tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera December 5, 2020 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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mixture of sadness. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck the fuel weekly take on us politics and that's the bottom line. play an important role ringback. this is al jazeera. i love that this is a new life in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes covert 19 vaccinations begin in russia despite questions about their safety will be live at a vaccination center in moscow. iran takes another step toward towards
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banning the u.n. nuclear watchdog from entering the country. with a deadline looming boris johnson and the head of the european union try to break the deadlock on the trade deal. india's farmers threaten a nationwide strike because talks go on to resolve the standoff against a new law on crop prices. with the sports lead ited states passes a controversial law allowing the prosecution of those involved in don't think at international events. that russia is pushing ahead with the 1st stage of its large scale cave in 1000 vaccination program teachers doctors social workers are all set to get the locally produced sputnik vaccine around 2000000 russians are expected to be inoculated this month while some scientists have welcome the news others say the data has been rushed out too early the u.k. was the 1st country to prove. vaccine from pfizer in biotech it was granted
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emergency authorization by british regulators in the 1st doses are expected to be rolled out there from early next week and the american drug maker but that madonna is filing for u.s. and european emergency approval of its scabbard $900.00 regulators will look at trial data to decide if it is safe and effective enough to roll out alright let's cross over to alexandra de go for who joins us live now from moscow going to say the you're outside a vaccination center with the this mass vaccination program has begun how did being rolled out what's been happening. yes indeed we are in front of one of the clinics in which behind you can see the door deaths aware. or the people who wanted to get. the vaccine can do from today this morning and the following days as you said that this is only for special groups of people
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people that are considered a brain already here in russia and that is people working in health care and education social workers as well the procedure here is that today apply online and then they get simon and the data which is theirs and then they go through a health check because this book seen is not meant not at this phase for people who have serious health care. health issues or for people that are older than 60 so then the people who came today for this vaccine will have to come back in a 3 weeks time because this is a 2 phase scene that is being given here to russian produced and 1st registered in the beginning of august. 70 centers like this in moscow and it is announced that the massive the vaccination campaign will spread through the territory of russia by the end of the next week russian officials are saying that by the end of this month there will be. 2000000 doses and presumably also 2000000 people inoculated against
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1000 with. those going to these centers that it's under overseas pretty comfortable with the concept of being vaccinated but there are those who are extremely skeptical about the process not only inside of russia but outside to. well yes indeed because indeed the vaccine has been registry did a very early in its phase of development so it was just after they finished the 2nd phase of clinical trials prior to publishing the results of this trials at this point the 3rd phase of clinical trials which is a double blind study is not yet done and it's not yet finished it will be finished on the 1st of may the producer in developer says and the dates so far are not published obviously they are only a presented to the public and that we are supposed to take them for granted that what they're saying is that they had tested sadistic scene on some 22000 people 25
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percent of which received of course and they're saying that the effectiveness of this was seen in somewhere between 92 and 95 percent of people gets the full immunity from cord 99 after 42 days after receiving the 1st shot so 3 weeks after receiving the 2nd shot so they get to the full immunity but this is the thing some steps have been. made to quicker than it would be a usual procedure on the other hand what they're saying here is yes but it is a pandemic and this vaccine is necessary so there is space and there is a place for skepticism and there is also people in russia who are skeptical whether the 16 has been really torelli investigated the producer is claiming it's safe and effective that there is no serious side effects to succeed of a vaccination program has officially begun in russia alexandra thanks very much
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indeed. earlier my colleague spoke to simon clarke he's an associate professor in microbiology of the unit university of reading and he says the approval for the russian vaccine has been rushed out to early. i think the skepticism around this comes from the fact that it's been worked on very quickly it's been it's been developed very quickly and it appears to be being put into the general population rather earlier than it would do if you have been developed say in the u.k. that the trials that it is undergone do not appear to have been as extensive as they would have been in this country well they haven't done is there live injected into people and looks to see whether a control group who didn't have a vaccine they would have had something out of the blue you have a vaccine have different rates of infection and that's how they come up with a 95 percent number but those those study groups are still very small of the
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smaller they are and i think this is possibly a problem with the russians that it was the small of those groups are less accurate so while it might have some effect it's easy. because they use a small study groups claiming 95 percent efficacy this stage may be a bit premature salmon just one last question would you recommend taking this russian vaccine would you take it yourself i would want to see a lot more data from this russian baxi i mean i would probably be part of a trials that would bother me but i would do that knowing that it happened gone through as an extensive trial regime as perhaps other vaccines half. well the dunns government has announced it wants to start vaccinating against covert 19 in early january maybe in the netherlands less than enthusiastic surveys suggest nearly half of the dutch population has serious doubts about getting a job
