unscripted on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world as surgeon curve in 1000 cases overwhelm hospitals around the u.s. . daryn are becomes the 2nd drug maker there to seek emergency approval for its vaccine. hello and barbara sarah. this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up president elect joe biden, unveils the team that he hopes will help to lead the u.s. out of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. ethiopia's prime minister tells parliament the military didn't kill a single civilian in almost 4 weeks of fighting in the northern tikrit region. and

iran's top nuclear scientist is buried in tehran with accusations that israel killed him using a remote controlled machine to get u.s. drug maker madeira now has announced it's asking american and european regulators for emergency approval for its covert 1000 vaccine on monday. but there it says its final trial results confirm its more than 94 percent. the fact that it's just a week behind pfizer fueling hopes the u.s. could have to approve vaccines by the end of the year. but public health experts say the country should be preparing for a surge in cases after the thanksgiving weekend rise. that is coming too soon for either vaccine to slow down. nearly 139000, new infections were confirmed on sunday and 826 deaths. well, the u.s.

health secretary says if everything goes to plan federal approval for vaccines could be granted in the coming weeks. with pfizer, we have the f.d.a. announced an advisory committee for december the 10th. and if everything is on track, everything proves out what, what it appears to be. we could be looking at approval within days after that midair nose, basically one week behind that. and general perna has said from operation work speed that will ship within 24 hours of f.d.a. authorization. so we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people's arms before christmas. fisher joins us live now from the white house. ok, so you know, think this cost, we have some kind of timeline, do we have any more details, for example, how many will be available and who will be the people that will have access to the vaccine 1st? well, the initial hope is that they will get the vaccine into people by within 3 weeks

and they're talking about somewhere in the region of 20000000 people who would get it 1st. well, obviously you're talking about health care workers. then you're talking about those who work in care homes and also care home residents. and then you're talking about front line workers. you're talking about getting it all over the country. but there's a warning from a government watchdog who says that 17 states either completely glitzy greatly or completely concerned that they might not have the supplies to deliver the vaccine. so getting into people's hands might be the problem. now they're talking about shortage of needles. talking a shortage of syringes. those would be things that obviously you would need to make sure that people get vaccinated. water speed has got the logistics sorted out as far as getting the vaccines to various parts of the country. but clearly states are worried that they might have the vaccine and then not be able to deploy it. so that's something that they have got a window of about 3 weeks to address. it is incredible that we're here and we're

talking about a vaccine 5 times quicker than any other vaccine in mordor medical history. because of course, it was just really march that the whole talk of developing a vaccine came around. so that's a really short period of time, and it's a real tribute to the scientists don't. trump, obviously wanted to get the vaccine before the election that hasn't happened before the end of the year would still be good for him. he said at the weekend, of course, that he has pushed this idea an operation warp speed is something that not only pushed the scientists to deliver this vaccine, but also put in place the logistics to deliver that well, wolf, you know, in the next couple of weeks whether or not it's all in place and ready to go, but they're hoping $20000000.00 vaccines by the end of the year. and then the drug companies are talking about somewhere in the region of 500000000 to 1000000000 vaccines before the end of 2021. and allan, i guess whenever it does come, the vaccine will come a ban to soon tell us

a little bit about the situation in the u.s. and what impact the thanksgiving holiday that was just past weekend in the u.s. could have most certainly health experts. so worried that the thanksgiving holiday may well have seeded a new break in the next 10 to 14 days. thanksgiving is the big travel hold in the united states far more than christmas or new year and many people were traveling at the beginning of last week. all the way through to thursday the thanksgiving holiday and then the thought wasn't enough. then of course those people have got to come back with sunday being the biggest travel day of the year and with millions of people on. 'd the move there is a concern that that will help to spread the virus. and so many health professionals are beginning to brace themselves for the figures that they might see in a couple of weeks. it's not as if the figures at the moment are going in the right direction. all 50 states are saying that they're headed in the absolute wrong direction. and so they're worried about what might come in the next couple of weeks

