in the lead he's considered a strong favorite succeed president mohamad a recent who was stepping down after 10 years by the dresses in the capital in the army with more on those early results. as expected the leading candidates in the presidential election did well now the election commission has been mandated constitutionally mandated to issue or proclaimed the winner of this election in 5 days but a lot of people think that this could come earlier than 5 days from here the constitutional court will take over within 2 weeks it's supposed to ratify or reject the results and i was by the independent election commission meanwhile observers to this election have issued their verdicts. count. as well as publication of result. carried out professionally and transparently in the gordons with the provision of the electoral who related text and where and when they thought by party. although the economic community of west african states admitted that it did not send delegates to 2 regions differ and i get is because of security concerns meanwhile the united states embassy here in near me has i

earlier i spoke to mohamad moneer who's a viral infection and vaccine expert at lancaster university in the u.k. i asked him how unusual it is that a vaccine still in phase 3 clinical trials is being rolled out for mass vaccination having a deploy a vaccine. 100000 or even more than that people have in fact i think that is their cure dangerous moving forward 1st because that seems to quadruple to testing and that's one of the reason that we took a dr long time to come up with a vaccine that we can all trust so the vaccine that is not with us you're tested what's the. moving forward because it's not just that russia itself is would be setting an example for other countries it's a bit hans the vaccine has a tendency on board for more efforts to have a high coverage because so many major concern is not just having the vaccine concern it that all weekly and whole widely we can deploy it because until we don't immunized 75 percent of the people fact of the vaccine would be significantly lower which we don't really want to see that's mohamed near from lancaster university many many thanks

to the polls in the share nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamad do isu food was elected after a coup 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor mohamed zoom it's a 30 strong field of candidates. well. today's a special day for us and a special day for a new year which will experience a democratic transition of power for the 1st time in its history i hope it will be the 1st step towards more changes to consolidate our democratic process and our reputation as a democratic country in africa and the world. the european union has begun one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaigns aiming to protect 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents in the 27 member bloc are among the 1st to be inoculated turkey's defense minister says libyan war holy for half thought and his supporters will be viewed as legitimate targets if they target turkish forces in the country on saturday to lucy our car arrived in tripoli promising to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there after threa

transition of power after sunday's elections early results but the ruling party's presidential candidate mohamad believes he's considered a strong favorite succeed president mohamed who stepping down after 10 years a boeing 737 max has been used for a commercial flight in the u.s. for the 1st time since the plane was grounded almost 2 years ago the american airlines service took about 100 passengers from miami to new york the plane was grounded worldwide after crashes in ethiopia and indonesia 346 people those are the headlines want to thailand's last resorts is coming up next. if you look at the history of warfare if you look at our own if you look at. these things do not enter the world as you go on your world drugs they enter the world and that is. a new 3 part documentary series looks at the history and geopolitics of drug trafficking and its impact on the well today drug trafficking politics and power coming soon on al-jazeera. with its tropical climate natural beauty and traditional culture thailand has long been a popular tourist destination. but now there is another reason drawing people

of power around 7 and a half 1000000 people cost that ballots to choose a successor the president mohamad who is for that's if you're up to date more news on al-jazeera after the listening post next. the stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's not a total one i want to speak to those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out their deaths on al-jazeera. has london called as chairman of the wrong thing you think of you being a monument you're standing in the political differences here. as. the perfect. leaving the b.b.c. these are the most vital important accessible cultural institutions in the last bar not possibly in the world. the b.b.c. was born almost a century ago in 1922 just count the fuzz it's the world's 1st public broadcaster 1st national radio service 1st state backed television provider. the b.b.c. wrote the book supplied the model for the networks that have sprung up across continents including the one you're watching now is probably the highest quality. independent balanced news and documentary coverage of any broadcast she will

