in the jet mines the legal one is still on air or online. and. this on out is there i. think. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. president donald trump makes another controversial round of presidential pardons and does a u. turn on a coronavirus stimulus bill. u.k. police detain angry truckers following scuffles as thousands of lorries remain trapped at the border with from. a fire breaks out at a migrant camp and hundreds are living there in poor conditions. and

a 4th election in 2 years in israel after the fractious ruling coalition fails to get its budget approved by parliament. and i'm sort of highlights with the latest. breaks pennies record for most goals that's a single club that is $644.00 strike for barcelona. war criminals perjurers fraudsters and murderers there amongst the 15 people who have been pardoned by u.s. president donald trump as he reaches the end of his term so among the group for military contractors convicted of a 2007 shooting in baghdad's 14 iraqi civilians were killed including 2 children political allies have also been pardoned 2 people who lied in a congressional probe over russian election meddling have been granted clemency and

the president has dashed hopes of an urgently needed coronavirus relief bill despite having bipartisan support he says he'll reject it unless it's amended castro begins our coverage from washington d.c. . a day earlier the white house had said president trump would support the covert relief package passed by congress on monday but things change rapidly within this residence and less than 24 hours later this wrench of the video was uploaded to trump's twitter feed effectively ending congress's victory lap mid stride the bill they are now pledging to send back to my desk is much different that it dissipated it really is a disgrace for example among the more than $5000.00 pages in this bill which nobody in congress has read because of its length and complexity it's called the covert relief bill but it has almost nothing to do with gov the bill is indeed

massive besides the $100000000000.00 allocated to covert relief it includes money for foreign aid the arts wildlife management and of course keeping the federal government open until september trump is demanding that congress amend the legislation to remove the unnecessary items but to add money to the cove in $1000.00 relief portion the current bill gives $600.00 checks to most americans trump wants that increased to 2000 send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covert relief package and maybe that administrator shouldn will be me it won't despite trump's continued refusal to concede the election joe biden will be sworn in as u.s. president on january 20th one thing i promise you but my leadership during this crisis i'm going to tell it to you straight i'm going to tell you the truth

speaking earlier in the day biden commended congress on passage of the covert relief bill while pledging his administration would indeed ask for more money. our darkest days in the battle against covert are ahead of us not behind us she need to prepare or show to steal our spines as fresh state is this year it's going to take patients were patients than what americans have been told just a day earlier by trump's own treasury secretary who had promised people would begin receiving those $600.00 checks approved by congress next week now the plan is in limbo congress had passed the bipartisan measure with veto proof super majorities but trump's demands may give republicans cover to switch their votes or it could give democrats ammo to insist on the bigger checks for americans that the party had

wanted all along it had taken months of negotiations to achieve this so briefly celebrated progress in congress and now the only certainty is trump's insistence on leaving a mark during his last days in office and we'll speak to heidi now for an update from washington d.c. so where does all of this leave the relief bill heidi. during it's still very much confusion as it was last night here in washington there's new reporting now that some of the president's closest aides in the white house even they were blindsided by the president's unexpected demands made on that twitter video and we know that now in congress democrats in the house may be planning to make good on what president trump said those $2000.00 checks planning to perhaps bring that to the floor on thursday in the senate the democratic minority leader there chuck schumer faulting trump for having not participated in the negotiations up to this point

making the point that the president said earlier he wanted $2000.00 maybe that would have been in the original legislation from the republican side key here silence mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader a close ally of trump has not said anything he likely is waiting it out knowing this president well to see whether or not this threat sticks or whether as i said earlier trump may just change his mind and heidi on the other big issue of course out of the u.s. is the presidential pardons president pardoning 15 people what's been the reaction . yeah there's been a lot of outrage here these are all people who are most of these people are all connected to trump in some sort of personal way so the blind execution of justice here certainly in question there's the 2 aides who were convicted for lying to

federal officials as part of the russia investigation they have been pardoned there are the 3 republican former congressmen one of whom is serving a 10 year prison sentence for fraud and. he he among the 31 was the 1st person in congress to endorse president trump in his 2016 campaign and then of course we have the 4 blackwater security guards of the darkest chapter of the american war in iraq convicted for massacring iraqi civilians now being pardoned by the president what else is their connection to him well blackwater happened to be own by the brother of president trump's now education secretary eric prince the the former owner of blackwater also a strong trump supporter all right heidi thank you very much for that update from washington d.c. and just to pick up on what heidi was saying the blackwater security guards that

