now within reach of those seeking caves comprising the most toxic substance in the world the man me invisible threat on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes make no mistake about. this medical miracle the u.s. vice president mike pence gets the pfizer coded 19 jab as america moves closer to an emergency approval of a 2nd vaccine. hungry and traumatized more than $300.00 children kidnapped in nigeria are free after spending 6 days in captivity. the u.n.

says the pandemic has pushed tens of thousands of syrian refugees and internally displaced iraqis further into poverty. a hindu woman in india recounts her suffering under a new law aimed at stopping forced religious conversion. and in sports it's exactly 2 years and counting until the world cup final heist cats are marking the day by officially opening their 4th tournament that. we begin this news in the united states where regulators are expected to approve a 2nd covert 19 bank scene for emergency use in the coming few hours the vaccine from the biotech company would follow a similar one from pfizer and biotech mcgurn is however can be distributed more widely because it can be stored at normal freezer temperatures earlier today the

vice president mike pence was vaccinated with the fires a shot live on t.v. at the white house the public show of support for vaccines comes as the u.s. reports more than 3000 qubit 19 deaths for a 3rd day in a row live now to washington d.c. and our correspondent allen fishes so allan the key thing about modernity i guess this idea that it's stored at a higher temperature still very cold might kind of take the whole push back into words being a game changer. exactly the pfizer vaccine has to be stored of incredibly low temperatures and therefore there has to be facilities to do that now if you store a vaccine at just 0 degrees that means that there are more locations that you can go to and the idea is that as soon as but they're not get the approval from the f.d.a. and were expecting that within the next couple of hours possibly sometime after the markets close here in the u.s.

then they will be able to distribute 6000000 doses to many more polices their own more than 3000 locations that have been identified and that means they can take the vaccine to more places vaccinate more people who are on the front line and it is needed because the u.s. is struggling from the surge that was predicted and has arrived after the thanksgiving holiday remember experts said because it's the biggest travel whole day of the year that there would be a spike 3 weeks later and here we are over the last couple of days we've seen more than 3000 deaths each day we're seeing a record number of hospital admissions and that says that in many hospitals across the country they are close to busting point they simply cannot cope with the numbers that they are seeing and so the vaccines offer some relief but of course that is a long term goal they're simply not going to be able to ease up over the next couple of months because they're expecting perhaps the difficult start to the new

year because one week away from the christmas holiday more people are expected to get together with family and friends and there is a real worry a real worry among the experts here that we will see another spike in just a couple of weeks nothing from mr trump the going u.s. president about vaccination today allen but plenty from his deputy mr pence i mean the signaling the messaging loud and clear. exactly a public event to the old executive office building just right over there that's where his office is and on stage he was with his wife and the such in general of the united states eyes they publicly received the pfizer vaccine this is all about assuring the united states that this vaccine is 1st of all safe and also that it is effective no go to fall out with their 2nd doors in a couple of days but that something that might pain says is a small price to pay the administration has pushed through the vaccination program

very quickly a lot of people a lot of experts said it wouldn't happen before 18 months so you're talking at some point and 2021 here we are just a couple of weeks away from the end of the year and there is the possibility in the next couple of hours of 2 vaccines a real victory said mike pence cutting red tape not cutting corners karen and i were more than happy to step forward before this week was about. to take the safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured and produced for the american people 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. so you'd have thought that donald trump were the

least want to take a victory lap given that the vaccine is out in a boat in the country that there's a 2nd one about to be approved and his vice president has just had the injection but there was no sign of him at the old executive office building just across the way from the white house in fact he didn't even preview our trail might pence's in or kulish and instead he has been tweeting about how the election again without evidence was stolen from him that is where his focus is at the moment and now his spokesman has said that he is willing to have the injection but it will be decided by the white house doctors when that will happen he didn't want to jump the line but there are no plans at the moment to give him the vaccination or to have that public joe biden will get the vaccination next week that will happen in public as will come and also members of congress and the supreme court will also get the

vaccination next week that's all about the continuity of government here in the u.s. thank you very much allan fisher there in washington now south of the u.s. to brazil the supreme court there ruling today that corona virus vaccinations can be made mandatory at the moment no vaccine has been officially approved by the government while live now to rio de janeiro and our correspondent monica so monica does this mean in theory a local government or regional government can force people if it chooses to to have the vaccine when they get it. i know what this means is that big big can't be forced but it's come polls that means that. what what a local government can do is not allow the person that has been vaccinated or has no proof that that they have a vaccine 20 public space for it to go to

