a political. telling the good. news. is that otherwise feels if you were there. this is al-jazeera. and again i'm watching the news. coming up in the next 60 minutes there's new evidence that it causes severe illness or high mortality. but it does appear to be passed on significantly more easily. the world health organization to a new fast spreading strain of the corona virus the prime minister boris johnson imposes tougher restrictions on millions of people over christmas. president donald

trump plays russia's hand in the worst cyber attack on u.s. federal agencies contradicting his secretary of state. the government of central african republic accuses a former president of attempting a coup before election the u.n. peacekeeping mission puts troops on high alert. to the misery of tens of thousands of syrians displaced by war. champions of asia they fought. for this in the champions trophy and. begin in the u.k. where a new strain of corona virus has been detected that is far more infectious in the

past couple of hours the prime minister boris johnson has addressed the press revealing details about the new variant of covert 90. there's no evidence that it causes more severe illness or higher mortality but it does appear to be passed on significantly more easily nerve tags early analysis suggests the new variant could increase the are by northpoint 4 or more and although there's considerable uncertainty it may be up to 70 percent more transmissible and that's prompted his government to issue a stay at home orders and impose tighter restrictions of a christmas in london and the southeast of england let's go live now to london and roy challenges our news correspondent who was watching that news briefing from mr johnson i guess that's the key thing there are able to key things really 170 percent more transmissible and also they don't want that our number that crucial

our number to keep on climbing. yeah for many days now opposition politicians and scientists looking at surging infection rates and worrying about what might happen in january have been saying that the government should think again about its plans to let many households 3 households mix together over 5 days a christmas read that sation saying this is a bad idea boris johnson essentially today has been forced to fall in line with that way of thinking. the warrior is the this new variant of the of the of the virus together with surging levels of hospitalizations and. getting to the capacity of the national health service has made these new

restrictions inevitable boris johnson said that he was doing it's well we can live here in his own words now how we hate how he feels about having to make these new restrictions. imposed on many parts of the country does this in the post johnson. given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus the potential risk it poses it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned in england those living in tearful areas should not mix with anyone outside their own house so at christmas though support bubbles will remain in place for those a particular risk of loneliness or isolation so this new tier tier 4 didn't exist before today now those people in london and the southeast who are in tears for being told to stay at home non-essential retailers to close work at home if you can

they're being told don't answer or leave t 4 areas don't stay away from home overnight but for all people across old here is in the u.k. this period of relaxation for christmas 5 days is being reduced to one day except if you're living in terror forward doesn't exist and i guess in one sense as well rory if we look at the broader picture all over europe millions upon millions upon millions of people having to get to grips now because christmas just around the corner what they can and most of the point what they can't do when it comes to meeting family and friends. yeah i mean this is something the boris johnson said in this press conference that is not just us who are doing this is not just awesome being forced to effectively cancel christmas this is happening in many countries around europe that's what we've been seeing for the last few days these kind of dominoes falling one after the other we heard from italy

in the last 24 hours it is going into a new national lockdown which effectively means that over many days on and around christmas and new year people are being told to stay inside non-essential shops are closing only mingling is only going to be allowed in various situations where say you're seeing an elderly or or isolated relative so you know it's happening in the u.k. it's happening in italy slovakia is going to new restrictions sweden is having restrictions too so yeah it's not just the u.k. it's happening across europe which is clearly deep in the grip of a 2nd or perhaps even some places even if the wave rory thanks very much. to dr christmas he's a consultant to cambridge university he joins us on skype from that city christmas welcome back to al-jazeera i don't understand this boris johnson says this new

strain is 70 percent more transmissible if it's more transmissible why does it not have a greater ability to make people sick and therefore kill them. yes an initially it sounds a bit counter-intuitive doesn't it but actually it's relatively simple because what we think is going on is that the virus has mutated now there's nothing special in that all viruses mutate and change we expect them to do that but this variant has picked up a particular constellation of mutations or changes 17 in fact that change the outer coat of the virus in such a way that it's a bit stickier and specifically this spike protein that sticks out from the outer coat that the virus uses to infect our cells has changed subtly through these changes these mutations and this means that if that virus encounters one of your cells it has a proportionally higher chance of being able to successfully stick onto it and then invade that cell compared to

