the state's health experts and bob mentioned the same thing warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because the 19. awaiting another vaccine approval but the coronavirus pandemic continues to rip through the united states putting even more pressure on a struggling health care system. and i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up as we reach this extraordinary in historic moment in the life libya urge every american to continue to do your part the u.s. vice president bike pants becomes the highest profile member of the u.s. government to get the coronavirus vaccine in order to demonstrate its safety.

hungry and traumatized more than $300.00 children kidnapped in nigeria are free after spending 6 days in captivity. nicholas hoult deep inside it goes hard to join me next on an anti poaching patrol in with the u.s. go describes it as a world heritage site in danger. we begin in the united states where the food and drug administration is assessing whether to approve a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use pharmaceutical company madonna is waiting for the green light to dispense daily 6000000 doses nationwide but authorities worry that americans still need more reassurance to embrace an immunization campaign that's why politicians a getting the job on camera the highest profile recipient yet vice president mike pence was injected with the fire as 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 this safe and effective coronavirus vaccine that we have secured produced for the american people as we reach this extraordinary and historic moment in the life of our nation let me urge every american to continue to do your part but the health of your family your neighbors and your community 1st practice good hygiene wash your hands practice social distancing or wear a mask whenever it's indicated the nation's top infectious diseases expert expressed optimism that life could return to normal within months and president elect joe biden were save 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. well this all comes as the u.s. reports more than 3000 deaths for a 3rd straight day the health care system nationwide is on the verge of buckling under pressure and because of the rising number of patients let's go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly how could who joins us in washington so kimberly we're expecting the vaccine to get final all that is ation possibly today how soon though will we see it start to be distributed. well the united states officials are hoping that things can be distributed starting in terms of this vaccine on monday this is appearing to get the green light from the f.d.a. although we're still waiting for that final sign off the c.d.c.

that handles distribution was signed off of that we expect over the weekend by monday the distribution could be underway we know stockpiled is about 50000000 doses that will help 25000000 americans but you heard dr anthony found she they're talking about the goal and that is with them a dirty vaccine with the pfizer vaccine that is already being given to americans approved last week the hope is that by the start of the summer at least $150000000.00 americans will be vaccinated against covert 19 this is a population of about $330000000.00 people so that be almost half the country and this is when people believe that they could eventually start to go back to work go to restaurants so this is really light at the end of the tunnel but at the same time right now things are looking pretty dire in fact the u.s. breaking records when it comes to infections hospital a's ations and also deaths the strain in the hospitals can certainly not be underscored too much the fact that

there are not only to capacity in terms of the intensive care beds but also that the nurses the doctors they've been under strain for months and without a break and so things are really tax to the limit and the fear is that things are only going to get worse with the coming christmas and new year's holidays and in the middle of all this the u.s. congress may shutdown tell us more robots. well there's been a little bit of a reprieve for about 48 hours we've just learned that congress has passed a stopgap measure that means the government will continue to run for 2 more days and they're going to take this issue up again on sunday in the bottom line in all of this is right now the government is about to run out of money by midnight and less there was additional funding it looks like this is happening now it does need the final sign off from president trump to become law officially but what we're

talking about here is $1.00 trillion dollars to keep the government running and also in this legislation is 900000000000 for workers as well as businesses do to cope with 19 in other words to alleviate some of the economic suffering and so the problem is as well americans are struggling looking for this money republicans couldn't agree not only on funding there but also on the funding for keeping the government open fact they couldn't find sort of a deal before midnight so they came to the agreement of 48 hour deal just to keep the talks going so not particularly helpful for americans that are looking for help or are really in trouble and now the government that they count on is certainly not stable either so certainly some discouraging news heading into the weekend for those that are dealing not only with covert 19 in the medical front but also on the economic front as well a white house correspondent kelly how could reporting live from washington could be anything. in europe the 2nd wave of covert $1000.00 shows no sign of slowing italy

is being placed under a nationwide locked out of both christmas and new year with bars restaurants and sensual shops closing closing austria's government is imposing a 3rd lockdown while in germany temporary freezers are being used to store bodies after a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed hospitals that rory chalons 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 carded unfortunately the situation on hand now has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had here since april and nationally as a precaution since yesterday 2 covered 19 defaced our human and total $25.00 things can be stored in the container 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 imminence of 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 continued his isolation after catching it. 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 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 $38000000.00 people across the united kingdom currently living under big 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. al-jazeera 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 state of cut ciena rejoiced as they saw their sons 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 are still not clear including who was responsible and whether a ransom was paid some of the boys say that they were beaten daily by their captors . to be honest there was no water through it 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. frankly speaking i feel like god has granted me paradise because i'm so happy after

spending 2 days without eating anything i met 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 one hour from now serious i would address in the city of could see now 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 an under-aged 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 doctrine from turning into another disaster in turn to 14 security experts say nigeria's offer to spirit to act quickly. to more than 270 students from a girl 2nd to school in chibok more than 100 of them are still unaccounted for. for 6 days the students were forced to trick and hike until i didn't security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some far state earlier hundreds more students are they skipped on their all or held by the military and many in a poor state of health 14 year old osama i mean managed to make his own way to freedom but the punishing trek across forests and rocky hills has left him fighting for his life he's bedridden because of sickle cell anemia made worse by this

