[000:00:00;00] the in the. u.s. president donald trump again falsely claims victory in his 1st rally since losing to joe biden as he backs republican standing in georgia senate runoff. come fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up the e.u. and u.k. hold last ditch talks on a break sit trade deal with time running out to agree on a way forward a vote is underway for

a new congress in venezuela but critics say president maduro is trying to seize the last a body controlled by the opposition. and touched on for a capsule carrying samples from a distant asteroids that scientists hope could explain how the solar system for. what was meant to be a rally to back to senate candidates has turned into op an opportunity for donald trump to once again falsely claim that he won last month's us presidential election has been campaigning in georgia for republicans facing ronald votes next month a poll will decide which one he controlled say u.s. senate our white house correspondent kimberly hockett reports from valdosta georgia . donald trump was not the declared winner in last month's presidential vote but that didn't stop these georgia voters from attending trump's 1st post-election

rally. thousands here believe trump defeated joe biden even as the president's court cases to overturn the election results have over. her well mainly failed and i said joe biden stole the election in one reelection landslide by a landslide we see all the fraud we see all of the balance there were piled up there were. brought here in boxes and in trucks at 3 o'clock in the morning and even though he agrees trump was in this southern state to tell them to go to the polls again this time in the upcoming senate elections that will decide whether the u.s. congress is controlled by democrats giving biden the ability to push through legislation but there's a new challenge for republicans some supporters say they've lost faith in the vote and may not even show up if you go and change their go anyway they've already filed

a vote. probably are really fraudulent in my opinion but. i'm just on the go bowden and if they don't turn this election around or if the governor don't do something to make me change my mind. both republicans and democrats are spending millions trying to win georgia's 2 senate seats but trump insists republicans will keep a grip on the senate warning georgia voters the future of america is at stake you must go vote because its 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 dollars trump also continues to insist he defeated biden on november 3rd he claims the mail in ballots received after election day shouldn't count he cues as democrats of stealing the election and vows he will take his challenges to the supreme court to win

a 2nd term they cheated and they regard presidential election but we will still wouldn't we want. a new poll shows just 25 percent of congressional republicans acknowledge biden's presidential win that's why his supporters are fighting to overturn poll results and to block democrats from winning again in georgia. but democrats are also fighting the day before president trump's visit here for the president barack obama made a virtual campaign appearance and president elect joe biden will also be making a visit to georgia before its january vote can really help get al-jazeera valdosta georgia. and dragon f.c. is an associate professor at emory university she says the runoff vote is a crucial fight between the democrats and the republicans. this race really is coming down to turnout this is not about persuasion i expect that people are going

to vote along party lines so democrats are going to vote for warnock and republicans are going to vote for perdue and leffler in this particular race and so what this means is that both sides have to do their level best in order to make sure that they get as many people to turn out to vote as possible that could actually moderate some of the policy agendas that are coming through congress and so things that might be able to pass the house of representatives couldn't pass in the senate and vice versa so for example let's just use the legislation that passed the house yesterday the house voted to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level that bill is dead on arrival in the republican controlled senate and while such a bill wouldn't be guaranteed to pass a democratic controlled senate one would seem to expect that a senate majority leader chuck schumer would at least put it through the legislative process and at least allow it to be brought up for a vote so those are the kinds of changes that one would expect to happen and it's part of the reason why democrats would prefer to be able to have unified party

control both in the white house and in both chambers in congress there are certain sort of actions that we need legislative approval but then there were decisions that president trump made unilaterally that president a president elect biden could actually then also handle be executive action. the corona virus pandemic now and the u.s. has reported record number of covert 1000 infections for the 3rd day in a row nearly 230000 cases where recorded over the past 24 hours according to johns hopkins university and they've been more than 2500 deaths saying that time the u.s. has seen a huge resurgence over the vi of the virus over the past months putting immense pressure on hospitals the united kingdom meanwhile is preparing to roll out of the vaccine made by pfizer and by intake possibly as early as tuesday but needing doctors a warning that vaccinations will only have a small impact over the winter in an open letter to health why is a new case for chief medical offices say it could take 3 months before there's

