awaiting another vaccine approval but the corona virus pandemic continues to rip through the united states putting even more pressure on a struggling health care system. and i'm a very i'm sort of this is al jazeera live from though also coming up as we reach this extraordinary and historic moment in the life of our nation would be urge

every american to continue to do your part u.s. vice president by pence becomes the highest profile member of the u.s. government to get the coronas vaccine in order to demonstrate its safety. brazil's supreme court rules that taking the vaccine will be mandatory which is that all this with the president's defiant stance on immunization. of a former governor in mexico so let's go state becomes the latest victim of drug related violence that's spiraling out of control. we begin then in the united states where the food and drug administration is assessing whether to approve a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use a pharmaceutical company is waiting for the green light to dispatch nearly 6000000 doses nationwide but authorities worry that americans still need more reassurance to embrace an immunization campaign that's why politicians are getting the job on

camera the highest profile recipient yet vice president mike pence was injected with the fires a b o n tech vaccine on friday karen and i were more than happy to step forward before this week was about to take safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people and as we reach this extraordinary and historic moment in the life of our nation let me urge every american to continue to do your part but the health of your family your neighbors and your community 1st practice good hygiene wash your hands practice social distancing or wear a mask whenever it's indicated the nation's top infectious diseases expert expressed optimism that life could return to normal within months and president elect joe biden receive a dose of the vaccine on monday. 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 when this all comes as the u.s. reports more than 3000 deaths for the 3rd straight day the health care system nationwide is on the verge of buckling under pressure the rising number of patients let's go live to washington our white house correspondent kelly help that is there for us so kimberly we're expecting the madonna vaccine to get final organization possibly today how soon before that begins to be distributed. if things go as planned and as expected then we could see the madeira vaccine being distributed sometime starting on monday but there still are 8

a few hurdles well the advisory panel has pushed this through the f.d.a. needs to sign off on it as well as the c.d.c. but it doesn't appear so far that there are any glitches know what the goal is in all of this because we're also one week into the pfizer vaccine which is already been approved is being distributed and being an ocular rated in terms of the americans getting it is the goal that you heard dr anthony found she talking about just moments ago and that is a return to people going to school and in their businesses and going to restaurants and that's going to take almost half of the population getting this vaccine but there is a belief that this is doable with the dearne a vaccine in addition roughly 150000000 americans are expected to be vaccinated by the end of the spring or early summer here in the united states so that's what people are really looking to and be hopeful for in the midst of record breaking

numbers of infections deaths and also the feeling that hospitals are just being overwhelmed not only are the acute care hospitals now full but we're seeing in some cases pediatric wards being reconfigured to take some of these intensive care unit patients given the fact that the hospitals are overwhelmed and we should also point out that the staff as well they have been dealing with this pandemic since early march they're exhausted some of them have been sick there really is a need for hope right now in the united states and in the middle of the u.s. congress don't tell us more about. yeah if things don't turn around in the next few hours some of the government could be shut down temporarily because of a lack of funding what's going on is something we've been reporting on for weeks if not months this idea that there needs to be another relief package that would help americans as well as businesses do to cope with 19 in the economic devastation

that's been felt but tucked in this legislation is also finding to keep the government open so what we've got right now is kind of a standoff as usual between democrats and republicans and they've agreed to most of the package but there are some sticking points namely money for state local governments democrats say look at just let's push this through and republicans are saying we want to see the price tag and we want to see where this money is going so if they don't work this out by midnight not only will americans lose their counting on another round of stimulus checks but the government they count on could be affected when they need it most white house correspondent kelly how could reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks indeed sweden's government has introduced its toughest coronavirus restrictions yet all non-essential public workplaces have been closed until late january including gyms pools and libraries facemasks have

been recommended on public transport sweetness largely resisted tough measures but friday saw its highest number of new cases yes more than 1500 this week the king criticized the failure to save lives. in germany temporary freezers are being used to store bodies after a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed hospitals officials there are preparing to roll out the fires a big vaccine after christmas in coordination with several other e.u. members and in france a senior government scientist has said that a return to normal can't be expected until at least the 2nd half of next year burridge talents 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 are not carted unfortunately the situation on hand now has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had here since april

