a presidential election as he campaigns for republicans running for the senate. thinking outside the box we meet some of the design and screeching spaces for endemic. so last ditch talks are due to restart between british and european negotiators as the scramble to reach a post breaks a trade deal intensifies both sides admits there are still significant differences with just 25 days of the u.k.'s transition period left reports in british media suggest that prime minister brought johnson's cabinet would back him over a no deal breaks it if needed the main sticking points include access to british waters by european fishing fleets there's also a disagreement over the fair competition guarantees and how future disputes will be solved and failure to agree by the end of the month will mean tough new tariffs and come with certain border checks from next year a further blow to economies already dealing with the fallout from covert 19 well the u.k.'s chief breaks it negotiated david frost he's arrived back in brussels hopeful of a resolution. we're going to be looking very hard to try and get a deal we're going to see what happens in negotiations today and that will we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on this afternoon thank you very much it's good not day from not even in london so not much to get in there from david frost not surprising is he gets stuck in back in the negotiations. absolutely if you like it's him and his counterpart michel barnier picking up where they left off on friday when they broke a week of talks in london which didn't lead to a deal they put out a joint statement saying there were significant divergences on fishing rights on governance and on the level playing field in other words future competition rules and those are the same points that they're going to have to look at on sunday afternoon in brussels the head of the european commission a serve on the lyon spoke to prime minister boris johnson on saturday saying yes let's ask our chief negotiators to try again saying there was a glimmer of hope basically between the lines but nobody's. sticking your neck out to say that there will be a breakthrough in the next few days but according to the u.k. environment secretary georgia used this these are the last few days for a possibility of a deal being struck later in the week there's an e.u. summit on thursday and friday where government leaders would in theory have a look at this deal if it had been signed it has to be approved by the british parliament and the european parliament by the end of the year as well time is extremely tight goodwill is seemingly quite lacking george eustis accusing the e.u. side of bringing in what he called a whole heap of last minute requests or demands it's not clear whether this is posturing we know there have been there's been back and forth on the question of fishing quotas but the biggest sticking point is probably what happens to the u.k. in terms of for example giving state aid being seen to give preferential treatment to british companies what mechanism there would be in future to sanction any break of 'd the agreement and really the british stances. is that they won't be backing any deal if it's seen to go against british sovereignty well it's hard to see a deal which doesn't in some form imply some loss of control or sovereignty over something . what are the implications of a no deal that if they are large the british press is carrying reports that a majority of the cabinet of told boris johnson hill have their support if he decides that a deal is not the right thing to do and to go for a no deal bret's it on january the 1st not only that this week in fact or monday this bill called the internal market bill comes back into parliament which has very much annoyed angered at the european union it in the admission of the u.k. government breaches international law because it goes against some of the provisions of that withdrawal agreement the divorce bill that was already agreed with the e.u. and then later in the week there's another bill a trade bill which would do similar and so people think that if those 2 bills actually stop progress then that really will kill off any chance of an extension of the talks towards a trade deal nobody here is underestimating the impact of a no deal next year it could knock 2 percent of national output according to the government spending watchdog the government is insisting it's made preparations and and there will not be major disruption but at the same time they're admitting that they are making contingency plans for example to fly in covered 19 vaccines if there is a log jam seaports in airports in the new year they plan to stay current at him thanks a lot and the barber there in london let's hear now from jonathan liz who's a political commentator and he says the u.k. needs to prepare to make a number of concessions. the most important thing to remember in the hope. that the u.k. . and. the u.k. is much more exposed to products it is much smaller much less powerful much less rich and the concessions will have to come from the u.k. side that's always been the case and a very new something the u.k. government has never really acknowledge or accept it. have to be a concession or the level playing field allowing the e.u. treaty. if the u.k. on the cuts in on competition will standards and the have to be some kind of concession from the u.k. on fishing access. oh see the e.u. will have to make some concessions on the use france as well but the bulk of the concessions will have to come from the u.k. and we'll have to address that up as. well the outcome of the break through tolls could impact the. program. from choose. more from outside the hospital. predictably it's already being described as the largest immunization program in history as we speak hundreds of thousands of doses of the pfizer vaccine are in the country being held in ultra low temperature freezes at secure locations being tested rigorously we're told to ensure that they've survived the transit ok over the water from belgium where they were manufactured there then be moved in the next 24 hours or so to 50 hospital hubs that will act as the 1st vaccination sites one of them is behind me here the royal free in north london. and they'll begin that roll out on tuesday initially going for the most vulnerable sectors people over the age of 80 and also care home staff and workers then spreading the program out possibly quite quickly the government has told