outfront returns on al-jazeera a drug company, pfizer says it's ready to apply for emergency approval for its grown a virus facts seen after a late stage trials show it's safe and effective. and ontario says al jazeera live from london, also coming up ugandan opposition leader bobby wine is arrested again while out campaigning. 3 people were killed in the protests that followed. your sect of state might compare heads to israel for talks, but controversy surrounds and one of the events on his itinerary and cleared for

takeoff. u.s. aviation regulators say boeing's 737 max can return to the skies, but only under certain conditions and a u.s. drugmaker, pfizer says it will request emergency approval for its covered 19 vaccine in the coming days. the vaccine developed with its german partner biotech, as shown consistent results across various demographics with no major side effects . final results from the pfizer biotech vaccine trials show 95 percent success rate . in all age groups. the highest of any candidate in late stage clinical trials so far, the company says it could have 50000000 doses available by the end of the year. but its distribution is complicated by the need to store the vaccine at temperatures of minus 70 degrees celsius. we are confident that if,

if we continue across the court over it, that it could could happen that we get an order was until mid of the stand and could start to, to provide the 1st millions of dollars as an experienced to the region to get an approval on all this as the united states continues to see an acceleration. in virus cases, it's reported more than a 1000000 new infections in the past week alone. according to america's branch of the world health organization,, there are well over 11300000 cases confirmed across the u.s., making it statistically the world's worst hit nation. almost 250000 people have died there after contracting the virus, just as she had returns. he's in that wilmington in delaware, and she had joe biden has been giving a has got some big plans in terms of dealing with a virus, doesn't it?

right, well he met with front line workers today virtually and he heard lots of issues that they were facing very harrowing stories about the constant lack of personal protective equipment, a long struggle, and workers, health workers, 5 and so on. as well as problems with, with workplace safety, with nurses being forced to go to work. even though they covert positive and showing symptoms was one of the stories. shocking, shocking stuff in these areas where the president elect will have, a great deal of power. once he becomes president, because p.p., for example, he can invoke the defense production act, which will centralize production of p.p. and centralized that distribution as well as chosen to allow states and all different organizations. so we to fight amongst each other, driving prices up quite often. but it's a desperate search for p.p., . if you use the d.p.s., the defense production act. however, you can centralize that and know everything is make sure everyone has the p.p.

that they need to. that's one thing you can do on workplace safety. there are regulations in place to ensure that the workplaces are safe, which the top of ministration apparently is and making sure are being upheld beyond the major issue is this, this point about vaccine distribution. and once again lamented the fact that the federal government is not sharing any information with the transition team. fact seen distribution biden, once again saying, look, we're going to be behind in january because we don't have a plan. i would very difficult for a plan. we don't have any data on supply chains and stockpiles and another another day, sir. so that's a real, a real issue for them. and this is, this wasn't so much in the, in today's meeting with front line workers, but it would have us, well, this is going to be a national plan. and, you know, some of his advisors have been speaking, you know, saying look, maybe we need another 4 to 6 weeks because we have such a big spike that biden campaigned on, always quickly, moves and said, look, these advisors speaking to capacity, biden very reluctant to talk about

a kind of federal plan taking leadership from the white house as far as lockdowns or mosque mandates are concerned still very much say look, this depends on a state by state basis, because it is a tricky, a tricky issue of jurisdiction. and talking of state by state basis, new york new restrictions. infections you have that 7 day average test positivity rate is reached 3 percent. now when the schools opened the public schools in new york reopened, about 2 months ago, the mayor said, look, there will be a threshold. where if the city's test positivity rate reaches 3 percent, then we'll shut the schools down again. that threshold has now been reached that we should be clear that there is no evidence of any major transmission within schools . in fact, the positivity rate and transmission rates are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction. so this isn't, this isn't transmission within the schools. it's leading to the schools being shut down. it's the city's transmission rate. it's leading to the schools shut down. so

