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thank you. we begin this news hour with the global fight against the corona virus pandemic the united kingdom has added another tool as it tries to stop rapidly rising infections it's given the 1st patients the covert donte vaccine from oxford astra zeneca it's the 2nd option being used in the u.k. it says it has 530000 doses available and tens of millions more are on their way china is also ramping up its immunization campaign with a focus on those most at risk of contracting covert 19 that includes medical workers overseas students and port workers japan's prime minister is considering imposing a state to all of emergency in tokyo following a rise in infections such measures have been avoided so far in kenya a nightly curfew has been extended until at least mid march large public gatherings have also been restricted but schools are reopening and pfizer biotech is reportedly offering up to $50000000.00 vaccines across the african continent by the

end of the year supplies there are very low causing worries about wide scale public immunizations. and we have extensive coverage from our team of correspondents around the world catrina you is standing by for us in beijing robert bright is in seoul monitoring developments for us in japan is joining us now from kenya that capital nairobi and for me to miller is in johannesburg for us but 1st let's go to andrew symonds who's in london for the latest from the u.k. andrew so it's a big day for the u.k. isn't it a country where the infection rate has been soaring. where the infection rate of its highest and now this good news this is so much hope riding with it it is the oxford vaccine it was designed by works of university in april and now this extraordinary. approval of this vaccine to the rollout

which is a. half a 1000000 doses small number of hospitals actually administering those doses to the elderly those vulnerable people and indeed health service staff initially and it will be rolled out to community. clinics to general practitioner clinics and to other places by the end of the week that will be hundreds of centers and that will then mushroom into a much larger operation the central issue is the logistics there are plans for tens of millions of doses in the coming months but the promise from the prime minister boris johnson to get a very high figure in the 10s of millions within that 3 months is very ambitious because there are just tickled issues not least of all of the vaccinators being trained because they need so many people to administer this vaccine along with the

finds a vaccine which was started just over 3 weeks ago so a colossal operation and all that's. time but the increasing of the infection rate $75000.00 deaths so far are a record figure in the u.k. it's getting higher all the time so if ever there was a need for a vent seem to be successful it's right now. absolutely thank you for that andrew simmons there in london or we have katrina you now joining us from beijing katrina just tell us about the vaccine rollout in china this push to get things done before the chinese new year. well the chinese government has started 2021 by this mass with this mass rollout across the country 1st in about 16 cities across 9 provinces in china including in beijing now we only have figures so far from the capital but they've said that at least 70000 people in beijing have

been inoculated so far they've set up about 220 vaccination centers across the city and each center they say can vaccinate up to 500 people per day now beijing is prioritizing 1st 9 key groups including medical workers government workers people who do with transport or who deal with imported products but what's interesting about china is that it's also prioritizing people between the ages of 18 and 58 or 59 so not prioritizing the elderly so far but mainly the working population now we know in beijing individuals are not yet able to volunteer or sign up for the vaccination themselves but they are able to do so in other areas of the country including in shanghai for jen and province which is in the south of china now the government is using the sign of that scene for this 1st stage of the mass rollout which is the 1st chinese vaccine to get the thumbs up from chinese regulators sign a form says it's vaccine has an efficacy rate of about 79 percent but we are yet to

hear any conclusive dosser from the companies final stage or stage 3 trials but the government does seem to have confidence in it and says that anyone who has received this vaccine so far they have not noted any adverse side effects now beijing is quite ambitious in its vaccination rollout program they hope to have 50000000 people across china receive the 1st jab of the double stage vaccination doors by january 15th and they hope those same 15000000 room will receive their 2nd job by february 15th and that's key because during the middle of february have chinese new year which is the country's main. travel event which the hundreds of millions of people travel across the country typically in given any year so the government really wants have that done before that date but they are discouraging people from traveling during chinese new year this year because they are afraid of resurgent cases. are big that katrina in beijing. we have

from abroad following developments for us in japan from seoul so a state of emergency is being considered to limpet corgan ises must be nervous. absolutely in fact both the south korea and japan have faced similar challenges from the pandemic or throughout last year and the start of 2021 both places are facing this big worrying spike in new cases and both governments it has to be said of coming under increasing scrutiny for the way they are handling the their respective outbreaks in particular yasha he does suger the prime minister of japan is coming under increased calls to declare a national state of emergency now this would give certain prefectures independent japan the power to impose restrictions in their areas to have very targeted.

