that's what we strive to do. what they've been doing with the money that it's borrowed we bring you the stories and developments the rapidly changing the world argentina's congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars for the super rich families by counting on al-jazeera. rising tensions over laid election results they 5 dead in ghana but the president. has been declared the winner. santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera the son of president elect joe biden says he's under investigation over his taxes but remains defiant he's done

nothing wrong also make or break breaks that talks continue over the weekend after u.k. prime minister barak's johnson and e.u. chiefs trying to hammer out a deal on facebook under fire $46.00 u.s. states ban together in a joint lawsuit against the social media giant for unfair competition practices. but everyone is standing in ghana where the president has won a 2nd term in a vote overshadowed by post-election violence at least 5 people have been killed and 61 incidents of violence reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary vote president none of the cool father won with 51 percent of the ballots the former president and his main opposition candidate john hamre accused become the incumbent of trying to rig the election now is the time for each and every one of

us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite. join hand stand shoulder to shoulder and leg count to place gone where she deserves to be a prosperous and dynamic member of the global community making our own unique contribution to the growth of well civilizes welcome as president elect called for unity in the wake of the vote and the violence. for the supporters of the ruling party and president an hour before i go is celebration night a short while ago we left the party headquarters where president who went to address a most proud there and he's been going round to visit hockey supporters across the city to a congratulate them of course for the hard work that ensured his we election and

for the supporters of the opposition leader john muhammad. spoke 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 center 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 idol 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 watching to hear and see what president

former president john muhammad would say in his address is due to address. the nation according to his supporters and handlers are very shortly. reporting they're on to other news and us president elect joe biden has officially introduced his choice for defense secretary the retired army general lloyd austin the nominee to lead the pentagon joint biden in wilmington delaware if confirmed austin would make history as the 1st african-american secretary of defense his nomination has already been imposed though by some democrats and the u.s. president elect's son hunter biden says he is under federal investigation for his tax affairs hunter says prosecutors in the u.s. attorney's office in delaware told him they're conducting the probe b. says he takes the matter very seriously and is confident a professional and objective review will demonstrate his taxes were handled legally and appropriately it was

a statement from hunter biden so let's start following the biden transition out of wilmington delaware tell us more about the story involving hunter biden. welcome all reports are that is u.s. attorney's investigation of hunter biden dates back to early $28.00 team and that its focus may be on hunter biden's business dealings in china namely whether he violated tax laws or money laundering laws in his dealings with chinese companies now the transition here has also issued its own statement in support of a hunter biden joe biden transition saying that he is deeply proud of his son that he who has bought through difficult challenges including the vicious personal attacks of recent months only to emerge stronger it's notable that this investigation does not implicate president elect joe biden but practically speaking

it certainly does complicate his 1st months or even years in office because questions are immediately already swirling about how the president elect will make good on his promise for an independent justice department of course this will be the very department that's also investigating his son hunter and it also of course complicates who biden chooses as his attorney general and it certainly gives the republicans in congress ammunition in claiming that biden will have an ongoing conflict of interest not only in handling the department of justice but even in dealing with china policy. heidi you feel like that yesterday the nomination for secretary of defense which as we pointed out is now official lloyd alston very much a historic choice over so you know when i did he would be the 1st african-american secretary of defense but been reading a lot about the controversy around his potential appointments and the fact that he

would need a waiver as well. that's right and you know lloyd austin's career in the military no one is attacking that he served more than 4 decades he was a west point graduate going on to become the 1st black american to lead u.s. central command but his long tenure in the military may also be his as he'll because of course the u.s. military by long must be led by a civilian and lloyd austin has only been out of the forest for 4 years he needs to be out at least 7 years according to the law and that's why he would require a congressional waiver now the last one of these waivers went out to jim mattis which was not that long ago however the members of congress who voted them hand hadn't given another one of these waivers for 50 years prior and they said after approving madis that they would not be issuing another waiver any time soon so

