this is al jazeera. there and can but al this is the news hour live from dakar coming up in the next 60 minutes elections in central african republic are held under the threat of violence and accusations of vote rigging. a different direction story in the share of the 1st peaceful transfer of passed since independence looks likely. optimism in europe a massive vaccination campaign begins with the aim of protecting 400000000 people

and call the 90. and donald trump challenges millions of americans into financial uncertainty as he refuses to sign a pandemic pretty stiff. and i'm sorry with all your sports news the portland trail blazers edged the houston rockets in a high scoring overtime trailer at some more late service news out. and just other polls are due to close in the central african republic the election is seen as a crucial test of democracy for a nation that suffered years of violence and instability the un is reporting voter intimidation in the town of brega but observers say the poll is going smoothly elsewhere the opposition and rebels accuse president falstein charles to addenda of rigging the vote but he has hit back saying the election ensures the democratic rights of the people. every 5 years central african 3 choose their leader

basic to she's responsible for this mission or that a in each and the constitutional court and the date set is to. it this is what africa and i'm a show of. the week. let's go straight to catherine solar who's in the camp catherine tell us more about these reports of voter intimidation. well yes we've seen this by the u.n. mission here. a while back saying that there has been some incident in north. they say that some elements have been shooting in the air in stations and so one scaring people the same statements is that she when has sent reinforcements but people are too afraid they're hiding out in the bushes and we're not just talking about bria we have heard reports from several other towns in

some provinces that people voters are being intimidated by armed groups in some places stations open very late or have not opened at all in other places and people are hiding out in bushes very afraid to come to vote we've had from the president's main challenger opposition presidential candidate and he said the lawyer who also voted earlier today said that he is concerned that perhaps all of the voters there are 1800000 registered voters here so he says many of them he's afraid may not be able to go out to vote because of the security situation came ok catherine do we know what that might have done to voter turnout what have you been seeing there today. well in the countries in the countryside we've been speaking to people who say there's going to be a lot of voter apathy particularly in areas where this there is active fighting in

areas where this group grouping the patriots coalition for change is people saying that there we might find very few voters people very afraid to go out to vote but here in. a lot of people particularly in this polling station that are marked are there were very very many people hues of people now the number is dwindling as the polls drew to a close and a lot of the voters i was speaking to here are saying that they are determined to hold for peace we've also been driving around the city in different neighborhoods just talking to people just trying to understand and trying to see how this could play out the voting pattern and so on and many of the people that we saw even not in polling stations were eager to show us their mark saying that they have voted they also want to vote for peace the something they want to vote for peace others say they want to vote for a change of leadership but we did speak to others within the not interested in

voting because they don't believe that anything will change this is a divided city there are areas that support. this is the former president who was disqualified form running for the election and he said to be behind this so yes there's a lot of tension back here in vogue at least the places we went people have been voting it's been going on smoothly no major incident but outside the city we're told a lot of trouble in many areas people very afraid to go to the voting stations to vote ok thank you so much for. well terry vocal on now is from the french institute of international relations his work focuses on central and southern africa he thinks president what there is reelection won't resolve the security problems in ca are the fact that those easy on the armed groups are refusing elections. of course. and the problem

but i think what will be a key development in the coming weeks will be. position of the democratic opposition movement but anyway the security situation in the country has been bad for the past 5 years with the armed groups keeping control of 70 percent of the territory and even if president where they are is reelected time they say they will be but you really need. security situations not going to change they will still controls the venti percent of the territory so what we are basically is a kind of gun style election like it up and not against them in 2090 well those is also going to the polls in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamed so

it's so full was elected after a coup in 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor mohamed puzzle leads a 30 strong field of candidates and shares struggling with armed movements and widespread poverty. was a very important today's a special day for us and a special day for the share which will experience a democratic transition of power for the 1st time in its history i hope it will be the 1st step towards more changes to consolidate our democratic process and our reputation as a democratic country in africa and the world i'm at it just has more now from the capital niamey. according to the election commission voting across the country has been going on smoothly except in 2 areas where voting couldn't take place because of threats of violence and he said there was even some form of surprise when people in such an area is such and by violence by boko haram and armed groups from