response to the outbreaks it is particularly supported by prefectures in and around tokyo the governors of those prefectures getting together saying they want to have these emergency measures that that's where we're seeing around half of all of the new cases around the tokyo metropolitan area but there is pushback from the central japanese governments they are very concerned about the economic impact we saw that when they declared the last state of emergency last may they don't want to go back there again and also of course at the back of their minds will be the ill fated summer olympics remember those they were meant to be held the last july they got delayed by exactly by a year they are jew to start july 21 well check your calendars we're getting very close now to the start of the 6 month countdown to those games and it would not instill confidence in the world if the host nation is declaring a national state of emergency so the japanese are very concerned about that but prime minister suga using a press conference on monday to reassure japan and the rest of the world that

they're determined to go ahead with these games as japan sees it it will be a chance for humanity to show that it has prevailed over the pandemic. overcrowd live for us there in seoul covering japan. we have live for us now at primary school in nairobi and see there lots of children behind you masks around so it's back to school. yes indeed after. school across the country was closed 15000000 students are back in school told me all of them are in primary schools like this one in. white there. will be. another 3000000 2nd do schools now. saying that kenya has taken what they are holding

a live off for youth saying. open the schools without much kids are now taking their lunch. to primary school. to learn how than 500 students and teachers here are complaining but. it's almost impossible for social distancing because of overcrowding in classes the government has provided the mosques we saw many of the people here are not wearing masks bells will say more now. where the school children come from. and it is the crowding in the classroom studies of more concern to the teachers the ministry of education. this past what it is about $140000000.00. cools more does

for the students and also encourage social distancing money has more arrived in many of those who now the minister for education is telling. you know very. little opposite. our scholastic. now. infections have been going down in kenya who are operating in. across the country. including. live for us in nairobi thank you so much for that update for me to is now live for us from johannesburg for me to find a biotech is offering to bring 50000000 vaccines to the continent for health workers that must just be a drop in the ocean of what's needed. it certainly is that the south african government is facing

a lot of criticism around what it's done to procure vaccines for the south african population at this stage we know that in recent days there's been a rise in numbers going as high as 18000 new cases in 24 hours south africa now has almost 30000 deaths linked to covert 19 and this is especially concerning for the government and for south africans especially when they're looking towards the arrival of vaccines in this country and it appears given what the government has said that south africa was likely to only procure the vaccines for only 10 percent of this population by the 2nd quarter of this year which could be around april now the government has also said that it has it is trying to reach out to other pharmaceutical companies to try and get more vaccines in place to vaccinate to immunize at least 67 percent of the population which it says is what is needs to

achieve herd immunity but at this stage it's looking like that may not be achievable in time and they have said that they want to impugn i saw the africans by the end of 2021 but realistically we're only looking at 10 percent of the population as i said in the 2nd quarter of this year now the government has been criticized heavily as a group of experts and specialists have written an open letter to the government and has criticized government officials and i just want to read some of what they've said they've said there's been an absence of a coherence and compas that vaccine acquisition strategy and the way in which the government has communicated is 'd there's been a frantic coverup and evasion of culpability the government is really in a difficult position at this point even though it did try to communicate with south africans on sunday night around what it's rollout to might be that initial 10 percent targeting frontline health workers and then after that move. 2 essential workers but they've been criticized these experts have said south africa has missed

the boat and there really isn't an excuse to excuse for why that has happened so there certainly is hope that this african rollout will benefit south africa but at this stage south africans are relying on the government who many have said haven't hasn't done enough to help people in this country for me to miller in johannesburg thank you for that update. but more ahead on the news all including. the best getting who is behind one of the deadliest days in recent history. has become iran carries out another mass abduction we'll hear why they are becoming worryingly frequent and i ceria. and the cleveland browns reached the n.f.l. playoffs the 1st time the 19 hits joe will have all the details coming up and spoke .

