Despite concerns from the un and the rights groups. Can see. In the arena and. Backlash in boycotts of mikey adverse that has provokes debate about diversity in japan. Thank you very much for joining us more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died from coverage 19 worldwide a 3rd of those tests happen in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths and new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on various day since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions and in the worlds worst affected country the u. S. Hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs president elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 3 months in office. In the 1st day im an order to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days to mask now for over 100 days and i think well see a significant reduction if we curb that everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably considerably well that surge means the need to move vaccines has become even more urgent but the u. K. Which was the 1st western country to do so has come under fire from his who have suggested the british approach may have been hasty ill have more on that shortly but 1st more on the situation in the us 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 Newsome 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 pass 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 new 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 and abiding by Public Health advice. We just not we have to be more nasty we have been distancing weve alluded sizing it and been saying its my freedom not to do it. And so we really battle back 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 siege 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 Fauci 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 mayor Eric Garcetti told angelenos if its not essential dont do it robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles and americas top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony fox he has apologized for criticizing britains fast approval of the pfizer biotech vaccine as we mentioned regulators had already criticizing ukase approach shallot betis 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 ago best bet ical 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 were much better country than every single one well it may be a political win for the u. K. U. S. Infectious 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 sign but they just took the data from the ys 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 backtracked apologizing for what he called a misunderstanding she said he did have great faith in the Regulatory Community in the u. K. Its 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 in commenting on claims as to who is better this is not a football competition were talking about 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 stop 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 one doors 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 scientists the british regulators 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 years shelob ellis aljazeera and live tonight in london if so despite this criticism british regulators are confident that they have done the proper work to prove that this case. Yes that the regulator here is very very confident indeed it says its followed all the international stringent checks and balances to approve the pfizer. Vaccine this is an emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but how some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty and the e. U. Has way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also had to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple misunderstanding is could be a difficult. Nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United States weve got to go further weve got to deal with things more scrupulously i guess because theres a bit of a steeper hill to climb in the United States but the last thing anybody wants to do in the u. S. The e. U. Or the u. K. Is play into the hands of antivaccination groups or cynics or down to undermine the whole process internationally so how will it rollout then who will get it 1st and how long will it take before the whole country is covered. A long time several months but given that the small batch thats going to be arriving next week is relatively small a 100000. 00 that has to be a priority as ation when it comes to allocating the vaccine and thats the debate going on here in the u. K. At the moment initially the British Government was given lists by experts with elderly and care homes and care workers at the top Health Workers in the National Health service were also the top as well now it looks as looks as if theres been a change those Health Workers have been shifted down the list that subset some medics because theyve already signed up to receive the vaccine we do know that doctors who are working closely with covert patients though will still get it the reason behind all of this is a balance between ethics and availability ever clee those people most at risk of dying from the illness of the elderly and when it comes to the vaccine and how it works at the moment we know that its affective in treating ill people and making sure that those people dont get even worse and end up in hospital we know less about how it can be used to treat infection and protects against infection in the Wider Population so on balance elderly vulnerable will get it 1st about maybe the baseball may have upset others but that is the way it looks like its going to be unfolding here where the rollout starts next week rocker in london thank you need. In other world news the uns Refugee Agency says bangladesh must not force range of refugees to move to a Remote Island off the coast which is prone to storms and flooding aid groups have expressed concern that people are being coerced into going there the official say more than 1600 during a refugees are heading to the island of bashan char from coxs bazaar the un says its ready to evaluate conditions in the new notation if the government where next. Theyre forcing my son and his family to go he didnt want to go but he forced him i came to see him probably for the last time. You know not really my family didnt want to go there taking them by force if my family go there to the island they will die because of floods. They mercilessly beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth but 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. Al jazeera stand there choudhry has more from cox as bizarre. Finally the controversial relocation of growing our refugees to remote coastal island a bus from china has started out of 2500 listed running as that is 1642 growing i refugees are on their way to this Remote Island by an adult vessel now the government has come under severe criticism from local and International Human rights bodies as well as un despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least a 100000 growing refugees there in phases now we know talking from the refugee camp as well as. 300 plus were rescued from the world who are living in that island most of them are not happy with the situation the prefer to stay in the bordering area with me and my where they feel closer to home they can visit their extended families and they can help each other out now there is a lot of controversy here how this shortlist were made by the camp leader a lot of growing us told that they were in ties and forcing to putting their name in there that we cannot independently verify that now the government on its part says the facilities are good there is never a base hospital at least a 120 clustered villages with good bottom facilities despite all there is there are still a lot of controversy the government in says the concentration is a major problem in one area and its side security reason to moving there is rowing us to this Remote Island. In the spotlight as International Pressure to release 3 by school employees. People say they have little hope to see any change to head a president ial election. The weather looks pretty quiet across china across the Korean Peninsula able to increase in the quiet sea into japan we have got some little area of High Pressure and shots here will see some showers just rolling across the sea of japan and see Western Areas as we go through saturday still a few showers just clinging on to that eastern side of honshu as well for a time but by sunday that will slide out of the white brighter skies come back in behind temperatures in tokyo lifted to around 15 sales is with a high it is settled across the Korean Peninsula just notice want to shower as wintry showers coming into the final taste of china and on into north korea for much of china itself it doesnt essentially try and find try and find to across central and northern parts of india but down into the south for the whole site for brevity continues to make its way across and just rolling across into good parts of cairo very heavy rain still continuing haven as we go on through the next few days legacy of showers behind or it will be still in force for some them particularly out towards that southwestern corner off india still a few showers coming into sri lanka as we go through the next few days and further north as have a few showers just pushing up towards the pole but for much of northern india its fine and sunny. But. In 1958 Charles De Gaulle made a famous speech in algeria. And. I take it dont hold back the tide about jerry and independence will keep frances colonies in africa and the pacific. In the final episode of the series aljazeera explores how the long and bitter fight for the french empire still resonates today not intense french to colonise ation on aljazeera. Ian. Welcome back a recap of our top stories on more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died globally from coverage 19 a 3rd of those deaths have happened in just the last 3 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths and new cases the worst affected country is the u. S. Hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs set president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 100 days in office and the uns Refugee Agency says bangladesh must not force writing their refugees to move to every motor island off the poles which is prone to storms and flooding its navy says more than 1600 during the refugees are heading to the island of bashan char from coxs bazaar. Indias government and protesting farmers have yet to find Common Ground or new laws that could affect crop prices theyre due to meet again on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday ended without an agreement farmers are continuing 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 and as it has more from gaza poor on the border between the states of delhi and pradesh. Where the guard the poor Border Crossing between the states all of the british and delhi where farmers from the states of all that are kind and author today where thousands of farmers have gathered here on this highway which means that theres no traffic allowed to come from those states into delhi this is the smallest off 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 how to ghana and early 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 tuesday and the main issue for farmers remain concerns over losing a minimum price for their produce losing elektras to the subsidies concerns that private buyers will have an unfair advantage over farmers and unions and also they worry about who will resolve disputes over procurement over prices and 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 big it is a nationwide call for protests on saturday and accolades from the state of punjab where many of these farmers have from planning to go to the president ial building on saturday a number of athletes including a limpet Gold Medalist to return their National Awards to the Indian Government they say in protest against the governments treatment of fondness. Catch us foreign minister says this been some progress made to resolve the gulf disputes the gulf nation has been under an illegal line c. N. N. Blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt since june 2017 president Senior Advisor jad cushion have recently visited riyadh and doha for talks mom had been f