every. al-jazeera. either given al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes together we still achieve more than we do apart. find me a deal is done the u.k. and reach a post breaks a trade agreement after 9 and a half months of negotiations. this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologic.

attached to europe. prime minister barak's johnson praises the deal and promises britain will always be a part of the e.u. . a 3rd new strain of corona virus has been recorded in nigeria as most of the world celebrates christmas on the tightened restrictions. and protests broke out in iraq after the biggest currency devaluations since the fall of saddam hussein the cost of living is skyrocketing. and i'm sorry how much now have all the sport by sons are massacred thomas still has their head coach a full month after guiding them to the champions league final. we begin with breaking news into u.k. the goetia says have finally reached a host breaks a trade deal 9 and our months of negotiations went into the 11th hour with just

a week to go before the u.k. leaves the single market british by rest of us johnson who was elected on his promise to deliver a break said hailed it as the biggest trade deal yes i think this deal means a new stability and a new certainty in what has sometimes been a fractious and difficult relationship we will be your friend your ally your supporter and indeed never let it be forgotten your number one market because although we've left the e.u. this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologically attached to europe both the british and european parliament's need to ratify the agreement european commission she 1st live on the lion called the fair and balanced and she says it's

now time to put bracks a behind at the end of a successful negotiations journey i normally feel joy. but today i only feel quite satisfaction and frankly speaking relief. i know this is a difficult day for some and to our friends in the united kingdom i want to say parting is such sweet sorrow. well the text of the agreement has yet to be released it contains the specifics of new trade rules and is believed to be hundreds of pages known one major sticking point both sides seem to have compromised on is in you fishing rights and british forces which held the talks right up until the last minute i've got 2 reporters covering the story from both sides but did smith is standing by to bring us the latest reaction from paris but 1st let's go to rory chalons live from london rory as we've been saying the devil is in the details so

when will we get the details when will we know when will we be able to read this report. well when the final text is released to the public into m.p.'s m.p.'s are going to be clamoring for it because they are being recalls to parliament in just a few days time and they will have to vote on it so that it clears all of the legislative the legislative hurdles before the end of the transition period which is at the end of the year so of course they are going to need to read it to be able to make that assessment and make that vote now is there any doubt that it's going to pass parliament no there isn't really because by and large the conservative party are going to vote for it with maybe a few exceptions or some die hard brick sitters who might say that this is a sellout and breck's it in name only and the labor main opposition

party will vote for it as well here starmer the labor leader has said it as much in the last hour or so again might be a few die hard remain is who are saying that they won't vote for the vote for they can't do it under their conscience but with those 2 blogs blocks voting for it it will go through parliament so by that point bracks it will basically be done just have to wait for the end of the transition period and then we will be going into 2021 with a new relationship between the u.k. and the european union boris johnson is setting this of course is a major triumph and a huge step forward for the u.k. and he said for fear of as well but i think make no doubt about it the u.k. is relationship with europe although boris johnson was saying it was going to be as close as is it ever has been it won't be it's the you know the whole point about

bret's it was stepping away the trade between the 2 can 2 entities will be more complicated and this deal as it has been group agreed as far as we know is pretty thin so there's lots that it doesn't cover and over the coming weeks that will become apparent. does the average british person in gauge with this there was a question put to parse johnson in the q. and a after his his address tonight and the question was you know what do you say to those people almost half of people who voted to remain so i'm wondering you know how are all those people feeling now all people engaged with this do people care. what i think people have over the last 4 in our view is switched off by a large from from the whole brics its arguments they were engaged in the referendum but many of them didn't understand the real issues that were involved because they

boiled down to constitutional law. trade agreements and both of those things are world without with many wishings but so you've got to respect their pretty boring as they are are things that only a certain type of maybe strange person would focus on in any great depth so your average british citizen doesn't really know that much about fishing quotas doesn't know that much about the finer points of you know the european court of justice so all of that stuff all about foreign nitty gritty detail which is essential for breaks and essential for drawing up the new relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. that washed over most people's heads and particularly as the arguments went on and on and on the year after year and then in 2020 we also have covered i think a lot of people have basically got to the point where they're like let's finish it this is what boris johnson one of the election on last year was was essentially big

