but the decision must be made soon. part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the global race to roll out vaccines that climbing coronavirus cases problems calls to speed up the distribution but challenges remain in rich and poor countries a line but the issue isn't just about logistics from california to thailand there are warnings that if people don't change their behavior things will only get worse also many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred

enormous damage. president elect joe biden accuses the trumpet ministration of obstructing his transition to power and a teenage pro-democracy activists just sentenced to 4 months in prison in hong kong for desecrating a chinese flag and i'm sort of with all the day's sport to india have levelled that cricket series against australia with a victory in this contest. could have you with us welcome to the news of the world health organization is warning that many countries are still not prepared to deal with the 2nd and 3rd waves of coronavirus infections despite the limited rollout of vaccines a group of health experts in the united kingdom says the government's target of vaccinating. a 1000000 people

a week needs to be doubled it's currently vaccinating around 200000 a week israel says it has already half given half a 1000000 people a job and wants to increase that number 515-0000 every day rising infections have forced the country into its 3rd nationwide lockdown meanwhile over in korea they've announced that it's fast tracking their national vaccination program it signed a deal to secure vaccines for an additional 10000000 people after the 1st cases of a more transmittable variant shawn the u.k. were detected well we'll hear more on that shortly but plus we've also got roy challenge standing by in london and tony chain in bangkok but let's start in west jerusalem with irene nasr our correspondent there i mean i mean how is israel managed to vaccinate nearly 500000 in what over didn't have the vaccine what just over a week. yeah just that it started last sunday and these are very big numbers and the government is estimating that about $2500000.00 israelis will be vaccinated

fully vaccinated within a month of the rollout now in terms of the rollout itself israel has a very big public health care system the government has also tasked the military with setting up some vaccination centers but it's also important to note that this is a very small country both during graphically and also in terms of the population there is only about 9000000 people living here the roll out though doesn't include palestinians in the west bank and gaza the situation there has been quite dire and the world health organization is warning that the situation in the gaza strip will become even worse and the health care system there may collapse the palestinian authority has made attempts at securing the vaccine but they don't really have the economic and logistical capabilities to do so if applied for a world health organization program that helps countries but that would really only

backs an 8 about 20 percent of the population now human rights groups are say that it is israel's responsibility to facilitate the vaccine to palestinians in the west bank and gaza but all israel has said so far the health minister has said so far is that if they have any doses left over after roxanne nations have wrapped up here in israel that they may hand them over to palestinians i mean not so western as the votes for the update let's speak to are challenges now in our london news center and rory i mean the u.k. was the 1st nation ready to start its vaccination process and it went to the world so now it's i mean how well have they set about the task of inoculating a huge population with just one vaccine available as yet. well i think the short summary is they've done pretty well but they haven't done well enough the early statistics from the government shows that between the 8th of december when the 1st jab was administered to 20 of december which was 12 days later

they gave out 619000 doses of the 1st jab of the 2 jab system and that they are saying about 200000 people a week at the moment of course they want to scale that up now. the drawbacks of this vaccine the pfizer buy on vaccine are that you need 2 doses it's very fragile and it needs to be stored at very low temperatures minus 70 degrees so great centigrade this is why rollout has been perhaps slower than. you would like it's a be considering the pressing this of of the situation also the kind of people there prioritizing the old plus eighty's people in care homes etc are the least mobile so they have to get the those people to places where the doses can be

properly administered kept at the right temperature when the next generations of vaccine are actually being rolled out so specifically looking at the oxford astra zeneca one then the level or the rates of vaccination could be ramped up considerably hopefully to something like 2000000 a week which is the target being set by some schools of medical thought at the moment because that is still a very large proportion of the population that have as yet no access to a vaccine or have not been inoculated obviously with the 2nd job so that all calls are getting louder politically and socially about another lock down in the new year and that's of a real that's a real concern to the government they're resisting it at the moment but the numbers speak for themselves in terms of infections. yeah and i think they'll be well there is very grim reading for the government's in the form of a study that is just being done by the london school of hygiene and tropical

