chalons reports. for days scientists and opposition politicians have been saying it's the government shouldn't be letting so many english households mick's over christmas on saturday boris johnson relented it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas those plans. a new coronavirus variance with spreading alarmingly in london and the southeast he said adding that the world health organization had been alerted to the mutant strain it's 70 percent more transmissible and a new 4th tier of restrictions is needed residents in those areas miss stay at home apart from limited exemptions set out in law non-essential retail indoor gyms and leisure facilities and personal care services was close individuals can only meet one person from another household in an outdoor public space. just days ago boris johnson mocked his opposition rival kier starmer for questioning why restrictions were being eased for christmas and if he really is going to press ahead with this can he tell us

chalons is a royal london hospital in white chapel on the phone for us rory i don't know if you can hear us are going to you really just wanted to check that you were there how significant a deal is this. this is the big breakthrough i think that the u.k. set me has been waiting for it's become increasingly clear over the last few days that the coded situation it has got us in worse and worse and every day it seems new records being broken so the number of new infections reported i think yesterday it was 53000 recorded in one day that's the most it's ever been there are more people hospitalized at the moment with coded symptoms than that were at the peak of the 1st wave back in april and march of this year so. getting this new vaccine approved is a huge step towards trying to combat that worsening situation the the reason why this is a big step is that it's much easier vaccine to use and to store than the vaccine that's currently being used to pfizer biotech by the problems of pfizer bio and say why is not it's a deficiency or as i say to say it how well it works it's the fact that

chalons reports. across europe a public health operation is underway the size and speed of which hasn't been seen before madrid spain one of 5 airports country wide with the same arrival new consignments of the pfizer biotech vaccine from plane. to truck and off with a police escort just in case spain now has 350000 new doses. a german care home the country was one of 70 years states to coordinate the start of vaccinations on sunday. elderly and caregivers are the priority while supplies a short either to the schools or infant yet now the big vaccination push is on and we as an aid organization want to do our part to eventually defeat this scourge of mankind. already 3 weeks into vaccinations is the u.k. because of the new more infectious strain of the virus the situation is worsening by the day there are more covered patients in hospital now than there were cheering the 1st waves peak the head of n.h.s. england acknowledged the picture is grim many of us of course lost. family friends colleagues and

chalons reports. across europe a public health operation is underway the size and speed of which hasn't been seen before madrid spain one of 5 airports country wide with the same arrival new consignments of the 5 is a biotech vaccine from plane. to truck and off with a police escort just in case spain now has 350000 new doses. of german care home the country was one of 7 e.u. states to coordinate the start of vaccinations on sunday. elderly and caregivers are the priority while supplies a short either to the schools or infant ye know the big vaccination pushes on and we as an aid organization want to do our part to eventually defeat this scourge of mankind. already 3 weeks into vaccinations is the u.k. because of the new more infectious strain of the virus the situation is worsening by the day there are more covered patients in hospital now than there were hearing the 1st wave speak the head of n.h.s. england acknowledged the picture is grim many of us of course lost. family friends colleagues and of

now we're going to speak to rory chalons in london for more on those u.k. lines shortly 1st let's go to irene nasr for all the latest from jerusalem i mean the fact that israel has managed to get these vaccines only a week ago and yet is still being able to inject about half a 1000000 people how's it been able to do that. you know very very big numbers that have received the vaccine here and the government is saying that about $2500000.00 will be fully vaccinated within a month of the rollout now in terms of how it's actually taking place israel does have a large health care system but it's it is public but it is not centralized so there's basically multiple branches working at the moment the government has also task the military with setting up some vaccination centers it's important to note it's also a very small geo graphically a small country and it has a small population of about 9000000 the vaccination campaign here though does not include palestinians in the west bank and gaza the situation there has been worsening and the world health organization h

rory chalons, al-jazeera, london, and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera. donald trump's ongoing attempts to hold on to the us presidency, have taken another blow. attorney general bill barr, who was appointed by trump, has been quoted by the a.p. news agency saying that there is no evidence of fraud. he says the justice department's found nothing to suggest that regularities, that could overturn the result. alan fisher is at the white house. just after the election, he told investigators that he should investigate any credible evidence that he was criticized for that. many people believing that he was buying into what the president was saying about the possibility of their big voter fraud. but now he's saying, look, we can't see anything. there is nothing there. i don't want please the president we know, or he's already fired one person. because they said that this was the most secure election that there is ever been. and there are people speculating that bill bodies know on some sort of political death want to 2 drug firms have applied for european approv

