countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of a revolution. join us as we assess the changes in the political landscape of the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes business as usual but virtually the french president emanuel macro test positive for corona virus then shares a government meeting via video conference. pressure moments on the nigerian government to secure the release of hundreds of students kidnapped by gunman from a school last week. 1000 infections in the u.s.

the past 17000000 with more than 308000 since the pandemic began. the u.s. government confirms its computer networks are under attack from a significant hacking operation that is still ongoing. and it's for the head of european football tells al jazeera that you wife it could be doing more to fight racism i can admit maybe we're not doing enough and we will try to do as much as we can alexander chaffin says football needs government support to help tackle the problem. let's get going the french president emanuel macro has tested positive for cope with 19 in the past hour mr macro has appeared in a virtual video conference on french foreign aid his office says it's not known. on

who he contracted the virus from but he had developed symptoms the prime ministers of spain portugal and belgium say they are now going into quarantine after they met with the french leader this week another french prime minister john key aspects and the ear a paean council president shall in the shell are also self isolating live now to natasha butler joining us from paris so he says business as usual natasha and certainly watching him on the video link showing us his video link it looks like he's doing his job. yes the french present a man or mark or looking tired or has to be said personally relaxed during a video conference with some charities now that was a meeting that was shared your day was supposed to be in person of course but with the circumstances with his diagnosis for covert 19 it was darna via video conference earlier in the day as well we understand that him at all macro had

a meeting with several ministers in the least say except for those ministers were taken to separate rooms and again mark or spoke to them virtually i think the message is here from the least say that it is in a way business as usual they say that the french president is 42 years old and will continue to work throughout his 7 days of isolation of course if his health condition does not deteriorate but of course what has happened to him at all micros had something of a domino effect on others here in france in the french government the french prime minister shock us texans going into so far as elation at several meetings with a man or micro over the past few days other government ministers and politicians also placed in self isolation was a way test results to see whether any of them have contracted a covert 19 from the french president a man or macro and also i guess it's a salutary reminder to anyone who's don't fall anyplace in france a boat coronavirus or contract with. the government and the health authorities can

now turn around and say look the president has got it you have got to stick by the rules and regulations. yes that's the thing a it is a sobering reminder that of course anyone at any time can contract kovan 1000 no matter if you are only person in the street up to the highest office in the state the french president of course is proof that the french president himself always wears a face mask in public he is an advocate of social distancing but at times and even his own precautions do slip or we have seen him ourselves often in crowds where sometimes people reach out to shake hands or fist bump him recently and we've seen mark crying gaijin that he often hugs other world leaders and in fact several world leaders european leaders and visited him at all micro in paris this week of being placed in isolation including the prime ministers of spain pedro sanchez and of

portugal and tony of course as well as the head of the e.u. council michel and probably the prime minister of luxembourg i should also mention who met him on a micro at the e.u. summit which was one week ago so again many of those people are being impacted as are the as a business in their countries but as you say a reminder that kofi 1000 is very much amongst us certainly here in france the french government has recently lifted restrictions but kept in place a nighttime curfew because so is the government the covert night in still circulating viruses still mung us this of course is proof of that tasha thank you very much. the u.s. has registered new records for deaths and infections in just one day more than 3500 americans died on wednesday and nearly 250000 new infections were reported as well the number of infections nationwide has now surpassed 17000000 since the pandemic

began right now a panel of outside experts are deciding on whether to endorse the emergency use of mint berners coronavirus vaccine in africa several countries that are experiencing 2nd waves of the pandemic south africa has reported its highest new daily case rate since august and restrictions have been tightened in the democratic republic of congo as well in europe as we were just hearing germany's registered its highest number of new infections and so has austria too but there are signs of some relief with banks and nations set to start across the block 2 days after christmas alan fischer joins us live from washington so allan the figures that we're seeing just now were widely predicted will they get worse do we think the christmas holiday that's just around the corner so many people will be thinking it's time to fly home . well the spike may well run into the christmas vacation we had the experts seeing just 3 weeks ago look there's going to be a spike after thanksgiving it's the biggest travel holiday in the united states