medicine which has been looking at the rate of infection in the u.k. at the moment and what might need to be done and of course we've heard a lot over the last few days about this new variant of covert 19 which was discovered in the u.k. and is spread rapidly in and in london in the southeast now the this study was looking at what this new variant means for potential lock downs and also the rate of vaccination and they have been saying that look this is this new strain this 53 percent more transmissible and that means that it's likely that if you're going to avoid a 3rd wave that's even more devastating than the 1st wave was in the united kingdom then you're going to have to implement more stringent lock downs than we have at the moment to force the highest that means closing down nurseries it means closing down schools it means closing down universities which the government says that at the moment are reluctant to do and as i was saying just before it means boosting

the rates of vaccination to perhaps 2000000 vaccinations a week now that's difficult to do right now with the current vaccinations available . looking at lockdowns and it's going to be very hard for the governments to avoid having to take a difficult decision and do what this what these these schools of medical thought are saying indeed want to watch for the moment thanks very much for the update from london. well health officials in thailand warning that case numbers could soon climb by tens of thousands a day if coronavirus measures are not properly enforced bars and nightclubs in the capital buying car can now under new restrictions in an effort to keep case numbers down similar measures have been rolled out across other province. break was also discovered among migrant workers a seafood market let's cross over to tony changed his own bangs in thailand for us and of course tony it seems the toll sora teaser not really taking any chances in

making sure that the populous both urban and rural know exactly what lies ahead despite the fantastic holiday scenes behind you people want to go out and mingle and and have a holiday during this festive season. will they do with this is a sign of exactly how seriously people are taking these recent break this would mean this is we're about an hour and a half away from bangkok that would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year holiday the big holiday of the year in thailand but while some people have come out most people are heeding the prime minister's advice which is to stay within your own province he spoke to the nation today after the cabinet meeting he said the government wasn't going to impose a nationwide lockdown they put in place a series of red amber and green alerts in all of the different provinces at the moment most places are on amber but we are still speaking seeing these little

clusters of infections coming out 22 more in bangkok 45 in the populated province around and they're now in 45 provinces across town and that's a huge problem for a country which had seen 0 chance mr transmission in the country for months and it's got many people here very worried i would expect most people are probably going to follow this government vice. to kill the thailand has worked so hard to try and combat the coronavirus this was remember the 1st country outside china found a transmission since then it's closed off its borders it's put very strict quarantine controls in place the cost however has been huge too and thailand's tourist industry has been absolutely decimated speaking to the tourists more parity. ireland earlier today say they lost 80 percent of the terrorist business now a lot of those people were banking on this holiday to pick them up at least they were hoping that domestic terrorism would give them some kind of lift into the new

year when they hope that tourism will right revive in the middle of 2021 but with these current infections it looks like most people are going to be staying at home and in fact i think many people concerned that after all of those sacrifices by everything that thailand has done over the last month could well be in vain tony showing their force in buying selling tile and thanks very much for the update well south korea has announced it's fast tracking its vaccination program and secure doses for another 10000000 people as a grapples with a rapid rise in factions now the deal with maternal comes the same day as the country reported 40 new coronavirus deaths its highest ever one day told the government has also unveiled a new $8000000000.00 aid package for small businesses and people who lost their jobs jus to the pandemic problem bryant is following developments for us 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 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 and 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. travel in the united states has reached its highest level since the pandemic took hold in march the u.s. transport all thought he says nearly 1300000 people were screened at airports on sunday despite public health warnings against travel during the holiday season for fear of spreading the corona virus. or california's governor says the recent spike in holiday travel will lead to a surge upon surge in new case numbers record infection numbers across the state are pushing intensive care units to capacity governor gavin newsome says it's likely the current stay at home order will be extended look at how they can get

112215000 cases daily just in the last few weeks so obviously having a big impact taking a big toll on our hospitals not only in terms of hospitals proper but obviously i.c.u. the impact interest e.q. care as well as just general murshid care within the system. u.s. president elect joe biden has accused the trumpet ministration of damaging the security agencies and impeding his access to intelligence as he prepares to take office and with just 22 days left in the white house donald trump is also told with members of his own party republicans in the house have voted with democrats to override a presidential veto on defense spending but he also refused trump's demands to back an increase in cash payments to americans also in jordan has more from washington d.c. . 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 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 rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. robinson woodburn's is an assistant professor in the political science department at howard university and he says some sanctions are pushing away allies. we're in a somewhat uncharacteristically 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 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 2000 dollars checks and that probably bothered or ticked off some members of the congressional delegation we saw that 44 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. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including another group of rethinking refugees is moved to an isolated island despite fears it could be vulnerable to floods. and hundreds of anti abortion protesters rally in argentina on the eve of a senate vote that could legalize the procedure. also as long as there's time on the clock the game can still be won they can settle tell us how in sport later. they hong kong called her sentence teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung to 4 months in prison and he was convicted of desecrating china's flag taking part in an illegal protests in may last year in a separate case he's accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security law the former student leader has been imprisoned

