and. many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred norma's damage and u.s. president elect joe biden accuses the trumpet ministrations of obstructing his transition to power. i'm about this and this is a doozy of a live from doha also coming up a teenage pro-democracy activists is sentenced to 4 months prison in hong kong for desecrating a chinese flag. another group of rohingya refugees is moved to an isolated island

off bangladesh despite fears it could be vulnerable to floods. hundreds of anti abortion protesters rally in argentina ahead of a senate vote that could legalize the procedure. us president elect joe biden has accused the trumpet ministration of damaging security agencies and impeding his access to intelligence as he prepares to take office and with just 22 days left in the white house trump is also a dog's with members of his own party republicans in the house a vote of the democrats to override a presidential veto on defense spending many have also refused trump's demands to back an increase in cash payments to americans also in jordan reports 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 worth is 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 on going out going from not going to do stray shoot 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 russell and jordan al-jazeera washington. robinson woodward burns as an assistant professor in the political science department at howard university he says chums actions are pushing away allies. 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 a 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 presidents coterie secretary steve nugent and it looked like the original packaging that the president's satisfaction but then the president reversed course arguing for 2 $1000.00 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. hong kong court has sentenced teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung to 4 months in prison he was convicted of desecrating china's flag and taking part in an illegal protest in may last year in a separate case is accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security law before mr levy has been in prison since october the difficult hollins outside the court hong kong has been following that what's going on for us this didn't seem to take very long what's the latest with this. you know it's funny how quickly things change in hong kong not long ago a 4 month sentence for a teenager whose main crime was taking part in an illegal assembly or disrespecting a national flag would have been seen as a hefty sentence but now it's seen as he's being getting off gotten off lightly on this but he that this also means that he'll be spending the next few months in jail

as he goes through a bigger and more serious charge and that is the charge of sedition under the national security law he faces that due to his activities for advocating independence of hong kong that founded a group which was disbanded just hours before beijing imposed that draconian national security law on the city in july but after that he was accused of advocating or calling for support from overseas for hong kong's independence using online and social media in a temper he was let out on bail but it up to a very he was nabbed in front of the u.s. consulate where he has been accused of trying to seek asylum so tony china has gone through many iterations there of the last few months this seems just the latest in a message that the government is sending to him that he is not going to or this

kind of dissent or the dissent that he has been showing will not be tolerated. there are. tens of thousands of cases that have yet to be heard and many of those i would imagine are young people who have or certainly protesters who are not facing severe charges as tori chang is lead going to be facing what message do you think the government is sending to them by only giving. a sentence of 4 months in this case. well look you know more than there have been more than 10000 arrests since the protests of last year there related to protests are there former protesters or pro-democracy activists are countless cases going through the courts at the moment several today it is a daily occurrence there is a very clear message though to tell any chance generation their generation that were born after 1997 that was after hong kong was handed back to china but it was also a time where they were led to believe they can say and do what they want advocate

their beliefs so long as they were peaceful but not that being told a very different message particularly with tony who has been quite a face for that generation a generation that was heavily involved in the protests of last year one that has been called a lost generation and it's a very clear message to them saying that they will not get away with such activities particularly even talking about the independence or the sovereignty of hong kong david thanks very much indeed it does be a good column talking to us from outside the court in hong kong. the government of bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled there from me in march to 800 refugees are being moved from their camps in cox's bazaar to. the un and human rights groups have condemned the real occasions arguing ethnic cleansing. this is where the group being taken by char islands just on your screen there now it's one of several

unstable islands. 20 years ago after a silt bunched together at the mouth of a river critics say it's not safe because it's prone to flooding during the monsoon and it's known to be lashed by cyclons. has more from chittagong whether 2nd batch of rowing a refuge is on the process of getting into the navy vessel that on their way to the remote coastal island. nearly 1800 growing our refuges were in the shot place to be transported today to this remote coastal island you can see behind me refugees are coming up to get into the naval vessel one vessel already had left there started by navy ships patrol boats rather now this is the 2nd batch the 1st batch run on december for the government is determined to relocate at least 200000 refugees to this remote coastal island despite opposition from rights groups and even the un and the government on its part saying there's issues of congestion and

a lot of crime and security issues in the camp and they want to gradually decongest the camp and many miles the congestion. put upon area and also the government is under immense public pressure to resolve this crisis the bangladesh people you talk to said that the international community is providing lip service not doing anything tangible for the refuges it's up to bangladesh to resolve this crisis and the international community need to do far more than just a lip service. the robinsons that he's a writer for asia a human rights watch and he says the bangladeshi government is not cooperating with international agencies to ensure the refugees safety the un country team and the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. have repeatedly asked for the bangladesh government to permit them to go onto the island to take an international assessment team complete with engineers and others

