discussions from london broadcast center. that attack killed at least 22 people at aden airport where members of yemen's new government had just arrived from saudi arabia. a lot mcleod this is out there in life and also coming up millions more to be put on the cat tough ok with 1000 restrictions as regulators in the u.k. greenlight the oxford astra zeneca vaccine. somebody dies of it. with barely a day to go until the u.k. leaves and europe's single market the brits agreement moves forward in parliament.

but there's a long feared war effort to distribute the ministers the vaccine is not progressing this should us president elect joe biden criticizes the slow rollout of coronavirus vaccines and warns the darkest days of the pandemic. at least 22 people have been killed and dozens injured and explosion in the southern city of a. one blast happened as members of yemen's new unity government arrived at the airport was followed by gunfire and more explosions the ministers were transferred to aiden's palace yemen's minister of information is blaming the attack on iran back to the rebels but they say they had nothing to do with it prime minister has called for calm. with this it gives the government the

responsibility to put an end to the could and to restore the country and the state again the government and i didn't will go on continue its job supported by the people of yemen we will never let our people down the terrorists never defeat our people we will be victorious we will accept nothing but victory. is following the latest developments from yemen's capital of sauna. the authorities according to the weight of it has been a sense of by the prime minister of the of the shared power sharing government that has been striking in saudi arabia and according to the riyadh's agreements. mine are dramatic says that these this attack will not tell you why the newly formed government under the will carry out their responsibility and also uphold. this possibility to restore peace and stability to the coastal city of aden and also to restore the government legitimate government's control of all the yemen as

according to his speech during a press following. that has resulted into the death of at least 22 people on the injury or for several others this also has been denied by the hoa fees from their side who says that the nuts and vald and such. acts between what they described america and the reason of the quotation and the the situation in n n a in aden itself there is some kind of. horror among the civilians of following the attack and that the this is. this the city itself has been booted to a stand still but let's take a closer look at yemen's government that was sworn in just days ago by the president of bribery months or heidi as part of a power sharing deal brokered by saudi arabia in 2019 headed by prime minister maliki the new government represents yemen's northern and southern areas with equal numbers of members for each region its formation is the result of

a compromise between excuse me between the u.a.e. backed separatists in the southern transitional council and saudi backed loyalists of president it's meant to end military clashes between those parties so they can fight as allies against the rebel movement when they put him for what is with the institute and he says the authority of yemen's unity government has been seriously undermined. this explosion sends a very strong message in fact of the unity government that has been leased since the blog asked out of one me and almost one me at almost all along all the this in order to come up with this. government unity government that's the present all of. this political talk is in yemen in order to bring an end 1st of all to the divisions from within the south. and also. noted on filed this lawsuit against the whole of his but then with that i've got this happens i had and

i think this is a bit slow resident of the challenges that it c.d.'s the challenges are enormous and that unity government will have to deal with those challenges on the ground. and no matter what no matter who stands behind this explosion i think that is a huge security breach has happened the battle against corona virus has taken another leap forward off the health regulators in the u.k. approved vaccine developed by oxford university scientists and the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca it is the 3rd vaccine to be approved in the west and joins as manufactured by pfizer by and tech and russia and china are also just puting shots but they haven't completed mass testing the old food astra zeneca vaccine has some advantages over the other 2 it's much cheaper to buy and can be kept in a regular fridge john like the pfizer shot which requires ultra cold storage and even as approval was being announced in the u.k. orders for tens of millions of doses were confirmed by both taiwan and indonesia as

many as $3000000000.00 in fact are expected to be produced well wide by the end of next year despite that approval 3 quarters of england will be under the top level of covert 90 restrictions from thursday british health secretary matt hancock said a sharp rise in cases has made it necessary. this new variant is now spreading across most of england and cases of doubling fast it is therefore necessary to apply to full measures to a wide area including the remaining parts of the southeast as well as large parts of the midlands the northwest the northeast and the southwest even in the most areas not moving into tear for cases of rising 2 and it's therefore necessary to apply to 3 measures more broadly too including in little paul and north yorkshire these changes will take effect from well minute past midnight tomorrow morning roy challenges in london he explains why there's so much hope riding on the back seat

from astra zeneca over the pfizer biotech. and you can see behind me here a good visual example of why there are certain limitations in the fires a vaccine that's what's being administered behind me in those tents you can hear the harm of the generators keeping people warm also that vaccine has to be super chilled it's why the government of the moment is struggling to vaccinate more than $200000.00 people every week and it's why there is so much riding on the oxford astra zeneca vaccine because it is so much easier to get some people essentially don't have to bring people to the vaccine you can take the vaccine to the people out in communities it doesn't have to be done in big hospital environments like the one behind me any doctor any nurse any medical team with a fridge can set up somewhere good job off the job off the job so the how you piers

