away from the eastern side of canada with brighter colder coming in behind. al-jazeera. by them given all this is the news hour live from doha coming up. french president becomes the latest well they did test positive for covert 90. south africa counts more than 10000 infections in a day as the 2nd wave gathers pace there and elsewhere on the continent. the u.s. government confirms its networks are under attack from a significant hacking operation that's still ongoing. and plans for new charges of

the $988.00 docket be airline bombing that killed $270.00 people. and i'm sorry for the latest sports cristiana rinaldo fails from the penalty spot costing events is the win against us and sorry. the french president about the record has tested positive for a cause of 98 said exam fellow leaders and other top french officials it's a self oscillation his office says he'll continue working remotely it comes at a tricky time as the cold tries to handle the outbreak in france while keeping an eye on talks for a post breaks a trade deal is one of several world leaders to contract the virus including u.s. president donald trump british prime minister barak johnson. that's going to talk about the now who is live for us and power what more can you tell us how is the french president doing. yes 42 year old french

president a man or mark positive for 19 more we understand from the least say is that started showing symptoms late on wednesday evening he was tested today and that is when he got these latest results elisei says he will now be of course in isolation of the next 7 days as his procedure here in france and he'll be working from home in fact they do say though that he is in good spirits and relatively well if you want to put it that way for the time being he's feeling ok well enough to take part in a meeting this afternoon by video conference it was supposed to be a meeting in person of course that's not possible anymore so we will actually be able to see him out all my craw a little bit later when he has this video conference meeting with n.g.o.s in a few hours time now the french president has certainly spent the past few months

talking about how people in france must learn to live with the virus but he has repeatedly said that it is very important to continue to wear masks in a manner micros always been seen in public with a mask trying to social distance but of course as a world leader it is very difficult because you do come into contact with a lot of people and that our president is going to have it out with a lot of european leaders a lot of world leaders how much of a flow on impact might his diagnosis have. yes well there's a situation in france and out of france really because he here in france just had a cabinet meeting on wednesday so of course the whole french government could be impacted they will be tested we know already that the french prime minister shaka stags has gone into self isolation test negative for the time being but again procedure is that he should be tested again in a few days and then of course an international level the french president has been very busy over the past few days

a meeting number of world leaders on wednesday met the portuguese prime minister and sonia acosta who's gone into self isolation that we understand from portugal also the spanish prime minister. and the e.u. council chief michel both met him at all marco on monday here in paris and both those leaders of also declared that they are going into self isolation so you can imagine this is only the beginning as elise say tries to trace all the people that the french president has been in touch with over the past few days this period in which he may have been infectious ok thank you for that update then to tell us about the live for us in paris. meanwhile the united states has registered 2 coronavirus records in one day for the number of new deaths and daily infections more than 3 and a half 1000 people died on wednesday and there are at least 247000 cases several

african countries are now seeing 2nd wave south africa has reported its highest new daily case since august and in europe several countries have gone into lockdown and the world health organization is expecting things to get worse ukase government has been accused of creating uncertainty as the christmas holidays approach i will speak to paul brennan about that he's in london. standing by for us in johannesburg but 1st let's go live to ellen fisher who's in washington d.c. allan staggering numbers coming out of the u.s. almost 250000 infections in a day why are we seeing this now is this the result of thanksgiving what are people saying. all eminently predictable the experts said there would be a sudden jafta thanksgiving and here we are there's almost not a state in the united states that isn't struggling at the moment with the number of hospital beds that they have available the situation is very grim we're seeing

numbers almost 3 times the figure they wear back in september and almost double the wear when we had that this spring there is a real problem with intensive care unit hospital's intensive care unit hospital beds and that means that other cases can't be treated because they're being taken up by people who are suffering from covert just in the last few hours we've heard from chris christie you remember him former governor of new jersey a close confidant of donald trump himself tested positive for covert 19 just a few weeks ago he's now issued and that bet which is going out across the united states are doing people to wear a mask saying he was one of those people who didn't think it was a big deal no he realizes that you are twice as likely to catch court if you don't wear a mask these are people to do that but of course we're just a week away from the christmas rush when many people will be traveling again and the experts are warning that this could lead to yet another spike as families get

