the w.h.o. highlights the dangers of lifting restrictions as italy report 623 coronavirus deaths on the u.k.'s death toll passes. 60000 the whole romany watching all just are alive. my headquarters here in doha are also coming up. the u.s. state of georgia announces a full recount of ballots, but president elect joe biden says his transition plans are moving forward. also. now clear steps for reach these elections. the u.n.

says libya's warring sides have agreed to hold elections within 18 months aimed at uniting the country under one government and in armenia over a deal with us or by john to end. the fighting in the calling card about the prime minister says it was about preserving what's left. welcome to the program, europe has been called a cautionary tale of the dangers of easing coronavirus restrictions. the world health organization issued a warning as the continent is witnessing an aggressive surge and infections more than 50000. people have now died from covert 19 in the united kingdom and in italy . once the epicenter of europe's outbreak, 623 people died in the past 24 hours. andrew symonds reports for the

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 $600.00 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 often either 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, as 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. france is now using mobile units to treat non

covert patients because of demands on its hospitals. germany as well continues to struggle to have and yet spent the 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 on tech. the e.u. says it's buying 300000000 doses. hundreds, symons al-jazeera. no, iran has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began, 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 died from the virus in iran, which is the worst hit nation in the middle east. and corona virus restrictions are also being imposed in several states across the u.s. as infection shatter, war records there. well, according to the coded tracking project, 131000 new cases were confirmed on choose day, and texas has become the 1st state to record more than 1000000 cases. almost 62000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus more than ever before. all measures have been tightened in new york and several midwestern states. i tell you this in our sincerity of 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. us president donald trump as made his 1st public appearance since joe biden was named the president elect on saturday. veterans' day at a ceremony in arlington, virginia, but did not speak to the media. he still hasn't conceded all spoken publicly since losing his bid for reelection. instead, he's launched a barrel of lawsuits in several key states. the latest is michigan to try and block the midwestern battleground from certifying its results or to war memorial in philadelphia. before returning home to delaware, he's been unable to move into federal office space or even use government funds to hire staff because of refusal to cooperate. but he says his transition plans are moving forward. now, the u.s.

state of georgia has announced it will be recounting all of its votes by hand, which was requested by the truck campaign. joe biden secured the election without georgia, but he's also leading there by just over 14000 votes. officials say the recount will begin at the end of the week. the kind of margin stands at 13100 no later than the time the president and senator biden, vice president biden, my office will continue to invest the group each and every instance of a liberal voting record. during the reading over the united states. if you pay that, we were investigated. every illegal vote will count. so we'll be counting every single piece of paper every single ballot, every single lawfully cast legal ballot. now there's extra attention on georgia because it'll have 2 senate runoff races in january. now they'll determine control

of the upper chamber. the republicans can only have 50 seats and the democrats have 48 if they win both races in georgia, the democrats will effectively gain the majority because the vice president cast the deciding vote in a tie cross over to washington d.c. where alan fischer, a correspondent, is standing by so alan, there's a recount in georgia, a legal challenges in other states, but in reality it's not likely to change the result is that that's the difficulty that donald trump has. there are people in his orbit in the white house. there are republicans who believe that his position simply isn't sustainable. he's tweeted in the last couple of hours of video that he says shows ballots. that should have been counted early county in california said no, actually they were picked up the day after the election. they were counted even though the woman on the video saying there are states already been called. busy yet

because california tends to go for the democrat, joe biden won the by 5000000 votes in the way that before all the ballots were called mississippi. was the clear for donald trump because republicans tend to do very well there. there's a series of lawsuits moving their way through the courts, but they're simply not big enough to justify what the republicans are saying about widespread voter fraud. for example, in arizona, there's a dispute about some ballots. in fact, 180 ballots in georgia, which will no go through a rico. there's a dispute about whether or not 53 people there should have voted. in michigan, a judge has said to the campaign, look, if you want to bring this case, you've got to go back and refile because you don't have the right documents, you're not doing this properly. and that seems to be a recurring thing that a lot of times when the truck campaign, a reason issues in court, the judges are simply thrown no mono when it comes to recounts, you would think, well that might make a difference in georgia. joe biden has got

