that surround us a much deeper and much more problematic than we thought advanced whether lessons learned from the global pandemic could lead to positive change the plan to fix the him or we all hail the lock down expose the privilege of poverty during a crisis. the on. al-jazeera. fellow i maryam namazie in watching the news hour live from london coming up u.s. vice president my pens gets the coronavirus vaccine to demonstrate its safety as the virus pushes america's hospitals to the brink. while in europe germany uses shipping containers to store the bodies of its coated victims and sweden imposes

its toughest measures yet. parents are reunited with more than 300 nigerian boys kidnapped a week ago from their school. and we look at why venezuela's president has dissolved his constituent assembly without changing a word of the constitution. in sport it is exactly 2 years in counseling and so the world cup final house cats are more community but officially opening their 4th tournament but. hello welcome to the news hour al top story 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 3. 1270 fatalities

recorded on thursday alone and another 230000 infections also confirmed well despite the vice president described this week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were inoculated on live television my pens is the highest profile recipient of the vaccine made by pfizer and biotech which was authorized for legends use last week karen and i are than happy to step forward for this week was. to take this safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people karen and i wanted to step forward and take this vaccine to assure the american people that what we cut red tape we cut no corners and u.s. regulators are expected to approve a 2nd vaccine made by mcdonough within hours i want has cost when it can really help it joins us live in this approval would make the u.s. the 1st country to give the go ahead for these 2 jobs what could that mean for the

country's vaccination program. well what it could mean is that come 34 months from now that as the vaccine once it's approved modernity in addition to fives are approved last week that you know close to half the country could start to see the potential of being vaccinated and this would mean a return to some sort of form of normal life but that is still a long way to go well it appears that the f.d.a. is on track for greenlighting the mcgurn of vaccine right now those people that are getting it are the front line health care workers as well as the elderly particularly those in care homes so they're still going to be some time and it appears that you know it can't come soon enough given the fact that we're seeing this surge in cases right now particularly when it comes to infections when it comes to deaths when it comes to hospitalizations the united states is breaking

records more then 310000 people have now died from covert 1000 in the united states it appears particularly dark but the top infectious disease specialist anthony found she is saying that there is hope ahead 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 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 how hospitals and health care systems coping across the country can we have in these reports of things like that the threshold for admitting kind of the patients now changing because as simply running out of beds. you know we're hearing reports all across

the country and they all have a similar theme that when it comes to acute care hospitals i.c.u. beds us intensive care units that they're filled they're having to reconfigure the hospitals turning pediatric wards for example into i.c.u. beds we're also hearing stories of ambulances lining up outside the emergency department sometimes for as many as 8 hours while they wait to transport a patient so it's not just an issue of the beds it's also an issue of the staffing that is really putting these hospitals under strain you have to remember that these health care workers have been dealing with this in the united states intensely since it leads to march an even sooner and they're exhausted they're overworked they've gotten sick themselves so the anxiety and the compounding the fact that there are a shortage of space has really put the nation's hospitals under significant strain so they're looking anxiously towards this vaccine to try and alleviate some of the

hardship that's been going on and his economic hardship as well isn't there when it looked as though they might be reaching congress might be reaching nearing an agreement on coronavirus a deal but that is now facing another obstacle. we're hoping to have an update in about an hour's time but things aren't looking particularly bright at the moment for this $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief package and within that package which will provide some support and funding for workers as well as businesses because you have to remember the previous funding and a lot of those care packages from the past some of that has now expired so given the fact that we have high unemployment people are really looking for help it time when the holidays are coming when they're having trouble paying their rent and also that they want to know that the government that they count on for services is going to keep running well that's not clear right now because as of midnight if congress

does not work out a deal some of the government will see starting to see a partial shutdown of services so what we understand is right now democrats and republicans are working out some sort of stopgap measure but the sticking point seems to be on the mount of money the federal government's going to give to regional or state governments and that is a sticking point democrats pushing for republicans saying we want to know where the money is going and not getting the itemization as they're looking for so in the midst of all this there is hope if this can get passed the government stays open there will be another round of stimulus checks for americans under a certain threshold but for now it's looking uncertain thank you very much from washington can help. mexico city in the surrounding state of mexico suspending all non-essential activities in an attempt to control the latest kovan 1000 by that it comes a day off to the president pleaded with the city's residents to stay off the streets not only the sale of food energy transport to factoring in financial

