from on london broadcast center on al-jazeera. arabic fast tracking, the coronavirus vaccine rollout in america, a top health official says immunization could begin this early as next month. the world's richest nations commit to fair access to all countries because of the 90 vaccines. my can, but i'll, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up an ultimatum to surrender. the g.o.p.'s government says rebel to graham forces have 72 hours to give up their families. votes being counted and became a faso after election marred by violence and allegations of phone was my

the us says it's hoping to begin a program of vaccinations against cover 19 could begin as early as december, the 11th head of the white house vaccine task force. so the plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year 2 vaccines are up for approval in december. both said to be 95 percent effective. our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. so i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the united states across all states. in all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine.,

there's been a surge in new infections across the u.s., which has now recorded more than 12000000 cases. hospital admissions have doubled in recent weeks and daily deaths and they are in highs not seen since may. and g. 20 leaders have promised to spend no effort in making sure that vaccines are distributed fairly around the world. fast wrapping up the virtual summit hosted by saudi arabia. they gave few specifics on exactly how this would be guaranteed. we have more on the g 20 summit a bit later, but 1st she brings us up to date with the situation in the us. from wilmington, delaware, that's the home state of president elect, joe biden. the midwest is a particularly hard hit to the middle of the country, basically is being particularly hard hit. 200000 always 200000 cases a day now being, being recorded. and the fear is that we have the spike right now with hospital bags under enormous strain. and we might be heading for yet another spike because of the

fags giving holiday which is coming up on, on thursday, the c.d.c. pleading with americans not to travel to visit their families this week. they really think that it will become a huge super spreader event. basically, thanksgiving, as families gather indoors, around dining tables. as there are suggestions that some americans, at least are heeding those warnings. a 1000000 americans pass through the u.s. is that ports on friday. that's less than half the same, the number that time last year. having said that, there is real concern that there will be millions and millions of americans traveling around the country, potentially causing yet another spike at a time when we are undergoing these huge numbers as it is. g. 20 leaders have wrapped up their virtual summit hosted by saudi arabia, where the global fight against covered 19 dominated the agenda. discussions focused on helping poor nations to recover from the economic damage inflicted by the pandemic. the fanatic etta james banks reports that saudi arabia's king solomon

concluded this 2 day summit conducted by video conference and handed over to the g . 20 presidency to the italian prime minister giuseppe contests. but then in a previously unannounced appearance, the king's son, crown prince mohammed bin sound man, made his own address to a man who's in day to day charge in saudi arabia and to human rights. campaigners blame for the continued repression in the kingdom, said the g 20 is actions greatly helped the world deal with the pandemic of the fish in light of the outbreak of causes 19 and its health, economic and social repercussions that a tower in a recovery center has been important more than ever or to have been about how together we have addressed this challenge with seriousness necessitated by the responsibility to preserve human lives, protect livelihoods, mitigate the ensuing damage, demick, and raise readiness to face any creature crises, god forbid. but compare that with the demands of the international medical and

humanitarian community. the u.n. secretary general, who is one of those who took part in the g 20, made it clear at a news conference on friday. how much money was needed to get the vaccine to the poorest parts of the world. but 28000000000 more needed, including 4200000000 before the end of the this funding is critical for mass many factoring procurement and delivery of new carving, 1000 vaccines and tools around the world. that funding was one of 2 main asks by the secretary general, but it is not here in the final declaration by g. 20 leaders. he also lost that debt relief offered by the g. 20 earlier in the year to some of the poorest countries on earth. be extended to middle income countries who need it. again, it's not here and the g. 20 have fallen short. james pays al-jazeera at the united nations. simon clark is an associate professor and founding of their microbiology at the university of

