and a little silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like police you can both hurt you why i'm dirty but i'm also greek people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera. india becomes the 2nd country to surpass 10000000 recorded coronavirus infections. my. heard there are how my hidden and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. approves a 2nd vaccine families gathering for christmas doctors warn searching infections get even worse. your sexual state might compare says it's pretty clear russia is behind an unprecedented cyber attack on government agencies and

a former mexican governor becomes one of the latest victims of spiraling drug related violence. the number of reporters coronavirus cases in india has now passed 10000000 it has the highest 2nd highest number of cases in the world just behind the united states though the government says infection rates have fallen sharply in recent weeks elizabeth purana has more from new delhi. india has surpassed 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. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd school of all respect seen to show the mcgurn a job as 94 percent effective when administered in 2 doses 4 weeks opponents its approval came just hours after the vice president's was given the fine as a bio vaccine on live television fisher reports from the point. all right this was a very public will 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 safe 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 anthony fauci insisting the vaccines are finally providing a light at the end the 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 the 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 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. in europe the 2nd wave of covert 1000 shows no signs of slowing 3 days into a locked and germany's has another day in excess of 30000 infections and history

challenge reports it's morgues are getting overwhelmed. in the german city of hanau they've run out of space for bodies in the hospital morgues a cool 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 to $6.00 can be stored in the container on sadly we had to start using the container from yesterday. 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 it'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. continued hamas continued 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 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 shaft is a coming down again and the 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. how does era london. yes secretary of state might pompei it says it's pretty clear that russian hackers are behind an ongoing cyber attack describes as the worst in american history where we foresee organizations have been targeted including 6 government departments cyber security experts are unsure of how long it will take to undo the damage before the extent of the cyber attack is still

emerging and it could be months before the hackers are removed from the systems they've accessed. or members of the u.s. congress have been given a classified briefing afterwards some said the trumpet ministration is failing to respond properly national security is the number one challenge the 9 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 well as bring in robert pritchard he's director of the cyber security expert consultancy firm and formerly tipsy heads of the u.k. government cyber security operations center joins us now from chamonix and france good to have you with us on al jazeera let's start with this attack itself it's astonishing in terms of scale but also the very sensitive targets hits what sort of

damage has this cyber attack done in real terms i'm thinking is there a risk that the government could get look sites of its own accounts as we've seen in other cyber incidents. good morning i think the damage is going to be more subtle and potentially more folks are no longer with espionage it seems to be that the attackers are aiming to steal information that it's not run by they're not trying to block out. but it gets most of the fish them so the media impact of the sea is going to be caused by the care of people after all systems and put a lot of effort into recovering me access and checking out the attack but the long term impact it's hard to quantify which is always the case through this kind of action are going objectivity that will given that it says denies rather than an actual ransomware cyberattacks i mean how does that the u.s.

government responds because you have democratic politicians going around saying this is an act of war yeah there's been a lot of talk about the lack of supply but norms which is the suspended. national security circles this is i mean this is not the scale of it and the techniques that we knew so very clever and it's red lobster and it's not actually particularly unusual activity and it's certainly well within the bounds of norms in terms of the . organizations that are targeted for the what we because it is acceptable espionage that i think you know example to people keep a level head and well as a response we make it is it no longer a fact it's an act of war it's not attention it disrupted it's espionage and you know the u.s. and allies european countries will do the same kind of activity so if someone is unacceptable espionage then it's an interesting sort of you raise if this is acceptable than within the bounds of what countries are doing to each other all the time what a constitute an acceptable espionage and are you suggesting that the u.s.

