0. to stand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world around us and no matter when you call. in kind of trails that matter to you. u.s. president donald trump backs down and signs a pandemic a bill off to millions of americans lost unemployment supporters. hello i'm a very emphatic and this is our 0 live from doha also coming up literally libya's tripoli government is visited by a high level delegation from egypt which spent years backing its rivals in a bloody conflict. optimism in europe a massive vaccination campaign begins to protect hundreds of millions of people

from covert bite. the big turnout in the central african republic selections but in some places rebels open fire trying to scare voters away. after holding out for almost a week u.s. president donald trump has signed the coronavirus relief bill which he earlier described as a disgrace the delays allowed some unemployment benefits to lapse adding pressure on millions of americans struggling with economic hardship brought on by the pandemic trungpa been insisting that direct stimulus payments to people being creased from $600.00 to 2000 let's go live out of washington i was a serious russell and jordan is there for us so the president may have signed the bill but he then sent out a convoluted statement which seems suggest that he wanted changes to the bill what was he saying. well essentially just that adrian the president does

have the right under a law that's about 40 years or so old to say to a congress that he will sign legislation or she will sign legislation but that there are parts of the legislation that really should be stripped out it then falls on congress to pass a bill that would actually give the president what he or she wants but let's face it the current congress goes out and ends a week from today and so it's very unlikely that it's going to grant the president's wishes it's also unclear that congress will give the president what he says he ultimately wants which is a separate standalone measure that would give americans not just the $600.00 that they're going to be getting under the bill signed on sunday evening but get an additional $1400.00 per american adult in order to try to ease some of the

financial strain that people have been feeling throughout this pandemic or at so i don't get the full $2000.00 number last will americans be breathing a sigh of relief tonight. well it's better than nothing which is what people went into christmas basically having which is nothing that he 1414000000 people who have been getting unemployment benefits because of the pandemic got their last checks this week and so this coming week new year's week they're not going to be getting anything now that this measure has been signed the federal government can coordinate with the states on getting this extra money to them but because friday is a federal holiday it's probably going to be a delay that doesn't mean that the mortgage banks and the landlords aren't going to want their rent money come january 1st it doesn't mean that other bills are going

to take a break and not wait for people to pay those expenses those things have to be done elec tricity water food gasoline all of those things still have to be paid for and so if you don't have the money in your checking account how do you make good on those expenses and so there is a lot of criticism of the president for delaying unnecessarily in these critics view and making things even harder on people than it's already been for the past 9 months or address many thanks indeed and zeros ruslan joining them live for us in washington d.c. let's bring in eric ham who's a political analyst he joins us now live via skype from washington eric good to have you with us the president described the bill as a disgrace he held out for almost a week what do you make of it. well this is president donald trump's last stand at one be relevant but also to being able to cause more chaos and discord in

washington this is a president who called the build the disgrace even after his own treasury secretary steve menuhin was part of the negotiations that crafted that $600.00 a stimulus check that would go to every american as well as the additional unemployment benefits and now here we are president donald trump continuing to threaten to not only hold millions of americans who are out of work hostage but the entire nation remember we're not just talking about i stimulus package but we're also talking about funding that would keep the federal government open and so the president continued to threaten only to back down and signed a bill and as rosalyn said this is only going to increase the amount of economic pain that millions of americans will fail because now that's a week that they will have to forgo this much needed money. the president said that they want to or seem to hint that he wanted some changes made to the bill i mean he has a point does need that there is stuff in this bill that really has no place in

a coronavirus stimulus package. well we have to look at this as 2 separate bills that passed as 11 is a bill to keep the federal government open the other is just a covert relief package so we're talking about funding the government as well as providing millions of americans the necessary resources that they need to continue to weather this pandemic and so that's what we saw put together and it's also important to note that many of these issues that the president was railing against many of these were issues that was in the president's own budget that he sent to congress so we saw the president get a lot of what he wanted including money for the border wall along the u.s. mexico southern border so again these are issues that president donald trump lobbied for that he pushed for and he got most of what he wanted but now again what we're seeing is a president who continues to change things in a moment's notice and it just sends people into chaos and also this is only going

to make things much much more difficult for those senate republicans who are in a very tight runoff in georgia now that they have to go out and try to defend this even after president donald trump has railed against the $600.00 payments that will now be forthcoming what would have happened there rick had the president tell have not signed this bill we could have saw economic calamity the government most certainly would have shut down now this is also if the president had not signed if he had to actually be told that bill there were a number of votes to override that presidential veto and that's something that could have happened if he would have simply that late signing the bill we could have saw a government shutdown that would have sent the economy into a death spiral in addition to those millions of americans who are without unemployment as well as the victim protection program that goes away so the president certainly averted a disaster but again this was a disaster of his own making goods to many thanks indeed in washington.