chalons al-jazeera london. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu received his covert by team vaccine live on television to kick off israel's vaccination program and occupation start on sunday that includes jewish settlers living inside the illegally occupied west bank but it excludes the territories 2 and a half 1000000 palestinians will have to wait for doses through the world health organization. u.n. secretary general antonio has called on all groups in the central african republic to put down their weapons peacekeepers were deployed ahead of the december 27th elections a number of armed groups of banded together to form an alliance president frosty in . top data has been accused of planning electoral fraud in order to secure a 2nd. u.s. president donald trump has downplayed the damage done by a suspected washing hack despite cyber security experts saying that it could take months to unravel trump says the hacking of 6 government departments is under control but experts say that many more systems may be

is now going to move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible let's speak to rory chalons in london rory this has obviously been a significant step ahead but the question is of course is it going to be enough to be able to deal with the numbers of people who are infected in the u.k. . you know a 100000000 doses assuming that that is actually what is deliver goods is enough to cover 50000000 people it's said to dose medicine so you need one shot in the arm and then you wait 12 weeks and then you get another injection with your 2nd dose so 50000000 people that's a big chunk of the population which i think is about 60000000 something like that so it's a huge step forward and it couldn't have come at a better time really because the situation in the u.k. is the worsening significantly over the last few days for 2 days running we've had . record numbers of new infections we had 53000 new injection new infections yesterday but we had in excess of 40000 new infections the day before we have more people in the hospital at the moment in excess of 20000 with coded than there were at th

phase of this rollout rory and also the logistical challenges ahead. yeah well it's margaret kane and that 90 year old woman who he's going to be dead by you know all the history books many many more people are being vaccinated in hospitals like thomas's the one behind me over the course of today and of course going forward now an idea of the kind of political capital invested in their nicholas durgin the 1st minister of scotland said that she got a bit of a lump in her throat watching the footage of margaret keenan being vaccinated feels like such a milestone moment after a tough year for everyone the 1st vaccines in scotland will be administered today and then for us johnson tweeted as well thank you to our national health service to all of the scientists who work so hard to develop this vaccine to all the volunteers to where everyone has been following the rules to protect others we will beat this together and yeah as you say the that the difficulties of this program the biggest mass vaccination in national health service history in the u.k. it has

chalons al-jazeera london. dennis nash is a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york school of public health he says new strains will not alter the explanation plans them what needs to be learned about the mutation i don't think it changed that changes the role of the vaccine by any means the new vaccines are protective against all of the sars kovi 2 strains that are in circulation now and some of which have also mutated from the original one strain and so we don't have any reason to think that this mutation will allow the virus to evade the new vaccines and i for one i'm eagerly waiting my opportunity to be vaccinated one day soon i think we don't know yet we it's not as i said it's not uncommon for viruses to mutate during pandemic spread sometimes these mutations change the virus behavior they can become more or less transmissible more or less virulent or you. know cause more or less likely to cause severe symptoms usually not both of these things at once and a new advantage

chalons al-jazeera london well thinking stuff is a family doctor at acton town medical center in london he joins us now live via skype from london doctor good to have you with us how concerned should we be about this new variant it is as we were hearing 70 percent more transmissible but is it likely to have any impact on the severity of the disease yes is the biggest challenge as far as the prime minister have to act according to scientific advice to get london into or as you said in the program i think it's very important that we. oh well and here to the rules and the tier system unfortunately all the plans for christmas i still have bundle for now and there is a bigger challenge for everybody a bigger challenge for medical so it is big a challenge for businesses in this country but to the new variant obviously it has to be challenges as well luckily it doesn't seem really. really sort of the strong writers complaining to the original one handholds me tension is quite common although this mutation along briskly is still very concerned. but we have to see these ear alling out of the vac

chalons al-jazeera london. dennis nash's distinguished professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york school of public health he says new strains will not alter vaccination plans though one has to be learned about the mutation i don't think it changed that changes the role of the vaccine by any means the new vaccines are protective against all of the sars kovi 2 strains that are in circulation now and some of which have also mutated from the original one strain and so we don't have any reason to think that this mutation will allow the virus to evade the new vaccines on i want to be really waiting for my opportunity to be vaccinated one day soon i think we don't know yet we it's not as i said it's not uncommon for viruses to mutate during pandemic spread sometimes these mutations change the virus behavior they can become more or less transmissible more or less virulent or you. know cause more or less likely to cause severe symptoms usually not both of these things at once and a new advantage and on

