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The u. S. Economy which remains the wild west affected country. Bangladesh transfers hundreds of richenda refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups and hollywood abounds to streaming one of the biggest studios says its going to start releasing films online at the same time as an sentiments. On german ash for the spores as the cost of delaying the taker lympics is revealed organizers say the current a virus despite minutes likely to set them back a father 2800000000. 00. Now the Foreign Ministers of cattle kuwait and saudi arabia all say that has been progress made in resolving the gulf crisis its now been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt and posed a land sea and air blockade on qatar but the Foreign Ministers say all parties want to reach a final agreement after holding constructive talks or somehow bar reports. Crucial days are had for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whose country has been be generally mediating and and to the crisis says hes confident. A constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the interest of the peoples within this context we express our appreciation for the latest efforts by jared cushion or the us president s advisors. The task point minister Sheikh Mohammed bin al the last man or 30 says he also remains optimistic about the prospect of a deal we have achieved certain for certain point of time more than a year ago and then things has giordano and right now there are some more moments 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 need this crisis needs to end a few hours after the kuwaiti and qatari statements saudi arabias point minister also said significant progress has been made and all sides are close to reaching an agreement we hope that these. This progress can lead to a final agreement which looks in return i can say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to finalizing. An agreement between all the nations in the dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all the Gulf Corporation council has welcomed the news in a statement is. Server development reflects the strength of the g. C. C. Its going to german and its ability to overcome all obstacles the new developments come a few days after the us president s Senior Adviser jared. Made a visit to the region he held talks with a meet of qatar shift i mean but how middle 30 and Saudi Crown Prince mohamed been so man the visit was widely seen as a last ditch effort by the Trump Administration to end the land sea and air blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia u. A. E. In and egypt on in june 2017 the locating countries sever diplomatic ties with doha and issued a list of 13 demands for qatar to implement. They include downgrading ties with iran closing a Turkish Military base and shutting down aljazeera qatar dismissed the demands as a violation of its sovereignty the us has been trying to end the blockade where reared its might undermine its efforts to contain irans influence in the region in the last few months american officials had been hoping saudi arabia would open his space to the tide of flights and move the Trump Administration believes will deny iran an estimated 100000000. 00 in annual fees qatar pays to fly over its airspace the coming days and weeks which show if the gulf rival nations are ready to set aside their differences 1. 00 of the ones of the blockade might take even longer to heal. The United Nations said concerned about the situation facing refugees inside a great region about 100000 refugees from. Neighboring eritrea housed there but theyve reportedly been fleeing and such of safety ethiopias army has been fighting Regional Forces then after about a month ethiopia has hosted eritrean refugees for almost 2 decades most of them in the tikrit region which borders eritrea many of them fled political persecution and mandatory military service the uns access to routes leading to for refugee camps housing the refugees n. T. Way have been blocked since this recent fighting began its been calling on the federal government to open up access and on tuesday the u. N. Said food has run out for nearly 100000 refugees sheltered in. Well ali i spoke to the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and he says access to the t. B. A. Region is. Very worried we had 100. 90 on the ground many of them had to flee themselves this is been war so for some time now 96 found in eritrea refugees came to t. Great because they felt it was safe that they say they fled from persecution and then every tree or not we dont know at all hopefully convoys will reach there is parts or great now monday just over the weekend we will have access now next week for the 1st time in more than a month if we did this tribute of top. But since then we couldnt do distributions we couldnt be with the refugees and nor the other. We know of violence in there im now in. I was in the refugee camp just came back from there the people who flee from the great tell about reitmans they tell about widespread insecurity of course there are many more internally displaced inside tikrit then there are the 50000 refugees who have come here we need access were glad it seems to happen next week the Prime Minister has been able to calm regional conflicts mediate peace between your p. R. And their retreat and hopefully there will now also be talks re Conciliation Court and she great we do not need another conflict and not not the refugees on the order of africa there are too many people suffering from the poor. All turning to the coronavirus pandemic now and more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died from cova 1000 wild wide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months with several countries reporting record numbers of deaths in cases there are thousands of the virus is also