on the back of it, successful trials, biotech firm seeks emergency approval from the u.s. and e.u. regulators for its coronavirus vaccine. i'm sam, you say that this is al jazeera live from also coming out. if the o.p.'s prime minister tells parliament federal troops have not killed a single civilian in their offensive against agree forces. as iran's top nuclear

scientist is laid to rest teheran grapples with conflicting accounts over how he was assassinated. plus tough life lessons. iraqi students are back in the classroom. catching up on law school work isn't the only challenge u.s. drugmaker modernity has announced it's asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its covert 19 vaccine on monday. that's after it got the final results needed to confirm it's more than 94 percent effective just behind. and it's german part not by own tank. so are started asking to start vaccinations in the u.s. in december. pfizer says their vaccine is 95 percent of active against coven,

19. the f.d.a. says they'll be a public debate of the evidence of each vaccine. pfizer's will be 1st up on december. the 10th or the earner's is set to happen a week later. all across the atlantic, british regulators are assessing the fires the shot. but they're also looking at another from the u.k. company astra zeneca, which says there is is on average 70 percent effective, can be 90 percent depending on the dosage and speak now to our white house correspondent, kimberly harkat. she joins us live now from washington d.c. . so is the company going to get the quick approval they seek? well, it certainly appears that way, but this will all be pending a determination by the food and drug administration that will be taking place in mid december just to give you a sense of how this works. this very accelerated timeline that we've seen for pfizer and mature enough is in part because of the request for

a mercy authorization under the public health service act. and the reason that these drug companies are able to do this is because there was. 9 declared a public health emergency with regard to covert 19 back in january of 2020. so earlier this year. so what does this mean? this means that there can be a rapid approval pending that determination of the public health hearings that will be taking place. and this is really something that can be done because this is being used to either treat or prevent cope with 19 on a mass scale. it's important to note that this is all happening. that leads the u.s. president says, because of operation warp speed, that a lot of the funding to allow for this is what's allowing the president to a put in place the timeline of the end of the year that we could see the most vulnerable populations getting this vaccine, but also the not only the bridge provable, but also the funding to make sure that these trials,

these phase 3 trials that they've gone through have been not only implemented, but it turns out relatively successful. so this is good news for the public, but at the same time it's also good news for the drug companies. we certainly have to point out that they're going to make billions of dollars as a result of this quick approval. all right, thanks so much can believe how bad let's bring in now. jonah holly joins us from london. they're also looking at vaccine approvals, but they're also ramping up testing way you ought to in the run up to christmas yesterday. they're ramping up. testing look out is just approaching an end in england in a couple of days' time. the infection rate has come down pretty impressively. they are right, the reproduction rate is below one. but this mass testing continuing the latest step in the government's drive to continue to suppress the virus and allow for some degree of normality over a brief period. over christmas we're talking here about student testing,

specifically $132.00 universities across england and wales, taking part in testing tens of thousands of students. i'm at lester's de montfort university in the midlands. this is the heart of the testing center. here. we're talking about rapid tests, self administered swab, stuck up the nose there, and then a concoction of chemicals placed or something that looks like a pregnancy test before it gives a result in about an hour. the idea of course is that students, you may recall when a tourist carriers and spreaders of the virus, when they return to campuses in the autumn. now the aim is to ensure that they can go home safely without seeding the virus back into their home communities. to elderly people and so on. the issue is that these tests are problems with reliability. even the government has admitted they're not 100 percent reliable. in fact, they're less than 80 percent. reliable in the students are taking 2 tests, 3 days apart to try and confirm their results. but it does seem, nevertheless,

that in this effort to create safe conditions at christmas time in this continued effort to reopen the economy, there will be a number of people who are sent home, told that they are healthy, but who in fact may not be. all right, thanks so much john holland. last week, the o.p.'s prime minister has told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week conflict in the 2 grey region and insists the army will not destroy the regional capital. michaela after capturing it at the weekend, but it's a great people's liberation front say it's still fighting federal soldiers near the city. hundreds of people have died and thousands forced to flee to neighboring sudan. that another important to get the not the most important. every target has been signed and approved. the house can see that every missile launched is backed by a signature of authority. 99 percent of them hit their targets and 99 percent of them

