postol not one, it's close to the bahamas with his pulling away at the moment. elsewhere. it's sunshine and shells. in the early 0 0. this is a news hour on al-jazeera fully back to go live in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. a 3rd coronavirus vaccine enters the race to end the pandemic, but they are questions over a colleague fictive. it may be in the long term, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu authorized tucson's, arabia for secret talks with iran, friends mom, it's been sound and also this hour ethiopian government forces say they're moving closer to the to gray in city of may kelly. but the diet humanitarian situation

along the border with sudan is worsening, and u.s. president elect joe biden is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments and tony blinken, a former obama administration official, is expected to be named secretary of state. an unschooled, the head of african football has been handed a 5 year ban a by the sports world governing body fifa. ahmed ahmed was found guilty of financial misconduct following an investigation. thank you very much for joining us. we begin this news hour with a promising breakthrough in the global race to find a vaccine for corona virus. raising hopes of an end to the pandemic could be within reach the u.k. pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and the university of oxford have said they have caught a vaccine for the world. they say that on average have seen is 70 percent effective,

but that may increase to 90 percent depending on the dosage at $2.50 is the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. this is the 3rd major company to report late stage results this month. last week, u.s. based company medina said its experimental vaccine had proved to be 94.5 percent effective. and like the oxide vaccine, it can be stored in a normal fridge, making it easier to distribute. earlier america's pfizer and germany's biotech said their vaccine is 95 percent effective against all the 19, but it needs to be kept at subzero temperatures. pfizer has already asked u.s. regulators to allow emergency use of its vaccine that's being in john hall in london for us. so some more exciting news alona join on the vaccine front to what do the 3rd phase results of the oxer vaccine reveal fist well, 1st of all these are interim results from large scale trials. phase 3 trials,

as you say, that astra zeneca, the company, the pharmaceutical company, believes are sufficient to submit immediately to the regulators hoping for approval for initial rollouts take place at the end of december in this country. there is a discrepancy in the results in terms of the dosage regimes that we used in these trials. the overall dosage regime, which was a full dose, followed by another full dose a month later, produced not so encouraging results of around 62 percent efficacies. but a subset of that of, of a different dosage regime a hard dose before a full dose of months later produced much better results up to 98 percent. it will be for the regulators to decide whether that subset produces sufficient data to be deemed safe, usable, and therefore able to be put into production. the company believes that it is, but either way, this is a hugely significant product because as they say, it appears to be something like a vaccine for the world. no serious side effects. those who do so slipped through

the net as it were, and contract the virus having taken the vaccine, do so only with mild symptoms. so that brings hospital admissions down no deaths at all. and crucially, on a practical basis, it's able to be stored at a fridge temperature $2.00 to $8.00 degrees celsius. that could be an ice box in developing parts of the world. where say there is no electricity, it's also incredibly cheap to scale up and mass produce. they're talking about $3000000000.00 doses of the vaccine being available worldwide during the course of 2021. put those things together. and it's hugely significant use news for the developing world for poorer parts of the world as they await the vaccine. just as much as we do yet, as well as we await for this vaccine. of course, the concern for coronaviruses tale there is a voice. johnson is expected to announce this afternoon. what is going to happen after the last down and in the u.k. on december 2nd? what bands being considered he run oldest by his cabinet on sunday. much of it has been leaked when the lockdown in

england ends on december the 2nd, it will be replaced by a strengthened version. he allowed plan. the details of this in parliament are still to strengthen version of the tear system of restrictions that was introduced in october. to control the virus at a local level, but the certainly the top tier of those restrictions will be much stiffer than they were before. that will, in turn, it's hope give way to a period over the christmas period of a few days when households will be allowed to mix with it, be a relaxation of the rules before the 2 system kicks back in. in the new year. they will also be announcements to do with mass testing regimes building on a trial that was launched in liverpool a couple of weeks ago that will help those worst affected part of the country come out of their tears and also reduce the need for 14 day isolation periods if people are deemed to have been in contact with other sufferers, join a hole in london. well, let's discuss the race for a vaccine for the now with doc to pizza dough brock who is an infectious disease

medic and i know bill health specialist joining us from oxford. thank you very much, dr. de bach for being with us. big picture for us. what are your initial thoughts on about how successful, practical, and viable the vaccine will be compared to the pfizer and medina vaccines? thank you for having me, let me 1st. just say i was not involved with the development of this vaccine. so my views are independent. it's really exciting news today. the race that's on is not a race against competing companies. the race is against the virus. we're going to need all of these vaccines to turn the tide of this pandemic. now with regard to the oxford astra zeneca vaccine, which results announced today, i think they're really encouraging. obviously is preliminary data. we need to understand more about the different dosages and of the different levels of the effectiveness. but what we do have is clear, preliminary evidence that this vaccine appears to be safe and effective in this large scale trial. and as i was just outlined,