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a step in the reports from. stocking up on dry ice needed to keep defies so biotech vaccine at minus 70 degrees even in mid air at amsterdam airport a large operation is gearing up to safely transport covert 900 backseats to destinations as far as africa and asia we have been preparing and we've been moving pharmaceutical go for a long time we've expanded our pool capacity and also are having capacity for instance for his containers so we are immediately ready but outside the airport many in the netherlands are far from prepared well the dutch national airline is getting ready to this will be viewed that scenes worldwide millions here in the netherlands are still reluctant to be flexible and some say they will use the inoculation with covert 90 altogether though until we know what the side effects are it's not monthly. and his daughter maxime i'm not against vaccinations but
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won't take a covert shot for at least a few years until more information is available to cleveland i'm sorry to say i'd rather have a longer locked down and have myself injected without knowing what it contains i'm not a guinea pig and for sure i won't let my children be getting pics the government wants to start its vaccination campaign in nursing homes in a few weeks but even there many are reluctant as a recent survey shows what and 60 percent of employees working with the elderly say they're having doubts about being vaccinated it's going to be a big challenge. to motivate people to be. that of course also or worry i think that's a very serious problem because it. is really necessary for. the protection of our employees and our homes that degree your fractionation is as high as possible with more than 12000 cope with death the netherlands has a relatively high death toll despite the risks employers and the government can
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force people to participate in a vaccination program experts say to make the vaccination successful the government should tell people that despite its rapid production the vaccine is safe that they can explain how could this go that fast all the investments that have been made why there are so many scientists who have completely sort of. let down all their normal tasks and went focusing focusing upon it but this is a story that needs to be told companies like a lamb have been preparing for the arrival of the vaccines for a month the government has yet to start informing the public because in concerns that other countries may have reach higher vaccination rates much sooner and therefore can also open up the economies earlier step faster al-jazeera answer that . iran's coronavirus death toll has reached 50000 with 321 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours some restrictions are being lifted in several parts of the country following
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a 2 week partial lockdown has more now from. business is finding reopened after a 2 week lockdown cafes restaurants james and government offices all reopened but with a reduced capacity but the numbers are not drastically down the daily deaths are at around 300 down from 8500 the daily infections are at around 13000 down from over 14000 the regions considered in the red zone of more than half of the country can't keep affording to. iran under u.s. sanctions and the economy despite the positive spin the government puts on it has been hit hard they need people to go out spend their money and keep the economy going business is happy to be reopened the money they get from the government isn't enough to keep them going for extended periods of lockdown and for many people not working means not getting paid but the real thing of restrictions does come with warnings keep wearing face masks maintain social distancing and president has been
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rouhani has won people to stay away from public and family gatherings but he's also said that they can't rely on a vaccine it may not be 100 percent effective but the reality is because of the sanctions iran may find it very difficult to purchase one. al-jazeera the one. where the continues to get worse in the united states in just the past day more than 2500 people have died from covert 19 there have been nearly a quarter of a 1000000 cases the recent surge is prompting many areas to impose new regulations among them the city of san francisco who has warned the current rise is unlike anything we've seen so far and with a large number of americans still unemployed president elect joe biden is calling on congress to urgently pass a covert 90 relief bill he says the situation is bleak and urgent action is needed and salumi reports now from wilmington in delaware. with colder weather on the horizon and the coronavirus surging in an already fragile economy the united states
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is bracing for a tough winter american employers sharply scaled back hiring in the last month adding just 245000 jobs the fewest since april president elect joe biden says quick action is needed to reverse what he described as one of the worst economic crises in modern history the folks out there aren't looking for a handout they just need help they are in trouble through no fault of their own nothing they did cause them to have hours cut or lose their job or drop out of the market but they need they need us to understand when a crisis need to come together as a nation need the congress to act and act now biden has highlighted the plight of working class americans and struggling business owners speaking to those who have
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lost jobs in the service industry and public sector in a virtual round table discussion earlier this week like karen coffey who lost her job working in a sports stadium we do we have a lot of concerns mr but i think it's been i mean my last day we're march 8th when everything shut down retailers shed jobs in november what would normally be peak holiday shopping season a reflection of fewer consumers shopping in physical stores restaurants bars and hotels some modest job growth but many continue to struggle amid the pandemic with parts of the country beginning to reimpose restrictions on businesses we're trying to save lives. in and. we're going to close this is it will be not enough shelter and not. so there is a balance or a needle you know right here in all nearly 10000000 jobs lost since the pandemic
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have yet to return with a rising proportion of the unemployed describing their jobs as gone for good i must congress approves another aid package before the end of the year millions of unemployed workers stand to lose all of their jobless assistance and president elect biden says that should be just the 1st step he plans to introduce more measures to stimulate the economy as soon as he's inaugurated on january 20th kristen salumi al-jazeera wilmington delaware. for more still ahead on the news hour including as most american troops are ordered to leave somalia we also what next in the fight against on groups in the region. a record number of women are on the ballot as polls open in kuwait parliamentary elections. and lewis hamilton substitute puts his mercedes at the top of the talking sheets in bahrain details coming up with peter.
