progress in a 2816 murder case and greece aims for superiority in the skies after months of

rising tensions with turkey. but. the weather looks pretty cold and quiet across a good positive here now laws the settled weather we got high pressure in charge for the central pa still so when she weather over towards moscow it was that western side of russia which was the west where the amal rare is tumbling in from the atlantic so bands of cloud of rain coming through this time of year london should see temperatures around 8 celsius weakening up to level 12 over the next couple of days so there's that west of weather there's that mild weather so-so looking pretty windy as well if the truth be told all in saying some heavy rain as we go on through thursday and that western weather sweeping for the race was as we go into friday more weather coming through this stage and you can see how that does

really gather across wales most western parts of england through scotland and down towards the southwest approaches some heavy rain coming through here some of that western weather also affecting the breast potentially making its way into spain and portugal as we go on through the weekend but the central parts there you go it's cool and lousy dry we have got some snow there way over towards belarus moscow the top temperature of minus 3 celsius should be dry dry to down tools that eastern side of the mediterranean and now so largely dry across northeastern parts of africa but for the northwest it is looking wet and windy at times. 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 dads often

legitimize and legalize pedophiles on arrow online jumping to the point section and meeting to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. way to my. home. my. best says al to say are a quick reminder all of the headlines for you this hour the u.s. is registered to coronavirus records in a single day the number of new deaths and the cases nearly 3600 people died and close to a quarter of a 1000000 were infected south africa has recorded one in 10 fires and new

infections over the past 24 hours its highest figure since august several countries across the continents are bringing in new restrictions as they worry about a 2nd wave and u.s. government agencies are rushing to beef up there's a computer security that's confirming they've been hits a long running and sophisticated hacking operation is hackers are suspected to be russian cyber defenses at the treasury and commerce departments. my. 10 years ago a fruit seller and soon as he has set himself on fire in a desperate and face all acts of protest mohammed was easy sanctions taps into frustration and fury at home and across the region and into what became known as the arab spring scene asea is an arab country that transitioned into democracy but

many say things have only become worse where bernard smith is in cd bluesy and swear to his ears revolution began and we can join him now bernard this is a landmark day engine is here how are people marking it. there was a ceremony to mark that moment when muhammad who is easy sets himself on fire but in reality the word but many people here to witness it partly that's covert partly that's because people have stayed away in protest of the fact that nothing has changed just in the last 10 years now to news is not been free to choose their leaders and they put come popularly criticize the state the state and i have been protests in the poor southern town in recent weeks again at the lack of opportunity at an employment of social services and many of the tunisians we've been speaking to these last few days look back at what happened in 2010 and regret the missed

opportunities. when. they're looking for a way out of city whose eat this specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has failed them the eldest here is $24.00 but young to be disillusioned with the culprits 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 the world has that is too much for it. 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 these kind of things never happened before. he set himself on fire to protest against police in city booze eed who often demanded bribes so he could sell from his street car it was the spark for unprecedented protests the forced an

autocratic president to flee. led to the arab spring that toppled regimes across the middle east. is still. tunisia is one of the only arab countries where democracy survived but incomes of fallen by a 5th over the past decade. can't leave on what the jobs mean to the receipt life is more expensive $100.00 a month job is only enough money for yourself if you have a family it's very difficult this is the memorial to mohammed who is easy to miss here is unemployment rate was 11 percent when he died today it's more than 15 percent and there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12 months. this generation protested against the wall for a tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear. life was 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 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. 2011 tunisia had its 1st democratic elections they were ones. why they are not a party and unity and of voted regularly in free elections since then the most recent was last year by that ennahda but only one of the votes it won in 2011 hour. live for as from it she has a brother thanking. al-jazeera has exclusively obtained

a draft european union resolution on deteriorating human rights in egypt the e.u. parliaments will vote on the motion on thursday among other topics it condemns the kidnapping torture and killing of italian researcher julie origin e n 2016 the u. parliament's deplores attempts by egyptian authorities to hinder progress in the joy of the origin the murder investigation is also expresses regrets over a persistent refusal by egypt's to give its in the information needed for a transparent probe and it urges e.u. member states to pressure egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with italian investigators and warns against the intimidation of witnesses. well it is governments is also urging the e.u. to help seek justice there are signs in new evidence which suggests 4 egyptian security personnel 2 parts in region is kidnapping and that one was involved in his

murder and italian journalist and former cabinet minister both returning francis highest awards the liaison donor that sent protests against egyptian president sees a c.c. rather being awarded the same orner last week. one of the schoolboys who skates capture in northern nigeria has spoken of his ordeal hundreds of students were abducted from a school in could see the state last week of action over the armed group boko haram says it's responsible so far 17 boys have been rescued that's your lopez what am reports. it's been several days since osama managed to escape from his kidnappers he's safe at home now but still reliving the ordeal his school in nigeria's northern katsina state is the scene of a criminal investigation by the man in charge of protecting the school was pushed

aside by boko haram rebels who stormed into the grounds and abducted more than 330 children last week and one of the largest such attacks in years getting out of the way and one walked 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 it was the band that they then given us at a spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform but there was another chance to escape and a joint rescue operation the military found the kidnappers base and as gunfire broke out many of the victims ran again summer was among them the skill set of i.q. 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 be up to my lift before i can continue the treacherous walk into the bush. was some of the family is glad he's back but they're all concerned for the boys still missing for

him to keep them happy i can't go out and celebrate because there are other children who are still hiding just like the kidnappers took them as a group i want them all to come back as a group. the government is negotiating with the attackers to release their captives kidnappings are often used as ransom or to force victims into joining armed groups . we came across young boys they're not as old as the ones that came to kidnap us from school boys in their teens armed with guns in the bush some are younger than us. back home osama is grateful to be alive but he feels his life may never be the same katia lapus will yun al-jazeera. the greek parliament is set to approve the purchase of 18 french fighter jets sport or not sates of greece's armed forces and alliances to counter what it sees as the threats of turkish expansion johnson reports from athens. greece has flown french mirage fighters for 30

years it's now trading some back to france 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 agreement in the next few weeks i don't leave for france great. projects including. for the upgrading of the greek 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. the only county. in greece where it could be. it was something that was really appreciate basically government. next. 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 elop seas 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 jumpstart ople us friends. texas and 9 other u.s. states and found a lawsuit against google accusing it of illegally working with facebook to crush competition the see it says the tech giants made deals and used their monopoly to consolidate power over online advertising texas wants google to be fines am broken up facebook is facing separate lawsuits accusing it of using anti competitive

behavior against its rivals. the chinese lunar prove has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected from the moon in decades china 5 successful touched brings an end to one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history it's only the 3rd country to collect lunar rock and debris samples katrina is in beijing with more on china's most evasions of the mission. well they do his 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 and 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 called an 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 the chunk of 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 than samples previously collected by the u.s. or russia 4 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. the new zealand government has agreed to a $30000000.00 deal to buy disputed lands the lands at the center all this feature seen a property development company and its indigenous people while the government will take ownership of boats but it's not clear what happens after that. my this is al jazeera these are the headlines the us has registered to coronavirus records in one day a number of new deaths and new cases you know the 3600 people have died and close 225-0000 were infected president selects joe biden plans to get vaccinated in front of the camera.