Led to green forces refuse to step aside. And china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon with ambitions to eventually set foot on the surface. U. S. President donald trump has accepted that a full transition can begin for joe biden to take office. The head of the General Services administration, told biden the process can begin. Trump said in a tweet, hes directing his team to cooperate, but hes promising to keep up the fight. Joe bidens Transition Team has welcomed the move. It frees up millions of dollars for the president elects new administration. And bidens team can now work with federal officials on the Pandemic Response and National Security has the latest from washington. This is the letter president elect. Joe biden has been waiting for, giving him the federal resources he needs to begin putting his administration in place. Trump loyalists, emily murphy had delayed for weeks, but monday in this letter, she says she decided on her own, not the biden was going to be president , but that he can start planning in case he is. U. S. President tweeted out he gave her permission to move forward, adding their own case strongly continues, we will keep up the good fight. But almost all of his legal cases have been quickly thrown out of court. I do think that he did have some interesting legal cases that he could have brought in a lot of these really close states in michigan in pennsylvania. But he didnt bring any of them his, his legal team resorting to these while, you know, series of conspiracy. President trump is also losing momentum in the states on monday in michigan, the results were certified giving joe biden, that critical win. This letter means that biden can now actually plan to be president , but the most important thing is getting all the people who need to be approved to get soetoro approval to get security clearances. And there are spouses, and thats process has been stalled until now. So the fact that we now have an, ability to g. S. A. , begin the process of doing all those clearances and getting all those processes. That means that the, by the ministry, hope we hit the ground running on the afternoon of january 29th. The money will flow to the biden Transition Team. It will enable the team to have offices to have access to the federal agencies that they will be transitioning, the biden teen into officially on january 20th. So its a significant change. It basically means donald trump and his administration recognized that joe biden was the victor in this election. This is important because since the election, every signal from u. S. President and his team has been that he won the election that hes going to continue to live in the white house. This is the 1st indication that he may be beginning to realize that he didnt. And come january 20th, he will no longer call this home to call him aljazeera, you know, the white house. Thurgood marshall jr is a full, the cabinet secretary with the Clinton White house and a Transition Team member. He says the delay in starting the hand of the will have a major impact on joe bidens ability to meet his targets. Be full. Take the office. This announcement by the head of the General Services administration. Emily murphy is largely admin a stereo act, and it should not have been influenced by politics. But the president s involvement again, tests the norms of behavior in the United States when it comes to politics and democracy. But whats important is the actual formal transition process can now get underway. The delay has been unconscionable, and it creates problems and uncertainties that really were not necessary with regard to the fast moving developments with the pandemic and getting the vaccine vaccines out to the public. And that process vitally important within the United States and globally can now move forward in a much more organized and sensible fashion. And then on the broader issues over 1000 appointments that the president elect needs to make. To fill out his government and dozens, literally dozens of federal agencies that need to adjust their priorities to match his Campaign Promises and his platform. Fully u. S. President Barack Obama Says the dummys. Done by adults hope will take some time to repair. But he expressed confidence that the president elect biden will be able to still Global Confidence in americas leadership. There is going to be a lingering sense that america still divided. Some of the shenanigans that are going on right now around the election. That is making the world question, how reliable and steady the us may be. Theres been some damage done that is going to take some time to to dig ourselves out of. But theres no doubt that joes got the right people to do it. The us president elect joe biden hasnt released the names of his National Security team, with many seasoned veterans. Returning to washington, all state Department Correspondent roslyn jordan. Ahead of tuesdays announcement of his cabinet members, president elect joe biden spoke briefly to reporters. Theres a National Security, but bidens team of diplomats and military leaders. Its familiar to washington insiders and foreign leaders alike. Former deputy secretary of state tony