activist and inspired artist and a voice for the plight of countless migrants. march music, such an al-jazeera from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around. also, our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. the the alarming numbers from europe as a to leave reports on the other $623.00 corona virus related deaths and the u.k.'s total death toll passes $50000.00. this is the u.s. shatters records, again, reporting more than 130000, new infections in just 24 hours.

the lower bar for sarah you're watching out is there are live from london also coming up on the program. ivory coast's government confirms 85 people have now died in violence over the disputed election. double the previous estimates. sudan says it fears up to 200000. people could flood into the country escaping the fighting in northern ethiopia. and hong kong's pro-democracy legislators resigned on mass in protest at the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. the thank you for joining us. the world health organization has described europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easy coronavirus restrictions. the continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. more than $50000.00,, people have now died from cope with 19 across the u.k.,

and that's after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. marking the country's highest daily death toll since may. infections are also climbing with almost 23000 new cases recorded during the same period world very much hoping that 2 things will start to come to our aid. number one, the mass testing the kind i just described, the rapid turnaround testing. then the other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine. so you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves, to the disease in the, in the weeks and months that followed. but i've got to stress that we're not out of the woods yet. the british prime minister there were deaths are also climbing significantly in italy, which recorded 623 corona, virus fatalities on tuesday. 32000, new infections were also confirmed pushing its total number of cases past 1000000

israelis north remains the hardest hit part of the country. let's talk about the similar detail with nadine barber, who joins us now in the studio in the daemon. it's interesting, there really rising everywhere on their cases, and that's really the u.k. who are saying, but lots of other countries in europe. absolutely. it's a common feature there at different stages. and there's, of course, a lag between the increase in infections and the hospitalizations and deaths, but the picture across the continent really, really worried about the impact on the most vulnerable, but the impact on the health services in particular here in the u.k. as you were saying, it's the highest death toll 24 hours since may almost 600. taking the total death toll over 50000 just for people who've died of coverage, 19 within 28 days of a positive test. if you take the, the total number of deaths where it was recorded on a death certificate. officials say it's actually 65000 the death toll so far.,

and that puts it just behind the u.s., brazil, india, and mexico to give you an idea. it's really the 2nd highest official death toll in europe right now. they've, they've almost seen $43000.00 deaths. as you're saying, it's the highest 24 hour death toll since april there $623.00 is the latest figure . they're very worried. and now, according to the reuters agency, the total death toll across europe is at least $300000.00 people. so nobody could have imagined, you know, in the, in the spring and europe as a continent accounting for almost a quarter of the year 1200000 global deaths so far. it is shocking because europe in many ways was the 1st hit outside of asia. and then most countries released lockdown restrictions within reason over summer. now to have them reimposed as we have in the u.k. here in other countries in europe. any signs for potential optimism when it comes

to trying to get the great cisco that everyone's looking for optimism because it's winter because there are going to be extra strains anyway. but also because people, want to get life back to normal in england here in the u.k., they've been doing mass testing in the city of liverpool on what they call lateral flow tests. 44000 people apparently have taken part just since last friday and the people assessing it have got great things to say about these tests. they very quickly can get results in less than half an hour. you don't need trees and they're saying that it was, they showed 99.6 percent specificity. what does that mean? it means that the false positive rate was only no point $32.00 in labs. it was only not point 06. so almost total accuracy there really happy about that. they say can be used widespread in the community and particularly for asymptomatic people. and that's the real big factor when you want to catch the people who are most at risk of transmitting the disease. it's just

a couple of days since pfizer and biotech said that there vaccine, which is in stage 3 trials was, would protect more than 90 percent of people who took it. lots of optimism here in the u.k. over that. but prime minister boris johnson, who we just heard, has been warning people not to get overconfident. a reminder for more officials today, that doses won't probably arrive until next year. it we months before the public will get anywhere near a vaccine, and president of the european central bank christine lagarde has said on wednesday, that economies across europe could actually face recurring cycles of growth or improvement and then restrictions because of the ongoing lock downs until we see widespread immunity through those vaccines. yet, stephanie, going to be a very different christmas from most people here in europe, with the latest on that story. thank you. now iran meanwhile has recorded its highest daily coronavirus test toll since the pen demick began 462. people died

