i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career, but no country is alike, and it's my job to shed light on how and why we're looking forward to making about $500000000.00 to a $1000000000.00 this next year. another breakthrough in the race for corona virus vaccine, u.s. drug maker, madonna sees almost 95 percent effectiveness in trials by money. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. but let's get out of the next 7 days. and i think there's a possibility for donald trump's national security adviser discusses renewed efforts to end more than 3 year blockade imposed on cata engulfed in political and

economic crisis. peru gets its president in the span of a week and al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the world's most wanted men, trying to negotiate immunity from prosecution. with infections surging worldwide and government struggling to respond. there's been another dose of hope in the battle against the 19 u.s. pharmaceutical madonna says interim results from trials show it's vaccine looks to be 94.5 percent effective in preventing the virus. it's a really important milestone in the fight against the penn demick because it demonstrates that our most senior morning to all 73 is able to prevent covert 90 disease including severe disease in people who've received it. it's really just

a milestone. we have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generally more to follow it safe. and then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. follow drugs, make a fine reported similar results just a week ago, 90 percent effectiveness. both plan to regulate us for emergency approval within weeks. the world health organization says the news is encouraging a big questions remain. its warning more data is needed on potential side effects and how long the vaccinations off a protection. let's get more on this. we can go live to our correspondent allen fisher, who is in washington. allan, given the explosion in coded that we're seeing in america at the moment this news from a dental will be welcome, wouldn't it?

it's a bit of good news in what has been a very black period for the united states when you consider that 1000000 cases added in just 6 days in the last week that more than 1000 people have died over the last week or so that many states are reintroducing a lot. 'd don't they're bringing in restrictions on the number of people that can gather in bars and restaurants. some of them are even closing schools. that's how difficult this situation has been. remember 245000 people dead in the united states because of the covert violence. so here's a little bit of good news. 1st of all pfizer, a note saying last week that they had a vaccine that was more than 90 percent effective. far more than many of the experts had predicted they would get in the 1st stages of testing here. and no, we have a 2nd company saying that they have a vaccine that they can get out to people, probably $20000000.00 doses by the end of the year, going to people who are frontline workers and those most at risk with ineffectiveness in the early tests of more than 94 percent. so it's been difficult

for many people to get through this period, but there is a glimmer of hope. but there's still a warning. there's still a long way to go and people should be throwing away their masks just yet. but it's going to be a while before the population as a whole gets the vaccine and it will be a while before the risk of corporate completely disappears if it ever does. and of course, the on the big impact of co that is the economy. we've seen huge unemployment, president elect biden announced his economic plan today in order to curb that. exactly. right. and we've also had comments from donald trump as well in the last few hours on twitter. you remember that a week ago when pfizer knows that it had a vaccine, he suggested that they had delayed the basement till after the election to damage him politically. well, a different tone from donald trump in the last couple of hours, just reminding historians, and he put it in quotes, saying they should remember that the back scenes were discovered on his watch. joe biden is the president elect. he will take over on january the 20th,

he will walk in to what many people regard as a very difficult situation with covered and also with the economy. he wants to get the economy up and running again. he was talking about how there was a problem when he became vice president 11 years ago. they walked into the white house at the time of the great recession and said that he and barack obama decided to what with whoever they could to make the situation across the united states much better. and he said he would do exactly the same again. but he also had a wad of warning to the trumpet ministration. of course, they've been dragging their feet on dealing with any transition to the biden campaign, but he said the longer the delay is core and the more at risk people will be more people may die. if we don't coordinate, look my chief of staff, run claimants, and bore vaccines and fort solution to your vaccinated. so how do we get the vaccine?

