religious orders disposed of those who died thank you torn in the system like this church and state to keep the truth from coming else islands mother and baby scandal on out is the. libya's tripoli government's visited by a high level delegation from egypt which spent years backing its rivals in a bloody conflict. low on down jordan this is our jazeera live from joe also coming up a big turnout in central africa republic cities for elections but in some places rebels opened fire to scare voters away. anger grows even donald trump's party over the u.s. president's fight with congress that's left millions without financial support in the pandemic. and the sun kissed islands making

a pitch to stay at home workers to make up the tourists being kept away by coronavirus. welcome to the program for the 1st time since 2014 senior egyptian delegates visited libya's capital tripoli for talks with the u.n. recognize government is believe they're pushing to normalize relations and that would be a significant turnaround to egypt its long supported the government of national accords rival administration in eastern libya and the warlord he for have top well days ago have to threaten to use force against his troops in libya support from turkey help the g.n.a.t. to resist have to as offensive to take the capital and turkey's defense minister was in tripoli on saturday he won't have to against attacking his troops well from tripoli to wirehead tells us more about what the egyptian delegation came to talk

about. they discussed issues related to activating diplomatic ties between the 2 countries and also issues related to the opening the egyptian consulate in tripoli but meanwhile they also talked about activating a v.a. ssion between the 2 countries as you know that the egyptian regime has been accused of backing the warlords for half that politically and militarily and meanwhile the officials with the government of national court say because egypt is a key player so why not inviting egypt to play a role in trying to achieve peace in libya we know that the egyptian regime has been supporting the world lottery for have to in all his military operations over the past 6 years well let's bring in a man so he's

a professor of political science at the university of texas and has conducted field research in libya he joins us from san antonio good to have you on the program look this is the most senior egyptian delegation to visit libya in many years how significant is this trip and why is egypt now looking to normalize ties with the tripoli government do you think the number of clarkson's. to egypt. who the worst. form you. don't know what you're seeing or with it can continue to be in acting. well of course only open up the channels with the west why most important here is it feels the. position within easy in libya has diminished significantly and in

fact now what you see is insult to be a continuing dialogue between east and west where individuals. wall try to subdue some sort of. got with the worst in government yet and that's an important point you make about have to because if the gyptian isn't now having talks with the tripoli government when they've been supporting have task forces in the east what could this mean for half tire in the self what does that leave him. well you know i have to be indecent actually very very weak and i have as and you see new actors coming up we've got sucked out of ideas gents and he and you can take it and ultimately people in the east have been. in the head there's a bit to do to change anything remotely change and these is facing a tremendous amount of hardship and it's just the worst as well to want to get the facts facing a tremendous hardship and i think it means that we ultimately are really tired of

this continuing war and this is why they're trying to bypass both the parliament and. direct dialogue with a number of groups from both sides now but when you think for me this is huge delegation. who the head of the allegation the head of intelligence you know ultimately you think the somebody high in the foreign ministry or the foreign minister wouldn't do that but egypt intelligence why egypt continues to be very very afraid of these numbing fundamentalism and. moving over to libya to egypt so let's talk about some of the key players now mansoul because the united arab emirates is one of the key stakeholders in this conflict if egypt is now talking to tripoli could that affect the u.s. relations with egypt do you think. no i don't think so no it isn't working doesn't necessarily mean abounding have to either you know they haven't needed the

egyptians never made it clear that not always said and this is egypt going to france you know we want peace in libya we will support her again and again against beijing and so paul but they never said they were going to give up on all right on the given what happened after the that now ok let's bring in one last question to a man saw the other dynamic power play here is turkey of course the turkish defense minister recently said half of his allies meaning the u.a.e. in egypt are the main problem in libya so how is turkey's involvement likely to play out just briefly were even more. curious one 1st of all because in the east and even in the worst the worst also it believed it to keep becomes a liability you would want to see the end of to push water in the b. as well you know and besides that you also have you also have in your opinion korea opposed to turkey a more important you know you have a new in american administration which is opposed. and elsewhere in the region so

i'm working on. mansour ok we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you very much. it's marcus i think you're going now f.b.i. says the man suspected of setting off a bomb in the u.s. city of nashville died in the explosion officers started searching the premises of 63 year old anthony warner not long after a motor blew up on the nashville street early on christmas day the explosion injured 3 people damaged 40 buildings and knocked out phone and internet services 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. john hendren joins us live now from nashville john so just bring us

up to date them what more the police have been saying about the investigation. it is been 2 days since the christmas bombing that rock in nashville blew up a recreational vehicle and several buildings around it and it's only been one day since police identified warner is a man of interest and now they say warner is their mandate say this is based on d.n.a. evidence seized in a raid on his home near here on saturday that evidence was compared to human tissues found at the scene and they say it is a match warners a 63 year old man who lives in nearby antioch that is a short drive from downtown nashville he had a white r.v. authorities say based on the registration history that there was talk of them taking d.n.a.