senior egyptian officials have visited libya's capital tripoli for talks with the un recognized government it's believed that that pushing to normalize relations after backing the government's rivals in the as a conflict i'll just say was not a train a reports now from tripoli. it's the 1st time in 6 years that officials at this level have met libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli. the visit of the egyptian delegation to tripoli was carried out by prior coordination between the foreign ministries of the 2 countries the delegation was responsive and positive in the talks based on today's meeting we will witness a development in the diplomatic ties with cairo. the relationship between cairo and the government of national accord was cut in 2014 and around that time president address but has sisi of egypt began supporting or lordly for have to or who held dominance in the east. in april 2019 with rejection support have to

begin a military offensive on tripoli the g.n.a.s. asked turkey for help and with uncurious support g.n.a.t. forces successfully retook western libya in june but not before residential areas of field hospital and an immigrant detention center were shelled the attacks to accusations of war crimes. the visit by the egyptian delegation comes only a day after a visit by the turkish defense minister and senior military officials and cora has military experts on the ground and are training the g.l.a. forces. who are known that. it seems there is a political settlement and this visit by the turkish defense minister yesterday was not a coincidence libya's increasingly becoming important regionally and internationally egypt may now feel that they've lost a major partner in tripoli or maybe they now support

a political settlement. some believe the visit by the egyptian delegation is a step in the right direction we need to ensure that the international community remains united also to keep playing egypt and turkey khamenei messages to the parties that they sponsored to tell them compromise is inclusive reconciliation among libyans rather than launching a new and separate initiatives the united nations is also working to build trust between western and eastern libya the rival sides agreed to hold elections next year but they have so far failed to reach an agreement on the shape of any new government although there is some anger over the visit by the egyptian delegation many here believe the normalization of ties between tripoli and cairo may help fuel a political settlement to the year long conflict now traina al-jazeera tripoli gulf

states foreign ministers have met via video link to lay the groundwork for adjacency salles on january 5th among the issues are steps towards ending the blockade on qatar saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the u.a.e. imposed a land sea and air embargo in 2017 they've accused qatar government of france and terrorism which it denies talks to resolve the standoff are reported to have made progress in recent weeks ahead of the riyadh somers. iranian rescue workers have ended the search for survivors of avalanches that have killed 12 people in mountains north of town ron officials say that everyone who was missing has now been found the avalanches struck in 4 different areas on friday off to strong winds and snow fall a day earlier 7 climbers are in hospital with frostbite 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 dominic kane reports now from berlin . when get good hospital 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 fairies 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 because we have made sure that in europe itself people get vaccines and we have a broad that's important 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 us 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. i got a weather update back say i was 0 then stuck in the biting cold nearly a 1000 refugees from maine stranded near the bosnia croatia border will tell you why i got a tally of this year's worst weather disasters shows more evidence that dangerous streets changing climate. however we've had some rather lively weather moving away from the eastern side of canada that's pulling out of the way dry a quasi 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. that i 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 it this way for a swiss more snow coming in on the northern flank of that money the cross the prairie some wetter weather to the south of that make the most of the dry weather we have tools yes but you can already see with the 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. we'll also bring some wetter weather the tail end of that making its way across cuba across jamaica showers along the spells of rain slide the way towards nicaragua you're costa rica and also into panama for the eastern allen's it's sunshine and shallow as.

from. long before the cold the crisis broke the world was grappling with another global crisis the climate breakdown destruction of nature can lead to destruction all hail the lockdown examines links between these 2 crises and asks why it took a pandemic to bring on changes that should have been made long ago all these things we were told were completely impossible something they become also connected the wake up call the comp ignored on a just a you know. well again this is all serious roger the main news this hour after holding out for

almost a week u.s. president donald trump assigned a $2.00 trillion dollar coronavirus aid and spending package to lay out some unemployment benefits to lapse. senior egyptian delegates of visited libya's capital for talks with the un recognized government it's believed that they're pushing to normalize relations of the backing the government's rivals in the conflict and 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 block of that among the 1st to be inoculated. votes are being counted in the central african republic after sunday's elections where people defied threats of violence to turn out in large numbers it's been a tense lead up rebel as rebel groups threatened to march on the capital and disrupt a vote that they say is rigged catherine sawyer reports now from the capital bangui