chalons has this update from weapon in bedfordshire with the river there as best its banks. the river here is called the river great and as you can see it's considerably greater than normal at the moment its burst its banks it has flooded parts of the town of bedford and surrounding villages on christmas day 1300 residents were told that they should seriously think about moving out and finding somewhere else to stay it's not only in bed but sure the council of north hampton sure has also experience flooding with another 1000 people they're being told that they should seek emergency accommodation on christmas day as well as the 25th of december it's going down now that is something to be thankful for also something to be thankful for is that the covert restrictions we are in the toughest here a covert us restrictions in the u.k. here here for which basically means that the people who should be staying inside and and not seeing friends and family what do you do if you're being told to get out of your home and you can't go and stay with friends and family the police are said te

chalons who is live for us now from london rory so there's a compromise from both sides obviously but if speech was to anything to go by it seems that more compromise from the e.u. side what else did ourselves and have to say. dunny a surprising boris johnson is going to see this in a pretty terrible year has to be said as a significant victory i think we heard him at the beginning of the program there sounding perhaps more praiseworthy perhaps more effusive about europe than i've heard him sound in a in a very bones i'm happy ever saying that the u.k. is intrinsically european and it will continue to be european forever it will work together with europe on numerous issues of shared values and shared importance but it shouldn't be forgotten nothing the even the boris johnson is going to be trumpeting this is a major success this is a deal that was done in almost reckless haste it was as you say 910 months of negotiations the kind of deal easy takes decades and when you take that much time in doing something corners get cut and things get dropped so i think. it's a cliche to say the de

chalons our correspondent who is monitoring that as well so rory we can see the headlines christmas is canceled and it's 70 percent more transmissible. yes yes no cheerful news really for many many people around the u.k. yeah you summarize it pretty effectively there he essentially confirms what i was saying earlier on at the top of the hour i think isn't a lot of the a lot of this this briefing would had already been leaked or or trials in the u.k. media over the previous few hours the big thing of course for the parts of the country to have the most incidences of this new variant of the current virus is that there is going to be a need to tear of restrictions tear for those parts of the country you're going to be going into tear for so that's london that's the southeast i think is parts of the east of the country as well and to have for basically resembles the 1st national lockdown where everyone was told that they had to stay at home unless they had a very good reason for leaving it so also 'd what's going to be happening is that non-essential retail is going to be closing you ha

chalons al-jazeera london. nash as distinguished professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york school of public health he says new strains will not alter vaccination plans warnings to be learned about the mutation. i don't think it changes the changes the role of the vaccine by any beings the new vaccines are protective against all of the sars. 2 strains that are in circulation now some of which have also mutated from the original strain and so we don't have any reason to think that this mutation will allow the virus to evade the new vaccines on the i for want to be really waiting for my opportunity to be vaccinated one day soon i think we don't know yet we it's not as i said it's not uncommon for viruses to mutate during pandemic spread sometimes these mutations change the virus behavior they can become more or less transmissible more or less virulent or you. know cause more or less likely to cause severe symptoms usually not both of these things at once and a new advantage and one of these attr

but things are almost certain to get worse before they get better rory chalons al-jazeera london some news just coming out of yemen and we're getting reports from local media of saudi led airstrikes on the capital sanaa they are said to be targeting houthi positions in the city it comes just hours after at least $26.00 people were killed and more than $140.00 injured in a blast at the airport in aden the attack happened shortly after members of yemen's newly inaugurated unity government returned from saudi arabia barbara reports. waving at supporters as they climbed off their flight aetate an airport members of yemen's new unity government returned days after being sworn into office at a ceremony in saudi arabia. but the hopes of rebuilding the country after more than 6 years of civil war turned into chaos a devastating attack on agency international airport and the work of more than a year of saudi breakup talks and a deal signed in 2019 now in question the government members were led to safety but analysts say the authority of the new administration has been undermined this is of ad

chalons reports. in the german city of hanau they've run out of space for bodies in the hospital morgues the shipping container is being used to temporarily handle the overflow are not carded unfortunately the situation on hand now has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had here since april and nationally as a precaution since yesterday 2 covered 19 defaced our human and total $25.00 things can be stored in the container sadly we had to start using the container from yesterday. with a record of nearly 34000 new cases and 830 new deaths germany has lost its position as a role model for how to handle the pandemic well they vaccinations are set to start after christmas the 1st in the imminence of probable approval of the 1st vaccine naturally gives us hope that's obviously it wasn't solve the problem and realistically we need to be prepared as months of january and february be the hottest months of this pandemic. several european countries are deep in the grip of a 2nd or perh

