The death toll from protests in uganda rises to 16 following the arrest of a president ial candidate. And one year on colombians commemorate the anniversary of large antigovernment demonstrations. The u. S. State of georgia has finished state white or old. It confirming joe bidens victory that its a major setback to president Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the results of november election. A hand recount was launched after biden, reportedly had a small lead over donald trump by about 14000 votes. Officials have repeatedly denied that any irregular irregularities had taken place. Georgette now called it biden has extended his Electoral College votes, tally and secured the presidency with a total of 306. 00 in needed to 70. 00. Trump fell short with 232. 00. But trump has so far refused to concede. Bidens calling trumps of struction to the transition during a worsening pandemic, totally irresponsible and debilitating. I think there were initially credible irresponsibility. Credibly damaging messages being sent to the rest were about how democracy functions. And i think it is well, i dont know is motive. I just think its totally irresponsible. Faces live at the white house will get to watch. Joe biden said in just a moment, alan, but what i want to talk about 1st is georgia. There was this discrepancy in the recount. Do you think President Donald Trump is going to bounce, pounce on that . Well, you got to think the 5000000. 00 votes were hand recounted in the end. Officials say that the margin of error was within what you would expect for a hand recount. Joe bidens total went down from about 14000 to exactly 12284 votes taking him to 306 Electoral College votes. That will please the Biden Campaign secretly, because thats exactly what donald trump scored 4 years ago. Remember, he said many, many times after that that that was a line slide, an overwhelming mandate. And thats something that the Biden Campaign might slowly fill in when theyre talking to the media over the next couple of days. So it seems as if the attempt to stop joe biden winning georgia has failed. However, this state has got until to morrow to set to fire the results were told by the Trump Campaign that theyre expecting to launch a legal action in georgia on friday. We suspect that to be the case to stop the certification of those votes. If it goes before a judge though, it seems hard to see how they can possibly argue that there was a problem there. Given that everything is behind recounted, i know they have the result still possible, but it seems unlikely that any judge would support any trump action on that front. And this is only going to add to the president elects already anger frustration as they heard earlier. He certainly changed this tour and over the last 4 or 5 days he was saying, look, its all going to be fine. Will be a transition. Ive been in the white house, i know what im doing, but you can see here a difference in tone. You can see that hes getting slightly upset that this is taking longer than expected. There are those our own joe biden who say should take legal action. Hes not overly keen on that 1st of all. You cant paint yourself as the guy who can work with republicans and straight off the bat, end up going to court to force them into some sort of transition. The other thing is the legal question. Theres a law there that guarantees a transition, but its pretty vague. It doesnt talk about any set days. And so if youre going to walk into the oval office, you dont want to have a legal defeat on your card before youve even started getting underway. So for those reasons, its unlikely hell pursue the legal option. What hes doing is putting political pressure and also offering Public Opinion will move donald trump in that direction. Weve heard from the chamber of commerce, which deals with all sorts of businesses across the united states, saying its bad for business for the united states. If you dont get the transition sort of and get it sorted soon. And also the manufacturers association. It normally supports republican candidates, but it saying, look, a delay in the transition is bad news for the fight against corporate and also the economic recovery that will follow. So it seems that joe biden, for the moment, at least, kept quite to push that idea, push that narrative, and hope that trump and others around him will eventually say, yes, weve lost the election. Therefore, we have to start the transition. But biden saying, look, if we have to, we will go to court and thats something that hangs over the trumpet. Ministration is many, many people are now saying to them, including republicans. Lets get this done for the benefit of the country face of their life. And though i house, thank you very much. The u. S. Is saying disappointing unemployment numbers this week indicating that the economy still has faults ago. And his recovery from coated 19 california has just imposed a curfew. And in new york city, the Financial Impact is becoming clearer as thousands of lost their jobs. Chris and salome reports, americans are lining up for food from california to the midwest to new york. With the National Thanksgiving holiday, approaching demand for Food Assistance is increasing. Along with new filings for Unemployment Benefits, the Labor Department says they increased by 742000 in the last week, reversing recent games. Since i dont think weve been on a long you dont think you think of the future of the things that happen. New york has been hit particularly hard. Its one of 15 states placing new restrictions on businesses, an 80 percent increase in new coven infections nationwide, over the past 2 weeks, is keeping tourism down. Broadway closed and restaurants at limited capacity. Experts warn it is likely to be a difficult winter in new york state as a whole, was regaining payroll jobs at a slower rate than any state other than hawaii through september on a year to year basis. So the recovery was already slow and not quite steady. And these most recent developments have knocked us for a loop. And any reversal of the reopening is going to cause even greater decline in new york subway and bus service could see drastic cuts along with the layoffs of 9000. 00 transit workers. Ridership unfair income has fallen in the pandemic, exacerbating prior budget shortfalls. The metropolitan Transportation Authority is asking congress for 12000000000. 