but this wasn't the 1st time they grounded a new aircraft back in 2013 the 77 dreamliner ran into trouble when a battery cord fired but is out of the us investigative unit to scalability more to the problem to just smoking batteries. rewind of broken dreams the boeing 787 on al-jazeera. french president emanuel mccraw becomes the latest world leader to test positive for covert 19 nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people test positive for the corner 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 am i here dear and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up grateful to be alive for students who managed to escape from his kidnappers in nigeria recounts his ordeal members friends left behind. in a decade after the arab spring began in geneseo we look at what has set and hasn't changed. when we begin with breaking news out of france the french presidency manual macro has tested positive for covert 19 yourself isolates and continue to work remotely french prime minister was also self isolator after coming into contact with mccraw in recent days so let's get more now from natasha butler she joins us live from paris let's actual work you tell us about this how is the french president.

well what we understand from the least say who put out a statement telling us about the french president a man or. a while ago is that he had shown symptoms of covert 90 and in fact is why he was tested and then of course he tested positive saying that he will now isolate for the next 7 days he will be working from home but he will keep across all work to be done of course this raises a number of issues are mainly what will happen over the next 7 days because we know already that the prime minister is contact case and he's already been placed in the nation as well the question is how many other people did it come into contact with who may also have to go into isolation within the lease say within the cabinet he had a cabinet meeting for example on wednesday we know that the spanish prime minister

. has also been placed in isolation because he came into contact with him at all back in paris and in a meeting behind closed doors earlier this week about also attended the 60th anniversary of the o.e.c.d. here in paris where of course seeming cold with many people as well as the e.u. summit in brussels at the end of last week so you can imagine a lot of people will now have to be tested to see whether or not they are also contact cases or whether they also test positive going forward to him at all marco had been due to visit lebanon on december the 22nd and 23rd but we understand now from the least say that that visit has been canceled and. he has tested positive for corona virus this new. strawbs just as restrictions in france are set to be relaxed will make you tell us about that.

yes macro testing positive in the backdrop of the continuing coverage by demick of course here in france and the fact that france is actually the french government actually eased many of the restrictions that were put in place during the lockdown to the restriction for example one of the main ones on freedom of movement people now are able to travel freely in the country we're coming up to the holiday season with festivities new year's christmas in france is a big holiday period of course and the french government have said that people can get together 6 adults at a dinner table for example for a christmas meal if they want to celebrate that but there aren't any other real restrictions on that period of time the only main national restriction which remains in place is a nighttime curfew so this is a sense that the restrictions are easing that they are being lifted but now of course we have this news that the french president has tested positive coded 19 really underlining the fact of the pandemic is still very much among us the virus

still circulating here in france. ok that's there joining us live from paris natasha thank you for that our dates and as we were speaking the e.u. has announced that sharlee shell the e.u. council president is also going into self isolation after a meeting with the french president has of course tested positive for cruel virus meanwhile the united states has registered to croon virus records in a single day both from the number of new deaths and the number of daily infections with 3500 people dying its own weapons say and the u.s. has registered at least 247000 cases that's just in one day and it alters had warrants that november's thanksgiving holds a kid sent infections soaring. several african countries and they're also seeing 2nd wave south africans reported its highest new daily caseload since august in

europe several countries that have gone into lockdown once again and the world health organization is expecting things to get worse the u.k. government has been accused of creating uncertainty as the christmas holidays approach and one year after the 1st case was reported since a national investigators it sets take a crucial step forward in understanding the origins of the virus and w.h.o. lead team will visit china in january florence lee is in kuala lumpur with more on that planned trip on the w. which team all seem rather to china. 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 of the u.s. under u.s. president donald trump accused china of trying to cover up the initial outbreak well al jazeera is her matar so essential hummus ferg she has more on the 2nd wave on the african continent. well the rise in infections was expected when lockdown measures we eased a few months ago so over the past few months you saw schools reopening businesses reopening and people being allowed to move up and down the country now it's an advocacy economy khans the stay along the unemployment rate here is more than 30 percent and they've been massive job loss because of that 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 rule 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 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 their thousands and party for days during 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 has told them to do. more on this pandemic christmas consultant viral with just a cambridge university horse of the court cast the naked scientists and joins us now by skype from cambridge kids are happy with 0 let's start with these troubling numbers that we're seeing from the u.s. would you say that that would be a direct result of people ignoring science advice not to travel for thanksgiving. it's really hard to assign calls to anything because to prove the something cause

