a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the network's journalists. hello i'm barbara starr and this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes as mass vaccinations begin in the u.s. the number of americans killed by the coronavirus pass is 300000 plus i cast my vote for president joe biden. joe biden takes another step closer to the white house's electoral college voters formally confirm his victory in the

presidential election. the u.n. says more than 400000 people have now fled their homes in northern mozambique where i saw linked fighters of seized entire tilings and there's aid arrives in ethiopia region and some communication links are restored more details emerge about the situation after weeks of war. i'm jammin ash with sport as the football world pays tribute to. the former liverpool and france manager has died at the age of 73. it's a tragedy on the scale of events that have to merica and the world for decades coronaviruses now killed more than $300000.00 people in the u.s. the country hardest hit by the pandemic it comes on the day that thousands of people have received their 1st fax seems a new york intensive care nurse who treated some of the sickest 1000 patients for

months was the 1st person in the u.s. to receive the vaccine made by pfizer and biotech regulators approved it for emergency use on friday and almost 3000000 doses of since being shipped right across the country medical workers and elderly care home residents are being prioritized during the rollout. of any different from any other. things where. i would like to thank the front line workers. who've been doing their part and they're all over the world. are you. folks. really. i think you. and. jennifer your clone joins us live now from outside a medical center in los angeles jennifer the figure is pretty shocking just to

capture the scale of the death toll it's equal to a 911 attack every day for more than $100.00 days so how has passing that threshold be dealt with in the u.s. . it's a difficult day barbara the news of the vaccine rolling out here in the united states coupled with this this terrible threshold of 300000 each of those 300000 people people who are no longer here because of this this horrible disease and this pandemic but again the light at the end of the tunnel is some of those frontline health care workers are getting their shots starting today barbara it tell us a little bit more about the vaccine rollout what's going to actually going on where you are for example. well we are here at cedar sinai medical center in los angeles where they are still awaiting

their shipment of boxes of the vaccine there are $636.00 pre-determined locations all around the nation and these trucks carrying this these vials these precious vials are fanning out across the country arriving some places other places like this not quite here yet we're also told that once it does get here it might take a day or so to prepare the vaccine board ministration but the good news is that there have been quite a few facilities that already have their programs up and running and people the front line workers and those people that are most vulnerable are the 1st in line to get their vaccines and of course some parts of europe the u.k. for example has had the vaccine for almost a week and yet what we're seeing here is a strengthening of the restrictions tell us a little bit about what the restrictions are like now where you are in california and also if there's any talk of a strengthening them making them more severe in the run up to christmas.

definitely with with the christmas coming and with the thanksgiving how. just behind us this is the reason we're starting to see our intensive care units our i.c.u. beds and staff approaching their cities because families were getting together a couple of weeks ago on thanksgiving despite admonitions not to gather outside of the household people here in los angeles out on the streets all wearing masks indoors or wearing masks there's no indoor or outdoor dining allowed here in los angeles and yes. it's a start when dealing as far as capacity goes where they're not be able to take any more patients they are talking about more restrictions even as this vaccine is being pulled out jennifer be joining us live live there from los angeles with the

latest jennifer thank you. now canadians have also started receiving the pfizer buy on take the vaccine with $30000.00 doses a spur expected to arrive this week the 1st batch has been sent to the provinces of taleo and quebec both of which have borne the brunt of the country's outbreak health care workers and care home residents are being prioritized after 80 percent of all coronavirus that's were recorded in care facilities health authorities have urged the provinces to impose more restrictions as a 2nd wave sweeps the country. while the netherlands is just followed germany and announced a new nationwide lockdown as coronavirus cases surge across europe the measures will be imposed throughout the festive period cutting short the busy christmas shopping season meanwhile millions of people here in london are also said to be placed under tougher restrictions as jonah hall not reports. preparations dealt the capital moving to restrict. for mixing

and see the hospitality sector shut down again health secretary variant of the virus might in part be behind fast right. singh infection rates the medical advice that we have is that it is highly unlikely that this new variant will impinge the vaccine and the impact of the vaccine but we will know that in the coming days and weeks as the vaccine is that as the new strand is cultured. london joins much of the rest of the country under tier 3 restrictions a government plan to relax these measures for a few days over christmas itself is fueling fears of a 3rd wave in the new year there have to do what they have to do it's a shame though that things have been left to the last minute this is something that in. the u.k. is far from alone in europe to the christmas lights signal festive cheer but