didn't have collateral. no country's army can show this kind of performance. our army is disciplined and victorious. are going to be said, you will destroy mckelway and so on. may kill is ours. it was built with our own resources. we are not going to destroy it, not even a single person was affected by the operation. let's go to malcolm where, but in nairobi, malcolm a lot of claims. there's the evidence back come up. we've got contradicting claims from both sides. as you mentioned, prime minister told members of parliament that no civilians are being killed to be left. leaders say many civilians are being killed in airstrikes by government aircraft, something the government denies. the leaders have also said that they shot down one of those aircraft and they've retaken a town near there fighting on many fronts. their prime minister's person

described these claims as delusional. but because there's very little access for press and humanitarian workers, it's very difficult to verify any of these claims. but we have heard from the red cross in the city of mcalary. they said that 80 percent of the people in the hospitals have trauma injuries. they didn't say how they got those injuries, but i did say that serious shortage of medical supplies and a serious shortage of body bags. all right, thanks so much. there from nairobi, aid agencies and local volunteers are helping tens of thousands of ethiopian refugees in eastern sudan, regain the sense of normalcy in makeshift camps. has this report from one of the camps. there was no blackboard or chalk or notebooks, but there was a sparkle of hope in the eyes of these young refugees trying to start a new life amid the toughest of conditions. the makeshift school at the camp is

sponsored by the norwegian refugees council. one of the things we're trying to do is to help give them a sense of normalcy, but a sense of stability by setting up some temporary learning spaces. so they can have some classes every day, something to do, but also something to learn from. in this really chaotic period of their life so far we set up 10 classes, 2 shifts a day. we hope that that is about 800 children that we can help in the 1st instance . there's probably going to be a few 1000 children already. there's an estimated 3000 children in this camp. many of them had their education disrupted when fighting broke out between the job in federal army and their 2 green people's liberation front. a few weeks ago, they were forced to flee with their families, relief agencies speak of a number of unaccompanied children in need of special care. some are showing signs

of trauma. others are barely coping with the sudden change in their lives. some have had it even worse, the letter sultan hasn't been able to find any trace of his wife and 2 young daughters since the 1st raids on the grain town of ramallah by the sudanese border a few weeks ago. a little i'm a little animal. i just couldn't find them. they could be dead or alive, but there's no idea what happened to them. i was not home when the attack took place. people fled in every direction, they could. my family is gone. we're still at the camp and the us suddenly looks like an old place where some of the old it's europeans here. it's history repeating, itself. because back in the 1980 s., this building served as a school for some of them asked child refugees. in the 1980 s. effigies came here, fleeing a famine that coincided with and resulted from years of fighting between 2 great rebels and the central government of former communist dictator, mengistu,

haile mariam. the animosity that conflict had created still lingers. today, here in the camp to greens are teaching their children in english, not i'm heading, which is the main official language of the federal republic of each opiah. a sign of the mammoth task ahead for prime minister ahmed in his effort to restore national unity or medical benefits. you can't really sudanese border with you. peter indian farmers blocking roads in protest against new laws, all refusing to move to a government designated venue. thousands have been camping out on major highways near the capital, new delhi pharmacy. they're open to talks with the government, as long as there are no preconditions. they say the new laws will hold crop prices and livelihoods. elizabeth for all of them said this report from one of the protests near new delhi. we were the single border crossing between the states of

haiti, ana, and delhi, where delhi police estimate there are around 20000 people and from the arrangements that have been made, people are being fed here every single day. you can tell that farmers are not planning on going anywhere. they have used hundreds of their trucks, their vehicles, to block this national highway. and it's a similar scene into other border crossings into delhi, with tens of thousands of people. they're here at single today. we've heard speeches from promises come from states other than those which border to lead them to show their solidarity with only a few 100 farmers have actually gone to the ground that's been designated by the government to protest. farmer said they weren't going there because that will be an open jail. they want to continue their disruption until the government repealed these. now every so often you can see commuters walking through with their bags. even those that are stranded because vehicles can't use the crossing. but given that around india's 1300000 people work in the agriculture sector, there was