a significant drop in hospital admissions. in other news u.k. media is reporting that the british cabinet has given its backing to prime minister boris johnson over a no deal breaks it says the u.k. and the e.u. remain at odds less than a month before a deadline to reach a post breaks that trade deal british prime minister boris johnson and european commission president or scilab underlay and admits major differences remain where the 2 leaders have told negotiation is 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 sold. and whilst recognizing the seriousness of these differences we read that

a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether very can be these issues can be resolved. or has more on the negotiations from london. 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 see 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 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. a committee in the u.s. has found that directed microwave radiation is a likely cause of mysterious illnesses among american diplomats in cuba and china at least 2 dozen diplomats reported dizziness pressure and cognitive issues over a period of nearly 2 years from a tiny 16 a study didn't say who was responsible or whether it was an actual attack but it did note that the former soviet union had done previous research into this type of injury. venezuelans are choosing a new congress in an election boycotted by the opposition the u.s. e.u. and most latin american countries are calling a sham votes that will enable president doors wing socialist party to take over the last state body currently controlled by the opposition a latin america at its end to see a new man reports. like a great many even his whalen's who live in low income areas of caracas and employed

baker williams it is says he has much better things to do both in sunday's national assembly elections. like for example preparing since sheets and wood as a stove because he has no cooking gas but. it's always promises promises and every day things are worse over government does is blind those who have no power this is one of the world's richest countries but we have nothing because of this terrible administration the problem he says is that voting in the legislative elections won't change a thing. that mainstream opposition is alleging fraud and isn't even competing thus making the outcome a foregone conclusion. there's a joke going around in venezuela it says those americans should follow our example we know the winner of our elections long before they even take place critics say it would be funny if it were true. this is the new electoral commission which is

stacked in favor of the ruling that israel and socialist party and these have been is. new electronic voting machines they were bought after a mysterious fire burned down all the ones that had been audited by an independent body. are. the ones that work your past. year in 2017 with the. sole non. technical basis has been. among the candidates for president nick when asked for details wife's. and his son junior. apart from declaring the leadership of the largest opposition parties illegal the government controls and censors the media and while voting isn't mandatory at a recent rally party strongman deals that look of ale said those who don't vote don't eat there won't be food for those who don't vote. government supporters say

they're counting the days until they take over the national assembly the only democratic institution that isn't nominally controlled by the opposition. but. this is our opportunity to expose congress who for the last 5 years mistreated the venezuelan people and indeed there's no doubt about the winner the only real question is how many people may heed the opposition's call to staying home and abstain and see in human. still ahead on al-jazeera as campaigning winds down ahead of ghana's presidential vote we'll look at why the race is focused on the current president and the one he replaced. and the lights turned on but everyone's at home a quiet start to christmas celebrations in bethlehem as coronavirus restrictions

keep crowds centaurus away. the european weather pattern is stuck again in the winter that's usually not a good thing the sticking point is a big area of high pressure cold weather in the east which means everything that comes in from the west and the land to get stuck and there's the line where it is stuck that has recently meant a lot of stuff has been a warning now valid for 3 days of severe snow big depths of it for example in summer since which means but a metre and a half is fall here but the same in the tirol in the western side of austria and it is still falling but you can get that meter in a house that's 3 meters in total for this area there's a warning out still for that for this rain if it's not snow fairly heavy slow moving rains a warning of strong winds on the croatian coast and in serbia so this is the area where all the action is happening at the moment i will things will finance a little bit on monday the snow is to fall but lost so much on the stormy stuff and it will be thunderstorms move eastwards with some cold air tucked in as well as

a bug area of northern greece the same time coming to southern by a bisque a strong winds and fairly heavy rain that's power just in land in the southwest of france in the force of it and be on the take me to tuesday night as that comes in we get another developing storm in the western med so we could repeat the process all over again with potential dangerous weather for such it's early and again austria. in south central chile indigenous communities are fighting to reclaim their ancestral lands and the conflict is becoming increasingly violent talk to author syria travels to the region to see why the most people are rising up and asks is there a path to peaceful coexistence on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so now my to halley take it we'll bring you the news

and current affairs that matter to you. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera in his 1st post-election ronny u.s. president donald trump has again falsely claimed to have won the georgia election his campaigning for 2 republican senators ahead of runoffs in january that will decide which party controls the senate u.k. media is reporting that the british cabinet will support prime minister voice johnson over a no deal break said the u.k. any us still at odds less than a month before the deadline to reach a deal talked to said to continue later on sunday and in venezuela people are choosing a new congress in an election boycotted by the opposition the e.u.'s e.u.

