0. hello there i missed all the tell you this is the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the electoral college prepares to formally vote for the next president and vice president of the united states. the 1st shipments of covert 1000 vaccines began rolling out across the u.s. as the government just americans to take them. and secretary of state mike compare says to don is now officially off the u.s. terror list there t.j.

i'm afraid it would not take long for them to come to me choosing a life in exile the 15 year old joining a growing number of activists leaving hong kong has or authorities their crackdown on dissent. with the sports after years of criticism cleveland's baseball team will drop their indians name but that subset the u.s. president. ali begin this news in the united states where in around 2 hours electors will gather in their states and cost everts for president and vice president all the more than $156000000.00 americans already aversion in the election this year the final call is made by a group of officials who make up the electoral college they'll cost their votes at state capital buildings around the u.s. on monday now each state's number of electors is based on the size of its population. nationwide the electoral college has a 538 members so to when

a candidate needs at least 270 votes joe biden is expected to beat donald trump today 306 to 232 now because most states use a winner take all system to pick their electors it is possible to lose the popular vote and still win the election that's happened 5 times now 2 of those have been in the last 20 years or let's cross over to the white house where alan fischer is live for us off to today's vote does this mean that it's actually finally over for president trump and he doesn't seem to think so. well remember all the times that we've covered the electoral college vote in the past you know of course you don't because this is really that in minnesota of informal stat normally of course it's become much more of a big deal because of donald trump's continuing efforts to try and overturn the election even tweeting out on sunday that those who voted to confirm the results would be committing a criminal offense

a serious criminal offense no less of course that's a complete misreading of the law you would have thought that losing more than 50 court cases someone front of judges appointed by donald trump would have been an individual nail in the coffin of donald trump's hopes of overturning the election you'd have thought the losing in the supreme court on friday would have been the definitive nail in donald trump's hopes of overturning the election one republican lawyer saying that the supreme court essentially said gore we don't bother with this nonsense but even after the electoral college meets and confirms the result and it will be that joe biden won the election on november the 4th this isn't going to end donald trump's effort to remember that rudy giuliani his key lawyer has said that he will continue the legal fight all the way until the 20th of january 11 59 pm that's just before the inauguration but the big deal they've got their eyes fixed on

a january the 6th though why is that important that's when congress meets to confirm the result of the election and donald trump is hoping that there will be enough republicans in both houses who will say no this election was fraudulent there is a problem with it and therefore we cannot confirm the result the difficulty of course with that is that in more than those 50 court cases the republicans have been given the opportunity to assure where there was widespread fraud and there has been no evidence of that so far and al and i say that some states are also putting in extra security measures in place because of credible threats today how concerned ana. well many places are very worried let's take michigan for example of course a swing state where we've seen protests against the governor issuing a mask monday earlier this year when the also you'll remember that there were a number of arrests with people who intended to kid now the governor well this time

they see that there have been credible threats against those who will meet to confirm the electoral college vote and they've had to take special measures like closing state buildings and that has been a scene repeated right across the country just at the weekend here there was a stop this steel rally in favor of gold trump and there were several incidents of violence including 4 people being stabbed none of them serious but they were still stabbed that still pretty serious and so there is a deep concern right across the country that there could be a problem with people showing up trying to put pressure on the electoral college voters trying to get them to make sure that they don't confirm the result but it is a see this is largely i don't minister to and for more step by the end of the day we expect joe biden to 306 electoral college votes that he's won and to be confirmed as the next president of the united states just a quick point when donald trump won 360 votes electoral college votes 4 years ago

he described it as an overwhelming one slight or torture he continues to insist that the election was stolen from him without any evidence he's suggesting there is widespread fraud and he's suggesting that he's going to continue the fight for at least the next 4 years allan has said that with all the latest for us from the white house thanks very much allan we can now speak to brett byrne he is the former director of global engagement in the white house under president obama he joins us now also from washington d.c. where it does feel like a very long 41 days since the election i know you yourself have been very outspoken about what's happened since then with the transition is there a sense of relief today. well it has been certainly the longest election in american history and if we may be going down into that you know spoke of world record as having the longest election process that the challenge today who are trump and his supporters is that the electoral college votes will be cast and joe

biden will get more than the $270.00 he needs which makes it very very difficult for trump and republicans to claim that somehow there's a path to victory now there is one more step in this process as your correspondent mentioned they have to go to the congress and the congress essentially certifies those electoral votes but there are again there's almost no possibility that you're going to have a majority in congress saying that somehow donald trump's case about the illegitimacy of these results has merit so but does that mean for you that today reinforces u.s. democratic institutions or do you think that the damage has already been done and when it comes to than a dishonesty of this election especially in the eyes of trump supporters. well i have to say that what trump and some republicans have done over the course of the last several weeks is really strain the fabric of american democracy and oh you