of course in the u.k. is expected to rule on whether wiki leaks founder julian assange should be extradited from britain to the united states he is wanted on espionage charges of the publication of secret american military documents could see him spend the rest of his life in prison spent the past 21 months in a british jail his partner has appealed to outgoing u.s. president donald trump to grant a pardon to assault before he leaves office on january 20th or chalons reports from monday. april 2010 and what wiki leaks revealed to the world caused a sensation. u.s. military video kept classified for 3 years to the helicopter gunship attack in baghdad at least 12 iraqis were killed including the noise his patrol car and his driver. the u.s. military said it was engage in what it calls insurgent groups a claim that's contested to this day i believe that if those killings were lawful

under the rules of engagement then the rules of engagement are wrong. deeply wrong . it was this another such piece revelations that put judy innocent in the spotlight and through the intense hostility of the u.s. government later in 2010 percent his legal battles began after swedish prosecutors opened a rape and sexual assault investigation against him he was arrested in london some observers found wiki leaks increasingly problematic after the. right allegations where songs should have gone to sweeten the site became more and more reckless and the songs became more and more reckless and latterly you know didn't actually you know hasn't been very careful with documents large amounts of data was put into the public domain which would have been done by we'd you most asians facing imminent extradition in 2012 he took refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy he didn't leave

it for 7 years even after sweden temporarily abandoned its investigation in 2017 a much more serious threat emerged a sealed indictment in the us when ecuador finally let british police in to take a stand out of the embassy in 2019 the charges in the us were revealed. for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents he faces a maximum jail sentence of 175 years under the espionage act he's already spent 21 months in a u.k. prison it's a prosecution the concerns many who value a free press. be able. to investigate to reveal the truth without being threatened with going to spend the rest of one's life in a high security prison in the united states jeanne assam still have many backers who say he's been victimized by the publication of e-mails stolen from the democratic party in the u.s. just before the 2016 presidential election cost him support from the left in his

report special counsel robert mueller concluded the documents came from russian state hackers that has cost a sound more friends a sexual predator a narcissistic self publicist a stooge of foreign intelligence a tireless campaigner for journalism and transparency these are just some of the views of julian assange on monday a judge at london's old bailey will decide whether he can be extradited to the united states but both sides can appeal a decision that goes against him so either way to unionise and his legal struggles are set to continue for each other and al-jazeera london. now at the old bailey in london nave i believe has arrived at the court when might we expect all the. hoping to expect a ruling within an hour to an hour and a half julian assange arrived here

a little bit earlier we have seen stella morris his formal legal advisor arriving here a little bit earlier as well a small group of very vocal protesters of also be around us ahead of this ruling as well for them of course this isn't just the trial of a man they claim that this is the trial of truth itself a stance being a man that is very much divided opinions viewed by the prosecution as something of a dangerous or enemy of the state for others the future as a defender of freedom of speech and among those who support the view of members of the national union of journalists here in the united kingdom who believe very much that this is a test case of the freedom of journalists to essentially do their jobs but in the united states though he's regarded this as putting the work of diplomats at risk of also undermining the work of spies operating undercover in very dangerous parts

of the world we will know very shortly whether or not this extradition ruling has been upheld whichever way this ruling goes it's expected to be appealed at the high court possibly the supreme court this could be the start of an all who would further winding journey for today in essence in his hopes of avoiding extradition to the u.s. and the albanian london thank you. a number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western new has risen to about 100 the prime minister visited the area where it happened a region neighboring mali became a faso and the need for hiding reports. villagers in western asia gather to pray in the wake of one of the deadliest days in their nation's recent history these graves are just 2 days old the prime minister of malaysia air flew in to see the devastation for himself don't come up we came to provide moral support and present

a condolences of the president of the republic the government and the entire nation of. news year's interior minister says the villages were attacked on saturday after locals killed 2 fighters from an unknown group but no one has claimed responsibility for these attacks feel a desire to better secure some credit so the situation is simply horrible committed by and they did to fight individuals but the investigations will be conducted so that describe it does not go unpunished. can you share has endured a series of attacks by groups including nigeria based boko haram i saw an al qaeda this thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced despite the presence of thousands of regional and international troops. while extremists in the region pose a growing threat the west african country is expected to see its 1st democratic transition of power since 1960 following last month's elections according to