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to ethiopia where the government says it's captured or killed most of the leaders of the embattled to gray region as it tries to bring an end to the month long conflict with the head of the grand people's liberation front says people in the region's capital michael are a protesting about looting by ethiopian backed eritrean soldiers a media blackout in the area makes it difficult to confirm these allegations well sudan has played an important role in helping refugees from ethiopia has taken a region despite its economic difficulties but this is not the only challenge posed by the conflict as mohamed evolve reports now from the sudanese if you can border. this is the 100 border crossing it is one of the biggest official crossings between sudan and the choppier on this side you can see it behind this river which is called the city dividing the 2 countries and on this side on the sudanese side you can see all these people are refugees these are each you appear
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a few g.'s you don't see anyone on the other side because that's where they came from fleeing the conflict. that gives you an idea about you know the fear these people that has different these people to this side of that if looking for protection in sudan also at the center of the village not far from here we have hundreds and hundreds of refugees waiting to be transported within sudan itself situation a bit complex and the number is rising this is the nice authorities told us just a while ago that. the number like a few days ago was about 400 a day now it is it has risen to about 800 to 1000 today and that's because there was fresh fighting according to them within each opiate self in the zone in the area of shirish 2270 kilometers west of the capital mckayla so it's closer to the border usually the refugees come from and beyond but now they come from further inside the chopper because there is fresh fighting as they told us.
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between sudan and each opiate their zone not far from here called is a disputed zone a disputed farmland between the 2 countries adding to the complexity of the situation as explained in the following report. the sudanese army on patrol near the border it's on the lookout for refugees who might be stranded in the area after escaping the fighting in ethiopia is northern tier a region brigadier general because it is proud of his country's humanitarian role for. a bit of mushroom global news for the 1st 12 days before aid agencies arrived the people of get a reef with the 1st to offer food blankets shelter and comfort to the refugees the sudanese armed forces organized transportation for thousands of civilians and brought them to hash camps. the hash up also known as village 8 hosted 15000 refugees in the 1st 2 weeks after the fighting started integrate these homes were
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borrowed from local sudanese farmers to host the refugees so that is aid agencies prepared food in the camps there is one of so many sudanese in the hash out a village who share their small homes and modest meals with the refugees. we look at if europeans as part of our family our neighbors and friends we have you started ties with them so when the war broke out we went out into the streets and open fields looking for those who came here fleeing the fighting. so that itself is going through chronic inflation fuel shortages and other economy problems stability at its borders is of utmost importance where the war in its european has brought to the fore another on resolved issue here what i stand is the facade of farmland thousands and thousands of active militants asemi fields and this land is actually disputed between ethiopia and so than. the triangle where most of the
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refugees are staying covers an area of about 250 square kilometers and it has about $600000.00 acres of felt thailand so that says it's an integral part of its territory because it lies west of the line drawn by colonial britain but ethiopia maintains an army presence here and if you open a pharmacy exploit huge parts of the land a joint committee has been trying for years with little success to finalize a border demarcation. pointing to it across the adjacent up body for this sudanese farm he's unequivocal. abode is a well defined and we're not really for compromise our government has allowed these ethiopians to settle on our land but we object to them and we will fight them to the last minute to be restored fully that's the pic we made with our. and we haven't crossed into ethiopian territory or do they want to take it out. during the 1st few days of the fighting integrate some each open army units abandoned their
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bases within and the void was filled by the sudanese army now it's commanders tell us they're not intending to cede those positions to the chopping army if it tries to return let me explain to you more about the situation of these people you see on the sudanese side of that if these are not people who have just crossed actually they not the leave 'd. presently they are staying in the village in the sudanese village of one diet so they come here to water their animals to wash their clothes and to refresh themselves in there but when we ask them questions about why they are here why they cross them so none of them except to talk to us so it is not fear but they feel that because they are very close with each open border it's just a few meters away some of them talk about how smooth by the military on the other side some of them say that more of their family members are prevented from crossing so you don't see a lot of people crossing here many of them look for other points i know fishel
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crossing points well ethiopia's prime minister abi ahmed has faced criticism for pressing ahead with the military operation the u.n. says fighting is now complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite reaching a deal with the government for a deliveries not expected to arrive into grey until next week but the crisis commission has called the un deal unacceptable and one sided he says it only extends to government controlled areas the african union sent envoys to late last month in the hope of finding a diplomatic solution for the prime minister insists this is a law enforcement operation and has warned against outside interference. davison is a senior if you're analyst international crisis group and he explained the reaction from the african union. 70 frustration and this sort of peace and security architecture that's been established by the african union over decades and has been
