the global pandemic could lead to positive change the plan to fix the killing of it all hail the lockdown exposes privilege and poverty during a crisis just 0. 0 . of them can but al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes french president amanda mccollum becomes the latest world leader to test positive for covert 90. nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people test positive for corona virus in the u.s. and one day a warning for the rest of the world it's a major holiday approaches. a decade after the arab spring began into this year we look at what has and hasn't changed there. and the

u.s. government confirms its networks are under attack from a significant tracking operation and still ongoing. and i'm satisfied to believe it's a sport cristiana rinaldo a message from the penalty spot costing events is the win against us lance are in feria. we begin with breaking news this hour french president obama calling has tested positive for covert 90 to talk about what is on the line for us now in paris what more do we don't. my apologies we seem to have lost natalee there we will bring her back when we can as i mentioned french president your call has tested positive for covert 19 we'll bring you more on that story as it comes to hand on the united states it is

registered to coronavirus records in one day for the number of deaths and daily infections more than 3500 people died on wednesday and u.s. registered at least 247000 cases doctors had once november's thanksgiving holiday could send infections soaring several african countries are now seeing a 2nd wave south africa has reported its highest new daily cases since august in europe several countries have gone into lockdown and the world health organization is expecting things to get worse governments being accused of creating uncertainty as the christmas holidays approach and one year after the 1st case was reported international investigators will take a crucial step forward in understanding the origins of the virus w.h.o. led team will visit china in january and we've got correspondents across the globe

following these developments will bring us the latest out of asia paul brennan bring us up to date on the situation in the u.k. let's begin though with her mattel so who is in south africa. south africa has gone above i believe $10000.00 new infections in a day what is the plan to tackle that rise. well the rise in infections was expected when lockdown measures were eased a few months ago over the past few months you saw schools reopening businesses reopening and people being allowed to move up and down the country now so africa's economy can sustain a long locked out i mean the unemployment rate here is more than 30 percent and they've been massive job losses because of corporate 19 now government officials are concerned that once the festive season starts they're going to see thousands of people leave big cities like johannesburg and go to the rural areas to be with family and friends and try to implement some kind of measures on the ground to try and stop the rise in infections one of them is

a nighttime curfew they are also saying that the sale of alcohol for example can only be sold on certain days and at certain times they're limiting the number of public gatherings another big concern they have is that it's a tradition here in south africa where families and friends gather at one of the many beautiful beaches across the country in the thousands and party for days of the festive season the government says that it would no longer be allowed to try and stop this rise in infections but it remains to be seen if people will listen to what the government is told them to do ok so that south africa was the picture across the rest of the continent. what the other countries are seeing a rise in infection rates and it is worrying some african governments some of them are imposing certain measures for example in there may be a limit to the number of public gatherings from 200 to 50 people at a time bars and nightclubs can only be open on certain days and at certain times

you go to rwanda they're now trying to take as many school children as possible so that when the schools reopen after the 5th of season that's or way they say they'll try to keep some of those school save some of the children safe in the d.r. see the democratic republic of congo there's now a nighttime curfew government officials are saying people who are only be allowed on the road at night will be health workers essential health workers anyone else who needs special permission to move around so while government african governments are concerned about the rise and fractures of course is the big question by the vaccines when are they going to arrive on the continent of many of the poor countries are part of a vaccine sharing scheme called kovacs where they hope within time the w.h. or other partners will deliver these massive vaccines to the african continent a concern now as when they do finally arrive health workers say maybe mid next year when they do a arrive there's concern about where they're going to be stored in how they're going to be stored and some of these vaccines need very cold temperatures in many