over the past 24 hours. the health ministry also confirmed a record number of the li infections at almost 12000 new cases where the $39600.00 people have now died from the virus in iran, which is the worst hit nation in the middle east. and as we mentioned, coronaviruses directions are being reimposed in several parts of the world, especially several states across the u.s. as infections that shatter more records there. according to the cove it tracking project, the 131000 new cases were confirmed on tuesday, and texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases. almost 62000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus more than ever before. measures have been tightened in california and several midwest states after the onset of colder weather threatens to overwhelm some hospitals. i tell you this in all sincerity, oklahoma. we are in trouble. our local and state health care resources are

approaching their limits. and if nothing is done soon to slow the rise in cases, our hospitals will be more overwhelmed than they already are. and we won't be able to be there for all of those who need it. at least $85.00 people are now confirmed to have died in the violence surrounding ivory coast's futa. the election that's doubled the previous estimate, the government updated the death toll ahead of a meeting between the president and the head of the main opposition designed to calm tensions. well, the clashes began in august of president alassane ouattara confirmed that he was running for a controversial sword to term whatever won the election on october 31st with more than 94 percent of the vote. after an opposition, a boy called well,

in ivory coast's commercial capital, abidjan. there was this meeting meant to be a low lives branch of sorts. what came out of it? exactly. it's more american on the french and the course on the time to buy a reward for a government to ensure some form across the country. brady, a former president, was part of the movement toward the presidential election. today he is here and met with president alassane. ouattara will go, that meeting lasted less than an hour. it was commended by both sides as i progress some form of progress. and of course, the groundwork for future negotiations according to the 2 leaders has been lead initially before coming here. remember, since the election, the house of horror economy, india and other opposition leaders have been surrounded by security forces. today

as we were driving to this venue, in fact, where i was and what i was holed up in trying to turn during his fight for the supreme a c. of the seat of president with not only bug will go for till we saw that the security forces have been moved away from a mr. biggest house and also away from the party's headquarters. so that's a significant development in terms of the only branch thing we are talking about. and also both leaders agreed that what is more important now for ivory coast is peace, maintaining peace. that is what they will attempt to build on in the next few days and few weeks. but something that is interesting, i guess, is the doubling of the death toll, which now stands. we're hearing at least $85.00 people being confirmed to have died in the violence surrounding these elections. what's behind that, the changing of the figure? well i think for most people here and i recall around the world,

the believe was that the number of casualties of this and action violence was far, much higher than what the government was putting out probably just to go station and not to aggravate the situation. but recently we've seen how violence can easily erupt in ivory coast yesterday. it was in a few days ago. it was on the outskirts of abidjan on a few of the play in the center, east and central parts of the country. we've seen violence there in border, we were told that only 3 people died there were locals are saying that the number of people killed there was the fact higher than what the government is putting out . so i think it was a strategy to sort of dump whatever may come out of the huge numbers of casualties in this, in the violence, in the run up and after this presidential election. i'm ready to respect the latest in a bridge on the commercial capital of ivory coast ahmed, as always,

thank you. and the conflict in northern ethiopia is threatening to explode into an all out civil war, which couldn't go for the entire horn of africa. at least $11000.00 people have now fled the fighting in tikrit province for sudan. and officials. there fear that that number could swell to 200000 in the next few days. that they're fleeing a brutal air and ground campaign ordered by prime minister i.b.m. it hundreds have died and communications and transport routes have been cut off. the operation began after rb accused the tikrit people's liberation front, which controls the region of attacking a military base. but the t.p.m. left denies that calling it an excuse to deploy the military. t p a left dominated ethiopia's ruling coalition for 29 years until obvious, historic victory in 2000, any team since then, it says it's been sidelined when i view postponed this year's election because of the coronavirus,

