played important role. ringback 'd model home explodes in the u.s. city of nashville shattering and neighborhood after playing a recorded bomb warning. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha in derry navigates also a heads cease fire off fighting flares again in the central african republic ahead of sunday's election. millions fly around the u.s. to be with family for christmas despite warnings that travel will further inflame the corona virus outbreak.

as around the world christians scaled back celebrations on one of the most important days in the calendar. hello a huge explosion has ripped through a neighborhood in the u.s. city of nashville it happened early on christmas morning and there was a recorded warning playing before hounds police say they found traces of what could be human remains nearby. we have found 2 issue that we believe could be remains that would just have that you know examined and it will be able to let you know from that point darby was detonated so it was someone inside we have no idea it was such a large explosion but the investigation continuing it's a matter all over this area down there and so we'll continue to examine it to see

if it is human remains well 3 people were injured in that explosion but not badly it did knock out communication infrastructure grounding flights she had her town seen reports. the early morning blast in downtown nashville was felt on the hood from kilometers away authorities say at least 20 buildings were damaged when the vehicle exploded. police were already on their way having received the call the reporting gunshots in the area when they arrived they hadn't announced once believed to be coming from the vehicle the explosion was imminent they called in the bomb squad and began evacuating the area as the bomb squad approached the explosion occurred we had one officer that was not to the ground this was the testimony of a man who lived a block and a half away we just heard this blast and we felt the windows in our building shake and we were in a high rise about a man on the 26th floor and we just this unbelievable asked.

the f.b.i. has taken control of the investigation authorities are asking the public for their help please tell us what you know. we need to leads we need your help the the hour prevented more casualties the area is filled with shops restaurants bones i'm glad to poppins and an a.t.m. t. technical facility is adjacent to the blast site if you want to kill a lot of people and then you'll do it during your shopping hours at 730 at night or 2 in the afternoon 630 on a christmas morning there is a bulk of time your reader the fewest people out possible so that could imply or is this it's a statement grabber act rather than seeking to cause mass casualties the president has been briefed as he spends the christmas holiday in florida she had her town see . karen greenberg is director of the center a national security at fordham university school of law she says there are still a lot to understand about this explosion i mean i think the reaction from all of us

is quite rightly this was a big blast and you know this could have hurt many people and we still don't know how many you know it did hurt and to what extent so i think you know i have the question everybody else what was the message that was intended to be sent and who sent it and you can be sure that the f.b.i. is going to put together the trail that will lead them to you know the answer a bomb like this this kind of device a lot of what went into it where they purchased the materials where they put them together even so it will take some time but they will fight it out but the size of it is uncertainty you know we've seen other big bombs in the united states in the last couple decades because this reminds us of the home with city bombing in 1905 you know the attempted bombing perhaps in times square in 2002 and you know so you

know it's alarming but we have no idea who to achieve it is to or or what it was meant to say. huge numbers of americans have boarded flights to be with family for christmas despite warnings that travel will only worsen already alarming coronavirus deaths and infection rates more than a 1000000 people passed through u.s. airports on wednesday there was a similar rush during november's thanksgiving holiday which has been blamed for a fueling the current spike there are more than 193000 new cases recorded on thursday and nearly 3000 lives to rosen jordan she's joining us from washington d.c. so despite the travel warnings americans appear to be on the move this christmas rosalind. americans are on the move in the past 7 days more than 7000000 people have gone through security checkpoints at the nation's airports that

doesn't even begin to cover the many millions of people who have gotten in their cars or perhaps taken a train or a bus to visit friends and family across the country now what this means is that with this 2 week long holiday period public health officials are very very afraid that you're going to see even more cases of covert 19 infection through the middle part of january through late january we are already seeing upwards of 3000 people a day on average who are losing their lives to this virus and many more tens of thousands of people being infected so this is really a situation that public health officials are saying could have been prevented if people simply had chosen to stay home for the holiday period they understand that after 9 months or more of this pandemic in the united states that people want to be with their loved ones but public health officials say that given that just

a 1000000 or so people have received the 1st dose of the 1st vaccine against kobe at 19 that this is really outstripping the health systems ability to try to protect people in the middle of this pandemic and meanwhile americans are still waiting to find out so what's happening with the coronavirus relief bill has the president taken any action on it. donald trump the u.s. president has not taken any action the legislation was flown a physical copy of the legislation was sent to the president's home in southern florida on thursday but as of yet there's no indication that the president has either signed this legislation which would help pay for federal government operations more specifically pay for rather defense departments operations and then provide does stimulus systems to millions of americans who have either lost their

