he this is bbc news. this is bbc news, i'm lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: our top stories: more setbacks for donald trump. donald trump's efforts to overturn georgia certifies joe the us presidential election result biden's win in the state, suffer further setbacks. while republicans from michigan say they've seen no information the state of georgia to overturn their results. certifies its results after a recount confirmed pfizer asks regulators around the world for emergency joe biden as the winner. approval of its coronavirus vaccine, we'll look at the challenges of getting and senior republicans from michigan say they've seen no information that would overturn mr biden's victory in their state. it around the globe. the world could be a step closer to a covid—19 vaccine, after the drugs company, pfizer, and its partner, biontech, filed for emergency saudi arabia hosts a meeting of the world's biggest authorisation in the us economies— but can boycott calls take the shine off and other countries the 620 summit online? around the globe. if approved, it will begin to be rolled out from next month. for the first time the g20 meeting of the world's be leading economies is being and, 60 million streams in a day, south korean hosted by an arab state. a broad agenda is on the table, band bts prove the k—pop but the meeting —

held by saudi arabia — is being overshadowed by questions over the kingdom's human rights' record. bubble‘s far from bursting. the acclaimed travel writer and historian, welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump's efforts to overturn the result of the us presidential election have suffered further setbacks. the state of georgia has certified its results showing thatjoe biden beat mr trump by over 12,600 votes. and after meeting mr trump at the white house, senior republicans from michigan said they had seen no information that would overturn mr biden‘s victory in their state. the bbc‘s nomia iqbal is in washington. she says that despite them confirming victory for joe biden, president trump will still want to pursue any recounts. that's not stopping him from still pushing ahead so today, we saw that

georgia had certified the votes, confirmed that it will go tojoe biden. but donald trump can still demand a recount, that is still his right because, in terms of numbers of votes thatjoe biden had, it does fall within the margin, and donald trump today had a press conference and it was about covid—19, it about vaccines, but he came out and said "i won the election — i got more than 73 million votes." of course, joe biden got many more votes than that and the tally is coming up to nearly 80 million. and i think that gives us an indication that donald trump is still going right ahead with his plans to try and get the projections overturned. professor kim wehle is a professor of law at the university of baltimore in maryland. she gave me her take on the current impasse. i think it is a good thing

that georgia, even under a republican, certified the election forjoe biden and it looks like michigan will do the same on monday. and in america we have the system of federalism where states operate independently and so far, they are going along with the will of the people, unlike unfortunately the president of the united states and many republicans in the us congress. but my expectation is that joe biden will be sworn in onjanuary 20. have you seen any legal avenues that you think could be successful, could warrant any kind of attention? no, and there have been i think 32 cases filed and the president's lost i think 31 of them on last count and that is for good reason. there is no evidence of fraud and in courts of law, they are not politicians, they are bound by rules of evidence and bound by civil procedure rules and they're not even able to take these cases and the extent to which they're alleging something other than fraud that may be legal, certainly not in a way that

could affect the outcome of any of these races and donald trump would have to overturn multiple states in order to shift the election so ijust don't see that happening through the courts. given, on a slightly tangential issue but the same principle, really, i‘ m interested in what your thoughts are over the last couple of years obviously of his presidency donald trump, one of the reasons his supporters love him so much is he does not care much for normal norms, normal democratic norms. that is one of the reasons he is there. that is why he got voted in. but the flip side to that is that so much of the constitution and the ethics and norms are not written down, not codified, depend on people's sense of whatever it is, decency or shame or whatever. do you think in the light of everything that has happened that we will need to see more ratification? well, there are a couple of things, one is that a number

of the things that donald trump has ignored are actually codified, for example in this moment the head of the general services administration should have authorised the transition. she's refusing to do that, presumably under his direction. but i do agree, sort of what happened post—watergate, if we had a bipartisan congress that was functioning, which would really require a republican senate, that we should see legislation to kind of plug some of these holes, these holes as you indicate that i really about decency, norms, protecting the rule of law, understanding the fragility of the constitution. but it's not just donald trump, frankly, it's the republicans and the congress that have been in lockstep with this degradation of american system of government which is quite unfortunate. let's get some of the day's other news. millions of yemenis are at risk of starvation, according to the un secretary general, antonio guterres, who says yemen is facing what could be the worst famine the world has seen in decades. mr guterres blamed the situation on yemen's continuing war and the drastic reduction in the international community's funding of un relief programmes. there's a call for the opening of humanitarian corridors