services will be allowed until january 10th the city's mayor says hospitals are at 75 percent capacity now in mexico city alone have been almost 20000 deaths. and then in brazil the president there is saying that he won't be getting a corona virus vaccine and that no one else can be forced to take it arable scenario was speaking on the same day the country's supreme court ruled that the vaccine could be made mandatory infections have been accelerating across the country and the on thursday daily deaths exceeded $1000.00 but polls are our bows and arrows caution brazilians about taking the vaccine. that big get there it's clear in the contract with pfizer we are not responsible for any side effects if you become an alligator that's your problem i'm not going to monkey around the mole because fulford come talking nonsense right if you become a superman if any woman grows a beard already mom starts going soprano have nothing to do with it. so let's go

live now to a monarchy and q who is in rio de janeiro. first of all i mean really quite quite bizarre comments and remarks there from the president about the effect the vaccine could have what's been the reaction there and put it affect the take up for the vaccine. well what happens is brazil once more is sending like mixed messages. the government had said it would start a campaign to make people aware of how important the vaccine was present both so maddow who has been playing down playing the virus since the beginning. is making these comments because the supreme court has ruled that the vaccines can be made mandatory by mayor is and by governors and he does not want that that's

a political struggle that he has with the governor of some paulo which is brazil's richest state governor has been investing the state money in chinese vaccine and both so maddow who has far right voters has been. criticizing china and and blaming it for the pandemic so the person from body of the governor of the hall was the 1st person who said my state we will have the vaccines 1st and they will be mandatory and so discussion began whether they could be made mandatory or not the supreme court ruled in favor of governors and mayors as well as the federal government being able to make the vaccines mandatory which does not mean forcing people to take them it just means that if you don't take them maybe you will you won't be able to go to certain public places. there might be punitive measures right so even though it's being made mandatory if

people still have the right to refuse and if they do. they will not have access to certain rights and they have now what about measures to control the new spike because i always say the vaccination program is going to take some time. yes brazil pretty much like the united states governors and mayors from you know different cities in different states take their own measures so one measure though that has been taken nationwide is until now anyone could come into brazil any tourist from anywhere basically now as of december the 30 if you have to show proof that you've been tested and that you've been tested negative before entering the country which is something you do in places like rio they canceled of the new year your year is the party which is the 2nd biggest tourist attraction after carnival

and several several different states and cities are taking measures thank you very much you bring us up to speed with the developments that brazil want to kanak you joining us from rio de janeiro when all the developments the world health organizations vaccine initiative says that it secured 82000000000 doses of vaccines for people in low and middle income countries the kodaks alliance is aimed to that is aiming to deliver approved axioms to $190.00 participating nations during the 1st half of next year when it's now managed to double its supply after signing deals with 2 more companies on friday johnson and johnson have agreed to provide 500000000 doses of its vaccine as carney on the development and then another 170000000 will come from the oster zeneca oxford university project a vaccine that is seen as particularly important the developing world because of its price and it just sticks. well here in europe the 2nd wave of covert 1000

counties to continues to sweep across the region a series prime minister as just announced that restrictions will be tightened over the christmas new year period that means that restaurants and nonessential shops will be closing over it all straight the government is imposing a lot down there and then even sweden is bringing in its tough is measures yet nonessential public places including gyms pools and libraries will close until the end of january face mosques are now recommended on public transport bot shops restaurants bars they will be staying open sweden has largely resisted tough restrictions but friday so its highest number of new cases yet at 9654 and this week the king made some very strong remarks criticizing the failure to save lives well in germany temporary freeze is being used to stall bodies after a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed hospitals officials there are preparing to roll out the fire as a biotech coronavirus vaccine just after christmas in coordination with several