now there's a bit of a debate because all of the schools are being shut down with this 3 percent threshold. having been reached, gyms are staying open, indoor dining is staying open. so now there's a question of whether the schools are being too cautious with their, with their threshold or the city isn't being cautious enough with all the other stuff. that's the remaining open indoor dining. that however, is in the purview of the governor of new york is very loath to do have any shutdowns. his his threshold rate is 9 percent for a 7 day average positivity rates. she have a chance, he thank you very much. indeed. my police in uganda say 3 people have been killed during clashes between protesters and security forces. supporters of the pop star turned politician known as bobby wine burnt tires in the street after he was arrested again. officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions all campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. welcome webb is monitoring developments from nairobi and has this update. the why is wife has published on

social media. uganda police charge. she says that on this occasion then it's certainly not the 1st time he's been arrested on this occasion. he's been charged with actions that could cause the spread of disease. so this is relating to those covert 19 restrictions that the government has laid out. you dos where he's been taken, police have said that they don't know he was taken by counter-terror fleece. his wife says that she believes he's being held in a police station in the eastern city of ginger. now the security forces often find themselves between a rock and a hard place in these kind of situations. they appear to be under instructions to often prevent opposition political activities from taking place. and there have been, there's been legislation to prevent now for almost 10 years now in uganda. but on the other hand, when popular opposition figures are arrested and detained, that can cause all the rest that itself can bring people on to the streets. that's

exactly what we've seen today with will be one campaigning in one part of the country. his arrest leading to protests and on rest in the capital, which is more than 100 kilometers away. so the police at this point have the choice of either blocking those political activities or releasing, releasing their captive to prevent the arrest getting any worse. what they often try to do is bundle that captive into a bar and take the back roads and try and take them home. so that the opposition figures taken away and released from detention, but without attracting any further crowds. ethiopia's prime minister says his troops are nearing victory over forces in the northern tier, a region. it has refused international calls for mediation, and says military officials are marching on to graze capital. they can lay federal troops or an offensive against the tikrit people's liberation front. earlier this month, hundreds of people have been killed in the conflict as forced thousands of people

to flee many into sudan. it morgan is in sudan where a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as thousands of people cross the border every day. the number of refugees that continue to arrive today have been rising over the past few days. the united nations high commission for refugees, that's the refugee agency said that on sunday, more than 5000 arrived on a single day more than $2300.00 arrived in the next day. and they say that those numbers are much higher than what they were expecting. they said they were expecting, and the numbers of hundreds of thousands to be arriving. now, as you can see behind me, these are refugees receiving aid. this is the 1st time that refugees are receiving aid since they arrived to this refugee camp here. and a lot of not far from the border, most of them say that they've been going hungry for at least 3 days. other thing that they've been going hungry for more and that they have children, that they need to tend to. authorities obviously that the numbers have been rising . we've got nearly through 30000 refugees numbers that are expected to go up to

250000 over the coming weeks and sudanese authorities have been pleading for aid organizations to step up. so we've seen delegations from the united nations agencies such as the world food program and the united nations children's agency unicef visiting those refugees centers, the borders centers, this refugee camp and other refugee camps to look into the needs and assessments of what those refugees need. they say that they have produced dog food for about a month for about $50000.00 refugees. but then again, those numbers are not what are expected. they're expecting more than $100000.00. so more demands by refugees and by authorities for aid organizations to step up. your sexual state has warned that new sanctions could be imposed on iran while on his last visit to israel. he's praised the countries which have agreed to diplomatic ties with israel deals, brokered by the u.s. in a news conference with israel's prime minister and bahrain's for mr. emphasized iran's

isolation and encourage small countries to make pacts. these agreements are important for so many reasons. important to the whole world. indeed, as i travel the world, countries that you might not expect or thankful for the work that bahrain and the united emirates israel are now going to do together these agreements, open up wonderful opportunities for commerce and economic development. these are, give us also tell, malign actors like the islamic republic of iran, that their influence in the region is waning and that they are ever more isolated in this shall forever be until they change their direction. army forces in west jerusalem, he explains what's expected from my proposed last visit to israel as secretary of state. it is a significant visit in the last weeks of the trumpet. ministration might pump a 0 here and saying fairly normal things in his press conference, but obviously later doing something pretty extraordinary. with this visit 1st, the press conference we heard from benjamin netanyahu welcoming the bahraini

