right. washing. the. al-jazeera. over there well could see the new i'm a hell of a hit in coming up for you in the next 60 minutes traumatized and exhaust says hundreds of boys abducted in nigeria or freed son after almost a almost a week after they were taken from school. the u.s. was courser proving a 2nd coronavirus vaccine it's affection current though has gone past 17000000. ethiopia's government offers

a reward for help in capturing former leaders of the tea grove region who are on the run after weeks of fighting. and we're on patrol with an anti coaching brigade that's protecting the unique wildlife and a park at risk losing its world heritage status. and i'm so high i say the sport for you including the latest caps our world cup venue and stadium is set to be inaugurated exactly 2 years before the 2022 final. but 1st hundreds of schoolboys have arrived home a week after they were cabinets in northern nigeria they were barefoot and clutching blankets as they stepped off buses in the city of katsina they've been having medical checks before being reunited with family members the boys are being

held in the vast forest since gunmen with apparent thinks to boko haram raided their school last friday a mass abduction memories of the kidnapping of 279 here in schoolgirls in 2014 well al jazeera is a hooded dress is in katsina and he describes how the boy seems says they arrived. so today what happened the 344 of them walked past all of them none of them had any shoes on they limp pastas some with blisters on their feet some with really really trauma and fear despise them regaining freedom you can spell trauma and fear on their faces because these are children who have gone through what nor ordinary child must be allowed to go through they are really traumatized and shortly after the arrival they walked into the building behind behind me now and there they met the governor of the state along with security officers from the

military the police part of military organizations and other officials and now they are getting ready to be shipped out from this location the governor's office to a safe location why they will be checked physically mentally and they will be assessed we understand that the president is going to meet them before he finally leaves for the federal capital in abuja at the end of his 7 day vacation here in cats in a state so a lot of parents are really looking forward to reuniting with their wards they have missed for more than a week but the experience yeah i can tell you is really traumatizing for this young children i pushed the governor yesterday to give us an idea of 2 exactly what happened what he can say what he told me yesterday was that the 1st day they know when the boys were taken there was a really an engagement between nigerian security forces and these bandits after this excessive force was located them in a particular forest and then pin them down for

a period of 6 days that was when negotiations set and the government was actually afraid that continuous fighting or fights changes between the 2 sides will result in casualties on the part of the students they don't want collateral damage and then their fall into media is to go between the government and the bandits holding them and the biggest success of. the story the biggest lead to this story was how the security forces and whoever is involved in this process what able to stop this from degenerating into what we saw nearly 7 years ago on 14th. february 2 10141 there was no immediate action when 270 girls were taken from a 2nd school in chibok well let's get more now from stig jay hanson in also he's a professor at the university of life science and author of the big horn subtle and rift fault lines of the african jihad that profiles the spread of armed groups on the concentrate so have you with us on the news or just sort of fight. telling us

a little bit more about the perpetrators of this is they've been linked to poke around the parts of. the bookie tell us about. well what we've seen is that there has been a video that has been published that is claimed to be the chicago fraction of the hour. of people who are and we see even some of the boys saying that they were captured by the who are down but you also see at falls what seems to be a false start of all my claiming that tact what's interesting here is that the claims that are coming from one of the factions of people who got on is that why did not between the islamic state province of the stuff and then all the group around the or the leader of the chicago and their this attack is basically seemingly clipped by the chicago fraction which is ideologically weaker it's also

very very hard to the west for these fractions so each support breaking further to the west so it might even you have some kind of local alliances they're feeding even to into their attack and so we need to know more but we clearly see that there are some kind of claims by the chicago of the world and we see that some of the boys themselves have said that they were taken by by part of that organization when they did it seems quite worrying in a sense isn't it because the this that these aren't happening in and borno state as such they happens in a state quite far to the west as you say what does this say about the security situation in nigeria the fact that you've got another group or a group affiliated with boko haram and using the same playbook essential they and their kidnapping children in order to further their aims. yes the good thing here was that it seems like most of the boys 'd actually got out of it and there was

some kind on legal situations the bad things of course what you see we heard these claims that was defeated. the chicago group and the islamic state in the. west african province. but it doesn't seem that it's it's really there because we see these reemergence all over and over time so we see it kind of a back and forth moment where you have offensives against the organizations and then you have them returning afterwards and i think some of the essential things going on on the ground there is that the nigerian army and the nigerian police maybe have been very weak at protecting civilians in the local area so it's easy for the various look around factions to take advantage of it both to chicago and the more strongly islamic state affiliated group of the former or former near who are ok professor hanson we'll have to leave it there unfortunately but great to get your thoughts and analysis thank you so much for joining us from also. a