breaks it done and move on and finally the u.k. and europe is able to do that roy hallums there live from london thank you so much . we have betted smith live from us live for us now from paris spotted. bar stones in their city very victorious live on the line though really seeming to have a sense of relief. yes no triumphalism from europe remember that the 27 other member states of the e.u. never wanted bragg's it to happen nevertheless irish premier michel martin here said that while we'll miss the u.k. we can focus on how we manage our future relationship angela merkel says this she's confident the deal is a good one and emmanuel mark on the presence of france he says the unity and strength of the you has paid off nevertheless the e.u. commission points out in its statement that it said that the agreement will by no

means match the significant advantages that the u.k. enjoyed as a member state of the un it says that the free movement of persons goods services and capital between the u.k. and the e.u. will end a reminder that this relationship is going to be very different and what happens in the next couple of days after the quick christmas break is that this agreement will go to the european capitals for approval by member states there is not enough time for the european parliament to ratify this deal so what the commission is suggesting is that it's going to be a provisional implementation until the 28th of february and by that time it's hoped that the e.u. parliament can officially approved debate and approve this deal with the u.k. one of the most important principles of the e.u. wanted to maintain was a level playing field after the u.k. leaves the orbit the the and so that the u.k.

can maintain tariff free access for its goods the e.u. says there is a mechanism in this agreement to make sure that the level playing field is maintained and the britain doesn't have some competitive advantage over the e.u. in future ok but it's not there costs the e.u. side of things from paris. well joining us now from the hague is a jaroslaw rick he is an assessor assistant professor of international law at layton university thanks for your time so it is breaks it now rarely done and dusted can we now as a slave on the line said put breaks it behind us or is there more to come in this whole saga well it's certainly more reprocessed so today's and a very important milestone in the in the book the mustn't forget there was already there were a lot of remember not on our own but also that's already in force that's very important aspect of all that now we have the trade agreement that was there waiting

to see the text of and then don't need to be ratified and understood areas that haven't been passed in the form of a future treaty for instance on security and defense so in that sense you have today a very bold milestone box not really or all to go are there were from what we've heard from from bar a stance and a slave on the line other winners and losers heading you think did did one party compromise more than the other. i think with with trade agreements that's normally it's not a healthy way to think about because it's with any contract a bull science or get something out of it rizzio we have a treaty that's basically about disintegration moving away from you just got there i would say both sides are winners in the sense that they respect that their main redlines their main that you know objectives were achieved on the one hand a lot more freedom for the u.k. out of the jurisdiction of the court of justice our requests and human single market reza u.k. didn't give the u.k. that's going to cherry picking access to it to its internal market but i would really call this the winners and right now it's there both in

a way results in the sense that it will have a still a significant economic impact on both sides what you make of the way this was presented then from bar stance and at least you know when he was asked about compromise he said well look when it came to e.u. fishing rights and the time frame for the quotas he said well the e.u. wanted 14 years we wanted 3 we compromised we got to 5 and a half i mean that's kind of saying we compromised but we didn't compromise as much as they did i think this is mustn't forget that the british prime minister still has to present this to his master public sort of thing that makes sense present at this weight and i would also say canonically that makes sense because we mustn't forget the fisheries to both the j.v. and the and the e.u. is a relatively small part of g.d.p. so it would have been it would have been a pity if the entire deal so close to the cliff edge that line of january would have been derailed would have been finalised over something something you have

economically relatively unimportant especially when everyday to talk about the economy when it comes to the economy are there any ok we had we don't want to talk about what is in those is are there any particular industries perhaps that you think will be it will be really badly hit as a result of the agreement that's been made. but anything certainly that has to do with the trade in goods across the across the channel across the r.c.t. thought also it's it's good to hear that there will be called our free tariff free access but that doesn't mean that there won't be a customs war now we already have one now don't the irish see it as it was big there will be no one across the across the of the north sea and channel and there will be customs checks a lot of people who works everybody who wants to physical trade between the u.k. and e.u. that is facing a lot more proceeded the associate cost of that and you have all the other sectors that we require in detail assessment of the of the text of this basically these