reading. he says distribution of the vaccine in the developing world can be quite difficult. the research and development has been done quite quickly and that's been done in parts by overlapping certain steps. all the developments in the research, not by not doing them a tall. and it also should be remembered that in normal vaccine development, we talk about a 10 year timeframe. a lot of that time is actually wasted. a lot of it is that spent on bureaucracy, a lot of it is spent in the laboratory, not actually putting it into human volunteers, which is what's been happening over the past few months from a safety perspective. that's the real, the, the really important step in the development of the vaccine technology for delivering the vaccines was actually already in place. and like i said, a lot of the trials of actually been overlapped, not missed out completely. so it's not that they haven't been god and they've just

been carried out in parallel rather than sequentially. the chinese and the russians haven't done their trials in a traditional manner. they will have data in g. . of course, they are using them under emergency provisions and are putting them into a go at the stage earlier than they would have been allowed to in the west. that's that decision to do it. but we will see in time what happens with those actually does well ethiopia's prime minister has given rebels a northern to grave region, 72 hours to surrender. government forces plant and circle the regional capital, the chemical. the city is under the control of the tigre, a people's liberation front. the reuters news agency reports its forces have destroyed votes and bridges to slow the government balance. does an example, he describes the government's plan to advance a city. the government forces i'd yet to reach the outskirts of the city of mackellar couple of the to grow region. but they are already talking about their

plan on how they want to seize start city, which is not only the biggest city in the to great region, but also the stronghold of the 2 p.l.o. leaders. prime minister. these government does spirit to see that cup should. now they're saying to finish the wall that is going to happen in the mountainous areas surrounding the killing. there will be needing tunks and also to living fired into this city, targeting military installations there on the differences of the t.p.s. . they're saying there will also use strikes and drone attacks against the defenses on its outskirts before. if you have been national defense forces can advance towards the field or fields on the outskirts of the city. they have been dropping overnight and lift lots of warning civilians not to go anywhere near

military installations and to stay at home. but it's not known what the civilians who are already facing, shortage of food and every other basic essential, can do other than flee at least 30000 refugees have fled. fighting in ethiopia to neighboring saddam. and the un has warned that that number is likely to increase. it's also warned that 2000000 people in tipperary are an urgent need of food, medical supplies and fuel. european union has pledged nearly 5000000 dollars in 8. the monday my. out of the sort on the head of the, in the past, the war was for the sake of power. but this war is civil and tribal, the arm, how to tribe does not want us to live. they do not accept us, young or old is to grounds. they don't even want the children to live at all. now what we came on foot, we were walking for 3 days. we did not eat and we had little water. where arrived at the camp now 8 days after we arrived,

we have food to eat and water to drink. is the emergency coordinator with the un's refugee agency for sudan. he describes the challenges and sudanese border. the 1st challenge is that in just over 2 weeks apart, 40000, people have been asked lead to saddam units. you are in our government partner corps, and we have registered these people here. they need immediately food, safe drinking water, shelter and sanitation at the border. they don't get sick so, so this is the challenge in a very remote area of eastern saddam. the other important point right now is to decongest the border points. these people cannot say at the border. the border area is not the place to to have a refugee camp. so we are currently building a new camp, further inland, and about 70 kilometers distance from the borders. qassam rocket, who go? i've met myself, a family were young baby, then asked the mother how old is the baby and she said it was 10 days old. so basically this family has crossed the border of

a newborn. so they are very moving scenes here and very difficult things. i think for everybody and so darn our difficult situation comes to an already challenging situation with all the circumstances saddam hosting 1000000 refugees already 2400000, internally displaced. now this comes as an additional burden, nevertheless, would have seen when visiting the border areas over the last days, the local communities to share the little they have were coming to the refugees. the earth origins here have also been great. they've allocated land for the construction of a new camp, the border solvent for those who need to seek asylum. so at least you know, that's the most immediate protection we can offer. about a region human rights group says more than $140.00 people have been arrested during sunday's protests against president. alexander lukashenko was low cost and there just many of those arrested were beaten by police. thousands demonstrated nationwide for the 68th consecutive sunday. protests began

