mexico thunderstorms as well i would think in the u.s. itself it's that line that probably will develop this one here is rain for the southern states to texas avodah stabber only a small about further new. sponsor qatar airways. ready. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes warning to the senate. to work for georgia the u.s. state of georgia elects its 1st black senator moving democrats a step closer to securing a majority in the senate. a 2nd covert 1000 vaccine could soon be rolled out across

the e.u. after health regulators give blood donors the green light. we're getting is founder julian assange has denied bail the judge rules he'll remain in a british prison as the u.s. pursues his extradition. on call police arrest more than 50 pro-democracy activists and former politicians accusing him of trying to overthrow the city's government. over the sports man city's outbreak spreads just 3 more tests positive out of a cup semifinal on wednesday. democrats in the u.s. are one step closer to taking control of the senate 2 seats were at stake in runoff elections in the state of georgia and tuesday in one democrat raphael warnock has

defeated republican incumbent kelly loffler in the other race the democratic challenger has a slim lead alan fischer reports from atlanta. the results so close the stakes so high but for the democrats raphael warnock claiming a farce victory defeating kelly loeffler so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't when the selection but tonight we proved that with hope hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. because the 1st african-american elected to the senate from georgia a state which has been overwhelmingly republican for a generation the 2nd race remains too close to call democrat george also of leads

the every vote no even more important as a possible game changer in washington 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 3000000 early votes were cast in georgia a record and it's no clear that help the democrats there was a big turnout on the day a new problems reported with the running of the election we didn't have any issues the election our reporting is gone relatively smoothly so we feel like the counties are going to getting in the groove despite the fact we know they're all exhausted from the last week georgia has been the center of the u.s. political universe the importance of the vote here couldn't have been more clearly illustrated with both the incoming and outgoing president spending time campaigning in the state but even donald trump's appearance not enough to carry both candidates

over the line georgia by the way all eyes are no on the 2nd senate race the final vote in the 2020 election cycle one that has changed the face of america but done nothing to heal the deep divisions in the country alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia. and joining us live from atlanta let's talk about that when for rafael one where does that leave the run elf. well as many of our viewers probably already know the democrats needed to to flip both of those republican senate seats to gain control of the senate we're just hearing that the democratic senate candidate john awesome is declaring victory in a news conference he's holding now but that has not been confirmed the percentage point i'm going to shift right now to the race between john ossa and senator david

purdue is very close it's less than half a percentage point right now about 16000 votes that would take us into recount territory and already senator produced campaign released a statement early this morning saying that he believes he will be victorious but that he's going to exhaust every resource available to ensure that every vote is counted again i just want to give you some up to date news that we're hearing which is that the democratic senator senate candidate john awesome is claiming that he has one if in fact he was elected he would become the youngest senator in the senate in 40 years he's just 33 years old but shifting back to this historic day for georgia with the win of reverend raphael and now senator elect warnock i'm standing in front of the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta it's the spiritual home of the civil rights icon dr martin luther king and this is where the reverend has

been a senior pastor he says he had said even if he was elected senator he would continue to preach here his story really and clearly resonated with many people he was one of chuck 12 children who grew up in public housing his father was a world war 2 veteran he said during his last campaign appearance with president elect joe biden only in america could my 82 year old mother who picked cotton vote for me as senator and but he did say that as much as his story was one of the america. dream and promise he felt that it was slipping away and both he and john during their campaigns really spoke to georgians about issues they felt would ameliorate their quality of life expanding health care creating a livable wage ensuring that there was criminal justice reform and promoting clean energy and most importantly especially in a state with a heavy percentage of black voters getting an effective in their words pandemic

response they're going to bring us up to date with what's happening on the ground in atlanta in georgia but in georgia generally for these runoffs well supporters of donald trump stars are gathering in washington d.c. as congress meets to certify joe biden's election victory they are backing trump's unproven claims the november poll was fraudulent the president's praise the protests and promised to appear later at the so-called march to save american national guard troops have been deployed in this city the mayor's request not john hendren is in washington d.c. where protesters have been gathering shihab rattansi is at the white house he's going to have more on what we can expect from today's certification debate and we're going to hear from them in just a few minutes to the certification is going to mark the final stage in the process to officially declare biden as the 46 president of the united states i was proud to call han explains in this era of donald trump it is expected to be controversial an unprecedented. this announcement of the state of the vote it's supposed to be