experience his father is desperately worried about his health never to noon. he said he was propped up and helped along by fellow students as they march for a 5th 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 the authorities are taking no chances and they could be father such raids nigeria's security forces are overstretched they are fighting many battles including against the i'm group boko haram why against western style education but eventually the government one of the schools to reopen the government edris al-jazeera because nigeria. a weather

update next year and i was here and then ethiopia's government offers a reward for help in catching former leaders of the to greater region who are on the run after weeks of fighting. and we look at how coronavirus restrictions of left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded during the pandemic. hello there we've got more record breaking snow continuing across the good parts of japan said across that western side of japan you can see the cloud which has been sliding across the sea of japan see the alignment of the i suppose there that's been fading that north westerly wind then across the area and some very heavy snow as a result there some parts along that western side of honshu into al-qaeda has seen in excess of 2 meter says snow over the past few days and there's more where that

came form we've got more snow coming into western japan as we go on through saturday split the difference as we go on into sunday yeah i'm afraid there is more of that to com as well away up to was about 30 other side of the mountain sheltered tokyo should get up to around 90 celsius as we go on through the next complet days no great shakes but dry here well as you try to across a good parts of china very different story into the philippines we've seen some very heavy rain here recently little system which has been making its way across the philippines has brought some very very heavy downpours this is the far south of the country mindanao has seen extensive rainfall in this system may well develop into a tropical storm as we go on through the next couple of days is punching its way across the south china seas and heralding some very heavy rain to south vietnam.

by. i was raised in france and these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. by them both isis and us on. the 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. to on al-jazeera. war. well again this is of 0 let's remind you of the main news this hour the u.s. food and drug administration is expected to approve a 2nd corona virus vaccine for emergency use makers of the vaccine are waiting for

the green light dispatched nearly 6000000 doses nationwide. u.s. vice president biden pence is an ocular with the fires of b o n tec vaccine of a televised event president elect joe biden will do the same on monday politicians getting that jabs of the public in public to boost american confidence in the vaccination process of all of the 300 students have been reunited with their families a week after being kidnapped from a school in nigeria armed men on motorbikes stormed the school and cut scene of last friday it's still not clear how their rescue was secured whether a ransom was paid. ethiopia's government is offering a reward for information that could help to locate leaders of the tea gray regions 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 kelly needed 2 weeks ago meanwhile ethiopia has summoned

the sudanese ambassador and other savable to protest about what it describes as trespassing and raids on its territory of a serious hit morgan reports now from khartoum. it's been more than 2 weeks since they fear korean government announced that it has taken over the capital mecca lay . basically it has resulted in more than 50000 to 15 refugees flowing into sudan but it still has not announced it was able to get. its hands on the rebels or as a describe rebels or the leaders of the of the tegra people's liberation movement which the government is fighting and the people's liberation movement have repeatedly stated that they are still continuing the battle despite the government saying that it is largely over and restoring for networks to parts of the region while many other parts and 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 take 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 territory and they know that a reigns 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 to group people's liberation front. mozambique's government of the united nations around the world leaders for a quarter of a $1000000000.00 to help people affected by years of violence more than $500000.00 people have been displaced in the province of kabul delgado since 2017 the un is worried that the crisis could spread beyond mozambique's borders the conflict is blamed on armed groups linked to. the fiance of show she has called on the us president elect joe biden to release the cia's classified reports into the journalist's murder once he takes office the teacher chang is says the move would

greatly assist in finding out the truth there are reports that investigation concluded with medium to high confidence that saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan ordered the killing of show she was murdered inside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul in 2018. 10 years after a fruit seller set himself on fire triggering what became known as the arab spring . still protesting believe it was one of the demonstrators who rose up against the government and 2011 here's his story. my name is catherine we i was injured during the revolution and i live in the suburbs of. ben ali's police 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 1. shame they weighed the government 3 that the same for all we are asking them to respect the law and. until today we deal with indeed wealth if the people who. our empower our sympathetic with the revolution we have some advantages we want to deal with this state we ask to be officially recognized because if we are so that more recognition will remain regardless who is in power. we have their own citizens and they must ration 40 years this has not been enough we have decided we will go on a hunger strike we still don't know when but it will be soon and once we started we will not stop until we are officially recognized or until we die. the world health

organization is warning that the next 3 to 6 months will be tough during the wait for coronavirus vaccine cell produced transmission it's health emergencies director says that countries with a high number of cases should still expect their infection rates to rise particularly in the americas were 3 quarters of the cases you know we're seeing globally minorities are occurring in the americas it's a very very high and intense period there and it really does come back to being able to implement all of the measures that are needed. having strong coordination and governance. having to do it all approach in terms of both public health and social measures to race to people and wearing masks and personal hygiene and i ring a very strong focus on surveillance and testing since the pandemic began hundreds of thousands of seafarers have endured global restrictions used to keep the world

