completely destroyed, it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq and turned into a battleground between the mahdi army and the americans. we want returns to iraq after the americans. at this time on al jazeera this is al-jazeera. hello. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. astra zeneca says there coronavirus vaccine is up to 90 percent effective, with an ambitious plan to produce billions of doses by next year. biden administration continues to take shape with key nominations and appointments, including the 1st ever climate czar. a former president appears in court in france . nicolas sarkozy faces charges of corruption, including influencing a judge and

a standoff in northern ethiopia. government forces prepare for a final assault on the city of mckenna. to grant forces refused to step aside. and the presidents of african football ahmed ahmed has been banned for 5 years. football's world governing body farming amid guilty of breaching its code of ethics . begin here in the u.k. where there's more good news in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine. this time from the drug company astra zeneca working in partnership with oxford university. they staged testing shows. its candidate vaccine is on average 70 percent effective in protecting against code 19, but that increases to 90 percent depending on the way it's administered. russia's and it has vaccine is the least expensive so far. and crucially,

it can be stored in the fridge, which makes it easier to distribute on the vaccines need to be stored at much lower temperatures. the firm says it can have up to 200000000 doses ready by the end of the year. possibly 3000000 by 2021. turn how reports it's being hailed as a vaccine for the world pharmaceuticals firm astra zeneca in partnership with the university of oxford says interim trial results will be sent to regulators immediately in the hope their product is approved for rollout before the end of the year. we've got a vaccine, which is a fact it prevents a live action. and intriguingly, in result of a headline is that we do have, as are our and then of all those of the where we saw 90 percent or more data may be needed to confirm the 90 percent subgroup results.

but cheaper to mass produce easier to distribute, to more moderate temperatures than its competitors. the british vaccine is good news for poorer parts of the world. in time, the astra zeneca oxford vaccine could lead to an end to the pandemic world wide reaching parts of the world. the other vaccines on offer simply can't, but on a much shorter time scale, it's already being projected by the government here. that vaccine technology may lead to a resumption of normal life by easter for sure students in england was on the 2nd of december, addressing parliament remotely while serving a period of isolation himself. prime minister morris johnson outlined a post lockdown plan for england, a return to the regional system of tiered restrictions introduced in october, but strengthened this time to guard against a further surge 1st. we must get through winter without the virus really out of control. very hard by gates at exactly the time when the burden on the

n.h.s. is always great to plan is designed to carry out safely. just so from december, the 2nd until april shops will reopen, parts of the economy will be allowed to breathe again and the government has promised that families can meet up over the christmas period. there is more than cautious optimism that an end to all of this is inside. jonah, how al-jazeera london. the world health organization says results from the oxen vaccine trial are encouraging. it would, as ations chief scientist says, the development of several successful drugs could help bring the at the pandemic under control. the good news is that backs against the corporate 92 disease. it's possible to make and it's possible that we will have a number of the flu vaccine candidates that can be used in the fight against this disease and has been discussing the act accelerated today. i think this is very

relevant because people would like to provide access to as many efficacious and safe back scenes as possible. so we can cover the population around the world. when the senate speak to the liking of our largest sang us mosque us, he joins us live from newcastle via skype. thank you very much for being with us. so aside from the issue of the fact that it can be stored at frigid temperatures, rather than the much lower temperatures of say, those there's other vaccines. what are the advantages and disadvantages of the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine? i think frankly, the art of boxing is made mainly easier to store and transport. and that is the major advantage that he's presenting. there's no huge other additional advantages. if anything, walk a dog youth, the pfizer and the vaccines actually have more advantages. because although in the short term, it costs literally 10 times as much just to move these things around,