african countries and health facilities struggled with constant it was the supplies it is a logistical nightmare thank you so much for her of a tartar life. let's go back to natasha butler now who is on the line for us. with the news that the french president amanda marcotte has tested positive for cover 19 natasha what more do we know. well this news comes to us from the lead say who puts out a statement a short while ago saying that the french president's amount of micro has tested positive for curve $890.00 apparently he is symptomatic he has shown symptoms and he will now isolate for 7 days but of course this throws up or just the plaster of issues i mean 1st of all who the president has been in contact with over the past few days which of course you can imagine is a world leader it is many people we know for example that he met the portuguese prime minister a few days ago he also had a meeting with the home french cabinet just yesterday on wednesday and we've since

learned that the french prime minister jocasta ex has also placed himself in self isolation for the moment of course the whole cabinet you can imagine would be tested it also is very that the issue of what happens in the coming days because president marco had a rather busy agenda he thought there due to go to lebanon although the visit only 22nd 23rd of december that would be just at the end of his eyes elation period but of course it would depend. on the situation with his health i don't know if comes really at a time in which from beginning to lift some of it locked down restrictions in fact one of the main restriction was lifted a little bit earlier this week and that was a restriction on freedom of movement people can now move around the country as freely as possible the government have been warning that christmas could be of course a very tricky and delicate time because 19 is do anything. high rates and sounds

and people are being warned to be very careful of the christmas period nevertheless the government is allowing people to get a get together over the christmas and new year period we just causes a big holiday season here in france families getting together so a big worry for president macro testing positive 19 again this context of the virus in the pandemic you know going situation here in fall thank you for that then to talk about the live from paris. well the world health organization is expecting things to get worse in europe several countries including the netherlands and germany a struggling to contain rising costs $19.00 evictions of the u.k. government is again being accused of creating confusion and uncertainty and 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 learned there have not been tested cases not one that's very clear mistakes keep being made the government refuses to admit to any mistakes if one doesn't reflect on one's mistakes properly 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. al

jazeera let's get an update on the situation in the u.k. now paul brennan joins us live from london paul the numbers we're seeing in the u.s. there a high numbers off the thanksgiving how does that bode for the u.k. with the christmas holidays coming up. it doesn't bode well and certainly the concerns of epidemiologists who look purely at the data are being echoed by the concerns of behavioral scientists who are analyzing how people react to news and to expectations and to habits not forgetting christmas is a traditional family time to get together the differences in advice and law here in the u.k. raise the issue of potential confusion we heard yesterday from boris johnson we're going to hear some more from the minister of state responsible the health secretary matt hancock in just over an hour's time where he talks about whether or not

there's going to be a restriction or a loosening of the tier system we have a 3 tier system here in the u.k. at the top level 2 or 3 households are not allowed to mix indoors that will change for christmas specifically for the 5 days that boris johnson was talking about in journals report there but this to ing and fro ing and also the idea that some people are simply not abiding by the rules are rather choosing to pick and choose what they what they want what they abide by is causing real concern for next year for january what impact are behaviors now going to have on the infection rate then . ok thank you for that update there paul brennan live from london let's get the picture in asia now with who is in kuala lumpur far it's so china is now allowing international investigators into the country to look into the origins of the virus and want to how is that we're going to go down given beijing's initial reluctance

to do so. while we still don't know where exactly the w.h.o. team is going to be allowed to travel to w.h.o. officials say the itinerary is still being discussed. in seeking access for months conducting negotiations now and scientists say they want to try and gather as much information as possible and the whole idea is so that they can be the world can be better prepared for possible future outbreaks so they want to find out when the virus 1st started circulating how it started which species it came from how it jumped to humans now it's thought that the virus could have come from a market in one city that sells live animals and if you remember in december a doctor in one city had warned other doctors about a possible new virus outbreak and chinese police had investigated him and told him to stop making false comments has since passed away after contracting covert 19 himself and since then chinese media have also published chinese state media i

