current threats to its future if the government has it in for the v.c., what try to deceive the enemies on movers. battle for the b.b.c. . a listening post special on al-jazeera be the hero of the world wash. u.k. scientists report encouraging results as the world searches for a safe and effective covert 19 vaccine. but awarding milestones reached in africa with a continent recording 2000000 cases coronavirus above us. and this is our desire to live from doha, also coming up with only

a few weeks left in office. the us secretary of state to gives his backing to israel's illegal settlements. forced from their homes, remains the ethiopians who fled to sudan and are not desperate for help. but begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find an effective vaccine. but its chemical company, astra. zeneca says its phase 2 trials are promising when it comes to protecting groups most at risk. it says people who are over 70 who've been tested have shown a strong immune response. the vaccines being developed with oxford university and it's in the final stages of human trials, but some parts of the world are still battling the virus infections across africa have not so passed 2000000, but with low rates of testing, the real number is thought to be much higher worldwide,

there are now over 56000000 covered 1000 cases, and more than 1300000 deaths. the united states has the highest number of cases and the highest mortality rate. tony angela has been following the developments from the oxford astra. zeneca vaccine has just published its phase 2 results, which were based on a group of 560. volunteers is a know it's phase 3 results which will be coming in the next few weeks. but the initial results showed that this vaccine is generating a strong immune response, an adult over 1617. this is a very crucial age group because vaccines don't tend to work as well in older people. because as we get older, our immune systems deteriorate. this vaccine is different from the other 2 that we've been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. and so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. all participants have been gente generating

neutralizing antibodies. so is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. and that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. it has bought 100000000 doses of it so far, and so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. what's interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought we'd be getting results much earlier. but as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the madonna vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effective. and was in thing is that those vaccines use a technology that is completely new, that known as messenger r n a, but their results are not. so vaccine results are very promising for all the other vaccines that are still in development. well, as i mentioned, coronavirus cases in africa has passed. 2000000 armitage's has been following the

story from nigeria's capital. this seems to be some for tea or some kind of fatigue of the past 2 of africans. we just came back from an election in ivory coast and what you notice there in, across many sub-saharan african countries is that people where very few people wear masks this days. social distancing is still a problem, and crowds gather in large numbers. most of the people you see in such crowds don't wear a face mask. experts are warning that as the how much dusty amateur season kicks in . in a few weeks or a few days. we were going to see we are going to see a lot of cases of covered 19 for example in nigeria for the last 2 months, only a few dozen cases were reported each day. but today, at the center for disease control, yet released its results, saying that in the past 48 hours, more than 200 cases were recorded. and it warned that this could increase as people

abundant safety precautions use of trees. and of course, social distancing the issue of vaccines is good news for many africans. but remember, this is a very, very hot continent. most parts of the continent is very hot. the storage of these boxes is a problem with a shortage in electricity supplies and all that could be a problem delivering such data storage areas. hard accessible rural areas will also be a contributor, a factor to why are these boxes may not necessarily which people quickly cross a yell boom is a regional representative for epicenter, africa. it's the research arm of doctors without borders. he says, despite 2000000 cases, the continent has seen a relatively lower death toll. yes, actually 1st of all we need to define what because at just a few what you see in kenya, for example, the number of kids are not done during the 1st wave, but does for free the number of kids are no more death. so despite

a higher number of kids, so knowing and we don't really expect to have an all done previously because the actual target population, well people listen to africa. so how will your population, in my skill be advantage for the country and freak out to the $54.00 countries? so like that because of the, what we're seeing that country like south africa, are still having a number of cases as well as those countries that are quite close to europe. morrocco 70000 kids for the last 2 weeks. sympathy for needy are for energy and so on. but what is interesting us has been mentioning nigeria and how countries like kenya and kenya last week, you have just one day because they were north face in the hospital to the countdown, e.-t. an important increasing number of cases that country like uganda. the u.n.

