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an ounce is the era because context is the feeling in storytelling around the biggest issues done by ed today you should do it again. a welcome boost for oxford astra zeneca is cook at 19 vaccine on the day that the u.k. rolls out a nationwide immunization plan using the pfizer child. a librarian for the get this is al jazeera live and also coming. up with drawls contentious clauses in a draft bill the preaches its agreement to pull out of the e.u. . we have 800 pages of words and now we need them translated to powerful action new zealand's muslims call for change after the investigation into
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the christ church mosques massacre exposes failings of the security agencies. a desperate journey for a new beginning a rise of the number of child refugees trying to cross into europe from africa. we begin with breaking news the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine has been deemed safe and effective in the 1st peer review of its phase 3 trials the review published in the lancet medical journal found the vaccine was 90 percent effective for those fatah supporters who were given a half dose for food one of the participants who received the vaccine suffered serious effects from b. to c. some survivors. go is there for us what are we to make of these findings then all this oxford astra zeneca vaccine song.
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this is an incredibly important development because the ox the vaccine is the one that is much cheaper to develop and it is also the easiest to rollout contain and sent to different parts of the world so that is possible with a lot of countries looking to see that as as a very very good option to rollout affectively across that countries but this more importantly that the results come from is symptomatic of the disease it comes from studies that have taken place in the u.k. brazil and supplemented by safety data in those countries as well as south africa know the lead of the study say that the most important thing is that there is a rollout which is most effective that can be rushed rushed out to the most vulnerable people in society as well but most importantly that it has exceeded the
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threshold set by helpful for a ts there's no data yet on asymptomatic forms of the disease but that is another part of the study that is going to be coming place from ok on this on the day that another vaccine the one produced by pfizer bio and tech began to roll out in the u.k. the 1st patients in the u.k. got their jobs today. yes indeed so really very good news coming out of the u.k. for this as well and certainly although there has been a lot that has been made out of this a lot of anticipation for this is well there has been a note of caution struck from the health secretary matt hancock saying that even though this is an extremely important day that they still needed to have heat all the safety. procedures in place decision distancing the wearing of masks and with that in mind that they could if everything goes according to plan that they could look at perhaps lifting restrictions in the spring time the deputy chief for health
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of medical officer has said that in the past too early to look on that as well considering that there are spikes happening all certainly rises in cases happening in london among other places as well but this is very much a significant day here one that is carried with a lot of emotion as barker says in his report coming up. it is happening a turning point in the global fight against a virus that killed more than a 1000000 people around the world 90 year old grandmother margaret keenan made history becoming the 1st person to be vaccinated with the pfizer bio and take drug outside a trial she encourage others to follow her lead. over it because it's free and it's the best thing that's ever happened and the moment do please go for it in a somewhat dramatic turn the 2nd vaccine went to a man called william shakespeare a poetic star perhaps to
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a new chapter in the fight against corona virus more than half of the people who've died of the virus in the u.k. are over 80 they're getting the injection 1st along with the elderly in care homes and their carers unused doses are going to frontline medical staff the british government's call this a v. for vaccine day but the prime minister warned it's too early to call this a v. for victory in scotland. in england people having the vaccine for the 1st time and it will gradually make a huge huge difference but i stress gradually because you know we're not. yet we haven't defeated this virus yet bunches of the pfizer by and take drug approved for use in the u.k. last week have been arriving from pfizer's factory in belgium the logistical challenge has been immense the vaccine needs to be kept to the round minus 70 degree celsius in england dozens of hospitals with facilities to store the super chill drug are the 1st places to administer it scotland wales and northern ireland
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have also begun similar programs the government sorted 40000000 doses so far and initial 800000 will be available in the 1st round of treatment this week capable of inoculating 400000 people with 2 injections 21 days apart we've shuttered our economies. struggle of grief and anxiety lives cut short and elderly people separated from their loved ones we've known for some time that the only sure fire way out of this pandemic is a vaccine and now a shred of hope that in the not too distant future things might start returning to normal its hopes 1000000 people will be back sedated before the end of the year when boxes of the vaccine that come in packs of almost a 1000 doses will be split up and sent to doctors' surgeries in care homes around the country the vaccine can be stored at normal fridge temperature but only for
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a short period it's a day of mixed emotions joy and hesitation most vulnerable people won't get the vaccine until next year but with infection rates going up here in london and elsewhere restrictions may have to get tighter before they get easier. but it is only a matter of months since scientists set their minds on defeating this common enemy a process that normally takes many years and now against all odds a sense of the long march out of the pandemic of. the park al-jazeera london. to brag that negotiations now the u.k. is backing down on one of the key issues since removed clauses from a domestic bill the breach the withdrawal posse of the agreement with the e.u. it's been a sticking point in talks aimed at securing a wide of trade deal britain's prime minister boris johnson and e.u. commission president live on the land in brussels this week the u.k.
