with the election behind us the republican party dumptruck the. us politics and society that's the bottom of it. 'd after a long night of rioting during a year leaders agree to a much more ambitious and missions card of 55 percent by the end of the decade. hello there oracle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a u.s. government panel endorses the use of visors coronavirus vaccine another big step towards a mass inoculation campaign. media tycoon and beijing critic jimi law is charged under the city's contentious national security law. and one more deal brokered by

outgoing u.s. president donald trump morocco becomes the 4th arab nation to normalize relations with israel. a european union leaders meeting at a summit in brussels has agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade this reduction compared to 1911 is seen as a big step up from the previous goal and there's been a record 7 percent dip in global c o 2 emissions this year that's according to preliminary figures from the global carbon project the group of scientists says the drop which they see as temporary is largely because of coronavirus lock downs that shut down industries and transport emissions fell 12 percent in the u.s. and 11 percent in europe but only marginally in china. speak now to pet canada al

he's chief research scientist at australia's commonwealth scientific and industrial research organizational c s i r o and he's in camera good to have you with this announcement by the e.u. it's a big target isn't it 55 percent drop animations by 2030 was it a commitment you were expecting to hear. not not and it's externally narry really from a science point of view we've been actually expecting or hoping that nations will come with these kind of dramatic level of mitigation as we have not seen in the past which will surely put as to the path to achieve the goals of kerry's agreement so it is extraordinary was an expected and will have wide and brought you know across the world what do you think prompted that do you think that it is that we've seen this year's reduction in c o 2 levels because of lock downs because of industry and transport coming to a standstill here that's created sons of new political well to address this issue.

yes so there's quite a few factors that there are there which certainly were in consideration for the e.u. to make these such a humongous announcement i mean 1st of all yes we have these big drop which in a way can help us to you know try to as we recover recover differently but it's important to understand that e.u. emissions have been already coming on for almost 2 they could very slowly but very consistently and really as a result of various structural energy system change in which you know coal has been dropped constantly renewable energies have been growing really fast and so these days in a way they're kind of banking on these investment that they've been doing over the last 20 years and also see perhaps an opportunity even economically to really become a green power in the wall of new technology and services so given that they've been

laying these foundations do you think this target as a realistic one. well it is an incredibly challenging target and i think the challenge is that this is nice jazz of how fires are going to be decarbonising the energy system but this is a challenge in which the entire era pain economy needs to be par off it is about the caras in the energy system it is about in the making the use of energy much more efficiently that we have actually done in the past it is about reducing emissions the higher emissions from the air the cultural system you know from the livestock from the use of her to lies is which the all the meat other non-si to greenhouse gases also very important and we'll need to redesign our landscapes so that they can help us to increase the carbon have taken removal of carbon dioxide so that we you know we can compensate for many hard to meet the gate

emissions sectors so it would be a really challenging as i said not just for the speed of it but because the entire economy will need to be part of it otherwise it won't be possible and of course the e.u. is just one part of the wild do you think globally speaking we're on track to meet the parents agreement goals that is a. a keeping the global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees celsius. so we are not but here's what has happened in a very recently in the last few months and daddies the political will has changed quite dramatically the specifically of those countries are at the top of that the meters in the wall so we've seen announcements from china we've seen announcements from the e.u. we've seen and in a soft enhancement from biden in the u.s.

but nevertheless an announcement we've seen it from japan from korea these are all top 10 in meters they all together are responsible for 60 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and they all have promised with different levels of. liability to really. achieve net 0 emissions either by 2050 in the case of most countries or 2060 for china so this is unprecedented this level of political commitment we just need to make this commitment a reality now. is leading the way absolutely let's get started showing some good news thanks very much for joining us there from camera a pleasure. a mass vaccination program is a step closer in the u.s.

after a panel of advisors told regulators that pfizer vaccine is safe and effective it paves the way for the shot to be authorized in a country that's lost almost 290000 lives to covert 19 classical hain reports. good bye to the continuation of the go to court it was at times a little hard to understand but that may have been the point to let the thousands of people watching the f.d.a. meeting know that they did their homework this was an independent panel of scientists and doctors going on line and in essence putting the phaser vaccine on trial hour and hour of testimony against the frightening backdrop of coppa death in the u.s. and at that made it about $55.00 out like every month over the next few months in the end after more than 8 hours of testimony the panel voted no we do have a. urging the food and drug administration to authorize the use of the 1st vaccine