a virus that doesn't carry those particular genetic changes once the virus is in you because it's in all other intents and purposes exactly the same virus then it makes you no more or less ill than the existing strains the virus so it's good at spreading but it's not necessarily any better at making people any ill or and here's the wrinkle here's the wrinkle in this the critical thing if it stickier a more transmissible you will get more cases if you get more cases you will inevitably see more severe cases just because a proportion of people who catch it going to get more ill than others so this is really an equation of cause and effect where to pick up on that idea of it being counter-intuitive if you just use that word it's the clinical process linked to a statistical probability they're not the other way around because up until now it was the statistical probability of encountering coronavirus with the medical consequences but that equation has been inverted you are. well what's actually

happening here is just that the virus is optimizing itself to spread through the human population as viruses move through populations they undergo changes and there's what's called a selection process because viruses mutate and change there will be some variants that naturally emerge that are just a bit better than others at spreading they take fewer virus particles to infect a person they're better at optimizing their chances of infection when they do so so those viruses tend to enrich in the population because they're better at doing what they do so quite quickly they take over and become the dominant sort of the of circulating virus the current estimates are that this might be up to 70 percent better transmitting that might be enough to shift the r. value the reproduction number by as many as nor point 4 points which is actually quite a significant increase in so-called infectivity and that's really what's got the government concerned the virus is no less dangerous when it gets into you if you catch it your probability of becoming severely unwell remains the same but if

you've got more people catching it then you're going to see in absolute terms more cases of severe illness because you started with more people catching it in the 1st place because it's more transmissible does this mean cross that this mutation of corona virus has been out there for some time in any place else in the world in other locations around the world that we just don't know about it or is this actually a 1st and if it is a 1st does that mean there's something utterly unique about london and the southeast of england. the data on this is a little bit sketchy at the moment and it could be that this arose elsewhere and came to britain or it could be it was born in britain we don't actually know yet the way in which the virus was picked up was by a consortium which sequence or read the genetic code of the circulating krone viruses and so far in britain they've read the genetic codes of more than 140000 infections in individuals and so they picked this particular variant up back in september but what got their attention of the scientists who were doing this was

that it started at very low numbers and the frequency as of in other words as a proportion of the number of diagnoses being made increased quite dramatically quite quickly so by november it was accounting for a quarter of the new diagnoses of coronavirus and now in december just a month later it's accounting for in some parts of london 60 percent of the transmission events and that's why scientists is speculating that perhaps it is more transmissible because it's begun to dominate the population in that way but certainly the same sorts of changes that have been seen in this virus have been documented before in other countries so we think this is just a natural pathway the virus follows as it evolves to really spread as optimally as it can through the human population i remember chris you and i had a conversation feels like a lifetime ago and i was probably just more than 6 or 7 months ago and you said something to me probably on this program that really struck home with me you said this is a clever virus because it doesn't kill every host it survives and it lets the hosts

of vive and it moves on to the next patient the next victim is this mutation another indicator of how very very clever coronaviruses. well viruses don't have brains i mean the virus we're talking about here is nothing more than an infectious bag of genes it's absolutely tiny it's 110000th of a millimeter across that's far too small to do anything other than just have a spiky coat wrapped around your genetic information but those genetic sequences that are in the virus their role their sole aim in life is to hijack a cell and churn out more viruses and so if by chance some changes happen in that genetic code that makes that virus better able to achieve that aim then that's what's going to translate into more viruses more infections and therefore ultimately a more successful corona virus and that's true for all viruses when they start in one animal host and they jump the species barrier to get into a new animal host there will be

a process of study optimize ation and change to accommodate to their new home flu does it when we have a flu pandemic the reason when the virus jumps out of birds because that's where flu pandemics come from their bird viruses they get into humans with dramatic effect you get very large numbers of cases very high mortality but then the virus attenuates or weakens it sacrifices some of its virulence in order to better spread among humans and in that way it actually serves as its own protector because by keeping more people alive for longer it's safeguarding its own future in the long run and that's really what happens with all viruses when they go into a new population ok we must leave it there chris smith there at cambridge in the u.k. thank you very much chris good to talk to you pleasure well elsewhere in europe as we were saying at the top of the show shops bars and restaurants in italy are closing as new restrictions do come into effect there as well italy has reported 553 new deaths on saturday and at least 16000 cases the government's banning travel