bit of breaking news for you then a year as vice president mike pence and his wife karen have just received the kovac 1000 vaccine a public events at the white house these are the latest pictures we've got for you about a vice president was vaccinated for life on a u.s. television he says by doing so vice president pence wants to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the public all of this vaccine presidents like joe biden and vice presidents let's calm the high risk also to get that vaccine and front of the cameras vice president to speaking that let's listen and quit playing in the process of distributing millions of doses of a safe and effective vaccine all across the country working closely with our nation's governors we've already seen the vaccine delivered to health care workers and and seniors across the nation this week 2900000 doses of the pfizer vaccine

have been allocated and next week 2000000 more doses will be distributed across america and as you all know yesterday the f.d.a. advisory panel recommended approval of the manure in a vaccine and when it is approved we expect later today we'll be in a position to ship 5900000 doses of vaccines all across the country next week in fact under operation warp speed we are poised to have axion for 20000000 americans before the end of december it is truly a medical miracle and an inspiration to people across this country it is it's a tribute as well to the dedication of of all of those working at the federal level in the state level who've implemented this project from early on president trump

gave the white house coronavirus task force one mission. and that was to save lives and in the midst of one of the most challenging years in the life of this nation i truly do believe that despite the heartbreak and hardship that we have endured as a nation that we've done just that working with members of the white house coronavirus task force these last 10 months we've scaled testing now we're doing nearly 2000000 tests today have performed more than 200000000 coronavirus tests across america and the f.d.a. just approved the 1st over the counter coronavirus test for at home testing for the american people working with a great team at fame up and with the department of defense we identified and distributed literally billions of medical supplies to our doctors and nurses and hospitals and we'll continue to ensure that all of our caregivers in this country have the resources and the support they need to continue to meet this moment and we

sot of the development of therapeutics rendez severe monochrome all antibodies the good use of steroids and other methods that have literally saved lives across the country and as we gather here today and as we celebrate this week we secured a safe and effective vaccine that's being distributed all across america i would be remiss if i didn't take this moment at the end of this challenging year simply to say thanks to the men and women who serve on the white house coronavirus task force you will hear from several of them in just a few moments but let me give credit where credit is due and i want to thank dr tony and dr deborah burke's i want to thank dr robert redfield and all the great men and women at the c.d.c. i want to thank secretary alex ase our chests and seem of erma at the center for medicaid and medicare services and i also want to thank the great team at fame that has stood up the greatest national mobilization since world war 2 gainer general

sanford and all of those that have worked to make sure that. that the american people and our health care workers have the supplies they need has made an extraordinary difference in the life of the nation i'm also grateful for the steady hand and leadership of dr ben carson who has been with us every step of the way i know i speak for every american when i say. and i speak for a president when i say thank you for your service in this year and in the days to come the truth is the american people deserve to know that we've never been more prepared to combat the coronavirus than we are today and even while we see cases rising and hospitalizations rising and heartbreaking losses will continue to marshal the resources that we have secured as a nation including a safe and effective vaccine to meet this moment but that being said it's important that every american remember that all of us have

a role to play the way through this challenging time because vigilance and a vaccine the day will come when we put the coronavirus in the past but it will be a combination of all the efforts that i just described a vaccine that is safe and effective for the american people but also the ongoing vigilance of every american so as we. as we reach this extraordinary and historic moment in the life of our nation let me urge every american to continue to do your part but the health of your family your neighbors and your community 1st practice good hygiene wash your hands practice social distancing or wear a mask whenever it's indicated or whenever you're unable to practice distance and listen to your local authorities as president trump often says we are rounding the corner we can see the light at the end of the tunnel it is the light of american innovation and creativity it is the light of life saving medicines and

a safe and effective vaccine after a year of heartbreak and hardship. the american people can be encouraged and karen and i hope this step today will be a source of confidence. and of comfort to the american people that thanks to all the men and women who've operated under operation war speak that we have a safe and effective vaccine and that these days of hardship and hard heartbreak will in a day not too far in the distance will be put in the past so with gratitude for the american ingenuity of our research companies with gratitude for the incredible health care workers who have met this moment and continue to meet this moment in the life of the nation with gratitude for all the officials at the federal and state level and gratitude to our president for his vision with operation work speed i'm confident that we will get through this we will get