stalling the u. S. Economy is recovering new numbers show it added 245000 jobs back in november that makes it the slowest month of birth since recovery began and may the u. S. Also remains the wild west affected country its currently reviewing the Pfizer Vaccine for approval and hopes to release a decision this month the u. K. Though which was the 1st western countries to approve that vaccine has come under fire from e. U. Regulators theyve suggested their approach may have been too hasty but as alan fischer reports u. S. Health authorities appear to be taking a more cautious approach to the rollout of 1000 vaccines. The f. D. A. The food and Drug Administration came under pressure from the trumpet ministration to push forward with the vaccine approval they wanted to know why the u. K. Was in a position to approve it sooner than the United States theres a meeting elliott this week between the head of the f. D. A. And mark meadows whos Donald Trumps chief of staff according to steven hahn at that meeting was robust which tends to mean. The diplomatic language for people show to you one another and certainly the said that they will go through the process as quickly as they can though the f. D. A. Here in the United States intends to hold Public Meetings on the 10th of december into the vaccines there the evidence from the Drug Companies will be presented people will be able to ask questions but its expected that these vaccines will get americans to use its authorization pretty quickly after that the trumpet ministration then hopes to have 20000000 vaccines heading out across the country very soon after that in the days immediately after approval they will go to frontline workers in the 1st instance and theyre talking about somewhere in the region of 50000000 vaccines being available by very early next year but certainly the f. D. A. Under pressure to produce results quickly given that the u. K. Is no moving forward with its vaccine program. On the other side of the atlantic germany is hoping to have massive Vaccination Centers ready by the middle of the month to start immunizing people as soon as a kind of a vaccine as a proof that unlike the u. K. Government germany has said it will not rush to approve any particular vaccine until its proved to be safe lets speak now to john mccain he joins me from berlin dominic europes been battling the 2nd wave but they are being extremely cautious about vaccine rollout. Well the point the German Government is considering is quite how belleek the coronavirus figures have been for some considerable time now some the stats that really stand out are that for much of the last week the lawsuits perhaps even the last 3 weeks weve had an average of around 20000 new infections every weekday has fluctuated but for example the last 24 hour period thats thursday more than 23000 new cases and there has also been record death tolls the daily death tolls have been very high it seemed in the course of the last week the virtually every day has been another record death toll the last 24 hour period more than 430. 00 more deaths and another statistic that really stands out for the or thora hes in berlin but also around the large states of germany which have had many cases of covert is that the the coverage of intensive care beds in emergency wards well thats starting to fill up with covidien patients certainly here in berlin around one in 4 of all the available beds in emergency wards in los hospitals are occupied by code the patients thats a key statistic for this city state and its also a key statistic for the federal Health Ministry so concerned are they as you were saying there they are trying to expedite the approval of vaccines but they want to do it in a safe manner and the one thing theyve really been been talking about over the last week is the vaccinations sentences which will be instrumental in distributing the vaccines to all those people who need to have them as ive been finding out. This is a 1st glimpse of what the mass Vaccination Centers will look like moves created inside large warehouses or exhibition halls where thousands of people can safely be immunized every day there are 6 of these centers planned across berlin serving a population of several millions to centers will be at the former temple hoff and now closed tegel airports the man responsible for coordinating the construction of all 6 centers explained the process we have recently we know that we need to vaccinate 20000 people every day and we wondered if we could do this in one place the answer is no there is no place big enough and the organisation would have been very complicated i thought about how many centers we would need with 6 centers we have an optimal number in terms of their location in the different areas of the city the plan is for these centers to be ready by mid december so that if and when the vaccines are approved the centers are ready to go almost straight away but with the u. K. Government having already approved one vaccine for distribution ministers here are facing questions about why their approval process seems to slow or the Health Minister young man says rushing to be 1st is not the most important element and under siege it is no protests. We are following a different approach within the e. U. There are also individual Member States germany included that could activate these emergency approval procedures but after much consideration we decided against doing this they said we would proceed in collaboration with the e. U. We are proceeding with caution to keep the maximum level of trust in this product. The need for the vaccine is clear every day so far this week germany has been recording record daily death rates almost every day hospitals are gradually becoming fuller with corona patients which explains why some eminent scientists here have put great faith in the vaccines being developed. We have so far