american drug company, madonna seeks emergency approval for its coronavirus vaccine in the u.s. and europe raising hopes of 2 possible vaccines before christmas. santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera, wisconsin and arizona have certified joe biden's victory. as the president elect picks a diverse economic team with a woman at the helm for the 1st time. if you have his prime minister denies, sack is ations, that civilians were killed in the operations against to go in forces while the u.s.

calls for an end to the fighting and the destruction of the planet's lungs, deforestation in the brazilian amazon reaches its worst level in 12 years so a 2nd u.s. drug maker this time it's madonna has asked regulators there and in the european union for emergency approval for its covert 1000 back same. but turner says its final trial results confirm it is more than 94 percent effective a week behind pfizer. so this is feeling hopes the u.s. could maybe have to approve vaccines by the end of the year. this report from gabriel is under a 2nd coronavirus vaccine. now awaiting approval by u.s. regulators. moderna announced its vaccine is ready and if approved for emergency use, the company will start rolling out the 1st doses of the vaccine. by late december,

we have worked very closely with a question about speed. and as we said, you know, we should have a, it's going to be done. those is a baby on the way you know. so as soon as we get approval order on the news, teams are going to get hold of a vaccine. we have and stuff shipping it in the country is going to vaccinate americans with 24 hours from a pro or moderne is a small pharmaceutical company based in cambridge, massachusetts that has never successfully brought a vaccine to market. it got a big jump on its competitors because it started working aggressively on a covert vaccine back in january. the very day china released the genetic data on the corona virus. that early foresight is now paying off the company saying it hopes to produce as many as $500000000.00 covert vaccine doses next year alone. earlier this month, new york based vaccine maker pfizer and its german partner by and tech announced its vaccine was also being submitted for approval and could roll out $50000000.00

doses this year. with pfizer, we have the f.d.a. announced an advisory committee for december, the town. 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. madonna is basically one week behind that distribution of the vaccines could be a challenge that is fast approaching. the vaccines must be kept in cold temperatures at all times during transport and storage, or face the risk of spoiling and being ineffective. but it doesn't matter how many vaccines are available. if people decide they don't want to take them. here in the united states, one poll showed that nearly 40 percent of americans said they have no plans to take the coronavirus vaccine. and within minority communities, particularly blacks and latinos, the distrust runs even deeper. with this same poll showing that nearly half said when it comes to the vaccine. no, thanks. on monday,

new york governor andrew cuomo said more outreach needs to be done to build trust with minorities to take the vaccine. blacks died at twice the rate that whites start. brown died one and a half times the rate that whites died. they are less served by the health care facilities. we need a special outreach effort. federal government has provided no funding to do that. but global health officials say it's a problem around the world. yes, you know, around the world a week, as you can see about blacks in general. and about a comic books in particular of this scene is growing for out there. but while there is growing anticipation of the vaccine, rollouts health officials caution, it will likely be several more months before distribution is ramped up to meet global demand. to truly have a chance to end the pandemic once and for all gabriel sandow al-jazeera new york.

donald trump's coronavirus advisor scott hapless, has resigned after a controversial 4 months and the job at this repeatedly downplayed the importance of masks and described lockdowns as an epic fail. yet. he was criticized by the infectious disease expert and he found she had accused atlas of providing the president with misleading or false information. on the pandemic, 2 battleground states have now officially certified their election results in favor of joe biden, dealing another blow to trump in his attempts to hold on to poa. and so let me has more on this. the governor of arizona, a republican, makes it official signing off on election results, declaring democrat joe biden, the winner in his state. by just over 10000 votes, arizona's secretary of state assured voters the election was conducted by the book and can't see accuracy and fairness. in accordance with arizona's law and elections

procedures, despite numerous unfounded claims to the contrary. those claims coming from none other than president donald trump and his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who met with some arizona state republicans still looking for evidence of fraud that is yet to materialize. while the president's supporters gathered outside 4 out of 5 legal challenges waged by republicans in arizona have been dismissed by the courts. in wisconsin. the president's campaign paid $3000000.00 for recounts in 2 counties, but that only turned up more votes for biden. and that state too, has now officially been certified for the democrat. a recount is essentially an audit of the process that verifies the accuracy of the balloting process. that takes place on election day. i promise that this would be a transparent fair process, and it was both wisconsin and arizona where one by trump,

in 2016. this makes joe biden the 1st democrat to win a presidential election in arizona since 1996 president trump has 5 days to contest the results. there and in wisconsin, which he is expected to do. christian salumi al-jazeera of wilmington, delaware, and joe biden is moving ahead with his transition to the white house. he's received his 1st daily intelligence briefing, and has officially unveiled his economic team as well. it is seen as the most diverse in history biden's pick, former federal reserve chair janet yellen to head the treasury department, if confirmed by the senate should be the 1st woman to serve. as the u.s. treasury secretary, also on biden's team is who will be the 1st black deputy treasury secretary just weeks before no aggression biden's already facing his 1st major foreign policy challenge. that is iran and israel. a senior iranian security official has accused israel of using remote controlled weapons to kill its top nuclear scientist. most

in fact, they was assassinated in an ambush on friday. at his funeral, iran's security chief also blamed an iranian opposition group. unfortunately this was a very complicated assess a nation that was carried out remotely with electronic devices and no one was present at the same. but there are some clues we realize the person who planned this assess nation, of course, manufacturing have a large part. and of course, the criminal part of this incident is the zionist regime and mossad, pompei it has called the ethiopian prime minister and urged him to end the fighting in the north and to grave region. i mean is that we're told, ethiopia is parliament that federal forces are in full control of the regional capital. however, the take away people's liberation front says the fighting still going on. rights groups are concerned about the risk to civilians, but appiah it insists not a single civilian has been hurt. thousands that have fled to neighboring sudan

since the conflict began about a month ago. that another person 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 shield this kind of performance. our army is disciplined and victorious. today said you will destroy mckelway and so on. 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. well, communication lines remain cut off in the region, so it's difficult to verify those claims. and where there has more from nairobi in neighboring kenya, the government has said that its forces controlled all of the gray regions ever since it took the regional capital city of may. kelly on saturday, prime minister,

the ammeters told members of parliament that the government forces didn't kill a single civilian in their operations. the t.l.'s 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. brazil's amazon rain forest is disappearing at an alarming rate with deforestation are surging to a 12 year high. scientists say it's suffered losses at an accelerated rate. ever since jaya boston area became president and weakened, the environmental protections asunder or m.p.'s, he reports now from bogota in colombia. from the sky, large swaths of brazil's amazon are increasingly looking like this, with long patches of rain, forest destroyed by fires and logging, and it's getting worse. new government data shows the level of destruction is rose almost 10 percent this year. to more denny living, 1000 square kilometers equivalent to 7 times the size of london. it's the highest level in 12 years. and monday, brazil's vice president promised to for destruction. point 6 percent is not a number to celebrate. on the contrary, as i said here,

i desire is not to have illegal deforestation at all inside the amazon. this is what we're fighting for. but environmentalists believe the government is to blame since taking office 2 years ago, president jacques made it clear down there is watch. the amazon was opening to business and development. he weakened the country's environmental inforced meant agency, and called for more farming and mining in protected areas. which critics say has emboldened illegal ranchers in miners to clear the forest from that have been built in brazil over. but we have that existence of climate change. a growing international outcry led by european countries a special scenario to send the military into the region to fight the forestation,

a little has changed. now, critics hope the election of joe biden as u.s., president willing crease, the pressure given a strong stance and climate change. but just days ago took an indirect swipe at biden, in this policy in the rain forest. i recently heard a presidential candidate from a country say that if i don't put out the fire in the amazon, he's going to reste trade barriers against brazil. how do we deal with that? diplomacy is not enough. when there is no more saliva, then there must be gum. but they have to know that the amazon is ours. that's for the world is like nobody has what we have. it will be difficult to convince a defiant to change course, but with the effects of climate change looming. many believe it's a fight on which the health of the entire world depends.

