ballots often legitimize the legal one is pedophile. online jumping to the critics and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there on. the air. a massive turnout in central african republic where voters braved intimidation and threats of violence to cost their ballots. while in the jazz election looks set to deliver the country's 1st peaceful handover of power from one elected president to another. on the fortune al jazeera also coming up a program europe launches a mass vaccination drive with medical staff and the elderly top of the list for the pfizer biotech. and the canary islands try to tempt remote workers to swap their

winter lockdowns for this home office with the much better. welcome to the program our top story this hour voters have turned out in huge numbers in the central african republic for an election seen as a crucial test in a country plagued by years of violence and instability polls closed just a few hours ago after a fraught week which saw rebel groups threaten to march to the capital and disrupt the election catherine saw the day with voters in the capital bangui. people in bunky have been on edge for days now that's after the armed movement calling itself patriots politian for change threatened to march to the city and destruct the vote the group's leaders didn't want an election but a transitional government and the full implementation of

a peace deal signed between 14 armed groups and the government into 1000 despite the. palling stations opened on time and voting in the capital was fairly smooth. i am here to vote for peace i had a board problems in the battle of the country but i had to do my beat president. where there has been arching people to help security forces stop the rebels the national army backed by un peacekeepers randon forces russian military instructors and private security contractors are all on the ground france also has a military presence in the central african republic. every 5 years central african 3 to choose their leader responsible for this mission are there any in and the constitutional court and the date set is the 27th this is what all central africa is comfortable and i myself came to fulfill my civic duty. and there are 17

presidential candidates on the ballot paper but. the sage to be president there is a major challenge he says he's worried that people in the sound villages and towns in the provinces one able to vote because of the security situation. unfortunately i have the impression that more than half of the country did not vote which is what we feared when we asked for the conditions to be set for every citizen to be able to exercise their right to vote i have the impression that many have been deprived of the right to vote and that is a pity more troops have been deployed to troubled areas in the capital. speaking to people in different neighborhoods in the city just trying to get a sense of the voting part and many have told us that they have voted in their voting for peace others say they are worried about the security situation in parts of the country. ses he has voted in 2 elections that is

not interested this time i was born in this country but i feel i have been marginalized as a muslim was the point of loyalty again some political analysts are concerned that i think streaming tunneled could affect the credibility of the polls up until fishel we talked to say they are confident that won't be the case final results are expected in the coming days katherine 0 bunky. well looks to be on the cusp of its 1st peaceful and democratic transfer of power outsider 7 and a half 1000000 voters of cast their ballots to choose a successor to the incumbent president mohammed who suffer as a common interest report from the capital niamey a peaceful election is seen as a success in a country blighted by poverty measure president mohammad yousuf who votes not to stay in power but to elect a successor. he chose to step aside at the end of his 2nd term and

a time some west african leaders tweak their country's constitution to remain in office the significance of this day is not lost on the 69 yo or president so this is today is a special day for us it is also and most of all a special day phoenicia which will experience for the 1st time in its history a democratic change over and i hope that this change will be the 1st step towards other changes in order to solidify our democratic process i hope this 1st change over will enable him to solidify its reputation as a democratic country in africa and in the world and this is the man he designated as successor former minister of interior and 40 affairs it was a momentous challenge by 29 other candidates among them 2 former heads of state and a former prime minister. who senior democrat says he has voted in every election since independence and easy again to choose a leader for. a 2 day wonder when every time i do this is

a duty to my country but also expecting our leaders will fix our problems by force immutable because it's the thrill of voting for the 1st time oh my god i'm what i can i can tell you it's exciting it's like no other i lack casting their ballot the elections were held and safety concerns after an uptick in violence killed more than 50 people this month among them members of new forces many voters list security and poverty as their main concerns now attacks by armed groups near the border with nigeria mali and riki in a fossil have killed hundreds of soldiers and civilians in recent years the local economies also been tarred by covered 94 in the prices of its main export your reign as well as a long term closure of the nigerian border that many essential goods are imported of course. sale the elections as a success for the most. spot. there are few places where the elections cannot be

held by many others we were able to organize voting despite security threats results of the elections as predicted to be announced within 5 days and rectified by the constitutional court in 2 weeks we know will need 50 percent of the vote plus one to avoid a runoff otherwise the top 2 candidates will head to a 2nd round in february next year. al-jazeera the army well the ugandan presidential candidate bobby wine is saying one of his bodyguards has been killed by the police the pop star turned opposition politician says france's sente was deliberately run over happened while his convoy was taking a journalist wounded by police to seek medical help a spokesman for the military police has denied calabar was has a toll saying he fell from a speeding car will be wine has emerged as the strongest challenges uganda's longtime president irina 70 in next month's elections.