a school so you can put punitive measures that's what you can take you can step in it but you can't drag people out of their houses and force them to have a vaccine and this is a political discussion here in brazil because president they'd both so natto said it should be voluntary he is totally against any any holds 3 back seat and he has said that he himself will not be vaccinated. how long until they're in a position that the medical authorities to start rolling out a vaccine. well they had to bury the plan that had no date and why because although brazil is working with like 6 different from a suit of coal laboratories none of them have yet asked the help organisation. to appear on a permanent register or an emergency register they haven't done the paperwork and

from 5 through what we heard is bad because the brazilian authorities are asking for a lot of the fail there's also some discussion about a waiver which should be signed saying that pfizer is not what would be liable if anything was to go wrong so it's all like still in the bureaucratic. it's all a bureaucratic discussion with a bit of politics involved in that the government say yes it wants to have the backfill in the 1st vaccine that proves to be effective and safe it will buy but when that will happen we don't know and there's still so to add is also living a spike like us and it's the 2nd largest in the world understood monica thank you very much monist monica in rio ok

a quick update from europe many countries tightening restrictions there as health services across the continent struggle to cope germany has reported its highest number of infections in some places morgues that overflowing as cases hit record levels again just 2 days off the new lockdown measures were imposed and in the u.k. not to say hospitals are running out of beds the warning comes just days before restrictions are set to be eased for the christmas holiday period in asia for a 3rd day in a row south korea has announced more than 1000 new infections most of them are in seoul and the surrounding region the government says it's trying to make sure that there are enough hospital beds there. in australia christmas travel plans are up in the air after a coronavirus cluster on sydney's northern beaches and the area surrounding it grew to 28 people several states of reintroduced internal border restrictions with new south wales concern the outbreak there could get worse people in the cluster area

have been told to stay home and wear masks and they've got to wear masks even indoors. more still to come for you here on the news hour including a quarter of a $1000000000.00 of humanitarian aid is required in mozambique after major advances by groups linked to beisel. the scale of devastation is emerging in fiji in the wake of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the island. and in sport we'll hear from the football manager who's just been voted the world's best. more than 300 students kidnapped from a school in the northwest of nigeria have been released then are in the city of katsina undergoing medical checks before being reunited with their families might address reports now from katsina walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by

a nigerian security force us through the save environment of the governor's office in it and after nearly a week in captivity. instead of joy it's an exhaustion written on the young freezes. in. the government says all the students abducted in an armed raid on a boarding school in the town of last week have now been freed but it's yet to explain the circumstances leading to their. quick intervention prevented nigeria's largest muslim duction from turning into another disaster in turn to 14 security experts say nigerian authorities failed to act quickly when both took more than 270

students from a girl 2nd to school in chibok more than $100.00 of them are still unaccounted for . for 6 days the students were forced to trick and hike until i joined in security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some far state earlier hundreds more students are they skipped on their all or held by the military and many in a poor state of health 14 year old osama i mean managed to make his own way to freedom but the punishing trek across forests and rocky hills has left him fighting for his life he's bedridden because of sickle cell anemia made worse by this experience his father is desperately worried about his health never to name him. he said he was propped up and helped along by fellow students is in march for a fake forest when their group was rested for a few minutes he saw a chance to escape he crawled away and hid behind a tree he dragged himself to

a village ways brought home on a motorcycle. seconder school from where the boys were taken is now shut just like schools in 3 other states in nigeria's north west there are thought of taking no chances that they could be father such raids nigeria's security forces are overstretched and they are fighting many battles including against the armed group boko haram who are against western style education but eventually the government would one of the schools to reopen a committee greece al-jazeera cats and nigeria turn your attention to ethiopia where the government is offering a reward for information that could help locate leaders of the region's ruling party the military is putting up a cash pot of $260000.00 the regional leaders went into hiding since federal troops captured the local capital mcwillie nearly 2 weeks ago meanwhile ethiopia has

