during world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recover it. one year since the 1st coronavirus cases were reported we're back in rouhani where life has returned to normal but questions still remain. a modern take of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up england's notting hill hospitals are put on standby as wards struggle to keep up with coronavirus submissions. years of divisive debate and finally a deal now just an hour remains before the u.k. finally leaves the single market. and facing

a devalued currency and tough sanctions cubans find a way to help their families back home. or as the world welcomes 2021 with scaled back celebrations it's also one year since the 1st cases of corona virus were reported to the world health organization the virus is widely believed to have emerged from a market that sold wild animals in the chinese city of will harm on march the 11th when there were 118000 cases globally a pandemic was declared since then there have been 83000000 infections and nearly 2000000 people have died 2020 will be remembered as the year when the phrases lock down and social distancing became everyday terms and what governments pleaded with people to stay home wear face masks and wash their hands across the world new year's eve celebrations a muted they've been cancelled or downsized in countries facing new waves of the

virus there were fireworks in sydney but crowds weren't allowed looking ahead to 2021 the focus is on vaccines several are already in circulation a toss that would normally have taken the is has taken less than 12 months on the world health organization as our proved the pfizer biotech vaccine for emergency use keto brian is director of immunizations vaccines and biologicals at the w.h.o. she explains how that kovacs program is aiming to ensure poor and middle income countries will be left behind. we have a global facility that kovacs facility that is designed and has the involvement of a $190.00 countries and economies around the world to deploy with equity and with speed the vaccines that are available the design of the kovacs facility is aimed to get 20 percent coverage in all countries around the world that are part of the kovacs facility by the end of 2021 and then to go beyond that 20 percent coverage

after in subsequent in 2022 and beyond so we're really aiming to get the highest priority groups health workers and those who are at highest risk of severe disease and death are the groups that we're aiming to cover in all countries for in 2021 china's detected it's 1st imported case of a new coronavirus variant that's spreading rapidly in the u.k. the chinese government insists it's brought the outbreak under control and is also a previous 1st homegrown vaccine for general use in the well so fast coronavirus epicenter many have lost their loved ones still angry it will far taze katrina you reports from. 12 months ago done high spot they checked into a hospital to receive treatment for a broken leg. while he was there the 76 year old caught a fever and died he was one of the 1st victims of a mysterious disease which would later be named curve at 19. before my

father died he said song r. i don't want to die can you ask 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 corridor virus outbreak allowing it to spread. of course war war isn't merely a mistake it was a crime murder none of their relatives died 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 morny alike disease to call it across was in january a mass banquet celebrating chinese new year went ahead regardless just over a year ago one on one with a 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 of the pandemic it's we lost the world and in that millions of. time has not suffered as badly as other countries since the outbreak according to official figures about 90000 people have been infected and 5000 have died for almost 3 months millions of people to put a district locked out and able to leave their apartments. joe was one of them but the business owner says life has now turned to gold. so. 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 fear. the 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 crowd of ours china's leaders appear to be

doing all they can to control the narrative this week citizen journalist judge john was sentenced to 4 years in jail for. locked up charged with picking 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. for her somewhere you girls who are will never shut up even if i'm the only one left shouting chinese people say truth is always in the hands of the few if i don't speak up and hold those rebels board oh the book. one year on he would be silenced and we'll never forget katrina you al-jazeera one there on the hospital in the british capital says it's operating in disaster medicine mode as the country reports $964.00 deaths and many 56000 cases over the last 24 hours surging

infections in england are forced to reactivate emergency hospitals were set up when the pandemic began most nightingale hospitals have been largely unused and officials say they're now being prepared to admit patients if other medical centers reach capacity where charles has more on the situation in the u.k. from outside the royal london hospital. wednesday had some good news didn't it with the announcement the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is being cleared for use in the u.k. and it will be rolled out from january the 4th thursday there was a case of do you want the bad news or the worst news 20000000 more people in england started the day here for they join 24000000 people already living under the toughest level of coronavirus restrictions now that is 3 quarters of the english population hospitals in london and the southeast are saying that there i see use intensive care units operating at more than 100 percent

capacity this one is the royal london hospital in recent days it's been in the eye of the storm with ambulances of patients queuing up outside the emergency wards it begs the question why aunts the nightingale hospitals being used properly now these were the emergency field hospital set up all around the country at the peak of the 1st wave by and large they have stood empty now the government says they're being ready ready for use as backups but i've just been down to the london one and had a look inside and was told that it's been temporarily closed and that most or some of the equipment at least has been moved out the government's position is that it will prefer code patients to be treated in hospitals like this one not in the emergency field hospitals as well equipped as they may be but the sounds of the

