both the landscape and people's lives. being in the main, there is all what our songs violence, killing was a rolls amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals. people in power investigates, rumania, of the far east. on al-jazeera astra zeneca says their coronavirus vaccine is up to 90 percent effective with an ambitious plan to produce billions of doses by next year are intended to sounders their life from london, also coming out biden and ministration continues to take shape with key nominations and appointments including the 1st ever climate czar. a former president appears in court in front. nicolas sarkozy faces charges of corruption, including influencing a job. and the standoff in northern ethiopia, government forces prepare for

a final assault on the city of mechanic. to graham forces refused to step aside a little begin here in the u.k. with as well good news in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine. this time from the drug company astra zeneca working in partnership with oxford university. late stage testing shows its candidate vaccine is an average 70 percent effective in protecting its current 19, but that increases to 90 percent depending on the way it hits administered asters and it has a vaccine is the least expensive so far. and crucially, it can be stored in the fridge, which makes it easier to distribute other boxes 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 3000000000 by 2021. tryna holla 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 severe disease. intriguingly, in result over the headline is protection. we do have as our are and then have all those of the back. and i guess 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,

worldwide 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 national institutions 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. our heart gave 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 the trammel is, 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 was aisha's chief scientist says, the development of several successful drugs could help bring the pandemic under control. the good news is that backs against the wall with 19 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 discussed in the act accelerated to the i think this is very relevant because people like to provide access to as many efficacious and safe back scenes as possible. so we can cover the population around the world. russia has reported another wreck or daily rise in new coronavirus infections when $25000.00

cases were confirmed on monday. but authorities have 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 coronavirus vaccine that was after less than 2 months of human testing. passengers in the united states have set a pandemic air travel record, despite a warning not to travel for the thanksgiving holiday. only 1000000 people flew on both friday and sunday, making it the busiest period at airports for 8 months. the centers for disease control and prevention, and urged americans to stay home during this week's thanksgiving holiday. and i to 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 korean virus cases. the country's health ministry says it's battling a 3rd wave of infections,

as daily cases topped 300 for much of the last week. well that ride, of course, in 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, night clubs will also be closed. the last time nightclubs were closed with in the 2nd wave that happened during the summer, the 1st way within 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 sole u.s. president elect joe biden has confirmed a raft of names for some of the most senior foreign policy roles in his administration. and lincoln, you know, will be nominated as the incoming u.s. secretary of state. he's a close aide to biden,

and long time foreign policy adviser, jake sullivan has been appointed national security adviser, at 47 years old, will be one of the youngest people to serve in the role. and for most after state, john kerry will return to make climate change his priority. as a special presidential envoy, the next 1000 kluge some firsts. i don't hold my own cross will be the 1st latino and immigrant nominated to serve as the 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 avril haynes will be nominated to serve as director of national intelligence the 1st woman to take that role. she has attended, joins us live from wilmington, delaware, and she had what we're hearing that joe biden is also has a name in mind for treasury secretary multiple reports now saying it's janet yellen, another part of the obama establishment, controversial figure when she was the federal reserve chair, under obama,

blamed for keeping interest rates high during the economic recovery following the crash and causing enormous amounts of hardship blamed also for losing so many obama votes to trump as a result, as, as, as people were suffering so greatly in fact, looking at that list of foreign policy figures that you were just talking about. it is a return to the obama establishment. the question is, has biden learned from the mistakes that off the obama administration, given that it was the economy and foreign policy that drove so many former obama voters to trump in the 1st place? because they'd had enough of endless wars and trade deals that were serving multinational corporations and other american american workers. tony blinken, secretary of state, a key figure deputy secretary of state under obama. a long time foreign policy adviser as a result, each as checkered record on foreign policy, notably, cheerleading for the iraq war for example. but he's seen as more hawkish than joe

biden. joe biden, during the obama administration, for example, was against the libyan bombardment. lincoln was all ford. lincoln was all for intervention in ukraine and in syria. so he displays progress on that level. they also because progressives pleaded with by not continue spinning the revolving door like so many obama advisers. he left, the obama administration went straight into private consulting work made a fortune consulting for weapons and manufacturers, big tech, big surveillance, and now he's back in government. but clearly that wasn't an issue or an issue that biden felt he had to have to address. so that is a concern for progressives. however, professors are happy with john kerry as climate change climate change and actually having a seat on the national security council. so inserting climate change into decision making on foreign policy and security. meanwhile, the biden transition going on

a pace even away from here and in wilmington, delaware with michigan's board of electors, the election board certified officially biden's win that they will still be in order that there will still be an investigation. but that is official. so that's not going to change the result. biden wins michigan. so trumps challenges. election results. really fizzling out. chamber tells you, thank you very much. indeed. a former french president has appeared in court on corruption charges. nicolas sarkozy 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. now. 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 set in 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 in 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 tackett. jean 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 probably the same for them and that you had with donald trump, where they were, is failures or east is fragile. does he support those who were with him until the end? so that will remain in his cap. vince, the rest of the country that is really harnessed. i'm not sure. france is ready for a 2nd, because the period, 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 his immediate battle will be to avoid jail, he faces up to 10 years if found guilty of influence peddling. al-jazeera paris,

