just an uncertainty comes to an end. we look ahead to potential major stories of 2021 through a series of special reports. joining us as we assess the global impact of what is to come next. the trump administration's plan should be actually only behind our very. us president elect joe biden says it could take years to vaccinate the american people against covert 19 and calls to speed up vaccinations also grow in europe as corona virus infections continue to surge across the continent.

you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha and the navigator also coming up a search for survivors after a powerful earthquake causes widespread damage and kills at least 7 people in a croatian town. protesters take to the streets in argentina politicians debate a historic bill to legalize abortion. thanks for joining us the u.s. president elect joe biden has criticized the trumpet ministration for falling behind in its rollout of covert 1000 back scenes so biden warned that the distribution has gone too slowly and if the situation doesn't improve then it could take years before the american population is fully vaccinated she trump administration's pledges should be vaccines this fall behind far behind. we're grateful to the companies the doctors the scientists the researchers the clinical

trial participants in operation work speed for developing the vaccine as quickly but as i long feared war the effort to distribute a minister of the vaccine is not progressing as it should have in europe the situation is deteriorating rapidly governments there are dealing with record numbers of new infections and large scale public health operations are under way to ensure vaccines are distributed across the region and after months with one of the lowest infection rates in the world thailand is now warning it may impose stricter measures to contain what's become a serious new outbreak among migrant workers we'll get more on the situation there and in europe in a moment a 1st let's bring in joining us from washington d.c. so what should we make of what the president elect joe biden had to say shihab i think the main message here is there will be a centralized federal response to the pandemic once joe biden is sworn in the trial

but ministration really left it up to individual states to coordinate their response and as a result. pandemic spread but also results says it was very difficult for states even to get the resources they need to remember those stories about individual states bargaining amongst each other or where they were trying to get hold of p.-p. equipment for example so by ignace saying look there will be a sudden strategy in fact just after he spoke he hired or he appointed a few more people to coordinate the distribution of the vax the vaccine program for example it will be centralized he says he's going to invoke the defense production act which again will centralize manufacture of both the vaccine and of personal protective equipment marshalling resources trying to figure out where they're needed and being able to send them to states no matter where they are as opposed to everyone is fighting amongst each other and clearly there's a real efficiency right now in the rolling out of the vaccine itself and distribution of the vaccine so again this will be now be central centralized effort

from one place and the theory is that will help them the whole country receive to receive the vaccine as quickly as possible there will also be efforts to have mobile centers or mobile mobile units to go to rural areas isolated areas controlled vaccine distribution will be a major public education campaign to combat any and. sentiment he also says that the americans who are mosques $100.00 days or is it organization but really this is about about there being someone in charge for the whole nation when fighting one fighting covert and not a lot just leave everyone to fend for themselves and where do things stand with covert payments to americans now that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked an effort to increase the stimulus checks. we seem to have an idea of what mitch mcconnell might be up to these this could all change of course but he's he set in motion a vote all both for house bill which would authorize 2000 dollars checks to

americans in a standalone manner but he's also authorized the consideration of a bill that will love him in $2000.00 checks with various of the other demands from president trump that is and a commission to look into allegations of fraud in the u.s. presidential election and the the overturning of section $230.00 of the communications act which currently gives facebook and twitter and other social media companies legal liability protection that is if someone writes something terrible on facebook facebook doesn't get sued dall trump wants that to change so it looks like he's going to have some kind of bill which puts all of these things all these elements in together and if a vote is held on that bill then the democrats are going to support it but republicans particularly remember mitch mcconnell's main concern right now is the georgia senate runoff race next week which will determine who is in control of the senate his owns his own leadership of the senate it will be determined next week so

this way perhaps if this is what happens here the 2 senators who are fighting for their political lives right now in georgia can say look we did try to vote for $2000.00 stimulus checks but the democrats didn't vote for this bill meanwhile the democrats can vote for that for the bill that was passed in the house and then blame the republicans are basically mutually assured blame on either side and americans won't get the money that they need right you have a reporter from washington thank you. well as we mentioned the situation is getting worse in europe the u.k. reported a record 53000 infections on tuesday that's nearly 12000 more than the record set the day before meanwhile the e.u. is buying an extra 100000000 doses of the pfizer biotech vaccine in addition to the 200000000 already ordered as its rollout gathers pace. across europe a public health operation is underway the size and speed of which hasn't been seen before madrid spain one of 5 airports country wide with the same arrival new

