what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here and i just we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. this is al-jazeera. it's just 11500 hours g.m.t. hello i'm come all santamaria welcome to the news hour from al-jazeera there is a possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 the us drugs giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective u.s. president elect joe biden's welcome to the vaccine success as he announces a task force to deal with the pandemic also in the news aiming to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u.n. backed talks have begun paving the way for

a political transition and bolivia's former leader abel morales heads home from exile in argentina just days after his party swept back to power we will have a live update from one of science. to simply told you sport is less than the brim of age schools in stoppage time as a simulation state some of the telly and league while he goes to the don't call in show. the fight against covert 19 may have taken a significant step forward this monday the u.s. drugs make a fine vaccine candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing some hope in a pandemic that's killed nearly 1300000 people all over the world now pfizer says it is on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month but u.s. health regulators have. they'll need some time to review any potential vaccine the

head of the world health organization's also been calling for scientific solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic that was what proved to be a largely virtual meeting of the w h o's decision making body something does really need to happen soon i mean the world is now more than 50000000 recorded cases and there is no sign of a slowdown we might be tired of 19 but it is not dying of us years preys on dorce in we can held by g.-d. preys on weaknesses to inequality division do you know we should yuki and we believe annoyance very pleased to welcome dr amy account of the news our hears with the u.k.'s n.h.s. the national health service and dr thank you for your time it sounds like great news 90 percent effective what can you actually make of that i mean this is coming

from the drug makers so they will of course want to say it's as effective as it can possibly be. yes it is really welcome news 'd well what they've shared with us is that they looked at a sample size of course a 3 and a half 1000 people in a huff at the back seat half of the coal placebo which is just north of the toll really and then they looked at the thinnest $94.00 cases of all coronavirus and all that only 10 percent were the ones given the vaccine so that's why it's 90 percent effective so it is really really good they are very cautious in what they're saying the same information is needed they need to look at how long the miti last fall and whether actually it stops the spread of the virus as well as that because i'm not getting the virus so they are cautious with the intervention they are giving but is a significant step in the right direction and welcome news to clinicians might be you are seeing patients with criminal violence sure the one thing that sort of

concerns me if i can put it that way is the commercial realities here pfizer is a company wants to make this but we're in this situation where something is needed everywhere it's not localized it's not limited what sort of cooperation could be expected. i think that's that's a wise thing to be concerned about pfizer is a commercially organization but there are several organizations that are working towards getting a vaccine so this is one of many that are in the space 3 trial process and yes this one is the one that's ahead of the game i think we have to keep an open mind when it comes to that level of concern everybody's key messages that we want to get out of this and then it won't come out a lot downs that are blighting the world trade the and if this is this is something that helps with that i think that is really important but it is important to say that no vaccine will be approved until all the date has been approved so so

it's really important that it won't actually be given to the general court probably until we know for sure that it is safe can you remind our viewers and me as well about how vaccines really work i guess the what i'm trying to point is that a lot of people were thinking oh there's a vaccine that it's the silver bullet and and everything can go back to normal and i just feel it's not that simple. no it isn't that simple i suspect very strongly that it says people who will be eligible for the vaccine of those in the highest weeks various groups of those with co-morbidities or very elderly or front line workers vaccines working in different ways and this is a new type of vaccine that works the new way that normally vaccines that way when you are given a vaccine you will keep it in a weakened or dead called also the virus of the bacteria that causes annealed so 8 it doesn't make you ill but your body recognizes it as foreign and it mounts an immune response and should you then come across the real causes that illness

because it's got memory cells in its immune system that will attack it straight away before you even realize you've had bowed now the way this new vaccine works according to pfizer is it's something called m.r. it's you know actually be injected with part of the virus that we can pull of the virus or dead bodies being injected with a part of the genetic code coronavirus and woman is treating your immune system to make antibodies to tear it so it will get rid of the corona virus in acute infection but also there is memory cells as well so it's slightly different but the overall effect is the same but like this and we know it's still not quite sure how long this immune for and this particular backs the will be given in to dose these 3 weeks ok just before and to get back to it what are things like november 2025 you in your 1st answer you talked about the fact you're still seeing patients coming