rory chalons has more now from london the gravity of the situation that the u.k. is in at the moment we've just had the record number of daily infections more than 40000 reported in the last day we have a record number of people currently in hospital with covert cases more than 20000 people in hospital that's a record beating that the 1st wave of the virus you can see how serious it is it is here and then you have some schools of medical thought which is saying that actually you really need to boost the level of vaccination so massively more than it is at the moment so if your target is 1000000 actually your target should be about 2000000 a week which of course we're way off the problem is that this biotech vaccine is difficult to administer it's fragile you have to store it at very low temperatures it's difficult getting it to people who are not particularly mobile you can't come to you you need to wait for more easily administer vaccines to really get that number up and they're not here yet. as a growing number of corona virus vaccines complete clinical trials b

chalons how does era. 10 hong kong pro-democracy activists have been jailed for between 7 months and 3 years by chinese course another 2 teenage activists have been sent back to authorities in hong kong part of a group of 12 who were caught trying to flee to taiwan from hong kong on a speedboat in august let's go live to hong kong which is there as adrian brown is there for us adrian in the last hour police have held a press conference where they say. well as you can imagine there's little sympathy from hong kong police about this group of activists who they simply regard is as fugitives people who are wanted of a hong kong for serious issues offenses they say were committed during the protests last year the police held a news conference as you say within minutes of those 2 juveniles arriving back in hong kong and they wanted to remind the public that the 10 still facing a rest for serious charges connected with the protests last year including arson including a legal assembly including attacking police so they wanted to you know remind people that these aren't you know in their eyes

people's home after christmas holidays finished they're also looking at a new tear of lock down measures rory chalons how to 0 meanwhile in the united states president elect joe biden has warned the pace of vaccination is much slower than the white house predicted and it could take to complete the program as i long feared ward the effort to distribute administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. a few weeks ago trump administration suggests that 20000000 americans could be vaccinated by the end of the summer with only a few days left in december we've only vaccinated a few 1000000 so far the pace of action the vaccination program is moving now as it if you continue to move is now it's going to take years not months to vaccinate the american people. he joins us live now from washington what else did biden have to say about the pace of the vaccination program and what further action his administration might take. biden said he had 5 points to impart to the american people one was criticism of the trump administration's slow rollout of the vaccines and biden pledged that in the 1st 10

chalons al-jazeera dover. well another country facing isolation in south africa which is also seeing a resurgence of infections health officials say it's being driven by different coded 19 variant from that mutated strain that's emerged in the u.k. the virus is now spreading faster than it had when the pandemic even 1st began several countries have also halted air travel to and from south africa we can now speak to her as she is in johannesburg in south africa for us really looks like the country is increasingly isolated as we head into what's usually a very busy travel season. well scientists say they still studying this new strain the data collected so far suggests that it's spreading fast and they also say it could be responsible for the 2nd wave of the countries currently experiencing some of the countries getting on average just under 10000 new infections a day is an identified in. the eastern cape province and the garden that's where you get the cape town area for example where lots of tourists usually f

chalons how does iran iran has begun human trials of its domestically produced coronavirus vaccine the 1st volunteers to be inoculated included officials from the state affiliated or it behind its production health minister side now markey says their prince is a patient shows the government has confidence in the vaccine u.s. sanctions have prevented iran from purchasing jobs from abroad. and over in thailand the country there officials rather are warning stricter coronavirus measures could be enforced after a serious outbreak this month mainly among migrant workers on monday thailand saw its 1st coping $1000.00 deaths in almost 2 months there are concerns undocumented workers could be spreading the virus as they try to evade authorities that's prompted the government to allow workers from cambodia laos and man mark to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years tony chang reports from a popular beach east of bangkok. and this is where ben aaron a half way from bangkok you would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year holiday the big holiday of the year in

chalons piece from britain the worst is almost certainly yet to come because we have will not have yet felt the effects of holiday travel over the gris-gris period holiday get togethers and family dinners and then their new year's holiday is just a couple of days away traditionally a time when people hold celebrations so again hospital and health officials public health officials are begging people to stay home social distance where their masks and avoid gatherings and in the meantime the new variant that was 1st identified in the u.k. has been found in colorado. that's right lauren the person identified with the new variant is said to be a man in his twenty's he is described as a member. of the national guard for that state and was said to have been working in a non medical capacity supportive capacity that is in a rest home or a nursing facility outside of denver he is not believed to have traveled anywhere outside of the state and there is also a 2nd person who also was working at that nursing facility that had an outbreak of covert 19 who is suspected of having the new english vari

