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An isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups. But some backlash and boycotts the nikkei adverts that has provoked debate about diversity in japan. And im here to stay with your sports olympic organizers say the games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But more than one of a half 1000000 people have now died from cave in 1000 worldwide and a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths and new cases among them is italy which just did its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic. Its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions and in the worlds worst affected country the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached you hives the president elect joe biden says he will make masks mandates during his 1st 3 months in office is on the 1st day i am on our grade to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days a mask now for over 100 days and i think well see a significant reduction if we encourage that everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably considerably well the overall surge means the the need to approve vaccines has become even more urgent but the United Kingdom which was the 1st western country to do so has come under fire from the regulators who suggested the british approach may have been hasty when up more on that shortly but 1st more on the situation in the United States with rob reynolds in the new epicenter of california. With new covert 19 cases surging across the u. S. Californias governor said hes pulling the emergency brake and will order a 3 week stay at home borders in parts of the state based on Hospital Capacity the bottom line is if we dont act now our Hospital System will be overwhelmed we dont act now will continue to see a death rate climb more lives lost governor gavin newsom says the shutdown will go into effect as each Regions Hospital intensive care unit capacity falls below 15 percent most parts of the state are due to past that mark by mid december were bursting at the seams with too many i. C. U. Patients too many patients that need oxygen and the projections suggest were just in the beginning of this person knew some big people to hold on a little longer till coronavirus vaccines are rolled out we have a light at the end of the tunnel with these vaccines but we need to take seriously this moment this is the most challenging moment since the beginning of this pandemic but Public Health experts say restrictions lockdowns and stay at home orders are useless unless people observe them americans are fatigued we were never very good turns out i do buying by Public Health advice. We just not we have to be more nasts we have been distancing weve alluded sizing it and been saying its my freedom not to do it. And so were really bad at that and i dont see any indication that were going to change another issue that many states are struggling with is a lack of Trained Medical personnel to handle the seach Rhode Islands governor is begging for help and if youre a retired Health Care Worker of any kind or a Health Care Worker whos currently under employed maybe have some time to spare or are unemployed or working in a non health care setting. Im asking you to suit up and help us out the nations top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony met via video link with members of president elect joe bidens Transition Team for what he called substantive discussions about dealing with the pandemic here in los angeles the mayor had a blunt message for the citys 4000000 people cancel everything mere Eric Garcetti told angelenos if its not essential dont do it robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles well more than a 1000000 people in iran have now had coronavirus nearly 50000 people have died but the Health Minister says the actual number is probably much higher but the government is considering easing restrictions in several areas iran is the worst affected country in the middle east while south korea has reported its highest number of daily new cases since march there were 629 new infections on thursday half of them in the capital seoul the government has announced a ban on year end parties and impose strict social distancing guidelines in the greater seoul area. Americas top Infectious Disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci he has apologized for criticizing britains fast approval of the 5 by and taken vaccine as you mentioned the new regulations have already criticize you case approach shot but this has more. Hope is housed in a belgian factory where millions of doses of the vaccine developed by german scientists from biotech and the u. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer being made the u. K. s leading the race to roll out the drug after its independent regulator gave the vaccine emergency approval on wednesday the 1st doses will arrive in britain within days weve got the very best people in this country and weve always got the best bet to call regulators much better than the french have much better than the belgians have much better than the americans and that doesnt surprise me as well because we are much better country than every single one well it may be a political win for the u. K. U. S. And fictious disease expert dr anthony felt she appeared to cast doubt over how precious regulators approved it so quickly you know i love the brits theyre great theyre good scientists but they just took the data from the wise a company and instead of scrutinizing it really really carefully they said ok lets approve it thats it may work with it the scientist hastily back tracked apologizing for what he called a misunderstanding she said he did have great faith in the Regulatory Community in the u. K. It essentially a temporary approval when it is made under extraordinary circumstances when there are risks to health and no other treatment available. It doesnt mean that the scrutiny is not there it does not mean that the regulators have not acted safely but i think what were seeing right now is a bit of political posturing the rabbit approval had already been politicized by the e. U. Who called its approach more thora we are definitely not in the game of comparing regulators across countries nor on commenting on claims as to who is better this is not a football competition were talking about the life and health a few people the World Health Organization has asked british scientists to share their findings the un body which acts as a benchmark for other countries is eager to approve a vaccine as soon as possible we need to. Develop more i think we should the stuff we need more than these 3 or 4 we need to increase production we need to pull the price down we need wed love a 1. 