let's check in now on some other developments in the penn demick the drugmaker says hackers accessed documents related to its coded 1000 vaccine candidate during a cyber attack on europe's medicines regulator israel is starting the 2nd phase for a vaccine that if successful could be rolled out next summer and the u.s. department of agriculture has confirmed the country's 1st known case of the corona virus in a wild animal a mink. a new media investigation has found that a group of russian special agents followed opposition leader alexa of only 4 years before he was poisoned this summer that report says the agents from russia security service the f.s.b. were part of an intelligence team specializing in toxins and nerve agents. an independent thorough investigation of a crime that the russian government refuses to consider investigative website belling cat reveals a story about a specially trained team of russian agents with the goal of poisoning dissident aleksey nouvelle me with a deadly nerve agent shock. at the moment it's nobel now i found out who tried to kill me i know where the

let's get some perspective on the penn demick now we have with us he's a member of the european parliament and the health spokesperson for the largest political group in the parliament the e.p. mr lisa good morning thank you for joining us i want to start out 1st of all with the vaccines because we know that some countries like the u.s. and britain they are already vaccinating with the biotech pfizer shot why is it taking european authorities longer to approve it. yeah because we are having a more safe procedure europe will have the 1st regular approver of the vaccine united kingdom and the us have emergency authorization and that is less safe because of 3 reasons 1st of all. we got more data by on take the lead but even yesterday night and the 2nd day said the liability is for the producer with the regular approval like in the european union and more people are looking at the data on side effects and if you can see so i think it's only a few days longer but it adds safety to the process and that's important but we're talking about the same vaccine here aren't we so you're saying that it w

are at extreme risk because the lockdowns the restrictions all of what came in the wake of the penn demick is hurting migrants refugees asylum seekers more than probably anyone else really remember many of these where in cramped places which are also about one ruble to the spread of the deceased's but they these places have become you know virtual christens they cannot move out of the camps they cannot get elsewhere so indeed the the economic meltdown for these people the mental strain is just tremendous young you mention the word prisons and that and the current situation what hope can migrants really have that they're going to be included in a fair distribution of vaccines they are not having high hopes that all because the world is not a if for fair and just place really of course the this is international my migration day indeed so of the 272300 1000000 migrants there is a lot of people who who choose that voluntarily they are work migrants they are students going abroad etc but there are tens of millions 18000000 people who fled from war and persecutions tens of millions more fled dis

but the fans watching the bonus he got from home during the penn demick they can choose to bring the match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. and christmas in the holy land is looking different this year the coronavirus crisis means there are no tourists and social contact has been reduced to a minimum but santa claus is still making his rounds in jerusalem and bethlehem he's just have to adapt like everybody else. center is always on the ball in december so it's the 2nd system here the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the jerusalem santa hopes for a festive season. this is centers house the work place of jerusalem st nick and also it says family home it's december the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the pandemic has changed everything it's very hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would govern 19 i try my best to have a plan a b. c. . at the nursery school run by the daughters of charity center is to help decorate the christmas tree du

well let's take a look now at some other developments in the penn demick russian president vladimir putin has ordered voluntary mass vaccination to start next week russia says it sputnik vaccine is 92 percent effective and portugal's prime minister has set securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority portugal takes over the user's rotating presidency in january and meanwhile germany has reported a record 487 deaths over 24 hours a new daily record officials have been expecting deaths to trend upward following a steep rise in new infections. of course in hong kong has sentenced 3 elating pro-democracy activists to jail for their involvement in last year's anti-government protests while the longest sentence that of 13 and a half months was handed to joshua won but he remains defiant vowing to continue to fight for democracy from prison. headed back to jail after his sentencing on wednesday joshua wang seen here in black pled guilty to charges which included inciting and illegal assembly fellow activists agnes chauhan ivan lamb also received jail terms one has been a

now the penn demick has battered tourism around the world and the prince polity of monaco on the french riviera is no exception but lately the tiny city state has seen a little boost with a steady stream of day trippers seeking a reprieve from tighter restrictions across the border in france. a sunny lunchtime in monaco a few minutes away confronts the restaurants are closed because of the pandemic and the sit to stay that way to january 20th at the earliest he added they opened and he was people too many of them fringe people. you knew who you are going to who say well they can sell for the new owner we're from a nice we've come to eat in a restaurant because in france we're not allowed to. parents give us orders. you must leave the house you mustn't go in. but we are disobedient teenagers we don't listen to our parents. so we cross the border to come in and out. of my home. wouldn't. you don't see it's an excellent thing it keeps the economy going do you think essential to the same thing. yes it would be a step towards getting back to normal economically coming up and down. and it's n