calls that are coming out from frontline and h.s. staff is that things are getting dire and something soon has got to give. more than 25000 deaths have been recorded in the u.s. state of california as medical weka struggle to cope hospitals a housing patients and hallways conference rooms a cafeteria and gift shops fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. have been vaccinated against kevin 19000 fall short of the government's target of an alternating 20000000 by now we're bringing this is that live in los angeles for us well can you tell us more about the situation there. well it's grim lauren the mayor of los angeles says that this city is the ground 0 for the pandemic in the entire united states and it's hard to argue with that of those $25000.00 pandemic deaths in the state of california that you mentioned 10000 of them have been in the los angeles metropolitan area and we're seeing incredible

numbers here of new cases for example for 4 los angeles 13000 new cases of kovac 19 confirmed. per day over the course of the last week that's can times the number more than 10 times the number of cases that we were seeing just 2 months ago and the the the siege is not is far from over really the director of public health for los angeles county barbara freyr says that there were they are preparing for a new surge with even higher case numbers in january as a result of the holiday gatherings and travel that's going on including the new year's celebrations which which are of presumably under way down south of here in san diego where california's 1st new confirmed case of that more transmissible covert 19 variant was found earlier this week the mayor there todd gloria says he's

going to crack down on people who are blatantly destroy. guarding public health measures and to stay at home orders with the $1000.00 fines for violators he called the. mayor denounce what he called selfishness and what he said was a sickening level of apathy among people that is for longing the pandemic and i know this sounds like an especially grim note but in addition to the overburdened hospitals the i.c.u. used that earth 0 capacity the long waits for care people being forced to wait in ambulances now we're hearing that directors of mortuaries and funeral homes are saying they have to turn away grieving families who want to bury their family members who passed because there's simply no room for all the dead boring us thank you very much indeed. and i had this half hour antony's coronavirus night mad the

1st western country forced to knock down grapples with this pandemic response. 2021 is going to start to complete contrast to 2020 and i think you'll like that contrast there's a lot of rain up in traffic or queensland and northern territory but increasingly over new south wales and victorian a.c.t meeting process south australia that cloud will increase and there will be outbreaks of showery rain it will send the storms if you like so it's not particularly summery it's a nice contrast to where it's been hot recently in perth eastern into the thirty's but increasingly again with that suddenly raise as more cloud and outbreaks of shari rain iraq and. it has been particularly cold recently in fact i think i might

have been a record breaking area of high pressure mongolia that cold is still squashed in here then leaking out across the sea of japan to give loads of snow again the potential by the time we finished to meet is a can obama grind this is avalanche territory once more is particularly cold in sapporo is being quite cold in the green foliage there was outbreaks of snow here too that cold will start to ease a little bit but compared with the average it's still $3.00 to $5.00 degrees below 0 and that's also true in the cold gray conditions in northern pakistan and northern india but some good news if you're in new delhi stirring up the air was showers and thunderstorms is a good thing. but. on a tour in late india killed his younger workers close to. one of them is travelling to the villages where parents tell their under-age stories effect. on al-jazeera.

when all that seems to matter is the headline when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the listening post drips away the spin lays bare the bias of the uncovers the uncomfortable truths the listening posts on al-jazeera. the move. or one of the top stories how long has there china has authorized its 1st home grown 19 vaccine for general use after preliminary data it says showed it to be around 79 percent effective the countries also detected its 1st important case of a new coronavirus. variant in a 23 year old woman who returned from the u.k.

. more than 25000 deaths are being recorded in the u.s. state of california hospitals are housing patients and always conference rooms a cafeteria and gift shops. a rule london hospital in the british capital says it's operating in disaster medicine mode as the country reports 964 deaths and nearly 56000 cases over the last 24 hours surging infections in england are forcing authorities to reactivate emergency hospitals were set up when the pandemic began. brix it finally becomes a reality in less than an hour and in nearly 50 years of turbulent time between the u.k. and the european union by $23.00 g.m.t. britain will no longer be a member of the single market or customs union and its new trade deal with the e.u. will come into effect under simmons is in westminster for us so we'll be what its promise to be. well within an hour we will we will