people flying all over the u.s. to get back to spend time with their family and the experts were worried that would be there would be a spike and here we are seeing it it's almost every state that is reporting that their hospitals are close to busting they just can't deal with any more cases it means that people who are suffering from the likes of heart attacks or cancer treatments they're all being canceled at the moment or they're being treated very quickly very promptly and in different ways it is impacting the whole system all the way through certainly we're seeing an infection rate at $33.00 times greater than we saw in september and almost double the peak that we saw back in march no donald trump has been talking about how the death rate isn't quite so high as it was back in march but that know is also creeping up the epicenter of this current break seems to be in california but it really is impacting right across the country

donald trump he says he's open to take in any vaccine that comes his way when it's the right time to do so but hasn't made any plans to do it in public mike pence the vice president has he says he's going to do it on camera on friday hoping to build up some sort of confidence in the vaccination program but of course it's 6 months since my parents said there was no 2nd wave coming in the fact that the media were suggesting their wards were simply histeria is all this ellen do you think increasing the urgency or the tone of the urgency of the debates around this idea of a 2nd vaccine. well certainly what they're saying is with the fact that the vaccines are there people shouldn't be complacent 90 folks he has said that again just in the last 24 hours he praises the fact that donald trump has pushed the scientists to get the vaccine much quicker than anyone expected and they really have i mean they were talking about at the airlie it's possibly the middle

of 2021 in here we're already seeing one vaccine being circulated around in the united states this hearing that is underway is almost certainly going to give the f.d.a. the right to approve this new vaccine from a downer at some point on friday so that we one week after the 1st vaccine was approved this will be for people over the age of 18 but there are already issues there madonna said we're ready to go we have 2400000 doses ready to circulate we nor where they're going but we're producing so much more and we're getting nor wired from the administration from the government about where the additional back tears are going to go so they're essentially saying the government has to step up if this is approved which is likely to be done and see where is this going to go so they can get more vaccines out into the country much quicker allan many thanks helen fisher reporting live there from outside the white house ok that's the picture in the u.s. let's take you to the u.k.

the british government has extended tighter restrictions to more parts of england as cases continue to search there too it comes as measures are set to be eased over the forthcoming christmas holidays as paul brennan. the government here in the u.k. is wrestling with exactly the same kind of di lemmas that governments across europe are wrestling with and that is how to bring down the infection rates of this virus how to protect the national health care systems and also how to prevent the economic impact from being too great while at the same time trying to give the general public the opportunity to celebrate christmas which is a popular and much cherished festival in the european calendar and elsewhere i'm here in parliament square it's the last sitting day of parliament on thursday and one of the last acts inside that building behind me was the health sector mats hancock saying that many more areas are going to go into tier 3 restrictions that's the highest level of restrictions it means hospitality venues will have to close apart from takeaway only households will not be able to mix and all of this will

start on saturday london itself was already under tier 3 and i can tell you for example there's a restaurant popular restaurant on the corner of parliament square over there which often as well always has the pungent smell of fish and chips coming out of it not today as of earlier this week it's had to close under the new restrictions but the situation is that on wednesday of next week a new set of eased restrictions comes into place for christmas 5 days where up to 3 households can mix and many epidemiologists and many critics of the government are wondering how they can reconcile these 2 things tighter restrictions from saturday to wednesday easing of restrictions from wednesday for the following 5 days and the expectation then there could be an even bigger spike come january. parliament has its own worries as well they may also have to come back and sit in between christmas and new year because of brecht's it and the need potentially to ratify a brecht it deal but here in london and across the u.k.

there is a great fear the come january coronavirus will come back with a vengeance. turkey is reporting another record daily increase in kuwait in 1000 the health ministry says 243 people died with corona virus in the past day a further 17000 cases were registered increasing the total number of infections to just under 2000000. plenty more still to come here on the news including no regrets the billionaire owners of an opioid company a question by congress and say they couldn't have done anything differently. also ahead a decade after the arab spring began in june is year we look at what has and hasn't changed. and in the sport the world's best tennis players face a delayed start to their grand slam season and is here with that story in about 35 minutes.

