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as we examine. the war. russia begins mass vaccinations against curve at 19 despite global concerns about the speed with which it's being rolled out. there i'm just on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iran takes another step towards banning the u.n. nuclear watchdog from unsaddled inspections of its sites. with a deadline looming boris johnson on the head of the european union trying to break the deadlock on a trade deal. on the final stage of human trials on a drug the makers say will come in the area have now begun.
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russia is pushing ahead with the fast stage of its large scale covert 19 vaccination program teachers doctors and social workers are set to get the locally produced sputnik the vaccine around $2000000.00 russians are expected to be inoculation this month need baka has this report. it's called covert back trade name sputnik v. after the soviet era satellite that triggered the space race and now russia says it's soaring ahead in its campaign against covert 19. dozens of clinics in the capital moscow have begun inoculating those most at risk from the virus the city remains the worst affected place in the country 1st in line of people who work in schools the health service and social workers the large scale vaccination of military personnel has also begun but each person getting 2 injections $21.00 days
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apart. i decided to do it right away not to wait it's difficult to say what to expect but i do hope it will stop me from getting ill the russian government approved the vaccine for use in august after recording 95 percent effectiveness of preliminary trials at the time it was touted as a world 1st despite only being tested on several dozen people the speed of the approvals drawn criticism at home and abroad with health experts insisting more advanced studies are needed to ensure its safety and effectiveness. but the russian government says there's no time to lose the country has one of the highest rates of coronavirus and his aging health care system is stretched. day one of the vaccination program is a success people waited a long time for the vaccine so far so good i cannot say how many people signed in but there are a lot of people who want to be vaccinated but president vladimir putin has yet to
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be vaccinated himself although one of his daughters has apparently been inoculated all of those being vaccinated are reportedly volunteers but some public sector workers say they've been heavily encouraged to sign up in the absence of large scale preliminary tests critics say the mass vaccination program is essentially a phase 3 trial in the general population skepticism around this comes from. very quickly it's pretty it's pretty developed very quickly and it appears to be recruited into the general population rather than if you have been developed say the. trials. do not appear to have been as extensive as they would have been. the russian government's confident but it's likely to take time for the fast track to vaccine to build international trust he's barkha al-jazeera. now iran's coronavirus death toll has reached 50000 with
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321 fatalities recorded just in the last 24 hours some restrictions there are being lifted in several parts of the country following a 2 week partial lockdown as a bank has more from the capital tehran. business is fine reopened after 2 weeks 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 right around with 300 down from nearly 500 the daily infections are at around 13000 down from over 40000 the regions considered in the red zone of more than half of the country can't keep affording to lock down iran is still under u.s. sanctions on the economy despite the positive spin the government puts on it has been hit hard they need people to go out and spend the money and keep the economy going business is a 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
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not getting paid but the real thing of restrictions does come with warnings keep wearing face masks maintain social distancing and president has been 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 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 iran. staying in iran and the country's supreme national security council has approved a motion to stop unshadowed inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog and to increase its enrichment of uranium the plan is expected to be in place in 2 months time after it's signed into law by president hassan rouhani the motion was approved by the guardian council earlier this week our correspondent also explains the significance from tehran. president hassan rouhani has said is that this was detrimental to diplomacy but what it really means is that the iranian
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officials would nor longer allow an an ounce visits by the i.a.e.a. inspectors now this is part of the nonproliferation agreement that iran has signed since 1970 this was a caveat of that agreement that was voluntarily signed by iran in 2015 after the nuclear deal was signed before iran to show some good face to the international community to say that we don't have anything to hide but since then the inspectors it's important to know they have visited 26 non-nuclear facilities they have visited a number of military facilities as part of their inspection so the officials here have said that it's enough now because the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2013 this bill was seen as an effort to try and lift some of the sanctions that they imposed on iran since then now in terms of the i think it still visit the nuclear sites but they have to go back to the pre 2015
