the world's attention is on controlling the virus for the rick he didn't pick tim's even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. 'd as conflict prepares for a presidential run of fault attackers raid 2 villages killing at least 50 people. there i'm how them are hidden and this is al jazeera life from doha and also coming up iraqis mark a year since the assassination of iranian general carson saw the money in baghdad's while iran and the u.s. trade warnings india's drug regulator is on the verge of approving to covert 19 vaccines as the country looks to inoculate 300000000 people within 8 months and

departing peacekeepers leave behind an uncertain future for families in sudan's darfur region. at least 50 people are fears have been killed in 2 attacks on villages in western the share it happens in. an unstable region known as the 3 borders area because of its proximity to mali fassel and been in armed groups and to al-qaeda and eisel have launched attacks there in the past let's cross live maritz who joins us from the capital niamey ahmed what morkie tell us about these attacks. well an official told our designer that the attackers the gunman the targeted these 2 villages crossed over into from mali and that at least 50

people have been killed in one of the villages he's not sure about the number of casualties in the 2nd village but he said a government delegation is already on its way to assess the situation there now we've seen increased activity in terms of permissions by m groups in mali to either you know or eisel as well as in broken apostle and that's not the only region. in egypt that is having issues with security on the border with nigeria but what i'm has been active we've seen increasing attacks bible quote targeting not only is the vians but also military personnel and that's of usually standing as but in fact there are no military casualties among the 50 over 50 people killed in the in the attacks near the border with money. but this is all coming as

a sense that head to the polls again in a presidential runoff is a minute that we can beat into the timing of these attacks and you think the impact the election it's all. well a lot of people are expecting such attacks during the elections fortunately for this country there's been no major incident or type by these armed groups either from book or these groups like al qaeda and i saw. but there was some expectations or fears that such things could happen whether or not it will impact the runoff election i doubt if it will impact that of election there in february a lot of people who spoke on draft of the announcement by the election commission said there are still going out to vote to vote in a president who will ensure that magennis on the right path the 2 candidates going into that election or that election have actually experiences in government one of

them who is the leading contender has been a ministry for interior as well as minister for foreign affairs and the other was once i had a state in new jersey and a lot of people here it's probably can draw from their experiences to leave this country at least to better the situation in terms of security as a last address the core issues that are causing all this security concerns ok i'm a bring us the latest from the army in the shower thank you notes well let's get more now from man who couldn't say he's a teaching fellow in politics and international relations at the university of aberdeen and the author of inherent and contemporary challenges to african security good to have you with this here on al-jazeera just for context this is an area i see very hearing which is no stranger to violence but the scale of these attacks seem somewhat different want to make if these attacks.

thank you very much for having me. yes i think it is clearly a slightly different from things to see in in the past in morley a story in. the coming from our new. aids particularly targeting civilians i think the timing is relevant as your reporter said it's during the election times. jaggies or the islam is know that people like you are being attention to. at the moment so egypt is. to more or less. raise some awareness that is do you already keep it will or mounting this terrible acts as you can see this situation. is contributing to. this coming in knowing how big. it's strange to you're in these

election time to carry out an attack like this and he mentioned these attackers in neighboring mali coming across as not just attack us from mali also from. countries and this 5 block region in the south why do you think there is this security problem in this a whole region because it's been going on for some years now i know country seems to be getting on top of it. yes that's a very good question i'm a very good point if inc this all many different things that are causing the security situation in the south. growing population all the climate change is islam is a problem as well as the problem with this region is ridiculous. charged. out of a fundamental structural problems where over so many years many parts

of this deeds run down a man now incapable practically incapable or providing security so that they've been main problems with the economic and all of that have been compounded by it is a problem that is deeds simply cannot where the individual or collaborate cannot provide security does the fact that we we need to deal with and accept and start thinking about how it is deeds could be formed and mentally reform to need to the tactic challenges that they are facing in the 21st century otherwise we'll be here. you are where you reported on those before and you were reported again it is things happen. of so to tell you of here you mentioned that these are the individual nations seem incapable of combat in this problem but there's also an international security presence french troops have been in the area since $24.00

would see this over 6 years now and the situation is still isn't improving do you think international troops are parts of an event and eventually solution or are they part of the problem. both are both part of the solution and also part of the problem when you talk to people because the french back in operation back in is mainly based in mali when you talk to money and they tell you that yesterday in each training years do you need some logistic support from these international forces but this forces are operating independently so to mali an army would tell you they don't even know what operation barkin is doing so they have both part of the solution but also of and of the problem and the the islamists know their region better than any of the forces so when do you know that the french are approaching simply height in places where the bridge will not be able to find them and when the