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put to use many periods but it's going stability and conflict that's not being welcomed by the government but of course you know when i went to state resists african union mediation or intervention creates a problem for the organization and that's a particularly acute problem when it's a lot i just read it to be powerful country like egypt which then of course has the idea it's you know relevant position of being the headquarters of the african union so this certainly frustrates shit and so on but there's limited options and you have to push through some form of intervention until the time of the federal government is accepting to it. now iran's supreme national security council has approved a motion to stop inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog and increase its enrichment of uranium it will start in 2 months time the motion was approved by the guardian council this week the plan will then be signed into law by president hassan rouhani to explore this further we can speak
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to laura rockwood who's director of the open nuclear network and a former senior. official joins us on skype from vienna nor welcome to the program 1st so oppressive be helpful for us to learn what these inspections are all about to tell us how they were can and one inspectors are looking for when they do that. when the i.a.e.a. inspectors go into a country they 1st of all go to the nuclear facilities they look for all the nuclear material that's in the country they start with the material in the facilities that are declared by the country but part of the exercise is to make sure that there is no undeclared nuclear material and no on the cleared nuclear activities in the country this involves a variety of technical mechanisms including comparing books with reports nuclear material inventory taking samples of nuclear material taking swipes samples
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which is a very powerful tool for picking up undeclared you're raining in richmond and they bring that information back to the i.a.e.a. headquarters in vienna put all of the information together and try to draw conclusions about whether a state is complying with its guards or. inspectors. that will enable them to proceed watched as it were. if that indeed is what happens it would be it would be a bad situation now what they could decide to do is to not fulfill the obligations under the their joint comprehensive plan of action specifically they might choose to start implementing what we call their additional protocol that would be unfortunate and would not be well received but it least it wouldn't mean that the inspectors were completely banned from the country that would be a bad signal to its neighbors right what was the latest that we had learned about
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iran's nuclear activities up until this moment. well most recently they have resumed uranium enrichment to higher levels under the j c p a way they were allowed to. enrich uranium just above 3 percent then they gradually went up to 5 percent and now they're talking about approaching high enriched uranium at a level of about 20 percent just for perspective 90 percent uranium to $35.00 it's what is considered weapons usable enriched uranium ok this motion the speed approved by iran supremes national security council will start in 2 months time and of course joe biden takes office before that january 20th what difference just before that what difference will his premiership make to relations
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with iran and the nuclear program of the rest of the world well i would hope immediately it would have a positive impact i would hope that the iranian lists would give president biden time to set things in a better direction than they are right now certainly president elect biden is more inclined to multilateral negotiations and diplomacy than president trump is so i would consider it a part of a positive move on behalf of the moderates in iran. unfortunately recent activities have made it more difficult for the moderates to continue to press. cooperation under the way all right laura it's great to have your expertise in this we do appreciate that thanks very much indeed that's. right thank you very much thank. you. well u.k. prime minister boris johnson is set to speak to the head of the european union to
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try and break the impasse on the trade deal british and e.u. negotiators they posed talks on friday fade off to failing to find a compromise on a series of sticking points if the leaders can find some middle ground sides or only have until the end of the it's a grid new trade deal when the pre agreement will expire. joins us live now from our london studio. there and mary drools the deadline the outstanding issues are still very much outstanding what chance of a breakthrough. well in the last couple of hours nick u.k. government sources have been leaking or briefing the press that they say there's a 5050 chance of a deal by the end of the year we've heard from michel barnier the e.u. chief negotiator as he left to get on to a train back to brussels on saturday saying that he remained calm and was carrying on efforts to see if a deal could be reached but it's not up to him right now because of course on
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friday he and his british counterpart david frost this you did joint statement saying that they hadn't been able to reach a deal on all of the points that they were trying to get through and they said that significant divergences remained on 'd a level playing field governance and fisheries lots of noise here in britain about fisheries and 10 downing street have been briefing journalists that an e.u. demand for a 10 year transition to a change in the quotas for fishing in british waters was going to be a problem the e.u. side have said that won't be a problem we can move there is a middle ground on that the bigger issues really are on things like how the european union feel satisfied that british companies won't be given an unfair advantage through state aid they want to know that environmental standards and social standards won't be lowered in britain to give companies an unfair advantage here they want to know what will happen if the terms of
