Smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter, youve got this is cnn Breaking News youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We do begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east. Israels military says it has rescued a hostage from a hamas tunnel in southern gaza. He had been held captive since the Terror Attacks of october 7. The father of 11, and spent the last 320 six days as a prisoner there he is in the hospital right there a short time ago reuniting with his brother, cnns jim sciutto joins us now from tel aviv jim, the details of been trickling in whats the latest that youve learned . Well, first of all, certainly youre happy fomin moment for, for him and for his family after these painful days, weeks, and months captivity. But this has also been quite a rarity for the idf of the close to 250 hostages taken on october 7, only aides have been freed alive via Military Operations. And this is the first one based on the details provided to us
Progress can lead to outside of the agreement which looks in reach and i say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to. An agreement between all the issues. To come to a resolution but we think will be satisfactory to all. The uns Refugee Agency says eritrean refugees in northern ethiopia have fled their camps because of the conflict in te gray there are more than 100000 living there and there are fears they have limited access to food if europeans army has been fighting Regional Forces in te gray now for about a month the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to stall the u. S. Economy is recovering it added just 245000. 00 jobs in november thats the slowest month of growth since may that followed it reporting its highest number of deaths in a single day as well as rising hospital admissions. British Prime Minister barak johnson says brecks at talks with the European Union have reached a difficult point says opposed to trade deal depends on the u. K. Committing to a level Playing Fie
Several mosques in france face closure as part of a crackdown on what officials call separatism. The government says it is to protect the nations secular values. How can this be resolved . This is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. I am imran khan. The french government is stepping up its crackdown on what it calls religious separatism. 76 mosques are being investigated nationwide. They will be closed if they are presumed to be a security threat. It is president macrons response to a number of recent attacks. Islamic organizations are accused of inciting hatred, and macron is pushing for imams to agree to a charter of Republican Values. His government denies it is deliberately targeting the Muslim Community. There are 2600 islamic places of worship in france. 76, we are far from widespread radicalization, but there are some concentrated places of worship where it is clearly antirepublican, where imams are followed by intelligent services, where the discourse runs counter t
Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began. At a different type of exam season hala for 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. We begin this news in hong kong where the prodemocracy movement has suffered a huge setback yet another prominent activist is facing time in prison and media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie is the latest to be taken into Police Custody hell be held until a court case in april next year hes accused of fraud it comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced joshua was this child ivan lamb 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the Hong Kong Government says that all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges to silence critics of Mainland China to view the pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant move here thats being seen against hong kongs prodemocracy movement jimmy la is in jail at the moment he on wednesday night reported to pol