it's a position short story we've never seen before but they refused to respect the will of the people refused to respect the rule of law and refused to honor our constitution joe biden criticizes donald trump for falsely claiming vote fraud as the electoral college formally affirms his electorate victory. u.s. attorney general william barr is resigning and attention with president trump over his baseless claims of election fraud. loves the romney watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming

up a massive covert 19 vaccination campaign is underway in the united states on the day the death toll surpassed 300000 in the worst affected nation. also the u.s. imposes sanctions on turkey over its purchase of s $400.00 russian missile defense systems. and thousands of people gather in chile and argentina to witness a rare solar eclipse. welcome to the program president elect joe biden has told americans that democracy prevailed soon after the electoral college formally validated his victory in the november presidential election all states have already certified their results going joe by the way in the electors are reflecting that outcome officials in battleground states such as georgia pennsylvania and arizona monk. those who voted

for the democrats trump has falsely claimed that there was massive vote rigging dozens of cases filed by his camp of so far failed by an accused trouble trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by changing the results this legal maneuver was an effort by like that officials and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the vote more than 20000000 americans in other states and to hear the president your candidate who lost the electoral college lost the popular vote and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse its position sarge 3 we've never seen before appreciation they refused to respect the will of the people refuse respect the rule of law and refuse to honor our constitution u.s. attorney general william barr has resigned and will step down next week when he angered donald trump this month by failing to support the president's unfounded

claims of election fraud but in his resignation letter barr said the allegations would still be pursued tweeted that their relationship had been a very good one when it's got the very latest in shepparton season we'll meet and delaware and of course we heard. president elect joe biden speaking widely on what he believes the country needs to do and what the nation needs to do to you might say regathered and repair itself what else did he say. right it was about healing and uniting and actually despite that portion chastising the republicans for their attacks on the election result this was a positive a positive speech is 0 point was look the system worked to monday's certification by the electors in the electoral college the latest example of that before that as you mentioned the states of certified biden's win where he had the courts of thrown

out most of the legal challenges even republican appointed judges even judges appointed by donald trump even supreme court judges appointed by dog trouble rejected them. the system has won so now it's time to turn the page not only that he was praising the american people for coming out to vote for the victory of democracy 150000000 all also of voters coming out of a jury in a pandemic them this is amazing he said as well as 81000000 people voting for joe biden which he said was a record record amount and the fact he said that americans didn't want to believe would refuse to believe what they knew was not true and but that's where the trouble for the biden argument runs into trouble what he didn't mention though was $73000000.00 voters for donald trump another enormous enormous number and a good proportion of that 18 percent according to polls still believe that the election was stolen so this is the problem with all this page turning page turning

rhetoric on the plus side for biden 60 percent of americans republicans and democrats and independents do say that even you know whether they believe that the election was stolen or not it is time to turn the page but this is still about that narrative is not about reality joe biden will be president but there's still possible challenges ahead notably on january the 6th these electoral college votes that were being tallied on monday will end up in congress they'll be counted and certified in congress we're hearing reports that maybe some last ditch symbolic challenge to that by some republicans it's likely to go nowhere unless trump gets fully behind it but if nothing else so that will add to the narrative that will go on through biden's presidency believed by a huge number of americans that the election was stolen trump has enormous power now what we don't know is what he wants to do with it and he has a lot of republicans very frightened about his power over the a good portion of that 7073000000 voters we are now beginning to see senior senators republican senators who refused to do so before now call joe biden

president elect there is movement there not from mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader by. but the page isn't going to be turned because the narrative is so alive because the old trope knows how much power he still has we just don't know what he wants to do with it political ambitions money revenge for russia gate your guess is as good as mine was short as she had written thanks very much for the update well let's bring in steve clemons he's in washington than the editor at large full of the hill little soho's developers there was the bottom line is enough washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program state let's just begin with the resignation let's just begin with the resignation of william he was expected in terms of the fact that he's departed just be full it seems trump's term is about to end. well it was expected and yet it wasn't attorney general barr had said to a number of people that he might resign he may leave early but he hadn't fully

decided and then he's said that he basically thought he was going to fulfill his term and then the 3rd twist of this was after a meeting with the president today we learned that he's going to be leaving in a just a very short period of time 2 days before christmas on december 23rd so we knew there was trouble and i think barr thought that he was probably going to stay until the end of the term but now that's not happening so to that you choose we basically said finally the tilt was against barr staying and that's an indication of trump's frustration with him i mean sometimes we don't know what's going on in the oval office and what one does what is the point of change even now an attorney general could one be appointed even before trump leaves office does he need an attorney general. you know i think donald trump in terms of his enthusiasm for both the acting attorney general who's just come in and then a new deputy you could tell in the tempo of trump's tweet today that i think he