there's not a lot of it about french hotel and restaurant workers in paris protested for the right to work their industry shut since the end of october and won't reopen until late in january. in italy the government is debating tougher measures after an easing of restrictions saw shoppers pouring onto the streets on the weekend the country overtook britain to become the european nation with the highest official death toll more than 64 and a half 1000 italians have died. no such debate in germany set to go back into lockdown on wednesday with the closure of non-essential shops and schools until january the 10th in the netherlands they're about to do the same. we have 600 deaths a day that's no joke i mean i'm 65 and i'm healthy touchwood but i'd like to stay that way and so now we all have to withdraw a bit even though that's not what i want. in the u.k.

the roll out of the pfizer biotech vaccine continues the 1st country in europe to do so a flurry of excitement in recent weeks suggested the pen demick was nearly over christmas besieged by new restrictions proves it's not jonah how al-jazeera. more than 156000000 americans voted in the presidential election but the final call on who will be in the white house is currently being decided by hundreds of officials who make up the electoral college they're meeting to cast their votes across the u.s. it's one of the last steps to finalize the outcome of november's election each state has already certified its result giving joe biden the win and the electors are expected to reflect that outcome officials in georgia pennsylvania and nevada have all already voted for the democrat trying pat's all to overturn the results in all 3 states while nationwide the electoral college has $538.00 members but each

state's a member number of electors is based on the size of its population to win a candidate needs at least 270 votes a joe biden has be donald trump by sri 106-2232 but electors can also defy the choice of their states vote voters and cast their ballots for somebody besides the winner they're known as faithless electors they can be penalized by state authorities would need at least a $38.00 to the fact to hold on to the french presidency but that is unlikely to happen as electors are hard core loyalists picked by the state's winning party so it would require a democratic electors to vote for trump she had recounts he joins us live now from wilmington delaware so it's unlikely as we said it would require democrats to vote for trump but we have had that faithless voters in the past any anyone's likely to come up this year do you think. doesn't seem so in fact all

6 states trump was was contesting the result have now cost their electoral college votes and things are just going out as planned no surprise that the last time i checked it was 242 to 9 to biden in the next hour we expect california to cos its electoral votes and that will push biden over to 70 as you mention and that is the key number to win the presidential election in the following hours finally will get whole y. e costing their electoral votes therefore collection of votes and that will push biden to that winning margin of 306-2232 off without we expect joe biden to speak to austin speak to the nation. well he is you to make a speech later of course what are we expecting him to say we expected to be about what he is we called the strength and resilience of

american democracy he could make the case not look yes we were all worried all the democrats who were. there were attempts to challenge the biden victory but i having said that don't trump was perfectly in his right to challenge challenge joe biden's election victory but each time trump did challenge the election victory the checks and balances worked so each state certified joe biden's victory and now we have the electoral college vote is. costing the balance in favor off joe biden we also had all the legal challenges all but one went against donald trump were dismissed as as frivolous many of those judges were republican appointed many of them were appointed by donald trump notably in the supreme court so joe biden will be able to make the case that look the system has has won and we can we can now move on the problem there is the narrative is still that 80 percent or so of trump voters still feel that joe biden has stolen the election although spare and 60 percent in the

latest poll i saw voters in the u.s. overall including republicans say it is time to move on no matter what they feel feel about the election and there are still. pockets of drama the potentials are pockets of drama to come because the next stage in this process is january the 6th in congress all of these electoral college votes that we've been we've been tallying today being sent by mail to congress it's an antiquated system and where they will be they will be $10000.00 tallied and certified by congress and we have heard reports that some republican senators will be attempting some last ditch start oh well the republican house members will be attempting some last stand on january the stakes it's unlikely to get anywhere but it will add to that narrative which is very likely to dog him throughout 'd his throughout his presidency much as russia gate did for the trump which was and remember after the 26th election many democrats are saying trump is illegitimate. installed trump and so on amid all the republicans remember that donald trump certainly remembers that so this narrative