since october to your partner has more from hong kong. 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 are disrespecting a national flag would have been seen as a hefty sentence but now it's seen as he's been 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 you do see activities for advocating it depends upon kong 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 october he was let out on bail but it up ter berg he was nabbed in front of the u.s. consulate where he has been accused of trying to seek asylum so tony ciarán has gone through many iterations over the last few months this seems just the latest step 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. 50 journalists and media workers have been killed this year for their work mostly in countries loss of war i reporters without borders report says the show an increase of reporters being targeted for their investigations into organized crime corruption or environmental issues mexico had the highest number of journalists killed a share along with india and pakistan. now the government of bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of

a hunger refugees who fled from me and mar up to 1800 refugees are being moved from their camps in cox's bazaar to bus on charter island the un and human rights groups have condemned the relocations well this is where the group are being taken bus and charged it's one of several unstable islands that emerge from the sea 20 years ago after silt bunched together at the mouth of a river critics say it isn't safe because it's prone to flooding during the monsoon and it's also known to be lashed by cyclons tarver choudhry has more from neighboring chittagong. well the 2nd batch of rowing our refuge is on the process of getting into the navy vessel that on their way to the remote coastal island of basilan john there are nearly 1800 rowing our refuges were in the shot placed to be transported today to this remote coastal island you can see behind me the refugees are coming up to get into the naval vessel one vessel already relaxed there scouted

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 girls 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 in. football on area and also the government is under immense public pressure to resolve this crisis as 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. director. human rights watch he says the bangladeshi

government isn't cooperating with international agencies to ensure the safety of refugees. the u.n. 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 barriers 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 but it's time for the weapon i has. storm bad has grown faster and lazy if this is big is the one that brought snow to the british isles effects brutal way down into northern italy everything pretty windy to the wind at its worst on western flank at the moment or will be the next day or so picking up

the waves of the western france and in northern spain quite significantly so this is the snow in milan i think it's about 15 centimeters fell it stopped falling now but the air is now cult central western europe a bit further south as well is because there is a sudden limit how cold it will be and it's probably somewhere like montenegro where you get this southerly wind coming here so the next few days temperatures in the low single figures for the most part with the exception probably of southern italy and the time being greece and the balkans with subtle even if that isn't quite warm compare the average in many parts of eastern europe and in scandinavia for the whole year now quite obvious it's not quite as warm as that everywhere but look at belgrade 15 and look at this feed into montenegro as the winds in the west turn round to the west london stories in the cold weather a much get some snow from that part a great shock after montenegro a breezy for the windy wet time for the next couple of days. also ahead here on the

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera as you sound nice the whole rob a reminder of our top story the world health organization is warning that many countries are still not prepared to deal with 2nd and 3rd ways of corona virus infections despite many countries starting their vaccination programs teenage pro-democracy activists tony jones has been handed a 4 month prison sentence in home kong for desecrating china's flag and taking part in an illegal protest chugs also accused of seditious antipathies under a controversial national security law. and bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled from me and now they're being moved to a low lying island that rights groups fear could be vulnerable to flooding. now this week we're looking back at what's been a tumultuous year since the 1st krona virus cases were reported in china india is one of the worst hit countries and a sudden nationwide lockdown there in march prompted an internal migration on

a massive scale well tens of millions of workers returned to their villages after losing their jobs in the cities the government announced billions of dollars in aid but it hasn't reached everyone elizabeth purana 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 unable to carry on working as a top took driver that the lockdown was imposed with no money they were forced to leave the city of good girl all good add. the landlord was asking for rent out saying you're all a lot of money and so we thought what can we do then i said let's go. we won't make it but i said we'll do it. 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 city and to 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'll 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.