the phrases consume 10 times as much energy at minus 85 better up to minus 20 degrees. the fact is that we know how to turn these kind of compounds into powders and keep them us room temperature stored or even just played fridge thought powders . and therefore, within a year from now, it is quite likely that these companies will be looking to bring to the market to the clinic. these ultra cold boxing's, but in a powder form of that can be stored on the shelf. and in the meantime, this came back to, to where they are with it at the moment. do you see any, any problems with the fact that they had numbers of people in they faced a 3 trial was small and say that they the other, the other comparable trials? no, i don't. i don't think that this much of a problem because in the general scale of things, this is still hot. tens of thousands of people that what they did was something

actually smarter than just go for one dose and see what happened there. why and split their treatment groups into 2 and one group received after start with a full those a month later, the other group received 2 full dose s. . and it just turned out that the 1st testing group actually was the one that was best to protect it. so if anything, oxford honest resigned to help very smartly and this trial design, now they've been able to find an optimal testing point. so they can go now and apply for this approval for the hof plus full dose, dose or groceryman. expect me how it was with the approval and is it will i be getting the normal licensing procedure? or is this a kind of emergency essential type of authorization for this case by the defenses? yes. so in a normal sonari, oh the, the rate at which we would collect the data would be kind of spoken slower.

he is 57 years to get to the point where we would have a vaccine that would reach the market. i think it's interesting to point out up, it would also have perhaps more than one face 3 clinical trials going on probably in sequence rather than in parallel. so it would, you know, instead of taking 6 months of tech 12 months to go through a phase 3 trial. in this instance though, because of the damage that has been wrought by this virus globally, literally all the companies are turned extent, benefitting over the opportunity to submit for this so-called elite use of their eyes asian approval. and this is a really keen, double edged sword, because if something happens, the dosing numbers increase and a lot more people are safe. that there's this just indication that there might be strike a safety concern that regulators will pull the plug straight away. so the companies that are putting these things into market are going to go in there like many of

them, and i'm going nonprofit approach like astra zeneca on oxford has done that. no, there's not enough apology for them for doing this for societal gold. and if something goes wrong, the impact to the reputation is going to be quite significant because none of us want to see a vaccine go wrong. we don't want to see the situation of measles or anything like that happening with the m.m.r. vaccine. because suddenly something happens. so the investment for the whole world is very, very substantial here to try to get this to local society again of the economy, but at the same time, not do any damage, try to go so far as most. thank you very much. indeed. you are welcome. russia has reported another record day rise in new corona, virus infections. 125000 cases were confirmed on monday, but all 30 so said they will not impose another nationwide lockdown. instead, regional leaders will decide what measures need to be imposed to curb the spread of

the disease. in august, russia became the 1st country to grant regulatory approval for a current of our specs. that was often i spent 2 months of human testing. passengers in the united states, so set a pandemic at travel record, despite a warning not to travel for the thanksgiving holiday. when the 1000000 people threw in both friday and sunday, making it the busiest period at airports for 8 months. the centers for disease control and prevention had a huge the merican to stay home during this week's thanksgiving holiday. the united states is the worst affected nation in the world with more than 12200000 cases. south korea is introducing new restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus cases. the country's health ministry says it's battling a 3rd wave of infections and data cases topped $300.00 for much of last week. but now brian reports from the capital seoul. 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 sort to preemptive testing in isolating were effective for the previous 2 waves as they happen around main clusters. and 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 we offered i was there this news hour. saudi arabia's foreign minister deny israeli media reports that prime minister benjamin netanyahu met crown prince mohammed bin. our diplomats discuss millions in aid. hundreds of thousands of afghanistan's children go from very and in schools to the goalkeeper who was a hero 3 times over in this playoff game. and he's still

u.s. president elect joe biden has confirmed a rough of names for some of the most senior foreign policy roles in his administration. and the blinken will be nominated as the incoming u.s. secretary of state is a close aide to biden and longtime foreign policy. adviser jake sullivan has been appointed national security adviser and it's 47 years old. will be one of the youngest people to serve in the role. and former secretary of state john kerry will make climate change his priority. as a special presidential envoy. she has a chance, he joins us live from wilmington, delaware, and we're hearing for the 1st time that a woman will be nominated for treasury secretary right janet yellen, according to multiple media reports, that's not coming from the campaign officially yet they say that they'll announce their economic picks next week, but janet yellen, who is federal reserve chair, under president obama culture virtual forgiven? because during the 2015 very fragile recovery,

