Ethiopia prepare for a long stay in neighboring sudan. Full the hope of imminent Vaccination Programs is doing little to reduce the devastating Global Impact of the coronavirus Record Numbers of people are being admitted to hospital in the u. S. And tougher restrictions are coming into force around the world on monday more than 33000000 people in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley where it was stay at home or does restaurants are now closed to in person dining many other places including hair and nail salons museums and playgrounds have been shot completely in germany the chancellor Angela Merkel has hinted that harsher regulations will be required there she told Party Officials the existing measures of partial lockdown and social distancing rules would not be sufficient to get the country through the winter period and then theres been a 3rd wave in south korea and thats forced new regulations as well vera fear is that people are becoming fatigued by the restrictions on travel and gatherings of so far failed to cut the growing number of infections in that country so have more on that story in a moment want to get to rob runnels now because hes in los angeles where tough new restrictions have come into effect whats been the reaction to these new rules. These are the most restrictive new rules put in place since march in the initial surge of call that 19 no one is particularly pleased about the situation which is really increasingly dire of course Business Owners restaurant tours people who have Small Businesses that rely on in person. Contact there theyre devastated by all of this but its really all about hospitals and Hospital Capacity and that is running out frankly in large parts of the state of california the rule imposed is that when. The regions hospitals 15 percent of intensive care unit capacity then these restrictions kick in and here in Southern California which includes Los Angeles San diego and many other cities the i. C. U. Capacity has been dropping steadily on saturday it was 12. 5 percent on sunday it was 10. 3 percent we dont have the figures for monday yet but it looks like thats going to that trend is likely to continue there were 10500 new cases. On sunday so with hospitals being overwhelmed they have no place to transfer patients and if i see you capacity runs out its not only. 1000 patients that were talking about anyone who has a heart attack a stroke you know ill with cancer or anything else an auto accident they need to be transferred to the i. C. U. And if the i. C. U. Is full you know its obviously its a its a health sastre as well its an Economic Disaster for many people in this part of the country right now i guess thats the point that. Says hospitals have. Been taken to try and save lives. A lot of control a c. Amongst. Yeah thats right basically restaurants are now closed except for takeout or delivery. People not to. Congregate with anyone outside their house. Playgrounds or. Schools or you cant even take your kids to the playground anymore and of course you mentioned Business Owners people who run. These sorts of things in addition to the restaurants theyre very upset they say that the rules dont really scientifically make any sense and. In fact they have been demonstrating outside the mayor. For 2 weeks. And there were actually some arrests over the weekend in those demonstrations demonstrations and Outdoor Church services are still allowed but Everyone Needs to you know be wearing a mask and the terrible thing about this is that. These restrictions in and of themselves are not going to stop the surge the director of Public Health for the county of the largest county in the United States. That we are looking at 3 weeks of devastation even be able to assess the impact of the shutdown restriction so it looks like its an increasingly grim period of time as we as we enter the Christmas Holiday season these restrictions are in effect now for at least 3 weeks. Meanwhile here in the u. K. The countrys less than 24 hours away from beginning a mass coronavirus Vaccination Program the 1st doses of the vaccine made by pfizer biotech will be given out on cheese day those over 80 and Frontline Health workers will be the 1st in line to receive it with up to 800000 jobs expected to be administered in the 1st week we are very excited about it and then we heard there before direction about. The threat of death of do it to lead to crises is going to come to an end. Will be hard to go there to going to start to do is do you hear of. A night received a telephone call i was really excited i go do opportunity or join you here and there can party. Or i feel you know that its good you know that i got the opportunity of doing that and so im not no boss or or anything like that or looking forward to. Meanwhile south koreas president has ordered expanded krajina Virus Testing and Contact Tracing as the country battles its 3rd wave of the disease new daily infections are at their highest level since early march with 615 cases reported on sunday stricter measures have been imposed in the capital but there are growing concerns about compliance with those restrictions on the right has more on this now from cell. 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 a tease 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 this could result in a much larger threat or if the medical system reaches its limit it will cause 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 3rd 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 sole. A french president has been accused of failing to challenge egypts president of human rights abuses present sisi is in france the 2 days for an official visit but confirmed he will allow the sale of weapons to egypt because they have a shared mission in fighting terrorism in the region and sasha about reports now from paris. The grander 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 Michel 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 promises Strategic Partnership with cairo. Conditional. 