case of the best documentary films from across the new. jersey area. this is al-jazeera. the home run when you're watching al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes this new variant is highly concerning because it is yet more transmissible and it appears to mutate it further the british held secretary raises the alarm about another mutant strain of the coronavirus to survive in south africa placing millions of people under stricter measures. time is also running out for a bracelet trade deal but there are hints of progress. also iraq calls on us

president trying to reconsider pardoning 4 military contractors convicted of killing civilians in baghdad. on the positive side of the pandemic our travel restrictions have led to more sightings of an endangered dolphin in hong kong. and i'm fond of how much all the port in our messy break spell is wreck or the foremost goal that the single club with his $644.00 strike for barcelona. welcome to the large parts of england are being put under even tougher covert 1000 restrictions as a mutant variant of the virus spreads further new infections have risen by 57 percent in the past week and more people are currently in hospital but at any point since april the new restrictions will be put in place from saturday the day after

christmas the united kingdom is also facing the threat of another covert 19 mutation from people who've arrived from south africa but it's urging anyone who's been there in the past 2 weeks to quarantine immediately. 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 is a close contact of someone who's been in south africa in the last fortnight must quarantine immediately fears over more transmissible strains of the virus prompted europe to shut borders with the u.k. earlier this week well efforts are now underway to clear a massive backlog of freight trucks and travelers will surely will get more on the

south african strain with her life for us in johannesburg but 1st let's cross over to as a back who's in london and also the really those new restrictions are going to that huge swathes of people from the east of england right over to the southwest. yes many of those areas are already closed or bordering areas that are in that tier for restrictions that tearful restriction is a basically a stay at home order where it means is non-essential businesses are closed people are not allowed to socialize in groups outside you're allowed to meet one person from a different household but those only people are not allowed to travel to different areas of the country and people are told to work from home unless it's absolutely essential that they have to leave their homes now this comes as the u.k. announces its highest ever daily infection rate over 39744 people dead in the 24 hour period the health secretary and caucus said that the current system the

123 that they had wasn't enough to deal with this new more transmissible strain of the virus but let me put this in perspective just under 20000000 people in the u.k. are under that tier 4 script restrictions and that the day after christmas from midnight on saturday 43 percent around 43 percent of england's population will be under that strict cheerful restrictions and other other areas will be moving from tear to just hear 3 interior wanted to but questions are being asked why is this very important the day after christmas because the u.k. government is allowing those in the areas from taiwan to cheer 3 that easing of those restrictions on christmas day they will be allowed to socialize in a bubble of 3 has holes for that one day some of them destroyed immediately after moving to tier 4 surely if the mixing and the socializing indoors on christmas day that increases the risk of the infection passing on so why is the u.k. government waiting until the day after christmas and those are questions currently

being asked of the u.k. government and they haven't really offered an answer and of course there's also this concern that the u.k. government is telling the public about this new strain that seems to arrived from south africa. yes so there's been 2 cases detected both individuals that have recently traveled from south africa now the government says that this is a more transmissible strain and it's mutated further than the new variant that was detected here in the u.k. and that's obvious concerns the u.k. has put immediate restrictions on travel from south africa has told anyone that's traveled from or come into contact with anyone that has traveled from south africa in the last few weeks that they must quarantine and what the u.k. doesn't want is that this new strain this new mutants drain from south africa to become the dominant strain here because you're already struggling with dealing with a new variant that's forced the u.k. government to put many areas into tighter restrictions as

a bug in london thanks very much for the update well let's get more on this from her mentor so who's in johannesburg in south africa and how are the british health secretary was very grateful to the south african or thorazine his press conference a few hours ago about the acts of exchange of information which will help the british certainly investigate this new strain is affecting many hundreds if not thousands across south africa. also the african officials say they alerted the u.k. about this new variant last week they say it spreads faster and they say it could be responsible for the 2nd wave the country is currently experiencing its blood into fired in tell province in the eastern cape and the garden area that's the cape town area an average of africa's getting just under 10000 new infections a day and the government here is trying to prepare in case that number rises they try to make sure that more hospital beds are enough enough hospice hospital beds