ok let's turn our attention now to northern nigeria where anxious parents are demanding answers about the fate of more than 300 children captured by gunman last week they have been protests in the state of katsina a march was held by a group called the coalition of northern groups now only 17 boys have been rescued by the security forces so far a faction of the armed group boko haram says it was responsible for the kidnappings of videos emerged where boko haram fighters appear to show some of the children who've been abducted making statements under duress al-jazeera has decided not to show that video 17 boys have been rescued so far one of them is a 17 year old osama i mean he managed to escape his kidnappers he recalls now what happened. when one walked 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 bandit the name given to us at

a spot that was when we realized that would bend its wearing military uniform. in walking for so long i was already exhausted from a sickle cell patients want to hold my friend shoulder on to my right up to to my lift before i could continue the treacherous walk into the bush as the bandits continued to float people from the back so that they moved faster. committed rhasis live in the office of the governor of katsina state for the news that's where the boys were kidnapped what's the governor's office saying about this right now. well basically we had an interview shortly a few minutes ago with the governor sitting right behind me and he confirmed to me that the video was authentic what is not authentic is the voice that into jacketed claiming to be able because chicago yes that didn't sound like one because chicago and the governor one of the news that nigerians really waiting for will be

when are these boys coming i posed that question to governor must be a short while ago and he confirmed to me that he was even surprised that these boys are not back home yet he says substantial progress has been met the kidnappers have been pinned down to a particular forest in neighboring state and there's been contact between them and into media is i mean the bandits and the intermediaries now the security forces of also made contact on the 1st day remember there were reports by the nigerian authorities that there was an exchange of fire between the nigerian forces and the kidnappers but there was some form of intervention so that the safety of the boy's kidnap will be guaranteed the government can fund that to us and he said that negotiations has progressed tremendously although the government of cats in the state is not directly involved remember the governor of each state is the chief security officer of the state but he doesn't have control over the security forces

stuart will control rest with that of the federal government because these are federal forces so what we're waiting for now is when we see the boys coming from what the governor is talking talking to telling us we probably me see these boys in the next 24 hours if things go according to plan as to give the state it just to be clear you mentioned somebodies name there at the top of your arms who is that person you're talking about and how significant is it that that is apparently not the voice of who it is claims to be. the governor confirmed to us that that voice doesn't sound like a book or chicago the voice sounded more like the abductors they've been dealing with in north western nigeria that he believes that is the voice of a bandit one of the kidnappers or one of the people who led the kidnapping operation on the 2nd to school in gaza so that is the situation right now whether

or not that could be verified in the next few hours or so we wait to see but the governor sounds sause sure that that is notable because chicago and he believes that it's not bookworm that's holding them although he's not discounting the possibility that may be in touch with the people who kidnapped this children or there are some who are spread across the region because we know from previous reports that they've been incidents involving boko haram where they kidnap 4 run some but these are on a smaller scale they are tight security forces as well as raid communities for food stubborn money to go back to the north where the north east of the country to fund their operations so the governor is sure that that voice doesn't belong to a because chicago the leader or the factional leader of boko haram ok thanks for one final point we tend to use the phrase book of the name booker as a catchall description for this group of people who do what they do up there in northern nigeria but we're talking here about a kind of

a splinter group of book or arm surely and in that sense is that more or less of a problem for the authorities in can't seen a state i mean does this mean that book of iran is is more of a threat than if it was just one big organization being run by one or 2 people. now basically boko haram is centered mainly in the northeast of the country with the main operational base being the states the contiguous states of baltimore your bay and adam are states and over the past few years we've seen how the group are splinted one pledging allegiance to islamic state and the other remaining what it is because it's lost it lost out in the past drug to be identified with ice all now that is raising concerns about possible negotiations of hostages and other deals that their thoughts just may want to cut with boko haram however what we know

is that there has been some contact between book or on faction especially the shekel faction with bundy's operating in the northwest of nigeria there were several videos in the past one and a half years or so why a book or time has been soliciting the cooperation of these groups these bandits these armed men who've been raiding villages for cattle money and all that and we've seen some form of ideas also on the part of some of these groups but we also understand that boko haram has claimed responsibility for this but there are fortis here seem a bit sure that it's not but that it is specifically dealing with biscuits meant goods told us never any developments come right back to us in the meantime thank you or me to address the correspondent in katsina state in nigeria the owners of the company blame for fueling the deadly opioid crisis in the united states have apologized before a congressional committee but told members they wouldn't do things differently even if they could is owned by the sackler family we're talking about one company purge