well i mean essentially it's been recommended to the government that they have to get up to 2000000 vaccinations a week to have any hope really of combating properly the spread of the new strain of coronavirus the health system is groaning under the strain at the moment you have more people in hospital with kovar than they were at the peak of the 1st wave of the of the virus you have record numbers it seems of new cases every day so this is badly needed it won't be soon enough to stave off the worst of the 2nd wave but hopefully will prevent a 3rd. jeff lazarus's head of the health systems research. institute for global health and he says the development is positive and attention needs to turn now to how countries will store of acting. we need to ensure that as many people around the well get that 1st dose viruses mutate we've already seen that sars cover to cover $1000.00 is mutating we have the newbery incidentally 5 and there's likely to

be further mutations and we need to get as many people that's needed as quickly as possible and at the same time i think this is going to be one of the major challenges as well as to continue the pandemic measures that we've been turning out now face masks and washing know large gatherings to avoid further transmission and we've seen year over the winter holiday that cases are rising in many countries for a long time into 2021 i expect there to continue to be travel restrictions the tween countries probably within some countries and as as you mentioned some countries will go quite quickly the u.k. parts of your canada the u.s. etc in other countries will go slower there is a global mechanism led by gabi the world health organization and others called kovacs which is trying to ensure that scene availability in low resource settings but we've also heard that countries that can have already been putting in their orders the u.k. parliament has voted to approve a trade deal with the european union as it prepares for an oil to be split from brussels british prime minister signed it shortly afterwards hailing it as the

start of a wonderful relationship with the british politicians have been holding an extraordinary session to ensure the deal is in place before that deadline deal still has to be debated in the house of lords in the coming hours well this comes just a day before the u.k. automatically leaves the e.u. single market all the while the e.u. chiefs of signed off on the future relationship agreements in brussels european council and commission presidents show nischelle and stephen dillane formalize the books proven in brussels the papers have been flown to the u.k. now for signing that all 27 member states will abide by the agreement provisionally until it can be ratified by the parliament hope brennan has this update now from westminster. it was an ability and performance by prime minister boris johnson swatting away criticisms of the deal from the labor opposition who said that it was a rather thin deal and the traders would be. overcome with an avalanche of red tape

and bureaucracy and checks but the opposition parties know and knew that it was a done deal the battle was over and you can tell just from the surroundings i mean i know we're in the middle of a pandemic and an almost total lockdown tear for us the restrictive measures around the parliament building but given the flags and the whistles and the horns on the shouting that we've seen in previous big parliamentary set pieces here the contrast is marked when you look around me now it was clear that the prime minister was cutting it fine but he knew that there was not really going to be and i think that could be to the could stop him and so as i say let's have a listen to a very a bully and prime minister boris johnson just to be rewarded trade barriers so we've also ensured the u.k. has full control of our laws and our regulations and there is a vital symmetry between these 2 achievements because the central purpose of this bill is to accomplish something that the british people always knew in their hearts

could be done and yet which we were continually told was impossible we're told we could not have our cake and eat it you remember how we were told that i missed the speaker namely that we could trade incorporate as we will with our european neighbors on the closest terms of friendship and goodwill while retaining sovereign control of our laws and our national desk in this deal leaves open the possibility that future governments can re interpret the way that the relationship is going with the european union so there are bound to be tweaks and nuances to the ongoing trading relationship labor has said that it will continue to pull up the government given the fact that there are going to be a lot. so different checks that are put in place as a result of this trade deals going to be rule of origin checks is going to be customs declarations it is going to be safety checks that have to be put into place as well so there's plenty of areas that the opposition can continue to snipe at the

government over. still ahead here on al-jazeera jubilation and relief in argentina as the senate benched to legalize abortion in a decision that could echo across latin america. an american who spent decades in prison after spying for israel receives a hero's welcome in tel aviv. western turkey has joined most of the middle east was these temperature regimes a false spring in fact the flowers are already blew me and yes i know where the end of december there is stuff all over the eastern side of turkey in the high ground vans and photographs otherwise this general area is now fine and dry but there are showers develop in central sadi dentals necker across towards sudan maybe across wisconsin any light showers i think nothing much coming out of the sky but general

cloudy regime not much strong wind anyway you'll notice but rizzi had sacks we have tropical soccer balls talk about the landfall as happened just about of the top of bayer just the north i think the winds are seeing steady about 70 i could have guessed it twice that and that is damaging when the rain is falling steadily so far correct about 25 millimeters the potential is over 100 so it's like a very bad day i don't think too destructive hopefully the rain will be welcomed that will produce flooding as it goes across through zimbabwe that's for the rest of thursday and then it carries on going west into botswana during friday but when it does that of course it will eventually fall apart and they leave behind showers in beirut but a good scattering shastri once southern africa. take the worst possible material you have 80 of the leading. to dust comparable to how