general practitioners in local clinics to be ready and on standby from the 14th of december perhaps the start of ministering the vaccine of local level then and then of course expanding more widely than that to the mass population probably only in the new year including things like sports stadiums conference venues and the like but this is the beginning in 2 days as i say at sites like the one behind me the 1st vaccine doses will be handed out take a listen to what a senior executive from the national health service in england had to say this morning as a doctor this is a really exciting moment n.h.s. staff around the country vaccination hub such as this one we here at today have been working tirelessly to make sure that we are prepared to commence vaccination on tuesday this feels like the beginning of the end but of course it's a marathon not a sprint and it will take many months for us to vaccinate everybody who needs vaccination. the united states has reported a record number of covert 1000 infections for the 3rd day in a row nearly 230000 cases and more than 2 and a half 1000 deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours that's according to the johns hopkins university the u.s. has seen a major resurgence of the virus over the past month but even more pressure on hospitals that. venezuelans a choosey a new congress and election boycotted by the opposition united states european union and most latin american countries are calling it a sham vote they say it will enable president nicolas maduro is ruling socialist party to take over the last state party currently controlled by the opposition which says he will step down if his party does not win the vote as a latin america newman explains that's highly unlikely. like a great many venezuelans who live in low income areas have got access unemployed baker williams it is says he has much better things to do both in sunday's national assembly elections. like for example preparing sink sheets and wood as a stove because he has no cooking gas. it's always promises promises and every day things are worse over government does is blame those who have no power this is one of the world's richest countries but we have nothing because of this terrible administration the problem he says is that voting in the legislative elections won't change a thing yelling in that mainstream opposition is alleging fraud in isn't even competing thus making the outcome a foregone conclusion. there's a joke going around in venezuela it says those americans should follow our example we know the winner of our elections long before they even take place critics say it would be funny if it were true. this is the new electoral commission which is stacked in favor of the ruling that israel and socialist party and these have been israel is new and the trunk voting machines they were bought after a mysterious fire burned down all the ones that had been audited by an independent body is the missions are far worse than the ones that didn't work you're in their past that was a coup in 2017 with the problem that national consistency are simply so non of the . technical issues has been. among the candidates for president nicolas maduro his wife celia flotus and his son nicholas jr. apart from declaring the leadership of the largest opposition parties illegal the government controls and censors the media and while voting isn't mandatory at a recent rally party strongman deals that look at bale said those who don't vote don't eat there won't be food for those who don't vote. government supporters say they're counting the days until they take over the national assembly the only democratic institution that isn't nominally controlled by the opposition but i want to put up that elephant limousine argument this is our opportunity to expel those contrails who for the last 5 years mistreated the venezuelan people and was indeed there's no doubt about the winner the only real question is how many people may heed the opposition's call to staying home and abstain and see in human al-jazeera . through ahead here on al-jazeera we look at what awaits migrants and refugees who arrive on the shores of spain's canary islands. i guess the chances that space capsule carrying pieces of a distant asteroid lands on the scientists say the samples could explain the origins of life. the slow transition to winter continues was snow falling in home sure a bit more than it was though not every day but there will be showers the cloud increasing over china and spreading north as temperatures drop a little bit not much coming off the sky just spotted to rain or sleet or snow in the northeast monsoon is a little wobble and it increases the rainfall in taiwan. and temporary i think dropped the temperature in hong kong they are just 26 were below that so when they start the tuesday in the rain not even getting. quite where you should be and that same breeze is increasing the likelihood of big showers in sudden vietnam and from monday still in the northern part of sumatra if you follow the wind and it in houses the showers through borneo and west java it's the same northeast monsoon which is season after using the fairly constant rain from chennai down through tamil nadu less so than it was maybe because we've got this redevelopment potential redevelopment of what was a tropical sock and that went right across here so there it is in the arabian sea during tuesday that will probably do nothing more than that but good active weather further north at least temporarily and in iran. but. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all this i don't agree need to cut our security we don't want to they're lying on the authority and the media village post on out is they are. everday know what you out there are mind about top stories this and britain's chief of bricks at a negotiated david frost has arrived in brussels for more negotiations the u.k. and e.u. best of all it's less than a month before deadline to reach a deal. venezuelans a choosey a new congress it is election championed by president nicolas maduro. boycotted by the opposition the u.s. the e.u. and most latin american countries according to shannon for. the states has reported a record number of covert 90 defections for the 3rd day in a row nearly 213000 cases were recorded over the past 24 hours. all right what was meant to be a rite aid to back to senate candidates has turned into an opportunity for donald trump to once again falsely claim that he won last month's us presidential election he's been campaigning in georgia for republicans face the runoff vote next month the poll will decide which party controls the u.s. senate a white house correspondent can be how could reports from valdosta in georgia. donald trump was not the declared winner in last month's presidential vote but that didn't stop these georgia voters from attending trump's 1st post-election rally. thousands here believe trump defeated joe biden even as the president's court cases to overturn the election results have overwhelmingly failed and i said joe biden stole the election in one be election. violence might we see all the fraud we see all of the balance there were piled up that were. brought here in boxes and in trucks at 3 o'clock in the morning and even though he agrees trump lives in this southern state to tell them to go to the polls again this time in the upcoming senate elections that will decide whether the u.s. congress. this is controlled by democrats giving biden the ability to push through legislation but there's a new challenge for republicans some supporters say they've lost faith in the vote and may not even show up if you go there go anyway they've already got file a vote. probably already are fraudulent in my opinion but. i'm just on the go bowden and if they don't turn this election around or if the governor don't do something to make me change my mind. both republicans and democrats are spending millions trying to win georgia's 2 senate seats but trump insists republicans will keep a grip on the senate warning georgia voters the future of america is at stake you must go vote because its stake in this election is control of the u.s. senate and that really means control of this country the voters of georgia will determine which party runs every committee writes every piece of legislation controls every single taxpayer dollars trump also continues to insist he defeated biden on november 3rd he claims the mail in ballots received after election day shouldn't count he cues as democrats of stealing the election and vows he will take his challenges to the supreme court to win a 2nd term they cheated and they regard presidential election but we will still want it we will feel right a new poll shows just 25 percent of congressional republicans acknowledge biden's presidential win that's why his supporters are fighting to overturn poll results and to block democrats from winning again in georgia. but democrats are also fighting the day before president trump's visit here for the president barack obama made a virtual campaign appearance and president elect joe biden will also be making a visit to georgia before its january vote can't really help it al jazeera valdosta georgia. a committee in the united states is from the directed microwave radiation is the likely cause of mysterious illnesses among american diplomats in cuba and in china and these 2 dozen diplomats reported dizziness pressure and cognitive problems too. during a period of nearly 2 years from 2016 the study did not say who was responsible whether it was an actual attack but it did note that the former soviet union had done previous research into such injuries welcome col as a former cia officer and he says there's no doubt that some talk of some kind of the government when specifically blame anybody unless it's completely sure the usual suspects are governments that are hostile to or contending with the united states directly and that's russia china north korea and iran right now and by far the most likely ones are russia 1st and china 2nd those are. in critical or would suspects russia but we don't know it's standard practice and the reality in the intelligence world in the great game behind the scenes. competing or hostile intelligence services and powers countries to do things that simply are harassment i know that for decades the soviets and now the russians will do things simply to harass american diplomats or officials they will slash their tires poison their dogs i know people who have their their pet dogs poisoned and killed simply to mess with the americans and cause trouble for them or hugh dump their cars and them things like this. this is. still a level higher and because you can argue it's a cost spell it's a cause permanent brain damage to an official of the is what's how is that different than him or her in combat. so it's it is a mystery why they would do this and what they they whoever is doing it are seeking to achieve. now record numbers of migrants and refugees arriving on spain's canary islands have a look at the scale of the problem nearly $20000.00 refugees and migrants have reached the island shores so far this year that is around 10 times as many as the previous year 8000 people arrived in the past month and that is a new record for arrivals in the canaries and hear from elders who has been a smith who's got more from the island of gran canaria but what has caught the spanish authorities off guard seems to be the sheer volume of numbers coming in i'm joined by patricia fernandez is a lawyer who works with an ngo that looks after these migrants 1st of all patricia why have the numbers caught people off guard why the sudden increase i guess we have to understand you know migration people is something that has been happen in. spain in so to europe 30 years ago when one. of the close the migrant people will go over there as well as now say. the water coming that's why they're going this way yeah they're coming this way because you know they don't have another option that is not. coming to you on the sofa or there. are actually. clothes then they are trying to reach europe all the way from iceland a place where it used to be a reception place for my own people from morrocco from. also from western africa. voting is underway in cameron's 1st ever regional elections president paul bia hopes the votes will appease separatist groups in the english speaking west by granting more local powers the opposition is boycotting the election saying the buyer is trying to consolidate his grip on power because hackers this. even for the candidates of the governing party cameron's 1st ever regional election campaign is proving rather dull municipal councillors are voting for regional delegate candidates campaigning explain how municipalities regions and the national assembly have to work as one for the unity of the nation but with pictures of president paul everywhere the opposition believes this isn't about local issues but a way for the 