businesses and individuals will now get long overdue support in an economy that's been battered by the penn demick talks between britain and the european union on a post to break that trade deal are expected to continue on monday after negotiators failed to meet another key deadline for compromise the european parliament had warned that it would not vote on a deal secured after midnight on sunday it's believed significant different differences remain on fisheries. germany's main services trade union has called for a strike against amazon's a 6 german warehouses the campaign would last until christmas eve the union says its goal is to pressure the online retailer into recognizing collective the wage and workplace safety agreements. sports now in bundesliga football false burkhead into the winter break and 4th place in the table after a narrow victory at home over start guard the wolves accomplished the job even after corona virus particles made things a bit more complicated. stuttgart coach pelligrino matter right so had good cause to smile after his side were handed a boost ahead of the game oppon

and let's have a look now at other developments in the penn demick. turkey has tightened its restrictions announcing a curfew on weekdays and full lock downs over the weekend. it's world health organization has urged countries not to politicize the hunt for the origins of covert, 19 saying that would create boundaries to learning the truth. vietnam has reported its 1st locally transmitted case in 3 months. authorities have introduced temporary knocked out, and brazil, south bound states has imposed stricter social distancing measures after warning from the oh, about very worrying case numbers. just as they are coronavirus can mean no symptoms for some people i.c.u. and death for others. its impact on the economy has also been very mixed. here in europe, spain is considered the member hardest hit before the pandemic. spanish g.d.p. was growing at almost 3 percent, much better than its neighbors. but in the 1st 2 quarters of this year when travel and tourism, the lifeblood of spain, such an economy came to a standstill. the economy tanked putting the co

site so that derek williams as for our science desk and he's with me now he's been covering the penn demick. daily covert 1000 special for most of 2021 they're good to have you with us what do you make of the political response to the pandemic. well that's that's kind of a pretty broad question isn't it i mean i think it depends on the country that you live in different countries have reacted in different ways in the u.s. for example i think there's a pretty broad consensus that things have been pretty catastrophic in terms of communication from the government here in germany i think government gets a much better report card in other countries that have done especially well take new wheat new zealand for example geographical factors that have certainly played a role of being an island but really that would have made much less of a difference if the communication from on high from the government had not been as clear as it was in general i would say that clear communication from the government and from politicians has really played a key role and in in saying whether or not they've dealt wit

the penn demick already peaked in the russian capital this week now they supported their claim with theirown mathematical model created to predict the spread of now while it may seem like good news from moscow the situation in st petersburg well it remains alarmingly tense according to local health officials only 4 percent of hospital beds that were earmarked for patients remain vacant and that means the hospitals are almost filled to capacity the situation is different throughout the country of course president putin spokesperson me trip to scoff said that at the moment there are no plans for a complete lockdown while the head of state himself admits to country having some issues with the pandemic bud's everything is under control according to police and . you go to those you know health care system in any country was prepared for it our system proved to be more or less efficient we are aware of issues that we've had and we are dealing with them the pandemic required closing down some facilities and production unemployment has been on the rise and incomes unfortunately have been going do

senda the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the penn demick has changed everything it's azeri hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would cover 19 i try my best to have a plan a b. c. as me as a center try to bring joy for jerusalem and to the word also my message is always love and happy and happiness and safety for them and joy and we say inshallah everything will be ok the palestinian christian from jerusalem's old city has been slipping into the role of santa claus for the last 3 years in real life he's a former professional basketball player turned coach is a remembers that there was no santa around when he was growing up in jerusalem a city 3 words religions call home when i was a kid i never see real santa and that's why i want to eat of the children here this evening t.v. in the show on pictures or fake saturday like a toy and now when they see it real in jerusalem they feel very proud of what we have said dangerous. but is that because the see it's no ordinary sense nic he's home to his craft at specialist sent to school in the us these are the dipl

work or what country you're in we're all at risk of the coronavirus however that doesn't make the penn demick the great leveller some would have us believe it does not even add inequalities because although the virus doesn't discriminate our current social and economic structures do that 2017 book i spoke about at the start of all this the great leveller the author had cited pandemics as a force that could in the long run even out some inequalities however in the historical data he studied it was a catastrophic loss of life that pushed the changes many more people have died of covert 19 then should have but if anything is going to push for reform and change purse coronavirus it's going to be the cute and in its capable realisation that are unequal systems are not only unjust completely unsustainable in the early months of this year arundhati wrote a piece calling this pandemic important i asked her what she meant by that. so what when i stated the brain damage is a portal i said we can choose either to walk through it dragging the carcasses of all our producer. there an idea. that i want to.

