in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. a warning from the u.k. health secretary that more than one new coronavirus mutation is spreading in the country. the whole ramadan this is after their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up could be any of the last 4 nights. it is your body's right and that is enough truck drivers and police face off in the u.k. where anger is growing over delays at the border brought on by fears of covert 19 also time is running out for a break sit trade deal but there are hints of progress. and donald trump makes

another controversial round of presidential pardon it's. looking to throw down large parts of england are being put under even tougher covert 19 restrictions as a mutated variant of the virus spreads new infections have risen by 57 percent in the past week and more people are currently in hospital than at least point since april the british government is putting more regions under its highest level of restriction from saturday and elevating measures elsewhere meanwhile the u.k. is facing the added threat of another covert 19 mutation from people who've arrived from south africa we are quarantining cases and close contacts of cases found here in the u.k. 2nd we're placing immediate restrictions on travel from south africa. and finally

and most importantly anyone in the u.k. who has been in south africa in the past fortnight and anyone who has a close contact of someone who's been in south africa in the last fortnight must quarantine immediately. because more from london the u.k. is split and a tier system $12.00 for for being with the most restrictions the strictest which is london and the southeast the east of the country east and he has been added to that means people stay at home they are not allowed to be out without a good reason people are told to work from home unless they absolutely have to travel and they're not allowed to mix with other households they're there to meet people. someone from one person from outside the household outside no meetings inside you know that those other restrictions and the tier 4 non-essential businesses are closed now these restrictions will come in the day after christmas

so on saturday now some are asking the question that if the rise in cases is so concerning then why is it that the government is waiting until a day after christmas after christmas because on christmas day from tears one to 3 there is a relaxing of the rules that allows people to socialize in the bubble of 3 households and what people are asking now is that if the concert if there's so much concern about this new strain about the increase of hospitalizations about the increase of deaths then why wait why not act now why delay it and right now the government doesn't seem to have an answer for that but. the health care match up was worried he did seem concerned and was warning people to show restraint well paul broun has more from the british port city of dover where hundreds of trucks are stuck unable to return to the continent. people are very miserable and fed up and upset and it

started on tuesday with a lack of information i have to say that just wasn't anything filtering through to those drivers who at that point had been stranded for that. you could hear people just blowing their horns out of sheer frustration misery there's gridlock in the town of itself that means local people are being caught up in all of this lorry drivers who are trying to get down that road where the police blocking blockages behind me that's the main road to the polls being diverted away that having to turn around and go back in the direction that they came from. it's all around unhappiness frankly the weather isn't helping. it's 36 hours away from christmas day so you know you can you can imagine that the drivers here who hoped to be home with their families off to delivering the goods on the loads and sound for back in time for christmas it's not going to happen for so for thousands of them it's been

really very very frustrating this morning trying to get from the office or it sees a straight answer as to exactly what is going on to alleviate the pressure on the traffic and also i would say get those drivers stranded on to those studies with a test hopefully a negative coronavirus test i spoke to kent county council this morning about the regional authority for this area and they said no it's not us it's the department for health department the health turned around and said no no no it's not us it's the partner for transport the bomb for transport have to reveal i haven't revealed anything apart from the very basic statistics of how many trucks are stuck on the m 2 and 20 motorway on that mountain affeldt they said testing has started but they haven't given us how many revelation of how many tests they've actually managed to complete negotiations from the european union and the united kingdom a still trying to finalize a brics it deal there's no clear if it will happen the pound is going to sit. all

hopes of a solution is imminent and the u.k. is due to leave the single market at the end of the month that's going to latest from the barber who's in london and we've been hearing that a deal is close quite a lot these past few days. that's what we have so therefore we should take these new reports with a pinch of salt but there have been briefings by anonymous e.u. officials to the press saying that a deal is close to being finalized there's talk of a 2000 page text the problem is that deadline of the 31st of december that's next thursday everybody in agreement now but it's too close for the european parliament to ratify any deal so what we're hearing now from again anonymous sources is that the european council which represents the member states is getting ready to to look at provisional ratification that is get everybody to see the text and say yes this

will come in apply on the 1st of january pending a ratification from the european parliament let's not forget that the british parliament here also has to ratify this text there's talk of them being recalled over the christmas holidays but you know we've been here before but it does seem that they're closer but both sides are still quoting the issue of fishing access is a problem where they haven't met and the u.k. government on wednesday also mentioning problems with the level playing field something that many people thought had been ironed out the irish prime minister or the teashop the whole martin has said that in his opinion the gap on the question of fishing is still still wide that's worrying but of course in terms of its significance in the greater deal it's very small it's tens of millions of dollars.