00. We know that any reduction in service will hurt the city in the region, including customers who need us most. But without the certainty of substantial federal dollars, there is no recourse. And we must plan for the worst while hoping for the best in the wake of a crisis that has done more damage to our finances than even the Great Depression in the thirtys. But republicans have been reluctant to put aid to state and local governments in any federal relief package. Aid to states like new york could come down to which party wins the senate and 2 contested seats in georgia up for a Runoff Election in january. If you know a deal is reached, millions of americans are due to lose their Unemployment Benefits by the end of the year. Christine salumi al jazeera new york, more than 100000. 00, people have now died from the corona virus and mexico. Its the full country in the world to officially suppose that death toll and Health Officials believe the true figure is much higher. Mexicos testing rate is low. Even so a week ago it recorded its one millionth confirmed case human Rights Groups say more medical workers have died of coded 19 in mexico than in any other country. My pump has become the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit a legal settlements in the occupied west bank. Hes also become the 1st to set foot in the occupied golan heights. Its the latest and most controversial leg of his 10 day toll of the middle east. And europe are a force that getting ready for the 1st visit to an illegal israeli settlement. A year ago, a change in american policy no longer viewing israeli settlements as contrary to international law. There arrived to state department was announcing new policy requiring all settlement made goods to be labeled as israeli when entering the us market. The declaration of sorts that annexed or not, the u. S. See settlements as israeli territory. U. S. Administration is not biased towards the occupation. Its a partner in the occupation. Weve seen it before. His visit didnt surprises at all. Posted photos of his tour on his twitter feed, saying he hoped not to be the last u. S. Secretary of state to make such a visit. The view from the palestinian side very different. The city of albury is home to a large number of jewel us palestinian citizens, whom the settlement of sangatte is their stolen land. I cant even get close to the settlement would be ill be putting myself and anybody around me and physical harm. Since the seventys is about to visit their own land for all the controversy attached to this visit by my pomp to the settlement. And for all this, talk about a possible 2nd trump administration. This visit to israel has had the atmosphere of something of a goodbye tour. And that was detectable in the statement that he and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave in jerusalem. The 2 men went over a litany of trumpet chief ments on behalf of israel was eager to show that the world had not yet dried up the globe or any israel b. D. s campaign is anti sematic. Another mr. Prime minister. It seems like a statement of fact, but i want to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b. D. S. Gondor can withdraw our Us Government support. The boycott divestment and sanctions movement rebutted the accusation saying it rejected anti jewish racism, ended his tour in the golan heights, considered occupied land under international law, but sovereign israeli territory by u. S. Administration. That continues to make radical shifts on mideast policy with just 2 months left in its term. Sorry for sit in the occupied west bank. At least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of opposition. Politician bobby wine Security Forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. As they demonstrated off the wine was detained on wednesday. Officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. The un has called for bobby winds. Immediate release. Has the latest from nairobi. His Spokesman Says hes in a high Security Police facility, which is in the eastern city of ginger, thats not so far from where he was arrested when he was campaigning. Police havent confirmed where he is, but lawyers and the spokesman of complaining as and being given access to legal representation or to his medical team. Theyre worried that he might be injured there waiting to see if or when he might be produced in front of a court. Yesterdays wife shared on social media media want to appear to be a charge sheet saying that hed be charged with offenses relating to spreading, causing the spread of disease that refers to the rallies that have been holding which visibly have much larger crowds than the ministry of health, the limit of 200. 00, which is ostensibly to prevent transmission. All the other thing that might happen is that probably one might be taken back to his home, discretely has been arrested several times before. And often the Security Services in with bobby wine and with other prominent opposition, politicians in an attempt to quell the unrest. Try to just take those people home maybe late in the night so that people dont continue protesting on the streets. But they certainly face between with a couple of tough options. Now theres nearly 2 months to go before this election. And if they allow these rallies to continue, that says well local calling to the government will be problematic for covert 19, although his supporters believe these restrictions are simply to stop people. Seeing how popular a years still ahead on aljazeera. A language of pace rather than war. The u. N. Security council are optimistic about a breakthrough in libya following talks with rival factions plus me. And we also have this theory, a difficult hell to swallow nurses in the philippines battle with the government bad home working abroad and their desire to make more money overseas or how their winter is coming. Its already arrived in harbin, the temperatures drop below freezing. Its about to arrive in beijing, thats the 1st winter storm. This snow very obviously it will probably miss most japan, but it might show itself briefly, dark rider on friday night. The suns out behind. It was not very warm sun now. And the snow gathering here, which will make its way through beijing in the northeast of chinas has a light covering during saturday. This rain to the south