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veyron mentally sound energy solutions for future generation the breast i am hearing future. u.s. regulators approve the emergency use the funds a biotech coronavirus vaccine. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. supreme court rejects a case from the president donald trump to overturn the results of this year's election. talim prosecutors released evidence showing how a student brutally murdered in 2016 was being monitored by egyptian authorities before his death. the football team we followed the lies of internally displaced
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bosnians 25 years after the war. so the us has become the latest country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st days could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution it can't come soon enough as the world's worst affected country 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 they're growing to on average the u.s. has recorded more than 210000 cases a day this week the u.s. has also announced its plans to purchase an additional 100000000 more doses of
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maternal as vaccine which is still awaiting approval and that the advantage there is that it doesn't need to be stored at such cold temperatures pfizer's or mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the company pfizer says that it will be able to rollout $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 9 months to develop this particular vaccine in emergency use and one must put this into a context because the previous faustus vaccine development was that 4 months which took 4 years to develop a child b. 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
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phoning the if the 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. let's hear now from early phantom whose knowledge is and vice president of vaccine research and development blue willow biologics he says despite the approval it will be a long time until the us is back to normal. the need is it is glassful and therefore it's going to be a long time it's not going to be
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a short fix but they're all out will be gradual meaning that we'll have people have higher risk in order to winch the mortality that we are observing also we need to keep the health system going and therefore doctors and nurses will be a role be also in line for a vaccination and that's add to the another advantage of that is that there you are establishing reassuring that doctors and nurses are standing in line to receive the vaccine those are the people in there and in the industry it's really rather well it's safe and if these guys are in a world with the why the hopes of making it so we should be having more confidence and that's a great way of trying to overcome the he sedation. and
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in doing there in the community and in other areas of the community. what makes his health regulators also given the green light for much as you suffices covered 90 vaccine the decision makes it the country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out my scope is also agreed to by 35000000 doses of the chinese for i can see no biologics coronavirus vaccine and the country has recorded more than 1200000 cases and 113000 have died road beneath his man who is a professor at the national university of mexico and he says throw out all the facts he nationally is going to be logistically extremely difficult. the freezer true is one of the biggest challenges because the mexican war and gas if he says but in the big cities. think is there they were said that the army will be in charge of this the program of to put the books into the population
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but nobody knows how the army will will do that when they will all of this research than any wish places they a put the bucks into the population this is a. big question for the mexicans to start the program the vaccine is announced to starting 2 weeks in mexico city. one city in the north of the country quote we are very close to they do as border but only they announced in those in these 22 cities but that people in the rest of the country is is what we can announce a way when they are mean compote the vaccine in their places in the cities this is the big big mix challenge the brazilian city of new toys by more than 1000000 doses of the chinese corona vaccine from the state of south hala as pressure builds on the hospital system there and across the country 180000 people they should might
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have died from the virus that's the 2nd highest number in the world and the federal government to secure a deal to get up to 100000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine on no 1000 vaccine has been approved for use in brazil many hope that they will end the pandemic ever since. the vaccine is actually the instrument that will allow us to have our life back it will allow us to return to our lost rhythm without stress. and the anguish for living in the situation we are living now britain's astra zeneca will start testing a combination of experimental vaccine with russia's neck shot a trials for the combined inoculation set to begin by the end of the year barbara has its report. across the united states they're getting ready to vaccinate people against covered 90 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
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a phase a biotech vaccine within days and vulnerable people could actually get the job by only next week as we vaccinate 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 x. and it's shut down 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
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a stronger or more durable immune response but there are new setbacks to france's cental feet 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 has counseled 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 was 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 new. 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.
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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 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 the barber al-jazeera. the european union leaders have reached a deal to try and slow climate change and tackle the most pressing issue of our times they pledged to slash emissions by at least 55 percent compared to 990 dollars by the end of this decade the increase from the previous 40 percent target encounter resistance from some states like the coal reliant poland mean iran is an
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environmental lawyer the coordination the climate change program a 3rd world network and she says both targets and commitments are not big enough. basically these dockets still too little too late in need that there is goes by now the rich developed nations should already have come down to real 0 in real terms but since the time of the kyoto protocol until now the emission reduction targets of been very very low and what ambitious enough in fact climate activist in economics around the world have criticised rich nations over the years for not doing what we call should have been get fair share yes in admission that the actions which means you actually take into account the historical emissions and the cumulative emissions including going to poke at bits of basis so going by what you preach nations i see including this net 0 targets a cop in neutrality by 2030 or 2050 is actually doing told little too late election
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is quite dubious that many of us are actually say that this net 0 if you look at what the content of the net 0 is much of this is about continuing to admit it's been at business as usual not coming down to 0 and expecting the developing world to pick up the emission reductions and they call this an offset cooper has announced a 5 fold increase in the minimum wage from joining the 1st as part of a package of economic reforms the basic wage will vary from $17.00 to $87.00 a month the government also unifies 2 official currencies the convertible prices which is paid to the us dollar will be phased out over 6 months and having only the regular peso that's worth $24.00 times less the country has been suffering from tougher u.s. sanctions and a drop in turkey. still ahead here announces the president elect joe biden and fills more of his top picks for
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a cabinet post with 40 days to go get distance sworn into office. searching global gaming industry celebrates its success during this year's pandemic. that was looking largely dry in quantico secured parts of the middle east a few showers just around the backseats was coaxes towards the apostles around the south of that it is generally settled and following quite a brisk wind blowing through the gulf that's was a scary concert temperature is 2324 celsius as we go on through the next couple of days that fresh when it picking up a little bit of lift it dust and sand but it will feel a little colder than all of let's say the cool by night for the south it is generally dry and sunny lots of hazy sunshine stretching across the whole of africa and then we've got the usual showers down across the rift valley will see some wet
