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increased restrictions as the country battles a surge in corona virus cases a 0 click track dozens of al jazeera journalists reportedly targeted in a phone attack using sophisticated spyware and. treat for stargazers the planets jupiter and saturn make their closest alignment in centuries . sport football style christiane an elder wins the gold in. a lifetime achievement voted for by fads. welcome to the news hour more countries are shutting their doors to the u.k. due to a muted strain of corona virus that's been identified there so british scientists say the strain is more contagious than previous ones although it's not believed to be more deadly but that didn't stop governments around the world from taking swift

action and response to the news russia india and hong kong are the latest to join the growing list of nations banning flights from the u.k. their move came after some of britain's closest allies including germany italy and france imposed similar bans while saudi arabia or mon and kuwait went even further suspending all international flights not just those 2 and from the u.k. these border closers mean trading across the u.k. has effectively ground to a halt trucks carrying essential goods to and from mainland europe are stuck and that's because ferry ports are shots and tunnels just won't let them through or one of the u.k.'s biggest supermarket chains is warning that if this continues they may run out of food to sell especially items with a short shelf life or concerns over the mutated strain also sent european stocks tumbling when markets opened earlier on monday wiping billions of dollars in value from british companies all this comes as the u.k.

teeters on the edge of a no deal breck's it with less than 10 days left for both sides to reach a trade agreements we've got step standing by in amsterdam step will bring you the latest on the race for the vaccines in europe bernard smith will join us from paris with more on those border closures but 1st we'll speak to rory challenge joining us from dover in kent where you are rory there must be huge logistical challenges right now. this early on in this season normally one of the if not the busiest ports 'd in the united kingdom with ships leaving all the time to cross the channel to. kalai in france and what can you see behind me nothing that is a completely swept and desolate landscape or seascape behind me. let's have a little sit rep of where we are you know in the united kingdom in the moment christmas is effectively being cancelled for millions of people london and the

southeast is cut off from the rest of the country we have the country itself isolated from much of the world with all these travel bans that you have just mentioned and we have little way to go till christmas and about 9 or 10 days till the end of the breaks a transition period this chaos that we're seeing now is basically a foretaste of what might come in just a few days' time if the u.k. cannot reach a deal with its european partners at the moment we've got trucks that are backed up all along the motorways out of another channel ports the government says common did say fields where $4000.00 trucks can be laid out while they wait for the situations that clear shots transport secretary says that there is not an acute problem in terms of food and medicine medicines getting into the country but

certainly this is something that the government wants to finish as quickly as possible and the french have said that they are going to hopefully get freight moving the next few hours with some sort of medical protocol but we don't quite know what that is yet but you know we're it's quite an unprecedented situation that the u.k. finds itself in i mean what is the mood like and what is the reaction like inside the u.k. to these sudden close friends. well i think the mood at the moment is as bleak as that is the weather here is. is it's a pretty miserable place after say and it's not just because of what's happened with the frights in the and the and the travel bans is also the christmas situation that i talked about it's just seems to be a few days in which bad news is followed bad news there is a kind of gallows humor with people sharing jokes about being marooned on bricks it islands on twitter and such but i think there are real fears and this is

the you know the main fear is that what we're seeing now is what january and february and march are going to be like if no deal breaks it comes and this is certainly going to be sharpening the mines in london amongst the negotiators and the governments there are people like nicholas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister saying that the brics a transition period should be extended. for more negotiating time the government hasn't yet gone for that but we'll see how things pan out this is not a good place for the u.k. to be at the moment ok rory thank you very much for reporting from dover over in the u.k. while european nations have been meeting to establish a health present all around testing so that freight can resume moving in and out of the u.k. for more on the european response let's bring in bernard smith he's joining us from paris so we haven't seen a coordinated response yet bernard by european nations but what more can you tell

