ringback double grown a virus records in the u.s. its biggest one day rise in both infections and deaths south africa is counted more than $10000.00 factions in a single day it's a 2nd wave gathers pace there and elsewhere across the continents. my. but i'm having my head seen and this is out just 0 life and also coming out the u.s. government's confirms its networks are under attack from a significant hacking operation that's still going on. a decade after the arab

spring began we visit the birthplace of china's years revolution and there are few jobs little hole. at a chinese lunar capsule returns to earth with the 1st new sun pulls of the rocks from them and more than 40 years. the u.s. has registered 2 coronavirus records in a single day the number of new deaths and new infections johns hopkins university that tracks the pandemic worldwide said there were more than 3500 fatalities on wetten say at least 247000 cases doctors had warned the us thanksgiving holiday in the van but would send infection numbers soaring as millions of people travel to join family and friends. well president elect joe biden plans to get vaccinated in front of the cameras as early as next week to demonstrate that the

vaccine is safe and effective 3 former presidents bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama plan to do 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 don't trump is also open to being vaccinated but there's no indication yet of when that will happen. and europe the world health organization execs pectin things to get worse several countries including the netherlands and germany are struggling to contain royson coronavirus infections well the u.k. government is again accused of being creating confusion and uncertainty join 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 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 people 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 household 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 join a whole al-jazeera. so the africa has recorded more than 10 sizes 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 ways. is in johannesburg with more and what exactly is south africa doing about the rise in new infections there. well the rise in infections was a spear to the when logged done measures were eased a few months ago so schools are reopened businesses will reopen and people were allowed to move up and down the country part the reason for that is because so averages economy couldn't sustain an extended lock down to the economy had to keep functioning that's why things opened up now with the festive season coming officials are concerned those numbers will continue to rise as more people from the bigger cities live johannesburg and go through areas to spend time with their family and friends so they have implemented some things on the ground for example there will be a nighttime curfew when it comes to selling alcohol for example shops going into

our goal at certain times of the day and also certain days of the week for example and when it comes to big public gatherings they're trying to limit those numbers from maybe no more than 50 people and then of course one thing that happens here in south africa is joining the thinks of season memory many families and friends who congregate at the many beaches across the country and they have these big loud parties thousands of people attend the governor's told people this time around nor will be allowed on those beaches those beaches will be closed it remains to be seen of course if people will listen to the government's instructions and her that's the situation in south africa but the pandemic is of course in other countries across continents how are they fearing and keeping this. under control. it's sort of a similar case of cross the continent we seeing every day now of these rise in

infections in almost every african countries and we see in governments trying to bring down those rates of infections trying to tell people to keep safe for example in namibia they've now told people have to limit the number of gatherings in public places from 200 to about 50 bars and nightclubs to close on certain days there is going to be a nighttime curfew in the democratic problem of congo for example there's now a nighttime curfew the only people will be allowed to be on the road during the curfew will be health workers in one hour sneed special permission to be out on the road in rwanda they are going to try and test more school children to see how many of them are infected how and how many of them will need to be treated it's a way to try and make sure that when schools reopen after the festive season maybe they'll try to make those schools safer as well another problem in the african is a facing is it if you impose all these curfews and restrictions then are concerned about when these vaccines are going to arrive on the continent many of these poor

countries have signed up to a. sharing scheme called kovacs whereby the w.h. or and some other organizations will pile it together try and bring these vaccines more cheaply to the african continent but of course the case of course and the justice because once they even get on to the continent there's a concern about storage and distribution of these vaccines and many of them for now it seems who need very cold temperatures and many parts of the continent struggle with constant pretty supplies challenging. her messias and their variants on the very latest from johannesburg thank you kyra. the world health organization says beijing has welcomed the planned visit by international investigators to look into the origins of the virus most experts believe it originated in animals and spread through when markets city over to harm the u.s. has criticized the terms of the w.h.o.

loads investigation chinese sciences are being allowed to do the 1st phase of research for details from florence lou. 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 wet 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 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. under u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to cover up the initial outbreak. u.s. government agencies are rushing to beef up their security after confirming they've been hits in the long running and sophisticated operation the attackers are suspected to be russian the peers cyber defenses and access to e-mail and some terminal files that the treasury and comber support that's possibly elsewhere well though the west bank is the chief executive of global cyber risk in his wrists and

abut 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 does impact 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. 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 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 bad and broad attack that again went to. defense companies the top 10 communication companies that went to see 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 still to come here on al-jazeera we'll hear from one of the the schoolboys who escaped a mass kidnapping in the woods and nigeria.

