on all jews here. really understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what. the news and current affairs that matter to you . ruling out the vaccine countries across the e.u. launch a coordinated campaign to immunize against covert 19. hello there i am however here dean and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up voting in the central african republic under a shadow of violence instability and opposition claims of vote rigging. a different election story in the genere where the 1st peaceful transfer of power since independence looks likely will be live in the capital niamey. and severe flooding

forces evacuations in parts of the u.k. under the strictest coronavirus lot was rain boots on the way. but 1st the european union has begun one of the world's largest coronavirus campaigns it is to vaccinate 450000000 people across 27 countries with the books leaders have hailed the role it of the pfizer biotech vaccine as a moment of unity and hope will group of nurses enroll more are among the 1st in italy to get the job the nation was of course one of the 1st in europe to go into long term the 1st vaccination in spain was given to a 96 year olds at a set a goal lives in a care home in the city of guadalajara well germany has also started immunizations

vaccinating a group of care home residents a 101 year old woman was among the 1st inoculated there well let's cross live now to berlin where we can join dominic kane and dominic the vaccine relates to school story across europe really it's all under way at how many people should expect to get their jobs in the coming days. well in germany alone we know that the ministry that the fed the federal health ministry is talking about 1300000 doses so that means potentially a 1000000 people perhaps just half a 1000000 people but this is just the 1st tranche this is just what's going to happen in the last days of december the federal health minister has spoken about 5000000 people being immunized by the end of the 1st quarter of 2021 now extrapolate from that across the e.u. and that could be tens of millions of people who can who can rather expect to be

immunized in the course of the next few months the problem of course is that there being hundreds of millions of people in the european population logically it means that there will be very many people who will still be having to wait a considerable period of time to receive the vaccination that explains why you have this twin track strategy vaccination on the one hand hard lock down on the other so that the social distancing guidelines that have been in place now for such a long time during the course of this year will remain there in a way to try to prevent the spreading the further transmission of covert it in deeds but says that they get years in any case that the reservoir to be rolled in you could argue really it could come soon enough given the they knew how early infectious strain of the virus which is starting to spread across europe.

yeah there's no question that the politicians right across the continent who are making the decisions that unlock as it were the release of these vaccines will be jittery in in private about the potential for this new variant that has been noticed in the u.k. spreading a lot in the u.k. and there have been we know there's been isolated cases of it in several member states now of the e.u. people who contract the virus this new variant in the u.k. and brought it back with them to their home member states in the e.u. with their isolated examples so far the clear mantra from the minister is right around germany but also right around the continent is the vaccination they believe this is a shot in the arm for the body politic as it were injecting hope into a continent which is seeing 25000000 infections and their hope as i say is that

perhaps by the summer then maybe some sort of return to the kind of pre-code with normality that all of us had lived until this pandemic began. dominic kane their prey as a live update from berlin dominic thank you. the crucial test of democracy is underway in central african republic where focusing is taking place in presidential legislative elections the opposition wanted those elections to spodes rebels have united to reject the pool's they're accusing president 4 star shows to a data of rigging the vote fighters have attacked several times and rights groups fear a return to levels of violence last seen in 2013 and thousands of civilians were killed catherine so is monitoring the election forests from the capital she says a school in smoothly where she is reports have begun sir merger of incidents in

more remote provinces. where we visited several polling stations in the city and this is the b.z.'s 2000 people here telling us that the only vote they come here and check their names against this name is to make sure that this is the polling station and then let's get in and see. if is where they register to vote and they get their ballot papers while they are electing a president and employees they go there to the polling booth where they mark the ballot before coming to drop them here. this ballot box is pretty standard procedure we have observers here will see in african union observers local observers as well see both asyut here in this polling station we also have seen u.s. officials observers i guess are still here in bondi everything is going on

smoothly we've not had any major incidents but we are hearing reports from the provinces that have been incidental in incidents in several towns particularly in the north in the west and some parts of the east as well bria a bomb that saw. these are some of the important towns are being told in some places people are still hiding out in the bushes so they're not able to come to vote in other areas polling stations polling materials have been banned we're hearing that in one particular town people woke up to cancel so they're not able to vote in many of those towns polling stations have not opened as well but we have spoken to the u.n. officials saying that despite all this problems most of the country 80 percent of the country is safe enough for people to vote for people to go and vote so it's going to be interesting how this day plays out and more importantly it's going to be interesting to see how the voter turnout is going to be. more than

