rewinds made in bangladesh on al-jazeera. india becomes the 2nd country to surpass 10000000 recorded corona virus infections . my. liver i'm happy i'm a here and this is outa 0 life in doha also coming up the u.s. approves a 2nd vaccine but with families gathering for christmas doctors warn surging infections get even worse. a former mexican governor is shot dead in a restaurant the latest victim of spiralling drug related violence. and bringing

sesame street's to coax is bizarre the children's show creates new muppets for education and supports in the world's biggest refugee camp. the number of reported coronavirus cases in india has now passed 10000000 it has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the united states so the government says faction rates have fallen sharply in recent weeks elizabeth per annum has more from new delhi. india has surpassed 10000000 recorded cases of the supreme court saying 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 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 a merge and see 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. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd coronavirus vaccine test show the maternal jump 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 funds are seen on live television reports from the white house. right this was a very public of confidence in the coronavirus vaccine. the vice president his wife and the u.s. surgeon general getting an injection. live on t.v. they want to shoot americans but 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 him 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 americans to 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 locations more than 3000 initially but while the vaccines provide some good news the scale of the problem in the u.s. is actually growing more than 3000 deaths a day 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. china says it's focusing on vaccinating high risk groups over the winter and spring before widening it out see the general public and includes workers in the cold

storage and transport industries as well as those in health care the government says it will help build group immunity china has so far reporters a total of nearly $95000.00 cases in europe the 2nd wave of corona virus shows no sign of slowing 3 days into a locked and germany's had another day in excess of 30000 infections and does worry chalons reports its morgues are getting overwhelmed. in the german city of hanau they've run out of space for bodies in the hospital morgues the shipping container is being used to temporarily handle the overflow i know existed a card a diesel 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 the deceased are hidden and total $25.00 deceased 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 1st in the imminence 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 its. continuum or how does he 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 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 george allen's al-jazeera london and portugal is deploying its military in care homes soldiers will ensure a staff of the best practices in place to protect sound and the people from the virus long term care facilities a proven especially vulnerable chewing the pandemic. here's secretary of state's mike pump a.o. says it's pretty clear that russian hackers are behind an ongoing cyber attack described as the worst in american history one in 40 organizations have been targeted including 6 government departments cyber security experts around sure of how long it will take to undo the damage from the extent of the cyber attack is still emerging and it could be months before hackers are removed from the systems they have accessed or members of the u.s. congress have been given a classified briefing afterward some said the trumpet ministration is failing to

respond properly curity is the number one challenge the new number one responsibility of a government is to protect our people every government agency is compromised our national security is compromised. i'm disappointed that he is not bringing the government together to respond to it. the u.s. congress says managed to temporarily avoid a government shutdown it's approved a 2 day extension of funding to keep agencies operating and till sunday as republicans and democrats try to resolve sticking points on a 900000000000 dollar coronavirus relief package hoping to approve it over the weekend after months of stalemates also so far in turkey has killed at least 8 people it happened at a private facility in the southeastern province of. hospital officials say the blaze started when an oxygen machine exploded in the intensive care units the ward

is currently being used to treat coronavirus patients more than a dozen people were injured. former governor of the mexican state of high school has be shot dead in the holiday resorts of puerto vallarta it's the latest in a series of violent acts in a country plagued by drug related gang activity john homan has more. 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 is concerned they start to listen the violence was holidaying in the resort town of put device 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 the x. governor got up from the table and went to the bathroom that's where nard man shot him in the back. killings have become common at local level

a mix 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 remove 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 authority 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 ones. at least not to listen

the violence former governor of her lease go would likely not be the last guy john home and how does it or mexico city. still to come on al-jazeera the new hope for poorer nations that can't afford to find millions of doses of the crude virus vaccine and we hear from a libyan father who's returned to the who we flight cheering fighting. collar the weather remains miles wet sand windy across western parts of your temperature in edinburgh got up to 14 celsius on friday off nature 7 at this time if year scott so the winds coming in from the general southwest direction across that western side of here but it is staying rather unsettled big area of low pressure making its way in