between regions to slow the spread of the virus for yet another day germany is reporting more than 30000 new infections the chancellor angela merkel is urging people to video call family on christmas day instead of going to visit them in person. turning our attention to asia india has become the world's 2nd nation to record more than 10000000 infections so far although new infection rates appear to have fallen sharply over recent weeks south korea is ordering hospitals to secure beds as it battles a 3rd wave of coronavirus more than 1000 cases were reported for the 4th straight day the recent surge is causing a severe shortage of hospital beds for serious patients let's just take you live to a developing story there you can see it's happening on your screens the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu receiving his cope with in 1000 vaccine live on t.v. to kick off israel's vaccination program israel expects 4000000 finds of vaccines

this month with health care workers 1st in line inoculation start on sunday and includes jewish settlers living inside the illegally occupied west bank but it does exclude the territories $2500000.00 palestinians they'll have to wait for the palestinian authority to obtain doses through the world health organization benjamin netanyahu just getting ready there is got his right sleeve rolled up you can see there the nurse wearing full p.p. of course not wearing gloves taking the vaccine out of the little file the little bottle that contains the vaccine we saw this time yesterday we were reporting on the u.s. vice president mike pence having the vaccine in a live televised event as well along with his wife karen mrs netanyahu not there as far as we can tell from those pictures. going for the

photo op as well mr pence yesterday. 36 hours ago now i guess. not doing a u.-turn per se on his 'd take away health message but turning people almost demanding the know he wants in his right arm not his left arm mr pence yesterday the u.s. vice president politically very close of course to mr netanyahu very good relationships between mr netanyahu israeli government and the outgoing trumpet ministration mr pence saying carry on with the central health messages you know stay clean wash your hands wear a face mask and i bet you will be on all the front pages of all the israeli media and press right now as we speak the symbolism as ever very clear and very strong garza's tightening

a weekend lockdown as infections and deaths continue to rise shops and restaurants are shut their doors since the night in an effort to curb infections gaza's health ministry says more than 33000 people have been infected. lots more still to come for you here on the news hour including these stories 2 years after the revolution in sudan thousands have gathered to demand more reforms. and bringing sesame street to cox's bazaar the children show creates new muppets for education and support in what is the world's biggest refugee camp. and 36 all out india suffer a crushing defeat to australia that's coming up with germany in the sport in 30 minutes. some politicians in the us a call the suspected russian hacker government agency is virtually quotes a declaration of war but the us president donald trump has tweeted underplaying was

seen as the biggest cyber espionage ever against washington against the united states now he says the cyber attack is far greater in what he's calling on twitter the fake news media than in actuality i have been fully briefed he says and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chant when anything happens because a lame stream is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be china brackets it made brackets well mr trump is contradicting directly his own secretary of state mike pompei o who earlier said it's quotes pretty clear that russian hackers are behind the ongoing cyber attack described as the worst in american history cyber security experts are unsure of how long it'll take to undo the damage. well the full extent

of the cyber attack is still emerging and it could be months before hackers are removed from the systems that they have access to but this is what we know so far now texas based i.t. company solar winds says up to 18000 customers download. compromise software updates which allowed hackers to spy on emails major government agencies were hit too including the treasury and homeland security departments the department of energy which maintains nuclear stockpiles e-mails were impacted but national security functions were not affected the u.s. cyber security agency says intrusions began as march microsoft has so far identified 40 of its customers as being affected most are in the u.s. but customers also are based in canada mexico the u.k. belgium spain israel and the united arab emirates the company says certain that list will continue to grow let's bring in hydrogen castro in washington so we've got mr trump saying one thing and we've got his secretary of state mike pompei

o saying something pretty much almost exactly the opposite of that heidi both of them can't be right so mr pompei is not just whistling in the wind i mean he wouldn't say this if he hadn't been told this is what we believe is going on. that's right this is a startling direct contradiction the tweets as you have just read from president trump and what secretary of state said yesterday he called this a significant effort very likely by russia and he said that it would take months to unpack the damage that followed a day prior when the cyber security arm of the department of homeland security issued a warning that there was a danger for the federal government because some of these tools used by the hampers may have still to be identified meaning the intrusion may still be ongoing and that

