and boy solidarity told journalists sign the petition. to say. china gives approval for corona virus vaccine a one year after the 1st cases were detected. i know about this and this is a doozy of a live from doha also coming up to u.s. states report cases of a more contagious variant of covert 19 amid complaints that the vaccine rollout is too slow. another day of record infections in south africa with the surge in cases threatening to overwhelm hospitals. and hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy

advocate jimmy lie is headed back to jail after his bail was revoked. china's health targeted towards giving its 1st conditional approval for a vaccine against covert 1912 months after the virus was detected developed by the state owned pharmaceutical company sign a farm the vaccine is the 1st to get the green light for general public use in china the vaccine said to be more than 79 percent effective china is aiming to inoculate 50000000 people by mid february or 20 years live for us in ruhani where those 1st cases of covert 90 were detected about a year ago let's talk about the vaccine in a 2nd but just give us a description of how the city is coping one year on from that outbreak. well i'm here in doha in downtown rouhani in this strip called junk how do you

expect busy shopping and office area and it really seems to me like normal life has resumed the people shopping for going to work and this is very much is the image that china wants for trade to the rest of the world success in controlling the pandemic here but what we've had recently is a study which really flies in the face of what the government has been telling us all year round one specifically has not had a new case of coded 1000 for the past 7 months and according to official figures from 90000 people nationwide were infected by curve in 1005000 people died majority of those who hunt but according to a report by to understand the disease control lease this week they found that 4 percent of the population in milan were found to have antibodies in their system that is to say up to 5 up to half a 1000000 people could have been exposed to the right a virus now china's foreign ministry were asked about this on wednesday and they said simply that this study is not conclusive and it doesn't necessarily mean that

the biggest are inaccurate because this is based on a very small sample size of people that they had a lot of doubt and skepticism to the accuracy of those. government figures that we've been here for the past few days talking to you people and many locals all very happy with the chinese government how they handle that they quite proud that who hunt has been able to logically beat this outbreak so far but there are still many many very upset about what has happened they blame the chinese government what they call handling of the pandemic especially in those early days and for lack of transparency and that money compensation and justice. 12 months ago junk high spot they checked into the hospital to receive treatment for a broken leg while he was there the 76 year old cause of fever and died he was one of the 1st victims of the mysterious disease which would later be named $1000.00.

before my father died he said. we are i don't want to die. the doctors to say from a those were his last words junk high is now suing the chinese government he says local officials withheld information about the current virus outbreak allowing it to spread. more wars are merely a mistake it was a crime murder none of their relatives die only the ordinary people died was because they knew how bad the virus was they protected themselves but they were supposed to care for older citizens as the new morning unlike disease to cool it across from pond in january a mass banquet celebrating chinese new year went ahead regardless just over a year ago one on one with the place locals to buy fresh seafood and meet today it's shut down completely then stop and believed by many to be the starting point

endemic to we've lost the world and in that millions of. time has not suffered as badly as other countries since the outbreak according to official for. because about 90000 people have been infected and 5000 have died for almost 3 months millions of people put a district locked out and are able to leave their apartments. joe was one of them but the business owner says life has now returned to normal. over the the chinese government did the right thing they saved us there was no other way look at what's happening in western countries now it's scary it's. a world health organization team will arrive in hot next month to investigate the origin of the outbreak beijing was reportedly initially reluctant to provide access when it comes to the corona virus china's leaders appear to be doing all they can to control the

narrative this week system journalist junk john was sentenced to 4 years in jail. on lockdown charged with picking quarrels and provoking trouble. junk high is still mourning the death of his father he says he's been intimidated by local authorities and called a traitor for his complaints against the government. i will never shut up even if i'm the only one left shouting johnnie's people say truth is always in the hands of the few if i don't speak up and a whole. one year on he would be silenced and will never forget. the life may be returning to normal in the heart and elsewhere in china but i would imagine a lot of people are still pinning their hopes on a vaccine and of course as we were saying china is given approval for the 1st vaccine there talk us through that. that's right so

china had 5 different vaccines in final stage or stage 3 trials this year and signed off on the state owned company is a fuss that seems to be approved by the chinese regulator now sino farm says that its vaccine has an efficacy rate of about 79 percent now that's lower than the general flies a vaccine which have about 95 percent but it is higher than astra zeneca which is about 70 percent now signed up on has been testing its vaccine in about 10 countries around the world this year including jordan egypt and the e.u. and even but nearly $1000000.00 people in china have already received the sign of on that under an emergency government program which was initiated in june this year and sleight of hand says there have been no serious adverse effects from its vaccine and the government is preparing to roll that out to the public but we get to receive any details about exactly how that's going to happen all we know so far is that essential workers will be prioritized no china wants to vaccinate about