you pharma the makers of the addictive prescription painkiller it's called oxycontin last month the company plead guilty to criminal charges it knitted providing misleading information about the drug and doing little to prevent it from entering into the black market. over the years oxycontin has been on the market pretty work to reduce the risk of addiction and abuse in a number of ways in the past 20 years produce spent more than a $1000000000.00 on anti abuse diversion initiatives produce instituted what i understand was the 1st voluntary abuse and diversion detection program in 2002 this program was expanded and endorsed by various state governments who later required producer to keep the program in place and i understand it was used as a model for at least one other pharmaceutical company to follow live now to capitol hill and correspondent tracking that story for us hi joe castro so heidi they have

officially apologized to this congressional inquiry but it feels as if they've apologized because they thought they had to i mean not what's coming out there that sounds like contrition. that's right peter and if you listen closely to the words of these 2 sadler family members they said they were sorry for people who have died because the old boy crisis they're happy that they're sorry that that happened however they also say that they would not go back in time and change any of the actions that the family members themselves took with the knowledge that they had in that moment and in this virtual setting it's more difficult to see any fireworks really appear when you had the feeling that if these committee members could have they would have gone and dragged these family members here to capitol hill in person to force them to testify in fact there was a threat of subpoena that compelled these 2 southwark cousins who just until

recently were on the board member of her approach to pharma to turn on their webcams and testified today and there were harsh words and response from both sides of the aisle were fresh really this time not pointed at each other from the 2 political parties but all directed toward the witnesses themselves. once you testify makes my blood boil. i'm not sure that i'm aware of any. more even in your. and the c.e.o. of produce pharma was also testifying today he did have more of a direct apology for the company's role in the opioid crisis which again has led to the deaths of more than 450000 americans but again there was finger pointing even on the witnesses side with the sackler family members of the board placing blame on the non family members who are part of the management of pharma peter heidi when it

comes to it some point in the future i mean the financial liability here levied against the company is going to run into being a very very big sum of money surely. that's right $8000000000.00 in fact is the settlement that purdue pharma signed just a month ago with the department of justice in which have pled guilty to 3 criminal felony charges relating to the way that it pushed oxycontin while knowing of its highly addictive nature but the big question is whether that money will ever reach the victims or their families because part of the 7 settlement also allowed for purdue pharma to seek bankruptcy protections which may shield it from creditors including those victims so there are actually more than 20 states that are suing purdue pharma as well and their state attorneys general have all said they are against this bankruptcy settlement peter heidi many thanks for the reporting on the

developing story from washington. stay in the states u.s. government agencies are rushing to tighten their computer security after confirming they've been hit in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation the attackers are suspected to have been russian they pierced cyber defenses and accessed e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce departments and possibly elsewhere f.b.i. investigators say it is an ongoing situation they are trying to find those people responsible the treasury and commerce departments were among dozens infiltrated let's talk now to glen tell he was a general counsel of the national security agency currently a senior advisor at the center for strategic and international studies he joins us on skype from washington glen cursed a welcome to al-jazeera in this day and age how is it possible that all these top flights u.s. government departments don't have perfect cyber security. that of course

is the goal but like many goals it's not really obtainable for a couple of reasons peter 1st of all we're dealing here with an incredibly sophisticated attack this is a cyber attack of immense skill and comprehensiveness probably done by a nation state which is why many people tend to think it probably was generated by the russian foreign intelligence service which has that level of sophistication so what is it sophisticated very skill very hard to defend against and secondly within the united states the responsibility for cyber defense is scattered across numerous government departments the private sector is left largely to fend for itself there is lots of questions about the supply chain sanctity of quitman that goes into our computers in the federal government which we don't really keep track of and are unable to defend against in a holistic way so when you put that all together it's not a surprise that

a sophisticated attacker would be able to penetrate what's the weak point in that system that chain that you're talking about they can and does this mean that for example if a government like the u.s. federal government buys in for example you know chinese technology and that chinese technology represents a link in the chain in the private sector is that in effect a weak link in the chain and cyber attackers would know to go for that weakling. sure that's certainly one of them and the whole nature of our a cyber system is a very complex one there are lots of ways attackers can get in of course we're all familiar with old fashioned e-mail phishing which someone seeks your password and steals it and enters enters the computer system that way or another way attackers can get in is by exploiting an unknown bug in the software so called 0 day exploits where supporter and attacker is very sophisticated and uses that to get in in this