results announced on saturday a 2nd round would be needed after none of the $28.00 candidates won a majority whoever the winner is will likely be dealing with more attacks like this we're hearting al jazeera. they are groups has abducted dozens of people in a raid in northeastern nigeria that happened borno state between the towns of my degree and stomach who or than 50 people including a un aid worker have been kidnapped. and the other groups have conducted a number of mass kidnappings in the region in recent years and 2014 more than 270 girls were abducted by boko haram fighters from the northeast in time of chibok 6 years later over $100.00 is still missing last month more than $300.00 school boys were kidnapped in the northern states katsina the government secured the release a week later also last month more than 80 children were taken from another part of

the state they were rescued after a gun battle with the kidnappers. so lama is a security analyst at the journalist he says kidnapping is becoming more widespread as other groups adopt the tactics of boko haram. time passed and the smaller criminal groups have. especially seen that the military hasn't actually been able to take out the terrible completely different. words used to qualify the battle between the military forces and the insurgents what i've been technically defeated whether they've been pushed back but the same is that we have smaller groups and just recently president bush has said that. to the extent that the military cannot police the bar that. we have. people who have made

incursion into nigeria especially from the maghreb area and of course after the crisis. leave how many lives and small. with a whole lot of villages in that axis and this does have continued to bet on bitcoin reached an all time high crypto currency value post $20000.00 u.s. dollars for the 1st time in december and then 30 $1000.00 on saturday with the world's best performing asset last year and rose more than 300 percent is even talk of bitcoin replacing gold as a thanks investment option in the future more than 18 and a half 1000000 the coins out there collectively they're worth more than $600000000000.00 len goodman is a u.k. based financial investor who specializes in crypto currency and is the author of the crypto trade he told us more about the coin and how wall street has was initially skeptical but has now helped boost its value. it's a piece of software effectively was invented that just start sort of churning out

these. coins that don't exist in real life you can't touch them they're digital money they only exist as long as computers exist and networks exist but with big corps in the system is not owned by anybody and it's not controlled by anybody and you can download the bit callings onto offline devices you know u.s.b. stick something like that and you can download your coins on to that and keep them safe even if you're not connected to the internet there's only a certain number of coins and and so the demand is going up from all these in the financial institutions j.p. morgan the boss of which was calling it a fraud a few years ago now j.p. morgan receiving notes advising the there's a possibility because it could go to this price or that price you know very very very getting interested now and all of that demand is pushing the price up and up and up at the moment. and really this all comes from the narrative that because the

u.s. government in particular the federal reserve and other central banks are printing a lot of money because of the coded 19 virus they decided to print money to stimulate their economies this is pushing the value of the dollar down because there are all these new dollars being printed the dollar is going down and people particularly america are looking for safe havens to put their money into they're looking to gold they're looking to bitcoin still ahead on al-jazeera. the house will come to order. the new us congress is sworn in to holds the senate majority is still to be decided to. a mass turnout in iraq to call for the removal of u.s. troops on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of a top iranian general. and steph curry spices things up with a career high 62 points for the warriors coming out with jones.

hello there it's been a stormy start to the new year for central parts of the mediterranean and there's no sign of that letting up anytime soon more thundery showers just around italy and the balkans little bit of fermoy still a bit more warm is being pushed up across that eastern side of here but as soon as we take it that warm wants to wrap pushing into the colder air quite releasing a fair bit of snow they'll be some snow all the way up into powdered into the baltic states temperatures struggling and of area of high pressure over scandinavia northeasterly winds so no higher than around 3 or 4 celsius for glasgow london and even for paris you can follow that cold air all the way down across spain as well madrid getting no higher than around i've celsius could see some snow over the period he's going to see some snow into madrid as we go on into the next couple of days is certainly something to watch out for that wintry mix will continue across

central parts of italy certainly seeing some rain sleet and snow will possibility in particular a snowy weather sliding across c.-h. we are sick with the way across into parts of grace more wet windy and wintry weather coming in here and it is see how flurries of snow will continue up to as germany and the low countries cold enough across northern parts of africa as well just 10 celsius in repatch on tuesday with wetter weather for those in algeria. egypt strongman is ruling with an eye and faced on the silence from his allies is deafening the us was perfectly happy to trade off democracy for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera when the news

breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in indian administered kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate this type of food that we simply don't know if we can think to bring you more award winning documentaries and live on air and online. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the 1st doses of the oxford astra zeneca

corona virus vaccine have been administered in the u.k. the government says half a 1000000 doses are ready for use it's the 2nd vaccine to be approved. of course in the u.k. is expected to rule on whether wiki leaks founder julian assange should be extradited from prison to the united states he's wanted on espionage charges of the publication of secret american military documents. in a recording that's been leaked to the public u.s. president donald trump told the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat their daughter was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden was just a few weeks to go before biden takes office trump still refuses to concede that his last reports from atlanta georgia. from the president to evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on

a tough election official to find votes to help form overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to georgia's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i use one of. $11780.00 loans which is one more than we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong donald trump refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the

result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is remarkable it's an outrage is the person in the united states putting pressure on a public official to lie to cheat possibly to steal votes so that he can win the state of georgia vice president elect harris has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff where the president's call was there hanging over her comments was yes certainly the worse the desperation. most certainly than. and it was a. day old abuse of power by the president of the united states even if donald trump did manage to flip georgia it

doesn't matter joe biden won more than enough electoral college votes to secure the presidential election. will actually be in georgia later on monday he's here supporting 2 republican senators whose fate in a runoff election will decide the balance of power in washington a race which is no been overshadowed by the most controversial oval office tapes since nixon in the 1970 s. alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia. brennan is a research associate had been to the city of sydney's united states studies center and joins us now by skype thank you for your time mr brennan what was your 1st reaction when you listened to that recorded call. it is it is quite shocking you know this is again one of those instances where we have had something that's been reported on about the president trump president trump has reportedly said x. reportedly said why but then when you hear on type it's just really quite shocking

to have a sitting president asking. officials to fire and votes to push him over the line in an election it is really just demonstrating the voices that are in the ear of the president at the moment and it is really clear that those voices are only people who are willing to tell him the things he wants to hear. and unfortunately for i think democracy that involve involves the voices of really a very odd conspiracy conspiracy theorists who are just pumping the president full of these conspiracies have been proven false time and time again even at the level of the united states supreme court which usually for republicans would be the high bar the gold standard but it's just not enough in this case so it was shocking not entirely surprising but again just more evidence of exactly where the president is as we head up towards president elect who owns inauguration do you think donald

trump could be legally able as a result of this i mean he was talking about being criminally liable could that be construed as a threat. it certainly came across that way and i'm no legal expert particularly in these matters but that was very much the turn of it it's what a lot of people refer to as mud tactics of hanging hanging these fake threats over the heads of people and saying that time and time again from the president that was very clear during the moeller investigation there was speculation about whether he was trying to indicate that pardons would result from from loyalty and that's essentially what we saw and so i wouldn't speculate on the label the label areas here but it certainly comes across as threatening particularly the way he talks about the republican party that something president trump knows to be true and it's that the success of the republican party is largely in lockstep with she success he knows that republicans know how much they wrote on his cartel's at this election

even though he didn't get over the line republicans at lower levels did very well because of the energy that president trump generates at the ballot box they think they flee these revelations if you want to call them that might impact the shortest senate runoff. it's a very tricky line that the republican candidates in georgia have been trying to to tread because of the phenomenon that i was just speaking about how republican success it's tied to the president in this era republicans are really struggling. to find a way to. me. take that success of the president and make it their own but at the same time they can see how how noisy this is and how damaging it is to american democracy so they've tried to stay on the sidelines that's increasingly hard especially when you're asking the president to come and deliver rallies in georgia and they just can't escape these

conspiracy theories swirling around the president's mind in the oval office do you think though that trump supporters will even see anything wrong with this call with this phone call. you know his supporters have felt that they will support him through pretty much anything and might this impact the rally that he's called he's calling people to come out and protest might this you know get more people out on the streets. this protest is an incredibly concerning flash point and i think you touched on it there i don't think the president's supporters will see any problem with coal and the reason for that is the president was merely echoing the arguments that exist online about this election those conspiracy theories that are really gaining traction and gaining a lot of money for for people who are writing this grifter of becoming personalities who shop around conspiracy theories and it's clear that president trump is taking them in but it's also clear that there's

