in c. much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time the next total solar eclipse will not hit south america until 2048. years am i think it has been an incredible experience to watch the eclipse with rain despite it being over cost it was incredible. spectacular the truth is that it was a unique experience to think that it was cloudy allowed me to watch it without glasses i've not seen before this is my 1st and it is a beautiful experience. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st americans and canadians have been vaccinated against the corona virus a new york intensive care nurse was the 1st person to be inoculated in the u.s. with thousands of other caregivers prioritize the to receive the job regulators approved the vaccine produced by pfizer and by old take on friday but this good

news that comes too late for many with several states still in the grip of a post the thanksgiving case surge in the number of american deaths fast approaching 300000 this was the big day one of members of the public these essential health care workers getting the 1st dose is of the kobe vaccine outside of a trial we saw the scene live we just saw in new york with that critical care nurse repeated in hospital settings across the country 2900000 doses of the fires are vaccine went out from its factory yesterday aboard trucks and aboard the airplanes and they were distributed to all 50 states. meanwhile more coronavirus restrictions are being imposed in europe the dutch prime minister says his country will close for 5 weeks as schools and non-essential shops are shuttered over christmas in the

u.k. where the 1st job was given nearly a week ago the health minister announced that london will be moved into the highest restriction level from wednesday. joe biden's us election when is being further confirmed as the electoral college casts the results from each state it's one of the last steps the finalize the outcome of november's election the official winner can only be declared by the panel of 538 electors representing each state the u.n. says more than 400000 people have fled the attacks by fighters linked to eisele in northern mozambique the gas rich cabo they gather province has seen villages burnt civilians kidnapped and entire towns seized but i'll have more news in half an hour coming up next it's the stream thanks for watching of i.

i antonio cagle watching the stream a year again later pledged to you after us that we will bring as many die close forces to you as possible and every single year we root for 50 percent men and 50 percent when they say let's take a look at our gender equality report card and see how we date and 20162017 not that great we got gender equality in trying 21820192020 it's much better here is the executive producer of the strain malone with more are very pleased that the stream of 3rd year running. at least 5050 chance representation

and i guess across a calendar year this year we had 56 percent female guests and 44 percent male i think it was particularly important is that we highlighted the voices of women in 2020 women were on the front lines of the crime whereas pandemic and fact as 70 percent of health workers across the world are women in nigeria and sars protests were led by female activists and in the united states our horace became the 1st female vice president in history to stream ruses general pledge and we look forward to ohio in the important voices of women in 21 and beyond. looking ecstatic about being on camera i have to tell you that really he's happy place is right in the comments section he's a must a curator you chiba stand by for more back. in just

a moment but we continue coming up on today's show and mission to bring you brilliant we mean 3 excellent guests we're going to be talking about the movie crises we'll be talking about u.s. politics and also protests in syria if you could jump into the cheap comment you can have to be quick because he's a fast moving show and we really look forward to hearing so many we start to move because the crises he is now we know. the name or scenario productive back in april up to 15000000 women and girls losing access to contraception has fortunately not come to pass shortly after the onset of the w.h.o. recognize family planning as an essential service trend that governments major suppliers and major and commenters advocacy by women and girls had all been working together and tirelessly to ensure that services could remain open as safely as

possible. however family planning is the 2nd most disruptive health service behind routine immunizations a family planning 2020 or and where we have long recognized family planning to be basic critical essential health care for women and girls and we know that we have to continue to adapt and deliver especially with and for the hardest to reach and young people welcome back to the street. and said it's really nice to see you when we 1st had you on the stream you had just been volunteering in new york city that was the hawks all of the united states for a way the country crises it hit the hardest if you were looking at us right now what would you see how would you explain what's happening right now because it. yeah well thanks so much for having me on again one thing that i want to point out is that why i'm actually traveling right now i'm not at my home state working in

arizona right now with their search and we last talked i had just come back from new york and just to put things in perspective where we are now compared to where we were at then at that time we had about 30000 new cases a day and now as of yesterday we had 220000 new cases and we have 10 times more new cases of code it a day we also have far more hospitalizations about twice as many hospitalizations right now for cove it as we did back in april and then we have about 50 percent more people in the intensive care unit and 25 percent more people on a ventilator we also this week hit really awful record of the most number of deaths per day from covenant which was almost $3200.00 so we're sitting in a far worse situation nationally at least in the u.s. than we were back in april and despite that there are actually more people traveling now far more people traveling now than there were then so around mid april we had about 80 to 90000 air travelers