neighboring mali and broken up fossil got the sense that they are in fact voting today so he said even in those areas election is taking place but admitted that election is not taking place in such an areas because the threat is real meanwhile in the capital you have voting has been going on smoothly in the early hours of today the voting the turnout is wasn't impressive actually but as the day goes by we're seeing numbers of people growing by the hour the election commission is telling us that before the day runs out they expect a larger turnout than it was in the morning and in the afternoon actually i think now tunisia analyst mannerly kusa and he is a teaching fellow and lecturer at the university of aberdeen scotland thanks for your time sunni shia has had a full crew since independence how big a test then is this. this is a big test and it's a big moment in the shares history. but bet there is

a huge pressure because of mainly to security issues there your reporters are clearly outlining a new year is going through quite a number of security issues with neighbors in mali and look you know fossil and they are the side with nigeria so. is swarm of the poorest countries on earth are in fact it was. it was in easier the head or the world food programme going to court to tell him that the world food program had worn in nobel peace prize for 2020 so this is a very complex country with difficult issues to do with politics economy extra comment and everything else and then you have an election that is writing for a few people but you have to wait and see what happens in the transition before we

can begin to talk about his election or his political moment. as something significant tell us about the main challenges they may or tell injure and how to position themselves in this election. so the de demain county did say is the former interior minister and former foreign minister who is most likely going to win the election and the other challenges will be the 2 former heads of states. none. demeanor opposition candidate was barred from standing there lection so we can almost presume that the government candidate too to use that word is going to win so all the important thing that it would be a chance for our or our from an elected president to another elected president the election in itself would be generally free and fair

on the candidate darwin's would be the candidate. so that to me that's not a problem what the east a problem is what do you do what then do you do when you become president of a complex country like a new jet so the main problem or the need is the governing need not the electoral process. you have to wait and see what happens thanks so much for your time nisha analysts. plenty more ahead on the news all including u.s. investigators say the national christmas day blast was probably a suicide bomb but the most it from aids a mystery. more on the tenacious teenager dedicated to ending child marriage in bangladesh. and the former france national team coach making

a club comeback sorry to have details in sports. one of the world's biggest crude a virus vaccination campaigns has begun in the e.u. it aims to protect 450000000 people across 27 countries leaders of all the program as a moment of unity and hope health care workers the elderly and top politicians are among those getting the 1st jabs at the pfizer biotech vaccine has also kicked off its inoculation campaign the last country to do so amounts also reopening its borders on tuesday after having closed them to prevent a mutation strain of corona virus from getting in meanwhile israel is entering its 3rd nationwide lockdown prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes it will be the last one that the vaccination campaign will bring back a degree of normality within weeks. is live for us now in west jerusalem so i

really believe the lockdown there is just started tell us about how strict is it how are people feeling about. yeah well it just started about 15 minutes ago traffic today in various cities has was quite heavy i think it was in a mad rush for people to basically prepare ahead of this lockdown it was so it's supposed to last for about 2 weeks but health officials are saying that it's likely to last about 3 to 4 weeks infection rates here have been really rising recently and surging with about 4000 infections a day over the past few days so there is also have been a few cases of the mutated virus strain that have been found here so without just lock down the health ministry of saying that those cases would rise the cases of the infections would rise to about $9000.00 per day in terms of the restriction

it's quite a harsh lockdown people are not allowed more than a kilometer away from their homes businesses are basically completely shut with only urgent business is open like pharmacies and essential like groceries public transport and workplaces are also down to about 50 percent capacity the big debate here at the moment though is education in person classes will continue to be held except for grades 5 to 10 infection rates have been quite high in grades 11 and 12 and because of it commissioner has said that that is exactly the reason why. is likely to be extended and continue even further than the 2 weeks ok remote about the vaccination campaign how's the rollout there going. well according to the government about 280000 israelis have been vaccinated over the past week prime minister mr minister netanyahu said yesterday that their aim is to reach about