are enough so stable patients are being discharged are trying to measure is not oxygen in i.c.u. beds in private hospitals and in government hospitals and while as well they're putting in place additional staff in case they are needed there's even talk of bringing in military doctors and nurses if it even comes to that stage health officials here are saying that they fear because of the festive season when many people are traveling up and down the country to see family and friends they fear that they could be more infections and they've stiffed a peach in infections in maybe about 2 weeks time however it's also in johannesburg thanks very much for the update from south africa well as you've heard the variant is the reason behind the hold of the british port city of dover hundreds of trucks are stuck unable to get into friends even though the blockades been used was poor berman explains drivers are just fed up. 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 me as. you can hear people just blowing their horns out of sheer frustration misery was 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 poles being diverted away that having to turn around and go back in the direction that they came from. it's all around unhappy to us frankly the weather isn't helping i'm way off 36 hours away from christmas day so you know you can you can imagine that the drivers here who coach 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 all thought 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 of health turned around and said no no no it's not us it's the poem for transport the deposit for transport have to reveal haven't revealed anything apart from the very basic statistics of how many trucks are stuck on the m 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 it. well negotiators from the e.u. and the u.k. are still trying to finalize a break sit deal but it's not clear if it'll happen now the pound is going to gauge the dollar on hopes of a solution that cement and and the u.k. is due to leave the single euro market at the end of the month let's go to barbara

in london with more on this i mean the deal is close we've been hearing that quite a lot these past few days nitty. yes it does seem as if there are there are more voices now. unnamed officials within the european union talking to journalists in the last few hours suggesting that there is the outline of a trade deal that so ready on paper running to perhaps 2000 pages but nothing has been announced and it could i mean some people are talking about the next 24 hours being the timeframe for that we do know that prime minister boris johnson and the president of the european commission is 11 the lion have been in telephone contact continuously since monday now the deadline of course is next thursday the 31st of december midnight going into the 1st of january that's when the transition period ends and as you said that's when britain is not only

a non member of the european union that's the case now but it's outside of the customs union and the internal market the european union single market so the prospect of tariffs is what's really on everyone's mind in the business world here and we've seen the disruption of ports that can happen when there are additional checks and paperwork so yes there has been movement in the last week or so but the issues of fishing rights and access by e.u. fleets to british waters have been cited on wednesday by the british government as still a problem but also quoting to the british side the idea of the level playing field how to guarantee fair competition if that's still the case that really does suggest that it might take a bit longer than just the fishing issue the fishing as you want it so the disagreement we believe it is only around stocks of now around tens of

billions sorry tens of millions of dollars which is a drop in the ocean when you look at mutual trade between the e.u. and the u.k. . so yeah lots of hope for a deal let's not forget there will be destruction even if there is this deal it's a slim deal compared to what might have been a visit a few years ago there will still be extra customs checks but for a lot of people there will be relief if it's announced in the next few days that there has been a deal struck which might have to be approved now or agreed there rather and then ratified by the european parliament after the deadline of the 31st because there's agreement they won't have time to do that the brother in london thinks that they. are more on the contagious strain of the virus that's been spreading across the u.k. because cities in the u.s. and are beginning to announce their own measures as to the very latest how did your castro joins me now in washington d.c. and some cities in the u.s. really now putting in restrictions on u.k.

arrivals. that's right the biggest city so hail the mayor of new york city built of la seo has just announced today that there will be quarantine orders issued for all international travelers arriving in new york city but for those arriving from the u.k. in particularly those travelers can expect a knock on their door from police officers to assure that they are enforcing these koren team orders and in fact any penalty of not being in quarantine would be a $1000.00 fine a day and this is a reflection of concerns across the state of new york with its governor andrew cuomo pressing for a federal ban on flights from the u.k. also. asking all airlines flying from the u.k. to new york to make sure passengers have a coded negative test prior to boarding which those airlines have agreed to now on

a national front of course there is in fact a travel restrictions on travelers from u.k. to the u.s. that has been in effect since president trump put one down in march but there are many exceptions u.s. citizens rather dense and some family members are all still able to travel to the u.s. from the u.k. in fact some 30000 passengers arrived in the u.s. just from london heathrow alone last month but there's also a school of thought many public health officials saying that these restrictions are going to be useless that's just going to cause more headache given that there's uncertainty whether or not the strain is already here in the u.s. contact tracing and monitoring of this virus has been very poor in this country compared to others certainly not as robust as the united kingdom and so there are some believing that this strain is likely already here in the u.s. of course that the u.s. is still reeling from his own as you say cave in 1000 problems but there was

