it is they are holding the powerful to account as, we examine the u.s., its role in the war on al jazeera on the back of it. successful trials, biotech for madonna seeks emergency approval from the us and e.u. regulators for its coronavirus vaccine. i'm out of my he didn't and this is out 0. live from doha and also coming up, joe biden announces his nominees for key economic posts in a new administration. the mysteries surrounding the assassination of iran's top nuclear scientists continues, as he's laid to rest and ethiopia's prime minister claims his troops have not

killed a single civilian in their offensive against tikrit forces here struck make him a durned, has announced it's asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its cool with vaccine this monday. that's after got the final results needed to confirm that it is more than 94 percent effective with her nose just behind pfizer and its german partner by on 2nd asking to start vaccinations. in the united states, in december, viruses say their vaccine is 95 percent effective against the corona virus. when the f.d.a. says, there will be a public debate over the evidence of each vaccine. pfizer's will be 1st, stop on december 10th, but turner's is set to happen a week later. well,

across the atlantic, british regulators are assessing the fines or shorts, but they're also looking at another vaccine from the u.k. company astra zeneca, which says their vaccine is on average, about 70 percent effective, but can be 90 percent effective depending on the dosage. well, let's get want to hear from our white house correspondents kimber, the whole kits. he joins us from a very rainy white house. kimberly, let's start with a vaccine that the seeking the emergency approval from very good news of course. but is there any indication of when this vaccine will start being yeah, they're all pens on the hearing that is set for a journey as well as fives, are in mid december 10th, and 17 are the 2 different dates for the respective drug companies. and it is after that, if the f.d.a. pushes that ahead, then things could go into production. so there still is another critical step,

but the fact that this is move so quickly is certainly something that's being celebrated here at the white house. they point out that a lot of this was done as a result of operation warp speed, which was the funding that really allowed for this to move ahead. and then of course, the trials now in phase 3, and now looking for this emergency approval, is what will out this production to get the vaccine into the hands of consumers. and just to be clear, in terms of the approval process, this is being done through the public health emergency act. this is something as a result of the emergency declaration back in january that the government is able to do. and of course, the drug companies very happy because not only are americans and potentially around the world, people going to be helped, but also they're going to make an awful lot of money, in fact, billions according to both specs estimates. well, this is the good news. of course, on the flip side is the bad news for those warnings from public health officials

about surges in coronavirus cases. those officials, of course, been urging people in the united states not to travel for the thanksgiving whole would say that advice wasn't he'd see in large part by the american public. so what more can you tell us about the current situation, the coronavirus situation in the united states, and what impact has that thanksgiving holiday hands yeah, bad in the united states right now, and the fear is it's going to get a lot worse in about 2 weeks. when that incubation period following the thanksgiving holiday kind of comes to fruition, the problem is the thanksgiving holiday is a major travel holiday for most americans to go see their families. millions did not heed the public health officials warnings that they should not travel and try to contain the spread. so the fear is that all 50 states are going to see a sharp increase in about 2 weeks. and we have to point out that will readily,

there are sharp increases that are occurring something that was expected in the fall. and the public health officials saying, look at all we can do now is try to contain yourselves, get tested and see that this doesn't spread further. but already we're seeing record numbers of infections and hospitalizations. and the fear is that this could be at a national public health emergency out of greater scale. 4 than even seen last spring . and so that's what the public health officials are trying to mitigate right now, but they're fearing the worst. ok. kelly holcomb there, bring us some or all the very latest from washington d.c. . thank you very much indeed. spat with you from america, a jew and a hobo brings us the view from the u.k. . he's a covert testing sites in leicester and says the government is trying to protect hard won gains against rising infections. there. period england particular were 2 days away from the end of the 2nd lockdown. there are good signs. promising signs

and infection rates have come down dramatically. they are right, the reproduction rate, he's below one. the government wants to try and protect those gains in the run up to christmas, of course. so what we're seeing here a mass testing regime of students, the latest step towards doing that and allowing a return to some degree of normality over christmas. hundreds of thousands of students to be tested at $130.00 plus universities. this is one of them demand for the university of leicester. this is the core, the hub of the testing center in an all in a gymnasium here, a makeshift testing center. you may recall that back in the autumn students were shown to be pretty prolific carriers and spreaders of the virus when they return to campuses after the summer. the concern here is that they may see the virus back into their home communities, back to elderly relatives when they go back to christmas. and of course, this testing designed to prevent prevent a rapid results test a self administered swab up the nose of in a concoction of chemicals applied to the looks like a pregnancy test. giving a result within about an hour and students encouraged to do 2 or 3 of these tests

