irish troops. are limbs mother and baby sky. al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes gunmen killed more than 100 people in western ethiopia a day after prime minister i.b.m. made visited the region to urge caution after other ethnic attacks shops close and people hurry home fearing more violence ahead of central african republic selection plus. this is highly concerning because it is yet more transmissible

and it appears to mutated further the strain of corona virus suspected of fueling cases in south africa has now been detected in the u.k. . this is angry truck drivers protest at the english port of dover worth thousands are still stranded after a covert blockade. montana hamas now have all the sport including. aiming to finish the year on a high note then it is a dance man it be another one nil to go level on points with leaders that lexical. we begin this news hour with reports of a brutal attack in western ethiopia gunmen are reported to have killed more than

100 people one farmer in the town of bullen in the region told. reuters news agency he counted 82 dead bodies in a field another man said he saw 20 bodies in another location ethiopian human rights commission confirmed at least 100 died it's the latest deadly violence between rival ethnic groups in the region while the gunmen struck hours after the ethiopian prime minister visited the region affirming his plans to stop the recurring violence there one of the recent that lee incidents in the region was an attack by gunmen on a bus last month which left $34.00 people dead. and since the beginning of november these european military has been fighting the t. great people's liberation front in the northern t grave region that's raised fears of a security vacuum in restive areas elsewhere in the country elections due next year have further inflame the simmering tensions over land power and resources.

well william davison is a senior analyst in ethiopia with the international crisis group and was based in itis of about for 7 years as a journalist he joins us via skype from london now sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean we have just started to hear the reports but from what we do know what do you make of the situation. well this is a continuation unfortunately of repeated incidents of into communal violence in of any shango groomers region and particularly to mexico area and what we're dealing with here is you know a lack of clarity about exactly who the perpetrators were exactly who the victims are there are not to pull competing claims that are claims from ethnic horror activists this is part of the campaign of persecution that is backed by various and you know nationalist opponents of them and local people in the area they talk

about aggression from haro who they say have designs on their territory and they also competing claims between an horan or a mo activists and human rights commission has said that a minority ethnic group with a predominantly the victims here and so it is a very messy picture with multiple competing claims of into communal violence you mention the competing claims one of the issues that we found in reporting what was happening and still happening until great was it was very difficult to get information out what is the sort of i guess media landscape all the way that we could access reliable information like in that area. with a ticket the situation is exceptional almost exceptional because there is you know complete there's been a complete telecommunications blackout across the vision and what we're dealing with here in indonesia region is something more typical and that is that this is happened in a fairly remote rural area and therefore reports filtered through and through

activists through government channels but there is no real independent and certainly not timely verification like i say exactly who the victims were and who the perpetrators were it's also worth mentioning though that by senior any shango region officials have subsequently been arrested and so there was a suggestion from the bench and go government and that some of their own members are involved in stoking this violence. the reports are that the gunman struck literally hours after the prime minister i.b.m. had visited the region he'd gone there to affirm his plans that the stop of recurring violence what do you make of that timing and the impact that the on that is having in that region of any. well you have of course that we have a federal position is that it is a source of consistent as well i don't think we should draw too direct a link between the prime minister's visit and your clearly of course he was trying to speak to community members trying to understand this is the source of the

violence. you know obviously that hasn't been serialized yet but you don't reason to draw too direct a link. and you know we should also we should well i mean no reason jordyn direct link there. and there was mention from the human rights commission that there was security procedures without relating to some officials that left some sort of security vacuum in the area and so that could be related to the promises that final turbulent times of ethiopia will be monitoring that story and hopefully speak to you again soon for the moment william they were sent senior analyst and here with the international crisis group with davison thank you thanks very much. tensions are high in central african republic before sunday's elections a new alliance of armed groups calling itself the patriots coalition for change has threatened to march on the capital bangui the u.n. mission says it's pushing back the rebels to prevent them from taking control of

strategic tiles but fears of violence of prompted shops to shop and people to hunker down in their homes from the capital bangui catherine soy has more. panic in the wild quickly spread that troubles to 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. while the mostly move on group arrived in force and overthrew the then president francois so no one wants to be caught unawares this time it comes out an incident in the p.k. 12 suburbs on the outskirts of the city the commotion. memo says 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 in c.r.y. i would like to know what all the international forces are doing here yet this new 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 ahead of the election people you've been talking to are 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 bourg 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 ports. since

