happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making healthy a world for you. to everyone. european countries push for the covert 1000 vaccine developed by pfizer to be approved before ears and as they struggle to contain the virus. what else is there on my from a headquarters and i'm dead in obligated also coming up as america begins vaccinations warnings that the country's public health officials are quitting in increasing numbers. electoral college. here today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden

a day after the electoral college made job biden's victory official a change in attitude from the senate's top republican. a faction a book says it was behind the abduction of hundreds of schoolchildren in northern nigeria. hello countries in the european union may be able to begin covert 1000 vaccinations before yours and the agency that approves the block's drugs is expected to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio untag vaccine next week so the e.u. has been pressuring the maid to speed up the approval process as much of the continent battles with another wave of the virus take a look at the rate of infection this was the situation 2 months ago lots of dark red colors show high rates of infection and now nearly the whole continent is dark red so the european center for disease control says any more than $120.00 cases per

100000 is critical so every country except finland norway ireland and iceland is on this highest level and you have serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have all reported most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 has more from brussels. well we've just heard in the last couple of i was confirmation that the european medicines agency the regulates 3 body for the european union is bringing forward an exceptional meeting from december the 28th to december the 21st so next monday where they will issue approval for this phase or beyond take a vaccine of course that was developed in germany the german government has been expressing its concern in the last 24 hours about the speed at which the mayor is

acting saying it was undermining the public search trust in the e.u. to take action they're going to welcome that news yen spahn the german health minister has said that he wants to vaccinate people before the end of the year and they're saying that they're ready to vaccinate between 3 and 4000000 citizens by the end of december so very quick indeed they saying that they hope to have 60 percent of the population vaccinated by the end of next summer that's the figure which the world health organization says is a tipping point where you can really get a pandemic under control john hall has the latest from london on those terror 3 restrictions coming into effect at midnight. tonight i mean spiraling rates of infection around the london area and the southeast at some places infection rates doubling in 7 days we're told that there is this particularly virulent variant of

the virus that's been identified in part responsible for that fast uptick in infections and then this rather in congress situation where the government is lifting all restrictions for a 5 day period over christmas to allow families to get together in their homes to mix together and it sparked real concern about what comes down the line beyond christmas possibly a 3rd wave in january maybe even a 3rd lockdown real criticism aimed at the government not least on tuesday for 2. preeminent medical journals in this country both internationally respected that have issued a very rare joint editorial warning the government of what is at stake here saying simply that if people do get together people will die most likely elderly relatives predicting that the caseload for the national health service after christmas will be 40 times higher than it was at the beginning of the 2nd lockdown back in the autumn and urging the government not to blunder it says into another era so lots of

these voices now aimed at the government urging change the government has not given any indication that it's about to make a u. turn essentially to cancel christmas though it sounds like there might be some tweaks in the offing the government and the other nations of the u.k. discussing the possibility of tweaking these rules and one minister earlier on in the day admitting that look all coronavirus measures are under review all the time the modern 19 vaccine is a step closer to being approved by american regulators the u.s. food and drug administration issued a report saying the vaccine is highly effective and did not raise any major concerns it would be this 2nd to be approved for use in the u.s. after the pfizer bio intact that scene was given the green light last week. well health experts in the united states say the coronavirus pandemic has lots of the largest exodus of senior public health officials in american history some say they've been the target of political activists conservative groups and anti

vaccination campaigners who have united around common goals victoria gate b reports. protesters in the u.s. state of idaho gather outside a public health meeting they say they oppose the mandatory wearing of masks some health officials say they face similar demonstrations during the coronavirus pandemic if you haven't figured it out right now this whole thing with. tissue coleman is the linn county public health administrator in the state of kansas she says she's struggled to keep her rural county safe from k. that 90 my friendship list has decreased and i just i don't have it's not that important to me to be friends with someone who's going to be so against trying to protect the public because they don't want to be told to do something at least 181 health workers in $38.00 states have resigned retired or