us about how they're dealing with the situation. well european nations not just when it comes to the outbreak in the united kingdom have dealt with their own borders individually are in the main different countries have a different rules on whether or not whether you can answer on how you can enter into what terms you can and there is a meeting going on at the moment to see if they can find a coordinated response to the specific issue of this mutating mutation of the virus from the united kingdom france while waiting for that meeting to reach conclusion or some sort of agreement is introduced this 48 hour ban on any transport back and forth from the united kingdom it said the trade minister said earlier on today that after this ban is lifted that the french people want to come back or people want to come back to france from the united kingdom they should expect to have

a covert test before they come here macron said recently emanuel back on the president to set in the last of hour or so that might well be the case although no firm commitment on that at the moment during the ride bernard thank you very much for that reporting from paris we'll take you over to the netherlands because it was the 1st country in fact to ban flights from the u.k. in order to prevent the spread of the mutated strain for more let's bring in some fast and she is joining us from amsterdam so the european council there is an emergency meeting being held today and it really underscores just how worried you countries are about this new strain of virus. absolutely did not listen to us very swift in the banning all the air flights and now also ferries are not our trains coming in from the u.k. because of this mutated virus they found one person infected with this mutation a couple of weeks ago but many experts here say that just

a tiny fraction of what's really happening here because in the netherlands when people are tested d. said genetic codes are not often detected or even be researched it's only been a few samples basically so the worry is there's a lot of people more infected with this mutated virus and it's spreading fast because the netherlands yesterday had the highest amount of infections during the 2nd away for 13000 just in the one day so it is a lot of concern and analysis hasn't been swift in the response or with the coronavirus from the beginning but their decision to go to basically block off the u.k. immediately has been quite extraordinary and step 2 we expect officials sitting in that building right there behind you the european medicines agency to give europe the green light to start inoculation soon i mean where do things stand on vaccine authorization. we will know in an hour or

so and of course you will pass and creasing mean being patient with d.s. vaccination the program to be cost off to the u.k. the united states canada has already started vaccinating of the hundreds of millions of europeans have not been facts unaided so they all waiting for a green light coming from this building here behind me we go into a very serious 2nd wave and most of the countries in europe many have died already but there's also a lot of concern about the vaccine and as i'm standing here it is a a protest going on of people who are actually totally against this vaccination saying it's on safe we don't know anything about the side effects and that's why the european union took its time to approve this medicine because they say the u.k. was too hastily we needed more africans to assure people here that it's safe to use and if this approval comes in an hour or so then the european union will. will give

this authorization in probably 2 days from now and then most countries like germany and france want to start vaccinating as soon as possible just in a couple of days from now ok step we'll let you go for now i will speak to that later thank you very much for reporting from amsterdam now let's talk about this new mutated strain and bring in dr julian tang he's a clinical for all a just at the university of leicester he's joining us from leicester thanks very much for your time with us on the al-jazeera news hour so let's just break it down for a moment why is this strain this mutated strain reported to be 70 percent more infectious than the other strains of the virus. so there is a perimeter reported by the. team which suggests that this age you don't growth rate of 70 percent which suggests that if you look at say a 1000 samples from last month and a 1000 samples in this month's what i imagine they're doing is they're counting how

many of those samples are positive contain this mutation and this mutation is increasing its presence in those positive samples over time and that's what that's where i think it is figure from because we haven't seen this data. are you concerned about its transmissive billeted i mean talk us through the method in which it's actually spread isn't spread is it an airborne a strain or is that people's behavior is. yes we think this virus mostly spread by airborne methods by talking breathing the same air as an infected person so for example if you know i can smell your garlic breath after lunch and i'm in haiti or virus as well. but this 1st may be insured for longer high of viral loads in the same way by infected people with this mutant virus so what happens is that instead of infecting one or 2 people when you're talking or breathing near them might be infecting 3 or 4 ok so this seems to be how the process spreading