certainly lloyd austin has to face that challenge in his remarks today he said that he would approach the cabinet with a civilian perspective that he understands the merit of having a civilian controlled military but it again it is congress who he must convince come on ok thank you heidi and wilmington. the trump campaign is pinning its hopes on a lawsuit filed by the u.s. state of texas and backed by 17 of the states to overturn the presidential election results which of course favor joe biden donald trump has described the case as quote the big one the supreme court to throw out the voting results from 4 battleground states during the expansion of mail in voting was a legal experts say the case is unconstitutional trump's lawyers however expects a response by the end of the week. this is yet they have to respond to. that's the depth of the paper the legal arguments that have been asserted for these

various motions and the states have to file a response by tomorrow at 3 o'clock i expect to have significant action on this case i mean it's already significant action but i mean didn't possibly determine the action. could be as early as friday. more news from the senate's where the group has defeated in efforts to block donald trump's plan to sell reaper drones and if that the 5 fighter jets to the u.a.e. the senate was voting on whether to stop the $23000000000.00 weapons deal earlier president trump issued a formal threat to veto any congressional efforts to block his plans senators had said the sale was rushed and threaten to start an arms race in the region the sale approved by donald trump as a side deal to the u.a.e. normalization agreement with israel more with mike hanna in washington d.c. hi mike how did this go down in the senate and.

well the president informed congress a month ago that he was going to proceed with this deal and many senators deeply concerned about the nature of the deal particularly the sale of the f. $35.00 that mary because most advanced fighter aircraft and a bipartisan group of senators then drew up a series of revolution resolutions 4 of them in an attempt to block the sale but it was always even those senators who had drawn up the resolutions were not expecting much to come out of it it was more a scion of displeasure with president trump in particular for what amounts to a circumvention of congregational oversight in this particular sale now the vote has just been held in the senate and as expected it was defeated the resolution concerning f. 35 for example was 47 votes in favor of blocking the sale 49 votes against now the the width of the vote may seem very narrow however they would have

required a 2 thirds majority on the vote to avoid a presidential veto president making very clear that he would have imposed to be told should these resolutions have been passed in the senate but once again it was more a symbolic vote in the senate expressing dismay about the fact that the president is circumventing congress and removing congressional oversight on the question of arms sales there were particular concerns among senators particularly the possibility that the u.a.e. may be using the mint the drones and the f. 35 in their war in yemen also concerns about disrupting the balance of power in the middle east so very many concerns expressed but at the end of the day the sale is now going to go ahead come on thank you mike hanna in washington. in the news ahead there is concern that poorer nations could be left behind as the global distribution of the coronavirus vaccine begins.

and abortion rights activists in argentina trying once again to pass a historic bill to make it legal to terminate a pregnancy. however there we're looking at some very cold air across north america as we go on through the next couple of days you can see this area a cloud just around the u.s. canadian border a cold front across the plains pushing everts was the western side of the u.s. that's the cold air to the north of that some warm red to the south there but what you're your attention to this cold front just up around hudson bay that's going to to some really cold air proper colder as we go on through the next couple of days so they see where the cold air is around the rockies into a good part of canada the places to keep an eye on when he picked 5 degrees celsius

should be about minus 5 minus 6 at this time of year then 19 celsius she around plus 6 as we walked around the denver at a day 4 would be paid at present but as we go on into thursday as they had coals off 7 in denver freezing therefore when it gets colder still the colder really dive and then when it picks struggling to get around a minus 13 celsius in the heat of the day on saturday see going to notice that change cold enough in denver just 2 degrees celsius we got some cloud and rain some snow just around the southern sections of the rockies central parts of the u.s. laws you draw some snow there perhaps some lake effect snow over towards that east side of canada pushing east. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines. inside story are now just 0.

uses performance art to draw attention to the critical and controversial issues facing china. one of my knees meets china. on al-jazeera. you know with al jazeera these are the top stories president has won a 2nd term in a vote which has been overshadowed with post-election violence at least 5 people have been killed and 61 incidents of violence reported missing monday's presidential and parliamentary votes joe biden's son hunter says federal

prosecutors have told him he's under investigation for his tax affairs the news comes as the u.s. president elect officially introduced his choice for defense secretary is the retired army general lloyd austin who could become the 1st african-american in the job. and the u.s. senate has defeated efforts to block donald trump's plan to sell reaper drones and f. $35.00 fighter jets to the u.a.e. the senate's been voting on whether to stop the $23000000000.00 weapons deal a sale approved by trump as a side deal to the normalization agreement with israel. let's talk bragg's it now and britain's broader stars johnson and the european commission president ocilla vanderlyn have agreed to a sunday deadline for a firm decision their words on trade talks the comments come after a make or break dinner where they both agreed there remain very large gaps between them and 22 days left now and the e.u.'s chief breaks that negotiator has warned the probability of a no deal is increasing before leaving for brussels boris johnson said there was

