but as alan does the u.s. investigative unit the skull if there was more to the problem the just smoking batteries. rewind a broken dream the boeing 787 on al-jazeera. us vice president my pens get the covert vaccine to demonstrate safety as the virus pushes america's hospitals to the brink and germany reports 813 deaths in a day while an estimated one in 95 people have the corona virus in england last week. i maryam namazie watching al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program barefoot and traumatized more than 300 nigerian school boys returned to katsina

a week after they were kidnapped. and a hindu woman who was detained and suffered a miscarriage shines a spotlight on india's new interfaith marriage. welcome to the program the u.s. has experienced its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with more than 18000 people killed according to figures from johns hopkins university 3270 fatalities were recorded on thursday alone and another 230000 infections confirmed despite that the vice president described this week as the beginning of the end for the pandemic as he and his wife were inoculated live on television mike pence is the highest profile recipient of the vaccine made by pfizer biotech which was authorized for emergency use last week. karen and i were more than happy to step

forward before this week was. to take this safe and effective corona virus vaccine that we have secured and produced for the american people karen and i wanted to step forward and take this vaccine to assure the american people that while we cut red tape we cut no corners. and yes regulators are actually expected to approve now a 2nd vaccine might made by mcdonough within als let's get more from alan fischer at the white house and the u.s. is the 1st country to approve a 2nd job now alan. well you would think the don't want to take a victory lap with that but he's tweeted nothing a tall about the vaccine even though his vice president went ahead with what was a very public ceremony it was carried on all the american t.v. networks during their morning sure's and he made a big deal donald trump tweeted out that madonna had actually overwhelmingly had the vaccine approved that's not quite how it works what happened was the advisory

committee met on thursday by a vote of 200 of the agree that the madonna vaccine should be allowed to have emergency use authorize ation and then referred it to the f.d.a. the f.d.a. has an independent body it will make its own decision we understand that decision is coming in the next couple of hours given that there was 220 on the advisory committee it's almost certain that it will go through and mike pence has been talking to about how he expects there to be a 2nd vaccine within hours and if that is the case then we're down to have $6000000.00 doses of the vaccine ready to send out across the country to more than $3000.00 locations this can be spread much farther because it doesn't have to be held at extremely cold temperatures it can be held at 0 degrees which isn't an ordinary freezer and so it can be sent to more locations which mean more frontline workers can be treated now also at that event and the old executive building just across from the white house this morning was dr anthony foti key member of course

of the white house coronavirus task force and he has welcomed the news of these vaccine seed initially predicted that there would be nothing until perhaps the middle of next year so the whole process has gone incredibly quickly pressure from the trumpet ministration is part of the reason for that and he says that the vaccines are good news a light at the end of what has been a very very long tunnel. the sweetness is the light at the end of the tunnel which i can tell you as we get into january february march and april that light is going to get brighter and brighter and the bitterness is going to be replaced by the sweetness and we all hope and i think this is doable that by the time we get to several months into this year we will have enough people protected that we can start thinking seriously about the return to normality and out of the nightmare

scenario is always that a rise in hospitalizations would push the seventy's to breaking point how hospitals and health care systems coping nationwide. we're seeing that across the country there are many hospitals that are saying look we're fool we can't take any more cases there are simply too many people showing up with coronavirus too many people that have to be treated i.c.u. units intensive care units simply can't handle the numbers that are showing up on the doorstep so many hospitals are saying we really need to do something to try and ease the numbers here remember the experts predicted that there would be a spike in the numbers after the thanksgiving holiday 3 weeks ago that's exactly what happened here is the big worry we're just one week away from christmas there are many people planning to spend that time with their family with friends with relations and so the experts are warning that 3 weeks from now we will see yet another spike and the situation could be even watch that it is no because there is

