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revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. ready alarming numbers from europe, positionally records, another 623 corona virus related deaths and the u.k.'s death toll passes 50000. this is the u.s. shatters records, again, reporting more than 130000 new infections in just 24 hours alone . barbara starr, you're watching al-jazeera live from london, also coming up ivory coast's president and main opposition leader meet to calm election tensions which have now claimed at least $85.00 lives. plus
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the armenian prime minister's future hangs in the balance as thousands that man his resignation, branding him a traitor over the nagorno-karabakh cease fire deal. hello, thank you for joining us. the world health organization is the scribed europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions. the continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily fatalities steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave back in spring. where than 50000, people have now died from covert 19 in the u.k. alone. and initially, once the epicenter of europe's outbreak, 623 people have died in just the last 8. andrew symonds reports for the
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u.k. . it's another landmark in the spread of covert and it's causing a lot more than $50000.00. people who tested positive have died. britain's total of dead is now the highest in europe, nearly 600 deaths on wednesday overtakes figures since may in the 1st wave. every death is a tragedy. i mean, we mourn everybody who's gone and, and our feelings are with their families as and friends as well. we're not out of the woods yet. it does still require everybody to follow the guidance elsewhere. in europe, the spread is on the increase too, in italy, where hotels are now being used to cope with an over spill of patients. the number of cases has now passed 1000000. that's despite increased lockdown restrictions, such as here in florence. spain's number of dead within 24 hours has increased to more than 400. it's the highest since the 2nd wave began and france is now using
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mobile units to treat non covert patients because of demands on its hospitals. germany as well continues to struggle. yes, but i'd already now we have to wards that up pretty much at full capacity. and while we are barely able to do our jobs, hungary is the latest country to increase its lockdown measures. its parliament has called a 3 month state of emergency that imposes an overnight national curfew on the ground countermeasures in the fight against covert increase. and the race to introduce vaccination programs is also exaggerating. the european union has signed a contract with pfizer, which has developed the front runner vaccine with bio tech. the e.u. says it's buying 300000000 doses 100 simmons' al-jazeera. meanwhile, iran has recorded its highest daily coronavirus test toll since the pandemic began
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. 462 people died over the past 24 hours. the health ministry also confirmed a record number of daily infections at almost 12000 new cases. more than 39600 people have now died from the virus in iran, which is the worst hit nation in the middle east. or corona virus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u.s. says, infections shatter, more records there. according to the covert tracking project, the 131000 new cases were confirmed on tuesday, texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases and daily cases. are rising in 49 states, almost 62000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus that's more than ever before. measures have been tightened in california and several midwest states after the onset of colder weather has begun to overwhelm some hospitals. i tell you this in all sincerity, oklahoma we are in trouble are local and state health care resources are
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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 disputed election. that's double 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. the clashes began in august when president allison with a confirmed that he was running for a controversial 3rd determine what that won the election on october 31st with more than 94 percent of the vote. after a boycott by the opposition, we've agreed that peace is the thing that is most precious to both of us and to all
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ivorians. we've decided to work in that direction and this was a 1st meeting to establish the trust. we've agreed to meet again very soon in order to continue this dialogue which is started so well. now the trust has been restored . by today's meeting, we broke the wall of ice, the silence, and that we will in the days and weeks to come, we will continue to call each other meet in order to bring the country back to what it was before. well, at least one person has been killed after a goal and security forces used live ammunition to disperse anti-government protesters. several others were injured when police in the one opened fire on the crowd of young men. demonstrations were held in the capital in several of the cities to mark the country's independence day. protesters had the fide coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings to demand better jobs and local elections.
