if you want to help save the world. sneeze into euro. the u.s. house of representatives votes to more than triple pandemic relief payments. to the agencies that are critical to our security. norma's damage and president elect joe biden warns america's ability to protect itself has been seriously weakened by the trumpet ministration.

watching on just your own life from a headquarters in doha and the navigator also coming up south africa tightens its covert restrictions off to reporting a 1000000 infections and a global outcry is a saudi court sentences women's rights activists in the senate have new wood to more than 5 years in prison. hello we begin in the u.s. where the house of representatives has voted to increase pandemic relief checks from $600.00 to $2000.00 president donald trump had demanded the increase and the bill now heads to the senate where it needs a 2 thirds majority to pass but trump is also facing the 1st veto override of his presidency house politicians are voting on whether to overturn trump's veto of the annual defense spending bill he had rejected the cross party legislation. last week

even though it's been routinely passed by congress for the last 60 years the president elect joe biden has hit out again over the lack of information his transition team is getting from trump's administration biden warned that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by trump's policies live to roslyn jordan joining us from washington d.c. so talk us through both the efforts taking place in the house and what should we be watching out for to happen next. well we're just getting word that the house is now voted to override president donald trump's veto of the $740000000000.00 military spending bill for the next fiscal year it's likely to be overridden as well by the u.s. senate what that means in real people terms is congress voted for this spending measure to fund the military through tobar 1st 2021 the president objected to the

legislation for a number of reasons and decide and voted it and vetoed it now what is happening is republicans and democrats are joining together to basically push back trumps a veto and that means that assuming the senate does the same thing as early as on tuesday this funding bill will become law so that is literally happening in the past couple of minutes in the past hour the house also voted to approve a spending bill that would give a qualified americans $2000.00 each to help them with the financial strains caused by the pandemic in this country so 2 big legislative moves but that measure the spending bill this is something where congressional democrats and the u.s. president donald trump are you making common cause while republicans tried and failed to oppose this measure on financial grounds. all this happening while the

u.s. president said like joe biden had some strong words against the trumpet ministration tell us more about that. but this is a dispute that has been brewing for several weeks the 1st of course the biden harris team was not able to start the official transition because of a delay in a statement being released by a government bureaucrat one appointed by donald trump whether or not the they had actually won the election but once they got that approval to start visiting federal agencies and to start determining what work needs to be done one pts they're sworn in on january 20th they sort of started finding they were running into a lot of roadblocks and a lack of cooperation from a number of agencies but perhaps most notably from the pentagon the interesting has been complaining about it the pentagon has pushed back saying no we have been providing support but finally on monday afternoon the president elect made it very

clear where he stood on the dispute for some agencies our t.v. sheep exemplary cooperation from the career staff in those agencies from others most notably the department fence we countered up structure from the political leadership that. the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred norma's damage many of them have been hollowed out personnel capacity and in morale. now in the past few minutes the pentagon has put out a statement from the acting secretary christopher miller suggesting that this is not the case that the pentagon has been providing all of the assistance and guidance and access to information that it is required to provide under existing federal law and it's also making the argument that it is doing so given that more

than 60 percent of its staff are not actually allowed to physically be at the pentagon right now because of the pandemic but considering that joe biden and kabul harris essentially have been running their transition from behind closed doors and on a number of secure teleconferences i'm not sure how credible that argument is going to be with them and their transition team all right jordan thank you for that reporting from washington d.c. . south africa's president has announced richter measures to combat a surge in corona virus cases driven by a different from spreading variants that's after it became the 1st african country to pass 1000000 infections indoor and outdoor gatherings will be banned and a 9 pm curfew will be enforced failure it's were him wear a mask correctly in public has been made a criminal offense a person who does not a mosque could be arrested and prosecuted on conviction

there would be liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or both. a fine and imprisonment i must admit that this is addressed to measure but it is not necessary to ensure compliance with the most basic of preventative measures. also has more from port elizabeth on why tougher restrictions have been imposed it was a doc to many of the health workers who were calling for these restrictions they were saying that they are really surprised of otherwise the number of sections what surprised them is how quickly it happened and generally others that african the same they also not surprised that new measures were put in place during the festive season thousands of people were traveling up and down the country visiting friends and family and some of them were seen at big parties and gatherings many not

