i didn't catch it on. european countries push for the covert 1000 vaccine developed by pfizer to be approved before year's end as they struggle to contain the virus. gracenote is their ally from a headquarters in doha and dead in obligate 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 major biden's victory official a change in attitude from the senate's top republican a faction of boko haram 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 year's end the agency that approves the block's drugs is expected to deliver its decision on the pfizer bio untag vaccine next week you have been pressuring the a.m.a. to speed up the approval process as much of the concert and battles with another wave of the virus sake a look at the rate of infection in europe and take a look at the situation 2 weeks 2 months ago excuse me lots of the dark red colors show high rates of infection and now nearly the whole continent is dark red the europeans. center for disease control says any more than $120.00 cases per 100000

is critical every country except finland norway ireland and iceland is on the highest level serbia georgia croatia and the thruway nea have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the united kingdom have reported most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 has more from brussels we've just heard in the last couple of i was confirmation that the european medicines agency that regulates free 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 may is

acting saying it was undermining the public's trust in the you to take action they're going to welcome that news yet spawn 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 restaurant sions coming into effect at midnight. tonight we've been spiraling rates of infection around the london area and the southeast in 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 they might. 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 the 2nd to be approved for use in the u.s. after the pfizer bio untag vaccine was given the green light last week. or health experts in the usa the coronavirus pandemic has led to 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've

united around a common goal 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 but you know this whole thing with the. tissue colon is the linn county public health administrator in the state of kansas she says she struggled to keep her rural county safe from k. that 19 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 we are really right 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 vaccination campaign in the country's history on the way that may be more true now than ever before victoria gate and be al-jazeera a day after the troll call is confirmed joe biden's victory in the u.s. presidential election a key question in washington as whether that will change republican opinions of the president elect on this let's bring in allan fessor he's joining us from just

outside the white house and we have seen a change in attitude from the senate's top republican. exactly 6 weeks ago today america went to the polls to vote for the president 4 days after that joe biden was declared the winner by the media when it looked to everyone that he had secured election victory by 306 electoral college votes that confound by the electoral college on monday we've had a couple of republicans acknowledge that joe biden actually won the election but until know we haven't had anything definitive from the leader of the republicans and the senate well the state on the senate floor in the last couple of hours he gave a speech where he talked about donald trump's great 4 years how he'd brought trade deals with mexico and canada how he defeated i saw in the middle east brought peace deals the israel with the united arab emirates and others and he'd revitalized in his view the u.s.

economy and then he said the words that perhaps that donald trump didn't want to hear that joe biden was actually the winner of the 2028 presidential election the electoral college has spoken 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 to honor her. beyond our differences all americans can take product our nation has a female vice president. for the very 1st what is interesting after the electoral college made its decision as we expected it would there were a number of republicans who acknowledge that joe biden won the election the fact that the leader of the republicans in the senate has no done it is certainly significant interestingly enough it comes after. the president of russia

acknowledged that joe biden was actually the one to know there is some suggestion on social media that this means that donald trump will soon that joe biden actually won the election chuck schumer who is the leader of the democrats in the senate said it is time for him to do that so that the country can move on but just looking at don't trust twitter feed he's still talking with evidence of widespread voter fraud across the country in the election and still hoping that somehow somewhere there is a chance that he can overturn this election but what looks more and more likely is that joe biden will be the $46.00 president of the united states sworn in on capitol hill on the 28th of january next year all right alan fischer thank you very much a function 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 and katsina states their 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 and 24 and seeing boko hot on kidnap more than 2276 girls and 2 both and this time the group's faxon 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 raid on the dreams has more from. 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 they've been moving from one forest to the other climbing rocks and mountains according to witnesses who escaped the ma subduction what they telling the media with a telling government officials and kids in the state so it's difficult to say exactly where they're all there are rumors that they've been moved from in the 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 but quite i mean saying that it's holding more than 520 of them if not just classified or doctors can find them subtly this will be the most the biggest abduction since this conflict or the book crisis began 11 years ago still