2000 pages of damage control that will soon be study it's not so clear yet what will happen with services including financial services. in some sectors you know if you want to also on a very personal level if you want to go work on the other side of his memoirs you know your you want to promise won't be recognized anymore so it's i think really we will see destruction and costs across most if not all sectors of the. thanks so much for tom i have to leave it there from the hey you're a snack you've. thank you more head on the news all including no longer delays the 1st shipment of the pfizer biotech covered 90 vaccine arrives in latin america. he was runner up in last year's presidential election now to dizzy and not be able to cover all faces detention. and it's for

to look at couples generation amazing projects as the country prepares to host the football world cup at 2022. now to the crowd of are spent despite months of lockdown in many countries as the year draws to a close around the world the story is one of rapidly rising infections in tough new rules and stopping its spread south korea is rolling out its strongest restrictions yes with popular tourist venues closed until early next month cases are climbing for betty vaccines won't be available until the 3rd quarter next year after days of confusion in the u.k. thousands of trucks and travelers are slowly being allowed into europe the mutated strand of corona virus that caused chaos at the border we'll see new rules across much of it include from saturday and separately to new strains are emerging in africa nigeria has recorded one mutation but

a variant in south africa is believed to be more infectious and that in america governments are trying to speed up the process of getting covert 19 jabs to the public mexico chile are just getting their vaccination campaigns which your home is standing by in mexico city with more on that and she had her tansy is in washington d.c. to bring us the latest from the world's worst hit country but 1st harmon tulsa is going to tell us from johannesburg about the new strain that's emerged in south africa. this new variant inside africa was identified in concern at our province eastern cape in the garden and that's along the cape town area the health minister says the numbers are alarming more than 14000 new infections in the last 24 hours it is recommending more restrictive measures be put in place the measures already in place include a nighttime curfew are called going to be sold on certain days and at certain times and some beaches have been closed but health officials say some south africans seem not to be listening to the warnings they're saying some of them are posting

pictures on social media photos and videos of them at big parties called super speed events where they aren't wearing masks and they aren't practicing social distancing the government what is trying to do is to try to make sure enough hospital beds are available across the country in government and private facilities so in some provinces for example some doctors are discharging patients that they think are stable those people are being told to go home to make way for cope with 19 patients additional staff have been put on standby this talk and in some areas military doctors and nurses may be called in if it does get to that stage the health officials also warning that if these infections keep rising there for the could reach its peak within the next 2 weeks it's a similar scenario across the continent infection rates are rising and more countries are imposing more restrictive measures for example but one is the latest country to impose a nighttime curfew malawi as it is closing its borders for at least 14 days officials here are concerned that as more and more people keep traveling especially

around the festive season they could be at increased infections not just in this part of africa but the rest of the continent as well. well don't holeman is in mexico city with the latest from latin america john you've been out talking to the 1st mexicans and latin americans to get vaccinated who are they and what are they saying. well the medical stuff in mexico city a mets coast city right now is on red alert the hospitals are almost full there's very few ventilators left available for one of the the biggest populations one of the biggest cities in the world so the situation here is pretty alarming and it's been alarming for medical staff there actually for quite a while mexico has actually had the biggest number of deaths among voters nurses those working in hospitals and on the front lines of any country in the world so it was quite sort of that they would be the 1st people in line to get this vaccine

they were queuing around the block to get into the hospital that supplying it now there's only $3000.00 vaccines at the moment that arrived in mexico a wednesday so there's not a lot to go around the president there's more promised but still by the end of january there's only going to be about 1.5 percent of the population here that's vaccinated so this will be quite a slow process as it gets rolled out but it is really important that the medical staff get to this we were speaking to a couple of them and they were basically a bit nervous about the side effects of this this vaccine of obviously come out quite quickly so they said that a few of their colleagues were awesome that they were really going to do this but their attitude towards it was well we're really at risk here especially in this country we need to get protected for us but also for a patient so one thing that nurses and doctors have told us is really affecting things here is because such large amounts of them getting infected it means that there's not enough of them to take care of patients and that's meant some people

a lot of people actually a choosing to try and sit this out home to try and recover a home rather than going to hospitals where they get coronavirus we've also been going to shops selling oxygen tanks and they've got queues they've got queues outside of the capital at the moment as well ok thank you so much for that town home and man life for us in mexico city. now the u.s. has seen almost 18 and a half 1000000 cases this year it's also had a devastating effect on the economy us president donald trump is holding off the stimulus bill that he's called wasteful shepparton z. is in washington d.c. for us you have this stimulus bill let's talk about it there are moves right to increase checks sent americans from $600.00 to $2000.00 what's happening. just utter confusion a certain other chaos no one knows what president trump is up to right now other than playing golf like she's currently playing golf literally in florida right now

