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natasha loder. the united nations says fighting in many parts of ethiopia's tigray region is hampering efforts to deliver aid, while thousands of refugees continue to make their way to sudan in an effort to escape the conflict. their stories are harrowing. tanya dendrinos reports it should be a symbol of safety. but instead, this makeshift home houses the haunting memories of a family tragically broken. translation: my family and i were in our house in humera when it all started. once we heard the explosions, my wife and i gathered our children and ran outside towards the suez, and tried to keep ourselves safe there. once we heard explosions coming closer to us, we kept running in different directions to get away from them. he hasn't seen his wife or daughters since. a father desperate to give his younger children hope to cling to, even in the depths of his despair. translation: i worry when i think about how i need to provide for my children and what has happened to my family. sometimes the thought

days before restrictions are to be eased for the christmas holiday period in a moment we'll talk to natasha in paris 1st let's go to an official our correspondent there outside the white house in washington so allan as far as mr pence vaccination is concerned the symbolism clear for everyone to see. exactly right he was saying that this proves the administration didn't cut corners but cut red tape you'll remember that when donald trump said earlier this year he hoped of a vaccine by the end of the year the experts said that that was highly unlikely that would be looking at a time scale of at least 18 months the fact that there is no likely to be 2 vaccines in the u.s. by the end of the day is a testament to the scientists but also the administration can take some credit for putting pressure on the scientific community to move things through as fast as they could and also on to the f.d.a. for approving emergency use of the vaccines that's why mike pence decided in front of the t.v. cameras coast to coast on american television this morning decided to take the vaccine with his wife by his sid

natasha chen is with us now. what do we know about these discussions, what will be determined? i. >> the committee is taking about an hour's worth of comments to see who gets the vaccine next. as you mentioned, the firs t wave is all right started. >>> people 75 and older, frontline workers, and they're debating more about the next group, involving maybe slightly younger people, especially those with chronic health conditions and trying to debate exactly what those special health conditions would be in that description. the next group, teachers, police, firefighters, a group of about 50 million people, another 57 million people after that. biden's nominee for u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy talks about it. >>. >> we may see a circumstance where by late spring people in lower risk categories could get the vaccine, but that would have to have everything going very well on schedule. we want to be optimist ic. >> reporter: alex azar estimates by the end of february we may see 50 million people vac fated. >>> this all while the second vaccine from moderna is on the move. it's

natasha, good morning. let's just take a step back before we dig specifically into your story about how this was detected and who exactly it appears has pulled this off. >> yeah, so this was initially detected by a cyber security firm called fire eye, and they initially detected it by noticing some suspicious activity in their own networks. they looked into it, and they realized that there was a vulnerability in software that was developed by a company called solar winds, which is used cross the federal government. it's kind of an i.t. management software that's used by many different federal agencies and what happened was fire eye discovered that there was a back door essentially that was placed into solar winds that was allowing the hackers to compromise that software and then dig into the federal agencies that way. solar winds doesn't itself know yet or at least it hasn't announced how they were compromi compromised, so that remains to be seen. but so far the u.s. government has not officially pointed th

natasha chen is in tennessee and dan simon is in san francisco. tennessee currently leads the country in the number of coronavirus infections per capita. what are you seeing and hearing there? >> reporter: kate, we are in coffee county, and this is -- the fairgrounds has turned into a testing site. i can tell you right now we don't see anybody in line to get a test and this opened about an hour ago. there were a few people trickling in at first but it's emptied out. the issues we're seeing are in the east everyoern part of tenn. the "the new york times" made a list of where they're seeing increases, and tennessee made the list a few times. if you look at the overall moving average of daily cases in tennessee let's show you that graph because it's a stark visual there from early november to the current day we're seeing the skyrocketing graph. and hospitalizations the same thing, a steady increase in a scary way. the governor here, bill lee said people's thanksgiving choices are catching up to them. the vaccine is a good thing it's rolling out but i

natasha chen is at a drive-through event in atlanta. tell us what's going on there? >> reporter: i'm going to step aside to show you that reverend warnock and john ossoff, the two democrat candidates have come by to volunteer and help put food in people's trunks. we saw someone who realized who it was, and they screamed. people excited to see them. but ossoff did say before he started volunteering he felt it important to acknowledge the food insecurity and the need that is so great this year across the country as we've seen at many food drives, people who have never been to food banks before, trying to get some help any way they can and, of course, during the holiday season it's critically important. there you see them putting items in someone's car. this is the 50th annual christmas drive for the jose helps organization. named after the civil rights leader in atlanta. of course, the weather is sort of playing games with how many people are able to show up right now but there is a long line of cars and people who are here asking for this help, what they're getting is