a day and on the 11th which is the last usa data that i had access to we had 700 almost 790000 about 10 times more people traveling despite the fact that the pandemic is at the worst that it's been. given i'm looking at one of your tweets right you know my laptop the other day as i was walking into the hostess who i soon when someone shouted one of my tweets is evidence of how it's another person said my i was a power the account what exactly i'm supposed to keep pounding i don't know how to look at this everybody oh my laptop right here so that you can see it was and see you and your mom because i think it's a really good contrast to where you were earlier. yeah there i mean i was just i snapped a photo as i was walking into the hospital because i was talking in the hospital to take care of patients who are sick in the i.c.u. because of posted and i have no idea what somebody's parody what i had tweeted was

that we were opening up new i.c.u. use and additional units every day each day at that point we had open an additional unit to help accommodate more of it patients and i what i had said was we can't keep going like that for a very long because we run out of space and we run out of staff and for whatever somebody decided that it was a parody i mean i wish i were a comedian of some kind unfortunately i was just sharing the reality of what's going on here. one of the things that would lead to the that recently and a lot not just in united states but around the world that seats but today because we are actually honoring brilliant women including yourself i would love to tell us about the vaccines we have actually been dying here in the know there is the head of the curve because we did you know always see you know what we see now behind the scenes where you happen to know that women are integral to the vaccine. the vaccines that we have right now yeah yeah that's so exciting that exactly you're

right we are on the verge of having these vaccines the more widely available we just in the u.s. got the emergency use approval for the pfizer vaccine on friday so 2 days ago which is awesome and they're shipping out i think either today or tomorrow so that that's amazing and just to put that in perspective we have 3 vaccines that we've got some really promising data for one from pfizer and by antec and then one from a deer in iowa and one from astra zeneca and 2 of those 3 so the pfizer in the mid there and i want both use m r n e as the most ality and that technique and that technology was developed by a woman so if you want to talk about the importance of the maxine's right there you have it. and we also know that women in science have played really important roles probably basically forever and yet have been erased most of the time from their. their contributions and so i'm really hoping that in this modern day and age that the women who are involved and developing these vaccines and whatever treatments we

may eventually have will get their due credit and that will appreciate the contributions that they're making. one of the things i love about. truth is that there's a combination of so many zen activities in the country great information and some sexiness is well i level of it and go and yoga so this is the case is important here and i think we were talking about how they did this year and women's involvement and this is something that you shared in case anyone for god knows he's not subordinates of doctors we are coworkers of an intimate didn't disappear reteam thank you for coming to my ted talk expand on that a little bit more because you shared with some dust. i did yeah and actually someone had tagged me on that because there's some research i've been doing with some colleagues looking at the interactions between physicians and nurses and in

particular the interactions between women surgeons and women nurses and so this person who i've been communicating with heather tubbs cooley she's a nurse and i had just emailed her about a question about the research that we're working on and then she. had me which i super appreciated because it was right to the heart of what we're working on there is i mean historically we look back 50 years 100 years ago the vast majority of physicians were men and the vast majority of nurses were women and there was this sort of hierarchical relationship where the doctors were up here and the nurses were down here i'm not saying that's good i'm just saying that's what it was and things really have a vault and i think that's what that tweet is trying to say it's not really like that anymore. to just this morning i'm running in the i.c.u. when i go to the patient's bedside the 1st thing i do is talk to the nurse what's going on here what are you seeing what are you concerned about because they're

right there at the bedside and they have all their mation. we cannot adequately care for patients without the nurses and of course we have we bring a different expertise than they do so we work together and it has to be that way due to other than silence thank you for praying for your particular brand of activism gemini's him and compassion to the strong today we really appreciate you thank you very much indeed so now we need the train huge old wino running in the united states continues this year and i want to introduce you to simona grace and he said crisply they explain to us why he's happening haven't seen haven't they been our. actively going after dispositions of power because they understand the need to add their voices to the policymaking table s. passionately during a time of crisis in our society during

a time of crisis and even before our society is looking for authenticity in our leadership and our society views a man as exactly these kind of authentic leaders who care about their community is who will prioritize the needs of breaking families during a crisis i think the increase in women elected officials across the board trans and says general like means that people are demanding change that they want more diversity that they understand that women have solutions to our problems and that women have something to bring to the table it also means that women are standing in their own power in the truth and women are going in the. willing to mounting change and being and to bring about change. in strickland so good to see you you've been described in so many ways i am not going to take that