there are some really advantages for this particular vaccine in terms of global access. and on that, there was a commitment upfront, not to profit from this vaccine during the pandemic. so the price is about a 10th of some of the other vaccines that there already is a large scale manufacturing in about $10.00 countries around the world. particularly a very large manufacturing partnership in india, in the fact that the, the cold chain storage is pretty typical for a lot of vaccines. that this is the sort of vaccine that could get into fairly wide sister abuse and be administered at a primary health care level rank just about any setting worlds. but what about the efficacy and safety of the vaccines ochs what is said and said to be about 70 percent. but, you know, last week we had madonna and pfizer talking about 95 to 90 percent of i think a sea of rates. why, why they're not of the same level? what's different? well, the different mechanisms of action we have to remember all we have now are sound bites from press releases. no, and none of us have actually seen the data from any of these trials yet. with the

oxford vaccine, there were actually 2 different trials within the trial and at different dosing levels and 11 dose regimen produced a 62 percent effectiveness rates. and the other was about 90 percent. so we really need to understand the details about how large that seconds cohort wasn't. you know, if indeed that, that lower dosing actually produced a higher effectiveness, even 60 percent is a nuff to make a significant difference. obviously 90 percent would be much better, right? there's one other thing that's really important that most of these vaccines have actually been looking at whether you can prevent symptomatic infection. but that's, there's a difference in preventing illness and preventing infection in actually the oxford results. they were the 1st to report that they actually prevented or reduced asymptomatic infection. that has big implications for how we control the terms of it. that's very interesting and important to point out because until now we thought that this would just be to protect the vaccine,

would be to protect you from getting seriously l. and not necessarily from being infected. many. just ask you one last question. if we can doctor the question of immunity, of course, how long will immunity last with all these 3 vaccines? how long will people remain protected? how you know when and where they need a 2nd boost, maybe quickly that that's still everything going question as well? absolutely. the answer is, we just don't know, this is all too new. we're learning a lot about how long immunity last for people who have recovered from infection and their mixtape, to be honest, but so far, the signs are encouraging that it appears to last. hopefully for at least 6 months, more recent trial, probably longer than that. it's definitely possible that this may be a situation where we need to be revaccinated yearly or periodically. but only time will tell what we need to focus on right now. this trying to save lives, control transmission, get this 1st wave of vaccines out. we also remember the 1st vaccines may not be the best. there are over 150 vaccines in the pipeline now. and so there's a lot,

i think, of opportunity down the pipeline. dr. peter de brock, thank you very much for talking to us about this. thank you. as lots more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour, including frustration grows in latin america over the economic devastation caused by the calling of endemic vast. he was known as the bling bling president. but now france's nicolas sarkozy is facing corruption charges in courts. and in sports, this 39 year old swedish strike, every manes and stoppable family have the story coming up in the israeli public broadcaster has reported that prime minister net benyamin netanyahu has made an unannounced visit to saudi arabia to meet with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon. the saudi foreign minister has just tweeted, denying such a meeting has occurred. let's bring in harry fossett live for us in ramallah in the

occupied west bank. so the saudis are saying the meet and it didn't happen. what are these ready say? that's right. it's curious and curious of this secret meeting which was not very secret and is now being denied ever took place at all by the saudis were all read you a tweet. this is from the saudi foreign minister. i've seen press reports about a port of meeting between his royal highness, the crown prince and israeli officials, during the recent visit by secretary pompei of the u.s. search of state. no such meeting occurred. the only officials present were american and saudis. so that is now the official saudi line. while at the same time, there have been all these reports from political journalists in israel, suggesting very direct leaks from the netanyahu administration, senior israeli officials being sourced that indeed, benjamin netanyahu and the head of the mossad, your c cohen, both flew on a private business jet from tel aviv to the would be saudi red sea

resort of naome on sunday evening and had this 3 way meeting between netanyahu. the saudi crown prince mohammed, bin salman, and the u.s. actual state might pompei or not only have these reports been cited to senior israeli officials. there have been ministers who've been talking about it as if it had happened, the education minister saying that that it had happened even though did only been announced in this semi official way benny gantz. the alternate prime minister and defense minister chiding netanyahu saying, use irresponsible for this meeting to be leaked in this way. so we have 2, entirely competing narratives now as to whether this meeting took place or not. how fast that in ramallah. thank you. or as you heard there, the saudis are denying this meeting between netanyahu and the saudi crown prince. at base a i spoke to our senior political analyst who said that if this indeed happened,

it's all about the legacy of the tramp administration in its final weeks. certainly it's part of the race with time. i think everyone understands the spiked his trenches and the trumpet message and will come to an end january 20th. and i think that top administration is trying to cement whatever legacy he's leaving behind in the middle east, especially in terms of the so-called deal of the century. that basically underlines potential normalization between arab states and israel. now,, despite all the hoopla about the hurricane or the u.a.e., normalizing relations with israel, everyone understands that without saudi. this is all just thin air, hot air in the end of the day without riyadh coming into the fall. this will be true or this will remain shaky and weaken,

