online jumping to the quick section and the team to be part of the discussion the stream on out is their. invitation to bear witness to that life office the heart. the names the unseen and every day miracle. witness on al-jazeera. protests has increased the pressure on nigeria's government as boko haram releases a video it says shares some of the students kidnapped last week. on non-tariff says al jazeera live from london also coming up emmanuel mccall tests positive for covert 19 sending dozens more french and your pin leaders into self

isolation. department. is not a myth putin laughs off an investigation blaming russian agents for poisoning alexei navalny saying if they had he would be dead. and 10 years after a fruit seller 2nd cell phone fire sparking one became known as the arab spring a still protesting. actor is growing in nigeria 6 days after hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted a faction of the armed group because iran has released the proof of life video of what it says a some of the kidnapped boys in the video which al-jazeera has chose not to broadcast the boys urged the military to stay away while 300 boys are still unaccounted for after armed men raided their school in katsina state in the country's northwest. tess's have rallied in the town

of kankar a furious at the government's handling of the case police forces are scouring densely forested areas trying to locate the abducted children government officials are trying to reassure worried parents saying they're negotiating with the kidnappers a military search joins us live from katsina and tell us any but there's any progress on finding the boys. well a short while ago lauren i spoke with the governor of cats in the state. on a bull i mean of into my study who can fund to me that a lot of progress has been made in securing the release of these still remember there were earlier reports contradictory reports of the boys have been released but the governor is sure that he's even surprised that up to now there is the boys are not home he said what the government is doing over the past few days has been to

try through intermediaries to secure the release of these young children and one of the things you said was the 1st approach was more like a stick approach deploying the military to cordon off a sudden plays in the forest between them for and gets in a stage now that the bandits have been pinned down and they're saying that whatever happens on the front line is actually the the jurisdiction of federal troops which the state virtually has no control over but on these cuts in a state government says it is making efforts through intermediaries to see how to resolve this quickly without any loss of life right now is the governor of course in a state level i mean of below my studies that talk to us about the progress made in securing the release of these children. made substantial progress for the 34 days who have been discussing through intermediaries and we believe that part of

today or within the i leave allow us to start to see some positive developments have the in touch with them with allow us to do that even if that was spoke. with them on representing as much as we had advised on security. reasons on cause and. see the coming back of the children you know let alone we insisted that. non-kinetic approach should be adopted because we don't want any of collateral damage especially affecting the children not talking about the children. we are we. sure but in the next 24 hours we'll see them back home safe i am confident that we will see them now talk to us about how traumatic this has been for your government and the parents because what people remember in nigeria is 2014 repeating itself again on a bigger scale 50600 children in

a school many of them kidnapped and unaccounted for talk to us about the experiences of the past few days what led to me doesn't want to go to because you are giving the total population of the school. $169.00 and so far $462.00. back home so we're talking our boat 402 number. 60200. side to luke help on is 5. of them what have been in your book and other places but that is not to see what has happened is not as important as what has happened in jubal for us it is more important because this effect says direct to me and it. is a goal meant 90 percent of these children from cuts in his teaching from all of the 30 of little kind of them and so couldn't stick so i am concern i am responsible

for 400 on 2 missing children. of that so i won't consent and i think for the last 6 days it has been very that it will not do for me and my entire family governor there was a video only released today what do you make of that video are they really students of can get our science are going to school i need to book want to hold in them you know i think you can see i'm not. a specialist in this manipulation. took another g.'s but do you see a side to the boy who support. since in uniform of the school so let does believe that the children will the children from going to going to school but the imposition of somebody is speaking. as if directly in war i very much doubt i have no say in that they may be beautiful to live somehow. connected but not to directly from what to have seen and that information i have little to add those who created

this out how does a. people of. them because in a most of them from them what i would know them it would have been in their names. in a known subset of occasions dried in this fight against bundy. 3 you know how has this banditry impacted on the lives and economy of this state and very very negatively very very negatively if you. spent who all our success in terms of trying to control does the loss of money ours by a farmer that cannot access their farms the loss of work to both the loss of cotton the also means of livelihood people who cannot access their farms the quantum is imagine it has negatively effect impacted on the lives of our people i mean really missouri the governor of course in the state thank you very much sir for your time and this is the situation now according to the governor and the