have lost their job since april experts say it's the largest exodus of public health officials in american history this is a huge range rainer you know you know where you're in the leadership really right now really now linda vale is the health officer in michigan she's received letters at home calling her a communist and a fascist but she says she won't resign clearly have made that decision and they're not easy decisions to make because this is not a job that you want to leave during the midst of a pandemic there is an entire community of people that are out there the pending on you and with the biggest back the nation campaign in the country's history on the way that may be more true now than ever before victoria gate and be al jazeera. well a day after the electoral college confirmed joe biden's victory in the u.s. presidential election a key question in washington is whether that will change republican opinions of the

president elect's let's ask alan fessor is joining us from just outside the white house alan but what we were doing 6 weeks ago of course we were talking about the presidential election that's how long it's been since joe biden essentially won the election although it came just a few days after everyone was casting their vote and in that time very few republicans have actually acknowledge the reality of the situation that joe biden is the president elect well after the electoral college made its decision on monday a number of republican senators started to acknowledge that yes indeed joe biden would be installed in the inauguration on the 20th of january but we had no big one from the man who leads the republicans and the senate that's mitch mcconnell he was speaking on the floor of the senate just in the last or so he gave a fairly short speech but in tell you he talked about the accomplishments of donald trump over the last 4 years trade deals with mexico and canada the fact that he'd

managed to largely defeat i still in the middle east he talked about peace deals in the middle east and he talked about how the economy had really sarge to under donald trump and then he said the words that the man in the white house behind me probably didn't want to hear in certainly not from the head of their publicans that joe biden won the election the electoral college. spoke so today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden the president elect is no stranger to the senate he's devoted himself to public service for many years i also want to congratulate the vice president elect our colleague from california senator her. beyond our differences all americans can take prothero our nation has a female vice president like for the very 1st so just looking on social media i've been seeing people suggesting that this means that donald trump may be moving closer to

a concession himself but if you look at don't comes twitter feed then that seems unlikely he himself is still saying that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 alexion he said there is great evidence coming and you have to remember that of course the don't trump was the man who said that there was great evidence coming in that barack obama was not born in the united states and then just before the election 4 years ago had to stand up and say that he was wrong and actually barack obama was so when he talks about great evidence coming in we're never entirely sure this just don't trump going being a bit overly optimistic or whether there's actually evidence arriving but certainly we've seen nothing to this point that suggests there was widespread fraud and just a reminder donald trump has lost more than 50 court cases across the united states but he's still keeping his focus on january the 6th that's when there will be a joint session of congress to ratify the decision of the electoral college he is hoping that there will be

a number of republican politicians who will say that they do not ratify that decision but there simply won't be enough of them to stop joe biden becoming the 46 president of the united states on the 20th of january next year all right allan thank you very much. a faction of boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria the students were taken on friday from a boarding school in katsina states and there are concerns the government has not been upfront about the real number of those abducted it says it's negotiating with what they call armed bandits so in 24 teams kidnapped more than 276 girls and she both this time the group's faction says it's abducted more than 500 boys if confirmed it will be the largest number of people the group has abducted in a single raids by degrees has more from a boozer. we understand that the group has been on the move since the day or since

the night they were taken from can kind of and the been moving from one forest to the other climbing rocks and mountains according to witnesses who escaped the must subduction what they telling the media with the telling government officials and kids in the state so it's difficult to say exactly where there are there are rumors that they've been moved from in a state deep into the forest in some from a state where over the last 7 years we have seen how. security has deteriorated with bandits attacking communities and displacing hundreds of villages and. rendering a lot of people homeless and usually we were told that only a few dozen students were abducted the need later turned out that they were more the governor of kut in austin was talking about 333 and now witnesses are even claiming that the number is much higher than that because the school had more than 800 boarding students and on the night of the abduction on the following the

following morning after the night of the abduction more than 200 students were reportedly rescued or have come back to school before the school was finally shot so if you had more than 800 students in a school and only 200 have come back then definitely more than 500 are left and accounted for both quite i mean saying that it's holding more than 520 of them if not just classified or doctors confront them subtly this will be the most the biggest abduction since this conflict or the book quite a crisis began 11 years ago still ahead on al-jazeera despite accusations of vote rigging on violating the constitution guineans president is being sworn in for a controversial sorry term world heritage sites under threat stability in libya could help bring a new lease of life to the 20000. ruins. was