last friday where the lines between decks present position in the 3 armed groups are. both emboli and 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 zones where the electoral cards are distributed are open and people are coming massively as they are in bangui which are some of the to get their electoral card. most of the opposition presidential candidates have stopped their lection campaigns and want to the pool rescheduled the government however says that is not an option catherine. bond. coming up on this news hour from london donald trump defies congress in his dying days in office refusing to sign off on coronavirus relief and vetoing

a national defense bill is also provoked anger in iraq by pardoning foreign military contractors jailed for shooting dead that 14 civilians including children in baghdad and things didn't go according to plan for the n.b.a. champions in their season opener basketball action coming up in sports. the u.k. is now facing the threat of to cope with 19 variants one detect after the tech thing another potentially more infectious strain. in 2 people who traveled from south africa this comes as the u.k. have reports its highest increase in cases since the pandemic began with 39237 new infections the government also recorded another 7 $144.00 deaths on wednesday the highest death toll since april and it announced that

another $6000000.00 people will be put on the highest level of coronavirus restrictions from december 26th we are quarantining cases and close contacts of cases found here in the u.k. 2nd 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 well richard less souls is an infectious disease a specialist at the university of qualifying and the talent joins us now from durban sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we were just hearing there from the british health secretary telling us about this new variant says it comes from south africa tell us

a little bit about what you know of this ferry and then when it was actually discovered there. so so we detected this new variant a few weeks ago through arjan only surveillance network so actually quite similar to what you've seen happen in the u.k. where they detected the new variant that spread even there. and we shared the information very openly with the minister of health in south africa and then with the world health organization and through those channels those kind of been a lot of. cross learning between south africa and the u.k. and by these different variants that have emerged in the 2 countries and 8 sorry in a place gone. the variant that we've detected here is it's concerning us because similarly to the u.k. it seems to be. finding it very easy to spread and it's spreading very efficiently

and we're seeing a very rapid rise in cases in several parts of the country and south africa ok so that's something that both variants seem to have in common what else have you managed to find out about the very into in south africa specifically could it be more aggressive cause that's the more often and crucially is there anything to indicate that it may be resistant to the vaccines that are under development right now. you know so so at the moment we don't see any evidence that it's causing more severe disease or a different pattern of disease we're looking at the dates of very closely but it seems at the moment that it's causing very similar disease having said that the rapid rise in the number of cases is already overwhelming our health care system so we are starting to see that the health system is so stretched that

obviously the outcomes are poor or we're starting to see high numbers of that. in terms of the vaccine there is. another mutation in the variant that we detected here in south africa that is giving us concern because it it seems to be at a key site in the in. the virus protein that is the site where the antibodies attack sean to and neutralize the virus and so we are urgently kind of performing the burra tree experiments and also collaborating with scientists in the u.k. and elsewhere in the world to urgently understand how that might affect the immune response from natural infection and also from vaccination. and and so i seemed to understand that basically you haven't really had enough time to

study this new variant to know if it would be resistant to how it would react to the vaccines and if so when do you think you would know for sure. so that's right so these experiments take a bit of time and you'll have heard that from the u.k. as well that needs careful. work in the lavar treaty to to do the to do these studies and understand what we do know is from some work that's been done over the course of the year where people can do experiments i mean kind of predict or see what happens when you when you introduce mutations to the virus and so that's where we have some evidence that concerns us survive this mutation but we will only know for sure when we do these. experiments and the final dive what the true

effect of of these genetic changes. but how worried are you generally about this area and well we're very concerned about it but we're very concerned in general of heart of the virus is spreading inside africa the moment and the heart of the health system is becoming very rapidly overwhelmed in in several parts of the country we're worried that they didn't specifically but what we need to be clear part is that this is. the virus evolves in and it's evolving because we've given the virus the opportunity to spread so widely in the population and to continue spreading and that's what we need to stop and to slow down our. richard less is infectious disease especially specialist at the university of. joining us from durban sir thank you. well meanwhile the

