al-jazeera. given al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a top court in the central african republic rejects last ditch appeals to perspire on sunday's election after attacks by armed groups. hopes for a turning point in the fight against covert 19 countries across the european union receive their 1st vaccines and get ready to begin mass immunization. police in the u.s. city of nashville say they may have found human remains at the site of

a powerful explosion there's still no clear motive to be attack. thousands of course of moms deported from the u.s. find conditions at home even worse than when they 1st left. all the sports manchester united. as their health were drawn by fellow premier league title chasers leicester city. we begin with the central african republic and a ruling from the constitutional court that sunday's election will go ahead despite rising violence groups opposition parties wanted it to spell the end of accuse the president of vote rigging rebels also rejected by the just mysie of the government and threaten to march on the capital bangui 3 un peacekeepers have been killed rights groups are warning that violence could reach levels last seen in 2013

thousands of civilians were killed. u.n. mission in central african republic has told us there that conditions are stable enough to ensure a free and fair election on sunday forces are advancing toward the capital bangui after a ceasefire with the government broke down u.n. secretary general antonio good tennis has condemned the killings and is demanding an investigation. and so he joins us now live from the capital of the central african republic catherine so the court has ruled that the vote can go ahead but with everything that's going on when people want to do they feel safe. well it really depends on who you talk to we have spoken to u.n. officials who say that 80 percent of the country if they cannot force people to go to vote they fear that all the prophets of the electoral process is going on in these other parts of the country they feel that the trouble areas are just few if

you speak to the government spokesman and we spoke to him that day he thought that yes he expects there's going to be a little vote but he hopes that the local the town out is not going to be so low as to discredit the electoral process if you speak to opposition leaders and we've spoken to several of them they're saying that they're disappointed by the courtroom ling that they that there are a great many people likely. to come out to bolt and particularly that the ones you mentioned and that ensure that the ones who filed this petition in the constitutional court to postpone the election that particularly after one of them one of the presidential candidates. did it because of that cutie issues but what is back in kim is that people are very afraid and not just in areas where there is acting fighting in places like here in the capital the where i am speaking to central african who are saying that they will not go to the polling stations

until that lewdly sure that they will be safe ok catherine sawyer live for us in benghazi thanks so much for that. despite the uncertainty that catherine mentioned on the grounds the u.n. is insisting the conditions are stable enough to ensure a free and fair election the deputy special representative of the secretary general spoke to a short while ago she told my colleagues i was on dumb people are determined to exercise their right to. distribution of the voter cards is ongoing and people left through this country were registered to vote are coming in large numbers to collect their cards the population is determined in this country to vote tomorrow and we are determined at the united nations with the sport and international community to ensure that the boat goes ahead i've just finished a meeting with all the regional representatives and the country and 80 percent of

the country the situation is progressing there are preparations are on there and. so in most parts of the country people will be able to vote tomorrow in security yet in some parts there's instability were caused by the armed works but as you know we brought in green porcelain. martin spoke english and in south sudan to ensure that the boat goes hurt and that the country can grow its insecurities and our last estimate this morning is not just there maybe about 4 percent of the electorate not able to vote but it's absolutely not region by its very specific communities and in those communities. blue how much the. earth i'm green forced their presence to ensure that people can come so we are very determined the population is determined and pushed back on the armed groups who believe they can still be elections from the population of this counter international you can't have

them out of this country to be dragged back to the conflict and chaos of 2013 where innocent people were killed institutions. and it and total chaos let's bring in this country that cannot be allowed he can allow them to leave the country back along this. we have a man. which we are responsible. citizens of and for. all over. the. last year this is what we're here. and this is why that. reinforced. many in this current side of this. well. said. let's take a look at the fragile political landscape in central african republic president

foster child came to power in 2016 involves to pursue peace and unity but he has struggled to contain unrest his rival francois because it was forced from power more than 6 years ago by mostly muslim rebels known as the celica prompting reprisals from christian armed groups you had investigation say large scale killings were carried out by both sides against civilians subsequent violence worsened the country's ongoing civil war prompting thousands of un peacekeepers to be deployed in 2014 a peace accord signed in fabric 2019 between the government and 14 to a lower level of violence but with factions form of a coalition against the government said the country could see a return to wider conflicts that forced 4 and a half 1000000 people to flee from their homes. let's speak to michael moore now who is in kent in chatham in the u.k.

