more than 58000 infections since the pandemic began life see florence louie who joins me from kuala lumpur for us at the start of this pandemic singapore was hailed as a model of success in the way it was tackling it what seems to have happened since then. well it was hailed as a model of success at the very start of the pandemic but if you remember back in april there was an explosion of coronavirus infections among the singapore's migrant workers community in a sense when singapore drafted its response to this to this pandemic and how it would tackle it it had in a way left out this community and as you mentioned these workers they were living in cramped conditions they were living in dormitories where many of them share a room they were sleeping in bunk beds physical distancing was extremely difficult in those circumstances it's no surprise that an at that academics have described this pandemic as a pandemic of inequality and that's how corona virus infections were cases were able to spread so quickly among this community even now with singapore having accumulatively confirmed more than

do the 1st phase of research well let's get more now live from florence louie who joins us from kuala lumpur in florence china snow allowing international investigators ensue or what can you tell us about this investigation especially given beijing's reluctance to shed light on the pandemic initially. well there's not a lot of information that we're getting from china w.h.o. officials say they're still negotiating the exact terms of the itinerary so we don't know where exactly in china the team will be allowed to travel to but we do know that wu officials say they expect their team to be in china in the 1st week of january now and scientists say that the goal of this exercise or this mission is to gather as much data as they can to prevent a possible future outbreak so they'll be looking at when the virus 1st started circulating and how it was transmitted how it jumped from animals to humans as it's thought and from which species it came now it's thought that the virus could have come from a went to market in city that sells live animals if you remember last december a chinese doctor in rwan

probe which allows chinese scientists to do the 1st phase of research joins us live now from kuala lumpur. this team. what more can you tell us about the investigation. well scientists say that the whole goal of this exercise really is to gather as much information as they can so that the world can be better prepared for possible future outbreaks of new viruses so they want to be looking at when the virus started circulating and also whether or not it came from one city or where it came from really now it's thought that the virus came from a market in one city that sells live animals and if you remember in december a chinese doctor in blue hahn city had warned fellow doctors about the possible outbreak of a new virus and he was investigated by police and told to stop making false comments he has since passed away after his contract in covert 19 himself so this whole exercise is to gather information now the solve. the search for the source of the virus has created considerable tensions particularly between the u.s. and china especially off the u.s. president donald trump accused china of

originated in animals and spread through a wet market in the city of florence leary has more now from kuala lumpur it's hoped that while scientists will have enough information to be better prepared to deal with future outbreaks provided of course that chinese authorities give the w.h.o. experts the access that they seek we know w.h.o. officials have had difficulties in the past not only in just negotiating access into china but also getting the sort of data that they say they needed from chinese officials. u.s. government has confirmed it was the target of a recent hacking campaign that affected a number of its critical networks the treasury and commerce departments were among dozens infiltrated the f.b.i. is investigating who is responsible u.s. media say russian government hackers were behind the cyber attack and hundreds of thousands of people in fiji are bracing for a severe tropical storm that has the potential to be one of the most destructive in living memory category 5 cyclone yasi is expected to make landfall in the coming hours of thora to say and todd villages could be wiped out the st

this is kuala lumpur's forecast. repeating what i have just said.theast monsoon has weakened a little bit of the forecast for the next few days is wet but not excessively so. a disturbance in the atmosphere and a westerly way coming out of afghanistan into pakistan and the far northern plane of india is good news. as long as the wind on the surface does not pick up, thunderstorms and showers do tend to turn the atmosphere and improve the air quality. ♪ >> in 1958, charles de gaulle made a famous speech in algeria. but, h could not hold back the tide of algerian independence or keep france's colonies in africa and the pacific. in the final episode of the series, al jazeera explores how the long and bitter fight for the frch empire resonates today. blood and tears: french decolonization on al jazeera. ♪ ♪ >> you are with al jazeera and these are the top stories. u.s. president-elect joe biden has pledged he will get a grip on the pandemic in his first three months in office. he has announced his medical team and promised to provide 100 million vaccine

