legal preparation for something more new mentally horrific and slavery be unscripted on al-jazeera. the u.s. supreme court has rejected a case from president all trying to overturn the results of this year's election. i'm come out sons of maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the white house is planning pressure on the f.d.a. to approve fines as coronavirus vaccine for emergency use across the united states also president elect joe biden unveils more of his top picks for cabinet posts just 40 days to go now until he's sworn into office and a surge in global gaming industry celebrates a success during

a year of pandemic. so in the last half hour the u.s. is top court has rejected a bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election loss the president had backed the lawsuit he called it the big one it sought to throw out the results in 4 key states several legal challenges have been raised and rejected across the country seeking to stop joe biden's win before it is officially certified next week let's get the latest with my camera correspondent in washington d.c. not of a rejected it not even letting them file the documents i believe. indeed yes well this is the statement that the court has just released as you can see it very short indeed it's an unsigned statement but it basically says that texas has not demonstrated. judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another

state conducts its elections all of the pending motions are dismissed as moot this in reference to the large number of states that joined to the attempt by texas to reverse the election result and of course president trump himself wanted to join in this particular case but the court has simply said that texas has no standing in the matter whatsoever now interesting that the 2 of the justices samuel alito and justice clarence thomas said that they would have allowed texas to enter the brief but that is as far as they would have gotten they would not have granted any remedy of any form certainly the implication that the case has no merits whatsoever these 2 justices basically arguing on a point of law that texas didn't have the standing to enter the brief in terms of the original jurisdiction pools which covers a state suing other states being allowed to go directly to the supreme court but basically this is the end of the legal road for president trump in his attempts to

reverse the election result the court seeing very clearly that any remedy in this particular case would mean taking away $20000000.00 votes in these 4 states texas contended the election was illegally run so this is as it would stand would appear to be a complete end of it now president trump has brought more than 50 actions or president trump and republican organizations have brought more than 50 actions in various parts of the united states they succeeded on one occasion and that was moving electoral observers a distance of some 6 meters so certainly the big one as president trump claimed in a tweet has proved to be and that the dems were among i can't imagine he'll give up he's just not that kind of guy but his time is running short isn't it exactly when does the electoral college meet. well the electoral college will be

meeting on monday all the states have non-certified the results so the electoral college will be meeting in the various states giving the votes apportioned by the voters to joe biden confirming that he will be the next president of the united states with $304.00 electoral votes so certainly this is very much an end of the line now it's over to the electoral college the process does go on as you say president may not give up he made try isolated cases in various parts of the united states but the very simple fact is that this alongside the supreme court decision on pennsylvania earlier this week means that there is no legal remedy whatsoever for president trump the supreme court not having dismissed attempts on 2 occasions to subvert the results of the election we'll keep an eye on his twitter there and see what he's got to say today thank you mike hanna in washington. and.

we'll stay in the u.s. an approval for the role of the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine looks like it's imminent the white house is piling on the pressure in fact president trump's chief of staff urged the head of the f.d.a. dr steven hand to expedite it it really can't come soon enough as the world's worst affected country grapples with the death toll growing at a staggering rate this number here 2768 deaths recorded on thursday and a top u.s. health official expects that sort of pace will continue for the next 2 or 3 months which would mean daily death tolls equivalent to that of $911.00 and pearl harbor traumatic events that reshaped the u.s. for decades infection numbers are growing too on average this past week the u.s. has recorded more than 210000 cases a day. and it extends beyond there of course europe calls are growing for tougher lockdown measures in germany because there were record increases in infections and

deaths there as well switzerland forcing restaurants and bars to close early wales might go back into lockdown after christmas as well but we spoke to julie fisher about the vaccine little bit earlier she's an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university she explains what the distribution will look like the speed of rollout and the efficiency of getting that x. into the frontline health workers and the people at highest risk will depend on the planning and the resources at each state level we know some states have done an excellent job of getting ready and as soon as those vaccine doses reach the states they will hit the ground running other still have a little bit farther to go and perhaps some gaps in their plans and how they'll reach those most vulnerable populations we have to reach every person in the entire world by the end of this vaccine rollout so we know that the vaccine companies will

be providing doses at a measured pace that they can only scale up so quickly and that to keep in mind also with the pfizer vaccine for example because it's going to require 2 doses those those 20000000 doses get cut in half in terms of the number of people that can be reached so we're looking at this fairly rolled out now in in the u.k. earlier this week in the u.s. this week and then we'll see those doses been provided in batches over the summer. within the u.s. and to countries around the world also versions astra zeneca will start testing a combination of its experimental vaccine with russia's sputnik v. shot transfer the combined inoculation to begin by the end of the year this report from the timber. across the united states they're getting ready to vaccinate people against covered 19 it's a matter of urgency with the daily death toll reaching 3000 this week in hospital struggling the food and drug administration is set to approve emergency use of a phase

