A man you saw in paris as bush fires force evacuations in australia Scientists Say 2020 is on course to be the hottest year ever. And in sport south africas one Day International cricket series with england has been called on it follows positive code 19 tasks and reported reaches to the team by a secure environment in cape town. Hello we begin in the u. S. Navigating its way through a president ial transition as well as a worsening coronavirus situation so a record 100000 people were admitted to hospital on sunday with more than 2000 americans dying from the disease every day while president elect joe bidens reportedly made his pick for Health Secretary. One of the incoming administrations most consequential jobs hes eyeing californias attorney general have you for that position well in his home state some 33000000 californians are now under sweeping new restrictions private gatherings will be banned as intensive care a capacity there continues to shrink members of congress who have been deadlocked for months over another coronavirus aid package could unveil a bipartisan proposal as early as monday its expected to be some 980000000000 dollars in funding lets bring in our White House Correspondent in the house that shes joining us from washington to discuss all of this and kimberly whats been the reaction 1st of all to have year best said speak for Health Secretary. Well its been a combination of surprise and controversy lets start with a surprise given the fact that hes californias attorney general. Many people thought this was an unusual pig given the fact that really this is the health and Human Services secretary oversees a very large and sprawling Health Department but what he would say and what many of his defenders would say is that he was an ardent defender of a key piece of law in the United States that has been under attack for years that is the Affordable Care act that gives millions access to health care so in that respect he is not a surprise but still there is some concern about his background being legal versus medical in fact number of prominent medical groups including the American College of physicians the American College of pediatrics have sent a letter to joe biden the president elect saying that they were not happy or they were concerned that he was even being put forward as a contender given the fact that they feel there should be a Public Health background in that role but still have ever sarah has the blessing of a top official currently fighting pope it 19 and that is dr anthony found she the top Infectious Disease specialist and that certainly speaks volumes as the United States is facing the daunting challenge and the high number of deaths in this country as a result and kimberly with Rudy Giuliani of course now in hospital how much of a setback is this for president trumps efforts to get the Election Results overturned. Yeah thats a big setback and well both Rudolph Giuliani and the us president are saying dont carry odd that rudy is jewing 5 and that hes getting excellent care and that hes going to continue working from his hospital bed its hard to see how this can be successful given the fact that when Rudolph Giuliani was supposedly 100 percent well and arguing in court virtually all of the court cases on behalf of the trunk campaign failed and thats including when they were put before republican judges some that were appointed by donald trump himself so this is going to be yet another setback for the campaign but still the u. S. President said over the weekend that he believes that he is going to seek a 2nd term even if he has to take these court cases all the way to the Supreme Court all right kimberly thank you thank you very much for the health care reporting from the white house and pakistan 6 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in a shower and supplies around too low hundreds of patients were left for hours on reduced oxygen because of a delay to deliveries pakistan has so far a total of more than 400000 infections and over 8000 deaths from over 1000 become a high as are has more from islamabad. Really only know about the preliminary bolts and the preliminary reports be systematic. Had to capacity to have. Cubic meters of oxygen. For only. Cubic metres was delivered to the hospital yesterday when this incident happened the operating experience. There tried to call the concerned department within the hospital including the biomedical engineer who is responsible for maintaining the level of oxygen and. There was no busy. Later on. Finding out about this report there was no. Basic. That day was. For several months nobody. Regarding renewal of contract so its a failure to put in evidence the chief minister. Saying an independent inquiry a number of people have already been suspended and everybody head will be watching to see whether that is appropriate and quite whether this again is brushed aside. Unicef is asking for 2500000000. 00 in new funds for children in the middle east and north africa earlier this month that issued its largest ever emergency funding appeal for a 6400000000 dollars to reach 300000000 people it says 39000000 children in the mena region have been impacted by war poverty and the coronavirus well the u. N. Agency says the highest number of children in need of critical humanitarian assistance are in yemen syria lebanon and. Most of the funds requested by unicef would go towards education nutrition and health lets bring in nick of the bennett shes the unicefs regional advisor for emergencies for Western Central Africa shes joining us in the car and senegal via skype thanks very much for speaking to us on 0 so that appeal of 6400000000. 