will continue even if donald trump's donald trump's attempts to overturn the election are over and a huge chunk 73000000 people voted for donald trump of troi 80 percent of the 73000000 people still feel biden is illegitimate i mean that's a sizable part of the american electorate what we don't know yet is what truck wants to do with out very powerful base that he now has that has such a sway over the republican party. shepparton see with the latest there from wilmington delaware she have sank you well to talk about the similar detail we're joined by joe watkins who is a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush he joins us via skype from philadelphia so thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we were hearing from our correspondent there that you know 73000000 people voted for donald trump and 80 percent of them didn't really believe it that he had won that he had lost the election what do you think the fact that now the electoral college is going to rubber stamp that victory do you think many

of those people will be convinced by that. i don't know that they'll all be convinced by the electoral college voting the way they're supposed to vote course. after today it ends of course joe biden will have all the electoral college votes necessary to be in everybody's mind inspect this as well as in their minds the president elect of the united states of america which is a good thing and it just shows that the the process here in this country works president elect biden will likely talk about about this strength about democracy and and the fact that we're able to move forward and that the checks and balances work that we have 3 co-equal branches of government the legislature house and the senate that is the judicial branch and and the executive branch and there are 3 co-equal parts of parts of our of our government and they will work properly and so i think they'll be reaffirmed and i think in time depending upon the extent to

which president trump remains a force among republicans people will forget some of the controversies surrounding this election i only say that because in the year 2002 some 20 years ago there was a very hotly contested contested election here in the united states between al gore and george w. bush and and that that election wasn't decided for quite some time and it went to the courts and the court finally decided that george bush had won it and many people had a sour taste in their mouth but but that that very quickly faded in and george bush won reelection that i suppose from memory and the narrative there 20 years ago never got quite as talks a as it has in the past few weeks and just over the weekend that a pro trump rally there were people chanting the story the g.o.p. so destroyed every public and party i mean the checks and balances may have or 20 comes to american democracy when it comes to the republican party itself how worried are you that this is going to lead to long term splits and anger within the

party. well it has yet to be seen as the what will happen to the republican party as we as we know it and as we knew it perhaps you know the republican party in the past it's gone through several different changes in the 1950 s. the republican party was the party of civil rights fiscal responsibility but but socially progressive they put forth the 1st civil rights bill they were the ones pushing the anti-lynching and integration in schools and democrats were against it so that was republican part of the night the fifty's a very very different publican party emerge in the 97 these days and an even different republican party has emerged on the trump and that republican party is made up of a lot of blue collar or non-college educated americans a predominately white non-college educated americans along with with with blue collar workers who may be college educated but who like his policies that there is a new like surfer give me for interrupting but there's obviously

a core of the trump supporter base that feels alienated by the republican party now is their chance kind of explains how do you think the republican party should move more towards them to try to appeal to them more or do you think that there's just some irreconcilable differences right now. well these political parties and i've been at this for a long time are are creatures that want to win and so republicans now are tasked with no matter how fractured the party may look no matter what the factions in the party may be they've got a cobble together a winning coalition to be able to win some seats in the midterms especially if democrats win the state of georgia if they if the democratic senators both those u.s. senators when in the state of georgia and the senate is majority democrat republicans will have no control anywhere they will control the house of representatives they will control the u.s. senate they won't have the white house and so republicans will have to out of necessity figure a way to regain some control and to win seats and so what we will see will be

a republican party that based on how you forge winning coalition will try to win seats in the house in the senate and try to win this the presidency in 20 so these think that if donald trump decides that he wants to run again in 2024 do you think it's all but a given that he will actually be the nominee for the republican party if he chooses to do so. one would assume so look at the number of votes that he got in 2020 but we all know that 4 years is a long time in american politics i mean john kerry lost a close race in 2004 for the presidency he didn't have a shot to come back in 2008 or 20042016. so we don't know that donald trump will get a shot to come back and in 2024 we don't know what's going to happen over the next 4 years a lot will be determined by by how republicans do in the midterms in 2022 and the

extent to which dollops up as a force in getting those people elected so some may blame them if those george or republicans lose their seats on january 5th so there's there's a lot yet to happen and i don't know that it's a foregone conclusion that dot's up is the 2024 nominee for the republican party joe watkins republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush sarah thank you so much for sharing your views with us thanks. now early voting has begun in the us state of georgia in a race which will ultimately decide who controls the country senate 2 seats are up for grabs and democrats need to win both to gain control of the upper chamber republicans have long dominated in the southern state the president elect joe biden's win there last month as boy democrat hopes either way the outcome on january 5th will heavily influenced by the ability to carry out his campaign promises. coming up on this news hour from london sierra leone sees