french were waiting to come out so when he had of ranges taken at a town of the taken a c.t. the people would have been defeated the g.i. does what the judges have done is move away and it come back when the friends are gone so the problem has and. is that islam is nor how to hide it from biz operators so it's a complex problem that needs a complex solution is not going to be resolved by a force that people already understand it has to do we see areas who forums where people will sit down and really think what kind of a state do we want. what kind of busy do we want in mali what kind it was going to want in but kenya for this is what is going to create a new force now works for the different ethnic groups the different religious groups that can make

a difference for the whites we just don't even dare lections happening in for example you know the elections are going on balance is going on it's not going to change anything you know is he story and we're going to move from an elected leader to another. when he goes into the. roman security climate change he's doing the same. on elections and i will not change anything ok we're out of time unfortunately a man who couldn't save a great cigarette your thoughts and your analysis a very complex problem indeed thank you. servants are the new star they've been vigils and protests in baghdad marking a year since the us assassinated iranian general kassam sala money he was killed by a drone strike near baghdad airport iran and the u.s. accuse each other of escalating tensions in the run up to the anniversary earlier

this week the u.s. conducted b. 52 bomber flyovers in the gulf and also sent a nuclear submarine to the region well rainy and leaders syncrude in the head of the revolutionary guards say they'll act if provokes. we would respond with a reciprocal decisive and strong blow to whatever action the enemy would take against us and this has been proven time and again. health care workers in india have taken part in a drill to test the delivery of fact scenes india's drug regulator is a step closer to approving the country's 1st coronavirus vaccines for a martian cus the world's 2nd most populous nation has the highest number of cases behind the united states and reports. gearing up for the world's largest immunization campaign these health care workers are taking part in

a nationwide drill to test the delivery of vaccines 300000000 indians are due to receive injections in the 1st half of this year that. we've begun this far. but yeah. we're not worried to get rid of this pandemic we have to get injected i've been working in public health for the past year and i want an injection and to motivate others to do the same india's drug regulator has received a recommendation for approval for the oscars anika oxford university vaccine for merchants use it can be stored and transported understand her frustration that gives it an edge over those that need to be stored at extremely low temperatures it's also cheaper than the alternatives tens of millions of doses have been stockpiled and will be given for free to health care and front line workers in the 1st phase and more are being acquired fast others bought up india is one of the only country where 4 vaccines are getting ready are one time. and those others

include copaxone a locally developed vaccine from behind a biotech that has been recommended for emergency use by a panel of experts but many are asking whether the vaccines will be effective or reach the right people. we don't know your region. we don't know yet david bieber led me to believe yes. i mean. let. me i'm not sure the. problem. that he did all of this off as not you believe. me i'm not really going to do. mission with. the sarah minster today of india has partnered with the u.k. based drug maker astra zeneca to produce 1000000000 doses for low and middle income countries but the anti-poverty charity oxfam says 9 out of 10 people in the world's poorest places may miss out on

a vaccine this year and or chapell al-jazeera so to come here and i'll just 0 point u.s. senator ted cruz is leading a long show republican beds to overturn joe biden's presidential victory. and trying to keep their heads above water the ongoing efforts to protect argentina's natural wildlife. how i would say is a rather nasty weather pushing away from the eastern seaboard of the u.s. except this massive cloud easing out it's been cooler air coming in behind as we go through the next couple of days so we are going to see temperatures falling away as we go on through the next day or 2 which was the west some rather lively storms are rolling in here i think increasingly wintry modern around 345 degrees there into

d.c. and for new york some rain coming through once again snow on the northern flank of that central areas of the u.s. central parts of canada well if you try if a little on the cold side there's that very active weather over towards the west not a dusting of snow coming in across the mountain states and then this next system will push through as we go on into monday a very nasty looking system this through the pacific northwest and snow they're coming in over the cascades pushing into the rockies see snow extends a fair way south as well into northern parts of california could see some more snow just around the lakes just around on teria to the east of that turning a little subside unless cold air for neocon d.c. getting up to around 6 or 7 celsius further south we got some rain making its way across florida follow that line of play out and right into the yucatan peninsula but for much of the caribbean it's largely dry want to too shall pass. american people have finally folk in america as i see it when america is off

