end of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable salmon. the father the son and the jihad. to an al-jazeera. flights and trains to the united kingdom are banned from some european countries because of a new strain of coronavirus. comes along their allies my headquarters here in doha also coming up a 2nd vaccine on the move in the u.s. as the senate heads closer to a deal on a covert 900 relief package. also leaders of kenya and somalia agreed to talks about the resumption of diplomatic relations at the end of a summit of east african leaders. and security forces on patrol after another

abduction in nigeria where angus grange about the threat from armed groups. to the program with tough new restrictions taking effect in the u.k. other european countries are taking measures to protect themselves the netherlands belgium and italy have banned all flights from the u.k. and germany is considering the same train services through the channel tunnel also cease in the next few hours now the aim is to stop the spread of a new more contagious strain of the virus identified by the british government but the barber has more from london. this is regent street in the heart of london and in the run up to christmas it will usually be full of shoppers well the people out and about are generally going for a walk or just looking at decorations because all nonessential stores have been ordered closed as part of these new tier 4 restrictions here in london in the

southeast in the east of england that's 18000000 people being told that at christmas they cannot meet up with any other household lots of people have had to cancel their plans they're very annoyed we've seen crowded scenes at train stations with people trying to get on board transport to other parts of the country at supermarkets there have been crowds as people try to get last minute provisions survey suggest people do support the tougher restrictions but do not like the way it's been handled just a few days ago the prime minister was saying that it would be inhuman to in his words cancel christmas now the government is insisting it's acted because in the last few days it's got information about a new variant of the corona virus which is responsible for the majority of cases in this area some people are questioning exactly when that evidence became clear what we do know is that it's causing a lot of concern the netherlands has now imposed an air travel ban to and from the u.k. and other nations might follow suit meanwhile here in the u.k.

the health secretary has warned that because of this new variant the restrictions the lockdown might have to actually continue well into the new year until the vaccine can reach more people it's being rolled out they hope to have reached half a 1000000 people by the end of sunday but of course that's nowhere near enough. well to israel were a must vaccination campaign is also under way with the government i mean to inoculate 60000 people a day but the national rollout excludes 2 and a half 1000000 palestinians living in the occupied west bank and gaza ari nasr reports now from west jerusalem. idea of hope and celebration in israel the us people here received the 1st doses of the pfizer biotech vaccine. government ministers hospital managers and health care workers received the job in the early hours of sunday when the. prime minister netanyahu was the 1st israeli to

be inoculated so. it's a very big day for the state of israel we've been living for almost a year with the most difficult pandemic that humanity has seen for the last 100 years and now is the beginning of the way out millions of vaccines will arrive in our small state it's not trivial millions more up to come and everyone needs to get vaccinated but as the vaccination program rolls out in israel millions of palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza are waiting to hear when they'll be vaccinated the palestinian authority says it's in talks with the world health organization and vaccine developers analysts and human rights groups say even if enough doses can be bought the palestinian authority will need international help to distribute them and we know that there will not be a bill you are. a lot of. hope there and you know i says those. countries c their

partners their word. and there will be a secure as well. there's a record number of covert 19 cases w.h.o. is warning the health care system there may collapse israel is being asked. human rights organizations to insure all palestinians are also vaccinated in response the israeli government says it may donate doses left over after all israelis have had their us. so for now there are celebrations in israel but in the west bank and gaza there is no way of knowing when palestinians can feel the same sense of relief irene ass or al-jazeera westerners. meanwhile in the united states says a contrast this sunday between the government's efforts to roll out vaccines as widely as possible and it struggling to pass legislation to help families and businesses

hit hard by the pandemic let's cross over to our white house correspondent kelly held it is in washington d.c. for cern kimberly really the stimulus has become sort of politically linked now to a separate negotiation meant to prevent government shutdown i mean what more can you tell us about that. well what the congress is trying to push through and they don't have much time to do it is 'd 900000000000 in relief that is help for small businesses as well as individuals and would clue direct payments to americans who are struggling as a result of the increased lockdowns to decode 19 but in addition to this now is 1.4 trillion in money to keep the government open and just to give you some perspective on this this negotiation has been going on both of them in fact for months but now congress has just hours to resolve this if by midnight they don't get an agreement the government will start to shutdown and millions of americans