martin the smatter physician and leader of the doctors without borders malaria working group out in kuala lumpur john fleming the asia pacific head of the regional health unit of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies welcome to you all john i'll start with you the red cross is the world's largest humanitarian network have you had to divert resources from things like malaria tb and a job to deal with cove it absolutely no. really all it is that it's operation. ration the international federation also. gauged and we for instance in the asia pacific region we had 38 national red cross presence. and every one of those $38.00. are engaged in. what works allocation activities in respect of all we also activities or so little. anomic programs. so there isn't much a major priority or. jeremy when you hear about resources being diverted what does it tell you are going to be the challenges in trying to bring down the cases of malaria there was this ambitious strategy set up by the global tech technical strategy from the w.h.o. to bring cases down to 90 down by 90 percent by

ok thank you for that florence lawyer live for us in kuala lumpur. but more ahead on the news are. grateful to be alive the student who managed to escape from his kidnappers in nigeria recounts his ordeal remembers friends behind. chinese food a camp show returns to earth with the 1st samples of rocks from the moon in more than 40 years. and adelaide is the stage one of the year's most highly anticipated cricket matches gets under way details coming up in sports. al-jazeera has exclusively obtained the draft european union resolution on the terrier eating human rights in egypt the e.u. parliament will vote on the motion on thursday among other topics it condemns the kidnapping torture and killing of a telling researcher julio originally and 2016 the e.u. parliament deplores attempts by egyptian authorities to hinder progress in the judea regina murder investigation and also expresses regress over a persistent refusal by egypt to give italy information needed for a transparent probe and it urges the e.u. member states to pressure egyptian authorities to fully cooperate with italian

chinese scientists are being allowed its to do the 1st phase of research before as louis is in kuala lumpur with more. now and scientists say that the goal of this exercise or this mission is to gather as much data as they can to prevent possible future outbreaks so they'll be looking at when the virus 1st started circulating how it was transmitted how it jumped from animals to humans as it's thought and from which species it came now it's thought that the virus could have come from a went to market in rwanda city that sells live animals if you remember last december a chinese doctor in rwanda city had warned other doctors about a possible new virus outbreak he was investigated by police and told to stop making false comments now he has since passed away after contracting covert 19 himself and chinese state media have also been suggesting that the virus the outbreak had started abroad and that it was circulating abroad before it was actually discovered in china but scientists say that the whole reason for this exercise is really not about apportioning blame or finding out which country was

an exclusive interview with the air asia ceo from kuala lumpur. stay with us.rg. ♪ >> rishaad: the pandemic is forcing many airlines to scale back. reviewingan unit is investments in india and raising stake in its joint venture in india with air asia. let's discuss the company with a group's ceo tony fernandez from kuala lumpur. how bad has it been and how do you move on from this? as bad as it gets. i thought i'd seen it all, but restructured, there is light at the end of the tunnel, and we are quietly optimistic about 2021. rishaad: how will the dynamics of the airline have evolved when things start to return to normal and when will that be? tony: there are three things i'd like to bring up. what is in the news a lot is the vaccine, which gives a necessary boost, but two other things need highlighted. one is testing. testing is going to get easier and quicker, and i think we are months away from even potentially someone breathing into a breathalyzer and within 30 seconds knowing whether you have covid are not, and therapeutics. a lot of the antibiotic treatme

you go to the streets of shanghai and show a picture of david beckham or delhi or calcutta or kuala lumpurst slightly wondering why you are the one who had to point this out when, if one gets a little personal about you, here you sit with me as the son of european nobility, educated at england's poshest private school and then oxford university, bastions of the english western anglo—centric establishment. how on earth did you come to the conclusion that there was something fundamentally wrong with the history you were reading? well, i'm a child of the cold war, and i grew up, every other friday, having to hide under my desk in a drill because we were convinced the soviet union was going to launch a missile attack that would destroy the world. we weren't worried about climate change in the ‘80s, we were worried about global destruction. and when i was, again, growing up as a teenager, seeing the revolution in iran, seeing the plo trying to hijack and demand statehood in the middle east, seeing what were called at the time vietnamese boat people, and the impact of what was happening in cambo

