that too is set to take effect by january 15th mariyam thanks very much from washington i know joe castro. it was al jazeera live from london still ahead on the program istanbul's i in the sky keeps watch on social distancing as turkey brings in new restrictions to curb a surge in corona virus cases and we'll tell you about the daring offer ration to save an endangered giraffe stranded on a sinking in ireland. hello we've got cold windy weather heading towards the southeast of australia over the next couple of days still have some heat concerns over into central and northern parts of the country but you can see how the the waynes are going to drive away and from the southwest there are a westerly direction initially and then a significant cold front will sweep its way across south australia towards the southeast so some heavy rain coming in on this system could be cold enough for a touch of snow over the high ground you see on the snow coming through here set in the case and see parts of tasmania but even it's victoria southern areas of new south wales as we go on into sunday the temps ju

to individuals from 600 to $2000.00 a bill was passed by the house and the senate on monday i do joe castro has more from washington d.c. . i think there are many extraneous items that are unnecessary included in this massive massive big spending bill and it doesn't clude items like foreign assistance which we know that trump has very much opposed as well as money for managing wildlife for instance and money for the arts so trump is demanding that congress and mendis bill to remove those extraneous items and also to increase the stimulus payments from $600.00 to most americans to 2000 and trump has pawned 15 people including full form of contractors for the controversial private security firm formerly known as blackwater had been serving long sentences for the killings of more than a dozen iraqi civilians in baghdad in 2007 france's ease border restrictions with the u.k. it ends about stopping the spread of a more contagious strain of corona virus but only europeans with proof of a negative coded 1900 test will be able to cross much of europe is being as close as borders to the u.k. this we

heidi joe castro has more from washington, d.c.di: we know the total number of troops in somalia currently is around 700. while that number may not be large, the pentagon has long considered this mission against al-shabaab in assisting this emollient government to be a cornerstone in the u.s. policy against al qaeda and its affiliates around the world. and the pentagon statement announcing this withdrawal takes pains to say that these trips will be relocated to neighboring nations of somalia and cross-border operations may yet continue and the statement does say the u.s. is not abandoning its african allies. of course, this does follow on the heels of president trump's decision last month to also draw down troops in afghanistan and in iraq down to 2500 u.s. military troops in either of those countries. that is set to take effect by january 15. rob: still ahead on al jazeera, if the 0-0 will allow aid -- ethiopia will allow a groups in. -- aid groups in. box office battle. why a major cinema chain is in talks with one or brothers st

he wants congress to raise stimulus payments to individual americans from 6 $100.00 to $2000.00 joe castro has the latest from washington d.c. . u.s. labor department just released the latest unemployment numbers last week 803000 people when the u.s. filed for unemployment benefits for the 1st time that just shows a pervasive weakness in the economic recovery not to mention that the day after christmas there will be 12000000 americans who lose their unemployment benefits if this does not become law. trump has announced presidential pardons for 15 people they include 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 20072 men tied to russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections were also pardoned. several truck drivers stuck near the english border dover have been detained during scuffles with police the french government has border restrictions with the u.k. over a mutated strain of corona virus thousands of drivers are still stuck at the border that's are has begun to mask over 1000 vaccination campaign elderly people and health care workers are the 1st to r

. >> heidi joe castro with the latest news from the biden transition. in the news ahead a u.n. backed court sentences a his boll low member to life in prison. the 2005 assassination of former prime minister ariri. why hong kong's media tycoon jimmy lai has been charged under china's controversial national security law. ♪ >> we've got some pretty wet weather across the central plains of the u.s. massive cloud here. some very heavy rain across the great lains over toward the appalachians. maybe some significant snowfall on the northern flank of this system. as it rubs over toward the lakes. another system that rolls back in as we go through saturday, not just further east, on sunday. starting a little further south, down toward oklahoma and some very heavy rain as that warm air gets pulled back in from the gulf of mexico. by this stage it should be somewhat dryer and brighter over toward the corner but heavy snow there across the eastern side of canada. could see heavy snow on the western side of canada as well. dry across a good part they have caribbean. some showers still in pl

protect 1st as more governors issue restrictions to limit americans movements over the holidays heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. spyware sold by an israeli private intelligence firm has been used to hide the phone of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab research at the university of toronto it is still security watchdog says the president of cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates investigators say mobile phones were infiltrated with militias codes which uploaded data on to foreign service without users taking any action to avoid also raises questions around the security of apple i phone. my colleague nick clark spoke to bill mcharg zack who is the lead author of the report and a senior research fellow at the system of the university of toronto he says it's difficult to guard against 0 click hacking. certainly our research methodology here at the citizen lab when we track this sort of spyware is typically that we ask journalists dissidents members of civil society to keep an eye out for any sort of suspicious mes