through this together and we will heal our land so thank you all very much. ok we've just been listening to vice president mike pence speaking after receiving the coronavirus vaccine with his wife karen he said that vigilance and vaccines is how the u.s. is going to get out of the situation it finds himself but also pointed out that as president trump says courting mike pence here he says we are rounding the corner this of course as the united states registers 310792 people who have died of the corona virus so far that number. is likely to rise from the u.s. now to europe where germany has announced another record number of corona virus

infections just 2 days after impose entice are restrictions in more than $30000.00 cases in 24 hours has the highest daily tally yet it's also kinds of more than $800.00 deaths in 24 hours pushing the death toll there to nearly $25000.00 or the government hopes vaccinations will begin after christmas well the day after french president emanuel mccrone tested positive for covert 19 a government scientific advisor says it could be a very long time before life returns to normal in france let's cross live now to natasha butler in paris in the trash of the president's in isolation and no warning that life will get back to normal til the end of next year this is quite a grim day really for many in paris is not. yes i mean it's a bleak outlook but i don't think it's going to surprise many people in from the government have been saying pretty much the same over the last few months that the

pandemic is amongst us will pay for many months to come now the head of the scientific council is talking about august 2021 the government has already said that until this summer we will be in pretty much the same situation in terms of having to social distancing from mosques. from home where possible and take precautions because the virus will continue to circulate even though of course over the course of the months to come more and more people will be vaccinated so the outlook as i said not much of a surprise to many people here we are seeing some numbers all new current of ours cases pretty popular little bit and we also know that so many scientists and doctors are warning that off to the whole day period which is coming up in the next couple of very. rise again people to be getting together over this christmas. period in france meanwhile of course people so watch very

closely the situation with the french president about omar kroll who was tested on thursday for cobra he tested positive he has been in isolation and he will remain so until december the 24th the least they say he will continue to work for as long as you can during that period of time he's actually in isolation just outside of paris he has left central paris in the lisa he's in. he's in a presidential residence. and then of course he's been surveyed to daily by doctors as you'd imagine with a head of sight ok that's joining us live from the french capital natasha thank you . well large parts of southern england will be placed under the you case tight restrictions from this weekend's caissons inside the eastern rim rules by 46 percent in the past week let's get more now from rory charles joins us live from london and that really similar to france or that's a fairly grim outlook in the u.k. as well and the mass christmas migration hasn't even begun yet so.

yeah well you can see the christmas lights of the strand down i think behind me in any normal year sands and many other of the shopping streets in london will be actually be teeming with people doing off minute christmas shopping but of course this isn't a mill we're londoners are among the 38000000 people across the united kingdom who are now living under the toughest of the 3 is a coronavirus restrictions yes there is a 5 day temporary relaxation over christmas itself so that families can get together to set it right but after that it shuts as a coming down again and in some parts of the country they're coming down even harder northern ottens as announce that as of the 26th of december it will be going into a pretty tough lockdown where all non-essential shops are going to be closing even

essential ones like supermarkets that going to be closing every day at 8 pm for the 1st 3 and there are various other restrictions as well of going on for 6 weeks while this is already announced that it will be going to toughen up damages from the 28th of december scotland is considering similar things to now why is this all happening while the northern ireland deputy 1st minister said the health service would be completely crushed in january for he didn't act now if you're coming in but it's necessary we've never been in such a bad position basically if you look. cross the country at the moment there are 15000 people in hospital with coronavirus symptoms at the peak of the epidemic in the spring there were 18000 be full in the hospital so we're getting close to that and in some parts of the country that $18000.00 has already been there exceeded same boils for example some normal essential operations medical operations and also

those are being aspirants to free up the health service to deal with right of our so that's the concern that in the weeks to come that the n.h.s. national health service legal is overwhelming the try to stop that happening. ok every challenge their life from central london thank you. for the youth e.o.p. and government is offering a reward for information that could help locate leaders of the tea gray regions within party the military is putting up a cash pulse of $260000.00 the region's leaders went into hiding since federal troops captured the local capital mceveley nearly 2 weeks ago in holly through his summons the sudanese ambassador in addis ababa to protest what it describes just trespassing and raids on its territory let's get more from him but morgan he joins

us from khartoum and what exactly does this cash reward say about the state of the cone things. what hello it's been more than 2 weeks since the theory and government announced that it has taken over the capital medically and basically it has resulted in more than 50000 to 15 refugees flowing into sudan but it still has not announced it was able to get. its hands on the rebels or as a describe rebels or the leaders of the people of the to group people's liberation movement which the government as fighting and the people's liberation movement have repeatedly stated that they are still continuing the battle despite their government saying that it is largely over and restoring for networks to parts of the region while many of the past and remain inaccessible so it's not clear yet what exactly is happening in the tigre and where the leaders are but the fact that if you're offering financial compensation shows how much they really want to get