chalons al-jazeera dover well let's not get the view from the other side of the channel. paris for us but of just how all these talks going to try to sort out all this chaos at the border. well we know there have been talks between french and british ministers to try and sort out what to do the front page and halfway through the 48 hour ban imposed by french on arrivals from the u.k. that's people driving trucks or passenger arrivals and the french were hoping that that be some way of having a europe wide agreement on how to deal with this new strain of the coronavirus that's been discovered in the u.k. before the 48 hours is up there are people in london in the u.k. who want to come to france for christmas now the health minister said previously that if those people will want to come over after the 48 hours is up they will they should now be getting themselves a p.c.r. test because that will probably be one of the requirements when the 40 hours is up so i think there's been a rush of people in the u.k. trying to do that. and there's also this question about freight comin

chalons al-jazeera london joining us now is that us nash a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the city university of new york school of public health he joins us live via skype from brooklyn and new york professor good to have you with us how worried should we be about this new strain of a coronavirus. well i think that there's still more to be learned about the biological even logic and and clinical significance of this there are are routinely happening during endemic spread you teach ins to ryerson such as sars coby to it's happened a fair bit in the past and it hasn't really altered the trajectory of the endemic and so remains to be seen what will happen with this one of course there is some concern and signs early on. but it's too soon to say whether this mutation will change the trajectory of the pandemic in the u.k. or other places where it's circulating. at this time will vaccines work against this new strain. i think there's no reason as yet to think they won't so i don't think it changes the changes the role of the vaccine by any beings the new vaccines are protective

for decades to come here's rory chalons this means that the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. finally rex it is 4 and a half years after the referendum almost at the end of the 11 month period. the u.k. and the e.u. argued compromised and cajoled but they've done what many feared they couldn't and agreed to a future trading relationship. it's a moment of reflection for the european commission president. at the end of a successful negotiations journey i normally feel joy. but today i only feel quite satisfaction and frankly speaking relief for the u.k.'s prime minister it's a political success that caps a year which gave him very few of them. there will be no palisade of terrorists on january the 1st and they'll be no non-tariff barriers to trade and instead there will be a giant free trade zone of which we will once be a member and at the same time be able to do our own free trade deals one area of disputes that seen compromises fishing rights outside the e.u. britain has control of its exclusive economic zone but it's had to budge on how

chalons how to 0 let's get more now on thailand and its warning structure coronavirus measures could be enforced after a serious outbreak this month mainly among migrant workers on monday thailand saw its 1st cover 19 deaths in almost 2 months there are concerns on documented workers could be spreading the virus as they try to evade off forty's that's prompted the government to allow workers from cambodia laos and man mark to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years tony chang reports from a popular beach instead of bangkok. this is we're back in there and a half away from bangkok you would normally be absolutely jam packed with people here for the new year holiday the big holiday of the year in thailand but while some people have come out most people are heeding the prime minister's advice which is to stay within your own province now he spoke to the nation today after the cabinet meeting he said the government wasn't going to impose a nationwide lockdown they put in place a series of red amber and green alerts in all of the different provinces at the moment most places are on

chalons who's at the royal london hospital in white chapel this is a significant moment isn't it for this approval. it is this is a big step forward just one small correction i'm outside guys hospital actually not the royal hospital this is a vaccination center that i'm standing outside of here. gives you an idea really of the kind of infrastructure that is needed to administer the fires that fire on tech vaccines at the moment you can hear the generators humming behind me people have to be kept warm the vaccine has to be kept super chills this is a hospital setting the advantage of the astra zeneca oxford vaccine is the not of this will really be necessary you can basically give it to g.p.'s general practitioner doctors you can give to nurses you can give it to. anyone with a normal fridge a senshi who can go out into the community set up a little mobile sites and get that vaccine into as many people as possible as quickly as possible to the task is a huge one the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine said that there would need to be something like 2000000 doses of vaccine

chalons al-jazeera london. the u.s. is about to roll out the madonna vaccine which will be approved which will be the 2nd job to be approved there after the one developed by pfizer pontac idea castro is following that story from washington and says that it will dramatically increase the nation's vaccination capability. already we are told that biles of the mcgurn of vaccine are going into boxes the c.d.c. is meeting as i speak today and tomorrow and as soon as that approval is given trucks will depart the modern of the syllabus and carry those vaccines to all 50 states we're talking about close to 6000000 vaccines going out and joining the previous 2000000 or so some vaccines from pfizer now there have been a few hiccups along the way thus far of course pfizer has been out for a week now and some governors have complained that the number of x. nations they received were tens of thousands fewer than what had been promised by the federal government we got some clarity on that earlier today in a briefing by operat