over the course of the next week to 10 days. why will? because there are reliability concerns. the government itself has admitted that up to one in 5 cases. this test may return and in accurate results, so an imperfect system insured, but it will weed out a lot of cases. it will give some precious confidence of people returning home. and in that sense, a very important one. he was president elect. joe biden has nominated the team that will help guide the country through the currents economic crisis. let's get more now from kristen. silly. she joins us live from wilmington in delaware. chris, since there's been announced for the 2nd all might seem. and what does it say about the biden team's approach to this to this serious time?

well, president elect joe biden has called this a time of crisis tested team of trailblazers that he's nominated, includes 4 women among them, janet yellen, who was formerly the head of the federal reserve and the chair of the council of economic advisers. if approved as the head of the u.s. treasury department, as her nomination is confirmed, she'd be the 1st woman the 1st person period to hold all 3 of those titles. her deputy if approved would be, while iata jamo, he would be the 1st african american to be deputy treasury secretary. so we're seeing nominations of a lot of trailblazing 1st timers in this group here. yellen certainly has a lot of experience behind her, which she will need heading into a tough economic situation here in the united states. she had all of those positions, as i said, but she'll need to put all that experience to use. because the united states has

a particularly gloomy economic outlook right now with millions of people out of work. the corona, virus, infection rate rising across the country and job growth slowing. things were looking good here over the summer months. as job growth was increasing, businesses were reopening, people going back to work, but the 2nd surge is stifled that and recently, in fact, j.p. morgan chase the financial institution, predicted that the united states would see a contraction of its economy and 2021. so that is the backdrop for her. if she's confirmed in january, shall also be going into a very divided congress. we have 2 seats outstanding in the senate. if republicans hang on to them, they'll control the senate. democrats will control the house. that will be very tough. to come to a consensus on any kind of a relief package to help the economy and millions of americans who are due to lose their unemployment benefits at the end of the year. even if democrats win those 2

seats in georgia and win control of the senate, they won't have much of a majority. so it's going to be very tough for negotiations. and we've seen to this point that democrats and republicans have very different views about how to bring the economy back, and it will be up to janet yellen and this team to try to make that happen. try to bring a consensus and chris is silly me. there joining us from wilmington in delaware. thank you very much for that update. though senior iranian security official has accused israel of using remote controlled weapons to kill its top nuclear scientists. mawson, it was assassinated on friday. the european union cutter and the united arab emirates have condemned the killing all to her on his phone, revenge. this comes as a funeral service was held for a day in the capital. so it's a jabari reports now from to her estate. farewell,

for one of the most important figures in iran's defense ministry. mohsen factories are the who is 63 years old. was remembered at a small ceremony in the grounds of the ministry on monday. factories others, funeral was attended by some of iran's highest ranking officials, including the head of the country's atomic energy organization, the head of the revolutionary guards. and this man, the intelligence minister, who now has the job of finding out how fast was that it was killed. the scientists convoy of vehicles came under attack in opposite just east of tehran. on friday. he was taken to hospital where he died. factories that had been on the u.n. security council list of sanctions individuals. iran had never allowed him to be interviewed by the international atomic agency. his whereabouts were always kept secret, and he has survived previous assassination attempt. president hassan rouhani was not at the funeral,

but he has blamed israel for the assassination. a charge. israel denies. iran's defense minister says justice will be done, more had flung, you know, you are caught, we will pursue the criminals to the end and the perpetrators of this crime will be punished. the foreign governments and international organizations who refused to condemn this act of terrorism will see the consequences of their crimes. the father of 3 was gunned down in front of his wife, and the attackers have not yet been caught. this fascination is seen as an alarming security breach inside iran. and there is debate within the country as to what the response should be. who iran's allies are urging restraint. it's not the 1st time iranian nuclear scientists have been targeted, but it is the 1st in the past 8 years and factories out. it wasn't just a nuclear scientist. he was also the head of research and innovation at the defense ministry, which means he played a crucial role in iran's ballistic missile program. many here believe that the

death of factories or that could play a crucial role in how iran might deal with the incoming biden administration, the united states in the coming weeks. while the conservative voices in the country are demanding a tough response, it is ultimately up to the country's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei. to decide on how to proceed. and this is the 2nd time this year that the country has been mourning the death of a high ranking official, the death of major general patton salomon in january. and now i've got it. make it very clear that the road ahead continues to be a tumultuous one. pile on your door, such a party out with their own still to come on. al-jazeera story seems to be the hardest words. china's foreign ministry says it won't apologize for tweeting a fake, a mature industry and soldiers, and hoping to exclude on lawful immigrants from the census count to the trumpet. ministration takes another case to courts.