something is a very specific question to try and answer but what's an absolute fact is that this is an acute infection that relies on close contact between people in order to spread so if we're seeing lots of cases anywhere in the world it's because people have had long contact prolonged contact sufficiently close for the virus to spread from one person to another so vile whatever mechanism and i don't think there's just one mechanism there will be lots of different routes through which bars this can spread around this is translating into lots of cases and it's breaking that chain of transmission that's the key at the heart of stopping the outbreaks quite specific to break the transition when when people are gathering for these thanksgiving hanukkah. the upcoming christmas holidays given the situation as it is we're seeing more of these surgeries in europe especially the heads of that christmas holiday periods so given that you have to break the

transition to bring this pandemic under control is it not worrying that in countries like the u.k. more action to crack down on this hasn't been released. yes and that was sort of the point i was indirectly making that we've got for instance germany a country with an excellent track record in controlling the coronavirus reporting a 1000 deaths a day at the moment they reported nearly a 1000 deaths yesterday where their highest number yet now it's not even christmas yet and we haven't got lots of people having thanksgiving in germany so the point i'm making is that this system of control by social distancing and so on is leaky regardless of how you look at it and if we had more weight so this more weight to the equation we're going to balance the seesaw even further so people really do need to be very cautious the more meetings that there are between people the more cases we're going to get and the more cases we get inevitably among those cases will be people who are high risk and therefore could end up becoming casualties so

people do really need to be responsible they certainly do if you look at this poor globally this is a new virus but from the beginning scientists have been giving warnings about how serious it is and those warnings have been increasingly dismissed or scientists are being accused of being alarmist or exaggerating the risk given the recent surge is that we are seeing could also argue that scientists have been proved right so on every call how frustrating is this for you this is science this personally. well i don't think governments are under any illusion as to how dangerous this is because what what governments care about is apart from being re-elected at the next election is what this is doing to their ric economic situation and here in the u.k. we're going to have spent about half a trillion pounds pretty soon on this pandemic and its impact and we're only just at the beginning we've got to look forward into the future the impact of this is

absolutely huge so i think governments are cognizant of the impact of this but what they're trying to do is to tread that very tight tight rope between what keeps people happy what keeps the economy's happy but also keeps people safe and it's a really tough ask it's not like there's a rule book that says if this happens do the following because we've never been in this position before and because we've never been in this position it's very difficult to know what the right or wrong thing to do is and humans the only predictable thing about us is that we are predictable which means making rules that people will be able to understand will be able to follow will be implementable and will be successful it really is tough and it's that unfortunately there too the different levels of control in different countries and outbreaks like we're seeing across many countries now quite well time will tell if this has been handled well or badly but let's concentrate now on a root of the pandemic vaccine use that we've been seeing over the last few weeks

is great these but there aren't enough of them and there are accusations by some groups that these vaccines are being hoarded by richer countries what would you say people should be doing in order to get not just their country but the rest of the world of this pandemic. well melinda gates of the bill and melinda gates foundation i quoted her many times because she said quite early on in all of this that if there's code anywhere there is coded everywhere and what she's pointing to is the fact this is a global problem and global problems need global solutions if we sweep the dirt out of our own backyard into the street if we don't clean the street then the next gust of wind is going to blow all that dirt back into our pristine backyard again so we have to help everybody and the reason for helping everybody in all of this is that actually economy is what matter because economies make people healthier and make people live longer they fund health services that keep people in good health what