1st covariant identified here in the u.k. continues to cause chaos at the border the english port of dover is gridlocked with several 1000 frustrated truck drivers still stranded that's this bad france lifting the blockade imposed on arrivals from the u.k. because of the new strain only those who have tested negative are being allowed on to ferries but testing all the drivers will take some time as paul brennan reports from dover. facing a 4th night trapped in their vehicles and unable to depart for callaway i frustration and anger led one group of drivers to briefly blockade inbound freight arriving from france there was a confrontation of the police trying to clear the road a demonstrator lay down in front of one of the lorries oh speak to the drivers and time and again the lack of information is what's really causing tempest to flare and i don't know what's going on the police will tell you what's going on all they

want to most of the former on the ball let these people follow them blindly no no no no no no no it. should be bustling now instead it is ghostly shut down by the impact of the new variant of covert in the u.k. the french ban on arrivals and that on wednesday morning but the condition of travel is possession of a negative covert test and getting one of them while trapped in a queue like this is impossible testing is available at the temporary lorry park at mountain airfield which now has nearly $4000.00 trucks and their drivers parked on the site is on a desolate windswept hilltop 20 miles away from the port to dover. the sound being carried on the wind is the sound of the drivers inside this field blowing their horns is an expression of frustration and misery this. field is a truly desolate place to have the prospect of spending christmas. manston is the

government's primary holding area it was designed to cope with any disruption that might have been caused by breck's it from the accounts of those parked here and now it is failing its 1st real test the toilet but is a dirty not working. we have no food we have no water yesterday. organized food but it was just a hamburger some some some tapes and that's all and we don't know when we. can get to home from from that airport here to there were confrontations with police 2 people detained as frustration led to scuffles again the lack of information and organization have left the drive is desperate for the government says testing has begun manston but not enough we have today sitting here and then now they say

yes we don't have to. because we're stuck on the way. yeah the car is stuck here is blocked they have one way here. and we don't know. the u.k. government says it will take a few days to clear the backlog of vehicles christmas for many here is going to be a deeply miserable experience paul brennan al-jazeera over. the u.s.s. suffered its 2nd deadliest day of the coronavirus penned them make with more than 3400 deaths recorded there on tuesday johns hopkins university said there were also more than 195000 new cases the pharmaceutical giant pfizer has announced it will supply the u.s. with 100000000 more covert 1000 vaccine doses by july. and the united states faces the prospect of a year end the government shutdown after president donald trump threatened not to

sign a massive coronavirus relief bill in a twitter video trump called the bill a disgrace he said he's asking congress to raise a stimulus payments the individual americans from $600.00 to $2000.00 democrats support higher payments but many republicans oppose them the $900000000000.00 relief bill was passed by the house and the senate on monday after months of negotiations i'm also asking congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covert relief package and maybe that administrator will be me several times he joins us live now from washington d.c. so she had what now for the covert relief bill. well a conference call has been underway for the last hour or so convened by the

republican leadership in the house and republican members listened to by members of congress it's all goods which are being leaked to the media rather conveniently and it began by kevin mccarthy the house minority leader saying he spoke to the president and the president said he has not made a decision yet on whether to veto the stimulus and government funding funding bill so complete uncertainty but was also clear from the call these from the nuggets that we've been reading is a great deal of unease among the republicans a lot of these house republicans thought they were doing dog troubles bidding they were negotiating a loan with treasury secretary stephen nugent thinking all right well look we're we're resisting the calls for a check $600.00 is all they're going to get and you know trump trumps all on board and it was and then they were completely blindsided by trump's trump speech so they're all rather worried about what they're going to do if trump does veto veto this bill in the meantime the democrats are trying to make political capital out of

this nancy pelosi the house speaker says great let's have $2000.00 for americans suffering economic hardship as a result of cove it and she's going to introduce a bill on thursday morning in the house for for $2000.00 bills a standalone bills it doesn't need to renegotiate all the rest of the the other 2 bills however it's not quite as easy as that and there's actually a growing unease in the democratic party too because more and more progressives are saying wait a 2nd here why is nancy pelosi introducing this through unanimous consent that procedure means any republican can can just completely derailed that effort very easily just one republican can derail it why don't actually produce a real bill and make people stand up for what they believe and see what they believe and so now there's no there's a sensible progress as well there you go again the democratic leadership is just grandstanding but doesn't really want to help help americans and was joe biden that's another question is being elsewhere is kamel a heresy. actually as a senator did along with bernie sanders author