00 vaccine because they have all of the vaccine so far 2 doses so the innovation is a finished we need the research to continue we need everyone to support our research i will appoint the sort of british regulator says the strict standards have been met to assure the vaccine safety and effectiveness the rollout is being cautiously welcomed in the u. K. But the race to regulate exposed rifts between scientists undermining international if its to prove it safe and ready for use shelob ellis aljazeera lets go live now to meet barca in londons and notwithstanding the criticism as far as the u. K. Regulators are concerned the vaccine is good to go but a along with it some well a great deal of Political Capital is being made in. Yeah thats right as you heard the british regulators pretty confident that theyve done the work to prove that its safe and effective for use but theres been a low flow of grumbling and sniping particularly from the e. U. Who accuse the the british regulator of being far too hasty saying that its way of dealing with things its more scrupulous way of dealing with things was the best way of proving that it was ultimately effective and safe and then of course we have a man to be found she who chimed in on interviews in the United States implying the british regulators had in some way cut corners in hastily approving this d vaccine for public use and ease quickly backtrack saying that he still does have confidence in british scientists and the british regulator and went on to explain that the reason why he even mentioned s. Was to show that there are differences in the ways in which Different Countries go about approving vaccines and in the United States they have to be far more rigorous they have to take much more time improving its safety in effect say largely because they want to. Avoid any kind of criticism from the naysayers all the doubters and definitely they want to avoid antibiotics groups from exploiting any kind of weakness so any kind of doubt that this vaccine is ready to go yet despite all that as a stockpile is being shipped in how will it now roll out who will get it 1st and i guess how long will it take before the whole country is coven. What priority in supply of closely interlinked because the initial supply coming to the u. K. Is very small i mean a 100000 doses are expected to arrive next week the government has had to decide how it should be prioritized and theyve been given advice by the experts in the initial list elderly in care homes and care workers were going to get it 1st thats still the case and then hospital staff of the National Health service were also going to get it at the top of the list it looks like theres been a change now so doctors medics some of them at least will be pushed down the list a few doctors are still working closely in treating people suffering from covert they will be prioritized but this is upset some medics and hospital staff who had already signed up to receive the vaccine but the reason for this is a balance on the ethics given that the there is a small supply and also those most at risk of serious illness or dying from the disease and thats clearly the elderly category so on the balance solve africas see on the balance of ethics its seen that the elderly in care homes should definitely be prioritized and that it should go down the list there are 9 categories largely to do with age and vulnerability the decision has also made a bomb how the vaccine actually works as well we know that the vaccines that are being developed at the moment the good at treating people who are ill and preventing serious illness or hospitalization we know less about how the vaccine can actually stop the spread of infection within a population so in that respect its being prioritized of the elder late those most at risk of dying should get it 1st or in a thanks very much for the new bug there in london lets stay in the u. K. We can speak to Mohammed Munir whos of ronan just Lancaster University there and he joins us on skype from Lancaster Mohammed moneer welcome to the program so whats your sense of the speed of u. K. Approval do you think its been a bit too fast. Well i think. He has a range of experiences in approving the vaccines not only for the folks at 19 but also for from influenza well you know measles and old m. M. R. Vaccine so i think the the information they have bought has not just been arrived there is theyre being getting access to that out from the tumor and the last year that they would see it was on 23rd of november. To get it going that its a medicine i didnt see severe for i think they have full talling to go to all the files and to that one by one and to really make assurance that it is safe and it is quality and it is the effective vaccine that need to get into the human elements ok bought the problem is this whole questioning of the speed of approval is going to undermine Public Confidence and then to the people of the not going to want to take the vaccine. Yes certainly that is adamant health has a tendency and theyre all about a question that is why it is going back to hollywood at the same time what we need to really understand is that this whack scene has certain benchmarks that. Sort of put example it doesnt have any benchmarks for except stopping off the transmission or getting beat inspection the benchmark for x. Quality on the effect and thats really easy to assess and that is what i met jodi is approving so i think back to this one thing we need to make it clear for the public that there are d certain criteria based on which this vaccine has been approved and all of those criteria that isnt any question mark on food safety and effectiveness however this is not what i meant audie has looked like that this vaccine would prevent from getting in factionalism spreading infection and therefore they are not a phone given for that. Getting approved as one of these maybe distribution is quite another and that that is going to be the same story for all but it seems when eventually they come online. Well absolutely i think one of the major challenges off to vaccines would be approved is that distribution story and of course scalability particularly speaking about the im not in the best vaccines for pfizer biotech vaccine minus 77 c. Its that is something that we havent have this infrastructure before for any of the vaccines really i mean that is not to about its minus 20 celsius which on fraser the. A device that all are at least sort of days at the pharmacies busy and in the small scale hospital and that is one of the reason that the u. K. Government has not stepped up 50 defend an excess fabs they are this minus 77. 