the government any want more and it needs to be in the government to take a closer look because if we do allow monopolies to get this sort of control over the over the the industry then it what it does it stifles competition there no suits are the biggest anti trust cases to enter the u.s. courts in more than 2 decades and they're expected to be battled out for years to come. al-jazeera. so this is a desert these are the top stories and 1st the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths past 3000 in one day for the 1st time that exceeds the number killed on september the 11th the world single worst terrorist attack so to say most of the world's population need not worry about adverse reactions to the pfizer by an tech corona virus vaccine to health workers in the u.k. suffered allergic reactions to the vaccine after it was administered to them on

tuesday people with a history of serious allergies are now because not to take celebrations in garner as president who for i don't know really wins reelection electoral commission says he received 51.5 percent of the vote opposition leader and former president john muhammad says he will appeal again through result 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 walk out to place gone where she deserves to be a prosperous and dynamic member of the global community making unique contributions to the growth of wild civilizers joe biden's son hunter says federal prosecutors have told him he is under investigation for his tax affairs the news came as the us president elect introduced his choice for defense secretary if

confirmed to retired general lloyd austin would be the 1st african-american in the job. opponents of a $23000000000.00 arms deal between the u.s. and the u.a.e. a failed to block it in the u.s. senate the trouble ministration plans to sell f. $35.00 fighter jets in advance reproduce to the gulf countries britain's prime minister and the european commission chief have agreed to give trade talks until sunday to reach a breakthrough. live on dylan did in brussels or wednesday on able to overcome significant differences the u.k.'s transition period ends that later this month offer to part of the e.u. in january and facebook is being sued in the u.s. accused of illegally trying to buy up rivals and stifle competition and the u.s. government in 46 states are asking the court to consider breaking up the company that also owns instagram and whatsapp. europe stay with headlines more news coming right up after inside story i've. the world food program will receive the

nobel peace prize for fighting against hunger and the use of starvation as a weapon of war we ask executive director david beasley how the challenge of combating global hunger would be met in the age of the coronavirus pandemic the nobel interview on al-jazeera. will the democratic republic of congo slide into a new turmoil the ruling coalition has fallen apart and the president is threatening to dissolve parliament so what's the fallout from this power struggle in this african country this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a homage i'm joined congolese president felix just a kitty pledged to build a strong nation when he was elected last year but his reforms have been challenged

by supporters of former leader joseph kabila who shares power with him just ahead he has scrapped the ruling coalition saying a new one will help him push through his agenda he is seeking to flip the majority in the legislative body in his favor to be able to do just that the president has threatened to dissolve parliament hold new elections and has acted to remove a speaker of the house his decision has sparked chaos in the assembly and the political crisis is threatening stability in the r.c. security says the move comes after weeks of consultations with political parties. to suggest the amendments on the coastal titian's resulted in the rejection of the coalition between the come from kolkata and the heading for change by an overwhelming majority of the sec conclusion comes off to 2 years of tireless efforts to self-sacrifice to preserve the essentials within the coalition. the proca below common front for congo or f.c.c. considers to secure this decision illegal. this this is not to the f.c.c.

notes that the unilateral conclusions drawn by the president of the republic seriously violate the constitution and serve as a pretext to liquidate established democratic institutions through the establishment of a dictatorial regime at the service of personal power. joseph kabila rule d r c for 18 years before stepping down around 2 years ago his favorite presidential candidate lost to felix just a kennedy in the long delayed 2018 elections but camilla's power was retained when his allies won a parliamentary majority in the same vote just ahead they formed a coalition government with camillus common front for congo after assuming power last year major disagreements arose between the coalition partners leading to political deadlocks in the past 6 months they have differed over security electoral process and constitutional court appointments to name but a few. all right let's

bring in our guests in goma we have thomas fasc senior democratic republic of congo researcher of human rights watch a most of all a is a researcher at the center for research on the congo he joins us from washington d.c. now van de wall deputy project director for central africa international crisis group she joins us from running again in the netherlands welcome to each of you combine how fragile is the current political situation in d.r. c n considering the unresolved issues from the 2018 presidential election do you believe that something like we're seeing now was inevitable. the free level framing is really important in december 2018 coalition must want to vote the elected leader and the result not reflect the will of the structure 'd of the college the are likely winner was declared the president elect's just

a kitty and what we know now has been secret deals between camilla and felix which was signing a lot of kenya stuff africa and egypt creating the form of so-called pacific transition but because of that because of the will of the proposal on this and 2 we created a constitutional crisis we have a winner or a presidential election who does not have any strong power even in the parliament any shop our suggestions of the republic and he's quite liberal was really acquired as is being seen where bill remained in power and 2000000 alledged. if you control the situation. completely difficult for phillips around the country the only solution to that and i hope the call is president listening many people are

listening is to listen to the will of the congolese people in 96 when you want to lead a protest move but democratically and i believe in 2020 we can do the same by listening to the people and having leaders that represents the people so that we by the constitutional process we have now like how likely is it the president is secure they will be successful in forming a new majority coalition. it will be quite difficult for him to form a new maturity in parliament because he will need substantial support off the f.c.c. commission that holds most of the seats in parliament so in order for to security to form a new majority he not only needs to convince members of the opposition so mariska jumped on ben but also members of the f.c.c. to join newman general thomas if this were to become a protracted crisis how much could this paralyze the government and how much

worse could things get. this is definitely a risk as dan jet that if the crisis. gets any longer obviously there will be you know popular discontent and growing anger at the. paralysis of state already remember that during those last few weeks of consultations it basically brought the government action to a halt so there is an urgent need to find a peaceful way out of this crisis in a way that. a government can be. acting reforms towards building at the root of your towards respecting human rights and ending impunity in a country that. this president has secured

a have enough support from powerful politicians and from military leaders in order to be able to pull off forming a new coalition. forming a new coalition will not change the fact that the will of the people not being sensible let's just back from work let's say 2 days able to convince the opposition politically or militarily there is to come to support i do not know how that will address the 22000000 congolese war 'd at the verge of starvation according to the world food programme i do not the hard disk addresses the issues in the system properly are seen thousands of congolese have died i mean just people security track or just publish that report what are the standards that about 2127 currently have died in the past 20 months which is war than the last 20 months of

arches of camilla so we have it's serious material conditions of the coolest being violent the congolese are suffering a discipline it's happening because 'd the petition for the republic has been actually been distributed to ilene has no interest of the homeless people i argue that because felix just came in last the credibility from the college people it's hard even for the congress people to come eggs but some of the proposal that he's put forward which i think can be a way for such as having another election knowing that the 2018 was very disputed is a way in the right direction but what's more important is decisive action that you'll have will hold people like dan gottlieb anabelle for taking steps into the state economy and creating a mining company suffered a lot meals about those we are rest corrupt. government officials

living in the eggs rescue of the who's listed in the justice department reports. haha chips has filed as receiving corrupt running for bribery this is a low threshold legal case in the united states. then the killer and as well ready ready. relief that was decisive action is actions will allow the congolese people to trust in his will to retire from the country for a newcomer if you doesn't come even close to those. recommendations to live to control the country mckellar the united nations envoy to the d.r. see warned that the threat of this political gridlock poses you know it's

a huge threat to the political gridlock poses to the country's security and economic situation what are some of the replications that the country could face. i think so really is reagan stating that because of the. political gridlock between she security and kabila there has not been a lot of progress on the political level and you cannot make one it is because just security has been distracted by political affairs in kinshasa and i think you can see that when you look at events and what's happening in the east where violence has increased over the past few months. so security has also because his focus. keeping the coalition together or working with camilla he has failed to work on improving the economic conditions in the dear city so you see that it is past become increasingly difficult for the

population to to benefit from wealth that has been acquired by natural resources in a d. or c. etc i mean i am not sure if i understood your question completely rate as in representation so if i should touch upon something else just don't know that i don't know that that answer sufficed for the question that i asked thomas let me ask you how much political clout does former president kabila have he's a senator for life is he essentially considered to be the only game in town when it comes to getting things done politically. thing that was certainly true last year when the deal was made between just kitty and him self you know he has retained control of the government's control of the parliament's control of most provincial governments and of the security apparent us i think that 2 years down the line and mounting political crisis. it is now

a sort of question mark how much of all that power can be lost he'll holds dairies the possibility of this event him he still holds most of that power and i think we are going to see whether that's true or not in the coming weeks in the coming days even but it's also possible that some of the. either parliamentarians or some of the support is you know may have switched to the sides because they see that these could mission is actually going nowhere and that they need a new majority cheats. to have a proper government that will be able to enforce meaningful reforms so i think that's a question mark at moment but what we seeing in the last few days is not at the polarization between the 2 sides he's at its peak and we've seen you know trash is

in parliament spitting supports as if she's catty and supporters of. neutrally throwing chairs at each other and we also hearing a lot of you know hey treat an anguish an extremist language from one side to another and vice versa so there's a there's a sort of. really sort of dangerous climate that ees that has been brewing for some months now and it's not entirely clear how . and intends to to diffuse the tension and when the katrina has any intention to also try to diffuse that tension or not kembali it i want to take a step back for a moment to try to explain the root of this a bit to our audience it seems that tensions between f.c.c. and c a c h really erupted out into the open in july and it revolved around the issue of the

appointment of new judges to d r c's top court what was what was at the root of that millicent were threats of friendly to really show. up camilla control the situations before the presidential elections to make sure the course additional poor judges appointed who will pledge allegiance to hear your italy in the parliament one who called the national assembly we have 500 members of parliament 350 of that are from the effie. when we look at the sell it we have a 108 senators 92 senators in the senate after the f.c.c. we have 26 provinces 21 gov 31 progression of government are controlled by camilla and about 20 of those 'd got at the governor of this province of our from

community region we have a military like a blast to control and actually currently we have a military force a militia of 2500 soldiers they are paid by the government right now to protect him so he controls the spitter situation and he can actually move in some shape or form not. try to do was to include 3 new constitutional court judges because the game of the election of $23.00 will be played at a 'd level usually in the question usually called and also in the electoral commission so he has made sure to ames introduced 3 judges which could be i was not happy about and they also introduce a new president on the. 'd electoral commission clearly showing that everyone is preparing for 20231 of them in the before colleagues and i remember camilla has been in power for already 2 terms so if we are already talking about 2023 it is

likely but just a couple it's going to run again and we're going to try to interpret the constitution much differently or have someone we can trust to be in power so by extension there is a power struggle from philip trying to assert his power when he does not have and kabila continuing to maintain the illicit network that we have built for the past 2 decades and in the final analysis the question of justice is very important in a land but that does come quick it called for the issues to end the look of course his nobel peace prize it called for the international tribunal for the combo to trial the crimes that have taken place we have to call it the 15 people who have committed months in the past was leading the country and then a professor of justice. now the african union has now called on the d.r.s. these leaders to work to preserve peace and stability what are the regional

implications that we be looking at here if things continue to deteriorate in the r.c. well you see that since assuming office just again he really focused on mediating within the region so he tried to bring 70 to ugandan president and president. to bring them together and what was behind this struggle between these 2 men was allegations of support to armed groups in eastern d r c so there is a big risk that when the violence escalate or the political situation in. in kinshasa escarpments that there are also implications in the east that could for instance be because political leaders such as and she security activate spoilers they have in the field in the east or because.

the violence continues to increase in the east so the regional implications will be important so i understand the cold by the african union also because she's sick 80 mo as of january or february next year head chair the african union so it is interesting to see how he will try to. increase stability especially in the eastern part of the r.c. thomas at the head of the u.n. stabilization mission has expressed concern over the situation in eastern congo saying that in security gray violations of human rights and displacements continue to affect civilians notably women and children how dire is the situation there. it's pretty dire in congo you have different pockets conflicts throughout the region whether it is north south. korean and beyond and just take south for example you have

a very 1000000 displaced people. and as a result of of the many countries in that. line and attacks almost daily does been a little bit of an in the attacks over the last few weeks but it's coming back and you can tell that tensions are running high and that again it's civilians who are paying the heavy price it's not only displacement that you know the population news was suffering from many other abuses with the reaches them the chains and the rest from the m groups will sometimes by the congolese. security forces military troops or the police but also abduction kidnapping for ransom and. women. still suffering

from the sexual violence and sexual assaults. this has been going on for years and yes now and it's a conflict that. repeats itself some parts of the region then you have over $100.00 groups you know still active in that region and as. colleagues have just said. each time that you have a protracted. political crisis. the repercussion. what. then immediately or in the meantime. something could be knighted that said there is a war you've got the longer the political crisis continues. to move or repercussions that will be in the east with the population paying the price kamali do you

believe it is possible that we could see a negotiated end to this crisis and if so how would that come about it is possible for the crisis to actually be negotiated for peace of the missing new york city i mean what i would like to see is our return to the 28 in the elections holding a new election will really help in getting the credibility because they're already working for 'd is to have the population and the people to trust in the democratic process so calling for a new election is one second the call for justice is very critical of the quest was the will continue to see is because the crimes are yesterday has not been dealt with over 6 new comedies people have died in the past 2 decades along i stayed for describes the creation of an international tribunal for the recommendation of the un looking after such a report published on the the before us 2000 that is critical of this time dr

mccuaig of the peace process called for it and congolese around the world are calling for this tribunal to be put in place if those 2 things actually put in place a 'd reelection are running again of the elections so that the people can trust in the democratic process and krishna which are built for the r.c. we have a path to peace in the us now like how do you think the international community would react if president ikeda does indeed try and hold new elections. i think it will be very difficult for chief security to organize new elections because it mobi a very costly exercise and as she saw in 2018 it took quite a long time to organize those elections in fact they were pushed back twice so for the international community i don't think they would consider elections the right

way forward at the moment. organizing them is costly as i just said but also elections were held in 2018 the results were indeed contested but i think for international does it is more important now to underline the importance for the respect for the rule of law to have strong state institutions to make sure that the 2 political actors the main ones so camille and she's to katie find their way out of this crisis a political one so encourage them to have a dialogue to have conversations not necessarily with the with the goal already intention to keep the coalition together but to make sure that. the crisis does not ask and so as i just pointed out to avoid that the the political crisis becomes a military one you just asked for the fact who for who controls the security forces who controls the army i think it is very important to look at the next few days and

weeks what's going to happen with the military and the armed groups in the east and avoid the pain that these activists will play a role in the weeks to come all right well we've run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thanks so much to all of our guests thomas vesey come bali was heavily and melika van the wall and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story or me my material and the whole team here i forgot thanks ily. going. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya

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fire. the u.s. passes are 3000 coronavirus deaths in one day exceeding the number of people killed in the september the 11th attack. hello i'm nick clegg this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. senators fail in their effort to block the sale of f. 35 fighter jets and advanced drones to the united arab emirates.