the region's leaders. a went ahead with local elections anyway. he morgan is in sudan's capital, khartoum. she says there are concerns that some of the ethiopian refugees crossing into sudan are fighters fleeing the conflict. the bordering states, of course, already had camps that were housing or hosting refugees, even prior to the conflict that had broken out in the tigre region in ethiopia. last week there were already hundreds of refugees there waiting to be processed, saying that they want to be moved to a 3rd country and they were receiving humanitarian aid. and they were already saying that the aid that they were receiving is not sufficient for them. now the sudanese government is saying that the number of refugees that are flowing are just too much for them to cope with. they say that more than 1000 have already crossed over and have been processed, but there are more than 6000 that are still waiting processing. they say that that's because 1st of all they're worried about the health precaution. this is, of course, happening during a pandemic, the global coronavirus pandemic. and they're saying that they're concerned about

those who could potentially be infected. they're also worried about how they would be able to cope with the number of refugees, especially the women and children who may be carrying diseases such as cholera. that's something that they say they're concerned about. the ministry of health is saying that it's taking all precautions to make sure that they have access to clean water and that there is some kind of dense the distance between the refugees. the other concern is who among the amongst those refugees are militants. and one of the who among them are civilians, they are have been reports from local authorities. that some of those people who have crossed over into sudan are waiting to be processed are militants who have surrendered their weapons and are waiting to be housed in camps all of hong kong's 15 remaining pro-democracy. politicians have resigned from the city's legislature after china passed a resolution disqualifying 4 of their colleagues. the government says that they are a threat to national security, but critics accuse china of silencing the said vehicle palin with ports from hong

kong. oh, they say the fight is far from over. their resignations are a show of solidarity. we cannot simply afford to say all because minus our full colleagues who are tuning in the 15 of us simply don't have the minimum number to a protest. also being unseated, eventually one by one. by the time the group resignation came after china's highest decision making body disqualified for pro-democracy legislators. the reasons include seeking foreign interference in hong kong's affairs, promoting independence, threatening national security and refusing to acknowledge beijing sovereignty over the territory. while hope to god jean rules of every lawmaker must show that there

was a possibility of supporting the basic law of hong kong and be loyal to china. so that we are able to have a political system dominated by patriarch. the 4 pro-democracy legislative councillors who at a meeting when the national people standing committee handed down the resolution, they were disqualified within minutes of the announcement. the row ahead will be pumping difficult and challenging. and in fact, just like every winter, it will be extremely difficult. but i am in full favor of hong kong or hong kong hours outside the government headquarters. some celebrated the news. this for politicians often abuse their power to manipulate and discard the general public to go against our country. it is clear now the betrayal will no longer be tolerated. hong kong operates under china's one country 2 systems model, which is meant to guarantee the city's government is given

a high degree of autonomy. its legislature was a symbol of that divided between legislators pushing for closer ties with beijing and those fighting for democracy. this will be the 1st time hong kong's legislative council will have no pro-democracy representation. since the former british colony returned to china in 1997, half of the city 70 member legislature is directly elected by the public with the other half chosen by industry groups. the departure of the democratic politicians close is one of the main avenues for opposition voices in the hong kong government . they've got palin, al-jazeera hong kong stuff to come in this half hour. i be entering in prime minister's future hangs in the balance scepter, thousands demand his resignation, branding him a traitor over the nagorno-karabakh ceasefire. deal and president trump makes his