should say have also published reports suggesting that the virus had existed abroad before it was discovered in on now the search for the source of this virus has caused tensions especially after u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to can cover up the initial out break but scientists with the w.h.o. team say this investigation is really not about apportioning blame or confirming who started their pen demick they want to find out what happened exactly so that the world can be better prepared in the future and to reduce the risk of possible future outbreaks but of course the success of this mission this investigation will also depend on large part on the how much access chinese officials give the team and we know our hands had difficulties in the past in not just negotiating access but even in receiving the right data that they had requested when it came to researching this virus. ok thank you for that florence lawyer live for us in kuala

lumpur. but more ahead on the news are. grateful to be alive the student who managed to escape from his kidnappers in nigeria recounts his ordeal remembers friends behind. chinese food a camp show returns to earth with the 1st samples of rocks from the moon in more than 40 years. and adelaide is the stage one of the year's most highly anticipated cricket matches gets under way details coming up in sports. al-jazeera has exclusively obtained the draft european union resolution on the terrier eating human rights in egypt the e.u. parliament will vote on the motion on thursday among other topics it condemns the kidnapping torture and killing of

a telling researcher julio originally and 2016 the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by egyptian authorities to hinder progress in the judea regina murder investigation and also expresses regress over a persistent refusal by egypt to give italy information needed for a transparent probe and it urges the e.u. member states to pressure egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with italian investigators and warns against the intimidation of witnesses and its lee's government is also urging the e.u. to help seek justice citing new evidence which suggests 4 egyptian security personnel took part in regime is kidnapping and that one was involved in the killing and italian journalist and former cabinet minister are both returning from the us highest award it's in protest against gyptian president sisi being awarded the same honor last week. joins me now live from brussels tell us a bit more about what's going to happen today. with the torture murder

of jewelry genie in 2016 has gone way beyond being a diplomatic row a spat between italy and egypt it's reverberated all the way here to the european parliament where a draft resolution is now being debated putting pressure on the egyptian authorities not to intimidate witnesses not to obstruct the high level investigation into the death of the cambridge university ph d. research or he disappeared in january of 2016 his body was found several weeks later in a ditch showing signs of being tortured in stages there since then the egyptian authorities have opened up an investigation but of accuse the the italian authorities are either very open up an investigation but accuse the egyptian or authorities time and time again of obstructing and for straightening their search for justice and we're getting some lines out of the debate that's happening here at parliament some are calling for the e.u.

to initiate its mechanisms when it comes to initiating sanctions against egypt but of course a tremendous amount of frustration from human rights groups who say that given the fact that there are ongoing trade between certain e.u. countries in egypt particular when it comes to arms sales more needs to be done when it comes to a wake up call to re-evaluate the e.u.'s ongoing relationship with egypt going forward we expect a vote sometime soon we'll know about an hour after that vote whether or not this resolution has been adopted. in brussels thank you. sudan's military has accused ethiopian forces and militias of ambushing its officers during a security patrol near the border on tuesday there's a number of soldiers were killed in an area bordering ethiopia's to great region where the ethiopian government has been carrying out an armed campaign against local forces so don's prime minister visited ethiopia on sunday and expressed

concerns about threats to saddam's security along its border with tikrit the u.s. is expected to unseal charges against another suspect in the 988 lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people a libyan intelligence officer identified a giller mohammed bus that is accused of making the bomb blew up a u.s. airliner over the scottish town of lockerbie most of the victims on the london to new york pan am flight $103.00 were american citizens also it is reportedly in custody in libya and is expected to be extradited to the u.s. to stand trial there. rescue teams have recovered bodies of 4 children after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of libya the libyan red crescent reports of a sinking boat carrying 30 people near the coast of zawiya west of the capital tripoli and search for other bodies continues no survivors have been found libya is a major transit hub for migrants mostly from sub-saharan africa attempting to cross

to europe. 10 years ago a fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire in a desperate and fatal act of protest. for z.z.z. actions tapped into frustration and fury at home add across the region needing to what became known as the arab spring tunisia is an arab country that transitioned into democracy but many say things have only become worse than it's worth is in city was it's we're too busy as revolution began but how people marking the day. came there was a small ceremony earlier this morning an official ceremony the only one in all of 2 newsier to commemorate that moment when mama who is easy set himself on fire that event took place just beyond it was very sparsely attended people staying away in