and of course there's also the penn demick for now besides a few local families heritage sites like thismain for the most part abandoned but some still come. we live in tripoli with cave 19 we're all a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear and when the ban will help the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical sites are it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave their weapons behind with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites malik traina al-jazeera subrata. is the director of the mask as well heritage center and she says rehabilitation of libya's rowan's is underway but more is also is a needed for all the endangered sites. at the moment you have all of the cultural sites in libya on unesco's heri

christina bjorkman wishes for more government action against the penn demick told her she lost her husband to call that 19 after a 30 day long struggle at the hospital or. when. she says his death could have been avoided with stricter rules. the whole mask mandate got political and shannon never been political and should have been a medical thing. and i think it just got so blown out of proportion and i think maybe it came from our president he started it. christina bjorkman is pinning her hopes now on the president elect and a nationwide mask mandate once he takes office before then thousands more could die from cold at 19 in south dakota and the rest of the united states. well america between hope and helplessness let's put in dr schaffner he's professor at vanderbilt university in tennessee he's one of the u.s. is leading infectious disease experts dr schaffner it's good to see you again welcome back to the program this is the week that we saw the u.k. roll out its vaccination program we want to let our vote viewers know you're a member of the c.d.c.'s advisory committee on immunization

well that's germany's response let's now take a look at the latest global developments in the penn demick the u.s. has registered more than $3700.00 covert deaths within 24 hours another grim record and that's according to figures compiled by johns hopkins university twitter meanwhile has announced it will remove tweets containing misinformation about covert 1000 vaccines facebook and you tube have already announced similar measures and a health worker in the u.s. has suffered a severe allergic reaction after getting the biotech pfizer vaccine unlike similar cases in the u.k. she had no history of serious allergies doctors say they're prepared to treat rare reactions which can happen it during vaccine rollouts. now a court in the french capital paris has found 14 people guilty of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the satirical magazine charlie hebdo and on a jewish supermarkets they were convicted of helping the 3 attackers who were killed in shootouts with police the verdict comes at a time when france has again been hit by a wave of is the missed attacks prompting renewed debate over c

but for fans watching the business leader from home during the penn demick they can choose to bring the match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. christmas in the holy land is different this year a coronavirus crisis means there are no tourists and social contact has been reduced to a minimum santa claus is still making his rounds in jerusalem and bethlehem he's had to adapt like everyone else but santa is always on the cool in december so it's a circus this year the father christmas of the holy land though israel and the palestinian territories are gripped by coronavirus the 2 slim santa hopes for a festive season lurkers. vote this is centers house the workplace of jerusalem st nick and also it says family home it's the. the busiest time of the year for santa and yet in 2020 the pandemic has changed everything it's a very hard for us with this crazy situation what we have would govern one thing i try my best to have plan a b. c. . at the nursery school run by the daughters of charity center is to help decorate the christmas tree due to the pan

even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly penn demick. it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and i think people are willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th and unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be heard. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya the effects are devastating. and the fact that you have not been called well. somebody has livelihoods vanish people in power reveals the hardships facing affected communities and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased poaching in

and of course there's also the penn demick for now besides a few local families heritage sites like this remain for the most part abandoned but some still come. we live in tripoli with cave 19 we're all a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear and when the ban will help the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical site saw it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave their weapons behind with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites well that traynor al-jazeera subrata well we can now speak to me she is the director of you know sky as well heritage sentence she joins us now from paris metal the little bits of welcome hope there at the end of my next report but speaking of the end of what's been quite th

even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly penn demick. it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and i think people are willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th an unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be her . orleans. rising tensions over delayed election results they 5 dead in ghana where president nominee has been declared the winner. i'm come on sun summary here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera the son of president elect joe biden said he's under investigation over his taxes but is defined he's done nothing wrong. or a make or break.