he is the senior visiting fellow at the. center for africa at the london school of economics and political science thank you for your time how do you foresee this playing out the president is accusing the former president of working with rebels to stir up a coup obviously people are afraid about violence ahead of the vote is there a real risk in your opinion that things could escalate. well i mean we're not sure about in the scout that there are enough troop levels to keep the potential rebel movements up bay i mean he you come in you start there you've got french troops there you've got troops from russia and basically you know where any potential rebel movements have about actually being kept back and being with with with defense mechanisms so even if any kind of haqqani come on citizens when it expectant it in major disruptions and people can actually go to events in security

as has been totally if we look at the wider context you sort of touched on that but how much control does the government actually have in the country versus that of the various armed groups operating there i mean that quite a few in a recent pic forests you know portions of the country where rebel movements have been in hiding for quite a number of yes but generally when it comes to political control it's quite a kick to sit is this not a move gone beyond the civil war stage and back there east and if you states currently governing peter what sign i mean the country basically is apparent to move on and carry on with civic duties so i mean this election really is going to be like a test in. aren't aware by us you know assistance exactly what that is that politics can go on as usual and therefore it's quite essential that you know where the u.s. troops are and either am really fortunate from south sudan. or actually assisted to

make sure that since have the ability to go and vote in peace and and in security do you believe these elections will be free and fair. i think it will be free and fair i mean some on occasions but the president is trying to do this or that but essentially he has quite a lot of supports he has that major party position is quite minor in barack at exactly expected that he's going to win their tour of the kitchen so far that it presents frankly rick this election but it's quite obvious that yes it might geraghty and it's expected that he will be the candidate to pull forward what sort of the influence to foreign powers has a central african republic russia has signed a number of agreements and has a presence there the french obviously have a history there so what the competing foreign interests are there and how might they play out on the ground with what we're seeing right now. and not to do with

the immediacy of politics i think the competing for interest are no mate has to do with you know where to preform and the russians there are systems of security there sometimes level of french presence there approximately 2000 troops we have when you start there as well over 10000 troops i imagine and obviously the president has basically tried to ensure that security is at the top of that agenda because of this so many you know rebel movements that have been trying to keep the step the peace. some of the mobile i think the many competing foreign interests how to deal with you know military supports to a show or peace right where you're going to you know rigorous and other things are so yes i think at the moment the main thing. that made i genuinely table is basically just in shock peace and get a country back to you know massive media life. thanks so much for your analysis of

your time michael moore there a senior visiting fellow at the london school of economics and political science. at least 35 people have been kidnaps in northeast nigeria been dressed in military uniforms set up a roadblock and abducted the travelers as they headed to mandatory it's believed the incident could be links to. 30 candidates have made their final touches divorces ahead also elections in egypt the polls are historic and set the course for the 1st place or peaceful transition of power outages reports from the capital now on how africa's 2nd coronavirus wave is having an impact. it's been a busy 3 weeks of campaigning for me just presidential candidate. any wave of korra virus infections forced the government to impose a limit on carbon emissions the last day. but the leading candidate i can fit into

but the right message is something passed through the protests form of forming an interior minister mohammad. is the governing party's candidate you don't get a look at our candidate has visited all parts of the country even before the start of the campaign selling practical ideas to the people and to see how people live to understand their problems helps us design a program to better people's lives were confident of winning in the 1st round one of bazooms main rivals 3 time presidential candidate and former prime minister senor morrow says that one tavern. in my political experience it's impossible for anyone to win an election outright in the 1st round each of us would want to but it's impractical no one will it's very very difficult . a total of 30 candidates are running for president while some have complained hard most have been on the sidelines seeking to form alliances with stronger parties. although much of the campaign focused on who becomes president voters will

also choose 171 representatives to fuel the seats in this parliament some will later form the country's next cabinet as in previous elections analysts say end up with a coalition of one of the being wanted to go to parties and other smaller ones. the decision on who gets to form the coalition depends on what $7500000.00 voters decide on sunday a presidential candidate request 50 percent plus one of valid votes cast to win outright that has never happened in an election here if no candidate gets that voters will be called once again to choose among the 2 candidates with the highest number of votes in the trees i'll just see that you have me. i do head on the news hour including. a new coronavirus trial is underway looking into using antibodies to help people already infected with carpet 19. the young rises are showing in