and i think it's important for circle to bumper. you and the top administration to bring in the neo and the conference in order to see if there are ways by which to convince that ambitious crown prince that it is in the best interest of. so you're abia to normalize relations with israel. 'd before january 20th and israel's cabinet has approved a mutual vs, a extension agreement with the united arab emirates, menaces ratified the treaty, which was signed in tel aviv last month. prime minister netanyahu says he hopes the development will strengthen economic ties with the u.a.e. . the emirates normalize relations with israel in progress. yemen's, who the rebels say they fired a missile at and number aamco fuel distribution station in saudi arabia's western port city of jeddah, video 2nd meeting on social media appear to show a notch fire in the city. saudi arabia has not commented on the claims of the spokesman says foreign companies operating in the area. 'd should exercise caution warning. military operations will continue. ethiopia now and government forces say

they're closing in on the northern tier grave regions. capital may kelly, the government says it's within 50 kilometers of the city. a spokesman also says t. grace forces have fired rockets at the city of by here. but we can't independently verify this information. now, despite the prime minister's warning for the tea, great people's liberation front to lay down their arms by wednesday. the group is so far is using to do so. developments from nairobi, kenya, with a refuted demand for them to lay down arms. there's certainly no sign of that and neither sides have been talking to each other for months now. and that was part of the issues that led up to this conflict. the completed breakdown in the breakdown in communication, the total refusal of both sides to to recognize the other's legitimacy. now for the $300000.00 people that live in the town of me, kelly,

if there's to be heavy fighting or a battle there, it'll certainly be quite dangerous for them. now the federal troops have insisted that they're only targeting to gray and leadership in the to grain military and aligned militia, but certainly hundreds, possibly thousands of people have been killed in this conflict so far in fighting in an airstrike. and certainly the movements of people show that people, disability living in the area certainly don't feel safe about 40000. people refugees have already crossed to neighboring city. don and sudanese authorities have opened 2 camps to cope with the influx of refugees from ethiopia. has he been morgan before some god, every state, some have experienced life like this before. a refugee camp in sudan's got out of state is need too many refugees, but not that has this fight. her parents fled to the camp in 1085 to escape war and famine back in their home country. she's back to the same old camp. this time with

her 10 day old child who she gave birth to while fleeing conflict in ethiopia, stigler a region of the more lida. i went to america to give birth to my child, but then the fighting started and we had to flee. i gave birth to my child while i was running away to come here. he was born on the road. now i'm back to the camp where i was born as a refugee and my new born is at the same camp. also, refugio was closed in the year 2000, following the return of most of the refugees who once lived in the capital back to ethiopia. but 20 years later, the camp is open again to cope with an influx of ethiopian refugees who started arriving to sudan. 2 weeks ago, all here have escaped from various parts of degree. nearly 40000 refugees have fled to sudan altogether, following a government offensive on the to great people's liberation front. the offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base, which came after months of tension between the regional government and the federal

government. taking a dash of hope not to come back to the camp. when he left here 2 years before it was closed, but he says the fighting has left him with no option. has a home and how to they're killing us, integrate. there are people being killed, our own children, bombs are being dropped on buildings. it's sad that many of us are displaced again, but we want to live. we don't want to die in war. more than $6000.00 refugees now live in the camp. it's opened less than 2 weeks ago. even though receiving refugees isn't new for the owner of the number of those arriving here has been increasing so fast that many of them are still without shelter access to basic services such as clean water, food and healthcare is also challenging. for many, this place is once again providing them with a refuge in the united nations says it expects 200000 refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months if fighting, integrate along with lack of humanitarian access continues. so these authorities

say the camp has a limited capacity and more camps need to be established. and we're urging donors and international organizations to help us cope with the situation because it's very dire. some organizations are providing aid, but there's too many people for the state. and for a few we're going to zation. they need services and they need care, which we can't provide alone. sudan already has its economic problems. so we need the international community to help us with this crisis. didn't, has says she took to children would never live the life she had left. but with 3 generations of refugees in her family. she wonders when the search for a permanent refuge and stability will and people morgan al-jazeera get out of state . now we're starting to get an idea of who will take the top positions in a joe biden administration. the us president elect is expected to announce anthony blinken as the new secretary of state. lincoln has long served as the foreign