will still not have cash in their pockets when they need it most so this is the sort of the that's going on right now between democrats and republicans we know that there are a series of votes that are expected but we're being told that these votes could go very late into the night so if there's going to be a resolution all of this it may not happen until the 11th hour and of course that continues and it progresses but the rise in infections continues to worry the authorities and certainly the lawmakers as well. yeah no question about it the number is going in the wrong direction and public health experts are alarmed california one of the hard hit states right now the south of the united states also struggling but overall the picture is bleak in the united states it's bleak when it comes to hospitalizations overcrowding is occurring also in terms of

infections of the number of deaths and so that's why many people are really looking to this 2nd approval of the dearne a vaccine now as kind of a lifeline and giving people hope but the question becomes who's going to be next in line to receive it because with the pfizer vaccine last week it was frontline health care workers it was the elderly in care homes but now we're looking at essential workers and just to give you a quick sense of how many there are it's about 87000000 people but there are we know there are only doses up till the end of january of about $20000000.00 so the tough decisions for state local governments now being made are who's going to receive it and i can tell you businesses are all lobbying right now trying to have their workers declared as essential but obviously tough decisions are going to have to be made camille to don't want to house correspondent thank you. now somalia and kenya agreed to hold talks to restore diplomatic times after east

african leaders held an emergency summit in japan u.-t. somalia cut ties with kenya on tuesday accusing it of violating its sovereignty and meddling in the country's internal of leaders of the into governmental authority on development or i got as it's known put the disagreement at the top of its agenda but how it is covering this force from japan you see. officials of the region organization are calling the summit a success they hailed as a breakthrough an agreement between the kenyan and somali leaders to hold talks and the result of their dispute through dialogue the dispute between kenya and somalia dominated talks at the summit and president smiling again of djibouti and the ethiopian prime minister ahmed a stapler played a crucial role 1st of all meeting the 2 latest separately and then later on as the day went on bringing them together in the same room so they have face to face talks on its side it's there they agreed to commit to talks between them

the chairperson of the african union most of the hamad in his address to the regional leaders said the dispute between kenya and somalia was undermining their efforts to fight al shabaab of the african peacekeeping mission in somalia. which kenya contributes files on soft troops kenya also plays host to hundreds of thousands of somali refugees and husband who sial in efforts to find peace in somalia in the past kenya has always denied that it's interfering in the in tunnel matters of somalia and other issues that were discussed include the present war in ethiopia between the federal government and the to grow regional administration something that the government says it's up $100.00 and the leaders who are gathered here. did today pledged to assist the prime minister be adamant in

their link would that impact the humanitarian situation that resulted from the war . these african bloc but also be looking at ways to deal with the humanitarian crisis in ethiopia and to grey region fighting broke out there last month when prime minister abu ahmed ordered a military offensive against local forces so far more than a 1000000 people are thought to have been displaced many a flood across the border to sudan jeremy taylor is a regional advocacy adviser for east africa yemen at the norwegian refugee council he says immediate humanitarian supplies are needed in sit on the need at the moment a very immediate what we're hearing from from those people who have crossed the border is that they are fleeing with with almost nothing so they arrive with the clothes on their back with very little in the way of. personal possessions so we have to respond with immediate shelter food water. norwegian refugee council we're running emergency schooling and we've set up some schools in the omer cooper camp

where people who have crossed the border then being moved into a camp some distance away from the border but obviously we need to be thinking about longer term and how long will these people be here and how will these needs grow over time as the numbers grow and so essentially we will not be able to with our current capacity be able to respond and so we call for more funding and for greater sort of response from humanitarian agencies all around. another group of children abducted in northern nigeria have reportedly been rescued by vigilantes in the local community the children had been returning from a religious gathering in kut seen a state it comes just 2 days after hundreds of boys are reunited with their families in katsina after they were kidnapped by so-called bandits with addresses in can't see any says the recent attacks are part of a wider problem. here in the. state.

by the way it's just. 200 kilometers from b. . and hardly a week passes without incident kidnapping attempt to kidnap the highway. now have to resort to. trains and. years ago. we continue. the we'll. see more activity in the northwest.