the frost is on the ground, the code is crossing from the continent to haul carter, which suggests a good to the snare is likely has been falling off for a while not really 2nd. and yet it's the keep doing. the same is the grandson who gets colder code, but if you're in holland, sure, you'll notice that there's a difference in temperature in, for example, tokyo goes down to about 12 degrees on wednesday. and this cloud building get disappointed. 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 sleet and snow rain proper is still the case in taipei, but the focus of power 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 temperatures coming down with overcast and nothing else much happens to be honest. significant rain has gone through vietnam, this mass of white, and it's light to move westwards towards the fast sides of thailand the next day or so. and you keep reading there, typically about $200.00 millimeters can come out of the sky as a flash. flooding is a possibility. there are heavy showers to the size of that bit of a circulation not far away from jobs and it might just increase the rainfall over jakarta. on counting the past president xi extends his grip across china and hong kong. could taiwan be next to a failed decades old? false evolved 1st, the free market economics, and people of chile redefine capitalism plus taxing the rich to pay for them. and demick in argentina covering the cost of i'll just be

a understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it, we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. this is al-jazeera combined over top stories for you know you're struck maker madeira is asking american and european regulators for americans a use of its corona virus vaccine. final results of confirmed it's more than 94 percent effective evidence will be debated. in the december u.s. president elect, joe biden will officially nominates the former chair of the federal reserve,

janet yellen, to be his treasury secretary, yellen will be the 1st woman to leave the treasury department's if she's confirmed . i did announce his economic team on monday, and a funeral service has been held in iran for the country's top nuclear scientists, most and factories are there was assassinated in an ambush near the capital to run off writing. iran's leaders are blaming israel for the killing. if the o.p.'s prime minister has told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week, conflicts need to grow a region insists the army will not destroy the regional capital kelly after capturing it at the weekends. but the tikrit people's liberation front say they're still fighting federal soldiers near the city. hundreds of thousands of people have died and thousands forced to flee to neighboring sudan. that another important target of 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. they said you will destroy mckelway and so on. a regular 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. malcolm webb has more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya. the government has said that its forces of control will of to grey region. ever since it took the regional capital city of may kelly on saturday, prime minister ahmed as told members of parliament that the government forces didn't kill a single civilian in their operations on the t.v. unless leaders are contradicting these claims,

they say that many civilians were killed in government airstrikes, something that the government denies. and the t p l. s. leaders have also said that they shot down one of those military planes that they've taken back one of the towns within the vicinity of mckelway. and also that they're fighting on all fronts . the prime minister spoke person refuted these claims as delusional, but without journalists or humanitarian workers having much access to the region, athol and with the phone lines in the internet, cut off very difficult to verify any of these claims. but the red cross has said that in the city of macquarie, about 80 percent of the people in the hospitals have trauma injuries. they didn't say how the people got those injuries. but they did say that there's a serious shortage of medical supplies needed to treat them and also a shortage of body bags. military camps in 3 cities in northern mali have been attacked at the same time. explosions took place in key down gul and menaka bases

that housing and peacekeepers and foreign troops no casualties have been reported. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack mali exchanges 3 could attacks by groups linked to al qaeda. white house senior adviser, jared kirschner will travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days. and the trip believed to be aimed at resolving the disputes between the neighboring countries comes amid tensions in the region forming the killing of a top iranian nuclear scientist. stan with only weeks left in the trump ministration commissioner and his team of helps negotiate deals with sudan, bahrain, and the u.a.e. . it's normalize relations with israel. china's foreign ministry has rejected calls from the australian prime minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over at war crimes. allegations the tweet sent by foreign ministry spokesman li gentile depicts a fake image of a history of these soldiers slashing the throats of an afghan child. at 4 was

a recent report since the conduct of strain in special forces. the israeli military has confirmed its dismissing more than a dozen soldiers accused of killing $39.00, announce afghan civilians and prisoners. as prime minister says, china should be ashamed of the tweet. it is utterly righteous and it cannot be justified on any bice's whatsoever. the chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. it does, it diminishes them in the world of lies or might couple of points about this. the strider is seeking an apology from the ministry of foreign of his from the chinese government for this outright as post. we are also seeking its removal immediately and have also contacted twitter to take it down immediately.

