now we jews are. rising tensions over the les the election results leave 5 dead in ghana where president nona though has now been declared the winner. hello i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up fish on the menu as boris johnson holds a make or break breaks it talks over dinner in brussels with the e.u. chief or so of underlying rich countries are accused of hoarding covert 1000 vaccines leaving poor countries able to vaccinate only one in 10 people next year.

and i'm nicholas parkinson a girl's tumblr could 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. we begin the program in ghana with the election commission has declared president though the winner of monday's poll with 51 percent of the vote this after at least 5 people were shot dead as tension grew over a delay in the release of the results police say more than 60 incidents of violence have been reported since the presidential and parliamentary vote. they're going to hand people through the results have made the loud and clear that the 2

parties the m.p.p. and d.c. must work together especially in pollen for the good of the country. now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite join hands to stand shoulder to shoulder and work out to place gonna where she deserves to be. amid idris has the latest now from the capital accra. for the supporters of the ruling party and president on our go is celebration night so a short while ago we left the party headquarters where president who went to address a moment crowd there and he's been going round to visit party supporters across the city to a congratulate them of course for the hard work that ensured his reelection and for the supporters of the opposition leader john muhammad. taking night in fact

hundreds of them to see the election commission headquarters and they were stopped actually by the police and the military from accessing the headquarters why they stood and waited for the results to be announced they might have forced a change of venue for the end of mint from the international conference and to the election commission headquarters because of their presence there but again what they expected at the end did not happen the other candidate was declared the winner and there was in fact a pin drop silence when the name of. a call for argo was pronounced by the election commission chairperson and then shortly after the huge crowd thinned out and then disappeared but not before one of the supporters told us that they would not accept this result and they will fight against it how they were going to do that he didn't say a lot of people now are watching to see what orting to hear and see what president

former president john muhammad would say in his address he's due to address the nation according to his supporters and handlers a very shortly. with the bricks it trade deal deadline looming britain's parse johnson is in brussels at a make or break dinner with the european commission president or celebs on their lying on the menu fish and other thorny issues that have left negotiations that blocked such as business competition rules just 22 days left to resolve their disagreements. and the e.u. says chief rex in the go see a tour has won the probability of a no deal is increasing well before leaving for brussels johnson said there was still a deal to be done but the e.u. was pushing trade terms that no prime minister could accept now the about that reports. heading for brussels for crisis talks but giving nothing away earlier the british

prime minister told parliament he was prepared to reject a trade deal with the european union if the terms weren't right whether the new arrangements resemble those of australia's with the e.u. or whether they like those of canada with the e.u. i have absolutely no doubt that from january the 1st this country is going to prosper mightily mr. johnson is meeting o'sullivan the lion president of the european commission over dinner but it's simply to gauge appetite for compromise something needed to break the impasse if nothing emerges the chances of a no deal scenario on the 1st of january look great so the german chancellor insists that a use ready for that she says the area where the 2 sides are furthest apart is how to ensure fair competition in the midst of a level playing field nationals are what we need a level playing field and not just fits a day but for tomorrow and the next day we need agreements on how each side can react when the other side changes its legal parameters. otherwise it will result in

unfair competition and we won't let this happen to our businesses. differences over what access e.u. fishing fleets have to u.k. waters are seen as more solvable the other sticking point has been how to enforce any trade deal this week a u.k. e.u. joint committee agreed specific arrangements for northern ireland including managing the border with ireland now the u.k. has dropped legislation that would break international but the committee's co-chair says level playing field demands remain a big problem the prime minister has been clear that we are going to maintain our standards in this country but we're also going to be a sovereign country and that we need to be in control of our own rules and regulations our laws and ways of doing things e.u. leaders are holding their own summit on thursday and friday if there is no resolution tonight i think we will have more calls from the lee decides to step up the narrative preparations but at the same time the e.u. will not walk away from these negotiations they will try to negotiate until the

very end until the actual deadline which is the said the 1st of december and no deal bricks it is what many businesses in britain and the youth fear most incredibly nobody truly knows whether that's what they'll get in a few weeks time knitting barber al jazeera well paul brennan joins us live now from brussels and paul the u.k. e.u. negotiating teams have had countless meetings over the years and months trying to put together some kind of trade deal so how does the dynamic changed now that you have boris johnson an arsenal of underline face to face. well the negotiating teams obviously have very strict negotiating mandates and guidelines and restrictions on exactly what they can sign up to and what they can't the political leaders have slightly more leeway but only slightly because don't forget they have their own stakeholders and constituents to accommodate with boris johnson it's his own conservative party it's the arch euro skeptics within the party and

