now wants them to some straight talking political debate. front returns on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how we take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i just think it's embarrassing. quite frankly us president elect joe biden says donald trump's refusal to concede will not help his legacy there will be a smooth transition to a 2nd troubling structure this is trump's advisor refused to back down. and learn tale of this is out jazeera live from london also coming up. as aries

celebrate and armenians protest russian peacekeepers are deployed as part of a cease fire deal to end the fighting in a going to car back. it calls for a cease fire in ethiopia is a gray region where hundreds have died and thousands are fleeing into sudan. hello u.s. president elect joe biden has called donald trump's refusal to concede the presidential election an embarrassment but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january that will see him take on the world's most powerful job that's despite the trumpet ministration reportedly refusing to assist the president elect's transition team and blocking them from accessing vital resources biden himself has been calling some of america's biggest allies including the leaders of the u.k. germany and france who all congratulated him on winning the election. i just think

it's an embarrassment. quite frankly. the only thing that. how can i say this tactfully i think it will not. help the president's legacy. i think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful that the united states democratic institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure and what i think at the end of the day. you know it's all going to come to fruition in january 20th biden's comments came after the u.s. sector states joined the chorus of republican voices denying joe biden's election win by pompei i was asked if he would assist a smooth handover and he gave the sunset there will be a smooth transition to a 2nd trimester action right we're ready that the world is watching what's taking

place that we're going to come of the votes when the process is complete they'll be electors selected there's a process the constitution lays it out pretty clearly the world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the state department is functional today successful today and successful with the president who's in office on january 20th a minute after noon will also be successful meanwhile the u.s. supreme court has begun hearing arguments in a case which could strip 20000000 people of medical insurance justices have already signaled that unlikely to strike down all of the affordable care act a key piece of president obama's legacy is known as obamacare president trump and other republicans want the law struck down. and fisher joins us live from washington d.c. alan let's start with the white house trump is still refusing to concede but biden remains confident the transition to power will be smooth.

exactly i mean there are reports that suggest that they were trying white houses told various government agencies and departments they must not cooperate with any transition planning while the result in their view is still in doubt so that would slow things down and this goes back to 60 years when there has been transition planning but more particularly after 911 the 911 report commission said that because there was a delay in getting the transition up and running because of the legal actions in florida that me of hampered america's safety in the interim so that is why those on the democratic side a very keen to make sure that this process gets under way what might pompeo said some are saying it was a bit of a joke particularly as he laughed immediately afterwards but it certainly shows how trump loyalists and might compare with certainly current himself as one of those certainly view this process that it's all about making sure that every legal vote

is counted but there are legal actions to be taken my point here was also speaking with one eye on 2024 he would like to run for the presidency then even though he has openly declared that everyone seems to suggest that that's what he wants to do and to do that he also needs the trump base so to be seen to be a loyal to donald trump at the moment isn't a bad move but certainly those around donald trump keep saying that the whole process has to go forward just how long that process will take is slightly concerning to the democrats but joe biden says they're pushing ahead and their determination is that they'll be ready to go on day one and i mean what's been happening with the challenge to the affordable care act in the supreme court. of course you remember just over a week or so ago we were talking about equally buying and getting her on to the supreme court which was a big call of don't transfer for the election the reason was that a week after the election the supreme court would talk about the affordable health

care that there would be a hearing about it now from what we have heard to over the last few hours it would seem to suggest that 2 of the conservative justices aren't really keen to do much more to the outset only not to dismantle it which means that protections for people with preexisting conditions would stay in place so you're talking about millions of americans who are covered by that. it could be by herself she cannot play their cards close to the chest but the fact that 2 of the republican appointed justices people who consider the conservative wing of the court are saying that the we seem to be edging toward saving the act not taking action that congress itself didn't want to take suggests that could be if $54.00 majority in favor of preserving the act as it is at the moment that will upset many republicans it will upset donald

trump as well who thought he was going to get rid of it but of course it's all up in the air until the justices make their final decision only people trying to read the tealeaves at the moment but it seems to be that joe biden will walk in to the white house in january and the affordable care act will still be in place although it could be june before the supreme court makes a ruling no one on the case that it's been hearing today and fisher thank you very much. russian peacekeeping troops have been deployed to now going to care about a deal to end 6 weeks of fighting the disputed region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic armenians as harry's who spent the day celebrating what's been seen as a win delivering swathes of territory to their country and in neighboring armenia it's been described as a disaster hard to have me reports from here about. like it or not.