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has left the european union and has until december 31st to secure a long term trade deal european commission vice president. suffered which has cautiously welcomed the development. clearly created positive moment to be to move to i would say one big obstacle from the way and i hope. we will see the positive results also coming from these very complex negotiations even though we are fully aware how complicated and demanding. this process it's more from charlie angela in london. it's definitely not the trade deal announcement that we've been waiting for but it is the resolution of one of these disagreements that's been going on in power a little over northern ireland and we just heard from michael gove who's one of the prime ministers most senior ministers and. the e.u.
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commission vice president they said that they are delighted to announce an agreement in principle on all issues in the u.k. e.u. withdrawal agreement joint committee so that means that they've come to an agreement on the specifics of how good can be traded between the u.k. and northern ireland good news for northern ireland because it means they can now work out how things will be done and the committee said that specifically this will include border control posts that this is specifically for checks on animals plants and derive products export declarations the supply of medicines the supply of chilled means and other food products to supermarkets so it's important on that level it's also very important because it means that the u.k. can now remove the controversial clauses from that so-called internal market bill that so angered the e.u. because it would have broken international law and that is definite progress because the bill was a serious impediment to any potential trade deal iran has approved
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a bill suspending the un's unrestricted inspections of its nuclear facilities but it didn't happen without controversy and turf ron let's go live now to work on syria's assad baker tell us more what happened and what does it mean ourselves. well it means that the united states and the european 3 france germany and the united kingdom have 2 months before iran stops i.a.e.a. inspectors from inspecting its nuclear sites and starts enriching to 20 percent enrichment the nuclear enrichment now this law was passed despite opposition by president hassan rouhani and he's reformists he failed to meet a deadline to write it into law so the speaker of parliament has published this law and it has become or now president hassan rouhani has said that it was harmful to diplomacy and said that parliamentarians should let diplomats do their job know what it shows is the split within iran between the reformists who are in power and
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the conservatives who have a majority in parliament and other reformists have always been for the 2015 nuclear deal they've always been for negotiations of all it's been for waiting until president elect joe biden comes into office and hopefully makes the united states rejoin that nuclear deal and if still sanctions a tactic that's been called strategic patience but in this particular instance the government has lost this internal battle what is iran said to gain by doing this. well if you speak to many people here they say what have we got to lose if you speak to the conservatives who make up the majority in parliament now their perspective is that iran went into the 2050 nuclear deal in good faith they went to the negotiating table they made compromises now they say what did we get in return the united states pulled out of the deal president donald trump imposed sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector as well as many other industries and institutions and individuals and the european countries weren't able to find
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a way around those sanctions at least not to a level that iran was satisfied with and to add insult to injury there's been 2 assassinations this year the 1st of general cos and for the money carried out by the united states in iraq and at the end of last month iran's leading scientist most in fact result there was assassinated on iranian soil that the conservatives say enough is enough iran needs to be defined and needs to act and that's why this law has passed but what it does do is put the ball in the united states court when president elect joe biden comes into office does he want to be blind to iran's nuclear program. specters blocked or does he rejoined the united states to that deal and lift off sanctions and iran says it will return to all his commitments in accordance with the 2015 nuclear deal. reporting live from tehran assad many thanks ethiopia's government says that is so chasing fighters from the tigre a people's liberation front that it describes us under faeces federal troops
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captured the region's capital kelly last week but hundreds of people are still being forced to leave homes agencies say the area is too volatile to distribute humanitarian assistance level a 1000000 people in the grey of thoughts of been displaced one hour from observers mohamed val who's in sudan's capital car too. lots of reports about the situation been getting more difficult inside to great there are 3 criticisms leveled against each opens by international aid agencies and the other groups basically that to continuous information coming from site to great. difficulties to get access or to grant access to n.g.o.s bringing aid to people who might be victimized or victims of this conflict that we have this report about about each european army opening fire on one aid convoy that has been confirmed by the beach opiates themselves they said that's because those convoys did not to get healed to the walls they did not
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think they want to try to go beyond the the line that was drawn for them so that means there are areas that they can't reach and this is the subject to criticism by the aid agencies will get a weather update next here on al-jazeera that normalising going to some of the violence rights groups criticize abu dhabi for buying a stake in the notorious israeli football club. chuck erica the test pilots who broke the sound barrier dies at the age of 97. winters had had its pushes does stay put where it is which is the far north of china leaking there across to her current or in the immediate future on wednesday probably find that on thursday the share of pick up again. on the slopes door to
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and lower ground in her car there but the sun is out for the most part through northern china the korean peninsula not so much in central southern charge rather more cloudy here you'll notice this coolish northeast monsoon has been picking up or popping up showers into vietnam it will do the same again on wednesday and it will also pep him up as it comes around the corner into borneo and java in the next day or so whereas it's not so much the northeast all seem to consider here in india those still go in this spin off of thunderstorms in the arabian sea but again become a side cloud on the west anyway you coming through pakistan and if you're lucky the north of india will change the air quality in lahore and new delhi currently it is very poor but you get a thunderstorm on top even of the surface when doesn't change that would churn things up and that's where i expect to happen on wednesday in lahore and also if you are lucky in new delhi course it won't last most of the northern indian plane is settled and 40.