summoned the sudanese ambassador in addis ababa to protest over what it described as trespassing and raids on its territory from his hip or morgan. it's been more than 2 weeks since they fear pm government announced that it has taken over the take grain capital mecca lay 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 it described rebels or the leaders of the p.l.o. the tegra people's liberation movement which the government is fighting and the people's liberation movement have repeatedly stated that they are still continuing the battle despite the government saying that it is largely over and restoring for networks to parts of the region while many other parts that 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 is offering financial compensation and shows how much they really want to get their hands on the leaders of the take rate 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 territories 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 taker and where the leaders of the take people's liberation front mozambique's governments and the united nations are asking the world for a quarter of a 1000000000 dollars to help people affected by years of violence more than $500000.00 people have been displaced in the northern province of kabul delgado's since 2017 the un is worried the crisis could spread beyond mozambique's borders the conflicts being blamed on armed groups or been linked to one source giuliana ghazi works with the un's refugee agency in mozambique she says help is urgently required. we are talking about more than 530000 people who have already been displaced and they're going to the south of the

province and couple them but also to labeling provinces such as. there are many of them have been forced to flee multiple times and to abandon their homes without knowing if or when will be able to come back access to some areas. all for we mainly due to the violence and insecurity and although the international community has been really general our needs they are growing as he knew as people are moving multiple times our needs our own we're all in terms of organization share our shelter in terms of protection we as unique yard the u.n. refugee agency are trying to respond to identify them a need in terms of protection for this we need humanitarian. response and for us to be part of an effective atlanta response we need support from international community the fiance of jamal who has called on the u.s.

president elect joe biden to release the cia's classified report into the journalists once he takes office next month there are reports the investigation concludes with quotes medium to high confidence that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon order the killing was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul 28. politicians in the european parliament to been discussing the brics it talks after being warned quote a moment of truth is fast approaching the u.k. and the e.u. have 2 weeks to seal a deal on their future relationship including an all important trade agreement britain formally left in january but it does remain in a transitional period until the end of this month disagreements about fishing rights are among the issues. reproduced don't. it's the moment of truth we have very little time remaining just a few hours 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 because. well ahead of another round of talks the u.k. prime minister boris johnson's that the e.u. needs to bring something to the table we'll keep the key to keep talking about i have to say that things are. looking difficult and there is a gap that needs to be to be bridged the u.k. so. we've done a lot i think to try and help and we have e.u. friends who will see sense and come to the table with something themselves because that's that's really where we are and if that doesn't happen then well. come january the 1st we will be trading on w t o terms ok let's take a closer look now at the 3 big sticking points they are fishing rights e.u.

boats catch about $800000000.00 worth of fish in u.k. waters every year now the e.u. wants to retain that right britain wants most of that business back a level playing field this ensures business is on one side of a free trade agreement do not have an advantage of a business on the other side the e.u. is worried businesses can cut costs by cutting regulations it wants u.k. laws to closely resemble e.u. laws dispute settlement how will the rules of any deal be enforced and who would adjudicate any potential disputes the u.k. argues as a non member of the e.u. it can't be bound by the european court of justice new parker picks up the story from brussels. we know what is the most symbolic out of those 3 issues and that of course is fishing despite the fact we have recently learned that britain's fishing industry has roughly the same size as its yoga and its leather industry and according to one expert its economic output is roughly the same size as the harrods

department store but nevertheless it was very much paraded as a key issue during the whole breaks a debate in the united kingdom if there is a bad deal and it affects fishing that's not going to go down well for people that voted to leave the european union and that is why despite rumors of some concessions from the united kingdom that still remains a major sticking point we have heard that michel barnier has been having negotiations with many e.u. coastal states to see if there is any wiggle room on behalf of france spain the netherlands for instance when it comes to reduce ing the kind of quotas that they're off to when it comes to access to british waters as for the other 2 a business competition rules and how any kind of future regulations will be enforced we simply right now don't know and the more intense these negotiations get the less information is actually reaching us we are relying very much upon leaks

but we do know that the european parliament has said the new deadline of sunday to have a deal on paper at least in front of them but bania has assured them that they won't just be receiving something and be asked to rubber stamp it they will be given some time to have a look at any kind of proposal in detail. so that's the politics between westminster and brussels today as they try to hammer out the post breaks a trade deal but on the ground in england and the home nations that make up the u.k. other regions and areas in the u.k. there is of course a growing covert emergency there as well hospitals are said to be running out of births and n.h.s. staff members are struggling to cope with nearly 40 she. up to be a pandemic which has lost it heading towards one the list told not to talk to alan stott he's chair of the b.m.a. that's the british medical association general practitioners committee he joins us on skype from belfast up to start thanks for joining us here on the news a boxing day december the 26th northern island brings in

a 6 week locked up i guess the medical advisors the politicians based installment they must feel they don't have a choice. you're absolutely right they don't have a choice actually members are far too high our community transmission is far too. far hospital services are an entire health service is is an instrument coop at the moment so we have to drive our inspection number and we opted to slow the spread of unity and we have to then be able to protect our services what else can be done. well this 6 weeks this is actually quite good timing because what it's going to do is going to buy us a better time it's going to slow the infection but very very importantly we're starting to vaccinate as well so we're hoping that we're going to be able to get as many of our most at risk people facts natives during this 6 weeks as well and that

will hopefully by me infection rate by introduce and and and making our test and trace work as late as we come back so they don't work to bring that this is going to move us into into a different phase and start to get us into a better position or is it a good idea or a bad idea the way that boris johnson's government in london has kind of pushed the responsibility for this into the abstract and they've come up with this quite difficult to get to grips with the idea that you can have 3 bubbles of being sociable with family or friends over a period of 5 days but that bubble system as you establish it at the beginning of that 5 day period you've got to stick within those 3 bubbles over the 5 days of christmas. so we have been very consistent and very clear in this we need to make it as simple as possible for people and we need to make it as a mound that us as possible for people because people do get confused in the rules

and the regulations change what we know above all else is that cold packs is what spreads this infection it's extremely infectious extremely and what we have to do is reduce the contacts as much as we can and get the level possible so we want to have as a simple message i'm not a big us as messages as is possible what kind of impact is this having on your medical colleagues when you talk to nursing staff fellow clinicians and doctors they've been riding this wave now for coming 8910 months. yeah and the pressure on on every member of our health care staff is immense i mean this is this is really really difficult the workload is immense the motions are difficult to to deal with and it is really really difficult for people now that we're going into yet another surge where whole gun and the vaccine doors give us all

a hope and gives us that light at the end of the tunnel but we have to have community we have to really dig in and we have to get everybody through this. briefly talk to but when professor neil ferguson who's coronavirus multiplying directly led to the original lockdown across the u.k. in march when he says point number one the our number is well above one in clinical terms now and point number 2 he seems to be hinting he said quote today there's no headroom so he seems to be hinting saying well the coming 2 months will possibly slash probably be worse than what we saw by that point 12 months before what goes through the minds of your health workers your nurses you know who are there they're wearing the pay p.p.a. 412-1314 hours a day you know we are already 'd under so much strain we are already over

capacity to see inspection go to continue to go walk into a position where we just cannot the work of the whole service can no longer do but it is a situation that we just can't get to and actually through credit to our executive owner and our politicians here they have made that really difficult decision and it is a difficult position to go into for lockdown on boxing day but they have done and that was the only decision that that he could have made ok dr we've got to leave it there we've run out of time to thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about this difficult situation that's just around the corner thank you so much thank you. a supercycle. killing at least 2 people one of them a 3 month old baby category 5 storm struck on thursday night causing widespread destruction when he reports now from auckland. this is just the beginning of the south pacific storm season and cyclon 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're 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 these storms i did and stronger. every one of us must this time would you suggest a freeze we did please to dismiss this storm season could be particularly painful full fijian whose economy which is reliant on foreign tourists has been badly

affected by the corona virus pandemic wayne hay al jazeera oaklands. still to come for you here on the news hour. 9 nicholas hoult deep inside it goes hard to join me next on an anti poaching for trolling in with the us go describes it as a world heritage site in danger. and we'll also have the support of competitors take on tough conditions at the opening women's downhill race of the season and d.c. with that story in about 15 minutes. how the weather. dry across much of the middle east but some pieces of cloud are rolling into the levant with a wet weather to just across the caucuses was northern parts of iran the sadducee will become a little more expansive as we go through saturday said chance of want to see

showers there joseph wrote to him in concert you might catch that spot or 2 of rice and what's the possibility over towards america i was the weather that we do have in iran stretches its way into afghanistan and a little further north of that as well to understand could see some showers as we go on through sunday freshens up here in doha as we go on through sunday temperatures of about 23 celsius with the shamali wind blowing quite a keen one lifted just a sad possibility want to see the showers just around the southern end of the red sea into that western side of yemen and you may will see want to see showers also affecting some moderate for the next dial so particular course the eastern side of the country but the west the weather for central parts of africa will continue through the rift valley zambia seeing some heavy showers a big. well clouds are coming into the eastern side of angola well so some wet weather there into zambia and that cloud on the right that's going to push its way into a good part of namibia that could cause some flooding here as we go through sunday well she fought it live to south africa but a few shots to the east. and