it's a nation in shock many baffled that their media has signed an agreement they see as humiliating and for some the anger was too much to contain by early morning protestors started to arrive in front of parliament. i don't know how this nation behaves this man says calling on people to rise up emotions were high and soon the anger turned into calls for a prime minister. to resign among the people here veterans of the 1st war thereby journey in the early 1990 s. mothers of soldiers who recently died and displaced people from nagorno-karabakh. mina and her mother bear to are dismayed they left their hometown of stepan occurred. by jan at the beginning of the fighting her father stayed behind the other to watch hearts as many articles on the one he signed this agreement didn't

ask our opinion he signed in secret it's a crime i want to return there my trained general there i'm not having a normal education because of current virus and the war i will only go back if the children of the prime minister come and live there with me. like everyone here nina and bert i want the agreement to be cancelled for dinner 1200 soldiers lost their lives order past 6 weeks has now also lost all 7 as every region surrounding the un clave it had occupied since 994 as well as a ton of shusha in the corner. it's hard to swallow this is a very difficult time for me and for prime minister and he called by now you was already under intense international pressure just signed a cease fire agreement and now is having an even harder time at home explaining to people that this was the best option. in the current situation there was no chance of making another decision a plan to give more details such as why and what the reason was behind. last

month's events i can't do it right now for one simple reason because stopping military actions is the main focus right now and if i say something i couldn't danger people but bush in the end hasn't managed to convince many people even among those who are calling for his resignation yes. i'm an ordinary mother but what happened is horrible every day we were given good news and suddenly this happens good or bad i don't know but i don't want an agreement at the price of all those innocent children who died it should have been done earlier he needs to answer our questions some of the russian peacekeepers have already arrived in the media they will be deployed in the corner to guarantee to cease fire but for armenians this sense of loss that azerbaijan felt for nearly 3 decades is just beginning to seep in but at that hamid. as president says the file and what he calls a years long occupation as some have been reports from the capital. of.

years in the making johnny's or jubilant after the announcement of a deal to end the conflict in the. even physically stop some people from showing their joy 100 thousands of displaced people who wanted to return seems possible. to return to the place where my mother grandmother were born. from. and years to look to me i can't even describe this feeling. expressed. after steady gains on the battlefield since september the deal has been made possible largely because of other by john's advanced military power the president acknowledged his forces as he declared the conflict over. heroes as a result of their heroes and self-sacrifice we return to our learns. that soldiers can recover soon and return to normal life i live called it an armenian

defeat agreed with russian relation to the deal hold on to the areas of. the feeling that he's fighting well i mean year has agreed to withdraw from several other nearby areas in the coming few weeks russian peacekeepers will remain in the region for an extended 5 years in return either by john will stop its advances and the guns on the front lines have fallen silent. as it would join the army that we are capable to liberate our we have liberated. now we also showed that we have the political will to stop hostilities and to continue by negotiations many people in the very capital don't completely trust russian peacekeepers and wanted their forces to retake all of the disputed region the turkish foreign minister called the deal a secret success as the president hinted peacekeepers in addition to the russians but it's not yet decided exactly how those troops will be deployed. azerbaijani say

a few weeks of war have achieved more than 2 decades of diplomacy but maintaining peace is not going to be easy as thousands of people have been killed in both sides and more than a 1000000 have been displaced in both armenia and azerbaijan some of the others they are packing. still to come this half hour as pollution takes off in mexico's biggest metropolis rises then absent projects that could give people a breath of fresh. how i was saying some really hot weather across northern parts of australia recently and all the way down into south australia sliding down towards the southeastern corner but we've got some gusty winds so what's the weather just easing through the biting is that makes its way further race was holding the

temperatures down to about 8 or 9 degrees in adelaide 26 celsius there on wednesday afternoon that wetter weather moving through the western side of victoria pushing across southern parts of new south wales as we go on into thursday 19 celsius right led by the states a big difference what we saw at the start of the week and really getting into the mid thirty's was the weather there down for that eastern side of victoria melbourne seeing a little bit of wet weather we'll see some wet weather gradually making its way back towards w.i. but for the time being this day is fine and dry long as he fought in try to into new zealand if a little on the the gray side that a lot of white cloud of course so will be lossy dry here bright as opposed to sunny meanwhile this brightening up nicely across japan at the moment this band of clouds moving out of the way we have still got a few showers want to sue them of a wintry nature as you go through wednesday but come thursday it should be fine and dry there will be some rain just pushing into the far north of the korean peninsula

