it is real when it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we. need to tell our story we don't want to rely on authority and if the listening post on al-jazeera. the u.s. regulators approve the emergency use of the pfizer buy and take her on a virus vaccine. hello i'm not clark this is out 0 live from doha also coming up the u.s. supreme court rejects a case from president donald trump to overturn the results of this year's election . italian prosecutors released evidence showing how a student brutally murdered in 2016 was being monitored by egyptian authorities

before his death. the forgotten we follow the lives of internally displaced bosnians 25 years after the war. so the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st dose could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution and it cannot come soon enough as the world's worst affected country just grapples with the death toll growing at a staggering rate more than $2700.00 deaths were reported on thursday and a top u.s. health official expects that pace to continue for the next 2 or 3 months and that would mean daily death tolls equivalent to $911.00 and pearl harbor traumatic events that reshape the united states for decades infections their growing. to or

not ridge the u.s. has recorded more than 210000 cases a day this week the u.s. has also announced plans to purchase an additional 100000000 more doses of modernity vaccine by the way to approval the advantage there is that it doesn't need to be stored at such cold temperatures as pfizer's alright let's cross over to mike hanna is live for us in washington d.c. and mike is this a this vaccine can't come soon enough how quickly will inoculations begin. well the company pfizer says that it will be able to roll out $20000000.00 doses within 24 hours of the approval so we could be looking at the vaccine being delivered to various states as soon as sunday but it's truly astounding it's taken a 9 months to develop this particular vaccine in emergency use and one must put this into a context because the previous fosters vaccine development was that 4 months which

took 4 years to develop hiv aids after 4 decades there is still no vaccine for that so certainly this is absolutely unprecedented the speed of development of this particular vaccine well the white house put pressure on the f.d.a. throughout the day president trump sending out angry tweets his chief of staff of phoning the f.d.a. commissioner urging him to expedite this urgent use approval and now president trump is happy and this is what he had to say. i have really good news today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history it will save millions of lives and soon end a pandemic once and for all i am thrilled to report that the f.d.a. has authorized the pfizer vaccine we have given pfizer another companies a great deal of money hoping this would be the outcome and it was so michael good

news with the impending rollout but of course it will be a while before we see any impact on the infection rate. when a d.d.s. it may take months health experts point out that it will take a long time for every american to be able to be inoculated against the virus and certainly it will only be high risk groups frontline health workers who are going to be inoculated 1st but most estimates are that it's well into the summer that's in about 6 months time before the vaccine will be freely available and during this period of time as you mentioned those are reflects that to stakes that is going to continue to climb so health officials pleading with the public despite the fact that the vaccine may be soon available to certain people that mitigating measures must continue the wearing of mask all these type of safety precautions need to be

taken now more than ever given the absolute spike if the incidence of corona virus throughout the united states or my thanks about my kind of there in washington d c. well mexico's health regulator has also given the green light from agency use of pfizer's covert 1000 vaccine that decision makes it the safe country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out mexico has also agreed to buy a 35000000 doses of the chinese firm can see their biologics corona virus vaccine of the country has recorded more than 1200000 cases and 113000 have died all right let's take this on let's speak to raul benitez manno who's the professor at the national university of mexico joins us by skype from mexico city a professor how soon will the inoculations begin in mexico 5 acting world crises a big crisis in mexico is very hard and it were notorious is today nearly if i sit

back seen to put to the population what this means many challenges to to do this because. the freezer you truly is one of the biggest challenges because you can learn yes if he says but you need be cities. think is there they. said that the army will be in charge of all of this the big program of to put the back seat to the population but nobody knows how the army will put who will do that. will all do treasonous and nanny wish places they put their backs into the population this is a q.b. mitnick be question for the mexicans to start the program yeah i was wondering how much pushback is there against the potential vaccine from mexicans across the country. yes well the vaccine is announced to the