150000 that's the nation's per day he spoke to madonna and 5 and or urge them to really need that demand netanyahu also said that in about 2 months time about 4500000 israelis are likely to have received their 1st job that's about half of the israeli population now there are quite a few issues here one of which is that the vaccination for a lot of israel obviously doesn't include palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza the palestinian authority there it's not quite clear how they will secure the vaccine they have applied for a world health organization program but that would only provide about 20 percent. vaccinations for the populations human rights organizations are saying that it's israel's obligation to help in facilitating the vaccine to palestinians now the issue is that there are daily interactions between palestinians and israelis and

about 30 percent of israelis will not be vaccinated those include women who are pregnant and kids who are under the age of 16 so really israel may not be out of the woods in terms of the pandemic until palestinians are also vaccinated. ok irene as they offer us and western us live thank you. to the situation in europe with donna cane who is live for us now from berlin dominic as we've been saying 450000000 people to be vaccinated across europe that is a huge number of people what's the timeline for this rollout. the timeline for this rollout of vaccination in the 1st instance is to get as many residents of care homes that's the elderly and the workers in those can homes immunized as quickly as possible certainly that's been the case in the german capital but also around germany we've seen lots of residents of care homes

receiving vaccinations and scenes that have been repeated across the 27 member states of the you in the longer term we know that here on a federal basis germany is hoping to have around $5000000.00 of its citizens inoculated by the end of the 1st quarter of 2021 but that still represents only 117th of the german population and so if you extrapolate from that to the e.u. level well that means that there will still be many many millions of people waiting some considerable time to get some to get the vaccine we know the chancellor of austria sebastien cortes has been talking about potentially this summer being the time when people might 1st begin to see some form of pre coded normality returning that's fairly 66 and a half months away but i saw some countries in europe have closed their borders to the u.k. when this mutated strain was discovered what's the latest on that front. well

that's this mutation of the corona virus is now being reported in many different member states of the e.u. and they and the consistent element is that the individuals concerned had been in the united kingdom and contracted the virus there and then were tested for it having returned from the u.k. to their member states but it's worth making the point that thus far at any rate those are still isolated cases the other interesting thing to report in so far as the vaccine is going today is that there have been certain reports from certain german cities that there may have been some problem with the cooling mechanism that goes with the vaccine this is the bio on tech pfizer vaccine remember which was one of the 1st c. be authorized for use across the e.u. the company concerned by our own tank and pfizer they say that they've looked into this and they don't believe that the integrity of the vaccine has been compromised

and so in some places where there have been these reports while the vaccination can proceed in so far as border control is concerned and this mutation is concerned well there's not much more to report on that given what has been reported on earlier in the course of the last few days with the e.u. and france and the united kingdom talking about the problem of the the variant of this mutation allowing transports to flow again after a negative tests of the people concerned so you have in the in one sense you have the jitters privately perhaps of the ministries concerned across the e.u. about this this mutation this variant of covert but you do have also the firms concerned saying they haven't seen evidence which suggests that there vaccine is not going to be able to deal with the variant concerned. all right donna came there live for us in burden thank you. part of the u.k.

if they want to expect more flooding and strong winds there have already been days of wet weather from storm balla rivers have been rising particularly high in the county of bedfordshire and many homes have been evacuated. or a challenge joins us now from bedford. where the river has burst its banks what's happening there henri. yeah this behind me is the great river as you can see at the moment it's considerably greater than he usually is it's swallowing significantly as you say burst its banks the good news is. the water level now is forming it's actually been a pretty peaceful day across this part of the u.k. at least it was on christmas eve as the water levels are rising that the police started going around 1300 homes along the river bedford and its surrounding villages warning people that there was likely to be serious flooding that they

should think about where they might go to take refuge from it now of course that houses this time of. a particular problem because this is tier 4 where i am that's the highest level of coverage restrictions in the u.k. and that means that you're not supposed to be staying away from home you're not supposed to be staying in someone else's house so what do you do if a policeman comes along and tells you to get out and go seek refuge yes there have been some shelters that have been established quickly but the police for the moment at least have said that the coverage restrictions can be put to one side because the more immediate danger was getting away from the flooding and therefore people could go and stay with friends and family there are still 2 severe flood warnings remaining in the u.k. for the moment they are in northampton sure but for the moment it seems at least in bedford that the worst has passed. ok so that is the forecast and the worst has