together to celebrate the traditional christmas holiday what is interesting is the president mike pence intends to get the covert vaccine live on television on friday he wants the american networks to cover it he believes that this will induce confidence in the vaccine itself and it will come 6 months after mike pence himself wrote an op ed for the newspaper saying that there was no 2nd wave of covert the reporting from the media was all hysteria. and washington d.c. thank you so much ok now we have paul brennan who is in london paula talking with alan about the numbers we're seeing in the u.s. after thanksgiving i mean what might that mean for the u.k. and the lead up to christmas how might that bode. well the government here in the u.k. is wrestling with the same dialogue that the american government is wrestling with and many governments across europe are wrestling with and that is how to prevent

the further spread of the infection how to stop the health care system from being overwhelmed and how to minimize the economic impacts of this corona virus which is causing so much business destruction while at the same time offering the public the population some hope and the christmas holiday is so cherished and so much part of the british and european calendar that the u.k. government has decided that it will despite the increasing numbers of infections relax the restrictions in the 5 day period on the side of 'd christmas it's a curious decision on many levels i think it goes to behavioral analysis as much as epidemiological analysis we've just heard from the government minister responsible at the health secretary mass hancock and what he's done is put even more regions of the of england into the highest tier of restrictions tier 3 and that will prevent

any mixing indoors with people who are not from your household and that starts on saturday and yet on weapons day of next week the special career christmas restrictions come into place which are a relaxation and allow up to 3 households to mix indoors for the whole 5 days from the 23rd to the 27th people are saying that frankly on the analysts on not just on our people analysts doctors behavioral analysts the irish health minister is also worried about this he's described it as an explosive concoction saying that doing this tightening restrictions easing restrictions leave people confused and essentially stores of problems for january saying that the behaviors that are going to be exhibited the mixing of how so. the mixing of people many of them asymptomatic carriers of corona virus is going to create a massive explosion and corona virus infection rates generate further down the road

ok paul brennan there live for us in london thank you let's go now to her metasearch who is in johannesburg south africa so south africa has gone above 10000 new infections in a day was that an expected rise or guess the rise in infections was expected especially when loved on measures we eased a few months ago still we saw schools reopening businesses reopening people being allowed to move up and down the country in to be honest the 3rd because economy couldn't really cope with a long extended lockdown an economy was already struggling before the convict $900000.00 to make the unemployment rate is now more than 30 percent and they've been many many more job losses because of 19 now with the festive season coming up what normally happens in this country in other parts of africa is people tend to leave the big cities as janice byrd and go to rule areas to spend the time with their family and friends the government officials here are concerned that this

could cause another increase in infections what they have done to try and curb this is implement some new measures on the ground for example there will be a nighttime curfew they're saying the sale of alcohol in shops can only be sold on certain days and at certain times they saying in some places public gatherings or be limited in terms of numbers and one thing people here do a lot during the festive season is go and hang out at the beaches in huge numbers through these big parties with thousands sometimes attend the governesses this time around that would not be allowed some beaches would be closed no partying would be accepted the question of course now is what that for can so eager to celebrate the festive season are they going to listen to what the government has been saying. ok so south africa give us a picture if you can across the rest of the continent. it is the same concern many countries are seeing arise in infections and they've also put in place certain measures as well for example in there may be

a limit to the number of public gatherings from 200 to 50 people now at a time bars and nightclubs or will only be allowed to be open on certain days at certain times to go to rwanda the government there is going to try and test as many school children as possible so that after the festive season when schools are open they can try to keep as many of those children safe from the 19 the d r c they're saying they're going to implement more strict measures for example there will be a nighttime curfew and during that time only certain people will be allowed to travel for example essential health workers if you don't have a certain letter alarmed to be on the road during curfew time you will be told to go back home so all of those measures are being implemented in throw in the fact that african governments many of them are still trying to find out how to access these that's nations where they do become available on the continent many countries are very poor they're now part of a covert vaccine sharing scheme being run by w.h.o.