a biotech vaccine within days and vulnerable people could actually get the job by early next week as we know accident more and more people we will ultimately maybe by mid year next year when the 20 wanted sheep herd immunity. perhaps 75 percent of people vaccinated this shutdown and and a pandemic well late in 2021 in another big move u.k. and russian scientists to teaming up to study whether combining 2 vaccines office better protection trials in russia will evolve adults getting both the sputnik v. vaccine reported to be 90 percent effective and the astra zeneca vaccine developed with the university of oxford with average efficacy reported at around 70 percent it's almost like cross training in athletics where 2 different sports can make you a better athlete so rather than giving them the 1st dose and a booster dose of the same vaccine maybe giving different types of vaccine for the 1st and 2nd doses might give you a stronger or more durable immune response but there are new setbacks to france's

send off e. and britain's got so smith kline say their vaccine won't be ready now until the end of next year after interim results showed a low immune response in older people the vaccine was set to provide almost a 3rd of callbacks doses that's the global vaccine purchasing facility which many of the poorest countries are relying on and australia's counsel production of a domestic vaccine off the trials showed it could lead to false positive tests for a choice fixing the problem could take another year this is one of 4 vaccines the government there has ordered it's still planning to start vaccinations next march insisting its success in stopping coronavirus spreading means it doesn't need to rush we're aware of what is happening in other states and another now. around the world we have a front row seat frankly is as dye goes through that and work through any potential issues that arise in europe the u.k. has a head start on tuesday this 91 year old became the 1st person anywhere to get the

pfizer biotech vaccination as part of a mass rollout it was manufactured in belgium which plans to start vaccinations in early january other nations are set to follow once there's a green light from the european union. in the months months whether that will happen within the same hour week $27.00 member states that the needle is injected everywhere at the same time i'm not sure but we want to do this in a very coordinated fashion and show that everyone has the same kind of access meanwhile health experts and campaigners are urging wealthy nations to make sure the world's poorest citizens have access to vaccines if and when they're ready to deal barbara al-jazeera. u.s. president elect joe biden unveiled some more keep picks for his incoming administration many of them with a 1000000 names as well close ties to the cabinet of former president barack obama castros in wilmington delaware with more on that. well i think if you asked some progressives they may have been hoping for some new blood here but that is not what

president joe biden is going for he is showing definitely a trend of selecting people who he has close relationships with who had he has worked with in the past and today he announced susan rice as yet another person he is bringing back from the obama administration of course you remember rice as being obama's ambassador to the u.n. later his national security adviser but the role that she's been asked to do now is actually a different one perhaps a little bit unexpected biden says that he is appointing her to be the director of the domestic policy council so she would be in charge of a liaising with federal agencies policies as diverse as health care to education to civil rights so certainly not something that her resume may support but president biden saying today that rice has his full confidence and that she knows the government inside and out and on the same trend of selecting people who

are familiar names from obama's time biden also announced the secretary of agriculture to have a repeat stint as well as obama's chief of staff denis mcdonough to come back but this time as the secretary of veteran affairs in the news ahead we'll look at how the most populous state in the united states is putting its plans for a competent neutral future into. the u.n. court sentences a hezbollah member who's on the run to life in prison for the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri. hello we've got temperatures on the slide across northern parts of asia over the

next couple of days bank of cloud just making its way further south with temperatures in beijing in seoul around 5 or 6 celsius some wet weather just pushing across the sea of japan into that western side of honshu for a time 14 celsius there in tokyo picking up 15 as we go through sunday some snow and the possibility over the mountains behind that there's that cold air 3 celsius in solo mistral going to get to freezing in ireland but we're looking the top temperature of around minus $22.00 degrees celsius should be cold enough for you here fighting dry across eastern parts of china so western weather some wintry weather towards the southwest of the country plenty a shower was meanwhile across southeast asia the live down pose getting driven. further west would song that ne ne mon same pushing down towards him but i place the southern parts of thailand sing some very heavy right some heavy rain coming into western parts of india over the next few days or st little circulation in the

arabian sea splashing that western weather up towards the northwest of the country towards good herat hopefully brightening up as we go on across northern parts as we go through sunday as the west it's mystery. but. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us on. the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. run on al-jazeera. to move. world.

