Designed to highlight Racial Discrimination has sparked a backlash in japan. Jevon ashwood support and speaking of japan the cost of delaying the take care of them pigs is revealed organizers say the current virus bespoke mint is likely to set them back a further 2800000000. 00. Hello welcome to the program saudi arabias foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bitter dispute with cats are its been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt imposed a land sea an Arab Blockade on cata for ministers of qatar and kuwait also say theres been progress towards resolving the crisis. Has our report. Crucial days a hand for gulf nations talks aimed at and during the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whos country has been be generally mediating and and to the crisis says hes confident in fact that a constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the interest of the peoples within this context we express our appreciation for the latest efforts by jared cushion or the us president advisor qatars for him an assertion mohamed min of the like manner thani says he also remains optimistic about the prospect of a deal we have achieved certain for certain point of dime more than a year ago and then things has la donna and i now and there are some more moments that we hope that this will put an end for of this crisis because we see and we believe actually that got a few nitty is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for the sake of our people needless crisis needs to end a few hours after the kuwaiti and qatari statements saudi arabias foreign minister also said significant progress has been made and all sides are close to reaching an agreement. We hope that. This progress can lead to a final agreement which looks in reach and i coude say i am somewhat optimistic that we are close to finalizing. An agreement between all the nations in dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all the Gulf Corporation council has welcomed the news in a statement its Server Development reflects the strength of the g. C. C. Its cohesion and its ability to overcome all obstacles the new developments come a few days after the us president s Senior Adviser jared questioner made a visit to the region he held talks with a meet of qatar shift i mean but how middle 30 and Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin said man the visit was widely seen as a last ditch effort by the Trump Administration to end the land sea and air blockade that was imposed by saudi arabia u. A. E. And egypt on qatar in june 2017 the blockade in countries sever diplomatic ties with doha and issued a list of 13 demands for qatar to implement. They include downgrading ties with iran closing a Turkish Military base and shutting down ill just 0 qatar dismissed the demands as a violation of its sovereignty the us has been trying to and the blockade were reared it might undermine its efforts to contain irans influence in the region in the last few months american officials had been hoping saudi arabia would open his space to the tide of flights and move the Trump Administration believes will deny iran an estimated 100000000. 00 in and a world view. These are tough pays to fly over space the coming days and weeks which show if the gulf rival nations are but is a set aside differences one of the ones of the blockade might take even longer to heal about a 0. Well andrus craig is an asset in perfessor the school of security at Kings College london he says that those core issues at the heart of the dispute why be solved quickly we are so obsessed of the last 3 days to come and see an announcement been made of a breakthrough i think you know we have to we should forget this being 42 months of a crisis is almost tomorrow its going to be 3 and a half years exactly where the goal of people have been sucked into this crisis much as a leader as much as everyone who is living in the gulf so to kind of resolve this which is essentially an ideational crisis as much as an issue based crisis you know this is a marathon this is not something that can be done overnight i think its a positive development in the sense that this current effort between kuwait and the americans as a mediator between is essential between qatar and saudi arabia and these are the 2 parties who are now willing to talk to one another and come to a big basically came to an agreement to eventually negotiate an agreement if you will so its a preliminary agreement to kind of. To kind of agree to an interim period where both sides can monitor others commitments and goodwill to actually solve this crisis the saudis are under immense pressure to make concessions at the moment because they want to look what was a constructive player in the gulf and in the mena region to the new Biden Administration in the United States but they now have also the pressure to bring in our with our be into the fall which is going to be significantly more difficult because the actual parties to the conflict ideational ideologically speaking it is this is qatar and the u. A. E. These 2 parties are not aligned and it too kind of bring these 2 together is going to be the biggest challenge thats why the 1st step needs to be a resolution which in saudi arabia and qatar. Bangladeshi authorities have shipped the 1st group of rangoon muslims from a camp to a Remote Island despite pleas from some refugees to abandon the move more than 1600 people boarded naval vessels to the isolated island of russian char the Bangladeshi Government says some rain had to be taken there to ease overcrowding in refugee camps its navy has built houses hospitals and mosques on the