part 2 on al-jazeera. the earth world. south korea puts hof its population under increased restrictions as the country battles a surge and coronavirus cases. hello there i'm a star the attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up and importantly we're going to ship. it away more. u.s. congressional leaders reach a deal on a $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief package the 2nd biggest economic stimulus in u.s. history. hong kong and poland join

a growing list of countries to ban flights from the u.k. over fears of a new strain of covert 19 and as 0 click dozens of al jazeera journalists reportedly targeted in a phone attack using sophisticated spyware. well we begin in south korea where the government has just imposed its toughest restrictions yet to come back a rise in corona virus infections there all public out the rings of more than 4 people will now be banned in seoul as well as several neighboring provinces affecting hoth of the country's population south korean health authorities say they're running out of hospital beds because of a record spike in new cases in the u.s. congressional leaders have now agreed on a $900000000000.00 relief package for millions of americans they also extended federal funding to prevent a government shutdown and there's growing concern over a mutation strain of corona virus that's emerged in the u.k.

hong kong and poland have joined a growing list of countries suspending transport links with bresson persons health secretary has now warned the new strain is out of control and stay at home order in place in parts of the country from the bride reports from seoul on the latest situation. the new restrictions will limit private gatherings to just 4 people and to being introduced ahead of the year and holiday season. to know we will not be able to overcome the crisis unless we reduce cluster infections being spread through private gatherings of family members colleagues and friends often praised for its handling of the corona virus the government is worried about pandemic fatigue setting in unlike previous waves which were concentrated in specific areas or groups this is happening across the country with hospitals becoming stretched and. at the moment our medical response and providing extra person assigning

patients efficiently it's a slow compared to the increasing numbers of patients we are dealing with temporary centers have also been set up offering free testing which tens of thousands of people have taken up being increased testing has been running for a week and is due to go on into the new year it's already turned up several 100 people who didn't know they were in fact. it didn't have a connection with any known cases it's hoped these measures will avoid a complete shutdown of businesses with the government's vaccination campaign not starting until the spring that time table decided upon when the infection rate was much lower now being widely criticized the bride al-jazeera so well as i was saying earlier that u.s. congressional leaders have agreed on that $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief package how does a pastor has more on that story for us from washington d.c. nearly at the finish line congress has now given itself until midnight tuesday to

finalize the deals both parties say are already in place we can find a report on our nation needed to hear for a very long time more help is on the way this bill is a good bill tonight is a good night but it is not the end of this story it is not the end of the job anyone who thinks this bill is enough does not know what's going on in america hospitals are full more than 300000 people are dead and 8000000 americans have slipped into poverty since may the code would relieve bill would deliver checks of $600.00 to most people and extend unemployment benefits through mid march it would also give more loans to small businesses and offer rental assistance to families on the brink of a vixen what i'm excited about in this bill and it is really the democratic difference is what it does for america's working families. as we see food law and

all over the country it was the legislation that had the initiative for food for nutrition for our children in school and lee and nash 15 years as well as america's working families the deal totals $900000000000.00 it is the 2nd biggest economic stimulus in u.s. history only surpassed by the 1st covert relief bill that was passed earlier this year congress is expected to approve on monday and president trump is expected to sign back scenes are also urgently moving across the country modernity is the 2nd vaccine to gain government approval in the u.s. about 6000000 doses have been dispatched to hospitals. we are very confident that by june anyone in america who wants to have a vaccine will have that opportunity but only 20000000 doses are available before

the end of the year not nearly enough to cover all the frontline and social workers and people over 75 who are next in line for shots that means states must decide who to protect 1st as more governors issue restrictions to limit americans movements over the holidays how did you castro al-jazeera washington well now qatar's health ministry has approved a vaccine for emergency use against the coronavirus doha's used to receive the fast shipments of the pfizer vaccine later on monday has a record 143 new cases of 1000 on sunday bringing the total number of people who have been infected since the start of the outbreak to more than 142000. saudi arabia has suspended all international flights for a week now due to the new strain of corona virus that's emerged in the u.k. that travel ban also applies to land and sea board is the government has ordered

anyone who's returned from war even passed through a european country over the past 3 months to get tested immediately doctors in kenya have joined other public health care workers on a nationwide strike they want better protection and more effective equipment for treating covert 19 nurses and other health care workers began protesting earlier this month saying they won't stop until their demands are met but the government's warned they'll be sacked if they don't return to whack well our correspondent malcolm webber has more now from nairobi. the nationwide strike and the health care unions say that it effectively close public health care facilities since the nurses went on strike 2 weeks ago because of course without nurses it's difficult for the doctors to do anything and so i would not public. sector doctors working that means that health care available is private and only available to those who can afford it they want better and more protective equipment as well as pay for compensation pay