blinken, nominated to be the u. S. Is top diplomat, Ambassador Linda Thomas greenfield, chosen to represent the u. S. At the United Nations and former secretary of state john kerry, back in government once more. This time as bidens point person on Climate Change beneath a photo of his granddaughter watching him sign the paris climate accords in 2015, kerry told his twitter followers the Climate Crisis demands nothing less than all hands on deck. Foreign policy experts say it will take the us years to repair the damage caused by the current president , donald trump, whose america 1st Foreign Policy shredded relations with the european union. The u. N. And nato. For the honor to be with you trumps affection for strongman leaders such as Vladimir Putin and kim jong un. Horrified both his political opponents and the u. S. As allies from a refusal to grant asylum seekers. Safe haven to deciding to abandon both the paris climate agreement and the iran nuclear deal. Experts say trumps Foreign Policy ultimately undermined the u. S. His reputation overseas. You know, i think repairing and renewing america at home is critical. If were going to be model soft power influence. Countries want to work with us. The biggest challenge facing the new white house getting too comfortable. The only slight concern is that this team may convince itself that theyve got the right answer because they all sort of look at the world the same way. Theyve all been through a lot of the same experiences, and theyre going to have to ask, how do we bring in fresh ideas . Some recommendations, finding ways to restart. Denuclearization talks with young, updating, and improving the nuclear deal with tara hahn and keeping the afghan peace talks on track. No matter how long it takes. But maybe most important, say Foreign Policy expert, reassuring the u. S. Allies that it is reliable. And then proving it from day one. Rosalynn jordan aljazeera the make his of a 3rd major covert 19 experimental vaccine to reveal the results of late stage tests, Oxford University and drug company astra zeneca say it could be up to 90 percent effective and cheaper than 2 us vaccines. The drug company has pledged not to make a profit from the vaccine during the pandemic rising hopes it could be distributed distributed war widely across the world. Pharmaceutical firms, pfizer, madonna, have reported about 95 percent of physical from late stage trials of their experimental vaccines. Journal reports from london. Its being hailed as a vaccine for the World Pharmaceuticals firm astra zeneca in partnership with the university of oxford says interim trial results will be sent to regulators immediately in the hope their product is approved for rollout before the end of the year. We got a vaccine, which is a fact it prevents severe disease intriguingly in result of a headline is that we do have as our are and then have all those of the back. And i guess where we saw 90 percent or more data may be needed to confirm the 90 percent subgroup results, but cheaper to mass produce, easier to distribute, to more moderate temperatures than its competitors. The british vaccine is good news for poorer parts of the world. In time, the Astra Zeneca Oxford vaccine could lead to an end to the pandemic world wide reaching parts of the world. The other vaccines on offer simply cant, but on a much shorter time scale, its already being projected by the government here. That Vaccine Technology may lead to a resumption of normal life by easter for national restrictionist in england was december addressing parliament remotely while serving a period of isolation himself. Prime minister Morris Johnson outlined a post lockdown plan for england, a return to the regional system of tiered restrictions introduced in october, but strengthened this time to guard against a further surge 1st. We must get through winter without the virus really out of control. Very hard by the gate at exactly the time when the burden on the n. H. S. Is always great, this planet is designed to carry out safely. Just so december, the 2nd until april shops will reopen, parts of the economy will be allowed to breathe again and the government has promised that families can meet up over the christmas period. There is more cautious optimism. The end to all of this is in sight. Jonah, how aljazeera more developments in the coming year. Easier to store and transport, and that is the major advantage that hes presenting. Theres no huge other additional advantages. If anything, one could argue that the pfizer and the have not done a vaccine. So actually have more advantages because although in the short term, it costs literally 10 times as much just to move these things around. The phrases consume 10 times as much energy at minus 85 better up to minus 20 degrees. The fact is that we know how to turn these kind of compound into powders and keep them us Room Temperature stored or even just played fridge thought powders. And therefore, within a year from now, it is quite likely that these companies will be looking to bring to the market to the clinic. These ultra cold boxings, but in a powder form of that can be stored turned on the shelf because of the damage that has been wrought