a lot of support as a lot of sympathy for these farmers. meanwhile, we have heard from prime minister narendra modi and he has defended these, saying that they are in the interest of farmers, that they will go farmers access to a bigger market. that it's a good thing. the famines can negotiate directly with private companies, but thomas don't see it that way. they think that these laws will see the removal of the end of guaranteed minimum prices for their projects. all still ahead on al-jazeera. sorry, seems to be the hardest word. china's foreign ministry says it won't apologize for tweeting a fake image of an australian soldier. police in argentina, raid the home office of the ag amount of dollars doctor as part of an investigation into a football star that the

frost is on the ground, the coder's crossing from the continent to her car, which suggests a good deal of snow is likely it's been falling on and off for a while, not really 2nd, getting to keep doing the same as the grand salute gets colder and colder. but if you're in holland, sure, you'll notice that there's a difference in temperature in, for example, tokyo, it goes down to about 12 degrees on wednesday. and this cloud building it disappoint and you have a good part of charm. there is no longer the beautiful, clear blue skies. it's like to be overcast for many with outbreaks of light, rain or casual. but the streets and snow rain proper is still the case in taipei. but the forecasts, apollo tells the story here is to, above freezing often isn't it? but it's no day off today off today. whereas disappointment in the 11 skies show up in the temps is coming down with overcast and nothing else much happens to be

honest. significant rain has gone through vietnam, this mass of white cloud now, and it's light to move westwards towards the fast sides of thailand. next day or so, and you keep running there typically about $200.00 millimeters can come out of the sky. so flash flooding is a possibility. there are heavy showers to the south of that. it's a bit of a circulation not far away from java and it might just increase the rainfall over jakarta. we heard scott realistically, how can you do with institutionalized corruption in this country? if we listen, if this breaks up into a conflict between pakistan and india, this has implications for the rest of the world. we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. play an important role. protecting it would. ringback

move the talk, i'm back here watching our just 0 time to recap our headlines. u.s. drugmaker modern there is asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its covert 19 vaccine. final results confirmed its more 94 percent effective evidence will be debated in mid december. ethiopia's prime minister has told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week long conflict in the region to gross forces dispute. the claim,

iran's top nuclear scientist is being buried following his assassination on friday . a large funeral service has been held in the capital honoring their iran's leaders are blaming israel for the killing and vowing to retaliate. how you got your note. i handed you. we are all gathered here next to one another before the body of our beloved martyr and valid to him that we will be more cohesive, more resolved, and our determination to continue down your path will be stronger. we will continue down the path of advancement of this nation with greatest speed and strength. the head of iran's top national security body says there have been several assassination attempts on factories are. there is life over the past 20 years. they, say security around them and been bolstered and my fellow r.t., our intelligence services, have the information that he was a target and even knew that on the same spot he was killed. an attempt was going to

be made against him. his protection was intensified. however, this time enemy utilized a completely new professional and sophisticated method and all fortunately succeeded after 20 years and reached its goal. goals for joe barry is in toronto dollars, so what new details are emerging from the investigation? well, there are a series of unofficial accounts of what actually took place on friday afternoon in all of us are just east of the capital tehran, where factories are there was gunned down alongside a one of his bodyguards, but there hasn't been any official word from the intelligence ministry who is carrying out the investigation at the moment. all they have said is that they will share what they find in the coming days. but there have been a number of high ranking officials, including plenty we just heard from who have said that this attack has been very different from previous ones, carried out in iran,