policy adviser to biden. and reports also suggests that jake sullivan is being lined up to take on the role of national security adviser. sort of and has served as a longtime adviser to biden and former u.s. senator and presidential candidate hillary clinton. that's bring in our white house correspondent for more on this. kimberly hall, kate who is live in washington. kimberly, so it seems like the president elect is trying to rely on people with foreign policy experience. what does tony benn can say about where u.s. foreign policy has had it yet in terms of where this is headed, it's very clear that the focus of president elect biden is to rebuild global alliances and also restore america's prominence on the world stage. what could that look like? well, we've already heard from joe biden, and he's signaled that very quickly in the early days of it is the administration. he hopes you a number of things including rejoin the paris climate accord, revive the iran nuclear agreement,

also joined again the world health organization. so the fact that he has chosen in terms of the announcement respect on tuesday, not just anthony blinken for secretary of state, but also jake sullivan, for the national security adviser position really gives us a sense that he is looking to reframe foreign policy. and really undo some of those america 1st policies of the trumpet, ministration and the president. meanwhile, still not conceding the today's an important day. i understand when it comes to his legal challenges. can you tell us about that? yeah, in terms of these legal challenges, as we've been reporting for weeks, they have not been for the most part successful just to give you a sense of what's happening today. another setback, as the president tries to draw this out, pennsylvania as well as michigan will be certifying their vote for joe biden. today, what we know is that nevada will be doing the same on tuesday next week. arizona

and wisconsin. now wisconsin's important because that is a state where in a couple of counties that lean heavily democratic the campaign has asked for a recount. that is set to go under way. but at the same time, what this is clear is that donald trump is trying to run out the clock and he's exhausting all of his legal options. so much so that it's not just democrats asking him to concede for the good of the country, but also members of his own republican party, including loyalists like a former governor of new jersey, chris christie, who called tribes failure to do so. a national embarrassment given the fact that as joe biden tries to put in place, members of his administration, that what they need to do are important background checks, which so far they have not been able to do because donald trump has yet to concede . kimberly, thank you very much for that to france now and the corruption trial of former president nicolas sarkozy is underway in paris. sarkozy's accused of attempting to

bribe a judge, the court case is set to last until december 10th. let's bring in a butler in paris. so a high profile case underway, natasha. what's going to happen in the next few weeks? yes, former french president nicolas sarkozy is in courts now. he faces allegations of corruption for a case that dates back to 2014. that is, when investigators say that nicolas sarkozy attempted to try and influence a magistrate and obtain information about another legal case that nicolas sarkozy was being, was allegedly involved with. well, in the course of the moment what we have a situation in which the court is trying to decide whether or not proceedings will actually go ahead today. because one of nicolas sarkozy's coa cues the magistrate in question is, says his lawyer, a vulnerable person, an older man with respiratory problems. and because of the covert pandemic in france, at the moment,

he has been unable to come to the called. so we're waiting to see whether proceedings that will go ahead either way. it is fair to say that this trial is going to be incredibly closely watch. nicolas sarkozy, a former french president, somebody who still has a very high public profile. here in france is still has a lot of support amongst many people in his conservative party. and he's also a president that many people know is somebody who broke with many of the traditions of his predecessors with his energetic and tough talking style. he was an interior minister also, and in his 1st years of his presidency, sonny carved out a reputation as being a normal order president, tough on crime. here he finds himself, of course, on the other side. but sarkozy natasha not the 1st leader in france to be accused of corruption. is there a sense that in france, corruption in politics is, is a problem indeed, sarkozy, as you say, not the 1st french, a former president to be accused of corruption. we saw in 20 and never in former

president jacques chirac was found guilty of corruption for a case that dated back to when he had been the mayor of paris earlier this year. just a few months ago, sarkozy's former prime minister and a former $27.00 to $1.00 conservative presidential candidate for swarthy law, was found guilty or fraud. and what we get a sense of here is in france as these high profile cases, really feel really fuel a sense, amongst many people that politicians abuse their power very often for their own personal gain, in this case of calls just feeding into that so cozy for his father, he has always maintained that the allegations against him are politically motivated and he says that is why he's happy to fight them in court in paris. thank you very much for that time. after a check of the world weather his efforts, vox, hello there, we've got some dry weather now. pushing into japan, bad of cloud, just easing out into the open waters. clear skies just tucking in behind, but fresh weather 2 times in tokyo to around 16 celsius. 70 is there for seoul and

for beijing, perhaps a touch warmer in seoul 10 celsius. struggling to get his double figures as we go through wednesday. as you can see, japan largely dry one or 2 showers into that eastern side of college, but nothing much to speak of just 14 celsius. therefore, i was never too far away. so i was never too far away to from central parts of china, but to the south of that, it is fine and dry with some sunshine, as is the case to cause the northern parts of the philippines indochina generates a fair usual rash of showers across much of southeast asia and the really pepping up. some are seeing some heavy showers the late peninsula, also seeing some lively outbreaks of rape as we go through the next day or 2 and those showers pushing down into indonesia. so very wet weather pushing into india as well. at the moment we got this circulation, this nasty development that may well develop into wayside phone as we go through the next day or so. let's choose days. pitcher pushing into time on the under

protest turning increased the wet as we go on through wednesday. and that rain pushing further west the thursday. still ahead on this new warnings of an environmental disaster. we'll look at the impact of an ambitious real estate project on pakistan's, mangroves, and in sport, find out which major league soccer team guy shot out in a shoot up style be here with the all the action make the distance. last man, december on al-jazeera. it's 10 years since of revolution in tunisia ignited the arab spring. al-jazeera looks back at the uprising and asks what really changed across the middle east. the stream is where al jazeera is global audience becomes a global community. a year after the 1st coronavirus case in china will examine the devastation caused by the virus and the efforts made to eliminate covert 90 people