a lead of several 1000. let's go back to wisconsin and 2016. hillary clinton was behind there. she demanded a recount. she got her rico. she got 713 more votes. in the recount, donald trump got more than 800, he extended his lead. and so in georgia, that expecting the same thing to happen there, and this secretary of state there who is a republican who's spoken on this several times. he has said, look, there is no evidence of widespread white spread fraud in this state. so it's a difficulty for donald trump to convince people that there is a huge problem here for the update television for us in washington d.c. . let's cross over to hillary mann leverett. now, she's a former u.s. national security council and state department official who served under both republican and democratic presidents including bill clinton and george w. bush joins me now. live from mclean in virginia. good to have you with miss

leverett. i just begin with the fact that we've seen a sort of a steady move running parallel to the vote. count of president trump installing what can only be described as loyalists to keep positions of influence, such as defense, head of intelligence, policy, and general counsel of the national security agency. some analysts suggest it sounds a bit like sort of a political coup. how should we read these moves? it's very, very strange. i don't think anyone has a really good handle on exactly what's going on. it's almost unprecedented for a u.s. president to fire his secretary of defense, a key national security person in any government to fire such a person during the transition period from even if it's to a 2nd trump term. we're in a transition period from the election to the are not an occupation in january, a time of unique vulnerability in american politics for the united states. so it's really unprecedented, and the person that trump has put in as the acting secretary of defense does not

have a long history with president trump. so it's hard to even portray him as a loyalist to president trump. the people that trump is installing at the defense department have been there. what they're known for are their extreme views, their extreme views, particularly toward the middle east. some of them have been called islamophobia. they're extreme personalities with deep histories in the military and intelligence branches of the united states government, the current acting secretary of defense is someone who has a green berets. someone who is in special forces in afghanistan and iraq. he has no experience in the actual military or running an organization and he doesn't have a long history of president trying. so it's very strange and really unprecedented situation for the united states also knew a lot plays out of the president in situations that are unfolding. or for example,, world leaders from israel, the u.k., japan pakistan, saudi arabia, fronts, nigeria, kenya, nato, fiji have all congratulated the president elect those however,

i would say we're hearing this pops doubt in the mind of many abroad who have seen this vote go in favor to a certain said to biden, i wonder how to deal with the u.s. that's actually had its international reputation dented and dented quite significantly. i wonder whether biden can rectify this in his 4 years enough. it's going to be very difficult, i think even for america's closest allies, there's a real question that looking at looking at the results just just the results of this election. notwithstanding, even the past 4 years of president trap, the results of this election show that trump earned 5000000 more vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. so the idea of trump is the reality of trump is that really permeates nearly half the voting population. the united states is there, it's something they're foreign leaders cannot ignore. so for example,

even the united states going back into the paris climate, you know, the climate of court, if it's not ratified by the u.s. senate, who's to say that the next president is going to uphold that. or if the iranians were to go back into the iran nuclear deal with president biden, who's just saying that the next president would not. and that it's really a matter of deep and certainty, i think, for foreign leaders from whether it's traditional allies in london in paris. or some of our adversaries in teheran or moscow about it. she leads me to a very uncertain 2024, depending on who actually does get that election. we will of course, follow events with you very closely. hillary mann leverett, thanks for joining us from virginia. thank you very much. still ahead here on al-jazeera, a head to head ivory coast president of the opposition leader meters violence sparked by its destructive election claims at least $85.00 lives. plus,

hong kong's pro-democracy legislators resigned on mass in protest against their dismissal of 4 of their colleagues to stay with us. hello, hurricane eater is heading towards the coast of florida slow moving ahead of it. no way up the east coast has been nice and warm. recently temperatures well into the twenty's in d.c. new york, while the rain's on its way through that time to slowly drop. but the real cold is further west. now at the start, it looks lovely because a sunny side, but the snow on the ground now in minnesota and the temperature in denver is that 9 degrees there? of course, record long way up in denver, that's not back cold. there is no worries. why? again, of course, because the next storm system move out of the way is coming in from the pacific and spreading a lot of snow. well, throughout the cascades and the rockies,