foreign minister here the 1st time. an official ministerial visit had taken place, saying that these normalization deals were proceeding with real pace and unleashing economic force, thanking donald trump once again saying that it would not have been possible without the u.s. president's leadership. there was similar language from pompei who also mentioned iran, which is a very much alive issue after those reports that donald trump was looking at military options in regards to iran's nuclear program in recent days. and those reports also suggesting that pompei as well. pompei was one of those who argued against taking such an option, but the israelis are very concerned about what might happen under the biden administration, with regard to potentially taking the u.s. back into the iran nuclear deal. as for ability, if any of the bahraini foreign minister, he also welcomed the warming ties talking about the very soon to be formalized

establishment of embassies in each country reciprocally. he also was the only of the 3 men to talk about the palestinians at all. saying that he had emphasized the need for israel and the palestinians to get back to the negotiating table. and for a viable 2 state solution to be reached. still to come on, al-jazeera, president trump continues his twitter attacks on the u.s. election results. even as more states reject his campaign's court actions for starting a green industrial revolution, the u.k. government gears up to go net 0 carbon emissions by 2050. however we've still got plenty hate across northern and central parts of australia . some of that hate still transferring down towards the south east of the country

for the time being there will be something of a chase, a 36 hours just there in adelaide on thursday, a 33 therefore melbourne. getting up to around 26 in sydney. not see bad, not just some showers just around the other, the gold coast, the sunshine coast on the side of brisbane. i shall assist nothing a little further north which as we go through friday and by friday it is significantly killa, down towards the southeast in melbourne, no higher than around 21 degrees celsius. over towards the west is not bad. hit tampa, just picking up again in perth for around 27 celsius and temperatures will pick up again for new zealand. 23 celsius in christchurch for friday, but notice somewhat of weather pushing into the fosse out off the south island. plenty of wet weather making its way towards japan over the next couple of days. big massive cloud rolling across the korean peninsula. possibility some localized flooding there from north korea am south korea eventually that will push its way through the sea of japan. heavy downpours coming in across honshu into keyshia.

cole, a fresh weather coming in behind. so with the top temperature, a sparkling 8 degrees of covert, 19 is indiscriminate. but it quickly found the racial divisions in american society because of the pandemic is a repeal or of america's history was in the racially segregated city of chicago. the majority of deaths have been black and latino residents fault lines asks why i think it's become entirely clear. and if there is such a thing as structural racism, the great divide could breed 19 and race in chicago on al-jazeera. you're born

from one of the top stories on our syria, a u.s. drug for more apply for emergency authorization for its coronavirus vaccine. within days, pfizer says late stage trials of its candidate showed it was not a 5 percent effective improvement on initial results published last week. 3 people have been killed in protests in uganda after a presidential opposition candidate was arrested. a pop star turned politician known as bobby wine says he was violently dragged out of his car by police. u.s. after state might compare has warned that new sanctions could be imposed on iran while on his last visit to israel. he's praised the countries which have agreed to diplomatic ties with israel until brokered by the u.s. . president trump has resumed his twitter attacks on the results of the u.s. election, even though his assertions of fraud are fording short in several states. is

campaign as they are filed for a recount. in 2 areas of wisconsin, a state won by a democrat candidate joe biden. it's a move which will cost millions of dollars to try to overturn a $20000.00 vote winning margin. and if source, reuters poll conducted over the past week has revealed a significant number of republican votes is still believe the presidential election may have been stolen. 68 percent of republicans said they worried. the poll was rigged. only 16 percent of democrats and one 3rd of independents. a similarly concerned just more than half of republicans believe president donald trump rightfully won the election altogether. 73 percent of those polled agreed that biden won the election, or 5 percent thought trump won. fischer is live from the white house and the trump team still pushing ahead with these claims of electoral fraud. that's right, donald trump tweeting in the last couple of hours that there were more people voted in michigan than there are actual registered voters. there's nothing to support

that, but that has been the standard for donald trump over the last 2 weeks he's making claims about electoral fraud. and when his team goes into court, they've said several times including rudy. giuliani is no heading their legal efforts. this is not a fraud case. now they lost a significant case with pennsylvania supreme court just yesterday. i think donald trump and his campaign were hoping that the supreme court of the united states would pick up some of these cases. but certainly there's nothing to indicate that the supreme court is about to do that. we know that donald trump had said a couple of times before the election, that if he lost that he would go to the supreme court to get that result overturned . but of course, the supreme court will only pick up a case one if there is an impending legal reason to do so. and with pennsylvania, moving towards verifying the results. there isn't anything that would tick that box . and the 2nd reason they would get involved is if there was a big constitutional question. and it seems that there's nothing in that either.

