context the. storytelling the biggest issues but. you should do it if. you kate becomes the 1st country to approve the pfizer bio intake coronavirus vaccine has been cleared from mergence use and will roll out from next week. it's very very good news but it is by no means the end of the story it is not the end of our national i struggle to get started if you can screw it arced. some can but elvis is just there along from doha also coming up this may be the most important speech i've ever made. donald trump's 46 minute alpert's to the u.s.

president outlines why he believes the election will stop. after months of deadlock a breakthrough in peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban. and former french president a very just got this town a key architect of european integration has done. u.k. it's become the 1st country to approve the fall as a borrow and take over 19 vaccine for public use it will be administered to high risk groups within days prime minister abbas johnson praised the scientist for their work on the vaccine but said people still need to be cautious brennan has more from london. the approval of a vaccine almost exactly a year since coded 901st emerged in china is a triumph for science the final trial data for the pfizer buy on tech vaccine was

only submitted to the u.k. regulator the m h r a a week ago but as a result of a process of rolling approval examining data even as the trials were taking place the regulator has been able to move swiftly and confidently to declare it effective and safe the safety of the vaccine has been scrutinized independently by our commission on human medicines and no stone has been left unturned so absolute confidence in the safety effectiveness and quality of the pfizer violent tech vaccine. brussels airport has been demonstrating its refrigerated cargo facilities in expectation of a major role in distributing the belgian made vaccine britain has bought 40000000 doses of the pfizer buy on tech job in the 1st 800000 doses will be shipped to the u.k. within days we're packing vials of vaccine as we speak and livy shipping in the next 2448 hours the 1st batches to the u.k.

$10000000.00 doses will be delivered by the end of the year and the remainder will arrive during 2021 when no longer resting on the mere hope that we can return to normal next year. in the spring but rather the sure and certain knowledge that we will succeed and together reclaim our lives and all the things about our lives that we love there are still challenges this specific vaccine needs to be kept within minus 70 celsius and minus 80 celsius meaning that hospitals will almost certainly have to be the main hubs for distribution but it can be kept for up to 5 days at normal fridge temperature between 2 degrees and 8 degrees celsius individuals need to japs 21 days apart for full protection and in the u.k. a committee called the j c v i says elderly care home residents and their carers will be 1st in line in order to protect the most vulnerable we have prioritized the most vulnerable individuals 1st the other element is protection of the n.h.s.

the health and social care system because by protecting the n.h.s. we protect lives. the challenge now is to manufacture and distribute the quantities required to meet what will inevitably be extraordinary demand britain has a head start but the united states has ordered 100000000 doses of the pfizer biotech jab and the european union 200000000 there are several other vaccines undergoing final stage trials and vaccine candidates by modern oxford astra zeneca have been submitted to regulators with the u.k.'s approval pfizer biotech are leading the field the options for tackling this global pandemic are likely to get even wider within a matter of weeks paul brennan al-jazeera london. mexico is speeding up efforts to approve the use of pfizer's covert 1000 vaccine the government has secured 35000000 doses and is waiting for regulations to grant emergency approval of 100000 people

have died in mexico the 4th highest in the world says that being the entire authorization process of the federal commission for protection against health risk has been simplified so that bureaucracy does not stop it this is a matter of urgency sort of the final process begins the commission will work day and night to process the approval it's just russia's president has ordered officials to begin mass covert 19 baxter nations next week that of a person said his country will have produced $2000000.00 doses of its sputnik the vaccine within the next few days it's said to be 92 percent effective against the virus the vaccination campaign will be voluntary russia has reported of it 2300000 infections. u.s. officials say they hope to have around 40 percent of adults immunized by the end of february vaccines developed by pfizer and are expected to be a perfect week that says the u.s. hit a new day the record of more than 100000 people being admitted to hospital health secretary says millions of vulnerable people could be vaccinated by the end of the

year. we can make our 1st shipments of vaccine to state this month and we are on track to be able to ship enough vaccine for $20000000.00 americans before the end of the year of course we're all eager to have enough supply vaccinate every american who wants it and because of operation works speed we expect to be at that point in the spring vaccines will only bring this pandemic to an end if enough americans choose to take these vaccines us president donald trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him tom said it could be the most important speech he's ever made continue to allege ford took place during the election which is not being proven in court u.s. attorney general william bell says the justice department has found no evidence of widespread voter for the trump says the fight will continue. even what i'm saying now will be demeaned and disparaged but that's ok i just keep on going

