al jazeera. and. it's a position short story we've never seen before was issued 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 confirms his election victory. u.s. attorney general william barr has resigned amid tensions with president trump over its baseless claims production floor. and on a cloud this is out there life also coming up but trade route between china and

australia escalate submit reports beijing has restricted imports of a strait in cold. turning day into night thousands gather in chile and argentina to view a red total solar eclipse. so that in the u.s. president elect joe biden has told americans that democracy has prevailed the comments came soon after the electoral college formally validated his victory in the november presidential election despite donald trump's multiple attempts to overturn that result she returns he reports now from wilmington in delaware for joseph biden of delaware a democrat. i defied knows 0. california is electoral college vote made it official joe biden is the president

elect and in the end the formal tally of the states joe biden won in the november election was the procedural affair it normally is across the country electors in states that biden flipped from the republicans cast their states votes for the president elect joseph r. biden has received 16 votes under the u.s. constitution the president isn't chosen by the popular vote but by the $538.00 electors of the electoral college however usually they follow the majority vote in each of their states as part of the trump campaign's efforts to overturn the election results efforts were made to subvert that process they have actors that unanimously cast 16 votes for joseph are guided me but even in michigan one of several states where electors were given a police escort the vote was conducted without surprise and eventually 306 electors across the country voted for biden 232 for trump soon after joe biden made a national address calling for the page to be termed 360 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that donald trump vice president parents received

when they won in 2060. at the time president calls alleged electoral college tally a landslide. why is own standards these numbers represent a clear victory van and i respectfully suggest they do so now if nothing else some wonder whether this raf focus on the electoral college might lead to more discussion about whether the us will use should be allowed directly to vote for president i myself disagree that we still need an electoral college to certify our election results and we should really lived into our principle in this country of one person one vote and make sure that we honor the popular vote when americans vote for president on election day as the electoral college finalized biden's victory throughout the day trump tweeted about election fraud he has repeated he will fight on in the courts though it's not clear what his motivation is at this

point the electoral college words will now be sent to the u.s. congress where they will be counted and certified on january the 6th there are reports that some republicans may attempt a last ditch style and at that point which have nothing else will be a symbolic moment that will help the narrative that many from supporters still believe that this election has been stolen however the polls also show that a majority of americans do feel that it's time to move on she ever towns the al-jazeera wilmington delaware. clement says that washington editor at large for the hill and there is the bottom line he says it's not possible for anyone in the republican party to deny biden's victory. 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 now 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 and 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 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're going to find the number of those people peel away because there's just no way no serious way to consider it 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 u.s. attorney general and when bob has resigned to both step down next week donald trump this month by failing to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud but in his resignation letter said the allegations would still be pursued trump tweeted that their relationship had been a very good well earned call is a political commentator the trip to the university of michigan he says donald trump chose to announce bob's resignation on the day that biden's victory was confirmed by the electoral college. i believe the president asked for the resignation. when to make this announcement and this night when i was slippery in that. he was the official of the polish of this new. presidential

always the elite media cycle and i never forgot one. thing last month or so to see what happens. yeah this is something commonly seen with other cabinet members and other social contract when it's rationed like. a monster investigating election fraud and trying to see this play not in the. investigation before the election and. barney got in on the. deputy earlier remains. sir i don't think a lot of promise but you see another acting attorney general in so i would like to rethink. and i really. want to special counsel to investigate.