compared to the prospect of a much larger continuation of exports and imports which were in the 2 sides are no avoiding the no deal scenario we've just seen what kind of disruption any hold up ports can cause so it's not in there you know this i didn't trust for that to happen for their debt thank you nadine barber there in london u.s. president donald trump has pardoned 15 people including 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 2017 and the men worked for the private security firm formerly known as blackwater and were serving long prison sentences the incident caused international outrage and the pardons has left many iraqis angered chance trafford has moved baghdad and speaks to a man injured in that attack. or he was shot by an american could drag on what has been described as one of the darkest days of u.s. involvement in iraq inside ok i was on

a bus when the shooting started heavy fire came towards us i felt the 1st bullet hit my leg as i scrambled our i kept running towards the bus station then i got hit again when i stopped i was hit a 3rd time i felt like the bones of my leg had exploded i fell down and started to crawl there was utter chaos people were terrified trying to save themselves i mean this video was filmed after the attack 14 iraqis including 2 children were killed and at least 20 others injured when a heavily armed convoys of contractors with the american security company blackwater opened fire at a busy intersection in the capital baghdad. the company set up by a former u.s. navy seal in the late 1990 s. sent hundreds of former soldiers to iraq in the often month of the 2003 u.s. led invasion blackwater was paid hundreds of millions of dollars by the u.s. state department to protect visiting dignitaries the company said its men started

shooting during the 2007 incident in baghdad in self defense but that was eventually proven not to be the case in a u.s. court of law. for years many iraqis saw the events that unfolded here on this little square on september the 16th 2007 as an example of how america fought they could do what it wanted in iraq to never be called to account so they were relieved in 2014 when a us federal court sentenced for blackwater employees to lindsay jail terms including one life sentence the pardoning of those 4 men a by president trump for the victims at least means that justice has still not been done. but don't base lawyer hasan job and his son suffered multiple gunshot wounds as they crouched in a car both miraculously survived. to make a bit of a bit damage to me and i when i heard about trump's decision i was shocked and

disappointed we are the victims and those men are the murderers i thought the u.s. justice system was independent but it seems justice is affected by u.s. politics trumps decision is another example of his failures in his policy towards arabs and the middle east. abdulla me to him shares those thoughts he flicked through old pictures of himself in hospital after operations to save his leg how done us. those men that shot me don't represent america trump doesn't represent all american people either he represents an x. for himself. what iraqis assessment of the u.s. and its leadership from a man whose life was changed forever 13 years ago john strafford al-jazeera baghdad well still ahead here on al-jazeera no longer delay the 1st shipment of the finds are bound to cave in 19 that seal arrives in latin america will live in mexico city the positive side of the pandemic now travel restrictions are led to more sightings

of an endangered don't fit in hong kong. the season continues with occasional bouts of onshore showery weather for the event and shares of course spreading across iraq to become snow showers or snow proper in iran on the high ground azerbaijan and beyond into armenia and eastern turkey which is now covered in snow by usually where this sort of thing comes south and east which you follow it with a ship which is the case that northerly wind down the gulf is also normally wind down the red sea which tends to showers for the south maybe in the east and south sudan west inside of saudi arabia but for the most part it's cooler but sunny weather forecast wise for doha that's a sure miles not so windy northwesterly for a couple of days and the highest temperature on saturday only 19 as not going to

feel very warm this part of the world active rain has faded a little bit we've had some good shots in the eastern side of south africa but i think concerted will see them right up through or mozambique but then you tend to get a fading of the full cost in fact a good part of botswana is going to be dry in the south here but not a shower showing here in the next 3 days however there will be significant raise to mozambique and throughout zimbabwe. places that both won't both have been in drought well it's that. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy they get 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's global

headlines how will a place like good luck get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al jazeera. welcome back i want you all deserve me still run a reminder of our top news stories u.k. health minister tang kong has announced that more regions will move into tearful restrictions on boxing day he also said that they've detected 2 cases of another variant in the u.k. which may have come from south africa. british and european negotiators are reports be close to finalizing a pretty trade deal with just over

a week left to the deadline key issues that they're trying to resolving to do you fishing rights in british waters the u.k. is due to leave the single market at the end of the month it's. iraq's foreign ministry and surging donald trump to reverse presidential pardons handed out to full military contractors they were convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 2007 the men who were serving long prison sentences for the incident which drew international outrage. the 1st shipment of the pfizer biotech ovid 19 vaccine has arrived in latin america the mexican government officials have posed for photographs with the cargo as it was unloaded in mexico city president andres manuel lopez obrador says health care workers will be given priority when the roll out begins on thursday c.d.'s and people with chronic illnesses will be next in line let's cross over to john pullman john holden who's following events for us in

mexico city of all small things important things come in small packages actually john they'll be very pleased it has arrived in mexico city you know you've you've just repeated almost word for word what the foreign ministry representative said as they received it and that's because as you said. this is quite a trial for a list arrival with a ceremony with about 5 people speaking including the head of d.h.l. in mexico but the reality is that this is just a small shipment and what the mexican government estimating is that they'll have about enough vaccines by the end of january to be able to apply them to just over one percent of the population here so the foreign ministry may representative said that this was the beginning of the end it's quite a small sort of beginning and the end is still quite a long way away in mexico now as you mentioned front line medical workers going to be the 1st people to get hold of these vaccines and that's important because mexico

actually has the highest number of doctors nurses medical workers in general that have died in the pandemic there's been a lot of criticism over quite a health creaky public health system here this meant that a lot of people in mexico haven't actually wanted to take their relatives into hospital they've tried to wait it out at home because they haven't really trusted in the public health institutions. john holmes thanks very much for the update. now qatar has begun a mass covert 19 vaccination campaign elderly people and health workers are the 1st to receive the fire as a band tech jobs people with chronic illnesses will also be prioritized for inoculation a song binge of it has been. qatar has launched its largest ever vaccination campaign and patients need to be assured if there is a fee for

a university retiree received the 1st job and he wants people to be confident about the vaccine and institutions like the world health organization or w h o the whole world is in chaos of all. of it. surely. it's a necessity to take precaution play should listen for the concerns. from ahmed hospital or they were killed of good is a. good friend used. more. on think carefully in a recent poll of those who are not typical for sure in our industry. the 1st branch of the pfizer buying tech vaccine needs to be kept low 70 degree celsius and is being delivered to 7 health centers from where the inoculations will be administered but there has also approved madonnas vaccine which will be arriving at

a later date. the 1st in line for the drug on the elderly those with chronic diseases and frontline health care workers health officials in qatar say they've been able to manage the number of cases with a robust truck increased system they are hopeful that by the summer of 2021 they'll be able to roxanne a more than 70 percent off the local population to achieve basic humanity and break the chain of infection but they also acknowledge that it is an ambitious target that relies on people being vaccinated voluntarily went some remain skeptical don't listen to rumors listen to the scientists listen to your experts listen to the people who have trusted for years and years with pfizer and by attack they have a clinical trial of more than 43000 people at one point and the side effects detected were don't develop any signs or symptoms like mild fever body aches or a headache this is actually a good sign that your body is responding to the vaccine and is developing

sufficient antibodies to protect you 243 people are confirmed to have died in qatar during the pandemic one of the lowest rates in the world government officials say their response is we not equipped and strict laws on testing mosques social distancing and a mandatory monitoring have helped keep infections to about 142000 in a population of 2750000 but has gradually ease restrictions but still requires mandatory quarantine for travelers and health experts are warning people against a false sense of security as vaccinations begin saying they want everyone to maintain safety protocols against the virus because the pandemic is far from over some of a job down to 0. the major town in the central african republic is secure after reports that have been seized by rebels eyewitnesses on the lines calling itself the patriots coalition to change to. have to fight scene with un backed government troops but the un missions rebels remain in the area they are not in control the

latest violence comes just days before the country's presidential election. very conflicting information. at this hour about 400 kilometers from the capital where i am now we've been talking to eyewitnesses who are saying that he is now with. this. change this is a movement that. is comprised of groups who joined forces over the weekend and have been threatening to march on to the. people that we're talking to in saying that there's been maybe fighting and is now being controlled by this rebel movement but we have also been talking to the u.n. peacekeeping mission. here and they are saying that that is not true and.