don't really do that meaning that we will certainly not have a bit on this pandemic in near future dr mohamad moneer joining us from lancaster university thank you very much for those insights thank you very much really for having me u.s. president elect harris has been given the coded 1000 vaccine live on television. the incoming biden administration is aiming to boost confidence and vaccinations president elect joe biden got his 1st shot live on t.v. last week he takes office in 3 weeks and plans to make tackling a pandemic his top priority. let's look at some of the other developments in the pandemic belarusan argentina have become the 1st countries outside russia to launch mass vaccination campaigns using the sputnik vivax scene the shot still has not completed late stage trials that would ensure its safety and efficacy thailand is offering 2 year work permits to undocumented migrant workers the government hopes the move will help curb the spread of covert 19 by encouraging migrants to access testing and health care and the e.u. has called for the immediate release of a chinese citizen jo

khan mohamad logic there was no claim of responsibility talkative attacks have increased in recent weeks and last week the deputy governor of kabul was also killed by a car bomb and also being protested the poll and 7 ministers have stepped down after the president dissolved parliament to pave way for snap elections the prime minister calls for an early vote because of a power struggle within the ruling communist party some accuse only of sidelining the party in government decisions and mishandling the krona virus elections will be held in april a year ahead of shuttle. but i was marking the 21st anniversary of its return to china from portuguese control but unlike hong kong the gambling her present brace beijing's tightening grip devika pollard reports. this is a tale of 2 cities macau a former portuguese colony now a casino powerhouse the other hong kong a former british colony and an international financial center both returned to chinese rule in the late 1990 s. . but while hong kong pushed back against beijing's tightening control in the following years that with little opposition i

starting in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president to mohamad who is so full of came to power in a coup before being elected and 2011 is stepping down after 2 terms as preferred successor mohamed basil its authority a strong field of candidates we share is struggling with arms movements and widespread poverty. was the us it's a big job because there are 2 elections at the same time there are the presidential elections and the legislative elections who stakes are high we have to make sure that the ballots that have to go to the ballot box for the presidential election go there and those for the legislative elections go to the ballot box for the legislative elections so we try to organize ourselves as well as possible. this is life or as in the capital in the army has made this election day in these air and things progress in the. well basically elections of voting started just a few minutes ago about 7 minutes ago exactly but it's a slow process and one of the voting centers we went to earlier the voting port falling unit number one a news year w

voting also took place in a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamad who is some 4 who came to power in a coup before being elected in 2011 is stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor is mohamed barzun the european union has begun one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaigns aiming to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents in the 27 member bloc have been among the 1st to be inoculated. parts of the u.k. are being warned to expect more flooding and strong winds there of already been days of wet weather from the approaching storm beller rivers have been rising particularly high in the county of bedfordshire and many homes have been evacuated . turkey's defense minister says that libyan warlord holy farfar and his supporters will be viewed as legitimate targets if they target turkish forces in the country on saturday go to see our car arrived in tripoli promising to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there after our present to strike turkish forces after they pl

the war in the for there are only 2 consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamad the. iran's president says he is not overly happy about joe biden's u.s. election win but is gods that the courts terrorists donald trump is leaving office a son rouhani has been speaking ahead of a meeting in vienna only 2050 nuclear deal deal has been unraveling since the u.s. withdrew and began really imposing sanctions let's get more now from dorset so barry she joins us live from teheran and door so the iranian economy is under significant pressure after the moves that donald trump had taken with regards to the nuclear deal is there any hope that when joe biden comes into office that this could breathe new life into the j.c. . there is certainly cautious optimism is how i would describe it from present has some rouhani that there is a possibility that the incoming u.s. administration could use this opportunity to wrong to do some right in light of everything that president trump has done the president hassan rouhani was speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting this morning where he s