passed what about the cleanup efforts i don't know if you've had a chance to go see what people are up to about what to clean up if it's looking like. well for the most parts most houses seem to have avoided significant damage there were 40 houses that were flooded in bedford and its surrounding villages they of course will need drying out surance people come around and have to do a tally of the damage and what compensation might be people have to look to see what precious good save or precious possessions they lost that can't be replaced photo albums the lack of thing i've been down to one of these severely affected sites in northampton chair which is a caravan park people can evacuate to from the caravan park in the catherine parks close i spoke to the security guards there what they're going to do next is do some

safety checks to make sure that the area is actually ok for people to return to that means they checked the electrics they checked the sewage to make sure there's been no contamination and only once those. assurances could be made to the residence hall residents finally let back in but yeah floods like this do take some tearing up and sometimes it's months before people can actually get back into their homes again. in bedford thank you the pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home and knock downs of their to tourist destinations across the world losing billions of dollars in revenue so the canary islands joining a growing list of destinations trying to tempt remote workers to help replace business lost cove at 19 but it's met reports from gran canaria. is this your view when working from home during winter lockdowns. more likely in the northern hemisphere at least this is what you'll be enduring it doesn't have to be like this

. the canary islands is launched a campaign to attract 30000 remote workers it's not been a tough sell you know makes my companies live in america and some people live left the city live in the mountains ok and you know i think they've been supportive of people kind of doing looking after themselves in being in the right spot for them it's really caring where exactly there are. empty hotels deserted pools and very quiet beaches european winter lockdowns means the canary islands is going to salvage very little from the season one spanish bank says this region will be the hardest hit by the economic fallout from the coronavirus in spain the canaries wants remote workers to stay months at a time here you can rent a bedroom and share space with other digital nomads so you're never too lonely i actually feel like i've gotten more done here. because i have this nice set up

and i can balance it quite well with a nice live definitely not the word that would use would be fired and having the freedom to do things that i want to do according to the local restrictions rusia go for a $1000.00 a month they call it colin it's fully booked until february 8 months ago some corporations that were working remotely or least partially were even hiding it because maybe they were afraid of investors what people would think because a lot of people thought that remote work is not work and not only work but it's actually sometimes often more productive. before the pandemic the european commission says that fewer than 5 percent of the e.u.'s work force usually worked from home but as a result of the outbreak of covert 19 that's shot up to 40 percent on the. cover it has shown all the citizens of this planet that we can be very productive working from home at the same time we can balance our life our family in

a better way from the caribbean to europe to the far east a growing number of countries are offering visas and deals to tempt remote workers . the biggest risk is perhaps getting sand in your laptop bernard smith al-jazeera gran canaria. still ahead on ounces there. just an israeli have discovered a 2000 year old fast food restaurant in the ruins of pumpin. and in sports the former golf world number one who got a coronavirus scan will explain in sports. how it would cause some quasi weather pushing across the middle east over the next couple of days further north this is where we had heavy snow fall just to the north

of tyrone that's what cools the the big snow and the avalanche that we've been hearing about here recently temps in toronto at up to around 10 degrees celsius on monday it is lousy going to be dry and quiet winds forming a light we have got so quite a brisk wind pushing across the gulf as we go on through monday and on into chews day september just no higher than around 23 or 24 cell just a little bit some places a fair weather cloud too much just can't just bottle 2 of lot right into that eastern side of saudi but nothing too much to speak of south of that it is generally dry with hazy sunshine pretty much everywhere you might see want to see the showers just easing over towards somalia towards a horn of africa as we go through the next day or 2 but for the most part it does look lossy try there you can see want to 2 showers just starting to creep in there plenty of shower as through the heart of africa showers sliding down across botswana eastern areas of south africa seeing some heavy showers and then here this circulation here that says tropical cyclone some talent will continue to make its

way across the most ambitious channel heading towards eastern past mozambique. from. the stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's an alternative one who when he speaks those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out they died on al-jazeera. played an important role in protecting him and. face. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis as we doe as sad any gaily maigret joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have 2 photos of our nation what has happened to the