potentially light at the end of the tunnel with a government stimulus package potentially forthcoming. yeah but that victory was celebrated too early at this because president trump threw a surprise wrench in that process after congress had completed its 9 months of negotiations and passed this massive bill on monday well within 24 hours president trump went back on on his promise to having support the bill and saying instead that he will not support the bill on less it is amended what he wants is for stimulus checks for americans that right now are at $600.00 a person he wants that to be upped to 2000 democrats are celebrating this challenge as an early christmas present nancy pelosi speaker of the house now planning to bring a standalone bill to increase those checks to the house floor tomorrow on christmas eve she would have to get people to pass it unanimously for it to progress to the

senate so it would only take one republican flying back to washington to object to the measure to kill it that really puts republicans in a tough spot because the party wants to be fiscally conservative however they also want to support the president but really what's at stake here so we shouldn't lose sight of this is that being held hostage are the $12000000.00 americans who will lose unemployment benefits the day after christmas the families who will face even actions on the new year and of course the federal government itself which will run out of funds on december 29th all of those things are tied up in this bill sitting on the president's desk and they will not happen unless he signs did a great deal of stakes and it comes to that source in washington d.c. . well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including the security situation in central african republic is deteriorating just days ahead of the

election as rebel groups push towards the capital deal or no deal why companies in the netherlands say they're still not prepared for breakfast. and things didn't go according to plan for the n.b.a. champions in their season opener basketball action coming up in sports with santa. iraq's foreign ministry is urging president donald trump to reconsider a set of presidential pardons he granted clemency for 15 people including 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 2007 the men were serving long prison sentences for an incident which caused international outrage charles strafford reports now from baghdad and speaks to a man injured in that attack. or he was shot by an american could tractor on what has been described as one of the darkest days of u.s. involvement in iraq side 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 on 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. 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 thought they could do what it wanted in iraq to never be called to account so they were relieved in 2014 when a u.s. 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 it be it off

a bit damaged 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. up delineator hema 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 or trumpeter and 16 presidential pardons on choose doing treating 2 men linked to the investigation into russian meddling into the 2016 election prior to choose day he had pardoned

a former advisers michael flynn and roger stone both convicted joining the special counsel's probe trumps previously stated that he has the absolute right to pardon himself however no president has done so before him making it uncharted legal territory his personal ties to many of the pardons of drawing controversy but trump's use the powers far less than presidents before him on his run did more than 40 former president barack obama pardoned 212 people want george w. bush pardoned 189 let's get more on this jeff houser executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research joins me now from washington d.c. could have you with us on the program again jeff i mean what are the guidelines for all rules for a president to follow when they have to consider a pardon. there are no fixed rules for the pardon power the pardon power has a long lineage in anglo-american history and is generally about acts of mercy from

the executive branch when the judicial system goes into hard on the little guy that is obviously not what occurring under donald trump where people who have either done favors for donald trump or a connection to people who have done favors for him are receiving the benefit of the pardon power the pardon power which is given to the president by the constitution is absolute so there are a series of norms there are guidelines there are regulations within the justice department on who they might recommend the president pardons but the president is not limited to by any of those rules or regulation of absolute power under the constitution and he is unfortunately using it morally ok so just getting to the sort of the nitty gritty of what a pub does does a pardon absolve you of the crime that you're incarcerated full. you you're not absolving the 10th you acknowledge that you've done something you can't say you

were innocent but you have you suffered no consequences from that act and that includes there are limits on what sometimes the ballons past balance can do in america some of those are right some of those i have less agreement with it but you get out of all the sanction and penalties that might. interfere in the future can you be questioned all news if we just call it the crime that you were convicted for for example if you all appalled and and something a pay is in the case after this can you be requestion can you be interviewed about this again. yes that is that is that may the upside of apartment that you can no longer plead the 5th amendment you can't say well i face risk of prosecution because you've already faced prosecution in god out from the consequences of it so in that sense it is helpful and one way people can still find sanction in the future is if they why about the events for which they were prosecuted have now been

pardoned so if you were to testify before congress or a grand jury and why under oath about these have vents you could be prosecuted after the fact for the lying so there is some possible issues down the line for these people what you make of the president's statements that he could pardon himself it's not totally out of the realms of possibility that always around us all the. there is an open legal question whether or not a president can pardon themselves i think it is likely to be a we don't but it might be sufficient to protect against certain prosecution but the president's apart power is limited to threat or all that is national government prosecutions he cannot protect himself his family or those close to him from sanction from state and local prosecutors and there are open investigations into