. how is that impacting states? well, you hear from the likes of north dakota, small population place where there is expect expertise in handling diseases of this kind. you remember the ball, the patients were sent to north the quarter. they are saying that the hospital system there is in the verge of collapse. in california, just in the last couple of hours, gavin newsome who's the governor says that in the next couple of days, the my issue fresh stay at home order saying that over the next 2 weeks, the whole hospital system there may grind to a halt and people say well, how can that possibly be? well, you've got to think that of all these hospitals are treating core food cases because there's a huge surge then things like heart attacks and strokes and cancer to get treated and that bumps up the fatality rate as well. so there's a real concern that what has happened over the last 10 days or so has seeded a problem for the next 2 weeks. and so medical professionals are bracing themselves for the situation which is pretty dire in the u.s. . and we've seen a huge surge in cases over the last 2 weeks might actually get even washed.

sobering thoughts there,, allan fashion regulators from outside the white house. thank you. now, u.s., president elect joe biden is moving ahead with the transition to his administration . on monday he received his 1st daily security briefing, and he unveiled his nominations for 5 key economic positions. it's being described as the most diverse white house econ, economic team in history. biden has nominated former federal reserve chair janet yellen to the post of treasury secretary. and while we are the who will be the 1st black deputy treasury secretary, rumors of yellen supporting contributed to the dow jones, reaching a record high of 30000 last week. well, robert scott is a senior international economist at the economic policy institute. he explains what we can expect from biden's team. each of them brings to the table a different set of expertise and tools. they're all well trained in labor

economics, though, of course, janet yellin is, has got a background in banking and monetary theory. but just on the economics team, you know, cecilia rouse to share those specializes in education and training. so that's going to be a key part of the development plan. jared bernstein is a specialist in jobs and wages. and that's going to be essential we need, as you said, at least $12000000.00 jobs to get out of this recession and heather bushay has focused on inequality in her work, and especially on delivering the social programs such as childcare and support for families. so each of them will take a different part of the labor market. all of them together, i think will come up with plans and programs to get the economy back on its feet.

the u.s. secretary of state has urged ethiopia's prime minister to bring a complete end to the fighting in the north and t. great region in a phone call like pump ale urged to hold a constructive dialogue with the to great ends to resolve the crisis. have you ordered a military offensive on the northern region more than 3 weeks ago, accusing key crazed leaders of attacking federal forces. earlier he told his parliament that government forces have not killed a single civilian during the call, flaked, and they insist that the army will not destroy the regional capital. after capturing it on saturday. but the tikrit people's liberation front say they're still fighting government soldiers near the city. claims from both sides are difficult to verify. as communications have been cut off for weeks, that the other person thought to get. 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 shield this kind of performance . our army is discipline and victorious. oh my god, he said you will destroy mckelway and so on. a is ours. it was build with our own resources. we are not going to destroy it. not even a single person was affected by the operation. hundreds of people have died in the fighting and up to 1000000 have been displaced. the united nations is again appealing for immediate access to the city of rockaway or humanitarian colleagues have received reports of critical shortages of medical supplies in may kili and across the great to treat people injured during the clashes aid workers report that they have been for. they have been forced to rely on untreated water to survive, following the damage today and destruction of water infrastructure,

or humanitarian colleagues are also warning that it is critical that essential supplies and services be restored immediately in mickael even across the grey region. well, more than 40000 refugees have fled across the border from tigray into sudan. mohammad valid reports from one of the main refugee camps all efforts to help the children there. there's no blackboard or chalk or notebooks, but there's a sparkle of hope in the eyes of these young each open 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 is about a 100 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 choppin federal army and the ukraine 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 to 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. 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. greens are teaching their children in english, not i'm heading, which is the main of the 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 leave the sudanese border with still to come in this half hour after mass protests, the french government says it will rewrite our bill that curb the right to film police officers and auction and touching down for a new life in cambodia, share welcomes pakistan's. yes, the elephant on a day, you'll never forget. the heat wave has gone from sydney. it's not entirely gone from new south wales or queens in this in this area here. and birdsville still sitting in it, but there's clearly a change on the way. so focus was used about 47 birds that we got 29 in sydney on