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. >> let's get straight to natasha chen live in nashville. natasha, what's the latest you're hearing from investigators? >> reporter: yeah, well, they're still working through this very large blast site. it happened on second avenue where we are, but many, many blocks away they're trying to keep people far back from here. you can see some of the flashing lights and police blocking off the perimeter in the background, but they really don't want people coming around this area of downtown. there is actually a curfew in place that started the afternoon of christmas day. it goes into sunday afternoon to try to keep people away. of course, if folks actually have businesses here, they can show photo i.d. to have police escort them in. that's another thing, the businesses here, the mayor said at least 41 businesses damaged in this historic part of nashville. this area was already relatively more quiet. this is holiday season compared to what nashville would typically see. because of covid-19 protocols and restrictions. then this happened just around

natasha chen with us now. >> reporter: hi, fred. in the last 30 minutes or so, this advisory committee voted 13-1 on it is next two phases of who should be prioritized for this vaccine. as you just mentioned, we've already been seeing front line health care workers and long-term care facility residents getting this vaccine already. so, what we're seeing now is what they call the phase 1-b and 1-c they just voted on. let's look at that chart because what they're trying to balance here is saving lives, especially of the vulnerable as well as making sure society runs well. so, at phase 1-b, that's where most of the committee really agreed on this with no problem. we're talking about people age 75 and up as well as front line essential workers. that's, you know, teachers, firefighters, policemen, et cetera. the phase 1-c is kind of where we saw more debate among the committee members today because we're talking about 65 to 74-year-olds. we're talking about younger people with chronic health conditions. and that's where they were debatin

na th natasha chen. >>> joining me is executive associate dean at emery school of medicine and and serves as a special adviser for infectious diseases for delta air lines. thank you for being with us and for all that you do. >> delighted to be with you. >> i want to make the point. you received the pfizer vaccine a shot in the arm, one of 500,000 plus americans to get it. how are you feeling and what's your message to those fearing the side effects after two people had allergic reactions? >> you know, i did find, took it 24 hours, and i'm feeling fine, no symptoms and no side effects, a little bit of pain in my arm. that's about it. we are going to see allergic reactions. they're going to be rare. not very common, and none of them has been very serious. it's okay. go ahead, when you get your chance, take the vaccine, that's the best thing i can tell you. >> really nothing to be frightened about, and of course millions of doses of the second vaccine to receive authorization, moderna, those shipments are going across the united states. how much smoother do you expect this rollout to be, and

. >> cnn's natasha chen spoke to one mother who is weighing her options. >> reporter: 2020 has been a year of first for victoria giddens and none have been cause for celebration, in march as the pandemic forced much of the economy closed, giddens who had just accepted a job with a rental car company at the airport had that offer rescinded, a first for 30-year-old giddens who lives with her boyfriend and their 2-year-old son. >> we knew we had a 2-year-old to take care of. i was so depressed. >> reporter: two incomes in january became one by march. then as she struggled to find work and keep up with bills, another first, an eviction notice on her door telling her she had to be out by january th. >> i'm stressed every day. i try is not to let it show. >> reporter: especially in front of her son who can sense something is wrong. >> i believe in god. i think he's going to take care of everything. >> reporter: this year is also her first time ever asking for financial assistance just to pay her past due rent. >> i didn't want to sit down and do it, but i had to. >> reporter: she emailed a

natasha, let's begin with you. i know you're a few blocks from the scene. what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: yeah, bianna, this is where media is allowed to be stan staged right now. law enforcement is keeping us way back from the perimeter for good reason. this is about four blocks away from the edge of their perimeter, and i can have us kind of push in to show what we can see from our angle here. you see the police car with a taped-off area there, and far in the distance there is a maroon rur rust-colored building. this is where the rv was parked and exploded. cnn spoke to witnesses who live in a nearby building. they have videos of their own homes with a lot of damage inside their home as well, so a very frightening experience for the people who were woken up very early this morning trying to figure out what was going on. as far as the downtown nashville area, a lot of the streets are blocked off. police have really tried to seal this off here. a lot of freeway ramps going into downtown also closed. so not a lot of people now in this immedia