power away from you you introduce yourself to a global audience go ahead and welcome there oh well thank you for having me here on the show my name is marilyn strickland and i am congresswoman elect for the time congressional district of washington state and i will join the u.s. house of representatives and in this particular congress than $117.00 which will get sworn in in january will have the a largest number of women and we will have the largest number of women of color in the history of the u.s. so it is an exciting time to serve but we know that all of us who ran for office did so because we want to help our country and hokus on people. i love think in that description of yourself you didn't go into i am the 1st of this i'm in the service of this for my state you went straight to the service and to your mission why you stop because you are at least to reconfigure right now if you know already

the history books you will be at some point why did you not why did you not use the 1st as a as a way to describe yourself. so you know when i ran for mayor of tacoma i served for 2 terms and i was the 1st there i was the 1st african-american woman and the 1st korean american woman to serve and yes it's true i'm making history again in washington state and the pacific northwest as not just the 1st african-american woman but the 1st african-american to serve as part of this congressional delegation and yes the 1st korean american woman who was elected to congress in this cycle those are parts of my identity they inform who i am the lens to which i seem to world and yes those are assets and attributes but at the end of the day we want people who are going to washington d.c. and to be part of our political culture that want to focus on the work that's why people elected me now is my story compelling absolutely it's interesting but that aside i'm going there to work for the people who sent me. i have just looking at

the top of your twitter feeds and you thank the fotis sending you to d.c. and we did that exclamation mark as i was what you do local t.v. into these and and and to the local journalist was saying you're in double digits are you feeling confident now just so amazing or so and the genocide trying to get a rile you have when you do win it it's got to be a landslide look doing what gave you that in a company we're not going to let him carry you away on this tide of enthusiasm he was so steady at that moment just in the lead up the eve of the next day. just over a month ago. you know i believe that we work very hard as a campaign team my volunteers the people who surrounded me we did everything in our power to win and at the same time you know if you want to win with grace the same

way we ask people to lose with grace and so i'm honored that i won this election by 14 points especially because of that because it was so competitive but again that's the campaign now it's time to focus on legislating in doing the work for the people . i saw you as still to sinuses tool confused talking about it and you were not in your. this is what to tell me since i know when you when you get to d.c. you you have a mission to explain what dani's i'm lying. so you know as the doctor explained you know covert is about to enter the worst stage right now we have the highest number of people who contract it and getting ill and sadly say no some will die and if you think about the charge that we have as leaders around the world but especially in the u.s. we must get this pandemic under control we must follow science and we are all thrilled to hear that there is a vaccine now that will be available that was just you know approved by the f.d.a.

at the same time and we have to make sure of that populations feel comfortable using the vaccine and we know that with some means of color because of the history in the u.s. people are very skeptical about using a vaccine we need a national strategy i am you know very very confident and president elect biden and the vice president elect comma let me say that one more time weisman is an elect kamel arabs and their desire to have more in national strategy to address this and a mic it i have been i have to go t. g. . a single the same topic 6 who said jump in each other at once i don't see you as well how do you explain it back own come in as we need how do you see you really influencing goes and women for generations just because you were talking about it right that and this is this this is used almost sort of like. mind melting we view as he is us children are of no i mean think about this if you look around the world you know there have been female heads of state in

a lot of countries and the united states still has not you know. crack that glass ceiling at but carla harris especially you know when there was the crowd in presidential primary earlier this year i was supporting kamel harris for president and i think she will be a great president one day but it's also the historical nature of it yes she is a woman yes she is 'd always had to be twice as good to get half the respect that men get who are on that stage with her when they ran for president but she is you know she has a background of a select line she is black an asian she is biracial and she has had to encounter things as a woman of color as an elected official that other people do not encounter and despite that joe biden knew that she would be the best person to serve as vice president united states of america so of course it's exciting and i think for a lot of you know young girls and young women we get to see ourselves. through her angry citizens on what they were at the pinnacle. of marilyn strickland congressman

and yanked through the 10th district of washington state you have a fantastic story i hope you come back and see more of it with us on the string but for now thank you so much appreciate it thank you for having me you say so we move on to g 20 will be remembered not just to cover 19 but to be intense protests and protest movements i want to introduce you now to filmmakers manny m. and yvel gray meant and they framed this year as a year of protests and and how they keep moving were right up front of those protests some of them have a listen. women are the experts in their life experiences and so as a result of the introduction a very tenet is whether that is greece religion or ethnicity combined with gender among others we see that women face challenges in their opportunities in life and so it's important that women protest to be able to how they are always heard and lay out their demands exactly as they see fit over the course of this past year we