for injuries there was a demanding medical insurance now talk and threaten strikes have been going on for about 8 months they haven't made any progress but outside of doctors say that now joining in the strike when i was 19 with 1st detected here in kenya back in march the government probably introduced lockdown measures and the lockdown of course intended to give. health authorities time to prepare their response to health care activists said this time wasn't really used to prepare but would instead use to misuse millions of dollars of public health funds that were meant for the covert response dealings were among the allegations stealing protective equipment inappropriate allocation of tenders and so when the lockdown measures were eventually lifted because the virus inevitably spread across the country and they found a situation where a lot of these public health facilities the medics complaining they don't have the p.p.a. even in some cases anyone with coded symptoms the toll has been down from public

health facilities because the medical workers are willing to take the risk of trying to treat them. all this time danica's making an already bad situation worse in brazil flounders and record unemployment levels and a recession that is already facing poverty are growing increasingly desperate yet as our correspondent to young camp reports an activist invaded generis as well as is ensuring that hundreds of children will still get to celebrate christmas. in the middle of the cold 19000. nick when national parks were closed locals in rio de janeiro started looking for hidden trails far from the crowded beaches. they discovered mountain paths overlooking some of rio's most breathtaking sights. the entry to the forest is through the bob good morning a slum named after the last hanging gardens of the ancient city of babylon. activist. sub this is an opportunity to help people living you're facing poverty

recession and record 14 percent unemployment. when hundreds of people suddenly started showing up looking for our secluded trails we decided to train local guides to steer visitors from then it's not just about getting lost it's about taking the wrong way and walking into a shoe talk between drug dealers fighting for territory. now i didn't lose hope in santa claus find his way to the neighborhood giving 200 children the chance of celebrating a christmas their families cannot afford. like many years sabrina lost her job during the pandemic she says she's lucky to be working as a guide for a booming slum tour business and also as one of his santa's helpers that have been engineered the size unemployment there's inflation prices of stable goods have doubled or tripled we have to fight

a new battle each day. sponsors helped by the food in presence the children were divided in 3 color coded groups to avoid overcrowding but keeping them socially distant proved to be almost impossible to get. we almost canceled the party but then thought it over in the midst of so much death and misery is a chance for young ones to celebrate life. used to work in a restaurant by the beach which has reopened but she's staying at home because her one year old son has chronic bronchitis her only source of income is the government's monthly $60.00 financially and that will probably end long before the vaccine arrives back in my mum if the government cancels the handouts at the end of the year i'll have no choice but to get a job any job no matter the risk. brazil has the world's 2nd largest number of kuvin 1000 related deaths and fictions are once again spiky especially in rio de

janeiro people year say they hold the vaccine will reach the babilonia slum before next year's christmas but they're also realistic they say pharmaceutical companies are much like santa claus will start distributing vaccines in the richer countries of the north and take a very long time before reaching the point neighborhoods of south america monica innocuous al-jazeera the rio de janeiro. all still ahead here on al-jazeera growing anger and northern nigeria where the threat from groups is crippling agriculture. plus a dangerous business why owners of liquor stores in iraq living in fear.

it's all tropical starter but there's a tropical depression is being given a name in this might give you the impression it's bigger than it is it's a big massive cloud but it's just really producing a lot of rain and it can do to increase the amount is likely in vietnam so flooding seems likely this is the season with the northeast monsoon producing those showers but has been particularly wet both with the area monsoon and this monsoon have to say that coast flooding when it was over the philippines and it will dispersed i think in the next 24 hours but still starts right into vietnam then beyond that into plain symbolise iason thailand for example beyond that standard pattern of sunshine and shaz by lots of sun so as it is the raise the rainy season as it is notably middle of summer well somewhat and start of summer in australia from kimberley down to the southeast this is an active frontal system it's produced flash flooding already owe more and he's got more rain to come tuesday in northern

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the word. hello again i missed on. our top stories this hour. south korea's capital has imposed tough new coronavirus measures as it struggles to contain a rise in new infections gatherings of more than 50 people and not banned in seoul and to neighboring regions and hospital capacity for critical cases is to be doubled by the end of this year. congressional leaders in the u.s. have reached a deal on a $900000000000.00 private $1000.00 relief package for millions of americans this comes as deliveries of the madonna vaccine have to come across the country. and a growing number of countries are now banning over strict ng travel to and from the