says more than 30000, people have crossed into sudan from northern ethiopia. they're fleeing the ongoing fighting between the government and local forces in the 2 gray region. many people crossing the border have gone for days without food, but aid is starting to arrive here. but morgan reports from the eastern states got out on the border more than a week after the arrival of refugees through this camp. and about half the 1st apply of food aid is starting to trickle and flour and oil is rationed out between the families who have come here. hundreds lined up to receive their share. most like some of them have left their children back in shelters and withstand scorching sun while they wait. they are desperate to have some of that. i'm glad that it organizations have started distributing food. a lot of people were going hungry. some of us had gone for 2 or 3 days without food. there was a whole day that my kids and i went without any food, but now with 8 here,

we can have meals. it's been 10 days since i came here from a country. and in those 10 days we haven't eaten proper meals, we are hungry and we have small children to feed. now we are going to get some food . and we think god for that, because over the past 10 days we didn't receive anything. we hope they bring more because this will not be enough for the many families here. both of those are 2 of the nearly 15000 residents of the camp, which was opened less than 2 weeks ago. they come from the region in northern ethiopia, where the government has launched an offensive more than $50000.00 have fled to neighboring sudan since the start of the conflict, including to state aid organizations say thousands more in take are facing a dire humanitarian situation with the government imposing a communications blackout and blocking access to the region. many refugees arriving at the sudanese border are exhausted and hungry. so far, most of the food for the refugees has come from local communities around the border

point and refugee camps. but the communities themselves face economic hardships, as sudan, battle soaring market prices, and the number of those crossing the border to escape the fighting into great is rising. many who said the 4 days without food now have something to eat. but the country, the refugees are arriving too has its own set of problems, including a state of emergency floods in september damaged many roads. and that is now one during a delivery. so the challenge is to remain there, but what we're doing is that we have enough food. stocks in the country have beat. i wasn't able really to pull on food from other areas where we had surpluses to try to prepare food here as we speak right now. we have about enough food 46270000, people already here on site. and these are distributed of course, which are of course under god if as well where we are right now. they're refugees don't know how long they will remain in the camps for now. they just please to be safe and have food for their families. people morgan al-jazeera and of out of state

. mike compares become the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank from payors in israel as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. earlier he met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and said settlements can be lawful and proper. on paper also said the u.s. would be stepping up action against an anti israel boycott movement. well, let's get the latest from harvey fawcett in al goodman in the occupied west bank. some people are describing this as a provocative trip how he just tell us more. well, yes, this is something of a final tour for whatever the trauma ministration is saying about not conceding the election and my compos own words, talking about a 2nd trump administration, potentially in jest, this does have the feel of a valediction and he came yesterday wednesday now on thursday had this news conference with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu,

during which both men went over what they would have seen as some of the greatest hits of the trauma ministration in terms of what it had done for the israelis. netanyahu laying out a list and beginning each phrase with the words. thanks to president trump, as you say, pompei 0, talking about illegal settlements, such as the one behind us. so i got here in the occupied west bank as saying that they could be done in a way which was lawful and proper and appropriate. he of course, was the diplomat, the u.s. diplomat who changed u.s. policy no longer viewing the settlements per se as illegal. and as you say, also making some new policy as well, or at least announcing it, saying that from now on the united states administration would view the b.d.s. movement, the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel as anti-semitic and stop funding groups which supported it. we will regard the global or any israel b.d.s.

campaign is anti semitic. you know, the so simple to you, mr. president. if you see this, it seems like a statement of fact, but i want you to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b.d.'s. gondor can withdraw our u.s. government's support for such groups. now the b.d.s. movement itself has responded to that, saying that the us administration was trying to conflate its anti occupation activities with anti semitism, saying that it fought against all forms of racism, including anti jewish racism. and of course, the other highly controversial element of this day's agenda has been the visit to the winery got which, whose actions in the, in the european court really pressed presaged. what the change in policy that was announced by pompei last year would be, we're joined here by who himself is a palestinian american landowner, as someone who has both u.s. citizenship and obviously