00 is the largest appeal ever its also a 35 percent increase from the appeal of 2020 this really reflects the growing humanitarian needs of children doesnt it. Absolutely i think we all know that 2020 has been a year on like any other in the history of unicef. And we see rising humanitarian needs as a result of preexisting emergency situation as collating conflict situations like the ones you just mentioned also here in Subsaharan Africa across the central sahal region in south sudan in the Lake Chad Basin mozambique and ethiopia now also heating up and on top of that we now have the cockpit crisis coming in both in terms of the direct impact that it has of course on on the health and well being but also the social Economic Impact and the restrictions that are overburdening systems and that cutting access to health so weve really seen this as a child rights crisis that has the potential to reverse decades of progress made in terms of child rights talk us through exactly what is going on in the region where you are you speak to us from senegal what are the biggest humanitarian needs of that region from what youve seen. We have the conflict related needs where especially when situations where there is increased active conflict situations we see dramatically increasing displacement in burkina faso for example which is one of the 3 central so help countries that were most concerned about displacement in some areas has tripled since the beginning of the year and then as mentioned you have a situation like that on top of that we had 4000000. 00 people in the central salad the beginning of the year a need to have access to water and sanitation that number has gone up to 6700000 we see malnutrition increasing as families have less access to the livelihoods and to income remittances from from wealthier countries are decreasing and so nearly 20 percent increase in in mount attrition and then of course the Education Impact which is just been staggering as a result of copays before call of it we had in this region 40 4000000. 00 children out of school and we went up to 128. 00 additional 1000000 children out of school as a result of cold it were being deprived of learning for months already at a time to the extent possible were trying to reach them through Distance Learning through Internet Radio television but but it has its limits especially in the poorest areas in crisis areas like displaced persons camps about 48 percent of children in this region dont have access to Distance Learning so were working to get kids back into school or to a lack of funding mean that for you and unicef. It would it would really mean that were going to see a reverse in some of the really hard won gains of the last the last few decades if i look at that the nation rates which have increased dramatically in west africa and Central Africa over a recent decades those were immediately interrupted this year as Health Centers closed as a result of either conflict or cultured whereas people were scared to come into Health Centers because they dont understand the risks and theyre scared of what theyre hearing about called it similarly things like birth registration the right to have a birth certificate to claim other rights which has been increasing very steadily for decades now as just in some countries almost ground to a halt and with families becoming pushed into a more acute crisis having less money means they have us access to health care they are less likely to send their send their children to school so we really need this money to invest into a reestablishment of basic services and we know pockets are tight we know governments will struggle with budgets in the social Economic Impact that weve seen but we need what money there is to go into essential Services LikeHealth Nutrition education and we need donors to maintain the level of commitment that they had prepared to make the rights and the club and its we thank you very much for speaking to us from the court thank you. Now a lot are also have just come into effect in south Koreas Capital a soul raises its alert level to the 2nd highest the military has also been deployed to assist with testing and Contact Tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday the 30th day in a row of triple digit increases problem bride reports. This is the 3rd time restrictions have been increased in the past month and it comes as the number of daily infections has continued to rise what worries the author ities is that this 3rd wave is far more d widespread than previous surges and unless the numbers are curbed hospital resources could become stretched upon the new not there is no center of this wave for us to focus our prevention measures on this could result in a much larger threat if the medical system reaches its limit it will coast great damage to all of us there will be tighter controls on restaurants and indoor gatherings no spectators at sporting events 50 percent occupancy on intercity trains and buses and private companies are urged to get a 3rd of their staff working remotely from home the measures introduced during this wave have resulted in a 20 percent drop in the amount that people are travelling and mingling just as it did in the 2nd wave over the summer but there hasnt been a corresponding drop in the number of new infections thats led to further concerns that people have been finding ways around these tighter restrictions and that in a country known for its high level of public compliance even here pandemic fatigue may be setting in Robert Bright aljazeera sold. More than a 1000000 doses of covered 1000 vaccines from china have now arrived in indonesia and are in storage until the