how do we get over $300000000.00 americans vaccinated? once again, it's a huge, huge, huge undertaking. that's the thing to remember while there is good news with these cool, good bike scene breakthroughs, there's no immediate relief for people and there is a risk in the days and weeks ahead that more and more people will die. $245000.00 families have been deprived of a loved one since this virus started to get a grip in the united states at the beginning of the year. many more will suffer before the vaccine start to be rolled out to the general population. so that warmly is please be careful. don't think that this is over. the vaccine is good news, but it is still not here yet. many thanks for that. there for us in washington. let's go to richard kennedy who is director of the vaccine research group at the

mayo clinic in the u.s. . he joins us from rochester in minnesota and many thanks for speaking to us and our desire. how encouraging have you found this news from medina, that it's 94 percent effective, especially following on from the knees. find the last week? it's excellent news. it's very promising and shows that perhaps these are in a vaccines that we don't have a lot of experience with our tool or not just this virus, but maybe many other viruses as well. so there is medicine to in the future, people watching or hearing this may wonder how safe this vaccine is, given the edge and say of guessing it out there. will it go through the same safety protocol that any vaccine would normally go through? yes, that's what, that's the same process that it's going through right now. and what we've seen so far shows that this great scene has cited facts that are similar to many other vaccines. and of course, we need to wait until we get the full data from base 3 clinical trial make any

decisions regarding say, and what kind of side effects of those. they're their typical pain at the injection site. a little sometimes headache, sometimes muscle aches and pains, and they're usually temporary and they usually only last a few days and they're typically fairly mild. and looking at this vaccine over the pfizer vaccine, there are some advantages that it has such a store and talk us through a bit more about that. certainly. so in order for the next team to be used worldwide, because there is a global demand, there's going to be a massive problem with logistics and transportation and keeping it cold, keeping it safe, keeping it effective. and this vaccine can be stored in norm or fridge or enters normal freezers, or has the find your vaccine requires alter cold freezers. that's a definite advantage. and it opens up the possibility is that countries in the

developing world that have refrigeration in place, kind of also use the sexing. but should you touch on this already, both these vaccines, madonna and fine. they're both r.n.a. vaccines. tell us a bit more about this technology because it is new and how significant is it that it's this r.n.a. method that has led to these results? it is fairly new and it looks so far from at least these 2 initial phase 3 clinical trials that it's working better than people predicted. that's good news is that it also has a number of other advantages. you can mass produce doses quickly in so that companies are running full speed ahead, producing doses in the hopes that they can get approval, and that will pass the safety testing and then they can start rolling it out people as soon as possible. that is interesting. it doesn't bode well then fit all the vaccines that are currently being worked on at the moment. do they all use the same

sort of technology? no, we have about it doesn't even phase 3 clinical trials. some of them are, are in a, based on some of them are vector based. they use another virus, an adult virus. so all of these different types of vaccines have their own pros and cons. we're just waiting a little bit impatient to get because you data on the new virus attacks against 2. hopefully they will be just as effective, really interesting to talk see which of kennedy, director of the vaccine research grave at the mayo clinic. thank you. donald trump's national security adviser says he'd like to see the blockade on cattle resolved within 70 days. brian was speaking at a global security forum hosted in pots by kasa. he suggested a step would be for saudi arabia and bahrain to fully reopen the s. space to qatari aircraft. so we'd like to get that rich saw, we felt the salt in the air when it gives you that you referred to the air have was

it because it was able to fly over saudi or space, or bahraini or space is an important 1st step in solving that rift i don't like to see that get done before if. 'd we end up with office, i'd like to see that get done in the next 70 days. and i think there's a possibility for well, the standoff is still where it was back in june of 2017. that's when saudi arabia,, the u.a.e. bahrain, and egypt all cut diplomatic and economic ties with cata. they also close this oneone border and imposed an air and sea. kuwait initially stepped in to mediate, but there's been little or no compromise, the blockading countries. the keys castle is supporting terrorism, which its government women denies. we are hopeful that this you know, any moment and what, what we need to like now is to have