a sudden rise in child brides after the pandemic pushes families into poverty nigerian police deploy extreme vesta gaiters to find hundreds of missing school boys days after an attack in the president's home state and cleveland's baseball team drops indians from its name after 105 years gemma will have the details later it's for. at least $400000.00 people have now fled their homes in northern mozambique as fighters linked to eisele burn villages kidnap civilians and seize entire towns some of them have found shelter at this camp in the province which is home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project the un's refugee agency has warned that the crisis will spill over the country's borders a less mozambique's neighbors step in leaders from zimbabwe south africa botswana

and tanzania talks with mozambique and officials in the capital maputo. cast sally is head of the mozambique and branch of doctors without borders e says the getting access to displaced communities is proving difficult. for the moment there are 50000000000 cells. but some of them might still be if you could do because they are in the plains today in the center part of the book and also in the. in the mouth so these people that we don't know exactly what the groups saviors in the. world is or a group. and a 1000 people and yet they are moving. most of the time though they are moving from one place on that was because of the. more protection and also the really the parental government. in terms and this is an process.

because where we are into really really thin so courses if you were to. look at basically people. nigeria's federal police force says extreme vesta gave his have been deployed to help find hundreds of missing school boys a manhunt been underway in katsina state since friday night when gunmen stormed the state secondary school in the town of calcutta the state governor says 333 students are still unaccounted for while the nigerian president's office says at least 10 boys were abducted parents of missing students have been protesting the man being that their children be found president mohammad has been criticized for not visiting the school even though he is currently in katsina which is a home state. the u.s. has officially removed the sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism which could help the country get international loans and revive its battered economy in

october sudan agreed to pay 335000000 dollars to the victims of the $998.00 al-qaeda attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania it also said it would normalize relations with israel the deal is a boost for sudan's transitional government which took power after the military removed the former president omar al bashir from power i will alow is an analyst on the horn of africa he says sudan can now become a regional power broker this is a very important development for sudan and the sudanese people signal for the emergence of sudan from syria because of international actually it will become a full fledged member of the international community could access life international institutions and states who that is all of this function with an able to trade with state and so this is

a very significant development for to done and also for the transition process that is underway today but there are also other regional spock that's more broadly is to done becomes a more important player in the horn of africa for example plunges into the situation between egypt and the european escalates i think that would make a very important country that the united states would be very keen to support. aid is arriving in ethiopia's northern region after weeks of fighting it comes as a media blackout starts to ease revealing what life is like for the people still living there volunteers from the red cross are distributing medical supplies blankets and clothes residents are reporting food and fuel shortages with price hikes for basic necessities including water it's told that up to a $1000000.00 people have fled after fighting between federal and regional troops a battle the national government says it has won but we're joined now via skype

from ethiopia's capital addis have a by samuel get to chew he's a journalist for the reporter newspaper sami good to see you again the u.n. i have spoken in the past few weeks when this crisis has started and we always mention and remind viewers that actually we couldn't get a lot of the information because of the media blackout that blackout seems to be easing what's the picture that is emerging of what happened over the past few weeks in tikrit. in the last 24 arse we are able to speak to our friends our colleagues and mccully and been surrounding area us they're telling us the difficulties they have been having for the last. just over 40 days including not having the privilege of a phone call that we all take for granted and their families and i do so are telling us they weren't sure if their loved ones were dead or and they were. certainly very sadly some some of them are finding out. their family are either

being killed or are still missing in action so it's been a difficult time with someone was no connection to their i'm feeling the pain you just have to imagine what a real family is filling up the moment the discoverer of the well being of their family members but for the picture that is emerging as the scale of violence that you know people are now talking about match up with what the government has been saying happened over the past few weeks. well it depends on which deal which we of further conflict you've been listening to either side. but you know they've been telling us. you know or less people are dying and some are claiming more people are dying but 'd you know many of us have been listening to the victims been heading to the sudan saying exactly what we're hearing at the moment many

people have died many people couldn't get basic. medicine for example for their loved ones many people died or something that shouldn't have happened including not getting basic medical help so it's just a poor there now at the moment we're beginning to see the faces behind this numbers and it's going to have a real impact a skin move forward and despair where the victims not just the numbers but the names and faces absolutely and i mean the government affectively says there they have captured that everything is now peaceful but are there worries that the clique that t.p.s. fell which is the regional group that's been fighting the government of course that they're not necessarily going to give up our their worries that the fighting may well continue that this isn't over. you have to know that to go region has one of the youngest book lucian anywhere. and all this young people that are fighting on

