loads of water on al-jazeera context these are the 3 story telling of the biggest issues. they're usually do with ready. us vice president my parents gets the coronavirus vaccine to demonstrate its safety as the virus pushes america's hospitals to the brink while here in europe germany uses shipping containers to store the bodies of its coated victims and sweden is imposing its toughest measures yet. allowing maryam namazie and london are watching al-jazeera also coming up. parents are reunited with more than 300 nigerian boys kidnapped from their school

a week ago. and we look at why venezuela's president has dissolved his constituent assembly without it changing a word of the constitution. welcome to the program the united states 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 also confirmed despite that the vice president described this week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were inoculated live on television my pen's is the highest profile recipient of a vaccine made by pfizer in biotech which was authorized for a much unseen use last week. karen and i are than happy to step forward

for this week. to take the 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 while we cut red tape we cut no corners well any time now yes regulators are expected to approve a 2nd vaccine made by mcdonough i want house course when it comes to how could join us live in one of the implications of the madonna approval then for the country's vaccination program. well 1st of all would be the 2nd approval in about a week's time because last week we had the pfizer vaccine approved and it is already being injected into the arms of millions of americans mostly the elderly living in care homes as well as frontline emergency workers and hospital workers so this would be yet another vaccine that would continue to with that mission

sensually what the goal is of the united states is to by the middle of march and slightly beyond that there would be as many as 150000000 americans vaccinated against code 19 but as we have been reporting there are millions of americans who are also kind of reticent about taking the vaccine they feel that it was developed too quickly and the science might not be safe so not only has mike pence and his wife gotten the vaccine but we now know now to palosi the house speaker as well and we know that president elect biden will be getting it on monday they're trying to project optimism something that dr anthony found she is suggesting can happen as well well things are dark in the numbers of infections are high he says that there is hope. 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 of course still concerns about the economy and people's jobs and time is running out for congress to a another government shutdown. that's right the economic recovery is going to take much longer than getting america vaccinated and a lot of it has to do with politics you know before the election there was a lot of wrangling between democrats and republicans over this coded relief bill given the fact that so many of the other provisions in previous legislation have now expired and that's still the case and time is literally running out at the stroke of midnight if that bill is not resolved in some form or fashion we're going to see a partial government shutdown as well because tied into it is money to keep the

government running again and keep it open so this is really discouraging for a lot of americans we've got high unemployment here in the united states still millions of americans who have seen their benefits running out or dry up as a result of the coded expiration or looking for a round of stimulus checks particularly before the holidays but 'd the sticking point seems to be money for state local governments republicans say we needed to know exactly where that money is going and democrats are saying we need you to sign this because time is of the essence so that's what the impasse is will have to watch and see if they can figure it out by midnight eastern standard time otherwise we know that in fact the government could shut down some of the services that americans count on when they particularly need it most thank you very much committee in washington well mexico city and the surrounding mexican state are suspending all nonessential activities an attempt to control the latest covered

$905.00 that it comes a day off to the president painted with the city's residents to stay off the streets now only the sale of food energy transport manufacturing and financial services will be allowed until january the 10th the city's mayor says hospitals are 75 percent capacity in mexico city alone with an almost $20000.00 deaths. or in brazil the president is saying that he won't be getting a corona virus vaccine and that no one else can be forced to take it. was speaking on the same day the country's supreme court ruled that the vaccine could be made mandatory infections have been accelerating across brazil and on thursday daily deaths exceeded 1000 but also laura's caution brazilians about taking the vaccine. that began. it's clear in the contract with pfizer we are not responsible for any side effects if you become an alligator hurt your problem or not go to the mall

because you for gum talking nonsense right if you become a super mom if the woman grows a beard already mom starts singing soprano may have nothing to do with it. in europe the 2nd wave of coverage 19 is showing no signs of abating italy is being placed under a nationwide lockdown over the christmas new year period with bars restaurants and non-essential shops closing austria's government is imposing a 3rd lockdown and sweden's government is bringing in its tough is measures yet non-essential public workplaces including gyms pools and libraries will close until the end of january facemasks on out recommended on public transport but shops and restaurants will stay open sweden has largely resisted tough restrictions but friday saw its highest number of new cases yet at 1654 and this week there were some strong remarks from the king who criticized the failure to save lives well in germany there are reports of temporary freezes being used to store bodies after a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed hospitals officials there are preparing