natasha chen is in nashville for us. i know you got an update on the number of people being treated in hospitals after friday's blast. what can you tell us? >> reporter: right. at least eight people that we know of were sent to hospitals after this explosion on friday. centennial hospital said they received three patients who were discharged the same day and then vanderbilt university medical center said they received five people in stable condition. what's amazing is that there weren't more serious injuries and no fatalities besides the suspect you just mentioned and that is because of the officers' quick action. the six people who responded to the scene because of initial reports of shots fired, that's still being investigated whether those were real gun shots or the recording of the sound of gun shots and while they were there, they started hearing the recorded message from the rv, an eerie message about the explosion, and then they started knocking on doors. this was christmas morning, the shops were not planning to

natasha chen, you will be reporting for us throughout the afternoon. i appreciate you being on the ground. thank you. >> and still ahead this hour, stay with us as we continue to monitor the situation in nashville, tennessee, as well as bringing you the latest as we learn more about what led up to this morning's explosion. but neck, txt, the incredible t from the coronavirus. more to help protect against the u.k.'s covid variant. it's been a tough year. and now with q4 wrapping up, the north pole has to be feeling the heat. it's okay santa, let's workflow it. workflow it...? with the now platform, we can catch problems before customers even know they're problems. wait... a hose? what kid wants a hose?! fireman? says "hose" it says "horse"! not a "hose"! cedric! get over here! now our people can collaborate across silos, from across the globe. so how's the new place? it's a 4 bed, 2.5 bath igloo... it's great! yeah, but you have to live in the south pole. sir... wait, are you sure? yes, we're that productive now. you hear that?! the kids get twice the p

>> all right, natasha, thank you so much. let's talk with a medical expert. want to speak with public health specialist. i think, dr. matthew, people are wondering when they look at something like southern california where they have zero capacity in the icu, what does that mean for patients who need to go to the hospital and may need to be in the icu? >> right. so that basically means there's no room in the inn, brianna, and that's unfortunate. you know, i looked back to see how far we have come when it comes to treating patients with covid and we have made a lot of advances. we know now patients need to be laying on the stomach, not on their backs. we have decks a meth zone, we have have a lot of treatments. but treatments will do nobody any good if you don't have rooms in the icu. earlier, a month or two ago when cases weren't as bad, you can convert a regular room to an icu. but what about the staff, the icu nurses, respiratory therapists working overtime. and what worries me, brianna, a lot of medical providers are walking away from the field of medicine.

back to you. >> our thanks to natasha chen there. now, cnn was able to talk to witnesses, like betsy williams. she says she was asleep when, what sounded like gunfire from an automatic weapon woke her up. here is what else she told cnn's anderson cooper. >> it was sometime between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. i'm not exactly sure the first time we heard the gunshot. it was -- it sounded like an automatic weapon. it -- it -- and it was very loud, and it woke me up. it woke us up. and, you know, we didn't do anything, to start with, because just wake up. after you've heard that. well, then, we waited a few minutes and it happened again. and so, we called 911. >> did the first time -- sorry. sorry. just to be clear, the first time you heard it, how many shots did you hear in a row? >> i think it was -- it -- it -- you know, i didn't really count them but it was about, probably, eight to twelve. >> okay. >> you know, it was bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. like that. and it was very loud. >> and then, do you have a sense of how much time -- how

natasha linstead, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >>> a major development in nashville, tennessee. investigators say the explosion christmas morning that devastated parts of downtown was likely a suicide bombing. that's the word from two law enforcement sources. the fbi says there's no indication of any other suspects or threats of more explosives. the blast injured three people and damaged dozens of buildings. so if it was a suicide bombing, who did it and why? we're still waiting to hear if there are answers. saturday, the case took law enforcement to a home in a nashville suburb. an rv that might match the one that exploded was photographed there last year. cnn's simone peres is in nashville with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: authorities in nashville continue to try to figure out the motive behind the christmas morning attack. one belief from authorities is that this was a suicide bombing but they don't know what led up to the events. they are exploring every theory at this point, every motive, as they work back in identifying the person, also trying t