follow the rain clouds are gathering across the philippines at the moment but clutches storms moving towards the central and southern parts of the country and that could lead to some localized flooding some very heavy downpours coming through here to russia shows that into vietnam will see some western weather into the move a pensioner northern parts of borneo also seeing some live down poles at times some heavy rains in the full cost there for a good part of in the asia over the next couple of days us a little further north a system making its way across central parts of the philippines will slide out towards the south china sea and then it turns wetter the northern parts lose on seeing some big downpours on sassed and again we could see some localized flooding that course we have seen flooding recently across the eastern side of australia things squatting down a little over the next day i'll say but still quite

a few showers in the forecast slight in the way down towards victoria well so weather that just around on a mill and pushing up towards northern territory darwin seeing some very heavy rain and wetter weather will also make its way towards new zealand this we had on through saturday look further east and this is where we have had trouble cycle and yes it's making its way further southwest away from fiji that wet and windy weather grassy with the sack. the birthplace of democracy but ethnic kurds from the northeast tell a different story the groups they bounce to control our religion our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like police you can both hurt you why i'm dirty but i'm also greek people in power investigates western thrice

contested space on al-jazeera. to. the world. they say is al jazeera a quick reminder over top stories this hour the u.s. is registered to coronavirus records for one day of the deaths and new cases nearly 3600 people died because a quarter of a 1000000 were infected. south africa has recorded more than 10000 infections a little past 24 hours its highest figure since august several countries across the continents are bringing new restrictions as they worry about

a 2nd wave of the virus. and u.s. government agencies are rushing to be fought their sick could computer security after confirming they've been hits in a long running answered the cicadas hacking operations hackers pierced cyber defenses at the treasury and commerce departments. well 10 years ago a fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire in a desperate and fatal act of protest muhammad was easy sanctions taps into frustration and fear it home and across the region into what became known as the arab spring well chin is here is an arab country that transitions into democracy as a result but many say things have only become worse and smith is in see the new seeds where the chin is in revolution began bernard says this is by all accounts

a landmark day. however people marking it. there was a small ceremony official ceremony earlier today the only one in the whole of june easier to mark the time when muhammad boise set himself on fire and set in train the events that led to the tunisian revolution and the fall of the regime here and in the 10 years since 2 news in has been free to choose their own leaders and to criticize the state but economically little has changed and in fact in the last few weeks in the southern corridor sounds of 2 newsier such as where i am there been protests against unemployment against lack of opportunity against for social services and many of the tunisians we've spoken to since we've been here this week have expressed frustration but little has changed and been lost opportunities in those 10 years since the revolution. 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 little or to hear the call trees going to the wall really going to the world nothing change it's like there was no revolution we only changed the president that's it though it has to lima that is too much freedom now but with it you answer to others there is no security like there was before you can be killed going to the stadium to watch a football match all these kind of thinks it 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 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 there.

tunisia is one of the only arab countries where democracy survives but incomes of fallen by a 5th over the past decade. now had to do with it can't leave onward to jobs main city was eed 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 and there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12 months. than it did this generation protested against the all for a tarion rule of xeno bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear don't lay human. life which is really very beautiful and that ben ali 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 its jasmine revolution is often held up as an example of how popular uprisings can succeed in the middle east. now 2011 tunisia had his 1st democratic elections and then what they won by then are the party that have been banned under the previous regime and tunisians have voted regularly in elections since then the most recent was last year but by that election and had won only a 3rd of the votes that it got in 2011 showing the challenges this country faces it tries to rebuild its economy particularly that's now been hit severely by the covert 90 now. ok bareness method live for us in city thank you.