still a deal to be done but the e.u. was pushing trade terms no prime minister could accept so paul brennan is in brussels for us paul i know it's been a busy year for everyone a difficult year but wow talk about leaving it late. yes and the hope was that the 2 leaders coming face to face could produce some kind of breakthrough that the negotiating teams operating on a technical level hadn't been able to achieve in the weeks and months leading up to now i mean of course those negotiating teams are constrained by the very strict mandates that they've been given by their superiors so the hope was that getting the 2 superiors together the c. evening here in brussels would actually lead to a breakthrough would give some kind of political movements on there some some kind of political impetus but the dinner broke up after the working dinner broke up after 3 hours on the 2 statements emerging one from each side in this although it

did extend the deadline to sunday i detect no enthusiasts and no compromise whatsoever i mean skimming through the words the underlaying statement spoke of a lively and interesting discussion but a clear understanding of each other's positions they remain far apart we will come to a decision by the end of the weekend said her statement and the number 10 spokesman for the u.k. said very large gaps remain significant obstacles we've agreed to further discussions but by sunday a firm decision should be taken it always sounds to me like they're going through the motions but they have to try every possible avenue before giving up paul brennan with the latest on the brig's that talks there in brussels thank you paul now facebook is being sued in the united states and is accused of illegally trying to buy up its rivals and stifle competition the u.s.

government and 46 states accuse the social media giant of breaking antitrust laws and abusing market power and so they are asking the courts to consider breaking up the company remember facebook owns instagram and whatsapp as well facebook says it is reviewing the complaints but the deals under scrutiny had been approved by regulators. 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 every deuce choices for consumers they stifled innovation and they degraded privacy protections for millions of

americans will talk to mitch stoltz about this he is the senior staff attorney at the electronic frontier foundation on skype from san francisco mich thanks for your time everything that we heard the new york attorney general say there definitely has value i guess facebook's answer is though well 3000000000 users and they can't all be wrong well i think that's right her success but to say as i have often in the past there are a lot of medical errors because they compete with them or other companies for smaller segments of their functionality those messages or broadcasting or other things. what are these states seeking as i believe it's not any financial compensation but what do they actually want from face what do they want the the the instagram and what's deals reverse store just you know limits on any further deals . they're asking for both of those things and it's actually pretty smart that

they're not asking for money damages the federal trade commission and other authorities have tried suits and settlements for money damages against the big tech companies in the past and there's really no amount of money that will change their behavior so they are smart to focus on actual limits on their conduct and also on potentially rolling back some of those mergers particularly instagram and what's app and do you think that there is any chance of success in this particular little thing there is some it's not going to be easy. to trust saw specially in the us is. favorable towards monopolies and towards products that are free to the consumer we're in kind of an uncharted territory but this is also a long anticipated suit and it looks very well researched so i do think they have a reasonable chance of success what's your take on the whole idea of facebook being

anti competitive you know on a business level you could say well they were smart they bought out what that they bought up instagram seeing how popular they were and subsequently how popular they have become mean that's just business in many senses. that would be in many cases but i think the key to looking at facebook is that the their core social network overlaps in many respects with the business of instagram and whatsapp even with those it where those things were small so they weren't just adding new functionality to their stable they were buying up companies that had potential to be competitors to instagram's core business excuse me facebook's core business itself joining us from the s.f. the electronic frontier foundation thank you for your time mitch. thank you. corona

virus news in the number of infections around the world is soaring there is also the global rushnell to get hold of emerging vaccines but there are concerns that the less well off countries in the world are being left behind campaigners from the people's vaccine alliance a wealthy nations of hoarded enough vaccines to knock their populations 3 times over they say only one in 10 people in 70 low income countries will actually be able to get vaccinated next year some countries have other obstacles to overcome as well for example the middle east's worst affected nation iran is facing difficulties getting hold of vaccines our president hassan rouhani is blaming us sanctions the vats. people should know that what ever we want to do when we want to import medicine or import equipment or vaccines we have to curse trump a 100 times as he has created so many problems in annoyances

