if the indochinese many, steve beat the french army, why not? the decline continues an episode to bludgeon french take on an icy shut. on al-jazeera, iran holds an extraordinary session of parliament debating changes to its nuclear commitments. hello, i'm adrian for the get. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up 2 more states certify the president elect's victory joe biden. also on bale's his team to tackle the u.s. economy. almost a quarter of a 1000000000 people worldwide will need some form of aid in the next year. the effects of the pandemic exacerbating an already dire situation and destroying the

planet's lungs. alarming level of deforestation, and brazil's amazon iran's parliament has been debating significant changes to rules governing its nuclear program. politicians have just passed a draft motion to halt, unrestricted access by the international atomic energy agency to its nuclear sites . let's go straight to 0, as i said, bake. who's in tehran for us? what's this all about? a set of. what does the passing of this motion mean? well, parliamentarians overwhelming conservative parliamentarian majority that they have in parliament asking the government to do 2 things. one is to stop inspectors. now that's a part of something called the additional protocol which gives i.a.e.a. inspectors under citric access to iran's nuclear sites without any prior notice that's in addition to the 247 on line monitoring of iran's nuclear sites. so they

want the government to hold that to stop that happening now. they're also asking the government to increase nuclear enrichment to 20 percent. now in the 2015 nuclear deal, the limit is at 3.6 percent, and iran just increased that to 4.5 percent. what the parliamentarians are asking is to increase that to 20 percent. that's concerning. that will be concern to some countries because once you get to 20 percent, without much difficulty, you can get your 80 percent, which is nuclear grade which is weapons. grade enrichment is important to note here that iran has always maintained that it doesn't want a nuclear weapon, but the issue with this is and why it will be so concerning is if i.a.e.a. inspectors are stopped from entering the country. well, they won't know exactly how much iran is enriching to with is it more than 20 percent of essential to be blind and the world will be blind to what iran is doing? regardless of what iran says. now the reason that they've done this is their

reaction to the assassination of martin for his other. this is their initial 1st reaction. there will be another response we keep hearing from parliamentarians and lawmakers, but also there's allegations by the conservative camp. the i.a.e.a. inspectors are spies now that's been rejected by the reformist camp, which headed by president hassan rouhani. foreign minister, divides reefer said actually the intelligence that came for the assassinations of iran's nuclear scientists came from israel and mustard. so this is very significant that this has passed, but it isn't the end of the story. it doesn't mean that it's going to happen straight away and said many thanks indeed live in a 2nd u.s. drug maker. but donna has announced that it's asking regulators there and in the european union for emergency approval for its covert 19 vaccine. madonna says that its final trial results confirm that it's more than 94 percent effective. it's a week behind pfizer feeling hopes that the u.s.

could have to approve vaccines by the end of the. but as i was 0, as cable is on the reports that are also growing concerns about the approval process. 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. he's a baby on the way, you know. so as soon as we get approval or jarka on the news, teams are going to get all of a vaccine. we have and stop shipping it in the country is goal is to vaccinate americans with 24 hours on the pro 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 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 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. 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 back scene. 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 blackstar to 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 in general and about calling boxes of this scene

is growing for everybody. but 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, the u.s. president of trump's coronavirus advisor scott actress has resigned after just 4 months in the job. atlas repeatedly downplay the importance of mosques and described lockdowns as an epic failure. he was criticized by infectious diseases expert times. they found she who accused the hapless of giving the president, misleading, or false information on the pandemic. the final 2 contested states, wisconsin and arizona, have certified their election results in favor of joe biden. it deals another blow to u.s.

president donald trump's attempts to hold on to power with legal challenges and recounts christine salumi reports. 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 . you can 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. christen salumi al jazeera wilmington, delaware. the united nations is warning that a record 230 $5000000.00 people will require humanitarian aid over the coming year . the demand for food and other assistance is growing more urgent, widespread,

because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. and the u.n. says that tens of billions of dollars will be needed. diplomatic, as the james bay is reports around the world. more people are suffering hardship. the never before, every year it seems when the u.n. announces the money needs to deal with humanitarian emergencies across the globe. the figures get bigger and bigger. the u.n. estimates that because of code $19235000000.00, people will need humanitarian assistance. an increase of 40 percent over the figure last year. it's appealing for $35000000000.00 to meet the need and as the darkest embley guests, i've ever seen him on 35 years into his kind of work. and what's happened is we've had a accumulation of many years of conflict and climate change. and now on top of that, we've got that if you like, a triple whammy over it,

because it has got a 40 percent increase. the biggest increase in the number of people in minus of i next year without help and assistance to 200000000 people. yemen is still the worst humanitarian emergency in the world. the u.n. has identified 56 countries that most need assistance. what's worrying them is that many of those have a deteriorating situation, and there are new places being added to the list this year. ethiopia, nagorno-karabakh and mozambique jamesburg al-jazeera of the united nations. nearly 30 arms control and rights groups are signed, a letter to the u.s. congress opposing the sale of $23000000000.00 worth of weapons to the united arab emirates. they say to make humanitarian crises in yemen and libya, even worse. 3 senators have proposed legislation to prevent the sale, but includes missiles, drones, and f. $35.00 fighter jets. the deal was approved after a u.s.

