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current thing that matter t.f. . out is iraq. the us city of nashville rocked by a large explosion early on christmas morning. i'm sammy's a band this is al jazeera live from also coming up the restrictions to control coronavirus governments around the world react to the rapid spread of covert 19. a short lived ceasefire violence flares again in central african republic as rebels attack a gold mine in the north. subdued
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christmas celebrations across the world as nations battle the biggest health crisis in recent times. we begin in the u.s. city of nashville and the state of tennessee where a massive explosion has rocked the downtown core early on christmas morning police there are calling it an intentional act they say the blast was linked to a vehicle 3 people have been injured but no fatalities have been reported several rows of buildings have been damaged chapter towns he's live for us in washington d.c. so she had any indication of who did this. very little information right now we do not have a more interesting timeline to reports there it seems that around 1200 g.m.t. just before 1200 g.m.t. police were called about a suspicious of v.
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that is a recreational vehicle or what we call a motorhome or camper van and the rest of the world there was a suspicious vehicle parked on a street which didn't have any number plates apparently so the police were called a police officer went to the scene and decided that this was a suspicious vehicle and alerted the the bomb squad effectively the local bomb squad to come and take a look at it while further reinforcements were on their way there was this explosion the explosion has links to the core there has been any explicit suggestion that it was the vehicle but certainly that's what people are drawing from from the circumstantial evidence. an enormous explosion we're seeing from social media the people miles away felt the explosion we're seeing the damage in all the video that's being being released around 20 buildings at least have been have been damaged we should correct some news some reporting that we had earlier that this was outside the 18th skyscraper that's actually around the corner from
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here but but it was in the vicinity of an a.t.m. t. building that's used which has lots of switching equipment for the local telecommunications infrastructure also around lots of restaurants recently gentrified area on the riverfront in nashville we understand the f.b.i. has now taken control of the investigation and we are expecting another update shortly from local authorities perhaps the man or the f.b.i. and she had any indication that this point in time from officials about you know what the target might have been. absolutely not i we have no information about what it was i mean. it's an r.v. though there might have been speculation initially the duties always carried gas canisters after all they carried kitchens on board perhaps but we have no information i mean it's pure speculation right now all we can say is the circumstantial evidence of occurred early on christmas morning and in fact authorities are saying we're very lucky that this happened to a time when there weren't that many people around just the people who were living
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in the adjacent buildings or various loft style apartments that are around only 3 people were injured not critically but they have been taken to hospital all right thanks so much to have response either. let's move now and look at the impact rotavirus is having on what is a holiday season for many people around the world of vaccines are being rolled out in some countries but infection numbers they're still rising and for some restrictions are still in place so americans were warned to stay home for the holidays more than a 1000000 of them did board flights on wednesday the busiest travel day since march while access to the u.s. will soon be more difficult with travelers from the u.k. for example required to show a negative test that's after more infectious strain was found there it's being blamed for a rapid rise in cases across the u.k.
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restrictions were east lightly on christmas day but many face tough new measures from saturday throughout the rest of europe were things are looking similarly grim 25000000 cases of the virus have now been recorded across the continent in latin america vaccines are starting to be rolled out as the 1st covert $900.00 jabs started arriving argentina chile costa rica and mexico are among those who started vaccination programs and daniel shrine law has more from what osiris. several countries in latin america receiving their focused doses of the coverage 19 vaccine or different kinds of vaccine we had 5 delivering 3000 doses to mexico the 1st medical worker in costa rica being vaccinated and also 3000 doses to chile but it's here in argentina which i thought i think for the biggest arrival play nearly as our continuous plane arriving from moscow yesterday thursday with 300000
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doses of the sputnik virus and immediately you saw these refrigerated trucks leaving the airport heading out to argentina's $23.00 provinces points there were these doses according to the size of the population of each of those provinces delivering their ratio of doses not is due to start the vaccination program on monday so obviously the big logistical situation to get them there in the adequate conditions to be used to be protected and then to inform people of this tens of thousands of people involved in the program here volunteers amongst the medical staff being placed in all these provinces really a big program arriving the day before christmas things very very quiet here today obviously but in these provinces people preparing for monday morning and the vaccination program to start doctor and sparrow is professor of population health science and policy at mount sinai hospital in new york she says people are fed up
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with the restrictions but they are necessary. what we've seen it is this new guy's new variant which is highly contained it's much more contagious so it doesn't it doesn't really fast there but it put it more people so it is infecting more people to receive these dramatic spine. and so it goes the only way to deal with that is it is not force people out there that they get tired they're exhausted we are social animals and we are longing to be together at christmas and if you're not living in north korea or china there's no way to enforce those type of travel restrictions so it's over it's over this is where we're seeing this combination of this. or it's a perfect virus that is let's make it so i mean the most of this great it's only within a couple of days the owners have been behind closed doors and into newton's were not kept you know found quickly using. the using