a cold front here things will cool off as we make our way through the next couple of days glasgow you can see it around 9 celsius there on saturday blustery showers rattling across that western side of the british isles more right of course less but affected parts of southwest england it's who are some areas of wales we've got some wet weather to insist by and impolitic gold some wet weather to into where france down into the northwest of it like of central areas it is still dry if cole light winds some frosts temperatures not hard around minus 3 celsius over towards moscow still some wintry weather there across that eastern side of europe more the same as we go on into sunday nights by sunday 7 celsius in glasgow 10 celsius for london but it dry a day coming in across spain and portugal at least at this stage logic dry across northern parts of africa got a few showers into tunisia elsewhere across ration is fine dry and sunny.

dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities of speculative news coverage what's the lay of the land challenging assumptions and the official night listening post on al-jazeera. a decade has passed since the arab spring swept through countries across the middle east and north african in a series of interviews we explore the legacy of a revolution that changed the political landscape of the region tunisia's former president months said marzuki discusses the arab spring 10 years of. war. this is al jazeera quick rise or over the headlines this hour there are over

reported coronavirus infections in india has passed 10000000 has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the united states and the reported infection rates have sharply fallen in recent weeks yes regulators of approved a seconds coronavirus vaccine for emergency use that will most of millions of doses of maternal job is expected to begin this weekend's and us section of state might bump a 0 says it's pretty clear that russian hackers are behind an ongoing cyber attack described as the worst in american history 40 organizations have been targeted including 6 government bonds. the global program to secure a fair access to cool with 1000 vaccines for poor countries has roughly doubled its supply arrangements for nearly 2000000000 doses of may be made as part of the kovacs lion. first deliveries are due next year so far 92 middle and lower

income countries are eligible to receive vaccines as part of kovacs dozens of higher income countries will assist the program by essentially pooling their vaccine buying power once the job gets regulatory approval it will be allocated to all participating countries at the same rate proportional to its total population so while this is a positive development world health organization is warning that the next 6 months will be tough as we wait for vaccines to start reducing transmission. over 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. 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. mexico city is suspending all non-essential activities in a servant came the day after the president pleaded with the capital's residents to stay off the streets now only the sale of foods energy transport manufacturing and financial services will be allowed to january 10th hospitals are said to be at 75 percent capacity. some of the 344 boys who were kidnapped in northern nigeria in describing more about their ordeal and are back with their parents in the state had seen or armed men raided their school and took them last friday holding them in a forest full details of the rescue still aren't clear including whether or not a ransom was paid. to be honest there was no through water through it 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 pieces of ground look. how to make it home always e m a y 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 bone and she too stopped eating and drinking in addition my 3 sisters were admitted to hospital. nigerian president mahmoud abbas has met the schoolboys though he called on security forces to do more to protect civilians from want groups. who want to him hippie once again for the relentless force of god and i mean i'm a sorry that the boys are back home safely i hope the security operators the army the navy the air force the police this did security service to be godfearing in their undertakings they should do their work without fear of favor by exposing anybody that he is

a questionable character. from katsina al jazeera. has this reports 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 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 2014 security experts say nigerian authorities failed to act quickly when boko haram took more than 270 students from a gold going 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 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 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

him like you do a video 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 their thoughts as are taking no chances 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 who i guess western style education but eventually the government would one of the schools to reopen accommodate greece al-jazeera cats and nigeria if you know pia's governments is offering $260000.00 for information that could help locate fugitive former leaders of the secret region in the north they've been

in hiding since federal troops captured the regionals capital in the caylee nearly 2 weeks ago the government and its up about which is an offensive in the fender keys and cries leaders of treason trying to break up the country. venezuela's controversial constituent assembly has been dissolved it was set up so we write the constitution but ended up being a legislative super body could bypass the opposition control parliament's a latin america so the syrian human reports. 3 and a half years ago amid persistent opposition protests that as well as embattled president nicolas maduro announced he was unilaterally calling for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution written by his predecessor decease president who will chavis dot com dot com people 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 powers above all other institutions critics were quick to predict that it's real aim was to annihilate the opposition controlled parliament and consolidate a dictatorship. 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 to nigel inciting violence or treason it's fairly brazen. it's clear now that it was indeed a cause from the beginning but it's clear now the intention was merely to provide a kind of. form of government so that it could pass or sensibly organised.

