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

a broad agenda is on the table, but the meeting — held by saudi arabia — is being overshadowed by questions over the kingdom's human rights' record. donald trump's efforts to overturn the result of the us presidential election have suffered further setbacks. the acclaimed travel the state of georgia has writer and historian certified its results showing thatjoe biden beat mr trump. and senior republicans from michigan said they'd seen no information that would overturn mr biden‘s victory in their state. our north america correspondent david willis reports. since losing the election, donald trump has largely refined his displeasure on twitter. big finer ran billions of dollars of advertisements against me during the campaign, which i won, by the way, but we

will find that out. the president wants to see results in swing states such as michigan overturned and republican lawmakers from that state were given a noisy reception as they arrived in washington for a meeting at the white house. joe biden one michigan mobile than hundred and 50,000 votes and his advisers called the invitation and abuse of power. this is really harmful to the democratic process and troubles people a great deal, on the other hand, it is deemed to failure. and so it proved, the michigan lawmakers releasing a statement saying... certification in another swing taste, georgia has already taken place after hand recount of millions of ballad. —— state

stop the trump campaign could now request a machine recount. the president continues to allege voterfraud, claiming, without evidence, that hundreds of thousands of votes had been cast illegally alleging... georgia's governor, also a republican, seem to suggest the process might not be over. we demand complete explanations for all discrepancies identified so that out citizens will have complete confidence in our election. after several states dismissed his law suits, donald trump is make slim hope of remaining in at the white house may rest in republican officials in battleground states setting aside the results and declaring him the winner, subverting the wheel of the voters in a move unprecedented in modern american history. david willis, bbc news. 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's a good thing that georgia, even under a republican, certified the election forjoe biden, that it looks like michigan is going to 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've 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 courts of law are not politicians, they're bound by rules of evidence, they're bound by civil procedure rules and they're not able

to even take these cases and to the extent to which they're alleging something other than fraud that may be colourable legally, 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 i just 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 his raison d'etre, one of the reasons his supporters love him so much is that he does not care much for normal norms, normal democratic norms. that's one of the reasons he's there and got voted in. but the flip side to that is that so much of the constitution and the ethics and norms aren't written down, aren't codified, depend on people's sense of, whatever it is, decency or shame or whatever. do you think in the light of everything that's happened that we will need to see more ratification?

that we will need to see more codification? well, there are a couple of things that, one is that actually 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, like 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 are 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 just been in lockstep with this degradation of the 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 bonda renka was severely beaten when he tried to stop agents ripped down the opposition‘s red and white emblems. —— roman bondarenka. the exiled figurehead svetla na tikhanovskaya 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? and challenges when it comes to distribution? 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. there 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 tojohn 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've gone digital, leaders will have

little choice but to speechify to each other and read their texts 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 as 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. you are watching bbc news, the 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. pfizer asks regulators around the world for emergency approval of its coronavirus vaccine. 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. sam cowie is a british journalist in sao paulo — he told me what happened. we know there was an altercation, basically that joao 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

is 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 de janeiro, 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 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 seen in the us as well, with the killing of george floyd, a growing black lives matter movements

inside of brazil also, but realistically, in brazil, if you are black, if you are poor, your family can realistically, you know, what. .. what is going to happen, in terms of compensation from the state, will be very little. in the final weeks of president trump's time in office, the usjustice department says an american man convicted of spying for israel and jailed for 30 years has completed his parole and is free to leave the united states. jonathan pollard, a former us navy intelligence analyst, passed classified documents to israel during the late days of the cold war. he was released from prison in 2015 but was confined by strict parole terms to the united states, despite israeli pressure to allow him to leave. 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 world war ii. the french president emmanuel macron said the people of france owe him "their freedom and honour". on friday, the south korean megaband bts launched their new album be, and the new single ‘life goes on has already been watched around 68 million times so far on youtube. the seven—member boy band from south korean helped build a globalfan base for k—pop since their debut in 2013. this year, they, become the first south korean act to top the us singles chart with their song "dynamite". i'm joined now by aamina khan, a culture writer at teen vogue in new york. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for having me. i have been keeping up—to—date with u—tube for the

last couple of hours watching the views go up to 68 million also now, not the record 100 million views in 2a hours they had for their last song but still pretty impressive. —— u—tube. still pretty impressive. —— u-tube. yeah, pretty massive. so what is the secret, why have they managed to endure? you know what, i think that they just managed to engage with theirfans ina just managed to engage with theirfans in a way just managed to engage with their fans in a way that every single time they release an album there is just a plethora of new fans that come in. i don't know what the formula is but i think that they just, don't know what the formula is but i think that theyjust, i don't know, managed to charm people by their use of social media, by the use of doing live streams and things like that, i think that is the big part of it. and so the people who haven't heard their music or necessarily know what they are about, what are they about? what are they about, i guess on the basic level they are a pop

korean pop idol group, but i think there is a lot more to them, why people are drawn to them, why people are drawn to them, they have a really, really beautiful underdog story that i think a lot of people of all ages are really drawn to, andi all ages are really drawn to, and i think that that is a lot of what draws fans in initially, is oh, ijust wanted to learn their names at first, 01’ to learn their names at first, or they see a performance because a music video came out, and they think oh, who is bts, i will learn their names. and before you know it you will learn that, you know, where they came remember endings like that and i think that is a big pa rt that and i think that is a big part of what gets people hooked. and what about the album itself, have you listened to it, what do you think of it? i have listened to it, i think it isa i have listened to it, i think it is a really beautiful album, it is a really beautiful album, it is a really beautiful album, itisi it is a really beautiful album, it is i think a change of pace from what they normally do, it isa from what they normally do, it is a lot more of a lower tempo,

as lower tempo as k—pop can be, i think it is a lot softer of an album compared to what we saw last time and especially from the single dynamite that was released in the summer. so personally, honestly i think it is... extremely in line with what is happening in western p0p: what is happening in western pop, andi what is happening in western pop, and i think it is a really gorgeous album, i think that a lot of the songs... i don't know, are in tune with people's mood, it's winter, when a pandemic and it is a lot more acoustic and things like that. 0k, great stuff, thank you so much for talking us through bts there and i will keep watching those numbers on their videos tick up and up. thank you for coming on the programme. that is about it from me, plenty more on the website and

the bbc news app. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. hello there. on friday, we saw temperatures slowly rising as milderaircame 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 milderaircome 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 hour for 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 00:28:33,277 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and western parts of the uk.