particular attack this was a somewhat novel but also mirroring the way russians evidently entered the ukraine tax system which is using the back door so to speak in a software update so this would be sort of the equivalent of letting maybe to use an existing elegy of letting a a trusted repairman into your house who brings along a helper you know who repairman so you feel comfortable having him or her in the in the house and their help or at least repairmen thinks is proper but it turns out that helper was served as the working for someone else and goes into your house leaves the back door open so that he or she can come in in the future as they wish that's sort of what happened here this is a back door attack you also mention supply chain attacks where something is embedded in a piece of equipment that is purchased and put in to the network system and again that's yet another vulnerability so the story his here that there are many ways an

attacker could enter a computer system what kind of high value information of the hacker is going off to i mean i would assume say they hacked the office of the vice president they don't there's nothing in it for them getting into the e-mail conversation between mike pence and his medical advisors saying yes you'll vaccine is shuttle friday is being done at fox news studios there's nothing in that they can't do anything with that but are americans less safe and is america less safe if they get all the high value information. absolutely and right now we don't know the extent of the attack it appears that about 4 or 5 federal departments including the national institutes of health which is responsible indirectly for our covert vaccine administration were accessed exactly what emails were were accessor tish's they were going to have to spend months to figure that out but certainly a foreign intelligence service such as such as russia's would be able to glean

a lot of information by looking at treasury department e-mails and understanding what sanctions may be upcoming how the treasury department is position for international financial matters looking at the department of agriculture understanding what we need supplies it may be interested in purchasing or not purchasing from russia as the case may be so you could well imagine how a country like russia and again we're not sure that it's russian but right now all signs point to russia could glean a some very significant amount of information just from reading our federal government e-mails glenn very briefly please super briefly how can in this day and age given our conversation how can anyone in the current us administration or in the u.s. government evan say russia has never and does never have a fingerprint in the technology that's a very tough question i think we're going to be adding to spend months looking at what kind of access they had and whether they still remain in our system and that's a very very scary thought that we're going to have to address glenn

a scary but interesting conversation thank you very much glenn cust allege earning us from washington. well the russian president vladimir putin hasn't spoken about that particular hacking event during his annual media conference but he did deny that russian hackers ever meddled in the 2016 u.s. elections mr putin was fielding questions today at his annual media conference from his private residence outside moscow addressing a wide range of issues when asked about his future mr putin said he's not yet taken a decision on whether he'll run for the presidency in 2024 in july this year he did change the constitution in theory it should allow him to rule until 2036 well during the news conference mr putin also refuted a report alleging russian security forces were behind the poisoning of the opposition activists alexina felony you were going to shoot that it's not a report it's the legitimization of materials from the american special services in the valley has the support of the american special services and if it's true it's quite interesting that this does not at all mean that it is necessary to poison lee

who needs him if the russian special services had wanted to fatally poison him they would have finished the job. ok when we come back we'll bring you these stories an origin story a world health organization team is set to travel to one in china to investigate the start of the crisis that has changed the world and sport a bad day for an olympic legend in his bid to win sailings america's cup. hello once again the weather remains slushy dry across a good part of the middle east we have got some showers still leaking the way ounce of heat is pushing over towards the caspian sea mold in parts of iraq could see some rain from time to time maybe wanted to showers into the west as well as south of that it is generally try national day here in qatar on friday temperatures

around 24 celsius a light wind has a little bit of the morning mist and folk to watch out for that will shift by saturday as the winds pick up maybe a line of wetter weather just sliding outs of more than parts of saudi arabia for a time not too much on this but some rain there a possibility nevertheless just some rain to just around the gulf of aden some a wetter weather in play him say that western weather just a fight to the north of somalia as we go through the next day or so want to see showers just sliding towards the horn of africa elsewhere across central africa plenty of showers around the rift valley sliding down across as ambien to wards botswana will see some heavy showers for a time to into zimbabwe some pass' in bob we see some heavy rains central and southern parts mozambique also looking pretty disturbed over the next couple days that rain and sodomize and big pepping up for saturday with the possibility of flooding.