wearing mosques not practicing social distancing not sanitizing and we are in the eastern cape province this is one of the provinces where this variant was i didn't fides and people here when you speak to them you can meet people here who will tell you that i have had 7 people in my family who have died from covert 19 you told stories of people who attended funerals of prominent people and they came back and many of them became sick and port elizabeth is considered coronavirus hotspots at the moment and people who listen to president some of them had mixed feelings some was saying yes they understand why they have to be very heavy handed and somewhat harsh in what he did others saying that it was unnecessary these measures are too extreme and he shouldn't have done that. russia has admitted its coronavirus death toll was more than 3 times higher than previously reported the new figure emerged as a number of european countries reported delays in the initial rollout of coronavirus

vaccines and the baba reports. extending the vaccination program under pressure of a new figures russia is now offering its own sputnik feet vaccine to front line workers such as doctors and teachers over the age of 60 as well as to younger colleagues according to data from the national statistics agency around 26000 people die due to the corona virus in november alone in response the deputy prime minister has said or thought he's have never hidden any data recovered 90 mortality rates. in portugal this nurse was one of many health workers getting a covert 900 job at lisbon's largest hospital the country hopes to vaccinate nearly 10 percent of its population joining the 1st phase as part of the northeast i think it's part of our civic duty to try to prevent the pandemic as with measles and other viruses like influenza and that said your home in spain monday's front pages were all about the start of the vaccine rollout but phases perspire on the delivery

of a new batch by a day due to what the government's calling a logistics hurdle spain's health minister says vaccines will be available to the public and she's day mourning and predicts 70 percent of the population will have been immunized by the end of summer 2021. the main worry for people arriving at this ski resort in central germany was getting stuck in the snow not the corona virus but the national vaccination campaign is facing delays in several cities because temperature records showed hundreds of doses may not have been kept cold enough during transit it comes as u.k. health care officials sound the alarm helpful 40 say there are now more covered patients in hospitals in england than joining the previous peak in april the government says reopening schools in january will involve trade offs with other restrictions but its own scientific advisors have reportedly said any national lockdown in january would have to include all schools to prevent the virus spreading exponentially and asked whether teachers will soon get the vaccine

cabinet minister michael gove was. noncommital that we prioritize those who are most vulnerable the eldest and those with other challenging conditions and then we then make sure that the vaccine can be distributed more broadly the u.k. is hoping to get approval for a 2nd vaccine developed by astra zeneca this week so it can start at ministering it early in the new year but it knows that it will only be part of the solution to a still growing crisis. al-jazeera. the world health organization is warning governments to be prepared for future pandemics that could be even worse this pandemic has been very severe it's spread around the world extremely quickly and scraped at every corner but this is not necessarily the big well this virus is very transmissible. and it kills people and it just deprives so many people of locals but it's current case for tell us he is read reasonably look to other emerging

diseases this is a wake up call well the e.u. has given the green light for the post brecht's that trade deal to go into effect on new year's day ambassadors from each member state met in brussels to approve the agreement the terms of the deal will come into effect from friday despite it not being ratified by the european parliament until late february it means tariff free trade between britain and the e.u. can continue when the transition period ends on december 31st. coming up in just a moment on al-jazeera an argentinean a woman who lost the fight to save her daughter's life tells us why she's become a pro abortion activist. on the best thing since sliced bread in these small businesses in south africa that are thriving amid the coronavirus pandemic.

hello there we've got more snowy weather in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days or cold just a week or 2 back we've seen some very heavy snowfall coming in things quieten down but we have more cloud re-instate the snows sinking further south which as we go on through the next couple of days as that snowfall spilling across the north of china through the yellow sea across the korean peninsula making its way into hokkaido take the temperature is so 3 to a celsius on tuesday wash with down to minus 7 as a top temperature if a soul as we go on into way to stand that snow as you can see coming down across much of a good part of honshu also seeing a good covering that could cause widespread disruption as we go through the next few days but clearly weather that comes back in behind across china to the south of that it's the usual active showers across a good part of southeast asia will gradually see some wetter weather coming back into central and southern parts of vietnam as we go on into the next couple of days

could cause a little bit of a localized flooding here heavy showers to ensue pushing down into the far south of india but for much of india it looks fine and dry over the next couple of days we have still got the fog small problems up towards the north that's also causing problems in pakistan. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst. humanitarian crisis we doe as illegally my grand joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have 2 photos of our nation what has happened to their attention that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. as another religion this is the politics me and more an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. who or

where to. the world war 2 or more. the women you're with al-jazeera here are the top stories the u.s. house of representatives has backed a 3 fold increase in direct pandemic relief checks to $2000.00 it will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate to pass in the house has also overturned trump's veto of the annual defense spending bill. president elect joe biden has hit out again over the lack of information his transition team is getting from trump's ministration by the war and that he's still being obstructed on national security issues that key agencies have been severely damaged by trump's policies. south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has announced richter measures to combat