a serious engagement and a good faith with the other countries. and this is what i thought i was prepared to do at any time they would be ready for this. they would see about that idea for this. and as i told. 'd you, at the beginning there is no, we're not out of this crisis and all of us are losing. and if that crisis, when all of us will be 0 in on what people will be a winner for the future. still ahead on al-jazeera israel games and now the green light to build more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank and a mammoth discovery in mexico. scientists and the largest collection today. how the weather is set for japan over the next couple of days. some pleasant sort, some sunshine coming through very different story for china though,

we got some wetter weather coming in to central pa, still some heat there in shanghai. temperatures should be around the, the, the mid to high teens at this time, vs 25 celsius. asked not to bad, but the cloud in the rain. that's going to be the main thing. i'm going to push its way further. north woods up towards the elysee towards north korea. south korea, seeing some of that western weather, add a fair bit of snow further north, pushing all the way up into mongolia. ahead of that fine and dry temperatures 21 celsius for tokyo, in the sunshine, fun to try to see for southeastern parts of china at long last is looking fine and right see for a good part of vietnam following on from the rough, the storms tropical storms, that have been rumbling through typhoons as well, too into northern areas of the philippines. some wetter, whether they're into central and southern parts of the philippines, joining up with the, the heavy showers that we have across malaysia. some pics of the day showers as well as one would expect the filtering their way down into indonesia. now whether

continuing to across southern parts of india, chance of further flooding to into sri lanka. but for much of india, pakistan for bangladesh is fine and dry. 20 years of china's transformation through one young girl's journey from birth to adult, but 2 decades following the development of her life. animation rewind returns to the story of k.k. . the girl from granger do you love. 7 me on the out, you just see around you

watching out just a reminder of our top stories this hour. us pharmaceutical company, madonna says early results show it's covert $9000.00 vaccine is 94.5 percent effective in preventing the virus fellow drug maker. pfizer announced its vaccine was 90 percent effective. u.s. president elect joe biden has laid out his plan to revive the u.s. economy, but stress the coronavirus must 1st be brought under control and he warned, lives are at risk. if donald trump continues to resist cooperation with the transition team. the u.s. national security advisor says he'd like to see the blockade on cattle resolved within 70 days. brian said a 1st step would be for saudi arabia and bahrain to fully reopen their airspace to qatari aircraft. former world bank official francisco

sagacity has been chosen by peru's congress to be the new interim president, the 3rd national leader in just a week sagacity from a centrist political party, assumes the presidency ahead of elections called for april former interim leader. manual merino, resigned on sunday. 5 days after he was replaced, or he replaced martin vickery who was impeached. marianna sanchez is the name, explains why politicians chose sagacity. that is from the purple party, a centrist party, which all voted in block against the impeachment of former president carter. that's the main reason why he has been elected the new congress president, and he will be sworn in as proof interim president on tuesday, because there are no vice presidents to say that have succeeded. and then maybe no, it's the turn of the prince, president of congress to take the presidency,

interim presidency until july of next year, after general elections in april. now. so i guess the, even before having sworn in been sworn in as the new interim president, he already gave a speech to mend the wounds of this past political week of political crisis. and he talked and gave a message to the young people saying that he wants to gain their trust again. and in a very and a special sign of what he wants and what he wants to do and be with them. he walked out of congress with security, but a lot of people surrounding him and he crossed the police lines to get close to a group of protesters who were outside of congress, waiting to hear the news of who was going to be the next president of peru. he

waved at them, they waved back. it's a sign of course that he is telling young people i am with you. the u.s. is expected to have the number of troops in afghanistan by the middle of january, leaving about 2500. the order would stop short of outgoing president, donald trump's goal to have all troops withdrawn by the end of the year. which military and diplomatic advisors have opposed. and the number of personnel in iraq is also set to come down to around 2 and a half. 1000 trumpets expressed frustration with the continued presence of troops in war zones. al-jazeera has obtained recordings of one of the world's most wanted men trying to negotiate immunity from prosecution. the billionaire financier joe is wanted for his role in malaysia's multibillion $1.01 empty before the scandal. mary ann jolley has this exclusive report and a warning. it does contain some flash photography,

these ones to tourists for these days and lifestyle luxury, real estate and super yacht all boarded with one aim to be money. but today, the malaysian finance ia jolo, who is on the run, wanted by dorothy's in the united states and malaysia. in recordings of taint exclusively by 0000, is heard for the 1st time trying to color deal with my hearty a. mohammed's government, soon after its historic election win in may 2018. that's just on the phone jolo, protests easy missile, use the office to return all the assets purchased with one aim to be funds i think is delusional. former f.b.i.