she insisted on keeping interest rates high. and as a result, she was blamed for the enormous amount of hardship of some of them say that you know, policies, monetary hawkishness was one of the contributing factors to donald trump's rise in the midwest. and all this, when former obama voters became disenchanted with it with barack obama, she says now that she's changed and she's learned and she's no longer a huge monetary monetary hawk. the foreign policy nominations that you mention though, those are official doubt. they'll be officially rolled out in an event on tuesday, at $800.00 g.m.t., but again, very much going back to the obama administration. it does raise that question as to how many lessons the biden camp have learned from obama, because like the economy foreign policy was a major issue in trump's rise to as obama was seen as not ending the endless wars as he promised. and he kept on signing the u.s. up to free trade. paula free trade deal after free trade deal that was blamed for the u.s.

job losses in the primacy of multinational corporations over democracies. or have they learned, tony blinken, former secretary deputy secretary of state under obama, but also long term obama adviser. and that is a long term biden advisor. not such as a lot of the mistakes that biden has made over the years, notably support for the iraq war, but blinken is, is more hawkish than joe biden on foreign policy. joe biden was against the obama bombardment of libya. for example, blinken was all for it. think it was for intervention in ukraine and syria. so it's an interesting dynamic dynamic there that the reason why progressives are a little disheartened is because blinken is part is another example of that revolving door like so many obama administration officials after obama serving obama. he thought up a consulting firm on his way to fortune advising the weapons, industry, big tech, big surveillance, and i was going back into back into government. progress is a certain look, you've got to stop this revolving door that leads to conflicts of interest. not a concern for joe biden, and them what is being welcomed there is that john kerry appointment. not just

because he's such a senior figure, a formidable figure, i guess on the american political scene. certainly. but because he used his position will be on the national. he will have a position on the national security council about bringing the issue of climate change directly into foreign policy and national security decision making, which, which is really being welcome by environmental. if she ever tells you. thank you very much. biden's picks for top security and foreign policy roles are ethnically diverse and include some notable firsts and a 100 my office will be the 1st latino and immigrant nominated to serve as secretary of the department of homeland security. linda thomas greenfield, will serve as united nations ambassador. she's been in the u.s. foreign service for 35 years across 4 continents. and as we've heard, several haynes will be nominated to serve as director of national intelligence the 1st woman to take that role. larry frances berry is a professor of american social thought and

a professor of history at the university of pennsylvania. she joins us of, a skype from washington. d.c., thank you very much indeed for being with us. so what do you make of this list of names to be put forward and the diversity that it seems to represent? well, if you are really only concerned about turning the page from trauma and the symbolism of appointing women who are black males, who are, who are hispanic, or if you're looking at that some balance. and then you ought to be very pleased because you have some things you can point to. if you're concerned about more than some alyssum which i am, you would be a little disturbed because all that has really happened is that the establishment of the democratic party is back in power. it is not just the obama administration, it is all those people who have member general, but most of us been around washington or near some watched and seem to know joe

button and these people political freedoms. so they're all back on the message to the world that america is back and our foreign policy and our domestic policy, and the way that it was under obama is basically back india. so i mean if you mention airing some of these, they people can expect to expect any foreign policy changes. do you think from 5 percent from the trump ministration? what would you be looking out for? well, basically we're way beyond trot now. immune to this, but ministration is back to the policy before drop. they will be more into pension . this if issues and in general there are some people who are a little ambiguous about it, but by and large they have been an interventionist bent, and they will be more cozy with our traditional european allies as we will pay money into the nato. we will do all the things that trump stop doing anything he