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top stories. pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca, an oxford university say their late stage testing of their coverage. 1000 back shows it's. i'm effective. they say it can be stored at frigid temperatures, making it easy to distribute, but they are questions over how effective it may be in the long term. saudi arabia's foreign minister has denied reports of a meeting between the crown prince mohammed bin simon, and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that runs counter to israeli media reports who have been saying, no major unannounced visit to saudi arabia in the city of me to meet with the crown prince. and in france, a corruption trial of former president is underway in paris. he's accused of attempting to bribe a judge. the court case is set to last until december 10th. now, world leaders are due to meet virtually to decide how much international aid afghanistan will receive over the next 4 years. many contributions are expected to be reduced and the un's children's agency says that's hurting efforts to tackle

mounir titian from kabul. feel contre 43 ports a year after omar was born, his body started to swell and his mother rushed him to kandahar as hospital for urgent treatment. pressure doing what we should is the death of them. he got missiles now he's feeling better, but doctors told us he's malnourished and admitted his hearing this word. god, it is. john didn't know her son suffers from acute malnutrition, so didn't the mother of 10 month old want to law, who was admitted with diarrhea. both survived, but the u.n. styled agency. unicef says nearly 800000 children under 5 suffer life threatening monitor. and nearly 200000 of those cases developed in the 1st 5 months of this year. most children are covered, so we would have no way of really knowing what happens to 400 or 500000 of

these children. most of these children will die of pneumonia or die riya. because of death, it is their malnourished state that puts them at risk when they catch something else. and so their deaths would be labeled. otherwise, unicef says more than 2 and a half 1000000 children face acute malnutrition. the number has doubled within the last 3 years in afghanistan as it suffers rising poverty, violence unemployment. and the pandemic and international aid to afghanistan has fallen in recent years. a meat concerns among donors over instability and corruption. that's left hospitals struggling to cope with the support you. if we lose the support of the international red cross, we will not even have a bandage to offer the supplies that we get from the government for the entire year are not enough for a month, especially right now because we have more patients than usual out of ghana, stans,

largest children's hospital in kabul facilities are limited care. there are only 2 rooms available for morris children. and if there are not enough, they're all here for the treatment of life threatening conditions like him only out and wanting to head not survive. units of supplies in attritional milk to help treat the children, but there is a temporary storage. the situation has been made worse in the country by the spread of call, that 19 fragile countries like afghanistan when they, when they undergo a shock like cold it is just one shock to many. and we have a huge number of children and 2, you know, very severe malnutrition and we need and then we have to focus on treatment and operation. and it's good to do a little bit. and that's right now the situation there in terms of treatment. and we just don't have the funds even with talks between the government and the taliban

taking place in qatar's capital doha. many are hoping peace may be possible, but many children facing monitor ation and famine will have to survive the coming months if they're to have a chance to see it. kabul, well, afghanistan's economy's forecast to contract by at least 5.5 percent this year, largely due to the pandemic. and on top of that, international aid could also be cut back. funding could be slashed by as much as 20 percent. delegates from about 70 nations are set to make pledges during a 2 day virtual conference, which is getting underway in geneva. about $4000000000.00 a year were played in 2016 before the pandemic. but now many governments are instead focusing on financial fallout sent home aid will likely be tied to new political conditions, especially amid ongoing fighting between the taliban and afghan forces and the withdrawal of thousands of u.s. soldiers in january. let's speak to michael semple, a bottle of this. he is a researcher and policy advisor on afghanistan and professor at queens university

in belfast. thank you very much for being with us. so some international donors have already said that they're considering actually cutting aid to afghanistan. just how difficult do you think you'll be to convince them to pledge more money right now? i think the message from the congo will be that if your to have peace it will be important to keep the law in, but the outcome of peace negotiations between the kabul government and the taliban being held in capital doha so far uncertain. and you have the security situation continuing to deteriorate in afghanistan with several attacks recently linked to i saw. are they any closer to reaching a deal? you think the answer to that is not yet, but the talks are under way there. that something which we didn't say last year, there are e 3 power allowed trucks on the international intervention,

not on the stand. there's the military, which we've seen, they talk about rapid withdrawal of u.s. forces, drawing, drawing numbers down to really unprecedented low levels. we've got the, we've got the peace truck, which is frustrating. nobody can give you a, a precise deadline as to when that will deliver an agreement. but then you've got this 3rd strike, which is the development funding. and i think by refocusing on the issue of developments on doing ouster several months in which people were just looking at the, the military and the negotiations. it's a reminder, if there is to be a hope of peace in afghanistan, it really is important too that the afghan state survives, the afghan state does not produce enough revenue yet to, to pay its way. a continual continuing problem for the international community is required or else it just falls apart. what about the conditions tied to the funding?