to make the law and put it into a place where people live think is a colossal event. as well and so many people here this is the silence. but as it makes you feel you feel like a murder we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. you. better get your watch out there are mind about top stories this hour at least $22.00 people have been killed and dozens injured in yemen after an explosion struck the airport in the city of aden it happened as members of yemen's new unity

government arrived it's information minister is blaming the who is the rebels who have tonight involvement. the u.k. parliament has voted to approve a trade deal with the european union as it heads for an orderly break from brussels the vote comes just a day before the u.k. automatic p.t.t. use single market. millions more people in the u.k. can join the toughest chair of covert 900 traditions from thursday u.k. health regulators approve the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine for emergency use the government has already preordered 100000000 doses. united states has reported its 1st case of a more contagious variant of corona virus which was originally discovered in the u.k. a man in colorado was confirmed to have the strain he has no recent travel history and adds further urgency to efforts to vaccinate americans and stamp out uncontrolled outbreaks across the country. the u.s. president and joe biden criticized the trump administration for its handling of the

vaccine rollout was operating behind schedule joe biden says of the 20000000 people meant to receive injections by the end of the year and $80000000.00 had got them so chump administration's plan is to be vaccines is falling behind far behind we're grateful to the companies the doctors the scientists and researchers the clinical trial participants an operation where speed for developing the vaccines quickly but as i long feared war the effort to distribute administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should out of fissures in washington d.c. and explains why biden's administration may not be able to get as many people vaccinated as promised. you know what worries the biden team or it's the fact that what we're dealing with no is the spike from thanksgiving that the experts warned about and as they come into your office on the 20th of january they'll start to see the spikes from christmas and also

a new year and we could be in and watch watch position on the 20th of january then we actually are know what we're hearing from joe biden is that he wants to issue 100000000 doses in the 1st 100 days is a heck of a benchmark to say but he's saying that he could do it he's put on another couple of people in 2 is covered by this advisory team they believe that with improved logistics they might be able to get those vaccinations out around the country but remember this is just the far stores there's more than 3w3cw people in the united states if he gets $100000000.00 in the 1st 100 days you're still talking about possibly the end of the year a reality he's aware of he says this is the greatest operational challenge that the country has ever faced and he may well use the defense production act to try and make sure that he has the proper logistics but also the companies are turning out the vaccine in sufficient numbers to get out and around the country as a say is a heck of a benchmark to set and people will remind them of that 100 days in if he hasn't

reached 100000000 particularly given the trumpet ministration said they hope to have 20000000 people vaccinated by the end of the year here we are 2 days away from the end of the year and they've only managed to get as far as 2100000 people and those are just the 1st there was. a historic victory for women's rights in latin america where senators in argentina have passed a bill legalizing abortion after a marathon session 38 senators voted to allow terminations up to 14 weeks 520000 women seek illegal abortions in argentina tragically reports now from one of their . historic decision ending the criminalization of abortion in this mostly catholic country. after a long debate women. outside congress waited anxiously for the vote to happen. and when he did there was pure joy among those campaigning for that result. that had happened but now we are friends affected because there are no legal and safe

abortion and it's a dead that we have as a society the state needs to deal with this issue we couldn't just continue ignoring it i'm so happy. you know it is the debate lasted for about 12 hours and the bill was turned into law with $38.00 votes for and $29.00 against. the bill legalize abortion in argentina after 14 weeks into pregnancy it allows women to get a free abortion in a public hospital and will end the fears of women have been reported to the police if they try to terminate a pregnancy. women in argentina have been campaigning for years to legalize abortion in this country for this women it's a matter of public health because already around half a 1000000 abortions are carried out every year many of them and up with complications thousands of women end up in a hospital because of those complications so for this women legalizing abortion is crucial to save lives. but not everyone celebrated on wednesday and they

couldn't help crying when asked about the possibility of legalizing abortion i know how much we're going to cry a lot there are a lot of lies that want to sell something that is not true that abortions happen everywhere we poor women do not want to have abortions we love our children. the catholic church is a powerful body here pope francis is argentinean and has been lobbying against the law. he says the church needs to lead up to current times he said and let them say are. they going to try to. i think they said before the attacks they are. i think that they need to they they i don't think that they had latin america that was the larry who did not have anybody and you know they have that she doesn't tolerate them or study latin america so i think you need

to do some reflection of about. voting argentina sets a precedent in a region that has some of the toughest loss against abortion in the world but this movement of women's groups has spread throughout the region and has become a force for change. and to see that when a scientist. the emir of qatar has been invited to it next month's a gulf cooperation council summit by the king of saudi arabia the conference is being seen as a possible step to end a crisis that began in 2017 when saudi the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with doha locating countries accused of supporting terrorism and meddling in their internal affairs claims that carter has strongly denied the summit will be held in riyadh on tuesday. and american has spent 30 years in a u.s. prison for spying has arrived in israel jonathan pollard was greeted by prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the airport the former u.s.