don't usually repair that damage i think a lot of the credibility that we used to have in our process and in our democracy has spent badly badly wounded and it is going to take a long time to restore that trust and i have to say unfortunately it's largely on the republican side of the aisle we're upwards of 80 percent of republicans say they don't believe that joe biden won the election. but as you also point out and it is possible to win the popular vote in the u.s. and still use the election happened with hillary clinton and al gore do you support getting rid of the electoral college will or perhaps the states popular vote come back putting that in play well let's look back as to why founders you know our country set up the electoral college they wanted to check on their system of direct voting for the head of our country and i think it's in an important step not just

for tradition but you know throughout our system we have checks and balances night i continue to have faith that this is the right system even though obviously in 2 occasions our candidates are my party who are either a clinton lost but we have a system we have a process that is worked for centuries and i don't see any reason at this stage that we should change it oh but you yourself you dealt with global engagement under obama so taking a step back and looking at this whole electoral process this time around and how it's all played out what do you think the rest of the while the thinking now as it looks at the u.s. . well i think there should be interesting consequences for what has transpired here in the u.s. there are a lot of less than democratic leaders around the world that are going to take comfort if not literally a page out of donald trump's playbook and try to use it to stay in office or to discredit the opposition and elections so this is very worrying as a former diplomat to what could happen for democracy especially burgeoning

democracies around the world i think donald trump has done an awful lot to set us back on democratic progress and that obviously will take years to see the full effects of that plan that a former director of global engagement in the white house under president obama great take your thoughts again here on out of there bret thanks for being with us. now right now the 1st u.s. shipments of the pfizer 1000 vaccine are being delivered in the nation's largest ever immunization project more than 16000000 people in the u.s. now tested positive for the corona virus and the death toll is heading towards 300000 california higher texas and pennsylvania has been reporting the highest numbers of dany infections california has confirmed almost 200000 cases just in the past week alone but one of the riskiest places to be right now is that tiny states

on the right rhode island where cases are up by almost 50 percent compared to 2 weeks ago new york still has the highest death toll overall with more than 35000 that it was the 1st epicenter of the virus in the united states you'll remember and cases there again on the rise john hendren has the latest for us from washington d.c. . the united states rolled out the most ambitious vaccination program in american history. to the applause of workers at pfizer's michigan vaccine plant it is a test of an unprecedented national effort to save millions of lives in the nation most ravaged by the pandemic. workers low dry ice into boxes containing the super chilled vaccine kept it negative 70 degrees celsius. then in a scene not witnessed in this century that scene bearing fed-ex in u.b.s. delivery trucks are escorted by u.s.

marshals the shipments are expected to reach the 1st $145.00 locations on monday in a total of $636.00 by wednesday $20000000.00 vaccinations this this month and then we think will be up to $50000000.00 total vaccinations of people by the end of january and $100000000.00 shots in arms by the end of february just with the derren and foster vaccine but amid the celebration there are warning signs to achieve the herd immunity necessary to stop the disease in the u.s. just say. 75 percent of the public must be vaccinated but in a study of one health care system florida's jackson health system half of the health care workers said they would not be taking the vaccine another 35 percent said they would not take it in the 1st round the head of the u.s. national institutes of health says that's a major concern but i would like to plead this to people who are listening to this this morning to really hit the reset button on whatever they think they knew about

this vaccine that might cause them to be so skeptical please people when you look back in a year and you say to yourself did i do the right thing i hope you'll be able to say yes because i looked at the evidence across the u.s. the virus is reaching new peaks state of mississippi reports it now has no more intensive care beds available what i fear that people do not understand however is that the resources are finite. they are finite there gets to a point where we have to say we don't have another place to put another patient safely we can't do it with nearly 300000 dead in new infections rising the human toll continues to mount john hendren al jazeera washington. home the fine is a vaccine is the very fast to be approved for use in the united states it's

a new kind of drug that trains the immune system to fight the current a virus and it's given in 2 doses 3 weeks apart the companies say it's 95 percent effective but full protection may only come a few weeks after that 2nd injection and because this vaccine is so new there are still many things that we don't know about it like for instance how long protection will last or where the boosters will be required scientists also don't know if the vaccine stops people catching and spreading the virus only that it actually prevents that 1000 symptoms so until that changes they say will also. still need to wear masks and practice social distancing well we can now speak to jay gray he joins us live from outside a hospital in chicago that's the coming of a launch a scale vaccine center j. the last time we spoke those vaccines were on their way over to you how far of a away now. well we keep asking we've got no solid results on exactly where the vaccine is or when it