protest they say because nothing's changed since nothing is changed in the last 10 years more people turning out now been more protest about the lack of opportunity and the lack of social services here in this part of tunisia yet in the last 10 years people have been able to elect their own leaders and they've been free to criticize the statement many people will tell you that in the last decade they look back at what happened with regret at the missed opportunities to change things here . 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 but young to be disillusioned very little if you 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 precedent that it the world has skill

limit there is too much freedom now with it you answer the others there is no security like there was before you can be killed going to the states. to watch a football match these kind of things never happened before mohammed bouazizi 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. now had to do with it 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 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 all 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 feeling. that 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. but to tell us a bit more about the challenges facing today.

came one of the main issues is unemployment and already weakened economy is. we can do even further because like everywhere else in the world the corona virus in corona virus outbreak has had a huge impact particularly only important towards some sector here and there's been lots of protests in these southern poor southern towns inland sounds of tunisia the been a lot of protests in the last few weeks particularly over unemployment is actually here the moment a shortage of cooking gas canisters and that's because the state run cooking gas manufacturing plant has been closed down by the people working there because they're demanding there are more jobs provided for local people not ended up in the shop clamping down closing down on a shortage of gas and it's very cold time of their people without gas to cope so that has come come compounding issues here and we've seen lawyers just out protesting now people standing on the monuments to mohamed bouazizi protesting

about and i'm poem and this is a normal working day of friday but there are not jobs for people to go to so 10 years on very little has changed here the ruling party ennahda that won those elections in 2011 and the last elections here a year ago they got just a 3rd of the vote but they managed to get on 2011. ok but it's nothing to live from city visit thank you. one of the schoolboys who escaped capture in northern nigeria has spoken of his ordeal hundreds of students were abducted from a school the katsina state last week a faction of our group boko haram says it's responsible so far 17 have been rescued at the other 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 and i jarius 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 the years utility mcmillian one 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 bandits they then gathered us at a spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform but there was another chance to escape in a joint rescue operation the military found the kidnappers base and as gunfire broke out many of the victims ran again some or was among them a skill set of i don't know if you will be more king for so long i was already exhausted from a sickle cell patients want to hold my friend shoulder on to my right the other to my left before i 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 that are not as old as the ones that came to kidnap us from the 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 cutty a look this will yun al-jazeera. fijians have been warned that no part of the pacific island nation will escape the approaching super site road. it's a category 5 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 sideline 4 years ago that killed dozens of people. a major winter snowstorm has hit the north east of the united states this was the scene in new york city's times square is the storm rolled in it's forecast to dump up to 60 centimeters some snow in some areas where the warnings are in place along much of the east coast rotavirus testing sides are being canceled in several cities and all schools have warned vaccine deliveries may be delayed this time after the weather has ever been . hello there well i'm pleased to say that they went to storm that's been sweeping up the eastern seaboard of the us is least moving pretty quickly so that's some saving grace at the moment we're looking at the system just off the coast of new york they're gradually pushing further northwards and a swiss by the time we come to sas they will be a thing of the past with dragging in what a cool breeze crisp sunshine sparkling sunshine blue sky there as we go on through

friday it is going to be cold temperatures no higher than around one degree above freezing their full neocon just a top temperature 3 degrees there in d.c. but at least it should be dry by this state ice will be something to watch out for more snow coming into central parts of canada will snow coming into western parts of canada and that will repack pop as it makes its way further inland as we go on through saturday rains making its way into basi into the pacific northwest some very heavy downpours coming through here further south this fairly dry for a good part of that western side of the u.s. but he comes out west a weather mix of rain and snow that's going to push its way over towards the appalachians as we go on through saturday gras is he making its way for the race was a notice down into the deep south that rain does get pretty intense with the possibility of flooding for some. still ahead on al-jazeera an ancient defense installation in georgia that is now in need of defense. will be live from moscow where president