revenge that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. is another religion this is the politics me and an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. the. watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour voting is underway in central african republic despite the threat of violence the opposition wanted it despondent rebels have united to reject the polls they're accusing president faustina chance to addenda of the election. voting is also taking place in the share nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president

mohamad to a sofa who came to power in a coup for being elected in 2011 stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor is mohamed opposed to. the european union has begun one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaigns aiming to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents of the 27 member bloc of been among the 1st to be inoculated. high level egyptian delegates are in libya for talks with the un recognized government they're pushing to normalize relations between cairo and tripoli the visit is being met with surprise from some in the libyan capital because egypt's been supporting the tripoli government's rival in the east warlord holly for half the days ago half that had threatened to use force against turkish troops in libya support from turkey helps tripoli resist toft as offensive to take the capital on saturday turkey's defense minister paid

a visit to the libyan capital he warned half against attacking his troops. or the other way head joins us live now from tripoli tell us more about this egyptian delegations visit was this expected. it was not expected at least from the rival factions in western libya those who oppose the war lord have and his backers as you know egypt is one of the major backers of the military operations in libya now the delegation one of the egyptian delegation which includes the foreign and intelligence officials have so maher so far met with libya's foreign minister they discussed with him activating the aviation between the 2 countries and also activating a treaty that was signed between the 2 countries in 1991 in regard to ownership and

travel facilitating travel and ownership and war between the 2 for the citizens of the 2 countries now diction delegation is also currently trying to convince the libyan party to corporate in regard to the opening the egyptian consulate in the tripoli now this visit has been met with anger and actually a disappointment in its several sectors. institutions in libya officials and then officials other than the presidential council of the government of national accord which is hostin this a delegation many people in western libya say that the egyptian regime has been a major backer of the warlord who for have to over the past 6 years and many people here cannot trust the egyptian regime they say that the egyptian regime cannot be

part of any peaceful negotiations with the internationally recognized government in western libya now the delegation is also meant to discuss the latest developments in the regard to the. political. dialogue and the libyan political dialogue forum which is sponsored by the united nations support the mission in libya and also the outcomes of the 5 plus 5 military commission which is tasked with implementing the terms of the ceasefire agreement that was side by the 2 rival conflict over the 2 or warring factions in geneva. last october thanks for that moment of the ahead live from tripoli let's cross over to london now and speak to peter minute he served as british ambassador to libya from 2015 to 28 thank you so much for your time and joining us here on the understeer news hour so this egyptian delegation

going to libya it looks like egypt is trying to normalize things with the g.n.a.s. after supporting half the whole time what's going on there i think is a really interesting development with the egyptian visit and me putting them back into reconciliation inclusively to try to bring the parties together and backing the united nations lead to peace process and i think you 2 very welcome inevitably there will be some people who are unhappy with it but i think egypt is a major player in libya if you are trying to develop a redo her relationship with tripoli and i think it is a good thing where does that leave the rest of the the allen a whole if a half hours international back at i mean who's left and should we expect to see more of what egypt is doing. i think the clear message to

have to are both from turkey and from egypt is that he cannot again try his military campaigns to take political power his fish but i think there is still a risk that the iraqis or the russians also will be trying to either support him militarily the russian mercenaries are still. well in bed it would have started when imbedded in certain strategic military locations and what we have to avoid here is new political initiatives being being launched by either the egyptians or the russians or anybody else the last 6 months have seen general support for the united nations lead a peace process and we need to ensure that the international community remains united but also to keep players like egypt and turkey are amazing messages to the parties that they sponsor to tell them compromise inclusive a-t.