a lot of willingness to explore 'd those possibilities among president trump supporters and so now with the president encouraging people to descend on day say to as he said and be wild. online you also have people calling for instructing people on how they might be able to get guns in today say they say has very strict anti gun laws so that instructing people on how they might be able to get guns on day say there's talk of setting up camp that the online chatter is as strong described wild and so for a president going target this sort of situation is. incredibly damaging to the stock of democracy not just in the united states but around the world so i don't think they will see a problem with that call and that really speaks to the moment that the united states has arrived or we were talking the truth. you know 7 years ago this is really the point where it looks like there are 2 realities emerging in

the united states it's already come to a head thank you for that to elaborate in there from the university of sydney they want 117th the u.s. congress is beginning its work democrats kept control of the house of representatives in november's election and the balance of power in the senate will be decided by 2 runoff elections in georgia home tuesday let's take a look at the numbers at the moment republicans have 50 of the 100 senate seats and democrats have 48 so this is what makes these 2 undecided states indoor just so important republicans david to do and to carry off the running against democratic candidates john all soft and raphael warnock if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split $5050.00 vice president kamel house would be the deciding vote giving democrats control republicans only need to win one of these seats to hold them in jars he. returns it with this report. so it will come to

order the $117.00 congress was gaveled in at noon on the 3rd day of january as required by the constitution but it was clear that this was 2021 members of the house was sworn in in batches and was strictly limited in the number of guests they could bring and attempt at preventing this from becoming a super spreader event meanwhile in the senate the vice president who's also president of the senate oversaw opening proceedings as he will on wednesday for the certification of the presidential election but always a quarter of republican senators have now said they will challenge that certification defying majority leader mitch mcconnell we gavel in today like a 116 prior senate gaveled them before us. with plenty of disagreements on policy differences among our ranks the latest a group of 11 that by ted cruz they say they want the concerns of the 39 percent of the american people who told pollsters that they feel the election may have been

rigged to be reflected in congress but on the sunday talk shows they failed once again to produce any evidence of wrongdoing instead they say they want another investigation into the allegations that are circulating we have a unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this you lecture results as legitimate we just come off of 4 years where the other side refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of president trump in here we are again and what we're saying is we need transparency there are still 2 senate runoff races in georgia that have yet to be determined they will decide whether the republicans maintain control of the senate and that was notable that one of the candidates a key trump supporter was careful not explicitly to commit to challenging the presidential election results in a state that voted for joe biden my number one objective right now has to be winning on january 10th so that we can get to the bottom of what happened in these elections over 100 republicans in the house are also expected to challenge the

certification on wednesday and while they're not expected to succeed there interventions may well drag on proceedings for many many hours added to all of that is the old certainty of what will be happening outside congress donald trump urging his supporters to gather in washington for what he says will be a wild protest she have written see al-jazeera washington. trump's refusal to concede to faeces led to speculation that he may deploy the military to hold on to power has prompted 10 former u.s. defense secretaries to warn against the use of military in election disputes and over there they said our elections have occurred recounts and audit have been conducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results has asked if it's to involve the u.s. armed forces and resolving election disputes that would take us into dangerous unlawful and unconstitutional territory. a lot called as a form assistant secretary of defense he is now

a senior fellow at the center for american progress he explains the consent of the former officials. i think the concern about what's happening to our country and the potential for the military to get involved in dealing with this crisis i mean the majority of the people who signed that letter are republicans and they're saying you know trump lost the election we need to get on they're also concerned about the fact that they transition is not going well because they know when you get into the pentagon you've got to hit the ground running dealing with the crisis we have in afghanistan or iraq maybe ran what's up and what's happening for example with the russians using cyber attacks on our secure. atsic your priscilla days and programs and the whole concern about what china