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are going to run to the top stories here now to syria us president elect joe biden has called donald trump's refusal to concede the presidential election an embarrassment but he says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january. 2000 russian peacekeepers have been deployed to this disputed region of nagorno-karabakh after mosco negotiated a truce between armenia and azerbaijan a cease fire has halted 6 weeks of fighting and that's azerbaijan keep recaptured territory. the deadly conflict in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders and appears to be fueling a humanitarian crisis prime minister ahmed ordered an offensive in tikrit last week after accusing local forces that of attacking a military base since then hundreds have been killed and around 3 and a half 1000 people have fled the tier a region from neighboring sudan mamadou has more from the capital addis ababa.

celebrations on the streets of the tiny town of enough an ethiopian residents came out to welcome for forces who have just read the can the town from to great fighters does show which is in them hard a region was captured by to be armed forces a week ago during fighting with troops along with your peers north and command whose bases they are tucked as the words about the customers who did not die we could have a lot of gunfire the whole village panicked but thanks to the harbor of regional special forces who were able to save a lot of the national defense forces. if your peers federal government continued to claim more victories on tuesday with its defense forces saying they had seized the airport integral near the border with sudan and eritrea they also paraded some militiamen from the to cry people's liberation front who they said had defected. from political trend because we must not go to wolf the post reasons we should be defending a national unity so the young men to take ray should not go to war of

a telephone and internet communications blackout integrate has made it difficult to verify the situation on the ground the african union is the latest to join international calls for an immediate cease fire and dialogue to a peaceful solution to a huge chairperson most of achim hamad appealed for an immediate cessation of hostilities and called on parties to respect human rights an issue of the protection of civilians the government however is adamant that it won't talk until the operation achieves its objectives of bringing the to great leadership to justice and confiscating or destroying artillery and other arms the group has it's in possession but we know it was they had some missiles which could go to 300 kilometers that means they could to strike. a marriage and they could also strike our followers they could strike us matter that's easier it was in syria and so that's why the government has to rush to destroy it. hundreds of people have

already been killed in the conflict that's been mostly causes treated in western to grey close to the border with sudan under the train according to diplomats a large number of refugees including troops are said to already crossed into sudan their fears this conflict could trigger a civil war in the most populous nation in the horn of africa to go and account for 6 percent of ethiopia dominated politics for 30 years before prime minister rule to rejoin mr sharon sees prime minister all going reforms are tempted to bring about a unitary system of government which destroys the current federal one diplomats are now water up the longer the conflict takes the more difficult it might be to bring back the particular a region into the field best for the nation of regional states. but a suburb or. at least 3 people have been killed in violent clashes in ivory coast

a further 26 people were wounded in the unrest in a town outside abidjan the u.n. says the number of refugees who fled the country has doubled to more than 8000 since last month's election while 40 people have been killed since president announced he'd seek a controversial 3rd term which he then won the opposition boycotted the election. mass protests are taking place across peru after martin vickery was removed from the presidency protesters of fought with police outside congress in the capital lima where these cars replacement manual merino were sworn in a few hours ago there were also clashes reported in the cities of ira keeper and cusco the scar remains very popular with the public despite the accusations of corruption that led to his removal in an impeachment vote. when you're married you know who was head of congress will stay in power until july which would have been the end of iscar as term the next presidential election is in april this guy was

accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes when he was regional governor he agreed to step down without appealing the decision but denies any wrongdoing mariano sanchez is in lima she says protests are taking place across peru. there are protests. erupted in different cities from school to early keep to trujillo to all the major cities apart from lima in peru have people marching in the streets of people being arrested in the northern city of puta and people have clashed with police in the perimeter of congress this morning when maybe no one has been sworn in as the new president there is a recent history that of course pollute rians half very presently they are in their minds of corruption among the top leaders of the country from fouhy morty in jail

from a few have taken his life when he was going to be arrested from. who's under house arrest and the list goes on of precedents and also now with members of congress that have a so many criminal investigations $68.00 of $130.00 have criminal investigations the president the new president of congress alone $52.00 criminal investigations pending so people say that they will be protected they will have immunity if they continue to be in congress if they are able to now change the constitution to have another election to be reelected which is bound by the constitutions of people are worried and they're very angry. the corona virus pandemic has now seen a 1000000 people infected in the united states in just the last 10 days the 10 millionth case was confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours with hospital

admissions in at least 16 states at record levels the us is by far the worst affected nation in the world with 239000 deaths and daily new infections exceeding 100-0048 6th consecutive day officials in some parts of the country say residents have let their guard down and all efforts must be redoubled to stop the spread of the virus european nations continue to grapple with a 2nd wave of infections officials in italy are appealing for foreign doctors to fly in to help operate ventilators the country reported more than 35000 new infections on tuesday hospitals are even under strain in countries that largely escaped a high caseload earlier this year like poland and sweden meanwhile the u.k. has reported 532 new deaths in the last day or france has recorded 472. french president emmanuel michel and german chancellor angela