jobs or who are been underemployed because of the pandemic all we have seen is one tweet from the president midday on friday indicating that he has had conversations with people about trying to increase the amount of one time stimulus payments for americans but so far there hasn't been any more movement on that discretion on that dispute i should say the bill as it's currently written only provides for about $600.00 in one time payment the president has said he wants that more than tripled to $2000.00 but his fellow republicans don't want to increase that spending all right jordan thank you very much for that update from washington and it's been a quiet christmas across europe where several governments ordered their people to stay home a new and potentially more contagious variant of the virus 1st attack today in britain added to the urgency to impose new lock downs dominic kane reports from

berne then. christmas in rome during code where goodwill to others means socially distance events providing presence of a port and homeless as welcome as these gifts may seem what many people want this winter is the coded vaccine and now the 1st consignment of it have arrived in rome ready for distribution on sunday to people who the pope says should be 1st on the list. i pray for all those in charge of nations companies international organizations to promote cooperation and not competition and look for a solution for everybody vaccines for everybody especially for the most vulnerable and needy ones in every region of the planet as in many other e.u. countries the vaccine will also start being distributed in germany on sunday it's a development many hope will transform the situation. in the. end of this tunnel we see the long awaited light at the end of the tunnel become brighter we will come

closer to the exit in this crisis step by step how long the road will be depends on us if we remain reasonable and patient then we will gradually be able to do many things again that we had to do without for a long time. the strategy many european governments are adopting is to file a return to hard lock downs and the start of mass vaccination their hope is to reduce the numbers of new infections and eventually lower mortality rates that has been claiming the lives of thousands of people every day for some time dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. there has been more violence in the central african republic after a cease fire between the government and a coalition of rebel groups collapsed they have been exchanging fire with the army and u.n. peacekeepers in the town of. the rebels accuse president. 2 other of planning to break sunday's elections 6 opposition candidates are demanding the vote be

postponed from the capital catherine so explains why the rebels decided to break the cease fire agreements. page of change. the reason why they have called off the cease fire is because the president and the prime minister is not listening. government to the talking heads p.p.p. to put this on an already sierra club fight in a town about $500.00 club. because. of a slum in the. area where the fighting is going on the politics is one of the largest coal mining areas in the country club people and indeed in many parts of the country. here in bondi as well as the wait for that election on sunday we have been talking baseball the united nations was saying that it's by talking about the problem talking about the last part of the time. that

17th and pierre are closing in the blog. here. and that would be material coming to that in many parts of the country. and i. welcome said going on but i'll send you my a lot of the abduction of the new state i want to keep people away from coming to the polling station all the way to get ready by the prosecution on the day that sochi polanco not 7 optimism i jumped on the top spot of a decision not to let some people explode because of the security of the few western iraq taken on african scale going to the u.s. and others on the hot topic by creating more of a lot of conflict and i just want to see a plug to fall for the candidate of choice. at least 33 people

have died after their boat capsized on lake alberta between your guns and the democratic republic of congo uganda says the boat was carrying as many as 50 people when it ran into strong winds a local civil society groups says they were trying to enter the sea illegally to avoid coronavirus restrictions 2 palestinians including a 6 year old child have minor injuries after israeli air strikes in the gaza strip a number of empty sites belonging to have an islamic jihad were targeted a hospital was damaged as well it comes hours after hamas was accused of firing 2 rockets toward southern israel the army says they were aimed at the israeli city if . but their air defenses intercepted them there have been no reports of casualties . we'll have a check off on the weather next the men. thousands of migrants spend christmas in

shelters in north mexico putting their asylum hopes on the incoming u.s. president the anguish of a family trying to cope with the effects of a pandemic on their child's mental health. we got more snow in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days but things will gradually tiny little milder as we move into the early part of next week so the web still coming in from all over the northwesterly direction there will be further snow flurries then across that western side of honshu across a good part of the dry weather clear weather to the south for a time but this little area cloud and rain just spilling out of shanghai out of that eastern side of china that will make its way through the u.s. china say grassy pushing across south korea edging its way into a q.c.