is doing in the pacific so if trump should declare martial law and order the military to get involved in domestic politics with the military then obey the orders of the commander in chief or would they not obey him and that we create another crisis so the last thing they want is to have martial law. u.s. is reversing a decision to bring home one of its aircraft carrier is the u.s.s. nimitz from the gulf the acting u.s. defense secretary says it's in response to recent threats from iran against president donald trump and other u.s. government officials earlier this week the u.s. said b. 52 bombers to fly over the gulf and the for the nuclear submarine to the region. demonstrators in iraq have called for the removal of u.s. troops on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of top iranian general qassam silly money so the money was killed in the u.s. drone strike about us the anniversary of the killing was also marked by protests in other parts of the middle east charles traffic reports from baghdad. thousands of

people filled tahrir square in central baghdad. we will not stop until we have our revenge they chant revenge for the killing of iranian revolutionary guard chief qassam solomonic the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilization forces. hundreds like us drone strike near baghdad airport one year ago them assure that america had the blood of the martyrs will not be wasted on the principle of a mom hussein this is a message for the world off the american spread language of sectarianism and killings our project will never end it's an islamic one we're here to remember the martyrs who were killed in the u.s. drone strikes and we demand that u.s. forces leave this country wherever they go they cause destruction. on january the 5th last year 2 days after saleman his assassination iraq's parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for the approximately 3200 american military

personnel to leave prime minister mustafa khan to me who took office in may promised a timetable for the withdrawal but many iraqis accuse him of dragging his feet * chowing to us to moms the iraqi prime minister. agrees with the files of people that have gathered here today that there must be a withdraw. of u.s. troops from iraq but many people here accuse him of listening too much to washington and not seeing fast enough to assure that all american troops. are going to like to hear the iraqi government is the same as the american government they are just working for american interests parliament voted to expel us forces but nothing is happening and americans don't leave on their own accord we will force them to leave with our blood the outgoing trumpet ministration has promised to withdraw all 500 u.s. military personnel from iraq by mid january that would leave around 2500 still in

the country it is unclear how the next u.s. president joe biden will responds to the situation in iraq a country analysts say is being politically militarily and economically dominated by neighboring iraq. but the message from these iraqis is clear. that i'll just like that a malaysian corrida has rolled out the involvement of others in the death of a french irish girl and $29.00 t. the court said it's likely that 15 year olds nora and kristen died of misadventure indicating an accident she went missing during a family holiday and was found dead 10 days later make it in the jungle the mother told the inquest she believed her daughter had been abducted. breaking news now and of wrong says it has begun 20 percent uranium enrichment in a move likely to escalate tensions with the us it's a significant breach of the 2050 nuclear deal but it is under the 90 percent

required to build a nuclear weapon president hassan rouhani has given the order for the move of the ford facility we'll have more on this developing story at the top of the hour. still to come here on al-jazeera. by munich a got a real scare the because they got to have that story.

the magic orchestra came in thank you very much event a superstar christian or an elder has overtaken pele on the all time goal scorers

list after netting twice against it in a.z. on sunday the 35 year old now boasts 758 goals for club and country throughout his career he's also just one behind the overall record of 759 held by joseph they can despite winning this match for one they still find themselves outside of the champions league places and said here they are faith in the standings 10 points behind leaders ac milan the nicest struggling in the 13th. speaking man they'd be better vento to know away despite having a man sent off in the 1st half rafael a 0 risk or in a quite spectacular goal to seal the win result means they stay one point ahead of into. a slow start to the spanish legacies and looks like it could be moving up again at last on sunday they defeated one nil thanks to a frankie junk goal they have now won 4 of their last 6 in the lake and their

unbeaten during that period to all their ronald crimmins men remain 5th in the standings. i think this month is key for our targets because we are playing a lot of away games i think if we can win those matches we can still fight to win the title but it also depends on our rivals results we have seen it is not easy to win away from home and all the games are very close if our rivals have consecutive bad matches we can reduce the gap but of course we need to win chelsea manager frank m. part is under serious pressure after his side were beaten 31 by one just city in the english premier league and phil foden and kevin debray now on target for city before callum hudson a dory pulled one back in stoppage time for chelsea when mean city and now 4 points behind the top 2 liverpool and manchester united with a game in hand all chelsea are down in 8 palace play really well. thank you to a lot of players in this difficult time because friends players and darwin must