were pardoned by president trump were accused and convicted rather of a shooting that took place in baghdad in 2007 charles stratford is in baghdad and he's spoken to one of the victims injured in that attack. if he's reaction is anything to go by then there's going to be quite a lot of anger here at this presidential pardon by donald trump all those 4 contractors as you say 14 people were killed in the source square on that day the man we spoke to a man called house and your bar he is a lawyer he was traveling through the square at the time with his son who was in his twenty's at the time they were both shot in the chest they suffered serious injuries his son's injuries were severe enough for him to have lost a long and in his words he described this decision by president trump to pardon these men as a complete betrayal of human rights a total disaster he said that he was utterly shocked he said that throughout all these years he'd had face in the american judicial system he said that this

decision means that that faith is now completely disappeared. and as i say is very shocked at this decision now we haven't heard from any of the other victims or families of those victims but we can we can expect that similar reaction will be given as as the as we go ahead today but yeah shock and disbelief certainly from the victim that we spoke to and tussling start as a professor of u.s. government at the university of essex she says the pardons are a blatant abuse of power. surprised by these pardons this is really in line with trump's entire presidential administration and the way he has led in a very corrupt manner and a very authoritarian manner seen in the u.s. democracy backsliding terms in the way it's been ranked. by democratic indices just

because of this i mean this is been a total abuse of the pardon power and only any president has done anywhere near this type of damage with this is quite past leadership of the. justice department review process and it was really an abuse of this idea in the founders that you were going to have some sort of constitutional safeguard against injustices in the criminal justice system instead he's using it just to serve his own personal interests and whims or to help those that are close to them close to him a harvard study found that even before these 15 pardons had been announced 88 percent of the pardons that he had done were to serve his own interests completely and so we see that he's army people who are corrupt in congress and also pardoning people in the military or private security companies who have killed innocent civilians several truck drivers stuck near the english port of dover have been

detained during scuffles with police the french government has eased border restrictions with the u.k. over a mutated strain of corona virus but thousands of drivers are still stuck at the border let's get an update paul brennan is joining us from manson that's in southern england where hundreds of trucks have been forced to park up also presumably there must be a huge backlog of drivers. there's a enormous backlog of drivers some estimates as many as 10000 here manston field this is a kind of holding pen set up by the government for these truckers who have been able to cross the english channel last counts of this morning was there was around 3800 lorries stranded here essentially and tempos frankly are starting to fray we saw it last night down at the entrance to the ports. where a number of drivers occupied the road in front of us stood on the roundabout

blocked the traffic that whistled and chanted through the horns if they were still inside their vehicles and didn't quite scuffle with police but certainly were shouting at police today in the absence of any progress materially on the ground in many places the drive is tempers really are starting to fray and i have been scuffles and i understand there has been at least one arrest the reason for all of that it seems is this hesitate to put a value judgment on it for frankly shambolic use the word communication we've been approached by drivers many of whom don't speak english as a 1st language asking where they can get these tests that they're supposed to have before they can cross the english channel we are being told the department for transport which is supposed to leading on this on putting that information out to speak to kent county council which is the regional authority here they say it's a department for health matter the problem for health says paul for transport it's

ring around the houses it's just very very difficult to make head nor tail of ice and because of that confusion the driver has very very unhappy and miserable weather and 48 hours before christmas many of these in fact most of these won't be able to get home as they expected they would not a good situation ok paul we'll leave it there for now we thank you for giving us that up. and in the u.k. now qatar has begun a mask over $1000.00 vaccination campaign elderly people on health workers are the 1st to receive the pfizer bio and tag jobs as shipments of joe says arrived on monday people with chronic illnesses will also be among those being prioritise for inoculation dr says the head of vaccinations of the qatari ministry of health she says the goal is to inoculate more than 70 percent of the population by this coming summer. we need about 70 to 75 percent of the population to be vaccinated to develop sufficient immunity in order to develop what's called herd

immunity and to break the chain of infection and this will take time today was the launch of the biggest vaccination campaign in the state of the 3rd against the covered 19 virus and it will be in phases this phase is targeting certain categories and as we expand and as the phases move on we'll expand these categories further it probably will take us up till the summer of 2021 to reach the target i will be taking the vaccine and i think i'll be taking it today. and that's my personal trust in one of the companies that is very much well known to develop vaccines and medications about a 1000000 people who are vaccinated in the u.k. and the u.s. with no major side effects to be mentioned so all of this assures us of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine based on the information we have so far about the