forward because i'm representing 74000000 people and in fact i'm also representing all of the people that didn't vote for me that's been down to alan fischer who's in washington d.c. alan some thought donald trump was perhaps moving toward a concession but the speech is basically the opposite. it's the timing of it is the way it was delivered that was the message and it was it's just 24 hours ago that the attorney general william barr said that there was new evidence of widespread voter fraud we were told just a couple of hours before this was released by the press secretary in the briefing room here at the white house that the president was focused on covert he was actually writing and filming this 46 minute video he is the most powerful politician in the world but this wasn't on any network it wasn't a big rally with thousands of his supporters there it was posted on facebook and

then he made a series of claims which have largely been debunked in court or have been gathered from the dark recesses of the web and he recycles them they're well known conspiracy theories he talked about how dead people had voted his campaign of claim that before and those that people have turned up actually alive and having voted for for joe biden he claimed that observers were not allowed into the counting room in pennsylvania they actually argued in court in pennsylvania and was thrown out because they then had to admit actually there where observers in the room he talked about how he was ahead in some states at the beginning of the night and then suddenly joe biden's vote totals shot past them all that will happen when you vote so not only that if they count the votes cast on the day and then the mail in ballots and of course remember the democrats talked a lot about mail in ballots because of covert that sort of thing is likely going to happen the closest he came to admitting that he had lost

a number of cases in court in fact almost all of his cases in court was when he said both the judges and the media know who won the election they just didn't want to acknowledge it here's the reality his campaign is going to continue pushing forward with legal action until december the 14th that's when the electoral college meets but all the states have already said to fight the results joe biden won joe biden is the president elect. and allan i'm wondering after this what might we expect from fellow republicans if we had any risk republican response so far oh well just looking on social media a number of democrats have already been saying that this was a dangerous speech that just 24 hours after a republican electoral official in georgia said look please come don't people the rhetoric is too hot people are going to get hot people are going to get short and

they're saying the president then goes out and makes a speech like this claiming widespread voter fraud with no evidence at all not presenting anything that has been considered in court republicans we know or have been very reluctant to criticize donald trump and that was kind of captured in the last 24 hours when a republican in wisconsin it was speaking to ron johnson who is the democratic senator republican senator from wisconsin and ron johnson said that he knew or he knows that joe biden has won the election but he can't see that because it would be political suicide that donald trump would attack him and that his supporters would attack him therefore there's a likelihood that he could lose his position to run for the senate the next time around so the republicans don't want to go up against donald trump they will have seen this speech they will maybe agree with what the democrats are saying they maybe agree with the republican from georgia this is dangerous but it's highly

unlikely they will take the opportunity to speak out against donald trump ok thank you for that ellen tauscher there in washington d.c. a bipartisan group of lawmakers are trying to break the political impasse over federal covered 19 when the democrats in congress and the white house of failed to agree on a package since july white house advisor larry kudlow as indicated his support for the $900000000000.00 proposal. i think it's constructed at 1st it's a good group bipartisan group lot of friends in that gang. it's not our position it's not senator mcconnell position it's not speaker pelosi his position but i personally i just paid for my little self i think it moves the ball in the right direction we've got roughly 600000000000 of unspent money as you know this and. the law calls that back by december 31st but why not use that

us media is reporting that saudi arabia is close to reopening its airspace and land borders to qatar has been under a land sea and ok by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt since june 2017 senior adviser to president trump card was in qatar on wednesday and is reported to have also visited saudi arabia bloomberg and the new york times suggests the tentative deal is being brokered by kuwait does not include bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt. after almost 3 months of negotiations there's been a breakthrough in peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban representatives from both sides say they've agreed on a framework for negotiations their agreement covers rules and procedures for the talks next they'll formalize an agenda and u.s. military will withdraw all its forces by may that's on the condition that talks make progress and the comprehensive cease fire is in place as there was some a binge of a explains why it's taken nearly 3 months afghan government and taliban negotiations

to agree on a framework. the 3 major sticking points in this 1st round of talks was the issue islamic jurisprudence of the taliban insisting that the hun if you school of thought needs to be prevailing in terms of the decisions as well as disagreements that seems to have been agreed upon then there was the issue of inclusion of minorities including the shia muslim minority in the going to stand as well as other religious minorities that is something that the afghan government side seems to have been able to include in this preamble and also the most important point was that the taliban wanted this to be a continuation of their deal that they reached between them and the united states and that is something which was not acceptable to the of government which said that they were not party to that agreement so that seems to have been resolved as well as the of the government's insistence on him including the loya jirga as well as the united nations has also been agreed upon so yes there has been progress in this