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a deal will be broken which institution will actually handle disputes these are the big issues that they are referring to so now they've been passed back to what they call the principals boris johnson the prime minister and those sort of underlie on the head of the european commission who are holding a telephone conversation in the next few hours to see whether they can actually go past their red lines something they go in there to go she says we're not mandated to do if there is some kind of movement there then possibly as early as sunday then a text could be presented to the cabin. here and to us it is him brussels to go forwards but that's a very big if right now that that said both sides know the clock really is taking the government saying m.p.'s him might have to sit right up until christmas virtually the e.u. parliament possibly sitting as late as the 28th of december to ratify an agreement
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but it's in these next few days that any deal has to be struck right well we'll see what happens in the coming hours and days and even timing thanks a lot in london let's move on to the weather his role there's been a big drop in temperature and a good feel of winter threat central and western europe over the last few days in the middle that code is now circulating which means there's going to be more of the save at least the cold persist for there will be differing weather types whilst the snow on the ground in england in switzerland and more especially in northern italy there will be increasing winds down the bay of biscay that go into northern spain and into western france that will bring rain with it and persistence of this are the snow or rain depending your heart above sea level in italy switzerland austria and parts of germany to reflect on the northwest in italy it will be just on the cusp of rain or snow she saw in the pictures it's rather wet snow the moment but
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the persistence on the mountains be a bit more substantial a red warning of up to 3 meters more snow exists for today tomorrow probably the next day it will fade out this is not snow it will be rain rain particularly in italy wrong on the coast of croatia as well now for bilbao which is the north coast of spain you got the rain with the wind gusty wind for the next 3 days but especially cold is especially windy as i say the snow persists in italy and austria beyond. sim editor in al jazeera we look at why brazil's president is so unhappy with these deliveries of a chinese made coronavirus vaccine. war of words we follow the escalating diplomatic and trade dispute between china and australia. affable bosses agree better working conditions for women pets including maternity leave we don't have all the details.
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2019 disputed election fourths believe us 1st and dizziness president into exile has around is considered his teacher and to me 10 his party rallies behind new candidates. with a tense new election throwing snow seemed a 2020 people in power went behind the scenes to see if the indigenous me things could have been marketable come back in libya exile the return on al-jazeera getting close to the people most affected by those in power dangerous but it's absolutely vital that the stories to be told lots of still side of this area we pushed fall forward as we can see the frontline now the smell of day is overpowering a lot of the stories that we cover all high the conflicts so it's very important that we make them is understandable as we can through as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to.
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rule. for. it again this is al jazeera your mind about top stories this hour on covert $900.00 vaccinations are under way in russia despite questions about safety teachers doctors and social workers will be the 1st in line to get the domestically produced sputnik back. more than 2500 people have died from cave 19 in the united states in the past 24 hours and the happy nearly a quarter of a 1000000 new cases the recent surge is prompting many areas to impose new regulations. iran's supreme national security council has approved
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a motion to stop inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog and increase its enrichment of uranium but it's expected to be in place in 2 months time after it is signed into law by president assad on it. but in brazil the race to find a vaccine has turned into a highly politicized debate the governor of south palo has bypassed the federal government to buy china's vice president giant also nora as routine routinely cast doubts on it leaving the brazilian population confused want to connecticut have reports from rio de janeiro. it's the 2nd plane in 3 weeks to land in symbolic brazil's richest state and it won't be the last to bring back is that the chinese coupe of 19 vaccine corona governor's window idea says he already has more than 1000000 doses are deaf and out they should be by the end of december will have another 6000000 doses of the vaccine that will save brazilian lives and he wants to
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use them in some power in january long before the federal government starts its mass vaccination campaign. as you struggle i'm incensed at the federal government's announcement that massive vaccination begins in march 500 brazilians die every day is the government going to wait for 60000 more to die before doing anything the brazilian government is working with oxford to produce the astra zeneca vaccine but the race to win the coronavirus vaccine competition is turning out to be as much about politics as about public health no idea a serious contender for brazil's 2022 presidential election teamed up with china in an effort to fight the pandemic. while his rival brazil's far right president jade bull samantha 1st claimed the chinese for independent game he tried to undermine their credibility i differ kid i wouldn't buy a vaccine that nobody believes in when corona fact clinical trials were suspended
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in november after a volunteer died also not a celebrated what he called one more victory over dorothea. also not his attacks on china's communist government are both ideologically and politically motivated according to her bathtub in a former resume bastard to the united states and china also now though has already said he will try to be reelected and he sees the governor of some paulo as not not just that he was an enemy so this way both are not. both the governor of some and the chinese the scene which the governor was sunk by all this trying to develop china is already south america's number one trading partner and with more than 175000 coke in 1000 related death in brazil experts say beijing's vaccine diplomacy could give it