natasha chen, cnn, atlanta, georgia. >>> things aren't getting any better in california. tens of thousands of people are getting infected each day and hospitals are in a massive strain. the covid tracking project counts more than 17,000 coronavirus patients in california hospitals right now. more than 3700 are in intensive care units. the heartbreak is unending. >> reporter: the covid-19 disaster continuing in california, 46,000 new cases, 161 deaths, that's lower, but the hospitalizations are just terrible. about 17,000 hospitalized, and 3 3600 in the intensive care units. they have expended the e.r. area into the icu units. when you talk to the nurses who face this daily, they are astounded by what's happening to these patients. a 39-year-old nurse says it's just getting to them. >> people that have no co-morbidities, have no health issues are in renal failure, heart failure, having blood clotting issues. unable to breathe, intubated. and, you know, you don't know what's going to happen or they'll pass away. what is so devastating about this virus. >> reporter: and anot

cnn's natasha chen joining me from atlanta. so what kind of impact is this looming deadline having on families? >> a lot of people are very anxious, fred. in talking to tenants and housing advocates yesterday, the only thing clear is the lack of clarity. they don't know if there's going to be more assistance for the unemployed and whether there will be any tenant protections in the new year. 2020 has been a year of firsts for victoria gidens and none have been cause for celebration. in march, as the pandemic forced much of the economy closed, gidens, who had just accepted a job with a rental car company at the airport, had that offer rescinded. a first for 30-year-old gidens who lives with her boyfriend and their 2-year-old son. >> we have a 2-year-old to take care of. i was so depressed at the moment. >> reporter: two incomes in january became one by march. then as she struggled to find work and stay on top of some bills, another first. an eviction notice on her door telling her, she had to be out by january 6th. >> i am stres

natasha chen is live on the scene in nashville, with the very latest. the key question now is why. motivation, when do we expect to learn? >> reporter: investigators are looking into anthony quinn warner's history, talking to people who knew him, because that is the major question. his name was brought up by investigators as the suspect yesterday. on saturday we watched federal agents go in and out of a home in antioch, tennessee, a neighborhood about ten miles southeast of where we are, gathering evidence. that's a home that was his until november 25th, when he signed a quitclaim deed giving the property over to a woman. so there are a lot of questions left to be answered. as you mentioned, there is this new video police shared late last night of this bright orange glow when the blast happened. that's exactly how responding officers described the harrowing situation to us. here's officer talking to us about those moment. >> i ran to the intersection to check on miller and make sure they were okay and both running toward the intersection as well. sorry, that's when i got on root to

cnn national correspondent natasha chen is following these developments. natasha, no manhunt at this point. law enforcement going in and out of that home all day. they say they're at a point in this investigation where they're draw something conclusions. it does not -- they do not believe this is a continued threat, it appears. >> reporter: that's right. and the law enforcement did say at a press conference yesterday afternoon in this spot on 2nd avenue blocks away from where the explosion happened, you know, they said they're following more than 500 tips that have come in after all that law enforcement did ask the public for tips, anything that they know to be called into the fbi. they're combing through all of that right now. they also explained how they are working this scene behind us from the outside in. going from the outer edges of the perimeter in. and so this is going to take some time even though the curfew that is around this downtown area supposedly lifts this afternoon at 4:30 local time. you know, you mentioned the scene at antioch, tennessee

cnn's natasha chen is in nashville near the scene of the explosion, and josh campbell is getting it tadetails from law enforcement officials. what's the situation on the ground? >> well, anderson, it is very quiet here. and for anyone who has spent time in the historic downtown area of nashville knows this is a typically a bustling area. a lot has changed with covid-19 protocols, but now with this perimeter behind us, it's absolutely quiet. we're on second avenue where this explosion happened, but several blocks away, you could see the police cars there with their flashing lights and the tape blocking things off. where this happened, far off in the distance, you can see this rusty colored taller building there. that's approximately where the blast happened this morning. as you mentioned, police have put out a picture now of the rv they believe to be at the center of this that had come onto this street overnight. you know, this is really shaking people. we even saw some folks who had come into town for christmas come up to us within the last hour just to share their support for nashville and p

natasha chen joins us live from nashville. what's the latest you're hearing? >> reporter: you mentioned the human remains. that's being looked at by the medical examiner's office. when we asked last night at a press conference, the police chief did confirm that tissue was found, believed to be human remains. he wouldn't tell us exactly where in the blast site those were found, whether it had anything to do with potentially someone inside the rv. he said they're still looking into all of that. and to keep in mind that the debris was really scattered across a large distance, and so it's still difficult as they're parsing through a lot of that. and we also have heard now of, of course, about the three people who were hospitalized. those are three civilians, luckily with nonlife-threatening injuries. the city also reallytalked abou efforts of the first police officers that came to the scene. the six officers came to the scene, they heard that ominous recorded message coming from the rv telling people they had 15 minutes before a bomb would go off, and those office