united kingdom they're trying to stop the spread of a more contagious strain of the corona virus identified in parts of the u.k. . well the british transport minister has now told truck drivers to stay away from ports in the south of the country after france closed its border to freight from the u.k. it's in response to fears over that new strain of the coronavirus but other european countries that have banned air travel from britain are allowing the transport of goods british ports have been struggling to deal with a scramble to deliver exports before the end of the brics a transitional period about the talks are set to continue after the latest deadline passed with little progress the sides are at an impasse over european fishing rights in the u.k. and fair competition rules for businesses worry chalons has more now from london. that's only just heard was another breaks a deadline whooshing past sunday was supposed to be the crunch day with the saying that if a deal had been reached by the end of the day wouldn't give the politicians and

nuff time to ratify before the transition period and it on december the 31st well u.k. government source says that teams have been negotiating throughout the day and are expected to continue tomorrow that monday talks remain difficult and significant differences remain we continue to explore every routes to a deal that is in line with the fundamental principles we brought into the negotiations the truth is that that deadline never really was was a reality there is the possibility that member states can agree a deal in principle and then ratify it at some later date that doesn't mean of course that a deal is going to happen both sides have dug their heels in with big differences remaining over fishing rights and the level playing field but this weekend there have been some things which perhaps the sharpening mines in london there have been pictures on british t.v. of lorries backed up the motorway for columbus's from channel ports because of

companies stockpiling things ahead of a possible no deal in general a foretaste perhaps of the chaos to come if there is no deal the french also have just said because of this new strain of covert that there is no travel from the u.k. into france including travel links to the transport of goods. now around of unofficial talks to discuss the future of the 2015 iran nuclear deal is currently underway foreign ministers from iran russia china germany and the u.k. are holding a virtual missing the deal to lift sanctions in exchange for limits to iran's nuclear program unraveled after the u.s. pulled out back in 2018 and our correspondent joins us now live from the iranian capital tehran does that there's an unofficial talks what are they hoping to get out of this and how significant is this meeting. well i think of this is about

setting up some kind of a framework or an agreement in the days and weeks to come there is a united nations security council meeting a bi annual meeting due to take place on tuesday to discuss compliance with the resolution that endorsed the so this 4 ministers meeting today will certainly discuss that as well as the fact that they haven't met these foreign ministers haven't had a meeting since september of 2013 this is the 1st time when all of them will be. meeting together to discuss compliance which is something that is very very dire at the moment iran has reduced its commitments since the u.s. left so there is this sense that there needs to be something done there is hope here that the incoming u.s. administration in january will reengage or try to come back to nuclear agreement of 2015 but the director of the job that is to police this nuclear agreement. has said over the past week that it is not feasible to go back to what they had in

2015 because the circumstances have changed drastically there is a lot of logistics they're going to have to work out he suggested that the only way to move forward is that there needs to be an agreement within an agreement and he also urged the president elect joe biden to reengage or come back to the nuclear deal the iranians for their part have said that there will be no further negotiations about the agreement itself the parliament has also passed a bill urging or demanding that iran's atomic energy agency reduce its commitments to the i.a.e.a. within a 2 month period if the sanctions are not lifted on iran so there is a sense that there is a lot of urgency in the coming weeks and that will determine the future of this agreement dosage of ari there with all the latest for us from tehran thank you so much tilsa. attacks in kidnappings by armed groups are crippling farming and other economic activities in northwest nigeria it's estimated that output has dropped by

as much as 60 percent on the day just reports now from katsina state where hundreds of schoolchildren were recently abducted in north western nigeria where armed bandits room free mosque barrios are regularly event hardly a day passes without an attack on a village somewhere that leaves either dead or injured and those taken hostage entire villages have been sacked crippling local economies and social activities if you. spent well over 6 years in terms of trying to concord is the most among all was by a farmer that said their farms the most of what you bought the also cut to the most of them is of level who people who cannot access their farms the quantum is imagine it has negatively effect impacted on the lives of our people the violence that

began as a localized conflict between farmers and cattle herders in just one area has now escalated to a full blown crisis affecting the whole region and beyond. the recent abduction of hundreds of school children by those the government describes as bandits underlines the worsening security situation in northwest nigeria. many pharmacy have been forced to leave their land after being unable to pay off their armed groups. to find a farmer who complained about paying $2.00 to $20.00 at this board this is cutie they cannot be able to form their their farms and it wondered. where to go to bed last the 2 to be up to 5 hectares they were both would be to abandon their land and be inside the town those 2 taken to food again the insecurity the cattle herders

association says nearly every member has had some animal story on here about cattle market where only a few animals on display raids by armed bandits have depleted stocks and potential buyers are staying away and in the green section of the market it's a similar picture the north west is nigeria's main grain and cereal producing region the fighting near sparked fears of food shortages in the months ahead with attacks now growing in number and sophistication reassuring words from the central government of a little comfort to those facing such violence and the misery brings comedy agrees al-jazeera northwest nigeria now rwanda has sent additional troops to central african republic talent as a protection force for rwandan soldiers who are serving on a un peacekeeping mission the defense ministry says the peacekeepers have come