initially as a precaution since yesterday 2 covered 19 defaced are hidden and total $25.00 things can be stored in the container said lee 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 emanuel macron continued 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 due to a moment of inattention or a bit of bad luck but that's the way it is. in your french government scientific advisor 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 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 $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 they're coming down harder the cheer 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. how does era london. a week after they were kidnapped from a school in nigeria more than 300 students are now being reunited with their families parents in the northern states of celebrating as they saw the psalms for the 1st time since they were taken $344.00 boys were kidnapped from their school last friday by armed men on motorbikes details of their rescue still not clear including who was responsible and whether a ransom was paid some of the boys said they were beaten daily by their captors. to be honest there was no food or water throughout no shelter no break and the

friday we were taken we spent 2 days without sleep after it was leaves and after 2 days without food we were given fresh potatoes and. 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 lost and she stopped eating and drinking in addition my 3 sisters were admitted to hospital. more now from our. dresses in the city of kut seen. walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by a nigerian security forces through the save environment of the governor's office in it and after nearly a week in captivity. instead of joy and exhaustion written on their young phrases.

the government says all the students abducted in the 100 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. quick intervention prevented nigeria's largest muslim duction from turning into another disaster in turn to 14 security experts say nigerian authorities failed to act quickly when both took more than 270 students from a girl 2nd to school in chibok more than $100.00 of them are still unaccounted for . for 6 days the students were forced to trick and hike until i get in security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some far state. hundreds more students i they skipped on they

are all held by the military and many in a poor state of health 14 year old osama i mean managed to make his own way to freedom but the punishing trek across forests and rocky hills has left him fighting for his life he's bedridden because of sickle cell anemia made worse by this experience his father is desperately worried about his health never to name. 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 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 there are thought of taking no chances that they could be father such raids nigeria's security forces

are overstretched and they are fighting many battles including against the armed group boko haram y. against western style ija cation but eventually the government would one of the schools to reopen the government edris al jazeera gets into nigeria a weather update next here on our 0 then there's new hope for poorer nations the can't afford to buy millions of doses of the corona virus vaccine plus. state of kassam marks its national day with a special tribute to medical workers and their families. how are you a good joke watson now across the eastern seaboard of the u.s. some places say you can see this massive cloud that sees what remains of

a nor'easter as snow made this fighting across the eastern side of the u.s. now pulling away from newfoundland that eastern side of canada so i think squatting down quite nicely as we go on through saturday which will be a crisp day one to 2 celsius stephanie york and forty's say another area of cloud and right and snow affecting quebec pulling down across the lakes down into the deep south some very heavy rain there into the eastern side of texas pushing into louisiana that's all going to make its way further east which gradually it'll push towards the eastern seaboard mixed see the thaw getting underway here as we go on through sunday say temper just slowly but surely start to pick up but there's more snow behind we'll see snow just around the prairie is pushing up so that western side of canada so wet weather there into washington state further south it is generally fine interact cross california down into new mexico add the date into mexico but whether they're just pushing across northern parts of cuba for a time but across much of the caribbean it looks good over the next day i'll say

they'll be a few showers into the wind was and the lee was for a time but i suspect it's a case of more sunshine then shallots. but . i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. biting both my sis and us on. this 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. team on al-jazeera.

well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour the u.s. food and drug administration is expected to approve a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use imminently makers of the vaccine awaiting for the green light to dispense 26000000 doses nationwide. u.s. vice president mike pence has binoculars and with the pfizer b.n. tech vaccine in a televised event president elect joe biden will do the same on monday politicians are getting their jobs in public in order to boost american confidence in the vaccination process. and more than $300.00 students have been realized with their families so we come to being kidnapped from a school in northern nigeria armed men on motorbikes stormed the school and cut scene of last friday it's still more clear how the rescuer skirt is secured and whether a ransom was paid. the global program aimed at securing fair access to covert 19