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al-jazeera. war. welcome back you're watching news our live from doha i'm peter dhabi your top stories so far today the french president emanuel mccraw is carrying on with his duties despite testing positive for cope with 19 the prime ministers of spain and belgium are in quarantine after missing the earlier this week. the billionaire owners of an opioid company have apologized to aggression the committee but the sackler family who control perjury pharma say they couldn't have done anything differently last month the company did plead guilty to criminal charges. they have

been protests over the security situation in northern nigeria days after hundreds of schoolboys were kidnapped in the state to cut sina and 17 boys have been rescued by security forces so far a faction of the armed group boko haram says it was responsible for the kidnappings . the european union's top court has ruled hungary 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 border with serbia it also found that no special protection was offered to children or the vulnerable hungry had implemented anti immigration policies joining the peak of the syrian refugee crisis in 2015. the european parliament has voted against imposing sanctions targeting the egyptian government the resolution did raise concerns about egypt's human rights record among other topics it condemned the kidnapping torture and killing of an italian research julio regina in cairo in 2016.

10 years ago a fruit seller in tunisia assert himself on fire in a desperate and a fatal act of protest mohammed's boise's actions tapped into frustration and fury at home and across the wider region leading to what became known as the arab spring june is here is an arab country the transition to democracy but many say things about me got worse bernard smith has the story. of how much protest is commemorated every year in his hometown but this time there weren't many people here to see it in previous years this place would have been packed the locals have stayed away in protest because they say it is more deprived than it was 10 years ago. the reasons why people haven't come the 1st is coronavirus the 2nd is that people are angry promises of a new hospital a university and a bigger vegetable market haven't materialized but they've been on paper since 2011

with the official ceremony over the protesters moved in. memorial became their platform. and i thought why should i celebrate i didn't get anything from that in the last 10 years what is there to celebrate maybe life was better before man because i want to scream at the government if you do not have any plans to develop the city please leave. east marginalized. cafes are full of men with little to do and little illegal migration from tunisia to europe has increased 4 fold in the last 12 months. i went to spain in 2014 while. i work daily from. 15 do you know. it's not enough for cigarettes and coffee in spain. it makes a difference but i got arrested and sent back. in 2010 they were. shouting with one

voice the people want the fall of the regime today the demands are more wide ranging. that of people demanding their constitutional right to work is on it graduates wanting jobs that match their qualifications lawyers demanding a justice system free from corruption. this is the only official commemoration in tunisia of the protest by muhammad who is easy that sets off the jasmine revolution that sparked demonstrations across this region 10 years on form the arab spring and the complaints we've heard today about no jobs lack of opportunity and rising prices could be heard and perhaps any town and any street in the middle east bernard smith al-jazeera citizen. international investigators have now been given the green light to travel to the chinese city of who have to look into the origins of the coronavirus a team will visit china in january after getting permission from beijing most

experts believe it spread through a food market in the city of who hand solid balance reports. it was heron who hired a year ago china 1st reported cases of pneumonia from an unknown course and in january it was the 1st place to go into a strict and sweeping lockdown but was it where it all began the world health organization is seeming investigators to china to find out our understanding at this time is that china is working with the international team and their visit and this is an dissipated as far as we are aware. the january most experts believe the virus originated in animals and spread through this wit market to move on but china has strongly opposed calls for an international inquiry into how the pandemic began saying it felt unfeeling targeted chinese state media have suggested covert 19 existed abroad long before it was discovered in rouhani.

since the outbreak of the pandemic china has acted in an open transparent and responsible way we started cooperating with the w.h.o. on origin tracing very early on w h r experts have come to china twice and chinese experts also held many video conferences with the w.h.o. person now and international experts the search for the source of covert 19 has fueled political tensions u.s. president donald trump accused china of a cover up a strangely a call for an investigation into the viruses origin's which soured trade relations with china but the world health organization says it's trip is not to apportion blame the gather dust or to prevent future outbreaks to harm residents are welcoming the scrutiny. of the we all know that it is a seafood market where it was 1st discovered but it is highly possible that it came from elsewhere and then ended up at the market seafood doesn't come from will harm

you know perhaps there even some deeper origins prior to that need to be looked into. for the 11000000 people and life is largely back to normal they haven't had a locally transmitted case since may but for most of the rest of the world life is anything but normal millions of suffering. and wondering how this all began and more importantly when it will end shelob ellis al-jazeera. the global covered 19 vaccination program will be the biggest in history but with it comes so many challenges wealthy countries such as the u.s. and the u.k. well they've already begun vaccinating their people after buying huge numbers of doses and fast tracking the approval of the vaccines however poor countries could have to wait for years the w.h.o. kovacs scheme to deliver vaccines to poorer nations is suffering from a lack of funds and faces supply challenges and even if the vaccine does get to