starting 2 weeks in mexico city. in one city in the north of the country kuala very close to they do as border but only they announced in those these 22 cities but that people in the in the rest of the countries is what we can announce a way when they ormont camp or to the vaccine in their places in the cities this is the big challenge and other think it's the question of the is the program to brooks's the other countries that the mexican laurent announces they will start with the health system and workers and then with the all the people but the question is what will be disbelief with each h. is in iran's program in would do with the population because they mentioned that

they will cut the capacity to be fast in these programs and professor what is one final final question i understand the mexicans buy in 35000000 doses of the chinese vaccine as well but that's going to be continue to be trial doesn't that well that is what the other vaccine is actually be implemented. does well. cheney's vaccine is in this teeny in some possibly pretty mexico day they call too many people do to be with the back scene to see what's happening to her is th deal that routinely stay astra zeneca a cynic announces a big problem with the mexican government what the. this is not treaty do to start is not ready to start this problem with just a cynical the fact these are only fights or what's out there i said by the regulatory shelties them off he says to start to date rodman he says

mano a professor of national university of mexico do appreciate that thank you ok thank you well that's that's the story in mexico let's return now to the united states where the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer vaccine as well as mexico but important to the united states we can speak to him his facts and ologist and a vice president of vaccine research and development blue willow biologics joins us via skype from in michigan so tell us more about this this rollout when is it likely to happen and how important it is right now. oh i think i thank you for the invite think we're really of observing here one of the historic days of our lives with all this demick received one pandemic in our life hope that it will not see with one more so what is happening is that the f.d.a. thankfully they have seen that there was no issues that raised in the meeting yesterday regarding the safety and the on day ficus tree of the vaccine there are

few issues op initially still but in general the vaccine is safe the vaccine has afic aisha's and aids will need it and therefore we are seeing that hopefully the distribution has started and the minimization in the world are all out awfully to morrow or even in couple of days so we are really watching out for a quarter only go out and see how things will work out. there will be a vaccination this is a vaccination program i should say that on a scale that's never been seen before how will this rollout be administered and how long will it take to want to cover everybody in the country. well it is going to take time the need is it is colossal and therefore it's going to be a long time it's not going to be a short fix but they're all out to be get out to all on meaning that we will

have people at higher risk in order to winch the mortality that we are observing well so we need to keep the health system going and therefore doctors and nurses will be are all be also online for vaccination and that's out to the another advantage for of that is that there you are establishing reassuring that doctors and nurses are standing in line to receive the vaccine that those are the people in the member on the street that they owe it so that it could have them all it's safe and if these guys are in a world 'd with the why the hopes of making it so we should be having a more confidence and them that's a great way of trying to overcome the his sedation that is and in doing there in the community and in other areas of the community how long will

it take and what kind of percentage of the population needs to be vaccinated for us to see a downturn in the infection right. i think that people talk about 67 percent of the population need to be immune to his especially people at higher risk and that should show that we have very used cases of real infection meaning disease so the basically the vaccine that we have right now whether it signifies a or more they are not all or are a start as any go which are coming in are coming in next. those vaccines are given in the hospital early by injection and they can prevent disease they ficus if 90 percent was 95 percent was about preventing that the zs recovered 19 and they're with us that has any can they look to whether that would stop the death and submission of the virus and the despair sort of the virus on its mission

was not affected that is significant was only about 20 to 30 percent meaning that we still continue to have a problem where the of colonize a sham or the virus in our nose not her spirit or a tract and afterward could do review of the transmission so that problem but with still probably be there for a while but definitely part of the disease itself the covert mind in we should put it didn't aim to do it by accident think 6070 percent of the people which could be achieved if everything goes well maybe by mid next year or next summer. great to get your backs parties depreciate that have an effect some from a blue window biologics and some up. thank you. still ahead here on al jazeera scientists from russia and the u.k. are joining forces to try to combination of the oxford astra zeneca and the sputnik

