the united states becomes the latest country to approve the pfizer coronavirus vaccine. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm very old so coming up president donald trump attacks the u.s. supreme court after it rejects a request to overturn joe biden's victory. the 1st international aid convoy reaches the capital of if your peers words or integrate a region iran executes a journalist convicted of fueling anti government unrest.

below the united states has become the latest country to approve the pfizer bio and coronavirus vaccine for emergency use president donald trump says the 1st those could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution mike hanna reports from washington d.c. thank you very much. followed immense pressure from the white house during the course of the day president trying 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 who voted overwhelmingly to recommend emergency use authorization president trump has now welcomed the f.d.a. approval 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 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 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 the results of the presidential

election president trump had backed that lawsuit who had sought to throw out results in 4 key states won by joe biden victoria gate b. reports. many legal experts in the us predicted this outcome the supreme court dismissed a bid by the state of texas to overturn the presidential election results much to the anger of trump who tweeted the supreme court really let us down no wisdom no courage trump and his republican allies wanted the court to set aside results in 4 states won by president elect joe biden michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin 18 republican attorney generals and 126 republican members of congress supported the lawsuit bought in a short statement the court said that texas has not demonstrated educationally called musical interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections biden's team 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 trump and other republican organizations have brought more than 52 seats in various states they've achieved partial success in only one but legal analysts say trump may continue to try to overturn the election results 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 to me but we cannot be in the hand of donald trump to think what he might try to do next but this was really his last day on there critics of trump say his refusal to concede defeat has damaged the integrity of the u.s. electoral process and biden's victory will be officially certified by the electoral college next week the tory gayton be out there. scott lucas is the co-founder of

america unfiltered that's a news analysis site on u.s. politics on foreign policy he says the supreme court's ruling is largely meant to deter any future of legal challenges from the administration. the legal message was that in this specific case 7 of the 9 justices said texas you've got no right to try to interfere over the way that elections were conducted in georgia wisconsin pennsylvania and michigan and the 2 most conservative justices samuel alito clarence thomas said ok we would consider your case but there's absolutely no chance that we would grant you what you want which is to throw out the elections in those 4 states what is important beyond the supreme court decision is the political message and that is in 57 of 58 cases the courts have said you really shouldn't be here to the trump lawyers they said there's no claims of fraud there's no evidence

and your legal theory is completely inappropriate and misguided you have the combination of the supreme court 1st on tuesday in a case brought over pennsylvania then in the texas lawsuit not only rejected the truck camps attempts to overturn the elections they said there's no way we're going to consider this there's absolutely no standing here and you combine that with the political which is the electoral college meets on monday they will confirm joe biden's victory of $306.00 electors to $232.00 and that's it it's done what does trump do next he then looks ahead probably saying he'll run for president the presidency in 2024 to reclaim what is rightfully his how much support does he get from the republican party and from his supporters to go for this for another 4 years iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of fueling anti-government unrest that's according to state media were khaled sound was captured by the revolutionary guard in 21000

after years in exile he was the founder of a modern news that's a social media channel with more than a 1000000 subscribers zam was accused of stoking violence through that channel during nationwide protests in 20172018 there's a job ari has the latest 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 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 urgently needed health care supplies have arrived in the if european city at the center of recent fighting in the northern region

a convoy of trucks from the red cross will distribute medicines and other supplies the hospitals and mccully if yoko's army has captured the city and declared victory while rival fighters in the 2 great people's liberation front very still fighting back let's find out more and speak to germany and england. he's the head of operations in ethiopia at the international committee of the red cross he's joining us from the cath this hour about thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so as are saying this is the 1st international aid convoy to reach that particular region in ethiopia what sort of supplies are being provided and what's the most needed right now. thank you so we managed to get 7 trucks in with their convoy today after. on the road those trucks are containing and medical supplies primarily to support the regional hospital their regional hospital and several other hospitals in the regions and pharmacies. we also carry some fuel and non-food items

housewives and some of supplies and communication equipment for the operation there but the main priority is to carry medicines surgical supplies and just basic items that are necessary for the hospital to function the host of the main reference hospital mcginley has been unable to function fully. interruption of supplies for over a month now dealing with a large number of trauma patients from the conflict but also the american will caseload chronic care patients delivery of babies. treatment diabetes all these things needed support in order to continue so how would you describe the scale of the humanitarian crisis and what are your teams on the ground now telling you what they're seeing. well in mccallion so we've seen is a number of wounded persons and also displaced persons coming into the city and the city's only residents being deprived of power water communications for over

a month so they've obviously been requirements for thoughts of support the doctors have had to choose between different patients who they could treat with diminishing supplies and without the disinfect correctly so we were very very concerned about the situation because we were delighted to see that 2 convoys that arrived there from the government with food and some additional medical supplies in the last week and together with our convoy we hope that begins to ease some of the pressure however this is in no way enough and it's very hard to tell the scale of needs beyond achille no international agency has really been able to do proper needs assessment across the region and we are hopeful. step by step what we are to do in the future what about access to that particular area because we know the government restricted access to the region of course after fighting broke out that was early in november and we also know that a u.n.