a renascence of iraqi literature who say they won't be silenced by extremist threats. and special women from miami will explain why have they played a role in the program. the new scent of crow virus which calls travel chaos and lockdowns across britain is continuing to be detected elsewhere around the world sweden has become the latest country to report the more transmissible variant was picked up a travel arriving from the u.k. elsewhere in europe nations are stepping up their efforts to stamp out the illness italy has just received its 1st $10000.00 fires a biotech vaccines the 1st batch of those vaccines has also arrived in spain which is due to start its realisation campaign on sunday be administered at a nursing home and in germany the health minister has called for

a major national effort to immunize as many people as possible as just hours before its vaccination program is set to begin or paul brennan is in london he says the virus is having a huge impact on the usually very busy retail areas. kernel virus really household high streets and none more so than here on london's famous oxford street perhaps the most famous shopping street in this country and over my shoulder you can see how few people there we are in the highest level of restrictions here. so strictly speaking people should be staying home unless they're out for essential exercise or to go to an essential shop such as a pharmacy and you can see lots of places are simply closed. shop shop over there is close. foot locker on my right hand side shots from mark on my left hand side also shots it really has decimated the expectations of the retailers now i see one

estimate from the credit card company barclay card this morning and they expect boxing day people to spend around $3600000000.00 online but that's small consolation to the people with bricks and mortar buildings in places such as this and the restrictions on expanding today for the 1st time an extra $6000000.00 people are under these tier 4 highest level restrictions meaning households cannot mix all essential shops have to close that brings to a total some $24000000.00 people in britain about 43 percent of the population who are now under these restrictions on the biggest difficulty over this christmas period has been how circumstances on the government have a sense of balance of people around. donna came through as we now live from berlin dominic as we mentioned earlier this new variant has been found in sweden what about the rest of europe. the new variant is certainly

something that's worrying the health officials right across europe clearly they are hoping that the the numbers of cases that are reported are going to be kept to a minimum while they concentrate their efforts on the vaccines that we know are now ready to go in many of the e.u. countries but they would only be phased in in in certain cases it's going to be happening as it were certainly here in berlin but also in germany targeting particularly vulnerable groups rather than a mass vaccination as it were that sort of thing isn't is people going to have to wait some considerable time for the mass vaccination to roll out we know that the federal health minister here foreigners talk talked about having 10000000 doses of the bio on tech pfizer vaccine available by the end of the 1st quarter so throwing into that the idea that this new strands of coronavirus being reported in individual cases in different member states is going to be causing

a bit of jitters for the health minister for the health ministries around the european union but clearly their point of view is to concentrate on what they can control and that is obviously the rolling out of these 1st consignments of vaccine in tandem with what they control in so far as lockdowns are concerned remember that the austrian government has propelled its citizens back into lockdown today germany will be going back into hard lockdown on sunday tomorrow all with a view towards trying this twin track approach to flatten the curve the phrase that was used during the 1st wave of the outbreak well now that people here are in the teeth of the 2nd wave that's very much the mantra here vaccination on one hand and tough lockdown on the other particularly as you were saying because of. the reports of the new strands of corona being reported in different member states ok while we

wait for those vaccination programs to begin. we have talked there about lockdowns are they having any impact yet what are the infection rates like now across europe the interesting thing here is that the trend certainly prior to the christmas the festivities the holiday period was upwards no question in some countries certainly the trend was upwards certainly here in germany so upward was the trend that ministers felt they had no option but to inforce a stringent lock down now the problem in so far as the tabulation of figures is concerned is that because of the christmas holidays you have different states in germany but also different member states in the e.u. not necessarily having tabulated cross correlated as it were all the information

relative to the 2 this is the the the steps of corona remember also that in so far as the reporting of new cases is concerned the weekend is usually a time when the numbers are down and then you see a surge of numbers on the monday that follows the weekend and certainly over the course of the last 4872 hours we've seen hundreds of thousands of new cases being reported around the continent and certainly an average of around 5000 new deaths every day over the course of the past 3 days which shows you how urgent the need is for these new vaccines ok i can with a picture from across europe from berlin thank you. researchers in the u.k. are starting trials for an antibody treatment that could prevent illness and people infected with covert 19 it's up to the antibody developed spine drug manufacturer astra zeneca could prevent the virus developing in people who've already been exposed a new trial dubbed storm chaser aims to recruit more than