with certain things like that are always to direct this acting attorney general trying to investigate all alleging fraud in the 20 formulation united states has imposed sanctions on. russian missile defense systems increasing tensions between the 2 nato allies washington had already removed from its f. 35 jet program because of the deal to keep both the russian and 400 ground to a different system last year and insists it poses no threat to nato was a time when condemning the sanctions. from our nato allies the united states we expect support you know battle against terrorist organizations and forces to have plans for the region it's not sanction it we are never a country that chases off to conflict with tensions with its neighbors or any other kind we are fighting for the prosperity of our entire region and the world but the

situation just not mean we will remain silent against our rights and so when it's been trampled just like we don't want anyone's rights we will not allow anyone to take our rights either robert hunter is a former u.s. ambassador to nato and he explained why the u.s. considered the russian missile defense system a threat it's a fact that if you have. russian military people on an air base i could say in truth where the united states also operates and if you have a turkish system based upon not. that there is a russian type system which can target the most advanced u.s. airplanes in the region that causes can quit cause a lot of problems there is a concern that that would compromise some of the most important western american and nato military secrets in terms of technology. mr going to want in

effect opening the door to the russians it was not very smart for mr to want to be as a problem with the americans and with nato to have chosen this particular i would have chosen something else the international criminal court has refused to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china john problems excelled week has had given the court evidence accusing beijing of looking at more than 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing women but prosecutors say they cannot investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the hague based court. australia's prime minister scott morrison has warned china would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of australian coal your mouth follow chinese state media reports of a possible ban it's a further escalation in the growing trade dispute and potential play to australia's economy as nicholas gage reports now from sydney. australia is one of the world's

largest producers and export who's of coal used in both steel making and to generate power one of its major markets is china but months to be imported lives have left millions of tons of destroyed in coal stranded on china's coast and the industry in turmoil china sort of political reasons not economic crisis because economically it's itself china says clearly a political stance that they the parties taken. by using say mean we can 3rd destroy lee was being targeted in that state backed global times newspaper saying power plants have been granted approval to import coal without clearance restrictions from anyone except the strategy of those countries that have arable and also are willing to export culture china are introducing a russian mob and we sing within this for those countries to actually expand their market in china. it will no doubt further in my intentions reply which is shutting

more restraint in industries out of china in a dating trade dispute the foreign interference by using the bears in hong kong and allegations about the origins of the current bars. talking about coal in a strongly right now is a sensitive industry stakeholders have been reluctant to comment on what's happening with china and australia remains without an energy policy as more countries set climate targets carbon dioxide levels that are strongly was blocked commuter recent united nations climate summit due to its perceived lack of action on climate change some experts believe now is the time to plan for a future of reduced use of coal and other fossil you struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international pariah climate action strongly needs a plan we need a plan to get out of coal and gas we need a plan and transition all of those workers for a plan in the short term to find new trade partners is called exports to china were

worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that's threatened and other industries will be wondering if i could be next gauge al-jazeera me. still ahead here on al-jazeera we'll have the latest on the massive covert 19 vaccination campaign that's underway in the united states. a new move flying the leaflets the new controversial law in south korea that critics say violates their right to free speech. throughout the arabian peninsula temperatures are dropped to the normal seasonal level middle twenty's not middle thirty's the active weather the wind in the rain that still churning itself around the eastern med the rain will ease in southern turkey on tuesday but equally edgy into lebanon and further south in fact it will

affect the northern parts of egypt the forward tranche of it will be a few showers or thunderstorms stretching down to saudi arabia the bulk of it there is going to be rain through the northern part of iraq and into the higher ground where it's just surface snow so in gaza you're not you get showers for a couple of days the breeze a year when it's for the 1st then it dies and then the sun comes out fine on thursday for the sciences the showers disappear not much changes but cross into the western barrington's of iran which rain in style once again might even get snow in turn around and that's the case through thursday as well as things disintegrate the next storm system is not forming at this time for us and sees no rain welcome there it is shows a few variations as general life man go down to mozambique typically but it's going to be concentrating i think in places like zambia and botswana on tuesday and wednesday the full cost of the capital of botswana is certainly a sundry one for

a couple days. but. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed child marriage to happen legally esearch basically archaic walls dads often legitimize them griego was pedophile on. online jumping to the quick fix and the team to a standstill this street on out is the air. force .