no let up between know and then so there's a real worry that even though the vaccines are providing hope in the longer term that in the short term there is going to be a very very dark start to 2021 thanks very much from the white house alan fischer thank you alan. meanwhile the world health organization is vaccine initiative says it secured nearly 2000000000 doses of vaccines for people in low and middle income countries the kovacs alliance is aiming to deliver approve vaccines to 190 participating nations joining 1st half of next year and it's now double that supply after signing deals with 2 more companies on friday johnson and johnson have agreed to provide $500000000.00 doses of its vaccine currently under development another 170000000 or come from astra zeneca and oxford university a vaccine seen as particularly important the developing world because of its price and logistics. i just want to turn to what's happening here in europe some developments in germany there are reports of temporary freezes being used to store

bodies after a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed the morgues and funeral homes the country recorded another 813 deaths and more than 33000 infections on thursday a day after a nationwide lockdown was imposed the austrian government has just announced a 3rd lockdown from december 26th to january 24th as well and then some some important developments in sweden the government has introduced its toughest corona restrictions related restrictions yet all nonessential public workplaces have been posed until the end of january that includes gyms pools and libraries facemasks of also been recommended on public transport sweden has largely resisted tough measures but friday sorts highest number of new cases yet 9654 and so very strong remarks from the king who this week criticized the failure to save lives. well there is

a challenge joins me in the studio now and as we can see there is the 2nd wave of the corona virus showing no signs of abating here in europe roy no i mean it's interesting going into those 3 countries the just mentioned sweden throughout the course of this pandemic has tried its own path really early on decided that it wasn't going to do a full lockdown like many of the other countries in europe did chose to have a much more kind of. libertarian way of approaching i think some criticism but also is it insisted at the time that this was going to affect the economy less well you know it's had 2 months really of surging coronavirus cases and record cases in sweden itself $8000.00 deaths so far that's more than it's nordic neighbors but fewer than many other countries in europe that did put in a full lockdown now sweden is tightening measures but it's not yet going for

a full lockdown still so as you say things like public space public workplaces like pulls and gyms and libraries being closed temporarily and there's a recommendation that you wear a mosque on what about the bars and restaurants and bars and restaurants i think are still operating as normal as they have done over the course of this epidemic so yes sweden is an interesting case then germany germany was a you know a kind of power going to europe for how to handle this pandemic well for many many months but no longer it's got these surging cases as we just heard there's a city bill in the call hanau where they're using. cooled shipping container to contain the overflow bodies from morgues which are which are full so germany is sort of lost its crown a bit and then as you mentioned austria which 11 days after finished its 2nd dock down has now got its 3rd and air in u.k. similar wiring for. this is well yeah i want to 95 people. with coronavirus so

that serves no again worrying statistics it's surging all over the country because most parts of the country we have from northern ireland which is going to be implementing a new lockdown just after christmas on the 26th december i think the worry across the u.k. is that the number of hospital hospitalizations are approaching the peak that was reached earlier in the year in april when i think 18000 people at any one time were in hospital now we're about 15000 people so we're not far off that in some part of the country like and wales there deferring what they call non-essential hospital surgeries etc so protecting the n.h.s. is now again a key priority thank you very much very well elsewhere french president is saying that he's working at a slower pace but doing fine after contracting the coronavirus and running lachlan

is isolating a presidential residence invest he's admitted he might have picked up a virus through a moment of negligence despite being an early adopter of social distancing his illness has prompted a track and trace effort across europe after he hosted several leaders in paris and attended an e.u. summit in brussels possibly while he was infectious so like his prime minister igor much of it who was also at the summit has now tested positive. continue. continue to be careful on thursday i tested positive which shows that the virus can really affect anyone because i am very protected i'm very careful i respect distance and i wear a mask i regularly use hand sanitizer and in spite of everything i caught the virus surely juta a moment of inattention or a bit of bad luck. but that's the way it is what is certain is that if i had not respected the rules or distancing i would have caught it much more quickly or i