it's his you know it's industry it's the fishermen for example in the u.k. who are demanding a good deal from this negotiation with us live on the lion it's the germans and the french and the other european union countries who are absolutely adamant that if britain wants a bracks it that britain seems to want which is to diverged from european rules and regulations and make their own rules and regulations then they shouldn't necessarily expect to have access to the european single market you know there are rules to access the single markets and if britain wants to go its own way then frankly it shouldn't get free access into the market the stakes are very high it's nearly a trillion dollars a year the mutual trade between the 2 blocs and the dinner that's still ongoing as far as we're aware we're 3 hours in now it's not necessarily a bad sign or a good sign that they're still inside so far we haven't had any puff of white smoke to suggest that the political compromise or leeway has been discovered and the past

similar meetings over breaks it have gone on all night but it really this really is the last chance isn't it to get some kind of deal. yes i mean it's 2 ways of looking if there is some political leeway that they can find as a result of this dinner what will happen is the 2 negotiating teams will be armed with that possibility and go back into more talks within of the matter of days so if there is a possibility of a deal it won't be done so noise but the other possibility is that they will agree that there is no deal to be done that the simply too far apart on if that if that happens then it's a breakdown looking at w t o rules essentially a no deal come the 1st of january paul brennan with the latest there from brussels paul thank you. canada has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio on take covert

$900.00 vaccine this as it tops a chart of rich nations accused of cording enough vaccines to inoculate their populations almost 3 times over the people's vaccine alliance says that means 9 out of 10 people in $67.00 poor countries will not get the coronavirus vaccine next year well canada has enough confirmed doses to inoculate 5 times its population and the option to actually expand it to 6 times it's followed by the u.s. and the u.k. which are both looking to have enough for populations 4 times bigger than they actually have on the other end of the scale there are countries like lebanon where the government is nearly bankrupt it's only got enough to vaccinate 15 percent of the population and last is bangladesh with just enough to cover 9 percent well mohammed yunus is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of eunice center one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance he says companies producing covert

vaccines are actually breaking with precedent. the president is like value of x. in that chords on a stock the inventor of the many who picks it he declared this is it people's necks and this is this is like a sunshine nobody can proceed under sunshine so this should move belong to all people so this is them there is a tradition like that it's 88 decks and they became free goods to the bacon she goes to so this is a condition of their violating the tradition 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 the meantime the quarter 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 and. how massive officials are considering imposing a 2nd lockdown on the gaza strip as coronavirus infections there continue to surge

it's something they've tried to avoid because of the harm that it could do to an economy where more than a 1000000 people live below the poverty line harri full set has more. gaza's intensive care units are filling up this week nearly 90 percent of the i.c.u. beds equipped to treat cope with 1000 patients who occupied the mathematics of the surge in cases seem in a skate experts warn the system will soon be overwhelmed their mortality rate is. high yet from audits to october there were 50 cases in 2 months from october to walk past of this number the number of have been doubled in recent days more than 30 percent of those being tested have registered positive for the corona virus with 2 to 3000 tests carried out a day in a population of 2000000 it's thought only a fraction of cases are being detected gaza's hamas run health ministry is calling on the population to follow safety measures and on the international community to

help or otherwise a dangerous scenario is waiting for us and we might find ourselves forced to take harder preventative measures in the coming days including a general lockdown. the much of this year gaza's besieged blockaded status that helped keep it almost entirely insulated from the pandemic but since the detection of community transmission in august the other realities of that 13 year isolation enforced by israel in egypt the ravaged economy the teetering health system a worsening the crisis health officials also blame a lack of public compliance on mosques gatherings and social distancing a lockdown in late august heard an economy were already 65 percent of young people are unemployed those who've clung on to their jobs worry about what a 2nd lockdown might need is the other how the. we already get half cellaring because of the bed a canonic situation and there was fear that the owner of the business could reduce

the working days and pass even lease as the new cover 1000 measures destroyed the business. and there are security concerns too after recent weeks in which rocket fire into israel and airstrikes on gaza have started to resume the creation of the health. social could have x. if you wish it. is boys inks. do we need to have another war do we have another to have another the put us on the border the national committee need to. continue like this. recently there has been some increased assistance 15 ventilators from kuwait oxygen from qatar but a wave of disease is already on the way gaza's shaky institutions are said to be tested to and perhaps beyond their limits are a force that al-jazeera. still to come in this half hour donald trump vows to intervene in the texas law

