documentary series al-jazeera, expose the history suffering and legacy of france's and not into french to colonize ation. coming soon, the u.s. election. officials say the presidential vote was the most a kill in history. getting a blow to donald trump's allegations of electoral fraud. this is observer life. also coming up, official results of myanmar indicate cheese party has won enough votes to form the next government. if you appear says it's liberated parts of the region where it's battling local forces, more mass protests in the previous capital against the ousting of former president

over corruption, allegations security and election officials from the us government have released a statement declaring that this year's presidential election was the most secure in american history that added there is no evidence that voting systems were compromised. this as president donald trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud reports from washington d.c. . it's unusual for donald trump to keep such a low profile. he's made one appearance, but hasn't spoken in public for a week. his twitter feed continues to push claims of a stolen election on thursday. he tweeted a report alleging 2700000 votes were deleted from voting systems across the country . the company who made the machines says that didn't happen, and a government election watchdog insists the election was the most secured in

american history. the elections, infrastructure, government, coordinating council, and the election infrastructure sector, coordinating committees, part of the department of homeland security issued a joint statement and emphasized in bold type. there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes changed votes, or was in any we compromised. one of the major contributors for making this the most secure election in u.s. history is the fact. there were large numbers with vote by mail and actual having physical paper ballots. one of donald trump's closest aides has reportedly been seeking out officials in various government departments, he considers insufficiently loyal to donald trump, with the intention of firing them. one of the people behind this report has told friends he expects to be called in the coming days. on capitol hill, democrats continue to urge their republican colleagues to accept the election

result and get back to business when it comes to the election. republicans, congressional republicans don't have the evidence. they don't have the proof, they don't have anything. neither does the president, congress, congressional republicans are deliberately casting doubt on our elections for no other reason. but fear of donald trump. ok, the biden team is pushing for access to the daily intelligence briefing. they got them during the campaign, but have been blocked since the election by a white house contesting the result. will republican senators have expressed concern that could impact u.s. security well stopping short of contradicting the president? look, one of these 2 men will be the president united states after the election results have come in. and i think at this point, just as a matter of protecting our nation's interests, i do think that both the president and his and his competition here, the vice president biden should have access to those classified reports. president

trump's legal team insists there's a process to follow that could take some time and it continues to fundraise to help the president's efforts in court. alan fischer, al-jazeera washington, former u.s. president barack obama says america's democracy is being diligent summarized by some republicans going along with donald trump unfounded claims of election fraud. they have peer said, be motivated in part because the president doesn't like to lose and never admits loss. more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with us are she'll murdering him in this fashion. it is one more step in the legitimizing, not just the incoming by administration, but democracy. and that's

a dangerous path. the u.s. president has banned americans from doing business with companies that could help the chinese military. the move further escalates tensions between the world's 2 largest economies. donald trump declared a national emergency to facilitate the executive order. it says beijing forces chinese companies help finance and modernize its military. the ban takes effect on the january 11th, just days before trump is scheduled to step. could really use in beijing as he has more on what's companies will be affected by the bad. so we've got q 31 companies that are affected here in china, and some of these are the biggest companies in china. and many of these companies a stage are and that is to say that this move really targets the chinese communist party itself. now we had donald trump stop the trade with china and 2018, we saw several chair of hikes there really impacted the way that a lot of u.s. companies did business with china. many of them moved their operations out of china

and chinese manufacturers in turn also lessons in their reliance on the u.s. market. but that being said, the u.s. economy and the chinese economy still remain very tightly intertwined. you may not have american investors individually investing in chinese stocks, but you do have a lot of index funds and mutual funds with investments in china because it's seen favorably as a such a large market and a growing market. so the trumpet, ministration doesn't like that. they really want to tear apart these 2 economies, and this move is designed to do so, although we still have a lot of questions about this as, as to how will be enforced, what will the penalty be for violating this?, and of course, the big question whether u.s., president elect joe biden woman forced this, once he's due to take office,, starting with china in the u.s., a popular china chinese own video sharing up to talk can keep operating in the u.s. for now. after a ban was hold it, the commerce department says it will abide by

a temporary ruling pending further legal developments. president donald trump has called the app a security threat because of its chinese ownership and censor cheez ruling party has won enough seats to form a palm and in myanmar's next government. national league for democracy party won at least 346 seats out of 412 off to sunday's election. the governments excluded more than a 1000000 people belonging to ethnic minorities from yangon forest . this was expected, but still it's seen as a big victory for her. right? yes, absolutely. as you say, it was expected, this is nothing new. the n.m.d. themselves actually cold this result several days ago. and we've known for a while it was coming. but it is now officially announced by the union elections commission, which is the body in charge of the elections. and they have revealed that they then i'll be well over the number of seats needed from