ahead on al-jazeera. despite accusations of vote rigging on violating the constitution guinness president is sworn in for a controversial 3rd term. and a giant iceberg is on a collision course with a tiny island in the south atlantic by scientists fear it could destroy this wildlife haven. but. the next bout of i think described as poor weather is on its way through and has a circulation in the eastern med it's caused flooding in turkey it's got the same potential to do that from the western side of serious through the evident than through israel passing territories towards northern egypt is cause flooding in the

eastern side of libya as well and that's a picture for tuesday and indeed wednesday ahead of it there be some rain in iraq in iraq mostly in the north i think of iraq and then snow shows itself only high ground of iran gaza reflects this still poor weather by description it's 18 and 19 degrees that it won't feel that it could be windy with frequent showers in fact sunshine when that visible i suspect on wednesday sees no rain southern africa carries on a pace as bit of a circulation visible here they are covering a delta so significant rain here as you might expect less compact line of text across zimbabwe to mozambique but the still potential for big showers further south in johannesburg and throughout zimbabwe but away as forecast as you see in the 3rd last 2 days 3 days of thunder storms not much wind to move them on a good season good wet season for zimbabwe and looks like it will be for malawi as well.

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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera countries in the european union may be able to begin kovan 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 in canada harris's election victory for the 1st time the top republican senator said the electoral college had spoken and confirmed the when. in fact in a book or on this claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria it comes as the government announced its negotiating with what it describes as arm band the. guinea's 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 condé violated the constitution by running for a 3rd term dozens of people have been killed in and see government demonstrations

in recent months the opposition has vowed to continue protesting nicolas has been following the events from neighboring senegal. present 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 18 just like they 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 get ins in exile and we're here in a neighborhood in their car in the medina neighborhood which is home to up to 3000000 gideon's who live in senegal because the borders are close between senegal and guinea they haven't been able to vote in this election nor have they been able to. witness this inauguration and if you talk to many of the people who live here they say that this is 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 they will be in his ninety's by the time he finishes his mandate so malya has cut diplomatic ties with kenya its accusing its neighbor of political interference the decision by kenya's president to host the leader or some other than has strained relations even more somalia has recalled all its diplomats from kenya and ordered their counterparts to leave somalia within 7 days malcolm wyatt has more from nairobi. action is happening next month is based on

a fragile agreement between the leaders of those 5 so you autonomous and president came here to visit nairobi kenya spoke to the government returned back to somalia and the somali government then said the president the job were negative on the electoral agreement and blamed kenyan interference for that now just 2 days ago the president of another region somaliland came here to nairobi and that's been followed by further allegations by the somali government of interference by kenya that's what led to this latest move with 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 was the more recent this be based around somalia accusations of kenya

interfering in its forthcoming election let's take a closer look at somaliland and just how it fits into this dispute so somaliland the situated around the horn of africa and borders djibouti it's a self declared state but no foreign governments recognize it as an independent country it broke away from somalia in 1991 when warlords toppled the dictator mohammad siyad bari carving the country into personal clans and talks have been held to discuss unification but the parties have been unable to reach a breakthrough somaliland has managed to maintain its own independent government currency and security system. mood is a senior analyst covering somaaya for the international crisis group he says the growing tensions could have serious consequences. i think it very much relates to electoral dynamics the premature administration in mogadishu feels that kenya has

been supporting the political opposition whether that and matilda enjoyable and whether that's somaliland itself or whether that's the political candidates that are running against of them a lot of them have been safe in nairobi have their campaigns based there before some of them traveled to mogadishu recently so i think it is very much ties with internal somali politics and election dynamics and in terms of somalia trying to put pressure on kenya to maybe really reassess those relationships the ramifications can be quite serious so 1st of all the region when it comes to somalia is quite divided right now you have kenya on one side if you will be on the other and we seeing these proxy dynamics kind of play out in somalia with damaging effects you through a competitive electoral process on top of that in which different candidates are seeking different external allies and so this adds another layer of division to that i think one big unanswered question is the future of kenya's security