in the news ahead, universities across the u.k. take on president a coronavirus measures and students return home to their families and harass official intelligence tools used to create computer games are now being used to fight disease. it's the hello the driving force so that the recent fairly heavy rains dissipates up. here somewhere is hard to identify, but the tail is still there and that still generating showers or thunderstorms from iran, dancer's saudi arabia to bahrain, possibly darbar. and then that was a matter to the southwest in saudi and western yemen. that lines going to exist if anything, go north woods and generate more significant rain in some parts of iraq, a tale that takes you back to the mediterranean as well,

where thunderstorms be wandering around. recently, for the most part it's quiet weather, but the coast of yemen is also looking potentially sherry at the moment for the northeast monsoon setting in. and that might also translate to some more rain the whole of africa, which is creeping down towards mortgage issue. this isn't a particularly heavy, the tropical showers are well as you might expect, just south of the tropics, so towns near back to the rift valley and beyond daily. you get these big showers, drifting out of the of legged tory westwards and they generate by day. so you're afternoon showers into denver for example, but proper rain and welcome rain. i think he's on this band. the cloud here, which is tipping of the sea into mozambique zimbabwe and malawi. this is a dry time here. be nice to see it wet and it's going that way. jump into the stream and julian on global community bio diversity is biosecurity.

it is that essential for our species to survive? be part of the debate. i know you have my days and you too can be part of this conversation. when no topic is off the table, the police are not neutral and all of these cases goal here is to terrorize. and here's the other part of this. there's no consequence to this stream on out, as they are heard to say, these are the top stories this hour and you're struck may come a turner's seeking approval from american and european regulators for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine cases are rising steadily across the u.s.

and 39000 new infections were confirmed sunday. battleground states of arizona and wisconsin with the latest to certify joe biden's election victory. donald trump's expected to continue funding results over in the u.s. secretary of state is urging ethiopia's prime minister to end the fighting in the north and to grow the region made to told parliamentary federal forces a story. he told parliament that those for the forces now control the regional capital, regulate the p.l.o. since fighting is ongoing. so let's stay with that story. the fighting in the to grow region, which has really taken a toll on its children. many sheltering in neighboring sudan are unaccompanied minors. val met some of the medic out and got there if sedan near the border with ethiopia such, there was no blackboard or chalk, or notebooks. but there was 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 give them a sense of normalcy, but a sense of stability by setting up some temporary learning splices. 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 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 $3000.00 children in this camp. many of them had their education disrupted when fighting broke out between the each open 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. its 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. refugees 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 that conflict had created still lingers today. here in the camp degrees are teaching their children in english not, which is the main official language of the federal republic of each opiah. a sign of the mum of the task ahead for prime minister. in his effort to restore national unity or mark whether fiji can't reveal the sudanese border with saudi arabia has agreed to allow israeli commercial flights to cross its airspace to the united arab emirates. this is according to reuters white house senior adviser. jared cushions reported to have brokered that deal while visiting saudi arabia. he is then expected to travel to qatar in the coming days. a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. almost 30

arms control and rights groups of signed a letter to the u.s. congress, opposing the sale of $23000000000.00 worth of weapons to the united arab emirates. they say it will worsen humanitarian crises. arising from conflicts in yemen and libya. 3 u.s. senators have proposed legislation to stop the sale, which includes missiles drones. and if they fire fighter jets, it was approved following a u.s. brokered agreement in september in which the u.a.e. agreed to normalize its relations with israel. as a john has moved forces into the last territory handed over by armenia under a russian brokered ceasefire deal the very minute followed 6 weeks of fighting over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region. russian troops have been deployed for the next 5 years to oversee its implementation. al qaeda linked fighters of 5 missiles at 3 french military camps in northern mali. the bases were hit within