certainly generated much concern and some panic among cyber security officials and this is what many are calling the largest intrusion on u.s. computer networks ever and it has happened at least since march of this year it seems that almost every federal agency was targeted including the treasury including nuclear research labs as well as companies that oversee the power grid now the. security officials say it appears that no direct harm has resulted from this intrusion but again i emphasize it's still unclear how big this intrusion was what data was stolen and how it may be used in the future against the united states and then you have the president on twitter claiming that this is not a big deal saying that it is that it is under control saying that it may have been

china rather than russia without any evidence and on the same tweet saying that whoever targeted u.s. networks also targeted voting machines that is completely without evidence and trump says that the. that impact of the election that he quote one there which of course we can just say now is a lie joe biden president i want appears to have he will be inheriting this is one of his top issues when he takes office in a month's time from today and the biden transition team has said that those who are responsible for this hack will pay a costly price peter heidi many thanks heidi jocasta there our correspondent reporting live for the news from washington the central african republic is a nation on edge just 8 days before presidential and parliamentary elections the government has accused the former president of attempting

a coup it says francois boozy is intending to march in the capital bangui with his men was easy who was in power for 10 years until 2013 was recently barred from running in elections because of an international arrest warrant and un sanctions outstanding against him un peacekeepers have been deployed after reports of violence in the lead up to the vote on december the 27th the un secretary general and turning to terra she has appealed for calm to ensure peaceful and credible elections but ca r.'s 3 main armed groups which control big parts of the country have to clear the joining forces against the government. let's take a look at the fragile political landscape in a well the president forced in to better came to power in 2016 he vowed to pursue peace and unity but he struggled to contain the unrest his rival france where it was easy was forced from power more than 6 years ago by mostly muslim rebels known as the celica prompting reprisals from christian armed groups u.n.

investigators say large scale killings were carried out by both sides against civilians the subsequent violence worsened the country's ongoing civil war prompting thousands of un peacekeepers to be deployed in 2014 a peace accord signed in february 29th seen between the government and 14 armed groups that's led to a lower level of violence bud's with armed factions forming a coalition against the government in syria the country could see a return to wider conflict that's forced 4 and a half 1000000 people to flee from their homes louis is a political analyst and president of the african information club he joins us on skype from the capital of the army louis is this really all about making sure that this must go to a 2nd runoff round of the election. well the 1st to the central african republic of how to use who political military could it

and this election is really special because there are many people who consider. these q. ruling the country has no means to win the elections but. in the same tame. people are expecting more than just having a new president of president and the presidential. looking for peace they're looking at millipede they're looking for. reconciliation and all of them have how in the scene during the crowd. if it does go to a 2nd round is there any candidate who that would naturally favor. there is no candidate that can quit because well when you look at what has happened prison blues it cannot be the running nearly actually it cannot be concluded so yes

actually the situation there are many other candidates and the one up in the. summer was the clue then just for. the new and north korea. has been ruled by all of those and the so we don't look he says we need look but it's a big mystery at the. commission is trying to gain the most for. all of that only after the election takes place ok so we have a former president in real time as you and i having this conversation is the subject of u.n. sanctions there is an international arrest warrant out with his name on it point number one point number 2 we've got 3 military groups of 14. coming together coalescing around we're not quite sure what and the country economically is not

a failed state but the economy is in a mess we've got hundreds of thousands if not millions of people either being displaced or choosing to leave the country difficult to see how this political process serves the people any good at all. that is the limit of the political to be sure those countries especially in syria because if it is just about electing a president that can be easy to be done you can do we mean by again have a new president but even that might those who have a leader who will be trained in the legs of the population i think it's. a very big deal that it's difficult to be conducted in central african republic at the cure of pain because many people have you ask you have sit please. let it out there lived a village a school cannot be even called in this election and also when you see how the

crease into. the military opposition i mean. it is difficult to imagine we have a fair election a fair election in this conditions and the last one is the central african republic now it is less than $1000000.00. electors in the country so if he's 1000000 in how are we sure those person will be. leading to the who need to choose the next clue that it if you could and. the u.n. should rethink how to help this country and also include it should have a different mindset in the ruling these crazies in central african republic it is a long term. needs a long discussion and