other partners to try and bring those vaccines to the continent quickly as possible but to be honest many health workers say that we're doing rather could be some time mid next year and when they do get into it's a case of distribution and storage some of these that's nature as we need very cold temperatures in many parts of africa pretty rural areas they do struggle with a constant supply of electricity ok hermit us there live for us in johannesburg thank you. one of those area school boys who escaped capture in northern nigeria has spoken about his kidnapping hundreds of students were abducted from a school in northern can't say in a state last week a fraction of boko haram has claimed responsibility utilities. 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 the name given to us at a spot that was when we realized that would bend it's wearing military uniform. been walking for so long i was already exhausted i'm

a sickle cell patients want to hold my friend shoulder on to my right be able to to my lived before i continue the treacherous walk into the bush as the bandits continue to flow people from the bank so that they move faster. all desires and interests is outside the school income carter where the boys were kidnapped just tell us how are people doing there what are you seeing what are you hearing on the ground. well basically it's a mixed situation here in cancun this morning we met a father who is still looking for his lost child and a father who has recovered his last child and he's chilled struggling to deal with the medical conditions that affected the child after he was taken from this school last friday evening now if i if the camera pans to the to my left over there some 400 meters from where we're standing is why are the gunmen who raided the school set up a perimeter or are roadblock and from there they've been firing into the town as

a source to scare local vigilantes meanwhile behind these there. my apologies we have lost op ed address there he was in calcutta. ok moving on the rest of the day's news is still to come we'll be live from moscow where president vladimir putin is holding his annual marathon press conference. and a decade after the arab spring began and we visit the birthplace of 2 museums revolution there are few jobs and little hope. and adelaide is the stage as one of the year's most hotly anticipated cricket matches gets under way details coming up in sports.

the european parliament has called on the e.u. to consider imposing sanctions against the egyptian government members have been missing in brussels to discuss to tary rating human rights violations in egypt will be voting on a motion later on thursday among other topics they condemned the kidnapping torture and killing of a tele researcher in cairo 2016 by the joins me now live from brussels nave what else have we heard from the european parliament today. well the resolution that the european parliament is set to vote on the results of which will know shortly is not legally binding but what it is is an expression of the european parliament of views on the kind of relationship that european union state should have with egypt going forward and we've heard a lot a lot in terms of the kind of views and opinions held by members of the european parliament some have called for the e.u.

to initiate its mechanisms for implementing sanctions upon egypt that something that needs to be considered oversee and seriously voted upon much later down the line but it is an expression of how seriously many members of the european parliament view the alleged human rights abuses that are. being carried out by the egyptian or thora this is one of multiple resolutions that have been brought against egypt in recent years 2 of which are directly related to the murder of judea regina 2016 and all of this continues to pile the pressure on egypt when it comes to its human rights. abuses and what it specifically says is that the egyptian authorities should not in any way impede the italian investigation should definitely not intimidate witnesses involved in supporting. investigation on a much more wider level is also acting very much as an overall condemnation of

abuses taking place in the country and we know that multiple people in this resolution have been named they have been asked by the parliament here for them to be immediately released including the al jazeera journalist who's saying who's been in jail in egypt for 4 years without trial and without charge as a said a vote expected to take place shortly with a result soon of very much a wake up call for the kind of relationship the e.u. and its members states should have with egypt going forward. back of their lives for us and brussels thanking the u.s. government agencies are rushing to be found for their computer security after confirming they've been head to now a long running and sophisticated hacking operation the attackers are suspected to be russian they passed cyber defenses that assessed e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce department possibly elsewhere so i bryson is

a professor of ethics and technology at the hurting school of governance she says point of the hack of this scale would require significant expertise and results. it is sophisticated i've been reading what the microsoft has blogged about this and that they do a lot trans national cybersecurity of course and they claim it's not only that somebody did a reasonably sophisticated job of getting into the softer itself but also that somebody had to bend physically and site to get access to the tokens that like the security. bit that made it look like people were atheros 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 find a plane as the solution state of course that was the amount of organization that it took us as

