damaged buildings and hit telephone and internet services across parts of tennessee well john john hendren is following the story from nashville and joins us now confirmation of the bowler behind the explosion what else of the investigators been saying john. well it's 2 days after the christmas bombing one day after warner was named as a person of interest in the case and now they have the d.n.a. evidence that they have been looking for and hastily turned around that d.n.a. evidence was apparently taken from the vehicle of warner there had been reports that they had tried to take d.n.a. from his mother but they have now concluded that they have the bomb or that he acted alone and that he died in the attack this is what the u.s. attorney donald cochrane had to say. based on the evidence that we've gathered at this point we've come to the conclusion that an individual named anthony. warner is the bomber he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the

on these stop statistics mike hanna al-jazeera washington well let's have more on this now with john hendren who's watching it for us in washington d.c. john we all set to him much more from the afghan men but for now what do we know about how all of this is going to last and where exactly. well according to the c.d.c. guidelines the 1st people to get this vaccine will be the elderly and those people who've been looking after them in hospitals these are the doctors and nurses and other workers who have been responding to the coronavirus and right now we're going to hear a little more about exactly how that is going to roll out once we hear this vote that is ongoing right now but. after that happens we're going to start seeing regular people get those doses beginning we are told if everything goes well in about march april may and by the summer period. john i'm branes interrupt you there because we are just seeing now. the f.d.a. commissioner that he is speaking about the vaccine authorization let's have a listen to what he has to say element including vaccines traditionally take years what w

35000 it was the 1st epicenter of the virus in the united states in cases all again on the rise john hendren has the latest from washington d.c. . the united states rolled out the most ambitious vaccination program in american history. to the applause of workers at pfizer's michigan vaccine plant it is a test of an unprecedented national effort to save millions of lives in the nation most ravaged by the pandemic. with these low dry ice into boxes containing the super chilled vaccine to negative 70 degrees celsius. then in a scene not witnessed in this century that scene bearing ferric to u.b.s. delivery trucks are escorted by u.s. marshals the shipments are expected to reach the 1st $145.00 locations on monday and a total of $636.00 by wednesday $20000000.00 vaccinations this this month and then we think will be up to $50000000.00 total vaccinations of people by the end of january and $100000000.00 shots in arms by the end of february just with the derren and foster vaccine but amid the celebration there are warning signs to achieve the herd immunity necessary to stop the disease in. u.s. ju

well john hendren is in nashville for a says so john one more has the police and federal investigators told us about this person of interest apologies we're having a problem with john hendren or dio i think they're just going to try and see if we can connect it no unfortunately. we can't get john hendren is already you know he is in nashville we've just heard from federal investigators that they're actually searching for a specific person of interest linked to that explosion that was felt in nashville on christmas day just yesterday we will be bringing you the latest from nashville in the u.s. in a little later in the news hour well also coming up on this news hour from london. desperate times for millions of americans as their jobless benefits expire joe biden accuses on trumpet of an abdication of responsibility. the military offensive in ethiopia that spiraled into an inter ethnic conflict. and lay broncos a step closer to clinching a christmas record details later in sport. the european union has launched a mammoth vaccination effort while a new coronavirus variant of detected in t

john hendren with the latest from nashville john thank you. the european union has launched a mammoth vaccination effort while a new coronavirus very into detected in the u.k. continues to spread across the continent hungry was the 1st country to announce that it's already started vaccinating doctors and health care workers germany and slovakia have also begun their campaigns well the 1st batches of the pfizer a biotech vaccine arrived across the e.u. including countries like italy and spain which were once the continent's worst hotspots meanwhile the new coronavirus variant of detected in the u.k. has now also been found in spain and sweden as well as across the atlantic in canada the variance spreads up to 70 percent faster and resulted in dozens of countries banning travelers from britain paul brennan reports. the refrigerated vans drove through the night destinations including rome paris spain and hungary the precious cargo the vaccine developed by pfizer biotech kept at between minus 70 and minus 80 degrees the mass inoculation is due to