20 increase the unsettled here then as we go on through sunday and monday further south plenty of showers across southeast asia more big downpours coming into the philippines usual rash of showers across malaysia and some heavier rain there coming across indonesia as we go on through the next day i wore the same as we make our way into sunday for southern parts of india it is largely dry at the moment but that will change as well little more cloud there across southern areas of the by of bengal and this cloud is now gathering it's pushing its way towards strong lanka we will see some heavy rain coming in here for a time say turning particularly wet with the possibility of some landslides possibility of flooding we'll see some wet weather it's time not to. risk a city has become a major 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 lawyer doesn't mean it's going to be crushed what about the guy that can't afford it the guys tell me it's water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of want to privatizing asian loads of water on al-jazeera. a i. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera police in the u.s. city of nashville say they found what could be human remains near the site of an explosion that happened early on christmas morning when a mobile home. 3 people have minor injuries millions of americans have ignored

advice to stay at home for the holidays or scored a virus infections day or so or more than a 1000000 people passed through airports on wednesday the busiest travel day since march. there's been more violence in the central african republic tops or a cease fire between the government and the coalition of rebel groups collapsed they've been exchanging fire with the army and u.n. peacekeepers in the town of akumal. while the rebels accuse president 4 star shines towards or are planning to read sunday's elections and while candidates wrap up campaigning and some demand a postponement the war weary people of the central african republic are still hoping for peace we spoke to one of them. well my name is my nickname is all my previous. i am a trader and every year we sell christmas decorations a movement of almost it but you know what we want a peaceful christmas among other things noble said lanny give me today it's 2013

the situation here was really bad and i was a victim had to run to congo as a refugee went where there i was elected and there was peace and i came back home. with a digital video 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. of the beginning we central african citizens want to live in peace. we hope that this year brings lasting up this we want to conflict to end we've had enough of this war. and stops our children from going to school to look at them or the c b i think if you still feel the more 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 you believes there's

a good goodness and off you go the message i have for central africans is that we just need peace peace is very important in life but on going to be 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 now we just need. conflict and 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 voting and i will vote but if there is trouble i will stay home and protect my family but if the situation is that i'll go vote mali's main opposition leader somalia since a has died after contracting co with 19 the 71 year old is being treated in france he was kidnapped in march by an armed group in northern mali while campaigning for elections and he was freed after 6 months.

in brussels to look over the post trade deal that's finally been agreed with the u.k. parliament's on both sides need to ratify big remittance which will one couple britain for from decades of new membership barker reports from london. i have a small present for anyone who may be looking for something to read in that post christmas lunch moment and here it is 2000 pages of dense detail the british government's christmas gift to the nation because this is a deal a deal to give certainty to business travelers and investors in our country from the 1st of january a deal with our friends and partners in the in brussels e.u. ambassadors met for a christmas day briefing with the blocks bricks at negotiator michel barnier the $27.00 european union states are expected to formally back the trade deal within days the european parliament which normally votes on

a tax before it becomes law will vote on the deal retrospective early in january the choreography is different for british m.p.'s who will cast their vote on the deal in parliament on the 30th of december where it's expected to pass with the the government controls a sizable majority of the opposition labor party says it will reluctantly back it a day later midnight december 31st the u.k. will unplug its economy from the world's largest trading bloc in a deal that will either drive or diminish the country for generations to come it's been a year of painful uncertainty for everyone the british economy is shattered thousands of businesses a teetering on the edge of ruin a while the country has been grappling with the impact of covert 19 it's also been living under the shadow cast by breaks it and worries that the british economy might never be the same again but now that there is

a deal here in london the voted almost exclusively to remain in the european union there's a sense of quiet and reluctant acceptance. at this time of great upheaval a familiar face with a traditional christmas message even on the darkest nights a queen elizabeth is the hope of a new dawn. but even with this deal uncertainty remains there are fears unemployment will rise it firms relocate to the e.u. a few transport companies have access to britain's new border crossing software and questions on how to avoid physical border checks between northern ireland part of the u.k. and ireland and e.u. member as more details emerge is clear the british government's also gone further than expected in granting the e.u. access to british fishing grounds the e.u. and u.k. are now decipher ing the trade deal for general consumption both eager to show they've gained the most ground at the 11th hour the. london another