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a magic edge here china was the 1st country that said it would make its vaccine a global public good if we compare with for example with the with the united states . or the attitude made by donald trump was completely different. not only focus all night stands but anti chinese campaign has also done its damage recent polls show that almost half of brazil is hardly a nation doesn't trust the chinese that money can knock you need additional euro just 0. the u.k. based team behind one of the vaccines for covert 19 says that it has taken large strides towards cancri malaria the jennet institute says it's now beginning the final stage of human trials for a cheap vaccine which so far have proven to be 80 percent effective on u.k. volunteers now $4800.00 children across africa will be tested the world health
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organization commends work combating malaria globally but it's warning that covert $900.00 could seriously impact treatment in the past 2 decades it says 7600000 lives have been saved the mosquito borne disease killed nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 people 2 decades ago in 201-940-9000 people died from the disease 94 percent of the world's cases and deaths are in africa and nigeria accounts for about a quarter the world health organization warns that cave in 1000 restrictions could cause major disruptions and to malarial treatment leading to thousands more deaths pregnant women and children face the greatest risk u.s. president donald trump has ordered the withdrawal of most american troops from somalia as part of his plan to reduce u.s. involvement in missions abroad the tour of kate and b. as more. preparing for a withdrawal some of the 700 u.s. troops whose what training local forces in somalia is coming to
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a premature end raising questions about the fight against the armed group al shabaab to blow us operational standpoint is that overt i mean to lose its ability to have american eyes on the ground to have more interaction with small you're. not proving that resilient and fight against terrorism and needed that u.s. backing and so it really is a blow to smile in that sense for no good reason president don't trumpeted that withdrawal as part of his plan to reduce u.s. involvement in military missions abroad it comes after announcements last month to draw down troops in afghanistan and iraq says he's determined to fulfill the election promises he made for the white house next month. there are the pentagon says it's concerned about the threat posed by al shabaab and one democratic congressman on the house armed services committee says the withdrawal of u.s. troops is in his words a surrender and
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a gift to china and they say president elect joe biden could reverse trump's draw down the u.s. is all over africa they're all over the world there are some you know 40 or 50 countries that american troops and so biden will probably be able to get that level of troops back into somalia. the pentagon hasn't said how many u.s. personnel will stay in somalia to train and advise local forces the critics say the withdrawal could not comment to was time but fighting in neighboring ethiopia and upcoming elections in somalia victoria gates and be al jazeera. the polls have open in q eights parliamentary elections a record number of women are among the more than 300 candidates it comes as a q.h. economy is reeling from 40 oil prices in the coronavirus pandemic so let's explore that and what we can speak to get him he's professor of political science at q.h. university professor i'm not joe welcome to the program so 1st up this election of course takes
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a very different shape because of covidien campaigning has been online and so forth what difference is that matey. well it makes a difference because the. normally election season and kuwait has very poor people we tend they have all sorts of joint activities now it's almost done well and even the election hours 3 hours of closing the. ballot boxes maybe 3 hours until 2 pm it was about 3030 plus percent participation and also there are some difficulties and what a crowd in this because of the lingo. of voters line so this is this is going to be a major change in effect. and that will definitely
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affect their participation right on the upside in spain what 15 years since women were allowed to vote and run in actions in kuwait and although we have a record number of women still any write about 30 running what else the girls lie and their way in getting. spin and on. record of the participation of kuwaiti women back in 2000 and. 920082009 election they they got to be elected and record time so then and they. know now the number it's not just the number it's the quality the quality of women participating in this time is. more qualified than before. i'm not sure that they will they will
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definitely win but at least they will be part of the competition they will not be tedious you know. and we can see that at all the campaign itself the campaign was as you rightly said. has been restricted because of probably wouldn't now the orting also. because of what way then people are now jamming the filling stations and hopefully that will end in time because it's. within the hours sure wait just one final question as i say this vote comes as the economy is reeling from falling oil prices tell us more about the major challenges that will be concerning to voters about the incoming i guess a u.s. economy economy is is one of the major challenges and also the lack of trust and computers between people among people with the parliament and government they