. what they've been doing with the money that it's boring we bring in the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in argentina as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars from the super rich poor families hit odd by the pandemic counting the cost on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of that the america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why in the poorest suburbs of 3 european cities community tensions often reveal a sharp cultural divides but they feel they have no future and are signs lining to discrimination is their real problem in brussels al-jazeera world meet some of those struggling with racism radicalization and life on the margins the joy of this

young man a week from the days than they were listed on the other face of europe on al-jazeera . there watching else is 0 my name's peter told me this is the news are your headlines the u.s. vice president mike pence has received the pfizer biotech back scenes during a live t.v. event a 2nd u.s. vaccine from madonna is expected to be approved for use in the coming couple of hours. germany's reported its highest number of daily infection is in some places morgues are overflowing and hospitals are running out to beds restrictions we're talking 2 days ago. and more than 300 kidnapped school boys have arrived in

northern nigeria is katsina city where they'll be reunited with their families the boys were taken from the school of weeks ago by government linked to kokoda rob. now in afghanistan at least 15 children have been killed in an explosion that happened as a religious gathering in the city of gasoline the authorities say a motorcycle carrying explosives rammed into a building but the taliban says the blast was caused by an unexploded mortar shell gas needs fall and twice the taliban in the last 3 years. the indian prime minister narendra modi says opposition parties are exploiting farmers protesting over new agricultural laws the government argues deregulation of the industry is badly required mr moody says the opposition supported it when they held government farmers have been intensifying their protest blocking highways and camping on the outskirts of new delhi they say the changes will leave them vulnerable to big corporations. i just want ease in the life of farmers

i want their progress and want to modernity in the agriculture sector political parties should stop misguiding farmers it's been over 6 or 7 months since the farm laws were implemented but now suddenly games are being played to plough one's political land through a web of lies there is increasing controversy in india over attempts to curb interfaith marriage in one high profile case a hindu woman says she had a miscarriage because the police separated her from her muslim husband states it was a pradesh is the latest to pass a law making it more difficult for people from different religions to marry our india correspondent elizabeth urana reports from brought about. i think he is recovering at home after what she describes as a traumatic couple of weeks her husband and brother in law have been detained by police and she says she suffered a miscarriage while than government care. i had pain for 3 days so i

was admitted to the hospital on the 11th i was given injections then my situation got worse there was a lot of bleeding and i had a miscarriage pinky and her husband rashid's ordeal began when they went to register their islamic marriage ceremony with the state government they were harassed outside court by a group of hindu nationalists because pinky had converted from hindu ism to islam the couple married in july before the government in the state of wealth of passed an order which makes it illegal for people to change their religion for the sake of marriage police are detaining rashid and his brother while they investigate whether they forced pinky to convert and pinkie was taken to a government run women's shelter. the hospital which treated her told al-jazeera they only gave her injections to help with her pain and light bleeding they get us out the indention we didn't give her any injection that would lead to

a miscarriage we gave her the best treatment we could according to her symptoms and manage the situation conservatively so it's wrong to say this. while it's unclear what caused miscarriage what is certain is she was separated from her husband because of the new law the government issued an anti conversion order last month citing a campaign by muslim men to forcibly converted hindu woman that's despite the fact no state or central government department including the national commission of women has found any evidence of such cases. human rights lawyer says the party o.b.j. people. such laws to divide and eons she's preparing to challenge it in court the be very openly project itself as a right wing hindu party there's what we're seeing here is that this is actually part of a political agenda an agenda both to polarize and paralyze communities pinki says

she's worried about her future and also rashid's and saleem's so that's a bit of an era but i want my husband and brother in law to come back i ask the government to release them i'm really worried i've lost my child but please let my husband go. with 4 other states in the process of passing similar orders more couples are expected to be criminalized for falling in love and marrying people outside their village and elizabeth. author for the. it's been 5 years since the un security council adopted a resolution meant to pave the way to a political solution in syria european diplomats have told al jazeera they are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress and they believe the government is deliberately storing in hopes of a change of syria policy in washington president biden matic editor james bays.

2015 was arguably the year that changed the course of the war in syria russia got involved militarily from its jets changing the fortunes 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 un 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 2054 did on a resolution of understand on the dummy rid of the fancy him from fitness when.