vladimir putin is holding his annual marathon press conference. and the n.b.a. champions step up their preparations for the new season possible action coming up in schools. when an ethiopian mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of what was to come. with family been severed the traumatized child tone between 2 worlds struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep rules in denmark's adoption system and. girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera i was. working in asia and africa very few days where i'd be shooting editing my own stories in

a refugee camp with no electricity and right now we're confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together that's why al-jazeera is so important we make those connections. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour president emanuel called has tested positive for covert 90 yourself isolated continue to work with the french prime minister will also. coming into contact with in recent days. the

u.s. is registered to coronavirus records in one day the number of deaths and cases nearly 3600 people dollars have posted 250000 word fact it. south africa has reported more than 10000 new infections of the past 24 hours since highest figure it sent several countries across the continent up bringing in new restrictions they worry about a 2nd wave. u.s. government agencies are rushing to beef up their computer security after confirming they've been hit in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation the attackers also suspected to be russian pissed solid defenses and access to e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce departments possibly elsewhere it's again showing the vulnerability of supposedly secure government networks let's bring in joanna bryson in berlin she is a professor of ethics and technology at the hershey school of governance thank you

for your time. so it seems that hackers gained entry when using downloaded tainted software update belonging to solar winds a company it turns out most fortune 500 companies as well as the pentagon the white house use that seems like a pretty simple way to breach defenses but it's being called sophisticated can you explain that to me. oh yeah well it is 1st of all thanks for having me here it is sophisticated i've been reading what the microsoft has blogged about this and that they do a lot transnational cyber security of course and they claim that it's not only that somebody did a reasonably sophisticated job of getting into the softer itself but also that somebody had to have been physically and site to get access to the tokens of that like the security bits that made it look like people are authorized to have made those changes to the code so it is reasonably sophisticated i mean it's kind of

like september 11th you know you think how hard is it to fly in a plane as the silly nation state of course that was the amount of organization that it took us as a nation state level and the fact that it includes physical intrusion as well as the fact that they put the software together in a way that wasn't immediately noticed what immediately for months yeah yeah what is the depth of information that would have made accessible from this software update with the type of software that it was how much information potentially quite have been exposed. well i can't know that and. indeed i believe there are very few for trying to figure that out right now but it is as you mentioned considerable concern because this is this is the networking site where so basically are all the information that was going from one computer to another from one person to another could potentially have been flowing through this

networking software and so it's really disturbing that nobody noticed that there might have been extra information flowing that there wasn't some kind of a check as i understand that was the mistake made but apparently it was of our respective company and. that apparently it's been used by a lot of fortune 500 companies and. also the european parliament so potentially that a lot of the information has been exposed we don't know of course tell us recorded the fact that no damage was done and that are that there was no attempt that might have meant that it was extremely valuable that they were seeing was more valuable than any kind of. hacking damaging thing that they could have done yeah exactly i mean has the u.s. spent vast amounts of money in recent years trying to shore up its side the defenses to avoid exactly this kind of thing. well you know you're out here asking

a little bit of my expertise that i'm an expert in. mostly well known and sober security because i keep pointing out that if you have any kind of technology even if you label it it's exposed to cyber security problems of the sort that impresses to fall out. so i haven't been totally on top of this investment but i would imagine so and that's certainly noticed now that people are worried about. that they're comparing it to the crisis of cyber security they've been going through for the last decade so that makes it sound like people in the sea suites of companies. have become very aware of that the level of exposure that a company can suffer so i would imagine there's a lot of money being spent having said that of course money doesn't always give you quality but that's another conversation is it hey thank you so much for your time joanna brice and there live for us there. russian president of