a long process to come back to peace you know you it is a complex dense and dangerous story but thank you so much for unpacking it for us we really do appreciate your time good to talk to. your. demonstrations are taking place in sudan's capital khartoum 2 years since the uprising that removed the president bashir from office some groups are voicing anger against the current transitional government despite the revolution millions of sudanese people are enjoying economic hardships and limited government services. morgan is with the protesters on the ground. it's not just the 2nd anniversary author of a. president here it's also the adversary of the declaration of sudan's independence from parliament so it is quite a significant day but people here say that they will go to their living conditions in terms of because they have a transitional government in place

a transitional government that's 18 months old but that was brought to power by are of a. political parties that the protest movement so they were. very disappointed at the fact that. have not improved their living conditions have not improved the economic situation in the country has not improved so a lot of disappointment lots of hunger. over the past 14 months as well. more rights to the people here in the country but. living conditions are still. just as. over the past tense of. more than 300 people have lost their lives the more. the government takes the 1st thing it does is provide. for the families of.

investigation. that is frustrating for the people here. we go still to come here on the news for you including the stories we'll take you to prove an ancient city is under threat because of squatters plus. the boxing world gets ready for one of the most highly anticipated fights of the year details coming up in sport with gemma in about 15 minutes. the weather maze pretty quiet across the middle east we've got some wet weather just sliding across parts of iran for a time we have got a few showers coming in here some what's the weather there into afghanistan pushing up into took many stop and elsewhere across regions you can see it's lossie dry for little on the cool side getting up into the mid teens over towards the levant maybe

a 19 celsius there for beirut haricots the winds picking up as we go on through sunday 25 celsius that's how we come to monday we may will struggle to get to 22 degrees but hopefully the winds feeling a little lighter at that stage could catch want to sue west central parts of saudi right but nothing much to speak of. just around the southern end of the red sea and again on the other side of the water you might just catch the around you beauty around the ethiopian highlands plenty as shallow as meanwhile into the hostel of africa the seasonal rain 70 pepping up now some really wet weather coming into the eastern side of angola will see some wet weather just spilling out to botswana that makes its way into namibia and some really heavy right on this one actually it will gradually sink its way further south was as because through sunday monday going on in to choose day with a chance of fighting for central cost south africa. to

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a 0. 0 . 0 comeback you're watching the al-jazeera news hour peter dobby here in doha recapping our top stories the government of central african republic is accusing the former president of attempting to un peacekeepers have been deployed after reports of violence in the lead up to the elections these 3 main armed groups are forming an alliance against government forces. u.s. president donald trump has done played a major cyberattack he says russia is being unfairly blamed and china may be responsible his own secretary of state mike pompei o says it's quote pretty clear that russian hackers are behind the attack. and the

u.k. prime minister boris johnson has tightened coronavirus restrictions after a new strain of the virus emerged in london and the south east of england the world health organization has been alerted to the taishan of the strain early research suggests up to 70 percent more transmissible. let's stay with the kovacs alliance which aims to provide fair global access to coronavirus vaccine says it's roughly double that supplies the donor funded program joined by 190 countries as it secured 2000000000 to seize of various vaccines pending their approval and the jewel to start inoculations early next year the vaccines will be spread among $92.00 eligible low and middle income countries prioritizing health care workers and the vulnerable among the suppliers are oxford astra zeneca sanofi g s k and the johnson and johnson injection all in different stages of development kovacs hasn't secured any of the pfizer and modernity used in the u.s.

