pandemics of the exploited to protect the people for the profit. and this is one of the full hail the meltdown is the 3rd corona virus vaccine and just a race to end the pandemic. but there are questions over of how effective it may be in the long term you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the bad people 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 in city of make about the dying humanitarian situation along the border with sudan is worsening. and after decades

of fighting and being forced from their homes as aries, head back to rebuild their lives and revive their culture. thank you for joining us. we begin with a promising development in the race to find a vaccine against corona virus. the u.k. pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and oxford university say their vaccine is on average 70 percent effective. but depending on dosage, we can increase to 90 percent. at $2.50, it's the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. and it can be stored at normal french temperature for 6 months, making it easier to distribute. last week, u.s. based company modernists. it is the experimental vaccine had proved to be 94.5 percent effective. it can be stored in a normal freezer for 6 months or fridge for 30 days earlier. america's pfizer and germany's biotech said there vaccine is 95 percent effective,

but it needs to be kept at specialists deep freeze temperatures. pfizer has already asked u.s. regulators to allow emergency use of its vaccine. early i spoke to dr. peter drawback who's an infectious disease doctor and as scoble health specialist, he says the vaccine is promising, but more analysis of the data is needed. 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 they are expert, astra zeneca vaccine results announced today i think they're really encouraging. obviously as preliminary data, we need to understand more about the different dosages and the different levels of 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 real advantages for this particular vaccine in terms of global

access. 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 a fairly wide distribution and be administered at a primary health care level in just about any setting world. and 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 are actually 2 different trials within the trial at different dosing levels. and $11.00 dose regimen produced a 62 percent effectiveness rate, and the other was about 90 percent. so we really need to understand the details about how large that 2nd cohort wasn't. you know, if indeed that, that lower dose thing actually produced a higher effectiveness, even 60 percent is

a nuff to make a significant difference. obviously 90 percent would be much better if 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. and 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 this pandemic . in other world news, saudi arabia is denying that crown prince mohammed bin salman met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the saudi foreign minister tweeted this response after these really public broadcaster reported a meeting took place. it was said to have included the head of israeli intelligence agency, mossad, and the u.s. secretary of state's mike on bail. let's speak to harry fossett in a forest. so harry, a denial from the saudis and no official confirmation. mr. abbott media reports all

day this saying this meeting did happen. what's going on here? that's right. and as well as the media reports which have been sourcing, it's 2 unnamed israeli officials. and this is a country where usually such things could easily be kept out of the media by pretty powerful censorship law if needed. there is a presumption that the israeli government has wanted this to be leaked and we've heard from ministers as well. the education minister saying that despite the semi official nature of its coming out, it was a great day for israel, essentially confirming that it had happened as well as that the coalition partner and erstwhile rival and potentially imminently future electoral rival of benjamin netanyahu. benny gantz, the defense minister, he was chiding at and you know, for allowing this to be leaked in this way. we've also been watching and you know himself at the israeli parliament, the knesset. he was asked directly about this saying that i haven't talked about

this kind of thing for years and i'm not going to start now. he said, but he also said that he had been working for years to expand the circle of peace. so again, tipping his hat to the fact that as far as the israelis are concerned, it seems they want to put the message out that yes, there was this meeting between netanyahu been some on the crown prince of saudi arabia. and the u.s. such a state might compare. there's often been talk harry of hostile relations between israel and saudi arabia, between the jewish state and the home of islam's holiest sites publicly at the top . but what about privately? well yes, i mean, privately, it is been reported and it's pretty much generally accepted. there have been high level clandestine meetings for some time. this would be the highest ever acknowledged level of such a meeting though, between the crown prince and the israeli prime minister. especially given that it took place reportedly on saudi territory in this way. as for the saudis

and the americans might compare has been doing, giving been doing a sort of a goodbye tour of the region in the last weeks of the trial of ministration. it's very clear that he wants the u.s. administration, wants to try to shore up some of the accomplishments as far as they're concerned of the 4 years of the trump presidency and very high among those. as far as they're concerned is the normalization agreements that israel has already signed with other arab states. saudi arabia is obviously the big one, given the fact that the foreign minister has denied this meeting ever took place. that shows how sensitive this still is the same foreign minister was saying just a couple of days ago that there could be no normalization with israel without 1st there being a palestinian state established. we've spoken to some senior palestinian officials here. one says that if this happened, it would have been heartbreaking and other pointed to those remarks by the foreign minister saying that that remains as far as they're concerned, the saudi positional though no guarantees going forward that that would continue.

but it could be that all of these parties, the saudis, the americans, and the israelis all for their shared interests, are trying to get together in this semi public way ahead of an incoming biden ministration. in order to try to continue that progress towards normalization, to continue the pressure on iran. of course, benjamin netanyahu in self recently giving president elect biden, a pretty public warning about the iran nuclear deal, saying that as far as he's concerned, united states shouldn't go back to that. so it may be an attempt to try to bring this out from under the covers a little bit to try to nudge the next u.s. administration. had a faucet in ramallah. thank you. and israel's cabinet has approved a mutual v.c. extension agreement with the united arab emirates ministers 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 normalized relations with israel in august.