theres been developed extremely fast fantastic the Science Behind it really is great. But they are. Tested for now 6 months ok and if you want to have a vaccine in your lifetime you have to test it for a long time so there still is some insecurity how good thiis are opinion polls suggest the majority of germans are prepared to have the vaccination provided its safe im going to merkel has said the 1st vaccinations could begin before christmas but so far nothing has been finalized donna cane aljazeera berlin. Well there is plenty more ahead for you this news hour including Boris Johnson says brecks a trade negotiations are a very difficult point has lost its talks intensify in london to try to secure a trade deal with the e. U. Has continued to block major routes into the indian capital as the standoff with the government continues. The coronavirus disrupts the South African englands cricket series agenda well have the details for you and. As i was saying british Prime Minister Barak Johnson says brecks of talks with the European Union have reached what hes describing as a difficult point the e. U. Says opposed to trade deal depends on the u. K. Committing to a level Playing Field for competition rules and standards germany says it does want an agreement but not at any price while france has threatened to veto a bad deal negotiators are hoping to settle on a plan by early next week when our correspondent a gay guy is in london where those talks are ongoing she says theres still disagreement around fisheries and competition rules and neither side seems willing to back down. They only have so much time with which to guarantee of the trade agreement between the 2 parties and with those 2 particular points that mention the play of the competition rules as well as the issue on fishing rights as well they seem to be stuck on those 2 particular issues now with the competition rules those are of particular importance to the e. U. You know one of the sacred rules that about the blockhouse is the fact that any country that wishes to do a free trade deal with the European Union cannot use state subsidies in order to boost companies and of course an interruption of the competition rules as it were it has to be on a fair on a fair trade on a little level Playing Field as it were that is a issue which the u. K. Has faced because of the fur in the press breaks at world it has wanted to use state subsidies to boost Certain Companies in the u. K. To create a sort of a Tech Industry here to rival any other countries in the world where the problem is and using state subsidies is going to contort that competition as well the 2nd issue fishing rights well now further french that is an important issue and to the dutch as well with their coastal communities as well they need to go back to their countries and say look we preserve your fishing rights therefore weve weve got armaments in there at the u. K. However fishing industry only accounts for 0 point one percent of g. D. P. In the country but it is an important symbolic. Industry as it were and that is being used to try and appear like a strong arm tactics in these negotiations in order to put across the message that the u. K. Is not going to take any deal at any price. Now the u. N. To Refugee Agency says bangladesh must not force or hinder refugees to move to an island off its coast aid groups have expressed concern about people being coerced into relocating their Navy Officials say more than 1600 refugees ahead. Into the. Youre a bad man airports. These 200 refugees are stateless homeless and many have survived violence and now the future too is looking uncertain moving 1600 will hinder the move to a family uninhabited islands in the bang bang cool but their destination bastion china is considered by many to be dangerous. The un Refugee Agency warns it is only emerged from the ocean 2 decades ago and its prone to storms and flooding it says no one should go against their will but some are him just say they have no choice i am out of there about a mile and out of a merciless sleep eat my brother and broke 23 teeth then they brought him here my brother didnt want to go to push on. The law is enforced my son in law didnt want to go they literally forced him to board a car they threatened to kill him otherwise. The refugees are being both from here in coxs bazaar to the city of chittagong the island is about 40 kilometers by i think some people on the ship say it gives them some hope for only about how you know how the Bangladesh Government is giving us assurance of a better life theyll give us a Good Environment food and shelter and so we are going there and they could to prolong camps there are 8000021 1000000 People Living in back in dish and so crowded to to get away from that situation we are going to follow up we are not happy at the camps if we go back to me and more we may have a people but we dont have anything there to prove our citizenship so we didnt agree to go back we heard from seniors as well as the television that will get much better facilities at the shan charge bangladeshi authorities spent years building shows on the island to commentate up to 100000 people they say it will help to ease overcrowding in the largest refugee camp in. Coxs bazaar thats home to move the millions will hinge on. The majority fled 3 years ago in a military crackdown on the muslim minority. Although me a month denies genocide the u. N. Called it textbook ethnic cleansing. The u. N. Says it doesnt have access to the island but Rights Groups say they want to know if the real hindu will receive appropriate medical care ensure the human rights freedom of Movement Education and one theater then all the able to come back to manly outas era and ghana is going to the polls and whats expected to be a race between the incumbent and a former president unemployment and corruption are dominating the campaign so