1st public appearance since losing the election to joe biden, while his team files and a new legal challenge in michigan. hello, once again, western europe turning stormiest, the atlantic feeling. it's also the british isles, getting the 1st hit or are and then the british isles. but we seem stormy weather in the southeast corner tonight between the 2. it's settled weather. so if you're in austria or poland or briefly even in germany, it's been 40 in the morning in court overcast by the way, not to be slow to change. so whilst the wind picks up again, and this is later on thursday now and, and the come stormy conditions are there in denmark and sweden and norway, but easing, if you like, this change is slow to come through on some sunshine. still quite nice. down in spain and portugal, start mediterranean, but there's still

a few showers around greece, though, creates flooding probably won't be repeated. and here's a storm system south of iced and spreading. it's largest, it's rain into western norway and disrupting the morning fog in the greyness in poland. but the rain falls and then the sky k.z. a bit of sunshine. north africa is largely dry at the moment apart from libya where you got that on shore breeze and shop potential. and we have still seen seen showers in west africa, that's no longer the real focus of this still there. and i'm pleased to say that in south sudan, the chance of showers in juber for example, was very low. an, e t. o. p. an hours to grad, turned communist rebel, only to be disappeared. a family's tragedy, and twined with a violent chapter in the country's history. when you see the blood,

you says are going to be my blood on that wall to a life long search for answers and closure. finding salon witness on al-jazeera time. now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera,, coronavirus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u.s., where more than 130000 cases were confirmed on tuesday. in europe, the u.k. has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours, while 623 new deaths were recorded in italy, ivory, coast's president,

alice sun and without doubt has met the head of the main opposition in an effort to calm tensions over last month's disputed election. at least 85 people are now confirmed dead in the violence surrounding the vote. and hong kong's pro-democracy legislators have resigned on mass after beijing passed the resolution disqualifying to 4 of their colleagues. the government says that they are stretched to national security. critics accuse china of silencing to say, arminius, parliament has agreed to discuss protesters, demands that the prime minister step down over a truce in the disputed region over the gorno cutback. there is huge anger at unequal pressure over the agreement, which allows us to keep a land that captured during 6 weeks of battles. police detained around 20 people during mass protests earlier in the armenian capital. yet over, back is internationally recognized as part of as a by john,

but is mostly controlled by ethnic armenians or the need is in yet of and she says armenian anger is very much focused on the prime minister. well, the main slogan coming out of here is that nicole question young, who is the prime minister of armenia is a traitor. and now you have a couple, couple of 1000 people here in freedom square. you know, these are people who are infuriated with the cease fire agreement by and large, it has been quite peaceful. there have been some scuffles here and there we are told that at least 20 people have had been detained at the beginning of this rally . and also one of the armenians largest opposition party saying that their leader is at the moment being questioned at the national security. now you have police on this side at the moment. they're standing there watching. they have been reminding people through a microphone that this still

a martial law in this country and you're not allowed to protest, but these people are growing now as token to a few of them. they say that legal question and didn't have the right to sign that agreement without consulting deeply with the people is they said that that is not democracy. and that basically he sold out and gave away their land as well, including those 7 regions that are considered being occupied by armenia. since 9094 people here say that is not the case. they say that they, the people that live there, instapundit cares in other parts of nagorno-karabakh, won't be returning there because of what he called the accepted. i mean, his prime minister has been defending himself on social media since the deal was signed. he says he feared an accord, a kind of box capital step, and a cat would fall to azerbaijan. you know, we had

a situation once to palm occur. it was on the direct threat assessment by army news armed forces general stuff, the go no code, but president was that the city was not very well defended. and if it was captured, it would have left thousands of our soldiers in a blockade. as a result of that, we would have lost even more territory than we have under the deal. us president donald trump has made his 1st public appearance since joe biden was named the president elect on saturday, trying to mark veterans day at a ceremony in arlington, virginia, but did not speak to the media. he still has not conceded defeat or spoken publicly since losing his bid for the reelection. instead, he's launched a barrow of lawsuits in several key states,