trauma his family business and many members of his family going on in new york city and new york state and so those who are hoping that the rule of law applies to the powerful in america can hold out hope even if he manages to they said it's unclear but if he manages to get off by the pardon power i don't nationalize he still faces some potential sanction down the line interesting one to watch so to give us some food for thought jeff thanks so much for joining us from washington d.c. . dozens of people have been killed in the tank by armed men in western ethiopia it happened in the town of bil'in in the region of benzine google moves is the latest attack in a wave of violence between rival ethnic groups prime minister visited the region on tuesday calling for peace no group has yet claimed responsibility. tensions are high in central african republic after presidential and legislative elections on

sunday now the new alliance of armed groups calling itself the patriots coalition for change has threatened to march to the company bunky the united nations mission says it's pushing back the rebels to prevent the from taking control of important supply routes on strategic towns catherine soy has more from the company. wide quickly spread that troubles could be making their way to the capital who were in the city center when suddenly everyone around us started running and traders were closing the shops many were here 2013 there mostly muslim armed groups arrived in force and overthrew the then president francois so no one wants to be caught unawares at this time it hands out an incident in the p.k. 12 suburb on the outskirts of the city treat that the commotion. we have been told that government troops and trucks came speeding into the city

people panicked and started running the soldiers fired into the year to contain the population but that only caused more panic. we went to p.k. 12 and found more of the same this man told us he is fed up and frustrated big. trouble is always a c.r.y. i would like to know what all the international forces are doing here yet there's no peace he says it's an emotional time for everyone ahead of sunday's general election what's happening here just shows how much fear and tension there is a head of the election people who've been talking to us saying that they're worried that the rebels could be advancing even if the fighting is going on in the countryside many kilometers away from. some of the country's main armed groups have joined forces calling themselves the patriots for change here they're threatening to march to borghi demanding the election be postponed and a transitional government formed state and u.n.

officials have accused former president was easy of starting a rebellion in an attempt to overthrow the government and disrupt the poor. since last friday where there lines between decks present position into 3 armed groups have attacked is up in this area in both and belly and down around this deputy head of the u.n. mission tells us the blue helmets are protecting main supply routes and towns the whole rest of the country 71 percent of the voter registration site where the electoral cards are distributed are open and people are coming massively as they are in bangui which are some of the day to get their electoral card. most of the opposition presidential candidates have stopped their lection campaigns and want to pour rescheduled a government however says that is not an option catherine saw. still ahead here on the news no longer delays the 1st shipment of the fires

a covert 19 vaccine arrives in latin america we live in mexico city also leaders of an opposition coalition sweet victory in indian administered kashmir is 1st elections since at last october me will hear their demands and in support pakistan's cricket team have a crisis on their hands ahead of the 1st test against new zealand details of that with summer after the break. 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 but usually where this sort of thing comes south and east

would you follow it with a ship which is the case that northerly wind down the gulf is also a northerly wind down the red sea which tends to prompt 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 twice a day ha that's a sure miles not so windy north westerly 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 i think on thursday 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 limos and big and throughout zimbabwe. places that both want both but in drought well it's that.

ok 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 the laws in the last allow our child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that often legitimize and legalize pedophiles. online jumping to the quick fix in and out of the discussion the stream on out is there. every year 50000000 tons of electronic waste is thrown away the majority is illegally dumped in developing countries right now electronic waste is the most traded on this with retracing the tech through the criminal organizations making big profits and asking why the west is turning a blind eye. on the trail on al-jazeera. rule

. the world. watching al-jazeera news are with means a whole rom reminder of our top stories you can health secretary mike hanged cuz announced that more regions will move into tear for restrictions the day after christmas he also says they've detected 2 cases of another variant in the u.k. which may have come from south africa. iraq's foreign ministry is urging donald trump to reverse presidential pardons one dark 2 for military contractors they were convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 2007 the men were serving long prison sentences for the incident which drew international outrage. british and

european union negotiators are reportedly close to finalizing a brics a trade deal with just over a week left of the deadline key issues they're trying to resolve including you fishing rights in british waters. now whether they reach a deal or not companies in the netherlands are concerned about the economic impact it could have or lack on tree bricks it will cost the economy an estimated $17500000000.00 euros in lost exports and around $70000.00 jobs and delays at ports could become even longer said basom has more from rotterdam. even without additional paperwork there are delays at the port in rotterdam due to stockpiling of produce in the united kingdom cargo leaving the netherlands has increased over the past few weeks authorities are expecting even longer queues in january after they found a 5th of companies are not prepared for bracks it. you know her. there

