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affected communities and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased poaching in the wake of the pandemic kenya the unfathomable virus on al jazeera. rich nations are accused of hoarding covert 19 vaccines leaving poorer countries to message. other than i'm out of my head c.n.n. this is al-jazeera life and though also coming up a peace pact between the ruling party and the opposition leaders even tatars in ghana 5 people die post-election violence. a good deal is still to be done british prime minister boris johnson says a last minute e.u. trade agreement is possible as in that his country would prosper even without one.
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and a blow to donald trump's attempts to block joe biden selection when u.s. supreme court dismisses his plea to overturn the pennsylvania results. there's a global rush to get corona virus vaccines and campaigners are warning that 9 out of 10 people nearly 70 per countries will not get the job next year the people's vaccine iraq alliance says rich nations are hoarding vaccines buying up enough doses to inoculate their populations several times over the alliance is a coalition that includes oxfam and the sea international well here's how the rich countries are hedging their bets a study shows canada as enough vaccine doses to inoculate 5 times as population but
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they option to extend to 6 times is followed by the u.s. and the u.k. by comparison india has an r for under 60 percent of its people brazil 47 percent with existing inequalities in both countries has been blamed at least in parts for the severity of their outbreaks and finally there are countries including lebanon government is almost bankrupt it only has enough vaccine supply to vaccinate 15 percent of its population while bangladesh can just cover 9 percent say no harder is in beirut she says the pandemic there is months if not years from being brought under control . according to doctors there is a community infection the positivity rate is high the number of critically ill patients is high as well and this is one of the main public hospitals in beirut
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that has been treating coronavirus patients and the public sector really has been the gluck that for decades ill equipped and underfunded really pumped the public sector so they've been struggling and only recently the private hospitals which really have been the backbone of the health sector in this country have started to treat corona virus patients so it's a difficult task and now we're hearing from the health ministry that they managed to secure $2000000.00 doses of pfizer vaccine which is enough for 1000000 people and they're hoping that will be 11 on arrive in levanon in february according to officials who work at the ministry who i've been talking to they're saying that they're ready they have enough centers across the country this is a relatively small country and they feel that. they will be able to deal with the logistical challenges and they say that health workers of course the elderly the vulnerable people they will be given priority just like what is happening in other
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countries across the world but they're saying it will take at least a year or a year and a half before they're able to vaccinate at least 35 percent of the population and it's still not clear who's going to pay for the for the vaccine and in this country where more than 55 percent of the population are now poor because of a very deep economic crisis this is going to be another challenge well muhammad yunus is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of the unicenter which is one of the groups spearheading the people's facts in alliance he says the companies producing the coup with vaccines are actually breaking with precedent. the precedence is like polio vaccine that quits on a stock the inventor of the men who makes it he declared this is it people's backs and this is this is like a sun shining nobody can proceed under sunshine so this should be belong to all
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people so this is that there is a tradition that it's 88 dixon they became free goods to the peasantry goes to so this is a condition of their violating the tradition yet coming back as it was a fight between how much they can extract with just like the debt and in danger of this and human being or good reason and dangerous places because of the global warming now you're endangering it for any of that direction and how come much communicate this is this is the time to reflect where that life is something to be exchanged for money or not this is some occasion where you don't go for the profit making you don't share things with the people can be set right so we're still only saying that you make it the public good so that there is no pick them drag there's no direction property tax so that people can be producing it and you should be helping this procedure never done controlling it that negotiating it well who is the best how is bigger and then the rich countries buying up several times more than they need it 5 times more they don't support as many population you have in
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the meantime the poor countries don't have any access to anything and what have i am afraid of this will create a boston market for fake vixens now that the back since i'm not i'm not available to large number of people 90 percent of the people are still not connected with the banks. at least 5 people have been killed in post-election violence and gun police say 61 incidents of violence have been reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary votes president the main opposition candidates john muhammad accused the incumbents of trying to break the election president a coup for are those team has released on official results suggesting he's in the leads let's get more now from. joins us live from the capital accra. seems there is a violent end to this election what walking. well
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basically the police are confirming 61 incidents over the past few days of course trying to one of the. related to the elections this. the opposition of course more than an hour ago we spoke to the members of the mahama or the opposition leaders the campaign team and they confirm 5 dead during the election violence what is happening right now is that we expect the election commission to be here in a moment from now to brief the press and in hours the results for the elections especially the presidential elections now there are concerns actually after. so many individuals between the 2 leading political parties in this country and last night in particular there were rivals celebre tree parties by both parties in the city of across each with each were claiming to have won the election so