merkel a both calling for a reefing on europe's open border policy after recent attacks michael and the austrian chancellor sebastian courts took part in a virtual summit with marco and top european union officials all 3 nations have experienced attacks in recent weeks michael says europe needs to come up with coordinated security measures and to re-examine the schengen area which allows open travel across most of the e.u. . is in paris with more details from that meeting. one of the main issues as the french president pointed out is the issues of borders both the use external border and internal border imagine mike ross said it was clear that the borders need to be bolstered and strengthened the external one and internal one of the used and the example of the tunisian man that traveled illegally from tunisia of through italy and into france to show how both the external border had failed to

stop and stop this person being able to get into the e.u. but then also the internal border between italy and france has meant that this young man was able then to carry out such a terrible attack in nice and he said this is a sort of thing that needs to be stopped now france is actually bolstered his own security on its borders but a man on my cross said that this change in area this area in the e.u. where you can travel about a passport needs to be reformed and really looked at other measures that are on the table were more measures that would look at trying to stop online hate speech and propaganda and also we heard from the e.u. council head shell michel who joined also this meeting by video conference he said there's something that he thought was very interesting and had been widely discussed was the idea of him arms being trained in europe european m arms trained in europe and therefore

a ban on foreign him arms coming into europe he said that would be a way of preventing foreign influence. natascha butler reporting 3 days of national mourning have been declared in palestine following the deaths of side erica at he was a veteran peace negotiator and champion of the palestinian cause a 65 year old died after contracting corona virus he was put on a ventilator and placed in a medically induced coma shortly before his death he had been a thai risk from the virus after undergoing a long transplant 3 years ago every cat was involved in nearly every round of peace talks with israel since 991 palestinian officials are remembering him as a brother and a fighter. it was somebody who persisted the spike the men this are who stood up to extremely cruel attacks who devoted his whole life to ensuring that palestinian lives. and palestinian rights are saved.

i've indicated here's somebody who has lived hard worked hard and he made the verse and palestinian life and he made a difference internationally and globally. well as begun on building what could become one of the world's largest urban parks the project will become a counterweight to mexico city's polluted air and sprawling footprint but its creation has still been controversial as john heilemann reports. when its close government cancelled the $13000000000.00 airport midway through its construction it caused immense controversy have a look at the now planning to put in its place one of the biggest urban parks in the world if it works out to be twice the size of manhattan architect and yet here to vote here is the man with the vision what a little out obama said

a lot of where. we are going to recover bodies of water and that will help of recreate a bit of what the valley of mexico looked like before an experience that even though he shouldn't be will be almost new mexico city's inhabitants. 500 years ago vast areas of the capital were underwater to the extent that a prime mode of transport was the canoe the park aims to bring some of that prehistoric flavor back recovering 600 hectares of lakes and lagoons but they'll be more than just water on offer the plan is for basketball courts 5 a side football pitches gyms picnic and camping areas to the hope is that some of mexico city's poorest neighborhoods which partly surround the park will benefit with bus routes planned from those communities because we will not do it which is a story many of us think that it's a bit of social justice bringing cultural support and environmental facilities to population to where traditionally abandon or very little care for. many of the

workers like to stay a basket live close by us to what she thought the part she's hoping to create i think there's good and safe but the hope is that this is for my children and grandchildren that they can enjoy this because if they do what they say they will it'll be a very big i trust to god that i'll see it but if not at least my family will. be the part should have an impact on the whole capital the idea is that the basque quantity of water implants here will help reduce air contamination and heat in the city. who sounds promising but so far there's little more than this nurseries of local flora just starting to grow it doesn't look like much now but the hope is that these little native plants are going to be the seed from which entire barren areas of this natural part a reef forested to be as full of life as they were centuries before. the aim is to open by next year and have it finished by 2024 the end of the current government's

term in office. many still believe that government made a big mistake in scrapping the airport if the park pans out at the very least it will be a real consolation john home and how does it. exclusive. and a reminder you can always catch up with all the stories we are reporting on by checking out our website al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon. dot com. top stories around 0 u.s. president elect joe biden has called donald trump's refusal to concede the president presidential election an embarrassment but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january that's despite the trumpet ministration reportedly refusing to assist the president elect's transition team and blocking them from

accessing vital resources biden himself has been calling some of america's biggest allies including the leaders of the u.k. germany.