from his mother which they may or may not have done but they were able to get direct d.n.a. i believe that was from a vehicle in his home no word on what exactly the motive is at least not from authorities but there's a real estate agent who has been interviewed by of those authorities and who spoke to a local t.v. station and he says that they were particularly interested in whether his motivation in blowing up that vehicle near an a.t.m. t. transmission site was that he believed in conspiracy theories about the 5 g. network there are a couple of those one is that they are used to spy on americans another is that they spread covert 19 around the country scientists say that is not possible but there was a real concern that what happened here in nashville was just the beginning of something there was another suspicious vehicle that was stopped in a town called levanon not far from here and there was concern that there was a bomb there it hit

a parent we've been broadcasting the same kinds of warning messages that the r.v. here in nashville had broadcast shortly before it detonated so police from all. winds of agencies federal local and state blocked off that highway kept a good distance from it sent in a robot and ultimately determined that there were no explosives in that vehicle they also detained the driver in that case but the concern was that there might be copycats there might be a whole group of people committing these kinds of attacks and authorities say in the end after investigating video of this scene after looking into warner and his activities that he acted alone he died in the blast and that he had no accomplices so the continuing threat no longer exists they say this case is over john thank you . now voters in the central african republic have defied threats of violence to turn out in large numbers for sunday's elections it's been a tense lead up rebel groups threaten to march on the capital and disrupt

a vote they say is rigged conference or reports in the capital the. people in benghazi have been on edge for days now that's after the armed movement. 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 have had about 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 choose their leader responsible for this mission or the a in each and the constitutional court and the date set is the 27th this is what all africans come to boat 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 where there is a major challenge he says he's worried that people will 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 pretty want troops have been deployed to troubled areas and the capital. speaking to people in different neighborhoods in the city just trying to get a sense of the boarding party 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. sais 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 voting against some political analysts are concerned that i think stream tunneled could affect the credibility of the polls up and official we talked to say they are confident that won't be the case final results are expected in the coming days catherine 0. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back counting begins in these areas

the west african country inches closer to what could be its 1st ever democratic transition of power and israel enters its 3rd nationwide coronavirus lockdown to cut a sharp rise in infections more in that state with us. however we've had some rather lively weather moving away from the eastern side of canada that's pulling out of the way drier quieter weather coming in behind for a time then we got a couple of weather systems moving across the the northern and central plains of the u.s. they're going to make their way further east was there will be some snow around the lakes in c. one terrio pushing across quebec easing towards the canadian maritimes temperatures not fared badly in new york and d.c. still getting up into double figures but here comes out next area of wintry weather rolling off the rockies through the central plains make its way for

a swiss more snow coming in on the northern flank of that running across the prairie some wetter weather to the south of that make the most of the dry weather we have towards us but you can already see we have a temperature and one degree celsius there in d.c. 3 celsius in new york so a good deal cooler here as we make our way into the new week meanwhile further south that's a cold front that weather system moving off the eastern coast of the u.s. will also bring some wetter weather the tail end of that making its way across cuba across jamaica showers longer spells of rain slide their way towards nicaragua you're costa rica and also into panama for the eastern allan's it's sunshine and showers. i had 3 jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. and the 1st time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of imus.

a lot but at about my opinion i might have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of farmers just want to get on al-jazeera while he is from the us living with m. and s. in egypt. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera senior egyptian delegate visited libya's capital tripoli for talks with the un recognized government it's believed they're pushing to normalize relations after backing the government's rivals in the conflict. counting has begun in sunday's presidential and legislative

elections in central african republic voters defied threats of violence to turn out in large numbers had been a tense lead up with rebel groups threatening to march in the capital and disrupt an election they say has wreaked. on the f.b.i. says a man suspected of setting off a bomb in the u.s. city of nashville died in the explosion 63 year old anthony weiner's home was searched shortly after a motor blew up on a street on christmas morning. no recriminations have begun in the us up to millions of americans lost unemployment support in the midst of the raging pandemic the payments are tied to a coronavirus relief package that president trump is refusing to sign funding to keep the federal government operating is also part of the bill so it risk going into a shutdown on tuesday while trump wants more money for direct payments to people senator pat toomey from trump's republican party says he understands where the president is coming from but this is the wrong way to go about it because you don't