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a lot of and a lot of concerns that this may result in 2 skirmishes or some clashes between opposition party supporters and women party supporters where which this election after the announcement we expected in this hall any minute from now however a lot of people are grateful that these election. passed off largely successful with less violence than anticipated especially in areas where the police were early on expecting trouble remember there were thousands of hot spots lined up or identified by the security forces and the country the government here have deployed more than 63000 security forces study the army the police and other problem in what paramilitary organizations to deal with any problems that arise so far. forward getting from the police that 5 people have been killed which was also confirmed by the opposition and. a lot of people are actually hoping that things will work out
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fine after the announcement of the result here now we can only hope they're bringing us the latest live from accra thank you. british prime minister boris johnson says no leader could accept the prospects a trade deal that the european union is offering in facing questions in parliaments just hours before his g.'s flies to brussels there he'll meet the commission chief you're sort of on the line for dinner they hope to reject energy into negotiations that have stalled on and off for months now prinze in the e.u. are currently insisting that if they pass a new law in the future. with which we in this country do not compile don't follow suit then they won't be automatic right mr speaker to to punish us and to retaliate and secondly they're saying that the u.k. should be the only country in the world not to have control over its fishing
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waters and i don't believe it is because those are terms that any prime minister of this country should accept. let's get more now from a go she joins us now live from london and so you want all of the main sticking points here. well it really is down to those points that the prime minister was just talking about there at the house of commons as well i mean broadly speaking it is really a fight between what the u.k. regards as a sovereignty issue whereas for the european union it really is focused on trying to protect its single market which is really almost a sacred tenet of the block itself it really cannot be seen to be compromising that on any level whatsoever 3 main points for the u.k. though fishing rights says boris johnson mentioned there as well at the european union wants maximum access for member states to fish in british waters but fishing
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itself for the leave campaign when it began all of this it stated that fishing was really a crucial part of getting back control and that it really had to prioritize british fisherman all of this considering that fishing only accounts for 0 point one percent of the british economy tiny portion of but huge symbolic. meaning therefore it also the level playing fields which go up and state subsidies as well the european union is very very concerned about how state subsidies could unfairly competition to favor british companies in the single market as well that say it has very strict rules and guidance system how much state subsidized companies swell and of course there are also the rules and regulations that govern the post brics it. relationship that. the european union could retaliate if the u.k.
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breaks any of the rules with automatic tariffs the u.k. says this is unfair and that it cannot be seen to be doing this and that it needs to have the right to exercise its own sovereignty in any post brics it relationship with the block. and so new what will happen if an agreement is since reached. but i think her never to be what will happen will be enormous disruption certainly will be felt in the european union as well but also most of all of course for the united kingdom as well i mean there will be enormous disruption in terms of how goods can enter into the country enormous queues lorries not being able to bring goods in here as well prices will go up because of course there will be automatic tariffs and things this will of course also tariffs huge tariffs on products going into the european union as well which basically means that it's really going to be bad news for british industries in manufacturing as well and also of course not
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forgetting as well medicines very crucial as well there are provisions for coronavirus vaccines but everything else including medicines for cancer are also being threatened with access ok so you're going to go there live from downing streets on your thank you. the european union is set to sanction more turkish entities over drilling in contested bourses in the mediterranean a draft statement says turkish individuals and companies will be added to the sanctions list that's been in place since 2019 greece and cyprus accuse turkey of drilling for hydrocarbons in fair waters turkey says it's operating in waters on its own continental shelf and the leak your political don't use any decision to impose sanctions against turkey won't be of great concern to turkey the european union has been constantly imposing sanctions on us since 963 anyway the european
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union has never acted on asli the european union has never stood behind any promises it has made. the united nations has called on france to withdraw a bill that would restrict people from sharing images of police officers here and right chief michel bashir is says the law known as article $24.00 would infringe on people's freedom it bans publication of images of police officers with intent to cause them harm president emanuel macros within party said it well rewrites the draft law after process overall security approach set out by the article $24.00 of their law seem problematic expanding powers of law enforcement extending to private security guards creating new offices and so on also should about likely negative effects for people of african descent and ethnic minorities boeing 737 max jets has returned to the sky after being grounded since 2019 the
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revamped aircraft made its 1st commercial flight for goal airline from sao paolo to porto alegre boeing hopes it can turn the corner after a damaging crisis in the wake of 2 crashes that killed 346 people. still to come on al-jazeera. allegations of racism a champions league football match both teams to walk off the pitch. and i mean it was hawkins the niggles tomba could i read to find out next how this once bustling town attracting migrants looking for work has become a major transit point for migrants trying to make it to europe.