that is shown to be highly effective at immunizing people against the virus once final approval is given almost $3000000.00 doses of the vaccine will be shipped out for immediate delivery within days health care providers and residents and long term care facilities will be given the 1st doses it won't be enough to stop the case counts rising along with a record number of americans who are now dying every day while health care workers are begging people to take the virus seriously we're exhausted we are exhausted and there will be no care for your family members if just continue. and 95 we can not have a drink of water for hours we are so idiot hi dana. you know and we're doing everything for egypt because we know that they cannot see their family. but in much of the country many elected leaders are also not taking steps to stop the spread restaurants bars even bowling alleys remain open to the

public and with hospitals filling up health experts are warning they may have to start rationing care basically deciding who can get treatment and who can't fight or says once it gets the approval it expects to be able to produce around $50000000.00 doses by the end of this year the one hopeful sign for a country in a terrifying fight one that right now it appears to be losing. al-jazeera marilyn's. the strain is prime minister says his government won't rush approval of the vaccine trials of a homegrown vaccine had to be abandoned scott morrison says he wants to ensure strains of full confidence and whatever vaccine comes through trials of the local one produce false hiv positive results and some of the participants morrisons morrison also says a story has contained in 1000 much more effectively than other countries naming this much pressure to approve a vaccine. prominent hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie

has been charged under the controversial security law that was imposed on the city by beijing allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces lives already in jail after being denied bail over a separate matter. has more from hong kong. it's a very serious charge he's facing and if found guilty he could get up to a life time in prison the as a number of cases already against him and several other charges including fraud for which he is currently in jail as he was denied bail but this is the most serious charge against him and the only one under the national security law several people a couple of dozen people have been already arrested under this national security law but only a handful have had charges against him in this particular case he was arrested in august and a massive police swooped on his media headquarters now he's the founder possibly the biggest and only pro-democracy media out local media outlets left in hong kong

here and police had just raided the newsroom and offices there and taken him out and a very very aggressive fashion jimmy lives also known for his close ties with the u.s. in fact last year he met up with the u.s. secretary of state microamp a and the vice president mike pence to talk about the situation in hong kong at the height of protests and since then he has called on the u.s. to safeguard help safeguard hong kong so tanami those kinds of comments and those relationships are what's gotten him made in the target of this national security law and incidentally this latest charge comes just days after the u.s. levied even more sanctions on officials in china for eroding hong kong hong kong's autonomy. in the news ahead new restrictions on southern china scrambles 'd to

contain a surge and coronavirus cases plus. is the truth for the public and citizens to get ready for january the 1st. person who's been a no deal breaks it is now a strong possibility as a sunday deadline looms for failing. we've got more very wet weather pushing across a good pasta southern europe at the moment lots of cloud rolling in from the atlantic through fronts by in portugal is that western side of the mediterranean a gnostic larry of low pressure here that's been facing some very heavy rain across italy and the balkans we've also seen some very heavy rain a little further east of which was the black sea in boulder area we saw 120 millimeters of rain in 24 as in there's more where that came from is that west of

weather then piling in from the west some snow there over the alps a fair bit of that says well war heavy showers pushing over tools corsica some western weather once again over towards the i and you see pushing into that western side of great southern parts of the balkans a little strieber this stage for the balkans as we go on so it's a bug area as we go on through friday but to the north of that we have got some showers longer spells of rain which will not stay away further north what's the line more rain and a day more snow to come in here as we go on into wes and stay plenty of eastern side of the met plenty of showers up towards northern parts as well central areas of the mediterranean also saying some of that western weather of course and what's a weather stretching its way across the fall most of africa send more than ours america algeria and libya also turning rather unsettled and cool.

ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that i often legitimize them griego one is pedophilia on ara online jumping to the current section and the team to host the discussion this stream on out is the interim. the you. are again new with al-jazeera has remind you of our top stories this hour european union leaders meeting at

a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade a reduction compared to 1900 levels as seen as a big step up from the current goal. and tries report to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the pfizer coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for use it's another step towards rolling out an immunization campaign in the worst affected country in the world. and hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie has been charged under a controversial security law allegations include that he has colluded with foreign forces is already in jail after being denied bail on a separate charge. moral code has become the full the arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel the u.s. brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region well here's the area which up until now the us agreed was disputed western sahara and dark grey has been fought over for years by

