a piece that we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentary and life on and on line. 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. my. time to put all this is out there live from doha also coming up french president dominican becomes the latest well baited to test positive for covert 90. south africa counts more than 10010 actions in a day as the 2nd wave gathers pace there and elsewhere on the continent. and plans

for new charges of the $988.00 lockerbie airline bombing that killed $270.00. 1 of the nigerian schoolboys who escaped capture from a faction of boko royal has spoken about his kidnapping hundreds of students were abducted from a school in northern katsina state last week at least 17 have been rescued by security forces you to go to to make more you want all of that after we scaled the fence we were hearing voices saying that we should come back thinking there were police officers unknown to us it was the brain that they then gave the rest of the spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform. in 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 up to my lift before i continue the treacherous walk into the bush as the bandits continue

to float people from the back so that they move faster. i was there i was up and it just is outside the school in kind of cholera where the boys were kidnapped. it's mixed feelings here in concord a town with many parents who have recovered their children and parents who don't it's a traumatic experience for both of them now what we know is that what the locals are telling us is 400 meters away from where i'm standing if the camera pans to my left over there 400 meters from here that is why the gunmen set up a roadblock and from there they've been firing into going to town to stop vigilantes from coming into this area why behind their lines are the gunmen moved into the school beacon going to science secondary school and were herding the boys into a group from there they moved them into the forest and cunt from what i have right now we're hearing that hundreds of them are still in captivity now it's

a traumatic experience for many parents and a lot of parents we've spoken to since our arrival here in calcutta town are calling on the government to do more than what they are doing now to recover their children a lot of them they say are sick and the weather is really really cold a lot of these children who have come back a talking about tough conditions dems killing mountains heels and crossing forests so wants to as the as their abductors push them deeper and deeper into the forest i while coming together we saw a large movement of troops and large presence of troops and roadblocks along along the way so as the officials here are telling us they want to keep things tighter and tighter under control one official was saying that they have denied those people holding the children freedom of movement and they've kept them in one place parents went when they heard that they were hopeful that a quick resolve to this issue would be done many people are wondering whether how whether it will end peacefully by the prey of most commute most of the people in

the community is that it ends peacefully and successfully and they have their children back. french president amanda mccollum has tested positive for covert 19 evil self isolation continue to work remotely the french prime minister has tested negative he was in contact with in recent days that has the latest from paris. what we understand from the elisei 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 at least 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 a man or macro a little bit later when he has this video conference meeting with some 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 and amount of 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. meanwhile the united states has registered to coronavirus records in one day for the number of new deaths and daily infections or the 3 and a half 1000 people died on wednesday and the u.s. red stood at least 247000 cases several african countries and now seeing 2nd wave waves 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 ukase government is being accused of creating uncertainty as the christmas holidays approach. is with me now live from washington d.c. allan staggering numbers from the u.s. are these numbers a result of thanksgiving or why are we seeing this all now. all imminently predictable the experts said 3 weeks ago as the thanksgiving holiday was coming and people were traveling all over the country that there would be a spike and here we are almost a state in the united states that isn't seeing a surge in cases it's putting real pressure on hospitals in intensive care units and simply of course spittles are struggling to cope and that means that ordinary infections such as heart disease or cancer can be treated because hospitals and hospital staff are working at fool capacity and that wasn't enough there's

a double whammy with new news out just in the last hour that 885000 people in the last week have claimed unemployment in the united states though if you go back to march it was 225000 people a week so you see just how much of it is taking a toll on the job market there was a similar figure just a week ago and that's going to put pressure on congress as well you know they've been talking about a covert relief bill and they want to try and get something done by the end of business on thursday while these figures are going to put more pressure on them as far as the hospitals are concerned we're seeing infection rates know 3 times what it was in september almost double what it was in the peak in early spring when people were warning about it and of course donald trump has often said well the death rate isn't quite as bad well it is going up as well donald trump hasn't made any plans to get the covert vaccine his press secretary said at a briefing just yesterday that he was open to the idea but we know that mike pence

the vice president is going to get the vaccination on friday he hopes that the american networks will carry it live he hopes that this will send a message that the vaccine is safe and convince more and more people to take it but of course the problem he's got is that exactly 6 months ago he wrote an op ed in the newspapers saying that there would be no 2nd wave of covert and the fact that the press would even speculating about it was simply media hysteria. for us in washington d.c. thank you harmon also is in johannesburg she has more on the 2nd wave on the african continent. well the rise in infections was expected when locked down measures were 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 african economy khans the stain along a locked out i mean the unemployment rate here is more than 30 percent and they've