other members but a senior french government scientist is saying a return to normal can't be expected until at least the autumn or a challenge reports. in the german city of hanau they've run out of space for bodies in the hospital morgues the shipping container is being used to temporarily handle the overflow i know existed a carded unfortunately the situation in hanoi has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had here since april initially as a precaution since yesterday to convert 19 deceased are here and total $25.00 deceased can be stored in the container and sadly we had to start using the container from yesterday. with a record of nearly 34000 new cases and 830 new deaths germany has lost its position as a role model for how to handle the pandemic well they vaccinations are set to start after christmas the 1st in the imminent probable approval of the 1st vaccine

naturally gives us hope that's obviously it wasn't solve the problem and realistically we need to be prepared as months of january and february be the hottest months of this pandemic. several european countries are deep in the grip of a 2nd or perhaps even 3rd wave of coronavirus french president emmanuel macron continues his isolation after catching it continue from our hearts he continued to be careful on thursday i tested positive which shows that the virus can really affect anyone because i am very protected i am 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. the senior french government scientific adviser says vaccine rollout could take longer than thought don't expect to return to normal before late next year francois tough race he has warned with more than

15000 people in the u.k. currently hospitalized the qur'an or virus the country is approaching the 1st wave peak of $18000.00 hospitalizations in any normal year central london would be teeming with christmas shoppers with this is we know is no normal year london is a reminder be $38000000.00 people across the united kingdom currently living under the its toughest of the 3 coronavirus restriction tears yes there's a temporary relaxation for christmas itself so families can get together but in many parts of the country after that the shutters are coming down again and the coming down harder the church generated by being the 1st country to administer the pfizer biotech vaccine has worn off already stopping the national health service becoming overwhelmed has again become a top priority george allen's al-jazeera london well the disruption continues with christmas travel plans anxiety chaos for thousands of australians after 28 coronavirus cases were detected in sydney a quarter of

a 1000000 people on the city's northern beaches have been told to stay at home while the authorities trace the source of the outbreak most states and territories of. requirements on people from the region the cluster of new cases is a blow for australia's elimination efforts until this week and go on for more than 2 weeks without any local transmission allowing most restrictions to be relaxed so watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program to you and asks the world for a quarter of a $1000000000.00 to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced those displaced by violence in northern. and then ethiopia offers a cash reward for information that helps them catch to graze rebel leaders. and in sport we'll hear from the football manager who's just been voted the world's best.

for a week after they were kidnapped from a school in northwest nigeria more than 300 students are now being reunited with their families parents in katsina state rejoiced as they saw their sons for the 1st time since the kidnapping 344 boys were taken from their school last friday by armed men on most of bikes details that rescue are not clear including who was behind the kidnapping and whether a ransom was paid some of the boys say they were beaten on a daily basis by their captors. to be honest there was no through water through no shelter no break and the friday we were taken we spent 2 days without sleep our food was leaves and after 2 days without food we were given fresh potatoes and pieces of ground not cake. when you see why frankly speaking i feel like god has granted me paradise because i'm so happy after spending 2 days without eating anything my mother is more than 90 years old and i am the last born and she too stopped eating and drinking in addition my 3 sisters were admitted to hospital

. more or less now from algiers there is an address he sent us this report from katsina city walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by a nigerian security forces through the sleeve environment of the governor's office in the courts 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 the 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 doctrine 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 for a state. is all in the same place when they took the 3rd 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 osama i mean managed to make his own way to freedom but the punishing track 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. no written him . through the ages to 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 it later he dragged himself to a village ways brought home on a motorcycle going to secondary school from where the boys were taken is now shut just like schools in 3 other states in nigeria's north west the earth or trees are 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 who are against western style education but eventually the government