and john we are watching pictures right now of the impact of that explosion really horrifying john hendren in nashville tennessee with the latest for the moment john thank you. at least 5 people have been killed in an attack by syrian regime forces the victims were all farmers in a village near hama in the northern province of idlib one of the civilian was wounded in the artillery strike the attack by president bashar al assad's forces violates a ceasefire that was signed in march turkey's the fence minister has made a surprise visit to libya to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there who see a crowd of was flanked by top military officers as he inspected turkish units in tripoli on friday turkey's parliament voted to extend that the ploy meant of troops to libya for 18 months but libya's eastern warlord honey for have thought has threatened to use force against turkish soldiers if on credit doesn't stop interfering in the conflict and no more are relevant passage of the decisive confrontation has begun to appear for the near future from what our scouts ha

what john hendren joins us live now from nashville john so this explosion has raised more questions than answers so where are the police now with the investigation. well they have identified that one man his name is anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man from the town of antioch about 15 kilometers from here where the explosion happened but he's only been identified as a person of interest what makes that intriguing is that in google earth photographs it appears that there is an r.v. a recreational vehicle parked in the driveway of the home that is being searched and that's interesting because it was an r.v. that exploded down here after broadcasting warnings to anybody who was nearby so police have not said that this is the man responsible for the bombing they've only said that he is a person of interest they're looking into him but they've also said some very intriguing things they seem very confident that they have cracked this case they have said that they don't believe that there is any threat of a follow on attack that means they're pretty sure that this is a one off and they've al

an epidemic growing within a pandemic as the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren al-jazeera chicago. dozens of united nations world heritage sites damaged by warfare or neglect are at risk of losing their status and the latest report in our series on unesco's endangered list we visit the ancient fortress villages of high in the mountains of phonetic and western georgia robin for us to walk or reports a story of uncontrolled tourism and failed restoration for. the. for centuries these defensive towers protected and preserved the span the community . the cluster of that is has world heritage status but these extraordinary medieval architecture is steadily collapsing. mosts family tower was damaged in an avalanche he says the thirty's promised to repair it. help they have a king. we were celebrating a religious holiday and the tower collapsed thank god nobody was hurt but the saudis thing is i have a teach collapsed with it. that heritage has outstanding value to humanity as defined by unesco before the pandemic it brought tourism vital income but tourism brought unr

puir the scene of the christmas day bombing for clues as to who was behind it they did it and why john hendren. nashville tennessee have these 3 people have been shot at a bowling alley in the u.s. state of illinois 3 other people were also injured in that incident which happened in the city of rockford police say a person of interest a there isn't custody and is being questioned well there were several explosions across kabul on saturday at least 5 are reported killing 4 people including 2 police officers no group has claimed responsibility and it's happened as the taliban and the afghan government continue talks and. well security personnel activists politicians and journalists are among those who've been targeted in afghanistan in recent weeks a prominent women's rights activist fresh tacos danny was shot dead along with her brother on thursday a day earlier the head of an independent elections watchdog and pro-democracy activist was also killed and on saturday a politician come home and wardak was targeted in a car bombing he survived but 9 other people were killed while. a member of afgha

remind the public to remain vigilant as an occupation will take time that's good one hour from john hendren in washington said the pfizer vaccine has that regulatory approval but how soon before the vaccinations actually get going. what right now finds her is loading up those huge dry ice filled boxes with the vaccine and the company says that on sunday just 24 hours from now it will be distributing those boxes into trucks and sending those trucks to u.p.s. and fed ex hubs near its manufacturing site in michigan and there it will be delivered all across the u.s. the 1st number of locations is $636.00 and we are told that $145.00 locations will be served on monday and the rest over tuesday and wednesday that's the 1st batch of these vaccines that we heard that from the chief operating officer of operation were speed this is what he had to say take a listen i expect the 1st shipments to arrive monday morning extensive coordination will ensure that this occurs we work with pfizer mckesson u.p.s. fed ex federal and local law enforcement agencies to ensure safety and security of the vaccine make