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the conflict in northern ethiopia is threatening to explode into an all out civil war which could in gulf the entire horn of africa. at least 11000 people have now fled the fighting in the great province 4. so that, 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 ivy accuse the tea great people's liberation front which controls the region of attacking a military base. the t.p.a. left denies that though, calling it an excuse to the ploy the military, the tepee, a left dominated ethiopia's ruling coalition for 29 years and the lobby is historic victory in 2018. since then, it says it's being sidelined when i postponed this year's election because of the coronavirus, the region's leaders went ahead with local elections anyway with
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a united nations as expressed concerns over the humanitarian situation in tikrit. we are told that communications continue to be disrupted. there are also reports of inter term into electrical electricity supply shortages, as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour and fuel are also being reported. banks remain closed in the shortage of vailable. cash is becoming much more acute. we urge governments in the neighboring countries to keep their borders open for people, forced to flee from their homes and u.n.h. shores. also asking if you open a thorough as to take steps to allow the agency to keep providing assistance to the safety, safety for refugees and internally displaced people who are in te great. the united nations is calling on the mozambique government to investigate reports of a massacre in the north of the country by find who is linked to eisele. local media
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says as many as 50 people have been killed, many the capitated in cabo, they gather province in the past few days, including women and children. the region is home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project. thousands of people have been displaced since armed groups began operating there 3 years ago, seizing key towns for brief periods, and hoping to set up a caliphate. amnesty international is also accused mozambique and soldiers of committing atrocities during its crackdown on the violence was and i them a child though, is a senior researcher for human rights watch in mozambique's capital of. she believes economic inequality in the mineral rich region is fueling the violence. these are people that have lived in poverty for many years, but in recent decades, those areas have discovered the not of wealth include in guy as oil, and some precious stones like rubies. but not all of those wealth has benefited the
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majority of the people. so there is clearly a large number of people that you see there is that and have been a large number of you've been employed and they're ready to join any type of group . and this group is recruiting, for example, using money, which is what the u.s. needs. it's usually giraud's ideology which some of that's the majority of that population because my jollity of people in those areas that are being at that are muslims and the ideology that these deities groups are using. and fortunately, somehow link it to islam. arminius parliament has agreed to the scuffs protesters, demands that the prime minister step down over a truce in the corner, cutting back there is huge anger and he called me an over the agreement,
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which allows, as i shant to keep land, that it captured during 6 weeks. of battles in and around the disputed region of the lemonade was at the main protest in the armenian capital god, they stood in freedom square in europe, and it was from here that the 1st armenian pleads over nagorno-karabakh with voice during the final years of soviet rule. i this time they were shouting, prime minister nicola yan, is a traitor. the rally was organized by his political opponents, including the 2nd largest party in parliament. the message, some of the opposition leaders gave to their supporters, is that there has been and national betrayal. the protestors defied the country's martial law under which demonstrations are banned, and the time scuffled with police calls for the prime minister to reside became louder throughout the day. this is fi agreements signed with russian,
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azerbaijan calls intermediate to pull out of borders every territory. it had occupied since 1904. well as are but there and keeps the land it has regained during the military operations. here he has to appear in front of the military tribe, you know, with all his team because he secretly, in the middle of the night, sold the whole of nagorno-karabakh. he discredited the honor of our soldiers. a prime minister who has not seen in public yet appeared yet again on facebook. you know, the regional capital stop on a curt was on the direct threat. the army chief of staff said the city was well defended if it was captured, thousands of our soldiers would be in a blockade. we would have lost even more territory. the protesters went to the seat or the government to say they didn't believe him. this is not a nationwide protest, but the feeling that the prime minister gave away too much is shared, even among those armenians who have been going down to the streets marching further
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towards parliament. protestors try to convince others to join this woman says is for the sake of saving their own or karabakh and the self-proclaimed republic of the prime minister hasn't responded to that. there was traitors were also demanding for the agreement to be cancelled. we are saying he has to go home because he's not our prime minister anymore because he cannot sign such an agreement on we're losing everything we're living even had out of the country, which is the border with iran. i mean, you were a unified world, the war was going on since this ceasefire agreement ended the fighting national survey that seems to be fading away. that has me still to come in this half hour. president trump makes his 1st public appearance since losing the election to joe biden, while his team files a new legal challenge in michigan and all calls pro-democracy legislators resign en
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masse in protest of the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. hello once again, active spring, weather is on its way through adelaide was gone through the new south wales and answer victoria. and then tasmania all wrapped around this lotions in the bar. never hind. of course the weather has changed somewhat in per say. your time has come down to $22.00. it's dice to see the attention are rising despite this was like 30 stormy weather during wednesday particular thursday. so i was only 20 and not improving very much, but you skies are largely brought at least if the harvest hasn't come in news in new south wales. it's being somewhat flattened at the moment that with a slow moving it's cheri's wet,