the u.s. is expected to unseal china. another suspects in the 1988 lockerbie bombing that killed 370 people a libyan intelligence officer identified as our mohammed must suit is accused of making the bomb that blew up a u.s. airliner over the scottish tion of lockerbie most of the victims on the london to new york flights were u.s. citizens massoud is reportedly in custody in libya and is it is expected to be extradited to the u.s. to stand trial there. russian president president vladimir putin this was in his annual marathon media conference 5 if you check out this year due to the pandemic well he is currently fielding questions from his private residence just outside of moscow most of those questions are likely to be the pandemic and related economic downturn as well as russia's locally produced. the facts let's get more now from

alexandra good for us she joins us from moscow and alexandra this is a mammoth events expected to continue for quite some just in the last few minutes that it starts what have we learned so far. oh hello yes indeed the 16th annual a press conference of russian president has just started and it started from the main subject of the 0 worldwide which is the damage caused coronavirus he was basically asked to estimate at this year it's blasters in mind and says and then noted that this year was definitely marked by the pandemic and that affected all the aspects of life of a russian citizens now he did meet the jobs were lost to this been there many people have less money to spend that prices rose the economy went down but then

he turned on a more positive note and this is also something that happens basically every year he said that despite of all of this russian economy was stable and the fall of the gross domestic product g.d.p. of russia is less than it is in you or united states according to him he also tried to sort of suv people saying that even they might not feel it in their own personal budgets but to a lot of of their real incomes for what they have to spend will be only around 3. sent and this is indeed something very very traditional reassuring people even about things that they feel themselves at the same time acknowledging that there are problems we can further expect this subject to develop the subject of the band their mix and the measures that have been taken and how it affected people's lives but also the russian a vaccination program there that started also the rising prices of

food in russia and measures that are taken around there but also international relations for sure us elections for sure expansion of nato which is something that worries russia the most and for sure relations with the with the e.u. with that has that has sort of during the past years there were lots to look forward see in the arras to come will be checking in with you again but for now i'll xander called for in moscow thank you one of the schoolboys escaped capture in northern nigeria has spoken of his ordeal hundreds of students were abducted from a school in can't see the state last week a faction of the armed group or koran says it's responsible so far 17 boys have been rescued by security forces. after we scaled the fence we were hearing voices saying that we should come back thinking they were police officers unknown

to us it was the brain that. spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform. of i don't know if you would be more king for so long i was already exhausted from a circle so patients wanted to hold my friend shoulder on to my right at the to my lift before i could continue the trichuris walk into the bush as the bandits continue to flow from the back so that they move faster. we came across young boys though not as old as the ones that came to kidnap us from school boys in their teens armed with guns in the bush some younger than us. a chinese lunar probe has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected from the moon in decades sound of 5 successful touchstone rings and n c one for most complicated missions in china's aerospace history it's only the 3rd country to collect lunar rock and deeply samples katrina use in beijing with more on china's most of ations for the mission. well they do his goals really are 2

fold the 1st is scientific tunnel 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 in 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 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 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 s. london's mayor says a legal ruling than king air pollution so a young girl's death could be a turning points in a public health crisis the coroner's finds invalid's a tireless campaign by the 9 year old's mother as paul brennan reports. she was an active little girl who loved swimming and dancing but for the whole of deborah short life she was surrounded by toxic air pollution living next to london's busy

south circular road alone was regularly exposed to nitrogen dioxide levels in particular matter and excessive u.k. legal limits on world health organization guidelines she'd suffered seizures and been taken to hospital 9030 times in the 3 years before her death but the original inquest into her death did not include air pollution as a factor and only after relentless campaigning by alice mother who's this new coroner's inquest ordered the outcome is groundbreaking it was about my daughter getting air pollution on the death certificate which we finally have and we've got the justice will have which she so does that have to but also it's about the children still as we walk around our city of high levels of air pollution the death of electricity deborah is not just a personal tragedy for this family it highlights a national and international crisis the u.k. has one of the highest estimate death rates in europe nearly 50 percent higher than

the european average and a research estimate that every year 4000000 children around the world develop asthma as a direct result of breathing in traffic pollution. in britain an estimated 1100000 children have asthma that's one in 11 including adult an average of 3 people die of the condition every day and it's a growing issue there was a 20 percent increase in deaths between 20112015 britain has repeatedly failed to meet domestic and international legal limits on nitrogen dioxide pollution the mayor of london described his inquest as a landmark moment which should be a turning point he said in public policy what comes to this judgment must be should and it must be joined our government should show all the lives saved this is a financial incentive to the u.k.

national health service spends around one point $3000000000.00 a year on trying to treat asthma this inquest confirmation of the need not just to treat the symptoms of the condition but to tackle the traffic pollution which is one of its root causes paul brennan al-jazeera so the current us course. they say is al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. is registered to coronavirus records in one day the number of new deaths and new cases 3600 people died in cost a quarter of a 1000000 were infected in a single day president elect joe biden plans 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 size.