far amid interest reports. After months of lockdown restrictions this Food Processing plant is slowly recovering from the impact of covered 90 many others did not survive the companys founder says doing business is difficult but when times are good the infrastructure of the company of the nation is such that even if you have money and theyre also not good or they are not there you can still benefit for me the kumar is sauce base that we have is such island which at some enterprise level i can you can see a new soul is a National Something because you want skilled star or employees to work with and it is not really is the available. Critics of the couple insecure make policy say that businesses cant grow because of the harsh environment they operate despite the effects of coverage 19 experts say gone as economy would go into a recession expertise in predicting a one percent growth this year but concerns from here about point and high for us last month the countrys chief prosecutor quit alleging political interference from the presidency in the fight against corruption is now in hiding saying his life has been threatened yet again it is a war lead worried i did see patients on because states of sauces by people in positions of power. And the conclusion is that none of the 2 parties is pure i dump you nor rights because. The end as he had been power and corruption was one of the key allegations he let let me give them and the government is also suffering from the pack of all corruption. Is a trained mechanic turned commercial motorcycle operator government as bad commercial to psychosis operating in the city produce accidents and pollution but most it does it anyway because its the only means he says to support his family in pain but a lot of money to the police when they get that take up to work for you to look at i see you go but they dont spend is the government saying they were in the womb legalising so i want to. Be my wife. Tristan meow hopes to raise money to father education she registered to vote for the 1st time but has decided not to. I just did the noble scene because i didnt see anything that got me to look for me like i dont get to meet any benefits from it even when we are there right now weve been given bungees on with that said when it comes gunn is one truthful but they dont expect power to shift from the 2 dominant Political Parties that they say makes it hard to see how or when they will see any real change ahmed agrees aljazeera tema gonna. The u. N. Says famine like conditions have reappeared and parts of yemen aid agencies are warning that time is running out to prevent mass starvation and the outlook is even less for next year famine has never been officially declared in yemen where now 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 Organization the World Food Program and unicef the agencys new integrated Food Security face classification analysis for yemen indicates that pockets of famine like conditions will face 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. Indias government and protesting farmers have yet to find Common Ground on new laws that could affect crop prices theyre due to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on fast day ended without an agreement farmers are continuing to protest against the legislation that was passed back in september theyre worried that it will put an end to minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation elizabeth problem is with some of those protesting farms. Where the gaza Border Crossing between the states are all full of the british and delhi where farmers from the states of all that are kind and other predation where thousands of farmers have gathered here on this highway which means that there is no traffic allowed to come from those states into delhi this is the smallest of the 3 session protests there are still around 2000 farmers as you can see everybody here is being fed theyre fed 3 times a day all 3 protest sides tens of thousands of farmers remain on the other 2 key highways which are on the borders between the states of haiti yana and delhi and farmers everywhere everywhere say that theyre not going anywhere even as those talks between Farm Union Leaders and the government continue the 2nd round of talks took place on thursday and the main issue for farmers remain the concerns over losing a minimum price for their produce losing l. A tricity subsidies concerns that for 5 buyers will have an unfair advantage over farmers and unions and also they worry about who will resolve disputes over procurement over prices or the government has said that they are willing to take all of these concerns into consideration even write amendments to these laws of pharma say that these laws are fundamentally flawed that they were created without consultation with farmers pushed through parliament and that theyre not going to end the sit in protests until the laws are repealed and were expecting the protests to only get bigger theres a nationwide call for pro. On saturday and accolades from the state of punjab where many of these promises of from planning to go to the president ial building on saturday a number of athletes including a limpid Gold Medalist to return their National Awards to the Indian Government they say in protest against the governments treatment of phone is off still ahead here on out is there allegations of bias against american wacken is the time that ministration takes facebook to course. Egypts human rights record in the spotlight as International Pressure forces it to release 3 rights group employees. And all the best of the football action from the asian champions rained all of thats coming up in sports channel. The weather looks like its on the across the middle east weve got cloud and right into northern parts of the region anywhere from the caspian running down across the gulf pushing towards the