as for the super rich support families hit hard by condemning counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this is that it was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. iran says that it started in reaching your radium up to 20 percent in breach of the $250.00 nuclear deal also. 3 julian. way the press to free us all. where was. the u.k. court allies extradition to the u.s.

for wiki leaks founder julian assange on mental health grounds. expect to school for students in kenya despite the objection of teachers who are concerned about the spread of covert 90 plus. i use one of the fine. 11700 and he. will look at the fallout from recordings of a phone call between donald trump and politicians in georgia pressuring them to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat. i'm joining us roscoe with the sport doesn't end when cricket to test positive for current virus on arrival in trying cut knowing only will self isolate the next 10 days as his team mates undergo extra checks at a back to test match tour of the country. iran says that it's taken the initial steps to start the process of enriching uranium up

to 20 percent at another ground nuclear facility. terence move is likely to escalate the already heightened tensions in the united with the united states in the last few weeks of donald trump's presidency the level of uranium enrichment is a significant step away from the limits outlined in the 2015 iran nuclear deal but well below the 90 percent required to build a nuclear weapon the european union has described it as quote a considerable departure from the 2015 deal that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that is trying to develop a nuclear weapon or that his country will not allow that to happen we have full correspondents reporting on the latest developments heidi joe castro is live for us in washington dominick cain is in berlin to talk us through reaction from europe perry forces is in west jerusalem but 1st let's go live to is there was also jabari who is in iran's capital tehran so. iran had told the i.a.e.a.

that it was going to do this is there any significant anything significant though in the timing. well it's certainly important given the current political climate iran finds itself in mainly the rhetoric that's been coming out of tehran towards washington and their behavior in the region as iran puts it it's seriously significant because it shows that iran is actually fed up with this nuclear deal and there was supposed to be a grace period of 2 months from early december until early february when this law was passed in parliament demanding that iran's atomic energy agency resume 20 percent enrichment levels as a result of the united states leaving the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on iran this bill was called sanctions relief bill so since that hasn't happened the problem in terror is who are very conservative voice in the country that said that iran needs to take further steps president hassan rouhani didn't completely agree

with it but it appears now he has actually decided to go ahead with this because legally his bound to but the iranians have told the i am december 30th that he intended to do this but they haven't given the time we understood it to mean that iran was giving the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden a grace period to see what he would do in terms of returning to the nuclear deal of 2015 before they took this step now it's important to note that iran was enriching at this level prior to the 2015 nuclear deal for a few years and part of that agreement was that iran would limit its enrichment levels to 3.67 percent so this move is being seen as a serious effort by iran to put further pressure on the united states and we heard from the iranian foreign ministry spokesperson earlier on monday about further warnings iran has for them. scudamore the whole of washington was that we've sent

a direct message to the us via switzerland regional countries have been cautioned to tehran has not received any special message from washington the us will be blamed for the consequences of any adventurism in this region. this is being seen as a move for iran to show how serious they are of course they say on a regular basis the steps they've taken to reduce their commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal are all reversible if they see the parties that are left in this agreement that are serious about upholding their end of the deal but for now this seriously escalate tensions further in an already very volatile environment also departed importing live from tehran many thanks indeed let's go live now to west jerusalem which is how the force that is there harry what is prime minister netanyahu had to say about this. well it didn't take him long to respond to the announcement coming from tehran very shortly after that he said that

iran's actions cannot be explained in any other way than the further realisation of its plans to develop a military nuclear program now of course benjamin netanyahu has throughout his time in office warned israelis and warned the wider world about the implications of iran having a nuclear weapon he lobbied very hard with the trump administration for its to pull out of the iran nuclear deal which he did in 2018 last year there was among a series of explosions a very sizeable blast at the centrifuge facility at the that's hans nuclear site in iran something that israel certainly never claimed or admitted to but there were senior ministers who hinted that this was something that iran had to get used to that it could not act with impunity as they put it and after that of course there came the assassination of the head of the iranian nuclear program most in factories a day in november something that iran blamed on israel so if those were attempts to