get to 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, john the jen posted a tweet, including an image by a self described chinese patriotic artist. and it was quite inflammatory depicting . and australian 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 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 the australian 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 australia and wine beef and bali, and is straining 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, the earlier this month released a list of 14 grievances against the australian government, including a stray is blocking of while ways 5 g. networks in australia and complains that australia has made against allegedly human rights abuses in shin john and china has said that it's up to a stretch to mend these strange ties. andean farmers talking rules and processed against new laws are refusing to move to a government designated venue. thousands have been camping on major highways near the capital, new delhi. the farmers say they're open to talks with the government as long as

there are no preconditions. but they say the new laws will hurt crop prices and their livelihoods. elizabeth purana sent the supports from one of the protests near new delhi. we were at 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, they have big holes to block this national highway. and it's a similar scene into other border crossings into delhi, with tens of thousands of people there. here at singur today, we've heard speeches from farmers who come from states other than those which border delhi, they have come to show their solidarity. only a few, 100 farmers have actually gone to the ground that's been designated by the government for protests promised, said they would go there because that will be an open jail. they want to continue

their disruption until the government repealed these wars. now every so often you can see commuters walking through with their bags, you know, those that are stranded because vehicles can't use the crossing. but given that around half of india's 1300000000 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 that in the morning, and he has defended these 5, 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 pharmacy can negotiate directly with private companies by thomas . don't see it that way. they think that these laws will see the real, the end of guaranteed minimum prices for their progeny. use a case that could shape the future of years. politics is being heard at the supreme court's. the trump administration is trying to exclude unlawful immigrants from the census count

and that could change how they see states have the house of representatives. i can a report from washington. the house will be in order. the number of house seats allocated to each us state is determined by a nationwide census. and the exclusion of what president donald trump describes as aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status, could directly impact on the composition of the house. for example, there are an estimated 2000000 residents in california whose legal status is unclear and to exclude them from the comed would result in the democratic state. losing as many as 3 seats in congress. 4 separate 3 judge panel have all unanimously concluded that the presidential memorandum violates the constitution and existing federal law. but it's a new supreme court that is now hearing the case before the death of justice. ruth

bader ginsberg in september last year, the court was equally balanced along ideological lines on the one side for conservative leaning judges, on the other side for less conservative judges. and at the center chief justice john roberts, who has had a casting vote one way or another in a number of cases. but the recent decision striking down the right to the new york governor to limit the number of people visiting places of worship, has revealed a fundamental shift in the nature of the court. 5 justices including the newly appointed amy kearney. barrett decided the pandemic measure violated the constitutional right to religious freedom voting. what is now a new more liberal minority. the 3 justices appointed by president trump have entrenched a conservative group in the country's highest court for the foreseeable future. the

census case called trump the new york is an early test of whether this court is prepared to bend the rule of law, a presidential. and it's a decision that's likely to be taken quickly by law president trump must inform congress of how house seats will be apportioned by the 10th of january next year. like hanna al-jazeera, washington, and new zealand's 10 organizations and 3 individuals are facing fines of up to a $1000000.00 in connection with the deaths of $22.00 people for cannock eruption last year. regulators have been investigating why tourists were taken on to an active volcano. after the eruption alert level had been raised. a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are fanning dozens of wildfires on australia's east coast people on fraser island, a unesco heritage sites have been told to evacuate as far crews fight

a blaze. spurned 74000 hectares. from fighters are tackling women 64 hours across the state of new south wales and sydney recorded its hottest november night ever. temperature didn't fall below 25 degrees. more on this story and more on our website that said al jazeera, don't comb. my this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines here. struck maker madonna is asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine. final results confirmed as for the 94 percent effective evidence will be debated in the december white house correspondent, kimberly how kits has more this will all be pending a determination by the food and drug administration that will be taking place in mid december to.