new strain that's been circulating in some countries in europe it's not the different virus it's just that it's infectivity is a little bit faster and so far the manufacturing companies have reassured us and shown us the data that at this stage the vaccine will also cover the new strain plenty more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including. we look at why some people are worried that millions of doses of chinese vaccines being distributed around the world might not be safe. in south africa's province where mining dispute has divided relatives and neighbors some locals believe an activist was murdered because of it keep watching to find out more. than sport a result that will son shock waves throughout italian football stories coming up a little later.

but 1st hundreds of residents have fled a migrant camp in bosnia after a massive fire broke out 6 black smoke poured from tents and lip account that's near the croatian border it's home to around $1200.00 people the international organization for migration which oversees the facility had planned to shut it down this weekend bosnian all thought is have failed to provide basic services including water and electricity let's get an update from her. church she's joining us from the scene where that fire took place i don't what are you seeing while we can see is still do smoke behind my back i'm currently on the side where there is camp in northwestern bosnia we can still see the smoke rising above the dance on to one side and on the other side we can see several 100 refugees and migrants which are now basically left without

a committee and international organization for migration said they would withdraw from the camp because the camp is not suitable for the winter and because the government in bosnia and herzegovina hasn't provided their temporary shelter for refugees and migrants is a clue that this camp was set up in april and it was imagine only as a temporary side for a minor and and refugees and it was supposed to shut down few months ago the government has only a few days ago decided to set up an official camp here but now months are needed before it is prepared for a permanent stave off refugees and migrants meanwhile there is no solution for all these people you see behind what could be happening behind the scenes as in why is there no agreements yet on behalf of the government in handling the migrant crisis . i'm currently located

in city of be hard. on a continent which is located in the northwestern part of bosnia and herzegovina and that is the place which is closest to croatian were there currently according to the international organization for migration there are nearly 7000 refugees and migrants in bosnia and herzegovina mainly coming from serbia. and trying to cross the border there of bosnia and croatia all of them are actually trying to get to this place to the northwestern part of the country because it is close to the border however local officials in one of sana cantone here and in the big be hard to this said they do not want to carry the burden of the migrant crisis and the administrative structure of bosnia and herzegovina is very complicated so that the local governments say that the state officials didn't find appropriate solution to handle the migrant crisis all right thank you very much for bringing us right up to

speed what's with the situation there thank you i don't. now the u.n. says a major town in the central african republic is secure off to reports that have been seized by rebels eyewitnesses said the new alliance calling itself the patriots coalition for change took over from bari after fighting with u.n. back government troops but the u.n. mission says while rebels remain in the area they are not in control the latest violence comes just days before the country's presidential election. has more from the. very conflicting information. at this hour about 400 kilometers from the copy where i am now we've been talking to eyewitnesses who are saying that this is now in the hands of this. change this is a movement that. is comprised of groups who joined forces over the weekend and have been threatening to march on. saying that there's

been fighting and is now being controlled by this rebel movement but we have also been talking to the u.n. peacekeeping mission. and they are saying that that is not true in fact there has not fall into that. grouping they say that there's been. fighting. this morning. but the city is not. 7 being controlled by this. is a very big city because. that connects to mining areas than to other neighboring countries like sudan and also where the producing 7 producing factory and the only area in ca are the produce is right

controlled. into control that. area that's why so important but here in bondi everyone is quite worried about the security situation the election if they can't do a 4th and they opposition leader think that this election needs to be postponed because of the security issues but government officials we talked to are saying that that is not an option a small village in rural south africa is caught up in a dispute over the expansion of a mine it's dividing friends neighbors and pitting businesses against traditions and the environment now tensions have been heightened by the killing of an activist . has more from nato problems. no one has lived in this house since he was murdered in the 65 year old environmental activist had opposed the expansion of one out of africa's largest open coal mines in tal province her grandson told the police 2 men came to the gate at night and

asked for water to drink one of the guy's eyes which they don't know they can you guys called it for us so as the boys will holding their dogs the guys 2 guys would have came in and then they had to shoot. in there he said to me we had another shot and then realized that. it's the gun spin they run only to the next door. some of those in favor of the mines expansion have condemned the killing saying they and the mine owners had nothing to do with it to me it was merely. work. must be arrested criminal act those people must just be honest. and let the law takes its course because it's not going to help. to try that case in the public domain.