a government they need over 322 seats in order to choose the president who then forms the government. and they've already got 346, and they are likely to get several more. there's still $64.00 seats to be counted, and in 2015 they got $370.00 in total lay on now on track to get even more than they got 2015, which is, you know, quite surprising. and one of the most significant things we've seen is that the, main opposition party, the u.s. d.p., is really pretty obsolete up to the end of this election. they have the and all these made huge gains in central areas. in the past that had gone to new s.t.p. in the past and the u.s. did he have how the press conference complaining about move the vote. they're taking at least 5 to the trump play, but for accusing the election commission of 2 and saying that they don't agree with him without probably has pain. i mean,

is he because of the way the elections of iran mold, the 1000000 people, a method minorities one allowed to vote? is she likely to be able to address the in any kind of way once she takes absolutely, there's been widespread cancellation across the country. most significantly in rakhine state, huge numbers of cancellations and but also in other areas where this conflict as well. shan state that the energy that she dumped city pretty well in the ethnic areas where they did hold a vote which isn't that surprising given. they were criticized for counseling in the areas where they weren't popular, but they have made some moves since results start to come out to try and reconcile with some of the ethnic groups that have been criticizing them. they've reached out to $48.00 different ethnic groups to talk about working together. after the 2015

election, there's a lot of disappointment that the energy had done really nothing to reach out to ethnic groups. and each word they were seen as kind of dismissing the issues all the rights of ethnic minorities. but they, even though they talked about the process, prioritizing, ending the civil war. but at least this time they've made some moves towards that. but that's not going to let the people who've been disenfranchised, who got more than a 1000000, people from the ring of population who were not voting for citizenship reasons. you've also got the areas where the vote was canceled because of the elections. there is an armed group can rakhine state, in fact the ira can all me and i'm group is cold for elections to be held before the end of the year. but it's unclear whether the election laws would make that possible. whether it's likely to happen at all for us in yangon, thank you very much. there's widespread anger of a deal. this ended weeks of fighting with us of ice on the agreement allows areas

to keep areas captured over the disputed region and then on a how to bug now of the law, i made reports from the regional capital stop on account. we have seen very few civilians all military since we arrived here in state by neck carried. now, the vast majority of people had left throughout the war and it seems that no one is intent to come back even though there is a suspicion of facilities ever since that cease fire agreement was signed on november 9th. now driving here, we went through a region called killed by john. it was a region that or armenia had occupied in 1904 and according to idea agreement, is now has to return to azerbaijan. well, on the road, driving in the opposite direction towards the border with armenia. so a lot of civilians, so trucks carrying beds, cupper cupboards, all sorts of personal belongings. and we also saw military personnel,

most likely armenian volunteers, being bussed out, we still military underground, dismantling their positions. so you do get really to feeling when you're driving on the road that people are leaving. are mass, they know they're not going to come back. and they taking with them as much as they can because they know that the life they knew before is not going to be the same anymore. still ahead on al-jazeera. suffering from the pandemic and surging food prices, brazil falls out of the world's top 10 economies. protests as in thailand continue their calls for reform. we look at whether a political solution can be achieved out of the season has changed,

although it's obviously fine and sunny for the time being from the levant. right across to the border with iran, the showers and the rain who are going through and this is them manifest themselves on the higher ground iran. that's quite heavy rain from the snow up in afghanistan . of course it tracks back into saudi arabia. significant hail showers fell the last day or so. rain showers seem more likely with that brief blast of northerly wind dance, troop operating cattle. it's quite liked it was the showers here as well. showers on saturday in the forecast. then things ease up and temperature rises a little bit. that's right on the it be about $29.00 degrees. and low humidity. here is where the seasonal rain is. the moment borlase, the middle of lake victoria, we've seen some heavy rain along the coast of tanzania recently and show still in south sudan, but that's not the majority. the forecast for juba does have a shower on saturday, but not on friday. and not on sunday. i did say tanzania has more of a focus and set in dar es salaam we had rain recently and is now 3 days of light

ish right now after that. but if you are south of malawi or south of botswana in the next day or so, the chances are you'll just be seeing sunshine as donald trump and good for america, everything is in disarray. the media, of course, take in every debate that they can seem to mark the fact that america has been a force for good in the world. half of the american people get inspiration from him and the other half cringe you weekly, take on the u.s. politics and society. that's the bottom line. investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al-jazeera.