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hello we still have a few showers in the full cost full ratchet pad but nothing too much to speak of you see more in the way of cloud out into the open water we want to show us just around honshu maybe some wintry florist coming up into hokkaido for a time but it's brightening up a must see temperatures getting up to maybe 15 celsius in tokyo as we go on through friday there is that dry weather it's crisp sunshine but sunshine the full beijing temperature is at around 4 degrees celsius a little more the way of fat it's an eastern parts of china we want to shower squeezed out of that but again nothing too much to speak of 13 celsius there in shanghai places i think look at children now across much of south asia losey settled and sunny over we do still have some showers just around the fos out of kerala maybe pushing up towards khan not to care we might be see want to shower still coming into sri lanka for much of a there though it is dry but notice we do have something of a westie disturbance just sliding outs of pakistan will see some what the weather
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this is al jazeera quick reminder of the headlines for you this hour campaigners are warning people in poor countries will miss eyes on covert 19 vaccines next year because wealthy governments are hoarding supplies the people's vaccine alliance. enough to inoculate their populations several times over at least 5 people have been killed in post-election violence and garner people say 16 police rather say $61.00 incidents of violence have been the ported since monday's presidential and parliamentary votes official results have not yet been released. and british prime minister boris johnson says no leader could accept the post-tax trade deal that the
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e.u. is currently offering and since face questions and parliaments just hours before he's due to fly as a process for last talks with european commission chief ursula from the lion. the u.s. supreme court has rejected a last ditch attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania the state's results has been certified in favor of biden and in a one line statement the supreme court's refuse to call that certification process into question it derails an attempt by donald trump's republican party to have as many as 2 and a half 1000000 votes dismissed let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly whole kits he joins us from washington d.c. kimberly on the face of it this is another big defeat in the president's quest to overturn the election results how has it been reacting to this.
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well the u.s. president has sent out 2 tweets in reaction and once again downplaying the defeat as he does characteristically but looking with optimism towards another big case that is still pending before the supreme court that comes out of texas and it involves the states of pennsylvania georgia michigan and wisconsin here's what the u.s. president had to say on twitter he said referencing the pennsylvania case and that defeat this was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported the case that everyone has been waiting for is the state's case with texas and numerous others joining referencing those other states it is very strong all criteria met how can you have a president see what a vast majority think the election was rigged and again the case that this president is talking about is a case that involves 4 different states and what the president is looking for the supreme court to do is to decide to prevent
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a sensually the electoral college from casting its votes in these states so far they've certified for joe biden what the argument is is the feeling that the rules were changed in those states to allow for an enormous expanse of mail in ballots that continued to be counted after election night so the cases especially seeking to invalidate the results in those 4 states now this is again a big long shot given the fact that we heard from the court very clear clearly in the pennsylvania case it's already ruled on saying that if there was an issue the campaign had with mail in ballot and this should have been taken up before the u.s. election of november 3rd but instead what is being done is this is being challenged now retro actively and so 6 even though the president has 3 appointees on the court in this latest case where it was just one sentence. there was 0 dissent it doesn't
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bode well for the case the president is talking about now that he's really pinning his hopes on kimberly the president on his supporters have long said that you know this election could well end up being decided in the supreme court given everything you've just told and given the way the supreme court has ruled what do you think i mean is this going to go into effect has tens of millions of supporters view the election results i mean are they going to come right into the fact that trump lost there they're likely not i can give you a sense of how people are feeling very quickly millions feel that the rules were changed and they feel blindsided and that they were disenfranchised so the problem is this that this is the set of rules that the campaign went into the court clearly
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believes that it should have been changed in advance and it wasn't so there's the likelihood that when the court rules it will not be in favor of donald trump but tens of millions of americans believe the president believe that there was widespread fraud and are unlikely to accept a biden presidency which poses problems in and of itself for kimberly hold live outside the white house thank you kimberly. now iraq is expected to sign a multi-billion dollar oil deal with china and it's being seen as a bailout it's with beijing offering money up front that that would receive more than $2000000000.00 for a year's worth of all supplies contracts as we see in iraq so will petroleum agency and china's oil company iraq has been hit particularly hard spined the drop in oil prices the government's been struggling to pay salaries and the economy is set to contract 12 percent this year will china's pre-payment contract is among the