to help civilians caught in the fighting in ethiopia's tigray region, warning of what it called "dramatic humanitarian impact". preparations are under way for an influx of up to 200,000 refugees into neighbouring sudan. thousands of opposition supporters in belarus have paid their last respects to an activist who died after a clash with suspected plain clothes police. witnesses say 31—year—old roman bondarenko was severely beaten when he tried to stop agents ripped down the opposition‘s red and white emblems. the exiled figurehead sviatla na tsikhanouskaya said he was killed by government thugs. the interior ministry has denied involvement. the drugs manufacturer pfizer, and its partner biontech, are filing for emergency authorisation for their coronavirus vaccine, meaning they could start distributing it by mid—december. it'll be the job of the us food and drug administration to decide if it's safe to roll out. dr mati hlatshwayo davis

told us she has high expectations. i'm so happy to be able to say to you that i am actually optimistic, after a year of bad news after bad news, these preliminary data are wonderful. all of us in the medical research and public health arena are absolutely hopeful at this point. the news from pfizer, backed up by what moderna is seeing, is wonderful. but this is tempered by the fact that we still have to complete these studies, complete the numbers that are needed to reach significance, after which the data needs to be evaluated by external review boards. but pending that, this could be great news for the world. so talk us through, what are

some of the difficulties and challenges when it comes to distributional? distribution is indeed a challenge, it's one that i've been trying to get people to talk about and think about from the summer. having a product is one thing but getting it out is another. a couple of things — pfizer's vaccine requires very low temperature and that requires places that have resources available to be able to keep it at these low temperatures. on top of that, equity, equity is key here. as you know, we've been talking about this data being disproportionately impacting brown and black communities in the us. also the elderly and people with underlying comorbidities such as lung and heart disease. so there has to be thoughts as to who will get it, when, and how this will be rolled out. i've talked to you before about the history of mistrust in black and brown communities based on, you know, years, historically, of systematic and institutional racism and so what we do not want to see here is an equitable distribution that results in these folks being left behind once again. is that a concern that that will happen? i will say this.

people have been extraordinarily thoughtful about the rollout plan. they has already been plans that have been released and thought about how this should be done and thinking about who needs to get this first when there is limited numbers. to that end, healthcare workers on the front lines were either directly or indirectly involved in the care of people with coronavirus, will be getting this in the first wave, as will people who are at higher risk, the elderly and people with comorbidities, such as the ones included. and although not explicitly said, we do know that black and brown communities who are suffering, also disproportionately, have high rates of these comorbidities so i'm confident that once the new administration is in power we will see as equitable a distribution as is possible.

california is to impose a nightly curfew from saturday to combat a new surge in coronavirus transmissions. governor gavin newsom said the measure is crucial to slow down the rate of hospitalisations. sophie long reports. open". all: cali! as a raft of new measures restricting people's freedom comes into effect, there are jeers from people who have little to cheer. the aim is to stop the surge. but some feel the wrong targets are being hit. right now, you can go to a strip club — an indoor strip club — but you can't go to church indoors. across almost all of california, a new curfew. all restaurants, bars and non—essential businesses must close by 10pm, but those responsible for doing so say it will be impossible to police. if we're the one enforcing it, we're not involved in the making of the plans or anything, no, it's not going to work.

those plans are dead on arrival, unfortunately. all the time, the economic impact of the closures continues to take its toll. use of food banks has more than doubled here. everything's out of whack, and it's depressing. although i'm handicapped, i still like to be able to move. it's difficult. i've never seen anything, i've been all around the united states of america, i've never seen nothing like this. janet nguyen has spent her whole working life at what disney calls "the happiest place on earth". she, like tens of thousands of disney employees, has been out of work for eight months. every day gets harder. it's been rough. since i had a good job with disney, it helped me keep afloat and take care of everything that i needed. right now, with not having a job, makes it difficult. there is little sign of happiness here now, even hope is getting hard to find. in hospitals, where there has been no let up, exhausted medical

workers once again worry about being overwhelmed as admissions surge. also surging dramatically is the demand for testing. at dodger stadium in los angeles, cars are queueing in every direction, prompting pleas for people getting tested ahead of the holiday to hold off. the message is now to stay at home. and if you're not displaying symptoms, you shouldn't need testing because you shouldn't be socialising. as people wait for tests, a dramatic rollback of california's reopening is taking place. and there are warnings of even tighter restrictions if the case count continues to climb here. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. the eldest son of president trump has tested positive for coronavirus. in a statement, a spokesman said donald trump jr, who is 42, had been diagnosed at the start of the week and had been quarantining at his cabin since receiving his test result.