pandemic now trying to take credit for these vaccines rob heidi thanks very much indeed that is heidi joe castro talking to us from washington d.c. well germany's president is warning the covert 900 situation there has become bitterly serious the number of infections is soaring prompting a nationwide low excited story on why than say she was lying about merkel's office says germans faced tough times ahead. human officials in london have moved the city to tier 3 that's england's highest level of coronavirus restrictions there is said to be deeply concerned about a sharp rise in cases across the capital well let's cross over to john holl who's life for us in london john of the u.k. health minister matt hancock's been speaking about this what's he been saying. yep he broke the news to parliament in the last hour also announcing that london would move up from to where it's been for most of the last fortnight since england came out of its month long lockdown moving up to tier 3 along with other parts of the southeast of england joining much of the rest of the country frankly now in the run up to chri

i'm not sure and i'm aware of any family in america that's more evil in your arms hi joe castro has the latest on that hearing from capitol hill. 2 members of the sackler family who are a lot always lawyer it up they're. protected usually they agreed to testify at this hearing remotely under threat of subpoena and members of congress did not hold back in grilling these 2 cousins asking them point blank whether they would take responsibility for the role that their family played in this pandemic that has killed 450000 americans from opioid addictions so in paraphrase they said sorry for all the pain and suffering but not sorry for whatever actions they may have taken that led to it and as you can imagine that drew some fierce responses from congress including jim cooper a democrat same to the the spam way that there is no family more evil in the united states than there's still to come on this program origin story a world health organization team starts travel to china to investigate the start of a crisis change the world. also when we come back a decade after the arab spring began in ch

the country governor andrew cuomo says he believes this is the weapon that will end the war hi joe castro has more from washington d.c. just after 9 o'clock local time is only saw what we believe was the very 1st shot outside of a clinical trial of the covert vaccine in the united states now it's unclear because unlike great britain of course with its centralized health care system here in the u.s. it's up to each state to turman to whom and when to give these injections so what we do know though is that some 3000000 doses of the pfizer vaccine left its warehouse overnight in michigan and was put on board put on board planes and trucks and delivered to all 50 states most european countries are struggling to contain a new wave of coven 1000 cases all but on central businesses will have to close in germany from white and stay until january the 10th london has been moved into england's highest level of restrictions voting by the electoral college to follow to choose the next president of the united states has begun this is one of the last steps by electors in 50 states to finalize the outcom

hi joe castro joins us live now from capitol hill so heidi some pretty searching questions going on there that's right because this is really an opportunity that doesn't come around often peter and that 2 members of the sackler family who are a lot always lawyers up there. protected usually they agreed to testify at this hearing remotely under threat of a subpoena and members of congress did not hold back in grilling these 2 cousins asking them point blank whether they would take responsibility for the role that their family played in this pandemic that has killed 450000 americans from opioid addictions well this was their response. i believe i conducted myself legally and ethically and i believe through phone records will demonstrate this to feel absolutely terrible that a product created to help and has helped so many people has also been associated with. an addiction there is nothing that i can find that i would would have done differently based on what i believed them understood the. so in paraphrase they said sorry for all the pain and suffering but not sorry for whatever actions the

doses will roll out later on sunday it's the 2nd vaccine authorized for emergency use that i do joe castro reports from washington d.c. . lifesaving vials of a 2nd f.d.a. authorized covert 19 that scene are going in boxes destined for hospitals and clinics across the country government officials say americans will begin receiving the maternal vaccine monday unlike the pfizer vaccine that began rolling out a week ago these don't require ultra cool storage making them easier to handle between the 2 vaccines nearly 8000000 doses will have been released although the distribution effort has already had hiccups governors from several states have complained of receiving tens of thousands fewer vaccine doses than had been promised the army general overseeing the federal government's distribution effort offered an apology saturday saying he'd fail to understand there's a delay between when a vaccine is available and when it's released there is no problem with the pfizer vaccine there is no problem with the madonna vaccine right it was a plain error and i am responsible for both axes are close to 95

or now i'm joined by joe castro in washington and we'll get more detail on the seamless package in a moment id but the c.d.c. has signed off on the medina vaccine is made its recommendations for who is next in line for immunization and that we are expecting that to happen but it's important times of how widely available it's going to be. that's right and if you do the math will you see that the problem here is simple with some $20000000.00 doses of the vaccine promise to be delivered by the end of the year that will simply not be enough to cover all the people who qualify and the c.d.c. advisory panel has recommended that next in line for these very limited doses will be frontline essential workers and people over the age of 75 but just breaking down that 1st group alone we know there are some 30000000 people who qualify as front line workers and they span everything from teachers to doctors to grocery store workers etc and that has set up a massive lobbying effort in states across the country because again it is up to the states whether or not to follow the c.d.c.'s recommendations