so we're starting to get an idea of who will take the top positions in a biden administration. the us president elect is expected to announce anthony blinken as the new secretary of state, making his long served as a foreign policy adviser to biden reports also suggest 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. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton that speak to our white house correspondent kimberly hall care about this. so kimberly, what do these choices say about where u.s. foreign policy is headed under joe biden? it says a lot. we expect of these announcements will be formalized on tuesday, and what this suggests is that a priority for a biden administration in the early days will be to reassemble global alliances. these 2 names. and both of these picks not only talk about experience as being

valued by the president or for incoming president, but also that foreign policy establishment in terms of the relationship is critical . as the incoming president looks to forge some of those relationships that may have been affected by donald trump's policies, namely the america 1st policies which were very insular. what this could look like is, and we've already seen the signal from joe biden, that he intends to try and forge these relationships in terms of rejoining the paris climate accord. again, reviving the iran nuclear agreement and also the world health organization. so this seems to be a priority and in terms of these picks, these are the type of people that will already have some established relationships globally, as they try to push ahead with resetting if you will, american foreign policy on the global stage. in the meantime, the outgoing president, companies giving up,

but more republicans seem to be breaking away from him and his claims a victory. is it just a matter of time before? well, you know, there's the possibility. he may never and will just be an administration that marches towards the inauguration where joe biden and calmly, harris will take over. what we're looking at here though is a president that refuses to concede, continues to try to exhaust all legal challenges, even as he's been failing quite significantly. what we know is that there is going to be another certification of votes, pennsylvania today as well as michigan. we know tomorrow will be nevada. next week it'll be arizona, wisconsin. the really are very few options left for this president. still he's pushing ahead with some of these challenges, requesting a recount in wisconsin, for example. but you're right, even members of the president's own republican party loyalists like former new jersey governor chris christie, saying this is a national embarrassment,

the president should concede, and that these challenges are futile. committee, thank you very much for that company. white house correspondent hi. still ahead on al-jazeera, i coulda went to wave be coming to south korea. officials impose new coronavirus restrictions to try and stem it. the man behind the ice bucket challenge, patrick wayne, has died after a battle with look at the impact he's had in the search for a killer. hello, we've got sir. clear, a crisp weather pushing into japan at the moment. clearing skies coming in, we have got a little bit of cloud just pulling away from that east, the side of japan, 16 celsius in tokyo freshening up here. 7 nights there for beijing and also for red . so we'll see some attempt is bigger $13.00 wednesday, perhaps

a touch warmer in seoul, but great difference, a fair amount of sparkling blue skies there and some sunshine. then we've got at 14 celsius, the chance of showers into the northeast of honshu, but nothing too much to speak of. well, the more the way of shabby rain is the central parts of china. kolarov to the north of that. when off down to the south, hong kong at $27.00 celsius, decent spells of sunshine, sunshine too, into central and much of northern india, down towards the south, down towards the southern sections of the go. we do have a developing system here that's throwing a lot of heavy rain pushing across into under pradesh that could lead to some flooding as we go through the next couple days. it may well develop into way of cyclists. we want to keep an eye on further north, other end of the spectrum here, cold wet and wintry weather coming in across northern parts of india and cold enough to fill the pakistan.

is there a risk, realistically, how can you do it instead it was corruption in the disc country. we listen if this breaks up and gone for good bugs on an india, this has implications for the rest of the world. we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter from 0 to 0. there is no channel that covers world news like we do, we revisit places, mistake. others are really invested in that and that's a privilege. as a journalist is welcome back. every couple of our top stories on al-jazeera,

a pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca, an oxygen or versity, say, late stage testing of the 1000. but seen, show all says it's highly effective. they say that can be stored at fridge, temperature, making it easier and cheaper to distribute. but there are questions over how effective the vaccine will be in the long term. saudi arabia is denying that crown prince mohammed bin salman met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the saudi foreign minister tweeted in response after the israeli public broadcaster reported a meeting, took place in neon saudi arabia and u.s. president elect joe biden is set to make key cabinet appointments. in the coming days, his longtime adviser, anthony blinken, is expected to be named secretary of state, while jake sullivan is lined up as national security advisor. there both obama era of fish now to indonesia, where more than half a 1000000 people have been infected with the coronavirus daily cases are now passing $4000.00 only this month. president joker, we don't know,

announced mass vaccinations will be rolled out by the end of the year. indonesia has a region's highest number of cases and deaths. south korea, meanwhile, is introducing new restrictions to try and stem a 3rd wave as winter starts. daily cover 1000 infections have topped 300 for much of the last week and officials here, they could rise further. rob mcbride records himself 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 bride al-jazeera sole health authorities in the gaza strip say the recent rise in infections could overwhelm the medical system within