here with al-jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. is tops of course has rejected a bit from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election loss the president had backed the lawsuit which sought the result in 4 key states united states is set to follow the u.k. in rolling out the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine the white house putting pressure on the country's top. americans possibly getting the vaccine within a few days and plans to test whether the effectiveness of its vaccine can be boosted when combined with the russian ones but not the trials are expected to start in the coming weeks. new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials there video clips

obtained by al-jazeera from italian judicial sources indicate the 1st time that 28 year old research julio gini was being monitored while in egypt on thursday italian prosecutors announced they plan to charge for senior members of egypt's security services. body was found in a ditch outside cairo in 2016 here is some audio now from that informant who is calling a high level colonel after having allegedly made a visit to apartment. how much i was shocked when i was reading the star study that was actually inside of a god of the south and was taken out of us national guard and the matter was similar wasn't it was ours it was whispered to claudio franco via from human rights watch has the e.u.

advocacy officer and says what happened to the genie retain only happens to order egyptians the fact is. what's happened in the ordeal he went through is ordinary for 2000 school bob people in egypt. genuine the past year it's it's been nearly 5 years now he's become a symbol a symbol of of of of hope but it's the national security agency in egypt it's quite all torrijos we have documented rampant torture we have documented in forced disappearance in the country and how the judiciary east effectively in service of the system of repression in in the country on the up and should be from italy and maybe they didn't believe that he was even italian but we cannot forget the towers and others that as we speak still into jane's very. welcome 1st that could be to

start decorating egypt just earlier this week president mark wrong trends gave sisi the highest honor of the french a public but in general i would say that the attitude and the approach by the western countries towards egypt as being wanted as a mold and ceases brutal drawl. the trump administration is pushing ahead with a planned $1000000000.00 arms sale to morocco if approved by congress the deal will provide robot with precision guided weapons and drones this is just a day after the white house announced a deal brokered by the u.s. for morocco to normalize relations with israel and washington agreed to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region as part of the agreement. if europeans government says it's returning eritrean refugees to camps in the northern territory region they fled to the capital addis ababa during the fighting and today between local forces and federal government soldiers the u.n.

says they return to take a so soon is unacceptable ethiopia insists though they will be safe there are some $96000.00 eritrean refugees registered in ethiopia most of them which borders eritrea and aid groups have announced the killing of 4 workers in the international rescue committee says one of its staff was killed at a refugee camp the danish refugee council is revealed 3 of its workers were killed last month. european union leaders have reached a deal to try to slow climate change and tackle what is the most pressing issue of our time pledged to slash emissions by at least 55 percent compared to levels from 990 by the end of this decade the increase from the previous 40 percent target encountered resistance from some e.u. states like poland which is reliant on coal hole britain with more now from brussels. the e.u. would prioritize sorting out the 70 ad budgets and so they punted the negotiations

over the climate deal into the evening and as a result it went way into the night in fact it was around 6 am when they finally decided to agree a deal largely because i know a magical the german chancellor of germany holding the presidency of the european council for this 6 month period said it would be a disaster if they couldn't come to an agreement on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the paris agreement now what basically happened is that poland fell into line polish the polish economy is heavily reliant on coal some 3 quarters of the electricity generated in poland is from burning coal and the industry employs around 100000 strongly unionized workers so i'm hearing that the polish prime minister said look you've got to give me a deal to protect our economy otherwise i'm going to lose my job when i go back to warsaw although shell michel the president of the european council didn't say what

kind what the exact concessions were i can tell you will poland was looking for and that is for economic concessions economic protections and also for the level of emissions cuts to be associated with the g.d.p. of each country so although the european union is going to go for 55 percent as a bloc it's clear that some countries will probably not meet 55 percent and others will have to exceed 55 percent if that's a reach that 55 percent average as i say michel very relieved and happy that a deal was done it's hugely symbolic it's hugely important for the planet as well don't forget but it was a long night. well for the u.s. state of california the effects of global warming are all too real so it is working hard to reverse the trends the state's governor has ambitious goals for a 0 carbon future as robinson all reports. few places in the

united states have suffered as dramatically and painfully from global warming as california long term drought high temperatures low humid he and bone dry forests have caused year after year of catastrophic wildfires the fires. scared people and people are the dots in 2018 raging fires incinerated the town of paradise killing 85 people earlier this year fires consumed more than 1600000 hectares of california land killing 33 and choking cities with smoke california's governor blamed the disasters squarely on climate change the science is absolute data is self evident the experience that we have in the state of california just underscoring the reality of the ravages of climate change it's not only fires in august death valley reached

