and in fire mentally sound energy solutions for future generation the british are nearing future energy. u.s. regulators approve the maternal vaccine for emergency use the 2nd within a week but the pandemic is far from being contained. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our jazeera live from doha coming up brazil's supreme court rules taking the vaccine can be made compulsory but that's at odds with the president's defiant stance of even isolation. a former governor in mexico's ellis cose state becomes the latest victim of drug related violence that spiraling out of control. and hungry and traumatized more than $300.00 children

kidnapped in nigeria free after spending 6 days in captivity. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd coronavirus vaccine and mass inoculations expected to start within days tests show the medina job is more than 94 percent effective when administered in 2 doses 4 weeks apart its approval came just hours after the vice president was given the fires a biotech vaccine live on television in a bid to build support for the rollout alan fischer begins our coverage from the white house. right this was a very public would have confidence in the corona virus vaccine. the vice president his wife and the u.s. such in general getting an injection live on t.v. they want to assure americans that the vaccine walks and it see the american people

deserve to know that we've never been more prepared to combat the coronavirus than we are today and even while we see cases rising and hospitalizations rising and heartbreaking losses we'll continue to marshal the resources that we have secured as a nation including a safe and effective vaccine to meet this moment senior members of the white house could on a virus team were also at the event the most recognizable dr antony insisting the vaccines are finally providing a light at the end to what's been a very long tunnel as we get into january february march and april that light is going to get brighter and brighter and of 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 to return to normality not at the event in the old executive office building right next door to the white house itself the president

instead he was tweeting out allegations without proof that the presidential election had been stolen from his spokesperson says he's open to getting the vaccine that are just no plans to do that at the moment. for the 2nd friday in a row regulators in the u.s. approved a vaccine the food and drug administration giving emergency use authorization to moderna that will mean 6000000 doses being sent out in the coming days and because the drug doesn't have to be stored at extremely low temperatures it could be used in more lucky sions more than 3000 initially but while the vaccines provide some good news the scale of the problem in the us is actually growing more than 3000 deaths city in recent days hospitalizations a record numbers health providers across all 50 states warning their close to breaking point and with families planning to gather in a week for the christmas holiday experts are worried that will create another

deadly spike that will cast a shadow into the new year alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house for us president elect joe biden has welcomed the development saying the authorization of 2 vaccines pfizer biotech and now madonna assures american people that brighter days lie ahead he said he believes 100000000 vaccine shots can be given within the 1st 100 days of his administration and that a coronavirus and economic relief package is needed immediately our white house correspondent kimberly help it has more. we know based on the pfizer vaccine that was approved a week ago that it is health care workers who are on the frontline of fighting this pandemic as well as those that have been most impacted by the deaths the elderly in the united states particularly residents in care homes but we're going to get a better sense of the distribution on saturday we know the pentagon that is coordinating much of this is going to be holding a briefing along with the health and human services agency to discuss the

distribution in more detail but what we're expecting is that the 1st doses which are already on standby will be rolling out on monday and soon after be delivered to the states where they can be injected into those that need it most now in the midst of all of this we've had reaction from the u.s. president donald trump he has tweeted the during a vaccine is now available congratulations president elect joe biden releasing a statement in the last few moments as well saying that this is another milestone in overcoming this global pandemic he assures that brighter days are ahead with not one but 2 vaccines now available to millions of americans but at the same time he says that there are still challenges ahead he is going to be inaugurated january 20th when he will be inheriting all of this and he promises that in his 1st 100 days that in fact there will be 100000000 vaccines given to americans that need it

. well for starters i professor of epidemiology at columbia university she says the fines underdone of vaccines are very similar. there are very few differences between these 2 vaccines i think there are more similarities certainly near and then differences they work equally well or and they also have a very similar safety profile they both require 2 doses to be vaccinated i think some subtle differences like for example the pfizer vaccine the 1st was the 2nd those is given about 3 weeks after the 1st those wild women during the vaccine the 2nd dose is given after 4 weeks and another difference is that then where there are no vaccine does not require. the level of. freezing. cold temperature that has as much as the pfizer buying vaccine does so to make it

easier to distribute then we didn't have vaccine then the pfizer by. you would do it as a much smaller company it's a new company and it's not like a well established pharmaceutical company like pfizer but on the other hand merger now with benefit distribution that would be done through support from the u.s. government. operation work speed which is the operation that shepherded the development of these vaccines will be responsible for the distribution of the madeira vaccine in the united states the world health organization has warned that the next 3 to 6 months will be tough during the wait for coronavirus back scenes to help reduce transmission it's health emergencies director says countries with a high number of cases should still expect their infection rates to rise particularly in the americas. well we're 3 quarters of the cases you know we're seeing globally and ours 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 and having strong coordination and governance. having to do it all approach in terms of both public health and social measures and advice to people and wearing masks and personal hygiene and having a very strong focus on surveillance and testing. but don't join see benjamin is the executive director of the american public health association he says the addition of a 2nd vaccine is a significant boost to the fight against the pandemic biggest difference is the fact that you don't have to keep it as cold so that means we can get into rural communities and inner city communities and places where we just have a regular refrigerator versus the old 2 called storage that's required for the 5 year vaccine so allow us to vaccinate more people were 5 years certainly a giant in the pharmaceutical area in particular vaccines but one juror has had