to roll out the fires of biotech coronavirus vaccine after christmas in coordination with several other e.u. members but a senior french government scientists is saying a return to normal can't be expected until at least the autumn in the number of deaths in france has now passed 60000 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 exists. 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 human and total 25 deceased can be stored in the container on 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 to months of january and february be the hardest months of this pandemic several european countries are deep in the grip of a 2nd or perhaps even 3rd wave of coronavirus french president emanuel macron continues his isolation after catching it 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. a 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 phrase he has warned with more than 15000 people in the u.k. currently hospitalized for coronavirus the country is approaching the 1st wave peak of $18000.00 hospitalizations in any normal year central london would be teeming with christmas shoppers but this as we know is no normal year londoners are among the 30 $8000000.00 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 shops as a coming down again and they're coming down hard on the chair generated by being the 1st country to administer the pfizer biotech vaccine has worn off ready stopping the national health service becoming overwhelmed has again become

a top priority. al-jazeera london. a week after they were kidnapped from a school in northwest nigeria war than 300 students 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 by armed men on motorbikes the details of the rescue are not clear though including who was behind the kidnapping or 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. to make your comment when you see him

or 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. well my interest 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 safe 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 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 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 white 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. 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 going to school from where the boys were taken is now shut just like schools in 3 other states in nigeria's north west their thought is 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 y. against western style education but eventually the government would want the schools to reopen accommodate greece al-jazeera cats and nigeria and watching out as they are live from london still more to come on the program a hindu woman who was detained and suffered a miscarriage shines a spotlight on india's new interfaith marriage law. and trapped in a traffic jam rescuers in japan try to free a 1000 drivers stranded for 2 days after heavy snowfall. we've got more wet weather coming into northern parts of australia and i'm quite

a clutch of storms rolling through him got a tropical load developing that'll bring some very heavy rain and across the came billy as we go on through the next day you'll see just around the western side of the top and the system circulating away sinking a little further south with inland into the good parts of well the northern half of western australia even down to central parts of us will see some wet weather that pushes its way across south australia towards new south wales some bacon live fish i was there just on the other side of the great dividing range should be a brighter day there embrace been on sunday drive down towards the southeast for victoria and also into tasmania cloud will make its way towards new zealand especially to further a switch of course we're now looking at tropical cyclone making its way south was i'm pleased to say it is pulling away from fiji we are looking at some very strong winds still in place at the moment it will pass just to the west of color as we go

on through sunday out west some windy weather grassy dragging its way southwards and a switch before it does gradually fizzle out but as you can see by this state a chance to dry out and assess the damage there the theat. and. they've been doing with the money that it's boring we bring you the stories and developments to dramatically changing the world i'm leaving scene as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise millions of dollars for the super rich poor families hit hard by the pandemic counting the cost on al-jazeera. play an important role. ringback. the. you're.

welcome back a look at our top stories now the u.s. has experienced its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with more than 18000 people killed vote the vice president has described this week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were vaccinated live on television there are reports of temporary freezes being used in germany to store bodies after a spike in coronavirus deaths meanwhile in sweden government has introduced its toughest restrictions yet closing all non-essential workplaces until the end of january and recommending face masks on public transport. and we can play with cannot from a school in northwest nigeria more than 300 students are being reunited with their families parents in katsina state rejoiced as they saw their songs for the 1st time