will arrive and part of that's a security issue u.s. marshals or alongside escorting this vaccine in many areas and so at this point we only know that we expect it sometime this morning into the latter part of the day today and we do expect the vaccines to begin here at rush university medical center this week what will they do they'll start with the front line medics not only at this hospital but from others around the area and they'll be the 1st phase of the vaccination process they can move through and it minister shots to as many as a 1000 people a day here that's what they're set up to do and say that they will continue to do that for as long as they possibly can hoping that this is the beginning of months of vaccinations here at the hospital as this thing phases out and into the general public now it's going to be contingent on getting enough medicine and right now it looks like about 2000 doses are on the way but that should ramp up when madonna is

approved there vaccine which could be by the end of this week and then you've got some others coming online after the 1st of the year so a lot of excitement here for a lot of these health care workers who say it's finally some hope after so many months of fighting this virus oh speaking of health care how worried are stuff there that people won't actually want to take the vaccine if it's offered to them. whew. look i think curate rush pacifically the staff is on board that they're ready for these vaccinations in fact some saying that they hope they can be an example to this community that it's ok to get this vaccine that they'll go through it before they have the opportunity i'm talking about the unity and they'll see that they've gotten through it just fine if you look at the medical profession as a whole though and i've seen some surveys lately that they're right at about 60 percent willing to go through phase one but some others want to watch and make sure

that this vaccine is ok and what we've heard from the experts is we've got to get 70 to 80 percent of the population vaccinated for it all to work and so those numbers or going to have to come up the hope is as we move forward and people get the vaccine and return to work and everything is fine that will see the numbers really start to explode in a good direction unfortunately what we're seeing is numbers climbing in a bad direction as far as the virus is concerned right now jay gray watching that vaccine roll out for us there in chicago thanks so much say fall the fast about all of that finds a vaccine has now arrived in canada the initial fashion 1000 doses will go to frontline health care workers and care home stuff canada hopes to have a quarter of a 1000000 doses by the end of this year canadian regulators are also expected to approve the mcdonough vaccine within days brazil's top court has given the

government 48 hours to announce a start date for its vaccine rollout there present i am also came under widespread criticism after plans for the vaccination program were released on saturday with no start date provided now that's despite brazil being one of the west affected countries also has repeatedly downplayed the virus that. is following developments for us from one is aires in argentina. a president who right from the beginning didn't take the virus seriously called it nothing worse than a little flu really whereas moths in public. suffered from from the virus and then recovered but he's been giving out mixed messages his health ministry has announced that it wants to vaccinate 51000000 brazilians in the next 5 months but it's not clear where those that are going to come from which vaccine they're going to use how it will be rolled out and then have how the next group of people will be vaccinated after those initial $51000000.00 health workers and the most vulnerable

mostly elderly people and those with serious illnesses newspapers health experts all the politicians have criticized president job also now are accusing him of homicidal recklessness criminal negligence in his approach to trying to have 200 or so 1000000 the brazilians vaccinated they've about 7000000 brazilians have been infected with the virus 181000 have died the numbers keep rising i.c.u. beds close to such a ratio and more than 90 percent occupied in cities like brazil. and so they released these mixed messages the president himself saying he's unlikely to take the vaccine has cast doubt on their effectiveness really his supporters going along with him and continuing to mix in public trying to work trying to keep the economy afloat those who are opposed to him strongly critical accusing him of incompetence

among other things. well europe is also seeing a drastic rise in coronavirus cases in many countries there imposing new restrictions around the holiday season in germany for instance stricter measures are being imposed as the government says the virus is out of control and hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed meanwhile london face is being moved to tears 3 that's england's highest level of restrictions journalists ending by for us in london but 1st let's go to najib in brussels with the latest lines from across europe we've seen these countries like germany potentially even today the netherlands ramp up restrictions how are they coping with the. well there both along with other nations extremely worried about the way this 2nd wave if it is still a 2nd wave is going in germany they had a so-called lock down light in november and that seem to have failed on monday the