natasha chen joins us from atlanta. what more are we learning from the cdc? >> reporter: this group voted today on the next two groups of people who should be prioritized for the vaccine. as you said already we're seeing people who are health care workers, folks in long term care facilities starting to be vaccinated. today's vote was about the next two phases. 1 b and 1 c. the next phase 1 b should be people 75 and older as well as front line essential workers. there really was no disagreement about that among the committee members. there was more debate about the next after that phase 1 c which includes now 65 and up as well as younger people with high risk medical conditions and other essential workers. the debate really was around that list of what is considered a high risk condition. right now the committee is going with a list that's on the cdc website. there is sufficient data with these conditions that show association with severe covid-19 and that includes things like obesity, diabetes, cancer, but the committee says that is by no means an exhaustive

you just heard those two reports from shimone and natasha. take me inside what would be an fbi investigation. what does that reporting tell you about where the investigation is heading? . >> so, dana, it tells us what we thought about this time yesterday, which was that the vehicle the rv would be pretty easy to identify with all the cameras that are clearly on that block and once they had that rv identified, it would take them very quickly to an individual. it seems that's the point that they're at now. now the fact that they were at this residence all day and they refer to euphemistically as court authorized activity. that means a court warrant. that means a filing before the judge that reads the affidavit and grants a search warrant based upon the facts that the agents state in the affidavit, which means that they have reason to believe that someone connected with this attack, likely the perpetrator, comes back to that residence and they have fair facts indicating that the person who lives in that residence involved in this bombing. the fa

cnn's natasha chen is live in nashville with more details. i mean, listen, the remarkable headline here, right, is a suspected u.s. suicide bomber on u.s. soil. >> reporter: that's right, jim. anthony quinn warner was named as the suspect yesterday by investigators. and just the day before, we spent hours watching federal agents in his home, collecting evidence. this was processed relatively fast in identifying him. they found enough fragments of that rv in the explosion to have a vehicle identification number leading to the owner. they also found human tissue at the blast site. and they had quantico process that dna very quickly, along with dna from family members. late last night, as you mentioned, police released this new video of the explosion, this orange glow in that harrowing moment. that's exactly how the responding officers described that to us. the type of explosives used still under investigation, but now those businesses are in ruins. that includes a tattoo parlor owned by pete gibson. he told me that he had actually seen that ver

and cnn's natasha chen was there when federal agents searched the home. she has more, now, from antioch, tennessee. >> reporter: federal investigators have been at this property, most of saturday. and left in the early evening, after hours of work. the fbi tell us that this was court-authorized activity. first, we saw a bomb-technician team come and clear the property to make sure it was safe to enter. and then, we saw an evidence team come in, and spend hours going in and out of the house. this fence line, behind me, surrounds a yard. and we did see them go into that yard, through a side door. what we understand is that they were meticulously going through, documenting, and photographing, what they saw inside the house, as it was. and then, we did see them take out bags of evidence. neighbors were very perplexed to see all this going on. they did tell me that they have seen an rv parked at this property. when we showed them images from google street view of this property, in years past, when an rv has been parked there, they did recognize that one. one n

ahead today but yeah shock and disbelief certainly from the victim that we spoke to let's speak to natasha lynn's that who's a professor of u.s. government at the university of essex she is also a specialist an authoritarian regimes and joining us from culture star by skype thanks very much for your time with us on the al-jazeera news hour or so of course along with the blackwater pardons the president pardoned 2 congressmen who were accused of fraud and this is a president who ran a campaign on draining the swamp and effectively cleaning up washington are you surprised by these pardons and what do you make of them. no surprise by these pardons this is very in line with trump's entire presidential administration and the way he has led in a very corrupt manner and a very authoritarian manner seen the u.s. democracy backsliding in terms of the way it's been rained on. by democratic indices just because of this i mean this is been a total abuse of the pardon power and only any president has done anywhere near this type of damage with this is bypassing. the justice department review process an