a surge in corona virus cases driven by a fast spreading variant after it became the 1st african country to process 1000000 infections. a saudi courts a sentence they prominent women's rights activists to more than 5 and a half years in prison drawing international condemnation and has a new and has been held since 2018 after being arrested along with at least a dozen other activists relatives say she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison she campaigned against a ban on women driving and for an end to saudi arabia's male guardianship system well the security adviser to the incoming buy in the administration has responded to the sentencing in a tweet jake sullivan said so the arabia sentencing of hussein and have food for simply exercising her universal rights is unjust and troubling as we have said the biden harris administration will stand up against human rights violations wherever they occur now that hashem is director for the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says the jane you have alluded sentencing may have been

influenced by concerns around the incoming u.s. administration. the judge's verdict today gave her credit for time already served and so if you do all the math there's a good chance that she might be out. of prison in about 2 months and that that's not a coincidence because i think the incoming biden ministration really is weighing heavily on the decision of the saudi authorities on this talk because want to point out i think this is one reason why she's such a heroic figure for human rights activists around the world that she was offered release from prison on the condition that she publicly would state that she was not tortured in saudi arabia and she refused that offer which just you know elevates i think her moral credit credibility in the eyes of human rights activists around the world and there's a lot of challenges facing the incoming biden ministration but there's a lot of public outrage over the destabilizing policies of the saudi crown prince

and so i think the reason why james sullivan the national security advisor and other members of the foreign policy team that surrounds joe biden have been saying these things on saudi arabia is because there is widespread public support for reevaluating u.s. saudi relations and not tolerating you know the mayhem and destruction that the saudi crown prince has been involved with over the last several years it's being reported that israel and the united arab emirates are working together to eliminate the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees the french newspaper le monde says the plans being considered are not conditional on resolving the issue of palestinian refugees agency has faced huge financial cuts to its education and health services since the united states decided to withdraw funding in 2018 benjamin barth is the author of that report and explains what he found. i discovered from a quite high ranking source in the and very reliable source that

the us. is considering an action plan intended to gradually eliminate general are we know that making the development conditional on. reclusion of the. palestinian refugee problem so by doing so the u.a.e. would. definitively line with a longstanding israeli demand. israel is saying that you know 100 the un agency for polity and refugees is another title to peace because it keeps the refugee dreaming of a return to historical palestine what is now israel so this this reflection this. this new approach that is being discussed from what i

understood that when the u.a.e. leadership. made a clean break with. a diplomatic position that has been. the thing for for many years we say that you know why will we stay in pollution as long as the refugee problem is not sole. the government of bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of really enjoy refugees who fled there from me and maher around 1500 refugees are being moved from their camps in cox's bizarre to. that's an island in the bay of bengal that's prone to flooding 30 buses have taken the group to the city of chittagong the u.n. and human rights groups have condemned the relocations arguing that they amount to ethnic cleansing but there's a divide in the camp over the move. i'm going to the island because i believe that my life will be a peaceful way more peaceful than here whatever the bangladesh government is doing

i think it's for betterment that the reason we shouldn't go to the island is because it's low lying and if a storm hits that island will have no way safe to go inside their lives a chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for 4 years for her life stream reporting of the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in. chiang johns videos were widely shared on social media platforms in february she's among at least 8 whistleblowers facing charges of quote quaking corals and provoking trouble for their coverage of the outbreak the 37 year old former lawyer was arrested in may and is currently on hunger strike in jail at least 3 friends soldiers have been killed in mali their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the small town of home bori in the mopti region the troops were part of france's operation fighting armed groups. election officials in the central african republic say hundreds of polling stations in sunday's general election were unable to operate after being attacked by armed rebels more than 14 percent of

locations were affected and despite that un observers say the vote was smooth in most places and turnout was good president 4 star shines to why the run is hoping to win a 2nd term but has accused his predecessor francois planning a coup the government's praise voters for ignoring threats by rebel groups to disrupt the poll. the population decided to safeguard democracy which is why they mobilized in the capital on a massive scale to go and vote so it's a relief. free the woman the children are afraid because no area is the busies a neighborhood there's the problems too many threats. the capital bangui in she explains the next steps in the electoral process. there was a press conference today by the un the interior minister defense minister the electoral commission and they all say that voting was by and less successful they

say that in the country the process went smoothly but they did problems in some towns and villages in the provinces in some areas for example polls could not open at all because of the security situation in the people polls open but people could not come out to vote because they were hiding out in other areas. groups came in and around polling stations. causing massive panic and in other places voting materials were delayed paul's delayed to open because of the security situation when it came to counting polling stations when counting was going on people would come in and take books is and people tend bar them by the u.n. say that they send reinforcements to try and secure. so they say overall voting went on smoothly and now the next stage securing the results they say.