hours of each other, rare coordinated attack. no casualties reported but a un base next to the camp in cuba was damaged french forces killed a military leader of north africa when 3 weeks ago. another 33 people have been buried following a massacre on 2 villages in northeastern nigeria and delegation from nigeria's senate has visited borno state where the farm workers were attacked in rice fields on saturday. the un says at least 110 civilians were killed and many injured boko haram is suspected of being behind the attacks. several people injured during a rally in support of uganda's opposition presidential candidate bobby wine. demonstrators fought with police on the outskirts of the capital, kampala, earlier police fired tear gas at wine and his supporters, as they travelled to the purchased. the pop star turned politician is hoping to unseat president. you're waiting with severely in january's election. to francois

the government's dropped a controversial draft law that would restrict the publishing of images of police. the bill sparks, a large protest on saturday, fueled by anger over a video of police beating a black man in paris. critics of the law say it would prevent such incidents from being exposed and a new version of the bill will not be submitted. it's more from the township, partly in paris on the significance of this proposal. 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 have to 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 rights 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 don't listen very closely say is that the problem is most people who are against it. there are many politicians on all sides of the spectrum really. and protesters, tens of thousands of them who were in the streets on saturday. what they want is the government to just withdraw this article altogether. turkey is tightening

coronavirus restrictions after a record number of deaths for the consecutive day. full lock downs will be imposed on the weekend and curfews on turkish medical association says hospitals are stretched to capacity. the world health organization's director general speaking about mexico says it's in bad shape as corona, virus infections and deaths. ted ross are then on the government to take some serious action to stop the spread of mexico, the 4th country to have more than 100000, people dying from covert and the philippines has extended its restrictions in the miller region until the end of the here, people in the capital and 6 other areas must wear masks and maintain social distancing. the health secretary has asked filipinos to limit their christmas gatherings. when the u.k. mass coronavirus testing is taking place at universities,

thousands of students are being checked before they go home for their winter break is trying to hold reports from 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. pure anxiety. like throughout 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 war or had faded from diversity of accounting for every family measure. fareed, i have to say, i don't spread it in your favor, but often folks 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 or makeshift testing center, as many as one in 5 cases may be inaccurate. clinicians are keen to emphasise that a negative test isn't a green light, and that is the message that we have really keen to get across that this is not a free pass when students go haim. at christmas they will be mixing with their relatives mixing with friends from different universities, possibly save their ability to spread the virus if they are not following their government's guidelines is quite large. and of course there's the hope that an end is in sight. it's quite likely we will have to have something like this to anybody and they can return to university also in security. when we get to the next round

and round the easter period a lot. and on the progress of the virus, things might be with the rollout of the vaccine. a vaccine may take many months to roll out across the population. in the meantime, an imperfect system of this perhaps. but an important one. john, how al-jazeera lester, ali biologists have discovered how artificial intelligence can help fight disease. a london based official intelligence lab deep mind says it can now predict how proteins stay with me. how proteins fold into 3 d. shapes. within days, shapes which apparently baffled scientists for 50 years. proteins are chains of amino acids that twist and bend into different shapes. understanding and predicting their structure can determine how they affect cells. so this discovery is seen as a breakthrough in the fight against diseases including cancer dementia and yes, koch 19 virology and oncology expert karen therapeutics who is

optimistic about its potential uses. there are over 40000 incidents. so these are all normal scale sequences of the media houses as you sit at the very floppy. and then we try to bend around themselves several times before their starts forming a scalpel. and that's couple of weeks for him to rigid structure, which you call that to restructure it. nice. now we know how they look like and we know of that interact with other proteins in a cell. and because we know that we can actually question all they function in this world. also, we can actually question how many other potential chemicals drugs can bind to them, can attach themselves to them. and one of these of touch meant what would be the

consequence on the function of these proteins. this will allow us to move even faster for drug discovery against many diseases. because now we care no of these boots. you can look like what all the shades, even matter of days. you have to remember that there are so many things eases that we put in that goal. you couldn't win the war against them because we did have an insight on how the disease truthy in themselves look like to be able to find a drug against them. this is al jazeera, these are the headlines this hour u.s. drug michael madonna is seeking approval from the american and european regulators for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine. the u.s. health secretary said.