are rising tensions over election results leave 5 dead in ghana president. has been declared the winner. facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals facebook is hit with lawsuits that could force it to sell prized assets whatsapp and instagram. so the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths has passed 3000 in one day for the 1st time take a look at this map by johns hopkins university it shows where infection numbers are the highest indicated by dark red there in the center and further up there in the north 3071 people died on wednesday and that exceeds the number killed on september the 11th the world single worst terrorist attack. have a look at this graph it shows a steady rise in u.s. deaths since the pandemic began way back when done and there are rising up to today

and health officials are warning half a 1000000 lives will have been lost by early next year doctors say the vast majority of the world's population need not worry about adverse reactions to the fires of biotech coronavirus vaccine to health workers in the u.k. suffered symptoms of a legit response to the vaccine nostrums administered to them on tuesday people with a history of serious allergies are now being urged not to take it u.k. became the 1st western country to start rolling out the vaccine this week well as the global rush to get hold of emerging vaccines intensifies there's mounting concern that low income countries will be left behind in latin america vaccination programs could drag on for years no repeller as this report. latin america holds only 8 percent of the world's population it accounts for roughly 30 percent of global cope with $1000.00 deaths but. it's arguably the hardest hit

region by the global corona virus pandemic. it is news that a vaccine could soon be on the way concerns of bound over low income countries having equal access. on wednesday the pan american health organization said the number of doses of the vaccine will not be enough for everyone at 1st some of the region's poorest nations will be almost entirely dependent on donated supplies of the vaccine the organization says that solidarity and the sharing of resources between the nations of the americas will be essential to successful international vaccination efforts it's going to take some time it's been home to take me on 20 twentieth's so our arrival of the wars that we've set ourselves that flow control transmission but really we are eager to see covert making waxen broadly available but it is important to understand that's will take time and what

coordination across the country is that these. other concerns include the storage and distribution of the vaccine. in countries like guatemala and honduras recent hurricanes have severely damaged infrastructure complicating the coburg 1000 health emergency or must get rubble because we may wish that inequalities did not exist unfortunately these populations will freeze greater complications if we consider the pfizer pixie prick sample which mother stored a very low temperature at about minus 70 degrees amounting that temperature becomes complicated when trying to reach many countries for that vaccine to arrive in good condition. or more yes him as you know some countries like mexico. argentina and brazil have secured bilateral agreements with vaccine manufacturers these agreements guarantee that a minimum number of doses will be made available for the 1st phase of national inoculation programs. but for latin america's poorest nations health policy experts

warn that social inequalities in limited supplies could mean that many may not receive vaccines well into 2023 when al jazeera. as president is now really one reelection the result his opponents immediately said that they would appeal against the electoral commission says that. had 51.5 percent of the. reports now from. the 2020 presidential contest everything he could knowing that there are 76 this might be that. is why delegations of corruption against his government president. for 2nd time. it's this declaration that confirm. that they're going to hand people through the results have made

a loud and clear that the 2 parties the n.p.p. and d.c. . work together especially in parliament 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 stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to plays gonna when i see disaster be. proud to say to you read one it's this declaration that can be successful 2nd time put on the basis of the following election results and by the power vest said to me as a temp as an on the next i'll commission on donna and then attending office around the presidential election it is my duty and on up to declare not go down. as president elect of the republic of donna. at

a standoff between security forces and supporters of the opposition candidate john muhammad preceded the declaration although they may have forced a change in venue for the announcement it wasn't enough to see their candidate from defeat an angry protest or says they will never accept the victory of a call for. bringing look to god i'm not there let alone look at the done that's really the one that's really i don't like the senate did not will be i don't like and we are not accepting does that mean we're going to miss our result. many party loyalist and the rest of the nation look to former president john muhammad to reign in new supporters so as not to plunge the country into chaos he says he will but he's also not conceding defeat i want to states categorically and shaming that i'm not congratulated any person.

nor attempt should be made to steal this election we will resist it. tensions between supporters of gun us dominant political parties have been on the rise even before election day despite the deployment of 63000 security personnel and a peace pact signed by the leading candidates at least 5 people were killed. in post-election violence. protests like this one i want most people feel good. ready to are already tense situation why some business owners decided to repeat the last time elections were his friends it was 8 years ago. no position candidate. tempering of the result and filed the petition with the election tribunals. now those supporters of president say they want to hold back their celebrations. across. the

u.s. justice department is investigating the finances of one to biden the son of the president elect among areas under scrutiny into biden's business dealings in china he says he's confident any investigation will show he's done nothing wrong the revelations will draw more attention to hunter biden's financial history that son to mind his father's white house campaign. meanwhile joe biden's transition to power is moving ahead with his domination of a retired general to be secretary of defense if confirmed lloyd austin would become the 1st african-american to lead the pentagon the nominations drawn much praise spittle saying some concern how did you castro has retired general lloyd austin has served in the u.s. military for 4 decades rising from west point graduate to leader of u.s. central command as the leader of u.s. forces in iraq austin oversaw the withdrawal of troops under the obama biden administration general austin was

a diplomat it was not an easy task he built relationships with iraqi counterparts and with our coalition partners austin said wednesday as defense secretary he would continue to work to strengthen coalitions america is strongest when it works with its allies. and over the years i've worked hand in hand with their diplomatic colleagues and partners around the globe and witness 1st hand what we're able to accomplish together biden says austin is a skilled leader respected by troops and admired for his integrity if confirmed he would become the 1st black u.s. secretary of defense leading a military where more than 40 percent of active duty members are of color and it is personal experience helping inform our efforts to ensure that our armed forces and select the full strength and diversity of our nation that black latino asian american native american women l.g.b. t.

service members are treated with dignity and respect but austin's nomination also bring some controversy u.s. law calls for a civilian led military requiring top brass to have been out of uniform for at least 7 years often has been retired for 4 years which means he'll need a congressional waiver jim matt is was the last defense secretary who got a waiver but members of congress said then their action was a one time exception now 2 democratic senators have already said they will not approve a waiver for austin and the retired general may face tough questions about his recent work for a defense contractor so many dig up some some dirt of some current real we're. drawing what out there this. ready for those who don't want to see.

her often says if confirmed to biden's cabinet he would approach the job of u.s. defense secretary from a civilian perspective and surround himself with civilian staff but it is congress he will have to convince castro al-jazeera wilmington delaware. opponents of a 23000000000. all arms deal between the u.s. in the u.a.e. have failed to block it in the u.s. senate trumpet ministration plans to sell f. 35 fighter jets in advance reaper drones to the gulf country the president approved to sell as a side deal to the u.a.e. is normalization agreements with israel mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . 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 sign 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. $35.00 for example was $47.00 votes in favor of blocking the sale $49.00 votes against now the debt the width of this vote may seem very narrow however they would have required a 2 thirds majority on the vote to avoid a presidential veto president trump 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 circuit meant 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. coming up on al-jazeera u.k. prime minister and chief given selves until sunday to seal a trade pact after failing to overcome differences during dinner. and our farmers in india are expanding their protest against new agricultural.

we got more wet windy at a time when she weather pushing into western and central parts of it lots of thunderstorms rumbling away around italy and the balkans quite a nasty larry of low pressure this one that's going to gradually not just wear a little of a swiss allowing more weather systems to push in from the atlantic as we go on through the next couple days you see some very heavy rain and to the balkans recently this is croatia $129.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours the average for dr nick for the entire month of december is $125.00 millimeters so that is a loss of a right for more heavy rain as we go on through the next day also to the west the weather will actually push a little further races bowl gary acing some heavy downpours big downpours possibility some flooding just around the i mean sea just pushing over towards the age mastic edging into that western side of pushing right up through remaining and into ukraine some snow that unites us into poland some snow there across the peyronie's as well west the weather pushing back into western side of the mediterranean as we go on through friday gradually notching back towards the

balkans more snow for that in their accounts but you can see it does turn a little dry which was eastern pascola dry there from moscow temperatures now high the minus 5 celsius but warming up in london to 10 degrees. from me out to c.n.n. london 2 o'clock fantastic team special get in conversation. and i don't feel because of colonialism unprompted fun interrupted there's a sense of what month burden still having some legitimacy in terms of spreading the knowledge and technology pretty ago powell meets tools that parents need to make a recommendation for something more new mentally horrific and flavoring studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera her mind of our top stories this hour and the number of reported u.s. coronavirus death has passed 3000 in one day for the 1st time that exceeds the number killed on september the 11th the world's single worst terrorist. joe biden's son hunter says federal prosecutors have told him he's under investigation for his tax affairs the news came as the u.s. president elect accused his choice for defense secretary. potence of a $23000000000.00 arms deal between the u.s. and the u.a.e. have failed to block it in the usa ministration plans to sell the $35.00 fighter jets in advance reaper drones to the gulf country. present talks between leaders from the european union and britain have broken up without

a clear decision there is live on the land and boris johnson agreed that negotiations to break months of deadlock should continue through the weekend o'brien reports now from brussels. this was the 1st time in months that the british prime minister has traveled personally to brussels and the importance of the dinner with the european commission president cannot be exaggerated after deadlock in the technical negotiations the hopes of salvaging a trillion dollar a year trading relationship now rested on political compromise firstly over the educated face masks on caucus. night it was. just outside the commission building the union flag was hosted for the 1st time since january but when boris johnson's motorcade departed 3 hours later the assessment from the u.k. side was downbeat significant obstacles and very large gaps remain said a spokesman unclear whether these can be bridged live on the lane statement described a lively and interesting discussion but also admittedly clear understanding that

the positions remain very far apart because 18 teams have been asked to reconvene. in one last effort to find common ground but on sunday a firm final decision will be made promises questions from sir both sides have political red lines and compromises difficult before travelling to brussels boris johnson had faced a restless session of parliament what i can say is that this country will be ready for whether we have a canadian. solution and there will be jobs created in this country throughout the whole of the u.k. not just in spite of britain but because of breaks. and us live on the lane is also under intense pressure to protect the integrity of the e.u. single market. they can listen to us i'm going to 1st they should we need a level playing field and not just for today 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. but future proofing a level playing field between the 2 is challenging the e.u. is adamant that britain can't continue to have free access to the single market it also wants to divert should be used and it's a rules that britain is equally insistent that the e.u. use attempt to block the u.k. to european rules is an unacceptable infringement of sovereignty analysts see the need for compromise on both sides it will have to understand towards country does not have 100 percent of the market access can also not take over. a lot of that use rules that it needs to have a lot of regulatory freedom but it's very much on the at right now and it all depends on boris johnson whether he's willing to make the compromises that are required european leaders and heads of state arrive here in brussels later on thursday for the final european council summit of the year no clearer as to what the trading arrangement with the u.k.

will be just 3 weeks from now and even if a deal can somehow miraculously be struck before january the 1st ratification obvious is highly unlikely in that kind of time scale it's a messy end to a very messy year paul brennan al-jazeera brussels let's get more on this night in barbara standing by for us in london so now the moment we go large gaps remain is this weekend truly the final countdown the last opportunity. well nic if you ask the u.k. foreign secretary they're not necessarily dominic rubbish bin on the radio in the last hour or so questions about why and how hard this deadline is of sunday and he refused to he said that he couldn't rule out those talks between michele bunny and david frost the chief negotiator is actually being extended of course this deadline did come in to rule sort of statements that echo each other from the u.k. and the e.u. side as you heard in polls report so we know that the talks between those 2

gentlemen starting again on thursday at the same time as the european union leaders hold vest summit on thursday and friday with really nothing to hear back from the sort of on the lie and beyond what we've heard in those statements the statements from them the from number 10 called the meal a frank discussion the sort of on the lion said it was a lively and interesting discussion an indication that they really were a lot of heads and really at the heart of it like paul was indicating it's a clash of ideologies boris johnson apparently told the other side that he couldn't accept terms which are didn't recognize that didn't respect the independence and sovereignty of the u.k. for the other side the european union wants assurances that its single market won't be threatened through diverging standards labor regulations environmental standards and the like so it's hard to see where the breakthrough will come the british

foreign secretary saying that the main sticking points are regulate tree requirements and fisheries now we know that no deal is not very popular in any quarters no matter what the politicians tell you the boss of the confederation of british industries today has said that the difference between no deal and a deal would be very significant in terms of the hit to national output it's been predicted at 2 percent of the economy just next year with that in mind the speaker of the u.k. parliament has said. politicians here may have to sit until the 24th of december if there's any deal in the offing to ratify it of course it's got to be ratified around europe and in the european parliament as well but at the same time we're hearing from e.u. sources that the commission is going to be publishing its no deal contingency plans very soon are not in thanks for that update from london. france's data protection watchdog says it's fined google once again the watchdog

says the tech giant has been fined $121000000.00 for breaching european union online privacy rules in a statement it said it had also imposed multimillion dollar fines on amazon for breaching the same rules related to tracking user data and facebook has been hit with lawsuits from the federal trade commission and almost every us state they accuse the online company of using a bio berry strategy to snap out rivals and scarlett explains facebook could end up being forced to sell some prized asset. it's the biggest social media giant in the world with more than 3000000000 uses across its platforms but now facebook's iconic thumbs up is facing a legal sums down the company's stands accused of using illegal tactics to dominate the industry 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 over the past 15 years it's bought up some 70 companies but it's the purchase of the photo sharing app instagram in 2012 for me a $1000000000.00 followed by the messaging app whatsapp 2 years later that regulators have called into question then i was asking the court to consider breaking it up the federal trade commission and other authorities have tried suits and celebrants 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 there is more to focus on our actual looked on our conduct and also on potential rolling back some of those mergers facebook says the deals were approved at the time and call the government's argument revisionist history but it's not the 1st time it's come under scrutiny for its practices last year it was fined $5000000000.00 the largest

penalty of its kind for prissie violations and it's now the 2nd tech giant to face a major legal challenge this year that's after the u.s. justice department sued google for violating competition laws for many the movie seen as a government crackdown on big tech power and they did a lot to protect these companies so they could no german grow but facebook has grown to such a size that it doesn't need protection by the government any want more and it needs to beat it. and the governments take a closer look because if we do allow monopolies to get this sort of control over the over the the industry that it what it does it stifles competition the lawsuits are the biggest anti trust cases to enter the u.s. courts in more than 2 decades and they're expected to be battled out for years to come car leg al-jazeera. farmers in india continue to protest against new

agricultural rules they've blocked major highways in and now calling for more citizens negotiations with the government have so far failed as farmers continue to stick to the moans elizabeth per annum has more now from the state of a pretty. poor one side of this busy highway between the states over there predation delhi remains closed to traffic as thousands of families continue to camp out here that's after farmers rejected the government's proposed amendments to farm laws on wednesday now it's been 2 weeks that tens of thousands of followers of blocking 3 key highways into the indian capital region protest against laws which they say give large corporations fettered access to the indian agriculture sector and that will see their prices for their projects minimum prices driven down and so the government said that it made 3 amendments addressing farmers concerns about the deregulation of the market including rising assurances of minimum prices but father

say that it's not enough to amend goals which were created without consultation with which were pushed through parliament which inherently favor large corporations and that the government must repeal them and their calls for a bigger protests are only growing farmers are asking for the blocking of 2 major highways between the cities of delhi and agressor and delhi and jaipal on saturday and they're calling for more nationwide protests on monday. ranger refugees in bangladesh who fled suspected genocide a member or in the grip of a severe mental health crisis reports by the fortified rights group called torture in my mind from nearly 90 percent of her hinge of muslims have symptoms of depression it also says 84 percent of experienced emotional distress and just over 60 percent show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder but

a 1000000 ranger fled to packed with 2017 during a fierce military crackdown by many in last minute. italian football legend paolo rossi has died at the age of 64 rossi was the hero of italy's 982 world cup win where he was top scorer and named best player he also won 2 italian city titles with juventus rossi was said to have been suffering from a terminal illness football world has also been mourning for your marriage donna who died late last. a multimillion dollar test launched by space x. has ended in spectacular failure. here is the 16 story unmanned rocket nadir starship s n 8 launch successfully but the landing on a concrete pad did not go to plan. this series of rockets will one day take people to the moon to mars the u.s.