officials at the some calico mine say it's struggling and on the verge of closing down that's why it needs to find a new ground to keep operating they say if they don't they'll have to fire someone because this is where the coal mine plans to expand to it's about 5 kilometers from the original location most families have accepted a compensation deal and agreed to be relocated but some are adamant they're not going anywhere some families live very close to where the mine is operating and have been here for generations it's where their ancestors are buried activists blame the mine for damaging the environment and people's homes and livelihoods and some people say they should be compensated with a man state believe reflect the value of the mine to its owners only way we can stop them i that's why we will determine who doesn't meddle in the building. because we know they're doing bare bones and killed but they're not only one clue

into the community they are claims and counterclaims about wife who was killed and he did it until their arm says mine officials say they'll push on with expansion plans and those refusing to move so they'll carry on doing everything they can to stop that from happening. al-jazeera in south africa. a coalition of engine administered kashmir is best known leaders has won the most seats in local elections beating prime minister narendra modi's party the election is the 1st since the indian government revoked the region's autonomy last year the winning coalition wants autonomy to be reinstated as victoria gate and he reports the salmond saga celebrates with his supporters the former marriage srinagar one to constituencies in kashmir as capital he stood as a candidate for the anti modi opposition coalition car alliance this is the 1st. we were not allowed to campaign we were not allowed to meet people we were not allowed

to talk to people we were not even proper security missions to hold rallies. these local elections with the 1st since new delhi strip the autonomy of indian administered kashmir last year effectively and exciting parts of the disputed territory india's decision to revoke self rule in the majority muslim populated region caused anger and many kashmiris say they use these elections to make their voices heard the good car alliance 110 of the 290 contested seats. but members of india's governing hindu nationalist b j p say that also celebrating the party won 74 seats making it the single largest winner. this is a victory for the b j p i believe it is because of the popularity of prime minister narendra modi in our towns and villages the people have faith in our prime minister and i believe in

the future we will witness development the people who wanted to spread communism have failed. but the good car alliance says the election results show majority of people want the region special status to be restored to be j.p. says the results vindicate the 2019 constitutional changes. they do stuff mint has said uniformity in rules and governance will bring development but many kashmiris insist the region must have its autonomy and right to determine its future victoria al-jazeera. time to get a check on the weather here's rob the cloud is still invading rushing really from the atlantic right across central europe now it's full of moisture this which means where it comes into contact with particularly cold air is not been the case in the ground in hungary you tend to get this thing which is why the whole frosts or more is sort of blown frozen droplets of the it's the trees very pretty cause eventually

if you will sort of thing will melt probably not on those mountain tops and actually the closer you get to the frontal zones the more you got the risk of persistent rain certainly case for the day with a potential flood in parts of england northern france belgium netherlands luxembourg and even potentially germany where this is all moving slowly eastwards and science was the warms and the rain to be replaced by this cold northerly blast changing things completely now about great will get pushed into the wall said the average is 6 so we're well above the way back down to average as the rain goes through eventually turned to snow during the weekend in fact that's the case for all the alps and for a time even the low level ground this cold air invasion squashes the warm just times the south but i think once the cold is in as it shows you vienna it's here to stay. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour under attack a report shows the number of journalists being killed because of their work is on

the rise. and reclaiming their habitat calmer waters see the return of a rare species of dolphin to hong kong. things didn't go according to plan for the n.b.a. championships in their season opener last good ball action coming up in sports. played. an invitation to bear witness to hold that life office. the heidi's delivers the trials and tribulations the unseen minutes and every day miracles the injustices the defiance the tests of character and the closeness to witness documentaries with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. setting the discussions millions of americans

feel disaffected by both political parties examining the headlines this group of activists and relatives are marching band clinton right now where they're calling for the morning edition and that also explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform why you show the only solution for a child as young as 10 months of 8 am to inspired you see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. you. are going to top story from the al-jazeera news our 1st president donald trump is suggesting he will not sign a massive coronavirus relief bill unless it's amended by congress he says he wants