support from the federal government and funding but out of many of the scenes of production it is a big deal but we're confident that we're going to can do it they you know they were very much 1st out of the box in terms of trying to get this vaccine in place so hopefully they'll be able to produce all the vaccine that we requested well i think we're going to have a steady increase in bag seen and that will be a company with doctors in won't be a big people getting set and people dying i think over time our society will be able to return to normal and we're looking forward to having a very robust summer in here in the united states so i'm optimistic that we'll be able to get back to normal by the summer. meanwhile brazil's president has tried to cast doubt on coronavirus vaccines making unfounded claims about their side effects earlier the supreme court ruled that vaccination can be made compulsory but jaya both scenario has repeatedly said he won't be taking one no vaccines have been

approved for use in brazil despite a surge in infections and deaths. 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 superman if any woman grows a beard or anyone starts singing soprano then they have nothing to do with it in europe the 2nd wave of covert 19 shows no sign of slowing italy's being placed under a nationwide lockdown of a both christmas and new year with bars restaurants and non-essential shops 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 where we challenge reports. in the german city of now 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 on hand now has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had since april and nationally as a precaution since yesterday to cover deceased are hidden and total $25.00 to $6.00 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 so 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. continue 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. binny a 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 $38000000.00 people across the united kingdom currently living under the it's 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 the coming down harder. the chair generated by being the 1st country to administer the pfizer biotech vaccine has been all ready for stopping the national health service becoming overwhelmed has again pre-con a top priority george allen's how does era london. time for short break here not just here out when we come back we'll look at why venezuela's president has dissolved his constituent assembly without it changing a word of the constitutional monarch status.

hello the weather list sloshy quiet across much of the middle east we've got some bits and pieces of cloud across parts of the region just around the levant pushing across into syria lebanon jordan some showers a possibility into iran pushing across towards afghanistan might even see a spot sorts of light right here in qatar but nothing much to speak of the winds will pick up as we go on through sunday some more of the sheen miles setting in little bit lifted dust and sand to watch out for could also watch out for some showers just around the southern end of the red say wanted to those showers maybe fading away and across the horn of africa into djibouti into every track could see a shower or 2 in ethiopia but the west the weather will be just around the rift valley because more big downpours coming through here into the heart of africa pretty much where they should be truth be told they extend all the way across into the gulf of guinea and you can follow this line of cloud outs of the democratic republic of congo right down across san b.-a and see where botswana and the north

east of south africa's maybe showers coming through here and if anything that's just going to topple its way a little further west which as we go through the next day as i say tony increasingly wet across angola possibility of flooding into namibia but not too bad for that western side of south africa. a decade has passed since then arab spring swept through countries across the middle east and north africa in a series of interviews we explore the legacy of the revolution that changed the political landscape of the region tinnies is former president marzouki discusses the arab spring 10 years. if you want to help save the world. isn't hero.

welcome back i'm out of our top stories here at this hour u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the rollout of millions of doses of the madonna vaccines are expected to begin this weekend tests show it's more than 94 percent effective when given in 2 doses 4 weeks apart. but the news came just hours after u.s. vice president mike pence was inoculated with the pfizer vaccine that was approved last week president elect joe biden will do the same on monday politicians are getting their jobs in public to boost confidence in the banks nation obsessed. untempered freezers are being used to store bodies in a city in a german city of a spike in corona virus deaths overwhelmed hospitals in europe the 2nd wave of

carbon 19 shows no sign of slowing but the number of deaths exceeding half a 1000000. the number of coronavirus cases in india has now passed 10000000 that's according to official data released by government agencies in the last hour india as the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the us or the. action rights of shopping for them in recent weeks elizabeth. from new delhi. india has passed 10000000 recorded cases with the supreme court saying the code the 19 pandemic spread like wildfire in the country because of a lack of implementation of guidelines to stop this it's asking for better cooperation between the central and state governments it's also asking the central government to find a way to give more time off to functional and health care workers who it said are exhausted physically and mentally from 8 months of tireless work the good news is

that the number of daily cases the daily rise in cases is the lowest it's been since mid july that's despite the fact india is testing more people now than it was then health experts say it's still not testing as many as it should be meanwhile the indian government is busy planning the 1st phase of vaccinations which are expected to begin and january. serum institute of india which is the world's largest vaccine maker and is testing and manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and another indian company called bottom biotech have all applied for emergency authorization and the indian government has said that it could soon start voluntary inoculations as it considers emergency use it's planning to vaccinate around 300000000 people in the 1st phase which it expects will last the 1st half of 2021. the world health organization's vaccine initiatives that secured nearly 2000000000 those of vaccines of people in low and middle income countries the