reconciliation among libyans rather than ordering new and separate initiatives they are a sort of big development of the 3 days turkey and. trading threats i mean what does that do to the fragile efforts to reunite the country to try to move forward. i think it's a clear message from turkey that he shouldn't try tom again being clear worries that the bullets as a political process has stalled and encountered new difficulties there was a risk of a return to hostilities and a cease fire is pretty fragile there's been a lot of reinforcement on both sides in the sort of cease fire line down the middle the country but there was a good development a couple of days ago with an exchange of prisoners which suggested there were the process of reconciliation between the military parties was working but i think

there is still a significant risk of miscalculation on both sides which could lead to the collapse of the political process and a return to hostilities that's the last thing the libyans need because it won't resolve anything it will just cause a lot more suffering for poor oblivion libyan citizens. former british ambassador to libya peter minute thank you. ok we have thank you not now to nashville tennessee we're going to go to listen in a police news conference is about to take place that is taking place about the christmas day explosion which injured 3 people and damaged buildings let's listen in so just to give a quick update on infrastructure as we work with our federal partners law enforcement partners and they they footprint shrinks as far as the investigation they will release the properties back to metro once that happens we will do a preliminary sweep we'll have a public works department fire department along with all utility districts they

will go into the affected area just to make sure that it is safe then we will release that back to a business partners and residents owners so i'm happy to announce this morning between 4th and 5th avenue down to broadway will be open so as of 10 am we will release that. we're doing a sweep right now as far as our suite will fall apart as i mentioned earlier we'll let our business partners come in that liaison will be from the office of emergency management working with our downtown partnership. as far as a communication update we know that. yesterday as of 830 last night they reached stuart all the mobile communication and then just boarding they got back into the work flow and there will be times where we will lose

communication because they are trying to reach store the 4th floor at the 4 florida it will get our critical infrastructure infrastructure back into place and that's internet along with landlines and are now on one system. they're feeling very confident about in the day they will have us up and running at full capacity but please remember that there are a lot of moving parts and there are a lot of things that happens and we will try to address that as it as it happens so again we appreciate everybody's patience and we will proceed with getting national back on the road we opening thank you ok let's go live now to. john hendren who is standing by for us in nashville john we had a little bit there i believe that was from the national fog department what's the latest on this case. well we are seeing

restoration of some of the infrastructure here and it was pretty massive destruction i spoke to someone this morning you lives in spring hill about 40 miles away from here says the internet connections are out and because that affects stores and their credit card system some stores were closed some were taking only cash and so that is the immediate effect on the people in this area but we are learning more about the police theory about exactly what happened they searched the home yesterday saturday of a man named anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man records suggest that he has not been married he's childless and that a month ago he transferred the deed to his house to a woman in california who has ties to tennessee. it's not clear exactly what happened there except it's perfectly legal under tennessee law to transfer your home to somebody without notifying them at no cost whatsoever and what is

interesting about this case is that there are pictures people have taken them from google earth of the house where mr warner lived that had a recreational vehicle parked in the backyard strikingly similar to the one that exploded here in downtown nashville police have said he is a person of interest but they have not said he is a suspected bomber but if we put together all of the pieces that we are seeing here . you start to get a picture that police seem to suspect that there is only one bomber we know that because they say there is no continuing threat and and that they believe that. they the human remains they found on the scene there might give them more information but they've also said that there were no casualties among residents so the theory seems to be that there was a lone bomber in that recreate. no vehicle it exploded killing the bomber this is

just speculation based on the information we have we're hoping the police will tell us more about what that theory is but they're or conspiracy theorists who believe that the system is somehow spreading covert 19 through its 5 g. system scientists say that is not the case but that's one suspected theory of why he might have targeted that place but really all police are telling us is that they have a person of interest whose home they're interested in and that they are continuing to pursue more than 500 tips and leads just when you thought 2020 conspiracy theories couldn't get any crazier thank you for that john hendren live from nashville tennessee well u.s. president donald trump has refused to sign a $900000000000.00 coronavirus relief and spending bill the package was approved by republicans and democrats and congress part of this includes a one time payoff for americans congress agreed to $600.00 and vigils the trump

wants that increased to 2000 tons is in washington d.c. shihab and as all of this happens benefits for many people who really need that money will now run ups. right so now that because all trump didn't sign the bill on saturday night millions that's up to 14000000 people will have their last extended unemployment benefits check this week you're only allowed to claim unemployment benefits for a certain number of weeks under the last last stimulus bill that was extended for workers and for good workers to get workers got unemployment benefits too that's now or is now over effectively until another stimulus bill is signed into law and this is the problem we just don't know what donald trump is intending to do yes he's saying he's standing up for americans and he says look $600.00 in stimulus checks isn't enough but in the meantime all these other benefits are falling you know are expiring from the law stimulus bill. don't talk so he wants 2000 dollar