a day after the supreme court rejected another republican effort to overturn the presidential election result. but. we got more very wet weather pushing across the northwest of australia where the 1st tropical storm of the season has now made landfall just about on the kimberley coast se has just pushing its way inland here at present will dive its way towards that eastern side of western australia more heavy rain just hating back in behind it a loss of wet weather coming through here again not too many people living here but we are like to see some flooding of course is part of the world as we go through thursday and on into friday that rain continues to push up towards the northwest of australia some hate to the southwest perth at $32.00 degrees celsius some heat down

towards the southeast as well annalee getting up to around 30 degrees but somewhat cooler in saving it to $22.00 celsius quite a few showers into northern parts of new south wales heavy at times and still some wet weather there into the outback of queensland as we go on through friday but some places of cloud of rain moving into the south out of the news a bit but the north island. dry if a little on the cloudy side looking rather cloudy too for japan at the moment but will start to pull away showers are the sort of honshu wintry flowers there winter as we go through thursday by friday it is settled and sunny few showers towards the west is fine the china. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya the effects are devastating. and the fact that you have nothing to well my feeling you have somebody who's vanish people in power reveals the hardships facing

affected communities and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased production in the wake of the pandemic kenya the unfathomable virus on al-jazeera. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera 5 people have been killed in violence following monday's election in gaza which has seen president. declared the winner with 51 percent of the vote police say more than 60 incidents of violence have been reported the british prime minister is in brussels for talks with the e.u. chief for sort of underlying in what both sides

a say in what is one of the last chances for a break sit deal talks have stalled over sri key issues and rich nations have been accused of hoarding coronavirus vaccines as immunization programs get underway the people's rights and alliance says 9 out of 10 people and $67.00 poor countries will not get the coronavirus vaccine next year. we're staying with the corona virus scientists in the u.k. say people with a history of significant allergic reactions should not have the pfizer vaccine after 2 people who received the jab suffered adverse affects the spike vaccinations beginning there are concerns across europe that restrictions maybe around for a while yet his infection rates keep rising charlie angela has more. britain's rollout of the pfizer biotech vaccine continues but advice on who can take it is changing after 2 people with

a history of severe allergy suffered reactions both recovered quickly but the agency who approved the vaccine is making revisions last evening we were looking at 2 case reports of allergic reactions we know from the very extensive clinical trials that this wasn't a feature that if we need to strengthen our advice now that we've had this experience in the vulnerable populations the groups who've been selected as a priority we get that advice to the field immediately. britain's mass vaccination program already poses one of the bigots logistical challenges since world war 2 that scientists warn that vaccines alone will not change the course of the pandemic immediately and face masks which help prevent the transmission of code it should be worn for another year i want to be very clear for the next 3 months we will not have sufficient protection we're going through the most difficult time of year for response infections and the most difficult time of year for the n.h.s.

so the idea we can suddenly start now because the vaccines here it would be really premature. bleak news too in germany where infection rates continue to rise despite restrictions and as intensive care ward speech capacity many of calling for even tougher knock down measures wednesday's german death toll of 590 was the highest since the pandemic began sparking an impassioned plea from chancellor angela merkel is very one sided and they have to have enough to feel i want to say this if we have too much contact over christmas and afterwards it turns out that that was the last christmas with the grandparents then we will have really messed up and we should not mess up. in france to the numbers are not encouraging new infection standard around $13000.00 per day down dramatically on a month ago but still $8000.00 more than the target president emanuel not crawl set in order to release the country from lockdown restrictions despite the vaccine the

arrival all 3 countries fear a 3rd wave of corona virus could hit when hospitals are at their most vulnerable charlie and there are 46 u.s. states of filed a major lawsuit against facebook accusing the social media giant of violating antitrust law the legal challenge is being led by new york's attorney general who says facebook has spent vast amounts of money to acquire smaller potential rivals such as instagram and whatsapp it's accused of leaving consumers with fewer choices and privacy protections the u.s. federal trade commission has also filed its own suit against the tech company for nearly a decade facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition all at the expense of everyday users by using its vast troves of data and money facebook has squashed or hindered