many of which have been extremely repressive to have any other country in the world with 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 that the ruling socialist party will take total control of the legislature on january 5th after highly contested elections the constituent assembly is being dissolved just as quickly as it was created. by. we handing over a country in place in pace in pace with a newly elected legislature with diverse representation that will assume the challenge of maintaining constitutional attorney. says they've done their duty without having changed a comma of the original constitution not predicts that that was ever the point you

see in human al-jazeera. a u.s. congressional report says find boeing officials manipulated tests of the 737 max which may have contributed to 2 crashes the report shows boeing worked with regulators to rig pilot testing and avoid raising awareness of a flaw in the safety system testimonies and 50 whistleblowers were taken 2 of the planes crashed in 2800 killing 346 people leading to the 737 max being grounded worldwide. prosecutors in the united states are urging a federal judge to rejects and there are $30000000.00 bail deal for going maxwell the friends of jeffrey epstein is pleaded not guilty to charges helping him recruits and groom underage girls in gage in sex acts prosecutors say maxwell should remain behind bars because the evidence against her is strong and they fear she could also flee the country at sea was found dead in a new york jail cell last year in what was deemed to be suicide. fighting in libya

has devastated and tara communities more than 125000 homes have been destroyed in southern tripoli since one of the 25 to a military offensive last year the fighting has ended for nigh many families don't have a home to go back to but we met a father who's trying to rebuild his life it's honestly been saying my name is faisal been sayed and this is my house and i'm an engine here and i have 2 little girls that hellish after the fighting began i left my house i didn't return until the war was over are you member when we 1st left the house my family and i slept in the car for a few days we didn't know where to go so we stayed with different friends for a while now we are staying with my in-laws it was really hard for us especially my daughter fulla she was constantly crying she would say i want our old house and my old toys as a father that hurt me it was even harder for my wife when we saw the state of our

home we were socks personally i was devastated emotionally and mentally it took me years to build this home and i put everything i had into it we have besides being destroyed they looted everything it's not my fight i just want to live a peaceful life and provide for my family i speak for the thousands like me both sides spend billions on fighting but when it comes to the average citizen no one cares about us all they care about is their position now i wonder if i just start rebuilding what if i fix my house and tomorrow another war begins and my home is destroyed all over again my hopes and aspirations have completely changed i used to have dreams now i just want to feed my family i'm not optimistic but i constantly pray make god guide them all to leave their weapons behind and come together as libyans as brothers so we can build a better country for children. 2 critically endangered around the turns are back

home in indonesia 3 years after they were taken by smugglers to thailand the being camps for health checks before hopefully being released back into the wild into 3000 divided hands or killed every year mostly by poachers. yes children show sesame street's has created 2 new cast members who are young ranger refugees called noor and z's they're joining other muppets in the world's biggest refugee camp at cox's bazaar in bangladesh hundreds of thousands of rangar muslims have been living there for years after fleeing violence and a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar here's some of how the political learn program works.

and finally is fury in india after their cricket team recorded its lowest ever test also on saturday they were dismissed for just 36 by a stray alien adelaide's home side be they just 90 runs to take you to a one the leads in the series win by 8 wickets. this is al jazeera these are the headlines the number of reported coronavirus infections in india's past 10000000 it has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the us the reported infection rates have sharply fallen in recent weeks elizabeth brannon has more from new delhi.