through how bad is it i guess numbers wise for you for you and what you say. yet i'm here in the u.k. and we are seeing an increase number of patients a crowd of are some my time is divided between norm koger of cases of illnesses and that i spent all of that week seeing patients with crowbars type symptoms it's not dying down but we've just been we started a new lockdown here in the in the you. kase not as severe as the lockdown earlier in the year we're hoping that will bring the numbers down but but i am seeing people not. actually recruiting bars but now the long term effects of the virus and the place at the top in in what i do in the patients i see at the moment no signs of slowing down unfortunately this doctor may account you're a busy man so i really do appreciate you taking the time for us thank you well the vaccine success has been viewed positively all over the world see united states as well where we're going to have a look at market reaction. with us now from the new york stock exchange the futures

i saw earlier were looking like about a 1500 point open what's it like now. yeah the market's been open for just about 40 minutes now and if the stock exchange was a volcano it just exploded this morning the s. and p. 500 up 3.7 percent the dow actually surpassed the futures and you just mentioned opened it over 1605 and a half percent these are both really a record breaking numbers that we're seeing on wall street all because of this news about pfizer without a doubt and what you're seeing here is very interesting what you're seeing is the stocks that are doing the best are the travel leisure and hospitality stocks those sectors and they're not only doing good they opened a great let me just give you a couple examples here carnival cruise line 39 percent jump southwest airlines

a domestic carrier here in the u.s. 22 percent jump disney disney walt disney 14 percent and marriott to the hotel chain 21 percent these are all sectors that were hit very hard over the last year or so that are just seeing incredible jumps here at the opening bell just so you know they are in london earlier that zoom everyone's favorite video conferencing company was down 6 percent poor old and if we strip out what is what's actually happened in the last hour how was the market starting to respond anyway with the changes in the united states with the political changes coming in the united states . yeah it's the markets were a little unsure about a potential joe biden presidency quite frankly donald trump presidency has been very good to the markets but they were quite unsure about the biden presidency however what the markets were not wanting was that long extended election

that it would go to the supreme court that could maybe drag on until december as some people were per cost per saying that could happen so the fact that essential e. camp the election was in that over the weekend over the weekend with with by being declared the winner. essential what that did is that had already given some momentum to the markets going into monday so the markets would have probably opened a higher this morning here in new york regardless but now that you have pfizer added into it and the vaccine added into it that just took expectations through the roof into it and that's why you're seeing the market so there are going to be issues with the buy and presidency of course the markets are worried about the senate control of the senate you know that's going to go of course to a runoff in georgia to see who has control of the senate the republicans or democrats the markets also want to are waiting to see about a potential bailout or or some sort of stimulus that we haven't had yet but bottom

line is. take take this news with with the with the with the biden presidency looking like it's going to be coming up now in january and then also taking the pfizer news and that combined is what you're seeing has caused this incredible market reaction so thank you deborah louise under is that the new york stock exchange where if we check the big board right now stocks on the dow jones are up 4.3 percent over 1200 points that is a huge open on the news of the potential vaccine coming out of pfizer which they say is 90 percent effective. well president elect joe biden called that development of the covert 19 vaccine excellent news but warned americans to continue wearing their masks to keep social distancing as well at the same time the transition to a biden presidency is gathering pace and some priority decisions are already being

made by his announced his task force to tackle the coronavirus pandemic co-chaired by dr david kessler who served in both the bush and clinton administrations on sunday biden visited a church cemetery where family members are buried including his late son donald trump still refusing to concede defeat and in fact escalating his legal case campaign says it's about to launch challenges in the states where he is disputing the counting of votes that some out playing golf world leaders including israel's benjamin netanyahu and saudi arabia have been some of also congratulated joe biden well former u.s. president and republican of course george w. bush sent his best wishes so that takes you through some of the updates we're going to be talking to at the white house in a moment we're starting there with mike hanna in joe biden's home town wilmington delaware hi mike let's talk 1st of all about the reaction from joe biden to the vaccine i mean it's the kind of news when you are coming into this job that he

couldn't have hoped for more. indeed yes we may be hearing from joe biden in person in the next hour or so in the venue behind me here where he'll be holding a virtual meeting of his corona virus task force now he has released a statement saying that his health advisors told him about the pfizer vaccine in the course of the night which he has welcomed a congress in the team who developed that particular vaccine or in the process of doing it but and here's a very important but he quote the director of the c.d.c. robert revealed statement to a senate subcommittee back in september in which ridge field said firstly that he only expects a vaccine to be available in the 2nd or 3rd quarter 2022 but also biden quoting this statement for the foreseeable future a mosque remains a more potent weapon against the virus then the vaccine now this is very