00 days of the who already have piled up whenever the vaccine will arrive at festivals and already. Is is going to go straight into build hubs and from there it will be distributed to the center of me and they will be deployed and finally mohammads weve got the finance vaccines in line in the u. K. A rich country others will fall in shortly and other rich countries one about the worlds poor nations whats being lined up there and how we will we ensure that they you know will sectors of communities everywhere come with absolutely and i think this is the most important question because what we are looking at at the moment is that what our developing nations getting at the civic capability of the pharmaceuticals and if we look on to develop the nation and our usa and u. K. They have more than 100 percent of the a neat and most the capability of fison with them and also its i think has already been scooped up by these nations but the part of the problem is that on to the diseases circulating into any part of the word d that the child would be the same would lead to that chills happy has established this well thats facility which has got into it that we percent of the nations population will be given a vaccine by the end up when we go into one which is an. Avalanche the herd immunity therefore i think there are a lot of challenges lying ahead on time we dont get everybody immunized at the scale later establish the herd immunity we should not consider also protecting great to get your analysis management and really just like Us University in the u. K. Thank you thank you. On to other news now the uns Refugee Agency says that bangladesh must not fall for him to refugees to move to Remote Island off the coast which is proving to storms and flooding aid groups have expressed concern that people are being coerced into giving the Navy Officials say more than 1600 revenger refugees are heading to the on the russian child from coxs bazaar the un says its ready to evaluate conditions in the new location if the government will allow them. There forcing my son and his family to go he didnt want to go before same i came to see him probably for the last time. Only my family didnt want to go there taking them by force even if my family goes to the island only because the floods. Slee beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth when they brought him here my brother didnt want to go to the other they beat my brother and they brought my nieces and sister in law here last night. Lets enough in time for a child who has moved from. Finally the controversial relocation of rowing i reffer just to remote coastal island a boston charter has started out of 2500 listed rowing that is 1642 rowing the refugees are on their way to this Remote Island by and have a vessel now the government has come under severe criticism from local and International Human rights bodies as well as you and despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least a 100000 growing refuges there in phases now we know talking from the refugee camp as well as. 300 plus were rescued from the boats who are living in that island most of them are not happy with the situation they prefer to stay in the bartering area with me on my where they feel closer to home they can visit their extended families and they can help each other out now there is a. Out of controversy this shortlist were made by the camp leader a lot of stalled out there in ties and forced into putting their name in there that we cannot independently verify that now the government on its part of the facilities are good doesnt have a base hospital at least 220. 00 plus that villages with good bottle facilities despite all that there are still a lot of controversy the government says the concentration is a major problem in one area and its security reason to moving there is rowing out to this Remote Island. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including well tell you why some muslims in refusing to collect the remains of their loved ones. Hollywood streaming one of the biggest studios says its going to start releasing films online at the same time cinema. Returned to the. Scene of this horrifying crash. Indias government. Farmers have yet to find Common Ground on new laws that could affect crop prices due to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday ended without agreement and farmers who continue to protest against the legislation that was passed in september theyre worried it will put an end to minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation. To list with around them whos life in the poor on the border between the states and. Stop protests continuing despite ongoing talks and the crowds growing behind you and i guess are going to get bigger on the. Border between indias most populous state. And this is actually the smallest of the 3 said to protest sites which are blocking key highways. Into the indian capital there are about 2000 people here tens of thousands at the border crossings off single and to create thats between the borders. And delhi and we have a nationwide coal for farmers to protests on saturday we are seeing support for these farmers from athletes professional athletes around 150 athletes from the state of punjab where many of these farmers are from including gold gold medalists a limpet gold medalists are planning to go to this president ial building on saturday to return their National Medals and protest they say against the governments treatment of farmers and all of those tens of thousands who are on these borders protesting say that theyre not going to go anywhere until the government not just makes amendments to the 3 farm laws which pharma say are going to remove guarantees around minimum prices for they produce but repeal them altogether