balance or to become more dangerous the world is looking at us with a mixture of sadness and cake. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck to the feel we can take on us politics and society that's the bottom line. if you want to help save the world. sneeze and hero. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour reports are coming in over tanks on 2 villages in the west of the share at least 50 people are feared dead in

that man gaze a highly unstable region. vigils and protests in baghdad's marking a years since the u.s. assassinated iranian general custom saudi money iran and the u.s. accused each other of escalating tensions in the run up to the anniversary. there in the u.s. ted cruz says he'll spearhead an africa by nearly a dozen fellow republican senators to overturn joe biden's election victory they plan to objects when electoral college results are tallied in congress on january the 6th but the senate's role in certifying the results is largely symbolic president donald trump has refused to concede defeat repeats and baseless claims of electoral fraud she average chancy joins us now live from washington d.c. share why are members of the republican party trying to overturn

a free and fair election. there are a lot of theories but this group of 11 senators joins another service or some of the georgia surely 12 senators who say they will be challenging the certification process on the 6th of judges that's almost a quarter of the republican senators and over a half of congress republican congress people are expected to challenge the results in the house it's not going to overturn the results of the election because you need a vote in both the house and the senate and the house is controlled by the democrats and that's not going to happen but certainly what we think is going to happen as a result of this is the proceedings which normally take about an hour left well less than an hour perhaps perhaps take 1218 hours because each time if we're not entirely clear what this group are going to do but if if they there are 6 states which don't trump is challenging the results and if each if there's a if there's a challenge for each one of those states then for each one of the states up to

a 2 hour debate has to take place and a vote has to take place on whether to reject reject the electors so therefore this could be a really drawn out process on the 6th if they decide to challenge each and every state but it's not going to change things so why are they doing it well this 11 this group of 11 says they're doing it not because they they intend to overturn the results but because they want the 39 percent of americans who feel that the election was rigged to have their say have their moment in congress for it to be reflected they're quite open they say they don't want to overturn and they don't specifically themselves they're not specific of themselves or their gender fraud so they're kind of threading this needle perhaps off of keeping true to a trompe and base who could publish them enormously over the next 4 years either in primary challenges before the 2022. mid-term elections or if they have presidential election issues themselves they could be in trouble if they were seen to be not sufficiently trumpy and when they had the trams and the truck base is still going

to be a big part of republican politics so those seem to be the reasons. why putting up the symbolic fight but it's not going to change anything we've heard. more than just a procedural posturing and political posturing and these kind of actions they risk undermining faith in the. american electoral system and this comes at a time when you've got a crucial senate runoff happening in georgia in just a few days time what sort of impact do you think this might have on the very important thought that's coming up in just a few days time. it certainly i mean donald trump himself as put some sort of challenges in front off the 2 senators who are facing reelection in georgia and again as you say that the senate the balance of the senate will be decided on john knew the 5th in this election and in fact one of the senators was also what he what you said about not certification and he said well you know all options are on the table right now it's not entirely clear what they're going to do necessarily when

it comes to it but i would imagine that a great deal of pressure on them to also vote to not certify what he's put some symbolic objection up but that there isn't necessarily that that evidence to be on that 39 percent who we always knew were part of the trump base that there's not widespread widespread mistrust in the electoral system or any more than there was there was in the past so i mean there somebody said well maybe this is quite healthy to get senators and members of the house to be on the wreck or in search of the women especially maybe mike pence the vice president who have to certify the win eventually because then they'll have to be on the record saying whether they do or don't believe in the electoral system and people have to come out in the open and finally finally have their say but there is that sense that any of this posturing that we do see is based on short and medium term political political concerns and in the end it is always that 3040 percent base 40 percent of the base that has such an impact on republican politics that's driving that debate but as far as you know why did distrust of the political system you know it's not that

these allegations have much to do with remember there are also other reasons to mistrust of the political system gerrymandering ballot access racism and so on but you know as far as these particular allegations are concerned it doesn't seem to be spreading beyond that ok she had sounds of that line from washington d.c. she had thank you. an artillery strike has killed at least 5 people were went in in the yemeni city of shell landed in front of a hole where people were celebrating the saudi led coalition and who see rebels accuse each other of being responsible african union and un peacekeepers will begin withdrawing from sudan's darfur region their joint mission there is you protect displaced people and its own new year's eve troops and i'm gradually polites over the next 6 months but that's causing unease among the fire isn't zz who lives in the displacement camps for years if one morgan reports from outside