vaccines for poorer nations has roughly doubled its supply arrangements for nearly 2000000000 though says about that made as part of the kovacs alliance with the 1st a liver is due next year it's the nations of between 3 global health players including the world health organization so far $92.00 middle and low income countries are eligible to receive vaccines as part of the kovacs commitment dozens of high income countries will assist the program by essentially pulling the vaccine buying power once a job gets regulates free approval it'll be allocated to all participating countries at the same rate proportional to its total population. not only is verona just at lancaster university at the u.k. he joins us now live via skype from lancaster could tell you with us again i have it under this scheme who decides who gets water in terms of which vaccine and the

number of doses. in the callbacks facility we have 11 vaccines those are participating vaccines and a man will look onto the u.n. definition for low and middle income countries countries were given the choice is to apply for this facility and to take part in this once and for all the not you to know what middle income countries 87 have already deployed to take their requests and very quatermass so based on how much is the availability of the vaccine and who has applied what it's decided that at least at the 1st walk of quickly 213 percent of those bentleys population will be supplied with the vaccine and to start a bit of a little communities and into the frontline health workers but which vaccines are we talking about here ones that haven't received regulate free approval yet like astra zeneca and johnson and johnson's. yes so that is one of the major challenges in in sort of success of the club it could collapse facility there are 11 different

vaccine bills that are part of this facility but i think the major dependency of the quebec success is on astra zeneca which it will add another 3 to 6 months of additional trial and then the regulatory approval and also johnson and johnson which is also starting the phase 3 trial so we are talking about another 2 or 3 months for the approval of jones and jones and g s k and the snuffy vaccine which is another part of that quebec facility has delayed their trials for that and off 2021 so this mean that there would be few challenges that need to be tackled before really we will for florida and the supply of the vaccines to the and middle income countries so each country is put in a request for the amount of vaccine that it thinks it will need is that going to be enough to make a difference to the infection rate are they going to be able to inoculate enough people. well that is it really is something that i am not convinced that even 3 percent supply in the 1st water is sufficient enough to immunize the vulnerable communities or into the flow and frontline health workers so according to an

estimation. $2000000000.00 is would even be not sufficient enough to provide on a limited number of countries as well so until we don't really have the supply to 20 percent of those countries' population the frontline health worker and a vulnerable communities cannot be covered and until those are not covered the impact of this disease would still be remaining on to those countries and really the benefit of the vaccine in those countries cannot be really in a visit until the certain number of those are demonstrated and it's not really about the vaccine purchases and the shipment the problem is the scale health care system and the storage and it's not spread agent in the countries that infrastructure is one of the major stumbling block actually to the successful campaign in the animal but then please really gets to use a many thanks indeed when i hear that in lancaster thanks for having mexico city is suspending all non-essential activities in an attempt to control the latest spike

in infections that comes the day after mexico's president pleaded with the city's residents to stay off the streets only the sale of food energy transport manufacturing and financial services will be allowed until january 10th the city's mayor says that hospitals are at 75 percent capacity in mexico city alone have been almost $20000.00 deaths. brazil's president says he won't be getting a corona virus vaccine and that no one else can be forced to take it so i have also now know we're speaking of the so on the day that the country's supreme court ruled that the vaccine could be made mandatory the rate of infection has been increasing across brazil and on thursday daily death succeeded $1000.00 boe sonora want 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 that's your problem i'm not going to mention another vonnie

mole because you'll think i'm talking nonsense right if you become a super mom if any woman close a beard already mom starts singing soprano may have nothing to do with it let's go live to where rio de janeiro and monica. monica what's been the reaction to what the president has been saying. well obvious no once again is sending a double message. right after a like a day after. the government said it would start a national campaign to make people aware of the importance of the magazine and he doesn't even play along with what he said he would do the reason he is contesting the vaccine is because the supreme court decided that governors and mayors besides the federal government can make the back be compulsory and you can't