50000000 people head of the chinese new year holiday which is the major travel event that happens around the country in early february and also manufacturers really work not the ability to produce this vaccine because they will say i'm sick many countries around the world including many developing countries in a bid to improve china's global image which is taking quite a bash recently beginning pandemic katrina thank you very much indeed that's katrina are you talking to us from china. on a special program on thursday al-jazeera is going to be looking at the devastation caused by covert 19 in the year since the virus emerged and as vaccines offer hope of protection we're going to be asking how long it could take for the world to recover that's at $800.00 g.m.t. here on of his era. u.s. president donald trump is blaming state officials for the slow rollout of covert 19 vaccines their criticism is growing about the way his administration is responding to the pandemic around 2000000 shots have been administered so far but that's well

behind the 20000000 promised by the end of the year it comes as a new more infectious strain of the virus has now been identified in 2 u.s. states and a gallica has more from miami. patiently waiting for the code 19 vaccine many of florida's over 60 five's and health care workers camped overnight for their chance to receive a potentially life saving shot in the arm as the state's positivity rate hits record highs delays conflicting information and crushing websites left fax anation sites overwhelmed i want to i want to see the good in people and i want to hope that people are doing their bathroom but at this point i don't know their best this is really going on right now meanwhile in the same state the president continues to go off in his mar-a lago estate telling governors to get moving his administration promised to have 20000000 people vaccinated by the end of this week doctors say without a national strategy it could take years in fourchon way without

a master plan after distribution national is going to be a lot of. and a lot of the state health departments and hospitals and doctors that were already in. more than 11000000 doses of madonna in pfizer's 2 dose vaccines have been distributed across the u.s. but according to the c.d.c. just over 2000000 of those most at risk have received it the government's health and human services department say things will get better it's only 15 days since the 1st vaccine were given so things will evolve they were optimized over over the next week or so and you'll see you know millions and millions more vaccines the initial plan was to have 80 percent of the u.s. population vaccinated by june to reach that figure millions would have to be vaccinated every day so far that doesn't appear to be the case here in florida the positivity rate of new code 19 infection stands at more than 22 percent state health officials say that's because fewer people are being tested but with an

apparent slow roll out across the nation the next few months could be worse than predicted or those most at risk can do is hope things get better and fast. gallacher al-jazeera miami florida the united states top infectious diseases expert says the country could gain some control over the print coronavirus pandemic by late next year to anthony foxx he told an online discussion panel that some semblance of normality would return if enough americans vaccinated. dr fox he's told al-jazeera what he thinks of the biggest challenges facing u.s. efforts to get on top of the virus in an interview with the bottom line host steve clemons he says public health measures need to be set aside from politics. you know about a year before cove it broke out you and i had a conversation and i ask you to tell me what your worst nightmare was as you look forward 'd and you know you described the respiratory kind of virus that cold

it was and it was just one of the chilling moments when i look back at interviews i've done and i guess now i ask you as you sit here today what is your next worse nightmare as you look forward you have well you know my next worst nightmare is not getting out of this nightmare without having a lot more suffering and death and i think that we need to really really put put every effort possible into getting the entire country to add here to public health measures and put aside this this very difficult situation of of politicizing it and not wanting to add here to public health measures also to get the vaccine out and distributed in an efficient way so that very quickly we get as many people vaccinated as possible and he said that we will end this outbreak there's no doubt it will end we've been through

a terrible experience but it will end when it does and we have to look forward because outbreaks continue to happen they've happened long before people have even recorded history we've seen it in our lifetime with multiple outbreaks hiv ebola zeke and now covered 19 pin demick flu there will be other outbreaks that we've got to make sure that we prepare and use the lessons learned that we have actually learned from this experience and make sure we do better next time and you can see the full interview with dr anthony fauci on the bottom line at 1630 g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera. so far because health ministry is raising concerns over the speed at which corona virus is spreading there after another record early increase in infections over the past 24 hours nearly $18000.00 new cases have been registered 465 people have died from covered 900 related illnesses south africa is

battling a major surge in cases linked to a more contagious strain was crosser one of the thompson who's live for us in johannesburg so we're seeing this rise how is the government responding to this where health officials are saying part the reason why there's a rise in numbers is because more and more people are now getting tested in this say that that number will continue to rise as more people keep coming back from their holidays presidents are up or so recently put in place measures to try and bring down the rate of infections in these measures include extending and nighttime curfew a ban on the sale of alcohol and a ban on public gatherings except for funerals but some south africans are fighting this for example of the tourism industry saying that fail aust millions this year because the covert 19 pandemic and these new restrictions are only going to make things worse those who celica also the painting that they are losing money and some south africans are angry that this saying that why should the government force them to weigh in mosques and some are threatening to go to court over this but the