further and faster so it's not spreading a different way it's just as more of it spreading to more people who are nearby i see and what do we know about it actual effects like the severity of the illness caused by this mutation is it worse or better than other strains. it is easy no different in terms of the chemicals versatile pnas not so far anyway we've known about this strain since about september and we're not seeing more severe cases associated with this strain reported so far and also in terms of the vaccine response we're not seeing a major change in the spike protein to negates or neutralize any vaccine effectiveness and also the vaccine trials have been done with this strain circulating over the past several months so we don't worry too much about the vaccine effectiveness so we have had this vaccine is going to be effective against

this mutated strain do we have enough information i want yes yes we think so we think so because this story's been around for a while and the clinical trial data hasn't shown any lack of effectiveness however there might be some reduced finding. to do that spot. like a protein a little bit of that even in your natural human immune response maybe allowing it to be shot for longer to hire a load i don't think that viruses mutate all the time and we reproduce antibodies to different strains of viruses all the time so our human immune response will that this new virus the vaccine seems to be ok at the moment if we need to adjust the vaccine that we can just the vaccine over time as well i see our eye doctor julian tang will leave it there but we thank you very much for joining us there from leicester and giving us your time thank you. now let's take you over to the u.s.

because congressional leaders over there have reached a deal on a $900000000000.00 covert 19 relief package for millions of americans so they extended federal funding to give themselves more time to finalize the deal and prevent a government shutdown it comes as deliveries of the moderna vaccine have begun across the country let's discuss this with fisher who is joining us from just outside the white house so i presume there must be a huge amount of relief because of the spill allan. well it's taken them 9 months to get here and neither side got exactly what they wanted so people suggest that means it's good politics certainly it's less than what the democrats wanted but it's a lot more than the republicans wanted as well $600.00 for every family earning under $70000.00 so for every individual and dependent they get $600.00 so for example if you're a family of 4 you get 2400 dollars there's also money for the airline industry as

well but there's peach check protection there's also $20000000000.00 for covert vaccines so if you can't afford to get the vaccine money is there set aside so you'll be able to get the vaccine 20000000000 is well covered testing and tracing so i think both sides maybe didn't get exactly what they wanted but they think that this is a good deal the pressure no of course is getting this done quickly the house should vote on the measures at some point on monday possibly this afternoon then goes to the senate if there is no objection it could go through by the end of today but if a couple of senators decide that they want to make a stand on they have a problem with it and a couple of them have suggested they might because this is going to increase the deficit then there could be a problem that means that mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate will have to go through a few procedural steps before they can have a vote and that might slow things up for

a couple of days but after 9 months of talking it looks as if they're finally come up with a deal that can be agreed by both sides and donald trump has said he would sign it as soon as it lands on his desk all right allan fessor thank you. in south korea and the capital seoul and its neighboring provinces the toughest restrictions yet have been introduced to try and contain a surge in corona virus infections so the country is battling a 3rd wave of the virus with around a 1000 new cases every day rob mcbride reports from saw. the new restrictions will limit private gatherings to just 4 people and they're being introduced ahead of the year end holiday season how droll 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 coronavirus 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 in providing extra beds and assigning patients efficiently a slow compared to the increasing numbers of patients we are dealing with temporary centers of 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 infected and 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 sole. plenty more ahead

on the al-jazeera news hour including this a dangerous business why owners of a liquor store in iraq are living in fear. native americans have been hit hard by the pandemic in the u.s. but we'll tell you about one community bucking that trend. american sport later on the program we've got action from italy's top division as 2 of the speakers sides face off in rome. but 1st a round of unofficial talks to discuss the future of the 2015 iran nuclear deal has now wrapped up at the virtual meeting foreign ministers from iran russia china germany the u.k. and the e.u. committed to working towards the full implementation of the agreement the deal to lift sanctions in exchange for limits to iran's nuclear program unraveled after of course the u.s.