v. coronavirus for. president elect joe biden unveils more of his top picks for cabinet posts with 40 days to go until he's sworn into office. how low we got some pretty wet weather winter weather as well pushing across the central plains of the u.s. just spinning off the rockies big massive cloud here and that's going to chase some very heavy rain across the great plains pushing which was the appalachians as we go through saturday and night system significant snow fall on the northern flank of this system as it runs over towards the lakes another system that rolls back in as we go on through saturday not just the race was ill on sunday sliding a little further south which is down towards oklahoma and some very heavy rain is

that warm air gets pulled back in from the gulf of mexico by this stage it should be somewhat driving prices over towards that northeastern quarter but some heavy snow there across the eastern side of canada because the simply the snow to get to the western side of canada along with the pacific northwest temperatures started to bounce back a little in l.a. getting up to 23 degrees it will be dry last you try to across a good part of the caribbean although we have some live a shower still in place there just around costa rica pushing up towards nicaragua some heavier rain to into hispaniola sunshine as shallow as for the eastern islands will sunshine than showers should brighten up in jamaica as you go on through sunday a top temperature in kingston of 27 degrees celsius. he uses performance art to draw attention to the critical controversial issues facing china. when he speaks china.

on al-jazeera. played an important role in protecting human. face. the much younger or much of our top stories in the united states has become the latest country to approve the 5 biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st is could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution. makes goes health regulator has also given the

green light for emergency use of pfizer's covert 900 bucks and that decision makes it the 6th country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out. at brittany's astra zeneca will start testing a combination of its 6 para mental vaccine with russia's v. shot at trials for the combined inoculation is set to begin by the end of the year but in baba isis. 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 and 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 involve 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 massive 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. whether that will happen within the same hour week 27 member state of 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. to all health experts and campaigners urging wealthy nations to make sure the world's poorest citizens have access to vaccines if and when they're ready barbara al-jazeera. the top court in the united states has rejected a bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election loss president had backed the lawsuit which 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 when before it's officially certified next week well the u.s. president elect joe biden statement celebrating the decision saying the supreme court 'd has decisively in speedily rejected the latest of donald trump and his allies attacks on the democratic process this is no surprise dozens of judges election officials from both parties and trump's own attorney attorney general have

dismissed his baseless attempts to deny he lost the election. behinds is a former prosecutor in the u.s. state of maryland and founder of legal speaks a legal and political issues blog she says that donald trump may continue to try and overturn the election despite losing the status lawsuit. i don't count now for trying to just do something else even though it probably won't get anywhere because it is over as of monday when the electoral college meets but we cannot be in the head of donald trump to think what he might try to do next but this was really his last hail mary it was really like child's play i mean what i practice a lot of times you know i have clients and they'll say well we can we do this and i'm like we need proof you can't just say it on a piece of paper and that's basically what the tribal leaders were doing there just basically making allegations on a piece of paper they had no evidence to back it up in the judicial system works in a world that had the evidence having facts to support what your legal premise is so that's the irony of the whole thing i mean for the judicial system i mean you know

they felt that their end of the bargain i mean they have shown that we do have 3 parts of the government and they have done the right that they should did they were not trying to in any way trying to be corrupted by any political means or any political gains that donald trump was trying to do so that light is the good but it has basically the morale of those voters who voted for donald trump and who do believe in some way shape or form without any basis in fact that the election was a fraud because their guy didn't win or joe biden has unveiled more key picks for his incoming administration many of them from 1000000 names with close ties to forward president barack obama's cabinet heidegger castro has more from what wilmington going to. 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 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'll remember rice as being obama's embassador 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. new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials there for the eclipse attained by al-jazeera from telling judicial sources indicate for the 1st time that the 28 year old research as you are a guinea was being monitored while in egypt correlate has this. to have this video recording may not show much but for italian officials investigating the brutal murder of julio region in egypt it's a breakthrough the 1st evidence that the italian student was targeted and put under surveillance by egyptian authorities was actually going to him i was this image was. it comes after