a 1000 people to take part worldwide key target groups in the trial will be health care workers people in long term care and factory workers 10 people have been injected with the antibody so far well dr sanjay said a dark hair is associate professor of infectious diseases at australian national university is the antibody could especially benefit people with weakened immune systems. one issue with the vaccine is of course that the vaccine works by getting our own immune system to make antibodies so that's fine if we've got a strong immune system that's capable of making antibodies but what if certain groups don't and the most common group with this is an issue elderly people because they get an aging immune system which isn't a strong as when they were young and of course people who have a very low immune system because they've got a primary immunodeficiency or they're on medications to suppress their immune

system so those people the vaccine may not do any harm but it may not necessarily work as well as in a young healthy person so these monoclonal antibodies are an alternative where you just give them the antibody the immune system doesn't have to make them at all they haven't done trials compared directly comparing the vaccine in one arm versus vaccine the monoclonal antibody and another they really have to do that but it is possible that it might have an additive effect we don't know but certainly in that 82 year old who gets the vaccine and we were not confident that the vaccine would work the monoclonal antibody if these trials work would be an alternative and expensive alternative but not good. the u.s. city of nashville is under curfew after a motorhome exploded in the neighborhood on friday it blew up early on christmas morning after a recorded bomb warning was plowed several buildings were damaged and 3 people suffered injuries police haven't been able to establish

a motive. we have found 2 that we believe could be remains that were just there that you know examined and they 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 this matter all over this area down there and so we'll continue to examine it to see if it is human remains. as i cross and washington d.c. should have there are a lot of unanswered questions in this case what more do we know. we know the questions we don't know the answers i can run through some of the questions as the most i can do right now we're expecting and hoping for more updates but it's clear that the investigators. you know are having a lot of trouble right now they keep on appealing to the public for more help but they're still combing through through the scene of the explosion questions including when police thought authorities were on the scene because there was

a 911 call initially complaining of gunshots in the area what's the significance of these these gunshots several neighbors several people who were around the area at the time said they heard gunshots or they thought were gunshots what's the connection when the when the police arrived they saw this motor home which is blaring out a message calling on people to evacuate because of an imminent explosion the weird thing about that message there was it was suggesting that the explosion would occur within 15 minutes and the explosion didn't occur within 15 minutes actually took a longer time for the explosion to occur with so was that intentional was that a mistake was it meant to blow up what it did blow up we we have no idea about those questions a lot of scrutiny on the a.t.m. t. building that was nearby which handles all of the switching the telecommunications infrastructure in the area as a result of the damage there was cell phone outages 911 outages there was a brief stop at national airport as a result of the communications damage was that the go if it was and why wasn't the

motor closer to the 18 team building somewhere asking it's just simply not clear and now we have this human tissue that's apparently been found and we and we don't know what the connection is there so we do hope that there will be more more updates in the coming hours our john hendren is that and he will he will be reporting i believe from the next hour and he will bring us the latest i'm sure ok thank you for that sabotages a in washington d.c. . still ahead on al-jazeera a string of explosions in afghanistan well look at who is being targeted and why. we meet with residents in delaware and the state that's forged joe biden's political career. and in defense fund never again the 100 crickets coming up in sports.

however we've got some rain in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days you can see this line of cloud just coming out over and stretched across saudi arabia some what's the weather there just to the north of mecca and we could see some wet weather there in mecca as well south of that it is looking generate dry it's a little the cool side riyad around seventy's there in doha it does feel a little fresher than of late temperatures and higher than about 24 decrease on sunday as we go on into monday those temperatures 40 back to just 22 celsius establish also a few spots of rain across central parts of saudi arabia further north doesn't plushy dry and fine brisk winds from time to time up towards the black sea and the caspian sea a brisk enough wind to just around the whole of africa but again it's largely looking dry here georgie the shallows just around that western side of kenya pushing across into democratic republic of congo pushing across the good parts of

welsh i was still in place there in angola to see that shabby rain stretching its way down into namibia as we go on into the next couple of days showers 2 to the east of south africa may well have trouble cycling making its way across madagascar with the threat of flooding. from false. as societies develop. requiring innovative solutions. as a global development of the company power is uniquely positioned to deliver. we provide business growth economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally energy solutions for future generations. pioneering future energy.