a formality. the us 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 had 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 hits comes through for us i have. was revised brazil. a great vice president comes through for us he's a great guy. for us if 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. i january 2nd i will it 6 just to feel like troy was 1000 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 the 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 of constitutional 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 patty go out to 0. ok let's speak to see how the town see who's at the white house for us see how this was a certification fight that even the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell didn't

want to have and it sounds like things are going to get very tense over the next few hours. and we're expecting perhaps an impassioned speech from mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader as part of these proceedings imploring his colleagues not to challenge the certified election results from each of the states nonetheless it is expected that there will be challenges a great deal now a focus on mike pence because donald trump continues to repeat on twitter but mike pence has the power to reject certified states electoral college votes he does not but but once again overnight told trump tweeted as much there were reports that on tuesday mike pence trump had lunch at the white house where mike pence explained to donald trump that he did not have the constitutional power to reject electoral college votes that subsequently donald trump's campaign denied that mike pence have

said that but there are several sources the rest of the my friends did say that but that's going to be very interesting perhaps that mike pence may try to inject some rhetorical flourish which would reflect some of the concerns in the meantime though the main questions now is how long is this going to take we know that at least 13 senators and over 100 perhaps up to 140 members of the house are prepared to challenge the results and we know that 3 states will be challenged arizona relatively early this will be an alphabetical roll call of states arizona relatively early and georgia pennsylvania will be challengers patty said each time a result is challenge it adds another 3 hours at least also to proceedings if 3 other states where donald trump is challenging the vote are also challenged and this could go on into the morning if if wisconsin if michigan and arizona are a challenge then these proceedings could go on until the early morning of thursday she had thanks very much indeed obviously we're going to be coming back to you as

things develop during the next few hours before that she had her town say thank you very much indeed for more on the save america protest we're going to speak to john hendren who's in washington d.c. for us is talk us through what's been happening there john. well the 1st of thousands of protesters most of the ones we're seeing right now are pro trump protesters have started to gather we are outside of what is about to be a women for america 1st rally there's also a mother's for america rally happening there a number of groups the proud boys a group that has been linked with white supremacy isn't their leader was arrested coming into d.c. because of a previous protest in which he and a group of others burned a black lives matter flag that had been stolen from a mostly black church where i'm standing out front of the treasury that's the white building behind me and just beyond that there you can't see it in this frame is the white house and i just want to show you a little of what's happening here the mall for washington is down this street and

what we have is thousands of people marching there most of them carrying flags other trump memorabilia. and later on today we expect to see groups that are against these people and he trump protesters and teeth and others coming out to protest against this counter protest which after all is all about defying this congressional vote which is expected to elect joe biden as president formally most of the people that we see out here are pro trump and they want to see that process overturned there's no reason to believe as you heard earlier there's no reason to believe there's any way that that can happen today but we're all in suspense because we don't really know what's going to happen so you've got people out here just making their voices heard saying they want donald trump to be the president of

the united states once more to fight despite the fact that he's been pretty decisively defeated in the electoral college john thanks very much indeed john hendren talking to us from the streets of washington d.c. of those protests. ok clyde wilcox is a professor of government at georgetown university he's joining us live by skype from doha good to have you with us i want to talk to you about raphael warnock victory 1st of all in georgia and respective of what happens in the senate later on the very fact that raphael warnock has had a win is very significant isn't it yes he's the 1st african-american senator elected from georgia but he's more than just an african-american senator he's a powerful pastor of the largest and most significant african-american church in the south and so he's a great orator he's a powerful speaker it's a major win one of the things that is significant about this on sunday noticeable to to those of us outside the united states is the turnout in georgia it's even