the latest in michigan to try to block the midwestern battleground from certifying its results. meanwhile, president elect joe biden marked a veterans day at a war memorial in philadelphia. before returning home to delaware. he's been unable to move into federal office space or use government funds to hire staff because of trump's refusal to cooperate. but he says his transition plans are moving forward and that's tapped finance. trade and banking experts for his team. well, in a moment we're going to speak to john hendren, who is in joe biden's hometown of wilmington, delaware 1st. so let's go to our white house correspondent, kimberly halkett in washington. d.c. it is. so kimberly, we didn't hear the president speak at the cemetery, but where do all is legal challenges stand right now. well, the latest developments include the us state of georgia, where the campaign says it sees developments. there is an important 1st step, namely that there will be

a hand recount of all ballots in that presidential contest in that state. and according to the campaign, they want to remind the media, particularly that they say has declared the projected job as the projected winner that none of these states have officially certified these results just yet. but one could also argue that they have certified them for donald trump. either so, well they see this is a positive sign. they've had less positive news you would say in pennsylvania, where there are. the latest developments is that with 98 percent of the vote counted, it appears that joe biden's lead is substantial enough that this will not trigger an automatic recount. now, in the midst of all of this, there has been this ongoing challenge for the campaign. as they've seen. some of these lawsuits be thrown out to provide evidence that there's been widespread voter fraud or voting irregularities. the campaign did that today, at least to put out

a statement saying that more than half a dozen people voted in 2020 who were dead. in fact, they released their a bitch or use some of them had been dead. going back to 2003 in 2006. so this is presumably some of the evidence that will be used in these court cases, but many arguing that it's still a very much a long shot and trying to overturn these election results can really help in washington d.c. just outside the white house there. kimberly, thank you. let's go to john hendren now he joins us live from wilmington, delaware, which is joe biden's, home in from washington. yes, the biden already appears to be behaving very much like a president, even though he can't get the funds and he's not really being treated in a very cooperative way by the white house. that's right, joe biden has been acting is if he has been recognized by the trumpet ministration as the president elect with which as both you and kimberly have pointed out the

most decidedly hasn't laid a wreath at a korean war memorial today in exchange salutes with military officers much as president trump did when he went to arlington cemetery a little earlier. so there are a number of things that biden can do without the official recognition of the u.s. government. and that comes in the form of a signature on a document that simply acknowledges that he's the president elect from the general services administration. the head of that agency has declined to do that. meanwhile,, biden has been talking to world leaders, the leaders of the u.k., germany, france, ireland, and other countries. and he's been talking to them about substantive policy issues, issues like climate change. and he is talking about international cooperation between his administration, future administration and other countries. he's also looking at executive orders that he could pursue in terms of climate change, things like ending drilling in some national parks, for instance, and overturning the trumpet, ministrations,

multiple executive orders on those issues. so joe biden is continuing to act as if there is no dispute here. the trump administration declines to recognize. and so meanwhile he's operating out of here in wilmington, delaware, 100 with the latest from wilmington, delaware, joan, thank you. the world's longest serving prime minister. shake. have been sound man al haj lifo of bahrain has died at the age of 84. he's the uncle of bahrain's, that king ahmed, and was receiving medical treatment in the us. shaikh how he felt was in power for almost half a century and was accused of brutal repression during the 1990 s. and the guest against protesters during the arab spring uprising of 2011. but supporters praised them for transforming bahrain's all oil dependent economy into a banking and financial center. palestine's chief negotiator asya

benteke out has been laid to rest in his hometown of jericho a day after he died. hundreds attended his memorial center ceremony and funeral procession which began in how my lane the occupied west bank etiquette, died from covert 1000 related complications. he negotiated with israel on behalf of the palestinians for more than 20 years. you can find out more about cyber kept and everything else that we have been covering here in al-jazeera on our website. the address al jazeera dot com. now, a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera. the world health organization has describe europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions. the continent is experiencing aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. italy recorded $623.00, coronavirus,

23 coronavirus fatalities on tuesday, and more than 50000. people have now died from cope at 19.