florence italy has more now from kuala lumpur it's hoped that while scientists will have enough information to be better prepared to deal with future outbreaks provided of course that chinese authorities give the w.h.o. experts the access that they seek we know w.h.y. our officials have had difficulties in the past not only in just negotiating access into china but also getting the sort of data that they say they needed from chinese officials the u.s. government is confirmed it was the target of a recent hacking campaign that affected a number of its critical networks the treasury and commerce departments were among dozens infiltrated. parties to the iran nuclear deal including senior iranian diplomats have held virtual talks to discuss the state of the agreement they're set to meet again next week as the signatories urged tehran to reverse its violations of the deal. hundreds of thousands of people in fiji are bracing for a severe tropical storm that has the potential to be one of the most destructive in living memory category 5 cyclone yasi is expected to make landfall in the coming hours

reported more than $58000.00 infections since the pandemic began phones though it has more from kuala lumpur. it was hailed as a model of success at the very start of the pandemic but if you remember back in april there was an explosion of coronavirus infections among the singapore's migrant workers community in a sense when singapore drafted its response to this to this pandemic and how it would tackle it it had in a way left out this community these workers they were living in cramped conditions they were living in dormitories where many of them share a room they were sleeping in bunk beds physical distancing was extremely difficult in those circumstances it's no surprise that an at that academics have described this pandemic as a pandemic of inequality and that's how corona virus infections words cases were able to spread so quickly among this community even now with singapore having accumulatively confirmed more than 58000 cases migrant workers make up more than 90 percent of that number now in the singapore government response has been extremely swift test and it did and it still does e

it's even allowing big countdown events to take place on new year's eve florence italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur. well that says mexico has canceled the rounds of the largest catholic pilgrimage to a set and private 1000 cases that about 10000000 people visit the basilica of our lady of guadalupe everywhere at this time chats and government officials have catholics to wash up at home and stop buying up the reports from mexico city. every year millions of people flock to the mexican capital for the day of the virgin of guadalupe celebrated on december 12th. it's the largest catholic pilgrimage in the world and an important religious festival for many faithful catholics. this year however the coronavirus pandemic has put those celebrations on hold. get a natural house was among the last catholic pilgrims to visit the holy shrine before authorities closed it to the public. can't just get back my mother's in the hospital she's in very serious condition and i have faith that our lady of guadalupe will help me so that she'll be home soon. mexico city's national shrine houses an image of the virgin mar

he joins us from kuala lumpur. good to have you after a long time.tter whether it is v, k, or l. all the naysayers have had to pay the price. >> yeah. the guys who didn't participate coming into the fall of this year were forced to participate in the risky assets across the board, whether you talk about equities, high-yield bonds, what have you, but we released a new 9 incation on november terms of separating the noise from reality. if there is one key message i is tolike to get to you proceed with caution. global growthng to slow in the next half -- first half of next year. we think the policy stimulus from our good friends in america are not likely to come until way into the second quarter of the year, and as far as we know in terms of indicators we track in terms of what the market is expecting in terms of investment expectations, it continues to be stronge momentum will be heading into the early part of the year. we have a diametrically opposite view. risky asset prices are basically going to come off. we are headed for some serious turbulence in

the kuala lumpur market is up to play 5%. japan is doing well in the equity space. of the biggest export led economies rebounding in november. in china coming better than expected and hitting a decade high. we have oil in focus. on its way down. there are risks within opec plus currently. we are also watching what is been happening with australian assets. no surprise that the r.b.i. stayed on hold -- the rba state on hold with an assessment of its qe program. the yield target is at 10 basis points. they do say they are ready to act if needed reiterating that point that they will not be raising rates for at least three years. the aussie dollar will not be happy with that. we will be hearing from the rba governor tomorrow when he appears before the house of representatives to talk to the government about whether the rba has done enough to support the economy during this pandemic year. and watching for what the fed chair powell has to say to congress. that is it for bloomberg markets. daybreak middle east is next. ♪ it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the