you're watching out, is there a reminder of a top stories this hour? senior u.s. election officials have released a statement describing the presidential votes as the most secure in u.s. history and deny any form of fraud. donald trump is still refused to concede and claims without any evidence that rampant voter fraud stole victory from them. the u.s. president has banned americans from doing business with companies that could help the chinese military. the ban takes effect on january 11th, just days before trump is scheduled, cheese party, the ruling party has won enough seats in parliament to form myanmar's next government, the government excluded more than the 1000000 people belonging to ethnic minorities

from if you have his prime minister says the military has liberated western parts of northern region where the federal government is battling local forces. honesty, international says that hundreds of civilians have been brutally killed. the offensive began last week after pirates, the ahmed, accuse the regional government of attacking a military base 11000 the if you have kids have already fled the conflict to neighboring sudan. local authorities say they are preparing for just 200000 arrivals. sandoval, a is head of the evidence lab, families say internationals crisis response team. he says, is enough evidence that there have been mass killings of civilians. we can confirm that scores, if not hundreds of civilians were stopped or hacked to death in, in a small town called me cutter, which is in the southwest of ethiopia's, of the degree region. likely, most likely, on the night of november 9th,

these victims appear to have been civilians appear to be laborers, no way involved in the ongoing military offensive in the region. we spoke to witnesses to, to the instance people who came into the town on the morning of the 10th of november after the army took control. and they, they said that the roads were strewn with dead bodies, especially in the, in the center of the town. we then study audio visual evidence of videos and photographs that emerge from the region to make sure that these indeed were authentic, were able to actually locate these. i'm introduced ourselves independently to the center of the town. so, fixing with a meeting grating with those like winds testimonies, the witnesses who saw the dead bodies told us that they had gaping wounds that appear to have been hit by shot weapons, for example, knives machetes. which is also what we should we saw in the imagery. and that's imagery. we then independently confirmed with, with a pathologist. we're not actually independently yet able to confirm who was

responsible for the killings, but we were told by, by the witnesses by 3 people. the survivors of the mascot told, told them that they were attacked by members of the special police force and other to great people's liberation front members. more than 90 people, including a 6 month old baby have died of libya's coast in attempts to cross into europe. a search operations also underway after another $74.00 people drowned on thursday after leaving the libyan port of homs. late reports i was maybe the panic is clear as she calls out by 6 month old baby joseph a mother and son originally from guinea, who cried when it started deflating hours after leaving libya's coast. the spanish open arms tweeted this message after baby joseph died on its rescue. boat. it said they recovered him from the sea. hours later,

he died. they say she is the mother of joseph openoffice, rescued more than 100 people from the boat hoping to seek a better life. europe. 6 people including baby joseph did not make it dozens of bodies washed up in the libyan port of point to another tragedy. coastguards and local fisherman did what they could to rescue about $43.00, civil sitting clearly in shock on the beach, n.j. doctors without borders said they saw a loved one's disappear beneath the waves. dying in front of their eyes. for shipwrecks in 3 days have killed more than 120 people, and these tragedies repeat over and over again of people trying to flee libya if there needs to be. i think frankly great empathy for the plight of these women, men and children who are seeking

a better life. part of the solution obviously involves dealing with the situation in libya and making it safer. there's been a recent result of people taking the migration routes mainly from libya and tunisia to europe. the risk for these people seeking a better life is huge. the un refugee agency says more than 20000 people who attempted to take mediterranean crossing have died in the last 7 years. it's led to open arms referring to the migrant route as, a cemetery with no gravestones. nuru prize money al jazeera, a u.n., special representative visiting cata, has countries blockading the gulf states to immediately withdraw their restrictions . alina do hand is the special ruppert's her on the unilateral course of measures, and human rights in 2017, the u.a.e., saudi arabia, bahrain and egypt import imposed

a boycott on cattle accusing it of supporting terrorism. cats are vehemently denies all locations. i urge the kingdom of saudi arabi, the united arab emirates, the kingdom of bahrain, and they are approved probably of egypt to immediately withdraw all sanctions mashups aimed to establish an restrictions on freedom of expression, movement access to property trade, darrius, bunter. its quartet's non-tariff measures include ensues, which prevent financing, the purchase of mattson medical equipment, food other essential goods, follow people living in qatar in violation of international legal standards. police improves catalina protesters from reaching government headquarters. they're marching against the impeachment of former president martin, visit her. this car was voted out of office over corruption charges replaced by the former head of congress. manuel merino will serve as interim president until july

9th, a staunch, as has more from the most. we have seen protesters on the streets, not only of lima, but different cities, major cities, and smaller cities, all around the country since early today, protesting. and of course, what they want is for the new interim president manuel. maybe not to leave. many people have been peacefully protesting despite in the past few days. we've seen some violence. we've seen protesters throw rocks at police, riot police firing tear gas at protesters and many plain clothes officers, detaining people, something that a human rights organizations are said it's illegal. but right now people are on the streets of mainly thousands of people saying that they won. maybe no, the interim president to leave that they don't feel represented and people are

angry. they say that a mafia has taken over this, the government and especially congress that was able to impeach him at the risk of with 105 votes. they say that there's, well there's, there are 68 lawmakers that have criminal investigations ongoing with investigations that go from homicide to fraud, to money laundering and a long list of crimes. and people say that they, they should be unseated instead of having unseated president. former president martini's got a, brazil's no longer run time monks, the world's top 10, economies of being ravaged by the pandemic. many brazilians face a painful financial future with soaring food and house prices. kim has more from rio de janeiro. c c it's tea time in this slum in rio de janeiro.