interesting because president trump was absolutely furious at redfield when the statement was made saying that the director of the c.d.c. was clearly confused by the response exactly the opposite reiterating and doubling down on that statement by the head of the c.d.c. saying we really welcomed the news about the vaccine but we have got to wait it will be months before were to be available to all americans even should the trials continue to be successful run in the interim says biden please wear that mask please wash your hands use following the science mike a quick word on transition which is the key word these days donald trump and we'll be talking to kimberly about was not conceding and so john joe biden presses on could this be the hurdles along the way though yes. the key phrase here is general services administration that is the body that will determine when the transition process formally begins that is the key but this is

a subjective decision this nothing in the constitution that says when this decision is made and that is the lid to the left of the head of the general services administration emma murphy a political appointee and the democrats are already considering legal action to force her to make that declaration sooner rather than later ok so that's my kind of they're willing to delaware thank you for that mike. and now we move to the white house is kimberly how could hi kimberly what is donald trump up to today i'm going to say maybe not to go thing for a change and instead launching legal challenges. that is what we understand that the trump campaign will be launching a series of legal challenges so there is going to be a bit of pressure on the trump campaign to provide the evidence that says it has there has been widespread voting irregularity in a number of states now over the weekend we learned that there were an increasing number of cases according to the campaign of people voting who were just sees to or

returning mail in ballots that were for people who had moved out of the state so this is going to be a challenge for the campaign at the same time critics arguing that the number of irregular ballots if you will certainly would not change the outcome of the u.s. election so this is something that we're watching very carefully in the midst of all of this as it comes to the schedule of the president we should point out that is there are no public events on donald trump schedule i believe this is the 4th day in the row 4 that that's the case it seems is really focusing on those legal challenges kimberly i mentioned about congratulations coming in for joe biden and that includes congratulations coming in from republicans most notably former president george w. bush how much of a of a blow to that is is that to the trumpet ministration. you know that there is a schism in the republican party now and george w.

bush and also senator mitt romney are kind of see it is the old republicans not the party of trump there is a real division in terms of those that support the president those that do not they tend to be more middle of the road republicans versus some of the further right republicans in the party of trump that you have now so what you're seeing is is those on the sort of middle of the road saying look it's time to concede for the good of the country and then you have those like senator ted cruz and also lindsey graham in the u.s. senate who are saying trump should and can see that he has an obligation to the $70000000.00 plus americans who said that voted for him and they expect the president to fight they say that this is not yet an official lecture result and they want to see this court challenge just push through and you've got potentially 73 more days of this kimberly just so you know how good is our white house correspondent it's monday morning. yeah so we want to talk more about the

transition of power now and we're going to do it through some models and scenarios which were actually created back in june something called a transition integrity project again doubt a series of possibilities as to what could happen in the election and the transition did so with a number of. former politicians governors campaign managers all providing their expert advice and a lot of those scenarios did not end too well very pleased to say we can speak to neil's gillman in los angeles who is co-founder of the transition integrity project president of the bergen institute thank you for your time i hope i know i did a very brief outline of what you did there but i hope i did it some sort of justice take me through the basics of the scenarios and why they all seem to point to things not going so well and in fact what is happening right now. right well in june of this year we ran a series of exercises that basically tried to game out what could possibly happen

if we had a president who was unbounded by norms and unconstrained by his own party and what we concluded was that you know the results of the game were that absent decisive victory for joe biden the threat to the integrity of the electoral process itself and the transition to a new administration were potentially quite severe and indeed much of what the players in the games anticipated could happen have come to pass trump and his and his supporters i mean right wing media have projected a narrative that the election is being stolen and to contest the results through a variety of changes in the electoral process both at the state level and at the electoral college level did any of your scenarios extend beyond this political problems we see now into the idea of even some sort of civil unrest because there was a lot of concern in the days before the vote that things could get out of hand. yeah well what we found was in the games where the election results were very close both

sides called their supporters into the streets with obviously great risk that there could be contests station violent contestation between competing groups of protesters and in fact you know what's actually happened is that the election is not all that close so republicans are claiming it's close but in fact it's not very close. you know there have been at least 10 elections in u.s. history that we're closer than this one including 201-629-7696 extension 8 so in fact what we have is a situation where i don't think that the trump team has a real viable path to winning this election but i'm not sure that even that's their goal at this point what they're trying to do is lay down a marker that the results are illegitimate so that they can continue to contest and fight the biden ministration into 2021 and beyond ok so let's. hear from now where we say legal action happens it's unsuccessful the $538.00 electors