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street. the american people have finally folk in america as i slid one of america's off balance the world becomes more dangerous the world is looking at us with a mixture of sadness and. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck to the fuel we can take on us politics and society that's the bottom of . their welcome to the stream i'm josh rushing sitting in for femi ok today listen if you're watching this live online that means you're watching you tube and that means the chat box right there but check it out we have a live stream producer there waiting for your comments and questions so you get in to me and i can get into our guests throughout the program that they keep for joining us but be a part of the show to today we're talking about afghanistan and drugs but this time not poppy and here when but meth meth this starting to spread across the country if

they're able to actually make it there in afghanistan from a plant that grows naturally these are new developments in the drug trade there and actually here's what's happening with some of the people addicted to it in the country check out that's the whole bunch of them that on the other when i was very young i went to iran there were 11 of us in one room only me and an old man were not eating drugs the rest were using and i gradually started using the drug on the floor that actually put out a lot and i thought i would do whatever it takes from sometimes laboring to stealing and even murder to get math anything that i could do to get it i would take on the battle and then the. in a showing up not just in afghanistan but in countries around the world from australia to south africa much like the heroin trade out of afghanistan but the other side of this is it's actually bringing a condom me jobs and commerce to an area of afghanistan that could sorely use it during these times now discuss issues issue i'm joined by

a panel of experts who i'm going to ask to introduce themselves david can we start with you certainly thanks for the introduction josh money as david men still i am an independent consultant and i've been working on the jokes issue in afghanistan for the last 24 years since the last couple of years looking at the growing mess industry and i can say this for david as someone i've been to afghanistan to 11 or 12 times i've covered over the years when i want to know what's happening with drugs there i go to his reports 1st been a fan of his work for a long time so pick for joining us david mark thank you. funds george. clooney representative for the united nations office on drugs and crime in the afghanistan but been there since 2009. all of those folks you know the seas were in the country with which is

a major coup it's absolutely thank you for joining us mark i appreciate it and then from kabul because of that. and thank you just our on look at this for us i currently. communication a company called law posts and i have formerly served as the the prime minister of commerce for the government the top one and some so let's get right into it and david you've been looking at the job situation afghanistan for a long time when did meth start to pop on your radar. the 1st time we actually came across it was when i was doing some work on the. the bombing of the heroin laps in 2017 this was a policy that the u.s. forces afghanistan. developed and they were taking out heroin laboratories across the southwest of afghanistan in an attempt to reduce the amount of money

that was available to the taliban so we started exploring this and in doing so spending time in some of the heroin laboratories. coincidentally some of these places were also producing methamphetamine now this of being produced for a number of years using over the counter medicines and we can see the remnants of the bottles of various the congestions and cough mixtures out the back of one of these labs what intrigued me was the fact that some of these cooks in these labs were saying we don't do that anymore so far too expensive and what i could see in some of the photographs that were being taken were some buckets some large barrack plastic barrels of green goo and i started inquiring about this and it turned out this was a federal. wild crop the grows in the mountains of afghanistan being soaked to make methamphetamine and the argument that these crooks are saying is this costs the

cost of production over the counter medicines they congestions we can't make a profit the price in iran is too low so as a consequence we've moved to this a federal based production so as a consequence of that we then start it's a track down what this crop was where it was grown and how the market function so we ended up in places like bosnia and wired back and then subsequently into taiwan are in core and you can see some of the photos of people harvesting the crop in these areas goes completely wild in some places it looks like across in other places it's more of a bush about 2 and a half meters in size and this is harvested and brought down to the mountain so we started doing more and more we're following this market this what we thought was a fairly and nascent market and realized over time that this is developed quite dramatically and those last piece of work we just did for the european monitoring center in lisbon was actually doing

a lab count. based on some further field work with cooks in back quote we could understand more about the visual signatures and how these labs operated and what we realized were people moving away from methamphetamine labs and what we had was a growing cost each industry in effigy in laps and then that product was then being sold to make meth from the editorial and we counted these labs using imagery and came across $329.00 laps just in back or alive so this was a this was evidence of a completely shift in scale and the fact that we you know it's spices a bit like the coke or industry when some of the market shifted away from buying role coca leaf in places like the levy or columbia to wanting to. by processed products and so what we now have farmers who on one side they grow opium and on the other side they're also producing these very using very simple chemistry and using

cheap it's this basic esoteric and this is now turning up in a variety of different places including the iranians the seas doing accounts of not just crystal meth but exeter and suggesting that we may have may have even repurchasing of that product so we've got this this now what we would say is a growing meth economy that links the lower areas in the deserts of the southwest all the way up the mountains where this crops being harvested and and so you know we're seeing a made i don't like your analysis on this i feel like your analysis on this is really at the forefront of it mark it is it winding up with everything you're seeing from your inder do you have a bit of a different perspective on this. thanks george i know what david is saying is you know concurs with the results here in a v.c. is seeing we definitely your report very effectively covers the the

abuse or the use side of methamphetamine mess of drug use problem throughout the country we're talking about of possibly 3000000 drug users and this is from a survey in 2015 when methamphetamine had not reached the levels it is currently out in the country then moving into the rural population is getting very definitely we're seeing an increasing numbers of farmers involved in rural communities and pull in this i typically will mirror one of the things a route you've touched on an approaching over on as well is the leader of the fight of the elicit a call me now an important thing that we have to take into consideration here is none of these rules population groups that are working in this area are actually getting rich from the activity itself these people quite often get locked in a cycle of debt to the actual traffickers and the free really are to start looking

at effectively address addressing this problem we need to really be looking at those who profit from the illicit manufacture or the are students in a function of illicit trafficking of methamphetamine ringback use or there has been an emphasis in afghanistan very much involved forcing the stories to focus on product on the table looking at methamphetamine seizures of which there are many the continent of its police sees the return of methamphetamine in afghanistan this year already we're seeing 50 kilograms was seized at the international airport this year a lead in the country and this isn't a hero there have been many international slugs but these people the people involved in the food are extract the manufacture of the net. i mean and even the the little traffickers these are not the people will think if we really want to move in rooms we do need to look at the the deep dive on the illicit a komi getting into the massive amounts of money that organized crime or deriving

from this activity and really looking at ways of affectively interesting money laundering a forfeiture and really don't imagine those who are profiting from the activity i have some questions stacking up from our online community right now but 1st i want to go to because that on as ask are you know we're seeing images as we're talking about this of the drug addition addiction issue in afghanistan i know you're in kabul i'm curious will where the women and the families and this picture how does drug addiction there out affect the women in afghanistan. thank you josh i'm actually sitting here looking at pictures and listening. to both martin david who are actually the explosive pretty much frustrate it thing and has that shot and i have to say that every morning when i go to work i. call those streets

and there are particular locations where. does drug addicts come to get. hold of those locations because for major parties people are homeless and there have been streets so you can actually see our team on the streets of call. as a direct consequence of. people who unfortunately become drug addicts. there are not many woman actually that you would see lizabeth on the streets but how that doesn't mean that woman are not affected by this. woman are afflicted mode. and look for most people who can see a little more extreme drug addicts or people who have become drug addicts because the men and their families have been actually the one who brought it in the house and. started being a secondhand smoke or

a 2nd home and i've been issued an. addiction. that being saying i think. there's clearly a direct relation between the domestic the rise in the domestic violence the increase in the number of people who become addicted to the act and i think clearly . direction and directed. i want to bring up some questions from our online community right now peter king has asked which gangs are involved with meth are they the same as heroin or is this a different mood but it's also ask why is a federal which is their only medicinal not used as a legitimate crop so maybe talk about that in a minute about how we can do develop irresponsibly around this what are the levels of meth productions across the country where is it taking place i don't know but the gains question mark deep with that big in your purview. we are seeing

police drug shipments of of coniston being moved out of the country we're seeing an . islam color border crossing from her up into or spend will look at border crossing from going to turn into. pakistan police drug consignments are giving you an indication that it is the same groups that are involved in trafficking move her in and methamphetamine so again moving the only one with orders with her who the seizures in the street like the maritime seizures and her wind mentioned but i mean and ketamine being sees as part of the same concerns so again giving you an indication of these are the 'd same groups that are in both interested in the substances. but along that the same lines as always dr james there in bradford sent us a comment he's an assistant professor of history from boston bring us up a 2nd now what this means not just for afghanistan but for the international market

. who the international mortgage of the of dentist and methamphetamine is extremely cheap compared to the course the. companies would nor the traffickers would be incurring in other countries and they would to touch the pull and the the fund that is going to stand in use naturally occurring in federal really undercuts the calls to the trafficking organizations in other. countries they're either having to deliver for most of it will preparation or they're having to do food chemicals and this is using the p. 2 if you know to prove the link for that or. with other precursors which greatly increases the cost to the trafficking organizations ok i'm never going to comment from dr proffered actually that's as you would have. scouse other merchants as

a major source of unset any ends does not bode well for the world obviously ringback but especially asia which has a dramatic growth in the demand from salamander last 2 decades but also is really a symptom of this environment and this this will glow wallace at marketplace which candidate approaches to drug control haven't worked and they haven't dealt with the drivers of demand so i think more long term solutions and sustainable solutions to this are going to need to focus more on reducing demand and that's as a public health approaches to drug addiction and possibly even decriminalization of use will do more to reduce drug supply in afghanistan mcinnis up well what do you think about the idea decriminalizing drug use in afghanistan. i think that the post tells a political economy and i've learned this clearly for a major part has been shaped by the progression and trafficking

drive and i also think there's a direct correlation between the. coalition military presence on the ground and also the no enforcement activities basically that has focused on. a counter that could take efforts so i think the trend that we have been noticing specially post 2014 after the quick correlation. drawdown in the last one stone has been the sharp rise on the. production and trafficking has and out if you think when the law enforcement efforts so i do believe that there's a stronger. law enforcement company but i'm not particularly sure that currently it's. streamlining and lee. in the counter-narcotics.

but you clearly in the form of decriminalizing marked as the. drug control does it have a position on legalization or decriminalization of drugs that gives them. well from a lot of the comments made to flee a health response with regards to drug treatment is definitely more in line with her punitive response so putting people in jail for using drugs is definitely an outdated. philosophy if i'm not a good way of addressing this problem so definitely looking at a community based psychosocial response to drug treatment will be much more effective than punitive measures at the same time you have organized crime groups that are profiting out of this organized crime and will continue to profit out of the activities and really chasing the money it really comes down to not the

criminalization wolf the useful decriminalization of the actual trafficking of djibouti there you need to take. concerted action to prevent the traffickers who are international who are prepared to prate of the weakness of the society you know the people who are involved in this in the wrong areas as you said are not getting rich but they might be making a living in a way that that they don't have other options for right now david i think you mentioned colombia as example or maybe as mark someone mentioned earlier in the show we have a video comment from someone in our community this is from shabnam the seamy she's the executive director of conservative friends of afghanistan who also brings up colombia as an example of how to approach those. however contrary to popular assumption feel it's a truck trade can actually create development opportunities and have a role in peace building for example you could accomplish coca farmers use money from that crops to invest in natural and education or community projects to build

bridges owns we've roads this is not an easy problem to solve but that's all the more reason to drop an open mind and invite the input of the people afghanistan the food greatest impact holding on to a failed international policy of war and drugs will never produce peace in what i see. today but i'm going to pair that with a comment someone just made in our youtube group there about ephedra has tons of additional uses is there a way that we can actually turn this into a legitimate crop if not take away the condom if that these areas have found around the planet. it has been a legitimate crop for a number of years i mean it's a crop that if you look at the work we did in ghastly people were harvesting this very marginal levels and taking it to the pharmacists in a major provincial center and has been shipped to india i mean it has legitimate uses either is all or it's fodder or medicinal crop but you know there's

nothing as attractive as using it to produce methamphetamine and much of the shift towards the say in afghanistan is a function of global developments including some of the developments in iran well as a colleague of mine alex out of home shown when iran squeeze down on its meth lab suddenly all of the tree care says that mark was talking about they had to source supply from somewhere and they came to afghanistan and some of the construction workers brought their skills back some of the afghans his truck to work has brought their skills back set up laps and again very local effort started producing this stuff to push back into iran and now we have a very good quality cheap products that is finding its way all the way to australia as mark says the profit margins are great on this i where we we basically work for about $30.00 a kilo but this is this is good quality crystal meth and it is now moving

across southern africa is piers to be moving in southern africa eastern africa sri lanka and as i say turning up in australia where they say the purity level is equivalent to that of other other countries that have a much greater history of methamphetamine production. mark so there's no advantage to the meth coming out of afghanistan there david saying that it's kind of a good pure product is one how do you tell when you find meth in south africa that it's from afghanistan into well why in the world would it be advantageous. george the middle him enough going to have the export road methamphetamine is for its crystalline which is a new clear indication of it's already extremely pure so the it would be difficult to without an extremely will forensic analysis to determine whether the methamphetamine has come from

a plant based service for hood river or if it's pharmaceutical or 'd chemically based so a lot of the. belief that is coming from afghanistan would strain from the trafficking route and the people who've been involved in the in the truck investigations that into the the actual seizures what we have been seeing though in afghanistan is as well as the pure crystalline mittens that i mean there are lower grades of mitten firming becoming available in the market and these are going to be traveling to and distributed domestically in the country and this is being done under the name of tablet a lot of people are assuming that it was ecstasy that was actually m.d.m.a. was in these tablets but from our root with the undercover police forensic lab or treat we are finding out now that at least 70 percent of these tablets to contain methamphetamine as opposed to. any a mode which is supposed to be the listen radiance are going very harmful for society in the countries methamphetamine tablets appear in what you are calling

meth on them or we're running out of time but they're a couple more questions here from our online audience vinnie wants to know is there a corresponding decrease in heroin use with the increase of back does anyone know marcus mabry you have or david where there were some hints of use that would be done recently that suggested that by the b.b.c. actually and they were talking to some of the meth users in couple and some of the uses there was we're talking about the fact they used both and they talked about these products are spies a bit like on the supply side their brothers. people are because another plea drug case because i want to i want to bring you in here dee you know but the taliban's best position on this and if they came down and put a complete crackdown on as something would be welcome by the population there. you know that's something that i kept long time to intervene did you can she do you talk about a problem dollars actually looking now. linking it to her security and

corruption and the country. unfortunately the way tall of one engage on. the stick and equally be a local drive her conflict of the programs that destroy so strong what they're hearing it's actually i mean given you a stream kind of far non-state actors including. assault and there have been conversations around. the reduction and level of drug production i'm chalking out around the time when the top ones are governing the country but clearly from what you're seeing right now and you're actually in for just me being a dirty word or taxing it at this point but if they were to take over it's unclear whether they were allow that to go or if they're just happy to tax it now to to fund the wars that goes on there well that's it that's all the time we have for today i want to thank all of my guests for joining us on this discussion of course

of a topic afghanistan that we will keep watching here in the stream of al-jazeera english and there was when he was on the show thank you it's lovely to see you and i will see you again next.