a 1000 refugees and migrants are stranded hours in the open in freezing conditions and bills the herzegovina far this week destroyed much of their camp near the croatian border because he loved his hoodie on reports. that these migrants have nowhere to go they're stranded in a refugee camp in host herzegovina their goal is to reach western europe but for now their focus is surviving the winter storm the lip a camp near the croatian border has no heat and no proper facilities lined outside in subzero temperatures refugees wait for a donated meal and perhaps a sleeping bag from the red cross we are living like and the most human and well new like better. so please i request. you i know i us all and yours to help us because if they cannot help us we really die so please help us

a fire broke out on wednesday the same day the camp was meant to be shut down a un official says it was likely said by migrants frustrated with the schedule closure and lack of alternatives now most of the infrastructure that house more than 1500 people is destroyed or damaged diddy's it no anything and no blankets and no. better place for sleep and you know that there is a many problems and i to go review that there are reports of frostbite and hypothermia proper shoes is a luxury many here can't afford the e.u. has warned bosnia thousands of migrants face a freezing winter without shelter but politics is getting in the way. plans to relocate migrants have been met with protests and resistance from residents and authorities have so far failed to find new accommodations for thousands of people from asia the middle east and north africa the situation has been described as

a disaster opana disaster and the u.n. is concerned things could get worse katia locus of a young al-jazeera. voting is underway in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power presidents mohamed those who was elected in a coup in 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terence for his preferred successor to hama it's a 30 strong field of candidates are struggling with arms movements widespread poverty armitage reeses more from the capital the army. things are picking up gradually we've been to several polling stations some opened maybe an hour. after force was supposed to have started the president in fact voted just an hour ago where we're standing now and then later on we saw several government officials as well as other volunteers killing in to vote one election officials told us that

the numbers will go up as the day progresses now we spoke to the election commissioner who said voting has been progressing all across the country except in regions where there are security challenges in such an areas in those regions then elections are not holding simply because it's impossible to conduct a nexus in those areas this is a country struggling with so many issues security on the western border with mali and broken a fossil and in the south both water. from nigeria inside of the border now apart from that they also having difficulties economically this is a country where the rate of poverty is alarming more than 40 percent of people leave on less than $2.00 a day and to make much as well as for them copied 19 as well as the drop in the prices of uranium the country's chief export is affecting or impacting the economy negatively so government is struggling and now we have

a takes over from of the use of when have you sent for to deal with this economic problems to provide the infrastructure and to restore security. so to come here and i'll just serious investigators searched the home of a person of interest only friday's explosion in nashville and we'll meet cinema she's teenager dedicated to ending child marriages and under attack that has the highest rate in the world. however we have got cold weather coming back into japan northern parts of china over the next couple of days very cold weather cold enough for more snow because it's a high pressure dominating across a good part of china for the time being temperatures in beijing no higher than around minus one celsius but you look a little further north in lumberton minus $28.00 in the heat of the day if we can

call it that and that's going to set the thing for what we're going to see over the next couple days as the cold air starts to sink its way further south was there will be some snow on the northern flank of this system here wetter weather coming back into eastern china shanghai turning increasingly wet and there we go with that snow across the korean peninsula affecting a northern parts of japan sinking further south as some make the most that 14 celsius in the sunshine in tokyo penny a sudden i'm a while across much of south asia where we do have some showers still making their way down towards sri lanka heavy at times and west the weather just starting to not just way towards tumble nodders to the southeast of india will turn increasingly wet as this is the most it's going to be fine and dry but further north songs of a little westley disturbance coming through is cold enough there were horrid around 15 degrees celsius highs in new delhi of 90.

i had 3 jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. and the 1st time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of imus. a lot of that but my opinion of him have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of families just want to get on al-jazeera while he is from the us living with m. and s. in egypt. the. this is al jazeera quick reminder all the headlines for you night european union

has become one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaigns aiming to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents in the $27.00 member broker have been among the 1st to be inoculated its forcing is underway in central african republic despite threats of violence the physician wanted the election to spawn and rebels have united to reject the polls they're accusing president 4 star shows to a debtor of rigging the election. and vote since also underway in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president obama do is sue for kim's part in a coup before being elected state 2011 stepping down after 2 terms as preferred successor mohamed bunsen its 30 strong field of candidates. that parts of the u.k. are being warned to expect more flooding and strong winds have already been days of

