a historic victory in the u.s. senate runoff in georgia democrat raphael warnock has declared the winner becoming the state's 1st black senator. boxer hall raman you're watching avs are life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes hong kong police arrest dozens of pro-democracy activists and former politicians accusing them of trying to overthrow the city's government. also a rare admission north korean leader kim jong un acknowledges that his economic policies failed and says the country has learned painful lessons also.

that is where this was in its new parliament which seized control of the national assembly returned to the ruling party and leads the opposition out in the cold. into the program we begin with breaking news coming out of the us where democrats are close to winning full control of the federal government in a closely fought runoff race in georgia democrat raphael warnock has won a senate seat beating the incumbent senator kelly last he's making history by becoming the 1st black senator from the state. senate to work for all of georgia. no matter who you care sure go for in this election in this moment in american history. washington has a choice to make in fact all of us have

a choice to make. will we continue to devour that. distract and this other one another or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves and then the other and all friends democrat jon all salt holds a slim lead over david perdue but it's still too close to call as all official reports from atlanta the outcome will decide the balance of power in congress. the results so close the stakes so high as the world waits counting in georgia senate runoff will continue for a 2nd day more than 3000000 voted early on the day polling stations reported a steady stream of voters and no problems with the running of the election when you want a final outcome we will know the outstanding number of ballots if i'm a betting person which i'm not i would say it could be a couple days anticipate it will be a close race one where the other heavy early voting favor democrats republicans are

just their supporters to turn out on the day for many they'd like the focus to finally move away from their state. but no machinery when they come normally. the 1st victory is good news for joe biden but he really needs both seats without it he won't be able to push on with his agenda and address issues he believes have been neglected over the past 4 years like climate change health care and racial injustice georgia voters have never had more power than you have today and that's the reason the whole world is watching us in ga ga by the way for the last week georgia has been the center of the u.s. political universe the importance of the vote here couldn't be more clearly illustrated with both the outgoing and incoming president spending time campaigning in the state know there's nothing more anyone can do except wait for the final result and what that means for america alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia.

and douglas spears an associate professor of the department of political science at emory university she says even if democrats control both chambers of congress there's no guarantee that joe biden will be able to get his agenda passed. what's at stake here is the potential to have a unified party control you know between the legislative and executive branches for the next 2 years and any president would want to have members of their own party in charge of the legislative branch it does not guarantee smooth sailing for a president's legislative agenda but it does make it easier the other thing that's actually really important for president elect biden is the senate has the advice and consent power so they are the ones who get to approve judicial nominations and cabinet nominations and so we'd expect that under a republican controlled senate that president elect biden would have a harder time getting some of his high level political appointees approved and

getting some of his judicial appointees approved senator mitch mcconnell's actually made it very difficult towards the end of the obama presidency for president obama to name anybody to the federal judiciary including that one supreme court seat that he held up until donald trump was president of the united states an important thing to point out is that even with a unified party control there is no guarantee that every democratic agenda would make it through the u.s. senate unscathed and in particular dare are is going to be some contest station between more moderate and more progressive democrats so there would have to be some compromise made in order for anything to get passed police in hong kong have arrested more than 50 pro-democracy politicians and activists an early morning raids is the largest crackdown hunder the controversial national security law which trying to impose last year now this video shows a former democratic party politician being taken from his home those detained or

accused of subversion for taking part in unofficial election primaries in july china declared the polls illegal a war but the 600000 people who voted broke the law which is there is a jim brown has more from hong kong. this police sweep began early on wednesday morning raids were carried out of more than 50 addresses across hong kong the police say more than a 1000 police officers were involved in this operation the biggest mass arrests of activists and former legislators here in hong kong since the new national security law was imposed on this territory on july the 1st they include some of the best known faces in the pro-democracy camp we've heard from the secretary of security here in hong kong john lee he's been justifying the detention saying those detained have been involved in what he called an evil plan to paralyze not just hong kong's

parliament but also hong kong society now these arrests are linked to that unofficial contest that was held back in july to determine which candidates from the pro-democracy camp would take part in the legislative elections which were due to be held in september those elections of course were cancelled by kerry lamb citing coded $1000.00 so they are being held for an unofficial political event tied to an election that is now being cancelled the government is also saying that people who voted in that unofficial primary will not be investigated only those people who organize the unofficial poll china's foreign ministry has expressed support for the arrests and denies that they infringe on people's freedom and there we support the hong kong authorities in france telling the agencies and the hong kong people's rights and freedoms in accordance with the law and not addicted to