where things are almost certain to get worse before they get better rory chalons al-jazeera london china has given conditional approval for the use of its 1st corona virus vaccine developed by the state and pharmaceutical company the site of farm vaccine is said to be more than 79 percent effective china is aiming to inoculate $50000000.00 people with it by mid february well that announcement comes one year since the 1st corona virus cases were reported in china the 1st infections are thought to be linked to a seafood market in the city of who han thousands of people died and the region was forced into a strict lockdown on the virus is largely contained now in china those who lost loved ones are still angry about the government's handling of the pandemic al-jazeera as katrina you reports from will hon 12 months ago john high spot checked into a hospital to receive treatment for a broken leg. while he was there the 76 year old cause a fever and died he was one of the 1st victims of a mysterious disease which would later be named curve in $1000.00. before my father died he said songs are i

chalons al-jazeera london well in the us the 1st batch of madonna's a vaccine is now being prepared for distribution trucks carrying millions of doses will roll out on sunday that's the 2nd vaccine authorized from agency use bringing a ray of hope for the world's hardest hit country as all comes after the u.s. saw yet another record number of infections on friday. and in a strange am about a quarter of a 1000000 people in sydney's northern beaches suburbs have been placed under a strict lockdown and a bid to try to contain a growing corona virus outbreak there gatherings across great a sydney have also been restricted there are now 70 cases linked to that cluster strayer had recently gone more than 2 weeks without any locally transmissive cases and now that lockdown has also forced the cancellation of the sydney to hobart yacht race for the 1st time in history the tasmanian state government announced they were prepared to waive 14 day quarantine restrictions for people coming from sydney making it impossible for the race to go ahead and we can now speak to dr sam dyson on iraq and h

but things are almost certain to get worse before they get better rory chalons al-jazeera london let's turn to yemen who are getting a look at local media reports of saudi led airstrikes on the capital sanaa they are said to be targeting houthi positions in the city this comes just hours after at least $26.00 people were killed in a blast at the airport in aden that attack happened shortly after members of yemen's newly inaugurated unity government returned from saudi arabia barbara and go our reports. waving at supporters as they climbed off their flight attained an airport members of yemen's new unity government returned days after being sworn into office at a ceremony in saudi arabia. but the hopes of rebuilding the country after more than 6 years of civil war turned into chaos a devastating attack on agency international airport and the work of more than a year of saudi breakup talks and a deal signed in 2019 now in question the government members were led to safety but analysts say the authority of the new administration has been undermined this is of additional residence that the

chalons how to 0 senators in the u.s. in debating whether to increase covert stimulus payments to $2000.00 and to override a presidential veto on the fence spending votes will indicate how much party support donald trump has left in the senate with just $22.00 days left in office the republican house back to $600.00 stimulus for most americans but so far what was done while may support the trumps push for this to be increased many republicans in the house already split with the president in voting but the democrats to override trump's veto on the annual defense spending bill. at least 7 people have been confirmed dead in a powerful earthquake that struck central croatia the mayor of between mia says half the town has been destroyed and he's calling for evacuations as soon as possible the of quake was felt in neighboring both india and serbia while slovenia has shut down a nuclear power plant as a precaution protest as a rallying outside argentina's senate as politicians debate a bill to legalize abortion the vote is due i

has finally done what the 2016 referendum result demanded it's distance itself from europe rory chalons how does iraq. mali's main opposition leader from ala c.s.a. died on friday of covert 19 the 71 year old veteran politician was in france receiving treatment for the illness according to his family was kidnapped by an armed group and held for 6 months in northern mali in march are campaigning for elections a former finance minister and 3 time runner up presidential candidate says there was a prominent figure in money and politics for $3.00 decades now japan's prime minister shahid asuka is releasing 2600000000 dollars in funding to help medical facilities treating the coronavirus the country has been breaking infection records on a daily basis or 3000 cases were confirmed on wednesday the medical alert system in tokyo has been raised to the highest level following the unprecedented spike in infections almost 3000 people have died and more than 210000 have been infected across the country. and in hong kong thousands of foreign workers the spending their christmas away from their famili

rory chalons, how to 012, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria. now, u.k. m.p.'s are due to vote on a tear this system of restrictions to replace lock down. it could face opposition from some in the governing party. that's as the pandemic puts $25000.00 retail jobs at risk after a series.