but says it is in talks with both companies let's talk now to dr margaret harris she's a spokeswoman for the world health organization she joins us from geneva dr harris welcome back before we get into the nitty gritty of the kovacs alliance boris johnson 2 hours ago telling the world we've got a new strain of covert 19 what does the world health organization do with that development. they say further details that then i will leave you to that excellent briefing that mr johnson and his team gave a few hours ago but for the one hand they're going to say should this indicates what we've really been saying all along we must get transmission down we must stop letting this virus transmit between people who we mustn't give a chance to get to know as to well but if coronavirus last curve at 19 can mutate with such dexterity for the world health organization surely that

represents a bigger problem than the problem we thought you were dealing with anyway. so it's important to understand that biases mutate all the time to an extent we've got thousands of me tensions what's important to understand about any changes in the virus is whether that changes any lethality or any other aspect this is causing the information is suggesting there's an issue around perhaps transmission so we know how to stop transmission so the advice your brain to the same dose close gatherings of close contact rush your hand if you are infected quarantine yourself and really commit to that quantity in whether or not you feel ill and if you have been in contact with somebody known to have the virus also crying teen yourself stay at home do not circulate do not

circulate that virus kovacs hasn't secured pfizer or. why is there a delay in that dialogue that conversation that's taking place so there's been many many discussions and there will continue to be many discussions and one of the interesting things is also some of the countries that have done by lateral deals that steels with the manufacturers are now saying that they will provide some of the doses that they have already secured so there's a tremendous amount of going on right now where so donations financially we're selling commitments to such an extent that we are confident that we will be able to vaccinate the people we want to vaccinate around the world at the beginning are 2021 in the 1st quarter 92 eligible middle and low income countries how does that rule that process unfold in what january february march time.

well i can't see it exactly happening genuine let's let's be realistic so what i'm saying for a country must have a good plan must have clarity on who is going to do the vaccination how it's going to be done how the current chain will work which particular vaccine you're going to use so there is a tremendous amount of work to be done and it's already being done in many cases so a lot of the planning started quite some time ago but in danger right right to be asking this question because if you ever want to have the vaccine here but it's going to be in here in the interior you actually vector may some people will not begin to have the effect we want ok we are seeing people in some of the european countries being vaccinated we just carried live pictures of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu being vaccinated that's officially the beginning of the rollout of the vaccination program in israel not of course for reasons we know in palestine i'm intrigued to know though why there's

a lag of time between oxford johnson and johnson and what we're seeing already granted in the wealthier countries but why is there not a momentum just to get it out there as quickly as you possibly can as opposed to i guess your critics might say a game of catch up and inertia. it's very important to understand that you need to have clear data efficacy you need to have a full safety profile and you also need to i know the manufacturing process is at the highest quality now i'm not saying that's not the case but every different manufacturer is at different stages and every every study group is at different stages are producing that data so the 1st 2 have. reached the level where they've got it down say indicating they have those things in place the other is definitely getting there and we will see many candidates

begin to get approvals in different countries but it must be done correctly and appropriately the must be the appropriate daily show so that we all know 1st of all that it works so i'm going to read it super safe and that it can be manufactured at the highest quality you get when you talk about because the doctor i mean i remember i must think it must be about 4 or 56 weeks ago and he in effect apologized to the b.b.c. the the u.k.'s national broadcaster because he was misinterpreted or he said something that he regretted saying when he was perceived as having cast doubt on the ethical sea of the u.k. government's announcement saying we got the vaccine it's good to go efficacy in the sense is an absolute concept you've got efficacy or you haven't so why is there a lack of efficacy at this point say for example and i'm not criticising them or

picking them up to be criticized say so the johnson and johnson vaccine why is there a lack of on paper certificates certified efficacy now for johnson and johnson but other countries are so far ahead of what kovacs is trying to achieve. so it's basically depended on where you are doing a study and how you doing a study essentially the elements of the study are you have a large group of people want often 30000 in the. in the treatment group that's the people who get the candidate back saying and another 30000 who get the dummy vaccine or say line at the control and you basically ruch to see whether anybody gets infected and i think you have a certain number of exemptions that you have calculated you need to reach to demonstrate that. the vaccine itself is protecting the people in that group and not

and there is a very big difference between these 2 groups so some of the groups haven't reached that now remember the studies are being done in different countries where there are different levels of transmission they started at different times so it's not anything to do necessarily with the vaccine more the structure of the studies understood thank you for that clarity because that i think that's a crucial point if you're living in a low income country ok we're talking about more than 90 countries do you have i guess a wish list of countries that you will be going to 1st. our wish list is every country on this planet the most vulnerable people vaccinated around the same time the most vulnerable i should say the most at risk and we've identified 2 big groups where there is the health and front line workers the people who are exposed to the virus i read i and the people who are basically keeping this road going right now the other group of people who are most likely to get very sick

