we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you the world when documentaries and life. and online. 'd would go through our biden of delaware a democrat. 55 knows the wrong. us electoral college confirms joe biden's victory in the november presidential election. hello there are a kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a. u.s. begins vaccinations again as covert 19 as the death toll from the pandemic crosses 300000. nigeria's president says negotiations are taking place with the abductors

of hundreds of schoolchildren and katsina states will be live in the capital a. turning day into night thousands gather in chile and argentina to view a red total solar eclipse. us democracy has prevailed and that was the message from president elect joe biden shortly after the electoral college formally validated his victory in the election he was a great size donald trump's attempts to overturn the result she had reports from wilmington delaware for dose of our biden of delaware a democrat. i 65 knows the role. 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 none unless they 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 termed 360 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that donald trump and vice president pants received

when they won in 2060. me at the time president calls elect the 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 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 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 shabbat towns the al-jazeera wilmington delaware the attorney general of the united states has resigned and will step down next week when the i'm bad for the out of favor with donald trump this month failed to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud but in his resignation said the allegations would still be pursued tweeted that their relationship had been a very good one. the number of deaths linked to cave at 19 in the us has now passed 300000. 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 warning the situation could get much worse before it gets better as he 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 its destinations 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 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. what happened to 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 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 the flock to give her and carry pain for a time in our history. i want to instill public confidence that the american spirit is say 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. the $1000000.00 visionary mission already has been

manufactured and you're also taking it. we are going to make much we have about 1300000000. 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 a positive news but it comes in a very grim day as it's announced that the u.s. has now lost 300000 people because of coal bed 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 as take a look now at the rate of infection between countries and this was the situation 2 months ago has lots of that dark red color showing high rates of infection now

you can see nearly the whole continent is dark red the european center for disease control says anything more than $120.00 cases per 100000 is critical every country except finland norway ireland and iceland on this highest level so croatia georgia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. of all reports at the most cases in the past 14 days that's according more than 400000 well many european countries are once again tightening restrictions with no sign of infection rates going down and the evidence 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 jonah hill has this report. 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 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 a vaccine this 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 touch wood but i'd like to stay that way and so now we all have to. drop it 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 pandemic was nearly over christmas besieged by new restrictions proves it's not jonah how al-jazeera. the nigerian government says it's negotiating with armed men who have ducted hundreds of school boys they were kidnapped on friday from a boarding school in katsina state the federal police have deployed additional investigators to help find the boy's state governor says 333 students are still missing let's speak not that he's in a bird but just update us on these latest efforts to find the boys. when a governor of katrina state i mean we're sorry met with the president yesterday briefing him about. what he called negotiations or contact with those

people who abducted the school children however a few hours later we so i've b.t.o. from the function of lido boko haram abubakar shekau claiming responsibility for that attack now with several sites to the story we've. witnesses that count especially a student we skate. and skip the abductors who said they were herded into groups and moved from one forest to the other and he was coaching numbers fabio in what the officials i willing to tell us they're talking about 512 or even up to $600.00 students who are still missing so that's the situation right now we also understand that this according to posts have deployed additional facilities and personnel to try to track down the abductors and fine or rescue the

schoolchildren initially 2 days after the attack we heard the nigerian government claiming that the abductors and the students have been spotted and that security services were engaging them in a firefight which turned out not to be exactly true because if what the governor of course in a state is talking about is correct that. they are in touch with the abductors what he described as bad as bandits then we probably may not see or may not have the true position of things as that now and to pounce fail that the government is doing enough to find the balance. well they have been separate protests by the way in cuts in and there were plans yesterday to march to the hometown of the president he is but right now and we we understood that several groups are trying to march in protest to demand action to demand that government

and officials save these children from the hands of their doctors now with the new thing about this new claim of responsibility or do i listen to this morning was indeed a book or should go on the door he sounded a bit mellow and he said there were no demands met 2 between the nigerian government so it raises question about who is telling the truth is it. that the nigerian government is in contact with the doctors or is in fact holding these children and you boko haram is correct and they're holding these children it confirmed some worst fears and i didn't have been boarding 1st that book is far from defeated by the nigerian government despite claims of doing so by nigerian authorities in fact but if this is confirmed then but what i am has reached father the need traditional oppression of babies in the northeast of the country all those security forces all security information we've been privy to over the past one year or 2 years showed that boko haram fighters routinely come to the northwest in

nigeria operate. in in particular abduct people who run some and collect their own some and go back to the northeast and fund their ratios and if these true if this situation all of these claim of responsibility is true then we probably haven't seen the end of abductions by the way this is the largest number of. abductions in history because remember 2 are 270 girls now these we're talking about 600 students taken from the schools this is the largest number. of group of children or students that have been taken from. school since bookworm started 11 years ago so give these is true then definitely there are serious concerns we know that but where i am as much to touch in the northern nigeria as most popular city council several times before but it's been years now since the last action was witnessed in the north and the northwest by book what i am or tax claimed by book

or i mean the north so if this is true then then there is a lot of concerns going on they will be a lot of fears and a lot of war he's on the part of people living in northwestern nigeria and in front of all of the country because this is coming at a time when the nigerian authorities are really struggling to deal with bandits in the northwest we've been operating there for more than 7 years now gasify concerning such a standard and know the nigeria many thanks for joining us for that update from. also has hair on al-jazeera a strain the awards it's all avenues after reports of china the whole restrictions why the trade between both countries is escalating. and no more flying if it's new controversial or in south korea the critics say violates their rights to free speech.