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need them to be more. effective than what used to be and i think this is going to be seen in 03 and the election results great to get your expertise in this to appreciate that professor again i'm not just a. professional political science at university thanks very much thank you thank you. on to india where farmers are meeting government officials as they continue to push to overturn laws which they say will damage their livelihoods tens of thousands of protesters have been rallying at entry points to the capital for more than a week prime minister held talks with his top ministers and here on saturday to try and break the impasse with parnham has more now from the protests of the single vote across. it's been more than a week now that tens of thousands of families have remained on 3 key highways on the border of india's capital region on the borders between the states of howdy ana and delhi and on the border between the state of alton for they should and delhi
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they have converted hundreds of their vehicles into temporary homes they are staying put they said they're not going anywhere until the government repeals 3 recent farm laws and on the day that promised in the end there morty held a meeting with the ministers of hollande defense agriculture and commas ahead of those government ministers meetings with farm union leaders protesters here burnt an effigy of prime minister that injured morty they're not going to go out the cannot graduate they are owed he says these laws which he has brought are in our favor to mint we are not crazy people sitting protesting on the road for no reason almost every day 30 to 35 people go meet with them for 6 or 7 hours and then they send them back so as the 3rd round of talks between government ministers and farm union leaders this week take place there's a real difference emerging between the 2 sides are not just what's in the north but
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what to do about the famous concerns remain they're afraid they're going to lose minimum prices for they produce lose electricity subsidies they're afraid that private companies are going to have unfair advantage over farmers and unions now the government has said that indicated that they might be willing to make amendments to the farm is maintained that because the law wasn't so fundamentally flawed because they were created without consultation with farmers pushed through parliament without a proper voice that nothing short of repeal in the laws will do and they're only expecting the protests to get bigger they have called for a nationwide protest next tuesday. australia's prime minister says he's looking to constructively in gay. with china amid a growing diplomatic and trade row in recent months china has imposed a number of tariffs and other restrictions on australian products sparking a war of words between the 2 countries it's unclear if the change in tone will be enough to repair relations. reports no income. growing tensions between china
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and australia were laid bare with these tweets of a fake image depicting a struggling soldier holding a knife to the throat of an afghan child alluding to a recent report on alleged war crimes by some a strike what followed was a war of words with beijing refusing to apologize and the stage back to global times newspaper doubling down with another cartoon of australian soldiers at the moment it appears that both sides are not willing to stand back and both sides are quite willing. it's been escalating for years the strelley has legislated over concern that china was too involved in politics here and it became the 1st country to ban chinese take giant huawei from its 5 g. network it's also spoken out about china's handling of hong kong and the coronavirus beijing hits back with bans in tariffs on the struggling industries
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clearly a strike is taking economic punishment for taking a political stance that china does not agree with now with strong leaders taking beijing to the world trade organization threatening legal action over its tariffs on bali allies have rallied behind a strong leah with campaigns to buy a strategy in products let's throw in politicians are traditionally taken i bipartisan approach to china a bit and i read a lot on foreign policy the opposition labor party has accused the prime minister of presiding over i can point to breakdown of relationships the government is now paying for recess. the question is how to reset relations when china even taunts ring calls business is caught up in the tensions are hoping for a diplomatic resolution in terms of a media. brevity's or pena says there are none i don't think but what we have been saying to government is that we do need a reset we do need to focus on you know working through the challenges the
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challenge will be navigating a path between voicing what is strongly believes to be legitimate concerns while maintaining lucrative markets and also opening new ones gauge al-jazeera camera steadier now deserve coming up the russians dominating in skiing's freestyle world cup went in finland it will be here with the. assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse $4200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy 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 yours live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of
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rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al jazeera setting the discussion millions of americans feel disaffected by both political parties examining the headlines this group of activists and relatives are martin clinton right now where they're calling for the morning edition also to explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform why is the only solution for a child as young as 10 months if they come to inspire you to see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. sports pages. from today anyone involved in doping at an international sporting
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event involving american athletes sponsors or broadcasters could face criminal penalties in the u.s. president donald trump signed into law the controversial aroud change of act named after a russian whistleblower that gives power to prosecutors to impose fines of up to $1000000.00 all jail terms of up to 10 years for those involved but it's been criticized by the international olympic committee who have questioned why american professional and college athletes are exempt the world anti-doping agency is also concerned about how the u.s. has extended its jurisdiction beyond its borders female footballers are to be given guaranteed maternity leave under new rules approved by the sport's governing body fifo players will be allowed to take 14 weeks off on at least 2 thirds celery and clubs will be obliged to help them reintegrate when they return as well as provide medical support any club that terminates a player's contract because of pregnancy would face sporting sanctions as well as
