sides are supporting for stronger climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without it the situation on the get worse. a top course in the central african republic rejects last ditch appeal to postpone sunday's election after attacks by armed groups. either i'm convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hopes for a turning point in the fight against co the 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 site of a powerful explosion and still no clear motive for the attack. and holding on to

their voice the new group of iraqi rice is keeping the nation's rich this free heritage and i. will begin with the central african republic and a ruling from the constitutional court that sunday's election will go ahead despite rising violence by armed groups opposition parties wanted to sponsor and accuse the president of vote rigging levels also rejected the jim c. of the government 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 and thousands of civilians were killed. in a moment we'll hear from the un but 1st conference away has more on an election seen as a crucial test for a nation that has suffered years of conflict. judges the constitutional judges made

this unanimous decision in the courtroom behind me and they say that the petition did not have strong enough grounds to have the election postponed now we've. so what this means is that the election is going to go on to morrow wherever it can we have spoken to u.n. officials with a 70 percent of the country think enough people to come out to vote we have spoken to the government spoke spokesman who said that yes they expect a low water tunnel but they hope that this turnout is not going to be so low as to discredit the process but the result lot of we are not just in areas where there is active fighting but in places like even bongi we have been talking to people who are saying that they will not come to the polling stations until they feel absolutely think their priority is to protect their families so yes there's going to be an election but a lot of tension really and we had the president yesterday in his final rally

telling the people of that this is for change. group the thing that they're coming to the. a was appealing to the residents to be vigilant to help security forces to block access. and you know just his words alone just show how precarious the situation is but people here in bonython yes we want to come and vote but we are really not sure about i think the. day that catherine mentioned there on the ground the u.n. is insisting that conditions are stable and also ensure a free and fair election the deputy special representative of the secretary general . she told my colleagues that people are determined to exercise their own. distribution of the voting cards is ongoing and people. this country 8 were registered to vote are coming in large numbers to collect cards the population is

determined in this country to vote tomorrow and we are determined they should reject the sport and international community to ensure that the ball goes ahead i've just finished a meeting with all the regional representatives and the country and 80 percent of the country the situation has progressed in the electoral preparations are on the run. 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 be important yesterday from our mission in south sudan to reach the boat goes ahead and that the country can grow in security and our last estimate this morning is not there maybe about 4 percent of the electorate is not able to vote but it's absolutely not region why it's very

specific communities in those communities our blue helmets because you went to kurds have reinforced their presence to ensure that people can come so we are very determined the population is determined and push back on the armed groups who believe they can still be elections from the population in this country an international cannot come out this country to be dragged back to the conflict and chaos of 2013 where innocent people were killed institutions were ended and total chaos was ringing in this country that cannot be allowed and it can allow them to leave the country back along this. we have a mandate from the security council of which we are responsible to protect the citizens of this country are fortunately very unfortunately and all of our feet on says to the family and the country of the peacekeepers we lost yesterday but this is what we're here to do. and despite that. reinforce their presence.

many in this current. want to. said. they as national community is becoming increasingly concerned that violence could spiral out of control in south african republic russia france and rwanda the foreign military forces in support of the government of the us we want to get now from the capital. was president for stina shines toward daraa arrives for his final election rally in bongi in 4 force has been telling people to come out and forth on sunday without fear i recently formed a group called the patriot put change all c.p.c. has threatened to march to the city and launched attacks against government troops backed by un peacekeepers in some rural areas the c.p.c.

which is a coalition of several armed groups has called off a ceasefire it had declared them when stage managers they are trying to come to bangui use and are africans must be in your eyes help our armed forces u n p s keep. those from rwanda and russia giving us a hand don't let those under fighters come into the city. 16 presidential candidates have been cleared to run in the polls but johnson. sound of the country's only south declared emperor has withdrawn citing security concerns former president francois was easing was disqualified by the constitutional court state officials and the u.n. accuse him of being behind the c.p.c. rebellion to disrupt the election and overthrew the government was easy has backed and he said don't log who's a marched as president would dare a strongest challenger. president worlds user is the founder of one of the.