special agent, deborah, love provocateur, worked on the agency's initial one m.t.b. investigation. you know, it's like the bank robber who gets caught? it is like, well if i return the money, then i don't want to be charged with robbing the bank. well, you still robbed the bank, and in this case you are robbed of the development fund and there's strong evidence he deed, according to the man who led the f.b.i. is one m.t.v. investigation until recently. and i think we're very confident that we will be able to prove involvement and his position in this scheme. in july this year, joel rose coconspirator, malaysia's former prime minister was convicted incentives to 12 years in jail, subject to an appeal for crimes related to want him to be back in 2018. jolo, put all the blame on the west. but

bridging the fugitive to justice has proved challenging despite 2, interpol red notices against him and multiple passports canceled. he continues to evade authorities and travel. the only way they're going to happen is through corruption and through the full resources of one or more governments. but according to the fugitive life on the run is not easy question. because 2 years on and he's still paying millions of dollars to lawyers and p.r. firms around the world. marianne jolie alleges iraq and the full program joe lo hunt for a fugitive will air again on tuesday at a $600.00 g.m.t. . it here appears. government is sending more troops to the northern tier grey region despite international calls for mediation. there are also reports that the

air force has bombed to graze capital. hundreds have died in the conflict so far, which began about 2 weeks ago and has pulled in neighboring eritrea. the to graze, people's liberation front or t.p.m., governs the region. prime minister, national government has so far, refused calls for negotiations. when conflicts erupted after, the t.p.m. attacked a federal military base in gray, a colleague has obtained exclusive access to that base. now we are now inside the northern military base, located in too great a region in northern ethiopia. it was the attack here which sparked current clashes between the federal government forces and the 2 great people's liberation front. this military base, the largest in ethiopia, house's massive military gear. chiefly tanks, simply because it has been for 2 decades. the epicenter of ethiopia's war against every trail. according to the federal army, p.l.f.

fighters launched an offensive in an attempt to seize the base, along with the weaponry and gear they were met with fierce resistance. and as a result, this base has recently witnessed ferocious fighting the mahdi. but here will be the border and then the fuel be a behind the in the wake of these developments. if you know piers pm avianca declared war against city p.l.f. on the ember forces, saying that their assault on the base crossed the red line then had to deal with that northern military base. great province. israel's ministry of housing has approved permits to build more than a 1000 illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank. sorry force. it has an unusual move by e.u. diplomats designed to send a message to israel's government. driving in, convoy to a piece of internationally recognized palestinian territory,

turned away by right wing israeli settler activists. a 2nd group made it to the summit of what israel calls give out how much toss to a similar reception you are on the senate. israel has long planned to build a settlement here in contravention of international law. that like a final puzzle piece would connect other settlements between bethlehem and jerusalem and serve a vital territorial link of a future palestinian state. he was demanding a reversal of israel's decision to issue tenders for the construction work on 1257 homes. just days before prime minister netanyahu hosts the us secretary of state and bahrain's, foreign minister, you even have signed the realization agreement in order to stop an extension. it was explicitly stated by the present of both countries. are you right now here is a defacto annexation attempt, and that cannot go on, or we come back to this patch of land again now it's quieted to explore exactly why

