what data is being collected where is it. really looks at the limits of terror and the potential of other creative ways to do with the issues we face truscott when tech 2 is still viable episode 3 of all hail the lockdown on al-jazeera. move it to. the. u.s. regulators approve the emergency use of the pfizer bio untucked coronavirus vaccine . you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm very navigator also coming up president donald trump attacks the u.s. supreme court for rejecting a lawsuit against joe biden's victory. in iran executes a journalist convicted of feeling antigovernment under arrest and italian

prosecutors released evidence showing our students were brutally murdered in turn 16 was being monitored by egyptian all forty's before his death. hello 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 and key workers mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. thank you very much yes followed immense pressure from the white house during the course of the day president trump 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 addressing 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. first 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 of 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 the pandemic once and for all the vaccine manufacturer pfizer 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 vaccinations. 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 these stark statistics mike hanna al-jazeera

washington britain's astra zeneca start testing a combination of experimental vaccine with russia v shot trials for the compain did not kill a show and are set to begin by the end of the year nadine barber reports 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 in hospital struggling. as we vaccinate more and more people we will ultimately maybe by mid year next year 2020 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 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'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 and other nations around the world we have a front row seat frankly is as die guys through that and we're 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 it early january other nations are set to follow once there's a green light from the european union. sponsors whether that will happen within the same 27 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. to all health experts and campaign is raging wealthy nations to make sure the world's poorest citizens have access to vaccines if and when they're ready to al-jazeera

the u.s. supreme court has rejected a legal bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election defeats trump had backed the lawsuit that sought to throw out results in 4 states where joe biden won several legal challenges have been raised than rejected across the country seeking to stop biden's when before the electoral college votes on monday and the u.s. president has taken to twitter to criticize the supreme court's decision he said the supreme court really let him down and showed no courage or wisdom by dismissing the lawsuit the president elect joe biden's team celebrated their decision saying this the supreme court has the sights of lee 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 debbie

hines is a former prosecutor in the u.s. state of maryland and the founder of legal speaks that's a legal and political issues blog she says that donald trump may continue to try and overturn the election despite losing the 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 he on there it was really like shout at me when 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 do it they 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 which are illegal premises so that's the irony of the whole thing i mean for the judicial system i mean you know they felt out there into the bargain i mean they have to show that we do have 3

points 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 political needs or any political gains that donald trump was trying to do so that light is good but it has basically the morale of those voters who voted for donald trump and who do believe in some way shape or one without any basis in fact that the election was a fraud because their guy didn't win iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted to feeling anti-government unrest that's according to state media. was captured by the revolutionary guard in 2019 after years in exile he was the founder of a modern news a social media channel with more than a 1000000 subscribers zam was accused of stoking violence through that channel during nationwide protests and 20172018 job already has more from to her on. from the time that he was brought back into iran and he stood trial the charges

against him there were 13 charges and 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 but 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 a journalist he came from a clerical family his father was a cleric who worked 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 that was one of the mean issues but he was arrested in iraq in baghdad according to

his wife who is still in france and 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 intelligence officials here. saw the channel that he started on telegram which had over a 1000000 subscribers followers cobbles international airport has come under attack with a series of rockets killing at least one person an afghan government spokesman says the shells were fired from a vehicle on the city's outskirts no one has claimed responsibility. hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist jimmy lie has appeared in court to face charges for violating a controversial national security law why was seen at the courthouse in handcuffs and chains he was detained earlier this month and denied bail police accuse him of

colluding with foreign forces lies the publisher of apple a day in the which is seen as the last media outlet critical of the government if convicted he could face a life sentence in prison. still ahead on al jazeera fighting climate change 5 years since the paris agreement we take a look at how close nations are to achieving their goal. we also report from the country in southeast asia battling a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections. we've got more stormy weather pushing across central and eastern parts of the mediterranean lots of clouds showing up here but we do have signs of some dry weather which will make its way into the southwest as we go through the remainder of the weekend literature of high pressure just nothing as whites will spite and

political will quieten things down a little push up into central pa at the moment we got quite a cool feed of it down across a good parts of western europe through the british isles down across france to woolsey out small snow for the alps will snow for the pyrenees as well i'm all showers mobic somebody down pulls there into central parts of the mediterranean around course karate push across to will see which was italy as well heavy rain in play there across a good parts of greece just not seeing across much of i so want to make its way a little further east which is because through sunday some big downpours could lead to some localized flooding but there's that dry weather pushing into the hearts of europe as we go on through sunday down towards the southwest said lousy dry and. brought blustery showers rattling in across the northwest 10 celsius for london in paris in the cloud and the ranks out a bright supercross know the pulse of africa will see some showers there from northern parts of algeria good put it to this is seeing some wet weather along with