around the world. plus thousands of. people. subscribe. you're watching our does our reminder of our top stories this hour the central african republic will go ahead with sunday's presidential election as planned despite fears of the spread of violence the constitutional court ruled unanimously

after a request by opposition candidates to spawn the vote. sweden has become the latest country to detect the mission to variant of covert 19 1st reported in the u.k. a more transmissible strand of the virus was found on a traveler from the u.k. it comes as european countries including spain italy and germany received their 1st vaccines. the u.s. city of nashville is under curfew after an explosion ripped through a neighborhood on friday a motorhome early on christmas morning after playing a recorded warning that a bomb was going to detonate. turkey's defense minister has arrived in libya despite threats by eastern warlord honey for half the are going to see our car promise to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government in tripoli on friday on voted to extend the deployment of turkish troops to libya for another 18 months or lord hostile who backs a rival eastern government responded with

a threat to target turkish forces. after the decisive confrontation has begun to appear for the near future from what our scouts have detected from maneuvers of the turkish mercenaries and soldiers near the front lines piling up weapons equipment building military bases and operating rooms. which reflects turkey's insistence on war and the delusion that they will achieve their dreams of expansion and influence and then bush is to control the oil fields and export ports to cure with our wealth its collapsing economy and then the incursion into the depths of africa. joins us now live from tripoli. he hasn't been put off by threats from half past so what's the reason for his visit. will kim this is a very significant visit specially it comes only a couple of days of have threatened to attack military presence in

libya and i want it also comes after 4 days since the parliament and do sit extension of the turkish military task in libya for 18 months remember the high council of the state chairman of the machine the libyan head of the council of state just to state it and he received the military delegation he just stated that this visit is aiming at confirming that the g.n.a.t. forces the forces loyal to the internationally recognized a government of national board are ready to the pill any attack or any possible attack by have to force in fact a missionary also stressed that their forces are not going to. have to force possible attack this time but may also attack their bases he

means in eastern libya and in central libya now this visit today the delegation also attended the graduate graduation of a libyan military detachment that has been trained by turkish military experts these military mutual military activities between tripoli and ankara. they are heart of the military and security agreement that was seized between tripoli and ankara in november last year but today in his statements the turkish defense minister also stated that turkey is going on 2 parallel path is the military path which is supporting the government forces against any possible attack by have to his forces and the peaceful path which is supporting the political dialogue which is sponsored by the united nations to indeed the conflict

in libya. ok thank you for that my moved there live from tripoli. a new yemeni government has been sworn in more than a year after the signing of a power sharing agreement but this just took the constitutional oath in the capital the saudi capital riyadh the cabinet is a coalition between gammons internationally recognized government and members of the separatists transitional council the 2 sides had previously been locked in a post struggle working to you know why she gets the who are the rebels which took over the capital salma in late 2014. afghanistan's capital has been hit by a series of explosions at least 5 separate attacks were reported across kabul to all police officers were killed in the worst incidents no group has claimed responsibility comes as the taliban and afghan government continue talks here in doha. as well as security forces activists politicians and journalists have been

among those targeted in afghanistan in the past few weeks some of those incidents on wednesday unknown gunmen shot and killed mohammad yousuf rashid head of an independent elections watchdog on tuesday 5 people including 4 doctors were killed when a roadside bomb went off as they were driving to work that attack was claimed by isis the day before monday afghan journalist. was shot dead with a science pistol there is home the identity of the attackers was not immediately clear while on saturday a politician come mohammad was doc was targeted in a car bombing he survived at least 9 other people were killed. or more on this we're joined now by. by skype from kabul she's a member of the afghan parliament and former afghan ambassador to canada thank you so much for your time why are we seeing this increase in violence now.