but that the officials here are continuing to point the finger at israel even present has said that they believe israel is behind this attack. what makes this attack different and cause for more concern is that it was carried out by a number of people and it seemed to have been very well coordinated and well timed . and his motorcade came under attack in the middle of the afternoon. so there is a concern that there is a lot of it leaks within the defense ministry, tells us ministry who had a possible part to play in this attack. and there's also the question of the silence, where are they now they haven't been arrested as of yet, there is the issue of whether or not they're still in the country. so there is a lot of unanswered questions at the moment. and we are officially waiting for a statement from the intelligence ministry to answer those questions. now, what the assassination has also implicated is that the future of any kind of dialogue between iran and the united states is now very, very slim. the incoming biden administration will certainly have much more

a much more difficult time trying to get back to the 2050 nuclear deal, which the u.s. withdrew from in 2013. there is a lot of conservative voices in iran at the moment saying that the iranians need to retaliate, and they need to respond because this kind of a security breach cannot go on answered. all right, thanks so much. white house senior adviser, jared kush no will travel there. saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days, a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. it comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of a top iranian nuclear scientists with only weeks left in the trumpet, ministration. cushman and his team of help negotiate deals with sudan, bahrain, and the u.a.e. . to normalize relations with israel, china's foreign ministry has rejected calls from the australian prime minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over war crimes allegations. the tweet sent by

a foreign ministry spokesman lead. jang jalloud depicts a fake image of an australian soldier, slashing the throat of an afghan child. it follows a recent report into the conduct of australian special forces soldiers this strain . the military confirms this missing more than a dozen soldiers accused of killing $39.00, unarmed afghan civilians and prisoners straightest prime minister says, china should be ashamed of the tweet. it is utterly outrageous and it cannot be justified on any vices whatsoever. the chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. it does, it diminishes them in the world of lies or my couple of points about this strike is seeking an apology from the ministry of foreign of us,

from the chinese government. for this outrageous post, we are also seeking its removal immediately and have also contacted twitter to take it down immediately or katrina you has more from beijing foreign ministry spokeswoman quaternion responded today on monday to the prime minister's trillian prime minister's statement that we just heard and she appeared quite flippant and dismissive of his comments. now this whole incident started on monday morning, about 10 am beijing time when her colleague job the jen posted a tweet, including an image by a self described chinese patriotic artist. and it was quite inflammatory depicting an astronomy and soldier holding the knife, a knife to the neck of an afghan baby. and that prompted the very strongly worded statement that we just heard from scott morrison. now, beijing has not backed down whatsoever on this tweet. contrary on the contrary,

quaternion has actually defended her calling, jollied gen and in the press conference today, she threw the blame back at the australian government saying that they should be more critical of the australian government's response to the actions of the strain soldiers in afghanistan. you mentioned that prime minister scott morrison says china should feel ashamed. is it not the australian government's decision to send troops to afghanistan? since the soldiers have committed such atrocious crimes? shouldn't these jillion government feel ashamed for their soldiers killing innocent civilians in afghanistan? it really seemed to take a nosedive earlier this year when the astronomy in government led calls for an independent inquiry into the origin of the core of a $1000.00 virus in china. and that infuriated beijing. and since then, we've seen china month after month, slap heavy duties on australian exports to china, including on australian wine beef and bali,

and destroying government has called these new duties, devastating to australian, produces, saying that they are unjustified and politically motivated. government is also reportedly considering taking a case to the w.t. or against china because of these new duties and to add insult to injury. the chinese government is reportedly not taking calls from their strained counterparts when they're requesting meetings to talk about this issue. now the chinese government and so many chinese state media have been quite hawkish when it's come to the australian government. and the chinese embassy industry in the earlier this month released a list of 14 grievances against the australian government, including a strays blocking of while ways. 5 g. networks in australia and complains that australia has made against a legit human rights abuses in shin john and china has said that it's up to a stretch to mend these strange ties. public schools in iraq have reopened their doors after being closed since march because of the corona virus pandemic. the