after an august presidential election gave look at schechter his 6th term in office activists say, nearly 20000 people have been detained so far. spain is to send extra police to target human traffickers in senegal. this year, more than 18000, people have their senekal by boat to seek asylum in spain's canary islands. that has a 10 fold increase on last year or than 500 people have died making the journey around half of the arrivals. and most of the deaths have been in the last 30 days. spain's from mr. gonzalez layer met with senegal's president in dhaka to discuss the migration search. there's a need to know a lot of years of those from the beginning of code. we know that one of the risks during covidien postcode is immigration because covert is destroying african economies, as it is also had a huge impact on european economies. we knew that one of the consequences of this

pandemic was going to be an increase in migration. there is also a great concern in this country from the president of cynical for all these human trafficking networks that thurston rich, very few and sick and put at risk a large part of the young population who leave this country. a large part of them die on the journey she europe imagining in a rival of a place where they will be welcomed with open arms. still ahead on al-jazeera, a show of strength, pakistan's opposition parties hold rallies, calling on the prime minister to resign. and the big tech vestment that greece is banking on to reboot its economy and avoid another hello winter. sunk as far south is going to for now it's left. it's snowing,

freezing, rain, a lot of us talk. it's left sunshine and lower temperatures. so the korean peninsula, they're coming back to sunny skies to japan, and through most to china. but this is fairly dirty sun, john. other cloud is increasing these heading up towards beijing as well. there's rain for some spotty rain. there was a bit of snow that's largely gone, so we wait for the next bits cut to come south from mongolia. now is cooled down in hong kong. the breeze is picked up, but it's not as cold as it was, which means that the showers of the sas, china sea are just 90 shows. you need much colder of the warm water to get big showers. these are light from the same is true for most of luzon. further south in the philippines and indonesia, those showers are big and fairly frequent, but that's correct for this time of the year. and the tropical depression of spinning up not far away from sri lanka will produce significant rain for the coastal town. no do. and also the north of sri lanka, not will be there tuesday and wednesday for the rest of the continent. i think

we'll find because northern india, a small disturbance in the a smart improve the quality we have seen recently reading of briefing in baghdad is our foreign picture with a strong and outspoken writer killed in a car bomb outside his parents' home. in 2005, accusations, speculation and denials. al-jazeera while charging the life and vine. and dad of simeon casias journalist into academic and political activist, sami, across the killing of a journalist on al-jazeera. just

there on her mind of our top stories this hour, the head of the u.s. vaccine program says 1st americans could receive it as soon as december 11th. that's a day off to regulators meet to decide on the safety of 2 vaccine candidates. the plan is to vaccinate $20000000.00 people before the end of the year. and g. 20 leaders say that bell spared no effort to ensure the fair distribution of grow virus vaccines around the world. but wrapping up a virtual summit hosted by saudi arabia to get a few specifics on exactly how this began. ethiopia's prime minister has given rebels in the north, into great region into wednesday to surrender. government forces are threatening an all out assault on the regional capital. votes is underway in the presidential and parliamentary elections. millions of voters turned out just 5

fears of attacks. the country had seen a spike in violence ahead of the vote. president mark a border, you see rather another term, but he's being challenged by 12 other candidates and some are already in the election. fold is monitoring the election from a brooch watched by observers and journalists. president cristina goes to cast his ballot, hoping it will help keep him in power for another 5 years. his 1st term has been overshadowed by attacks by armed groups that have killed more than 2000 people and taken over large areas of land. more to do with this is about picking a fast as democracy. it is also about the development, but it is also about peace in our country. so it is important for everybody to go and vote and choose the one who will lead this country tomorrow. that is all that we ask their taxes for more than

a 1000000 people from their homes and the opposition hope the insecurity will work against us, efforts to be reelected. one of his main challenges and the man he defeated in 2015 is different jobbery. he also voted in the capital, he repeated his accusation. the vote has been bricked. all these facts of alleged fraud are before us. this is why we decided yesterday to file a complaint with the prosecutor of the king of fast. so we're well aware of the slowness of our own judicial institutions. what we want is not to wait 2 or 3 weeks after the elections for a decision. we want it to be decided now in our homes, the election commission called a press conference halfway through the voting process somewhat. everything went well. even in areas we suspected there would be trouble. there was no voter fraud or irregularities, but election to hold in other areas. despite the allegations is excited.