pulled out in $28.00 let's bring in hellery mann leverett who's the c.e.o. of strategy that's a political risk consultancy she's joining us from mclean in virginia thanks very much for your time on the news hour so the u.s. president elect joe biden is pledging to rejoin that agreement of course that iran welcomes you his intent but how challenging will it be to actually revive an agreement that took years to strike minutes to break down. i think it will be much more difficult at least in washington than many even in washington perceive the amount of political will it would take a president elect by in 2 to rejoin the nuclear agreement agreement on terms that iran would accept will be much more difficult than i think people understand trump has done and president trump has done lasting damage to to go to any prospect of negotiations with iran in terms of re imposing sanctions a tax on generals so they money almost

a year ago. this coming week their attack on the iran nuclear physicist fuckers that day there's been lasting damage done and it would take a lot for an incoming biden administration to repair all of that damage and to do so before and a new president comes into office in iran it's a tall order and i think you'll be difficult to do but here's the thing iran reportedly wants to stick to the same agreement but is there a chance that then the united states and other european countries will ask for more new accord perhaps. yes certainly there are parties in washington and european capitals who have all voiced their interest and perhaps even a demand that there be at least negotiations for other components of what could be in a deal iran's missile program for example iran's support for what people washington

call terrorist groups there are there's interest and perhaps even to demand that those issues be addressed the diplomatic challenge here is how to get back to at least a negotiation on the iran nuclear core that was reached in 2015 on terms everyone can accept and then from there after that to pursue these other issues so how do you then see the negotiations playing out what needs to be happen what needs to happen perhaps behind the scenes right now in order to kickstart these negotiations . well certainly there need to be you know what i call negotiations about negotiations that's something that both several experienced diplomats on the iranian side and even some experienced diplomats coming into the bad administration are used to they did these types of negotiations about negotiations before the iran nuclear geo was was achieved there were secret talks held in oman for example that type of process needs to be going on really starting now because there's not going

to be a lot of time again we're going to have a presidential election in iran coming in june and there needs to be something some basis for for real negotiations i think achieved before that and it has to be some formula where both parties can agree to come back to the iran nuclear agreement as it is as it was achieved and agreed upon in 2015 but with maybe these kind of side deals or side discussions about how to take that deal and make it more more permanent in a constructive way for both parties and that doesn't necessarily mean forcing iran into x. or y. concessions it means really looking at it in terms of having a better constructive fulsome comprehensive iran coming into the international community with good relations with its neighbors and with all of the great powers or rights to hillary mann leverett we thank you very much for speaking to us from

virginia thank you very much iraq security officials say at least 8 rockets have struck baghdad's heavily fortified green zone they say the u.s. embassy was the intended target of sunday's attack an anti rocket system set up to defend the u.s. embassy is said to have ported most of the rockets. and staying 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 christians say they're being targeted and are calling for better protection charles stratford reports from baghdad up with army works in this 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 shopper than i was shot dead in a drive by shooting. this mobile phone footage reportedly shows

a group of men ran the 2nd story from baghdad no one has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks and no one has been brought to justice who was later this everyone's afraid we don't know who's committing these attacks customers are scared to come to the shop and this is the only source of money for me and my family. 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 that the attacks of course. an increasing resentment especially among the religious minority communities in baghdad. the owners 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 there 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 the idea. and these attacks are aimed at making 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 up 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. by dad after a check on the weather has. there's loads of snow the ground as you know in japan but it's stopped falling the wind has edged off its changed direction if anything you'll get a risk for avalanche because the rain showers allowed to come in and temperatures are rising stars cause it was in the north east of china nor indeed in central

china the sun has come out further south not quite the same with the tilt in this general flow you've got more of an onshore breeze for southern china which means hong kong's weather will be as good as you might like 3 days of cloudy weather some sunshine coming up by the end of the week now if you want to see of course jupiter and saturn tonight you want clear skies they won't be everywhere as they certainly not be very much visible in malaysia and indonesia and this massive cloud here the tropical depression giving flood risk likely floods really for the it now on both the east and the south it will disperse or the next day or so the same story exists in northern india and pakistan actually persistent fog now which means it gets pretty cold everyone's up by day that says briefly 21 degrees in very nasty were down to 6 to 7 so if you live on the streets it is cold and there's no real change the next day or so the focus of the delhi confirms much the same 3 days of fog. coming up on the news hour. we meet the brazilian activist hoping to bring