or die from this this time so we've lost 1600000 people already and those people tend to be older but there could also be people with underlying conditions now we've calculated that's 20 percent of the population so our wish list is all those people in every country on this globe very briefly dr harris in a perfect world 2021 what's the w.h.o. timeline for this. plan and the timeline is to start rolling out in the 1st quarter we don't expect that we will be i want to vaccinate everybody. really before the end of 2021 on a timeline as we want to see transmission come right down so your last wish list my wish for this time is to see the traditional public health methods the quarantine that tracking the tracing to get over and we can see it's getting better

the fact that we identifying variants and so on and looking at what's going on we can see it's getting better but we have to get a better so we can bring the transmission down where we put our community up and we will really be this virus that way i wish for christmas perhaps dr harris thank you so much for coming on we we do appreciate every time you make time to talk to us here on the news hour good to talk to you. and you. wet weather and freezing temperatures have worsened the conditions faced by displaced syrians in northern province hundreds live in camps which pour heating and drainage systems most were set up in agricultural land in what is the last rebel controlled area throughout the week al-jazeera has been bringing you reports about you know heritage sites that could lose their status now to peru or an ancient city is under threat because of squatters mariana sanchez reports now from cairo. the sacred city of the remains of the oldest civilization in the americas have been standing

here for 5000 years almost unscathed until now. farmers in the super valley sowing crops on the doorsteps of these ancient ruins and squatters have moved in. archeologists who work here say they flee sieved death threats element reliving uncertainty this is far away if we called the police they take long to get here we don't know if the squatters will harm us. in illegal land seizures are common and look squatters are often in conflict with police are killers just route shot he was shot in the chest in 2002 she says she received more death threats and when she tried to evict squatters from at least 9 sites she got little help i mean. we went to the police but they told us it wasn't their priority that we could not count on them we asked again and they sent one officer with one is impossible to evict them. land disputes have been going on for

decades since being named a unesco heritage site in 2009 land prices around got rocketed from 6 to nearly $50000.00 protector since the pandemic the archaeologists left the site and more squatters have moved in this is how close farms and urban areas are to ruins not only in cattle about throughout the coast of peru filled with vestiges of pre-columbian cultures the area is so vast it's nearly impossible to protect it all this archaeological sown is dispersed across hundreds of square kilometers families living close to it say they built homes here before it was discovered and they defend newcomers them why we need a place to live if they pay us what we invested in our homes we can leave but they just. victus. police seldom supervise the 11 sites now occupied by squatters to evict them now they will have to go to court and that can take years

some say those delays risk the future of this ancient site survived earthquakes climate change and generations of peruvians who revered it. that i'll. still to come here on the news for you a chip off the old block tiger woods song charlie pursed his dad in a tournament gemma's that story when we come back. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land that stripping away the spin ripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you're challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to cut our score we don't

want to do a lie on the authority and. the listening post on out is they were. held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied their right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mark miller saying this crime journalist. to demand more neutral links and voice solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. 'd to say. more. the all.

time for sports his gemma. thanks fatal that start with football and south korea's all somehow and i have been crowned the top side in asia after fighting from a go down to the surrounds persepolis with the much happening at a cattle 2022 world cup venue so how moloch has. the longest asian champions league in history came to a climax on saturday having started more than 11 months ago much of the competition has been played in a bio secure bubble in qatar. south korea's all sun and iran's persepolis were the last team standing and playing in front of a socially distanced crowd it was the west asian side that started better. giving them the lead just before the break. their advantage however didn't last long. haul son were awarded a penalty after the intervention of the video assistant referee.