have seen women participate in vital movements such as the black lives matter movement and the climate justice movement as all the prop former un tia's new solutions sort of important voices in this movement and also brought forward on her stories that were ignored in the past indicated it's always a pleasure having you on this train welcome back to the strain for people who may or not seeing past programs that you featured on week's edition south to a global audience ok good evening might mean he's got 2 young politician active is political. and currently the host of if you show ground 0 in the new house where it's young and. in the action. yeah writing. thank you so much for being on the stream whenever we talk about women in leadership particularly in nigeria in your name comes to mind because that

is what if your new missions a knife when you look back at this year and you look at the end some movement in particular and for anyone who was living under a rock for the last year. but a rock. the end so his movement was about police brutality which really resonated around the well police brutality in one chariot and women were the forefront of that movement can you explain why how that happened. remember a couple of days you know when the when the of crossed did again a young man built as had been killed and police had given a wee legs and young men as they did again you know speaking about it but you were kind of like a bit upset because we had been trying to push for you know a state of emergency or sexual and gender balance for people to list the a lot of gender issues people just tend to think oh it's women issues that's what it's so we need some jokes that are not right and we set rick if you people want

this to succeed let women part in this i think we shall do the kind of organize them so let's go with me getting organized and it was like at that point we had decided that no it was it had not left us of if we men actually stepped into this what you would see would be so much different and this movement could grow and just like that there was not a meeting that was not being what we men know how to do what we have to do is show up and of course this was a little less movement so we showing up it was that we men nor how did. we have been raised to do what we had been reached you should. be 10 times better than everyone else but to stay in the back burner and say oh i don't want to be too bright about this i don't want people to see i don't want people to see me as how do you know what it is doing everything yet shrink you know ourselves so this was really one of those moments where every tragedy that makes women who we

are into the forefront as us trends we not putting these we have been socialized to do this things we know how to organize we know how to be selfless we know how to do everything perfectly and just can't be and say no we don't want to be called leaders it is people say how do we get to this point i said no we've always been like what india i want to bring in another place this is renewed renu is a media strategy i want to ask you about the strategy and someone's going 14 to 2021 that he's unique festival. this is important the woman but says because for a very long time for sense of being the victim since so many cases of injustice have been also sidelined in so many political movements and cases i've seen them take in vital rules such as can give us quote fundin inputs has got lots more

women our wonderful in general and get us in protest needs to the effectiveness self so many muscle. serves the secret sources we need in protest movements readings and some staying in 2021. a lot of civic engagement and you know what we did was to light the fire people came out to test and police brutality but at the end of the day you know they came and they learned more they knew. why defining themselves in distance we shouldn't need to shoot them right in the system all of that and you know people have to get to guide them through this is an awakening for many nigerians keep in mind that of course we went from. of rule so it's and we just had a short stint of democracy and we still i mean you know with the effect of if you truly back the way that your boys are going anywhere so a lot of these things have been normalized and they just say to people think it's ok for us all just so lazy where we come out it think it's ok to be beaten for

things to happen and then we're just outsourced you know normal thing to go out every day we've got a leg up his leg not being me might be the other length let me survived you know and now you cannot begin to see that new something has to change this is too much also people like that the way i said we all were just more lucky i was the devil you know how much has been out of you to understand that it's so many of us it's a system where you have to wake up every day and swim against the tide to survive and i think he is right south i think it anymore it's really genuine at civic engagement education where educating educating educating and then lightened pollies and they will demand the war when it gets in. indeed thank you so much we appreciate it and let me show you one quick cynthia my laptop which has 3 extraordinary women on our show and we continue the theme an instagram life with manny m. and me there are a mentor activists and filmmakers 2031 told from sunday you'll find that one.

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a lot of the stories that we cover are highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to do. hello there i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st americans and canadians have been vaccinated against the coronavirus a new york intensive care nurse was the 1st person to be inoculated in the u.s. with thousands of other caregivers prioritize that to receive the job 1st but this good news comes too late for many with several states still in the grip of a post thanksgiving case surge in the number of american deaths is now teetering around 300000 it didn't seem any different from any other. thing where i would like.