mexico has started its coronavirus vaccination campaign and intensive care and received the fast approved argentina is preparing to roll out a russian made vaccine for monday while thousands of pfizer biotech doses have arrived at hospitals in chile south africa south korea i m sorry has recorded its biggest daily increase in infections since the start of this pandemic and reported more than 1200 new cases and a large outbreak at a prison and seoul the country rolled out its toughest ever restrictions this week robert bryant has more from the capital. many people this christmas morning woke up to the depressing news that once again the country has set this record of well over 1200 new rig cases being recorded in a single day the news actually was broken by the country s prime minister at a meeting of the coronavirus task force here a lot of the this jump is being attributed to an outbreak at a prison here in seoul some 288 cases recorded mostly inmates but also some staff the
make that prospect a great deal more likely. for now the action at stormont is outside the parliament not in sight even if the assembly does against all expectations resume its work in the near future the challenge of protecting the good friday agreement that created it could make delivering any kind of breaks it an uphill struggle de barber al jazeera belfast israel s security cabinet has approved the permits for the construction of 700 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank it was announced ahead of a planned visit to israel this week by senior white house advisor jared krishna how the force that has more from western recent health. well just days after carrying out an extremely controversial series of demolitions of palestinian homes in occupied east jerusalem the israeli government is now sanctioning the construction of some $700.00 palestinian homes in the part of the occupied west bank which it controls known as areas see at the same time notably talking about the
turkey s one wants to create what he calls safe zones in syria a plan he says will help four million refugees return home. food shortages could be on the menu in britain as retailers warn of the consequences of the u.k. leaving the european union without a deal. or the united states is stepping up its pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to step down its imposed sanctions on venezuela s state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets it is the latest in a series of moves by the trump administration to push the duo out of office u.s. national security adviser john bolton also did not rule out a military option. now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to do any violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met
session, 1% for the s&p. at the moment, a bit of stasis. we are looking ahead to the statement by jerome powell and the minutes from the fomc. data outhe important of europe, and that dinner date as well. i want to talk about tech. have a look at this chart. we have correlation between u.s. technology and chinese technology stocks. we saw this to versions gence taking place. that correlation has reestablished itself as we have seen horrible times for u.s. technology. what was over here has gone over places as is in both we see that correlation picking up once more. there you have it. i m looking at that through etf s. it has been about tech, , anyway, aade pivotal meeting. president trump and president xi jinping meeting saturday in argentina. yvonne: tom mackenzie joins us now from beijing with the latest. for thise preparing right now, and what is the latest from the trump administration? we are trying to cut through the fog of war with different comments out of the whi
it, and that person does it. so in virginia, our system functions perfectly come our democratic system. there are still people in the state of virginia who don t believe in democracy. they are not cue in on people, other members democratic party. they have contempt for election results and they do what they want. a lot of these people are now running the public schools in virginia. if they don t care about the law or election outcomes, they refused to lift the mask mandates for children. governor young and pushed back against the scum of course, and it wound up in court. yesterday the judge in that case made a highly revealing statement. i m not going to decide who s right and who s wrong on masking, this is really about the hierarchy of authority. exactly. that s really it is what it is it about. there s not a huge amount of scientific debate over masks on children. masks don t appear to work or protect children. we do know they hurt children profoundly. at this point,