a person is hosting his annual marathon media conference via video chat this year due to the pandemic he's fielding questions from his private residence outside of moscow last are likely to be about a pandemic related economic downturn as well as russia's locally produced spot like the vaccine alexander got far too as it's now live from moscow and it's under a lot could be put to president putin today we're just talking about russia being implicated in this hack in the u.s. what's been said so far. well you know he was asked about basically the previous case of 2016 elections and he flat out to deny that russia hacked. the democratic party and anything in the united states that russia held. elected 4 years ago he actually said to these is

a hearsay a sort of a fantasy that has been invented within us and that made relations of russia and us a hostage of internal political struggle within the america itself he also said that he hopes with the new administration some issues between 2 countries could be resolved and then in a sort of a contract on a completely different issue here actually accused u.s. intelligence and intelligence and state department who are trying to interfere in russia for trying to interfere in the public opinion of russia he was basically answering the question about the reasoning. about the poisoning of the vialli where the russian intelligence officers were implicated also a certain verse to geisha in about. the riches of his ex son in law and then in between laughing it off and downplaying he accused u.s. intelligence for a decent saying this is a way to of a revenge and this is also

a way of political ratings to be raised saying that if anyone wanted to poison him and then they would bring this issue to the end 1st but 1st our actually off this press conference was as you noted marked by the been there makes my job losses by the economical decline but about communication in certain regions and of course about the russian vaccines. and everybody here in russia wants to know whether putin himself will get this shot well he said that he is not in the age group that is recommended to get the shot. at this point being 68 years old but recommended they were one to get this vaccine saying praising it saying it's good is sufficient then it will help with the fighting within them weeks and personally is taking questions directly from the public isn't it how is that being received in russia. what it is a kind of a novelty a because usually that would be

a special event but now it's combined with a press conference and the questions can be sand at this point as well. people can record of their question and send in this short video and then there are volunteers who are together in all these questions and then picking up to ask putin and usually these are questions that are either a very personal or local asking for help and those so far the questions we heard from that channel are basically. about job losses they are about their mix about lack of medications certain regions about to not enough of vaccine being produced so it is now combined with the questions coming from a journalist so we can expect that there will be more of these questions about social issues about the personal local problems in some town in in russia. thank you for that update i found there live from moscow more now on the corona

virus a pandemic brazil's government has announced plans to buy billions of dollars worth of covert $900.00 vaccines it's the world's 3rd worst affected country and infections of virus related deaths continue to rise on occasion are reports from rio de janeiro. christmas shopping in brazil's largest city is a risky business forget social distancing barely any room to walk in the stacks streets of somebody without breathing down somebodies neck. fears 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 maddow 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 old brazilians will receive the vaccine which will be

voluntary and free brazil's health minister said the immunization 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 chinese lunar probe has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected from the moon in decades 5 successful touchdown brings an end to one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history katrina you reports from beijing this was the moment the capsule carrying rock samples from the moon granted the earth's atmosphere the final stage of an ambitious unmanned mission the spacecraft touched down in china's northwestern province of in a mongolia at 2 am local time on wednesday within an hour recovery teams arrived at the site partly cordoning off the area in pitching up a chinese flag capsule and its contents will be sent to beijing for analysis and

then the. crew will inspect troubleshoot and measure the impact of the landing then the capsule will be hoisted and transported. charges chunder 5 probes launched in late november the 1st attempt to retrieve lunar samples since a russian mission 4 decades ago the spacecraft collected 2 kilograms of rocks from an area known as the ocean of storms scientists hope these will lead to new discoveries about the moon's origins and foundation. chinese state media have described the mission as a national triumph saying it will pave the way for chinese astronauts to walk on the moon within the next 20 years it is significant for china and a source of inspiration it's also a milestone in terms of chinese space exploration and provides a solid foundation for future moon exploration plan the little launch and landing would broadcast live technical failures during previous missions have caused the chinese government much embarrassment they doing has invested billions into