government we probably will see the return of the students in the next 24 hours a lot of parents will be happy to see that happen and even the government will be happy to put this behind it i'm going to use thank you very much indeed. french president emmanuel mccourt has become the latest world leader to test positive for cocaine 19 a virus that's infected more than 74000000 people is still working but will quarantine for 7 days because office says it's very likely he got it at an e.u. summit a week ago is also hosted several leaders in paris this week the prime ministers of spain portugal and belgium are among those now forced to self isolate in the u.s. regulators are discussing emergency approval of the maternal vaccine a day after the country set new records for deaths and infections a 2nd wave is now spreading through parts of west central and south africa health

officials warn cooler weather and pandemic fatigue could see cases surge but i should bottler in paris has more on president because diagnosis. the french president looked tired but relaxed as he hosted a video conference with several charities the meeting came only hours after the release a palace announced that emanuel macro had tested positive for the covert 19 the 42 year old leader plans to keep working during his 7 days of isolation but he will not. quit he will honor his appointments but with even more caution than is usually safe for the president since the start of the pandemic in public micro as a face mask and takes precautions but at times he has failed to social distance. he's attended a number of offense in the past week including an e.u. summit he also met several european leaders in paris including portugal's prime minister and tony acosta and spanish premier petra sanchez who are now self

isolating in france the prime minister and michael's wife bridges are in quarantine several members of the government and presidents party up being tested it is clear that the message from the enemies that it is good is that as usual unless michael's condition deteriorates he will the moment forward throughout his isolation there is that this doesn't change anything and. it's not the big deal that's what there is is trying to say but they're not saying what are the symptoms that said the president as we know that he was tested after showing symptoms and and we don't know where those symptoms are the french government has lifted some lockdown restrictions but reimposed a nighttime curfew as the country continues to battle the pandemic michael's diagnosis is a sobering reminder that anyone can be infected. al-jazeera paris the

king of sweden says his country has failed in its handling of the pandemic the nation has been criticized for its unorthodox approach relying more on guidelines and never imposing a full lockdown sweden has reported almost 3. 150000 cases and woman 7800 deaths. the real thing you've got to put simply i think that we have failed many people have died and that is horrible that is something we can all sympathize with that we haven't been able to help them and it is very sad terribly sad it's the swedish people who suffered enormously under difficult circumstances it's frightening to talk about it. united states has passed 17000000 confirmed coronavirus cases adding a 1000000 new infections in just the past 5 days it covers a day out of the country set new records for daily infections and deaths even as vaccinations begin $3656.00 fatalities were confirmed on wednesday and more than

247000 new infections in the coming hours an expert panel to the u.s. food and drug administration will vote whether to recommend emergency approval of the medina vaccine let's go to our official live in washington d.c. and allan some some quite staggering numbers again from the u.s. . and there are people who worry that the next few days might see those numbers actually increase there was a warning 3 weeks ago from the experts they said look thanksgiving whether it's a big travel holiday year in the united states could lead to a peak a real spike in the next 3 weeks and that's exactly what's happened so this was eminently predictable as millions of people across the country decided they wanted to spend thanksgiving with loved ones what situation are we out well if you go back to september the numbers know about 3 times as big as they were then if you go back to the spike that we had earlier this year those numbers are almost twice as much as they were then and it's a double whammy as well not only are hospitals busting at the seams they're really

struggling to cope with the numbers that are coming in through the doors the number of people applying for help because the been made unemployed going up as well 855000 people in the last week if you look back to just before there was the corporate crisis you're talking about somewhere in the region of 225000 so you see just how many more people are being impacted this on an economic level because christie former governor of new jersey close adviser to donald trump say just in the last few hours that he wishes he'd worn a mask when he was here at the white house in october he was hospitalized then for a week was in intensive care he was helping donald trump prep for one of his debates but he says because he didn't win a mask he caught covered in these no argy other people to follow the example of him and we had a mass no saying it could cut the risk of infection by at least half and then we've got the president himself saying that he's ready and willing to take the vaccine

when it's made available to him. although there's no sign that that's going to happen anytime soon but mike pence who's the vice president says that he is going to get the vaccine on friday he wants the american television networks to carry it live he's hoping this will build up confidence in the vaccine but of course it comes just 6 months after he wrote an. in the newspaper saying there was going to be no 2nd wave of corporate and when the media were reporting on the possibility of that it was just hysteria and down into the f.d.a. has been discussing the medan of vaccine when we hear about that well the committee which is likely to make its decision in the next couple of hours they are expected to approve mergence the use of the moderna vaccine for everyone over the age of 18 that will then go to the f.d.a. and we expect the f.d.a. to move very quickly as they did exactly a week ago with the pfizer vaccine and give their approval at some point on friday