congress to raise stimulus payments to individual americans from $600.00 to $2000.00 and trump has announced presidential pardons for 15 people they include 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 20072 men tied to russian meddling in the trunk 16 presidential elections were also part of. scuffles have broken out between police and angry truck drivers stranded at the english port of dover the french government has eased border restrictions with the u.k. over a mutated strain of corona virus but thousands of drivers are still stuck. in an effort to combat cope with 19 chinese develop vaccines have already made their way abroad brazil has partnered with beijing based pharmaceutical companies and is expected soon to announce the effectiveness of its phase 3 trials as katrina you reports from beijing those questioning the efficacy of china's vaccines will be

watching closely. shipments of chinese that seems arriving in egypt many factories have struck deals to supply 400000000 doses to countries around the world despite having not yet released final stage test results more than 1000000 people in china have received doses under the government's emergency program beijing insists they're effective. there have been some out of us reactions but none a serious more than 60000 people have travelled to a high risk areas outside the country and so far there is no serious infection this proves our vaccines are protective. in a race to secure $1000.00 jobs nations like indonesia turkey and morocco have signed agreements with manufacturers sign of sign or farm and can see no biologics but some have questioned the safety of chinese vaccines including brazilian president john doe despite some paula state governor doria already ordering

millions of side of the doses cambodian leader when sen says he won't allow vaccines not recognized by the world health organization to be tested their previous vaccine scandals in china have led to concerns that manufacturers may be cutting corners. in the past there were businesses that broke the rules for example that. fridges due to lack of transparency international reputation has to be undermined stricter regulations in the u.s. u.k. and europe have required western vaccine companies to release trial data in stages chinese companies have not been subject to the same standards thomas wages are depending on the success of its vaccines to improve its international image or to stop it since the beginning of the outbreak beijing has dismissed concerns about policy saying it's simply doing its part to ensure developing nations have access to a course of 19 vaccine but experts say it has all the motives. on

the most ethical. into other areas of. your. troops and actions and eventually from there it's. to manufacture it to believe that means next year. so let's take a look at china's covert 1000 vaccines and how they compare to those being developed elsewhere in terms of their storage. inactivated viral particles to trigger an immune response and it can survive in a fridge for 3 years a price hasn't yet been sets chinese state owned company farm is developing 2 vaccines that work in a similar way to sin of pfizer biotech's vaccine is a new kind of drug part of the corona virus is genetic code is injected into a person's body it's reportedly 95 percent effective with no serious side effects

it's about 20 dollars a dose but it needs to be kept deep frozen and there is one and it works the same way and has a similar success rate about 94 percent and it can be stored in an ordinary freezer for 6 months at $2.50 a dose astra zeneca and oxford university say their vaccine is on average 70 percent effective but can rise to 90 percent depending on dosage it's a traditional method a vaccine can be stored in a standard fridge let's take on the issue of the chinese vaccines in the home of many of his a lecturer in biomedicine at the university of lancaster he's also vaccine development research or and he's joining us in fact from lancaster thanks for your time with us on the news hour so china appears to be making strides when it comes to vaccine development they have 2 front runners already making their way abroad but what do you actually know of these chinese vaccines. well one of the major issue here is that we don't have access to the original data i mean if we compared

our own to. that and whether or not they have made available data right from the beginning from each of the stages phase one phase 2 and space rates so we can really make an independent opinion but for the chinese a vaccine i don't really don't want to the technology because those technologies have been used before for other diseases and those are proven but it's just not having available data is making it very much allan for the independent researchers to neatly assess the competitive value for each of the vaccines and without this data and specifically information from the 3rd face trials that is not released anywhere as a possible then to say how effective these vaccines are. particularly to sign off on a date they presented that there vaccine is only 2 percent of active but to a press release which is really not what we look into the scientific communities i think without having regional data like the number of people who will be recruited

if they have any side effects what is the level of these responses what is the level of the antibody the disciplines as all of these that come together then who will be in in the position to really make a good assessment but do they don't having or do you know that is really hard to make an assessment about that it is save the fact and good quality to go into the human so let me ask you then why is it that they haven't run the released the original data. well that is i don't really particularly know about the scientific a lot of just tricks back in china but what i can assess is that probably they want to showcase more of their efficacy 1st before they really ought at the stage to demonstrate that but that really is the vaccine containing exiles because as i said before i don't go down the technology just acknowledge he has been there so be inactivated vaccine and back to the vaccine those are really good approaches so certainly if they were to make the data available that will enhance the credibility