stopped doing be, administration will start doing. but you can't do, you know, quite, for example, at the guy who's going to run homeland security and say, look, i'm great, it is use an immigrant and he's whatever he came, the united states wins 5 months old from cuba, his parents fleeing the castro regime because they didn't want to live in a quote, communist country, unquote. so that a lot of this is someone isn't, but the policies will be the same. the bright spot, in my opinion, is john kerry, who has been working on climate issues and who is a serious guy and is known by the nearest and a senior. so if he can sit at the table and produce some results on climate change, which should be of interest to everybody, no matter what race, color or age or whatever you are concerns all of us. that's the real good news coming out of this. and you think so you mentioned about sort of undoing the, the trump decisions on that particular one. do you think that on climate change it

would mean rejoining the paris accords? oh, it will absolutely immediately rejoined paris accords, but we need to be more do more than that both domestically and in foreign policy. i think john kerry will carry the banner in the international arena and they'll be somebody appointed in domestic arena. and i think the united states will make great progress on climate change. whatever else we don't do. anything else that's different from the film. professor mary berry, thank you very much indeed for joining us. thank you. our former french president has appeared in court on corruption charges egress. ocracy is accused of illegally attempting to influence a magistrate is the 1st of 3, potential corruption trials for the man who led france for 5 years and hopes he could do it again. natasha butler has more from paris. nicolas sarkozy arrived at a paris court for the start of his corruption trial. it was

a short appearance for the former french president, the judge suspended proceedings until thursday, after a request by one of the co-defendants for health reasons. he's accused of trying to influence a magistrate in 2014 to obtain information about a legal case against him. he denied the accusations. are certain the chair that was in front of these 2 ladies judges without even asking me a single question. big avery 3 reasons, food item and before i had responded 23, sarkozy's alleged attempts to influence the magistrate were uncovered by police who tapped his phone. they've been investigating accusations that sarkozy had received illegal funds for his 2007 campaign from foreman libyan leader mohammed gadhafi. socrates trial here in paris is the 1st of l.a. 3 other corruption trial that he's expected to face. but despite his legal problems

and a failed presidential bid and 2017, sarkozy seems determined for a political comeback and ambition, boyd earlier this month when in a surprise you turned a key witness in the campaign funding case, siyad taki dean withdrew his accusations against sarkozy reacting in a tweet, sarkozy said, the main accuser admits his lies. he never gave me money. there was no illegal funding of my 2007 campaign. political commentator pierre haski says that although france's political right is seeking leadership, it's unlikely that sarkozy would be the answer you have for do the same for the minute that you had with donald trump, where there is failure is or is, is a fragile. these supporters who were with him until the end, so that will remain in his cap to the good vince, the rest of the country. that is really harnessed. i'm not sure. i'm not sure. france is ready for a 2nd because the pira sarkozy will hope that he can clear his name during this

trial and future ones that he faces and relaunch his political career. for now, though, he's a media battle will be to avoid jail. he faces up to 10 years if found guilty of influence peddling. natasha butler al jazeera paris. the leader of forces in ethiopia's, northern region, is denying that government forces are in the process of surrounding the regional capital in the kelly. but the government insists its troops are within 50 kilometers of the highland city. home to half a 1000000 people. a communications blackout has made claims from both sides, difficult to verify. the conflicting messages come a day after prime minister mad warned the tikrit people's liberation front to surrender by wednesday, or brace for an all out assault on mccully. cheerleaders have refused the ultimatum, saying that people are ready to die defending their homeland. local media is reporting t.p.s. forces have destroyed an airport in the town of axiom to slow the government's

advance on the capital. hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in nearly 3 weeks of fighting. tens of thousands of ethiopians have fled west into sudan, and rockets have hit eritrea to the north. now the web is following developments from nairobi in neighboring kenya. the government has said that it forces a surrounded the gray in capital regional capital of mackay, and that there are about 50 kilometers away. and that follows an ultimatum given by president prime minister made on sunday. he said that he was giving that to ground forces 3 days to lay down their arms ahead of what he said was a final would be a final assault on the regional capital. but the briton get 3, michael, the leader of the 2 grand forces has refuted these claims. he said that it's not true that the cities around it. and he said that 3 day ultimatum was actually a cover up on the part of the federal forces who he says are suffering following 3