is rory chalons with the latest from london. that's only just heard was another breaks a deadline whooshing past sunday was supposed to be the crunch day with the e.u. saying that if a deal had been reached by the end of the day wouldn't give the e.u. parliament and nuff time to ratify before the transition period ended on december the 31st well u.k. government source says that teams have been negotiating throughout the day and are expected to continue tomorrow that monday talks remain difficult and significant differences remain we continue to explore every routes to a deal that is in line with the fundamental principles we brought into the negotiations the truth is that that he you deadline never really was was a reality there is the possibility that member states can agree a deal in principle and then ratify it at some later date that doesn't mean of course that a deal is going to happen both sides have dug their heels in with big different this is remaining over fishing rights and the level playing field but this weekend the

chalons al-jazeera. canada's most populous province in implementing new measures from saturday affecting 14000000 people ontario is in the grip of a 2nd wave of krona virus infections recording 2000 new cases a day in the past week restrictions will be imposed on the north of the province for 2 weeks and for almost a month from the south schools will close non-essential services will be limited and gatherings restricted. cilla has had on al-jazeera juanda sounds trips to the central african republic and there's an increase in violence head of this week's elections. and a pink forecast from a top u.n. official on prospects for a 2 state solution a palestine. well compared to the last week or so with his cotton demand to some degree there is more breeze picking up in the eastern med that will affect the vent they lost lot of sunday weather is just turned into light snow in eastern turkey which will cross us by job and eventually get to northern iraq in the gaza strip the chance to shout increases in late o

chalons al-jazeera dover well for now let's go back to london for us there are these talks going on to try to sort out the chaos at the border how are they. well the home secretary here pretty much tells been speaking this morning c she says that they are talks taking place that some of those discussions are around the testing of those truck drivers now we're not sure what stage those talks are at and where the they will work out but we are expecting something from the government today but regardless of what happens those delays will still happen even if they decide to test those truck drivers that will cause some level of destruction and just to give you an idea of how uncoordinated top of the message is currently yesterday we had the transport secretary at that press conference alongside prime minister barres johnson talk about how many truck drivers actually then he gave a figure of around $190.00 only to be corrected by the highway agency later to say that they were actually $900.00 on the motorway so we have that motorway that's going to open now for normal traffic those truck

chalons how does era. cover cases continued to spike across latin america with a number of countries seeing daily records of new infections and deaths. reports in the colombian capital bogota. openly flouting social distancing rules thousands of football supporters gathered in the streets to celebrate the locals championships final. it was the latest infringement of restrictions in the colombian capital just as the mayor said the city has officially entered a 2nd wave of $1000.00 infections whether to same time announcing new measures for the end of the year. i need to insist to bogota knows there will be no public parties no selling and consuming alcohol on december 31st and generally 1st if you get together with family please only the closest circle. these are also concerned that the intensive care units are again at capacity in a number of regions and doctors are sounding the alarm especially since the country will not star backs the nations before the end of february there is an issue of the government

chalons al-jazeera. u.s. president elect joe biden has received his 1st dose of the phase a buy and take coronavirus fact seen as one of a growing list of high profile people being publicly vaccinated as an effort to encourage confidence in covert 1000 vaccines biden says he wants to see at least 100000000 doses it missed during his 100 days in office 1st 100 days in office she have returned he has more now from wilmington indiana. some of them perplexed the president promised failure to take more credit for operation walk speed the project that has created several vaccines to fight coated in record time it was notable that the president elect paid tribute to the current administration as he received his vaccine and as he attempted to act as an example for the nation that news station created its off the ground operation were. and i also think that. it's worth saying that this is a great hope doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared 'd once vailable 'd to take the vaccine there's nothing

rory chalons, how does iraq want to and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to c, n n l u k. m p's are due to vote on a tear and system of restrictions to replace lock down. it could face opposition from some in the governing party. that's as the pandemic puts 25000, retail jobs, a risk after a series of liquidations. very, very disappointed about that because ideologues online shopping. and they've got so many different brands in there. so it's one of the stores i shop in very frequently . so yes, and they then use and around 130 people who are going to lose their job to greg actually work. there was a guy we're from brighton and i always thought of stuff from there and i think they were babies, christmas things, things for the house. it's so easy. it's really, really sad. iran's parliament has passed a draft motion to start the international atomic energy agency having unrestricted access to its nuclear science. the proposed changes could allow iran to resume uranium enrichment at levels of 20 percent. that the government and the foreign ministry have already annou

chalons reports for days scientists and opposition politicians have been saying it's the government shouldn't be letting so many english households mix over christmas on saturday boris johnson relented it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas.