been massive job loss because of 19 government officials are concerned that once the festive season starts they going to see thousands of people leave big cities like johannesburg and go to the rue 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 governor told them to do. health officials in australia rushing to trace the source of a growing cost of covered 19 cases in sydney 17 infections were confirmed in

a northern suburb 250000 residents have been to stay home for 3 days the mergence the testing centers have been set up marks an end to what had been a relative return to normal in recent months australia has been cautiously reopening after very few or no local cases. the european parliament has called on the e.u. to consider imposing sanctions against the egyptian government members have been meeting in brussels to discuss deteriorating 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 telly in research or studio to jenny in cairo 2016 the barca has the latest on the vote from brussels. it's not legally binding but what it is is an expression of the european parliament views on the kind of relationship that european union states should have with egypt going forward and we've heard 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 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 t s 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 witness is involved in supporting that 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 my mood hussein who has been in jail in egypt for 4 years without trial and without charge. u.s. government agencies are rushing to beef up their computer security after confirming have been hit in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation the attackers are suspected to be russian a pair sed cyber defenses and access to e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce departments possibly elsewhere so at a price and it is a professor of ethics and technology at the hurting school of governance and then she says pulling off a hack of this scale would require significant expertise and resources it is sophisticated i've been reading what 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 physically and site to get access to the tokens that like the security. that 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 how hard is it to fly in 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 not well immediately for months. russian president vladimir putin hasn't spoken about this particular hacking incident during his

annual media conference but he has denied that russian hackers ever meddled in the 2016 u.s. elections putin has been fielding questions that his annual media conference from his private residence outside moscow addressing a wide range of issues when asked about his future plans person said he has not yet taken a decision on whether he will run for president again in 2024 in july and change the constitution to allow him to rule until 2036. still ahead on this era and beyond is all the company under fire for its role in feeding america's opioid crisis are about to face a congressional committee. and anxious defense installation in georgia it's now in need of defense.

but. we've got more heavy snow coming into northern parts of japan you can see have the cloud is loading up moving from the northwest down towards the southeast across the a relatively warm waters of the sea of japan so see if a snow coming through here is a bit like when you're on a hot bath in a cold bathroom the rises it cools content season it steams off and eventually he will get condensation and in this case snow and quite a bit of it actually over the past few days is seen around to make this a snow coming in across the northern parts of japan more the same as we go through the next couple of days perhaps not quite as heavy on friday but you push on into sas saying it's still very much there in evidence more of that way into the weather piling in across the northern half of the country behind that is cold enough but at least it is dry minus to the top temperature in seoul a plus to the for beijing maybe want to see a shot was down to a southeastern parts of china all of rain and plenty of rain at the moment moving

across southern areas of india into tumble not in the northeast monsoon driving the showers down towards the southeast of india sri lanka are also seeing some very heavy showers as we go on through the next couple of days that brings with it the possibility of floods and mudslides. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate mind. main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that often the jet mines and legalized pedophile on air online jumping to the comments section and meeting to be part of the discussion the stream on out is there a. whole

. georgiadis there are a reminder of our top stories this hour and the jerry and school boy who managed to escape capture from a faction of buckle run says he and others were abducted by people wearing military uniforms hundreds of students were abducted from a school the northern can see the state last week at least 17 have been rescued. president amanda meconis tested positive for covert 19 kill self isolate and continue to work promoting the french prime minister will also self isolate after coming in contact with more on in recent days he has tested negative. the u.s. is registered to grant a virus records and one day for the number of new deaths and new cases every 3600

people died close 225-0000 were infected. the u.s. is expected to unseal charges against another suspect in the $988.00 lockerbie bombing that killed $270.00 people a libyan intelligence officer identified as mohammed must suit is accused of making the bomb which 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 you were american citizens pursued is reportedly in custody in libya and is expected to be extradited to the u.s. to stand trial there are hold of the overhead has more from trippy. this case has not been finalized yet now but mr wood ordered the new accusations made by the us 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

blew up the pan american flight 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 sanctions on gadhafi and it libya as a state sponsor of terrorism when the definite refused to hand over the fittest suspect of the case the late. the owners of the company blamed for fueling the dead the opioid crisis in the us of being questioned by congressional committee the 2nd family owns poder pharma maker of the addictive prescription painkiller oxycontin last month or to admit its responsibility for the

opioid epidemic raging across the u.s. let's take a closer look at the cyclists probus magazine estimates the family fortune to be worth more than $10000000000.00 dates back to $952.00 when 3 brothers bought the company that would become potent pharma it went on to produce the prescription painkiller oxycontin in the $990.00 s. and he was that was billions of dollars over the years the family became known as for that purpose giving millions of dollars to the arts many of those cultural institutions have since distance themselves from the family the family have continued to argue that they service only passive board members is john hendren report now on how drugs like oxycontin have ravaged communities across the u.s. . tim ryan was the recruiting director for a chicago consulting company and he founded a multi-million dollar executive search firm he was also a drug addict people up this misconception that an opiate addict is the homeless person on the corner with the brown paper bag that's 5 per cent you know the