higher if i understand it correctly than it was in the presidential election what has motivated that and particularly why is it resonated so much with black voters. well so the georgian republican party has done voter suppression efforts for the last decade or more and tracy abrams was one of the people who lost the election as a result of those efforts so she has dedicated a lot of time to building a grassroots organization that did door to door with masks in a difficult time it was disadvantaged because the churches are not open also they can't go to the churches which are a big way to mobilize african-americans looks like you've won both of these senate seats and that i think bodes well for america because with a 5050 senate there's a need to come to the center right the democrats have at least one very conservative senator a mansion republicans have

a couple of moderate senators as well so instead of maybe the 2 sides watching each other all the call and there's a possibility of. let me ask you about the certification process that we're going to be seeing in the next few hours republicans certainly in the senate seem to be in a rather difficult position because in the one hand they risk incurring the wrath of donald trump if they oppose him on the other side if they decide to side with donald trump and essentially ignore the will of the people they risk the wrath of the people themselves it's going to be very difficult to be able public and senator yes i think really the wrath of donald trump is not so much an issue because donald trump has lost and he will probably not win an election for years but the wrath of his voters who are convinced that it is going to throttle election so ted cruz for example is trying to lead the senate after if you want to be president you watch it very badly and so he's hoping that he can be the one who captures that maybe

a 3rd of the american public that's very upset about this really think it's that fraudulent and so he's playing to that. clyde wilcox professor of government to georgetown university as always we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed. you know 3 more ahead on the news hour including. venezuela's swears in its new parliament which seize control of the national assembly would turn to the ruling party and leaves the opposition out in the cold. searching for loved ones who went missing joining the years of war in libya families plead for justice in the world's top court. and the cleveland browns suffered a blow as 5 including the head coach test positive for corona virus ahead of their 1st playoff game in 18 years.

the e.u. medicines regulators recommended the madonna covert 19 vaccine be approved for people aged 18 and over still needs to be given the green light by the european commission the region seeing high rates of infections as the new highly contagious variant spreads there's been strong criticism of the slow pace of vaccinations across parts of europe west of us and joining us now live from amsterdam so this madonna vaccine has taken one step forward what happens now. well all these important decisions if in fact seen as safe enough to be used by europeans are taken here in amsterdam at the headquarters of the european medicine agency and they have been taking their time if you look at the united states for example or the u.k. the modern fact scene has been administered there for weeks already on monday this week a had delayed. decision that they were taking on this vaccine because i needed more

information but now they have finally given this so-called conditional marketing authorization for europeans to be using this vaccine we have to wait for the european commission approval also that will be expected within the next 2 days and then this vaccine can travel to all that's why the south and member states within the european union and everyone was really waiting for the has been pressure coming from germany because they have been using only this one fact sci fi so buy intact for the last 2 weeks and they have been vaccinated very quickly so they were running out of exene and they were waiting for this new vaccine to come to the market as soon as possible one of the countries that has been criticized for slow rulers of its vaccine is of course the netherlands where you are why has it been so slow there. well that's a very good question it's quite embarrassing

a lot of experts were complaining they said it's frustrating that the ferry well organized country it's supposed to be the nat'l and is doing so slow and making so many mistakes in this vaccination program the government has come under huge criticism they had to defend themselves and follow him and. they. barely escaped resignation the major issue here was mismanaged basically a miscalculation on the where this vaccine should be distributed through the minister has admitted all these mistakes it's basically also accept larry for the whole treatment this covert 19 up in that mix so slowly here and there's also a lot of debate on who is getting the vaccine 1st so finally the government decided medical workers are workers an elderly homes are getting these vaccinations 1st in a couple of weeks from now. for a few weeks i mean and then the elderly which of course an utter carnage which we see pictures of very happy 19 year olds being facts unaided well the elderly in the

netherlands will have to wait maybe a few more months so thanks very much to do that service and talking to us from. u.k. judge has denied bail for wiki leaks founder julian assange is accused of endangering lives by publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents on monday a judge rejected a request by u.s. prosecutors to extradite asuncion grounds of his mental health let's cross over to westminster magistrate's court in london well paul brennan is a live for us what was the reason for rejecting the bail. well the reason that the judge rejected the bell having listened to the arguments both for the u.s. authorities and for the defense of julian a son's were as follows basically just for nessa brights saying that had fled before despite stringent conditions that he would that she was satisfied that he would likely fail to surrender and that he was willing to fly it shown that he was

willing to flout the order of this court stringent conditions have done nothing to stop him last time that was the argument that was suddenly put forward by the u.s. or forty's but all they knew was the lawyer representing the u.s. authorities in the courts over my shoulder concerned that despite the ruling on monday that execution would be oppressive given sanchez mental states that the u.s. authorities wanted the option to appeal and they are going to appeal but the coeditor of wiki leaks kristinn hrafnsson said today's bail hearing bail decision was puzzling in his words illogical. we think it's unjust and unfair and illogical. when you consider the ruling 2 days to go about to do nuance health. of course is because in large part because he

is being held in bell most prison. to send him back there doesn't make any sense. and that is essentially to the point of what the judge is also saying that is that this case is not result that the u.s. still has the option of appealing to julian our sons will have to stay behind boss at belmarsh prison while we wait for that appeal to be heard there hasn't been a date set for that but in the meantime julian assange will remain in custody that's paul brennan bring us up to date from outside westminster magistrate's court in london paul thank you. as time for the weather is rob. the remains of cycling image in the here that produced flooding in tropical queen's than 2 to 300 movies a rain fell there's that potential still but in smaller areas i think during says day or friday down through queens and just touching new south wales beyond that is not particularly warm the middle twenty's are some sunshine and

a few light showers near the coast the real hot weather of course is further west perth is up to 40 one's will out as springs hangs around at $35.00 that spot on average this is where the wet weather is likely to be active weather and the opposite season at the moment and it's going to be worse this real cold dead siberia's leaking across the sea across the open water so you've now got snow in addition to that strong winds so hong shoe lesser hawk-eye that other meter also probably too much this snow is likely in the homes obviously there's going to be a risk from avalanche the story might catch bits of south korea again and look at the temperatures these the daytime highs so minus 10 shanghai 0 and hong kong about 30 now the cold waves east a bit in most of india it is wonderful snow up in certain gar is being much enjoyed unfortunately that sort of action has meant the fog for the south is persistent.

placing hong kong of arrested more than 50 pro-democracy politicians and activists in early morning raids it's the biggest crackdown so far on the controversial national security law which china imposed last year beijing's declare the polls illegal and one that 600000 people who voted broke the law. has more from hong kong . form a legislator lam chuckling didn't seem surprised when police came knocking at his front door early on wednesday morning they tell him he's suspected of violating the new national security law a scene played out of more than 50 other addresses in hong kong the drama was recorded by an unidentified person inside lamb's home i'm later posted on his facebook page before he was taken away al-jazeera had interviewed him several weeks ago just after he resigned as a pro-democracy politician along with almost the entire opposition camp i will keep fighting for democracy of hong kong their version of enda and the guy that was in

response to the disqualification of full fellow legislators following a ruling by china's highest political body police say wednesday's operation involve more than a 1000 offices and involve raids on 3 media outlets as well as a law office where a solicitor who is also a us citizen was arrested we have a rest of the free press is already all francis office of person under. the national security law the detentions were linked to an unofficial primary vote held last july to select candidates for the legislative elections due 2 months later a poll that was eventually cancelled with the hong kong government citing covert 90 now all those involved in organizing a primary are suspected of subversion which carries a maximum sentence of life. imprisonment

a further sign of the tightening or thora tarion grip here says one analyst it seems to me this is the chinese communist party trying to change the political culture of hong kong it's imposing lenin is why did they arrest these people because they demonstrated capacity to organize the u.s. president elect joe biden has said that china will be at the center of his foreign policy so it's possible hong kong will be an early point of friction with china's president xi jinping who has said the campaign against ascent here is justified in the name of safeguarding national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. so ahead on al-jazeera a rare admission that north korean leader kim jong un acknowledges that his economic policies failed and says the country has learned painful lesson it's. no