but as far as the stimulus stimulus is concerned we just don't know what's in his in his mind he said yes he objects to these $600.00 direct payments to americans is it adequate he wants $2000.00 payments but he hasn't indicated whether he's actually going to veto the stimulus bill the the the the government funding bill that's connected to the stimulus bill which funds the government till september no one knows in the meantime the democrats are saying great that's have more money that's how it will money for americans who need who need it so they have to introduce a bill on monday a standalone bill in the house which will which will mandate $2000.00 bills for those earning $2000.00 checks for those earning less than $75000.00 a year this will be a very interesting vote because a lot of house republicans who really are concerned about the trauma base what are they going to do are they going to go with their usual austerity minded selves and say oh we don't want to add to the deficit i mean tax cuts are fine for the rich but but but and to the poor isn't fine usually for republicans or do they go with

lucy and the president so this is very likely to pass on monday and then that shifts the difficulty to mitch mcconnell in the senate who has said he doesn't agree with $2000.00 checks you know he barely greed to $600.00 checks and the only reason mitch mcconnell did agree to $600.00 checks is because he's really worried about the georgia senate runoff race on january the 5th which will decide who has the balance of power in the biden ministration 2 seats up for grabs if the democrats win then joe biden has the senate as well as the house because really worried about that and now he will be in that really difficult position of potentially standing in the way of what donald trump is telling him to do now which is to have $2000.00 check sent to americans mitch mcconnell doesn't want to spend money on the relief for the. again just tax cuts for the rich so he's in this really complicated position if the goal of. this is a widely held theory is to make it as difficult as possible for congressional

republicans now that they have recognize joe biden's victory he's doing a really really good job. but i think that she ever tells it off ross in washington d.c. . iraq's government recently devalued the local currency the iraqi dinar by more than 20 percent it's the biggest currency devaluation against the dollar since the 2003 full of saddam hussein every prices of everyday goods and services have suddenly skyrocketed fueling fare and anger among many iraqis who have spent decades struggling to survive financially traffic has this report from baghdad. for more than a year the abraham has been coming to protest in central baghdad to demand better services political reform and an end to what he says has been decades of government corruption and mismanagement but he's here today because like many iraqis he is shocked and angry about the government's recent devaluation of the iraqi deano

against the dollar by more than 20 percent. stunned by the government's action i will effectively lose almost quarter of myself because i'm in vienna the finest minister says it won't affect us how we'll it's not. the government said it had to devalue iraq's current sea because of a collapse in the oil prices brought on by a slump in global energy demands due to the coronavirus pandemic this devaluation is the biggest since the fall of saddam hussein in 2003 and experts are saying it means the already a reasonable economic situation for millions of iraqis could get even worse. this is back dance usually bustling wholesale market but it's been very quiet since the devaluation of the dino. the collapse in iraq's industrial and food producing six's in recent decades means most food and domestic products are imported from neighboring countries especially turkey and iran. about goods the old dollar price

knowing have to sell the devalued price so i have to put my prices on for a lose a lot of money it hits every day people the hardest and there are no jobs because we don't have a connoisseur of think is in charge this means shopkeepers have had no choice but to suddenly put their prices up to i'm sure to go out and i still haven't received my give out of my fanchon and even when i do it it will be much less all the prices have suddenly increased of course it is affecting our state of lee even before the current sea devaluation the world bank predicted and shop rising property in iraq almost 90 percent of iraqi government revenue comes from oil but plummeting prices have caused a cash crisis iraq's public sector has tripled in size to more than $4000000.00 employees since 2003 delays in payment of government salaries and the lack of private sector jobs have fueled the protests. hundreds of people have been killed

in the crackdown no one has been called to account for the deaths it is a disaster is that the vaster for the middle class the lower class but not the top class obviously but the main reason is corruption corruption is the one because there are other oil producing countries that are not affected as iraq is of course iraq self in dollars so they don't get affected but the people are getting their salaries in there and so instead of ripping off the budget they're ripping off the shelf and that means more financial hardship for iraqis and potentially full civil and political rest. baghdad. still ahead on al-jazeera chinese regulators announce an anti monopoly investigation defeat e-commerce giant alibaba. it's a very silent night with christmas around the world is hit by the coronavirus pandemic or have that might be affecting us. and install my possibles biggest stars

finds himself in trouble these days into the new n.b.a. season details in just a moment. hello the last winter wave is going through now that's 8 curling so the eastern side of turkey and that left a blanket of snow obviously processes fairly hard drive through eastern turkey but some forty's just proves it's pretty universal both on cities and right on down the lake shore this is van the nazis lake van you're seeing there so the coldest setting but the some has now come out because the snow is going to cross the caspian sea but even get some interim i think on friday behind it usually you get windy and showery weather well the wind may well pick up was not quite the obvious