what's affected is the so-called freedoms of some people who were colluding with each other and trying to undermine china's sovereignty solidarity and stability. north korea's leader has made a rare mission of failure speaking during the country's largest political event kim jong un's its economic plan had failed significantly and acknowledged that painful lessons have been learnt promised that the workers' party would find a way to make a radical leap forward but mcbride is in south korea and has more on kim's remarks he has made admissions that nearly every aspect of economic policy the fight current 5 year plan basically has fallen short is basically failed saying that north korea has been through the worst of the worst which is a pretty incredible admission you've had this the normal sanctions that it faces from the international community compounded by the whole pandemic of the past year where basically north korea has pretty much sealed itself off from the outside

world which is seeing the devastating impact on its economy and then of course over the past summer you have had these devastating storms what we're also waiting to see as this as this party gathering proceeds over the next few days is the policy that north korea will now adopt to the united states because the end of the trump era means the end of this remarkable policy of summit meetings which ended in failure in hanoi in 2019 and the big question now is with joe biden what replaces that saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt have agreed to restore full diplomatic relations with katter now the announcement followed choose days golf summit in the saudi city of its marks the could hardly amir's 1st visit to saudi arabia since the illegal blockade began 3 years ago delegates from the gulf countries signed a declaration calling for solidarity and stability. you know like the correlation.

has achieved a settlement of all issues outstanding in a way that is entirely satisfied factory to all nations involved all the countries involved we are extremely pleased with having been able to achieve this very important breakthrough that we believe will contribute very much to the stability security of all our nations in the region we we have as you mentioned been working very hard towards achieving this breakthrough for many years and the timing is. just that it's that we were finally able to reach that conclusion and reach. a mechanism that was satisfactory to everyone and i am happy to report that we are at a place where everyone is satisfied and happy and yes all the outstanding. whether it's turning of diplomatic relations flights etc all of that will now go back to normal. venezuela's president because madeira has tightened its grip on power with the swearing in of

a national assembly controlled by his socialist party and marks the end of control by the opposition who boycotted last month's election because they said he wasn't free all. the pictures of latin america's independence heroes. and laid precedent over chavis i returned to venice were less national assembly a symbolic act by the ruling socialist party to let the world know my little is now in control of the legislative body. i tell you this without any rhetoric that we cannot fail we cannot but succeed this time we have to repair what has been damaged we have to rebuild what has been destroyed to rebuild what has been damaged by hatred betrayal and violence but it took what critics say was a fraudulent election last month for my daughter to take power in the assembly venezuela's opposition has been in control since 2016 and since then has been in constant confrontation with

a government denouncing what it called dictatorial ways 2 years ago the president of the body white who proclaimed himself press and claiming model was elected the country's leader in a fragile involved why the last mandate in the assembly expired on tuesday but members of the opposition have extended for another year not as leader of the assembly but of a parallel body to challenge my daughter's legitimacy. to this effort and this sacrifice it's worth it this need for change and this scream for freedom it's worth it the parliament is worth it this resistance by each venezuelan it's worth it this country is worth it yes it's worth it the sacrifice the determination respecting our constitution it's worth it to fight for men and women who are giving everything for venezuela but with the assembly now in my daughter's hands analysts wonder what will happen to why though on the opposition. now that model has taken control of what many see as venice or less the last democratic institution. has capacity to

mobilize people has deteriorated the opposition is divided the confidence that they can remove madeira from office is small but he still has a stock for a political fight the united states will continue to recognize him continue to support him even with biden and power canada japan and other countries recognize them to controlling the national assembly gives my lula the legal tools he lacked in the past and the appearance of legitimacy in front of international law. with the sma duro from a legal point of view he can validate the national assembly in front of his allies like russia china and turkey to sign agreements or concessions that legally need to be done by the assembly aside from their madeira from a real point of view already controlled every institution. group on power remains strong despite why those efforts as he has failed to turn the bolivarian armed forces against him. but disenchantment with the economic and political situation in

the country is significant and growing and that's why the confrontation with the opposition is unlikely to end anytime soon. and. still ahead here on al-jazeera no justice for jacob why the police officer who shot him 7 times in the back will not face charges. and a sit in against extremists violence pakistan's as our community demands action after 10 coal mine is a kill. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways there's barely a corner of europe that hasn't been touched by proper winter so far and what hasn't been is about to be the last 24 hours or 48 hours has seen this curl here which is

