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 will be another one in this exact place for another 400 years. out is 070. 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 accuse donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging the results the attorney general of the united states has resigned and will step down next week william barr had fallen out of favor with donald trump this month after he failed to support the president's unfounded claims of election fraud but has

resignation lesser of the allegations would still be pursued a number of covert 900 deaths in the u.s. past 300000 as the biggest vaccination campaign in the country's history gets under way medical workers and care home residents are being prioritized europe's drug regulators are under pressure to approve a corner virus vaccine to stop the rise in cases on the continent the netherlands is following germany's footsteps announcing a new nationwide lockdown over the christmas and new year holiday period and in london tougher restrictions will come into effect for wednesday a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria it comes as the government announced its negotiating with the kidnappers. to just has more from the. we so i've b.t.o. from the production of the leader of boko haram abubakar shekau claiming responsibility for that attack now we've heard several sides to the story we.

witnessed a 2nd especially a student who escaped out escaped the abductors who said they were herded into groups and moved from one forest to the other and he was caught in number is probably what the officials are willing to tell is a story has warned china it would be in breach of global trading rules if it stops imports of australian coal and comes after the chinese state media reports of possible restrictions 2 countries have been a growing trade dispute since a stranger called for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic is all you had back with more news on al-jazeera that's off the strain stay with us. as we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound. some amount i want you to see

al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to the. al-jazeera. i antonio cagle watching the stream a year again later play each team you al for us that we will bring as many die close as possible and every single year we root for 50 percent men 50 percent women say let's take a look at our gender equality report card and see how we did it in 20162017 not that great we got gender equality in trying 21820192020 it's much better here is the executive producer of the strain malone with more i'm very pleased that the stream hospital spirit here running. at least 5050 chance

representation and i guess across a calendar year this year we had 56 percent female guests 44 percent male i think it was particularly important stat we highlighted the voices of women in 2020 women where on the front lines of the crime whereas pandemic and fact of 70 percent of health workers across the world are women in nigeria and sars protests where female activists in the united states became the 1st female vice president in history to stream reduces its pledge we look forward to ohio in the important voices of women in 2021 and beyond. and then looking ecstatic about being on camera i have to tell you that really he's happy places right here in the comments section he's a must a curator you chiba stand by for more back. in just

a moment but we continue coming up on today's show and mission to bring you brilliant we mean sunni excellent guests we're going to be talking about the 2 vacancies we'll be talking about u.s. politics and also protests in syria if you can jump into the cheap comments you can have to be quick because he's a fast moving show and we really look forward to hearing so many we start to move because the crises he is now we know. the name or scenario productive back in april up to 15000000 women and girls losing access to contraception has fortunately not come to pass shortly after the onset of the w.h.o. recognize family planning as an essential service trend that governments major suppliers and major and commenters advocacy by women and girls have all been working together and tirelessly to ensure that services could remain open as safely

as possible. however family planning is the 2nd most disruptive health service behind routine immunizations a family planning to anywhere where we have long recognized family planning to be basic critical essential health care for women and girls and we know that we have to continue to adapt and deliver especially with and for the hardest to reach and young people welcome back to the stream and satisfy really nice to see when we 1st had you on the stream you could just be a volunteer in a new york city that was the hawks all of the united states for a way the country crises it hit the hardest if you were looking at us right now what would you see how would you explain what's happening right now because it's. yeah well thanks so much for having me on again one thing that i want to point out is that why i'm actually traveling right now i'm not at my home state working in

arizona right now with their search and we last talked i had just come back from new york and just to put things in perspective where we are now compared to where we were at then at that time we had about 30000 new cases a day and now as of yesterday we had 220000 new cases and we have 10 times more new cases of code it a day we also have far more hospitalizations about twice as many hospitalizations right now for cove it as we did back in april and then we have about 50 percent more people in the intensive care unit and 25 percent more people on a ventilator we also this quake hit really awful record of the most number of deaths per day from covenant which was almost $3200.00 so we're sitting in a far worse situation nationally at least in the u.s. than we were back in april and despite that there are actually more people traveling now far more people traveling now than there were then so around mid april we had about 80 to 90000 air travelers