consignments of the 5 is a bio intake vaccine from plane. to truck and off with a police escort just in case spain now has 350000 new doses. of german care home the country was one of 70 years states to coordinate the start of vaccinations on sunday. elderly and cag of his are the priority while supplies a short order to get us closer in from ye know the big vaccination pushes on and we as an aid organization want to do our part to eventually defeat this scourge of mankind. already 3 weeks into vaccinations is the u.k. because of the new more infectious strain of the virus the situation is worsening by the day there are more covered patients in hospital now than there were cheering the 1st waves peak the head of n.h.s. england acknowledged the picture is grim many of us of course lost. family friends

colleagues and at the time of year when nobody would be celebrating i think understandably a lot of people offer you in total actually some frustration. and now we're back to the story of the 2nd wave of coronavirus sweeping your system from medical experts are deeply worried about rising infections the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine is advising that new restrictions plus a huge increase in weekly vaccinations may be needed otherwise they fear 2021 could see more hospitalizations and deaths than this year. ministers are considering keeping school and college people's home after christmas holidays finished they're also looking as a new tear of lockdown measures rory chalons how does iran iran has begun human trials of its domestically produced coronavirus vaccine the 1st volunteers to be inoculated included officials from the state affiliated or it behind its

production health minister side now markey says their prince is a patient shows the government has confidence in the vaccine u.s. sanctions have prevented iran from purchasing jobs from abroad. and over in thailand the country there officials rather are warning stricter coronavirus measures could be enforced after a serious outbreak this month mainly among migrant workers on monday thailand saw its 1st coping $1000.00 deaths in almost 2 months there are concerns undocumented workers could be spreading the virus as they try to evade authorities that's prompted the government to allow workers from cambodia laos and man mark to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years tony chang reports from a popular beach east of bangkok. and this is where ben aaron a half way from bangkok you 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 now 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 $45.00 in the populated province around and then now in $45.00 provinces across time 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 by. particularly after thailand has worked so hard to try and combat the coronavirus this was remember the 1st country outside china the founder transmission since then it's closed off its borders it's put very

strict cancian controls in place the cost however has been huge to and thailand's tourist industry has been absolutely decimated and in fact i think many people concerned that after all of those sacrifices despite everything that thailand has done over the last month could be in vain. emergency workers in central croatia are searching for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 7 people damage from the $6.00 magnitude quake was concentrated in around the town of petrina 50 kilometers from the capital zagreb and in baba reports. church bells and panic voices ring out amid the destruction as people in the small town of petrea rushed to rescue people from the rubble. one house collapsed on top of this car is a man and a boy inside thankfully local residents managed to get them both out alive.

but there have been deaths including a 12 year old go these pictures filmed by al jazeera make clear the damage houses completely collapsed others partially destroyed and stonework strewn across roads. al-jazeera reporter marian very was reporting live when there was an aftershock. right now we hear oh bill. is 60. people in the nearby town of c. sacral so affected by the quake mississippi center where everything is destroyed all clouds are inside it was a girl inside but likely she wasn't in the changing room and she wanted to try some clothes i don't know what to do now i'm all shivering i feel like everything is still shaking soldiers from a nearby barracks were quickly on site handing out blankets to elderly people evacuated from a nursing home they've also brought emergency shelters for the town's $20000.00 residents dollars emergency services are coming from zagreb police civil protection

services fire brigades we have teams coming from other parts of the country we've mobilized everyone. all of the water we have to help people we have to give them clothes and blankets we have to make sure they have food we must cordon i all teams and find a way to get into the buildings because as far as i'm concerned all these buildings are dangerous. some of the injured have been taken to hospital in the capital zagreb 50 kilometers away the epicenter of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake was near here just like a week a quake on monday and once again it could be felt in zagreb where it damaged properties as well as in neighboring serbia and bosnia. while sylvia closed down its only nuclear power plant just 100 kilometers from the epicenter as a precaution responded i would unite the anger here and that even smaller magnitude 9. 100 the mains that we saw today might even more significant when