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a test which takes days and days to come back and doesn't get people in time in the snow in parts like south korea has recorded its biggest daily increase in corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic reported $1241.00 new cases including a large outbreak at a prison and seoul the country rolled out its toughest ever restrictions this week with popular tourist venues closed until early next month testing and contact tracing are also being ramped up churches in south korea have been holding their christmas celebrations virtually earlier this year a congregation in the city of diago was identified as the source of most of the country's infections its members were accused of undermining efforts to contain the virus problem of pride has more from seoul. many people this christmas morning woke up to the depressing news that once again the country has set this record of well over 1200 new ring cases being recorded in
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a single day the news actually was broken by the country's prime minister at a meeting of the coronavirus task force here a lot of the this jump is being attributed to an outbreak at a prison here in sold some 288 cases recorded mostly inmates but also some stuff there that's in addition to a couple of 100 other cases that had already been recorded there so around 500 cases at this one facility which is cause some alarm here we're seeing some of the prisoners inmates being moved to other facilities tightening up the testing regime etc but this comes as the restrictions have been ramped up across south korea to try to contain this 3rd wave we're seeing more than a 1000 around a 1000 cases per day for the past week or so just before this jump we're seeing ski resorts closed tourism destinations being shut all as ways of trying to prevent
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people gathering the numbers of people who are allowed to gather publicly being limited to just 4 people at the government has said that it wants to avoid a complete shutdown of the economy it knows the socio economic impact that that would cause and the highest level where that might take place is what they call level 3 where we're currently at 2.5 just one level below that so far the government has managed to keep the economy going to the beginning of this pandemic but it is said that if it has to raise it to about highest level then so be it would have to do that. heavy fighting is taking place in the central african republic following the collapse of a cease fire between a coalition of rebels and government forces is happening in the town of baquba northeast of the capital fighters from the coalition of patriots for change or exchanging fire with the army as well as the united nations peacekeeping mission the fighting broke out as before presidential candidates were scheduled to hold their final election rallies the vote is due to be held on sunday 6 opposition
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candidates are demanding it be postponed now the u.n. says it's gravely concerned then has approved the deployment of more peacekeepers. let's take a look at the fragile political landscape in the central african republic and president foster in our challenge to our there came to power in 2016 if to pursue peace and unity but his struggle to contain unrest in his rival francois was easier was forced from power more than 6 years ago by most famous the rebels known as the seleka prompting reprisals from christian armed groups u.n. investigators say a large scale killings of civilians were carried out by both sides subsequent violence worsened the ongoing civil war leaving thousands of un peacekeepers being deployed in 2014 a peace accord signed in february 2019 between the government and 14 armed groups who has reduced violence but armed factions form the coalition against the
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government it's feared the country could see a return to wider conflict that conflict has forced 4 and a half 1000000 people to flee their homes. while candidates wrap up campaigning and others demand to perspire meant ordinary people across their fingers for peace are just serious matter a man whose life has been marked by election violence for. well my name is my nickname is all my previous. song i am a trader and every year we sell christmas decorations don't move for doing well here we want a peaceful christmas among other things. to me today in 2013 the situation here was really bad and i was a victim had to run to congo as a refugee went where i was elected and there was peace then i came back home.
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and i didn't want to do we'll be we don't want conflict to happen again because we've lost everything and we don't want to risk any more again we want a lasting peace in central african republic and it goes from the beginning we central african citizens want to leave in peace we hope that this brings lasting atlas we want to conflict to end we've had enough of this war. and stops our children from going to school to look to be of a good if we want unconditional peace that we can finally develop ourselves we see everyone here buying gifts for christmas and that's good for all of us and we just need peace but it was a. good lesson buffy got the message i have for central african says that we just need peace peace is very important in life. if you have peace you can do all in life you can go anywhere in the world but if there is no peace you can move what developed but. we just need. conflict and
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troubles do not interest us and you know we've seen what can happen we are tired. i intend to do my civic duty if there is very thing then i will vote but if there is trouble i will stay home and protect my family but if the situation is calm here then i'll go vote. well still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm dorsetshire pari in a village in south carolina with these women who didn't have any income before the pandemic are now supporting their entire families by making masks. plus a christmas far from loved ones pandemic restrictions make life even harder for foreign domestic workers in hong kong.