country recorded 16000 you called it 19 cases with 188 deaths and now there is talk that the government this is via the chief of staff to chancellor angela merkel will be unlikely to lift lockdown measures until january at the earliest so from wednesday non-essential shops are going to have to close and that's until january the 10th or at least. we heard from the country's economy minister that he believes a tougher lock down or for some considerable time is now needed in his opinion to avoid a recession in 2021 an interesting take on the debate over whether continual lockdowns rather than short sharp shock say if you like actually protect the economy also the government in the form of the health minister expressing frustration that the european medicines agency hasn't acted quickly more quickly to approve use of that pfizer biotech vaccine which is being rolled out in other countries and in the

netherlands you mentioned they're also worried the prime minister there warning that a 3rd wave would be much worse than the 2nd well let me tell you from. from. from this month. schools and shops it's rumored are going to shot he's going to address the nation by television at 7 o'clock local time on monday. and it's just another reminder of that country's battle to really drive down cases there now as of sunday $10000.00 new cases per day and again yourself a stunning imbalance and that has some of the highest per capita infection i was in the wild can you very briefly tell us what the situation is like there now. yes belgian has really been hit hard in fact it's got the world's highest per capita death rate at around $155.00 per 100000 so it really has been grim over the

last few months and at the moment it's recording around or at least 16000 sorry it's seen at least 16000 people die from the virus a 3rd of that number during the 2nd wave so they're still struggling we're at around 100 people dying from coffee to here every single day still and now from tuesday shops are actually being allowed to reopen even though some health authorities are saying that case numbers and admissions to hospital have only so full in a very slightly in recent weeks and there are other measures that are going to stay in place over the christmas holiday period into the new year to try to keep things are at a manageable rate for the health service for example probably a ban on fireworks limits on gatherings households only being allowed to meet with

one other person so they are tougher than for example what you might see in the united kingdom but also the situation with the virus itself continuing to worry people here of course. in brussels watching developments around here thanks so much mental hospital of london let's cross over to john hall who's there for us john as are saying and let's like it's heading into tier 3 of us texans how is that going have especially had a christmas. but well it is not confirmed yet we're expecting to hear from the health minister a man and populate a bit later there was a cabinet subcommittee meeting dealing with covert issues this morning it is almost certainly discussed the government may well decide to act sooner than it had hoped they was due to be a review of the existing tear restriction levels on wednesday a fortnight. after they were reintroduced if you recall after the month long lockdown in england london narrowly avoided being placed into 3 at that point a lot of other big cities particular north of the country didn't well now parts of

london have higher infection rates than some of those cities the government we know very sensitive to charges of playing favorites is and with london the mayor of london city con has intervened he's calling for urgent action though he says 2 or 3 restrictions that would involve shutting hospitality bars restaurants and song with all the attendant risk in the economy is not the appropriate on so the high infection rates he says are happening in schools so rather shut the coast schools down early for christmas that may be an option the government will consider would have to wait and see one denies say there are now a safety is a bad way of potentially and then yes. yep here as elsewhere you know the shops are open in the run up to christmas big high streets these busy streets a lot of oxford street very famous around the world absolutely huge thing with people going about their christmas shopping in the run up to christmas when the government has mandated a big relaxation of the rules over the christmas period itself so families can get together indoors and meet for the traditional christmas festivities it's all

pointing towards and indeed government scientists very loudly warning to the possibility of a 3rd wave in january just as the national health service hospitals like the wall street behind me really struggling with exhaustion low morale among the stuff struggling with seasonal illnesses anyway and dealing with the rollout of the vaccine china how that would eliminate this for us from london thanks so much to. all staying with a pandemic in the un says child marriage rates of sad state in sierra leone because of the pandemic and estimates that hardships resulting from the 1000 will drive 13000000 more girls to marry before the age of 18. reports. marie kamar is 16 years old and wanted to be a nurse but the grade of r.'s pandemic pushed her family into poverty she says she had little choice but to leave school and mary instead. when he went to meet my

parents they called me and asked me about his proposal and i told them you have no money to send me to school so let me get married. marie stepfather runs a tailoring shopping komo in easton sierra leone he's had few customers this year because of the pandemic worries husband is in his mid twenties and offered to provide rice for her younger sisters and access to his who train whole as part of his marriage proposal to mourn. the past months have been hard for me it's been difficult to afford enough i don't have money people don't come to buy for my business because of this pandemic. the un defines child marriage as a marriage of a girl oh boy before the age of 18 and it says the number of girls getting married in sierra leone before that age dropped from 56 percent in 2006 to 39 percent 10 years later but when schools closed in march child marriage rights.

