they are often legitimize them greet a y. instead of feeling an animal on line jumping to the quick fix and he teaches us that this street on out is the in. the global race to roll out vaccines or climb in coronavirus cases promise calls to speed up their distribution but challenges remain in rich and poor countries are like. the robots and this is all just a live from doha also coming up the issue isn't just the logistics from california to thailand that all the warnings that if people don't change their behavior things will only get worse. a teenage pro-democracy activist to sentenced to 4 months in prison in hong kong for desecrating

a chinese flag. many of the agencies that are critical to our security curd enormous damage president elect joe biden accuses the top administration of obstructing his transition to power. the world health organization says many countries are still not prepared to deal with the 2nd and 3rd waves of corona virus despite the limited rollout of vaccines a group of health experts in the u.k. says the british government needs to double its target of vaccinating a 1000000 people a week about 200000 people every week or currently getting injections israel says it's already given half a 1000000 people a job and it wants to increase that number 515-0000 every day rising infections or force the country into. it's 3rd nationwide lockdown meanwhile south korea has

announced it's fast tracking its national vaccination program and send a deal to secure vaccines for an additional $10000000.00 people after it detected the 1st cases of a more easily transmitted variant from the u.k. now we're going to speak to rory chalons in london for more on those u.k. lines shortly 1st let's go to irene nasr for all the latest from jerusalem i mean the fact that israel has managed to get these vaccines only a week ago and yet is still being able to inject about half a 1000000 people how's it been able to do that. you know very very big numbers that have received the vaccine here and the government is saying that about $2500000.00 will be fully vaccinated within a month of the rollout now in terms of how it's actually taking place israel does have a large health care system but it's it is public but it is not centralized so there's basically multiple branches working at the moment the government has also task the

military with setting up some vaccination centers it's important to note it's also a very small geo graphically a small country and it has a small population of about 9000000 the vaccination campaign here though does not include palestinians in the west bank and gaza the situation there has been worsening and the world health organization has said that in gaza if the situation continues as it is the health care system there could collapse the palestinian authority has made attempts at securing the vaccine but they don't really have the economic and logistical means to do so if applied for world health organization program but if that comes through or when that comes through that would really only vaccinate about 20 percent of the palestinian population now human rights groups have said that it's israel's obligation to facilitate the vaccine to palestinians in the west bank and gaza but all really the israeli health minister has said so

far is that if they have any a doses left after all israelis have been vaccinated that they may hand them over to palestinians i mean thanks very much indeed that sorry nasr talking to us from west to rousseau i'm going to bring in rory chalons from london to the outside as it looks like the rollout in the u.k. appears to be slower than expected is not a true reflection of what's really happening. well i think the report cards as the vaccine rollout is going so far would be you doing pretty well but you must do better so the stats from the government show the from the 8th of december which was the date of the 1st vaccination to the 20th of december they administered 616000 doses of the 1st vaccination jab is a 2 part vaccinations they get the 1st dose then you get the 2nd dose so they dumb more than $600000.00 vaccinations so far. then if you add to

the 200000 they're doing every week that puts us up to about the 800000 mark perhaps a bit over so that's pretty well i think considering but it's the gravity of the situation that the u.k. is in at the moment we've just had the record number of daily in infections more than 40000 reported in the last day we have a record number of people currently in hospital with cove it cases more than 20000 people in hospital that's a record beating that the 1st wave of the virus you can see how serious it is here and then you have some schools of medical thought which is saying that actually you really need to boost the level of vaccination so massively more than it is at the moment so if your target is 1000000 actually your target should be about 2000000 a week which of course we're way off the problem is that this. vaccine is difficult

to administer it's fragile you have to store to very low temperatures it is difficult getting it to people who are not particularly mobile you can come see you you need to wait for more easily administer pull vaccines to really get that number up and they're not here yet looking at the current vaccination rates so you've been talking about it and of course there's this more easily transmitted variant of the virus that the u.k. has 1st spotted back in september what are the chances do you think that the u.k. is going to be facing yet another lockdown in the new year. i would say pretty high it's going be very difficult for the governments to i think stand against the wins and the direction that they're currently blowing and you have just had a report source a study put out by the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine which feeds into sage's the advisory group that you know handling lots of the information that goes to the government and what this study says is that the new variant of the 19

that's the rampant in london the southeast is 56 percent more transmissible than the earlier form of the virus and it's also evidence suggests hitting younger people more than the older one did as well so if you're going to get the the right the reproduction rate lower than the one which is the targets of bring the epidemic on the control then the recommendation is you need to have tougher restrictions so you need to shut down schools you need to shut down universities need to shut down nurseries that's something that so far the government has been reluctant to do it did in the 1st knocked down but it hasn't done subsequently the winds i think blowing in that direction. and you also have the recommendation from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine to really get the vaccine vaccination rates up to $2000000.00 a week and that's going to be difficult without this oxford vaccination there shit

which is hopefully just a few days away from being rolled out here but we'll have to wait and see as bring us up to speed with the covert situation in the u.k. rory thank you very much indeed now the fishes in thailand are warning case numbers could soon climb up by tens of thousands a day if kovan 1000 measures are not properly enforced bars and nightclubs in the capital bangkok are now under new restrictions in an effort to keep case numbers down similar measures have been rolled out in other provinces when the break was discovered among migrant workers at the seafood market. south korea secured vaccines for another 10000000 people as it grapples 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 told the governments also unveiled a new 8000000000 dollars aid package for small businesses and people who lost their jobs jews or the pandemic problem 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 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 being j.n. and the boss of modernity to 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 is the 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 go to mohamed money it is of all ages stand lecturer in biomedicine lancaster university in the u.k. explains why coordinating the distribution of vaccines is so critical. 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 most of the vaccine pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities which left very little for the low and middle income countries and according to responses are extremely important when it comes to global pandemic like sauce to causing a covert 19 and as you actually have been saying is that this is really