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officials are warning that hoffa 1000000 lives would have been lost by early next year well got to say the vast majority of the world's population need not worry about adverse reactions to the fires of biotech coronavirus vaccine to health workers in the u.k. suffered symptoms of allergic response to the vaccine after it was administered to them on choose day people with a history of serious allergies and now be urged not to take it. the philippines is one country where many people already suspicious of vaccines going to reports now from manila or the previous inoculation drive that had thirdly consequences. has 3 children she says not all of them have been vaccinated that's because she's afraid she says vaccines of course the death of many children although she admits that's just a story she's heard repeatedly. even if the coronavirus vaccine arrives i won't do

it even if it's free i will still not take it i am afraid she might get sick it's a sentiment shared by many here they see when it comes to getting vaccinated they are afraid to come forward the government says it wants to achieve herd immunity against the corona virus and plans to vaccinate up to 60 percent of the population but health officials say achieving this will be difficult because their budget for procuring vaccines is limited and many people are wary of be inoculated that's partly because of controversy over a vaccine campaign in 2016 health officials under former president been ignored chemo introduced a vaccine created to help prevent dengue fever it was said ministered in schools to more than 500000 filipino children but when president of the good doctor did to caucus later that year he ordered an investigation into allegations of corruption and misconduct against the keno and members of his cabinet made by the public attorney's office. critics say this was just political and an attempt to

prosecute members of the opposition but the series of public hearings and the government's crusade against them have largely contributed to with health experts called vaccine has events health officials admit that then give vaccine controversy a few years ago remains to be one of the biggest challenges in convincing many here to get immunized and the lockdown imposed by the philippine government. the stop the spread of corona virus has made the situation even more complicated now since the dengue controversy immunization rates in the philippines have fallen leading to a rise in curable diseases like measles and pulled you officials say the government needs to reassure people when they are worried. or the. more understate and. more transparent. in. their words to.

be health officials say they're working to improve and roll out the vaccination program across the country and the arrival of coronavirus vaccines is best opportunity for you to return to normality jim duggan al-jazeera manila to ghana now where the president is narrowly won reelection the result his opponents immediately said that they would appeal against the electoral commission says that a coup for a 51.5 percent interest reports now from. now before i do gave the 2020 presidential contest everything he could knowing that there are 76 this might be the twilight of his political career. is why delegations of corruption against his government i defy him president to defeat tribal former president for a 2nd time. although his party said it knew it won its this declaration that

confirmed his successful 2nd term but they're going to hand people through the results have made that loud and clear that the 2 parties the n.p.p. and d.c. must work together especially in parliament 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 stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to plays gonna when i see disaster be. proud to say to you it one it's this declaration that confirmed the successful 2nd template on the basis of the following election results and by the power vest said to me as a temp as an on the next a commission on donna and then attending office of the presidential elections it is

my duty and on up to declare not to down a coup i do as president elect of the republic of donna. at a standoff between security forces and supporters of the opposition candidate john muhammad preceded the declaration although they may have forced a change in venue for the announcement it wasn't enough to save their candidate from defeat an angry protest or says they will never accept the victory of a call for i don't know upbringing no no no no let me go look at the done that's the real message me i don't like this and it's not we'll be out of work and we are not accepting does not mean we're going to miss out result. many party loyalist and the rest of the nation look to former president john muhammad to rein in his supporters so as not to plunge the country into chaos he says he will but he's also not conceding defeat i want to states categorically and shaming that i'm not

congratulated any person. nor attention be made to steal this election we will resist it. tensions between supporters of gun us dominant political parties have been on the rise even be. election day despite the deployment of 63000 security personnel and a peace pact signed by the leading candidates at least 5 people were killed in post-election violence. protests like this while what most people go. through an already tense situation why some business owners decided to me. the last time i'm not sure what he's tense and kind of was 8 years ago. no position candy did not do tempering of the result and filed a petition with a election tribunals. and although supporters of president for i do say they want

to hold back the celebrations. across gonna. the talks president is in azerbaijan to help celebrate his close allies victory again so i meet him in that conflict over disputed territory press a top out of one joint very leader in the cemetery where soldiers have been laid to rest a military parade is due to start shortly i'm back at the turkey bank has a pleasure during 6 weeks of fighting in the mountainous region to go on a compact which ended last month let's go live now to see of course you know who's standing by for us in istanbul and in sin and what's this all about what's the significance about one being there for these celebrations. well next this is a kind of celebration of us our base john's military victory over the number no car of our conflict against armenian forces and no need to mention that turkey has been a key supporter of us are based on military because since the former since the

former conflict back in 1990 s. when i was a very fresh state without an army since they lost a lot that time since then the turkish military has been supporting them in order to establish their all national army and has been training they are serious for this so this is seen as a joint military victory especially as their very john's presence and how mali have put earlier he said this is a joint victory for us both turkey and us are bijan and this is seen as a step to take in a towards you 90 it within the turkic world he also said that this is a victory for all turkey countries so basically this is kind of a celebration fs the full of this victory for us our of asia and for so for also turkey what else can we expect from this trip forwards. well turkana is our bridge on has very have they have very strong ties make

a special their own energy because turkey is an energy dependent country and imports a lot of gas from a survey gen and they have joint pipeline projects that would carry gas to europe and other parts of the world and of course through this military victory and turkey as well a tree so for turkey i also would like to see its military presence more in azerbaijan as is all we know turkey and russia will be observing the peace process and they're not going to care about conflict turkey and russia are stablish in joint military observation post after the turkey is going to be staying in kind of a part of us are not inside not going to care about but for turkey it is very important to have a military presence in as our base which is very close to caucus is in order to be able to expand its military presence to the turkic world as well because as their base john is turkey's crossing point in for monitor to the to the

caucasus and other turkish took in turkey speaking countries but of course this is this is going to be a little bit fragile because while being there there are some other regional players like russia both john and turkey will need to be very careful while keeping this new 5 diplomatic landscape but today we are expecting 2 countries to sign many by little agreements along with one on a stop wishing a joint media platform nick or its influence voters and consumer reports from them . so let air on al jazeera coronavirus budget battles relations with turkey look at the packed agenda for divided. as the summit. yes an unmanned rocket makes a pick impact will tell you about the failed. space that.

they ne jame on sink into this it push some rather heavy showers into southern parts of vietnam of them funny a show is to answer the philippines some west of weather just coming back into southern parts of thailand around the mill a peninsula edging across into some monstrous and the showers to continuing across indonesia more of the same as we go on through saturday have a little disturbance just to the south of this actually that's going to feed more heavy rain into the northwestern side of australia now the tropical just coming back and that will just push its way down towards broome as we go on through the next couple of days the best rains best start to the rainy season for parts of northwest lost radio as a result of 2 tropical disturbances and this 2nd one that's going to say that west

the weather down across the northwest of the country as we go on through friday joining up with the west weather that we already have easing down into the interior by this stage then it will ease further south where it's making its way across the nullarbor as we go on through saturday at of that we've got northerly wind so very hot in adelaide temperatures picking up to around 35 celsius will warm up in sydney to around 23 degrees but to the north of that there are some heavy showers those showers running all the way up towards for it's been by saturday. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya the effects of devastating. flooding well my feeling somebody does livelihoods 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. well again you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths just past 3000 in one day for the 1st time that exceeds the number killed on september the 11th the world single worst terrorist. there in celebrations in ghana as president not a coup for i do was not really declared the winner of the election electoral commission say he was the 51.5 percent of the vote beating the opponent his opponent john muhammad he says he will fight results in court. the turkish

president is in azerbaijan to join celebrations for his clothes close allies victory against armenia and they called for 10 disputed territories reza type one joined as their leader. in a cemetery where soldiers lay to rest. were in jail refugees in bangladesh who fled suspected genocide of miramar or in the grip of a severe mental health crisis a report by the fortified it rights group called torture in my mind found that nearly 90 percent range of muslims have symptoms of depression it also says 84 percent of experience emotional distress and just over 60 percent shows signs of post-traumatic stress disorder about a 1000000 range of fled to bangladesh in 2017 during a fierce military crackdown me and most military. leaders summit say in brussels will meet on thursday and friday lots of divisive issues dominate the agenda including sorting out a coordinated response to cave in 19 their relationship with turkey in

a budget crisis which has isolated poland and hungary let's go straightaway just at last and he joins me live from maps of damages observing events so step not just on their agenda lots of other issues to discuss and differences to bridge. exactly d's are really tough times for the european union and now also a no deal breck's it is seriously looming but that's not the only issue on the agenda which will be discussed in the next 2 days the main issue is a vital 2 trillion dollar budget and also corona rest recovery fund that's been locked by especially hungry and poland for the last couple of months they were threatening to veto it because the northern european countries under the leadership of the netherlands had put extra conditions to this money saying that countries who want to get a part of this money need to abide by the rule of law democratic principles that

have been accepted here in the european union looking at the legal system freedom of press now poland and hungary are being accused of backtracking on these democratic principles so there was this condition put and now after weeks of negotiation thing germany has found a compromise with these countries saying that the rule of law will still be put as a condition but sanctions will be delayed basically if hungry and poland fight disagreement or fight this compromise and go to the highest court in europe that only sanctions will be applied and that could buy them at least another 2 years so this is the compromise on the table today the netherlands has already said this is the bare minimum we don't want to compromise any further so these discussions will still be quite heated poland and hungary are carefully optimistic that the deal will be made because it's very important this money has to be released soon because

especially the southern countries here in europe are really eagerly waiting for it because they suffered so much from the corona pandemic and also this money is linked to imports and climate emission cuts that the u. is about to make 55 percent emission cuts which are tied to this budget and they need to approve this budget really really urgently now or start thanks very much in the rest of us in the report from istanbul. we mentioned breaks it and breaks it talks between leaders from the european union and britain they've broken up without a clear decision with us live on the lead in boris johnson agreed negotiations to break months of deadlock should continue through the weekend for britain reports now from brussels. this was the 1st time in months that the british prime minister has traveled personally to brussels and the importance of the dinner with the european commission president cannot be exaggerated to deadlock in the technical

negotiations the hopes of salvaging a trillion dollar a year trading relationship now rested on political compromise firstly over the etiquette of face masks. on all. night it was. just outside the commission building the union flag was hosted for the 1st time since january but when boris johnson's motorcade departed 3 hours later the assessment from the u.k. side was downbeat significant obstacles and very large gaps remain said a spokesman unclear whether these can be bridged live on the lane statement described a lively and interesting discussion but also admittedly clear understanding that the positions remain very far apart because 18 teams have been asked to reconvene in one last effort to find common ground but on sunday a firm final decision will be made promises questions from sir both sides have political red lines and compromise is difficult before travelling to brussels boris johnson had traced a restless session of parliament when i can say is that this country will be ready

for whether we have a canadian. solution and there will be jobs created in this country throughout the whole of the u.k. not just in spite of rhetoric but because a break to. understand alain is also under intense pressure to protect the integrity of the e.u. single market. there can listen and outside of especially 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. but future proofing a level playing field between the 2 is challenging the e.u. is adamant that britain can't continue to have free access to the single market if it also wants to divert should be used and it's a rules but britain is equally insistent that the e use attempt to block the u.k. to european rules is an unacceptable infringement of sovereignty analysts see the

need for compromise on both sides it will have to understand torts country does not have 100 percent of the market access can also not take over. a lot of that use rules that it needs to have a lot of regulatory freedom but it's very much on the at right now and it all depends on boris johnson whether he's willing to make the compromises that are required european leaders and heads of state arrive here in brussels later on thursday for the final european council summit of the year no clearer as to what the trading arrangement with the u.k. will be just 3 weeks from now and even if a deal can somehow miraculously be struck before january the 1st ratification obvious is highly unlikely in that kind of time scale it's a messy end to a very messy year paul brennan al-jazeera brussels the u.s. justice department is investigating the finances of hunter biden the son of the president elect among areas under scrutiny of biden's business dealings in china he

says he's confident any investigation will show he has done nothing wrong revelations will draw more attention to hunter biden's financial history that undermined his father's white house campaign well joe biden's transition to power is moving ahead with his nomination of a retired general to be secretary of defense if confirmed lloyd austin would become the 1st african-american to lead the pentagon the nomination has drawn much praise but also some concern i did to castro as this. retired general lloyd austin has served in the u.s. military for 4 decades rising from west point graduate to leader of u.s. central command as the leader of u.s. forces in iraq austin oversaw the withdrawal of troops under the obama biden administration and austin was a diplomat it was not an easy task he build relationships with our counterparts and with our coalition partners austin said wednesday as defense secretary he would

continue to work to strengthen coalitions america is strongest when it works with his allies. and over the years i've worked hand in hand with their diplomatic colleagues and partners around the globe and with this 1st day in what we're able to accomplish together biden says austin is a skilled leader respected by troops and admired for his integrity if confirmed he would become the 1st black u.s. secretary of defense leading a military where more than 40 percent of active duty members are of color but it is personal experience helping inform our efforts to ensure that our armed forces and select the full strength and diversity of our nation that black latino asian american native american women l.g.b. t. service members are treated with dignity and respect but asked his nomination also bring some controversy u.s.

law calls for a civilian led military requiring top brass to have been out of uniform for at least 7 years austin has been retired for 4 years which means he'll need a congressional waiver jim matt is was the last defense secretary who got a waiver but members of congress said then their action was a one time exception now 2 democratic senators have already said they will not approve a waiver for austin and the retired general may face tough questions about his recent work for a defense contractor so many dig out some dirt of some current real we're. drawing what out there this. has become ready for those who don't want to see. her often says if confirmed to biden's cabinet he would approach the job of u.s. defense secretary from a civilian perspective and surround himself with civilian staff but it is congress

he will have to convince castro al-jazeera wilmington delaware. opponents of a $23000000000.00. arms deal between the u.s. and the united arab emirates have failed to block it the u.s. senate the top administration plans to sell f. 35 fighter jets in advance reaper drones to the gulf country the president approved the sale as a side deal to the u.a.e. is normalization agreements with israel france's data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest fine of $121000000.00 to google the watchdog called canel said that google had to broken french rules on advertising trackers no news cookies and isn't has also been fined $42000000.00 for breaching the same rules bill said that both sites didn't seek the consent of visitors before advertising cookies were saved on their computers and facebook has been hit with lawsuits from the federal trade commission and almost every us state they cues the company of using

a bio berry strategy just snap out rivals and his car like explains facebook could end up being forced to sell some prized asset. it's the biggest social media giant in the world with more than 3000000000 uses across its platforms but now facebook's iconic thumbs up is facing a legal sums down the company's stands accused of using illegal tactics to dominate the industry 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 over the past 15 years it's bought up some 70 companies but it's the purchase of the photo sharing app instagram in 2012 for me a $1000000000.00 followed by the messaging app whatsapp 2 years later that

regulators have called into question then i was asking the court to consider breaking it up the federal trade commission and other authorities have tried suits and celebrants 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 there is more to focus on our actual little bits on our conduct and also on potentially rolling back some of those mergers facebook says the deals were approved at the time and call the government's argument revisionist history but it's not the 1st time it's come under scrutiny for its practices last year it was fined $5000000000.00 the largest penalty of its kind for previously violations and it's now the 2nd tech giant to face a major legal challenge this year that's after the u.s. justice department sued google for violating competition laws for many of the movies seen as a government crackdown on big tech power and they did

a lot to protect these companies so they could not remain grohl but facebook has grown to such a size that it doesn't need protection by the government any want more and it needs to beat it. and the government's take a closer look because if we do allow monopolies to get this sort of control over the over the the industry then it what it does it stifles competition the lawsuits are the biggest anti trust cases to enter the u.s. courts in more than 2 decades and they're expected to be battled out for years to come carly al-jazeera italian football legend has died at the age of $64.00 rossi was the hero of its least 982 world cup win where he was top scorer and named best player he also won 2 italian syria titles with events and rossi was said to have been suffering from a terminal so the football world has also been mourning donna who die late last month a multi-million dollar test launch by space x.