reds say this by the cloud marks a line denoting where we have cooler air to the north as that i mean warmer to the south here in dakar of 30 celsius but its 10 degrees cooler in kuwait and then between that boundary will be have gotten lost a lot of rain which pushes all the way up to wards syria lebanon and jordan this week go on into sunday that western weather will shift its way through kuwait into that western side of iraq we are lucky to see some flooding here as a result of that west where that doesnt quite make its way through casa we could see should drift a little further east which is we go into the early part of next week but it will freshen up temp destructors get to 2425 celsius in doha as we go into next week so youll notice that bunya showers meanwhile across central parts of africa line of heavy rain coming out. Angola sliding across. Down into mozambique and whats the weather continuing some whats the weather to into the eastern side of south africa for a time showers into central areas and whats the weather to madagascar. From. Aljazeera well to meet some extraordinary women. Who are making things happen that way. Following their daily struggle to survive. For their families to thrive. Egypt swimmin street silent as on aljazeera. I was raised in france. These are my grandparents. These are my parents and this is mean. By them both isis and the us are. The 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable simony. The father the son and the jihad. Run on aljazeera. And again im the stones lets remind you of our top stories here this hour the Foreign Ministers of saudi arabia qatar and media as you kuwait of all signaled that progress is being made on resolving the gulf to spews saudi arabias foreign minister says a final agreement is within reach. The uns Refugee Agency says eritrean refugees in northern ethiopia have fled their camps because of the conflict and there are more than 100000 refugees in that region and their affairs they have limited access to food. The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to stall the u. S. Economy is recovery and out of just 245000. 00 jobs in november thats the slowest month of growth since may. When its now return talk top story in the possibility of a breakthrough in the gulf crisis i spoke to Andreas Krieg hes an assistant professor at the school of security at Kings College london he says while there are all positive developments the core issues are yet to be resolved. We are so obsessed of the last 3 days to come and see an announcement been made of a breakthrough i think you know we have to we should forget this being 42 months of a crisis is almost 2 more its going to be 3 and a half years exactly where the gulf people have been sucked into this crisis much as a lead as much as everyone who is living in the gulf so to kind of resolve this which is essentially an ideational crisis as much as an issue based crisis you know this is a marathon this is not something that can be done overnight i think its a positive development in the sense that this current effort between kuwait and the americas as a mediator between is essential between qatar and saudi arabia and these are the 2 parties who are now willing to talk to one another and come to know they basically came to an agreement to eventually negotiate an agreement if you will so its a preliminary agreement to kind of. To kind of agree to an interim period where both sides can monitor each others commitments and goodwill to actually solve this crisis the saudis are under immense pressure to make concessions at the moment because they want to look what as a as a constructive player in the gulf and in the mena region to the new Biden Administration in the United States but they now have also the pressure to bring in our with our be into the fold which is going to be significantly more difficult because the actual parties to the conflict ideational ideologically speaking it is this is qatar and the u. A. E. These 2 parties are not aligned and it too kind of bring these 2 together is going to be the biggest challenge thats why the 1st step needs to be a resolution which in saudi arabia and qatar and now the u. S. Secretary of state my compare says washington is also optimistic that the dispute will be a resolute i didnt say when we were very hopeful that the. Dispute between the saudis the countries. Can be resolved we hope so because we think thats important for peace throughout the middle east but most important we think its the right thing for the people of each of those countries were going to keep working to do our what we can to the sun conversations a dialogue. Now interpol has warned that organized crime net except preparing to target covert 1000 vaccines it is here to highlight to its 194 member nations outlining potential criminal activity both physically and online the global peace Coordination Agency says criminal organizations may attempt to fake or steal supply is of the new vaccines the agency called for coordination between Health Regulations as vaccines come closer to distribution when Jake Williams as president of rendition in 56 thats a Cyber Security company he says the supply chain is likely to be targeted obviously some of the vaccine manufacturers themselves but you know while theyve been concentrating on security for quite some time now the actual us supply chains largely have not ridden this is the 1st time theyve really been involved up to this point and so were going to see criminals target them and all of those cyber offenses probably are not are the same way that we see with the vaccine manufacturers and researchers themselves but early on in the pandemic we saw you know in 95 masks we saw the stuff that was a you know massively lower quality but always that externally in packaging definitely appeared to be legitimate obviously theres a little bit more safety around back