a windy day on tuesday is pretty warm in brisbane, but that's not abnormal. the abnormal weather, they windy and wet, weather is still going through victoria and tasmania to leave cool weather behind our label to drop at least 11 degrees on this forecast in tuesday. whereas pearse is warming up nicely to about 30 on wednesday and birdsville down to 40 down to near where it should be. 47, by the way, is one off the record bird still holds that the, the heat record. she can see sydney's change tack altogether is certainly reason one of 2 showers are possible in new south wales or queens. and as a result of that, sydney's forecast does not warp significantly. $24.00 degrees rising to $27.00 by friday. hardly a heat for you. that's where it should be. and wind is also showing itself, so things are becoming as they should be for east asia. as particularly true in northern japan. persistent snow seems likely based on the hydra sometimes in sapporo. and this turning rather gloomy disappointingly in much of china

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time. now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera, u.s. drugmaker madara now says it's filing for approval from american and european regulators for emergency use of its coronavirus faxing cases continue to search across the u.s. with 131000 new infections confirmed on sunday. former federal reserve chair janet yellen has been nominated as the next u.s. treasury secretary, president elect joe biden. stroy says for his economic team to make it the most diverse and white house history. and ethiopia's prime minister says this forces haven't killed a single civilian during the conflict integrate. it was urged to engage in constructive dialogue with the great leaders during a phone call with the u.s. secretary of state. a senior iranian security official has accused israel of using remote controlled weapons to kill its top nuclear scientist, mo sena factories at this died in hospital on friday after his car was ambushed at

his funeral. iran's security chief, also blamed on the rainy an opposition group. unfortunately, this was a very complicated assassination. it was carried out remotely with electronic devices and no one was present at the scene. but there are some clues we realize the person who proudly sesame. of course, the national council of resistance regrown have a large part. and of course, the criminal part of this incident is designed his regime and must well, several countries have condemned the assassination while iran is vowing revenge factor is that there was laid to rest at a state funeral in the capital as the subject. bahrain now reports a state 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 that was killed. the scientists convoy of vehicles came under attack in up a sart, just east of tehran. on friday. he was taken to hospital where he died. they had been on the un security council list of sanctioned individuals. iran had never allowed him to be interviewed by the international atomic agency. his whereabouts were always kept secret, and he has survived a 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. mo-o. had none, 0, yet called we will pursue the criminals to the end of 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, 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 khomeini, to decide and 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 parson salomon in january. i now make it very clear that the road ahead continues to be at the most with one foot on your door. such a party out that there are turkey is going to impose full coronavirus lockdowns on the weekends and then force curfews on weekdays. it's they lead best told, hit a record high for an aids consecutive day on monday, with $188.00 fatalities and 31000 cases, the turkish medical association says hospitals have reached capacity with 30000 new cases every day. and car imposed nationwide weekend curfews in mid november restrictions. the opposition says were insufficient. well,

the head of the world health organization says that he's concerned about the rising numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths in brazil. pederasts other non-game says it must take the jumping cases seriously. from november 2 to november 26th, it has again double and the disarray. it also has been declining until november to know it's increasing significantly. so i think, brazil has to be very, very serious. here in the u.k., a major fashion retail group, arcadia has just gone into administration threatening 13000 jobs. it's the country's biggest corporate casualty of the pandemic so far elsewhere in the country. though a large scale study shows new infections a fall in 30 percent during england's 4 week national lockdown. now

a mass testing operation is checking thousands of university students before they head home for the winter break. john hall is at a university testing center in leicester prolific virus spreaders in the autumn students across england and wales are now being tested on mass before heading home for christmas. in september, when students return from the summer break, tens of thousands were forced to isolate, often in cramped halls of residence. learning went online and many questioned what they were paying fees for help here. and i like the whole situation because we were so unaware of what was going on. so it's nice that we can now regularly check whether we're all like a large home bed. and i'm going to have a very specified time for anything i make sure all fairy tales just say i don't spread it if i both by form of info before the problem to montfort university in leicester is one of more than 130 taking part in mass testing 1st,