a camp in nola in south darfur. this little space is clean and his family's home in colma camp in south dar for clean says he was forced to abandon his actual hole when regional conflict reached his village he started his family here his children know nowhere else i was there and we'll hear more about who. i know my home village and to recognize it but my kids were all born in this camp this is the only home they know they don't know their ancestral home if you ask them which village they come from they say karma if you ask them which county they say karma is not just a displacement camp for them. so settled has set up a pharmacy in the camp it's one of the structures that gives the camp a sense of a small village there's also a market a school and a health center was established after fighting started in darfur in 2003 between mainly non arab rebel groups and the government more than 300000 were killed and more than 2000000 displaced the camp is the largest in the region more than 150000

families live here and until the end of last year it was secured by united nations and an african union peacekeeping mission known as the thing come up may seem like a small village or town but it lacks basic infrastructure like running water and power lines and while many of the panes of income other similar to survive with the end of the dance government has promised to continue securing camps for those this place until they return to their villages but for many this camp has become a permanent home. a peace deal was signed between the armed groups and sudan's transitional government last october it allows for the return of those displaced and gives them back their farms and properties but camp leaders here don't trust the deal and don't think it's safe to leave. our homes have been taken over by farmers there's no security backing or religious and with gone we don't know what will become of accounts the government is saying that there will be

a joint force to protect the camps on to relieve what we can't leave because we don't trickle signed the government says it won't force anyone out of the camps but that providing for them will become increasingly hard. yeah if you had a service when there were plans to make the camp a town but how do you do that when people don't want any government force or official to into the camp we can't provide services we can't provide protection we can't implement law and order inside the camps because the people are unwilling to leave our son and the location and the layout of the camps do not allow for it to be a town and with the implementation of the peace deal people should return home. that's easier said than done for the people living here whether they were forced from their homes or whether they know nothing else they see danger and insecurity outside the camp now life inside the camp is also under threat people morgan al jazeera camp south are for. argentina's severa when clones are one of the most

diverse by the diverse regions in the worlds but over the last few decades they've been severely impacted by industrial farming where conservation groups and i working to reverse that damage to resemble reports from a barren national park in korean to us. the reader means in the local indigenous quote any language water the chimes and here in the province of korean this in northeastern argentina there is plenty of it. but in the past few decades the wildlife in the event and national park that covers more than a 1000000 hectares of land began disappearing because of human activity. and that's what people like my long are trying to change it not all of us will condoleezza that i mean that. we are working to really wild argentina this means reintroducing crucial species that disappeared from the ecosystem in this case

we're working with the jaguars the main objective is to generate a sustainable population and. at least jaguars now will and i.c.'s are kept here so their cubs can one day repopulate the area jaguars are seen as a threat to agricultural settlements in the area and that's why their numbers have plummeted in the past years in fact in the province of korea because they have been extend for over 70 years now and that's why projects like this one are crucial to reintroduce this kind of species into the eco system. a little but there are 7 other jaguars who have almost no contact with the humans and i ready to be released they are kept in 30 hector corel's. it's extremely difficult to see them but using our stay one of them. needed a g.p.s. color changed. he's. going to be set free this is

likely the last contact we will have with him so we are digging all the possible samples that how she says and then buy a mint in the area along. with. the project is part of rewilding argentina more than 20 years ago american philanthropist douglas tomkins and his wife kristen began buying up land in argentina and she led to protected and then donated to a national park sorry world in argentina has now given thousands of hectares of land to at least 6 national parks. and. it's very strange in argentina that a private owner donates to the state but when we do it all the prejudices crumble we start to see the projects because the animals start to appear like the giant anteater the pump the tourist start to come and communities get involved this is

a model of producing nature because it leaves resources to communities it's an economic alternative. the rewilding foundation says it's about helping nature heal and local species are crucial to that process. the giant and eater bear had disappeared from even a mainly because of hunting but thanks to rewilding their beers they brought here have started to reproduce. but it is here where we found medicine and her cub. data was born in the region and says attitudes in this rural area are slowly changing and i. think there's lots of people that have never been here they did not know that it was a natural reserve sometimes they get messages when they let me know they saw a bear they're starting to become aware that it's not ok to hunt you.

argentina has tough economic problems to deal with and that's not being helped by the coronavirus pandemic which is why preserving nature is a major challenge but it's not just about protecting the wildlife it's the wildlife that would generate all turn and the work opportunities that would convince locals to protect the natural wealth they already have. already in this argentina. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 50 people have been killed in attacks on 2 villages in western the share it happens in man gazer in an unstable region known as the 3 borders area because of its proximity to neighboring countries a corresponds to military says more from the army nation's capital well an official .