now to 0. u.s. regulators approve the emergency use of the pfizer bio intact coronavirus vaccine. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm terry navigator also coming up president onil trump attacks the u.s. supreme court for rejecting a lawsuit against joe biden's victory. iran executes a journalist convicted of fueling anti government unrest and fighting climate change 5 years since the paris agreement we take a look at how close nations are so it shaving their golds.

below the united states has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio intact coronavirus vaccine for emergency use president donald trump says the 1st doses could be administered within 24 hours to the elderly the workers mike hanna has and latest from washington d.c. very much. followed immense pressure from the white house during the course of the day president trunk shot to additional fire wall between politicians and da deliberations with a furious early morning tweet describing the f.d.a. as still a big old slow turtle and addressed in the f.d.a. commissioner he continued get the damn vaccines out now dr hahn stop playing games and start saving lives the white house chief of staff is understood to have

followed up with a phone call to the f.d.a. commissioner urging him to expedite the approval. this followed to rip you off the vaccine by independent health experts thursday you voted overwhelmingly to recommend emergency use authorization president trump has now welcomed the f.d.a. approval they 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 the vaccine manufacturer has said it will be able to roll out an initial $20000000.00 doses within 24 hours of approval in terms of guidelines drawn up by the centers for disease control the 1st recipients will be frontline health care workers and the elderly in assisted care facilities though it

will be left to the governor of each state to establish distribution protocols the governor of new york state andrew cuomo said he was expecting 170000 doses by sunday or monday this will be enough to treat 85000 people in the 1st wave of facts and nations. a 2nd vaccine manufactured by madonna will come under review next thursday it too says it will be able to roll out 20000000 doses within a day of emergency use approval the virus continues to rage throughout the united states with more than 200000 new cases being reported each week and some 3000 deaths a day being recorded and health officials warn that it will take months before the vaccine begins to have an impact on the stock statistics mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. supreme court has rejected

a legal bit from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election defeats trump had backed the lawsuit which sought to throw out the results in 4 key states where joe biden has won several legal challenges have been raised on rejected across the country seeking to stop biden's win before it is officially certified by the electoral college next week and the u.s. president has taken to twitter to criticize the supreme court's decision he said this the supreme court really let him down and showed no courage or wisdom by dismissing the lawsuit the president unlike 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 both parties and trump's own attorney general have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny he lost the election now debbie heinz is a former prosecutor in the u.s.

state of maryland and founder of legal speaks that's a legal and political issues blog she says donald trump may continue to try and overturn the election despite losing lawsuits. 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't 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 where the trouble is we're doing they're 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 of padding 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 they're into 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 passed 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 fright because their guy didn't win. iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of fueling antigovernment unrest that's according to state media. was captured by the revolutionary guard and 2019 after years in exile he was the founder of ahmad news that's a social media channel with more than a 1000000 subscribers zam was accused there soaking violence through the channel during nationwide protests and 2017 on 2018 let's get an update from dorset joris she's joining us from tehran what more can you tell us about this case or saw.

well from the time that he was brought back into iran and he stood trial the charges against him there were 13 charges in the most serious one being what they call here corruption on earth he was also accused of cooperating with intelligence services of israel and france and also. revealing state secrets about he was the sentence was handed down to him in june of this year and then up held in the supreme court last month and then he was hanged this morning this is one of the fastest cases that we've seen of somebody being executed within the country in recent years now sam wasn't just the journalists he came from a clerical family his father was a cleric who works within the establishment in the ninety's he was also accused of revealing secrets he claimed he had sources within the intelligence ministries and the government and in that telegram channel he was revealing certain secrets and

the that was one of the mean issues but he was arrested in iraq in baghdad according to his wife who is still in france he left iran following the. instabilities that happened after the 2009 presidential election and he eventually ended up in france with his family that is when the intel. officials here. the channel that he started on telegram which had over a 1000000 subscribers and followers he was the officials here asked telegram to shut down that channel and they did telegram did that in december of 2017 during that protest but then he started another channel shortly after so his activities continued and then he eventually was lured to baghdad where the revolutionary guard intelligence brought him back to iran where he stood trial and also what do we make