saudi arabia is hosting this weekend's g20 summit, the annual gathering of heads of the world's biggest economies. this is the first time an arab state has hosted the summit, but in the midst of a global pandemic leaders will be meeting online. a little earlier i spoke to john kirton, professor of political science and founder of the g20 research group. i asked him if the fact that this g20 was online would change the dynamic of the event. oh yes, indeed. g20 summits were always far more scripted than the smaller, more intimate g7 ones, but now they have gone digital, leaders will have little choice but to speechify to each other and read their text into the video screens and hope that their colleagues are actually listening and watching on the other side.

they won't be able to read the body language, have private chats, what's really on your mind. even have spontaneous encounters that can often lead to new initiatives just invented on the spot. so they'll be stuck with what their lower levels have produced, their ministers, officials, and just say, yeah, ok with us. and what we know from the draft communique already being leaked, it's really not enough to meet the world's needs at this critical time. that's a really interesting insight, and of course this is a crucial event for saudi arabia. it is always and will be dogged by its human rights abuses record and especially the murder of jamal khashoggi, the journalist. indeed, and i think it's important to remember that at the past several g20 summits,

including the one hosted by the people's republic of china a few years ago, all g20 leaders have publicly said in their communiques, we believe in human rights. so if a few of the leaders at riyadh want to say, saudi arabia's host, are you living up to what you have claimed in the very recent past, tell us more. i think they've got a scripture for which to speak. at the same time, though, every leader has a cruel choice. do they use their very scarce times speaking to the video screen to actually focus on those issues from the past or try and use it to save the hundreds of thousands of millions of lives that we're going to lose in the next few weeks and months unless the g20 leaders can get their act together fast. not only on covid—i9 directly but on starvation, the food crisis we're now facing and so many deadly

things. lots of other issues are going to be squeezed out, really. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: life goes on for the south korean boy band bts — their new single gets over 60 million views in less than a day. benazir bhutto has claimed victory in pakistan's general election and she's asked pakistan's president to name her as prime minister. jackson's been released on bail of $3 million after turning himself into police in santa barbara. it was the biggest demonstration so far of the fast—growing european anti—nuclear movement. the south african government has announced that it's opening the country's remaining whites—only beaches to people of all races.

this will lead to a black majority government in this country and the destruction of the white civilisation. part of the centuries—old windsor castle, one of the queen's residences, has been consumed by fire for much of the day. 150 firemen have been battling the blaze, which has caused millions of pounds worth of damage. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: more setbacks for donald trump. georgia has certified joe biden's win in the state, while republicans from michigan say they've seen no information to overturn their results. the brutal killing of a black man at the hands of two white security guards outside a supermarket has sparked outrage across brazil. footage showed the man

being repeatedly punched in the face by the guards at a carrefour store in porto alegri. the victim was a ao—year—old welder and community leader, joao alberto silveira freitas. the guards, who have been sacked by carrefour, have been detained. protests also took place at supermarkets in sao paulo and rio de janiero. i'm joined now by sam cowie, a british journalist in sao paulo. thanks so much for coming on the programme. taught us through what we know what happened at the supermarket? we know there was an altercation, basically thatjoao alberto silveira freitas was a regular customer at the supermarket, he was known to the cashiers of the supermarket, and he was suspected to have been known to his attackers. and at some point, there was an altercation between him and the security guards, one of whom was a

serving military police officer, the police in brazil are divided along civil and military lines, and there was an altercation which led to the attack onjoao alberto, which led to him being brutally attacked, which led to his death. and the protests are a result of that, they have been really significant? yes. that's right. we have seen protests outside and even inside the carrefour stores. here in sao paulo, in rio dejaneiro, and in porto alegre, where the murder occurred, and in various other branches of the carrefour store across brazil's states. and what happens now? well,

quite frankly, brazil is a country where black people are killed every day, either at the hands of private security forces or state security forces, and they are killed much more than their white counterparts. if you look at the statistics of black people that are killed by security forces in brazil, or if you look at the statistics of people in general that are killed in brazil, 70% to 75% of them, according to all reputable statistics, are black oi’ reputable statistics, are black or brown people. and usually, u nfortu nately, or brown people. and usually, unfortunately, there is very little come back on this, at least from the state. what we can see, there are these protests happening across the nation tonight, perhaps as a growing force of what we have seenin

growing force of what we have seen in the us as well, with the killing of george floyd, a growing black lives matter movements inside of his ill also, but realistically, in brazil, if you are black, if you are poor, yourfamily can realistically, you know, what. .. what is realistically, you know, what... what is going to happen, in terms of compensation from the state, will be very little. perhaps a cynical response, but that is a very realistic response from someone very realistic response from someone who has lived in brazil for the past ten years. 0k, sam, we will have to leave it there. thank you for talking to us. one of the last remaining heroes of the french resistance, daniel cordier, has died at the age of 100. mr cordier played a key role in the movement that helped liberate france from its german occupiers during the second world war. the french president, emmanuel macron, said the people of france owe him "their freedom and honour. " south korean megaband bts launched their new album, be, after becoming the fastest