participation in somalia as well kenya has a number of troops as part of the african union mission in somalia any sort of change or quick push to to remove those troops would have quite devastating security consequences i don't think that's something easy and maybe not exactly where mogadishu administration is scoring poor we can't rule out that as well and need to consider all of the dynamics that play. the international criminal court has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china province exile the wiggers had given the court evidence accusing beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people from the muslim minority and forcibly sterilizing women prosecutors say they can't investigate the allegations because china is not a signatory to the court based in the hague dozens of homes belonging to nomadic tribes and indian administered kashmir have been demolished local authorities say

the community is illegally occupying forest lands of the tribes argue they've lived there for generations as alexey o'brien reports. to those destroying these hats and the himalayan forests they are unwanted pieces of wood and cement. but to the back are well and good the muslim nomadic tribes who live here their home at least for 6 months a year as they move between the forests and mountainous pasture is what they heard of goats and sheep. to recover from the shock we have been living here for generations. for our livestock and our children i tried to plead with the demolition team but they threatened us with the rest and find some in the tribe received a notice from the local forest department saying their homes were illegal

a few days later people arrived to tear them down. the himalayan region of kashmir is controlled by india and pakistan and pot but claimed by both in full last year india revoked the region special status imposing restrictions on movement and enforcing a communications blackout. critics say the government wants to change the demographic of the muslim majority region as carrying out the demolitions to do that. they want to dislodge gradually from this. tore them out make them all melissa and they're all. so upset bill. indian is there and that rufus a little bit bad agent of ridley. but local officials say they're only following court orders and that more than 60000 people are illegally squatting on the land in india traditional forest well as

a usually protected by law and tribal leaders in kashmir say that should extend to them. last year with a special status was appealed to the government published an advertisement that they were going to implement the forest law in the region but the reality on the gold is different the government is working against us people are suffering under pressure from the government to move from the forest and from encroaching cities some say their traditional way of life is becoming too difficult you. live in fear that we may face a scene freed as the others we keep on thinking day and night that our homes may be demolished where would we go for generations they've led a nomadic lifestyle but that could soon become a thing of the past and examiner and al-jazeera dozens of unesco sites that have been damaged are risk of losing their world heritage status in the 1st of

a 5 part series we visit the ancients a brothel ruins on libya's mediterranean coast fighting has left the site neglected by local authorities but his mother trying to reports peace talks could help change . 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 messines until 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 n 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 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 the british antarctic survey will lead an expedition to study

a renegade iceberg that's on a collision course with one of the ukase over seas territory the iceberg known as a 68 broke free from a larger ice shelf and on target to cut back in 2017 since then it's been moving north towards the south georgia islands scientists fear to destroy the rich ecosystem and wildlife haven surrounding that islands during tarling is from the british antarctic survey he says they diverse aquatic life surrounding the south georgia island has never seen a threat like this before. mostly our spokes when they're in the open ocean they tend to break up and go into smaller icebergs this one remarkably as remained intact and that is still even more remarkable because it's got quite a shallow keel it's not very thick so we'd expected to break apart so something the size of luxembourg is going to be a massive impact on an island like south georgia which isn't that much bigger than luxembourg itself i mean it could scour large areas of the continental shelf of the diversity on that shelf on the bench that is equivalent to what we find in areas

such as local activists and really significant amounts of carbon is stored up in this rich part of ursa to eat on the sea bed but also you could get in the way of these enormous colonies of seals and penguins globally significant populations over hoth of all working penguins for instance are found on the islands of south georgia weisberg's car or the time what we are worried about is that models are predicting that this type of carving events is going to increase in the future and so we could expect more icebergs like this to be going in these sorts of directions in the future. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera.