as for the super rich families hit hard by the damage counting on al-jazeera. verses defy threats from armed groups in central african republic rebels in the former president call for a boycott of the vote. by them to fidel this is observer live from dot com also coming up rolling out the vaccine countries across the e.u. launch a coordinated campaign to immunize against covert 90. different elections story in the share with the 1st peaceful transfer of power since independence looks likely.

and severe flooding forces evacuations in parts of the u.k. under the strictest coronavirus lockdown more rain could be on the way. in just under half an hour polls due to close and central african republic polling stations will remain open for an extra half an hour as voting started late in many parts of the country the election is seen as a crucial test of democracy for a nation that has suffered years of violence and instability the u.n. 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 are challenged who are dead or of rigging the vote but he is hit back saying the election ensures the democratic rights of the people. every 5 years central african 3 to choose their leader to she's responsible for this mission or that

a in each and the constitutional court and the date set is the 27th this is why all central africa is comfortable and i myself came to fulfill my civic duty to govern so i has been following developments from the capital bangui. there has been problems in that town of korea they said that groups have been shooting in the air in different polling stations had scared people away but then also this statement says that u.n. peacekeepers have been reinforced more peacekeepers have been deployed to that area and for now it seems that the situation has been contained but then people are still afraid like i say the run away and we're not just talking about bria we're also hearing of seem. similar things in other towns in the provinces of people in some towns people hiding out afraid to come out to vote in other places

a polling stations have not opened yet a lot of intimidation by armed groups are being told in some places walled by the u.n. says that these problems are localized to very few areas most of the country safe for people to go out to vote they say that most of the polling stations more than 3000 polling stations have been open and people are free to go and vote. is from the french institute of international relations his work focuses on central and southern africa he thinks president with various reelection won't resolve the security problems. the fact that bosy and the armed groups are refusing those 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. 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 2930 is also going to the polls in the share of the nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president obama though is a fool is elected after a coup 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor mohamed basil needs a 30 strong field of candidates and share a struggling with armed movements and widespread poverty. was a very important today's a special day for us and a special day for

a new hair 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 and that interest has more from the capital niamey. according to the election commission voting across the country has been going on smoothly except in 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 sutton areas trucked in by violence by boko haram and armed groups from neighboring mali in brooklyn a 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 certain areas because the threat is real meanwhile in the capital here voting has been going on smoothly in the early hours of today the voting the turnout was an

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. one of the world's biggest crowd of ours that sedation campaigns has begun in the e.u. it aims to protect 450000000 people across 27 countries it is held the program as a moment of unity and hope health care workers the elderly and top politicians are among those getting the 1st jabs of the 5 is a biotech vaccine amman has also kicked off it's an occupation campaign the last gulf country to do so mons also reopening its borders on tuesday after having closed and to prevent a mutated strain of corona virus from getting in meanwhile israel is entering its 3rd nationwide lockdown prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes it'll be

the last one that the vaccination campaign will bring back a degree of normality within weeks ari nasser is in western limb for us irene so long down has just started tell us about how strict is it how are people doing. well there was a mad rush ahead of the lockdown for people preparing in tel aviv business even seemed as usual just an hour or 2 ahead of the lock down the long run is supposed to last about 2 weeks but health officials are saying that that's likely to be extended for about $3.00 to $4.00 weeks total numbers of infections here have really been on the rise and surging over the past few weeks and just over the past few days the surpassed or have been around 4000 cases recorded every day now without this lockdown going into place health officials are saying that those number of daily inspections could rise to about 9000 restrictions are quite

strict people are not allowed to go beyond the kilometer away from their homes businesses will mostly be closed except for essential needs including pharmacies and groceries and then public transport and workplaces will be reduced to about 50 percent capacity now the big debate here at the moment is education in protests and classes will continue to be held except for grades 5 to 10 infection rates for about great for grades around 11 and 12 have been quite high and with schooling continuing in person classes continuing the cold it commissioner is saying that that is basically exactly why this lockdown may be extended beyond the 2 weeks i mean vaccinations started last week how is the rollout going. well the government has said that they have vaccinated about 280000 israelis over the past week an attorney who last night said that they're hoping to reach excuse me but hoping to

reach about 150 vaccinations per day he said that he has spoken to madonna and pfizer and has asked them to really need that that would mean that about $4500000.00 israelis will be vaccinated with the 1st but within a month that's about half of the israeli population but there are still quite a few issues at play one of which is that this vaccination campaign doesn't include palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza the palestinian authority there with limited. limited economic abilities is not quite sure how they are going to get this vaccine they have applied for a world health organization fund but that would only basically provide 20 percent of the population of the palestinian population with vaccinations so human rights organizations are also saying that it is part of israel's role to also facilitate

the vaccination reaching for palestinians and with daily interactions between palestinians and israelis it would seem that it would also be in their best interest to do so ari nasser there live from west to use the parts of the u.k. a be warned to expect more flooding and strong winds they've already been days of wet weather from the approaching storm ballot rivers have been rising particularly high in the county of bedfordshire and many homes have been evacuated or a challenge says this day from clapham in bedfordshire where the river is best its banks. the river here is called the river great and as you can see it's considerably greater than normal at the moment it's burst its banks it has flooded parts of the town of bedford and surrounding villages on christmas day 1300 residents were told that they should seriously think about moving out and finding somewhere else to stay it's not only in bedfordshire the council of north hampton

sure has also experience flooding with another 1000 people they're being told that they should seek emergency accommodation on christmas day as well it's the 25th of december it's going down now that is something to be thankful for also something to be thankful for is that the covert restrictions we are in the toughest to recover the strict restrictions in the u.k. here here for which basically means that the people who should be staying inside and and not seeing friends and family what do you do if you're being told to get out of your home and you can't go and stay with friends and family the police are said temporarily at least for the moment the flood warnings override the covert restrictions and should people should go and stay with those who they need to to get out of the flood danger this is all part of storm bella which has been lashing the u.k. over the last few hours and days as the highest winds recorded on the isle of wight

a 170 kilometers an hour travel disruption around the country train lines being flooded and cross channel routes being disrupted as well. still ahead on al-jazeera f.b.i. and police in the u.s. city of nashville now their focus in the search for the christmas state's version plus. we're living like any most of us and he well knew like metra us. you know of course on the part of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded in the freezing cold temperatures bosnia-herzegovina without shelter. hello we've got the temperatures on the slide across northern parts of china over the next couple of days and that will also be the case across the korean peninsula back into japan where we will see at most know in the forecast some snow starting

to push across the mountains them out through the tiny white once again with more heavy snow coming through tokyo just getting up to around 9 celsius as we go on through monday take a look a little further a west beijing at minus one degree on monday struggling to get to minus 5 by cheese days colder air starts to sink its way in that we're going to see a line a snow coming in across parts of china pushing across the korean peninsula into the north of japan ahead of that tokyo still picking up a southerly wind for the time baby kicking up to around 14 degrees celsius in the process make the most of it because it will turn a good deal cooler they sway cold enough across northern parts of india 3 more than areas of pakistan at the moment little bit of snow sliding through here as well more fog and small problems across the northern plains new delhi at around 19 or 20 degrees further south more heavy rain coming back into shore lanka as we go on through cheese day and that rain making its way across

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georgiadis our mind of our top stories this hour voting is underway in central african republic despite the threat of violence the opposition wanted it to stalled and rebels have united to rejects the polls they're accusing president faustina charged with data of rigging the election. voting is also taking place in the share nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president obama do is so full came to part of a coup before being elected 2011 stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor as mohamad. the european union has begun one of the world's largest growth of our respects a nation campaigns in to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and residents of the 27 member bloc in among the 1st to be inoculated. federal investigators in the u.s.

have searched the home as they look for clues into a christmas day explosion in nashville 3 people were hurt and about 40 buildings were damaged in the past half hour police have held another media briefing but as yet haven't provided much new information let's head over to john hendren who joins us from nashville john what more can you tell us. he's welcome that's right we heard from a number of the officers who responded to this scene and they talked about how they evacuated people from the area they reported parking directly in front of that r.v. that ended up exploding hearing the messages emanating from that r.v. telling people to evacuate and that there would be an explosion coming so as that happened they worked their way through the neighborhood to ensure that people weren't there and they said interestingly that the windows of that r.v. were all blocked they said they never saw the person inside of it but we are getting a picture of the police theory in this case they have

a person of interest whose home they searched that man is anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man who lives about 15 kilometers away from downtown nashville in a town called antioch and there are pictures of an r.v. much like the one that exploded here at that house where he lived in intriguingly there there's also a report that he had transferred the deed of that house about a month ago to a woman in california who has ties to tennessee at no cost whatsoever so. we know that he's a person of interest police have not said that he is the bomber but police have also said that there is no ongoing threat meaning they believe that the threat has been neutralized in this case and they've said there been no casualties despite the fact they found human remains at the scene so you can speculate based on all that information that their theory seems to be that there was