a break up call i'm certain that the lesson learned from this pandemic will be translational to the future perspective hope we will not see such type of diseases in the future but those are inevitable so believable and do a bit more coordination than what we have done just in the start 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 manage to vaccinate majority of their population within 2021 which is what they are aiming for still that doesn't mean that the continent europe is protected from the infection because infection is can travel from whom 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 the people who need it the vaccine they are not vaccinated compared to what who can afford the vaccine this pandemic would sustain around. a serious immigration minister is warning temporary visa holders they could be deported if they're caught breaching covert 19 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 corona virus cases. whole 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 upon the student leader has been imprisoned since the top difficult 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 does are 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 after 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 sect of a tease for advocating it depends upon kong had 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 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 chang 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 so i had an al-jazeera. hundreds of anti-abortion protesters rally in a hard. and tina ahead of a senate vote that could legalize the procedure another group of right here refugees is moved to an isolated island despite fears it could be vulnerable to floods.

or. the cold bursting out again from siberia coming across the sea the sea of japan look at that massive cloud is developing as a huge amount of snow they will fall not just this time in homs sure how hard it will catch parts of the korean peninsula as well these are daytime high temperatures minus 8 in seoul minus 5 in beijing 13 in tokyo and the cold of course going to keep moving south the consequence the depths of thunderstorms further south in the philippines but look at the temperatures that the sun might be out in hong kong it's about 12 degrees it should be a diety that's going to be cold feeling couple of days probably till saturday to be honest. the cold wave in northern india and pakistan continues this is recent snow which is just intensified it it's also of course nice to keep the fog there so daytime and nighttime time for specially are low the fuck is likely to be around for a while yet the cold wave extends is about 10 times has gone to

a dish or dance troupes for the job as well also almost as a south by day you get these brief couple of hours out of the fog work just about thins to get down to 20 degrees at best and that's how it says quality obviously suffers. from. water scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because life doesn't mean it cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford internet guys tell me it's water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of more to privatization loads of water on al-jazeera.

watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization is warning that many countries are still not prepared to deal with 2nd and 3rd waves of coronavirus even though they started the vaccination programs. israel says it's already given half a 1000000 people an injection and it wants to increase that number 585-0000 every day rising infections or force the country into its 3rd name. lockdown. teenage pro-democracy activist tony jones has been handed a 4 month prison sentence in kong for desecrating china's fly again taking part in an illegal protest john is also accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security all. air travel in the united states has reached

its highest levels since the pandemic 2 cold in march the u.s. transport authority says nearly 1300000 people were screened at airports on sunday that's despite public health warnings against travel during the holiday season for fear of spreading the coronavirus for them 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 and governor gavin newsome says it's likely the current stay at home order will be extended look at l.a. county alone 12 to 15000 cases a day just in the last few weeks so obviously had a big impact taking a big toll on our hospitals not only in terms of hospitals proper but obviously ice sheet you impact in terms of the acute care as well as just general emergency care within the system u.s. 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 donald trump is also at odds with members of his own party republicans in the house have voted with democrats to override a presidential veto on defense spending many also refuse trump's demands to back an increase in cash payments to americans muslim 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 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 woodward burns is an assistant professor in the political science department at howard university he says transactions a pushing away all lies. where 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 treasury secretary steve nugent and it looks like the original package met 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 our 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 sports 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 the government buying today actually started relocating a 2nd group of refugees who fled from me in ma to 800 refugees are being moved from their camps and conses bizarre to boston charter island u.n. and human rights groups have condemned the relocation. well this is where the group of being taken this is chart in the center of your screen it's one of several

unstable islands that emerged from the sea 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 choudhry has more from chittagong. well the 2nd batch of rowing i refuges on the process of getting into the navy vessel that on their way to the remote coastal island are bashed on john 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 carrying up to get into the naval vessel one vessel already relaxed 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 minimize the congestion in. football on 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 the lip service. to decide later on tuesday whether to legalize abortion hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress head of what's expected to be a close vote though house of congress back to legalizing the procedure. risible has more from some to fame on an issue that's dividing the nation for decades.

never thought she would become a pro-abortion activist she lives in a poor and conservative community in the province of but her life changed when her teenage daughter who was pregnant was diagnosed with cancer in her job own fundraiser. she was one month pregnant. and i told the doctor why don't you do an 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 1000 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. show 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 below especially in places like this one working poor women have almost no we sources to fight for their rights. as the senate gets ready to vote on legalizing abortion stories like those of us on her daughter show how entrenched anti abortion culture is in argentina's most remote regions. in spite of this health authorities say at least half a 1000000 irregular abortions happen every year and many women end up in hospital because of complications. and that's one of the reasons why pro-abortion activists have been 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. 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 we knew the legislators. chambers and so there are more senators willing to make history and 30 all this debt to democracy that we have with 3200 women who have 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 for francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against the law that will get casa 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. i didn't. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres has called for a year of healing and his end of year message to terrorists reference the coronavirus pandemic as well as the economic fallout and climate change and some of the trials 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 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 with nature's tackle the climate crisis stop the spread of coffee 1000 and make

2021 a year of healing healing from the impact of a deadly vials healing broken economies and societies healing divisions and starting to heal the planet that must be our new year's resolution for 2021. as always you can find a lot more in a website the address for fact is al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the world health organization is warning that many countries are still not prepared to deal with 2nd and 3rd waves of coronavirus infections a group of health experts in the u.k. says the british government it's a double its target of vaccinating a 1000000 people a week about 200000 people every week are currently getting injections only chalons has more from london. the report card.