today's flood warnings are in cyprus turkey circulating storm and also in the southwest of france not rain just about stopped but the storm after storm coming into the west is out of europe this is the next one heading up towards the south of ireland now take a while to get the habit it will be there on tuesday it is still moving quite quickly but ahead of it is slowing weaving rain in central southern france and for much of eastern europe it's just become a quantum cold once again fog a huge problem nor indeed snow but it is cold so the stormy system will run quickly through push go and france as you can see and probably through the british isles but it gives a day of some of the gales in kolkata south coast of ireland there becomes a gusty sherry picture after that but the rain has fallen in turkey has been excessive 2 $180.00 pressman rages in the last 2 days that's gone beyond what the

average for december is for on tallia the rain is just about finishing now in turkey in tuesday circulations to exist we've seen but a flooding in libya potential for alexandria you see the big circulation in the dark through suggests a very heavy rain moving into the western side of syria lebanon israel down to the palestinian territories it won't be very pleasant. ok calm and making. you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow no child marriage to happen legally peace or basically archaic walls ballots often legitimize the legal wise pedophile. online jumping to the comments section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there on.

the. or again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed the u.s. electoral college validated his presidential election victory accuse donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results. the number of covert 1000 deaths in the u.s. has passed 300000 as the biggest vaccination campaign in the country's history gets underway medical workers and elderly had a residence care home best of all being prioritised. the military government says

it's negotiating with the armed men that abducted hundreds of school boys from katsina state the federal police have also deployed extra investigators a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility. somalia has cut diplomatic ties with kenya is accusing its neighbor of political interference in juba and one of somalia's 5 semi autonomous states has recalled all of its diplomats from kenya and has ordered their counterparts to leave somalia within 7 days that's a lot of malcolm weapons following these developments from nairobi quite drastic action there malcolm sylia has an election coming up in january why is it doing this now. with an election that's happening next month is based on a fragile agreement between the leaders of those 5 so you autonomous states that you mentioned its president came here to visit nairobi kenya spoke to the government returned back to somalia and the somali government then said the

president a job or negative on the electoral agreement and blamed kenyan interference for that now just 2 days ago the president of another region somaliland also came here to nairobi and that's been followed by further allegations by the somali government of interference by kenya that's what's led to this latest move of them cutting all diplomatic ties but this is the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between the 2 countries began nearly 2 years ago those disputes were initially about a maritime border dispute over which country gets to control substantial offshore oil reserves that is more recent disputes will be based around somalia accusations of kenya interfering in its forthcoming election and cutting ties though it's drastic these 2 countries are very intertwined what ramifications could it have.

who cares troops make up a key part of the african union peacekeeping force in somalia is there to assist the government in its fight against the armed groups. now it's possible that if this dispute continues then the somali government may push through various channels through the african union or through its parliament to try and get kenyan troops out of that peacekeeping force that would be a significant ramification for kenya's involvement in its neighboring country without depend on how relations we wait to hear from the kenyan government for its response to this recent casting of diplomatic ties that's just been announced from somalia ok. thanks very much for the update. international criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china's province exiled wiggers has given

the court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing women the prosecutors say they can't investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague. the story is 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 and a growing trade dispute in a potential blow to australia's economy as nick clegg age 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 back in. beijing faming lee confirmed 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 interview to russia mccauley or are we seeing quite a large within this for those countries should actually expand their market in china. if no doubt further inflame tensions with beijing which is shutting more strain industries out of china in a deepening trade dispute over foreign interference beijing's affairs in hong kong and allegation 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 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 for who you struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international pariah on climate action to try leave the planet 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's threatened and other industries will be wondering if i could be next making a gauge al-jazeera deeply south korea's national assembly has path or legislation making it illegal to fly propaganda balloons into north korea and they have a scene of an attempt to revive denuclearization talks that have ground to

a halt from the bride reports 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 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. there's been a shock when they hear the women's u.s. open golf tournament in texas south korea and well number 94 a limb can stunned her rivals to win by one shot and her dainty vent 25 year old

victim. to her country's impressive history of the event south koreans have won the u.s. open 9 times in the past 30 years. tens of thousands of tourists have gathered until then argentina to experience this has only total solar eclipse as well weren't they wouldn't say it much much of it because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time the same 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 it 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 best in the solar system so if you turn. the lights on. 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 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. out is 0 cent go. without 0 these are our top stories president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after the u.s. electoral college validated his presidential election victory and the king's donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results it's any general of the united states.