and i can do see that the vaccines on the big manufacturers from china are really one of the bottlenecks to really curtail this for damage because at the moment the supply of the vaccines both of those are just dirt or a boat to be just sort of vaccine is not enough to get into the state but we will achieve the herd immunity yeah and speaking of the supply chain we know that sort of the western and richer countries have signed up to supplies from from the western pharmaceutical companies and there are reports that perhaps the chinese and the russian vaccines are the ones that might be available for a lower income countries so what do you think of china signing up to that kovacs initiative that ams to provide 2000000000 doses to developing countries by 2021. i think this is absolutely healthy collaboration i'm going to be by china and along with many other countries as well. and as you probably heard of that and sputnik 5 david to be doing combined trials to really enhance the efficacy of cost

as i go that seems so any of these effort into cold x. facility is a healthy and happy she it gives because callbacks yourself have so many challenges to supply the vaccine to the low and middle income countries and until they are financially hauling on until they have enough supply of the vaccine those is the success of your ex is really just for dollars and feeding it off callbacks is a fairly at all vaccine campaign particularly in the low and middle income countries all right thank you very much hominy and for speaking to us from lancaster thank you thanks for having me there and now the al jazeera journalist mahmoud her saying has spent 4 years in egyptian detention without charge or trial hussein was arrested while visiting family in december 26th a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera and demanding his immediate release has the tension is in violation of both egyptian as well as international law the number of journalists murdered worldwide has more than

doubled this year a report by the committee to protect journalists says at least 30 were killed in 2020 and mexico is the deadliest country in the world for the media journalists are routinely threatened down targeted by criminal groups or corrupt politicians afghanistan syria and the philippines are next on the list most of the killers have gone unpunished on politics to takes was the most dangerous subject to cover while murders rose overall this year the number of journalists killed in crossfire fell to its lowest level since 2000. courtenay brad just the advocacy director at the committee to protect journalists in washington d.c. and she says mexico's government needs to do more to protect reporters mexico is a democracy and yet there is a lot of violent crime in criminal gangs and drug cartels are routinely murdering journalists with impunity they even have a president they even have

a journalist protection mechanism in mexico and yet there were journalists who were murdered while under the protection of that mechanism so it's clearly ineffectual and the fact that you know a democracy can year after year allow its journalists to be murder with impunity is not acceptable and should be a top priority for the over to our ministration to address one of the biggest impact to be seen as the responses that governments have made to the coronavirus pandemic which is included you know efforts that seem less designed to combat the pen demick and more designed to combat independent reporting that may be critical of government efforts we've seen around the world that a slew of governments have adopted new legislation that is a sensibly aimed at stopping the spread of false news or public and sharing public health but in fact is used to retaliate against journalists who report on

uncomfortable facts about how the government's doing in its response or about the coronavirus you know large we've seen that in china in iran in egypt and really all over the place including in some democratic countries so it's a really challenging year to be a journalist and i think that we're going to see a lot of these challenges continue because of course once you put in place legislation like that that criminalizes aspects of journalism it's going to stay in place long after the pandemic. israel will be holding its 4th election in 2 years after the collapse of the government coalition parliament was dissolved after failing to meet a deadline to pass the budget a snap election will now be held in march next year the upcoming corruption trial of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is at the center of the discord with benny gantz i read nasr is in west jerusalem with the latest reaction. it really wasn't quite a surprise the coalition government that was formed between netanyahu and benny gantz was really quite weak from the beginning that power sharing agreement that

was signed in may under that agreement that's in yahoo and guns were supposed to rotate as prime ministers with guns taking over in may in november scuse me of 2021 but that really all depended on this budget hassling the only way for an attorney to hold onto his seat as prime minister was really to delay that vote as much as possible and as many people expected that is exactly what happened what he has done the 10 yahoo though in the meantime was really destroyed the political image of setting himself up for a much much better position ahead of the upcoming election netanyahu is numbers over the past few months has been quite low he's been criticized for how he's handled the pandemic he's also facing some corruption charges as well as protests that have been ongoing but folks holes that were released just last night still

show his party the likud party as 1st place he also made some remarks last night and boasted about some of his achievements including bringing the cold vaccine to israel which rolled out just this week and signing normalization tie agreements with poor arab countries over the past 4 months opening the opportunity for economic investment he is in a much better position than guns who's really plummeted in the polls and he's basically being seen as the last man standing in his party. corona virus has now spread to every continent 36 cases have been discovered at a chilean research station on the antarctic peninsula health officials say the people infected have now been isolated and are being closely monitored series about reports from. it's one of the most remote regions in the world antarctica and has been covert free until now. the 1st cases of covert 1000 were