northern areas of libya. but. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to cut our security we don't want to lie on the authority and. post on out is the right. louis.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio and tech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st those could be administered within 24 hours and millions more are set for a nationwide distribution but u.s. supreme court has rejected a legal bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election defeat trump had backed the lawsuit that sought to throw out results and 14 states where joe biden on. iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of filling out 2 government on rest and 201720184 hollow sound was captured by the revolutionary guard and 29 t. enough for years in exile. new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt and further implicate security officials there video clips obtained by al-jazeera from italian judicial sources indicate for the 1st time that

28 year old researcher joy reginae was being monitored while in egypt kara like 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 was actually i don't imagine 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 a recent 1st in a camp been transferred to cell number 13 of the egyptian ministry of interior this is a very dangerous matter the italian 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 all torrijos we have documented around. torture we have documented forced disappearance in the country and how the judiciary affectively in service of the system of repression. 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 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 with julia region his 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 leg al-jazeera u.s. president elect joe biden has unveiled more for his incoming administration many are familiar names with close ties to former president barack obama's cabinet how

does a castro has 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 love 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 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 elect 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 5 years ago on saturday the paris agreement was forged nations around the globe agreed to unite against the growing threat of climate change since the extreme weather events from droughts wildfires and super storms have taken their toll and highlighted a renewed call for action so how's the world place than its battle against the climate crisis the court 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 the that 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 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 their very sponsibility that is nations pledging 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 and you can watch our extended

interview with the executive secretary of the un framework convention on climate change patricia espinosa that's at 830 g.m.t. on sunday on talk to al jazeera. 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 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 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 one of hundreds or cent 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 we're a world without a drill combustion engine but big questions remain including public acceptance question is are they going to canada not fast enough are they going to be willing to accept the changes that are going to be necessary in order to stabilize the climate a state imperiled by a warming climate summoning the will to fight back robert oulds al jazeera los

angeles the trumpet ministration is pushing ahead with a planned 1000000000 dollar arm sell to morocco on thursday it was announced that morocco will normalize relations with israel in a u.s. brokered 0 washington agreed to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region as part of the agreement prosecutors of the international criminal court are pushing for a full investigation into possible war crimes of ukraine an initial inquiry launched 5 years ago found that reasonable grounds exist to believe crimes against humanity have been committed fighting between ukrainian forces and pro russian separatists has killed more than 14000 people in the past 6 years a number of countries across asia are reporting a rise in corona virus cases after initial successes in containing its spread florence though it takes a look at what's behind the surge. everyone living in this

apartment block in quaalude bay hong kong has to take a coronavirus test after the building reported at least 7 confirmed cases of covert 19. earlier this week hong kong banned evening dining at restaurants and ordered gyms beauty salons and message palace to shut in a bid to contain a 4th wave of corona virus infections the government has also set up temporary testing stations but people can get tested for free. both the government and citizens are responsible for the outbreaks some people are too selfish and continue to organize social activities illegally. please also the governments fault all troubles from overseas should be under full compulsory quarantine. hong kong isn't the only place that seen a resurgence in corona virus cases in asia is battling a 3rd way the country largely avoided a massive outbreak because of strict early lockdown but following a local election in sabah state in late september malaysia started recording

a rise in daily cases last month hostels that house workers for a glove manufacturer were locked down after more than 2000 workers tested positive for code that 19 health officials say the number of daily new cases is likely to remain high as they expand screening on migrant workers authorities have also reopened a temporary foreign team and sweetman center just outside of quality to deal with the includes in south korea authorities are building temporary hospitals and shipping containers as a 3rd wave of coronavirus cases threatens to overwhelm medical facilities many experts believe even with the vaccine available it will take a while before normal life can resume right now there's limited vaccines. we also don't really know if that. transmission. in the. in the early stages we were pretty good at saying i think leave the vaccines that it will

decrease a severe disease but well no it will stop the transmission in the early stages of still to my mind it would not answer the question but authorities are keen to reopen albeit with precautions the thai government recently said all nationalities could apply for a tourist visa a hugh 10 on an earlier stipulation that only those from low risk countries can apply it's even allowing big countdown events to take place on new year's eve florence clearly al-jazeera poor. fellow again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio and tech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st those could be administered within 24 hours with millions more are set for a nationwide distribution i canna has more from washington 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.