by this virus globally. Literally, all the companies are turned extent benefiting all of the opportunity to submit for this so called early use of their eyes sation approval. And this is a really keen, double edged sword. Because if something happens, the dosing numbers increase and a lot more people are saved, that theres the slightest indication that there might be a strike, a safety concern that regulators will pull the plug straight away. So the companies that are putting these things into market are going to go in there, like many of them have been to go in a nonprofit approach like astra zeneca in oxford have done that. No, theres not enough applauding for them for doing this for societal gold. And if something goes wrong from the impact to their reputation is going to be quite significant. Still ahead on out 0. Reports of a secret meeting between israeli Prime Minister and the Saudi Crown Prince plus a development that could strangle crotches drain lines. We look at anger over plans to build a mangrove forest. The weather, slushy fine, and dry across the middle east. At the moment we have got some basin pieces of cloud and right with the snow to just pushing across northern parts of iran, easing across into afghanistan, westley wavelets, and that will continue to drive its way further east, which just to celsius the ball will see some wetter weather, stretching down into pakistan, but behind that there we go with our drier weather temperature of around 28 celsius. Quite keen winds still blowing have for choose day freshening up as we go on into where to stay with struggle to get to 25 degrees celsius. Grabby jumpers and maybe want to show is still in play just around the gulf of aden as a result of Tropical Cyclone gatti, which is still bringing some very heavy rain to northern parts of somalia that will ease a little further east words, further flooding. Issue certainly a possibility here as we go on through were to choose day and the date on into awareness day. You can see more showers there just pushing into that eastern side of ethiopia. By this stage, a rash of showers. There sliding their way down into kenya. Into uganda, some very heavy rain around the rift valley. Downpours into that eastern side of the democratic republic of congo. Weve also got some wet weather into the eastern side of south africa. But there is a huge group of people that work behind our screen. And the power they have is a mask that to keep swiping through your twitter feed. Thats just not the way we all click. I agree to the terms and conditions that most of us never even give it a 2nd thought. And actually thats design is what ali reexplore is, how designers are manipulating the t. V. Or in the final episode, all hail the algorithm. Youre watching aljazeera remind of our top stories this hour. The u. S. Federal office that oversees the transfer of power in the white house has told joe biden, his transition can formally begin. It means the president elects Transition Team can now meet with federal officials. Dont hold his excepted the decision over the house and conceded. Trump said in a tweet he starts his team to cooperate or is promising to keep up the fight. British drug company ash zeneca an Oxford University say late stage testing of their coded 19 vaccine shows its highly effective. They say it could be stored at frigid temperatures, making it cheaper and easier to destroy. Leaders in ethiopia, a growing region denying government claims that the military is surrounding the regional capital, like a Prime Minister. Has given that he grave Peoples Liberation front until wednesday to surrender or face an assault on the city. Its home to around half a 1000000 people. Now the t. P. L. F has so far refused to stand aside, saying its people are ready to die in defense of their land. Sydneys authorities are hoping 2 camps to cope with the influx of refugees from ethiopia, and morgan reports state many have been displaced. Refugee camp in sudans got out of state is need too many refugees, but not it has this fight. Her parents fled to the camp in 1085 to escape war and famine back in their home country. Shes back to the same old camp this time with her 10 day old child who she gave birth to while fleeing conflict in ethiopia degrade region. And in a more leader, i went to america to give birth to my child, but then the fighting started and you had to flee. I gave birth to my child while i was running away to come here. He was born on the road. Now im back to the camp where i was born as a refugee and my new born is at the same camp. Also, refugio was closed in the year 2000, following the return of most of the refugees who once lived in the capital back to ethiopia. But 20 years later, the camp is open again to cope with an influx of ethiopian refugees who started arriving to sudan. 