try to derail the iranian nuclear program to send messages to exert the terrence well in the short term the result appears to be this return to 20 percent enrichment in iran and that is a problem that both benjamin netanyahu will have to address as well as the incoming by the administration to carry forth that that and west to respond let's go to europe then out as there is talk that cain is in berlin what's been the reaction from the other signatories to the 2015 you clear deal dominic. first reaction from a european perspective came from the e.u. from a source in the european commission saying that this is a considerable step away from the terms of the agreements which was thrashed out by the 3 european countries britain france germany china russia and of course america the united states under the barack obama administration the hasn't as yet been

formal reaction from germany at least nothing from the foreign ministry or indeed the chancellery what's interesting is that before the announcement of this decision in tehran to enrich 20 percent before the christmas holidays the foreign minister here heikal massive the social democrats and said that he felt that there was a window of opportunity in the new year for the deal to be saved but he said the iranians miss not over overplay their hand now obviously those remarks were made prior to this morning's announcement of the decision to enrich 20 percent which effectively means as we were hearing from those that iran is back now potentially enriching at the rate it was doing prior to the agreement being signed in 2015 the one other thing to say here is that at least behind closed doors the feeling is that the european 3 britain france and germany were hoping to see perhaps a change in perspective with the arrival of the new administration in the white

house namely that of president elect joe biden that perhaps that might give some sort of revitalizing effect to the situation and obviously all of that was prior to what has happened in tehran today but i think started on a cane there live in berlin let's go to washington then hi joe castro is there for us any reaction from the trump of ministration and what are the implications for the incoming biden administration. of course as we know that president elect joe biden was among those who helped negotiate the 25th change nuclear deal between the u.s. iran and other signatories and he has also pledged to re enter that deal once he takes office which is in 16 days time but certainly this latest development makes that much more difficult to accomplish now the transition team has been typically mom about foreign affairs saying it's one president at a time but yesterday we saw president biden's incoming national security adviser

saying to the press that in order for the u.s. to come back to negotiations iran would have to be willing to put its nuclear missile program on the table what we know that's been a nonstarter from the beginning for tehran the more immediate of course is how president trump and his waning days of this presidency may react he has been acting erratically in terms of domestic politics and the concern is that may carry over into his handling of iran yesterday we saw the pentagon telling a u.s. warship to remain in the middle east that came just 3 days after having order that ship to return to the u.s. the rationale given by the acting defense secretary were unspecified threats against president trump and other u.s. officials it's unclear what role or if one president even knew of that order happening for the warship to remain in the middle east but we know that in november

he fired his defense secretary soon after he asked his advisors about options for a military strike against an iranian nuclear facility ultimately being talked out of that idea but the concern again is as he is brooding over the grievances of the presidential election trying to overturn the results and remain in office past these next 2 weeks that he's been acting morry radically as far as the domestic front and that this new escalation with iran. maybe to distraction that he's been seeking that he may try to benefit from politically how did your question reporting live from washington many thinks let's just take a moment to remind ourselves how we got here in 2015 major world powers agreed on the iran nuclear deal that allowed sanctions relief of terror and in exchange for reduction in its nuclear program the deal was reached when barack obama was president but in 2018 donald trump unilaterally withdrew the us from the deal and

re imposed sanctions that had a devastating impact on iran's economy the following year terence suspended its commitments to the nuclear deal and started to slowly and rich you radium the us assassination of the top iranian general custom solomonic last year from to tehran to completely abandon limitations on uranium enrichment said house in the deal but there is still hope that the pact could be saved u.s. president elect joe biden has pledged to restore it so he was shot as a nuclear security specialist in disarmament research based in london he joins us now via skype good to have you with us what do you make of iran's announcement today and its motivations here what's it up to. thank you adrian m. you know 1st and foremost this isn't completely breaking news this step was predictable in light of the law that was recently passed by the iranian parliament in reaction to the assassination must send factory saw day who is a famous iranian nuclear scientist and physicist the move to 20 percent enrichment