morocco and the suffer all we ethnic group. this is the foundation on which we can now build this peace will resume liaison offices quickly between israel and morocco and work as rapidly as possible to establish full diplomatic relations we also institute direct flights between morocco in israel and israel in morocco giving this bridge of peace and even more solid foundation this will be a very warm peace peace as never the light of peace on this hanukah day as never shown brighter than today in the middle east have a force that is a westerly sliman says. his being talking up the historic links between israel and iraq a promise you know in the previous normalization deals has been stressing what it could mean practically or israelis in terms of trade in terms of tourism in this

instance he's been talking about the fact that so many hundreds of thousands of moroccan jews came to israel in the early days of zionism and throughout the early days of the israeli state and that that is what he calls a bridge to morocco and so again he's been talking about the fact that there will be these direct flights that people can go and find a family find trace their family histories in morocco presumably that is something that has happened in the past but in terms of organized to a groups having to fly by europe being able to do so independently directly will be a major change for. israeli jews of iraq inherits it's there's been obviously a very different reaction coming from the palestinian side the outgoing member of the executive committee of the p.l.o. how to mush where we has tweeted that between bribery and blackmail the trump administration is in a mad scramble to do whatever it can to extract concessions and benefits towards

israel. well the united arab emirates was the 1st to do a normalization deal with israel and that was in august in september it was followed by an agreement between bahrain and israel both attended a signing ceremony at the white house then october it was the turn of sudan's transitional government. mike hanna is in washington d.c. with the u.s. political reaction. president trump in this service acted unilaterally no consultation with allies or the united nations which is the overarching body discussing the western sahara issue this is once again a trump move taken just by himself with absolutely no consultation whatsoever the meaning of this is that the u.s. position has not been reversed decades of u.s. policy with regard to western sahara as not simply being reversed the us had been alongside a united nations members african union the european union had all insisted that the

way to get a peaceful settlement in the region was to get a referendum in western sahara now president tranter simply turned his back on all those years of discussion all those years of policy making and all those years of negotiation that happened and there's already been a consequence a very rare criticism from a republican in the senate jim inhofe has released a statement saying that president trump has traded the voices of the people of the no voice for this particular peace deal he really critical of president trump for taking this action for reversing u.s. policy now the question is when joe biden comes into office where the heat is follows along with what president trump does which could well anger many of his allies or whether he attempts to reverse the situation which could imperil this peace deal. meeting venezuelan opposition figure leopoldo lopez has been in

colombia as he tries to rebuild some international support. present even decay in bogota or on the 1st stop of an international tour from bogota is on to iran p.s. he reports. arriving in colombia lupul the lopez didn't hide the fact that these are difficult times for venezuelans a position that insisted that the fight for regime change in his country is far from over calling for unity minister. internationally against president. i don't want to fight for liberty and then where there is not left or right wing it's the fight of everybody who believes in democracy and liberty no one can hide that my door is a criminal and is responsible for this tragedy. this is 1st international trip since spain at the end of october after years in prison and then house arrest and it comes up to claim this sweeping victory in sunday's

congressional elections gaining control of the country's national assembly to name . the opposition. was recognized by dozens of countries as the legitimate president of venezuela. calling it fraudulent while losing the last institution they controlled. choice to start his international tour in colombia was deliberate to have been this way that's 5000000 refugees have fled here and president has been leading the charge against. in a meeting with thursday he reiterated his support for in his interim government while revealing your play their role in stopping an assassination attempt against without offering further details. we know that in the last few months you have been at risk of losing your life due to the regime's persecution and that attempt became imminent that attempt to silence your souls your spirit your voice i told you colombia was there for you. despite the calls for

a united front to divisions among the opposition are growing and wednesday former presidential candidate. called for an end to why those interim government saying that as a strategy. that has run its course. it said it's not time for a change. you if i can call on all our brothers and sisters joined in this fight to reflect on and be conscious of the very fragile moment we are in we must understand that nobody can solve this on their own no one. in your position is called in venezuelans to vote in a public consultation on saturday asking citizens deemed the last elections fraudulent and would like to see a change in government the results of the consultation might be predictable but whether change can be achieved remains unclear alison and just. protesters have returned to the streets of haiti's capital saying the government is

failing to deal with violence and instability crowds burned tires and set up barricades was denouncing present. armed gangs control large parts of port au prince and are blamed for a recent string of kidnappings. hundreds of construction workers cleaning crews and miners in peru of course traffic chaos in the nation's capital demanding salary increases and improvements to working conditions crowds marched through limas historic center and over to parliament. canada's prime minister says the 1st 330000 doses of the pfizer vaccine well arrive in the coming days the government is planning to have a quarter of a 1000000 doses by the end of the here if you're feeling relieved and hopeful you're not alone this is the good news we all need but remember this is only the 1st step and would be a massive project over a long winter. i announce to the premier's that the federal government will be