i am so happy to vote for the 1st time. i feel like my ballot will help to change something in this country. initially i didn't want to vote, but the election in the us motivated me. this is a 2nd election since former president place comported was toppled from power in 24 . after weeks of street protests, his party said it's ready to return to government. but the opposition is seen as divided and that could hand victory, took a bori. analysts say the opposition's best hope is a 2nd round that will give time to present a united front supporters of the government and the opposition agree. this poor, landlocked country needs peace and security. the question of who is best qualified to achieve that could be determined in the next few days. and although many here are relieved, the election has been free of violence. there are no guarantees. attacks would come in the days and weeks ahead. al-jazeera u.s.

president, all drums, they all seem as if planning a pennsylvania quarter olding was dismissed, an attempt to invalidate millions of mainland votes. a federal judge said the trump campaign lawsuit was without merit. yes, another legal setback and transferred to overturn the results of the us presidential election. trump's lawyer giuliani says the ruling actually helps bring their case closer to the supreme court. but the former governor of new jersey, fellow republican, chris christie, says the legal campaign has become a fast. the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment. they won't do it inside the courtroom. they allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don't put fraud and they don't argue fraud. this is what i was concerned about at 2. 30 in the morning on wednesday night. listen, i've been a supporter of the president's i voted for him twice, but elections have consequences and we care markets and you to act as if something happened here that didn't happen. experimental treatment given to don't trump when

he contract a cove it has been cleared for why they use the u.s. food and drug administration has approved emergency use of regenerative covert. 19 antibody treatment in the u.k. will be the 1st country to begin clinical trials for a new antibody treatment developed by astra zeneca. it's designed to treat people with a weakened immune system who cannot be vaccinated. well, the pandemic crushing the global economy. some countries like greece, a facing us, so there recession for the 2nd time in just a decade. the government believes investment in tech industries going to the crisis . reports from now they feel love video is a town of unemployment. the money spent at the local farmers' market comes largely from pensions because traditional industry is gone. ancient silver and books like mines were abandoned 30 years ago, so were textile mills that employed thousands. this may all be about to change

because software giant microsoft may be interested in buying these hollowed out facilities. it's part of a wave of digital technology investments that's happening in greece. as of a couple who was in the netherlands when she heard of the u.s. drug maker, pfizer was hiring software engineers in her home city of the sun. and i think when you realize you know something on your own very own it's one of just 6 global digital technology hubs, where teams of software engineers will speed up the analysis of diseases and the

testing of cures the government is actively pursuing digital investment because it has a multiplier effect on the economy. high internet speeds and local data centers are expected to attract other investments. and in the age of coronavirus, more and more services are moving online. this old textile mill is one site microsoft is reportedly considering as the location of the massive new data center . the company has said it will spend about half a $1000000000.00 building 3 such centers in greece over the next 3 years to provide cloud computing services for south east europe. you'd have to go as far north as

poland or germany to find a similar microsoft investment. greece could suffer a 10 percent recession this year because of covert 19. so the question is whether it's lurch toward the digital economy will come quickly enough to replace lost jobs, jobs at all, plus al-jazeera love you. health authorities in the gaza strip say the recent rise in corona virus infections could overwhelm the medical system within a week. they want critical patients will soon be turned away. intensive care units in a capacity. gaza has a population of 2000000 people. it's medical system has suffered from an israeli and egyptian imposed blockade. it's recorded more than 14000 texans and 65 deaths. opposition parties in pakistan have held a huge rally, calling on prime minister imran khan to resign. thank you's, the military of wrecking the election that comes 12 years ago. the valleys happened in defiance of government bans on public gatherings. demonstrators said the government is using coronavirus as an excuse to stop them. my heart has moved from