get everything you want even if you're the president of the united states we have to legislative bodies and democrats control one republicans the other look if they were just the freestanding government funding bill i would almost certainly be voting against that but i think the 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 in jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. rosa president trump still refusing to sign off on this bill and that leaves millions of americans in desperate need it also threatens to shut down the government doesn't it. that's right because this legislation that was agreed to last weekend really is a catchall piece of legislation it provided emergency support for americans

$600.00 checks for many american adults as well as for their children who are under the age of 17 but it also provided for an extension of the evictions moratorium so that people who haven't been able to pay their rent would not be kicked out of their homes that now could happen if this legislation isn't signed on before new year's eve and then it also of course included money to keep the federal government running through the end of september with out this bill being signed well the government runs out of money at midnight on monday and that means starting on tuesday the federal government would have to stop its operations until it can get more money actually do the work that it's supposed to do pay the people who work for the federal government and so on so it's not just about donald trump the u.s.

president having this conflict with members of his own party over the size of the one ton checks to be given to americans to help them survive the economic slowdown because of the pandemic this involves many more issues and that's why this is such a critical issue yet rosen president elect joe biden had some strong words to say didn't he about trump's refusal to sign the bill. that's right joe biden put out a statement on saturday saying that what donald trump essentially is doing is an abdication of responsibility now we expect to hear from the president elect on monday afternoon after he has a meeting with members of his foreign policy and national security teams he's supposed to make a statement about some of the challenges facing the incoming administration on those issues but we would think that given the fact that as of now right now this legislation this 900000000000 dollars bill has not been signed that we might expect

to hear the president elect say something about that as well during his monday a parent's rose thank you now counting has begun off to an election that can lead to an easy as 1st peaceful transition of power about 7 and a half 1000000 people cost balance to choose a successor to the president my model major supporter the capital niamey. new ship 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 the or president that 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 says he has voted in every election since independence and easy again to choose a leader for. a 2 day wonder when to 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 i meet 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 niger mali and riki in a fossil have killed hundreds of soldiers and civilians in recent years the local economies also been on i 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 across. 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 election predicted to be announced within 5 days and ratified 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 i mean al jazeera the army.

now go to state foreign minister met via video link to lay the groundwork for a g.c.c. summit on january 5th and on the issues are steps towards ending the blockade on qatar saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the us imposed a land sea and air embargo in 2017 that accuse qatar's government of financing terrorism which it denies talks to resolve the standoff are reported to have made progress in recent weeks ahead of the riyadh summit iranian rescue workers have ended this for survivors of the avalanches that have killed 12 people in mountains north of terror and officials say everyone who was still missing has been found they have a larger struck in 4 different areas on friday after a strong winds and snow fall a day earlier 7 climbers are in hospital with frostbite now 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 in the 27

member bloc are among the 1st to be inoculated the mccain reports now from berlin. 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 there are several ferries and this 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 this isn't that's made them i think that you 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 of us. we have make sure that in europe itself people get vaccines and we have a broad tax import 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. israel has gone into its 3rd nationwide coronavirus lockdown non-essential shops will be shut for the next 2 weeks and people have been told not to go more than a kilometer from their homes the measures are in a spawns to a surge in infections with about 4000 new cases reported daily officials are hopeful this could be the final lockdown as they look to ramp up mass vaccinations the pandemic has decimated tourism in spain's canary islands lock downs and flight restrictions of lift hotels and resorts sitting empty so in the new year of working from home they're trying to turn that into an opportunity as al-jazeera as bernard smith reports now from gran canaria the 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 is launched a campaign to attract 30000 remote workers it's not been a tough sell you know my companies over in america and some people left the city live in the mountains. and you know i think they've been supportive of people kind of doing looking after themselves in the right spot for them it's a really caring way that 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 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 live definitely not the strict then the word i 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 or 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. coverage 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. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera senior egyptian delegates visited libya's capital tripoli for talks with the un recognized government it's believed they're pushing to normalize relations after backing the government's rivals in years of conflict from tripoli mahmud up the wire head tells us more about what egypt's delegation came to talk about this visit originally it was not expected given the fact that the egyptian regime was one or.