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weather just around lake victoria uganda sing some heavy rain heavy rain there into rwanda renee and heavy downpours also affecting a good part of the democratic republic of congo joining up with the showers that we have in zambia zimbabwe also seeing some wet weather notice a fair bit of cloud to the eastern side of south africa we will see some rather heavy downpours here for a time that was the weather really gathering as we go on through saturday not quite as wet as we go on into sunday but the showers are still there nevertheless the other side of the country still too bad it's over cape town temps just doing quite nicely getting up to 23 degrees celsius by sunday afternoon. but. notice there a school realistically how can you do with institutionalized corruption in this country if we listen if this breaks up into a conflict between august on and india this has implications for the rest of the
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world we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. and hero. do you want to remind of our top stories this the us has become the latest country to approve the finds a biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st days could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution. mexico's alpha regulator has also given the green light for the
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mergence and use of pfizer skirvin $1000.00 rights and every decision makes it the 6th country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out. and britain's astra zeneca plans to test whether the effectiveness of its scope 1000 vaccine can be boosted when combined with russia's sputnik trials are expected to start in the coming weeks. now the united states courts has rejected a bid from the state of texas to overturn dollar trumps election loss the president had backed the lawsuits 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's win before it's officially certified next week well joe biden's team has celebrated the decision saying the supreme court has decisively and 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
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both parties and an attorney general have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny that he lost the election their behinds is a former prosecutor in the u.s. state of maryland and founder of legal speak said legal and political issues blog she says donald trump may continue to try and overturn the election despite losing the 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 and facts to support what your legal premise is so
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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 part but it has basically the 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 but president elect biden has unveiled more key picks for his incoming administration and many of them are from really names with close ties to former president barack obama's cabinet how did your customers more from wilmington delaware. 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
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a trend of selecting people who he has close relationships with who has 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
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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 the troubled ministration is pushing ahead with the planned $1000000000.00 sale to america approved by u.s. congress the deal will provide robots with precision guided weapons and drones it comes a day off to the white house announced that a deal brokered by the u.s. for america to normalize relations with israel is going to have washington agreed to recognize his claim over the disputed west and region as part of the agreement. new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials a video clips obtained by al-jazeera from a talent additional sources indicate for the 1st time that 28 year old researcher regaining he was being monitored while in egypt it's only plans to charge for high
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ranking members of egypt's security forces for the 2016 killing car that has its report. saying that 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 because i 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 commercial assigned the informant to monitor a month before he was killed argue no. case start or say we saw today we know that the egyptian general security followed regina's track for 40 days we know
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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 in the italian people strongly condemn it 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 for. solidities the national security agency is quite or torrijos we have documented torture we have documented forced disappearance in the country and how the judiciary affectedly in service of the system of repression in
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a 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 and tortured in such a terrible way we have an explanation egyptian prosecutors have continued to insist that region is killers remain unknown and authorities 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 julia region is 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 mere out of her human rights of violated in egypt every day car leg al-jazeera prosecutors at the international criminal court are pushing for a full investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine and initial inquiry
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launched 5 years ago that reasonable grounds exist to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed fighting between ukrainian forces and russian separatists fighters has killed more than 14000 people in the past 6 years it's now up to judges that the i.c.c. to authorize a formal investigation. of 25 years after the bosnian war tens of thousands of displaced people still unable to return to their homes and despite economic stagnation leaving is not an option for many tony burke leave visited a 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 usv that benefits c. in northeast bosnia was meant to provide temporary accommodation the roof leak
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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 them now it's unbelievable how much time has passed and their thrill 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
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right of return for everyone. i think it is unsafe to go back to srebrenica especially for the children i was a child when the one genocide happened i 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 the 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 you'll realize some parallel. i sued to 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
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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 now there's a long list of industries that are suffering through the pandemic the video game business though in striving with people locked up at home sales have skyrocketed and the successful year has been celebrated at the annual game awards. it's one of the biggest knots on the gaming calendar and this year due to the coronavirus pandemic the industry's game awards went digital live streaming new
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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. just like stories every. 'd time 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 filmed and it's being recognized gaming will be a category in next year's try back
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a film festival in new york. and for the 1st time a composer was nominated for a major a struggling music award for a video game soundtrack i think. 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 us with subsidies and incentives. it's. recognizing that sure it. is just something that if radio. the politician on a one minute 2600000000 people around the world the rest mated to play video games and gaming giants microsoft and sony are hoping to further benefit from people
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spending more time at home boys releasing new consoles weekly gauge how does iraq play more of course on our website al-jazeera dot com is the address all the news recovering right there lots of comment and it says to al-jazeera dot com. so this is our dessert these are the top stories the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer buying tech 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 greatest scientific accomplishments in history it will save.
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