story necessarily doha for example picks up the shamo which might be a cold feeling one particular time yet to south to pick up on friday then the wind changes to an easterly sunday so here we are for saturday then and look what's happening over western society complete change of wind direction here and this circulation may well provide proof be showery mecca jetter and beyond is heading up towards jordan as well and will affect jerusalem with an easterly wind south of all this on the active seas no rain has been very useful recently we still got a good scattered showers in botswana and south africa rain proper has gone up to central mozambique so way and southern. from. the stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's no alternative when i when he speaks those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out their decades on al-jazeera.

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you're watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour countries across latin america have started their 1st round of covered $900.00 vaccination health care workers in mexico chile and costa rica among the 1st in line to get the jab patients across the continent have recorded some of the worst coronavirus infection rates. e.u. and u.k. negotiators have agreed a breaks a trade deal after months of half drawn out and often talks british parliament has a week to ratify it before the u.k. ceases to be governed by in trade rules. well more on that now that the barber takes a look at the negotiations and how the deal was finally done. it's taken endless rounds of stop start talks between the u.k. and the european union now at the 11th hour

a trade deals emerged the one area of dispute that seemed compromise is fishing rights outside the e.u. britain has control of its exclusive economic zone but it's had to budge on how much access e.u. trawlers have there's also been movement on state aid to late e.u. fears that european companies could suffer from unfair competition after all the uncertainty recriminations and u. turns the u.k. finally has a trade deal with its biggest commercial partner in reality it's very far from the deep and special relationship promised by the previous prime minister but it's a start and it means the worst damage under a no deal scenario can be avoided. the government's independent spending watchdog says that would have knocked 2 percent of u.k. growth in 2021 alone partly because of temporary disruptions to cross border trade and for one keen bricks and watcher the deal sends a political message to diplomatically the fact that both sides are shaken handle

a deal puts them on the same side and they now both have an imperative to work together to make. this deal look as good and run as smoothly as possible and that will minimize short term disruption but it will also mean that the u.k. in the longer heads as i think they would have been in the event of a no deal outcome but even with this deal u.k. businesses still have plenty to worry about only a small number of transport companies have had access to britain's new border crossing software expected to be rolled out just a week before the transition period ends there are concerns about britain's current jobs crisis deepening if firms relocate to the e.u. and there are still unanswered questions about how to avoid physical border checks between northern ireland part of the u.k. and ireland an e.u. member. the deal still has to be ratified by the european parliament for now both sides will be happy to have something to show for the torturous negotiations but they know their future relationship is still being sculpted. al-jazeera.

about a stone court has ordered the release of the man convicted for the killing of u.s. journalist daniel pearl in 2002 ahmed omar saeed shake his being freed while an appeal is under way earlier this year the high court overturned as murder charge that was challenged by powell's family. a mad rush as a journalist and author of taliban militant islam oil and fundamentalism in central asia he says international pressure could lead to his re imprisonment. there must be a very serious internal middle she ations going on in islamabad between the government the intelligence agencies the military. and of course if this case is sent up to the supreme court in islamabad it's quite likely that he would be jailed again the problem is that he's being he's been rejected now for several years on 90 day detention order which is not exactly what he you know he'll be convicted of

murdering daniel. and. and he's been sentenced to 18 years in jail. but you know his actual yelling and being carried out on a on a had not basis or a 90 day tension order now the question is i mean every 90 days we are having this crisis you know the same bike or freezing with government tries to block it or issues an appeal against freeing him and usually wins. oh it plays out now this time around it's the rift between the government of course and the intelligence agencies is quite large. here he is trying to stop the arbat has deployed military forces to an area where gunmen killed 100 people local media is reporting that the obvious killed 42 armed men in the western region finnish uncles to avi off that had visited the area the

day before the attacks he called for peace and unity on several attacks between ethnic groups in recent months. the attacks are separate from the conflicts in ethiopia's northern to great region the u.n. says it remains concerned about ongoing fighting the lack of humanitarian access the conflict has raised fears of a security vacuum in other areas of the country. welcome webb has been monitoring the story for us he says this latest violence calls victims belonging to various ethnic minorities to flee from that area. for more than a 100 people were killed in the attack that happened dawn on wednesday in survivors of said the attackers set people's homes on fire and then shot men women and children dead many of them as they were running away some of the survivors told rights group amnesty international that the attackers were on members of the good news community know the good news is the largest ethnic group in that area and they