it's at the heart of this issue. if israel did build an illegal settlement here, it would cut off bethlehem from the palestinian neighborhood of occupied east jerusalem beit sofar for just over the brow of this hill, entirely isolating it behind illegal israeli settlements. it would also separate bethlehem from the rest of occupied east jerusalem beyond those buildings. and so that is why the e.u. why the p.a. is arguing that it would really jeopardize the territorial integrity of a future palestinian state. the other issue is the timing coming just ahead of the inauguration of president elect joe biden. in january when he was here as a vice president in 2010, there was a major incident when a new settlement enterprise was announced. it was a major rupture between the obama administration and that of benjamin netanyahu. it looks like things are being set up to cause another such rupture even ahead of joe biden. taking office, thousands of armenians have marched through the capital, yerevan, demanding that prime minister. nicola resigns,

there was widespread anger about the deal that he signed and finding in the disputed region of nickel macau, to back the agreement secured more territory from neighboring azerbaijan. the political fallout has already for some resignation of foreign minister, made reports from europe. well, already heard is actually from his spokesperson, who posted on social media, the lecture that the foreign minister gave to prime minister hesham un. and actually it was a handwritten letter, very short basically say thank you for working with us. i am not doing that anymore . now the background to that according to the spokesperson, is that he didn't agree with the prime minister question and said during an extraordinary session of parliament, that session was only with his party because the opposition refused to attend that

session simply because resignation and talk about resignation. was not on the table . well, during the session, the prime minister said that the fate of shushi call it had always been part of the negotiations between the 2 countries over the past 20 years, where the spokesperson of the foreign minister said that that was absolutely not true. so there you can see that prime minister tries to get himself out of trouble . he gets even more in deep water. 1000 tests in mexico can have confirmed the largest collection of mammoth skeletons ever found in one place. my new republic was granted special access to the site net. mexico says he this way found out these are the bones of ice age mammoths, the largest land mammals to ever set foot on the american continent. there seen the light of day for the 1st time in more than 20000 years animal remains from the

pleistocene era were 1st discovered in this part of mexico in the 970 s. . but archaeologists say those previous discoveries pale in comparison, i noted above. the more we're happy because we're documenting the variety of flora and fauna that once thrived here just in this area, we recently found a tooth fragment belonging to a saber tooth tiger that may have broken off during an encounter with a mammoth restoration and cataloguing is tedious. work and a delicate touch is crucial. the bones are quite brittle after spending several millennia under the dirt. a chemical solution is sprayed to help preserve the integrity of every fragment, no matter how small a load of this center has been working at this dig site for 3 months. today, she's carefully piecing together a pelvic bone that once belonged to an american camel load. this is one of dozens of restoration workers who have been specially trained for this massive archaeological project for many here, it's a once in

a lifetime experience that i've been making. i think that that, and i never imagined i would be doing something like this, working with bones. when i go home, my family always asks what we discovered today. it's a very cool experience. the 1st discoveries at this site were made last year when construction workers broke ground for a new airport at a military base just outside mexico city. today, a 1st of its kind partnership between scientists and the mexican military has led to the cataloguing of hundreds of individual specimens have lived under the eclipse of the military's high command has instructed us to provide all the support of us to go to his need. we supply resources like laser scanners lancer phase drone flights. anything that's needed for the study a year on there are now 230 digs, science just like this one. and the team say there's still plenty more to find. as you can see, we are completely surrounded by the bones of ice age mammals just in this area

alone, where we're standing. there are at least 2 sets of mammoth tusks, but there's also the remains of giants, lots, saber, tooth tigers, and many other species that have been extinct for thousands of years. once a specimen has been cleaned, catalogued and reinforced, it's prepared for transport. scientists and government officials say the plan is to showcase the assembled skeletons at a museum inside the mexican capital's newest airport. scheduled for completion in 2022. below al jazeera mexico city this is al-jazeera. these are the top stories u.s. pharmaceutical company went to and says show its coded 19 vaccine is 94.5 percent effective in preventing the virus fellow drugmaker. pfizer announced its vaccine.