countrys Drug Authority deems them safe to use by a farm. A Surgical Company is already conducting human trials and it isnt all 40 say theyre planning how to correctly store and transport the doses but with the population spread over thousands of islands experts say that will be a challenge just to washington reports from jakarta at indonesias main airport a highly anticipated delivery has arrived inside this container a 1200000 doses of recovered 900 vaccine from china more will come next month and later the room materials to allow indonesia to manufacture millions of doses itself but the best scientific considerations and the final results of the Clinical Trials will determine when the covert vaccinations can be carried out the vaccines wont be used until theyre given clearance by the intonation food and Drug Authority and. Were still waiting for the data relating to safety and efficiency we need 3 months of data to check the blood test in tongue not far from the capital hospital workers are preparing pharmaceutical refrigerators for the son of a vaccine needs to be stored between 2 to 8 degrees which is a common temperature requirement for many vaccines indonesias government has also preordered 100000000 doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford Astra Zeneca which has the same temperature requirements. We are ready to receive to store and distribute in accordance to the standards set by the National Agency of drug and food control but not everyone shares this confidence far from the capital on the island of floors Health Officials in sicca are concerned about their lack of resources. Coffee the problem we face now even for regular vaccines is that electricity cuts out often people thousands of remote communities around the country dont have reliable power Health Workers also say they dont have enough cold storage units. I developed a number down infection number if the Coronavirus Vaccine comes here we cant store it yet i hope we can have a bigger cool room so we can store vaccines for the whole area when needed indonesia with its tropical climate and thousands of remote communities is not alone in facing issues with cold chain logistics. The vaccines developed by American Pharmaceuticals corporations pfizer and maternal require ultra cold storage at subzero temperatures because of that requirement it may not be a feasible option for some country. It will be friday helpful if the temperature is not too low for that acquirements so far my in mass storage and. A half a big challenge for out of the country and part of the profits manufacturing and particular in the vaccine is only part of the problem in the fight against covert 19 in many countries the biggest challenge is managing the logistics jessica washington aljazeera jakarta. Turkey has in his current virus restrictions after a weekend of partial lockdown with businesses opening again but its daily infection rate remains one of the highest globally some cost of all who has more from istanbul. After a partial lockdown over the weekend that ended 5 am local this morning life is back to its normal. And in a stumble especially where we are in the taksim district life is really back to its they live with scenes on the. Streets where we are all shops are open as you see and you have the locals and tourists coming and forcing by the restaurants and cafes are open for only takeaways and their liveries and there are some extra measures especially for such a touristic area for instance there are Police Checkpoints in order to control the number of the people who will be able to cross at any given time through the area and these partial 7 measures will they will they help to curb the coral no bars is still on them but as some of the Health Experts suggest that the government needs to impose a full lockdown for at least 2 weeks but of course these are full lockdown is a concern for small businessmen across the country because they have to make their living and they say they need Government Support and for now its only a partial we can live thongs and all night curfews that begin 9 pm and 5 am every morning and this is this is alarming and unfortunately given that they in within the last 24 hours the ballycloran know why risque says its a ball 30000 and the death is a ball 190. 00 thats why time will show whether this partial measures will help curb or another virus and some more ahead on the news hour including crunch time for breakfast talks the e. U. And u. K. Push for a trade deal to prevent chaos at their borders next year trying to build a new life ethiopian refugees are given supplies to create temporary homes camps in sudan 20 pounds for it after the shorter off season and be a history l. A. Lakers are preparing to defend their championship title details coming up. A little later. But 1st the french president tim anyone might cause says future arms sales to egypt will not be made conditional on its human rights records michael said he didnt want to weaken cairo as ability to counter a violent groups in the region he says he did speak frankly about Rights Violations with the visiting president of the fact that his sisi but didnt go into further detail activists are urging my call to you see scenes visits a place for the release of political prisoners. And i will not make our cooperation in defense or economic matters conditional on these disagreements 1st because i believe in the sovereignty of people and respect for our legitimate and reciprocal interests 2nd because i believe that it is more effective to have a policy of demanding dialogue than a policy of boycott that would reduce the effectiveness of one of our partners in the fight a