with the election behind us the republican party dumptruck. us politics and that's the bottom. for dose of our biden of delaware a democrat eyes 55 knows the road. the u.s. electoral college confirms joe biden's victory in the november presidential elections. other than norah karl this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up pretty. much. the u.s. begins vaccinations against kobe 1000 as its death toll from the pandemic crosses

300000. a trade route between china and australia escalates amid reports beijing has restricted imports of the stray and cold. and turning day into night thousands gather in chile and argentina to view a rare total solar eclipse. u.s. democracy has prevailed and that was the message from president elect joe biden shortly after the electoral college 4 way validated his victory in the election it was a crystallized donald trump's multiple attempts to overturn the result she had reports from wilmington delaware. but you also are biden of delaware a democrat i 65 knows the real.

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 cost their states votes for the president elect joseph r. biden has received $16.00 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 have not honestly cast 16 votes for joseph r. biden 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 terms 306 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 our own standards these numbers represented. a clear victory then and i respectfully suggest they do so now if nothing else some wonder whether this rather focus on the electoral college might lead to more discussion about whether 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 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

but it's not clear what his motivation is at this point the electoral college votes 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 would 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 had her town see al-jazeera wilmington delaware it had a general of the united states has resigned and will step down next week when they have fallen out of favor with donald trump this month after he failed to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud but in his resignation as a boss of the allegations would still be. tweeted that their relationship had been a very good one.

the number of deaths linked to covet 19 in the u.s. is now postes 300000 that grim figure was raised 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 finds of vaccine but health officials are warning it could get much worse before it gets better i think i'll hand reports from washington d.c. . never before has the nation been so caught up in watching a delivery packed up shipped out and flown to it's just a nation's all under the watchful eyes of security usually anonymous workers now celebrated probably very humble. happy to. be here. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from fines or 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. what happened 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 to protect our people we are going to be coming to start right there. one of the 1st shots watched on live television intensive care nurse in new york who wanted to send a message right over from our beginning and carry pain for a time in our history. i want to instill public confidence that america the way they 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 you should see. because being manufactured. we are going to make much we have to. be used. 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 known 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. europe's drug regulators are under pressure to approve a coronavirus vaccine to stop the rise in cases on the continent let's take a look at the rates of infection between countries well this was the situation 2

months ago lots of that dog red color to show the high rates of infection now you know the whole constant dark red european center for disease control says anything more than $120.00 cases per 100000 is critical every country except finland norway island and iceland are on this highest level so georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported the most cases in the past 14 days turkey recording more than 400000 factions in many european countries a once again tightening restrictions with no sign of infection rates slowing down the netherlands is following germany's footsteps announcing a new nationwide lockdown over the holiday period and in london tougher restrictions will come into effect from wednesday reports. london's festive preparations dealt

a blow to the capital moving to tighter restrictions that will ban households from mixing and see the hospitality sector shut down again if the health secretary warns that a new variant of the virus might in part be behind fast rising 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 called as the new strand is cultured. london joints much of the rest of the country under tears 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 that things are. 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 there industry shock 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 touch wood but i'd like to stay that way and so now we all have to withdraw bit even though that's not what i want

. in the u.k. the rollout of the pfizer 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. as prime minister scott morrison has warned china it would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of australian coal his remarks follow chinese state media reports of a possible ban it's a further escalation in a growing trade dispute in a potential bloaters trade is economy as they gauge reports from sydney. a strike here is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of coal used in both steel making and to generate power one of its major markets is china but months of imported lives have left millions of tones of the strain in cold stranded on china's coast and the industry in turmoil trying to start

a political reasons not economic growth because economically it's itself china that's clearly a political stance that the parties taken. by using faming reconfirmed to charlie was being targeted in a state backed global times newspaper saying power plants have been granted approval to import coal without clearance restrictions from anyone except to strongly of those countries that are available and also are willing to export cochin-china interviews to russia mccauley or are we seeing quality within this for those countries to actually expand their market in china. if no doubt further inflame tensions with beijing which is shutting morris trading industries out of china in a deepening tri dispute over foreign interference beijing's affairs in hong kong and allegations about the origins of the coronavirus. talking about coal in a strongly right now is a sensitive issue the industry stakeholders have been reluctant to comment on

what's happening with china and australia remains without an energy policy as more countries that climate targets carbon dioxide levels are at this trailer was blocked safe a commuter race and 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 for who you struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international pariah on climate action a trial in a the plan we need a plan to get out of calling if we need a plan and transition all of those workers for a plan in the short term to songe new trade partners israelis coal exports to china were worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that threatens and other industries will be wondering if i could be next making a gauge al-jazeera t.v. for 20 years live for us our embedded changing this targeting of coal is fodder why