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in the biggest chance of probably up in queens in northern greece and tropical queensland. now it's nice and settled. most of china on the korean peninsula winter is trying to come across into japan particular card and it has done just recently, but we're going to suddenly breeze. so niceish weather during surgery that it's back down to the potential bit of winter on the tops of the highest ground during friday's to 12 in sapporo, but a wet catching, the sas corner of china. last for india, up in the northern plain for the poor and still the quality rain for the south of the us is deeply divided. the millions of americans feel disaffected and ignored by both political parties, and the political class is point scoring again is a dangerous game. but as a game of the sick little folk lines examines the political currents ripping
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through american society in a description for a novel, the publisher would send it back and say, it's too unbelievable. trump versus biden, the race to the white house on a jazeera welcome back. here's a reminder of the top stories on our 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. initially. president allison,
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what the to 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 armenia's parliament has agreed to discuss protesters demands that the prime minister step down over a truce in the disputed region of the corner karabakh. there is huge anger at an equal push me and over the agreement, which allows us to keep land that it captured during 6 weeks of battles. u.s. president donald trump has made his 1st public appearance since joe biden was named president elect on saturday. trump marked the veterans day at a ceremony in arlington, virginia,
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but that not speak to the media. he still hasn't conceded defeat or spoken publicly since losing his bid for reelection. instead, he's launched a barras of lawsuits in several key states, the latest being michigan to try to block the midwestern battleground state from certifying its results. meanwhile, president elect joe biden marked veterans day at a woman morial 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 his top finance trade and banking experts for his team. alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. . so the president we see there being slightly uncharacteristically quiet. have we heard anything at all from the trump campaign? and how difficult can they make the transition period for joe biden?
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i don't think we've heard from the president for the longest period since he announced he was running for president, even when he was in hospital. of course, he was sending out twitter videos, but he's tweeted out in the last hour a video that he says shows ballot stuffing. it's really comes from l.a. county on the 4th of november. the ballot workers were picking up ballots from a lot box that had been logged at 8 pm on the day of the election. those votes were counted. the person on the video complaining that the state already being called it was california. joe biden won the state by more than 5000000 votes, but we're told that those votes where actually counted the problem is donald trump and others are saying this was today. it's not today. and that's the problem that the campaign has got to keep claiming there was widespread voter fraud, but they're not producing any firm evidence of it. for example, in georgia where they're going to go for a recount. that's going to disputing about 58 ballots there in arizona.
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they're saying that dead people voted in the check of the all sure that dead people didn't actually vote. and of course there's no going to be a manual recount in georgia, which is good news for the trump campaign. they say this is just part of the process they think will flip this state, but they've got to be aware that in 2016, hillary clinton asked for wisconsin to be recounted as well. she got the recount. she got 713 more votes, but don't try to get more than 800 more votes and so increased his lead in wisconsin. so that's a problem for him. how difficult is the transition period? well, it's not good news for joe biden. i mean, he's putting a very good face on it by saying, look, he's kind of got to do that because this is a guy that ran on bipartisanship on being able to reach across the aisle. the fact that he can bring both parties together for the benefit of the america. so he's not going to start trashing the republicans before he's even moved in to the white house. but there is a concern among national sick, the experts that there could be
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a lag that joe biden isn't getting the daily intelligence briefings that he should be getting. but the process of moving the national security apparatus to a new administration isn't already underway. that was highlighted in the 911 report because of course, with the dili in 2000 in florida for more than 30 days. and they suggested that slowed america's possible response to viewing the what happened on 911. so there are implications for that. but joe biden, at the moment to say it's all good. we're going to get this done. alan fischer with, the latest from washington, d.c., alan, think you it's going to libya now. the country is expected to hold elections within the next 18 months after reaching a breakthrough during u.n. backed political talks in tunisia, this comes after rival factions agreed to a plan to unite libya's institutions. many of them are split between the u.n. recognize government based in the west and warlord ali for have terrorism,
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libyan national army in the east. the talks follow a ceasefire, agreed between the warring sides last months. saudi arabia's king solomon has urged the international community to take a decisive stance against iran and stop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs . the monarchy made the comments just hours after the un's nuclear watchdog said iran was continuing to breach the 2050 nuclear deal. the international atomic energy agency's report says iran has increased and boosted the purity of its uranium stockpile. far beyond what it's allowed, the i.a.e.a. says iran is moving at vance. the centrifuges to an underground site, apparently built to withstand aerial bombardment. iran's nuclear deal with world powers has been unraveling since president trump withdrew from it in 2018.