thank you for having me when the escalation of violence enough congress. crees day by day i'm creates lots of fear and concern among the population everybody is late i'm concerned about his security and yes some of the security is since not our ports so stupid too but by having such an explosion card by a nonviolent the also the same money house does a public property that should be considered a war crime or criminal. but increasing that's why no one helps us to resolve our differences i'm trying to find try to increase the number of why then to get 2 more and this piece struck i think this is a pretty strong tactic used by by product on maybe the side that money bus service could a particular region might take on to just such a situation so that's why. the congress on use it used it as

a pressure or tactic to get more or get more attention of the international community and one of the other us things and people don't make decisions. so that's that's right it is a big concern for everyone and they really thought that there too many diverse a group a woman enters ringback and active as a journalist as doctors work out i think know what you think is more in this one incident we didn't mention any a gunman on a motorbike shown that a women's rights activist and her brother north of the capital on thursday these attacks seem to be happening and born dateline why these targeted killings these people specifically. do you just want to make up appreciate that god got the government and also could it like to provoke people against the government that this government cannot maintain the security of. its citizens so this is the

objective best option what can nobody support such a government neither does the international community support or the public. but you don't know by having such acts in afghanistan i think people want to talk to who is great and support their needs i think as i said it's a pretty drum advice if i could then also if one had 50 threats it's because we cannot resolve our differences. but i think the best option but if he did people support this he's right there should be we should go for a cease fire that it's a temporary or long term so the people will get or should get interest and support and we should like to solve and kind of differences or like the monster we have to be part of it was it thanks so much for your time. there by skype from couple. despite appeals from leaders from poor strain of had direct the united states

continues to deport central americans back to their home countries this year alone more than 20000 quantum olens have been sent back a sound conditions there even worse than when they left for home and has. it's been a desperate homecoming for me gayle said thought he was deported from the u.s. in september after 2 years of working illegally in miami. now he's back in his village ship in the guatemalan highlands to find the harvest has failed the young man 20000 guatemalans have been deported from the u.s. this year according to the country's migration institute and they're coming back to find the conditions they fled and now even worse the economy's projected to contract due to the pandemic and experts say the country's also increasingly affected by climate change some of its regions are part of a dry belt spreading throughout central america and guatemala is also just been

devastated by 2 november hurricanes they destroyed the crops in miguel's village and now food is scarce bringing other pollutants midst those natural disasters many of those deported also struggling to pay off debt. that's because people smugglers often charge migrants $10000.00 or more to take the north the idea is they'll pay back gradually once working in the states. but it's a gamble and those sort of kicked out have to pay the money anyway as the parents of miguel and his cousin who was caught with him and now discovering it will be business legal because when my son arrived i feel glad that we still have this debt to pay for suffering it's $7700.00 now i'm trying to celebrate of land to pay it as a father i want to help my son but instead of getting ahead we only get poorer healthy but in our hearts we kept that pain what can we do where can we go now. nobody to support to see the u.s.

. the guatemalan president has recently said the answer to the problem is to create prosperity in communities like ship you so that people don't have to leave in the 1st place. being coming by. this place to spend 4000000000 dollars on central america to do just that it's tough to make sure the money gets to where it's needed past efforts so that it won't be a silver bullet to stop migration. john heilemann does either. u.s. president elect joe biden often talks about as working class roots in pennsylvania but his political career was made representing the tiny state of delaware is election to the highest office makes him the 1st president from delaware the 1st state to ratify the u.s. constitution. kristensen to me takes a closer look at the place the next president calls. delaware traces its european roots back to the 1600s the city of new castle boasts many historic sites including

the courthouse where the state 1st declared independence from great britain not to mention its more powerful neighbor pennsylvania this land marked example of the federal period architecture belonged to the son of george reid one of the signatories of the u.s. constitution like many in the state tour guide and murphy hopes the 1st state's 1st president will finally put delaware on the map i can remember traveling to california one time they asked me where i'm from and i said delaware and where's that even those who aren't huge fans of joe biden can see his election has benefits to bring more and more tours i think that she would be king from it was here in new castle that joe biden won his 1st election 50 years ago taking a seat on the county council he hasn't lost an election since and many here see a win for biden as a win for delaware the shipping industry has long since left the shores of this former british colony these days wilmington home to the biden transition team is

better known as a tax haven for corporations those in the struggling hospitality business are happy the hotels are now full of news media and more than that george taylor is looking forward to the new administration he gives that message of hope and for most black people out of a such as myself i believe he's going to do such a great job you know making sure that we are all integrated we are all united in one america it was in fact delaware founding father george reid who pushed to create the u.s. senate and guarantee equal representation for smaller states turns out politics in delaware has always been personal when you have such a small place everyone has to get along in some way and i think that. it's the tradition that joe biden is certainly coming coming out of where your senator or your representative or in this case your president is