for the time. and. just creep. still a few. but they will increasingly. it's 6 celsius a similar temperature that for beijing for much of china it will stay fine and dry

over the next few days that dry weather stretches across a good part of china into bangladesh into one to pull lucky dry to cause a good pop off in the mist and fog and smoke will continue across the north maybe a few wintry flows into the fall north of pakistan to the fun north of india as well down into the southeast we have got some showers just creeping back into do think maturity of the show is going to linger around us ron christie go through the next day or so particularly into the south because some heavy ones certainly a possibility here as we call 13 choose day and indeed on into wednesday by wednesday the showers started to push back into the maybe same want to 2 showers on the other side of the potential heading across carola by wednesday. but. the code 19 pandemic is threatening one of singapore's most beloved

tradition its famous straight story the bad days when i went to investigate it bookings. on on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your own. world. watching are just there with me so horribly reminder of our top stories the u.k. government has announced a stay at home order after a new strain of coronaviruses found belgium italy and the netherlands has now

banned passenger flights and rail connections from the united kingdom u.s. politicians are set to vote on a long delayed $900000000000.00 over $1000.00 relief package that could be a government shutdown if no deal is reached by congress in washington minutes for the 2nd approved covert 90 back seat have begun across the u.s. somalia and kenya have agreed to hold talks to restore diplomatic ties after regional leaders held an emergency summit somalia cut diplomatic ties with kenya on choose day accusing it of style ating its sovereignty. the news chief breaks it negotiate or michel barnier says negotiations with the u.k. are at a crucial point and will continue they're trying to agree a trade deal at an impasse over fishing rights the european parliament have warned that unless a deal is done by sunday night politicians won't have time to ratify it before the end of the year which the u.k. when which the exits come into effect and bracks it would mean tarot song goods

crossing the border and possibly shortages of some suits and medicines in the u.k. chalons as more from london. where are they at the moment well they are on the face of it deadlocked and both sides are digging their heels in over fishing rights and level playing field really knows what's going on behind those closed doors other than the people involved in the negotiations themselves i mean the u.k. saying that is prepared to walk away without a deal but over the weekend there have been rather alarming pictures on british t.v. screens of lorries and trucks backed up for kilometers. on the motorways leading into channel ports as company's stock pile in preparation for a possible no deal in january so that's quite alarming and then there's also what happens over the weekend as well with this effect of canceling a christmas it would be quite

a double whammy for boris johnson wouldn't it to have cancel christmas and got no deal all in the space of one weekend does that mean that a deal is more likely i don't know but if i were him i would not want that on my political record well they would change to has more of the e.u. perspective power. it doesn't look like this european parliament deadline is going to stick i think you'd have did have to look far for the reasons why president macro is doing this because much like for boris johnson the constituency at his back watching very closely is of course the french fisherman vital for his chances for reelection in the next presidential election in about 18 months time here and so he wants to make quite sure that talks will go on and on and on as long as they can because he wants to make sure there's a proper deal now they've offered the british something like 25 percent of the fish

catch by the european fisherman to be repatriated to the british fisherman now boris johnson the fisherman there then that's enough they want something like 60 percent so that's a huge gap to try and bridge but nevertheless as we approach christmas as we approach the new year i think that there will be a lot of maneuvering a lot of stretching around to try and find a deal that acceptable on fishing both to the british and to the e.u. but of course once again there's another sticking point there's that exclusive between 6 miles and 12 miles offshore which boris johnson and the british don't want any incursions on. is a professor in the european institute at the london school of economics he says the impact of a new deal sonali on the economy would be far reaching that 17. if he ends up with no do it's going to be damaging not just to the british economy but to british

influence in the world because it will show that the inability of boris johnson to negotiate what he wants had that trouble he's having with covert and he's in a bad place both in relation to public opinion and to members of his party who are increasingly unhappy about the way he's conducting affairs what it reveals is that on both sides the uncertainty is itself a source of damage however what you can do economically is to separate the covert effect which is a short term but very severe hit to the economy with vaccination is reasonable to assume that moko would effect who gradually dissipate which we now have in the middle of next year as more and more people get vaccinated but they effect sort of a deal or not to deal with the european union will extend over years and that means it's worth looking at the nature of the damage caused by no deal which is separation from your largest market the uncertainty that's going to cause to

british investors or others looking to invest in in the u.k. will mean that they are unhappy about doing so in future so it's is the medium to longer term damage from from the wrong kind of bricks and we need to be looking at voting is underway in the bosnian city of last off in the 1st local elections in more than a decade and 2008 is the constitutional court hold of the city to change its discriminatory electoral rules the bosniak and crap parties disagreed on the process but europe's human rights court in june ruled against the stalemate muslims and catholics faced before save the city during the 1990 s. wall. south african president. intervene in a violent campaign targeting foreign truck drivers around 30 trucks have been set alight and drivers shot in recent attacks at least 2 people have died. in johannesburg and we do warn you that this report contains images of victims that some viewers might find disturbing collins was on a routine delivery when

a car with 3 men inside blocked the road and forced him out of his truck he says he's lucky to be alive when he gave out and neither are any of us could do. another one if the i don't if you are you annoyed it's a day my main. come down. or been made or. when i put in my leg down just someone gave me are you on. the. unions representing foreigners working in south africa say gasoline bombs have been thrown at trucks driven by non south africans and dozens of drivers have been shot at stoned and even killed south african union leaders who have condemned the violence insist it is not xenophobia but they say they do want jobs to go to south africans 1st zimbabwe has been vocal what one has been vocal. has been vocal about