research and development in hopes of becoming a major space power by 2045 but it still lags far behind the united states nasa has been banned from working with china due to security concerns. for now beijing is playing down any rivalry saying it intends to share the lunar samples with scientists from around the world katrina you al-jazeera beijing a new zealand government has agreed to a $30000000.00 deal to buy disputed land the land her motto is at the center of a dispute between a probably development company and indigenous model the government will take ownership of it but it's not clear what happens after that. dozens of united nations world heritage sites that have been damaged by warfare on the black risk of losing their status and the 3rd of our 5 part series on unesco's endangered list revisit the ancient fortress villages of a high in the mountains of western georgia from their robin foster walk of reports

on a story of uncontrolled terrorism and failed restoration. the. mayor for centuries these defensive towers protected and preserved the sun the community. the cluster of villages has world heritage status but these extraordinary medieval architecture is steadily collapsing. mosts family tower was damaged in an avalanche he says the old thirties promised to repair it. help never came. we were celebrating a religious holiday and the tower collapsed feingold nobody was hurt but the saudis

thing is i have a teach collapsed with it. that heritage has outstanding value to humanity as defined by unesco before the pandemic it brought tourism vital income but tourism brought on regulated development like its towers which goodies value is eroding. this neighborhood is emblematic of the problems facing. you can see that breeze block extension over there completely out of keeping with its surroundings this ancient family home has been almost destroyed after a tower collapsed and the tower is being rebuilt by the government but locals tell me that the quality of the work pales in comparison to the majestic craftsmanship of their ancestors george's heritage agency admits the work has been in authentic

but it also blames locals for illegal construction have fun rights campaigners say the responsibility for protecting this unique culture must be shed. and is in danger and he definitely needs the attention of the state no one else is responsible for our material cultural and spiritual heritage it's the responsibility of the country and its people. until then sons are taking matters into their own hands. gears taua contains family heirlooms dating back 8 generations he lost patience waiting for experts to protect the building from collapse so he did the repairs himself. appears frozen in time in reality it is falling apart without a plan the by the government for this community its uniqueness may not survive

another generation. robyn 1st year walka 0. added the next part of the series will be and set of goals nicola called a park to a unique species of wildlife but it's called heritage that is is on the fresh will join those patrolling to protect it from 10 g.m.t. on friday they're on al-jazeera. let's go back to that breaking news now that the french president has tested positive for covert 19 let's go back to natasha who is in paris natasha what more do we not. hear say information coming to us from the palace and put out a statement a short while ago saying that the french president emanuel macro has tested positive for covert 19 that test came today the least they say is that the french president will now be isolated for the next 7 days but that he will be following

what is going on he will be working of course distance in isolation it seems the president did have symptoms he was feeling unwell when he had that test now of course this all throws up a plethora of issues 1st of all who has he come into contact with we know already that he was in close contact with the french prime minister shore cast x. who's already been placed in isolation since the news broke of him at all macros positive test and you can imagine that the whole of the french cabinets may also be tested in the next few hours because there was a cabinet meeting with the french president on wednesday also news that the. prime minister of spain. is being placed in isolation too as a contact case because key met president a few days ago in paris so of course many people have come into contact with the president will be undergoing tests will be placed in isolation until they have

those results and also throws up the issue of what happens going forward as i said the president's staff say that he will continue to work over the next few days in isolation but there was a very busy agenda ahead he had a lot of appointments including he was going to lebanon on the 22nd and 23rd of december at the end of that isolation period will have to wait and see whether or not that trip will still be possible sure he'll be very thankful he's been following the science wearing a mask not shaking hands is a big proponent of the elbows isn't. ok thank you for that. live from paris. son of a sport has our thanks luck came while we are starting with football and sorry all except for it's tight for the tightest title race in years into 9 scored a big win on wednesday on either solar league leaders a semantic points christiane or no cost eventis a win so how mike has all the action. but. sometimes things just don't go