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fines the pressure is building at real madrid as they struggle for form in the spanish league and in europe of losing to shakhtar donetsk in the champions league on tuesday and are facing away game against sylvia in la liga rather curtly 4th without a win in 3 games and coach the nadine's the den knows results need to improve quickly. your ilk are good this is my job at real madrid it's normal to receive criticism when we can't win matches but it doesn't change what i think of my players it doesn't affect the work i do every day i've never thought i was untouchable neither was a player as a coach or as a person senegalese football hero pop a boob job who died last week has been honored by his country's president job was most famous for scoring senegal's winning goal in the opening match of the 2002 world cup again to then defending champions france the senegalese president awarded job the honor of
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a grand officer in the national order of the lyon ahead of his funeral new zealand of one of the trying nations after australia and argentina ended their rugby year in a stalemate the 2 sides played out of 16 all draw in sydney on saturday wallabies captain michael hooper scored a try to cancel the 5 points of from about dell be australia also had a. lot o. red carded before resort to late penalty that could have won it for the aussies turns out that having no world champion is no problem for mercedes formula one scene with lewis hamilton out with coronavirus he's replacement is setting the pace ahead of this weekend grand prix in bahrain children so who is on loan from williams for the week said the fastest times in both practice sessions on friday the 22 year old finished ahead of max for stop and in both our sayings on the biz a track on the floodlights and i'll be looking to change pace to pole at qualifying later on saturday. different tricky not to run an easy track to say the least it's
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going to be very tight. quality and the race is going to be carnage. the next 3 days are important. meanwhile roman grows john has been speaking about his fiery crash last week saying he's happy to be alive the frenchman somehow escaped with only minor burns to his hands and a broken foot. sometime we we are close to death would be scared to stand there for me was was here on an unnamed bonior don't ask me why i just i just had to put a name on it and call it burn or i cannot die today for my kids i cannot i've got to see them the n.b.a. has released its should rule for the 1st half of the new season starting on december 22nd the season start is delayed because of the way the previous campaign was disrupted by the coronavirus minnesota timberwolves center call anthony towns is one man who has been hit hard by gov and 19 town says he's lost 7 family members
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including his mother during the pandemic. months but. i have a lot of people who are. in my family my monster. for answers. elsewhere bowl is looking forward to the start of the new season after taking part in his 1st day of training camp of the charlotte hornets ball was the number 3 overall pick of the 2020 n.b.a. draft. first their practice was cool. everybody around here is cool. i really loved it. there's a 3 way tie at the top of the leaderboard of the l.p.g. his latest event the volunteers of america classic taking place in texas jessica coder and nordquist and the year let me know all that 4 under par after friday 2nd round quarter shot a 2nd straight 2 under 69 nordquist court of the 68 while the 19 year old know who
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was the 2800 u.s. schools junior winner shot the best round of the week with a 66 this is the final event before the u.s. so women's open next week. and french golfer and one rose as one is made in european 2 a title of the by the 2 rookie card an 8 under par final round of 64 to finish 25 under for the tournament and 2 strokes ahead of when to play. second place. it was a day of dominance for russia the opener of the freestyle ski world cup in the group of funland on friday this is a maximum bowl off in action on his way to 1st base is older brother finished 3rd as russians full the podium in the mains category nationals took 3rd place in the women's category but they were not many in attendance to take over 19 restrictions 6 which has already caused the start of the season to be delayed.
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and that's what would leave it for now more sports news a little bit later again make it a great thank you see you later that is it for this news are we back in just a couple minutes with another half hour of news to them from. in 2008 traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be an american tourist i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim to be elected to the united states congress want has changed rewind islam and america on al-jazeera. i was sick of prison. i was 21 years of just me of
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mother the father of my daughter i could not. when parents are imprisoned the government doesn't have any plan for the should be left behind so this should be a need for they need shelter they are searching for love. my passion is to see that this should you know prisoners are also given another chance to live like you know much of it because they're not a party. to that crimes committed by vampiring. when i finally get to that place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall into society fending for themselves. to give me satisfaction. 2023 year of lockdowns and social distancing he can't reach across the screen to give someone a hug i leave way explores one of the global pandemics biggest side effects the
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loneliness everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time they're highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping controlling being alone together at the same to have all have a lockdown on al-jazeera. or russia begins mass vaccinations against cave at 19 despite global concerns about the speed with which it's being rolled out. this is al jazeera and also coming up iran takes another step towards banning the u.n. nuclear watchdog from inspecting that site. the deadline looming boris johnson of
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