since the kidnapping. now the ethiopian government is offering a reward in exchange for information that could help locate leaders of the gray regions governing party the military is promising a reward of $260000.00 the to great people's liberation front dominated ethiopia's coalition government until the current prime minister ahmed was elected in 2018 its leaders have been in hiding since federal troops captured the region's capital mckelway after weeks of fighting it but morgan has more on this now from hard to him. 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 tigra 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 despite the government think that it is largely over and restoring form 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 tigra 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 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 know that tehran's and it is a mountainous area but at the moment there are no phone networks to know exactly what is happening in the ticker and where the leaders of the tigra people's liberation front is mozambique its government and the u.n. and launching an appeal for 2 $154000000.00 to help thousands of people fleeing violence in the north fighting has displaced at least half

a 1000000 people in the covered delgado province since 2017 the united nations is worried the crisis could spread beyond mozambique's borders the violence is being blamed on armed groups reportedly linked to i still want to carve out a caliphate in the area which ileana ghazi it works for the u.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 but also too. 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. also remain limited due to the violence and insecurity and although the international community has been really. needs. to continue.

the multiple times our needs in terms of. in terms of protection. and refugee agency are trying to respond to identifying the main needs in terms of protection and we need human. response and. response we need. community. when israel is 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 help parliament present a class when there are now says it served its purpose and that america is in a sane human explains. 3 and a half years ago amid persistent opposition protests that israel is embattled president nicolas maduro announced he was unilaterally calling for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution written by his predecessor

deceased president who will chavis broken bottle completely until you know you know i summon the native constituent power to achieve the peace that the republic needs to overthrow the fascist carol so that the people with the sovereignty will be able to impose peace harmony and a true national dialogue. 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 it really was to annihilate the opposition controlled parliament and consolidate a dictatorship. indeed the assemblies most notable achievement was to strip more than 30 opposition deputies of the parliamentary immunity so that they could be arrested and tried for allegedly inciting violence or treason it's fairly brazen.

it's clear now that was it was indeed a cause from the beginning but it's clear now the intention was married to provide a kind of. form of government so that it could pass sensibly or be used. many of which is a 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 there's not even depleted a single article proposed constitution. now that the ruling socialist party will take total control of the legislature and january 5th after highly contested elections the constituent assembly is being dissolved just as quickly as it was created. by. we had to go over a country in peace impeach him pace with a newly elected legislature with diverse representation that will assure the

challenge of maintaining constitutionality. could be uses they've done their duty without having changed a comma of the regional constitution not the predicts that that was ever the point you see in human al-jazeera. elbowing officials in appropriately coached test pilots while trying to recertify the 737 max after 2 fatal crashes that's the conclusion in a lengthy u.s. congressional report republican staff on the senate commerce committee say the testing of a key safety system tied to both crashes was contrary to the proper protocol the committee concluded the boeing officials and the country's regulatory federal aviation ministration it attempted to cover up important information that might have contributed to the tragedies or now to india the prime minister narendra modi has told farmers protesting against controversial new agriculture laws that he is committed to that welfare speech was broadcast on television and more than

$23000.00 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 progeny use in his speech modi said the reforms were aimed at helping them. a hindu woman in india says she suffered a miscarriage after being given injections during her detention under a new law targeting interfaith marriages police also arrested her muslim husband has state of pradesh is the latest to pass the law which makes it more difficult for people from different religions to get married from moradabad elizabeth purana reports. when 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 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 as him to islam the couple married in july before the government in the state of wealth of the 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 pinkie 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 order for their government to issue the anti 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. as 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 be very openly project itself as a right wing 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 other states of the process of passing similar orders more couples are expected to be criminalized for falling in love and marrying people outside their religion elizabeth. emergency services in japan is still trying to free more than a 1000 vehicles stranded in heavy snow for 2 days now stuck in a 17 call as a tell back on an elevated expressway that connects tokyo with the city of new

gutter 3 drivers have been taken to hospital and soldiers are delivering food and blankets to allas more heavy snow is now forecast across the weekend. all of us plenty more to read about here al jazeera dot com we can always that watch is on live streaming there as well. just a quick recap of the headlines stories this hour for you and the united states experience its deadliest week ever from the coronavirus with some 18000 people killed according to figures from johns hopkins university 3270 fatalities recorded on thursday alone despite president described this week as the beginning of the end of the pandemic as he and his wife were inoculated live on television. more than happy to step.