a bill to give $2000.00 checks to americans why isn't there more leadership while they're taking this on so actually there's that actually sort of rifts are opening up in the democratic party as to why they aren't taking this opportunity but a great deal of ollie's all around basically as we wait to see whether president means it when he says he's he's he's not prepared to sign this bill into law he has not made a decision as far as we can go and so the situation was a complicated enough with that in the last hour president trump has vetoed at the fence bill sending it back to congress by. telegraph this isn't quite for quite some time that he was going to definitely veto this is the last day on which he could have vetoed it he'd raise several objections he said and this is true the. amendments put in there to slow roll the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan there were also provisions in there to rename military bases named after confederate generals that is the priestly every side in

the civil war to rename those bases don't try to not happy about that. kept saying he wanted a provision in the end and the 2 to forgo the the security that facebook and google and twitter have so that they don't they're not prosecuted if someone put something inflammatory on their on their websites none of this is in the bill at all trump says he has vetoed this now but both houses of congress are now going to meet next week it would seem though to override that veto it looks like they still have the votes to override that veto which again to connect up 1st part of the answer very quickly is leading to progressive saying great well if everyone's going to come back into session next week anyway that's have a standalone bill for $2000.00 checks for those suffering economic hardship for kovan let's put your money where your mouth is she had firsthand see with the latest there from washington she had thank you. now iraq's foreign ministry is urging president trying to reconsider a set of presidential pardons he granted clemency to 15 people including 4 military

contractors serving long prison sentences for killing 14 civilians including children in iraq in 2007 charles stratford in baghdad spoke to 2 men who were injured in the attack. or he was shot by an american could try to rob what has been described as one of the darkest days of u.s. involvement in iraq. 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 off 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 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. 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 lots more still to come on this news hour including a massive fire breaks out of a migraine center in bosnia which had been due to close for the winter. cries for justice in afghanistan at least 4 journalists killed in 2 months and now gunmen ambushed an election monitoring activist and then sport pakistan's cricket team have a crisis on their hands before their 1st test against new zealand. there is at the moment russian from the land to tranche of sausages like of warmish

weather compared with the average so going to be pushed south and replaced by another cold northerly which will leave most of europe in a rather wintry scene but is bit messy whilst it happens at the moment or thursday cannot the rain is running through france germany in part turning to snow readily on the alps and it's snow at the forward end so is the baltic states have following all that northerly drops temps by the 10 degrees if you like which is what you end up with vienna once again seeing the sea 11 down to 4 subzero overnight rain 1st on that frontal system little baby little snow in the cloud that follows and this is how it develops during 5 year christmas day if you like a very white scene for the mountains not necessarily for anywhere else but it will certainly feel cold that cold eventually getting to italy in the balkans but not quite making it during friday so sarajevo represents that change during saturday or lightly snow all day and then the sun will come out on sunday afternoon whilst you remain effectively subzero not much of that will affect north africa looks quite

quiet along the northern shores and even the gulf of guinea there of any fairly few showers left. mass protests forcing the government's hand but are we seeing the truth on this the just trying to treat america there is we follow journalists on the front line this is a risk to the british press committed to reporting the front of police officers i'm pointing guns at journalists to say stop go home come fact and fiction truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. water scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be

priced what about the guy that can afford it tele's water. al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of war to privatisation loads of water on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera gunmen are reported to have killed more than 100 people in western ethiopia a farmer in the. region told the voice was news agency he counted 82 dead bodies in one field tensions are high ahead of sunday's election in central african republic

a new alliance of armed groups says strikes into march on the capital bangui prompting shops to shut and people to hide in their. and the u.k. has detected a potentially more infectious strain of covert 19 in 2 people who've recently traveled there from south africa that's in addition to the 1st variant which prompted many countries to ban anyone traveling from britain. mexico has just received its 1st ship wealth of the pfizer biotech vaccine and the 1st country in latin america to have a vaccine ready to roll out its battling a sharp rise in infections that's overwhelming hospitals in the past say the health ministry reported 897 deaths and more than 12000 new cases john home and reports now from mexico city. it's what everyone in mexico works for christmas. and the one from pfizer is now finally arrived. as the phrase