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however the weather sloshy set fire across china across the korean peninsula we have still got some more snow with the full cost for japan that when the snow will travel its way across northern parts of honshu pushing into hokkaido as we go i wanted to send stay this way it's a weather that we have into the east the side chart of that slip out into the east china sea south korea seeing some wet weather and it will tonight increase the wet across accuses the southern parts of japan seeing some rather wet weather as we move on through the weekend clear skies to come back and behind so last you try and find here dry to across a good parts of south asia certainly a good part of in the ever got some west of weather some wintry weather into the fall north of pakistan and will eventually push its way across the fall north of india much of india those to say it is dry and find some showers they're making their way towards flanker and assess take going on into sunday with us shower ready to gather and they will pack pop some big down poles we are likely to see some flooding coming in across lanka as we go on through sunday we push on monday still
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a few showers coming in here but not quite as intense and notice by that stage some of that wetter weather pushing into the fossil feast of india so turning rather wet foot tumble not that. a new perspective can change your world. for one chin is ian good began as a hobby has grown into a passion the way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so installing in his country a sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is here on al-jazeera. group.
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come back you're watching out just the earth and to recap headlines a massive explosion has rocked the u.s. city of nashville in what police are now calling an intentional act at least 3 people have been taken to hospital but no fatalities have been reported several rows of buildings have been damaged nations across the world are marking christmas on the coronavirus long found u.s. health experts are warning people to stay at home as infections continue to surge parts of the u.k. are reentering the highest level of restrictions in response to the rapid rise in cases. as heavy fighting in the central african republic following the collapse of a cease fire between a coalition of rebels and government forces violence broke out as before
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presidential candidates were scheduled to hold their final election rallies the head of sunday's vote. has kept more now on the breaking news story the explosion in nashville in the u.s. joining me now from boston is dan coll he's a former deputy national intelligence officer at the cia good to have you with us so this point what is sort of suspects are authorities looking at well i hope that they aren't looking at any suspects yet unless they have a clear evidence trail from a license plate or a car registration or or a warning or something like that but i can describe how one approaches these are what should approach a an event like this will avoid calling it anything until we really know there are 2 ways that i think overlap there are the procedures and then there are the the framework of threats as we understand them so the procedures the f.b.i.
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is brilliant forensic analysis and they can track down almost inconceivable trails from the slightest bit of evidence and there's a lot of. possible evidence there with the wreckage of the car and all sorts of things we don't know such as a call or warnings and so on so they will be doing forensic analysis down to the kind of oil even in the vehicle that blew up which often can be tracked and things things obscure as that the framework we can i can discuss described with with some confidence now we don't know and the danger here for all of us in particular for the media and then the public is that we. hazard a. guess and then that becomes the conventional wisdom and we don't want to do that
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whether we denounce a muslim terrorist which turns out not to be the case and that has happened in number of times in the u.s. and elsewhere or a domestic terrorist so we should say nothing is an official for now however these threats matrix we used to call it the hierarchy of dangers the number one danger to domestic security of lives blood and treasure in the united states for decades has been not islamic terrorists but domestic right wing militia and terrorists all right there of course are muslim terrorists but they're one the people who are armed and have committed violence the most have been the right wing militia exodus was often a fact lost on many people. does this explosion without i appreciate your cautiousness which is definitely the right thing an adult to do this point but is it possible i told 2 to put what we do know about this explosion within any package
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does it does it fit anything that we've seen in the past. well i did have a couple of immediate thoughts in in that regard when i heard that it was an ex a car explosion in the national traditionally islamic terrorists traditionally that means going back 40 years and i've been involved almost literally for years now has been to go after mass casualty attacks against iconic places or or representations of american power of target as the united states that's the world trade center in new york in 2001 or the sears tower in chicago or the washington national mall or a senior official nashville wonderful is it isn't then significant a city as it is is not an immediate target from that perspective
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now the domestic or right wing terrorists have a different approach and they have a number of local grievances such as what they perceive to be federal government oppression and that can occur from a kirk ranger in a national park in the west frequently that's the case to a tax collector or to a mayor so. they are less. easy to define their methodology those are the 2 broad perspectives that those 2 kinds of terrorist threats because thank you very much for. analyzing what we do know is still sketchy but thanks so much for coming along. and basset is from the e.u. is 27 member states army thing in brussels to discuss the new u.k. trade agreement chief negotiator michel barnier and the blocks leaders are asking