would want the schools to reopen accommodate greece al-jazeera cats and nigeria. and the government and the united nations i don't sing in a pail for $254000000.00 to help thousands of people fleeing violence in the north fighting has displaced at least half a 1000000 people in delgado province since 2017 and the un is worried the crisis could spread beyond mozambique's borders it's being blamed on groups supported dealing to eisele who want to carve out a caliphate in the area juliana ghazi works for the un's refugee agency in mozambique she says help is urgently needed. 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 that gado but also to lieberman provinces such as. many of them have been forced to flee multiple times and to abandon 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 it due to the violence and insecurity and although the international community has been really general our needs they are growing as attacks continue as people are moving multiple times our needs our own growing in terms of order 20 patients share of shelter in terms of protection we as you need you are the u.n. refugee agency are trying to respond to identify the main needs in terms of protection and for this we need humanitarian. response and for us to be part of an effective treatment or response we need support from international community is here again government is offering a reward in exchange for information that could help locate leaders of the 10 gray regions governing party military is promising our award of $260000.00 to great

people's liberation front dominated ethiopia is governing coalition until the current prime minister ahmed was elected in 2018 leaders have been in hiding since federal troops captured the region's capital mckelway off to weeks of fighting have been moving brings us more on this now from hard to. it's been more than 2 weeks since the few pm government announced that it has taken over the to gring capital medically and basically it has resulted in more than 50000 if you feel 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 the p.l.o. the to group people's liberation movement which the government is fighting and the group people's liberation movement have repeatedly stated that they are still continuing the battle this by the government think that it is largely over and restoring for networks to parts of the region while many other parts of them remain inaccessible so it's not clear yet what exactly is happening in the to agree and

where the leaders are but the fact that if you is offering financial compensation shows how much they really want to get their hands on the leaders of the to group 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 great is their region so they know their territories they nor their 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 tigra people's liberation front is a story we've been following out of afghanistan where at least 15 children have been killed in a bomb attack in the eastern part of the country they gathered for a prayer reading a house in gaza any province when a motorcycle laden with explosives was detonated but no claims of responsibility but the violence there has been on the rise since peace talks between the government and the taliban started in september 10 years after a fruit seller set himself on fire triggering what became known as the arab spring

tunisians are still protesting al-jazeera is reporting from the town where it all began in our latest feature on the 10th anniversary of the arab uprisings we'll hear from one of the 1st people to raise their voice against terror any. my name is walid custer when i was in europe during the revolution and i live in the suburbs of. ben ali's police shot me on general retired teen 2011 and that led to the amputation of my right leg. 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. shame they way the government treats us to 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 are sympathetic with the revolution we have some advantages we want to deal with the state we ask to be officially recognized because if we are sold that more recognition will remain regardless who is in power into. we have their own citizens and their most racial 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 on till we die. much more still ahead on the program. and do woman who is detained and suffered a miscarriage shines a spotlight on india's new law on and marriage is. trapped in a traffic jam rescuers in japan tried to free a 1000 drivers stranded for 2 days now after heavy snowfall. and then with andy in

sport combats to take on tough conditions at the opening women's downhill race this season. the weather looks and lousy 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. indicates seeing 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 for central pa slushy dry light

winds so a lot of clout there setting a possibility what else are snow flurries for the race having said that temperatures 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 all 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 out in 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. and the porous suburbs of 3 european cities community tensions often reveal a shot of cultural divides but they feel they have no future in our sideline

discrimination is their real problem you know brussels al-jazeera will meet some of those struggling with racism radicalization and life on the margins of the droit for this young man a week from the days than they were listed on the face of europe on al-jazeera. i was raised in france and these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us on. the 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. tune on al-jazeera. moon.

at the news hour live from london a recap of the headlines now the u.s. has experienced its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with more than 18000 people killed well this as the vice president describes the week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were vaccinated on live television. temporary freezers have been used in germany to store bodies after a spike in coronavirus deaths there elsewhere in sweden the government there is introduced its toughest measures yet and italy is being placed on the nationwide lockdown over the christmas new year period. and our other headline is our a week after they were cannot from a school in northwest nigeria more than 300 students have been reunited with their families parents in katsina stay with joyce as they saw their sons for the 1st time