and despite having a little trouble junior ground got his side level. v.a.r. would strike again in the 2nd half also and getting a 2nd spot kick this time for a handball. gave nigro the chance to double his tally and nick what proved to be the winner. all sun winning 21 to land their 2nd champions league title. this trial falls on brings to an end a champions league tournament quite unlike any other in the past 2 hillman it out just the other. liverpool manager has denied claims of a rift with his star striker mamet's salah egyptian was benched for that game against crystal palace but he did come on to score 2 goals in a 7 nail victory klopp says he was just resting him and that had nothing to do with

an interview in which status it yesterday could be opened to move to spain. nothing to say from my side about that off line we played some new wednesday so we needed fresh legs today and more played the last 4 games i think just said miss just 27 minutes from the last 4 games it's a massively intense period so it was clear that will be him french champion's parents are around so they expect neymar to return in january despite being stretchered off in tears with their ankle injury last week is only a sprain they say is likely to recover in time for the 1st leg of p.s.g. is champions league last 16 tie against his former club barcelona in february speaking of boss alaina and lino messi is equal pay is record of scoring $643.00 goals for a single club pele did it with sam toss in brazil between 1956 and 74 but despite massive effort barcelona were how to or at home by valencia which means their 5th

in the league 8 points off latest athletic a mature it is a cricket in india have recorded that lowest innings total in test match history as they were crushed by a stray there in adelaide they scored at just $36.00 runs in the 2nd innings australia's just hazelwood took 5 wickets for 8 runs with india going on to lose by 8 wickets after the aussies overtime victory socket of just 90 the home side now lead the format series what now. played enough cricket to understand what needs to be done at different stages in the basements and. that's just luck of execution it's just. the luck. exit you know that is all that situation which is the game forwards. when they're going. to do when they. should definitely have. been a strong about in respect to not radical of footy of e.s.p.n.

cric info to get his assessment of india's comprehensive defeat. it's difficult to gauge really how much this will hold but it is one of the darkest chapters in any cricket history and there are 2 coming on the back of dean that who was captain and just said that this is the new india which is very positive very bold very aggressive or 2 years back they created history in 2018 in australia and it was when they run when they became the 1st country. to win a test series in australia they beat us truman's 21 it was an ugly where they started their campaign to us real victory and now 2 years down the line lost absolute strength and hope that this morning they can do even the garbage leader in less than an hour or so combination factors according to kohli himself in his own words it was a lack of intent from his men and really precise accurate consistent bowling from ustream fassel those well champion but 2nd article of kit has made middleweight

boxing history that has extended fighters successfully defended his i.v.'s championship in florida against that's why he was previously unbeaten in a negative triple j. he knocked him down 4 times before the fight was stopped after the 7th round it means gloves going to set a new record if amazed at middleweight title defense is at $21.00 for division champion alvarez's taking on britain's callum smith in a super middleweight 12 title fight and that is going to last just once during his career and that was to floyd mayweather whether to build the mental hurdle he's got a completely different fighter than all the other fighters have come up against he's a great fighter with all the abilities he has but i've got my boxing abilities as well and i need to use all of my experience it'll be a great fight but i'm ready for this challenge. the sydney to hobart yacht race has been cancelled because of a coronavirus outbreak in sydney it will be the 1st time in 76 years it's not

taking place australia's states each have their own cave in 1000 restrictions and people entering tasmania would be required to quarantine for 14 days without exception making it impossible for the race to go ahead to the ski slopes of italy and what a 24 hours it's been for no ways alexander or what killed just a day after winning the men's super g. invalid god dana he then went and won the downhill as well killed as the reigning overall wild cup champion and this victory moves him to the top of both the overall and the downhill standings meanwhile the women at competing in val desire and fronts it isn't easy living champion is a field goal just won the safety on saturday beat her rival here on the downhill on friday the winning margin just a sign that 0.24 seconds american breezy johnson great name was in that and a 15 times a major goal champion tiger woods has been practicing ahead of his latest event before once it is not him use the center of attention instead it was his 11 year

old son charlie woods who upon his dad at the annual father son p n c championship in florida is a 36 competition across saturday and sunday charlie clearly got a great saying that at any time i will say that if he can emulate tiger's achievements on the course that is all we will sport for now i'll be back with more later gemma thank you so much the children's us t.v. shows sense to mistreat was created 2 new cast members the north and as the 2 young refugees who are joining the muppets in the world's biggest refugee camp cox's bazaar in bangladesh hundreds of thousands of muslims have been living there for years after fleeing a military crackdown in neighboring meanwhile it's hope sesame street can help with education inside the camp. lots more news on the web site you know the address by now al-jazeera dot com you can also talk to me on twitter i'll tweet you back peter the one that was our broadcast that was our news out more news on the other side of

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