activists say many of the girls' mothers were themselves married office teenagers and see child marriage as normal they do not feel. this is possibly one of the better investments and better things that i could do for my child. it's a mindset that sierra leone's 1st lady is working to change with her campaign called hands off all girls child doesn't give consent to sex so if you if you force a child to be a very. child and that. schools reopened in sierra leone 2 months ago about the impact of covert 19 means many girls may never go back to the classroom victoria gate and be. it is now time for the weather. there's just been some pretty vicious weather off the coast of east australia near bruce been described as the equivalent of

a crushing road cycling i wasn't cycling but it certainly was stormy we had waved horses 10 metres high that rather low and that nobody whips up the sea gives you focus on the beaches in the sunshine coast the gulf coast coast erosion down in byron bay this is soft christiansand just washed away because this is not the 1st storm of the season inland it is more obvious from the amount of rain that fell it is one in 100 year event in a half a meter of rain with a raise not quite as bad now nor is the wind it's all going south through sydney's or new the new south wales as things improve in brisbane melbourne same time has seen a rise in temperatures could be 2 days of 30 degrees that were lost because the rain heads down towards eastern victoria and they c.t. melbourne stand about $23.00 now that's his war that's where it should be the average is about 20 says be a 10 degree drop in terms of showers get to you on thursday or friday equally we can talk about temperatures on the northern side of the equator a drop of about 30 degrees these minus 55 to start the day in the siberian arctic

clearly it's not as cold as a cold air leaks out across the sea of japan these sea but it produces huge amounts of snow for most of mainland japan. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.n. says feiss going to i saw a force of 400000 people to flee their homes in northern mizen beach. and tributes are paid to the former liverpool manager who led them to a treble winning season that's coming up with china and sports. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us on. the 1st of a 2. epic tale of a remarkable time and. the father the son and the jihad.

run on al-jazeera the latest news goes this plays out when the recount they say this one time many members and relatives were enough to make them come here rather than think detail coverage challenged the government faces is aware that it can persuade people to keep restrictions. different. from around the world the so-called swedish model may be under some pressure but a full lockdown is unlikely on perhaps even impossible. i missed all the attainder let's remind you the top stories here this hour

officials in the u.s. electoral college are preparing to formally vote for the next president and vice president elect will gather in all states in a few hours to begin cost in their pockets they're expected to confound joe biden and come a horace's victory. the 1st u.s. shipments of the fines are covered 19 vaccine are being delivered in the nation's largest ever immunization project the vaccination of health care workers and the elderly begins on monday a 1000 nationwide death toll approaches 300000 germany strict measures are being imposed as the government says the virus there is out of control and hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed by london faces being moved to tears 3 that's highest level of coronavirus restrictions. now the u.s. has officially removed sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism list the top administration approved that move as a side deal. with israel in october washington and khartoum signed an agreement to

restore the country's sovereign immunity meaning that it can be sued in american courts and return sudan paid $335000000.00 to the victims of the 1998 al-qaeda attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania we can speak to our will our he's an analyst on the horn of africa and also a senior lecturer and north kill university he joins us now from london so many groups have been really advocating for this in order to try to cement the transition and sudan it became such a flagship priority for hum doc now given the amount of time it's actually taken to do this and how very troubled the transition is do you think it's too late. i think it's long overdue i think the united states government could have to go to the sudan and from this list a lot earlier than this but i think still this is a very important development for sudan and the sort of these people it signals that the emergence of sudan from 3 decades of international actually action it will now

become a full plate a member of the international community could access via these international institutions and values the states who are set exult of this function with an able to trade with state and so this is a very significant development for to done also for the transition process that is underway in sudan you want to unpack some of that i will but 1st to don i believe already or is what $62000000000.00 an external debt so where are they getting the money to pay this $335000000.00 to us than me. i think what this really shows is that not just the amount of money they agreed to pay but also there are pushing my with israel to show that. as a country has be very just prayed to be removed from this list and so that is kind joe in the international community it would be able to borrow for example under favorable terms for the international financial institutions and one of the

theories that big does ignited state sponsor of terrorism and 2 countries that i visit the site is that it prevents them from access the lobbyists. you know institutions in various parts for males and vias banks for example in the u.s. which play a very important role in the financial system it prevents them from access see some types of loans from the i.m.f. and the world bank it also extends u.s. power to punish except in the states who engage in some forms of trade with sadat so sudan who was extremely desperate to have this listed go for it can have access to values trading opportunities in the world but certainly sudan is. a huge dead african tree but i think being removed from this list would help sudan to somewhat deal with that and better and to restructure its economy again but

