A standoff with the government over crop prices shows no sign of being resolved. Plus a backlash and boycotts the nikkei it for its provoke debate about diversity in japan. And im he said with the sport and then pick organizers say the tokyo games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than one of the half 1000000 people have died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths in new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions in the worlds worst affected countries the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs the president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 3 months in office. Its on the 1st day im an arguer had 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 encourage that everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably considerably well this will run surge means the need to approve vaccines has become ever more urgent but the u. K. Which was the 1st western country to do so thats come under fire from e. U. Regulates is suggested the british approach may have been hasty to have more on that shortly but 1st more on the situation in the us with reynolds the new epi center 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 newsom 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 nasts we have been distancing weve alluded sizing it and been saying its my freedom not to do it. And so were really bad at that 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 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. Los angeles americas top Infectious Disease experts has accepted joe bidens offer to serve as the chief medical advisor and the president elect and he felt cheated state own in his role and to help his Incoming Administration with its Coronavirus Response plan separately found she has also apologized for criticizing britains rapid approval of the biotech vaccine he says his comments were taken out of context lets look at this place you can speak to an official whos standing by there at the white house. Pedaling furiously. Is that mean its no surprise that hes going to serve in the bight ministration he said of several administrations so it normally is someone he is normally one of those people it just moves over to the next Administration Given hes a career scientist rather than a political appointee as for his comments in the u. K. Its clear that he didnt quite understand how the process when to head the fact that the regulators in the u. K. Were reviewing evidence as it was coming in from the Companies Rather than just accepting what the companys had said he made that comment on thursday saying well that theyve just accepted what the company said in the year in the u. S. We do things slightly differently well in the us they do do things slightly differently in this big new ruling approval process and the u. K. Standards are normally regarded as among the highest in the world so sensually just saying look i got it wrong the brits are doing a good job and he apologized for it in an interview on American NetworkTelevision Just in the last hour or so but he says that the process here in the United States will still go through the steps that the expect theres no intent in speeding up that process its still going to be around december the 10th that the f. D. A. Will meet to discuss in a public forum the results that have come from the 2 Drug Companies they will look at the evidence and then they will decide whether or not to grant the americans to use allowance thats almost certainly going to happen which means that the drugs will start to be circulated around the United States very quickly indeed after that remember the u. S. Government the administration of donald trump hoping that somewhere in the region of 20000000. 00 vaccine doses will be issued will be used before the end of the year or island thanks very much so thats a picture from washington d. C. Thank you very. Australia has begun voluntary mass testing in a move that officials hope will help avoid future lockdown this comes ahead of the governments plan to ease restrictions for monday Public Health advisors had opposed the governments move they warned that negative tests could provide a false sense of security ahead of the holidays slovakia and italy have begun similar screening efforts in recent weeks south korea has reported its highest number of new daily cases since march there were 6 129. 00 you infections on thursday half of them in the capital seoul the government has announced a ban on year end parties and impose strict social distancing guidelines in the greater seoul area meanwhile guards or is imposing a partial lockdown this weekend to try and curb a rise in the number of infections mosques and most schools will be closed during the day there will be a nighttime curfew from saturday a full lockdown is set to start next friday which will last until the end of month Drugmaker Pfizer has revealed it had to slash its original vaccine rollout tell you by half because of challenges in the supply chain pfizer and partner buying tech had hoped to distribute 100000000 vaccines globally this month thats now been reduced to 50000000 because they couldnt get enough room to rolls to make the vaccine pfizer has not said which materials contributed to the short drug makers are also facing major logistical hurdles in distributing billions of doses globally vaccine needs to be delivered using several medical supplies including glass files syringes and dry ice well dr marty davis is an Infectious Disease physician at Washington University school of medicine and she says the supply chain issue will affect developing countries and poor regions the most. All of this attention on the development of the vaccines and all of the scrutiny and unfortunately to some degree the pleasure great theres a politics that then were placed around this made i not pay much as much attention to the supply and distribution youre seeing now i believe a lot of these issues can be overcome in country parts of the us in the usa who have the resources to do so the good is a big issue from lower Income Countries who are ready have challenges in even understanding the vaccine there is a very big level of difference between what i talk institution and hospital like Washington University can provide for my patients then a doctor in Rural America can and require infrastructure but a lot of whats left out of here is you know like you said a lot of the tools needed to make this happen a lot of the legion a lot of the injections and things that actually are needed to administer not to mention you know vaccinators that need to be recruited for training that needs to happen is a complex issue that requires a high degree of planning and neglect availability and for some places that