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 interest 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 regimes the current 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 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 michael visited cairo and spoke about human rights in egypt since then relations between france and egypt have been strained micro hopes to repair them but campaigners question the cost to frances reputation as sasha butler ill just 0 powers. Now u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson has to travel to brussels this week in a bid to thrash out a last minute postbox it deal both the u. K. And e. U. Have called on their chief negotiators who also attend the meeting to prepare an overview of the remaining differences Boris Johnson and us who live on the line spoke by telephone for 90 minutes before releasing a statement confirming the significant differences on the 3 Critical Issues it is their 2nd function and now as they try to make a breakthrough before the transition period ends at the end of the month lets speak to algiers or out of there is where a challenge hes in the studio with me now and so the obstacles to a deal are quite important issues this about fisheries and governance and 11 level Playing Field yeah we can go through each of those individually and fisheries in terms of economic importance is probably the smallest of all of the 3 you know its a its a minimal part of both the use and the economy its got sort of outsized importance in terms of the negotiations but it seems to be a totemic issue that neither side can agree on basically the e. U. Wants to have continued access to u. K. Fishing waters and the u. K. Wants to be able to choose which boats come in and where theyre from then theres a level Playing Field this is basically that means in which. The you can ensure the British Companies arent undercutting e. U. Companies they want any you companies to operate on the same rules apply standards and that sort of thing is is that you use the u. K. Wants to be able to establish its own and then theres governance which is basically the mechanisms by which any future trade agreements is arbitrated and decided on if there are disputes and differences and particularly the role of the European Court of justice and thats something that the u. K. Wants out of its politics in the future so these are the problems that they havent been able to resolve at the moment right and the whole time that the clock is running down because the feeling is that there will eventually be a deal is this just political posturing but on the other hand were just weeks away from the end of the year yeah well i mean some people are pretty downbeat on whether theres going to be a deal done certainly Michel Barnier started off this morning saying that he was not very confidence there though youve got people saying that perhaps the chances of a no deal are now at about 60 percent but looking at this statements thats come out of downing street and the European Commission with the lion and Boris Johnson saying that they are going to be thrashing something out as you said in your introduction there over the coming days i would say that has probably raised the possibility of a deal raise the prospects of a deal why well you know if youre looking at what a Prime Minister would do in the last days of negotiations do you want to go to brussels and come out with nothing if would you go there if you thought you were going to come out with nothing im not sure Boris Johnson would want that kind of failure so closely associated with him laurie thanks very much. And were live from london much more still to bring you on the program Nicholas Madeira is coalition sweeps the countrys parliamentary elections but the u. S. And e. U. Pushiness to recognize the results. 7 weeks of bushfires destroy half of australias Fraser Island killing criticism of the countrys climate policies. Hello if you watch the satellite picture gives away the pattern of the weather it comes in here and it turns around goes up through Central Europe now it is edging slowly eastward so the 1st of those storms is this one here over rumania and thats a frontal system during tuesday giving snow as funnels as sweden the next one coming in is almost a repeat performance significant very richly including in the north where has been flooding significantly more snow in the documents italian alps the austrian tirol as well and the cold then creeps up through the heart of europe because the higher temperatures thats a joke 5 is a High Temperature one in zurich for example and the same is true on wednesdays this tries to progress into the balkans once more the cold creeps northwards we go up to 7 in london but innsbrook reflects whats happening up in the mountains last year real cold not minus 11 the obvious models 3 at this time the years of the cold have definitely iran and now given whats happening the western medicine hardly surprised to see that the on shore weather from morocco to tunisia is windy cloudy and often with not particularly cold its only about 30 degrees now g. s so wont feel that good. 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And the 87 year old man from the northeastern english city of Newcastle Upon Tyne will make history on tuesday when he becomes one of the 1st people inoculated against the corona virus using a pfizer biotech vaccine it will be the largest Vaccination Program ever undertaken in the u. K. French president emanuel macron has been accused of failing to challenge egypts president over human rights abuses president abdel fatah sisi is in france for 2 days for an official visit macron has confirmed he will allow the sale of weapons to egypt. Well now unicef is asking for 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 in new funds to help children in the middle east and north africa the Aid Agency Says 39000000. 00 children in the middle east and africa have been impacted by war poverty and the coronavirus yemen syria lebanon and sudan have the highest number of children in need us the funds requested would go towards education tradition and health earlier this month unicef issued its largest ever emergency funding appeal for 6400000000 dollars to reach 300000000 people or nica bennett is unicefs regional advisor of emergencies for west africa where from what west and Central Africa she says the pandemic has deepened the crisis in child health and education we see malnutrition increasing as families have less access to livelihoods and to income remittances from from wealthier countries are decreasing and so nearly 20 percent increase in malnutrition and then of course the Education Impact which is just been staggering as a result of copays before cough it we had in this region 44000000. 00 children out of school and we went up 128. 00 additional 1000000 children out of school as a result of colditz 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. A u. N. Security council u. N. Security team has been denied access to a refugee camp in ethiopia as war hit to gray region diplomatic sou