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agreement which is they have to announce in advance of where they want to go and when they want to come in and that will still continue but the unannounced visits will no longer happen within this new as a result of this new bill what this essentially does is it puts the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden in to face one of his 1st really foreign policy challenges they will have a small window of opportunity when they take office from january 20th until this bill comes into effect the beginning of february to see what they will do and that will determine how iran will proceed now u.k. prime minister barak's johnson is set to speak to the head of the european union to try to break the impasse on a trade deal british an e.u. negotiators pause their talks on friday after failing to find a compromise on a series of sticking points and hopes now that the leaders can find some middle ground both sides only have until the end of this year to agree a new trade deal when the pre-breakfast agreement will expire our correspondent
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barbara has more from london on the next steps for that. u.k. government sources have been leaking or briefing the press that they see 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 onto a train back to brussels on saturday saying that he remained carman 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 friday he and his british counterpart david frost issued a 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 the level playing field governance and fisheries boris johnson the prime minister and the sort of underlying the head of the european commission who are holding a telephone conversation in the next few hours to see whether they can actually go
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past their red line something they go to go shoot as well 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 cabinet here and 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 ticking the government saying m.p.'s here 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 but it's in these next few days that any deal has to be struck how police in the french capital have fired tear gas at protesters because there have been such a license public areas damaged thousands there have been demonstrating against a proposed security law they say will protect rogue police officers earlier this week the government said it when rely part of that element put than punishing
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photos of police on tuesday and projects saying it should be dropped entirely. well saudi arabia's foreign minister says its allies involved in imposing a blockade against kasa are on board to find a resolution to the gulf crisis area the emir of kuwait said he was pleased with how the talks have been progressing and that sentiment has also been echoed by the catcher a foreign minister mohammad been at the ramadan thought any saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a land sea and air blockade of cattle in june 27th. as i mentioned we have seen significant progress in the last few weeks which means that we are now hopeful that we can reach a final conclusion very soon one that will be satisfactory to all parties and it's important to note that we have always worked very closely with our partners and continue to do so and that remains the case and the resolution will be one that
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involves all parties to the dispute and i am hopeful that we will be able to announce the details. while still ahead here on al-jazeera a record number of women are on the ballot but we'll tell you why turnout has been low and kuwait's parliamentary elections and ethiopia's prime minister faces criticism for his handling of the tiebreak crisis as aid agencies struggle to reach thousands displaced by the violence. the clouds been persistent and the rain's been off anywhere from the levant dance of central south in that still the case the heavy rain stretching through kuwait and on sunday will be in iraq mostly there will be a few showers in the gulf the might even catch barry but it's clearly rain or snow
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at hyde for iran moved to azerbaijan as well as for the east winds towards afghanistan that behind it is usually a couple days of sunshine the breezy dies down the very warm bodies were should be 18 for baghdad 28 in doha the forecast for doha will see the temperatures drop away as a cold cold cooling northwesterly sets in so that's the picture than for monday we've got more showers brewing in the g. were proper rain bring that will probably send a few showers across the levant the start of next week the seasonal rains in africa doing what they should do now is a good line from angola through zambia towards zimbabwe and mozambique now we have seen some rain in malawi where it's much wanted we see regular showers down in south africa that's going to happen again but maputo reflects the rains only just getting in to mozambique and in the long way it's gone away again.