because the farmers say the law is fundamentally flawed amendments on to enough and they have to repeal them so. The. Farmers the fluke they can find Common Ground with the government. Well the reason farmers and hopeful about finding Common Ground with the government nic the reason why the not hopeful is because again they say that the law as a social order that they were created without consultation from farmers and that they were pushed through parliament and the main issues with the laws are again that theyre going to lose guaranteed minimum prices for their projects that theyve had for decades other concerns including losing our tricity subsidies they fear that this is going to lead to deregulation where private companies and private players have unfair advantage over farmers and unions and they dont agree with whos going to resolve disputes around procurement and prices and again this is why they are asking the government to repeal these laws and we. I have a very difficult situation now where we have a government that doesnt back down we have government ministers who have been involved in talks saying that they are willing to make amendments but at the same time a Prime Minister who says that these were much needed reforms that were passed in the interest of farmers and they are so we have a government that doesnt back down and we have farmers who are the backbone of an Agriculture Sector that around the hof of indias 1300000000 people are employed so farmers have a lot of support and this is a huge standoff right now and its really there for now thanks very much indeed proud of them and. To the families of a number of muslim victims of covert once you know refusing to claim the remains of their loved ones the protests against the governments forced cremation policy because they say its against their religious beliefs. More now from colombo. Will he be in geoffrey died of cooled down 19 on november 26th the Sri Lankan Government crew meets the bodies of anyone who dies of course with 19 even if its a suspected case it says its technical experts have advised this is the best way to prevent the spread of the virus but cremation is forbidden in islam and some families are now refusing to collect the bodies in protest the obey the law for you do whatever you want we dont need this thing the leave the body the fuel and the well. A number of other muslims are also refusing to pick up the remains of their relatives. On tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed 11 petitions challenging the force cremations a joint statement by 20 Civil Society organizations on thursday rejected the ruling saying in a statement the fate of victims of forced cremation of called with 19 1000. 00 suspected dead had been the highest court in sri lanka has been shattered victims and communities are now left without a recourse in sri lanka for the continued injustice they suffer the Health Minister says burials cant be allowed until the Technical Experts Committee presented its final decision after conducting an indepth study into the virus muslim activists says her community has lost patience and will continue to leave bodies organizers as theyre called here at the morgue until the cremation stop to almost 18 months the Muslim Community has been asking answer from the government so they are fed up they dont trust the government anymore they feel that it is a punishment so they dont want to be part of this process at all so therefore they are just leaving the genesis and ive been told at least 2 or 3 hospital muslim genesis up piling up government Spokesman Says the decision to cremate lies solely with the Experts Committee government to. Ensure it is exposed committee that decides finally its all garment to the government to the cabinet ministers the president Prime Minister and the government the minister im not going to do it it is just that really. And. In terms of the. Way the. Expert committee but cases like that of mary news are seen here in these pictures are hard for the Muslim Community to accept. The 44 year old was cremated within hours of dying at the Infectious Diseases hospital the next day the family was informed her test record 19 was negative a son seen here in this mobile phone footage had the task of burying her ashes losing a loved one to corbett 19 is bad enough but many muslims cremating the bodies is a fit worse than death the government says all covert victims are permitted on the advice of its Technical Experts Committee and it cant make exceptions for any community with infections and it rising rapidly the dispute is far from over in the finance aljazeera colomba. The foreign minister says there has been some progress made to resolve the gulf dispute the gulf nation has been under an illegal land sea in application by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt since june 2017 President Trump Senior Adviser john cushnie recently visited riyadh and hall for talks mohamed bin abdul rahman now tony says hes hopeful things will move in the right direction could not predict whether a breakthrough would fully resolve the standoff we have achieved certain father said certain point of time more than a year ago and then things has slowed down and right now there are some movements that we hope that this will put an end for of this crisis because we see and we believe actually that gulf unity is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for for the sake of our people this needless crisis needs to end our time whether or not isnt. Weve got lots of cold and unsettled weather across a good pos if europe at the moment like pressure dominating proceedings every of life Fresh Company located just around a decent side of england every stang its in a good little dusting of snow here in my hometown of cambridge and other parts of east anglia to say the tightly packed ice swirling around our lowest dragon is a very cold and sweater weather makes its way into western parts of france for the by of biscay significant snow fall there over the parent a significant snow to coming in across the alps and over the next couple of days here we could see maybe 34 meters of snow coming in so some very heavy snowfall coming through very heavy rain as well for the idea that a central part of italy likely to lead to some localized flooding further east is a good drive its cold in moscow just minus 6 celsius but at least here it is lousy dry lossie try to across the northeast of africa a very different story to the northwest area of low pressure driving that colder air across western europe will bring cool enough to him to the northwest of africa to know the possum rock icing some heavy rain for a time localized flooding heavy rain there to stretch across Northern Areas of algeria gradually pushing into yeah. Still ahead here in aljazeera egypt human rights record in the spotlight is International Pressure forces it to release 3 rights group employees. The former president of the Central African republic is barred from running for office a validations of war crimes. And its one star return to the Golden State Warriors another is lost to injury peter explained in sport. Pakistans k. S. C. 100. 