a next door neighbor he's just show it to a lot of people here the hope is joe biden will now speak for the entire nation particularly the under represented in keeping with local tradition christian salumi al jazeera new castle delaware all rock has produced some of the most celebrated and respected rushes in the hour walter a conflict terry ms a man political oppression forced many to flee and to run from abroad now a new generation is determined to keep iran this very heritage in the life. of mcauliffe has been writing about the momentous and often violent changes iraq has suffered for more than half a century the baghdad based author whose novels short stories and poems have been published across the arab world has had to navigate censorship political imprisonment and even death threats throughout his career he acknowledges his contribution to iraqi literature but he's saddened by what he says is the lack of

impact his work has had. the country has culturally regressed people who don't read or write might struggle to develop culture across the arab world is suffering terribly and there are writers to without freedom to write how can of this learn i feel have little effect on people's thoughts the bookshops along elements and up the street named after a 10th century poet have been immortalized in iraq in arab culture for centuries. the crumbling autumn and buildings have witnessed how the pressures on iraqi writers and readers have changed over the years the challenge of avoiding jail worse under the rule of saddam hussein to bomb attacks and kidnapping by al qaida myself and various groups that still have much power in iraq. elma to not be street is almost a mythical status in the history of arabic literature a place where writers and intellectuals would meet to discuss politics and the alts

but despite the political instability and violence this country continues to suffer there is increasing evidence of young writers appearing who are determined not to self censor and to protect and build on iraq's literary past but i'll be arty is a young recently published iraqi poet she owns a bookshop and one of a number of recently opened publishing houses close by she says half the book seen her shot by new young iraqi writers we're trying to wake people up from the hibernation for too long iraqis have accepted what we were told so as young writers we try to simulate minds without religion or focus on ethnicity instead we look at our readers humanity we're not afraid because we have seen so much of course i sometimes worry about my family but we have to recently late ideas of civilized things at baghdad's annual international book fair young people who can afford to buy books including arabic literature history philosophy and translated foreign

works but plenty of them and it is difficult for our generation to find the correct road to walk along so we depend on ourselves and through books and reading i hope we can change the next generation to plant a few dollars not thorns that we find on the path through travel along we have to read more widely to forge a new future our young people here definity seem keen to lead us home to good that will. hope at least that iraq's literary heritage is being rekindled by a new generation who say their country's future stability and growth will be helped by young iraqis reading and writing more chance traffic al-jazeera baghdad. this race fans are being treated to an online adaptation of charles dickens classic a christmas carol performed inside the author's home in london the specter after listening for a moment enjoying being mournful and floated out upon the bleak. night.

the tale of ebeneezer scrooge is brought to life as here with see inside the rooms where dickens wrote the book of the late 18th hundreds it's the 1st time the story has been adapted for an online audience the home which now operates as a museum has been closed most of the the pandemic. still come here on al-jazeera. le bron takes a step closer to clinching a christmas record stays healthy just a moment in sports. the b.b.c.'s journalism is revered around the world but its close relationship with the british state has always placed limits on its independence. very existence a sum of things it draws true phillips explores the little known central long tussle between the b.b.c. in the u.k.

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time have a sport here sorry thanks a lot ken while we start with football in manchester united was annoyed by a late equaliser from leicester city in the english premier league and deflected effort off jamie vadim boots for the game and $22.00 there is always the focus is 3 points behind table toppers liverpool while united to trial the reds by 4 points we feel disappointed the boys are fluffed in the dressing room of course because we did create enough chances to score more goals. i thought we defended well but then they have that one moment at the end. and a boss here one of bron james is moved up to 2nd in the n.b.a.'s all time christmas day scoring this le bron school 22 points for the l.a. lakers against the dallas mavericks it means he's now a 383 points on christmas day and charles kobe bryant who's in 1st with 395

the browns ifas helping save 138 to 115 when what was an overall great day for the latest on. also. i woke up early this morning. it was just. so. oh so i came back home. which. was something. you know i. was. always out with benjamin so. excited when i woke up to. go and despite jamie bartlett injuring his ankle in the 1st 8 half the miami heat managed to beat the new orleans pelicans 111298 the result maintains a coach's perfect day and only record on christmas day they were being a lot more physical with us in the 2nd half. bumping us out of our normal wall in