reported earlier this week at a chilean military research base. those tests show that 36 men tested positive for 1926 were army personnel and 10 work civilians from a contract company who were doing scheduled maintenance work at the antarctic a base. noting that of the. located in the chilean sector of antartica it is one of the 13 bases operates on the white continent which is you know. we know the exposure there is extreme it can have a physiological effect on people because of isolation and changes at a light several components that can act as a muse because of the work they do there. the 36 men are reportedly healthy but i'm to quarantine in the southern chilean city of port bad enough. but cove in 1000 continues to spread elsewhere in latin america increasing pressure on governments

to find medicines and vaccines fast chile announced it will start vaccinations next week mexico and argentina in the next few days. most countries in the region will begin with a pfizer vaccine but argentina has other plans for now there's lots of anxiety among latin american government to start vaccinating the population as soon as possible because there's fears of a 2nd wave already in 2021 argentina's government for example announced that russia sputnik vaccine is expected in the next few days and that i. actually nation campaign is expected to begin as soon as local taliban to. argentina signed a deal for 10000000 doses with russia but there's very little information yet about support next efficacy and possible side effects so many people are skeptical about taking it. seriously. there's not a lot of information on the russian vaccine we don't know if they had 11. 1000

urgent on authorities may have a report but we haven't seen it it's probably ok but the government has failed to communicate that effectively. over 1000 has had devastating effects in latin america's economies and health care systems. it has now reached what many call the end of the world as the virus continues to spread a vaccine is the one chance governments have to make it stop. well above water hong kong's busy waterways have quietened but below the surface it's a different story coronavirus travel restrictions have led to increased sightings of the territory's pink dolphins vehicle paula reports from hong kong. we join conservation teams to search for the endangered pink dolphin.

with less traffic in these waters because of the coronavirus pandemic they're trying to find out the mammals are returning to their historic habitat around hong kong. he travelled through areas where high speed ferries used to crisscross taking passengers from the city to macau and mainland china there are few vessels in sight due to the travel restrictions it's been like this for months in a network of locations throughout this region we've got what what are called hydrophone so they listening to the underwater sound skype and recording that in a pre-established. the low levels of sea traffic have given scientists a unique opportunity to understand the impact of noise from shipping and vessels. after a few hours we reach the coast of blantyre island developing rapidly yet a key ecosystem for the dolphins and we spot them.

they are officially known here as the chinese white dolphins but they turn pink when their blood pumps through the vessels near the surface of their skin they say we saw about 68 dolphins and we saw a mix of young and old individuals and they were engaging in a very bright you behavior so not just feeding not just travelling they did everything they were socializing they were jumping up in the air it shows they are not stressed and so more likely to breed it gives weight to claims that there have been more sightings since the pandemic it's a glimmer of hope the population of the dolphins has dropped by more than 80 percent in the past 15 years. one of the main reasons major infrastructure and reclamation projects like hong kong airports 3rd runway and now with the study scientists can also show the impact of underwater noise they hope their findings will push the government to take action and not saying we want the high speed ferries to stall we're saying that we would just like them to take account of this problem habitat area for example by just changing the course slightly or traveling

more slowly it's estimated around 2000 of these dolphins are left in the wild around the world there have been more sightings of endangered animals due to the limited movement of the human population. imposed by the pandemic it's a stark reminder of the impact we have on nature and also shows that there still is a lot more we can do to protect the planets and help the environment recover. coming up on the al-jazeera news hour take a look at this football legend loses his claim to a long standing record a story and much more coming up in a moment. business leaders. and the brass part.