essentially even though this state sponsor of terrorism designation has been lifted and that obviously opens them up to aid they've really had to pay money to the u.s. essentially to be able to get more money from the u.s. right how much aid do we expect to flow into sudan now especially given the die economic situation aaron. so you know because it was on this list it was not eligible for us for it ed now that this is listed depending on how the relationship between the 2 countries upon our going forward i think that may be able to receive a considerable amount from from the u.s. i think that also in some ways depends on how situations on the ground is so that itself progress how the relationship between the civilian administration and the military council got a part of this are legion would would progress going forward so should done i think

advancement to more democratic system would have a lot i think to do with how much the u.s. is willing to support sudan going forward but there are also other regional spock that's more broadly if 2 done becomes more important player in the horn of africa for example clinton to the situation between egypt and the through escalated i think that would make a very important country that the united states would be very keen to support a law that analyst on the horn of africa always great to do inside here and out of here thanks for being with us i. think the thinking of normalization russia's foreign minister has said that normalization between israel and arab countries should not replace the end of creating a palestinian state flag a lot of us holding talks in moscow with his u.a. e. counterpart they've been discussing a wide range of issues including the gulf crisis and the situations and syria and

in libya. well the saudi arabian port of jeddah has now been closed after an explosion on an oil tanker the shipping company has said one of its oil tankers the b.w. rhine had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused an explosion and a fire and comes off another tank that was damaged by a mine off the coast last month that attack was being blamed on yemen's riki rebels much as wary is the director of the gulf study center at castle university he says this is a serious incident in a very critical pos of the n.c. it's very interesting to see this happened just after one month of our. other incident that we have to look at also what was happening to our i previously i think of this we have to look at the context the context that is it is very tense there is a tension in. sodas and how these there's a tension between so there and there are there's a tension between iran and the united states and alliances and that he did so it's

a very it's a very tense moment. and the minute we have to look at also the consequences of the asus a nation of nuclear scientists there on what is either so i think the context is very tense and there are lots of pics of the nation it will appear in next few hours about what's happening but it does reflect that this region is basically is very tense and you know no other state actors militia can act with so little or with the suction from 3rd party if it's needed and i think that is what we what we have to keep our eye on it. well leaders of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the escalation of violence and all the resin being which is now displaced thousands of people the united nations says attacks by fighting to eisele has forced 400000 people to flee. delgado province have seized key towns for brief periods wanting to set up a caliphate that the region is home to

a multi-billion dollar that troll gas project to alaska to lancaster he's the head of mission in mozambique for doctors without borders he says it's difficult to his organization to even access displaced people in the province as interior or the movement there are 50000000000 cells or the current that some of them might still be if you could do which because during the. recent work out of the book winds and also in the. in the most so these people were talking about we don't know exactly what the groups reviews in the accessible area around the world is or a group of. 100000 people and yet they are moving. most of the time though they are moving from one place on that was because of the basically we are more protection and there are also the needs the current would be government. in terms and this isn't because it's. because we are we are

entering into the really thin so courses if you can. we even sing and look at basically people who may be reading. them. now the ears chief negotiator says although 2 conditions remain unresolved sealing a trade deal with britain is still possible despite missing a self-imposed deadline on sunday michel barnier has briefed negotiating teams in brussels as they press on with those talks to try to avoid a no deal outcome if they fail the border checks and taxes will be introduced for goods traveling between the u.k. and the e.u. from january the 1st i'm going to do that because you don't use it often you know you're in our responsibility is to continue these very difficult negotiations never before in the history of the e.u. have we negotiated with an entire country on such an agreement on business goods energy security of citizens transport we've never negotiated an agreement on such a short amount of time it's been 9 months we should have had at least 5 years to

get through all of these so we'll give it our best it's our responsibility it's still possible to get a good balanced agreement that needs to meet 2 conditions that are still not fulfilled free and fair competition and accord that guarantees reciprocal access for fishing in markets with a growing number of activists in hong kong a facing a difficult choice as authorities that crackdown on dissent many are deciding whether to risk serving a prison sentence or to rather flee the country our correspondent engine brown met one such activist who is now facing an uncertain future there was a time when hong kong was a haven for families fleeing persecution in mainland china as 2020 nears its end people and i'll leave in this city for the same reason age just 15 a real rank says one of hong kong's youngest political exiles here packing her bags in the hotel room where she spent last week before flying to london on saturday she was 14 when she was detained during protests 7 months ago and although not charged