their hands on the leaders of the great people's liberation front leaders who have said that they will continue the battle of course they've been in power for nearly 3 decades and the to agree is their region so they know their territory and they know that tehran's and it is a mountainous area but at the moment there are no phone networks to know exactly what is happening in the ticker and where the leaders of the to group people's liberation front is what we do know is that on the on in the 1st weeks of december sudan's government announced that it has handed over at least 15 at least 50 troops if european troops who are from the t.p.a. left and from the national defense force who fled to sudan at the beginning of the offensive on the undertaker region and sudan has handed them over back to the if you can government saying that it does not want to be involved in this in this conflict that it is concerned won't turn into a regional conflict and if there's a fighting this war integrals and so on for the piers there are tensions with neighboring sudan what rocky tell us about this. well it has

also brought to the front the border tension between sudan and if you appear just a few weeks after the invasion after the offense on the to grow region so dance troops moved to areas that were once occupied by if european troops areas that were disputed and where sudanese farmers have been complaining that if european farmer farmers and militias have been launching attacks on so there is this area between sudan and if you put the flesh of a border in the states of got out of the border area and the states of the border of where sudanese have long accused if you pin troops if you can militias and farmers of occupying now upon the offensive on the tigre region some of the soldiers moved away and if european and sudanese troops move into the region now if you're saying that what's happened is sudan has invaded its territory it's called it's trespassing raids and it's said that it is unacceptable of course this comes at a time when the head of the sovereignty council and the commander the chief of staff

the commander in chief of the military general opted for the one is visiting the eastern parts of the country specifically and for sugar where fighting between ethiopian troops answered in these troops have resulted in loss of lives and a lot of equipment asked for the sudanese military so it is bringing this conflict the great conflict and if european conflict to to rise into a border conflict this is the concern right now that this will be a border to be a regional issue and there will be some of that will be held over the weekend how to discuss the issue of the to great as well as the border tensions between sudan and if your pm ok but morgan there live from khartoum thank you very much indeed. there's been an explosion as a religious gathering in central afghanistan's cuz the province government's official says at least 15 people have been killed 20 others are injured. microsoft has confirmed it's the targets of a hacking operation that's been described as the worst in u.s.

history one of 40 organizations have been targeted including the u.s. government's energy defense state and homeland security departments where the attacks still say it's to be ongoing suspected to be linked to russia it was uncovered last week but investigators believe that it's been going on for months let's get more now from alan fischer he joins us now from washington d.c. and allan with each passing day it seems we learn new details not just about this attack but the scale of attack it it appears to be getting bigger and bigger with each passing day what do we know with us sir. it's been described as the biggest espionage attack in political history and certainly we nor that it gets bigger every single day initially we thought it was just through one software company one software application that the hackers gained access but it seems that

there were many more of the news and it's not just government agencies that have been impacted as you say microsoft presuming that at least 40 private companies at least 40 private companies have been impacted many of them cyber security firms but it's all saw hit government and one official from the department of homeland security says it is grave concern because it has hit federal government state local tribal territorial governments and critical information sectors as well as private companies as well here's the what it that once these hackers end they could start to shut down parts of the american network they could start to steal information or perhaps even more worryingly they could start to take control of parts of the network no they've gained access we are told to the treasury department to the department of commerce but also to organizations that control america's nuclear stockpile no we were told that there is no strategic threat to

them at the moment but the fact that they've been able to get and will be a concern to everyone in the united states people are critical of donald trump because they say he said absolutely nothing about this hack neither has mike pence or you've been hearing from within the last 15 minutes or so or might prompt a oh the secretary of state but we had fair from president elect joe biden he says if he finds out who is responsible that the wall p i heavy price and these are getting the president to take immediate action he says that there should be action in behalf of the united states that disrupts these people before they even begin to start thinking of attacking american defenses but clearly. this is a huge attack and it will be months before we know just the scale of what has happened and just how bad it's been well alan it's enormously embarrassing but if it's going in the agencies that control the nuclear stockpile i mean to say it's not a national security issue it certainly appears like given that how is the u.s.