have suffered they had to quit. and they make a step forward to make an incredible display play in one of the best teams in the you know in stamford bridge and it would result for us to be close to the top of the league that. way and. now recover and play the same in. the next games but as they get champions by munich we're given a real shot by relegation threatened minds on sunday but only in the 1st half 17th place might swear to know ahead of time might want to look at their defense is the 8th straight game in which they have conceded 1st nothing wrong with the attack though just like a bitch. and nicklaus cirillo all scored in the 2nd half whilst on strike and robert leavened off skis struck twice as by and he did a 5 to victory. ambros adult men were also on the winning side thanks to manuel a country and jade son cho they were able to secure to know when over will spoke

the way and seize don't when to overtake will spike in the table and move into 4th spot in the bundesliga although they are 8 points behind by. now taking them 19 years but the cleveland browns have finally returned to the n.f.l. playoffs ending the longest wait for a postseason berth in the league the browns narrowly beat the pittsburgh steelers on sunday browns proved that they can mayfield helped set up the 2 yard touchdown pass to austin his her in the 3rd quarter that was just one of the highlights of his game as the team sealed a 24 to 22 when they put them through to the playoffs for the 1st time since 2002 also sets up a 1st round rematch with the steelers next week in pittsburgh. we don't know yet. the night ok ok i am proud of you

ok i got to say something was the goal over just the girl. got you got more yes yes all right after the start to the season the golden state warriors stefan curry has altered his critics in style the warriors stargardt's told a career high 62 points to his team for 50 killings 137-2120 2 when in trailblazers on sunday the players the laser's had no answer to his dominance 3 hari have the highest scoring game in the n.g.a. this season. and all we really want to do is win the 1st quarter and take it from there and. obviously that's what we did contain momentum and. yeah we are winning spirit we've got to figure out how to do it consistently and against the good teams the league is going testis. it was a much closer game between the washington wizards and the brooklyn nets bradley

beal had 27 points 10 rebounds and an important assist helping thomas bryant's for the go ahead dunk with 14.9 seconds left in the net scramble but couldn't score as washington changed 123 to 122 victory. but if he thought they were good in the n.b.a. check out formula one driver daniel ricardo is half court shot the australian is clearly enjoying some downtime before joining up with his mclaren team having left red arrow at the end of last season the 3rd cricket test between australia and india is set to start in 3 days' time in sydney but the 4th test in brisbane is in doubt india have said that they would not like the test to go ahead at the gabba grounds if they are asked to go through another quarantine period astray as states have different quarantine protocols this is for new south wales where the test will be played have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arrival in queensland where president is located. i know there's

a few people from different from both squads who have been bubble for close to 6 months now but in more oil hours it's a very small step for us to for us to get out there and play the game that we live in and put a lot of small zone on a lot of people's faces around the world. in more oil as we just have to suck it up and get on with it. new zealand are in a strong position at the close of the 2nd day's play in the 2nd test against pakistan in christchurch at least 263 thanks to from the writable partnership of more than 200 runs between captain came williamson and henry nicholls williamson williamson close play on 112 not tao with a close unbeaten on 89 in season to 13 runs behind with 7 with his game. and it's also looking good for south africa in johannesburg in the 2nd test against sri lanka d.l. goals 127 has helped the home side reach 257 for 5 that's a lead of 100 runs the south africans lead the series one no. all right that is for

now i have wolf. thank you for that. as news although don't go away where we'll be back in just a moment with more of the day's. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or $1.00 to $200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global

headlines how will a place like you live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest the rich countries are fighting for inside story on al jazeera. there's a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and report on the big events that are going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my that's a never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what i'm sure really does the ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also get people to give their view of what's going on. the 1st episode of the new series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade commerce was good fire was good for our service thank you very much want to go and took its passage from the far east to europe and the united states. any

money money money in these mountains is open. drug trafficking politics and power the era of empires and just. be the hero the world needs. washing. iran has announced it has started enriching uranium up to 20 percent as tensions with the united states crease. but again i'm come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera with global coronavirus cases not sitting 85000000 the u.k. is rolling out a 2nd vaccine beijing is racing to inoculate millions before the chinese new year

also julian assange faces a court ruling on whether to extradite him to the united states will get an update from them.