has ended in spectacular failure. yes things 16 story unmanned rocket which is known as starship as an 8 year old successfully but then when it came back down the landing on a concrete pad that did not go to plan they hope that this series of rockets will one day take people to the moon to mars and the u.s. aerospace company didn't seem too fazed about the explosion and their broadcast with a message up next s n 9. for a let's have a quick check of the headlines here on out to 0 and the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths has passed 3000 in one day for the 1st time that exceeds the number killed on september the 11th world single worst terrorist attack. doctors

say most of the world's population needn't worry about adverse reactions to the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine to health workers in the u.k. suffered allergic reactions to the vaccine after it was administered to them on tuesday people with a history of serious allergies and now be urged not to take it they have been celebrations in ghana as president and on our crew for i don't know who's now really declared the winner of elections electoral commission say he received 51.5 percent of the votes between opponent john hama who says he will fight the resulting court now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite join hands stand shoulder to shoulder and work our 2 plays ghana where she deserves to be a prosperous and dynamic member of the global community making our own unique contribution to the growth of wild civilizing. the turkish president is in

azerbaijan to join celebrations for his close allies a victory against armenia in that conflict disputed territory these are live pictures right now recep tayyip erdogan joined the leader. and they're attending this military parade which is going on in the capital baquba turkey backed by john during 6 weeks of fighting in the mountainous region of no go in a car back and that ended last month ranger refugees in bangladesh who fled suspected genocide in manama are in the grip of a severe mental health crisis a report by the for to fight rights group called torture in my mind found nearly 90 percent of the hindu muslims have symptoms of depression it also says 84 percent have experienced emotional distress about a 1000000 ranger fled to bangladesh in 2017 during a fierce military crackdown by me and was a military. more news here on al-jazeera right after people and by foot. as joe biden prepares for the united states to reenter the paris

climate treaty boris johnson and u.n. secretary general antonio terrace co-host a virtual meeting of world leaders we'll bring you live updates and in-depth reports as country struggles to meet their climate targets special coverage on al-jazeera. as covert 19 spread around the world in 2020 attention inevitably focused on those nations with the highest rates of infection of the taliban or the best or worst track record at tackling the disease but the pandemic has also had unexpected consequences for people far from the headline making events elsewhere one such place lies deep in the heart of kenya where a community reliant on international tourism has been left struggling to survive.

good afternoon from the canyons. on the 27th of march this year we announced a nationwide dawn to dusk a few men to get on the 5th of april we augment it this but i'm now seeing the sation of movement into and out all of a number of companies that due to the evolving nature of the disease globally international travel restrictions are here but extended. when a new virus appeared in blue hunt china in the late 1900 few would have imagined

its far reaching effects within weeks of it 19 was spreading around the world within a year that had killed one and a half 1000000 people hospitalized millions more and forced nation after nation into law. as international travel has ground to a halt the social and economic consequences has been catastrophic in even the most remote places far from global headlines one such place is something in the heart of kenya where the community reliant on foreign tourists in the u.s. struggling to survive. this is the story of just some of it's been. my name is on old you clearly born and brought up in the area called all known for nairobi. one called. next to a big border so i've been growing up seeing. birds and so i don't have

a beautiful radio but next one just. all i know it is a story go and. animals have been his passion since school and his career choice was inevitable. from the moment he heard he could earn a living showing visitors the remarkable wildlife of his country he was hooked he studied the subject at college and has been a god ever said. but now that outlook is on set. during the busy time especially during day of migration to the high seas and. out of home for 4 months nonstop. which means i'm busy almost every day. especially for me. having specialized in photography safari. the cockpit of common shut everything down like everybody's home for now. well the main problem with our

communities especially some of the community generally like my size and just released who leaves around international that's. my go to tell them defensively tourism. i've been one of them we've got to meet our immediate jobs around. the village it's really like immediate box as a fight against god even friends cause in so why not tells things like waitress waiters and barman. housekeeping so that's the image we did our job loss for them. another thing i went to this company a lot of them they like sitting in nearby villages just off of cultural experience . to see the lifespan of the site and that's on the roof and now that's also it's couple. but today on notice trying to do something about that he's on

a mission to deliver food to some of the communities in an amount somebody who nationally says it's internationally famous for its wildlife and before the pandemic visitors where much needed source of income. what i don't like a box of boodle and what makes them go to one of the special especially toward investigation is the culture. that people from bottle the beautiful friendly. and also. nature friendly has a vision. it's a beautiful place also towards elephants up close. the elephants and some who are afraid. to watch them to stay with them towards their behavior behavior. is presented with yes trimming. their creator while so many of the river.

after a long drive to resign are not confined to me set up camp for the night. foster morning. we are heading to women village go to seoul all in the program is to visit village was found in 1900 b.c. khalifa rescue. the women who have been forced to post marriage in and from secret . so we are distributing food stuffs from the nations because the women have been literally depending on bodies. and also with us we have a tablet. so the tablet is equipped with. education programs to enable the children to catch up with that occasion they have been out of school for 3 months now. we started.

in 1900. their women who have been kicked out of their homes. and there will have been a lot of programs because. they don't have anything to depend on whether with their children under their children have been dying because of a problem because so good to see it's already. navia so a lot of program and many women died because of a problem and that's what made us the come unstuck want to. bring back is the found a matron emerging one. woman sanctuary for survivors of jenin the fountains and young girls running from forced marriage a. fellow i know well we're going to wonder thank you so much the women who live here proud of. but like everyone else in the area the village has withdrawn from

visitors. who depend on producing. because when the thought is come we get the entry fee or they've been it or so we said our jewelry for the $2.00 are you. going to donate to is a matter of understandable and celebration the longer the pandemic has gone on the harder it's been just of all i. know you have a very hard time you're in this village and in fact everywhere especially those people will depend on quite a scene because of this quote on the right of we have a lot of problems this coroner wrote a deceptive here. because there's no food. and even you can't go to the center because also of the. police are arresting people if you don't have

a mask you'll be arrested and even if you don't go to the market because you have nothing to well by feel 6. people have to have somebody very much because of hunger so we really appreciate for this food. you guys you have brought to us to really help and we share with our community because if now they see this food here everybody will come and ask for food because people are dying because of hunger not even because of what i know it's because people have no food look at all these children they don't have food. we are really having a rough time and difficult life our lives have changed. because of last words in. 2 artists are really always helping us and feeding us. and we have never seen such a disaster. or on which even we don't know which kind of an animal is this what

all the koran because we just had coroner is deceased which is killing me. and you could see miss and i. saw rebecca considering your stay away from the city how did you get this information about. in fact we didn't have that r.n.'s yes of course on our right as it's just something we had it's just these people talking about koran so that's just how we had it and we don't know what's going on and we don't know how it is we don't know signs and symptoms of koran and we just heard it from people talking but we don't know this thing nobody of is no 2 people are not going around to give people in a support this one. that's the only room thing always we depend on it twice and we didn't know something else so this is not

our jewelry this is what we defend of this is our life we make our jewelry and we sell you this why did. you get. so we have not to are just now coming so all women they displayed every morning. their jewelry. and they they wait for everybody to come in and buy their jewelry so that they can have something for their food you know this is their living but i'm not even a single not even a local. so we have nowhere to sell our children and that's why we have a lot of problems because of koran our writer. it's a very hard life now without 2 of those tours it's become painfully clear to many here that over reliance on tourism has been a mistake and that they should find other ways of making

a living but that is easier said than done even basic farming distraught with problems you know. somebody who community. we really like it in the livestock we love life talk. kind gentle livestock but us women you know we cannot go past us you can't it and also we have to have life stock before but the there was great so we are very scared because it is a shoot us and then they took our our lives so that will also made us a bit scared of have to livestock as we know. and you know our children are going to school our boys are not to people to weren't really able to descend and we don't even want that because also we are on the other side we are the women who are trying to keep peace this is not the place of funding or to grow anything

nothing can grow here. we don't know how to do it we are not good on that we are good only let's talk we are good on looking after life because we grow up looking after our livestock but the being the fam we can try but it is tough it had to thing for us that. i don't know what we can do with that one because it is something we don't know how to be speaking about alternative source of livelihood apart from tourism it's kind of a challenge for them. because the few people i've met very good even no idea on what to do next absolutely no idea where there is life after going to go back to the life they have not thought of any option b. 2 for their livelihood we have learned

a lot through this quarter and we have what next. to do if we don't have to address what the next we are stealing when we don't know what to do. there are problems everywhere in the something. on order it's off to meet. one of the veteran rangers who looks after the national parks wildlife. as they head out on a routine patrol all seems normal. is worried about the pandemic some long term effects on the animals he. has.

come a mark on a kid who says i. may . spend your. what i thought was fun and i think at rest when. i opened. my new. or number. 2 i use it or and when i want what i want my 2000000 to bestiality w. when you can i. am quite amazed at. the sea of time and other range is a cascade of events forcing hungry people into desperate acts with calamitous consequences among our kyung 5 quantum guy ok apart see them on the south side of africa where one of the name i want to organize to go. live or should i.

tough a tough imam by gotten up a sign in a community i'm honestly addressing the rules to our english when i'm. about. he did that one where is your. mumbai held wife to say given what to our community you are planted myself will i get to your who knew all about. that as i can say again now the question is even you want to involve the community with wildlife day when myself my opinion is say been a fitting from day one less because of what you buy the shoes of lions attacking community. cows and goats if they get compensated out of that then they will not see a need to kill the lion their revenue they call little to collect from tory's some of their money should be set aside to do community projects dig bottles for them

provide water clean water with school for them. sponsor the children the brightest children even to higher education so all the community will definitively support their wildlife mumble quality. what you're monophonic what a man like you to take on our lives if you u.s.s.r. was just when your ear. remember i tried a scene where i poke with from unassisted to see come number 23. isn't quite 10 i.q. to varying but then with a d m i'm not sure what's working with. us and what we are quick to robert heibel. fadia sama just through.

the course tried to go i try to see what you were taught to india and what your manners on or your. means what it was again afterwards if you a year to live at the heathrow airport if you quit where's your nonna you don't keep them honest on your replacing for interest with people from kenya would go some way to sailing the income gap here. but despite the remarkable wildlife on offer many kenyans haven't paid much attention to the wonders on their doorstep the challenge is how to change that we no longer have international tourists coming at all we were wondering if these commitments and do we still wait for the international authorities we're not sure they'll start to come but if the education was passed to the generation it could have even have

a lot of locals coming to visit. and definitively that will bring back the jobs where people work with quality because it the parks of course then generate income and their livelihood we come back we'll see about it 40 percent of kenyan is involved in twenty's in one way or another you have people just. supplies bigotry goes foods to this big fight because they're no longer do that. depends on tourism. so. our web site now and the moment the tourism is affected it affects literally a lot of people in the end arnold believes it all comes down to education and the importance of including local 20. percent of the people living. in one of the mistakes just like the never got information or maybe they never.

given to do question on wildlife they never develop an interest. well for now they'll be encouraged. documentaries on how countries that might encourage them to come but for the coming generation i think it's absolutely important. topics should be even introduced in the curriculum from childhood. so that the information is imparted to them you know how important i'm. hoping to change the perceptions of. arnold has become involved with a number of new initiatives and today he's off to help with one of them. was to village. to them for actually number so we have like 56 to do today and we just love that involves children in consideration program is very positive.

so that the fact that the mission even the next generation projects like this have gained the support of some unlikely kenyans including a senior government official in this day job is deciding what kenyans can and can't see on their cinema screen. you know one of the things that we are doing actually as a board is to try and get our kids to our i'm interested in their own country and in their in the in the main in the dynamics that the final we are in our lives is one of the key areas and you do that by one giving them and you just look like then giving them exposure they need to know that they need to see one of the things that we must do therefore is to introduce this kind of education in our schools is that we have to know not just that they're there they're local vanilla fine but they're they the importance of analysts and how to relate with analysts on what is above

mine i my parents of never up to now taken me to any place to see animals i took it myself one day definitely i'll take my children to go and see animals. and fun i'll be alive i'll take my son to see a lion to see. a buffalo when he grows up i'm sure i will do that then to children i think the base anything we can teach our children right now the crew leave with they're sent out to local appreciate the beauty of nature and take care of that nature and then vitamin down to them knowing that the are a legacy to leave for their children our kids in to be taken to the national park in front of their education why would these people come for overseas to see animals in the national park when the bozo buffalo live next to the parks not even sure any

interest in visiting those places be a buck or 2 more that women village in the from go to camp to visit the village and to mitrovica one of our papas was to bring his tablet and when we were here we managed to take some trips of a different kind of animals you know to show them a cinema on a boat the elephants in some brutal eco system so it doesn't float it has generated a lot of power so we have to work to bring all our. well you like if something really good and it is given would for the war of. kenya remain i would you know and we have to laugh and most so our children

we must in them about where you live because it makes this country or so beautiful and bring many people to come and see our beautiful well you're. educating kenyans to learn to love their wildlife may 1 day allow national tourism to replace the foreign income that has been lost to corinna virus but it will take time. when the pandemic tore through asia europe and the americas in the early part of 2020 africa seem to be relatively less effective now in common with much of the rest of the wild kenya is experiencing a 2nd wave of infection. the discovery of suitable vaccines may eventually improve matters but wealthier countries will be able to access them more quickly than developing nations and even then international travel and the tourism it brings will take years to fully recover the consequences of covert 19 will be felt in

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struggle to gain public trust once a coronavirus vaccine is rolled out. a new report finds most working of refugees fell for from depression and emotional distress will be speaking to the all for. facebook has used its dominance in monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and facebook has had. lawsuits that could force him to sell prized assets what's up and instagram. and support italian football legend how low cost to die rossi who spearheaded his country's world cup triumph in $98.00. 64. and we begin in europe where a dispute over a major recovery fund is pitting poland and hungary against other european countries a $2.00 trillion dollars package is at stake but it's told because of differences

over political leadership heads of the $27.00 e.u. nations are going to be meeting in brussels in the next few hours to discuss this and other major challenges like brags that the coronavirus and them ik step fastens been following the story from them she's joining us now step we were regarding this as being essentially deadlocked has there any been any sign of any movement to toll in this funding deal. it has been that locks for months already and hungry and poland have actually threatened to veto the whole important 7 year budget that there are going to decide on in the next 2 days so germany as the leader of the european union at the moment has been very fact to glee franticly been discussing a compromise on wednesday it became known that there is a compromise on the table there's a draft and where it all comes down to is this rule of law condition that has been

imposed by certain northern european countries on this budget saying that every country who wants a piece of this money which is not only the budget but also a very significant corona recovery fund they will have to abide by democratic principles that are here in the european union and hungry and poland have been accused for not abiding by these principles looking at the independence of the judiciary freedom of press corruption and hungry in poland have definitely been objecting this they were threatening to veto it so now they have made a compromise saying that the draft the rule of law will still be on the table but sanctions will be implemented immediately and hungry and poland can take this rule to the highest court in europe which will take them a few years and wind them a few years and so most of the countries are now saying they're sort of happy with this compromise the netherlands has already said this is the basic minimum we don't

want to compromise any further so the discussion will be still be pretty heated today and tomorrow although it looks as though we are one step forward at least to trying to get release some of those funds for covert 1000 relief as you were talking about and you're and as i mentioned the netherlands has been playing a very key role in all of this what parties have been playing. yes the netherlands has been leading the so-called 5 frugal countries the scandinavian countries the netherlands and austria have been saying that money can or not just be given to countries just like that that needs to be conditions especially because they have been complaining that the southern countries like greece and spain and italy have been spending too much that there weren't any economic programs and so there has to be more control over the spending in these countries and then also apply this rule of law condition because there is a lot of concern especially here in the netherlands about the democratic values in

the european union especially being eroded in the eastern part of europe so that's why these discussions have been pretty heated and they will still be pretty heated but this money is important as you say this corona pandemic has cost a lot of money especially to spain and italy and other countries and they need this money pretty badly and urgently start thanks very much indeed just to advance and bring us up to date from. well another key challenge for in your leaders is the braggs it trade deal of course although it's not officially on the agenda british prime minister abbas johnson and the european commission's chief of all the lane have until sunday to reach an agreement all bran and reports from brussels. this was the 1st time in months that the british prime minister has travelled personally to brussels and the importance of the dinner with the european commission president cannot be exaggerated after deadlock in the technical negotiations the hopes of salvaging a trillion dollar