since the kidnapping. out of venezuela the controversial constituent assembly is being dissolved it was supposedly created to rewrite the constitution but was in fact used as a legislative super body that could bypass the opposition held parliament president nicolas maduro now says it served its purpose a latin america editor lucien human reports. 3 and a half years ago amid persistent opposition protests that israelism battled president nicolas maduro announced he was unilaterally calling for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution written by his predecessor deceased president hugo chavez. are some of the native constituent power to achieve the peace for the republic means to overthrow. and so that the people with the sovereignty will be able to impose peace harmony

and a true national dialogue the. even appeals from the pope couldn't stop him from forming a 500 member body with powers above all other institutions critics were quick to predict that its reeling was 29 late the opposition controlled parliament and consolidate a dictatorship. indeed the assembly's most notable achievement was to strip more than 30 opposition deputies of their parliamentary immunity so that they could be arrested and tried for allegedly inciting violence or treason it's fairly brazen. it's clear 'd now that was it was indeed of course from the beginning but it's clear now the intention was merely to provide a kind of. form of government so that it could pass or sensibly would be used. many of which have been extremely repressive do you have any other country in the world with something like this is happened certainly i would imagine here has to be

the only instance of the constitutional or constitutional constituent assembly rather. but has not even debated a single article a proposed new constitution. now that the ruling socialist party will take total control of the legislature on january 5th after highly contested elections the constituent assembly is being dissolved just as quickly as it was created in for example. we handing over a country in peace in pits in pace with the newly elected legislature with diverse representation that will assume the challenge of maintaining constitutionality. could be your says they've done their duty without having changed a comma in the original constitution not say predicts that that was never the point you see in human al-jazeera. so for us i'm joined via skype from crack asked by

a political analyst to meet cheney's plan to last what does the the dissolution of the constituent assembly mean for nicolas maduro on the country. i think. we're in. the. light will be. right so it's the analysis or the suggestion now is the way in which it's

been dissolved just sort of shows that the original intention was for this body to rubber stamp whatever legislation that their government wanted wanted to pass to bypass that the parliament has held by the opposition time i have to ask you what has been the response there in the venezuelan capital i mean there's so many a great many challenges facing the country right now people paying attention to this today can. we don't have just trying to survive. but i'm still. out of. it. in the last year maybe more. but while we're on 90 percent. basically all. we know that most of the experience. we used to use

a gun because we know what model of knowledge to believe almost everything in the opposition is a very little bit like we. are in the us in the one. thank you very much to me she panted us from krakow apologies for the quality of the sound that we did get the gist of what you are saying obviously a very difficult situation and. right now with the food and medical supplies shortages in this one now the indian prime minister narendra modi has told farmers protesting against controversial agricultural is that he's committed to their welfare speech was broadcast on television and 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 end to guarantee prices for their progeny any 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 done in agriculture sector political parties should stop misguiding from 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 land through a web of lies. or a hindu woman in india says she suffered a miscarriage after being given injections during her detention under a new law targeting interfaith marriages but he's also arrested her muslim husband has highlighted the controversial law which makes it harder for people from different religions to get married from. her pradesh state elizabeth problem reports. 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 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 received 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 privilege passed an 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 indention 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 the energy conversion order 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 grover says 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 are seeing here is that this is actually part of a political agenda an agenda both to polarize and paralyze communities pinky says she's worried about her future and also rashid's and saleem's so both of you are but 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 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. author for the. rescuers in fiji is searching for survivors from saigon yes 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 from planned. this is just the beginning of the south pacific storm season and cyclon yes it was a destructive start 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 psych 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 must is that would. we 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 oakland's emergency services in japan is still trying to frame more than a 1000 vehicles stranded in heavy snow for 2 days now stuck in a 17 kilometers intel back on an elevated expressway connecting tokyo to the city of regatta through drivers have been now been taken to hospital and soldiers are delivering food and blankets to others who are stuck more heavy snow is now forecast across the weekend. a massive iceberg on a collision course for the south atlantic island of south georgia has changed direction and partially broken apart the a $68.00