was mandated under that law and the plan obliges the atomic energy organization of iran to produce at least 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium every year and store it inside the country what he did not say however was when this would star or whether up to 20 percent means all the way to 20 percent or somewhere below that and that mark some of those questions have been answered today some of them remain but today's development highlights that iran feels that it needs to still build leverage before biden takes office this is about ensuring that the of diplomacy that's needed to get the chip joint comprehensive plan of action for the iran nuclear deal that you just beautifully outlined you know ensuring that getting that back on track is a top priority the president elect is facing a number of priorities as he enters office between kovac the economy climate change and other issues but iran wants to focus his attention on this issue ok honey just

a few days ago put forward a by law that would try to stall this decision but it's clear that the conservatives have won now and it will in fact a go ahead so what would it take for iran to reverse this step on the what circumstances could you foresee it and could do so without losing face. well you know iran feels that it's legally you know in the right it feels as though under the text of the iran nuclear deal it has the option to reduce in par or in whole its commitments if the other side meaning the u.s. or europe aren't implementing their side of the deal which they haven't been able to because the u.s. laughed and it re-imposed significant sanctions so iran has experience with and 20 percent enrichment in the past it's not as though they're going to be learning something new but on the flip side they also have experience in getting rid of the stockpile which happened because of the j c p o

a so it's very important for us to note that the step that they're taking today is technically reversible and they've made it very clear that iranian foreign minister just tweeted within the last 5 minutes reiterating that point that when everybody comes back into compliance so will iran yet again this is about the same biden's attention more so than anything else let's let's just read out the tweet from foreign minister zarif we resume 20 percent enrichment as legalized parliament the i.a.e.a. has been jews duly noted faith notified all remedial action conforms fully with paragraph 36 of j c p o a after years of noncompliance by several other c.p.o. a participant's all measures are fully reversible up all for compliance by a whole which sort of backs up what you were saying really that. yes you know this is a strong signal that continuing maximum pressure has consequences and in recent weeks

we've heard chatter from different european capitals as well as mixed signals perhaps from different people who are joining the biden administration as to how the president elect will move forward with this issue so iran feels that it needs to be very clear that continuing the current policy or trying to derive any benefits from trump sanctions will be catastrophic and that they will ensure that they continue to expand their nuclear program the only way forward is a return to that nuclear deal really gets talked to many thanks indeed so he'll shut up and a lot done. this is the news on for most 0 still to come on the program. it is new exaggeration to see that i am more concerned to be the situation we face now than i have been 8 since march last year before last on it's gone to a new covert 19 the new covert 19 variant drives up the number of infections. rebel fighters in the central african republic advance towards the capital before

initial presidential election results are to plant. and the cleveland browns reach the n.f.l. playoffs for the 1st time in 19 years if the game winning quarterback a little later in the schools which are. of course in the u.k. says that wiki leaks founder julian assange is will not be extradited to the u.s. . well those were his supporters outside the court celebrating that ruling a songe is wanted on espionage charges for publishing thousands of secret american military documents and 20102011 u.s. authorities are expected to appeal against the decision but judge denied the request of a concerns over a song just mental health. a risk of suicide watch out of london al-jazeera steve

can tell us more as we were saying that this extradition request was denied not on a legal but on on health grounds neve. yeah that's right that the defense had repeatedly insisted that this was a politically charged case that it was all about freedom of speech that it was about journalism but one by one the presiding judge not down each of these assertions saying instead that the extradition was not going to go ahead on the grounds that julian sands posed a risk to himself a razorblade hole of a razor blade have been found in his cell in 2019 we know that he'd told people medical help or members of the supply arsons group that he had been having suicidal thoughts and according to the judge she said that the overall impression is often depressed and sometimes despairing man fearful for his future of course as we saw

all the supporters unhappy that this extradition is not going to go ahead but they are very very disappointed that it's purely on health grounds rather than on seeing that this is being framed within they believe a political contacts and somebody who strongly believes that it is a highly politicized cases seller morris julian assange is part she was a former member of his legal counsel the pair are now engaged should she's also the mother of 2 of his young sons fathered by june in a songe while he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy this is what's a seller morris had to say about the case i call on the president of the united states. to end this now. mr president tear down these prison walls. that our little boys have their father. free julian. i mean oppressive. free us all.

