al jazeera. take in this election is control of the u.s. senate and that really means control of this country president trump addresses his 1st political rallies since losing the election ahead of the senate runoff vote in georgia. several raman and this is al jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the e.u. and the u.k. all last ditch talks on a break sit trade deal with a deadline just weeks away. the lights turned on but everyone's at home a quiet start to christmas celebrations in bethlehem as coronavirus restrictions

keep the crowds away. therefore they cannot touch. touch down for a capsule carrying samples from a distant asteroid the scientists hope could explain the formation of the universe . welcome to the program what was meant to be a rally to back to senate candidates has turned into an opportunity for donald trump to once again falsely claim that he won last month's presidential election he's been campaigning in georgia for the republicans facing a run of votes next week next month possibly the poll which decides which party controls the u.s. senate but trump spent much of the time criticizing democrats and georgia's republican governor who has refused to endorse his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the presidential election our white house caused by. from the romney. it's

his 1st raleigh since joe biden was declared the winner of the nov 3rd presidential election still donald trump says that he is not giving up on challenging and trying to overturn those results and win a 2nd term in the white house donald trump is also urging georgia voters to come out to the polling in january for critical senate runoff race he says it will control not just the future of the senate which republicans currently hold but the future of america this is something that's very important and you have to get out you have to vote you have to make sure you have every vote counted everybody has to . because at stake in this election is control of the u.s. senate and that really means control of this country the voters of georgia will determine which party runs every committee writes every piece of legislation controls every single taxpayer dollar dumbstruck accuses democrats of breaking

election a clear largely debunks still he says he will challenge the result even if it's to go all the way to the supreme court says he will never surrender. joe watkins is a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush he says trump hopes to continue to influences space. 2 republicans win the senate seats then of course it means that mitch mcconnell continues on the leader in the u.s. senate and republicans control the senate which means that joe biden will only have the u.s. house of representatives under democratic control but if the democrats win those 2 seats in georgia of course that means joe biden will control the senate with the help of kamel harris who is the sitting vice president cast the deciding vote in the u.s. senate and and also a democratic house of representatives that will have the house and the senate under democratic control so this is a very very important election from the standpoint of republicans and democrats the

president is prying trying very hard to retain his base he won over 70000000 votes in the november election and the best way to retain at least a good portion that base is that going to continue the challenge of the the election results i don't think is going to succeed in challenging them i think this number 14 when the u.s. electors come together they will of course elect joe biden to be the president united states but that being said don't trouble want to retain his power base in the event that he wants to run again in 2024 for the presidency so coming into georgia is the 1st test of that and certainly he's raised over $200000000.00 since the election about $207000000.00 since the election so he still has had plenty of money to keep his base. very much under his control the u.s. has reported a record number of covered 1000 infections from the day in the right nearly 230000

cases were recorded of the past 24 hours according to john hopkins university and has been more than 2500 deaths in one time the u.s. has seen a huge for surgeons of the virus of the past month putting immense pressure on hospitals. a large scale covert 1000 vaccination program is underway in russia around 2000000 people are expected to receive these but not be that seen this month although the final human trials are not finished. 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 kobe 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 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

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 developed very quickly and it is free. to the general population. 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 needs barkha al-jazeera. the united kingdom

is preparing to roll out the vaccine made by pfizer and biotech possibly as early as tuesday but leading doctors are warning that vaccinations will only have a small impact over the winter in an open letter to health workers the u.k.'s for chief medical officers say it could take 3 months before there's a significant drop in hospital admissions. now the u.k. and the e.u. remain a towards less than a month before a deadline to reach a post breaks that trade deal british prime minister boris johnson and the european commission president serve on the land admit that major differences remain but the 2 leaders have told negotiators to keep talking. we welcome the fact that progress has been achieved in many areas nevertheless significant differences remain on the 3 critical issues level playing field governance and fisheries both sides underlined that normally agreement is feasible if these issues are not

solved and whilst recognizing the seriousness of these differences we agreed that a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be these issues can be resolved with the baba yaga negotiations. there's been a lot of talk in the press about british on happiness or the european union trying to insist on a long perhaps 10 year transition period before e.u. access to british fishing waters would be reduced the european union have been saying no that is not going to be a problem there is somewhere we can meet in the middle but perhaps a bigger problem is the idea of unfair competition european diplomats have been briefing journalists that several countries not just france but belgium spain denmark and so on have been unhappy about the prospect of michel barnier giving ground on the rules of what they call the level playing field on state aid for