navy intelligence analyst sold military secrets to israel while working at the pentagon in the 1980 s. last month pollitz 5 year old term ended allowing him to leave the u.s. are enough has more now from westerners. pollarded was greeted by prime minister netanyahu at the airport he was even handed an israeli id upon his arrival right there on the spot now going to the on who has really tried to support and campaign for the release of pollarded for decades during his 1st run as prime minister he even granted him israeli citizenship so pollarded was accused by the u.s. of selling u.s. intelligence information some of that included a nuclear weapons development by arab countries intelligence information on russia as well as satellite images of tunisia those satellite images were also used by israel in a raid in the 1980 s. against the palestinian liberation organization's headquarters in tunis and 60

people were killed in that raid so his case it's case has really been seen as a long bargaining chip between israel and the u.s. and some see today this moment of him arriving in israel as a parting gift by president trump ahead of him leaving office in january this is one of many that he has given israel in his 4 years in office including recognizing drusilla as the capital of israel recognizing the occupation israel's occupation of the golan heights and brokering normalization ties between israel and for arab countries this is also coming ahead of elections that are supposed to take place here in march and it could bolster netanyahu ahead of those elections but that support will really come only from those who are already voting for him and supporting him. the government of the central african republic is insisting that

sunday's general election was legitimate and credible despite the action officials say hundreds of polling stations did not open to be attacked by groups some people say the competition for dominance between foreign countries further threatens. political and security situation catherine sawyer reports now from bungie. this is president. at a reasoned political rally. his armed guards are russia randa central african and also members of a un peacekeeping force randa recently sent troops and russia says it has deployed hundreds of military structures to help fight for control of the country is also a big presence of private security contractors from the russian. supplier. this makes begins to explain the country's complex geopolitics central african

republic is afraid dr grant. did have never been alone to. exploit. the resources. that we have. and that. you know for a drive. in the situation where we need to have partners some central africans are worried about the motive behind the increasing power between russia and. france on one hand and round against other regional countries like chad on the other. russia is reconquering areas we lost at the end of the cold war rhonda is a small country but deploying troops not only as part of un but also in the context of bilateral agreements gives it diplomatic weight france has been losing ground.

the battle between france and russia in central african republic is now playing out online facebook was really. branding misinformation from both countries. platforms seem to have taken. our is reaching. and other natural resources yet it's one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the wild this president you want an end to violence they say they need the international help but also want to feel they're in charge of their country's political affairs and go off. al-jazeera. the refugees and migrants and bones there is still without proper shelter after being transported from a camp destroyed by fire last week they collected their belongings from what remained of the camp in croatia's border stayed on buses overnight. say they hope

to relocate them on wednesday the campaign has been heavily criticized by aid groups for providing inadequate shelter they say the fire left people stranded in freezing and squalid conditions with little. people happy because live this didn't . have too much cord and not have life here is a good life and not have food not. yet but i don't know i also scared i don't know where they're depicting. vanda our to z. bosnia and herzegovina representative for the international organization for migration and he says the predicament that those refugees find themselves in is not the result of a lack of resources. it was very bad then what we're seeing action always in this collation of a problem that has been reduced fort stewart 3 months we've just insufficient accommodation for up 22503000 migrants refugees finding cells and

the decision to relocate migrants ridges that were stuck up a little staking month state council ministers was the right decision and forcefully your initial assault when there was not resistance in the area around where the new center would be established and so the result of that was that people have to spend the night the 20 busses only women and then it's really g council. systems and things were well during night but we're now early afternoon that are in start fall and we still do not have a solution for these people and sitting in those we have 8000 migrants in the country it's going it's a country of $3500000.00 people so it's not it's also see it's not like jordan or a limited situation for example when it comes to policy 'd or to go it's not doing it so i really you know the situation is sufficient international funding available to help properly house feet and take care of the a person. there but what is lacking simply easy decision as to where the 2nd step

once those decisions are taken if we can actually ringback see just which is not so easy as we have seen yesterday the european union order to enter at your own whim units your partners or reduce or meet nice wants me to not resources. so this is and there are these are the top stories and there are reports of a blast near the government palace in the yemeni city of aden it comes just a few hours after at least $22.00 people were killed in an attack south of the city q a here's one blast happened as members of yemen's new unity government arrived at the airport it was followed by gunfire and more explosions the ministers have been transferred to a palace millions more people in the u.k. will join the toughest here of covert 1000 mr.