planning to respond if it's planning to respond at all or what i said was it was not that it wasn't a national security issue that there was no strategic issue with that so they are slightly different but clearly if someone can hack in to the nuclear reports of trade then that is a national security threat and clearly something that the united states have to do about it it could well be that donald trump is saying nothing at the moment but is planning to take action but we know or from looking at his twitter feed that he's obsessed with the idea that the election was stolen from him and that is where a lot of his reaction has been on twitter tends to react to a lot of things over the last few weeks no there is every possibility that given in the last 2448 hours there has been growing criticism that donald trump one hasn't

spoken a bird or 2 done anything about it we me seems such some sort of reaction from the white house in the next few hours but what we know is that joe biden is saying there will be a heavy price to pay but the united states perhaps doesn't want to wait till january the 20th before starting to take action obviously things will be going on behind the scenes they'll be trying to shut down these hackers they'll be trying to track them down those sort of things are really ever made public so there will be some sort of u.s. reaction we just don't know publicly what they're saying at the moment what they're doing one to counter this threat to shut it down and to combat those who are behind it ok alan fischer there life and from washington d.c. thank you. a supercycle fiji killing at least 2 people one of them a 3 month old baby the county 5 storm struck on thursday nights cause a widespread destruction when he reports from auckland new zealand. this is just

the beginning of the south pacific storm season and cycle and yes it was a destructive starts the category 5 storm came ashore with wind gusts of up to 345 kilometers an hour houses and other buildings were destroyed and crops flattened and we will continue to assess the scale of damage in the coming days but we are likely looking at hundreds of millions of dollars in damages still it could have been much worse a late change of direction meant the capital suva avoided a direct hit as it was more than 93000 people were in the storm's path and more than 23000 went to evacuation centers fijian are used to cycle loans but they're happening more often and becoming more dangerous and the prime minister blames climate change the world is getting warmer the storms i did and stronger every one of us much is that would. there be the seriousness of this

storm season could be particularly painful for fiji and whose economy which is reliant on foreign tourists has been badly affected by the corona virus pandemic wayne hay al jazeera all clones. it's time for a quick check on the weather now here's episode. hello there we've got more wet weather coming into northern parts of australia and i'm quite a clutch of storms rolling through here we go a tropical load developing that will bring some very heavy rain in across the kimberley as we go on through the next day or 2 just around the western side of the top and this system circulating away sinking a little further south with inland into the good parts of well the northern half of western australia even down to central parts of us will see some wet weather that pushes its way across south australia towards new south wales some big and lively showers there just on the other side of the great dividing range it should be a brighter day there embrace been on sunday largely dry down towards the southeast

for victoria and also into tasmania cloud and i will make its way towards new zealand let's push a little further east which of course we're now looking at tropical cyclone yasi making its way further south was i'm pleased to say it is pulling away from fiji we are looking at some very strong winds still in place at the moment it will pass just to the west of color as we go on through sunday out west some windy weather grassy dragging its way further southward and eastwards before it does gradually fizzle out but as you can see by this stage a chance to dry out and assess the damage there the feet. most and big sky of them and some of the u.n. are asking the world for a quarter of a 1000000000 dollars to help people impacted by years of violence 500000 people have been displaced in the northern province over a couple delgado's since 2017 the un is worried the crisis could spread beyond mozambique borders the conflict is being blamed on armed groups have been linked to

ice so well let's bring in juliana ghazi in the puter mozambique she's an associate external relations officer at the u.n. refugee agency thanks for joining us on i'll just say right now i just how urgent would you say the situation there is. thank you so much for having me all the situation in colorado goggle is a protection crisis with white fractional rights abuses and disregard for international humanitarian law in a.t.r. remains to be deeply concerned with the right number of to civilians that have been displaced in northern mozambique as attacks can she need to take place in cobbled together we are talking about more than 530000 people who have already been displaced and they are going to the south of the province and couple that gado but also to neighboring provinces such as the africa the cooler and the met many of them have been forced to flee multiple times and took band on their homes without

knowing if or when they will be able to come back access to some areas and couple that god will also remain limits that due to the violence and insecurity well it certainly today seems like an absolutely dire situation that this is happening you could argue the worst possible time we're in the middle of a global pandemic and there are many more humanitarian appeals that just aren't getting funded right now and i'm thinking specifically of the dreadful situation in yemen so why would you say your appeal is different and are you hopeful that people will donate to your appeal in a way that they simply happened for other conflicts which are seen similarly desperate right now. that's a very good point and because we are in the middle of a pandemic and we need to realize that this people who have been displaced 90 percent of them are being hosted by host by community and only 10 percent are