the campaign against australia isn't it doesn't seem to be showing any signs of letting up. that's right it definitely seems like the relationship between china and australia has hit the lowest point but it's ever been at and that's clearly manifest in the trade relationship but it carries far beyond that now tensions as we heard in that story between the 2 countries really ratcheted up when a strongly demanded an independent inquiry into the origin of the current 19 outbreak earlier this year but they've been souring for much longer than that really one clear point was in 2018 when the previous australian government imposed this law against political interference and china wasn't specifically named when that was announced but china definitely was implied as the target of that law and since then the government has taken various steps that have really good beijing culminating in what we saw last month in a 14 a list of 14 grievances released by the chinese embassy

a basically expressing to australia all the things that it was unhappy with including the fact that australia banned huawei china's iconic telecom giant from participating in the development of its 5 g. network due to national security concerns interference in what china considers domestic affairs when it comes to hong kong and its national security will that the approach to taiwan the treatment of the ethnic we give minority in shin john and also what china has called the government fund and government funding and china research into political influence chinese political influence when it comes to australian educational institutions and even the astronomy and militaries of the raft of complaints china has strict china has against australia and you think that many other countries namely the us have made similar complaints but the fact is china needs the us the us is too big and too powerful and too important for china to be leveling similar attacks china needs to work with the us but australia on the

other hand is quite vulnerable because china knows that australia is economically reliant on china it's. biggest trading partner about 30 percent of all the struggling exports end up in china and china really is exploiting this fact and it's almost as if they jean is making an example of this trail is sending a clear message to smaller countries that are economically reliant on china that if you do not behave in the way that beijing deems appropriate that there will be consequences for your country absolutely ok good trainer are you many thanks for joining us there from beijing. also has hair on al-jazeera calling for justice families and charges of negligence don't go far enough following the devastating force explosion.

of. fogs largely gone from western and indeed central europe as is expanding area of low pressure brings in windy weather and 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 from 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 stopped particularly different just a bit wet then is 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. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office for the huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will the place like good little get the back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has our mind of our top stories this hour president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after the us electoral college validated his presidential election victory he is donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results. the number of covert 1000 deaths in the us has passed 300000 as the biggest banks nation campaign in the country's history gets under way medical workers and elderly care home residents are being prioritized. astray here has warned china it would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of

a strain in coal and comes up to chinese state media reported possible restrictions . in sessional criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china province. given court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing women that prosecutors say they can't investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague. lebanon's prime minister has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the beirut port explosion in august. and 3 former cabinet ministers face charges of carelessness and neglect victims' families say many of the people need to be held to account and 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 and former ministers with negligence over the beirut 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 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 judger freddy's for war. 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 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. 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. for the 1st time the u.s. has formally accused iran of direct involvement in the disappearance and probable death of a former f.b.i. agent bob levinson vanished under mysterious circumstances whilst on a mission in the iranian island of kish 13 years ago the treasury department announced it's imposing sanctions on 2 high ranking iran intelligence agents the drug administration is urging the incoming president to make the release of at least 3 americans held in iran a priority. of course in saudi arabia has reopened hours after an oil tanker was hit by

a boat laden with explosives the kingdom has described the incident as jazz or port as a terrorist attack and let's hear brian 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 as poss 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 the bubble among them 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 done by by. you know groups or states or order or groups supported by states of course they're going to claim you don't find any evidence and normally no when we say i have done this this thing's basically you know. a situation for now maritime authorities are urging vessels in the area to exercise extreme caution brian al jazeera. and i gerry and government says it's negotiating with armed men who abducted hundreds of school boys they were kidnapped on friday from a boarding school in katsina state the federal police are deployed additional investigators to help find the boy's state governor says $333.00 students are still missing ivory coast incumbent president alassane ouattara has been sworn in for

a 3rd term is taking office after october disputed election in which several opposition leaders were arrested on charges of sedition they argued waters is in breach of a constitutional 2 term limit but the president said a revision in 2016 allowed him to run again. in order to further consolidate national cohesion i plan to create a ministry in charge of national reconciliation in the next few days the ministries mission is to evaluate our actions with the goal of reinforcing national creation and the reconciliation of the sons and daughters of ivory coast damage caused after 2 hurrican struck conjurers last month has cost the country $10000000000.00 the storms made landfall within 2 weeks of each other bringing flooding to much of central america under us was the hardest hit country more than 1000 homes were

destroyed and dozens of bridges swept away. tens of thousands of tourists have converged on chile and argentina to experience this year's only total solar eclipse visitors were worried they wouldn't see much of it because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time a latin america as the lucy and human reports from santiago. 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 traveled to southern chiles and i would call me a region the weather clouded over with they'd hoped it 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 so if you turn 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 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 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 a human out a 0 sum game or. go without as are these our top stories president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed office in the us electoral college validated his presidential election victory buys the kids donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of votes as by telling the results this legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the supreme court to wipe out the votes of more than 20000000 americans in other states and to hear the presidency do a candidate who lost the electoral college lost the popular vote and lost it.