what will the afghan government be able to live up to? well, that's a very important question. there's one set of conditions around corruption and we know that the, the donors are trying to ensure that they, the afghan government, you know, if i was jus transparency appoints serious monitors for these programs they, it's important that the afghan government does agree to those, but also that doesn't to go miss but there's another set of bigger conditions which is really will be will the 4 year program that the international community is due to differ. do tonight, support? will it incentivizes the afghan government basically to sit there and say, we don't not to need peace because we're being because we are being paid by the international community or can the international community phrase it in such

a way that the development funding incentivizes the peace deal because the still the attempts are under way to bring the taliban on board inside a deal. write those enter afghan talks. how much you think the troop withdrawal announcement by the tran administration has weakened the government's negotiating position. there's a lot of concern around this. the afghan government of course says that no our, our own forces are well equipped and motivated to continue the fight. but i think that in reality, the announcement of the latest reductions which go ahead of what was promised to in the u.s. taliban deal. on the 29th of february. they create a strong incentive to the taliban to try and wait out the u.s. in the hope that they can actually defeat the afghan forces next year. and that is

not helpful to achieving a peace deal. and michael semple, always good to get a thought on this. thank you very much for joining us. and your more on the coronavirus pandemic now. and south korea is introducing new cover 1000 restrictions to try and stem a 3rd wave as winter starts. daily infections have topped 300 for much of the last week, and officials fear they could rise further. robin wright from force themselves on south korea's 5 tier scale for social distancing restrictions, are being raised to level 2 for the sole metropolitan area which is home to around half the country's population. the spike in new cases has officials here worried, understand you're in a cocktail. if we do not stop this trend, the number of patients will rise as if a dam had broken. the new measures will mean cafes can only serve takeout in restaurant dining will end earlier each evening while they'll be tighter restrictions on class sizes in schools and numbers of spectators at sporting events

. nightclubs will also be closed. the last time nightclubs were closed was in the 2nd wave that happened during the summer. the 1st wave was in the southeastern city of daegu at the start of the outbreak here in february. but what worries officials about this wave is how widespread it is of preemptive testing in isolated were effective for the previous 2 waves as they happen around main clusters. in contrast, this time there are various sources of infection. it's led to the government calling for a redoubling of efforts. this coordinated drone show pushing the message that the virus can be overcome by people working together as they have for so many months with the promise of a vaccine on the other side of a difficult winter. robert bridle jazeera soul. in indonesia, more than half

a 1000000 people have now been infected with corona, virus. daily cases are passing $4000.00 ellie. this month president joe cole. we, doto, announced mass vaccinations will be rolled out by the end of the year. indonesia has the region's highest number of cases and deaths. governments across latin america, meanwhile, and the caribbean are among those putting their faith in corona virus vaccines as deaths and infections continue to rise across the region. daniel shaima reports from when a size the number of people killed in infected by the corona virus across latin america in the caribbean, continues to rise along the way governments have been handling the pandemic protests in mexico with more than 1000000. people infected to brazil with more than 6 and a half 1000000 hopes rest on a vaccine. we know that they're leaving the vaccine. in fact, late this, the but i was actually from latin america in the caribbean. if you make that

a vaccination, i only do it by fear of the population. are we going to see more than $2000000000.00? but already weak economies have been devastated by the pandemic with businesses closed thousands losing their homes and health services stretched to breaking point . all are impatient to see an effective vaccine introduced that then show me the medical care vaccines and medicines must be free and universally available. a few others are expecting the vaccine to be free, but affordable and easily available. argentina has already bought 9000000 doses to cover 10 percent of its population corporation in solidarity of a key elements in the fight against the pandemic. this fight is not just a task for governments. it's a collective responsibility for the international community that's acquires a great global solidarity pact, international health bodies, pharmaceutical companies, banks, donors, and governments are working together to ensure that when the vaccines already

they'll be available and affordable to wall in america. you know, in latin america, the exact same pattern has been followed as in the united states. there are some countries that have a regulatory authorization for use in emergency situations and it others were working to make this happen. 23000000, people across latin america have been infected by the cold 19 virus. nearly 700000 have died. several countries including argentina, mexico, peru, and chile are in the gauche ations to ensure they don't miss out when a vaccine is ready. trying to fallon the host, an expectation that when imminent enter the nightmare against growing impatient of the measures imposed to try to control the pandemic. the new form, the rajah's era. one of cyrus health authorities in the gaza strip say the recent rise in corona virus infections could overwhelm the medical system within a week. they warn, critical patients will soon be turned away as intensive care units are needed. capacity recorded more than 14000 infections and 65 deaths.