people they have to be convinced to take kids with thanks the misinformation being widespread let's talk now to dr anne expire of she's a critical care physician and a professor of population health sciences and policy at month sinai hospital she joins us from geneva dr sparrow welcome back to the news hour forgive me let's just do it is start here page one how much immunity will a vaccine give any individual. well that will mention is and we actually don't know and he is being i mean morgan coronavirus and that things are perceived as weapons of mass immigration and they are met with against many of our picks. and that's what we have to them but there is general perception that that's nations are going to make us biased prove now what the trial was telling us that being highly because of the 95 percent to 95 percent effective in a trial that highly effective at preventing disease but that is the only recollect

that the only criteria upon which about acting gets licensed whether or not they prevent disease whether or not they prevent infection or onward spread to not a person that we don't know the trials don't look at that it takes longer and we need a higher power so that's the long not to peter the short answer is we don't know and open months before we find out because we can only find out now is where that is that being rolled out and that's actually quite hard because. you know this is a virus it's plagues only quickly. with basic domestic sprayed and that. was our government itself because we know it requires raids in people who don't show any symptoms i would look forward to a couple of days before they develop or you know also in people who don't enter the space and so now we have

a vaccine which takes away some very big to and the only way that we're going to know if people are even picked it or not is by testing not so we won't know now because it is at the end test it to have a vaccine that's going to prevent elderly people dying in other bottle lives because we don't even have an effective treatment at the state we don't have a single arrival q on steroids only were going about their it at the released. patients you know those are on ventilated. and. you know it's superimportant it's fantastic to reassuring to know. that things are thick to let you know i haven't picked up on very much from the trials that talks about the vaccines potentially being unsafe if they are potentially maybe not unsafe forgive me for hitting of the double negative does that mean that safety is guaranteed certainly in there the moderna and the by the particular began it's

going to then test excite the track record so i mean look we've seen in the last week with the pfizer vaccine a couple of allergic reactions in britain and in the us and you know now they are meeting with these happen with all the explanations and certainly there were no serious side effects i'm having with them again as we did receive idea approval to gable with byetta and i mean having my own a big set aside a bit sooner. and company those people are a very very mild symptoms of the disease that encouraging because they know the vaccine is actually working and that we're not expecting to see any nasty side effects. certainly none of these are myths that been spread around already because these are our main developed that things that they might indicate with our own genes know that that exact certain rubbish ok should people have had coronavirus get vaccinated anyway because we have been told for

a long time now if you've had it you have antibodies because some people when they leave certain countries to fly to other countries they have to have by law antibody tests in country a before they get on a plane to go to country b. . yes that is a real problem because the anybody test you got there a couple of 100 and that is it quite regular a church and anybody is in those out of very good weather assessing and this you know if you just had the disease and yes that would show you that you've had it but . you know they are not reliable and is that thing that we don't know how immunity last when you've had the disease and we don't know how long the muties going to last for those who have accident and the fact that i would point out is. you know to us in a few years let's come get more common cold ones suggest that i'm not measles for example smallpox were a way to go to you know like time eventually are nearly made and this is

a need that didn't like it it was missing a couple of years we think but we don't know as we have to track it but the 2nd thing is also that the women haven't been getting any of the trials and that because we always have concern dr. martens that we still gets us to is there not to say they're not safe but they haven't tested and they are high risk groups are going to have to be very careful around. you know moving bowing and moving forward make a plea and not consent to be and that's why we mustn't buy on to keep on with the social distancing the masks major you know the. mistakes and the mess gatherings that we're currently using to suppress spread of the virus because back in the not going to do that for us we can't guarantee it and we just got lucky pirates groups friends to talk to spar over supplies i think we learned things joining our conversation there thank you so much for coming on breaking that down for us basically we've still got to carry on being super catholic yes that's the main takeaway to any sparrow there in geneva thank you so much. make it. dozens of

united nations world heritage sites that have been damaged by warfare or neglect or at risk of losing their status in the 3rd of our 5 part series on unesco endangered lists we visit the ancient fortress village of high in the mountains of western georgia his robin for a state will come. to have the. votes of a will for centuries these defensive towers protected and preserved this phone the community. the cluster of villages has world heritage status but these extraordinary medieval architecture is steadily collapsing. mosts family tower was damaged in an avalanche he says the old thirties promised to repair it. help never came.