54.4 degrees celsius one of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet sea level rise threatens the state's famed beaches but even as global warming threatens to turn the california dream into a nightmare no place in the u.s. is doing more to combat the crisis california was the 1st large state to create a cap and trade marketplace for emissions its auto emissions standards are the strictest in the country and petroleum powered vehicles will be completely phased out by 2035 when solara and other renewable energy resources are being. ramped up by law california is set to produce 100 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2045 there are very few places in the world that have done as much to build renewable energy to put in place energy conservation efforts and probably

most importantly now to lead us quickly we're a world without a drill combustion engine but big questions remain including public acceptance question is are they going to canada enough scots fast enough or are they going to be willing to accept it changes that are going to be necessary in order to stabilize the climate system a state imperiled by a warming climate summoning the will to fight back robert oulds al jazeera los angeles prosecutors at the international criminal court of pushing for a full investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine an initial inquiry launched 5 years ago found reasonable grounds do exist to believe crimes against humanity have been committed fighting between ukrainian forces and russian separatists fire has killed more than 14000 people in the past 6 years it is now up to judges at the international criminal court to authorize a formal investigation the i.c.c.

is also looking to have an investigation into ongoing violence in one area by both groups and security forces rights groups welcomed the move that would look into possible crimes against humanity by both boko haram and nigerian troops fighting between the 2 sides has been going on ever since boko haram launched its military operations in the northeast of nigeria back in 2009. 1 of the men found guilty of murdering lebanon's former prime minister has been sentenced to 5 life terms salim i ash was tried and sentenced in absentia found to have played a leading role in the bombing that killed rafik hariri and 21 others in 2005 his sentence was handed down by the special tribunal for lebanon based in the netherlands from beirut so has more. some would argue that this is symbolic of the sentencing even the guilty verdict which was handed down in august because the man who tried you know found guilty of executing this assassination was tried in

absentia and he remains at large and many feel that he will never face justice because hezbollah this is the group that he's affiliated to has repeated time and time again that they're not going to hand him over to the international court they consider the courts a political tool that is being used against them and in the words of the secretary general we're not concerned with the verdict so at the end of the day control is political and military power in this country if any security agency would even try to attempt to arrest him if they knew where he where he was it could trigger some sort of strife even the son of the prime minister who was the prime minister prime minister doesn't that. he welcomed the verdict back in august and he called on hezbollah to cooperate but like i said the balance of power today is in favor of hezbollah and its allies in fact since the killing of. balance of power has been in

favor of hezbollah and its allies. well has been lost as charges brought against the lebanese caretaker prime minister and others this is in relation to the better route port last politically motivated and 3 former ministers have been charged with negligence for the explosion that killed more than $200.00 people back in august an ongoing investigation found the ministers were aware of the stockpile of ammonium nitrate which was stored at the port. the british government's expressed concern after hong kong's pro-democracy activist and media tycoon jimmy lai was charged under a controversial security law he'll appear in court on sunday the allegations include like colluded with foreign forces by has british citizenship and is already in prison after being denied bail of a separate challenge. there is such a long list of industries that are suffering through this pandemic out there but the video game business is not one of them striving with people pretty much locked

up at home sales a skyrocketed and the successful here has been celebrated at the annual game awards reports. it's one of the biggest knots on the gaming calendar and this year due to the coronavirus pandemic the industry's game awards point digital live streaming new games and recognizing the year's best and it's been a big year for the sector with millions of paypal stuck at home searching for new forms of entertainment gaming is seeing record revenue record in gauge mint and record numbers of new players the global market is estimated to generate nearly 100 $60000000000.00 in revenue in 2029 point 3 percent growth from this time last year there are some quite ready. just like stories every. 'd

estimate you can find something for a while before the pandemic hit the industry was already thriving games are now easy to access on mobile devices and evolving into the most you graphically striking forms of entertainment that for many can compete who feel and it's being recognized gaming will be a category in next year's try back a film festival in new york. and for the 1st time a composer was nominated for a major is trial in music award for a video game soundtrack i think sort of in the games industry provide. creativity. as vaccines are rolled out in other industries reopen many experts are confident the gaming sector will continue to grow especially with more government supporting it with subsidies and incentives. it's. recognizing. sure it. is just something that we have

radio. station on a one minute 2600000000 people around the world are estimated to play video games and gaming giant microsoft and sony are hoping to further benefit from people spending more time at home boys releasing new consoles weekly gauge how does iraq. says al jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. is top court has rejected a bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election loss the president had backed the lawsuit which sought to throw out the results in 4 states several legal challenges have been raised and rejected across the country seeking to stop joe biden's when mike hanna with more details from washington.