government is adamant they saying anyone caught not wearing a mask in public or either be fined or could face jail time lab technicians are saying that they seeing all over the country more and more people coming in to get tested this saying this could be a sign that more south africans are worried about covert 19 and they want to know their status another a very different pictures across the continent itself just bring us up to speed with how things are looking across the african continent. well generally africa hasn't been as hard hit as some of the other continents around the world but governments here in africa are still concerned they are still worried because a lot of african a medical health care systems are in a fragile state for example nigeria has warned that it could run out of oxygen in some of its hospitals in some parts of the country in some parts of the continent some health care workers are threatening to go on strike because they don't have enough mass or gloves and other things they need to do their work in

a country exam by way for example that's been in an economic crisis for more than a decade i mean that health care system is a reading a fragile state we fork over 1000 even happened so people are getting worse their country may not even be able to cope and then you have south africa the most developed country on the continent and even here there are huge problems doctors and nurses are raising alarm they're saying that they're running out of i.c.u. beds they're running out of oxygen the running out of ventilators they are saying more needs to be done to bring down this spread of infections and partly it's because they're saying that a lot of people still aren't listening to base a diet lines like wearing masks and practicing social distancing so the government is being urged to perhaps maybe use more force on people who do feeling to abide by the rules or the words are so talking to us from johannesburg thank you. and still ahead on al-jazeera ready for braggs it business the new smart technology the customs officers at france's busiest port say will make the transition easier and.

the northeast monsoon is getting colder so that means the showers agave the 1st ones to become quite big ones they look like it on the satellite picture that forming here in the forecast this lot could follow the wind down here i think you might find the wind changes direction and it's maybe singapore that gets that enhancement and in the showers of the next couple of days otherwise it's typical rainy season now in australia the orientation the rains changed a bit in that it's not quite as fast as all this satellite picture but it will change once more there's more of an inch or breeze for new south wales and victoria a.c.t so this whole area is going to be disappointingly known summary to start the new year with quite a few showers around the wettest weather will still be in tropical queens and maybe

to rockhampton more likely further north it is still hot further west but at last it was 35 in paris still staying about the same with the potential for showers on saturday but look at this what a contrast to a year ago where it was dry and there were fires burning so this is probably the bit you prefer even though it looks quite wet and rains on the scene further south on the news even for both friday and saturday quite extensively. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power and vesta gates allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the torture realized that babies that are the could be sold to america a scout in quite a nice and reveals shocking new evidence of how and where religious orders disposed of those who died for a kid torn in

a system like this one church and state are colluding keep the truth from coming helps islands mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera. roof. you watching are busy a reminder of our top stories this hour a covert 100 vaccine made by the chinese pharmaceutical company sign a farm has been given conditional approval 12 months after the virus was detected in was high on the vaccine is said to be around 79 percent effective. u.s. president donald trump has blamed individual states for the slower than promised rollout of coverage 19 vaccines there are around 2000000 shots been administered so far but that's well behind the 20000000 promised by the end of the year. south

africa's experience and another record daily increase in infections over the past 24 hours 18000 new cases have been registered the recent surge has been linked to a more contagious strain of the virus. hong kong's top court has revoked bail for media tycoon jimmy life a high profile pro-democracy activist is facing charges under new security laws imposed by beijing he was released on bail last week for prosecutors argued he should be put back in prison in brown's joining us live from hong kong edging just bring us up to date with what happened in court today. well the imposing colonial era building behind me rob has witnessed lots of history during the past couple of decades and we got another bit of history today i think because for the 1st time the called of the appeal here in hong kong the highest court in the territory basically ruled for the 1st time in

a case involving the new national security law that was imposed on hong kong 6 months ago and in the 12 page ruling the key section is paragraph 30 where they say that the judge in the lower court. when he decided to release jimmy lai 8 days ago saying that that decision was invalid now a lot of league. experts are saying that you know this decision doesn't mark the end of hong kong's judicial independence but it's beginning to look a little bit shaky we heard earlier on today from mark daley from the hong kong law society who said that you know the judicial system may have been stung by a number of criticisms that have come from state controlled media in china remember state controlled media speaks for the government a few days ago the people's daily said that jimmy lie was was evil and dangerous and in fact that his trial should be held on the mainland and mark daley says that comments like that are really

a direct interference in hong kong's independent legal system and put undue pressure on judges it's also emerged rob that the 3 judges 3 approach appeal court judges who ruled today are also on kerry approved list for judges to take part in national security cases they include the chief justice geoffrey maher and i think it's fair to assume that kerry will be happy with today's outcome as will her political masters in beijing adrian thank you very much indeed that's a dream brown bringing us up to date from hong kong the case is being watched closely by many in the region including in taiwan which is welcome to hong kong dissidents pro hong kong democracy activists there have been voicing their disagreement over the case against jimmy lai these years up and show me that she realizes not even guilty of anything the charge of collusion with foreign forces he