government announced billions of dollars in aid to help those without work and the past one say they haven't received any the attention and money jewel thieves the diskettes have also dried up now she says she just wants to finish school the contour for 2 elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera new delhi. well in a special program this week out of there will be looking at the devastation caused by a cave in 19 in the sense the virus emerged and its vaccines offer hope of protection will be asking how long it could take for the world to recover that's on al-jazeera on thursday at $1800.00 g.m.t. the world health organization is warning that the next pandemic could be even worse officials say cave at 19 has been a wake up call for the world this pandemic has been very severe it's spread around the world extremely quickly and it's great that every corner of this plant 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 loved ones but it's a current case we tell it is read recently law 'd compares to other emerging diseases this is a wake up call dr mohammed mineta is a viral a just electra in biomedicine at lancaster university in england and joins me now via skype good to have with us again on the program so i mean how important is the reason to have a coordinated and sort of similar tale yes vaccine rollout that's at the same pace and uniformity. well i think this is the most critical step how we distribute the vaccine cross the globe because what we have seen so far is a stream level of vaccine nationalism which means that most of the wealthy countries they have really school but most of the vaccine pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities which left a very little for the low and middle income countries and according to responses are extremely important when it comes to global pandemic set like sauce to causing

cover 19 and as you actually has been saying is that this is really a break up call i'm certain that the lesson learned from this pandemic will be translation to the future prospective hope we will not see such type of diseases in the future but those are inevitable so believable learn and do more coordination that what we have just isn't a state in sort of the current era now what concerns lie ahead if we have some countries vaccinating more of their populations at greater speed than others i mean does this mean that sort of population movements will be restricted to clearly all nations are vaccinated because if any will sort of left out or left behind the virus can still be transmitted. yes absolutely i think equitable access to the vaccine has been the most whole topic in the scientific community and also with the regulatory bodies as well but relatively little has been done in that perspective for example if we look on to developing nations usa u.k. canada israel and japan they have basically scooped up 54 percent of the total

vaccine capability which means 9 out of 10 people in the developing world will be vaccinated in 2021 and this means that even if the european countries if they can't manage to vaccinate majority of their population wouldn't want to $21.00 which is what they are aiming for still that doesn't mean that the continental europe is protected from the infection because infection if can travel from one to the rest of the world it can travel from any country to the rest of the work basically we all are in to gather so until people who need it the vaccine they are not vaccinated compared to what we're going to for the vaccine this pandemic works sustain around you've been able to continue to. certainly analyze the scientific data the vaccination process itself continues but how concerned should we be about sort of the length of immunity of any of the vaccines that are available to the global community right now. well so this is a very important question i mean the vaccines that we are having at this moment

they are very good in saving lives of people who will be vaccinated will not have a severe form of the disease but they would still be able to be infected and they would still be able to trust make the infection and the immunity that is the last thing we don't really know how long it would be because their trial had been the phase 3 trial was started back in july so we have a few months that i want to be a long devotee of those antibodies but hala really. the land they would sustain at the level that it required to neutralize the whiteness is really something we don't really know and hopefully we will have the antibodies around 8 months to 12 months last thing that mean that would be to vaccination would be the option and if that were to be the case i think that would be a big blow for the vaccine campaign itself because even developing nation once they stop the 1st wave out of the vaccine they've got to restart again and i would be a big challenge i mean we are now seeing mutant strains of the virus submerging globally and medics manufacturers governments dealing with this are for the moment

saying that sort of the current vaccines can deal with these strains but what signs should we be looking out for when and if the vaccines no longer have any effect on covert 19 is that a possibility. yes this is certainly a possibility but i just would like to highlight is that we have only 20 mutation out of $30000.00 nucleotide within this white is which made less than one percent that also mean that nike 1.9 percent of the virus is the same as that of the old lighter so therefore the kind of actually able to work that is not old on but the problem is that if we let this while light has come into the population at a larger scale this was sustained and acquired more mutation and if that would be the case id make you would reach 2 or dipping quite when the vaccine would become attractive and of course we have the advantage of you know repurposing vaccine relatively quickly but still it would take time for the trial and the assessment so i think it is important more than ever to really suppress the spread of this