christmas to children and rio de janeiro's slums. brewing anger in northern nigeria where the threat from armed groups is crippling farmers livelihoods and sport the news ice hockey fans have been waiting for details coming up later in the program. and that candace processed an arab spring swept through countries across the middle east and north africa in a series of interviews we explore the legacy of the revolution that changed the political landscape of the region tunisia's former president marzouki discusses the arab spring 10 years. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world we're willing to fit in taking you into a place you might not visit otherwise it feels that you were there frank assessments colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is

only one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day global headlines how will a place like good little get the back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. hello again to top stories on the al-jazeera news our european nations have been meeting to establish a health protocol around covert testing so that freight can resume moving in and

out of the u.k. a growing number of countries are closing their border to the u.k. due to have you tainted strain of corona virus that's been identified there. south korea's capital has imposed tough new coronavirus measures as it struggles to contain a rise in new infections gatherings of more than 4 people are banned and soul into neighboring regions hospital capacity for critical cases is to be doubled by the end of the year. congressional leaders in the u.s. have reached a deal on a $900000000000.19 relief package for millions of americans this comes as deliveries of the moderna vaccine have begun across the country. and the pandemic is making an already bad situation worse in brazil slums amid record unemployment levels and the recession people who are already poor are growing increasingly desperate yet as monica reports an activist in rio de janeiro's favelas is ensuring that hundreds of children still get to celebrate christmas. in the middle of the

cold in 1000 pandemic 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 real's most breathtaking sights. the entry to the forest is to the bobbing morning a slum named after the last hanging gardens of the ancient city of babylon activist at the. sub this is an opportunity to help people living you're facing poverty recession and record 14 percent unemployment i could look in the phone john . when hundreds of people suddenly started showing up looking for our secluded trails we decided to train local guides to steer visitors from adventure 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 are better than the size unemployment there's inflation prices of stable goods have doubled or tripled we have to fight a new battle each day. sponsors help 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 up 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. it is she used to work in

a restaurant by the beach which has reopened but she's staying at home because one year old son has chronic bronchitis her only source of income is the government's monthly $60.00 financially that will probably end long before the vaccine runs in the coming months 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 couvade 19 related deaths and fictions are once again spiky especially in rio de janeiro people you see the whole the vaccine will reach the babilonia slum before next year's christmas but there are 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. meineke

and nike have all just sirrah rio de janeiro. 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 at the government's war and they will be sacked if they don't return to work malcolm webb has more from nairobi. the nationwide strike in the health care unit in say that it effectively close public health care realty in today he went on strike he gave because without it is difficult for the doctor to do anything at all i would not public. that the doctors working out mean that the health care available is private and only available today can afford it they want better and more protective equipment as well pay for common. ation 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 that our side is not to say that now joining in the strike when i was 19 with 1st detected here in kenya back in march the government promptly introduced lockdown measures in a lockdown of course intended to give. health authorities time to prepare their response for health care activists said this time wasn't really used to prepare but was instead used to misuse millions of dollars of public health funds that were meant for the covert response dealings were among the allegations protective equipment inappropriate allocation of tenders and so when the lockdown measures were eventually lifted of course the virus inevitably spread across the country and he 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 there are willing to take the risk of trying to treat them. attacks on kidnappings by armed groups or crippling farming and other economic activities and northwest nigeria its estimated output has dropped by as much as 60 percent by the jury's reports from katsina where hundreds of schoolchildren were recently abducted in northwestern nigeria where armed bandits room free mosque barrios 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 all of our success in terms of trying to control this the loss among our farmers that cannot access their farms the loss of what you post the loss of cattle the loss of means of livelihood people who cannot access their farms