killed by the police in a separate standoffs bottlers our correspondent at the courthouse in paris natasha just take us through what's been handed down. all the judge here at the court in paris has begun delivering the verdict so so far what we understand is out of the 14 people who are accused of providing some form of support to those 3 gunmen who carried out the attacks in paris and generally 2015 we know that at least 12 so far have been found guilty 6 are not of terrorist offenses the judge has said monks those accused of the main ones ali riza pohlad who is accused of providing mainly just a core support to those gunmen and also hired boumediene who is the wife of amity coulibaly the man who carried out the killings at the jewish supermarket a few days after the attacks shortly after the prosecutor the judge i should say as yet though to deliver the sentences but we are expecting sentences anywhere between 5 years and life in prison natasha will come back to you if there are any more developments in the meantime thank you very much. the u.s. treasury department today naming switzerla

the having a devastating impact in the french alps why ski resorts are having to close for ventral natasha has this report. striking and majestic the french alps aren't chanting site for thousands of years people have lived and worked in the mountains or simply come to admire them but scientists warn these ancient peaks are crumbling rising temperatures are melting permafrost the frozen soil an ice that holds them together speeding up erosion and triggering dangerous rock falls glaciologist frost manuf says the high vertical rock faces of the alps are particularly vulnerable to changes in temperature in that mockumentary thick we have noticed that in warm periods particularly the last 2 or 3 decades rockfalls have been more frequent than in past colder decades also when the summers are very hot as they were in 20032015 the rock falls happened more often and. also melting faster than before there are 4000 in the alps chain that spans 7 countries scientists say half will have disappeared by 2050 climate changes also transforming low altitude mountains like those in the photo region in easter

and as cnn's natasha chen shows us, others are dealing with the stress of eviction. >> reporter: 2020 has been a year of firsts for victoria giddons and none have been cause for celebration. giddons, who had just accepted a job at the airport, had that offer rescinded. a first. >> we knew we had this 2-year-old to take care of, everything. >> reporter: two incomes in january, became one by march. then, as she struggled to find work and stay on top of some bills, another first. an eviction notice on her door, telling her she had to be out by january 6th. >> i'm -- i'll be stressed, every day. i just try not to let it show. >> reporter: especially, not in front of her son, who can sense when something's wrong. this year was also her first time ever asking for financial assistance just to pay their past-due rent. >> where does this put this client if we clear up the past-due rent? >> reporter: founder of the organization, caring for others. >> during covid-19 era, you have seen the rules change so much towards clients. and every day is a fight. >> reporter: the check for more than $4,400

so we can talk to natasha right now joins us from the french side of the border collie so the touch of the continued free trade good news for french business sense relief that the deal was done. any problems down the line. no good news for french business indeed in fact most of the business owners and ages that we've spoken to are extremely pleased there is the continuation of free trade between the u.k. an e.u. because of course that means there are no customs duties no tariffs and all of that would have become more costly for those businesses and it would have made many more delays at ports like this one in cali where tens of thousands of passengers and trucks pass through each day now the port operators and the customs officials have told us that they aren't expecting any delays they hope that everything will go smoothly they've had plenty of time to prepare and they've put into place this so-called small's border which they hope will allow companies to use to upload documents online so everything should go much faster when trucks or passengers pass through this court it's pretty qu

there following all those talks for us and paris thanks so much natasha. speaking of human rights we can now speak to hussein boni his amnesty international's egypt and libya research and he joins us now from tunis hussein i recall the last time you spoke to us was just after 3 human rights workers were released from prison in egypt ahead of this state visit but micron's very much still under pressure to push sisi on this what would you have liked to see come out of this visit. obviously you would like to see prison continues to pressure prisons what's he said about human rights in egypt we need to see that happening we need to see disclosed doesn't just all but words between need to see this translates incorporation between france and egypt because otherwise interim saves and government's point of view and swartz are just for a consumption but don't really mean much of. a crackdown in egypt if it continues as it does since it would be no implications on the physical relationship between france and also countries. communities. and as it was last time it se

joins us from paris natasha french presidents in isolation and i were warning that life will get back to normal til the end of next year this is a grim start to the day for many in france is it not. yes the french president tomorrow mark called continues his isolation as he said on thursday the lease a palace announced that he was posed with 19 he's now actually moved out to be released say in central paris and he's moved to that side which is outside the capital he's in a presidential residence there tell him and he will remain until the 24th of december that's the end of his isolation period now on thursday we had little news about the actual his actual condition even though he did take part in a video conference towards the end of the day so we did see him he was looking quite tired but certainly relaxed about the least i have said that he does have a mild fever he is coughing somewhat and he does feel that symptoms that many sufferers say they feel that is pretty so we'll have to see how. of course over the coming days he is being surveyed very closely as you can imagine for a hea