scenes and you know medical devices there but are a matter of medicine there but still definitely within the realm of possibility for a counterfeit standpoint and of course Cyber Attacks are going to give us the criminals the data that they need to manufacture convincing counterfeit i think that we will see a pass that attempts to insert things that are not even vaccine maybe just you know sailing for instance replacing the natural back scene you know that may have been stolen transit or incidents or sold on the black market whatever the cases. Now the International Nuclear watchdog says iran is installing new more advanced equipment when rich ukrainian the i. A. E. A. Says centrifuges are being added to the underground plant in the tons under the nuclear deal only less efficient machines could be used irans leaders recently passed a law allowing for more enrichment and limiting watchdog inspections to also have already has all the latest from tehran. Our information is coming from the International Atomic Energy Organization agency not from iranian officials they have yet to comment on this but what we understand is that iran has. Is going to install 3 cascades of all your 2 centrifuges each cascade is about 174. 00 century centrifuges that will go into now towns that means that the number of centrifuges operating out of that facility will reach about 5500 now under the Nuclear Deal Iran is not allowed to increase the number of richmond facilities within these Nuclear Sites but clearly iran has decided the time has come yet again for them to break away from their commitments all this comes as the parliament has passed a very urgent law limiting irans. Activities with the Atomic Energy agency in their cooperation in light of the assassination of the high ranking Nuclear Scientists last friday the president Hassan Rouhani has said that the government has now 2 months before they have to implement this new law and this all means that the incoming u. S. Administration of President Joe Biden will have a small window of opportunity to try and see what they can do if there is any appetite on their end to return to the Nuclear Agreement the plan is for iran to try and lift some of the sanctions the u. S. Has imposed since they withdrew from the deal the nuclear deal in 2000 and. Egyptian authorities have released 3 human rights workers who are being held on terrorism related charges after an International Outcry they were working for one of the last Rights Groups still operating in the country when they were arrested last month and accused of joining a terror group and spreading false news hussein bomi is an egypt and libya had Amnesty International he says International Pressure helped to secure the release of those wackos from an egyptian prison. Its simply because it shows what we and other human rights organizations and activists have been saying for years which is that in order to have really a change in egypt syria needs to be equal or the needs and public action from egypt allies in europe and in america when we had set we have a clear example where is this pressure work with egypt and as such its very important that this pressure is maintained by european and north american states that egypt listens to because there are so many human rights defenders of syria mean behind bars but exactly from the already means behind bars muhammad booker manual musri saab to fit their list that never ends and as such International Community is a need to look at this moment as an opportunity not just not this is a very minor victory but its an important unity because it was out its a Human Rights Movement in egypt is it remains to face an existential threat and we would be in the same location 2 or 3 or 4 months is a mess and doesnt maintain that coordinate up at the last 40 years under the trumbull 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 materialized in even more depression in where ization shortys were able to commit much much more violations against human rights defenders members are community christians and many many others including jordan that its now the trunk administration has social media giant facebook accusing it of favoring Foreign Workers are run merican that also claims thousands of high paying jobs or is that for the say that because it says a face that refused to consider a u. S. Work is entirely some roles that no state alleges the social media giant failed to properly advertise more than 2600. 00 possessions and says facebook that. Offer the jobs to Foreign Workers and sponsor them for residency now at the heart of the case is a longstanding dispute over 81. 00 b. Visas for high skilled workers the government has tried to restrict them giving it to spaces american jobs donald trump outright banned the visas during the pandemic in june a federal judge later reverse the ban fest some Companies Tech companies have spoken out against the ban they argue its what allows the u. S. Tech sector to be above others on the competition on the wild stage well lets speak to john biggs hes editor in chief at gizmodo a tech website and he joins us now from new york john were talking about very specialized jobs here right is this about facebook favoring Foreign Workers or not necessarily looking for them in the u. S. Because theyre less likely to find them. I think its i think its a little of both i think youre in a situation where a asian indian european. Student or graduate is going to have a lot more practical experience in terms of relevant theoretical experience in terms of science programming and development that sort of thing and if youre looking for that specifically thats exactly the place to go indeed especially if youre looking for a little more generalized experience. America has a has a different style of education. But its not as deep as hard tech as you would get from outside of the country. And this lawsuit