island but the United Nations is concerned that refugees have been moved against their will. Theyre forcing my son and his family to go he didnt want to go but before see him i came to see him probably for the last time. A little only ringback my family didnt want to go there taking them by force if my family go there to the island they would die because of floods. The mercilessly beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth but when they brought him here brother didnt want to go to the other brother brought my nieces and says to him or here last night. Or bashar didnt even exist until recently its one of several unstable islands that emerged from the sea some 20 years ago after silt bunched together at the mouth of bangladeshs mango river the island is quite remote its more than 120 kilometers away from the coxes bazaar refugee camp and the northernmost point of me and mars rock and state where more than 730000 ring of muslims fled the military crackdown critics say bashar in charge isnt safe its known to be lashed by sightlines and its prone to flooding during the monsoon the Bangladeshi Government says it spent 400000000. 00 to build shelters and a 3 metre flood the embankment around the facilities turned their choudhry has more on this now from cox is bizarre. Finally the controversial relocation of rowing a reference to a remote coastal island a boston charter has started out of 2500 listed rowing as it was 1642 rowing a reference is are on their way to this Remote Island by Neville Bethel now the government has come under severe criticism from local and International Human rights bodies as well as the un despite all those the government is determined to go ahead and relocate at least 100000 growing refugees in places now we know talking from the growing refugee camp as well as. 300 plus who were rescued from the world who are living in the violent most of them are not happy with the situation the prefer to stay in the bartering with myanmar 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 this shortlist were made by the camp leader a lot of growing us told that they were in ties and forced into putting their name in there we cannot independently verify that now the government on its part says the facilities are good theres never base hospital at least 120 cluster of villages with good modern facilities despite all those 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 this ruling us to this Remote Island well ethiopia says that its captured or killed most of the leaders of the restive k. Gray region aims to bring an end to the months and months long conflict there but the head of the grain Peoples Liberation front says the civilians in the regions capital mccalla have been protesting about losing by eritrean soldiers who is that to support ethiopia now its difficult to confirm any of this because of the media and Communications Blackout in the area algiers malcolm webb is following developments for us from neighboring kenya and says the conflict doesnt appear to be over. The uns office for the coordinates coordination of humanitarian affairs is that it has reports of continuing fighting in many parts of it to grey region last week Prime Minister abbott said that the Government Forces were in control of the region and the Government Military operation was over that followed Government Troops taking control of the regional capital of macquarie but their enemy the 3 p. L. F. Said that it wasnt over they vowed to continue fighting another 3 p. L. F. Reported still control thousands of fighters and substantial stocks of military hardware researches say that thousands of civilians being killed in the fighting there will have been report of massacres of civilians by militia aligned to both sides the leaders of both sides deny it but its very difficult for anyone to verify any of these claims because theres almost no access for humanitarian workers human rights workers and journalists. Meanwhile the United Nations is saying its concerned about the situation facing refugees inside gray almost 200000 refugees from neighboring eritrea were living in camps in the region and many thought to a fled the u. N. Is hoping to get access to the region to deliver aid next week and says food and medicine is running out so im now joined by catherine moni has the global spokesperson for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees she joins us from new york via skype what can you tell us about where the humanitarian organizations have this sort of access that they have to help refugees in the region. Thanks mario you know my colleagues from u. N. H. C. R. The u. N. Refugee agency in ethiopia stand at the ready we are waiting to go in and were ready to restore all of our humanitarian activities inside the. Region now thats for you know as you say 100000 eritrean refugees who had been living for some 2 decades in 4 refugee camps in the region and for another 100000 forcibly displaced ethiopians but you know as of right now we still do not have the secure access were ready to go in but we you know as the days and hours pass we become increasingly increasingly worried for the safety and security of all but especially those eritrean refugees we continue to hear you know gruesome reports so were ready to go and we just need to secure access right so no solid changes there in the level of access you have to the region you mentioned gruesome reports what do you know about the situation facing refugees in the area. You know unfortunately there has been you know since the onset of this conflict you know some thats been going on for about a month and you know there has been a sensually a