peshawar. the pakistan democratic movement is a grouping of very liberal political parties. there are very large joy in the provincial capital of the op robinson pre-show. well, despite warnings from the government, that large crowd roared ak their support spread there. but the, our pollution say the government is using there that the play in order to deter them from holding these large rallies, the prime minister creating their did large rallies will not force him to resign. and that the opposition that if you are just carelessness, the kind of unsure that we all are afraid of from this coming. if they haven't lived up to their promises, they made an impact this time. but we haven't seen any change so far. today is the day of your friend and the manhunt government is rejected. we need free and fair reelection to just 30 car. today's really is one of the biggest rally of the opposition parties. with the aim to get rid of the selected prime minister who

wasn't forced on us, but now the current don't have started. the pricing of a central commodities are skyrocketing and they're hoping to get the public support they need in order to put enough pressure on iran cause government. the opposition, on the other hand, will be trying to galvanize the people step back. given the fact that the government has not been able to live up to its promises. but you know, for the last 2 years we're tolerating this incompetent government of iran can. but no enough is enough. we can't afford a living as the prince of essential commodities beyond the reach. the know if gives to sin the schoolroom. john astonished you. but what? we all are demanding the resignation from imran khan who failed to deliver. and today, everyone is suffering from his wrong policies. look at the economy, look at the positive. if he stays most people's thoughts is the day. it will be important to see whether these political parties will prolong from the far right or

go far left. i never could reconcile their ideological and political differences and your night against the government. that is something that everybody had in progress on would be waiting to see, but failed the moment is by the pressure from the opposition. the government is not backing down. sunday marks, st cecilia day, the patron saint of music in mexico, that usually means a huge procession of mariella parading through the capital. it's one of the country's most famous music styles that the sea of the event has been called off. and the struggling to get by on home reports from mexico city. oh, if you've got a birth, a wedding or even a serenade to take to your lover's window. this is who you bring with you in mexico . when you're, a are laid off slow. she's the sewing twined with the country's d.n.a., but it's hard to think of a party without them. the problem is that since coded celebrations have been thin

on the ground and the suffering mark is monti's has been playing for 33 years and can't remember a worse time. and what they're not going to get it about god, it would have to stop working for 4 and a half months. people don't come to garibaldi because they're frightened of getting infected. that's been really tough for us. as other engagements have dropped off, depressingly funerals have become among the biggest earners. this square is the heartland, and it would normally be humming with groups waiting to be hired. person of about these like the spiritual center for money at tis in mexico. everybody knows that after you've had a couple of drinks, you can come here and ask your favorite song to be played, usually by a universe of different groups that are just waiting for you. but over the last few months, what the money out here telling us is that instead of music coming from every direction, it's just been silent here. and it's not just the economic impact that's hit hard

in a job with a constantly exposed to large groups of strangers at most. but i don't want to compare, you know, that, i mean, we've lost a lot of colleagues because they've had to go out and provide for their families. i don't have an exact number, but maybe 50 of them, including someone i played with. he was only 29 minutes crew still wrecking the cases. the bars and restaurants have been allowed to reopen with restrictions on the money got to slowly returning to places like the time the cornerstone of the plaza, the last 100 years. because normally this place be full of body art, you know what i remember what the look of the mothership would have at least 4 groups of mariachi playing here tonight. if things were normal with around 300 people listening to the police from our course, he's playing it going on the same number of it. and i want to, it's like when you're in love with a woman and you see her again. after a long time, you have such a beautiful feeling. that's what it's like now. i'm back playing my violin. every

song supposed to help 1st through concern. these men and their families depend on the music going on. john home makes her city. paris is lit out for the christmas season, despite few people being on the streets to see it, the trees lining the famous subsidies. a global red wrapped in traditional garments avenue is usually busy in the lead up to christmas, locked up to slow the spread of coronaviruses dissuaded many coming else watching. i'll just say our minds are off our top stories, the head of the u.s. . that same program says the 1st americans could receive it as soon as december 11th. that's the day after regulators meet to decide of the safety of 2 vaccine candidates. plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year.