runs the economy is global trade and global interaction and if you rely as a rich country on a poor country or a poor country to supply you with the raw materials for your manufacturing and engineering and technology sectors if those countries that you're buying your stuff from are paralyzed by a pandemic they're not going to supply you with anything which means your own industries are going to suffer so the economists have already pointed this out and governments are very aware of the fact that we have to help all of the world so that we can maintain our economic output and therefore our prosperity globally and so yes it is a priority to make sure everyone helps everybody and at the end of the day the way we're going to get through this is to suppress the virus down to very low levels of circulation ok well the work continues chris smith great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us from cambridge. there's lots more still to come here and al-jazeera will be rowing from moscow where president vladimir putin is holding his annual marathon press conference stay with us.

for. the wintry blast continues across such a pan at the moment you see how the clouds just lining up in streets as it were i suppose indicating the other way is coming in from a general north a westerly direction stating that wintry mix that we face snow there across western parts of japan but to the up towards the north into colorado we could see some very heavy snowfall once again a similar picture as we go on into sas and if anything by that state looks even more widespread temperatures will struggle to get into double figures by in tokyo lay sheltered by the mountains it shouldn't be too bad here but more very heavy snow for a good part of northern japan dry but cold for the korean peninsula dry for a good part of chart a bit down towards the southeast because he wanted to show is coming through too

much to speak of. meanwhile coming into southern parts of india some heavy downpours there into the even stretching across into kerala more very heavy rain there coming into sri lanka over the next couple of days and that could lead to some landslides further north it is quite neat delhi at 20 degrees celsius more fog and smoke problems here across the middle east it is generate dry but we have got snow and rain towards the caspian. but. when any p.o.p. and mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of launch was to come. with family bone separate the traumatized. child torn between 2 worlds struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep flaws in denmark's adoption system.

was a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the a the the on the air. i'm. this is al-jazeera quick reminder of the top stories this hour french president emanuel micro has tested positive for covert 19 yourself isolates and continue to work remotely french prime minister will also self isolates after coming in contact with micro in recent days the us has registered to coronavirus records in a single day that the number of new deaths and new cases the 3600 people died

it was to quarter of a 1000000 people were infected. and south africa has recorded more than 10 fires in its new infections over the past 24 hours its highest figures and saugus several countries across the continents are bringing in new restrictions as they worry about a 2nd wave. where u.s. government agencies are rushing to believe up their computer security after confirming they've been hits in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation it's actors are suspected to be russian hackers pierced cyber defenses and accessed e-mail and internal dot files at the treasury and commerce departments and possibly elsewhere and this is again shown the vulnerability of supposedly secure government networks. russian president vladimir putin is forcing his annual marah 13 media conference via video chat this year due to the pandemic he's fielding questions from his

private residence just outside moscow most of those questions of course touching on the pandemic and the related economic downturn as well as russia's locally produced sputnik v vaccine let's get more now from alexandria she joins us live from moscow and i'll xandra the russian presence been going for just over 2 hours one of my learned so far. yes indeed he's been going on for more than 2 hours which is somewhere hough of what we expected to be in terms of time and indeed the corona point pandemic vaccine and above all the effects of the pandemic people on people's lives here in russia were dominating this 2 hours to journalists and the people who can ask those questions kept on coming back to this issue now president did acknowledge that the pandemic

touched everybody's lives and all aspects of people's lives he acknowledged that there is a higher unemployment that people lost jobs the real income is far lower but then he try to reassure the public saying that for instance the fall of the g.d.p. of russia is less he says then in e.u. countries or united states and if this was not reassuring enough he finally said that this was not the worst economic year for russia that it was far worst in 2000 he praised the russian vaccine saying that he himself cannot yet get vaccinating being 68 but he will do in a do that as soon as doctors recommended then again there was also a moment when we went outside of russia to global politics above all russia united states relations now often said that these broken relations are hostage. for the political struggle within america itself that the whole. affair never