complete Communications Blackout in the region weve had no telephone no internet connection. Any ability to reach so the reports that were hearing are unverified but they are alarming gruesome reports of you know potential attacks on refugee camps of potential of the duck sessions even the possibility of the killing of civilians at refugees or humanitarian staff it could also you know weve also heard reports of forced recruitment so these are things that if they were to be verified would be gravely Human Rights Violations but again intil we have access to the region we cannot verify any of this and thats why we need immediate access and are ready to ready to resume our activities whats the likelihood of an independent International Investigation into these Human Rights Violations. You know i mean that will that will all need to come to be one scene other there is an investigation upon granting access secure access to the region but what we do know is that you know people continue to flee you know weve had some 47000 people cross the border from ethiopia into sudan a 1000 people cross the border just last night now whats different about the situation now we know people are still on the move those that are arriving say that more are coming but whats different in the past few days is a number of eritreans who have arrived which raises our concern for the situation inside the gray that where were still waiting to see ourselves all right well thank you very much for shedding some light on whats happening there force as you say very difficult to to have any information when theres a Communications BlackoutCatherine Monye from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees thank you you at the news hour live from london much more still ahead people in mexico are told to go back to working from home and even avoid exchanging christmas presents were going to be live in mexico city and coronavirus disrupt south africa in englands cricket series will have those details in the sport. Leaders in the u. S. A calling on people to wear mosques and warning of even more drastic restrictions as the corona Virus Outbreak continues to shatter records over 200000 new cases were detected on day and nearly 3000 deaths the highest daily rise in both infections and fatalities as part of the countrys deadliest 3 day stretch since the outbreak started president elect joe biden is urging americans to wear mosques for his 1st 100. 00 days in office. So for more net the situation in american hospitals lets be honest got a satellites has a pulmonary critical can medicine a physician joins us live from baltimore via skype thank you very much for taking the time to speeches can you explain to me then the situation that you are dealing with there at your hospital thank you so much for having me im currently running one of our intensive care units per coping 1000 patients and i can tell you the situation feels a lot like the spring where we are becoming overwhelmed with patients many coming in not just from our city were our hospital resides but so many hospitals from outside of the city hours away you know the smaller hospitals from rural rural areas becoming fields and theyre sending us their patients and so forth so it feels a lot late spring but worse so we are to q. And a lot of patients many of them very sick many of them here for days 2 weeks on end so its you know its a its a its not a good look at that moment here in our hospitals. Do you have the resources to deal with the patients that are coming in particularly if youre having a wave of patients that might have gone elsewhere. So this is ringback one of the things that they do appreciate over the last several months of stocking up on resources such as a personal protective equipment mechanical ventilators medications and so forth think weve done a good job at our hospital and other hospitals to stop one of them however there is another resource that i do want to emphasize and thats those Human Resource the mood for instance in our intensive care unit while the patient here and so forth feels a lot like spring in the mood its much different thats thats the part that im most concerned about seeing my nursing colleagues mother physician colleagues. Almost many of them seeming as if theyre at their breaking points and thats the one resource im most concerned about just now and moving forward knowing that there is an end in sight to knowing theres going to be a one going surge im most worried about the Human Capital and the too little its going to take on a lot of our Health Care Professionals myself included in working the most 12 hour shifts for several consecutive days that just doesnt feel like theres an end in sight so thats thats the one resource that you want to emphasize in order to allow the Community Members to be conscious of this because your actions that are happening the community really are going to have an impact on those Health Care Professionals who are moms and dads just like everyone else as well. Yes i suppose that its the exhaustion as you say of detainees 12 hour shifts day off today and then saying your patients becoming very ill in intensive care in debt and loved ones that. Advocate trying to access that relatives which is obviously not always possible with the virus whats it tell us what its like for you it is psychologically emotionally. Its tough 100 percent and you become this patients not only that you become their doctor and nurse you become their family going to the Family Members do their best to stay connected of whats going on but theyre doing in virtually of. Through calls or or or video calls but its thats not to say especially