i.d.p.'s sites so we need to take into consideration that the people who are hosting them were hosting the relation they are already in vulnerable situations we're talking about how those with 2025 people in the middle of a day make and also i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons sites with lack of shelter facilities water and sanitation facilities and so forth so this appeal the appeal that the u.n. launched today to what you need sorry art off we are appealing for as you said $254000000.00 u.s. dollars we have more than $1000000.00 late affected by violence by conflict and security and although the international community has been struggling generals our needs they are growing as attacks continue as people are moving multiple times our needs our own whirling in terms of order 20 patients share

a challenge so in terms of protection we as unique yard the u.n. refugee agency are trying to respond to identifying the main needs in terms of protection and for this we need humanitarian. response and for us to be part of an effective it went there with funds we need support from international community in terms of. assuming you get over that is say and this is surely a stopgap is that no because the situation in the couple to go to a region is very bold so and has been for some time but i mean is there more of a longer term plan to help these people because nobody wants to be blowing in from the state. yeah definitely the plan now the urgent need to now what we plan to respond when we see this funding is for sure the most urgent needs as i said for shelter most of these people are being hosted by communities and gobble gobble and in the neighboring provinces so we need to make sure that both this link

people and host communities are being protected and assisted this is the priority we need trying to find a protection and then of course we need to make sure that it will be a long term solution we need to work on the idea besides we need to work on livelihoods to work for his host communities and this please comment is due to be. in the peaceful coexistence peaceful situation so all of that will come as a responsible for 40000 we do need this funding very urgently because people are very very critical condition and couple the battle at the moment ok very situation serious situation indeed giuliana cuz we thank you so much for bringing that to light here on al-jazeera. thank you so much for having me. well it's returned to the u.s. no were a panel of experts advise and regulators house recommended the emergency use of

a 2nd coronavirus vaccine the committee indorsement dern a one week after backing the fine is a biotech vaccine that's being administered across the united states a white house correspondent kimberly hall could report from washington d.c. it looks like we have a they will vote the macdermid vaccine on track for emergency use authorize a ship following the f.d.a. advisory panels overwhelming indorsement in a 20 to 0 vote the advisers agree the benefits of a dearness vaccine are greater than its risks the. great week. in. here that we need once emergency use is granted and the centers for disease control signs off more than 50000000 doses for health care workers and care home residents will be distributed the church's vaccine follows last week's pfizer approval it comes as

covert infections and deaths continue to spike due to the november thanksgiving holiday there are fears those numbers will climb further with the christmas and new year holidays just days away millions of americans still fear the vaccines were developed too quickly and are unsafe. the challenge to contain the virus will be daunting for america's next president joe biden start or stay or go take back our democracy but as he prepares to take on this challenge other headlines linger we have great confidence in our son biden and his wife dr jill biden appeared on the late show with stephen colbert to defend their son hunter he confirmed 2 last week prosecutors are investigating his tax affairs but the president elect says he's not worried i'm not concerned about any accusation has been made against him it's used

to get to me i think it's kind of fall play but look it is what it is and he's a grown man the accusation his son profited from his time as vice president is a headline joe biden can't seem to shake as he prepares to take the oval office and confront the global pandemic can really help get al jazeera washington for the 3rd day in a row south korea has announced more than a 1000 new corona virus infections most of them are in seoul and its surrounding regions the government says it's trying to make sure there are enough hospital beds politicians in the european parliament's have been discussing the brics it talks after being warned a moment of truth is fast approaching the u.k. and say you have 2 weeks to seal the deal on their future relationship including an all important trade pact britain formed the left in january but remains in

a transition period until the end of this month disagreements about fishing rights are among the big hurdles if you wish to predict all. it's the moment of truth we have very little time remaining just a few was to work through these negotiations if we want this agreement to enter into force on the 1st of january as you were informed by our president. a few days ago there is a chance of getting an agreement but the path to such an agreement is very narrow question. it's been 5 years since the u.n. security council adopted a resolution meant to pave the way for a political solution in syria european diplomats believe the assad government is stalling on par this means our diplomats gets to james bays now reports. 2015 was arguably the year that changed the course of the war in syria russia got involved militarily bombs from its jets changing the for choose of the assad regime