the quantum is there to imagine it has negatively in fact 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 band it underlines the worsening security situation in northwest nigeria. many farmers here have been forced to leave their land after being unable to pay off the armed groups. who complained about paying to 20 heck that's what this is cutie they cannot be able to fund their farms and it under small power must wear. to bed last thing to be up to 5 hectares they

were both would be imported to abandon their land and be. just to take it if again the insecurity the cattle herders association says nearly every member has had some animal story. here but 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 grain section of the market it's a similar picture the northwest is nigeria's main grain and cereal producing region the fighting here 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. breeze. northwest nigeria rwanda has sent

a dish and troops to central african republic they'll act as a protection force for a wand and soldiers 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 . 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 researchers 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 militias codes which uploaded data onto foreign servers to madness hot as an al-jazeera investigative journalist he explained that with the help of citizen lab his team began monitoring their phones after receiving threats. this hacking just came after we published a story in july and investigation

a program on the story of the we'll known indian investor and businessman be our city who has who was from you after a scandal there in this investigation we called and marty official bodies are none of which will but it is a from this phone to give them the right of blood on our investigation and be our city story and the other interesting point in this that it has been hurt by a technique and the spy work we'll known by word is called biggest technique 0 click because through the timing of observing and tracking our phone we didn't to click on any suspicious link but by this technique you don't need to click on any suspicious link they managed to hurt our phones by a 0 click technique based on the citizen love investigation and their searches we discovered the same technique and the same by word has been used to hurt and on the

other 36 colleagues in the network so it was a campaign and it was a different ways of hacking and different targets and different numbers and phones . stargazers are being treated to a one son a life time celestial event as jupiter and saturn make their closest alignment since the 17th century so the 2 largest planets in our solar system have been inching closer together since september culminating in what's known as the great conjunction while they do pass one another every 20 years as they circle the sun jupiter and saturn haven't been this closely aligned in the night sky for centuries that speak to francisco diego he's a senior research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at the university college london thanks for joining us on al-jazeera this one is a rare event isn't it even though it happens every 20 years talk us through why

it's so special it is so fascinating thing to see in the sky every time the plan is going to get there. and they can to get a restart just an illusion we have to remember that jupiter is like here and saturn will be twice as far behind jupiter and in fact the movement is mainly made by us by the earth moving in front of them because they are moves faster than jupiter and saturn is extremely interesting to see their movements with the planets sun they do in such i believe the way to do certify. the model of course better because we can actually see the plans movie you know when they have very close together they bite they showing they meet you just know they bite they you can see them coming closer and closer and closer and closer and then they fire they go away again that is a proof that they plan to go around the sun but the sun be lovely thing for the kids to see and to understand what the plan is why the plants are different from the star system so lovely image that we've got here and i suppose the weather

though will play a major role on on how clear this will be. absolutely the weather here in london tonight which is the main one they are in close has these going to be cloudy i took the opportunity last night to take my telescope out in the street as the people out of here in this in this show that you have to show their plan is getting more or less quite close together we can see both of them in the telescope at the same time which is very rare to see and i suppose the timing of this can also be seen as somewhat special just a few days before christmas well yes absolutely i mean there is some hypotheses that the star of bethlehem was the result of a conjunction like this but if you see they mature right now you see jupiter the bottom you see sutton on top of it and they look to different star us and they will get close together and close together to the point that we cannot tell them apart

with the naked eye and that has happened many times i don't know that conjunction between venus and jupiter actually but this scriptures they don't mention 2 starts a bit like end up these most of the time that you would see only one so it is interesting to. see this as you say these very interesting to see this going through this now yeah sure is very interesting just to just tell us briefly about saturn and jupiter. they are the giant planets we called it the gods giants they are made out to hydrogen and helium mainly although subtle. soup it up on them so high the region easily beat light there is 0 gods but below that clouds will gas the pressure a so high that the hydrogen becomes liquid so in fact most of the body of these planets are liquid and they spin very fast boats that both planets are a long gate there they have a squash shape a little bit squashed because they spin about twice as fast as the earth this fact