so that will mean 2 companies or no producing vaccines and circulating them around the u.s. what is interesting is that pfizer has had to issue a statement just in the last couple of hours because they were seeing reports that they had distribution problems they said look we have got enough vaccines to go and we have spoken to operation what speed the operation for those coordinated by the white house but we haven't been told where to send somewhere in the region of 2400000 doses of the vaccine next they've already sent the 1st batch is out but they need to know where the 2nd back tears are going to go and they're ready to do that they don't they don't want there to be a lag antony green the face of so much of the coverage of covert over the last several months he says look the reality is that the vaccines have happened much sooner than anyone expected of course you'll remember that they were talking about it as possibly happening sometime in the middle of next year but people shouldn't get carried away there is still

a huge risk and of course we're just one week away from the christmas holiday so dr foti is our jeanne people to take here because what they do want to see after getting through this spike is another spike in 2 or 3 weeks time and fish thank you very much indeed. still to come this half hour there's nothing that i can find that i would have done different members of a 2nd family defend themselves to congress every crisis has killed around $450000.00 people in the u.s. . and a confusing page as one of most powerful signs in fiji's history hammers the pacific on. how low we have got so wet windy but mild weather pushing into western parts of europe at the moment behind this band of cloud this weather front that's going to

continue driving its way eastwards quite tightly packed ice about some brisk showers just rattling 3 quads or whether we do have high pressure but it is going to be cold temperatures struggling to get around 4 or 5 celsius to many some snow there just around the baltic states pushing into that western side of iraq it comes out wet some windy but mild air which will fade in across the british isles heavy rain coming in c. western france and also into western parts of spain portugal i will the next couple days i will sweep through making its way to madrid temperatures no higher than around 9 celsius here on sas day but it's 12 there in london should be about 8 degrees as i said it is moderate that's about the only consolation i can offer some wet weather there. good parts of france down towards the south as well central areas generally try and fine and down into the eastern side of the mediterranean generally fine and dry here saying that dry weather stretches across the north east of africa but we have got some showers it's in northern parts of morocco some

showers to gentle areas of algeria must see some wet weather once again just clinging on to the guinea coast possibility of showers all the way over to sierra leone. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. by them both isis and us on. the 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. to on al-jazeera.

i look at a round of the top stories here nonzero anger is growing in nigeria 6 days after armed men raided a school with katsina state and abducted more than $300.00 schoolboys a faction of the armed group boko haram has released a proof of life video of what it says a some of the kidnapped borys. french president in one year mccall's become the latest world leader to test positive for covert 19 is still working but will quarantine for 7 days several other european leaders are also into dos nation after recent contact with michael. in the united states this past 17000000 confirmed coronavirus cases a day after reported record 3656 new deaths. fears of the pharmaceutical company blame for fueling an opioid crisis in the u.s.

have apologized to a congressional committee they said they wouldn't do things differently even if they could subtly family owners purdue pharma the maker of the addictive prescription painkiller oxy contin last month the company pleaded guilty to criminal charges it admitted providing misleading information about the drug and doing little to stop it entering the black market. there's live on capitol hill to tell us a little bit about what sort of apology they did give. well it's a question whether or not what the south korea said today even counts as an apology these were 2 former board members their cousins that appeared before this congressional hearing remotely under threat of subpoena and that this was the 1st time in many years that any members of the sac or. family have been attempted to be held accountable in a public setting like this and so the stakes were pretty high with members of the

house oversight committee really grilling them pushing them for an apology instead what we got were these 2 sackler family members in a sense defending what they did while saying they were sorry for the loss of life as a result of the opioid crisis not necessarily taking responsibility for any of it though i believe. i conducted myself. and i believe record will demonstrate this to feel absolutely terrible that a product created. and household so many people has also been associated with. and there is nothing that i can find that i would have done differently based on what i believe the understood and we look at tim's ever see compensation. well just last month there was

a federal settlement between the sadler's and their company purdue pharma for $8000000000.00 in penalties and it was the company that pled guilty to 3 felonies including pushing doctors to overprescribe oxy cotton as well as misleading federal investigators however the catch is the family members themselves walked away with no criminal claims and the company now has an opportunity to file for bankruptcy which may protect it from creditors and who will those creditors be well possibly that the victims and the family members of the victims who want to get a part of that $8000000000.00 settlement question of whether or not they'll ever see it though is still to be seen as you guys should thank you very much indeed. u.s. president elect joe biden has called an ongoing hacking campaign against the government a matter of great concern a cyber attack from to the national security adviser robert o'brien to cut short