example to british companies and also on what what happens if one side wants to move away from the common standards of workers' rights on environmental standards and the like so these are clearly sticking points it will be seen by some people as good news that the talks are going to resume on sunday negotiators being asked to get back together in brussels on sunday and sort of underlying and boris 'd johnson talking again on monday lots of people did predict that in fact the whole file would be handed over to the political leaders before any ratification but if there is to be such a deal it has to be done in the next few days because it has to be signed off by the british parliament and by the european parliament there's an e.u. summit on thursday and friday they'll want to know the exact details as well and even if they have got a deal on paper it's going to be very difficult

a big challenge to get it pushed through by december the 31st there's talk that in fact it might be have to be put in place provisionally without the european parliament greenlighting it the u.k. voted to leave the european union more than 4 years ago but the route out has been quite difficult the 3 main sticking points of fishing. fair competition guarantees and how future disputes will be solved even if the 2 leaders reach an agreement member states can still reject it france says it won't back a bad deal especially if it tries to ensure it doesn't lose access to british fishing waters and the 2 sides of just $25.00 days to reach a deal otherwise the divorce process will end in a no deal breaks it jonathan lists is the deputy director of the business advisory think tank british influence and he explains what's at stake for both sides. we would always expect there to be last minute gesture politics and hard vention

some drama of food resolution that. are not remotely along surprised by what's happened this week and it's not the sort of thing each necessarily expects the through an acrimonious crush out but at the same time these things hang in the balance the deal is not guaranteed the differences between the 2 sides are real the e.u. wants to make sure that it doesn't have a huge complex or. potentially undercutting it on standards or introducing unfair competition by state age or any number of things either now or in 5 years time or in 20 years time and if there is such an act that it wants to make sure it can retaliate eastern terrorists who do some of the kind of sanction and so it's just about ending those things out is the most important point here is that the problems that people experience are not going to be resolved by proxy are

going to be made worse now fishing which you mentioned before is a key example of that because the fundamental problem is the british want to take back control. of british waters but the majority of the fish that we catch. into the e.u. so the e.u. as we said well if you want control of your waters and we control of our markets and. have exclusive rights to fish in british rule there's no point to that because there are the markets and mexico is the e.u. so these problems are simply not going to go away. the head of governors presidential vote take a look at why many believe the race. between 2 candidates. desperate for help and struggle to find shelter and food up to 2 the strongest storms of the year those stories. after the break.

here's what early winter looks like plenty of rain plenty of snow particularly for iran elsewhere well yes it varies and we've got on sunday a fairly sunny day for most the temperatures in the twenty's not in the thirty's but if you're in terror on the several different story the forecast here is single think the temperature is a bit below the average but persistent overcast wet days so sunday and monday an improvement on tuesday and you see it start to prevail monday is the real spearheads off towards afghanistan the following weather is still find a few showers brewing for the levant but not that many of them quite a breeze blowing down through the gulf which is typical so down house forecast is a windy one was temp is dropping down to 22 by the time we get to wednesday's below average but not that surprising now was this potential still of some rain in the

whole of africa it doesn't get realized on monday nor indeed much on tuesday it's a drying trend for this part of africa if you move south you get the seasonal rains which are being enhanced now and this one yet from south africa towards mozambique and malawi but they're not quite there yet. we've never had a president who has literally for 4 or 5 years repeatedly attacked our democracy. closely related to it and finally i have a narrative i have a question you're hearing that really where people can't get treated and just false or even further join me richelle carey and uprightness my guests from around the world take a hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on our just

your. book about your watching officer of the cell robin a reminder of our top stories in his 1st post-election rally president donald trump has again falsely claimed to have won the election in georgia he's in the state campaigning for 2 republican senators ahead of runoffs that will decide which party controls the senate. the u.s. has reported a record number of covert 900 factions for a 3rd day in a row the 230000 cases were recorded over the past 24 ounce it comes as russia has begun a large scale trade virus vaccination program. prospects that trade talks between