a iceberg which was last measured at more than 4000 square kilometers could damage the fragile ecosystem of the island but it's now significantly smaller and on a different course after being caught in a strong current scientists say it still represents a threat the european parliament has been discussing breck's it talks which still show no sign of resolution is by ongoing negotiations in brussels the u.k. and european union now have less than 2 weeks to seal a deal on their future relationship which of course includes an important trade pact u.k. formally left the e.u. in january but is in a transition period until the end of the month disagreements about fishing rights are among the main sticking points we've barker is in 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 brics 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 or matt is why despite rumors of some concessions to be 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 so the new deadline of sunday to have a deal on paper at least in front of them but bonnie 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. electronic electronics giant sony has pulled out has pulled one of the most anticipated video games of all time from sale just barely a week after it was released cyberpunk 2077 took 10 years to develop and it cost more than $100000000.00 and many gamers have complained about serious glitches and sony is handing out refunds the share price of the games polish developer cd project has plunged by 20 percent wiping out around one point $7.00 in value.

with the new ally from london still ahead with exactly 2 years to go until the world cup final. step up their preparations in sports with andy. and i am nicholas hoult deep inside the gold park join me next on an empty post in with the us go describes as a world heritage site in danger. back

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a wildlife park in senegal is in danger of losing its world heritage status. is home to many rats species of wildlife but is being under threat from poaches an illegal gold mining nicholas hacked joint 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 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 smell burning by a water spots sergeant juv points to what is left of a camp they arrive 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 in jello hoops a drone can in 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 piano 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 species they are in the park but also the movement so that we are 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 a line with bald head and when it roared this part of the forest and all the animals fell silent 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 . well in the last of our ports on the series we're going to take you to peru where an ancient city is now under threat from squatters you can watch on al-jazeera from 10 on saturday time offals forward and he's an doha. thank you so much mindless exactly 2 years and counting and saw the next world cup final housecats are are marking the day by officially opening the 4th tournament then you pay to stand out 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 the 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 the 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 old joe new which launched in 2019 and will host center these asian champions the final. 4

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. infrastructure that was really. with the exception of a few stadiums that should be finished so on i think you could host the world cup tomorrow you know the god. i thought we. were through school to be schooled in the stadium was by baghdad been edger helping out to a 21 victory goal to the bigger global impact will be witnessed here in 2 years time as i am disturbed al-jazeera. a former barcelona and cameron strike a samuel eto says african players were unfairly ignored in a recent ballon d'or vote's 3 all time world dream things were selected by

journalists and fans and not a single african was selected let's not not but you have a job where you know you have received you have cited the you of dropped you have the luck to play it is was the best player in our team. but it's up when you were brought that is. that is the proof. of a full manager you can cop has been keen to downplay his personal achievements at thursday's pfieffer best awards club was named coach of the year by football's world governing body after guiding liverpool to their 1st english league title in 30 years edged 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 or have said no if you would have asked me do you have to work best coaches around you i would have said yes i saw. me take

a walk like this it's all good more important things in the world but it's not one alas the manager make a lot i wasn't on the shortlist for that award right now arsenal 15th in the premier league and ensuring their worst starts were season in almost 4 decades and the most disappointing thing. is that we have had our funds with us to take us through this difficult moment and i think it could have been a really really use year but their reason for me in the premier league is to gloss over what we've done. in the year well champion boxer going to go off ken as the chance to make history in the next few hours the kazakstan fighter will defend his i b f middleweight championship against camille sherif mansour in florida if go often goes on so when he'll break the record for most middle white title defenses 21 this is very important for me absolutely probably is important for boxing maybe another

round of them right now you know true method teams because in all of these guys it's really for good for boxing's best paid 5 series in action on saturday for the asian champion kennel alvarez taking on britain's count smith in a super middleweight title fight alvarez of mexico has lost just once during his career and that was to floyd mayweather in 2013th. and competitors faced soft conditions at the opening women's downhill race of the season it's a nice defending overall champion but he could bring yeah and he was one of a number of athletes to crush out of the course in valdez in france world cup downhill champion corinne 6 switzerland going on so when the writes. about. ok there's a sports looking for now let's get back it's mary i'm in london that's great thanks very much and well that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back with another full bulletin for you playing all the latest from the united states where the regulators are just scaring up to approve the vaccine to bring you all the latest from

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