to part of a coup before being elected 2011 stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor as mohamad. the european union has begun one of the world's largest growth of our respects a nation campaigns in to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and residents of the 27 member bloc in among the 1st to be inoculated. federal investigators in the u.s. have searched the home as they look for clues into a christmas day explosion in nashville 3 people were hurt and about 40 buildings were damaged in the past half hour police have held another media briefing but as yet haven't provided much new information let's head over to john hendren who joins us from nashville john what more can you tell us. he's welcome that's right we heard from a number of the officers who responded to this scene and they talked about how they evacuated people from the area they reported parking directly in front of that r.v. that ended up exploding hearing the messages emanating from that r.v. telling people to evacuate and that there would be an explosion coming so as that happened they worked their way

come the site was buried in volcanic ash but the ancient city was destroyed 2000 years ago really mohamad explains what makes this discovery so unique. this restaurant and pump a is about 2000 years old it's maybe ancient but in many ways resembles a modern day fast food business the l. shaped counter has holes for containers to serve hot food and frescoes that advertise items on the menu and like most successful businesses it had a prime location the building was found by this team of archaeologists during a mission to shore up palm pais ruins. we started escalating 2 years ago at 1st we only found a side of the body which among other things has a beautiful painting of unary riding a sea horse i think it's our march to the nearby fonteyn because it's located in a small city square that among the most evocative in pompei there is a fonteyn appears on metric tower a water tank and many other structures. among the findings a range of paintings that include a cockerel ducks and a dog the vibrant colors remain intact notably pompei red to highlight to the eateries features the menu is thought

how key leaders mohamad i.q. and. and his who i mean are increasingly at odds with each other. several things would change gratian adds opinion for your peace efforts were in decline account of the adult and peace was his baby but it also of this will be from the american perspective the soviet union is also using the day this kind of period of detente to expand its influence in the 3rd world. 1975 of course we have the downfall of south vietnam and the reunification of vietnam as a communist state an afghanistan that seems to fit into this pattern i think the problem for britain of personally the reason to become so amenable to the idea of leaving me is that his embrace of iraqi was very it was very public right he made a point of saying don't worry you'll be ok we'll support you when he misses when he visits moscow in 1979 and sees him off at the airport that he goes back and then he's arrested and killed and so then version of also sees this not just as a political insult to the soviet union but as a personal insult to himself. once his rival was out of the way i mean undert

that is not happening mohamad in south africa version of the virus has emerged which seems to share some of the mutations found in the variant that has been discovered in england what else do we know at this point about that variant yes the this old house we're going to variant basically as well as the brazilian variant those were having mutations similar to this variant in the u.k. those were independent evidence because those were identified quite early in time and then lot of research has been already conducted on to those if we really toss late those impact onto abyss. this new variant here in the u.k. it appears that it would certainly have impact onto the truss miss ability but it didn't have any impact at all to disease civility as well as onto the vaccine se i think you see as it stands emmanuel you know vaccine has it in c. is is such a big problem right now are you concerned that news of this virus mutation will make people who are already skeptical of taking the vaccine think that since there is a new variant it's not worth getting vaccinated i mean is this only going to incre

have nothing in the share a nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamad who is so full was elected after a coup in 2011 he's stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor mohamed bozo aids a 30 strong field of candidates and share a struggling with movements and widespread poverty. was a very courageous young people today is a special day for us and a special day for the share which will experience a democratic transition of power for the 1st time in its history i hope it will be the 1st step towards more changes to consolidate our democratic process and our reputation as a democratic country in africa and the world. i'm editors has more now from the capital the army. according to the election commission voting across the country has been going on smoothly except in 2 areas where voting couldn't take place because of threats of violence and he said there was even some form of surprise when people in certain areas such and by violence by boko haram and armed groups from neighboring mali and broken a facile got the sense that they are in fact voting t