stimulus checks for americans in need and the democrats say great all right well we have a vote on monday coming up in the house of representatives a stand alone go. get your republicans do to rally around that so you know and it will likely pass in the house on monday this $2000.00 stand alone bill for checks but then it goes to the senate i was not clear whether the republican majority leader in the senate will bring that to a vote in the house what we do know is it's put him in of really difficult position because mitch mcconnell is one of those republicans or one of those neo liberal republicans and democrats in some ways who doesn't necessarily believe in expanding the social safety net he's quite happy to have huge tax cuts for the rich but when it comes to expanding the social safety net he gets very worried about spoiling the poor and you know moral hazard and things like that on the deficit so if mitch mcconnell which recall is in the position that of effect to be standing in the way of donald trump the u.s. president who has enormous amounts of support amongst the republican base in not if

he doesn't bring that to a vote in the senate in the meanwhile we have the georgia senate runoff race which is why mitch mcconnell was keen on getting a $600.00 stimulus check in the 1st place because he was worried that the senators the republican senators. in georgia we're getting we're getting a how good bye by the democratic opponents any thought of 600 dollars from a strictly seen show that they care but now if he doesn't accept donald trump's call for a 2 $1000.00 check that's going to very bottom very bad for him out very bad for the republican candidates in georgia so there's lots of special that this is less to do with with donald trump standing up for the unemployed of the usa a much more to do with him putting which mccollum a very difficult position now for bush because recognize joe biden is the victor in the last election shepparton see in washington d.c. . around the world 23 girls under the age of 18 a married every minute the pandemic is causing a rise in child marriage the u.n. says up to 13000000 girls may be forced into marriage of the next 10 years we spoke

to dolla octo a teenage activist from bangladesh she and her colleagues have stopped more than 600 child marriages in the last 2 years. hi and. basically. how was your childhood and what is the best memory you have. so that then my mom was not that good to say because my mom mostly gate mattered activator so just because of from that i have go to work on these issues so then i see that. there is a child from the. problems national from basic go gets added are going to where if you don't know walking through stopped and also want to create for an environment what you don't get enjoyed their rights and more than a. foreigner that so damn you are through fascinated graining marriage and i am

most active in. my community. and we have. so like being in the gulf we both mother. that is because we think. of a need judgements 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 some kind of information then where does the age of that and why they're giving jen marriage so then we. into the family and i'll stand that the way they're giving 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 we try to advocate with the family and motivated them and then finally we start. these is 14 years old and she is reading in class 5 ring this bandini in last 2 months in october was at them to get married and somehow with data from the news and such as we have stopped this gender is where we need that if we get married and that is and maybe hard childhood story or childhood memory we also destroy 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 walk and they will lie about their rights and they will work for other straights because we believe that you need and can understand other students. is the chief child protection officer for unicef spend with she says fewer children were being forced to marry in bangladesh prior to the pandemic but the number is going up again. child marriage is an extraordinarily desperately negative event in a child's life obviously it continues to happen because there's negative associations with well and with education the lack of education and certainly increasing the cutty that one thing has happened the lockdown has interrupted services access to services with children but no 2 not just the children that could be married but also the ones that are already married including those that are involved in education health services and already the underfunded child protection system i really appreciated the the

algo the all out speaking before because she also mentioned the child helpline 198 in bangladesh which we know with the help of the government of bangladesh has thousands of children's lives during the lockdown with emergency response to those children through case like in case management where you need to continue to increase and strengthen child protection systems moving forward if we're ever going to. have a dance from one we have also managed to decrease the amount of child marriage over the last 4 years to 2 monthly a global program with new n.f.p.a. and unicef and the multi-stakeholder program we were able to reduce from 59 percent to 51 percent of getting married in bangladesh before the age of i saying. still ahead on al-jazeera that sports star will be here with action from the n.b.a. a young god records