behalf of the t.p. are left grow up an era where there were only 900 t.p.a. left government in their lives they haven't seen any options or any of their ultimate too but the t.p. left so they're fighting to the very end because that's what they know they've been told the quite a few for example doesn't like them where does the want them to belong in the larger ethiopian vision so they want to fight they may not have the resources but they have the passion to go on and fight until the bitter end and this kind of fights is an onerous standing that if you fight for if you fight and die for a cause you may be rewarded only after life so they're thinking as not different in ethiopia we've seen it in other parts from afar we've seen it and sri lanka with the time of ogres long time ago and we're seeing it in ethiopia

and it's just the again the impact that's having on the ground is just huge and will soon discover how big this conflict has been in terms of the impact it had on the ground and in the thousands of lives absent faith that adequately that there's and of course seem to be over yet for the reasons that you were explaining at least oh now we are getting some kind of communication out of the area so that something people are still going to the sudan of course they are you know we've been covering that element as well as sat samuel get to ensure that we will be speaking about this again as soon for the moment thank you so much for inviting me. now lots more still to come on this news hour including still no answers for these lebanese protesters now have a caretaker prime minister on to answer questions over the beirut port blast a south korean restricting free speech in a bid to start talks with the repressive north and there is an emotional win for

skiing's biggest star that's coming up in sports with general. fogs largely gone from western and indeed central europe is expanding the area of low pressure brings in windy weather an increasingly heavy cloud was right next going to manifest itself in central and southern france during choose day and probably will bring itself into porch go during wednesday was significant rain for a time and is still cold enough as of snow on the high ground of spain the same time the lows in the eastern med will be slowly disappearing into levant by the end of wednesday between 2 it is still quantum cold but snow is going to be restricted to the baltic states or even finland and look at the time she's back here 10 degrees bit above average 13 down in border

a little bit above average as opposed to the syrian vienna which is rather below average cold instillation weather here now has mentioned that story weather in the eastern med here it is warm choose to it still to bring wet and windy weather into the coast so for ne may be your a north nature surprised me caro's average temps are december 20 so it's stopped particularly different just a bit wet then there's the big dry bit and if you look at the temperatures in the sahara in the middle to high thirty's they have been no that's above where they bought the expects to be that's been consistent for the last few weeks. building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and then now. a dream shared by so many but so few make it to be an attack. a family business led by

a mark of a woman with a flair for cooking and desist and if. i didn't catch it on al-jazeera. we've never had a president who has literally for 4 or 5 years repeatedly attacked our democracy. you know blew through the receiver i don't have a narrative i have a question you're hitting there really where people can't get treated and just even further join me richelle carey on up front with my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on al-jazeera.

the as. a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera is vaccinations get underway in the u.s. the number of americans killed by the coronavirus is now past 300000. more restrictions are being imposed in europe the dutch prime minister says his country will lock down for 5 weeks and london will move into the u.k.'s highest level from wednesday. joe biden's u.s. election win is being further confirmed as the electoral college casts the results from each state officials in georgia pennsylvania and nevada have all already voted for biting. away from health concerns there are fears the coronavirus could be robbing young girls in sierra leone of their childhood the country has seen a sudden rise in the number of child brides and it's thought that hardship calls the by the pandemic is to blame the u.n.

says that as many as 13000000 girls may be affected and there's victoria gate and b. reports it's prompted the country's 1st lady to speak out. 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 eastern sierra leone he's had few customers this year because of the pandemic worries husband is in his mid twenty's and offered to provide rice for her younger sisters and access to his watering hole 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 when schools closed in march child marriage rates surged. activists say many of the girls' mothers were themselves married office teenagers and see child marriage as normal they do not feel. their children for them it's. 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 of girls a child doesn't give consent to sex so if you if you force a child to be at a very early age you are legalizing rape on the child and that has been our

campaign schools reopened in sierra leone 2 months ago but the impact of covert 19 means many girls may never go back to the classroom victoria gate and be there or saudi arabia's energy ministry says an oil tanker has been hit by a boat full of explosives while a was unloading oil at the port on the red sea it's described the incident as a terrorist attack alexey o'brien has been. the blast rocked the singapore flagged oil tanker just after midnight causing a fire and sending smoke billowing into the sky the b.w. rhein was parked up in jeddah support its owner have near says all 22 sailors on board escaped unhurt. saudi owned media reported that 2 small boats were same before the explosion. it's the latest in