what the company perceived as potential threats it reduce choices for consumers they stifled innovation and they degraded privacy protections for millions of americans. u.s. president elect joe biden has officially introduced his choice for defense secretary retired army general lloyd austin the nominee to lead the pentagon joined by then at an in person event in wilmington if confirmed lloyd austin would make history as the 1st black secretary of defense but his nomination has already been opposed by some democrats because congress would have to waive the requirement that the job be filled by someone who's been out of military service for at least 7 years i understand the important role of the department of defense in the way that it plays in maintaining stability and deterring aggression and defending and supporting critical inches around the world including in the asia pacific in

europe and around the world and i firmly believe that as you said before sure that america is strongest when it works with its allies donald trump has asked the u.s. supreme court to let him intervene in a lawsuit by the state of texas which seeks to throw out results in 4 states that he lost the president elect joe biden the lawsuit targets the states of georgia michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin trampas falsely claim that he won the reelection alleging widespread voting fraud officials from the 4 states at issue have called the lawsuit a reckless attack on the mako see on tuesday the supreme court rejected an attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in pennsylvania. mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. so mike other states are trying to join the texas lawsuit as well as donald trump

how likely is it that the supreme court will actually look at this case. yes a number of other republican states are now attempting to join this brief that has been filed by texas but the legal opinion generally is that the brief itself is actually outrageous for a number of reasons firstly that texas has no standing whatsoever to bring such a brief about other states secondly that it went to the very unusual route of going directly to the supreme court with this brief now this is very unusual because there are other courts which can decide on a matter like this and indeed more than 50 courts already have and they ruled against republican organizations and the trump campaign all of these cases have been heard by a number of courts so this is a highly controversial and some would argue completely outrageous position by texas to attempt to force the supreme court's hand like this to adjudicate on an election

that has already been certified and essentially stripped away the votes of some 20000000 americans now there has been no response whatsoever from the supreme court at this particular stage there is a possibility it may just ignore the brief and told gendry of the 20th when of course it would become moot because that is the date on which joe biden is inaugurated as president or it could respond as it did with the pennsylvania case in the past 24 hours in which are just issued a statement saying it would not hear the case that it basically accepted the judgment by the supreme court of pennsylvania so this is a last gasp effort it would appear by the trump administration and by texas itself to try and reverse the electoral votes. i can now with the latest from washington d.c. mike thank you. the spanish government has begun the porting west african migrants who made the crossing to the canary islands where than 22000 people have attempted

it this year with over 8000 arrivals recorded in november alone from the remote village of big call toll in senegal's at the region nicholas hock reports. i'm a do so i had never seen the ocean before he stepped onto a 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 saadi and 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 head cold for your family in spain maybe that would have changed my life in my children's lives. in the end unprecedented wave of illegal migration from west africa to europe spanish coast over $600.00 migrants have died trying to make it to the

canary islands this year among the dead are many school age teachers that does 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 europeans 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 for what they're 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 i do so is neighbor cherno so he was a young. and 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 not gone to spain and he explained. 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 his hauke al-jazeera predikant to southwest senegal. south korea's national assembly has been debating a controversial new law that would make it illegal to send anti north korean material across the border defectors and activists in the south regularly use balloons to send leaflets criticizing kim jong un into the norse the bill is

expected to pass but the south's main opposition party says it will do everything it can to slow the legislation. boeing's a 737 max jet has returned to the sky after being grounded following 2 deadly crashes the revamp the aircraft made its 1st commercial flight for goal airline between the brazilian cities of sao paolo and porto alegre the jet was grounded in 2019 in the wake of the crashes that killed $346.00 people boeing hopes it can turn the corner after the damaging crisis which cost millions of dollars before a repair was found. that italian airline is trying with it hopes could help revive air travel through the pandemic a quarantine free flight all the passengers on the alitalia flight tested negative for kovan 1000 before leaving new york and after arriving in rome it means passengers can fly between some u.s. this the nation's and italy when the show

a negative test at the airport or get tested before boarding with another test on arrival they can then avoid the incoming quarantine rules. you can find out much more on that and everything else that we are covering on our website there's the address al-jazeera dot com. and here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the election commission in ghana has declared president nonna fuko are though the winner of monday's election with more than half of the vote but 5 people have been killed in post-election violence police say more than 60 incidents of been reported since the poll the vote pitted the president against former leader john the hama for the 3rd time amid address has more from africa already a lot of businesses have remained shut since the election here in.