average opiate addict 22 year old white middle class male the 23 year old white middle class female the disease of addiction it's not just criminal after using for years he caught his son using heroin and opiates enjoying him my son and i that's how we get by. by doing drugs every day then for tim came addiction prison ensue brian 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 cut me to the room right next to where we were. and i walked in there. into see my 20 year old son called blue all lifeless body just lying there with us as she talked to us shasta is still have the divisiveness mouth when they were trying to ask write him. i mean tears

just started slowing down now with his wife former supermodel jennifer jimenez he helps former addicts through their substance abuse program dope to hope often users begin with legally prescribed painkillers after an injury then when those run out they move on to heroin or fentanyl a powerful and dangerous synthetic opioid bought from street corner drug dealers for too many opioid users the journey through addiction ends like this knowing when you're. 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 city be more challenging time recovering because the drug use or very little in their communities one opioid manufacturer oxycontin maker produced pharma has acknowledged its role in the

opioid epidemic the company has paid 634 $1000000.00 in fines and pleaded guilty to contributing to thousands of opioid deaths now surging is the pandemic drives many back to drugs they need purpose 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 as the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren al-jazeera chicago. another look at our correspondent in washington the thoughts let's have a listen then to the herring that's happening now on capitol hill kentucky thousands of my constituents have lost friends or loved ones to discord before us today we have one of the largest manufacturers of opioids in the country in the

family and often they are the epidemic perhaps more than any other over the last 20 years or do pharma and the sabbath family which is old produce farm essence in 1950 s. and had many family members in senior leadership and on the board of the company that made billions in the politicization of opioids they have consistently spread lies in order to minimize the harmful effects of opioids and increase the numbers of americans on their drug oxycontin. joins me now live from capitol hill the why. of course and accepted some responsibility for the crisis of the 2nd is being questioned by a congressional committee you know. well the key is right in your question there in fact it was never the sac lawyers who settled out of court or who admitted to any wrongdoing it was their company purdue pharma that is sensually took all the blame

and ever since that settlement that was announced back in october there has still been public outcry and among members of congress that that was never true accountability the samplers agreed to pay 225000000 dollars which is only 2 percent of their vast fortune as part of that settlement but it was their company that pled guilty to the criminal charges of misleading federal investigators and of giving illegal kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to prescribe more of this very addictive painkiller and part of that settlement was allowing purdue pharma to sidestep what could have been $2000000000.00 of penalties associated with those charges in exchange it had to restructure the sat are the sac lawyers are no member no longer owners of the company but purdue pharma they still continue to sell oxy cotton and today for the 1st time we're seeing 2 members of the sackler family who

will have their feet put to the fire before these members of congress in the house oversight committee will they finally issue a public apology we don't know but we do know that the c.e.o. of purdue pharma who is also appearing he is prepared to talk about how the company will tackle the opioid pandemic the epidemic that continues with 450000 americans dead as well as a possible plan to settle the still ongoing litigation the civil lawsuits for many u.s. communities that the company totals a settlement of some $10000000000.00 may be at stake. heidegger castro thank you so much for that update fare in washington d.c. . u.n. world heritage sites that have been damaged by warfare or neglect so at risk of losing their status the latest installment of our series on unesco's endangered list we visit the ancient fortress villages of a scholarly high in the mountains of northern georgia from their robin foster

walker reports on a story of uncontrolled tourism and failed restoration. born the. mayor for centuries these defensive towers protected and preserved the fun 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 with thirty's promised to repair it. help never came. we were celebrating a religious holiday and the tower collapsed thank god 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 unregulated 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 that's how it's 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 a shed. 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. 5 years 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 was not. only appears frozen in time in reality it is falling apart without a plan by the government for this community its uniqueness may not survive another

generation. robyn 1st year walka al-jazeera. the. and in part for of this 5 part series will be in senegal's the color of kabul park onto a unique species of wildlife will join those patrolling to protect itself from 10 g.m.t. on friday here on al-jazeera. i'm carol in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera one of the nigerian school boys who escaped capture from a faction of boko rahm has spoken about his kidnapping hundreds of students were abducted from a school the northern katsina state last week at least 17 have been rescued by security forces you to go to to. go a bit after we scaled the fence we were hearing voices saying that we should come back thinking there were police officers.