defeats. so these reports, these claims by both sides completely contradict each other, but it's very hard to work out exactly what's going on. since communications phone lines and internet in that part of the country have been cut off for weeks, tunisia authorities are hoping 2 camps to cope with the influx of refugees and have a longer report get irish state. some have experienced life like this before refugee camp in sudan's got out of state is need too many refugees, but not that has despite 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's degree region needed a more leader. 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. it 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 on how 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 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. 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 organizations, 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. did, 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 got out of state still to come when i was there, this new sound of hey, we need there is preparing to move back off to 25 years of development that could strangle trochaic green lungs look at anger over plans to build on. i'm angry, forest and support. find out why the pope wants to meet up with some basketballs leaving this

hollow. we've got thunderstorms still rumbling away across central parts of the med . it's right in the last 2, the area of low pressure here, just to bring you some very wet weather in across the region elsewhere. well, high pressure does dominate for the time being. they're going to see these areas of low pressure bands of cloud, of rain rolling in from the atlantic as we go on through the next couple of days. wetter weather already coming into as we go through chews day pushing. it's that western side of scotland, western areas of wells and the southwest approaches of england are made out of the way. and you can say yes, that's going to make its way across portugal, pushing across a good part of western spain as well as you push into the middle parts of the week . what's the weather there? easing up towards london to london at 13 celsius madrid will struggle to get to 12 degrees celsius central areas. they still remain dry with a high pressure in charge here. still want to choose showers into central parts of the med. the wetter weather, just easing over towards the eastern side of the may. so that's going to bring some wet weather across the far north of egypt as we go on through tuesday into

wednesday, still some lively showers rolling away there into cheney's. yet it has had a months with a rifle, the past 24 hours more by the way that came from as we go through wednesday. but it is moving east from there women, mothers, performers, prisoners from their prison and the plot to argentina. that inspiration is a force in the new food world. skinny, cheap, stifled, invisible mothers carted. if you find your lot in the mail seems to come out just around setting the discussions. millions of americans feel disaffected by both political parties. examining the headlines,

this group of activists and relatives are marching band clinton right now where they're calling for the morning edition. and now to explore an abundance of world class programming, designed to inform why is child the only solution for a child as young as 10 months of age. and inspired you see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera more rooted. her forte. i'm one of the top stories here on araa zira. the british drug firm astra zeneca says late stage tests on its corona virus vaccine show an average 70 percent effectiveness with 2 specific doses. it can be up to 90 percent effective. it

expects to make $200000000.00 doses by the end of the year. the world health organization says the results are encouraging but says other companies must continue their efforts. trials of 2 other candidates are showing them to be highly effective in the past week. astra zeneca is calling its kind of 8 a vaccine for the world, but will everyone get a dose? and a marriott is the health policy manager at oxfam. she says, astra zeneca and oxford university of done well in sharing their data internationally. but more needs to be done to scale up production and supply. if they do, you really want this to be a vaccine for the world. then we have to address the elephant in the room. and that is the supply issue. we don't have enough supply of this vaccine for the world. and, and it's true that astra zeneca has with oxford and under oxford university, it's instruction we understand have made more deals with more money factor is to

scale up production, but they haven't yet done enough. and that's why the people's vaccine campaign is calling for astra zeneca. and in fact, all the pharmaceutical companies to open up that science to share their science and transfer that know how about this, about their vaccines. and they said that we can scale up that production to actually supply the world. but yes, we understand it's based on, on technology and for that reason it is lower cost. but also, as we understand it, oxford university has put conditions on astra zeneca, not to make a profit, particularly in developing countries for the duration of this pandemic. but we need to see those contracts to be absolutely clear that astra zeneca is not making a profit from this and keeping the price as low as possible. and we need that those same guidelines applied to the other pharmaceutical companies as well. and the other vaccine candidates levels of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere have