economy afloat now in the 1st ruling of its kind the international labor organization has found various governments in breach of their basic rights or also risking the safety and mental well being of people working at sea and demick restrictions are affecting an estimated 400000 seafarers who are unable to go home be replaced or even access basic health care earlier this month the un general assembly urged all countries to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as key workers guy platen is secretary general of the international chamber of shipping he says the change is a long overdue you. this is actually ship owners want to replace a cruise ship owners need to replace a cruise because you know from a safety in a mental health point of view absolute imperative so it's not for lack of we're trying we know shipowners have diverted their ships thousands and thousands of miles just to get to a port which allows crew changes the what's happened here is that essentially

governments focus on their own national populations and and see if you like collateral damage and they weren't allowed sure they weren't allowed to get the airports and they weren't allowed to go home so this is not to want to try and this is a global problem with governments around the world just not really recognizing seafarers as a key workers and we're pleased with the u.n. made a general assembly resolution last last month but so far today only $46.00 countries have formally recognized seafarers is key workers and giving them the priority that they absolutely the ship to continue to trade i mean our seafarers are really been some of the heroes of this kind then they've made sure that governments and societies had access to the medical goods access to food to fuel to all those essential to keep life running they kept on going what we want now is governments to reciprocate now to recognize them is key and recognize they need to be a place you wouldn't expect a doctor to work indefinitely hours they need to be replaced and get rest the same

philosophy thousands well so know that the ships haven't stopped and that's been the real plus of this pandemic and they will continue to operate what we need now governments to do to play their parts the european union's chief negotiator says a last attempt effort is under way so negotiate with the united kingdom before the end of the year deadline passes the u.k. you have 2 weeks to seal a deal on their future relationship including an all important trade pact britain formally left in january but remains in a transitional period until the end of the month disagreements about fishing rights are among the big hurdles. don't. it's the moment of truth we have very little time remaining just a few hours to work through these negotiations if we want this agreement to enter into force on the 1st of january as you were informed by our president. a few days ago there is a chance of getting an agreement but the path to such an agreement is very narrow

it will have another round of talks the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson says the e.u. needs to bring something to the table we'll keep the key will keep talking about i have to say that things are. looking difficult and there is a gap that needs to be to be bridged the u.k.'s. done a lot i think to try and help and we have e.u. friends who will see sense and come to the table with something themselves so that is that's that's really where we are and if that doesn't happen then well. come january the 1st we will be trading on. unesco is warning that a wildlife park in senegal is in danger of losing its world heritage status their color code the park is home to many recipe she's but it's been under threat from poachers and illegal gold mining nicholas hawk joined

a security patrol in the park. it starts with the call deep inside senegal's park a poacher has been spotted. on board is the panther brigades deployed to protect with the u.n. describes as a world heritage site in danger 8 anti-poaching rangers for a part as big as the island of jamaica the mission appears impossible the jungle is dense disorienting and dangerous the rangers fear both the armed poachers and the attacks from the wild cats they are meant to protect making the animals they move swiftly and quietly towards a fire they can spell burning by water spots sergeant juve points to what is left of a camp they arrived too late yet again they are one step behind. it's hard to catch them. both walking. in silence to try to catch them by

surprise. with the men cannot do 10 in jello hoops a drone can from the air he may get a better view of where the poachers are but the immensity of the task he is rangers are faced with his huge preserving $450.00 species of animals and $16000.00 types of plants and precious trees the threat is not just poaching but industry human encroachment inside the park are small scale gold mining ventures destroying d'anna most habitat on the outskirts of the gold mining is of industrial scale and upstream international donors are funding the construction of several hydroelectric dams well this will bring power to millions it will alter the park's ecosystem putting more animals in danger tenant jello attaches a camera to a tree to get a picture of what is at stake here. and not on the does this give us an idea of what's be she's there in the park but also the movement so that better equipped to

protect them. they come out at night leopards chimps hyenas and the parks king the lion animals on the move in search of a safe place to live. on this pathway a line with bald head and when it roared this part of the forest and all the animals felt final and it left these things now rarely do we have any sighting of this animal that wants to make its presence known because it is the national symbol authentic all the lion of senegal is on the verge of extinction. skin cells for anything from $9.00 to $35000.00 on the black market which is why the park attracts poachers from around the world the human exploitation of the parks precious natural resources the animals plants and trees is slowly decimating a unesco world heritage site and there are only a few people employed trying to protect it nicholas hawk al jazeera park in senegal

. and in the last of all reports in the series will take you to peru where an ancient city is under threat from squatters you can see that throughout the day here on al-jazeera from 10 hours g.m.t. on saturday. it is kids have you with us hello adrian sitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. food and drug administration is expected to approve a 2nd corona virus vaccine for emergency use imminently makers of the vaccine awaiting for the green light to dispense nearly $6000000.00 doses nationwide u.s. vice president mike pence was an occupation with the fire as a big tech vaccine in a televised event president elect joe biden will do the same on monday in the nation's top infectious diseases experts expressed hope.