italian prosecutors announced plans to charge for egyptian security offices with the students torture and death they say one of the defendants colonel as a come out assigned the informant to monitor julia originate a month before he was killed. or say we saw today we know that the egyptian general security followed regina's tracks for 40 days we know that he was arrested 1st in a camp been transferred to cell number 13 of the egyptian ministry of interior this is a very dangerous matter telling people strongly condemn it and we firmly maintain our position with respect to closing diplomatic ties with egypt ridge and his body was found on a desert highway after he disappeared in january 26th seen he was last seen near an underground subway stop in cairo where he'd been researching the sensitive topic of labor movements in egypt his mother later said his body was so mutilated she was

only able to recognize the tip of his nose rights groups say the marks resemble those resulting from widespread torture practices in egyptian facilities the national security agency is quite or torrijos we have documented. the torture we have documented forced disappearance in the country and hold the judiciary effectively in service of the system of repression in. country the death sparked outrage in italy and strained diplomatic relations between the 2 countries with italy's government accusing egyptian authorities of non-cooperation we want justice for our citizen who has been killed tortured in such a terrible way we have an explanation egyptian prosecutors have continued to insist that region is killers remain unknown and all thirty's deny any involvement in fact they've announced a temporary suspension of the investigation but israeli plans to push on with the case regardless the suspects will be tried in an italian court in abstention as

well julio region as parents they're still calling for justice for their son his mother applauded an investigation that not only shed some light on his death but held up what she called a mirror of how human rights are violated in egypt every day car leg al-jazeera. 25 years after the bosnian war turns of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return to their homes and despite economic stagnation leaving is not an option for many tony but leave this to the camp where people are still fighting for a better life. time has stood still in parts of rural bosnia to make a living these men have to scavenge for low grade discarded coal the way they did 100 years ago they were promised a better life but 25 years after the war ended they are still suffering they are the forgotten in 1905 the settlement at the age of that new benefits c in northeast bosnia was meant to provide temporary accommodation the roof leak there is no insulation and the living conditions are cramped other sickly or they're not and

everyone is promising us that they will get better but nothing is getting better yeah where we are like cattle stuffed and these buildings had 0 was wounded by a serb shell instructor needs her brother and several cousins were killed she knits socks to sell for a dollar a pair she's one of more than $7000.00 internally displaced bosnians who have largely been forgotten and. they have been forgotten by the government small children who came to the temporary collective centers have remained in them and they're having their own children in the now it's unbelievable how much time has passed and there are still in the same horrible situation local authorities say they are working to improve the living conditions of all those who've been displaced and projects are in the pipeline but so far nothing has been done another approximately 90000 displaced people have found their own accommodation because they haven't been able to return to their homes even though the dayton peace agreement stipulated the right of return for everyone. else i think it is unsafe to

go back to srebrenica especially for the children i was a child one to one genocide happened experience so many horrible things i would never want my children to experience what i did 78 year old fighter all of which wasn't scared her husband was among the 8000 muslim men and boys from strabane eats are executed by the serbs a village of qana which polly was overrun 27 years ago and she had to flee but she won the right to return to her. house although she says she suffered several beatings from the serbs she also won a legal case for the also docs church built on her land to be demolished but servile saudis have so far not complied with the court order delia last time paolo . i sued the orthodox church when i returned here that nobody wanted to help me establish my rights i tried so hard and it took 5 years for me to win in court i received threats from the serb side this community like most in bosnia expected so

much more when the war ended but after 25 largely fruitless years the lies of hardy improved and with the political paralysis and the economic stagnation many are either choosing to leave or want to leave official figures show that 1800000 bosnians have left the country but leaving isn't easy for the poor here they have to stay and fight for a better life tony berkeley al-jazeera years of its camp northeastern bosnia. so let's run through the headlines and the united states has become the latest country to approve the finds a biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st dose could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution i have really good news today our nation has achieved

a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greater.