team was shot out earlier this month so how concerned are you with the security situation there. we've worked in this region for many many years for decades and we maintained our office in the caribbean throughout the fighting of the last of the last month and we stuff goes on site and you know this working together and in close coordination of authorities it was possible therefore to to organize the convoy with confidence and we had teams checking the road conditions and security conditions in advance of the convoy along the way. that doesn't mean that we have activists across all of the areas in tikrit at this stage assessment to be made in the far west and here in the kelly but there are still large areas where these tricky and complex to access and the red cross will lead its normal negotiations with the government and the different factions and attempt to move step by step when it's safe to do so we're very concerned because no international

organization has as yet had free access in that area and we think that's important going forward in order to support the government's own response to the people's needs right jeremy england thank you very much for speaking to us from madison avenue. still ahead on al-jazeera the 1st god we follow the lives of internally displaced bosnians 25 years after the war we also look at how the most populous state in the u.s. is putting its plans for a carbon neutral future into action. but . we've got a plunge of cold air coming in to parts of eastern asia over the next couple of days cloudy skies over towards the open waters of the northwest pacific but got

a big area of high pressure as we should do just coming across the korean peninsula dragging down a northerly feed of winds just what it does to the temperatures sold at around 3 degrees celsius there on sunday we got some snow for the korean peninsula well as you drive for a good part of japan as we go into monday we go down to minus 4 as a top temperature in seoul as that cold air really digs in and we could see some significant snow fall into that western side of honshu as a system fades in a loss of sea effect snow coming through his sheltered by the mountains not too bad in tokyo on the other had temperatures at around 15 also what's the weather now coming back into southern parts of china over the next several the northern flank of that again we could see some snow and i say some snow recently into northern parts of pakistan far north of india we've got kolarov just started to dig as well little further south which still got some showers just around the pushing up towards a good a rather long spells of rain just pushing their way and could see some localized

flooding on that one to the south of that is largely fine dry and sunny. for me out to c.n.n. london to a past 10 time team special. i guess in conversation i am heal because of colonialism unprompted uninterrupted there's a sense of what month burden still having some legitimacy in terms of spreading the knowledge and technology pretty ago pal me still is that parents need to make a record ration for something more new mentally horrific and flavoring studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

on the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. has become the latest country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use residents as the 1st those could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for a nationwide distribution. 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 which sought to throw out the results and for key states where joe biden has won several other legal challenges have been rejected across the country the 1st international aid convoy has arrived in the city at the center of recent fighting in the northern region a convoy of trucks and the red cross will distribute medicines and other supplies to hospitals in l.a. . saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the prior paris climate agreement

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 takes a look. there was an extraordinary moment after years of negotiations nations of the world united in this common cause and the paris agreement was born. but celebrations they were short lived within 18 months the accord was in deep trouble suddenly u.s. leadership was lost. the united states will withdraw from the paris. climate acourt 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 age 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 in a moment in history and it's set in my view it's a great opportunity very few who either send 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 shoulder. there's an even bigger price points that. if it 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 while 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 chandra bush on is the executive director of i for us the international forum for environment sustainability and technology he says while many countries are using 2050 as a benchmark they need to focus on making changes in the short term. someone else countries. say they're going to pick up emissions by 2050 now the number of research just at projecting 0 point one degree and 2.2 degree based on critics of dark but we all understand political site and why it is

important to give a greater good god get every got douche is in got history it is much more important to give fight your god get so that we can measure it in very slight we can see other countries are taking action or not and therefore i think this mess is that is going out is that we are on track the good point one actually is quite damaging i think you could have to give this message with lot of disclaimers the fact is the current target step countries have put on the table is 40.2 seat now just to i just wanted to clarify this point but debate the picture the fact is 2.2 degrees is is unheard of i'm and it's very difficult slaughter is sight just to actually project it would hollow back people at 3.2 degrees because even more roots are i mean to say we can give you a broader picture of what is going to happen but at the end of the good that our community is what we're going to devastate

a key point to be is the i can't be in the sendai of scientific debate misstep of the most wonderful community which is already suffering and is going to be devastated. 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 reprimands 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 famed beaches but even as global warming threatens to turn the california dream into a nightmare no place in the u.s. is doing more to combat the crisis california was the 1st large state to create a cap and trade marketplace for emissions its auto emissions standards are the

strictest in the country and petroleum powered vehicles will be completely phased out by 2035 when solara and other renewable energy resources are being ramped. dubb by law california is set to produce 100 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2045 there are very few places in the world that have done as much to build renewable energy to put in place energy conservation efforts and probably most importantly now to lead us quickly we're a world without a drill combustion engine but big questions remain including public acceptance question is are they going to canada enough 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 rob reynolds al-jazeera los

angeles the brazilian city of nets roy is buying more than a 1000000 doses of the chinese corona vaca vaccine from the state of south palo as pressure builds on the hospital system there and across the country 180000 people nationwide have died from the virus that's a 2nd highest number in the world the federal government has secured a deal to get up to 100000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine while no covert 1000 vaccine has been approved for use in brazil many hopevale and the pandemic of us. the vaccine is actually the instrument that will allow us to have a life back it will allow us to return to our lost rhythm without stress a print and the anguish for living in the situation we are living now. hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist jimmy lai has appeared in court to face charges for violating a controversial national security law lie 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 daily which is seen as the last media outlet critical of the government's 25 years after the bosnian war tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return to their homes the economy is crippling but for many leaving is not an option tony berkeley 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 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. 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 server storage is have so far not complied with the court order still realize that 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. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera 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 a nationwide distribution mike hanna has more from washington d.c. .