said that the victims belong to the m r a and the ethnic groups who are minorities in that area is the latest in a succession of waves of ethnically targeted violence that have happened in that region since september prime minister he said earlier today said he'd sent troops to try and quell the violence and state affiliated t.v. had reported that federal troops were killed 42 of the men who were involved in the massacre we haven't been able to verify that the local officials also said that those government troops had recovered weapons including bows and arrows from the armed men who were allegedly responsible for this attack. a to z. in court as all of the detention of former presidential candidates and media mogul . a court spokesman says karzai is being summoned for questioning related to a money laundering case he's the leader of the heart of $2.00 newsy a party and finished 2nd in last year's presidential election the party is one of 3

in parliament supporting a technocratic government. well joining us now from tunis got away he is the co-founder of i watch national chapter of transparency international based intern is yes thank you for your time talk us through the legal aspects of this case facing mr karzai thank you 1st for having me actually watch worked on the my apologies we seem to have a lost mr got away my apologies there that is the reality of skype i'm afraid now part of the world's largest e-commerce companies is under investigation by china beijing is accusing alibaba of multiple listing behavior it's yet another blow for the company's founder jack ma as government regulators attempt to rein in his expanding business empire sarah clarke reports from hong kong. he has an iq worth of around $50000000000.00 and his china's 2nd richest man jack meyer is also

the founder of the e-commerce giant alibaba which regulators have accused of using monopolistic tactics they have been signaling for quite some charm changes are what they do not want to in essence control the market sure is filled by 8 percent when stock markets opened the investigation as part of a wider government crackdown on china's booming internet space it's also yet another setback for the alibaba group which planned a jewel listing of us and company last month regulators said it didn't meet disclosure requirements and the i.p.o. was shelved 2 days before its market debut. as we all know it's already the largest online payment service provider in 1000000 china and still have a lot room to grow most of the mainland part and they don't use cash anymore they simply use a cell phone to pay everything not only apparel not only that you know the $0.05

but even they buy a car they did use. and group is the crown jewel in the early barber empire the listing was expected to raise as much as $37000000000.00 that would have made it the world's largest i.p.o. since oil giant saudi aramco listed last december the largest i.p.o. today i believe the saudi arabia oil company which is just a couple of years ago at 28000000000. and sister company alibaba went public in 2014 listing on the new york stock exchange in a $25000000000.00 flight this time the company chose the domestic market in china for its debut but the make a float is on hold for now this latest investigation is part of the government's escalating scrutiny of jack expanding empire and represents heightened tensions between chinese president xi jinping and the billionaire and a stipend the company says it will comply with the regular his requests its executives are expected to be summoned in coming days sarah clarke al-jazeera hong

kong. what's often called the happiest time of the year has been anything but that christmas celebrations have drastically changed with people trying to stop the spread of covered 19. these are live pictures this coming from the vatican pope francis is holding a christmas eve mass this here no faithful are able to participate due to coronavirus regulations but it is being streamed around the wall the time actually was moved earlier because people need to adhere to italy's current curfew restriction so they move it to 7 30 pm so everyone can get home by 10 pm those people about 100 i believe who were able to attend.

more of the vatican to china where the virus stasis christmas gift manufacturers are struggling while other countries limit their participation in the holidays according to the international labor organization the pandemic is wired into the global income gap with women and low paid work is bearing the brunt of it once it is always on my sales volume has dropped around 30 to 40 percent especially in european american and south american markets. more than 4000000 refugees will not be home for the holidays as they live on the streets and foreign countries all trying to seek asylum according to the world health organization many refugees said the pandemic is cause them at a depression worry anxiety and loneliness. and with more than 78000000 cases of

covert worldwide hospital beds are filling up as all moves 1700000 people have died so far this year from covert 90. this year even better than him is impacted by the virus the biblical birth city of jesus usually it tracks terrorists but manger square is empty this year will be held online instead on an unusually silent night. christmas gives people hope for better times so we are celebrating the holiday normally the only thing missing at this stage is big crowds like it used to be in previous years but people in bethlehem or optimistic that the future will be better off. well like many others germans are marking this christmas on the lockdown tens of thousands of new cases are being recorded every day and social distancing means muted celebrations far removed from the larger gatherings and famous markets traditionally associated with this time of year like