the u.k. and the european union are set to resume on sunday the 2 sides are deadlocked over issues of governance fishing and competition rules. several people have been detained in israel amid protests against prime minister benjamin netanyahu thousands of people gathered outside netanyahu his home in what's become a weekly show of anger demonstrators are calling for him to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the corona virus pandemic israel's moving towards an unprecedented false election in less than 2 years over the government's failure to pass a budget. the united nations has condemned shelling in yemen which has killed at least 6 civilians at least 10 others were injured in the port city of the data amid an escalation of violence is the 3rd time in a week that civilians have been killed in such attacks and it comes as aid agencies warn of increasingly famine like conditions study arabia's foreign minister says its allies involved in imposing the blockade against cata are on board to find

a solution to the gulf crisis earlier the emir of kuwait said he would say he was pleased with how talks have been progressing and that sentiment has been echoed by the could tare foreign minister mohammed bin abdul rahman al tunney saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt imposed a land sea and air blockade of cattle in june of 2017. full quarter nation with our partners and in this process. and with the prospects that we see are very positive towards a final agreement and all the steps we have taken so far have been as i mentioned in coordination with our partners and the eventual resolution will involve all parties concerned. campaigning for monday's presidential election in ghana has ended with the candidates making a final push for votes the incumbent president. makes the 11 faces 11 other challengers but many go on ends believe the race will be between mr carter

and the man he replaced 4 years ago i mean address has more from the capital accra . handling of the coronavirus pandemic may be one of the best in africa but as candidates make a last push for most of the supporters set aside protocols. at 76 incumbent president. is fighting the biggest battle of his political career losing this election is into. so he took his keys not only to supporters but members of all political parties. here. haven't i delivered on the work you gave me for 4 years i strongly believe i have so i'm asking for another term everyone regardless of party affiliation should give me another chance. and he's got course . his biggest challenge 62 year old former president john dramani mahama is capitalizing on widespread discontent over allegations of corruption in the current

government. and 2000 with a measure of the seat was good we have a lot of the young people on our side to my daughter the young people do not see a good future with this present government and i willing to make a change but political analysts say there is little difference between the 2 dominant parties which have been with teaching power among themselves for the last 28 years the n.b.c. and the n.d.p. has nominated has won a nation's and i formed government. see this to be fair to the leader. if you look at a lot of some piece conducted by institution news across the country and outside the country. there comic intelligence from little port. me there are some who suggest that becoming fed up as a final day of campaigning draws to a cool voters are aware that even with 10 other candidates on the ballot the race

will be between the 2 arch rivals for many gamey and this election will be determined by what voters think about the rough handling of the covered 91 let me go and its impact as well as any moment it will also depend on voter time. nearly 18 percent of garner 17000000 registered voters are either and decided or may not vote at all and these are the votes both by targeting a candidate score more than 50 percent of the vote to win in the 1st round and avoid a runoff. across gaza dozens of armenians are protested again calling for the resignation of the prime minister protesters are angry over a ceasefire deal with us or by john forced ethnic armenians to hand over land as ery forces prime minister nicola passion announced the russian brokered deal last month and in weeks of war over the disputed region of the goanna caliber

talks between protesting farmers on the government in india have ended without any agreement talks are set to resume in a few days amid anger over produce prices and agricultural subsidies farmers are trying to overturn a new law which they say will damage their livelihoods farm workers improve temporarily blockaded a major highway to appeal for better working conditions they're demanding a pay raise of around $7.00 a day the protesters had removed block blockages on friday after proves congress bowed to their demands repealing a decades old agricultural law but the farmers say their salaries still haven't been agreed. it's been nearly a month since 2 hurrican slammed into central america and many areas of still underwater and honduras thousands have been left homeless and that's making the already critical covered $1000.00 health emergency even worse the government has admitted it struggling to cope our correspondent manuel repeller reports. this is

baby joshua he was born just over a week ago at this makeshift shelter under a bridge in san pedro sula. his mother 23 year old father tells us her family lost everything during hurricanes ada and iota 2 powerful back to back storms that flooded the city last month. has been in my living here for more than a month now 8 days ago my baby was born inside this tent it was very hot i was expecting to go to the hospital but i had no choice but to give him. ada and i otoh were 2 of the strongest storms of 2020 in one of the most active atlanta hurricane seasons in recorded history. the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating bridges and power lines collapsed roads buried under mudslides and entire towns flooded many are still underwater more than a month since the 1st storm hit. says she hadn't finished clearing the mud from the