under attack by rebels backed by former central african republic president francois pussy's a violence has been escalating ahead of planned elections. now spyware sold by an israeli private intelligence firm has been used to hack the phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researches at the university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates investigators say mobile phones were infiltrated with malicious codes which then upload the data on to foreign services my colleague nick clark spoke to bill marx that he's the lead author of that report and a senior fellow at the university of toronto citizen lab he says it's difficult to guard against this type of hack which can happen without the user taking any action . certainly our research methodology here at the citizen lab when we track this sort of spyware is typically that we ask journalists dissidents members of civil

society to keep an eye out for any sort of suspicious messages suspicious links to special attachments and trying to avoid clicking on them but also fording them to us so we can potentially get a copy of the spyware but in this case with the 0 click exploit not only does the target not really have a chance to notice or prevent the hacking but we as researchers are sometimes robbed of the opportunity to identify additional targets and additional victims so we think that the targets that we have disclosed the 36 targets that al jazeera are simply the tip of the iceberg of a much larger global campaign it also raises questions as a same not least about the the parent vulnerability of apple i phones yeah well it's interesting you know if you think about your phone i'm sure you're constantly getting notifications things popping up and this is all caused by code which is running continuously on the phone and processing essentially arbitrary messages from the internet and i think that vendors need to do more to try an audit this

code to make sure it's 3 of plugs 3 of vulnerabilities and 3 of issues and i think credit you know in iowa us 14 in the newer version they added we understand some mitigations that would hopefully prevent this sort of this sort of hacking in the future and i think that other companies would be wise to also audit their code bases and put in similar sorts of mitigations to prevent this the 0 click hacking. and the japanese government has approved a record $52000000000.00 defense budget to counter what it perceives as growing threats from china and north korea it's the 9th consecutive increase in military spending and covers development costs for longer range missiles and stealth fighter is prime minister yoshihiko suga says it's aimed at protecting japan and an increasingly tense region syria's government is carrying on the priorities of his predecessor. back in 2015 reinterpreted japan's pacifist constitution to allow the use of force and defending the country and its allies. in iraq the government is

investigating a rise in attacks on shops selling alcohol in the capital baghdad at least one person has been killed and christians say they're being targeted the calling for better protection child stratford reports from baghdad. he works in the small liquor store in central baghdad every month he sends the money he earns to his family of 10 who live near mosul in northern iraq but every day he lives in fear in recent weeks many shops selling alcohol in the capital have been targeted in bomb attacks and one shop owner was shot dead in a drive by shooting. this mobile phone footage reportedly shows a group of men ran a 2nd a store in baghdad no one has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks and no one has been brought to justice a lot of late everyone is afraid they don't know if the meeting that tax custom of the scared to come to shop for the money for me and my family i have. a policeman

is protecting me. the same in consumption of alcohol is not illegal in iraq but shops like these which are popular with the christian and use e.-d. communities and secular muslims who drink alcohol need a special license the consumption of alcohol in public is illegal in this muslim majority country but its availability is seen by many as a testament to iraq's tolerance toward his ethnic and religious minorities. there are signs that may be changing this man who is a christian but didn't want to be identified tells us no one was injured when a booby trapped hand grenade exploded at the entrance to his shop we respect all the religions and sinks in iraq he tells me why can't we be respected to the police say that they are investigating the attacks but they have closed many shops like this one which they say were operating without the necessary license in order to sell alcohol. it's fair to say though the attacks of course. an increasing

resentment especially among the religious minority communities in baghdad. the owner is christian he has been threatened many times people from certain political parties have extorted money from him for keeping our eyes on the road in case they place bombs but there is little security on the streets they have been small protests by youth groups against the sale of alcohol in baghdad but many analysts are concerned about iran's growing influence in iraq and they believe those responsible for the attacks may be supported by powerful iran backed groups that they say are increasingly dominating iraq's security and political infrastructure and they are looking to put pressure on the iraqi prime minister. and these attacks are aimed at making coffee me look weak in front of political opposition that have big funding and powerful media behind them especially before

the election next year they want to show that the prime minister and government off feeling in their security measures. he says many have his fellow drink shop owners are too afraid to open their businesses he has no idea why the attack started or when they will stop. baghdad. is there and these are the headlines south korea's capital has imposed tough new coronavirus measures as it struggles to contain a rising new infections gatherings of more than 4 people in a band and soul into neighboring regions and hospital capacity for critical cases is to be doubled by the end of the c.m. on the prize has the latest for us from so.