1st round but the reality on the ground is that the of gun people continue to suffer this has been one of the bloodiest year in spikes in violence in afghanistan and both sides have been here in doha for months have agreed to continue to talk nato secretary general against all burkas welcome to break through there so has about 11000 troops in afghanistan if negotiations continue successfully and the ceasefire is brokered they too will least by may along with the u.s. forces. agreement today is. we can discuss whether it's a big or small step but important thing is that it's the 1st step is the 1st time actually it tal a ban on the afghan government or able to sign a document agreeing on the framework to modalities for negotiations addressing a long term peaceful solution how to reach peace in afghanistan. made in

a dairy is negotiated with the afghan government delegation in doha the says agreement on a talks framework is a milestone but it's disappointing that violence continues across afghanistan there's no doubt the people of afghanistan are fed up with this violence would continue that tack on our institutional public infrastructure of innocent lives that are being taken through attacks carried out more intensely in the past few months but the very fact that there 'd is violence makes it more necessary to engage more. into peace discussion our primary the people of i'm very month interest to silence the gun to reach to a cease fire and that's what we are committed to achieve there is no discussion about the citizens by our people partners is

a sovereign decision of them but as long as much as it depends on our side atlanta public of us then is committed both to defend and protect our people and our 'd constitution but also all commit that fully genuinely with good faith to resist to a peaceful settlement in this war. still ahead on al-jazeera the blame game and israel will make his move to dissolve parliament that could trigger the 4th national election 2 years. 3 pro-democracy activists in hong kong jailed for their role the last is and to try to see. how the weather looks pretty quiet for china over the next couple of days pretty

quiet save for the korean peninsula little bit of cloud here just moving across north korea spilling out into the sea of japan that will bring a few showers into that western side of honshu one tree over the high ground find a dry sheltered by the mountains in tokyo to around 15 celsius on thursday tackled if you go on into a fight a bit not a whole lot of difference try and find them but cold across the korean peninsula for friday 4 celsius the seoul 4 celsius 2 for beijing dry there is you can see across a good posture china with some sparkling sunshine rolling through show us there into a good parts of taiwan will see some showers to push in the way back into the philippines little clusters of storms there they may well develop into a tropical storm as we go on through the next day so that's something to keep an eye either way we're looking at heavy rain into loose on the area of cloud of rain some a little more organized just driving down towards some positon where again we have

seen some flooding recently those heavy showers set to continue over the next couple of days heavy rain set to continue across sri lanka and for southern india over the next couple of days as a tropical cyclone moves 3. al jazeera world needs some extraordinary women. who are making things happen that way. following their daily struggle to survive. for their families to thrive. egypt's women street silent as on al-jazeera.

georgiades there are a reminder of our top stories this hour u.k. government has approved the pfizer and biotech covert 19 vaccine to be rolled out by mr boston praised scientists to their work but said people still need to be cautious. u.s. president donald trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him he continued to allege for took place during the election despite the failure of several legal challenges. the afghan government and taliban the go shooters have agreed on a framework to talks after weeks stalemated negotiations adult home. secretary general has welcomed it because of positive 1st step. united nations and signed a deal with ethiopia's government to get unrestricted humanitarian access to the to

great region egremont will allow aid workers to access federally controlled areas more than a 1000000 people are thought to have been displaced by fighting which began nearly a month ago. has more from got a reef in neighboring sudan. ethiopian government hasn't yet commented so we don't have all the details yet the un is saying that's probably by wednesday there will be a fest mission there to do some assessment within the 3 regions that the government has allowed access to those. who are adjacent to to graze so it's understandable that they could delay should be included in this because some of the people affected by this conflict might half or so to those 2 regions this is also good news for those who are still probably stuck within ukraine because of how somebody poor student during the last few days that the access the crossing points

to sudan have been blocked by paramilitaries on militias and i'm here and also by the each open army we can't verify that allegation but we have not used to come down of the numbers of people coming from ethiopia understandably also it is probably because the war has somehow subsided but this is good news not only for humanitarian organizations but also for the champions themselves within the conflict zone. understandably aid will be coming soon there are some formalities to be followed of course when it comes to the u.n. and other organizations i think it's going to take days before aid reaches that region. yan egeland is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council he says there are considerable safety concerns for humanitarian workers and citizens integrate. desperate because for months now we haven't really had contact even with their own stuff aid workers on the ground there's been no communications or

networks have been cut a conflicting reports about who's doing what to whom including what's happening to the 100000 every tree and refugees they fled to eritrea they thought that the safe haven in t. grey and now they went golfed in the fighting so it's a golden principle of humanitarian work that we'll always allowed to come to the vulnerable in their hour of greatest need and integrate we have been prevented from such access we need to have it now i would also appeal for the border to be kept open between us the opiah and sudan so that those who need to seek shelter here can still come here. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is hitting out efforts to dissolve parliament and trigger another election the motion was supported by his main coalition partner on the defense mr perry can't relationship between the 2 leaders has deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic the proposal will now be