. people in bungie have been on edge for days now that's after the armed movement calling it south patriots quali should for change threaten 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 in $219.00 despite their patente palling stations opened on time and voting in the capital was fairly smooth he said i am here to vote for peace i haven't had a board problems is not a battle of the country but i had to do my beat president for steen i shan't stay where there has been arching people to help security forces stop the rebels the national. be 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 are there any in and the constitutional court and the date set is the 27th this is what all central africans come to boat and i myself came to fulfill my civic duty. and there are 17 presidential candidates on the ballot paper but. to be president may 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. in italy 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. many have told us that they have voted and they're voting for others 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 voting against some political analysts are concerned that i think stream tunneled could affect the credibility of the polls 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. also being counted in as share after and a lecture in the could lead to the country's 1st peaceful transition of power about 7 and a half 1000000 people cost the ballots on sunday to choose

a successor to president mohamed to assume the 69 year old decided to step down at the end of his 2nd to. uganda's opposition presidential candidate bobby wine says that one of his bodyguards has been killed by police after being deliberately want to this picture shows the 2 men bobby wine is on the right the bodyguard who died is on the left the incident happened while winds convoy was taking a journalist who was wounded by police to seek medical help the military police say that he fell from a speeding car the 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 to search the premises of 63 year old anthony worn out not long after a motor home blew up early on christmas day the explosion injured 3 people and damaged around 40 buildings john hendren reports now from nashville federal investigators say the nashville christmas bomber worked alone and died in the blast

rocked the world country music camp. 2 days after the bombing in one day after federal investigators identified 63 year old anthony quinn warner as a person of interest. in the mysterious man who blew up his motor home in several blocks of downtown nashville anthony. warner is the bomber he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing that conclusion was based on d.n.a. evidence gathered in his saturday radio. home and compared with human remains found at the scene there is no indication that any other persons were involved we've reviewed hours of security video. surrounding the recreational vehicle as well that we saw no other people involved around that vehicle property records show

warner transferred the deed to his home to a california woman in late november the explosion near an 18000 transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles nashville's mayor says that might have been the goal all of us locally feels like there has to be some connection with the a.t.m. tape facility and the side of the bombing it all began when nashville police responded to reports of the shooting then heard a mysterious warning emanating from the motor home. 3 people were injured but the officers who embraced each other as they reunited in a news conference on monday likely saved lives by clearing the area saw sipos running towards the intersection as well. sorry but that's when i got on the radio to make sure wells was ok i couldn't get a response from him but from the class he had some hearing loss eerily one officer

recalled the recreational vehicle with shades blocking all of its windows broadcasting songs including the familiar strains of petunia clark's downtown. moments before the blast that knocked some of them to the ground what i remembered was downtown where the light shines bright the blast damage more than 40 buildings in nashville's downtown which will take months simply years to rebuild john hendren al-jazeera nashville. the charity christan dade says the world's 10 worst climate disasters this here have cost $140000000000.00 in insurance claims there are some examples bushfires in australia cost $5.00. $1000000000.00 in losses and of the u.s. west coast wildfires course $20000000000.00 worth of damage in asia flooding in the

yangtze river basin in china led to $32000000000.00 in losses india and japan also face damages worth billions of dollars the atlantic hurricane season cost $41000000000.00 in losses to the u.s. and central america while cyclon and pan coursed have a can bangladesh india sri lanka and bhutan a locust invasion in east africa cost $8.00 and a half $1000000000.00 in lost crops or mark houghton is director of the climate change institute at this truly a national university he says it's the poor who are the worst affected by climate change related disasters often is that people who are in very exposed conditions so that they're actually in places where they can get get in harms way they often have limited capacity in terms of response to these extreme conditions and consequently the impacts on american school and mary. that i think it's important to note that we have got much better systems for managing some of these extreme events such as

such an early warning systems which allow people to get away from the point of land flow and that significantly can reduce loss of life but they also destruct economies and they disrupt the environment in which people live and the flow on effects of that in terms of things like food security can be quite profound so so it's not just deaths that it's also the morbidity the reduction in the livelihoods that occurs in a sort of cascading effect often well outside the region where that extreme bit actually what we're seeing is really significant changes in extreme events and the cost of those at just $1.00 degree global warming at the moment we're heading towards 3 degrees so we're likely to see a lot more of these and really important to note that just a little bit of global warming results in a lot lot more extreme events and more severe extreme events many types such as

heat waves so we really need to be prepared much better than we are currently are. there are still few signs of help for thousands of refugees and migrants stranded in freezing weather in bosnia herzegovina they've been sleeping out in the open near the croatian border since a fire destroyed most of their camp last week many are suffering from frostbite and hypothermia there are warnings that amounts to a humanitarian crisis politicians have yet to find somewhere else for them to live . the pandemic has decimated tourism and spain's canary islands lockdowns and flight restrictions have left hotels and resorts sitting empty so the new era of working from home trying to turn that into an opportunity as part of smith reports now from gran canaria the government wants people to swap the 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 of the city live in the mountains. i think they've been supportive of people kind of doing looking after being 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 one 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 i would use would be inspired 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 co living it's fully booked until february a month 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. 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. i. that is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera after holding out for almost a week u.s. president donald trump assigned a 2.3 trillion dollar coronavirus 18 spending package the delay allowed some unemployment benefits to lapse zeros rosalyn jordan explains what's behind trump's sudden change of heart the president is very optimistic that he's now going to get any increase in the one time payments to.