A battle of 2 giants france says it wont make human rights a condition for arms sales to egypt as president sisi visits paris. Really. Funny and cutting a new record bob dylan sells all his songs to universal music and one of the biggest such deals. Announced and how much of the sport as europe hold its qualifying draw for the 2022 world cup in qatar details coming up this hour. Thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Navigating its way through a president ial transition as well as a worsening coronavirus situation a record 100000 people were admitted to hospital on sunday with more than 2000 americans dying from the disease every day so the president elect joe bidens reportedly made his pick for Health Secretary one of the incoming administrations most consequential jobs and hes eyeing this man hes californias attorney general have you have a sarah for the position well in his home state some 33000000 californians are now under sweeping new restrictions private gatherings will be banned as intensive Care Capacity there are strings and members of congress whove been deadlocked for months over another coronavirus aid package could unveil a bipartisan proposal as early as monday its expected to be some 908000000000. 00 in funding lets bring in Robert Reynolds hes joining us from Los Angeles Rob so what triggered the stay at home order in california. Well as you mentioned during about 85 percent of all the people who live in this state about 33000000 people are now under the most restrictive stay at home order imposed since march and its all about Hospital Capacity i intensive care units around the state are stressed in every part of the state they are saying that they are they are running out of beds are running out of Trained Medical personnel to take care of people and theres because of the spread of the coronavirus across the country theres no place to transfer patients because every place is equally stressed so the shutdown is triggered when the i. C. U. Thats intensive care unit capacity in a given region of the state falls below 15 percent on saturday the 5th of december Southern California which includes lausanne. And the city of san diego and many other cities and towns of the capacity fell to 12. 5 percent by sunday it was down to 10. 3 percent with 10500 new cases of covered 90 so with hospitals under such extreme stress the lockdown is in place and people are being told that they must hear to the rules or else the hospitals are simply going to get overwhelmed so what are these rules what sort of restrictions are californians facing. Well there are considerable number of exceptions but what if basically what you cant do under the order is to gather with people outside your households except for Outdoor Church services who are constitutionally protected political protest restaurants are closed theyre limited to takeout food only. Like hair and nail salons barber shops are closed. And childrens playgrounds are closed retail store capacity is limited to 20 percent and the Los Angeles Unified School district most of which is shut down anyway but. By thursday the rest of the classroom education will be closed to an emergency order by the superintendent of schools leaving Virtual Learning as the only possible route for education for children for the forseeable future you can still go outside walk your dog. Go for go for a dog do some exercise but youre supposed to be wearing your mask while you do that and is the main thing is really to avoid contact with other people its very unpopular theres a lot of question about it in fact people are demonstrating outside of the mayor of Los Angeles Eric our city. Home every day now and particularly the restaurant trade owners people that nature they say theyre going to be driven out of business if these if these orders persist they are supposed to be in place during for 3 weeks all right rob thank you very much for bringing us that update from los angeles now over in the u. K. Its preparing to administer the 1st batch of covert 1000 vaccines to the public on tuesday 800000 doses will 1st go to Health Workers and people over 80 Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has called the rollout one of the biggest civilian logistical efforts the u. K. Has ever faced it comes just a week off to the government gave authorization for widespread use of the Pfizer Vaccine we are very excited about it and been hard theyve got direction and the fed to do it you need to crises youre going to come to an end and when we heard you know that its going to start to do is get here and then i deceived to tell you good call i was very excited i got the opportunity of joining in and taking part. In pakistan 6 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in his shower after oxygen supplies ran to 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. 00 deaths from covert 19 or has more from islamabad. Really only the preliminary to bolts and the preliminary reports speak of systematic failure. For example. Had the capacity to have drained. Me. However. For only a. Cubic meter delivered. Yesterday when this incident happened the operating experience. There tried to call the concerned department. Including the biomedical engineer who is responsible for maintaining the optimum level of oxygen and. There was no busy. Later on. Finding out about their report there was no. Basic. Oxygen for several months. Regarding renewal of contract its a failure. To achieve minutes. Saying an independent inquiry a number of people have already been suspended and everybody here will be watching to see whether there is a proper it quietly or whether this again is brushed aside new lockdown rules have 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 bride reports from seoul. 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 way have resulted in a 20 percent drop in the amount that people are traveling 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 so you know surface asking for 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 a 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 the u. N. Agency says the highest number of children in need of critical humanitarian assistance are in yemen syria lebanon and sudan most of the funds requested by unicef would go towards education nutrition and health Nicola Bennett says the unicefs regional advisor for emergencies for west and Central Africa she says its a crisis that will reverse years of progress made in advancing childrens rights. I think we all know that 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 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 coverage crisis coming in both in terms of the direct impact of 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 are 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 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 summation 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 cultivated 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 demick. On to more ahead on the news hour including crunch time for breakfast at talks in u. N. 