to really look over the island and make sure that it is in fact safe for the refugees to be there particularly in the case of a cycling or other major storm in the area they've also asked to have access to the refugees to determine whether the people are moving there voluntarily and so far the bangladesh government is either not answering or refusing you know the story changes depending on who you talk to in the bangladesh government but the reality 1 is that the un who the international community and the various governments in the diplomats and in dakar all looking to to actually take on this assessment are just not being allowed to go there the bangladesh government could do this the right way they could basically talk with the rohingya involved in the involve them in the planning assess really who wants to go there there may be some people who do want to go there voluntarily but we can't access that and so far the bangladesh his track record on telling the truth in this matter is pretty much mixed. you know i

think that people want to work with bangladesh they want to find a solution for the rohingya but bangladesh is doing it the wrong way they're just plowing ahead without real regard for whether the rohingya want to be there or not and there are certainly cases where people have been sent there and voluntarily and not been permitted to leave. still ahead an al-jazeera the thai government imposes hotshot restrictions as the number of covert 19 cases climbs what this could mean for tourism. and a global outcry as a saudi court sentences woman rights activist losing all possible to more than 5 years in prison. for. the northeast monsoon is picking up in strength and it hints that maybe as circulation here don't think it'll come to pass we saw that it would be

a couple weeks ago sydney's a strong wind and it will build some big thunderstorms that will push them down through the open water might just catch the small islands but nothing more than but look where it might well be heading down towards singapore possibly there are big showers in the area now in java and you've got this on shore breeze the central part of the philippines which will pick up the rain as well in the form of the big thunderstorms. in australia their intentions rain is more or less said the coming of the northwest down toward sydney not a brilliant place to be considering it's summer because it's rather showery and often quite breezy and i mean this is true for new south wales the wettest weather i think is going to be in tropical queensland near townsville makai something like that and this is where temps will be haggled into the tropical high twenty's it still holds in perth $39.00 degrees despite slowly rotating pared it cools down a bit comes thursday sydney sept $26.00 melbourne not far off with potential for a few showers new zealand's weather is hardly sunny everywhere but it's not exactly

stormy it's all the typical i suppose for someone. with a unique perspective on nigeria we have so much more we just don't know how to money this morning that we have. through the eyes of a celebrated african photographer pollution done to rejoin us nothing stopping us what it is. but 3 years on how has life changed. rewind ga saudi on al-jazeera.

i want to remind of our top stories this hour president elect joe biden has hit out again over the lack of information his transition team is getting from donald trump's administration biden's warning that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by trump's policies. teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung has been handed a 4 month prison sentence in hong kong for desecrating chinese flag and taking part in an illegal protest chung's also accused of seditious until it is under a controversial national security law. bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group over here refugees who fled there for me and mine have been moved to a low lying island that rights groups fear could be vulnerable to flooding. health officials in thailand are warning case numbers could soon climb by tens of

thousands a day if covert 19 measures are not properly enforced bars and nightclubs in the capital bangkok are now under new restrictions in an effort to keep the case numbers down similar measures have been rolled out in other provinces but an outbreak was discovered among migrant workers at a seafood market let's go live to 20 chang who's in buying sand tony just explain something to me because i was looking at the the the figures for this just before we came on here and the figures for thailand seem to be remarkably flat up until about december the 19 of those so when they take an enormous spike they drop a bit and now they seem to be spiking again what's changing through all of this. but i think it's exactly that through the in the seafood market at the beginning of december they thought they had the control then they started finding cases in surrounding provinces and now we've seen incidences in 45 provinces around here.

new clusters every day in fact so for this morning we were told that there were 155 new transmissions in time that we've just heard in the last half an hour the last of which has been found in bangkok 22 new cases of the earth or it is the prime minister said today that they think they can get things under control if people in follow the guidance in those individual provinces the instruction has been that low the new year holidays coming up people should try to stay at home as much as possible we came down here to the speech about an hour and a half drive from bangkok to see whether they're actually doing that and you can see behind me there aren't very many people here now normally over this new year period this place would be absolutely jam packed this is a place that thais are not foreign tourists course there are very few foreign tourists moan but even the thais are staying away now many people around the world will be looking at those numbers thank you they are relatively small and and they are relative to the rest of the world but it does signify