still to come on al-jazeera. saudi arabia's foreign minister deny israeli media reports the prime minister. benjamin netanyahu met crown prince mohammed, bin son, and sound of meat fears arry is preparing to move back in after 25 years. hello, the weather fair. across much of australia at the moment we still have some showers just pulling away from the eastern side of new south wales, nasty little circulation or aling for the tasman and that's pushing towards new zealand. some very wet and windy weather coming in here. over the next day or so

behind that, as you can see, it is generally dry. still want to see showers into the far east of new south wales labor. sharrow. it seems that eastern side of victoria, perhaps your chat to up towards the gold coast as we go through what is a just flicking through breeze, been fine and dry. behind bushfire risk increases courses, temperatures pick up $33.00 celsius there in adelaide. but that is that really wet weather that windy weather to central parts of the state in a much of the north out, and also seeing some rather wet and windy weather as we go through the 2nd half of the week. now we have wet weather. meanwhile, moving away from japan, clear skies come back in behind more in the way of dry weather, some sunshine, but fresher, whether it's a 16 celsius there in tokyo, just 17 days across northern parts of the korean peninsula. pushing into web beijing and a similar values as we go on through wednesday. there we go. still any getting up to around the mid teens for tokyo on wednesday with a chance of quantities. shallots.

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of top stories are now to 0. the british drug firm astra zeneca says late stage tests on its coronavirus vaccine show an average 70 percent effectiveness, with 2 specific doses. it can be up to 90 percent effective. it expects to make 200000000 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 or show them to be for highly effective. in the past week. yes, president elect joe biden has named the 1st members of his governing team. anthony blinken will be appointed secretary of state, after acting as deputy under president obama. and apple haynes will be the 1st female director of national intelligence. it is in ethiopia, is a region have denied government claims that its forces are surrounding the regional capital. but kelly, if his government has given the ticker a people's liberation front until wednesday to surrender or threatened what is

described as a final assault on mccully, the city is home to around half a 1000000 people and residents have been warned to flee to p.l.f. as so far refused to stand aside, saying its people are ready to die in defense of their land. sudanese authorities have opened 2 camps to cope with the influx of refugees and 7. morgan reports from get to restate 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's degree 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 and warm. 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 the refuge of any the united nations says it expects 200000 if you can refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months . if fighting into gray, 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. and we're urging donors and international organizations to help us cope with the situation because it's very dire. some organizations 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, got out of state. 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. benjamin netanyahu flew to the saudi city of new, sunday for talks with mohammed bin solomon and u.s., secretary of state. foreign minister, prince fossil been for sound, says only americans and sound days were present at the meeting, the new 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, throughout my 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 and i hope this circle always expands. a prominent hong kong pro-democracy activist has pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly. during last year's protests, joshua wall 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 is pretty sad, coulters in 2019 were triggered by the introduction of a controversial extradition bill by the chinese government. different upon his following events in 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 for the footage, mainly focused on joshua warren, ivan lamb, and activists, shout 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 personally that my, the person boss, no election by those, nor any other arbitrary power, would stop us from activists up. this would be the 4th time joshua warm, he's 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, 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 off them, silas. but regardless, sacrifies, 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 at least 2000 of the charges for protest related activities. 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 are going to carry back armenia is returning the area to its neighbors control. one of those is, i'm damn captured in 1903. now as are some of the giant reports, some of the hundreds of thousands. if red herring for an emotional return 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 to go in 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 a very controlled region. although both the recent conflict saw shells rained down on villages on both sides, but that didn't stop him from doing what he loves most, all of them as they are done as my heart and soul. that's why i live here on evil. 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 step farm has more than $264.00 of reds. refuted stallions are worth so much that selling 10 a year before the horse stable. displaced from his home in e.u. has been echoing trainer for over 40 years. now eager to return, he says the weather in water and car 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. 3 developed the plan to review worldwide auctions in car of the people of 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. i to this in pakistan are warning that one of correction is few remaining natural wonders is under threat. they say plans to develop to islands could begin to destroy mangrove forests. the provide natural cover from storms and pollution. there are concerns, it could create an environmental disaster. as franco gupta explains they are known as karachi's green lungs. but these mangrove 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 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 storm, the 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 their diverse ecosystem. tens of thousands of people depend on them for commercial fishing. they see they no risk losing everything. 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 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 be live. 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 and she advised men to see if the natural protection offered by the islands is also routed. the city could face an environmental disaster struck a good go to 0. china's lunar probe is on its way to the moon hoping to bring back the 1st samples of the new a surface. 40 is the

chang a 5 blasted off from the wing chang space center in southern china. its mission to retrieve 2 kilograms of moon rocks and soil. the official from the state space agency says the north has so far been a success. as the 1st attempt to bring back you know, samples since the soviet mission. back in 1976. china hopes to launch a manned mission to the moon before 2030. top stories on our 0. there's more promising news that the race for a coronavirus vaccine may be nearing its conclusion. the british drug astra zeneca says late stage tests show an average 70 percent effectiveness for its candidate without side effects. with 2 specific doses it can be up to 90 percent effective. a shot developed with oxford university can be stored at fridge temperatures.