according to plan that's how you ventus might be feeling after their game against atalanta with alviro marotta producing a miss of the season contender just over 10 minutes in. and while federico case a did put them ahead with the 1st half stunner. some messy defending after the break would open the door for atalanta's remo for oiler to equalise. they did have the chance to put things right moments later after receiving a penalty the ever reliable christianne over nahla stepped up. but it just wasn't movies not. final score 11. but. it wasn't an easy game but ronaldo played well had he scored from the spot we wouldn't be judging him in the same way he did what he had to do maybe wasn't very

brilliant but he's a champion any player can miss a penalty kick. league leaders ac milan also dropped points and had to come back twice against john or to salvage a point matiya distro got the opener for the genevese and would cause problems all night. milan's 1st equaliser came from debit calabria. but not long after they were behind again as desperate doubled his tally for the match but in the dying minutes milan drew level. kalulu getting the crucial goal. that's the 2nd draw in a row for the royals an airing. do however remain unbeaten. ac milan city rivals into had a much better night they beat fellow title rivals napoli but there was plenty of controversy and tell you conti side were awarded a penalty after matteo damien was brought down by daffodil spinner. that decision

didn't impress napoli's lorenzo in sr he made his feelings clear and that led to his dismissal. of the drama however didn't faze remember look. he made no mistake from the spot to seal a one little win and keep into on target for the squad at all so he'll mallett al-jazeera. well this is what the table is looking i coughed of those results you can see sauce wallow there in 5th also plays on wednesday they were held to a draw by fear and seen a 6th place was roma face to reno later on thursday. now live a poor have returned to top spot in the english premier league they beat tottenham 21 a infield homicide off gave the rainey and champions a lead before song him men equalized the spurs were better for me you know then scored a late winner for the home team. and also on wednesday leeds beats newcastle

$52.00 and everton were 2 no winners at leicester also ended their 3 game losing run in the league during $11.00 with southampton with 10 men for much of the 2nd half after gabrielle was sent off very difficult to compete in this league when you play as well for such a long. term. struggle for the result you make you give him more but i think that the boys who stand up for it showed again of character and resilience. now both alone are starting to look like themselves again after what's been a shaky start to their league campaign on wednesday the secured a $21.00 win over the season surprise package we also stood on to a 2nd in the table jordi alba and frankie the young scored for bossa this was their 3rd win in their last 4 league games then now 5th in the standings bron james and anthony davis made their 1st appearance for the lakers in pre-season

ahead of the new campaign james back to 11 point out of all davis got 10 with the lakers beat in the phoenix sun 112-1007 the pair lead the lakers to n.b.a. finals glory barely 2 months ago the new season will begin on december 22nd and if you need to score you can do. the australian india are back in test match action for the 1st time since the return of international cricket following the coronavirus in juice shot down there facing off in the 1st of a 4 match series the opener is a hot and is happening at the adelaide oval where up to 27000 fans are permitted entry and that's roughly about tough capacity india won the toss and chose to bats 1st a little while ago they were 196 for 5 well that's all you sports for now for me but it's i'll be back to see him later thank

you for that. well it is it for me for this news all over back in a moment with more of the day's news but for now we'll leave you with these images from 2 newsy is revolution that began exactly 10 years ago. if. i get that number begin to put a. little a little. just a little. there were sharp. political real.

a one month removed. frank assessment you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for 2200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge about foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera on the deserted streets of

they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants this a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the scene that we are you know as i was a nurse back what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. fall into fatal crashes and pasta decided to brown the brand new 7 through 7 packs but this wasn't the 1st time the ground cropped back into. 1013 the 77 dreamliner ran into trouble when a battery caught fire but is out of the us investigative unit discolored there was

more to the problem to just smoking batteries. rewind a broken dream the boeing 787 on al-jazeera. french president emanuel mccrone becomes the latest world leader to test positive for covert 19 nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people test positive for the cone virus in the u.s. in just one day warning for the rest of the world as a major holiday approaches. however i'm how i'm here dean and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up grateful to be a lawyer for students who managed to escape from his kidnappers.