is said to be guilty of is beyond comprehension if so every person who is here right now anyone who watches t.v. is guilty and i want to make it simple if jimmy lie is guilty then we are all guilty. well joseph chang is a political scientist and pro-democracy campaigner usually based in hong kong he's joining us now from canberra in a studio we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed what do we read into the fact that looks as though hong kong's independent legal system appears to be gradually as adrian was suggesting moving towards supporting beijing. exactly i think it's generally seen as tracked the whole process you seen as a threat to the independence of the judiciary in the territory you see our jim ally was initially denied bail and he appealed and was granted by the high court at this juncture the probe aging media in hong kong and then to pull

b.j. tonight have fun politicians in hong kong civilly attacked the judge decision this was then followed by a similar attacks but people's daily which is supposed to be the organ they're presenting to come in this party of china it is generally seen that the court of final appeal which made the decision today came under pressure from a jame and at the same time pro beaching politicians are suggesting that i may be extradited to to china and be tried to by china's court in china and desist in accordance of the national security laws provisions which demonstrates the threat to our own calls democracy movement and the civil rights movement she realized she is probably the most influential sports

person but the heart of the pool democracy movement then he is under a lot up to secure a lot of suppression and distance and his taste is very much seen as a negative example trying to teach hong kong people a lesson. i said it was pointing out there 3 of the judges who were ruling on this were appointees by from kerry alarm is there a suggestion $11.00 would assume that not every judge in the hong kong judicial system is pro beijing at hong kong's legal system has been independent and fiercely so for many years do you think that there is any suggestion that people working within the judicial system might try to push back that they might try to reassert a sense of independence in general hong kong people's assessment of the judicial system and of the judges

are there eat there is that believe that some of the judges that star service you know judges are stooped to maintain that you dependence of the judiciary but a few of them may easily come under pressure from beijing in some ways it is like the supremes court of the united states different justices may have different positions different views different considerations but that's just pointed out it is certainly even appropriate fuld it doesn't than to have a list of. judges as spencer lee listed. to handle national security law cases as a challenge thank you very much indeed for me to talking to us i apologize for interrupting you but i'm afraid we are running out of time but we are grateful to you for being with us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed. the u.k. parliament has overwhelmingly approved a trade deal with the european union as it prepares for an orderly split from

brussels the british prime minister has signed the agreement soon after hailing it as the sort of out wonderful relationship with the e.u. the agreement sets out a new trade in security regulations as britain leaves the e.u. block. when the u.k. announced that of bragg's a trade deal had been agrees there was relief for french businesses the country is a central pillar of the european union and many there would have preferred the u.k. to remain but industry and government say they're now ready to manage the new relationship with the u.k. and reports. france's biggest fishing port. 50 kilometers from the u.k. across the english channel fishermen here we're worried that be banned from the u.k. waters off to breaks it but a trade deal reached by the e.u. and u.k. hasn't made their fears. can continue to fish in british c.s. although they'll have to give up part of their catch to britain it's

a better result than expected during the next 5 and a half years there will be some ongoing negotiations and the outcome we don't know it's we know that the target is a victim of 25 percent of a quarter going back to u.k. . but this isn't 25 percent it's better than 60 percent as free trade between the e.u. and u.k. continues or thorough in the port of cali say they hope for minimal disruption customs officers in france's busiest ports say they're ready for a person's departure from the e.u. single market and customs union 50000000 dollars has been spent on creating a so-called smart border customs officials say they have introduced information technology and smartphone apps to help things run more smoothly but with some $5000000.00 trucks parsing through the ports of palo each year it will be a huge challenge to prevent delays to produce all cars. for 2 years we have worked

to create an intelligent digital board we recruit to staff and build infrastructure so we believe we are ready for john recrossed continued free trade is good news for french businesses on 20 k. kept a close eye. on the negotiations his family has produced champagne for more than a century britain is one of his main export markets and suffered for toast for nearly 300 years our friends in britain have enjoyed french champagne so it's hard to imagine that will change the new deal would have made things complicated with tariffs but now that there's a trade deal i feel optimistic it's a huge relief for our 2 countries accused to simple xbox russia often nearly 5 decades together it will undoubtedly take time for the e.u. and u.k. to fully adjust to being apart and there are bound to be setbacks but after more than 4 years of bragg's it uncertainty it's clear that many businesses and people on the face side of the channel all grateful for some visibility on the horizon

natasha butler al-jazeera cali and of course as always you can find more pictures and background on the website the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is our desire these are the top stories are covered 19 vaccine by the chinese pharmaceutical companies sign a farm has been given conditional approval 12 months after the virus was 1st detected in on the vaccine said to more than 79 percent effective china is aiming to inoculate 15000000 people by mid february u.s. president donald trump.