mother and baby stand. on a. u.s. president donald trump is warned of devastating consequences with unemployment benefits about to stop for millions of americans. hello i'm don jordan this is al jazeera live and also coming up a court gives the go ahead to the central african republic contentious election despite fighting between rebels and government forces. europe sees a window of hope 1st government start vaccinating against cope with 19. and one of thousands of guatemalans deported from the u.s.

this year describes how the conditions who fled are now even worse. millions of americans will lose their unemployment support payments within hours unless president trump signs a coronavirus relief and spending bill it was considered a done deal until trump suddenly objected to the amount of money that will be sent to most americans there ought to be $600.00 payments the president thinks that should be increased to 2000 as he holds out wide ranging benefits hang in the balance jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. right so just talk us through what's likely to happen if trump doesn't sign off on this package. well the short version is that everyone who had been receiving unemployment benefits through this week won't be getting them next week and that's because even if the president were to sign this bill on sunday or on monday

well the whole process has essentially stopped and it would take the federal government in coordination with state governments some time to really ramp the process back up states can't just give out unemployment benefits because they have to have a balanced budget they basically are the pass through from the federal government to provide these unemployment benefits to the millions of people who desperately need the money now that's not the only problem the other problems include the fact that there will be an extension on the housing moratorium through the end of this year that would take effect if this bill isn't signed there's also the fact that the federal government could be forced to close its doors on tuesday because this legislation this $900000000000.00 deal includes an extension of funding to keep the federal government running so there are no amber of things that are riding on donald trump signature something which as of this hour has not been delivered and

rose how much is this standoff being seen as trump taking revenge on republicans who didn't fully support his bid to overturn the election results. this concept of the president at war with his fellow republicans is one of the factors that analysts believe is behind this standoff over this covert relief bill this is a situation where even though the president wants to increase from $600.00 to $2000.00 the amount of money that would go to many americans on a $1.00 ton basis his fellow republicans say that they're worried about the increasing federal budget deficit and they don't want the increase they also argue that if the president wanted that much money he should have been more involved in the negotiations between congress and the white house before this deal was struck just about a week ago and so you have the republicans digging in their heels on one side you

have the president digging in his heels on the other side and you have congressional democrats basically sitting there waiting for one of those sides to make a move it's really all up in the president's a hands right now because it's up to him to decide whether or not to sign this deal that would put money in people's pockets keep unemployment going and perhaps most important keep the federal government in operation rose thank you well also in washington d.c. is going scardina he's president of the food research and action center which works to eradicate poverty related hunger at least thank you very much for joining us here on the program so if president trump doesn't sign the bill what impact will that have on people who have already lost their jobs that desperate to survive because of this pandemic. well as we were hearing your correspondents report there are a bunch of benefits that were part of this package in particular are going to

zation is very concerned about any increase to the summit on nutrition assistance program or snap that was in there one of the things that we've seen has been an incredibly devastating impact of the current virus has been the economic impact and the hunger crisis that's hit millions in this country and you work to eradicate poverty driven the hunger that many people never thought that they would ever have to queue up at a food bank have you ever see that this bad luis. know we have it and what we've seen is as many have the credible miles of cars lined up at banks and dramatic aerial shots that are in place and you know our memory on this and this is why the delay in getting this benefit out is so unconscionable we have the solutions at hand we've known about them and now not

only do we not that we have a deal where people were standing ready to receive these benefits but now that that is the way and millions will continue to suffer let's just stay with food banks for a 2nd because we know that food banks across the country a struggling to meet a rising demand because of the pandemic even in some of the country's welfare areas what challenges a food banks now facing. food banks have been doing an incredible job throughout pandemic. trying to reach as many people as possible but one of the things that we know is that floor every one meal that's provided by the feeding america network the largest in this country. 5 that is currently being increased the program that's currently being withheld snap provided not so this scale of one to 9 is incredibly important thing for people to understand in terms of how to deal with

hunger problem at scale and also the snap benefit has incredible. positive economic benefits as well in this country that we can really use to get a final thought from elizabeth when you go i mean what else needs to be done and you just talked about one of the provisions needed a boost that's the supplemental nutrition assistance program stop but what else can be done. well certainly there are other important elements. that we're looking for to be a protection for rental assistance and the other women benefit increase as well as the snap increase it's incredibly important that people urge their lawmakers to have the president sign this scientist bill we've already delayed delayed it and it's going to even some time now for these

programs to get in place but people can also look to be there and hunger groups within their communities as well these are people who are who helped to get people aware of this now benefit and also do important outreach to encourage state and local municipalities to do as much as they can to leverage local governments and help in christ's name has got be a great to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you thank you. now central african republic sconce attritional court has ruled that sunday's elections can go ahead despite worsening fighting between the government and rebels more un peacekeepers are arriving as well as soldiers from russia to help maintain law and order the lines of rebel groups accuses president forced darragh of planning to rig the vote as there was catherine sawyer reports now from the capital bangui. laurel is

a driver and shows us pictures from my recent walk trip to a town 300 kilometers north of the capital bangui shortly after he took this fossils he says on demand attacks and he had to flee he's worried about relatives who live in the town he blames rebel groups calling themselves the patriots politian for change or c.p.c. for the latest security crisis in the central african republic he told the town is almost empty some of the men are asking civilian to give up their electoral college others are in the charge as far as they know there cannot be a proper election in bossangoa. president forced to our deborah has asked people to come out and vote those in to be vigilant with concerns the violence may intimidate who says and undermine the point the government is looking to provide reassurance you have countries throughout the world. there is no.