continued to rise this year despite widespread shutdowns. during the pandemic, the un's world meter or tickle nose ation, says any decrease will be just a tiny blip on the long term graph. we saw the taurus over worked on the un report . she says, governments have to do more to curb emissions. c o 2 accumulates in the atmosphere for many, many years. it's not on what you did today or what you did yesterday. it's a whole sea history of human civilization seen sarah 1750, when we started eating soup 2 brought us the accumulation or the levels at $400.00 in t.m. as we see them in $2900.00. if we look at the current emissions scenarios that for the we or somewhere between, let's say, closer to 3 degrees by the end of the century or plus minus half degree. but this is with our current strategies. there is a lot of whole sat through the whole process,

all the united nation framework convention for climate change on the revision. all the national determined contributions made by the countries will be able to get the right track. the saudi foreign minister has denied reports of a secret meeting between the kingdom's crown prince and the israeli prime minister, according to israeli media and german netanyahu flew to the saudi city of melbourne on sunday, for talks with mohammed bin sandman and us extra state might compare foreign minister, prince files open for hanna assad, says any americans and saudis were present at the meeting at a new who has refused to comment, so that the leader friends throughout my years, i've never commented on such things and i don't intend to start doing so now i can only tell you that really, really years as prime minister, i didn't save any effort to strengthen the state of israel and to expand the circle of peace. and thank god, we managed to do it with our neighbors. with the emirates,

with bahrain with sedan, and i hope this circle always expands. a number of israeli misses a picture of confirming the secret visit of her force that explains from ramallah and the occupied west bank. the education minister said it was a great achievement, despite the semi official way in which it had come out. netanyahu rival and alternate prime minister and defense minister benny gantz was criticizing as you know, for having this meeting leaked out in such a way. the israeli prime minister himself was asked about it during that appearance of the israeli parliament, the knesset, during which he said that for many years he had never publicly commented on such things that he wouldn't start now. but that he continued to work to expand the circle of peace. so i think the preponderance of evidence, certainly from the israeli side is that this meeting did take place. it was 1st seen in a flight path of a business jet which has been used by netanyahu in the path which left israel on

sunday evening, went to this future would be high-tech resort town that the crown prince of saudi arabia had been. someone wants to establish on the red sea coast, we know that he was there with the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o. and if israel had wanted to totally shut this down, it has very powerful censorship laws with which to do so. it was pretty clear that the israeli government wanted this to come out, presumably had, there had been some kind of code nation with the other parties involved as well. despite this denial coming from the saudi foreign minister. saudi arabia has confirmed a fuel distribution center station in the port city of jeddah was attacked by her. the rebels. it is 2nd outing on social media pages show a large fire in the city. a spokesman for the sounding led coalition in yemen, says a fuel tank was hit by an iranian made projectile, but no one was injured. and his genes have warned foreign companies operating in

the area to exercise caution, saying military operations will continue. a prominent hong kong pro-democracy activist has pleaded guilty to a rule for assembly during last year's protests. joshua one was joined in court by 2 fellow activists, agnes chow, and ivan lamb. the 3 will be held in custody until sentencing next week, and could face 5 years in jail. mass protests outside hong kong's police headquarters in 2019 were triggered by the introduction of a controversial extradition bill by the chinese government. united nations refugee chief is urging the international community not to turn its back on afghanistan. there are concerns that many nations are considering cutting the aid budgets for afghanistan. philippa grandees warning comes as a 2 day virtual meeting, discusses the next 4 years of aid to the war torn country. the world food program says the code 19 patent demick has worsened existing problems caused by the