remains worried about the impact of a sweeping new national security law are there to show off i joined a social movement last year and became one of the frontline protesters on my protest. he might have been a rest and charged with serious crimes including rioting and. i'm afraid that it will not take long for them to come up to me her actions of divided her family but her mother supports her decision to leave she's being helped by a group assisting others who also want to go to britain where a ruler expects to resume her studies in january i found out when the only thing i did not expect that i would end up like this when i joined the protest i know we were hard to say goodbye it would be sad but i rather leave to seek a better future and to live without fear as much about this case that's troubling auroras age the fact that she was radicalized so young and is now seeking political asylum in a country where she knows few save the members of

a group who now in effect be her guardians she leaves behind a city where pro-democracy activists are being arrested almost daily. on saturday the prominent businessman jimmy lai appeared in court charged under the security legislation and is now facing a lengthy jail term activists sunni chung fled in august a warrant since been issued for his arrest for. sure my family. is still in hong kong i am concerned about s.c.t. and i are weird x. . easterly winds are trying to silence him from africa and their families like aurora sunny doesn't know if he'll ever step foot here again and like her has no regrets about where their activism has led them adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. a farmer's union aid as in india has begun

a one day hunger strike in a bid to ramp up protests that have new agriculturalists farmers have been counted out on major highways for weeks now the king's men points into the capital new delhi they're angry of a legislation that would change the rules about the sale and pricing of project use several rounds of talks with the government have so far failed to reach a compromise but our correspondent elizabeth cohen is at the gaza border crossing that's between delhi and pradesh states she says the farmers there are showing no sign of stopping. farm union leaders are on hunger strike at all of the protests sites including here at the gaza border between the states of the predation delhi where traffic or traffic coming from the british on this key highway has been blocked for 2 and a half weeks and over the weekend we saw farmers blocking a part of another major highway between the states of broad just don and delhi farmers continuing to increase pressure on the government and they are receiving support from the ruling party here in the national capital region of delhi the

state leader ivan cage and members of the odd meal common man party are also on hunger strike in solidarity with the farmers meanwhile prominent in that in the more he remains defiant he's defended the laws on the weekend saying that they will make farmers prosperous that they will attract investment in the agriculture sector but farmers maintain that the laws are fundamentally flawed they've rejected the government's proposed amendments and say they aren't going anywhere until the 3 found laws of repealed. years only in their separate obligate were farmers have been protesting on the streets for 2 months in punjab and it has been 17 days in delhi and it has been very peaceful we will not leave this part of nonviolence the government is hoping for the movement to turn violent people get restless because that might work in their favor but we want to tell them that we have enough provisions to last one year and we will continue our peaceful. in protest meanwhile

this battle over the protests and the laws is moving to court and the us supreme court is going to hear a plea on wednesday asking authorities to clear the highways to remove farmers saying that farmers are causing a disruption to traffic by blocking highways and that such protests shouldn't be held during a pandemic a law student who filed the petition is asking that the farmers be moved to a ground that was designated by the government for protests meanwhile farmers unions themselves have asked the supreme court to wood to draw these 3 laws saying that they were passed without enough debate and that the deregulation of the agriculture sector is going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations so both the protests and the north and now being challenged and india's top court. now google has suffered a wild wide outage with failures reported across the company services multiple

services and websites including g. mail google assistant and google docs were all down for around an hour the monitoring website down to texas says the number of reported huge problems peaked at more than 100000 most services on now restored. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the draw is made for the 2823 rugby world cup of joe i will be here to tell you who will play music. business leaders is going to buy no brass spar.

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looking back now research as an australia say they've developed a technique to grow and transplants new coral populations on the great barrier reef they say what they're calling coral i.v.'s could help replenish one of the world's most endangered ecosystems alexandra bias reports. they may not be the most vibrant but these corals are healthy and resilient and represent a major lifeline for the most spectacular ecosystem of its kind on the planet. they're part of the very 1st trial of in-vitro fertilization for corals or coral i.v.'s. coral large by our collective during what are called mass spawning events there are rare annual moments linked to the cycles of the moon than baby corals are cultivated in floating nursery pools before being transplanted onto damaged areas of the reef. 4 years later the original population has grown large and even

survived coral bleaching events. this proves that the lava restoration take in the works just as we predicted and we can grow very large corals from tawny microscopic larvae within just a few years and. scientists say the success of this project is critical for the great barrier reef the un listed world heritage site runs more than 2000 kilometers along australia's north east coast but it's being severely damaged by climate change and ocean warming it's lost more than half of its. coral in the past 3 decades impacting many other species that depend on it at the beginning of december its status was downgraded to critical and deteriorating that prompted environmental experts to call on the australian government to step up its efforts to protect the reef. climate.