we were celebrating a religious holiday and the tower collapsed thank god nobody was hurt but the saddest thing is i 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 development like its towers which goodies value is eroding. this neighborhood is emblematic of the problems facing. you can see that breeze block extension over there completely out of keeping with its surroundings this ancient family home has been almost destroyed after a tower collapsed and the tower is being rebuilt by the government but locals tell

me that the quality of the work pales in comparison to the majestic craftsmanship of their ancestors george's heritage agency admits the work has been in authentic but it also blames locals for illegal construction have fun rights campaigners say the responsibility for protecting this unique culture must be shed. and is in danger and he definitely needs the attention of the state no one else is responsible for our material cultural and spiritual heritage it's the responsibility of the country and its people. until then sons are taking matters into their own hands. 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.

appears frozen in time in reality it is forging a pot without a plan that by the government for this community its uniqueness may not survive another generation. robyn 1st year walka al-jazeera. last most ill to come here on the news hour for the sports news then to the verdict is in as russia appeals against its ban from major sporting events and he is here in a couple of minutes. on .

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time for sports is ending thank you so much peta ahead of european football has told al jazeera that you could be doing more to fight racism in the game and alex on the chair france says football needs more support from governments to help tackle the problem football is a reflection of society many times football spectators are coming. to watch football in principle they're very positive they're nice people they they are not racists there's always a number of people who misuse football matches because of its impact of their reach to exercise these those. ideas we are doing everything we can we are trying to educate the people we are punishing but we need help from the government governments can say us i should do something and that the same time they let. it happen in some countries without any any consequence so it's

a big fight it's not an easy one but whoever says you are face not doing anything or doesn't have a clue what you have faced doing or has bad intentions i i can admit maybe we're not doing enough and we will try to do as much as we can but we are doing it we are dealing with it it's not easy to deal with it and we need governments to to join any of governments. at tolerating that kind of behavior then how can they expect us to play the police in their countries. now russia has had its ban from major sporting events reduced to 2 years after an appeal hearing the world anti-doping agency had given the country a 4 year penalty and $29.00 c. and water believes a lab data handed over by russia during an open investigation had been tampered with despite the suspension being half by the court of arbitration for sport russia won't be officially represented in next year's tokyo olympics or the 2022 football

world cup in cats are sold again in 2014 when the german c.v. channel a r d reported on allegations of state backed doping in russia the following year russia's anti doping agency has declared noncompliance the world let's expand russia's track and field athletes in 2016 gregory chunk of the former director of anti doping in moscow details how he swapped dirty samples for clean ones all part of the doping plan when 2018 some russians were allowed to compete at the winter olympics and later that year the russian anti doping agency was reinstated put in 2019 that decision was reversed due to concerns that russian lab data had been manipulated this appeal verdict means russia will be officially banned from all major events until the end of 2022 now earlier on we spoke to her resampled one of the journalists who broke the story about doping in russia back in 24 saying. we will see russian athletes at the olympics and also at other major big sports event

global sports events but with no russian jerseys was no russian flecks nor russian of them is allowed no victory ceremony was russians there are some books on that is punishment as one observes major parts of as punishment section and also russia is not a lot to bid in this 2 years period from now on huntington 62 separate to stars and $22.00 to bid for any major big global event and not also not sure if you're a mix and russia is not allowed to host any big event like world championships and that might be a big discussion in the next couple of months because for example some sports federation have already. granted their a big events to russia and now we have such discussion if these events at russia have to be canceled the 1st grand slam tennis tournament of 2021 has been pushed back by 3 weeks due to coronavirus the australian open for now start in melbourne

on february the 8th players have expected to arrive in australia on the 15th of january and they then have to go through a 14 day quarantine period on the local coronavirus rules the 4 day qualifying men's event has been most to cats are in early january. another great day for 4 time olympic same champion bena ainslie in his efforts win next year's america's cup is any all same u.k. boat hit by technical problems and was forced to retire from its 2nd race in the america's cup world series in new zealand this a preliminary competition to find out who will take on the defending champions the new zealand yacht squadron next year you know itis a challenge of american magic as that's the most likely winner so far. ok more support for me a little later over that i said i was looking for an 8 and b thank you very much that's it for me peace at all before this news hour lauren taylor is back in a moment from london with more of the day's news i will see you from here in doha

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