. it still blowing cold across the sea of japan the say the yellow sea which means snow is still potting up in the forecast this is wednesday for honshu western slopes largely and for carter that breeze easing a little bit is still going to feel pretty darn cold maybe a degree less now the sun's out through most of those in china so the cold here is it least replaced by sunshine rather than the so shout of japan that culls leads a long way sized gray skies all way down almost to guangdong hong kong is slowly warming up on thursday after 16170 wednesday a lot kodesh breeze will pick up the shower top and give some pretty big downpours in vietnam the philippines but the rainy season in indonesia is of them are rather more obvious increased ready seas there's

a big shower and for java and for sudden born here. temporarily we've got our usual rain running up from mt hood eventually adding up to what i think jack can the west bank goal will stir up the skies a bit it might ease some of the fog typically fog or northern india new delhi reflects at its forecast cold days and if you add the pollution that is duchess fog is of course smoke. a. joint africa's largest trade and investment and rwanda enter african trade track gives me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and bias and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals with $40000000000.00 u.s. dollars as business and government come together to explore business and networking opportunities at the international exhibition vote by the african export import

bank and their premium partners the i.d.f. 2021 transforming africa. for. again the top stories on al-jazeera countries in the european union may be able to begin tovan 1000 vaccinations before yours and the agency that approves the blocks drugs is expected to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio intact vaccine next week. u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has publicly recognized joe biden and kamel harris's election victory for the 1st time the top republican senators at the electoral college had spoken and confirmed the winner president donald trump trump

still refuses to concede that he lost the november election. 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 it's negotiating with what it describes as armed bandits. guinness president alpha condé has been sworn in for a 3rd term condé won almost 60 percent of votes in the presidential election in october his opponents say the election was rigged and that calling they violated the constitution by running for a 3rd term dozens of people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in recent months the opposition has vowed to continue protesting because he has been following the events from neighboring senegal. president during this inauguration or other presidents have the state of neighboring countries among them 5 other presidents just like alpha condé above the age of 70 some above the age of 80 just like alpha condé all of them running for reelection and among them

a lesson want to just like condé tweak the constitution to run a 3rd mandate now absent for this inauguration or the get into exile and we're here in a neighborhood in the car in the medina neighborhood which is home to up to 3000000 get in to live in senegal because the borders are closed between senegal and guinea they haven't been able to vote in this election nor have they been able to. witness this inauguration if you talk to many of the people who live here they say that this there's a feeling of deja vu yesterday with all the inauguration of president alassane ouattara it's yet again for them another aging president clinging on to power holding as they say the nation hostage and stealing the wealth of the nation that's the feeling among many young indians here that's how they feel towards alpha condé of course there is protest on the streets of concrete there's

a heavy military presence here at this point all of this ceremony has taken place and alpha condé will be in his ninety's by the time he finishes his mandate the international criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china's jang province exiled we had given the court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing women the prosecutors say they counted best to get the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague australia's 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 that's a further escalation in their trade dispute and a potential blow to australia's economy as nicola gage reports from sydney.

a strike here is one of the world's largest producers and export to the 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 or china caused and the industry in turmoil jonathan a political reasons not economic crisis because economically it's itself china that's clearly a political stance that the the parties taken by using 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 i introduce irrational collyer and we're seeing quite a lot of 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 try disuse or the foreign interference beijing's affairs 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 are strongly was blocked true speaking at 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 forces strike is increasingly being viewed quite rightly as an international climate action to strengthen it's 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 fund new tried this really is called exports to china