the european union is embarks on one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccine campaigns with the ultimate aim of protecting 450000000 people across 27 countries health care workers and care home residents for the 1st in line to receive the pfizer pantech maxine which gained regulatory approval this week the continent's leaders called it a moment of unity and hope as dominic came reports now from ballin. when get a good heart or was born good world was coming to terms with the so-called spanish flu pandemic now 101 years later she's become the 1st person in berlin to receive the bio on tech pfizer coronavirus vaccine as a resident of a care home she knows how deadly covert can be there are this fairly for what it is very dangerous we hear and read about it and there are so many people dying in

other homes it's horrible and that's why it's so good that we can be vaccinated against it it is a big advantage for all of us who live here such scenes have been repeated in care homes in clinics across the european union recent that's made them i think that we know that the pandemic won't just disappear as of today but the vaccine is the beginning of the victory over the pandemic the vaccine is a game changer we have always known that in today's the 1st day of this new phase millions of doses of the vaccine have been dispatched to massive vaccination centers around the e.u. in the run up to the new year in some places there have been isolated reports of problems with the cooling mechanisms required to keep the bio on tech pfizer vaccines safe but overall in the e.u. institutions there is confidence all but. we have made sure that in europe itself people get vaccines and we haven't brought that simple for europe to make sure that if a vaccine doesn't work that we then have other candidates for it in the german capital

the government's aim is to inoculate as many as 5000000 people by next april this is another of the mass vaccination centers the former airport in temple hoff more than 70 years ago this place was instrumental in the berley an airlift when fresh supplies of hope millions of berliners now once again it finds itself in the forefront this time in the fight against coated dominant cane al-jazeera at berlin's old temple port or elsewhere. israel has now entered its nationwide coronavirus lockdown even as thousands of people are being vaccinated against the disease nonessential shops have been shot for the next 2 weeks and residents misstate within a kilometer of their homes the measures are in response to recent surge in infections that with around 4000 new cases reported daily officials are hopeful this could be the country's final lock down though as they look to ramp up the vaccination program 280000 people have been inoculated over the past week

a remaster in west jerusalem explains what the restrictions involve. we're a few hours into this very full on lockdown basically in the country it's due to last about 2 weeks but health officials are saying that that is likely to be extended and it will reach about a total of 3 to 4 weeks numbers really of infection here have been really surging recently reaching about 4000 cases recorded per day but health officials also said that if this lockdown hadn't come into place that those numbers could reach about 9000 and day in terms of the restrictions people are not allowed to go outside of a kilometer range away from their homes and most businesses are going to be closed except for anything that's considered essential so groceries and pharmacies and so on and so forth the big concern here though are schools schools are for the most

part supposed to continue to be open to be open and health officials are worried that that is exactly the reason why the lockdown will be extended in terms of the vaccinations that you've mentioned the government says that about 250000 israelis have been vaccinated or over the past week and prime minister netanyahu said yesterday that they're hoping to reach about $150.00 vaccinations per day he also said that he spoke to madonna and fives there and asked them to meet that demand so we'll just have to wait and see if those doses arrive and when bill arrives. there are criminal actions of began in the united states out to millions of americans will their unemployment benefits expire at midnight the payments around $14000000.00 people stopped off the president donald trump refused to sign a pandemic relief bill into law bipartisan stimulus package agreed by congress earlier this week but have extended the funds until march but trump called the

billet disgrace and said he wants to see stimulus checks increased from 2 from 600 dollars to $2000.00 in jordan joins us live now from washington president what happens now well basically what happens now is that the house of representatives is going to meet on monday to see if they can try to pass a standalone measure that would deal with increasing the one time payments to americans of $2000.00 if they can do that then the question will be can they persuade their colleagues in the u.s. senate to do the same thing this is really coming down to a partisan fight because democrats for once are agreeing with president donald trump that the one time payments should be $2000.00 per american adult while republicans who say that they are worried about the growing budget deficit say that the $600.00 that was agreed to in the current bill should be the figure that should

be dispensed however there is bipartisan agreement that by doing nothing the president is really abdicating responsibility in the words of the president elect joe biden this is senator pat toomey a republican senator from the state of pennsylvania. because you don't get everything you want to even if you're the president of the united states we have 2 legislative bodies democrats control one republicans the other look if they were just the free standing government funding bill i would almost certainly be voting against that but i think that covert relief measures are really really important and you know in my state as in many other states we have governors who are closing down businesses again people are out of work certainly through no fault of their own i think we need the extended unemployment benefits i think we need another round of the p.p.p. loans which are really grants to small businesses to keep their workforce we were hearing earlier on resonant about the effect on housing and food insecurity what

does what does this mean for millions of americans now. well there's a big question about whether the house action on monday would actually deal with the fact that and a vixen moratorium will end on new year's eve and that come new year's day landlords across the country could tell their tenants who are behind in their rent that they need to move and so unless this legislation is either signed or the house of representatives comes up with a standalone measure that includes an and eviction moratorium well that ends on new year's eve there's also the fact that you're looking at unemployment benefits under 2 programs to help people survive the shutdowns because of the pandemic that money is now already gone at least 14000000 people won't be getting the supplemental

unemployment benefits because there's simply no money coming from the government and then there's also a big problem that is looming in the next 36 hours if the u.s. president donald trump does not sign the $900000000000.00 bill that is currently at his home in florida well then the federal government will shut down as of 12 o 1 am local time on tuesday there won't be any money to keep government agencies in business so there is a lot tied up in this legislation it's not just the one time payments to americans although both republicans and democrats agree that those are important the overall government could be shutting down and that really means that there's a lot of work for plug politicians to deal with here in washington thanks very much from washington miles enjoyed. watching out is there a live from london still ahead investigators in nashville named the man they

believe was the drama behind the explosion that shook the city on christmas day so . if they cannot help us we really don't know. in the depths of the freezing bosnian when 10 migrants left without shelter a desperate for help. hello we've got plenty of showers across northern parts of australia at the moment and a band of rather more persistent right sweeping through the southeast cold of this cold front that will roll across the melbourne it's been perfect cricket weather fairly at the test match here recently some showers as we go on into the early part of monday but i will sweep through we're losing the temperatures in the low thirty's getting up to around 18 celsius so we'll feel significantly fresher but it should be a last you dry day nevertheless the wet weather that's making its way towards new

south wales into sydney 31 celsius temperatures around 25 degrees on tuesday as a cool way to start to notice way in here still with a few showers showers continue across the northern parts of the kountry but it stays hot to the southwest 39 celsius there in perth things a little more all or mostly we say across new zealand basin places of sherry right there a bit of cloud but dry here as you drive the moments across japan but things will change over the next day i'll say for monday wetter weather sweeping through temperatures in seoul with around 9 degrees celsius and falling as wintry weather makes its way across the korean peninsula will see snow fall returning to the good parts of japan making its way south. stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's notes how does one know when he speaks those sending elderly loved ones to thailand

to live out their dogs on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right now. washington. who'll. welcome back al made stories voters have defied the threat of violence to take part in elections in the central african republic the u.n. says that was a massive turnout and despite voter intimidation in one town the process was

largely peaceful. people have a new sheriff also voted in an election it's hoped will see the country's 1st democratic transition of power country's former interior minister is the favorite succeed on president obama to soften. the right of virus baxi rollout has started in the european union with the 1st of the books 450000000 residents given jobs medical software head of the queue in italy one of the region's western nations. now in the past few minutes investigators in tennessee of said they identified the person behind the explosion in downtown nashville early on christmas morning they say 63 year old anthony quinn born it died at the bomb site and acted alone the f.b.i. says a d.n.a. sample recovered from the scene matches samples taken from his home on the outskirts of the city friday's brassed injured 3 people damaged buildings and hit telephone and internet services across parts of tennessee well john john hendren is following the story from nashville and joins us now confirmation of the bowler

