cultures across the world so much of what we. counted for. the u.s. house of representatives votes to more than triple pandemic relief payments and also overrides president trumps veto on a defense bill. hello i'm adrian fenty given this is 00 life and also coming up many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage president elect joe biden warns that america's ability to protect itself has been seriously weakened by the trumpet ministration. covert 1000 restrictions tightened in south

africa amid a surge in cases driven by a different variants of the coronavirus. in bangladesh moves of a group of for him to refugees to remote island despite concerns from right groups . the house of representatives has voted in favor of president trump's demond for a 3 fold increase in direct stimulus payments to americans who are struggling during the pandemic but congressman of also voted to override a presidential veto on defense spending it comes as president elect joe biden accused the trumpet ministration of risking national security by not giving his transition team all the information it needs while still in jordan reports now from washington. members of the u.s. house of representatives interrupt their holiday break to decide whether to give

americans $2000.00 each in the midst of the covert $1000.00 pandemic the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table the vote in favor came after us president donald trump finally signed into law on sunday a bill giving americans a one time check for $600.00 even though he had said the amount should be higher i hope it will enjoy a strong bipartisan support the president of the united states has put this forward to something that he wants to see and terms and part of his signing the legislation yesterday i hope that that will be that view will be shared by the republicans in the senate but some republicans worried about increasing the budget deficit $600.00 per person is all the government could afford but looking at this bill today it makes me feel like we're in the parliament of afghanistan burundi amun or bolivia

do we really think the way to improve the quality of life for americans is to just print more money from the fed. if you look around we're going to be printing another $400000000000.00. the other business before congress overturning trump's veto of the annual military spending bill something both democrats and republicans agreed had to be done as congress works to keep both ordinary americans and the military afloat the incoming president is accusing donald trump of interfering with national security for political purposes joe biden made the accusation after meeting with his national security team right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need for the ongoing outgoing from now going to do stray shoe in key national security areas it's nothing short of more of you of

irresponsibility. no comment from president trump just a new campaign style video he posted on his twitter account even though he's already lost the election rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. robinson woodburn's is an assistant professor in the political science department at howard university and he says the trump's actions pushing away elias at the moment. we're in a somewhat uncharacteristic or unusual position it has not been the case that either chamber of commerce or congress has successfully overridden veto by the president the house did so by a fairly wide margin signaling a rare bipartisan vote and it's likely that the senate scheduling its vote this week will do the same this is a fairly popular bill included in the $741000000000.00 outlays raise in pay for american troops and that plays pretty well the congressional constituents

and so it's likely that because the bill passed in the house for those same reasons we'll probably see it carry in the senate and be the 1st successful override a presidential veto during the trumpet ministration on the original coronavirus relief package congress negotiated with the president coterie secretary steve nugent and it looked like the original packaging that the president's satisfaction but then the president reversed course arguing for 2000 dollars checks and that probably bothered or ticked off some members of the congressional delegation we saw that $44.00 republican members supported this new higher spending bill in defiance of their the majority of their party and so we're starting to see splits and republican delegation this delay does not help the country's recovery certainly these direct cash payments are necessary particularly for essential workers for frontline workers who may not have access to health care or other kinds of

employment benefits and so this delay does hurt workers as well. south africa's president cyril robin poses announced stricter measures to combat a surge in corona virus cases driven by a different fast spreading variant and south trip became the 1st african country to pass $1000000.00 infections indoor and outdoor gatherings will be banned at a 9 pm curfew will be enforced failure to wear a mask correctly in public has been made a criminal offense a person who does not wear a mask 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 a drastic measure. but it is no necessary to ensure compliance with the

most basic of preventative measures. in port elizabeth in south africa it was adopted and many of the health workers who were calling for these restrictions they were saying that they are really surprised of otherwise number infections what surprised them is how quickly it happened and generally others african the same they also not surprised that new measures were put in place jane 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 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 in many of them became sick and port elizabeth is considered

coronavirus hotspot at the moment and people who listen to presidents of them had mixed feelings some were saying yes they understand why he had to be very heavy handed and somewhat harsh in what he did but others are saying that it was unnecessary these measures are too extreme and he shouldn't have done that. the next pandemic could be even worse the message from the world health organization who say that covert brain team has been a wakeup call for the world this time it has been very severe it's spread around the world extremely quickly and. this is not necessarily a big. this virus is very transmissible. and it kills people and it just deprives so many people of loved ones but it's a current case for tell us he is reading reasonably low a comparison to other emerging diseases this is a wake up call russia has admitted that its coronavirus death toll was more than 3

times higher than previously reported a new figure emerged as a number of european countries reported delays in the initial rollout of the coronavirus vaccine but the baba reports. extending the vaccination program under pressure of a new figures russia is now offering its own sputnik feedbacks into frontline 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 all thirty's have never hit in 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 morning 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 coronavirus 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 june 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 will most vulnerable the eldest and those with other challenging conditions and then we then make sure that the vaccine can be distributed throughout the u.k. is hoping to get approval for a 2nd vaccine developed by astra zeneca this week so it can started administering it early in the new year but it knows that it will only be parts of the solution to a still growing crisis. al-jazeera the government of bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled there from the ammo up to 1800 refugees are being moved from their camps in cox's bazaar the bass and char island the un and human rights groups have condemned the relocation arguing that they amount to