what we. media significant we don't need to be charitable and we need to be glassed. and we need to be watching. leadership as well broad policy change may take longer to achieve but harrison and his team say they're optimistic their technique will work. soon but these will be the world's 1st transplanted coral populations to start reproducing on their own. and it's hoped they'll start to really grow what's been lost on the great barrier reef alexandra byers al-jazeera. it is now time for sport and job politics meets for c.s. and yet again yet again obsolete in the south yes after years of protests from fans and native american groups clamens baseball team will drop the word indians from its name the team has come under increased pressure amid protests against systematic racism and police violence this year in new york times says the century

old name will be dropped by 2022 cleveland had already removed images of its mascot chief wahoo 2 years ago when the news from clayton prompted u.s. president donald trump to tweet calling it cancel culture at work but it follows growing pressure to remove native american names from u.s. sports teams earlier this year and officials washington football team stopped choosing a name and logo long considered a racial slur but others have been slow to follow super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs have been accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes with fire. and dressing in native american costumes and performing the tomahawk chop games the chiefs haven't officially responded to the criticism that tomahawk chop is also common atlanta braves baseball games team released a statement in july saying they've been working with the native american community but changing the name was not deemed necessary and ice hockey chicago blackhawks say they have no plans to change their name there also dozens of college and high

school teams which unnamed off to native american tribes tributes are being paid to form a liverpool manager who has died at the age of $73.00 in his native france really enjoyed a decorated decorated career where he took charge of paris and leon and the french national team but it was at liverpool where he enjoyed most of his success in 2001 he led the club to an f.a. cup league cup a new way for cup trouble he was named european coach of the year for that achievement the club tweeted saying they mourned his passing michael owen who was part of the trouble winning nimble side posted this photo of him with her here saying he was heartbroken over the loss of a genuinely caring man while another former teammate jamie carragher said he was devastated as saying he changed me as a person and that is as a player got live u.f.c. back winning trophies. for the champions p.s.g.

say initial tests on 9 miles and co are reassuring the brazilian appeared to suffer a serious injury in sunday's defeat neymar was in tears as he was carried off on a stretcher at the end of their one no loss to leo it was also p.s.g. is 4th league defeat of the season. they may have been handed a big game in the last 16 of the champions league they'll face barcelona the draw took place earlier in switzerland and that's the standout tie but there are several others there could also throw up exciting encounters english premier league champions liverpool have been drawn against german title chases like sick or spanish giants to go madrid will face chelsea and let's get by in munich all those matches take place from the middle of february next year. and sallied is ac milan are in the last 32 of the europa league where they've been drawn against red star but belgrade milan dropped points against parma on sunday before the action began the teams held a moment of silence to honor a 92 world cup here paolo rossi who died on wednesday parma took an early lead in

this match you were looking good for the upset victory when jessamy could church double the lead early in the 2nd half but then thier nunda scored twice including this injury time equaliser to rescue a 22 draw for milan 2023 rugby world cup host nation france have been handed a tough draw for the tournament france will have 3 times world champions new zealand as opponents in pool way or though they will be hoping to repeat some of that haas heroics when they eliminated the all blacks in the knockout stages in 1909 and again in 2007 should france progress to the quarterfinals they could face current world champions south africa you'll notice that the groups are incomplete at this stage that's because 8 teams have yet to confirm their place in the tournament so far. for example in americas one is likely to be either the usa or canada wales and australia headlined pool c. they were drawn together at the $212015.00 world cups as well and last year's host

nation japan will be up against england and argentina in pulte. 20 time tennis grand slam champion roger federer says he might have to sit out the australian open the 39 year old is recovering from 2 surgeries on his left knee but according to the swiss is taking longer than expected he's not played since this year's australian open where he was beaten in the semifinals by novak djokovic. and skiing's biggest star mckayla shifrin has won her 1st world cup race since the death of her fall the nearly a year ago she took 1st place in the giant slalom in the french alps resort of course the last victory was in january 1 week before her father passed away this is her 67th when a role which ties muscle her chauffeured only in time list only lindsey vonn with 82 and a monster and mark with 86 hours ahead of her. all right that is useful for now have will be late in the stands thanks so much to well that's it for this news on

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the electoral college prepares to formally vote for the next president and vice president of the united states. i know that i'm to start the attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the 1st shipments of covert 1000 vaccines begin rolling out across the u.s. as the government urges americans to take the. secretary of state might compare says sudan as now officially off the u.s. terrorist. and the u.n. says fighters that link to eisele have.