force people to take them but you can. not allow them to enter place is unless they can show proof that they've been vaccinated ok maggie many thanks dude serious monica going to care for them live in rio. a former governor of the mexican states spent shot dead friday in the bathroom a restaurant in the beach town of puerto vallarta it's the latest in a series of violent acts in a country already plagued by drug related gang activity john heilemann reports. this video apparently records the moment when the ex governor of the mexican state of her was killed in a restaurant but a man's land. was holidaying in the resort town of put and he was out with 3 other people and of 15 strong bodyguard team provided by the state who couldn't save him . what he attack happened at 1 40 in the morning he got up from the table

and went to the bathroom. man shot him in the back. killings have become common at local level emits kampala ticks but the murder of an ex governor is still very unusual the investigation into who was behind the attack is just beginning but it's not going to be easy that's because the state attorney said the staff from the restaurant cleaned up the crime scene took away evidence and even removed security cameras. police state in the southwest of the country is the heartland of one of mexico's most powerful criminal groups the new generation cartel. this is one of the videos they've released showing their firepower and they've not been afraid to turn it on authorities to fool this is fascination could mark the start of a real season of political violence in mexico and that's because next july the country's holding its biggest ever elections and in the run up to elections in the

country is usually the point where criminal groups try to position their own candidate and they often do that by murdering rival one. former governor of her lease coke will likely not be the last guy john home and how does it or mexico city. ethiopia's government is offering a reward for information that could help locate the leaders of the gray region's ruling party the military is putting up a cash pot of $260000.00 the region's leaders went into hiding when federal troops captured the local capital mckelway really 2 weeks ago meanwhile ethiopia has summoned the sudanese ambassador and out a savable to protest about what it described as trespassing and raids on its territory the field. has called on us president elect joe biden to release the cia's classified reports into the journalist's murder once he takes office. the teacher can change is says the move would greatly assist in finding out

the truth there are reports that the investigation concluded with medium to high confidence that saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the killing ashaji was murdered inside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul in 2018 qatar has celebrated its national day crowds were limited years of the pandemic but a military parade and air show went ahead as planned the event also on the frontline health workers who fled the fight against covert 19. reports. this is the highlight of qatar national day celebrations the parades on doha konishi hits and the van to mock by a minute to parade to mourn your marchers and. the event is held this year under extraordinary measures because of cope with 19 and this explains the social distancing measures that were put into place by whole health of volunteers and he explains also why one of the key moments of the parade is

a tribute to the caretakers health workers doctors and nurses all those who are the forefront of the fight against covert 19 those who spent days weeks and months raising awareness about disease and providing crucial assistance to those in serious condition the authorities say that basically all the measures that were taken by the government since march when the 1st cases of covert 19 were reported in qatar managed to a greater extent to contain the virus when talking here about social distancing measures contact tracings and also the top not services provided at hospitals across the country now what is next for qatar for the time being they're confident they've been doing their work and this explains from their own perspective why the mortality rate from covert 19 in qatar has one of the lowest in the well by the end of this month that expected the 1st batches of coby 19 vaccines to arrive in doha.

and by january 20th 21 the elderly and those most vulnerable will be the 1st people to be vaccinated this is giving to the qatari government to the international community that the moment the vaccination campaigns bread's globally the disease which has shattered lives hertha economies change our lives beyond recognition will be defeated one day. al-jazeera. another cattery stadium set to host matches during the 2022 football world cup has held its 1st ever game the stadium stage stadium in a cup final exactly 2 years before the world cup final will be kicking off the venue will host 7 matches in 2022 the stadium has a capacity of 40000 but numbers will limit is in line with corona virus safety protocols electronics giant sony has pulled one of the most anticipated video games

of all time from sale barely a week after it was released cyberpunk 2077 to 10 years to make a reported cost of more than $100000000.00 but many gamers have complained about serious glitches the share price of polish developer cd project has plunged by 20 percent but more video for you along with latest news analysis and comment at the web site al-jazeera don't call. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. food and drug administration is expected to approve a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use evidently because of the vaccine are waiting for the green light to dispense daily $6000000.00 doses nationwide u.s. vice president mike pence was an ocular with the pfizer b o n tec vaccine in

a televised event president elect joe biden will do the same on monday the nation's top infectious does.