idaho looks particularly white in this picture, as light is present eastwards at the same time, the remains of 80 were just enhanced the rain in, for example, georgia and the carolinas. now reacher itself has only just left cuba, so cuba still got potential of a lot more rain. but landfall in florida is probably going to be in the dark hours of thursday evening. it leaves behind a much drier picture, though, still flooding in central western cuba. and then the leeward islands and his band here, the potential here is a slow moving and pretty heavy showers for the next 2 days. if you're not there. so a fairly dry picture. but food for celebration. food for reconciliation. and feed from ancient civilization. al-jazeera wild goes on a mouthwatering hard in region,

any from spain to the middle east, to discover the hidden history behind some of the region's best loved issues. savoring the past on out is the the old world, the world. but the market what you want to 0, it means a whole rom, a reminder of our top stories. the coronavirus death toll continues to mount in europe. the u.k. has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours while 623 new fake tallaght ease were recorded, in italy. restrictions are being imposed in several states across the u.s.,

where more than 130000 cases were confirmed on choose to. the u.s. state of georgia has an answer to the recounting all votes by hand, which were requested by the trump campaign. joe biden secured the election without georgia, but he's also leading by just over $14000.00 votes. georgia will have 2 senate runoff races in january. libya is expected to hold elections within the next 18 months after reaching a breakthrough. jaring u.n. backed political talks in tunisia. it comes after rival factions agreed to a road map to unite libyan institutions. many of the institutions are split among the un recognized government based in the west on the ward, cleaver, have to libyan national army. in the east, a cease fire was agreed between the warring sides last month. stephanie williams, the un's acting envoy to libya, says representatives from both sides have agreed to a road map for elections. today,

the participants of the libyan political dialogue form reached a pulmonary agreement on every map for ending the transitional period and organize free, fair, inclusive and credible parliamentary and presidential elections. they outlined clear steps for reaching the election. but one of the one who does more from tripoli, the u. n. acting envoy to libya, stephanie williams seems to be optimistic, especially today. the most important or the most outstanding point she mentioned is that the elections parliamentary and presidential elections to be hilled. after 18 months, transitional period, but at the same time she says, we still have

a lot of work to do it. this is the point because this tea called a meeting in tunisia, they have to choose a presidential council to be composed of 3 members. remember the current presidential council as can include 9 members and also a separate new government. this is the tough task that is facing stakeholders. 75 representatives of the libyan society meeting in tunisia and sponsored by the united nations. at least 85 people in are confirmed to have died in violence around the ivory coast disputed election. that's double the previous estimate. the government updated the death toll ahead of talks between the president on the head of the opposition. both sides are trying to calm the ongoing tension. the unrest began in august when allison ouattara confirmed that he was

running for a controversial 3rd term in the sun. we have agreed that he says the thing that is most precious to post of us and to all ivorians we've decided to work in that direction. and this was a 1st meeting to establish that 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. and 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. that it over to address has more from the capital abidjan. it's more american on the veranda and of course on a time to buy a very water government to ensure some form of normality across the country. where economy, brady, a former president, was part of the movement toward the offer with a $21.00 presidential election. today,

he is here and met with president alassane. ouattara will go. that meeting lasted less than an hour and was commended by both sides as a progress to some form of progress. and of course, the groundwork for future negotiations according to the 2 leaders has been made initially before coming here. remember, since the election, they how's, of own economy and other opposition? leaders have been surrounded by security forces today as we were driving to this venue. in fact, where i lost and what i was for that in trying to tend during his fight for the supreme a c. of the seat of the president with a lot of bible. yeah, go for town. 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're talking about. and also both leaders agreed that what is more important now for ivory coast is