that they are 10 times bigger than they are they spin very fast they are fascinating to see if you are not forced to see the rings of saturn with the way that that disco piece is one of the most amazing things to see with it that a scope had that is fascinating thank you very much francisco jango for joining us on a pleasure meeting all of that to us from london thank you it's a pleasure. still ahead on the. tiger woods and his son are in action on the golf course story and more of a sports news coming up right after the break so your. business leaders just want to buy no brush paul.

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hello again qatar's health ministry has approved a vaccine for emergency use against the coronavirus doha is due to receive the 1st shipments of the pfizer vaccine later on monday qatar recorded 143 new cases of covered 1000 on sunday bringing the total number of people who've been infected since the start of the pandemic to more than one 142000. on as the number of covered 1000 deaths has surged past 300000 over in the u.s. one community has had remarkable success in keeping the pandemic in check the cherokee native american nation in the state of oklahoma has 140000 residents but only 55 people have died of the virus or brunell's reports. in fighting the worst public health crisis in a century how did a relatively small self-governing native american nation with limited resources

succeed so well while the wealthiest most technologically advanced nation on earth failed so miserably there's no simple answer rather a series of timely decisions we started early on with a task force and we actually started meeting in march to develop a multi-disciplinary plan to how we were going to take care of our citizens and and to those that depend on us for health care the oklahoma based tribes health care system marshalled resources and coordinated with other tribal departments to focus on cove it gave us the ability to be a little more proactive and start working on problems before those problems became became crisis unlike the u.s. as a whole the cherokees spent decades investing in high quality health care for all their citizens that we have a philosophy at the cherokee nation that people just ought to have access to healthcare unlike president donald trump cherokee principal chief chuck hoskin

relied on scientific advisors and didn't try to downplay the pandemic i think it's important for political leadership to be honest and straightforward with people tell people what the dangers are you don't get anywhere by trying to quote avoid panic by not telling people how serious and infectious diseases. tribal government worker derek van became ill in june when i got to the clinic they were ready and willing to give me a test right there on the spot having he tested positive as he quarantined at home health care workers constantly monitored vans condition i trusted that they knew everything about my case then has now fully recovered other native american nations like the navajo have fared far worse and have lost many lives to cohabit how the turkey nation medical staff was excellent i think it was a plus care that sense of trust is key with us modeling those examples i think

that's created a level of trust that's been able to get those things accomplished in a very easy manner chief hoskin wore a mask and stressed the need for social distancing even this statue of cherokee national hero sequoia was fitted with a mask meanwhile the governor of oklahoma tweeted a picture of himself and his kids dining masculists in a crowded restaurant the state of oklahoma still can't get its act together with a mass mandate we've been here since may with the mask mandate the cherokee people and their leaders have set an example for the nation it's about competence and caring and it works robert oulds al-jazeera. let's get an update on the sports news and peter green thank you very much football star chris the honor and all that has added yet another on a series connection events this forward picked up of the golden foot award a lifetime achievement accolade created in 2003 voted for by fans via the internet

interestingly macey has never won the prize with going to joining the ranks of previous witness such as roberto baggio ronald sr and samuel eto and it's hard to argue against the 35 year old spot among them. the portuguese has had a glittering club career winning top division crowns in england spain and italy and the champions league 5 times even had success at international level having won the european championship and you wait for nations league with portugal the ballon d'or one of football's most prestigious individual honors has also gone through another on 5 occasions but is it going on or it's something that i respect so in one way. you know this award to us if you. are of this awards the legends of what various of this awards that are very important i'm

glad. to receive this award that it's the 1st time in my and my museum and i'm so happy real madrid have gone level on points at the top of the league oh with city rivals atletico los blancos beat a bar 31 away on sunday it was the 4th league win in a row they have however played 2 games more than atlético who lead them on goal difference. we controlled overall our game and that's part of football of course we're very happy with our victory and we keep winning and carry on we have to rest up and think on our next game now police have crashed to their 2nd straight defeat in it's a nice top division city ours furthur play side missed the chance to finish this round of games in the top 4 as the wind down to no on sunday against luck seal who are now 8 in the table cheadle immobile a and luis alberto scoring the goals for the road.