is also fiddling around in russian government computers to. yes that's an inquisitor it's. a very high priority for the n.s.a. and the cia i mean i guess what will accept more than accept less that all just really out by expertise are the saudi security experts he's not national security advisor but this is not inconsistent with activity kerry has been carried out by the russians in the past. at odds by the u.s. and its allies to give you an example something that has been openly pushed back almost a very large scale question of intellectual property by the chinese state organizations which used to churn and. that was spelt across the line in the west just because of the scale of it. i read a bit from rio. i got quite a bit about what it is that probably outlines that perhaps it a bit deliberate but that matz rich that's what it's considered to be not

acceptable as i think talking governments institutions talking of defense establishment and things like that it's kind of what happens. with this is an enormously embarrassing for the united states external observers tend to think the united states is one of the best protected nations on earth when it comes to this kind of thing so what about other countries worldwide i mean you were the deputy eds of the u.k. government's cyber security defenses i mean is the u.k. for example prepared for this kind of attack or is there a chance that they've also been hades. oh i mean they've gotten epping the resister the very clever supply chain compromise which means that the russian hackers compromised an organization that provides hundreds thousands of large companies and that definitely will be a government organizations and private sector organizations in the u.k. that will have been impacted it's not an easy problem you know there's a lot of work was goaded to detect that risk that they get and yet still trying to

attack and find my way is in so i think lots of places will be vulnerable and it's embarrassing and it demonstrates more needs to be done perhaps we need to put war efforts in. doing due diligence and verifying the security of the companies that we trust if you like the trusted supply chain for you when we're not quite to decrease it but it's really common. and. we put a lot of trust in providers like that about just this misplaced or needs to be reviewed that constant vigilance as ever the key at robert pitcher thank you so much a fascinating insights in see the worlds of cyber security there thank you thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera we'll take a look at how the karuna virus restrictions have left hundreds of fire isn't of seafarers stranded. and we'll hear from a libyan from there who's returned to the ruben blades during fighting.

we have a developing tropical storm making its way across the philippines at the moment lost a cloud showing up on the satellite picture and up toward sea other north of the country will be so $193.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours that is actually to the north of our circulation at the same time gradually punches through the philippines locally known as vicki this one dragging in plenty of showers across luzon into the south china seas and will gradually make use weights was the far south of vietnam eventually it will roll down towards the malaysian is the southern parts of thailand also seeing some very heavy rain in this we go through the next few days usual scattering of showers across malaysia pushing down into indonesia we got some wet weather in the on the cards there from northwestern parts of australia circulation here that is

a tropical low or 2nd producing some very heavy rain around the top and feeding across into the kimberley plas will see more wet weather coming in here as we go through the next day or 2 they will grassy sink its way further south was and on into the interior central areas by monday seeing some very heavy rain building hey there to perth 34 celsius by monday plenty of showers into new south wales with the risk of flooding so many. what has been doing with the money of the rich boy we bring you the stories in development to the rapidly changing the world we live in argentina's congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars from the super rich poor families hit hard by the ballot counting the cost on al-jazeera. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around most of our job is to get to the

truth and the power people through a knowledge. base is al jazeera a quick reminder of the headlines for you this hour the number of reported corona virus infections in india has passed 10000000 it has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the united states and the reported infection rates have sharply fall and in recent weeks u.s. regulators have approved a second's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the rise of millions of doses of the madonna job is expected to begin this weekend's. and u.s. secretary of state mike compares says it's pretty clear that russian hackers are

behind an ongoing cyber attack described as the worst in american history more than 40 organizations have been targeted including 6 government departments. here is secretary general antonio good terrorists has called on rival factions in the central african republic to urgently cease hostile actions peacekeepers were deployed to prevent armed groups and disrupt in the december 27th elections 3 men armed groups of threatens president for. sure they're accusing him of planning electoral fraudsters secure a 2nd term all the groups who occupy 2 thirds of the central african republic seized main roads leading to the capital bone. a former governor of the mexican state of holy school has been shot dead in the jose resort of puerto vallarta it's the latest in a series of violent attacks in a country policed 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 lease scope was killed in a restaurant but a man's land discus and others start to listen the violence was holidaying in the resort town of put device and he was out with 3 other people and a 15 strong bodyguard team provided by the state who couldn't save him. when he attack happened at 1 40 in the morning the ex 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 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 ones. are they still to listen the violence former governor of her lease coke will likely not be the last guy john home and how does it or mexico city. a hospital fire in turkey has killed at least 8 people it happened at a private facility in the southeastern province of gaziantep hospital officials say the blaze started when an oxygen machine exploded in the intensive care units which