one let's see if and when. people decide not to vote and you have a level of 0 for what it is but a submission which is no it doesn't mean that this election is not credible more than $12000.00 peacekeepers from the u.n. mission in new backing c.-r. security forces troops recently stand by i wonder russian military instructors and private security contractors are also on the ground all of this instability that you were. arrested part of the country that. a petition filed by 7 opposition kind of is to postpone their election was rejected by the constitutional court 17 presidential candidates have been cleared to run for anyone has withdrawn his candidacy citing security reasons most promising to

finally bring peace back to central african republic revive the economy and basic services. are has numerous gold. deposits as well as other natural resources yet it's one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world more than half the population of 5000000 needs a good some people here in the capital told us all they want is a dignified life and to get to the other side of the polls safely. to the north west will be voting in elections that can deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president. was elected in 2011 after coming to power in a coup is stepping down after serving 2 terms is chosen successor mohamed leads a 30 strong field of candidates struggling with

a violent movements and endemic poverty. it's a big job because there are 2 elections at the same time there are the presidential elections and the legislative elections who stakes are high we have to make sure that the ballots that have to go to the ballot box for the presidential election there and those for the legislative elections go to the ballot box with the representative elections so we try to organize ourselves as well as possible. karen al-jazeera when we come back. we are living like any most human and he well knew like meant to us. nearly a 1000 refugees and migrants are stranded in freezing cold in bosnia-herzegovina without shelter and we meet with residents in delaware a state that for joe biden is going to becoming more and not statements.

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welcome back a quick recap of our top stories here on al-jazeera nearly 14000000 americans will lose their unemployment benefits within hours unless president trump signs a coronavirus relief and spending package he's refusing saying direct payments to americans included in the bill aren't enough. a court has ruled the central african republic can press ahead with elections despite violence escalating between government forces and rebel fighters more un peacekeepers arrive trying to ensure sunday's vote is peaceful. and preparations are running for sunday's elections in the west african states 1st peaceful transition of power between elected leaders.

now federal investigators in the u.s. searching the home as they look for clues into the large explosion in the southern city of nashville minutes after bearing a recorded warning of what was to come apart a motorhome blew up on a street early on christmas morning 3 people were hurt in about 40 buildings damaged the house being searched belongs to someone police are calling a person of interest we've had over 500 leads and tips coming in every single one of those being followed up by a team of investigators that's the stage rad in this investigation we are still continuing to follow every lead that we have and we will continue to do so until we find out what's happened. john hendren is in nashville with more on the so-called person of interest. well they have identified that one man his name is anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man from the town of antioch about 15 kilometers from here where the explosion happened but he's only been identified as

a person of interest what makes that intriguing is that in google earth photographs it appears that there is an r.v. or recreational vehicle parked in the driveway of the home that is being searched and that's interesting because it was an r.v. that exploded down here after broadcasting warnings to anybody who was nearby so police have not said that this is the man responsible for the bombing they've only said that he is a person of interest they're looking into him but they've also said some very intriguing things they seem very confident that they have cracked this case they have said that they don't believe that there is any threat of a follow on attack that means they're pretty sure that this is a one off and they've also said that they are confident they will identify who was responsible so they appear to be well ahead but they they did not they say the statement that we got the news conference earlier was that they were not prepared

to identify any individuals that they were investigating at this point to it doesn't look like they're fairly far along but we are told they have 500 leads in tips and they are investigating those aggressively 3 have started covert 19 vaccinations a day earlier than the official mass rollout in germany a 101 year old woman and an elderly cat whom was among a small number of people to receive the 1st phase a biotech jobs back seems old said ministered to frontline health workers and hungry. 4 but of reports. the refrigerated vans drove through the night destinations including rome paris spain and hungary the precious cargo the vaccine developed by far as a biotech kept at bay. minus 17 minus 80 degrees the mass inoculation is due to start in a coordinated launch later on sunday but the 1st job went to work at a hospital in budapest. a vaccination plan is ready with health workers at the