00 its said more than 36 percent we bring you the stories in development is that a rapidly changing the world we live in the water is indispensable to Economic Activity but in down. For. Counting the cost. 2900. 4. President s since rights. Considered his future and hope to rid his party rallied behind new candidates. With a tense new election. 2020 people in power went behind the scenes to see if the Indigenous Movement could pull off a remarkable comeback. On aljazeera. Range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the networks journalists on aljazeera. Oh oh oh. I have again this is al jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died globally from overnight a 3rd of those deaths are happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths and case. The worst affected country is the United States hospitalizations and deaths are reached record highs there the president elect joe biden says he will make mosques monday 3 in certain Public Places during his 1st 100 days in office. The uns that Refugee Agency says that bangladesh must not force ranger refugees to move to a Remote Island off the coast which is probably just told from flooding Navy Officials say more than 1600 refugees refugees are heading to the island of passion char from called since its. Lets return to the United States now web donald trump is continuing to stir up controversy despite being in the final weeks of his presidency reports he will not attend joe bidens inauguration when instead launches 2024 campaign on the same day the president elect has urged him to reconsider important in the sense that we are able to demonstrate at the end of this chaos that hes created now if there is a peaceful transfer of power with the competing parties standing there shaking hands and moving on i think thats an important what i worry about jake more than the impact on the domestic politics i really worry about the image were presenting to the rest of the world. Speaking out to judy norman whos a lecturer in politics and International Relations at University College in london and joins us on skype from london julie welcome to the program so the inauguration 67 weeks away through tradition is of course at the outgoing president is there not this time perhaps likely to go down in the states. Well and i think what we heard biden say is how most people will interpret it you know biden said this doesnt affect me personally but its just not good for the country what you want to see in an inauguration is it peaceful transfer of power the departing president and our party conceding that power graciously and that just sets a good tone for the rest of the country for moving on this isnt just a message that biden has expressed weve also heard it from across the aisle from republican senator Lindsey Graham just the sense of that public image of a peaceful transfer of power is important for moving on but again we know that trump is unpredictable we know that he has a habit of breaking norms so this move would not be completely out of sorts for him if that were to take place and also not completely unpopular because by any means because hes got a lot of support to say the least and they will be quite happy to see him launch his reelection bid instead of attending the inauguration well thats exactly right there is some speculation that much of trumps current messaging about voter fraud and whatnot is really just to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the Biden Administration but also to keep trumps own political momentum going whether thats for a future run or for other kinds of political trajectories and there is some speculation that he might announce some of those during an argument week the differences in the way the outgoing and incoming administrations are going to respond to events or and have responded to events is becoming stark his need to take the issue of march for example which is a radical about turn in approach from j. Blige. Absolutely so weve seen a very different response from the biden team so far especially on coven 19 after the election one of bidens 1st moves was to set up a in 1000 task force in his interview yesterday he indicated that he would you urge americans to wear a mask for the 1st 100. 00 days and just that kind of optics and messaging from the white house will be a real contrast to what we saw under trump and hopefully try and diffuse some of the politicization of code that weve seen in the u. S. There that has been kind of polarizing for quite a while now judy nomen speaking to his from University College london thanks very much thank you well the troubling ministration is sued social media giant facebook accusing it of favoring immigrants over americans lawsuit claims thousands of high paying jobs were reserved for overseas applicants it says facebook refused to consider u. S. Workers entirely for some roles but its because not publicly responded to the accusation nike is facing a backlash in japan over a commercial that highlights Racial Discrimination in the country for 2 minutes has been shared widely on social media and some users are calling for a boycott of the company right has this video features 3 teenagers who face bullying at school but overcome discrimination through sport. 