87 year old head of state to tighten his grip on power with most political opponents imprisoned the opposition is boycotting the vote saying it will not be credible but the governing party likely to win most of the votes in. the english speaking regions of cameroon separatists have warned people to stay indoors until their grievances for greater autonomy is address critics say the. region of the ditch because there was a difficult crisis that is going to need the north west and some just regions of the country that is interested in regions of. the risk. we will be still. killings. in this itself the streets of the country. armed separatists called the english speaking regions of cameroon amazonia they see it as an english speaking country struggling for independence from a french speaking nation for the government this is an armed rebellion that requires a military intervention against separatist groups as a result of the fighting 3000 people have been killed and nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced among them traditional chief. i'm scared to return how if i go back. even talking in front of camera is dangerous i'm worried for my children and family and my community how can i support them from here. for the government of the vote is a step towards greater regional autonomy addressing the aspirations of those displaced in an attempt to bring an end to conflicts plaguing camp rude but the campaign has failed to garner the attention of a population accustomed to one party and one man dominating and controlling the political landscape for the last 38 years nicholas hawke al-jazeera. as the world struggles to curb the rising number of covert 1000 cases architects already transforming the way we live to avoid future design is a crazy imposed pandemic environment that limits human contact and normalizes social distancing changing how we use and interact with spaces. has this report called. it's the latest luxury hotel to launch in hong kong the harry will open this month it was built before the pandemic i did to death to the social distancing regulation we've been fortunate in some regards to be able to watch what's been going on in hong kong and how the hotel industry and restaurant industry have managed all the social distancing and what the best practices are and whilst we may have wanted to have a big fanfare of an opening that's now going to be rather more located the pandemic is transforming the way we live work and interact with social distancing laws in place architects like john pauline who designed the aquatic center for the beijing olympics are adapting to avert future outbreaks in one of the buildings that we're looking at at the moment so we've got a continuous tree in the going through the building with interconnecting stay and this encourages the staff to walk through the building not touching anything and actually taking the demand of the other birds knockdowns have emptied hong kong streets masks a mandatory temperature checks are in every building classrooms at this school have been redesigned to be more dropped a ball still allowing interaction but with more space incorporating social distancing regulations the space will be decided with more flexibility so they could and and they both different kinds of learning situation in the library we desire spaces for different kinds of quality there are places for solid team which students can be quiet as they can meditate stay can do their own exploration the way we live in hong kong was transformed after the sars epidemic 17 years ago since then the city landscape has been tightly regulated better ventilation has become mandatory and building codes have changed to deliver what the government calls healthier residential building natural ventilation is being increasingly installed instead of a conditioning systems that circulate used public spaces are also being redesigned to incorporate covered. regulations is a very developed city so i always say if we want to turn a city upside down is kind of impossible and it will be very costly we also need to create open space teevan public areas green area how we encourage people to stay active the good advice pandemic has been the catalyst for change globally a hands free future living at arm's length is increasingly becoming the new neural circuitry our desire hong kong. a japanese space capsule carrying pieces of an asteroid has been retrieved after a successful landing in the australian outback the mission began with the launch of the higher pursuit 2 spacecraft 6 years ago scientists hope the sample could provide clues to the origin of life on earth or professor trevor ireland is with the australian national university research school of sciences and will be analyzing some of the samples he explains what sort of information research is hoping to gather. the subsurface sample gives us sort of a ground truth for understanding what's been happening on the surface that the real issue of taking an asteroid robins as sampling of a meteorite is that we can actually look at the skin of the asteroid and understand how it's evolved in the solar system what age it is how long it's been exposed to solar wind of the sun and things like that so we have both the sample from inside the planet as small as well as the surface then we we basically are starting material and the exposed material and we can ever do a much better job of figuring out the history of that object the interesting thing about the asteroid that we've gone to it's a seed known as a seed type asteroid going to we think the closest analog to those asteroids of the combinations conroe it's quite a rare type of meteorite but those are the meteorites contain a lot of volatiles a lot of. organic compounds and things like that so these are potentially the seeds of life on earth and so we can relate that this most common type of asteroid to these sort of remedial routes and we have an interesting association that tells us a lot more about what's going on in us solar system a that these rare meteorites i'm not so rare often wrong because the asteroids will turn out to be very common. this is our desert these are the top stories in britain's chief breaks it negotiated david frost has arrived in brussels for more negotiations the u.k. and the e.u. are all still at olds less than a month before the deadline to reach they'll not be in baba has more now from london we're hearing that michel barnier a mate.

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