a simple job that would normally be done with a phone call a message or swift transaction takes weeks or months to complete and the whole country has to work together to transfer money from one place to the other just to buy medicine the bunch of spending their last days of this sinister team year at the white house our vets work it more of this from us had begun to ronnie's as some countries and companies are afraid of the repercussions of doing business with iran . earlier in the year iran did apply to the international monetary fund for a $5000000000.00 loan to help them tackle the covert pandemic now that was rejected and iran blamed the united states could be that sometimes countries and companies are afraid to do business with iran because of those sanctions even if they are not directly impacted in the year iran purchased a flu vaccine from france and that was held in spain we believe in the health minister said that consignment was stopped by the united states so they actually blamed in ited states for stopping that flu vaccine getting to iran now iran did

hit 1000000 kroner virus infections earlier this month is the worst hit country in the middle east but officials here say that they are working on their own covert vaccine and if trials are successful they hope to roll out in early early summer of 2021 will british scientists are now saying people with a history of significant allergic reactions shouldn't be getting the pfizer vaccine which is now being in been the state in the u.k. that was after 2 people who got the job suffered adverse effects more of that from charlie angela. 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 figures 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 stop now because the vaccines here it would be really premature. he's 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 come i know it's a feeling 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 front to the numbers and not encouraging new infection stand it around 13000. day down dramatically on a month ago but still $8000.00 more than the target president and money will not crawl set in order to release the country from lockdown restrictions despite the vaccines arrival all $3.00 countries fear a 3rd wave of corona virus could hit when hospitals are at their most vulnerable charlie and al jazeera. argentina's congress is to vote on whether to legalize abortion of the bill passes the country will become the biggest in latin america to

allow the procedure which has only been used in cases of rape or if the mother's life is at risk teresa but reports from when a sars. the legalization of abortion has been a demand by women's rights groups in argentina for years. many medical professionals agree dr ross who works in this hospital in the city of la plata says thousands of abortions are already happening in atlanta steinway and women with complications and up here at the foot of i'm told this is a matter of public health because when we have a high death rate of productive women of mothers because many of the women that have an abortion have children and they may die this is also about inequality because a woman with money can have a safe abortion but a woman without resources may lose her life. it is estimated that around 500000 abortions happen every year in argentina but maisel pro-style one of the

drugs doctors prescribe to terminate a pregnancy is expensive so many women resort to crude desperate measures like inserting probes in their bodies to induce an abortion for profit that we can provide here patients arrive here with organ failure and the characteristics of a septic abortion heart and kidney failure and in shock they're very serious cases and with a high death rate every year thousands of women are often allowed because of complications with an abortion some of them you'll get a lot of doctors working in this hospital a lot but when women are low here they're afraid to say that the drug them in a war pregnancy because it is illegal and they're afraid of being reported to the police was argentina's congress is set to vote on the legalization of abortion it's a divisive issue in the. mostly catholic country in 2018 the bill passed the lower

house but failed to pass the senate women's groups are hoping this year the outcome would be different if it ended up not down on the president of the nation alberta fernandez sent a bill that corresponds to his campaign at present lawmakers are taking their positions and hopefully we can finish 2021 with legalized abortion that is secure and free in argentina but resistance to the bill runs deep pope francis is argentinean and has repeatedly opposed to any attempts to legalize abortion. i know . this is a campaign promise by alberto fernandez so it shouldn't surprise the church's hierarchy all the pope with whom the government has a good relationship the church will go against this like they did with the same sex marriage the catholic church has been against divorce reproductive rights distribution of contraceptives and sex education the mostly conservative sectors see women as objects and not as people with rights.

rights that women in argentina i hoping will soon be frying into law. when a scientist. funny a multi-million dollar test launched by the u.s. aerospace company space 6 is ended in well look for yourself. the great the 16 story told on manned rocket is known as starship s m 8 it launched successfully as you can see but then it was meant to land on a concrete pad for reuse when it crashed it was hoped the prototype would be proof of concept for a rocket which could take people to the moon and eventually on to mars by 6 apparently not phase though they ended the broadcast with the message up next.