goes good things arrive in small quantities we have the privilege today of being one of the 1st countries in the world with a vaccine supply to be handed out next year i mexico is the 1st country in latin america to get the vaccine. but for many people it won't be available to the middle of next year and meanwhile the country's in big trouble. cities hospitals rule with very few ventilators left. their queues outside shops selling oxygen tanks monika travel from another city desperate to get one like many people she's taking care of an infected relative at home. we've come from to luka there's no oxygen there we went to 2 places but they didn't have any till tomorrow and i need it for today because my patient my dad can't go without oxygen

. makes her never to go koby cases down after the 1st wave and now there's more than. over the crowds of mit's crew city center throughout december haven't helped . the government just reluctantly declared a red alert for the capital and its suburbs closing non-essential businesses but a lot of people think the authorities to curb the alert for the cup too much too late there's been questions over their attitude towards a pandemic from the beginning the mets can president on the covert so really wear masks and they've been accused repeatedly of not imposing timely and strict enough lockdowns ok let's tell everybody that i know but the government has a powerful counter-argument mexico has more than 60000000 poor people stopping them from working could leave them destitute especially since federal authorities haven't brought out a comprehensive plan mentioned plan to help them. but eco c.

is selling face masks in the street she says there's no way she could stay home was not put in a month. of course not be ashamed to hold out my hand and say help me that's why i'm here i get $7.00 a day even if it's just to buy tortillas a few instead the government's to try and make sure that when people do get sick there's always a bed for them. now for the 1st time it looks like that strategy could fail well though there were no queues waiting outside at the 6 hospitals that our team visited emits crew city this week all of which were full health experts say that could change this january john homan how does it make your city. in an effort to be covert 19 chinese develop vaccines have already made their way abroad brazil which has just reported another 961 corona virus related deaths has partnered with

beijing based pharmaceutical company sooner back researchers in sao paolo have announced that it's more than 50 percent effective although they didn't release the full results of their trial in this country new reports from beijing those questioning questioning the efficacy of china's vaccines are 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 arses under the government's 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. 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 they jane has dismissed concerns about policy saying it's simply doing its part to ensure developing nations have access to a cause of litle vaccine but experts say it has all the motives. are the most ethical. will be able to use our. arm into other areas of medical or. perhaps. social cultural connections and eventually from there it's. said it will be able to manufacture it to believe that means by the end of next year katrina you out of here aging the british pound has gained against the dollar in hopes that negotiators from the e.u. and the u.k. may be close to agreeing a break sit trade deal with the 31st of december deadline looming companies in the

netherlands are still hoping a deal will be done a hard breaks it will cost the country's economy billions of euros in lost exports and about 70000 jobs that fast and reports from our rotterdam. even without additional paperwork there are delays at the port in rotterdam due to stockpiling of produce in the united kingdom leaving the nataline's 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. will be so much paperwork so much paperwork and i think this will lead to huge the lanes longer waiting times for loading and unloading our customers i don't know if this is such a smart decision. maybe go maybe not go 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 with fear their products might brought 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 a new reality is slowly sinking in deal or no deal after january 1st everyone traveling from the studio 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 with only a few days before the deadline for a deal it's still not clear how bracks 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 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 nurse will be if in

case of no deal import duties are imposed the 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 snaps last an al-jazeera a moden. a huge fire has destroyed 4 large tents at a migrant camp in balls there herzegovina which was due to close this weekend for winter refurbishing the labor camp near the croatian border is home to about $1200.00 migrants idea was that the camp. well we can see a 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 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 basically 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 a few months ago the government has only a few days ago decided to set up an official camp here but now monts 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 prominent afghan activist who led an independent election monitoring organization has died after being ambushed by gunmen in kabul the homemade use of for a sheet is the latest victim of a series of targeted killings in afghanistan the family and friends of an afghan