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hello again i'm a star and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour at 19 vaccinations are under way in russia despite questions about safety teachers doctors and social workers are the fast in line to get the domestically produced a sputnik the vaccine. iran's supreme national security council has approved a motion to stop the un should yield inspections by the u.n. nuclear watchdog and to increase its enrichment of uranium the plant is expected to be in place in 2 months time after it signed into law by president hassan rouhani. and saudi arabia's foreign minister says its allies involved in imposing the blockade against cats are on board to find a resolution to the gulf crisis saudi arabia along with bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a land sea and air blockade of cats all in june 27 teen. well polls have now closed on kuwaitis of cost their ballots in parliamentary elections that they are looking to fill $50.00 seats and a wreck or number of women are among the more than $300.00 candidates but as
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mohamed reports the votes been overshadowed by covered 19. in kuwait where the economy is worsening as a result of low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic parliamentary elections still went ahead as planned voters masked up before casting their ballots and said they hoped these polls would begin to turn things around and. i boycotted the paws 2 elections this time us told that i should participate because the situation is deteriorating we need to be united and elect me foremost in the parliament so that the situation may improve hopefully you tell a columnist i hope that the kuwaiti people will choose wisely that they will choose the people who represent kuwait changes a must these are the 1st elections in kuwait since its new emir chef now a phenomenal took office in september after the death of his half brother shift at a salon have with the opposition weekend in recent years analysts say no major
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political shift is expected and with the campaign season severely muted due to the pandemic many believe voter turnout will be lower this year up for grabs are 50 seats in parliament and among the $326.00 candidates a record number of women $29.00 are running. and not go we have to fight corruption by choosing he will represent us inside the national assembly and be a person with conscience honesty he really loves this country and its citizens kuwait's nearly 140000000000 dollar economy is facing a deficit of 46000000000 dollars this year in september it was downgraded for the 1st time by moody's investor service. and just a month earlier kuwait finance minister warned the government may no longer be able to pay salaries still analysts say it's not just the economy that will pose a challenge to the upcoming parliament also the lack of it just and between people
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and many people with the. need to be more. effective used to be and i think this is going to be seen. in the election results many say that no matter the results the biggest difficulty going forward maybe how to overcome legislative gridlock. and just. as government says it's either captured or killed most of the leaders of the embattled region as it tries to bring an end to the month long conflict there but the head of the temporary people's liberation front says people in the regions capital nicolay are protesting about loosing that ethiopian backed eritrean soldiers and media back house in the area makes it very difficult to confirm these allegations answered on has also played an important role in sheltering thousands of refugees from tikrit despite its own economic difficulties and this is not the only challenge posed by the conflict reports from the sudanese ethiopian porta. the
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sudanese army on patrol near the each open border it's on the lookout for refugees who might be stranded in the area after escaping the fighting in ethiopia is no integrate region brigadier general because it is proud of his country's humanitarian role. but that of mushroom global news for the 1st 12 days before aid agencies arrived the people of get a reef were 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. also known as village 8 hosted 15000 refugees in the 1st 2 weeks after the fighting. integrate these homes were borrowed from local sudanese farmers to host the refugees so then his aid agencies prepared food in the camps there is one of so many sudanese in the head shot by philip who share their small homes and modest meals with the refugees well you should be the one we look
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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 a 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 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
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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 it is unequivocal. borders are well defined and we're not really for compromise our government has allowed these ethiopians to settle on our land but we've shipped to them and we will fight them to the last minute to be restored fully that's the pact we made with our n.c. says we haven't crossed into ethiopian territory or do they want to take out. doing . the 1st few days of the fighting integrate some utopian army units abandoned bases within and the void was field by the sudanese army now its commanders device they're not intended to cede those positions to be choppy an army if you tries to
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turn. or just you know for sure the triangle so the knees each open border now the u.k. based team behind the oxford astra zeneca vaccine for coated 19 says it's taken a large strides towards conquering malaria the general institute says it's now beginning the final stage of human trials for ceefax scene which so far has proven to be 80 percent effective on u.k. volunteers and will now be tested on $4800.00 children across africa while the world health organization commends about combat in malaria globally and it's warning that code 19 could seriously impact treatments in the past 2 decades the w.h.o. says 7600000 lives have been saved the mosquito borne disease killed nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 people 2 decades ago and to give you some context and 201-940-9000 people have died from the disease 94 percent of the world's cases and deaths are in africa nigeria learn accounts for about a quarter the w.h.o.