our actions there are other good defensive teams are. much improved already you know on that and. it's always good to see us respond 2021 is shaping up to be a massive year in boxing with a highly anticipated and undisputed heavyweight title bout expected to happen between britain's antony gesture and tyson fury and according to at c.n.n. he's been promoting a.j.c. fight the fight could happen outside of their home country the united kingdom this week he said that for it to happen in the u.k. in the u.k. rather a full capacity crowd would be needed but he's unsure whether that would be feasible given the country's coming current 19 situation and joshua had a previously 4000 side rabia off here is most recent fights being in the united states now we've been speaking to boxing board costa garth davies who believes the fight will most likely be happening in the middle east. they need to agree the

venue for me that's the big point is the venue can we do it in the u.k. at the moment i don't think we can because it requires a big crowd and therefore i think the chalks at the moment are headed towards the middle east boxing is a business code it is affected the fact we can't have 100000 people at wembley stadium that's the big reason most of all that it's not going to happen and they want you here 1st of all there's no guarantee we're locked down at the moment people can even sense the other christmas some to go to the middle east to make it viable and see joshua probably the arguably the that the most ever a challenger coming back to win his belts is at 60000000. so that really much outside the recent saudi arabia i mean what's extraordinary sum of money and he tells the. you know the chairman if they fight in the middle east and it is you know in a ready made state you know or even

a purpose built stadium that there result usually 100000000 each for the 2 men they will say they will go after that money moving on to cricket now and it dominates in day $1.00 of the 2nd test against australia in melbourne $30000.00 fans are out and at the m.c.g. as a terrorist dismissed they always fit just $195.00 runs just print. a 4th out in the last one wickets in their response i'm close on 36 for one so there was a constant discussion going on between the mourners and the other days with the captain so you know that we could change after the 1st session as well it got but to go back on the much of going to result adjusting according to their dive into the wicket i know the lengths that we wanted to board so we were just trying to communicate what kind of lines we wanted to vote so we could say so and there was less help so we tried to change a little bit of the lane and we. now i wasn't just the world's best athlete

5 line this year because of coronavirus the cancellation of major events like the name picks for top 4 top 5 talkfest to change their plans as well and here's how one of them in california was impacted i am donald murali i'm a photographer 2020 was i think for everybody on the planet it was quite a curveball you don't think any of us have have seen so much in you know a current one year. to almost i had to say it oh almost like biblical old testament things going on with you know things of the environment things with civil unrest for the last 25 years i've been traveling and i been traveling a lot for sports in adventure and other things and that all came to a screeching halt in march when i saw probably 100 days of work just you know fizzle and disappear within

a week the top of that i was looking forward to covering was the tokyo 2020 olympics. which was going to start in july obviously that was postponed till 2021 but for me that would have been my 10th olympic games an hour is very much looking forward to our recovery at for sports illustrated. ended up you know shooting more things close to home. whether it be you know just local serving or things for you know social change. you know local paddle outs local demonstrations for black lives matter. just different things that were happening in my neighborhood that i normally would not be here for so. it was that was kind of a blessing in disguise you know that i think nothing's going to be the same after 2020 you know i don't think you know we're going to pop back into how we were before i think behaviorally we've changed as humans because of what happened i

think in general. you know across the board i think there's just things that are front from this year on are going to be the new normal i really hope that we get back to a place where. you know being able to to go to big sporting events with with all these people and the energy field from that is this is normal again and i think it will be i think by the end of hopefully 2021 by the fall of 2021 you're going to see packed stadiums again and and you know i do you miss that side of it where you're at these events and there's so much energy at them whether it's a sporting event or even just going to a like a music concert with people all cheering for the same thing 2020 in general was is is probably has been a learning lesson for a lot of people. ken that's all the sport from a finale thank you for the. us news out of go ahead i'll be back in just

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government to reduce emissions without the situation and they get worse. atop course and the central african republic rejects last ditch appeal to postpone sunday's election after attacks by our groups. either i'm convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hopes for a turning point in the fight against covert 19 countries across the european union receive their 1st vaccines and get ready to begin mass immunization. police in the u.s. city of nashville say they may have found human remains the site of a powerful explosion.