pharmaceutical company to follow live now to capitol hill and correspondent tracking that story for us hi joe castro so heidi they have officially apologized to this congressional inquiry but it feels as if they've apologized because they thought they had to i mean not what's coming out there that sounds like contrition. that's right peter and if you listen closely to the words of these 2 sadler family members they said they were sorry for people who have died because the old boy crisis they're happy that they're sorry that that happened however they also say that they would not go back in time and change any of the actions that the family members themselves took with the knowledge that they had in that moment and in this virtual setting it's more difficult to see any fireworks really appear when you had the feeling that if these committee members could have they would have gone and dragged these family members here to capitol hill in person to force them to testify in fact there was a threat of subpoena that compelled these 2 southwark cousins who just until recently were on the board member of her

. >> lou castro of wichita is joe venagas of tennessee?that's correct. >> the investigators believed he was neither and now he'd been made. identity fraud is a federal crime so the investigators had grounds to arrest him. a week later, they moved in. >>> coming up, investigators finally get inside the doors of the commune. and later, sinister stories of angel's landing dark angel. >> amber was the angel of death. she would come around when somebody was going to die. >> then you'll hear from lou castro himself when "angels and demons" continues. n "angels and demons" continues. vicks vapopatch. easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. trusted soothing vapors, from vicks she always wanted her smile to shine. now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse to give her the healthy, sparkly smile she always wanted. (crowd cheering) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. >>> it's a striking colonial house deep in the countryside outside nashville, tenn

joe to his face. he corrected us and told us he was in fact lou castro.o his old identity. >> was he shaky to see law enforcement at his front door? >> i didn't think so. >> he was confident that he was going to be able to explain away why we were there. >> the officers arrested him, charged him and searched the property. >> what did you find in the house? >> normal things. we found paper documents, we found computers, we found 11 weapons, guns inside the house. >> any smoking guns? >> no. >> emily had been on her way home from school when she got a call from detective goodyyn. >> he said, emily, where are you? i'm detective goodwyn, you need to come home. >> i showed up and they came out and i just about fainted and goodwyn had to practically carry me into the house because i was terry fight. >> what did they tell you it was all about? >> i don't remember. i remember i didn't tell them anything. >> lou was continuing to compel the officers by not giving up his name. >> castro's if i can ger prints didn't show up. after a six hour interview, he didn't cra

castro al-jazeera washington. well u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen california's attorney general to serve as his health secretary if confirmed by the senate will be the 1st with tina to head that department but sarah is also known for needing a series of lawsuits defending obamacare when i white house correspondent can be how it is in washington for us with all the latest it can be it does seem that mr basara was a bit of a surprise take can you tell us a little more about yeah i can tell you about the number of picks that are going to be taking place we're getting a bit of a sense of what this team of advisors is going to look like because it's not just the health and human services secretary that we're learning more about but also the director of the c.d.c. the surgeon general and also as czar for covert 19 is being named with respect to the health and human services secretary this is a choice that is a little bit controversial because of his background he was formerly the attorney or was the attorney general of california followin

president elect joe biden has unveiled more keep it for his incoming administration many of them familiar names as well with close ties to former president barack obama's cabinets castros and wilmington delaware to tell us more about this idea that is there an issue for something with the fact that joe biden sort of going back in time a bit here. well i think if you asked some progressives they may have been hoping for a new blood here but that is not what president joe biden is going for he is showing definitely a trend of selecting people who he has close relationships with who he has worked with in the past and today he announced susan rice as yet another person he is bringing back from the obama administration of course you remember rice as being obama's embassador to the u.n. later his national security adviser but the role that she's been asked to do now is actually a different one perhaps a little bit unexpected biden says that he is appointing her to be the director of the domestic policy council so she would be in charge of liaising with federal agencies policies as diverse as health care to education to civil rights so certainly not something that her resume

castro al-jazeera washington. now u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen california's attorney general to serve as health and human services secretary now if confirmed by the senate javier basara will be the 1st as a teenager to head that department but there is also known for leading a series of lawsuits defending obamacare when that speech our white house correspondent came to health it now in washington d.c. can be it does seem that mr basara was a bit of a surprise pick can you tell us a little more about. yes that's right he was a surprise pick and i can tell you that as the top law enforcement official for california many are questioning his background in terms of the choice because he was one of the succeeded the vice president elect come a harris in the state of california he was a fierce defender of the affordable care act so it does indicate joe biden's priorities when it comes to what he hopes to accomplish as president but there is another point to all of this and that is the fact that as you also mentioned that is a latino he

joe biden is picking some of the best people to serve. >> secretary castro, grateful for your time. good to see you. >> great to be with you. >>> up next, congress needs to make a big deal to keep the government running. part of the debate is will there be new coronavirus stimulus spending. >>> it is a big week up on capitol hill, a week where a pandemic relief bill either comes together or falls apart. if congress fails to act, 12 million americans face losing unemployment benefits right after christmas. that's just one of the big decisions facing congress this week in what is expected to be a consequential but perhaps messy week for lawmakers. manu raju is live on capitol hill. manu, they always let it go until the end. now they're busy. >> reporter: all part of what's common on capitol hill, end of the year crunch. what's different about this year, we're in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis, a toxic mess congress has to clean up after months of partisan bickering led to stalemate on key issues, namely a covid relief package we talked about for so many months, it has be