1st storm when the downpours from hurricane iota flooded her home for a 2nd time. what that song i think of the people suffered more than myself i thank god because even though i have nothing left inside my home the 4 walls are still standing and that something. honduras is one of the poorest countries in the americas the destruction left by the storms has exacerbated an already critical situation and complicated efforts to curb the code 900 alberich here. relief workers say international assistance has become more important than ever and warned that in many ways. the crisis is still worsening we need the serious day we need to hear or series or displays. destroy. small. dams and in any social order interim shocker in madison.

the honduran government says state shelters or at capacity meaning that thousands are now left to fend for themselves on the streets any hopes they have left now depend on the kindness of others who are willing to lend a hand when you end up alone al-jazeera. people in london have flooded back to one of the best known shopping districts following the lifting of a month long lockdown large crowds of people were seen on regent street in central london on saturday the shopping district will be closed to traffic on certain days for encourage social distancing england saw a spike in cases in the past month which prompted the lockdown. best you have is used to throngs of tourists from around the world during christmas but the occupied west bank town has just little bits holiday trees with streets virtually empty due to lockdown restrictions that are ibrahim explains. the past few years it was very hard for us to find that. cover the christmas tree lighting.

the trees live without people they are watching the super power line was 50. 5 what it sounded. was it. it was here. at the. hotel was that it would take. 2 hours and i feel like that here was that like this here what is happening. in the who work an agenda and the hotel owners were anticipating a very busy season and more tourist season so they took loans and expanded their business called now they're in debt not only them but their employees many were laid off and have been looking for alternatives but no one is hiring lower unemployment rates are soaring and with an average of around 2000 cases each day of the coronavirus a 2nd lockdown is looming this could only mean bad news for

a city that has always depended on tourism specifically during the christmas season after 6 years and hundreds of thousands of kilometers a japanese space capsule carrying samples from a distant asteroid was right back on earth scientists hope the sample could prove or provide clues to the origin of also listed as a lower berth manoli reports i specially delivery of the capsule to the australian outback and this one came out and down from space. and it may contain some answers to help us to understand the origins of our solar system and how life began . this is the end of the high opposed to 2 probes mission that was sent to the 4600000000 year old asteroid really goo to collect samples of the rock. it had blasted off from japan in december 2014 before reaching the asteroid in june 2018

it touched down twice on the asteroid. once in february last year when it fired a pellet the surface of the rock to kick up debris it's landed again 5 months later to collect dust and rock from the surface making it the 1st pope ever to achieve this this is the moment a team of researchers realized the caps only safely returned home. japan's air space exploration agency confirmed the capsule had successfully separated from the high abuse or to. it says this was a challenging operation the required precision control 220000 kilometers from us it traveled much father about 300000000 kilometers having passed over to the sun for 3 years space enthusiasts in tokyo reacted to the sneeze.

work week by night all i heard that if the separation did not work i have to say itself would crash into the earth i'm really glad that it was successfully released my heart was beating a bit faster when i was watching 21 or more years or more with japanese technology high obesity went to a distant asteroid and came back safely i think it has the potential to prove how advanced japanese technology is scientists say they will analyze the organic materials that come from the subsurface of the asteroid it could be in the same state it was when the solar system 1st formed. they say they know organic material is the origins of life but they still don't know how but the higher birth the 2 probe and it can go may provide some answers nor about the many al-jazeera swedish pole vaulter model duplantis has become the youngest person ever to be named world athlete of the year the 21 year old has twice broken the world record of the pole vault this year clearing 6 meters 800 centimeters back in february now

he's focusing on the delayed a limp dicks in tokyo i going into next year that's that's where i want to be in my best shape i want to have saved my best performance for the day and try to go in there and you know try to be on top the podium so yeah i mean pretty much auto is now is in stores and the next this this upcoming year and you know it's a major bombing that it can happen this year but you know it's a lot of you know american city and complain a lot of worse things happen other people. watching are just there with me it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories in its 1st post-election rally president donald trump has again falsely claimed to have won the election in the state of georgia he's there campaigning for 2 republican senators ahead of runoff that will decide which party controls the senate. this is up.