a week, they warn critical patients will soon be turned away as intensive care units near capacity. gases recorded more than 14000 cases and $65.00 calls in $1000.00 deaths to libya now where rival parliaments are due to meet in morocco for reunification talks in a separate event. a 2nd round of united nations that talks have resumed in a virtual format. this comes after the warring sides held their 1st round of meetings last week in tunisia, they agreed to hold elections late next year. but negotiators failed to name a unity government. the leader of ethiopia, people's liberation front is denying that government troops have surrounded the city of mckenney. the government says its military is within 50 kilometers of the city. a spokesman says to graze, forces are fired rockets are the city of buy here dar, but didn't cause any damage from mr. abu ahmed told the left to lay down arms by wednesday or face a final assault on may. kelly, malcolm webb has more now on the group's refusal to surrender. well,

they've refuted that 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 is a complete 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 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 sudan sudanese authorities are hoping

to camps to cope with the in fact refugees as have a mortgage rate for some god, every state some have experienced life like this before refugee camp in sudan's got a lot of state is need too many refugees, but not it 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 data i went to america to give birth to my child, but then the fighting started and you 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. had hoped 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 on 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 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

far, but 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 to any of the united nations says it expects $200000.00 if you refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months if fighting, integrate along with lack of humanitarian access continues. so the news authorities say the camp has a limited capacity and more camps need to be established. but we're urging donors and international organizations to help us cope with the situation because it's very dire. some organizations are provided 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. that has says, she took her children would never live the life she had lived. but with 3 generations of refugees in her family, she wonders when the search for

a permanent refuge and stability will end. he will morgan al-jazeera, get out of state pro-democracy activists, joshua long has faded guilty to unlawful assembly during last year's protests. he was joined in court by fellow activists and ivan, the 3 will be held in custody until sentencing next week and could face 5 years in jail. diego palin has more from hong kong. 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 avatar apollo will stop us from activists on. this would be the 4th time joshua long. he's being sent to jail. his 1st prison sentence is 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 protests to prison, to safeguard liberty for the place that we are born. all of them have made silas. but regardless, 2nd, feis, this is just the latest in

a growing number of activists being taken to court for relatively minor offenses stemming from last year's protests. since 2091 than 10000, people have been arrested with the least 2000 of the charge for protest related activities. last week, armenia and azerbaijan signed an agreement and 6 weeks of fighting over the disputed region of a spot of that deal. armenian troops are withdrawn from districts, as it comes back under control. many displaced from their decades ago are preparing to return some of the job that has a story. since the 1970 s., has been known as a car about google on 1000 music went quiet in the 1990 s., when bombs and bullets echoed through a newborn a car bomb. in a conflict between other by john in armenia, the folk singer was forced from his home. but since then, the award winning artist has lived close by on the armenian other by john border

here on the of very controlled region. the recent conflicts or shells rained down on villages on both sides, but that didn't stop him from doing what he loves most. all of them is the dumbest my heart and soul. that's why i live here on never stop singing . even when the shells rains down, after getting back, i'm very happy. many of his friends were forced from their homes in the 1990 s. as well. an estimated 200000 were displaced after more than 70 percent of our was taken by armenia. now they plan to go home when armenian forces have a draw on the wagons are still there and have aged as well. people lived inside and under the rail cars for years. it's the end of the line now, but this used to be a real link between and kind can be arsed to find occurred. the tracks have been severed, but not the links. famous for racing and writing. the car of a horses are

a symbol of the region inhabited by ethnic armenians in a very the horses exercise for an hour a day. and now this stuff on his board in $260.00 thought of reds, reputed daily in their words, so much that selling 10 a year before the whole stable, displaced from his home and e.u. has been in a quaint trainer for over 40 years. now eager to return, he says, the better in water and will be like white diamonds for the horses or even the horses or i.d.p.'s like people very sensitive and i could tell the horses felt they were being kicked out from their own land. i feel very emotional. once of them is cleared of mines in infrastructure is redeveloped. the plant there is you worldwide auctions in car of the people that the horses, their music, the singing is all displaced from the region where it originally belonged to. and

they can't wait to return home down to 0. and the co-creator of the ice bucket challenge patrick quinn has died at the age of $37.00. the challenge became one of the biggest social media campaigns in history, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for medical research. and 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 $38.00 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 shortly after, i went on google and i, you know, a.o.s. creation and p.

3. and want to hone the unit and we have a guy in c.v. respond. right, pat and pete for eighty's decided to fight the disease while they still could and began raising money for research. they founded 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. at a clear again, i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera pharmaceutical company astra zeneca and oxford university say late stage testing of their covert 1000 vaccine shows. it's highly effective. they say can be stored at french temperature, making it cheaper and easier to distribute, but they are questions over how effective it may be in the long term. saudi arabia is denying that crown prince mohammed bin solomon has met with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. the saudi foreign ministry tweeted in response after the israeli public broadcast.