800 british military personnel have been deployed to help clear the thousands of truck drivers waiting to get into france more than 1000 troops are now involved in the operation at the port of dover testing drivers for coronavirus and distributing food and water travel restrictions were. drivers are now allowed to cross over if they are negative for. several studies have looked into the depression and anxiety that the pandemic has caused among children they've also found increases in obsessive compulsive disorder or o.c.d. . reports from miami beach. i want to find a way to make your nighttime routine calmer the call from the mental health hospital halfway across the country was greatly anticipated but now the anguish is long distance less than a week before this florida family admitted their 12 year old son we'll call jackson

to inpatient treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder or o.c.d. and an eating disorder he is the most amazing so we outgoing athletic smart friendly kind through the course of this quarantine he became on edge anxious i'm anxious and today i would describe him as a rat in an electrified cage studies have shown that the fear and stressors of the coded 1000 pandemic have been triggering for children with o.c.d. and executive jackson tortured himself by spending his waking hours only standing or exercising insisting that he needed to lose weight the deterioration happened in a matter of months honestly i would rather die of corona by now because to go through this to watch your kid suffer like this is worse i would rather take the pain from him and not have to see him suffering like this the international

foundation says 2 to 4 percent of all children will develop. an estimated 3000000 children in the united states alone there is a genetic component to o.c.d. and anxiety jackson's father also has o.c.d. his struggle to find affordable treatment has been replicated with his son due to a lack of specialized pediatric facilities and the fact that many won't accept health insurance the family waited 6 weeks to find an empty bed states away it breaks my heart to see that you know that my son is struggling with this and that you know we just you know we're smart people educated resort. and we just haven't up until this point been able to find him the right care that he needs today i'm going to talk to you about anxious the tashi daniels is a child therapist she says there has been an influx of desperate families across the globe seeking assistance through her online workshops and community forums

although many countries don't have adequately trained clinicians who can treat o.c.d. she says there is a type of therapy parents can teach children that helps rewire their brains and stop the compulsive behavior it's never too late to give your child those skills to have it and approach your child's behavior in it and it can make a huge difference long term there's always hope jackson's family is clinging to that hope the family's life has been turned upside down pretty much nothing has been the same the family doesn't know when they'll see jackson again cope with 1000 restrictions prevent visits they can only have faith that the treatment he's undergoing revives the son and brother they know that asha going to. miami beach. thousands of refugees and migrants are spending christmas in shelters along mexico's northern border with the u.s. many have been waiting for months for their asylum cases to be processed delayed

further by the pandemic john homan reports. he's the line separating the u.s. from mexico it's been a slow train coming for those who want to cross it legally and the pandemic has made things worse with u.s. immigration courts closed for months. there are thousands of migrants stuck in mexico to meet them open to process their asylum requests the u.s. has put them in a plan called m.p.p. which means they have to way in mexico while they were silent process plays out even though they're from other countries. get out all fled brazil he says because of the threat of violence erupt in buda city what is 10 months ago this still waiting for his 1st court date. a major theme article it was for march 14th of this year but that was changed because of the pandemic through the center 15 now it's put that into a mail for next year. you're geraldo his son and his wife is spending christmas in

a shelter many of the 10s of thousands of people that been ordered to wait in mexico in the n.p.p. program will be doing the same. some migration lawyers are worried that they could miss the one the deadline to start the asylum process all together news stories hopes that's not the case but she's concerned about the well being of those she's trying to help those eskimo or knesset bussy are it's a complicated situation for the hay from basic needs it's really unsaid saying what's going to happen to them and that generics and sightsee just being here waiting not knowing how to follow up with the proceeds. to go to host church is one of many along the border which have been turned into shelters he seem hope among those now under his care that a new u.s. administration could help them in a 2nd sample thomas content i don't know who is happier. biden's victory the americans or those stuck here in the asylum process because it means for them and then to their stay in mexico so they can follow their dreams. president elect joe

biden had promised to end the m.p.p. program on his 1st day in office now his incoming administration has signaled it will take more time and there are questions about what will then happen to those spending this christmas in shelters john home with al-jazeera. the former japanese prime minister has apologized for mistakes over political funding scandal which has cast a shadow over his successor it involves almost $300000.00 for events attended by supporters between 20062019 dinners at an upscale tokio hotel were subsidized by his center right party but not properly declared it threatens to damage new prime minister yes he does so go well long served as a right hand man. even though the accounting was done without my knowledge i'm keenly aware of my moral obligations i would like to deeply and

sincerely apologize to the people. i was devoted to my duties as prime minister so regarding the operation and sitting at the dinner party i was not involved for many years there were no mistakes in my office in the operation or in the elections so i left it to the person in charge. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera police in the u.s. city of nashville say they found what could be human remains near the site if an explosion that happened early on christmas morning when a mobile home. had been playing a bomb warning beforehand 3 people have minor injuries this morning's attack on our community was intended to create chaos and fear in this season of peace. but nationally and so for even time and time again that the spirit of our city.