will be so much paperwork course. so much paperwork and i think this will lead to huge the lns longer waiting times for loading and unloading and our customers i don't know of this is such a smart decision. one of them. will be. very big. if the u.k. parts from the european union without a trade deal more forms will need to be filled in meaning people will need to spend more hours undergoing custom checks delays that could be disastrous for these dutch fruit exporters who fear their products might rot around a 1000 trucks leave for the u.k. every day shipping 40000000 tons of goods every year for decades this has all gone smoothly and seamlessly after years of preparations and the final deadline rapidly approaching for many the new reality is slowly sinking in deal or no deal after breakfast on january 1st everyone traveling from the netherlands studio pay will

have to bring their passports for drivers and passengers without proper documentation will be stopped without exception to sort out their paperwork without causing delays these lorry drivers are directed to free parking spaces at rotterdam ports up to $700.00 trucks can stay here for 24 hours until travel documents are in order hundreds of drivers are expected to be stranded every day despite a government campaign warning these changes were coming. we have a 0 tolerance policy without documents you count on to the terminal this will be a tough lesson because time is money if you make this mistake once you'll make sure next time everything is in order we expect this problem to disappear within 6 weeks . but many experts say companies can hardly be blamed for a lack of preparedness if only a few days before the deadline for a deal it's still not clear how brax it will work out so many entrepreneurs that i

have talked to over the past few years have said. well we want to prepare for breakfast but what are we preparing for we don't know what it's going to look like so how can we do it and of course we go please try to do as well as possible with all the paperwork and stuff but still it's very difficult if you're not really sure what you're preparing for the worst case scenario for dutch and the poor nurse will be if in case of no deal import duties are imposed so products will become too expensive to export and for $300.00 companies supplying parts to british common factors the future will then look especially bleak steps last an al-jazeera a made in the 1st shipment of the pfizer biotech covert $1000.00 vaccine is arrived in latin america mexican government officials pose for photos with the cargo as it was unloaded in mexico city present and there's manuel lopez obrador says health care workers will be given priority when the roll out begins on thursday seniors

and people with chronic illnesses will be next in line. is our correspondent joining me now from mexico city so we have an idea roughly when the vaccine will be rolling out but it can't come too soon. no that's exactly right we'll speak more about this in a moment but there's a sort of health care crisis is being developing in mexico as the 2nd wave of code has been hitting but the officials were fairly triumphant as they showed that this this load of vaccine arrives it's pretty small it seems of the moment and even if the good things go according to plan just over one percent of mexicans are going to be vaccinated by the end of january and as you said medical staff are going to come 1st that's important because medical professionals in mexico there's more of them the died of coated than anywhere else in the world and we've spoken to nurses who said that that's really affecting the quality of the care because they simply haven't got enough colleagues who want sick to be able to attend to the people and

then people the under 40 for example there have to wait till after may if everything goes to plan but that's not to take anything away from this ichiban as you mention mitt's car is the 1st country in latin america to get the vaccine rolling ahead of chile argentina and brazil who are still sort of tangled up in bridge tapes or at least things are moving here well of course while everybody waits across latin america and mexico for the vaccine itself what is the situation like in makes good city. things are fairly difficult actually right here in mexico city the federal government's very reluctant to declare this a state of red alert here or again which means that non-essential businesses have to close and that's because the number of cases of big going right up again and even worse and that the hospitals are almost full and there's almost no ventilators left to be able to give to people here in this huge city what we've been seeing as

we've been going around the capital is queues outside of shops that are selling tanks of oxygen many people trying to take care of their relatives home but obviously we will also see this pressure in the historic center of the city just loads of people walking around on the streets here a sense that after months of partial lockdown and sometimes being in lockdown and sometimes not people maybe getting a bit tired of this the government is now pleading them to stay at home because given the state of hospitals there are worries by medical experts that in january the hospitals could be completely overwhelmed by the people coming into the for the update thank you gentlemen there in mexico city council has begun its mask over 1000 bucks a nation campaign with elderly people and health workers the 1st to receive the jobs as a some of binge of his reports. qatar has launched its largest ever vaccination campaign and patients need to be assured. a

university retiree receives 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. of all. of it. surely. it's a necessity to take precaution really should listen for the very concerned. from ahmed hospital they were told of going to say. we can use. more. unthink carefully most recent poll also. notable for sure in all industries. 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 track and trace system they are hopeful that by the summer of 2021 they'll be able to vaccinate 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 while entirely when some remain skeptical don't listen to rumors listen to the scientists listen to your experts listen to the people you've 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 mild and should you develop any signs or symptoms like mild fever body aches or a headache this is actually