happened but it is rather hearsay invented for this for this purpose he yet again denied that russia ever interfered in the. american elections and then a bit later he contracted at that saying that u.s. intelligence is supporting the oppositional politician of x. in a violin the end that they are behind so-called investigations he called them so-called investigations. the russian intelligence tried to poison him he said that this was done in order to make another i leave a politician of some significance and he also said that is a kind of revenge so on the one hand he was denying that the russian intelligence was behind the hacking attacks in united states and saying it is the american intelligence that is trying to interfere in russia that is trying to influence

public opinion and then alexandra it's not just the journalists are putting their questions to putin and members of the public have also sent questions into sort of thing are we learning for those exchanges are they putting the russian president's sons or any kind of pressure well what we have this year indeed is that the public can also ask questions through a call center when the volunteer reads these questions and the my dorothy of this questions is actually concerning economy but that is falling it's personal concerns of people they are pointing out that there is a lack of medication for quality patients in some regions that there is not enough of vaccine and whether it will ever becoming that certain medical personnel didn't get their bonuses we're talking about personal and that works with the patients they're pointing out basically a canonical problems and asking about a more social payments like the child care for unemployment and in return they're

getting promises that everything will be fine and that they will if they didn't get what they're supposed to be getting and that the measures will be taken and this is also something which is very traditional for this kind of invented that someone points out a problem in some regions or in some town or in some village for that matter and then during some times during the press conference itself this problem gets solved fancy that xander good for joining us live from moscow thank you very much indeed. that one of the schoolboys who escaped capture in northern nigeria over his ordeal hundreds of students were abducted from school in katsina state last week a faction of the armed group boko haram says it's responsible so far 17 boys have been rescued it's a sketch you're what the press corps the 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 years getting out of the way and 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 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 don't like to be morgan for so long i was already exhausted from a sickle cell patients want to hold my friend shoulder on to my right the up to to my left before i could 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 then. not as old as the ones that came to kidnap us from school boys in meetings 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. the u.s. is expected to unsealed charges against another suspect in the 1988 lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people

a libyan intelligence officer identified as abu mohammed lawsuit is accused of making the bomb that blew up a u.s. airliner over the scottish town of lockerbie most of the victims on the london's new york pan am flight 103 were american citizens massoud is reportedly in custody in libya and is expected to be extradited to the u.s. to stand trial where. rescue teams africa bodies of 4 children after a boat scaring migrants sank off the coast of libya the libyan red crescent received reports of a sinking boat with 30 people on board west of the capital tripoli no survivors have been fined libya is a major transit hub for people attempting to make the crossing to europe. 10 years ago a fruit seller in jena zia set himself on fire in

a desperate and fatal protest mohamed bouazizi is actions taps into frustration and fear at home and across the region leading to what became known as the arab spring is the only country that transitions into democracy but many say things only become worse bernard smith reports from city busied which in this year's revolution began . they're looking for a way out of city boozy this specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has failed them the eldest here is $24.00 that's young to be disillusioned. they called trees going to the wall really going to the world nothing change it's like there was no revolution we only changed the precedent that it has there is too much freedom now but with it others there is no security like there was before you can be killed

going to the stadium to watch a football match all 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 survives but incomes of fallen by a 5th over the past decade. can't leave on where the jobs may need life is more expensive $100.00 a month job is only enough money for yourself if you have a family it's very difficult. this is the memorial to mohamed bouazizi here is unemployment rate was 11 percent when he died today it's more than 15 percent

there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12 months. for this generation protested against the all for a tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear. life is really very beautiful and we have a very beautiful life we live 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 bernard smith al-jazeera city boos eat.

and how well he did in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera french president emanuel mccraw has testified.