just speak by phone very shortly and we're expecting a statement of some sort after that call barbara sara is standing by for us in london investments will speak to her very shortly but 1st let's go to paul brennan he's outside the european commission in brussels for us paul as we were saying i give talks last night late into the night there under way again this morning but the sticking points are still stuck. it looks like the talks are finished frankly the information that we're getting is that the phone call between boris johnson and silvana len started in the last few minutes it was due start at around 1112 noon our time here in brussels and a statement is expected sometime within the next hour sometime between around $1130.00 g.m.t. and 12 noon g. so it doesn't appear that we're coming to the final decision on this whether it will be a decision for a deal i don't think so what was really at stake here it was the 2 leaders getting together and deciding whether there was enough glimmer of hope enough common ground for them to agree to continue talking or whether the differences were sim

hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. across the u.s. electoral college voters gather to formally pick the winner of the presidential election the u.n. says more than 400000 people have now fled their homes in northern mozambique where isolated fighters have seized entire towns and a storm washes away one of australia's most famous features but there's better news from the great barrier reef. thank you for joining us we begin in the u.s. where thousands of people are getting their 1st vaccines against the coronavirus it's a pivotal moment for the country that's been hit hardest by the pandemic with the national death toll fast approaching the incalculable last of 300000 people a new york intensive care nurse who street at some of the sickest cove in 1000 patients for months was the 1st person in the u.s. to receive the vaccine made by pfizer and by on take regulators approved it for emergency use on friday and almost 3000000 doses of seen since being shipped across the country medical workers and elderly care home residents are being pri

alone barbara sara this is al jazeera life from london also coming up shops close and people hurry home fearing more violence ahead of central african republic selection plus. this new very highly concerning because it is yet more transmissible and it appears to have mutated further the strain of corona virus suspected of fueling cases in south africa has now been detected in the u.k. . 00. 0000000000000000 this is angry truck drivers protest at the english port of dover worth thousands are still stranded after a covert blockade. hello thank you for joining us we begin with reports of a brutal attack in western ethiopia gunmen are reported to have killed more than 100 people one farmer in the town of bouillon in the. region told the reuters news agency he counted 82 dead bodies in a field another man said he saw 20 bodies in another location the ethiopian human rights commission confirmed at least 100 died it's the latest deadly violence between rival ethnic groups in the region well the gunmen struck hours after the ethiopian prime minister i've visited the region affirming his plans t

alone barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up shops close and people hurry home fearing more violence ahead of central african republic selection plus. this new variant is highly concerning because it is yet more transmissible and it appears.

hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for watching coming up morocco is the 4th arab country to normalize relations with israel in a deal brokered with the help of president trump. is the time for the public and for business to get ready for january the 1st talks in deadlock and a new sunday deadline but the u.k. prime minister warns that no deal with the e.u. is a strong possibility lebanon's caretaker prime minister says his conscience is clear after he and 3 former ministers are charged with negligence over the beirut airport explosion. and 3000 corner of our stacks in a single day u.s. stock tourists consider rationing care as emergency approval for a vaccine gets a little bit closer. and the s'pore frontal champion footballer and grisman says he's anding his sponsorship deal with telecom giants how his move follows reports of the company's involvement in the so there we go muslims in time now. israel and morocco have agreed to normalize ties in the latest deal brokered by the united states u.s. president trump announced the agreement on

barbara. out to sara leaders of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the escalating violence in northern mozambique which has displaced files ins of people the united nations says attacks by fighters linked to i so a force of 4 $100000.00 people to flee on groups uncovered a god or province of seize key towns for brief periods wanting to set up a caliphate the region is home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project. as head of mission in mozambique for doctors without borders he says it's difficult for his organization to get to the people who've been displaced a little there are 50000000000 cells on the ruins but then some of them i believe you could do which because. you could play a. part of the winds and also in the. in the mobs so these people that we don't know exactly where he goes he gives in. on the orders or a group. and the 1000 people and yet they're moving. most of the plan now they're moving from one place on the base because of the. more protection and they're also the name of the brand of the government. in terms and this isn't. because now we are doing anything then so of cour