were worth more than 10000000000 dollars last year now that's threatened and other industries will be wondering if i could be next gauge al-jazeera. catrina who has reaction from beijing. the relationship between china and australia has hit the lowest point that 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 the origin of the carbon 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 struggling 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 jing 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 u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russian missile defense systems increasing tension between the 2 nato allies washington had already removed turkey from its f. $35.00 jet program because of the deal turkey bought the russian s $400.00 grounds

or air system last year and insists it's no threats and nato residents are to condemn the sanctions on as you can. from a nato ally the united states we expect support you know a battle against terrorist organization. and force is to have plans for a region that's not sanction it we are never a country that chases off to conflict with tensions with its neighbors or any other kind we are fighting for the prosperity of our entire region and the world but the situations just don't mean we will remain silent against our rights and so when it's been trampled just like we don't want anyone's rights we will not allow anyone to take our rights either robert hunter is a former u.s. ambassador to nato and he explains why the u.s. considered the russian missile defense system a threats it's a fact that if you have. russian military people on an airbase i could say in true like where the united states also operates and if you have

a turkish national based upon not. that there is a russian type system which can target the most advanced u.s. airplanes in the region that causes could cause a lot of problems there is a concern that that would compromise some of the most important western american and nato military secrets in terms of technology i have mystery i don't want in fact opening the door to the russians you know it's not very smart for mr to want to be as a problem with the americans and with nato to have chosen this particular route i would have chosen something else dozens a few mesko sites that have been damaged or risk of losing their world heritage status in the 1st of a 5 part series we visit the ancient suburbs are ruins on libya's mediterranean coast fighting has left the site neglected by local authorities but his mother

traina reports peace talks could help change the. established by the phoenicians in the 4th century b.c. the coastal city of so brought was used as a trading post that served as an outlet for trade from africa it was later ruled by the new median kingdom of mass and on to rome rebuilt it in the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d. . today from a distance it looks like it's endured the violence libya has witnessed for nearly a decade but close up are signs of the conflict. the conflict in libya between the internationally recognized government of national court for g.n.a.t. and warlord police to have 2 years libyan national army l in a letter to unesco to puts abroad and 4 others on its list of endangered world heritage sites so brought to was controlled by forces loyal to have to train his failed military campaign to capture the capital but the tripoli based government

retook the city in april yeah. unfortunately the city of subprocess has seen several armed conflicts in the last decade the ruins were hit during the fighting but thank god there was only minor damage to the fair. but now brought as crown jewel a 5000 seat theater has survived and stands 3 stories tall built by the romans nearly 2000 years ago it's a testament to the history and culture this country on the southern shores of the mediterranean has officials here $30000.00 of the foreign tourists youth to come and visit but the years long conflict and political divisions have had a devastating impact on the tourism sector. and of course there's also the pandemic for now besides a few local families heritage sites like this remain for the most part abandoned but some still come. we live in tripoli with cave at 19 we're all

a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear and when the ban will help the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical sites are it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave their weapons behind with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites malik traina al-jazeera subrata. still draw slurs the director of the us goes world heritage center and she says rehabilitation of libya's sabratha ruins is underway but more resources are needed for other endangered sites. at the moment you have all of the cultural sites and on

unesco's old heritage list on the danger list so that means we have a continued monitoring and the last meeting we had to. libyan authorities was actually in early march 20 twentieth's just before of the lockdown in paris and we continued why different tools and assume meetings or stories he's told snow removing them from the danger list but that means a lot of efforts from their side then needs to be coordination espec separate telegraph to see if i was damaged during the conflicts but i think there is hope at the end of the tunnel we got funding those the un the pro checked on the site for the rehabilitation and there is funding also from i leave em from unesco especially for the management plan and the future recovery of this property there's a lot of money when it comes to nominations for new sites we would like to see more

resources father conservation of arijit it's so important for the identity of people the parents bring the kids to learn about the history of their country and their culture so this is a very important part of our joint and shared history around the world and if we cannot safeguard world heritage site what is left on nurse. salary than the headlines on al-jazeera countries and the european union may be able to begin covert 1000 vaccinations before yours and the agency that approves the box drugs and so expect it to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio intact vaccine next week the model.