natasha bouillon. about that new strain, and what doctors know about it so far. >> the short answer is we don't know enough about these mutations, to know what impact they will have. there are some theories that it could actually be more contagious but that is based on modeling data and we don't know the conclusion for sure. but the good news is that the mutations don't appear to be more deadly. hopefully it will not become a deadly. >> so do we not know that much about it because it was indeed found in a lab setting, not being passed person-to-person? >> it was being passed person- to-person, kind of what we have been finding out about this is there have been mutations of covid since the start of this pandemic and that is very predictable because we know that virus is mutating and what we have been seeing with viruses that mutate is they become more contagious because when you think of the virus perspective, they actually want to live and they want to replicate so that is what we are seeing and so wit

side of the channel all grateful for some visibility on the horizon natasha al-jazeera can. and of course as always you can find more pictures and background on the web site their dress for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is a disease of the top stories a covert 1000 vaccine by the chinese pharmaceutical company sign a farm has been given conditional approval 12 months after the virus was 1st detected in the vaccine and said to more than 79 percent effective china is aiming to inoculate 15000000 people by mid february u.s. president donald trump is blaming individual states for the slower than promised rollout of covert 19 vaccines there around 2000000 shots have been in ministered so far but that's well behind the 20000000 that had been promised by the end of the year south africa's experience another record daily increase in infections over the past 24 hours nearly 18000 new cases have been registered the recent surge has been linked to a more contagious strain of the virus hong kong's top court has revoked bail for media tycoon jimmy lie a high profile pro-demo

by doctors as you'd imagine with a head of sight ok that's joining us live from the french capital natasha thank you . well large parts of southern england will be placed under the you case tight restrictions from this weekend's caissons inside the eastern rim rules by 46 percent in the past week let's get more now from rory charles joins us live from london and that really similar to france or that's a fairly grim outlook in the u.k. as well and the mass christmas migration hasn't even begun yet so. yeah well you can see the christmas lights of the strand down i think behind me in any normal year sands and many other of the shopping streets in london will be actually be teeming with people doing off minute christmas shopping but of course this isn't a mill we're londoners are among the 38000000 people across the united kingdom who are now living under the toughest of the 3 is a coronavirus restrictions yes there is a 5 day temporary relaxation over christmas itself so that families can get together to set it right but after that it shuts as a coming down again and in some parts of the cou

over 1000 everyone around them needs to be tested and take precautions the tasha thank you very much natasha bottle there reporting live from paris. to the united states the us registering new records for deaths and infections in just one day more than 3 and a half 1000 americans died on wednesday and nearly 250000 new infections are being reported as well a panel of outside experts are deciding on whether to endorse the emergency use of maternal coronavirus vaccine in africa several countries are now experiencing 2nd waves of the pandemic that to south africa has reported its highest new daily cases since august and restrictions have been tightened in the democratic republic of congo in europe germany has registered its highest number of new infections and so has austria as well but there are signs of some relief with vaccinations that start across the block 2 days after christmas. standing by for us in johannesburg with developments out of africa 1st to alan fischer who joins us from washington so alan in the numbers going in exactly the wrong direction we say it every day and on the news

butler joining us from paris so he says business as usual natasha and certainly watching him on the video link showing us his video link it looks like he's doing his job. yes the french present a man or mark or looking tired or has to be said personally relaxed during a video conference with some charities now that was a meeting that was shared your day was supposed to be in person of course but with the circumstances with his diagnosis for covert 19 it was darna via video conference earlier in the day as well we understand that him at all macro had a meeting with several ministers in the least say except for those ministers were taken to separate rooms and again mark or spoke to them virtually i think the message is here from the least say that it is in a way business as usual they say that the french president is 42 years old and will continue to work throughout his 7 days of isolation of course if his health condition does not deteriorate but of course what has happened to him at all micros had something of a domino effect on others here in france in the french government the fre