believes that this acting attorney general will give trump what he wants which is potentially a special prosecutor to look in to the activities of hunter biden and and to ask for who knows what that william bar refused to do we have to know that with all of the acquiescence that attorney general barr had previously given donald trump he did not in the last several weeks he did things that were clearly directed more at towards bringing this farce of the end of the election to an end and refused to kind of continue to say the kinds of things that donald trump wanted him to say we just heard from a she had talked about the fact that there are some such as pop seams and congressman slowly edging their way to accepting joe biden's position as the president elect from your position of the hill and also sort of you know with a very close to the ground what's your idea about how the republican party are now

approaching this reality that joe biden is the incoming president and that they will have to accept it sooner rather than later. today was the day and we've seen major senators like senator roy blunt senator john thune who had really held out and had suspicions himself that he expressed about the solvency of the election came out and said it's time for this to end joe biden is going to be the president and they're coming around so we've had a good number of republican senators just today come out and say that they recognize joe biden as the president elect so i think what's going to happen i mean we all you know we're in the business of speculating here i will let the audience know i'm speculating is that i think that that that number of people whether they're senators or members of the house of representatives even those house members that shine signed the legal brief to the supreme court they're beginning to look like you know comic acts if you will and i think they are going to find the number of those people peel away because there's just no way no serious way to

consider constitutionally how to undo the votes of electors americans don't vote for the president united states directly they vote for electors and those electors from states elect the president united states that occurred today it will of course be certified on january 6th but the election happened today and we all know how it came out and what the numbers are so i think other members will see it and if they don't come along with that because they fear what donald trump may do to them in donald trump's you know after life in the post presidency then i think they are going to be come fringe politicians and fringe in the eyes of a lot of americans it's good to get your insight steve clemons for assault washington d.c. thanks for your time thank. well the number of covert 19 deaths in the united states is the past 300000 all the day the biggest vaccination campaign in the country's history got under way medical workers and home residents are being

prioritized during the rollout while nearly 3000000 doses have been shipped out. of washington d.c. . never before has the nation been so caught up in watching a delivery packed up shipped out and flown to its destinations all under the watchful eyes of security usually anonymous workers now celebrated but i'm very hopeful. happy to. choose where to even begin. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from pfizer almost 3000000 doses shipped out across the country and it led to very unusual live television it's not often you hear this when anyone gets a shot. was that in the. state governors from kentucky to colorado new york to louisiana waiting to see them arrive with this you. start to see our ability to preserve water protect our people

we are going to be told it starts right there. one of the 1st shots watched on live television intensive care nurse in new york who wanted to send a message right for your flock to give you a very painful time in our history. i want to instill public confidence that america the way all of these made for t.v. moments meant to let people know that the vaccine is safe and everyone should take it when they can as polls show as many as 50 percent of adults say they won't there's also a question about how long it will take to have enough vaccine for all americans right now we should use the median for visionary michigan already has been. and you know locating it next year will be 1300000000 and we're going to make much we have in. the 1300000000 cities our commitment to the world but you don't want to make

much another vaccine from the company madeira is expected to get approval later this week that will increase supply and experts say they think that that means by the spring every american who wants to get the vaccination will be able to find one it's positive news but it comes a very grim day as it's announced that the u.s. has now lost 300000 people because of cold it and experts say without big changes it's only going to continue to get worse. al-jazeera washington. dr will but there is an infectious disease specialist at the university of maryland school of medicine and he explains the logistical challenges of delivering the vaccines to rural areas. i only have a little piece of the pie that i look at for this problem but you know on the national level they have to coordinate so many hundreds of thousands of doses that came down to the states in the states themselves had to do allow these doses to the

medical system so i'm here at the university of maryland medical system and we received basically a pizza box worth of these vaccines these are 975 doses that we were then distributing out to our 13 medical hospitals in our system and basically we immunized our 1st set of staff and physicians and we saw that all of the months of heart were finally paid off it is difficult logistics because of the very cold. temperatures that are required for the storage of this vaccine but finally got it done we do have very disparate areas even in my state the state of maryland which is a very small state as urban areas but also has very rural areas we have areas that are near to the ocean and also mountainous areas and some of those areas are very

cruel have very low populations and then we have baltimore and other larger cities and towns and of course that makes logistics difficult as well for the local jurisdictions that are receiving these vaccines. well still ahead here on al-jazeera no more flying leaflets the new controversial law in south korea that critics say violates their right to free speech. and housetraining is using i.v.s. to restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems those stories and after the break. there's been a big drop in temperature in the last week in the suburbs not in fact in the arctic or around the northern hemisphere this is represented by these these colors so really it is pink it's really cold below minus 20 that cold air in the seasonal way

comes out of the warm waters the open waters of the siege and the sea even the yellow sea that produces snow showers which we see the snow showers will pile up probably half a meter meet even more snow on the western slopes of most of honshu and hot card in the cold itself enhanced as the showers make some diva make some bigger in the philippines and the vietnamese coast and given the type of year we've got where the waters bit warmer in the philippines sea on the western side of the pacific and generally speaking around the indian ocean you tend to get bigger showers in the wet season in indonesia and that's going to head naveen and again you see them particularly around in java that seasonal just in holland whereas in india the persistence of fog is probably in the us how to season rain will do nothing to change that for most of northern india indeed the forecast for new delhi gives you 3 days of moderate fog or just fog then add the pollution and you get smoke.