ethnic cleansing and this is where the group of being taken russian char it's one of several unstable islands that emerged from the sea 20 years ago of the silt bunched together at the mouth of the river critics say that it isn't safe because it's prone to flooding during the monsoon and is known to be lashed by cyclons let's go live now to chittagong in bangladesh i was there as target child free is with us from there what's happening there no. gong on the. boat. sorry to have a way where having trouble with the signal to you well we'll try to come back to you in a few minutes for the moment we'll move on. we're going to weather update thanks to our audience here up then a global outcry a saudi court sentences with its rights activist to jade i'll have to move to more than 5 years in prison. driven out by locked down for toting out of the city we

meet some of the economic casualties of the coronavirus pandemic in india. however we've got more snowy weather across north america at the moment 2 areas of low pressure to focus on here we got this one over towards the lakes that sin the process of pulling across ontario and heading over towards the canadian maritimes these are quite done with this is a developing feature that we have down towards the southwest a mascot to sweep its way off the rockies fabby the snow coming in off this is east is across the great plains rain to the south of that and it will continue to drive its way further race was so some heavy snow coming in around the midwest into central parts of canada just around on teria quebec as we go on into wednesday and

some very heavy rain whole way down to the deep south that could cause some localized flooding a little quieter behind but up towards pacific northwest more wet windy and when she weather coming in across washington state and oregon and also of course into british columbia further south into the u.s. into florida we do have quite a weather coming through here and that quasi weather stretching its way down across a good parts of the greats ranted a secure but seeing some bits and pieces of cloud of rain for a time main rain band topples a little further east sunshine and showers for the eastern audience. an invitation to bear witness to all that life office. the highs the learners the trials and tribulations. and soon movements and

everyday miracles the injustices the defiance the test of character and the person they trace the witness documentaries with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. this is a listener of this religion the main news this hour the u.s. house of representatives has backed a 3 fold increase in direct pandemic relief checks to $2000.00 a measure will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate passed the house is also overturned tribe's feature 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 all but he still being obstructed on national security issues that key agencies and severely damaged by trump's policies. of south africa's president so rather poses announced stricter measures to combat a surgeon coronavirus case is driven by a fast spreading variant that suffered became the 1st african country to pass 1000000 infections. the family of a prominent saudi women's rights activists say that they'll appeal her jail sentence to j.m. karr flew was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison one day during international condemnation she's been held since 28 team relatives say that she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison laura burton manley reports lose a know how cool had been a prominent activist the years demanding more rights for women in saudi arabia the u.n. rights groups have been demanding her release from

a saudi prison she'd been arrested in 2018 with other activists but instead saudi media reporting the court sentence had little to 5 years and 8 months in prison. she was found guilty on charges including agitating for change and mounting a campaign against the saudi royal family she has campaigned against the ban on women driving a ban that was lifted the same year but the kingdom continues to deny that she was arrested for this reason her brother says her family will appeal the verdict it's showing up the war way with just. a sham trial we can but in that way. it can clearly show that the court in the trial from day one has been politically motivated the saudi cool suspended 2 years and 10 months of a sentence the many say this could have been to avoid

a confrontation with the u.s. president elect joe biden has been openly critical of the kingdom's human rights records and the transition team security advisor tweeted the sentencing was unjust and troubling the judge's verdict today i gave her credit for time already served and so if you do our 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 went heavily on the decision of the saudi authorities on this talk how to move family says last year saudi authorities offered to release her but only if she gave testimony denying that she'd been tortured and sexually harassed the saudi courts say there was no evidence of this the family say the torture was designed the brute who way to break her but she won't be broken nor about the money out to sara. it's been 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 that the plans are being considered are not conditional on resolving the issue of palestinian refugees the agency has faced huge financial cuts to its education and health services since the united states decided to withdraw funding in 2018 or benjamin path as the author of that portable avant explains what he found i discovered from a quite high ranking source. and a very reliable source that the u.a.e. . is considering an action plan intended to gradually eliminate the in iraq we know that making these development conditional on. real issues of the. palestinian refugee problem so by doing

so the u.a.e. would definitively line we've a long standing israeli demand. israel is seeing that you know who are the un agency for refugees is another title to peace because it keeps the refugee dream of a return to historical palestine what is now israel so this. reflection this. new approach that is being discussed from what i understood within the u.a.e. leadership. neatly greg with. a diplomatic position that has been. the same for for many years which states that you know our will we stay in position as long as the refugee problem is not sold. air travel in the united states has reached its highest level since the start of