that the temp soccer into an 11100 in beijing is still find it 26 degrees. And heres the good news, with the cloud in sas, china sea, and the Philippine Sea there isnt teddy, its gone, no more tropical psychos the least for the next few days. Hopefully for longer. Now the rainy season, which is for the science is showing itself, there was obvious big showers from malaysia, possibly south and thailand for the southwest, and a potential development in the bay of bengal. A small circulation, which at the moment is taking away the focus of rain away from Southern India too, like a circulation. So then by a bang go another one in the arabian sea between the 2. Not much, but maybe a few showers up in sri lanka. Unfortunately, there is very still in the north indian plain and pakistan returning to how it was a few days ago and quality than other unhealthy or worse. In under a year, coverage 19 has altered our societies and exposed deficiencies in political, social, and economic structure of capitalism. Is the pandemic back in a root cause of so much of the suffering apps and big data which old could literally save our lives . Were going to have the headline, has the pandemic given us the chance to reevaluate our whole, hey, look down coming soon on out to 0. Reminder of all top stories this u. S. President elect, joe biden has maintained his lead over donald trump in the hand of ballots. In the state of georgia, it comes as biden, once again, the current president denying his victory and called it totally irresponsible and debilitating. Become the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit an illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank and the occupied golan heights. Its the latest and most controversial leg of the middle east and europe. People have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of Opposition Leader 350 people were arrested. Security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. The region is moving ever closer to the areas capital. The countrys Prime Minister says his forces are closing in on but an official of the citys University Says a number of students there have already been injured in a government strike. The Ethiopian Government has previously denied targeting civilians. Its also promised to bring back more than 30000 refugees who fled to neighboring sudan mohammed reports from i dont think, given the government knows the true extent of the humanitarian situation on the ground. Thats why they said today that they are sending a task force to look into the gravity of the situation on the ground. Even before the war started, there were hundreds of thousands of people who depended on food aid into region. They had to be fed by the charities. The charities have been unable to replenish their talk of relief today in the past 2 weeks. Vehicles laden with relief and food supplies. Us talk at the border that you can a region has with them how to region. Weve been informed of long queues for bread, not just mckenna, but all the other towns in the to grey region. There are also of the thousands upon thousands of refugees from at a trail who live within the ticket, a region, and humanitarian sources. Tell us that this is, this has gotten worse. The peter, the fighting has been going on and its only bound to get worse. And then that call of people to the ton, i dont know how theyre going to cut it out, but these people fresh out of their homes. Theyve seen the amount of, you know, impunity and a toxic out of the game is their neighbors. The must like of people, particularly in small towns like my country, where hundreds of people were beheaded with knives and machetes. So its highly unlikely that those people of the trekking all the way to sudan would be able to the ton soon as the government is putting it, their owns acting libya envoy has told Security Council members. Peace could be on the horizon. It comes after rival sides met in tunisia last week. Our diplomatic editor james bays looks at the many challenges libyans face after a decade of war. This is the 1st Security Council meeting since developments in libya that the u. N. Say may be a breakthrough. A fragile cease fire is now in place. And the talks in tunis, weve seen the beginnings of a peace deal, the supposed to lead to elections in about 2 years time. I am optimistic about the way forward in libya, yet clear about the many challenges that lie ahead. 10 years of war cannot be solved one week of political talks, but we hear more now the language of peace rather than the language of war. For the sake of libya, 75 libyans came together in tunis last week in a good faith effort to start the process of healing their nations wounds. But do a search from the well respected International Crisis group whose follow developments in libya during its last decade of conflict. So is the very many challenges ahead should not be underestimated. Heightened by the fact that now were not seeing open conflict, not entirely optimistic that weve seen the end. This may devastating destruction or self destruction of the country by the hands of the libyans themselves. Its too early to say that when their country will come out of this Enormous Economic recession that it has suffered, whether theyll be able to go beyond ideological divides that still cut through the country. The problems are among the libyans. Theres been no agreement on a new Prime Minister or a unified presidency council, as proposed by the u. N. The country remains divided. The Prime Minister in tripoli fires also. Raj has indicated hes prepared to stand down in bengali, general khalifa, haftar has made no such pledge. And as the big issue of foreign involvement under the ceasefire deal on Libyan Forces was supposed to leave the country. But early next year. If you are hopeful that will be achieved under the deal thats been done, the u. N. Is supposed to provide more letters to be deployed in libya to observe the cease fire that will need a u. N. Security council agreement. Negotiations are likely to be difficult. One member of the council, a permanent member, russia, has nationals in libya, working for wagner. What many consider a mercenary company thats been fighting on the side of general haftar, james 0 at the united nations. E. U. Leaders are locked in a budget standoff, putting a multibillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package in jeopardy crisis talks are taking place at a Virtual Summit after both poland and hungary vetoed the budget. Earlier this week, officials are anxious to approve the 7 year budget, which includes 887000000000. 