they come you'll start to see it's already become even more shallow or in march this year is a grab was hit by a magnitude 5.3 quake that killed one person but this is a small town still reeling and still trying to make sure everyone is accounted for . al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera spending a good yarn how chile is indigenous. women are finding their value in an ancient tradition. and we follow that for a finger refugees who are being moved to an island that many think is unsafe. no a couple of meters snow coming your way in honshu another cold burst from siberia now these are daytime maxima took these temperatures as minus 5 in beijing never gets

above that and then the result of taking that cold air across the water the open water as you produce a load of this is more than i think came from a couple of weeks ago so potential dangerous stuff avalanches once again some day or catch the edge of south korea as well and there is the wind dies down the thames has be allowed to come up a little bit but the colder this work times worked its way down to southern china with hong kong 12 max from and given its cold air it's going to pick up the depths the showers produce some pretty big thunderstorms in south china sea in the philippines say you'll feel that big rain and flash flood potential but mostly this is going cross the water directly itself on the wind down towards western borneo and hearts in the showers i think in java come the end of the week now no such luck with the rain through india's been in tamil nadu and a little bit in sri lanka but most of northern india and northern pakistan is cold

briefly get some sunshine by day the cold waves officially with you you might get some disruption briefly on saturday. 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 it's large doesn't mean it cannot be produce what about the guy that can afford it and the guys tell these water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatization loads of water on al-jazeera.

from again the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president elect joe biden has criticized the trumpet ministration for falling behind in its rollout rollout of coded 1000 vaccines biden warned that if it doesn't pick up the pace could take years before the american population is fully vaccinated governments in europe are dealing with record numbers of new infections large scale public health operations are on the way to ensure vaccines are distributed across the region. emergency workers in central croatia are searching for survivors after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake killed at least 7 people many in the worst hit town of predator and are afraid to return to their homes for fear of aftershocks. protesters have rallied outside argentina senate as it prepares to vote on a bill to legalize abortion pro and anti abortion demonstrators have gathered as

senators debate the legislation which was backed by the lower house this month if passed the law would allow terminations up to 14 weeks of pregnancy the senate rejected a similar bill and 2018 there is a bow has more from the pro abortion protests and brought us out riis. where i am right now things that folks will throw out of the ocean they're gathering here with this green handkerchief that have come since the color of the painting not only happen here in argentina but without latin america and he thinks we need divisive issue in fact that has a right. to fight one side are those putting the police. and the like forces and on the other side i think i believe that those who are most of the worst terrorist. that are such that vote for the man who was

there waiting at the waco device was easy to expect friends didn't see the old me again it was going to tell you to vote against this nation when you talk to women here and they tell you about their stories about how many women end up in hospital because of patients with such a notion of how it's a matter of it while it's when women have to say this is go and have a safe abortion send those who don't have resources and stop turning desperate measures and stuff he says and maybe and. is hoping to make history with its 1st ever peaceful transition of power after sunday's elections early results but the ruling party's presidential candidate mohamad in the lead he's considered a strong favorite succeed president mohamad a recent who was stepping down after 10 years by the dresses in the capital in the

army with more on those early results. as expected the leading candidates in the presidential election did well now the election commission has been mandated constitutionally mandated to issue or proclaimed the winner of this election in 5 days but a lot of people think that this could come earlier than 5 days from here the constitutional court will take over within 2 weeks it's supposed to ratify or reject the results and i was by the independent election commission meanwhile observers to this election have issued their verdicts. count. as well as publication of result. carried out professionally and transparently in the gordons with the provision of the electoral who related text and where and when they thought by party. although the economic community of west african states admitted that it did not send delegates to 2 regions differ and i

get is because of security concerns meanwhile the united states embassy here in near me has issued a statement describing the elections as generally free and fair now attention shifts to the independent election commission which is announcing the results in bits and pieces but a lot of people here in egypt including observers believe that the results could come earlier than 5 days that was constitutionally the mandate of the election commission to issue those results and the central african republic government spokesman is insisting that sunday's general election was legitimate and credible that's the spite election officials saying hundreds of polling stations were unable to open after being attacked by armed groups catherine soy has a latest in the capital. it was a joint statement by the african union the economic community of central african states and the community of to hell and the higher and states send observers here

but it's important to note that they could only deploy to the ca people born and being born a stub of not too far away from here and they say that in all the polling stations they visited the process went on smoothly there was some delays in the delivery of what the materials in some polling stations some of the polling stations opened late but then people were did i mean to go and vote but they did also note that particularly in the provinces many presidential and many candidates in the lead up to the election was able to come pain because of. the security situation because of intimidation by armed groups and this is what we've been hearing as well on voting day falls in some towns and villages there was a lot of intimidation of voters by armed groups but then you when and government officials we've talked to say that despite the security challenges in much of the country people are able to come out and vote really now we wait for the results the