meet in december and everything goes according to the numbers as they are and joe biden is confirmed then was it don't trump still doesn't like it i think all bets are off right. well i mean i think you know i don't think he's actually going to physically resist leaving the white house you know if it comes to that i would be very surprised at some point he gets frog marched out of there by the secret service and told to you know get in his car and go back tomorrow a lot go wherever he wants to go but he's not going to be allowed to stand definitely and i don't think it'll come down to a physical confrontation i think what he wants to do is be able to have a basis to continue to activate the 70000000 people who voted for him and the many more people who are fans of his and continue to use them to continue his career as a political celebrity and i believe that he will continue to do that in a way that's quite on traditional right i mean if you think about the way in which most presidents conduct their post presidency they basically go off into the into the sunset trump i believe will be just as unconventional in his post presidency as

he has been in his presidency and will continue to be in the spotlight criticize the existing administration perhaps even seek to run again in 2024 it's very possible now let's just quickly obviously you want to be accurate in your research and you'll scenarios when you did all this back in june was this one where you were kind of hoping i hope i'm not right. well obviously the reason why we ran the games was not merely to anticipate what could go wrong but to plan and to make sure that things that might go wrong would be mitigated and i think the one reason why i think it's gone reasonably well is because partly because of the work that members of the transition integrity project as well as many many others across the country have done you know secretaries of state both republicans and democrats have done a fantastic job of ensuring that the vote went according to plan on both in the run up mail in voting early voting and on election day november 3rd remarkably smooth very stories of destruction this is part of what's challenging for trump and his

legal strategy to contest the results is there was a very few reported results of any irregularities you know if you have $100.00 irregularities that would be only one in a 1000000 votes was irregular you know 150000000 votes cast so you know that's not going to be decisive at all and so i think the prophylactic efforts that were made in the wake of the transition integrity project have been important for making sure that the worst did not come to pass. gilman is from the transition integrity project fascinating talking to you thank you for your time thank you very much. plenty of other news going on we're going to start with libya and a new round of talks getting underway in capitol 75 libyan representatives of various groups have been invited by the u.n. which is leading the discussions past month both sides announced a permanent cease fire which has largely held the talks are

a way to set up the groundwork for possible elections well the president addressed the gathering saying peace in libya and the region relies on unity between all the billions. libya's unified nation some people talk of western and eastern libya but we tell them that libyans are one people this kind of rhetorical could lead to the division of libya's the tunisian people refuse this because they know that all libyans refuse it to us it's a danger on the region as a whole and as it could open the door to division in other neighboring nations more often clear harriet in his capital she says delegates are focused on producing a roadmap to hold national elections in libya. so what's happening in tunis is the 1st in paris a meeting of the libyan political dialogue for them these are talks brokered by the united nations and the u.n. has in fated 75 delegates from libya to take part but that number 75 doesn't

actually have anything to do with libya the u.n. chose that number because this 75th anniversary this year of the signing of the u.n. charter so these 75 people are broadly representative of libya according to the acting u.n. special envoy stephanie williams and she's an american diplomat who's address the conference this morning in arabic seeing we are on the very edge of a new libya so what is the aim for this new libya well in a word it's elections these delegates are tough sgt with devising a road map that's the un's word essentially a blueprint for a specific set of mechanisms to allow elections to happen as soon as possible and these elections are to result in a single unified libyan government so fractured is libya that there are 2 rival administrations each claiming to be the legitimate one indeed in president case aid

has called these talks historic by old measured measures and of caution against the splitting up of the country so the hope therefore is that these elections are the best means to address the crisis in the just mysie of the current institutions and the long period of transition and the cycle of violence that has accompanied it. now the leadership in ethiopia's north and to great regions says the area's been hit by at least 10 government airstrikes prime minister ordered the offensive against forces in the region 5 days ago accusing them of trying to break up the country that says the operation will end soon and those responsible will be brought to justice ivory coast the president has been officially reelected the constitutional court has endorsed the results of october's election after opposition members disputed ouattara running for a 3rd term more than 30 people were killed in the post-election violence. has more

for us from. the reactions came even before the constitutional court passed its verdict there were incidents reported in your program we vary it to all neighborhoods of abidjan and we're also hearing about other incidents outside of the economic capital but for the time being things are calm on the streets of abidjan here right now the incidents. of the day was put down by the police when they fired tear gas to disperse a group of professors protestors opposition supporters in fact who are out on the streets similar incident is reported in your pool go in another section of your poem and then 21. governing party says it's one enough seats to form a government despite no official announcement from the election commission vote counting is still going on the national league for democracy party which is led by