2 weeks ago. All here have escaped from various parts of degree. Nearly 40000 refugees have fled to sudan altogether, following a government offensive on the to great Peoples Liberation front. The offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base, which came after months of tension between the Regional Government and the federal government. Had hoped not to come back to the camp when he left here 2 years before it was closed. But he says the fighting has left him with no option. Theyre killing us. Integrate. There are people being killed, our own children. Bombs are being dropped on buildings. Its sad that many of us are displaced again, but we want to live. We dont want to die in war. More than 6000 refugees now live in the camp. Its opened less than 2 weeks ago. Even though receiving refugees isnt new for the owner of the number of those arriving here has been increasing so fast that many of them are still without shelter access to basic services such as clean water, food and healthcare is also challenging. For many, this place is once again providing them with a refuge to any the United Nations says it expects 200000 refugees to arrive to sudan in the coming months if fighting, integrate along with lack of communitarian access continues. So these Authorities Say the camp has a limited capacity and more camps need to be established. But were urging donors and International Organizations to help us cope with the situation because its very dire. Some organizations provided aid, but theres too many people for the state. And for a few, were going to zation, they need services and they need care, which we cant provide alone. Sudan already has its economic problems. So we need the International Community to help us with this crisis. That has says, she told her children would never live the life she had left. But with 3 generations of refugees in her family, she wonders when the search for a permanent refuge and stability will and people morgan aljazeera get out of state. China has launched a probe to the moon to bring back the lunar rocks. The 1st such attempts by any nation in more than 40 is if you get over that they blasted off from the Wenchang Space center in southern china, beijing spending billions of dollars on its military run Space Program and launched a manned mission to the moon before 2030. Katrina joins us now from beijing. Katrina, whats the goal of this particular mission . Well, time to definitely has big plans for the moon. Now the chunk of 5 left around 4. 30 am local time from chinas southern heinen island in what upwards flying for about 40 minutes before being sent in the trajectory of the moon where its expected to land in about 8 days. Now chung is the name of the ancient chinese goddess of the moon, and the of the goal of this rover is to land on the moon. Explore a bit that region and to pick up one to 2 kilograms of lunar rocks to take back to china for tonnage to better understand the moons surface. Now, whats different about this mission compared to say, Previous Missions to pick up samples by the russians . Is that the way its coming back is a bit more complex. Its not coming directly back to, its going to go back up, go into a nother module and then be transferred again to another capsule before returning to than the reason is that china is testing out a pathway to send up its own chinese astronauts to the moon which it plans to do in the next 10 to 15 years in the Long Term Plan is to have a permanent chinese presence there or colony there going forward. But it hasnt all been smooth sailing. China did test its long march rocket out at least 3 times this year, and each and every time it had been tested, there were some failures. So now has been quite a long road to, to get to this point is 2030, a realistic deadline for china to get people into the well, china is certainly doing everything. It can, its invested billions of dollars, as youve mentioned. Really put a lot into research and development and its quite a point of national pride. China has made no secret of the fact that it wants to join the elite ranks of Space Exploration nations. And its not just the government invested in this. There are at least 2. 00 to 3. 00 commercial companies akin to sort of the u. S. Space x. Program, which are also invested in Space Exploration. And this is not the only feat that china has made so far. It also had a very impressive mission, curan the moon in general, 21000. 00 china became the 1st country to send its own rover to the far side of the moon. And up to today, almost 2 years later, its still there, exploring that region. And next year, china plans to send its 1st spacecraft to models and by 2022. China says that it plans have its own Chinese Space station in it. And that has the capacity to have a, at least 3. 00 to 6. 