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again this is a disease of the made news this hour the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine has been found to be safe and effective and it's fast peer review in the 1st peer review of its phase 3 trials the loss of medical journal says that it's 90 percent effective for those participants who have given up after followed by a full one. the world's 1st fully tested corona virus vaccine is being rolled out in the u.k. 800000 doses of pfizer bio and tech vaccine are now available in 70 hospitals and elderly people health workers are being trialled it's that iran has approved a bill suspending the un's unrestricted inspections of its 2 clear facilities it was voted on by parliament last week president hassan rouhani who opposes it has refused to sign it into law the speaker of parliament sold its implementation in the next 2 months. a member of abu dhabi's royal family has bought
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a 50 percent stake in an israeli football club based our jerusalem shake our ben khalifa. as also committed to invest more than $12000000.00 over the next 10 years that's despite base out being the only top club in israel never to have signed a palestinian israeli player they also have a group of fans known as la familia which has been openly abusive towards palestinian israelis herefore support stuff the football club stadium in west jerusalem. so this is a big deal financially in terms of the nearly $100000000.00 investment that the new coldish a king hamad bin khalifa and my own is pledging over the next 10 years it's a big deal politically because this club is very much linked to right wing jewish nationalist politics in this country to the likud party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu who himself on tuesday. endorsed this deal saying that it showed how quickly arab israeli normalization was progressing but above all it's
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a really big deal in terms of the really toxic culture of racism that has so long attached itself to this club there was an attempt to change that in the early 2000 with the signing of an african muslim player he was counted out by the hardcore right wing supporters there was another attempt in 2013 to chechen muslim players resigned there was a mass walkout from this stadium when one of them scored his 1st goal and just last week there was another protest at the training ground with nearly 100 supporters invading the pitch disrupting training and chanting anti arab anti muslim slogans in protest at this very deal there also be protests from the other side of the argument palestinian israelis who are opposed to normalization also saying that this deal is another sign of just how wrong that process is but as for the relatively new owner as of 2018 a cyber currency tycoon he says that this is another way that he wants to try to shift the perception of the cloud he says that he of north african parentage is an
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arab jew himself but he doesn't want. to retain its racist image and indeed that is something has also been at code by his new colonna the shakers saying that the door is now open to the signing of an arab player that would be the 1st time in this football club's history another unprecedented move turkey has warned east libyan forces of quote grave consequences if they target turkish interests after a turkish cargo ship was intercepted in the mediterranean by forces loyal to the warlord after the turkish foreign minister has demanded the vessel be allowed to continue its journey to western libya turkey is the main backer of the internationally recognized government of national accord. more than 2000 children are among refugees and migrants civil rived in the canary islands and the last 2 months save the children says that it's. extremely concerned about their physical and mental health well the smith reports now from gran canaria. it's not much of
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a red carpet welcome but for this boy it's at least the 1st time he's touched dry land in 5 days you have spent the time in a fishing boat with around 25 other people crossing rough atlantic seas from west africa. the canary islands experiencing the largest wave of migrant and refugee arrivals in 15 years and with it what the regional government calls a significant upturn in the number of children international aid group save the children is concerned that the authorities here are struggling to provide for the specific needs of miners in overcrowded conditions to making this a life. i. wouldn't have seen. for example have seen people dying on board and turning to. and on might have experienced violence. on the all these
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years the biggest fear is that you know. we were at sea for 6 days tells me 6 days he and his friend madiba a 16 years old from mali who. in mali there's a war now so we came here my mother and father over there and they are getting old and now there's no money so i left and came here. there were more than 8000 migrants and refugees arrivals just in november breaking previous records spain's migration minister suggested transferring migrants to the mainland to relieve the pressure here but that's been rejected by other ministers saying it will just encourage others and so new arrivals are being transferred to these military bases or being kept in a hotel unaccompanied children are less likely than adults to be sent back to their
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home country. shaken baby who runs an aid group that helps african migrants thinks this is why there are more minors making the trip. each young person is a community project they're not coming on their own they've got their parents behind them they look for a strategy to make their project successful and they know that their children have more chance to be able to stay in europe because it's the law of the canary islands government says it's open 21 emergency centers for unaccompanied minors it says it's repeatedly asked the spanish government and the e.u. for more money 12000000 dollars has now been promised by the end of the year not as fast as the migrants and refugees keep arriving burnet smith al-jazeera gran canaria an inquiry into last year's mass shooting at 2 mosques in new zealand has found failings by the police and intelligence agencies but says that nothing could have stopped the attacks the royal commission says that security agencies were almost exclusively focused on the perceived threat of terrorism by muslims in