a 2nd straight 30 point game. you know which. league. take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to flour and makeup. and put it into place where people live through the circus. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. or does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. london is one of the most unfortunate cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact on friday around the globe and so here at al-jazeera we will show you the true impact of those decisions on people but how it affects their every day but. we are free to

put them on air and to really engage those stories because we know that all audience is interested not just in the mainstream news but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go under reported. why. you are for 4th. time a sport has thanks a lot can the portland trail blazers and he saw rockets have played out so high scoring 3 of them in day that needed overtime to separate the 2 teams on saturday all eyes are on houston james harden he's been the subject of a trade away from the rockets on his season to be hauled unschooled 44 points bought the main man on the night was portland c.j. mccollum he too contributed 44 points and by the end of the 4th quarter the schools

were level the trailblazers there had the last laugh and it was mccullum who finish things off for the 3 points it's a clinch the win for portland 128-2100 26. yeah i was just trying to be aggressive i know you know based on you know some of things we're going through right now offensively defensively we have to play well we have to. need to make threes and take a reason try to be aggressive they did a good job to send screens give me open and i just has to understand how the game is shifting. i'm a shoot more threes i make more things elsewhere trey young made his presence felt as the atlanta hawks beat the memphis grizzlies 12221121 states young scored 8 straight points on his way to 36 on the night that follows up from the 37 points he scored in the a win against chicago clearly proving to be one of the toughest youngest to defend in the n.b.a. he. did better in all areas after the defensive stars continue no one.

kinds of film interest in seeing that although there are more games than those we continue to get better and doing pretty well right now. english premier league leaders in defending champions liverpool are off against west brom 2 years ago liverpool would top at christmas as they are now but failed to go into if the title monday you're going to quote says it's important for his players to remain focused 2 years ago when we didn't win the league after being top of the table or christmas it was not about a lack of focus or whatever it was just the quality of the opponents and their dismiss quality still out there and so. yeah nothing really happened so far we collect a few points and if you want to do something special this year then we have to come out even more until the end of the season and that's what we tried in the early kickoff leaves beat burnley one nil late travels to wolves who are outside the top

10 off to finishing 7th in each of the last 2 seasons spose boss s'posed boss has a room rumor in reno rather says it's proof of how competitive the prime yet league is if you look to the stable it's ok and you analyze matters as we distill it is that they will that changes every week that changes every 2 every 2 matches in one week one team is in a certain position. after 2 weeks in is in the completely different position so is a situation of open bone and you cannot judge the work of a manager former france national team coach raymond domenech has returned to club football the 68 year old has of been appointed the new manager at nantes until the end of the season dominic led france the 2006 world cup final but his tenure ended in disaster with a group stage exit in 2010 in south africa when he had

a falling out with several of his players. moving on to tennis where 3 time major tennis champion andy murray has been given a wild card to play in the upcoming australian open where his ranking is too low to guarantee a place in the main draw but the organizers have handed him an opportunity to take his place in the urban the 2021 australian open has been delayed by 3 weeks because of the need for players to quarantine asked for a stray in coronavirus rules. and former gulf number one greg norman is back home after being hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms the 65 year old australian says he's since tested negative for coated 19 norman was admitted to hospital on saturday after experian fever joint and muscle aches during his career he was nicknamed the great white shark and won 2 major titles. pfaff african débutante fast bowler luke see it has taken 4 wickets to help dismissed

lanka from 396 in the 1st cricket test against south africa in centurion the tourists lost their last 4 wickets on the 2nd morning for the addition of 56 runs south africa has since moved on to 317 for 4 at the end of the day's action dean elgar the top score out with 95. india all on top of the 2nd test against australia at the close of the 2nd day's pay in melbourne the indians resumed $3061.00 off to dismissing the o.z.'s $495.00 on day one thanks a stunning captain ajinkya rahane knees on the gates of the 100 for india have moved 227745 and that gives them a lead of 182 strain to meet the series one will follow you go to the bell bring short while it fall. weather well that's all the sport from me but i'll be more lights about so you can thanks that's our. first news out of go i though i'll be

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