and son suchi won a landslide election victory 5 years ago and has more now from young. we were supposed to get some results earlier today was supposed to get the 1st such results around 12 new and more around for the unfortunately the union election commission hasn't released them yet i think there's been some issues going on that they knocked on their facebook page this morning that they've been. late last night in that they were at sort of the problem but we're still not hearing the officials out but the current is a post being done by individual parties and the n.l.b. national league for democracy the only party on some teachings party has announced that they feel they have enough seats to form a government you need a majority and holly she's they will be able to choose the president which is the most significant thing because it is the president the most powerful position in iraq that manages that chooses the ministries that forms the government so it is quite significant if it's true we all still waiting on the official results but all

signs at the moment point to and i'll do you when i'm not just a win as we expected but a huge majority a landslide victory as we saw in 2015 the elders even saying they think they may have got more seats than they did in 2015 so quite significant. here's what's coming up for you on this news on the war of words between azerbaijan and armenia as thousands flee the disputed region of the bone i caught about. also one of the 7 wonders of the world reopens but under some strict coronavirus international stopped being closed for 8 months and sports teams were paid up following his father's footsteps and will hear from the driver who has just become the new champion of nascar. however whether it's looking

a little disturbed across parts of the middle east at the moment we've got some rather more the way of cloud across northern areas of the rate you see how that class stretches from the black sea right down towards northern parts of saudi arabia basin pieces of cloud in for a possibility west the weather making its way across syria into iraq into iran fading over towards kuwait as well and you see how that just stretches way across the north of saudi arabia would you say catch a shower here could lead to some localized flooding a little bit of traffic disruptions certainly a possibility that rain a little more lively as we go on through wednesday that said of the cases that these over towards iran some heavy downpours coming through pushing right up to the southern shores of the caspian there a somewhat weather by the state may want to stay fine and dry here in doha temperatures a pleasant 30 degrees celsius lots of hazy sunshine and that's the case across a good part of the southern areas of the arabian peninsula wanted to show us into the southern end of the red sea plenty of showers across central parts of africa

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president elect joe biden said anstice transitional code 1919 meanwhile he says tackling the pandemic will be one of his 4 biggest priorities the u.s. continues to record record steady numbers of infections and peace talks taking place over libya $75.00 representatives from across the country have been invited to the united nations leading those discussions about such a course announced a permanent cease fire last month which has largely held. officials in the disputed region of going to now say the city of sure has been taken by the forces those claims which had initially been denied thousands of armenians are now fleeing the area a long line of traffic seen on the outskirts of the regional capitals to panic out as people try to escape the fighting so in a moment we'll get the latest from a summit in java had who is in the azerbaijan capital backer let's start though with hoda abdel-hamid in the armenian town of 7 mass exodus effectively. where are

they all going. well it. started a couple of days ago you've seen this sort of wave of people evacuating from the panic now certainly with this announcement made by this book's person of nagorno-karabakh on his facebook page and that would cause more panic among the few are still left but i could do a moment now he said as you just said that shoe she was out of was lost that they had completely it was completely out of their control and he added that the as forces 'd were coming very close to stiffen like it that this i have to say is a complete turnaround from what was said earlier in the day when the message coming from both nagorno-karabakh annular of and was actually that the armenian forces

were putting up a fight and were managing to push back forces specially south of shushi. it's a complete change of tone what is also quite surprising is that we haven't heard much from year of and the ministry of defense has been quite silent ever since the spokesman has made this statement on his facebook page and just minutes ago prime minister passionately and has also written on his facebook page but something very vague he said that the back to her shoes she is on going and if they would i mean it will never end this fight will keep on trying as much as it can on the ground so that quite a vague statement there from the prime minister it seems that he is under a lot of pressure because also a few minutes ago the main opposition group in parliament and some other opposition personalities outside of parliament have called for the prime minister to resign

they put the blame of all what's happening at the moment to discuss tree on his. specifically so it seems that there's something going on. seems to have been lost whether the army inside is whether it is willing to admit it at the moment it doesn't seem the case whether they're preparing to have another fight maybe but they're certainly at a loss on the ground. but also has to plan a carrot thank you. who is in 7 armenia and now. in back of an update from your osama. welcome all we've been hearing these conflicting claims coming from the armenian sign but it has been adamant defiance and celebrations here in the azerbaijani county baku today the president came out and said that 23 more villages along the line of contact have been taken by as of a journey forces and his forces are fully in control of as it is known here in