alliance is aiming to deliver a seems to 190 countries in the 1st half of next year it's now doubled its supply after signing deals with johnson and johnson astra zeneca. the u.s. congress has managed to temporarily avoid a government shutdown it's approved a 2 day extension of funding to keep agencies operating until sunday as republicans and democrats try to resolve the sticking points and a 900000000000 dollar coronavirus relief package hoping to approve it over the weekend after months of stalemate the fiance. has called on us president elect joe biden to release the cia's classified report into the journalist's murder once he takes office teacher changes the move would greatly assist in finding out the truth there are reports the investigation concluded with medium to high confidence that saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered the killing the shelter was murdered inside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul in 2018. a

week after they were kidnapped from a school in nigeria more than 300 boys are now being reunited with their families parents in the northern state of siena celebrated. their sons for the 1st time since they were taken $344.00 boys were kidnapped from their school last friday about 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 say 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 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 too stopped eating and drinking in addition my 3 sisters were mete to hospital from katsina al-jazeera reports. walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by a nigerian security forces for 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 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. quick intervention prevented nigeria's largest muslim doctrine from turning into another disaster in turn to 14 security experts say nigeria's offer to spare to act quickly. to more than 270 students from a girls' school in chibok more than 100 of them are still unaccounted for. for 6 days the students were forced to trick and hike until i get in security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some far state earlier hundreds more students are they skipped on their all or held by the military and many in a poor state of health 14 year old. managed to make his own way to freedom but the punishing trek across forests and rocky hills has left him fighting for his life he's bedridden because of sickle cell anemia made worse by this experience his

father is desperately worried about his health. number 2 in the mercury. 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 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 education but eventually the government one of the schools to reopen the government edris al jazeera cuts and nigeria ethiopia's government is offering a reward for information that could help locate leaders of the to greater regions

ruling party the military is putting up a cash pots of $260000.00 the region's leaders went into hiding when federal troops captured the local capital mckellar nearly 2 weeks ago meanwhile ethiopia has summoned the sudanese ambassador in addis ababa to protest what it described as trespassing and raids on its territory. a former governor of the mexican state of health was shot dead early on friday in the beach town of puerto vallarta it's the latest in a series of violent acts in a country already play by drug related gang activity john holdren has more. this video apparently records the moment when the x. 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

. when 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. 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 the full 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 election 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 ones. at least not to listen the former governor of her least will likely not be the last guy john home and how does it or mexico city. venezuela's controversial a 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 last america at its at the center of the press for. 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 while the people who don't know me you know you know i summon the native constituent power to achieve the peace but

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 the powers above all other institutions critics were quick to predict that into real aim was to annihilate the opposition controlled parliament and consolidate a dictatorship. the assemblies most notable achievement was to strip within 30 opposition deputies of the parliamentary immunity so that they could be arrested and tried for nejad lee inciting violence or treason it's fairly brazen. it's clear now that it was indeed a cause from the beginning but it's even clear now the intention was merely to provide a kind of. form of government so that he could pass sensibly. many

of which have been extremely repressive do you have any other country in the world where something like this is happened certainly i would imagine you has to be the only instance of the constitutional or constitutional constituent assembly rather. that has not even debated a single article proposed a new constitution. now the drilling 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. for a country in peace in peace in pace with a newly elected legislature with diverse representation that will assume the challenge of maintaining constitutionality. could be you says they've done their duty without having changed a comma of the original constitution not predicts that that was ever the point to

see in human al-jazeera. prosecutors in the united states a federal judge to reject an early $30000000.00 bail deal for glenn maxwell the former associates of jeffrey epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of helping him recruit groom underage girls to engage in illegal sexual acts prosecutors say maxwell should remain behind bars because the evidence against her is strong and she poses an extreme flight risk. a u.s. congressional report has found that boeing officials manipulated tests of the 737 max which may have contributed to 2 fatal crashes the report found boeing worked with the f.a.a. to rig pilot testing to avoid raising awareness of a floor in a key safety system testimonies from 50 whistleblowers was used to carry out the inquest which also found the f.a.a. retaliated against people reporting issues. i'm of

a stadium in qatar set to host batches during the 2022 football world cup is held its 1st game the stadium stage the amir cup final exactly 2 years before the world cup final to kick it off and he will have 7 matches in 2022 stadium as capacity of 40000 but numbers are limited to 2 coronavirus. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd corona virus vaccine for use the rollout of millions of doses of the madonna vaccines are expected to begin this weekend to show it's more than 94 percent effective when given in 2 doses 4 weeks apart a white house correspondent can be healthy it has more we've heard a lot of talk about similarities between the madrid a vaccine and also the pfizer vaccine we know that they are going to be for.