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about your jobs there with me so rob a reminder of our top stories democratic challenger raphael warnock has won a hotly contested u.s. senate runoff in georgia republican incumbent kerry loffler and the other is democrat john also off holds a slim lead over david perdue but that race is still too close to call the outcome will decide the balance of power in the u.s. congress. north hong kong police have arrested $53.00 pro-democracy politicians and activists are being accused of subverting state power and it's the biggest crackdown under the controversial national security law which china imposed last year. north korea's leader kim jong un has held a rare political convention where he's admitted the country's economic plan has failed significantly he promised the workers party would find a way to make a radical leap forward. supporters of president old trump have been

gathering outside the u.s. congress in washington d.c. as congress gets ready to certify the presidential election 1000 are expected to take part in wednesday's so-called march to save america they reject joe biden's victory claiming election fraud a basis claim trump has repeated since the vote in november. well such occasion is set to take place later on wednesday how will be the final stage in the process to officially declared by the 46th president of the united states but it's political hay and explains in this era of trump is expected to be controversial and unprecedented. this announcement of the state of the vote it's supposed to be a formality. the u.s. vice president along with members of congress receiving the certified votes from the states donald trump of new york has received for president of the united states 304 votes and declaring the election over by president al gore did it george

w. bush of the state of texas has received for president of the united states 271 votes and he just lost the election to george bush by just over 500 votes the vice president votes but his vice president my pence prepares to take the gavel he is under pressure to throw out joe biden's win and i hope mike headaches comes through for us i have was i surprised he was a great vice president comes through for us he's a great guy. so i assume he doesn't come through a lot like a quite as much according to the constitution the vice president doesn't have the power to do what the president wants but more than 100 house republicans and at least 13 senators have promised to try i have an announcement georgia. on january 2nd i will it just to feel like i'm sure i was

was huge they're calling for an emergency audit of the vote and are threatening to challenge the results for key states if they don't get it we've got tens of millions of americans now think this election was stolen we need to get to the bottom of it again what's what's explained we need to explain it get that off the table. to be clear there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud even though the trump campaign has filed almost 60 lawsuits claiming that there is all of which have been thrown out by the courts but if these republicans do object to certify the results from certain states then each chamber will debate each challenge for up to 2 hours before voting on whether to certify the results it's unlikely they have the votes to actually change the outcome challenges have been made in the past but never with these kinds of numbers i would like to see it named for what it is which is the republicans are making a plea to get rid of democracy and and and offer something else which

looks like entrenched politicians get to decide who the next leader is and it's absolutely breathtaking as a matter. had situational basics never before has the loser of a presidential election refused to concede or call the election stolen but for president trump this is one more precedent breaking move on his way out a last ditch and likely futile attempt to stay in power. how does your. i police officer who shot a black man 7 times in the u.s. state of wisconsin in august will not face criminal charges the connection a county district attorney cleared officer ruston 60 of any crimes there were mass protests after he shot jacob blake in the back leaving in power lies in the waist down april is on the house. in america the latest incident of a black man shot by police and the officer who pulled the trigger getting away with

it in august a police officer in ocean wisconsin shot jacob blake 7 times in the back as he was walking to his vehicle his kids were inside blake was left paralyzed from the waist down. the shooting brought can osha to a standstill as protests broke out by people angry and calling for justice lawyers for the officer claimed the shooting was justified because blake was acting erratically allegedly armed with a knife and officers on the scene said they thought blake was trying to kidnap his children during a custody dispute on tuesday afternoon can osha district attorney said after an extensive investigation there was no legal foundation for charging the officer and it is my decision now that i announced today before you that know can osha law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with any criminal offense based on the facts and the laws as i will describe them to you now so it is our decision

that no charge will be filed blake's family was left frustrated and saddened by the decision there is no justification what was done 2 months. because your story was you were free that my son was going to kidnap his jew if he was fearful of that why did he fire into the car so it would be children in the car so is he going to beat you michael keep flip flop this is not have scotch snap. this is my son. my son cannot walk right now. blake's attorney said the video of his client being shot should have been enough for the officer to be charged with the crime we believe that obviously the district attorney's office somehow believes that as we roll in the 2021 that all of