00 astronauts and chinas even said that its hoping that internationally other countries will get involved and send their own astronauts to to be involved in missions from that space station for so as we hear it from china, they definitely say that they have the ambition and the investment in terms of how successful theyll be, will just have to wait and see going forward. Could turn to you there live for us in beijing. Thank you very much. The Saudi Foreign minister has denied reports of a secret meeting between the kingdoms crown prince and the israeli Prime Minister. According to israeli media, Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the saudi city of neal. On sunday, for talks with mohamed bin salon and the u. S. Secretary of state. Mike pompei or foreign minister, prince feisal been sort of handle so says only americans and saudis will present a meeting still with israel, and the cabinet has approved a mutual visa exemption agreement with the United Arab Emirates ministers ratified the treaty, which was signed in tel aviv last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he hopes to develop, strengthen economic ties with the u. A. E. The emirates normalize relations with israel. In august. Turkey has stopped a german forces, searching one of its cargo ships suspected of bringing weapons to libya. The turkish cargo vessel was boarded in the mediterranean specs and was abandoned when turkey protested to the european union. The germans are operating as part of an e. U. Mission, which aims to stop arms reaching warring factions in libya. Now the congress, in guatemala has voted to suspend a controversial government budget. One that sparked violent protests over the weekend. Hundreds of people stormed the congress willing on saturday, setting part of it on fire. And theres widespread anger at 30 of the 13000000000. 00 budget, which critics say supports big business without properly addressing poverty and the coronavirus pandemic. Afghanistans economy is full cost of contract by at least 5 percent this year, largely due to the global pandemic. And on top of that, International Aid could also be cut back. Delegates from about 17 nations are due to make pledges during a Virtual Conference in geneva. And his fate aid could be slashed by up to 20 percent. About 4000000000. 00 a year was pledged in 2016, but the pandemic has seen some donors cutting aid budgets as they deal with the financial fallout back home. The latest round of aid for afghanistan will likely to be tied to strict political and human rights conditions, as well as phase of growing and rising taliban influence in the wake of the u. S. Troop withdrawal. Michael semple is a Research Policy advisor at Queens University in belfast. He says, the survival of the afghan state depends entirely on the International Community. The talks are under way. That something which we didnt say last year. There are really 3 power allowed trucks on the international intervention. Afghanistan, theres the military, which weve seen the talk about rapid withdrawal of u. S. Forces, drawing, drawing numbers down to really unprecedented low, low levels. Weve got to the weve got the peace track, which is frustrating. Nobody can give you a, a precise deadline as to when that will deliver an agreement. But then youve got this 3rd struck, which is the development funding. And i think by refocusing on the issue of developments on doing ouster several months in which people were just looking at the, the military and the negotiations. Its a reminder, if there is to be a hope of peace in afghanistan, it really is important too that the afghan state survives, the afghan state does not produce enough revenue yet to, to pay its way to a continual continuing process for the International Community is required or else it just falls apart. Environmentalists in pakistan are warning that a government plan to develop 2 islands in the arabian sea could lead to an environmental disaster. Rather gupta explains they are known as karachis green lungs. But these mangrove forests on the shores of one of the most polluted cities on earth are shrinking fast. And now environmentalists say they will also try to end by a 50000000000. 00 Housing Project plant by the government. I think if youre going to do Land Reclamation here and phillis with sand and miles, that its nothing short of thats the mangrove forests that form a protective barrier. Its the mangrove that protect us from the storms and cyclists. And the ecosystem here is essential for the livelihood of the fishermen become. Illegal logging and pollution have already damaged the smog rules and their diverse ecosystem. Tens of thousands of people depend on them for commercial fishing. They see they now risk losing everything. The allotments on the look of the sea will be spoiled. There will be a lot of pollution at the construction of the city. Hundreds of thousands of our fishermen will become unemployed. Prime minister imran khans government says the project to create thousands of jobs and ease pressure on karachi, a city of 20000000 people, but it has put Prime Minister iran consequent at old speed. Provincial leaders, government believe that yes, development has to be there. But the development not at the cost of your property market, the cost of your people and morgan, the cost of your environment. Monsoon floods this year have caused damage in many areas of karachi and environmentalist. Say, if the natural protection offered by the islands is also wrote it, the city could face and in army to discuss to crack down on to 0. 0. And these are the top stories, the u. S. Federal office that oversees the transfer of power in the white house has told joe biden, his transition can form the begin. It means the president elects Transition Team can now meet with federal officials. Dont trump has accepted the decision, although he hasnt conceded trump said in a tweet hes
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