wet weather from the approaching storm béla rivers some have been rising particularly high in the cancer bed which are with many homes have been evacuated it's very challenging joins us now live from bedfordshire where the local river has burst its banks worry what morkie talents. yeah the river you see behind me is the river great news and at the moment as you can see it is considerably greater than normal but people around here i don't think would say that it's been too great for them over the last few days christmas day many of them 1300 of them were advised that this was getting very serious and that they should consider moving out of their homes and going and finding somewhere else to stay for the period of the of the flooding now 40 of those homes went on to actually get proper flood damage there are other flood warnings that are put in place around the

country there are too severe for flood warnings still in place in the county of north hampton share that means a severe flood warning that basically could be a danger to life. this is all part of storm really which has been lashing the u.k. for for the last day or so the highest winds recorded on the isle of whites the needles off there which is at the end of the isle of wight winds of 170 kilometers an hour so serious serious gales being blown there and obviously there are travel disruptions are in place across the country as well you've got train lines that are being flooded in the southwest of the country and channel ferries experiencing some disruption as well so not a not a rational period for the u.k. at the moment quite and rory is this somewhat unexpected at this time of year to have this level of flooding. no not really i mean these are pretty

standard of winter storms i think i mean this is a particularly severe one but the u.k. in the winter time is well it's a wet and windy place and with climate change bringing these sorts of things around more frequently then you get these kind of buffeting storms at a fairly fairly regular pace through the winter at the moment in the sort of year the unusual thing about what's going on at the moment of course is that this comes on top of all the coverage restrictions as well so when you've been asked to evacuate your home and you are living as people in bed for sure are in tears for that's the highest restriction of coronavirus tears what do you do you're supposed to be distancing yourself from family and friends well the police have said to the police people living here for the moment at least the flood warning is more severe than the code restrictions and you should go and stay with the people who you need

stay with to get out of danger. certainly a double dose of bad news there for residents for your rory but for now thank you very much indeed laurie chalons our reporting live from that future now at least 11 people have been killed after 3 avalanches in the mountains north of iran's capital rescue workers are searching for 7 people reported missing since friday another 7 climbers have been taken to hospital with frostbite federal investigators in the u.s. is searching a home as they look for clues into a christmas day explosion and nashville 3 people were around 40 pills and damaged john hendren reports. in what could be a crucial break federal investigators searched the home of a person of interest in the nashville christmas the role of the man identified as 63 year old anthony quinn warner is not yet clear the top prosecutor in the case has his own name for whoever is responsible this this is ultimate scrooge on

christmas morning instead of spreading joy and cheer decided to spread devastation and destruction u.s. authorities pursuing more than 500 tips and leads expressed confidence after finding what they believe to be human remains near the site of the explosion saying there is no manhunt and no risk of a follow up attack at this point we don't have any indication that we are looking for a nother subject but again there's $500.00 leads were running through so there's all kinds of individuals we're looking for that i am fairly confident we'll be able to identify an individual or ascertain what has occurred those remains found at the scene might belong to a bomber who was killed in the attack but it is unclear if anyone was inside the recreational vehicle when it detonated. block after block in the woods country music capital were damaged and windows completely caved in. and

it won't be up immediately and next thing you know already heard screams and sirens going off the explosion was heard miles away. turning restaurants and live music venues to rubble and disabling mobile phone networks the explosion l. side of an 880 transmission center it was apparently aimed at property not people it happened in the predawn hours before tourists would have been filling up this part of town and before it exploded the recreational vehicle broadcast a warning for people around it to evacuate. 6 police officers ran toward the danger clearing out residence just before an explosion that arrived before the bomb squad i'm grateful to the team behind us. and national depending on them to do a great job and our resolve as a community to both rebuild 2nd and to find the culprit is is very great that

city is now piecing itself back together as hundreds of investigators poor over the scene of a christmas day bombing for clues as to who was behind it how they did it and why john hendren al-jazeera nashville tennessee yes present donald trump has refused to sign a 900 $1000000000.00 coronavirus relief and spending bill the package was approved by republicans and democrats in congress hasa this includes a one time pads congress agreed to $600.00 for individuals but trump wants that increase to 2000. presidents about joe biden has accused trump of them to case in his responsibilities to the nation he says the refusal will have devastating consequences the bill is attached to launch a bunch of measures means around 40000000 people will have their regular payments to aid us is facing partial government shutdown from choose stay last congress