a day and on the 11th which is the last usa data that i had access to we had 700 almost 790000 about 10 times more people traveling despite the fact that the pandemic is at their worst that it's been a given i'm looking at one of your tweets right you know my laptop the other day as i was walking into the hostess who i soon when someone shouted one of my tweets is evidence of how it's another person said my was a power to account what exactly i'm supposed to keep pounding i don't know how to look at this everybody on my laptop right here so that you can see it was and see you and your mom because i think it's a really good contrast to where you were earlier. yeah there i mean i was just i snapped a photo as i was walking into the hospital because i was talking in the hospital to take care of patients who are sick in the i.c.u. because of ovid and i have no idea what somebody was apparently what i had tweeted was that we were opening up new i.c.u.

use and additional units every day each day at that point we had opened an additional unit to help accommodate more patients and i had what i had said was we can't keep going like that for a very long because we run out of space and we run out of staff and for whatever somebody decided that it was a parody i mean i wish i were a comedian of some kind unfortunately i was just sharing the reality of what's going on here. one of the things that would lead to recently and a lot not just in united states but around the world that seats but today because we are honoring brilliant women including yourself i would love to tell us about the vaccines we have actually been dying here in the know there is the head of the curve because we did you know always see you know what we see behind the scenes where you happen to know that women are integral to the vaccine. the vaccines that we have right now yeah yeah that's so exciting that exactly you're right we are on

the verge of having these vaccines the more widely available we just in the u.s. got the emergency use approval for the pfizer vaccine on friday so 2 days ago which is awesome and they're shipping out i think either today or tomorrow so that that's amazing and just to put that in perspective we have 3 vaccines that we've got some really promising data for one from pfizer and by antec and then one from a tour in iowa and one from astra zeneca and 2 of those 3 so the pfizer in the mid there and i want both use m r n e as the most ality and that technique and that technology was developed by a woman so if you want to talk about the importance of into maxine's right there you have it. and we also know that women in science have played really important roles probably basically forever and yet have been erased most of the time from their. their contributions and so i'm really hoping that in this modern day and age that the women who are involved and developing these vaccines and whatever

treatments we may eventually have for well get their due credit and that will appreciate the contributions that they're making. one of the things i love about the. truth is that there's a combination of so many some activities and. information and some sexiness as well i love a lot of it and go and yoga so this is the case is important here and i think we were talking about how did this year and women's involvement and this is something that you shared in case anyone forgot no she's not subordinates of doctors we are coworkers of and into didn't disappear reteam thank you for coming to my tech took expand on that a little bit more because you shared with some dust. i did yeah and actually someone had tagged me on that because there's some research i've been doing with some colleagues looking at the interactions between physicians and nurses and in

particular the interactions between women surgeons and women nurses and so this person who i've been communicating with heather tubbs cooley she's a nurse and i had just emailed her about a question about the research that we're working on it and then she. had me which i super appreciated because it was right to the heart of what we're working on there is i mean historically we look back 50 years 100 years ago the vast majority of physicians were men and the vast majority of nurses were women and there was this sort of hierarchical relationship where the doctors were up here and the nurses were down here i'm not saying that's good i'm just saying that's what it was and things really have a vault and i think that's what that tweet is trying to say it's not really like that anymore. to just this morning i'm running in the i.c.u. when i go to the patient's bedside the 1st thing i do is talk to the nurse what's going on here what are you seeing what are you concerned about because they're

right there at the bedside and they have all their mation. we cannot adequately care for patients without the nurses and of course we have we bring a different expertise than they do so we work together and it has to be that way due to other than silence thank you for praying for your particular brand of activism gemini's him and also a great compassion to the string today we really appreciate you thank you very much indeed so now we need the train huge old wino running in the united states continues this year and i want to introduce you to simone de grace and he says crispin they explain to us why this is happening haven't. they been our. actively going after dispositions of power because they understand the need to add their voices to the policymaking table s. passionately during a time of crisis in our society during

a time of crisis and even before our society is looking for authenticity in our leadership and our society views a man as exactly these kind of authentic leaders who care about their community is who will prioritize the needs of breaking families during a crisis i think the increase in women elected officials across the board trans and says general like means that people are demanding change that they want more diversity that they understand that women have solutions to our problems and that women have something to bring to the table it also means that women are standing in their own power in the truth and women are going in the. willing to mounting change and being and to bring about change. and in strickland so good to see you you've been described in so many ways i am not going to take