a year trading relationship now rested on political compromise firstly over the etiquette of face masks. on all. night it was. just. outside the commission building the union flag was hosted for the 1st time since january but when boris johnson's motorcade departed 3 hours later the assessment from the u.k. side was downbeat significant obstacles and very large gaps remain said a spokesman unclear whether these can be bridged live on the lane statement described a lively and interesting discussion but also admittedly clear understanding that the positions remain very far apart negotiating teams have been asked to reconvene in one last effort to find common ground but on sunday a firm final decision will be made promises questions from sir both sides have political red lines and compromise is difficult before travelling to brussels boris johnson had traced a restless session of parliament when i can say is that this country will be ready

for whether we have a canadian. solution and there will be jobs created in this country throughout the whole of the u.k. not just in spite of rhetoric but because a break to. understand the lane is also under intense pressure to protect the integrity of the e.u. single market. they can listen and outside of especially 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. but future proofing a level playing field between the 2 is challenging the e.u. is adamant that britain can't continue to have free access to the single market if it also wants to divert should be used and it's a rules that britain is equally insistent that the e.u. use attempt to block the u.k. to european rules is an unacceptable infringement of sovereignty analysts see the

need for compromise on both sides it will have to understand towards country does not have 100 percent of the market access can also not take over. a lot of that use rules that it needs to have a lot of regulatory freedom but it's very much on the at right now and it all depends on boris johnson whether he's willing to make the compromises that are required european leaders and heads of state arrive here in brussels later on thursday for the final european council summit of the year no clearer as to what the trading arrangement with the u.k. will be just 3 weeks from now and even if a deal can somehow miraculously be struck before january the 1st ratification obvious is highly unlikely in that kind of time scale it's a messy end to a very messy year paul brennan al-jazeera brussels ok let's go live to nadine barbara in london who's covering this for us nadine given the fact that the negotiators have essentially until sunday that's only 3 days from now which to try

to come up with some sort of a solution given the fact they've been unable to achieve that for the last several months it doesn't look good for these negotiations does it. rob it really doesn't unless you believe that this is all some kind of very very large scale brinkmanship the british foreign secretary dominic robb has been on the airwaves in the last couple of hours saying britain will do whatever it can to try to finally reach a deal and he didn't rule out the talks actually going on beyond sunday those talks between michel bunny and david frost the chief negotiators which is starting again on thursday after that dinner which lasted several hours which clipped but which clearly lead to no meeting of minds it was really a clash of ideologies if you like you heard in paul's report there about the insistence on the single market being protected and so the level playing field for britain boris johnson apparently said he couldn't accept terms which didn't respect

britain's independence and sovereignty they are not getting anywhere near or at the moment we've just heard from the lion she's put out a tweet saying negotiations are still ongoing but the end of transition is near there's no guarantee that if and when an agreement is found it can enter into force on time we have to be prepared including for not having a deal in place on the 1st of january she then details contingency measures for a no deal scenario which the european union is bringing forward haste she calls the basic reciprocal and the road connectivity measures as well as trying to ensure that fishing fleet still have access to their mutual waters in the short term there is major disruption expected if there is a no deal not least at british ports the confederation of british industry on thursday has said that there is a significant

a very real difference between no deal and the swim deal that's on offer in terms of a hit to the british economy but we see that on the e.u. side they are saying we are getting ready we can take this britain all along. and even on thursday in parliament the prime minister boris johnson said if there is no deal britain can prosper but businesses here and on the culture that are extremely worried about the prospect of doing things very much indeed bob are talking to us from london. well the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths has passed 3000 in one day for the 1st time johns hopkins university says more than 3000 people died on wednesday that's more than the number of people killed in the september the 11th attack almost 290000 people are known to have died in the u.s. since the pandemic began or japan has recorded 2810 new corona

virus infections on thursday the highest number of delhi cases so far tokyo is the hardest hit part of the country and the governor is requesting bars close earlier and people have been urged to avoid nonessential outings japan's experiencing a 3rd wave of the pandemic the government says it will buy 10 and a half 1000 deep freezers to store vaccines is preparing for 290000000 doses from pfizer madonna and astra zeneca. we will the philippines is one place where many people already suspicious of corona virus vaccines jamal and alan dorgan reports from manila on a previous inoculation drive that had deadly consequences. has 3 children she says not all of them have been vaccinated that's because she's afraid she says vaccines have cost the death of many children although she admits that's

just a story she's heard repeatedly. even if the coronavirus vaccine arrives i won't do it even if it's free i will still not take it i am afraid she might get sick it's a sentiment shared by many here they say when it comes to getting vaccinated they are afraid to come forward the government says it wants to achieve herd immunity against the corona virus and plans to vaccinate up to 60 percent of the population but health officials say achieving this will be difficult because their budget for procuring vaccines is limited and many people are wary of be inoculated that's partly because of controversy over a vaccine campaign in 2016 health officials under former president been ignored introduced a vaccine created to help prevent dengue fever it was said ministered in schools to more than 500000 filipina children but when president of the good doctor did to caucus later that year he ordered an investigation into allegations of corruption

and misconduct against the keno and members of his cabinet made by the public attorney's office. critics say this was just political and an attempt to prosecute members of the opposition but the series of public hearings and the government's crusade against them have largely contributed to with health experts called vaccine has events health officials admit the bangor vaccine controversy a few years ago remains to be one of the biggest challenges in convincing many here to get immunized and a lot. imposed by the for the government to stop the spread of corona virus has made the situation even more complicated now since the dengue controversy immunization rates in the philippines have fallen leading to a rise in curable diseases like measles and pulled you officials say the government treats to reassure people are worried. by present or that there's. more under siege brought by. to be more

transparent about b r. r d and there's no way to. be health officials say they're working to improve and roll out the vaccination program across the kitchen and the arrival of coronavirus vaccines is best opportunity for me to return to normality jim duggan al-jazeera manila for the more ahead in the news hour including cementing strategic tides turkey's president descends in as any military parade to celebrate its victory in a volatile cutback will be live in istanbul. keeping up the pressure india's farmers refuse to back down over their demands for changes to the government's controversial new farm laws. and footballers unite once again a day after one of the most notorious incidents in champion's league history.

at least 17 people have been injured in northeastern spain after a far broke out in an abandoned building the mayor of the city of but alone i says more than $100.00 squatters were living in the building it's just north of boston on the roof collapsed before firefighters had time to evacuate those innocent. a prominent afghan female television anchor and her driver have been killed in a province down identified gunmen opened fire on the lala my once caught soon after she left the house she was an advocate for the rights of afghan women and children no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. where he refugees in bangladesh who fled suspected genocide in myanmar in the grip of a severe mental health crisis a report by the fortify rights group called torture in my mind found nearly 90 percent of rangers have symptoms of depression they'd also says 84 percent of

experienced emotional distress and just over 60 percent show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder about $860000.00 rohingya refugees are now sheltering in bangladesh they began arriving in august 27th teen than me and mine as army launched a military offensive against their here in iraq and state un investigators said the attacks were carried out with genocidal intent that families have been living in crowded camps and cox's bazaar for more than 3 years us friday bangladesh began relocating more than 1600 refugees to a remote island in the bay of bengal without their consent let's talk to andrew riley is the author of the report and human rights researcher at 45 rights is joining us on skype from barcelona thank you very much indeed for being with us just give us an idea of the kind of problems that there are here refugees are facing. thanks very much for having me on as you describe in the intro

we're seeing very extreme rates trauma sent duns anxiety symptoms and depression symptoms among. numbers that are out the world health organization estimates so the world health organization estimates that and situation somewhere there are that those out there and you're facing in these kinds of emergencies only about 15 to 20 percent of adults will generally experience mental health symptoms like this and you can see that our rates are much higher rate of 4 times higher than that among europeans and bangladesh it's not just about adults though is it we're talking about whole generation really of children who are growing up under these circumstances and having to deal with these problems only yeah exactly and the key and the key ingredient for being able to heal from these kinds of symptoms of mental distress is that a stable environment where your basic needs are met and where you can have a situation of safety that you can recover and you know from these cut kind of distress and that situation is not the kind of situation that they're living in the

refugee camps in bangladesh and it's also not the kind of situation that they arrive from when they but me and my this isn't a situation of course that is new we've been reporting on this for quite some time certainly since turning 17 when all this began has anything to change to help that i think in terms of dealing with the mental issues that they're facing over those years. well i would actually say that probably deteriorated even more there has been no sign for myanmar in terms of a desire to change the systematic or base that direction that drive mental distress there's been no efforts to end bangladesh to really improve the campaign dish and to provide a stable living standard and it's situation where randy refugees can recover and there's constantly these new stressors being introduced. the relocation of refugees are potentially against their will and some cases. and other other

stressors such as obit are constantly and these kind of things rage the distress levels even more as as women or for the organizations that are there trying to provide some sort of psychological help what are the main issues is it the fact that the specific elements of the specific psychological problems that the individuals are facing or is it the circumstances under which they are existing i know that you were talking about that you were saying that in your opinion bangladesh has made little effort to try to change things but in when it comes to actually handing out the help what are the biggest issues there. yeah look there needs to be a larger scale and coordinated and culturally appropriate response that these men these mental health the stress organizations are doing an amazing job providing. treatment mental health services however. responding to this as only

a mental health crisis misses the point we usually look at mental health as a public health area. of service provision but a lot of these elements of distress posttraumatic stress disorder depression what we're seeing in our research is that they are what is underlying this distress is the systematic pervasive perspectives in myanmar the violence experienced in myanmar and the every day living stressors of being in a refugee camp so these are much more systematic drivers of distress that are much more complicated to address and that is really necessary in order to truly address the underlying causes of this mental health the stress and is really over 45 writes we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed thank you rob. ghana's president who. has not only won a 2nd term in office as opponents have voted challenge the results monday's vote

they've called it a brazen and shameless attack on our democracy for years i did. not know for i do gave the 2020 presidential contest everything he could knowing that there are 7 to 6 this might be the twilight of his political career. is why delegations of corruption against his government a defiant president to defeat tribal former president john hama for 2nd time. although his party said it knew it won it's this declaration that confirmed a successful 2nd term but they're going to hand people through the results have made good loud and clear that the 2 parties the n.p.p. and e.c. must work together especially in parliament 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 stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to plays gonna where she deserves to be. proud to say to you with one it's this declaration that can climb to successful 2nd time put on the business of the foregoing election results and by the power vested to me as a temp as an on the next i'll commission on donna and then attending office of the presidential election it is my duty and or enough to declare not. as president elect of the republic of donna. i to standoff between security forces and supporters of the opposition candidate john muhammad preceded the declaration although they may have forced a change in venue for the announcement it wasn't enough to see their candidate from defeat an angry protest or says they will never accept the victory for i do.

not know they'll let it go look at. the senate will be out of work and we are now accepting does that mean we're going to miss out is that. many party loyalist and the rest of the nation look to former president john muhammad to reign in new supporters so as not to plunge the country into chaos he says he will but he's also not conceding defeat i want to states categorically. and family that i know congratulated any person. no attempt should be made to steal this election we will resist it. tensions between supporters of gun us dominant political parties have been on the rise even before election day despite the deployment of 63000 security personnel and

a peace pact signed by the leading candidates at least 5 people were killed in post-election violence. protests like this while what most people could afford added to an already tense situation why some business owners decided to me. the last time elections were his friends and was 8 years ago. then opposition candidate non-alcohol i do tempering of the result and filed a petition with the election tribunals. for now those supporters of president for i do say they want to hold back best celebrations. across gonna. talk as president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory against me and the conflict of the disputed territory of of all the presidents i should tell you about iran is attending the military parade that is taking place in years heading capital ankara had backed by john ging 6 weeks of fighting which ended last

month let's go live to san costello who's in istanbul for us how significant is it that no one is there for the celebrations. well rob 1st of all this is a celebration of 2 countries 2 brother countries of a military victory against our men you know with another nagorno-karabakh conflict as was the turkey and as our big jump puts it through it's a one nation with a 2 states and. everybody knows turkey significant military support to our garbage on army during this $44.00 day conflict so today's military parade that we we are seeing on the 16 right now is a proof of that a celebration a feast of that turkey's 2nd commando brigade which is also named as the legendary brigade in the turkish military history is there involved joining this military parade besides the military equipment that. very army be used during the conflict

and the turkish military equipment supported as their army the military vehicles that have been captured from the armenian armenian forces during this conflict are presented and. this is the pictures show that actually so as every job president earlier and turkish president don had a brief speech just right ahead of the parade both said that this is a victory not only for us our bridge on turkey but also for the whole turkey countries and turkey turkey is present our dance said that turkey and as our vigil will continue to cooperate also in other fields beyond military and diplomacy and also he referred to the islamic army of the carcasses a military branch of the form of the former ultimate state army that was

significantly in new walled in the caucuses campaign of the world war one so after the symbols talked during this during this parade drop also. if i go back to our earliest speech he said that our mania must be held accountable for its what he called atrocities and able to dissent that the says start of a new era in the region it's for sure that john sees turkey's support in this conflict as a moral value as 2 countries name each other as brothers but let's not forget that this military presence in the caucasus for turkey is very important especially to be able to expand its diplomatic and military presence to caucuses and to reach out to turkey countries for turkey that's why this was a very significant victory for 2 countries and this show today is also very

important again for both leaders so i'm thank you very much indeed that sin and cos you're also talking to us from istanbul. starve the other here's everton. probably there because something of a change in the weather across central parts of canada we've had some record december hate to recently but cold air now diving out to sketch manitoba sinking across the the prayer is sliding further south with same temperatures what types of getting up to 1980 just a day or 2 back in denver struggling to get to freezing on friday says something which i use them for the show you like re some snow there in the northern flank of this system moving across the plains we got some wetter weather rolling over towards the appalachians turning pretty heavy as we go on through saturday more snow there just up towards the lakes easing over towards ontario showers there just around you england central parts of the us a little dry live we have got some snow once again are rolling off the rockies further west we are seeing it turning a little colder in the southern parts of california so that's good news but more

the way of wetter weather up towards pacific northwest and pushing back into british columbia still got some rather wet weather just around the western side of the caribbean a little more in the way of showers there back towards costa rica maybe into panama as well funnel cloud and rain that's making its way across hispaniola could see a shower or 2 into jamaica it's cold enough in havana but it's in the process of working up. still ahead on al-jazeera. amanpour not to denver field where protesters have turned out to brought attention to the point 4000000 longer it. dissipates in argentina as congress prepares to vote to a bill to legalize abortion. and in sports the n.b.a. is most valuable player is being tight lipped on where he's going next fight is going to have those details coming up.