2 of the girls are from racial minority groups and for some the ad wrongly portrays japanise prejudiced online criticism accuses nike of creating a false impression of japan from another critic the one thats prejudiced is nike while others have promised i wont buy nike ever again i think that they see the and as the unnecessarily negative towards and and i think you have an older demographic it more male who are against one of the featured teenagers belongs to japans ethnically Korean Community mainly a legacy from japans colonial period when it ruled over the Korean Peninsula touching on the troubled relationship between the 2 neighbors always rekindles old animosities especially for the older generation but for younger people in japan there seems to be a greater acceptance of diversity with sports leading the way the success of japans multi racial rugby team in last years Rugby World Cup was widely celebrated and the emergence of biracial tennis star nyoman osaka who is featured in the ad is having a profound impact the images experiences that are projected in the ad you know i think resonate with young japanese over the summer we had black lives matters marches here japan is served leads exactly towards greater tolerance and diversity but of course there are people are not comfortable. For its part to nike is standing by the ad saying discrimination is a global issue and it exists around the world but clearly some in japan would have been happier if the company had focused on a different part of the world of the bridle jazeera. Egyptian authorities have released 3 human rights workers who were being held on terrorism or. The charges after an International Outcry they were working for one of the last Rights Groups still operates in the country when they were arrested last month and accused of joining a terror group and spreading false news you arrests were condemned by western governments activists and by the United Nations well deserved continues to demand the release of the journalists and Mahmoud Hussein who has now been detained without any formal charges in egypt for more than 1400 days hussein was arrested while on vacation with his family in current in 2016 his detention is in violation of both a gyptian and International Law speak to his same bomi whos in egypt and libya researcher at Amnesty International joins us on skype from the capital of julius hussein welcome to the program. Theres been a lot of International Pressure of course on egypt to release all prisoners including our own Mahmoud Hussein but no movement so why would egypt now bow to this pressure to release these members of the Egyptian Initiative for personal rights. Good morning i think the 1st full its very happy event all 3 are released. But were recording your question it simply because it shows what we and others are human rights organizations and activists have been saying for years which is that in order to have really changed egypt syria needs to be coordinated and public and from egypt allies in europe and in america when we had said we have a clear example where is this pressure work and as such its very important that this is maintained by european and north american states that egypt listens to because there are so many human rights defenders that still remain behind bars but the executive from the means behind bars muhammad bucket manual musri to fit their lists that never ends and as such is International Community the need to look at this moment as an opportunity not just its not this is a very minor victory but its unity because was that Human Rights Movement in egypt is it remains to face an existential threat and we would be in the same location in 2 or 3 or 4 months as it was it does and maintains that coordinate. I was include say that Anthony Blinken which is joe bidens nominee for us actually a state he tweeted last month that meeting with foreign diplomats is not a crime in relation to this particular case and nor is it peacefully advocating for human rights do you think that his position signals a change in the way the u. S. Government will deal with this issue. With the egyptian government. I definitely hope so the last 4 years under the administration we have seen that say u. S. Which is a major ally and partner to egypt has taken a back role on human rights and democracy issues in egypt and other countries and this has meant they realized even more of an egypt where ization saudis were able to commit much much more. Human rights defenders members or community to christians and many many others including jordan wrists and medical workers so were hoping that. By blinking would sing signals a new administration in the u. S. Would take a much stronger and more popular will in relation to human rights and democracy its also important to note that the issue isin democracy in egypt its white parts and we have seen republicans and democrats a comment on that crackdown in egypt and. Stuff so its very important that we maintain that bipartisan support and hopefully was a new administrations you would be more supportive of promoting human rights and democracy in egypt right well see how it turns out that hes in by me great to get your perspectives appreciate that. From Amnesty International has been through this from tunis and unity and. The former president of Central African republic has been barred from contested elections in december. To see was in that invalidated by the Constitutional Court ruled that posies did not satisfy the good morality requirement kind of the former leaders accused of war crimes. Catch me if you can former president taunting authorities at a Campaign Rally last week despite an International Arrest warrant for his involvement in mass killings and torture the former president currently under un sanction for from entering unrest after he was deposed in a coup in 2013 is not only back in the Central African republic but it wants to become the countrys next president with the slogan the day has come. Except the countrys Constitutional Court has now ruled hes not illegible to run in decembers president ial election his supporters are dismayed at the judges ruling that he lacked both a clean criminal record and the moral character to be a candidate. Its a bit strange the courts have never summoned him neither has he been charged or sentenced he has been the countrys head of state for 10 years its a bit surprising to question his character. French troops intervened in 2013 after a boozy for mentored religious divisions calling on christian militia groups known as the. To attack progovernment fighters known as the celica University Student who is relieved by the courts decision fearing that busies is candidacy could spark violence. The other candidates need to accept the courts decision so that we can move forward