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 at camps and soon done and support south africas one Day International cricket series of england has been called off details a little later with santa. But 1st they present french president so many future arms sales to egypt will not be made conditional on its human rights record hes hosting the egyptian president of that fatah has sisi in paris activists have been urging me to use the visits a purse for the release of Political Prisoners and reports from paris. The grandest ceremony at the start of a contentious visit egyptian president Abdel Fattah Elsisi was a school to the lease a palace where he was greeted by the french president emanuel macro the leaders discussed regional issues counterterrorism and their shared opposition to turkeys actions in libya and the Eastern Mediterranean mackerel said he also raised concerns about human rights in egypt with sisi but refused to jeopardize pariss Strategic Partnership with cairo. Conditionally. 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 against terrorism and for regional stability president sisi dismissed accusations of rights abuses. It is not appropriate for you to present the Egyptian State and everything it does for its people and for the stability of the region as no press of regime. The french president says that egypt is a Strategic Partner in the region but activists say unless cairo respects human rights such a partnership is a betrayal of french values. France is one of egypts main suppliers of weapons campaigners say the sale of arms to cairo should be suspended the accused sissys government of using what he calls Counterterrorism Operations to crush Civil Society and arrest thousands of rights defenders journalists and perceived opponents as wrong as the egyptian huge president uses the fight against terrorism to suppress Civil Society voice there is no shortage of partnership that can be done with the government. In 2019 micro of his state cairo and spoke about human rights in egypt since then relations between france and egypt have been strained macro hopes to repair them but campaigners questioned the cost to frances reputation. Ill just 0 paris leaders from across the European Union are continuing talks to see what hope remains of a post brics a trade deal with the u. K. The chief negotiator Michel Barnier has been meeting ambassadors of the 27 Member States to see if a deal can be agreed before the january 1st deadline. Has more from london. Those who are predicting and types i think are saying that perhaps there is a 60 percent chance of a no deal at the moment now what would in no deal mean this the stakes are are huge it has to be said particularly in a year that has seen the u. K. s economy ravaged by covert 9 see what no deal would mean is that on the 31st of december this year going into the 1st of january suddenly trade in goods between the u. K. And the European Union which for decades have been pretty seamless frictionless where suddenly have the shutters slam down you would then have tariffs being imposed on things that didnt have tariffs imposed on them before when they were being imported or exported you would have standards checks on things that were just given the green lights previously these sorts of impositions words increase the costs of numerous things on both sides of the border so this deal does make a huge difference for the u. K. Economy for the European Unions economy and of course it makes a difference politically for the future of peace in Northern Ireland which relies on frictionless trade as being a central plank of the good friday peace accords and on the future diplomatic and political relationship between the e. U. And the u. K. And whether they can carry on being friends with each other so a lot of fighting in this certainly. Vote counting is underway in ghana to choose the president and members of Parliament Election officials on Political Party agents have gathered at Polling Centers the incumbent president not a coup for those main rival is the man he replaced 4 years ago gone as regarded as one of africas most stable democracies both men have signed a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner ahmed agrees has the latest on the capital across. The last voter in this particular polling unit and left less than and i havent have a minute to go so what is happening right now is that Election Officials are packing up their. Stuff and then from there over there you see one of the ballot boxes one of the ballot boxes for the president ial election the other one for the parliamentary elections so we expect them now theyre putting them together we expect them to unseal those boxes and their content on the boxes on the table and then start the process of counting the ballots now what is happening is this is happening simultaneously across ghana across the country and from here results correlated here will be transmitted or taken to the Regional Cooperation center the regional coalitions center will put together the results of all voting stations in a particular region and then transmit the results. To the National Coalition center where there are devices that fax Machine Computers that will receive these results electronically and that is where representatives of the 2 Political Parties are all the Political Parties by the way but most especially because this is a 2 way race between the incumbent president and the money to play 4 years ago so these results will be correlated in the presence of security agents observers as well as representatives of these Political Parties then a result will be announced the Election Commission promised to announce the results in within 24 hours after the closing of voting here so we expect in the next 24 hours we will know who will be the president of ghana if that kind of this calls 50 percent plus one vote in this election otherwise it will have to go into a runoff in 3 weeks time angry exchanges have taken place in the Congolese Parliament over president felix plan to form a new government without the majority party. Members of the common front for congress say the plan is to tauriel and violates the constitution. The party is made up of allies of the former president Joseph Kabila it holds most cabinet posts. More people are fleeing ethiopias northern Tigray Region every day though the governments declared the fighting is over refugees are crossing to ne