of the fact that all 40 news in iran have so publicly announced the execution today . well there's 2 things i think that the whole to achieve by this one is to send a message to people with in the country that any kind of activities against the states will not be tolerated any kind of discontent or disillusionment anybody could have cannot be voice that is the most important thing the 2nd is also for the iranians living outside of iran there are many voices that are against the system here and they are very public voices on social media and various different media platforms the message here being that this person was lured to a 3rd country and then captured and brought back to iran he was under full security services protection in france that's according to him and his family and the fact

that the reigning in revolution guard intelligence managed to get him out of that situation serves as a warning for iranians living outside of iran that any kind of activity when it is deemed to be a serious threat to the islamic republic will not be tolerated and they have the capabilities to reach those people in various other countries all right mari thank you for that update from tehran. new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials there so video clips of taken by al jazeera from italian judicial source sources indicate for the 1st time that the 28 year old researcher joy origine was being monitored while in a car leg reports. 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 as you can was actually i don't remember 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 command assigned the informant to monitor julia a month before he was killed. we saw today we know that the egyptian general security followed regina's tracks for 40 days we know that he was a recent 1st in a camp been transferred to cell number 13 of the egyptian ministry of interior this is a very dangerous matter me 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 resembled those resulting from widespread torture practices in egyptian facilities the national security agency is quite. torrijos we have documented 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 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 for julia 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 of violated in egypt every day car a leg al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the forgotten we follow the lives of internally displaced bosnian 25 years after the war. mexico cancels the world's largest catholic pilgrimage but worshippers say the celebration is needed now more than ever.

but. it's looking pretty unsettled prosecute parts of europe at the moment really anywhere away from that eastern side of the counter and there is civil oppression bringing some very wet sand windy weather and at times wintry weather as well not a little area of low pressure center there in the mediterranean more wind and rain a little rolling during the course of the next few days and that will warm things up but ahead of that it has been a very wintry this is the same in the west in austria where we say over a meter of snow in just the past few days and that's what's hot list like ok rebuff 1500 meters here but still an awful lot of snow healthy little quiet for austria has become a through saturday wet some with weather and wintry weather pushes a little further research into we're remaining a wintry mix that just pushing over towards ukraine towards belarus and up towards the baltic states and then more snow coming back in across the alps as we go on

through saturday they start to shift a little further race was as we go on into sunday more wet weather very heavy rain unitas there down towards the southeast into greece and turkey pushing up towards a bowl garia that we're looking at that whets and windy weather starting to stream its way in from the atlantic over the next couple of days but at least the temperatures are on the rise. true confessions for another big cleanup many. or a cynical example of communist propaganda. to take your money out of. doing. in 2010 al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate the alleged use of biological warfare by the us during the korean. rewind revisits dirty little secrets on al-jazeera.

here with al-jazeera hello again here are the top stories they were us has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio and tech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st dose could be administered within 24 hours with millions more are set for a nationwide distribution. the u.s. supreme court has rejected of the go bed from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election defeat trump had backed a lawsuit that sought to throw out results and 4 states where joe biden was. iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of fueling anti government unrest in 201728.

captured by the revolutionary guard and 21000 after years in exile. 5 years ago today the paris agreement was forged the nations around the globe agreed to unite against the growing threat of climate change since then extreme weather events from droughts wildfires and super storms have taken their toll and highlighted a renewed call for action so how is the world placed in its battle against the climate crisis the clark takes a look. it was an extraordinary moment after endless years of negotiations nations of the world united in this common cause and the paris agreement was born that girl it was a it was for celebrations they were short lived within 18 months the accord was in deep trouble suddenly u.s. leadership was lost. and the united states will withdraw

from the paris. thanks lima to court well in the 5 years since paris national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions well they haven't measured up and time is running out remember the agreement ange to stop global temperatures from rising 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels ideally one and a half degrees but average global temperatures are right now as i speak at $1.00 degrees and climbing and the impacts of a warming world they're already shocking displacing millions and costing billions extreme weather events are becoming all too familiar from superstorm stew record wildfires from heat waves to devastating floods ice packs they've continued to diminish at both poles with the current decade the warmest on record it sounds bad it is bad and yet despite it all suddenly there's an opportunity president elect