when the top campaign is arguing that observers weren't close enough to the vote counting which has been rejected both by an ordinary court, a basic court and also an appeals court the supreme court. so i don't think that the supreme court in the united states is going to ride to donald trump's rescue here. it's interesting that there are some republicans who are beginning to say quietly that they're concerned about the tone that the trump campaign is taking that we're no more than 2 weeks since the election. and donald trump continues to fuel the big divisions in the united states, and one or 2 are getting close to perhaps speaking out about it, maybe not in really stark terms, but they're beginning to talk about possibly going public and saying that the president has to concede and move on, they're not quite there yet. there's quite a few of them still concerned still what he did, but the power, the political power that donald trump has, and of course, the power of his political base. but they are getting there. and allen,

in the meantime, the administration has suffered another setback this time in terms of immigration policy. that's right. back in march, they decided that anyone who came across the border would have to be returned to mexico and that included unaccompanied minors. no court cases going through federal court here in the united states and the judge has said, you can't do that if there's on the company of minors. children under the age of 16, across the border and the ask for asylum, then they've got to stay in the united states. he said, if they're, i dealt with children. if they're adults on their own, then they can be returned. that's fine. but when it comes to children, know they have got to stay here in the united states. though the trumpet ministration had said, judges shouldn't be overruling public health experts that these measures were put in place simply because of the pandemic. but it's likely that they will appeal this decision made in the court earlier today. alan fischer at the white house. thank

you very much. argentina's president has sent a long delayed bill to legalize abortion to congress. responded to hundreds of anti-abortion demonstrators to protest outside the legislative body of ocean is a crime in the predominantly catholic country, except in cases of rape. or if a pregnancy puts the woman's health or life at risk. the bill fast passed congress in 2018, but was never be rejected by the senate after a campaign by the catholic church. trade unions in mali have begun a 3 day nationwide strike after talks with the new transitional government failed. civil servants are demanding better pay and conditions. and according for the release of colleagues who have been taken hostage takers, haq reports. the night shift at this medical center in mali's capital bamako lab technician is on the front line in the fight against corona virus. he does the testing, analyzing and fields, questions from patients,

some of whom have hiv, hepatitis, or malaria. for this, he earns $800.00 a month, a good salary in a country where most earn less than $2.00 a day, but the state often fails to pay his wages on time. he says he has gone months without pay. now he's on strike. we feel marginalized by the authorities, we want them to stick to their words. we want our rights to be respected and to stay to meet their obligations. their national union of workers are on a 3 day nationwide strike after talks with these new government of transition failed. teachers and prison workers want more pay medical staff want better working conditions. civil servants are unhappy with a new law that would allow officers of the mali an army to take their positions in the administration. all insist they want to see the end of corruption and iniquity in this civil service is a point when you see 2 people with the same job,

one earns over $1800.00 and earns less than $72.00. but that's not the rule of law and needs to be applied to the new government of transition that forced the president to resign in obvious, says the state coffers are empty and are unable to satisfy the union demands. but in october, a multi-billion dollar ransom was paid to armed groups with hundreds of al qaeda, affiliate fighters freed in exchange for the release of french hostages. and mali, an opposition leaders whom i was, he said, several local administrators are still being held by armed groups. the union says not enough is being done to protect workers' relatives. there is a thirst for social justice and the desire to see the state consider. all of its employees, ordered presented in the same men because many feel abandoned by the government. for me, this strike is not just about better pay and working conditions. it's about the

desire to see the return of a state that's been largely absent in the face of instability. attacks and a global pandemic. nicholas hawk al-jazeera. boeing's troubled 737 max jet has won approval from the us federal aviation administration to fly again after almost 2 years. the planes must be fitted with new software and pilots retrained to deal with problems in a still prevention system. those problems caused to deadly crashes in 20182019, in both the software repeatedly and powerfully angle down the net jets nose as pilots struggle to regain control. a stream of investigations was triggered and the entire fleet was grounded for 20 months. the longest in aviation history. boeing estimates the ban has cost $20000000000.00 and taking off again won't be easy for the u.s. plane maker. icing a resurgent coronavirus pandemic, a new year pin terrorists bust, regulators in europe, brazil,