answer by john we've also heard from the ministry of defense releasing a video of azerbaijani flag on various buildings in inside that strategic mountain top town which overlooks the capital of that they're going to kind of buffer against about a kurd as it's known in armenia and one can the as it's known in azerbaijan you also heard from military sources saying that now the situation if you just look at the geography of the step on it could they have been able to they have been able to manage to block off at least 3 sides of the supply routes from the southeast and southwest and also from the north and only in the eastern corridor remains for the supply routes to come into this conflict in the capital of the can conflict the region so it is going to be difficult for the remaining armenian troops and the forces there to put up a fight so far they have held up the other by johnnie's have taken shushi they've

taken these control to the carriers and therefore they. from there it runs trying to make sure that any remnants of fights and groups that are there are taken out before they move forward but it seems that now that the army. has conceded that issue she has fallen it is going to go into the favor of the forces who say they will not stop until the whole region which they see as an occupied territory is taken by some of injury but that update from baku thank you turkey's finance minister says he is resigning because of health reasons but out. is also the son in law of president egypt time when he made the announcement on his instagram account 2 days after the central bank governor was sacked turkey's currency the euro has lost 30 percent of its value against the u.s. dollar since the start of the year and of course the owners in istanbul in search of president accepts the resignation that will be a significant mood. for sure this resignation is going to be

a game changer especially for president are gone and his ruling party decides to corner me because the polls the surveys show that the support for the rolling up party has been down to 33 percent where people accuse the bad economic management for this and it's not only the opposition or the investors accusing the government for bad economy management but it's also some circles within the our party and we have been hearing that a group of up party members were about to decided to resign and switch to other offshoot parties so just looking at today since the morning in the early morning tradings the turkish lira which lost 30 percent value against the american dollar has gained 1.7 percent against the american dollar just within the early trading which is seen as an investor optimism in turkey right now so what is next for

the finance minister better. known because some circle say that don who may need takes his family as 1st he will not leave him out and he may appoint him as a vice president as within the new presidential system the president has the right to appoint multiple vice presidents but some say that finance minister is willing to take over the management of the ruling party which will not be welcomed by others but this is seen as a positive news because many have accused the government for the ailing economy. police in georgia have used water cannon to disperse protesters in tbilisi and as they rallied against the results of october's parliamentary election thousands of demonstrators demanded a snap vote after the opposition accuse the governing party of rigging the election the georgian dream party receive nearly 50 percent of the ballots have a strong majority in parliament for 8 years but its popularity has dwindled steadily steadily as georgia has dealt with economic problems it's. been forced to

walk and he's in tbilisi. and it's not quite clear at this stage what happened who threw the 1st shot that say but. that the police that were gathered in large numbers right police used water cannon to disperse protesters the police saying that they were attempting to storm the building but the opposition stating that they were peaceful and that they had no intention of committing any violent acts but certainly a lot of anger and frustration at the way in which the situation seems to have been handled we've seen people who received injuries not clear from whether it was from water to the power of the water cannon or other things being thrown or or other things being involved but the reason the opposition did this march is that they wanted an ultimatum for the government to me which was for the resignation of the head of the central election commission and for new elections to be called well

obviously those demands have not been met and now the opposition group which is basically all the political parties that came in behind the governing party. now saying you know we will get a boycott parliaments because we don't believe the results have been free and fair and they think up to 10 percent of votes may have been manipulated somehow. hong kong's pro-democracy politicians say they will all resign from the cities legislative council if beijing disqualifies any off them. threat comes on reports that china intends to remove at least 4 legislators for violating their oats. democracy camps as it's come under sustained pressure since beijing imposed its national security. after a year in exile bolivia's former president evo morales returned home the 61 year old was greeted by crowds of supporters as he walked across the border. has left

the country last november after violent protests and accusations of electoral fraud which is to raise in buenos aires to talk through the uk 1st for the company it's been a year already. and quite the greeting for him there. well that's correct i will morales we turn to bolivia and i try and find a way after his political party won the elections the presidential elections in bolivia there's a new precedent right now and this is happening just almost one year after he was forced into exile after the elections that happened last year where he was accused of committing fraud and he have to feel the country on what i list left the capital of argentina one of scientists on sunday he went to the city of the lucky i that's very very close to the border between bolivia and argentina and early this monday he was accompanied by precedents i'll bet of the phone numbers there was a large ceremony there with thousands of his supporters and then able what alice