would have transmitted it to many more people so we have to keep respecting these rules we have to keep going. after a weeklong or dale more than 300 students kidnapped from a school in northwest nigeria a free and back in katsina state details of that rescue still not clear including who was behind the kidnapping and whether any sort of ransom was paid some of the boys say they were beaten daily by their captors they're now in the city of katsina undergoing medical checks before being reunited with their families from the state of katsina algis there is an address now reports walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by a nigerian security forces through the safe environment of the governor's office in it and after nearly a week in captivity. instead of joy it's an exhaustion written on their young

freezes. 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 release a 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. to more than 270 students from a girls' school in chibok more than 100 of them are still unaccounted for. for 6

days the students were forced to trick and hike until i get in security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some far state. is all in the same place when they took us at 1st but when they saw a jet fighter they change their location and hit is in a different place they gave us food but it was very little 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. 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. 2 digit he said he was propped up and helped along by fellow students as they 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 later he dragged himself to a village ways brought home on a motorcycle. under school from one of the boys who were taken is now shut just like schools in 3 other states in nigeria small the west there thought of taking no chances that they could be father such raids nigeria's security forces are overstretched they are fighting many battles including against the armed group boko haram why against western style education but eventually the government would want the schools to reopen the government edris al jazeera cuts and nigeria much more still ahead on the program for you trapped in a traffic jam and rescue is in japan trying to free a 1000 drivers stranded after a heavy snowfall on a busy highway. in. parkes join me on mt poaching patrol and with the unesco described as

a world heritage site in danger. the weather looks at last the dry across central and eastern parts of here but more mild but wet some windy weather tumbling in from the atlantic bands of cloud and rain coming through pretty tightly. indicating all the brisk winds at times that blustery showers rattling through whites of weather coming back into scandinavia tend to snow over the high agrawal season plowed right to making its way across spain and portugal again some snow over the high ground basin places a tad of writers for the good parts of france but the central pasta dry light winds so a lot of clout there setting a possibility want to see snow flurries for the race having said that temperatures

in moscow around minus one celsius what's the weather will make its way into switzerland into central parts of europe as we go on through sunday will snow coming back in across the alps of that state we'll see some cloud in the rain also affecting southern a silly for a time a little try a little bulge of dry weather just making its way into england as we go on through sunday but the cloud right not too far away out in the atlantic basin tatton right to across northern parts of algeria as we go on through saturday but of course much of north africa they settled in sunny with a few shot was down towards the gulf of guinea. the malaysians are real quick headlines throughout history alhaji water persevered its head with me and started fighting developed by nation states there will be enough of that to me that every job. now within reach of those seeking

comprising the most toxic substances. to man me invisible thread on al-jazeera. the all in the world. a look at the headlines now the u.s. has experienced its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with more than 18000 people killed vice president my pencil has described this week as beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were vaccinated on live television. there are reports of temporary freezes being used in germany to stalled bodies after

a spike in corona virus deaths meanwhile in sweden the country has introduced its toughest restrictions yet closing all non-essential workplaces until late january and recommending face moscow public transit. in all the headlines this hour after a week long ordeal more than 300 students cannot from a school in northwest nigeria have been released some of the boys say they were beaten on a daily basis by they kept as they are now in the city of katsina for medical checks before being reunited with their families. all in all the stories of following the ethiopian government is offering a reward in exchange for information that could help locate leaders of the 10 great regions governing party the military is promising a reward of 260 $1000.00 people's liberation front dominated ethiopia's coalition government until the prime minister ahmed was elected in 2018 its leaders have been in hiding since federal troops captured the reason region's capital mceveley after weeks of fighting. well now to afghanistan at least 15 children have been killed

in a bomb attack in the eastern part of the country they gathered for a prayer reading house in gaza in the province when a motorcycle laden with explosives was detonated there been no claims of responsibility but violence has been surging since peace talks between the government and the taliban started in september. the indian prime minister or modi has told farmers protesting against a controversial new agriculture laws that he's committed to that welfare speech was broadcast on television in more than 23000 villages farmers have been blocking major roads into new delhi for the past 3 weeks protesting over reforms that would open the agriculture industry to the private sector and guarantee prices for their produce in his speech modi said the reforms were aimed at helping them. i just want ease in the life of farmers i want their progress and wants more