a 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 well immediately for months. russian president vladimir putin hasn't spoken about this particular hacking incident during his annual media conference but he denied that russian hackers ever meddled in the 2016 u.s. elections putin has been fielding questions at his annual media conference from his private residence outside moscow addressing a wide range of issues when asked about his future plans putin said is not yet taken a decision on whether he will run again for president in 2024 diapers and change the constitution to allow him to wall until 2036. and exams are called for joins us now from moscow alexander so really it wide ranging questions to put it lightly have you put to president putin so far once he had to say. well as so far we're learned

a lot about the russian economy and actually how much it was affected by the coronavirus been their mix because there was a lot of questions and they were actually dominant about. unemployment to about all sorts of social payments for people who lost jobs from people who have children for people who are salaries work at all so the rising food prices and this was indeed dominating at this press conference showing that a lot of people are feeling very worried and. they want some reassurance and for sure they were a they were given such a by the president himself we also learned that russia is not to blame for bad and called relations with the west and with the us lead the e.u. but put in said that compared to the rest is warm and fuzzy he said that these bad relations were spoiled by nato basically forgetting its promise not to extend

itself that the alliance towards the russian borders he also said that u.s. intelligence is a behind the published investigations which basically accuse the russian state and the russian agents were trying to poison the opposition leader alexina wryly he said this was of no attempt to influence the russian public to change i've been also to make the viney a more bigger politician then he is according to put in he also denied that the russia interfered in anyone else's elections to be more precise in u.s. elections but he said that such of them were made in russia and he expects them to be made next year in 2021 when we expect the elections to the russian parliament he touched on some regional subjects but as i said this press conference has been dominated by the corona pandemics and a lot of. journalist and people want to know when will all this end when we can go

back to what it was before well putin had to say this depends of course on the scope of vaccination but also that if everything goes well basically in half a year we can all russians rather can start getting better in the respect of their own personal budgets and their lives. ok thank you for that alexander go gold for live from moscow 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 as a giller mohamed muscles is accused of making the bomb that blew up the u.s. airliner of the scottish town of lockerbie most of the victims on the london to new york pan am flight 103 were american citizens are soldiers reportedly in custody in the bia and is expected to be extradited to the u.s. to stand trial there. the ahead joins us live now from tripoli mahmoud so muscled

has been in custody in libya for some years hasn't he why hasn't this case being handled in libya. will kim be because her. is also in prison. he's accused of also committing atrocities specially in the case of the bruce lee must occur that was committed in 1906. that's when more than 1200 political prisoners most of them were opposing the good there they were killed in cold blood by gadhafi officers but mr wood is one of the officers who are accused of killing the prisoners the 12 the more than 200 prisoners in cold blood along with the former spy chief of the gadhafi. both

of them are currently kept in detention for several years and as you know that because of the fact that the justice system in libya has been troubled for many reasons including the division and the internal conflict so this case has not been finalized yet now but mesereau would order the new accusations made by the u.s. justice system is said to be based on confessions made by himself he is believed to be the bomb maker that assembled the bomb that blow up the pan american flight air over a look at a b. in scotland in 1988 which killed 270 people including 190 american passengers now we're told is expected to be extradited to the united states if requested by the united states because remember during the gadhafi reign

the united states imposed in comics sanctions on gadhafi and it libya as a state sponsor of terrorism when they get definite refused to hand over the 1st suspect of the case the late. thanks for that mom of the heads in tripoli an overnight curfew is in force in fiji as a powerful super storm bears down on the pacific island nation on the outer is a category 5 which is top of the scale made landfall on the island of level with wind gusts of up to 300 kilometers per hour minister frank bainimarama is blaming the unfolding emergency on climate change adding that this storm could be worse than a cycloid 4 years ago which killed dozens of people. it's not enough for the weather has ever been. well i'm pleased to say we have got some quieter weather now