so as you heard there from stella morris their feeling is that there is still something of an uphill struggle to go to ensure that jude intissar just walks free from prison we know that an appeal looks likely to be launched by the prosecution by the united states acting through the u.k.'s crown prosecution service we also know that a request for bail has been launched to we are likely to hear the results of that one in this day but a song his defense have suggested that if granted he could be out of prison on bio before the end of the week. live in london dave many thanks indeed julian assange has founded wiki leaks in 2006 the website was meant to be a place where leakers could drop classified and sensitive information in 2010 it released a video showing the killing of civilians in baghdad in a u.s.

strike among those killed were 2 employees of the reuters news agency in the following months wiki leaks released hundreds of thousands of classified u.s. military documents related to iraq and afghanistan months later your innocence was arrested in london to face on the geishas of rape and sexual assault made by 2 women in sweden to avoid extradition refuge in the ecuadorian embassy and 2012 sweet and drop the investigation in 2019 that same year ecuador evicted a songs from its embassy he was immediately arrested and taken to a high security prison in london peter oborne is a columnist for middle east i he joins us now by skype from will in the u.k. peter good to have you with us julia soldiers partner said today that the ruling is a 1st step towards justice is it the decision was made on health grounds not on the middle galaxies and lawyers for the u.s.

so that they're going to appeal. yes i think it's a powerful point you're making there and stella morris was making a new yes the judge. said that mr solace was in prison but she seemed to accept that or the other arguments of the u.s. navy knew that what mr assad should be gauged in was espionage which were the view of those who support this and sauntered into my view and i think the view of most people who followed the case carefully and most journalists now he's that really what mr jefferson's was doing was was journalism a was revealing stuff which as your report rightly pointed out. was very embarrassing to the united states that he was revealing and pulled the information about war crimes by the u.s. in iraq in l.a. and elsewhere and all sorts of stuff which should be kept from the public now is

that it's a is that espionage and what was troubling about the summing up why the judge was it seemed to accept the argument that it was so it's a very limited step but the good news i think given that mr summers has been. has been in jail now and belmarsh in solitary confinement for more than a year that he will get it looks like he's getting out. what do you make of the british government's handling of this case what should it be doing about julian assange. well the very i think it is troubling that the british government says it has a go along with this exhibition case given that if you look at the foreign office british foreign office website so exciting us much is of course free speech and journalism to go along with it which was something which looks very much like an attack on journalism is. it looks very good across.

she said his papa today that the attempt to have a soldier extracted was a frontal assault on on journalism why is the british press been so quiet about his case if what you say about freedom of speech and public interest and source protection and so on is is true. very eloquent point on making the. bush the great justifications of the british press despite all of its many and well known faults as bait money it keeps politicians it acts against the abuse of power it's bringing some lights stuff which through which we sneeze comes the public attention now and the. last all one should be an extra tight cities and it does not look that though i doubt the appeal us appeal will work if he's extradited some ass. it would have been. for the

investigative journalism so well the british papers either being silent like the new statesman or actually backing extradition like the economists magazine or just sort of turning a blind eye like most athletes straight press i think it costs real doubts about the commitment of the main strained british press to frater of speech and investigative journalism and i think that there are a number of editors today oh i hope births all over. the world peter really good to talk to many thanks indeed for being with us really appreciate it peter oborne there were. in the coming hours britain's prime minister boris johnson is expected to announce more measures to control the spread of covert 19 a new variant then has been driving up the number of infections with more than

50000 new cases reported the 6 straight days now and scotland's 1st minister has already announced a lockdown in her region starting at midnight tonight nicholas to and says that she's more concerned about the situation that she has been since the peak of the pandemic in march live london to serious anger sevens can tell us more about what boris johnson is likely to announce. untrue. well the speculation is that this is going to be a full lockdown like the walls in march boris johnson all day has been talking about new measures that need to be announced that the happens to be a 8 sort of acceptance now that the tear for which is the highest level of lockdown in england is just isn't working the situation is out of control effectively at the the actual increase the rise of cases is deeply moving

up at a much higher rate than the was at the peak of the 1st phase of this virus so we're finding now that the hospitals right across the country are dealing with twice the number of cases since the november lockdown and there the position in london for instance now is that hospitals cannot really cope with the increases in admissions and of course the knock on if the infection rates going up so high the knock on factor that within a couple of weeks is that the hospitals will be inundated even more so we're expecting a full lockdown which will mean you know recommendations of no travel whatsoever but the more you could put these lockdown measures in place but it's the observance of these measures that counts so we're waiting to hear what boris johnson will have to say in his televised address 20 g.m.t.