journalist shot dead on monday while for justice as they attended his funeral more than 100 people paid their respects to ram through 11 who was shot dead while leaving his home in the central city of ghazi he's at least the 4th a journalist to be killed in 2 months and had worked for the associated press and al-jazeera the lovebirds get a platform going to demand the government to investigate and bring the murderess to justice. as on the other. on the one hand they sit at the negotiation table to make peace on the other hand they break the agreement and therefore we are witnessing the loss of our brilliant colleagues and personalities in different parts of the country every day in my opinion by the fighters shows the dishonesty and lack of commitment to peace and negotiation. al-jazeera journalists must was hussein has now spent 4 years in detention in egypt without charge or a trial hussein was arrested on december 23rd 2016 while visiting family

a number of human rights organizations have joined al jazeera in demanding his immediate release is that tension is in violation of both gyptian and international law. still ahead in this news hour how the pandemic has given hong kong's pink a dolphin's a new lifeline. and this football legend loses his claim to a long standing record the story coming up shortly with sun.

above water hong kong's busy waterways have quietened but beneath the surface it's a different story coronavirus travel restrictions have led to more sightings of the territories pink dolphins and it's giving scientists a rare opportunity to research a species that's facing extinction they go palin reports 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 pre-established. 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 action. i'm not saying we want the high speed fareast. 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 markdowns 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 pollen

hong kong. ok now it's time for all the sport here sound thank you very much barbara starr with italian football or ac milan are facing a tough year ending test against last year at the moment when the suns 0 a would see them finish at the top of the league heading into the new year but that match has just come up to full time now and ac milan have won $32.00 which means they remain top of syria table with the points ahead of into. 21. in spain real madrid are aiming to finish the year on a high note they beat the 2 nil for this 6 straight victory in all competitions after goalless 1st half finally broke the deadlock in the 57th minute benzema scores in injury time to score a victory for his indian sedans meant ryall are not level in points with legal leaders actually having played 2 games more. catacomb

a dude will be with the defend karen chip here for the next few matches the england international has received a 10 week worldwide a ban from football trippier is being punished for breaching the english football associations the betting rules he'd been charged in relation to bets made surrounding his move from tottenham to athletics in 2019 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. by sun on a silent m.s.e. has broken a rare chord held by one of football's greatest ever players pearlie for more than 40 years on tuesday here racked up his 644th goal for barsa breaking the brazilian legends record for the most goals one club less is historic achievement came in barcelona 3 no win over via the lead a 2nd look how goal scoring record of both greats compared santos respectively.

content to stop i see leo happy he's working world 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 the tank for pakistan's injury crisis ahead of the 1st test against a new zealand is worsening star all round high now has been ruled out due to injury the development really as to pakistan's was team captain bob barr as a mom and top order batsman in mom 100 have already been ruled out with injuries the 1st test begins on boxing day in mt maunganui. he the layout of the tokyo olympics has caused a much disruption now to thousands of athletes around the walled they've been forced to adapt their training methods and in some cases prolong their careers and

as david stokes reports that certainly the case for the u.s. men's 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 tweens 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 fours and twos and those previous he 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 what we have. for 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 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 if 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 they'll work it out so that everyone . 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. champions the l.a. lakers has started the title defense with a defeat for facing city rivals the clippers on opening day this team had been celebrating their finals victory from october while those celebrations were halted by a whole georgia who score 33 points on tuesday that calliope chipping in with 26

clips winning 816-2109. and that's a small 4 man due back to barbara in london said i think you now a man has been arrested in turkey after police found he was carrying 2 and a half kilos of cocaine stash in portrayed some of the late footballing legend diego maradona police say the man was acting suspiciously when he arrived at is the airport from colombia prompting them to x. ray his luggage scan revealed the man was carrying a quarter of a $1000000.00 worth of cocaine earlier and autopsy revealed that matador now without a month ago had been consumed alcohol or illegal drugs in the days before his death . yeah find out more on that ass and all the other stories that we have been covering here on our web site there it is al jazeera adult call that's it for the news hour stay with us don back in just a few minutes with more of a business. from

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resolution to this desperately needed central african republic elections on al jazeera. gunmen kill more than 100 people in western and just one day after prime minister i've made visited the region to urge calm over ethnic attacks. alone barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up shops close and people hurry home fearing more violence ahead of central african republic selection plus. this new variant is highly concerning because it is yet more transmissible and it appears.