. of their own citizens in for a little over an hour with the opportunity doesn't include in their particular country what a continent should. be given to. the citizens of that particular crime over the years competition for jobs in south africa has caused tensions between locals and those from other parts of the continent but africa economy was struggling he even before the call of a 19 pandemic the unemployment rate is down more than 30 percent every year the african poverty and conflict come here looking for work and a better life economists say instability in the transport sector doesn't help matters the damage to the reputation not only of the particular company but is affected by such violence that the country itself is very massive because then we begin not to be trusted it's not like we're the only people producing anything you know people all over the world they've got options they can go to other countries

as well president has been asked by unions and business leaders to intervene in what is seen as a growing crisis in south africa's trucking industry the fine drivers say they have no choice but to carry on working violence or nonviolence they have families to feed. us president elect joe biden has introduced key members of his environment and energy team ushering in some more government firsts the nominees include the 1st african-american to head the environment protection agency a renewable power of the to lead the department of energy the country's 1st ever native american cabinet secretary. growing up in my mother's pablo household made me fears my life is not been easy i struggled with homelessness i relied on food stamps and raised my child as a single mom these struggles give me perspective though so that i can help people to succeed my grandparents who were taken away from their families as children and

sent to boarding school in an effort to destroy their traditions and identities maintained our culture this moment is profound when we consider the fact that a former secretary of the interior once proclaimed his go to quote civilized or exterminate us i'm a living testament to the failure of that horrific idiology at least 9 people have been killed in the afghan capital in a car bomb another 15 people were wounded in the blast in kabul including the m.p. khan mohamad logic there was no claim of responsibility talkative attacks have increased in recent weeks and last week the deputy governor of kabul was also killed by a car bomb and also being protested the poll and 7 ministers have stepped down after the president dissolved parliament to pave way for snap elections the prime minister calls for an early vote because of a power struggle within the ruling communist party some accuse only of sidelining

the party in government decisions and mishandling the krona virus elections will be held in april a year ahead of shuttle. but i was marking the 21st anniversary of its return to china from portuguese control but unlike hong kong the gambling her present brace beijing's tightening grip devika pollard reports. this is a tale of 2 cities macau a former portuguese colony now a casino powerhouse the other hong kong a former british colony and an international financial center both returned to chinese rule in the late 1990 s. . but while hong kong pushed back against beijing's tightening control in the following years that with little opposition in macau macau has a large population with a very strong mainland chinese attachment emotion the only politically and culturally having said that in the reason years there are

a minority of young people in macau who tend to support western style democracy and one of those is 29 year old sulu sue an opposition member of my cows legislative assembly who says gaining support for the fight for democracy is an uphill battle. china. started. while the british in hong kong instilled the idea of democracy in their final years the portuguese largely recognised china's sovereignty over macau. mainland china is crucial for the city's economy bestowing favorable policies boosting tourism and

building major infrastructure projects like the $20000000000.00 hong kong macau you highbridge perhaps this is the most tangible symbol of the communist party's push to integrate hong kong and macau into mainland china when it was launched 2 years ago it became the 1st physical link between the 2 former colonies and set them up for the next phase of unification the greater bay area development plan it's part of beijing's efforts to knit hong kong macau and southern chinese cities into a tech. and ask for it to. slap west a strong china. to. china's leaders sheeting paying called macau

a shining example of the one country 2 systems policy one that beijing says hong kong outspoken people could learn from difficult poland al-jazeera hong kong. what you all just means the whole rob never mind of all top news stories the u.k. government has announced a stay at home border after a new strain of coronaviruses found belgium italy and the netherlands bound passenger flights and rail connections from the u.k. the debugger has more. we know that in the netherlands this variant of of saws cove to the the virus which causes the illness has actually been detected while the netherlands which is in its own locked out now has imposed a ban on all air travel to and from the u.k. we're hearing that belgium is doing the same and that france and.