and china. i have to issue their own approvals, reynolds report, u.s. federal aviation administration approved the boeing 737 max after requiring a host of engineering design and software changes and revised training procedures for pilots of the path that led us to this point was long and grueling. but we said from the start that we would take the time necessary to get this right. we were never driven by timeline, but rather followed a methodical and deliberate safety process. the 737 max, the latest generation of the world's best selling aircraft, was grounded in march last year after 2 crashes within months that killed 346 people. the 1st was a lion air flight from indonesia in october 28th, seen, followed by an ethiopian airlines flight 5 months later,

both crashes were traced to a full in the plane's maneuvering software. faulty sensors triggered the program, putting the aircraft into an uncontrollable dive, even as pilots struggled to pull it up. subsequent investigations blamed boeing for technical failings and a lack of transparency. concerns about the maneuvering system, raised by boeing, employees were minimized or dismissed. internal documents showed last month in indonesia, relatives of victims commemorated the 2nd anniversary of the lion air crash. many believe it's too early to allow the 737 max to fly again and turn so hot the last 2 brothers in law in the disaster. so you could be someone you want to be absolutely sure that the 737 mechs, the safe. don't let it be, just about profits and money and put human considerations aside. boeing,

executives say the company has to rebuild public confidence that starts with getting it certified, bringing it back to service. convincing the regulators that we've done the right thing, that the changes to the airplane are right, that the manuals are right. the training is right. the f.a.a. is approval is an important step for boeing, but it still has to convince other international aviation authorities and convincing the public that it's safe to fly on the max again. likely take some time . rob reynolds al-jazeera. britain's prime minister has unveiled a plan called green industrial revolution, aimed at tackling climate change. boris johnson's proposal aims to get the u.k. to net 0 carbon emissions over the next 30 is. it includes a battle on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. starting in the year 2039 barbara has more from london it's an ambitious plan to cut pollution from traffic.

britain set to ban the sale of new petulant diesel vehicles by 203010 years earlier than originally showed jewels. some hybrids will still be allowed, but they'll be grants for electric cars and funding for charging points. all part of a new 10 point plan aimed at making sure the u.k. meets its commitment to achieve net 0 carbon emissions by 2050. prime minister boris johnson is calling its agreed industrial revolution. the plan aims to create up 225-0000, highly skilled green jobs by 2030. it includes a pledge to make london the center of global green finance and involves mobilizing $16000000000.00 of government money with the private sector providing up to $3.00 times that amount. one highlight is a pledge to quadruple offshore wind power by 2030, producing enough electricity to power every u.k. home, as well as a big boost in hydrogen production. but the opposition labor party says only a 3rd of the program is new money pointing out. countries such as germany and

france are investing tens of billions of dollars for the sexpert. it's a small step in the right direction. just a few weeks ago we identified that the government was spending just a 10th of what's needed every year to meet. net 033000000000 pounds a year is what's needed every year over this parliament. what's been announced today is welcome, but it does fall short from what we think is needed. the plan involves greater investment in new nuclear power plants as part of the non carbon energy mix. it also includes funds to insulate homes and public buildings responsible for roughly a 3rd of the u.k.'s carbon emissions as well as tree planting programs. a new carbon capture initiatives. but there's nothing about something environmental campaigners want to see a frequent flyer levy. we believe in this was supported by the u.k.'s climate citizens' assembly that there should be higher taxes for those people who fly more so that the 1st, the 1st flights are comparatively cheap,

but they become steadily more and more expensive. because we know actually that just 15 percent of people in the u.k. take 70 percent of points. the government's promising to invest in clean public transport to make cycling an easier way to travel, especially in cities. the challenge now is what incentives are needed to make a real difference? al-jazeera london and one of the top stories here, non-zero a u.s. drug firm will apply for emergency authorization for its coronavirus vaccine within days, pfizer says late stage trials of its candidate showed it was 95 percent effective and improvement on initial results published last week. and now hopes to produce around $50000000.00 doses this year and more than a $1000000000.00 in 2021. these results come after another u.s. drug from the data reported just on the.