and most latin american countries are calling the vote a sham that will enable president maduro is rolling socialist party to take over the last a body controlled by the opposition. now to ghana where campaigning for monday's presidential election has ended incumbent president faces 11 challenges but many people believe the race will be between a coup for dole and the man he replaced 4 years ago on a dangerous has more from across. the. gardens handling of the coronavirus pandemic maybe one of the best in africa as candidates make a last push or pull out most of the support of such a site called the protocols. it's $7.00 to $6.00 incumbent president. is fighting the biggest battle of his political career losing this election isn't. so he took

his keys not only to supporters but members of all political parties. haven't i delivered all 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 his good course will could. his biggest challenger 62 year old former president john dramani mahama is capitalizing on widespread discontent over allegations of corruption in the current government. in 2000 with a measure of being seen as good we have a lot of young people outside 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 rooted in 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 dog on a somewhat apart and democrats see these 2 paths. to the lead in political parties

if you look a lot of something conducted by institution a cause the country and outside the country. they cannot make intelligence unit will port. become in. as a final day of campaigning goes to a cool voters are aware that even with 10 other candidates on the ballot the race will be between the 2 archrivals for many gagnon's this election will be determined by what voters think about the rough handling of the covered 19 but its impact on employment it will also depend on voter turnout. nearly 18 percent of gun a 17000000 registered voters are either undecided or may not vote at all and these are the votes both parties are targeting a candidate for school more than 50 percent of the vote to win in the 1st row and avoid a runoff. across gonna. australian

authorities are battling to contain bushfires that have now burned half of the world heritage listed island people in a coastal town on frazier island have been told to evacuate immediately the wildfires which have raged for 7 weeks were sponsored by an illegal fog camp fire experts warn of the fire as are unusual in this scale intensity and timing. japanese space capsule carrying samples from an asteroid has been retrieved after a successful landing in the australian outback the mission began with the launch of the 2 spacecraft 6 years ago it created a fireball as it we entered the earth is atmosphere japanese scientists hope the sample could provide clues to the origins of life on let's speak to professor trevor ireland about this he's at the australian national university it reaches research school of earth sciences and he'll be analyzing the asteroid material he's via skype from where mera in australia thank you very much professor island for

speaking to us now you were part of the team i understand that collected the samples from the asteroid before we talk about what you hoping to find tell us 1st how it all went down and what material did you actually connect well with them flawlessly so a lot of people seeing the fardell a lot of them are. followed to the stars we were. right on that managed to trace the. first flight crew. the signal of the. space the actual sample return capsule. to that's brought back a little are working on it now so the testing of the material has now began what exactly are you expecting to find in the sample. initial tests in a stroller are simply to look at any guesses that might have come off the samples as those sit inside the container so as soon as we have ascertained that it's going

to be boarding a jet and heading back to tokyo for more than a lab or analysis i'm of course including opening the china some can see what particles my own might be inside. important to understand that you have to samples to test so what additional information do you hope to discover and the subsurface sample. so the subsurface sample gives you a sort of a ground truth for understanding what's been happening on the surface that the real issue of taking an asteroid robins as sampling of a meteorite is that we can actually look at the skin of the asteroid and understand how it's evolved in the solar system what age it is how long it's been exposed to solar wind of the sun some things like that so we have both see the sample from inside the planet as small as well as the surface then we. basically are starting material and the exposed material and we can ever do a much better job of figuring out the history of that object right so what then

would signal that you have found the building blocks of life. so the interesting thing about the story that we've gone to it's a seed known as the seeds of our best roy going to we think the closest analog to lows asteroids of the carbonaceous congress quite a rare type of meteorite but those are the media it's going to in a lot of lower towers a lot of. organic compounds and things like that so these are potentially the seeds of life on earth and so we can rely this most common type of asteroid to these sort of rare media rights and we have an interesting association tells us a lot more about what's going on in us solar system or of these rare meteorites are not so rare after all because the asteroids will turn out to be very common. very fascinating thank you so much professor for talking to us about this and good luck in your recession trevor island professor at the school of earth sciences at the