on monday evening furthermore parliament will be recalled on wednesday so we're not sure what's going to be put before parliament and scotland's 1st minister announcing that there's going to be a full lockdown there at least until the the end of january. that's right sir but you have a situation there were nicholas sturgeon had called the scottish parliament in there had she had briefed the parliament on the critical situation in scotland mentioning that the new strain of covert had spread right into scotland it was now making the position for health care professionals very very difficult indeed and that was as serious as it was back in march so she has announced a raft of measures similar to those in march until the end of january but she review that at the time she's closing all schools this is what she had to say

we have to say to introduce from midnight tonight for the g.-d. of the january a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes this is similar to the lockdown of march last year. so all of this on a day that was meant to be one of fanfare with the launch of the new vaccine the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine which is being rolled out across the country the 1st shot given today when boris johnson was there at oxford university hospital now that of course is our hope for the future but it's not going to make any difference really at this stage other calls art for an awakening for the government of taking extra measures one of the big issues is the closure of schools or the fact that many english schools are still are actually reopening on this monday after the christmas break in scotland they're all closed that continue to be

closed both secondary schools and primary schools the primary schools being for under 11 year olds in england well we'll wait and see it's very likely that all schools and indeed universities who are of yet to actually go back from their christmas break it's quite possible that universities will be closed as well this is really an emergency bigger emergency than at any stage in this pandemic for the u.k. anderson is reporting live from london and her many thanks indeed. a weather update thanks to all the news out then the final day of campaigning in georgia a state that will decide the balance of power in the u.s. senate. staffer carly spices things up with a career high 62 points for the warriors we'll tell you about back a little later in schoolteacher.

how the weather remains pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment if a little on the chilly side so one or 2 spots of rain to come but nothing much to speak of the cloud might be thick enough from time to time across northern parts of saudi arabia to produce some rain but for the most part it is dry and with light waves we may see some early morning mist in fall caring. 24 celsius on shoes day morning similar value as we go on into wednesday pap's a tad colder but as i said early morning mist and folk to watch out for the south it is generally dry might just catch the ought showers just around the southern end of the red sea but again nothing too much to speak of here plenty of showers maymont into central parts of africa more wet weather rolling through we got some wetter weather into that eastern side of angola running down across the maybe end maybe a still seeing some rather wet weather and we have still got some showers into the heart of south africa say central and eastern parts of south africa seeing some

really rather the rather nasty weather as we go on through the next couple of days come way to stay the wetter weather looks like it's a move out into the open waters but just notice a pocket for every heavy rain pushing up towards the northeast of the country that will gradually not a little further north which as we go on through thursday 20 increasingly wet across most sampai but also zimbabwe. city has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just for gold to. be proud of what about the guy that can afford it guys tell these water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatized loads of water on al-jazeera

from all just zeroes here to report on the people often ignored but who must be hurt how many other channels can you say will take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global offense about our lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like dallas by the. assad hope nature and so many others we go to the you make the effort we care and stay. well again this is that from al-jazeera adrian figure here in doha the headline iran's foreign minister says the country has resumed the process of enriching

uranium up to 20 percent. says that the measure is fully reversible but only if other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal comply with the agreement. the u.k. court says that wiki leaks founder julian assange has for not be extradited to the united states sources wanted on espionage charges for publishing secrets american military documents and 201011. britain's prime minister boris johnson is expected to announce more measures to control the spread of covert pipe teen after a new variant as was detected scotland's 1st minister has announced a lockdown in her region. to the central african republic now where we're awaiting the preliminary results from last month's presidential election the incumbent leader of. 2 addenda is seeking another term but just before they're released rebels aligned with former president francois posies a began advancing on the capital the attack the town of banga su on saturday and