justice for jacob why the police officer who shot him 7 times in the back will not face charges. le bron james has a busy night rallying voters in georgia and then his at a lakers team to victory that's coming up in sports with joe. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman part that she would selectively goods and what he boys is changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have this system where people at every level are being it being given money money to agree to starvation our money to get other people to agree to certain social al-jazeera examines the politics of population control getting close to the people most affected by those in power is off dangerous but it's absolutely vital to the stories to be told lots of side in

this area we push this fall forward as we can to the frontline now the smell of day is overpowering a lot of the stories that we cover all high the conflicts so it's very important that we make them is understandable as we can do as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's will be strong to. you want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour democratic challenger raphael warnock has won a hotly contested u.s. senate runoff in georgia the big republican incumbent kevin offer any other race

democrat jon also claiming victory over david purdue but that race is still too close to call the outcome's going to decide the balance of power in congress. the e.u. medicines regulator has recommended the mcdonough covered 19 vaccine should be approved for people aged 18 and over and still needs to be given the green light by the european commission. on police arrested $53.00 pro-democracy politicians and activists they're being accused of subverting the state power it's the biggest crackdown under the controversial national security law which china and closed last year. north korea's leader has made a rare admission of failure speaking during the country's largest political event kim jong un said its economic plan had failed significantly and acknowledged painful lessons have been learned by mcbride reports from salt. a rarely held event it is normally the propaganda set piece for the ruling workers' party of korea to

trumpet its achievements but in his opening address north korea's leader kim jong un admitted his country has failed economically going through what he called the worst of the worst. the country's 5 year economic development plan finished last year and we fell short of our goal significantly in almost every sector. already facing international sanctions the country has virtually sealed itself off from the outside world during the global pandemic it suffered further during typhoons and flooding over the summer that damaged infrastructure and crops. and the end of the trumpet ministration means the end of the road for the unprecedented period of summit diplomacy with the united states in october north korea put on an impressive show of strength at the 75th anniversary of the ruling party's founding but kim

seem to be suffering the strains of recent setbacks kim jong un must be really really frustrated even saw disappointed are barred lack of any progress you specially on the front of economic development since the breakdown of the summit meeting with the u.s. president on trial in a noisy so north korean leadership has been basically flailing trying this and that without any well coordinated strategy north korea watchers will be looking in the coming days of this congress for any clues about kim's likely approach to the new administration of u.s. president elect joe biden and whether there will be a return to more traditional arm's length diplomacy. the 1st test could come soon with a possible announcement of resumed military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces in the spring which had been largely suspended during

trump's term you have a very narrow window of opportunity very limited amount of time for biden or the musicians to. 1 strike a conversation and dialogue with north korean regime so close to the inauguration north korea's position for now seems to be a cautious wait and see. robert bright al-jazeera so. benjamin so much time is a nonresident fellow at the stinson center and editor of the website north korean economy watch he's joining us live by skype from west to salem it's good to have you on al-jazeera thanks very much indeed for joining us give us some context here this is a very high neutral statement from the leader of north korea what's pushed kim jong un to do it. well so in fact kim jong un has been relatively forthcoming about the problems in the economy over the past 2 years he's frequently criticized officials for 4 months and apologized several times for people suffering so it's

not that unusual really but i mean what is the situation or 3 is there now it's extremely dire ways as your report mentioned both sanctions and to the border closure by the north korean authorities due to cover 19 so they are in a very very tight spot for sure and there's very little that kim jong un can do but really admit that that's really the key question is it's like it's not so much this is a situation that they're not apologising is one thing but doing something about it is quite another but is there anything that on the government can actually do given the structure of the country give it covert 19 whatever the impact it's having inside north korea because really we don't know. now and it's very very hard to say i mean in the short run what the government could do is loosen up some of the very very stark regulations that they essentially any import from coming through the border even from china right now. but the state is very paranoid about the virus entering the country and they're even i mean even when things like food supplies