independent elections watchdog and pro-democracy activist was also killed and on saturday a politician can mohamad wardak was targeted in a car bombing he survived but 9 other people were killed despite appeals from leaders for a pause during this pandemic the united states has continued to deport central americans back home to their home countries they include more than 20000 guatemalans just this year and they found conditions there even worse than when they left john holmes reports. it's been a desperate homecoming for me gayle settle he was deported from the u.s. in september after 2 years of working illegally in miami. now he's back in his village in the guatemalan highlands to find the harvest has failed young on 20000 guatemalans have been deported from the u.s. this year according to the country's migration institute and they're coming back to find the conditions they fled and now even worse the economy's projected to contract due to the pandemic and experts say the country's also increasingly affected by climate change some of its regions are part of a dry belt spreading throughout centra

says that base $21.00 camps in the last rebel stronghold of been wiped out by severe weather regular mohamad reports. to run children in floods into this refugee camp in northwest syria families are doing whatever they can to stay warm in makeshift tents covered in mud. the of our condition is very bad we have no proper tents nor a proper living i have 10 children and we do not get any and we collect firewood to run the heater. aid agencies estimates nearly one and a half 1000000 people are huddled in camps like this in the last rebel held area in syria rain is affecting this area particularly bad the drainage system is poor and flood water seeping into overcrowded shelters basic supplies are running out our situation is dire we do not get aid and we don't have heaters or fuel roads that lead to the camp a cut off because it's based on an agricultural land it's been described as the largest mass displacement in almost 10 years of conflict in syria millions are now homeless after a russian backed syrian government offensive this year and now the u.n. warns the harsh winter could become a bree

in the human but there are only 2 consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamad though. a chinese space probe has touched back down on earth with the 1st moon rocks brought to the decades trying a 5 probes successful return brings an end to one of the most complicated and challenging missions in china's aerospace history the tiny 2 kilogram delivery makes it only the 3rd country to retrieve lunar rock and soul samples and comes more than 40 years since the last collection. still to come on al-jazeera. expanding influence of book around 15 kidnapped students are released but hundreds more still missing. but to be are not alone and irish is award winning opposition it encourages all those standing against president bush. another big storm this is this bomb that beautifully as you can see say go force winds across the whole let's move on so during says day the bulk of it's going to be rain or snow across southern scandinavia and the bottom half of this waiting front hangs on giving a miserable couple of days in the rain valley in front of the next things already wan

really do that meaning that we will certainly not have a bit on to this pandemic in near future dr mohamad moneer joining us from lancaster university thank you very much for those insights thank you very much really for having me us vice president elect harris has been given the covert 1000 back seen live on television. but the incoming biden administration is aiming to boost confidence in vaccinations president elect joe biden got his 1st shot live on t.v. last week he takes office in 3 weeks and plans to make tackling the pandemic his top priority. now let's look at some of the other developments in the pandemic belarusan argentina have become the 1st countries outside russia to launch mass vaccination campaigns using the sputnik v. vaccine that shot has still not completed late stage trials that ensures its safety and efficacy thailand is offering to your work permits to undocumented migrant workers the government hopes that will move that will help curb the spread of covert 19 by encouraging migrants to access testing and health care and the e.u. has called for the media release of a

only are many of the party members of creasing we sidelined but even the 2 ruling how key leaders mohamad and. and his ally i mean are increasingly at odds with each other 6 years after several things would change direction as opinion for your piece if it were in decline again that they don't and peace was he's baby that it also office will be from the american perspective the soviet union is also using the day this kind of period of detente to expand its influence in the 3rd world. 175 of course we have the downfall of south vietnam and the reunification of vietnam as a communist state and afghanistan then seems to fit into this pattern i think the problem for britain of personally the reason to become so amenable to the idea of moving i mean is that his embrace of he was very it was very public right he made a point of saying don't worry you'll be ok we'll support you when he misses when he visits moscow in 1979 and sees him off at the airport that he goes back and then he's arrested and killed and so then version of also sees this not just as a political insult to the soviet union but