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 backseat. 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 has continued to work diligently trying to pursue talks but the latest effort setting up a committee to draw up a new constitution for syria to become bogged down many suspect this was russia and the sides plan all along it is increasingly apparent that the assad regime is the writing the committee's work. as it prepares to carry out a presidential election in 2021 and washed its hands of the year in the political process let's be honest of the nearly

a decade of conflict the political process has not delivered for the syrian people and they continue to suffer deeply oh and 5 old sides syria. only a political solution and end of suffering historians a lot of judge russia's diplomacy over this period is both cynical and a 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 jamesburg al-jazeera at the united nations the coronavirus pandemic is worsening poverty among syrian and iraqi refugees and

their host communities have been deeply affected too that's according to a new study from the world bank and the united nations in total $4400000.00 more people in the region have been newly affected by poverty since the pandemic began now that includes 1000000 syrian refugees and 180000 in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region in jordan poverty has risen among citizens by 38 percent and 18 percent among syrian refugees projections show heightened poverty in the region will continue well into 2021 the trend is most striking in lebanon but close to 90 percent of refugees can't afford what's considered to be the minimum cost of survival less so now it's a real i mean she's a spokesperson for the u.n. a.c.r. regional bureau for the middle east and north africa she joins us on skype from ramallah in the occupied west bank real i mean welcome to our to 0 why is this happening because of code it. well you know it's not a secret quote the health crisis has turned into

a deep economic crisis and of course it's impacting the most wonderful in the communities whether it's migrants the poor refugees and just the small correction actually the number of people sent under the poverty just in that country in lebanon iraq and northern iraq with about and 3 governments in jordan at 4.4 jordanian it is the host communities in addition to almost a 1000000 refugees and syrian refugees so it's a small correction but actually it means a lot because it's a 1000000 more people who have fallen and poverty and people are sinking deeper into poverty so we're talking about nearly a 1000000 refugees who fell under the poverty line but that means in addition to all those who were under the poverty line before court but the status quo in countries like syria you know there's been a war in there now for more coming a decade i guess the status quo in iraq there's no sign of those 2 dynamics

changing and the host countries that you're talking about they're suffering as well . correct and that's that's why we actually launched on this study jointly with the world bank because it's interlinked we can't tackle the refugee issues in dependency of what's happening in the host countries we have to remember we have more than 5500000 syrian refugees in the 5 countries neighboring syria that's a large number of countries that are all struggling economically i'll give you another example today in lebanon we released a joint service with unicef and the u.s. and u.n. survey that look at the vulnerability of the syrian refugees and their numbers are staggering you said 90 percent of the syrian refugees are living now under the extreme poverty line up through 55 percent from last year that's a huge jump in numbers and it means a lot because when these families drop is not sink into this up it that affects

their food intake that affects their children access to education to health and affects the future of these children there are unable to their child labor has almost doubled in lebanon on syrian refugee children and you can you know i don't get explain a lot but what does that mean for the future of the syrian refugee to learn the future of syria and the future of the region is it as simple as calling for more money from the united nations or the wealthy countries or wealthy donor countries because if you've got local economies that are suffering in those host nations i guess presidents prime ias prime ministers well households they have to prioritize so they have to say i guess it's a tough call i know but they have to say ok in jordan we've got to look after jordanians as well as looking after say refugee populations that's a difficult square for them to circle into the right dynamic over the coming 12

months. correct and that's why this report that was conducted with the world bank the title is compound it misfortunes it's multiple challenges that the refugees and the poor communities in the host countries are facing and what it says that is we need all the actions what the court looked at that is what they called early interventions meaning measures that the countries whether it's the host governments or even humanitarian agencies like units have taken when the current crisis started like cash assistance for refugees and put jordanian families and the report found out that these interventions if they are launched early on can actually have a big impact in mitigating that infest bating economic impact on refugees however the as interventions need to be scaled up the number of people which need to be expanded and they need to be sustained which means we need to put more support to

the host communities and to the humanitarian agencies in order to deliver and to be able to make the threats to protect all these groups that are very vulnerable from the impact that the devastating impact of i give you an example we're talking about lebanon and we say that 90 percent are under the extreme poverty line however the u.n. agencies are only able to help almost 49 percent with and only 31 percent of those with other kind of assistance like cash assistance now this is unacceptable ok or has to be a sustainable significant increase in the support to the humanitarian agencies and to the host communities in order to really afford at its best understood rule i mean good to talk to there from ramallah we do appreciate your time. 10 years after a certain cell phone fire triggering what became known as the arab spring still

protesting. was one of the demonstrators who rose up against the government in 2011 here's a story. my name is while it castro when i was injured during the revolution and i live in the suburbs of kenya. ben ali's police shot me on january 13th 2011 and that led to the amputation of my right leg because of those of us in the and. i am married with 2 kids and unemployed so every time i needed to get some treatment for my injuries i had to demonstrate for those basically right. there with the. 1 shame they way the government treat us the shameful all we are asking is them to respect the law and. until today we deal with individuals if the people who are in power or are sympathetic with the revolution we have some

advantages we want to deal with the state we ask to be officially recognised because if we are so that more recognition will remain regardless who is in power. we have their own citizens and they must ration 40 years this has not been enough we have decided we will go on a hunger strike we still don't know when but it will be soon and once we started we will never stop until we are officially recognized or until we die. in a school is warning a wildlife park in senegal's in danger of losing its world heritage status nicholas hock explains. it starts with the car deep inside senate girls park a poacher has been spotted. on board. brigade deployed to protect with the u.n. describes as a world heritage site in danger. 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 burning by a 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 is 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 deanne the most habitat on the outskirts of 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 only does this give us an idea of what's be she's there 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. skin cells for anything from $9.00 to $35000.00 on the black market which is why the. 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. senegal. still to come here on the. final. story for you when we come back.

time for sports news we've been joined by andy thank you sorry much peter wallace exactly serious in counseling and so the next world cup final housecats are marking the day by officially opening the 4th solomon venue the hour and stadium stennett reports. already on stadium 840000 seater venue ready for the 2022 world cup and officially opened on cutter national day. in 2 years' time this venue will stage 7 world cup matches but on friday it played

host to its 1st game cut as domestic showpiece the amir cup final it was operating at half capacity because of code 19 but in a year where fans have been shut out of sports venues all over the world this was a retreat for the 20000 able to watch live so you can see around the world how important it is to have 2000 fans in a stadium let alone 50 percent of the stadium full so it's it's exciting to me i cover a lot of games in the premier league and c.v. i've been to a few games it's a different feeling when their fans are. already on stadium was built using 90 percent recycled material as part of culture 2020 two's goal of being the 1st carbon neutral world cup it is the 4th world cup stadium to be opened of the international which already existed education city which opened in june of this year and new which launched in 2019 and will host center these asian champions

league final. for stadium still to come including arguably the jewel in the crown the new sail international stadium that's the one that will host the fee for world cup final on the 18th of december 2022. things running smoothly. i am impressed by the infrastructure that was ready. with the exception of a few stadiums that should be finished soon i think you could host the world cup tomorrow yeah but it's up to get me because i've been laid off we're. going to be schooled in the stadium was by baghdad been edger helping out to a 21 victory gold with a bigger global impact will be witnessed here in 2 years time will. be disturbed al-jazeera. now former barcelona and cameron strike assam usa says african players were unfairly ignored in a recent ballon d'or votes all time world dream teams were selected by journalists

and fans and not a single african was selected but it's not not. just where you know you have a regime you know you have cited you up drop but you have the luck to play it is was the best player in our team makes you look good but it's up when you were poor that is. that is the problem is going. the pull manager you're going clock has been keen to downplay his latest personal achievement that was at thursday's fee for best awards comp was named coach of the year before was world governing body after guiding liverpool to their 1st english league title in 30 years called edging out by munich's hansie flick in a poll of fellow managers players fans and the media actually if you would have asked me. are you the world's best coach i would have said no if you would have asked me do you have to work best coaches around you have said yes so. me take a walk like this it's it's all good there are more important things in the world

but it's a nice one. well champion boxer going to the goal of can is the chance to make some history a little later on the kazakhstani will defend his i.b.s. middleweight championship against camille sheremet in florida if the last thing goes on so when they were called the most middleweight title defenses that's when she won and boxing's best paid fighter is an action on saturday for asian champion cannot go over as taking on britain's cound smith in a super middleweight world title fights over as mexico's last just once during his career that was the floyd mayweather in 20 third's. i think that it says face tough conditions at the opening women's downhill race of the season italy's defending overall champion federica bring jani was one of a number of athletes to crush else in valdez welcome daniel champion green suits a switzerland when song to win this race. ok that is how your sports is looking for now back to you andy thank you so much that's it for me peter dobby on the team here and they're all with this news hour merriam's here on the other side of the

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