but again you're watching out 0 a reminder our top stories this hour and president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after members of the u.s. electoral college formally validated his victory the presidential election biden accuse donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results. u.s. attorney general william barr has resigned and will step down next week going to donald trump this month but failing to support president unfounded claims of election for the. united states is impose sanctions on turkey everett's purchase of russian missile defense systems increasing tensions between the 2 nato allies turkey for the russian s $400.00 ground to a defense system last year and insists it poses no threat to nato turkish president has condemned the sanctions. so the number of destiny to cave at 19 in the united states is now

a pos 300000 that grim figure was reached on the same day the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history began medical workers were among the 1st to be immunized with the pfizer biotech vaccine but health officials are still warning it could get much worse before it gets better particle he reports now from 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 probably very humble. happy to. let the healing begin. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from finds are 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

a good one to. 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 life 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 i hope they flock to getting 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 so right now you should see. the 1000000 for vision already has been manufactured and

you know locating it next year will be 1300000000 and we don't want to jinx to make much we haven't got 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 coded and experts say without big changes it's only going to continue to get worse. al-jazeera washington got to will but china is a specialist in diseases at the university of maryland school of medicine and he explains the just tickle 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

a national level they had 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 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 you know we saw that all of the months of hard work 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 has 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 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. the united states has officially removed sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism list the trump administration approved move the site built his who don't deal with israel in october washington and cut to saudi in that agreement to restore the country's so for immunity meaning that it cannot be sued in american courts prime minister abdullah said this development is a game changer for sudan. in russia who has been very it also entails opening sudan up for investment for a long time we have said that we are a rich country we don't need donations and gifts removing us from this list is

a game changer really it helps create a different and new atmosphere now that nigeria's federal police force extra investigators have been deployed to help find hundreds of missing school boys they were taken on friday nights when gunmen stormed a state boarding school in the town of kind of car in the northwestern katsina state state governor says at 333 students are unaccounted for while the nigerian president's office says at least 10 boys were abducted parents of missing students staged protests demanding the return of their children president mohammed who bihari has been criticized for not visiting the school even though he's currently visiting his home state of katsina. to lebanon now where the caretaker prime minister has refused to cooperate with the investigation into the beirut airport explosion which happened in august has been 3 former cabinet ministers face charges of carelessness and neglect victims' families are welcome the charges but say many more people need to be held to account so hard to reports now from.

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 baby port explosion fadi 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 takes a decision that shows that he is truly working for justice in lebanon or he don't do that and the sure 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 the judge has some say so one could have avoided criticism if he

explained that more officials will be charged with judges or freddy's for work. is the jurisdiction to indict to. file a claim against anybody once the judge has submitted to the parliament now 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 2013. 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 the night 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 lead to provide answers. 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 center for their beirut. a prisoner swap is under way between armenia and azerbaijan it's part of a peace deal that ended recent fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh. that's relatives cheered is names of italian soldiers but mounds outside a military airfield here around moscow which brokered the truce says more than 40 people were handed over to media on monday while it doesn't prisoners were returned to azerbaijan it is unclear how many more austere will to be exchanged. 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 of ground to a halt bride reports now 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 outwardly 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 soul. damage caused after 2 hurrican slammed into honduras last month has cost the country $10000000000.00 a storm struck within 2 weeks of each other and flooding to much of central america on earth was the hardest hit country more than 1000 homes were destroyed. for around 2 minutes corona virus concerns have been eclipsed in argentina and chile has gathered to cheer on this year's only total eclipse of the sun star gazers were worried they wouldn't see much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time and it's on latin america to see a new in reports from santiago it'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 that turns day into night. unfortunately for residents and tens of thousands of visitors and astronomers who travel to southern chiles and 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 doesn't need to be able to see the corona better . than. we cannot forget that the sun is really the votes in the solar system so if you turn. the lights on here. we. will die in less than a week in the capital santiago only 80 percent of the moon could be seen covering the sun well 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. 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 in human al-jazeera some p.r. . or right let's have a quick recap of the headline turned out to hear and president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after members of the u.s. electoral college formally validated his victory in the presidential election applied mchugh's donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results she had her times he has more on the speech for.