is coming off to a 2 year investigation i believe which says that facebooks discrimination and its recruitment and hiring practice this is routine and ongoing how systematic is it. I cant imagine its extremely systematic i mean ideally were looking at relaxing a situation where one side of one side of the story wants to. Be nationalistic about jobs which seems kind of ridiculous when the vast majority of the folks who have started start up companies in the valley and elsewhere have been h one b. Or foreign foreign born folks and this is a this is a political ploy and luckily we only have about a month months left to put up with it and well speaking of politics we know that President Trump has had a rather fraught relationship so to speak with big tech facebook included despite all those meetings that knapsack about had at the white house and i know that mr about has made fighting for immigrant rights a real position with his how does all of that play into things i mean thats thats exactly whats going on here could we get feasibly 20252600. Text graduates to join facebook today i think youre going to have a hard time i think i think folks in the states i think students in the states look at facebook is as an also ran their little bit theyre a little bit older now and theres not a lot of exciting coming out of a company i would i could go there if i graduated from mit or been a champagne or wherever i came from. I want to come back to what the governments been doing there has been this sustained assault that weve been seeing on big tech google amazon apple as well as facebook do you think that this jobs front could be another front in the battle could we see this line of attack from the government on the phones perhaps. Well honestly i dont see how long how long they can keep up this line of attack i mean a facebook want to hire 2600 people and leave them in leave them in india for example that could be a range thats not thats not an issue the question here is do we quote unquote bring folks over give him h one b. Visas allow them to work and live in the United States and if youre being nationalistic nativist about the whole situation and then you dont want. For my money i would want i want every smart person in the world to come to the United States i live in new york i want to read more service more personally in the world coming out of states because thats how so we maintain innovation thats how we maintain a level of technology thats unparalleled if thats not the case if they dont want to then i guess thats the end of john big fair editor in chief it is made a great to get your thoughts here on out is there thanks for being with us john thanks. On the Top Administration has also blacklisted more chinese owned businesses as the trade war with beijing continues into the president s final weeks and paua the white house budget u. S. Investment in top chip maker s m i c an oil giant c. N. N. O. R. C. Accusing them of having ties to the Chinese Military both companies have rejected that decision saying it was made a false or misunderstood information and run a fight in the u. S. State of georgia will determine whether republicans maintain control of the senate or if democrats will take power theres also an intense push amongst grassroots organizations to get more people to the polls before mondays registration deadline and actually going to reports from atlanta. Part order part. These signs wallpapering speak to the election fatigue among georgians the 2020 Campaign Cycle is continuing at a breakneck pace the outcome of Georgias Senate runoff on january 5th will determine the balance of power in the senate and how ambitious of an agenda president elect joe biden can pursue our ancestors fought and died for us to vote in the 1st place so its almost like a crime for me and who i stand for if i dont. Want to georgia stand up is one of the many nonpartizan grassroots organizations pounding the pavement during this pandemic Holiday Season its target is mobilizing the black vote especially eligible young and women voters we are experiencing a cultural war. Theres a shift in demographics theres a shift in power and so our job is empowered those who have the right to vote the last time georgians elected a democratic senator was 15 years ago but during that time the demographics of georgia have shifted blacks hispanics and asians now comprise more than a 3rd of the electorate i expect that you know both groups will experience a mixed bag of wins and losses Going Forward and that theyre going to be really close elections you know the same thing happened when whites were shifting their Party Identification in the eightys and ninetys from the Democratic Party to the republican partys drive around libris action is a conservative organization wooing the countrys growing Hispanic Community latinos in georgia overwhelmingly voted for by however the group points out that support for President Trump in the state jumped 10 percent in the last 4 years were seeing inroads were seeing more and more are beginning to. Take a look at the issues take a look at their of their lives take a look at policy and begin to say you know what the message that libra is is telling us and conservatives overall that thats thats the direction i want to go whatever the outcome of the georgia Senate Runoff the real winner might be the power of each persons vote the toss it in a oh just 0 atlanta. And a hollywood fast want to brothers has announced it will make its blockbusters available to stream online at the same time as their cinema release. The media and pump culture expert explains just how hearst decision came about. Well that 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 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 out then maybe youll stay in consume all the content and still 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 know a lot of the theater owners across the world are frustrated they feel that theyre 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 a lot. Well still ahead here on aljazeera footballs a wild governing body and out says a new host country for the Club Wild Card details coming up with gemma and sports. Its. All. Bunkum back its now time to support his gemma and. Thanks us dr the cost of delaying the take it impacts it because of the current of ours pandemic could rise to a point 8000000000. 