discussed by another committee and could force the country into its final national election in less than 2 years. in dramatic terms like this we don't need to go to elections the people of israel want unity not ballots they want to vaccine is not campaign ads one of the things we learned about corona is that the virus doesn't differentiate between religious and secular right wingers and left wingers jews and arabs the only way we can defeat corona is by doing it together we need to put politics aside there will be enough time for politics we must work together for the benefit of the israeli citizens. we all know the truth you know the truth if there is no trial there would be a budget if there was no trial there would be a functioning government there would be unity. saving lebanon from economic ruin is the focus of an international donor conference being led by french president emanuel called and un secretary general antonio terrorists or call has been

a vocal campaign of the calls boss he says financial support will be withheld until lebanon's political leaders form a new government and enable reforms so that. the 2nd conference which completes the emergency response cannot replace the involvement of lebanon's political leaders and its institutions they must form a government to soon as possible and implement reforms without which the international economic aid mechanism cannot be triggered. 3 prominent hong kong democracy activists have been jailed for their role the last day as protests joshua long challenge to either learn wasn't guilty of unlawful assembly or received a 13 and a half month sentence while towel and lamb were jailed for 10 and 7 months respectively adrian brown has more from hong kong. it's become an end of the day ritual outside west magistrates court a crowd chants defiant slogans as prison vans take away those convicted on trial over last year's unrest but the throng was bigger on wednesday so it was impossible

to see which of the vehicles contained the 3 high profile activists among the more than 2000 people prosecuted since last you joshua one agnes char and ivan lamb avoided a heavier sentence after pleading guilty last week the trio's detractors celebrated with champagne in spite of tightened covert $1000.00 restrictions banning public gatherings of more than 2 people for the activists supporters though it was another blow and this is their choice our off law. yaphet we are very disappointed but we are at all be aware or they are not right to use one of their own home as a writer as the governor was one is no stranger to prison he's already served 3 jail terms the activists were convicted of offenses that took place last june when protesters laid siege to the police headquarters marking the start of months of

unrest agnus child who turns 24 on thursday burst into tears as the sentence was read out joshua long was in characteristically defiant mood shouting tough days are ahead but we will hang in there cho is due to return to court next year she was arrested in august under a harsh new national security law. on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers but is yet to be charged. is a former local politician and a supporter of that law there all a lot of people some activists such as joshua was a nice child was actively. trying to promote in the home going to penzance and that is a fight i know some of them are just about trying to say well we didn't ask for it but look at the facts and look at the evidence hong kong's leader kerry says she's

restored order after last year's unrest part of that process the almost weekly prosecutions of young protesters including now its best known ones adrian brown al jazeera hong kong american airlines has taken its boeing 7 through 7 max jets back to the skies in a test ahead of its 1st commercial flight later this month the u.s. aviation regulator gave the go ahead for the return of boeing's best selling model the 737 max was grounded for more than 20 months up to 2 crashes in indonesia and ethiopia things to a faulty and to install system 346 people were killed. former french president valery giscard d'estaing a king architect of european integration has died in western france after contracting covenanting he was 94 years old that has about the look back at his life. this would prove the most fiercely fought presidential election in french history the young finance minister valerie she's

scared to start facing socialist leader fos one meter when the photos were counted she sky had pulled off a remarkable victory beating me to a hole by a slender margin. of course the margin could have been bigger but in a presidential election what matters is the decision that you have taken and the responsibility which i will take on i understand that in this campaign you want to change political change economic change and social change you will not be disappointed the new president of the republic described himself as a conservative who likes change and he brought a more liberal attitude to social issues like divorce contraception and abortion it was she scows initiative that brought together leaders from west germany italy japan and the u.k. and us to an economic forum that founded the influential g 7 but she's got to stand relations with other european leaders whose problematic british prime minister margaret thatcher in her memoir said the president she scared was not someone to

whom i warned and i had the strong impression that the feeling was mutual he was regarded by downing street as haughty and supercilious which all did nothing to ease daily tensions between downing street and the lease a palace but it was present the scout distance relationship with this man that would leave him badly damaged emperor because the crown himself ruler of the impoverished former french colony central african republic in 1977 in a ceremony that cost $40000000.00 she scowled was a frequent visitor to his gamers. of and was accused by french media of receiving a gift of diamonds from the emperor. with the diamond state at the release a palace and i told her castle successor that they are going to be sold and the revenue will be used in development work in the central african republic 64 percent of the french people thought she scared to stand and honest and competent president

but a very distant figure in 1981 he lost the election to me to all at the conclusion of his resignation address he demonstrated he had never lost his sense of theater and drama as he walked away from the presidency. and. its national butler al-jazeera peris. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories the u.k. government has approved a pfizer and biotech covered 19 vaccine to be rolled out by mr balls johnson praised scientists for their work but said people still need to be cautious it will inevitably take some months before all the most vulnerable are protected long cold months so it's already.