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you'll. be watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour european leaders are going to be meeting in brussels to iron out differences over the coronavirus recovery plan the u.k.'s eminent departure from the block is also expected to be discussed. the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths has passed 3000 in one day for the 1st time that exceeds the number of people killed on september the 11th the world's single worst terrorist attack. ghana's none i'll call for i don't now only wins reelection that i took

commission you say he received 51.5 percent of the post between opposition leader and former president john muhammad homicides in the field. france's data protection watchdog says it's fined google once again the watchdog says the tech giant has been fined $121000000.00 for breaching european union online privacy rules in a statement it said it also imposed a multimillion dollar fines an amazon for breaching the same rules related to tracking loser data facebook's been hit with lawsuits from the federal trade commission in almost every u.s. state the accuse the online company of using a buy or very strategy to snap up rivals and this car a leg explains facebook could end up being forced to sell some prized assets. it's the biggest social media giant in the world with more than 3000000000 uses across its platforms but now facebook's iconic thumbs up is facing

a legal sums down the company's stands accused of using illegal tactics to dominate the industry 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 over the past 15 years it's bought up some 70 companies but it's the purchase of the photo sharing app instagram in 2012 for me a $1000000000.00 followed by the messaging app whatsapp 2 years later that regulators have called into question then i was asking the court to consider breaking it up the federal trade commission and other authorities have tried suits and celebrants 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 there is more to focus on our actual looked on our conduct and also on potentially rolling back

some of those mergers facebook says the deals were approved at the time and call the government's argument revisionist history but it's not the 1st time it's come under scrutiny for its practices last year it was fined $5000000000.00 the largest penalty of its kind for previously violations and it's now the 2nd tech giant to face a major legal challenge this year that's after the u.s. justice department sued google for violating competition laws for many of the movies seen as a government crackdown on big tech power and they did a lot to protect these companies so they could not determine growth but facebook has grown to such a size that it doesn't need protection by the government any want more and it needs to beat it. and the government's take a closer look because if we do allow monopolies to get this sort of control over the over the the industry then it what it does it stifles competition the lawsuits

are the biggest anti trust cases to enter the u.s. courts in more than 2 decades and they're expected to be battled out for years to come kyra leg al-jazeera opponents of a $23000000000.00 arms deal between the u.s. and the u.a.e. have failed to block it in the u.s. senate the top administration plans to sell f. 35 fighter jets and advised repro drones to the gulf country the president approved the sale as a side deal to the u.a.e. as normalization agreements with israel the u.s. justice department is investigating the finances of hunter biden the son of the president elect among areas under scrutiny on hunter biden's business dealings in china he says he's confident any investigation will show he's done nothing wrong the revelations will draw more attention to hunter biden's financial history that undermined his father's white house campaign. farmers in india are continuing their protests against new agriculture laws they've blocked major roads and they're now

calling for more citizens' negotiations with the government of so far failed as far as stick to their demands elizabeth put on them has more from the state of auto protests. on one side of this busy highway between the states over there predation delhi remains closed to traffic as thousands of families continue to camp out here that's after farmers rejected the government's proposed amendments to farm laws on wednesday now it's been 2 weeks that tens of thousands of farmers are blocking 3 key highways into the indian capital region protest against laws which they say give large corporations unfettered access to the indian agriculture sector and that will see their prices for their projects minimum prices driven down and so the government said that it made 3 amendments addressing farmers concerns about the deregulation of the market including rising assurances of minimum prices to fall

say that it's not enough to amend goals which were created without consultation with which were pushed through parliament which inherently favor large corporations and that the government must repeal them and calls for bigger protests up only growing farmers are asking for the blocking of 2 other major highways between the cities of delhi and our grand delhi n.j. pool on saturday and they're calling for more nationwide protests on monday. to the democratic republic of congo where a political deadlock is threatening security protests turned violent after the president threatened to dissolve parliament president francis security took office last year when joseph kabila sat down all for 18 years in power despite a peaceful transition their political parties on still it all adds securities pop. the u.d.p. s. has tried to change some laws and court judges but those attempts have been met by

resistance from members of the f.c.c. that holds the majority united nations envoy to the i.c. says the instability could seriously affect other economies in the region or combine the most of really is an analyst at the center for research on the congo he's joining us on skype from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for being with us given the nature of the relation between the 2 sides ever since the k.t. came to power was it inevitable that we were going to reach this point. the preeminent if even that as we discuss it look at the configuration 'd of the election of 2018 on one hand they declare president the winner of their lection on the other hand we had all the elections we had legislative elections and in these legislative elections we had. the king control of the senate and the national assembly pretty much the same that on one hand the security on the other the 4 delicious lady never voted for camilla which is not possible so we all know

that the elections in 2018 was not free and fair i was rigged and of course this was inevitable that a year almost 2 years after the elections there is a crisis where truly should security that's not interested in suspicions and strive to assert its power and try to rally the populace on fortunately this crisis is happening when the course big people are suffering in the east we still have instability we have a 22000000 kohli's obverse of starvation according to the world food programme and this political apparatus is not going well for the always population itself and the hope for con will these to form is to force. in our analysis one they need to be accountability and that can only happen if there 'd was a tribunal to try to cram as of yesterday we have people in the government today was causing this havoc we've been the administration but they committed many crimes

but the quake has called for the creation of our international tribunal for congo and the 2nd one is actually because of the political epis we have to look actually doing the elections again this should be a transitional period removing the bad actors from the system and a lowering process that people can trust and have a result that reflect the will and the interest of the police people given the fact that joseph kabila stepped down in 2018 what is it that keeps him so strongly in power. community has not stepped down really and as i just indicated come kamil a feeling for control of the country right now joseph kabila has a military force there on b.b.'s 2500 soldiers paid by the call his government protects him secondly the. senate we have a 108 senators 92 of the senators are from party it controls the senate and am

selp is a senator for life according to our constitution in the national assembly 500 member of. the national assembly 350 of them are from communist party from that even the economy 'd and the businesses in the country is still fully in control what is at stake right now is the 2023 elections everyone is positioning themselves for the 2023 elections and thus providing for the can be allowed to run for the 3rd term in 2023 which would be against the congress course because he has placed forces titian of court judges in there who can interpret the course interest saying bad after 2 terms if you leave power you can come back again these judges will allow him to run again so this is really a positioning for the 2023 elections of their share as i'm going to have to interrupt you there because unfortunately time is against us but we appreciate you

giving us your expertise in this thank you very much indeed thank you. protesters in brazil have appealed to congress to extend emergency financial aid it's been a lifeline for millions since the start of the pandemic but the government wants to stop it by the end of this month want to have has more from rio de janeiro. the idea was to build a makeshift slum overnight in front of brazil's congress a stark reminder that 10000000 brazilians are going hungry and depend on the government's emergency aid to survive the qubit 19 pandemic but the police made the protesters take down the boards they were only allowed to set up the 5 metre long table with empty plates and bullets but not for very long. so. this is the food brazilian poor receive bullets instead of rice and beans.

since the pandemic began brazilian n.g.o.s huge prize has staged peaceful protests meant to cause a visual impact and raise awareness like this graveyard narrow scope a cabinet after brazil beef you before a 2nd largest tuna buyers hot spot on the new congress clash that says it's the 1st time we're being silenced. we've all my our friends are there millions of brazilians are unemployed and depend on the government $60.00 monthly handout which will end in january they'll have no means of putting food on the table nor making their voices heard. it's a dramatic situation people living in the sometime in the heart of rio de janeiro know too well. was 8 months pregnant lost her job as a store cashier and cannot find another government handouts are her family's only source of income. unemployment rate has reached

a record high if we can't work and we stopped receiving emergency aid how will we survive. until the pandemic geography used to work as a guide taking tourists to the spot that made the sun come up a slum internationally famous it was here that michael jackson filmed the video of his protest song they don't hear about has. the government already cut the megan's aid by heart i mean while prices in texas have tripled and infections are on the rise again only 4 years after his visit to from from ah michael jackson was painted here on this wall this time fighting the cold good 19 pandemic people here are still living in poverty but now they're facing the coronavirus unemployment and then uncertain future with the possible end of the government's financial they say michael jackson song they don't care about us a lot in war contemporary monica are not here all just there are rio de janeiro

argentina's congress has such a vote on whether to legalize abortion later on thursday the bill passes it's going to be the 1st major country in latin america to approve the procedure that's only allowed in cases of rape or if the mother's life is at risk to the supposed reports from want to service. the legalization of abortion has been a demand by women's rights groups in argentina for years. many many cup professionals agree dr asada reyna 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 end up here before but i think 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 proles tall 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 opposite the chemical privateer patients arrive here with organ failure and the characteristics of a septic abortion hot 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 lose their lives doctors working in this hospital i love that when women are all here they're thrilled to say that because i mean a lot pregnancy because it is illegal and they're afraid of being reported to the public eye argentina's congress is set to vote on the legalization of abortion it's

a divisive issue in this 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 will be different it would've been better than nothing done 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 and that is secure and free in argentina but resistance to the bill runs deep pope francis is argentinean and has repeatedly opposed any attempts to legalize abortion. 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 the voice reproductive rights

distribution of contraceptives and sex education the mostly conservative sectors see women as objects and not as people with rights. writes that women in argentina i hoping will soon be frying into no. one a scientist. a multi-million dollar test launch by space x. has ended in spectacular failure. the 16 story unmanned rocket known as starship s and 8 launched successfully the landing on a concrete pad didn't go according to plan it's hoped this series of rockets will one day take people to the moon and mars the u.s. air space company didn't seem too fazed about the explosion that ended its broadcast with a message up next as any 9. still ahead an al-jazeera in sports

move from italy on the death of the world cup when you know that story coming up in just a few to see. the

way. the sport here is far rob thank you so much how low rossi an italian football legend who led his country to world cup glory has died at the age of 64 rossi won she would tally in syria titles during his 4 years with event says but it says time with the national team that will be most fondly remembered. rossi was a top scorer named best player at the $92.00 world cup in spain is 6 goals led

italy to victory at the tournaments which he almost missed because of a match affixing scandal well joining us now from rome is general jervey c.l. he's an associate professor at rome trey university thank you for being with us italy are 4 time world champions where does that 982 when rak a well i think that for many people like me clearly ranks 1st i mean the 1st to do well in the thirty's so all e.a. you know very few people are the memories alive the 1st 2 wins they be they bring to have the pain of the fastest era with any and all for all the propaganda machine of course the total got one in 6 or so it was great but in 82. came out as the underdogs italy. brazil i would lead if strongest british in argentina the world champion engender money or the reigning european

champions well clearly italy came i mean from the from from down to win and that was something that nobody will ever forget now rossi almost missed that world cup to tell us about the build up to it. well actually it was called in the score the morning a huge criticism he only up came back to our troll football and he only played 3 games because he had been accused of a big fixing scandal 2 year and 4 years to paid for for 2 years it could not play if it was actually the trainer of the national selection the latents aware of that we insisted in picking him up because he had been one of the big surprises of the 1978 argentina world cup so he came out against all odds in actually in the 1st 3 games even really play well so it was a huge a cloud then actually the the trainer was actually accused of bringing the ross

theme even when he was maybe not in top form and maybe needed want him to play exactly because of the scandal that would take a marathon and he was a hero at napoli died if he weeks ago in our aussie 4 italians is it a comparable loss. well i i speak as any a polito and an artist as many of us we've been trying a lot of maradona that is a huge gift for and my lord was a global hero also yet the strong political position 8 of the underdogs and enables i mean easy to say my god and actually learn able stadium as you know really entitle to the mall a few days obs a full bottle see is the hero is a symbol of generation when you tell he was coming out from the long 1000 sail in peace i was a very by politically divided and polarized kountry after. all of terrorism and

actually let's be 39982 came out in the hope for an instant support of the 1980s i mean you cannot really well but i mean they're all still there really initial is made it famous but actually it's very initial thing as a matter i don't think it's global any naples there is there is now clean and i would rather say there will be never any plea and there will be like marilyn ok great to get your thoughts generative a.c.l. thanks again for being with us you're welcome. isn't it in sudan says around madrid fans can be proud of their team after the book to spot in the group stages of the champions league was blanco speed process launching glad back to nail to a dance as group be winners french striker karim benzema getting both goals or elles german opponents also progress despite the loss to their more disappointed part of the we and all the rail madrid fans can be happy and proud of the team this is what i care about and i think that the fans today must be very proud of the team

they know that we are always going to give everything on the pitch against all odds today i really enjoy the game as a football fan. paris st germain and is sam are produced a display of solidarity before resuming their suspended match of players from both sides took in the before the game restarted at the park the primes on choose a both teams walked off the pitch after the 4th official allegedly used a racist term to identify that share check share assistant coach here we p.s.g. went on to win 51 and advance as twins. it is some 4 here they took a strong decision on tuesday and they showed the solidarity with the opponents it was a strong decision and a brave decision in the locker room it was clear they wanted to show this kind of reaction. and the n.b.a.'s most valuable player yamas and tito combo is refusing to comment on whether he'll sign

a contract extension with the milwaukee bucks the 26 year old is locked into the 2020 season with a box and hasn't told december 21st to sign a 5 year 228000000 dollars extension or and tour free agency next summer despite having the best regular season record the past 2 years the boks have not made it to the finals since 1973 season. i'm didn't focus in basketball i know this is really really big the city of milwaukee and now with the n.b.a. world and the media world and all that but you know i've been a private person. whenever you guys. decide something and i sign a contract you guys probably not before i know. ok and that is all your support for now rob back to you fire thank you very much indeed and nick clegg's going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories including that meeting in brussels by european leaders they're going to be trying to iron out differences over the

coronavirus recovery plan but also going to be talking about drugs that as well i'm rob mother so more details of course on the website al jazeera dot com live from. the latest news while not all of those this plays out within the theater facts of the recount they say this there is they heard from family members and relatives weren't enough to make them come here rather than think back detail coverage challenged the government faces is aware that it can persuade people to keep abiding by restrictions when they need to work to defend. from around the world the

so-called swedish model may be under some pressure but a full lockdown is unlikely and perhaps even impossible. canada a country of promise and opportunity for migrant workers but with little protection from the state authorities many are forced to pay extortionate relocation phase and a saddled with heavy debts as an adult and i love to come to canada here 7000 a lot of money in one brave group of indonesian workers speak out and seek justice for their exploitation migrant dreams a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the world food program will receive the nobel peace prize for fighting against hunger and the use of starvation as a weapon of war we ask executive director david beasley how the challenge of combating global hunger would be met in the age of the coronavirus pandemic the nobel interview on al-jazeera for we understand the differences

and similarities of cultures across the wound. cinematic. al-jazeera when you don't means and current affairs that matter to. how does the. form. of. the european union prepares for a new deal breaks that the commission she 1st live on the land presents contingency measures. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in the program cementing strategic ties turkey's president turned to military military parade to celebrate its victory nagorno-karabakh will be live in istanbul. latin america has been hit hard by the

coronavirus pandemic now there are concerns a back seat will be out of reach for the poorest nations. a new report finds of most were here refugees suffer from depression and emotional distress to speak to the author. so let's begin in brussels where you leaders are preparing for the u.k. to leave the block without a trade deal the european commission chief has presented contingency measures to members if negotiations for peace breaks at trade deals fail at british prime minister boris johnson and the european commission's chief 1st live on the land have until sunday to reach an agreement or brennan has this. this was the 1st time in months that the british prime minister has travelled personally to brussels and the importance of the dinner with the european commission president cannot be exaggerated to deadlock in the technical negotiations the hopes of

salvaging a trillion dollar a year trading relationship now rested on political compromise firstly over the etiquette of face masks. on the. night it was. just outside the commission building the union flag was hosted for the 1st time since january but when boris johnson's motorcade departed 3 hours later the assessment from the u.k. side was downbeat significant obstacles and very large gaps remain said a spokesman unclear whether these can be bridged live on the lane statement described a lively and interesting discussion but also admittedly clear understanding that the positions remain very far apart because 18 teams have been asked to reconvene in one last effort to find common ground but on sunday a firm final decision will be made promises questions from sir both sides have political red lines and compromise is difficult before travelling to brussels boris johnson had faced

a restless session of parliament what i can say is that this country will be ready for whether we have a canadian. solution and there will be jobs created in this country throughout the whole of the u.k. not just in spite of rhetoric but because a break to. understand the lane is also under intense pressure to protect the integrity of the e.u. single market. they can extend outside of us they should 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. but future proofing a level playing field between the 2 is challenging the e.u. is adamant that britain can't continue to have free access to the single market it also wants to divert should be used and it's a rules that britain is equally insistent that the e.u. use attempts to knock the u.k. to european rules is an unacceptable infringement of sovereignty analysts see the