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largest in recent history it adds to beijing's large scale loans and strategic investments in latin america and africa boreas a political analyst based in baghdad he says the deal appears to be a short term fix to help cover government salaries. in iraq we have about 10000000 iraqis get it public salaries either as public servants or retired people and we have the largest percentage of public servants. compared to the number of population so the monthly payment for salaries constitute about $5000000000.00 so the amount they're getting from this bailout which is about $2.00 to $3000000000.00 u.s. dollars is a drop in the sea in fact i don't know if it can cover or helped really the government to fulfill its obligations to pay the salaries of public servants in iraq for the coming few months and the prime minister himself said
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a couple of weeks ago that for the next year it would be very difficult for the government to fulfill its obligations the problem is that this will not help. our government on the long run and without real reform administratively and financially with respect to the public expenditure will continue to face problems financial problems the champions league football match has been suspended after players from both teams walked off the pitch over allegations of racism incidents around says when the assistant coach of turkish bishkek share was involved in a fierce sideline arguments former cameroon international accused a match official of using a racist term players from his team and their parry censure man opponents and left the field it's not about lara has more from paris. was been
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a flurry of reaction after the champions league game on tuesday night here in paris where those 2 teams a walked off the field unprecedented really we have heard of course from you way for europe's governing football body they would normally slap a penalty on the teams for refusing to play but of course they have made an exception in this circumstance and they have promised a full investigation into what happened we've also heard it here in france from the french sports minister the spokesperson for the french government both sharing their solidarity for the 2 teams for protesting on tuesday night they said that of course there is no place for any form of racism in sport we've also heard from many top football players around the world including some of the players are involved in that match or last night past year stars. and a name of both taking to social media to say no to racism and the turkish president
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also became involved on tuesday evening just after the match saying that racism was unacceptable in the circumstance of course turkish president also making further comments on wednesday rather more unusual saying that this reflects the what he called culture of racism in france well of course the referee in question the 4th official who is alleged to have used a racist slur against the assistant coach of the turkish team is actually remain in so i think the most people they will see the turkish presence latest comments in the context of the ongoing war of words of the turkish presence has with the french presence a matter of macro relations between those 2 countries strained as ever. the spanish government has started returning home refugees and migrants have arrived in the canary islands 122000 people reached the islands this year around 8000 in the
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nicholas reports from the village of course so in selling senegal's tambour could the region. do so i had never seen the ocean before he stepped on took boat hoping to make it to europe a land he saw filled with opportunities he cannot find at home but the coward are from tom burke who was caught by spanish coast guards and sent home empty handed to his family his son sergeant mohammed streams to play professional football in spain gone are his daughter my mood his hopes to study medicine in europe i'm a do feels like he failed his children he was i didn't know i wanted to hate carl's voice farm in spain maybe that would have changed my life in my children's lives. in unprecedented wave of illegal migration from west africa to europe spanish coast over 600 migrants have died trying to make it to the canary islands this year among the dead are many school age teenagers that topical does
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a professional high school students learn to become electricians in a country where most have no electricity the students say they are learning skills for jobs they cannot find in senegal and then there is this false rumor that. dying of the coronavirus or leaving jobs vacant for young african men to take. the school principal says every week a student disappears attempting the journey looking for a better future. often there is someone in their village or neighborhood that witnesses someone that made it to europe and succeeded in building a new house and being successful and that motivates young people to follow suit. among those that have made it to the other side is a my do so is neighbor cherno so he was a young man when he. took the boat to the canaries after spending 12 years in the suburbs of madrid selling flowers he came back to the home he built to celebrate his wedding with his 2nd wife something he would have been able to afford had he
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not gone to spain he explained. well if you stay here you're on a pittance just enough to survive you will never be able to build this once in europe everything becomes possible. to leave loved ones in order to make their lives better flee not war or poverty but in search of a dignified life despite his failed attempts to reach europe it is a pursuit so is not yet ready to give up nicolas hawke al-jazeera predikant quest senegal. this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines campaigners are warning people in poorer countries will miss sites on covert 19 vaccines next year.

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