don't really do that meaning that we will certainly not have it on to this pandemic in near future dr mohamad moneer joining us from lancaster university thank you very much for those insights thank you very much really and for having me us vice president elect harris has been given the covert 1000 vaccine live on television. but the incoming biden administration is aiming to boost confidence in vaccinations president elect joe biden got his 1st shot live on t.v. last week he takes office in 3 weeks and plans to make tackling the pandemic his top priority. now let's look at some of the other developments in the pandemic belarusan argentina have become the 1st countries outside russia to launch mass vaccination campaigns using the sputnik v. vaccine that shot has still not completed late stage trials that ensures its safety and efficacy thailand is offering to your work permits to undocumented migrant workers the government hopes that will move that will help curb the spread of covert 1000 by encouraging migrants to access testing and health care and the e.u. has called for the media release o

in the yemen for there are only 2 consequences death and the destruction of people's livelihoods mohamad argo. a french court has found a compass says of the attackers guilty for their roles in 20 fifteen's deadly assaults 14 people are convicted of crimes including financing and membership of a criminal gang and butler has more from the court in paris. survivors a lawyer is arrived at the cotton paris for the verdicts at the end of the trial into the generally 2015 attacks judges found 14 people guilty of helping 3 gunman who killed 17 people in the city they were handed sentences of between 4 and 30 years 3 were tried in absentia. we are happy that in our country when faced with terrorism the justice system works and the perpetrators were condemned. a lawyer for one of the defendants called the verdict disappointing and it's not very satisfying for the victims yes sentences have been given but what the victims wanted was to know who were the real perpetrator is because it certainly wasn't those in the course saeeda and shareef cautious shot dead staff in the offices of shelley abdo and

humanitarian assistance people a 1000000 people integrate assaults have been displaced under serious mohamad volved reports now from sudan's capital khartoum. lots of reports about the situation been are getting more difficult inside to grace up there are 3 criticisms leveled against each opie's by international aid agencies and other groups basically that continuous blackout of information coming from site to great. difficulties to get access or to grant access to n.g.o.s bringing aid to people who might be victimized or victims of this conflict or we have this report about about each open army opening fire on one aid convoy that has been confirmed by the beach opiates themselves they said because those convoys did not to adhere to the rules they did not think they want to die or try to go beyond the the line that was drawn for them so that means there are areas that they can't reach and this is subject to criticism by the aid agencies peter mara is the president of the international committee of the red cross he says that the destruction of aid in the to greater region has made the humanit

this is the memorial to mohamad. tunisia's unemployment rate was 11 percent when he died today it's more than 15 percent there's been a 4 fold increase in the amount of illegal migration to europe just in the last 12 months. for this generation protested against the wall for a tarion rule of xena bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear. life is really very beautiful and that ben ali we have a very beautiful life we lived happily together we loved each other we used to have everything now we don't have anything only crime and a bad thing. the economy here is expected to contract by 6.5 percent this year that's a significant challenge for any country but there's arguably more pressure to get through the downturn in tunisia where its jasmine revolution is often held up as an example of how popular uprisings can succeed in the middle east bernard smith al-jazeera city boozy. one out in the crowd a virus pandemic and brazil's government has announced plans to buy billions of doll

taking place in the share nation looking to deliver its 1st peaceful handover of power president mohamad to a sofa who came to power in a coup for being elected in 2011 stepping down after 2 terms his preferred successor is mohamed opposed to. the european union has begun one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaigns aiming to protect some 450000000 people health care workers and care home residents of the 27 member bloc of been among the 1st to be inoculated. high level egyptian delegates are in libya for talks with the un recognized government they're pushing to normalize relations between cairo and tripoli the visit is being met with surprise from some in the libyan capital because egypt's been supporting the tripoli government's rival in the east warlord holly for half the days ago half that had threatened to use force against turkish troops in libya support from turkey helps tripoli resist toft as offensive to take the capital on saturday turkey's defense minister paid a visit to the libyan capital he warned half against attacking his troops. or the other way head joi