covering the cost of these vaccines as well as the supplies needed to administer that not only will doses be free for canadians but provinces and territories won't have to use their funding to pay for this vaccine. meanwhile chile is in the grip of another wave of corona virus infections which is big and outbreak in europe or thora teams have decided to re-impose sanctions in the capital santiago where things are particularly bad as are latin america as solicit anyone. this is downtown santiago on the 1st day of new restrictions aimed at getting massive numbers of people off the streets and as far away from each other as possible chile's health minister says authorities had no choice but to roll back on the confinement measures given what we want to show the progress of of cases of the capital increased by 53 percent in less than

a month from $1775.00 cases to 2698 decisions are based on the data shows that we're in a critical situation and. faced with the 2nd wave of cold 19 much sooner than expected the government has limited restaurant capacity to 25 percent and only outdoors have. told lockdown will be enforced on weekends residents can travel outside of the metropolitan area and no more than 20 people can gather outdoors although no one seems to be paying much attention. to blocks away cynthia was mair and governor appealed for understanding and discipline and. it's a harsh measure without a doubt but let's not forget that santiago already suffered one of the world's longest lock downs $144.00 days and nobody wants to go through that again. at the

peak of the pandemic chile had one of the world's highest mortality rates per capita from cold 19 hospitals warned that their staff are too exhausted from the 1st wave to deal with the 2nd one affected. but i thought that when the new restrictions will hit small businesses most woman i know he was counting on christmas sales to survive bonnie said it's the uncertainty of not knowing if we'll be able to work anymore we've worked all year to sell. and it's not just some travel that in trouble 11 other regions have been declared critical some under total lockdown authorities say that they hope to be able to relax some of the restrictions by the end of your holidays but there is no guarantee especially since there won't be a vaccine for everybody here before the 1st quarter of next year you see in you an al-jazeera center. more than 4 years off in the u.k.

now really voted in favor of leaving the e.u. froths negotiations have reached the end of the road the teams have been given only until sunday to settle on a post trade deal. that's looking increasingly unlikely they pocket reports from london. a very real and sudden lurch towards the prospect of a no deal breaks it the british prime minister told the u.k. to get ready the deal on the table is really not at the moment right for the for the u.k. is the time for the public and for business to get ready for january the 1st because believe me there's going to be change either way that we change whether it's a canada style deal or an australia style deal the comments follow high level talks between boris johnson and the president of the european commission in brussels on wednesday after

a 3 hour working dinner compromise is off the table negotiating who ever have received with some data set is the new deadline for reaching a breakthrough with the u.k. officially left the e.u. on january the 31st it's been the transition. period ever since subject to e.u. rules and regulations while it tries to reach a trade deal with the u.k. falls back on very basic world trade organization terms often called an australia style deal but what it really means is the sudden unplugging of britain's economy from the world's largest trading bloc and the prospect of checks and tariffs on goods going between the u.k. and the e.u. on sunday the new deadline will be exactly a year since boris johnson returned to downing street having won a landslide in the election largely on the promise of being able to deliver bricks in 12 months all of the repeated promise of a trade deal with the e.u. though still to be on it. and now hopes of

a deal are drifting away seemingly irreconcilable differences on fishing quotas business competition rules and how the new arrangements will be enforced to talk negotiations for mums and in a possible sign of things to come images of tailbacks of trucks on the road to the port of dover and the channel tunnel in folks till thursday logistics companies are reporting a surge in orders ahead of the brakes a deadline a warning to from france the british citizens may need visas to stay in the e.u. longer than 3 months the e.u. suggested it's ready to keep the continent's roads open to british trucks and let the u.k. operate flights for a period of 6 months providing the u.k. does the same but the british government promised a hard break from the e.u. come what may on december 31st without a willingness to compromise it's difficult to see what avenues are left. out

jazeera london. time magazine's person of the year for 2022 people and canada harris the u.s. president elect and his running mate beats the man they're replacing donald trump u.s. in fact it's an expert dr anthony. she was among the finalists as were americans front line health workers and the racial justice movement. go with al-jazeera these are top stories european union leaders meeting at a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade the reduction compared to 990 levels is seen as a big step up from the current goal and advisory boards of the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the pfizer coronavirus vaccines should be authorized for use it's another step.