the self administered swab test, then a lateral flow test, and a result within an hour students are asked to take a 2nd test, 3 days later with positive cases, forced to isolate, while others head home to their families. there are concerns about the reliability of these tests. the government has admitted as much in fact, in these non lab conditions, a makeshift testing center as many as one in 5 cases may be inaccurate. clinicians are keen to emphasize that a negative test isn't a green light, and that is the message that we are really keen to get across that this is not a free pass when students go, hey, at christmas they will be mixing with their relatives mixing with friends from different universities, possibly their ability to spread the virus if they are not following the government's guidelines this point large. and of course, there's no hope that an end is in sight,

because quite likely we will have to have something like this to enable them to return to university also in security. when we get to the next round and round the easter period. and on the progress of the virus, things might be with the rollout of the vaccine and cetera. a vaccine may take many months to roll out across the population. in the meantime, an imperfect system this perhaps, but an important one, lester francis government has dropped a controversial draft law that would restrict the publishing of images of police. the bill sparked large protests on saturday, fueled by anger over a video of police, beating a black man in paris, a clear needed stitches after officers attacked him in his own music studio. critics of the law say you could prevent such incidents from being exposed. a new version of the bill will be submitted when the cash, but there isn't paris for

a son says it's yet to be seen if the move will actually appease protesters. it's clear, the government has been forced to make a concession because m.p.'s have said that they are going to rewrite the controversial clause in their planned new security law. now this clause is controversial because what it does is it would crack down on people's ability to publish air broadcast, images of police officers on duty. the government says that that would help protect the identity of police officers who often do difficult work. but opponents of this clause say that it is an erosion of press freedoms as an erosion of the right to inform of people's right of expression. and that without images of police officers on duty, police will not be able to be accountable for their actions at a time where we're seeing several officers being accused of police brutality, especially over the past few days. now the government of course, forced to make

a concession, i can say that, but on the other hand, i think it's really important to keep it in perspective. because over the last few days the government has indicated it might rewrite the article of this clause. but what does rewrite mean? no one has actually made that very clear. and i think what many people who are watching this very closely say is that the problem is that most people who are against the many politicians on all sides of the spectrum really. and protesters, tens of thousands of them who are in the streets on saturday. what they want is the government to just withdraw this article altogether. as eerie forces of moved into the final district, a given up by armenia under a cease fire deal to end weeks of fighting over the disputed in a corner region. a column of azeri trucks was seen driving into lachine, flanked by military vehicles, from russia, which brokered the precint recent earlier. some armenian residents burned their

houses, as they left angry protests demanding the resignation of armenia's. prime minister . continue to take place in what about china's a foreign ministry has rejected calls to apologize after its spokesman. tweeted a fake image of an australian soldier. the image depicts a soldier holding a bloody knife to the throat of an afghan child. it follows a recent report which accused australian special forces of a lawful, the killing dozens of civilians in afghanistan, australia's prime minister called the tweet repugnant and demanded that china apologize. it is utterly rages and it cannot be justified on any vices whatsoever. the chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post is it diminishes them in the world of ours or might couple points

a bit, strive seeking an apology from the ministry of foreign from the chinese government for this outrageous post. we are also seeking its removal immediately and have also contract to twitter to take it down immediately. 10 organizations and 3 individuals in new zealand are facing fines of up to a $1000000.00 over the deaths of $22.00 people in a volcanic eruption last year. regulators have been investigating why tourists were taken on to the what the active white island volcano, weeks after it's of auction alert level had been raised. a separate inquiry is examining whether criminal charge charges are warranted. and some good news, an elephant dubbed the loneliest in the world, has finally arrived at his new home with the help of an entertainment i called the

plight of coverage on the only elephant in islamabad, zuzu in pakistan attracted worldwide publicity. now, after a fundraising campaign is being flown to a new life at a wildlife sanctuary in cambodia. and catherine had a v.a.p. greeting on the tarmac from share this singer has been a supporter and figurehead of the lonely elephant campaigning., and now the top stories on our jazeera, a 2nd, u.s., drugmaker, modern a has announced it's asking american and european regulators for emergency approval for its covert 1000 vaccine on monday. but there it says its final trial results confirm its more than 94 percent affective. it's a week behind pfizer fueling hopes the u.s. could actually have to.