restaurant it was buried in volcanic ash thousands of years ago when the city of pompei was destroyed mohamad as more of what makes this a unique discovery. this restaurant and pump a is about 2000 years old it's maybe ancient but in many ways resembles a modern day fast food business the l. shaped counter has holes for containers to serve hot food and 1st those that advertise items on the menu and like most successful businesses it had a prime location the building was found by this team of archaeologists during a mission to shore up pompey's ruins. we started escalating 2 years ago at 1st we only found our side of the bargain which among other things has a beautiful painting of unary riding a sea horse i think it's our march to the nearby farm team because it's located in a small city square that among the most evocative. page there is a fonteyn appears a metric tower a water tank and many other structures among the findings a range of paintings that include a cockerel ducks and a dog the vibrant colors remain intact notably pompei red to highlight to the trees features the menu is thought

there they agreed to commit to talks between them the chairperson of the african union most of the mohamad in his address to the regional leaders said the dispute between kenya and somalia was undermining their efforts to fight al shabaab of the african peacekeeping mission in somalia. which kenya contributes files on soft troops kenya also plays. host to hundreds of thousands of somali refugees and has been in efforts to find peace in somalia in the past kenya has always denied that it's interfering in the in town or matters of somalia other issues that were discussed include the present war in ethiopia between the federal government and the to grow regional administration something that the government says it has now been up 100 and the leaders who are gathered here in djibouti today pledged to assist the prime minister ahmed in dealing with the impact the humanitarian situation that resulted from the war. the east african regional bloc is also looking at ways to deal with a humanitarian crisis in ethiopia is northern region fighting broke out there last month when prime minister ordered

a bomb attack took down an airliner over lockerbie in scotland former libyan intelligence officer mohamadis accused of making the bomb that blew up the pan am plane in 198-8270 people were killed most of them americans the u.s. is requesting mr would be extradited from libya where he is currently in custody the united states has filed criminal charges against a 3rd conspirator. keer. for his role in the bombing of pan am flight 103 let there be no mistake. no amount of time or distance will stop the united states and our scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case china's leaders say the country has eradicated extreme poverty over the past 5 years the communist party had spent billions of dollars and dispatch thousands of officials to help rural households but critics question the sustainability of that program and say millions of people are at risk of falling back into hardship katrina you reports from. enjoying the province. lawton county in china's south is known for its mountains its rivers and its poverty. it was among those one struggling to get by living in this dilapidate

unlike so many muslims out of ease focus on the prophets rather than mohamad they see their faith as a mandate to work for equality among people including between men and women as illustrated by their communal dancing even alcohol is permitted. this makes them apostates in the eyes of radical sunnis again and again olivia's have been attacked or received death threats and their homes have been vandalized. if you could google those we were going to michigan we're constantly worried about our security. and what we know that it doesn't just stop at threats we've experienced it through all of these have already been killed in this country. for gingrich. the mare of the town of 2 jelly has also spoken out against the amusement park project. is turkey's only communist mayor and is under observation by the state. speaking to a camera he formulates his criticism carefully. inside be distributed to the entrance to the area will become a commercial design in principle the idea of renewal may not be bad on the bench but we don't like having such an emphasis on calm a little less mad going to be

this means we have mohamed moneer with us he's a viral legist at lancaster university in england mohamad good to see you a good to have you back on the program so we just heard the c.e.o. of bio on tech there telling you that he is confident that his vaccine in its existing form can be effective against this new virus strain but he cannot be entirely sure given that information do you think that vaccinations could should still go on. yes absolutely one of the prime reason is that this new variant would not really don't provide the vaccine i think is he is that the mutation that we have seen within the spike that the one that makes the cone chip structure on the surface of the widest those are very few compared to the total length of the protein so the antibody response is already against the entire length of the protein so therefore even one or 2 mutations occurred that's not going to completely made the vaccine ineffective so therefore the vaccines that are approved . don't know.