brokered agreement in september, in which the u.a.e. agreed to normalize relations with israel. saudi arabia has agreed to allow israeli commercial flights. heading to the united arab emirates to cross it says space, according to the reuters news agency, white house senior adviser, jared kirshner, as reported to broker the deal. while visiting saudi arabia is also expected to travel to karzai in the coming days, a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. the leader of ethiopia, stingray region, is warning the conflict between his forces and the national army is not over yet. from minister ahmed claimed victory over the tea. great people's liberation front on saturday. but the p.l.f. leaders say that fighting is continuing on every front and are accusing me of trying to deceive the international community. thousands of people are thought to have been killed since early november, and tens of thousands of people have fled into neighboring sudan. we're going to

weather update next here on al-jazeera. then the latest from india, as farmers continue to protest against new laws, they say could cost them, their livelihoods. and scientists solve a 50 year mystery. with the help of artificial intelligence, we'll hear how it could lead to new treatments for all sorts of diseases. the stormy weather in the eastern med, as you can see in the satellite picture is slowly subsiding in drifting east was through cypress to us, levant and east and south turkey as a bit of a talking of northerly wind down through central europe. this is tuesday's forecasts. the wind is strong, but of course it's pushing with the cloud, rain and some snow protected for the alps. now west of that and circulating off the

coast of portugal, that's finally gone offshore, taking it rain with it so we can almost get about it. the majority of europe, eastern europe, is seeing a slight improvement from the overcast foggy conditions, a bit of sunshine showing ssri. now forecast wise geneva represents what's happening in switzerland, so sunny or some snow showers seem like to speak. his turning back to gloom about how to get to thursday, which is the norm, to be honest. in kiev snow is falling, but again, the end result is cloudy and cold weather. once that cold meets the mediterranean, again, we're generating on wednesday a circulation which would be storms all the way. probably from the north, a large area through italy, snow on the epidural and snow on the alps, a significant snow, but quite likely flash floods again from these slow moving thunderstorms in italy. but frank assessments,

you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries. what is the situation? there is only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy they get in the early stages of a bi ministration. he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience. in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. how will a place like it lead, get the vaccine when there's no money at all? the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. hello again, this is al jazeera, the main news this hour. iran's parliament has approved changes to rules governing its nuclear program. politicians have passed

a draft motion to hold unrestricted access to its nuclear sites by the international atomic energy agency. and the restaurant maker. madonna is seeking approval from american and european regulators for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine. it says the final trial results confirm that it's more than 94 percent effective, but it is the 2nd company to file for such approval of the united nations is warning of record 235000000. people will require humanitarian aid over the coming year. the need for food and other assistance has grown more urgent, widespread due to the pandemic and syria. iranian security officials accused israel of using a remote controlled weapon to kill its top nuclear scientist was in fact result a was assassinated of ambush on friday. the european union council and the united arab emirates have condemned the killing all to iran, is vying revenge and to zeerust. also, jabari reports a state farewell for one of the most

important figures in iran's defense ministry. mohsin factories out there who is 63 years old, was remembered at a small ceremony in the grounds of the ministry on monday. this 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 factories that 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 for his that they had been on the u.n. 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., mundra know yet quote, 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 other. it wasn't just the nuclear scientists. 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 that they 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 become an e to decide and how to proceed. and this is the 2nd time, the fear that the country is mourning the death of a high ranking official. the death of major general, both inside the mine in january and now on friday, make it very clear that the road ahead continues to be a tumultuous one. but i want you, dorothy, to parse out that there are india's government has invited farmers, unions for talks following major protests over new laws that could affect produce prices. terms of thousands of people have been taking part in rallies in new delhi . many have travelled from outside pharma say the new laws will put an end to

minimum prices that they've been guaranteed in battle. allow private bias to determine the cost of crops. let's get the latest from zeros. elizabeth brought in who's in the single that is with us now live. so there's another day of protests. what are the latest developments? hi, adrian. so we are at one of the 2 national highways that have been completely closed, coming into delhi because tens of thousands of farmers camped out here and hundreds of vehicles behind me. they're making speeches saying that this is the time to fight against these laws and ahead. hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel and riot care watching very closely. we went to the protest site that was designated by the government 4. 'd days ago, and there are very few people, they are only a few 100 compared to the 10s of thousands that are blocking the highways. and it's because of this huge disruption to traffic coming into the indian capital that we

had another offer from the government. the agriculture minister has offered to hold talks with hamas on tuesday afternoon, but we're yet to hear whether farmers will accept that offer. and that's the thing . so many different farmers unions that there is a difference of opinion on whether to engage with the government given the loss, found if talks and november 1, successful fama say that the government didn't listen to them, that they want rights guaranteed around minimum prices for their projects and to do what now promised in the end there, morty is maintaining that the new laws are in the benefit for the benefit of farmers by allowing them to negotiate directly with private companies that they're going to give them access to bigger markets markets. that fama say are going to exploit them. 6 we have another me saying that's taking place now. meanwhile, between the president of the country's government bottom here, john, the party is meeting yes. again, with the ministers of hole in agriculture and defense, to try to figure out how to handle the situation where they have tens of thousands