the un mission says that they're now in control russian faces deployed to the area of fail to push back the assault on the rebels are now 20 kilometers from the capital bangui lived out a little isaak who's following developments from senegal its capital dhaka what's the latest nic. well a.j. and it seems that it's election results will go ahead in 2 hours times we will have provisional results of these presidential elections that were much contested already we know 9 of the candidates have filed a complaint to the election commission saying that the number of voters in the bank year area is high and suggesting that there might be some stuffing of ballots on the 29th of december when people voted adding fuel to the fire of already a tense situation where we have armed groups just 20 kilometers away from the

capital as you mentioned the count town of benghazi which was well protected by the u.n. forces present there as well as the central african forces well they were no match to what the armed forces call the coalition but the patriotic coalition for change now this is a mixed group of armed groups that once fought each other united fighting against president twat era and what they see as. in this election a way for president twitter to cling on to power he's the favorite in this race and we'll have the election results in just 3 hours time but what's at stake here is is stability in a country that's the size of texas of france a rich and mine in mining resources and gold and for the moment the russians have been playing a key role there they brokered the peace agreement they ensured the personal security of president twat era and as we speak adrian there are men in

ski mask armed with with weapons on board police vehicles of russian fighters patrolling the streets there's also forces from neighboring rwanda have come in to add to the $14000.00 u.n. peacekeeping force on the ground so very much a tense situation and it feels that. and this by the presence of so many soldiers that are there to keep the peace well the armed groups are able to move ever closer to the capital just 20 kilometers away and there's a real fear from the population of what might come up next already they've managed to choke the capital bangui the prices in the market of of commodities for rice oil have shot up and this is a population where half of them are in dire need and are dependent of humanitarian assistance so there's

a real fear to these election results and what will come out next but what's clear is all of these efforts this peace agreement that was signed in neighboring sudan just 2 years ago. pushed by the russians well that's failed and it seems that the the coalition of armed groups are moving ever closer to the capital adrian serious nicholas live in some of those capital dhaka many thanks nic in kenya a nike curfew has been extended until the middle of march launch public gatherings are also restricted but schools are reopening. as a primary school in nairobi. 15000000 schoolchildren are back in school across kenya 10 months of the schools were closed as part of the precautions to stop the spread of the core of a 1000 pandemic the government says it has put everything in place and has provided $140000000.00 to schools across the country to ensure they have mosques.

where children can wash their hands and also desks to ensure that. social distancing in the classroom but here in a young the primary school in nairobi we are seeing a totally different scenario there is not only shortage of mosques but also not and maff stations where the children come and wash their hands teachers are complaining that their biggest challenge they face is the overcrowding in the classrooms due to lack of enough desks to ensure that there is social distancing between the school children when they're in class the costumes themselves are also really tiny the head teacher of this school told us that they have not received any funds from the government and that all the see from the government was some masks which are not enough for the 1500 school children of course some parents are choosing to keep

their children at home fearing that they will contract the virus and have been homeschooling them we've been seeing a decrease in the number of 19 cases in the country in the past few weeks but there are fears across the country that we could see an uptick in the virus once again. in a recording the spent leaks to the public u.s. president donald trump told the top election official in the state of georgia to find. in order to overturn his election defeat georgia was one of the battleground states the chips in favor of president elect joe biden it's an unprecedented move by a sitting president and with just a few weeks to go before biting takes office trumps to. refuses to concede that he's lost repeating unfounded claims of fraud alan fischer reports from atlanta georgia. from a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find votes to help from overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george'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 here's one of my. $11780.00 loans which is one more that 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 released other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president determines 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 it's the president of 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 has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff but the president's call was there hanging over her comments was certainly the worse the desperation most certainly than. and it was a phone. they bowled 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 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 has now been overshadowed by the most controversial oval office tapes since nixon in the 1970 s. alan fischer al jazeera atlanta georgia so all eyes are on this the u.s. state of georgia west question elections for 2 senate seats will decide the balance of power in congress it's the last to have campaigning before tuesday's for outgoing president tunnel trump and president elect joe biden a both set to hold rallies that in a final push for victory let's go live now to atlanta just as the tash can name is that sasha will the florey over these tapes that have been released of the president have any impact on voters that tomorrow.