is being used to treat coronavirus patients when a dozen people were injured. the u.s. congress has managed to temporarily avoid a government shutdown it's approved or today funding extensions to keep agencies operating till sunday well that says republicans and democrats tried to result sticking points on a 900000000000 dollars coronavirus relief package and hoping to approve it over the weekend after months of stalemate. well since the pandemic began tough rules have been brought in to keep shipping moving safely between countries but the restrictions have left many seafarers stranded the international labor organization has fined various governments are in breach of their basic rights risking the safety and mental well being of people working at sea pandemic restrictions are affecting an estimated 400000 seafarers who are unable to go home or get access to

basic health care earlier this month the un general assembly urged all countries to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as key workers or guy platen is secretary general of the international chamber of shipping he says the changes are loam overdue. this is actually ship owners want to replace a cruise ship owners need to replace a cruise because you know from a safety and a mental health point of view absolute imperative so it's not for lack of withdrawing we know ship owners 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 c. per's 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 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 as key workers and giving them the priority that they absolutely deserve the ship to continue to trade i mean honestly there is a really been some of the heroes of this pandemic 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 recognise some of the key and recognize the 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 to the $30000.00 as well so now that the ships haven't stopped that's been the real plus for this pandemic and they will continue to operate what we need now governments to do to play their parts. some of these 344 boys who were kidnapped in northern nigeria have been described and more about their ordeal then are back with their parents in the state of katsina men raided their school and took them last

friday holding them in a forests full details of their rescue still aren't clear including whether a ransom was paid. or not or are well to be honest there was no food or water for us no shelter no break and. 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 pieces of ground not cake. frankly speaking i feel like god is conscious me paradise because i'm so happy after spending 2 days without eating anything a 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. from cut scene or al-jazeera reports walking barefoot some of them limping the 344 schoolboys are led by a nigerian security force us 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 faces. this is. 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 in our dearest largest muslim duction from turning into another type of disaster in 2014 security experts say nigeria's offer to spread to act quickly when boko haram took 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 trek and hike until i joined in security forces pinned down their abductors in a forest in nearby some for a state. earlier hundreds more students either escaped on their own 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 now 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. 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 they are fighting many battles including against the armed group boko haram who i guess western style education but eventually the government would want the schools to reopen the government agrees al jazeera cats and nigeria. a former french modeling agency an associate of the late u.s. billionaire jeffrey epstein has been charged with sex crimes john the divine there who run an agency in paris has been in custody since being arrested earlier this week the prosecutor's statement says he's been charged with the rape of minors and sexual harassment he was initially detained on wednesday when he was about to board a flight to senegal. and yes prosecutors are urging

a federal judge to reject in the year 30000000 dollar bail deal for delay in maxwell the friend of epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of helping him recruits and groom underage girls to engage in sex acts prosecutors say maxwell should remain behind bars because she could flee the country scene was found dead in a new york jail cell last year in what was deemed suicide. fighting in libya has devastated antara communities more than 125000 homes have been destroyed in southern tripoli since warlords for the for have to a military offensive last year though the fighting has ended for no many families don't have a home to go back to we miss a father who's trying to rebuild his life since they've been saying my name is faisal been sayed and this is my house and i'm an engineer and i have 2 little girls after the fighting began i left my house i didn't return until the war was

over are you remember 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 for the 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 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. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the number of reporters corona virus infections in india has passed 10000000 it has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world behind the u.s. with a reported infection rates have fallen sharply in recent weeks elizabeth per annum has more from the the daily rise in cases as the lowest it's been since mid july that's despite the fact and the s. test.