a good sign that means your body is responding to the vaccine and is developing sufficient antibodies to protect you 243 people are confirmed to have died in part they're doing the pandemic one of the lowest rates in the world government officials say their response is we need to quit and strict laws on testing masks 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 job a down to 0. 000 journalist mahmoud is saying has now spent 4 years and the gyptian detention center without charge or trial hussein was arrested while visiting family in december 26th seen a number of human rights organizations have joined on jazeera in demanding his

immediate release his detention is in violation of both the gyptian and international law. hundreds of myron's are being left with nowhere to sleep after fleeing account that caught fire in bosnia thick black smoke poured from tents in the camp near the croatian border where the camp has been strongly criticized by rights groups because of a lack of resources and was due to close officials blame people who live there to starting the fire. has a message is in the camp. well we can see a still do smoke behind my back i'm currently on the side where there is camp in north western bosnia we can still see the smoke rising above the tents 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 ation 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 minor and and refugees and it was supposed to shut down a 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. a coalition of indian administered kashmir is best known leaders have won the most seats in local elections beating prime ministers new and remote party now the election is the 1st since the indian government revoked the region's autonomy last year the winning coalition wants autonomy to be reinstated 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 were 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 to many kashmiris say they use these elections to make their voices heard the good car alliance 110 of the 280 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. do you believe. 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 the b j p says the results vindicate the 2019 constitutional changes. they do stuff made 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. well still ahead in sport that's football legend loses his claim to a long standing recalled that story coming up after the break stay with us.

busy waterways of quiet but below the surface it's a different story kind of i was travel restrictions of lead to increased sightings of the territories pink dolphins to figure pollen has more 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. 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 fine habitat area for example by just changing the course likely 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 lock downs 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. ajah 0 hong kong. has some thank you very. well barcelona star messi has broken a record held by one of football's greatest ever players pearlie for more than 40 years on tuesday iraq top of his 644th a goal for boston breaking the brazilian legends record for the most goals at one club mess is historic achievement came in barcelona 3 nil win over via the lead let's take a look at how the goal scoring records of both greats and compare barsa and santos respectively. as you mentioned messi has $644.00 goals for barcelona and that's one

more than pele scored 2 brazilian club santos interesting though it's taken the argentinian a more matches to reach his total pearlie getting his goals at a rate not far from a goal it game but here's the thing at messi a bag his goals in fewer seasons 17 compared to perl is 19 between 156170 4 and misses goals which have mostly come league or have seen him win the spanish league with barcelona 10 times compared to 6 brazilian leagues titles with santos. content to start but i see leo happy he's working well and he's crucial for our attacking game thanks to his creativity and 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 attack atletico madrid

defend trippier has received a 10 week worldwide ban from football the england international is being punished for breaching the english football associations betting rules he'd been a target in relation to bets made surrounding his move from tottenham to let it go in 2019 i spare the f.a.'s rules that players are prohibited from placing bets or providing confidential information to people that can gamble on the matter. pakistan's injury crisis ahead of the 1st test against new zealand is worsening star all round a pond that has been ruled out 2 to injury the development of really as to pakistan's woes a team captain. and top order batsman. have already been ruled out with injuries or the 1st test that begins on boxing day in.

the delay on the tokyo lympics has caused much disruption to thousands of athletes who are on the wall they've been forced to adapt their training methods and in some cases a prolonged at their careers and as david stokes reports that says the case for the u.s. men's rowing team. 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 to spend in 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 going to change our teens but you know fundamentally it's kind of just get back to work 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 fools and twos and those he previously tested positive for cave in 19 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 as wedding plans there are some upsides no 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 send them on line workouts that 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 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 take all of them willing to make sacrifices to achieve their olympic dreams david stokes al-jazeera the reigning and be champions the l.a. lakers has thought of the title defense that with a defeat the full facing city rivals the clippers on opening day le bron james if

team a had been celebrating the finals i think 3 from october although celebrations were halted by a poll georgia school 33 points on tuesday with while lenora death whipping on and chipping in here with 26 clips winning 11609 this game won our stats for us literally going to go through not. just return it got a lot of peace. in our our success this year so we look forward to. and that's ok as well for me i have more for you later on but for now i hand you back to. thanks very much southern culture of all those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated throughout the day now barbara starr will have more news from our london new center in a few moments of the sort of the braver to learn from sana me of the news our team

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