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going for the sports news with sara thanks for answering well we start with barcelona star yellow messi just because he's broken a record held by one of football's greatest ever players pele for more than 40 years on she's a writeup his 600 and 44th goal for boss a break in the brazilian legends record for the most goals at one club messi is historical achievement came in barcelona 3 nil win over valladolid. now at how the goal scoring records of both greats compare and santos respectively well just as i mentioned messi has $644.00 goals have also lerner that's one more than pele scored for brazilian club santos interesting me though it's taken me 10 years more matches to reach his total getting his goals are not far from a goal

a game but here's the thing messi bags his goals in a few a season 17 compared to pele's 19 between 19561974 messi has goals which have mostly come into our league or have seen him win the spanish league group also lower 10 times compared to pele 6 brazilian league titles with sun toss. content to start but i see leo happy he's working well and he's crucial for our attacking game thanks to his creativity obviously hopes if he has very good players playing with him any team would need him especially for how dangerous he can be for us in the tank. event to suffer the shock to feet on choose day of italian champions who played most of the game with 10 men after a player was sent off went down 3 nil against here on siena it was their 1st league defeat of the season and that leaves them force in syria 7 points behind leaders ac milan. also bosnak out on tater admitted his club are in big trouble after

suffering another may just set right on cheese they began as with dumped out of the league cup after being thrashed 41 by manchester city in the quarterfinals arsenal's elimination comes of the cob dwelling in 15th place in the premier league australians nathan leon expects india it's come out fighting in the 2nd test which begins on boxing day his comments follow the aussies thrashing india in the series opener a match that saw the tourists record their lowest ever innings title in test cricket 36 runs they got some absolutely will class wise throughout the whole war those one of the days where nothing went wrong with them and everything went wrong for us we've all had them it's how they got in korea no doubt in their i think they're trying right now as we speak so now they are absolutely trying to house that are very long everyone else would for every other guy and we're expecting them

to come out for him and not have any scars from the other day. now the delay of the take care lympics has caused much to strops the destruction rather thousands of thousands of athletes around the world and forced to adopt their training methods and in some cases for long their careers as they've a status report such sites and in the case for the u.s. men's rowing. back on the water for another hard day's work the u.s. men's rowing team is training in the oakland estuary in northern california when the tokyo olympics was despondent march because of coronavirus every single member of the squad signed up for another year prosperous really just kind of back to work you know it's it's not just the same we have a kind of precautions repertory corporate change or. you know fundamentally it's just get back to work and we've got several months here to kind of buckle down and get our speed back to where we want to be some of these athletes compete in an 8

man boat but right now to keep safe they're only being sent out to training fours and twos and those he previously tested positive for cave in 19 are working on their own having only just returned from quarantine it's a grueling routine for these amateur athletes who all have real day jobs training starts at 6 am followed by work and then more training in the evening. but they've had to put their real lives on hold for a year longer than expected with one member of the team having to change his wedding plans there are some upsides though. it gives us a little bit of help because we have a young team so it gives us a bit more time to develop so i think it's challenging for some of the older guys like myself who are only playing to be on the team so for years and i'm kind of get on with the rest of our normal lives but i think it is helpful for us in a way in that we have some young guys and it gives us more time to develop we have . more safety is paramount for coach michael tetchy who himself wrote it 3 olympics

when the pandemic struck he immediately took his teams off the water set them up with rowing machines at home and sent them online work. that's the back outside now but he admits he still has reservations about them competing in tokyo i don't have a crystal ball but and it does seem kind of hairy you have people coming from 125 different countries but i do think that the japanese will do a great job and i think they'll figure something out look we have looks like there may be a vaccine and you know i'm sure that i'm sure though work it out so that everyone say. after a break for christmas the team will go into a bio security bubble before competing in february 22 row is vying for 14 seats on the plane to tokyo all of them willing to make sacrifices to achieve their olympic dreams david stokes al-jazeera. the reigning n.b.a. champions the lakers assaults of their title defense with a defeat before facing city rivals the clippers on opening day bron james his team

and then celebrating their finals victory from october well those celebrations were halted by pool jewish school 33 points on tuesday with kawaii lennon's chipping in with 26 is winning its 11621. this game while hopes are chest literally going to go through not. just return it to go on the. roll in or our success this year so we look forward to watching. well that's all for now but it's more late so hunger by story ok will see later on sara thank you very much and finally before we go just take a look at this because a charity has brought some christmas cheer to lebanon's capital after a really tough year for the city that christmas tree has been decorated outside the port of beirut which was rocked by a huge explosion in august and it's been set up an honor of the firefighters who

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those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue. president donald trump makes another controversial round of presidential pardons and does a u. turn on a career in a virus stimulus bill. you're watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters in doha i'm sorry you know we're going to also coming up a police detain angry truckers following scuffles as thousands of lorries remain trapped at the border with france. qatar begins its mass vaccination program against current virus after receiving its 1st batch of pfizer doses.