joe biden has pledged to return the united states to the paris agreement the world's 2nd biggest emitter of greenhouse gases back at the table and the number one a matter that's china responsible for 28 percent of global emissions they promise carbon neutrality by 2060 other countries have followed suit japan and south korea committing to net 0 by 2050 joining the u.k. the e.u. and next year the united states and hopefully more to come out of the tragedy of the covert pandemic suddenly major economies are eyeing a green recovery with trillions of dollars in stimulus funds available i think yes we are in a moment i would say in a turning point moment in history and it's set in my view it's a great opportunity very few either some very few generations have the opportunity to become so relevant for at history overall it doesn't mean that

it is going to be easy on the contrary i think these bullets on our 'd shoulder. and even be there by sponsibility the thing is nations pledged action is one thing implementing policies to assure new found hope is not misguided well that's quite another but never will there be a better opportunity to realize the goals of the paris agreement and to put the brakes on the worst effects of climate change or you can extend you can watch excuse me our extended interview with the executive secretary of the un framework convention on climate change patricia spinoza that's it 0830 g.m.t. on sunday on talk to al jazeera. and for the u.s. state of california the effects of global warming are all too real so it's working hard to reverse the trends the state's governor has ambitious goals for a 0 carbon future as rob reynolds 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. here and people are. 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 thing and 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 it's 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. quickly words a world without a drill combustion engine but big questions remain including public acceptance question is are they going to commit enough cots fast enough are they going to be willing to accept the 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. the trumpet ministration is pressing ahead with a planned $1000000000.00 arms sale to morocco if approved by the u.s. congress the deal will provide robots with presidents and guided weapons and drones on thursday it was announced that morocco will normalize relations with israel and a u.s. brokered zio washington agreed to recognize morocco as claim over the disputed western sahara region as part of that agreement 25 years after the

bosnian war tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return to their homes the economy is crippled but for many leaving is not an option tony burke leaves it at 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 the age of that benefits sea 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 they're thill 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 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 the plan no. i don't i sued the orthodox church when i returned here but 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 cuba has announced a 5 fold increase in the minimum wage from january the 1st as part of a package of economic reforms the basic wage will go from 17 to 87 dollars a month the government or also unify its 2 official currencies the convertible peso that's pegged to the u.s. dollar will be phased out over 6 months the country has been suffering from tougher u.s. sanctions as well as a drop in terrorism. the world's largest catholic program has been cancelled due to a surge in covered 1000 cases about 10000000 people visit the basilica of our lady of guadalupe in mexico city every year but this time church and government

officials have asked catholics to worship at 0 instead of the reports from mexico city. every year millions of people flock to the mexican capital for the day of the virgin of guadalupe celebrated on december 12th. it's the largest catholic pilgrimage in the world and an important religious festival for many faithful catholics. this year however the coronavirus pandemic has put those celebrations on hold. get a natural house was among the last catholic pilgrims to visit the holy shrine before authorities closed it to the public. can't just be back my mother's in the hospital she's in very serious condition and i have faith that our lady of guadalupe will help me so that she'll be home soon. mexico city's national shrine houses an image of the virgin mary which according to a legend dating back to $1531.00 is said to have miraculously imprinted itself on a cloak belonging to an indigenous boy named one diego the day of the virgin of

guadalupe is mexico's largest annual public gathering on any other year this area outside of the basilica of our lady of guadalupe it would be a sea of worshippers but as deaths from coronavirus have continued to increase dramatically so have restrictions on public gatherings. enforcing these restrictions or more than 1700 mexico city police officers with the annual pilgrimage officially ancyl church leaders and government officials have encouraged . to attend a catholic mass via television or live stream serum ollie's online. body slow day of an artist in the state of one haka says even though people aren't allowed to visit the national shrine they can still bring the. virgin of guadalupe it into their homes i mean that's. what's being proposed is for people to not go outside and his stead set up an altair in their homes where they can receive the blessings of the virgin and where we can still say the same prayers were used i'm sure the

virgin would gladly make an exception in this case and visit each one of us in our homes. the annual pilgrimage for the day of the virgin of guadalupe is a tradition that reaches far beyond mexico's borders even though travel to her sanctuary won't be possible this year faithful catholics in mexico and around the world are finding other ways to worship money ended up a little al-jazeera mexico city. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio an intel coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st those could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for a nationwide distribution mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the company pfizer says that it will be able to.