. >> mayor pete and julian castro are available, i hope joe biden is listening.ions that we're hearing about now and james clyburn has been pushing for this, for marsha fudge to step up and be the new secretary of agriculture. if she leave, there will be a serious the fight for her congressional seat and we're hearing everything from local names like dennis kucinich and bashir jones on city council in cleveland and even nina turner may fight for her seat. as somebody who was a part of the warren campaign, the progressive left, is there a real belief that some of these seats as they open up are opportunities for the democratic left to take a former spot, or is it the best bet to move into the new biden administration? >> well, i have to agree with congressman clyburn. i think my former national sorority sister marsha fudge would make a phenomenal secretary of agriculture. and you made a good point that there are a lot of people in her district as well as new orleans and so many others where is a majority black people that want log recei progressive policies and po

had already certified that president elect joe biden is the winner biden has nominated retired army general lloyd austin as his defense secretary's you saw castro talking about earlier if confirmed by the senate austin would be the 1st black chief at the pentagon he has decades of experience and head of the u.s. central command under president barack obama biden's promise to choose the most diverse cabinet in u.s. history if european security forces have shot at and detained u.n. security officials trying to reach the region the u.n. says the 4 officials who are assessing roads for delivering aid to refugee camps a government spokesman says the team drove through 2 checkpoints and ignored instructions not to be in the area or the 950000 people have now been displaced by the conflict in the northern region of ethiopia since early november you know some of the u.n. staffs were actually did in some way showed that when that happened. this country is not no man's land it has a government it only has difficulty in the roads so they are entitled to some of you know as new in mosul post move but then that is a. in kind of an intimacy expedition more n

president and president elect joe biden is about to introduce his latest pick of cabinet members let's go live now to wilmington delaware i did your castro can tell us more susan rice we hear is poised to be announced as domestic policy council directed today but that doesn't exactly come without controversy does it. that's right or nor with some surprises adrian because as you know susan rice has a long career in foreign policy she served as president obama's ambassador to the u.n. before becoming his national security advisor and it was it's reported that she had been in consideration by bided to perhaps be secretary of state but ultimately she was passed over due to concerns of a difficult confirmation process republicans have attacked susan rice along with hillary clinton over their perceived role in the benghazi attacks now with this appointment as the director of the national domestic policy council rice does not need senate confirmation and in this new role she would take on a slate of domestic policy issues everything from education to health care to civil rights the biden transition issuing a statement earlier saying that rice k

castro. so these two individuals are highly concerning. and then on top of all of it, joes someone who picked kamala harris, the most liberal senator, to be his running mate. this is someone who will abandon all of his moderate beliefs and embrace extremism. so yes, i am highly concerned about what a democrat would look like with this country. >> yeah, border integrity has been a big issue over the last year and the last race. republicans have hired 8,000 poll washers for the race on tuesday. will that have impact on the fairness and honesty of the selection? >> it should. one thing i will point out, i do think this comes down to policy over personality. senator david purdue during the actual election in november won more votes and a bigger vote share than president trump did in the state. so, if use if you stick to the f policies, then that's a winner for republicans. the fact that biden, harris want to get rid of a right-to-work state like georgia, which has been a right-to-work state since 1947. that means hurting job creation and forcing people to either join unions or

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and that sense of social justice to my mom, long castro, who became one of the first equal opportunity officers. 'm so proud of my children, molly and joe and thomas and in who are serving others the peace corps, the foreign service and the armed services. for two years, i've been so and so proud of my staff here in washington, d.c., california.e in they made a positive difference in the lives of all the people 21st congressional district. from the 27 bills we passed to of water illion infrastructure we got passed through the house to the over we returned back to over 300 constituents, they were productive, effective, and capable. thank you to my team. shining example of the adage to be successful, surround who are with people smarter than you. i want to thank all the house taff for making this place work, the capitol police who safe, the staff in the gym who kept us in shape, and nancy, leaders, steny, jim, hakeem, our caucus is in good hands. all the interns who served in both my d.c. and district offices. i'm proud you are considering a ife and a career in public service. by the young amen and women who want to make a difference. hey