front of the queue those working with patients in intensive care and emergency care units will be vaccinated 1st so they can continue their heroic struggle to see of. europe has seen 16000000 coronavirus cases and suffered more than 400000 deaths the approval and distribution of this 1st vaccine is reason for considerable hope across the continent. we have in total $19500.00 doses which makes $3100.00 vials these those will be stored in our freezer at minus 80 degrees which will be then distributed to the different elderly homes and public hospitals. who started the company in the course of should we will start the immunization campaign on a large scale 1300000 doses of vaccine as will be delivered all over germany before the end of 2020 and then from january it will be even more each week almost 7 100000 doses every week in january more than $10000000.00 doses in the 1st quarter

the relentless spread of the covert $1000.00 virus in the news that more infectious variants are evolving has lent even more urgency to the vaccination program the variant 1st identified in the u.k. has now been discovered in other european countries to try to contain that variant thousands of truck drivers have spent christmas stranded at the u.k. port of dover and prevented from crossing to france unless they test negative for the virus the backlog remains stubbornly large despite the efforts of military reinforcements and lock downs have ruined the festive period for traditional high street retailers with shoppers ordered to stay at home corona virus has hollowed out the u.k. high street this is oxford street london's primary retail avenue and instead of hundreds of thousands of people out to take advantage of the boxing day sales the shops are closed instead of festivity and bustle it's a long and barren the street empty. with corona virus europe has enjoyed much the

same tories 2020 as the rest of the world the hope is that from sunday things will start to improve. al-jazeera london several people have been injured in a large fire that broke out at a syrian refugee camp in lebanon's many a region north of tripoli local media say it started during an altercation between residents of the camp locals who live nearby united nations refugee agency says several tents have been destroyed the camp is home to about 75 families overall about 1500000 syrians live in lebanon most of them refugees. gov more than a 1000 refugees and migrants are stranded in the burnt out camp in freezing weather a fire this week destroyed much of a leap at camp near the town of b. hatch on the creation border the camp was meant to be a temporary shelter for the summer and was supposed to be closed on wednesday but bosnian politicians couldn't agree on an alternative site at least 10000 people

from asia the middle east and north africa trying to cross into croatia hoping to reach western europe. and he will lose like. us so please. us. all and us to help us because if they cannot help us. so please help us now despite appeals from leaders for a pause during the pandemic the united states has continued to deport central americans back to their home countries they include more than 20000 guatemalans just this year alone they found conditions there even worse than when they left his john home. it's been a desperate homecoming for me gail settle he was deported from the u.s. in september after 2 years of working illegally in miami. now he's back in his

village 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 going out of 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 it back gradually once working in the states. but it's a gamble and those are 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 no business legal because when my son arrived i feel glad that we still had his debt to pay for suffering it $7700.00 now i'm trying to celebrate a plan to pay it as a father i want to help my son but instead of getting ahead we only get poorer what healthy but in our hearts we have that pain what can we do what can we go now we have 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 the minister. this place to spend $4000000000.00 on central america to do just that it's tough to make sure the money gets to where it's needed past if it's sure that it won't be a silver bullet to stop migration. john holmes does either now there are several

explosions across kabul on saturday at least 5 were reported killing 4 people including 2 police officers no group has claimed responsibility it happened as the taliban and the afghan government continue talks in doha security personnel activists politicians and journalists are among those targeted in afghanistan in recent weeks a prominent women's rights activist fresh kohistani was shot dead along with her brother on thursday a day earlier had an independent election watchdog and pro-democracy activist was also killed and on saturday the politician mohamed ward that was targeted in a car bombing he survived but 9 other people were killed what she is a member of afghanistan's parliament she says the taliban is trying to use these kinds of attacks as leverage. by increasing that's why i didn't want help possibly our differences i'm proud of i'm trying to increase the number of why then i have

to get 2 more are there and in this peace track i think this is a very wrong that you would buy a byproduct on and maybe decide that money mostly to rescue the particular this in the region might take advantage of such a situation do you just want to make up pressure that got the government and also could it lead to provoke the people against the government that this government cannot maintain the security of their citizens so this is not like a best option what can nobody supports such a government neither does the international community support or the public understand but if you don't know by having such an act in afghanistan i think people want to talk to the great and support the peace process i think as i said it's a very wrong advice if i feel because i'm also if one has the rights is because you cannot resolve our differences to violence but i think the best

option for you the people who support this resolution to elect me should go for a cease fire but it is a temporary a long time for the people here or should get interest and support and we should like to solve our entire differences or like the monster we have of the people because if not us president elect joe biden often talks about his working class roots in pennsylvania but his political career was made representing the tiny state of delaware his election to the highest office makes him the finest president from delaware the 1st state to ratify the u.s. constitution al-jazeera as christian salumi takes a closer look at the place the next president. 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 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 the news of course in my website there it is on his spring. tough approach of the top stories here on al-jazeera only $14000000.00 americans will lose their unemployment benefits within hours on this president donald trump signs of coronavirus relief and spending package trump has refused to sign the bill unless congress extends relief checks from $600.00 to 2000 wells in jordan explains the impact of the president's decision on the lives of struggling americans short version is that everyone who had been receiving unemployment benefits through this week won't be getting them next week and that's because even if the president were to sign this.