with the upcoming election and turn the page from violence the campaign has so far been tense 14 armed groups continue to fight the government and each other despite a Peace Agreement in the presence of 812000 strong Un Peacekeeping force as a result 2800000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance and a 1000000 people are displaced with former president bush out of the race many fear the reactions of his supporters who still include armed militias Nicholas Hawk al jazeera. The United Nations says famine like conditions have reappeared in parts of yemen aid agencies are warning that time is running out to prevent mass starvation and the outlook is even worse for next year famine has never been officially declared in yemen where after 5 years of war 80 percent of the population depends on. The window to prevent famine in yemen is narrowing is new figures reveal record high of acute Food Insecurity in the country thats according to new information today from the food culture on a zation the World Food Program and unicef the agencys new integrated Food Security face classification analysis for yemen indicates that pockets of famine like conditions or phase 5 Food Insecurity have already returned to the for the 1st time in 2 years they warn that the number of people experiencing this degree of catastrophic Food Insecurity could nearly triple from 16500 currently 247000 people between january and june 2021. Police in peru have shot dead a 19 year old farm worker during a protest against low wages he was part of a group of striking workers who blocked the countrys main motorway with branches stones and burning tires leave the town of brega the protesters want wage increases in the scrapping of an agricultural or that they say limits their rights and their income. Evacuations are underway in indonesias North Sumatra province after flash floods killed at least 3 people heavy rains have battered the region for a week bursting at river banks and submerging communities the government says more than 6000 hymns have been damaged in towns surrounding the largest city medan. Malis interim government has announced the formation of a new parliaments with the military retaining a prominent role as part of a deal to return to civilian rule or Face International sanctions a group of Army Officers led by colonel i see me going to force the president deep in him of god hater to resign in august. In a hollywood 1st one of brothers has announced it will make its blockbusters available to stream online at the same time as a cinema release its a major shift in an industry hard bike over 1000. 00 lockdowns companies upcoming titles will be released on the h. B. O. Platform in the coming months major studios have been forced to bypass involves closures see their traditional Revenue Streams dry up john murray is a media and pop culture expert he explains how this decision came about. What happened wasnt 2021 of the brothers released him it was a movie by Christopher Nolan the director of the right of the producer and he was adamant that that film had to go into theaters well were in a Global Pandemic and some people are going to be it is and depending on where you live in the world a lot of theaters will close so that will be heading over 200000000. 00 budget but in the United States it only made 20000000. 00 in his Opening Weekend though the Global Box Office of the film has been strong theyve made their money back and im sure what they start screaming in the film obviously make money but one of the brothers was like no were not doing this again for the already announced wonder woman was going to this streaming platform h. B. O. Max in december and now all 17 of their 2021 films will go on their streaming app because they are trying to err on the side of caution but also be think up their streaming platform weve seen other streaming platforms like disney plus already take some projects that were scheduled for theaters and added to the disney 1st platform theyve done that with several fields and for them just getting the unique brand new subscribers is a victory for the overall channel because the belief is if you show up for the matrix on a lot of brothers h. B. O. Match or you show up or disney film on a disney 1st and then maybe youll stay in consume all the content and so that subscriber and the long time in the long term sense of things is better than just a one off at the box office and so you know i dont know out of the theater owners across the world are frustrated they feel that their losing money but the truth of the matter is Everybody Needs to err on the side of caution so the studios have this product and now they actually have a direct to consumer platform with the streaming apps that they can get the product to them and theyre not losing money in the long. So i had her knowledge there are 500 tons of football in england albeit in limited numbers peter will have that story im all short and. The root. Of the sport is peter thank you dick organizers of the tokyo lympics a delaying the games to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 the unprecedented postponement and a series of new Virus Council measures have been loosened to the already controversial budget the extra costs will be shared by the organizing committee the tokyo government and the Japanese Central government japans Prime Minister is promising the games will still go ahead. Well theres much im not going to eat at the u. N. General assembly in september this year i expressed my strong determination to host the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of next year as proof that humanity has defeated the pandemic i will continue to spend no effort to bring about the games that are safe and secure. Practice is underway for sundays. Prix in bahrain after an eventful weekend for me the one World Champion Lewis Hamilton is not taking part having contracted coronavirus but there has been a welcome return to the paddock for a man grows john days after his horrifying crash join together oscar reports. Few drivers have walked away from a crash as serious as roman groeschel but just 4 days as he was engulfed in a fireball the frenchman returned to the track where it happened persian spent 3 nights in hospital being treated for burns to his hands and a broken left foot he came back to thank those whod saved his life thank you for coming by giving gifts thanks