coming into that east side of australia but still looking a little lively up around the top and up towards darwin more heavy showers coming through here high pressure just around the south keeping things reasonably quiet so we want to showers across the southern half of australia but nothing too much to speak of somewhat to whether you notice just on the other side of the great dividing range as we go on through friday some showers there over towards sydney for a time will cool through sas day showers do push back up towards the gold coast but hopefully not as heavy as we've seen recently and you see that just a little further inland not a little system swirling away up towards darwinists we go on through this weekend and some wet weather also pushing over towards d.c. and then beyond that of course we do have. this is yes and now pushing its way across the cheek thankfully moving pretty quickly around 20 kilometers per hour winds in the process of a sink down and diving further south which is because it's recess day into sunday

things should quieten down nicely a lot of heavy rain coming through here over the next couple of days for japan well the stories about the snow we've seen snow across the northern half of japan over the past few days and there's yet more in the forecast still ahead on al-jazeera. is of a company under fire for its role in feeding america's opioid crisis are about to face a congressional committee. the chinese the council returns to earth with the 1st samples of rocks from the moon in more than 40 games. and the n.b.a. champions step up their preparations for the new season on simple action coming up . on the road to stone bottles. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground and in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for 2200 people informed opinions how big this. policy in the early stages of

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you're watching out there are a reminder of our top stories this hour french president a man in a corner has tested positive coverage 90 but he'll self isolation continue to work for mostly the french prime minister it will also itself isolation of coming into contact with in recent days. the us is registered to coronavirus records in one day for the number of new deaths and cases nearly 3600 people dies and close 225-0000 were infected. south africa has reported more than 10000 new infections over the past 24 hours its highest figure since august several countries across the continent bringing in new restrictions as they warre about the seconds away. and the owners of the company blamed for fueling the opioid crisis in the u.s.

are bound to be questioned by a congressional committee the sec the family owns per do pharma maker of the highly addictive painkiller oxycontin last month per 2 admission some responsibility for the opioid epidemic raging across the us is john hendrick reports from chicago. 3 years tim ryan was the recruiting director for a chicago consulting company and he founded a multi-million dollar executive search firm and he was also a drug addict people of this misconception that an opiate addict is the homeless person on the corner with the brown paper back that's 5 per cent you know the average opiate addict 22 year old white middle class male a 23 year old white middle class female the disease of addiction does not discriminate after using for years he caught his son using heroin and opiates enjoying him my son and i that's how we get my on did i doing drugs every day

then for tim came addiction prison and soup rioting for his son nick a cycle of addiction jail rehab and relapse on the day tim recorded his 21st month of sobriety nick suffered a fatal overdose dr took me to the room right next to where we were and i walked in there are indices mike's one year old son is called 'd blue lifeless body just lying there with us a sheet up to its chest and he still have the device in a small 4 they were trying to ask right him i mean tears just started slowing down and now with his wife former supermodel jennifer jimenez he helps former addicts through their substance abuse program to hope often users begin with lou we prescribe pain killers after an injury then when those run out the move on to heroin or fenton oh a powerful dangerous synthetic opioid bought from street corner drug dealers for

too many opioid users the journey through addiction in some like this knowing when you're made of in overdose on a street corner. the lucky ones survive to end up here in the emergency room now seeing more opioid overdoses than ever overdoses are up 55 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. years it'll be more challenging time recovering because drug use or available in their communities one opioid manufacturer oxycontin maker produced pharma has acknowledged its role in the opioid epidemic the company has paid 634000000 dollars in fines and pleaded guilty to contributing to thousands of opioid deaths now surging is the pandemic drives many back to drugs they need carcass and connection they need a human interaction and unfortunately a lot of people are going back to abusing and using opiates and when you're asked

what opiates you know you're gonna die it is an epidemic growing within a pandemic is the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren al-jazeera chicago. let's take a closer look at the cycle is forbes magazine estimates the family fortune to be worth more than $10000000000.00 1 it dates back to $952.00 when 3 brothers bought the company that would become potent pharma and went on to produce the prescription painkiller oxycontin in the $990.00 s. i think this actually is billions of dollars over the years the family became known as philanthropists giving millions of dollars to the arts many of those cultural institutions have since distance themselves from the family but they've continued to argue that they served as only passive board members how does your pastor joins me now live from capitol hill heidi why off to poti pharma settled out of court and accepted its role in the opioid crisis of the sec is being questioned by