of people blocking key highways into the indian capital. and with, with the farmers causing so much to swaption to, to, to people's lives, to, to the ordinary members of the public have much sympathy for them. that's a really interesting question. adrian. while we've been here over the last few days, we see commuters who are walking costs with their bags, commuters, who is tranda, because traffic counts get through. and there is a lot sympathy despite the disruption. and the reason why is because around a hot of india's 1300000000, people work in the agriculture sector. it's a sector that's been emprise this for decades. it does need reforms. one of the reasons it's being in crisis is because there is a very high level of debt by farmers. and in fact, something like 300000 farmers have killed themselves in the last 25 years because

they're in debt. farm is fear that these new laws are going to push them further into debt. and so because of the plight of the founders of the so many people who work in the agriculture sector, there is certainly support and sympathy for farmers. and that is something the government is aware all around 0. elizabeth for on i'm reporting from singh who just outside new delhi. many thanks. indeed, liz. canada's government has announced its largest stimulus package since the end of the 2nd world war. it's promising to spend tens of billions of dollars to kick start the economy once the pandemic is over, the budget deficit is expected to reach a record 294000000000 dollars this year. france's government has dropped a controversial draft law that would restrict the publishing of images of the police. the bill sparked large protests on saturday, fueled by anger, over a video of police beating a black man in paris. critics of the law said that it could prevent such incidents

from being exposed. a new version of the bill will be submissives you coronavirus restrictions are coming into force in turkey after record numbers of deaths for 8 consecutive days. 188 people died there on sunday. full lock downs will now be imposed at the weekend with curfews on weekdays, between 9 am and 5 am. 9 pm. i'm sorry, and 5 am local time. the turkish medical association says that hospitals are stretched to capacity. croatia's prime minister has tested positive for covert 19 andre plank of which had already been isolating of his wife tested positive at the weekend. croatia is experiencing a surge in corona virus cases. the government has tightened restrictions on people travelling into the country in the world health organization, as director general says that mexico is in quote, bad shape as corona, virus infections and continue to rise the emerging serious action to stop the spread of mexico as the 4th country more than $100000.00,

people died from covert in the amazon rain forest is shrinking at an alarming race with deforestation. not a 12 year high. scientists say the rate of clearing as accelerated since. also narrow became president of brazil and weakened environmental protections are some of m.p.'s. he reports now from bogota, colombia, from the sky. large swaths of brazil's amazon are increasingly looking like this, with long patches of rain forest destroyed by fires in logging, and it's getting worse. new government data shows the level of destruction is rose almost 10 percent this year to more than 11000 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 fight the destruction of 9.6 percent is not a number to celebrate. on the contrary, as i said here,

i desire is not to have illegal deplores station at all. inside the mizzen, this is what we're fighting for. but environmentalist, 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 and forced mint agency and called for more farming in 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 a president that existence of climate change. a growing international outcry led by european countries

a spur 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 the strong stance on climate change. but just days ago, took an indirect swipe at biden, in its 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 resist 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, to defy impulse and 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.

biologists have used artificial intelligence to discover a new way to fight disease deep mind london based a eilat says it can now predict within days how proteins fold into 3 dimensional shapes. and that's baffled scientists for 50 years, proteins and chains of amino acids. the twist and bend into a variety of shapes. understanding in predicting the structure could determine how they affect cells. but discovery is seen as a breakthrough in the fight against diseases including cancer dementia and even covert 19. i came to have a raji and on college experts at karen 3rd, therapeutics. he's says he's optimistic about its potential uses. there are over 40000. so these are all normal scale sequences of the media houses as you sit at the very floppy and there we tried to

several times before they start forming this golf ball. that's couple of the 2 are in the region structure, which you called with to restructure it. nice. now we know how they look like, and we know of that interact with other proteins in a cell. because we know that we can actually question of their function in this role. also, we can actually question how many of the other potential chemicals drugs can bind to them, can attach themselves to them. and one of these of touch men. what would be the consequence of the function of these proteins? this will allow us to move even faster for drug discovery against many diseases. because now we care know of these boots. you can look like what that the shades in matter of days. you have to remember that there are so many diseases that we

couldn't call you couldn't win the war against them because we didn't have an insight on how the disease truthy in themselves look like to be able to find a drug against them. amount to something completely different, a giant robot has come to life. the japanese city of yokohama, 18 might have told machine, is a life sized walking representation of a character from a 1970, s. children cartoon mobile suit going them. it's the centerpiece of a new theme park based on the show, the park will open on december 19th. it is good to have you with us. hello, adrian finnegan, here in doha, the headlines when i was here a iran's parliament has approved changes to rules governing its nuclear program. politicians of passed a draft motion to halt on restricted access to its nuclear sites by the.