a proud palestinian. how do you view what has been happening today? the u.s. secretary of state your tax dollars at work visiting this settlement. one thing that surprises us is about 100 meters from here. we welcome barack obama in 2012. he only met with the palestinian leadership, and it was a good visit then. we like we're optimistic now with pompei are coming here, like you said, a u.s. born citizen, educated us taxpayer. many of the people that own the land in the wondering there has been this. that pump is trying to sort of hide. some people are u.s. citizens, taxpayers, a lot of them have have the serve in the u.s. forces, military rangers, the u.s. marshals service. and what is what is asked of us for that though we have rights like these people, i'm sorry. what the question here is, what is he doing here? what, why did he come? but i mean, it seems to be another indorsement of the whole settlement enterprise. i mean,

do you believe that that will have and impacts? there are some are arguing that this kind of puts a new element into the legal argument over whether they can be viewed as legal under international law. can come, trump can come. and mitch mcconnell can come, lindsey graham can come, this is my passport. these are my deeds. they're not going to able to take it over . even my deeds. my deeds are issued by the israeli military, higher command for these lands. ok. so they can come and go if you want to drink some wine, that's fine. what he wants and he's not giving anybody anything. this is our land and what you like you said the word is it, it's not tax. i'm paying for his trip here. it's crazy. this is ridiculous is in terms of what you've seen over the last 4 years that the various elements of the trump policy, that of really assisted israel and which both he and prime minister netanyahu we're talking about earlier. how have you viewed that, given your nationality?

i haven't really, it's not just me as good as an american palestinian, but all of america was disappointed with the last elections have proved that we're looking for a better future. let's see if the world is changing. we're looking for a better future time. say the times have come now there their movement of the embassy to jerusalem. there are so-called deal of the century that dead of the century thing. i hope they're gone forever. and let's look, let's be optimistic for the future. now there are various moves that the palestinian authority has been making or the p.l.o. rather trying to really sort of give some sort of sense to the incoming biden ministration that they themselves a willing to reset the pre trump era. do you, you talk about the potential for the world moving in a better direction? do you see any concrete potential in a change in u.s. presidency? as soon as tom concedes and biden takes over,

you can ask me that question again. he hasn't conceded yet, and what we're hope our situation can't get any worse. let's. let's put it that way . ok, thank you very much sir. thank you. and as for my pump agenda for the rest of the day, this isn't the only piece of u.s. policy that he will be recapitulating in endorsing the recognition of the golan heights as sovereign israeli territory. he's heading there to make a tour of that region as well. ari thanks very much indeed, harry for so talking to us from the occupied west bank still ahead on al-jazeera australian soldiers are accused of unlawfully killing civilians and prisoners while serving in afghanistan a cry for help from communities across central america. after storm iota left a trail of destruction. hello

the season is no simple changing now had the 1st significant rain in beijing of what they're calling the winter. and so surprises being called the winter has not far away. 1st of all here. run across into far north of japan, inducing big rain showers through honshu or cold draft. afterwards, the highs temp in seoul, about 6 in beijing, about 7. and then there was happening in western china. admittedly, the ground is high here, but are the rain or it snow on its way to may well catch beijing on saturday, whereas for most places going to be rain increasingly cold, feeling rain as well. i think now the northeast monsoon is weakened a bit over the bay of bengal. we have got some rain in the south of indeed nothing like it was say about a week. and the quiet weather once again, the north indian plane and all the pakistanis equity is becoming worse and worse once more. there is activity in the arabian sea as circulation could turn into something and bring significant rain to the horn of africa in the next say,

otherwise things getting increasingly quiet and they remain lashing that way throughout the arabian peninsula. that's not true everywhere. there are showers, drawing again through northern sadi and parts of iraq and bring up in the eastern med if the storm system through cyprus, the levant, one of the most wanted man on the planet, the mastermind of a $4500000000.00 fraud. they want to put him in jail, but you cannot help being in the past. al-jazeera reveals never before heard recordings implicating some of the world's most powerful players. everyone poster would benefit by the piece of power and corruption, jolo hunt for a fugitive on a busy guy.