and good like that like even. contamination and they like that so it's given the situation and given the choices that the regime has made there is very very little to do and i would be very interesting to see what kim jong un will propose or what he'll announce the if they are scheduled to announce a new 5 year plan and given the current situation though they're going to be very creative create anything about them i mean historically china has been the one to step in and help north korea outs when it's been facing problems before but i understand we're just looking at some figures out earlier the trade with china as a party plummeted by about 80 percent in the 1st 11 months of 2020 to china to try and do something or does it have to wait until north korea allows china to help. i suspect that the latter is true that china will have to wait until north korea allows it to increase trade because even during sanctions during the past couple of years or so china has been conducting much more in the trade with

north korea than before and it seems to me that china is ready and able to increase that trade even more but again the problem is that the regimes own border closure no one really knows how flexible they're prepared to be or how bad the situation will have to get for the government to reassess that policy as we know of course it's very difficult to get any sort of information about what life is like on the ground on a daily basis from north korea but let me ask you to speculate given the fact that the kim jong un has been pushed to make this submission and you say he's made several apologies in the past is there any sense that people within north korea might become dissatisfied with the regime to the point where the try to do something about it i think it's definitely a possibility and that's really what what they're genus most worried about and i i would say the biggest concern is people in the middle class and upper middle class

who become used to a much higher standard of living over the past few years then they than they were used to say in the 1990 s. and it's very that the big problem you have it's one that is taken away when you can't buy imported goods in the stores anymore that's when you really have a problem especially if people don't see any any sense that things might get better soon in the future. but definitely a risk just because it hasn't happened on a large scale before this need that it will never happen in the future so absolutely really interesting to get the benefits of your expertise in this benjamin silberstein we appreciate it thank you very much thank you for having me. venezuela's president and it is not has tightened his grip on power with the swearing in of a national assembly controlled by his socialist party now marks the end of control by the opposition who boycotted last month's election because they said it wasn't free or fair there is a boat has more. the pictures of latin america's independence hero.

and laid precedent to go chavis i return to venice way 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 little 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 president 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 last legitimacy of. 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 y. though on the open. now that my lawyer has taken control of what many see as venezuela's last democratic institution. his capacity to mobilize people has deteriorated the opposition is divided the confidence that they can remove it from office is small but he still has a stock for a political fight the united states will continue to recognize and more 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 allies. 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 oil concessions that legally need to be done by the assembly aside from their madeira from a real point of view already controlled every institution. grip 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.

opposition figures in central african republic won't last month's election nolde because of what they're calling numerous irregularities present fast in our homes todd was elected with more than 53 percent of the vote but the opposition says half the population or unable to cause balance because of violence for rebel groups. france has rejected reports that it had killed 20 people including children at a wedding in central mali residents in the remote desert village of bounties said a helicopter opened fire at a wedding on sunday a u.n. official in mali has confirmed the incident 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 several mass graves have been found in the city of tarhouni in libya when the forces of warlords and if i huffed took over the city hundreds of civilians were detained killed and tortured people there say war crimes were committed and

want to see those responsible face trials at the international criminal court algis it is not a train of reports from tanya but let me give you a warning some viewers may find images in this story disturbing a grisly discovery in the city of 2 who now this mass graves evidence people here say of the war crimes committed by fighters loyal to the warlords who used to have to. to who knows how to command center during his campaign to seize the libyan capital tripoli hundreds of people are alleged to have been killed here by the kenya militia loyal to him those who have lost relatives want those responsible to face the international criminal court or i.c.c. in the hague will be held in of the militia kidnapped my brother he has 6 children they have developed psychological disorders where is my brother where is the government where is our justice icon the justice ministry and the i.c.c. to arrest the perpetrators there is anger here into huna over the lack of