peace. and a military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the country's borders. and there are theories, it could lead to a humanitarian crisis. prime minister ordered the offensive in the to grey region last week, accusing local forces there of attacking a military base. since then hundreds have been killed and several 1000 people have fled to neighboring. saddam united nations has expressed concern for the humanitarian situation on the ground. we are told that communications continue to be disrupted. there are also reports of inter term intellect, trickle, 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 thorens 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 fighters linked to iceland killed as many as 50 people in attacks in mozambique local media there say many of the dead were decapitated and that women and children are amongst the day that the united nations is calling for the government to investigate the attacks which happened in kabul delgado province. the region is home to a multi $1000000000.00 natural gas project. now thousands of people have been displaced since armed groups began operating there 3 years ago. and misty international has also accused beacon soldiers of committing atrocities during its crackdown on the violence. at least one person has been killed and several more injured after the police. one girl used live ammunition to disperse anti-government protesters. demonstrations were held in the capital and several other cities to

mark the country's independence day. protesters defied coronavirus restrictions to demand better jobs and local elections. armenia's parliament has agreed to discuss protesters, demands that the prime minister step down over a truce in the disputed region of the golan karabakh. there is widespread anger towards nicole position. people who are demanding. he cancels the agreement, which allows us or by john to keep land. it captured during the 6 weeks of fighting me. it was the main protest in the armenian capital yet, of on was, they stood in freedom square in europe. and it was from here that the 1st armenian cleaves over nagorno-karabakh, will voice to define in years of soviet rule was 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 national betrayal. i was, the protesters defied the country's martial law, under which demonstrations are back. and the time scuffled with police was for the prime minister to reside bikie louder throughout the day. this is by agreement signed with russian, azerbaijan, cotton, or to pull out of boys. it had occupied his native land to for a while as are but durned keeps the land, it has regained, drink a bit iffy operations. he has to appear in front of the military, with all his team because he secretly, in the middle of the night saw the whole of nagorno-karabakh. he discredited the honor of our soldiers. a prime minister who was not seen in public yet appeared yet again on facebook. you know, the regional capital stop on occur. it 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 state or the government. just say they didn't believe him. this is not a nationwide protest, but the feeling that the prime minister gave too much is shared even among those who haven't gone down to the streets marching furder to watch parliament. protestors try to convince others to join this woman says it is for the sake of saving the corner. karabakh and the self-proclaimed republic of the prime minister hasn't responded to the demonstrators who are also demanding for the agreement to be cancelled. we are saying he has to go home because he is not our prime minister anymore because he cannot sign such an agreement. we're losing everything. we're living in the south of the country, which is the border with iran. i mean,

we're unified while the war was going on since the ceasefire agreement ended the fighting national survey that seems to be fading away from me. at least 3 people have been injured by a blast at a cemetery in saudi arabia. now it happened in just done during a ceremony commemorating the end of world war one. the remembrance day event was organized by the french embassy and diplomats from europe, britain and the u.s. were present. now the vast majority of hong kong's opposition politicians have resigned after beijing passed a resolution disqualifying 4 of their fellow legislators. the government accuses them of being a threat to national security. but critics say china is stepping up efforts to silence dissent. to get pollen has more from hong kong. 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 genuine, the 15 of us simply don't have the minimum number to a protest, but also from being unseated, eventually one by one. but by the 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 the gene roots of every lawmaker must show that there was a possibility of supporting the basic law of hong kong and be allowed to china. so that we are able to have a political system dominated by patriots. 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 bumpy, difficult and challenging. and in fact, just like every winter, it will be extremely difficult. but i am in full face of hong kong or hong kong hours outside the government headquarters. some celebrated the news. this for politicians often use their power to manipulate and discard the general public to go against our country. it is clear now that 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 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. watching over there with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories, the coronavirus death toll continues to mount in europe. the u.k. has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours while 623 new fatal attacks were recorded in italy. restrictions are being reimposed in several states also across the united states where more than 130000 cases were confirmed on choose.