a lone bomber that that bomber died in the explosion but they say they have 500 tips in leads that they've been given that they're all following up on so we will continue to give you more information about that but. the officers who spoke about this christmas day bombing said it was a miracle that nobody was killed in it as you mentioned 3 people were injured but nobody including the 6 officers that responded to this scene were seriously injured ok thank you john hendren live for us in nashville. turkey's defense minister says libyan war holy father and his supporters will be viewed as legitimate targets if they target turkish forces in the country on saturday who's the aca arrived in tripoli promising to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there was a hostile who backs a rival eastern government threatened to strike turkish forces if after they pledge to extend the deployment for 18 months turkey's minister of defense gave

a stark warning saying he will respond with force to any attack from the libyan war lot holy father. of terror that. the war criminal the killer have to are and his supporters must know that in the event of any attack on the turkish soldiers we will consider any element affiliated with this killer is a legitimate target for us wherever he is and they will not find a place to run in the event that they can carry out such an attack for this reason they must be rational especially since the spirit is witnessing a cease fire agreement within which political negotiations are held in order to find a solution to the crisis everyone here contributes to the process of finding a political solution and that any movement outside this path will be wrong and it is important to preserve the unity of libya and that libya be for the libyans only . one high level egyptian delegation is in libya for peace talks they will meet with officials from the un recognized government in tripoli it all comes

a day off to war highly faffed are threatened to use force against repartee a move ahead has more now from the libyan capital. on top of the agenda issues related to. bringing ties back to normal between the 2 regions and also issues related to consulate issues issues issues related to visa between. normally to citizens of both countries but on the other hand there is anger here many people in the government in political parties troops on the ground are very angry they have been surprised by this visit and they say that they come out. expect any peace from egypt or from the egyptian regime in fact since this regime has been supporting all the military campaigns led by have thought over the past 6

years definitely the defense of most of our car during his visit yesterday in tripoli is trying to make sure that his forces in libya are not being intimidated but have to the threats and meanwhile a car if 30 back in case have those forces attack the turkish forces in libya they will be and their supporters not only have those forces have those forces and their supporters would be a legitimate target globally $23.00 girls under the age of 18 a married every minute and the pandemic is causing a rise in child marriages the u.n. forecasts that up to 30000000 girls may be forced into marriage of the next 10 years we spoke to doula actor a teenage activists from bangladesh she and her colleagues have stopped more than 600 child marriages in the last 2 years. hi and.

basically. 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 the. problems national from basic go get added are going. to stop jemera this and also want to create a child friendly environment going to enjoy their rights and more than. for that so damn you are through fascinated graining marriage and i am most active in. community. and we have. so. the gulf we both mother. and that is because we think that family. of

a ninja and we said this we thought. for solving this kind of problem we are making some kind of dialogue with the policy makers we saw there something not to come to us. then why does the bad think of jan matters and how they can. get. any kind of news of. marriage or something. and just going to. any kind of full station then we went with the police and fire and then us and they gave us a forced into the venue are to solve the problem when we got the news of the days of going to give jammers then we've got like some kind of information then where does the age of the. marriage so then we went. the family and i'll stand that the way i did 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 drive through advocate with the family and motivated them and in finding the marriage. and she is reading in class 5 ring this bandini in last 2 months in october was i think to get married and somehow with data from the news and such as we have stopped this genders we're relieved that if we get married and that it is and maybe hard childhood story our childhood memory will also destroy it. and we have a mission recently to quit just that from internationally where frequently. they will lie about their rights and they will work for other straights because we believe that you need and can understand other students. more than a 1000 refugees and migrants stranded in the open and freezing weather in bosnia herzegovina the fire this week destroyed much of their camp now the croatian border

has held up as. these migrants have nowhere to go they're stranded in a refugee camp and most 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 living 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 don't. 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 rebuild right but there are reports of frostbite and hypothermia proper shoes are luxury many here can't afford the e.u. has warned bosnia the 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 upon a disaster and the u.n. is concerned things could get worse. again al jazeera.

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 the pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home and lock downs have cost popular tourist destinations across the world billions of dollars so the canary islands are joining a growing list of locations trying to tempt employees to work from their trouble spots instead of from their homes bernard smith the explains 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 over in america and some people live left

the city to go live in the mountains. 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 place to 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 spanish banks 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 life definitely not the strict then the word that would use would be inspired 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 co living 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 it's 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 work from home but as a result of the outbreak of covert 19 that's shot up to 40 percent on the up and. over 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. and you can always find much more on our web sites the address for that is algis there dot com. this is there and these are the top story poles are just about to close and central african republic the election is seen as a crucial test of democracy for a nation that suffered years of violence and instability the opposition and rebels accuse president faustina child's toy dead of rigging the vote he says the election and shows the democratic rights of the people. every 5 years central african 3 to choose their leader based to she's responsible for this mission or that a in each and the constitutional court and the do.