a huge jump of what you see for many months it was 0 chance mission with the entire bill and the fact that these numbers are coming out it's rising steadily it's a deep concern for many people tony obviously thailand's economy is driven significantly by tourism and this is going to have a massive impact on that is the government in any we concerned about how it's going to be able to deal with this big spike in numbers if it happens. yes they are and there has been something of an unspoken contract between the government and the people people here have followed very strict guidelines they went into or knocked down at the beginning of the for in a virus crisis and they suffered terribly as the country is being isolated with very few people allowed in and out which is effectively killed off the tourist industry but they've done that for their own personal safety and yet now we're still seeing these numbers coming out and that's

a real concern we were speaking to the tourism more parity of time though the earliest conceded that they faked we lost 80 percent of their tourist numbers this year which is a massive blow to so the industry in particular but also the thai economy in general they had been hoping that things would start to recover with vaccinations being rolled out around the world towards the middle of 2021 but i think now that we're seeing infections within thailand that's making people very scared there will be creasy reluctance to relax any entry qualifications any quarantine qualifications on the boards it's all so we may be looking for 2022 and even further opponents tourism industry to make any sense of the attorney general came to us from buying same and thailand's tony thank you very much indeed south korean secured vaccines for another 10000000 people is it a drop or as with a rapid rise in covert 1000 infections the deal with madonna comes the same day the

country reported 14 new coronavirus deaths its highest ever one day toll the government's also unveiled a new $8000000000.00 aid package for small businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic robin brides following developments from seoul. south korea has faced an awful lot of criticism for what seen as an overly cautious program of vaccinations basically beginning in the spring and then taking up pretty much a full year before the bulk of the population will be vaccinated so that this is a government which is largely been applauded around the world for its handling of the coronavirus when it comes to the thing that will finally solve the problem it really does seem to have taken a misstep here so we've seen the government respond with a conference call between the president when jay and the boss of modernity secure these extra vaccines and also to step up the delivery time line that's of the real concern here that people here in south korea are seeing vaccines being rolled out

around the world in fact u.s. military from choose day here on south korean soil being vaccinated the start of their vaccination program south koreans themselves won't see their 1st vaccines until the spring it does come as we are having this 3rd surge this 3rd wave of around a 1000 new cases a day and also setting sadly in you daily death toll record of 40 deaths there that might not seem much compared to other parts of the world but south korea before this winter wave set in was having a number of days when we had no cases of people dying from covert 19 at all so south korea does not look as though it is on top of this thing as it once did the philippines extended air travel restrictions to keep the more contagious strain of the coronavirus travelers from 19 countries and territories will be banned from entering until mid january earlier this month the government imposed and then extended a ban on flights from britain one of the countries where the virus mutation was 1st

detected. air travel in the united states has reached its highest levels since the pandemic took hold in march the u.s. transport of thought he says nearly 1300000 people were screened at airports and sunday that's despite public health warnings against travel during the holiday season for fear of spreading coronavirus further california's governor says the recent spike in holiday travel will lead to a surge upon surge in case numbers record infection numbers across the state are pushing intensive care units to capacity governor gavin newsom's says it's likely the current stay at home order will be extended. argentina's senate will decide later on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress ahead of what's expected to be a close vote in the house of congress by to legalising the procedure earlier this month to isabeau 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 . she was one month pregnant and i told the doctor what did you do in abortion 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 her and the money yessiree the 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 many here are making a run 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 to 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 no mark was 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 have. 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 taken 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 hour. 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 threaten 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 the law that will get costa 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 this law because he thinks it will be his administrative victory and his end of year victory of victory that people like not in my quest hope will guarantee what happened to her daughter will not happen to anyone else there is how will. argentina the family of a prominent saudi woman's rights activist say they'll appeal her jail sentence the same floor was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison on monday drawing international condemnation overburden money reports. 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. media reporting the court sentenced 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 a 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 as war wayward and 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 moves 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 brutal way to break her but she won't be broken nor about the money out to sara. the stern is immigration minister is warning temporary visa holders they could be deported if they're caught breaching covert $1000.00 health rules and sell to local media reported some of those visa holders were among hundreds at a christmas day beach party in sydney a number of public health orders have been in place following a recent outbreak of corona virus cases and access to the beach in rio de janeiro

we blocked on new year's eve to prevent crowds from gathering there millions of people typically head to rio's coastline every december 31st to ring in the new year more than 191000 people have died from could own the virus in brazil and rio de janeiro is one of the hardest hit cities. this is all jersey are these are the top stories from u.s. president elect joe biden has hit out again over the lack of information his transition team is getting from donald trump's administration biden is warning that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by tom's policies the u.s. house of representatives has voted to approve higher cash payments to americans struggling joining the coronavirus pandemic for president tom's demand for $2000.00 for.