a congressional committee now. well it kim many are saying that although the settlement we saw in november was pretty big by normal people's standards $225000000.00 paid out by the south were family that in fact that's only a drop in the bucket in this family's vast wealth that accumulated at the cost of more than 400000 lives of people who have died as a result of the opioid crisis in fact 225000000 is just 2 percent of this family's net net worth and another criticism that this settlement received is that it essentially allows the sale of oxy cotton to continue even today purdue pharma agreed to go into bankruptcy and that also was to forego what potentially could have been $2000000000.00 worth of penalties that the company did not have to pay

and so democrats in congress as well as many states that are suing the company said that this was not a fair deal at all and in fact the family has to this day not acknowledged any wrongdoing or liability that was a protection that they earned as part of the settlement with the department of justice and democrats are saying that simply was unfair and today we are expecting for the 1st time to see 2 members of the family appear remotely before this congressional hearing expect their feet to be held to the fire and they're appearing the grudgingly under threat of subpoena and the c.e.o. of a firm pharma will be testifying as well in his testimony expected to address some of these ongoing lawsuits that the computer company continues to face at a cost of some $10000000000.00 that states and local communities have suffered as

a result of this crisis will be staying across that herring of course for now how does your castro thank you. the european union's top court has ruled hungry is guilty of breaking asylum law the european court of justice found migrants and refugees were denied a right to apply for asylum and forcibly deported to the serbian border but also found that no special protection was offered to children or the vulnerable hungry had implemented anti immigration policies including during the peak of the syrian refugee crisis and 2015. rescue teams have recovered bodies of 4 children after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of libya the libyan red crescent got reports of a sinking boat carrying 30 people there the coast of zawiya west of the capital tripoli the 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 mohamed bouazizi actions tapped into frustration and fury at home and across the region leading to what became known as the arab spring to musea is an arab country that transition to democracy they say things of only become worse and there were muted commemorations in cd switching disease revolution began there has been smith is there. they're looking for a way out of city boozy the specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has failed them the eldest here is 24 that's young to be disillusioned very 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 precedent that it though 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 this kind of thing never happened before mohammed who is easy 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. can't leave on where the jobs maintain it was a good life is more expensive $100.00 a month job is only enough money for yourself if you have a family it's very difficult. this is the memorial to mohamad. 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. for this generation protested against the wall for a tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear. life 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 bernard smith

al-jazeera city boozy. one out in the crowd a virus pandemic and brazil's government has announced plans to buy billions of dollars worth of co the 19 back scenes president diable set out has faced sharp criticism thought presenting an immunization strategy sooner monica in arc of reports from rio de janeiro. christmas shopping in brazil's largest city is a risky business for good social distancing there's barely any room to walk in these packs streets of some power without breathing down somebodies neck. fear seems no longer to be a factor despite the rise of infections in latin america's largest country after much political infighting the government has finally unveiled its vaccination plan present jade bosso natto said his government has set aside $4000000000.00 to buy any vaccine as long as it has the approval of the brazilian health regulatory

agency but this is no doc both of us old resilience will receive the vaccine which will be voluntary and free brazil's health minister said the musician campaign should last 16 months but he said no date for the role of 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 i'll just 0 rio de janeiro. and one year off the 1st case was reported since national investigators will take a crucial step forward in understanding the origins of the virus w h o well visit china in january most experts believe it spread through a wet market in the city of homs fonso it has the details. now and scientists say that the goal of this exercise or this mission is to gather as much data as they can to prevent a possible future outbreak so they'll be looking at when the virus 1st started circulating 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 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 of u.n. world heritage sites that have been damaged by warfare or neglect risk of the missing their status and the latest installment of our series on unesco's endangered list we visit the ancient fortress villages of the high in the mountains of western georgia from the walker reports on a story of uncontrolled tourism and failed restoration. the the issue of the. below 3 who for centuries these defensive towers protected and preserved the span the community. the cluster of villages has world heritage status but 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. so we were celebrating a religious holiday and the tower collapsed thank god nobody was hurt but the scottish thing isn't have a teacher 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 unregulated developments like it's 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 that's how it's being rebuilt by the government but locals tell me that the quality of their 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 where you 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. gear's tower 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 and in reality it is forming a pot without a plan the by the government for this community its uniqueness may not survive another generation. robyn 1st year walka al-jazeera. and in part 4 of this 5 part series will be in senegal's nicola called the park on to a unique species of wildlife called joined us to trolling to protect it that's from 10 team teams on friday. coming up in sport with. 5 out of the italian league leaders can keep that title chase on track.