australian national university re appreciate your time. thanks certainly. that colombia has been trying to restart its economy after months of colored 1000 restrictions the christmas holiday season is seen as a lifeline for small businesses but with cases rising many fear a 2nd wave of infections on the run for some but as large as wholesale markets i grandstand mall is bustling get to in the morning i was small resellers and regular buyers from all over colombia muscle for the best and cheapest garments of them might be gone or great early rise the biggest gloating wholesale fair in the country taking place this year in the shadow of kobe the 19 go to the market one can be this family has had a stall here for almost 20 years most of them for i don't stay this year is different but even more important because we're all struggling to rescue our

businesses from failing to save the sacrifices of so many years those are i could be the restrictions of hip colonias economy hard especially small businesses that are only now starting to recover the weight infections rising once again many feared a lucrative christmas season might be cut short if it only causes that but selling these clothes is the only long support for us the only way to pay the bills pay off some debt keep our head above water because we haven't received any help from the government. traditionally the mother to go in with take place every december night but this year it has been cut down to 2 per week shopping centers of reduced capacity and increased security measures to avoid becoming a new focus of infections but the biggest worry lies outside the malls i'm sure hundreds of informal vendors occupied the streets with merchandise and thousands of buyers crowd them often without wearing masks or maintaining any distance the mayor

office is threatening to shut down the insider fair unless the crowds are. somehow brought under control but the seller circe say that would be an economic catastrophe or something how come pick out it's complicated and contradictory the government has the right to impose restrictions they see fit bought what about our right to survive i mean i love orders over experts say that allowing these events is like playing with fire is going to be p.c. it's a difficult period even if the government has been orienting people day in and day out people are tired at this point i expect that off this holiday season we'll have the same situation we are now seeing in europe or the united states people might still fear the virus but they're done with the restrictions so it's a balancing act between the economic needs of the people in the reality of a pandemic that is far from being able become a listen to them. and the coronavirus pandemic has dimmed festive cheer

in bethlehem while the christmas tree outside the church of the nativity has been lit on your celebrations have been scaled back only 50 people have been allowed in manjit square where jesus christ is said to have been born thousands of pilgrims usually come from around the world for the event. 2 dozen people have been detained in israel during protests against prime minister benjamin netanyahu thousands gathered outside 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 pandemic israel's moving towards an unprecedented 4th election in less than 2 years over the government's failure to pass a budget. thousands of armenians have protested again calling for the resignation of the prime minister there angry over a cease fire deal with azerbaijan and force ethnic armenians to hand over land to as ery forces prime minister nicole passion and announce

a russia brokered deal last month ending weeks of war over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. not to pakistan where millions of children already struggle to get an education but the situation is getting worse says schools across the country shut down for a 2nd time because of the pandemic but one university student is doing what she can to help is a story my name is. and i'm a psychology student i've been for imparting knowledge so i'm running a small library in. a small village a remote village in the northern areas pakistan i used to work in islamabad i had a good job done and i felt i can do better than that so i moved in here because i always wanted to do something for the community of this region i came to know about the move by library that was founded by a japanese leading called musial i started working with them. who is in the middle of to play shooters and their war to milledge they always have threats we never

know what can happen next because the glacier outburst the landslide ings they're very common here. we go to different villages we provide the kids with book the books are all like for different age groups. literacy rate was 100 person i think the system in pakistan is very poor. there are 2500000 kids in pakistan who are out of school right now is books are not for sale we don't sell them it's been few months i've started running it along with my team. expanded more we want to go to more school more villages where kids don't have access to good books because these books are very recent and these are more drenthe that every kid should get i think kids are lucky to have these books by library i think what attractive as compared to a library packed in a room so it's more of a kids get attracted when they see them coming they're all drawn to us at all we

need books. for books that would be great if we have more libraries like this because having books at your doorstep says it's a great thing. because the government there should make. such great ideas everybody tries to send your kids to school to good school and get them good education so get their jobs or maybe scholarships and go abroad and you know they can make their earnings when you have love for something you get it. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on. in his 1st post-election rally u.s. president donald trump has again falsely claimed to have won the election in georgia is campaigning there for 2 republican senators ahead of runoffs in january that will decide which party controls the senate a white house correspondent kimberly. it's just personnel and since joe biden was