a string of attacks on saudi arabia's energy sector mainly claimed by who's the rebels from across the border in yemen just 3 weeks ago the who fired a missile which struck a petroleum plant in jeddah damaging a fuel storage tank the who things have been escalating the cross border strikes to pile the pressure on the kingdom this one is just seems to be just another one of these attacks against you know a targets which are very vital for saudi arabia you know as the greatest exporter of oil in the world you know that the bubble among them straight in the waters of the red sea are absolutely crucially important for the oil prize and the livery of the big millions of barrels of oil every every day so if you make this unsafe that will have an impact on saudi arabia security and that is a very very high target and that increases the urgency for saudi arabia to do something about this yemen conflict. the distance between yemen's shores and the port of jeddah makes it difficult but not impossible for the huth east to send 2

small boats filled with explosives more than 600 kilometers to launch such an attack it could also have been carried out by domestic operators who often don't claim responsibility for several days so far no group has said it was behind monday's blast which saudi arabia's described as a terrorist attack there have been several violent incidents in the country this year last month in jeddah a bomb exploded at a non muslim symmetry injuring several people this is a very tricky actions done by by. by you know groups or states or the oldest order groups supported by states of course they don't you don't find any evidence and normally no one will would say i have done this and this keep things basically in a loony situation for now maritime authorities are urging vessels in the area to exercise extreme caution alexia brian al jazeera. lebanon's caretaker prime

minister is refusing to be questioned over the devastating explosion at beijing sport has sandia was charged with negligence over the blast but he says the investigating judge is playing political games with a disaster that killed 200 people in a holder of reports from beirut. the rule of law is what these people are demanding they came to the palace of justice to show support for a judge who is facing a political backlash for charging the caretaker prime minister has stand and former ministers with negligence over the beirut port explosion 5 days so when it was supposed to question them this week but the defendants accuse him of violating the constitution by overstepping his powers and are refusing to comply it says me either he thinks a decision that shows that he is truly working for justice in lebanon or he don't do that and the shield that the whole decision that he took and everything that

happened in the past few weeks was just another scenario that case is now politicized leading politicians and religious officials friends and foes rallied behind accusing so when of bypassing parliament and are calling his decision selective justice. some say so one could have avoided criticism if he explained that more officials will be charged with judge referred to for war is the jurisdiction to indict to. file a claim against anybody once the judge heard is submitted to the parliament no i think he has the total and complete jurisdiction jurisdiction over the port was in the hands of many security agencies ministries and political parties and the ammonium nitrate blamed for triggering the explosion was stored in a warehouse 12 since late. $1013.00 that is why some politicians believe the

charges are about settling political scores they question why former ministers linked to president michel aoun for example have not been charged the president has denied accusations that he intervened in the judicial probe the families of the $200.00 people killed believe charges of negligence are not enough and that many more officials need to provide answers so. we want justice for the blood of the victims we want to know who caused the death of our children we are with you somewhere in a country with a history of a lack of accountability and the judiciary long accused of being politicized this is uncharted territory but justice here is now at stake. beirut. south korea's national assembly has passed a new law making it illegal to fly propaganda into the north it's seen as an effort

to ease tensions and revive denuclearization talks but as rob mcbride reports from seoul it's controversial for many in the south. branding them as human scum north korea has long been enraged by defectors releasing propaganda messages into its territory activists have regularly sent leaflets by balloon or in rice filled bottles to float across the waters separating the 2 koreas the issue came to a head earlier this year with the north destroying going into korean liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone and cutting all hotline communications with the south in a bid to restore relations with north korean leader kim jong un south korea's liberal president moon j. in his try to prevent the propaganda activities the defectors have accused him of violating their rights to free speech. and. as long as kim jong un continues to threaten south korea with nuclear weapons and to suppress the people

of north korea we will continue to release our leaflets under this new law offenders will now face up to 3 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines it's not known how north korea will respond and quickly president moon remains optimistic as when he addressed the virtual un general assembly in september. the republic of korea has been steadfast in making relentless efforts to achieve denuclearization and establish permanent peace on the korean peninsula with north korea still largely isolated by the international community and by the global pandemic president moods options for reviving into korean relations are limited but by passing this legislation he'll be hoping to at least keep those hopes alive robert bright al-jazeera so. also has been marking 25 years since the dayton peace accords were signed bringing bringing an end to the country's war but

