corruption it is real it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to tell our school week we don't want to delight on the authority and if. the listening post on out is the right. dose of our biden of delaware a democrat eyes $55.00 knows the wrong us electoral college confirms joe biden's victory in the november presidential elections. than oracle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the u.s. begins vaccinations against covert 19 as the death toll from the pandemic crosses 300000. presence as they are taking place with the abductors of hundreds of

schoolchildren in katsina state as a faction of boko haram claims responsibility. and the trade route between china and the strait escalates amid reports beijing has restricted imports of a straightly and called. us democracy has prevailed that was the message from president elect joe biden shortly after the electoral college formally validated his victory in the election in the last hour russian president vladimir putin has become the latest world needed buys in on his when she reports from wilmington delaware. but you also are biden of delaware a democrat i see 5 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 now nicely 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 $306.00 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 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 raf 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 she ever towns the al-jazeera wilmington delaware the attorney 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 pursued trump 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 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 vaccine but health officials are warning it could get much worse before it gets better as we go ahead 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. let the healing begin. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from pfizer almost 3000000 doses shipped out across the country and it led to very unusual live television it's not often you hear this when anyone gets a shot. what happened to the.

state governors from kentucky to colorado new york to louisiana waiting to see them arrive with this you're. starting 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 over a flock to getting her and perry paid 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 use the median for vision. already has been manufactured and

you're ok to get. 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 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 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. will 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 now this was the situation 2

months ago of dog red color that showing the high rates of infection and now really the whole continent is dark red and the european center for disease control's is anything more than $120.00 cases per 100000 is critical every country except finland norway ireland and iceland on this highest level serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates that turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported the most cases in the past 14 days it's recording more than 400000 many european countries are once again tightening restrictions with no sign of those infection rates slowing down another lens 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 as jenna hall 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 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 . the u.k. is far from alone in europe too 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 touchwood 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 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 pen demick was nearly over christmas besieged by new restrictions proves it's not jonah how al-jazeera. a faction. has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria and. what it describes as bandits. let's take an on friday from a boarding school. and katsina state that all concerned the government is concealing the real number of abducted boys although the state government says 333 students are still missing. and it just means in a bit of for us what does that more about booker hons claim of responsibility and how so we can be that this claim is true.

well it's difficult to say whether the statement by boko haram is true but it could be a big possibility because we've known book or a fight is have occasionally. already into the northwest carried out abductions take some ransom and go back and continue the fight in the north east of the country now what we heard this morning what i when i listen to that or you know by i will look at chicago yes it sounded like a will because chicago he sounded a little bit mellow but of course he confirmed that they are holding the boys and so far contrary to what officials are saying they have not made any contact for run some or any discussions that's the story right now but yes today after meeting president mohamed behind the cuts in a state governor said they made contact with the people holding the children and

progress is being met but this is also different from what we heard 2 days after the abduction took place that security forces have look aged the abductors and the school children and were at that time exchanging gunfire with the abductors if booka her own walls were sponsible what does that mean for security in the region. well the northwest of nigeria has been a very tough place to be right now and it's been sore for the last 3 or 4 years in particular lives and for a state we've seen these killings abductions for ransom and even bandits or armed groups forcing farmers to pete access before they go to farm pay taxes before they have us their crops this security forces have been struggling to deal with this problem but this is a problem that refused to go away even a short distance less than 200 kilometers from the for administrative capital here

and couldn't a state which is just some 16170 kilometers away from here one cannot travel safely without an incident because kidnappers have laid siege to this world and it's been happening for more than 3 or 4 years now. giving us that update from that still has head on out as there are calling for justice families on lebanon side charges of negligence don't go far enough allowing the devastating course exposing . and turning day into night thousands gather in chile and argentina to view a rare total solar eclipse. and over which country gets to control substantial offshore oil is that it is more recent the speed will be based around somalia accusations of kenya interfering in

its forthcoming election. prime minister has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the beirut force explosion an organist. former cabinet ministers face charges of carelessness and neglect victims' families say many other people need to be held to account reports from bury. 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 beirut port explosion friday so one 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 and live 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. 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 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. has made an exchange of prisoners between armenia and azerbaijan that's part of the peace deal that ended recent fighting over a disputed region of the goanna karabakh.

relatives cheered as names of returning soldiers were announced outside a military apples in. moscow which brokered the truce says more than 40 were handed over to armenia on monday when it's a dozen prisoners were turns to azerbaijan a serious strain 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 and further escalation and a growing trade to speak and a potential blow just trailers economy 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 off china caused an industry in turmoil china trade it for political reasons not

economic growth because economically it's itself china that's clearly a political stance that the the parties taken. beijing faming reconfirmed a trolley 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 internees to russia mccauley or i was in college 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 tried dispute over foreign interference beijing the bears in hong kong and allegation about the origins of the koran of ours. 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 under the strain he was blocked from speaking in a 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 force who struggle is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international climate action strategy 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 cold exports to china were worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that's threatened and other industries will be wondering if they could be next gauge al-jazeera. to train e.u. has more from beijing. 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 pours far beyond that now tensions between the 2 countries really ratcheted up when a strongly demanded an independent inquiry into an 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 more 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 wasn't happy with including the fact that australia banned huawei china's iconic telecom giant from participating in the development of its 5 g. network because china knows that australia is economically reliant on china its

biggest trading partner about 30 percent of all the trailing exports end up in china and china really is exploiting this fact and it's almost as if they gene 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. the international criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china's shin jiang province. given the court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than 1000000 people in the muslim minority of forcibly sterilizing women prosecutors say they can't investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague. tens of thousands of tourists have converged on ciarán argentina to experience this year's only total solar eclipse as

well worried they wouldn't see much because of cloudy skies but the weather cleared up just in time in san eamonn 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 chile said i was a region the weather clouded over what they'd hoped would be a perfect clearview eclipse is never cease to amaze especially astronomers they study the sun's corona which drives solar winds and can produce alterations in the cycles of the earth why is it wasn't important to be able to see the corona better. than we can. we cannot forget that the sun is really the costs in the solar system so if you turn.

the lights on. 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 sunlight 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 will be another one in this exact place for another 400 years. human out is 070.

there's been a shock when they women's u.s. open golf tournament in texas south korea and world number 94 a limb kim stunned her rivals to win by one shots on her debut at the event 35 year old victory adds to her country's impressive history at the event south koreans have won the u.s. open knowing times in the past 13 years. saddam or thursday i cannot describe it in birds i never expected that i was going to play the women's u.s. open bought the discipline i still cannot feel it could probably sink in when the 70 wraps up. this is al jazeera these are our top stories president elect joe biden says democracy has prevailed after the u.s. electoral college validated his presidential election victory wise and accuse donald trump of trying to sabotage the will of millions of voters by challenging

the results italy general of the united states has resigned and will step down next week.