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but back to watching officer with the whole rob never mind of our top stories president elect joe biden has told merican that democracy prevailed soon after the electoral college formally validated his victory in the november presidential election all states have already certified the results given to it by the way in the electors are reflected but not. u.s. attorney general william barr is resigning amid doubletons accusations that he hasn't done enough to investigate the president's false claims of election fraud believe his post just before christmas. and a number of covert 19th a toilet seat in the united states and surpassed 300000 on the day the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history got underway medical workers the elderly care home residents are being power ties during the rollout. all russia has denied allegations that it was behind a cyber attack on u.s. government agencies the full scope of the breach is unclear but hackers are

believed to have monitored emails at the treasury commerce and homeland security departments the u.s. national security council says it's investigating the attacks that may have continued for several months the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russian missile defense systems increasing tension between the 2 nato allies washington had already removed turkey from its f. $35.00 jet program because of the deal turkey bought the russian s $400.00 ground to air defense systems last year and insist it pose no threat to nato present at one condemn the sanctions targeting turkey's weapons put creel meant said sector. they're not all from our nato ally the united states we expect support in our battle against terrorist organizations and forces they have plans for our region to not think that we are never country that chases after conflict with tension with its neighbors or any other we are fighting for the prosperity of our entire region

and the world but this situation does not mean we will remain silent against our rights laws and sovereignity been trampled just like we don't want anyone's rights we will not allow anyone to take our rights either importance ardi arabia has reopened hours after an oil tanker was hit by a boat laden with explosives the kingdom has described the incident destroyed the port as a terrorist attack alexia brown reports. 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 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 mandeb straight in the waters of the red sea are absolutely crucially important for the oil price and the livery of 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 st to 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 don't buy buy buy. you know groups or states or orders or a group supported by states of course they don't you don't find any evidence and normally no one will say i have done this and this thing's basically you know me situation for now maritime authorities are urging vessels in the area to exercise extreme caution alexia brian al jazeera australian prime minister scott morrison says he'll challenge an alleged chinese ban on his country's coal imports but the

introduction of import restrictions was reported on chinese state media morrison says he's still seeking clarification from beijing but if true such a move would violate world trade rules that is the latest development in an escalating dispute between camber and beijing that began when australia demanded an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic south korea's national assembly has passed controversial legislation making it illegal to fly propaganda balloons into north korea the move is seen as an attempt to revive denuclearization talks that have ground to a hold of a bride has more from seoul. 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.n. has tried to prevent the propaganda or activities the defectors have accused him of violating their rights to free speech. so 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 sauza as 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 moon's 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 sold. off or on 2 minutes coronavirus concerns were a clip stay in argentina and chile tourists gather to cheer on this year's only total solar eclipse stockings as well weren't they wouldn't say much because of the cloudy skies but the weather did clear up just in time as. lots of america reports . that's a bit of a wait for the next one. 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 is

that i would call me 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 wasn't important to be able to see the corona better. than we can. we cannot forget that the sun is really the costs in the solar system say egypt and the sun lights on and. we. will die in less than a week in the capital santiago will 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 thing were not disappointed. this gives you a different energy it's an extraordinary sight a privilege. in 2024 another total 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 in human al-jazeera some gala. researchers in australia say they've developed a technique to grow and transplant coral on the great barrier reef they say coral i.v.'s could help replenish one of the world's most endangered ecosystems i was under byers has more. 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 then 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 works just as we predicted and we can grow very large corals from tawny microscopic larvae within just a few years. 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. well. we need. to the. media in significant we don't need to be charitable and we need to be glassed. and we need to be. leadership this well broad policy change may take longer to achieve but harrison and his team say they're optimistic their techniques will work. soon 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. you're watching officer of means the whole raman a reminder of our top news stories president elect joe biden has told americans that democracy prevailed soon after the electoral college fully validated his victory in the november presidential election all states serve already certified the results given job by the wind and the electors are reflecting that outcome shepparton see has more on the president elect joe biden's speech from wilmington in delaware this was a positive a positive species 0 point was look the the system worked to monday's sort of occasion by the electors in the electoral college the latest.