hear the bells of big ben ring out which will signal the end of membership of the new full blooded breck sit in place now will this be a series of measures that will be successful or will there still be haggling to be done well it's the latter that's the case because there's a whole raft of issues that are still to be settled the main one is the services sector 80 percent of the u.k. economy is made up around this don't necessarily of the cargo and the other businesses from manufacturing industry this is this is an area that's a major problem in the finance sector especially the city of london which is the jewel in the u.k.'s crown that has no settlement in terms of how it will will deal with the e.u. and there's a temporary agreement in place of sorts but the still negotiations to be done then there's fisheries fisheries was really the most symbolic of all but in terms of the

economy it's less than one percent now the fissure is it's felt by all observers particularly the opposition and in scotland has a sell out by boris johnson because there is no full agreement until 5 years time there are some there's a small amount of extra fisheries available in british waters but the access to the e.u. is still very big right up to 5 years and it that 5 years there's going to be the go see a sions there's even a suggestion that the finance sector could be traded over the fishing access so that's just one of many issues still to be worked out and how all this change the u.k. standing in the world. interesting one lauren the if you listen to boris johnson that it's going to be a global britain membership of the g 8 g 20 it's perma place in the un

security council it will be a u.s. trade deal he sees britain as being more whole influential instead of less now the reality might be very different there could be a situation where britain's place in the world is is not what some people in britain might think it is that the real diminishing status within the world is the case not necessarily a bad thing some people would describe it as britain could be a big denmark with without the same influence but at my place to live however the that the conservative party has bigger ideas will there come to fruition well we'll find out in 2021 anderson's thank you very much indeed. now italy was europe's 1st coronavirus epicenter more than 74000 people have now died of kevin 1000 there which is the highest death toll in the continent cases are

on the rise again and the country is going into another knock down as my john do reports the fires a biotech vaccine is giving people hope. it's. by late february the coronavirus outbreak in northern italy meant that milan's piazzi deal to almost normally bustling with tourists was as quiet as a small town even a small towns in the lumbar the region found themselves surrounded by checkpoints and crowded with ambulances. at the time my team and i were barred from accessing quarantine areas so we spoke to a volunteer medic medical frequently in the town of settling go on skype yes. 'd ringback i don't live alone so every time i go back home i think about it because maybe i've been in contact with someone that has it by march code 19 was ravaging italy and a strict nationwide lockdown was imposed in the small southern town of money channel $1.00 doctor wasn't just battling cope at 19 but also the stigma that came

with it. from a human point of view 19 his being devastated because my wife was the 1st confirmed case in the whole basilica region it's unleashed an incredible wasc next door on me relating to the gossip those who thought that i was the one who brought the spiral to our area in the summer and autumn months italy seemed to get its outbreak under control but as winter approached concerns were growing again. by the end of the year the number of italians dying from corona virus in the country 2nd wave of infections surpassed the toll from the 1st wave. when we caught up on skype with giuseppe spina and his wife carmella they told us that they saw only one viable way forward just to sit down with our family feels a little bit more serene and safe because we have developed a share of antibodies and this has allowed us to keep afloat so far but i truly believe that the vaccine is the only solution out there otherwise we will never

overcome it. as news emerged that the new variant of corona virus had been discovered in italy the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine has helped many feel a renewed sense of hope like marco for a goalie who when we checked in with him again said he was happy about all the prospects that came along with being vaccinated. it got back to our human interactions as they were before the idea that it can give us the chance to hug each other without any concerns the thought of being able finally to reopen our businesses and everything that comes with it a surge in the number of coronavirus cases meant the country returned to lockdown over the christmas and new year period at the vatican st peter's square usually packed with the faithful sat empty. even as italians hoped and prayed for a much safer and far happier 2021 mama june. so half ruka has announced a wreck or daily increase of 800000 coronavirus cases as it awaits confirmation on

when it will get a vaccine a new creative virus variant just thought to be behind the surge which is killing an average of $500.00 people every day south africa is part of the world health organization scheme that's helping poor and middle income countries receive vaccines a senior health ministry official says the country will find out what it will get its 1st doses within the next few days how much has the latest from johannesburg. well health officials are saying part of the reason why these arise in numbers is because more and more people and they are getting tested in this say that that number will continue to rise as more people keep coming back from their holidays president obama 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 the tourism industry saying they fail asked millions this year because the covert 19 pandemic in these new restrictions are only going to make

things worse those who sell liquor also complaining that they are losing money and some south africans are angry that this saying that while the government forced them to wear mass as 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 i would 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 peacekeeping operation run by the african union and united nations in darfur is closing after 13 years it was launched to end a conflict that killed more than 300000 people since 2003 morgan reports from near her in the south tower for what many say they're worried about their safety once troops leave. it's the last patrol for these peacekeepers and for the african union united nations mission in sudan's western region of darfur after more than 13