group since the beatles to earn four us number one albums. their latest single life goes on has already been watched more 60 million times on youtube in under 2a hours. the all—korean, seven—piece boy band will perform it live for the american music awards on sunday. it's all music to mark lobel‘s ears. even multimillion—dollar boy bands find lockdown a struggle at times. days cooped up in their pjs, reminiscing about their legion of fans. but through this new album, be, their message to them is life goes on. in a socially distanced launch in seoul, they reflect on the rollercoaster of pandemic life and respond to the recent struggles injubilation.

translation: ourjoy of life is touring, but as that is cancelled, we have become depressed and sad. but covid—19 meant we could release dynamite, which was unexpected, topping the us chart, realising our goal. dynamite, seen by a record 100 million youtube viewers in august in just 2a hours shows that life is as sweet as honey. debit also with tracks around loneliness and accepting when things are not always 0k. they always deliver in terms of their music, because they write all their own songs, and they are involved in lots of different stages of their own music, and that is what makes them special.

they have a great standing on social media. but through that, it is the fans that drive a lot of good and a lot of positivity from their influence. for example, bts themselves only had $1 million and the army then matched that amount in 2a hours. as any popstar will tell you, it is not ideal playing to an empty stadium — especially after the world tour they had planned. but lockdown gave them all the free time to record this new album. as for their reviews? well, they are mixed. the album covers many genres, and while some think they have not taken enough risks, others praise them for providing 28 minutes of comfort for millions. bts take to the stage in los angeles this sunday, then it's another stage that beckons: even south korean popstars are expected to do two

years of military service. translation: i will accept the call of the country at any time, whenever it happens. for now, they continue rewriting the rulebook on how to engage fans, and bursting the traditional k—pop bubble by each developing their own skills, as the mega band continues to make history on the world stage. mark lobel, bbc news. freak ice storms in russia's far east have prompted a state of emergency with thousands left without power, but one man's thankful he was left with his life, after a near miss in the city of vladivostok. there he is in the red jacket clearing snow off his car as something catches his eye and forces him to run. and that something was a huge concrete slab breaking off from the side of the building next to him. he may have escaped unharmed, it's a shame the same can't be said for the car.

you can reach me on twitter. i'm @lvaughanjones. hello there. on friday, we saw temperatures slowly rising as milder air came in from the atlantic, together with a lot of cloud. but over this weekend, it's cooler air that's going to return across the uk, with temperatures set to drop a bit. now, we've seen the milder aircome in, thanks to south—westerly winds bringing in that cloud. this strip of cloud here is a weather front. that's producing the rain that we are seeing at the moment and it's moving very slowly southwards. now, that weather front will take the rain southwards. as it does so, the rain becomes light and patchy, but it pushes away the milder air steadily through the weekend, with cooler air then following from the north. and that's going to bring in some showers, mainly for scotland and for northern ireland. but we start the weekend with mild air across england and wales. it's colder in northern scotland early on saturday morning. it's windy here as well.

and then we've got our band of rain on that weather front. that rain will soon move away from southern scotland, northern ireland, heading into northern england in the morning, and then down through wales, into the north midlands later on in the day. to the south of that, generally dry. a lot of cloud but a hint of sunshine now and again. it's quite mild air still here, so temperatures 13 degrees. further north, it's getting colder through the day. there will be some sunshine, but those showers could be quite heavy and blustery, as well, because it's going to be quite a windy day, especially for northern scotland, where we're looking at gales, gusts of 70 miles an hourfor a while in the northern isles. now, through saturday evening and saturday night, that band of clouds and rain, becoming light and patchy, heads down to southern england. elsewhere, we'll see clearing skies away from those showers continuing mainly in scotland. and the winds will gradually ease as well, so it points to a colder night. temperatures could be easily down to 4 or 5 degrees. but across southern parts of england, south of the ma, mainly, we could be left with a fair bit of cloud on sunday. a little rain now and again but on the whole generally dry. further north, more in the way of sunshine. we keep some showers going across northern ireland,

and in particular into scotland. again, they could be quite heavy. it's going to be a cooler day, i think. for many places, temperatures are going to struggle to make double figures. but it won't be as windy on sunday. now, looking ahead into the early parts of next week, and the wind direction changing back to more of a south—westerly. a little bit milder, but we've got weather fronts on the scene as well. they're going to bring cloud and rain. it looks like the wettest weather through monday, and into tuesday, will be across more northern 00:28:34,442 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and western parts of the uk.