accountability committed by forces loyal to have their city officials fear if justice isn't served the legitimate and lawful means the generations to come may see greater abuse than themselves the i.c.c. has started an investigation but has yet to bring any charges. home of the family if you say that there is a clear lack of support from the government we are in dire need of help at the very least we needed team of therapists for our children to deal with the psychological conditions. 75 years old she says her brother and 6 other men from her family were kidnapped by the ilkhan yet militia she believes they were killed beside her a sign that reads no real conciliation until those missing are returned she says she has 45 grandchildren who have lost their fathers what had the total not him i thought it will happen and don't want to is a massacre the dirt here is trembling from injustice the innocent are killed and shaking in their graves the criminals are roaming freely in eastern libya and the

innocent are either dead or missing is that justice a sealed her 10 year old grandson tells us he misses his father and uncles he says he will eventually family when he grows up it's authorities don't act and justice isn't served for the thousands of families affected by how to his military campaign there is no political solution that will heal their wounds who needs and memories that will likely last for generations now a trainer al-jazeera to whom a police officer who shot a black man 7 times in the u.s. state of wisconsin in august will not face criminal charges again i was a county district attorney cleared officer rustin cesky of any crime there were mass protests after he shot jacob blake in the back leaving him power lies from the waist down cable elizondo reports. 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 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's no justification what we've done 2 months. because your story was you were free that my son was going to kidnap is to. if he was fearful of that why did he fire into the car so you 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. the district attorney's office somehow believes that as we roll in the 2021 that all of a sudden we're 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 can osha to comes 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 a world 400 year history of not holding folks accountable when it comes to lethally taking black life or even wounding black lives 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 reimagine policing structure and we demanded accountability here less than one week in the 2021 we have neither the department of justice says

the federal civil rights investigation into the shooting is ongoing gabriel sandow al-jazeera washington teenager charged with murder for opening fire during the unrest that followed blades shooting has pleaded not guilty colorado house appeared in court by video link the 18 year old faces 6 charges for the fatal shooting of 2 men on the wounding of a 3rd person can osha at the height of protests and oldest the u.s. director of national intelligence is the latest official to blame russia for a major hacking at sag the government says fewer than 10 agencies were hit by the bug which was attached to security updates president trump has downplayed the attack and tried to shift the blame away from russia. still ahead an al-jazeera there's a new team of the top of the test cricket writings joe's going to have the action and the sports.

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business leaders just for to find a brass path. some of the sport here's joe rob thank you very much let's start with the head of world football free for president jan even tino has welcomed the end of the blockade of world cup hosts qatar on tuesday saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt lifted the 3 of the hoff here boycotts and agreed to reestablish full diplomatic and trade ties with the gulf neighbor infantino congratulated all nations involved in the agreement says he hopes football will also help build solidarity in the region cateye is set to host the fee for arab cup later this year

before staging the middle east's 1st ever world cup in 2022. months city just hours away from kickoff in the english league cup semifinal against manchester united but it turns out the covert outbreak has spread another 2 players and one staff member of tested positive for current virus including their backup goalkeeper their 1st choice keeper edison is already in isolation city without 6 players for their premier league match against chelsea last sunday following positive tests no word yet on whether wednesday's game will be perspiring and or not with awareness of that much says rb will face top them who have offered their stadium as a potential covert vaccination site the stadium in north london is already being used as a code testing center spurs beat 2nd taborin for 2 nil in their league cup semifinal on tuesday head coach jason renews our need to 3rd manager to reach the final with 3 different clubs but the portuguese boss says there is room for improvement. we

don't always cordial holes we could score a couple more but. i'm not happy i think we have to play better sometimes bad decisions sometimes technical mistakes shaw job done. we are in the final south america's top club competition the copula better there as well stage its final at an empty matic in rio brazil has the 2nd highest number of world wide deaths from coronavirus the match is set for january the 30th in the competition is currently at its semi final stage also and as a legal match against athletic bilbao will go ahead on wednesday despite 2 positive cases among staff members the players overturn negative results they trained on tuesday head of a match they really need to win as they sit outside the champions league places. and women's world cup champion alex morgan has also been infected u.s. team co-captain says she and her family caught the virus while in california