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the u.n. is calling it a countdown to catastrophe. millions of men, women, and children in yemen will face famine within months of more aid. money doesn't come in. the un's humanitarian chief says an extra one and a half $1000000000.00 is needed to avert the crisis or diplomatic editor james phase reports. now from the u.n. . like the u.n. security council, which told the warning lights were blinking red with the world food program. the winner of this year's nobel peace prize talking of the risk of famine in months. i would literally like to be pretty clear, pretty blunt about the situation because i don't want person to leave here without any doubt about the scale of the humanitarian disaster that we're now confronting in yemen. so we're on a countdown right now to a catastrophe in yemen. his comments were echoed by the un's humanitarian coordinator, who made it clear. this was a manmade crisis. yemenis,
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i'm not going hungry. they are being starved. all of us artists of the conflict spirit council members in this humanitarian organizations and should do everything we can to stop this time is running out. that begs the question. who is starving yemenis? well, the u.n. is not saying, but in recent years, the bulk of the humanitarian funding has come from 2 countries. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates 2 countries that are also bombing yemen. some of called it blood money. but this year, they both reduce their funding significantly. something 2 months ago, mr. low called the humanitarian coordinator, describes reprehensible james al-jazeera of the united nations. the world's longest serving prime minister shakily for been some of the rain has died at the age of 84. he's the uncle of bahrain's king hamad and was receiving medical
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treatment in the us shakily felt was in power for almost half a century and was accused of brutal repression during the 1990 s. and against protesters during the arab spring uprising in 2011. but supporters praised them for transforming bahrain's oil dependent economy into a banking and financial center all of hong kong's 15 remaining pro-democracy. politicians have resigned from the city's legislature after china passed the resolution disqualifying 4 of their colleagues. the government says they're a threat to national security, but critics accuse china of silencing the said the bigger palin reports from hong kong. oh, they say the fight is far from over. their resignations are a show of solidarity. we cannot simply afford to stay on because minus our full colleagues who are ousted the 15 of us
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simply don't have the minimum number to a protest also from being unseated. eventually one by one by the beijing type. 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,
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they were disqualified within minutes of the announcement. the row ahead will be bumpy, 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. these for politicians awful abuse their power to manipulate and discard the general public to go against our country is clear now that 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 has given the 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
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return to china, 997. half of the city's 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. tropical storm is just hours away from crashing ashore in the u.s. state of florida, where the governor has declared a state of emergency. it's been steadily moving north since hitting central america and mexico killing at least 120 people. by the way. what happened over ports? as the floodwaters begin to recede, the alarming scale of the devastation left by hurricane ada in central america is becoming apparent. more than a week after 8, a slammed into the region as a powerful category. 4. hurricane rescue workers in central guatemala,
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continue to search for people trapped under mudslides and debris. there are thousands of people in shelters. there are already more than 20037 damaged bridges . 15 completely demolished. in honduras, one of the country's worst affected by the storm. thousands have been displaced, many of lost everything and are now forced to sleep on the side of the road. some parts of the country are still under water, complicating the ongoing relief efforts. there's over a 100 roads that have been damaged, so there is no passage. there's, i think over 70 communities that are completely blocked, which means no food, no food out, no people and not people. over a period of 4 days, he drenched a huge area of central america from panama to southern mexico. on the mexican gulf coast floods left at least 9 dead and forced thousands of evacuations. but the thing went up is your name is akin to the river, came with
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a tremendous pressure. it was overflowing and quickly planted the house. some of our neighbors came together and grabbed gas tanks, a business stove, and some pick dishes pots and some mattresses. that's sort of what we're using now . as aid a tractor northward to rental rains, caused flooding in cuba as well. forcing the evacuations of some 9000 people and it's not over yet in florida's tampa bay area, a hurricane watch has been issued. residents bracing themselves for aid as heavy winds, storm surge and flooding rains, bundle up a little al-jazeera. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera, the world health organization as the scribe europe, as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions, the.

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