number of infections has fallen to about 1500 new cases per day. but many students fair struggle to catch up on lost schooling, simona fall to reports from baghdad. the 1st day of school in times of coronavirus, these 6 year olds waited for more than 2 months to start their education. the iraqi government lifted the lockdown in september, but public schools only reopened this week. it was supposed to start earlier, but they delayed it because of the large number of infections. yes, the malls in the shops reopened earlier, but the number of infections was very high. now the numbers have started to go down . hopefully the pandemic will go away soon, and we will try to catch up on school and the pandemic has spurred a widened preexisting disparities in education. private schools catering to wealthy students have largely stuck to the academic calendar. while public schools like these stopped teaching for 8 months. budget cuts due to declining oil prices have

made matters worse. for sure, there's been a negative effect in the pandemic is delayed school attendance. and in addition to that, to the budget is basically 0. private schools have better health measures than government schools. and also the number of students is smaller financial capabilities. even though public schools are back in session, many parents will continue to play a big part in their children's education. the students will attend class only one day, and have to study at home on the remaining school days. but compared to many other countries, iraq lacks the telecommunications infrastructure to support the learning. the education ministry says it will launch applications to facilitate online classes. but while many wait for such plans to materialize, met in amman, in their final year of high school, say that's of little help. so there is a little, they say there will be a lot of classes, but you want to be successful. the internet is very bad. we cannot study like this . our only choice is to take private tutoring classes. we can't depend on the

government schools. they already missed school during much of last year, when classes were canceled due to widespread anti-government protests. the pandemic risks shattering their hopes for university. the good universities won't admit us, then we'll have to go to private college and paid millions of iraqi dinars. we can't afford that. iraq's financial and health crises have cast uncertainty over the country's future, but at least for now, this new generation of students are enjoying a return to a routine that resembles normal life cmon, a faulty knowledge as era. but that donna's doctor has denied that medical negligence contributed to the death of the odds in time for war legend police, someone osiris raided the home and office of dr. leopold the art of an investigation for involuntary manslaughter of donna died of a heart attack on wednesday. john walsh, one of the reports from diego maradona may be dead,

but the controversy which always surrounded him lives on police in buenos aires have raided the home and office of the doctor who treated the former footballer for the past 4 years. but if you want to tell me you got, it would be good if you ask the other doctors, because as i said, i am not responsible for everything. i am responsible because there is outrageous talk that i let it out. but i was the one who took diego to the hospital, where did they lose the sight of that? in a 3 hour search, they took medical records laptops, a mobile phones, investigating a possible case of negligence and the charge of involuntary manslaughter. dr. luke, a shaken by the raid, spoke to the media shortly afterwards. in order to me, there is no medical negligence, not even what they say about his illness. diego had an event that would cause a heart attack or 2 occasions with his characteristics, which is the most common thing for a patient to die. like, i mean, regrettably, it was a fact that could have happened before or afterwards. marijuana died last wednesday,

age 60 from a heart attack. it had surgery 3 weeks earlier, to remove a blood clot from his brain. this after years of drug abuse and subsequent health problems. argentina declared 3 days of national mourning and tens of thousands paid their last respects to the man they consider the best footballer who have a kick to diego. maradona meant so much to so many people. some don't seem ready just yet to let him rest in peace. the morning goes on, so too does the analysis of what he achieved on the pitch. and the often controversial life he led off it. his death was marked around the world by both fans and the footballers he inspired. but it was especially poignant in the southern italian city of naples where marriage on a plate for 8 years inspiring them to 2 league titles, a new wave, but his death close the latest chapter in the often

controversial life of diego amanda mara doner. but it seems another is a need just began a new show and there are just 01 osiris. now all of germany's traditional christmas markets has been transformed as a result of the country's 2nd partial lockdown. a restaurant owner in britain in the south of the country, has opened a drive through version of the festivities. mild wine and hot scrapes are among the treats on offer. about $160000000.00 visits is usually descend on germany's markets every year. and let's take you through some of our top stories now. u.s. drug maker, modern is asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its coded 900 vaccine. final results confirmed its more than 94 percent effective evidence will be debated.