chalons how does era london. israelis are getting their 1st batch of vaccines around $4000000.00 people are to get the pfizer vaccine this month israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu received his sort of a public event on science say a mass in articulation will include israeli settlers living inside the illegally occupied west bank but excludes the territories 2500000 palestinians. and thousands in mexico's cattle have ignored orders to return to lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus there the streets of mexico city appeared to be business as usual on saturday despite orders for all but essential services to close the new restrictions will be in place for 3 weeks but are not being strictly policed. other news and violent protests have broken out in lebanon after a major hike in university tuition fees police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital beirut soon as responded by throwing bottles and other objects the protest follows a decision by some universities to price their cherished in on a dol

chalons rory a huge logistical challenges ahead as a result of the border closures. here and i think a psychological one as well i have to say that today monday the u.k. feels more lonely and isolated place than it did just yesterday we were on our way down to dover to see what's going on there we've stopped off on the motorway to speak to you that's the m 20 that you can see up behind me which links london with the coastal poor folks and now further on down that road i don't know if you can see but there are already actually signs up for washing those yellow sign saying that routes to france closed further on down the roads lorry drivers passenger car drivers will find that parts of this motorway junctions of it are closed off and it's going to be very difficult to actually get down to the coast at all now what does this mean for the u.k. what it means the. transport of freight across into france is severely impeded at the moment only unaccompanied freight is being allowed through that. containers and lorries that don't actually have anyone accompanying them any per

chalons in london rory i can't count the number of times we've talked about last minute last ditch talks and the impasse over fishing right i mean there's an important phone call full britain's prime minister today any indication that something is going to happen so we stop talking about last ditch talks and fishing. yeah i think you're right to question whether this is really a deadline or not reminded of what the writer douglas adams said about deadlines he loved them love the wooshing noise they made as as they went past and i can count the number of times that a deadline of breaks a deadline has wished passed over the last few years yes the e.u. could perhaps agree a deal in principle as provisional and then ratify it later so don't be surprised if talks carry on after after sunday a where are they the moment well they are on the face of it deadlocked and both sides are digging their heels in over fishing rights and level playing field really knows what's going on behind those closed doors other than the people involved in the negotiations themselves i mean the u.k. saying that is pr

chalons reports. in the german city of now they've run out of space for bodies in the hospital morgues the shipping container is being used to temporarily handle the overflow are not carted unfortunately the situation on hand now has changed we now need to make use of our containers that we have had. initially as a precaution since yesterday to cover defaced our hidden and total $25.00 things can be stored in the container said lee we had to start using the container from yesterday. with a record of nearly 34000 new cases and 830 new deaths germany has lost its position as a role model for how to handle the pandemic well they vaccinations are set to start up to christmas the 1st in the imminence of probable approval to 1st vaccine naturally gives us hope it's obviously it wasn't solve the problem and realistically we need to be prepared as months of january and february be the hottest months of this pandemic. several european countries are deep in the grip of a 2nd or perhaps even 3rd wave of coronavi

chalons live from london rory as we've been saying the devil is in the details so when will we get the details when will we know when will we be able to read this report. well when the final text is released to the public into m.p.'s m.p.'s are going to be clamoring for it because they are being recalls to parliament in just a few days time and they will have to vote on it so that it clears all of the legislative the legislative hurdles before the end of the transition period which is at the end of the year so of course they are going to need to read it to be able to make that assessment and make that vote now is there any doubt that it's going to pass parliament no there isn't really because by and large the conservative party are going to vote for it with maybe a few exceptions or some die hard brick sitters who might say that this is a sellout and breck's it in name only and the labor main opposition party will vote for it as well here starmer the labor leader has said it as much in the last hour or so again might be a few die hard remain is who are saying that they won't vote for t

chalons travel bans to europe rory are impacting really now on freight transport a nightmare for hallie is is now having sort of a domino effect isn't it really on the roads on both sides of the channel. yes how can we have seen throughout this weekend actually going into monday pictures on british t.v. lorries backed up from the channel ports all the way up the motorways for many many kilometers now that was happening already before this travel ban was brought in by many european countries and it was happening because british companies in anticipation of a possible no deal brecht's it at the end of the month were starting to stockpile and get themselves as ready as they could possibly be then you add on top of it this new announcement from the french and from other european countries but the french particularly because it's them that are stops the transportation of. accompanied freights across the channel that has meant the there is even more gridlock on the roads now and big questions over whether the u.k. can supply itself with food and medicines of course that it needs over the comi

chalons how does era. well elsewhere south korea has recorded a daily record of 40 corona virus deaths as infections there more than 850 people in total have died from the corona virus and infections now exceed 58000 president says he plans to buy enough doses of medina's coronavirus vaccine to inoculate 20000000 people south korea plans to begin its vaccination program in february. now thailand is warning that stricter coronavirus measures could be enforced after a serious outbreak among mainly migrant workers 12 days ago on monday thailand's or its 1st coven 19 deaths in almost 2 months there are fears undocumented workers could be spreading the virus as they try to evade the authorities it's prompted officials to allow workers from cambodia laos and me in mar to apply to work in thailand legally for 2 years well thailand is one of the world's low it has one of the world's largest infection rates and the government wants to keep it that way al-jazeera tony chang reports on this now from sun sun in easter