tottenham have also slumped to a 2nd league defeat in a row shows a marine years team went down at home to know against leicester city who now leapfrog them in the table the foxes have moved up to 2nd place while spurs drop down to 4th. i'm sure searches win or lose but it's not like there is. there is a target that cannot be achieved our target is to win the next match and the result of the previous matches they don't interfere in our target for the next match the next match we want to win like we want it to intraday manchester united are up to 3rd just a point behind leicester that after a 6 to win the leeds scot mccloughan i am bruner fernandez both school 2 golds each though tom brady no playoffs that seems to be the story of the new england patriots they have missed out on the n.f.l.

playoffs for the 1st time since 2008 when they then star quarterback missed most of the season through injury brady is no longer with the patriots who beat him $2212.00 by the miami dolphins on sunday it means they record run of 11 consecutive playoff appearances will come to an end meanwhile brady ladies new team the tampa bay buccaneers to a 3127 win over the atlanta falcons for their 9th win of the campaign while the new york jets picked up their 1st win of the season at the 14th time of asking with a 2320 win over the los angeles rams i'm just happy for our guys i mean they've done such a great job of how they've worked you know been through a lot of adversity you know it's. been too long for us. to even remember when feels like almost. it was it was it's great to see those guys that excited the new n.h.l. season will begin on january 13th and will consist of

a shortened $56.00 game regular season because of the coronavirus the league and players union agreed to deal on sunday that will see the stanley cup playoffs conclude in july that will allow the following season to start at its usual time in october the most recent n.h.l. season was interrupted by covert 19 was eventually completed in bio secure bubbles in canada. women's world number one golfer gene young has powered her way to victory at the c.m.e. group to a championship coded in fine style 2 on sunday the south koreans shot an impressive final round 6 under par 66 to finish 5 strokes clear of hannah green and say young kim and just for good measure ko finished with a birdie on the final hole it is a 7th career l p.g.a. tour title for between 85 year old. tiger woods and he's 11 year old son charlie had the support of many going into the final round of the p. and c. championships but it was not to be for the woods do you own young charley sidney

caught the eye for the striking similarity he swing base to that of his famous father and such as the swing take a look at the way he punches the a in celebration and we've certainly seen that somewhere before that they were not able to win the event but inevitably they were comparisons between the youngster and his father when he was the same age. well i don't think that i've done anything different than how i was raised with my dad. this and joy and enjoying the experience of being out there together and you know we didn't. i will finish with some pictures for you from a kite boarding competition in spain. was the venue for the kite for open european championships strong winds help the competitors reach speeds of nearly 75 kilometers per hour from. one of the men's open division overall to the women's when it was britain's aldridge will be included at the olympic games in 2024 in

paris. that's. ok we'll see you later peter thank you very much and thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment we'll have much more of the day's news and all the day's top stories coming up right here and i'll just. calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls they are often legitimize them legal one is pedophile. online jumped into the car and each into the heart of the discussion this stream on out is there. every year 50000000 tons of electronic waste is thrown away the majority is illegally dumped in

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this is. travel chaos in southern england this france closes its border of a fear as if a coronavirus strain said to be out of control dozens of countries have banned flights from the u.k. . watching all just their own life from a headquarters and. also coming up the turmoil comes as the european union is on the verge of giving its 1st approval to

a coronavirus vaccine on the other side of the world south korea puts off its population on during creased restrictions as the country.