to write for you when a man across the board. Cut. Your reaction today so did you do all your work there so where was it because thank you for saving my life was. The investigation into the crash is ongoing and this has teammate is happy to see growth back on his feet everything taken in consideration i would say very good i mean. His spirit is incredible after you know what hes just been through is in a very positive and reflective on the whole thing and yeah i mean it seems pretty strong about of the same as version recovers his thought it has will be filled by pitch a fit to pal the grandson of 2 time f one champion Emerson Fittipaldi and hes not the only replacement for this weeks race. Current World Champion luiz hamilton is isolating after testing positive for cocaine 1000 on monday that has led to an opportunity of a lifetime for williams driver George Russell whos been borrowed by ms sadies and hes confident he can more than fill hamiltons shoes it definitely was a tight squeeze. My size 11 feet were a struggle so having to wear a size smaller shoe. Would be ideal so thats slightly uncomfortable but im sure i can enjoy all the pain too to give us options see. Another change from last weeks races that drivers will switch to bahrains outer circuit for the sick a grand prix it takes less than a minute to go around the much shorter track which could create conditions for another exciting race joining us roster aljazeera onto european football and the draw for the Nations League finals has been made the standout semifinal sees a World Champions france up against the side currently ranked number one in the world belgium in the other match spain will take on italy will host all the games in 2 reign and. The finals take place in october next year after the European Championship in European Club football there were also all fans inside the emirates stadium for the 1st time in 8 months of the lockdown rules changed in london 2000 spectators were allowed in to watch them play rapid vienna in the Europa League arsenal 141 its been a whole its been how its not the same still the same the excitement you get you know just when its going to get ready coming up on the train the walk here the bars you missed another thing you realise how much she listened to you cant do it so you know tonight its just been ive got a kid at Christmas Christmas is coming and so im one of the lucky ones. Very special and delighted to have him back i think you know the man accused of you should we have 2000 by the looks night again many more there d were d. There were very encouraging him over in the u. S. Minnesota united go through to the western conference finally Major League Soccer after a super 1st off display against Sporting Kansas City kevin miller you know scored twice as minnesota helped themselves to 3 goals in the space of just 12 minutes kansas city never recovered from bats a good 3 no win for minnesota to move on to mondays western conference final where they will beat the defending m. L. S. Champions the seattle sounders. In the n. B. A. Golden state warriors god steph curry is looking forward to returning to action after missing large parts of the previous season with a hand injury of the 4th consecutive conference titles the warriors missed out on the playoffs last season as injuries ravaged their squad and before preseason even begins theyve been hit with a season ending injury to another star man play thompson was emotional for sure because you want the best for him he did. You know theres. No use working hard to get. Help bring that same effort commitment focus to this rehab and you know were just you may have to have this back and. You know because the womens golf legend Anika Soren Stam has been elected president of the International Golf interation the i. G. A. Phase the gulf body recognized within the olympic and Paralympic Movement soren stem worked with them as an ambassador to get sport back into the olympics in 2016 as a player the swede won 10 major championships. Australias rugby team are not taking anything for granted when they play argentina in the final match of the triune ations on saturday the argentine will be without captain public and 2 other players after racist and xenophobic social media posts from nearly a decade ago resurfaced this week but the wallabies expect their opponents to be fired up as both teams look to end the year on a high terms of their players but theyve got a really good squad of saying that you know from natural matches that we played them in. And then through what theyve what theyve managed to do down here a short notice theyre clearly trying well against each other. During the wake. And now we certainly up for week like that. You know theyre passionate bunch of guys im sure theyll be after the game. Well leave it there for now ill be back here again a little bit later with most sports news makes you happy ill see you later and thats it for me will be here in a couple minutes we have a half hour of news media clock its goodbye for now. The health of humanity is at stake a Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. Is the guardian of Global Health delivering lifesaving tools supplies and training to help the worlds most Vulnerable People uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that seed keeping you up to date with whats happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w. H. O. Making healthy a world for you. To everyone. The American People have finally spoken in america as i see it when america is off balance or will become more dangerous the world is looking in the next year of sanderson. With the election behind us will the Republican Party dump truck the fuel weekly take on us politics and society thats the bottom of. Captaining a leading used team at 16 years old takes determination. To that staying on top of your game at school. The whole family bands together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming a professional footballer. My tunisia home game on a. Global death toll from covered 19 tops 1. 5000002 of the worst hit nations the us an excellent report of Record Number of fatalities. Player watching aljazeera live from doha with me for the back to also coming up. This is not a football competition were talking about the life and health of people britain faces criticism for its rapid approval of the Pfizer Vaccine raising fears it could undermine public