infections so that these new element would become more prominent than they already are dr mohammad with a always good to get your insight and thanks for joining us from lancaster in northwest england thank you thank you very much for having me australia's immigration minister is warning temporary visa holders could be deported if they're caught breaching kovac $1000.00 health rules that's up 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 current virus cases most australians are doing the right thing most temporary visa holders are doing the right thing but there is a small number of the holders who are doing the wrong thing and 10 months into this pandemic that is unacceptable to us a department of hunter thing is to bring forward any cases working with the new south wales police in new south wales agencies that they're aware of of people have breached evasive conditions and we will examine those phases and we will cancel them when necessary. a man is reopening its land air and sea borders they were shut

last week following reports of a new strain of corona virus in the u.k. and other european countries those traveling to oman will need to show a negative covert $900.00 test taken up to 72 hours before entry the law undergo another test upon arrival present on micro has paid tribute to 3 french soldiers who were killed in mali on monday now their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the small town of homebody in the mopti region the troops were part of france's 5000 strong force helping to fight armed groups in the sahara region praised the soldiers for their bravery and said his government would keep up the fight against terrorism the family of a prominent saudi women's rights activists say they'll appeal her jail sentence through has been sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison on monday drawing international condemnation she's been held

since 2018 and relatives say she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison laura burton manley has more lose a now clune 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 through a saudi prison she'd been arrested in 2018 with other activists but instead saudi media reporting the court sentence had lou 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 the war way with just. a sham trial we can put it that way. it can clearly show that the court in the trial

from day one has been politically motivated the saudi court 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

is 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 u.s. church has rejected a $28000000.00 bail deal for accused sex offender gil a max well the british socialite shirt socialite denies allegations that she helped her friend billionaire jeffrey epstein recruit and groom under-age girls prosecutors say macel should remain behind bars because there's a risk she could flee the country she faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted. argentina's senate will decide later on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of abortion activists protested outside congress ahead of what's expected to be a close vote the lower house of congress backed legalizing the procedure earlier this month trees about how small from santa fe on an issue that's divided the nation for decades you. know mike we were 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 there 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 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 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 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 bob francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against the well get 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 this law because he thinks it will be his administrative victory and his end of year victory a victory that people like not a mark way less hope will guarantee what happened to her daughter will not happen to anyone else that is how will. argentina. chile isn't addressed people who are experiencing a cultural revival that goes beyond teaching their language and history at schools it's also being weren't being woven thread by threats by women as al-jazeera has received even reports now from. scripting wall isn't all this time. even though these days it's rare to find anyone who knows how to do it but didn't rule southern chile indigenous might put you women are joining forces to revive an ancestral skill that wasn't sufficiently valued until recently my put you women were paid almost nothing for these traditional hand-woven blankets rugs

and ponchos there may be a brother said to me there are here this piece was inspired by them up which is simple for worrier i feel that we are women are warriors. it's that perseverance that led them to form large co-operatives set decent prices for their work and even begin exporting it to europe and the u.s. these are all natural colors this was dive for example with barks from the aloe tree and this with onion peels which is what makes it aren't here we have green made with chili in chilies all of this is part of the effort to enrich the cultural fiber of them up which of people. i need to buy a meal is one of the main organizers for a grandmother taught her to die wool and leave when she was 8 but the technique was being forgotten even to set up the c.s.a.

suddenly we had the opportunity to organize workshops and teach those women what they didn't know that many people were burning or burying their sheep's wool but we said no we have to take advantage of our heritage you know a few minutes get in these symbols represent eyes for us it has to do with being observed because my approach has a tour that we must be good and that someone is always watching. dying and weaving these pieces of art require time and talent they also provide much needed income from up which is families and most infant that when water. when i 1st started a lot of women couldn't speak spanish they were afraid to bargain but no longer now we're more dacia. and they're also more proud and independent thanks to an ancient craft that experiencing a long awaited revival. you see in human al-jazeera normally imperiously chile.