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natasha game reports now from lab. i want to find a way to make your nighttime routine calmer the call from the mental health hospital halfway across the country was greatly anticipated but now the anguish is long distance less than a week before this florida family admitted their 12 year old son we'll call jackson to inpatient treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder or o.c.d. and an eating disorder he is the most amazing sweet outgoing athletic smart friendly kind through the course of this quarantine he became on edge anxious i'm anxious and today i would describe him as a rat in an electrified cage studies have shown that the fear and stressors of the coded 1900 pandemic have been triggering for children with o.c.d. and anxiety jackson tortured himself by spending his waking hours only standing or exercising insisting that he needed to lose weight the deterioration happened in a matter of months honestly i would rather die of corona by now because to go through this to watch your kid suffer like this is worse i

on the west coast and the bureau with the latest natasha. yes they are the governor of colorado addressed in this new strain of co that after a colorado national guard member test positive and many are wondering if it's more contagious and will the new vaccines work to contain it the man who tested positive is reportedly in isolation just southeast of denver and interestingly enough just by contract in this new strain health officials say he has not traveled recently and a 2nd suspected case of another guard member is being investigated governor of colorado he is saying that the testing numbers have recently gone down possibly as a result of the holidays. purge anybody was. a whole lot. better to identify the early. numbers and others and to get to treatment. now scientists in the u.k. say they believe this strain to be more contagious than previous strains but the good news is they say the current vaccines seem to be useful against it the u.s. surgeon general however says these findings are still being looked into. by refuting what they did

egypt with all that it has done for its people and for the stability of the region as a dictatorship natasha butler has more from paris. this meeting between them the visit by president c.c. to paris was really aimed at reviving the relationship between the 2 countries which is flat somewhat since 2019 when present map of history current spoke about egypt so a human rights record that did not go down well with egyptian authorities while the 2 men said that they had a very frank and transparent discussion they talks about regional issues they talked about syria libya the need for more stability there they talked about the eastern mediterranean the mediterranean region at large and their concern their shared concern over some of turkey's actions in the area they also talked about working together continuing to cooperate on counterterrorism in terms of human rights this time about oh mike ross said that he brought up the issue once again with the egyptian president but he said that he could not a full go if you like the strategic partnership between france and egypt because of human rights he s

treaty helped draw attention to the global climate emergency in an interview with our correspondent natasha butler she reflects is on the moments the climate treaty was agreed in 2050. this is like if it's called it was extraordinary to see all these countries including some that were in conflict with each other rich countries poor ones all coming together to recognize one very simple idea that it is human activity in fossil fuels that create a climate change and she gather we could act against it it was an amazing diplomatic a key from and with the times when you thought that perhaps such a global agreement just simply was not going to happen where yes you know if they buy if you don't get to the top yes of course it wasn't evident that it would happen at all i was at the 1st earth summit in rio in 1902 i saw those 20 years of work necessary for the paris to court to become reality which allowed paris to happen was the financial world realized it cost them more to do nothing than to act 5 years on what has been achieved is a pulse. i think there's been progress in many areas in the constru

have been strained macro hopes to repair them but campaigners question the cost to france's reputation natasha butler i'll just 0 paris. near lockdown rules have come into effect in south korea's capital which the health minister says is now a covert 19 war zone the military's been deployed to help with testing and contact tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday it's the 30th day in a row of triple digit increases bubble brought reports from seoul. this is the 3rd time restrictions have been increased in the past month and it comes as the number of daily infections has continued to rise what worries the author of cheese is that this 3rd wave is far more 'd widespread than previous surges and unless the numbers are curbed hospital resources could become stretched upon the new not there is no center of this wave for us to focus our prevention measures on this could result in a much larger threat if the medical system reaches its limit it will cause great damage to all of us. there will be tighter controls on restaurants and indoor gatherings no spectators at sporting events 50 percen

would not have been able to carry out their crimes the defendants have been given 10 days to appeal natasha buchla al-jazeera paris. doha has won the right to host the 2030 asian games the world's 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics capital was announced the went up after a vote of beating appealing for conservation in oman it'll be the 2nd time the host of the games of the saudi capital will stage the event for the 1st time in 2034 the richest reports from just up the road here in doha. it's a victory really for the horan cattles long term commitment to its sporting infrastructure i mean it's hard of course not to see the geopolitics of this situation with saudi arabia being part of the blockade that's been imposed on cattle but i think this is slightly more nuanced and perhaps slightly more straightforward than that qatar has vast experience of hosting huge sporting events it started really in 2006 when it hosted the asian games for the 1st time it's remodeled its national stadium and everything really is in place so really host an asian games and since then last year we saw