a sudden we're in the the country legally blind or something we think that the 22nd video is very clear we don't need it so our explanation for what our eyes can see. activists are trying to make sense of the decision from kenosha becomes on the heels of a summer in which millions of people took to the streets across the country to protest police brutality and injustice in the wake of several high profile killings of unarmed black people on the one hand i'm not surprised because we have over a 400 year history of not holding folks accountable when it comes to lethally taking black life or even wounding black life like we have in this case but i'm also a little bit surprised because last year we had the largest civic on record in america's history we demanded for reimagined policing structure and we demanded accountability here less than one week into 2021 we haven't either. the department of justice says the federal civil rights investigation into the shooting is ongoing

gabriel sandow al-jazeera washington. the teenager charged with murder for opening fire during the unrest that followed blake shooting has pleaded not guilty carl rittenhouse appeared in court by video link the 18 year old faces 6 charges for the fatal shooting of 2 men and the wounding of a 3rd in can osha at the height of protests in august. france has rejected reports that it killed 20 people including children at a wedding in central mali residents in the remote desert village of a bounty said a helicopter opened fire at the wedding on sunday a u.n. official in mali has confirmed the incident but gave no further details the french military says it had killed dozens of fighters in a weekend air strike in the same area but says it had no connection to a wedding opposition figures in central african republic want last month's election an old because of what they're calling numerous irregularities president 1st seen are shown to darragh was reelected with more than 53 percent of the vote but the

opposition says half of the population were unable to cast ballots because of violence from rebel groups and branding the election a farce the head of the world health organization says he's disappointed chinese officials are not finalized permissions for the arrival of experts into china to examine the origins of covert 19. i am very disappointed with this news given that to members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute but i have been in contact with senior chinese or officials and i have once again made many it clear that the mission is a priority for w joe and the international team i have been assured that china is pitting the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment we're going to get the mission underway as soon as possible germany is extending its nationwide lockdown

until the end of the month it's also introducing tougher restrictions in a bid to control surging coronavirus infections chancellor angela merkel says the country needs to restrict contact was strictly. to snottery for their own turf and to our goal of course remains to get below 50 infected people pretend 1000 inhabitants 7 days so that the tracing of infection change is possible again this becomes even more important because grow aware of the mutation of the virus in the u.k. which spreads more quickly and thus causes more infections for contact this means we have to be particularly careful here. california has reached a new single day record for corona virus infections with 74000 confirmed on monday the number of covert 1000 patients in i.c.u. wards has quadrupled in the state since november and the head of los angeles health services hospitals are so overcrowded the patients are being left in hallways and ambulances. mourners in southwest pakistan are blocking

a road by protesting with the bodies of 10 coal miners killed by i saw there refusing to go ahead with burials or end their sit in until prime minister iran karlin griese to meet them that has the story. this major road on the outskirts of quests or is being blocked by this close knit community that includes children and the elderly who are up. and they're refusing to end their sit in homemade channel guy is 6 sisters and one of the victims was our only brother the only person who worked to look after us they brutally slaughtered him and our family alone they slaughtered 5 people including my nephew and 3 cousins i saw has claimed responsibility for the killing of a group of coal miners from the muslim shia minority the extremist group in pakistan has often targeted the has are in the past. we are tired of burying our people we no longer have courage to bury anymore bodies give us justice we want

justice. pakistan's interior minister ahmed arrived in quite a to tell the has are is that the government is doing all it can be as a member of congress are in charge of it you know i came with instructions from prime minister iraq on who asked me to take this plane and to assure all the hazara shia muslims that we will arrest these murderers at any cost and justice will prevail i have also asked the military here to help the government find the killers . but the protesters don't think it's enough they blame the government for failing to protect their people and despite islamic tradition requiring rapid burial they're refusing to bury the victims until prime minister imre han visits himself. ethnic cazares make up most of the population inquests are the capital of baluchistan. and it's pakistan's largest and poorest region suffering ethnic sectarian and even separatists

insurgencies. has are is often ostracized by others including eisel because of their faith and their if this city. and the community of miners here believe this won't be the last time that they will be targeted. certify that. your child deserves me so robin a reminder of our top stories democratic challenger raphael warnock has won a hotly contested u.s. senate runoff in georgia and he beat republican incumbent kelly loffler in the other instead of softballs a slim lead over david perdue but that race is still too close to call the outcome will decide the balance of power in congress alan fisher has more from atlanta in georgia raphael warnock has had a slight lead over.