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for the australians he lost his wicket somehow months at all 3 wickets on the high school or allowance for exactly seen hundreds and they needed just 70 runs to win and it wasn't too much trouble for them with standing counts and one. hitting the winning runs to square the series at $11.00 with 2 tests of play. called on. one of the group converts history to get. people to get up and be ready to bunch. was on stand the boys deserve all the group . real character dropping a number of connections probably no. woman's nothing. in the field and you know it is not runs again well south africa closing in on victory in their 1st test against sri lanka in centurion the sri lankans are in trouble in their 2nd innings on day 4 they are 171 to 7 and still child by 77

and there was an entertaining day of cricket in mount one can you in new zealand are trying to force a victory against pakistan in their 1st test only a ton blundell's top scored with $64.00 as ricky rees declared on $185.00 that set pakistan $373.00 for victory tim southee dismissed the sharpness rolled and the middle order batsman harris for hail in the process south which $300.00 test wickets pakistan $71.00 for 3 at the close of play on day 4. or moving on to football where french champions paris century manor finally confirmed the sacking of their coach thomas to share their news was 1st reported 5 days ago but on tuesday the club at long last confirmed that the house contract had been terminated the german took charge of the league one club in june 28th seen and won 2 league titles he also led p.s.g.

to the champions league final our former tottenham boss maurice your particular know is understood to be the favorite place to have. manchester city's premier league match on monday against everton was called off due to coded 90 cases at city of the game which was counselled for hours before kickoff was meant to take place at everton's home ground goodison park now this is the 2nd premier league game to be called off this season because of coronavirus and city confirmed for positive cases on friday including striker gabriel jaysus and defender called walker their training ground is now closed for a deep clean and a decision will be made in the next few days as to whether city's match with chelsea can go ahead on sunday francom part side are in action on monday they drew one all with aston villa they went ahead through and if you have all but on your illiteracy equalize for velo who move up to 5th one place above chelsea and with 2 games in hand over them. so we have to get safety paramount i believe that's why

the game's been called off tonight because of the fear of the spread within the squad for man city. from our point of view in terms of our find out more the next day or 2 to make sure as to be sorry for the 2 teams if not the game won't go ahead i think the premier league has their rules and directives on that but yeah it's a tough time it was the same scoreline between leicester city and crystal palace less to go above everton into 2nd on goal difference but following news of that postponement goodison park all the talk after the game was about how clubs and league can prevent the spread of coronavirus earth think what this is showing the moment in time where the virus is spreading quite rapidly it's impossible for people to have those who do they are going to be leaving burnley protocols that we have this impossible to totally issue people food from getting it because the fact is though human beings and they leave the football club in the they go home with

their children who are coming back from school and they have to do their shopping etc etc etc so it is very very concerning. well we've got 5 matches in the premier league on monday barring any more interference of course by a current virus the headline fixture of the day is arguably the late match between manchester united and wolves my new boss on a gun. is expecting a tough examination of his players well we've got so many games against them we are improving definitely we're getting better and better at. finding different solutions in different games. but we know all that will ramp and they've got quality as well that there will still give us problems if we were to open so we got to put a plan together and went to the n.b.a. in a late score has helped the utah jazz put off a 1st win on the road against oklahoma city thunder since october 2010 it was a closely contested game with stars arms both sides of the courts are against the

stuart scored a career high 26 points for the fund but it was donovan mitchell's nights with only 7 seconds left on the clock he took matters into his own hands 110-1092 the jazz. i don't feel like we played our best but that's. you know that's the challenge to figure out how to win when you're you know you don't have your best game so we hope we can take this and build on him keep getting better. trey young continued his impressive recent form by scoring 29 courts for the attributes that points try to get on so much as they defeated the detroit pistons 128125 that fed straight when they have a stop to the season this waltz is 26 meanwhile the pistons have lost all 3 of thank they finish an outfit for me by seeing thanks very much sire we'll see later that was the news for the moment so we're here for the full half hour after the

break until and thanks for your time. frank assessments colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is on the one doctor and one nurse or one to 200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bind this russian he comes into office with a huge about foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like good live get the back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on al-jazeera. no moved out of his

parents' house after he got to me he says he found more space to begin to ski after run of eating it last year it's now his home along with his wife daughter and home but the israeli government said that he was to be constructed we've gotten permits and issued the demolition order last month our interview were cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers give them one. it took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get demolished. gay calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allowing child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls dads often legitimize and

legalize pedophiles. on line jumping to the quick 16 and 18 to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. more. global race to roll out vaccines or climb in coronavirus cases promise calls to speed up their distribution but challenges remain in rich poor countries are like. the robots and this is all just a live from doha also coming up the issue isn't just a logistics from california to thailand but a warm.