behind the explosion what else of the investigators been saying john. well it's 2 days after the christmas bombing one day after warner was named as a person of interest in the case and now they have the d.n.a. evidence that they have been looking for and hastily turned around that d.n.a. evidence was apparently taken from the vehicle of warner there had been reports that they had tried to take d.n.a. from his mother but they have now concluded that they have the bomb or that he acted alone and that he died in the attack this is what the u.s. attorney donald cochrane had to say. based on the evidence that we've gathered at this point we've come to the conclusion that an individual named anthony. warner is the bomber he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing. basis conclusion on forensic evidence including d.n.a.

evidence that you'll hear about as well as evidence that was gathered at the scene of the bombing. so police have concluded that there is no longer a lingering threat because they've designed it that warner acted alone and it comes despite the fact that there was a suspicious vehicle not far from nashville about 60 kilometers away in which police were blocked off a highway looking for the potential of some kind of explosive that's because someone had reported that that vehicle had been emanating similar warnings to what we what police say was coming out of warner's recreational vehicle nevada was cleared with out an explosive but there had been a lingering concern that there might be other bombers out there that there might be other incidents but they have concluded that it was warner and that he acted alone there is a real estate developer who says he was interviewed by police and he said his

concern was that warner had specifically had a problem with. the company outside whose building that vehicle exploded there are conspiracy theories that has helped the u.s. government spy on users there's another theory that they spread covert 19 through the 5 g. system scientists say that is not true or possible but. this is apparently what investigators are looking at as a possible motivation for the explosion that leveled 41 buildings here in downtown nashville but people here are breathing a little easier with the report according to the investigators that he acted alone and that there is no longer a threat out there. right and but that has been another incident a truck playing similar audio not far from nashville sparking an ally on what we know about that. that's right that truck brought

federal local state officials they say they parked their vehicles at a good distance away from that vehicle there were reports that it was broadcasting some kind of message that according to the report was similar to what happened here just before the explosion that messages out of the recreational vehicle here in nashville now police blocked off that highway for hours they detained the driver and eventually sent in a robot to search that vehicle and then searched it by hand and concluded there were no explosives in that case that was before the news that investigators concluded that warner acted alone so there was significant concern here among the population that there could be other attackers out there other bombers but that was cleared and authorities say that was not related to this incident thank you from nashville john hendren. hundreds of syrian refugees have been forced to flee their

makeshift camp in lebanon after it was satellite at least 3 people were injured when local young people and cam residents clashed on saturday the use of then reported to have set the camp in tripoli on fire aid agencies say recent tensions a fueled by racism with locals blaming more than a 1000000 syrian migrants taking their jobs. elsewhere more than a 1000 migrants has been another night sleeping out in the open in the freezing in winter earlier this week a fire destroyed a camp near the border with croatia leaving them desperate for shelter catching up as had dan reports. 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 in the most they went on they were living like better. so please a depressed. un or us all and us 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 can you know that there is a many problems and i to go rebuild right but there are reports of frostbite and hypothermia proper shoes is a 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. than al-jazeera. the court of ours pandemic has decimated terrorism in spain's canary islands leaving hotels and resorts empty so in the new era of working from home they try to turn that into an opportunity as budget smith reports from gran canaria government wants people to swap their home office for one by the beach. 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 has 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 are left the city to go live in the mountains ok you know i think i've been supportive of people kind of doing looking after themselves being in the right spot for them as opposed to really caring where exactly they 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 once 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 i would use would be fired and having the freedom to do things that i want to do according to the local restrictions russi go for a $1000.00 a month they call it colin says he 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 u.s workforce usually work from home but as a result of the outbreak of covert 19 that's shot up to 40 percent or. more the

coverage has shown all the citizens of this planet as 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 york to the far east a growing number of countries are offering visas and deals to tempt remote workers . the biggest risk is perhaps getting some to. birds with al-jazeera gran canaria. or minor of our main stories this hour voters have defied intimidation and the threat of violence to take part in elections in the central african republic there are reports of a higher summit in one town but the united nations says the process was largely peaceful and there was a massive turnout president. is seeking a 2nd term his opponents accuse him of vote rigging than try to get a ballot past.