not everyone is celebrating tens of thousands of people who are displaced are still unable to return home and a stunning berkely reports from the capital city of all the nation is still a long way from recovering. plus new buildings in sarajevo but it's a facade real life for most of bosnia is not as bright as one of the poorest countries in europe has high rates of youth unemployment widespread corruption and a fraught political framework. with the. orchestra playing mozart's 25th symphony a special covert restricted on line celebration marked the official signing of the dayton peace agreement that ended the war bill clinton who was u.s. president at the time lauded the achievement the nightmare you endured then has never returned and the credit. belongs to all the people of all backgrounds. the peace deal ended the bloodiest conflict in europe since the

2nd world war but it didn't kick start the process of reconciliation or we knew the ethnic co-habitation enjoyed in pre-war bosnia had the dayton agreement been implemented we would have had a much better situation today what is being implemented is still genocide here because there is too school in an effort to reverse the ethnic cleansing the dayton accords stated that everyone had the right to return to their homes or to get compensation that has never happened the serbs control 49 percent of the country and for them dayton was a good deal. but. the newly elected mayor of east sarajevo says 80 percent of bosses would vote for independence if they have the chance. about it but if different counterparts different sides. if they want to have to have a centralised state with a majority of. all decisions to do service into other

nations isn't going to see that's not possible the dayton agreement has been criticised because it appeared to reward the serbs for aggression by legitimizing their territory republika srpska despite the atrocities committed on all sides during the conflict the have been hardly any revenge killings or into ethnic violence but with many unresolved issues especially the prosecution of war criminals according to some there's tension the sparks that is here in boston there is very dangers. should not be here what has been done is often harder to undo dayton unintentionally cemented the division of the country most don't know how injustice will be solved but they do know that bosnia can never go back to what it was when no one looked at the religion but only a person the lack of opportunities here has led 1800000 balls in still leave the country there are both positive and negative aspects to the agreement depending on

your point of view but ultimately it stopped the war and ended the bloodshed the question that has to be asked is whether the fault for the lack of progress and reconciliation lies with the agreement or the bosnians themselves and the answer is probably both. sarajevo. still ahead in this news hour work will show you how the teams lined up in the draw for the last 16 of the european champions league. and for just a few minutes coronavirus concerns that were eclipsed in argentina and chile.

ok time for the sport now here is jim thanks barbara former liverpool manager has died at the age of 73 in his native front's who enjoyed a decorated career when he took charge of paris on jemaah leon and the french national same but it was at liverpool way enjoyed most of his success in 2001 he led the club to an f.a. cup league cup on your way for a cup treble and he was named european coach of the year for that season when i arrived one of those messages i received and i didn't even know he has my number of us from 0 year and he was so i know he had other clubs he truly broke while the cops were successful about the clubs but i'm. the way he described it liverpool was his club really really nice and gentle person and. i miss him now

already and the good thing what you can say might be the only good thing you can say in a moment is he will never be forgotten his former club p.s.g. say initial tests on a mosque ankle a reassuring the brazilian appeared to suffer a serious injury in that defeat to leon on sunday but it seems he will recover in time for pasties last 16 tie in the european champions league and it's one he won't want to miss f.c. barcelona so for barcelona every subject mom we have a classic goal about said when i've asked this body size of mine to see if. name all that up against his former club oscillator in full with teammate you know messy and if he's fit it will be his 1st meeting with the castle and since leaving them in 2017 for a while record fee of $263000000.00 has the full draw that much england back face manchester city hold is beyond me tick up against a talent side last ca at s.k. madrid to get chelsea english champions liverpool play

a german title chases at leipsic and christiane in and out as eventis take on porto severe against dortmund and 13 times when his ramage it they're up against atlanta those games will be played in february and march next year with some taking place in london those bad days for football clubs in the english capital with cove of 19 restrictions changing again because of a rapid rise in cases that say from wednesday they won't be allowed any fans at games just 2 weeks off today let them back in in limited numbers. even though we're in tears here we've had friends in for a game already i did feel they should have been a level playing field for the fans if some clubs can have them some card we've seen i think already or throw it on the pitch the the back in that they give you when it comes to the game i think i should be pretty level i also think that we can really cannot tell in the government what to do but control 2000 fans coming into the stadium if they come in from within that's here or whatever however they want to do that to keep things moving along. so some fortunate aside at least after $105.00