c c acres sounds his horn twin now is fresh buns for sale, but they cost 50 percent more than in january. prices in general, have become absurdly expensive. since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic unemployment is at a 14 percent record high. and many here are surviving on the government emergency aid, which will only last until the end of the year. for brazil, s'pore, the future looks bleak, but investors are also worried. the country is no longer part of the world's top 10 economies. brazilians used to boast the 9th largest g.d.p. . now they ranked 12 on the list, according to a report based on data from the international monetary fund. brazil's productivity has been declining, sees 2015, with the pandemic,

the economy will shrink an additional 5 percent. besides that, political uncertainty has helped the body, the brazilian reale, making it one of the world's most worst. performing currency is a weak currency favors exports, but the silver lining is that double edged sword. with less food being sold on the domestic market, prices have gone up. most brazilians, like i was shooting up at the wrong side, are not interested in the country's international rankings. they're worried that staple foods like rice and black beans are 20 percent more expensive. it's not only fruit prices that went up construction material is also more expensive. these rigs, for example, cost 30 percent more than before. the pandemic or the silver lost his job as a truck driver and moved his belongings from an apartment or neighborhood to

a shack to use as my palate. at least i have a roof over my head in this movie. garden economy minister paul ganders, says brazil, bro. once the pandemic is over and he can finally implement market friendly reforms . but for most here, what matters now is putting food on the table. economic recovery promised by the government still sounds like a long, hard, uphill battle money and i kept, i'll just sirrah, rio de janeiro. the european union is demanding china reverse. a new role does lead to full hong kong legislators being sacked, 15 opposition. politicians in the city have resigned in protest at the ruling. on wednesday, china passed a law allowing legislators to be barred if they pose, a national security threat. the u.k., which handed the territory back to china in 1907, says the move undermines hong kong's autonomy and has summoned the chinese

ambassador. meanwhile, canada is easing immigration rules for people from hong kong to receive citizenship . canada's immigration minister says charges for breaching china's national security. you know, won't disqualify them. the country wants to speed up applications for young people in hong kong who wish to work and study. the antigovernment protests in thailand continue to draw tens of thousands of people onto the streets there. demanding reform both within the palace and the politicians. but after months of demonstrations, a political solution, it remains uncertain. reports from bangkok. after months of anti-government protests and rallies tensions peak last month, as the line between the protesters demands and the response of thailand's government started by student groups at the beginning of the year, the protests swelled in july and have been growing ever since. so too has the focus

on what they want change, they refine their demands to 3, their prime minister, resign a new constitution be drafted, and the powerful monarchy before the prime minister has repeatedly dismissed the idea that he stepped down and rejected any change within the monarchy in an effort to find common ground, parliament will set up a reconciliation committee. the government says, trust is needed to make it work. we're trying to show them that, ok, we listen to them and we are willing to do whatever we can in the power of the government to actually do have the confidence that we are believing that their protests and their demands are being heard. running on a pledge to reform government, the start up future forward party did very well in last year's election, but it was later dissolved for taking an illegal loan from its billionaire founder party members called that a politically motivated charge. the move forward party was created, so some elected under a future forward could still serve in parliament, while skeptical the party says it will take place in the reconciliation committee.

but there's a sensitive topic that will raise alarm on one side, discussion of monaco reform. if this can be surely discussed where everyone put aside their differences and speak rationally, this will help you feel why did s. no point to the committee. the protest leaders have said that they will not participate in the reconciliation committee. they say, because the government is not sincere about trying to find a peaceful, political solution. historically, there's been little success with reconciliation programs and some feel that the spirit of compromise on either side is absent. the student protest movement has, has learned by doing, but also they have tabulated and sort of taken into account all these various other bogus attempts in the past. and this time i think that they would not settle for another kind of misleading bogus reconciliation attempt. he went on to say that the

government is hoping that while it's presenting the appearance of reconciliation, it's actually slow walking the process and hoping the protest movement will lose momentum. but so far, that's clearly not the case. scott, either al jazeera, bangkok, this is out there and these other top stories. u.s. election officials are released a statement describing the presidential votes as the most secure in u.s. history, and deny any form of fraud. donald trump has still refused to concede and claims without any evidence that rampant voter fraud stole victory from him. ellen fisher has more from washington d.c. . this is going to make happy reading for donald trump and me well to the pressure to him to concede the election. if not concede the election at the very least. eggnog.