hong kong now and pro-democracy activists, joshua one has pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly during last year's protests. he was joined in court by fellow activist agnes chauhan, ivan lam. the 3 will be held in custody until sentencing next week and could face 5 years in jail. last year's protests outside hong kong headquarters were triggered by the introduction of a controversial extradition bill. has more from the prosecution, spent most of the day's proceedings, presenting evidence mostly in the form of video footage, showing the events of the night of june 21st 2019. it shows thousands of people who had surrounded the police station, blockading the police headquarters. but the footage mainly focused on joshua warren, ivan lamb, and i can this child chanting slogans and calling on the police commissioner to come out and face the public. they all have pleaded guilty and could face up to 5

years in jail. perhaps a foretaste wish me to stay in prison, but i would 1st say that neither person boss, no election baez, nor any other arbitrary power to stop us from activists on. this would be the 4th time joshua long is being sent to jail. his 1st prison sentences back in 2017, he was just a teenager then. but it was also for protest related offenses. back then he was seen as one of hong kong's 1st political prisoners and it sends shock waves across the city. but this is a very different hong kong now, especially in the past few months where the arrests and detentions of political and democracy activists have become a frequent occurrence. under the calling you a crackdown against the city is. this is this generation of you've go from protest to prison, to safeguard liberty for the place that we are born. all of them have made silas,

but we got less 2nd, feis, this is just the latest in a growing number of activists being taken to court for relatively minor offenses. timing from last year's protests since 2091 than 10000, people have been arrested with the least 2000 of the charge for protest related activities. environmentalists and pakistan are warning that a government plan to develop 2 islands in the arabian sea could create an environmental disaster. the islands, situated near karachi, are known for their man go for it says they provide natural cover from storms and pollution reac ago terry course. they are known as karachi's green lungs. but these mangrove forests on the shores of one of the most polluted cities on earth, i should think fast. and now environmentalists say they will also try to end by a $50000000000.00 housing project plant by the government. i think if you're going

to do land reclamation here and phillis with cern and mine, that it's nothing short of. that's the mangrove forests that form a protective barrier. it's the mangroves that protect us from the storms and cyclists. and the ecosystem here is essential for the livelihood of the fishermen become illegal logging and pollution have already damaged these mangroves and their diverse ecosystem. tens of thousands of people depend on them for commercial fishing. they see they now risk losing everything. the allotments on the look of the sea will be spoiled. there will be a lot of pollution at the construction of the city. hundreds of thousands of officer men will become unemployed. prime minister imran khan's government says the project to create thousands of jobs and ease pressure on karachi, a city of 20000000 people. but it has put promise to iran, contra, covenant,

at old speed. provincial leaders, government believe that yes, development has to do this. but the development not at the cost of your property market, the cost of your people and market the cost of your environment. monsoon floods this year have caused damage in many areas of karachi and environmental say, if the natural protection offered by the islands is also wrote it, the city could face an environmental disaster, practical al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera, the man behind the ice bucket challenge patrick quinn, has died after a battle with a.o.l.'s square. look at the impact his had in the search for a killer and in sport. we'll hear from the new a.t.p. final stampin after winning the biggest title of his career in just business leaders as to why no brush paul

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rule the world the world. welcome back. the co-creator of the ice bucket challenge patrick quinn has died at the age of $37.00. a challenge became one of the biggest social media campaigns in history, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for medical research, and has more in the summer of 2011, shortly after playing in a softball tournament. patrick quinn felt a twitch in his arm that didn't feel right. symptoms progressed, but doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. 2 years later, at the age of 38 quinn was diagnosed with the motor neuron disease, a.l.'s, more commonly known as lou gehrig's disease, which destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord eventually ending the

brain's ability to control muscle movements. there is no cure and most people with the condition die within 3 to 5 years of diagnosis after i was diagnosed, surely after i, i well knew and i have young ale aspiration and p. 3 is what popped up. and what the, how only to believe this guy in c.v. responds. well, absolutely right, pat and pete freydis decided to fight the disease while they still could and began raising money for research. they found at the ice bucket challenge where people would pour cold water over their heads and perhaps imagine experiencing the kind of muscle stiffness they suffered from and challenge others to do the same. and everyone to donate the campaign had its critics at the time. but the money poured in, the challenge became a viral sensation raising more than $115000000.00 for the association. and more