a trip to europe and return to washington d.c. tech companies solar wind says around 800000 of its customers on wishing they downloaded software 9 months ago which are not hackers to spy on the government multiple agencies are working to determine who's behind the hack russia is denying responsibility. rademacher says he's happy to take russia's coronavirus vaccine and has dismissed allegations that he ordered the poisoning of opposition leader. the russian president was speaking at his annual news conference which was held at his private residence in moscow because of the pandemic so you've got to go has more. the annual presidential press conference with a marked difference it is always a marathon event lost in close to 2 hours with relatively few surprises from his home in the suburbs of moscow president vladimir putin fielded questions from all over the country his thoughts on current issues foremost the pandemic and whether

he'd been given the russian vaccine sputnik v. which is yet to meet international approval standards. the vaccine is going to civilian circulation are currently provided for citizens in a certain age range and vaccines have not yet reached people like me but i'm a fairly law abiding person i listen to the recommendations of our specialists so i haven't had the shot yet but i will absolutely do it as soon as it becomes possible there were also questions over the attempted assassination of his opponent alex inevitably while refusing to use nerve on these name putting dismissed allegations that he had been poisoned with a nerve agent and that orders to do so came straight from the top. if someone had wanted to poison him they would have finished him off his wife addressed me and i gave the command right away to let him go to germany for treatment when it came to talking about the incoming u.s.

president joe biden he acknowledged his hopes of a reset in u.s. russia relations in donald trump he had a counterpart to empathize with his played nationalist strongman sentiments yet 4 years on after donald trump's victory putin once again denied that russian hackers had ever meddled in the 2016 u.s. elections. hotas didn't help the current u.s. president to get elected and didn't meddle in the internal affairs of this great country this is speculation and an excuse to spoil relations between russia and the united states it is an excuse to dispute the election of the current president of the united states that was actually caused by internal political issues also promised serious investment in the pro moscow control donbass region of eastern ukraine and expensive tasca usually funded by oil and gas sales but low prices have in recent years constrained moscow's ability to make money that way sinegal

al-jazeera the u.s. is expected to announce charges against a new suspect in the $988.00 lockerbie bombing a libyan intelligence officer identified as mohammed massoud is accused of making the bomb that blew up the pan am plane as it flew over scotland 270 people were killed most of the victims were americans the u.s. is seeking the extradition of massoud probably libya. exactly 10 years ago. a fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire after a local official confiscated his barrow is active despair inspired a wave of demonstrations across the arab world known as the arab spring as populations rose up demanding democracy but as parents myth reports from his hometown city busied many say life was better before the revolution.

these protesters 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 2 reasons why people haven't come the 1st is coronavirus the 2nd is that people are rang gree 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 the platform. why should i celebrate i didn't get anything from that if in the last 10 years what is there to celebrate maybe life was better before. i want to scream at the government if you do not have any plans to develop the city please leave c. they will see east marginalized. cafes are full of men with little to do and little

illegal migration from tunis here to europe has increased 4 fold in the last 12 months. i went to spain in 2014 while. here i was. $156.00 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. before of the regime today the demands are more wide ranging. that of people demanding their constitutional right to work is almost 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 from 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 city visit. fiji is currently being hit by what was expected to be the worst storm in its recorded history the government declared a state of emergency and a 14 hour national curfew after psycho yes a hit coastal areas over 95 percent of the population is in its direct path and everyone has been ordered to take cover yes it was 250 kilometer an hour winds make it significantly more powerful than cycling winston which devastated the pacific island nation in 2060. we are expecting storm surges of 60 meters if you reside in coastlines please evacuate now move your family to higher ground members of the public urged to take the necessary measures to ensure that the lives

of individuals and families are prepared japan has deployed its military to help people trapped by record snowfall which is up to 2 meters deep in some places thousands of vehicles are stuck on the roads and power has been cut off to one in $10000.00 homes in northern and central japan after a brief lull in the next 24 hours more heavy snow is forecast over the weekend. top stories on our jazeera anger is growing in nigeria 6 days after hundreds of school children were abducted $300.00 boys are still unaccounted for after all and men raided their school in katsina state in the country's northwest protesters have rallied in the town of can carra furious at the government's handling of the case a faction of the armed group boko haram has released

a proof of life video of what it says are some of the kid not always governor of katsina state told out as they were a short time ago but he expects to have pro.