the scene of a christmas day bombing for clues as to who was behind it how they did it and why john hendren al-jazeera nashville tennessee. at least 3 people have been shot dad says a bowling alley in the u.s. states of illinois 3 other people were injured in the incidents which happens in the city of what for its for the suspect is in custody and is being questions and they still haven't people have been killed after 3 avalanches in the mountains north of the iranian capital rescue workers a searching for 7 people reported missing since friday and other 7 climbers have been taken to hospital with frostbite parts of the u.k. are being warned to expect more flooding and strong winds have already been days of wet weather from the approaching storm balla rivers have been rising particularly high the in the currency of bedford share where many homes have been evacuated. well the nefarious and refugees and migrants are stranded in the open in freezing weather in bosnia herzegovina of our this week destroyed much of their camp near the croatian border katia lopez hardy and reports. that these mig

early on christmas day the explosion injured 3 people and damaged around 40 buildings serious john hendren reports from nashville. federal investigators say the nashville christmas bomber worked alone and died in the blast that rocked the world country music. 2 days after the bombing and one day after federal investigators identified 63 year old anthony quinn warner as a person of interest they declared him the mysterious man who blew up his motor home and several blocks of downtown nashville anthony. is the bomber he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished that conclusion was based 'd on d.n.a. evidence gathered in his saturday radio suburban nashville home and compared with human remains found at the scene there is no indication that any other persons were involved. we reviewed hours of security video. surrounding the recreational vehicle as well that we saw no other people involved around that vehicle property records show warner transferred the deed to his home to a california woman in late november the explosion near an 18000 transmission site knocked out mobile phone

about 40 buildings were damaged in the past have held another media briefing let's head over to john hendren who joins us from nashville john what did all saudis have to say. well what we learned was we heard from police who put together a clearer picture of what exactly was happening around that christmas morning bombing and it sounds like the action of those police officers probably saved a number of lives they said they heard warnings coming out of that recreational vehicle including a warning not to approach it he said that you couldn't see inside because all of the shades had been drawn within that vehicle and they said they went building by building trying to clear people out and finish doing that so close to the detonation time that some of them were actually actually knocked to the ground feeling the heat of that explosion but amazingly in the end only 3 people were injured and nobody outside of that vehicle is killed we police do say that they found some human remains that may or may not have been from someone inside the recreational vehicle and we're also getting a clearer picture

an explosion on christmas day in nashville 3 people were hurt about 40 buildings were damaged john hendren is there . in what could be a crucial break federal investigators searched the home of a person of interest in the nashville christmas the role of the man identified as 63 year old anthony quinn warner is not yet clear the top prosecutor in the case has his own name for whoever is responsible this this is ultimate scrooge on christmas morning instead of spreading joy and cheer decided to spread devastation and destruction u.s. authorities pursuing more than 500 tips and leads expressed confidence after finding what they believe to be human remains near the site of the explosion saying there is no manhunt and no risk of a follow up attack at this point we don't have any indication that we are looking for a nother subject but again there's $500.00 leads are running through so there's all kinds of individuals we're looking for that i am fairly confident we'll be able to identify an individual or ascertain what has occurred those remains found at the scene might belong to a bomber who was

held another media briefing but as yet haven't provided much new information let's head over to john hendren who joins us from nashville john what more can you tell us. he's welcome that's right we heard from a number of the officers who responded to this scene and they talked about how they evacuated people from the area they reported parking directly in front of that r.v. that ended up exploding hearing the messages emanating from that r.v. telling people to evacuate and that there would be an explosion coming so as that happened they worked their way through the neighborhood to ensure that people weren't there and they said interestingly that the windows of that r.v. were all blocked they said they never saw the person inside of it but we are getting a picture of the police theory in this case they have a person of interest whose home they searched that man is anthony quinn warner a 63 year old man who lives about 15 kilometers away from downtown nashville in a town called antioch and there are pictures of an r.v. much like the one that exploded here at that house where he lived in intrig