. earlier in the war according to international inspectors the regime of used chemical weapons on number of occasions a red line had been crossed but the u.s. leader president obama did not act in response to a growing crisis the international community came together unanimously around the u.n. security council resolution that's been quoted by world leaders ever since with the united nations resolution 2254 times the security council resolution 2254 resolution 20 to $54.00 did on a resolution of understand on the dummy rid of. it was supposed to deliver a cease fire and peace talks in reality though december 25th is when russia took the upper hand diplomatically with the rest of the world taking a back seat. with both turkey and iran russia organized the new peace process in

a stana and sochi it didn't lead to peace areas declared safe zones were retaken by a sad helped by russian bombardment break to un envoy is continue to work diligently trying to pursue talks but the latest effort setting up a committee to draw up a new constitution for syria could become bogged down many suspect this was russia and the sides plan all along. it is increasingly apparent that the assad regime is durang the committee's work at the time as it prepares to carry out his sham presidential election in 2021 and washing hands of the u.n. that would take a political process let's be honest of the merely a decade of conflict the political process has not delivered for the syrian people and they continue to suffer deeply owed him 5 and old side syria only

a political solution m.b. suffering historians a lot of judge russia's diplomacy over this period as both cynical and masterful they've used their power in syria and their veto power in the security council to change the course of the war for the assad government they now could be less concerned about the international dynamics of the situation but they must be deeply worried about things inside syria the economy is now rock bottom their own supporters are increasingly unhappy they may have almost won the war but they risk losing the peace before it even starts james bows out just era of the united nations. you know sco is warning of wildlife park in senegal is in danger of losing its world heritage status neo call the khobar park open sea unique species of wildlife has been under threat from poachers than to legal gold miners to serious nicholas had joined a security patrol in the park. it starts with the call deep inside senegal's

park a poacher has been spotted. on board is the panther brigade deployed to protect with the u.n. describes as a world heritage site in danger 8. years apart as big as the island of jamaica the mission appears impossible the jungle is dense disorienting and dangerous the rangers fear both the armed poachers and the attacks from the wild cats they are meant to protect making the animals they move swiftly and quietly towards a fire they can smell burning by water spots. sergeant juve points to what is left of a camp they arrived too late yet again they are one step behind. it's hard to catch them finding coaches in both walking kilometers up to kilometers in silence to try to catch them by surprise. with the men cannot do 10 in jell-o.

hoops a drone can from the air he may get a better view of where the poachers are but the immensity of the task he's rangers are faced with his huge preserving $450.00 species of animals and $16000.00 types of plants and precious trees the threat is not just poaching but industry human encroachment inside the park are small scale gold mining ventures destroying d'anna most habitat on the outskirts the gold mining is of industrial scale and upstream international donors are funding the construction of several hydroelectric dams well this will bring power to millions it will alter the park's ecosystem putting more animals in danger tenant jello attaches a camera to a tree to get a picture of what is at stake here. and not on the does this give us an idea of what species they are in the park but also the movement so that better equipped to protect them. they come out at night leopards chimps hyenas and the parks king

the lion animals on the move in search of a safe place to live on this pathway aligned with the bald head and when it roared this part of the forest and all the animals fell silent and left these droppings now rarely do we have any sighting of this animal that wants to make its presence known because whilst it is the national symbol of senegal the lion of senegal is on the verge of extinction. align skin cells for anything from $9.00 to $35000.00 on the black market which is why the park attracts poachers from around the world the human exploitation of the park's precious natural resources the animals plants and trees is slowly decimating a unesco world heritage site and there are only a few people employed trying to protect it nicholas hawk al-jazeera park it senegal

. and in the last of our reports on the series we'll take you to peru where an ancient city is under threat from squatters from 10 g.m.t. on saturday. like qatar is celebrating its national day as it looks for towards a potential end to the blockade which has been a pool since 2017 well crisis sapping limits its juice to the pandemic but the sale be in a military parade and air show events is also being owner in front line health care workers the talks are understood to be close to ending the embargo by saudi arabia the u.a.e. . and egypt's. well have the sport for you short play ambuhl be why the newest venue for the turns he turns to world cup what's a big day on the road so the tournaments.