that power away from you you introduce yourself to what he wants go ahead well they're well well thank you for having me here on this show my name is marilyn strickland and i am congresswoman elect for the time congressional district of washington state and i will join the u.s. house of representatives and in this particular congress than $117.00 which will get sworn in in january will have the largest number of women and we will have the largest number of women of color in the history of the u.s. so it is an exciting time to serve but we know that all of us who ran for office and did so because we want to help our country and hokus on people. i love think in that description of yourself you didn't go into i am the 1st of these in the service of this for my state you went straight to the service and to your mission why you stop because you are at least to reconfigure right now if you know already

the history books you will be at some point why did you not why did you not use the 1st as a as a way to describe yourself. so you know when i ran for mayor of tacoma i served for 2 terms and i was 'd the 1st there i was the 1st african-american woman and the 1st korean american woman to serve and yes it's true i'm making history again in washington state and the pacific northwest as not just the 1st african-american woman but the 1st african-american to serve as part of this congressional delegation and yes the 1st korean american woman who was elected to congress in this cycle those are parts of my identity they inform who i am the lens to which i seem to world and yes those are assets and attributes but at the end of the day we want people who are going to washington d.c. and to be part of our political culture that want to focus on the work that's why people elected me now is my story compelling absolutely it's interesting but that aside i'm going there to work for the people who sent me. i have just looking at

the top of your twitter feeds and you thank the fotis sending you to d.c. and we did that exclamation mark as i was what you do local t.v. into these and and and to the local journalist was saying you're in double digits are you feeling confident now just so amazing or so and agendas are trying to get you riled up when you deliver it it's got to be a landslide look bring what gave you that in a calm you were not going to let him carry you away on this tide of enthusiasm he was so steady at that moment just in the lead up the eve of the next day. just over a month ago. you know i believe that we work very hard as a campaign team my volunteers the people who surrounded me we did everything in our power to win and at the same time you know if you want to win with grace the same

way we ask people to lose with grace and so i'm honored that i won this election by 14 points especially because of that because it was so competitive but again that's the campaign now it's time to focus on legislating in doing the work for the people . i saw you still to sinuses tool can you choose to come out and you're not in your . this is one of the film rescinds i know when you when you get to d.c. you you have a mission to explain what dani's i'm lying. so you know as the doctor explained you know kobe has about to enter in the worst stage right now we have the highest number of people who contract it and getting ill and sadly say no some will die and if you think about the charge that we have as leaders around the world but especially in the u.s. we must get this pandemic under control we must follow science and we are all thrilled to hear that there is a vaccine now that will be available that was just you know approved by the f.d.a.

at the same time and we have to make sure of that populations feel comfortable using the vaccine and we know that with some means of color because of the history in the u.s. people are very skeptical about using a vaccine we need a national strategy i am you know very very confident and president elect biden and the vice president elect kamel harris let me say that one more time weisman is an elector. and their desire to have more in national strategy to address this and amik it you know how do i have a big. i have to go t g. a single the same topic 6 who should jump in each other at once and i don't see you as well how do you explain it back own come in as we need how do you see you really influencing goes and women for generations just because you were talking about it right that and this is this this is huge huge almost sort of like. mind melting we view as he is us children to her no i mean think about this if you look around the world you know there have been female heads of state in

a lot of countries and the united states still has not you know. crack that glass ceiling at but kala harris especially you know when there was the crowd in presidential primary earlier this year i was supporting kamel harris for president and i think she will be a great president one day but it's also the historical nature of it yes she is a woman yes she is always had to be twice as good to get half the respect that men get who are on that stage with her when they ran for president but she is you know she has a background a select line she is black an asian she is biracial and she has had to encounter things as a woman of color who's an elected official that other people do not encounter and despite that joe biden knew that she would be the best person to serve as vice president united states of america so of course it's exciting and i think for a lot of you know young girls and young women we get to see ourselves. through her grace influence on what they wear at the pinnacle. of malin stricklin congressman