00 in support for its economies to recover from the pandemic. The tasha butler is following events for us. Leaders have been hoping to finalize this budget really and get it ready to be up and running its the budget for the next 7 years, including this huge coronavirus, a Recovery Fund more than 800000000000. 00, but it is being held out by poland and hungary who have vetoed it at the last minute. Now the reason these 2 countries have done this is they say they do not like the fact that within this budget there is a plan for a mechanism which would allow the e. U. To withdraw any future funds from any member state. If those Member States were deemed to violated the socalled rule of law, and i want the rule of law is basically the use values and democratic principles. And over the past few years, the right wing governments in both opponents and hungry have been repeatedly criticized by the e. U. Who said to those countries, governments are violating the rule of law. Theyre violating things like freedom of the press. Freedom of the judiciary womens rights. And therefore poland and hungary are worried, of course, that theyre going to have funds withheld from them. They say this is simply unfair because they use acting against other Member States because of political and ideological differences. So they want that mechanism withdrawn. The problem is it is holding up this huge coronavirus budget, which is absolutely essential. Right now. Protesters have been gathering colombias capital to mark one year since massive and he government demonstrations the being led by unionists, students, teachers, and members of colombias indigenous communities. They all want to be included in talks with the government toward social and economic reform. Last year, plans for a labor strike escalated into widespread protests against president evo, do qasim policies . Yes, he has more from bogota. The heavy rains scared the protesters away, but earlier in the day, thousands of people took to the streets here in the capital time in the number of cities across cologne. Again demanding a number of social and Economic Reforms to the government and also and to Police Abuse Police brutality this coming after a very violent protest back in september. When 13 people. 13 protesters also front and Center Remains the issue of the difficulty blaming taishan of the peace accord and not enough. Im protesting against the killing of social leaders because i believe this government is being irresponsible and is not responding to any of the needs of the people. These protests year after some of the largest demonstrations colombia had seen in decades, hundreds of thousands of people came out last year to pressure the government to protect the peace accord and bring for change. Now, the organizers were hoping for this to be the beginning of a new wave of protest. Well, there was a decent crowd today. It was nothing close to what we saw a year ago. Obviously were in the middle of them. But theres no doubt in speaking to a number of close observers in colombia, is that unless something happens, bigger crowds come out, it will be difficult for them to reach what they hope, which is to start formal negotiations with president nurses in the philippines, opposing their governments ban on taking work abroad. They say they have the right to pursue work overseas, but the government wants them to serve their country. Joining the pandemic. Jimmy, an island reports from melinda. Gary gary, the admits working as a nurse in manila feels like a struggle for survival for more than 10 years. Hes earned around 400. 00 a month and this is barely enough to support his family. Gary has been accepted to work as a nurse in ireland for 6000. 00 a month, a salary that is unimaginable to earn here. The Philippine Government in april barred nurses and other medical workers from leaving saying they were needed to fight the cruel a virus crisis. Told me working abroad is not make us any less of a patriotic citizen of this country. For me, it is actually a hero. Weak act, we are just human and we also have this goals in over lives. The salary here is not to sustain the needs of our families. Gary is among the thousands of filipino nurses who have called themselves prison nurses. They started an Online Campaign to petition the government to reverse its decision. They say it is tantamount to forced servitude. Filipino nurses are some of the most sought after Health Workers in the world. But this fight, this a global study shows that nurses in the philippines receive one of the lowest salaries in southeast asia. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of nurses in the country. And i mean nurses, theres no one operational for a nurse, the 200 patients. If the government wants to really improve the situation here, they need to hire 1000 suppliers in government hospitals. Some are nurses who now work in Different Industries like call centers because these jobs simply pay better. And theres a circling for the chapel band to be removed. And for salaries of all the nurses in the country to be raised, but the Philippine Government is defending its decision. It says about 75 percent of cities and towns across the touchy lack Health Workers. And it needs to keep the current pool of Health Workers. Here during a pandemic, Health Workers tell us no one wants to leave their home country. If there are fair opportunities for all. And most of them had to borrow money or sell their land in order to afford to go abroad. Now, deep in debt, they see the government stands is denying them the opportunity to have a better life. Jim duggan aljazeera manila, one of the biggest radio telescopes in the world will be dismantled off. The engine is found that trying to repair recent damage to the 305. 00 mi, to dish would be too dangerous for almost 60 years. The massive telescope and what that reka has helped scientists make important discoveries about space including one that led to a nobel prize. This, is there and these other top stories u. S. , president elect, joe biden, has maintained his lead over donald trump and
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