00 the game is already running double the official 12600000000. 00 budget that was before the perspiring mint and is the japanese taxpayer bearing most of the brunt is an extra cost will be shared by the organizing committee to take care of government and the Japanese Central government but despite growing opposition within the country the Prime Minister meant committed to them picks much not. At the Un General Assembly in september this year i express 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 spin no effort to bring about the games that are safe and secure. After the olympics japan will be hosting another big sporting event next year footballs governing body fifa has announced that stage at the Club World Cup but in december 2021 the delayed 2020 version of the tournament is being staged in cats in february still plans to launch an expanded format of the competition once the pandemic passes the tournament is very well still on on the agenda we just have not yet decided when it will it will take place so the new club will cobble trouble championship or whatever. It will be called which is a tournament that you know especially cops want and fans of clubs all over the world want as well is something that this is very much there. Right now is hosting the Asian Champions League with teams looking to qualifying for the february Club World Cup the c one bluing said squeezed into the knockout stage the south korean side needed to win by 2 goals against basically the International World cup stadium and they did just that they had into the last 16 and so do you miss out you already through as Group Winners suan it will face yokohama f. The arena is in the knockout as the japanese are needed just a point against australia as sydney f. C. To secure a top spot in group h. And yuki is an eightys volley how to limit to only one rule. Chinas shanghai s. I p. J. R. Into the knockouts to face of despite losing at their final group game at motives of south korea beat them to no with cho to song scoring both goals the chance of a still heading home over in the states Minnesota United 3 to the Major League Soccer western conference final they scored 3 goals in 12 minutes to beat Sporting Kansas City going to the kevin 1000000 a minnesota have had 3 to the final which is on monday where they will meet the defending m. L. S. Champions seattle sound is. Former new york city boss of Patrick Vieira has been sacked as head coach of nice in france is shots of him joining in 2 and a half years ago but Thursdays Europa League defeat by leverkusen it was their big in a row for arsenal captain vieira let me sit to 5th place in the French League last season but theyre struggling for form this season theyre 11th in the campaign now to italy where 4 members of staff are from the university of paris to have been suspended for helping us to cheat on a tally and citizenship test the form of also to strike a pasta test in september that was when he was trying to secure a transfer to ventus but at least investigation concluded he was given the context of the test beforehand and that the exam was a farce is also being claims that eventers tried to accelerate the price. Yes and the clubs a sporting director is under criminal investigation suarez never makes its way of course he stayed in spain and signed fact as a madrid is not played it since testing positive for current virus in mid november but this is him training on friday after a negative test gave him the green light to play englands of cricket team say that concerned about the integrity of the bio security bubble in south africa that was off to one South African player tested positive for corona virus the case of force the perspiring mint of the 1st 11. 00 Day International in cape town just an hour before is due to start that was on friday and both teams are staying in the same heights how south africas team is investigating if that was a breach the series should all being well now start on sunday in pall for the test indicate that this is a more recent infection that occurred within the boys safe environment so that so you know clearly there seems to be some kind of breach we investigated in great detail to try and determine where this happened i can categorically state that there is no player who can believe it was able to leave the Hotel Environment simply by virtue of the fact that is security around and the security will not allow a player to leave unless that player is leaving you know in a sign of yoko. Anguish go for Andy Sullivan will take a 2 shot lead into the final round of the dubai championship he made 5 buddies including one here the 17th lovely approach this one and he dropped just the one shot in a 4 and a path a round of 68. 00. 21 and a rule as he looks for his 2nd title of the season on the european till and that is all your support for now ill be back with more later. Remember you can always find a much much more on our website including all the latest updates on the gulf crisis and signs of progress towards a resolution thats all at aljazeera dot com thats it for me to start a tank but theyll be more news from london shortly. And. Weve never had a president who has literally for years repeatedly attacked our democracy. You know lucy lerner it isnt going to be i dont have a narrative i have a question youre getting there were you treated. 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