conflict and climate change. michael semple is a professor at queen's university, belfast, and research and policy advisor on afghanistan. he says, the survival of the state depends on the international community. the talks are under way. they are that something which we didn't say last year. there are e 3 power allowed trucks on the international intervention. afghanistan, there is the military, which we've seen the talk about rapid withdrawal of u.s. forces, drawing, drawing numbers down to really unprecedented low, low levels. we've got to 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 truck which is the development funding. and i think by refocusing on the issue of developments on the gulf, there are 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 to that the afghan state survives, the afghan state does not produce enough revenue yet to, to pay its way to a continual continuing process for the international community is required or else it just falls apart, says it has identified the parents of a newborn baby found in a bin in doha, howard international airport. in france. mother left the country that has public prosecution office says it's working internationally to have her arrested. she could face 15 years in jail, it says add more security staff and also to face sentences of up to 3 years before seeing female passengers to undergo physical examinations before they were allowed to fly. after the baby was discovered, the babies being cared for while thirty's. government lawyers have told a british court that a woman who joined eisel but now wants to return to the country, could pose

a significant risk to the public. she may have begun left london with 2 school friends at the age of 15, and married in arsal fighter. she was stripped of her british citizenship on national security grounds. after being discovered in a refugee camp last year, a 2 day hearing is underway at the supreme court to consider whether she should be allowed back to appeal that decision. the balance here is between public protection, private interests, and that is strongly against the wrecked it return even more alarming their people . and that is because public protection is the way to factor in principle, because there is no basis for going through to group a risk. this can be managed to do something the congress in guatemala has voted to suspend a controversial government budget. the spot violent protests over the weekend. hundreds of people stormed the congress building on saturday, setting part of it on fire. there's widespread anger at the 13 $1000000000.00

budget, which critics say supports big business infrastructure projects, without properly addressing poverty. and the coronavirus pandemic addresses also demanding the resignation of president. i don't hold a residents of a remote region of azerbaijan are heading home for the 1st time in a quarter of a century as part of last week's deal to end the fighting and they want a car back. i mean here is returning area is returning area to its neighbors control. one of those is captured in 1903. now as are some of enjoyed reports, some of the hundreds of thousands if led, are preparing for an emotional return. since the 1970 s., has been known as a car about google in 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 either 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 octomom is my heart and soul. that's why i live here. i 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 art, was taken by armenia. now they plan to go home when armenian forces have a draw on the rug and they're 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 art and kind can the us to find

a kurd. the tracks have been severed, but not the links. famous for racing and riding 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 step farm has more than $264.00 of reds. if you did, stallions are worth so much that selling 10 a year before the horde stable. displaced from his home in e.u. has been in a quaint trainer for over 40 years. now eager to return, he says the weather in water and will be like white de mint for the horses or what even the horses are i.d.p.'s like people, they're very sensitive and i could tell the horses felt they were being kicked out from their own land. i feel very emotional. one of them is cleared of mines in infrastructure, is redeveloped the plan to review worldwide auctions in car of the people that the

horses, their music is all displaced from the region where it originally belonged to. and they can't wait to return home down to 0. china's luna probe is on its way to the moon over to bring back the 1st song. pulls of the newness surface in more than 40 is that shiny $5.00 cost off from the wing trying space center in southern china, its mission to retrieve 2 kind of grams of moon rocks and soil is the 1st attempt to bring back, you know, samples. so it's a soffit mission back in 1976. china hopes in the watch, a manned mission to the moon before 2030. still to come on, i was there this news out in support of what's next for african football. now the man in charge of the game that has been banned

activists in pakistan are warning that one of corruption is few remaining natural wonders is on the threat. they say plans to develop to islands could begin to destroy mangrove forests and provide natural cover from storms and pollution. are concerned, it could create an environmental disaster as priyanka. gupta explains they are known as karachi screen lungs. but these mago forests on the shores of one of the most polluted cities on earth, are shrinking 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, and phyllis with sand and mud that it's nothing short of. that's the mangrove forests that form a protective barrier. it's the mangrove 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 the smog rules, and they're 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 our fishermen will become unemployed. prime minister iran 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 kaufman at old speed. provincial leaders believe that yes, development has to be live, but the development not going to cost them off your property market to cost of new people and market. the cost of your environment monsoon floods this year have caused damage in many areas of karachi and environmental. see if the natural protection offered by the islands is also wrote it, the city could fleece and environmental disaster, practical australian scientists are concerned for the future of one of the nation's unique species. the duck billed platypus. they're pushing for the government to put the mammal which is only found in the east of the country on the official of our will list. its natural environment of rivers and streams is under threat from climate change and ira culture and has shrunk by more than 20 percent in the last