recently woman says her body has fully recovered and is expecting to link up with her teammates from national team g t c. just 2 days after reaching their 1st n.f.l. playoffs in 17 seasons the cleveland browns have suffered a big blow as 5 of their team of tested positive for corona virus among them head coach kevin stefanski and 2 assistant coaches 2 players also infected a moon base cleveland's 1st playoff game since the 2002 season the browns have been hit hard by the virus they were missing 6 players and 3 coaches last week after a number of positive tests the team had to close down their training facility again on tuesday and it's turned their preparations for sunday's wild card game against the pittsburgh steelers into disarray the game is unlikely to be rescheduled though because of the n.f.l.'s rules and their opponents understand what cleveland are going through. every morning at 6 am i am looking at my phone waiting for

verification of the previous day's test results. you know we're in the clear are we not and what necessary adjustments need to be made what investigations if any need to be made that has been our life and not only ours you know best for but ours collectively as members of the national football league since july and so there are daily reminders there are continually continual reminders of how fragile the circumstances are so what's transpiring what's transpired in cleveland is not reinforcement or verification it's just more of the same for us like it has been for everyone else right the course of this journey for us sport has had to adjust to the circumstances but the country having recorded more than 21000000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the outbreak among those taking the pandemic seriously is boston university they have a rule in place for their basketball teams to wear masks on court during play that

resulted in what's believed to be the 1st men's college game this season which both teams wore them on tuesday boston university playing against holy cross although some mosques slipped down the needed adjusting so new boston university rules though not mandated by the end see. well as you've been hearing the u.s. is also in the midst of counting votes in the senate runoff election in georgia something that n.b.a. star le bron james has been passionate about the l.a. lakers forward wore a shirt saying pole up georgia to his team's game against the memphis grizzlies on tuesday to remind people to get out and vote james more than a fight group has worked to combat voter suppression in the u.s. . and i hope that we ought to shed light on situations that one that we believe to . talk about it and discuss it and also just be knowledgeable about any situation that comes out. lebron james was

a busy man on tuesday because as well as campaigning for voters to turn out in georgia he scored 26 points to help rally the l.a. lakers 289-4292 when i have the grizzlies james added 11 rebounds and 7 assists anthony davis also contributed $26.00 museums cricketers have gone to the top of the test rankings for the 1st time up to hammering pakistan by an innings in 176 runs to win the 2nd test in christchurch pakistan wait for want to be started by young pace bowler coach jamieson picked up his career best figures of 648 with none of pakistan's batsman passing 37 the kiwis dismissing their opponents 196 to wrap up the victory you see in the clinching series to know as well. and in those cricketers can breathe a sigh of relief they resumed training after all testing negative a cave in 19 in sri lanka comes after all rounder mo in early tested positive on arrival on monday he's now isolating for 10 days at the team hotel. all right that

is a useful for now i have rob joe thanks very much indeed and that's it for me rob others and for this news are going to be back in a moment to more of the day's to try to benefit the by. frank assessments 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 opinion as to how big this 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 good little get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al jazeera. they join one of the world's most notorious sound groups. but found

a way out rebuild their lives and now help us. a tale of course recruitment child soldiers and the refit exploitation of women the daughters of al-shabaab part of the radicalize you'd see in the tunnel just 0. these men are survivors of covert 1946 year old is a limousine driver is the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became bill in early march with the. body will be on balance already november so deep is a 34 year old driver for guitar a family and he tested positive my body is good it will always nabo your health officials say the rate of new infections has slowed the goal here is to conduct a broad serving to better understand transmission and asymptomatic cases which in turn could help paul see this issues in the future so it would be easy for us to.

inform the decision making on what to do next the goal now is to increase testing and contact tracing. the government provides free testing and medical treatment for those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue. or into the senate to work for georgia. the u.s. sort of georgia elects its 1st black senator moving democrats a step closer to securing a majority in the senate. in the u.s. members of congress prepared to turn a ceremonial occasion to certify the presidential results into a partisan fight. i

don't know about this and this is all just 0 a live from doha also coming up a 2nd covert.