strongest political parties with solid policies he himself is a very popular leader but he did not but my candidacy is the party that endorsed me . most opposition. and one day election postponed presidential candidates that each promising to finally bring peace to the republican. base that is to keep talking here he was saying that the promises before. knows all about pain caused by conflict his leg was blown off by hand grenade when the mostly muslim armed groups over on 2013 and overthrew. actually cannot understand what's happening to me and i'm scared of what's happening now they're only coming to kill i want to ask the government to help us to stop those who are coming. is now preparing to vote in an election

clouded by fear and uncertainty he tells us who only go to the polling station if he feels absolutely safe a sentiment shared by many other voters catherine al-jazeera. at least 35 people have been kidnapped in northeast nigeria armed men dressed in military uniforms. docked at the traverse as they head into my degree it's believed the incident could be next to. the candidates have made the final pitches to voters ahead of elections in the polls are historic and set the course for the peace 1st peaceful transition of power about interest reports from the capitol on how africa's 2nd coronavirus wave is having an impact. it's been a busy 3 weeks of company presidential candidate. any wave of korra virus infections forced the government to impose

a limit on carbon based on the last day. but the leading candidate a confident but the right message of support to the protests former fording and interior minister mohammad. is the governing party's candidate in 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 that helped us design a program to better people's lives were confident of winning in the 1st round one of the 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 want to build 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 fill the seats in this parliament some will later from the country's next cabinet as in previous elections analysts say this year may end up with a coalition of one of the been political parties and other smaller ones. the decision on who gets to form the coalition depends on what 7500000 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 with the trees you see that you have me. the news and virus which calls travel chaos and lockdowns across britain is continuing to be

detected elsewhere around the world suite it has become the latest country to report the more transmissible there and it was picked up on a travel arriving from the u.k. elsewhere in europe nations are stepping up their efforts to stem the virus isn't is just received its 1st $10000.00 fathers a bone tag vaccines the 1st batch of those vaccines has also arrived in spain which is here to start its immunization campaign on sunday all 1st 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 before the vaccination program is set to begin brennan is in london he says the virus is having an impact on a usually very busy harriet's. turn of virus really has hollowed out the 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 are we are in the highest level of restrictions here for strictly

speaking people should be staying out. 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 to unpick names to talk shop over there is closed foot locker on my right hand side shots from mark on my left side also shots it really has decimated the expectations of the retailers now i see one estimate for 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 and the biggest difficulty over this christmas period has been how circumstance on the government have a sense of balance people around still ahead on al-jazeera a new crown of iris trial is underway the continues in antibodies to help people oh very infected. and we meet with presidents and down to where the u.s. state that forged joe biden's political career. but. how do i place a site that way or losing the wintry weather that we've seen in recent days weeks across northern parts of japan or the way if it rained and the snow but we still got a few flurries there into the far north off to go on through sunday further south

well this wetter weather will become the dominant feature moving across south korea and on into q.c. easing across a good pass off southern honshu as we go on into monday some very wet weather coming in here with the possibility some localized flooding it will sweep 3 prices guys dry weather comes back in behind well to dry across the korean peninsula also wanted to well wintry flowers at least inside north korea much of china is looking fine and dry cold in beijing temperatures no higher than minus one celsius we got some wintry weather across the western side of the country some winter weather to into the far north of in the end of the hot self pakistan before much of south asia dry and settled pretty much sums it up because the fog the small across the northern plains of india further south it's looking pretty quiet at the moment but this little area shallowest rifting in across sri lanka will bring some heavy downpours and the possibility some flooding as we go on through the next couple of days before that west of where the grassy pushes to topple of the.

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dollar to ground 0 a 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 fibrous the constitutional court ruled unanimously a request by opposition candidates to postpone the vote. poses and the shia are preparing for an election that could see its 1st democratic transition of power since gaining independence from france 60 years ago 30 candidates have put their names food for the presidency as incumbent muhammadu so full set stone after 9 years in office. over 19 vaccine shipments are arriving across the european union the 1st doses of the 4 as a voluntary back seen a limited to around 10000 most countries with mass immunization expected to start in january. researches in the u.k. a starting trials for an antibody treatment that could prevent illness in people infected with covert 19 it's hoped that the n.t.