more judges here a reminder of our top stories this hour that have been promising results from a coronavirus vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca. the latest phase 2 findings show a strong immune response has been triggered in people over 70 years old. meanwhile, infections across africa have surpassed 2000000 of low rates of testing means the caseload is thought to be much higher. united nations says 30000 people have not crossed into sit down from northern ethiopia. they're fleeing ongoing violence between federal government forces and local forces in that scene. gray reach. pakistan's prime minister is in afghanistan for talks with president hamid in

cimarron khan's 1st visit to the country. it comes as peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban have stalled. and there's been ongoing violence between afghan forces and the taliban is following the story from islamabad. the fact remains that the election that of running a star on a budget on a prime minister all is a great thing for the time when he had vested nation, saying that he would be going to afghanistan and a priority to the wave of stagnation be thinned. out country however, within afghanistan there were divisions after the presidential election. there was a great deal of mistrust, but today speaking and romney said that both countries needed a leap of faith in order to restore peace and stability. he said, there were no need for a cease fire, and that improved relations between the 2 countries would be a harbinger for economic growth and prosperity in that region. tony prime minister

imran khan also saying that death was indeed a historic moment. and that bugged envoys, keen to see that reduction of violence in that country to the prime minister played a crucial role in bringing the afghan taliban to the negotiating table with the america and then playing an important role and dialogue though everybody. now of course innovatively watching what happened, given the fact that the united states president outgoing president garner drum, had said that he would be pulling out the american forces which could create a whack you make guarding a good many strategic annelid. along the way to inquiry into the conduct of australian special forces in afghanistan has uncovered a culture of secrecy, deceit, and cover up. it's found what it called credible evidence of multiple war crimes, including the un full unlawful killing of $13000.00 civilians and prisoners.

nicholas gage has more on the investigation from the stern is capital nearly 2 decades after the 1st destroy in troops were deployed to afghanistan astray as military faced up to some brutal truths, 23 incidents of alleged killing of 39 people in inquiry commission defense force can times what it says is credible evidence of war crimes in afghanistan carried out by the latest rally and special forces soldiers, including initiation, executions with junior soldiers were encouraged to kill prisoners and planting weapons on bodies to conceal unlawful behavior. i sincerely and unreservedly apologize for any wrongdoing. by australian soldiers, the inquiry says none of the killings took place in the heat of battle. the victims were unarmed and has recommended 19 soldiers be investigated. the responsibility

lies not only with those who pulled the trigger. the response of these training government, successive governments who taken a very short term approach, thinking about what should have been a long term strategy. the report also outlines a culture of secrecy and deceit within a stray special forces. it found no evidence that say new leadership knew of any alleged offenses, but it was a failure of higher command to not correct the toxic culture. before your investigation or a special investigator would be appointed to prepare evidence for any possible war crime prosecutions. a process that will walk the inquiry recommends compensation be paid even before the findings end up in court. a move welcomed by families of victims in afghanistan also want at the victims to be eventually participating in the legal proceedings. and not only in this investigation,

but also more importantly in the legal, the legal proceedings and ultimately in their lives and of justice of all the astray. leah has been involved in afghanistan with the longest. these new revelations will no doubt cough the shadow. what verse dryly has rolled in the complete gauge al-jazeera camera. so your politicians in the us are pushing for new legislation to block a $23000000000.00 weapons to the united arab emirates. the move seeking to hold president donald trump's deal to sell drones, f. 35 fighter jets and air to air missiles to the u.a.e. senators say the sale was rushed and threatens an arms race in the region. i mean is prime minister is promising to change the military and the electoral system if he faces pressure to resign or demands for a nickel, pushing him to step down after he signed a deal to hand over parts of the go in the car back to us or by john, after 6 weeks of fighting rallies organized by pro and anti-government,