a reports from berlin this is christmas in kovi to lock down the season of the mandatory mosque wearing clothes chops and public facility at a minimum markets that might otherwise be thriving are now empty the few places filling up the hospital wards packed with patients in a serious or critical condition more than 5000 of them will spend this christmas alone in hospital which explains the official advice to wider society. to i'm doing lucia i urgently plead with you to spend the holidays with only a very small number of family members please reduce your contacts to the necessary minimum don't travel to meet as few people as possible and if you do you meet the same people meet outside if possible. on average the corona virus has killed more than 650 people in germany every day this week dealing with such numbers is straining the health system particularly for those whose work is safely and humanely to dispose of the bodies. but we have special precaution airy measures

with regard to disinfection and even some special incineration rituals when it comes to these specific cases the coffins are sealed the deceased are wrapped in body bags so there is hardly any possibility to be touched by the virus and that is how coffins get into the crematorium ovens for many what hope there is this christmas is in the form of the vaccine that's jew to start being distributed from sunday here in berlin ministers hope to have around $60000.00 doses available by the end of this month with the aim to provide around $30000.00 doses per week early in the new year but in a city with a population of more than 3000000 that means many people will have to wait a long time dominic kane al-jazeera in the german capital and on and also is a psychologist and advisor to parents magazine she joins us by skype from london thank you for your time dawson so obviously this is not

a normal christmas how can people prepare to feel more resilient i guess during this time. well i think it's important that we know that this is a war we're in and that we need the qualities of resiliency flexibility and adaptability those are the 3 traits we need the most right now it's not been easy it's been a long and frustrating journey for a lot of parents and their children of all ages has been frustration has been anxiety there's been fear there's been short tempers and this is not the christmas we envision one of the things that's been very difficult is the constant anticipation and then being let down at the last minute whether it's because the government changes its mind or the virus suddenly takes off so a lot of us have come to the end of the year very weary and wondering what's going to happen next but we haven't been left without hope christmas is the season of hope and goodwill we've got the hope of the vaccine we know it's being rolled out

now and we actually have the good will knowing that we're all in this together and that we have to work together and we certainly as human beings have learned to appreciate that things that we can't have which is the near ness of loved ones and relationships and friends those things i think we've now going to new appreciation for i think we've actually learned what's really important to us more so than in any other christmas think that we've ever had and maybe we'll ever have in the future this is a testing time but it's a time of real spiritual values i think and it's also a time for turning things on their head in other words to appreciate what we do have rather than looking always of what we don't have you know the relationships that we do have that are close to us the things that we are able to do on christmas day and you know humor is a huge antidote to depression if we can have a laugh * and share that laugh with other people there are some very funny carols going around on social media at the moment if we can see even the funny dark side of this it will help us because it makes you feel as though you're more in control

and you can rise above it and wondering i have to try to talk a lot of people about you know if you were terrific. don this year what has it taught you war you know how has it changed you and a lot of people have said to me you know i've realized that i don't have certainty that accomplish and things because you don't know what's going to happen next and what impact do you think that a lack of certainty in the ability to plan or to assume what the future is going to try what sort of impact does that have on people. i've always thought the human struggle was about getting in control of feeling at least in control and i think in life with all its uncertainties we try to give ourselves the illusion of control by having routines by having expectations that we want to have met and when that gets disrupted it does throw us into a kind of fearful cycle of not knowing what's going to happen next and that becomes something that we're frightened of i think what we should learn from this is that

nothing is guaranteed in life life's always been a gamble although we've tried to pretend that it wasn't so i i think that we need to realize that uncertainty is part of the human existence is part of human nature and we need to learn to cope with that and it's up to it. we absolutely do uncertainty we don't know when our farms are going to go off. i went out how do you . know the problem i was going to get was our end actually. i think i've got time for one more question i want to ask you how much lockdown can people take how 7 long can people spend indoors away from their family unable to to hug the people that they love how much do you think people can contain. well 7 that's. that's a difficult question to answer because i think it's up to our individual tolerance levels some people can take quite

a bit those of us who had mental health problems to begin with not so much those of us who feel loneliness more acutely and. can't adapt to our own company very readily we'll also feel it more you know i think we're being tested now to see what our levels are at least we're able to go outside we can still go to the shops we can walk in the park we can step out doors into our own back gardens we're not exactly prisoners although it may feel like that compared to what we had before you know i think human beings are more resilient than they realise and we learn to adapt to less and less things and expectations when we have to and fact there's very little we need apart from the air we breathe the food we eat and a feeling of being loved and accepted and if we have those things and we have a roof over our heads which you know we need to be grateful for the very basics that we have we can get through a lot and we can actually see that the best of us can come out in these

circumstances well thank you so much for your time we really appreciate it donna dorothy and their psychologist from london still ahead on al-jazeera. and sports parties say shame on the sack their head coach just 4 months something guiding them to the champions league final details were found on the brain.