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australia and gunman is serving life in prison without parole for killing 51 people point a reports. in march last year this place of worship became a scene of terror now it's hoped it can be a symbol of change as muslim leaders and survivors gathered at the elmore mosque to discuss the findings of an independent report into a terrorist attack west in the apology from the prime minister from the police from that service which is something good will start from here and there what we undercut for the change. after hundreds of interviews in britain submissions the commission of inquiry findings were made public it found that intelligence and security agencies were too focused on islamic extremists and didn't pay enough attention to others including white supremacists like brenton terence who carried out the attack on 2 mosques in christchurch and it found police failed to meet required standards when they issued him
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a firearms license without proper character references or background checks while the commission made no findings that these issues would have stopped the a take these were failings nandan beasts and for that on behalf of the government i apologize terence was among those interviewed for the report but his comments have been permanently suppressed to avoid them being used by others as motivation to carry out similar attacks some in the muslim community are welcoming the recommendations others are saying the report doesn't go far enough and there is skepticism about any real change because many say that been raising some of the same concerns outlined in the report for years and no one listened and no one acted until a gunman entered the mosques and killed 51 people the government has accepted in principle all $44.00 recommendations which include strengthening laws on hate crimes of which many muslims say they've been victims the commission's ultimate finding was that nothing could have been done to stop the attacks many in the
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community that was targeted by the gunman disagree saying if they had only been listened to a long time ago the lives of 51 people could have been saved wayne hay al jazeera christchurch. but amber of afghan civilians killed in estrada is carried out by the u.s. and its allies has risen 330 percent since 2017 a report by the brown university pool the costs of war project said that around 700 people died in 29000 alone that's the most since american troops invaded afghanistan after the 911 attacks on the u.s. in 2001 the report attributes the rise to the u.s. writes in its rules of engagement 3 years ago a nationwide strike by farmers is on the way in india transport workers and teachers unions are supporting the strike against new farm laws tens of thousands of farmers have been camped outside india's capital new delhi for was 2 weeks now elizabeth raman reports from single just outside new delhi. we have been coming
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here to single it's the main protest site over the past 10 days and i can tell you that the crowds are only getting bigger and so is the sentiment against the government and these 3 recent agriculture laws there are tens of thousands of farmers here on this key highway between the states of howdy out and delhi and it's a similar picture on 2 other key roads coming into india's capital region and there was a nationwide call to protest and nationwide call for a shutdown by farmers on tuesday and we have seen people around the country holding demonstrations farmers and punjab of blocked another highway in the capital chandigarh students lawyers transport banking trade unions have all been demonstrating in a number of states in the states of maharashtra west bengal in addition to people who are protesting on railway tracks and actually stopped trains again because of the fama school to shut down services by anyone who supported them now police on
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the borders of delhi say that they are going around making sure that no one is being forced to shut down this services of course all of those is putting a lot of pressure on the government and what we are hearing is that many opposition political leaders have been put under house arrest in light of these protests delhi the national capital region station leader ivan k.g. well he came here to sing go on monday to express support for the farmers and his political party have said that police went to his house after he returned barricaded him and won't let anyone in or out. one of the world's best known pilots has died chuckie made history as the 1st person to fly faster than the speed of sound he died on monday at the age of 97 kathy lopez hayat reports. he was one of the greatest aviators of his generation u.s. pilot chunk yeager started off as an aircraft mechanic before becoming a world war 2 fighter ace and the 1st person to break the sound barrier for
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captain power here i got carmack out of a cockpit of a rocket crowd it was on october 19th $47.00 and at the age of $24.00 that he flew an airplane through the sound barrier at a speed of more than a 1000 kilometers an hour such attempts had killed other pilots before. he would later say he could have gone even faster at the plane carried more fuel. but he did continue to fly faster on other dangerous missions this tests were used by the u.s. air force and nasa to advance research into flight and the u.s. space program. before his success he was already well known in aviation he shot down 13 german planes during world war $25.00 on a single mission he commanded fighter squadrons and flew $127.00 combat missions during the vietnam war. during the 1960 s.
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he trained air force personnel to become astronauts 26 people he tutored later went into orbit under nasa his image as an aviation legend gain greater status in tom wolfe's a bestselling book and later film the right stuff that was dangerous this very day . he later said in one of his requests was not going to college as not having a degree prevented him from becoming an astronaut. never regarded himself as courageous or hero often saying he was just doing his job a job that experts say led to new heights in aviation and space exploration. it is with us holloway train for going to hit the headlines allows us the euro the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine has been.
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