there is a real concern among republicans that trump's repeated and baseless attacks on the electoral integrity in georgia will depress voter turnout in the state of georgia and in fact during that now infamous call trub reference the election saying that he people were angry at georgia people were angry at the governor and that this could have big consequences for the senate runoff this is a high stakes senate runoff and a short time ago one of the people involved in this leaked audiotape the georgia secretary of state spoke his name is brad raffensperger if you've been following as . many people in the nation have the senate runoff his name will be familiar to you he spoke at a during a morning show and he said with regard to the audio call that he had not been wanting to talk to trump because there is pending litigation the trump camp has filed lawsuits in georgia but that that george that trumps the data was wrong he

said that the state has followed the law and the process now right now the there's a democratic elected official on the state election board that is asking the secretary of state to launch an investigation into possible civil and criminal violations there is also a legal debate underway regarding whether or not president trump may have violated a law that prohibits interference in state and federal elections on the part of the trump camp they are proceeding with 2 additional lawsuits they're going to be filing lawsuits in the state and federal courts their camp argues that this was a secret recording of a confidential settlement discussion regarding pending litigation now we don't know exactly who leaked recorded and leaked that call but some media outlets are pointing the finger at the secretary of state in georgia the beleaguered secretary

of state trump had repeatedly since the november 3rd election attacked him on twitter and called for his resignation and some media outlets are saying that he had vowed to release the call if he had been attacked by trump and trump did attack him yet when he trump was upset when the secretary of state refused to admit that there was any kind of election fraud he said how can you let this happen that's a criminal offense and a very big risk for you trump will be able to speak directly to voters later on today in georgia when he makes a campaign stop in the northwestern city adult in a conservative stronghold of seriousness i should get a reporting live from atlanta georgia but he thanks to the tasha arena show is a concern. if political advise and write access strategies she joins us live from washington could tell you when the sun rhea is there going to be any other going to be any legal repercussions off to the leaking of that tape from the president will perhaps the person who posts news who leaked this. well in georgia

from the legal experts that i have consulted with it doesn't seem it's likely that anybody will bring charges jurors any party whether it be the president or anybody that tape that there does seem to be some georgia state hood that was by a light friendly defy the president in his words to the georgia secretary of state robbins for it does seem that that falls under statues for talk about intimidation and coercion related to elections but again the concept really of any case being brought forward at this point in time is very low so what i see right here though is truly what is astounding and extraordinary in the court of public opinion more so than in the legal court when it affects how republican voters behave tomorrow. well i think it's a bit late for that because of look at the numbers right now and the numbers are

looking very very extraordinary what we really see is that the crease in early voting has been mined by all estimates very shocking and really was not expected back in 2008 there was a runoff and there were only 2100000 votes cast in that run up and that included election day as of today they're rebuilding and early votes cast in georgia and and counting and then election day it's tomorrow sir this is really really quite surprising but again you know what happened the general election so it shouldn't be as surprising what this tells us is that there is a very very big this way towards democrats right now because the mill or everybody does tend to prefer people are democrats and as far as the candidates themselves a concerned. i mean it's. that any one out of the 4 i mean the obvious are going to be to know who are elected but is anyone have to lean over the out of any of the. well there is

a lot of polling right now that is showing it's in it's exceptionally close race and i and soon it will be as well we see the final numbers i don't think that we'll see a huge barge and sent and that's a result of the long term effort made by by people like stacy in for which he's become a celebrity and a household name and rightly so she laid the foundation a few years ago to really really creates a turnout and voter registration it's it can it's an n.b.s. beat by all sides there are republicans who say they also are very very envious of how the democrats have have changed the numbers for themselves in a good way they have registered that new american scent generally get to be disregarded by the republican party i'm talking younger voters who showed up and showed out in the 2020 general election and i'm also talking about hispanics as well as asian minorities in georgia and these are larger forces that have actual area they do tend to now be more democrat even though their values were telling us

that they may swing right when i see here in this match up more than any one else is really something that's about personality and personalities are what we know in politics always right now what are the potentials here i think i think there's a reprieve touch so i raphael warnock to the best kelly locklear kelly muffler is a appointed u.s. senator who has not been elected and david preview is a senator who is a mom time republican very much supported by his not one republican i believe in some little bit more say that. but we know what needs to happen tomorrow and it's that democrats have their vote seems or nothing else up there with both teams in order for the balance of power to shift to get there or perhaps in the u.s. and so that's the 1st some high ranking look there are for both there are perhaps with a slight advantage her are not good to children and many thanks indeed michelle that

and washington. thank you to just ahead here on the news hour. action from stage to off the dakar rally in saudi arabia as one former champion fights back to the spores the job.