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business leaders just want to buy the brass pot. the chinese lunar progress returned for the 1st rock samples collected from the moon in decades was one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history the trinity reports from beijing this was the moment a capsule carrying rock samples from the moon granted the atmosphere the final stage of an ambitious unmanned mission the spacecraft touched down in china's north western province of in a mongolia at 2 am local time on wednesday within an hour recovery teams arrived at

the site promptly cordoning off the area and pitching up a chinese flag the 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. chartist chung or 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 trials 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 plans the little launch and landing

would broadcast live technical failures during previous missions have caused the chinese government much of barsoom meant 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 dating is playing down any rivalry saying it intends to share the lunar samples with scientists from around the world katrina you al-jazeera beijing. first time after sports thanks a lot ken well we start with football and sorry alex set for his tightest title race in years into man scored a big win on wednesday on a night that saw need as a seam line drop points and christian are now across eventis a when sound manic has all the action. 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 the did put them ahead with the 1st half stunner. some messy defending after the break would open the door for atalanta's remo for oil or to equalize. 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. 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 daveed 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 they do however remain unbeaten. ac milan city rivals into had a much better night. fellow tied to rivals napoli but there was plenty of controversy and tell you conti side were awarded a penalty after. was brought down by. that decision didn't impress napoli's. senior. he made his feelings clear and that led to his dismissal

of. the drama however didn't. he made no mistake from the sport to seal a one little win and keep into on target for the scooter to. sue helm ali al jazeera . and this is what the table is looking like after those results you can see sus were there in faith also played on wednesday they were held to a draw by fiorentina 6th place roma face to reno later on thursday but barcelona are starting to look like themselves again after what's been a shaky start to their league campaign on wednesday they secured a 21 win over their season surprise package real sister dad who was 2nd in the table jordi alba and frankie young scored for bossa this was their 3rd win in their last 4 league games then now 5th in the standings and if all of returned to the top spot in the english premier league they beat tottenham to want to anfield gave the

reigning champions the needs before sun here men equalize for spurs roberto for me no then scored a late winner for the home team and also on wednesday leeds newcastle $52.00 and everton were 2 no winners at leicester arsenal 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 only when you play as well for such a long. struggle for the resource you make you do more complicated but i think that the boys to stand up for it showed their game of character. well staying with football manchester united star absence and calvin has been charged with misconduct by the english football association software why on use the spanish term on instagram last month that many have deemed racially offensive the strike could quickly deleted the post and he then apologized but found guilty

cavani could be banned for 3 games. bron james and anthony davis made their 1st appearance for the l.a. lakers in pre-season ahead of the new campaign james by 11 points while davis 10 with the lakers beating the phoenix on 1121 step and the pat let the lakers and a finals grueling barely 2 months ago in the new season a lot will begin on december 22nd. australia and india have played their 1st day of test cricket since the resumption of the game at international level that's also the current a virus injuries shut down india closed on to $33.00 to $6.00 caps and routes calling scoring 74 runs before being run out this is the 1st of a 4 match series that's happening at adelaide's adelaide rather oval where up to 27000 fans of permits of entry that's roughly about hof capacity but so you came by

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00000. 000-000-0000. greece the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks 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 you can both hurt you why i'm good but. people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in indian administered kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate this type of food that we simply don't know if we can teach them to

bring you more award winning documentaries and live on air and online. after hundreds of school boys were abducted in nigeria one student who escaped speaks about his ordeal will report from the school where the boys were stabbed. him to but all this is all just there live from doha also coming up fred's president becomes the latest well they did test positive for a cause that 90. south africa counts more than 10000 infections in a day the 2nd wave gathers pace there and elsewhere can't.