walked towards the border and he was received by miners there who gave it all but at least some precedent about a thought for the man there's a helmet he representation of that labor union a very important labor union in bolivia got a front on this the argentinean president said that it will what i list should have never left the country and that this is a historic day not only for believe you but also for the whole of latin america because it represents a comeback of democracy where you'll be able not only says expected to travel around the country for the next few days he's expected to go to the cocoa. the for the growers areas in the country who is a very important level you know they are that's what helped him make it to the presidency as fully vs 1st to indigenous president however in what i see is also a divisive figure in the country and while many in a way cherish a majority him because power to millions of indigenous communities in the country there are many who blame him for the chaos that happened in this past year because

they say that what happened is he tried to hold onto power and that is what brought that what we've seen in bolivia in this past year which was a defacto government for some time and later on this final elections that ended up with precedent from the movement towards socialism party that's what i was 40 in power yeah and what is the new presidency promising for believe you what will it mean for the country. well in what alice come back to bolivia is a highly in a way representative symbolic because everyone else was bolivia's 1st indigenous president and in a country like bolivia we're between 60 to 70 percent of the population identify with that indigenous group this is very symbolic we were in bolivia when them with alice left the country and when there was an interim administration that went into the presidential palace for example carrying a bible this is something that scared many bolivians because they were afraid that discrimination was going to come back of that they were going to lose many of the

benefits that they won while able morales was in office well now it will what at least is returning to the country he party is in power you know he's out of it was it not you waited on sunday he promised to rule for all you believe yes he's facing an extremely difficult situation in the country the economic situation is dire kovac 19 a divided country between the lowlands on the highlands the poorer highlands and the lowlands that are richer and have traditionally in a way discriminated against indigenous groups so there are many many challenges ahead and the big question is which will it's ever what it's going to play in his administration as he has said that model is not expected to play a crucial role but still he is an influential man loved by many in the country so we'll have to see exactly what happens in the next few months it's tough to i suppose want to thank you peruse president meanwhile is facing his 2nd impeachment trial in congress in less than 2 months martin discounter is accused of accepting

bribes of hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies that won public works tennis survived a similar proceeding in september which was part of a wider bribery probe though he denies all of the allegations. a small group of tourists and visitors are trickling back into much a pitcher for the heritage site finally reopened his government made it off limits in march of course because of coronavirus. more. much of picchu is not like any other place in the world as global covert 1000 cases surge and lockdowns cascade into effect it's in can ruins have reopened. much a big tournament but the 1st to enter much of peachey really is a thrill all i can tell all peruvians and all the world is to come we have all the security measures it is very safe to be here and you will be well received. the units go world heritage sites closed in march because of coronavirus restrictions

it officially reopened to this week but with health checks and capacity limited to 30 percent or $680.00 terrorists a day the 1st visit was just the yama in october the japanese tourist received a special exemption to into early after waiting for 7 months in a nearby town much you picchu sits 2400 meters above sea level where the peruvian andes meet the amazon basin archaeologists believe it was built in the 15th century as a century front in can empower it remains one of the most significant portals into inconsiderate eyes ation as peru's top tourist attraction the local economy relies on the travel as it draws especially foreigners its closure affected nearly a quarter of a 1000000 workers shopkeepers in nearby cusco say they lost more than 2 thirds of their income and yet it has been super terrible because there were no tourists you

can only see resident tourists who live here who live nearby and nothing else. peru is closing in on $1000000.00 cases of covert 19 with nearly $35000.00 deaths for a country of $32000000.00 people that's the highest per capita mortality rate in the world but cases are now decreasing and restrictions easing. it's been quite complicated for all of us who work in tourism the city basically lives off it and it's been a very hard blow many shops are closed many people lost their jobs now the gates have reopened provings are hopeful brighter days are here shiela bellus al jazeera . sports is coming up on this news hour including watch this stunning goal that came with a sting in the tail for scores team paid it will have the details in just a moment. of

the all. time for the kids but with pedro thank you so much come always thought and it's only when is the last any room of its you showing no signs of slowing down the 39 year old 'd veteran striker who recently recovered from coronavirus has just become the top scorer in this season's city our. team were up against the end of it on a. but it didn't start well for them but their owner racing into a 2 goal lead us to just 90 minutes in the 2nd half with milan trailing $21.00 they were awarded a penalty but that and miss from the spot for the food time the season he kept trying and finally in stoppage time ybor him of each school the equaliser to rescue