time off spot has ana thank you very much cam while a french man has sucked almost 200 as their head coach the german had been in

charge of 2 and a half years and guided p.s.g. to the champions league final last season is also one to take titles as well as the coupe to get a league to. the club and the round of 16 in the champions league and one point off top spot in the front top division there reports the former tottenham manager. is being a lined up to take over at p.s.g. while we've been speaking to form a p.s.g. player who doesn't feel to hold dismissal is a huge surprise. you know 1st of all we must say that you know thomas the let there be a great of this and somebody wants retired last year and i went to the champions if i don't it's just another season now and i don't think it was in this in space where that was a low no no on the board especially in recruitment because the last year or so you know when you're still a scary you want your money united in the mountains some players that you're not

a pretty some others so that's where the problem came and then you know thomas was complaining for them a little bit too much in that in the newspaper and t.v. and and that's when you know there are. tired and by the way where you know they're straight in the league not cruising because if you don't have a real pre-season so why all that you know relations were good so that's why i decided to. today. liverpool manager yogen club has dismissed speculations egyptian international mohamed salah was unhappy and wants to leave the club has admitted lately that he was disappointed not to be named captain for their champions league game this month more than a good note moyes a good moment. really good shape so that's the most important thing for me and training ok today we're on our cameras and what now you would have seen him

laughing a lot he joined a session so i would that. that's good as well and all the rest is for sure nice for all of you to write about but internally nothing nothing nothing really. now the start of the next football world cup in qatar is now less than 2 years away each element itself will last less than a month but organizers hope its benefits will be felt for years and it's in the courts. ahead of the 2022 world cup the ongoing transformation of cats all the landscape is hard to miss but organizers will the impacts of this event to be felt far beyond the country's borders. the generation amazing project is helping to build football facilities and train coaches in deprived communities all over the world and it already has a decade of work to its name. went to a new generation amazing started in 2010 almost 10 years ago now. the 1st thing

that we did was we built a football pitch in a refugee camp in the region so we looked at jordan and lebanon obviously those are the areas that were being affected with sort of the refugee populations coming in and then based on that kind of want to take spawn or sort of impact. from some of football's biggest names have got involved to spread the message and share their expertise including australia's all time leading scorer tim cahill who played at 4 world cups so really generation amazing is the legacy i really want to target education and grassroots this is how i started at 16 you know it's very difficult for me to get my opportunity from history and to even play in a world cup to be honest with you so i feel privileged to be in this position so far the generation amazing project has reach more than half a 1000000 people in 5 different continents didn't hate rwanda or back here in cats all the central things of inclusive it see and gender equality remain the same as

a kid i loved playing football but i don't feel like i am given the opportunity to play it here without being diagnosed by my community or are people in general so i really wanted to. like find a solution for that and improve the situation and allow other girls like me to play football here and qatar i think the world cup will be a great platform for that sort of change because for those who do not necessarily. are aware of what qatar stands for a what the world cup is it to bring or like programs like generation amazing i think it will allow them to see different sides and understand football is something that is for everyone. game changing individuals making sure the middle east 1st world cup is about far more than just a 4 week football tournament and the richardson al-jazeera don't. the n.b.a. has been rocked by coronavirus concerns on just the 2nd day of its new season

wednesday's game between the houston rockets and the all kahana city thunder had to be perspiring want it followed 3 rockets players that were turning coded 19 tests that were either positive or inclusive or the league revealed that houston star james harden is in particular was unavailable and slapped him with a $50000.00 fine for violating coronavirus rules by attending an indoor party on monday the n.b.a. completed its previous season by staging games in a bio secure bubble in florida and that's a useful for me we'll have a more for you later on but for now i hand you back to kim thanks so much for. well that is it for me kimbell for this news albats piramal z. we're back in just a moment with more of the day's news you can always go to abse there dot com if you want to get updated in the next 2 minutes otherwise she'll be with you very shortly

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