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ones that covered $1000.00 restrictions could cause major disruptions antimalarial treatment leading to thousands more deaths pregnant women and children face the greatest risk well let's now bring in professor adrian hill he's the director of the gen institute at the university of oxford and he joins us now via skype from s.l. fest and congratulations to you and your team i just ran through some of the numbers there but i really want to talk to the significance of this in terms of malaria we are really looking at close to half a 1000000 preventable deaths a year. we are i'm afraid yes and 200000000 cases so just to give you a scale on earth this year the world will probably see over 70000000 uncovered cases so there are actually more clinical episodes of malaria but of course there are more localized mainly in africa as you just said so it's for children in africa that we desperately need a backseat to sir you've hundreds of thousands of lives every year and that's been
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a very difficult task professor why has it taken so long to get to this point well as you've seen with her that we can do that seems against viruses that malaria is a protozoan parasite it's hundreds of times larger than a virus and it has thousands of antigens choosing the correct one is it's not easy and people be trying for many many decades so we have know that scene's against parasites technically they're just a much greater challenge so i know that there had been previously efforts to try to target the mosquitoes themselves and there was another that says smith kline vaccine that's only what 30 percent effective it in the simplest of terms can you tell us how this one what. you know some of the goats at smith kline vaccine which was the 1st one to show some of the pixie in africa and ours were by targeting the so-called reside that's what the mosquito and jerks when you up this summer have
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and it binds onto a very conservative part of the sport reside and stops them in burning liver cells and that's been proven to be the most efficient way of making a malaria vaccine but like most vaccines that none of these are perfect and with malaria we're trying to do better than the g.s. came back seen things are looking promising but the key test is coming now as we move into a certain color and so those 3 trial that will recruit nearly 5000 children of course how soon do you think post their phase 3 trial could we see this vaccine or that i imagine there are also hugely adjustable challenges given the sheer numbers involved and the infrastructure in developing nations which presumably will be the focus here. so. your last point. most developed countries are really fairly well off in terms of infant and childhood vaccinations so you go read saw the coverage of over 90 percent for up to 10 that seemed so
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great job is being done today in distributing other vaccines and we think if we can get this one to work well that will be added to the list so we do see other challenges of course in making that banksy in expenses so that it can be affordable because many hundreds of millions of doses are going to be needed every year and there are already fortunately we have partnered with the world's biggest vaccine manufacturers who are serum institute of india in india and they are a wonderful partner they have manufactured the succeeding successfully already for our 1st rattles and are doing so and have finished doing so recently for the upcoming to those 3 trials so we expect that this should be deployable if it says shown to work very well and do you see a day of professor where we may have eradicated malaria particularly in very vulnerable populations of across sub-saharan africa. there will be such
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a day on fortunately it won't be next year or in 5 years it's going to take a decade or 2 what we have to do now is stop people dying reduce the amount of malaria in very endemic countries particularly in sub-saharan africa and work our way towards that using all the tools we have we already have better insecticides we have some very good drugs but we need a vaccine as well and a professor adrian hello there the director of the general institute at the ambassador of oxford congratulations again professor and we wish her all the best with a 3 trials. now talks in india between farmers and government officials have ended without any agreement but will resume on wednesday farmers are trying to overturn laws which they say will damage their livelihoods tens of thousands of protesters have been rallying at entry points to the capital now for more than a week elizabeth khurana has more from the protests at the same group border
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crossing. 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 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 holen defense agriculture and commas ahead of those government ministers meetings with farm union leaders protesters here burnt an effigy of prime minister that injured mortie that go across the cannot bridge they are owed he says these laws which he has brought are in our favor album and 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
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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 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 the farm is maintain 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've called for a nationwide protest next tuesday. well let's take you to some something rather
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exciting all eyes are on the sky you can see. that countdown has just hit 0 and we are expecting to see any minute now a fireball in the sky and that fireball will be a capsule that's collected samples from an asteroid is expected to land in these strangely an outback keep your hose on that dock screen and that that capsule is really entering the earth's atmosphere literally right now as we speak that mission began with the launch of the high abuse a true spacecraft 6 years ago it's kind of billions of kilometers and the japanese scientists who some of whom you can see in mission control oh well you could just see in mission control in the corner hoping that that song could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and even possibly how life began right you can see it moving across the left of your screen now a very small fireball but a fireball nonetheless and it's really rather exciting because it's been collecting samples of rock from a
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a reuse asteroids and scientists will be studying that and in much greater detail and you can see mission control there just breaking up while we'll be bringing you much more on that everyone's very thrilled about that in the coming news outlets are to stay with us here on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines coven 19 vaccinations are under way in russia despite questions about safety teachers doctors and social workers will be the 1st in line to get that domestically produced sputnik vaccine alexander gold for has more from moscow. most full in front of you could be.
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