has not fall into the hands of the grouping they say that there's been. fighting. this morning as well but the city is not. being controlled by the rebels now bhambri is a very big city because. that connects to mining areas than to other neighboring countries like sudan and also where the producing producing factory and the only area in ca are the produce is right so whoever controls. control into control. paul area that's why so important here in boston everyone is quite worried about the huge if you wish on the election. day opposition leaders think that this election needs to be postponed because of the security issues but government officials are saying the back is not

an option. dozens of people have been killed in an attack by armed men in western ethiopia it happened in the town of bil'in in the region of benghazi. it's the latest attack in a wave of violence between rival ethnic groups prime minister visited the region on choose day calling for peace no group has yet claimed responsibility. hundreds of people have fled the mine going to come 10 balls now after a massive fire thick black smoke poured from turned. around home to 1200 people near the croatian border the international organization for migration which oversees the facility had planned to shut it down this weekend and says both knew no authority is a fail to provide basic services including water and electricity. is the camp. well we can see 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 tents on the one side and on the other side we can see several 100 refugees and migrants which are now basically left without a limitation 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 a not their temporary shelter for refugees and migrants is a politicised camp was set up in april and it was imagine only as a temporary side for a migrant 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 old these people you see behind my back. israel is to hold its force general election

in less than 2 years after its parliament failed to pass a budget and was dissolved it turns what's being fractious coalition briefly united prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival the former opposition need to bet against. reports now from west jerusalem. this is the speaker of israel's parliament to the knesset announcing that last ditch efforts to pass the budget had failed it meant there was no way forward for the fragile ruling alliance the muslim of the of unfortunately who are unable to find enough common ground to prevent another round of elections and enable the 23rd can assert and its members to exercise the mandate given to us we all go to face a difficult to listen campaign and i call on each and every one of us and each and every israeli citizen to refrain from exacerbating tensions the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is popularity has plummeted over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and he's also facing corruption charges his attempts at

delaying the budget vote and hold on to his position as prime minister fuel divisions with his coalition partner believe dances blue white party it also fueled divisions within his own likud party and a faction recently broke away but if it's an inconvenient time for the governing coalition to collapse netanyahu isn't chairing it and yet against elections that wrong decision by the un by party what if an election is forced upon us i promise you that event analysts say the time the hour will be over confident as the political landscape has changed in the past 3 years certainly very weak much weaker than he has been politically for a long time not only because he faces this looming corruption trial but also because israel is really widely believed has mishandled the pandemic suffering economically as a result of that and of course donald trump no longer be in the white house by that type so some of the fact. that have allowed him to prevail in the past. although

polls suggest likud is the largest party netanyahu is facing some new contenders and he would still need alliances to reach 61 seat majority to form a government but he is also a political survivor and he still has some time to ramp up support for himself ahead of an election i remaster al-jazeera western resul i'm now hong kong's busy waterways have quietened but below the surface is a very different story could a virus travel restrictions have led to increased sightings of the territories pink dolphins to the pollen has the story from hong kong. we join conservation teams to search for the endangered pink dolphin. with less traffic in these waters because of the current virus pandemic they're trying to find out the mammals are returning to their historic habitat around hong kong. he traveled 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 previous stablish. the low levels of sea traffic have given scientists a unique opportunity to understand the impact of noise from shipping and vessel. after a few hours we reach the coast of blantyre island developing rapidly yet a key ecosystem for the dolphins and we spot them on our i mean. 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 to say we saw about 68 dolphins and we saw

a mix of young and old individuals and they were engaging in a very variety of behavior so not just feeding not just traveling 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 a. action i'm not saying we want the high speed ferries to stop we're saying that we would just like them to take account of this point habitat area for example by just changing the course widely we're travelling 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 and the lockdowns 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 planet and help the environment recover. al-jazeera hong kong. your child is there and means the whole rob never mind of our top news stories large parts of england are being put under even tougher covert 19 restrictions as a mutated variant of the virus spreads new infections have risen by 57 percent in the past week and more people are currently hospital than at any point since april meanwhile the u.k. is facing the added threat of another covert 19 mutation from people who arrived from south africa we are quarantining cases and close contacts of cake.