need for compromise on both sides it will have to understand towards country does not have 100 percent of the market access can also not take over. a lot of that use rules that it needs to have a lot of regulatory freedom but it's very much on the at right now and it all depends on boris johnson whether he's willing to make the compromises that are required european leaders and heads of state arrive here in brussels later on thursday for the final european council summit of the year no clearer as to what the trading arrangement with the u.k. will be just 3 weeks from now and even if a deal can somehow miraculously be struck before january the 1st ratification obvious is highly unlikely in that kind of time scale it's a messy end to a very messy year paul brennan al-jazeera brussels not a bobber is live for us in london so let him know progress is that we can now the

last chance we'll know monday morning deal or no deal. probably but we can't say for sure pull there was referring to a messy end wall the british foreign secretary has said that both sides do need phonology but he on thursday didn't rule out the talks between michele bunny and david frost actually going past the weekend but he said that so far it was clear that the e.u. was not offering anything that the u.k. could accept apparently boris johnson told the other side that he couldn't accept terms which didn't respect the ukase independence and sovereignty and as you heard in polls report it really is a difference of approach if you like that's that's really the bottom of this there is wiggle room but there's not much time and given that we're so late in the day you the 31st of december being the deadline the european commission has now put out term outlines for its contingency measures for

a no deal scenario it says that they're intended to ensure that fishing fleets have continued access reciprocal access for one year and to keep and road connections going for at least 6 months from the beginning of january so they're saying that we are doing all we can to get ready on the british side the message from the politicians is we can live with a no deal scenario boris johnson says the u.k. can prosper but it's a prospect that is worrying businesses on both sides of the channel and even if there is a deal. agreed in the next few days on those who live on the law and the president of the european commission has put out a tweet saying it's not clear that that can be put into effect in time before the deadline it's possible for it to be ratified after the deadline put into effect or transitionally but it's not clear from what she's saying whether she thinks it's

feasible or toll the talks as i say are ongoing but what will they say because they have no. increased monday the negotiators beyond what they failed to go to reach just a few days ago and after that dinner it really seems that there is a lot of pessimism in all quarters of the european union and here in britain or a not even typing thanks very much not in but there in london what breaks if not the only issue at stake a e.u. meeting where e.u. lead is are also expected to find out disagreements over the books budgets climate goals and response to the coronavirus pandemic the biggest focus of the 2 day meeting is to clear a stalled $2.00 trillion dollar coronavirus recovery package at the center of the dispute is poland and hungary who have taken issue over funds being tied to the rule of law and now there are hints that a deal may happen severson has been following the story for us from amsterdam so

step to listen what what have you been hearing. well yes a deal may happen but there's less off you miss him right now than a few hours ago when the hungarian prime minister said that you were quite optimistic that this transfer my search could be happening about the fashion and the recovery fund that in the last hour josh prime minister mark hurd has sat. down officiate reworded and that he has some serious questions what are we talking about is this a huge fund to that is not only the budget for the next next 6 years but also this significant recovery front for the countries that have suffered from the grown up and that maybe there are conditions put on this money from the northern european countries left by the nat'l and saying that countries who want to have this money they need to apply it to democratic rules that are. common here in the european union and they have accused hungary and poland for not abiding by these rules

looking at the independency of the judiciary and also freedom of the press and corruption so basically poland and hungary after these conditions were put in they said we're going to veto this this budget all together we're not going to agree with this so germany has now finally managed to make a compromise the rule of law will still be put on the table but sanctions won't be implemented immediately and the country is hungry and poland can go to the highest court in europe which will take them a few years to win in time but definitely it's going to be a difficult discussion still because the dutch were very keen on this rule of law and they don't want to go hungry and poland to have another 2 or 3 years to feel the sanctions and still get european money subsidies for their economies and other countries and the south of europe are really waiting for this budget and specially for the recovery fund because they have been suffering so much from the grown up

and that makes so there's a lot at stake here and a not a very difficult battle to win after this break so the discussion also didn't go very well last night. steadfast in the feeling that e.u. leaders meeting thanks very much that. what italian prosecutors believe a 4 gyptian security officials were involved in the kidnapping of an italian student who was found murdered in 2016 they say one of them might also have been behind the killing julio and again he was found dead on the outskirts of cairo 4 years ago the identity of his murder that remains unknown his body showed signs of torture before his death. farmers in india continue their protests against new agricultural laws but major roads and another calling for more citizens negotiations with the governments have so far failed us from the stick to the moms list with paranoia has more now from the state of progress. on

one side of this busy highway between the states over there predation delhi remains closed to traffic as thousands of families continue to camp out here that's after farmers rejected the government's proposed amendments to farm laws on wednesday now it's been 2 weeks that tens of thousands of farmers are blocking 3 key highways into the indian capital region protest against laws which they say give large corporations fettered access to the indian agriculture sector and that will see their prices for their projects minimum prices driven down and so the government said that it made 3 amendments addressing farmers concerns about the deregulation of the market including rising assurances of minimum prices but father say that it's not enough to amend goals which were created without consultation with which were pushed through parliament which inherently favor large corporations and that

the government must repeal them and their calls for bigger protests are only growing farmers are asking for the blocking of 2 major highways between the cities of delhi and our grand delhi and jaipur on saturday and they are calling for more nationwide protests on monday. turkey's president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies victory media and their conflicts over the disputed turchin going to occur a black president reza taupo to run it's attending the military parade this taking place in the very capital of. ankara back tons of jury 6 weeks of fighting which ended last month let's go live now to see the concealer who's a story about for us in istanbul and sit in for us more about the significance of president when being there for the celebrations. well nick this victory is not seen only a victory of the as our john military but also the victory of 2 brother nations as

both are there isn't turks call themselves and today's. today's. let's say the celebration of the week 3 is a sign that that confirms that it's a one nation with 2 states this is how truth and as our vision is have been calling each other for decades and during this military parade we have seen turkey's 2nd commando brigade present at the at the parade this brigade is known as the legendary every get that has been in world during 2 keys military intervention in cyprus back in 1974 which is known to be a heroic brigade you have we have seen the the military equipment that turkey also has provided azerbaijan's military in ventry plus the turkish armed drones fly being. being presented along with the armenian military vehicles that have been

captured by their many and forces during the conflict that lasted for $44.00 days 2 leaders both us are vigilant present and turkey's president had a brief speech right ahead of the parade currently they are having a tentative meeting and after this meeting we will see them signing by literally agreements between the 2 countries and having a press conference together basically 2 leaders underlined that this victory is a new is opening a new era in the regional politics and it's also a victory for all turkey countries in the region of course for turkey turkey having a military presence and as a garbage on is very important as true can russia are establishing joint observation centers in order to observe the peacekeeping process there. by turkey's going to be staying in azerbaijan territory not the not going to occur as russian

military will prepare trolling it's important for turkey to be able to expand its influence to the caucasus and to other turkic speaking countries in the region and turkey's president aired on stated that there are 2 countries by little cooperation will further more extend beyond diplomacy and military and also a mystery how mali era's their presence that azerbaijan are mania committed atrocities during this conflict in his words then are many a must be held accountable these are what 2 leaders as stressed and we will hear them soon having a press conference for more details about this or that meeting between the 2 leaders or i will be following the press conference as and when it happens is inevitably thanks very much. still ahead aaron odds are. down as president not before i do wins a 2nd term in office but not without controversy. and you said it's failed in their

effort to block the sale of military equipment to the united arab and. pretty quiet across china at the moment quite to into the korean peninsula we've got some bits and pieces of cloud right either side of japan for the time being but not too much to speak of high pressure dominates proceedings across much of china say that is why it is quiet some sunshine there in beijing about 5 celsius temps getting up to around 8 degrees there in seoul could get into the mid teens once again therefore you see the showers there on the side of honshu maybe a few wintry flurries easing across as we go on through saturday south of that will generate dry and full of that dry weather all the way down across

a good part of southern china still a few showers in play there that eastern side of taiwan some showers for the western side of in the meanwhile we're going to disturbance out into the arabian sea an area of low pressure that's just throwing off some western weather towards good herat will see that western weather just easing up towards my protection pushing a little further north which is because through the next house and then a westerly disturbance just rolling across northern parts of pakistan some heavy rain some snow there over the high ground up towards johm and kashmir binoche how the rain does pep up towards mumbai as we go on through saturday with a few showers for the west and gets. to inculpate a culture of knowledge. openness and pluralism worldwide and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity the sheikh ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and on

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but again you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories and a new european leaders will be meeting in brussels to iron out differences over a coronavirus recovery plan the u.k.'s imminent departure from the block is also expected to be discussed. italian prosecutors believe for egyptian security officials were involved in the kidnapping of an italian student who was found murdered in 2016 julio again he was found dead on the outskirts of cairo 4 years ago but the identity of his murderer remains unknown. turkey's president is in azerbaijan to celebrate his close allies a victory against armenia and the conflict over the disputed charge of new government kyra back ankara had backed by john during 6 weeks of fighting which last.

now the number of reported u.s. coronavirus deaths has gone past 3000 in one day for the 1st time johns hopkins university says 3071 people died on wednesday exceeding the number of people killed on september the 11th the world's single worst terrorist attack almost 290000 people are known to have died in the united states since the pandemic began while japan has recorded 2810 new corona virus infections on thursday the highest number of daily cases so far in tokyo is the hardest hit part of the country it's governor is requesting close early and people have been urged to avoid nonessential outings japan is experiencing a 3rd wave of the pandemic the government says it will buy 10 and a half 1000 deep freezers to store vaccines is preparing for 290000000 doses from pfizer and astra zeneca what is the global rush to get hold of emerging vaccines

intensifies there is mounting concern that low income countries will be left behind in latin america vaccination programs could drag on said for years when all repeller has this report. latin america holds only 8 percent of the world's population it accounts for roughly 30 percent of global cope with $1000.00 deaths but. it's arguably the hardest hit region by the global coronavirus pandemic. it is news that a vaccine could soon be on the way concerns about over low income countries having equal access. on wednesday the pan american health organization said the number of doses of the vaccine will not be enough for everyone at 1st some of the regions poorest nations will be almost entirely dependent on donated supplies of the vaccine the organization says that solidarity and the sharing of resources between the nations of the americas will be essential to successful international

vaccination efforts it's going to take some time it's time to take beyond 2021 so our arrival of the wars that we've set ourselves that will control transmission but really what we are eager to seek over the next in wax and broadly available but it is important to understand that strategic time and who are the nation across country is that these and. other concerns include the storage and distribution of the vaccine. in countries like guatemala and honduras recent hurricanes have severely damaged infrastructure complicating the coburg 1000 health emergency or must go levels because we may wish that inequalities did not exist unfortunately these populations will freeze greater complications if we consider the pfizer pixie prick sample which mother stored a very low temperature at about minus 70 degrees amounting that temperature becomes

complicated when trying to reach many countries for that vaccine to arrive in good condition. or more yes him as you know some countries like mexico. argentina and brazil have secured bilateral agreements with vaccine manufacturers these agreements guarantee that a minimum number of doses will be made available for the 1st phase of national inoculation programs. but for latin america's poorest nations health policy experts warn that social inequalities in limited supplies could mean that many may not receive vaccines well into 2023 when al jazeera gone as president. narrowly won a 2nd term in office. to challenge the results of monday's vote they've called it a brazen and shameless attack. from his. gave the 2020 presidential contest everything he could knowing that their 76 this

might be that. is why delegations of corruption against his government a defiant president to defeat. for a 2nd time. although his party said. it's this declaration that confirmed a successful 2nd they're going to hand people through the results have made a loud and clear that the 2 parties the n.p.p. and d.c. must work together especially in parliament 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 stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to praise gonna where she deserves to be. proud to say to you right one it's this

declaration that can climb to successful 2nd to put on the business of the foregoing election results and by the power vested to me as a temp as an on the next a commission on donna and then attending office of the presidential election it is my duty and or enough to declare not go down. as president elect of the republic of donna. at a standoff between security forces and supporters of the opposition candidate john muhammad preceded the declaration although they may have forced a change in venue for the announcement it wasn't enough to see their candidate from defeat an angry protest or says they will never accept the victory for i do. not know they'll let it go look at. the senate will be out of work and there are no accepted does not mean we're going to miss out result.

many party loyalist and the rest of the nation look to former president john muhammad to reign in new supporters so as not to plunge the country into chaos he says he will but he's also not conceding defeat i want to states categorically. and family that i've not congratulated any person. i. know what temp should be made to steal this election we will resist it. tensions between supporters of gun us dominant political parties have been on the rise even before election day despite the deployment of 63000 security personnel and a peace pact signed by the leading candidates at least 5 people were killed in post-election violence. protests like this while what most people will put forward added to an already tense situation why some business owners decided to

remember. the last time elections were his dancing was 8 years ago. then opposition candidate for i do tempering of the result and filed a petition with the election tribunals. now those supporters of president for i do say they want to hold back their celebrations. across gonna. opponents of a $23000000000.00 deal between the united states and the united arab emirates have failed to block it in the u.s. senate the trump administration plans to sell f. $35.00 fighter jets in advance reaper drones to the gulf country the president to prove the sale is a side deal to the u.a.e. east normalization agreement with israel. takes a closer look at the power of the f. 35 and what it sell to the u.a.e. could mean for the region the united states is agreed to sell 50 and yvonne stealth

f. 35 jet fighters and 18 drones to the united arab emirates a sale with the potential to change the balance of power in the region so why is the if that a 5 auger play the most powerful fighter jet in the world. first it's an unusual shape and the materials it's coated in make it difficult for radar to track the aircraft is nearly invisible to any ed defense system searching for it then it's advanced technology allows it to identify many threats at once and deal with them civil tenuously this will give the iraqi air force a significant edge and make it one of the most powerful in the middle east israel is concerned it will lose its so-called qualitative military edge in the region protected by u.s. law it means the united states cannot sell weapons to any of its regional neighbors that would put them on a par with israel there is now reportedly a discussion on how the u.s. will proceed with the possibility of the u.s.

could receive a slightly less sophisticated version of the aircraft the defense deal also includes 18 reaper m.q. 9 be armed drones the usa already operates chinese made on drones over the skies of yemen and libya but the ones who buy from the united states a markedly superior the reapers far more sophisticated with better senses and a greater range allowing it to carry a wide variety of weapons this model is certified to operate within a busy civilian airspace which means it can operate anywhere not just in remote rural areas both these weapon systems will significantly increase the u.s. military capabilities they're not defensive in nature and will enhance the u.s. ability to strike any potential opponent in the region. range of refugees in bangladesh are in the grip of a severe mental health crisis that's according to a report by the fortify rights group called torture in my mind it says nearly 90

percent of her hindu refugees who fled suspect the genocide in ma have symptoms of depression about 85 percent of experienced emotional distress and just over 60 percent show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder since 2017 roughly a 1000000 range you have fled to by her best during a brutal crackdown by men most military under riley is the author of that report in a human rights research to fortify rights he says officials in both minimal and bangladesh have done nothing to improve the mental health of ranger we are seeing very extreme rates trauma sent downs anxiety symptoms and depression among. numbers that are i've. rolled out organization estimates so the world health organization estimates and situation somewhere there are those out there and you're basing in these kinds of emergencies only about 15 to 20 percent of adults will generally experience mental health symptoms like this and you can see that our

rates are much higher 3 to 4 times i am. among the right refugees and bangladesh the key ingredient for being able to yell.