here is a cleveland's major league baseball team is decided to drop its indians team name is comes amid protests against systemic racism in the u.s. and a wider push for sports teams to stop using a native american names and imagery indians name will be phased out completely by 2022 skiing's a biggest star mckayla shifrin has won her 1st world cup races since the death of her father nearly a year ago she took 1st place in the giant slalom in the french alps resort of course about the last victory it was in january 1 week before her father passed away difference the reigning olympic champion in the event and this is her 67th world cup win overall which ties lost all his efforts on the all time list and this when it came out more than most. was really like yeah the 5 percent to me. that. i couldn't do it was just. just a small bit of me at the rate time and. then i was.

ok. also finish the u.s. women's open go for south korea is a limb kim won her 1st major title and had debut appearance of the tournament came started the day of 5 shots of the late birdie to have final 3 holes for a 4 under round of 67 to finish 3 under a row that was one play of world number one gin young and american amy olsen ranks 94th in the world this was the 3rd professional win of kim's career and she walked away with $1000000.00 in prize money the 2023 a rugby world cup is a 1000 days away but the draw has already been made from is have a tough an assignment off being put in the same poll as 3 times champions new zealand or they france have not the all blacks out of 2 world cups before back in 199-0007 so it's a team. we. did ruby to.

be honest we got. home so excited. the poles are incomplete at this stage because 8 teams still need to qualify but we do know that france in new zealand are joined by italy and pull away or come in champions south africa will face all and scotland wales and australia have been drawn together for the 3rd world cup running alongside fiji in pool say a loss as host nation japan will be up against england and argentina and paul de that is all you'll sport for the saved us thank you. now for around 2 minutes coronavirus concerns were eclipsed in argentina and chile tourists gathered to watch this year's only total solar eclipse star gazers were worried they wouldn't see much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time as on that latin america editor lucy and human reports from santiago there's a bit of a wait for the next one. was for the 2nd time in 6 months the moon

passed over the sun in the southern hemisphere creating a stunning spectacle it turns day into night. unfortunately for residents and tens of thousands of visitors and astronomers who traveled to southern chile as an alchemy a region the weather clouded over what they'd hoped would be a perfect clearview. eclipse is never cease to amaze especially astronomers they study the sun's corona which drives solar winds and can produce alterations in the cycles of the earth why is it just to be able to see the corona better. or we can. we cannot forget that the sun is zeoli their vests in just solar system so if you turn off. the lights on. we. will die in less than a week in the capital some people only 80 percent of the moon could be seen

covering the sun while this is about as good as it's going to get i can still see a sliver of the sun peeking through but you can still see some light out here but it's darker than it was just a half an hour ago at high noon there are no clouds in the sky it was boiling hot and now it feels much much colder. residents who come to see and feel the same things were not disappointed connor hill this gives you a different energy it's an extraordinary sight a privilege. in 2024 another token solar eclipse will pass through mexico and parts of the united states but it won't be another one in this exact place for another 400 years to see a human out is iraq sent out. that's it for me barbara starr of the songs that was they were still going to be back in just a few minutes with more on that instance and about.

the latest news while not all of those this place have witnessed be a fact others recount they say that there is they've heard from family members and relatives weren't enough to make them come here rather than think that detail coverage challenge the government faces is aware that it can persuade people to keep applying by restrictions when they need to feed a family. from around the world the so-called swedish model might be under some pressure but a full lockdown is unlikely and perhaps even impossible. we're told to acknowledge

you can help tackle the spread of cold at 19 but all tech solutions the best solutions you're starting something that seems like it's public health very quickly becomes a measuring people what data is being protected where is it or it looks at the limits of time and the potential of other creative ways to deal with the issues we face track it when tech tools go viral episode 3 of all hail the lockdown on al-jazeera. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the all new ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you're keen on challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to cut our score we don't want the authority and. the listening post on out is the

right. play an important role. ringback. as mass vaccinations begin in the u.s. the number of americans killed by the coronavirus passes 300000. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up i cast my vote for president joe biden joe biden takes another step closer to the white house says electoral college voters formally confirmed his victory in the presidential election the u.n. says more than 400000 people have now fled their.