preliminary presidential results on monday and people are eagerly waiting to hear just how many people's towns up to vote. russia has opened a new criminal case against opposition figure alexina volley besta gators accuse him of mishandling millions of dollars in donations to his anticorruption foundation and other organizations of only has been recovering in germany from a poisoning in august which he blamed on the kremlin he dismissed the latest accusations against him as a sign of hysterics from the russian president and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. won't be deterred from military cooperation with turkey this by pressure from the us washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its deployment of a russian made missile defense system after meeting on tuesday lavrov and his turkish counterpart reiterated their countries to cooperate with. we have confirmed

our mutual intention to develop military ties with turkey we appreciate as president putin has repeatedly stressed the attitude of our turkish colleagues towards further interaction in this field despite continued illegitimate pressure from washington hundreds of refugees have been arriving on the island of char off bangladesh despite safety and security concerns raised by human rights groups around $800.00 people are being moved from the overcrowded camps in cox's bazar tundra chadri reports in the port city of chittagong. around 800 running a refugee is boarded navy vessel in the post city of chittagong in southern bangladesh they have been sent to passion char island where 1600 of their fellow refugees were relocated earlier this month. and his wife who have a young child don't know what to expect so why both. most are saying things are fine as a day we are going because government told us the facilities are good over there

and so we are following their advice no one really pressured us to go there himan rights group have questioned whether the island is safe and can withstand that chill disaster and floods and whether the refugees were forced to go there against their will. the un who the international community and the various governments and the diplomats and doc are all looking to actually take on this assessment are just not being allowed to go there bangladesh is struggling to find a long term solution to the running a crisis more than a 1000000 are living in the world's largest refugee camp cox's bazaar after fleeing man march in 2017 during a military crackdown the government is now looking to some of them elsewhere 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 for many rowing are worried about how safe the

island. people who are willing to go there also knows the risks involved so why are they going there i would never go because i'm afraid but the commander of bangladesh navy in chittagong is confident everything will be ok government has taken up the project. 3 years back before taking up this project in part on shore. and it is a study has been carried out by international from nowhere in the world any government has such kind of projects that in my knowledge. this is not something that. we believe that my government will take them back to their families and build them. with no means to earn a living and a congested living condition at cox's bazaar summering a refugee has decided to take the chance. that is not everybody.

life is hard in the camp and it's difficult to earn a living there they said they will provide us with better living facilities and means to end a living 3 years andro hanger refugees are increasingly frustrated they don't have a voice in the decision making. says and feel their fate and destiny is at the marcy or father's son of a chaudhry al-jazeera chittagong a boeing 737 max has been used for a commercial flight in the us for the 1st time since the plane was grounded almost 2 years ago the american airlines service take about 100 passengers from miami to new york the plane was grounded worldwide after crashes in ethiopia and indian easier killed 346 people u.s. regulators cleared the aircraft to resume operations last month. for chile's indigenous my put people are experiencing a cultural revival that goes beyond teaching their language on history of schools it's also being woven thread by thread by mapuche a woman as al-jazeera as the cinnamon explains from the way the imperial. scripting

wall isn't all this time. even though these days it's rare to find anyone who knows how to do it but in rural southern chile indigenous might put you women 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 pawn jewels there may be a birthday 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 us these are all natural colors this was dived 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 the map which people. need to buy your meal is one of the main organizers her 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 how many people were burning or burying the sheep's wool but we said no we have to take advantage of our heritage enough you might have given it if that these symbols represent our eyes for us it has to do with being observed because my approach has. taught 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 of those infant 1000

which. when i 1st started as a lot of women couldn't speak spanish they were afraid to bargain but no longer now we're more a day she says. and they're also more proud and independent thanks to an ancient craft the to experiencing of a long awaited revival. to see in human al-jazeera and limpid reality. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president elect joe biden has criticized the trumpet ministration for falling behind in its rollout of covert 1000 vaccines by the warn that if it doesn't pick up the pace it could take years before the american population is fully vaccinated so the trump administration's pledges should be vaccines for leave behind far behind we're grateful to the countries.