papers are to be air lifted to. not just because of the security situation but also because of the very poor road network votes are also being counted in. historic election it's the 1st time that there will have a transfer of power between democratically elected presidents voters how to choose a successor to president mohamed to research from among 30 candidates as one of africa's poorest nations and a struggling to contain 2 conflicts being waged by foreign rebels along its borders . president has pledged to fight corruption and bring stability as he begins a 2nd 5 year term rock mark brewer was sworn in at a ceremony attended by the president of ghana senegal and mauritania he won nearly 50 percent of the vote in last month's election this year fighters linked to

iceland killed more than 2000 people and displaced 1000000 more. argentina's senate will decide on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress a day ahead of what's expected to be a close vote this month the lower house of congress back to legalizing the procedure to risible has more from santa fe on an issue that's divided the nation for decades. not among us never thought she would become a pro-abortion activist she lives in a poor and conservative community in the province of santa fe but her life changed when her teenage daughter who was pregnant was diagnosed with cancer in her job own fundraiser. she was one month pregnant and i told the doctor why don't you do because she has 3 children but they said no that a judge needed to get involved my daughter needed chemotherapy and no one wanted to help. and m.i.t.'s here either was 19 when she died doctors kept her in

a hospital until she gave birth so she could begin the treatment but the tumor almost covered her entire face neither she nor the baby survived and here i am a day when i said only said they would do an ethical meeting while we waited on the streets with my grandchildren and i was pushing them so that they would begin treatment the ethical meeting was with the priests i wanted to save my daughter. that i might be off death shows that even though abortion is legal in argentina in cases of rape or if a woman's life if i don't risk it finds lots of resistance when it comes. still implementing the law especially in places like this one where poor women have almost no we sources to fight for their rights. as the senate gets ready to vote on legalizing abortion stories like those of us on her daughter show how entrenched anti abortion culture is in argentina's most remote regions. in spite of this

health authorities say at least half a 1000000 irregular abortions happen every year and many women end up in hospital because of complications. and that's one of the reasons why pro-abortion activists have been taking to the streets for years wearing the color green the symbol of their campaign. early in december the lower house of congress approved a bill which would allow interruption of pregnancies until the 14th week the senate vote is expected to be close and there is an ally of. the senate is much more conservative and we know this we're very conscious of this we also know that last year there was an election that renewed the legislative chambers and so there are more senators willing to make history and 30 to democracy that we have with $3200.00 women who've died in democracy and for all of us who are still alive and

all future generations to come but the debate has polarized society that has close ties with the catholic church francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against . gaza anything can happen with the result of this vote because we have a president who is taking it upon himself to demonstrate the worst of corrupt politics which is to go to his own party politicians and ask them to vote even though they may be opposed a president who is showing no mercy with his law because he thinks it will be his administrative victory and his end of year victory a victory that people like not a whole will guarantee what happened to her daughter will not happen to anyone else that is how will. argentina. well as you heard earlier south africa is bringing back stricter measures to control the spread of coronavirus months of lockdown have forced boutique hotels and high end restaurants to close and have left thousands

out of work but small township businesses seem to be thriving as people take advantage of lockdown measures including door to door food delivery operators we hear from one bakery owner and so let's hope. my name is nicholas 21 years old running a company called big heart enterprise located right stitch above us always. has affected most of the business in the township by tears also helped out of business is like us the production has doubled i would say because of the manner of the cylinder bridge is a little bit innovative and then we go as far as people with each and every idea and you know it depends how we prefer to celebrate people of different into now we have $27.00 people full time employees we have different structures into the business we have the people who are driving this great from the big hurry to the customers we have their shopping carts people who are all in the township in say the parade and then we have been a shift people who come every 6 pm to 7 am in the morning approaches. and then we

have a shift people approach was great as well and scorns and rose things like that we know what we need to do starting from now moving forward looking at when we when we started making 2060 reproducibly 20 loaves now we're producing things like 1500 loaves a day so now what we're doing here we can do. also which we have 2000000 people around here so we are in this piece whereby we need a fig tree that's going to stay here within the township so we can call here today today today and still preach what people. i. color again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has backed a 3 fold increase in direct pandemic relief checks to $2000.00 it will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate to pass in the house has also overturned trump's veto of the annual defense spending bill roseland jordan is in washington d.c.

with more called was voted for this spending measure to fund the military through.