body developed by drug manufacturer astra zeneca could prevent the virus in the virus developing in people who have already been exposed a new trial dubbed storm chaser aims to recruit more than 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 . dr sanjay said it is an associate professor of infectious diseases at a strain national university he says 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 where this is an issue are 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 to. the u.s. city of nashville is under a curfew after march to have exploded in the neighborhood on friday and go up early

on christmas morning after a recorded bomb morning was claimed several buildings were damaged and 3 people suffered injuries and these haven't been able to establish a motive. we have found 2 that we believe could be remains that were just have 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 there's a matter all over this area down there and so we'll continue to examine it to see if it is human remains shutdowns he is following us from washington d.c. he says it's still not clear who was behind the attack. we're expecting hopefully more press conferences and in the coming hours i think all we have right now are questions and let's go to the beginning there was that initial emergency 9911 call which alerted the police that there was something going on in the area the report was that there were shots being fired that at least one person who was living in

the area said he heard those shots what was that about who was responsible for those shots who was responsible for the 911 call when the police arrived they see this motor home it's broadcasting a message calling on anyone in the vicinity to evacuate because of an imminent explosion but it's the recording suggested the explosion would be within 15 minutes it didn't occur within 15 minutes in fact some people who were evacuated were beginning to return to the area when the motor home exploded what was that about was that intentional was not a mistake it's unclear and now there's also a great deal of focus being paid to the 18th tee switching facility which is was adjacent to the to the motor home clearly that the structural damage that was caused because it almost telecommunications outages a brief stop at nashville international airport local emergency 911 calls were disrupted was that the target it's not clear if it was the target while i was in the motorhome parked closer to the a.t.m. t.

facility i'm now we have the human tissue that's been found and it's not entirely clear you know how widespread it is and whether it was a human tissue for related to the attack yes president elect joe biden often talks about his working class roots in pennsylvania and its political career was made representing the tiny state of delaware his addiction to the highest office makes him the 1st president from delaware it's the 1st state to ratify the u.s. constitution on sarah's kristensen a way takes a closer look at the place the next president calls home. 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 more tourists 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 joey to a lot of people here the hope is joe biden will now speak for the entire nation particularly the underrepresented in keeping with local tradition christian salumi al-jazeera newcastle delaware. takis defense minister has arrived in libya despite

threats by eastern warlord really for health our. 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 although to how far who backs a rival eastern government responded with a threat to target turkish forces. members of yemen's new power sharing government have been sworn in taking the constitutional oath in the saudi capital of riyadh it was overseen by yemen's president who ordered the formation of a new administration after negotiations with the u.a.e. backed transitional council fighting broke out between the 2 sides and $29.00. of cornerstones capital has been hit by a series of explosions explosions rather at least 5 separate attacks were reported across kabul 2 police officers were killed for the worst incident no group has claimed responsibility it comes as the taliban and afghan government continue talks

here in doha. to palestinians including a 6 year old child have minor injuries after israeli air strikes in the gaza strip a number of the size belonging to hamas and islamic jihad were targeted the hospital was damaged earlier the israeli army accused hamas of firing true rockets to wood southern israel. being treated to an online adaptation of charles dickens' classic a christmas carol being performed inside the late author's home in london. the specter after listening for a moment joined in a mournful and floated out there probably. not. a tape of ebenezer scrooge is brought to life as viewers see inside the rooms or where dickens wrote the book in the late 1900 the 1st time the story has been adapted for an online audience dickens home which now operates as a museum has been closed most of their due of course to the pandemic. iraq

has produced some of the most celebrated and respected rises in the arab world but conflict sectarianism and political oppression forced many to flee and right from abroad now a new generation is determined to keep iraq's this very heritage in life charles traffic reports. 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 present 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 when miller who are not in 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 bookshops along helmets and up the street named after a 10th century poet have been immortalized in iraq in arab culture for centuries. the crumbling alterman buildings have witnessed how the pressures on iraqi writers and readers that changed over the years the challenge of avoiding jail worse under the rule of saddam hussein to bomb attacks and kidnapping by al qaida eisel and various groups that still have much power in iraq elements in the 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 were determined not to sell 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 stimulate 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 re stimulate 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. 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 planted flowers not thorns that we find on the path we travel along we have to read more widely to forge a new future young people here definitely seem keen to lead us home to cook the world their 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. results there and these are the top stories 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 postpone the vote.