the pandemic in march the u.s. transport of thora he says that 1280000 people were screened at airports on sunday that's despite public health officials urging people not to travel during the holiday season because of fears of a further increase in cove it 19 cases meanwhile california governor has warned that the recent spike in holiday travel will lead to another surge in cases he said that it's likely the current stay at home order will be extended arts of southern california still facing record numbers of infections with hospital intensive care units at capacity in los angeles county one person is dying every 10 minutes we certainly anticipate of the middle of january is going to be a pretty difficult time in our hospitals where the cases from this week and next 3 really start to stack on top of one another impacting the emergency rooms are ospital wards and are i.c.u. spaces and that when i speak to hospital leaders throughout the southern part of

the state they are worried about the middle part of january the u.n. secretary general antonia that had just called for a year of healing and his end of the message that has referenced the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout and climate change as some of the trial us of 2020 the new year lies ahead and we did receive rays of hope people extending a helping hand to neighbors and strangers front line workers giving their all scientists the developing vaccines in record time countries making new commitments to prevent climate catastrophe. if we work together in unity and solidarity these rays of hope can reach around the world together let's make peace among ourselves and reap nature's dekel the climate crises stop the spread of coffee 1000 and make 2021 a year of healing healing from the impact of a deadly vitals healing broken economies and societies healing the visions and

starting to heal the planet that must be our new year's resolution for 2021 at least 3 french soldiers have been killed in mali their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the small town of homs bori in the region the troops are part of france's 5000 strong force helping to fight armed groups in the sahara region french president and many of the comp a tribute to the dead soldier saying that his government could keep up the fight against what he called terrorism. counted in after its historic election is the 1st time that the country will have a transfer of power between democratically elected presidents have to choose a successor to president mohamed to assume from among 30 candidates this year as one of africa's poorest nations that are struggling to contain 2 conflicts being waged by foreign rebels along its borders. election officials in central african republic say that hundreds of polling stations in sunday's general election were

unable to operate off to being attacked by armed rebels more than 14 percent of locations were affected despite un observers say the vote was smooth in most places in the turnout was good president bush. is hoping to a 2nd term but is accused his predecessor from. of planning a coup the government's praised voters for ignoring threats by rebel groups to disrupt the polls catherine soy reports now from the capital and explains the next steps of the election process there was a press conference today by the un the interior minister defense minister. and they. say that the country. towns and villages in the provinces in some areas for example. because of the

security situation in other people polls open but people could not come out to vote because they were hiding out in other areas. groups came in and around. and you know. laid. open because of the security situation when it came to counting and. counting. people would come in and take. them by the un. to try and secure. so they say overall voting went smoothly and now the next stage is securing the results. papers are to be. not just because of the.

but also because of the poor road network argentina will decide on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress the. head of what's expected to be a plus votes this month the lower house of congress sparked legalizing the procedure. this week we're looking back on the tumultuous year since the 1st brought a virus cases reported in china in india one of the worst hit countries a sudden nationwide lockdown declared in march from internal migration on a massive scale tens of millions of workers returned to the villages after losing their jobs in the cities the government announced billions of dollars in aid but it hasn't reached everyone elizabeth broderick reports now from new delhi. it's one of the 5 bicycles she was given after her journey home to the state of bihar made national headlines during india's lock down. in may the 17 year old

cycled 1200 kilometers with her injured father sitting behind her she'd gone to take care of him after he was injured in a void accident and was on able to carry on working as a took took driver that the locked on was imposed with no money they were forced to leave the city of. the landlord with asking for. a lot of money so we thought what can we do then i said let's go home and we will make it but i said. but all public transport suspended. for $15.00 with the last of their money and they joined a group of people travelling in the same direction despite sleeping on the road at night for $7.00 days a father mohan says they were the lucky ones. the people who were in more distress were the elderly the people with young children women carrying big young boys with blisters and this hurt us more because i thought these people before us.

it was a lockdown which laid bare the quality of the government asked people to stay at home more than 10000000 who worked in cities and states away from their homes to walk back hundreds died on the journey. but warnings that workers might not come back to their jobs didn't come to fruition despite feeling abandoned by the government or their employers when the lockdown was announced many migrant workers have returned to the cities and construction sites like this one and that's because there isn't enough work for them in rural areas. they've decided to leave his home in west bengal and travel the 1400 kilometers back from where he'd come he managed to find work again as a laborer. everyone was sitting idle at home and there were too many mouths to feed

so i thought it's better if i leave because i get whatever work is going food and save some money too. but economists warn that with the government loosening labor laws this year those workers who have returned are often in a worse situation than they were in before so i would say as far as systemic changes. they're actually steps back in. providing protection even. if measures being provided. the government announced dollars in aid to help those without work and the past say they haven't received the attention and money of gifts have also dried up now she says she just wants to finish school the contour for 2 elizabeth al-jazeera. all in a special program this week out as here i will be looking at the devastation caused by the curved line team pandemic in the years since the virus emerged as vaccines

offer hope of protection will be asking how long it could take for the world to recover you can see that on thursday 800 hours g.m.t. on 0. for the more news analysis comments and video on the website take a look at al-jazeera don't call. it is good terry with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives is back to 3 fold increase in direct print demick relief checks to $2000.00 the measure will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate to pass the house is also overturn trumps veto it .