and older nearly 300000 people have died of cope with 19 in the world's worst affected nation john hendren has the latest from washington d.c. . in the nation most devastated by the global pandemic the 1st doses of the 1st approved vaccine or on the move within the next 24 hours they will begin moving vaccine from the pfizer manufacturing facility to the u.p.s. and fed ex hopes and then it will go out to the $636.00 locations nationwide the 1st $145.00 sites in the u.s. are expected to receive the vaccine on monday with the rest receiving it by wednesday now front line responders like dr ben you sachin colorado will be among the 1st to be vaccinated against cove of 19 i am going to be one of the tips of the spear when the 1st people to step in to help generate is herd immunity which is sold toward the us to get a grip on this terrible disease those 1st vaccinations will happen just days after the u.s. food and drug administration approved it on friday science and data guided the f.d.a. decision we worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic not because of any other extra no pressu

the scene of a christmas day bombing for clues as to who was behind it how they did it and why john hendren. nashville tennessee. more than a 1000 refugees and migrants are stranded in the open in freezing weather and pulls their herzegovina a far this week destroyed much of their camp near the croatian border because the lopez who they are reports. these migrants have nowhere to go they're stranded in a refugee camp and most are herzegovina their goal is to reach western europe but for now their focus is surviving the winter storm the lip a camp near the croatian border has no heat and no proper facilities lined outside in subzero temperatures refugees wait for a donated meal and perhaps a sleeping bag from the red cross we are living like and the most human and well living like better. so please i request. you i know i us all and yours to help us because if they cannot help us we really die so please help us a fire broke out on wednesday the same day the camp was meant to be shut down a un official says it was likely said by migrants frustrated with the schedule closure and lack of altern

let's go live now to john hendren who is there in nashville john so a bomb went off that was inside an r.v. which had been warning people to evacuate i mean there are so many questions here every have any more updates perhaps with some answers. the mystery surrounding this christmas morning bombing just continues to expand in the more we learn the more questions we have in the latest bit of information is what you heard right there that human tissue apparently was found at the site of that explosion what we know is that it all began shortly before 6 30 am on christmas morning the r.v. was parked in this spot next to an a.t.m. t. transmission building there was a broadcast warning with an apparently computerized voice coming from that recreational vehicle warning people if they could hear that message to evacuate and then at 6 15 in the morning the message changed and said that there was a potential explosion a detonation coming within 15 minutes and then 15 minutes later that is exactly what happened in that blast destroyed 41 buildings downtown there are a number of people still displ

hit telephone and internet services across the vast swathes of tennessee let's go live now to john hendren who is following the story from nashville john 1st of all what are we learning about the investigation into the case. hi mary and that's right we're learning that this gentleman warner is increasingly at the center of the investigation police searched his home and they found some intriguing facts he apparently owned a motor home that was very similar to the one that blew up in downtown nashville he had gifted his home a month earlier november 25th to one in california without telling her about it. so police are increasingly focusing on him and it's intriguing that they say they found human remains but that there were no casualties among the general public out there so that seems to suggest that what they're doing is focusing on the possibility that one man one person committed suicide inside that recreational vehicle we heard from the the officers who responded to that scene possibly saving lives by clearing people out of that area after they heard warnings broadcast from that r.v. te

next shipment the elderly and health care workers are going to be the 1st to get the vaccine ok john hendren is joining us now from washington d.c. he's been keeping across all of this john just bring us up to speed with the scale of the operation and the logistics that are involved in making this happen. this is an immunization program unlike any we've ever seen not just in our lifetimes but in the recent in the past century or so logistically it is challenging with the keeping everything it's negative 70 degrees centigrade also just the massive scale of the distribution we heard today from an official from operation warp speed that is the program to develop vaccines here in the u.s. who said they expect $40000000.00 doses to be delivered by the end of the year and possibly 50 to 80000000 more doses in january joe biden the incoming president of the united states says he wants 100000000 doses delivered in this country of a little more than 300000000 in his 1st 100 days in office so you can understand why employees it finds are applauded when the 1st trucks left that facility went out to fed