and yanked through the 10th district of washington state you have a fantastic story i hope you come back and see more of it with us on the string but for now thank you so much appreciate it thank you for having me you say so we move on to g 20 will be remembered not just to cover 19 but to be in a year of intense protests and protest movements i want to introduce you now to filmmakers manning m. and yvel great event and they framed this year as a year of protests and and how. we know we're right sunt of those protests some of them have a listen. women are the experts in their life experiences and so as a result of the introduction a very tenet is whether that is greece religion or ethnicity combined with gender among others we see that women face challenges in their opportunities in life and so it's important that women protest to be able to how they are always heard and lay out their demands exactly as they see fit over the course of this past year we

have seen women participate in vital movements such as the black lives matter movement and the climate justice movement as all the prop former u.n. tia's new solutions sort of important voices in this movement and also brought forward on her stories that were ignored in the past indicated it's always a pleasure having you on the screen locum back to strain for people who may or not seeing past programs that you featured on week's edition south to a global audience ok good evening write me he's got 2 young politician activists political. and currently the host of if you show ground 0 in the new house where it's young and veteran action. yet no writing. thank you so much for being on the stream whenever we talk about women in leadership particularly in nigeria in your name comes to mind because that is

what if your 'd new missions a knife when you look back at this year and you look at the end some movement in particular and for anyone who was living under a rock for the last year. but over. the and so his movement was about police brutality which really resonated around the world police brutality in one chariot and women were the forefront of that movement can you explain why how that happens. you know when. when he or crossed did again a young man built as it had been killed and police had given a wee legs and young men as they did again you know speaking about it but you were kind of like a bit upset because we have been trying to push for you know a state of emergency or sexual and gender balance for people to list the a lot of gender issues because just tend to think oh it's women issues that's what it's so we need some jokes that right and we see if you people want this to let

women part in this i think we shall do the cunning organize them so little with me getting organized and so it was like adequate we had decided no but was it kind of not less of if we men actually step into this what you see will be so much different and this movement will grow and just like that there was not a meeting that was not being what we men know how to do what we have to do is you sure and of course this was a little less movements only showing up it was that we men nor how did. we have been raised to do as leave all we had been reached you should. be 10 times better than everyone else but to stay in the back burner and say oh i don't want to be too bright about this i don't want people to see i don't want people to see me as humble you know what it is doing everything yes shriek you know ourselves so this was really one of those moments where every tragedy that makes women who we

are into the forefront as us trends we not putting these we have been socialized to do these things we know how to organize we know how to be selfless we know how to do everything perfectly and just can't be and say no we don't want to be call either it is people say how do we get to this point i said no we've always been like. india i want to bring in another place this is renewed renew is a media strategy i want to ask you about the strategy and sons going forward into 2021 but he's unique festival. this is important that women put space because for a very long time for a sense of is they've been. a victim since so many cases of injustice have been also sidelined in so many political movements and the cases i've seen them take in vital rules such as can give us quote fundin impulse has got lots more

women a wonderful in general and get us in protest needs to be fixedness l. so many muscle. so the secret source is women in protest movements friends and some staying in 2021. a lot of civic engagement and you know what we did was to light a fire people came up with testing police brutality but at the end of the day you know they came and they learned more the new understand why defining themselves in distance we should those bad leaders shoot the rot in the system all of that and you know people have to get to guide them through this isn't a weakness for many nigerians keep in mind that of course we went from. of rule so it's that we just had a short stint of democracy and we still i mean you know with the effect of if you truly back the manager boys out. so a lot of these things have been normalized and i just say people think it's ok it was all just so lazy where it comes out it think it's ok to be beaten for things to

happen and then we're just outsource you know normal thing to go out every day we wake up and like he's let it not be me in the other length let me survived you know and now you cannot begin to see that no something has to change this is too much all of it will not that the way i said we all were just unlucky or i was the devil you know how. has nigeria not to begin to understand that it's so many of us it's a system where you have to wake up every day and swim against the tide and as it seems right south i think it anymore we need to anyone at civic engagement education we're educating educating educated and enlightened pollies and they will demand the war when it gets in. indeed thank you so much we appreciate it and let me show you one quick cynthia my laptop which has 3 extraordinary a women on our show and we continue the theme on instagram live with man am and there are a mentor activist and filmmakers 2031 told from sunday you'll find that one.

thanks very much for watching and still next time take it.

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