agrees a stop gap from going down. as the latest from washington. the u.s. president donald trump has refused to sign a $900000000000.00 bill that would provide economic support to americans and their families to businesses and to the overall u.s. economy he says it's because the one time stimulus checks that would be given to many americans just isn't enough the deal that was struck between republicans and democrats set aside $600.00 per person but the president has insisted that every american adult get 2000 dollars and that their children each get $600.00 now this is something that congressional republicans who normally support the president don't want to do they say that would vastly increase the federal budget deficit will democrats for their part are taking sides with the president because they say the suffering is deep and is only getting deeper and that any money will make

a difference now refusal to sign this legislation isn't just about stimulus checks it's also going to affect whether unemployment checks can continue to go to the estimated 14000000 people who had been relying on that money since that many of them lost their jobs during the pandemic it also means that there's a big question as to whether people who have not been able to pay their rent could suddenly find themselves a victim after january 1st that's because the moratorium on a vixens expires on new year's eve and finally there is the question of whether the federal government itself can continue. you to operate after monday night that's because there isn't a budget in place to fund the government and this bill would have allowed that government operations to continue so there's a lot riding on donald trump's decision to sign this bill or not sign this bill and so far it looks as if everything comes to

a grinding halt over the rest of the weekend that globally $23.00 girls under the age of 18 are married every minutes and the pandemic is causing a surge in child marriage and forecasts and it's a fair seen 1000000 girls may be forced into marriage over the next 10 years we speak to thoma actor a teenage activist from bangladesh she and her colleagues have stopped more than 600 child marriages nost to yours. hi and. basically i like to talk with among them. how was your childhood and what is the best memory you have used. so that then my mom was not that good to say because my mom mostly gave matt it activated so just because of from that i have got inspiration to work on these issues so then i see that. there is a child from. problems national from basic go get salad are going to.

stop jemera this and also want to create an environment where cuban going to enjoy their rights and more than. for that so do down here through fascinated graining marriage and i am most active in. my community. and we have. been stitchers so. the gulf we move both mother about that is because we think that family. of a ninja and we said this we thought. for solving this kind of problem that we are making some kind of dialogue with the policymakers we saw there something. worse. than why does the bad effect of jan matters and how they can play a vital role. so. any kind of news of violence and marriage or something.

then we call there and just going to get any kind of full stitch and then we went with the police and fire and then us and they give us a forced. into the bin you are to solve the problem. of there is a family going to give chad myers we've got like some kind of information that what is the age of that and why they're giving jan marriage so then we. into the family and then that why given their way of saying they don't want to invest on this go and they don't want to be at the cost of education so they're so they're giving gen myers then would try to advocate with the family and motivated them and in finding to marriage. is 14 years old and she is reading in class 5 ring this bandini in last 2 months in october the goal was at them to get married and somehow with data from the news and successful we have stopped this genders where that if you get

married and that is and maybe hard childhood story our childhood memory we also destroyed it. and we have a plan and we have a mission mission like we want to quit just that from internationally where every student can frequently. about their rights and they will work for other strikes because we believe that you need and can understand other students. now archaeologists in italy have uncovered an ancient fast food restaurant it was buried under a volcanic ash thousands of years ago when this is you pay was destroyed or he'll mohamad says more what makes this discovery unique. this restaurant in pompei is about 2000 years old it's maybe ancient but in many ways resembles a modern day fast food business the l. shaped counter has holes for containers to serve hot food and frescoes that advertise items on the menu and like most successful businesses it had a prime location the building was found by this team of archaeologists during

a mission to shore up palm pais ruins. we started escalating 2 years ago at 1st we only found a side of the bar which among other things has a beautiful painting of unary riding a sea horse i think it's our march to the nearby fonteyn because it's located in a small city square that among the most evocative in pompei there is a fonteyn appears a metric tower a water tank and many other structures. among the findings a range of paintings that include a cockerel ducks and a dog the vibrant colors remain intact notably pompei red to highlight to the eateries features the menu a store to have included dishes ranging from snails to paella traces of food from goats to fish were found inside terra cotta jars along with fava beans used to add flavor to wine animal bones were also uncovered and cooking utensils that could

have been used today. all of this arts to increase rich history there are hundreds of arc and article sites in lesser known parts of the country that could attract cultural tourism of millions of people from all over the world. pompei was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 a near present day naples the city is now a source of archaeological history and treasures and an example of what life was like back then over several years about 80 fast food joints have been found in the city but this one is the 1st to be entirely excavated and restored and soon to be open to the public and aki ologist say there are many more to come. al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera and these other.