a goal of inoculating 100000000 americans within 100 days of his inauguration on january 20th john hendren al-jazeera washington oil and other developments u.s. president on all trump is saying the supreme court let the country down by dismissing a legal case to overtime election results in 4 states it deals a potentially fatal blow to trump's quest to reverse joe biden's victory in the november election case was brought by the state of texas seeking to change the results in 4 states won by the supreme court refused to take up the matter up the president claims the court has 0 interest in the merits of what he describes as the greatest forward of a pup a traitor on the u.s. . meanwhile thousands of tons of horses are in washington to denounce the election result and the court's decision it's just 2 days before the electoral college votes to confirm joe biden's victory under its of protest as well black and yellow colors of the right wing proud boys which has been classified as a white supremacist group by law enforcement more protests are planned for cities across the country this year is

almost half a 1000000 deaths have been linked to the abuse of the painkiller as al-jazeera has john hendren has a meeting some of the victims in chicago. tim ryan with the recruiting director for a chicago consulting company and he founded a multi-million dollar executive search firm and he was also a drug addict people out this misconception that an opiate addict is the homeless person on the corner with the brown paper bag that's 5 per cent you know the average opiate addict so a 22 year old white middle class male a 23 year old white middle class female the disease of addiction does not discriminate after using for years he caught his son using heroin and opiates enjoying him my son and i that's how we get by on did by doing drugs every day then for tim came addiction prison ensue briony for his son nick a cycle of addiction jail rehab and relapse on the day tim recorded his 21st month of sobriety nick suffered a fatal overdose dr told me that the room right next to where we were and i walked in there. indices. mike's one year old son called 'd blue all lifeless body just lying there wit

an epidemic growing within a pandemic as the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren al-jazeera chicago. before which is even president concept was suki has told of 0 that he's proud of the progress made in creating a democratic government in the country suki oversaw to his years transition to democracy but he assumed office shortly after the arab spring revolution under serious jamal shall spoke at length with zuki i began by asking him about the legacy of the uprisings 10 years later. if we consider the situation in tunisia i am proud of the number of achievement. that we have realized during the 1st of all we are now a free nation we have free elections we have a free parliament we have freedom of expression we have freedom of gathering etc etc and i can assure you of that as a human rights activist i was very extremely cautious about torture i said from the beginning to the advance the police and the army that i will never accept any kind of torture and torture has stopped in tunisia so i can say that from the political point of view we have a ship that a lot of o

the scene of a christmas day bombing for clues as to who was behind it how they did it and why john hendrenal-jazeera nashville tennessee yes present donald trump has refused to sign a 900 $1000000000.00 coronavirus relief and spending bill the package was approved by republicans and democrats in congress hasa this includes a one time pads congress agreed to $600.00 for individuals but trump wants that increase to 2000. presidents about joe biden has accused trump of them to case in his responsibilities to the nation he says the refusal will have devastating consequences the bill is attached to launch a bunch of measures means around 40000000 people will have their regular payments to aid us is facing partial government shutdown from choose stay last congress agrees a stop gap from going down. as the latest from washington. the u.s. president donald trump has refused to sign a $900000000000.00 bill that would provide economic support to americans and their families to businesses and to the overall u.s. economy he says it's because the one time stimulus checks that would be given to many ame

can't do it with nearly 300000 dead and new infections rising the human toll continues to mount john hendren al jazeera washington. well it's only has overtaken the u.k.'s with the country with the most coronavirus related deaths in europe it reported another $484.00 fatalities on sunday taking the overall death toll beyond $64.00 and a half 1000 stricter lockdown measures are also being imposed in germany through christmas and up until january 10th to reduce the surge in cases that go has more. quiet days and silent nights this is a festive season like no other here in germany are traditionally at this time of the year the streets a bustling with christmas markets this year not so after more than 20000 cases were confirmed on sunday the chancellor angela merkel announced most stores would be closing of the christmas shopping period as well as further measures placing germany into a complete lockdown over its record number of infections the fish did to cling in the hundreds because of bottles with we urgently needed to act with the decisions made today are the result of that the goal remains