demonstrators have been held in the capital yet of on soldiers who took part in the recent conflict were among the protesters so far has ignored calls to quit. al-jazeera is a sum of things of it is in physically the territory recently taken by azerbaijan. he spoke to the israeli president's special advisor. you're entering in really after 27 years. there is right there destruction. what is the plan? actually, we see the destruction. it's in a bundle is a, but are being committed by the army against the city and physically was one of the prosperous city of azerbaijan before completion. and azerbaijan has already started, well done planning and city planning process, so that it can structure, enter a city or physically and bring in internally displaced population of facility back to physically and as a deal quite aerators of azerbaijan. and once again, international community will see the difference between destruction of armenia and construction of azerbaijan. but of course, armenia as

a state bears the responsibility for such an action, sort of war crimes, crimes against humanity in cordons, in a policy of $1.00 ism. and based on that assessments, of course, we will continue to build international institutions including the international courts. so you armenia there, the demand by azerbaijan, to include turkish peacekeepers, there the centers where they're going to be based. that's not decided. how many are there going to be? that's not decided. so how are you going to talk about coming back to where your theory is, when there is so much still pending? indeed, the return of i.d.p.'s is going to be immediate process. a lot needs to be done, but no infrastructure has been left here, nor solid building has been left here, and all areas have been contaminated is a mines, and unexploded ordinance is absent, has been destroyed. therefore, it requires from azerbaijan to start new trucks from recent destruction policy areas. russian peacekeepers are deployed in not going to cut off region of

azerbaijan. as regards in a turkish peacekeepers, it's, i was in a monitoring system. and currently with parameters are in the process of discussion . thank you very much. thank you for a special advisor to the president talking to us in physically where there is widespread destruction all around. most of the infrastructure in the city has been taken out. locals here tell us that it was the city and surrounding areas which used to have about 140 or 1000 people who were displaced from this area. and since, they were taken out in the 1990 s., there is to be nothing but destruction that has happened here. so a lot needs to be done before people can actually come back in. joanne's are demanding the resignation of president sebastian pinera, but after a crackdown on demonstrations place in santiago, have used water cannon to disperse crowds and arrested people near the presidential palace 3 weeks ago. chileans voted in favor of rewriting the constitution. after more than a year of protests there also demanding the release of activists who've been jailed

. forecasters are warning the devastating floods left by storm could get worse because there is more heavy rain on the way. i also came ashore in central america as the strongest atlantic hurricane of the year, killing more than 30 people and leaving a trail of destruction. brian reports overcome with emotion. these families are being reunited after hurricane ike ripped through their homes in colombia. the desperation of seeing their neighborhoods destroyed the fear of losing their loved ones and the relief of survival. a too much i can't explain it. it's the worst thing a human can experience. now there are people on the streets sleeping on the streets . there's been a lifted from the island of providence ear, and this is what they've left behind. the military has been called in to help with

the cleanup. and what will be a long road to recovery time, a scale that the reconstruction challenge is going to be enormous gee, to the total destruction of a lot of the infrastructure. the important thing is that in the 1st $100.00 days of intervention, we will have humanitarian assistance and we'll be able to help the most affected families. the storm unleashed winds of around 250 kilometers an hour and record rainfall, swelling rivers, and triggering mudslides across central and south america. rooftops doss, the sea of muddy water and honduras, tains of thousands were forced to flee to shelters. i feel with thankful to god, thankful to those who arrived and help the children above all else. the atlantic has seen a record storm season this year. scientists say warmest seas caused by climate change and making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall. many of these

areas were battered by another major hurricane, just 2 weeks ago. authorities and build in nicaragua say anything left standing after that storm was destroyed this time around. shelters already packed after and now overwhelmed with new arrivals. right now, i'm in a shelter, but at any moment they could kick me out, and i don't know where to go, and it's not over yet. there are more warnings of life, 3 thank flash, flooding from the heavy rain in iotas tale, alexia brian al jazeera this is all dizzy with these at the top stories there have been promising results from a coronavirus vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca the chemical company, the latest phase 2 findings show a strong immune response,

has been triggered in people over 70 has more from london. the initial results say that this vaccine is generating a stronger me respond.