30 years. this is why i'm amazed. nothing like it anywhere else. and if we don't try, then we really responsibility to future generations. but some for sport as andy thank you so much. lauren, while the president of african football ahmed ahmed has been banned for 5 years. football's governing body, finding him guilty of breaching its code of ethics free for say, i'm going to broke rules related offering and accepting gifts, abuse of position and misappropriation of funds i made was voted into power of the confederation of african for going 27 seen recently announced his intention to run for reelection was presidential elections coming up next march. now fifa

say emmett's financial abuses include using confederation of funds to pay for an arm or a pilgrimage to mecca for football officials, a last year thief. it's temporary control of african football to try and speak up performs an independent audit of cath finances concluded its records were unreliable, and not trustworthy or amend. it does not have the option of appealing against this ban or the court of arbitration for sport in switzerland. earlier on we spoke to african sports rights issue. come again, she says, and it's rain has damaged football on the consonance at all levels. one but decision after that matter after another literally disgress in african football. i think that if i have made the right move, you know, to make this decision, because we're talking about financial misconduct, you have a scenario where we invited the duration presidents in africa to 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 in march 2017 when he said how to win running against the we thought that he's going to come and change the face of africa and football because for 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 contest for the title at the people want it a tough? can we put ourselves in a position where club football needs 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 little messi has been left out of barcelona squad for the upcoming champions league game against the kiev boss. a manager all came in saying messi just being rested and that the decision isn't formulated. the team, top of their a champions league group after 3 straight wins of their league form very different . they're in the bottom half of the league, or at the moment it's all european seems facing a pretty congested fixture list after the delays to last season caused by the coronavirus pandemic, english team chelsea face iran or france on tuesday before heading into a crucial premier league game against top of the table top them. but everyone keep side if you get the right result, the group could be done in terms of our qualification. but in the flip of that, if we get the wrong result, we make it difficult couple of games ahead of us in the group as we go to seville

next. so we have to respect this guy more. one thing too much, we have to sunday for tottenham. one. consider that as much as just a run at face value or an injury look set to temporarily derails lots of abraham if it is age defying season in italy. the 39 year old scoring goals for leading is a similar this in a $31.00 win over napoli now is 10 for the season and his top of the syria goal scoring chance. some bad news this week picked up a hamstring injury. in the 2nd half the club, a survey said he'll be out of action for at least the next 10 days. just other major league playoffs have produced more penalty shootout heroics in north america . this saw it was sporting kansas city goalkeeper taking center stage. he said, 3 consecutive kicks as his team edged past the san jose earthquakes. kansas will now face minnesota, united in the conference 7 years and i've watched a lot of soccer and i've even played

a lot of fun. i've never seen anything like that. i mean, to make 3 saves in a row, you know, that's, that's just on rio. i mean, the guys is amazing and i don't mean, you know, i can't even in practice. so, you know, it makes it a lot easier to take when you have a goal. like tim and his meetings in high places go. this will take some basing. the pope inviting a delegation of basketball players for a get together at the vatican. used came to learn about the m.b.a.'s role in taking on social justice issues in the united states in august or plays in the league briefly. went on strike in a protest against police violence. ok, that is, i suppose looking for the let's get back to lauren in london. co-creator of the ice bucket challenge. patrick quinn has died at the age of $37.00. the idea became a viral sensation and raised 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 30 quinn was diagnosed with the motor neuron disease last 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 young and people what the, how immediately, even if the guy in c.v. responds. well, absolutely. 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 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 has ever made our entire left us news out on the back end of am with more news for you . thanks for watching. watching

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