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business leaders to want to buy no bras paul. the or. it's time to support your sorrow thanks a lot while we're starting here in caps i were not far from this studio is the latest venue for the 2022 world cup which is being inaugurated later on friday around stadiums hates seeing its 1st official match see him a cup final exactly 2 years before the world cup final in the gulf states now the venue has a capacity of 40000 people because the street coronavirus health and safety protocols rafi hall for about $20000.00 will be attending the showdown in

a few hours well let's just go straight to pizza stemmer who's live for us there at the stadium pizza must be quite exciting for 50 fans to be some of the best experience 2022 world cup stadium but what you think they can expect. quite right or a very exciting occasion as you mentioned it's carter national day the 18th of december so that's exciting but in terms of the stadium it's the 4th world cup venue that's been delivered by the supreme committee the others of course being the international stadium that was just added a couple touches to what that's all that was needed there but then of course the l.g. new stadium was added in the education city stadium and now today here the stadium the 40000 capacity only 20000 allowed in because of coronavirus protocols but i think you can't really see it at the moment but they are preparing to put on what i am anticipating will be a spectacular opening ceremony and in terms of inaugurations of stadiums that in itself is quite exciting so it's going to be

a show it's going to be spectacular and of course there's a football match to look forward to as well the amir cup final featuring 2 of cox's top teams in the showcase cup competition final for the year. it's fascinating looking a lot busier than when i spoke to you earlier now well perhaps not need to you have with the one in south africa back in 2010 and a lot has changed in the last 10 years how do you think the preparation for 25. well to be perfectly honest with you i see many many similarities yes things have obviously changed over the last 10 or even 12 years if i go back to 2 years before the world cup in south africa in 2008 technology is obviously come a long way since then but in terms of the actual preparation and the and the things that you see that the everyday men and women can see the building of roads the adding of lanes to highways hotels springing up stadiums springing up that kind of thing is very much on track and it really does look good and i think personally it

bodes very well for the host nation now 2 years away from what should be a very special world cup. they are technologies certainly being used for sustainability it's also been a key fact the 2020 qatar world cup and iran stadium is an eco friendly ones tell us more about that. yeah that's quite right or so today it's the already gone stadium but a couple of years ago where i'm standing was actually the. stadium that was one of the stadiums that used to host cuts of stores league matches that's the local football the cutter and that was torn down but what ended up happening is 90 percent of the materials were really used in recycled to put together the stadium so the betting that self it's really impressive and then what will be happening is well you talk about sustainability all through the world cup the top tier of this stadium will actually be taken away the capacity of the ground will be reduced to 20000 who have been with those materials as they will be reuse and repurposed for

other sporting facilities not just here in tulsa but also in other countries in the middle east well thanks a lot for pizza and really make our tyrion impressive scoring form continued from on thursday the armenian star scored a 7th me goal of the season to help his side beat to reno $31.00 in steria result moves romo to 4 level on points with 3rd place to vent and next start for them as an away trip to atlanta. making a strong finish to 2020 in the english premier league on thursday they came from behind to be sheffield united 32 in their 5th win from their last 6 games in the p.l. they now 6th in the table 5 points behind with a game in hand. ahead of european football a sold algis there that you are a fan could be doing more to fight for a season then again silence as a chef friend says paul needs more support from governments to help tackle the problem. football is

a reflection of society many times football spectators coming. to watch football in principle they're very positive they're nice people they are not racists there's always a number of people who misuse football matches because of its impact of their reach to to exercise these those. yes we are doing everything we can we are trying to educate 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 are face doing or has bad intentions i i can admit maybe we are 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 'd and we need governments to to join and if governments. are tolerating that kind of behavior then how can they expect us to play the police in their countries while champion boxer can now take all of kenya has the chance to make history later on friday the kazakhstani 5 so will defend his i.p.f. middleweight championship against come out in florida both fighters made weights on thursday if triple j. goes on to win many breaks the time with bernard hopkins for most middleweight title defenses at 21. well that's it for me with the oil spill and i'll hand you back to hala thank you very much indeed. for this new service to keep it here on al-jazeera i'll be back with you after a very short break with all the latest on the vaccine developments in the u.s.

and of course the news out of nigeria to stay with us. it is only a change because. people believe in a purpose that is because then they're. trying to make a political in my city around which they represented they put themselves to make the changes something that we. should have taken this. has got to learn we have this culture to slosh or to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave an establishment outside but all the people and the majority of these legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to myanmar

. we've never heard a president who says literally for 4 or 5 years look people really attacked our democracy. you know loosely later it isn't i don't have a narrative i have a question you're getting there were you treated. even further join me richelle carey and up front as my guests from around the world take a hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and pressing issues here on al-jazeera. when any p.o.p. and mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of what was to come. with family bonds severed a traumatized child torn between 2 worlds struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep flaws in denmark's adoption system.

a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. traumatized and exhausted hundreds of boys abducted in nigeria or freed almost a week after they were taken from school. dean and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. vice president mike pence gets the covert japp as the u.s. comes closer to approving a 2nd screw virus vaccine. ethiopia's government offers a reward to help catch the former leaders of the.