dignity in the agriculture strictly political parties should stop misguiding harm of it's been over 6 to 7 months since the farm laws were implemented but now suddenly games are being played to plough one's political learned through a web of lies. now a hindu woman in india says she suffered a miscarriage after being given injections during had to tension under a new law targeting interfaith marriages police also arrested her muslim husband it's highlighted the controversial law which makes it more difficult for people from different religions to marry from. her pradesh state elizabeth branham reports . 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 the government care. i had pain for 3 days so i was admitted

to the hospital on the 11th i was given injections after which my situation worsened 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 the past in order which makes it illegal for people to change their religion for the sake of marriage police are detaining them his brother selene while they investigate whether they forced pinky to convert and pinky was taken to a government run woman'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 intention is we didn't give her any injection that would lead to a miscarriage we gave her the best treatment we could according to his symptoms and

manage the situation conservatively so it's wrong to say this. while it's unclear what caused pinkies miscarriage what is certain is she was separated from her husband because of the new door the other british government issued and she conversion ordered last month citing a campaign by muslim men to forcibly converted hindu woman that's despite the fact no state all central government department including the national commission of women has found any evidence of such cases. human rights lawyer in the grove this is the bad of the party o.b.j. p. passes such laws to divide indians she's preparing to challenge it in court the very openly project itself as a right wing hindu party. what we're seeing here is that this is actually part of a political agenda an agenda both to polarize and terrorize communities

pinki says she's worried about her future and also rashid's and. i want my husband and brother in law to come back our requests the government to release my husband and his brother syrian i'm really worried i've lost my child but please let my husband gar i'm really worried. 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 religion elizabeth. rescue is in fiji searching for survivors from cycling yesso which struck the pacific island nation on thursday causing widespread destruction at least 2 people are confirmed dead one of them a 3 month old baby when hey 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 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 sidelines but they're happening more often and becoming more dangerous when the prime minister blames climate change the world is getting warmer the storms i did and stronger every one of us most of today is gone would. that be the seriousness of this

storm season could be particularly painful for fijian whose economy which is reliant on foreign tourists has been badly affected by the corona virus pandemic wayne hay al jazeera all clones. now emergency services in japan are still trying to free more than a 1000 vehicles stranded in heavy snow for 2 days stuck in a 17 comment to tell back on an elevated expressway connecting tokyo and the city of niigata 3 drivers have now been taken to hospital and soldiers on to having food and blankets to others as more heavy snow forecast across the weekend in esco is warning that a wildlife park in senegal is in danger of losing its wild heritage status. park is home to many recipe she's of wildlife that's been under threat from poach as an illegal gold mining joint 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 tempter brigade deployed to protect with the u.n. describes as a world heritage site in danger 8 anti-poaching rangers for a part 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 spell 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. both walking. in silence to try to catch them by surprise. with the men cannot do 10 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 has 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 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 was species there in the park but also the movement so that we better equipped to protect them. they come out at night leopards chimps hyenas in the parks king

the lion animals on the move in search of a safe place to live on this pathway along with boarded and when it roared this part of the forest and all the animals felt final and it 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 a lion skin cells for anything from $9.00 to $35000.00 on the black market which is why the park trucks 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 in senegal . and in the last of our reports on this series we'll take you to peru where an

ancient city is under threat from score says it washed out on al-jazeera from 10 g.m.t. on saturday and has won everything we're covering right here as well al jazeera dot com for analysis that takes you behind the headlines and for a live streaming there as well. just a quick run through of the top stories this hour the u.s. has experienced its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with more than 18000 people killed according to figures from johns hopkins university 3270 fatalities were recorded on thursday alone though the vice president might pass described this week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were inoculated on live television.