a 3000000 from the feat there it is. to draw that sees them at the top of the standings and put him of each on 8 goals at 2 ahead of events as christiane a renowned. contrast in fortunes of spanish champions real madrid who were thrashed on sunday and their coaches intervenes the ban is taking the blame for the 1st time andries leadership role conceded 4 goals in a league a match running out for one winners with carlos solera becoming the 1st player to score had triggered penalties in a single spanish league game the same tree there was also an own goal from a raffle of iran that leaves rail 4th in the standings. but it is difficult for all of us to understand what happened but yes clearly i am the one who's responsible because i am the one who has to find solutions during the game and instead we were not able to change things after this call their goals over in germany fans of brazil mention glad bath got

a glimpse of what was surely an entry through goal of the year bell and tino lovato scoring a scoop ian take with the back of his heel on a volley in stoppage time against by a live acoustic unfortunately it was the highlight for mention club back and their supporters as they're actually lost for 3. from a stunning goal to a shocking mistake now in portugal as benfica lost ground in the premier league when their goalkeeper did the 1st serbia this year serve the most came out of these area against braga but most time the bouncers francisco mora passed them at school the 2nd brother 3rd for a 32 victory braga subserve in the table on the same number of points as been. to major league soccer and syrian rees montreal impact produced a comeback victory against d.c. united to clinch a place in the playoffs montreal had been behind twice in the game but levelled out both sides and the romell kyoto's schooled the winner in the 88th minute to 32 the

final school ends 3 game losing streak for the impact it will be the number 9 seed in the eastern conference we don't want to go through because some of it. we wanted we didn't need in we didn't need. anyone else to go through only day we did it on the day meanwhile on a very wet night in florida the team owned by david beckham into miami also made it into the playoffs that's after a 21 win over f.c. cincinnati mikey ambrose san leandro gonzales peter pace scoring the goals miami go into the postseason as the number 10 seed in the eastern conference. russian tennis player daniel medvedev will be one to watch at next week's a.t.p. world tour finals in london he's moved up to 4th in the world rankings after winning in paris made the devastating alexander very in the final on sunday despite

losing the opening set medvedev fullback to seal his 1st victory in the french capital and with a 3rd masters title admitting his confidence was load coming into this tournament. before the tournament i was not in my best form of play not so there was a 0 finals this year and i was actually going to college trying to my wife not brian but just complaining like oh my god i don't have a level i don't even have one final i'm playing so bad la la la. the winner of their. very visit a week he'd probably prefer to forget the german has been forced to deny accusations of domestic abuse by a former girlfriend. i know that there's going to be a lot of people that right now are trying to wipe a smile off my face but under this mask and smiling brightly feel incredible on court and i have the people that i love around me. you know i'm probably going to be a father very soon so. you know everything is great in my life and. the

people who are trying to keep trying but you know i'm still smiling and it's masculine you can see go for carlos or teeth has become the 1st mexican player to win on the p.g.a. tween 42 years he produced some fantastic charts in the final round to clinch the houston open in texas and he's 20 foot packed at the last hole generated the biggest cheer on to us since march as this was the 1st event to allow up to 2000 fans on calls per day there is ortiz swore not play in the masters later this week though but his victory does it in the place of the tournament next year the last mexican born player to win was victor the whole lot of. i don't really have to have been hearing here's how i said texas like my 2nd home state their response of people here cheering for me bunch of latinos back to canton and obviously people from texas cheer for me to say it was saw something in front of them and i'm thankful. motor sport now and chase earlier too following in his father's footsteps

by winning the nascar championship he wraps it up at the phoenix raceway in arizona at 24 years old chase is the 3rd youngest champion in nascar's $72.00 history and it comes 32 years after dad the elliott won the title he was one of nascar's most popular drivers known as all some bull from dawsonville but now it's the son who is the new face of the sport now we've already heard that u.s. president elect joe biden has been invited to throw out the 1st pitch at the 1st home game of the washington nationals next year and on monday the 1st picture in a south korean baseball game was thrown out by leer on he's also known as the bubble boy he became very popular on the opening day of the season when he also threw out the 1st pitch he stressed in a bubble to promote social distancing during this covert 19 year. ok well we were given more sports news again a little bit later come all those nice lovely story there thank you peter. and that is the news hour back in a couple minutes time the latest stuff from the us political trope and just.

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