the on the on. again type of sport his job adrian thank you very much and one quick summary nanny has tested positive for the 19 on the arrival in sri lanka the all rounder is pos of the indian team who are on a 2 test hole in the country boeing will now isolate for 10 days in line with

quarantine rolls. fellow all rounder chris woakes has been named as a possible close contact also self isolate before testing again the news comes a day off to the team landed in sri lanka well greeted by men in ham hazmat suits they and their equipment were sprayed down with disinfectant speaking earlier bowler james anderson said the measures had felt reassuring we spoke about there and we it made us feel really safe. and obviously through and coming fairly low cases there were 6 taking every precaution to make sure that they stay safe over here so it was understandable that those measures were taken. and yes it looks unusual with all the house not safe and everything but like i said i think. that it's be safe in that situation and we thought in the student and got on with it australia's 4th test against india in brisbane isn't down south the indian team said it was not prepared to quarantine again when they got to queensland india are

in sydney for the upcoming test there in 3 days time and are reportedly threatening to boycott the next game at the gabba if they have to stay in the hotel rooms australia states have different quarantine protocols in queensland would require them to self eyesight for 2 weeks after travelling from new south wales but with some of india's team having breached covert protocols in melbourne there's little sympathy from their opponents. 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 as it's a very small circle for us to for us to get out there and play the game that we live in and put a lot of small zone a lot of people's faces around the world. in more oil as we suck it up and get on with it a strain is tight restrictions are causing headaches for formula one organizers as well the season was to begin in melbourne in march but with australia still in forcing strict travel rules the sport might have to reshuffle its calendar to begin

with a race in bahrain a decision on her spending the australian grand prix sets be made later this month over in japan the government is considering a state of emergency after a spike in cove in 1000 cases but the country's prime minister is insisting the tokyo lympics must be held as planned are just 200 days to go before the games begin in the japanese capital officials are yet to release plans about how they'll get 15000 and then pick and paralympic athletes into japan keep them safe let alone hundreds of thousands of fans media officials and v.i.p.'s. one of the main olympic venues was in use on monday more than 24000 fans were allowed into the 68000 capacity tokyo national stadium to watch the jail 11 cup final and it was local side f.c. tokyo who won it beating a race old 21 the game had been rescheduled for from november but was postponed after a covert 19 outbreak among the sport is the 3rd time tokyo have won the trophy.

to the deco rally in saudi arabia and cattery driver nasser ality here has bounced back from poor starts after disappointing 10th place on the opening day he won monday 2nd stage by more than 2 and a half minutes that still only good enough to put in 3rd overall 9 minutes behind leader stefan peds hansel and 3 minutes behind defending champion carlos signs his 2nd the death is being held in saudi arabia for the 2nd year running. is taken the 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 around schools back bacon mayfield's helped set up 2 yard touchdown pass to austin hooper 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 the playoffs in the 1st time since 2002 also

sets up a 1st round rematch with the steelers next weekend in pittsburgh. after a lackluster start to the season the golden state warriors stefan curry has answered his critics in style the warriors star guard to score a career high 62 points to lead his team 213-7120 win of the portland trailblazers on sunday the blazers just had no answer to his dominance yukari had the highest scoring game in the n.b.a. this season. but if you thought they were good in the n.b.a. check out formula one driver done your ricardo's half court shot the australian is clearly enjoying some down time before joining up with his new mclaren team having left runner at the end of last season. right that is a is full for now more with gemma later adrian i could do that you know she can't he lives in germany facts but said the news out of the back of just about the top

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