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member states to abide by the deals terms provisionally as britain leaves the european trade rules on december 31st the temperature aims to avoid border disruption until the e.u. parliament can formally ratify the deal with an arm and whole vote on the agreement one day before the deadline the trade deal has ended years of uncertainty and will define the u.k.'s relationship with the e.u. for decades to come or a chance explains this means that the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. finally brics it is 4 and a half years after the referendum almost at the end of the 11 month transition period . the u.k. and the e.u. argued negotiated compromise and cajoled but they've done what many feared they couldn't and agreed to a future trading relationship. it's a moment of reflection for the european commission president at the end of
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a successful negotiations journey i normally feel joy but today i only feel quite satisfaction and frankly speaking relief for the u.k.'s prime minister it's a political success that caps a year which gave him very few of them. there will be no palisade of terrorists on january the 1st and they'll be no non-tariff barriers to trade and instead there will be a giant free trade zone of which we will once be a member and at the same time be able to do our own free trade deals one area of disputes that seem compromises fishing rights outside the e.u. britain has control of its exclusive economic zone but it's had to budge on how much access is have there's also been movement on state aid to allay e.u. fears european companies could suffer from unfair competition and now both have an
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imperative to work together to make this deal look as good. as possible and that will many my short term disruption the government's independent spending watchdog says not reaching a deal would have nots 2 percent off u.k. growth in 2021 alone partly because of temporary disruptions to cross border trade but even with this deal the u.k. business is 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 in the member for now both sides will be happy to have something to show for the torturous negotiations boris johnson insists the relationship is still
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closed this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologically. attached to europe but in the year of covert the u.k. has finally done what the 2016 referendum result demanded it's distance itself from europe rory chalons how does iraq. mali's main opposition leader from ala c.s.a. died on friday of covert 19 the 71 year old veteran politician was in france receiving treatment for the illness according to his family was kidnapped by an armed group and held for 6 months in northern mali in march are campaigning for elections a former finance minister and 3 time runner up presidential candidate says there was a prominent figure in money and politics for $3.00 decades now japan's prime minister shahid asuka is releasing 2600000000 dollars in funding to help medical facilities treating the coronavirus the country has been breaking infection
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records on a daily basis or 3000 cases were confirmed on wednesday the medical alert system in tokyo has been raised to the highest level following the unprecedented spike in infections almost 3000 people have died and more than 210000 have been infected across the country. and in hong kong thousands of foreign workers the spending their christmas away from their families because of tough restrictions sarah clarke explains. christmas decorations may be up but large celebrations in hong kong our whole public gatherings of more than 2 people have been banned and borders remain closed. people like nathan cowen will spend the festive season on his or in his family in australia unable to fly in to join him because of strict travel restrictions were very top family and spend a lot of time together it's been really hard on myself on the family and on the
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boys as well foreign domestic workers in hong kong have been hit hard by the pen demick they're almost 400000 here most are from the philippines and indonesia these women are the bread winners for their families but they're unable to return home for a holiday this christmas very hard for a mother wanting to see your family your your child and. sorry. you know you want to you want to give her the best christmas but you know you can't really push her to understand everything this is all i think here is all. this domestic worker who doesn't want to be identified gave birth last month she didn't plan her pregnancy and has struggled to pay the high living and medical costs she's been forced to rely on charities for help and their money and where it's been very sad and financially difficult for me and it's hard being alone without any support
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our shelter there has been full tilt bethink pretty much the whole year as has been the other shelters that we refer our mothers to in the community so shelters been a big she began but has given a number of cash handouts to residents here in hong kong to help out during this pandemic the foreign domestic workers have missed out that's the spot and in a minute. winds around $600.00 a month free covered 19 tests are available for migrant workers who've lost their jobs but the government rejected a plea for a pay rise this year we want to just pass among the dumb sick what is so problem there and many of the trying to starve themselves out the squish that is small money so that answers that all this kind of sort of an employer as well as helping the family the pandemic has exposed the harsh realities of being a migrant worker in asia to travel restrictions it could be months before they can go home and be reunited with their families syria clock out
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a 0 hong kong. and you can keep up to date with all those stories if you had over to our web site al-jazeera dot com see our lead story that explosion in life. let's take a look at some of the stories now a massive explosion has rocked the city of nashville in the u.s. state of tennessee on what the police are calling an intentional act officers were called to the scene about suspicious vehicle christmas bombing morning a bomb squad was then summoned while they were on the way the explosion took place at least 3 people have been taken to hospital but no fatalities have been reported several rows of buildings have been damaged nations across the world are marking christmas on the krona virus lockdown u.s. health experts are warning people to stay at home as in factions can to.

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