years the mission and its mandate to protect civilians and stabilize the region is ending it follows a decision by the un security council in late december to halt operations by the end of 2020 because it said security in the region had improved but here in the dark for many are worried. not the right time for the human made to withdraw if they leave. just because with the terror. attacks and eye protection. you name it was established to end conflicts in the region and has been in darfur since 2007 the fighting between mainly non arab rebel groups and the government started in 2003 and left 300000 people dead and more than 2000000 displaced it was deployed under a chapter of the un charter that gave it the right to use force when needed it was also the un's biggest operational peacekeeping mission before it began downsizing

in mid 2017 going to let has about 4000 peacekeepers lessons of that and over the next 6 months to hand over its business to either the government or having an organization i want to call myself has been authorized by the u.n. security council set to start in january with no military force or demanded to protect civilians and that responsibility will pass on to the transitional government and members of the campaign that is the biggest chunk of sudan's government says a combined force from the police and military as well as the paramilitary rapid support for says it will be responsible for securing displaced people until they return home but those displaced say they are the same forces responsible for forcing them out of their homes to begin with. in of you know. we understand the fears of displaced people and we are working on areas to protect them. more than 230 peacekeepers have been killed throughout the mission's existence it's also been criticized for sometimes failing to protect civilians from attacks. the mission has

done its level best to serve the people of the food and provide physical. other forms of protection to them whether in terms of real immaterial facilitation of delivery of humanitarian assistance physical protection of id but we have the thousands and thousands of these activities over the 13 years we have been here the end of it is seen as a test for whether through dance transitional government can protect its little those displaced in camps see they remain wary of any government force until we see measures put in place to keep them and their properties leave until they return home people morgan out of the room south door for. pakistan the police have arrested 24 people in overnight raids after a hindu temple was set ablaze and demolished by a mob thousands of members of a muslim political party attacked the temple in the town of carrick after hindus

received permission to renovate it officers say they also rest a cleric who led the mob assault has been condemned by human rights activists and leaders from pakistan's hindu minority the government says the temple will be rebuilt. the cuban pesters $1.00 to $1.00 exchange rate with the u.s. dollar is to be devalued for the 1st time in 50 years that will hurt the already struggling island country where the economy is mostly state owned families that also face tough sanctions enforced on the donald trump terrorism war reports on how some are getting creative in order to survive. a food delivery service cuban style this family owned business is giving cubans living abroad and tonette avoid to help their relatives on the island economic sanctions imposed by u.s. president donald trump have complicated remittances to cuba and that's why sending food instead has become popular. back at us and we have

a weekly package that is what cubans need the most a few years ago we started to work with companies that promote our services relatives abroad can send a gift to their families here they can send sweets and basic items while the services offered in us dollars and paid for through the united states the food is served in cuba right now remember your rice beans and pork are a traditional means for the holidays that doris wants to share with his family and have an eye on his birthday paid for the service on line with the only man boy there are lots of problems of food scarcity in the limitations of moving cash a new service allows us to send food in our pay for it from abroad i'm very happy with this. economic restrictions imposed by the u.s. have banned wiring money to cuba more than $400.00 western union offices have closed in recent months so this is this is a good service for us because in the middle of the pandemic lounsbury if you live

abroad to send food in are items which is what people need. u.s. sanctions in cuba as economic troubles have worsened people's lives on the island shortages of food and basic items have. again become a common problem people have to line for hours in order to get the cuban president . and those who will eliminate a complicated jeweled currency system that has prevailed for decades it will result in a steep devaluation people on the island are fearing the consequences because of authority says the months ahead will be difficult it's a big draw for marriage and. starting january 1st. there is a complete overhaul in prices solid. subsidies the government. introducing new said offer incentives for state companies not forcing them to increase official supergroup will do or isn't increase exports in the meantime

people like the new doris and tina to help their relatives in cuba and as long as remittances are banned finding attorney did ways to help them survive. to see their. credit or a catch up any time on a website our jazeera dot com. our one of the top stories on our jazeera china has detected its 1st imported case of a new coronavirus variant in a 23 year old woman who returned from the u.k. the country's also authorized its 1st homegrown covered 19 vaccine for general use a sun a farm vaccine has already been given to health care professionals and essential workers under emergency guidelines china's government says the doses are around 79 percent effective or the.