infrastructure is just not there and that is where we need to prioritize our funding and support. Plenty more still ahead these are included well tell you why some muslims in sri lanka are refusing to collect the remains of their loved ones who died of cave at 19. The u. N. Says its hearing disturbing reports about refugees inside ethiopia region well have the very latest on that. And the coronavirus disrupt south africa in englands one Day International cricket serious peter will have details that will. So the uns Refugee Agency says that bangladesh must not force ranger refugees to move to an island off the coast which is prone to storms and flooding aid groups have expressed concern that people are being coerced into going that way for the fischel say more than 1600 range of refugees heading to the island bash and child from coxs bizarre the un says its ready to evaluate conditions in the new location if the government will let them. Know that theyre forcing my son and his family to go he didnt want to go before same i came to see him probably for the last time. You know many of my family didnt want to go he they taking them by force if my family goes to the island they will die because the floods. In most of the sleep beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth 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. Time a child who has more now from coxs bizarre. Finally the controversial relocation of rowing a reference to remote coastal island a boston charter has started out of 2500 listed rowing out that is 1642 rowing the refugees are on their way to this Remote Island by an adult now the government has come under severe criticism from local and. International human rights bodies as well as the u. N. Despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least 200000 growing our refuges there in phases and we know all talking from the growing refugee is a camp as well as. 300 plus who are rescued from the world who are living and as i learned most of them are not happy with the situation preferred to stay in the bartering 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 these shots list were made by the camp leader a lot of growing us told that they were enticed and forced into putting their name in there and we cannot independently verify that now the government on its part says that facilities are good doesnt have a base hospital at least 120 clustered villages with good bottom facilities despite all there is there are still a lot of controversy the government insists the concentration is a major problem in one area and it cites security reason to moving theirs rowing us to a disagreement island. Indias government and protesting farmers have yet to find Common Ground on new laws that could affect crop prices the judge made gate on saturday after a 2nd round of talks on thursday ended without agreement farmers are continuing to protest against the legislation that was passed in september theyre worried it will prevent a minimum crop prices and lead to corporate exploitation this with problem is with some of the protesting from. Where the guard the poor Border Crossing between the states off of their predation 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 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 at 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 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 concerns over losing a minimum price for their projects losing elektras to the subsidies concerns that private buyers will have an unfair advantage of a farmers and unions and also they worry about who will resolve disputes over procurement over prices of the government has said that they are willing to take all of these concerns into consideration even right 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 protest until the laws are repealed and were expecting the protests to only get bigger theres a nationwide call for protests. On saturday and athletes from the state of punjab where many of these farmers are 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 foreigners. In sri lanka the families of a number of muslim victims of covert 19 are refusing to claim the remains of their loved ones they are protesting against the governments forced cremation policy because they say its against their religious beliefs no fernandos has moved from colombo mom uncle will he be in jeffrey died of cool with dying teen on november 26th the Sri Lankan Government crew meets the bodies of anyone who dies of course with 19 even if its a suspected case it says its technical experts have advised this is the best way to prevent the spread of the virus but cremation is forbidden in islam and some families and now refusing to collect the bodies in protest the lot there for you do whatever you want we dont come for a nice thing the leave the body with you and the welcoming a number of other muslims are also refusing to pick up the remains of their relatives on tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed 11 petitions challenging the forced commissions a joint statement by 20 Civil Society organizations on thursday rejected the ruling saying in a statement the fate the victims of forced cremation of corbett 19900. 00 suspected dead had been the highest court in sri lanka has been shattered victims and communities are now left without a recourse in sri lanka for the continued injustice they suffer the Health Minister says burials cant be allowed on till the Technical Experts Committee presents its final decision after conducting an indepth study into the virus. Muslim activist says her community has lost patience and will continue to leave bodies organizers as theyre called here at the morgue until the cremation stop almost 18 months the Muslim Community has been asking answer from the government so they are fed up they dont trust the government anymore they feel that it is a punishment so they dont want to be part of this process at all so therefore they are just leaving the genesis and ive been told at least 2 or 3 hospitals muslim genesis up piling up government Spokesman Says the decision to cremate lies with the Experts Committee government to. Ensure it is the Expert Committee that decides finally its all garment to the government to the cabinet ministers the president Prime Minister the cabinet the minister from nothing to do with it it is just that really we have a lead and we are acting in terms of the. Expert committee but cases like that of mary news are seen here in these pictures are hard for the Muslim Community to accept the 44 year old was cremated within hours of dying at the Infectious Diseases hospital the next day the family was informed her test record 19 was negative. A son seen here in this mobile phone footage had the task of buryin