to have an impact on these stop statistics mike hanna al-jazeera washington ok let's go live to john hendren in washington d.c. mike was just saying there that pfizer has said it's prepared to roll out the vaccine in 24 hours just before we get into anything else do we know what rule out actually means. yes fines are says it's going to be loading those vaccines into the special cold containers that keep them it below freezing temperatures there are a load those on the trucks and send the trucks to the airport on sunday morning that's just about 24 hours from now and this morning the f.d.a. director stephen hahn said that there was no external pressure to get the agency to approve this vaccination in record time that's despite the fact that president trump reportedly threatened his job if hahn did not get that approval out by friday evening on contests that account he says that's not what was said to him when he got the call but in any case the f.d.a. has now given emergency authorization for the use of this vaccine the centers for disease control is meeting at this hour it has to formally ap

an epidemic growing within a pandemic is the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren al-jazeera chicago champions league football matches been suspended when both teams walked off the pitch accusing an official of using a racist term players from the turkish team stand cool it's down bull a sock assia were incensed that a red card was shown to an assistant coach they claim the 4th official described the coach using a rice term and then left the pitch the whole power also walked off and finally the italian city of venice has been flooded after heavy rain and strong winds took authorities by surprise she seized on poles arrived before officials could activate the huge flood barriers which were any introduced 2 months ago the system of $78.00 gates at the entrance to the venetian the goon and protect the city from tides of up to 3 meters but they need 48 hours notice to be activated. help us now we'll take you through the headlines u.s. president elect joe biden's introduced his new medical team and pledged to get agree.

$16000000.00 and the total death toll there is now edging towards 300000 let's get more now from john hendren he's following the story from washington and as we've been saying this is an unprecedented rollout of the vaccine they're going to be how they planning for the just tickle challenges. well that's right it is the most ambitious undertaking in terms of a vaccination program ever in u.s. history we've never seen anything like this it's almost like out of a science i'm movie you've got u.s. marshals escorting these vaccines which are going out of a pfizer plant in kalamazoo michigan they're being stuffed into boxes filled with dry ice because they have to be capped at 70 degrees below 0 celsius and then those those trucks go to fed ex and u.p.s. delivery hubs and then they are flown out on monday the 1st $145.00 locations will receive those vaccines and by wednesday a total of $636.00 locations will receive vaccines and we're told that the 1st batch that is going out is 2900000 vaccines anybody use immunize with those has to get to shots so it's really half of that number in terms of the

ok let's go live to john hendren who's in washington d.c. for us obviously the commissioner as we mentioned of the f.d.a. giving an optimistic message but still telling people that they have to be patient that's right stephen hons job in a news conference this morning was essentially to reassure people that this vaccine was safe and that they should take it and his job was made a little more difficult by president trump who on friday apparently sent a message we are we've seen in a neumar a number of reports saying that han needed to get that vaccine approved for emergency use by the end of the day friday or he could lose his job that's one of the problems of people concerned about is the kind of political influence that has been going on all along that is a rooted people's confidence in the vaccine and one of the dinner table conversations you hear in the u.s. is are you going to take it when it becomes available for most people that's not an option because what we're seeing right now being distributed is about 3000000 doses those will go t

care workers and the elderly begins on monday as the nationwide death toll approaches 300000 and john hendren has more from washington d.c. in addition to sending these to specific hospitals they're also being sent to c.v.s. and walgreens to drugstores and their pharmacists will receive the vaccine personally and in their own vehicles will take them alone within a radius of 75 miles from each of their locations to distribute them to nursing homes where the elderly are most at risk in many cases it will be the frontline health care workers doctors and nurses who will be receiving the vaccines 1st and then it will spread out to the general public over the coming months we are told the general public might start getting vaccinations from march to april may and june has been an explosion on an oil tanker delivering called saudi arabia's jazzer port a shipping company said the b.w. ryme had been hit by an unidentified exxon a source that caused the blast and a fire. farmers union leaders in india are one day hunger strike in a bid to ramp up protests of a new agricultural nors farmers are being ke