than $220000000.00 for research. since then, several genes have been discovered that contribute to the disease. the idea of a legacy may bring your mind to death, but it's most certainly not about death. it's about creation. you create your legacy every day in the way you live and how you live. that spoke about the legacy he hoped to leave behind, namely, to fight against a less until there is a cure at work continues, even though he's no longer on the front lines. and are chappelle al-jazeera. time for sports now has santa thank you very much of ali, well, african football, president obama that madonna has been handed a 5 year ban by the sports world governing body for financial misconduct. it follows an investigation into the 60 year old's conduct as a cast president between 20172019 as ethics committee found that he had breached various codes of ethics, including offering and accepting gifts and abusing his position in news comes as

adam, who is also the fifo vice president had been complaining for reelection as the head of african football. the caf elections are set for march in rabat, while fifa says ahmed financial abuses including using calf funds to pay for an almost $2.00, mecca for football officials last year, took temporary control of african football to try and speed up reforms. an independent audit of caffe finances concluded it records were unreliable, and not trustworthy. does now have the option of appealing against this ban. at the court of arbitration for sport. it was supposed to african sports journalist. she tells us that healthy decision to ban ahmed ahmed could impact the future of african football one. but decision after that matter, after another literally disgress in african football. i think that people have made

the right move, you know, to make this decision. because we're talking about financial misconduct. you have a scenario where there might be buy tickets in the duration presidents in africa too good to in mecca. and he used cough money. how bad can it get for a leader to use money that is meant, for example, the development of african football. and he uses it all his own passion and needs. so i am in march 27000 when he's hired to running against we thought that he's going to come and change the face of africa and football because we're 29 years. yes. i have to did some good things. but the deterioration we're starting to was in full glare. if i may say this election is very, very important, because as a continent we need to move and go to the next level. i mean,

this is in all aspects. it should be, for example, are we going to have teams test for the title at the people won't come into top. could we put ourselves in a position where club football gives prioritize and on television for every we went in and watched. these are some of the decisions that we feel will be very important and should be addressed by the next couple president. top of the italian league table after clinching the 1st went to naples for more than a decade, slots on the bottom of it was the start of the night. and i spoke to goals and it's the one win over napoli, ryan, of which now scored 10 goals. this season, so it picked up an injury and left the game in the 2nd half the result means milan, top story are on 20 point defending premier league champions at liverpool have moved to a level on points with tottenham at the top of the table. less the city's we won at

anfield on evans scored an own goal. and the roberto for me got on the scoresheet livable have now set a new club record of 64. top flight home matches without defeat. next up for the reds is the champions league. and performance wise is absolutely incredible. and it's the only reason for the number of them. obviously it's pretty tricky and pretty difficult to do, said records for paul, this incredible club, because i will fathers and grandfathers. they develop is a pretty good. so having this record now, i have, i'm happy for the players, but it doesn't feel like this in a moment. like the big moment to be honest because we play him on wednesday, and that's why i actually only concern in the moment demanded. exalt her, sporting kansas city beat the san jose earthquakes to reach the semifinal round of the m.l.s. cup playoffs. the earthquakes managed to tie the match at 30 am. the game eventually

went to penalties. sporting scorekeeper timoney had saved all 3 of san jose shootout attempts. while the kansas city players made all 3 of their attempts, rushes down there, medvedev has won the last big title of the men's tennis season. he beat dominant team at 2 in the a.t.p. finals. the tournament says goodbye to london, well known before medvedev following up to his semifinal when over rafael nadal in style, my 23 sets. but for the 4th back to take the decider, 64 and win this title for the 1st time in his korea. probably my best weeks, 3 of my life. not even talking about the title itself. i mean to win the masters being on this unit. i mean, honestly, i would even, i know i can play good, but i would not believe it. if you would tell me this before the tournament saw a great boost boost of confidence for our all the slams coming up and all the

tournaments. hopefully i can, can continue this way. if you use the big 3 are still still will play for, for every brick title, but i guess they're still going to be a time when, when those guys will retire and annoying, 345 years. and then guests, we will be the favorites for all the big titles. and i think for tennis, it some exciting times are coming ahead. well, the partnership of the us, man, i was going to call hall sancho a says that he could make to check have been one of the success stories of the end they be to your gun. and why that all of us lend to tame the double stroller at the end of the 1st season to get that from me. holy son, i thank you very much for that. that's it for this news hour on algis there. distain with us. so i'll be back with a more world news in just a few minutes on al-jazeera back after

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protect the people for the profit episode, one of the full hail the meltdown on his era. a 3rd coronavirus vaccine enters the race to end the pandemic. but there are questions over a how effective it may be in the long term. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also ahead. saudi arabia's foreign minister denies israeli media reports that prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with crown prince mohammed bin solomon. ethiopian government forces say they're moving closer to the to gray and city of may care about the dying humanitarian situation along the border with sudan is worse.